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"(CNN) -- There's great potential in the field of regenerative medicine, but doctors caution against seeking experimental treatments in an unregulated environment.",
"Having had three surgeries for a neck injury already, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning reportedly took a private jet to Europe to get a stem cell treatment that is not approved in the United States.",
"The therapy involved injecting fat cells from Manning's body into his neck, according to Fox Sports.",
"Colts head coach Jim Caldwell declined to discuss Manning's health situation when asked about the stem cell treatment at a press conference Monday.",
"Further details of Manning's treatment are not available.",
"Discussing the choice to go abroad for stem cell treatments puts researchers in an awkward position, because the therapies offered abroad are unregulated and not confirmed to work, but they are based on concepts that the American medical community believes have potential.",
"Generally, however, the consensus is that patients should not try to seek experimental stem cell treatments elsewhere, as there's no telling if they will work or have serious side effects.",
"\"We believe that there is merit to this approach, we just want to see it (carried out) well, ethically and rigorously,\" said Dr. Joshua Hare, director of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.",
"Scientists like Hare are trying to gather medical evidence through clinical trials to ensure that these treatments are safe and effective.",
"Leaving the country to seek experimental treatments abroad is common, experts say, although no one has exact numbers for how many people seek stem cell treatments in other countries.",
"Medical tourism as an industry is projected to grow 35% annually, and could reach 1.6 million American patients going elsewhere for treatments by 2012, according to the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.",
"(The agency had previously predicted 6 million by 2010, but those numbers have not panned out.)",
"Besides orthopedic injuries like Manning's, there are stem cell therapies available elsewhere aimed at heart disease and neurological conditions, even autism.",
"Germany, Panama and Thailand are all popular countries for seeking these kinds of treatments, Hare said.",
"The basic idea is that stem cells have regenerative potential, and can even form new tissues.",
"Mesenchymal stem cells are a particular kind that can become a variety of cell types, including bone cells and cartilage cells.",
"While there is a lot of exciting research going on in the field of stem cells, the results aren't all good.",
"A 2009 study in the journal PLoS Medicine documented the case of an Israeli boy who had gone to Russia to get fetal stem cells injected into his brain and spinal cord.",
"He developed a brain tumor, apparently as a result of the treatment, although the tumor was slow-growing and benign.",
"And earlier this year, authorities closed down a large stem cell clinic in Germany called the XCell-Center, which had operated through a loophole in the country's regulations regarding unapproved experimental treatments.",
"The clinic had been implicated in the death of an 18-month-old boy after a stem cell treatment; a 10-year-old almost died after receiving something similar.",
"One problem with going abroad for these unapproved treatments is that there's no follow-up; you won't have anyone back home to take care of any complications that might result, Hare said.",
"In cardiac stem cell trials conducted in this country in people with advanced heart disease, medical professionals do follow up with patients and treat any complications that may arise.",
"Another concern is that, without proper regulation, any given stem cell therapy abroad may actually be different every time you receive a treatment, said Jeffrey Karp, director of the Laboratory for Advanced Biomaterials and Stem-Cell-Based Therapeutics at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts.",
"There also may not be any regulations on the quality of the treatment, so you really don't know what you're getting, he said.",
"\"Regulatory agencies such as the FDA can ensure that cell therapy that reaches patients is safe, effective, and that quality control is established for isolating the cells, manipulating them outside of the body, and delivering them,\" Karp said.",
"A lot of parents believe that stem cell therapies could help their children with autism, although there haven't been any clinical trials in the U.S. to substantiate this, Hare said.",
"In orthopedics and cardiology, on the other hand, there are ongoing investigations; someone like Manning could have potentially joined a clinical trial instead of going abroad, although there's no guarantee that he would have received the treatment rather than a placebo.",
"The idea of placebo also comes into play here, as with any therapy -- sometimes, just believing strongly that a treatment will heal you actually does change your body, even if that \"treatment\" isn't actually doing anything.",
"But there are still significant risks from anything that's unregulated, Karp said.",
"\"While stem cell treatments have been shown to have significant placebo effects during controlled clinical trials, I think patients considering unregulated stem cell treatments need to be aware that they are not optimized and may even do harm,\" he said."
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"Experts say it's dangerous to try treatments that haven't been approved and regulated ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- For nearly three years, the hit TLC show \"Toddlers & Tiaras\" has captured the drama behind the scenes in the world of child beauty pageants.",
"The tantrums were extreme, and the pre-show prep of spray tanning and eyebrow waxing seemed perhaps premature for little kids.",
"But in the last few weeks, as footage of 3- and 4-year-olds dressed in overly adult costumes (like Dolly Parton, complete with padded breasts, or Julia Roberts's streetwalker from \"Pretty Woman\") hit the airwaves, viewers and pageant skeptics have been expressing horror at an industry that is now accused of \"sexualizing\" young girls.",
"\"Little girls are supposed to play with dolls, not be dolls,\" New York-based licensed clinical social worker Mark Sichel tells PEOPLE in its new issue.",
"He adds that the extremes parents go to in order to prepare their children for competition -- using padding, fake hair, flippers (faux teeth) and spray tans -- \"causes the children tremendous confusion, wondering why they are not okay without those things.\"",
"Now devoted pageant moms are speaking out in their own defense.",
"Wendy Dickey, who dressed her daughter Paisley, 3, as Julia Roberts, tells PEOPLE the look was \"tasteful and funny.\"",
"Still, \"If I knew there would be a reaction like this, I never would have used it,\" Dickey says.",
"\"Next time, she'll be dressed as an angel.\"",
"And Juana Myers, whose daughter MaKenzie has been featured on Tiaras, says unfair scrutiny has been placed on the pageant industry.",
"\"If this were a sport, no one would question it,\" she says.",
"\"This is her sport.\" For more on the child pageant controversy, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.",
"See the full story at PEOPLE.com .",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Devoted pageant moms are speaking out in their own defense .",
"Juana Myers says unfair scrutiny has been placed on the pageant industry ."
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"(CNN) -- Owners of iPads and other tablet devices tend to be news junkies who are wealthier and more highly educated than than the general population, according to a new report.",
"The Pew Project on Excellence in Journalism took an in-depth look at how people use tablets to get news.",
"When the study was conducted in July, Apple's iPad made up the vast majority of tablet computers in use in the U.S., although Pew researchers also looked at people who used similar devices, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the Motorola Xoom and even the Nook Color.",
"The project noted several differences between tablet users and the general U.S. population.",
"First, tablet users tend to be more highly educated: Fifty-one percent have a college degree, compared with 28% of all Americans.",
"Tablet users also tend to be richer: Fifth-three percent have an annual household income greater than $75,000, compared with 28% of the total U.S. population.",
"(Conversely, 15% of tablet users have an annual household income of less than $30,000, while over a third of American households earn that much or less each year.)",
"Most tablet users have jobs: Sixty-two percent are employed full time, compared with 41% of the total population.",
"Along other demographic lines, tablets mostly mirror the general population in terms of gender, race and political ideology.",
"But age indicates some differences: Nearly half (46%) of tablet users are age 30-49, while just 35% of Americans are in that age bracket.",
"Also, only 7% of tablet owners are age 65 or older, while 17% of Americans are seniors.",
"This part of the population is growing fast as baby boomers age.",
"Tablet users do seem to be hungry for news.",
"The project notes: \"About half (53%) get news on their tablet every day, and they read long articles as well as get headlines.\"",
"Many news organizations are building and promoting their own apps specifically designed for tablets.",
"The project found that about two-thirds of tablet users have a news app installed on their tablets, but that's not where they get most of their news, even on the tablet.",
"\"The browser, carried over from the desktop experience, is still the more popular means of consuming news,\" said the report.",
"\"A plurality of tablet news users (40%) say they get their news mainly through a Web browser.",
"Another 31% use news apps and the browser equally, while fewer, 21%, get their news primarily through apps.\"",
"Of course, the tablet market is shifting fast.",
"Right now, many smaller, cheaper tablets (mostly marketed as e-readers, even though they really are tablets) are hitting the U.S. market just in time for the holiday buying season.",
"Amy Mitchell, deputy director of the Pew Project on Excellence in Journalism, says the study did take users of the Nook Color and similar modified tablets into account.",
"It found that respondents used those devices to do much more than read books.",
"\"I certainly think that as newer tablet devices like the Kindle Fire come into the marketplace at a lower cost, that it opens the possibility of bringing in different kinds of people to the tablet population, especially people who are younger or not in the upper income bracket,\" she said.",
"The project also plans to do followup research on how tablet devices are shaping how Americans get news.",
"\"I think whether it's called a tablet or some other name over the next couple of years, what matters is the kind of difference these devices make to the user experience,\" Mitchell said.",
"\"People are using tablets to do different things with news than they did before.\"",
"The opinions expressed in this post are solely those of Amy Gahran."
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"Tablet users tend to be wealthier and better educated .",
"About half (53%) of respondents get news on their tablet every day ."
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"(CNN) -- In his first inaugural address in 1953, newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower told the American people, \"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.",
"We must acquire proficiency in defense and display stamina in purpose.\"",
"This was a fitting and powerful response to the popular noninterventionism current of the 1950s from a five-star general who knew how to win a war.",
"The first and most important job of the president is to be commander in chief.",
"Eisenhower knew that, as so did many of our great presidents.",
"Today, we are in danger of losing that founding virtue.",
"President Obama's decision to order a full withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year will most likely lead to disaster.",
"He greatly risks losing a country in which we have invested so much time, resources and, most importantly, human life.",
"And he risks losing it to Iran, the world's largest sponsor of terrorism and our primary enemy in a serious Middle East proxy war.",
"\"The long war in Iraq will come to an end by the end of this year,\" Obama said Friday.",
"It may come to an end for our troops, but it is far from over for the people of Iraq.",
"Only very few of the loudest opponents of the Iraq war advocated complete withdrawal.",
"The U.S. military commanders recommended at least 15,000 troops remain.",
"Obama once again ignored his generals, as he did with Afghanistan, and instead pressed ahead with a politically calculated decision.",
"Another view: \"Who lost Iraq\" is the wrong question .",
"Perhaps this will gain him praise from the far left of his base, but this will not sit well with a vast majority of the American people.",
"More than 4,000 Americans have died in the Iraq war.",
"The American people have been impatient with the war, but they know we were successful in Iraq.",
"To throw this all away for political expediency is irresponsible.",
"To be tired is one thing, to be irresolute is another.",
"The frequent refrain of Osama bin Laden was that he could always wait us out and that we would eventually show ourselves to be the weak horse, not the strong horse.",
"And, God forbid, if we lose Iraq, it will be on the shoulders of the commander in chief.",
"Under Obama's plan, a mere 160 U.S. troops would stay in Iraq to guard the U.S. Embassy.",
"That is hardly enough troops to defend our own people.",
"For comparison, the United States has 1,234 troops in Belgium, 1,894 troops in Bahrain and 678 troops in Qatar, according to the Department of Defense's active-duty military personnel records.",
"We risk another Saigon moment by evacuating Iraq and leaving no support behind.",
"On my radio show, \"Morning In America,\" Michael Rubin, who is the American Enterprise Institute's Middle East expert and teaches our troops at the Naval Postgraduate School, said with no qualifications that he thinks we will lose Iraq because of this.",
"Dan Senor, senior adviser and the chief spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq in 2003-2004, told me that the president's decision shocked and perplexed him.",
"Iraq cannot survive sectarian violence and Iranian influence on its own, he added.",
"Baghdad will surely move closer to Tehran in our absence.",
"Indeed, one can already see the influence of Tehran.",
"Two weeks ago, Iraq publicly defended the actions of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an early and telling sign that Iraq was preparing for the withdrawal of American forces.",
"The Iranians want influence in Iraq; Obama wants out of Iraq.",
"The president defends his actions on the basis of his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq and former President George W. Bush's withdrawal timeline of 2011.",
"However, just until last week, the Obama administration was negotiating the Status of Forces Agreement with Nuri al-Maliki's government with the understanding that several thousand troops would remain in Iraq -- a clear break from his campaign pledge.",
"More importantly, total troop withdrawal was never a platform of Bush's withdrawal timetable.",
"We know that Tehran is celebrating the president's announcement.",
"Just weeks after spoiling an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, D.C., the United States will withdraw from its strongest post from which to engage Iran.",
"We have given them an open road to Baghdad and unfettered weapons supply lines to Syria and Lebanon.",
"By ceding Iran the high ground, the Obama administration has also undercut American and Israeli efforts to shut down Iran's nuclear weapons program.",
"In spite of all this, Obama will spend his re-election campaign trotting out his foreign policy accomplishments.",
"He deserves credit where it is due.",
"Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Gadhafi are dead.",
"But should we see the loss of Iraq and the rise of Iran, all this will be for naught.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of William J. Bennett."
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"William Bennett: President Obama's decision on troop withdrawal from Iraq is wrong .",
"He says it may gain him points with his base, but risks Iraq falling under Iran's influence .",
"Bennett says U.S. generals wanted at least 15,000 troops to remain ."
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"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- A series of bomb and gun attacks targeting police stations, mosques and churches left 65 people dead in northeastern Nigeria, the Red Cross said Saturday.",
"Attackers also left scores injured -- probably more than 100 -- in a three-hour rampage in the Yobe state city of Damaturu, according to Ibrahim Bulama of the Red Cross.",
"Sixty-three people died.",
"\"It is a very bad scene,\" he said.",
"Gunmen first attacked the police headquarters and the anti-terror office before moving to churches and mosques, he said.",
"Most of the casualties were police officers.",
"In Potiskum, also located in Yobe state, gunmen attacked a book shop near the police station, killing two and injuring 5, the Red Cross said.",
"The Friday attacks came the same day suicide bombers suspected to belong to a militant Islamist group targeted a military base in nearby Maiduguri.",
"Three suicide bombers drove a stolen black SUV toward a Joint Task Force headquarters, but could not get through the gate, military spokesman Lt. Col. Hassan Mohammed said.",
"The blast damaged roofs and walls of the base.",
"Mohammed said two other simultaneous explosions took place at other military facilities.",
"An unspecified number of Nigerian soldiers suffered injuries.",
"Saturday evening, a suicide bomber launched another attack in Maiduguri, Mohammed said.",
"No casualties were reported except for the bomber.",
"He blamed the militant group Boko Haram for the attacks.",
"Loosely translated, the group's name means \"Western education is sinful.\"",
"It wants to establish a state based on Sharia, or Islamic law, in northern Nigeria.",
"The Red Cross official said Boko Haram is suspected in the Damaturu attack as well."
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"\"It is a very bad scene,\" a Red Cross official says ."
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"Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Three bomb blasts rocked the southern Thai border city of Sungai Kolok, leaving at least four people dead and 118 wounded, officials said.",
"The explosions happened Friday night in Thailand's Narathiwart Province, according to the country's Ministry of Public Health.",
"Authorities believe the bombs were planted in a car and motorcycle, and detonated with some form of coordination, according to military spokesman Col. Prinya Chaidilok.",
"He said the incident was carried out by \"drug gangs\" retaliating after a narcotics crackdown by authorities last week.",
"Sungai Kolok, which borders Malaysia in southern Thailand, is a popular tourist destination for Thais and Malaysians."
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"Sungai Kolok is a tourist destination ."
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"(CNN) -- An attorney for Florida A&M University's longtime band director, Julian E. White, said his client has demonstrated \"exemplary\" anti-hazing leadership and should not be dismissed following the death of a drum major.",
"In a letter Friday to FAMU President James H. Ammons, attorney Charles E. \"Chuck\" Hobbs III said White's reports and suspensions related to hazing have not always been met with suspensions from the university or action by law enforcement.",
"Ammons moved Wednesday to fire White, who had led the 420-member band since 1998.",
"\"The reason for this intended employment action is based upon your alleged misconduct and/or incompetence involving confirmed reports and allegations of hazing with the Department of Music and the 'Marching 100,'\" Ammons said in a letter to White.",
"The dismissal came four days after the death.",
"Band members had returned to their Orlando hotel following a game last Saturday.",
"There, Robert Champion, 26, \"reportedly threw up in the parking lot and started complaining of not being able to breathe,\" the sheriff's office said in a release.",
"Champion was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.",
"Ammons' letter notified White that he was being dismissed effective December 22 and placed on administrative leave, with pay, effective immediately.",
"The letter was provided to CNN by the university.",
"Hobbs' letter said White has had many honors while holding his \"dream position.\"",
"\"Dr. White has been at the vanguard of implementing measures to eliminate hazing within the Marching 100 over the past 22 years,\" it read.",
"\"From an administrative standpoint .... hazing within the Marching 100 has often been met with reckless indifference by White's superior officers, who often ignored his requests for assistance or who privately lauded his decisions to suspend members from the band for hazing while failing to ensure that hazers were either charged with applicable criminal offenses or expelled.\"",
"Opinion: What I learned from the FAMU marching band .",
"In addition, Hobbs wrote, White is a fully tenured professor entitled to due process.",
"He argued there are no grounds for White being dismissed for \"just cause.\"",
"On Wednesday, Gov.",
"Rick Scott sent a letter to Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey asking the department to join the investigation \"to assure that the circumstances leading to Mr. Champion's death become fully known, and that if there are individuals directly or indirectly responsible for this death, they are appropriately brought to justice and held accountable.\"",
"Authorities have not said what happened to Champion.",
"A spokeswoman for the Orange County Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday that the autopsy had not been completed and that no cause of death was available.",
"Under Florida law, any death that occurs as the result of hazing is a third-degree felony.",
"After the incident, Ammons suspended band performances and said he will convene a task force \"to determine if there are any unauthorized and questionable activities associated with the culture of the Marching 100.\"",
"Ammons acknowledged that at least 30 band members were let go this semester because of possible involvement in hazing.",
"CNN's Tom Watkins contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester City stunned city rivals Manchester United 6-1 at Old Trafford Sunday with Mario Balotelli scoring the opening two goals in the rout.",
"It was the heaviest home defeat for reigning champions United in the English Premier League and left them five points adrift of City at the top of the table.",
"Balotelli fired City ahead after 22 minutes and was then involved in the game's pivotal moment two minutes into the second half.",
"The 21-year-old Italian's strength took him clear of United defender Jonny Evans, who could only pull him back as he closed on goal.",
"Referee Mark Clattenburg was left with no option than to show Evans the red card and the floodgates opened.",
"Balotelli, forced to move out of his Manchester home on Saturday after a late night prank with fireworks went wrong, was on hand to slot home after brilliant work by David Silva and James Milner.",
"When Sergio Aguero added the third on the hour mark, the game was up for Alex Ferguson's home team, but they did pull back a goal after a sublime strike by Darren Fletcher.",
"But that was the signal for City to really rub in their dominance as substitute Edin Dzeko grabbed a fourth in the 90th minute.",
"With United in total disarray, Silva tapped in from close range and Dzeko added his second and the sixth in injury time.",
"City manager Roberto Mancini hailed the result as proof of the strength of their title challenge.",
"\"I'm satisfied because we beat United away and I don't think there are a lot of teams that could win here,\" he told Sky Sports.",
"\"I think this game is important because we beat them at Old Trafford but not for the 6-1.\"",
"By contrast, Ferguson was annoyed with his players for conceding late goals when down to 10 men and with the game gone.",
"\"It was our worst ever day,\" he conceded \"It's the worst result in my history, ever.",
"Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1.",
"I can't believe the scoreline.",
"The first goal was a blow for sure but it was retrievable at 1-0.",
"\"The sending off was a killer for us.",
"We kept attacking when we went 4-1 down and we should have just said, 'We've had our day'.\"",
"Chelsea later fluffed the chance to move above United into second place when they were beaten 1-0 by west London rivals Queens Park Rangers.",
"Chelsea were reduced to nine-men after first half red cards for Jose Bosingwa and Didier Drogba.",
"Heidar Helguson had put QPR ahead from the spot after being fouled by David Luiz before referee Chris Foy sent off Boswinga for pulling back Shaun Wright-Phillips and Drogba for a studs-up challenge.",
"Chelsea had their chances to level with Nicolas Anelka wasting the best, but QPR held on to gain three valuable points.",
"Earlier Sunday, Arsenal captain Robin van Persie came off the substitute's bench to help his side to a 3-1 home win over Stoke City.",
"Peter Crouch had leveled for Stoke following Gervinho's opener, but Dutch ace van Persie continued his fine scoring run with a double to lift Arsenal up to seventh.",
"Arsenal's north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur also took closer order in the battle for Champions League spots with a 2-1 win at struggling Blackburn.",
"Two goals by Rafael van der Vaart secured the Spurs victory, their fifth of the season, while at Craven Cottage, Everton scored twice in injury time to clinch a 3-1 victory over Fulham."
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"Victory takes City five points clear of United at the top of English Premier League .",
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"(CNN) -- \"I may have spoken too soon,\" Bob Orsa said the other afternoon, with a sardonic laugh that didn't carry much mirth.",
"He and I had first met exactly three years ago -- on September 18, 2008, toward the end of that frightening week when the American economy seemed to be on the verge of disintegrating.",
"Lehman Brothers had collapsed, Merrill Lynch had been taken over by Bank of America, the stock market had plummeted, and the \"too-big-to-fail\" theory that would lead to the bailout of the major banks was forming.",
"Things were a mess.",
"Not that Bob Orsa was a player in those Wall Street and Washington machinations.",
"He was a small businessman in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, a borough of about 18,000 people.",
"Or -- more accurately -- he was about to become a small businessman in Chambersburg.",
"In what would be described as the worst U.S. economic climate since the Great Depression, Orsa was getting ready to open the doors of a new restaurant on the town square.",
"I'd been in Chambersburg interviewing longtime merchants about what rough financial times meant for them.",
"And it was the new guy on the town square -- Bob Orsa -- who sounded, in the face of everything, optimistic.",
"\"Some time to open a new business, right?\"",
"he'd said as we had stood outside the restaurant looking at the old county courthouse across the way, as carpenters inside his building readied it for opening day.",
"\"But I feel good.\" Of the national economy, he'd said: \"It'll all come back.",
"History shows us that, doesn't it?",
"It always comes back.\"",
"I'd been thinking about him in recent days -- wondering how his restaurant had ended up doing, and whether he is as upbeat as he had seemed three years ago.",
"I wanted to talk with him not because he is an expert in the intricacies of global finance, but precisely because he is not.",
"He and small businesspeople like him are on the receiving end of the Wall Street decisions and convulsions that can lead to times as brutal as the ones the country has been dealing with.",
"I just wanted to find out what was going on at his place on the Chambersburg town square.",
"\"I never thought the bad economy would be lasting this long,\" he said.",
"The restaurant he opened is called Cafe D'Italia.",
"It's not a big establishment: 36 seats, 11 tables, open for lunch and dinner.",
"\"I had thought it would take us two years to become solid and feel that we'd made it,\" he said.",
"\"Now I'm thinking it will take four years or more.",
"People aren't eating out at restaurants as much as they would be in good times, because it's a way they can cut back on their expenses.\"",
"He said he doesn't have to follow the stock market on a minute-to-minute basis to know how money worries and layoffs are affecting his customers.",
"\"The first thing you notice is that people will come in less frequently -- they'll still be loyal and come, but not as often as they might.",
"This is a small town, and I know my customers.",
"I know when I don't see them. \"Going out to a restaurant is a luxury that can be scratched off.",
"I'll see it in the individual dinner orders.",
"A couple who would usually order two main dishes might order one and ask to split it.",
"They'll skip the salad.",
"Maybe they'll skip the dessert.",
"I don't blame them -- it's a way to save a little more money.\"",
"He finds himself in the same position as his guests: \"People are pinching pennies out of necessity, and I am, too.",
"I have 13 people working for me -- cooks, servers, hostesses, utility people.",
"Ideally, I should have 17.",
"But to warrant new hiring, I've got to have the right amount of business coming in, and I don't.",
"\"I just spent $18,000 to put in a walk-in refrigerator/freezer.",
"That's a huge chunk of change for a small operation like mine.",
"I waited 2 1/2 years to take that plunge.",
"\"Would I love to have another chef on staff?",
"Absolutely. But my sales figures don't justify it.",
"I can't afford it. I do the cooking myself two or three nights a week.\"",
"Orsa is 56 and has been in the restaurant business for 30 years, he says, \"and I'd be the first to know if I thought my quality was down, or the service was not what it should be.",
"That's not it. Even in good times, if you have a good product, a good location, good service, making a business a success requires good luck, too.",
"No one guarantees that you're going to make it.",
"\"But in this economy, with this kind of joblessness, making a go of a small business becomes even more of a challenge.\"",
"He feels a little cynical about the too-big-to-fail mantra that bailed out the major banks.",
"\"There's no 'too small to fail' for businesses like ours.",
"No one's going to save us if we can't make it.\"",
"He said that since opening he has always met his payroll and always paid his vendors, but that with revenues about 20 to 25 percent less than what he would like them to be, \"there have been more than a few weeks when I haven't been able to pay the last person who gets paid: me.\"",
"When things are tough, he doesn't have to ask his customers to explain, because \"I can see it.",
"You know how people look when it's been raining for two straight weeks -- tense, a little down?",
"That's the look, even when the sun is out.\"",
"Yet the high hopes he had for his business when he and I met three years ago are still there, and so is the pride in what he -- like so many small business people across the country in this economy -- is trying to do: .",
"\"Just being proud of what you've built.",
"Being a part of the life of the town.",
"I like it that I have afforded 13 people a living for almost three years now.",
"Winter's coming, and sales tend to go down in the winter, at the same time the energy costs for heating this place go up.",
"But that's all right. We've got a business right here in the center of town, and it wasn't here before we built it, and we're going to make it.\"",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene."
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"Bob Greene says he met Bob Orsa in 2008 in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania .",
"He says Orsa was opening a restaurant just as the economy was tanking ; he's still hopeful .",
"He says customers feel pinch; it affects business, but unlike banks no one bails him out .",
"Greene: Orsa has hung on, employing 13 people, determined to succeed in his community ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Tripoli on Tuesday, making her the first Cabinet-level American official to go to Libya since the ouster of longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi.",
"She landed under tight security in a country where forces loyal to the transitional government are still battling Gadhafi loyalists.",
"She met with officials of the National Transitional Council and visited those wounded in the fighting.",
"NTC fighters toppled Gadhafi's nearly 42-year-old government in August after six months of battles.",
"Gadhafi, his son Saif al-Islam Gadhafi and his brother-in-law and intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Sanussi, are wanted on war crimes charges and remain fugitives.",
"Regarding Moammar Gadhafi, Clinton told reporters: \"We hope he will be captured or killed soon.\"",
"As Clinton boarded the military plane to leave for Malta on Tuesday evening, she saw several Libyan fighters, who gave her a warm welcome.",
"After a short meet-and-greet at the airport with Malta Embassy employees, Clinton was headed for Oman.",
"At a news conference Tuesday with Clinton, interim Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril expressed appreciation for political, humanitarian and moral support from the United States.",
"He said he does not plan to be part of Libya's new government.",
"Asked if she was concerned about civil war continuing in Libya, Clinton said she is encouraged that steps are being taken to address reconciliation and get the Libyan army and police under one command, but noted that action cannot be taken with fighting still under way.",
"On whether the United States will cooperate with Islamists, Clinton said democracy must reflect the aspirations of the Libyan people.",
"America will support a democratic process that respects the rule of law, she said, and includes renouncing violence and giving up arms.",
"Women in Libya should have equal rights, she said, as they sacrificed in the revolution and deserve to be part of the new Libya.",
"Clinton then attended a town hall meeting, telling residents: \"Don't spend your time settling scores of the past.",
"Keep an eye on the future.",
"... You can't drive forward when looking in the rearview mirror.\"",
"She also visited a hospital and met wounded fighters, many of whom need surgeries to save their limbs.",
"The operations are being held up by red tape and processing necessary to get out of the country for transport.",
"She said she will try to help them.",
"\"There are three main purposes to the secretary's visit,\" a senior State Department official said in a briefing to reporters Monday before Clinton's arrival.",
"\"First is simply to offer on behalf for the United States, on behalf of the American people and government, our congratulations, our best wishes to the Libyan people for what, through great hardship, sacrifice and courage, they have achieved in opening the door to a more promising future for Libya after 42 years of the Gadhafi dictatorship.\"",
"The official said Clinton and her counterpart were to announce the restarting of the Fulbright Program, an educational exchange, and English Access, an English-language program.",
"They were to talk about a new program with Oberlin College in Ohio and archaeologists in Libya to map, document and do risk assessments of archaeological sites in eastern Libya.",
"\"We also want to be talking to the Libyans about how to integrate Libya fully into the 21st-century world economy in transparent ways where Libya's oil wealth is used for the benefit of all of Libya's citizens,\" the official said.",
"In discussing economic diversification, the official mentioned \"privatizing some of the state monopolies, because much of the economy is state-owned.\"",
"\"The NTC sees privatization as being one of the engines to diversification and growth.",
"Now many of these decisions have to wait a more permanent governing structure.",
"The NTC is being very careful about not taking significant decisions on dismantling this or dismantling that until they are able to assure themselves of a more popular base.",
"They've very mindful of the fact that that T in NTC stands for transition.\"",
"The official said conventional and nonconventional weaponry in Libya is fully secured and accounted for.",
"Clinton intended to \"talk to Libyan officials about the fact that we will be increasing our assistance on the MANPADS destruction to nearly $40 million ...,\" the official said, referring to man-portable air-defense systems, which are shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles.",
"Asked about reconciliation, the official said the NTC has remarked that it would work with people who don't have \"blood on their hands\" and try to be inclusive.",
"\"It has to be able to show that it has political credibility, that it's able to also have places for those who actually fought for the liberation of Libya in the governing structures,\" the official said.",
"Gadhafi's whereabouts are unknown, and the official acknowledged the existence of pro-Gadhafi enclaves.",
"\"He has people, henchman, loyalists, sons, here and there who still have circles around them.",
"I don't think there's any coordination going on between them.",
"I think you're having pockets of people who are trying to stop the flow of history ahead,\" the official said.",
"\"Yes, he's a nuisance.",
"Yes, he's still providing problems here and there.",
"But the Libyans are not waiting to build a better future for themselves, for their children, for their country.\"",
"Clinton also said she was pleased to see an end to the ordeal of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held captive by Palestinian militants for more than five years.",
"Shalit was released Tuesday as part of a prisoner swap between Israel and the Palestinians.",
"Shalit was held far too long in captivity, Clinton said.",
"CNN's Elise Labott is the news media pool producer for Clinton's trip."
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"NEW: Hillary Clinton heads to Oman after brief stopover in Malta .",
"Clinton on Moammar Gadhafi: \"We hope he will be captured or killed soon\"\nClinton is the first Cabinet-level U.S. official to visit Libya since Gadhafi's ouster .",
"National Transitional Council fighters toppled Gadhafi's 42-year-old government in August ."
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"(EW.com) -- There are two ways for pop stars to make a Survivor Album: either power-sing through your problems like Christina Aguilera, or make like Rihanna and dance till you forget what you're supposed to be getting over.",
"On her first release since checking out of rehab, Demi Lovato wants to have it both ways.",
"She's front-loaded \"Unbroken\" with leave-no-synth-effect-behind R&B (''You're My Only Shorty,'' featuring Iyaz), shy love-in-this-club tracks (''Who's That Boy''), and Timbaland bangers (''All Night Long,'' with Missy Elliott).",
"So it's a little unnerving when she gets to the album's second half -- the part where, as she told Ryan Seacrest, ''I'm singing about some issues that I've never even spoken about before.''",
"Having struggled with cutting since she was a preteen, Lovato admits, ''I ended up with wounds to bind ... and I just ran out of Band-Aids'' on the hugely affecting ballad ''Fix a Heart.''",
"Demi Lovato covers Lil Wayne's 'How to Love' in NYC: Watch it here .",
"The piano confessional ''For the Love of a Daughter'' finds her picturing herself at age 4, begging her dad to ''put the bottle down'' and keep his ''selfish hands'' to himself.",
"And then there's ''Skyscraper,'' an anthem so honest you can hear her voice breaking.",
"Taylor Swift teams with Hayley Williams in Nashville for 'That's What You Get' Clearly it's been a tough year for Lovato.",
"But as Rihanna could tell her, sometimes bad years make great songs.",
"B+ . See full review 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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"\"Unbroken\" is Demi Lovato's first release since checking out of rehab .",
"She's front-loaded \"Unbroken\" with R&B, shy love-in-this-club tracks and Timbaland bangers .",
"''I'm singing about some issues that I've never even spoken about before,\" she said ."
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"Hong Kong (CNN) -- A nun has died after setting herself on fire in southwestern China, the first Tibetan woman known to have killed herself in this way, the London-based Free Tibet campaign group said Tuesday.",
"According to the group, Tenzin Wangmo, 20, called for religious freedom in Tibet and for the return of the Dalai Lama as she set fire to herself outside Dechen Chokorling Nunnery in Ngaba County, Sichuan Province on Monday.",
"She died at the scene.",
"The State Administration for Religious Affairs in Beijing told CNN they were not aware of the incident.",
"Free Tibet, which advocates Tibetan independence, also reported that two Tibetans were shot and wounded on Sunday by security forces during a protest outside a police station in the prefecture of Ganzi.",
"Tenzin is the ninth Tibetan -- all monks or former monks -- to commit self-immolation in protest against Chinese rule since March, the advocacy group said.",
"Five have died. The last attempt took place on Saturday when a 19-year-old former monk from Kirti monastery in Aba, another ethnic Tibetan area in Sichuan province, set himself alight in the central market in Ngaba Town but survived.",
"His whereabouts are unknown, according to Free Tibet.",
"Activists say the disturbing acts reflect an increasingly repressive environment under Beijing's control.",
"\"Most Tibetans live in fear because of suppressive and unfair government policies but they dare not speak up,\" prominent Tibetan writer and activist Tsering Woeser told CNN.",
"\"Tibetan Buddhists can't use violence to protest, therefore they can only do violence to themselves, such as self-immolation, to make people pay attention to their situation.",
"\"This is not suicide, this is sacrifice in order to draw the world's attention.\"",
"Another incident in Aba in March, in which a monk died, sparked weeks of often violent confrontation between local monks and authorities.",
"Security forces locked down the Kirti Monastery and eventually detained more than 300 monks, rights groups said at the time.",
"When the United Nations working group on enforced disappearances expressed its concern to Beijing, Chinese officials called the organization's perspective \"biased and unfair.\"",
"\"The relevant local authorities are conducting legal education for the Kirti Monastery monks to maintain religious order there -- there was no question of forced disappearances,\" Hong Lei, a foreign ministry spokesman, said in June.",
"China also rejects accusations of oppression of Tibetans, saying its rule has greatly improved living standards for the Tibetan people.",
"The Dalai Lama's representative signed an agreement with Beijing in 1951 to affirm China's sovereignty over Tibet but also grant autonomy to the area.",
"A failed uprising against Beijing's rule in 1959 forced the Dalai Lama into exile.",
"The Dalai Lama denies seeking independence for Tibet, saying he wants genuine autonomy, under which Tibetans can make their own policies on key issues, such as religious practices.",
"In a 2008 uprising, violent unrest in Tibet and the subsequent military crackdown left at least 18 dead, and activists say tensions have remained high in many areas since then.",
"CNN's Xiaoni Chen contributed to this report."
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"Group: Tenzin Wangmo called for religious freedom in Tibet before setting herself alight .",
"Tenzin is the ninth Tibetan -- and first woman -- to commit self-immolation .",
"Free Tibet also reported that two Tibetans were shot and wounded during a protest .",
"Activists: Acts reflect an increasingly repressive environment under Beijing's control ."
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"(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer have put Spain on the brink of reaching the Davis Cup final after winning their opening two singles rubbers against France in convincing fashion.",
"With the red clay of Cordoba suiting the Spanish duo perfectly, world number two Nadal -- showing no ill effects from losing the final of the U.S. Open to Novak Djokovic earlier this week -- set the ball rolling with a crushing 6-3 6-0 6-1 success over Richard Gasquet.",
"And Ferrer doubled Spain's advantage, brushing aside Gilles Simon 6-1 6-4 6-1, to leave the four-times champions needing just a win in Saturday's doubles rubber to reach the final.",
"The New Musketeers: France's fantastic four bid for Davis Cup glory .",
"Despite searing heat, Nadal never allowed Gasquet time to get into their match, with the 10-time grand slam winner telling reporters he was delighted with his performance, considering he felt tired.",
"\"That worked out well, I managed to play with a cool head and do what I had to do throughout without losing concentration for a minute,\" said Nadal.",
"\"There were moments where he helped me in making mistakes, not forcing me to play long points.",
"My service was working well and that made me feel much more comfortable,\" added the Spanish No.1.",
"A despondent Gasquet added: \"Even a tired Nadal remains an exceptional player.",
"I couldn't find a way past him.",
"It's a defeat that really hurts.\"",
"Spain are attempting to reach the final for the third time in four years, and are favorites to take the trophy with two of the world's top five players amongst their ranks.",
"They are also well on their way to avenging last year's 5-0 whitewash quarterfinal defeat to France .",
"Spanish doubles specialists Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco can now finish the job on Saturday when they go up against Michael Llodra and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.",
"Meanwhile, defending champions Serbia have a mountain to climb in order to retain their title after losing the opening two singles rubbers of their semifinal against Argentina in front of 15,000 partisan fans in Belgrade.",
"David Nalbandian set Argentina on their way with a 6-4 4-6 6-2 6-3 success over Victor Troicki, who replaced Djokovic in the opening singles after the world No.1 complained of fatigue and a back injury.",
"Then, former U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro saw off Janko Tipsarevic 7-5 6-3 6-4 to put Argentina within one victory of a place in the final.",
"Nalbandian told reporters he only knew of Djokovic's absence 30 minutes before the match started.",
"\"But I knew yesterday that I had to be prepared to play anyone.",
"We are well prepared, in good form, and ready to write history.\""
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"Spain lead France 2-0 after the opening singles rubbers in Cordoba .",
"Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer crush their opponents for the loss of just 10 games .",
"Holders Serbia trail Argentina 2-0 after Novak Djokovic withdraws from opener ."
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"(CNN) -- NATO will begin to scale back operations in Libya following Moammar Gadhafi's death, with the preliminary end date of October 31, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Friday.",
"A formal decision on a definitive end date will be made early next week.",
"\"We did what we said we would do and now is the time for the Libyan people to take their destiny into their own hands,\" Rasmussen said after meeting with officials in Brussels to determine what should happen next.",
"NATO forces will be on standby until the end of the month to continue to provide assistance to civilians if needed, he said, adding that, if requested by the new Libyan leadership, the international body could also help in the transition with regards to reforms to the country's defense and security sectors.",
"Although Gadhafi was eventually captured by Libyan fighters and apparently killed by crossfire, the seven-month-long western intervention through NATO was a key factor in his downfall.",
"One question is sure to come up: Has the Libya operation presented a model for future NATO missions or has it revealed the organization's limitations in terms of resources and political will?",
"New day for Libya, but one fraught with challenges .",
"Within days of the U.N. Security Council's authorization of Resolution 1973, with the mandate of protecting Libya's civilian population, NATO forces were engaged in action by air and sea.",
"The operation relied on three main prongs -- implementing a no-fly zone, enforcing an arms embargo and taking action to protect civilians and civilian areas under threat of attack.",
"Since March 31, some 9,634 strike sorties, where targets are identified or hit, are among 26,000 sorties to have been conducted, NATO said Friday.",
"Among the targets were Gadhafi's military command centers, armored vehicles, munitions dumps and underground bunkers.",
"NATO confirmed on Friday that 11 pro-Gadhafi military vehicles were hit by NATO aircraft outside his stronghold of Sirte Thursday morning, after they were seen leaving the city at high speed carrying large amounts of arms and ammunition.",
"NATO did not know at the time of the strike that Gadhafi was in the convoy, which was targeted only because of the threat it posed to civilians, the NATO statement said -- but it later learned that Gadhafi \"was in the convoy and the strike likely contributed to his capture.\"",
"Gadhafi died soon after he was seized by Libyan fighters.",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday that Gadhafi's death is proof of the success of the NATO alliance and the mission in Libya.",
"\"This was not an easy effort, it involved a great deal of cooperation, a great deal of partnership.",
"But the fact was that working together, they accomplished this mission that Gadhafi is no longer.",
"And finally Libya belongs to the Libyan people,\" Panetta said while flying to Asia for a series of meetings with U.S. allies in the region.",
"Rasmussen similarly hailed the alliance's Libya mission as a \"remarkable success,\" saying the operation \"prevented a massacre and saved countless lives.\"",
"Gadhafi killed in crossfire after capture, Libya PM says .",
"U.S. Vice President Joe Biden told CNN's \"State of the Union\" program, in an interview to be broadcast Sunday, that the operation had shown that the United States did not have to carry the weight of international military interventions alone.",
"The point, he said, \"is that the NATO alliance worked like it was designed to do, burden-sharing.",
"In total, it cost us $2 billion, no American lives lost.\"",
"And unlike other NATO operations, such as Afghanistan, where the United States has carried \"the primary burden,\" Biden said, \"this was really burden-sharing.\"",
"Pentagon spokesman George Little put the price tag for U.S. Defense Department operations in Libya as of September 30 at $1.1 billion.",
"This included daily military operations, munitions, the drawdown of supplies and humanitarian assistance.",
"Britain and France also committed significant resources to the operation, as did some smaller nations, such as Norway, which provided six Norwegian F-16s in the early months of the mission.",
"But those who argue the operation exposed NATO's weaknesses point to the larger countries, such as Germany and Poland, which did not get involved.",
"Germany abstained from the U.N. Security Council vote on Resolution 1973, saying it was concerned about a protracted military conflict.",
"And despite President Barack Obama's determination that the United States take a backseat role in Libya, its surveillance drones and air support provision were key.",
"In a farewell speech to the NATO council in Brussels in June, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that the organization had become a \"two-tiered\" alliance poorly equipped to deal with challenges.",
"Criticizing the reluctance of some of the alliance's 28 members to spend money on defense, he said the Libya operation had made it \"painfully clear\" that shortcomings could \"jeopardize the alliance's ability to conduct an integrated, effective and sustained air-sea campaign.\"",
"More analysis of NATO's performance is bound to come up as the smoke clears.",
"NATO may also be called to help Libya's fledgling government and disparate militias achieve an orderly transition.",
"\"There are significant security challenges ahead for Libya,\" Toner said.",
"\"Whether that is something NATO can help them with, or whether we can help them with, or whether other countries can help them with, we'll figure that out in the days ahead.\"",
"But French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, on Europe 1, suggested it was all over.",
"\"It's up to the National Transitional Council to say it as the Libyans have their fate in the hands today.",
"But, I think we can say that the military operation is finished, all of Libya's territory is under the control of the National Transitional Council.",
"And that, subject to a few transitory measures in the week to come, the NATO operation has come to an end.\"",
"Damon Wilson, of the Washington-based Atlantic Council think tank, said he expected the NATO ambassadors meeting in Brussels to recognize that NATO's military operation in Libya was done, but that its involvement in the country was not.",
"NATO could help the new civilian government in such areas as civilian control of the military, professionalization of security forces and border security, he said, although it might take time before the interim government was in a position to make requests of NATO.",
"And NATO can draw some important lessons from the mission, Wilson said.",
"\"In many respects this was a successful operation.",
"It was an operation in which the United States did play a pretty prominent role, and we even downplayed how much of a role we played.",
"\"But our European partners really stepped up to the plate.",
"It showed that NATO works but it also showed that the alliance is effective in including our Arab partners -- in this operation, a key ingredient to success.\"",
"CNN's Chris Lawrence, Barbara Starr, Jamie Crawford and Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report."
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"A decision on a definitive end date will be made next week .",
"NATO confirms a strike by its aircraft likely contributed to Gadhafi's capture .",
"Officials: Coalition forces' seven-month mission is drawing to an end ."
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"Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Severe flooding in Thailand on Saturday threatened central areas of Bangkok, a bustling capital barely above sea level and facing inundation at the next high tide predicted at 13 feet.",
"Residents who decided to stay in their homes despite government pleas to get out waited anxiously to see whether high tide, forecast for Saturday afternoon, would overwhelm defenses along the Chao Phraya River and its many canals.",
"Bangkok's outer suburbs were already submerged, but the central city had been largely spared the misery Thailand has been suffering for months in the nation's worst flooding since 1942.",
"In the east and the north of the city, water was at waist-level in some neighborhoods, but in central Bangkok, it had been mostly dry.",
"The city was facing two converging threats, however.",
"Runoff the equivalent of 480,000 Olympic-size pools was flowing south to the sea through Bangkok, as high tide pushed the water in the opposite direction.",
"\"The challenge is to manage the huge runoff from the north passing via the city on its way to the Gulf of Thailand,\" a Red Cross bulletin said.",
"Saturday's high tide, the Red Cross said, was expected to put \"extreme pressure\" on Bangkok's elaborate system of dikes and other flood defenses.",
"Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra ordered work crews Friday to cut channels in roadways to allow faster drainage, according to the state-run MCOT news agency.",
"But the plan was rejected late in the day in favor of dredging canals and using pumps, the Bangkok Post reported.",
"Health concerns were rising with the water.",
"Bangkok residents waded through murky waters without knowing what lurked within, the risk of infection and communicable disease worrying health officials.",
"The government sent out crocodile hunters after reports of crocodiles and snakes in the filthy floodwater.",
"\"We were hearing disturbing reports of dangerous animals such as snakes and crocodiles appearing in the floodwaters and every day we see children playing in the water, bathing or wading through it trying to make their way to dry ground,\" said Annie Bodmer-Roy, spokeswoman for the humanitarian agency Save the Children.",
"As floodwater entered homes, some Bangkok residents still in the city made plans to leave.",
"Thanyarat Hemkittiwat said she was going to stay with relatives outside the city.",
"\"Some families in southern Bangkok had their house flooded,\" said the 31-year-old worker at a furniture export company, which was shut after it also was flooded.",
"\"The water level is 2 meters (six feet) high and smells very bad,\" she said.",
"The military had set up a flood relief center, \"but now even that has water coming in it,\" she said.",
"Asked what help the government had provided, she said, \"We don't see that the government is doing anything much to help people, so better to help ourselves by getting out of Bangkok.\"",
"But the Bangkok Post reported that government buses had evacuated a number of elderly residents from the northern and eastern suburbs, and would pick up residents of the capital on Saturday and take them out of Bangkok.",
"As of Saturday, an estimated 1 million of the city's 12 million residents had left.",
"Another Bangkok resident said she was worried about abandoning her house, which has been flooded for five days, and would not leave.",
"Still, so many people had left that the streets were relatively quiet.",
"Panic buying had led to a shortage of food and bottled water in the capital, residents said.",
"City officials bracing for more flooding have opened nine evacuation centers.",
"Officials urged tourists to steer clear of Bangkok, while noting that many of the other tourist spots, such as Phuket, remained dry and open for business.",
"Thailand's Ministry of Public Health had transferred 280 of the capital's 520 patients in severe condition to 22 hospitals upcountry, the MCOT news agency reported.",
"The remaining 240 patients will be taken to hospitals in other provinces by Sunday, it said, citing Permanent-Secretary for Health Paichit Varachit.",
"Health Minister Witthaya Buranasiri said that, after months of flooding, 107,101 Thais have been diagnosed with stress, 6,214 with depression and 878 at risk of suicide.",
"In all, 1,356 people were under observation by health officials, the minister said, according to MCOT.",
"The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert on Thursday, recommending against all but essential travel to affected areas.",
"It noted that most tourist destinations, such as Phuket and Chiang Mai, were unaffected.",
"U.S. Ambassador Kristie Kenny said the crisis was slow-moving and it was hard to know what would be hit next.",
"The United States has already provided civilian relief resources, including water pumps, water purifiers and life vests, she said, and two U.S. helicopters are helping the Thai military determine the extent of the flooding.",
"The floods, caused by monsoon rains that saturated rivers, have killed 373 people nationwide and affected more than 9.5 million people, .",
"Are you there? Share photos, video but stay safe .",
"The government has called the flooding the worst to afflict the nation in half a century and said it might take more than a month before the waters recede from some areas.",
"The government has set up more than 1,700 shelters nationwide, and more than 113,000 people have taken refuge in them.",
"Overall damage from the floods could exceed $6 billion, the Thai Finance Ministry said.",
"CNN's Sara Sidner and Kocha Olarn reported from Bangkok and Moni Basu reported from Atlanta.",
"Aliza Kassim and Elizabeth Yuan contributed to this report."
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"Many other tourist spots, such as Phuket, remain dry and open for business .",
"The outer suburbs are already flooded, but the central city has largely been spared .",
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama released his long-awaited debt reduction plan Monday, outlining a roughly $3 trillion savings blueprint that was immediately criticized by top congressional and other Republicans.",
"The president's plan includes $1.5 trillion in new revenue generated largely by higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans, a proposal strongly opposed by GOP leaders who insist that any tax increase will undermine an already shaky economy.",
"The measure -- which would add to nearly $1 trillion in savings signed into law under the debt-ceiling deal enacted in August -- does not include changes to Social Security.",
"It would increase Medicare premiums for individuals with higher incomes starting in 2017 -- the year Obama leaves office if he wins a second term.",
"\"We are not going to have a one-sided deal that hurts the folks that are most vulnerable,\" Obama said at the White House, offering a defense of tax hikes on the highest earners.",
"Spending cuts alone \"will not solve our fiscal problems.",
"We can't just cut our way out of this hole,\" he added.",
"\"It's going to take a balanced approach.",
"If we're going to make spending cuts -- many of which we wouldn't make if we weren't facing such large budget deficits -- then it's only right that we ask everyone to pay their fair share.\"",
"Obama explicitly promised to veto any debt-reduction legislation that cuts benefits while failing to include higher taxes on the wealthy.",
"iReport: What do you think about Obama's plan?",
"\"I will not support any plan that puts all the burden on ordinary Americans,\" he insisted.",
"Republicans responded by dismissing the plan as little more than a cheap political gimmick.",
"It's \"a thinly veiled attempt to score political points,\" said Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.",
"\"By raising taxes on job creators, Obama may win back some support from disgruntled liberal voters, but America will lose even more sorely needed jobs.\"",
"\"Veto threats, a massive tax hike, phantom savings and punting on entitlement reform is not a recipe for economic or job growth — or even meaningful deficit reduction,\" said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky.",
"\"Pitting one group of Americans against another is not leadership,\" added House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.",
"Key congressional Democrats quickly rallied to Obama's defense, calling the blueprint a serious attempt to take on one of the most contentious issues in Washington.",
"The \"proposal is clearly moving in the right direction,\" said North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.",
"\"It represents a significant and balanced plan for bringing our deficits and debt under control.\"",
"On Monday night, Obama referred to the Republican response as predictable and said the issue shows the fundamental difference between the parties on how the nation should deal with mounting federal deficits and national debt.",
"\"What has been clear over the last two and a half years is that we have not had a willing partner,\" Obama told a New York fundraising event.",
"\"Now, we've been able to get some stuff done despite that, and despite a filibuster in the Senate.",
"But at least over the last nine months what we've seen is some irreconcilable differences, let's put it that way.\"",
"The release of Obama's blueprint is likely to set the stage for a fall dominated by harsh partisan debates over taxes and spending, as well as a 2012 presidential campaign focused on growing economic fears.",
"Under Obama's plan, $800 billion in revenue would be generated by allowing some of the Bush-era tax cuts for high-income households to expire, as the president has repeatedly called for.",
"An additional $400 billion would result from capping the value of itemized deductions and other exemptions for high-income households.",
"Read the White House plan (PDF) The remaining $300 billion would come from closing various tax loopholes, according to a senior administration official.",
"A new tax surcharge could also be imposed on millionaires: the \"Buffett Rule,\" named after investor Warren Buffett, who argues that the richest Americans are not taxed enough.",
"Wealthier Americans often derive much of their income from investments, which are typically taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income such as wages.",
"As a result, they can end up owing a lower percentage of their income in federal taxes than someone who makes less money, especially once payroll taxes are factored in.",
"The concept behind the Buffett Rule is that those earning more than $1 million should not be allowed to pay a lesser percentage of their income in federal taxes than Americans lower down the income scale.",
"Read more: On taxes and debt, left and right dare to agree .",
"In terms of spending, Obama's plan incorporates $580 billion in mandatory cuts, including $248 billion from the politically popular Medicare program.",
"Roughly 90% of those savings will come from reducing overpayments in the system, according to a senior administration official.",
"Any changes to Medicare benefits won't kick in before 2017, the official said.",
"An additional $72 billion will come from Medicaid and other health programs.",
"The president's plan does not include any Social Security reform proposals or changes to the Medicare eligibility age, reforms that have reportedly been put on the table by the administration in the past but are strongly opposed by a number of progressive Democrats.",
"Another $1.1 trillion in savings would be generated by winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"In addition, the administration is counting savings that would result from spending caps it has proposed on future overseas contingency operations.",
"The administration also estimates interest savings of approximately $430 billion, a result of less borrowing and smaller annual budget shortfalls.",
"Roughly $450 billion in the plan would be used to pay for the American Jobs Act, the economic stimulus measure proposed by Obama last week.",
"Top Republicans call the president's plan a form of class warfare.",
"\"When you pick one area of the economy and you say, 'We're going to tax those people because most people are not those people,' that's class warfare,\" Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said Sunday on CNN's \"State of the Union.\"",
"\"We have a difference of opinion on how best to fix these problems,\" House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, told \"Fox News Sunday.\"",
"\"But when the president does things like this, it leads you to believe that he's not in bipartisan consensus-making mood.",
"He's in a political class-warfare mode and campaign mode.",
"And that's not good for our economy.\"",
"Obama explicitly rejected the class warfare claim Monday.",
"\"I reject the idea that asking a hedge fund manager to pay the same tax rate as a plumber or a teacher is class warfare,\" the president said.",
"\"I think it's just the right the thing to do.",
"I believe the American middle class, who've been pressured relentlessly for decades, believe it's time that they were fought for as hard as the lobbyists and some lawmakers have fought to protect special treatment for billionaires and big corporations.\"",
"Democrats have blamed Republicans for blocking the Obama administration's initiatives purely for what Democrats insist are short-term political gain.",
"\"I don't think people like that style of politics, and that's the reality ... we'll be facing in November 2012,\" Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, said Sunday.",
"Congressional action on deficit reduction is moving on multiple tracks now.",
"Durbin said the Democratic-controlled Senate would take up Obama's jobs plan next month, while leaders in the Republican-controlled House have rejected some parts of it.",
"Meanwhile, a special deficit reduction commission created under last month's debt-ceiling agreement has started its work amid the longstanding political divisions on key issues.",
"The 12-member committee, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate, has until November 23 to draft a $1.5 trillion deficit-reduction plan that can win congressional approval by December 23.",
"Otherwise, more than $1 trillion in across-the-board spending cuts will go into effect, on top of $900 billion in cuts already mandated under the debt ceiling deal.",
"The special committee \"is taking this issue far more seriously than the White House,\" McConnell said Monday.",
"More than a year of rancorous negotiations on deficit reduction has failed to resolve a fundamental dispute between Republicans and Democrats involving the size of government and whether to raise tax revenue while cutting spending.",
"The brinkmanship of the negotiations, with uncertainty over whether the government might default if no deal was reached, was one reason that ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. credit rating from AAA to AA-plus in August.",
"CNN's Alan Silverleib, Jeanne Sahadi, Tom Cohen and Kate Bolduan contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Obama cites \"irreconcilable differences\" with Republicans .",
"The plan calls for $1.5 trillion in new taxes, including a tax surcharge on millionaires .",
"Over $1 trillion in savings would be realized by ending wars in Iraq, Afghanistan .",
"GOP leaders call the new taxes a form of class warfare ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Face-to-face questioning of potential jurors to hear the case against Michael Jackson's doctor began in a packed Los Angeles courtroom Friday morning, four days ahead of the opening statements and testimony.",
"The pool of 84 potential jurors in court appeared diverse, although only six were African-American.",
"Each side will be allowed 10 \"peremptory challenges,\" allowing them to get rid of jurors without stating a reason.",
"Prosecutors and defense lawyers mutually agreed in closed-door sessions Wednesday and Thursday on which potential jurors in a pool of 145 were too biased to put their prejudices aside to decide if Dr. Conrad Murray is criminally responsible for the pop icon's death, according to Murray defense lawyer Michael Flanagan.",
"\"Both sides just want to get a fair jury that hasn't made up their mind and is willing to make a decision based upon the facts,\" Flanagan said after Thursday's jury selection session.",
"Lead defense lawyer Ed Chernoff said there were no surprising reasons for striking jurors \"for cause,\" and the pool was filled with people who could be open-minded.",
"\"Time ameliorates things,\" Chernoff said.",
"Flanagan predicted Thursday afternoon that Friday's jury selection would \"go very fast.\"",
"While most judges allow defense lawyers an hour to question potential jurors, Pastor is allowing just 20 minutes for each side, Flanagan said.",
"\"Twenty minutes is a pretty short period of time,\" Flanagan said.",
"\"You can't say 'hi' to everybody in 20 minutes.\"",
"It is expected 12 jurors and six alternates will be chosen by the end of court Friday.",
"Murray, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death, would face up to four years in prison if the jury finds him guilty.",
"The \"for cause\" strikes were based mostly on written answers potential jurors gave to 113 questions earlier this month.",
"Lawyers had a week to study the questionnaire responses, a process they went through once before in April before the trial was delayed for several months.",
"\"One of the things that we learned in the case the last go-around in the jury selection, it's absolutely shocking how many jurors think already they know everything about this case,\" Chernoff said in an interview last week with Jean Casarez, a reporter with CNN sister network In Session.",
"Opening statements for the trial, which will be televised, are scheduled for September 27.",
"The judge told members of the jury pool he expects their service will be over on or about October 28.",
"The Los Angeles coroner has ruled that Jackson's death on June 25, 2009, was caused by an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol combined with other drugs.",
"Prosecutors have accused Murray, who served as Jackson's personal and full-time physician at the time, of having a role in the overdose.",
"They contend Murray used a makeshift intravenous drip to administer propofol intended to help Jackson sleep, a practice they argue violated the standard of care and led to the pop music icon's death."
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"NEW: 84 potential jurors, including six African-Americans, remain in the jury pool .",
"Jury selection \"is going to go very fast,\" defense lawyer Michael Flanagan says .",
"Jury selection is expected to be wrapped up Friday .",
"Opening statements in the trial of Michael Jackson's lawyer are set for Tuesday ."
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"(CNN) -- Witnesses began describing the final moments of and futile attempts to save a Connecticut mother and her two daughters inside their burning home, opening the trial Monday for one of the men who authorities claim is responsible for their murders.",
"Prosecutors declined to give an opening statement to start the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky, 31, who faces 17 charges in a brutal home invasion in Cheshire.",
"But they did introduce tapes from two 911 calls, a bank teller who claimed the mother tried to withdraw $15,000 as ransom and a police officer who found Dr. William Petit -- the lone survivor -- fighting for life outside his family's burning home.",
"The first defendant to stand trial in the case, Steven Hayes, was sentenced to the death penalty in December after being convicted on 16 of 17 charges filed against him.",
"Prosecutors allege that Hayes and Komisarjevsky went into the Petit home, beat and tied up Dr. William Petit, raped and strangled his wife, molested one of their daughters and set the house on fire before attempting to flee.",
"The two daughters, who were both tied to their beds, died of smoke inhalation.",
"William Petit managed to escape.",
"Entering the New Haven court Monday, Petit succinctly told reporters, \"I just hope justice was served.\"",
"He was one of several of the victims' family members packing the courtroom, many of them wearing pins that Judge Jon C. Blue allowed over defense lawyers' objections they might sway the jury.",
"While he didn't present a comprehensive statement, New Haven State's Attorney Michael Dearington briefly spoke to jurors, explaining that prosecutors believe the jury will be able to listen to the evidence and render a decision.",
"Under the law, Dearington said, Komisarjevsky is charged both as a principal and an accessory.",
"Komisarjevsky's defense attorney, Walter Bansley, told jurors that his client never intended to kill anyone, that his sole purpose in breaking into the Petit home was to steal.",
"Bansley said Komisarjevsky did not have a weapon.",
"He told jurors that in order to convict Komisarjevsky of capital murder, they must determine he intended to kill someone.",
"It was Hayes, Bansley said, who raped and strangled Jennifer Hawke-Petit, poured the gasoline and lit the match.",
"Komisarjevsky was a willing participant in the break-in and theft, but not the murders, according to Bansley, who recounted mounting dissension between Hayes and Komisarjevsky as the home invasion progressed through that morning.",
"Hayes felt the Petits needed to be killed, Bansley claimed, but Komisarjevsky refused to kill anyone.",
"Bansley did allude to a \"confession\" that Komisarjevsky had later made in the incident.",
"While it was not yet entered into testimony on this trial's first day, during Hayes' trial, a court clerk read from writings of Komisarjevsky, in which he described the incident in a 40-page letter that he wrote to author Brian McDonald in 2008.",
"\"All were compliant,\" he wrote.",
"\"This time I took a risk, pulled the trigger, and the chamber was loaded. ...",
"The Petit family passed through their fears and into terror. ...",
"It was captivating, validating that this pain in me was real. ...",
"I was looking right at my personal demon, reflected back in their eyes.",
"... Hayley is a fighter; she tried time and time again to free herself.",
"... Mr. Petit is a coward; he ran away when he thought his life was threatened, and ran away to leave his wife and children to madmen. ...",
"I was cheated of my retribution, and so was Steve. ...",
"I am what I am; I make no excuses. ...",
"I'm a criminal with a criminal mind.\"",
"The reading continued, \"Michaela, Hayley, and Jennifer, forgive me; I am damned. ...",
"I can't believe I lost control; I hate myself/I love myself. ...",
"I stand condemned.\"",
"After the defense lawyers presented their opening arguments, the prosecution began to present evidence and call witnesses -- the same five people thus far, in the same order, as they did during Hayes' trial.",
"If they continue this trend, Dr. Petit would be the next witness to testify when the trial resumes Tuesday morning.",
"The first person on the stand Monday was Mona Huggard, a registered nurse at Petit's medical practice who said that Hawke-Petit had called in to say her husband was sick -- only the second time, in her recollection, that he'd ever done so.",
"Then Kristen Makhzangi testified how Hawke-Petit came to her bank window to withdraw $15,000.",
"Video showed the transaction, which spurred a 911 call from the Bank of America branch's manager, Mary Lyons, warning that that the family might be in trouble.",
"Lyons described Hawke-Petit as \"terrified.\"",
"About an hour after the visit, authorities say, she was dead.",
"Another 911 call came from the Petits' next-door neighbor David Simcik, who testified spotting Dr. Petit \"all banged up\" and asking him to call police.",
"And lastly on Monday, Cheshire Police Office Thomas Wright explained how he'd arrived to find Petit bloodied on his neighbor's driveway.",
"By the time he tried, unsuccessfully, to enter the door of the home, Hayes and Komisarjevsky had left and \"everything was burning,\" Wright said.",
"Authorities threw rocks at windows and doused flames with a nearby hose.",
"But once they finally got in, \"We saw no signs of life,\" he said.",
"In Session's Sunny Hostin and CNN's Deborah Feyerick contributed to this report."
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"Joshua Komisarjevsky is on trial on 17 charges, including murder and arson .",
"A defense attorney says Komisarjevsky didn't intend to kill anyone and didn't have a weapon ."
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"New York (CNN) -- The U.S. population is expected to top out at close to 312.8 million people just around the time crowds gather to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve, according to new census data released Thursday.",
"The figure represents a 0.7% increase from last year, adding 2,250,129 people to the U.S. population since the start of 2011, and a 1.3% increase since Census Day, April 1, 2010.",
"The agency estimates that beginning in January, one American will be born every eight seconds and one will die every 12 seconds.",
"U.S.-bound immigrants are also expected to add one person every 46 seconds.",
"That combination of births, deaths and migration is expected to add a single person to the U.S. population every 17 seconds, the Census Bureau said.",
"Meanwhile, millions are set to ring in the new year.",
"In New York, authorities are preparing for large crowds in Manhattan's Times Square, where Lady Gaga is expected to join Mayor Michael Bloomberg to push the button that drops the Waterford Crystal ball at 11:59 p.m.",
"ET on New Year's Eve.",
"\"And I'm so looking forward to performing on NYE+dropping the Ball with Mayor Bloomberg!\"",
"the pop star posted on Twitter.",
"\"What an honor as a New Yorker.\"",
"Past guests have included Muhammad Ali, Rudy Giuliani, Colin Powell and Bill and Hillary Clinton.",
"On Thursday, officials conducted New York's annual \"airworthiness test\" -- a process in which confetti is tossed by handfuls above Times Square -- in preparation for the annual city tradition of dumping one ton of confetti over revelers in the iconic square.",
"The Big Apple this year edged out Las Vegas for the first time in seven years as the top travel U.S. destination for those celebrating the new year, according to a December travel booking website poll.",
"Seven New York neighborhoods made the top 10 list, with two districts in Las Vegas and one in New Orleans making up the other three, according to the Priceline poll.",
"\"It appears that New York City will be helped this year by a weather forecast that calls for warmer than usual temperatures over the holiday weekend,\" said company spokesman Brian Ek."
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"Census Bureau: U.S. population is expected to be 312.8 million on New Year's Day .",
"That figure represents a 0.7% increase from last year .",
"Lady Gaga, mayor to activate ball drop at Times Square on New Year's Eve .",
"NYC has supplanted Las Vegas as the top New Year's destination, Priceline poll says ."
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"Rome, Italy (CNN) -- Prosecutors in Italy allege that a businessman supplied Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with about 30 women, or escorts, in order to win favor with him.",
"It's the latest development in a long-running sex scandal.",
"Transcripts of some of 100,000 wiretap recordings made between September 2008 and 2009 were filed with a court in the southern city of Bari Friday, as prosecutors wrapped up a three-year prostitution investigation.",
"The transcripts reveal that Berlusconi and businessman Gianpaolo Tarantini repeatedly discussed bringing women to parties.",
"Tarantini selected women to be of \"young age and slender\" and instructed them in what to wear and how to behave at Berlusconi's parties, the prosecutors say.",
"Among them was Patrizia D'Addario, prosecutors say, who in 2009 alleged she and other women were paid to attend parties at Berlusconi's residence.",
"He denied her claim.",
"In another conversation, they discuss what women they should each bring to a party that night.",
"Berlusconi says that the male guests are powerful men \"so the girls have the idea of being in front of men that can decide their destiny.\"",
"He says he has \"two young girls whom I've not seen for a long time\" -- one of them a journalist and the other a 21-year-old Brazilian \"who cried over the phone telling me that I'd forgotten her.\"",
"Discussing a party the night before in a wiretap from October 10, Berlusconi tells Tarantini there were perhaps too many women.",
"\"At the most to have two each, but now I want you also to have yours, otherwise I feel in debt.",
"Why don't you bring yours for you and I bring mine.",
"... \" Tarantini agrees, and Berlusconi continues: \"Then we can exchange them ... \" In a conversation between Tarantini and one of the women he recruited, she said Berlusconi told her he would help her.",
"Berlusconi is not accused in this case filed in Bari but faces a separate trial in Milan for allegedly paying for sex with a then-17-year-old Moroccan belly dancer named Karima el Mahroug, nicknamed \"Ruby the Heart-stealer.\"",
"El Mahroug has denied having sex with the premier.",
"Both admit that he gave her money, although they say it was an act of kindness to help her.",
"Berlusconi has always denied wrongdoing and also denies ever having paid for sex.",
"The latest revelations in the Bari case have reignited calls among his critics for Berlusconi to resign.",
"In a letter published Saturday to the Foglio newspaper, run by his former spokesman Giuliano Ferrara, Berlusconi wrote that he had no intention of quitting.",
"He said his behavior was nothing like what had been described in the media, and that he had done nothing to be ashamed of.",
"In a separate but linked investigation by prosecutors in Naples, Tarantini is accused of having blackmailed Berlusconi over the scandal.",
"According to the Naples prosecutors, Berlusconi was a victim of \"veiled and implied threats\" and paid 800,000 euros to Tarantini.",
"The prime minister denies having been blackmailed and says he gave the money to Tarantini as an act of charity.",
"CNN's Livia Borghese contributed to this report."
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"Newly filed court documents reveal details of inquiry into associates of Berlusconi .",
"Transcripts show Berlusconi and businessman Tarantini often discussed girls .",
"Berlusconi is not charged in the case and has always denied wrongdoing .",
"He faces other trials, one over allegedly paying an underage girl for sex ."
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"(CNN) -- A Georgia teacher's passion and curiosity about her immigrant students' homelands led to a path that changed her life and those she's touched - forever.",
"Sue Ellen Wortzel said her student's stories of struggle to find food, a safe place to live, a basic education other economic hardships in their home countries often left her speechless and explained why their families searched for a better life in the U.S. Their emotional stories moved Wortzel to learn more about where they came from in Central America and inspired her to help their home countries.",
"As an educator, Wortzel felt she had the ability to create a positive change in some of their country's schools and began her journey to do so in 2006 with a trip through Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua.",
"During this visit, she took note of some of the specific problems educators and students faced.",
"\"I saw teachers and students doing amazing things with nothing or bare-bone structures,\" she said.",
"In one high school in Nicaragua, Wortzel discovered classrooms that only had one or two copies of a text book for a 30-plus-student class.",
"Teachers would use chalkboards and cover them with notes from the text book, so everyone could see and digest the information.",
"In addition to a lack of books, Wortzel noticed a lack of maps, globes, calculators and other teaching supplies.",
"Basic transportation to and from school is a problem, too, for some families.",
"\"Oftentimes, kids walk up to two hours to school in rural areas, since their families can't afford to pay for public transportation,\" said Wortzel.",
"\"This hardship is tough on kids and many times they just give up and quit attending school.\"",
"Public education throughout the world varies greatly.",
"In the United States, education is predominantly funded by taxpayers, and students are not charged tuition to attend public schools.",
"In Central America, resources lack for many children to obtain a basic public education.",
"Wortzel acknowledges the U.S. public education system is filled with problems, but has witnessed that students in \"forgotten\" countries suffer, too.",
"She has made it her life's mission to help those outside U.S. borders.",
"\"Children have no control over what happens to them and access to education is not something we can save for particular children,\" she noted.",
"Wortzel's personal interaction with her students as well as her international travels inspired her to create a nonprofit organization calledTALICA in 2006, with operations based in Atlanta and Central America.",
"TALICA stands for \"The Teaching and Learning Initiative for Central America.\"",
"Its mission is to expand access to basic educational materials for schools in Central America.",
"Since 2006, TALICA has established school collections and donated about 4,500 books and supplies to seven public school libraries in five communities, and helped establish a community library and the first-ever medical collection in the village of Balgue, Nicaragua.",
"The school materials are hand-picked by local teachers, and TALICA takes them shopping about once or twice a year for their supplies.",
"How does TALICA make this happen?",
"It takes hard work, coordination and personal relationships to make it all come together.",
"TALICA's team is small, consisting of five volunteer directors as well as hundreds of supportive family and friends across the U.S. and Central America who volunteer their time and resources.",
"Grass-roots fundraising is a key element to TALICA's survival.",
"Members will host dinner parties, wine tasting events and other fundraising efforts to raise cash.",
"With a budget of about $12,000 a year, TALICA uses its money as strategically as possible to do the most good.",
"TALICA's current projects include supporting five schools on the island of Ometepe, Nicaragua, and a scholarship program to send a student to college.",
"This impoverished rural region was selected because it has a literacy rate hovering around 67 percent and has big educational challenges, according to Wortzel.",
"In comparison, the U.S. literacy level is 99 percent according to the CIA-World Fact Book.",
"The nonprofit's newest project is a science initiative.",
"\"We're building an extra classroom to house a small science lab and book room to a high school that has been outgrowing its space,\" said Wortzel.",
"\"We've been working closely with the biology teacher, Elvin Cruz, in developing a lab.\"",
"A future goal is to provide Kindles and other e-readers to these schools.",
"Wortzel said there isn't sufficient access to a wireless network in some of these regions to make it happen now.",
"Ultimately, Wortzel and her team believe in the power of education and know it's the key to lift up this region of the world and elsewhere.",
"\"It's in our best interest as humans to help educate people in the most remote and destitute parts of the world,\" she said.",
"\"Building personal and loving relationships with people from other countries and cultures is important to building consensus and peace.\""
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"U.S. educator forms nonprofit called TALICA to help students in Central America .",
"Sue Ellen Wortzel said her immigrant student's struggles inspired her to form TALICA .",
"Since 2006, TALICA has donated 4,500 books to public schools in Central America ."
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"Madrid (CNN) -- Spain's royal family publicly revealed its finances for the first time Wednesday, as the nation faces an economic crisis and corruption allegations bring increased scrutiny to the monarchy.",
"King Juan Carlos receives 292,752 euros ($382,743) annually, the royal palace said in a statement.",
"Prince Felipe, next in line to the throne, receives about half that amount .",
"Queen Sofia, Princess Letizia, Infanta Elena and Infanta Cristina received a combined total of 375,000 euros for royal duties ($490,274) in 2011, the palace's statement said.",
"The announcement comes as a corruption investigation reportedly involving the king's son-in-law has fueled public criticism of the royal family.",
"Authorities are investigating whether a foundation headed by Inaki Undangarin improperly used public funds, according to media reports.",
"No charges have been filed against Undangarin, a former Olympic handball player who married Infanta Cristina in 1997.",
"Urdangarin's attorney, in an interview with Europa Press earlier this month, said his client was innocent.",
"The palace pledged its commitment to austerity and transparency in its statement Wednesday.",
"Spain faces an economic crisis that has brought thousands of protesters to the streets and sparked sharp government austerity measures.",
"About 5 million people in the country are jobless.",
"Spain has an overall unemployment rate of 21.5%, but it youth unemployment rate is a staggering 45%.",
"Conservative prime minister sworn in .",
"Economic protests surged across Spain over the past year, fueled by young people known as \"indignants,\" who criticized government officials and financial institutions.",
"When he took office last week, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said pulling the nation out of its deep economic crisis would be his top priority.",
"CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet, Ana Maria Luengo-Romero and Al Goodman contributed to this report."
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"A corruption investigation widely reported in Spanish media is fueling criticism of the royal family .",
"Spain faces an economic crisis that has sparked sharp government austerity measures .",
"King Juan Carlos receives 292,752 euros annually .",
"Prince Felipe, next in line to the throne, receives about half that amount ."
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"(CNN) -- As families head home after the holidays and children return to school, New York City is on sale for travelers willing to brave the cold temperatures in exchange for lower prices.",
"New York's first-ever Hotel Week will feature discounts for eight city hotels between January 6 and January 15.",
"More basic hotel rooms, or those slightly off the beaten path, can be found for as little as $100 per night plus taxes, while fancier rooms can go for $200 or $250 per night -- still a deal by city standards.",
"\"Hotel occupancy dips considerably during the first week in January,\" said hotel publicist Nancy J. Friedman, who launched the Hotel Week concept with six of her hotel clients and two nonclients.",
"\"It's a similar model to Restaurant Week, which is so successful at filling up restaurants during quiet times.\"",
"Speaking of Restaurant Week, the city's 20th anniversary promotion starts January 16 and runs through February 10 (Mondays through Fridays).",
"For more information, click here.",
"There isn't a central website or phone number to book Hotel Week rooms.",
"Several hotels have created special websites for the promotions, while others require calling the reservations number.",
"Links are at the end of this article.",
"Always mention Hotel Week when booking and know that these specific discounts are limited.",
"For visitors who won't be able to take advantage of limited Hotel Week discounts, more than 120 participating New York City hotels are offering discounts between January 2 and February 29, sponsored by NYC & Co., the city's tourism office.",
"Discounts include a free night for stays of three or more nights, complimentary upgrades or complimentary breakfast.",
"To book a room, click here.",
"During the same period, a group of 20 luxury hotels is offering a free third night to visitors who book two consecutive nights at one of 20 participating \"Signature Collection\" hotels.",
"More information can be found here.",
"Theater-lovers can score two-for-one tickets during Broadway Week, January 17 to February 4.",
"Off-Broadway theater week offers the same deal between January 30 and February 12.",
"Tickets also go on sale January 4 for both theater weeks.",
"For Broadway shows, click here.",
"Hotel Week discount links .",
"To receive hotel week discounts, be sure to mention Hotel Week when booking.",
"Some rates are available only by calling the reservations line or by using the hotel's special Hotel Week website.",
"Cheapest: $100/night plus taxes and fees .",
"The Hotel @ Times Square: To book for Hotel Week, call (212) 790-2710.",
"For more information about the hotel, click here.",
"nyma, the new york manhattan hotel: To book for Hotel Week, call (212) 790-2710.",
"The Pod Hotel: To book for Hotel Week, call (212) 355-0300.",
"Z NYC Hotel (Queens): To book for Hotel Week, call (212) 319-7000.",
"A step up: $200/night plus taxes and fees .",
"Andaz Wall Street: To book for Hotel Week, use the hotel's special link here.",
"Hyatt 48 Lex: To book, use the hotel's link here.",
"Deluxe: $250/night plus taxes and fees .",
"Gansevoort Meatpacking NYC: To book, use the hotel's discount link here.",
"Gansevoort Park Avenue NYC: To book during Hotel Week, use the hotel's discount link here."
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"New York's first-ever Hotel Week means lower room rates .",
"Restaurant Week celebrates its 20th anniversary next year .",
"Theater lovers can score two-for-one tickets during Broadway Week ."
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"(CNN) -- The Build-A-Bear Workshop company is recalling nearly 300,000 Colorful Hearts Teddy Bears sold in the United States and Canada due to risks of choking, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced.",
"The agency warned that while no injuries have been reported, the \"teddy bear's eyes could loosen and fall out, posing a choking hazard to children,\" according to a statement.",
"\"Consumers should immediately take the recalled teddy bear from children and return it to any Build-A-Bear store to receive a coupon for any available stuffed animal from Build-A-Bear,\" the statement said, advising buyers to contact the firm at 866-236-5683 with additional questions.",
"The Chinese-made toy is a stuffed animal, roughly 16 inches tall with black plastic eyes, that is sold in the United States for $18.",
"The bears were sold at Build-A-Bear Workshops and through the firm's website from April through December."
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"Build-A-Bear Workshop recalls 284,000 teddy bears in the U.S. and 13,200 in Canada .",
"The company recall is because of risks of choking on the bears' eyes .",
"The Chinese-made stuffed-animal toy is roughly 16 inches high with black plastic eyes .",
"It is is sold in the United States for $18 ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- Chinese officials said they killed seven members of the Uighur ethnic group in the restive western region of Xinjiang in order to free two hostages -- an account the Uighurs disputed.",
"The hostages -- local villagers looking for their lost sheep in the rural county of Pishan outside of Hotan city-- were kidnapped by a group of Uighurs on Wednesday night, said Hou Hanmin, a spokeswoman for the chief of the regional information office in Xinjiang.",
"The operation to rescue them left one police officer dead and wounded another, he said.",
"However, Dilxat Raxit, a spokesman for the Stockholm-based World Uighur Congress, said the shooting did not stem from a rescue operation.",
"Police opened fire when locals clashed with officers during a demonstration outside the police bureau, he said.",
"The Uighurs were protesting a recent security crackdown in Hotan city.",
"\"This is incident was not an accident,\" he said.",
"\"It is a direct result from the Chinese crackdown on Uighurs.",
"It has become unbearable for Uighurs there to accept the oppression and current rule from the Chinese government.\"",
"The Chinese authorities have often blamed militants of Uighur descent for outbreaks of violence in Xinjiang in recent years.",
"Uighurs are ethnic Turks who are linguistically, culturally and religiously distinct from China's majority Han population.",
"Beijing has said Uighur militants are often based overseas and has linked some of them to the East Turkistan Islamic Movement that allegedly trains in Pakistan.",
"The clash comes after a two-month security crackdown, which ended in October, against violence, terrorism and radical Islam across the resource-rich region, which borders Pakistan, Afghanistan and numerous unstable Central Asian states.",
"The tightened security measures included 24-hour security patrols of troubled areas, identity checks and random street searches of people and vehicles.",
"Uighur activists say the crackdowns have only heightened anger among Uighurs who already accuse the government of religious and political repression.",
"Uighurs also say they feel economically disadvantaged as a thriving Han population continues to move into the region."
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"NEW: The World Uighur Congress says police opened fire on protesters .",
"NEW: \"This incident was not an accident,\" says a Congress spokesman .",
"A Chinese official says the operation killed one police officer dead .",
"The official says the Uighurs took two local villagers hostage ."
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"San Bernardino, California (CNN) -- A man accused of shooting and paralyzing a U.S. Army soldier at a homecoming party pleaded not guilty to all charges at his arraignment Thursday.",
"Ruben Jurado, 19, faces a charge of attempted murder in the shooting of Army Spc.",
"Christopher Sullivan on Friday night at a homecoming party in Sullivan's native San Bernardino, California.",
"Jurado also faces four \"special allegations involving premeditation and the use and discharge of a firearm, causing great bodily injury,\" said Christopher Lee, spokesman for the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office.",
"\"Special allegations\" can add to a convict's sentence in California.",
"Jurado entered court Thursday in an orange jail jumpsuit, with his hands and ankles shackled.",
"The arraignment lasted only a few minutes.",
"Three of Sullivan's relatives attended.",
"The next court date is scheduled for January 9.",
"The defense team expects to receive \"initial discovery of police reports and any other evidence that the district attorney has,\" defense attorney Michael Holmes said Wednesday.",
"He noted that the court \"allows video arraignment\" but said Jurado \"wanted to be present in court during the entire process.\"",
"The party in Sullivan's honor was to celebrate his recent return to California from Kentucky, where he was stationed while recovering from wounds sustained in a suicide bombing a year ago in Afghanistan.",
"That bombing killed five members of his unit and left him with a cracked collarbone and brain damage, according to the San Bernardino County Sun.",
"Sullivan received the Purple Heart.",
"At the party, Sullivan was shot twice after an argument and physical confrontation with Jurado, who fled the scene, according to police and witnesses.",
"The fight broke out after Jurado and Sullivan's younger brother began arguing about football, the brothers' mother, Suzanne Sullivan, said.",
"Jurado turned himself in to authorities in Chino Hills, California, on Monday afternoon, said Lt. Gwendolyn Waters.",
"Suzanne Sullivan said her family is having a difficult time coming to terms with what happened.",
"\"He once told me that if defending this country takes his life, so be it,\" she said.",
"\"But to see he survived that, and now for this to happen to him, just breaks my heart.\"",
"CNN's Stan Wilson, Stella Chan, Adam Blaker, Carey Bodenheimer, and Josh Levs contributed to this report."
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"NEW: The next court date is scheduled for January 9 .",
"Ruben Jurado, 19 pleaded not guilty Thursday .",
"Jurado is accused of shooting Army Spc.",
"Christopher Sullivan at a party .",
"Sullivan was wounded in Afghanistan ."
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"(CNN) -- Two-time Masters champion Bernhard Langer has withdrawn from this year's tournament after undergoing surgery on his left thumb.",
"The operation to repair ligament damage sustained in a cycling accident will keep Langer out of action for up to eight weeks, bringing to an end an unbroken chain of 27 appearances at the Augusta National Golf Club.",
"\"I'm obviously disappointed that the injury occurred, but especially disappointed with such an important part of my schedule coming up, including the Masters,\" Langer said in a statement, PGATour.com reported.",
"\"I do, however, appreciate the fine care of Dr. Weiland and his team, and will work hard to recover to allow me to resume play on the Champions Tour this summer.\"",
"His thumb will be in a splint for five weeks but his doctors expect him to make a full recovery.",
"Langer won his first Green Jacket in 1985 -- becoming only the second European player to win the tournament after Seve Ballesteros -- before going on to claim a second title in 1993.",
"The 53-year-old, who turned professional in 1976, has enjoyed a sparkling career winning 42 times on the European Tour.",
"He was also an integral part of Europe Ryder Cup team during their resurgence during the 1980s and 1990s, making a total of ten appearances as a player and one as captain in 2004 when Europe won by their biggest margin in the competition's history.",
"In 2007, Langer joined the PGA Champions Tour and has become one of it's most successful players winning a total of 14 titles.",
"The most recent of these came at the ACE Group Classic in February.",
"Last December, Langer was crowned Champions Tour Player of the Year after claiming five titles during the 2010 season.",
"This year's Masters tournament gets underway on April 7."
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"Bernhard Langer will miss the 2011 Masters tournament for first time in 28 years .",
"Two-time Masters champion sidelined for eight weeks after thumb surgery .",
"German crowned Masters champion in 1985 and 1993 ."
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"(CNN) -- Scientists have found a wide-eyed primate -- a clawed fur ball that fits snugly in one hand -- in the first live sighting in more than 80 years of a creature that some thought was extinct.",
"\"It was truly amazing,\" one scientist said.",
"\"I couldn't conceive that we had actually caught one.\"",
"Over a two-month period, scientists working in Lore Lindu National Park on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi caught and released three pygmy tarsiers.",
"They bear a striking resemblance to the Furby, an electronic toy that spoke its own fantasy language and dominated children's wish lists in the late 1990s.",
"They caught two males and one female, said Sharon Gursky-Doyen, a Texas A&M University anthropology professor who led the expedition.",
"The group spotted a fourth -- high in the tree canopy -- but were unable to catch it.",
"The species had not been observed alive in more than eight decades, since they were collected for a museum in 1921.",
"Many scientists had believed them to be extinct until eight years ago, when two scientists trapping rats in Sulawesi accidentally trapped and killed one.",
"\"I needed to go myself ... to confirm in my own mind,\" whether they were there, Gursky-Doyen told CNN on Wednesday, after recently returning from Indonesia.",
"And, on the second night of trapping in August on moss-covered, chilly Mt.",
"Rore Katimbo, her group caught the first small nocturnal creature in a mist net.",
"\"It was truly amazing,\" she said.",
"\"My whole body was shaking ...",
"The second trapping didn't come until three weeks later, but that first sighting \"kept us going,\" Gursky-Doyen said, amid the cold, drenched conditions.",
"The pygmy tarsier, or Tarsius pumilus, weighs about 50 grams (1.7 ounces), and has dense fur, large, protruding eyes.",
"In addition to seeming as a living, breathing version of the Furby, it also appears as though it ought to have had appeared in the 1984 movie \"Gremlins.\"",
"Unlike other primates, the pygmy tarsier -- endemic to a specific area of Indonesia -- has claws instead of nails on its fingers.",
"It is half as big as the Philippines tarsier, which has similar features.",
"For their part, the pygmy tarsiers may have been more frightened than elated at being discovered.",
"\"I was bit once, but I take responsibility for that,\" Gursky-Doyen said, explaining that the animal nipped her as she was trying to attach a radio collar -- to track its movement -- to its neck.",
"The task isn't an easy one, she said, because the animal can swivel its head around 180 degrees.",
"Despite another person helping to hold the animal still, he turned and bit her, she said.",
"They have \"pointy, triangular teeth,\" she said.",
"It was \"very painful.\" But for the most part, they appeared very \"passive,\" she said.",
"Other tarsier species give alarm calls, but these didn't, at least nothing that a human could hear, she said.",
"Gursky-Doyen said she would like her graduate student, Nanda Grow, also on the expedition, to return to the field site for her dissertation, to learn more about the number of animals and how altitude and other variables affect them.",
"\"I do believe that the density of these animals is very low,\" she said, noting that many villages are located within Lore Lindu National Park.",
"\"That threatens them,\" she said."
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"Primate resembles Furby toy that was popular in 1990s .",
"Scientist says villages near park threaten pygmy tarsiers' existence ."
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"(CNN) -- Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid were both held in La Liga as they battled to unconvincing draws.",
"Real Madrid failed to score for a second consecutive game as they were held 0-0 by Racing Santander.",
"Coach Jose Mourinho could do little to inject some life into his team as they struggled to break down a spirited Racing defense.",
"In fact it was Racing who could have taken the lead after Oscar Serrano's superb strike was only kept out by a stunning finger-tip save by goalkeeper Iker Casillas.",
"The draw followed Real's 1-0 defeat to Levante and leaves them seventh in the league.",
"\"This was a different match to that against Levante as here it felt as though there was only one side looking to win the game,\" Mourinho told AFP.",
"\"It is a worrying situation as we have now lost five points from two games away from home.",
"It would be wrong to say one player hasn't scored or another one has failed but as a team we weren't at our best although we tried.\"",
"Meanwhile Barcelona were lucky to grab a 2-2 draw with Valencia, La Liga's early, surprise pace-setters.",
"In a chaotic 11 first half minutes Eric Abidal gifted Valencia the lead when he deflected a low cross from the left into his own net.",
"Pedro soon equalized for Barcelona but a few moments later Pablo Hernandez tapped in to restore Valencia's well-deserved advantage.",
"But the match turned on what may well be the miss of the season when Roberto Soldado, totally unmarked and in the middle of an empty net, somehow slid in and diverted the ball past the left hand post.",
"In the second half Barcelona probed in their typically patient fashion before Cesc Fabregas scored his fourth goal of the season.",
"The match finished 2-2.",
"Elsewhere Atletico Madrid won 4-0 win against Sporting Gijon.",
"Big money summer signing Falcao scored twice, taking his tally to five goals in two games.",
"Qatar-owned Malaga beat Athletic Bilbao 1-0 whilst Levante followed their impressive victory over Real Madrid with all three points against Rayo Vallecano, beating them 2-1.",
"In Italy AC Milan needed a 63rd minute goal from teenage substitute Stephan el Shaarawy to earn a 1-1 draw against Udinese.",
"The result means that both Milan clubs have yet to record a win this season.",
"Tuesday night saw Inter Milan lose 3-1 to newly-promoted Novara and coach Gian Piero Gasperini lose his job.",
"But AC Milan coach Massimilano Allegri insisted that he was happy with his team's performance.",
"\"We played well right up until the end and only risked conceding on the counter,\" he told AFP.",
"\"It's normal that it's not nice looking at the table but the important thing is how you play.",
"I'm happy because the lads played well and took risks by trying to score.\"",
"Genoa currently lead Serie A on goals scored after beating Catania 3-0."
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"Both Barcelona and Real Madrid draw in La Liga .",
"Real Madrid held to a dull 0-0 draw against Racing Santander .",
"Barcelona came from behind to draw 2-2 with Valencia .",
"In Serie A, AC Milan also draw ."
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"(CNN) -- When scores of disgruntled Tunisians took to the streets in January to demand the ouster of their country's president, actor Dhafer L'Abidine was watching from afar.",
"Based in the UK, L'Abidine, who is one of Tunisia's most famous actors, went through a roller-coaster of emotions as he watched the unfolding of the uprising that subsequently spurred the Arab Spring.",
"\"I was trying to keep in touch all the time and see what happens and follow the news and understand what's happening,\" remembers L'Abidine.",
"\"You go through everything,\" he says.",
"\"Sadness, frustration and then happy moments at the end so it was a difficult time but I think it was an amazing time and I think what's happening now is quite amazing because you've got the first free elections coming in October -- it's a new page in the Tunisian history.\"",
"The months of civil unrest culminated in the collapse of the regime of Tunisia's President Zine el Abidine who ruled the country for more than 20 years.",
"Today, the north African country is still dealing with the aftermath of the revolution but people remain optimistic that the move to democracy can still be achieved.",
"L'Abidine, who has set up a production company in Tunisia, believes the recent events will open up opportunities for artists in the country, giving them the freedom to express themselves without any restrictions.",
"\"Before, if you write something that doesn't suit the ideas of the dictatorship or the government then there's no way you're going to make it,\" says L'Abidine, a former football player and model.",
"\"Now, at least we've got the freedom to write stories that we want to tell -- the censorship is not there.",
"I think this is a great opportunity for artists, whether singers or writers or filmmakers, just to go for it and use the opportunity into progressing the movie industry back home.\"",
"The talented actor is perhaps best-known for his part in big-budget romantic comedy \"Sex and the City 2,\" in which he played the role of a charming host whose job was to look after the film's four main characters on a trip to Abu Dhabi.",
"\"It was great fun,\" says L'Abidine about his part in the Hollywood movie.",
"\"I had some filming to do in New York and then in Morocco and it was a great experience -- just to be involved in such an iconic TV program and then a film, so I'm very happy about having been part of that.\"",
"While L'Abidine has been carving a successful path as an actor in the international stage -- his work also includes roles in \"Centurion\" and \"The Stone Merchant\" -- he's maintained links with the region he's from, getting the best of the two worlds.",
"The much-traveled actor has appeared in several TV series across the Middle East and North Africa and also presented one of the biggest talent shows in the region -- \"Prince of Poets\" -- with an audience of about 20 million viewers per show.",
"\"I'm lucky in a way that actually I can go back to Tunisia or in the Middle East and do different roles in Arabic or sometimes in French or in English,\" says L'Abidine who is fluent in four languages.",
"\"Playing different parts and also being in England there's a great opportunity to do different roles.\"",
"But long before wowing moviegoers, L'Abidine pursued his teenage passion for football in Tunisia, going to school during the day and training in the evening.",
"After spending three years in France, where he studied computer science and played football, L'Abidine returned to Tunisia before relocating to the United Kingdom to follow his dream of acting.",
"But settling in his new environment wasn't without challenges -- L'Abidine, who at the time didn't speak the language, had to divide his time between studying hard and working part-time in restaurants and bars in London to support himself.",
"\"There were hard times but now when you look back they were very useful and actually you can learn from them and they make you who you are -- at the end, you can't have a life experience just with good things, the difficult times are also very useful for now and for the future,\" says L'Abidine.",
"Passionate about his country, L'Abidine says January's revolution shows the world that Tunisia is not just a tourist destination but a place with long history and rich culture.",
"\"I'm proud to be Tunisian and I'm proud to what's happening now in Tunisia and I'm proud of the people who actually lost their lives so then people like me and others can have a better future,\" he says.",
"\"I'm very grateful to them, I think it's a difficult time for other counties now -- Arab countries -- because they're going through the same process but I think the reward at the end is so great.",
"\"I'm positive about it and I think it's an amazing time for the Arab world.\""
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"Dhafer L'Abidine is one of Tunisia's most famous actors .",
"He says there's no more censorship in the country after January's uprising .",
"The actor is best-known to Western audiences for his role in 'Sex and the City 2'"
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"(CNN) -- Carla Bruni, the wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has given birth to a girl, a very close family friend told CNN on Wednesday.",
"The mother is doing well, the friend said.",
"Sarkozy, 56, was seen earlier leaving the French capital's La Muette clinic, where Bruni gave birth, according to French media.",
"It is the first child for the couple, who wed in February 2008.",
"Bruni, 43, announced in early September that she was pregnant and vowed to keep the child out of the spotlight.",
"Sarkozy divorced his wife of more than 11 years before marrying Bruni.",
"He has three children from that marriage.",
"Bruni, a former supermodel and singer, previously dated singers Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger."
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"Sarkozy and Bruni welcome the arrival of a daughter .",
"A friend says the mother is doing well .",
"It is the first child for the couple ."
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"(CNN) -- Sebastian Vettel is on track to become Formula One's youngest double world champion after topping the qualifying timesheets for Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix.",
"The 24-year-old headed off Red Bull teammate Mark Webber to claim his 11th pole position this season as he seeks a ninth victory from 14 races.",
"That would give him another championship crown -- the first was clinched at the last race of 2010, but this one would be with five to go as he seeks to build on his 112-point lead in the night event.",
"Vettel can beat the mark of second-placed Fernando Alonso, who was 25 when he won his second title with Renault in 2006.",
"But the Spaniard could delay Vettel's celebrations if he finishes fourth on a testing Marina Bay Street Circuit where he led from the start to win last year from Vettel and Webber -- and also triumphed with Renault in 2008.",
"How the F1 title can be won: Vettel on the verge .",
"Alonso will have to improve on Saturday's qualifying, where he was fifth fastest ahead of Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa.",
"Red Bull team boss Christian Horner downplayed chances of the title being decided this weekend.",
"\"The moon and stars have got to line up.",
"We haven't booked anything for a party should we win.",
"We're focused on the race,\" he told reporters in quotes carried by AFP.",
"Vettel set the pace in the first two sessions before clocking an unbeatable one minute 44.381 seconds in his only run of Q3 to give Red Bull a perfect record in qualifying this season.",
"Vettel fastest in Singapore practice .",
"\"I decided to abort my second run when I made a mistake because it is very easy to damage the car so I went wide,\" he said.",
"\"I was quite happy with my first lap.",
"I think the circuit ramped up at the end and I think it was possible to go faster, but I'm very happy.",
"It's a very difficult track with such a long lap to get everything right.",
"I think we learned from our mistakes that we made last year.\"",
"Webber then surged into second with 1:44.732 to push past McLaren's former world champions Jenson Button (1:44.804) and Lewis Hamilton (1:44.809).",
"Hamilton was unable to make a second run due to a fuel problem, and watched from the pits as his time was beaten.",
"Alonso timed 1:44.874 to be well clear of Massa (1:45.800) and the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg -- whose legendary teammate Michael Schumacher failed to set a time along with Force India's Adrian Sutil and Paul di Resta -- who both opted to conserve tires."
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"Sebastian Vettel wins his 11th pole position of 2011 at Singapore Grand Grix .",
"German heads home Red Bull teammate Mark Webber in Saturday qualifying .",
"Vettel is hoping to secure his second world title in 14th of 19 races this season .",
"Ferrari's Fernando Alonso can deny him by finishing fourth in the night race ."
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"(CNN) -- Kaka converted a penalty in time added on to give holders Brazil a dramatic 4-3 win over Egypt who filed an official complaint after their Confederations Cup opener at Bloemfontein on Monday.",
"Kaka celebrates after his last-gasp penalty gives holders Brazil an opening win in their Confed Cup victory.",
"Substitute Ahmed al-Muhamadi was red-carded after handling on the goalline in a desperate attempt to deny Brazil -- and Real Madrid's recent $92million signing Kaka rifled home from the spot for his second goal of the game.",
"But the decision by English referee Howard Webb to award the penalty upset African Nations Cup winners Egypt.",
"They were unhappy that Webb initially blew for a corner but changed his mind after the fourth official, Australia's Matthew Breeze, spoke to him after reportedly seeing television replays.",
"\"Since when do the regulations say it is a penalty based on the monitors or on the television?\"",
"asked Egypt's deputy coach Shawki Gharib.",
"\"Egypt is going to file a complaint against the penalty.\"",
"Brazil coach Dunga saw nothing wrong with the decision.",
"\"It was a clear case of a penalty,\" he said, adding that his team let a two-goal lead slip because they were tired.",
"\"We had two tough (World Cup) qualifiers, 23 hours of travel and the time difference.",
"The players have not been sleeping well so obviously we are quite happy with the win.\"",
"Substitute Giuseppe Rossi scored a brace to help world champions Italy stage a second-half recovery against 10-man United States and claim a 3-1 victory in their tournament debut in Pretoria.",
"South Africa are staging the tournament as a warm-up for next year's World Cup finals -- with Egypt struggling to qualify for 2010 after their recent 3-1 defeat against Algeria.",
"But it looked as though Egypt were going to deny five-times world champions Brazil an opening victory in their defense of the Confederations crown after a fightback that saw Mohamed Zidan also score twice.",
"Brazil were leading 3-1 at halftime with first-half strikes from Kaka (5 minutes), Luis Fabiano (12) and Juan (37) with Zidan heading home Wael Gomaa's cross on nine.",
"It was all change early in the second half when Egypt drew level with two goals inside a minute.",
"The first came when Sayed Moawad pulled the ball back from the left to Mohamed Shawky who blasted a superb strike beyond Julio Cesar.",
"And Brazil were left reeling when Zidan pulled Egypt level seconds later.",
"Brazil coach Dunga took off Manchester City pair Robinho and Elano soon after and replaced them with Benfica midfielder Ramires and Milan striker Alexandre Pato.",
"And Kaka had the final say in a match played in front of thousands of empty seats despite FIFA president Sepp Blatter's criticism that organisers had not done enough to sell tickets for Spain's game with New Zealand on Sunday.",
"Brazil next face CONCACAF Gold Cup winners United States on Thursday before facing world champions Italy on June 21.",
"Egypt play Italy on Thursday before meeting the U.S with the top two from each group go through to the semifinals.",
"Italy were trailing 1-0 against the U.S. at the interval after Galaxy forward Landon Donovan fired his side ahead from the penalty spot after 41 minutes.",
"The Americans were already down to 10 men following the dismissal of Ricardo Clark who was given a straight red card after 33 minutes for a foul on Gennaro Gattuso.",
"But the introduction of Rossi just before the hour mark turned the game.",
"The Villarreal striker blasted home from 30 yards to equalise on 59 minutes before Daniele De Rossi put Italy in front with 18 minutes left.",
"Rossi then added the finishing touch in injury time as the Azzurri moved joint top of Group B alongside Brazil."
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"BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Before Amy Harned goes outside to work in her garden, she coats her face and neck with sunscreen, then puts on a hat, jacket and work gloves.",
"Amy Harned, 48, takes a lot of vitamins and maintains a healthy diet to manage her lupus.",
"The 48-year-old is doing more than protecting herself from dangerous ultraviolet rays.",
"She's trying to keep the sunlight from triggering a flareup of her lupus.",
"Harned, who lives in Webster, Massachusetts, is among the 1.5 million Americans who suffer from the autoimmune disorder.",
"Lupus causes the body's immune system to attack its own tissues, causing inflammation and damage.",
"When Harned's lupus was first diagnosed, she said she \"was really terrified, but gradually I got more information.\"",
"She realized with proper treatment she could lead a somewhat normal life.",
"No two cases are alike, experts say.",
"In fact, there are four types of the illness, ranging from mild to severe.",
"Before effective therapies were developed, the disease was fatal more often, usually from overwhelming infection and kidney failure.",
"Health Minute: Watch more on living with lupus » .",
"The Lupus Foundation of America estimated that more than 16,000 new cases develop every year.",
"More than 90 percent of people with lupus are women, the group says.",
"Experts aren't sure why.",
"\"It clearly has to do with estrogen and estrogen receptors,\" said Lisa Fitzgerald, a Boston, Massachusetts-based rheumatologist.",
"Genetics can play a role as well.",
"Not only does lupus run in families, but, Fitzgerald said, a person may be more susceptible if a relative has other autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis.",
"Environmental factors also may increase risk of the disease.",
"Researchers believe that taking certain prescription medications, and even exposure to sunlight, can trigger the illness.",
"Age is another risk factor.",
"The Lupus Foundation says the condition is most often diagnosed when women are in their childbearing years between 15 and 45.",
"Harned's symptoms developed 15 years ago, when she was 33.",
"\"My first symptoms with lupus were [that] my hands were swollen,\" Harned recalled.",
"\"They were very stiff, to the point that brushing my teeth was hard just holding the toothbrush.\"",
"The stiffness and achy joint pain are caused by inflammation brought on by lupus, Fitzgerald said.",
"In addition to swollen joints, she said the other symptoms include fatigue, facial rash, fever, chest pain, swollen glands and sores in the mouth and nose.",
"With such varied symptoms, diagnosis can be tricky.",
"The American College of Rheumatology recommends doctors confirm four of 11 criteria for a proper diagnosis.",
"A blood test and urinalysis are two of the ways doctors determine whether a patient has lupus.",
"Researchers have come a long way in the last 50 years when it comes to understanding the condition, Fitzgerald said.",
"\"The prognosis for lupus today is very good,\" she said.",
"\"The survival rate is really over 90 percent in five to 10 years of having the disease.",
"In the 1950s it was probably 50 percent.\"",
"Part of the reason for the improved success has to do with better treatment in managing the condition.",
"Over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin, naproxen and ibuprofen offer relief to some patients.",
"Other lupus sufferers might be prescribed an antimalarial drug called hydroxychloroquine.",
"\"It's a quinine derivative.",
"It's quite safe,\" Fitzgerald said.",
"\"It can make a big difference for patients who have mild disease.\"",
"Fitzgerald added she also prescribes corticosteroids \"to squelch flareups.\"",
"While they work well, she cautioned they do have side effects.",
"After 15 years of living with the condition, Harned has her own tricks for coping with lupus.",
"In addition to taking daily prescription drugs, Harned controls the symptoms by eating a healthy diet and exercising, getting enough rest and taking what she called \"a ton of vitamins.\"",
"Some experts have touted fish oil and flaxseed as promising complements that may help ease inflammation.",
"Harned also slathers her exposed skin with sunscreen containing SPF 45.",
"\"There is an aspect of ultraviolet light that can damage DNA in the cells,\" Fitzgerald said.",
"\"This sets off an inflammatory reaction that causes the rash we know as lupus rash.\"",
"While Harned is fully aware there is no cure for lupus, she described herself as someone who is not just managing her illness, but thriving.",
"When she looks toward the future, she said she thinks, \"I had grandparents who lived into their 90s.",
"So that's what I'm hoping for, maybe even 100.\"",
"Linda Ciampa of Accent Health contributed to this report."
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"Diagnosis can be tricky because symptoms are varied .",
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Andre Rives no longer mows his own lawn and it's not because he's too busy.",
"The thought of cutting his grass brings back some bad memories.",
"\"Man, did this just happen to me?\"",
"Andre Rives asked himself after losing three toes in a mowing accident.",
"Rives, a 28-year-old cable technician from Ellenwood, Georgia, accidentally cut off three toes on his right foot two years ago while trying out his new riding mower.",
"\"I was going too fast and my shorts got caught on the gear shift,\" Rives recalled.",
"\"I came too close to the curb and I couldn't stop.",
"I ended up sliding off and my foot went under.\"",
"Rives is one of 100,000 people in the United States in 2006 who suffered an injury in a lawn mower accident.",
"The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, which tracked the statistics, said the problem is more common than people think.",
"The group reported most injuries occur among adults age 25 to 64, followed by children under the age of 5.",
"More than 22 percent of injuries involved the wrist, hand or finger; nearly 14 percent involved the foot, ankle or toes.",
"\"Most of the time it's a pure accident,\" said Dr. Marvin Royster with the Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"\"They slipped on the lawn mower, the grass was wet or the lawn mower overturned.\"",
"Royster described some injuries, such as burns from touching the muffler, as mild.",
"But other risks are greater; a mower can eject a piece of metal, rock or wood up to 100 mph, he said.",
"Health Minute: More on lawn mower risks » .",
"In Rives' case, the accident resulted in the amputation of three toes.",
"Royster repaired some of the damage in the operating room but was unable to re-attach the digits.",
"He met with Rives recently for a follow up visit.",
"\"Andre is doing very well,\" the doctor said.",
"\"He has a little trouble with running and getting up on the ball of his foot, but other activities, he's able to do quite well.\"",
"The Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons noted that most lawn mower injuries are preventable if some basic safety guidelines are followed.",
"\"The main thing is you need to wear protective clothing,\" Royster cautioned.",
"Wear protective goggles, gloves, boots and long pants.",
"Never mow barefoot or in sandals.",
"\"Mowing the grass with flip-flops on or sandals on, you're just asking for trouble,\" Royster said.",
"Have your lawn mower serviced before the start of the season to ensure it's working properly.",
"Do not remove any safety devices on the machine.",
"Be sure to add fuel before starting the engine, not when it's running or hot.",
"The liquid could overflow or flame up.",
"Finally, keep hands and feet away from the lawn mower blade even if the machine is turned off.",
"Once cleared of an obstruction, a blade can swing around and cause injury.",
"Rives realized immediately after his accident that he made a number of common sense mistakes.",
"\"Even in the hospital, I'd say 'Man, did this just happen to me?'",
"\" He said he's learned his lesson.",
"His wife made him sell his riding mower after the accident.",
"He pays professionals to mow his lawn twice a month.",
"Rives said that in spite of having just two toes remaining on his right foot \"I am not having a pity party for myself.",
"I have to keep going on.\""
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"Most victims are 25-64; more than 22 percent of injuries involve wrist, hand, finger .",
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"(CNN) -- Peru declared a state of emergency in parts of the country after weeks of protests against a mining project, the Andina news agency reported.",
"The state of emergency, which begins Monday, which will last for 60 days in four areas of Cajamarca department, according to Andina.",
"President Ollanta Humala Tasso announced the decision, described as an attempt to re-establish peace in the area, Andina reported.",
"The announcement Sunday came after protests against the construction of a $4.8 billion gold mining project called Conga.",
"The decision came as union leaders refused to stop ongoing protests, Andina reported.",
"Eighteen people were hurt, several by gunshots, following protests on Wednesday, the department's director of health said.",
"The protests took place despite an announcement Tuesday by U.S.-based Newmont Mining Corp. that work on the project would be suspended.",
"Newmont, which is based in Denver, Colorado, and describes itself as one of the world's largest oil companies, said it had suspended construction on the project \"for the safety of employees and community members.\"",
"It noted that operations there and at the nearby Yanacocha mine \"have experienced intermittent work stoppages as a result of ongoing protests in the region.\"",
"The protests began when anti-mining activists expressed concern about the possible impact of the project on the local water supply, the company said in a statement on its website.",
"\"The Conga Environmental Impact Assessment was approved in 2010 after extensive review by the Peruvian government, which included significant engagement and consultation with local communities,\" it said.",
"Critics say the mining project would adversely affect the area's ecosystem and would leave cattle in the zone without access to water.",
"CNN's Helena DeMoura and journalist Maria Belaunde contributed to this report."
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"The state of emergency comes after weeks of protests against a gold mining project called Conga .",
"At least 18 people were injured in protests last week .",
"Critics say the project would affect the area's ecosystem and would leave cattle without access to water .",
"The mining company says an impact assessment was approved and included the input of communities ."
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"(CNN) -- The owner of a Philadelphia art store was arrested Tuesday and charged with smuggling and conspiracy for illegally importing and selling African elephant ivory, according to the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.",
"Federal agents seized approximately 1 ton of ivory from Victor Gordon's African art store -- one of the largest government seizures of ivory on record.",
"Gordon, 68, is also allegedly in violation of the Lacey Act, which aims to fight against the trafficking of wildlife, fish and plants that have been obtained illegally, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.",
"Gordon allegedly paid a co-conspirator to travel to Africa to buy raw elephant ivory, according to the 10-count felony indictment against him.",
"He provided his co-conspirators with pictures of ivory carvings and asked that the ivory be designed by African carvers according to his designs, court documents said.",
"Gordon also asked that the ivory be dyed to give it an antique, older look.",
"He illegally imported the ivory through John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, a statement from the U.S. attorney said.",
"Ivory usually comes from the tusks of elephants.",
"A high demand for ivory led to a staggering decline in the African elephant population in the 1970s and 1980s, but the killing of elephants for their tusks remains a serious problem, even after laws and international treaties were put in place to prohibit the practice.",
"The U.S. Endangered Species Act names the African elephant as a threatened species.",
"\"The amount of the elephant ivory allegedly plundered in this case is staggering and highlights the seriousness of the charged crimes,\" said U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch.",
"\"We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.\"",
"Poaching and illegally selling ivory is serious issue in West and Central Africa, where the ivory in the Gordon case came from, the U.S. attorney's statement said.",
"If he is convicted of the charges against him, Gordon could face a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison."
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"One ton of ivory was seized from the African art store in Philadelphia .",
"Gordon faces 20 years in prison if convicted ."
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"New Delhi, India (CNN) -- A bomb exploded Saturday at a private hospital in the tourist city of Agra, India, injuring three people.",
"The bomb went off at Jai Hospital's reception area, said Brij Lal, spokesman for Uttar Pradesh police.",
"The hospital is about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the famed Taj Mahal, India's most popular tourist destination.",
"The blast blew out window panes and damaged the hospital's waiting room, where the three injured people were, said P.K.",
"Tiwari, the inspector general of police in Agra.",
"One of them sustain burn injuries.",
"\"It is difficult to say what the cause and motive of the blast were.",
"But we know that this was not a sophisticated device and seems to have not created too much impact,\" Tiwari said.",
"\"My guess is this is a crude bomb.\"",
"Police at the scene said they spotted several unclaimed lunch boxes and bicycles near the blast site.",
"India's Home Ministry said it had dispatched commandos to Agra and was in the process of collecting evidence from the scene.",
"The Agra blast occurred a day after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh warned the nation's senior police officers about India's vulnerability.",
"\"The security environment in the country continues to be uncertain,\" Singh said in remarks at a police conference Friday.",
"\"The recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai and Delhi are grim reminders of the grave challenges posed by terrorism to our national security.\"",
"India has suffered a spate of attacks in recent years, including the November 2008 siege of Mumbai that killed 163 people.",
"This month, a bomb inside a briefcase at the high court in the capital, New Delhi, killed 11 people and injured 74 others.",
"The Islamic extremist group Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami claimed responsibility for that attack in an e-mail to several TV news channels.",
"Authorities have detained three suspects from the Kashmir region.",
"In July, 19 people were killed in three deadly blasts in Mumbai, India's largest city and financial hub.",
"No one has been arrested yet.",
"CNN's Aliza Kassim contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Police say it was a crude device .",
"NEW: The three injured were in the hospital's reception area .",
"Agra is home to the famed Taj Mahal, India's most popular tourist spot .",
"No motive has been determined yet ."
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"(CNN) -- England and France set themselves on course for the quarterfinals of Rugby's World Cup with their second wins of the competition in New Zealand Sunday.",
"Fellow Six Nations side Wales also revived their hopes with a hard-fought 17-10 win over Samoa after their narrow opening defeat in Pool D to defending champions South Africa.",
"Martin Johnson's England saw off another determined challenge from Georgia 41-10 to stay on top in Pool B, while France beat Canada 46-19.",
"The French were troubled by the Canadians, who only trailed by a converted try after an hour before Damien Traille grabbed a breakaway try and Vincent Clerc crossed twice late on to make the scoreline flattering.",
"Marc Lievremont's team will have to improve against hosts New Zealand in Auckland next Saturday, with the losers likely to face England in the last eight.",
"England were scarcely more impressive against a Georgian team who have impressed in the World Cup and were also in touch at halftime.",
"But England pulled away after the break with Shontayne Hape and Chris Ashton scoring two tries apiece with Delon Armitage and Manu Tuilagi also going over.",
"After the off-field furore involving Mike Tindall, who captained the side in the opening win over Argentina, England were looking for a big performance but Johnson was disappointed with their display.",
"\"If we are happy with those standards we will go home early,\" he told AFP.",
"Wales were behind in Hamilton as they trailed 10-6 at the half, but were sparked into life by winger Shane Williams's 67th-minute try, his eighth in the World Cup.",
"\"We knew today was a must-win game,\" said coach Warren Gatland.\""
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"(CNN) -- An American woman died aboard a cruise ship that docked at Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, the same ship on which 86 passengers previously fell ill, according to the state-run Brazilian news agency, Agencia Brasil.",
"The American tourist died aboard the MS Veendam, owned by cruise operator Holland America.",
"Federal Police told Agencia Brasil that forensic doctors were investigating her death.",
"The ship's doctors told police that the woman was elderly and suffered from diabetes and hypertension, according the agency.",
"The other passengers came down with diarrhea prior to her death during an earlier part of the trip, the ship's doctors said.",
"The Veendam left New York 36 days ago for a South America tour."
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"Previously, 86 passengers had fallen ill on the ship, Agencia Brasil says ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Explosions near Pakistan's border with Afghanistan killed a dozen people Friday, authorities said.",
"A car bomb outside the home of a former lawmaker killed 10 and wounded 30 in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, said Nazir Kurt, a senior police official there.",
"The lawmaker's son, who was the target of the attack, survived the blast, he said.",
"Earlier, a bomb blast killed two people and wounded three in northwest Pakistan's tribal region, a senior Pakistani government official said.",
"The bomb was planted on a road near the village of Dara Bazar in the Bajaur Agency, one of the seven districts that make up Pakistan's tribal region, said Islam Zeb, a senior administrator in the district.",
"The bomb was remotely detonated, Zeb said.",
"It was was not immediately clear who was targeted in the blast or who was killed.",
"CNN's Nasir Habib and Journalist Saboor Khattak contributed to this report."
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"Car bombing kills 10 in Quetta and wounds 30 more .",
"A bomb blast in the tribal region kills two and wounds three, an official says .",
"The bomb was detonated remotely near the town of Dara Bazar, the official says ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- A number of states, including Georgia, already are putting things in place to opt out of the controversial No Child Left Behind Law, following President Barrack Obama's announcement Friday that states can now apply for waivers.",
"The law, passed in 2001, requires, among other things, that public schools meet targets designed to make all students proficient in math and reading by 2014 or face penalties.",
"The administration will begin reviewing applications to waive some of the demands the law places on states, Obama said Friday.",
"Top education officials in Georgia said Friday that it should be up to each individual state to decide how best to evaluate student performance in the classroom.",
"Following the president's announcement, Georgia State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge described his state's alternative to closing the achievement gap.",
"The College and Career Ready Performance Index, \"lets states determine how they approach the guiding principles,\" Barge said Friday.",
"Georgia is one of a handful of states, including Kentucky, Delaware, and Wisconsin that have expressed interest in waivers seeking flexibility from No Child Left Behind (NCLB).",
"Barge and U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) personally delivered Georgia's request for a waiver to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Tuesday.",
"Barge said the waiver will give schools more flexibility.",
"\"It will not be a matter of the entire accountability label hinging on a single test,\" he said.",
"Under the administration's new guidelines, states will be encouraged to devise standards of accountability that do not treat all schools the same.",
"\"The purpose is not to give states and districts a reprieve from accountability, but rather to unleash energy to improve our schools at the local level,\" Obama said in a statement.",
"In order to gain approval for waivers, states must present the U.S. Department of Education with credible alternative plans to measure performance.",
"Georgia's proposal focuses on several indicators to measure student performance, including reading, language arts, math, science, and social studies, offering an index that will vary based on grade level.",
"\"With NCLB, science and social studies teachers were not measured to determine adequate yearly progress,\" Georgia Department of Education Communications Director Matt Cardoza said.",
"\"Many times, those teachers would feel their subjects were not as important.",
"Now, there are multiple indicators, including science and social studies.\"",
"States that do not apply for waivers will still be expected to meet the guidelines set out by No Child Left Behind.",
"States may submit official applications for waivers by mid-November.",
"Waivers could be granted in early 2010.",
"CNN's Lesa Jansen contributed to this report ."
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"Georgia lays out its alternative plan to measure achievement ."
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"(CNN) -- Months after rescuers found them struggling and covered in oil, 33 endangered and threatened young sea turtles are finally going home to the Gulf of Mexico.",
"Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Audubon Nature Institute freed the turtles Thursday in waters about 40 miles southwest of Grand Isle, Louisiana.",
"This marked the latest mass release of turtles since about 500 were rescued in the weeks and months after the massive months-long oil spill.",
"\"We were able to release these turtles because they're now healthy, and we're seeing recovery in the surface habitats of the Gulf of Mexico,\" NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco said in a news release.",
"The spill began after an April 20 explosion on the offshore drilling platform Deepwater Horizon that killed 11 men.",
"Two days later, the platform sank and oil started gushing into the Gulf.",
"In early August, owner BP used cement and mud to plug the damaged Gulf of Mexico well.",
"Officials formally declared an end to the oil spill disaster on September 19, though considerable efforts remained to clean up area waters and revive wildlife affected by the spill.",
"Earlier this month, NOAA reopened federal waters off the Louisiana coast to fishing.",
"Thursday's release marked another milestone in the area's recovery, according to those involved.",
"\"Returning this group of sea turtles to their home waters is ... a sign that Louisiana is on the path towards recovery,\" said Randy Pausina, an assistant secretary for Louisiana's office of fisheries.",
"The 33 turtles had been rescued more than three months ago by federal officials and state wildlife authorities from Louisiana, Florida and Georgia, as well as the Riverhead Foundation and the In-Water Research Group.",
"They were rehabilitated at the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans.",
"They included green, Kemp's ridley and hawksbill sea turtles, which are classified as endangered species.",
"There also were loggerheads, which are a threatened species.",
"With 270 turtles having been cleaned, nursed back to health and released, there are more than 200 still in rehabilitation sites around the area.",
"Scientists did extensive aerial and shipboard tests earlier this week on the waters near the release point, making sure the sargassum algae was clean.",
"Young turtles thrive in such areas, which provide protection from predators and ample food, including small crabs, snails and other creatures.",
"\"Six months ago, it was nearly impossible to imagine this day would ever come,\" said Ron Forman, the Audubon Nature Institute's CEO and president."
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"The turtles were among 500 rescued after the mammoth months-long oil spill .",
"They are now healthy, and the habitat is recovering, scientist say .",
"Experts say the release is further evidence that the Gulf waters are recovering ."
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"(CNN) -- Three years after the killing of Mexican journalist Armando Rodriguez, his colleagues said they are more determined than ever to write about the nation's drug cartels despite the risks.",
"\"Those who ordered the killing of Armando were wrong because those who are left are more seasoned and we are working,\" said Luz del Carmen Sosa, a reporter for El Diario de Juarez newspaper who took over Rodriguez's crime beat after his death.",
"\"Those who believed we were going to take step back, they were wrong.\"",
"On November 13, 2008, Rodriguez -- called \"El Choco\" by his colleagues because of his chocolate skin tone -- was about to take his two young daughters to school when a man approached the garage of his house and fired 11 shots into his chest.",
"His daughters, one of whom witnessed the attack, have not spoken publicly since the incident and did not attend a memorial event for their father on Sunday.",
"Rodriguez's wife declined an interview request from CNN.",
"His colleagues believe he was targeted because of his coverage of drug cartels in the border town of Ciudad Juarez.",
"Before his death, Rodriguez was among the first journalists to write at length about the violent shift in the city.",
"He was a high-profile reporter for the most-read paper in the city, covering a dangerous beat.",
"It was a job his friends believe cost him his life.",
"Local reporters now look at the killing as the first of many targeting journalists for their work.",
"Since 2000, 74 journalists have been killed in Mexico -- 14 since 2010.",
"On the third anniversary of his death, his newsroom colleagues gathered Sunday to pay tribute and \"remember Choco ... friend, journalist, family man and a great man,\" the paper's editorial assistant Pedro Torres said at the public event.",
"His colleagues criticized the investigation into his unsolved killing, saying it is an example of the hundreds of unsolved murders throughout the city -- widely considered to be one of the most violent in the world.",
"Sandra Rodriguez Nieto, an El Diario reporter, said she believes that someone is \"hiding those responsible\" for Rodriguez's death.",
"It's a charge prosecutors with the Chihuahua State Attorney General's Office have denied.",
"Early in the investigation they announced the detention of a suspect in the shooting, but never released details about who they held.",
"The lack of information led to speculation among El Diario's newspaper staff that there was a cover up.",
"Making matters more complicated were attacks on the investigators working on the case.",
"In July 2009, a convoy carrying José Ibarra Limón, the first federal prosecutor designated to Rodriguez's case, was riddled with bullets by unknown assailants.",
"The following August, Pasillas Paul Fong, the secretary of the Seventh Agency who would inherit the case, was executed.",
"Days later, a third investigator took the case, only to flee Juarez soon afterward.",
"\"This is a situation that hurts, an unacceptable situation,\" Torres said.",
"Of the five publications in Juarez, El Diario de Juarez is the most popular paper in terms of circulation and has made a reputation for aggressively covering drug violence.",
"In September 2010, two of the paper's photographers were attacked -- one was killed.",
"A clear motive was never established, but investigators at the time did note the car carrying the two young journalists was registered to the son of the inspector of the State Human Rights Commission, Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson.",
"Some believe the journalists were not the intended targets of the attack.",
"On the same day friends and family buried the slain photographer, the newspaper published an open letter to the drug cartels operating in Juarez.",
"The letter, written by the editorial staff, pleaded for an end to violence against journalists.",
"No newspaper in Juarez had ever published an editorial directly addressed to the cartels; and no other paper has done so since.",
"\"You are, at present, the de facto authorities in this city,\" the letter said, \"because the legal institutions have not been able to keep our colleagues from dying.\"",
"In the wake of Rodriguez's death, del Carmen Sosa said she has no fear and was ready to take full responsibility for her work, even if it means death.",
"She said she operates under the same mantra as her predecessor.",
"\"Unlike Armando Luis Carlos (Rodriquez), I'm alive,\" del Carmen Sosa said.",
"\"I try to be responsible with my journalism and I have no fear.\"",
"In 2010, she was presented with an award for her courageous reporting.",
"\"I can only thank God every day ... because we need justice not only for Armando but for all the homicides in this city,\" she said."
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"There are questions about the investigation of his death .",
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"Miami (CNN) -- Tilikum, the killer whale that killed a SeaWorld trainer last year, has returned to the stage at the Orlando, Florida, theme park.",
"Tilikum made his return appearance Wednesday morning in front of an audience in the \"Believe\" show.",
"Trainer Dawn Brancheau was killed on February 24, 2010, when the killer whale -- commonly known as an orca -- grabbed her ponytail and pulled her under the water in front of horrified visitors.",
"Brancheau died from \"multiple traumatic injuries and drowning,\" the Orange County Sheriff's office said at the time of the accident.",
"Anthony Frogameni, Brancheau's nephew, said the family did not want to comment on Tilikum's return.",
"\"From the start we've decided, it's a large family we all have our different opinions but we're just not going to talk about that aspect of it -- we're only going to focus on Dawn, \" Frogameni said.",
"The Dawn Brancheau Foundation, which her family founded in her memory, says that the 40-year-old trainer's hair was especially long the day she was killed because she was growing it out to donate it to Locks of Love.",
"The nonprofit organization provides hairpieces to disadvantaged children dealing with long-term hair loss due to medical treatment.",
"SeaWorld had not answered written questions from CNN as of Wednesday evening, but did issue a statement saying Tilikum's participation in the shows was \"an important component of his physical, social and mental enrichment.\"",
"Since the accident last year, trainers no longer go into the water with any of the orcas at SeaWorld parks.",
"In August, SeaWorld was fined $75,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for three safety violations, including one in connection with Brancheau's death.",
"The agency's investigation \"revealed that SeaWorld trainers had an extensive history of unexpected and potentially dangerous incidents involving killer whales at its various facilities, including its location in Orlando,\" the OSHA statement said.",
"On this day when Tilikum is the star of the show, Frogameni says, \"We want people to remember Dawn's life, not that tragic accident.\"",
"CNN's Dugald McConnell contributed to this report."
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"Dawn Brancheau, 40, died when the orca pulled her underwater by her hair .",
"Brancheau had been growing her hair for Locks of Love, her family says .",
"SeaWorld trainers no longer go into the water with killer whales ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The public may have seen the last video images of the failed blowout preventer from the BP oil well disaster, as authorities expressed possible security concerns.",
"The feed from a camera on board a salvage ship was discontinued Saturday after the apparatus was raised from the sea floor and placed on the vessel Q4000.",
"At his regular briefing with reporters Wednesday, National Incident Commander Thad Allen said additional questions about the unit would now have to go to the U.S. Justice Department and the Joint Investigation Team.",
"When pressed about the video feed, Allen said, \"We'll have to refer that to the Department of Justice.",
"There were some constraints put on that videotaping based on the people that are looking at the blowout preventer and their identities and so forth, and I think there's, there may be some security issues associated with it.\"",
"Allen said the ship will carry the unit to shore, but that the timetable and other questions will no longer be something he can address as part of the disaster operations that he heads.",
"As of Wednesday, he said, \"the blowout preventer is already up on deck on the Q4000.",
"The lower marine riser package has been separated, and they're putting it on latching skids getting ready to move it closer to shore.\"",
"He said \"exactly when it arrives and what the disposition would be, I would refer you to the Department of Justice, or the Joint Investigation Team,\" since \"from this point out it doesn't involve the spill itself.\"",
"Allen said after the ship moves off-scene, \"this will cease to be part of the national response that I'm coordinating as the national incident commander.\""
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"Thad Allen cited security concerns Wednesday on further videotaping of the unit .",
"He referred questions to the Department of Justice ."
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"(CNN) -- Actor and author Hill Harper wants you to live your life and understand what true wealth is.",
"\"The word courage, one of my favorite words, the root or the etymology of that word is 'cour,' which means heart,\" he said.",
"\"I think true courage is actually following your heart and not getting or succumbing to what other people's definition of what your life should be.",
"Live your life.\" Harper, who once wanted to be a professional football player, tells me the story of how he accomplished that himself, thanks to the advice of an uncle.",
"\"I had all this student loan debt, and I had this six-figure legal job offer in corporate law coming out of Harvard Law School.",
"There were job opportunities there, particularly out of this high-end law firm,\" he said.",
"Harper has a bachelor of arts degree from Brown University, where he studied acting, and a masters in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government, which is a part of Harvard.",
"He says many people told him to take the legal job offer to pay off his debt.",
"They advised him to pursue his passion of acting later.",
"His Uncle Frank recognized he was only looking at the legal job for the salary.",
"\"'Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision,'\" Harper said his uncle advised.",
"Harper emphasizes that money can be a factor, but it should not be the primary one.",
"\"I went on to take a job waiting tables from 11 at night to 7 in the morning at a diner.",
"Fighting rush hour traffic to get home by 8 to go to sleep.",
"Wake up at noon or 1 to audition for films and go to acting class in the evening and maybe come home and get a nap between 9:30 and 10 and go to work again at 11,\" he said.",
"\"I certainly wasn't making as much money as I would have at a law firm, but I was following my heart.\"",
"Known for his roles in \"CSI: NY \" and \"Beloved,\" Spike Lee gave Harper his first big acting break when he hired him to play one of the leads of his movie \"Get on the Bus.\"",
"Harper has written three books that have been on The New York Times best-seller list.",
"His first one, \"Letters to a Young Brother: MANifest Your Destiny,\" won the American Library Association Award for Best Books for Young Adults in 2007.",
"\"You know it was funny, just a few years before, I was in grad school at Harvard, and Spike was teaching a theater class or film classes at Harvard,\" he said with a laugh.",
"\"I went down there and I was an extra in his film 'Malcolm X.'",
"I stood in this big huge line and auditioned to become an extra.\"",
"Harper's definition of wealth changed while he was filming \"For Colored Girls\" in Atlanta and writing a book about money and finance to encourage people to stop using a lack of money as an excuse to defer their dreams.",
"Harper has also had his brushes with harsh realities in life.",
"\"So one day, I wake up in my hotel room and I can't swallow.",
"I knew I wasn't sick. I didn't have a fever. Something inside me told me that something was wrong,\" he said.",
"He describes undergoing tests that involve enduring 16 needles in his neck.",
"Yet, he managed to have fun by posing for pictures with the nurses and doctors.",
"When he returned a week later for his pathology, no one was laughing and joking.",
"He says he knew then he had thyroid cancer.",
"\"What I realized very clearly through that journey was that it doesn't matter how much celebrity you have or how much money you have or how well you've saved or if your 401(k) is solid, if you don't have your health, and if you don't have your loved ones and relationships with your family, then none of it means anything,\" he said.",
"\"Money is important.",
"It is an important resource to have to help us build the life we want, but we overvalue it.",
"There are so many other wealth factors in our lives.",
"If we identify them as such, we can actually identify what true wealth is.\"",
"This inspired the title of his latest book, \"The Wealth Cure.\"",
"\"I was seeking a health cure, but, at the same time, I realized I was getting a wealth cure,\" he said.",
"Harper said he is feeling fine now and continues to check in with his doctors.",
"He would like a role on a show like \"Mad Men.\""
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"Cairo (CNN) -- A Syrian-born broadcaster and activist working in Egypt said Saturday his kidnapped wife was found and taken to a hospital.",
"\"My wife was found in a bad medical condition on a street in the suburbs of Cairo by a woman who took her to the hospital,\" said Thaer al-Nashef.",
"\"I am on my way to see her now.\" Media coverage likely led to the release, said al-Nashef, indicating the abductors \"were probably paid thugs.\"",
"Egyptian police did not immediately confirm his account.",
"Thaer al-Nashef, who describes himself as a \"political activist against the Syrian regime,\" said Friday he believed the kidnapping of his pregnant 25-year-old wife, Mona al-Gharib, was the work of Syrian intelligence agents operating in the country.",
"There was no response from the Syrian government about the allegations.",
"Egyptian police confirmed that al-Nashef filed a police report about his wife's disappearance on Friday.",
"Al-Nashef said he went to the general prosecutor's office Saturday and was told officials have the phones of the suspected kidnappers under surveillance.",
"Al-Nashef said he was alerted to the alleged kidnapping by a text message.",
"\"We have kidnapped your wife, you dirty dog, so you don't insult your master again,\" al-Nashef quoted the text as saying.",
"Al-Nashef said he received further text messages from the alleged kidnappers, including one that threatened that his wife would be raped, and another saying his wife would be killed if he went to the media with the story.",
"A message sent Saturday, he said, read: \"The Nile will deliver your wife's dead body.",
"You killed her by opening with your big mouth to the media.",
"You are next.\" Al-Nashef's wife is an Egyptian citizen and a student at Azhar University, he said.",
"She is six months pregnant with their second child, he said.",
"Al-Nashef said the messages came from an Egyptian number.",
"Al-Nashef is a freelance journalist in Egypt and serves as a TV anchor for several networks, including January 25 TV, which was launched after the revolution, which toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.",
"The Syrian government has been accused of seeking retribution against relatives of Syrian activists working against the Bashar al-Assad regime from abroad.",
"The U.S. State Department announced this summer that it had received reports that Syrian mission personnel had been conducting video surveillance of people participating in peaceful demonstrations in the United States."
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"The woman is the wife of a freelance TV anchor in Egypt .",
"Her husband accuses Syrian intelligence agents of carrying out the alleged kidnapping .",
"Police are investigating the origins of text messages allegedly from the kidnappers ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- Military police poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square on Wednesday in hopes of stopping clashes between protesters and police, as the Egyptian government said a truce had been declared through a group of clerics.",
"The truce lasted about three hours.",
"CNN saw military police lined up, separating protesters from the police.",
"But after a period of calm, some protesters began throwing rocks at soldiers.",
"Riot police responded with tear gas; the unrest continued late Wednesday.",
"Some army soldiers tried to stop security forces from shooting tear gas, but they were outnumbered.",
"On state-run TV, the government said religious scholars were on their way \"to form a human shield between the protesters and the security forces.\"",
"CNN saw no sign of a human shield of clerics.",
"But along the barricades separating protesters from security forces, some clerics were talking to protesters, trying to negotiate.",
"Egypt's grand mufti, the country's highest religious official, called on police to put down their weapons and \"never aim\" firearms at the Egyptian people.",
"In an audio message aired by Egyptian state TV, he called for a \"peaceful protest for Egypt's sake.\"",
"Protesters reached Fahmi Street, which leads to the Interior Ministry, and were trying to surround the ministry, state-run Al-Masriya TV said.",
"Earlier, police pulled back from Mohamed Mahmoud Street, the site of clashes throughout the five days of the latest uprising.",
"Adel Saeed, spokesman for the Egyptian general prosecutor's office, said \"a truce has been reached between the protesters and the security forces at the Ministry of Interior through several leading religious scholars.\"",
"It was not immediately clear who may have been represented in the discussions to which Saeed referred.",
"Mohamed Mahmoud Street leads from Tahrir Square -- the center of the protests that toppled Hosni Mubarak as president in February and of the most recent demonstrations -- toward the Interior Ministry.",
"During a lull in the street battles earlier Wednesday, CNN saw riot police embracing and kissing some young people who were taking part in the demonstrations.",
"Minutes later, rocks and tear gas were in the air again.",
"Protesters erected barriers using debris from burned-out cars and large trash bins in case the battles resumed.",
"Crowds have packed Tahrir Square since Saturday, calling for the nation's military rulers to step down immediately.",
"The demonstrations Wednesday were a vociferous rejection of Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, field marshal of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, who delivered an address Tuesday aimed at calming the protests.",
"\"The people demand the downfall of the council of shame,\" some demonstrators chanted Wednesday.",
"Through the state-run news agency MENA, the government said that the army was \"exerting all efforts to stop bloodshed of Egyptians\" and that the military had deployed three armored vehicles to Mohamed Mahmoud Street.",
"The death toll in the latest clashes has risen to 35, including 31 people in Cairo and four in other cities, state-run television said Wednesday.",
"The number of wounded is up to 3,250, according to Hisham Sheeha, spokesman for Egypt's Health Ministry.",
"Saeed, of the Egyptian general prosecutor's office, said 312 people had been arrested since Saturday.",
"Security forces could be seen making arrests Wednesday.",
"Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim was among those arrested, according to Karim Amer, a film producer who said he was with her when she was filming events close to the Interior Ministry.",
"\"The military started firing tear gas so we all ran in different directions and I lost her,\" Amer said.",
"\"She called me and said she was arrested by military. \"",
"A CNN e-mail to noujaimfilms.com, which lists Noujaim as director, was not immediately returned.",
"Meanwhile, the mother of one of the three American students detained in Egypt said Wednesday that she was able to speak to him briefly in a telephone call arranged by U.S. diplomats.",
"\"He sounded scared, but he said he was OK,\" Joy Sweeney said of her son, Derrik Sweeney, one of three American college students being held for questioning in an Egyptian courthouse, accused by authorities of throwing Molotov cocktails in Tahrir Square.",
"The students will be detained another four days as an investigation continues, said a spokesman for the office of Egypt's general prosecutor.",
"An official from the U.S. consular office visited the students, said U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Katharina Gollner-Sweet.",
"The chaos and fighting have raised new questions about Egypt's future less than a week before parliamentary elections are set to begin.",
"U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay called on Egypt \"to end the clearly excessive use of force.\"",
"\"Some of the images coming out of Tahrir, including the brutal beating of already subdued protesters, are deeply shocking, as are the reports of unarmed protesters being shot in the head,\" Pillay said in a statement.",
"\"There should be a prompt, impartial and independent investigation, and accountability for those found responsible for the abuses that have taken place should be ensured.\"",
"After Mubarak's ouster, military leaders took control with the promise that eventually a civilian government would be elected and take over.",
"Demonstrators say they are concerned the military, which would continue to be Egypt's top authority until a president is in place, wants to keep a grip on the country.",
"Many also have voiced anger about a proposed constitutional change that would shield the military's budget from scrutiny by civilian powers.",
"They say they worry the military would become a state within a state.",
"Members of the nation's Cabinet offered to resign Monday, with one minister citing concern over the violence in Tahrir Square.",
"Tantawi of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces said the resignations were accepted, but the current government will remain as a caretaker until a prime minister is named to form a new government.",
"Speaking Tuesday on Egyptian TV, Tantawi said the armed forces were \"only concerned about the security of the country and the interests of the country,\" and want to \"establish democracy for the people of Egypt.\"",
"CNN's Saad Abedine, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Josh Levs and journalists Ian Lee and Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"Egypt's grand mufti calls on police to put down their weapons .",
"The death toll in five days of violence has risen to 35, officials say .",
"The number of injured stands at 3,250, Egyptian Health Ministry says .",
"U.N. human rights chief calls on Egypt to stop \"the clearly excessive use of force\""
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"(CNN) -- Fernando Torres rediscovered his scoring touch with a double at Stamford Bridge as Chelsea romped to a 5-0 win over Genk in their Champions League Group E match Wednesday.",
"The Spanish international striker had not scored in European club football for over two years, but looked dangerous throughout and might easily have had a hat-trick.",
"The Belgian visitors were up against it from the start and after Torres hit the post, Raul Mereiles scored with a thumping shot from outside the penalty area.",
"Torres was soon on the score sheet with a neat side foot effort and added his second with a well-placed header from a Mereiles cross.",
"Branislav Ivanovic headed home from a Florent Malouda free kick for the fourth just before halftime.",
"Torres, who was rested at the weekend, looked sharp as he went in search of his third and he was denied by Genk keeper Laszlo Koteles only for Salomon Kalou to grab the fifth from the rebound.",
"Chelsea lead Bayer Leverkusen by a point after the German side beat Valencia 2-1 in the other Group E match.",
"Former Chelsea midfielder Michael Ballack was the inspiration for Leverkusen, who fell behind to a goal from Brazil striker Jonas.",
"But they hit back through goals by midfielders Andre Schuerrle and Sidney Sam after the break, with ex-Germany captain Ballack setting up the winner with a superb defense-splitting pass.",
"Meanwhile in Group F, Arsenal made sure it was a good night for English Premier League sides with a last-gasp victory over Marseille in the Stade Velodrome.",
"The game was headed for a 0-0 draw when substitute Aaron Ramsey cropped up for the precious winner as Arsenal go top of the group by a point from their French opponents.",
"Olympiakos of Greece beat German champions Borussia Dortmund 3-1 in the other match in the group to keep alive their hopes of qualification for the knockout stages.",
"Jose Holebas, a German player of Greek descent, headed the opener for the home side after just eight minutes.",
"Dortmund deservedly leveled through Polish striker Robert Lewandowski midway through the first half, but five minutes before the break Rafik Djebbour restored the Olympiakos lead.",
"With the visitors pressing, Olympiakos broke upfield to win a free kick and defender Francois Modesto headed home from Ariel Ibagaza's delivery to seal the victory."
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"Chelsea beat Genk 5-0 in Champions League E match at Stamford Bridge .",
"Fernando Torres scores twice in easy win as Chelsea top group .",
"Bayer Leverksusen beat Valencia 3-1 in other Group E game .",
"Aaron Ramsey scores injury time winner for Arsenal at Marseille ."
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"Cedar Key, Florida (CNN) -- Two weeks after BP plugged its damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico with cement and mud from above, the next step in the process to permanently shut down the apparatus is in limbo as scientists gauge the risks posed by pressure inside the well.",
"\"Our first goal is to do no harm,\" Thad Allen, the government's point man in the Gulf, said in a teleconference Wednesday.",
"The procedure the first week of August was called a \"static kill.\"",
"The timeline for the next step -- the \"bottom kill\" -- is unknown, as scientists try to determine which of two methods would work best to mitigate the pressure issues, Allen said.",
"Crews could remove the capping stack that sealed the oil in the well on July 15, then replace the well's blowout preventer with a new one stored on the nearby Development Driller II in the Gulf.",
"The other option would require BP to devise a pressure-relief device for the current capping stack.",
"Once crews get their marching orders, it will take them about four days to prepare, drill the final 50 feet of a relief well and intercept the main well.",
"Then, the \"bottom kill\" process of plugging the well from below will begin.",
"Allen said Wednesday cementing will require another several days.",
"Allen also told reporters that seafood coming from reopened Gulf fishing waters is safe to eat.",
"\"There's no problem with Gulf seafood.",
"It's being tested more than any other seafood out there right now,\" Allen said.",
"National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco echoed Allen's comments about Gulf seafood, saying that where water may still be tainted, no fishing is allowed.",
"\"Twenty-two percent of federal waters in the Gulf remain closed because we have not yet determined it's safe\" to eat seafood from there, Lubchenco said in the same teleconference.",
"She added that scientists are continuing to conduct testing in the areas that have reopened.",
"Wednesday is the last day that BP will accept claims from people and businesses affected by the Gulf oil disaster.",
"After that, the oil giant will direct people to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility, led by attorney Kenneth Feinberg.",
"Feinberg is charged with independently administering the $20 billion escrow account established by BP to compensate for damage caused by the Gulf disaster.",
"At a town hall meeting in Houma, Louisiana, Wednesday morning, one woman accused Feinberg of working for BP, accidentally referring to him as \"Mr.",
"BP.\" \"This facility is going to be much more generous, much more efficient, and much quicker than BP,\" Feinberg responded.",
"\"If anyone here thinks I am not independent and am merely an arm of BP, don't participate.",
"It's a voluntary program.\"",
"Feinberg promised that eligible individuals who submit a claim would get a check in 48 hours and eligible business claims would be paid in no more than seven days.",
"But he acknowledged that he'd have to earn the trust of fishermen and others who say they've received conflicting information about the oil spill response from BP and various government agencies.",
"\"There is only one way that I will earn your trust,\" Feinberg said Wednesday, \"and that is paying the claims.\"",
"Others at the town complained that income they've received from BP for helping respond to the spill would be deducted from their payments, pointing out that those who stayed home would be eligible for more money.",
"\"There are very few people that I've met here in the gulf that are in emergency situations, desperate to pay their mortgages and put food on their tables that have not sought other work, other employment,\" Feinberg told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Wednesday in response to such grievances.",
"BP, which said Tuesday it has paid $368 million in claims so far, will continue to handle claims by government entities.",
"On Tuesday, a major environmental watchdog group called for more stringent testing of seafood from the Gulf of Mexico, where the fall shrimping season began this week.",
"The state of Alabama just reopened its coastal waters to fishing and shrimping on Monday.",
"The National Resources Defense Council released a statement saying it sent letters to the Food and Drug Administration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, co-signed by almost two dozen Gulf coast groups.",
"The letters asked the government agencies to: .",
"-- Ensure that there is comprehensive monitoring of seafood contamination.",
"-- Ensure public disclosure of all seafood monitoring data and methods.",
"-- Ensure that fishery reopening criteria protect the most vulnerable populations, including children, pregnant women and subsistence fishing communities.",
"\"With the opening of shrimping season and near-daily reopening of fishing areas, seafood safety is a major issue right now,\" Dr. Gina Solomon, a senior scientist with the National Resources Defense Council, said in the statement.",
"\"The government needs to show it is putting strong safety criteria and testing standards in place to ensure that the seafood from the Gulf will be safe to eat in the months and years to come.\"",
"The oil spill has hampered the seafood business across the Gulf as federal and state authorities put much of its waters off-limits amid safety concerns.",
"With the once-gushing well capped temporarily for more than a month now, NOAA and the Gulf states have started lifting those restrictions.",
"Pete Barber, president of the Alabama Seafood Association, told CNN affiliate WALA that although the waters are open and the shrimp have been deemed safe, that doesn't mean seafood buyers want it.",
"\"We've had major distributors call up some of our processors who have been working with them for years, generations, and they've basically said, 'We don't want Gulf product,'\" Barber said.",
"\"Some of those boats have their hulls full of shrimp and no one that's eagerly looking to buy them.\"",
"While some shrimpers are eager to get back out, many are still working for BP, which has hired boats to skim oil off the surface and lay protective booms along the shorelines.",
"But the need for skimmers appears to be winding down.",
"The state of Louisiana said Tuesday that of 343 operational skimmers, only 40 were sent out Monday in search of oil -- and they came back to shore with 100 cubic yards of debris, but not even one gallon of oil.",
"Two reports published Tuesday express concern about the lingering effects of oil spilled from the ruptured BP well.",
"Researchers at the University of South Florida have concluded that oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have settled to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico farther east than previously suspected -- and at levels toxic to marine life.",
"\"The dispersant is moving the oil down out of the surface and into the deeper waters, where it can affect phytoplankton and other marine life,\" said John Paul, a marine microbiologist at the University of South Florida.",
"In addition, a team from Georgia Sea Grant and the University of Georgia released a report that estimates that 70 to 79 percent of the oil that gushed from the well \"has not been recovered and remains a threat to the ecosystem,\" the university said in a release.",
"The Georgia study \"strongly contradicts\" a 2-week-old government report saying that only 26 percent of the oil spilled from the well remains in the Gulf.",
"Lubchenco addressed the discrepancy Wednesday, saying the Georgia study was based on different parameters than the federal study and, \"We stand by the numbers we released in the oil budget.\"",
"\"We have said all along there is dispersed oil subsurface -- that oil is out there, \" she said.",
"\"It is dilute, in parts per million\" but \"dilute and dispersed does not mean benign.\"",
"The NOAA chief said scientists will \"continue to do additional monitoring and refine the estimate\" as new information comes to light.",
"The government believes the water is clean enough for at least one form of sea life to abide.",
"Allen, Lubchenco and some biologists reintroduced 23 sea turtles to the Gulf off Cedar Key, Florida, Wednesday morning.",
"The Kemp's ridley sea turtles had been cleaned and de-oiled at the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans, and at Gulf World in Panama City, Florida.",
"Then, they were temporarily housed at SeaWorld Orlando, Mote Marine Laboratory, and the Florida Aquarium, NOAA said in a press release Wednesday.",
"To date, approximately 500 live turtles have been rescued during the Gulf oil spill, and more than 450 stranded or captured turtles have had visible evidence of external oil.",
"Approximately 350 turtles are still in rehabilitation facilities and will be released as they are given clean bills of health, according to NOAA.",
"The spill began after an April 20 explosion on the offshore drilling platform Deepwater Horizon that killed 11 men.",
"Two days later, the platform sank and oil started gushing into the Gulf.",
"CNN's Chris Turner contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: Government's claims administrator to Gulf residents: \"I will earn your trust\"\nNOAA head Jane Lubchenco explains difference between statistics on oil still in Gulf .",
"The relief well and bottom kill are on hold until pressure risks are evaluated and mitigated .",
"Thad Allen and Lubchenco stress Gulf seafood is safe ."
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"Cairo, Egypt (CNN) -- Thousands of Christian Copts in Cairo protested outside the offices of the Egyptian state broadcaster, witnesses said on Friday.",
"It was the seventh day of protests over what they're calling the \"marginalization and lack of representation\" of their concerns in state media.",
"There have been longstanding tensions between Muslims and Copts in Egypt, and 13 Copts were killed in sectarian clashes last Tuesday.",
"That erupted after a family dispute between Christians and Muslims resulted in a church burning south of Cairo."
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"Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN) -- Thousands of anti-riot police were in the streets of Bangladesh's capital city Thursday as the opposition alliance launched a day-long general strike in protest of a fuel price hike.",
"The strike, occurring all over the country, paralyzed daily life as road communications were heavily disrupted and schools and business establishments remained closed on Thursday, the last working day of the week.",
"The usually busy streets of the capital, Dhaka, looked almost deserted as most means of public and private transportation remained off the roads.",
"The opposition group Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies, mostly Islamic parties, called the strike after the government raised the price of petroleum fuels and compressed national gas on Sunday.",
"Dhaka's police chief, Benazir Ahmed, said his department deployed 13,000 policemen alone in the capital to break up any opposition protests, and the home ministry also initiated mobile courts to try protesters summarily on the streets.",
"Police said that the strike was mostly peaceful apart from a few incidents of violence, but the opposition parties said the police and the ruling party men beat up their activists wherever they had tried to bring out a procession.",
"Police said they had arrested some 200 people from different parts of the country, but the opposition claimed that the number was at least 400.",
"The BNP acting secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, said, \"The government has increased fuel prices at a time when people's suffering has already peaked due to high inflation.\"",
"But the government said it was an \"issueless\" strike.",
"The general secretary of the ruling Awami League, Syed Ashraful Islam, said it was illogical as the prices of fuel oils were still lower in Bangladesh (a liter of gasoline costs US$ 1.06) than in the international market.",
"\"If the prices of fuel oils increase in the global market in the future, the government will increase the prices again because the government will need to pay huge subsidies otherwise,\" he added.",
"The fuel price hike, the second such rise in four months, triggered protests also by transport owners."
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"Dhaka police put 13,000 officers in the streets in that one city, police chief says .",
"The usually busy streets of Dhaka looked almost deserted of people, vehicles .",
"The opposition alliance launched the day-long general strike to protest an increase in fuel prices .",
"The opposition claims at least 400 protesters were arrested ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Workers aboard the Deepwater Horizon were pushing to complete the well at the heart of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill before the disaster, but no \"conscious decision\" to cut corners on safety has been discovered, a presidential commission reported Monday.",
"\"There seemed to be a compulsion to get this rig completed in that April 19th-April 20th time period,\" said Bob Graham, the commission's co-chairman.",
"\"And as a result of that, a number of things which might have made the outcome of this plight different were deferred or abandoned.\"",
"The undersea gusher erupted with an April 20 explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon drill rig, which was completing a well for the oil giant BP at the time of the blast.",
"The rig sank two days later, taking 11 men to a watery grave and unleashing the worst oil spill in U.S. history.",
"The well was about 45 days behind schedule, and Fred Bartlit, the commission's chief counsel, said BP's operating costs for the leased rig were running about $1.5 million per day.",
"Those costs were \"overhanging the heads of people on the rigs,\" Bartlit said -- \"but they don't want their buddies to get killed, or themselves.\"",
"\"To date, we have not seen a single instance where a human being made a conscious decision to favor dollars over safety,\" he said.",
"But as the commission opened two days of new hearings into the disaster on Monday, Graham questioned why the timing was \"so central\" to managers that they did not examine the well's cementing job more closely.",
"\"I would hope that tomorrow we get down to the question of just what was driving for a decision on that particular narrow 24 hours,\" added Graham, a former U.S. senator and Florida governor.",
"In its preliminary findings, the commission criticized BP for shifting its plans for capping the completed well.",
"At one point, one of the \"company men\" on the doomed rig was unaware of changes being planned back on shore, staff attorney Sean Grimsley said.",
"Mark Bly, BP's executive vice president for safety, told the commission he and the company \"don't exactly agree\" with the findings.",
"\"In our work we went through what turned out to be the eight critical things we thought had contributed causally here,\" he said.",
"\"We clearly identified the failure to isolate at the bottom of the well and the negative test and, subsequently, the monitoring, so we didn't see the procedures here as particular to that.",
"We felt they were covered in the other things that we described.\"",
"Rep. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, an outspoken critic of BP, said the company has \"a long and sordid history of cutting costs and pushing the limits in search of higher profits.\"",
"\"When the culture of a company favors risk-taking and cutting corners above other concerns, systemic failures like this oil spill disaster result without direct decisions being made or tradeoffs being considered,\" Markey said in a written statement on Monday's findings.",
"The Massachusetts Democrat leads the House Energy and Commerce committee's energy and environmental subcommittee.",
"Still pending are test results on the rig's blowout preventer, the massive fail-safe device that was supposed to shut down the well in case emergency.",
"Federal authorities took control of the preventer in September and have turned it over to a Norwegian engineering firm to analyze the device \"from soup to nuts,\" Bartlit said.",
"BP, rig owner Transocean and cement contractor Halliburton have pointed fingers at each other since the rig sank.",
"As the well's owner, BP was responsible for capping the ruptured well and cleaning up the more than 200 million gallons of oil that spilled.",
"The well was sealed temporarily in mid-July and capped permanently on September 19.",
"Lab test results should have prompted managers to redesign the cement slurry used to line the well, the committee reported.",
"In addition, the Transocean drill crew also could have diverted the escaping hydrocarbons overboard or triggered the rig's emergency disconnect before the blast, which could have shut in the well and \"limited the impact of any explosion and/or the blowout,\" the commission stated.",
"Managers for both BP and Transocean treated a pressure test as a \"complete success\" despite repeated signs showing that the cement job was not containing the high-pressure oil and gas, the commission found.",
"Co-chairman William Reilly, a former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, said the evidence so far indicates a \"culture of complacency\" on the part of both industry and regulators, including the since-disbanded Minerals Management Service.",
"\"If we had not been complacent, I suppose the most obvious reality is we would not have experienced two full months of a gushing well leading to 200 million gallons being spilled,\" Reilly said.",
"\"We would not have seen Congress underfund the regulatory agency consistently over the better part of the last 20 years, and the consequent failure of MMS to rise to the challenges posed by technologies that simply became so sophisticated that they scarcely were any match for the people they were regulating.\"",
"The commission's final report is due January 11.",
"Investigations are also under way by the Justice Department, several congressional committees and a joint Coast Guard-Interior Department board.",
"Unlike those agencies, however, the presidential commission does not have the power to subpoena witnesses -- an issue Bartlit raised several times.",
"\"We get a lot of arguments,\" he told Graham at one point.",
"\"This is where subpoena power, senator, would be helpful, because it's going to be hard to resolve those unless I can sit people down in a room in a very professional, gentlemanly way and cross examine them and find out, you know, what's believable and what's not believable.\"",
"CNN's Vivian Kuo contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Congressman says BP has a long history of \"pushing the limits\"\nDrill crews were under \"compulsion\" to complete the well, co-chairman says .",
"No evidence has been found that managers chose \"to favor dollars over safety\""
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Jaleel White most notably played geeky, annoying neighbor Steve Urkel on the '90s sitcom \"Family Matters\" -- but since then, the actor, who has portrayed Bruce Lee, Elvis Presley and a member of the opposite sex, doesn't feel recognized for his ability to take on a variety of roles.",
"\"I'm very versatile, but somehow I didn't earn the tag of being called a versatile actor,\" White, 34, tells PEOPLE.",
"\"I'm still chasing that one Vanity Fair tag that says, 'This guy's a versatile actor.'",
"I accept it. It's fine. But for me, it's like what do I have to do to get that [acknowledgement]?\"",
"White, who says he gets \"recognized everywhere I go,\" isn't big on reminiscing about the days of playing the character who made him a household name.",
"\"I don't [miss playing Urkel],\" he says.",
"\"I really don't. I'm not trying to get away from it or anything like that, but I don't miss the role at all -- really.",
"I just want to work. I want my daughter to say, 'I know what Daddy does,' not 'what Daddy did.\"",
"White -- who most recently played an inmate on Fox's House, M.D.",
"earlier this year -- guest stars as a scheming wealthy director on the season premiere of fellow former child star Tatyana Ali's latest sitcom, Love That Girl!.",
"The actor says it's \"cool\" sharing a screen with Ali, who he hasn't filmed with since his small stint on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air many years ago.",
"The episode, which airs Monday night at 8 p.m. on TV One, is the first of many more roles to come, predicts White.",
"\"I just want people to know I haven't gone anywhere,\" he says.",
"\"The passion was gone for awhile, but I've got my mojo back.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"(CNN) -- Forty-three soldiers suffered heat-related illnesses Friday during a 12-mile road march at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, an Army spokesman said.",
"The march was the culmination of a week of \"expert field medical badge training,\" during which soldiers are tested on their medic and general soldier skills in order to receive an \"expert\" badge, Fort Bragg spokesman Benjamin Abel said.",
"Sixty soldiers were on the march, which started at 6 a.m., and they were carrying backpacks, helmets, weapons and other combat gear, Abel said.",
"About an hour and a half into the march, the people running the event noticed some personnel \"were having difficulties,\" and medical transports were begun, he said.",
"Eighteen of the soldiers were transported to Womack Army Medical Center, and one was admitted to the intensive care unit, he said.",
"Humidity levels Friday morning were higher than expected, but \"this is odd, out of the norm, to have this many people treated,\" Abel added.",
"The expert field medical badge is deemed by the Army as \"the utmost challenge to the professional competence and physical endurance of the soldier medic,\" Fort Bragg officials said in a statement earlier this week.",
"\"It is the most sought-after peacetime award in the Army Medical Department, and while the combat medical badge is the 'portrait of courage' in wartime, the expert field medical badge is undoubtedly the 'portrait of excellence' in the Army all of the time,\" officials said.",
"\"To wear the EFMB means you passed a grueling series of hands-on-tests on communications, common skill tasks, emergency medical treatment, evacuation of the sick and wounded, litter obstacle course, day/night land navigation courses, comprehensive written test, 12-mile foot march, CPR, physical fitness test, and weapons qualification,\" the base said.",
"In June 1965, the Department of the Army established the badge as a special skill award for the recognition of exceptional competence and outstanding performance by field medical personnel."
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"43 of them suffer heat-related illnesses .",
"One is in intensive care .",
"The difficult-to-obtain badge is considered the \"portrait of excellence\" in the Army ."
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"(CNN) -- A judge subpoenaed the Spanish king's son-in-law Thursday in a corruption case that has drawn increased scrutiny to the royal family.",
"Inaki Urdangarin, the Duke of Palma de Mallorca, must testify on February 6, a Spanish court said in a statement.",
"The case, widely reported in Spanish media for weeks, has fueled public criticism of the royal family.",
"Thursday's statement from the Balearic Islands Superior Court of Justice formally named Urdangarin as a defendant, but did not specify charges against him.",
"According to media reports, authorities have been investigating whether a foundation headed by Urdangarin improperly used public funds.",
"Mario Pascual Vives, an attorney representing Urdangarin, told reporters Thursday that his client is \"absolutely innocent.\"",
"Vives said Urdangarin, who lives in Washington, was on a skiing trip in the United States and had not spoken with him about the case since the court's announcement Thursday.",
"Urdangarin, a former Olympic handball player, married the Spanish king's youngest daughter in 1997.",
"The corruption allegations have brought increased scrutiny to the monarchy as Spain faces a nationwide economic crisis.",
"The court's announcement came a day after Spain's royal family publicly revealed its finances for the first time in an effort to boost public confidence and transparency.",
"An announcement by the royal palace that Urdangarin will not participate in official family activities during the investigation and remarks by King Juan Carlos in his Christmas Eve speech that \"justice is equal for everyone\" have deflected public criticisms of the royal family, according to Gerardo Correas of the International School of Protocol in Madrid.",
"A large round of applause greeted the king at an inauguration ceremony for the new legislature earlier this week, Correas said.",
"But many Spaniards were still buzzing over the political scandal -- with some asking whether other members of the royal family were connected to, or aware of, Urdangarin's business dealings.",
"\"The debate continues in the street and will continue for a long time,\" Correas said.",
"CNN's Ana Maria Luengo-Romero and Miguel Angel Antonanzas contributed to this report."
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"A statement from the court names him as a defendant, but does not specify charges .",
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"(Health.com) -- Amanda Santos wanted to send her 5-year-old daughter, Skylar, to a small private school.",
"But after they interviewed, met the teachers, and submitted Skylar's medical records, they never heard back from the school, despite repeated inquiries.",
"Santos, who lives in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, can't say for sure why communication was cut off so abruptly, but she's convinced that Skylar's severe nut allergy was an issue.",
"\"They knew going in that she had an allergy; they said it was no problem,\" says Santos.",
"\"But until we sat down and had a meeting about the precautions they'd have to take -- kids washing their hands, asking parents not to send nuts to school, that kind of thing -- they didn't realize how severe it was.",
"I just think they didn't want her there, didn't want to deal with all of that.\"",
"Health.com: The latest on food allergies .",
"Santos is not alone.",
"According to a new study conducted in the U.K., families with children who are living with this potentially life-threatening condition often feel isolated, stigmatized, or unfairly excluded from activities, due to the allergies.",
"In many ways, nut allergies feel more like a disability than a chronic illness because of the stigma, the researchers say.",
"\"Families reported some really very difficult and unpleasant experiences when they were trying to keep their child safe from risk,\" says coauthor Mary Dixon-Woods, professor of medical sociology at the University of Leicester.",
"She was surprised by the study's results.",
"\"I was expecting to hear about problems with labeling and so on, but the extent of the stigma families reported was very troubling,\" she says.",
"Peanuts are the most common food trigger of life-threatening anaphylactic shock, accounting for more than half of all fatal food-induced allergic reactions.",
"Peanut allergies are on the rise, doubling in children between 1997 and 2002.",
"About 1% of children in the U.S. have peanut allergies.",
"Health.com: 8 Reasons to delay vaccines for kids .",
"Along with the rise in nut allergies have come more restrictions on schools and other public places, including nut-free classrooms and airplanes, as well as better labeling for products.",
"In recent years, there has been a bit of backlash against the greater focus on nut allergies.",
"In 2008, Harvard Medical School professor Nicholas A. Christakis published in the journal BMJ an editorial called \"This allergies hysteria is just nuts.\"",
"While noting that allergies are a real problem, he wrote about the \"overabundance of caution\" at his children's school and an incident in which a school bus was evacuated because a peanut was found on the floor.",
"To determine some of the challenges faced by parents of children with nut allergies, Dixon-Woods and her colleagues interviewed 26 families about their coping strategies and techniques for avoiding dangerous situations.",
"They found, however, that these parents were routinely made to feel that such allergies were nothing but a \"frivolous and self-indulgent fad invented and maintained by attention-seeking people.\"",
"Health.com: The healthiest vacuum cleaners for your home .",
"Parents interviewed for the study frequently encountered skepticism or hostility when they tried to explain their children's allergies to others, says Dixon-Woods.",
"Birthday parties became \"nightmares,\" and even just sending kids to school or leaving them with friends or family was terrifying.",
"Interview transcripts from the study reveal several scenarios in which parents felt ridiculed, ignored, or challenged on the subject of food allergies.",
"· In the lunchroom at school, children might feel bullied.",
"\"She was teased and things like that, people saying...'I've got nuts and I'm gonna come and touch you,'\" said one participant.",
"· Said one participant about a family camping trip: \"He'd caught her sort of pulling faces and complaining to other people that they'd had to put the peanuts away...they all laughed and it was awful...\" · At a social gathering, the hosts thought the family was overdramatizing the problem.",
"\"We got invited up for a party...gave them a list of what he could eat,\" said one study participant.",
"\"[We] walked in there and I couldn't believe my eyes, big bowls of peanuts in between all the food.\"",
"· Forgetful or disbelieving relatives aren't uncommon.",
"In one family, a grandparent gave a child candy with nuts.",
"\"Now whether it was deliberate or not, I don't know, but I blew a fuse,\" said one participant.",
"\"I suppose in my heart of hearts I felt that he'd given it deliberately; my husband doesn't want to believe that his father would do that.\"",
"The study, published Monday in the journal Chronic Illness, was funded by the British charity Midlands Asthma and Allergy Research Association.",
"Dixon-Woods agrees that better food labeling, more education, and stricter regulation is necessary to reduce misunderstanding and negative attitudes about nut allergies especially in the United States, where peanut-based products are ubiquitous and the word allergy is frequently used to describe non-life-threatening conditions such as hay fever.",
"\"It may be time to come up with a new term to describe the condition,\" Dixon-Woods says.",
"\"'Nut allergy' is so poorly understood that it really is not a helpful term anymore.\"",
"Health.com: How to buy the right air cleaner .",
"The Santos family removed their daughter from preschool this year because a teacher gave her a food with traces of nuts.",
"When she had a minor reaction, the school's response was, \"Well, she didn't die, so she's fine,\" Santos says.",
"They've had flight attendants tell them that other passengers' snack preferences were more important than Skylar's safety.",
"And they've gotten nasty looks from parents on Skylar's T-ball team after her coach requested that a child who'd been eating nuts put them away and wash his hands.",
"\"Generally speaking, the public awareness of food allergy in the U.S. has increased, and this has resulted in some real benefits to families,\" says Brian P. Vickery, MD, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Duke University School of Medicine, in Durham.",
"\"For example, manufacturers are now required to put clearer labels on food items, many restaurants can provide better experiences, and schools are often more prepared to handle children with allergies.\"",
"However, the situation is far from perfect, he says.",
"Health.com: 15 hypoallergenic dogs and cats .",
"\"Bullying in school does happen.",
"The risks of anaphylaxis are not always appreciated,\" says Dr. Vickery.",
"\"Many families continue to struggle over and over again with obstacles, limitations, skepticism, and judgment.\"",
"Each family handles the challenges differently, but \"we try to provide as much practical and scientific guidance as we can, and equip them to handle anything that might happen,\" he says.",
"Copyright Health Magazine 2011 ."
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"(CNN) -- Holders Barcelona made hard work of beating Czech minnows Viktoria Plzen 2-0 in their Champions League Group H clash Wednesday but need just one win to reach the knockout stages.",
"The Catalan giants were near their fluent best in the Nou Camp but wasted a string of chances after midfielder Andres Iniesta put them ahead early after being set up by Lionel Messi.",
"Argentine goal machine Messi hit the woodwork twice before David Villa made the game safe with a second eight minutes from time.",
"It left Barcelona unbeaten in the group, but they trail AC Milan on head-to-head record as the Italians beat BATE Borisov 2-0 in the San Siro.",
"Both the big guns have seven points with their return clash in the San Siro on November 23 set to decide who goes through as winners of the group.",
"Goals from Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Kevin Prince Boateng ensured an easy night's work for the Rossoneri, but their coach Massimiliano Allegri is already looking ahead to playing Barcelona again after holding them to a draw in the Nou Camp.",
"\"It was an important win tonight to help with qualification, we still need points but our aim is to be playing Barcelona for first place, that would be an important result for the subsequent draw,\" he told SkySport of Italy.",
"In Group G, Cypriots APOEL Nicosia held Portugal giants Porto to a 1-1 draw and top a tight section with five points.",
"Brazilian star Hulk put the home side ahead as he lashed home an early free kick, but six minutes later the visitors were level.",
"Hulk's fellow Brazilian Ailton found space and produced a 25 meter shot that Helton in the Porto goal could not cover.",
"Zenit St Petersburg are second in the group, a point behind, after coming from behind twice to draw 2-2 at Ukraine's Shakhtar Donetsk.",
"Brazilians Willian and Luiz Adriano scored for Shakhtar, while Roman Shirokov and Viktor Faizulin leveled for the Russians."
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"Andres Iniesta and David Villa with the goals for the European champions .",
"AC Milan head Group H after a 2-0 home win over BATE Borisov .",
"Cypriot side APOEL Nicosia hold Porto to draw in Group G to top group ."
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"Ercis, Turkey (CNN) -- The death toll from the massive earthquake that shook eastern Turkey over the weekend rose to 570 on Friday, up from 535 the day before, but crews have pulled 187 people alive from the rubble, Turkish officials said.",
"In addition, about 2,555 people were injured by the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck Sunday, according to the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Relief Agency.",
"Rescue workers extracted 13-year-old Serhat Tokay from the rubble of an apartment building early Friday, 108 hours after the earthquake struck Ercis, the semi-official Anatolian news agency reported.",
"The child was being treated in a field hospital.",
"Eight hours earlier, crews had rescued 18-year-old Imdat Padak from the wreckage of another building in Ercis, the agency reported.",
"After teams from Azerbaijan retrieved him, Padak was taken to a hospital for initial treatment, and then was airlifted by helicopter to the city of Van.",
"Padak appeared not to have any significant trauma, but was suffering dehydration.",
"He is reported to be a student from the village of Kiziloren and was taking courses while preparing for university entrance exams.",
"Earlier in the week, crews pulled a 2-week-old baby, Azra Karaduman, alive from the debris.",
"There were reports Thursday of a moderate earthquake in the country's south.",
"A 5.2 earthquake hit about 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of the center of Sunday's quake, near the border with Iraq, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.",
"Tokay was the latest of several people found alive in the rubble days after Sunday's quake.",
"On Wednesday, rescuers pulled two people from collapsed buildings.",
"Britain has pledged emergency tents for more than 5,500 people whose homes were destroyed, Home Secretary Theresa May said during a visit to Turkey Thursday.",
"CNN's Diana Magnay, Yesim Comert, Sarah Jones and Michael Martinez contributed to this story ."
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"(CNN) -- The Obama administration said Iran has been \"saber-rattling\" over its threat to block the strategically important Strait of Hormuz and renewed its vow Thursday to keep the corridor open.",
"But the Islamic republic's military underscored its intention Thursday to undertake whatever military maneuvers it sees fit on the waterway.",
"This is the latest in the recent war of words between the United States and Iran over the strait.",
"It started when Tehran's vice president this week warned that the country could block the strait if sanctions are imposed on its exports of crude oil.",
"The U.S. Fifth Fleet based in Bahrain countered that \"any disruption will not be tolerated.\"",
"The shipping channel leads in and out of the Persian Gulf between Iran on one coast and Oman and the United Arab Emirates on the other.",
"It is strategically important because tankers carrying oil travel through it.",
"An Obama administration official, speaking on background because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the government has been \"committed to Gulf security for decades and it should come as no surprise to anyone that we'll do what we must to ensure the strait remains open.\"",
"Iranian Brig.",
"Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, said his country \"asks for no other country's permission for the implementation of its defense strategies,\" state-run Press TV reported on Thursday.",
"On Wednesday, Iran's Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said, \"Iran has total control over the strategic water way,\" adding that, \"Closing the Strait of Hormuz is very easy for Iranian naval forces.\"",
"The vice president, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, issued his threat on Tuesday.",
"\"Iran has repeatedly warned that in the event of a military attack on the country, it will not hesitate in taking all necessary measures to protect its sovereignty one of which would be to close the strategic oil passage,\" Press TV said in its report.",
"The administration official stressed that \"the saber-rattling is really all on the Iranian side.\"",
"Iran has been holding a 10-day military exercise in an area from the eastern part of the strait out into the Arabian Sea.",
"Western diplomats describe the maneuvers as further evidence of Iran's volatile behavior.",
"France, Britain and Germany have proposed sanctions to punish Iran's lack of cooperation on its nuclear program.",
"Western powers believe Iran is intent on building nuclear weapons, but Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.",
"Physically closing the strait would require means that likely are not available to Iran, said Professor Jean-Paul Rodrigue of Hofstra University.",
"\"At best, Iran can posture and potentially disrupt traffic for a short duration,\" said Rodrigue, who specializes in global trade and maritime transportation issues.",
"Rodrigue told CNN that any move by Iran to close the strait would be \"suicidal\" to the current regime.",
"In 2009, 15 million barrels of oil passed through the strait every day, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.",
"\"Keep in mind that countries such as China and Japan are more dependent on Persian Gulf oil than the United States,\" the professor said.",
"About 18% of U.S. net petroleum imports come from the Persian Gulf region, while Canada provides 25%, according to Rodrigue.",
"The scholar, who has written extensively about oil \"chokepoints,\" said there are no other means to move large quantities of oil over long distance than by maritime transportation.",
"\"It is thus an international issue where the United States, for strategic and historical reasons, is spearheading its security,\" Rodrigue said.",
"CNN's Phil Gast and Jill Dougherty contributed to this report."
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"(Health.com) -- Over the past several years, researchers have noticed an odd pattern in the relationship between body weight and Alzheimer's disease: Middle-aged people have a higher long-term risk of developing the disease if they're overweight or obese, while older people have a lower risk of the disease if they're carrying excess weight.",
"A new study, published this week in the journal Neurology, may offer a clue to this so-called obesity paradox.",
"Non-overweight individuals in their late 60s, 70s, and early 80s who have no outward symptoms of Alzheimer's are more likely than their heavier peers to have biological markers (or biomarkers) of the disease, the study found.",
"This finding raises the possibility that weight loss or a low body mass index (BMI) later in life may be an early warning sign of mental decline, the researchers say.",
"\"Weight changes or body composition changes may actually be a manifestation of disease, which would explain the obesity being an apparent protective factor,\" says Jeffrey M. Burns, M.D., the lead author of the study and the associate director of the University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Center, in Kansas City.",
"Health.com: 25 signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's disease .",
"Well before memory loss and other symptoms appear, Alzheimer's may trigger metabolism changes that promote weight loss, Burns says.",
"\"In general, we think of Alzheimer's as a brain disease, but this is evidence that there are systemic problems throughout the body in the early stages of Alzheimer's.\"",
"Burns and his colleagues analyzed data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, a huge study spanning 58 hospitals and universities that's funded by the National Institutes of Health and an array of nonprofit organizations and drug companies.",
"The goal of the initiative is to find ways to measure the progression of Alzheimer's and the precursor condition known as mild cognitive impairment.",
"The researchers looked at 101 people who underwent brain scans designed to identify the plaques and abnormal tangle of proteins that are the hallmark of Alzheimer's, and another 405 people whose cerebrospinal fluid was analyzed for fragments of these proteins (beta-amyloid peptide and tau).",
"Each group included some people with Alzheimer's disease, some with mild cognitive impairment, and some with no signs of mental deterioration.",
"Health.com: 7 ways to protect your memory .",
"There was no connection between BMI and Alzheimer's biomarkers in the patients who actually had Alzheimer's.",
"But in the other two groups, lower BMI was associated with higher levels of biomarkers and a higher likelihood of having brain plaques and tangles.",
"Among people with mild cognitive impairment, for instance, 85 percent of non-overweight individuals had signs of these brain abnormalities, compared to just 48 percent of those who were overweight or obese.",
"(A BMI of 25 or above is considered overweight.)",
"Richard Lipton, M.D., an attending neurologist at Montefiore Medical Center, in New York City, who was not involved in the new research, agrees with the authors that the findings suggest that Alzheimer's can affect the entire body early on.",
"\"The most obvious manifestations of Alzheimer's disease are in the brain, but Alzheimer's disease has a large number of effects on the body as well,\" says Lipton, the principal investigator of a long-running study on aging and Alzheimer's.",
"\"The brain regulates blood pressure and respiratory rate and pulse and hunger and satiety and blood flow to various organs in the body, so it wouldn't be surprising if a widespread disease of the brain had effects on many, many different aspects of bodily function.\"",
"Health.com: Aging workforce means dementia on the job could rise .",
"The study shows only an association, not cause and effect, so Burns and his colleagues can't be sure that Alzheimer's directly causes weight loss (or prevents weight gain).",
"In fact, the researchers found no association between BMI changes and Alzheimer's biomarkers in a subset of study participants whose weight was tracked for two years.",
"May Ahmad Baydoun, Ph.D., a staff scientist at the National Institute on Aging who studies risk factors for dementia, described the study as \"very strong\" overall.",
"But, she says, \"the results would have been a lot stronger if they found weight loss over time is associated with increased Alzheimer's disease pathology, also over time.\"",
"The relationship between weight loss and the progression of Alzheimer's is likely a two-way street, Lipton says.",
"People who start to experience declines in mental function may shop for groceries less regularly, cook less frequently, and eat less -- and the poor nutrition that results could in turn accelerate the progression of the disease, he says.",
"Health.com: Foods that may help save your memory .",
"\"It seems pretty likely to me that both things are true -- that good health practices prevent illness, and health practices may fall apart in the early stages of illness and accelerate cognitive and physical decline,\" Lipton says.",
"Copyright Health Magazine 2011 ."
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"(CNN) -- Al Sadd coach Jorge Fossati praised his team for overcoming a \"big injustice\" to become the first Qatari football club to reach the Asian Champions League final.",
"The former Uruguay coach saw his Doha-based team record a 2-1 aggregate victory over Suwon Bluewings after losing 1-0 to South Korea's two-time Asian champions on Wednesday, despite having key players suspended following an ill-tempered first leg last week.",
"\"Of course we are very, very happy,\" the 58-year-old told the Asian Football Confederation website.",
"\"To overcome them was difficult.",
"There were many problems and yet we won and that's why I am happy.",
"\"You know we had to play this game with big injustice.",
"We didn't have some players because of non-football issues.",
"In this situation, we tried to do our best with whatever resources we had.\"",
"Five players and coaches were suspended for the match at the Sheik Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, after a mass brawl broke out following Al Sadd's controversial second goal in the 2-0 win in Suwon on October 19.",
"The fighting erupted after Senegal striker Mamadou Niang scored his and Al Sadd's late second goal while Suwon's players were tending to an injured teammate, presuming play had been halted.",
"Former Marseille forward Niang was later sent off and missed the return leg along with Ivory Coast attacker Kader Keita and goalkeeping coach Suhail Saber Ali, while Suwon were missing Macedonian striker Stevica Ristic and coach Ko Jong-Su.",
"But even without their star players, Al Sadd held on after Oh Jang-Eun had given Suwon a 1-0 lead with a sixth-minute volley, as Khalfan Ibrahim hit the Koreans' crossbar with a vicious long-range shot before halftime.",
"Earlier on Wednesday, South Korea's Jeonbuk Motors advanced to the November 5 final courtesy of a 5-3 aggregate win over Saudi Arabia's Al Ittihad.",
"After a 3-2 away success last week, the 2006 Asian champions won 2-1 thanks to first-half goals from Brazil forward Eninho.",
"Al Ittihad's only response was a late consolation goal from former Bordeaux winger Wendel Geraldo, after both teams had been reduced to 10 men.",
"Al Ittihad, the 2004 and 2005 champions, suffered an early blow when Naif Hazazi -- the scorer of both first-leg goals -- was sent off in the 11th minute for a headbutt, while Jeonbuk substitute Krunoslav Lovrek received a second yellow card late in the match.",
"Jeonbuk coach Choi Kang-Hee was pleased his team would have home advantage at the Jeonju World Cup Stadium.",
"\"We got what we wanted,\" said Choi, a former Suwon coach.",
"\"We are at home for the final and that is an advantage for us.",
"The lead we took from the first leg gave us some breathing space at home but we knew well that Al Ittihad are a very good team.",
"\"We expected them to come at us strongly and we were ready for that.",
"Eninho's goals were a big help but we still had work to do and were able to get the result we needed.\"",
"Jeonbuk will attempt to keep the Champions League title in South Korean hands for the third year in succession, after Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma's victory in 2010 and the Pohang Steelers' 2009 triumph."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- They came seeking justice as the sun rose Tuesday over a courthouse in the heart of downtown Los Angeles made famous by its celebrity trials -- O.J.",
"Simpson, Snoop Dogg, Phil Spector.",
"But there were almost as many definitions of justice as there were justice seekers.",
"Some shouted \"Murderer!\"",
"as the defendant, Conrad Murray, arrived at the Clara Foltz Justice Center for the start of his involuntary manslaughter trial in the death of pop superstar Michael Jackson.",
"\"Dr. Murray,\" corrected Beatrice Fakhrian, a supporter of the defendant.",
"\"He has earned that title.\"",
"So began the long-anticipated trial of the personal physician accused of causing the death of one of the most famous people in the world.",
"More than 100 people from France, Spain and Australia, as well as the far-flung suburbs of Los Angeles, crowded into the dingy courthouse plaza, jockeying for a chance at one of just six courtroom seats, or to say their piece in front of television cameras.",
"Some read psalms, some handed out sunflowers, some chanted \"Justice for Michael,\" and many of them carried signs, transforming a wall outside the courthouse into an international billboard.",
"\"Bulgaria Loves MJ,\" one sign said.",
"So do the Netherlands, Romania and Malaysia, according to the signed posters taped to the wall.",
"A doctor in a while coat preached about safe ways to administer anesthesia.",
"A Michael Jackson impersonator preened for the cameras.",
"\"Even in death, Michael Jackson can draw a crowd,\" said Najee Ali, a Los Angeles civil rights activist who grew up in Jackson's hometown, Gary, Indiana.",
"Ali was the force behind the \"Caravan of Love\" to support Jackson when he was acquitted in Santa Barbara of child molestation charges in 2005.",
"Julie Jenkins, 31, came from Australia and was rewarded by winning the lottery for one of the courtroom seats available to the public.",
"She has been a Michael Jackson fan since she was 7 and wore black jeans, a red shirt, a black armband and aviator sunglasses in honor of her idol.",
"\"For me, it represents the first time I saw him in person,\" she said, explaining her get-up, which was vaguely reminiscent of Jackson¹s look during his \"History\" tour.",
"\"It also represents blood, because we think he was murdered.\"",
"She pounded a closed fist over her chest.",
"That sentiment is shared by many of Jackson's fans, although Murray is charged with the less serious offense of involuntary manslaughter.",
"He is accused of giving Jackson a lethal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol to help him sleep as the pop star prepared for his comeback \"This is It\" concerts in June 2009.",
"Defense: Michael Jackson caused his own death .",
"Murder also is a major theme for the group \"Justice4MJ,\" which was out in force on Tuesday, leading the crowd in chants of \"Justice for Michael\" as Jackson's family walked into the courthouse.",
"Erin Jacobs, one of the group's outspoken leaders, also won a seat for the trial's first day.",
"She has attended every pretrial hearing, and was tossed out of court last week during jury selection after getting into a staring contest with Murray.",
"She said she hadn't slept.",
"Like her idol, \"I experienced insomnia last night,\" she said.",
"\"I have been a fan my whole life.",
"This is my passion, to work for Michael.\"",
"Court officials warned Jacobs she would have to cover up her T-shirt in court.",
"If she flashed her \"Justice4MJ\" logo, she'd lose her seat and be banned for the rest of the trial.",
"Karlene Taylor, 49, wanted a seat so badly she couldn't sleep.",
"She has been a Jackson fan since she was 8.",
"\"I remember 'ABC' Michael,\" she said.",
"Alas, the lottery gods did not smile on her Tuesday.",
"Robyn Starkand and Betty Byrnes of the fan group \"Call for Love\" handed out sunflowers, hoping to lead a respectful vigil on the courthouse steps, complete with songs and prayers.",
"But they were upstaged by a Michael Jackson look-alike.",
"They started with \"Heal the World,\" but the voices soon waned, and Jackson impersonator Goward Horton stepped in with his version of \"Man in the Mirror,\" complete with Jackson's distinctive yips and squeaks.",
"\"They've turned it into the Goward show,\" Starkand groused.",
"\"This is really serious.",
"It's not the time for a Michael Jackson impersonator.\"",
"It was a time for the real one, their Michael."
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"(CNN) -- The bodies of three men have been found in shallow graves in eastern Ohio, all of them believed to have been killed after answering a Craigslist ad to work on a cattle farm, according to authorities.",
"The Summit County medical examiner's office on Saturday identified one of the victims as Timothy Kern of Massillon, Ohio.",
"The 47-year-old's death, caused by \"gunshot wounds to the head,\" was ruled a homicide, the office said in an audio recording.",
"A phone call led police Friday to Kern's body in a shallow grave behind an Akron mall, authorities said.",
"Multiple law enforcement authorities, including FBI officials, have tied Kern's death to a wider investigation into the two other killings.",
"In his last Facebook posting, dated November 10, Kern wrote: \"Just got one of the strangest job offers.",
"A good offer but strange.",
"The job is to watch over 680 acres south of cambridge.",
"Odd jobs and such but mainly just secure it.",
"Trailer, utilities, salary.",
"Drawbacks? No cell phone service, kids are up here, and i have to move this Sunday.\"",
"Meanwhile, the body of a \"white male\" was also discovered Friday \"in a shallow grave in Stock Township,\" about 120 miles south of Akron, Noble County Sheriff Stephen Hannum said in a statement.",
"The sheriff did not respond to calls Saturday from CNN.",
"But Hannum said earlier this month that there are \"two suspects in custody\" in the case.",
"Michael Rafferty told CNN affiliate WJW that his 16-year-old son Brogan Rafferty of Stowe is among them, charged with attempted murder.",
"The father claimed that his son had been \"manipulated\" and \"corrupted,\" insisting that his son is a \"mild-mannered gentleman.\"",
"The other suspect in the case -- 52-year-old Richard Beasley of Akron, as identified on a Summit County court website -- is being held on unrelated charges.",
"No attorney was listed for Beasley in the court document.",
"The investigation began the night of November 6, when a Noble County deputy sheriff responded to a call and came upon a \"white, middle-aged man being treated for a gunshot wound to the right arm,\" according to Hannum.",
"The shooting victim, who is from South Carolina and was not identified by police, told the sheriff he had answered an ad on the Craigslist website offering work caring for cattle on a 688-acre property.",
"WJW: Body of missing Massillon man identified .",
"He met with the two suspects and drove with them toward Stock Township.",
"After being told a road was closed due to a landslide, the South Carolina man got out of the car to start walking toward the property, which he was told was nearby.",
"He told the sheriff that, while walking through a heavily wooded area, he then turned around \"to see a gun pointed at his head.",
"He deflected the gun and ran\" -- getting shot in the arm while fleeing, according to the sheriff.",
"The victim hid for seven hours in the forest before going to a house and requesting help, Hannum said.",
"Then, on November 11, the sheriff received a call from a Boston, Massachusetts, woman who said her twin brother had not been seen since October 22 in Parkersburg, West Virginia.",
"The brother had also answered a Craigslist ad \"and she felt very sure it was the same advertisement (the shooting victim from South Carolina) had answered.\"",
"On November 15, authorities -- including agents from the FBI and Ohio's Bureau of Criminal Investigation, plus \"cadaver-sniffing\" dogs -- found \"the body of a white male buried in a shallow grave\" near where the first man had been shot, Hannum said.",
"Police have not identified the body.",
"The sheriff tied that man's death to the investigation of the shooting that left the South Carolina man wounded in the arm.",
"Multiple authorities since then have also linked the two bodies discovered Friday -- including that of Kern -- with the same investigation.",
"Zach Kern, 19, told CNN that he last saw his father November 12 after he'd gone with another son for the job interview.",
"\"He was all stoked about it,\" Zach Kern said of his father's feelings about the opportunity to work on the cattle farm.",
"\"My brother ... thought the whole situation was sketchy.\"",
"Timothy Kern ended up going to the would-be job site alone, not with the 17-year-old son who'd accompanied him to the interview, Zach Kern said.",
"The same son added that his father, divorced and with three children, worked \"odd jobs\" including recently as a street cleaner in Canton.",
"He said that his father saw his children daily, adding that the whole family is struggling to come to grips with his death.",
"\"We're just trying to get through this,\" Zach Kern said Saturday."
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"Nine days later, a body is found in a shallow grave near the shooting site .",
"2 other bodies found Friday may be linked to the same ad, authorities say .",
"The son of one victim says his father was \"stoked\" about the online job offer ."
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"(CNN) -- Three Pakistan international cricketers have been banned from the sport for the next five years after being found guilty at an anti-corruption hearing on Saturday.",
"Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were found to have been involved in \"spot-fixing\" -- a practice involving illegal gambling during matches.",
"Butt, 26, was banned for 10 years with half of that suspended on certain conditions while Asif, 28, received a seven-year ban with 24 months suspended.",
"Amir, 18, was given a straight five-year penalty for his involvement in incidents during the Test series against England in August 2010.",
"They have 21 days to appeal in the Court of Arbitration for Sport.",
"The International Cricket Council announced the punishments following an independent tribunal's hearing in Qatar.",
"It came a day after Britain's Crown Prosecution Service charged the trio and their agent Mazhar Majeed with conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments, and conspiracy to cheat.",
"Amir and Asif were accused of deliberately bowling no-balls -- deliveries which incur a scoring penalty and cannot dismiss batsmen -- to the instructions of Majeed, who received money from a third party, while Butt was said to be aware of the arrangement.",
"The conditions of the reduced sentences require Butt and Asif to refrain from further breaches of the anti-corruption code and to participate in an education program run by the Pakistan Cricket Board.",
"Pakistan trio to face criminal charges .",
"The independent tribunal resumed its hearing on Saturday after adjourning on January 11.",
"It dismissed a charge that Butt had agreed to bat out a run-less (or \"maiden\")over in the match played at London's Oval ground from August 18-21, but said the player failed to disclose to the ICC's anti-corruption unit that Majeed had approached him with such a request.",
"The main charges stem from the following match at Lord's, the final Test of the series.",
"\"The tribunal found that the charges under Article 2.1.1 of the Code that (respectively) Mr Asif agreed to bowl, and did bowl, a deliberate no-ball in the Lord's Test match played between Pakistan and England from 26 to 29 August 2010, Mr Amir agreed to bowl, and did bowl, two deliberate no-balls in the same Test, and Mr Butt was party to the bowling of those deliberate no-balls, were proved,\" it said in a statement on the ICC website on Saturday.",
"Amir is the youngest bowler to claim 50 Test wickets, six of which came at Lord's as Pakistan lost to England by an innings and 225 runs.",
"Butt has played in 33 Test matches since making his debut for Pakistan in 2003, and scored 1,889 runs.",
"He became captain of the side in 2010 and led his country in a Test series against Australia as well as the tour of England before being replaced by Misbah-ul-Haq in the wake of the scandal.",
"Asif has twice tested positive for steroids, resulting in year-long bans, and in 2008 was detained for three weeks after being found in possession of illegal substances at Dubai airport."
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"Pakistani cricketers found guilty of \"spot-fixing\" during Test series in England .",
"Asif and Amir said to have deliberately bowled no-bowls under instruction from agent .",
"The tribunal said that Butt was aware of this illegal arrangement ."
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"(CNN) -- In 1980, in the pre-Internet, pre-download days when R.E.M.",
"formed in Athens, Georgia, there was no alternative.",
"There was no Americana. There was no grunge. If you listened to pop music, there were essentially three divisions: Top 40 of the type you heard on the rapidly fading AM radio, the corporate rock of album-oriented FM and what was then called college radio -- a catch-all for the punk, new wave, electronic, low-fi and oddball music that almost never crossed over to the mainstream.",
"R.E.M. helped to change all that.",
"They weren't the only ones -- the New York art-punks of the late '70s, notably Talking Heads and Blondie, had hit the Top 40, and fellow Athens scenesters the B-52's had established a national following with their party-down rave-ups.",
"But it was R.E.M. that, in the words of Allmusic.com's Stephen Thomas Erlewine, \"transformed the American underground.\"",
"If, in the '60s, teenagers gathered in their parents' garages in the hopes of being the next Beatles, in the '80s young adults knocked around dormitories in hopes of being the next R.E.M.",
": melodic, guitar-based and determined not to sell out to the corporate-music crowd.",
"R.E.M. was the great hope of fame-fantasizing, used-record-store clerks everywhere.",
"\"They did this grass-roots thing that nobody had ever done,\" said Angie Carlson, a former member of the band Let's Active, which toured with R.E.M.",
"in the mid-'80s. \"They sort of bypassed big marketing, and were at the clubs networking with the cool fellow record-store people.\"",
"In R.E.M. 's wake came a breadth of artists who turned college radio into a home for guitar-based rock and power-pop: the Replacements, Jason and the Scorchers and the Del Fuegos, among many others.",
"Years later, Nirvana emerged and the whole world broke open.",
"Kurt Cobain, in fact, was a big R.E.M.",
"fan. Now R.E.M. has come to an end. \"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,\" read a message posted on the group's website Wednesday.",
"\"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.\"",
"The band didn't easily fit labels.",
"Its early sound, led by Peter Buck's ringing guitar arpeggios, might best be described as folk-rock, equal parts Byrds-ian harmony and punk snarl.",
"Alongside was lead singer Michael Stipe's reedy vocals and, more distinctively, his resonant, nonsensical lyrics, full of phrases such as \"Cages under cage\" and \"Hear the howl of the rope.\"",
"(Pre-Internet, a popular music-geek parlor game involved deciphering R.E.M.",
"lyrics.) And underneath Buck and Stipe was the rock-solid rhythm section of bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry, filling spaces with melodic bass lines and powerhouse percussion.",
"R.E.M. may have had its artsy flourishes, but the band also -- in \"American Bandstand\" parlance -- \"had a good beat you could dance to.\"",
"The band formed at a time when \"underground\" really meant something, said Carlson, now of Figure Eight Publicity.",
"\"You couldn't trade (music) on the Internet.",
"You had to know somebody or you had to go the club,\" she said.",
"\"And that's the other reason a band like that was able to thrive -- people went to see live music.",
"\"And they had such a cool vibe in person.",
"They were smart, they were funny, they were charismatic.",
"All of that played into it.\" Moreover, the band worked hard, providing a model for others to follow.",
"In the '80s, starting with the 1982 EP \"Chronic Town,\" there was a new record almost every year, each one followed by a never-ending tour of theaters and clubs.",
"\"Nobody wanted to play the kinds of bars we played,\" Berry recalled in \"Party Out of Bounds,\" Rodger Lyle Brown's chronicle of the Athens music scene.",
"\"Just by being an out-of-town band that played this new kind of music, we were stars.\"",
"They had a personal connection with their fans; after all, Buck was a record-store clerk once, too, and had a deep appreciation of music history.",
"Decades on, they have maintained their ties to Athens.",
"Their management office is still in town.",
"With each album the band's sound grew deeper and wider, developing the basics on \"Murmur\" -- Rolling Stone's 1983 album of the year -- and \"Reckoning,\" exploring folk on \"Fables of the Reconstruction,\" and getting back to their roots in 1986's \"Lifes Rich Pageant.\"",
"R.E.M. finally broke through to mainstream success with 1987's \"Document,\" which contained the band's first Top 10 hit, \"The One I Love,\" as well as the radio favorite \"It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine).\"",
"\"Document\" changed things, for the band and its audience.",
"With its success came a major-label deal with Warner Bros. and a change in venue from theaters to arenas.",
"\"It's weird being a media figure, to be recognized everywhere by somebody,\" Stipe told Rolling Stone in 1992.",
"The members of R.E.M.",
"always seemed aware of their status and took pains to remain true to their muse.",
"\"That would be my worst fear, that we would turn into one of those dumb bands who go into their second decade and don't know how bad they are and don't know when to give it up,\" Stipe told Rolling Stone.",
"Despite the concerns of many fans -- who, as a 2003 Slate article observed, have been claiming the band's decline since 1984 -- the early-'90s albums included some of R.E.M.",
"'s best work. \"Out of Time\" (1991) featured one of the band's best songs, \"Losing My Religion\"; famed indie DJ Vin Scelsa was so taken with the song that he played it repeatedly during one radio show.",
"Perhaps the best of the run -- and, to some, the band's best album, period -- was 1992's elegiac \"Automatic for the People,\" which hit all the right notes: somber (\"Drive\"), humorous (\"The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight\"), angry (\"Ignoreland\") and hopeful (\"Everybody Hurts\").",
"The band even managed to work in the F-word in \"Star Me Kitten,\" their knockoff of 10cc's \"I'm Not in Love.\"",
"But the rest of the '90s proved difficult.",
"With the million-selling albums and gigantic tours, they risked becoming what fans had feared: a corporate behemoth.",
"More dramatically, drummer Berry suffered a life-threatening brain aneurysm while on tour in 1995.",
"He left the group in 1997, becoming a gentleman farmer in Watkinsville, Georgia, south of Athens.",
"The band continued, but it wasn't the same.",
"The albums, such as \"Up\" (1998) and \"Reveal\" (2001), were a mixed bag.",
"\"Not as bad as it first sounds, but also not as good as they thought when they released it,\" critic Robert Christgau said of \"Reveal.\"",
"They toured, on and off. Buck hung out with pal Scott McCaughey's band, the Minus 5.",
"The buzz moved on.",
"Hopes were raised with the band's most recent release, \"Collapse Into Now.\"",
"\"Song for song, the best thing we've ever done,\" Buck told Rolling Stone earlier this year.",
"\"We surprised ourselves with this record.",
"We're all really thrilled with it,\" said Stipe in a June CNN interview.",
"But the album was also the end of something -- the final record in their current Warner Bros. deal.",
"It was time for the circle to close.",
"\"We realized that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together,\" Stipe told CNN.",
"Perhaps that's enough.",
"\"You can talk to any band. They owe a debt to them, somehow,\" Carlson said.",
"After all, as the band sang in \"Talk About the Passion,\" \"Not everyone can carry the weight of the world.\""
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"\"They did this grass-roots thing that nobody had ever done,\" says fellow musician .",
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"(CNN) -- Four years ago, if someone said \"Robert Pattinson\" or \"Taylor Lautner\" to you, nine out of 10 people would have shrugged their shoulders and said \"Who?\"",
"Now, they're pretty much among the most wanted and talked-about actors in Hollywood -- and it's all thanks to the whopping success of the \"Twilight\" franchise.",
"And while the \"Breaking Dawn\" films will mark the end of that series, nearly everyone in the know has pegged \"The Hunger Games\" as the next \"Twilight.\"",
"So, take note of these names: Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth -- the next young megastars who will face the gift and curse of instant Hollywood fame.",
"As the two male leads in \"Hunger,\" their careers will receive an instant injection of megawatt star power and credibility, they'll be remarkably wealthy and among the A-list ... but they'll also be scrutinized and trailed by the paparazzi and media everywhere they go.",
"That's the trade-off these days, where any form of success or notoriety means everything in your life is now fair game -- chum in the water for the media sharks.",
"Most actors and Hollywood stars gradually work their way up the ladder, but with the cult teen followings of \"Twilight\" and \"Hunger\" -- and both series' decisions to go with less-than-well-known names as the leads (save for Jennifer Lawrence in \"Games\") -- the transition from working actor to on-the-cover-of-everything can be a tough one to swallow.",
"Thankfully for Hutcherson and Hemsworth, they have co-stars, girlfriends (Hemsworth has been dating Miley Cyrus on and off, and Hutcherson was linked to Vanessa Hudgens) friends and past co-workers who can help steer them through the blinding headlights of fame that are bearing down on them.",
"Their \"Hunger\" co-star Lawrence experienced the same instant rise last year when she was nominated for an Oscar for her turn in \"Winter's Bone.\"",
"She went from relatively unknown actress to hot-new during awards season and will surely serve as a fame coach for her male counterparts.",
"She recently opined on her methodology for avoiding the pitfalls of fame in a Washington Post interview, saying: \"As long as you remember what you're here for -- you're here for the work, you're here to make a film. ...",
"There seems to be some very bizarre habit where as soon as you become big and famous, you think that you don't have to work anymore.",
"And it's just such a weird trend that I'm starting to see.",
"But I run into grounded people all the time.",
"Given, most of them are behind the camera.",
"But I definitely by no means think I'm the only one.\"",
"So with that mindset, what can Josh and Liam do to stay (relatively) grounded once they become the next big things?",
"Here's a good checklist.",
"1. Choose wisely: This should apply to every aspect of your life, from who you surround yourself with and who you date, to what movies you are thinking of tackling.",
"All of the minutiae of your life is now in full view, and a certain portion of the media loves nothing more than to exploit every misstep.",
"Take a look to your left or right the next time you're in a business meeting or out with friends and ask yourself: \"Is this person here for me, or for their own benefit?\"",
"2. Stay (somewhat) private: We've already discussed the nosy media, but now with Twitter and other social media, celebrities can live out every action, thought and event in real time for all of the world to see.",
"Sure, it's a great promotional vehicle, but it's one more trap that is 100% avoidable.",
"Don't want your Twitter account hacked where someone posts nasty things in your name?",
"Well, don't have a Twitter account.",
"If you keep access to yourself somewhat limited, when you do actually have something to say, it makes it that much more powerful.",
"Otherwise, people will get bored with hearing you tell them what you ate for lunch that day and miss the good stuff when you've got it.",
"Plus, it adds a bit of mystery and allure to you.",
"3. Don't live in Los Angeles: Yes, it's where most movies are made and where all of your agents and associates are.",
"Yes, it's got great weather, killer clubs/restaurants and all that.",
"It also has a cannibalistic, frenzied media who pay their rent by looking to capture your lowest moments.",
"Naturally, not having \"low moments\" is the more prudent option here, but keeping an apartment in L.A. for work trips and residing elsewhere ('Captain America' himself Chris Evans recently told us he couldn't take L.A. and moved back to his hometown of Boston) will surely minimize the paparazzi hassle.",
"4. Charity, charity, charity: You've struck it big -- now give back.",
"Not only will it make you feel fulfilled (Josh has already been working with Straight But Not Narrow , a clever gay rights PSA), but it'll expose you to new audiences and groups who may not be drooling over \"Hunger Games.\"",
"5. Don't be a jerk: If being well-adjusted and great acting travel at the speed of sound, news of being a difficult you-know-what whips through Hollywood at light speed.",
"Agents, publicists, writers -- we all know each other, and we all talk about who's nice and who's a nightmare.",
"Simply put: Just be nice."
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"Hutcherson and Hemsworth will see instant Hollywood fame after \"The Hunger Games\"\nLawrence experienced an instant rise to fame when she was nominated for an Oscar .",
"Any form of success or notoriety means everything in your life is fair game ."
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"(CNN) -- A president's most solemn duty is to protect America and her people -- a responsibility that, in a time of evolving security threats and unsustainable debt, will only grow harder for the next administration.",
"In the aftermath of the failure of the super committee, we are facing cuts in defense.",
"Yet there has still been little discussion about overall defense spending priorities and how we must transform our defense infrastructure for the 21st century.",
"Some of my opponents suggest maintaining the status quo, thus avoiding the tough decisions.",
"Others advocate retrenchment and isolationism through draconian across-the-board cuts, which brings greater instability and risks.",
"Still others revert to the oft-repeated pledge to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse from the Pentagon -- a worthy cause yet one of minimal consequence.",
"Cutting wasteful spending alone amounts to only pennies on the dollar and leaves in place the same archaic defense infrastructure.",
"These approaches miss the target in two respects.",
"First, they let resources drive strategy, rather than using strategy to drive force structure and capabilities.",
"Second, they fail to fundamentally alter our defense posture -- so any short-term savings will be quickly erased.",
"In recognition of the growing asymmetrical threats we face and the evolving requirements of counterterrorism, we need a different set of capabilities.",
"The world may have seen its last heavy armor battle between two nation-states.",
"The relative importance of counterterrorism, intelligence, training and equipping foreign security forces, and special forces operations will continue to grow.",
"Our forces must be designed appropriately.",
"This means a greater focus on intelligence gathering and more agile special forces units, which can respond swiftly and firmly to terrorist threats in any corner of the globe.",
"We must be prepared to respond to threats -- from al Qaeda and other terrorist cells -- that emanate from a much more diverse geography, including Yemen, the Horn of Africa, Pakistan and the Asia-Pacific region.",
"We must also transform our orientation.",
"By almost any objective measure -- population, economic power, military might, energy use -- the center of gravity of global human activity is moving toward the Asia-Pacific region.",
"Embracing this reality may bring a dramatic change to the look of our military.",
"The Asia-Pacific region is a maritime theater whereas Europe was mostly a land theater.",
"For the U.S., the Asia-Pacific features a collection of bilateral military alliances in contrast to our involvement with the multilateral NATO in Europe.",
"We are a Pacific nation living in a Pacific Century, and our vital interests in that region cannot be compromised.",
"We can cut our base force and transition more responsibility for contingency operations to our National Guard and Reserve.",
"In addition to being our most precious and valuable resource, our troops are also the most expensive part of our military.",
"If we simultaneously transform our capabilities and posture while enhancing our Guard and Reserve, our active duty army could be reduced to around 450,000 troops, from the approximately 565,000 we now have.",
"Our Department of Defense civilian work force can also be cut by 5% to 7% of its current size.",
"At the same time, we should conduct a global posture review with the goal of closing at least 50 overseas military installations.",
"The U.S. military maintains more than 700 installations outside the United States, the vast majority of which were opened during the Cold War.",
"With a more mobile and flexible force, we simply don't need as many facilities overseas.",
"We must risk American blood and treasure overseas only when there exists a vital national security interest.",
"I have consistently called for our troops to return from Afghanistan as soon as possible.",
"But I also believe President Barack Obama has been too quick to commit forces to other missions not core to our security interests.",
"Within the same week of announcing a troop drawdown in Iraq, the president announced a deployment of a small number of combat forces to Africa -- an unnecessarily risky and costly mission.",
"America alone cannot police the world.",
"We should increase burden-sharing for the protection of the global commons among countries that share our values and security objectives.",
"Unfortunately, we are not the only democracy stuck in a Cold War mentality.",
"It is time for countries such as Japan and India to play a greater role in regional security matters.",
"We must also throw out the old map and forge new security arrangements with regional partners such as Vietnam and Brazil.",
"As we prepare to fight in the new battle spaces, we need to let go of old \"sacred cows.\"",
"Our military and defense establishment must be effective in the cybersphere, dominant in space and able to handle the increasingly lethal and accurate ballistic and cruise missiles being acquired by many of our potential foes.",
"This will likely mean trade-offs away from heavy armor units, fighter air wings and aircraft carriers toward a more advanced cyberwarfare infrastructure, more capable unmanned aerial vehicles and more flexible sea-based assets.",
"For America to remain a global force for good, we must maintain the world's most capable military.",
"And being the best is not simply a function of spending the most.",
"Staying on top will increasingly depend on our willingness to adapt to the realities of the 21st century security environment.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jon Huntsman."
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"He says new threats and budget cuts will make the task harder for next presidency .",
"Huntsman says smarter strategy could enable U.S. to make do with fewer troops, bases .",
"He says America alone cannot police the world ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Tears flowed from Dr. Conrad Murray's eyes Wednesday as he listened to an elderly patient tell jurors that Murray had opened a clinic in the Acres Homes community of Houston in honor of his father, who had practiced there.",
"After 17 days of hearing about how pop star Michael Jackson died under Murray's care, jurors began hearing Wednesday from people who say the doctor saved lives.",
"Ruby Mosley was one of five character witnesses called by Murray's defense lawyers Wednesday morning as his involuntary manslaughter trial nears an end.",
"\"If this man had been greedy, he never would have come to an area, a community of Acres Homes, 75% of them poor, on welfare and Social Security,\" Mosley said.",
"Murray continued to dab tears from his eyes even after Mosley left the stand.",
"\"He's the best doctor I've ever been to,\" said Gerry Causey, a 68-year-old former patient of the man accused of causing Jackson's death.",
"\"And I just don't think he did what he's being accused of,\" Causey added, under cross-examination by the prosecution.",
"Much of the prosecution's case has been spent trying to demonstrate that Murray gave reckless and incompetent medical treatment as Jackson's personal doctor in the last months of his life.",
"Causey met Murray 11 years ago when he was rushed to a Las Vegas hospital with a heart attack, but they became friends since then, he testified.",
"\"It's because of Dr. Murray, the way he cares for you, the way he makes you feel,\" Causey said.",
"Prosecutors contend that Murray abandoned his patients in Las Vegas and Houston for the $150,000 a month Jackson had promised him.",
"\"There's no way, he's not greedy,\" Causey said.",
"\"He doesn't charge me my deductable, never has.\"",
"Las Vegas heart patient Andrew Guest, who followed Causey on the witness stand Wednesday, said Murray \"makes sure you're ok during the procedure.\"",
"\"That man sitting there is the best doctor I've ever seen,\" Guest testified.",
"Murray treated Dennis Hix by putting 14 stints into arteries around his heart 11 years ago, Hix testified.",
"\"I'm 66, I've gone to a lot of doctors, a lot of doctors and I've never had one that gave me the care that he did,\" Hix said.",
"Murray never charged Hix beyond what his insurance would pay, he said.",
"\"I had a type of insurance that don't hardly pay for nothing,\" he said.",
"\"So he did it for me free.\" Two medical experts for the defense, including anesthesiologist Dr. Paul White, are expected to follow Thursday and possibly Friday.",
"This would set the stage for closing arguments and jury deliberations early next week, although it's possible that could come Friday.",
"Jackson's sisters Janet and La Toya, as well as his brother Randy, were in court for Wednesday's testimony.",
"The promoter of Jackson's ill-fated \"This Is It\" tour testified Tuesday that Jackson's fear that producers would \"pull the plug\" on the shows if the singer missed more rehearsals was unfounded.",
"\"No one on our end was ever contemplating pulling the plug,\" said Randy Phillips, the head of AEG Live.",
"Murray's lawyers contend Jackson self-administered the overdose of drugs that killed him in a \"desperate desire to get to sleep,\" because he feared without rest he would miss his next rehearsal and trigger the cancellation of his comeback concerts.",
"If the tour was canceled, Jackson would have to pay for all of the production and rehearsal costs, Phillips said, although the judge would not let him tell jurors how much that might have been.",
"Defense lawyer Ed Chernoff estimated the cost to be about $40 million, leaving him \"a very, very poor man,\" but it was not while the jury was present.",
"Concert director Kenny Ortega sent Phillips an e-mail five days before Jackson's death, referring to Jackson's fear the company would cancel the tour.",
"The e-mail triggered a meeting with Jackson and Murray to address Ortega's concerns about Jackson's \"lack of focus\" and missed rehearsals, with the debut of his London shows just three weeks away.",
"He and Ortega were satisfied when Jackson told them \"You build the house and I will put on the door and paint it,\" suggesting he would be ready, Phillips testified.",
"Also at the meeting, Phillips told Murray that he wanted to make sure Murray knew about Jackson's visits to another doctor, dermatologist Dr. Arnold Klein.",
"\"Because he's his principal physician, I thought he should know,\" he said.",
"Phillips said he was concerned because Jackson \"seemed a little distracted and not focused\" in a meeting after a visit to Klein's Beverly Hills clinic.",
"The defense contends Jackson became addicted to the painkiller Demerol in his frequent visits to Klein in the three months before his death.",
"His withdrawal from the Demerol, which Murray was unaware of, would explain why Jackson could not sleep the day he died, the defense contends.",
"Earlier Tuesday, a nurse who tried to treat Jackson's insomnia with natural remedies testified that Jackson told her that doctors assured him using the surgical anesthetic propofol at home to induce sleep was safe as long as he was monitored.",
"Jackson died two months after that conversation with nurse Cherilyn Lee, from what the coroner ruled was an overdose of propofol, combined with sedatives.",
"Prosecutors contend Murray's use of propofol to treat Jackson's insomnia in his home was reckless, in part because he did not have proper equipment to monitor his patient and he abandoned him to make phone calls.",
"Lee's testimony was briefly delayed as she was overcome with emotion.",
"\"I'm feeling really, really dizzy,\" Lee said.",
"\"This is just very sensitive to me.\" Lee used IV drips loaded with vitamins, \"sophisticated\" vitamin smoothies and bedtime teas to treat Jackson's insomnia, but Jackson became frustrated when her natural remedies failed to make him sleep, she said.",
"\"He said 'I'm telling you the only thing that's going to help me sleep right away is the Diprivan and can you find someone to help me to sleep?'\"",
"Lee said. Diprivan is a brand name for propofol.",
"After some quick research, the nurse warned Jackson that it was dangerous to use propofol at home, Lee testified.",
"Jackson was not deterred, she said, even after she asked him \"but what if you don't wake up?\"",
"Deputy District Attorney David Walgren asked her, \"And he responded, 'I will be OK, I only need someone to monitor me with the equipment while I sleep'?\"",
"\"Yes, that's exactly what he said,\" Lee said.",
"Murray had already agreed to serve as Jackson's private physician and had ordered his first supplies of propofol for Jackson more than a week before Jackson asked Lee for help getting the drug."
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"Character witnesses testify for Dr. Murray's defense Wednesday .",
"The defense will call two medical experts before resting Thursday or Friday ."
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"(CNN) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela toiled for 27 years in South African prisons before gaining his freedom and leading his nation from white minority rule to full democracy.",
"In the process, he became an international symbol of strength and hope.",
"Mandela became South Africa's first black president in 1984.",
"This month he celebrates his 90th birthday with a lavish, star-studded concert in London that confirms his enduring status as a revered global icon.",
"But his journey from young protester to political prisoner to leader of his nation has not been without heartache and personal loss.",
"Mandela was born in 1918 in the South African village Qunu.",
"He was the son of the chief councilor to a Thembu chief, and he soon became passionate about political reformation, founding the African National Congress Youth League in 1944 with lifelong friend Oliver Tambo.",
"Mandela's natural leadership skills pushed him front and center during the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign, which urged South African citizens not to cooperate with certain laws deemed discriminatory.",
"Mandela urged nonviolent solutions to the South African government's political, economic and social oppression of the nation's black majority.",
"His commitment to nonviolent change was tested, however, in March of 1960 when black protestors in the township of Sharpeville were fired upon by South African police as they gathered to protest a law that required all black citizens to carry passbooks at all times.",
"Sixty-nine people were killed and more than 180 were injured in the clash.",
"The Sharpeville Massacre sparked riots, strikes and protest demonstrations across South Africa, and the government declared a state of emergency.",
"But the massacre also highlighted the tragedy of apartheid to the rest of the world.",
"The United Nations condemned the massacre, and its security council convened on April 1, 1960, to consider the ravaging effects of apartheid on South Africa's people.",
"Inside the country, Mandela and his colleagues reconsidered the use of violence to further their cause for freedom.",
"Mandela formed the revolutionary group Spear of the Nation In 1961 and was named its commander in chief.",
"He slipped out of South Africa for military training in Algeria in 1962 but was arrested soon after he returned.",
"See pictures of Mandela's life » .",
"Mandela had several previous run-ins with police, and he was eventually sentenced to life in prison for his actions protesting South Africa's apartheid government.",
"At the time of his sentence Mandela made a dramatic statement that illustrated his overarching commitment to freedom: \"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to the struggle of the African people,\" he said.",
"\"I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.",
"I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.",
"It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.",
"But, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.\"",
"Listen to famous speech » .",
"During his long incarceration, Mandela nearly became a myth.",
"He smuggled out notes of encouragement to his followers that read like pronouncements.",
"\"Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose,\" one note said.",
"He might have been condemned to hard labor in a limestone quarry, but Mandela's unyielding moral stance held him high on a pedestal to his followers.",
"In 1990, it became clear to then-South African President F.W.",
"de Klerk that Mandela's release was necessary for the nation to heal.",
"Mandela was 71 years old when he walked free from Victor Verster prison, his clenched fist held high.",
"He'd lived a life of protest for a cause for which he'd been prepared to die.",
"And now he would lead a nation on the brink of civil war to democracy.",
"Three years later, de Klerk and Mandela would share the Nobel Peace Prize.",
"\"The policy of reconciliation that Nelson R. Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk represent provides hope not only for South Africa; it is also a shining example for the world that there are ways out of the vicious circle of violence and bitterness,\" said Francis Sejersted, chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee as he awarded the shared prize.",
"In 1994, Mandela was elected president in South Africa's first all-race general elections.",
"Since his retirement in 1999, Mandela has turned his attention to international diplomacy: He convinced Libya to hand over two suspects for trial in the Lockerbie airplane bombing, and he played a role in the Burundi peace process.",
"In 2005, he took up a personal cause closer to home.",
"Mandela's son, Makgatho Mandela, 54, died of an AIDS-related illness.",
"Nearly 5 million South Africans may have AIDS, medical experts estimate, and for many in the country discussing the disease is a taboo.",
"\"Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and to say somebody has died because of HIV/AIDS,\" Mandela said in January at a news conference where he announced his loss.",
"\"And people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.\"",
"On Mandela's 80th birthday he wed his 52-year-old companion, Graca Machel, from Mozambique at a private ceremony in his home in Johannesburg, South Africa.",
"He danced at the double celebration surrounded by his grandchildren, family and close friends."
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"Athens, Greece (CNN) -- Protesters and police clashed violently in front of the Greek parliament building Wednesday, as tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in Athens on the first day of a two-day general strike over austerity measures.",
"At least six protesters and 15 police officers were injured amid the disturbances, police said, and at least 15 people were arrested.",
"Strikers in Greece aim to shut down wide sectors of the country, as lawmakers debate a new round of tough cost-cutting measures.",
"Lawmakers passed the new austerity law in principal in an initial round of voting Wednesday, by 154 votes in favor to 141 against, with five lawmakers absent.",
"Parliament must still vote on each article of the legislation Thursday before it can become law.",
"\"Don't bow your head, it's time for resistance and struggle,\" marchers chanted in the capital earlier as they gathered for the union-backed demonstration.",
"The violence broke out around lunchtime in one corner of the square, beside Parliament House, as a group of protesters dressed mostly in black threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at police.",
"Officers fired tear gas and stun grenades, or \"flash bangs,\" in return, sending noisy detonations echoing round the square.",
"Smoke filled the area by mid-afternoon as a fire burned in front of the finance ministry, forcing many peaceful demonstrators to move away.",
"Police estimated that more than 70,000 people were protesting in Athens, and said they planned to put between 2,500 and 3,000 officers on the streets.",
"Organizers estimated the turnout at 120,000 people.",
"Initially, most of the protesters gathered peacefully in front of Parliament House waving union flags, red flags and banners.",
"\"I'm here for my children and everyone else's children.",
"Those punks in there have destroyed everyone's lives,\" said former railway worker Diamandis Goufas, 62, pointing at parliament.",
"Greeks are angry at yet another round of planned austerity measures as Greece tries to bring down its stratospheric debt.",
"Lawmakers are trying to cut government costs to reassure international backers it is doing enough to earn the bailout funds they have promised to pour into the country, with the latest austerity measures expected to pass Thursday.",
"The new bill would lead to around 30,000 job losses and further cuts to wages and pensions for workers in the public sector.",
"That has left at least some Greeks furious at the countries demanding that Greece bring down its spending.",
"\"We are not lazy; it's the Germans, they want to take our blood,\" said Eleftherios Zarkados.",
"At least one student said Wednesday that Thursday would not mark the end of the battle between politicians and the public.",
"\"We will continue to resist even if the measures pass,\" said Sophia Titou, 21, a law student who works at an oil refinery.",
"Many on the streets say they are angry that the well-off people they believe are benefiting from corruption and tax evasion are not being pursued, while public sector workers pay the price for Greece's woes.",
"European Union leaders are scrambling to minimize the effect of Greece's debt on their common currency, the euro.",
"Over the weekend, finance ministers from the world's largest economies pledged their commitment to take \"all necessary actions\" to stabilize markets.",
"They aim to keep banks well capitalized so they can weather the effects of any defaults by Greece or other indebted countries like Portugal, Spain, Ireland or Italy.",
"But there appears to be a split between France and Germany -- Europe's two largest economies -- on how to do it.",
"Germany has stressed that individual European states should inject capital into domestic banks that lack sufficient buffers.",
"But analysts say France is opposed to this idea because it could jeopardize the nation's top-tier credit rating.",
"European leaders are expected to hear concrete details about how the plan might work at a European Council meeting Sunday.",
"European Union heads of state are widely expected to finalize the plan in early November at a meeting of the Group of 20 world economic powers.",
"CNN's Andrew Carey, Diana Magnay and Ben Rooney contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Greek lawmakers pass new austerity measures in an initial round of voting .",
"At least six protesters and 15 police officers are injured in clashes, police say .",
"Backers demand that Greece get its finances in order to get more bailout money .",
"European Union leaders worry that Greek debt threatens the euro ."
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"(CNN) -- Arab League finance ministers recommended Saturday that economic sanctions be levied against the Syrian government for its part in a bloody, months-long crackdown on civilian demonstrators, a senior Arab League official told CNN.",
"State-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) called the move an \"unprecedented procedure (that) contradicts the rules of the economic and trade cooperation among the Arab countries and targets the Syrian people.\"",
"Arab League foreign ministers from the regional alliance will meet at 11 a.m. Sunday in Cairo (4 a.m.",
"ET) to consider whether to adopt the proposal, the league official said.",
"Damascus had failed to respond to a Friday deadline for it to allow Arab League observers into the Middle Eastern country to monitor the government's response to civil unrest.",
"\"The Syrians responded with more requests to amendments to the protocol; they did not reject or accept,\" a senior Arab League diplomat said.",
"The slate of sanctions proposed Saturday in Cairo -- which were opposed by Algeria and Iraq -- include barring any private or commercial airlines from the league's 22 member states from flying into or out of Syria.",
"In addition, all assets belonging to the Syrian government and its officials would be frozen so they couldn't be accessed, and Syrian officials would not be allowed to visit Arab League countries.",
"Pictures on SANA's website on Saturday showed people packed in the city of Lattakia, reportedly to decry \"the Arab League decisions and foreign interference in the Syrian internal affairs.\"",
"Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said Syria risked international isolation if it continued along its present path -- adding that the reported violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests could not be tolerated.",
"\"Syria has to make a decision,\" he said in Istanbul alongside his Italian counterpart, Giulio Terzi.",
"\"It will either continue this crackdown policy against its people and become isolated more and more, or it will say yes to this well-intentioned Arab League proposal, sign this protocol and observers will monitor the situation on the ground by going to all Syrian cities.\"",
"Meanwhile, more violence was reported in Syria on Saturday, with the activist group Local Coordination Committees of Syria claiming that at least 29 civilians -- among them, four children -- had been killed.",
"Twenty-two deaths occurred in Homs, as \"big military reinforcements\" equipped with eight troop carriers and four tanks allegedly reached the city.",
"In addition, three were reported killed in Hama, two in Deir Ezzor, and one each in the Damascus suburbs of Kanaker and Idlib, said the group, which organizes and documents anti-government protests.",
"State-run SANA, meanwhile, reported that 25 army and security force members were buried Saturday.",
"\"The martyrs were killed in the line of duty by the armed terrorist groups in the governorates of Damascus Countryside, Homs and Hama,\" that report said.",
"\"The families of the martyrs expressed pride in their son's martyrdom, ... stressing that Syria will remain steadfast in the face of the conspiracy which targets its unity and stability.",
"They said that the Syrian people will overcome this ordeal through national unity, and that the blood of the martyrs will protect Syria and make it stronger in the face of challenges.\"",
"CNN cannot independently verify reports from either side, since Syria's government has limited access to international news organizations.",
"Since March, protesters in cities across the country have been demanding President Bashar al-Assad's ouster and democratic elections.",
"The United Nations estimated earlier this month that more than 3,500 Syrians have died in the subsequent government crackdown, said Ravina Shamdasani, a spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.",
"Al-Assad's government has consistently blamed armed gangs for the violence.",
"Adding to the pressure on Damascus, the United Nations Committee Against Torture said Friday it is \"deeply concerned about gross and pervasive human rights violations in Syria,\" which are allegedly taking place \"in a context of impunity.\"",
"\"Of particular concern are reports referring to children who have suffered torture and mutilation while detained; as well as cases of extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions; arbitrary detention by police forces and the military; and enforced and involuntary disappearances,\" said Claudio Grossman, who heads the expert panel.",
"Reliable sources indicate the abuses \"are allegedly conducted under direct orders from public authorities, at their instigation or with their consent or acquiescence,\" Grossman said.",
"The committee has asked Syria to provide a special report by early March indicating that it is abiding by its obligations under the U.N. Convention against Torture, to which Syria is a signatory.",
"Journalist Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report."
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"NEW: 29 civilians, including 4 children, are killed Saturday, an opposition group says .",
"NEW: 25 Syrian army and security forces are laid to rest, official media reports .",
"NEW: State media says proposed sanctions are \"unprecedented\" and \"target\" Syrians .",
"The measures include banning flights to and from Syria and visits by Syrian officials ."
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"(CNN Student News) -- Students will examine Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous \"I Have a Dream\" speech.",
"Also, they will compose written responses to Dr. King in which they compare his historic vision of racial equality in the United States to the reality of present-day life.",
"Procedure . On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared his vision of racial equality in America in his historic \"I Have a Dream\" speech.",
"Now, efforts are under way to build on that dream by constructing a monument to Dr. King on the banks of the National Mall's Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.",
"In class discussion, have students define the following terms: racism, prejudice and discrimination.",
"Have them give examples of each.",
"Then, point out that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of being judged not by the color of one's skin, but by the content of his or her character.",
"Direct your students to read Dr. King's famous \"I Have a Dream\" speech and discuss its content in class.",
"Then, challenge each student to compare Dr. King's dream to the reality of life in the U.S. in the year 2008.",
"Direct each student to compose a written response to Dr. King, explaining what life is like in the U.S. today and to what extent his dream has been realized.",
"(Encourage students to be creative in their responses.",
"For example, students could write a letter, a speech, a song or a poem.)",
"After students share their responses to Dr. King, pose the following questions for class discussion: .",
"Do you think that in today's society individuals are judged by the content of their character and not by their race?",
"Give examples to support your opinion.",
"Correlated Standards .",
"United States History .",
"Standard 29.",
"Understands the struggle for racial and gender equality and for the extension of civil liberties .",
"Level II [Grade: 5-6] .",
"Benchmark 1.",
"Understands the development of the civil rights movement (e.g., the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education and its significance in advancing civil rights; the resistance to civil rights in the South between 1954 and 1965; how the \"freedom ride,\" \"civil disobedience,\" and \"non-violent resistance\" were important to the civil rights movement; Martin Luther King Jr.'s \"I Have a Dream\" speech in the context of major events) Level III [Grade: 7-8] .",
"Understands individual and institutional influences on the civil rights movement (e.g., the origins of the postwar civil rights movement; the role of the NAACP in the legal assault on the leadership and ideologies of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X; the effects of the constitutional steps taken in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of government; the shift from de jure to de facto segregation; important milestones in the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1965; Eisenhower's reasons for dispatching federal troops to Little Rock in 1957) McREL: Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education (Copyright 2000 McREL) is published online by Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) (http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks), 2550 S. Parker Road, Suite 500, Aurora, CO 80014 .",
"Keywords . Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., \"I Have a Dream\" speech, racial equality, discrimination, prejudice, racism ."
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"Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Conflicting accounts emerged Thursday over whether the extremist group Al-Shabaab has signaled a desire to negotiate with Kenya amid a Kenyan military offensive targeting the group.",
"\"They want to talk,\" said a Kenyan official who did not want to be named because he is not authorized to talk to the media.",
"A spokesman for the Kenyan government, however, disputed that account and said Kenya wouldn't talk with Al-Shabaab even if the group did want to negotiate.",
"\"Al-Shabaab has not contacted Kenya in any way,\" said the spokesman, Alfred Mutua.",
"\"There are no plans whatsoever for Kenya to negotiate with Al-Shabaab.",
"Kenya does not negotiate with outlawed groups.\"",
"He said Kenyan troops have enjoyed success since crossing the border into Somalia to pursue Al-Shabaab, which the United States and several Western nations view as a terrorist organization.",
"\"They are running scared.",
"I think they are busy running for their lives,\" Mutua said.",
"\"They don't have time to talk.\" Kenyan troops struck several Al-Shabaab training sites in Somalia early Thursday, a military spokesman said.",
"The militant group, which includes many rival factions with different leaders, operates from Somalia.",
"The group's leaders were said to be reaching out for possible negotiations two weeks after Kenyan troops stormed into Somalia to hunt for Al-Shabaab, which Kenya blames for recent kidnappings of foreigners in the nation.",
"But Sheikh Mukhtar Robow Ali, Al-Shabaab's second-in-command who is also known as Abu Mansur, told supporters protesting in Mogadishu against the Kenyan incursion that if Kenya struck targets in Somalia, the militant group would strike back.",
"Kenya has said its forces aim to take the Somali port city of Kismayo, described by the United Nations as a key stronghold and source of cash for Al-Shabaab.",
"The United Nations estimates the group collects up to $50 million a year from businesses in Kismayo, about half of its annual income.",
"Robow urged what he said were Al-Shabaab-trained fighters in Kenya to take action in return, with the Kenyan port of Mombasa a target.",
"''Carry out attacks with heavy losses on Kenya,\" Robow said.",
"\"If Kenya closes the sea port in Kismayo, attack its banks, its port, its foreign guests and wherever there is a high-value target.\"",
"Kenyan officials have declared self-defense justifies crossing the border with Somalia, saying a recent spate of abductions threatened its security and constituted an attack.",
"Kidnappers have seized two aid workers and two European tourists in the past month.",
"\"We have looked at what is going on ... and decided that unless we move in now, Al-Shabaab is not diminishing, it is becoming bigger and bigger,\" Mutua said.",
"The war on terror cannot be won without dismantling the group's power, he said.",
"Efforts to flush out the terror group will take a \"couple of months, if that,\" Mutua said, adding that \"weeks\" would be a more ideal time frame.",
"Analysts and diplomats have raised concerns over the incursion, saying it gives the terror group a reason to strike Kenya.",
"\"If there is anything we have learned in the last couple of decades is that foreign intervention, especially military intervention, doesn't work in Somalia,\" said Rashid Abdi, an analyst for International Crisis Group.",
"\"I definitely understand Kenya's anxiety about the terror threat emanating from Somalia ... but I think there is more that Kenya could have done inside the country.\"",
"While noting Kenya's \"right to defend itself,\" the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi said it was not part of the decision to send troops to Somalia.",
"\"The United States did not encourage the Kenyan government to act nor did Kenya seek our views,\" said Katya Thomas, the embassy's press officer.",
"\"We note that Kenya has a right to defend itself against threats to its security and its citizens.\"",
"Somali President Sharif Ahmed thanked Kenya on Wednesday for helping battle the extremist group two days after he accused the nation of overstepping its boundaries.",
"Journalist Mohamed Amiin Adow contributed to this report."
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"NEW: An Al-Shabaab commander says its militants will strike Kenyan targets in return .",
"A Kenyan government spokesman denies Al-Shabaab overture .",
"Another Kenyan official said Al-Shabaab wants to talk .",
"Kenyan forces entered Somalia two weeks ago to pursue Al-Shabaab ."
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"(CNN) -- More Occupy Wall Street protests were scheduled in New York on Thursday, a day after demonstrators marched to support an Iraq war veteran who was hurt in California.",
"Hundreds packed the streets near Manhattan's Union Square on Wednesday in a march in support of veteran Scott Olsen.",
"At least 10 people were arrested in clashes with officers, a New York police spokesman said.",
"Olsen suffered a skull fracture Tuesday night after allegedly being struck by a tear gas canister in Oakland, California, according to witnesses.",
"He was in fair condition Thursday in the intensive care unit at Highland Hospital, hospital spokesman Curt Olsen said.",
"The former Marine has become another rallying cry for the Occupy Wall Street protests spreading throughout the country.",
"Demonstrators have typically railed against what they describe as corporate greed, arrogance and power, as well as their assertion that the nation's wealthiest 1% hold inordinate sway over the remaining 99% of the population.",
"The movement seems to be growing despite a recent crackdown in several cities.",
"Authorities made a series of arrests at protests in Oakland and Atlanta on Tuesday and Wednesday.",
"Police said they fired tear gas on protesters in Oakland after the crowd threw paint and other objects at officers.",
"In Atlanta, police arrested dozens of demonstrators at a downtown park after they failed to leave the facility as ordered.",
"In Nashville, Tennessee, authorities said Thursday that Occupy Nashville participants will be required to have permits, according to a statement from the state's Department of General Services.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti and Joe Sutton contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Nashville authorities say Occupy Nashville participants will be required to have permits .",
"Witnesses say a tear gas canister fractured veteran's skull .",
"The injured vet becomes another issue for protesters to rally around .",
"Scott Olsen is in fair condition in an intensive care unit ."
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"(CNN) -- The cat that vanished in baggage claim at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and whose plight became an online sensation has been found after being missing for two months.",
"\"American Airlines is happy to announce that Jack the Cat has been found safe and well at JFK airport,\" the carrier wrote in a post on the \"Jack the Cat is Lost in AA Baggage at JFK\" Facebook page Tuesday evening.",
"\"Jack was found in the customs room and was immediately taken by team members to a local veterinarian.",
"The vet has advised that Jack is doing well at present.\"",
"The airline plans to fly the cat to California to be reunited with his owner, Karen Pascoe.",
"The saga started on August 25, when Pascoe was flying from New York to San Francisco with Jack and a second cat as part of a job relocation.",
"But Jack escaped his kennel and was last seen at JFK's inbound baggage claim.",
"(A Department of Transportation Pet Incident Report released earlier this month explains how it happened: A clerk placed one kennel on top of another on a baggage cart and the kennel on top fell.",
"The impact \"caused the kennel to separate,\" allowing the cat to escape.)",
"When a search failed to turn up Jack after a few days, Pascoe became frustrated with American Airlines and started the Facebook page \"to help us put pressure on AA to step up their efforts.\"",
"She also urged fliers to \"do whatever they can do to keep their animals out of cargo.\"",
"The page now has more than 16,000 followers.",
"In its post, the airline said the search efforts included \"many employees at the airport who have remained vigilant in their search and committed to finding Jack.\"",
"While the cat was missing, workers placed food and water around the airport and set up humane traps.",
"American even hired a pet detective and issued a pet Amber alert in hopes of locating the feline.",
"We \"share everyone's relief that he has been found,\" the carrier said."
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"American Airlines says it has found Jack the Cat after two months of searching .",
"The feline became a Facebook sensation after his owner vented online .",
"The cat was found at John F. Kennedy International Airport's customs room ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- In a change of policy, U.S. Marines are now allowed to wear bracelets in memory of fallen comrades.",
"The metal or rubber bracelets can honor \"prisoners of war, missing in action, killed in action, and those who died of wounds or injuries sustained in a combat theater,\" the Marine Corps said in a statement Tuesday.",
"Some Marines had been wearing the bracelets -- which list names of those killed in Afghanistan, Iraq or other zones -- despite their not being permitted by regulations.",
"There had been questions about enforcement of the policy.",
"The decision came out of a symposium last week at which the issue was discussed by the Marine commandant, Gen. James F. Amos, and his senior officers, the statement said.",
"\"We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost,\" Amos said in the release.",
"Amos on Monday met Marines who had returned to the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California, from Afghanistan.",
"He noticed bracelets and received \"positive feedback\" on the wearing of the them, said Maj. Stewart T. Upton, a Marine spokesman.",
"About 360 members of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines, were welcomed home.",
"They had five comrades killed during their seven-month deployment in Helmand Province, said center spokesman Capt.",
"Nicholas Mannweiler.",
"\"They are typically providing security,\" said Mannweiler.",
"\"They made a lot of improvements.\"",
"The captain said the policy decision on the bracelets signified \"we get why you're wearing it and it's blessed.\"",
"Guidance on \"standardization and uniformity\" will be distributed to Marines by the end of next week, the Corps said.",
"Marines had been permitted to wear the long-familiar POW/MIA bracelets since 1972, during the Vietnam War, Upton said."
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"Corps permits Marines to wear bands in honor of absent comrades .",
"Commandant: \"We are acknowledging ... the strong bonds\" among Marines .",
"Troops previously were allowed to wear POW/MIA bracelets ."
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"Ercis, Turkey (CNN) -- Nearly three days after a massive earthquake shook eastern Turkey, rescuers pulled two more survivors from collapsed buildings Wednesday.",
"The quake and its aftermath killed at least 471 people and injured at least 1,650 others, the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Relief Agency said in a statement on its website.",
"In the latest rescue, emergency crews pulled a 27-year-old teacher from debris 67 hours after the quake hit, the Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported.",
"The teacher, Gozde Bahar, had difficulty breathing and was taken to a hospital for treatment.",
"Eyup Erdem, 18, was pulled from a collapsed building where he had been trapped for almost 61 hours and was taken to a field hospital, the semi-official Anatolian news agency reported.",
"No more information was immediately available on either of the rescues, which occurred in the town of Ercis in the province of Van.",
"They came a day after crews pulled a baby, her mother and her grandmother alive from the rubble.",
"The father of 2-week-old Azra Karaduman remained trapped beneath the rubble, officials said.",
"Crews pulled four bodies from the debris after her rescue, but did not say whether they included the infant's father.",
"Working in temperatures in the 40s (single digits Celsius), teams of rescuers have scoured the ruins for survivors since Sunday's 7.2-magnitude earthquake.",
"In the town of Guvecli near the Syrian border, the last of the funerals were held Wednesday for the 15 people who died in the town of approximately 2,000 residents.",
"Eighty percent of the 200 buildings were destroyed in the quake and the others were rendered uninhabitable, officials said.",
"Residents were spending the nights crowded into tents, which were in short supply.",
"Residents said aid was arriving sporadically.",
"In Ankara, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed that the eastern province would be rebuilt.",
"He said 16 planes carrying search-and-rescue teams arrived in the region during the first two days after the earthquake and that 3,755 public personnel, 422 nongovernmental organization workers, 595 search-and-rescue vehicles and 860 health teams had been sent to the affected area.",
"Turkey said Tuesday that it would accept international aid, citing a need for tents and prefabricated houses for \"the reconstruction phase\" that will begin after the search-and-rescue efforts, Anadolu said.",
"Japan's embassy was the first to respond, promising to send about $400,000, Anadolu said.",
"Japan suffered an earthquake and tsunami in March that killed thousands and triggered a nuclear crisis.",
"Britain, Germany, France, Jordan, Qatar, Switzerland, Israel, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the United States have also said they could help with reconstruction, the news agency said.",
"Israel's Ministry of Defense said a plane carrying seven prefabricated buildings and other aid was to depart Wednesday for the stricken region.",
"At least 2,262 buildings were demolished in Van and surrounding villages and towns, the news agency said.",
"Relations between the two countries have been tense since last year's Israeli commando raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla laden with humanitarian aid.",
"Nine Turkish activists were killed.",
"Turkey has suffered other major earthquakes in recent years.",
"A magnitude-7.6 earthquake in Izmit killed more than 17,000 people in 1999, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.",
"A magnitude-7.2 tremor in Duzce the same year killed 894 people, the agency reported.",
"CNN's Diana Magnay contributed to this story ."
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"A day earlier, crews rescue a baby, her mother and her grandmother .",
"At least 471 people are killed and 1,650 others are injured, the government says .",
"Turkey is accepting international aid ."
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"Paris (CNN) -- The former head of the International Monetary Fund, arrested on sexual assault charges and then released after his accuser's credibility was questioned, acknowledged \"moral weakness\" in an interview Sunday but denied any violence or aggression.",
"Dominique Strauss-Kahn told French television station TF1 the incident at the Sofitel involving a Guinean maid was \"not only an inappropriate relationship, but more than that -- an error, a mistake, a mistake concerning my wife, my children, my friends, but also a mistake that the French people placed their hope in change on me.\"",
"\"There was a weakness,\" he said.",
"\"It was greater than a weakness, it was a moral weakness, a moral mistake, and I'm not proud of this.",
"I regret this. I've regretted it throughout these days, through these four months, and I believe I've not finished regretting.",
"\"I had a feeling I was trapped, humiliated,\" he said of the accusations.",
"He said he was deeply wounded by the images and the media reports surrounding the allegations.",
"He spoke of being hounded by reporters and scrambling to find a place to stay that would satisfy court security requirements.",
"\"This was expensive,\" he said, but \"... either that or return back to (jail).\"",
"Once considered a front-runner candidate for the French presidency, Strauss-Kahn, 62, was pulled off a Paris-bound plane on May 14 and arrested after the sexual assault allegations.",
"Days later, he resigned from the IMF and was put on house arrest after spending a few days in New York's Rikers Island jail.",
"But questions arose about the credibility of the maid, identified as Nafissatou Diallo, prompting prosecutors to drop the charges against Strauss-Kahn.",
"He returned to France earlier this month.",
"Prosecutors pointed out that there was \"neither material proof nor any credible evidence\" that an assault took place, Strauss-Kahn told the station.",
"And a prosecution report said there were no signs of violence to the woman, he said.",
"Authorities said the woman told differing versions of the story, Strauss-Kahn said.",
"\"If there was the slightest accusation that remained, there would have been a trial.\"",
"Strauss-Kahn's attorneys have previously said the two were involved in consensual sex.",
"Diallo's attorneys have filed a civil lawsuit against Strauss-Kahn.",
"Asked Sunday whether he and his attorneys will negotiate with her, Strauss-Kahn said they would not.",
"\"I've always had respect for women,\" he said. ...",
"I've paid heavily.",
"I'm still paying for this.\"",
"Douglas Wigdor, one of Diallo's attorneys, said he looks forward to asking Strauss-Kahn questions under oath, and hearing his responses.",
"\"We have still not heard what Mr. Strauss-Kahn has said happened in that room.",
"... We're waiting for that. We had hoped that this would happen today, but it didn't,\" he told CNN's Don Lemon after the interview.",
"\"If Mr. Strauss-Kahn thinks that people in France will really believe that he was able to convince Ms. Diallo, who had never met him before and did not know that he was in the room, to engage in sexual acts with him within a matter of minutes, then he should describe how that happened,\" Wigdor and Kenneth Thompson, the woman's attorneys, said in a statement released before the interview Sunday.",
"\"We suspect that he will not do so because any story that he describes will not be plausible.\"",
"They noted the French journalist who interviewed Strauss-Kahn is a friend of his wife's.",
"\"As everyone knows, Ms. Diallo sat down with unbiased journalists and investigative reporters who were permitted, without any conditions, to ask questions about Ms. Diallo and the deplorable acts that Mr. Strauss-Kahn committed against her,\" the statement said.",
"Strauss-Kahn told the station that his wife, French journalist Anne Sinclair, is \"an exceptional woman ...",
"I'm so lucky to have her by my side.",
"I have hurt her. I know this. I begrudge myself, but you know, she would not have been like this, she would not have supported me, if she had not known from the first second that I was innocent.\"",
"He said he wanted to be a candidate in the 2012 French presidential elections.",
"\"I wanted to be useful and bring answers, and that is all behind me,\" he said.",
"\"Quite clearly, I cannot be a candidate, even if I've continued to think about it ...",
"I do not wish to be in the primaries.\"",
"French journalist Tristane Banon has filed a complaint against Strauss-Kahn in France, alleging he attempted to sexually assault her in 2003.",
"He has filed a counter-suit alleging slander.",
"Asked about Banon's allegations Sunday, Strauss-Kahn said he met with her recently and \"I said the truth to her in this meeting.",
"There was no act of aggression, there was no violence. ...",
"The version that was presented was imaginary.\"",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti contributed to this report."
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"The former IMF head acknowledges \"moral weakness\"\nHe denies any sexual assault took place at a New York hotel .",
"The woman's attorneys question his claim of consensual sex .",
"Strauss-Kahn denies attempting to assault French writer Tristane Banon ."
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"(Rolling Stone) -- One of the most stunning moments in Cameron Crowe's new Pearl Jam documentary comes near the end, when the band plays \"Better Man\" at Madison Square Garden and the audience euphorically screams along to every word.",
"The soundtrack to the film -- which contains that \"Better Man\" -- is for those hardcore fans.",
"There's no \"Jeremy,\" \"Daughter\" or \"Even Flow\" here.",
"But there is a gorgeous demo of \"Nothing as It Seems\" from 1999, a demo of the 1990 Temple of the Dog track \"Say Hello 2 Heaven\" and an early version of \"Alive,\" from Pearl Jam's second show, in December 1990.",
"The emotional high point may be \"Crown of Thorns,\" from a gig in 2000.",
"The song was first cut by Mother Love Bone shortly before their frontman Andrew Wood died; the group recruited Vedder and changed its name to Pearl Jam.",
"Wood always dreamed that his band would be hugely famous, and in Vedder's hands his greatest song is reborn as the arena-rock anthem it was meant to be.",
"See the full article at RollingStone.com.",
"Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone."
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"The soundtrack to the film is for those hardcore fans .",
"There's no \"Jeremy,\" \"Daughter\" or \"Even Flow\" here .",
"The emotional high point may be \"Crown of Thorns,\" from a gig in 2000 ."
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- A series of deadly bombings claimed more than a dozen lives in Iraq Saturday, according to police and health officials.",
"Seven people were killed and 28 others wounded when three roadside bombs exploded mid-morning in the busy Bab al-Sharji commercial district of central Baghdad, police officials said.",
"Another six men died and 10 others were injured when a roadside bomb hit a minibus carrying young laborers and construction workers in al-Annaz area in eastern Falluja, health and police officials said.",
"The blast occurred at about 5.30 a.m. local time in what is a predominately Sunni area.",
"\"The victims were traveling every day in a minibus from Abu Ghraib to Falluja to work in a number of reconstruction sites,\" police officer Ahmed Salman told CNN.",
"Meanwhile, the Iraqi army held a military parade in Falluja, sending hundreds of Iraqi soldiers accompanied by military vehicles through the main streets of the town Saturday morning, police told CNN.",
"The military parade was part of preparations for the Iraqi army to take over full responsibility for security after U.S. troops leave Iraq on December 31 this year.",
"Violence in Iraq has declined from its peak, but attacks around the country continue to cause deaths and injury.",
"On Thursday, 19 people were killed and dozens others were hurt when three explosions hit a commercial district in Basra, an oil-rich, predominantly Shiite city about 500 kilometers (310 miles) south of Baghdad."
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"Three roadside bombs went off in a commercial district of Baghdad, police said .",
"Another bomb hit a minibus carrying laborers in eastern Falluja, officials said .",
"Iraq's army will take over full responsibility for security when U.S. forces leave next month ."
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"(CNN) -- In 2009, a freshly elected U.S. president who campaigned on the themes of hope and change appointed a veteran negotiator to take a crack at the Israel-Palestinian conflict.",
"Now, 32 months after President Barack Obama named former Sen. George Mitchell as his chief Middle East envoy, the peace process is stalled and the United States faces the diplomatically dangerous possibility of having to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution on Palestinian statehood.",
"How did it get to this point? The answers are in the intractable nature of the conflict, political pressures faced by the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships, and a steady waning of U.S. influence in the region, exacerbated by the Arab Spring protests that erupted last December.",
"Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday he intends to submit an application for statehood to the Security Council, according to U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky, setting up a possible vote as soon as Friday.",
"U.S. officials have made clear they will veto it, affirming the longstanding backing for Israel, the nation's strongest Middle East ally.",
"Meanwhile, behind-the-scenes negotiations are seeking to avoid a move certain to evoke Arab protests of American bias and even hypocrisy.",
"A U.S. veto would amount to Washington blocking an outcome it has publicly supported -- the creation of a Palestinian state next to Israel.",
"However, the Obama administration insists that result must occur through a negotiated deal with Israel.",
"\"We continue to believe and are pressing the point that the only way to a two-state solution, which is what we support and want to see happen, is through negotiations,\" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said late Monday.",
"Addressing the possible Palestinian statehood bid, she added that \"no matter what does or doesn't happen, this will not produce the kind of outcome that everyone is hoping for, so we are going to stay very much engaged and focused.\"",
"Also Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was willing to meet with Abbas in New York to launch direct talks that would continue back in the Middle East after the U.N. General Assembly.",
"Netanyahu's offer was an obvious attempt to give Abbas a plausible reason to put off the statehood bid, an outcome desired by the United States.",
"\"For President Obama, who came into office speaking about self-determination and promised the Palestinians that it's a new day and a new dawn for them, to go to the Security Council and cast a veto against the Palestinian state is politically problematic,\" Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute think tank, said Monday on CNN.",
"\"It's really a catastrophe for him in the Arab world, but he has no choice but to pass the veto if it came to that,\" Ajami continued.",
"\"The hope is (that) between now and Friday, some exit, some other formula will be found to spare one and all in this confrontation at the Security Council.\"",
"Fran Townsend, a CNN contributor on national security issues, said the potential U.N. vote \"puts the United States in a very awkward position.\"",
"\"It is a veto that will most certainly undermine U.S. credibility as an honest broker in the peace process,\" at least in the eyes of the Arab world, Townsend said.",
"The latest developments come five months after Mitchell's resignation.",
"He said he only signed up to tackle the world's toughest diplomatic job for two years, but he was clearly frustrated by the inability to restart direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.",
"Mitchell, who was 77 when he stepped down, traveled back and forth in the region trying to overcome the decades of hostility and mistrust that bedeviled the peace process.",
"Face-to-face negotiations sought by the United States and its mediating partners from the United Nations, European Union and Russia never materialized.",
"The Obama administration came into office hoping to seduce the Middle East with a more sensitive and compassionate posture after eight years of the Bush administration that brought war in Iraq and tough posturing against Iran and other enemies of Israel.",
"In June 2009, Obama used a high-profile speech in Cairo, Egypt, on relations between the United States and the Muslim world to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.",
"He reaffirmed the U.S. endorsement of a two-state solution and urged compromise and understanding between \"two peoples with legitimate aspirations.\"",
"Addressing two main issues in the dispute, Obama said the U.S. government \"does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements\" in the West Bank, and declared that \"it is time for (settlement construction) to stop.\"",
"He also called America's bond with Israel \"unbreakable\" and said Palestinian violence such as rocket and mortar attacks on Israel must cease.",
"In particular, Obama said the Hamas movement -- which controls Gaza -- must end violence and recognize past agreements.",
"Less than a year later, any perception of progress began to shatter.",
"Not only did Obama fail to make good on his Cairo pledges, but his inability to rein in Israel on settlement-building was evidence of how hard jump-starting negotiations would be.",
"In March 2010, Israel announced a new settlement project in East Jerusalem, maintaining its insistence that the entire city would always be part of its territory.",
"After years of lukewarm reactions to such statements about new settlements by Israel, the United States chose to push the envelope, turning the incident into a crisis that further hindered the peace process when Netanyahu would not give in.",
"Then came the Gaza flotilla raid on May 31, 2010, when Israeli commandos stormed a Turkish ship leading an effort to break Israel's blockade of the Palestinian territory.",
"The incident, in which nine Turks were killed, cast a harsh spotlight on the grave humanitarian situation in Gaza and led to a breakdown in relations between Israel and Turkey, one of its few allies in the region.",
"Against that backdrop, the Arab Spring of pro-democracy uprisings that started in Tunisia and spread to Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and other states became an uncontrolled factor in the Middle East equation.",
"Hesitant U.S. support for protesters, first in Egypt, then in Libya and now in Syria, raised questions in the region about the clarity and commitment of the Obama administration's policy.",
"In a speech in May, Obama expressed support for pro-democracy aspirations in the Middle East.",
"He also offered specifics on a possible Israel-Palestinian agreement based on pre-1967 borders and including land swaps to reflect current realities on the ground.",
"The pre-1967 borders refer to Israel's territory before the six-day war that year in which it took control of the Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem and other territory from neighboring countries.",
"Both sides found reason to reject Obama's proposal as a basis for resuming peace talks, and now the successful Arab Spring protests have given Abbas new impetus to challenge Israel and the United States by seeking statehood through the United Nations.",
"Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Sunday that the Palestinians were making the U.N. bid out of frustration.",
"\"They have reinforced cooperation with the Israelis,\" Clinton told the NBC's \"Meet the Press.\"",
"\"They have produced a growing economy on the West Bank.",
"They have renounced violence.",
"And all the Arab countries except Syria have offered Israel a political, military and security partnership for the future, including opposition to Iran's nuclear design, if they create a Palestinian state.\"",
"And yet, Clinton noted, \"there's been no progress.\"",
"One reason for a lack of progress has been uncertainty over the status of a Palestinian unity effort involving the Abbas-led authority in the West Bank and Hamas, which rules Gaza.",
"Israel and the United States consider Hamas a terrorist group and refuse to negotiate with it.",
"The United States also has called on Hamas to renounce violence and recognize Israel's right to exist in order to take part in the peace process.",
"Hamas does not support President Abbas' bid for statehood.",
"Hamas leader Ismail Haniya has said Fatah does not have the right to sacrifice Palestinian rights, including making concessions on Palestinian land or the right of return for Palestinian refugees.",
"He said Hamas will not recognize Israel's right to a Jewish state.",
"Townsend said the changing face of the Middle East is worrying to Israel, noting the Muslim Brotherhood strengthening in post-Mubarak Egypt, the possibility of anti-Israel factions gaining a role in post-Gadhafi Libya and the constant threat from Iran.",
"\"So you can understand Israel's concern about their current security,\" Townsend said.",
"\"I think Israel is rightly concerned.",
"This is a very dangerous time.\""
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"U.S. backs an independent Palestinian state through negotiations .",
"Palestinians will submit an application for statehood to U.N.\nU.S. officials have made it clear they will veto such a move .",
"Behind-the-scenes negotiations are trying to avoid a move certain to evoke Arab protests ."
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"(CNN) -- The Obama administration vastly underestimated the tens of thousands of barrels of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, despite contrary information from scientists using better methodologies, a report from a national panel investigating the response said Wednesday.",
"And, the report said, the White House Office of Management and Budget squelched higher worst-case estimates once government officials accepted them, preventing the public from hearing them.",
"The staff also sharply criticized later White House estimates that 75 percent of the oil had been scooped up, burned or naturally dispersed, saying an operational tool -- known as the oil budget -- used by responders failed to accurately account for biodegradation and was not peer-reviewed by scientists.",
"The working paper from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling looked at the government's response to the April 20 explosion that triggered the spill, and whether it accurately and appropriately conveyed information to the public.",
"The explosion claimed 11 lives and led to thousands of barrels of oil being spewed into the Gulf daily for almost three months.",
"\"By initially underestimating the amount of oil flow and then, at the end of the summer, appearing to underestimate the amount of oil remaining in the Gulf, the federal government created the impression that it was either not fully competent to handle the spill or not fully candid with the American people about the scope of the problem,\" said Wednesday's report.",
"Federal officials have stated that the low flow-rate estimates did not negatively affect their operations to stop the oil spill.",
"\"Even if responders are correct, however, loss of the public's trust during a disaster is not an incidental public relations problem,\" the 29-page report said.",
"\"The absence of trust fuels public fears, and those fears in turn can cause major harm, whether because the public loses confidence in the federal government's assurances that beaches or seafood are safe, or because the government's lack of credibility makes it harder to build relationships ... that are necessary for effective response actions.\"",
"The report issued Wednesday is considered a working paper.",
"The commission will issue a formal report January 12, 2011.",
"The president appointed the commission in June and tasked it to provide recommendations on how to prevent future spills and mitigate the impact of any that do occur.",
"The commission is headed by former Florida governor and former U.S. Sen. Bob Graham and former Environmental Protection Agency administrator William K. Reilly.",
"Government officials, reacting to the report, said the response was \"in full force and immediate\" and that the government adequately warned the public of worst-case spill scenarios.",
"Rep. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts, chairman of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, said BP won't be able to escape liability.",
"\"Low balling the flow rate numbers was BP's attempt to hide both the truth and their wallet from the American people,\" Markey said.",
"After the oil rig sank, the U.S. Coast Guard and BP initially put the spill at 1,000 barrels per day.",
"The administration later derived a 5,000-barrels-per-day estimate, depending on an \"unsolicited, one-page document\" based on visual operation of the speed at which the oil was leaking from the end of the riser at the bottom of the Gulf.",
"Despite \"inaccuracies\" in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist's estimate of 5,000 barrels, the government stuck with that number through May 27, despite estimates from outside experts suggesting a much higher figure, the report said.",
"The panel's staff wrote that in some cases, nongovernment scientists relied on more refined or better-established methodologies.",
"\"It is possible that the early official flow estimates would have been more accurate if the government had either enlisted greater in-house scientific expertise, or enlisted outside scientific expertise by making available the data on which government estimates were based,\" the report said.",
"\"The government appears to have taken an overly casual approach to the calculation and release of the 5,000 barrels a day estimate -- which as the only official estimate for most of May, took on great importance,\" the report said.",
"Soon after the spill, the Minerals Management Service and BP reported a worst-case estimate of 162,000 barrels, but that was replaced by another estimate received by the Coast Guard and NOAA of 64,000 to 110,000 barrels per day.",
"The actual figure turned out to be about 62,000 barrels per day.",
"A barrel of oil is equivalent to 42 gallons (159 liters).",
"According to the report, NOAA wanted to make public some of its worst-case models and requested approval from the Office of Management and Budget.",
"That request was denied.",
"A member of the government team assembled to address the gulf between official and independent flow-rate estimates told CNN, \"We were never pressured [by the government] that we should change our [flow rate] number.\"",
"Ira Leifer blamed the initially low oil flow-rate estimates on the poor quality of data the group of scientists had from BP.",
"Better video and data led to the rise in the daily oil spill estimate, he said.",
"The report also faulted the government's tracking of the spill.",
"It said a White House official in August claimed 75 percent of the oil was \"gone.\"",
"But the response team could not support that claim, panel staffers wrote.",
"That information was never meant \"to be a precise tool,\" and the administration should not have used it as a scientific report, they said.",
"\"It did not attempt to quantify biodegradation, or the exact amounts of remaining, dissolved, and dispersed oil, which were not the targets of response action.\"",
"Further, it said, the government's failure to account for the stages of biodegradation increased public confusion of how much oil was actually \"gone.\"",
"The federal government later Wednesday said it acted appropriately with regard to spill estimates and the clean-up.",
"\"As for the predictions about the spill flow rate, senior government officials were clear with the public what the worst-case flow rate could be: in early May, [Interior] Secretary [Ken] Salazar and Admiral Thad Allen told the American people [in media interviews] that the worst case scenario could be more than 100,000 barrels a day,\" said a statement from OMB Acting Director Jeffrey Zients and NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco.",
"\"The federal government response was full force and immediate, and the response focused on state and local plans and evolved when needed,\" the statement continued.",
"\"As directed by the President, the response was based on science, even when that pitted us against BP or state and local officials, and the response pushed BP every step of the way.",
"Finally, and most importantly, the response provided results for the people of the Gulf Coast.\"",
"Regarding the flow and recovery of the spilled oil, Zients and Lubchenco said responders worked with best known information at the time and later came up with improved analysis.",
"\"The facts bear out that the federal response significantly mitigated the impact of the spill,\" they said.",
"The report has been posted online at http://www.oilspillcommission.gov/document/amount-and-fate-oil ."
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"Panel's staff said the government response undermined public trust .",
"Report indicates the White House office refused to air worst-case figures .",
"The April 20 explosion claimed 11 lives, resulted in millions of barrels of oil going into Gulf ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- After approximately a week of poring over 145 jury questionnaires, lawyers in the trial of Michael Jackson's doctor are due in court Wednesday to discuss removing jurors whose answers they believe should disqualify them from hearing the case.",
"But legal experts say prosecutors and defense attorneys in the Conrad Murray trial will be doing more than simply screening jurors based on their answers to the more than 100 questions filled out on September 8 and 9.",
"They'll also be scrutinizing what prospective jurors may have said outside the courthouse and online about events surrounding the June 2009 death of pop star Michael Jackson.",
"\"This is the world of social media, and it directly impacts criminal trials,\" said Thomas Mesereau, the attorney who successfully defended Jackson during his 2005 molestation trial.",
"\"I have no doubt that both sides will hire competent people to explore every aspect of social media to try and find out whatever they can about these jurors, and also to see if these potential jurors have communicated themselves with anyone else about this case.\"",
"The questionnaire asks whether potential jurors \"ever posted any blogs or posted comments on any internet sites\" and goes on to specifically ask whether the individual \"accessed or posted\" any comments about Murray, who is accused of administering a lethal dose of drugs to Jackson.",
"\"I think it is safe to say that contemporary trial practice dictates that you make an effort to find out whatever information you can about jurors,\" Los Angeles defense attorney Shepard Kopp said.",
"\"If somebody has a Facebook page where the settings are public, and you can see what their interests are, you can very well learn valuable information there.\"",
"A simple Internet search can link attorneys to prospective jurors' blogs, tweets and postings on social networking sites to see if they have commented on a specific case.",
"It also may offer insight into jurors' psyches.",
"\"Any information you can get on a prospective juror is helpful, because you have such a short period of time in which to evaluate who the person is that is ultimately going to be making a very important decision in the case,\" said Richard Gabriel, a jury consultant with Decision Analysis.",
"Gabriel has been advising attorneys for 25 years on such high-profile murder cases as O.J.",
"Simpson's and Casey Anthony's.",
"He says screening jurors today is easier because of the amount of information people share on the Internet.",
"\"If they have a Twitter account, it can give you a little bit more about how they interact with the rest of the world, not just in a courtroom setting,\" he said.",
"But Gabriel added that it is rare for a legal team to have time to do such vetting of prospective jurors, because jury selection is completed within hours in a vast majority of trials, not over several weeks as in the Anthony case (and most likely Murray's as well).",
"\"The last thing you want to be doing in jury selection is research on your laptop computer in court,\" Kopp, the attorney, said about finding time to vet jurors.",
"\"That can send the message to the jurors that you are engaged in some other kind of work and you are not interested enough in the case you are trying.\"",
"And who knows what the reaction might be if jurors knew they were the ones being judged online -- to determine if they were fit to sit in judgment.",
"Opening statements for the trial, which will be televised, are scheduled for September 27.",
"The trial is expected to last about a month.",
"If convicted of the involuntary manslaughter charge, Murray could face up to four years in prison."
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"(AOL Autos) -- Consumer Reports recently announced its annual used cars ratings, and we weren't surprised to see one of the major categories was \"Best in Fuel Economy.\"",
"With gasoline and oil prices on a seemingly endless upward spiral, that's a key factor these days when choosing a used car -- or even a new one.",
"The cars that made this list were, according to Consumer Reports, \"the affordable and reliable vehicles [that] returned some of the best results in our real-world fuel-economy tests.\"",
"What follows is a list of the vehicles that magazine rated \"Best in Fuel Economy\" in the under $10,000 price range, with a short description of each vehicle.",
"The mileage figures stated are the ones calculated by Consumer Reports in their own on-the-road tests.",
"2000 Honda Insight Overall MPG: 51 .",
"When the Insight hit showrooms in 1999 for the 2000 model year, it was hailed as one of the cleanest and most fuel-efficient vehicles in the world.",
"It was the first gasoline-electric hybrid to be sold in the U.S., and won several design, engineering and technology awards.",
"The Insight employs Honda's Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) system, combining an extremely lightweight 1.0-liter, three-cylinder gasoline automobile engine with an ultra-thin electric motor.",
"Early models came with a 5-speed manual transmission, but a continuously variable transmission (CVT) was offered starting in '01.",
"2001 - 2002 Toyota Prius Overall MPG: 41 .",
"This was one of the earliest generations of the fuel-sipping Prius, and it certainly has become a green living icon since then.",
"Drawing its power from a combination of a 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine and an electric motor, these earlier editions generated only 70 hp, but muscle isn't the point in a hybrid car.",
"It's pod-like design had a certain retro-futuristic appeal, and was roomier than one might think.",
"2000 - 2005 Toyota Echo Overall MPG: 38 .",
"The Echo was rolled out in 2000 as a no-frills compact econo-box, for those who wanted Toyota quality but were on a budget that precluded them from snagging a Corolla.",
"The interior is plain, but the engine is reliable and efficient, and the taut suspension delivers a ride comparable to larger models.",
"This version of the Echo comes with a 1.5-liter four-cylinder 108-hp 16-Valve EFI engine.",
"1998 - 2002 Chevrolet Prizm Overall MPG: 32 .",
"The Prizm of this era bore some resemblance to the Corolla, since both were built on the same assembly line in a joint GM/Toyota plant.",
"A front-wheel-drive subcompact sedan, the Prizm was initially rolled out under the Geo nameplate, but later became a Chevy model.",
"Available as a base model and LSi, the Prizm is powered by single twin-cam four-cylinder engines that produced 120 hp in 1998 and 1999, but the addition of VVT in 2000 boosted the ponies to 125.",
"1998 Mazda Protégé LX Overall MPG: 32 .",
"Mazda redesigned the Protégé in 1995, upgrading it considerably with a more rigid chassis and much-improved ride quality -- not to mention increased interior space.",
"This edition also offers a silkier ride, crisp handling and solid performance for a small car.",
"This model year has a 92-hp 1.5-liter four-cylinder engine, and comes in three trim levels.",
"1998 - 2000 Toyota Corolla CE/LE Overall MPG: 32/31 .",
"The Corolla has been a stalwart for more than 40 years, for its quality, dependability and, maybe most importantly, for its fuel economy.",
"The 1998-1999 editions are powered by a 1.8 L, 120-hp, four-cylinder 16-Valve EFI, with aluminum alloy block and head.",
"By 2000, they'd tweaked the engine to deliver 125 ponies.",
"A front-wheel drive job, the Corollas of this period come in three trim levels, but Consumer Reports chose the midline CE and top-end LE.",
"1998 - 2001 Acura Integra LS Overall MPG: 32 .",
"The Acura Integra sport coupe and sport sedan lineups have always been standard-bearers for innovative technology, craftsmanship, and exhilarating performance.",
"It was the top-selling automobile in its segment from 1994 - 1998.",
"It is available on five sport-coupe trim levels and three sport- sedan trims.",
"The Intergra LS came with a 1.8-liter, 140-hp engine, automatic transmission is optional.",
"2004 - 2005 Scion xA Overall MPG: 31/30 .",
"The Scion xA's body lines are rounder and more sculpted than the distinctly boxy shape of its xB cousin, but it's just as well-constructed and just as comfy inside.",
"Low maintenance costs are a big selling point, as is the taut ride.",
"A 1.5-liter, 108-hp 16-valve four-cylinder comes standard on the 2004 - 2005, along with a five-speed manual transmission, and an automatic transmission was optional."
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"The 2000 Honda Insight was the first gasoline-electric hybrid sold in the U.S.",
"The Chevy Prizm was initially rolled out under the Geo nameplate .",
"2001-2002 Prius has become a green living icon .",
"The 1998 - 2000 Corolla has been a stalwart for more than 40 years ."
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"(CNN) -- The applause that erupted during last week's NBC/Politico debate among Republican presidential hopefuls at the mention of the executions carried out during Rick Perry's tenure as Texas's governor cut off co-moderator Brian Williams' question in midstream.",
"Williams: Gov.",
"Perry, a question about Texas.",
"Your state has executed 234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times.",
"Have you . ... ... [SUSTAINED APPLAUSE] . ... ... ...",
"Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?",
"The response presumably would have been more muted if Williams had been allowed to finish his question.",
"Most people are less enthusiastic about the death penalty's being applied against the innocent.",
"Following the question's completion, Governor Perry volunteered that he has \"never struggled with that at all,\" explaining that \"when someone commits the most heinous of crimes against our citizens, they get a fair hearing ...\" Had the governor an opportunity to rephrase his answer, he likely would have clarified that fair hearings also are available to those who have been charged with but did not actually commit a heinous crime, and that such crimes might occasionally involve noncitizen victims as well.",
"But the point is not to quibble about word choices; Texas governors can be forgiven linguistic mistakes if they allow no capital ones to happen.",
"Troy Davis, scheduled to be executed next week in Georgia for the murder of off-duty police officer Mark MacPhail, could be a capital error that is about to happen.",
"Davis was convicted and sentenced to death more than 20 years ago by a jury that heard testimony from at least nine witnesses who implicated him in the killing.",
"Since then, seven of the trial witnesses have recanted or revised their testimony so that it no longer points to Davis' guilt.",
"Of the two witnesses who have not revised their condemning trial testimony, one is believed by Davis' supporters to have been the actual murderer.",
"The last judge to review the case concluded that Davis' conviction and death sentence should not be disturbed, leaving the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, which has previously declined to take action, as the last apparent barrier to Davis' execution.",
"With no DNA or comparably reliable scientific evidence available to help confirm or contraindicate Davis' guilt, the cry to achieve a final resolution of the case appears poised to trump the trial's lingering uncertainties.",
"Davis may or may not be innocent.",
"To acknowledge this much would suggest that he should not be executed.",
"Yet Georgia is ready to move forward.",
"If it is true that justice delayed is justice denied, it must also be true that an injustice not delayed is justice denied.",
"(In another case, yesterday The U.S. Supreme Court delayed the scheduled execution of an inmate on death row in Texas after questions arose about a psychologist who had testified that blacks and Hispanics were more likely to commit future crimes.)",
"To make these observations about the cheering that greeted Perry's execution record and the angst accompanying Troy Davis' scheduled execution is to dwell on symptoms at the expense of their origins and deeper meaning.",
"I want to believe, and I do believe, that few of those celebrating at the mention of the Texas executions would not shed their festive enthusiasm and become reflective, sober, perhaps even somber if enlisted as witnesses to the execution of a fellow human being, even one indisputably guilty of committing murder.",
"I believe that those who cheer are applauding not the ugly reality of death inflicted by lethal injection but rather what it is that the punishment of death symbolizes: the triumph of law over criminal violence, of good over evil, the emphatic denunciation of unspeakably immoral misconduct, the restoration of order and a salve against the fear created in murder's wake.",
"The reality of the death penalty is that even if it is politically popular (to wit, the Perry applause) it is an ineffective criminal justice policy, rarely employed, unevenly distributed and fraught with the potential for error.",
"Its mistakes, unlike those committed in cases resulting in imprisonment, cannot be corrected.",
"Capital punishment is infinitely more soothing and reassuring as an abstract symbol of justice than it is in practice.",
"Being under penalty of death is likely to be Troy Davis' best reason to harbor hope for salvation.",
"If he is innocent, he should not be in prison, let alone facing execution.",
"Little focuses our attention as much as the prospect of an innocent person being put to death.",
"If Davis were not confronting execution, but instead had been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole by his trial jury, the simple truth is that he would be just another nameless, faceless prisoner among the thousands upon thousands who have been convicted of crimes and incarcerated notwithstanding colorable claims of innocence.",
"Don't get me wrong. If Troy Davis is innocent, if there are real doubts about his guilt, then doing something, anything, to spare him from execution is of the highest order of importance.",
"But if wrongful convictions occur in cases that result in the death penalty, as they undoubtedly do, then they occur exponentially more often and for all of the same reasons in the untold number of cases not resulting in the death penalty -- ones that are met with a collective yawn or shrug of the shoulders by policymakers who are in a position to make meaningful systemic reforms.",
"Odd as it may be, the existence of capital punishment represents the most hopeful stimulus for procedural and substantive changes necessary to prevent and correct the injustices worked by wrongful convictions in criminal cases throughout the land.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of James R. Acker."
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"James Acker: Debate question to Rick Perry about Texas' many executions drew cheers .",
"He says most people, though, are cheering triumph of justice, don't want wrongful executions .",
"He says Troy Davis is condemned to die even though witnesses have recanted .",
"Acker: Death penalty fraught with potential error; cases like Davis' focus our attention on this ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- An Afghan political figure considered vital to peace efforts in the country was assassinated Tuesday, officials said.",
"Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president who had been leading the Afghan peace council, was killed in an attack at his home.",
"NATO's International Security Assistance Force said two suicide bombers, \"feigning a desire to conduct reconciliation talks, detonated themselves.\"",
"Afghan officials earlier said there was one bomber.",
"The attacker hid the explosive device inside his turban, said Hasmat Stanikzai, spokesman for Kabul police.",
"An Afghan intelligence source told CNN that the bomber arrived at the house at the same time a meeting was due to take place between Rabbani and a delegation representing the Taliban insurgency.",
"Stanikzai said the bomber claimed to be a Taliban member who had come for the talks about peace and reconciliation, and detonated the explosives as he entered the home.",
"Four other people were wounded, including Masoom Stanikzai, a key adviser to Rabbani, the police spokesman said.",
"A doctor at a 400-bed hospital in Kabul said, \"We have received three people from the blast at Rabbani's house.",
"Among the injured are Masoom Stanikzai, one bodyguard and an assistant\" to Rabbani.",
"Rabbani was long considered crucial to Afghan and coalition efforts to bring Taliban leaders into the reconciliation process.",
"He was also heading the United National Front Party, the largest political party that stands in opposition to President Hamid Karzai.",
"Karzai called Rabbani's killing a \"very tragic loss\" for his country.",
"Speaking at the United Nations in New York, Karzai described Rabbani as \"an Afghan patriot\" who \"has sacrificed his life for the sake of Afghanistan and for the peace of our country.\"",
"\"We will miss him very much,\" Karzai said.",
"Karzai cut short his time at the United Nations.",
"His office said he would return to Afghanistan in the wake of the killing.",
"Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said of the violence in Afghanistan, including Rabbani's assassination, \"We know that is the campaign the insurgents are on.",
"We've got to adjust to that and protect the leaders.",
"\"Someone is going to have to step in very quickly because that is a critical part of the peace process,\" Mullen said of Rabbani's role.",
"The killing represents the strategy of the Taliban to assassinate as many leaders as possible, Mullen said.",
"NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called the assassination \"an attack on the Afghan people as they begin to take their country's security in their own hands.\"",
"\"To those who offer only death and destruction to the Afghan people, our message is clear: You will not prevail,\" he said in a statement.",
"Gen. John R. Allen, commander of ISAF, said the \"face of the peace initiative has been attacked.\"",
"\"This is another outrageous indicator that, regardless of what Taliban leadership outside the country say, they do not want peace, but rather war,\" Allen said in a statement.",
"The loud explosion heard in the attack on the home prompted temporary lockdowns at the nearby U.S. Embassy and ISAF headquarters as officials investigated the source of the blast.",
"Personnel at the U.S. Embassy were instructed to take cover late Tuesday afternoon due to an incident outside the embassy's perimeter, an embassy spokesman said.",
"\"It appears at this time that the embassy was not the target of the incident,\" spokesman Gavin Sundwall said in a statement.",
"\"We are working to account for all embassy personnel and staff.\"",
"ISAF headquarters was on lockdown for about 30 minutes, an ISAF spokesman said.",
"People at the headquarters heard a couple of deep booms followed by sirens, the spokesman said."
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"Jelena Jankovic is making a reputation for herself as one of the hardest working women in tennis.",
"Grin and bear it: Jelena Jankovic hopes 2009 will be the year she wins a Grand Slam tournament.",
"Only a few others on the women's tour competed in as many matches as her last year, and her consistency, blistering forehand and an improved all-round game saw her end 2008 as the world No.",
"1. She prepared for the Australian Open -- under way in Melbourne -- in the punishing heat of Mexico and hopes that winning her first Grand Slam tournament under the harsh Melbourne sun will silence the critics who have questioned her right to the No.",
"1 spot without having won a Grand Slam title.",
"\"I don't understand why so many questions are being asked about that.",
"I mean it's not the end of the world.",
"I just play my tennis and I enjoy every match.",
"I go on the court with a smile and that's all that matters to me.",
"And if it will happen it will happen,\" she told CNN before the Australian Open.",
"While sounding somewhat fatalistic about her chances at the first Grand Slam of 2009, it belies a determination that has propelled the upbeat 23-year-old Serbian from an early childhood in Belgrade to the top of women's tennis and a jet-setting lifestyle.",
"She moved from her native Serbia to Florida when she was just 12 years-old, training at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy -- the same tennis camp that honed the skills of Maria Sharapova and the Williams sisters.",
"Being away from her family from such a young age made her grow up quickly, she says: \"I think I matured much faster than some of the girls my age and made me much stronger as well.\"",
"Life as an international tennis professional also means life on the road, and Jankovic admits that sometimes it can be tough.",
"\"For me the most difficult thing is being away from my family and friends, away from my country.",
"Sometimes I just wish I was a normal girl, just staying at home and living a normal life,\" she told CNN.",
"But her desire to be the best in the world and determination to succeed is galvanized by the achievements of her fellow Serbian tennis stars on the tour, Novak Djokovic and Ana Ivanovic.",
"\"We are strong individuals and we come from a background where we didn't really have facilities to train, or the best financial status.",
"We made it with our will and with our determination,\" she said.",
"\"I'm proud that we have gone a long way and we have achieved huge things coming out of a small country.",
"And I hope that will inspire and motivate the younger generation and help them by building a tennis center so that they can train in Serbia, develop their games and not have to go abroad like we had to do in order to become champions.",
"\"It's amazing. In Serbia people are following that sport and waking up at three in the morning to watch us play,\" she said.",
"If she can dispatch the opposition in Melbourne with the same composure and determination she's shown in other tournaments she could finally have a title to match her ambition and give her compatriots something to really celebrate in the wee hours of the morning."
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"Moved from family in Belgrade to train in Florida at just 12-years-old .",
"Gaining reputation as one of the hardest working players on the tour ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- And baby makes three!",
"\"Bones\" star Emily Deschanel and her husband, \"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia\"'s David Hornsby, welcomed their first child Wednesday, a baby boy named Henry Hornsby, Deschanel's rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.",
"Deschanel, 34, and Hornsby were married in 2010.",
"The actress maintained a vegan diet throughout her pregnancy.",
"The new mom's \"Bones\" co-star TJ Thyne took to Twitter to share the happy news.",
"\"CONGRATULATIONS EMILY D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\"",
"he Tweeted Wednesday.",
"\"Yay yay yay!!!",
":o)\" But he's surely not the only one celebrating Henry's arrival.",
"In April, shortly after her sister Emily announced her pregnancy, Zooey Deschanel could hardly contain her excitement, Tweeting: \"I am super excited to be an aunt!\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Emily Deschanel and David Hornsby, welcomed their first child Wednesday .",
"It's a baby boy named Henry Hornsby, Deschanel's rep confirms .",
"The actress maintained a vegan diet throughout her pregnancy ."
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"United Nations (CNN) -- Confronted with the prospect of a Palestinian bid for full U.N. membership, U.S. President Barack Obama issued a sharp rebuke Wednesday to those pressing for statehood -- a rebuke likely to bring criticism from the Arab world.",
"\"Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the U.N.,\" Obama said, addressing delegates at the 66th annual session of U.N. General Assembly.",
"\"If it were that easy, it would have been accomplished by now.\"",
"The United States has vowed to block a Palestinian membership application should it reach the Security Council, but is likely eager to head off a scenario that would involve an American veto -- a move widely seen as unpopular across the Middle East.",
"A formal request for full U.N. membership is expected to be submitted Friday.",
"\"One year ago, I stood at this podium and called for an independent Palestine,\" Obama added.",
"\"I believed then -- and I believe now -- that the Palestinian people deserve a state of their own.",
"But what I also said is that genuine peace can only be realized between Israelis and Palestinians themselves.\"",
"A year later, despite extensive U.S. efforts, \"the parties have not bridged their differences,\" Obama said.",
"The American president met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and declared the bonds between their two countries \"unbreakable,\" a move likely to play well at home in an increasingly volatile U.S. political landscape.",
"Though Netanyahu was not in attendance at the General Assembly during Obama's speech, he called the U.S. position a \"badge of honor,\" and has pushed for a resumption of talks, beginning in New York and continuing in Ramallah and Jerusalem.",
"Peace negotiations broke down last year.",
"Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with Obama later Wednesday, part of a whirlwind of diplomatic wrangling that has accompanied his proposed move.",
"Obama reiterated his stance on the need for a two-state solution, officials said.",
"Abbas met earlier with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who promised the request would be taken \"very seriously,\" according to Nabeel Shaath, a senior negotiator for the Palestine Liberation Organization.",
"Shaath told CNN it had not been decided if the formal application would be submitted the U.N. secretary-general before or after Abbas addresses the General Assembly early Friday afternoon.",
"Ban said it will \"not take long\" to get Security Council consideration.",
"Shaath added that settling for a lesser status -- such as being recognized as a non-member state -- is one option under consideration if the push for full membership is blocked.",
"But the Palestinians do not want \"anybody to suspect a lack of seriousness,\" he said.",
"Palestinians' current status at the United Nations is as an observer \"entity.\"",
"Observers can speak in the General Assembly but not vote.",
"While a veto by the United States in the Security Council would block any effort to gain full U.N. membership, a \"yes\" vote in the General Assembly -- where only a majority would be needed -- would raise Palestinians to the status of permanent observer \"state,\" the status the Vatican currently holds.",
"Abbas' effort to gain U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state is opposed by Hamas, the Palestinian organization that controls Gaza.",
"It has warned Abbas against making the request, saying it would show a willingness to acknowledge and negotiate with Israel, which would \"deprive the Palestinian people from their right to come back to their homeland.\"",
"As national leaders took to rostrum Wednesday to spell out their visions for global peace and security, attention at the U.N. General Assembly seemed to center on the potential membership bid.",
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged the body to recognize Palestine as a non-member state, calling for a more definitive timetable for Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.",
"But he also warned that a U.S. veto of the bid for full membership in the Security Council could be dangerous and might spark violence.",
"Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner seemed to agree, adding that \"non-inclusion of Palestine (at the United Nations) this year will create greater insecurity.\"",
"The Palestinian leader said he will personally deliver the application to the U.N. Security Council, but does not expect the body to act immediately, according to Palestinian officials.",
"They say Abbas is expected to deliver the letter before he leaves New York on Friday, but added that he will give both the United Nations and American leadership several weeks to respond to the letter -- temporarily averting a diplomatic showdown.",
"Abbas will wait for a response from the diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East, the officials said, and then return to the U.N. General Assembly to negotiate statehood recognition, working through the U.N. Security Council.",
"Abbas' goal, according to the officials, is to legitimize Palestinian statehood by eventually forcing a vote.",
"Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, who kicked off the opening round of speeches at the assembly's 66th session, joined the chorus of voices on Wednesday calling on the council to approve the Palestinian bid.",
"Her speech marked the first time a woman has commenced the annual proceeding, reflecting a moment of equality at the start of what she described as \"the century of women.\"",
"Also Wednesday, Obama pressed Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan --- an increasingly vocal critic of Israel -- to continue work toward patching up their strained relationship, officials said.",
"The U.N. chief, meanwhile, also focused on a series of other issues highlighted during the annual session, particularly the spread of noncommunicable diseases, empowering women, food security and climate change.",
"\"Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth -- these are one and the same fight,\" said Ban.",
"\"Today, I call on you to reach a binding climate change agreement -- an agreement with more ambitious national and global emissions targets.\"",
"Thirty-one of the world body's 193 delegates are expected to address the assembly this week.",
"Brazil has traditionally opened the session since the days of former American president Harry Truman, when the U.N. was in its infancy.",
"It was founded in 1945 after World War II.",
"CNN's Elise Labott, Richard Roth, Alan Silverleib and Joe Sterling contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Obama completes meeting with Abbas .",
"The Palestinian leader says he does not expect the U.N. to act immediately .",
"Argentina's president: \"Non-inclusion of Palestine ... will create greater insecurity\"\nFrance's president says a veto could spark violence ."
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"(CNN) -- The worldwide burgeoning of obesity and diabetes, including in developing nations, is causing increasing alarm.",
"This week, the United Nations is bringing attention to these and other noncommunicable diseases at the General Assembly meeting in New York on the prevention of noncommunicable diseases.",
"But global funding shortfalls, the reality that obesity and diabetes affect the rich and middle class more than other socioeconomic groups and the absence of a proactive civil society will create few incentives for politicians in developing nations to take U.N. resolutions seriously.",
"According to the World Health Organization, worldwide obesity rates have more than doubled since 1980.",
"In 2008, 1.5 billion adults were overweight; of this, 200 million men and about 300 million women were obese.",
"Of the global population, 65% live in countries where being overweight kills more people than being underweight.",
"And in 2010, nearly 43 million kids under the age of 5 were overweight.",
"The numbers are just as staggering for diabetes.",
"The WHO claims that roughly 346 million people worldwide suffer from this disease.",
"In 2004, an estimated 34 million people died as a consequence of it.",
"This week, the U.N. General Assembly will establish new policy resolutions that nations should adopt, with a focus on three key areas: to acknowledge the rising incidence and consequences of these health threats, to strengthen national institutional capabilities as well as policies for prevention and to foster greater international cooperation.",
"Delegates will also discuss the creation of a U.N. monitoring framework that will track the growth of noncommunicable diseases.",
"Nations are also expected to agree formally that by 2012, they will submit their policy recommendations and commitments to the General Assembly.",
"What's the big deal about this meeting?",
"It's a big deal because this will be only the second time that the United Nations has convened to discuss health issues.",
"The first time was in 2001 when it addressed the HIV/AIDS crisis.",
"Including a focus on obesity and diabetes is also significant because it is the first time that these health issues have reached this level of U.N. attention.",
"Previously, obesity and diabetes were addressed only through WHO regional reports and conferences, most recently with the WHO's 2004 report \"Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity, and Health,\" which failed to garner the attention of the entire U.N. system.",
"The assembly meeting is also significant because, as the governing body of the World Bank and the WHO, the United Nations sends a clear message to these institutions that they need to increase their financial and technical support to combat these health threats.",
"But will developing nations take the new U.N. resolutions seriously?",
"Probably not, and for several reasons.",
"The first simply has to do with the availability of international funding for obesity and diabetes, especially when compared with HIV/AIDS.",
"The focus on HIV/AIDS has created an international bias in favor of committing more funding for HIV/AIDS rather than obesity and diabetes.",
"International financial support for obesity and diabetes has been minimal at best.",
"The U.N.'s International Diabetes Federation recently stated that most bilateral and multilateral funding does not provide funding for obesity, diabetes and other related noncommunicable diseases, while only 0.9% of the $22 billion spent on international health is provided for these diseases.",
"What's more, the assembly's draft resolution does not make the need to raise funding for obesity, diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases a priority.",
"Also, because the resolution says nothing about creating a new Global Fund for noncommunicable diseases, there is serious doubt that increased financial support will emerge.",
"Second, in many developing nations, obesity and diabetes is still seen as an epidemic that mainly affects the rich.",
"When most of the population is malnourished, politicians do not see a need to introduce new legislation for obesity and diabetes.",
"In some nations, such as China, obesity is seen as a sign of good fortune.",
"But ignoring the diseases will contribute to high health care costs, especially as nations strive for universal coverage and as the rich and middle classes grow.",
"Finally, developing nations are unlikely to respond to new resolutions because there is little civil societal pressures to do so.",
"In most nations, no proactive, well-organized civic movement has emerged in response to obesity and diabetes.",
"While some exceptions exist, such as India's All India Association for Advancing Research in Obesity and China's Chinese Diabetes Society, they lack adequate funding, domestic and international support.",
"The U.N. meeting this week will certainly raise a lot of eyebrows and draw attention.",
"But until the United Nations and other international bodies commit serious financial resources to help developing nations tackle obesity, diabetes and other noncommunicable diseases, until governments overcome their political perceptions and until civil society mobilizes and pressures governments for a response, high-end U.N. meetings will only succeed in doing what they do best: writing reports, venting complaints and pointing fingers.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Eduardo J. Gómez."
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"Eduardo Gómez: U.N meeting this week to address diseases, including obesity, diabetes .",
"After HIV/AIDS, it is only second time U.N. has addressed health issues, he says .",
"Gómez: Developing nations not likely to take these U.N. resolutions seriously .",
"He says developing nations need funding, motivation to tackle obesity, diabetes ."
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"Mexico City (CNN) -- On the eve of a meeting of Mexico´s top prosecutors and judicial officials in Veracruz state, authorities Wednesday were still trying to determine who left 35 bodies in a busy thoroughfare there -- and why.",
"Investigators said a video may hold clues to how unidentified men managed to drive two open-back trucks filled with corpses through rush-hour traffic and then abandon them, blocking traffic as stunned onlookers watched.",
"Police in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz found the abandoned trucks and the bodies near a shopping mall in the municipality of Boca del Rio on Tuesday.",
"Mexico´s state prosecutors and court presidents are scheduled to meet there Thursday.",
"Photos of the scene showed the two trucks with their back gates open, the bodies falling out onto the street.",
"People on a nearby overpass looked down on shirtless bodies piled on top of each other.",
"¨This is a way of making yourself known, and saying, ´We have the power, we can do this with impunity,´¨ said Jose Reveles, a security analyst.",
"\"'We do it at five in the evening, in a heavily traveled avenue.",
"We drive two trucks loaded with cadavers, and nobody stops us.'\"",
"Drug-related violence has been on the rise in Veracruz as cartel members battle over territory.",
"But the large toll gripped headlines across Mexico and drew attention from peace activists gathering in a conference in the nation´s capital Wednesday.",
"\"They were left like trash in the street,\" said Edgardo Buscaglia, president of the Institute of Citizen Action for Justice and Democracy.",
"Buscaglia, an expert on organized crime, told audience members that the bodies found in Veracruz are a reminder that Mexicans must not become desensitized to violence, even if authorities say the victims had criminal histories.",
"\"The value of a human life does not decrease because it has a criminal background or not,\" he said.",
"The dead included 12 women and 23 men.",
"The video may show that the two trucks were guarded by other cars that could have doubled as getaway vehicles, Veracruz Attorney General Reynaldo Escobar Perez said Wednesday in a radio interview.",
"He did not say where the video came from.",
"Investigators also are looking into whether police colluded with the people who discarded the bodies, he told W Radio.",
"As of Wednesday, morning, 95% of the bodies had been identified through databases, Escobar Perez said.",
"Most of them had criminal records, he said.",
"One of them was identified as a local policeman who disappeared about 15 days ago, he said.",
"In another interview, the attorney general said that the victims died of suffocation.",
"Only one had a bullet wound, he said.",
"The state of the bodies led investigators to deduce they died shortly before being abandoned, Escobar Perez said.",
"The attorney general on Tuesday described the grisly discovery as \"unprecedented.\"",
"\"It hasn't happened before in the state of Veracruz,\" he said.",
"The two trucks were abandoned in the middle of the highway, witnesses said.",
"Their gates were open and bodies had fallen out.",
"Hours later, bloodstains remained on the road as troops stood guard.",
"Boca del Rio is in Veracruz state's most populated area.",
"It has become a frequent site of clashes between armed groups as drug-related violence grows.",
"Earlier Tuesday, 32 inmates escaped from three prisons in Veracruz, authorities said.",
"At least 14 of them have been apprehended.",
"Escobar Perez said none of the bodies that had been identified by Tuesday night appeared connected with the prison breaks.",
"Government figures indicate that more than 34,600 people have been killed in drug-related violence since Mexican President Felipe Calderon began a crackdown on cartels in December 2006.",
"Other reports estimate that more than 40,000 have died.",
"The latest government figures were released in January.",
"Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly Wednesday, Calderon decried the violence caused by drug trafficking and called on fellow leaders to put a stop to the burgeoning weapons trade and rampant drug consumption fueling it.",
"¨Today we must be aware that organized crime today is killing more people and more youth than all the dictatorial regimes combined at this time,¨ he said.",
"CNN´s Rey Rodriguez, Mario Gonzalez and Catherine E. Shoichet and CNNMexico.com contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Mexico´s state prosecutors are scheduled to meet nearby .",
"The attorney general says investigators have a video of the scene .",
"The bodies were found near a shopping mall in Veracruz state ."
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"St. Petersburg, Florida (CNN) -- I first met Dan Wheldon in 2003, when he stepped into the cockpit of the Klein Tools/Jim Beam Indy car at Andretti Green Racing, just before the third race of the season at the Twin Ring Motegi racing track in eastern Japan.",
"He was a cocky, fastidious 23-year-old in those days, with a quick step and a winning way that made him seem like a modern-day Dickens character brought to life.",
"\"Young Wheldon,\" I called him back then.",
"He loved that. We began our Honda Racing careers together.",
"I was hired by the company around the same time Dan was hired as test driver for development of the Honda engine that would make its IndyCar debut during that season.",
"In short order, he became one of Honda's favorite sons.",
"In 2004, he became the first Honda-powered driver ever to win an IndyCar event at the magnificent Motegi complex.",
"The Honda-owned course had not seen one of its own cars take the checkered flag at its signature event in six futile attempts.",
"He won Motegi again in 2005 and then went on to win that year's Indianapolis 500 and the IndyCar Series championship, a feat that has not since been matched.",
"There were numerous highlights after that: 16 IndyCar victories in all, culminating in this year's completely implausible win in the Centennial Indianapolis 500.",
"Services held for Wheldon in Florida .",
"That's what the record book says.",
"It documents Dan's legacy in numbers.",
"But it doesn't come close to capturing his legacy in the hearts of those who knew him.",
"The Dan I knew was more than a racer.",
"He was a friend. A husband. A father. A hero. He loved shoes.",
"He loved watches.",
"He loved the food my trackside chef, Tim Olszewski, prepared at virtually every IndyCar Series event.",
"(That hardly made him unique -- Tim is a really good chef.)",
"What set Dan apart was his genuine interest in all the members of the hospitality staff.",
"He treated them all as his equals, and as a consequence, they were all left equally shattered after the tragedy.",
"Around the track, just about everyone had their own \"Dan Wheldon moment.\"",
"He had an uncanny talent to connect quickly and personally with everyone he met -- whether high-dollar sponsor or Turn 3 bleacher-ite -- and to give each of them something far more valuable than an autograph or a photo.",
"He left them with his kindness, his spirit.",
"He never turned down a single request, whether it was for an appearance at a dealer meeting, a ride-and-drive with the media or a quick \"Hello\" to a group of trackside guests.",
"In each case, he brought a smile that was manufactured only in the most literal sense -- his realigned teeth after his '05 championship were an ongoing source of paddock amusement -- but genuine in every other imaginable way.",
"In a world where part of the competitive ethos is to convey at all costs an impression of invulnerability, Dan was the exception.",
"As a colleague said to me the other day, \"He let you in.\"",
"My Dan Wheldon moment occurred after the Centennial Indianapolis 500 this past May.",
"After winning the prestigious race for the second time, Dan had just concluded an exuberant celebratory victory lap at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.",
"He returned to Victory Circle to begin the Hat Dance -- that incessant procession of ballcaps and photo ops, which, for understandable reasons, lasts about five times as long at Indianapolis as at any other track on the IndyCar Series circuit.",
"Dan had just stepped into the cockpit, and had the first hat in hand, when he looked to his left and saw me standing along the railing that divided the race car from the rabble.",
"He placed the hat on the car's nose, got out, walked around to my side of the car and grabbed me.",
"I barely remember what he said to me, but I do remember hearing a loud cheer from the grandstand above us in Victory Circle.",
"And I remember thinking, \"That's pretty cool.",
"Some people I know are happy that I'm getting this moment.\"",
"It wasn't until we separated, and Dan resumed the headwear ritual, that I looked above me to see that I did not recognize a single face among those who had been doing the cheering.",
"Whether or not it is true, I'm going to continue in the belief that those spectators were paying tribute to the emotion of a moment between the Indianapolis 500 winner and some guy none of them had ever met.",
"And that blew me away. Just before he returned to his car, Daniel and I spent time crying in each other's arms.",
"We were crying tears of joy, feeling all the pain and all the hard work it took to get to that moment, and celebrating all the promise the future would hold for him.",
"After last Sunday afternoon, I am not ashamed to admit, I have cried in many other arms, as well."
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"Thomas \"T.E.\"",
"McHale: Dan Wheldon was more than a superb driver -- he was a hero .",
"McHale says Wheldon treated all hospitality staff members as his equals; his death was tragic .",
"He wore a genuine smile and shared his spirit with all who wanted a part of it, McHale says .",
"McHale calls Wheldon's spirit \"something far more valuable than an autograph or a photo\""
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"Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Thai authorities seized a cargo aircraft carrying tons of weapons from North Korea during a refueling stop in Bangkok, a government official said.",
"The pilot told Thai authorities the aircraft was headed to Sri Lanka, but its final destination was unknown, according to Panitan Wattanayagorn, a spokesman for the Thai prime minister.",
"It contained about 35 tons of weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades, shoulder-launched rockets and tubes that may be missile components, the spokesman said.",
"The plane, which was detained Saturday, had five people onboard -- four from Kazakhstan and one from Belarus.",
"They will appear in court Monday on charges related to illegal weapons smuggling, the spokesman said.",
"Thai government officials acted after working with several intelligence agencies for several weeks, the spokesman said.",
"The cargo was taken to a military base while the plane, which is registered in Georgia, remains at Don Muang.",
"Sri Lanka officials said there were no shipments scheduled in the country either by air or sea from North Korea.",
"\"We have asked the Sri Lanka embassy in Bangkok to obtain details from the Thai authorities,\" the ministry said.",
"\"We will have more information on the progress of their investigation later on Sunday.\"",
"Such an aircraft could not have landed in any of Sri Lanka's airports without prior authorization, officials in Colombo said.",
"Last year, two arm dealers were arrested in Thailand.",
"The men's arrest came after a series of events that involved law enforcement agencies from at least five countries, including two undercover agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.",
"Viktor Bout and his associate, Andrew Smulian, made millions of dollars delivering weapons and ammunition to warlords and militants, officials said.",
"Bout is accused of supplying weapons to war zones around the world -- from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan.",
"He has repeatedly said he has not broken any laws and the allegations against him are lies .",
"A Thai court rejected a U.S. extradition request for Bout in August.",
"CNN's Dan Rivers and journalist Iqbal Athas contributed to this report."
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"Plane contained about 35 tons of weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades and shoulder-launched rockets .",
"The plane, which was detained Saturday, had five people onboard -- four from Kazakhstan and one from Belarus .",
"Thai government officials acted after working with several intelligence agencies for several weeks ."
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"(CNN) -- Endurance swimmer Diana Nyad was stung by a sea creature for a second time Saturday night and was being treated by doctors, her team said in a blog post, leaving the continuation of her swim in question.",
"The 62-year-old, in transit from Havana to Florida, was stung by some kind of presumed jellyfish, the blog said.",
"\"Her face and eyes and the area around her eyes are affected.",
"She is out of the water and aboard the transom of the Voyager where she is being treated by doctors.",
"It will be up to Diana to decide whether or not to continue to the swim.\"",
"The incident was another setback for the athlete, who was stung by Portuguese man o' war earlier in the day.",
"At 6:30 p.m., Nyad was 49 miles from Havana.",
"Having passed the 24-hour mark, she was entering a critical time in her quest to cover the 103 miles.",
"\"Tonight, her second night in the open water, may be the most critical,\" the team wrote.",
"\"Steve Munatones, the independent observer for the International Swim Federation who is accompanying the expedition, says that swimmers have a much better chance of success if they can make it through the second night.\"",
"There was a bit of excitement early Saturday afternoon.",
"An oceanic whitetip shark swam near Nyad, but a diver on her team faced it off and it meandered away.",
"The swimmer improved her performance late Saturday morning after struggling to maintain her usual stroke rate, her support team said.",
"Fortified by chicken soup, Nyad was making good progress until the Saturday evening incident.",
"\"This afternoon -- it is stunning to actually witness -- Diana is swimming stronger and stronger,\" one post said.",
"\"Her strokes are up to 50 per minute, she is eating pasta, gobbling bananas, bits of peanut butter sandwiches, along with high-carb & high calorie liquid concoctions.\"",
"The going was rough before dawn Saturday, when Nyad had stopped her freestyle stroke and complained that she couldn't breathe properly after getting stung.",
"Doctors from the University of Miami gave the swimmer a shot to reduce inflammation, oxygen and other medication, the blog said, and after treading water for an hour Nyad said she felt better.",
"Candace Hogan, a friend who has been on most of Nyad's swims since 1978, said she could recover and complete the 100-plus mile marathon, the blog said.",
"The team initially said Nyad had likely been stung by a moon jellyfish but revised that to say it was the more troublesome Portuguese man o' war.",
"A National Institutes of Health report says an encounter with a Portuguese man o' war can lead to \"significant systemic reactions\" but rarely death.",
"While mild stings generally produce localized pain, severe ones can provoke symptoms ranging from headaches to seizures, delirium, coma and paralysis, as well as breathing problems, cramping and vomiting, the NIH says.",
"Chief handler Bonnie Stoll said on Twitter that Nyad had been \"stung along both arms the side of her body and her face.\"",
"Nyad had to clear herself of tentacles, change her swimsuit and put on a shirt for protection after the incident.",
"Another member of Nyad's support team said the way she handled the setback was a \"testament to her strength.\"",
"\"It was scary,\" Stoll said.",
"\"But Diana is happy that this happened early while she is still at her strongest.\"",
"A safety diver who entered the water to help Nyad was also stung numerous times, her blog said.",
"He received treatment back on one of the flotilla of boats accompanying her.",
"Nyad began her swim just after 6 p.m. Friday from Havana's Hemingway Marina.",
"The former world champion swimmer expects the swim to take close to 60 hours, which would put her into Florida sometime Monday.",
"Nyad last attempted this swim in early August and had to be pulled from the water after some 60 miles, and almost 29 hours of swimming.",
"She blamed a shoulder injury she suffered early in the journey, and an 11-hour-long asthma attack.",
"Her first Cuba-Florida attempt, back in 1978, was brought to an end by strong currents and bad weather after almost 42 hours in the water, according to her website.",
"CNN's Matt Sloane and Shasta Darlington contributed to this report."
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"NEW: She is deciding whether she can continue the swim .",
"A shark approached the swim area, but swam away .",
"This is her third attempt to swim the 100-plus miles from Cuba to Florida .",
"Her first attempt, in 1978, was cut short by bad weather and strong currents ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Reactions ranged from gloom-and-doom predictions to celebrations to ho-hum business-as-usual as the U.S. military changed its rules Tuesday to allow gay men and lesbians to serve openly.",
"A minute into the new day, at 12:01 a.m., the old \"don't ask, don't tell\" rule that has been in force since the Clinton administration was gone.",
"In its place was a policy designed to be blind to sexual orientation and one that the Pentagon brass insists will maintain the military in fighting trim, with no negative impact on \"military readiness, military effectiveness, unit cohesion and recruiting and retention.\"",
"Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen told a news conference that the repeal enhanced the integrity of the nation's fighting forces.",
"\"They'll all get up, they'll all go to work, and they'll all be able to do that work honestly, and their fellow citizens will be safe, and that's all that really matters,\" Mullen said.",
"Some members of the U.S. military -- many who carefully hid both their identities and sexual orientation for years -- wasted no time in going public.",
"That included the man who until now had been known as J.D.",
"Smith. Smith had been at the forefront of pushing for the repeal, as co-founder and co-director of a group called OutServe, which bills itself as the Association of Actively Serving LGBT Military Personnel.",
"As an active-duty service member, he would only speak to the media under a pseudonym.",
"Under the new rules, his real identity can be revealed, and he announced at a news conference Tuesday that he is 1st Lt. Josh Seefried, an airman serving on a base in New Jersey.",
"Until now, Seefried said, he had worried every day that he could lose his military career if it became known he was gay.",
"\"Today and every day I can go back into work with that burden lifted off my shoulders and not have to worry about it any more,\" he said.",
"Concerns of a possible hostile reaction from heterosexual colleagues were unfounded, Seefried said, adding that \"no one's going hurt us when we go back to our units.\"",
"Others joined him.",
"OutServe published a new edition Tuesday called the \"Repeal Issue.\"",
"It was available on some military bases around the world and included photos of 101 active service members openly stating they are gay.",
"The OutServe magazine is also distributed online.",
"\"Now we are stepping forward, to a new day, a new life,\" wrote Air Force Staff Sgt.",
"Jonathan Mills.",
"\"A life of openness, integrity, of honor.",
"At last, our country has accepted us -- not for who we love or how we love but who we are.\"",
"The magazine said its photo essay on 101 people serving in the military represented just a portion of the approximately 70,000 \"currently serving\" lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender military personnel.",
"\"Today, for the first time in our history, we will welcome the service of any qualified individual who's willing to put on the uniform of our country,\" said Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, a Republican credited with corralling support for the repeal.",
"Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, called it \"a day to celebrate that it does get better, and we are moving toward a more perfect union.\"",
"Seefried wrote a book on his experiences titled \"Our Time: Breaking the Silence of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.\"",
"It had been advertised under his cover identify, but now Amazon is ready to substitute his real name on the book, he said.",
"\"The book is really important to me because this ties into people finding out that there are other gay military members out there serving,\" Seefried earlier told CNN.",
"\"I remember a book I read when I was in college done by a gay military officer and it gave me courage and I hope this book does the same.\"",
"He admitted a lot of people will be surprised, including friends and co-workers of his, as well as many thousands of other military personnel who may learn something new about their battle buddies or colleagues.",
"\"People will be shocked, but at least they are going to be talking about it,\" Seefried said.",
"\"And talking can bring down barriers.\"",
"One of the most vocal and active proponents of the change, Alex Nicholson of Servicemembers United, was discharged from the Army in 2002 under the old policy.",
"\"I think it is a combination of thoughts and feelings,\" Nicholson said in a telephone interview.",
"\"It's going to be vindication for people discharged.",
"Also there is a sense of relief.\"",
"He looks back at the speeches he gave around the country, sometimes in the face of such opposition that he required police protection, and to the political bargaining sessions.",
"\"I feel very fortunate to have been one of those in the rooms on Capitol Hill and in the White House and with senior administration staff,\" Nicholson said.",
"Congress finally voted in the repeal of the law last December and President Barack Obama signed the legislation just before Christmas.",
"Panetta said Tuesday that more than 97% of the nation's 2.3 million uniformed service personnel had been trained for the end of \"don't ask, don't tell.\"",
"One of the most prominent congressional supporters of the change, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, said that from now on, thousands of Americans will be able to serve their country without concealing part of their identity.",
"\"They will no longer have to lie in order to help protect us,\" Levin said in a statement released by his staff.",
"\"The end of 'don't ask, don't tell' is an important victory not just for equality, but integrity.\"",
"But a longtime opponent of the change, Elaine Donnelly of the Center for Military Readiness, said she was concerned that allowing gays and lesbians to serve would drive many loyal troops out of the military.",
"\"Due to the president's political promises, the military faces heavy burdens of confusion and tension that could have been avoided,\" Donnelly said.",
"\"This is nothing for the administration to be proud of.\"",
"She said it may be years before the damage to the military is apparent, as some people delay their departure because of a weak economy.",
"It would not be wise to consider recruiting, retention and morale to be assured indefinitely, Donnelly said.",
"Servicemembers United said today that 14,346 people were discharged under the \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy.",
"Some of the people who were forced out under the old policy are now reapplying, as the new rules reopen a door that had been shut.",
"Michael Almy was an Air Force officer for 13 years and helped control the air space over Iraq during some of the fiercest fighting of the war.",
"He left in 2006. \"My hope is to get back in.",
"I've talked to recruiters.",
"I'm starting to look at that process,\" Almy said.",
"He says that nothing is going to repair the damage to his career, after a five-year gap.",
"\"I'm hoping that I can at least get back in there where I left off and resume my career -- hopefully, just be a role model,\" Almy said.",
"\"Because that's what we need right now; we need gay and lesbian role models, officers and enlisted alike, who can serve honestly and openly next to their straight counterparts and show no detriment to the mission whatsoever.\"",
"Servicemembers United's Nicholson predicts smooth sailing for all sides in the coming weeks and months.",
"\"I think the real story is going to be the non-story,\" Nicholson said.",
"\"What this is going to do is normalize everything that is already there.\"",
"CNN's Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"Gay activist First Lt. Josh Seefried reveals his orientation, now that he can .",
"\"Don't ask, don't tell\" policy ends Tuesday .",
"Opponent of the change predicts loyal troops will leave in the future ."
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"(CNN) -- Colombia's main leftist rebel group shot and killed four hostages held for more than a decade, President Juan Manuel Santos said Saturday, vowing to fight the rebels with everything in reach.",
"A fifth hostage, a policeman, was found alive, Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon told reporters.",
"\"This is yet another example of how brutal and cruel the FARC is. ...",
"When faced with security forces, they (the rebels) had no qualms about killing them in cold blood,\" Santos said.",
"The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known as FARC, has been at war with the Colombian government since the 1960s.",
"While severely weakened in recent years, the guerrilla group has continued to carry out kidnappings and attack security forces.",
"Chains were found near the bodies of the four hostages, who were kidnapped \"more than 12 or 13 years\" ago, Santos said.",
"The president called the killings a \"crime against humanity\" and swore their only effect would be to make police and soldiers more determined to fight \"with everything in reach.\"",
"The bodies of the four men, all of whom were security force members, were found in the morning, according to Pinzon.",
"They were executed in the southern region of Caqueta, where the military was conducting operations against the rebel group, he said.",
"Three of the hostages were shot in the head, while the fourth was shot in the back, the defense minister said.",
"The fifth hostage, identified as Luis Alberto Erazo, had been held for roughly 12 years, Pinzon said.",
"He reportedly ran from the rebel camp at the start of a firefight between rebels and Colombian troops.",
"His condition is \"acceptable,\" Pinzon said.",
"Earlier this month, a military operation killed then-FARC leader Alfonso Cano.",
"Following his death, the FARC released a statement in which its leaders said they would not end their guerrilla struggle."
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"NEW: A fifth hostage is found alive, Colombia's defense minister says .",
"NEW: President Juan Manuel Santos calls the killings a \"crime against humanity\"\nThe victims were reportedly shot in the head and the back .",
"A military operation earlier this month killed former FARC head Alfonso Cano ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's fear that promoters would \"pull the plug\" on his comeback concerts if he missed more rehearsals was unfounded, the head of the promotion company testified Tuesday in Dr. Conrad Murray's involuntary manslaughter trial.",
"\"No one on our end was ever contemplating pulling the plug,\" said Randy Phillips, the head of AEG Live.",
"Murray's defense lawyers contend Jackson self-administered the overdose of drugs that killed him in a \"desperate desire to get to sleep,\" because he feared without rest he would miss his next rehearsal and trigger the cancellation of his \"This Is It\" tour.",
"Jackson's mother, Katherine, sisters Janet and La Toya, and brother Randy Jackson were in court to watch Tuesday's testimony.",
"Earlier Tuesday, a nurse who tried to treat Jackson's insomnia with natural remedies testified that Jackson told her that doctors assured him using the surgical anesthetic propofol at home to induce sleep was safe as long as he was monitored.",
"Jackson died two months after that conversation with nurse Cherilyn Lee, from what the coroner ruled was an overdose of the surgical anesthetic propofol, combined with sedatives.",
"Prosecutors contend Dr. Murray's use of propofol to treat Jackson's insomnia in his home was reckless, in part because he did not have proper equipment to monitor his patient and he abandoned him to make phone calls.",
"Phillips was the eighth witness called by the defense since the prosecution rested its case against Murray Monday morning.",
"If the tour was canceled, Jackson would have to pay for all of the production and rehearsal costs, Phillips said, although the judge would not let him tell jurors how much that might have been.",
"Defense lawyer Ed Chernoff estimated the cost to be about $40 million, leaving him \"a very, very poor man,\" but it was not while the jury was present.",
"Concert director Kenny Ortega sent Phillips an e-mail five days before Jackson's death referring to Jackson's fear the company would \"pull the plug\" on the tour.",
"The e-mail triggered a meeting with Jackson and Dr. Murray to address Ortega's concerns about Jackson's \"lack of focus\" and missed rehearsals, with the debut of his London shows just three weeks away.",
"He and Ortega were satisfied when Jackson told them \"You build the house and I will put on the door and paint it,\" suggesting he would be ready, Phillips testified.",
"Also at the meeting, Phillips told Dr. Murray that he wanted to make sure he knew about Jackson's visits to another doctor, dermatologist Dr. Arnold Klein.",
"\"Because he's his principal physician, I thought he should know,\" he said.",
"Phillips said he was concerned because Jackson \"seemed a little distracted and not focused\" in a meeting after a visit to Klein's Beverly Hills clinic.",
"The defense contends Jackson became addicted to the painkiller Demerol in his frequent visits to Klein in the three months before his death.",
"His withdrawal from the Demerol, which Murray was unaware of, would explain why Jackson could not sleep the day he died, the defense contends.",
"Testimony from nurse Cherilyn Lee's was interrupted for 25 minutes Tuesday as she was overcome with emotion.",
"\"I'm feeling really, really dizzy,\" Lee said.",
"\"This is just very sensitive to me.\" Lee and a Los Angeles doctor, both called as defense witnesses, testified that Jackson asked them for drugs to help him sleep in April 2009.",
"This was after Dr. Murray had already agreed to work as his personal physician and placed his first orders for propofol.",
"Lee, who used IV drips loaded with vitamins, \"sophisticated\" vitamin smoothies and bedtime teas, to treat Jackson's insomnia, said Jackson became frustrated with her natural remedies.",
"\"He said 'I'm telling you the only thing that's going to help me sleep right away is the Diprivan and can you find someone to help me to sleep?'\"",
"Lee said. Diprivan is a brand name for propofol.",
"After some quick research, the nurse warned Jackson that it was dangerous to use propofol at home, Lee testified.",
"Jackson was not deterred, she said, even after she asked him \"but what if you don't wake up?\"",
"Deputy District Attorney David Walgren asked her, \"And he responded, 'I will be OK, I only need someone to monitor me with the equipment while I sleep'?\"",
"\"Yes, that's exactly what I said,\" Lee said.",
"Dr. Allan Metzger, who treated Jackson off and on for two decades for \"his profound sleep disorder,\" testified Monday that Jackson called him to his home on April 18, 2009, to ask for \"intravenous sleep medicine\" to help him sleep.",
"Jackson wanted the anesthetic delivered by IV because \"he did not believe any oral medicine would be helpful,\" Dr. Metzger said.",
"Metzger declined Jackson's request, instead giving him prescriptions for two oral sedatives to help him sleep."
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"NEW: Jackson would've had to pay production, rehearsal costs if tour was canceled, promoter says .",
"Jackson told nurse that doctors assured him propofol in the home was safe, witness says .",
"\"I only need someone to monitor me with the equipment while I sleep\" Jackson told nurse .",
"Jackson mom Katherine, sisters Janet and La Toya, and brother Randy Jackson attend court Tuesday ."
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"(LonelyPlanet.com) -- Vampires and their stories seem to be enjoying an eternal renaissance in contemporary fiction and film.",
"Anne Rice's \"Interview with the Vampire\" kicked off the modern raft of tales, and the popularity of more recent book and movie offerings like \"Twilight\" and \"True Blood\" shows that folks are, well, batty for vampire tales.",
"So where can you go to learn more about these creatures of the night?",
"Discover the top destinations with this excerpt from Lonely Planet's Best in Travel.",
"Bran Castle, Romania .",
"There's nothing better than going to the source, and in the case of vampire lore that's Vlad Ţepeş, legendary ruler of Wallachia, now part of Romania.",
"Ţepeş became the scourge of the Ottoman empire and was fond of impaling entire Turkish forces sent against him.",
"His bloodthirsty reputation inspired Irish author Bram Stoker to use him as the model for \"Dracula,\" and thus a legend was born.",
"Bran Castle, one of his strongholds, now houses a museum dedicated to Queen Marie of Romania.",
"It has an impressive clifftop profile, looking like the quintessential location for a vampire movie.",
"Vampire Bats, Costa Rica .",
"The vampire bat has become inseparable from the legend of the vampire.",
"Apparently inspired by a newspaper article about these inhabitants of South and Central America, Bram Stoker wove their blood-sucking habits into his novel and the rest is history (or at least, folklore).",
"These small bats do feed on animals' blood but rarely suck on humans, though there have been reported attacks in recent years in Brazil and Venezuela.",
"One of the best places to see them in the wild is Costa Rica, especially within Santa Rosa National Park and Corcovado National Park.",
"Lonely Planet: How to travel like a kid .",
"Musée Des Vampires, France .",
"Hidden away in the Les Lilas district of Paris is an enigmatic museum devoted to the vampire.",
"Visits can only be made by appointment, but once through the forbidding red door, the visitor is treated to an eclectic collection of books, photographs, weapons, masks, models, costumes and other curios referencing the vampire legend.",
"There's also a creepy Gothic garden out the back.",
"The Musée des Vampires.",
"Forks, Washington .",
"When author Stephanie Meyer set her vampire novel \"Twilight\" in the small town of Forks, Washington, she had little idea of the wave of vampire tourism she was setting in motion.",
"When \"Twilight\" went ballistic on the bookshelves, ardent fans headed for Forks, neatly arresting the slow economic decline caused by its traditional mainstay, the timber industry, losing momentum.",
"Now vampire fans can buy undead memorabilia, go on tours to locations that resemble Edward and Bella's literary hangouts, and celebrate Bella's birthday on 13 September.",
"Dazzled by Twilight offers three Twilight-themed tours of Forks and La Push.",
"Vampire Tour of San Francisco .",
"Anyone who's read Bram Stoker's Dracula will remember Mina Harker, whom Dracula attacked with the intent of transforming her into a vampire.",
"Given that this curse was apparently lifted once he was destroyed, you might be surprised to find Mina Harker wafting about in 21st-century San Francisco, and sporting an American accent.",
"But every weekend you can join Mina for a vampire tour of the city's historic Nob Hill.",
"It covers documented San Francisco history as well as speculative supernatural events, and attendees are encouraged to dress spookily.",
"The Vampire Tour of San Francisco commences at 8 p.m. each Friday and Saturday.",
"Dracula Tour of London, UK .",
"Given the British capital's starring role in the original Dracula novel, it makes sense that there should be a vampire tour of its darker nooks and crannies.",
"This supernatural outing takes in a house in Highgate where the vampiric one apparently lived during his London sojourn.",
"It also takes in the ghosts of Highgate Cemetery, the satanists of Highgate Woods, and other dark denizens.",
"Curiously, the whole thing is then followed with a medieval banquet.",
"Blood, presumably, is not on the menu.",
"The Dracula Tour of London, run by Transylvania Live, takes place nightly except Mondays.",
"Pontianak, Indonesia .",
"Vampiric creatures aren't just a Western obsession.",
"Malaysia and Indonesia share the legend of the pontianak, supposedly the undead manifestation of a woman who has died during childbirth.",
"This supernatural being is said to take the form of a beautiful woman, attracting men to their deaths by disemboweling them with her razor-sharp fingernails.",
"You wouldn't really want to encounter one of these hellhounds, but if feeling brave you might visit the city of Pontianak, said to be named after the undead creature which once terrorized its men.",
"Pontianak is the capital of the Indonesia province of West Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo.",
"Lonely Planet: Hotels where famous people have died .",
"Dracula's Haunts, Whitby, UK .",
"Before \"Dracula\" reached London in the pages of Bram Stoker's novel, he came ashore at Whitby.",
"The North Yorkshire seaport is famous for being the home base of 18th-century explorer Captain James Cook.",
"However, no amount of historic circumstance can top Stoker's evocative description of the Russian schooner Demeter blown across Whitby's harbour with its dead captain lashed to the helm, crashing beneath the East Cliff before disgorging the vampire in the guise of a huge dog.",
"As a result, Whitby has become a popular destination for vampire-fanciers.",
"The Whitby Gothic Weekend is held twice-yearly, in April and October, and features concerts, markets and comedy nights.",
"\"Buffy\" locations, USA .",
"\"Buffy the Vampire Slayer\" gained vampires a big new TV audience in the 1990s.",
"If you loved seeing Sarah Michelle Gellar stake scowly-faced evil vampires while finding time to fall in love with a reformed one then you might like to visit the locations in and around Los Angeles where the series was filmed.",
"The series' exterior scenes at Sunnydale High School were in fact filmed at Torrance High School.",
"Shots of the fictional University of California at Sunnydale were taken at the UCLA campus in Westwood, and at California State University in Northridge.",
"And the vampire mansion once lived in by Angel, Spike and Drusilla is the Frank Lloyd Wright--designed Ennis House near Griffith Park.",
"You can find a comprehensive list of Buffy locations within the IMDb entry for \"Buffy the Vampire Slayer.\"",
"\"True Blood\" locations, USA .",
"Bon Temps, Louisiana, is the fictional town in \"True Blood,\" the rightful heir to the vampire-mania stoked by Buffy.",
"As with Buffy, the main character of the show is female, Sookie Stackhouse, who, like Buffy, falls in love with vampires.",
"Unlike Buffy, vampires no longer hide from mainstream society -- they have 'come out of the coffin' to drink a synthetic human blood (True Blood).",
"But vampires aren't the only supernatural citizens of Bon Temps.",
"Werewolves, werepanthers, faeries, shapeshifters and maenads also roam its streets.",
"While all the human characters in the series pass through Merlotte's Bar & Grill, the vampires of the show frequent Fangtasia, a bar owned by the thousand-year-old vampire Eric Northman in Shreveport, Louisiana.",
"The actual bar used for some of the filming is located in Long Beach, California, so if you want to be a fang banger then head to Alex's Bar.",
"Other True Blood film locations are scattered over Southern USA and California.",
"Seeing Stars has a site dedicated to finding these sights.",
"Originally published as \"Fangtastic!",
"The World's Best Vampire-Spotting Locations.\"",
"© 2011 Lonely Planet.",
"All rights reserved.",
"Lonely Planet: A day trip to Chernobyl ."
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"Vampire literature has inspired people to travel all over the world .",
"Bran Castle in Romania is where Bram Stoker set \"Dracula\"\nForks, Washington, now features tours for \"Twilight\" enthusiasts ."
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