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"(CNN) -- France striker Nicolas Anelka has been sent home from the World Cup in South Africa following a row with national coach Raymond Domenech.",
"The French Football Federation released a statement on Saturday confirming that the 31-year-old had abused Domenech after being substituted during Friday's 2-0 defeat by Mexico, which left his team on the verge of elimination.",
"\"Words spoken by Nicolas Anelka to the national coach, Raymond Domenech, are completely unacceptable to the FFF, French football and the values they defend,\" it said on its website.",
"\"After being informed on Friday evening of the serious incident during halftime of the France-Mexico match, federation president Jean-Pierre Escalettes asked Nicolas Anelka in the presence of captain Patrice Evra to present an official apology to the French public and to express regret for his remarks to Raymond Domenech, the staff and 23 players from the France team.",
"\"Upon refusal by the player to deliver a public apology, he [Escalettes] made the decision -- in full agreement with the coach and members of the official delegation in Knysna -- to exclude Nicolas Anelka from the group.",
"\"He will leave the Team France camp this evening.\"",
"The French, who won the World Cup in 1998 and lost in the final four years ago, have been disappointing in what is Domenech's last tournament before standing down, with former Bordeaux coach Laurent Blanc to replace him.",
"An opening 0-0 draw with Uruguay followed by Friday's defeat has left \"Les Bleus\" needing to beat hosts South Africa on Tuesday and hope that Mexico and the South Americans do not draw, in order for Domenech's team to progress to the second round.",
"French media have speculated about dissension among the squad, with former star striker Thierry Henry reduced to a minor role as substitute and William Gallas reportedly unhappy about missing out on the captaincy, which was given to fellow defender Patrice Evra.",
"Anelka, who plays for English champions Chelsea, has a history of controversy on the international stage, having declared in 2002 that he would no longer be available for selection after being dropped by coach Jacques Santini when he refused a call-up.",
"He finally apologized to Santini in 2004, but missed out on the World Cup in Germany two years later.",
"Domenech brought him back into the France fold in 2007 and Anelka played at Euro 2008, where France crashed out in the first round.",
"He scored in the first leg of the World Cup qualifying playoff against the Republic of Ireland last November, and had been given the main striker's role in South Africa by Domenech but failed to impress in both matches.",
"Meanwhile, England striker Wayne Rooney has apologized after berating his team's fans following Friday night's disappointing 0-0 draw with Algeria.",
"The English players were booed as they left the pitch, having drawn for the second successive match, and Manchester United forward Rooney accused the supporters of being disloyal as he passed television cameras.",
"English FA complains after fan enters team dressing room .",
"\"Last night, on reflection I said things in the heat of the moment that came out of frustration of both our performance and the result,\" Rooney said in a statement issued by the English Football Association.",
"\"For my part I apologize for any offense caused by my actions at the end of the game.\""
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"Nicolas Anelka banished from World Cup after abusing France coach Raymond Domenech .",
"Striker was unhappy after being substituted in Friday's 2-0 defeat by Mexico .",
"French Football Federation issues statement saying player's behavior was unacceptable .",
"England striker Wayne Rooney apologizes for berating fans after draw with Algeria ."
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"Perdido Key, Florida (CNN) -- Everyone here has a clear memory of what summer should be: .",
"White sand beaches busy from sunup to sundown; the souvenir shop running out of bikinis, boogie boards, airbrushed sand dollars and decorative hermit crab shells; more stop than go on the two-lane road that cuts through the island; more bathing suits than socks in the wash.",
"There should be a wait for martinis at The Jellyfish Bar, a wait for oysters at the Flora-Bama lounge, a wait for coffee at Lost Key Java, a wait for fresh snapper at Perdido Bay Seafood.",
"It is summer in name only on this narrow band of beaches.",
"After oil spilled from a BP well and flowed toward Florida's panhandle, almost no tourists came to stay.",
"Residents are losing their jobs.",
"They're learning it doesn't matter if the sand looks pristine at the moment; oil slick and tar balls could return at any time, and people are afraid.",
"\"Bartenders are trained to hear people's problems, make them feel better, but every single person that comes in here has the same problem,\" said Marcus Story, who opened the Jellyfish here four years ago, and usually pays his bills for the year with money earned during summer but can't afford to this year.",
"\"The stress -- they can't sleep, everybody's irritated, everybody's on edge.",
"I'm tired of thinking about it.\"",
"Perdido Key, Florida, has a reputation as the place to unwind, a haven from bigger, busier Pensacola, Florida, and Orange Beach, Alabama, just down the road.",
"Its name translates to \"Lost Key,\" and it's home to about 2,000 full-time residents, 3,400 rental condos and not a single hotel.",
"More than half its area is taken up by undeveloped state and national parkland.",
"Tourism is its greatest economy, and untouched beaches its best selling point.",
"After the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in April, calls flooded the cozy visitor center inside the island fire station.",
"At first, tourism officials assured people that crude gushing from the well was a faraway problem.",
"As oil began to wash up on other shores, they promised that the coast of Florida's panhandle was clear.",
"When it crept closer, they confirmed only what they'd seen that day -- and that most condos were eliminating the cancellation fees.",
"But eventually, the calls stopped coming altogether.",
"More than 4,100 people came through the visitor center's doors in June 2003, its busiest recent year.",
"In June 2010, only 1,446 stopped by.",
"Boom and cleanup crews surrounded the shores.",
"Local business owners braced themselves for catastrophic loss of income.",
"Families wept while they watched reports that warned oil was coming closer.",
"It was disastrous news for businesses that sustain themselves all year on their Memorial Day-to-Labor Day revenue.",
"And it was the same story around the rest of the Gulf of Mexico, oiled or not: An analysis by Oxford Economics for the U.S. Travel Association said the spill could affect the Gulf's travel industry up to three years and cost up to $22.7 billion.",
"\"I think we all envisioned Hershey's Syrup was going to cover the white beach,\" said Alison Davenport, who has lived and sold real estate on Perdido Key for nearly two decades.",
"Perhaps thanks to wind, tide or luck, Perdido Key stayed mostly clear, even while massive tar balls washed up on nearby Pensacola Beach.",
"The slick on the horizon receded within a few days, and sticky brown clumps were cleaned up quickly, quietly.",
"Even now, the only obvious signs of continued cleanup are occasional daytime crews.",
"In the earliest hours of the morning, well before sunrise, heavy pieces of construction equipment bathe the beach in red and white light.",
"This was supposed to be a big year for the Key.",
"Many of the homes, businesses and condos were freshly built or newly renovated after Hurricane Ivan destroyed parts of the Florida and Alabama coasts in 2004.",
"The economy had recovered enough that rentals were filling up, and home sales were increasing every month.",
"\"You could just feel it.",
"This was it,\" said Davenport, vice chairwoman of the Perdido Key Area Chamber of Commerce.",
"\"Everything you see is tough and had already been through a pretty strong test.",
"We all had reason to think everything would be just grand.\"",
"Some blame national media for replaying early images of oil-soaked birds and boom-lined shores, which don't reflect beaches like Perdido Key's, they say.",
"But even locals disagree about whether it's safe to go in the water.",
"Tar balls still wash up on shore at times, and when cleanup workers dig a few inches in the sand, it's stained yellow by oil.",
"On Johnson Beach, part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore popular with locals and tourists, lifeguards counted about 50 people on a late July morning and called it one of the busiest days yet this season.",
"All summer, kids who grew up on sand castles and saltwater have been relegated to lawns and pools.",
"\"No, you're not going in the deep water,\" Perdido Key resident Jeannie Hines called to her 6-year-old son as he splashed in the Gulf.",
"After days of begging, they'd returned to the beach for the first time in weeks.",
"But the kids had new rules: no deeper than their knees, and they had to be extra careful not to swallow water, for fear of ingesting oil and dispersants.",
"There were no health advisories in effect, but signs and a flier handed out at the entryway told people to avoid the sand and water if they saw any oil.",
"\"Normally they'd be all the way in, swimming, snorkeling.",
"I'm still hesitant about letting them go,\" Hines said as she looked over the umbrellas scattered on the sand.",
"\"I've never seen it like this.",
"It's always packed.\"",
"As the unofficial end to summer draws closer, Perdido Key residents are looking for ways to salvage what's left of the season -- for business, and for themselves.",
"To prove the state of the shores, the visitor center posts near-daily videos of clear, gentle water lapping against a perfect, empty beach.",
"They tout discounted condo rates, shorter rental periods and non-Gulf beaches along the Intracoastal Waterway.",
"They launched new pages on Facebook, and planned tournaments and festivals that might spark some interest.",
"They proposed a campaign to give as many as 120 families a free place to stay on Perdido Key, but Florida tourism officials said it didn't follow BP's guidelines for how to spend marketing money.",
"Still, they're looking for grants to launch the promotion, because they know crowds draw more.",
"Even a Gulf Coast vacation planned for President Obama and his family in August could provide a boost.",
"The summer that wasn't is quickly coming to a close.",
"Kids are watching the school calendars, and workers are impatiently waiting for BP claim checks to tide them over.",
"Nobody was spending much money on entertainment this summer, but most Wednesday nights, about 80 people gathered on the beach to pray for themselves, the community and the summer they've lost.",
"\"What separates this from a hurricane is the idea that you can come in, clean it up and move forward,\" said Darren McClellan, senior pastor of the Perdido Bay United Methodist Church, who leads the weekly service by the shore.",
"\"There are things in our lives we can't fix with a simple phone call or the writing of a check.",
"\"It's that question mark -- we are as stable as the blowing wind.\"",
"McClellan said Perdido Key will struggle the rest of the year with money, stress and questions unanswered.",
"But he expects to see a more gracious community at the end, one that survived the un-summer of the oil spill together.",
"Still, the beach won't be the thing to carry them through; McClellan plans to halt his shoreside service in mid-August.",
"Like everyone else here, he knows you can't expect a crowd after Labor Day."
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"Perdido Key, Florida, didn't see as much oil as other nearby tourism-driven places .",
"Businesses still suffered, laid off workers or closed down .",
"Beaches are open, but few visitors are renting condos, even at reduced rates ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- Jamaica's Usain Bolt is officially the fastest man on the planet as he set a new 100 meters world record of 9.72 seconds at an international meeting in New York.",
"Bolt served notice of his immense talent ahead of the Beijing Olympics by breaking the world 100m record.",
"Bolt was trimming two hundredths of a second off the record previously held by fellow-Jamaican Asafa Powell and for good measure relegated world champion Tyson Gay to a distant second.",
"The 21-year-old had served notice of his excellent form by running a world's second fastest time of 9.76 seconds in Jamaica last month and he quickly took control of Saturday night's Reebok Grand Prix showdown with Gay, who finished in 9.85 seconds, still a personal best.",
"Bolt gave credit to a big contingent of Jamaicans who were in the crowd to watch his feat.",
"\"Just coming here, knowing a lot of Jamaicans were here giving me their support, it meant a lot,\" Bolt told the Associated Press.",
"\"I just wanted to give them what they wanted.\"",
"\"He ran a perfect race,\" Gay said.",
"\"I've got to take my hat off to him.\"",
"\"An awesome athlete,\" said Shawn Crawford, who finished sixth and witnessed history from two lanes inside of Bolt.",
"\"The time shows it.\"",
"The lanky 1.95 meter Bolt had produced his previous best performances before this year over 200 meters and finished second to Gay at this distance in last year's world championships.",
"With doubts over his starting ability in the 100 meters, Bolt was even pondering a move up to 400 meters in favor of the 100.",
"But the record changes all that and with Powell, who is recovering from a chest injury, and Gay he will be among the favorites for the 100 meters at the Beijing Olympics.",
"He faces a showdown at the end of June with Powell at the Jamaican national championshps.",
"Also at the Jamaican event will be Veronica Campbell-Brown, who won the women's 100m on Saturday in 10.91, the fastest time of 2008.",
"The start of the night was delayed by an hour because of threatening weather the area and the meeting was briefly hit by a storm which left the track shimmering with a moist sheen ahead of the race of the night.",
"Bolt was assisted by a healthy tailwind of 1.7 meters per second, just under the limit at which a record can be set.",
"Copyright 2008 CNN.",
"All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.",
"Associated Press contributed to this report."
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"Jamaica's Usain Bolt sets 100m world record of 9.72 seconds in New York .",
"Fellow-Jamaican Asafa Powell held the previous world record of 9.74 seconds .",
"World champion Tyson Gay of United States finishes second in 9.85 seconds ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Theodore \"Teddy\" Forstmann, a veteran business leader and philanthropist who was romantically linked to Padma Lakshmi, died Sunday.",
"He was 71. Forstmann suffered from brain cancer, his spokesman tells The New York Times.",
"Although the famed billionaire never married, he dated \"Top Chef\" host Lakshmi, 41, over the last several years.",
"Their relationship made headlines when she gave birth to now 1-year-old daughter Krishna in February 2010, which spawned speculation over the identity of the father.",
"(Venture capitalist Adam Dell was later revealed as the father.)",
"Forstmann was also briefly linked to Princess Diana.",
"According to \"The Diana Chronicles\" by Newsweek and The Daily Beast editor Tina Brown, the two were plotting to wed in the last weeks of her life.",
"Forstmann, who invested in companies ranging from Gulfstream Aerospace to Dr. Pepper, is survived by his two sons, Siya and Everest, brothers Anthony and John, and sisters Marina Forstmann Day and Elissa Forstmann Moran.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Theodore Forstmann suffered from brain cancer .",
"Forstmann dated \"Top Chef\" host Padma Lakshmi, 41, over the last several years .",
"Forstmann was also briefly linked to Princess Diana ."
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"(CNN) -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, who was shot in the head in January, reads aloud a portion of her upcoming audio book, her office said Thursday.",
"Giffords has made what doctors call a miraculous recovery since the shooting at an Arizona supermarket, which left six people dead and 12 others wounded.",
"After months of rehabilitation, she returned to the House floor in August and received a standing ovation.",
"She has otherwise stayed largely out of the spotlight.",
"Her book, \"Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope,\" chronicles the relationship between Giffords and her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly.",
"It's the story of her rise to become a Democratic U.S. representative, his stellar career from combat pilot to commander of the Space Shuttle Endeavor's final flight, and the tragedy that befell their lives when she was shot.",
"The couple wrote the book together with Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow.",
"Published by Scribner, the book is set for release November 15.",
"The audio book is scheduled to be released the same day by Simon & Schuster Audio.",
"Kelly reads aloud the whole book except for the final chapter, which is read by Giffords, spokesman Mark Kimble said.",
"Illinois congressman's life threatened .",
"The man charged in the shooting, Jared Loughner, is in mental health treatment and will be re-evaluated early next year to determine his competency to stand trial."
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"Rep. Gabrielle Giffords reads aloud the last chapter of audio book .",
"Her husband, Mark Kelly, reads the rest of the book .",
"The memoir chronicles the couple's careers .",
"Giffords was shot in the head in January ."
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"San Francisco (CNN) -- Dozens of people, many tapping on iPhones and discussing the \"Steve Jobs\" biography, lined up at a shopping center here on Thursday.",
"But these Apple fans weren't in line to buy the company's latest gadget.",
"They were here to see \"Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview,\" a documentary of sorts that's now playing in a handful of U.S. cities.",
"This particular screening of the never-before-aired interview with the Apple co-founder was set to be the final one at this theater, but producers extended its run after showings sold out.",
"The film's interviewer, Robert X. Cringely, watched in the audience and answered questions afterward.",
"The 69-minute interview with Jobs was taped in 1995 for a PBS documentary called \"Triumph of the Nerds.\"",
"The program aired only nine minutes of Jobs' statements.",
"The master copy of the interview was lost in transit, but director Paul Sen had secretly kept a copy on VHS tape, Cringely said.",
"After Jobs died in October, Sen went searching through his garage until he found it.",
"\"It was the first time in 16 years he touched the tape,\" Cringely told the audience at Thursday's screening.",
"\"It won't be lost for another 16 years.\"",
"After the movie completes its brief run in theaters, \"Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview\" will probably be made available online and on DVD, Cringely said.",
"Over the course of one month while pitching the idea to Landmark Theatres, Cringely and a small team shot an introduction and tacked on a brief text recap that runs without sound at the end.",
"The production is crude, as is the low-quality footage from VHS, but Jobs is captivating.",
"He told stories with charisma, enthusiasm and his flair for dramatics.",
"He spoke candidly and with emotion.",
"\"He never sat for another interview like this, and what a shame,\" Cringely said.",
"The interview shows Jobs as alternately witty, charming, cranky and bitter toward those he believed crossed him.",
"At the time, Jobs had left Apple and was running a small computer company, NeXT Computer, that targeted the education market.",
"NeXT was purchased by Apple the next year, and soon after, Jobs was again running the company he founded with Steve Wozniak in his parents' Silicon Valley garage.",
"Cringely, then a technology columnist, managed to score a coveted interview with Jobs because NeXT desperately needed the attention and because Cringely and Jobs had a prior relationship.",
"Cringely worked for Jobs in the early days of Apple, where he had turned down stock in the company for a $6-an-hour wage.",
"The filmed interview drew laughs from the audience at several moments.",
"In one instance, Cringely asked whether there's a hidden meaning when Jobs uses a nasty four-letter word to describe his employees' subpar work.",
"\"No,\" Jobs said, it meant exactly what it implied, and he explained that the \"A players\" don't require him to \"baby their egos.\"",
"Jobs reminisced about his early days with Wozniak, including the time they made a prank phone call to the Vatican and asked for the pope.",
"He also panned IBM and Xerox, and was particularly nasty toward Microsoft.",
"\"The only problem with Microsoft is, they just have no taste,\" he said in a now-famous line.",
"Jobs predicted the meteoric rise of the Internet, which he said would be especially satisfying because Microsoft doesn't own it.",
"He also described how he runs a business and the difference between workers who specialize in process versus content -- an imbalance he said tainted IBM.",
"Jobs was especially critical of John Sculley, the PepsiCo executive who he hired to run Apple and who later fired him.",
"Jobs described Sculley as a corrupt marketing guy and a failed manager who was wrong for the job.",
"He also expounded on the importance of a strong leader but added that companies are not just about one person.",
"\"People like symbols,\" Jobs said.",
"\"So I'm the symbol for certain things.\""
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"\"Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview\" is based on a 1995 interview taped for PBS .",
"Most of the 69-minute interview was never aired .",
"In it, Jobs talks about Adobe, Microsoft and his ouster from Apple .",
"The interview is now playing in a handful of movie theaters ."
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"(CNN) -- We're in a time of flux, my friends.",
"We're sandwiched somewhere between the lazy, crazy days of summer (BBQs!",
"Impromptu trips up the coast!",
"Smuggling fireworks across various and sundry borders!)",
"and the holidays (turkey!",
"ceremonies of various religious ilks!",
"self-loathing brought on by turkey and ceremonies of various religious ilks!).",
"And we don't know about you, but we're about due for a mental break before sallying forth into the mental torment that is winter.",
"That's why this week we're going to chill with the pedantry and help you kick back and celebrate laziness.",
"Yes, laziness.",
"It's the total antithesis of the \"American Way\" (whatever the hell that is).",
"Read on for five apps that are either tailored for the more malaise-laden among us.",
"Waking up is hard to do .",
"Especially when the floor temperature starts dropping for 10 degrees with each passing week.",
"May we introduce Snooze, a genius iOS app that lets you pledge 25 cents to a variety of charities each and every time you decide that you need another 10 minutes or so of sleep (either to catch up on rest or finish that sexy dream).",
"If your boss chews you out for being late to work, just tell him you were volunteering.",
"Don't have time to comb through Pitchfork .",
"Fool your music snob friends with Band of the Day, an iPhone app that dishes out musical knowledge in easy-to-digest screen-fulls.",
"Each day, you'll get a bevy of info on one hand-selected band: original interviews, streaming music, videos and more.",
"If your friends still doubt your expertise, just cast about your brain for the name of some buzz band and express disdain.",
"Works every time.",
"Your get-up-and-go got up and went .",
"The days are getting shorter, and, consequently, the nights are getting longer -- and damn colder.",
"If the prospect of staying in and watching reruns of '90s teen television whilst swaddled in a Snuggie is seeming more appealing than pouring yourself into something fancy and hitting the streets, might we recommend buying a cat and just giving up?",
"Maybe just check out Crowdmug, an iOS app that lets you trade cash for pics of the scene at local bars and restaurants -- thus checking out the crowd without leaving your couch.",
"Other users collect the money you pony up to supply said photos.",
"Or, you know, YOU could get off your lazy, sweatpants-encased arse and collect cash for your own snaps.",
"Getting paid to go out?",
"Dude, that's like being an escort -- without all the illegal stuff.",
"Two heads are better than one .",
"OK, so you're not a total recluse, but the idea of sacrificing TWO nights out this week (one for dating, one for hanging with friends) is making your brain weary -- all that planning, all the strain that semi-intelligent conversation entails.",
"Check out DuoDater, a new dating site that allows you to go on double dates with your friends.",
"Also, if you're not that loyal a friend, it's like two dates in one night -- score.",
"Running on empty .",
"Some people look forward to their morning runs.",
"Some of us, however, couldn't impel ourselves to jog if our lives depended on it.",
"At least figuratively.",
"In the unlikely event that a horde of flesh-eating undead were (literally) nipping at our heels, we'd likely strap on some Nikes and jet.",
"Enter Zombies, Run!",
"an upcoming app for iOS and Android that turns exercise into a game -- a terrifying, terrifying game.",
"Basically, you download the app, stick in your ear buds and let a narrator scare you into getting in shape as the story of a dystopian world crawling with Z-beasts starts to unfold.",
"The more you run, the better chance you have for survival as you collect supplies and just generally avoid being eaten.",
"This app should be stellar training for throwing yourself into the mortal morass that is holiday shopping."
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"Snooze is a iOS app that donates 25 cents every time you go back to sleep .",
"Crowdmug lets you trade cash for pics of the scene at local bars and restaurants .",
"DuoDater is a new dating site so you can go on double dates with your friends ."
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"(CNN) -- The cell phone video stutters as it records the movement of soldiers and Syrian militia on the streets from an upstairs window.",
"A whispered commentary describes the scene.",
"Another video shows vehicles riddled with bullet holes, shattered apartments, glass shards and concrete lumps mixed with patches of blood.",
"In yet another, protesters flee as heavy-caliber weapons fire ricochets off buildings.",
"All are scenes purportedly filmed in recent days in Homs, Syria's third-largest city.",
"Security forces have sealed off entire neighborhoods; others are blocked by barricades thrown up by protesters.",
"At night, street rallies take place in areas \"liberated\" from government control.",
"The many videos uploaded on social media sites, as well as residents' accounts, suggest some neighborhoods in Homs -- at the heart of opposition to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad -- are beginning to resemble Sarajevo at the height of the Bosnian civil war.",
"That resistance is now becoming more organized and armed.",
"Army deserters calling themselves the Free Syrian Army are helping with the defense of districts opposed to the regime.",
"Some opposition activists say it's time for the international community to declare a no-fly zone over Syria, as it did in Libya, to blunt the regime's overwhelming military advantage.",
"(There is no sign that Western powers are willing to do this.)",
"Confrontations are also taking on sectarian overtones that could lead to a wider explosion of communal violence.",
"There have been sectarian shootings and assassinations of prominent local people outside their homes.",
"Residents say the government has begun deploying largely Alawite militia in Sunni neighborhoods such as Khaldiye, Bab Sbaa, Bab Dreïb and Bab Amro.",
"Though Syria is majority Sunni, its leadership tends to belong to the Alawite sect.",
"Homs has long been a divided city, with Alawites living in the south and a rapidly growing Sunni population predominant in other neighborhoods.",
"Opposition activists claim that the regime is trying to incite sectarian strife in an effort to divide opponents and show what civil war in Syria might look like.",
"Residents of Homs who recently fled to neighboring Lebanon, and don't want to be identified due to security concerns, say that sectarianism is neither endemic nor widespread, but admit that tensions between communities are increasing.",
"They say that they want a united Syria but accuse the al-Assad regime of stoking sectarian flames.",
"The unrest is not confined to Homs.",
"There are daily reports of protests, deaths and clampdowns by the security forces in the suburbs of Damascus, in Daraa to the south (where the unrest began in March), and elsewhere.",
"Army defectors who have reached the relative safety of Lebanon speak of exhaustion after months on the streets, in some cases being ordered to fire on unarmed demonstrators.",
"CNN spoke to one soldier in a hospital in northern Lebanon.",
"\"Too much killing, we were always in the streets,\" he said.",
"State media report ambushes of security personnel by armed gangs on a regular basis, though other accounts suggest these ambushes may often be clashes between defecting conscripts and elite units loyal to the regime.",
"Even so, the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Robert Ford, told Reuters last month that the military was still \"very powerful and very cohesive.\"",
"Against this background of growing violence, the Syrian economy is suffering -- its oil revenues declining just as government spending spirals.",
"The government has announced spending will increase 60% in 2012 -- much of it going for subsidies as it tries to tamp down the unrest.",
"Analysts say the state has little chance of improving tax revenues to cover this spending.",
"International sanctions, including those against oil exports and Syrian banks, are adding to the pain.",
"Last week, the European Union followed the U.S. in freezing transactions with the Commercial Bank of Syria, which handles all letters of credit for the regime.",
"The Syrian economy is growing more and more isolated from international trade -- and sources of hard currency.",
"Last month, the Syrian government banned a wide range of imports in an effort to save dwindling foreign exchange reserves, before the economy minister reversed the ban two weeks later \"due to the legitimate demands of citizens, as it had more negative repercussions than anticipated.\"",
"Many of those \"legitimate demands\" appear to have come from powerful business interests in Aleppo, Syria's second-largest city and its commercial hub.",
"Its Chamber of Industry had roundly condemned the ban.",
"Just how much Aleppo means to the al-Assad government was illustrated Wednesday, when a large pro-government rally there was broadcast on Syrian TV.",
"Marchers carried the flags of Russia and China -- two countries that have resisted sanctions against Syria.",
"Commentators say keeping Aleppo onside will be critical to the regime's survival.",
"If the city's merchants and financiers -- the engine of Syria's beleaguered economy -- decide that the al-Assad regime is no longer viable, a key pillar of support will crumble.",
"For much of the last seven months, opposition to the regime has been spontaneous and leaderless.",
"Now al-Assad's opponents seem to be more organized and are opening some important doors.",
"The Syrian National Council, which was formed in Istanbul last month, comprises both representatives of local committees inside Syria and exiled personalities, and includes Islamist and secular strands of opinion.",
"Earlier this week, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met with members of the Council in Ankara and advised them to work for peaceful change.",
"But with every passing day, the prospect of peaceful change in Syria appears to diminish."
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"Violence is also taking on sectarian overtones .",
"Along with the increased violence, the Syrian economy is worsening ."
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"(WIRED) -- Apple is a powerhouse of ingenuity, patenting ideas as soon as an engineer can scratch them down on paper (or iPad).",
"Around three dozen Apple patents made their way through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week alone.",
"Here we share three of the most notable -- one helps prevent cracked cover glass, another would deliver power to multiple devices with just a single adapter, and a third is a far-reaching location-based services patent that could keep Apple's competitors on their toes.",
"First off, Apple has come up with a solution for keeping the glass on the back of your iDevice from breaking in the event of a fall.",
"Obviously, the simplest solution would be to avoid glass screens altogether, but if glass is going to stay, it should be made more resilient.",
"Apple dreamed up a tunable shock mount that would sit between the glass and the body of the device.",
"This shock mount would inflate when the device's accelerometer senses that the phone or tablet is falling.",
"An actuator within the device would suck in the cover glass as it accelerates toward earth, protecting it from damage.",
"This technology could also be used to provide a water-tight seal.",
"The patent also describes using alumino silicate glass, better known as Gorilla Glass, instead of normal glass.",
"Gorilla Glass is already used in the iPhone 4 and 4S.",
"Future cover glass could be chemically treated in a solution including potassium to help strengthen it further.",
"As K+ ions replace Na+ ions on the surface and edges of the glass, the glass would have higher compression thresholds in those areas, making it less susceptible to cracking.",
"Next up, Apple proposed an intelligent power adapter that could detect the varied power needs of different devices, and service them simultaneously.",
"Today's power adapters typically convert AC current from a wall outlet to a single DC current that can be fed to your device.",
"Because different devices have different power needs, you currently need a different cable for each new gadget you use.",
"(Well, that's the main reason.",
"If power cords and adapters were universally interchangeable, manufacturers wouldn't be able to reap additional revenue when these accessories eventually need to be replaced.)",
"Apple's patent details an adapter that would have multiple, daisy-chained DC-to-DC converters (either in the adapter itself, or the cord or a connector), supplying power to more than one device.",
"Alternatively, the adapter would have a relay that dynamically controls the power delivered to a device, and would only deliver juice to compatible devices.",
"The third major patent that rolled through the USPTO this week was innovative back when it was first filed by Xerox in 1998.",
"The patent involves location-based services, and could potentially be another tool Apple could use to crush other mobile competition (or at least get them to pony up some royalties).",
"Apple acquired this patent in 2009 from Xerox, and on Tuesday the patent was reissued.",
"The patent predates the mobile app revolution, and even the rise of major social networks, and is worded uncomfortably broadly.",
"Here's the bulk of what it says: . \"A location information system that displays location specific information, the location information system, comprising: a receiver that receives location identification information from at least one site specific object identifying a location.Iadd., where the at least one site specific object is a beacon.Iaddend.",
"; and a transceiver that transmits the location identification information to a distributed network and that receives the location specific information about the specified location from the distributed network based on the location identification information, wherein the location specific information provides information corresponding to the location.\"",
"Yes, patentese is an obtuse dialect, but if you could decipher any of the above, you'll know the patent describes what tons of apps and mobile devices already do on a near constant basis.",
"Apple could, theoretically, start pursuing companies like Foursquare or Facebook for performing location-based services that fall under the patent's very wide umbrella.",
"Is this patent really a threat to such companies?",
"\"Apple gets interesting new patents all the time.",
"I think this one is an example, but the moment of truth for any patent or patent portfolio is litigation,\" FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller told Wired.com over email.",
"In other words: Don't get your panties in a wad until Apple starts aggressively wielding its patent power in the courts.",
"For now, it's just something the company has got in the bag.",
"Along with its other some thousand patents.",
"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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"Surrey, British Columbia (CNN) -- Canadian authorities braced for protests expected to take place near Vancouver, British Columbia, on Thursday outside an event where former U.S. presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are scheduled to appear.",
"Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities to arrest Bush for \"war crimes\" while activists announced Occupy Wall Street-style protests of the economic summit in Surrey where the former presidents were scheduled to speak along with world finance experts.",
"\"We would prefer his home country try George W. Bush,\" said Alex Neve, secretary-general of Amnesty International Canada.",
"Neve said Bush should face trial for ordering the so-called enhanced interrogation, such as water boarding, of suspected terrorists.",
"\"But the Obama administration has made it clear they do not intend to do that, so we are asking Canada to.",
"We are not naive. It's an uphill fight but we feel we have a strong case,\" Neve said.",
"Across social media and the Internet, activists called for an \"Occupy Surrey\" protest similar to demonstrations in dozens of cities decrying Wall Street excess.",
"Several recent Occupy Wall Street demonstrations led to property damage and arrests.",
"Authorities in Canada said they were prepared for potential clashes with protesters, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.",
"RCMP Cpl. Drew Grainger said in a statement the force is going to \"respect the rights to democratic and lawful protest and is approaching this event no different than other similar events with a potential for conflict.\"",
"The summit is taking place in Surrey, a city just south of Vancouver with a population of about 370,000.",
"Organizers are charging about $600 a head for an audience of about 500 people to listen to speakers, including Bush and Clinton.",
"According to the summit agenda, the two ex-presidents will share the stage for about an hour to discuss a variety of topics including \"new realities of the North American economy.\"",
"The talk given by the two presidents is scheduled to begin at 3:45 p.m.",
"ET and will be closed to the media, organizers said.",
"The government of Canada, a close U.S. ally, has not commented on protesters' calls to arrest Bush.",
"But the country's Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told the Vancouver Sun newspaper the request was not being taken seriously.",
"\"Amnesty International cherry-picks cases to publicize based on ideology,\" Kenney said.",
"\"This kind of stunt helps explain why so many respected human rights advocates have abandoned Amnesty International.\"",
"Last month, protesters appeared at a Vancouver event for former vice president Dick Cheney promote his book."
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"(CNN) -- Hundreds of Cambodians packed a courtroom in Phnom Penh on Monday as three top Khmer Rouge leaders went on trial for their role during the bloody four-year regime in the mid-1970s.",
"The U.N.-backed Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia has scheduled four days of opening statements for the defendants, who are all in their 80s.",
"On trial are Ieng Sary, the former Khmer Rouge foreign minister; Khieu Samphon, the nominal head of state; and Nuon Chea, the prime minister, also known as Brother Number 2.",
"The head of the Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, was known as Brother Number 1.",
"He died in 1998, long before the U.N.-backed court came into existence.",
"A fourth defendant, Ieng Thirith, was ruled unfit to stand trial because she suffers from dementia and could be set free, prosecutor said.",
"She is Sary's wife and served as the social affairs ministry during the regime.",
"Prosecutors have charged the defendants with crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, genocide, homicide, torture and religious persecution.",
"Under Pol Pot's leadership, the Khmer Rouge regime was responsible for the deaths of millions of ordinary Cambodians during a four-year reign of terror that was eventually halted in 1979 by invading Vietnamese forces.",
"In 1975, the Khmer Rouge ordered people out of Phnom Penh, the capital, and other cities in Cambodia to work in the countryside.",
"It is said to be responsible for about 1.7 million deaths, roughly a quarter of the population at the time.",
"Its stated aim was to create a Communist utopia, but instead the regime forced Cambodians into what has been described as a living hell.",
"Soldiers marched city-dwellers into the countryside and forced them to work as farm laborers.",
"Those already living in rural Cambodia were expected to produce enough food for the country while teaching farming to those who had never done it before.",
"The regime abolished currency, and considered anyone with an education a threat.",
"It did not allow modern medicine, and it isolated Cambodia to make it completely self-sufficient.",
"The results were disastrous: People died of starvation and disease as soldiers tortured and killed anyone suspected of being disloyal.",
"In the end, virtually everyone, including the soldiers, became a target due to the leadership's paranoia."
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"The three defendants are all in their 80s .",
"A fourth defendant has been ruled unfit to stand trial for dementia .",
"They are charged with crimes against humanity .",
"During the four-year Khmer Rouge rule, about 1.7 million people died ."
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"(CNN) -- Iraq has banned all Turkish flights from landing in the country in response to a dispute over millions of dollars owed by an Iraqi government oil company to Turkey.",
"Iraqi transportation ministry spokesman Karim al-Nuri said the decision to block Turkish planes from Iraq, including the semi-autonomous Kurdish region, was in response to a similar ban in Turkey against Iraqi flights.",
"However, a Turkish government official denied that Ankara blocked Iraqi planes.",
"The official did say that Turkey warned that if Iraq's State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) does not pay the $3 million owed to his country, then the country would ban Iraqi aircraft.",
"\"They owe the money and they wish to freeze Turkish flights ... Talks are ongoing.",
"But the way out is for SOMO to pay its debts,\" the Turkish official said.",
"Al-Nuri said Baghdad did not make \"a political decision.\"",
"\"Iraq will reverse its decision if Turkey reverses its decision, too,\" al-Nuri said.",
"After years of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, Turkey's flagship carrier Turkish Airlines was one of the first international companies to begin direct flights to Baghdad.",
"Increasingly, Turkey has grown as a major international gateway for commerce and travel to and from its Iraqi neighbor."
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"Turkey denies making such a decision .",
"The dispute is over money owed by an Iraqi oil company to Turkey ."
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"Managua, Nicaragua (CNN) -- Nicaragua's election officials have officially declared President Daniel Ortega's victory, but opponents are protesting the results.",
"A report from the Organization of American States indicated \"irregularities in the elections,\" but supported official results saying that Ortega won re-election after garnering more than 62% of votes.",
"\"A process is legitimate if the people feel that there wishes were respected, and that is what we are experiencing here,\" said Roberto Rivas, president of Nicaragua's election authority.",
"But protests and clashes throughout the country after the November 6 elections have left at least four people dead and dozens injured, police said.",
"According to a report presented by the Organization of American States' election observers, irregularities during elections included problems providing identification card to vote, problems in the accreditation of observers and imbalances in political parties present at polling stations.",
"For opponents of Ortega, the report shows evidence of fraud.",
"\"Obviously here transparency is missing.",
"They didn't take a series of legal steps that they should have,\" said Eduardo Montealegre, a representative from the opposition Independent Liberal Party.",
"The Organization of American States says its vote count echoes the official election results.",
"But one local pro-democracy group says the problems the organization identified would equally impact their own tallies.",
"\"It's not that the results changed on the way (to be counted), it's that the absolute power of the councils overseeing the polls did not allow any challenges,\" said Roberto Bendana, president of We Make Democracy.",
"Last week U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland weighed in over reports of procedural irregularities and voter intimidation.",
"\"Frankly, if the Nicaraguan government had nothing to hide, it should have allowed a broad complement of international monitors,\" she told reporters in Washington.",
"Disputes over the results have caused confrontations between protesters and authorities, said Marcos Carmona, executive secretary of Nicaragua's Permanent Human Rights Commission.",
"\"We have reports from different citizens about aggression on the part of the National Police,\" he said, including the deaths of a father and two sons.",
"Last week a National Police spokesman said the three had died during clashes with supporters of Ortega's Sandinista party, adding that protesters had provoked clashes with police.",
"\"As the National Police, we reiterate our call to the activists and directors of the different political parties, to not use violence and to express their positions through civic means, respecting, above all, the lives of others,\" police spokesman Fernando Borge said.",
"Ortega was first elected as Nicaragua's president in 1984, and ran unsuccessfully in 1990, 1996 and 2001 before being elected again in 2006.",
"He is known as an ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and was a public supporter of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi during the Libyan uprising.",
"But recently he has reached for the middle, making overtures to the business class and promising to lure foreign investors into the country.",
"His third term is scheduled to begin January 10.",
"But opposition representatives say they plan to dispute election results before international organizations.",
"Journalist Samantha Lugo and CNN's Fernando del Rincon contributed to this report."
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"Official results say Ortega won reelection with more than 62% of votes .",
"Police say protests and clashes throughout the country have left at least four dead .",
"The Organization of American States reports irregularities, but ratifies the results .",
"A human rights representative says police are behind violence, but police blame protesters ."
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"(EW.com) -- A remake, a prequel, and one woefully misguided bird-watching comedy couldn't take down Hugh Jackman and the robots of \"Real Steel\" at the box office this weekend.",
"\"Steel\" punched up an estimated $16.3 million this weekend, marking a healthy 40 percent drop from its $27.3 million debut.",
"As evidenced by the film's impressive 64 percent boost on Saturday, it appears that \"Real Steel\" is playing as an outright family affair, and that sort of appeal will help it achieve small drops in the coming weeks.",
"Still, the $110 million Dreamworks film, which is being distributed by Disney's Touchstone Pictures, has a very long way to go before it's in the black.",
"So far, \"Real Steel\" has earned $51.7 million in ten days.",
"Paramount's $24 million remake \"Footloose\" managed to open in second place with $16.1 million, a rather lackluster result.",
"Instead of playing like a hyped-up event movie, \"Footloose\" played much more like a typical dance flick.",
"It attracted fewer dance fans than movies like \"Save the Last Dance\" (2001, $23.4 million opening) and \"Step Up\" (2006, $20.7 million opening), but it performed on the same level as \"Step Up 3D\" (2010, $15.8 million opening) and \"You Got Served\" (2004, $16.1 million).",
"The film played best with women, who made up 75 percent of the audience, and older moviegoers, who composed 61 percent of the opening weekend crowd.",
"\"Footloose\" earned a solid \"A\" CinemaScore grade, and strong word-of-mouth could help it dance its way out of financial trouble, but it will not be able to match the $80 million total that the original \"Footloose\" achieved back in 1984.",
"In third, Universal's horror prequel \"The Thing\" didn't scare up many ticket sales this weekend, opening with $8.7 million.",
"The film, which totes a reported $35 million budget, performed below Universal's expectations, becoming the latest 2011 horror film to not connect with audiences.",
"Movies like \"Scream 4\" ($38.2 million total), \"The Rite\" ($33 million), and \"Priest\" ($29.1 million) have all struggled at the box office this year.",
"Even \"Thing\" star Mary Elizabeth Winstead's former franchise film, \"Final Destination 5,\" performed unremarkably, earning only $42.1 million.",
"The best comparison for \"The Thing\" is probably \"Don't Be Afraid of the Dark,\" which opened with a similar $8.5 million and finished with $23.2 million.",
"Considering \"The Thing\" earned a weak \"B-\" CinemaScore grade and a sad $2,990 per theater average, that total is about the best it can hope for.",
"George Clooney's political thriller \"The Ides of March\" held very well in its sophomore weekend, dipping only 28 percent to $7.5 million in fourth place.",
"That decline is far less severe than Clooney's other recent political flicks, \"The American\" and \"The Men Who Stare At Goats,\" which dropped by 57 and 54 percent in their second weekends, respectively.",
"Perhaps Clooney has made a political movie that's a bit more palatable for general audiences -- or perhaps it's just the Ryan Gosling effect.",
"Either way, after ten days, \"Ides,\" which cost Sony $12.5 million to produce, has earned $22.2 million.",
"If it keeps up the soft declines, it could become a serious Oscar contender.",
"\"Dolphin Tale\" spent one last weekend in the Top 5, sliding 31 percent to $6.3 million.",
"After four weekend's Warner Brothers' surprise 3-D hit has accrued a nice $58.7 million total.",
"Along with \"Moneyball\" ($57.7 million after four weeks) and \"The Lion King 3D\" ($90.5 million after five), \"Dolphin Tale\" is one of the few box office bright spots since \"The Help.\"",
"The weekend's other new wide release, \"The Big Year,\" debuted way back in ninth place with $3.3 million out of 2,150 theaters.",
"Fox spent $41 million on the Jack Black, Steve Martin, Owen Wilson bird-watching collaboration that wasn't quite a comedy, wasn't quite a drama, wasn't quite a competition film, and apparently wasn't at all enticing for audiences, who gave the picture a \"B-\" CinemaScore grade.",
"Between the financial failure of \"The Big Year,\" and 2006′s \"Hoot,\" which opened to $3.4 million out of 3,018 theaters, maybe Hollywood should think twice about the appeal of birds at the box office.",
"They don't always soar.",
"In limited release, Pedro Almodovar's deeply creepy \"The Skin I Live In\" got off to a strong start, with $231,000 in six theaters, good for a robust $38,500 per theater average.",
"Internationally, tastes weren't quite as refined, as \"The Smurfs\" finally passed $400 million overseas.",
"1. Real Steel -- $16.3 mil .",
"2. Footloose -- $16.1 mil .",
"3. The Thing -- $8.7 mil .",
"4. The Ides of March -- $7.5 mil .",
"5. Dolphin Tale -- $6.3 mil .",
"6. Moneyball -- $5.5 mil .",
"7. 50/50 -- $4.3 mil .",
"8. Courageous -- $3.4 mi .",
"9. The Big Year -- $3.3 mil .",
"10. The Lion King 3D -- $2.7 mil .",
"See the full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"(Health.com) -- \"I'm sorry I'm late, it's that I just woke up!\"",
"laughs Sofia Vergara, at eleven-thirty on a Sunday morning in Los Angeles.",
"\"We worked until very late last night,\" says the 39-year-old in the rolling Colombian accent we've come to love from her character, Gloria, on \"Modern Family.\"",
"About the late thing?",
"We'll forgive her, because this is one busy woman.",
"Not only was she working on a shoot for CoverGirl (she is their new spokesperson), but she also just launched her Sofia Vergara for Kmart fashion line for women of all sizes.",
"And she's in not one but two new movies (\"Happy Feet Two\" and \"New Year's Eve\"), while filming her Emmy-winning ABC show.",
"Today, the seriously funny actress -- who is mom to her own \"Manny,\" 20-year-old son, Manolo -- talks about everything from dreading workouts to the plastic surgery she's so glad she decided not to get.",
"Q: The tagline of your fashion line is \"Work what you got.\"",
"How can we work what we've got? Everybody has something.",
"Somebody has a good pair of legs, even though her midsection is a little chunky.",
"So then you can wear tights with miniskirts or you wear tight leggings.",
"And if you have nice cleavage, wear things that enhance that.",
"Health.com: The biggest celebrity health stories of 2011 .",
"Q: Was there a time you didn't love how you looked?",
"Oh, of course! Not everybody's confident their whole life.",
"For a long time, I thought that my boobs were too big and I was, like, 14 years old, and I already had these huge boobs.",
"I was very skinny also.",
"And now that I'm almost 40 -- we always have our insecurities as women.",
"We're never happy!",
"Q: Can you remember the day you started realizing, \"Wait a minute, I think I've got it going on!\"",
"In Latin America we do learn to be more comfortable with our bodies.",
"Women are not shy to be in a bathing suit, in a G-string.",
"But I also did a TV commercial for Pepsi when I was 17 on the beach in a bathing suit.",
"And after that, everybody was like, \"Oh my god, that body.\"",
"And you know, you start to feel a little bit more confident if you have people thinking that you're so fabulous!",
"[Laughs] . Health.com: The hottest ways Hollywood lives healthy .",
"Q: I guess it helps to have a cheerleading squad.",
"Of course, of course!",
"When I moved to America, I was more voluptuous, and I felt a little different.",
"And one time, years ago, I remember my publicist [at the time] told me, \"I think you should just reduce your boobs because nobody's going to take you seriously here.\"",
"My mother almost had a heart attack.",
"She was like, \"God is going to punish you!",
"You can't cut your boobs!\" I don't regret not doing it, because now it's become a big part of Gloria.",
"Q: What made you realize, \"I'm going to keep my body the way it is\"?",
"My mother screaming at me that God was gonna punish me -- what else do you want!",
"[Laughing] . Q: Oh, right, that would do it!",
"Are you anti -- plastic surgery in general?",
"I'm not against it at all. But I think that you should go into it more thinking that you want to look beautiful than trying to look young.",
"Because I don't really think that plastic surgery can make you look young.",
"It can make you look prettier, but if you go with the mentality of being young, I think that's where accidents can happen.",
"Health.com: Thinking about cosmetic surgery?",
"Here's how to get a better nip or tuck .",
"Q: You're a natural blonde, right?",
"Yeah, about five years ago I was auditioning with this body and the attitude of a Latin woman, and it didn't match the stereotype of the Latin women in Hollywood.",
"I made it dark for a screen test and everybody really liked it.",
"They didn't give me the movie, but I kept the hair color!",
"Q: Do you ever feel like people stereotype you?",
"Oh yeah, of course.",
"But I don't mind it. I mean, it is the reality.",
"I am a Latin woman: I'm voluptuous, I'm loud, I'm exactly what a Latin woman is [laughs].",
"I mean, what am I going to go against it?",
"No. I don't think there's anything bad in being a Latin woman.",
"What is it? That we are loud, that we are passionate, that we are voluptuous?",
"I prefer to be called that than, \"You're boring; you have a flat a**!\"",
"[Laughs] . Q: Do you have any stay gorgeous tricks that aren't from a bottle?",
"My mother always told me to make the last water in your shower really cold.",
"I've always done it.",
"Q: How are you most healthy? And not so healthy? I don't smoke, I've never done drugs.",
"I think the most unhealthy thing is that I'm obsessed with dessert.",
"And it's verrry hard for me not to eat it at least once a day.",
"Q: What are your favorites?",
"All of 'em. I mean, I cannot...it's like you saying, \"Which one of your kids is your favorite?\"",
"I can't do that! Oh....God...[her voice is wavering like it's \"Sophie's Choice\"] it's so difficult.",
"Tiramisu maybe?",
"Or just a plain vanilla cake that's homemade and warm and just out of the oven?",
"I love that. Q: You talked to Health a few years ago about how you beat thyroid cancer in 2000.",
"How does going through a health scare at such a young age change you?",
"It changes your priorities.",
"It's a good thing when it comes out with a happy ending because it does make you appreciate things more.",
"But, you know, you live your life as healthy as you can.",
"I was twentysomething and I had never smoked, I hadn't eaten red meat in years, so why did I have a cancer?",
"No one knows. Q: What's your biggest health regret?",
"You know what I wish? My face is so much better, because I've been putting sunblock since I was young on my face.",
"Nobody ever told me that I needed to put it in my décolletage!",
"And so it is more sun-damaged than my face.",
"It wouldn't have been difficult to put a little bit there.",
"Q: Is it true you're not a fan of gyms?",
"Just working out! [Laughs] It's paaaaaainful.",
"I hired Gunnar Peterson, which is really fun.",
"Because I mean, if I go alone, I'll sabotage myself.",
"I'll do half of the workout.",
"So I need somebody to force me to do it.",
"Q: Do you complain the whole time or do you just shut up and do it?",
"Ohhh, the whooooole time!",
"I cry, I get on the floor, I'm like, \"I'm gonna throw up, enough!\"",
"I mean, he doesn't care. Q: How do you motivate yourself to work out if you're too tired?",
"Oh my God, I look at myself in the mirror.",
"And I'm like, I'm almost 40 years old and I need to go!",
"Q: So seeing your face in the mirror is just inspiration enough?",
"No, I'm more looking at my a**! [Laughs] Or my legs, not my face!",
"Q: What is your favorite way to de-stress?",
"To be with my son and my boyfriend [Nick Loeb], just doing nothing.",
"And I love lunches with my friends -- just talking and gossiping .",
"Copyright Health Magazine 2011 ."
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"(CNN) -- Adidas, the brand loved for its sports gear, might be expanding into fashion but it won't desert its fitness loving fans, the chief executive says.",
"Adidas is now working with top designers, such as Stella McCartney, to create a distinctive genre of sportswear and lifestyle fashion products.",
"But while ceo Herbert Hainer is happy with the diversity the collaborations provide, its main priority will always be sportswear, he told CNN.",
"\"Football is our heart and our soul,\" he said.",
"\"This gives us a driving edge in Europe,\" he added.",
"Adidas is an official partner of the European Champions League and the 2012 European Football Championship.",
"This means its commitment to Europe will grow despite the continent's vulnerable economic conditions, Hainer said.",
"\"Europe is still a huge market,\" he noted.",
"\"Be it in the mature markets [France, Germany, England] or the emerging markets... especially Russia,\" he said.",
"\"I am not concerned about Europe.",
"There is no doubt that we will further grow in Europe,\" he added.",
"Adidas has navigated the worst of Europe's economic difficulties thanks to the strength of its brand name and the diversity of its product portfolio, he said.",
"The German sportswear giant has grown steadily throughout the first half of 2011 across all of its brand name titles, including Reebok and Tailor Made.",
"Consumers are looking for innovative products and despite difficult economic times across the world, Adidas is delivering, Hainer said.",
"\"We have an unbelievably healthy situation because we have global brands, bring permanently innovative products to the market and this is what the consumer really appreciate,\" he added.",
"CNN's Eoghan Macguire contributed to this report ."
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"But its main priority will always be sportswear .",
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"Las Vegas (CNN) -- Weeks ago, Dan Wheldon was behind the wheel of a new prototype car for the IZOD IndyCar racing series -- one meant to make his sport safer, albeit ideally no less exciting.",
"The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner, who'd been one of a handful of key collaborators in the safety effort as identified on the racing circuit's website, never got a chance to see the refined engines at work in a real race.",
"Instead on Monday, his friends, colleagues and the racing world were mourning his death following a fiery 15-car wreck at the Las Vegas Indy 300.",
"\"I lost one of my best friends, one of my greatest teammates,\" driver Tony Kanaan told reporters hours after Sunday's fatal crash.",
"\"I know this is a dangerous sport.",
"I know we're exposed to that every day, in normal life as well,\" he added.",
"\"But you know, you don't think about it.",
"Today, we have to think about it.\"",
"Images from the fatal crash .",
"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.",
"\"All I could see was fire and parts flying and smoke,\" recalled Paul Tracy, one of those involved in the crash, on Monday.",
"\"When it all came to a stop, it looked like something out of a movie set ...",
"It didn't seem real.\" An official at the Clark County Coroner's Office, who was not named per the office's policy, told CNN on Monday that Wheldon officially died from \"blunt head trauma.\"",
"The 33-year-old's death has been ruled an \"accident.\"",
"Two other drivers seriously injured in the wreck -- J.R. Hildebrand and Pippa Mann -- were released Monday from University Medical Center in Las Vegas, IndyCar said in a release.",
"Mann had surgery Sunday night for a burn injury to a finger on her right hand, while Hildebrand was held overnight after suffering a severely bruised sternum.",
"Championship contender Will Power was treated and released Sunday, IndyCar spokeswoman Amy Konrath said.",
"The violent crash raised fresh questions about safety, both in motor sports generally and at the Las Vegas track specifically.",
"Wheldon had been a driving force 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-tool a safer car model for the 2012 season.",
"\"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.\" Wheldon was known as \"a great family man\" Ironically, the new 2012 cars were expected to have components -- namely extra protection around tires -- to prevent spin-outs like the one that triggered Sunday's wreck when two vehicles' bump together, said Tracy.",
"\"They want the cars to run a bit more in a pack, (but) these cars are not designed to bang wheels with each other at 225 mph,\" the veteran driver said.",
"\"Our wheels (currently) are exposed.",
"Once you have two cars touch each other, you don't have any control.\"",
"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.",
"It is one of several in motor sports generally, one of the most famous being the elder Dale Earnhardt's death 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 miles an hour 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 that of 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.",
"In an interview with CNN on Monday, former IndyCar driver Lyn St. James noted too that the slope of the track's curves and its straightaway can create \"this momentum and this ability for all the cars to be able to go flat out, (which) really takes the car out of the driver's hands.\"",
"Not going as far as Franchitti in critiquing the Las Vegas oval, St. James said that a number of factors -- including the vehicles' speed and numbers, as well as the track's configuration -- came together \"like the perfect storm.\"",
"\"It was unfortunate, it was tragic, it was something we all wish would never have happened,\" she said of Wheldon's death.",
"Blog: Wheldon's death should bring changes in racetracks .",
"That sentiment rang true for many in the racing community.",
"After the crash at the IZOD IndyCar World Championships, many of the remaining drivers were emotional during and after a five-lap salute in Wheldon's honor.",
"The rest of the marquee event was canceled.",
"\"There are no words for today,\" driver Danica Patrick, the first woman to win an IndyCar race in 2008, tweeted.",
"\"Myself and so many others are devastated.",
"I pray for suzi (Wheldon's wife) and the kids that god will give them strength.\"",
"Wheldon, who was born in Emberton, England, lived in St. Petersburg, Florida.",
"His father was a go-kart racer, and his mother was the timer at a local track.",
"As a driver, Wheldon teamed up with the Alzheimer's Association to promote awareness of Alzheimer's disease; he was wearing the association's logo when he won the Indy 500 in May.",
"His mother was diagnosed with the disease in 2009.",
"In North Carolina, Sven Bhem told CNN affiliate WGHP that his son-in-law -- who, just hours before this weekend's race, had sung him \"Happy Birthday\" over the phone -- wasn't \"just a great driver, but he was a great human being,\" Bhem said.",
"\"He was always positive, always had something good to say about everybody.\"",
"He said Wheldon and his daughter had been married four years and have two sons, ages 2 1/2 years and 7 months.",
"In a statement released Monday, Wheldon's management company, GP Sports Management, described the driver as a \"champion on the track and a devoted family man off it.\"",
"\"Dan loved his fans and always took that extra bit of time to take a photo, to sign an autograph, to make some young kid smile at the racetrack.",
"Everyone wanted to be around Dan.",
"His passion and his enthusiasm for life was infectious.\"",
"St. James remembered Wheldon as a \"brash kid from England\" when he first began.",
"\"We watched him mature into being this absolute, consummate professional,\" she said. ...",
"He touched so many people.\"",
"She said she believes Wheldon's death will \"kind of raise the bar\" in terms of safety for drivers.",
"While a number of safety measures are in place, and the sport will always be high-risk, \"we don't want this kind of thing to happen,\" she said.",
"Tracy concurred, telling CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he hopes \"out of this tragedy, comes some good in terms of improving safety,\" like putting see-through glass in place of web-like netting around tracks.",
"The driver added that his wife and parents have implored him to retire in the wake of his friend's death.",
"While he said he is considering it, Tracy also acknowledged that he and other racers aren't blind to the dangers.",
"\"We're all thrill-seekers at heart, we all take risks on the race track,\" he said.",
"\"This sport isn't for everybody.",
"(Nonetheless), obviously, we'd like to see improvement.\"",
"CNN's Greg Botelho and David Close contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Coroner says Wheldon died of \"blunt head trauma,\" deems death an \"accident\"\nThe 2-time Indy 500 winner was testing a safer IndyCar in the weeks before his death .",
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"(CNN) -- Hundreds of people were injured in Bahrain Friday, when rival groups clashed over an attempted march in the town of Riffa, a residential area where the ruling Al-Khalifa family lives.",
"The national health ministry said 774 people were injured and 107 were hospitalized in the wake of the fighting.",
"Anti-government demonstrators in Riffa had planned a march.",
"A crowd numbering roughly 8,000 set off on the march, according to Bahrain's ambassador to the United States.",
"But they were met by hundreds of people carrying swords, hatchets, metal pieces, cricket instruments and pieces of wood with nails hammered into them.",
"The opposing group had already taken up positions in an effort to stop the planned march.",
"Bahrain's ambassador to the United States took the unusual step of commenting on the clashes in Riffa, which he called a \"sectarian conflict\" between Shia and Sunni Muslim factions.",
"Law enforcement officers had erected barbed wire fences in an attempt to ward off any fighting, Houda Ezra Nonoo said in a statement.",
"The conflict began when small groups from opposing sides met at the security fence, she said.",
"Accounts that claimed live ammunition was used by government forces were \"rumors,\" Nonoo added.",
"She also denied allegations that people inhaled tear gas to the point of suffocation.",
"Only eight tear gas canisters were used to disperse the crowd, according to Nonoo's statement.",
"Video footage would support his version of the operation, she said.",
"The attempted march in Riffa was organized by some of the more hard-line Shia groups among the government opposition.",
"However, there are also moderate Shia groups and Sunni groups in the anti-government coalition.",
"Sunni Muslims -- a minority in the kingdom -- dominate the government of Bahrain.",
"The Shiite Muslim majority has staged protests in recent years to complain about discrimination, unemployment and corruption.",
"Riffa is just over 12 miles (20 kilometers) southwest of the capital, Manama, where demonstrators have been protesting in Pearl Roundabout for a month.",
"Seven people died there when security personnel tried to clear the area in mid-February.",
"Protesters initially took to the streets of Manama to demand reform and the introduction of a constitutional monarchy.",
"More than 500 people have been injured in Bahrain since the protest began, which human rights activists say is part of a wave of popular unrest crashing through the Arab world .",
"The Bahrain Center for Human Rights said authorities launched a clampdown on dissent in 2010.",
"It accused the government of torturing some human rights activists.",
"CNN's Tim Lister and journalist Mansoor Al-Jamri contributed to this report."
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"More than 700 people were injured in clashes over attempted march .",
"The clashes took place in area that is home to the Al-Khalifa ruling family .",
"Opposing crowds carried swords, hatchets, pieces of wood with nails .",
"The Bahraini ambassador to U.S. denied allegations of police force ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Apparently no good deed goes unpunished for President Barack Obama, who was trying to make sure he didn't get a flabby belly after Thanksgiving but wound up with a fat lower lip instead.",
"White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said the president received a dozen stitches after getting hit with an errant elbow during a Friday morning basketball game with White House aide Reggie Love and others at the Fort McNair military base in Washington.",
"The elbow belonged to Rey Decerega, who works for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.",
"According to White House aides, Decerega went up for a shot and turned into the President, who was playing defense and accidentally got hit in the mouth.",
"\"I learned today the president is both a tough competitor and a good sport,\" Decerega said in a statement released by the White House.",
"\"I enjoyed playing basketball with him this morning.",
"I'm sure he'll be back out on the court again soon.\"",
"According to Gibbs, \"After being inadvertently hit with an opposing player's elbow in the lip while playing basketball with friends and family, the president received 12 stitches today administered by the White House Medical Unit.",
"They were done in the doctor's office located on the ground floor of the White House.\"",
"Aides said Obama was given a local anesthetic while receiving the stitches, and doctors used a smaller-than-usual filament.",
"That increased the number of stitches needed to patch up the tear, but it made a tighter stitch so that the scar on the president's lower lip should be smaller.",
"Obama frequently plays basketball, works out on a daily basis, and was undoubtedly playing Friday to work off some extra Thanksgiving calories.",
"An official White House menu showed that in addition to turkey and the usual trimmings, the first family dined Thursday on six types of pie: apple, sweet potato, pumpkin, banana cream, cherry, and huckleberry.",
"Asked by CNN if Decerega will be getting a presidential pardon, a top White House aide just laughed."
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"The owner of the errant elbow calls Obama \"a tough competitor and a good sport\""
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Egyptians reveled in their chance to vote in a post-Hosni Mubarak era during a second day of parliamentary elections, but nightfall brought new clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square that stretched into Wednesday.",
"At least 88 people had been hurt, 28 of them seriously enough to go to a hospital, a Health Ministry official, Dr. Adel Adawi, told the state-run newspaper Al-Ahram.",
"The rest were treated at makeshift clinics in the square, Adawi said, but hospitals expected more people to be brought in.",
"The victims had been hit by rocks, glass bottles, birdshot and Molotov cocktails, Dr. Hisham Sheeha, another Health Ministry official, told CNN.",
"At least a dozen gunshots rang out across the plaza, and ambulances darted in and out of the square as the fighting continued.",
"Tahrir Square was the epicenter of the protests that drove Mubarak from power in February and the ongoing demonstrations against the military council that succeeded him.",
"The state-run Middle East News Agency, citing a military source, said there were no police or troops in the square at the time.",
"Witnesses said Tuesday's melee began with fights between vendors and protesters, who began throwing rocks and attacking their kiosks with sticks.",
"The protesters complained some vendors were giving demonstrations a bad image by selling marijuana, said Mina Hagras, one of the demonstrators who has been camped in the square.",
"\"This is not the spirit of the revolutionaries or the square,\" Hagras said.",
"\"They warned them. They did not stop. So they took matters in their own hands and beat them up.",
"Now, state TV is saying all the protesters in (the) square are thugs and drug users.",
"This is not fair.\" But Mohamed Shafei, whose sandwich stand was destroyed in the brawl, said the protesters turned on the vendors indiscriminately and confiscating their goods.",
"\"Yes, there were several vendors selling hashish and pills, but not all of us are the same,\" Shafei said as he carried the remains of his kiosk.",
"\"Now the vendors are pissed and retaliating.\"",
"The new clashes came after a second day of voting, the first time some Egyptians -- young and old -- have ever cast ballots.",
"Citizens are picking members of the lower house of parliament, which will be tasked with drafting a new constitution after three decades of Mubarak's rule.",
"Despite logistical problems and illegal campaigning that marred the first day of balloting on Monday, Egypt's stock exchange opened considerably higher Tuesday and saw an unprecedented wave of buying amid the elections.",
"Voters decried the late opening of polling stations Monday and a delay in the arrival of ballots, leading the head of Egypt's election committee to promise a smoother voting process Tuesday.",
"Election officials said they have received 964 complaints, 579 of which have been addressed, according to Egypt TV.",
"State TV reported that 25 people were injured in election-related violence.",
"Activist Hafez Abu Saeeda, of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights, said on Twitter he was in Al-Khaleefa \"working on an election tour, and an attack took place on our supporters before I arrived.\"",
"The army was able to control the situation immediately, he said.",
"One person was injured.",
"But many voters expressed jubilation at their chance to help build a new Egypt after the popular revolt that toppled Mubarak.",
"\"Before, there was always cheating.",
"Now -- I could be wrong -- but I think my vote will count,\" Mohamed Rida'a Mohamed Abdulla said as he left a Cairo polling station.",
"Some polling areas were segregated by gender.",
"Lines at both men's and women's stations snaked around buildings for hours.",
"\"It's an awakening,\" one woman said, beaming, at a Cairo polling station.",
"\"I'm very happy, and I feel that even when I see old ladies hardly walking, it makes me feel that really Egypt is reviving.\"",
"The stakes are high for Egyptian women, who worry that if Islamists gain a majority in the lower house of Parliament, their hopes for a more liberal life will be quashed.",
"In Alexandria, the Al Noor Salafi Muslim party and the Freedom and Justice Party accused one another of breaking an \"honorable agreement\" aimed at cooperation.",
"The Freedom and Justice Party is part of the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood, one of the nation's largest organizations.",
"Yousri Hamad, a spokesman for the Al Noor Salafi party, said the Muslim Brotherhood spread false rumors and launched a \"smear campaign\" against the party.",
"\"We were not as prepared for the elections as we should have been and did not spend enough money on the campaigning,\" Hamad said.",
"But Essam Erian, spokesman for the Freedom and Justice Party, said the Salafis had breached the agreement by making such accusations without evidence.",
"Ali Al Dali, an official monitor for the Egyptian Association of Human Rights, said eight cases of vote-buying had been documented in Alexandria, and police had been notified.",
"About 45% of eligible voters in the city had cast ballots, he said.",
"Elections for the lower house are scheduled to take place in three stages, based on geography.",
"The last of the three stages is set to take place in January.",
"Upper house elections will run between January and March.",
"Presidential elections will be held by June, according to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Egypt's acting ruling body.",
"Military leaders have said they will hand over power to a new government when one is elected, but many Egyptians say they don't trust the council and fear the military will cling to power.",
"Over the past two weeks, at least 42 people have been killed in clashes as protesters called for an immediate end to military rule.",
"An additional 3,250 have been wounded, according to the Health Ministry.",
"Some Egyptians expressed skepticism or even boycotted the voting on Monday.",
"\"There is no inclination that the judiciary is independent, so there is no way to prove the election will be free and fair,\" said Amr Hamzawy, a 32-year-old shopkeeper.",
"CNN's Ben Wedeman, Ivan Watson, Leone Lakhani and Jim Clancy and journalists Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Ian Lee contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Fresh Tahrir Square clashes leave nearly 90 wounded .",
"Report: Egypt's stock market sees an unprecedented wave of buying .",
"Voters pick members of the lower house of Egypt's parliament .",
"The lower house will be tasked with drafting Egypt's new constitution ."
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"(CNN) -- A pair of earthquakes with magnitudes of at least 5.0 struck within 90 minutes of each other near Christchurch, New Zealand, on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported, reviving vivid memories of a deadly quake that killed more than 180 people in February.",
"\"Everyone is on edge here anyway,\" said Rhys Taylor, who said he could hear sirens and see helicopters flying over Christchurch.",
"\"Obviously, power's out -- sort of all over the city at the moment -- and phone lines are down.\"",
"Police evacuated sections of the city's central business district after reports of a possible gas leak, police said.",
"Several bridges in the city were closed as a precaution.",
"\"It was quite an exciting ride,\" Christchurch Police Acting Inspector Murray Hurst told CNN after the first quake, adding that there was some damage caused by the quake and a few injuries that were not life-threatening.",
"The first quake -- a magnitude 5.2 -- was centered 9 kilometers (5 miles) east-southeast of Christchurch at a depth of 11 kilometers (6.8 miles), according to USGS.",
"The quake took place at 1 p.m. Monday.",
"A second quake -- a more powerful 6.0 tremor -- struck at 2:20 p.m., roughly 13 kilometers (8 miles) north-northeast of the city at a depth of 9 kilometers (5.6 miles).",
"And at least one smaller quake followed.",
"A magnitude 4.6 quake struck at 2:40 p.m. about 11 kilometers (6 miles) east of Christchurch and at a depth of 12.5 kilometers (7.8 miles), according to the USGS.",
"The quakes came nearly four months after a 6.3-magnitude temblor struck the same area, killing more than 180 people.",
"CNN's Jack Maddox and Anisha Bhandari contributed to this report."
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"Three quakes strike near Christchurch within two hours .",
"Two of the quakes have magnitudes of at least 5.0 .",
"Power is out and phone lines are down in Christchurch, a resident says .",
"A 6.3-magnitude temblor struck the same area in February, killing more than 180 people ."
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"(Real Simple) -- Gayle Jamison's garden in Woodstock, New York, is a well-ordered oasis filled with gentle lines of peonies and hydrangeas, artfully placed azaleas, and weeping cherry trees.",
"A soothing vista dotted with various shades of pink and purple, the garden is so immaculately maintained that you would expect to see a professional landscaper continuously at work perfecting it.",
"Not so. Instead, on Friday mornings from April through September, you will find a cheerful band of six women -- some graying, some not, most of them attired in old T-shirts or overalls and work boots.",
"One day a week, they set aside their own jobs to garden as a team at one of their homes, rotating every week so that each woman's property gets the full benefit of their collective burst of labor and artistic vision.",
"Real Simple: How to negotiate anything .",
"In the eight years since the group came together, the women, who call themselves the Wonder Weeders, have created pathways and sculptures, moved trees, and carved out acres of gardens from hillsides and overgrown bramble.",
"Often they converse as they work, talking about the primroses that they are mulching, the big news that a friend has just received, or challenges that they are facing with their jobs.",
"Other times they seem to read one another's minds, knowing when it's time to put down the garden gloves and just listen.",
"Sowing the seeds .",
"The women might never have come together except for an accident that befell 67-year-old Terry Funk-Antman in 2001.",
"She shattered her knee, which left her unable to care for her garden.",
"One day, frustrated at seeing her beloved roses wither away, she hobbled out to her front yard.",
"Her neighbor Cathera Lane, a painter and a gifted gardener in her own right, walked by the house as Terry balanced precariously on her crutches, attempting to pull weeds.",
"Real Simple: How to make a good first impression .",
"Although the two had exchanged only a few words, Cathera instantly offered her assistance.",
"\"You point to things and tell me what to do and I'll do it,\" she said.",
"As the two women walked through Terry's garden and got acquainted, Cathera suggested that they might help each other out from time to time.",
"Then Terry had an epiphany: \"If two people can work this way, why not six or seven?\"",
"Cathera loved the idea, and they started brainstorming about whom to invite.",
"\"We wanted real gardeners with no attitude,\" says Terry, a psychotherapist.",
"A few weeks later, a handful of friends gathered at her home.",
"In attendance: Susan Goldman, 63, a community organizer; Nikki Goldbeck, 63, a nutritionist; and Gayle Jamison, 63, an underwater photographer.",
"Also a member from the start was Joy Hopkins-Hausman, a therapist and an artist, who died of breast cancer last August at the age of 61.",
"Maria DeFranco, a 57-year-old sculptor and architect, joined in 2003.",
"Real Simple: 5 inspirational friendships .",
"At that first gathering, the women laid down the ground rules for their project: No fancy food or refreshments were to be served (water was all that the host had to provide), no lawn mowing, and no uninvited garden critiques.",
"\"We all just wanted help with the tasks that would otherwise be overwhelming,\" says Susan.",
"\"We didn't have any sense of where it would take us.\"",
"Green days .",
"In the first few years, says Nikki, they were still in the beginning stages of collaboration, trying to prove themselves as dedicated gardeners.",
"Conversation tended to revolve around the names of plants and design schemes.",
"But gradually, as they harvested raspberries or cleared away weeds, intimate exchanges bloomed.",
"\"We started talking about our families and our other passions,\" says Maria.",
"\"In the midst of the work, we had these gem-like moments.\"",
"As the women's friendships grew, so did the scope of their projects.",
"On Nikki's property, they restored a tranquil, bluestone-paved garden that had been hidden for years by overgrowth.",
"At Maria's place, they filled a dozen hanging planters to adorn her wraparound porch.",
"And for Cathera they lugged stones into position to make a beautiful, new border for her fishpond.",
"Real Simple: How to be a good friend .",
"With each woman bringing her individual skills to bear -- Gayle has her wide-ranging knowledge of flowers; Nikki, her impressive patience with weeding; Maria, her sculptor's brawn in moving boulders -- the friends have devoted themselves to helping each garden express its owner's sensibilities.",
"For Terry, an exuberant woman who loves color, someone suggested showering morning glories over the cottage where she sees patients.",
"For Cathera, who is as practical as she is artistic, the group has helped plant and maintain 32 varieties of fruits and vegetables.",
"And when Joy was struck by a recurrence of cancer, they created a healing labyrinth, a circular pathway with a spot for meditating at the center.",
"\"We've come to understand our labor as a concrete expression of our appreciation for one another,\" says Terry.",
"On the day last August that Joy died, the Wonder Weeders had come to her home to garden -- it was her turn.",
"As Joy's grown children and their families gathered at the house and waited for news from the hospital, the friends did what they do best: hard work.",
"They made breakfast for everyone, cleaned the house until it was spotless, and, of course, weeded and tended the garden.",
"When the call finally came, they hugged, wept -- then picked up their tools and continued their tasks.",
"\"When people came to pay condolences, we wanted the garden to be as beautiful as Joy could have ever hoped,\" says Maria.",
"That same day, Terry gathered up all the ripe peaches on the backyard trees.",
"When Joy's family came back to town later that month, they each received one of the 30 pots of jam that Terry had made from the fruit, a sweet memory of their loved one and a manifestation of the Wonder Weeders' devotion.",
"Reaping the rewards .",
"On a hot, clear morning last September, the women were hard at work in Cathera's garden.",
"Although Joy's death was still very much on all their minds, they focused on the tasks at hand.",
"Susan and Gayle dragged a tarp loaded with brush to the back of the house, where it would be picked up.",
"Nikki wielded pruning shears like a weapon in the hands of a highly skilled warrior.",
"Later, sitting around the table on Cathera's porch, the friends took a moment to express what the group had come to mean to them.",
"Certainly their gardens had developed and improved.",
"But what they found more surprising was how the collaboration had caused the women to change, too.",
"\"The group taught me to lean on other people,\" says Nikki, who is the primary caretaker of her 94-year-old mother.",
"\"Over time I've gotten better at asking for help.\"",
"Gayle felt that the no-criticism policy had encouraged her to trust more readily that \"there is more than one right way to do things.\"",
"Maria says that the gardening has helped her become a bolder artist.",
"\"It's easier to experiment and try new things with all this support behind you,\" she says.",
"Real Simple: When friendships go wrong .",
"This spring the group started up again.",
"It's even smaller now: Cathera entered the hospital over the winter and was still there at press time, waiting to gain enough strength for a liver transplant.",
"Having weathered so many changes, the members are contemplating their next chapter.",
"Eight years in, many of their gardens are near completion.",
"Maybe, wonders Gayle, it's \"time to offer a little extra help to local gardeners who are ailing or unable to do what they would like.\"",
"Susan has proposed that they start involving local children in their gardening.",
"Real Simple: How to break bad habits .",
"All the women are delighted that several other gardening co-ops, inspired by theirs, have sprung up in their area, the idea taking hold like a felicitous invasive species.",
"\"Another circle develops,\" says Terry, \"a rippling out of the concept that we can expand our joy in our gardens by including others.\"",
"Change, growth, creativity -- these core values were never expressly spelled out in the Wonder Weeders' first meeting, but they have all become part of the group's unspoken ethos.",
"With the arrival of the warmer months, everyone is eager to see what fresh bounty the season will hold.",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of Real Simple - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2011 Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Gardening co-ops can have unexpected benefits for like-minded members .",
"As the scope of the Wonder Weeders' gardening projects grew, so did their friendships .",
"Eight years on, the Wonder Weeders have weathered great change and have new goals ."
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"(CNN) -- The United States have battled back to set up a final-day showdown in the Solheim Cup women's golf teams event in Ireland.",
"With Europe doubling their one-point lead to 7-5 after Saturday's morning foursomes matches at Killeen Castle, the U.S. kept alive their hopes of a fourth straight title on Sunday by levelling at 8-8 after the fourballs.",
"The 24 players will go head-to-head in 12 singles matches as the Europeans seek just a fourth success since the inaugural competition in 1990.",
"Britain's Laura Davies will take on fellow veteran Juli Inkster in one of the key clashes, with the Englishwoman confident after overtaking Annika Sorenstam as the Solheim Cup's record points scorer.",
"All about the Solheim Cup .",
"\"To be honest, it was a bit embarrassing not to have the most points when I've played in every match,\" said the 47-year-old Davies, who has featured in all 12 stagings.",
"\"So it's great to have made it.",
"It's cleared the pressure and now I can relax a bit more without that extra edge in the singles.\"",
"Having sat out the foursomes, Davies and Melissa Bell beat Michelle Wie and Brittany Lang 4&3 but their teammates could not maintain the momentum.",
"Europe take narrow lead after first day .",
"Morgan Pressel and Cristie Kerr defeated Suzann Pettersen and Caroline Hedwall by one hole, Stacy Lewis and Ryann O'Toole triumphed 2&1 against Sandra Gal and Christel Boeljon, while Paula Creamer and Brittany Lincicome were 3&1 victors over Maria Hjorth and Azahara Munoz.",
"Former U.S. Open champion Creamer will take on Catriona Matthew as she seeks to remain unbeaten, having played in all this year's matches.",
"\"We are all so pumped up and it is great to be back tied,\" Creamer said.",
"\"It was nice to see some red on the board and we are ready for tomorrow.\""
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"Solheim Cup level at 8-8 going into Sunday's singles matches in Ireland .",
"U.S. women's team battle back from 7-5 down in Saturday fourballs .",
"Europe's Laura Davies becomes the competition's record points scorer .",
"Davies plays fellow veteran Juli Inkster in one of the key clashes ."
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"(CNN) -- Brian Adkins, a newly assigned American diplomat in Ethiopia, was found dead last weekend at his home in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, an embassy spokesman and a senior State Department official told CNN.",
"U.S. Embassy press officer Michael McClellan identified Adkins and said he was from Columbus, Ohio.",
"He was 25 at the time of his death.",
"\"He was found dead over the weekend and a criminal investigation is under way,\" McClellan told CNN on Thursday.",
"\"The Ethiopian federal police are investigating it.\"",
"Adkins, who would have turned 26 on Monday, received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from George Washington University, according to the school's newspaper, the GW Hatchet, which reported his death.",
"According to the newspaper, Adkins joined the State Department after receiving his master's degree in 2007.",
"A State Department official, who declined to be named because of the ongoing investigation, said it was the diplomat's first tour of duty as a foreign service officer.",
"There were no apparent threats against him, and investigators were trying to determine whether he was the victim of a random crime.",
"Adkins' father, Dan Adkins, told CNN affiliate WBNS that his family worried about him, but Adkins assured them he would be safe at a guarded compound.",
"His sister, Tiffany Cooper, said the family was struggling.",
"\"It is hurting us.",
"There is no closure. We have no idea how our brother died,\" Cooper said.",
"The GW Hatchet reported that Adkins moved to Ethiopia as part of a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship, after studying the local language and culture for nearly a year.",
"A GWU student and friend of Adkins described him as \"selfless, hardworking, confident, funny, charming, articulate, a scholar and a gentleman,\" according to the newspaper.",
"\"The world has lost someone who had so much to offer.",
"I miss him tremendously,\" senior Michael Geremia told the newspaper.",
"\"When I received word of his death on Monday, which would have been his 26th birthday, a piece of me died in Ethiopia.\"",
"As a student, Adkins was active in the Knights of Columbus and the Newman Center, which are organizations run by the Catholic church, the paper reported.",
"-- CNN's Elise Labott and Ben Brumfield contributed to this report."
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"Authorities found Brian Adkins dead over the weekend .",
"U.S. official says it was Adkins first tour of duty as a foreign service officer .",
"There were no apparent threats against Adkins ."
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"(EW.com) -- Brendan Conlon (Joel Edgerton), a high school physics teacher, has a house the bank is about to foreclose on and a daughter with an (expensive) heart defect.",
"He's also a former mixed-martial-arts champion, and so -- strictly for the money -- he decides to get back in the ring, even if the clawing, kicking, anything-goes bouts threaten to kill him.",
"Tommy Conlon (Tom Hardy), an Iraq-war veteran who left the battlefield under mysterious circumstances, is also an MMA fighter, and he too wants back in the ring.",
"The two men are brothers, and were once close.",
"But the only thing that unites them now, apart from their ruthless hand-to-hand prowess, is how much they hate their father, Paddy (Nick Nolte), a recovering alcoholic whose drinking tore the family apart.",
"'Rescue Me' series finale: Were you satisfied?",
"\"Warrior,\" a two-track drama of fighting and redemption, tells the parallel stories of Brendan and Tommy, and the movie, with its grim, deliberate rhythms and grainy '70s-style look, comes on as if it were no mere sports fable.",
"It's about demon-haunted Irish Catholic men testing and punishing themselves.",
"It's about broken families coming together.",
"It's about economic desperation and about America getting off the ropes and recovering its fighting spirit.",
"If \"Rocky\" was sweet and inspiring, and \"The Fighter\" was touching and fascinating, \"Warrior\" is at times almost gravely self-important.",
"The gifted director Gavin O'Connor (\"Miracle\") brings the film an affecting, ripped-from-the-guts spirit, even if he can't really hide how many old-movie tropes are floating around in it.",
"PTC slams 'Toddlers & Tiaras' for 'Pretty Woman' hooker costume .",
"Mostly, \"Warrior\" is a showcase for its up-and-coming stars.",
"Edgerton, from last year's \"Animal Kingdom,\" and Hardy, who stole scenes as the identity forger in \"Inception,\" both have a tense, tough presence, though in a slightly colorless way.",
"You buy them as brothers, and as gnarly brawlers hungry to win, but Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale they are not.",
"In this film, they're closer to the second coming of Tom Berenger and Michael Paré.",
"B . See full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"Warrior\" is a two-track drama of fighting and redemption .",
"It tells the parallel stories of Brendan and Tommy, and has a grainy '70s-style look .",
"\"Warrior\" is at times almost gravely self-important ."
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"(CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel could accept a peace agreement with a \"demilitarized Palestinian state\" as its neighbor.",
"Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu said he would agree to peace with Palestinians.",
"In his first speech accepting the concept of a two-state solution for the Middle East conflict, Netanyahu set rigid conditions for moving forward.",
"Among them: unequivocal Palestinian recognition of Israel as the Jewish national state with Jerusalem as its capital, and full demilitarization for a Palestinian state -- no army, no rockets or missiles, no control of airspace.",
"\"I say this in a clear voice -- if we receive a guarantee of this demilitarized unit, we will be prepared to reach agreement to a demilitarized Palestine side by side with the Jewish state,\" Netanyahu said, according to a direct translation of his speech at Bar-Ilan University's Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies in Ramat Gan, Israel.",
"Initial Palestinian reaction was negative, with Palestinian legislator Mustafa Barghouti saying Netanyahu was calling for creation of a ghetto state.",
"\"He is proving there is no partner for peace in Israel,\" Barghouti told CNN.",
"Chief Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erakat said Netanyahu \"left us with nothing to negotiate as he systematically took nearly every permanent status issue off the table.\"",
"\"He announced a series of conditions and qualifications that render a viable, independent and sovereign Palestinian state impossible,\" Erakat said.",
"\"This speech fell far short of every single one of the benchmarks required of Israel in line with international law and existing agreements,\" he said, including the 2003 Roadmap for Peace.",
"Netanyahu's speech, billed as a major statement on the peace process, follows President Obama's recent high-profile speech to the Muslim world and a visit to the region by Obama's Middle East envoy, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell.",
"Obama welcomed Netanyahu's speech as \"an important step forward\" and said the president remained committed to a two-state solution that would ensure Israel's security and provide the Palestinians \"a viable state,\" according to a White House statement.",
"Obama pledged to continue working with all parties \"to see that they fulfill their obligations and responsibilities,\" the statement said.",
"Netanyahu, of the center-right Likud party, previously refused to endorse a two-state solution.",
"Netanyahu sounded themes popular with his conservative followers, repeatedly referring to Israel as the Jewish national homeland and demanding recognition of that by all Arab foes, including the Palestinians, for any chance at a peace agreement.",
"He prompted applause with his statement that \"the land of Israel is homeland to the Jewish people, and that is the basis of our right to it.\"",
"\"The Palestinian leadership must rise up and say in a very straight way that we are tired of this conflict, we will recognize the right of the Jewish people to have a national homeland in this part of the world,\" Netanyahu said, according to the direct translation.",
"He said Jerusalem would remain the capital of Israel -- refusing to yield on a sensitive issue for Palestinians -- and that a Palestinian state would have to be fully demilitarized to ensure the safety of Israel.",
"Obama, in his June 4 speech in Cairo, Egypt, endorsed a two-state solution and urged compromise between \"two peoples with legitimate aspirations.\"",
"He repeated his call for both Israel and the Palestinians to fulfill all obligations under the 2003 Roadmap for Peace, including a halt to any expansion of West Bank settlements by Israel.",
"Obama called America's bond with Israel \"unbreakable\" but said Palestinians have suffered in pursuit of a homeland.",
"He also called for an end to Palestinian incitement against Israel and greater security in Palestinian territories.",
"On Sunday, Netanyahu acknowledged the suffering on both sides from the continuing Middle East conflict, but insisted the roots of the conflict came from the Arab world's refusal to accept Israel's right to exist."
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"NEW: President Obama calls Benjamin Netanyahu's speech \"important step forward\"\nPalestinian legislator accuses Netanyahu of calling for creation of ghetto state .",
"Demilitarized state could not have army or control its airspace, he says .",
"Before Sunday, Netanyahu had not endorsed a two-state solution ."
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"(CNN) -- The bone fragment found near the California home where Jaycee Dugard is said to have been confined for 18 years is \"probably human,\" a sheriff's spokesman said Tuesday.",
"Jaycee Dugard was locked in a shed tucked under a blue tarp in her alleged captor's backyard.",
"Investigators said they found the bone last week on a neighbor's property in an area that Dugard's accused captor and rapist, Philip Garrido, had access to.",
"The fragment, which was analyzed by an outside expert, will go on to the state DNA lab for testing, Jimmy Lee, director of Public Affairs for the Contra Costa County's Sheriff's Office said in an e-mail.",
"\"The expert has determined that the bone fragment found in the backyard of Garrido's neighbor is probably human,\" Lee said.",
"\"We will be requesting the state to see if it can develop a DNA profile on the fragment.",
"It should be noted that it is not uncommon to find Native American remains in Contra Costa County,\" he said.",
"Garrido and his wife, Nancy, have pleaded not guilty to 29 felony charges, including rape and kidnapping, stemming from Dugard's disappearance when she was 11 years old.",
"Investigators believe Garrido kidnapped Dugard in 1991 in South Lake Tahoe, California, fathered two daughters with her and held her captive in a well-hidden compound behind his home in Antioch.",
"After the Garridos were arrested in August, investigators used cadaver dogs to search the couple's ramshackle home and the surrounding rural property for possible connections to unsolved crimes.",
"Police in Hayward, California, are trying to determine whether Garrido is linked to the 1988 kidnapping of Michaela Garecht, Hayward Police Lt. Chris Orrey said last week.",
"Garecht and Dugard were of similar age and appearance, both were abducted in daylight and a sketch of a suspect resembled Garrido, Orrey said.",
"In Dublin, California, investigators said last week they were looking into whether Garrido was connected to the 1989 disappearance of Ilene Misheloff, who was 13 when she was abducted.",
"Garrido was convicted of kidnapping and raping Katie Callaway Hall in 1976.",
"He was released from prison after serving 10 years of a 50-year sentence.",
"He was labeled a sex offender and put on lifetime parole.",
"CNN's Dan Simon contributed to this report."
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"Authorities: Bone found near home where Jaycee Dugard allegedly held captive .",
"Investigators: Accused abductor Philip Garrido had access to area where bone found .",
"Fragment was analyzed by outside expert, will go on to state DNA lab .",
"Garrido, wife Nancy pleaded not guilty to abducting Dugard in 1991, other crimes ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said Monday that her hotly disputed judicial philosophy is, in fact, quite simple: Remain faithful to the law.",
"Judge Sonia Sotomayor speaks Monday to the Senate panel considering her nomination to the Supreme Court.",
"\"In the past month, many senators have asked me about my judicial philosophy,\" Sotomayor told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee during her opening statement at her confirmation hearings.",
"\"It is simple: fidelity to the law.",
"The task of a judge is not to make law, it is to apply the law.",
"And it is clear, I believe, that my record ... reflects my rigorous commitment to interpreting the Constitution according to its terms, interpreting statutes according to their terms and Congress's intent and hewing faithfully to precedents established by the Supreme Court and by my Circuit Court.",
"In each case I have heard, I have applied the law to the facts at hand.\"",
"Sotomayor said the \"process of judging is enhanced when the arguments and concerns of the parties to the litigation are understood and acknowledged.\"",
"That, she noted, \"is why I generally structure my opinions by setting out what the law requires and then explaining why a contrary position, sympathetic or not, is accepted or rejected.",
"That is how I seek to strengthen both the rule of law and faith in the impartiality of our judicial system.\"",
"Watch Sotomayor talk about her judicial philosophy » .",
"Sotomayor argued that her \"personal and professional experiences help [her] listen and understand, with the law always commanding the result in every case.\"",
"Watch Sotomayor's remarks to the Senators » .",
"Some of Sotomayor's critics have argued that she has allowed her rulings to be swayed by factors such as ethnicity and race.",
"Sotomayor, a federal appellate judge, would be the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court if her nomination is approved by the Judiciary Committee and the full Senate.",
"She would be the 111th person to sit on the nation's highest court, and the third woman justice.",
"Watch Sotomayor take the oath » .",
"Sotomayor, her foot in a cast from breaking her ankle a week after President Obama nominated her in May, sat impassively as senators detailed a deep divide between majority Democrats and minority Republicans on whether she is the best choice to fill the vacancy left by Justice David Souter's retirement.",
"In an emotional moment in the beginning of her remarks, Sotomayor singled out her mother, who attended the hearing.",
"\"I am here today because of her aspirations and sacrifices,\" she said.",
"\"Mom, I love that we are sharing this together.\"",
"Watch Sotomayor credit her mother » .",
"The first Supreme Court confirmation hearing of the Obama presidency began Monday with leading Democrats and Republicans signaling a fierce ideological debate over Sotomayor's qualifications to sit on the high court.",
"It attracted a packed gallery and was disrupted three times by protesters shouting anti-abortion sentiments.",
"Democrats praised Sotomayor's extensive experience as a judge, which they called the most by any Supreme Court nominee in a century.",
"They insisted her record showed she has been a modest jurist who consistently applied the rule of law.",
"\"Judge Sotomayor's journey to this hearing room is a truly American story,\" committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, said after gaveling the first session to order.",
"\"Let no one demean this extraordinary woman.\"",
"Leahy also ripped conservative \"ideological pressure groups\" for \"distorting\" Sotomayor's record and opposing a woman who \"will be a justice for all Americans.\"",
"He noted she was first nominated to the federal bench by a Republican president, George H.W.",
"Bush. Watch Leahy praise Sotomayor » .",
"However, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the committee's ranking Republican, said Sotomayor represents the kind of activist judge that threatens the traditional foundation of the U.S. legal system.",
"Sessions, a former attorney general in his home state, challenged the attribute of empathy cited by President Obama in nominating Sotomayor.",
"\"Call it empathy, call it prejudice, call it sympathy -- whatever it is, it is not law,\" Sessions said.",
"iReport.com: Share your thoughts on the Sotomayor hearings .",
"In particular, Sessions quoted Sotomayor from past speeches in which she said a wise Latina woman should be able to reach a better ruling than a white man, saying it showed an inherent bias.",
"\"I want to be clear: I will not vote for and no senator should vote for an individual nominated by any president who is not fully committed to fairness and impartiality toward every person who appears before them,\" Sessions said.",
"Watch Sessions call Sotomayor nomination \"critical\" » .",
"Other Republicans conceded that Sotomayor was likely to win confirmation because Democrats hold a majority in both the Judiciary Committee and the full Senate, but questioned whether her judicial philosophy was for activism or applying the rule of law.",
"\"Unless you have a complete meltdown, you're going to get confirmed,\" Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said.",
"He described Sotomayor as \"someone of good character,\" but he questioned her \"wise Latina\" comment as a possible indication of bias based on gender or race.",
"Watch Graham tell Sotomayor Republicans are \"unnerved\" by her speeches » .",
"\"If I said anything remotely like that, my career would have been over,\" Graham said, adding that \"it just bothers me when somebody wearing a robe takes the robe off and says their experience makes them better than someone else.\"",
"Democrats called such concern unjustified, saying Sotomayor's record showed she was fair in applying the law as written.",
"Read about some of Sotomayor's key rulings » .",
"\"I'm not sure how many of this panel can sit here today and seriously suggest that she comes to the bench with a personal agenda,\" said Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, noting her history showed no pattern of favoritism or bias for anyone.",
"Other Democrats complained that Chief Justice John Roberts, nominated by Republican President George W. Bush in 2005, has been a conservative activist on the Supreme Court.",
"Find out how Sotomayor compares to current justices » .",
"Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, quoted CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin's statement that \"in every major case since he became the nation's 17th chief justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff.\"",
"\"And is it a coincidence that this pattern, to continue Toobin's quote, has served the interests and reflected the values of the contemporary Republican Party?\"",
"Whitehouse said.",
"\"Some coincidence.\" Three brief outbursts occurred as different Democratic senators gave opening statements.",
"In one, an unidentified man shouted: \"What about the unborn, senator?",
"Abortion is murder.",
"Stop the genocide of unborn Latinos.\"",
"Another, later in the session, repeatedly shouted: \"Abortion is murder.\"",
"While the nation's newest senator, Al Franken of Minnesota, made his inaugural committee statement, a woman and man shouted \"you're wrong\" at his reference to a woman's reproductive health and rights.",
"The woman, Norma McCorvey, is better known as \"Jane Roe\" from the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade.",
"McCorvey, once a supporter of abortion rights, was the lead plaintiff in the 1973 ruling establishing a constitutional right to abortion.",
"In all three cases, Leahy immediately ordered the protesters removed from the hearing room.",
"Watch protester disrupt hearing » .",
"If history is a guide, Sotomayor appears certain to get Senate approval with mostly Democratic support.",
"When she won Senate confirmation for the federal appellate court in 1998, there were 29 \"no\" votes, all cast by Republicans.",
"CNN's William Mears and Peter Hamby contributed to this story ."
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"NEW: Judge's role \"not to make law, it is to apply the law,\" Sotomayor tells panel .",
"Democrats praise Sonia Sotomayor's experience and dedication to rule of law .",
"Republicans say she's the kind of activist judge that threatens legal traditions .",
"Sotomayor's journey \"a truly American story,\" committee chairman says ."
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"Emma Coleman Jordan is a professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center.",
"She was a White House fellow in 1980-81, serving as special assistant to the attorney general and working on the nomination process of Sandra Day O'Connor, the first female Supreme Court justice.",
"She was also counsel to Professor Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings in 1992.",
"Emma Coleman Jordan says Sonia Sotomayor's 350 judicial opinions are largely uncontroversial.",
"(ESSENCE) -- As Judge Sonia Sotomayor prepares to become the next U.S. Supreme Court justice, her lifetime of diligence and speed reading will now be crucial to help her navigate the next phase of her nomination.",
"From here on out, she will be silent. We will not hear her voice again until she sits before the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.",
"In the spring of 1981, I was this African-American progressive Democrat, a female law professor chosen to work as a White House fellow assigned to Republican Attorney General William French Smith.",
"I was one of three special assistants working directly on the search for the replacement to Justice Potter Stewart, which led to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's nomination.",
"I was responsible for preparing briefing books for Attorney General Smith's chief of staff, Kenneth Starr, before the O'Connor nomination was announced, so I know precisely what Judge Sotomayor will experience in the next 60 days.",
"ESSENCE: Obama's Sotomayor decision .",
"The judge will be working feverishly with a team of lawyers from the Office of the White House Counsel, Gregory Craig, the Office of the Vice President, and the Justice Department.",
"After her press conference with the president last week, more than likely she went straight to a briefing session in which she was given several thick briefing books, filled with memos that identify the most difficult questions of constitutional law that the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are likely to ask during her confirmation hearing.",
"ESSENCE: Obama's mentor weighs in on nomination .",
"The list of issues she will address will certainly include, but will not be limited to, questions about presidential power.",
"The intense recent debate on the limits of presidential authorization for \"enhanced interrogation techniques,\" closing Guantanamo Bay, military commissions, and domestic wiretapping will surely produce a slew of questions.",
"The lines of attack by outside interest groups are already beginning to take shape, but Sotomayor's 350 judicial opinions are largely uncontroversial.",
"So those who oppose her nomination will likely be forced to create a fusion between her personal story of educational mobility through affirmative action and her judicial views.",
"They will try to take the president's selection criterion of \"empathy\" and turn it against Sotomayor as a sword to accuse her of being a race- and identity-sensitive ideologue.",
"It helps considerably that her nomination comes at the beginning of the first term of a popular, media-savvy president.",
"In this way, she is in the same position as Sandra Day O'Connor was when her nomination was announced in July 1981, at the beginning of President Reagan's first term.",
"When I first saw O'Connor's résumé, before the nomination became public, I thought, there are too many gaps here.",
"What did she do right after law school?",
"Why had she never practiced law with a major law firm?",
"Why had she chosen to be an elected politician?",
"The missing elements I was looking for were things that cannot be captured in a résumé, like the fact that this brilliant woman was once prohibited from entering the practice of law, even though she graduated third in her class at Stanford Law School.",
"Watch more What Matters content .",
"Her résumé did not include information on her own experience of exclusion and discrimination -- life experiences she would later call upon when it was time for her to cast the deciding vote against ending affirmative action in higher education in 2003.",
"Selecting a Supreme Court justice is an art, not a science.",
"This isn't just about checking a box.",
"It's a judgment call the president has made based on many things, including those personal experiences and a sense of chemistry between the president and the nominee.",
"ESSENCE: Blacks in the White House .",
"The Sotomayor hearings may give us a peek into her personal background.",
"But the likelihood is that we won't really learn how her own experiences will have an impact on her legal reasoning as a justice.",
"For now, we can only count on her diligent preparation to face partisan interest groups who will try to distort her identity and her record.",
"Prepare to see the future justice-in-the-making.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Emma Coleman Jordan."
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"Coleman Jordan worked on nomination process of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor .",
"Sonia Sotomayor faces tough Senate hearings, Coleman Jordan writes .",
"\"We can only count on her diligent preparation to face partisan interest,\" she says ."
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"(CNN) -- U.S. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III plans to emulate the decision of his Presidents Cup counterpart Fred Couples and select former world number one Tiger Woods for next year's contest with Europe.",
"Woods, a 14-time major winner, has struggled with form and fitness since problems in his personal life emerged two years ago.",
"The American has slipped to 50th in golf's world rankings, having not won a tournament since the Australian Masters in November 2009.",
"But the 35-year-old's recent slump has not prevented Couples, the 1992 Masters champion, from selecting Woods as a wildcard pick for November's Presidents Cup clash with the International team in Australia.",
"\"Well I've been asked that a lot, what would I do if I was in Fred's situation,\" Love, himself a former major champion, told a press conference at Medina Golf and Country Club in Chicago, the venue for the 2012 Ryder Cup.",
"Look out Europe: American golf is bouncing back .",
"\"You certainly want one of the best players ever in the game, you want him on your team.",
"I'm hoping, for Tiger's sake, that he has a full healthy season next year and we are not in this situation.",
"That he's back to his form and he's ready to go.",
"\"I would love to play as Tiger Woods' partner in a Presidents Cup or a Ryder Cup.",
"So I would probably have to go with exactly what Fred did.\"",
"Woods has played in six Ryder Cups since 1997, but his only experience of team victory came at Brookline, Massachusetts in 1999 after missing out due to injury three years ago.",
"He had planned to take the rest of this year off, but his Presidents Cup selection persuaded him to enter the Frys.com Open starting October 6, when he will be partnered by new caddy Joe LaCava -- who carried Couples' bag for more than 20 years.",
"LaCava left Couples this year when the 51-year-old decided to reduce his playing schedule, and worked with 2010 Ryder Cup player Dustin Johnson until the end of the PGA Tour's recent FedEx Cup playoffs.",
"\"Joe is an outstanding caddy,\" Woods told his official website on Sunday.",
"\"I have known him for many years.",
"I've personally seen the great job he did for Freddie.",
"I'm anxious for us to be working together.\"",
"LaCava added: \"I'm excited to be working with Tiger.",
"I contacted Tiger and Mark (Steinberg, Woods' agent) because this is a unique opportunity to be part of something very special.",
"\"Tiger and I have been friends for a very long time, and I know what he can do.\""
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"U.S. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III wants Tiger Woods in his 2012 team .",
"Fred Couples has picked Woods as a wildcard for the Presidents Cup in November .",
"The former world No.",
"1 has dropped down the rankings to 50th after two hard years .",
"Woods has hired Couples' former caddy Joe LaCava as his new bagman ."
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"(CNN) -- 'Tis the season, for movies, that is!",
"This holiday season is introducing audiences to a whole new crop of flicks guaranteed to drive you to a theater, despite the $10 ticket.",
"Check out the movies taking 2010 out with a bang.",
"\"Burlesque\" Christina Aguilera stars as a small-town girl who goes to Los Angeles, California, to perform in a musical revue run by Cher, an Oscar-winning actress who hasn't starred in a film in a decade.",
"In real life, Cher has reportedly been helping Aguilera through her divorce.",
"But things are looking up for Aguilera, who got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame right before the movie's premiere on November 15.",
"\"Burlesque\" will be released November 24 and also stars Stanley Tucci, Kristen Bell and Julianne Hough.",
"\"Love and Other Drugs\" In this flick, which also opens November 24, a pharmaceutical salesman (Jake Gyllenhaal) begins a relationship with a woman who has Parkinson's disease (Anne Hathaway).",
"The movie is loosely adapted from Jamie Reidy's book \"Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman\" and features Gabriel Macht, Hank Azaria and Oliver Platt.",
"\"The King's Speech\" The plot of this movie follows an Australian speech therapist who tries to help King George VI of Britain overcome a speech impediment.",
"Colin Firth is already getting Oscar nods for his role as King George VI.",
"The buzz-worthy film opens November 26 and features Geoffrey Rush and Helena Bonham Carter.",
"\"Black Swan\" After dominating the film-festival circuit, \"Black Swan\" is coming to theaters December 3.",
"The sexy film tells the tale of the relationship between a veteran ballet dancer and her rival.",
"Natalie Portman is expected to earn a best actress nomination for her performance as a mentally unstable ballerina and co-star Mila Kunis is getting Oscar buzz as well.",
"Kunis reportedly lost 20 pounds for the role, as both stars underwent vigorous ballet training.",
"\"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader\" Due in theaters December 10, Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund Pevensie (Skandar Keynes) are drawn back into Narnia with their cousin Eustace (Will Poulter) to help Caspian (Ben Barnes) find seven lords while aboard the Dawn Treader ship.",
"This is the third film based on C. S. Lewis' books, and reportedly Barnes' favorite of the seven tales.",
"The first Narnia film, \"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe\" is the 35th highest grossing movie worldwide of all time.",
"\"The Company Men\" Opening December 10, Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Affleck and Chris Cooper star as three men trying to survive during a year in which their company undergoes corporate downsizing.",
"The film might hit a bit too close to home for some people in the recession, but critics are giving it solid reviews.",
"\"The Fighter\" Mark Wahlberg's passion project hit theaters December 10.",
"The film takes a look at the true-life story of boxing hero ''Irish'' Micky Ward and his brother (played by Christian Bale) who helped train him before going pro in the mid-1980s.",
"The movie also stars Oscar nominees Melissa Leo and Amy Adams, along with Conan O'Brien's younger sister, Kate, who plays one of Ward's seven sisters.",
"\"The Tourist\" Opening December 10, Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp star in this highly anticipated film in which an Interpol agent draws a tourist into a web of intrigue.",
"We expect ladies and gentlemen to flock to theaters in hopes of seeing two of the world's most beautiful people lock lips, even if it's only rated PG-13.",
"\"How Do You Know\" How do you know when you're in love?",
"In luck? In trouble? If you're in the mood for a lighthearted chick flick, check out Oscar winners Jack Nicholson and Reese Witherspoon in this romantic comedy, hitting theaters December 17.",
"In the film, Witherspoon is caught in a love triangle involving a baseball player (Owen Wilson) and an old friend (Paul Rudd.)",
"Our favorite line from the trailer?",
"\"I think I'm in love with somebody when I wear a condom with the other girls.\"",
"\"All Good Things\" It's, as the tagline says, \"The perfect love story.",
"Until it became the perfect crime.\"",
"\"All Good Things\" is a love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved missing person's case in New York history.",
"It was inspired by the story of superwealthy Robert Durst, who was suspected, but never tried, in the death of his wife, Kathie, who disappeared in 1982 and was never found.",
"The film stars Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Kristen Wiig and Frank Langella and will first be released in New York on December 3.",
"Click here for a complete list of holiday movies ."
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"Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal get steamy in \"Love and Other Drugs\"\nColin Firth is getting Oscar nods for his role as King George VI in \"The King's Speech\"\nAfter dominating the film-festival circuit, \"Black Swan\" is coming to theaters December 3 ."
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"Paris (CNN) -- The mayor of a French town where students were held hostage for more than four hours Monday wants to reassure parents that \"schools in France are safe.\"",
"\"We do not want to create an environment of terror in the classroom,\" Mayor Jean-Louis Fousseret said.",
"\"We shouldn't focus on this issue.\"",
"About 20 children, aged 4 to 6, were in a classroom when the incident began; five children and their teacher were held until the incident was resolved, Besancon police said.",
"The hostage-taker is about 17 years old, according to the French Ministry of Education.",
"He was armed with two swords and had \"demands,\" the ministry said, without specifying what they were.",
"He has been arrested, the mayor said.",
"\"We were dealing with someone who was suicidal and wanted us to give him a weapon,\" Fousseret said.",
"\"There is no specific danger in Besancon.\"",
"The father of one of the hostages said that he was \"very afraid\" for his child but that the students had confidence in their teacher.",
"\"The teacher was very, very calm and confident.",
"She helped them,\" Babacar Kebe told BFM.",
"\"I have not asked them questions because they are very young, and I don't want them to get upset.\"",
"A security cordon was placed around the school, and police marksmen took positions outside, pictures from the scene showed.",
"They did not enter the school during the incident, the mayor said.",
"The incident started at 8:30 a.m. at the Charles Fourier school in the borough of Planoise and ended about four and a half hours later.",
"France last had a high-profile school hostage incident 17 years ago.",
"Six girls and their teacher were held hostage for two days in the suburbs of Paris in 1993.",
"A man calling himself \"the Human Bomb\" strapped explosives to his body and demanded about $18 million to release them.",
"He was killed by police marksmen using guns with silencers, press reports said.",
"CNN's Nina Dos Santos, Isa Soares, Vicky Bennett and Alex Mohacs contributed to this report."
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"NEW: \"Schools in France are safe,\" Mayor Jean-Louis Fousseret says .",
"NEW: \"There is no specific danger in Besancon,\" he says .",
"Five children and their teacher were held at a nursery school Monday .",
"Suspect was armed with two swords, French Ministry of Education says ."
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"(CNN) -- A Red Cross worker was killed Wednesday during shelling in the conflict zone in Sri Lanka, the third aid worker killed in six weeks, the International Committee of the Red Cross says.",
"A photo supplied by a humanitarian group on Sunday shows civilians allegedly injured in government shelling.",
"The worker, identified as Majurin Sivakurunathan, was killed along with his mother during an assault, a ICRC spokeswoman said.",
"The fighting between the Sri Lankan troops and the rebel Tamil Tigers has intensified in the conflict area to the point that the ICRC can not get food to that area or help the sick and wounded, said Sarasi Wijeratne, a ICRC spokeswoman.",
"The latest death comes after Sri Lanka angrily rebuked a U.N. official Tuesday over remarks by the organization that a civilian \"bloodbath\" had occurred in the north of the country.",
"U.N. spokesman Gordon Weiss told CNN on Monday that hundreds of civilians died during weekend fighting because the Sri Lankan army had surrounded rebel fighters in the country's north, putting residents in the crossfire.",
"The Foreign Ministry expressed its displeasure to Amin Awad, acting resident representative of the United Nations in Sri Lanka, about the comments.",
"Mahinda Samarasinghe, Sri Lanka's minister of disaster management and human rights, initially said Weiss would be summoned to explain his remarks, but this did not happen because of diplomatic protocol, a source told CNN, noting that he is a junior official at the U.N. office in Colombo.",
"Rebel claims of civilian deaths have been considerably higher than those provided by the U.N. Lawrence Christy, the head of the Tamils Rehabilitation Organization, said more than 3,200 civilians died in fighting from Sunday evening until Monday morning, the rebel Web site TamilNet reported.",
"Watch frustration build at the United Nations » .",
"The Sri Lankan government has denied the allegations and accused the Tamils of \"taking the whole world for a ride with its well-engineered propaganda ploys,\" while turning their weapons on civilians trying to flee the combat zone.",
"Tamil Tiger rebels have been fighting for an independent state in Sri Lanka's northeast since 1983.",
"As many as 70,000 people have been killed since the civil war began, and the Tigers have been declared a terrorist organization by the European Union and more than 30 countries, including the United States."
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"Fighting between Sri Lankan troops and rebel Tamil Tigers has intensified ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Folklore says that George Washington was known for never telling a lie.",
"But as the United States marks its first president's birthday, a new poll indicates that 74 percent of the public thinks the father of our country did lie to the public while he served as president.",
"It's an indication that Americans think the government has been broken for a very, very long time.",
"The CNN/Opinion Corporation survey was released Monday on the 278th anniversary of Washington's birth.",
"Three quarters of people questioned in the survey think that modern-day federal officials are not honest, a figure that is essentially unchanged since 1994.",
"But the poll suggests that Americans think the problem of dishonesty is not a new one.",
"And it's not just George Washington; 71 percent think that Abraham Lincoln, known as \"Honest Abe,\" also lied to the public while serving in the White House.",
"Full results (pdf) \"It's all part of a rich tradition in American history -- the belief that politicians are not always telling the truth,\" says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.",
"What should we make of the figures for Washington and Lincoln?",
"\"Part of it may be the recognition that, however much we revere them today, both men were politicians, and Americans are always a little cynical about people seeking office.",
"Part of it may also be a realistic assessment that the president sometimes has to keep things from the public,\" adds Holland.",
"\"But whether it's based on cynicism or realism, or a little of both, it's an indication that Americans think that our government has been broken for many, many years.\"",
"According to CNN poll numbers released Sunday, Americans overwhelmingly think that the government in this country is broken, but the public overwhelmingly holds out hope that what's broken can be fixed.",
"The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted February 12-15, with 1,023 adult Americans questioned by telephone.",
"The survey's sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points for the overall survey.",
"CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report."
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"74% of people in poll think George Washington did lie to the public as president .",
"\"Honest Abe\" Lincoln fares only a little better -- 71% believe he lied as well .",
"Poll suggests Americans think the problem of dishonesty is not a new one ."
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"(CNN) -- A German top-division football match was called off on Saturday after the appointed referee apparently tried to commit suicide before the kickoff.",
"Cologne's game against Mainz was postponed when match official Babak Rafati failed to show up, the home team's website reported.",
"German Football Assocation president Theo Zwanziger called an emergency press conference at Cologne's RheinEnergieStadion to explain the situation.",
"\"At 1345 I was informed that something terrible had happened,\" Zwanziger said.",
"Rafati, a German with Iranian ancestry, did not appear at midday for his scheduled appointment with his three assistants, who then went to his hotel room and opened it with the help of staff.",
"The 41-year-old was found inside in a \"motionless\" state, Zwanziger said.",
"Police confirmed that no-one else was involved, and it is assumed that he tried to commit suicide.",
"\"According to the information that I have, his state is stable,\" Zwanziger said.",
"\"He is no longer in critical condition and he is currently being treated in the intensive care unit.\"",
"Zwanziger said Rafati's assistants were receiving counseling after the incident, which came two years after the suicide of former Germany international goalkeeper Robert Enke.",
"Rafati had refereed in the Bundesliga since 2005, and was on the panel of FIFA's international officials from 2008 before being dropped this year, the AFP agency reported.",
"\"The pressure in professional sports is unbelievably high.",
"We just don't manage to bring the right balance into it.",
"No-one should be in such a hopeless situation,\" said Zwanziger, who promised to provide support for Rafati's family and colleagues.",
"Saturday's other Bundesliga matches were played as scheduled.",
"Bayern Munich's lead was reduced to two points after a 1-0 home defeat by defending champions Borussia Dortmund.",
"Teenage midfielder Mario Gotze score the only goal in the 65th minute to put Dortmund second on 26 points, above Borussia Monchengladbach on goal difference.",
"Gladbach crushed fifth-placed Werder Bremen 5-0 as Marco Reus scored a hat-trick, while Schalke moved up to fourth with a 4-0 win at home to Nuremberg thanks to a double from Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and another goal from veteran Spanish strike partner Raul.",
"Wolfsburg moved clear of the relegation zone with a 4-1 win over Hanover, while third-bottom Freiburg snatched a 2-2 draw against visiting Hertha Berlin as Stefan Reisinger scored his second goal five minutes into time added on."
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"German Bundesliga match is called off after referee fails to show up .",
"Officials later reveal that ref Babak Rafati tried to commit suicide .",
"German FA president says that Rafati is \"stable\" in intensive care in hospital .",
"The 41-year-old had been due to control game between Cologne and Mainz ."
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"(CNN) -- Six-time boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather returns to the ring Saturday for the first time in more than a year, squaring off against Victor Ortiz.",
"Mayweather, 34, has won all 41 of his professional fights and is a six-time world champion at five different weights.",
"He is hoping to add more laurels at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas -- specifically, the World Boxing Council welterweight championship that Ortiz won after beating Andre Berto in April.",
"The opponent for Mayweather, who has 25 knockouts over his professional career, is not the man many hoped he'd fight next: Eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao.",
"But disagreements over drug testing and other issues have repeatedly derailed these talks.",
"Instead, Ortiz will be his opponent.",
"The 24-year-old American has suffered two defeats and two draws in his 33 fights.",
"\"I'm a world champion for a reason, and I am not going to let go of my title any time soon,\" Ortiz said soon after the match was announced.",
"\"This is going to be a great fight, but I will remain a world champion for many years to come.\"",
"In a teleconference last week to promote the fight, Mayweather said that -- despite concerns about rust and age -- he \"still feel(s) strong when I get to the gym.\"",
"\"I still think I'm very, very sharp ... and I think the reason why is, I don't think that I have been in any toe-to-toe wars,\" he said.",
"Recently, Mayweather has made headlines more for his legal run-ins outside the ring than his performance in it.",
"That includes his arrest last December on a misdemeanor battery charge, after he allegedly assaulted a security guard at his housing complex.",
"Also, his former girlfriend has also accused the boxer of domestic violence.",
"A criminal trial is scheduled to start in January.",
"HBO -- like CNN, a division of Time Warner -- reports that Mayweather is the defendant in a total of six court cases, including one levied by Pacquiao alleging defamation.",
"CNN's Steve Almasy contributed to this report."
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"6-time world champion Floyd Mayweather hasn't boxed in more than a year .",
"He'll fight WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz on Saturday night in Las Vegas .",
"Ortiz, 24, has a 29-2-2 record; Mayweather is undefeated in his 41 bouts .",
"Mayweather is facing at least 6 lawsuits and has had several run-ins with the law ."
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"(CNN) -- Juventus are back on top of the Italian Serie A table after a comfortable 3-0 home win over Palermo on Sunday maintained their unbeaten start to the season.",
"Goals from Simone Pepe, Alessandro Matri and Claudio Marchisio put Juve ahead of Lazio, who drew 0-0 at Napoli on Saturday, on goal difference -- with Antonio Conte's side also having a vital game in hand.",
"Pepe opened the scoring in the 20th minute when he was left unmarked to head home Giorgio Chiellini's cross.",
"Andrea Pirlo then hit the post with a curling effort before Matri doubled the advantage three minutes into the second half when finishing from a tight angle.",
"And the points were sealed in the 65th minute when Marchisio netted from close range after a smart dummy from Matri deceived the Palermo defense.",
"Although Juventus are back on top of the table, the race for this year's Scudetto promises to be the tightest for years with just one point separating the top four teams.",
"Champions AC Milan are third, a point behind the top two, after their goalless draw at Fiorentina on Saturday, while former leaders Udinese are now in fourth place -- level on points with Milan -- after losing 2-0 at Parma.",
"A Jonathan Biabiany header and a Sebastian Giovinco penalty gave Parma a victory that lifted them up to ninth place in the table.",
"Despite their defeat to Juventus, Palermo remain fifth, although they are five points behind Udinese.",
"Meanwhile, at the bottom of the table, Marco Parolo scored seven minutes from time to give Cesena their first win of the season, 1-0 at fellow strugglers Bologna.",
"Despite that win, Cesena remain bottom on six points, one behind Novara who were beaten 1-0 at Genoa.",
"Two matches were played in the German Bundesliga, with Thorsten Fink collecting his first win as Hamburg coach with a 2-0 success at Hoffenheim.",
"Jose Guerrero and Marcel Jansen secured Fink's maiden success after three successive draws as Hamburg moved out of the relegation zone and into 14th place.",
"The day's other match saw Austrian striker Martin Harnik score both of Stuttgart's goals in a 2-1 win over bottom club Augsburg, who are three points adrift at the foot of the table.",
"The victory lifts Stuttgart up to sixth place in the table, seven points adrift of leaders Bayern Munich."
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"Juventus are back on top of the Serie A table after a 3-0 home win over Palermo .",
"Unbeaten Juve lead Lazio on goal difference, although they also have a game in hand .",
"Previous leaders Udinese now in fourth place after slumping to a 2-0 defeat at Parma ."
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"(CNN) -- Golf's $10 million jackpot is well and truly up for grabs this weekend after the FedExCup series pacesetters faltered in Friday's second round.",
"Five players are guaranteed to take home the loot if they can claim the Tour Championship's additional $1.44 million first prize on Sunday, but it was Adam Scott who moved into pole position at the halfway stage.",
"The Australian started the week 19th in the PGA Tour's standings, but a five-under-par 65 at East Lake gave him a one-shot tournament lead and catapulted him into top spot in the end-of-season playoffs.",
"Webb Simpson, who leads the FedEx standings, was tied for 19th after his 70 -- which dropped him below Scott in the projected points.",
"He bounced back from four early bogeys with a late birdie and an eagle.",
"\"I've got to win and I imagine Webb must have to finish pretty low to give me a chance,\" Scott, who birdied the last two holes for the second day in a row, told the PGA Tour website.",
"\"I just figured if I win this week, I'll be happy no matter what.",
"I'll finish what I think has been a really good season, moving in the right direction with everything, and look forward to next season.\"",
"Veteran Korean K.J.",
"Choi matched the resurgent Scott, who has bloomed since taking on Tiger Woods' former caddy Steve Williams.",
"Choi went into the weekend on seven-under 133 to be one shot clear of another in-form Australian, Jason Day, and world No.",
"1 Luke Donald.",
"\"You never know what can happen in the next two days,\" said Choi, who regularly donates part of his winnings to charities.",
"\"You know, if I were able to win that money ...",
"I could put the money to good use through my foundation.",
"But there's still two days left, so all I can do is try to finish it out and hope for the best.\"",
"Donald was the best of the top five as the Englishman carded 68, one shot worse than Day.",
"Big-hitting Bubba Watson burst into contention with a 64 to be tied for fifth with first-round leader Keegan Bradley, Bill Haas (67) and Hunter Mahan (68).",
"Bradley, who won his first major at nearby Atlanta Athletic Club six weeks ago, followed up his opening 64 with a 71.",
"Fellow American Jason Dufner, who he beat in a playoff at the PGA Championship, was another shot back on 136 after a 70.",
"No. 2 Dustin Johnson suffered two double bogeys in his 73 to fall to a tie for 26th in the 30-man field to a projected fourth overall.",
"England's No. 3 Justin Rose was in a group of three at the bottom of the heap after a 75 dented his hopes."
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"Adam Scott leads at the halfway stage of the Tour Championship in Atlanta .",
"Australian shoots five-under 65 to move one clear of Korea's K.J.",
"Choi .",
"He also takes top spot in FedEx Cup points projections from Webb Simpson .",
"Simpson one of five players who will claim $10 million with victory on Sunday ."
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"(CNN) -- With an awesome story and continuation of the gameplay that has made the franchise great, \"Gears of War 3\" ties a brilliant and bloody bow atop a video-game trilogy that's been seven years in the making.",
"The latest third-person shooter game from Epic Games and Microsoft wraps up the \"Gears\" story arc and answers all the lingering questions that have arisen in the battle against the reptilian Locust and their mutant cousins, the Lambent.",
"Players will control Coalition soldier Marcus Fenix for most of the game.",
"But certain levels require the player to switch off to another member of his Delta Squad.",
"The game starts a couple years after the conclusion of \"Gears 2\" and finds Marcus in jail.",
"Characters familiar to players of the franchise are re-introduced in the opening scenes, and the action kicks off quickly at an unrestrained pace.",
"Combat typically offers four options for weapons: a primary weapon, secondary weapon, pistol and grenade.",
"Three other players are with the team, and they can be controlled by the computer or by others for co-op play, which is fun if you want to get a real feel for the campaign while enjoying the game with your friends.",
"The weapons have weight to them and feel powerful.",
"Shooting from behind cover, one of the hallmarks of the franchise, is required as enemies appear from nearly every angle.",
"You'll want to keep your head down.",
"Teamwork is key.",
"Not only will a mate come to your rescue when you are down, they can also set up opportunities to flank your opponents and end battles quicker.",
"It all flows naturally (much like the copious amounts of blood spilled in the battles) and is well-paced, with plenty of ammo and weapons to be scavenged and used.",
"The game helps new players along with a casual mode that highlights enemies and objectives for easier play.",
"There is an \"aim-assist\" mode that will line up enemies if you have trouble getting those pesky Locusts in your crosshairs.",
"Six modes of multiplayer action offer all kinds of mission objectives beyond just killing the other team.",
"Whether it's capturing and holding an enemy leader (while defending your own) or playing as one of the monsters against human opponents, variety will keep players entertained.",
"Dedicated servers around the world, which will host the multiplayer games, also will be available, fulfilling a common player desire from previous \"Gears of War\" games.",
"Developers said this should eliminate the perception that players hosting multiplayer matches had an advantage over other players.",
"The real victory for \"Gears of War 3\" is the immersive and gripping story.",
"Lingering questions and mysteries finally get answers, and there is a sense of finality that runs through the entire campaign.",
"The interaction between characters never feels forced or fake.",
"Their emotions are believable, and their concern for one another is genuine.",
"I described it to a friend as a \"soap opera for guys,\" but it is more like a TV mini-series.",
"The action blends well with the dialogue and creates a flow that helps pull the player along from scene to scene.",
"It all comes off seamlessly and leaves the player emotionally invested in all of the characters.",
"But be prepared for the unexpected as people will die and loyalties will be tested.",
"Overall, \"Gears of War 3\" is exciting, emotional and blends competitiveness with teamwork.",
"Whether playing the campaign alone or with friends, the story mixes with the action fluidly and provides a satisfying feeling even if the ending may not be to your liking.",
"In multiplayer mode, the different modes offer challenges for any type of player and put a premium on strategy to achieve victory.",
"As this trilogy ends, don't be surprised if there is more \"Gears\" action down the road.",
"Plans for books, comics and film projects are out there, so it may not take much to enlist Delta Squad for another mission.",
"\"Gears of War 3\" is available now in North America and Europe and will be available Thursday in Japan.",
"It is an Xbox 360 exclusive title and rated M for mature due to blood and gore, intense violence and strong language.",
"This review was done playing the single-player campaign and trying out the multiplayer modes on the Xbox 360."
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"Game starts a couple years after the conclusion of \"Gears 2\" and finds Marcus in jail ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for an early Wednesday morning attack on a police station that killed two officers and injured seven others, a spokesman for the militant group told CNN.",
"Approximately 10 militants charged the police station, tossed grenades and then opened fire in the predawn attack, said senior police official Sohail Khalid.",
"The militants escaped after an hour-long firefight with police, Khalid said.",
"The attack took place in Dera Ismail Khan, a district that sits next to Pakistan's militant-plagued tribal region along the Afghan border.",
"It comes one day after Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan denied reports that the militant group had declared a cease-fire while holding peace talks with the government.",
"Wednesday morning's attack was proof that reports of the cease-fire were false, Ehsan told CNN by phone."
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"Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- In recent weeks, there have been two important stories developing about the 2012 campaign.",
"On the surface, they have nothing to do directly with Herman Cain, Mitt Romney or Michele Bachmann.",
"The stories revolve around money.",
"American Crossroads, a political action committee founded by Karl Rove, is gearing up so that it can provide campaign funds to Republican candidates across the nation.",
"The organization is determined to repeat its accomplishments in 2010, just on a much grander scale.",
"On the other side of the aisle, there have been stories about big bundlers who are raising enormous amounts of money for President Obama's re-election campaign.",
"According to the Huffington Post, Anna Wintour, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Jon Corzine and Harvey Weinstein are among the 100-plus bundlers who have raised more than $50 million for the president.",
"According to the Washington Post, the financial and banking sectors have given President Obama more money than all the Republican candidates combined.",
"Seems like Wall Street is not that scared of a second term.",
"With all the ups and downs of the last decade, one thing has been constant.",
"Private money continues to flood the political system.",
"As a result of the Supreme Court's decision to eliminate the ban on corporate spending, the problem will only get worse.",
"The vast amount of private money in American politics causes enormous problems for the nation.",
"There are many problems that money makes it more difficult for the government to resolve.",
"The power of private money, and the enormous influence of the interest groups and individual donors who provide it, prevents government from tackling fundamental issues of the day, including issues where there would otherwise be some agreement between the two parties.",
"For all the talk about reducing the long-term deficit and rationalizing federal spending, the chances of accomplishing this goal are minimal unless the campaign finance system is repaired.",
"Interest groups in Washington fight hard to defend the status quo.",
"One of the classic examples of what political scientists called the \"iron triangle,\" — the ironclad alliance between interest groups, government agencies and congressional committees in defense of specific programs — has been the defense budget.",
"Since the Cold War, federal dollars have gone to defense contractors who reap huge profits from the production of certain weapons systems.",
"These companies have become integral to the economy of the communities in which their plants located, and they are protected by the legislators who represent those areas as well as Pentagon officials.",
"Agricultural programs are another case where lobbying makes innovations or reductions in spending difficult.",
"The congressional supercommittee dealing with deficit reduction is spinning its wheels.",
"Indeed, The Hill reported that members of the deficit reduction committee are receiving sizable amounts of contributions from special interest groups, many of which represent sectors (such as health care) that are opposed to what the panel is attempting to accomplish.",
"Without addressing the political dynamics that have fueled many of today's budgetary problems, it will be difficult for Congress to enact substantial changes, or to make sure that any successful reforms last over time.",
"A second problem is the power of financial and business interests in Washington.",
"This is a theme that preoccupies both Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street activists.",
"Why did Wall Street receive so much assistance through TARP while homeowners have been allowed to languish?",
"Protesters on the right and left talk about how policies are skewed toward these interests and how average middle-class Americans don't receive the same kind of attention from the nation's leaders.",
"Business and financial interests achieve their influence in many ways.",
"But their ability to deliver dollars to the campaign chests of candidates is crucial.",
"Donating funds helps to ensure that these interests have a seat at the table.",
"In 2009, as Ron Suskind recounts in his new book, \"The Confidence Men,\" Democrats learned firsthand as the health care industry successfully pushed the administration to eliminate crucial measures that were intended to control costs and save money to pay for expanded insurance.",
"This story has been repeated in a number of policy sectors.",
"The final problem that money fuels is gridlock.",
"Everyone hates when Congress doesn't seem capable of doing anything.",
"A chronic complaint about Washington is that the parties are so polarized that agreement is not possible.",
"Money is one of the culprits.",
"Political scientists have shown how the money race pushes politicians to seek favor with ideologically oriented interest groups and political action committees who can deliver funds.",
"Legislators need to make sure that the party leadership in each chamber, which maintains centralized control over money through leadership political action committees, will keep the purse strings open.",
"Campaign money makes help certain that the parties are heard.",
"Without tackling core issues such as campaign finance, gridlock that Americans seem to dislike so much will continue.",
"When he was a candidate, Obama constantly reminded voters about this problem.",
"Now he seems to have become comfortable or resigned to working within the system that he once criticized.",
"At the height of the struggle over campaign finance reform in 1973, Sen. Hubert Humphrey warned that \"it is a cesspool, it is a source of infection for the body politic.\"",
"One year later Watergate shattered American confidence in the political system.",
"The result was burst of reform that created public finance for presidential campaigns and contribution limits, as well as the Federal Elections Commission.",
"For almost two decades, the system worked relatively well and did produce changes until recently when both parties abandoned it.",
"Right now there is no scandal comparable to Watergate to move American politicians.",
"With all the attention that we pay to the horse race between Romney, Cain and Perry or the decline in President Obama's approval ratings, the fundamentals receive little attention.",
"The basic ways in which politics works, the underlying sources of political influence and power that will have huge effects on whoever the next president is, are barely an issue.",
"Without reform, the chances that we will see huge shifts in policy to make government more efficient and more effective are slim.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer."
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"He says money from powerful interests prevents rational choices on budget cutting .",
"It helps explain why Wall Street got bailed out, and U.S. homeowners didn't, he says ."
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"Patrick Vieira's move to Manchester City appears to have moved a step closer after Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho confirmed he has played his last game for the Italian club.",
"English Premier League side City had been linked with a move for the 33-year-old midfielder who has a stop-start career at the San Siro since his move from Juventus.",
"Vieria played in Inter's 1-0 win over Chievo and Mourinho paid tribute to his contribution to the club after the match and confirmed his impending departure.",
"\"In particular Vieira was great in his last game for us.",
"He is a player that we will certainly miss now that he is leaving,\" Mourinho told reporters.",
"\"It was the best way to say goodbye to us and I wish him all the best in his new life.",
"I don't know where he is going.",
"He doesn't have to tell anyone.",
"England? I think so. \"We couldn't have stopped him from leaving.\"",
"City manager Roberto Mancini revealed earlier in the week he was interested in taking the former Arsenal midfielder on loan till the end of the season.",
"Vieira has not been a regular starter since he moved to Inter and the player will be keen to prove his fitness and form in a bid to force his way into France's squad for the World Cup in South Africa.",
"Meanwhile Juan Sebastian Veron has rejected the chance to join City after the experienced midfielder admitted that he intends to see out his playing career at Argentinean club Estudiantes.",
"Veron, 34, told Argentinean radio station La Red: \"I talked to Mancini, but it's not possible now.",
"It's not about money. \"First comes my family and second it's because I made a decision and I want to respect it.",
"This is what I feel and this is the place in which I am comfortable.",
"\"To accept it would be going against my convictions, against myself and against the people.",
"\"I presented the offer to the club directors so they could analyze it.",
"But on my part there wasn't a lot to think about.",
"My response was instant.\"",
"Elsewhere, Atletico Madrid are closing in on a move for Juventus midfielder Tiago who is set to move to the Spanish La Liga club on loan until the end of the season."
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"Patrick Vieira's move to Manchester City appears to have moved a step closer according to Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho.",
"English Premier League City had been linked with a move for the 33-year-old midfielder who has a stop-start career at the San Siro.",
"Juan Sebastian Veron has rejected the chance to join City and intends to see out his playing career at Argentinean club Estudiantes."
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"EL DORADO HILLS, California (CNN) -- The attorney for Nancy Garrido, charged in the Jaycee Lee Dugard abduction case, expressed concern Wednesday that intense media coverage may prejudice his client's ability to get a fair trial.",
"Phillip Garrido and his wife in 1988, shortly after his release from jail for rape.",
"\"There have been some misstatements made in the media, and possibly very innocent misstatements like, you know, 'She's charged with 29 counts, she was there, therefore she must be culpable,' \" Gilbert Maines told CNN's \"American Morning\" on Wednesday.",
"\"That's good speculation, but any good prosecutor will tell you that they can't prosecute and convict on speculation.",
"\"The media can do that, but the prosecutor can't.\"",
"Watch Maines talk about Nancy Garrido's case » .",
"Nancy and Phillip Garrido have been charged in connection with the kidnapping and rape of Dugard, 29, who police say was abducted by the Garridos in 1991 at age 11.",
"Dugard grew up in a backyard compound of tents and outbuildings, and gave birth to two daughters, now 11 and 15, fathered by Garrido during her captivity, police said.",
"The Garridos were arrested last week and have pleaded not guilty.",
"Philip Garrido is a registered sex offender.",
"Maines said his client has been charged with \"about half\" of the 29 counts against the couple.",
"He said he has discussed \"what she says happened.\"",
"He would not elaborate, citing attorney-client privilege.",
"But, he added, he is still \"trying to establish a line of communication\" with his client.",
"\"We are in the process of formulating any defense that we have, or that we may have,\" he said.",
"\"We are still in the process of investigating this entire thing.\"",
"Maines said he was not aware of the case before he was appointed by the court to represent Nancy Garrido.",
"\"I'm sure you understand that this is a horrendous thing for her,\" Maines said.",
"\"I mean I realize it's horrendous for Jaycee and her parents and the children, but my concern right now is that my client get a fair trial.\"",
"He said that he is still working on getting his client to \"confide in me and talk to me so I can formulate any defense that is available.\""
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"Nancy Garrido faces charges with her husband in abduction of Jaycee Lee Dugard .",
"Her attorney says media coverage has included \"misstatements ... speculation\"\nAttorney Gilbert Maines says he's working on getting Nancy Garrido to confide in him .",
"Maines says the case is \"horrendous\" for Nancy Garrido as well as the victims ."
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"Paris (CNN) -- When you're in love in Paris, you show it with a lock.",
"A combination lock, a bicycle lock or, most commonly, a simple padlock -- hundreds of them -- all inscribed with the names of lovers and clinging to the chain link railing of the Pont des Arts, the Bridge of Arts, the keys romantically tossed into the Seine flowing below.",
"\"Without you, my life doesn't make sense,\" one of the locks reads in French.",
"\"Walter and Tammy engaged,\" another announces to the world in English.",
"You might easily miss the modest pedestrian bridge with the shiny accessories in the tourist rush to find historic Pont Neuf or the ornate Pont Alexandre III, but I am taking it slow on my second visit to Paris.",
"There are no museums on my itinerary and no mad scrambles to fit in all of the city's famous sites.",
"I've already seen the Mona Lisa, been to the top of the Eiffel Tower, gazed down on Napoleon's tomb and admired Notre Dame.",
"This visit is for savoring Paris: walking to wherever fancy strikes, sitting in any park or café that looks inviting and eating as many baguettes, pastries and other delectable things as my budget (and figure) will allow.",
"\"Sleepless Night\" When I arrive, \"Purple Rain\" is the talk of the town.",
"It's the first weekend of October, so the streets of Paris are extra crowded for the annual Nuit Blanche -- White Night or Sleepless Night -- when museums stay open until dawn and organizers promise \"surprising and unusual\" art installations all over the city.",
"One of them invites visitors to pick up a clear plastic umbrella and walk through a courtyard as rain machines and mauve lights make it look like they've stepped into Prince's hit song.",
"I start each of my few days in Paris with champagne.",
"It's right there, chilling in an ice bucket in the corner of my hotel's breakfast buffet every morning, not far from a pitcher of milk.",
"Guests sip from their champagne flutes as casually as from their coffee cups as they fill up on cold cuts, cheeses and buttery croissants spread liberally with Nutella.",
"An unexpected heat wave bathes Paris in summer light, so I take in the stunning views of the city from Sacre Coeur Basilica and go explore hilly, bohemian Montmartre.",
"Who knew grapes grow in Paris?",
"They bask in the sun on a slope on Rue des Saules in Clos Montmartre, the city's only vineyard.",
"Not far away, you can feast on sea bass in butter sauce in Le Moulin de la Galette, a restaurant topped by a little 18th-century windmill -- one of only two that remain in the area.",
"A poster quest .",
"I take alarmingly frequent boulangerie and patisserie breaks.",
"The bakery near my hotel, just off the Champs Elysées, has baskets of warm crunchy-soft baguettes and display cases full of elaborate sweets that you can't ignore.",
"My favorite: a raspberry pistachio gateau, with the tart ruby fruit nestled in sweet clouds of pale green cream in between layers of flaky puff pastry.",
"Heaven. Haunted by a poster of the Le Monde des Chimères restaurant that I've owned for years, I set out for Île Saint-Louis -- one of two islands in the Seine -- where the photo was taken.",
"The restaurant now has a new name, Mon Vieil Ami, but I'm not disappointed.",
"The peaceful little island, with its boutique-lined center street, is a charmer, and food temptations are all around: \"lapin à la moutarde\" (rabbit with mustard sauce), \"chocolat noir\" ice cream, \"rhubarbe\" sorbet.",
"Close calls at Place de l'Étoile .",
"For entertainment, I watch the crazy traffic around the Arc de Triomphe.",
"There are no lanes and no traffic cops.",
"Cars entering the circle have the right of way, and they roar into the giant roundabout as the other cars already in it (and going alarmingly fast) squeal to a stop, sometimes with just inches to spare.",
"There are honks and angry hand gestures as vehicles of every imaginable size -- from tiny Smart cars to giant tour buses -- negotiate the circle with equal zeal.",
"Want to exit the roundabout into one of the 12 avenues fanning out of it?",
"Just cut diagonally in front of all the other traffic.",
"It's both terrifying and fascinating to watch.",
"When I ask the concierge at my hotel whether she drives around the arch, she smiles and shrugs her shoulders, \"Sure, you just do it.",
"You just keep going; otherwise the other cars will just\" -- here she's at a loss for words and mimes what looks like vehicles swerving wildly around her.",
"Her colleague at the front desk then confesses that when her husband goes around the arch, \"I just close my eyes.\"",
"They tell me that when there is an accident at the Place de l'Étoile, the insurance companies of both drivers always split the bill 50/50.",
"It's just too difficult to ever determine who is at fault.",
"\"But there are no accidents,\" one of the women insists.",
"Cheese heaven .",
"For a traffic-free experience, I head to Rue Cler, a pedestrian market street not far from the Eiffel Tower where Julia Child used to shop.",
"You can sit down for a meal or assemble a moveable feast at the fruit, produce and specialty food shops that dot the area.",
"The fromagerie itself is worthy of the trip: There are hundreds of varieties of cheeses for sale, their collective aroma wafting out into the street.",
"You could make it your mission to try one cheese each day of the year and still not go through them all.",
"For now, my time is running out.",
"I watch one more time as the Eiffel Tower sparkles like a champagne glass at night, with the hourly evening light show eliciting oohs, aahs and applause from the crowd on the Champ de Mars.",
"Then I give in and buy a souvenir: a \"J'adore Paris\" T-shirt.",
"I will wear it often."
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"(CNN) -- Tareq Salahi is \"greatly hurt and disturbed\" by wife's \"adulterous affair\" with a rock musician and he wants a divorce, according to court documents.",
"\"Real Housewives of D.C.\" star Michaele Salahi left her husband last week to join Journey guitarist Neal Schon on tour, which Tareq Salahi said \"caused me to suffer great harm, humiliation, and embarrassment.\"",
"She \"was engaged in an adulterous relationship with one Neal Schon, her paramour,\" the divorce petition said.",
"\"I also understand that his rock band Journey paid for her travel, accommodations and other expenses.\"",
"The Salahis' split became public last Wednesday when Tareq Salahi told reporters that he thought his wife had been kidnapped when she disappeared on Tuesday.",
"She told a sheriff's deputy that she was \"with a good friend and was where she wanted to be,\" Warren County, Virginia, Sheriff Danny McEathron said in a statement to CNN Wednesday afternoon.",
"The reality show personality traveled last Tuesday to Memphis, Tennessee, where Journey was performing, to be with Schon, a representative with Scoop Marketing confirmed to CNN Wednesday.",
"Scoop Marketing represents Schon.",
"\"She stated that she was not returning home and had thus abandoned the marriage and marital home,\" his divorce petition said.",
"But what really hurts about his wife's \"adulterous friendship\" is that she \"has flaunted the same throughout the community, the nation and indeed the world, and thus caused me to suffer great harm, humiliation, and embarrassment,\" his court filing said.",
"An e-mail Salahi said was sent to him from Schon's e-mail address was included in the filing.",
"It contained a photo of an unidentified penis, he said.",
"\"At no time whatsoever have I condoned or acquiesced to the adulterous affair,\" Tareq Salahi said.",
"\"There is no hope or possibility of reconciliation,\" he said.",
"The couple, married for nearly eight years, has no children.",
"They gained notoriety when they were photographed with President Barack Obama at a White House state dinner, to which they were not invited, in November 2009.",
"The \"Real Housewives of D.C.\" TV series was canceled by Bravo earlier this year.",
"CNN's Rachel Wells contributed to this report."
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"Michaele Salahi \"abandoned the marriage,\" Tareq Salahi's divorce petition says .",
"His wife's affair causes him \"great harm, humiliation, and embarrassment,\" Salahi says .",
"An e-mail from her paramour's email address includes a penis photo, the divorce filing says .",
"The band Journey is paying for Michaele Salahi's travel, her husband alleges ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- In Cairo, where huge protests are now in their fourth day, the angry protesters in Tahrir Square are reclaiming the pro-democracy revolution they started January 25.",
"Since it took control of the management of the transitional process, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces -- appointed by the former president, Hosni Mubarak -- has been following a three-sided strategy to contain and even frustrate the persistent demands for handing over power to a civilian authority and establishing an effective democratic system.",
"The military council is breaking the revolutionary will of the protesters by arresting many and putting them in military courts (12,000 civilians so far); deliberately humiliating them (torturing many and exposing female protesters to virginity tests); making ordinary people feel disillusioned and even hate the revolution by failing to take tough measures against anarchy and restore law and order; and finally, encouraging fragmentation and discord among the country's political actors.",
"Like Mubarak, the military council has adopted the policy of \"me or anarchy.\"",
"Over the past few months, Egyptians have used enormous demonstrations to press their demands, starting with insisting on dismissing the government that Mubarak had appointed before he was ousted, purging the security forces and cleaning the Ministry of Interior, trying Mubarak and those responsible for the death of more than 800 peaceful protesters and the injury of thousands, and setting a clear and specific timetable for handing over power to civilians.",
"The military council has been reluctant to respond, and when it has, it has completely emptied these demands of any meaningful effect.",
"Indeed, it appointed a new Cabinet in March but deprived it of any effective authority.",
"It changed the name of the state security force while maintaining its old structure and savage practices, and it reluctantly put Mubarak and some of his aides before trial, but none has been indicted, and the process has been incredibly slow.",
"With parliamentary elections set to begin on November 28, the military council wanted to secure its position in the transitional process and threw a wrench in the form of a draft of supra-constitutional principles that, if it were to be agreed upon by the major political forces, would grant the military council a special status in the new political process.",
"It would make the council sovereign above all other state institutions, including the parliament.",
"The proposed principles would prevent civilian control or overseeing powers over any of the military's affairs, grant the military veto powers over the laws and strip the elected parliament of some of its authority.",
"The document revealed the military council's insecurity about the results of the coming elections and the fear that Islamists might win a majority.",
"It also engendered a deep state of polarization among the country's political forces.",
"Many liberals and secularists supported the document, while Islamic parties and youth movements rejected it and organized a massive demonstration Friday under the name \"The Friday of Protecting Democracy.\"",
"Several youth and grass-roots movements joined the demonstrations and continued with sit-ins, insisting on a specific timeframe for transitioning authority.",
"The security forces brutally cracked down on the protesters, igniting further clashes over the past few days.",
"To many protesters, what Egypt is witnessing is \"phase two\" of the January revolution.",
"One cannot ignore the striking similarities between the two phases, particularly the snail-paced responses of the military council and Mubarak and the unjustifiable use of force against unarmed civilians.",
"I was in Tahrir Square on Saturday when army soldiers clamped down on thousands of peaceful protesters, killing two in their initial thrust and savagely beating many of them.",
"This excessive use of force was a major factor contributing to the fall of Mubarak.",
"The military council also repeats another fatal mistake by responding too late with too little, leading protesters to raise the ceiling of their demands.",
"What started as protests calling for protecting democracy and a timetable for transferring power under the management of the military council has become firm demands for ending the rule of the council and the military generals.",
"Despite this revolutionary situation, and perhaps because of it, Egypt has great hopes in transitioning to democracy.",
"Several steps need to be taken.",
"The military council needs to bring to justice those responsible for the death and injury of peaceful protesters, including the immediate dismissal of the minister of interior and his aides.",
"A new national salvation government has to be formed of credible public figures to manage the transitional process -- writing a new constitution, restoring order and reviving the country's economy.",
"Finally, sticking to a clear road map that allows timely legislative elections to be held under the immediate supervision of the newly formed government, followed by presidential elections, would position Egypt on a stable path toward democratic transition.",
"The military council might try to exploit this precarious situation to impose martial law and postpone or even cancel the parliamentary elections.",
"This will prove counterproductive and, in fact, disastrous because Egyptians will then have nothing to lose and will continue with their revolution to end military rule and earn their democracy.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Emad El-Din Shahin."
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"Emad Shahin: Military government in Egypt has been blocking transition to civilian rule .",
"He says the armed forces are standing in the way of democracy .",
"Protesters had to return to the streets to reset the revolution, he says .",
"Shahin: Military using violence, arrests and torture to repress those seeking change ."
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"(CNN) -- Natalie Wood was terrified of the water.",
"As an 11-year-old shooting \"The Green Promise,\" she was thrown off a bridge during a storm scene and nearly drowned.",
"The incident scarred her for life.",
"Thirty-two years later, Wood died after falling into the ocean off Catalina Island in California.",
"Wood's life is full of such curiosities.",
"She was that rare child performer to make the transition to adult movie star, but her rise to success was marked by troubled relationships.",
"She had beauty and talent, but she suffered from alcohol abuse and once tried to commit suicide.",
"And then there's her death, coming just as she was restarting her movie career.",
"Wood, who died in 1981, is back in the news after police reopened the case involving her drowning at age 43.",
"Police: Robert Wagner not a suspect in new probe of Natalie Wood's death .",
"The story surrounding Wood's death has long been one of Hollywood's great mysteries.",
"She was making a motion picture comeback in a highly touted science-fiction film, \"Brainstorm,\" and was on her yacht with her husband, Robert Wagner, and her co-star, Christopher Walken.",
"Aspects of Wood's life have only heightened the speculation.",
"How could someone so young, with a good marriage and revitalized career, die just like that?",
"Captain describes Wood cover-up story .",
"Wood had been a top star for decades, both a box office draw and Oscar-nominated actress.",
"Among her films were some of the biggest and most influential of the 1950s and '60s, including \"Rebel Without a Cause,\" \"West Side Story\" and \"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice.\"",
"\"It was as if she had movie star stamped on her birth certificate,\" Wagner once said.",
"Indeed, she seemed fated for stardom from the beginning.",
"Wood was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, daughter of Russian immigrants, in San Francisco in 1938.",
"The family later changed their last name to Gurdin.",
"At age 4, she had a bit part in 1943's \"Happy Land\" after a production company spotted her in nearby Santa Rosa.",
"Her mother, intent on her daughter making it in the movie business, moved the family to Los Angeles, and young Natalia, renamed Natalie Wood by the studio, soon earned a role in the 1946 Orson Welles film \"Tomorrow Is Forever.\"",
"Welles was impressed with the scene-stealing youngster.",
"\"She's terrifying!\" he's said to have described her.",
"(Wood's sister, Lana, also did well, later playing Plenty O'Toole in the James Bond film \"Diamonds Are Forever.\")",
"From the late '40s until the mid-'50s, she was one of the most active child performers in the movie business, appearing in such films as 1947's \"The Ghost and Mrs. Muir\" and 1950's \"Never a Dull Moment.\"",
"But for several years she was best known as the Santa Claus-believing child in 1947's \"Miracle on 34th Street,\" opposite Maureen O'Hara and Edmund Gwenn.",
"She later looked back at her childhood years with pain and a little fury.",
"\"I spent practically all my time in the company of adults.",
"I was very withdrawn, very shy, I did what I was told and I tried not to disappoint anybody.",
"I knew I had a duty to perform, and I was trained to follow orders,\" she once said.",
"Her relationship with her mother was often bitter.",
"Glamour to spare .",
"It wasn't until the groundbreaking \"Rebel Without a Cause\" (1955), also starring James Dean and Sal Mineo, that she broke through into mature roles.",
"The film featured Wood as the girlfriend of Dean's angst-ridden Jim Stark in the role that made Dean a generational symbol.",
"Wood was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance.",
"But it was two 1961 films, the film version of the Broadway smash \"West Side Story\" and the romantic tragedy \"Splendor in the Grass,\" that made her a top-tier movie star.",
"In \"West Side Story,\" a version of \"Romeo and Juliet\" set among New York's gang culture, Wood played Maria, the ill-fated heroine.",
"Though her singing voice was dubbed, her performance earned her good reviews in what became one of the most lauded movies of all time.",
"\"Splendor in the Grass\" was no slouch, either; for her performance opposite Warren Beatty, Wood picked up an Oscar nomination for best actress.",
"The press paid attention.",
"Wood had glamour to spare; she was often touted, along with Elizabeth Taylor and Sophia Loren, as one of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood.",
"She also had a photogenic marriage to the hunky Wagner, whom she had married in 1957 when she was 18 and he was 27.",
"The marriage was one of the most celebrated of its time.",
"\"We drove a Corvette across the country.",
"Radio stations would announce we had just passed through, and people would wait for us in every little town,\" Wood told People magazine in 1976.",
"But that marriage to Wagner didn't last; the pair divorced in 1962.",
"She married her second husband, agent Richard Gregson, in 1969.",
"The two had a daughter, Natasha.",
"There were some dark moments -- Wood attempted suicide in 1966 -- but on the whole she gained confidence as an actress in the '60s.",
"(Hardcore psychoanalysis -- she went almost daily for several years -- didn't hurt.)",
"She was named \"Star of the Year\" by theater owners in 1963 and appeared in a series of popular films, including \"Gypsy\" (1962), \"Sex and the Single Girl\" (1963) and \"The Great Race\" (1965).",
"Though she turned down some challenging roles, including one in \"Bonnie and Clyde,\" she bounced back with the wife-swapping comedy \"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice\" (1969), for which she earned a reputed $3 million (thanks to shrewdly taking a cut of the profits).",
"However, except for a handful of roles, \"Bob & Carol\" also marked the end of a chapter in Wood's film career.",
"She divorced Gregson in 1972 and, having reconciled with Wagner, remarried him later that year.",
"She told People that she had few qualms about putting her career on the back burner.",
"\"If a woman decides to get married and have children, other parts of her life are just going to have to be put aside,\" she said.",
"By many accounts, she and Wagner had a stronger marriage the second time around.",
"They had a daughter, Courtney, and stood out as one of Hollywood's power couples.",
"Wood stayed busy with the occasional TV movie.",
"Troubled production, mysterious end .",
"\"Brainstorm\" earned coverage not only for Wood's casting -- it was just her third theatrical movie since \"Bob & Carol\" -- but also for its technological trappings.",
"The director, Douglas Trumbull, was renowned for his special-effects work on \"2001: A Space Odyssey\" and \"Close Encounters of the Third Kind,\" and the movie was being shot in a special format.",
"But \"Brainstorm\" was plagued by production troubles, and rumors started circulating about Wood and Walken's relationship, as TCM.com notes in its writeup of the film.",
"Wagner, who visited the North Carolina set during a break from his TV series \"Hart to Hart,\" had suspicions.",
"\"The bell wasn't exactly clanging, but I was aware that I didn't have her full attention,\" he wrote in his 2008 memoir.",
"\"She was more involved with the movie than she was with her family, and the thought occurred to me that Natalie was being emotionally unfaithful.\"",
"Filming continued in Hollywood, and during the Thanksgiving holiday, Wagner and Wood invited Walken to relax on their boat, Splendour, named for \"Splendor in the Grass.\"",
"The rest is lost in the murky water off the California coast on November 29, 1981, when Wood died.",
"At her funeral, her pallbearers included Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Laurence Olivier and Gregory Peck.",
"The aftermath affected lives well away from the boat.",
"The studio wanted to shut down filming; Trumbull had to find other financing to complete the movie.",
"Upon its 1983 release, \"Brainstorm\" was a box office dud, and Trumbull never directed another film.",
"Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the Los Angeles County coroner, was demoted in 1982 after an investigation by the county board of supervisors over issues with his job, including publicity-seeking after the deaths of celebrities.",
"Wagner mourned Wood's death for years before marrying Jill St. John, one of Wood's closest friends, in 1990.",
"Though her image has faded in comparison with some of her contemporaries, such as Taylor or Dean, she's still looked up to by young actresses.",
"Vanessa Hudgens, the \"High School Musical\" star, calls Wood her \"idol.\"",
"Wood herself was blunt about her impact.",
"\"Let's face it, acting is not important.",
"Einstein is important.",
"Jonas Salk is important.",
"I know they're not going to send my latest movie up in a time capsule,\" she once said.",
"What she desired, apparently, was more out of life.",
"Some time before her death she gave an interview and was asked if she was satisfied.",
"After all, she had two children, a terrific husband, fame, money and beauty.",
"What more could she want?",
"She didn't hesitate: \"I want yesterday.\""
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"(CNN) -- As last night's Republican presidential debate over national security issues demonstrated, credibility is crucial to winning a debate.",
"Think of credibility like money you have in a bank.",
"Each time you stretch it thin, you have less the next time you might need it.",
"It is your own personal bank of believability.",
"Knowing your arguments and facts is one way to gain credibility.",
"Mitt Romney fattened his credibility bank account at the expense of Rick Perry, who supported a no fly zone over Syria.",
"Romney argued that a no fly zone over Syria would be pointless since the Syrian government has 5,000 tanks.",
"Romney jokingly said it would make more sense to impose a \"no drive zone.\"",
"Jon Huntsman made a similar deposit when he stated that sanctions on Iran would not work since \"the Chinese aren't going to play ball and the Russians aren't going to play ball,\" and Iran has already decided to go nuclear.",
"Huntsman's cited the examples of Libya (which gave up its nuclear ambition, and later the government was overthrown with the help of the United States) and North Korea (which has tested nuclear weapons and whose government is still in power.)",
"Another way to maintain credibility is to cite proof for your arguments.",
"Michele Bachmann has said things in previous debates (President Obama wants Medicare to collapse) and in last night's debate (suggesting that the CIA cannot interrogate terrorist suspects any longer because the ACLU is in charge) that were not very credible.",
"These frequent ATM withdrawals hurt Bachmann because a lack of believability spills over.",
"Her disagreement with Rick Perry about whether to give aid to Pakistan should have been an excellent point for her.",
"She showcased her knowledge of the subject, saying that we exchange intelligence information and the United States must have our interest represented.",
"Bachmann called Pakistan \"too nuclear to fail,\" and chastised Perry for being naïve when he said he would not give Pakistan one penny until it proved it had America's best interests in mind.",
"This was a terrific answer that warranted applause because it was thoughtful, logical and well reasoned.",
"What did she get? Crickets. Why? Because her believability bank is in the red.",
"Ron Paul is an enigma.",
"He can provide such thoughtful answers at one time and later interject completely unsubstantiated statements.",
"He was banking responsibly with his argument that the war on drugs was a failure and a reason for much of the violence in Mexico.",
"Paul reminded us that prescription drugs kill many more people than illegal drugs do and that alcohol is a deadly drug.",
"Paul's argument was factually accurate, even if unpopular with many conservatives.",
"But then Paul writes an overdraft with moderate Republicans by saying things like aid to Africa for malaria or AIDS prevention is \"all worthless.\"",
"Paul hit the daily double.",
"Unpopular answer?",
"Check. Wrong on facts?",
"Check. There are countless examples of disease prevention aid being effective.",
"Could aid be more effective?",
"Sure. But that was not Paul's answer.",
"He simply asserted that aid is worthless, but he had no proof.",
"Answering questions with non-answers simply isn't credible.",
"For example, Herman Cain twice last night reached into a very old bag of tricks to answer questions with the standard \"I'd consult the experts\" line.",
"Actually, he originally answered a question about terrorist profiling with his support of \"targeted identification.\"",
"But when asked a follow-up not 20 seconds later, he retreated by saying he would \"ask the professionals.\"",
"Nothing hurts your credibility worse than flip-flopping on the same question and diving into a non-answer.",
"Cain's bank account is probably under a thousand dollars.",
"But that still leaves him 999.",
"Finally, to save credibility, you should be prepared to defend your position when giving a potentially unpopular answer.",
"Newt Gingrich had two answers that the conservative wing of his party might not like, but he defended them well.",
"Gingrich said it was possible to cut some of the military because, \"If it takes 15 to 20 years to build a weapons system when Apple changes technology every nine months, there's something profoundly wrong with the system.\"",
"And Gingrich went against the Republican current when he stated that some long-term illegal immigrants should be allowed to stay legally, but without citizenship, in the United States.",
"Romney and others said giving amnesty would be a magnet for more people to come illegally to the United States.",
"Gingrich said we should be humane, and he was ready to take the heat for his stance.",
"Gingrich has enough credibility banked because of his stances on other issues that he was able to withstand the criticism on this one.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Todd Graham."
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"Credibility of Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain running low, he says .",
"Graham: Newt Gingrich successfully defended unpopular stances ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Banana producer Chiquita will pay a $25 million fine and serve five years' probation for once paying millions of dollars to groups in Colombia considered by the U.S. to be terrorist organizations, a Department of Justice spokesman said Tuesday.",
"A worker at a banana plantation in Santa Maria, Colombia, in December 2000.",
"In so doing, the banana producer avoided prosecution for the company's now-defunct payoff of Colombian terrorists protecting its most profitable banana-growing operation, according to terms of a plea agreement with the U.S. Justice Department.",
"If approved by U.S. courts, the $25 million fine would represent the largest U.S. criminal penalty ever imposed under federal global terrorism sanction regulations, said Justice spokesman Dean Boyd.",
"The regulations prohibit transactions with people who commit, threaten to commit or support U.S.-designated terrorists and establish penalties for doing so.",
"Attorneys from the Justice Department's National Security Division and federal prosecutors for the District of Columbia filed a joint sentencing motion Tuesday asking the court to accept the plea agreement, which was reached March 19, Boyd said.",
"A hearing on the matter is set for Monday.",
"In its motion, the government asked that Chiquita Brands International be fined and sentenced to probation, as well as being required to implement an effective ethics program in connection with the company's guilty plea, Boyd said.",
"Federal prosecutors accused the Cincinnati-based company of paying more than $1.7 million to the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, a right-wing paramilitary group, in two parts of Colombia where the company grew bananas.",
"The payments to the group, known as the AUC, went through the company's Colombian subsidiary, Banadex, from 1997 to 2004, according to court documents filed in the case.",
"Court papers also say Chiquita paid Colombia's two leftist guerrilla groups, the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and ELN (National Liberation Army) from about 1989 to 1997.",
"At the time, according to court documents, those groups controlled areas where the company grew bananas.",
"The AUC, FARC and ELN are all combatants in Colombia's decade-long civil war, and all have been designated as terrorist organizations by the United States.",
"In a written statement issued in March, Chiquita Brands International CEO Fernando Aguirre said the company viewed the plea agreement \"as a reasoned solution to the dilemma the company faced several years ago.\"",
"The company voluntarily disclosed the payments to the Justice Department in 2003, he said, adding the payments were made \"to protect the lives of its employees.\"",
"Court documents said the company began making the payments after a Banadex general manager met with the then-leader of the AUC, Carlos Castano.",
"Castano told the manager that the AUC was preparing to drive FARC from Colombia's Uraba region and asked for payments to be made to the AUC through private security companies.",
"\"Castano sent an unspoken but clear message that failure to make the payments could result in physical harm to Banadex personnel and property,\" court documents said.",
"Charges filed in the case said senior company executives knew about the payments to the AUC and, while checks were written to the security companies, the companies provided no actual services.",
"In 2002, after the U.S. government designated the AUC as a terrorist organization, Chiquita began paying the organization in cash, according to court documents, and continued the payments even after being told by outside counsel that the payments were illegal and should be stopped.",
"In the motion filed Tuesday, federal prosecutors noted Chiquita's cooperation in the investigation and its voluntary disclosure of its illegal activity, Boyd said.",
"While the government considered filing additional charges in the matter, it decided not to \"after an extensive investigation and after considering critical evidence and information that Chiquita provided through its post-plea cooperation,\" he said.",
"Chiquita sold Banadex to another company more than two years ago but remains one of the largest purchasers of bananas in Colombia.",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"CNN's Kevin Bohn contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- For the first time in a few years, talk about airline bankruptcies has ramped up once again, with concerns expressed this week about a certain carrier based in Texas.",
"Whether the reports about American Airlines are true or not doesn't really matter -- it's enough to make people anxious.",
"I've received a fair bit of e-mail this last week asking what happens if bankruptcy becomes a reality.",
"In short, there's nothing to worry about with an airline like American, but I thought it would be a good idea to devote this week's column to the issue since it's at the top of mind for many travelers.",
"Will American go bankrupt?",
"I'm certainly not qualified to answer that question.",
"Only the airline itself knows its plans, but the balance sheet certainly doesn't point to bankruptcy being necessary in the short to medium term.",
"Yes, American has been losing money recently while others have profited, but at the end of June, it had more than $5 billion in the bank and it has been able to arrange financing since then.",
"That doesn't sound like a company that would be filing for bankruptcy protection, which should be a last resort.",
"Even if it does for some strategic reason, flights wouldn't be affected.",
"Still, it's worth talking about what to do when an airline goes bankrupt, because airlines around the world shut down every year.",
"It's always good to know what you can do.",
"Here is some advice. Always pay with a credit card .",
"When you buy a ticket, you might be paying for something (a flight, presumably) that you won't use for another year.",
"That's a long time for an airline to hold on to your money, and that's why you should pay with a credit card.",
"If you buy a ticket with a credit card, then you won't be on the hook if your airline goes under.",
"In fact, when airlines start to find themselves in financial trouble, credit card processors hold back a larger and larger percentage of the money until the flight occurs.",
"That way, if the airline doesn't perform, the credit card company still has your money and can give it right back to you.",
"Periodically check in on your airline .",
"It sounds silly when you're talking about an airline like American, because you would know instantly if it filed for bankruptcy protection.",
"But what if you bought a ticket on Kuwait-based Wataniya Airways?",
"Would you even know that it shut down in March of this year?",
"Probably not. So if you do find yourself booked on an airline that might not be very well known here in the U.S., it can't hurt to check in every so often to make sure it's still flying.",
"Most airlines with websites are very good at letting you know when they go out of business.",
"Even better, you can set up an alert via Google that will send you a note anytime an airline's name pops up in the news.",
"This is hardly necessary for the better-known airlines around the world, of course, but it's a good idea for smaller airlines that you want to keep an eye on.",
"Have a backup plan .",
"If you're worried about an airline going out of business for one reason or another, have a mental backup plan waiting in case you need to spring into action.",
"Find out what other airlines fly where you need to go, and be ready to try to pounce if something happens.",
"If you're prepared, you'll be able to get that last seat on your alternate before someone else who was unprepared even knows what's happening.",
"But you'll still have to pay for it. Don't expect help from other airlines .",
"There used to be a rule in the U.S. that other airlines had to honor tickets on failed airlines for a nominal fee.",
"That doesn't exist anymore, so don't go looking for charity from other airlines if yours goes under.",
"Elsewhere in the world, there can be varying levels of assistance, but it's best to just assume that you'll get none.",
"At best, you'll be lucky to find an airline that will take you on standby, but that's not necessarily helpful for people with set plans.",
"Ultimately, the best advice is to just be alert.",
"If your airline stops flying, act quickly to find the best alternate options, and you'll still get where you need to go.",
"But if you're worried about a big airline failing here in the U.S., I wouldn't get too worked up about it.",
"The chances of that are incredibly slim, even if bankruptcy is involved."
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"Snyder: Chances of a big airline failing in the U.S. are incredibly slim .",
"Ultimately, the best advice is to just be alert, he says ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- A woman charged with sending threatening packages to two lawmakers, including a U.S. representative, was killed Sunday after she tried to attack a police officer at her home near Atlanta, police and the lawmakers said Monday.",
"Jameela Barnette, 53, was armed with a knife and handgun when a police officer knocked on her door on Christmas morning as he responded to reports of an alarm inside, Cobb County Police said.",
"She opened the door and started assaulting the officer with the weapons, police said.",
"The officer shot her, and Barnette died at the scene.",
"Barnette was the same woman who sent threatening packages earlier this year to U.S. Rep. Peter King of New York and New York State Sen. Greg Ball, their offices said Monday.",
"Barnette was indicted in U.S. District Court in Atlanta in October on two counts of sending threatening packages.",
"She pleaded not guilty in November and was released on $20,000 bond, according to court records.",
"Earlier this month, the court also ordered Barnette to undergo a mental evaluation.",
"The package sent to Ball contained a hoax weapon of mass destruction, said Ball spokeswoman Brittany Oat.",
"The indictment said it contained threatening messages and a vial of an unknown liquid, labeled \"Zyklon B,\" which Barnette indicated was a biological agent or toxin.",
"The vial of liquid was in fact perfume oil, according to CNN affiliate WXXA-TV in Albany, the New York state capital, which spoke to Barnette in April.",
"The package also contained a toy monkey wearing the Star of David, as shown in photos released by Ball's office.",
"Barnette told WXXA-TV she was a grandmother and a Muslim upset with Ball for holding hearings earlier this year on New York City's vulnerability to terrorism.",
"\"He keeps messing with Muslims,\" Barnette told the station in April.",
"\"Muslims have not been harassing anyone.\"",
"Barnette said she was not a threat and did not want people to think she was a dangerous person for sending the package.",
"A representative for Barnette could not be reached Monday.",
"Also in April, Barnette sent a bloody severed pig's foot and note to King's office on Capitol Hill, King said Monday.",
"The package never reached King or his staffers because all mail to the U.S. Capitol is screened.",
"The note was laced with anti-Semitic rants, including statements such as \"evil Jews will return this hoof to Palestine,\" a congressional source familiar with the situation said at the time.",
"King is not Jewish.",
"\"The woman, who called me a 'Muslim basher,' wrote 'kiss my black Muslim ass,'\" King said in a statement Monday.",
"\"I believe this was all a result of the blind and false hysteria stirred up by opponents of the radicalization hearings I convened in March,\" King said.",
"The officer who fired on Barnette on Sunday was treated for his injury and released at the scene, and is now on administrative leave pending investigation, according to the police department in suburbuan Atlanta.",
"CNN's Ashley Corum, Carol Cratty, Sara Pratley, and Melissa Gray contributed to this report."
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"The woman, Jameela Barnette, was killed as she tried to attack an officer, police said .",
"She had been charged with sending threatening packages to two lawmakers .",
"Both packages contained threatening letters and one contained a hoax WMD .",
"U.S. Rep. Peter King and New York State Sen. Greg Ball received the packages ."
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"(Health.com) -- Doctors often recommend exercise for patients with fibromyalgia, but the chronic pain and fatigue associated with the condition can make activities like running and swimming difficult.",
"Tai chi -- a slow, meditative martial art -- may be an effective alternative, a new study suggests.",
"Fibromyalgia patients who took tai chi classes twice a week for three months experienced less pain, stiffness, and fatigue than a control group that attended lifestyle education and stretching sessions, according to the study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.",
"Tai chi involves a series of slow, fluid movements that focus on balance and deep breathing.",
"Although it's not clear from the study how exactly tai chi might improve fibromyalgia symptoms, both the physical activity and the meditative aspects are likely beneficial, says Chenchen Wang, M.D., the lead researcher and an associate professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine, in Boston, Massachusetts.",
"\"Some people need the physical improvement; some people need more mental improvement,\" she says.",
"\"Tai chi can help with both.\"",
"Health.com: How fibromyalgia is diagnosed .",
"Previous research has shown that tai chi can help relieve the symptoms of arthritis and other pain conditions, but this study is the first controlled trial to examine its effectiveness as a treatment for fibromyalgia, which affects an estimated 10 million Americans.",
"The study included 66 fibromyalgia patients who were randomly assigned to take one-hour tai chi classes with an experienced teacher or one-hour classes that taught coping skills, pain-management techniques, and stretching.",
"Participants were also asked to practice tai chi or stretch on their own for 20 minutes each day, depending on which group they were in.",
"Health.com: 13 mistakes fibro patients make .",
"After three months, Wang and her colleagues asked the patients to rate their pain symptoms, physical functioning, fatigue, and mood, all of which were combined on a single scale ranging from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more severe symptoms.",
"(The patients completed the same survey before the study began.)",
"The average score among the tai chi patients dropped from 63 to 35, while the average for the control group dropped by just nine points, from 68 to 59.",
"Three months after the sessions stopped, the scores had remained roughly the same, which suggests that the benefits of the tai chi were lasting, Wang says.",
"The results were encouraging, as existing fibromyalgia treatments -- including medication, sleep therapy, and aerobic exercise -- fail to help many patients.",
"\"We need another approach,\" says Wang.",
"Health.com: Medical marijuana may help fibromyalgia pain .",
"Robert Shmerling, M.D., an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and the clinical chief of rheumatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, in Boston, says that he often recommends alternative treatments, such as acupuncture and massage, to his fibromyalgia patients, although some of them are skeptical.",
"\"I would certainly put tai chi on the list,\" says Shmerling, who co-wrote an editorial that accompanies the study.",
"\"It's difficult to take something that's as safe as tai chi and show that it has this dramatic benefit and not be enthusiastic about it.\"",
"The calming style of tai chi used in the study, known as Yang, may be especially effective for fibromyalgia patients, says Kim D. Jones, Ph.D., an associate professor at the Oregon Health & Science University School of Nursing, in Portland.",
"\"It works more on the parasympathetic nervous system, ...the part of the nervous system that helps us feel calm and relaxed,\" says Jones, who studies Yang-style tai chi and yoga in fibromyalgia but wasn't involved in the study.",
"Health.com: 13 conditions that mimic fibromyalgia .",
"Jones recommends that fibromyalgia patients find a well-trained instructor rather than trying tai chi on their own.",
"She points out that learning tai chi in a group may have its own therapeutic benefits, by boosting confidence, for instance.",
"Many community centers offer affordable tai chi classes, but experienced teachers can be expensive and hard to come by.",
"However, if future studies support the benefits of tai chi, insurance companies might start to cover the practice, Shmerling says.",
"Copyright Health Magazine 2011 ."
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"Tai chi practicers experienced less pain, stiffness and fatigue .",
"Doctor says the benefits of tai chi were also lasting ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A 90-year-old Michigan man who officials say rounded up and shot Jews in Nazi death camps during World War II is a step closer to being deported, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.",
"In January, a judge found John Kalymon of Troy, Michigan, to have been an armed member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police from 1941 to 1944.",
"Tuesday, an appeals board dismissed Kalymon's attempt to block his deportation from the United States.",
"Kalymon immigrated to America from Germany in 1949 and became a U.S. citizen in 1955.",
"A federal judge in Detroit revoked his U.S. citizenship in 2007.",
"\"John Kalymon and his Ukrainian Police accomplices were indispensable participants in Nazi Germany's campaign to exterminate the Jews of Europe during World War II,\" said Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer.",
"Breuer said tens of thousands of Jewish men, women and children were murdered in L'viv or rounded up and shipped to the Nazi death camp in Belzec or to Nazi forced labor camps.",
"In a news release last month, the Justice Department said Kalymon \"personally shot Jews while serving, killing at least one\" and \"participated in violent anti-Jewish operations in which Jews were forcibly deported to be murdered in gas chambers and to serve as slave laborers.\"",
"\"This case is one of more than a hundred cases successfully prosecuted by the Department of Justice against wartime Nazi perpetrators,\" said Eli Rosenbaum, head of the Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit.",
"Rosenbaum said that since the government launched its program to find and deport former Nazis in 1979, 107 individuals have been prosecuted, and 180 suspected Axis persecutors who attempted to enter the United States have been blocked from doing so.",
"Although authorities believe only a small number of former Nazis -- mostly in their 90s -- remain alive in the United States, the government is determined to keep up the hunt and deport those they find.",
"Rosenbaum said the program \"reflects the government's continuing commitment to pursuing justice on behalf of the victims of the Holocaust and other human rights crimes.\""
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"John Kalymon was a member of a Nazi-backed police unit, a court has found .",
"He came to the United States from Germany in 1949 and became a U.S. citizen in 1955 .",
"Efforts continue to find the few former Nazis remaining in the United States ."
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"JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel has expelled Venezuela's ambassador in response to Venezuela's expulsion of an Israeli envoy and the rupture of diplomatic relations earlier this month.",
"A pro-Palestinian mural in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.",
"Venezuelan head of mission Roland Betancourt and two other diplomats were given until Friday to leave.",
"\"Due to the decision of Venezuela to cut relations with us a few weeks ago, we told the Venezuelan charge d'affaires that he and his staff should leave Israel,\" Foreign Ministry official Lior Hayat said.",
"\"We told them they are declared persona non grata in Israel.\"",
"Venezuela expelled Israeli Ambassador Shlomo Cohen and staff on January 6 and broke off diplomatic relations on January 14 in protest of Israel's attack on Gaza.",
"Bolivia also broke off relations with Israel that day.",
"Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro defended his country's actions, saying Israel violated basic human rights with its military action.",
"\"Our decisions were just, correct, aligned with and adjusted with the spirit of our constitution, which mandates that we seek international peace,\" Maduro said in a statement on the foreign ministry's Web site.",
"Maduro said Venezuela's actions are compatible with its support for the creation of a Palestinian state.",
"He has not spoken, he said, with any Israeli officials over this week's expulsion of the Venezuelan diplomats.",
"\"The response of the state of Israel is weak, late, and in any case for us it's an honor,\" Maduro told the Qatar-based television network Al-Jazeera.",
"\"We're proud that the state of Israel that exists today, led by these criminals, made this decision.\"",
"Israel and Venezuela have had diplomatic tensions before.",
"Israel recalled its ambassador to Venezuela in August 2006 \"in protest against the one-sided policy of the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, in light of his outrageous defamatory remarks against the state of Israel, and in reaction to the recalling of the Venezuela ambassador to Israel,\" the foreign ministry said at the time.",
"A January 21 cease-fire put an end to fighting between Hamas militants in Gaza and Israel, which had launched a three-week offensive, saying its goal was to stop missile strikes into southern Israel.",
"More than 1,200 Palestinians, many of them civilians, were killed.",
"Israel lost about 10 soldiers and three civilians."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Violent crime in the United States continues to drop significantly despite the difficult economic environment, according to new statistics released Friday by the Justice Department.",
"According to the Crime Victimization Survey released annually by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, in 2010 violent crimes dropped about 13% among U.S. residents ages 12 or older.",
"Crime has been declining for several years, but the decline reported by the survey for past year was about three times as great as annual declines recorded by the same survey during the previous nine years.",
"The Justice Department attributed much of the decline to a sharp drop in the number of simple assaults.",
"Criminologists have repeatedly told CNN in recent years the declining figures are surprising inasmuch as crime has historically increased in times of economic stress.",
"A clearer picture of crime in the United States is likely to emerge from a major FBI report scheduled for release Monday morning.",
"The closely watched FBI Uniform Crime Report also is expected to show a continuing drop in violent crime throughout 2010.",
"That report, based on detailed reporting by all of the nation's police agencies, provides breakdowns in all subcategories of crime.",
"A preliminary FBI report for the first half of 2010 showed a decline in violent crime of 5.5 percent.",
"That is expected to hold up for the entire calendar year.",
"The Justice Department Victimization Survey, which provides numbers of victims based on an extensive telephone survey, does not include statistics for murder.",
"It cites figures for rape, robbery, aggravated assault and simple assault.",
"Almost two-thirds of violent crime \"victimizations\" occurring during 2010 were simple assaults in which the victim did not suffer an injury, the Justice Department survey found."
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"(InStyle.com) -- This year, the Emmy Awards come on the heels of New York Fashion Week.",
"How does the red carpet measure up to the runway?",
"\"The Spring and Fall collections were all about loose shapes and subtle, restrained sensuality,\" says Hal Rubenstein, InStyle Fashion Director and author of the upcoming \"100 Unforgettable Dresses.\"",
"\"On the other end of the spectrum, 10 out of 10 celebrities we loved on the Emmy's red carpet are wearing body conscious gowns.\"",
"Sofia Vergara .",
"\"Modern Family's\" Sofia Vergara struck a pose on the Emmys carpet in a curve-hugging scarlet Vera Wang creation, which she accessorized with stunning emerald earrings.",
"\"The most exciting part of my outfit is my Colombian emeralds,\" the outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series nominee said of her ensemble.",
"See all the best-dressed stars on the Emmys red carpet .",
"Julianna Margulies .",
"Nominee and presenter Julianna Margulies chose a strapless white Armani Privé couture gown featuring a jewel-dotted bodice.",
"\"The Good Wife\" star admitted that it wasn't easy getting to the red carpet, though she picked her look the night before.",
"InStyle.com: Top fashion and jewelry trends at the Emmys .",
"Minka Kelly .",
"Presenter Minka Kelly chose a navy Christian Dior gown, which featured lace sleeves and insets.",
"Hairstylist Mark Townsend gave her a chic low side chignon, while makeup artist Matthew VanLeeuwen painted on perfect smoky eyes and a pink lip stain.",
"Nina Dobrev .",
"Vampire Diaries beauty Nina Dobrev looked elegant in a strapless, form-fitting red Donna Karan gown, Neil Lane jewels, Brian Atwood stilettos and a Judith Leiber clutch.",
"InStyle.com: Best hair and makeup at the Emmys .",
"Evan Rachel Wood .",
"\"I put it on and it immediately fit,\" the \"Mildred Pierce\" star said of her black sequin Elie Saab gown.",
"\"I didn't have to do a thing to it. I have to give it back that's the only unfortunate part.\"",
"The outstanding supporting actress nominee completed her look with Fred Leighton jewels, Salvatore Ferragamo shoes and a Judith Leiber bag.",
"Kerry Washington .",
"Presenter Kerry Washington wore a red beaded, strapless Zuhair Murad gown with a fitted silhouette.",
"She finished the look with a matching crimson Jimmy Choo clutch and shoes.",
"Kristen Wiig .",
"Funnylady Kristen Wiig paired her cinched waist, chocolate ombré Zac Posen design with weighty gold Fred Leighton bangles.The outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series nominee left her caramel-highlighted strands down and loose to complement the rich brown tones in her gown.",
"Amy Poehler .",
"\"Parks and Recreation\" star Amy Poehler accessorized her glittering blue Peter Som gown with ball drop earrings, a matching ring, and a Judith Leiber clutch.",
"The Most Fashionable TV Shows of All Time .",
"Julie Bowen .",
"\"I can't believe I'm wearing Oscar de la Renta,\" the \"Modern Family\" star and Emmy nominee said about her metallic gown with the plunging neckline.",
"\"It's always been a little bit of a dream.\"",
"Her low side ponytail showed off her stunning Neil Lane drop earrings.",
"Kate Winslet .",
"\"I'm wearing a really comfortable Elie Saab dress.",
"I like it a lot,\" Kate Winslet said of her vibrant curve-conscious Emmys look.",
"The outstanding lead actress in a miniseries nominee teased her blond waves into a loose updo, and accessorized with diamond drop earrings, a matching bracelet and a sleek clutch.",
"Check out all of the night's top looks at InStyle.com.",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2011 Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"\"Mildred Pierce\" co-stars Kate Winslet and Evan Rachel Wood both wore Elie Saab gowns .",
"\"Modern Family's\" Sofia Vergara thought her Colombian emeralds added excitement .",
"Julianna Margulies revealed that she picked her white Armani Privé the night before ."
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"(CNN) -- Let's face it; most awards shows can be pretty dull.",
"It's not that we don't tune in to every single one, of course, but it's always a pleasant surprise when the ceremony is actually fun to watch.",
"Last night's Emmy Awards hosted by Jane Lynch not only honored Emmy shoo-ins like \"The Daily Show,\" \"Mad Men\" and \"Modern Family\" and fan favorite \"Friday Night Lights\" alike, but also brought the laughs.",
"Here are our top five funniest moments.",
"1. Leading ladies storm the stage .",
"As soon as Sofia Vergara and Rob Lowe presented the nominees for outstanding lead actress in a comedy, Amy Poehler, whose name was read first for \"Parks and Recreation'\" smiled at the camera and then promptly ran up onto the stage before any of the other nominees -- let alone the winner -- was announced.",
"As Vergara and Lowe continued to read names, each of Poehler's fellow funny women, Melissa McCarthy (\"Mike and Molly\"), Martha Plimpton (\"Raising Hope\"), Edie Falco (\"Nurse Jackie\"), Tina Fey (\"30 Rock\") and Laura Linney (\"The Big C\") joined her on stage.",
"The group lined up and held hands in their best beauty pageant re-enactment while waiting for the big reveal -- a bit which received a standing ovation from the audience.",
"To top off an already stellar and hilarious display of female solidarity, when McCarthy won the Emmy she not only received genuine smiles and big hugs from the rest of the women, but also walked away with a bouquet of roses and a tiara as a bonus.",
"\"Wow, it's my first and best pageant ever!\"",
"McCarthy said.",
"2. All-star 'Office' Back from commercial break, viewers were treated to a sketch where characters from different shows all popped up at the Dunder-Mifflin office to discuss their least favorite thing about their jobs.",
"There was Tom Haverford from \"Parks and Recreation,\" Tracy Jordan from \"30 Rock,\" Roger Sterling from \"Mad Men\" and Jesse Pinkman from \"Breaking Bad\" (who we learn is Creed's crystal meth dealer) and more.",
"Kim Kardashian showed up, but even she was a little confused as to why.",
"\"I'm sorry, I'm not sure I get the question,\" she deadpanned.",
"\"What do you mean by work? Am I saying that word right?",
"Work?\" Finally, we see Ashton Kutcher in Michael Scott's old office, but the rest of the staff is sure this is a mistake.",
"\"I'm pretty sure that I'm taking over as the new lead,\" Kutcher said.",
"When Ed Helms tells him that's for a different show and this isn't Warner Brothers lot, it all clicks for Kutcher.",
"\"Oh, I was wondering where the half man was!\"",
"3. Jane Lynch's shortest, sweetest zinger .",
"\"A lot of people are curious why I'm a lesbian.",
"Ladies and gentleman ... the cast of Entourage.\"",
"4. Steven Levitan's wife .",
"When Steve Levitan and Jeffrey Rich of \"Modern Family\" won for outstanding writing in a comedy series, it was a safe bet that the speech would be funny.",
"But viewers weren't expecting Levitan's wife Krista's perfect, comedic timing to steal the show.",
"When Levitan explained that the inspiration for the winning episode was when his children walked in on him and his wife \"in the act,\" Krista looked directly at the camera and rolled her eyes.",
"Later in the speech when Levitan went back to the mic to thank his \"somewhat-satisfied wife,\" she reprised the disgruntled eye roll and forever cemented a place in our hearts.",
"5. Remote Ricky Gervais .",
"Just when we thought all the joke mileage that could be gotten out of Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes hosting controversy had run out ages ago, he once again faced some of the celebs he slammed -- albeit in an Emmy pre-recorded message.",
"\"Sorry I can't be there live in person,\" he said.",
"\"Not allowed. In fact, now during any awards ceremony, I'm not even allowed on American soil.",
"And the Emmy bosses have warned me that if I say anything rude or controversial, they will edit it out and you won't know the difference.\"",
"He then began to deliver a speech full of obvious jump-cut edits when he veered into potentially dangerous territory, like when he said some shows that had beaten him out for Emmys were, in his opinion, absolute ... \"Schindler's List.\"",
"What were your favorite moments of the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards?",
"Tell us in the comments below."
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"(CNN) -- Syria has until Friday to agree to let Arab League observers into the country to monitor the government's response to civil unrest or else face economic sanctions from its neighbors, a senior Arab League diplomat said Thursday.",
"Syria's membership in the 22-country Arab League was suspended this month after President Bashar al-Assad's regime ignored demands to end its crackdown on citizens.",
"\"If they do not comply, then the league's economic body will file a report to the foreign ministers of the league who will meet on Sunday to vote on the economic sanctions to be implemented,\" said the diplomat, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the negotiations with Syria.",
"If Syria agrees by the Friday deadline, then the league will send a delegation to Damascus to discuss details of the observer mission before the team goes, the diplomat said.",
"At least 35 people died Thursday in clashes with security forces, the Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCC) activist group said.",
"Another activist group, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reported earlier that at least 11 Syrian military defectors were shot dead and four injured during clashes with regular Syrian army units in the area.",
"A further 73 civilians were arrested in Homs province Thursday, the group said.",
"A campaign of raids and arrests is also taking place in the Damascus suburb of Domeir, the Qalet Mudeeq neighborhood in Hama, and Baniyas, the LCC said.",
"Funerals were held Thursday for 12 army, police and security forces personnel, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported.",
"The 12 had been targeted by \"armed terrorist groups\" while on duty in the Damascus, Homs and Hama areas, the news agency said.",
"The United Nations says more than 3,500 people have been killed in the government's eight-month crackdown on pro-democracy protests.",
"Al-Assad has resisted mounting calls for his resignation as president in recent weeks as international outcry over the Syrian violence has intensified.",
"On Tuesday, the humanitarian committee of the U.N. General Assembly voted by a large majority to condemn the violence in Syria and express its support for the Arab League initiative.",
"It was the first resolution on Syria's crackdown to be approved at the United Nations.",
"Protesters in Syria are demanding al-Assad's ouster and democratic elections.",
"He has been in power since 2000, following his father, Hafez, who ruled Syria for three decades.",
"Syria's government has said it is fighting armed terrorists, and it maintains that the death toll is much lower than international observers and opposition groups say.",
"CNN's Lonzo Cook and Tracy Doueiry contributed to this report."
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"NEW: At least 35 people have died in violence Thursday, an activist group says .",
"The Arab League could impose economic sanctions Sunday if Syria ignores deadline .",
"Syria is under international pressure to halt its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters .",
"The United Nations says more than 3,500 have died since the protests began in March ."
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"(CNN) -- After months of bloodshed, intrigue and revenge that made Yemen seem like an Arabian version of Hamlet, President Ali Abdullah Saleh has finally transferred his powers to his vice president, and elections are to be held in three months.",
"At the ceremony in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to seal the transition deal worked out by the Gulf Cooperation Council, Saleh seemed relaxed and even chuckled as he signed several copies of the agreement, the result of intense diplomatic shuttling by U.N. envoy Jamal bin Omar and growing pressure from the international community.",
"But Saleh also took a parting shot at his opponents, saying they had destroyed in months everything that had been built over years.",
"April Longley Alley, Yemen analyst at the International Crisis Group, says the Riyadh deal offers an \"opportunity to move past the current political impasse and to deal with critical issues like deteriorating economic and humanitarian conditions as well as the very difficult task of institutional reform.\"",
"Even so, Longley Alley and other analysts expect the epilogue to be anything but predictable.",
"There are plenty of competing elements left behind: the thousands of mainly young demonstrators who took to the streets of Sanaa and other cities in January to demand democratic change, the tribal alliance that took up arms against Saleh, secessionists in the south and a Shiite rebellion in the north, well-organized Islamist groups and a budding al Qaeda franchise.",
"Perhaps the most powerful figure in Yemen now is Brig.",
"Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar, commander of the 1st Armored Division.",
"He defected in March and took a chunk of the army with him.",
"His units now control northern districts of the capital and are facing off against powerful remnants of the Saleh clan.",
"The president's son, Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, long groomed to be his successor, and his nephew, Yahya Muhammad Saleh, command the most effective units.",
"Longley Alley says the Gulf Cooperation Council accord \"does not deal effectively with lingering tensions between Saleh's family on one hand and Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar and the powerful al-Ahmar family on the other.",
"Each of these power centers is heavily armed and still poised to fight.\"",
"As if to remind the diplomats of the scale of the task ahead, pro- and anti-Saleh factions clashed in Sanaa hours before the ceremony.",
"The challenge of \"securing a cease-fire, removing armed tribesmen from urban centers, returning the military to the barracks and engaging in military-security reform will be serious stumbling blocks post-signing,\" according to Longley Alley.",
"Al-Ahmar makes some Western officials nervous because of his links with radical Sunni Islamists.",
"Yemeni observers say the Muslim Brotherhood has long been influential within al-Ahmar's military command, and he is known for his antipathy toward Yemen's Shiites.",
"A U.S. diplomatic cable from 2005 said that \"Ali Mohsen's questionable dealings with terrorists and extremists would make his accession unwelcome to the U.S. and others in the international community.\"",
"Others in this powerful clan include Hamid al-Ahmar, a leader of the Islamist party Islah and a prominent businessman who has long been an opponent of the president.",
"His brother Sadiq also has armed supporters in and around Sanaa.",
"For generations, the Yemeni state has done little without the al-Ahmars' blessing.",
"Sheikh Abdullah Bin Hussein al-Ahmar, who died in 2007, was one of the few Yemenis to command widespread respect -- a man often described as the father of modern Yemen.",
"He was an opposition leader but also speaker of the Parliament, and Saleh was careful not to cross him.",
"Today, there seems no one of similar stature.",
"The tens of thousands of demonstrators who have braved gunfire, tear gas and pro-government gangs in Sanaa, Taiz and elsewhere are unlikely to be satisfied by Saleh's departure.",
"They fear being marginalized by the transfer of power from one clique to another as part of some \"tribal bargain\" and oppose Saleh's immunity from prosecution, which is part of the Riyadh deal.",
"But Longley Alley says they have a role to play.",
"\"The independent youth in Yemen have at times been marginalized by the armed conflict.",
"While these young people do not have guns or butter, they are beginning to organize and to recognize their potential influence.\"",
"Others who may play a significant role include the cleric Abdul Majid al-Zindani, who heads the Salafist (very conservative) wing of the Islah party.",
"He is feared by liberal Yemenis.",
"But ultimately, as one U.S. diplomatic cable sent from Sanaa in 2005 put it, \"True power still derives from the military and the tribes.\"",
"As for the 69-year old Saleh himself, a combination of factors probably led him to choose this moment to sign away his powers.",
"He still needs medical treatment for the burns sustained in an attack on the Presidential Palace in June -- injuries that left him in a Saudi hospital for three months.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Saleh told him he would be traveling to New York for treatment soon.",
"Another possible reason is that Saleh has seen the violent end of Moammar Gadhafi and growing pressure on Bashar al-Assad in Syria.",
"He also has been subject to intense diplomatic pressure by Saudi Arabia and the United Nations finally to ratify the Gulf Cooperation Council deal.",
"The European Union had begun considering sanctions.",
"And military units loyal to the president have lost ground in recent weeks.",
"But what are his plans now? No one has the definitive answer.",
"The intrigue is reminiscent of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 that drew the post-Napoleonic map of Europe.",
"When the Russian envoy died suddenly, Austria's Prince Metternich is reputed to have said: \"I wonder what his motive was.\"",
"Whatever power structure emerges, Yemen's next leaders will face daunting tasks as they inherit a state where oil revenues have declined and the economy is in ruins, where poverty is endemic and a young and rapidly growing population faces a chronic shortage of water.",
"Not to mention the percolating rebellions in the south and north, and a well-entrenched affiliate of al Qaeda.",
"To recall a line from Hamlet that might well apply to Yemen today: .",
"\"When sorrows come, they come not single spies, . \"But in battalions.\""
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"Armed units from the Saleh family and the al-Ahmar family remain at odds .",
"The tens of thousands of anti-Saleh demonstrators are likely to play a role .",
"A combination of factors probably led Saleh to finally step down ."
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"(CNN) -- A report from Canadian researchers published Monday says there is not enough sound evidence to support routine screening of children for autism, but several autism experts are questioning the paper's conclusions.",
"The article, published in the journal Pediatrics, is based on a review of existing studies.",
"Currently, the American Academy of Pediatrics -- which publishes the journal -- recommends that doctors screen children for autism during regular checkups at the ages of 18 and 24 months.",
"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 1 in 110 children has some form of autism, a handful of different neuro-developmental disorders that cause mild to severe social, communication and behavioral problems.",
"Monday's report questions whether screening for autism is the right approach.",
"\"Good screening tools and efficacious treatment [for autism] is lacking,\" it says, adding that \"none of the autism screening tests currently available has been shown to be able to fulfill the properties of accuracy.\"",
"The report's authors are cerebral palsy experts at McMaster University in Ontario.",
"But several leading autism experts -- who diagnose, treat and study children with autism -- said they were puzzled and concerned by the new report's conclusions.",
"\"By screening for autism at an early age, children are able to begin intervention as soon as possible,\" said Geraldine Dawson, chief science officer for the Autism Speaks advocacy group.",
"\"Studies have shown that early intervention results in significant increases in cognitive and language abilities, and adaptive behavior, and gives children the best chance for a positive outcome.\"",
"Dr. Patricia Manning-Courtney, a developmental pediatrician and the director of the autism center at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, said the study goes completely \"against the experience in this field\" in which experts have said early intervention or therapy can yield the most benefits for a child later in life.",
"\"I have never, ever met a family that regretted being told their child may have symptoms -- not a single family,\" she said.",
"If a diagnosis of autism is later found to be inaccurate, the child isn't harmed by the therapy given in the interim, she said.",
"But Manning-Courtney said she's met thousands of parents whose children were diagnosed at an older age \"who wished they were listened to sooner.\"",
"Dr. Charles Cowan, medical director of the Seattle Children's Autism Center, echoed Manning-Courtney's concerns, saying the report's conclusions seem to negate well established research and recommendations from people who treat children with autism, including the American Academy of Pediatrics.",
"More research is needed, he said, but just because all the necessary research hasn't been done yet, it \"does not negate the benefit of screening.\"",
"Dr. Paul Lipkin, who chaired the academy's 2006 committee that recommended the screenings at 18 and 24 months, said the conclusions in Monday's report overlooked significant benefits to screening.",
"Doctors are also identifying problems beyond autism, including a wide range of developmental disorders, he said.",
"Lipkin, the director of the Center for Development and Learning at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, acknowledged that screening tools aren't perfect, but noted that doctors combine them with continuous surveillance.",
"\"We are hoping that the combination can then overcome any of the limits of the tests or surveillance.",
"The combination is better than either one of them,\" he said, adding that some newer studies, not cited in the Canadian study, suggest that \"it does look like we're on the right track.\"",
"Despite the apparent criticisms of screening in Monday's article, study author Dr. Jan Willem Gorter said he and his co-authors were not specifically referring to \"the surveillance that is happening in doctors' offices\" at 18 and 24 months.",
"They were recommending against a population-wide screening program that would require screening every child at a certain age level for autism, he said.",
"Nobody is conducting such a study at this time in the United States.",
"Results from a South Korean study of that nature published last month in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggested 1 in 38 children had autism -- a much higher number than previously believed.",
"Some experts questioned the accuracy of those results, which were based on screening of 55,000 12-year-old children in South Korea, suggesting that the screening may have picked up other developmental delays, not just autism.",
"Last month, the CDC told CNN it was considering a total population study of autism, but no such study is currently underway.",
"Gorter said he and his colleagues did not include the South Korean study in their analysis, but he said it showed \"exactly why we wrote the paper.\"",
"He said he and his co-authors based their suggestions on what they learned from children with cerebral palsy, and that his ultimate goal is to \"find the children who truly have autism and find ways to help them.\"",
"Screening isn't the only issue touched on in Monday's paper.",
"The article also finds \"little support for the effectiveness for speech and language therapy for people with autism,\" argues that \"applied behavior intervention did not significantly improve the cognitive outcomes of children\" and says that \"screening is pointless, and almost certainly unethical.\"",
"Susan Martin, director of media relations for the American Academy of Pediatrics, pointed to the academic journal's disclaimer, which says statements and opinions in the articles it publishes \"are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the AAP.\"",
"But several autism specialists said they feared the theoretical questions the article poses would turn back the clock to a time when parents' concerns about their childrens' development weren't heard.",
"Cowan said Monday's report completely leaves out studies that have shown benefits for children in cognitive and social developments.",
"He cites a study published by Dawson and Sally Rogers, which found giving toddlers as young as 18 months old intensive therapy by trained specialists and their parents, can effectively improve the child's IQ, social interaction and ability to communicate.",
"Cowan called that study a \"landmark (clinical) trial\" and said he was surprised the Canadian researchers did not include it.",
"Manning-Courtney, who is also a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the study could be misinterpreted by some, \"especially insurance companies,\" which may decide they don't have to pay for costly, lengthy autism therapies if a study says that \"efficacious treatments are lacking.\"",
"But Gorter said the study's authors want to \"help improve the outcome for the children's lives.\"",
"\"I would hope our debate would lead to an action,\" he said."
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"(CNN) -- In 1979, Jarreth Merz, then a young boy in Ghana, saw the dramatic results of a military coup.",
"Watching on an old black and white television set, he and a group of his friends witnessed one of the nation's generals being blindfolded and shot to death by a firing squad.",
"Shortly afterward, his family fled the instability of Ghana and returned to his native Switzerland.",
"But Africa stayed with Merz, who told his story at the TED Global conference in Edinburgh, UK, in July.",
"He grew up to become an actor and found that he was increasingly being cast as a violent African or a terrorist.",
"\"How many terrorists could I possibly play before turning into one myself?\"",
"\"I had become ashamed of the other, the African in me.\"",
"After 28 years, Merz returned to Ghana to film the nation's 2008 presidential election and, as it turned out, to learn more about himself.",
"\"I realized that, when I'd left the country, free and fair elections in a democratic environment were a dream.",
"And now that I'd returned, that dream had become reality, though a fragile reality.\"",
"In the first round of voting in Ghana, no candidate attained the 50% of the vote needed to gain the presidency, and an inconclusive runoff was held.",
"People began questioning whether the elections were being manipulated.",
"Merz said there was gunfire and he saw discouraging signs of a possible breakdown in civil order.",
"\"And my heart sank, because I thought, here we are again.",
"Here is another proof that the African is not capable of governing himself.",
"And not only that, I am documenting it -- documenting my own cultural shortcomings.\"",
"But rather than erupt in violence, the crowd started chanting \"We want peace,\" and eventually, after new voting, a winner was certified and power was transferred peacefully, Merz said.",
"\"Ghana taught me to look at people differently and to look at myself differently.",
"And yes, we Africans can.\"",
"In his film, \"An African Election,\" Merz told CNN in an interview, \"The political system, the democratic system, is tested to the utmost.\"",
"The lesson: \"You don't have to rebel.",
"You have the freedom to choose, and with that choice comes a responsibility.\""
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"His family left for Europe, but he returned in 2008 to film Ghana's election .",
"After close vote and a runoff, a winner was declared and power transferred .",
"Merz: Election helped show that democracy is viable in Africa ."
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"(CNN) -- It has been a rough couple of months for Netflix.",
"The company that virtually defined online movie rentals was swamped by an unprecedented wave of customer ire two months ago when it raised prices for both its DVD mailing and online streaming services.",
"Netflix announced this week that it's splitting itself in two and rebranding its movies-by-mail service as \"Qwikster.\"",
"Based on initial online responses, this latest effort didn't make things much better.",
"In fact, it seems to have, in the best cases, re-opened old wounds and, in the worst, given customers a whole new set of issues to be angry about.",
"\"Reed, thanks for reminding me that I should go somewhere else for my DVD rentals.",
"It was an insult enough that you raised the price on me last month, right in the middle of the biggest recession since the Great Depression, but now instead of a sincere apology, all we get is excuses and a flimsy new name.\"",
"That's from a customer named Jonathan Ortega and it's one of more than 23,000 comments on a blog post by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings explaining the latest changes.",
"In the post, Hastings announced that the service that made Netflix famous, mailing DVDs in those iconic red wrappers, is being spun off and renamed Qwikster, while Web streaming video will continue to be called Netflix.",
"Not all the posts took the same flamethrower approach as Ortega's.",
"But even some of the more evenhanded messages raised questions.",
"\"While I appreciate the explanation (and e-mail) and I guess I understand your reasoning for doing this, the thing I'm having the hard time about is the separation of websites,\" wrote a user named Tellier Killaby Booth.",
"\"I don't understand why I will now have to go to two separate websites to manage my queues.",
"The only reason that I have both services is because half the things I watch aren't available yet on streaming.\"",
"Chris Taylor of Mashable (a CNN content partner), questioned whether the spin-off of Qwikster was \"the worst product launch since New Coke.\"",
"\"As any marketer will tell you, there are some truly awful times to launch a new product -- like August, when few potential customers are paying attention, or January, when they're all shopped out from the holidays,\" Taylor wrote.",
"\"And then there's launching your new product in the 10th paragraph of an apology for some previous poor communication, as Netflix CEO Reed Hastings did late Sunday with Qwikster.",
"...\" Taylor, who says he has met and interviewed Hastings several times, calls him \"one of the smartest and most amiable minds I've ever met.\"",
"But he lays out a laundry list of problems, from the odd spelling of Qwikster to creating unnecessary confusion for customers who keep both streaming and DVD service.",
"And, yes ... that name. Plenty of folks were chiming in about that name -- from its lack of savvy (who's going to remember how to spell that?)",
"to the fact the Twitter handle is already taken to simply mocking yet another random-seeming, oddly-spelled tech startup title.",
"\"It is as though Hastings and the Netflix crew sat in a room and brainstormed the dumbest possible names they could think of and knew they were really onto something truly stupid when they came up with Qwikster ... ,\" said Huffington Post writer Jason Gilbert in what can only be described as an aggressively snarky post.",
"\"My first reaction, when I heard the news, was, \"Hey Qwikster, 1991 called, it wants its radical new company name back.\"",
"The Internet wasn't unanimously down on Netflix's move, however.",
"Venture capitalist Mark Suster, who focuses on early stage tech companies, had a more positive take, calling Hastings' explanation \"simply brilliant.\"",
"(Worth noting: His company, GRP Partners, does not list Netflix as one of its investments.)",
"\"[M]any short-termists will think it's a bad idea.",
"Indeed, my Twitter stream tells me so,\" Suster wrote Monday on his blog.",
"\"I find much of the criticism so far fairly reactionary.\"",
"He argues that, by splitting off streaming from DVD delivery, Neflix can react more flexibly to the emerging streaming market while maintaining its hold on the mail-delivery market.",
"Keeping them both under one umbrella would have made it harder to respond rapidly to changes in customer demands, he said.",
"According to Netflix, 9.8 million customers currently have the streaming service only, 2.2 million get DVDs only and 12 million get both.",
"That's a loss of roughly 1 million customers since the price increases were announced in July, with 80 percent of the drop coming from DVD-only customers.",
"As DVD customers decline in favor of streaming (and Suster says they inevitably will), Netflix may have to raise prices for DVD delivery, but could keep streaming prices the same under this model, he wrote.",
"\"It's rare in business to see somebody like Reed Hastings tackle the massive changes happening to their businesses and deal with them before they're too late,\" he wrote.",
"\"Imagine if the record labels had been as bold.",
"By making the separation, Reed can now point the Netflix business squarely at the future.\"",
"Engadget writer Darren Murph also sees the moves as a potentially astute prediction that the future is in streaming video, not DVD delivery.",
"\"Think of it this way: if Reed's forecasting a future where it no longer makes sense to continue the pursuit of a by-mail DVD business, how would he rather say goodbye?\"",
"he wrote. \"Flushing half of Netflix away and dealing with the backlash?",
"Or quietly shuttering an awkwardly named website no one was particularly enthralled about from the get-go?\"",
"Not that such predictions were doing anything to assuage the customer furor this week.",
"\"This is great news!",
"My dentist just did the same thing.",
"It's so much better,\" a customer named Bryan Thompson wrote on Reed's blog post.",
"\"Now when I have cavities on my top row of teeth I go to one dentist, and when I have cavities on the bottom row, I go to the other dentist across town.\"",
"Sanjit Sengupta, a marketing professor at San Francisco State University, understands that response.",
"\"The explanation provided by Hastings in separating the two services into separate business units makes elegant sense to business executives and students but not to all consumers,\" said Sengupta, the co-author of \"Marketing of High-Technology Products and Innovations.\"",
"At the end of the day, Sengupta said, it's the pocket-book issue that Netflix is going to have to address above all others.",
"\"I do believe Hastings has got it wrong this time,\" he said.",
"\"And I predict they will have to lower the monthly price of $16 for subscribers who want both DVD by mail and streaming, because the price is not commensurate with value delivered.\""
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"Responses to latest changes announced by Netflix have been mostly negative .",
"More than 23,000 customers comment on a blog by Netflix CEO about the change .",
"Under changes, Netflix's DVDs-by-mail service will be re-branded as \"Qwikster\"\nMany customers already were upset over price increases in July ."
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"(CNN) -- There's an old saying that a lie can go halfway around the world while the truth is putting its boots on -- and in politics, a steady drumbeat of misinformation and mischaracterization can too often shape the national debate.",
"So we wanted to set up a regular online column to confront fear-mongering with the facts, whether it comes from the right or the left during the 2012 campaign.",
"Working with the CNN research team, we'll investigate candidate claims and call bull when necessary.",
"At a time when partisan spin can disproportionately dominate our democracy, this is an attempt to be an independent voice and an honest broker.",
"Tuesday night's CNN national security debate offered plenty of red meat along with principled policy disagreement.",
"But one candidate in particular kept playing fast and loose with the facts: Michele Bachmann.",
"It's part of her usual schtick: playing politics by talk radio rules, where impact is far more important than accuracy.",
"Here's one of my favorite Bachmann howlers from last night: .",
"\"This is one thing we know about Barack Obama.",
"He has essentially handed over our interrogation of terrorists to the ACLU.",
"He's outsourced it to them. Our CIA has no ability to have any form of interrogation for terrorists.\"",
"Sounds scary -- and what I love about this particular riff is that it hits so many paranoid-style themes all in one place.",
"There is the image of President Obama as the naïve professor, an out-of-touch egghead compromising national security by bringing in card-carrying members of the ACLU to interrogate terrorists.",
"Not only that, he's \"outsourced\" the effort, taking jobs away from our fighting men and women.",
"Finally, there's the bedrock proof point that makes the rhetoric sound real: Our CIA now has no ability to interrogate terrorists.",
"Somewhere, Jack Bauer must be weeping.",
"But what are the facts? The CNN research team has fact-checked such claims from Bachmann before and found that \"The controversial CIA 'black site' prison program, where the suspect of the USS Cole bombing and others were interrogated immediately after arrest, has been dismantled. ...",
"However, the CIA is still interrogating terror suspects in the field in certain cases.",
"For example, CNN reported in July that CIA operatives have secretly traveled to Mogadishu, Somalia, to help interrogate terrorism suspects about terror operations in East Africa and Yemen. ...",
"In a separate incident earlier this year, CNN reported that Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, a Somali whom the U.S. indicted for providing material support to al Qaeda linked groups, was interrogated for weeks by U.S. authorities on a Navy amphibious assault ship before he was transferred to FBI custody and brought to the United States to make an appearance in federal court this past July.\"",
"In other words, Bachmann's claims aren't true.",
"They have more to do with fear-mongering than facts.",
"And of course, her characterization of the Obama administration as pursuing a \"doctrine of appeasement\" flies in the face of Osama bin Laden's corpse and a massive escalation of drone strikes that have killed numerous high-level al Qaeda operatives based on actionable intelligence.",
"This riff is echoed by repeated accusations from presumptive front-runner Mitt Romney that Obama \"apologizes for America.\"",
"Again, it's a popular narrative that plays off liberal stereotypes from the late 1960s, but it's not rooted in the reality of this administration.",
"The subject of energy independence also inspired Bachmann to reach for a bridge too far.",
"Here's what she said last night: \"Energy independence is something that President Obama certainly has avoided. ...",
"Almost every decision that the president has made since he came in has been one to put the United States in a position of unilateral disarmament, including the most recent decision he made to cancel the Keystone Pipeline.\"",
"Here, Bachmann reflexively reaches for the rhetoric of cold war weakness -- \"unilateral disarmament\" -- saying that he has \"certainly avoided\" any effort at \"energy independence.\"",
"But as the failed half-billion-dollar Solyndra investment shows, the administration, for better or worse, has put a lot of capital into creating \"green jobs\" as a way of decreasing our dependence on foreign oil while building a 21st-century energy industry.",
"Beneath all the play-to-the-base rhetoric is this core claim: that Obama made a decision to cancel the Keystone Pipeline.",
"Not quite. Instead, the administration made a play to its own base by delaying any decision on the Keystone pipeline until after the election 2013, pending further review.",
"This made environmental protesters happy, giving them at least a short-term win.",
"But both the pro and con claims over the pipeline in terms of job creation and environmental impact have probably been overstated.",
"And the CNN truth squad had no problem calling Bachmann's Keystone claims \"misleading.\"",
"I couldn't help but notice a Politico report that Bachmann received an overheated nod of support (but not an endorsement) from Glenn Beck on his radio show this week.",
"The Pied Piper of the paranoid style said that of all the candidates in the 2012 GOP field, Bachmann \"truly comes the closest to embodying the spirit of Lincoln or Washington.\"",
"I can't think of any qualities that those two American icons share with the congresswoman from Minnesota, but I know there's at least one clear contrast: George Washington never told a lie.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Avlon."
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"He says she wrongly said the CIA's interrogations had been outsourced to ACLU .",
"Her claims that Obama avoid energy independence and killed pipeline are wrong, he says .",
"Avlon: Bachmann plays politics by \"talk show rules,\" aiming for impact, not accuracy ."
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"(CNN) -- In his first executive order as Illinois governor, Pat Quinn established Friday the Illinois Reform Commission as an official state body under the governor's office.",
"Illinois Gov.",
"Pat Quinn wants a review of state government practices completed in 100 days.",
"\"I think we are sending a message to the people of Illinois that we understand that integrity is No.",
"1 when it comes to the government of the Land of Lincoln,\" he said of his executive order.",
"Quinn had set up the commission earlier this year when he was lieutenant governor under Rod Blagojevich, whom lawmakers impeached earlier this month and removed from office Thursday.",
"His executive order \"formally establishes the Illinois Reform Commission under the auspices of the governor's office,\" he said at a news conference.",
"The commission, led by former U.S. Attorney Patrick Collins, is an independent body that aims to evaluate existing Illinois law and practices in government, according to its Web site.",
"It says it will release an initial report outlining its findings and recommendations in about 100 days.",
"Quinn said there is \"an integrity crisis\" in Illinois.",
"\"We're going to start to fumigate state government from top to bottom to make sure that it has no corruption,\" he said.",
"The Illinois Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to remove impeached Blagojevich from office.",
"A second vote, to prevent him from holding future state office, also passed unanimously.",
"Watch reaction to Blagojevich ouster » .",
"Blagojevich said he was sad and disappointed by the Senate's decision but not surprised.",
"He was arrested on federal corruption charges in December.",
"Federal authorities allege, among other things, that he was trying to sell or trade the Senate seat that became vacant after Barack Obama was elected president.",
"After the governor's arrest, the state House voted overwhelmingly to impeach him."
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"BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Saad Hariri is poised to follow in his father's footsteps and become Lebanon's next prime minister, a position he said he \"will not shy away from.\"",
"Saad Hariri said he will discuss taking the position of Lebanon's prime minister with his allies.",
"\"I will discuss it with my allies,\" the pro-U.S. Sunni lawmaker told CNN.",
"\"You know, I didn't win this election by myself.",
"My allies had a big role to play in winning for the 14th of March (coalition).",
"And I think it will only be fair and obvious that we talk, me and my allies ... and then after that, if I have to do it, I will not shy away from it.\"",
"Hariri is the head of the \"March 14\" coalition, which retained its control over Lebanon's government this week despite a strong challenge from a Hezbollah-dominated alliance.",
"Hariri said he hopes to accomplish what his father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, never had a chance to do before he was killed in 2005.",
"\"He accomplished in his assassination the sovereignty of Lebanon, the independence of Lebanon,\" Hariri said.",
"\"And I want to accomplish what he always dreamt of Lebanon being.",
"\"I think he would want me to do what's good for Lebanon, do what would unite the Lebanese people, and ... concentrate on the economy and the security and stability of Lebanon.\"",
"The elder Hariri was killed in a massive bombing in February 2005 that also left 22 others dead.",
"An ongoing United Nations investigation has found indications of Syrian involvement in the assassination of the popular statesman, but Syria has denied any role.",
"His death triggered massive protests that eventually led to the withdrawal of Syrian forces, ending Syria's occupation of Lebanon.",
"Saad Hariri said Sunday's vote \"was about Lebanon\" and not its precarious position between its alliances with Western countries and its Arab neighbors.",
"\"The people who went on the 7th of June voted for Lebanon first,\" he said.",
"\"It's not about the West; it's not about Iran; it's not about Syria.",
"It's about we as Lebanese, what we want from this new parliament and from this new government that's going to come.\"",
"Hariri ruled out an independent peace track with Israel, sticking by his previous assessment that Lebanon will be the last country to sign a peace deal with the Jewish state.",
"\"We will follow after the Arab initiative,\" he said.",
"\"You see, the Arab initiative includes many countries for the peace process, and Lebanon will come as we see fit.\"",
"Israel fought a war against Hezbollah militants in Lebanon three years ago that is widely regarded as having empowered the Shiite militia, which claimed victory in the six-week conflict.",
"Some analysts had feared that a Hezbollah victory in this week's parliamentary elections would have heightened tensions in the Middle East, particularly because of the estimated 30,000 rockets pointed at Israel from southern Lebanon, all under the control of Hezbollah militants.",
"Hariri met Tuesday with President Carter, who is in Beirut with more than 200 international observers monitoring the election.",
"Shortly before that meeting, Hariri said the United States will play a key role in the effort to attain peace in the Middle East.",
"\"I think the biggest turning point in this peace process is what the United States will do,\" he said.",
"\"The United States has a big role to play, and if it plays it in the right way, if it plays its role like it should play it, then we will have peace in the region.",
"They should pressure both sides to move forward -- whether the Palestinians and the Israelis, whether the Syrians and the Israelis -- and I'm sure we'll get there.\"",
"After the victory of Hariri's coalition, the next step for Lebanese lawmakers will be to elect a speaker of the parliament.",
"Then, Lebanese President Michel Sleiman will ask someone -- presumably Hariri -- to form a government.",
"In Lebanon, the presidency is reserved for Maronite Christians, the speaker of parliament is always a Shia Muslim, and the prime minister is a Sunni Muslim.",
"That system was created to balance power among Lebanon's three main religious groups."
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"London (CNN) -- Two top international cricket players from Pakistan were found guilty Tuesday of plotting to cheat and to take bribes in a major match against England last summer.",
"Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif could potentially go to prison for up to seven years for the criminal offenses, part of a scandal that rocked the international sport.",
"A third player, Mohammad Amir, pleaded guilty to the same charges.",
"The court barred the press from reporting his plea until the jury reached their verdict on Butt and Asif, for fear of affecting the deliberations.",
"They are due to be sentenced on Wednesday.",
"\"This is a case of cheating, pure and simple,\" Metropolitan Police Detective Chief Superintendent Matthew Horne said in a statement after the verdict.",
"\"The defendants, who are world-class cricketers, sought to cheat to enhance their substantial legitimate earnings.\"",
"He said they had \"let down the cricketing world, their fans and the hardworking people that buy tickets to watch.\"",
"\"They were role models to countless children around the world and have betrayed their trust,\" the officer said.",
"The Pakistanis were accused of spot fixing, which involves deliberately throwing parts of a game rather than the whole match.",
"Prosecutors accused Butt and Asif of taking part in a betting scam, allegedly arranged by Mazhar Majeed, during a match between Pakistan and England played at the Lord's cricket ground in London.",
"The News of the World, the British tabloid that first reported the allegations, said players deliberately bowled \"no balls,\" or fouls, at specific points in the game and that the alleged ringleader made 150,000 pounds (about $230,000) in the scam.",
"The News of the World has since folded in an unrelated scandal.",
"But Horne praised the newspaper's work, saying it was \"unlikely\" the corruption would have been exposed without \"the good work of investigative journalism; and as an investigator I acknowledge the skill involved in such work.\"",
"Prosecutors used audio and video recordings the newspaper made secretly last year involving Majeed, a 36-year-old businessman from London.",
"In one, Majeed is heard telling an unknown contact it is \"not a problem\" to fix the result of a match, adding: \"Boss, you know how many [players] I have got, you know that they do it.\"",
"The jury also heard a series of audio and video recordings of conversations and meetings between Majeed and a reporter from the newspaper, who was posing as a rich Indian businessman.",
"One of the recordings showed the reporter handing over $140,000 in a London hotel room that had been fitted with secret cameras.",
"Majeed is heard to give the reporter precise details of events in the match, due to start the following day, that would be rigged by the Pakistani players.",
"Specifically, he describes three no-balls -- illegal deliveries -- that the Pakistani bowlers would concede at particular points in the match.",
"The price of fixing a no-ball, Majeed was heard to say, is $10,000; he went on to tell the undercover reporter that his contact in India made four to five times that amount by betting on no-balls.",
"The jury was then shown extended clips from the Lord's match, during which the Pakistani bowlers did exactly as Majeed had promised.",
"Before one of the no-balls, the cameras even showed Butt, who was captaining the Pakistani team, consult with Amir, the bowler.",
"Earlier in the trial, the jury was told the betting market in the Asian subcontinent is \"breathtaking in size.\"",
"Conservative estimates, the prosecution said, puts the value of the market at between $40 billion to $50 billion dollars per year.",
"Alan Peacock, an anti-corruption official at the International Cricket Council, told the court that the betting market had developed over the years from a focus on fixing match results, to spot fixing: contriving small events within the game, like no balls, or particular patterns of scoring.",
"Asif and Butt denied the charges.",
"Majeed was not on trial; the jury was told there is \"nothing sinister\" about this apparent inconsistency.",
"News International, the parent company of the now-defunct News of the World, said Tuesday's guilty verdicts were to the credit of its reporter, Mazher Mahmood, who now works for the Sunday Times.",
"\"The convictions secured today are a clear example of where his professional investigative journalism has served the public interest,\" a spokeswoman said in a statement.",
"The International Cricket Council was happy with the outcome, having earlier suspended the trio for periods between five to seven years.",
"\"We hope that this verdict is seen as a further warning to any individual who might, for whatever reason, be tempted to engage in corrupt activity within our sport,\" the ruling body's chief executive Haroon Lorgat said.",
"\"I am satisfied that we have worked closely with the Crown Prosecution Service and Metropolitan Police throughout this entire process, and I believe that this case has shown that it is possible for criminal authorities and sports bodies to cooperate with each other, in difficult circumstances, in the best interests of the sport and the public at large.\"",
"CNN's Andrew Carey and Phil Black contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- A day after Pakistan's ambassador to the United States stepped down, Islamabad named Sherry Rehman as the new U.S. envoy.",
"A graduate of Massachusetts' Smith College, Rehman served as the information minister in 2008 until her resignation the following year.",
"She is also founding chair of the Jinnah Institute, a non-profit public policy organization based in Pakistan.",
"She succeeds former ambassador, Husain Haqqani, who resigned Tuesday amid a probe into a secret offer to Washington by Pakistan's president to cut down the powers of the country's military leadership.",
"On Tuesday, a statement from Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Ambassador Husain Haqqani's resignation was necessary \"so that the investigation can be carried out properly.\"",
"\"All concerned would be afforded sufficient and fair opportunity to present their views and the investigation shall be carried out fairly, objectively and without bias,\" the prime minister's statement said.",
"Haqqani posted a Twitter message Tuesday saying the he \"requested\" that Gilani accept his resignation.",
"The ambassador offered to resign last week \"or participate in any inquiry that brings an end to the vilification against the democratic government of Pakistan currently being undertaken by some elements in the country.\"",
"The controversy started with swirling media reports that President Asif Ali Zardari asked the U.S. government in May to help him hold on to power because he feared a military coup after the U.S. raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.",
"Last month, Pakistani businessman Mansoor Ijaz sparked the political firestorm when he claimed in an op-ed piece for the UK-based Financial Times that a Pakistani diplomat used him to make Zardari's back-channel plea for help by delivering a secret memo to U.S. Admiral Mike Mullen, then Washington's top military official.",
"Ijaz claimed Zardari offered a new \"national security team\" to take over the powers of the military leadership in exchange for Washington's assistance.",
"Media reports in Pakistan have speculated that Haqqani played a key role in the alleged offer.",
"Haqqani has denied the allegations, saying they are part of ongoing \"smear campaigns\" that have accused him of trying to undermine Pakistan's armed forces.",
"\"No memo of the kind being discussed in the media was drafted or delivered by me,\" Haqqani said.",
"\"I have not been named so far as having done anything wrong by anyone except through innuendo.\"",
"CNN's Reza Sayah and journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report."
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"Haqqani resigned amid a probe into a secret offer by Pakistan's president to the U.S.\nMedia reports have speculated Haqqani played a key role ."
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"(CNN) -- Former world number one Tiger Woods scored the winning point in the Presidents Cup for the second competition in a row to help the United States retain their trophy against an International team in Melbourne on Sunday.",
"Woods claimed a comfortable four and three success over Australian Aaron Baddeley in their singles match to send the United States past the required 17 1/2 points total needed for victory.",
"Despite enduring a frustrating competition prior to the final day, Woods was able to rediscover some form to replicate the winning point he achieved in San Francisco in 2009.",
"Golfing presidents: Putting for politics .",
"The American side held a healthy four-point lead going into the 12 singles matches, and those were eventually split 6-6 to ensure a 19-15 win for the visiting side -- their seventh success in nine Presidents Cup events so far.",
"Woods told reporters: \"We didn't get off to a good start early on.",
"We needed to get our point so we went out there and played really well -- putting a lot of heat on Badds (Baddeley).\"",
"The success completed a dominant American display over the four days, as they won both foursomes, split a fourball and narrowly lost the second fourballs sessions.",
"On Sunday, Woods' victory was complimented by wins for Hunter Mahan, Nick Watney, Jim Furyk, David Toms and Steve Stricker -- with Furyk the only player to finish unbeaten in his five matches.",
"In response to critics who believe the Americans fail to bond together in golfing team events, Furyk told the official PGA Tour website: \"This stuff about how we aren't close and how we can't come together as a group, it's just not accurate.",
"\"We will win some of these events like the Presidents Cup and the Ryder Cup, and we'll lose some.",
"But whatever we do, we'll always do it as a team.\"",
"He continued: \"Since I've started playing in these, I've always loved them.",
"But so do all the guys. They all care. Look at Tiger and Phil (Mickelson) in his room.",
"Do they look like they don't care about what we just accomplished?\""
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"United States retain the Presidents Cup after beating Internationals 19-15 in Melbourne .",
"Tiger Woods defeated Aaron Baddeley to score the winning point for the United States .",
"Woods had also provided the winning when the United States won the team event in 2009 ."
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- At least five people were killed in Yemen when pro-government gunmen shot at anti-government protesters in the capital, medics in Sanaa's Change Square told CNN Thursday.",
"The violence came a day after President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to step down from power after months of protests against his 33-year rule.",
"He became the fourth leader to leave office as a result of the Arab Spring unrest that has roiled much of the Middle East and North Africa this year.",
"Protests against the Yemeni government Thursday were bigger than some expected given Saleh's agreement to transfer power, with youth saying their demands have not yet been met.",
"At least 41 people were injured, including 27 from gunshot wounds and the others from baton beatings, medics said.",
"Three of the wounded are currently in critical condition.",
"A senior Interior Ministry official denied that the government was responsible for the attacks.",
"\"The protesters were attacked but they were not attacked by government forces.",
"We will investigate this,\" said the official, who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.",
"The official conceded that many people were \"angry that Saleh signed the power transfer proposal.\"",
"\"Such attacks were expected, though we tried to prevent them,\" said the official.",
"\"The opposition is trying to damage (the) reputation of the current government.",
"Anything that happens is always blamed against the ruling family without them even investigating the case.\"",
"Heavy gunfire continued for more than 30 minutes on Zubairy Street, when youth marched to condemn the immunity given to Saleh.",
"They vowed to continue their revolution until Saleh is tried for his crimes.",
"\"He is the reason for the deaths of more than a thousand innocent youth in Yemen this year and now the opposition wants to give him immunity,\" said Mohammed Mosleh, a youth activist who participated in Thursday's march.",
"\"The government planned today's attacks,\" he charged.",
"\"We will not stay quiet...\" He said the opposition does not represent all Yemenis and should not have agreed to give Saleh immunity.",
"Protesters in Sanaa said they saw the gunmen escape the scene of the attack using government security vehicles.",
"Protests continued, meanwhile, in 15 provinces throughout the country.",
"Government forces also attacked protesters in Taiz province Thursday, eyewitnesses said, injuring three as they were marching calling for Saleh to face justice in the International Criminal Court.",
"\"The killer must not be forgiven,\" youth protesters said in Taiz."
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"Protests are bigger than expected a day after the president steps down .",
"Demonstrators want Ali Abdullah Saleh to face trial ."
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"(CNN) -- After a dramatic end to a year-long qualifying campaign, the 16 teams competing in the 2012 African Cup of Nations have learned their group stage opponents after the draw for January's tournament in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea was made.",
"The two-yearly tournament will be without some of African football's most successful teams, with seven-time winners Egypt and 1980 and 1994 champions Nigeria both failing to qualify for the showpiece competition.",
"Cup of woe: Why have African football giants fallen short?",
"In their place will be a trio of tournament debutantes, with Equatorial Guinea, Niger and Botswana all making their first appearance in the competition.",
"The first match will see Henri Michel's Equatorial Guinea host Libya in Bata on January 21, with the final set to take place at the Stade d'Angonde in Libreville on February 12."
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"The tournament will get underway with Equatorial Guinea v Libya on January 21 in Bata .",
"Stade d'Angonde in Libreville will host the final on February 12 ."
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"Miami (CNN) -- The University of Miami announced Sunday that it is barring its football team from bowl consideration this year as it remains under investigation by the NCAA over allegations that a booster showered dozens of players with cash and jewelry, and supplied prostitutes for players.",
"\"We understand and share the disappointment that our student-athletes, coaches, staff, supporters and fans are feeling but after lengthy discussions among university leaders, athletic administrators and outside counsel, it is a necessary step for our university,\" a statement released by the school said.",
"With their sixth win Saturday against the University of South Florida, the Hurricanes became bowl-eligible under NCAA requirements.",
"However, as a result of the self-imposed ban, the team will play its final game of the season Friday vs. Boston College.",
"The Hurricanes community has been rocked since August by allegations leveled by Nevin Shapiro, a onetime Miami businessman serving a 20-year federal prison term for fraud.",
"Shapiro told Yahoo Sports this summer that he showered dozens of Miami players with cash and jewelry, paid restaurant and nightclub tabs and supplied prostitutes over an eight-year period -- and that several coaches were aware of the activity.",
"Shapiro was arrested in 2010 on charges of overseeing a Ponzi scheme that prosecutors determined totaled $930 million.",
"He pleaded guilty to securities fraud and money laundering in September, and his accusations against Miami were part of his agreement to cooperate with prosecutors, his lawyer told CNN in August.",
"The statement released Sunday said the university will \"continue to work cooperatively with the NCAA on the joint inquiry to determine the true facts.\""
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"A booster says he showered players with gifts .",
"The self-imposed bowl ban \"is a necessary step for our university,\" the school says ."
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"(CNN) -- A New York man authorities say once pondered changing his name to Osama Hussein to honor his personal heroes -- Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein -- remained jailed Monday on bomb-related charges in what police described as a plot to attack police, military personnel and postal facilities.",
"Police arrested Jose Pimentel, 27, on Sunday at the apartment of a confidential informant in the case when a video camera showed him drilling holes in pipes that would become the casings for bombs, according to a criminal complaint.",
"Pimentel allegedly told police he was an hour away from completing his first bomb when he was arrested, according to the complaint.",
"\"Pimentel's behavior morphed from simply talking about such acts to actions -- namely, bomb making,\" New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.",
"While serious, the charges against Pimentel are a far cry from the mass-casualty attacks that have been al Qaeda's hallmark, and his case may reflect the weakened nature of the terrorist organization in the wake of the death of many top leaders, CNN security analyst Peter Bergen said.",
"\"If this is the big threat that we face, lone wolves using Internet recipes, we're in a pretty good place,\" Bergen said.",
"Pimentel was arraigned Sunday night in a New York court on state charges of possession of a bomb for terrorism, conspiracy as a crime of terrorism, soliciting support for a terrorist act, being a felon in possession of a weapon and conspiracy to commit criminal mischief and arson, according to the criminal complaint.",
"He planned to attack police officers, patrol cars and service members returning from service abroad, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.",
"\"The suspect was a so-called lone wolf, motivated by his own resentment of the presence of American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as inspired by al Qaeda propaganda,\" Bloomberg said.",
"\"He was not part of a larger conspiracy emanating from abroad.\"",
"New York authorities have communicated with federal authorities, but even though Pimentel's alleged targets were federal troops and facilities, his case will be handled in New York courts, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said.",
"Pimentel's attorney, Joseph Zablocki, said the case against his client is nowhere near as strong as authorities say.",
"\"As they admit, he has a very public online profile, and that flies in the face of everything that they've said,\" Zablocki said at the hearing.",
"\"This is not the way you go about committing terrorist attacks.\"",
"Pimentel, also known as Muhammad Yusuf, according to the criminal complaint, had a \"very active and very public online profile,\" prosecutors said.",
"They cited the website TrueIslam1.",
"After his arrest, Pimentel told police that he believes Islamic law requires Muslims to wage war against the United States, including assassinations, according to the criminal complaint against him.",
"Pimentel's mother, Carmen Sosa, said her family is in shock over the allegations.",
"\"I'm upset about what my son did, but on the other hand, he's my son,\" she said.",
"\"I still love my son.",
"I love the son I know, maybe a lot of people don't know.\"",
"A neighbor, Simon Islam, said Pimentel was nice but \"didn't seem like normal.\"",
"Still nothing stood out to make him or his wife particularly suspicious of Pimentel, he said.",
"\"It's really shocking because I have two daughters in the building.",
"It's like making me think that this is an unsafe place,\" he said.",
"Pimentel's uncle Luis Saverino told CNN affiliate WABC-TV that his sister's son lived with him and that he had no idea what his nephew was up to inside his bedroom, which he always kept locked.",
"Kelly said Pimentel is a follower of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical U.S.-born cleric who rose to become a top figure in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula before a U.S. drone strike killed him this year in Yemen.",
"He allegedly tried to contact al-Awlaki directly before the cleric's death, but never got a response, according to officials.",
"In August, the suspect allegedly decided to carry out the bomb plot, Kelly said.",
"He \"jacked up his speed\" after al-Awlaki's death on September 30, according to the police commissioner.",
"\"We knew for the last two years, he's been reading a lot of jihadist information and talked a lot of inflammatory rhetoric,\" Kelly said of Pimentel.",
"\"But it appears at this juncture the death of Anwar al-Awlaki motivated him and made him increase his tempo.\"",
"He had also sought to visit Yemen for training, according to authorities.",
"Pimentel bought ingredients at Home Depot and other stores for the three bombs that he was working to make, mindful to shop around so as not to \"raise red flags,\" according to the police commissioner.",
"He allegedly planned to test an explosive device in a mailbox before using it against other targets.",
"His aim, the police commissioner said, was to show there were \"mujahedin\" -- or Islamic militants -- in the city ready to wage \"jihad.\"",
"At the news conference announcing Pimentel's arrest, authorities showed a video of a car being destroyed by a bomb they built according to the instructions the suspect allegedly was following.",
"But Bergen said it's not clear that Pimentel could have built a device that would have exploded with the same force, given that several would-be bombers failed to build devices that successfully detonated.",
"\"Building a bomb from a recipe off the Internet doesn't mean you're going to build a bomb that does what we saw on the video,\" Bergen said.",
"An unemployed native of the Dominican Republican and a U.S. citizen, Pimentel had lived most of his life in Manhattan, except for five years in Schenectady, New York.",
"Authorities had monitored him since 2009, and his extreme positions \"made even some of his like-minded friends nervous,\" said Kelly.",
"The commissioner said Pimentel even talked about changing his name to Osama Hussein -- in honor of his now deceased \"heroes\" bin Laden and Hussein, the Iraqi dictator.",
"He allegedly learned how to make a pipe bomb after reading an article entitled \"How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom\" in Inspire, an online English-language magazine published by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.",
"The issue that came out just before al-Awlaki's death emphasized that al Qaeda supporters in the West should take matters into their own hands and launch attacks themselves.",
"\"He was a reader of al Qaeda's slick online magazine Inspire -- and inspire him it did,\" Vance said.",
"\"His stated desire to attack our servicemen and women ... could have come from an al Qaeda playbook.\"",
"CNN national security analyst Frances Townsend said it seemed odd that federal authorities were not involved in the case, particularly given the targets.",
"\"The feds may have been able to help here,\" she said.",
"\"That being said, they had a successful arrest, and we'll see what we can learn from it.\"",
"CNN's Deborah Feyerick, Catherine Shoichet and Hussein Saddique contributed to this report."
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"Jose Pimentel is accused of plotting to attack U.S. veterans, police and post offices .",
"Pimentel said he was one hour away from finishing his first bomb, police say .",
"\"He was not part of a larger conspiracy,\" New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says ."
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"(CNN) -- For most of the year London's O2 Arena, located on the south bank of the famous River Thames, plays host to the world's biggest music acts.",
"But since 2009, the venue has also spent one week in November staging tennis' season-ending showpiece -- the ATP World Tour Finals.",
"The event pits the world's top eight male tennis players and doubles pairings against each other in a round-robin contest, with an unbeaten winner pocketing a check for $1.63 million.",
"But before the elite of the game can do battle on the court, the O2 must be transformed from a concert venue to a world-class tennis facility.",
"That's where World Tour Finals tournament director Chris Kermode and his team come in.",
"Can Federer make World Tour Finals history?",
"\"The build time that we have is very short,\" Kermode told CNN.",
"\"Rihanna was here on Tuesday night until midnight and we moved in at 1am in the morning on Wednesday.",
"\"We had two days to turn the O2 Arena from probably the greatest music venue in the world into the greatest sporting venue in the world.\"",
"The electric blue court, neon digital displays and dazzling lights give the 17,500 fans packed into the O2 an experience which is poles apart from the regal aura which surrounds the grass courts of Wimbledon -- located just 10 miles away.",
"\"The O2 is pretty much a music venue,\" explains Kermode.",
"\"Laying the court might sound quite basic but it's actually quite time consuming.",
"\"We stage it in a very different way.",
"So there's big screens, there's light shows, lots of digital boarding around the court.",
"\"We build a 7,000 square meter fanzone, we also build a sponsors village with a practice court in the middle.",
"So there's a lot to do in a very short space of time.\"",
"The work done transforming the O2 is certainly appreciated by the fans who flock to the week-long tournament.",
"The 2010 event saw over 250,000 spectators come to see the action across the seven days of competition.",
"Tennis fan Thav Phouthavong was taking in the action on Thursday and was struck by the transformation the venue had undergone.",
"\"It's my first time here at the O2 (watching tennis) but I've been to music gigs here,\" he said.",
"\"It's completely transformed with the tennis memorabilia, practice courts and fan zones.",
"Normally it's an empty space.\"",
"Spanish spectator Luis Rodriguez was also impressed with the arena, saying it surpassed previous tennis experiences in his homeland.",
"\"It's my first time here,\" he said.",
"\"I've been to the Barcelona tournament before, I prefer this.",
"The size of the O2 is a lot bigger and better.",
"They've got restaurants, it's really spacious and there's a lot more to do.\"",
"Prior to the event moving to London in 2009, Shanghai served as the location for what was then called the Tennis Masters Cup.",
"Kermode explained how the timing was perfect for the O2 to take on the mantle from the Chinese city.",
"\"The chairman of the ATP was looking where to take it from Shanghai and decided bringing it to the UK, and London, was a good move.",
"The O2 was just about to be opened; it was a perfect synergy to match the two together.\"",
"In addition to giving tennis a futuristic face-lift, Kermode also believes hosting the World Tour Finals at a venue such as the O2 opens the sport up to a wider audience.",
"\"Where the O2 has been so successful is the acts that they've had over the years has made this venue a destination venue in it's own right,\" he said of the arena which has been converted from the Millennium Dome attraction.",
"\"So what we've managed to create here is almost attracting a new audience to tennis that historically maybe couldn't get tickets to Queens and Wimbledon.",
"People who had maybe never seen live tennis before.",
"So we've got the core tennis fans and we've got sporting fans who are seeing the game for the first time.\"",
"Neil Harman is the tennis correspondent for British newspaper The Times.",
"He is full of praise for the show put on by the O2, saying the way in which tennis has flourished at the arena is reminiscent of when the finals were played at New York's Madison Square Garden between 1977 and 1989.",
"\"To my mind it's a very natural venue for tennis, much like Madison Square Garden was in terms of an indoor venue,\" said Harman.",
"\"The way it's set up, the way the tennis court itself is spot-lighted ...",
"There are certain places you feel tennis was made for and I think this is definitely one of them.\"",
"Harman is also convinced the event is creating new fans for the sport, with tickets more obtainable than they are for one of the tennis' four grand slams.",
"\"Very few people get to go to Wimbledon.",
"Here, there's more of a sense of the general population getting in and being able to feel the pulse of the sport.",
"\"To get that close to Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal is something special.",
"The whole thing is designed to draw people into the sport and I think that's what we need to do.",
"\"It's not a surprise to me that places like Madison Square Garden, like the O2, although they are ostensibly concert venues, with a bit of imagination, a bit of thought and a bit of foresight, can be transformed into great sporting venues.\"",
"The O2's deal to host the World Tour Finals expires in 2013, with the ATP yet to make a decision on where the event will move onto next.",
"Wherever the tournament ends up, Harman believes the O2 Arena has raised the bar and helped increase tennis' global profile.",
"\"It's setting a benchmark; the next venue has got to step up.",
"When it moves from here, and I'm sure it will because the message of tennis has to be global, it's going to be a very tough act to follow.",
"\"Everywhere across the world we have to portray the message that tennis is a superb sport to come and watch, but very few do it as well as this.\""
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"The event is played out between world's top-ranked male singles and doubles stars .",
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"Mexico City (CNN) -- A 14-year-old accused of ruthless killings on behalf of a Mexican drug cartel boss is a U.S. citizen, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said Monday.",
"Gini Staab would not provide any further information.",
"\"We have confirmed the boy's U.S. citizenship but can't say anything more about the boy's situation in the absence of a (provisional arrest warrant) signed by at least one of the parents,\" Staab said.",
"Earlier, Staab said that the boy, once his citizenship was confirmed, would be given \"all appropriate consular assistance, just like we would for any U.S. citizen arrested and incarcerated overseas.\"",
"Assistance would include prison visits, information on local attorneys and checks on his welfare, she said.",
"The teen -- reportedly carrying a birth certificate issued in San Diego -- and two of his sisters were detained Thursday at an airport in central Mexico after an anonymous tip alerted authorities he was heading to Tijuana, Mexico, local media reported.",
"A spokeswoman for the Mexican attorney general's office said authorities detained the 14-year-old Thursday evening on suspicion of working as a drug-cartel hit man, but declined to provide details.",
"But the boy faced a battery of questions from reporters after he was detained, answering questions point-blank as camera flashes lit his face.",
"\"I slit their throats,\" he said, describing what he said was the killing of four people.",
"The teen told reporters after his capture Thursday night that he was an orphan who joined the Pacifico Sur drug cartel when he was 12.",
"He said Julio \"El Negro\" Padilla, one of the group's alleged leaders, threatened him.",
"\"I either work or he'll kill me,\" the 14-year-old said.",
"With his hands shoved into the pockets of his cargo pants, the 14-year-old told reporters that he was paid weekly in dollars and pesos.",
"But in answering questions about whether he knew what he was doing when he allegedly participated in the killings, the teen said he was under the influence of drugs and unaware of his actions.",
"\"No, I didn't know,\" he said. Troops standing beside the teen while the youth was interviewed wore masks to hide their faces -- a common sight in Mexico, where clashes between authorities and cartels have intensified since President Felipe Calderon announced a crackdown shortly after he took office in 2006.",
"But the teen's face was clearly visible.",
"Martin Perez, director of Mexico's Children's Rights Network, said late Friday that authorities should not have given television cameras and newspaper photographers access to the 14-year-old.",
"\"It was completely inappropriate, the form of presenting him in front of the media,\" he said.",
"\"Everyone has the right to be presumed innocent,\" he said.",
"\"Also, it could put his life at serious risk.",
"We have to remember that this is a fight between criminal organizations.\"",
"CNN's Claudia Dominguez, Rey Rodriguez, Nick Valencia and Krupskaia Alis contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- The photographer who took images of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto moments before her assassination Thursday told CNN he was \"surprised\" to see her rise through the sunroof of her vehicle to wave to supporters after delivering her speech.",
"Getty Images photographer John Moore captured Benazir Bhutto waving, moments before he heard gunshots.",
"\"I ran up, got as close as I got, made a few pictures of her waving to the crowd,\" Getty Images senior staff photographer John Moore told CNN's online streaming news service, CNN.com Live, in a phone interview Thursday from Islamabad, Pakistan.",
"\"And then suddenly, there were a few gunshots that rang out, and she went down, she went down through the sunroof,\" he said.",
"\"And just at that moment I raised my camera up and the blast happened.",
"... And then, of course, there was chaos.\"",
"Watch Moore describe Bhutto's final moments » .",
"Moore said he was about 20 yards away from Bhutto's vehicle when he took his photographs.",
"Bhutto was rushed to Rawalpindi General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.",
"Moore said he had been following Bhutto's story since her return to Pakistan in October.",
"He was present October 19 when a terror attack targeting her motorcade in Karachi killed 136 people.",
"In the aftermath of that attack, \"the rallies had been very small,\" because of high security, Moore said.",
"However, the Rawalpindi rally was announced beforehand, he observed.",
"\"Whoever planned this attack -- they had time on their hands to plan everything properly, and you saw the results today,\" he said.",
"Between 5,000 and 8,000 were at the Rawalpindi rally, which was held at a parkground, he said.",
"\"We [the news media] all expected it to be filled ... but there were less people there than most of us expected to see,\" he said.",
"\"When I talked with a number of people, they said that people were just afraid to come out, for the simple reason that they all remembered what happened in Karachi.\"",
"Moore said he himself expected there could be another attack following the Karachi massacre.",
"He said he stayed away from gates at the Rawalpindi parkground, where police were searching people, because he suspected that's where a bomb would go off.",
"Moore said it was obvious that Bhutto enjoyed being with her supporters.",
"\"She was clearly in her element,\" he said.",
"\"She just wanted to get close to the people, and obviously whoever was after her -- they saw that coming.\"",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"(CNN) -- Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has leapt to the defense of the Italian Formula One team following Fernando Alonso's controversial win at the German Grand Prix on Sunday, accusing its critics of hypocrisy.",
"Ferrari was fined $100,000 by motorsport's ruling body the FIA, and referred to the World Motor Sport Council for further investigation after race stewards deemed it had breached rules banning team orders to drivers at Hockenheim.",
"Brazil's Felipe Massa, who was leading Alonso at the front going into lap 49 of 67, appeared to allow his Ferrari teammate to pass him to win the race.",
"But Montezemolo told Ferrari's official website: \"Enough of this hypocrisy.",
"The result is down to the efforts of all our people, who never give up.",
"\"Now we have to continue working like this, to improve the car so that it is competitive at all the circuits we will encounter.\"",
"Ferrari fined as Alonso denies Massa in Hockenheim controversy .",
"Montezemolo said the move was common practice within the Italian team.",
"\"I simply reaffirm what I have always maintained, which is that our drivers are very well aware, and it is something they have to stick to, that if one races for Ferrari, then the interests of the team come before those of the individual,\" he said.",
"\"In any case, these things have happened since the days of [1930s driver Tazio] Nuvolari, and I experienced it myself when I was sporting director, in the days of Niki Lauda and not just then.\"",
"Alonso's win put the two-time world champion back into contention for this year's title.",
"The 29-year-old is now within 34 points of championship leader Lewis Hamilton of McLaren while Massa, who finished second on Sunday, remains eighth with eight races left.",
"Alonso, who also won in Bahrain, secured his second win of the F1 calendar after Massa let him pass shortly after receiving a coded message by race engineer Rob Smedley via his car radio.",
"Smedley was heard saying to Massa: \"Alonso is faster than you.",
"Can you confirm you understand?\"",
"Once Alonso overtook him, an apologetic Smedley added: \"Good lad -- just stick with it now, sorry.\"",
"F1 championship standings after Hockenheim .",
"The incident seemed to be a tactical decision by Ferrari, with Alonso leading Massa by 31 points in the overall standings before the race.",
"Despite the Italian team claiming it was not a team order, race stewards decided Ferrari was in breach of Article 39.1 which states that \"team orders which interfere with a race result are prohibited\".",
"It has since instigated widespread criticism within the sport, with Red Bull boss Christian Horner telling UK race broadcaster the BBC afterwards that \"it's wrong for the sport.\""
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"Red Bull team boss Christian Horner criticized the Italian marque's race strategy ."
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"(CNN) -- It would be no exaggeration to say that we spend the 89 minutes of \"Paranormal Activity 3\" waiting -- taut with tension -- to see a face.",
"Not just any face, mind you. A face of nightmare terror and shivery awe, one that will shoot a scary volt of revelation right through us.",
"We're never entirely sure if that face is going to arrive, but the anticipation is everything.",
"The movie sets us up for it early on, with an amazing shock as a closet door is opened.",
"Of course, we're also waiting because, with two other \"Paranormal Activity\" films behind it, \"Paranormal Activity 3\" implicitly understands that we've been through enough tricks in these movies -- the doors that open and slam shut, the thuds and booms and scratchy skitters on the soundtrack, the kitchen utensils that fall with a crash, the spectral shapes that you can almost make out -- to now want to see something more.",
"\"Paranormal Activity 3\" features variations on every one of the tricks I just mentioned, and a few additional ones (they all work), but more than the first two films, it tweaks our desire to put a face on evil.",
"The movie is a prequel, set in September 1988, though it doesn't exactly look like an '80s period piece.",
"The spacious, high-ceilinged Carlsbad, California, tract home in which it takes place looks a lot like the one in the more contemporary \"Paranormal Activity 2,\" with tastefully bland furniture that might have come out of the Raymour & Flanigan suburban-gothic collection.",
"This time, the family consists of Dennis (Christopher Nicholas Smith, who's like a skinny young Gary Dell'Abate), a wedding videographer who has banks of monitors and editing equipment in his home studio; his big-haired sexy wife, Julie (Lauren Bittner); and her two preteen daughters from a previous marriage.",
"They are Katie (Chloe Csengery), who will grow up to be the Katie Featherstone character in the first film, and angel-faced Kristi (Jessica Tyler Brown), from \"Paranormal Activity 2,\" here an enigmatic child who can communicate with the spirit world.",
"It's one of this haunted-house movie's best jokes that the ghost on hand is Kristi's invisible friend, ''Toby,'' whom she talks to with a mixture of intimacy and intimidated formality.",
"As soon as the family begins to hear mysterious sounds in their new home, Dennis insists on rigging up a handful of video cameras as makeshift surveillance devices.",
"We get time-coded views of the parents' and kids' bedrooms -- and, most cleverly, there's a camera mounted on the base of a rotating fan that pans back and forth, with fearful deliberation, from the kitchen, with its pristine white cabinets, to the living room, with its creepy looped lamp in the foreground.",
"The directors, Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, are the fascinatingly deadpan pranksters who made \"Catfish,\" last year's is-it-a-documentary-or-a-rigged-stunt?",
"investigation into the fake identities that people can forge on the Internet.",
"They turn out to be the perfect filmmakers to create a banal surface reality that's just warped enough to keep us on tenterhooks.",
"The bottom line, for me, is this: I don't scare easily at horror films (that's one of the reasons I tend to pan them), but I watched \"Paranormal Activity 3\" in a state of high anxiety.",
"Schulman and Joost have fun with the archetypal image of a white-sheeted costume ghost, but mostly what they're aces at is timing.",
"They know just how to thread a handheld camera up the stairs, down a hallway, and into the scattered bric-a-brac of a middle-class children's bedroom, settling at just the right moment upon a talking teddy bear that plays as a joke, even as a part of you momentarily thinks: Is that bear possessed?",
"They also make terrific use of characters like Dennis's assistant, a Napoleon Dynamite type, played with an infectious spark by Dustin Ingram, who ends up huddling in a darkened bathroom with young Katie for a scary game of ''Bloody Mary'' (say it three times and wait to see what happens).",
"There's no denying that the \"Paranormal Activity\" films adhere, by now, to a formula; this one, almost by definition, lacks the originality that made the first one so startling.",
"But when you consider how the grimy, mangle-fest \"Saw\" sequels have ruled the Halloween season in recent years, it's refreshing to think that the spook-show franchise that has now caught the popular imagination has replaced depravity and sadism with a 21st-century, video-reality version of old-school campfire shivers.",
"In her review of \"The Shining,\" Pauline Kael asked -- derisively -- ''Who wants to see evil in daylight, through a wide-angle lens?''",
"The answer, it turns out, is everybody.",
"EW.com rating: A- .",
"See the full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"The movie is a prequel, set in September 1988 .",
"Katie (Chloe Csengery), will grow up to be the Katie Featherstone in the first film ."
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"(CNN) -- David Hall thought that he'd been careful, working diligently in his job as an Air Force sergeant, and staying quiet about his outside life, including his sexual orientation.",
"Then, a female cadet went to his commander, with the revelation that Hall -- who had been first in his ROTC pilot's training class and long aspired to a military career -- was gay.",
"Soon thereafter, in 2002, he was discharged, the life-long military brat's dreams of being a pilot suddenly dashed.",
"\"It was stunning, disappointing,\" Hall said of being outed, and ousted, despite \"doing everything that the Air Force had asked of me.\"",
"\"I lost everything that I had been working for.\"",
"But starting Tuesday, Hall's future could take another turn.",
"That's when the U.S. Defense Department is set to formally repeal the \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy that has been in place since 1993.",
"Advocates for the change overcame intense opposition from some who claimed allowing gay men and women to serve openly would hurt the military by making other troops uncomfortable and less effective, hurting morale and the military as a whole.",
"And it also survived a last-minute push by two of the most powerful Republicans on the House Armed Service Committee to keep the policy in place.",
"\"There were many times when we thought it wasn't going to happen,\" said Brian Moulton, chief legislative counsel for the Human Rights Campaign.",
"\"(Tuesday) is a tremendous day for (gay rights advocates).\"",
"So, too, will be the days to follow.",
"Hall, who joined the Air Force in 1996, said he's already been in touch with a recruiter, as he's actively considering returning to the military.",
"\"My views of the military have never changed, I've always loved the military,\" he said.",
"\"It is great (the law is no longer in effect), because it is going to make the military stronger.\"",
"The policy, which became known as DADT, was extremely controversial when it first took shape.",
"During his presidential campaign, Bill Clinton had vowed to let gays fight alongside straight people.",
"But under intense pressure from conservatives fearful that such a policy would hurt the military's effectiveness, the compromise was crafted.",
"Under it, military officials could not ask a soldier, sailor or airman about his or her sexual preferences.",
"But if the troop's orientation came to light, it could lead to their discharge from the military.",
"Some, like Hall, claim they never brought anything up themselves to their superiors, but still were forced to leave.",
"Since its inception, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network -- which Hall now works for -- estimates more than 14,000 people were kicked out of the military due to \"don't ask, don't tell,\" with the highest rates occurring in 2000 and 2001.",
"The advocacy group said that its figures come from Defense Department statistics, obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests.",
"Efforts on Monday to reach several organizations that opposed the policy's repeal were unsuccessful.",
"But those on the other side of the debate described DADT as discriminatory.",
"\"This is one of two remaining federal laws where the government says, in point-blank terms: Gay people are treated one way, and straight people are treated another way,\" said James Esseks, direction of the American Civil Liberty Union's LGBT project, adding that the other law is the Defense of Marriage Act.",
"\"Discrimination is written right into the face of law.\"",
"While serving, Hall said that it became \"a game\" for him and many other closeted military personnel, realizing \"at work, I don't talk about my personal life.\"",
"But in time, and after his discharge, the ex-Air Force sergeant said that he came to the realization that \"the military was behind on this issue.\"",
"\"They don't like change, and they don't want change unless they have to do it,\" he said.",
"Still, Clark Cooper, the executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans -- a gay rights group, doesn't expect the change to create major ripples.",
"\"Sure there's going to be some homophobia here and there, but at the end of the day, if you're a service member, you are expected to be a professional,\" he said.",
"\"Misbehavior won't be tolerated and it won't be allowed.\"",
"Racial integration and the inclusion of women in the armed forces were bigger cultural steps, Cooper said.",
"By 2011, the militaries of several countries -- including Israel and NATO allies like England, Germany and France -- allowed gays to serve openly.",
"And public opinion began to shift as well.",
"In a Gallup poll from December 2010 -- the same month a lame-duck Congress approved the repeal -- 67% of respondents favored a similar policy in the United States, with 28% dissenting.",
"\"Over the last 17 years, the country has learned a lot more about gay people,\" said Esseks.",
"\"As a whole, it is much more comfortable with the fact that gay people exist.\"",
"Even so, the effort led by President Barack Obama to repeal the law wasn't without roadblocks.",
"Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican and former war hero, was among those opposed, saying at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, \"At this time, we should be inherently cautious about making any changes that would affect our military, and what changes we do make should be the product of careful and deliberate consideration.\"",
"Yet the Defense Department, despite reported dissent within its ranks, pushed for the change.",
"On December 22, 2010, Obama signed the repeal into law.",
"But this didn't set off an instantaneous change.",
"Instead, the Pentagon rolled out a months-long process that would involve new training and rules, as well as a confirmation that it would not harm \"military readiness.\"",
"Until that time, the policy officially remained in effect.",
"Last week, Rep. Buck McKeon, R-California, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, the chairman of the committee's personnel subcommittee, hoped to keep it that way when they wrote Defense Secretary Leon Panetta asking him to \"take immediate action to delay the implementation of repeal.\"",
"They claimed Congress has not been adequately informed of policy changes that will accompany the repeal.",
"A defense official who handles questions about the policy said that the department would not respond to a congressional letter via the media.",
"But a spokesperson sent CNN a statement that read, in part, \"The repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell' will occur, in accordance with the law and after a rigorous certification process, on September 20.\"",
"The statement added that \"senior Department of Defense officials have advised Congress of changes to regulations and policies associated with repeal\" -- including offering specific regulations and new policies in meetings with House Armed Services Committee staff.",
"Moulton, while claiming that gay, lesbian and transgender people still face \"a great deal of legal and cultural discrimination,\" nonetheless called the law's formal repeal \"a tipping point in the movement for equality.\"",
"Esseks agreed, even as he predicted that the concept that people couldn't fly planes, sail on Navy ships or fight in battle just because of their sexual orientation will seem antiquated in a few decades.",
"\"There will be a lot of people who will look back and scratch their heads, and say why were people so worried?\"",
"he said. \"It doesn't mesh with their experience of America.\"",
"CNN's Larry Shaughnessy and John Fricke contributed to this report."
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"The law, barring gays from serving openly in the military, was enacted in 1993 .",
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"An ex-Air Force sergeant outed by the policy says the military often doesn't like change ."
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"(Mashable) -- Facebook is working with HTC to develop a phone that has a much deeper integration with the social network than any previous \"Facebook phone.\"",
"That's according to a report from All Things D, which says the phone is probably 12 to 18 months away from hitting store shelves.",
"Codenamed \"Buffy\" after the vampire slayer of the same name, the phone will run a modified version of Google's Android, but Facebook is reported to be tweaking the system \"heavily.\"",
"HTC is known for modifying Android on its phones with its HTC Sense interface, and both Amazon and Barnes & Noble have created tablets with highly customized versions of the Android, so it's possible that Facebook is adopting a similar strategy.",
"Part of the package would be serving up Facebook apps via HTML5 support.",
"This would allow users to play games like Farmville and Poker directly from the Facebook app.",
"While most developers offer their apps as separate downloads from Facebook, that prevents them from tapping into active Facebook users, while cutting Facebook off from potential revenues.",
"Buffy would presumably bridge the gap.",
"Buffy will be far from the first Facebook phone.",
"Earlier this year INQ Mobile released two phones, the Cloud Touch and Cloud Q that put the service front and center.",
"Then HTC took it a step further with the Status, which came to the U.S. on AT&T this summer and featured a prominent dedicated Facebook button.",
"Finally, Facebook released an app designed specifically for the iPad in October.",
"Apple, however, hasn't played as nice with Facebook as the service might have liked, however.",
"When Apple unveiled iOS 5, the latest major update to the software on iPhones and iPads, it featured deeper integration with Twitter -- letting users share photos directly from the phone's camera app, for example.",
"An option for sharing to Facebook was noticeably absent.",
"Both HTC and Facebook told Mashable that they don't comment on rumor and speculation, though the Facebook spokesperson added, \"Our mobile strategy is simple: we think every mobile device is better if it is deeply social.",
"We're working across the entire mobile industry; with operators, hardware manufacturers, OS providers, and application developers to bring powerful social experiences to more people around the world.\"",
"The collaborative picture Facebook paints is a far cry from the ultra-competitive war among mobile platforms with Google, Apple, Facebook, and others vying for consumers' hearts and minds.",
"Perhaps the most telling aspect of the rumored phone is the codename.",
"With a name like Buffy, the Facebook phone's mission is clear: slay all comers.",
"See the original story on Mashable.com .",
"© 2011 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) -- Six people, including three children, were killed when their plane crashed into rugged mountains east of Phoenix on a Thanksgiving eve trip, authorities said Thursday.",
"Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu identified the dead as a father and his three children, plus two other men.",
"All were Arizona residents and knew each other well, he said.",
"The twin-engine Rockwell 690A airplane slammed into a steep cliff near the top of the Superstition Mountains at 6:31 p.m. on Wednesday, strewing debris for hundreds of yards down the 80-degree incline, Babeu told reporters.",
"Recovery efforts by more than 50 deputies and volunteers involved collect and preserving the remains, the sheriff said.",
"\"No one could survive that crash,\" he said.",
"The plane had flown from Safford to Mesa, where it picked up the siblings -- ages 9, 8 and 6 -- for the Thanksgiving holiday, Babeu said.",
"\"All of these families are just obviously heartbroken, traumatized over the loss of their loved ones so suddenly here on Thanksgiving,\" he said.",
"Federal officials were expected to begin their investigation as soon as Thursday, according to Babeu.",
"A man who said he witnessed the impact told CNN that a mushroom cloud of flames lit up the evening sky.",
"Kevin Cunningham, 44, of Apache Junction, said he was talking on the phone from his back porch and saw the crash a few miles away.",
"\"The flames lit up the mountain,\" said Cunningham, adding the plane appeared to be flying level before the crash.",
"\"I didn't see where it was in distress.\"",
"CNN's Phil Gast and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Dolores Hope, the widow of actor-comedian Bob Hope, died of natural causes at her Los Angeles home Monday, her family said.",
"She was 102. \"I had such a huge admiration for both of them,\" actress Julie Newmar said.",
"\"The quality it takes to get just one year older, says a lot about that fact that she lived to 102.",
"What a glorious woman and life!\"",
"Although she put her singing career on hold after her marriage to Hope, Dolores Hope was active as a philanthropist, involved in her own causes as well as her husband's.",
"Military troops entertained by her husband's USO shows knew Dolores Hope because she would usually close the shows with a rendition of \"Silent Night,\" according to a biography provided by her family.",
"\"She was the First Lady of the USO,\" Carol Channing said.",
"\"They didn't come any more patriotic, caring or talented than Dolores.\"",
"Her last USO show performance came at age 84, when she sang \"White Christmas\" to Operation Desert Storm troops from the back of a truck in the Saudi desert.",
"She restarted her singing career at the age of 83 by recording several albums.",
"She performed with Rosemary Clooney at Rainbow and Stars in New York for several weeks.",
"Born in Harlem in New York on May 27, 1909, Dolores DeFina was a singer at Manhattan's Vogue Club when she met Bob Hope in 1933.",
"It was \"love at first song,\" the biography quotes Bob Hope as saying.",
"The couple married the next year and later adopted four children.",
"The couple moved in the late 1930s from New York to California, where he pursued a movie and radio career.",
"Bob Hope was 100 when he died July 27, 2003.",
"\"Dolores once said that their longevity could be credited to laughter and they certainly had a lot of that in their lives,\" said actress Alison Arngrim.",
"The family will hold a private funeral at burial at the Bob Hope Memorial Garden, San Fernando Mission, California, where her husband was interred."
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"She met Bob Hope in 1933 when she was singing at a New York club .",
"Dolores Hope put her singing career on hold to raise four adopted children .",
"Bob Hope was 100 when he died in 2003 ."
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"(Travel + Leisure) -- When you're dining at a revolving restaurant 250 feet above Cape Town, you expect the views to be fantastic.",
"The real surprise is when the food appears -- and it's excellent.",
"What better way to savor a beautiful city than from this vantage point: a window seat at a revolving restaurant where the shifting views complement the gourmet courses.",
"At Cape Town's Top of the Ritz, that means pairings of just-caught mussels with a view of iconic Table Mountain, spicy curry-butternut soup with the sandstone Twelve Apostle peaks, rack of lamb with beaches, and dessert with the sunset dipping below the Atlantic.",
"Travel + Leisure: America's rudest people .",
"Over the past 50 years, revolving restaurants have opened in more than 50 countries on six continents, from Colombia to Nepal to Canada.",
"Along the way, the concept has gone from futuristic novelty to often-tacky tourist traps.",
"But set aside that skepticism: we've pinpointed select revolving restaurants that are worth the price of admission.",
"The revolving restaurant trend took flight in 1961, when Seattle architect John Graham built one on top of a shopping center in Hawaii.",
"A year later Graham was commissioned to design the Space Needle for the upcoming World's Fair in his hometown, and brought the idea with him.",
"The resulting ultramodern tower not only became an enduring icon of this Northwest city, it brought 20,000 awed visitors to the Space Needle restaurant each day of the World's Fair, setting off a global craze for revolving restaurants.",
"Far too many successors get by on their looks alone, serving generic, overpriced dishes that typically invite the harsh review: \"killer views, mediocre food.\"",
"Munich's Restaurant 181 rises above that revolving restaurant reputation and has become one of the city's most coveted dining spots.",
"It even earned a Michelin star for chef Otto Koch's concoctions, such as morel-crusted veal and langoustine tartare on a bed of caviar.",
"Koch introduced airplane-esque classes of dining, from the First (eight courses, including the caviar, for $209) to the Economy Sunset Menu, a three-course prix fixe at a down-to-earth $52.",
"That's about as frugal as you get at these revolving restaurants, which each deliver a once-in-a-lifetime meal that can't be duplicated anywhere else.",
"Give them a spin. Travel + Leisure: World's most beautiful subway stations .",
"Perlan: Reykjavik, Iceland .",
"Built above a geothermal spring, Perlan serves a practical function -- storing the city's water tanks -- and the indulgent one of fine dining in its giant glass dome.",
"Enter, and you're greeted by sweeping views of the deep-blue ocean and volcanic mountains surrounding Reykjavik.",
"Get your fill of fresh local seafood such as sous vide smoked trout ($20) and, in autumn, a special wild game buffet ($73) of Icelandic delicacies like wild goose, reindeer, and puffin.",
"Heads Up: Strókur, a geyser right outside the restaurant, can provide quite the mealtime show, shooting white plumes of steam high into the air.",
"Top of the World: Las Vegas .",
"Every glittering light of the Las Vegas Strip can be seen from this 844-foot-high restaurant—the crown of the Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower.",
"The extravagant four-course tasting menu mixes classics such as lobster bisque and filet mignon with more inventive dishes like roasted miso Mediterranean loup de mer with shoyu ginger glaze, followed by crème brûlée and cheesecake lollipops.",
"Heads Up: Don't be alarmed if you see a person propel past your window -- the new SkyJump thrill ride leaves from right above the restaurant.",
"Summit Restaurant: Sydney .",
"Red carpets, pink-tinged lighting, and sleek lounge furniture create a sultry vibe within this dining room, which revolves past the Sydney Opera House, Harbour Bridge, and Olympic Park.",
"Australian TV chef-lebrity Michael Moore put local reef snapper and pan-fried quail breasts on the two-course dinner menu ($89).",
"For a more low-key meal, head to the Orbit Lounge Bar and pair an Aussie craft beer like Lord Nelson Old Admiral Strong Ale ($10) with small bites such as deep-fried whitebait -- small and savory herring-like fish ($16).",
"Heads Up: On a clear day, you can see the lush Blue Mountains surrounding the city.",
"Drehrestaurant Allalin: Saas-Fee, Switzerland .",
"The world's highest revolving restaurant is on top of a glacier 11,000 feet above sea level, reached by a remarkable alpine subway.",
"A dozen of the highest peaks in the Swiss Alps slowly swirl by as diners warm up with hearty Swiss-German fare like kalbsbratwurst (veal sausage) with hash-brown-like rösti ($32), and Älplermakkaroni: macaroni in a creamy cheese sauce with ham, bacon, potatoes, and stewed apples ($32).",
"If you're still frostbitten, a glass of mulled glühwein wine ($9) should do the trick.",
"Heads Up: Look southeast toward Italy; if visibility is good, you can see as far as Milan.",
"Restaurant 181: Munich .",
"Chef Otto Koch's acclaimed restaurant inside the Olympic Tower was recently awarded its first Michelin star.",
"Named for its placement 181 meters above ground, the restaurant has three airplane-esque options.",
"In 181 First, the opulent eight-course tasting menu ($209) starts with langoustine tartare on a bed of sevruga caviar; 181 Business offers à la carte dishes like morel-crusted veal ($43); while the best value is 181 Economy's Sunset Menu, serving a three-course prix fixe ($52) from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.",
"Heads Up: Don't get lost in the long view of the Bavarian Alps; one of the city's architectural triumphs, the canopied Olympic Stadium inspired by Alpine peaks, is directly below.",
"Travel + Leisure: America's most scenic roads .",
"Top of the Ritz: Cape Town .",
"Wedged in between the Atlantic Ocean and towering Table Mountain -- with the new World Cup Stadium to the north and posh Camps Bay beaches to the south -- this dining room showcases Cape Town's main attractions in one gradual revolution.",
"The menu, meanwhile, covers traditional South Africa fare, dishes like ostrich carpaccio ($7) and a salad of biltong (beef jerky) and goat cheese ($7), plus plenty of wine from the vineyards of nearby Stellenbosch.",
"Heads Up: Robben Island, the offshore prison where Nelson Mandela was held for 18 years, is immediately to the north.",
"SkyCity: Seattle .",
"Atop the Space Needle, in the space that ignited the revolving craze decades ago, SkyCity remains the best place for panoramic views of Seattle, Puget Sound, and snowcapped Mount Rainier.",
"Fortunately, the menu is not stuck in the '60s.",
"Chef Jeff Maxfield puts creative twists on Northwest classics, from Dungeness crab cakes with apple-fennel slaw and herbed aioli ($13) to grilled wild king salmon with blueberry butter, wilted pea vines, and micro herbs ($47).",
"Heads Up: It's hard to beat a multicolored sunset over the Olympic Mountains across the sound.",
"Restaurant Näsinneula: Tampere, Finland .",
"A hundred miles north of Helsinki, this 550-foot lakefront tower in quaint Tampere is hardly a tourist trap; its restaurant is consistently mentioned as one of the best in Finland.",
"Local, seasonal ingredients such as just-picked morel mushrooms in spring or vendace roe from Lake Näsijärvi (right outside the windows) in winter are incorporated throughout the menu.",
"You'll just have to trust that some items -- such as parfait of white chocolate with juice of sea buckthorn shrub ($16) -- are more delicious than they sound.",
"Heads Up: When the seasons change in October, the red-orange-yellow leaf-peeping here is as good as in Vermont.",
"Brasserie Le Phare de la Méditerranée: Palavas-les-Flots, France .",
"Down the coast from the glitzy resorts of the French Riviera, this quaint former fishing village lies on a strip of sand dunes that separates two saltwater lakes from the Mediterranean.",
"Atop an old water tower converted into a cultural center, Le Phare overlooks area lakes and beaches, while serving dishes that emphasize local bounty -- from mussels and oysters to shrimp and lobster -- to the mostly French vacationers.",
"Heads Up: In spring and summer, the lagoon directly below the tower is often dotted with pink flamingos.",
"The Sky at New Otani Tower: Tokyo .",
"It's hard to know which way to look when Tokyo's skyscrapers are spinning by on one side and an array of master chefs are working at lightning speed in the giant stage kitchen on the other.",
"The dinner buffet highlights fresh seafood from Tokyo's famed Tsukiji Market, which you can request sautéed, grilled, steamed, or cooked tempura in front of you ($108).",
"Additional stations prepare sushi and teppanyaki -- prime Japanese beef grilled on a hot iron plate at your table.",
"Heads Up: After dinner, head higher up to the 40th-floor bar for an even more impressive view of Mount Fuji and the Eiffelesque Tokyo Tower.",
"Travel + Leisure: World's coolest helicopter rides .",
"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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"In the past 50 years, revolving restaurants have opened in more than 50 countries .",
"Drehrestaurant Allalin, the highest revolving restaurant, is on top of a Swiss glacier .",
"Top of the World is the crown of the Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower in Las Vegas ."
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"Anatalya, Turkey (CNN) -- Lapped by the pristine waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the Turkish coastal city of Antalya attracts millions of sun-seeking tourists each year, beguiling them with its sweeping scenery, picture-perfect beaches and blazing sunshine.",
"It is this abundance of sunlight -- Turkey receives greater annual solar radiation energy than Spain and Germany according to estimates by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission -- that has prompted Antalya's local authorities to push ahead with plans to harness the city's solar potential.",
"\"We aim to make Antalya the leader of solar power generation of Turkey and to promote it to the world as 'The Solar City,'\" says Antalya's mayor Mustafa Akaydin.",
"The declaration comes as the sun-soaked city, located some 700 kilometers south of Istanbul, starts rolling out its ambitious plans to use solar power to generate electricity, emulating the successful example of cities like Barcelona, Spain, which has put in place regulations requiring solar panels to be fitted to all large new buildings.",
"In April, the city opened the \"Antalya Solar House,\" an ecological research and educational center designed by architectural firm Temiz Dunya to raise awareness about the benefits of renewable energy and promote eco-tourism.",
"The zero-emission structure, which was built with ecological materials, generates most of its energy using photovoltaic panels (22kW in total) as well as a windmill and heat pumps.",
"'Living' buildings could inhale city carbon emissions .",
"These systems are supplemented with gray-water recycling -- re-use of used water from bathtubs, showers and so on.",
"-- and passive solar heating features such as a greenhouse to collect heat during the winter months.",
"It also has a green roof that facilitates rainwater harvesting and acts as heat insulation.",
"\"The building is also very significant because it is Turkey's first energy positive building,\" says architect Mehmet Bengu Uluengin, the designer behind the Solar House.",
"\"It actually produces more energy than it consumes.\"",
"The architect says the structure has fascinated the local population while helping to change perceptions that buildings can only be big energy consumers.",
"\"The idea that having a building that not only provides its own energy but actually gives some back is a totally new phenomenon for Turkish people,\" says Uluengin, who is also a professor at Istanbul's Bahcesehir University.",
"\"They like it, they find it very intriguing.\"",
"Local authorities expect around a thousand people to visit Solar House each month, including students, green investors and hotel owners.",
"They say the project is just the first part of a long-term initiative to turn Antalya into a climate-friendly city -- other initiatives include a waste management facility that will convert the city's sewage into biogas.",
"\"Antalya has already been the pioneering city of green energy (in Turkey),\" says Akaydin.",
"\"We are trying to make Antalya the leader of agriculture, tourism, park and garden lighting, energy generating and (solar) panel producing.\"",
"While educating the local population about achieving energy efficiency, Uluengin says the technology used in the Solar House can also help Antalya -- Turkey's biggest coastal resort and home to several five-star hotels -- to become an ideal destination for eco-conscious tourists.",
"\"There are several hotels which are considering green energy to attract customers,\" he says.",
"\"A hotel which can say that ... if you're staying here your carbon footprint is zero for the duration of your stay -- this is becoming very interesting for people worldwide,\" he adds.",
"For the moment, however, sunny Antalya is still far from being branded a green resort -- local authorities estimate that eco-visitors account for just 1% of the city's tourism.",
"Mayor Akaydin says that Turkey is missing a trick by failing to exploit its clean energy capabilities.",
"\"Turkey has a very big potential in solar and wind energy.",
"Unfortunately, the insufficient and wrong policies of the government prevent the promotion of them,\" he says.",
"Turkey's geothermal potential .",
"Despite receiving plenty of sun, Turkey has been remarkably sluggish in developing a sound solar industry.",
"The country still depends heavily on oil and natural gas, most of which is imported from abroad.",
"In 2008, oil provided 37% of Turkey's total final consumption of energy, natural gas and electricity 18% each, coal 17%, biomass and waste 7% and other sources 3%, according to figures by the International Energy Agency.",
"At the same time, limited government subsidies, coupled with high costs for green energy equipment, have further impeded the market's growth, leaving little incentives for households to go solar.",
"Yet, Uluengin is optimistic that green initiatives like the one in Antalya can help Turkey's green energy sector to take off in the coming years.",
"He notes that the lack of government incentives has bolstered Turkey's fledgling renewable energy industry by creating a solid and growing grassroots movement -- that, he says, is in contrast to the top-down approach that was implemented in other European countries, where the sector grew after governments started offering subsidies and incentives for green energy usage.",
"\"The way we are going through it in Turkey is more painful but is also healthier because it is growing out of real demand,\" says Uluengin."
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"Turkey's tourist hotspot wants to use solar power to generate electricity .",
"The country has been slow in developing a sound solar industry ."
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Seven crew members from a South Korean cargo ship remained missing Tuesday after the boat sank Monday in the South China Sea, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said.",
"Fourteen people have been rescued, according to the ministry.",
"The ship was headed from Penang, Malaysia, to China and disappeared after sending out an emergency signal Monday afternoon.",
"While six South Koreans and eight crew members from Myanmar were rescued by nearby vessels, seven seamen are still missing.",
"The Foreign Ministry said it is still hopeful, as one crew member was rescued at noon on Tuesday -- almost 20 hours after the ship requested assistance.",
"Hong Kong rescuers have deployed two helicopters and seven ships to help with the search and rescue operation, while two Chinese naval vessels were en route to the scene, according to the Foreign Ministry.",
"The 15,000-ton sunken vessel is the same ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2008 when eight sailors were held captive for 37 days, according to South Korea's Yonhap news agency.",
"The cause of the sinking so far is unknown."
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"Foreign Ministry: One person was rescued Tuesday, about 20 hours after a distress call .",
"It is unclear why the ship sank on Monday .",
"Report: The 15,000-ton sunken vessel was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2008 ."
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"(CNN) -- Gian Piero Gasperini has paid the price for Inter Milan's poor start to the season, being sacked as coach following the 2010 European champions' 3-1 defeat by newly-promoted Novara on Tuesday.",
"The 53-year-old took charge in June, but under his guidance the 18-time Italian Serie A titleholders earned just one point from their opening three league matches to languish in 17th position in the table -- one place outside of the relegation zone.",
"Inter also lost to arch-rivals AC Milan in the Italian Super Cup in August and to Turkish outfit Trabzonspor in their opening European Champions League match.",
"\"F.C. Internazionale announces that this morning's training session at the Centro Sportivo Angelo Moratti in Appiano Gentile was run by [assistant coaches] Daniele Bernazzani and Giuseppe Baresi,\" Inter's website reported on Wednesday.",
"\"The club would like to thank Gian Piero Gasperini for the dedication he has shown in his work and regret having to end the relationship with the coach.\"",
"Inter slump to defeat against Novara .",
"Inter president Massimo Moratti appeared to confirm that Gasperini faced the ax when questioned about the former Genoa boss on Wednesday before meeting with the coach.",
"Asked if Gasperini would remain with the Nerazzurri, Moratti replied: \"I don't think so.",
"We'll decide what to do today but he seems to be in a very difficult situation, whichever way you look at it.\"",
"On Tuesday's defeat, Inter's second in three league matches, Moratti said: \"When you lose in such a way, there's nothing you like.\"",
"Gasperini replaced Brazilian coach Leonardo at Inter, having been sacked by Genoa in November 2010.",
"During a four-year spell with Genoa, Gasperini led the club to a fifth-place finish in Serie A in 2009 and qualification for the Europa League.",
"\"Results are what decide everything, I'm very disappointed,\" he told journalists on Wednesday, AFP reported.",
"\"I had a great relationship with the directors and it's a shame that it's had to come to an end.",
"Everyone feels regret.\"",
"Inter, whose solitary point this season came from a 0-0 draw against Roma, face a trip to Bologna on Saturday before traveling to Russia to take on CSKA Moscow in the Champions League on Tuesday."
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"Gian Piero Gasperini's reign at Inter ends after just three months .",
"The 53-year-old lost two of his first three Serie A matches in charge of Inter .",
"Former Genoa coach also tasted defeat in the Italian Super Cup and Champions League ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The stars were out Sunday night as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts bestowed its prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on actor and comedian Will Ferrell.",
"The award, which was established in 1998, honors comedians who have shaped American society with their work, as Mark Twain once did.",
"Ferrell himself commented on the importance of the prize, telling CNN it's \"the only legitimate award that recognizes comedy,\" and he was honored to receive it.",
"Fellow comedians Jack Black, Tim Meadows, Ed Asner, Paul Rudd, Andy Samberg, Conan O'Brien and Molly Shannon showered Ferrell with praise at the ceremony.",
"\"When you see Will Ferrell on a marquis, he's going to give you 90 minutes to two hours of fascinating entertainment,\" said Asner, who worked with Ferrell in the movie \"Elf.\"",
"In the movie, Will \"was so steeped in his character that I had to believe in mine,\" Asner said.",
"\"He's a blast. I mean, he's always coming up with new stuff,\" said actor Rudd, who co-stared with Ferrell in \"Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy\" He's, \"just fun to watch, and he's very good at keeping it together.\"",
"O'Brien took a different approach -- the backhanded compliment.",
"\"None of us are here for Will,\" he said.",
"\"We're here because Will's very powerful. We fear Will. Let's get that straight, okay?",
"I'm angry. And afraid. I'm here out of fear.\" Also in attendance were senior administration officials, including White House Chief of Staff William Daley, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew.",
"Past winners include Tina Fey, as well as Richard Pryor, Bob Newhart, Lorne Michaels, and Steve Martin."
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"Ferrell calls it \"the only legitimate award that recognizes comedy\"\nFellow comedians shower praise on him ."
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"(CNN) -- Another University of California official expressed dismay about the recent use of pepper spray by police on Occupy Davis protesters.",
"UC Board of Regents chair Sherry Lansing said she was \"shocked and appalled\" by images of police actions during the protest last week on the campus of University of California Davis.",
"\"We regents share your passion and your conviction for the University of California,\" Lansing said in a video statement released Monday.",
"\"And we want all of you to know we fully and unequivocally support your right to protest peacefully.\"",
"Lansing's statement came the same day that the chancellor of UC Davis made a public apology for the incident.",
"\"I am here to apologize,\" were the first words Chancellor Linda P.B.",
"Katehi said through a microphone after climbing onto a small stage erected on the university's \"quad\" for Occupy supporters.",
"\"I really feel horrible for what happened on Friday.\"",
"Video of police pepper-spraying nonviolent demonstrators at a sitting protest Friday on the UC Davis campus has sparked widespread criticism, including calls for Katehi's resignation.",
"\"If you think you don't want to be students in a university like we had on Friday,\" Katehi said, \"I'm just telling you I don't want to be the chancellor of the university we had on Friday.\"",
"The statement triggered cries of \"Resign!\"",
"from the crowd. Occupy roundup: A fallout, a silent protest and a new encampment .",
"The university said it has placed two police officers and the police chief on administrative leave in the wake of the incident, while officials investigate officers' use of pepper spray against protesters.",
"Time: Watch video of police pepper-spraying and arresting students .",
"A group of about a dozen protesters sat on a path with their arms interlocked as police moved in to clear out a protest encampment affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement Friday.",
"Most of the protesters had their heads down as a campus police officer walked down the line, spraying them in their faces in a sweeping motion.",
"\"I was shocked,\" Sophia Kamran, one of the protesters subjected to the spray, said Saturday.",
"\"When students are sitting on the ground and no way of moving to be violent, being totally peaceful, I don't understand the use of pepper spray against them.\"",
"The school said 10 protesters arrested were given misdemeanor citations for unlawful assembly and failure to disperse.",
"Eleven were treated for the effects of pepper spray, which burns the eyes and nose, causing coughing, gagging and shortness of breath.",
"The Davis Faculty Association, citing incidents at other campuses, demanded \"that the chancellors of the University of California cease using police violence to repress nonviolent political protests.\"",
"It called for greater attention to cuts in state funding to education and rising tuition.",
"Its board demanded Katehi resign, saying she exhibited \"gross failure of leadership.\"",
"On Saturday, Katehi called the officers' actions \"chilling\" and said the video \"raises many questions about how best to handle situations like this.\"",
"But she refused calls from faculty members and others for her to step down, saying she did not violate campus policies.",
"CNN's Kara Devlin contributed this report."
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"The UC Board of Regents chair says she supports the right to protest peacefully .",
"The UC Davis chancellor apologizes and says she feels \"horrible\" about the incident .",
"Video of police pepper-spraying demonstrators sparks widespread criticism .",
"The school has placed the police chief and two officers on administrative leave ."
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"(CNN) -- Ohio's governor on Friday signed an executive order covering ownership of dangerous wild animals, which will strengthen enforcement of existing laws, and said he will push for tighter regulations through legislation.",
"Gov. John Kasich spoke to reporters just days after authorities in his state used lethal force against exotic animals on the loose.",
"Police believe the animals' owner, Terry Thompson, 62, freed the animals -- lions, tigers, leopards and grizzly bears -- at his preserve near Zanesville before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.",
"\"Fortunately, today, I'm able to sign an executive order that will have teeth, that is founded in the law, and gives power to people,\" the governor said.",
"Among other directives, the executive order instructs the departments of agriculture, natural resources and health to work with local health officials, humane societies and law enforcement to identify locations where dangerous animals might be, investigate and enforce laws that are already on the books, Kasich said.",
"It also directs agencies to work with the zoos to safely house animals that are captured or confiscated, and orders the agriculture department to identify unlicensed auctions of dangerous animals and take appropriate action.",
"Finally, the order instructs the state's department of natural resources to develop a framework for legislative change by the end of November.",
"According to the governor, state officials do not currently have the authority to track down exotic and dangerous animals that are not native to Ohio.",
"\"Let me be clear on this. We will seek statutory authority.",
"Changes must be made in the law,\" said Kasich.",
"Ohio authorities were called to the area around Thompson's house Tuesday night.",
"Of the 56 animals released, only a grizzly bear, two monkeys and three leopards were taken alive, Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz said.",
"Killed were two wolves, six black bears, two grizzly bears, nine male lions, eight lionesses, one baboon, three mountain lions, and 18 Bengal tigers.",
"One monkey remained unaccounted for Wednesday night, though Lutz, and conservationist Jack Hanna, said the animal may have been eaten by one of the big cats.",
"The Humane Society of the United States has said it does not fault authorities for using deadly force in such a situation.",
"However, on Friday, the group criticized the governor's response by saying the order he signed \"is inadequate and sidesteps the central problems created by the exotic animal trade in Ohio.",
"\"The Humane Society of the United States agrees with him (Kasich) that the legislature should enact a statute that addresses the problem, but in the interim, we need an executive order that bans the sale and acquisition of dangerous wild animals as pets or roadside attractions,\" said Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the group."
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"Humane Society calls the governor's response \"inadequate\"\nOhio Gov.",
"John Kasich says the law must change .",
"He talks just days after authorities shot exotic animals on the loose .",
"Of the 56 animals released, only six were taken alive ."
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"Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- An English tourist kidnapped from a remote Kenyan resort is being held by pirates in a remote corner of Somalia, according to experts and security analysts in Nairobi.",
"\"Gangs from Southern Somalia took her up the coast and then moved her several times,\" said Andrew Mwangura, a piracy expert and maritime editor of Somalia Report, an independent online publication.",
"Judith Tebbutt was abducted by armed men from a remote safari lodge near to the Somali border earlier this month.",
"Her husband, David Tebbutt, was killed in the attack when he resisted, according to Kenyan police.",
"A Kenyan man has been charged in connection with the attack, a lawyer familiar with the case told CNN Monday.",
"Ali Babitu Kololo, who worked at the luxury resort in Kiwayu where the attack took place, was charged with robbery with violence and abducting with the intention to murder, according to a lawyer present at the hearing at the Lamu law courts.",
"Kololo pleaded not guilty to both counts.",
"A second man, Issa Sheck Saadi, is expected to appear in court at a later date.",
"Details of the incident are still sketchy and the British government has asked journalists not to reveal the exact location of Tebbutt to avoid abduction attempts from rival gangs.",
"Initially, it was feared that al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked militant group, had conducted the operation as a revenge attack against the British nationals.",
"But a security analyst based in Nairobi, who tracks piracy operations but is not authorized to speak to the media, also believes this is the work of pirates.",
"\"This is not the work of al-Shabaab,\" he said, \"this is the work of southern armed gangs and pirates.\"",
"No ransom demands have been made yet, says Mwangura.",
"But if Somali pirates carried out the operation, it represents a marked departure in tactics.",
"For years, pirates have attacked commercial ships in the busy shipping lanes between Europe and Asia.",
"A cargo ship has insurance, and after months of negotiations pirates can often clear several million U.S. dollars.",
"Some analysts believe that Somali pirates are now moving onto land because it's getting harder out at sea.",
"\"Their inability to operate freely in the waters is forcing them onto land,\" says Andrews Atta-Asamoah, a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies.",
"\"It's significant if you place it in the context of the struggle against piracy.",
"Since the whole push against piracy by international navies, the pirates have been looking for new territory and new frontiers.\"",
"Atta-Asamoah says that Kenya is a natural target because if its porous border with Somalia and a high number of foreign visitors and workers.",
"The Kenyan government, prompted by their reliance on tourism for foreign exchange, says they are making every effort to secure the border with Somalia.",
"Others say that, rather than a trend, this is a one-time attack caused by a more prosaic fact: the weather.",
"Monsoon rains off the coast of Somalia at this time of year makes operating offshore difficult.",
"\"This incident is a special case,\" says Mwangura."
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"Judith Tebbutt was taken from a Kenyan lodge earlier this month .",
"Officials believe she is being held in a remote corner of Somalia .",
"Analyst believes this is the work of Somali pirates ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A Republican presidential debate on Tuesday focused on national security issues exposed deep fault lines within the GOP over how to grapple with the nation's challenges overseas.",
"The eight Republican candidates who took to the CNN debate stage in downtown Washington differed on a range of issues confronting the United States, including the war in Afghanistan, aid to Pakistan and cuts in defense spending.",
"The issue of illegal immigration also arose again as the newest Republican front-runner, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, called for a \"humane\" approach to immigration policy, a position at odds with many conservative activists who dominate key nominating contests in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida.",
"Gingrich stressed the importance of securing the United States border with Mexico and penalizing employers who hire illegal immigrants.",
"But he expressed sympathy for people who entered the country illegally and since became contributing members of society.",
"Blog: The CNN debate as it happened .",
"\"I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families which have been here a quarter-century,\" Gingrich said.",
"\"And I am prepared to take the heat for saying, let's be humane in enforcing the law without giving them citizenship, but finding a way to give them legality so as not to separate them from their families.\"",
"The answer was reminiscent of Texas Gov.",
"Rick Perry's response to a question about a 2001 bill he signed that granted in-state college tuition to the children of illegal immigrants.",
"In a September debate, Perry said Republicans who oppose the legislation \"don't have a heart\" -- and his standing in the polls plummeted in the following days.",
"Romney, the party's de facto front-runner for much of the year, pounced on Gingrich's remarks.",
"\"Amnesty is a magnet,\" Romney said.",
"\"When we have had in the past programs that have said that if people who come here illegally are going to get to stay illegally for the rest of their life, that's going to only encourage more people to come here illegally.\"",
"iReport: What makes a good presidential candidate?",
"Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, a member of the House Intelligence Committee who had one of her strongest debate performances of the cycle, also chided Gingrich.",
"\"We need to move away from magnets, not offer more,\" said Bachmann, who is in single digits in the polls and pegging her candidacy to a strong showing in the Iowa caucuses.",
"The debate was held at Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall in downtown Washington and was co-sponsored by the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, two conservative think tanks.",
"Gingrich entered the debate with fresh momentum in the Republican race and found himself in the spotlight for much of the evening.",
"According to a CNN/ORC International Poll released on the eve of the debate, 24% of Republican and GOP-leaning independent voters said they are most likely to support Gingrich for their party's nomination, with 20% saying they back Romney, who is making his second bid for the presidency.",
"Gingrich's four-point margin over Romney is within the survey's sampling error.",
"A CNN poll released one week ago had Romney at 24% and Gingrich at 22%.",
"Gingrich was at 8% in a CNN poll in October.",
"The new front-runner got the first question of the night, which sparked a feud with the libertarian-leaning Texas Rep. Ron Paul over the USA Patriot Act.",
"\"I would look at strengthening it because the dangers that are posed are so great,\" Gingrich said about the legislation.",
"Paul, who has been sharply critical of the Patriot Act since it was signed into law by former President George W. Bush in October 2001, called it \"unpatriotic\" because it \"undermines our liberty.\"",
"Paul took on the role of the lonely isolationist throughout the debate, calling on the administration to withdraw American troops from commitments overseas as a way to slash government spending.",
"He also questioned the point of humanitarian aid, including money to combat AIDS and other diseases in Africa.",
"\"I think the aid is all worthless,\" Paul said.",
"\"It doesn't do any good for most of the people.",
"You take money from poor people in this country and you end up giving it to rich people in poorer countries.\"",
"In the night's sharpest clash, Romney and former Utah Gov.",
"Jon Huntsman battled over the American military presence in Afghanistan.",
"Huntsman, a former ambassador to China and the sole candidate with diplomatic experience, said he wants to withdraw most American troops from the country and instead rely on Predator drones and a small contingent of forces to fight terrorists.",
"\"Are you suggesting, governor, that we just take all our troops out next week?\"",
"Romney asked.",
"\"Did you hear what I just said?\" Huntsman fired back.",
"\"I said we should draw down from 100,000.",
"We don't need 100,000 troops, many of whom can't even cross the wire.\"",
"When Romney said the president should rely on the generals on the ground, Huntsman again responded aggressively.",
"\"At the end of the day the president of the United States is commander-in-chief,\" he said.",
"\"Of course you're going to listen to the generals.",
"But I also remember when people listened to the generals in 1967 and we heard a certain course of action in Southeast Asia that didn't serve our interests very well.\"",
"The candidates were also pressed on how they would change airport security measures if elected president.",
"Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he would privatize the Transportation Security Administration.",
"Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said his administration would apply \"more scrutiny\" to Muslim passengers in airports, as did former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain.",
"\"If you take a look at the people who are trying to kill us it would be easy to figure out,\" Cain said.",
"Later, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann dueled with Perry over his proposal to scrap all funding for foreign governments like Pakistan, which may not agree with American interests, and ask them to make the case for American funding.",
"Perry said the government should stop writing \"blank checks\" to Pakistan, but Bachmann called that proposal \"naïve\" because the country has nuclear weapons that must be protected.",
"\"Al Qaeda could get a hold of these weapons,\" Bachmann said."
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"Debate was the 11th major showdown between the Republican candidates .",
"Gingrich was latest front-runner in the polls heading into debate ."
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"(CNN) -- Police in Glendale, Arizona are investigating the stabbing deaths of a husband and wife who were found dead on the grounds of Luke Air Force Base.",
"Their bodies were found Sunday night inside a post office on the base, according to Glendale police Detective Jeff Doukas, who said more details are expected to be released Monday morning.",
"A knife was found at the scene, said Capt.",
"Carla Gleason, a base spokeswoman.",
"\"There is no indication that there is a threat to any military personnel or families,\" said."
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"A man and woman are found stabbed to death at Luke Air Force Base .",
"A knife was found at the scene .",
"There's no threat to military personnel, a base spokeswoman said ."
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"Bali, Indonesia (CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama declared his nine-day Asia-Pacific trip a success on Saturday, returning to the trip's domestic impact after focusing for days on the United States' role in the region and its relationship with China.",
"In his weekly address, delivered from Bali, Indonesia,Obama said the trip helped cement trade deals that will support nearly 130,000 jobs.",
"Agreements announced to export Boeing aircraft and G.E.",
"engines to the region could increase U.S. exports by up to $39 billion, he said.",
"\"These agreements will help us reach my goal of doubling American exports by 2014 -- a goal we're on pace to meet,\" he said.",
"Obama was flying back to the United States on Saturday.",
"He was scheduled to be back in Washington early Sunday.",
"The administration advertised the trip, which began with a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in Hawaii, primarily as an effort to shore up to United States' role in the economically important region as a means of helping boost the ailing U.S. economy.",
"Secondarily, White House officials characterized the trip as an effort to demonstrate its commitment to the region and its allies there as the United States winds down its military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan and China begins to exert its own rising influence.",
"During the trip, Obama announced an agreement to station U.S. Marines in Australia and held face-to-face meetings with Chinese officials and other leaders on economic and security issues, in addition to participating in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations economic summit and the East Asia Summit in Indonesia -- a first for a U.S. president, according to the White House.",
"During the summit, Obama and his counterparts discussed economic issues, disaster response and territorial disputes over the South China Sea, an area critical to maritime shipping and one rich in oil and fish.",
"China has claimed a significant portion of the South China Sea as its own territorial waters, putting it in conflict with other nations that have made claims on portions of the region.",
"Sixteen of 18 leaders present at the meeting spoke out strongly against China's stance in what was a productive, but not confrontational meeting, according to a senior administration official.",
"Premier Wen Jiabao told the group that China wants to see the issue resolved peacefully, according to the official.",
"\"I think it was constructive, and one has to believe that the Chinese premier will go back to Beijing with the sense that the center of gravity in the Asia Pacific area is around the adherence to the principle of the rule of law, peaceful resolution, and a constructive, rules-based approach to the resolution of territorial disputes,\" the official said.",
"Obama later met with the Chinese premier in a hastily-arranged meeting to continue their discussion on economic issues and the territorial dispute.",
"Those talks occurred against the backdrop of Chinese consternation over the United States' increasing assertiveness in the region.",
"An editorial published Friday by the state-controlled Xinhua news agency chided the United States for what it called a willingness to flaunt international rules, even as it insists other countries follow them.",
"It highlighted the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.",
"\"Today, when the world is still facing many difficult global challenges, the United States needs to first revisit its double standards on international rules and start observing them itself instead of lecturing China.\"",
"Xinhua said in the editorial.",
"Obama's last appointment Saturday before leaving for Washington was a meeting with Thailand's first woman prime minister, Yingluck Shinawatra.",
"Obama congratulated Shinawatra on her \"inspirational\" election win, and offered condolences and assistance to those affected by the flooding in Thailand.",
"He also described Thailand as one of America's oldest allies and spoke of the two nations' great friendship.",
"When Shinawatra expressed her regret at not having visited the United States, Obama responded by inviting her to Hawaii."
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"NEW: Obama says deals cemented on the trip will support U.S. jobs and exports .",
"NEW: Obama also meets with Chinese premier over maritime disputes, economic issues .",
"NEW: Obama is scheduled to return to Washington early Sunday ."
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"County Kildare, Ireland (CNN) -- The mayor of a town in Ireland has resigned and faces a possible police investigation after saying he would no longer represent people of black African origin.",
"Councillor Darren Scully was Mayor of Naas in County Kildare, near the Irish capital, Dublin.",
"Interviewed on local radio Tuesday morning, Scully said he had decided not to represent black Africans because of their \"aggressive\" attitude to him.",
"\"I have been met with aggressiveness, I have been met with bad manners,\" he claimed.",
"\"I have also been played the race card - it's been said 'Oh yeah, you will help white people, but you don't help black people'.\"",
"The then mayor continued: \"After a while I made a decision that I was just not going to take on representations from black Africans, that I would be very courteous to them and I would pass on their query to other public representatives who would take their concerns.\"",
"Members of other political parties called for Scully to resign and Tuesday evening he did just that.",
"He issued the following statement: \"I wish to apologise unreservedly for my remarks on 4FM and KFM.",
"I realise they have caused deep hurt and offence in all communities and in all sectors of society.",
"\"I have been proud to be Mayor of Naas and to represent all the people of the town.",
"However, as a result of the upset that I have caused, I feel it is appropriate that I step down from this position.\"",
"Earlier, political rivals Sinn Fein had accused him of being racist, but in his statement Scully denied the claim.",
"He said: \"I realise now that my remarks were open to an interpretation that I did not intend.",
"I abhor racism in all its forms.\"",
"Naas Town Council had called a special meeting for Tuesday evening to discuss the controversy, but Scully resigned just ahead of it.",
"The now ex-mayor is a member of the main party in the Irish coalition government - Fine Gael - but said he was expressing personal views.",
"The party agreed - Fine Gael issued this statement: \"The views expressed by Cllr Scully do not reflect the views of Fine Gael and they are not party policy.",
"\"Fine Gael is an inclusive party and we are trying to build a country that caters for all.\"",
"A lawmaker with the junior partners in the coalition government, Aodhan O Riordain of the Labour Party, said he had reported the matter to Irish police with a view to prosecution.",
"O Riordain branded Scully's comments \"outrageous\" and said they could be considered as incitement to hatred.",
"The Irish census of 2006 showed there were 1,862 people of African origin living in Kildare out of a population in the county of 186,335, according to the Central Statistics Office in Dublin.",
"Naas has a total population of just over 20,000.",
"Local people told CNN Tuesday that race relations in the town are good and they were \"really surprised\" a local representative would make such comments."
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"Irish Mayor Darren Scully resigns after saying he would no longer represent people of black African origin .",
"He said the black Africans were aggressive towards him and accused him of not standing up for them .",
"As a result, he said on radio, he had decided to actually stop representing them .",
"Opposition parties demanded he step down as mayor of Naas ."
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"(CNN) -- Napoli stunned Manchester City 2-1 Tuesday to leave the English Premier League leaders struggling to qualify from Group A of the European Champions League.",
"Edinson Cavani put Napoli ahead in the first half before Mario Balotelli equalized for Roberto Mancini's men, who have failed to repeat their sublime domestic form in European competition.",
"Cavani scored the eventual winner just after the break to leave Napoli second in the group behind Bayern Munich, who beat Villarreal 3-1 to clinch their passage to the last 16 knockout stage.",
"It was a pulsating encounter in Napoli's San Paolo stadium, with the most intense drama reserved after Uruguay's Cavani, a reported transfer target for big-spending City, had beaten Joe Hart with a low shot to put his side 2-1 ahead.",
"City pushed forward in desperate hope of an equalizer but a mistake by Aleksandar Kolarov let in Marek Hamsik.",
"His shot beat Hart, it thumped the post and bounced clear.",
"Real Madrid hit Dinamo for six in Bernabeu .",
"Yaya Toure played in the ever dangerous Balotelli but Morgan De Sanctis did superbly to block the shot, while at the other end Hart denied Christian Maggio, who was clean through.",
"Finally, a brilliant move between David Silva and substitute Samir Nasri gave Balotelli a further opportunity, but he headed over.",
"City, who were beaten 2-0 by Bayern Munich in the infamous match in which Carlos Tevez allegedly refused to come on as a substitute, must now beat the German giants in their final group match at the Etihad Stadium to have any chance of going through.",
"But a Napoli victory over Villarreal in their last fixture would see the Italian club advance with Bayern regardless of that result.",
"Bayern made no mistake in their Allianz Arena as Franck Ribery and Mario Gomez put them 2-0 up inside 24 minutes.",
"Jonathan De Guzman pulled one back for the visitors before Ribery, with his second, wrapped up the win.",
"City's illustrious city neighbors Manchester United are also making heavy weather of qualifying from Group C as they were held 2-2 at home by Benfica.",
"They fell behind to a Phil Jones own goal at Old Trafford before a neat header from Dimitar Berbatov, playing in place of the injured Wayne Rooney, saw the home side level.",
"When Darren Fletcher put Alex Ferguson's men ahead in the second half after a spell of intense pressure they looked set to wrap up the victory to take command of the group.",
"But a casual clearance from United goalkeeper David de Gea led to Benfica's equalizer as Bruno Cesar's cross slammed into Rio Ferdinand and fell to Argentina veteran Pablo Aimar, who gratefully accepted the chance.",
"Benfica and United are level on nine points, but the Portuguese side will go through as the group winners if they beat Romanian minnows Otelul Galati in their final group game in Lisbon next month.",
"They have a better head-to-head record with United, who must gain at least a point at Swiss side FC Basel to qualify for the last 16.",
"Basel, who beat Otelul Galati 3-2 on Tuesday, will go through with a win over United."
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"Napoli beat Manchester City 2-1 in Champions League Group A .",
"Edinson Cavani scores twice to sink English Premier League leaders .",
"Bayern Munich seal passage to last 16 with 3-1 win over Villarreal .",
"Manchester United held 2-2 at home by Benfica in Group C ."
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"(CNN) -- In an upstate New York town ravaged by the wrathful remnants of Hurricane Irene in late August, 12 displaced families will break bread together at Thanksgiving dinner.",
"\"We are trying to rebuild,\" said Ken Aurigema, who with the help of his family will be cooking for at least 30 people Thursday at the Catskill Christian Assembly, one of the few structures in the small town of Prattsville to survive the devastation of the storm and its enduring aftermath.",
"Upstate New York faced some of the worst and most extensive amount of flooding in Irene's fury, along with New Jersey and Vermont, said Chris Vaccaro spokesman for the National Weather Service.",
"Over 7 million homes and businesses from North Carolina northward up the Eastern Seaboard lost power in the record-setting 10th billion-dollar disaster for the United States this year, Vaccaro said.",
"Irene broke the previous record of nine billion-dollar disasters set in 2008.",
"The estimated damage is more than $7.3 billion dollars total.",
"\"Wind is not the only threat -- inland flooding can be one of the deadliest hazards within a tropical storm,\" Vaccaro said.",
"Most of the families dining together Thursday previously lived in one of the 15 now-unoccupied houses along Main Street, where creek swelling and flood damage turned those structures into wrecked skeletons of homes that need rebuilding, or that have been condemned.",
"The dinner invitation extends across Greene County to neighboring towns including Lexington and Windham, where countless homes and businesses also were destroyed.",
"This was the first time a hurricane made landfall in the New York area since Hurricane Gloria struck Long Island in 1985.",
"Hurricane Bob in 1991 came just shy of touching down east of the Long Island's twin forks.",
"What began as a Category 1 hurricane in North Carolina had weakened into a tropical storm when it made a second landfall in New York's Coney Island, and continued northward through Connecticut, Massachusetts and then Vermont.",
"\"The Northeast is prone to witnessing a tropical storm system, it's not just Florida the Gulf or (the) Carolinas.",
"If you live along (the) coastline east or south, you are susceptible,\" Vaccaro told CNN.",
"\"Irene was a reminder of that,\" he said.",
"Thanksgiving dinner host Aurigema, an electrical contractor who lost his truck, tools, and customers to Irene, had been living in Greene County with his wife and son for 16 years before the storm slashed through his tiny town.",
"Irene demolished the first floor of his Prattsville home, drowned his foundation in creek backwash and waterlogged his floor with three feet of flooding that soon after became caked mud.",
"Having also directed the Catskill Christian Academy for 16 years, Aurigema is grateful the ministry has let him and his family take solace on their grounds for the past two months.",
"He hopes to be out during December, by the 15th or by Christmas.",
"When he drives down Main Street, Aurigema said, \"It's hard to comprehend how you are going to rebuild the town.\"",
"\"When I leave at night, it's sad to see none of the stores being open.",
"I think for the most part we are on the mend; I am worried about how many people are going to move back here.\"",
"Some 20 mom-and-pop businesses, even the grocery store, were out of commission for weeks after Irene shredded the edges of nearby Schoharie Creek, Prattsville town spokesman Al Creazzo told CNN.",
"Shaun Groden, Greene County administrator said, \"There was complete devastation, the entire village, there was not a single building in the entire town that went unscathed.",
"Most were half knocked off (their) foundation, or worse, collapsed.\"",
"\"There are still houses boarded up, probably just awaiting the wrecking ball,\" said Groden.",
"Groden explained that the Federal Emergency Management Agency has categorized most of the damaged structures as being in what are now deemed flood zones, and that banks are reluctant to finance rebuilding in these zones, for fear of future flooding.",
"\"The question is, can you literally pick up a home and move a quarter mile back to get it off the bank?\"",
"Groden asked.",
"From a municipal planning standpoint, he said, the reconstruction could take months.",
"According to spokeswoman Rachel Racusen, FEMA has approved a total of more than $93 million in assistance to individuals affected by Hurricane Irene, to date.",
"Creazzo said FEMA would be \"rolling in houses\" in about two weeks, with between 20 and 22 temporary homes arriving for Prattsville residents.",
"He explained that in the meantime, displaced families have been staying with relatives and friends.",
"\"In these towns, the families go back generations on generations.",
"There is always someone living close by.\"",
"Slowly but surely, Creazzo said, businesses are beginning to show signs of life.",
"\"First the supermarket, then Beth's Café, and Kenny opened up the Tavern last week,\" he said, with the ring of small-town familiarity in his words.",
"As it does every year, the town is working hard to finish projects before the winter.",
"The asphalt contractors are closing up shop in time for Thanksgiving, and all roads left unpaved will be gravel through the winter months.",
"They have already replaced six of the eight bridges lost in the flood with temporary structures that Groden anticipated will hold through spring.",
"Aurigema told CNN he is impressed by how the people of the Prattsville community have come together.",
"\"That's why we decided to stay up here,\" he said.",
"Since day one, facing the aftermath of the devastating storm, family, friends and neighbors lent their hands and their shovels to clear the mud out of his family's home.",
"\"We are coming back to life, little by little,\" Aurigema said.",
"On the more immediate topic of side dishes, table fixings and how to prepare a meal for 30 or more hungry mouths, Aurigema said, \"Well, we don't know!\"",
"\"We are a big family and we are used to cooking for large groups.",
"We are just grateful to give back to the community we love.\"",
"On the menu for Thanksgiving in Prattsville are turkey, corn, beans, potatoes, stuffing, yams, pies and cookies and -- Aurigema's brother's favorite -- macaroni and cheese."
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"The small town of Prattsville in upstate New York was ravaged by Irene .",
"On Thursday, residents -- many still displaced -- will gather for Thanksgiving .",
"\"We are coming back to life, little by little,\" says Prattsville resident Ken Aurigema ."
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"(CNNGo) -- Sure, luxury accommodation in Asia takes the headlines, but what about us regular folk who just want a decent bed before hiking in Berastagi?",
"Big hotel chains such as InterContinental, Swiss-Belhotel International and Accor have recently announced plans to build more than 350 economy and express hotels in various parts of Asia including China, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia by the end of 2012.",
"Don't call the new breed budget hotels or hostels, which are usually in cheaper areas.",
"High-end hotel companies that have \"economy\" brands are often higher quality, cleaner, chicer and closer to city centers.",
"Read more on CNNGo: 15 bizarre hotels .",
"Post-recession business travelers are being more responsible with their money and hoteliers say young executives on the move are demanding high-quality hotels with fewer trimmings like business centers or rooftop pools.",
"\"Business tourists prefer two- to three-star facilities because it's convenient -- they don't want to waste money on facilities they won't use,\" says Gavin Faull, president of Swiss-Belhotel International.",
"International Air Transport Association and Smith Travel Research also anticipated higher growth in business travel compared to leisure travel in the upcoming year, according to a report from Ernst & Young -- \"Global Hospitality Insights: Top Thoughts for 2011.\"",
"Read more on CNNGo: 10 adventures for chocoholics .",
"Global business travel spending is projected to grow 34 percent in four years, from US$896 billion in 2010 to US$1.2 trillion by 2014, with Asia, Latin America and the Middle East expected to grow faster than the current recovering economies of the United States and Europe, according to Ernst & Young's report.",
"Fewer frills, more savings .",
"Much of the growth will be driven by the increased demand for economy hotels, which cost less than full-service hotels because guests pay only for basic amenities.",
"For example, a one-night weekend stay in November at a standard Holiday Inn Express in Hong Kong costs 20 percent less than a room at the full-service Holiday Inn Golden Mile, Hong Kong.",
"\"[Express hotels are] everything you need and nothing you don't,\" says David Anderson, vice president at InterContinental Hotels.",
"And the strategy for no-frills, but decent, rooms is working.",
"Revenue per room grew 15 percent in Asia-Pacific during 2010, while the United States saw about 7 percent growth, as reported by Ernst & Young.",
"\"This growth [in the Asia-Pacific travel industry] is a complete reflection of domestic economy strength,\" says Evan Lewis, Accor's VP for Asia-Pacific communications.",
"Read more on CNNGo: 10 cities, 100 fantastic free attractions .",
"For the regular non-business folk in Asia who just want to hit the beach on a nearby island over a weekend, this means more economy chains located in downtown cores.",
"So while the roach-infested hovels with views over the sewer will still be there for those who like to slum it, there are now cheap places in good areas to toss your luggage and explore the city --- without forcing yourself to use the pool or gym you didn't ask for.",
"Select economy hotels .",
"Holiday Inn Express, 33 Sharp St. East, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, +852 3558 6688, www.hiexpress.com .",
"Hotel Ibis Shanghai, 858 Panyu Road, Xuhui, Shanghai, China, +86 21 6283 8800, www.ibishotel.com .",
"Swiss-Inn Batam, Komplek Villa Idaman Baloi Batam 29432, Batam, Indonesia, +62 778 457 500 .",
"© 2011 Cable News Network Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. All Rights Reserved ."
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"High-end hotels building \"economy\" brands that are closer to city centers than hostels .",
"A boom in Asia-Pacific business travel means more affordable accommodation for everyone .",
"Business travelers don't want to waste money on ammenities they won't use ."
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"(CNN) -- A cadaver dog searching the home where a missing 11-month-old Missouri girl was reportedly last seen indicated a positive \"hit\" for the scent of a body, according to documents released Friday.",
"The information was included in an affidavit, dated Tuesday, police filed to request a search warrant of Lisa Irwin's Kansas City home.",
"Baby Lisa was reported missing at 4 a.m. October 4, after Lisa's father, Jeremy Irwin, came home from work to find the door unlocked, the lights on and a window that had been tampered with.",
"Lisa's mother, Deborah Bradley, said she last saw Lisa at 6:40 p.m. the night before.",
"\"The cadaver dog indicated a positive 'hit' for the scent of a deceased human in the area of the floor of Bradley's bedroom near the bed,\" the affidavit read.",
"It also said that interviews with people involved in the case \"revealed conflicting information\" and that Bradley told police she did not initially look for her baby behind the house because she \"was afraid of what she might find.\"",
"A judge approved the search warrant, which allowed investigators to comb the house and barred the family from returning home.",
"The warrant was executed on Wednesday.",
"Police took clothing, blankets, a toy, rolls of tape and a tape dispenser from the home, documents showed.",
"The attorney for Lisa's parents said the release of the affidavit Friday was \"unfortunate,\" as it could derail the search for the missing girl.",
"Joe Tacopina described his clients as \"very shaken up and they refuse to believe anything except that she is out there and alive.\"",
"He said Lisa's parents are \"terrified, not for themselves, but for the welfare of their daughter.\"",
"The attorney also stressed cadaver dogs are just meant to be an investigative tool, and cannot be considered a basis for legal action against his clients.",
"The family's private investigator, Bill Stanton, called the information contained in the affidavit \"interesting.\"",
"\"I'm eager to get the facts (and) I hope it leads to finding baby Lisa,\" he said.",
"Earlier in the week, Bradley said in an NBC interview that she was drunk the night the infant disappeared and that she had last seen the baby about four hours earlier than initially reported.",
"Bradley told NBC she is afraid she will be arrested.",
"Police have accused her of killing Lisa, she said, and told her that she failed a lie detector test.",
"\"I was the last one with her,\" a tearful Bradley said.",
"\"And from judging on how the questioning went, that's kind of a fear that I have.",
"And the main fear with that is, if they arrest me, people are going to stop looking for her.",
"And then I'll never see her again, and I'll never know what happened.\"",
"Asked how much she had been drinking that night, Bradley said, \"enough to be drunk.\"",
"But she rejected the notion that she could have harmed her daughter while under the influence of alcohol.",
"\"No, no, no,\" she told NBC. \"And if I thought there was a chance, I'd say it.",
"No. No. I don't think alcohol changes a person enough to do something like that.\"",
"Asked whether he had questions about Bradley, Jeremy Irwin told NBC, \"No.",
"There's no question to be had there. I know who she is. I know the kind of mother she is.\"",
"Irwin said it's possible someone could have entered the house without Bradley hearing, as the couple's bedroom is on the opposite corner of the house from Lisa's room and Bradley sleeps with a fan at high speed.",
"Lisa is described as being 30 inches tall with blue eyes and blonde hair, according to police.",
"She weighs between 26 and 30 pounds and was last seen wearing purple shorts and a purple shirt with white kittens on it.",
"The missing girl has two bottom teeth and a \"beauty mark\" on her right outer thigh, police said.",
"At the time of her disappearance, she had a cold with a cough.",
"CNN's Greg Morrison and Sandra Endo contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Parents \"refuse to believe anything except that she is ... alive,\" attorney says .",
"\"Baby Lisa\" is said to have been seen last on October 3 .",
"Police have searched the Kansas City home where she lives .",
"They took clothing, blankets and rolls of tape ."
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"Buenos Aires (CNN) -- Dressed in black, evoking her trademark style, Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner addressed cheering crowds after preliminary vote counts on Sunday showed her heading toward re-election.",
"\"I have come to places in my life I have never thought I'd arrive.",
"The honor of not just being the first woman elected president but re-elected president ... my partner served as president... what else could I want?\"",
"said Fernandez, amid fireworks, car horns and celebratory music.",
"Continuously weaving her role as the nation's leader with being the widow of former president Nestor Carlos Kirchner, who died in 2010, Kirchner said she carries her husband's ideals as she returns to office.",
"Fernandez, 58, has said her second presidential term will be dedicated to her late husband's memory.",
"\"Today is a rare day for me, because there are too many feelings,\" said Kirchner in her trademark dramatic tone.",
"\"If I tell you I am happy, I lie, if I tell you I am sad, I lie...I am not speaking as his widow but as his partner in militancy for the rest of my life,\" she said.",
"Thousands crammed into Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo waving flags and shouting \"Viva Cristina, Viva Peronismo!'",
"to welcome back their charismatic leader, the second woman to serve as president of Argentina.",
"Entire families and groups of activists cheered as results trickled in showing the incumbent president with a considerable advantage over her opponents.",
"Activist groups, unions, farmers, laborers and groups of indigenous Argentines waved their flags in a passionate display of support for their candidate.",
"While official results will be announced on Monday, preliminary results showed the incumbent with 52.7% of the vote.",
"Some analysts in Argentina said this is a historic victory for Argentina, propelling Fernandez as one of the nation's most popular leaders in recent history.",
"The same analysts also show concern for what has become known as the new \"Cristinismo\", a populist pro-Fernandez fever which, according to La Nacion writer Luis Majul, leaves very little room for checks and balances.",
"\"Tomorrow, or when the struggle for succession begins, and we become informed of the true cost-of-living indices, poverty and unemployment, some 'soldiers of Cristina' will recognize that their idolatry was exaggerated by the model,\" Majul wrote .",
"Fernandez, a center-left member of the Peronist party, handily won the primary.",
"Fernandez garnered more than half the country's votes, making her the undisputed front-runner going into Sunday's election.",
"Among her closest competitors in the presidential election were Hermes Binner, Ricardo Alfonsin and Eduardo Duhalde.Alfonsin is a member of the opposition Radical Party and the son of the late Raul Alfonsin, who became Argentina's president in 1983 following seven years of military dictatorship.",
"Duhalde is a long-time Peronist party leader who ruled Argentina from 2002 to 2003 in the wake of the country's $95 billion debt default, which ushered in historically high levels of crime, unemployment and poverty.",
"He was succeeded in May 2003 by Nestor Kirchner, a relatively unknown governor from Patagonia who championed human rights causes and implemented unorthodox financial policies that many credit with helping to bring the Argentine economy back from the brink.",
"In 2007, Kirchner stepped aside so his wife, Fernandez, could run.",
"She was elected with 45% of the vote, becoming Argentina's first elected female president.",
"Under Fernandez's leadership, Argentina's economy has enjoyed sustained growth of about 8% annually.",
"The president points to this expansion and a low debt load as examples of how Argentina is well-positioned to weather the uncertainty in the current global markets.",
"In an August speech, the president said strong economic growth and human rights advances are key to her past and future mandates.",
"\"Strength Argentina!",
"Forward Argentina!",
"We will continue growing, with social inclusion, with justice, memory and truth,\" she said.",
"However, her critics contend the economy is only booming because of high commodity prices and have repeatedly accused her government of tampering with economic statistics.",
"Argentina's official annual inflation rate is around 9%, but most analysts and consumers suspect it is really three times that number.",
"Kirchner died suddenly from a heart attack in October 2010, and Fernandez has benefited politically from an outpouring of sympathy.",
"Over the past year, she has worn only black in public, and repeatedly refers to \"him\" in fiery -- and sometimes teary -- campaign speeches.",
"Fernandez, who voted in the city of Rio Gallegos, said this vote evoked memories of her late husband, Argentina's official TELAM news agency reported.",
"\"I happen to be the wife of a very special man, who had great impact on Argentine politics and is already a part of history\", she said.",
"Voting is obligatory in Argentina and some 28 million people were eligible to vote in Sunday's election.",
"CNN's Brian Byrnes, Claudia Dominguez and Helena de Moura contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Preliminary results give the incumbent a comfortable lead .",
"Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner went into Sunday's vote as the undisputed front-runner .",
"Fernandez supporters crowd the Plaza de Mayo .",
"Fernandez, 58, has said her second term will be dedicated to her late husband's memory."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- It's the end of the R.E.M.",
"as we know them and they feel fine, according to a statement from the group posted online Wednesday.",
"\"To our Fans and Friends: As R.E.M., and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band,\" the message said.",
"\"We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished.",
"To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening.\"",
"Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry started playing alternative rock together in Athens, Georgia, in 1980, but their first hit single came with \"The One I Love\" in 1987.",
"\"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)\" followed from the same \"Document\" album, securing their mainstream radio appeal.",
"Front man Michael Stipe declined to be interviewed by CNN Wednesday about the decision to disband, which comes six months after the release of \"Collapse into Now,\" their final album.",
"Stipe, in a CNN interview in June, said the members \"surprised ourselves with this record.",
"We're all really thrilled with it.\"",
"He and his fellow band members did offer comments on their website.",
"\"During our last tour, and while making 'Collapse Into Now' and putting together this greatest hits retrospective, we started asking ourselves, 'what next'?\"",
"Stipe said.",
"\"Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey.",
"We realized that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together.\"",
"Michael Mills said it was not an easy decision.",
"\"A wise man once said 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave,' Mills said.",
"\"We built something extraordinary together.",
"We did this thing. And now we're going to walk away from it.\"",
"Peter Buck said the band members \"walk away as great friends\" \"I know I will be seeing them in the future, just as I know I will be seeing everyone who has followed us and supported us through the years,\" Buck said.",
"\"Even if it's only in the vinyl aisle of your local record store, or standing at the back of the club: watching a group of 19 year olds trying to change the world.\""
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"NEW: Three decades of work \"was a hell of a journey.\"",
"Michael Stipe says on website .",
"NEW: Band members \"walk away as great friends,\" says Peter Buck .",
"NEW: \"We built something extraordinary together,\" Mike Mills says .",
"Group formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980; first hit single was in 1987 ."
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"(CNN) -- What started as the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York in September has spread across major cities worldwide as a call to action against unequal distribution of wealth.",
"Here is a roundup of some of the movement's recent developments: .",
"DAVIS, CALIFORNIA .",
"The University of California at Davis placed two police officers on administrative leave after video of them pepper-spraying non-violent protesters at point-blank range sparked outrage at school officials.",
"The chancellor of the University of California, Davis, established a task force Saturday to look into an incident in which a police officer sprayed seated protesters with pepper spray at point blank range.",
"See full story on UC-Davis incident .",
"Lida Katehi told CNN's Don Lemon that she considered the police action on Friday \"unacceptable,\" but stressed she has no plans to step down.",
"\"We really want to look into this very carefully and take action ... make sure that it will never happen again on our campus,\" she said.",
"One of the protesters hit by the spray told CNN's Lemon that she was still feeling some after-effects Saturday evening.",
"\"I was shocked,\" said Sophia Kamran.",
"\"When students are sitting on the ground and (have) no way of moving to be violent, being totally peaceful, I don't understand the use of pepper spray against them.\"",
"On Saturday evening, as Katehi left campus, dozens of students sat cross-legged and with their arms linked in a silent protest.",
"A reporter asked Katehi, \"Do you still feel threated by the students?\"",
"\"No,\" she said. \"No.\" Photos: Navigating a mob on a 'day of action' DES MOINES, IOWA .",
"The crowd at the Family Leader Thanksgiving forum in Des Moines erupted in applause as GOP president contender Newt Gingrich said the Occupy protesters need to \"Go get a job, right after you take a bath.\"",
"\"All the Occupy movement starts with the premise that we all owe them everything,\" he said.",
"\"They take over a public park they didn't pay for, to go nearby to use bathrooms they didn't pay for, to beg for food from places they don't want to pay for, to obstruct those who are going to work to pay the taxes to sustain the bathrooms and to sustain the park, so they can self-righteously explain they are the paragons of virtue to which we owe everything.",
"\"Now, that is a pretty good symptom of how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country, and why you need to reassert something by saying to them, 'Go get a job right after you take a bath.'\"",
"OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA .",
"Oakland police on Sunday cleared an encampment set up by Occupy protesters a day earlier in a vacant city lot.",
"The removal took place without incident.",
"No arrests nor injuries were reported, according to a city news release.",
"\"Oakland, not unlike many cities across the country, supports upholding free speech and peaceful forms of expression, but the cost of the encampments is growing and putting a strain on our already fragile resources -- police, public works, and other City staff,\" Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said in a statement.",
"The encampment was set up Saturday night when protesters tore down a chain link fence surrounding the lot and put up tents as police watched, but did not intervene.",
"The lot is in a district of shops and nightclubs, and the new Occupy venue did not sit well with some residents.",
"\"I don't want it in my front yard, my backyard nor my side yard,\" resident Toni Vasquez told CNN affiliate KGO.",
"\"This is not the way to do it. This is not the way to do it at all.\" WASHINGTON . Protesters unfurled a black banner from the roof of the historic Franklin School building Saturday that said, \"Public Property Under Community Control.\"",
"They vowed to would stay inside until the vacant building was converted for community use.",
"The school, built in 1869, served as a homeless shelter in recent years until it was shuttered in 2008.",
"Protesters say they are against a city plan to sell it for private use.",
"Officers later led the demonstrators out and placed them in police vans."
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"NEW: Oakland police clear city lot of encamped protesters .",
"UC Davis chancellor sets up task force to look into police pepper spray incident .",
"Newt Gingrich tells protesters to bathe and get a job .",
"DC occupiers want a vacant school building converted for community use ."
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