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"(CNN) -- Could a Mexican drug cartel be the next target for a group of hackers known for online attacks against banks and government institutions?",
"A video purportedly from the international hacker ring Anonymous threatens the Zetas, warning that the names, photographs and addresses of cartel supporters can be published \"if necessary.\"",
"\"We cannot defend ourselves with a weapon,\" a masked man says.",
"\"But we can do this with their cars, homes, bars and whatever else they possess.",
"It will not be difficult. All of us know who they are and where they are located.\"",
"The man, wearing a suit and tie, claims the notoriously violent drug gang has kidnapped an Anonymous associate in the Mexican state of Veracruz.",
"\"We demand his release,\" says the man, who uses Mexican slang but speaks Spanish with a Castilian accent.",
"It's unclear whether Anonymous is behind the October 6 video, which does not mention a victim's name or provide details about the alleged abduction.",
"The hacking group has no clear leader, and no official website.",
"\"One thing that's important to remember is that Anonymous is not an organization.",
"It does not have a hierarchy. Basically it's a collective of people who self-identify,\" said Scott Stewart, vice president of tactical intelligence for the STRATFOR global intelligence firm.",
"\"Not everybody agrees and not everybody participates.\"",
"Stewart said the video \"absolutely\" appears authentic.",
"\"It's part of the dynamic we've been watching with Anonymous activities in Mexico,\" he said, noting that the video was similar to others the group has released and expresses similar sentiments.",
"\"It seems like they're speaking up as the voice of those people who are in fear.\"",
"In recent months, Anonymous has claimed responsibility for \"paperstorm\" campaigns, dropping fliers accusing officials in the Mexican state of Veracruz of corruption and connections with cartels.",
"The video purportedly posted by Anonymous this month says the alleged abduction occurred during a \"paperstorm\" campaign.",
"An Anonymous source told CNN that there were discussions about three weeks ago in Anonymous' main online chat portal that suggested that members based in Mexico were going to target the Zetas.",
"The source said that Anonymous Mexican members claimed in online discussions to have information about politicians in Mexico who were corrupt and working with the Zetas.",
"Anonymous members in Mexico appeared, based on their portal chats, to want to make this information available online, the source said.",
"On Monday, a Facebook page purportedly connected with a Latin America branch of Anonymous said the attack targeting the Zetas had been put on hold because of security and political concerns.",
"\"We are searching for alternative actions,\" said the post on The Anonymous Link's page.",
"CNN was unable to independently verity the website's claim.",
"It's too soon to tell whether Anonymous, which normally uses Internet attacks to disrupt website traffic, can combat the ruthless violence of drug cartels, Stewart said.",
"\"This is like one of those 1950s horror movies, the Werewolf versus Frankenstein.",
"They're incompatible creatures that do warfare in different ways,\" Stewart said.",
"Even if members of Anonymous use virtual weapons, he said, they could sustain real-life wounds.",
"\"If they get identified as part of this, they could be beheaded,\" he said.",
"As social media become an increasingly common battleground in Mexico's drug war, the viral video fueled debate online.",
"Twitter was abuzz with word of the possible threat Monday, with some posts under the hashtag #OpCartel saying Anonymous had called off its plans to target the Zetas, and others questioning the legitimacy of the video.",
"\"Was the #OpCartel Anonymous Hackers vs. Zetas story a highly publicized hoax?\"",
"SYoungReports wrote.",
"Other Twitter users criticized the group.",
"\"Bits and bytes won't work against bullets,\" said a post on the Twitter account of Angeliner4life.",
"\"Don't be dumb, you are messing with real killers.\"",
"The most common mode of operation for Anonymous is launching distributed denial-of-service attacks, in which multiple people use scripts to access a website repeatedly, slowing it badly or shutting it down, if its servers can't handle the traffic.",
"In the past few years, Anonymous has taken credit for disrupting a number of prominent websites, including those of PayPal, Master Card, Visa and the Church of Scientology.",
"Last month the group claimed it was targeting the Mexican government, launching attacks on a range of official websites, including those of Mexico's defense and public safety ministries.",
"Online posts have become some of the loudest voices reporting violence in Mexico.",
"In some parts of the country, threats from cartels have silenced traditional media.",
"Sometimes even local authorities fear speaking out.",
"Last month attackers left ominous threats mentioning two websites on signs beside mutilated bodies dangling from a bridge in northern Mexico.",
"The message was clear: Post something we don't like online and you're next.",
"\"I am about to get you,\" one sign said.",
"It was unclear who the two brutally slain victims were, or whether they had any connection to social media.",
"But analysts said that case showed the prominent role technology has come to play in describing and denouncing violence in Mexico.",
"CNN's Ashley Fantz, Doug Gross and CNNMexico.com's Tania L. Montalvo contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Analyst: Anonymous battling Zetas is like \"the Werewolf vs. Frankenstein\"\nAn online video purportedly from Anonymous threatens the Zetas .",
"The video says the group will release names and addresses of cartel supporters .",
"An Anonymous source says members have discussed targeting the Zetas ."
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"San Francisco (CNN) -- When Microsoft released the first Xbox nearly a decade ago, analysts considered the then-money-losing endeavor to be a sort of Trojan horse into the living room: a bid to become the home's central media hub.",
"Now, Microsoft is facing an undisguised assault from Apple, Google, Samsung Electronics and start-ups like Boxee and Roku.",
"They are all vying to fill the holes in Internet video on the big screen with hardware that makes it easy to watch on demand.",
"Microsoft and Sony, which makes the PlayStation, are working to bolster their Internet-video offerings before new challengers can usurp the home-entertainment market that they've been cultivating for many years with their systems.",
"Sony plans to unwrap a new version of its video-download service for the PlayStation 3 on Tuesday.",
"People who subscribe to PlayStation Plus will be able to download a preview, and starting on October 11, all owners of the game console will be able to download the application from the home screen in the same way they can get Netflix.",
"The sleeker Video Unlimited has large text and cover artwork for movies and television shows.",
"The overall design looks a lot like the Metro style Microsoft is using in Windows Phone 7 and Windows 8.",
"Video Unlimited will deploy a new patented search interface that works well with the arrow buttons on remote controls, which typically don't have keyboards, and the system suggests results as the user types -- much like Google's predictive search results.",
"While surfing through menus, the app frequently makes recommendations about similar films and programs.",
"\"We want you to be able to search and browse in a nonlinear way,\" Michael Aragon, a vice president for Sony Network Entertainment, said in an interview.",
"\"We want people to get lost in the experience.\"",
"The company is rebranding its Qriocity media suite, which includes a music-subscription service and the video store.",
"Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited will live under the Sony Entertainment Network umbrella, and they may eventually be joined by the PlayStation Network, Aragon said.",
"For now, the PlayStation Network Store will continue to offer the same programming that Video Unlimited has, to cater to customers familiar with buying media through the existing store.",
"Music Unlimited and the PlayStation Network Store will be redesigned later, Aragon said.",
"The music service has about 750,000 active users, and about 100,000 paying for access, he said.",
"Couch potatoes expect programs to start immediately, but Video Unlimited's a-la-carte downloads don't do that currently on the PlayStation.",
"This already works on Sony's Blu-ray players that have the app installed, and will be coming soon to the PlayStation, Aragon said.",
"The redesigned video service will be coming to Sony set-top boxes and Bravia TVs in the next few months, Aragon said.",
"The Sony tablet, which is set to debut early next month, will have a version of Video Unlimited, and the iPhone app will eventually include the ability to watch videos offline, he said.",
"With the new Web services, Sony is hoping to leave behind the blunders from earlier this year which resulted in a lengthy outage for its network.",
"A reminder of those flared up recently when Sony asked its users to waive their rights to file class-action lawsuits.",
"In the interview, Aragon boasted that Sony has added 3 million accounts and usage has increased by more than 10% since the outage.",
"But Sony's network division has more than its own recent mistakes to concern itself over.",
"Google has been unwavering in developing its Google TV platform, which Sony installs on a few of its products.",
"Some rumblings within supply chains suggest that Apple is working on a television set.",
"Samsung is pushing its Smart TV system.",
"Even with more TV sets bundling Internet capabilities, the market for set-top boxes is expected to grow 14% this year to 21 million devices shipped, according to market research firm In-Stat.",
"Microsoft, like Sony, feels the heat and continues to push the Xbox beyond gaming.",
"\"Your Xbox is becoming the hub of your living room,\" Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at a conference in January.",
"\"It is your gaming system; it is your movies; it is your TV experience.\"",
"Ballmer expanded on this concept in a presentation at the company's developers conference last month.",
"Microsoft plans to launch new video-on-demand and live TV services for Xbox in partnership with dozens of media companies, he said.",
"There is already an ESPN channel for Xbox Live subscribers.",
"While Sony is optimizing its platform for existing remotes with the unique search feature, Microsoft is promoting the Kinect, with its microphone and camera for motion sensing, as the peripheral for navigating video content.",
"Microsoft declined to make an executive available to be interviewed.",
"\"Certainly we all know the frustrations of using guides and menus and controllers, and we think a better way to do all of this is simply to bring Bing and voice to Xbox,\" Ballmer said last month.",
"\"You say it; Xbox finds it.\"",
"With Zune Pass and Xbox's limited video programs, Microsoft has favored subscription models.",
"It's unclear how the new Xbox services will be packaged.",
"Nintendo has been testing the waters on 3-D media delivery through its 3DS hand-held.",
"The Wii is not seen as a media hub, though it can access Netflix.",
"Netflix has about 24 million subscribers, and the game consoles have been a primary way people get the service.",
"Sony favors a la carte over \"the Netflix model,\" Aragon said, because it can offer new films close to when they are released on Blu-ray.",
"\"If you want to do subscriptions, you can't have new content,\" he said.",
"Sony is considering offering a subscription service catering to young men, which would include anime films, Aragon said.",
"\"PlayStation has such a strong tie to the gamer market,\" he said.",
"Subscriptions are thriving, evidenced by Netflix's success and by Amazon.com's partnership with 20th Century Fox, announced Monday, for the Instant Videos service.",
"Microsoft and Sony would like to sell the media, not just the hardware that plays them.",
"But if their gaming consoles were truly home-entertainment Trojan horses, the clock is ticking for them to spring their surprise."
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"(CNN) -- Someone out there just leapt all comic book purchase price records in a single bound.",
"A near-pristine copy of Action Comics #1 -- better known as the first appearance of Superman -- sold at an online auction Wednesday night for a staggering $2.16 million.",
"The seller? None other than cash-strapped actor Nicolas Cage, according to The Hollywood Reporter.",
"Cage turned a super-sized profit, the Reporter noted.",
"He bought the 1938 Man of Steel original 14 years ago for roughly $150,000.",
"The buyer has remained anonymous.",
"But \"he's an extremely passionate collector, and he treasures owning the best of the best,\" said Vincent Zurzolo, chief operating officer of New York-based ComicConnect.com, which conducted the auction.",
"\"In particular, he loves Superman.\"",
"When the comic book first went on the auction block November 12, the top bid was around $900,000, Zurzolo noted.",
"The price rose to more than $1.5 million Monday and smashed the $2 million mark five minutes before the close of bidding.",
"The previous comic book sale price record?",
"Roughly $1.5 million for another copy of Action Comics #1 in March of 2010.",
"\"I've been involved in the comic book business for over 25 years,\" Zurzolo told CNN.",
"Superman remains an \"icon that represents the best of this great country.\"",
"Cage's copy of the all-American classic comes with a colorful back story.",
"It was reported stolen in January 2000, according to the Reporter, and remained lost for more than 11 years before showing up last April in an abandoned storage locker in California's San Fernando Valley.",
"Comic book collectors' holy grails .",
"If you're hoping to get your own original 1938 copy, don't hold your breath.",
"There are only about 100 copies still believed to be in existence, according to ComicConnect.",
"About 100 copies of Detective Comics #27 -- better known as the first appearance of Batman -- are also still believed to be out there.",
"The Caped Crusader made his inaugural appearance in 1939.",
"An original Depression-era Batman won't come cheap, however.",
"One copy sold last year for a little over $1 million.",
"The good news: if you're willing to settle for a more modern incarnation of the two crime fighters, you can probably afford it.",
"\"All New Batman: The Brave and the Bold\" went on sale last month for $2.99."
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"An original 1938 Superman comic sells at auction for a record $2.16 million .",
"The comic is believed to have been sold by actor Nicolas Cage .",
"The previous record for a comic book sale price was $1.5 million ."
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"London (CNN) -- English soccer player Billy Sharp scored what he called the most important goal of his career Tuesday -- a shot in memory of his son Luey, who died Saturday, two days after he was born.",
"Sharp pulled up his jersey after the goal went in to reveal a t-shirt underneath reading \"That's for you son.\"",
"The goal was \"Dedicated to my brave boy Luey Jacob Sharp I love u son sleep tight.",
"That's for you son,\" Sharp said on Twitter after the match.",
"\"My goal had to be something special tonight for my special boy.I'm so proud of him,and his mum,\" he said.",
"Referees normally give players a yellow card for showing a message on a t-shirt, but Darren Deadman declined to penalize Sharp.",
"Luey was born October 27.",
"He died October 29, said Sharp's team, Doncaster Rovers.",
"Sharp was not expected to play Tuesday, but not only took the field but was named team captain for the night.",
"Fans of both Rovers and their opponents Middlesbrough cheered to honor Sharp and his family before the match.",
"\"This is a minute's applause to celebrate the short life of Billy and Jade's son Luey Jacob Sharp,\" the announcer said.",
"\"Born October 27.",
"Taken by the angels on the 29th.",
"Sleep tight son,\" he said.",
"Sharp said the tribute left him in tears.",
"\"To captain the side tonight was an honor and a pleasure,the minute applause I was crying meant so much to me thanks to both sets of fans,\" he tweeted.",
"Hundreds of people tweeted their support to Sharp and his family.",
"\"What you've done has put life into perspective, you've won the hearts of the nation, and united football,\" said one, Ben Wainwright.",
"Sharp and his wife were \"grateful for the love and support we have received,\" she said on Twitter.",
"\"Daddy did Luey proud tonight.",
"Sleep tight angel.\""
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"Billy Sharp reveals a t-shirt saying, \"That's for you son\"\nSharp's son Luey died Saturday, two days after he was born .",
"\"My goal had to be something special tonight for my special boy,\" Sharp says .",
"Fans honored Sharp and his family with a minute of applause before the match ."
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"(CNN) -- President Obama authorized the killing of an American citizen because he had declared war on the United States and encouraged others to bring harm to America.",
"Whatever Anwar al-Awlaki's wrongs -- and there were many -- when America kills its own without a trial, it not only demeans itself but it hands over a propaganda victory to its enemies.",
"Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's leader since the death of Osama bin Laden, will chide this great country again for abandoning its values and principles.",
"The White House's authorization of this killing also tells American Muslims that a precedent has been set by their government to kill American citizens abroad without trial if they oppose their country.",
"This cannot be right -- and is counterproductive to defeating terrorism in the long term because it demolishes the very values that America stands for: the rule of law and trial by jury.",
"It is abandoning these very same principles of human dignity, underpinned by free and fair trials that led to al-Awlaki's decisive shift after being released from a Yemeni prison in 2007: From being anti-American rabble-rouser, he went to advocating direct violence against the United States.",
"Prison experiences in the Arab world -- being arrested and detained without legal representation and exposed to the worst forms of torture at the hands of fellow Muslims -- change nonviolent extremists to violent extremists.",
"Al-Awlaki's transformation from extremism to violence comes in this context.",
"His alleged links to 9/11 terrorists were not as significant as some argue.",
"If he was known to be involved in the 9/11 attacks, why was he a guest of the Pentagon, of all places, in 2002?",
"Al-Awlaki is not alone.",
"Before him, al-Zawahiri was tortured in Egyptian prisons, and during his trial in 1982, he addressed a gallery of Western journalists in English and declared, \"So where is democracy?",
"Where is freedom? Where is human rights?",
"Where is justice? We will never forget!\"",
"Without a doubt, al-Awlaki and al-Zawahiri were already radicalized before prison, but the tipping point toward violence came with their prison experiences.",
"And before al-Zawahiri, the intellectual framework for al-Qaeda's destructive worldview was put in place by Syed Qutb in Mazra Tora in prison in Nasser's Egypt.",
"Again, it was torture and the absence of humane treatment that led to Qutb declaring war on the Egyptian government.",
"Qutb's prison writings have inspired every jihadist movement around the globe.",
"This same movement sees al-Awlaki as a lightweight, not least because he never set foot on the battlefield and his scholarly credentials are open to question.",
"In Egypt or Pakistan, al-Awlaki is not well-known.",
"Little wonder, then, that Al Jazeera Arabic is not as excited by al-Awlaki's killing as Western media outlets.",
"Al-Awlaki was important among Muslims in the West -- from Yemen, he used the Internet to reach this constituency.",
"But even before the launch of his blog in 2008, al-Awlaki was popular among Muslims in England, Canada and America because of his audiotapes about the history of early Muslim personalities.",
"These tapes were, and many still are, in circulation in mosques and bookshops.",
"Al-Awlaki could have been discredited before his prison experiences or, now, his perceived martyrdom.",
"By killing al-Awlaki, his message gains new life as words from an American Muslim martyr, the first to join the iconography of underground Muslim culture since Malcolm X.",
"An easier, cheaper and more effective way of discrediting al-Awlaki and countering his message would have been to disclose his three arrests for the solicitation of prostitutes in San Diego and the Washington, D.C., area between 1996 and 1997.",
"He had even pleaded guilty to the 1997 charge, and was subsequently sentenced to three years' probation and a fine.",
"Among his socially conservative Muslim following in Europe and America, immediately after 9/11, such information would have been dynamite.",
"The United States cannot kill its way out of terrorism.",
"Just as with the Cold War, the challenge from Islamist extremism and jihadist violence urgently needs a cultural, intellectual and informational response.",
"Violence breeds more violence and, in this case, literally creates martyrs out of al Qaeda's murderers.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ed Husain."
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"Ed Husain: Killing Anwar al-Awlaki demolishes the values that America stands for .",
"The killing also gives a propaganda victory to America's enemies, he says .",
"Husain: Al-Awlaki could have been discredited before he radicalized .",
"The United States cannot kill its way out of terrorism, Husain says ."
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"(CNN) -- I have never been whacked out on LSD.",
"However, if I had ever had the chance to meet Hunter S. Thompson, a real acid pro, my fantasy is that during a brief conversation in which he got to know me a little bit I'd feel comfortable asking him at the end of our talk: Do you think I could handle acid?",
"Even after I regaled him with the story of when friends of mine tried it in college, then wandered around the New York Botanical Gardens and invented the rock n' roll backpack -- which is a standard backpack with a radio boombox in it -- he would say no, you personally shouldn't take LSD, you suppressed malcontent.",
"Hopefully, this would all just sound like a sort of guttural gesture, because that would be subtle enough.",
"There's a definite chance that not only would HST think I couldn't handle the drugs, but he might hate me entirely.",
"I can't imagine someone who covered the Hells Angels, shark fishing competitions, got to threaten the life of the man he hated more than anyone else on Earth (Richard Nixon) and helped get Jimmy Carter elected president enjoying the company of me, a person who basically gets paid to tweet for a living?",
"I am not alone in my enduring fascination with Thompson.",
"Today the movie about the novel Thompson started writing in 1959 at the age of 22-years-old, \"The Rum Diary\" starring Johnny Depp, will be released.",
"The film offers plenty of opportunities to remember the renegade journalist, such as Jann Wenner's recent piece titled \"Hunter S Thompson Was My Brother in Arms.\"",
"I get the continued curiosity.",
"And while it's fine that I can't write or take drugs like Thompson, I actually did try to be like him once.",
"In 2008, after reading \"The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,\" the piece in which he invented Gonzo journalism, I wrote a three-part series for Yahoo!",
"Sports called \"The Odyssey To The Infield\" in which I attended all three legs of the Triple Crown Of Thoroughbred Racing in person.",
"My experience was maniacal enough, but I wrote in a style that was caught up in the decadence and truly ignoring of the depraved.",
"I too overindulged in gambling, alcohol, and some frat boy misogyny, took a full can of beer projectile to the collar bone and hung around women in fancy dress that were too blind drunk to know that they were knee deep in mud.",
"Yet with all that I still couldn't capture his frenetic style.",
"I was impressed by my own momentum but could never let it come unhinged, and if HST himself read this report he would probably be nauseous at how upbeat it was.",
"It's cool that I failed, because everyone who tries to emulate his Gonzo genius falls short to a certain extent.",
"Recently, when she thrust herself into the annals of The Gathering Of The Juggalos, Emma Carmichael from Deadspin wrote an excellent analysis on the currency of women's breasts at the debauched music and arts festival held in some back corner of southern Illinois (see: \"Dropping In On The Demented Utopia Of The Gathering Of The Juggalos\").",
"It was fine Gonzo reporting; she had the Juggalo clown make-up and everything, but ended up with the determination that she couldn't be one of these people.",
"I can't help but wonder if Thompson fraternized with the crazies on the aptly named \"drug bridge\" at The Gathering if we would have ended up making them his people -- and then they probably would have set off many, many explosives together.",
"I suspect \"The Rum Diary\" will be released to mixed reviews.",
"I wager most of the criticism will be directed at the fact that 48-year-old Depp is attempting to play a 23-year-old.",
"And the Thompson fans who see the film will get the subtext that this book is supposed to be Thompson on the brink of finding his path to self-destruction.",
"A time in his life when fear and loathing was just the fear.",
"It was a time, pre- Nixon, when Thompson pictured himself writing books of varying degrees of madness, and not necessarily covering political campaigns of varying degrees of mad politicians.",
"We don't know how much of \"The Rum Diary\" he composed in the late '50s and how much he wrote later on (the novel wasn't actually published until 1998), but I like to think that whatever was written by early-20s Thompson was written by a guy that already believed strongly in the notion that his own career momentum should take him down the path of madness, for better or worse.",
"Something that would be more awesome than meeting Thompson and having him insult me and write me off like one of the debauched hack journalists in \"The Rum Diary,\" would be meeting him and having him love me.",
"Maybe he'd like that I work at job where I get to post stuff like Photos Of Hunter S. Thompson Partying and supercut video of people doing Hunter S. Thompson impressions?",
"Maybe Hunter would even like Twitter?",
"As Johnny Depp said earlier this week, \"He was a very gentle guy.",
"Hyper, hypersensitive, hence the self-medication.\"",
"Maybe I could get a cool Thompson nickname like Depp, who Thompson called \"The Colonel.\"",
"Of course, if he liked me, we might end up dropping acid together and developing fuel-intake technology for the rock n' roll backpack.",
"And then there's a good chance I'd lose my mind."
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"\"The Rum Diary\" is supposed to be Thompson finding his path to self destruction .",
"We don't know how much of \"The Rum Diary\" he composed in the late '50s ."
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"(CNN) -- Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has defended Fernando Torres after the striker missed an open goal during the club's 3-1 defeat to Manchester United on Sunday.",
"Villas-Boas, 33, saw his team fall 3-0 behind in the first half at Old Trafford, through goals from Chris Smalling, Nani and Wayne Rooney, before Spain international Torres clawed one back for Chelsea with his first goal of the season early in the second half.",
"But former Liverpool forward Torres spurned a golden opportunity after 83 minutes, as he fired wide from close range having rounded United goalkeeper David de Gea.",
"Despite his error, Villas-Boas stood by Torres, 27, and pointed to England international Rooney's second-half penalty miss as proof that even the best strikers can be unlucky.",
"\"Two of the best world strikers missed crazy opportunities,\" the former Porto coach told a post-match press conference.",
"\"It happened to Fernando, but it also happened to Rooney.",
"It's nothing dramatic, sometimes these balls go in.",
"I think luck didn't fall on our side.\"",
"Former Atletico Madrid star Torres has struggled for form since joining Chelsea from English Premier League rivals Liverpool in January, with his goal on Sunday only his second for the London outfit and his first since a 4-1 win over West Ham in April.",
"If Torres had converted his late opportunity the score would have stood at 3-2, and Villas-Boas was left to wonder what might have been.",
"\"I think 3-2, in that period of the game, could have given us the mental edge ...",
"It would leave us completely exposed at the back, but we would take the risk trying to get the draw.\"",
"Chelsea had numerous attempts at goal during an open match, with Brazil midfielder Ramires also guilty of spurning a good opportunity while the score was only 1-0.",
"\"We are pretty happy with how the team reacted to such a negative impact at half time, when the team was playing well.",
"We cannot say the team was playing awful and that 3-0 at half time was a fair result.\"",
"Villas-Boas also bemoaned the officiating in the match, claiming English champions United scored their opening two goals from offside positions.",
"\"It didn't fall our way in every kind of the word, not only in terms of goalscoring opportunities but in terms of refereeing decisions or the linesman's decisions ...They influenced the game, it's 2-0 instead of 0-0.\"",
"The defeat was Chelsea's first under Villas-Boas and the four-time English title winners have collected 10 points from their first five matches.",
"Their next Premier League fixtures will see them entertain newly-promoted Swansea City at Stamford Bridge on Saturday."
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"Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas has defended Fernando Torres .",
"The Spain striker missed an open goal during Chelsea's 3-2 defeat .",
"Torres scored only his second Chelsea goal in the second half of the loss ."
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"(CNN) -- It's famous for its rich cultural history, a waltz and Wiener schnitzel.",
"And for the third year in a row, Vienna, Austria, can also boast the highest quality of living in the world.",
"According to the Mercer 2011 Quality of Living survey, Vienna beat 220 other cities to earn the distinction.",
"Zurich, Switzerland, ranked second, followed by Auckland, New Zealand.",
"Vancouver, Canada (No.",
"5) topped cities in the Americas; Dubai, United Arab Emirates (No.",
"74) is ranked the best city in the Middle East and Africa; and Singapore (No.",
"25) beat all other Asian cities surveyed.",
"Baghdad ranked last, under Bangui, Central African Republic; N'Djamena, Chad; and Port-au-Prince, Haiti.",
"Mercer scored the cities based on 39 criteria, including relationships with other countries, traffic congestion, schools, climate, recreational activities, internal stability and economic factors.",
"More than half of the top 25 cities are in Europe.",
"\"European cities in general continue to have high standards of living because they enjoy advanced and modern city infrastructures combined with high-class medical, recreational and leisure facilities,\" said Slagin Parakatil, senior researcher at Mercer.",
"\"But economic turmoil, high levels of unemployment and lack of confidence in political institutions make their future positions hard to predict.\"",
"The three top-ranking U.S. cities are Honolulu (No.",
"29), San Francisco (No.",
"30) and Boston (No. 36). Mercer's survey is intended to help governments and international companies compensate employees working abroad.",
"The cities were also ranked by personal safety, based on crime, the effectiveness of law enforcement and other factors.",
"Luxembourg City ranked highest in personal safety.",
"Three cities tied for second place: Bern, Switzerland; Helsinki, Finland; and Zurich.",
"Baghdad also sits at the bottom of the personal safety list, just under N'Djamena, Chad (No.",
"220); Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (No.",
"219); and Bangui, Central African Republic (No.",
"218). \"The top-ranking cities for personal safety and security are in politically stable countries with good international relations and relatively sustainable economic growth,\" Parakatil said.",
"\"Most of the low-scoring cities are in countries with civil unrest, high crime levels and little law enforcement.\"",
"No U.S. city made the top 50 list for personal safety."
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"Survey: Vienna, Zurich and Auckland have the highest quality of living .",
"Luxembourg City scores highest in personal safety .",
"Baghdad ranks last out of 221 cities for both quality of living and personal safety .",
"Honolulu, San Francisco and Boston are the top-ranked U.S. cities for quality of living ."
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"(CNN) -- A California lettuce grower has recalled 2,498 cartons of chopped or shredded romaine lettuce shipped to wholesale food service distributors in 19 states and Canada over concerns the produce may be contaminated with the same bacteria that caused 13 deaths in an outbreak traced to tainted cantaloupes.",
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and True Leaf Farms initially reported the recall of 90 cartons of chopped and shredded romaine lettuce on Thursday, saying a random sample detected listeria monocytogenes in one bag pulled from a lot shopped on September 12 and September 13.",
"Later Thursday, True Leaf issued a statement saying the FDA asked the company to expand the recall.",
"No illnesses have been reported, the FDA said.",
"The affected lettuce was available for direct purchase at Cash & Carry Smart Foodservice warehouses in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, It also shipped to food service distributors in Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Vermont.",
"It also was sent to a distributor in Alberta and British Columbia.",
"The recalled lettuce carries a use by date of \"9/29/11\" and the bag and box code B256-46438-8.",
"The FDA said anyone who has the lettuce should destroy it or contact the company to come pick it up.",
"Listeria can cause fever, muscle aches and gastrointestinal problems.",
"It usually causes only mild illness for healthy people, but it can be extremely dangerous for older adults, people with weakened immune systems, newborns and pregnant women, in whom listeriosis can cause miscarriages and stillbirths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"The listeria bacteria recently was blamed in a multi-state outbreak associated with tainted cantaloupes.",
"At last count, 13 people had died and 72 had been made ill in 18 states after consuming cantaloupes grown by a Colorado farm."
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"Chopped and shredded romaine lettuce is recalled over contamination concerns, the FDA says .",
"The recall involves the same bacteria that caused 13 deaths from tainted cantaloupes .",
"No illnesses have been reported from the lettuce, the FDA says ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Just how telling are 140 characters?",
"Amid new tabloid reports of infidelity by Ashton Kutcher, and trouble in his marriage to Demi Moore, the two -- who are currently on different coasts -- have curbed their prolific Tweeting in some possibly telling ways.",
"On September 23, Moore shared a quote from Greek philosopher Epictetus, writing, \"When we are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself & study your own failings.",
"Then you will forget your anger.\"",
"The pair also spent their sixth wedding anniversary -- September 24 -- apart.",
"Kutcher arrived in San Diego on September 23 for a weekend of partying with his former That '70s Show costar Danny Masterson.",
"Among their stops: Fluxx nightclub, where they had a VIP table.",
"The actor also refrained from Tweeting anything on his wedding anniversary.",
"PHOTOS: Ashton & Demi: Inside Their Marriage .",
"Moore, 48, has been in New York City to promote the short film she directed as part of Lifetime's TV anthology, \"Five.\"",
"The actress attended the premiere along with Jennifer Aniston, who also directed a short, on Monday night.",
"Kutcher, 33, who recently returned to TV in \"Two and a Half Men\" was in Los Angeles, where he presented an award to Ryan Seacrest Tuesday night during L.A.'s Promise Gala 2011.",
"The actors' reps have not commented yet.",
"The couple, who began dating in 2003 and married in 2005, dealt with rumors of infidelity and marital trouble a year ago.",
"At the time, they took a trip to Israel for what the actor described as a spiritual journey.",
"See full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are currently on different coasts .",
"The pair also spent their sixth wedding anniversary apart .",
"Moore, 48, has been in New York City to promote \"Five\""
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"(CNN) -- This week the world will reach 7 billion people.",
"Understandably that raises concern about a soaring world population.",
"But there is a good news story from the demographic data that is not often told.",
"We -- or rather the poor women of the world -- are defusing the population bomb.",
"Women today are having half as many children as their mothers and grandmothers.",
"The global average is now down to 2.5 children per woman, and it continues to fall.",
"This is not just a rich-world phenomenon.",
"Much of Asia now has fertility rates below two, from Japan and Korea to China, with its one-child policy, through Taiwan, Vietnam, Burma, Singapore and much of southern India and parts of the Middle East.",
"Behind the veil, the women of Iran have cut their fertility from eight to less than two in a generation.",
"The young people out on the streets demanding democracy during the Arab Spring are arguably far more politically active because they are not at home raising large families.",
"Falling fertility happens faster if countries get richer and if women are better educated.",
"Similarly urbanization helps a lot.",
"While even young children can be an economic asset on an African peasant farm, they are an economic liability in cities, where they require education before they can get a job.",
"The teeming megacities of the poor world may look like symbols of overpopulation, but they are part of the solution, too.",
"But the real story is that rich or poor, Muslim or Catholic, secular or devout, socialist or capitalist, with tough government birth control policies or none, most countries tell the same story.",
"Small families are becoming the new norm.",
"The reason, I believe, is very simple.",
"Women are having smaller families because for the first time in history they can.",
"In the 20th century, the world largely eradicated the diseases that used to kill off most children.",
"Today, most kids get to grow up.",
"Mothers no longer need to have five or six children to ensure the next generation.",
"Two or three is enough, and that is what they are choosing to have.",
"There are holdouts, of course.",
"In much of Africa, rural women still typically have five children or more.",
"But if Africa follows Asia, then we can see an end to population growth.",
"We are, I believe, likely to see \"peak population\" by about mid-century.",
"Perhaps at around 9 billion people.",
"After that, on current trends of fertility falling to below replacement levels, we will see a falling world population.",
"And rapid aging.",
"With longer life expectancy and fewer babies, this is all but inevitable.",
"China will soon be aging faster than anywhere on Earth.",
"Aging is set to be the dominant demographic phenomenon of the 21st century, just as the population boom dominated the 20th century.",
"What does this mean for the environment?",
"Well, peak population is good news, of course.",
"But don't hang the flags.",
"It is a pervasive myth that it is all those extra people that are wrecking the planet.",
"That's no longer the case.",
"Rising consumption today is a far bigger threat to the environment than a rising head-count.",
"And most of that extra consumption is still happening in rich countries that have long since given up growing their populations.",
"According to Stephen Pacala, the director of the Princeton Environmental Institute, the world's richest half billion people -- that's about 7 % of the global population -- are responsible for half the world's carbon dioxide emissions, the primary cause of man-made climate change.",
"Meanwhile the poorest 50 % of the world are responsible for just 7 % of emissions.",
"So there is no way halting population growth in the poor world today would have more than a very marginal effect on climate change.",
"It is the world's consumption patterns we need to fix, not its reproductive habits.",
"Every time we talk about too many babies in Africa or India, we are denying this fact.",
"The population bomb may be being defused by the women of the poor world.",
"But the rich world has not even begun to defuse the consumption bomb.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Fred Pearce."
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"Fred Pearce says there's good news attached to the 7 billion population milestone .",
"He says woman are having far fewer children than their forebears; global average is 2.5 .",
"He says small families new norm as old reasons for having more children are gone .",
"Pearce: Problem now is smaller population has upped its consumption, environmental damage ."
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"(CNN) -- The small, World War II-era plane that crashed Friday during a Reno, Nevada, air race was equipped with data and video recording devices that investigators hope to use to help determine what happened and why.",
"Seven people, including the pilot, were killed when the plane crashed into spectators at the race, with two others later dying at area hospitals.",
"Close to 70 people were injured.",
"National Transportation Safety Board member Mark Rosekind on Sunday described this realization, as well as the discovery of information and pieces that may have come from the devices, as \"significant new information.\"",
"It was also not entirely expected, given the size and nature of the P-51 aircraft.",
"\"I'm not aware of a lot of aircraft having it, this is the first one I came across,\" said Howard Plagens, who is the NTSB official heading the investigation.",
"Plagens was referring to a \"box\" that recorded key variables such as altitude, latitude and oil pressure.",
"In addition, there was an outward-facing video camera on the plane, according to Rosekind.",
"Several memory cards have been found at the wreckage site that may have come from either device, and will be sent to the NTSB laboratory in Washington, D.C., for a full analysis, Rosekind said.",
"They may belong to some of the 200,000 spectators then at the annual National Championship Air Races and Air Show.",
"Investigators do have a copy of the \"box\" data, since it was sent in real time by telemetry to sources outside the aircraft.",
"Besides the cards, Rosekind said parts of a plane's tail, an \"elevator trim tab\" and video camera fragments have been found.",
"\"There were thousands of pieces of debris,\" Plagens said, explaining how the site had been laid out in a grid system to help organize the probe.",
"As with the memory cards, one of the authorities' first goals will be to determine if these came from the plane being piloted by 74-year-old Jimmy Leeward.",
"Countering earlier reports, Rosekind said on Sunday that Leeward did not send a \"Mayday call,\" indicating he was in distress.",
"Investigators have repeatedly stated that it is not now known why the aircraft nosedived.",
"Some speculation has surrounded the elevator trim tab -- which was breaking apart prior to the crash, a photograph shows.",
"Besides the plane's trim tab, parts of a tail, the memory cards and already known plane data, investigators also will pore over \"a tremendous (amount of) video that was captured\" at the scene, according to Rosekind.",
"While a preliminary report will be available Friday, Rosekind has said the full investigation could take six to nine months.",
"\"It's not just what happened, it's why it happened,\" he said Sunday.",
"\"(We're) trying to make sure this doesn't happen again.\"",
"Meanwhile, the crash's toll became clearer Sunday as more of those killed were identified.",
"Besides Leeward, the dead include Michael Joseph Wogan, a 22-year-old from Phoenix who was attending the event with his father as part of a father-and-son vacation, his family said in a statement.",
"His father, William, was \"seriously injured,\" the statement said.",
"Wogan was diagnosed at an early age with muscular dystrophy, and was wheelchair-bound his entire life.",
"However, his 19-year-old brother James Wogan said in the family statement, \"He was about moving past that and always driven toward independence.",
"Michael liked to get out and travel, and he was so excited about getting on a plane as part of this trip.\"",
"Michael Wogan graduated magna cum laude from Arizona State University with a finance degree in May, his family said.",
"He had operated a web development company and was in the process of developing a second business.",
"Memorial service details were pending, the statement said.",
"Also identified Sunday were George and Wendy Hewitt, members of Cascade EAA Warbirds Squadron 2.",
"The Hewitts were killed when the plane crashed into the seating area, said R.D.",
"Williams, a spokesman for the squadron.",
"According to its website, the squadron aims to \"promote and encourage the preservation and operation of World War II and other such aircraft that are representative of military aviation operations\" along with educating people on safely operating and maintaining such aircraft.",
"The plane that crashed Friday -- dubbed the \"Galloping Ghost\" -- was one such plane dating from that era.",
"Several witnesses have portrayed Leeward -- a real estate developer from Ocala, Florida -- as a hero because he appeared to manuever the plane away from the crowded grandstands at the last moment.",
"He went down around 4:15 p.m. PT Friday while taking part in a qualifying round in the \"unlimited class\" division of the air race, said Mike Draper, the show spokesman.",
"The final rounds, which had been slated for the weekend, were cancelled.",
"\"This is the first time in 40 years, I think, that we've had a visitor injured or killed,\" Reno Mayor Bob Cashell told reporters Saturday.",
"\"We've lost some pilots, but we've never had a major catastrophe.\"",
"One local hospital, Renown Medical Center, received 34 patients, four of whom were in critical condition as of Sunday afternoon.",
"Two patients -- a male and a female -- died, the hospital said Friday.",
"Dr. Mike Morkin, the medical director of emergency services at the hospital, was on duty when the call about the crash came in Friday.",
"\"The severity of this accident was the worst I've seen since I've been at Renown,\" Morkin, a 16-year veteran at the hospital, said.",
"Renown South Meadows Medical Center received and discharged five patients, the hospital said Saturday.",
"St. Mary's Hospital in Reno said it had accepted 28 patients from the accident: As of Sunday afternoon, two were in critical condition and six in serious condition.",
"The remainder have been released.",
"CNN's Divina Mims contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Some of the data was transmitted, and several memory cards have been found .",
"NEW: The pilot did not send a \"Mayday\" call, as had previously been reported .",
"More of the 9 people killed in Friday's crash were identified Sunday ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- The Arab League and other world powers boosted pressure on the Bashar al-Assad regime to end its nearly nine-month-long crackdown on demonstrators, a relentless push against mostly peaceful citizen protest that has now claimed at least 4,000 deaths.",
"Nabil el-Araby, the secretary-general of the Arab League, said the Syrian regime can \"avoid the dangers of a foreign intervention\" if it agrees to an Arab League plan to defuse the grinding conflict.",
"He said the Syrian government hasn't accepted the league plan to send observers into the country to monitor the response to civil unrest.",
"But he said the government has a chance to overcome the crisis by agreeing to the idea.",
"\"The Syrian government is not complying with the Arab initiative plan and their inability to stop the violence is what led to the escalation of the procedures of the sanctions against it,\" el-Araby said in a written statement.",
"Earlier this week, foreign ministers from 19 Arab League countries voted to slap economic sanctions on the Syrian regime, including cutting ties with the nation's central bank, banning high-profile officials from visiting Arab countries and freezing government assets.",
"The number of deaths has reached at least 4,000 since the crackdown began in mid-March and could be much higher, Navi Pillay, U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said in Switzerland on Thursday.",
"The Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an activist group, said 4,744 people have been killed, including 843 from the army.",
"The group said at least 23 people had been killed in the country on Thursday.",
"The U.S. Treasury sanctioned two high-ranking Syrians and two government controlled entities on Thursday for their role in the crackdown.",
"One of the people is Mohammad Makhlouf, al-Assad's uncle and father of long-serving financial adviser Rami Makhlouf.",
"The other is Aus Aslan, a Syrian general.",
"The sanctions are the latest of several imposed by the United States, the European Union, and Turkey.",
"\"It has never been more critical to escalate pressure on the Syrian government to immediately cease all violence against its own people and isolate the regime from the international financial system,\" said Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence David S. Cohen.",
"\"We will continue to work closely with our partners in Europe and around the world to hasten a transition to democracy in Syria.\"",
"A league official told CNN on Thursday it is targeting 17 senior Syrian regime officials for a travel ban to member states.",
"One of them is President al-Assad's brother, Maher Hafez al-Assad, the commander of the country's 4th Army Division, according to a senior Arab League official directly involved in negotiations with the Syrians.",
"The preliminary list also includes Defense Minister Emad Dawoud Abdulla, Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Al Shaar, intelligence chief Abdulla Fattah Quedsia, and military intelligence chief Rostom Ghazali.",
"The source doesn't want be named because of his direct involvement in the talks.",
"Syrian citizens blame the military and security apparatus for the casualties.",
"The Syrian government insists that armed groups are responsible.",
"The instability is affecting non-Syrians.",
"Kuwait urged its citizens in Syria to leave and said those planning to travel there should not because of \"the unstable security situation,\" the state-run media said on Thursday, citing a statement from the Foreign Ministry.",
"El-Araby has said a committee examining how to implement the sanctions will focus on protecting civilians while targeting the government.",
"An Arab League committee led by economic ministers will meet in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday to discuss implementing sanctions, the source said.",
"It will pass along its ideas to the league foreign ministers meeting in Cairo next week, the source told CNN on Thursday.",
"The source also said a ban on Arab airlines traveling in and out of Syria will start on December 15.",
"Syria announced that it has suspend its membership in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership until the European Union backs down on the sanctions imposed on Syria.",
"But European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told the EU Foreign Affairs Council on Thursday that the group is pleased with the Arab League sanctions and international initiatives to keep Syrians safe.",
"EU officials met with el-Araby and discussed a range of issues.",
"\"The most important thing is to keep the people of Syria as safe as possible and to put pressure on the regime,\" Ashton said in Brussels, Belgium.",
"In Switzerland on Friday, the U.N. Human Rights Council will meet to discuss the violence in Syria.",
"CNN is unable to independently confirm events occurring inside Syria because the government does not allow journalists free access to the country.",
"CNN's Joe Sterling and Tracy Doueiry contributed to this report ."
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"Syria suspends membership in Mediterranean group .",
"U.S. sanctions are imposed on two high-ranking officials .",
"Kuwait is asking its citizens to leave Syria ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United have hit back at Owen Hargreaves after their former midfielder claimed he had been mistreated by the English champions' medical staff.",
"Hargreaves, who joined United's archrivals Manchester City in August after his contract at Old Trafford expired, was reported in the British press as having said he felt like a guinea pig during an injury plagued four-year spell with the Red Devils.",
"The England midfielder was speaking after making a goal-scoring debut for City in their 2-0 Carling Cup win over Birmingham City on Wednesday.",
"\"Manchester United is disappointed with Owen Hargreaves' remarks after the game on Wednesday,\" read a statement on the three-time European champions' website.",
"What are the reasons behind Man Utd's flying start?",
"\"The club gave him the best possible care for three years and is as disappointed as anyone he was not able to play a part in the team's success at that time.",
"\"It has shared all the medical records with Manchester City and is comfortable with the actions taken by its medical staff at each step of his many attempts at rehabilitation.\"",
"The Canada-born star arrived at United from German outfit Bayern Munich in 2007, but only made 27 appearances for Alex Ferguson's team due to persistent injury problems relating to the tendons in his knee.",
"\"They said I would be fit for the start of pre-season but, after that, I never got back on my feet,\" Hargreaves was reported as saying in British newspaper The Guardian.",
"\"My tendon was never the same.",
"They said my tendon was good, but it felt like I was made out of glass.",
"\"We treated it and it got significantly worse through the injections.",
"That obviously had a huge impact.",
"Basically, I was left to pick up the pieces, which was incredibly frustrating.",
"That was surgery, and that was 18 months gone.\"",
"But United denied Hargreaves' claims, with the statement continuing to say: \"United does not acknowledge any validity in the comments Owen is alleged to have made.",
"\"Manchester United has some of the best sports medical staff in world sport, who have made a significant contribution to United's on-pitch success in recent seasons.\"",
"Prior to joining City, Hargreaves posted a series of clips on the video-sharing website YouTube aimed at proving his fitness.",
"The 30-year-old made his professional debut for Bayern in 2000, and went on to win four Bundesliga titles with the club and the European Champions League in 2001.",
"Hargreaves also represent England at both the 2002 and 2006 World Cups, and won a second career Champions League title when United beat Chelsea in Moscow in 2008."
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"Manchester United have hit back at former midfielder Owen Hargreaves .",
"Hargreaves claimed he had been mistreated by the club's medical staff .",
"The England midfielder spent four injury-plagued years at Old Trafford .",
"Hargreaves recently joined United's archrivals Manchester City ."
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"(CNN) -- A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Vancouver Island, British Columbia, on Friday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.",
"The center of the earthquake was approximately 175 miles west of the city of Vancouver and nearly 50 miles underground.",
"Many people on Vancouver Island felt the quake, especially those in high-rises, which swayed back and forth, said John Cassidy of the Geological Survey in Victoria, British Columbia.",
"He described the quake as originating 30 miles offshore.",
"The shaking lasted 10 to 20 seconds, Cassidy said, and there were no reports of damage or injuries Friday afternoon.",
"Earthquakes of such magnitude happen every decade or so, he said.",
"There was no immediate danger of a tsunami as a result of the earthquake, authorities at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.",
"CNN's Deanna Proeller and Michael Martinez contributed to this report."
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"NEW: High-rises sway on Vancouver Island, but no injuries or damage is reported .",
"NEW: The shaking lasts 10 to 20 seconds .",
"The center of the earthquake is 175 miles west of the city of Vancouver .",
"There is no immediate tsunami danger, officials say ."
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"(CNN) -- A Moroccan court on Friday sentenced to death Adil Othmani, the main suspect in a terrorist attack in Marrakech last spring, Morocco's state news agency, Maghreb Arabe Presse, reported.",
"Othmani was held responsible for an explosion that tore through a cafe April 28, killing 17 people and wounding 20 others.",
"The blast occurred at Cafe Argana in Place Jemaa el Fna, a bazaar and square popular among tourists.",
"Moroccan authorities said the bomber remotely triggered two explosives, which he had placed there while disguised as a Western hippie.",
"A Moroccan Ministry of Justice official who refused to be identified due to the sensitive nature of the case confirmed that a death sentence has been handed down to the mastermind of the bombing, the news agency reported.",
"Another man, Hakim Dah, was sentenced to life in prison; defendants Abdssamad Bettar, Azzedine Lachdari, Ibrahim Cherkaoui and Skiribia Wadia were each given sentences of four years in prison; Mohammed Reda, Amhinni Mohammed, Dehhaj Abdelfattah were given three years each."
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"The blast tore apart a cafe, killing 17 people .",
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"(CNN) -- Sebastian Vettel became Formula One's youngest world champion in a five-way shootout at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in November 2010, and the German needs just one point in Japan this weekend to seal a second world crown.",
"Vettel's dominant form in 2011 has led him to victory in nine of 14 races so far, and the 24-year-old is on the brink of becoming the ninth driver to secure back-to-back titles in the championship's 61-year history.",
"If he does so, the celebrations will come with four races to go -- putting Vettel narrowly behind his legendary compatriot Michael Schumacher, who set the standard in 2002 when he clinched the fifth of his record seven world titles with six of the 17 races remaining.",
"Vettel will also become the youngest double world champion, beating the 25-year-old Fernando Alonso's feat with Renault in 2005-06.",
"Latest F1 standings after Singapore GP .",
"Former Toro Rosso driver Vettel needs to earn a 10th-place finish, or higher, in one of the season's five remaining grands prix to complete his triumph.",
"McLaren's 2009 world champion Jenson Button, second in the drivers' standings, is the only driver who still has a mathematical chance of preventing Red Bull celebrations on Sunday.",
"British racer Button would need the unlikely combination of Vettel to score no further world championship points, while also winning the year's five remaining races.",
"Despite Vettel knowing he could win the title with an uncharacteristically low finish -- he has finished outside of the top two in just one race this year -- the one-time Sauber driver insisted he is fully focused on claiming another maximum 25-point haul.",
"\"Obviously there's still a chance for Jenson to win the title and for me not to win the title,\" Vettel told Formula One's official website.",
"\"Even if it's only one point.",
"\"The moment you decide to fly, sooner or later there's a moment when you will come down as well.",
"You have to, nothing flies for ever.",
"I think it would be wrong to think like that at this stage, the target going into this weekend is not to get one point, in a way it's not to win the championship, the target is to do our best.",
"\"Yes, there would be reason to celebrate, even if we finish tenth, but it wouldn't be the same so we try to race as usual and we try to get the best out of ourselves.\"",
"When asked what the secret behind his success was, Vettel's answer was simple: \"Probably a word that is not at first sight that fancy, consistency.",
"And in this respect we have had a terrific year so far and I hope it will not desert us for the final races.\"",
"The climax to the 2011 season is in stark contrast to last year's finale, when Vettel leaped from third position heading into the final race at the Yas Marina Circuit to overhaul teammate Mark Webber and Ferrari's two-time world champion Fernando Alonso to claim glory.",
"\"Going into the last race and being some points behind is a completely different situation to leading the standings by a gap of 124 points,\" said Vettel, who was 15 points adrift of first-place Alonso heading into November's final race in the gulf kingdom.",
"\"What I try to do is not to listen to all these statistics and simply focus on this race, as I always do with every single race -- which has served me well.",
"I have learned from the mistakes that I made in the past and it would be foolish to make them again, so don't wait to see them here.",
"\"It is not embarrassing making mistakes if you learn from them, but it would be embarrassing making the same mistakes all over again. \"",
"Button signs new multi-year deal with McLaren .",
"Button was cautiously optimistic regarding his chances in Suzuka, but admitted the circuit is one which would suit Red Bull's RB7 car.",
"\"I think it will be a great race for everyone,\" said Button, who recently signed a new deal with English-based McLaren.",
"\"In the last few races, I think we've shown that we have extremely good pace and that we've been the team most able to take the fight to Red Bull.",
"\"On paper, I think it's a circuit that will suit the Red Bulls, particularly in the high-speed sweeps that make up the first sector of the track, but I certainly don't think people should under-estimate our package.",
"\"We showed at Spa that we have a car that's very effective in high-speed corners.",
"We've also improved our straight-line speed and we have a more efficient rear wing for qualifying, so I think we're feeling positive about the weekend.\"",
"If Vettel fails to clinch the championship this weekend, the title race would roll on to the Korean Grand Prix on October 16."
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"Sebastian Vettel can clinch a second world title at Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix .",
"The German holds a 124-point lead over Jenson Button in the drivers' standings .",
"The Red Bull driver is poised to become the youngest double world champion in F1 history ."
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"(CNN) -- Chelsea have warned a group of supporters they are slowing the progress of the English Premier League outfit after they opted not to return the freehold to the club's Stamford Bridge stadium.",
"The ground, in the west of the English capital, was sold to a fans' organization called the Chelsea Pitch Owners (CPO) in 1997 to protect it from falling into the hands of developers if the club ran into financial trouble.",
"But only 61.5% of CPO's shareholders voted to sell the freehold back to the club -- less than the 75% needed to authorize the move.",
"Explainer: Chelsea's bid to leave Stamford Bridge .",
"Chelsea, who are currently third in the Premier League, are keen to explore the possibility of building a new ground with a bigger capacity than Stamford Bridge, which currently holds only 42,000 supporters.",
"In a letter to CPO, Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck said that a new ground could help the club raise an extra $56 million of revenue each season but that the redevelopment of Stamford Bridge was necessary to help pay for it.",
"But many fans were not happy at the club's plans to move away from the site and Chelsea fell short of the vote required.",
"The club are owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich but limited space around their ground means expansion is difficult.",
"Two of the club's rivals, Manchester United and Arsenal, have stadiums that hold 76,000 and 60,000 respectively.",
"A statement on the Chelsea's official website read: \"Chelsea FC is naturally disappointed with the result.",
"A large number of fans supported our proposals but it was always going to be difficult when we had to have a 75 per cent majority of voting shareholders accepting them.",
"\"We approached this process with transparency and the will to do what is best for Chelsea Football Club and while we will remain as ambitious as ever, this decision could slow down our progress.\"",
"Buck added: \"Obviously we are disappointed but we recognise and we respect totally that the shareholders of Chelsea Pitch Owners have spoken.",
"\"We will meet with Mr Abramovich (Chelsea's Russian owner) and the rest of the board and we will decide what action, if any, we will take going forward.",
"'\"I don't view this as an us and against you, we against they situation.",
"We are all Chelsea fans and I can only hope that on Saturday we can get together and support this club and beat Arsenal.\""
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"Chelsea lose vote to buy back their Stamford Bridge stadium .",
"A group of the club's fans who own the freehold opt against handing it back .",
"The 'Chelsea Pitch Owners' have owned the freehold since 1997 .",
"Club says they are losing $56 million of revenue a year due to limited capacity ."
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"(CNN) -- Striker Carlos Tevez has been suspended by Manchester City after the furore surrounding his non-appearance from the substitutes' bench during the 2-0 Champions League defeat at Bayern Munich on Tuesday.",
"City manager Roberto Mancini slammed the Argentine international following his team's loss at the Allianz Arena, claiming Tevez had refused to take to the pitch and would consequently not play for the club again.",
"And, although Tevez subsequently released a statement denying the claims, City have now confirmed that the player will be suspended for the immediate future.",
"A statement on City's official website read: \"Manchester City can confirm that striker Carlos Tevez has been suspended until further notice for a maximum period of two weeks.",
"\"The player's suspension is pending a full review into his alleged conduct during Tuesday evening's 2-0 defeat to Bayern Munich.",
"\"The player will not be considered for selection or take part in training whilst the review is under way.\"",
"Earlier on Wednesday, former Manchester United forward Tevez rejected Italian coach Mancini's claims and said the incident was a \"misunderstanding.\"",
"\"I would like to apologise to all Manchester City fans, with whom I have always had a strong relationship, for any misunderstanding that occurred in Munich,\" read the statement from Tevez.",
"Tevez tantrum is a disgrace to soccer .",
"\"They understand that when I am on the pitch I have always given my best for the club.",
"In Munich on Tuesday I had warmed up and was ready to play.",
"This is not the right time to get into specific details as to why this did not happen.",
"But I wish to state that I never refused to play.",
"\"There was some confusion on the bench and I believe my position may have been misunderstood.",
"Going forward I am ready to play when required and to fulfil my obligations.\"",
"The statement is in contrast to Tevez's remarks immediately after the match, when he appeared to reaffirm his desire to leave City.",
"\"I think it's Mancini's decision.",
"I've been a professional throughout,\" he told British broadcaster Sky Sports through a translator.",
"\"I put my opinion through, that I wanted to leave for family reasons and I still played my best.\"",
"Gomez double gives Bayern 2-0 win .",
"The fixture in Europe's premier club competition was set to be a landmark occasion for City; whose clash with four-time European champions Bayern represented their first away match in the tournament.",
"But the match unravelled for City, who won the English FA Cup last season, when Germany striker Mario Gomez grabbed two goals in the closing stages of the first half.",
"Tuesday's controversy is the latest development in a saga which has seen Tevez move close to an exit from the Etihad Stadium on several occasions.",
"The former Corinthians striker handed in a transfer request in December 2010, citing a breakdown in communications with the City board as the reason behind his decision.",
"It looked as if Tevez was set for a return to Sao Paulo-based Corinthians in July, but the four-time Brazilian champions claimed there was insufficient time to conclude the deal.",
"City have signed a host of attacking players in 2011, including the capture of Dzeko from Wolfsburg in January and the additions of Sergio Aguero from Atletico Madrid and France midfielder Samir Nasri from Arsenal in the last transfer window.",
"As a result, Tevez has struggled to break into City's starting line-up so far this season and has seen defender Vincent Kompany replace him as club captain.",
"\"He wanted to leave last year,\" former Inter coach Mancini told a press conference on Tuesday.",
"\"I helped him for two years every time.",
"He refused to play.",
"I cannot accept this behaviour from him.",
"I decide the substitutions, not Carlos.",
"\"Do you think at Bayern Munich one player can play like this?",
"Or Milan or Manchester United?",
"No. There were 30 minutes to the end.",
"There was time to change the game.\""
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"Striker Carlos Tevez has been suspended for two weeks by Manchester City .",
"The suspension follows his non-appearance from the bench against Bayern Munich .",
"Tevez earlier issued a statement denying that he had refused to play when asked .",
"City coach Roberto Mancini has said Tevez will never play for the club again ."
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"(CNN) -- Steve Bruce has become the first English Premier League managerial casualty of the season after being sacked by Sunderland on Monday following a poor run of recent results.",
"On Saturday, Sunderland relinquished a 1-0 lead to lose 2-1 at home to bottom side Wigan Athletic, with the winning goal coming in injury time.",
"That result left Sunderland 16th in the 20-team division -- just two points above the relegation zone -- despite an extensive recruitment drive in the close season which saw 11 players join the club.",
"The Wigan defeat also highlighted crowd dissatisfaction with Bruce -- with a number of banners calling for his removal -- and club chairman Ellis Short has decided to act after calling recent results \"simply not good enough\".",
"Ellis told the official Sunderland website: \"This has been a difficult time for everyone at Sunderland and is not a situation that any of us envisaged or expected to be in.",
"\"It is my job as chairman to act in the best interests of our football club at all times and I can assure everyone that this is not a decision I have taken lightly.\"",
"He continued: \"Sadly results this season have simply not been good enough and I feel the time is now right to make a change.",
"\"Steve has acted with honesty and integrity throughout, which is testament to the character and commitment he has shown during his time at Sunderland.",
"\"I would like to personally place on record my thanks to him for his significant contribution to our football club over the past two-and-a- half years and everyone here at Sunderland naturally wishes him the very best for the future.\""
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"Sunderland manager Steve Bruce has been sacked after Saturday's 2-1 defeat by Wigan .",
"That defeat left Sunderland 16th in the Premier League, just two points above the drop zone .",
"Bruce is the first manager to lose his job in the English Premier League this season ."
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of former Iranian president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was sentenced to six months in prison for making anti-government statements, semi-official Mehr News Agency reported Tuesday.",
"Hashemi was arrested last year for taking part in anti-government protests, and the announcement of her sentence comes as parliamentary elections near.",
"Her father, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, is a powerful cleric and former parliament speaker.",
"In the past, Rafsanjani has been one of the government's most vocal critics.",
"Rafsanjani served two terms as president from 1989 to 1997, and is still widely believed to be one of the wealthiest and most politically powerful men in Iran.",
"He had long been a staunch critic and bitter political rival of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
"Weeks after the 2009 elections, Rafsanjani condemned the regime's violent crackdown against the opposition movement and spoke out for the people's right to peacefully protest in a speech delivered at Tehran's Friday prayers.",
"In recent months, Rafsanjani had toned down attacks and made statements of apparent support of the regime and the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.",
"Last March, Rafsanjani was replaced as head of Iran's Assembly of Experts, a powerful committee charged with electing and removing the leader of the Islamic Revolution and supervising his activities."
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"Her father is Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former Iranian president ."
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"LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- President Barack Obama addressed a broad range of political topics during an appearance on NBC's \"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno\" Tuesday, insisting among other things that he's not spending too much time yet focused on next year's potential GOP campaign rivals.",
"\"I'm going to wait until everybody's voted off the island,\" Obama joked.",
"\"Once they narrow it down to one or two (candidates), I'll start paying attention.\"",
"Obama is currently on a three-day trip to Nevada, California and Colorado.",
"The trip includes several fundraisers for his re-election bid.",
"During a wide-ranging interview, Obama criticized Washington's harsh political climate, telling Leno that \"the things that folks across the country are most fed up with, whether you are a Democrat, Republican, (or) independent, is putting party ahead of country or putting the next election ahead of the next generation.\"",
"The two men discussed several foreign policy topics, including the situation in Libya and the impending withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.",
"Regarding Libya, Leno asked the president for his reaction to the death of longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi.",
"\"This is somebody who for 40 years has terrorized his country and supported terrorism,\" Obama said.",
"Gadhafi \"had an opportunity during the Arab Spring to finally let loose of his grip on power and to peacefully transition into democracy.",
"We gave him ample opportunity, and he wouldn't do it.\"",
"Obama said Gadhafi's demise sent \"a strong message around the world to dictators\" that \"people long to be free,\" and that \"universal rights\" and aspirations should be respected.",
"The bloodied Gadhafi's televised jostling with his captors was not something Americans \"should relish,\" the president said .",
"\"There was a reason after (Osama) bin Laden was killed, for example, we didn't release the photograph,\" the president said.",
"\"I think that there's a certain decorum with which you treat the dead -- even if it's somebody who has done terrible things.\"",
"The president hit back at GOP critics of the American role in the NATO-led Libya campaign, insisting that the United States did not, as many have claimed, \"lead from behind.\"",
"\"We lead from the front,\" Obama asserted, highlighting the U.S. role in pushing a U.N. resolution backing NATO's intervention, as well as the U.S. military's role in establishing a no-fly zone over Libya.",
"\"The difference here is we were able to organize the international community,\" Obama said.",
"\"There was never this sense that somehow we were unilaterally making a decision to take out somebody.",
"Rather, it was the world community.\"",
"The Libya operation \"is a recipe for success in the future,\" the president declared.",
"Obama also defended his choice to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year -- a decision blasted by GOP critics concerned the move will imperil U.S. gains in the region.",
"\"I don't know exactly how they are thinking about it,\" Obama said.",
"\"We've been in there for years, over 4,000 young men and women killed, tens of thousands injured, some of them for life, (and) spent close to $1 trillion on this operation.",
"I think the vast majority of the American people feel as if it is time to bring this war to a close, particularly because we still have ... work to do in Afghanistan.\"",
"The president noted the importance of the recent death of Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born cleric killed in Yemen by a U.S. drone strike.",
"Al-Awlaki played a critical role with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, heading up external operations and focusing on attacking the United States, officials said.",
"Al-Awlaki was \"probably the most important al Qaeda threat that was out there after bin Laden was taken out,\" Obama said.",
"\"It was important that working with the enemies, we were able to remove him from the field.\"",
"Turning closer to home, Obama had strong praise for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- his toughest competitor for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.",
"\"I'm really proud of her,\" Obama said.",
"\"It really wasn't that difficult\" to come together after the campaign.",
"\"The truth is Hillary and I agree on the vast majority of issues.\"",
"Obama appeared to dismiss rumors of a possible job swap between Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden in 2012, telling Leno that \"they are doing great where they are.\"",
"The president expressed a degree of sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street movement, noting that \"people are frustrated, and that frustration has expressed itself in a lot of different ways\" -- including both Occupy Wall Street and the tea party.",
"As a huge basketball fan, the president called the current NBA lockout \"heartbreaking.\"",
"\"We should be able to figure out how to split a $9 billion dollar pot so that our fans, who are allowing us to make all of this money, can actually have a good season,\" he said.",
"Asked about his health and personal habits, Obama told Leno that he has \"definitively\" quit smoking, and remains \"big on exercise.\"",
"The president said he works out on a regular basis with first lady Michelle Obama in a small White House gym.",
"\"It's embarrassing sometimes,\" the president said.",
"\"She'll get up there a half an hour earlier than me.",
"She will have already run 10 miles or something ... (when I'm) staggering up to the gym.\"",
"Noting the first lady's highly publicized campaign for fitness and healthier eating habits, Obama said his wife actually does enjoy more unhealthy cuisine on occasion.",
"\"She loves french fries.",
"She loves pizza.",
"She loves chicken.",
"Her point is just in moderation,\" Obama told Leno.",
"As for the upcoming Halloween holiday, the president said his wife generally hands out fruit and raisins.",
"The president said he told his wife that \"the White House is going to get egged if this keeps up.\""
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"London (CNN) -- Though she may have had numerous husbands and lovers, Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor had one enduring love: jewelry.",
"Her dazzling collection of jewels, many of which were given to her as presents by husbands including Richard Burton and Mike Todd, were referred to Friday in London by Jonathan Rendell, Deputy Chairman of Christie's Americas, as \"the crown jewels of Hollywood.\"",
"Fans of the screen idol can now ogle highlights from her extensive jewelry collection, along with a selection of her haute couture dresses by designers including Chanel and Christian Dior, and paintings by artists such as Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro, at Christie's auction house in London.",
"They are being exhibited there as part of a world tour that will culminate in a series of high-profile sales at Christie's in New York in December.",
"Taylor's jewel collection has been valued in excess of $30 million, according to the auction house.",
"Keith Penton, head of the jewelry department at Christie's in London, said that Taylor's taste in jewels was \"extraordinarily refined.",
"She really understood her gemstones ([and)she had a passion for design and workmanship, quite a rare combination.\"",
"And not only do they speak of her infamous and tempestuous romance with actor Richard Burton, he said, the jewels come with their own dramatic histories -- such as a 50-carat pearl known as \"La Peregrina,\" given to her by Burton in 1969, that was once part of the crown jewels of Spain.",
"It was mounted onto a specially commissioned diamond and ruby Cartier necklace and is estimated to fetch between $2 million and $3 million at auction in December.",
"There is also the Taj Mahal diamond pendant necklace, which Burton gave her on her 40th birthday in 1972 and which had been a gift from the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan to his wife in the 17th century.",
"\"If a jewel had a historic provenance, they were particularly enamored,\" said Penton of the pair's taste in gems.",
"According to Nancy Schoenberger, co-author of the book \"Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, The Marriage of the Century,\" Taylor developed a taste for jewels from a young age.",
"\"Her father was an art and antiques dealer,\" Schoenberger explained.",
"\"She grew up surrounded by beautiful things and was always drawn to jewelry as a young girl,\" she said.",
"But it wasn't until Taylor's marriage to film and Broadway producer Mike Todd that her passion for collecting serious jewels took hold, Schoenberger said.",
"Todd, her third husband, bought Taylor a 29.4-carat diamond ring as well as a diamond tiara, which she wore to the 1957 Academy Awards.",
"Schoenberger believes that when Richard Burton bought Taylor the 33.19-carat Krupp Diamond ring in 1968 -- possibly the star piece in the exhibition at Christie's, estimated to fetch between $2.5 million and $3.5 million -- he was trying to out-do Mike Todd, who had died unexpectedly just over a year into his marriage with Taylor.",
"\"I think that was a big deal for Richard, to buy her a diamond as big as Mike Todd's.",
"And he liked showing that the son of a Welsh coal-miner could buy his lady love these extravagant jewels,\" she said.",
"Penton believes that the collection will induce feverish bidding in the salesroom, for the quality of the collection but also for their added Hollywood glamor.",
"\"Judging from past sales, which have never been as spectacular as this one -- I think the sky's the limit,\" he said.",
"The actress, who died this year aged 79, eulogized her love of gems in her 2002 memoir, \"My Love Affair With Jewelry.\"",
"In it, she wrote: \"I never, never thought of my jewelry as trophies.",
"I'm here to take care of them and to love them.",
"When I die and they go off to auction I hope whoever buys them gives them a really good home.\"",
"At a press conference on Friday, Rendell of Christie's said that the collection reveals \"one of the great characters, this was one of the great stars, this was someone who understood her contract with the public.\"",
"Penton agreed and said, \"Looking at the couture, you can see that she was not a very large lady but obviously with the hair, with the presence, with the glamor, it all added up to something very fabulous.\"",
"In memory of the actress's life-long devotion to humanitarian causes, a portion of profits generated by admissions, events and select publications related to the sales will be donated to the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF), which she set up in 1991.",
"\"Highlights from the Collection of Elizabeth Taylor\" is on public display at Christie's, London, on 24, 25 and 26 September, after which it will travel to Los Angeles, Dubai, Geneva, Paris, Hong Kong and finally, New York."
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"Highlights from Elizabeth Taylor's extensive jewelry collection on display at Christie's in London .",
"Dazzling gems include 33.19-carat diamond, a present from Richard Burton to Taylor .",
"Collection known as the \"crown jewels of Hollywood\"\nJewels may cause bidding frenzy in the salesroom, say Christie's ."
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"Paris (CNN) -- A Paris prosecutor has asked for corruption charges against former President Jacques Chirac to be dropped, courthouse press representative Sylvie Polack confirmed Tuesday.",
"Chirac was accused of misuse of public funds when he was mayor of Paris, from 1977 to 1995, before he became president.",
"The prosecutor also asked for nine other people charged along with Chirac to be acquitted Tuesday.",
"The judge has yet to give his verdict in the case and could still find the accused guilty.",
"Chirac, now 78, had immunity from prosecution during the 12 years he was president of France, from 1995 to 2007.",
"He was accused -- along with the other defendants -- of using public money to pay people to work for his political party, the RPR, and to pay others to perform jobs that did not really exist.",
"\"There are elements missing to show both the intentional and material aspect of an offense, so I ask that the charges be dropped against the 10 defendants,\" said Michel Maes, an aide to the prosecutor.",
"The judge's verdict is expected before the end of the year, the courthouse press representative said.",
"Former French Prime Minister Alain Juppe was sentenced in December 2004 for his role in the affair.",
"After Chirac left office as president, he made it known he was available to answer any questions on the matter.",
"He always denied wrongdoing."
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"Nine others were accused of corruption .",
"The judge has yet to deliver a verdict in the case .",
"Chirac has always denied wrongdoing while mayor ."
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"(CNN) -- On a scenic Hawaiian beach, a sailor found a message in a bottle that was sent about five years ago by a sixth-grader in Japan.",
"Petty Officer Jon Moore spotted the bottle Thursday during a beach clean up project near the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on the island of Kauai.",
"Moore was among a group of sailors plucking cigarette butts and food wrappers from the beach when he spotted it.",
"\"I looked over and saw the bottle.",
"I jokingly thought it would have a treasure map inside, but it actually had a message,\" Moore said.",
"Inside the bottle were four origami flowers and a letter signed by student Saki Arikawa.",
"There was also a picture of Arikawa's class from Kagoshima, a city in Japan's southern island of Kyushu.",
"The letter was dated March 25, 2006 and Arikawa's note asked that whoever found the bottle to write back.",
"Somehow the bottle had traveled some 4,000 miles and reached Moore.",
"Moore said he immediately thought of home.",
"Even though he was born in Guyana, South America, he said Japan feels like home because his wife and son live there.",
"The sailor said he plans to visit Kagoshima on his next trip home to visit his family.",
"And he also has a letter to write.",
"\"I'll definitely respond.",
"I want to write back to the school and get their thoughts,\" Moore said."
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"\"I'll definitely respond,\" sailor says ."
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"Berlin (CNN) -- An opossum that gained worldwide fame for its comedic cross-eyed looks has been put to sleep after its health deteriorated, Leipzig Zoo said Wednesday.",
"The female opossum, called Heidi, became a German media sensation after her picture was published in late 2010 and had more than 330,000 fans on Facebook.",
"According to the zoo's website, she and a sister were probably born in May 2008.",
"The pair were found as orphans and raised in a wild animal sanctuary in North Carolina before moving to a zoo in Denmark and eventually arriving in Leipzig in May last year.",
"Leipzig Zoo released a statement saying: \"Heidi, our cross-eyed opossum, has closed her eyes forever today.",
"She passed away having shown typical symptoms of her old age and having severely suffered from arthrosis.",
"\"This illness has made it painful for her to move over the last couple of weeks and Heidi was treated with vitamins and other medicine.",
"Following a short-lived improvement of her condition, her general state of health deteriorated over the last days despite continuous efforts by the veterinarians.\"",
"Heidi had to be put to sleep avoid her suffering pain, in accordance with animal welfare guidelines, the zoo said.",
"Arthrosis is a degenerative joint disease.",
"The cause of Heidi's profoundly crossed eyes remains a mystery, although the zoo's website suggests the way she was fed when she was hand-reared in the United States may have played a role -- as well as the fact she was overweight, which led to \"fatty deposits behind the eyes which are pressing the eyeballs slightly out of the eye sockets.\"",
"Her sister, named Naira, is also cross-eyed but the zoo's third opossum, a male called Teddy, lacks their distinctive looks.",
"Opossums, a type of marsupial found in North and South America, have a maximum life expectancy of four to five years, the zoo's website says.",
"CNN's Brian Walker and Stefan Simons contributed to this report."
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"Her health worsened in recent weeks, the zoo says; she was put to sleep to avoid suffering ."
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"(CNN) -- When Piers Morgan pointed out that \"Vicious\" Victor Ortiz will be \"facing a guy that has beaten just about everyone that's come in front of him,\" the boxing champ told the CNN host, \"Fear doesn't even exist in my dictionary anymore.",
"It was one of those things where my upbringing alone got rid of all that.\"",
"Morgan was referring to Ortiz's upcoming September 17 bout with \"Pretty Boy\" Floyd Mayweather.",
"Ortiz and his mentor, boxing great Oscar de la Hoya, are guests on Wednesday's \"Piers Morgan Tonight.\"",
"Abandoned by his mother at the age of 8, Ortiz was left to essentially raise his younger brother when his father walked out of the family's Kansas home four years later.",
"\"It was my brother and I just roaming around like two strays, you know,\" said Ortiz.",
"Ortiz took care of his brother, who is two years younger, day in and day out and even put him through college.",
"\"He and I had each other's back usually,\" said Ortiz.",
"\"Like, you know, like two brothers would.\"",
"Interestingly enough, once Ortiz became famous, his parents did not seek him out.",
"\"I actually went out of my way to find both of my parents,\" said Ortiz, who told Morgan that he traveled to Kansas and \"asked around everywhere,\" in order to track down his dad.",
"When he finally found the elder Ortiz, the World Boxing Council Welterweight Champion of the World said that his father was still \"very intimidating,\" and that he resisted the urge to ask the man why he'd abandoned his family.",
"\"I was just like, 'Hey, Dad, you know what?",
"I did your job and my brother and I grew up.\"",
"Morgan asked Ortiz, 24, if he feels that his opponent holds a psychological advantage over him.",
"Mayweather has won 10 world titles and is undefeated as a professional boxer.",
"Mayweather, however, hasn't stepped in the ring in over a year, while Ortiz has fought five fights in that time.",
"\"I'm not really sure how the balance lies,\" answered Ortiz.",
"\"But that's one thing that I'm willing to put aside, because I want the best pound for pound, Floyd Mayweather to arrive, September the 17th, across the ring from me.\"",
"Morgan asked 10-time world champion and Olympic medalist Oscar de la Hoya, who was defeated by Mayweather in 2007, what kind of man Mayweather is to fight.",
"\"He is a great fighter,\" said de la Hoya.",
"\"He is the best pound for pound fighter in the world today.",
"He is great for the sport.",
"He has done great things for boxing.",
"And, you know, on September 17th, Victor is going to face the best.",
"And, you know, there's no excuses whatsoever.",
"\"But when I fought him, I mean you can say that I was over the hill.",
"I was an old 35 years old when I faced him.",
"He beat me, yes, hands down.",
"There's no doubt about that. I congratulate him.\" De la Hoya alluded to the possibility of Mayweather, who at 34 is 10 years Ortiz's senior, passing the torch on to Ortiz, who de la Hoya believes \"will be one of the greats.\"",
"Does de la Hoya believe he'd beat Ortiz if the pair got into the ring today?",
"\"Let me put it this way,\" de la Hoya told Morgan.",
"\"If I was at my prime and -- and Victor is at his prime -- it would be one hell of a fight, that's for sure.",
"Maybe a draw.\"",
"Watch Piers Morgan Tonight weeknights 9 p.m.",
"ET. For the latest from Piers Morgan click here."
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"(CNN) -- President Obama says the new Buffett Rule \"is not class warfare,\" raising once again the question of why he and his party keep rowing back from one of the Democrats' most potent arguments.",
"They seem to have accepted the Republicans' pejorative definition of economic class warfare as an un-American evil.",
"As Warren Buffet points out, middle-income Americans ought to be protesting a system in which billionaires like him pay a third to a half of the 33% tax rate of Buffet's secretary.",
"In fact, nonviolent class struggle over income distribution has a long and beneficial history in this country and most other industrial democracies.",
"Starting with the rise of the Populist Party in the late 19th century, continuing into the Progressive Era and the New Deal, grabbing for and getting a bigger slice of the economic pie for wage earners has been a major stabilizing force in American democracy.",
"We are now racing in the direction of income polarization and the political instability that inevitably accompanies the contraction of the middle class and a concentration of wealth within a tiny minority.",
"Based on the numbers, President Obama ought to be able to win this argument easily.",
"As former President Clinton pointed out in an interview Monday, 10% of the population have taken 90% of the benefits of economic growth.",
"James Carville is probably right that it's time for Obama to fire the White House communications team and carry the economic fight to the Republicans.",
"It could hardly hurt when the voters who are getting their pockets picked are siding with the Republican corporate oligarchs who used to be the Democrats' arch-villains.",
"In the current journalistic environment only the rich may be greedy without blame, and it is not just Fox, but the mainstream media, as well, that parrots the \"class warfare\" criticism and puts a negative spin on anything that can be called \"populism.\"",
"For their part, Congressional Democrats seem allergic to their own president's advocacy of a minimally fair tax rate on rich individuals and corporations.",
"They are also timid about challenging the Republicans on their myth-making propaganda about \"job creators.\"",
"What evidence can House Speaker John Boehner and House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan produce that repealing Bush-era tax rates for couples making more than $250,000 and allowing the top marginal tax rates of 33 percent and 35 percent to revert to 36 percent and 39.6 percent next year would prevent corporations and investors from creating jobs?",
"What can be deduced is that corporations are content to sit on their $2 trillion in cash reserves as long as tax breaks and lax regulations make reinvestment for growth a less attractive alternative.",
"All MBA students are taught \"cash is king,\" and the banks have taken the slogan so seriously they won't even release to credit markets the $2 trillion in bailout funds given them as a gift outright.",
"The job creators aren't creating anything.",
"They're sitting on every tax-free dollar they can while the sitting is good.",
"So how did we get to this point? Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.",
"The decline of the labor movement, which was a powerful instrument of economic education for the masses, surely must have something to do with it.",
"Then there is the impact of more than 30 years of conservative distortion of America's economic vocabulary since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980.",
"He showed his party that making vague promises to preserve the \"safety net\" was smarter politics than tackling the real problems of Social Security disability, private pension funds and indigent health care.",
"By 1984, the Democratic nominee, Walter Mondale, was ridiculed for trying to make campaign themes of \"fairness\" and \"compassion.\"",
"This history gives one pause about urging Obama to argue more openly for fairer distribution of income.",
"Certainly if we are in a class war over money, only one side is fighting.",
"Probably not even Reagan, an ex-New Dealer, expected so complete a turnaround on what used to be called \"pocketbook issues.\"",
"In interviewing a Republican guest, Mitch Daniels, Jon Stewart noted last week that the bottom 50% of the population owns less than 2.5% of the nation's wealth.",
"If that's not the result of class warfare, Stewart wondered, what is?",
"Put that way, the question seemed momentarily to fluster Daniels, as if he had not realized how completely the affluent have triumphed.",
"Finally, Daniels allowed that maybe some tax fairness could be considered as long as it didn't hurt the job creators.",
"No wonder he got thrown out of the Republican presidential race, given such blatant advocacy of class warfare against the deserving rich.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Howell Raines."
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"Howell Raines: Obama, Dems run from class warfare notion even though it's potent issue .",
"He says class struggle over income distribution not un-American, historically beneficial .",
"He says as corporations sit on $2 trillion, not reinvesting, Dems, media buy into job creation myth .",
"Raines: If this is class warfare that will bring income equality, only one side is actually fighting ."
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"(CNN) -- Jerry Sandusky's attorney said Wednesday that a young man at the heart of cover-up allegations against Penn State University officials told him he was not a victim and had no sexual contact with the former assistant football coach.",
"Defense lawyer Joseph Amendola told CNN contributor Sara Ganim that the young man, who was described in a grand jury report as being about 10 years old in March 2002, was in Amendola's office several weeks ago and said he believed he was the boy called \"Victim 2.\"",
"The young man said nothing sexual occurred with Sandusky in the shower, according to Amendola.",
"\"He said he had turned all of the shower heads on ... and water was running on the floor.",
"He said he was surfing, going from one end to the other to slide across the shower floor,\" Amendola said.",
"First lawsuit filed against Sandusky .",
"The lawyer said that three, perhaps four, of eight alleged victims mentioned in the grand jury report have either maintained friendships with Sandusky or visited him.",
"\"Victim 2\" had dinner last summer with Sandusky, Amendola said.",
"According to grand jury documents, a graduate assistant told then-Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno in 2002 that he had seen Sandusky performing anal sex on a young boy in a football complex shower.",
"Paterno told Athletic Director Tim Curley, who told Gary Schultz, a university vice president, according to the grand jury report.",
"Curley and Schultz were each charged with one count of felony perjury and one count of failure to report abuse allegations about Sandusky.",
"According to Amendola, Sandusky contends that Curley told him that a person reported seeing the coach and a young boy in the shower.",
"Curley described the incident as \"horseplay\" and that it made the witness uncomfortable.",
"Sandusky's \"make-believe world\" Sandusky gave Curley the boy's name and phone number and said that nothing inappropriate had occurred, Amendola said.",
"That graduate assistant has been identified as assistant coach Mike McQueary, who has been placed on administrative leave.",
"Neither the boy in the shower nor Sandusky reported seeing McQueary, Amendola said Wednesday.",
"Sandusky, 67, is free on $100,000 bail.",
"He is charged with 40 counts related to the alleged sexual abuse.",
"He allegedly met the victims through The Second Mile, a charity he started.",
"A preliminary hearing for Sandusky is scheduled for December 13.",
"According to Amendola, Sandusky has seen McQueary at charitable events, including those of Second Mile.",
"There was never any tension between the two, the lawyer said.",
"Sandusky has maintained he did not commit the crimes and has not discussed a possible plea deal.",
"Amendola said Sandusky has defenses to all the allegations.",
"\"Right now he's presumed to be innocent, these are alleged victims,\" Amendola told Ganim.",
"\"The media has done Jerry a disservice by continuously referring to them as victims.\"",
"Amendola said he's told Sandusky that giving a bear hug to a youth in a shower was not a good idea.",
"People who know him well call Sandusky a \"big overgrown kid,\" the lawyer said."
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"Jerry Sandusky and his attorney maintain his innocence ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- The mother of a German national suspected of one of the worst arson sprees in Los Angeles history appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge Tuesday in the German government's effort to extradite her on fraud charges.",
"Harry Burkhart, 24, may have been motivated to set the fires by his mother's arrest, according to officials and CNN affiliates.",
"His mother, 53-year-old Dorothee Burkhart, was arrested by Los Angeles police during a traffic stop on December 28, a day before the first of 52 fires, mostly in parked cars, that investigators suspect were part of a series of arsons.",
"The son, who was arrested Monday, was charged with one count of arson of an inhabited dwelling.",
"He is likely to face additional charges as the investigation moves forward, said Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.",
"Harry Burkhart remains jailed without bail and is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.",
"\"What did you do to my son,\" Dorothee Burkhart, yelled at the judge during her hearing Tuesday.",
"\"My son is disappeared since yesterday.",
"Perhaps the German Nazis know of our address.\"",
"It did not appear that she knew her son had been arrested a day earlier on the arson charge.",
"She turned down an offer of a court-appointed lawyer and was given until her next hearing Friday to hire a defense attorney.",
"A federal extradition complaint said she is wanted in Germany on 19 counts of fraud, including an allegation that she defrauded the doctor who performed breast augmentation surgery on her in 2004.",
"The other fraud charges center on rent and security deposits for apartments in Frankfurt, Germany, the complaint said.",
"A website advertising \"sensual tantra massage\" and offering \"full body hot oil body to body sliding massage\" is registered to Dorothee Burkhart using a Hollywood address, according to a domain registry database.",
"She lived with her son in a Hollywood apartment, according to the complaint.",
"Investigators seized press clippings of arson attacks in Germany from the apartment, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.",
"Dorothee Burkhart last entered the United States lawfully in January 2007 and left the country four months later, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.",
"She currently has no lawful immigration status and ICE has lodged an immigration detainer against her, it said.",
"A court document released earlier on Tuesday incorrectly stated that Dorothee Burkhart had most recently entered the United States in October, according to ICE.",
"Harry Burkhart was in the United States lawfully at the time of his arrest on a non-immigrant visa, which expires on January 18, ICE said.",
"The agency has similarly lodged an immigration detainer against him.",
"Arson investigators counted 52 fires, most starting in parked cars, since Friday morning, but none since the suspect was detained at 3 a.m. Monday, according to officials.",
"No one was hurt in the fires, but property damage is likely to reach $3 million, said Los Angeles Fire Chief Brian Cummings.",
"U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Tuesday that after Los Angeles police released a surveillance video of a man seen near the scene of one fire, agents in the department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security field office recognized Burkhart.",
"Multiple CNN affiliates reported the alleged arson spree could have stemmed from a deportation battle between the suspect and immigration officials involving Burkhart's mother.",
"After his arrest, Burkhart told investigators, \"I hate America,\" according to CNN affiliate KABC.",
"Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said officials believe -- and hope -- the fires were set by one person.",
"But they will proceed as though others may be involved until they know for sure, Beck said.",
"\"I feel very good that we've got the right guy.",
"(The suspect) had the right stuff in his van, and we are confident in the arrest,\" Beck said.",
"Neighbor Galina Larimoda told KABC-TV through a Russian translator that Harry Burkhart knocked on her door Sunday and seemed angry and not \"completely normal.\"",
"Los Angeles County Reserve Sheriff's Deputy Shervin Lalezary, who draws a salary of $1 a year, was hailed as a hero for arresting Burkhart.",
"Lalezary, an Iranian-born lawyer who moonlights as a deputy, pulled over a van in Hollywood driven by a man who resembled the person seen on the surveillance video.",
"With the help of backup officers, he then arrested the driver, Burkhart.",
"CNN's Chuck Conder, Alan Duke, Paul Vercammen, Mike Ahlers, Ashley Hayes, Lateef Mungin, and Irving Last contributed to this report."
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"Dorothee Burkhart is wanted in Germany on 19 fraud counts .",
"LAPD arrests her during a traffic stop on an extradition warrant a day before the first Hollywood fires .",
"52 fires cause $3 million damage in the Los Angeles area ."
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"(CNN) -- Billy Graham is being treated for pneumonia and \"is responding well to antibiotic treatment,\" said a pulmonologist at the North Carolina hospital where the evangelist was admitted Wednesday.",
"Dr. Mark Hellreich, who is treating Graham at Mission Hospital in Asheville, said Thursday that the 93-year-old is in stable condition, and a spokesman for Graham said he is in \"good spirits\" and resting comfortably.",
"Graham spent time reading the Bible and praying with his daughter, Gigi, Wednesday night, spokesman A. Larry Ross said on Twitter.",
"When Graham was admitted Wednesday for evaluation of his lungs, \"he was alert, smiling and waving at hospital staff,\" the hospital said.",
"\"While no date has been set for discharge, Mr. Graham is looking forward to returning home to spend the upcoming Christmas holidays with his family.\"",
"Ross said Graham was visited Thursday by his pastor, the Rev.",
"Don Wilton, who shared a passage from the book of Ephesians: \"For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God's people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers.\"",
"\"Given the outpouring of love and well-wishes Mr. Graham has received from people around the world, the verse seemed to have special meaning to him,\" Ross said.",
"Ross said that as Graham and his daughter were channel-surfing to find a news broadcast, they came upon a broadcast of Graham's 1973 crusade in St. Louis.",
"\"It was a blessing to Mr. Graham to realize his preaching still reaches around the world,\" said Ross, \"and even into hospital rooms like his.\"",
"Graham was hospitalized in May for treatment of pneumonia.",
"He resumed his ongoing program of physical therapy and normal activity shortly after release, the hospital said.",
"Graham, a resident of nearby Montreat, has provided counsel to generations of U.S. presidents beginning with Harry S. Truman and is the founder of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.",
"The Charlotte native has preached to untold millions over six decades, beginning his missionary work in 1944 when he started speaking at rallies for the Youth for Christ Campus Life ministry.",
"Five years later, Graham was holding crusades in tents in downtown Los Angeles.",
"Originally scheduled for three weeks, the crusades drew so many followers they were extended to seven.",
"His most recent book, \"Nearing Home,\" was published in October.",
"Graham's \"last crusade\" in June 2005 drew a total of 230,000 people.",
"He described it as his last American crusade, but hedged his farewells during a poignant appearance in Corona Park in Queens, New York.",
"\"We hope to come back again someday,\" Graham announced.",
"\"I was asked in an interview if this was our last crusade and I said it probably is -- in New York.",
"But I also said, 'I never say never.' ..."
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"The 93-year-old evangelist was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday .",
"He is in \"good spirits\" and resting comfortably, his spokesman says ."
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"(CNN) -- The man authorities believe was responsible for the New Year's Day shooting death of a national park ranger in Washington state was a former soldier who owned many knives and guns despite an emotionally unstable, vindictive and anger-prone mind-set, the mother of his toddler daughter said in court documents.",
"Authorities on Monday found Benjamin Colton Barnes' body face down in a creek in Mount Rainier National Park, not far from where investigators believe he fatally shot park ranger Margaret Anderson.",
"Investigators say they believe Barnes shot the ranger after he blew through a checkpoint set up to check vehicles to make sure they had the proper winter gear necessary to travel the park.",
"Anderson and another ranger had set up a second roadblock to stop him when he jumped out of the car and opened fire.",
"She was struck before she was able to get out of her vehicle, authorities said.",
"Anderson, 34, was the first Rainier park employee to be a homicide victim, and the devastated staff needed a few more days to recover before the park reopens Saturday, officials said Tuesday.",
"While investigators said they had little insight into Barnes' mind-set or motivations, the woman with whom he was in a custody dispute over their young daughter said in court documents filed last year that she was frightened to be in the same state with him.",
"\"The weapons are harmful, and I don't know if he will try to use them against myself or my family,\" the woman wrote in a filing for a temporary restraining order filed with the Pierce County Superior Court on May 24.",
"She wrote in other documents reported on by CNN affiliate KIRO that Barnes might be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after a deployment to Iraq.",
"Barnes, 24, served as a radio and communications repair specialist with 2nd Squadron, 1st Calvary Regiment, a unit of the 2nd Infantry Division located at Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle, according to Army spokesman Troy Rolan.",
"He joined the Army in February 2007 and was deployed to Iraq from that year to shortly before his discharge in 2009, Rolan said.",
"Details of his discharge were not immediately available, Rolan said, and Army policy prohibits release of information about a soldier's medical condition.",
"Despite photos of a muscular Barnes, shirtless, tattooed and brandishing two guns, Barnes wasn't a combat soldier.",
"Instead, he was responsible for fixing radios and other communications equipment, Rolan said.",
"The weapons in the widely circulated photo didn't appear to be government-issued, Steven Dean, an assistant special agent in charge at the FBI's Seattle office, said Monday.",
"And he didn't appear to have any special wilderness or survival training, Dean said.",
"Barnes was found face down near a creek in a T-shirt, jeans and one shoe.",
"Before the shooting at the national park, Barnes was wanted in connection with a shooting early Sunday in the Seattle suburb of Skyway that left four people wounded, two critically, according to the King County Sheriff's Office.",
"\"There was kind of a show-and-tell with guns in the evening at a party,\" spokeswoman Sgt.",
"Cindi West told CNN.",
"Shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday, one of the males at the party asked to see a gun belonging to another person, West said.",
"When asked to give the gun back, the male refused.",
"\"A fight ensued, and at one point at least two people pulled guns, and a shootout ensued.",
"Witnesses said that Benjamin Barnes was one of the subjects that pulled a gun and fired,\" West said in a statement.",
"Barnes left the scene with two others.",
"\"It is unclear at this point who shot first and who was shot by whom,\" West said.",
"Authorities contacted Barnes' family after the incident in a bid to have him come in for questioning, according to authorities.",
"Meanwhile, a woman who said she had spurned Barnes' romantic advances said he visited her on Sunday morning, before Anderson's shooting, to wish her a happy new year, according to CNN affiliate KCPQ.",
"She told the station that she thought Barnes was a nice guy when they first met, but that he \"seemed sketchy\" after she got to know him better.",
"That he turned to violence in his final days wasn't shocking to her, she told the station.",
"\"It doesn't surprise me, honestly.",
"He is a loose cannon.",
"If he doesn't get his way or something makes him upset, he goes all the way out of control,\" she told the station.",
"The park remained closed Tuesday, as authorities continued to investigate the shooting and Barnes' death.",
"\"We are still dealing with the loss,\" said Mount Rainier National Park spokesman Kevin Bacher.",
"\"Everybody is just devastated and exhausted by this, trying to get back on an even keel.\"",
"The last ranger fatalities at the park was in 1995 when two climbing rangers died during a rescue, officials said.",
"About 125 employees at Rainier are being offered counseling and other measures.",
"\"A very large number of our staff are very shook up by this event,\" said Bacher.",
"Anderson was one of about a dozen commissioned law enforcement officers at the park.",
"They assist motorists, firefighters, campers and search-and-rescue personnel.",
"\"Our rangers are trained to be prepared for anything,\" Bacher told CNN.",
"Condolences continued to pour in Tuesday to the Officer Down Memorial Page; 955 messages had been posted as of Tuesday evening in praise of Anderson's service and offering comfort to her family, including her husband Eric Anderson, who also worked as a ranger at the park, and their two children, 1 and 4.",
"\"Everyone is talking about her,\" Patty Wrzesien, a waitress at Cruiser's Cafe, told CNN affiliate KING on Monday.",
"\"She was such a sweet, sweet lady.\"",
"Anderson had always liked the outdoors, and she liked helping people, her father, Paul Kritsch, told KING.",
"And that is why she loved her job as a ranger, he said.",
"Her family is planning a memorial service, according to Bacher.",
"CNN's Patrick Oppmann contributed to this report."
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"Ranger shooting suspect was vindictive, a former girlfriend alleges in court papers .",
"Another woman tells CNN affiliate KCPQ that Barnes was a \"loose cannon\"\nRanger Margaret Anderson, killed Sunday, was the mother of two young girls ."
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"Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Pop superstar Rihanna has been ordered to cover up by a Christian farmer who took exception to her \"inappropriate behavior\" while filming a music video on his land.",
"The controversy has erupted in Northern Ireland and was even discussed Tuesday by lawmakers in the province's elected Assembly in Belfast.",
"Rihanna, who was born in Barbados but has Irish ancestry, is in Northern Ireland this week for sold-out shows at Belfast's Odyssey Arena.",
"The 23-year-old had been given permission to film a video for the song \"We Found Love\" in a muddy barley field owned by farmer Alan Graham outside Bangor, about 10 miles from Belfast.",
"Graham explained Tuesday, \"I didn't know who was coming.",
"If the name 'Rihanna' had been mentioned, well, no disrespect, but it wouldn't have meant anything.\"",
"However, he says that when he went to get his tractor Monday and saw the singer stripping down to a bikini top, he stepped in to end the shoot.",
"The local political representative said he \"asked the film crew to stop, and they did.\"",
"Graham insisted that \"there were no hard feelings.\"",
"He added: \"I had a conversation with Rihanna; we shook hands; we parted company on good terms.",
"I found her very gracious, and I hope she understands where I'm coming from.",
"I wish her well.\" Word had quickly spread of Rihanna's surprise appearance in the Northern Irish countryside, and traffic came to a standstill as fans attempted to catch a glimpse of the star.",
"Graham's wife shed more light on the incident Tuesday, revealing that Rihanna had gone topless.",
"Said Mrs. Graham, who declined to give her first name, \"What she was doing became more inappropriate.",
"When she started to go topless, that's what Alan was particularly objecting to -- things were getting out of hand.",
"There was a man as well, and the behavior was getting more inappropriate. ...",
"It wasn't the sort of thing Alan wanted young people (those watching) to see on his land.",
"We are Christians.\" However, Mrs. Graham added: \"The girl was very nice; she shook hands with Alan several times\" after he asked for the filming to stop.",
"Not to be deterred, Rihanna was back filming again in Belfast on Tuesday.",
"But the controversy of the sexy shoot in the barley field rumbled on -- and even made it onto the agenda at the Northern Ireland Assembly.",
"Graham is a local representative with the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party (formerly led by Protestant preacher the Rev.",
"Ian Paisley), and the Rihanna row led to a light-hearted exchange between lawmakers in the Northern Ireland Assembly on Tuesday.",
"Mike Nesbitt, of rival pro-British party the Ulster Unionists, addressed Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson, Northern Ireland's first minister.",
"Nesbitt said, \"I wonder if the first minister has had an opportunity to assess the potential damage from the news that the pop icon Rihanna was foiled in her filming ambitions yesterday, which I believe were no more sinister than appearing in a field in red, white and blue.\"",
"(The latter are the colors of the British flag as well as the American one).",
"Robinson replied, \"I'm pretty sure there was no problem with the colors involved!\"",
"Robinson had just been telling the Assembly of his recent trade mission to the United States to encourage Hollywood studios to make more movies in Northern Ireland."
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"Farmer asked film crew to stop after he spotted Rihanna strip to bikini top .",
"His wife says the Barbados-born singer actually went topless .",
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United's perfect start to the English Premier League season came to a halt on Saturday when the defending champions were held to a 1-1 draw at Stoke City.",
"United had won five matches in a row, and took the lead through a superb individual goal from midfielder Nani in the 27th minute as the Portugal international waltzed into the box and drilled in a low shot.",
"However, the industrious home side never gave up and claimed a point against the 19-time English champions for the first time in the Premier League thanks to a 52nd-minute header from big-money August signing Peter Crouch.",
"The lanky former Tottenham striker got between central defenders Phil Jones and Rio Ferdinand to nod home from a corner as United goalkeeper David De Gea was left helpless on his line.",
"United went into the match without England striker Wayne Rooney, who wrote on Twitter that he expects to return from injury for Tuesday's Champions League visit by Swiss side Basel.",
"His regular forward partner Javier Hernandez is a doubt for that match after coming off in the first half against Stoke having fallen hard on his head when he tumbled following a tussle with Jonathan Woodgate as the Mexican sought to score.",
"That left United with last season's top scorer Dimitar Berbatov up front alongside Michael Owen, who scored twice in midweek in the League Cup but failed to make the same impression.",
"Berbatov was similarly ineffectual and was later replaced by Danny Welbeck as United battled in vain to win the match.",
"The result left United on 16 points, above local rivals Manchester City only on goal difference.",
"City earlier briefly topped the table as second-half goals from substitutes Mario Balotelli and James Milner ended Everton's run of victories in their last four visits to Eastlands.",
"Balotelli broke the deadlock in the 68th minute after replacing Edin Dzeko, with his shot taking a deflection off Everton defender Phil Jagielka.",
"The Italian then set up David Silva, whose effort was ruled out for offside -- and the Spanish playmaker also earlier hit the woodwork.",
"Silva provided City's second with a minute to play as he sent England midfielder Milner clear after an error by Everton's former Real Madrid winger Royston Drenthe, who came on as a substitute.",
"Balotelli's return to form will give manager Roberto Mancini a selection dilemma ahead of Tuesday's Champions League trip to Bayern Munich.",
"Meanwhile, Fernando Torres was both hero and villain as third-placed Chelsea beat promoted Swansea 4-1.",
"The Spain striker scored his second goal in two games after a long drought to put the London side ahead on the half hour, but was sent off before halftime for a bad tackle on Mark Gower -- his first red card in the Premier League.",
"It was another mixed weekend for the $80 million former Liverpool player, who also netted in the 3-1 defeat at Manchester United before an extraordinary miss that saw him widely lampooned.",
"Ramires had already made it 2-0 before Torres departed, and the Brazil midfielder doubled his tally in the 76th minute before Swansea defender Ashley Williams headed in Gower's freekick.",
"Substitute Didier Drogba sealed victory deep into stoppage time to boost his hopes of starting in Wednesday's Champions League trip to Valencia.",
"Newcastle retained fourth place with a 3-1 victory over Blackburn, who remained in the relegation zone.",
"Senegal striker Demba Ba scored his first hat-trick in English football before being replaced by France midfielder Hatem Ben Arfa, who made his league comeback after almost a year out with a broken leg.",
"Fifth-placed Liverpool bounced back from the 4-0 trouncing at Tottenham by beating mid-table Wolverhampton 2-1 at home.",
"Charlie Adam was sent off last weekend but this time his 11th-minute shot produced an own-goal by defender Roger Johnson, and striker Luis Suarez made it 2-0 before halftime.",
"Substitute striker Steven Fletcher gave Wolves hope four minutes after the break, but Kenny Dalglish's team held on as England midfielder Steven Gerrard continued his comeback from long-term injury when he was introduced late in the match.",
"Tottenham closed to within a point of Liverpool, having played one fewer match, after a 2-1 win at Wigan.",
"New signing Emmanuel Adebayor set up Dutch midfielder Rafael Van der Vaart in just the third minute, then Gareth Bale headed home Luka Modric's 23rd-minute corner to make it 2-0.",
"Striker Mohamed Diame reduced the deficit five minutes after halftime but Wigan defender Steve Gohouri was sent off for a second booking for a foul on winger Bale as Spurs held on for a third successive victory.",
"Arsenal moved out of the relegation zone and up to 12th place with a 3-0 win over 10-man Bolton that left the visitors rock bottom after five successive defeats.",
"Robin van Persie's second-half double gave the Dutch forward 100 goals for the London club, while Alex Song curled home late on.",
"Bolton had defender David Wheater sent off with the score at 1-0 after tugging back England forward Theo Walcott, who later limped off.",
"West Brom and Fulham remained in the bottom four after a 0-0 draw at the Hawthorns which left the visiting London side still seeking a first victory this season."
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"Watch the full interview with Denise Richards tonight.",
"\"Piers Morgan Tonight\" airs weeknights on CNN/US at 9 p.m.",
"ET and on CNN International at 0200 GMT (Live simulcast), 1200 GMT and 2000 GMT / HKT 2000 .",
"CNN -- \"If Charlie [Sheen] is to sort his life out,\" Piers Morgan asked Denise Richards.",
"\"Can you ever imagine a scenario where you might one day get back together?\"",
"\"I'm way too old for him now,\" joked Richards, who turned 40 this year.",
"\"I'm way past his age range.\"",
"The actress and mother of three is a guest on Thursday's \"Piers Morgan Tonight.\"",
"Richards is also a first-time author.",
"Her new book, \"The Real Girl Next Door,\" was released this week.",
"Richards told Morgan that she and Sheen have been split up for six years.",
"The couple's divorce was finalized in 2006.",
"\"When we fell in love,\" Richards said, \"he had been sober for three years.",
"He was getting his life back together.",
"He had just gotten a job on 'Spin City.'",
"And I really admired his strength and courage for overcoming addiction, and being so humble about it.",
"\"And that's what attracted me to him. So the Charlie that some of you have seen over the last six months is not the person that I met and married.\"",
"Richards went on to say that Sheen was \"amazing\" when they first met.",
"\"He was so humbled and sweet, and charming and funny.",
"And had such a great heart, and very honest.",
"And we just had a very deep connection.\"",
"Morgan asked Richards about her take on \"the recent circus of Charlie's life.\"",
"\"From the beginning of it I was very worried,\" she said.",
"\"And it made me sad to see him that way.",
"And so I was concerned. I was concerned for our children.\"",
"Richards said that, in dealing with Sheen, the couple's two daughters -- Sam, 7, and Lola, 6 -- remain her priority.",
"\"We'll always have a bond with our daughters,\" she said.",
"\"And I wish nothing but the best for him.\"",
"When Morgan asked Richards what her wish for her ex-husband was, the actress said she wants him to be healthy and there for his kids and himself.",
"\"He's a survivor,\" said Richards.",
"\"If anyone can pick themselves up, make a huge comeback, it's Charlie.\"",
"Morgan asked, what is the weirdest rumor she'd ever heard about herself?",
"\"Well, this isn't that hurtful, but it's weird -- that I used to be a hooker.",
"I used to be a Heidi Fleiss girl.",
"I heard that rumor,\" Richards answered.",
"\"If anyone would know, it would be Charlie,\" said Richards, referring to Sheen's well-documented testimony in Fleiss' 1995 trial that he had spent over $50,000 on 27 hookers.",
"Richards, who is single, said of dating: \"The qualities that I look for now are different than prior to getting married and having kids.",
"\"I find myself very attracted to men who have children.",
"And I think one of the sexiest qualities in a man is seeing a man great with kids.\"",
"Richards called motherhood her greatest achievement.",
"\"I love being a mother more than anything.",
"And I get so much fulfillment and joy with my children.\"",
"Richards opened up about her recent adoption of a baby girl, whom she named Eloise Joni Richards.",
"\"She's amazing,\" Richards said.",
"She told Morgan that Sam and Lola \"are so in love with her.",
"They are very protective of her.\" As for whether she'll marry again, Richards said she intends to \"be a good role model for my kids, and be a strong woman, even if it's on my own.\"",
"Richards said that she also plans to continue acting, and that her dream gig has always been \"a role in a movie with Quentin Tarantino directing.\"",
"Watch Piers Morgan Tonight weeknights 9 p.m.",
"ET. For the latest from Piers Morgan click here."
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"(Rolling Stone) -- \"Making Achtung Baby is the reason we're here now,\" Bono says early on in Davis Guggenheim's new U2 documentary, \"From The Sky Down,\" which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Thursday night.",
"The film -- which focuses on the tumultuous time in the band's career 20 years ago -- shows how Bono, guitarist the Edge, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. and bassist Adam Clayton got back on track: After considerable infighting and \"creative differences\" while the four hunkered down at Hansa Studios in Berlin in 1990 to try to make an album, the song \"One\" finally and miraculously sprouted from the unfinished \"Mysterious Ways.\"",
"\"The movie has this pretty long [section] where you hear them write that song -- and it's goose bumps,\" Guggenheim told Rolling Stone in Toronto.",
"\"The writing of that song really saved the band.",
"They had come out of the height of Joshua Tree as the biggest band in the world.",
"'Rattle and Hum' was a disaster from their point of view, a lot of bad reviews -- they weren't happy with what they had become.",
"They take that bridge section out of 'Mysterious Ways' and they go back into the room at Hansa.",
"They write a song on the fly in a matter of minutes.",
"'One' is written and the band is saved and we have all that on tape.\"",
"There are other telling inclusions in the film, from footage of Bono getting angry in a dressing room after a Joshua Tree concert in 1987 (culled from Rattle and Hum director Phil Joanou's amazing leftovers) to candid, present-day sound-only interviews that Guggenheim was able to draw from each band member.",
"\"The soul of the movie is these interviews I do with them,\" he said.",
"\"I didn't know how they'd react to the things that I put in the movie,\" said Guggenheim.",
"\"There are some very sensitive things.",
"And to their credit, they said, 'This is truthful; this is real; it's not sensational.'\"",
"Rolling Stone: The Best U2 Songs .",
"The day after the TIFF gala screening, Bono, the Edge and Guggenheim spoke at a press conference about the film.",
"\"I found it a little humiliating to realize that we were so inept and these days we're a better band,\" Bono said.",
"\"We've learned our craft -- and therein lies the huge danger, which is there's a giant chasm between the very good and the great, and U2 right now has a danger of surrendering to the very good.\"",
"Guggenheim had earned the Edge's trust from the documentary they did together in 2008, \"It Might Get Loud,\" alongside two other guitar greats, Jack White and Jimmy Page.",
"Still, it's a relationship in progress, Guggenheim noted: \"There's a something adversarial about making a movie about something that neither side wants, but it's naturally there.\"",
"\"For me, when Davis agreed to do this, I felt like I could relax because I knew the thing that he was most interested in was actually the truth as opposed to what was a great shot or what might be sensational,\" said the Edge.",
"\"The stuff that's in the film are those moments where we're really being honest.\"",
"\"A little bit of sensationalism would have been good, a few great shots,\" joked Bono.",
"\"I felt like I was mugged.\"",
"In addition to the tension, intensity and struggle that plays out in the film, there is a lot of levity too, including a satirical montage of bands that have imploded or lost members, references and demonstrations of Bono's unique gibberish singing, dubbed \"Bongalese\" and yes, the band in drag.",
"\"What's interesting is Larry really didn't like the idea and thought he looked like he was in some skin flick,\" said Bono.",
"\"Edge took to it with a perfectionist's eye.\"",
"\"I just freaked myself out because I looked so much like my sister, I was shocked,\" the Edge said.",
"Added Bono: \"Adam looked like the Queen of England and I looked like Barbara Bush.\"",
"See the original article at RollingStone.com .",
"Copyright © 2011 Rolling Stone."
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"The film focuses on the tumultuous time in the band's career 20 years ago .",
"There are sound-only interviews that Guggenheim was able to draw from each band member .",
"There is a lot of levity too, including a satirical montage of bands that have imploded ."
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"(CNN) -- In Japanese legend they are known as The Kamikaze -- the divine winds -- a reference to two mighty typhoons placed providentially seven years apart which, in the 13th century, destroyed two separate Mongol invasion fleets so large they were not eclipsed until the D-Day landings of World War II.",
"Marine archaeologists now say they have uncovered the remains of a ship from the second fleet in 1281 -- believed to have comprised 4,400 vessels -- a meter below the seabed, in 25 meters of water off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan.",
"Scientists are hoping they will be able to recreate the complete Yuan Dynasty vessel from Kublai Khan's lost fleet using a 12-meter-long section of keel.",
"The Mongols ruled China from 1271 to 1368.",
"According to Yoshifumi Ikeda, a professor of archaeology at Okinawa's University of the Ryukyus, and head of the research team, the section could go a long way to helping researchers identify all the characteristics of the 20-meter warship.",
"\"This discovery was of major importance for our research,\" Ikeda told a news conference.",
"\"We are planning to expand search efforts and find further information that can help us restore the whole ship.\"",
"Discovered using ultrasound equipment, the research team says it is the first wreck from the period to have an intact hull, the planks of which are still attached to the keel with nails.",
"Scientists say its good state of preservation -- they were even able to establish that the planks were originally painted a whitish-gray -- is due to the fact it has been covered by sand.",
"\"I believe we will be able to understand more about shipbuilding skills at the time as well as the actual situation of exchanges in East Asia,\" Ikeda told reporters in Nagasaki.",
"How to survive a shipwreck .",
"More than 4,000 artifacts, including ceramic shards, bricks used for ballast, cannonballs and stone anchors have been found in the vicinity of the wreck, linking it to the Yuan Dynasty invasion fleet.",
"Ikeda said there were no immediate plans to salvage the hull and the first step was to conserve the find by covering the sites with nets.",
"The Kamikaze -- perhaps better known as the nickname given to the Japanese suicide pilots of the Pacific War -- were a nation-defining event for Japan and set the limits of Mongol expansion in the east.",
"Historians say the first Chinese attempt to invade Japan in 1274 ended in disaster.",
"Having initially engaged a numerically superior Japanese samurai force at the Battle of Bun'ei in First Battle of Hakata Bay, the Chinese retreated to their fleet of 300 ships and some 500 smaller craft after just one day of battle on land.",
"A typhoon destroyed a third of the fleet that night and the remnants limped back to port in Korea which was then a vassal state of China.",
"Seven years later, Kublai Khan amassed an impressive armada of 4,400 ships carrying 40,000 Korean, Mongol and Chinese troops in a bid to finally subjugate Japan.",
"The Japanese, convinced of a second invasion, had spent the intervening years building strategic seawalls which made it difficult for the Chinese to land.",
"Unable to gain a beachhead after initially taking the island of Iki and Tsushima, the fleet was decimated by a two-day typhoon that hit the Tsushima Straits.",
"It is believed about 80% of the fleet was destroyed and the Khan's troops either drowned at sea or slaughtered on the beaches by samurai.",
"According to a contemporary account cited in the book \"Khubilai Khan's lost fleet: In Search of a Legendary Armada,\" by maritime archaeologist James P. Delgado, the losses were so great that \"a person could walk across from one point of land to another on a mass of wreckage\"."
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"Marine archaeologists have found a shipwreck dating from the 13th century off the coast of Japan .",
"The vessel is thought to have been part of Kublai Khan's massive invasion fleet .",
"More than 4,000 artifacts, including pottery shards, cannonballs and anchors were found near the wreck ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A hearing continues Thursday to determine the future of John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan and three others in March 1981.",
"After an expected week and half of testimony, a federal judge will consider whether Hinckley should eventually be released from a mental hospital, where he has been a patient since his 1982 trial.",
"The trial ended in a jury verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.",
"On Wednesday, Hinckley's lawyers said he is not dangerous and should eventually be released.",
"But prosecutors are fighting that, saying Hinckley has been deceptive about his activities while on visits to his mother in Williamsburg, Virginia.",
"In opening statements, prosecutor Sarah Chasson said Secret Service agents will testify they performed surveillance on Hinckley without his knowledge earlier this year when he was allowed what he was told was unsupervised free time in Williamsburg.",
"On several occasions in July and September, Hinckley was supposed to go to the movies or shopping but instead went to bookstores where he looked at books about Ronald Reagan and presidential assassins, Chasson said.",
"A requirement of Hinckley's current visitation program is that plans be laid out detailing what he will do when on his own and that medical staff and the Secret Service are informed.",
"According to Chasson, in the first instance in July, Hinckley was supposed to go to the movie \"Captain America.\"",
"Later when he saw his \"treatment team,\" Hinckley not only maintained he had gone to the movie, but he enthusiastically recommended it.",
"Chasson also quoted from a 1987 diary entry by Hinckley in which he said \"psychiatry is a guessing game\" and doctors \"will never know the true John Hinckley.\"",
"\"The hospital doesn't know what Mr. Hinckley is thinking, and he wants it that way,\" the prosecutor said.",
"Hinckley's attorney, Barry Levine, said the issue is not whether Hinckley has sometimes been deceptive but whether he is dangerous.",
"\"This man is not dangerous and the evidence shows he is not dangerous,\" Levine said.",
"He added that Hinckley is \"flawed\" but is \"fundamentally decent.\"",
"Levine said that in the two and a half decades that Hinckley has been at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington to undergo treatment and during his visits outside that facility, there has \"not been a single act of violence.\"",
"Since 1999, Levine said, Hinckley has been taking a drug called Risperdal.",
"Medical websites describe Risperdal as an antipsychotic medication often used to treat bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.",
"Dr. Tyler Jones, director of psychiatry at St. Elizabeths, testified Hinckley also started taking Zoloft in 2005 after complaining about anxiety.",
"Jones said Hinckley had been diagnosed years ago as suffering from depression and from an unspecified psychotic disorder.",
"But Jones said he's been in remission for both of those disorders for many years.",
"He said Hinckley also suffers from narcissism, which has improved but is still present.",
"Jones said he has interviewed Hinckley but has not treated him.",
"According to Jones, Hinckley's treatment team was informed by the Secret Service that Hinckley had not told the truth about his activities during several visits.",
"Jones said the medical staff discussed this issue with Hinckley, who initially did not appear to view the issue as a big deal, but later understood it was a serious issue.",
"Although concerned Hinckley was not truthful about his activities, Jones said, \"We didn't feel this constituted an increased risk.\"",
"The staff decided to reduce Hinckley's Christmas visit to his mother from 10 days to five days, and he will not be allowed to have any unaccompanied activities during that December stay.",
"Jones said the staff had considered stronger action including the possibility of revoking Hinckley's privileges altogether.",
"A September filing by prosecutors said Hinckley \"continues to be deceptive regarding his relationships with and interest in women.\"",
"According to the document, in June of 2009 he went on the Internet to find photos of his female dentist.",
"\"When he was caught, Hinckley claimed, falsely, that the dentist had invited him to view her personal photographs.\"",
"Asked about the photographs of the dentist, Jones said the photographs were of the woman graduating from dental school and were \"not salacious.\"",
"He said the hospital considers Hinckley \"a low risk of violence to himself and others.\"",
"Currently, Hinckley is allowed to visit his mother 10 days a month.",
"On July 29, St. Elizabeths Hospital filed a proposal to increase that.",
"The first step would allow Hinckley to have two visits of 17 days.",
"That would be followed by six visits of 24 days.",
"According to the September government filing opposing the plan, the hospital would then \"be given the sole discretion to place Hinckley on convalescent leave in his mother's hometown.\"",
"After the judge and all the lawyers were in place, Hinckley, now 56, entered the court wearing a brown sports jacket, dark pants and a striped tie.",
"He shook hands with all his lawyers and sat down.",
"U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman greeted Hinckley and he replied, saying, \"Good morning.\"",
"Hinckley's defense team has listed him as a possible witness at the proceedings but has not revealed if he will definitely testify.",
"Prosecutors want to cross-examine Hinckley and his defense lawyers oppose that.",
"Mental health experts and Secret Service agents will testify, along with Hinckley's brother and sister.",
"Hinckley's mother is now 85 years old and is not a scheduled witness.",
"It's not clear how quickly the judge might issue a ruling on the hospital's plan to gradually allow Hinckley greater freedom.",
"On March 30, 1981, Hinckley waited for President Reagan to leave a Washington Hotel after a speech.",
"He opened fire and hit Reagan, his press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and Washington police officer Thomas Delahanty.",
"All survived, but Brady suffered a serious head wound that permanently affected his mobility and his speech.",
"Hinckley, who was 25 at the time of the shooting, was enamored of actress Jodie Foster.",
"He left a letter addressed to her in his Washington hotel room saying, \"Dear Jodie.",
"There is a definite possibility I will be killed in my attempt to get Reagan.\""
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"Defense attorneys want John Hinckley to be transitioned out of a mental hospital .",
"\"The hospital doesn't know what Mr. Hinckley is thinking,\" the prosecutor says .",
"The hearing may determine whether to eventually free him from a mental hospital .",
"After John Hinckley shot Reagan, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- What's the most emotional and divisive issue in American politics?",
"Abortion, right?",
"Just this weekend, former Republican front-runner Rick Perry used the abortion issue to slam current Republican front-runner Herman Cain at the Iowa Faith and Freedom forum.",
"Perry said: .",
"\"It is a liberal canard to say I am personally pro-life, but government should stay out of that decision.",
"If that is your view, you are not pro-life, you are pro having-your-cake-and-eating-it-too.\"",
"Over the previous week, Herman Cain had alarmed anti-abortion voters with a series of verbal miscues, indicating both that abortion must be stopped but also that the decision should be left to the individual woman, with no role for government.",
"At the Faith and Freedom forum, Cain over-corrected for his week of stumbles: \"No abortions.",
"No exceptions.\" That new position goes far beyond the usual pro-life policy, which allows exceptions for rape, child abuse, and to save the life of the mother.",
"Pro-life activists must unhappily confront the probability that many of the leading candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 - while all professedly pro-life - in reality neither care very much nor think very much about the abortion issue.",
"But now look at the world from the politicians' point of view.",
"They must hold together a coalition that is sliced apart by the abortion issue.",
"Pro-choice Republicans do not hold forums.",
"But they exist, and they have power.",
"With the result that while you can't get nominated for president by the GOP if you are pro-choice (see Giuliani, Rudy), you also can't get nominated if you oppose abortion too much (see Huckabee, Mike).",
"For the politicians, it's all baffling and vexing.",
"And yet -- incredible as it sounds now -- there is reason to expect that the abortion issue may someday just vanish from national politics.",
"After all, that's what happened to the last great moral issue to rattle the American party system: alcohol prohibition.",
"For 70 years from the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression, a human lifetime, the \"drys\" and the \"wets\" mustered all the passion, commitment, and moralism of the pro-life and pro-choice movements of our day.",
"\"It is my opinion that the saloonkeeper is worse than a thief and a murderer.",
"The ordinary thief steals only your money, but the saloonkeeper steals your honor and your character.",
"The ordinary murderer takes your life, but the saloonkeeper murders your soul.\"",
"That's from the famous \"booze sermon\" of Billy Sunday, the great popular preacher of the 1910s and 1920s.",
"Thousands of such passionate speeches -- millions more passionate words -- were uttered by names now brown with history: William Jennings Bryan, Carrie Nation, Elizabeth Cady Stanton.",
"It was not all talk. Ferocious legislative battles were bought to prohibit alcohol at the county, state and then ultimately national level.",
"The great scholar of American politics, Judith Shklar, estimated to her graduate students that through the long run of American history, more elections at more levels of government have turned on alcohol than any other issue, including slavery.",
"Politicians hated the alcohol issue for the same reason they now dislike the abortion issue: It sliced apart the existing party structure.",
"The Republicans could not win a national majority without the support of Protestant immigrants from Germany in cities like Milwaukee and St. Louis.",
"The Democrats could not win without the enthusiastic support of Irish Catholics in New York and New England.",
"City-dwelling Germans and Irish intensely resented attempts of their country-dwelling neighbors to regulate their behavior for them.",
"\"If they don't feel like takin' a glass of beer on Sunday, we must abstain,\" a contemporary Irish-American politician bitterly complained.",
"\"If they have not got any amusements up in their backwoods, we mustn't have none.\"",
"National politicians responded to Prohibition then in the same way they respond to abortion now: by looking for ways to avoid and de-escalate a destabilizing issue.",
"\"Questions based upon temperance, religion, morality, in all their multiplied forms, ought not to be the basis of politics,\" declared Senator John Sherman of Ohio in 1873.",
"\"We don't want to alienate anybody!\"",
"complained a Michigan Republican leader of the 1880s as quoted in a contemporary newspaper.",
"As Richard Jensen observes in his classic history, \"The Winning of the Midwest\", \"Very few prominent Republican politicians were abstainers ...",
"The politicians were not less likely to be churchgoers (many voters, after all, attended church), but they had developed their own standards of personal morality.\"",
"Then as now! And yet a century later ... the issue is dead.",
"Vanished. Forgotten. What happened? Three things.",
"1. Alcohol prohibition did finally get a national trial, from 1919-1933 and was universally experienced even by former supporters as a disaster.",
"2. The problem addressed by prohibition has dwindled away.",
"While it's difficult to know with any precision how much people drank in the years after the Civil War, it's almost certain that 19th Century Americans drank much more than they do today.",
"(For that matter, Americans today drink nearly 20% less than they did as recently as 1980.)",
"3. And maybe most important, drinking and non-drinking are no longer so intimately associated with other ethno-cultural divisions within American life.",
"As alcohol ceased to be a cultural symbol, the appropriate regulation of alcohol ceased to be an ideological issue.",
"When alcohol regulation flared up again in the 1980s, during the debate over stricter punishments for drunk driving, the debate never turned into a culture war because \"alcohol\" was not code (as it had been a century before) for a dozen other identities and grievances.",
"Can we imagine such a fate for the abortion issue?",
"Condition number one could well happen, and would be revolutionary.",
"But even in its absence, condition number two is beginning to obtain in the United States.",
"In the early 1980s, there were some 29 abortions per 1,000 women of child-bearing age.",
"Today that rate has declined to about 19 abortions per 1,000 women.",
"The rate will never reach zero, but we may expect that it will continue to decline as contraceptives improve and attitudes to out-of-wedlock birth become more accepting, and as younger generations increasingly reject abortion as an acceptable resolution of a pregnancy.",
"What about condition three?",
"Alcohol became central to American politics at a time when Americans were arguing whether the country should be rural or urban, a farm economy or industrial, and whether Catholics could ever become good Americans.",
"As those arguments lost their intensity, so did the alcohol issue.",
"Abortion became central to modern politics at exactly the same time as Americans were arguing over sexuality generally, over the status of women and the rights of gays.",
"I think it's a good guess that if we come to a new consensus about the status of women -- absorbing and digesting the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the feminist revolution of the 1970s into a new dispensation more comfortable with both women's equality to men and their differences from men -- disagreements over abortion will come to matter less.",
"Such disagreements won't disappear, any more than we've seen the end of debates about whether bars should open on Sundays.",
"But the disagreements won't matter so furiously much as they now seem to do.",
"Too bad for Herman Cain that day still seems at least a couple of decades remote.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum."
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"Herman Cain's comments on abortion brought him heavy criticism .",
"David Frum says abortion may be the hottest social issue, but it may not always be so .",
"He says American politics was riven by debate over alcohol for generations .",
"Changing social views and behavior may greatly lessen abortion issue, he says ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Accidents happen, but the show must go on.",
"That was Steven Tyler's outlook after he suffered a painful fall in a hotel bathroom in Paraguay on Tuesday -- an incident he described in detail Thursday on NBC's \"Today\" show.",
"The Aerosmith frontman and \"American Idol\" judge, 63, says he was battling food poisoning and began to feel nauseous in the shower.",
"\"I started to get sick, and I just fell on my face,\" he said.",
"\"I just passed out.\" His tour manager called the American Embassy and found the best hospital in the area.",
"\"It was like one-stop shopping,\" said Tyler.",
"\"They stitched up my eye.",
"They did a little plastic surgery.",
"And they fixed my tooth.",
"All in one fell swoop.\"",
"Tyler, who notoriously battled drug and alcohol problems in the past, said he accepted the fact that some people might think he fell off the wagon.",
"But he said this was an accident, not a relapse.",
"\"I get that people think that,\" he said.",
"\"It still bothers me a little, but it's something that I have to have to deal with for the rest of my life.\"",
"Tuesday's show in Paraguay was postponed by a day, but Tyler and the band played Wednesday to a raucous crowd, and the tour will continue.",
"\"Short of having my leg taken off, people are going to expect me to take the stage,\" said Tyler.",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Steven Tyler described the incident in detail Thursday on NBC's \"Today\" show .",
"He says he was battling food poisoning .",
"The singer notoriously battled drug and alcohol problems ."
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"(CNN) -- The Arab League's decision to impose sweeping sanctions on Syria, a move followed by Turkey, reflects an unprecedented level of collective action by the historically moribund regional body.",
"The Sunday vote by 19 Arab states to punish Syria further isolates Damascus and undermines President Bashar al-Assad's self-proclaimed role as the dominant voice of Arab nationalism.",
"Indeed, the activist role adopted by the Arab League as the 2011 Arab uprisings unfold has been a surprising development: Following decades of issuing lowest common denominator communiques, the league is rapidly emerging as a key regional actor.",
"The Arab League's strong condemnation last spring of Moammar Gadhafi's brutality easily could have been dismissed as a one-off, given the Libyan strongman's success at enraging most Arab leaders over the years.",
"Yet by following up its suspension of Syria from the organization with tough sanctions, it's clear the Arab League is taking on a more muscular role in the unfolding regional drama.",
"There are four main reasons for this new Arab League approach: .",
"First and foremost: The Arab uprisings themselves.",
"If nothing else, the protests of 2011 brought the power of Arab public opinion front and center.",
"Gone are the days when Arab leaders could act with total disregard for their people's opinions.",
"Public opinion throughout the Arab world resoundingly disapproved of Gadhafi's behavior, and now of Assad's.",
"This sentiment is motivating Arab leaders to respond to their people's anger, through the Arab League.",
"The corollary to this is Arab leaders' fear that if they stand idly by while Assad slaughters Syrians, popular resentment could boomerang against them.",
"Whereas popular discontent was traditionally channeled toward Israel and the West, collective Arab opprobrium is now targeted at brutal Arab regimes.",
"If they fail to act, many Arab leaders could suffer political heartache and more popular unrest at home.",
"Getting ahead of this demonstrates that they respond to public opinion, and it helps deflect popular discontent away from domestic issues.",
"On the geo-strategic level, Arab League activism is motivated by a desire to keep the Arabs in the drivers' seat.",
"With the United States largely over the horizon, Arab docility only creates windows of opportunity for non-Arabs to muck about in Middle East diplomacy.",
"Turkey has not succeeded in creating a leading diplomatic role for itself in the region, despite efforts to play an active role in Libya, Yemen and other hot spots.",
"The Arabs want to ensure that this remains the case.",
"Hence, Ankara was relegated to supporting the measures adopted by the Arab League, not initiating them.",
"The other geo-strategic explanation for Arab League activism is Iran.",
"The Arabs, particularly the Gulf states, have long decried Iran's encroachment in Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories.",
"Isolating Iran's key strategic ally in the region -- Assad's Syria -- provides a significant opportunity to roll back some of Tehran's regional gains.",
"Already, Hamas' Damascus-based leadership is looking for a new home and behaving with greater restraint.",
"And when Iran was seen to be meddling in Bahrain's sectarian struggle earlier this year, the Gulf states brutally crushed it -- collectively.",
"With the United States withdrawing from an Iraq they see as now heavily influenced by Iran, the other Arab states have even greater incentive to band together.",
"In taking strong actions, the Arab League claims to want to stave off foreign intervention in Syria.",
"Qatar's Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim hinted at this when he said that he \"hoped\" the Arab League's sanctions would obviate the need for foreign intervention.",
"In the short term, a more active Arab role may indeed make non-Arab nations hesitate to get involved -- but as was the case in Libya, the Arab League might actually be providing the necessary regional legitimacy for outside intervention.",
"This Arab League activism may signal a new regional norm analogous to the United Nations' \"responsibility to protect.\"",
"The Arab League has effectively joined the international rejection of the three-century old Westphalian system that enshrined the nonintervention of one state in the domestic affairs of another state.",
"Arab leaders can no longer turn a blind eye to the abhorrent behavior of fellow Arab rulers.",
"This is a welcome development, one that could head off other foreign interventions in the Middle East and encourage further collective action against brutal acts some Arab leaders perpetrate against their own people.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Robert Danin."
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"Robert Danin: Arab League's tough sanctions on Syria show new activism in region .",
"Public opinion now has power, he writes; leaders can't stand by as Syrians are slaughtered .",
"Danin says Arab League is taking charge to ensure Arabs are in the regional drivers' seat .",
"Danin: Arab leaders can no longer ignore others' brutality, a welcome development ."
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"(CNN) -- The Mexican navy smelled something fishy and their intuition paid off.",
"They found nearly a ton of cocaine hidden inside a shipment of frozen sharks.",
"The cargo, which was aboard the freight ship Dover Strait, had been loaded in Costa Rica, Mexican navy says.",
"Navy inspectors at the southeastern port of Progreso, in Yucatan state, on Tuesday detected an anomaly in two shipping containers during a routine X-ray, according to a navy news release.",
"The inspectors zeroed in on a shipment of sharks.",
"Upon slitting one of the frozen fish open, they found black bags containing rectangular packets filled with cocaine.",
"In all, authorities recovered 870 packages of cocaine, weighing 894 kilograms (about 1,967 pounds), the navy reported Wednesday.",
"In recent years, Mexico and the United States have stepped up drug enforcement efforts, pushing more of the drug trade to sea routes and forcing drug smugglers to find more creative ways to hide their contraband.",
"The cargo was aboard the freight ship Dover Strait and had been loaded in Costa Rica, the navy said."
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"(CNN) -- Acoustic rocker John Mayer has bowed out of a series of concerts after suffering from \"something next to my vocal cords called a granuloma,\" he said in a statement released Friday.",
"The singer and songwriter said he had undergone months of monitoring, but the condition -- a small area of tissue inflammation that most often occurs in the lungs -- had prevented him from going ahead with the performances.",
"\"I'm bummed to have to bow out of both the iheartradio Music Festival in Las Vegas and an appearance with Tony Bennett in Los Angeles,\" he said in the statement.",
"\"I know there were people depending on me to be there and I'm sorry that I can't be on those stages.\"",
"Mayer's soon-to-be-released album \"Born and Raised\" also will be delayed.",
"It's \"complete as far as music recording, song selection, and in some cases mixing,\" he said.",
"\"But because of this condition I couldn't finish singing on several of the tracks.\"",
"The album, as a result, will be released next year \"instead of this fall or winter.\"",
"\"This is a temporary setback, though I'm not sure how long or short a period of time it will be,\" he said.",
"\"I've got the best doctors in the country looking after me and I will be singing and touring again as soon as I get the all clear.\"",
"Mayer said he plans to spend the down time writing and composing, and \"kicking an empty soup can around the West Village.\""
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"John Mayer says he has a granuloma next to his vocal cords .",
"Granuloma is a small area of tissue inflammation .",
"Mayer's soon-to-be-released album \"Born and Raised\" will be delayed ."
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"Berlin (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI met Friday with a group of people who had been sexually abused by clergy in his native Germany, where disenchantment with the Roman Catholic Church has grown in the wake of the scandal.",
"The meeting, which occurred at a seminary in Erfurt, came on the second day of the pontiff's four-day visit to his homeland.",
"Besides talking with victims of sexual abuse committed by priests and church personnel, he also met with people \"who care for those injured by these crimes,\" according to a statement from the Vatican press office.",
"\"Moved and deeply shaken by the sufferings of the victims, the Holy Father expressed his deep compassion and regret over all that was done to them and their families,\" the statement added.",
"\"He assured the people present that those in positions of responsibility in the church are seriously concerned to deal with all crimes of abuse and are committed to effective measures for the protection of children.\"",
"The pope has had similar meetings elsewhere, in the face of outcries from many nations in Europe, North America and beyond criticizing the church for its handling of sexual abuse cases.",
"Friday's visit was unique in that it took place in the homeland of Benedict, where he'd also served as a cardinal.",
"He himself got caught up in the scandal in at least one case, when he -- as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger -- approved the transfer of a man within Germany in the wake of accusations that the man had abused children.",
"But the archdiocese has said the then-cardinal was never personally aware of the details of the man's case.",
"In March 2010, the priest -- then identified only as H -- was suspended, the archdiocese of Munich and Freising announced.",
"Five years earlier, enthusiasm was high in Germany's Catholic community when Benedict was named pope.",
"But the sex abuse scandal, and a perception that a conservative church is unlikely to change its ways, has affected the church in the European nation.",
"According to Der Spiegel magazine, more than 181,000 Catholics have left the church since the scandal broke.",
"And candidates for the priesthood have plummeted 62% since 1990, according to the German Bishops Conference.",
"While he has visited Germany three times since 2005, this marks Benedict's first state visit as pope.",
"On Thursday, he met with Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Christian Wulf.",
"He also gave a speech before the Reichstag, Germany's parliament, in which he spoke of the \"inviolable dignity of every single human person.\"",
"Benedict began his day Friday with a mass in Berlin and he met with 15 representatives of Germany's Muslim community.",
"In a subsequent speech, he said, \"the convictions (Catholics and Muslims) are becoming visible\" while adding that \"constant effort is needed in order to foster better mutual acquaintance and understanding.\"",
"\"There can be a fruitful collaboration between Christians and Muslims,\" Benedict said in the speech, a transcript of which was provided by the Vatican.",
"\"We can offer an important witness in many key areas of life in society (such as) the protection of the family based on marriage, respect for life in every phase of its natural course or the promotion of greater social justice.\"",
"CNN's Rick Noack contributed to this report."
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"Pope Benedict XVI meets with victims of clergy abuse in his native Germany .",
"He \"expressed his deep compassion and regret,\" the Vatican reports .",
"It is his first state visit to Germany, which included meetings with top officials .",
"The pope also pushed for \"a fruitful collaboration\" with Muslims ."
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"Syracuse, New York (CNN) -- A second man who has publicly accused a former Syracuse University coach of molesting him told CNN's AC360 on Tuesday that he was speaking out so that no other children would be hurt.",
"Mike Lang accused former men's assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine, 65, of touching him inappropriately at least dozens of times when he was a boy.",
"\"I just hope that no other kids get abused, and that's the main reason why I came out and said what I had to say. ...",
"I don't want this to happen to anybody else,\" Lang said.",
"Fine's house used to be like a home to him, and the coach was a father figure, a \"great guy,\" he said.",
"Syracuse fired Fine on Sunday, less than a month after the university placed him on administrative leave after Lang and his stepbrother, Bobby Davis, came forward to publicly accuse him of molesting them over several years.",
"See a timeline of the Syracuse sexual abuse scandal .",
"A third man, Zachary Tomaselli, now 23, has also said he was abused by Fine -- while in a hotel room in Pittsburgh, where he'd gone to watch a Syracuse game.",
"Police in Syracuse and Pittsburgh are investigating the allegations and looking for other potential victims, authorities have said.",
"Police say they'll change reporting procedures .",
"When the allegations first surfaced, Fine -- married with a son and two daughters -- called them \"patently false.\"",
"He has not commented since.",
"The investigation at Syracuse comes in the wake of a sex abuse scandal at Penn State University that received nationwide attention.",
"Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky is accused of sexually abusing boys over a span of 14 years.",
"When asked what his reaction was when he saw the Penn State story break, Lang said his \"stomach just turned.\"",
"\"All I can think of is what me and my little brother went through, and it's happening all over again,\" he said.",
"Regarding Jim Boeheim, head men's basketball coach at Syracuse, Lang said, \"I honestly believe he didn't know anything about this.\"",
"While some have called for Boeheim to be fired, he said, \"I just don't want that to happen.",
"He's a Syracuse man in and out and ...",
"I don't believe that he had any knowledge this was going on.\"",
"Lang, now 45, said he used to tell Fine to stop touching him, but that \"you couldn't tell him no.\"",
"\"It was hard to say anything, because you think you're with a god -- just hard to come out and say anything to anybody about it,\" Lang said.",
"Watch Anderson Cooper 360° weeknights 10pm ET.",
"For the latest from AC360° click here."
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"Mike Lang says his stomach turned when he heard about the Penn State sex abuse scandal .",
"Syracuse University fired assistant men's basketball coach Bernie Fine on Sunday .",
"Lang alleges that when he was a boy, Fine touched him inappropriately many times .",
"Now 45, Lang says he considered Fine a father figure and a \"great guy\""
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is battling a large grass fire in the marshlands of Jefferson County, Texas, an agency official told CNN on Tuesday.",
"The fire began Monday afternoon about 12 miles west of Sabine Pass and about 200 yards from the Intracoastal Waterway, Jim Stockie, spokesman for the fish and wildlife service said.",
"He estimated the area burned by Tuesday afternoon to be between 10,000 and 12,000 acres, but he said the fire was not threatening any structures.",
"Smoke from the blaze was drifting into the Houston/Galveston area more than 100 miles from the fire.",
"Just a dozen firefighters were working the blaze, Stockie said.",
"\"We don't like to put firefighters out in a sea of grass.",
"We retreat to levies and burn off the fuel,\" Stockie said.",
"Texas has suffered its worst fire season in state history with more than 3.5 million acres burned, according to state officials.",
"In October, the Bastrop Complex Fire torched more than 1,500 homes and 34,000 acres of land north of Austin before officials were able to contain it, the Texas Fire Service said.",
"An unusual La Nina weather pattern led to a nearly 11-month fire season in the state, fire service spokeswoman April Saginor said.",
"A survey released last month by the Texas Forest Service estimated between 100 million and 500 million trees, or 2% to 10% of the state's 4.9 billion trees, were killed by the severe drought and consequent fires.",
"The dry spell that began in 2010 was the worst the state has seen since 1895, Texas Lt. Gov.",
"David Dewhurst has said.",
"The drought conditions also caused concern for the state's water supply, especially in smaller towns.",
"CNN's Dave Alsup and Chandler Friedman contributed to this report."
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"The fire began Monday afternoon .",
"Smoke has drifted to the Houston/Galveston area 100 miles away .",
"No structures are threatened; only a dozen firefighters are working the blaze .",
"\"We don't like to put firefighters out in a sea of grass,\" says an official ."
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"Editor's note: Brian Levin is a professor of criminal justice at California State University, San Bernardino and director of the university's Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism.",
"Michael Stoops is executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington.",
"Brian Levin says the homeless are excluded from lessons on tolerance and aren't protected by hate crime laws.",
"CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Over the last two calendar years, more Americans in the United States were killed in a little-noticed spate of unprovoked attacks than were killed by terrorists, in large commercial jet crashes or in racial hate crimes.",
"Since 1999, more than 240 vulnerable homeless Americans have been stabbed, beaten, drowned, shot or burned to death in a revolting display of one of the last socially tolerated prejudices, this one based on class.",
"Despite being prime targets of prejudice and violence, particularly in today's youth subculture, the homeless are routinely excluded from lessons related to tolerance, as well as from official data collection and hate-crime penalty enhancement laws.",
"A newly released report from the National Coalition for the Homeless documented 27 unprovoked, apparently bias-related homicides by attackers in the United States last year, down one from the previous year and the second-highest number of killings since 2001.",
"After bottoming mid-decade, the number killed has not dipped below 20 a year since 2005.",
"In contrast, the FBI documented only 12 hate-crime homicides nationally for the two most recently available calendar years combined.",
"According to the NCH and the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, nearly 2 1/2 times more homeless people in America have been killed over the past 10 years in apparent unprovoked bias homicides than the total for all the other hate- crime homicides -- on the basis of race, religion, national origin, disability and sexual orientation -- combined.",
"Like other hate crime perpetrators, these attackers are typically young male \"thrill offenders\" seeking excitement, with 58 percent of assailants over the past 10 years falling in the 13-19 age range.",
"In 2006, three teenagers out for fun attacked homeless people in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with baseball bats, killing one of their victims, 45-year-old Norris Gaynor.",
"One pleaded guilty and the two others were convicted of murder last September after the jury saw graphic surveillance tape of one of their nonlethal beatings from earlier in the evening.",
"These attacks exclude the large number of other types of crimes involving the homeless, such as personal disputes, homeless-on-homeless violence, robbery, drugs or murder for life insurance proceeds.",
"The August issue of Maxim, a youth-oriented magazine targeted at college-aged males, joked about last weekend's National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, in a blurb titled \"Hunt the Homeless.\"",
"The journal quipped \"Kill one for fun.",
"We're 87 percent sure it's legal.\"",
"In previous violent attacks, some assailants have referenced degrading and violent depictions in popular culture such as \"Bumfights\" either during their crimes or in subsequent interviews with authorities, with some even filming the events.",
"\"Bumfights\" is a popular violent video series that sold hundreds of thousands of tapes and DVDs before going viral on the Internet.",
"The film series sets a new low in American popular culture, featuring fights between homeless men plied by the producers with alcohol, as well as sadistic parodies of the late Australian conservationist \"crocodile hunter\" Steve Irwin.",
"These \"skits\" feature terrified sleeping homeless people who are startled awake and forcibly restrained with duct tape by \"hunters\" narrating their attacks with feigned Australian accents.",
"Samuel Bowhay of Grinnell College found almost 86,000 videos on YouTube last month with \"bum\" in the title, thousands more than videos with other derogatory prejudiced epithets.",
"While homeless advocates lack the political and financial infrastructure often needed to institute policy reform, the frequency and brutality of the bias attacks have renewed focus on the nature of this violent form of prejudice and ways to address it.",
"Last week, District of Columbia Mayor Adrian Fenty signed legislation adding homeless status to the district's hate-crime law.",
"Maryland, an early adopter of such measures in the 1980s, will join Maine in adding homeless status to its hate-crime law on October 1.",
"Other jurisdictions such as Alaska; Puerto Rico; Los Angeles County, California; and Seattle, Washington, also have taken various steps to recognize homeless status in their laws, data collection, educational efforts or procedures.",
"In almost a dozen other states, including California, Texas, South Carolina and Florida, legislation has been introduced over the past three years to add homeless status to their hate-crime laws as well.",
"Nationally, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas has introduced legislation to add homelessness to federal hate-crime laws and data-collection efforts.",
"These efforts are long overdue.",
"A primary purpose of hate-crime laws is the targeted deterrent message to would-be offenders that they face real punishment and social disapproval.",
"Moreover, the key criminological criteria for coverage in hate-crime law apply seamlessly to homeless status as well: .",
"1. a significant additional risk of violent victimization; .",
"2. discriminatory selection; .",
"3. established prejudice against a socially identifiable class; .",
"4. identical offenders such as bigoted skinheads or young male thrill offenders who share identifiable characteristics and motivations.",
"Arguments against including provisions in hate-crime laws for the homeless are recycled ones that were initially used unsuccessfully against other groups, like gays and lesbians.",
"Too many additional groups dilute the laws, or homelessness is a changeable condition that most people wouldn't want, they argue.",
"The fact is, millions of Americans have changed their religious affiliation and yet, just about all hate crime laws cover faith.",
"Disability is a characteristic that, like homelessness, most people would not seek out, yet it too is covered.",
"Adding the homeless to hate-crime laws, tolerance education and data-collection efforts must not be obstructed.",
"When hate makes a fist, the laws of a civilized society must decisively block the blow in the most forceful and unambiguous way possible.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Brian Levin and Michael Stoops.",
"Reuters contributed to this report."
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"Levin, Stoops: Homeless aren't protected by hate-crime laws or tolerance lessons .",
"They say new report documents disturbing level of violence vs. homeless .",
"They say popular culture leads some to think of hunting homeless as a sport .",
"Levin, Stoops: Laws must forcefully block violence against homeless ."
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"Moscow (CNN) -- President Dmitry Medvedev has signed an order dismissing longtime Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, the Kremlin reported Monday on its website.",
"The state-run RIA-Novosti news agency said Kudrin had resigned amid a dispute with Medvedev.",
"The announcement came shortly after Medvedev had given Kudrin until the end of the day to decide whether to quit.",
"\"You need to make a decision quickly and tell me about it today,\" Medvedev told Kudrin during a session of the modernization commission in Dimitrovgrad.",
"Medvedev urged that Kudrin to \"make up his mind about his political future,\" according to the non-governmental, Moscow-based Interfax news agency.",
"The president was reacting to a comment Kudrin is reported to have made in Washington.",
"Citing differences with Medvedev, particularly related to defense spending, Kudrin said that he would not remain in a government led by Medvedev, Interfax said.",
"Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced Saturday he plans to return next year to the presidency and to name Medvedev as prime minister.",
"Kudrin, 50, had served as finance minister since 2000, during which time the government had paid off most of its foreign debt and created oil wealth funds that helped the nation weather the global economic problems of recent years, RIA-Novosti said.",
"-- Maxim Tkachenko contributed to this story ."
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"Russian Finance Minister Kudrin steps down over differences with Medvedev .",
"Medvedev has already signed the order dismissing Kurdin .",
"The economist has been credited with helping Russia weather the global downturn ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- At the stroke of midnight Friday, the good music and bad jokes of Freedom Radio Iraq fell silent.",
"Army broadcasters who pumped out tunes, wisecracks and information to their fellow American military personnel in Iraq formally turned off their microphones after eight years.",
"\"This is the radio station for our troops, and you know we are sad to see it go,\" said Army Staff Sgt.",
"Randall \"Jay\" Townsend, one of the station's disc jockeys, before the final broadcast.",
"\"But at the same time, this piece is part of the big transformation that is going to happen over here -- so some sadness and some excitement as well.\"",
"So exciting that Townsend, from Arkansas, was up even earlier than usual -- 3:30 a.m. -- ready for a long day with his listeners.",
"\"This station has been in Iraq for the troops the entire time, and this is their outlet to back home,\" he said.",
"The closing of the station is just the latest visible evidence of the deliberate, phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, all pointing toward an end-of the-year deadline.",
"With the withdrawal clock ticking, the U.S. continues to talk with Iraqis about leaving some American forces behind for training and security.",
"But Armed Forces Radio is over and out.",
"\"The security agreement reached back in 2008 calls for all U.S. forces to be out of Iraq by December 31, and we are operating consistent with that guidance,\" said one of the officers in charge, Lt. Col. Freddie Mack.",
"\"So tonight will be our last night as Freedom Radio here in AFN Iraq.\"",
"The unit's motto is \"serving those who serve,\" Mack said.",
"\"We all can't wait till the 31st of December to board planes, so some of that transition has to start now.",
"The soldiers of AFN Iraq have certainly done their part in bringing to a close this chapter.\"",
"The station went on the air in December 2003, and the first song was Paul McCartney's \"Freedom.\"",
"The transmitters will stay in place for now, but music and news will come from Europe.",
"Townsend said he thought long and hard about exactly how to sign off.",
"\"I'm just going to say my thanks,\" he said Friday by video link provided by the Defense Department.",
"\"I'm not going to make it too complicated.\"",
"In recent weeks, the station's DJs asked their listeners for how to end the final broadcast.",
"A Facebook poll narrowed it down to five songs: .",
"Toby Keith: \"Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue\" Green Day: \"When September Ends\" Saving Abel: \"Miss America\" Daughtry: \"Home\" P. Diddy: \"Coming Home\" The final selection was revealed at midnight: Keith's \"Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.\"",
"Townsend and his fellow radio jocks know they are part of a long line of other broadcasters in uniform.",
"They have a special place of honor for \"Good Morning, Vietnam\" radio DJ Adrian Cronauer, who came on Friday's show for an interview.",
"\"Absolutely! There is not a military broadcaster who doesn't know who Adrian Cronauer is and the things he was able to accomplish and the lasting impact he had on military journalists and AFN radio stations around the world,\" Townsend said.",
"Cronauer's signature sign-in \"Good Morning, Vietnam\" became part of that era, and the movie inspired generations of broadcasters like Townsend to sign up.",
"\"I feel like we are part of an evolved set of broadcasters throughout the years,\" Townsend said.",
"\"We really do think we are part of that military journalism corps, I would say, passed down from those folks in Vietnam all the way back to World War II.",
"So we know we are just part of that legacy just as much as anyone else.\"",
"Part of that legacy, reinforced by Cronauer and others, is to go right to the brink.",
"\"My morning show, we push the limits as far as we possibly can to make the troops laugh, and if we don't get a complaint from somebody, you know, with some real rank on them every now and then, we don't feel we are pushing the envelope far enough to give the troops a real sense of a real radio station they would be listening to back in the states,\" Townsend said.",
"Both he and the brass were counting down to the goodbye Friday.",
"Said Townsend, \"To be here at the end of that chapter -- too surreal.\""
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"They have been broadcasting to U.S. military personnel in Iraq for eight years .",
"The end of the station is part of the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq .",
"Music and news will continue but will come out of Europe ."
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"(CNN) -- Age has slowed Sonic, the beloved blue hero from an earlier generation of video games, but Sega may have finally rehabilitated the venerable hedgehog.",
"\"Sonic Generations,\" which arrives in stores Tuesday for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, comes at an opportune time.",
"With a crucial holiday season imminent, Sega Sammy Holdings hasn't produced a stellar Sonic game in about a decade, and the company's game division has performed especially sluggishly this year.",
"But \"Sonic Generations,\" coming on the 20th anniversary of the franchise, looks like a promising candidate to buck these trends.",
"The first batch of reviews have been positive, and the game has received more preorders than any previous Sonic game, which is an early barometer for success.",
"Sega also managed to build some buzz for the game at video game expos like E3, although those conventions have not been particularly kind to other Sonic games.",
"Encouraged by the favorable feedback, Sega is throwing its marketing weight behind the game.",
"These initiatives include traditional advertising, constructing a Sonic-themed playground in East Oakland, California, and a balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.",
"The original \"Sonic the Hedgehog\" debuted on Sega's Genesis game system in 1991.",
"Since the heydays of Sega going head-to-head with Nintendo for home console domination, the company has ceased selling hardware, started developing for multiple systems and merged with Sammy, which makes pachinko slot machines in Japan.",
"Perhaps as a result, Sega's flagship franchise, which is developed by the aptly named Sonic Team, has slumped.",
"Sonic's and Mario's \"platformer\" genre -- in which cartoonish characters navigate increasingly challenging maze-like levels -- was once a blockbuster seller, but it's been surpassed by first-person shooters such as \"Call of Duty\" and \"Battlefield.\"",
"Nintendo has managed to maintain the high quality of Mario games over the years, but Sega has struggled to remake Sonic for the fast-paced 21st-century game industry.",
"\"Sonic Generations\" is designed to \"take Sonic back to the pure elements,\" Yasuhiro Noguchi, a senior producer who led development on the Western version of the game, said in an interview.",
"Some previous games in the series became preoccupied with elaborate story lines and slower-paced exploration.",
"American and European players may have been put off by elements of the plots that were geared toward audiences in Japan, where Sonic Team is based.",
"\"The team tries very hard not to bias it for a particular territory,\" Noguchi said.",
"\"They don't necessarily do stuff that is very, very specific to, say, their home territory.",
"That's one of the learnings that has kind of informed their development DNA in the last 20 years -- that Sonic is loved internationally.\"",
"For \"Sonic Generations\" and its predecessor, \"Sonic Colors\" for the Wii, Sega recruited writers from the television show \"Happy Tree Friends.\"",
"They pen straightforward scripts that they hope will resonate with players outside of Asia, where Sonic's market is bigger.",
"However, the writers must also adhere to standards set by Sega's Japan-based Sonic Committee, which is tasked with upholding the integrity of the Sonic brand.",
"\"Sonic is a beloved franchise,\" Noguchi said.",
"\"Disney has Mickey, and we have Sonic.\"",
"\"Sonic Generations\" is looking to polish the franchise's legacy and reverse the recent decline of Sonic's popularity, said Patrick Riley, a U.S.-based development director for the company.",
"\"I think that fans recognize that as far as the quality, Sonic is moving in the right direction.\"",
"The game melds the classic two-dimensional action with three-dimensional exploration.",
"\"We're truly bringing the 'A game' on 'Sonic Generations,' \" Noguchi said.",
"\"In some ways, it is sort of a celebration and a sendoff for the first generation of Sonic.\"",
"\"Sonic Generations\" will dip into past successes in its attempt to rebuild the franchise.",
"Levels from classic Sonic games, such as the memorable Green Hill Zone, have been remade in 3-D. A dash of nostalgia may be just what Sega needs to reinvigorate its aging hedgehog."
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"\"Sonic Generations\" celebrates the series' 20th anniversary ."
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"Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- Nayef bin Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia's interior minister, has been named the new crown prince of the key oil-producing nation, ascending at a time of regional turmoil amid the populist Arab Spring movement and simmering international issues involving Iran and other neighbors.",
"The news, following a royal decree signed by King Abdullah, was announced early Friday on state-run Saudi Television.",
"The official Saudi Press Agency reported that the decree was issued the previous evening.",
"Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the king's half-brother, died in a New York hospital on Saturday after being ill for some time.",
"His funeral was held three days later in Riyadh.",
"As was the case with his predecessor, the move makes Nayef bin Abdulaziz the heir to the Saudi throne.",
"He will assume his new post at a tension-filled time in the Arab world.",
"The longtime leaders of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have fallen in recent months during the so-called Arab Spring, while those in Yemen, Syria and elsewhere are holding on to power despite continuing popular unrest.",
"Violence remains a problem in neighboring Iraq, as well as Afghanistan.",
"Iran, a longtime rival of the Saudi royal family's, is still at odds with much of the international community over its nuclear program, among other issues.",
"Before the announcement, Nayef had been considered a likely successor to his brother as crown prince.",
"He was named in 2009 as second deputy prime minister, a post held by the second in line to the throne.",
"Nayef has served as the Saudi interior minister since 1975, having overseen the kingdom's counterterrorism efforts.",
"Saudi Arabia is one of the only countries that has truly dismantled a domestic al Qaeda network, said Christopher Boucek, a Saudi expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.",
"\"Nayef is widely seen as a hard-line conservative who, at best, is lukewarm to King Abdullah's reform initiatives,\" read a classified U.S. Embassy cable leaked by the website WikiLeaks.",
"In addition to his new title, Nayef will remain interior minister, according to Friday's announcement.",
"The Saudi Press Agency noted that he also has been appointed deputy premier, meaning he will officially hold three positions in the Saudi government.",
"He and others met Thursday with a U.S. delegation that included Vice President Joe Biden, CIA Director David Petraeus and Sen. John McCain.",
"Ascension to the Saudi throne is kept within the royal family, though it does not pass from father to son.",
"Instead, it's a complex process, and decisions in the conservative kingdom are often cloaked in secrecy.",
"Nayef's appointment follows the first-ever convening of the Allegiance Council, which the king established in 2006 to discuss and allow for more transparency on succession issues.",
"The king made his decision after receiving their input.",
"Afterward, Abdullah instructed Nayef's fellow princes to pledge allegiance to him as the new crown prince.",
"CNN's Rima Maktabi contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Besides being crown prince, Nayef also will be deputy premier and interior minister .",
"A leaked U.S. Embassy cable described Nayef as a \"hard-line conservative\"\nThe previous crown prince died Saturday in New York ."
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"Los Angeles (CNN) -- For the first time in U.S. history, the largest single group of poor children in any racial or ethnic category is Hispanic, according to a new survey.",
"Calling it \"a negative milestone\" in Hispanics' explosive growth in the United States, the Pew Hispanic Center study said in 2010, 37.3% of poor children in the U.S. were Hispanic, compared with 30.5% white and 26.6% black.",
"The Pew analysis of new census data put the number of Hispanic children in poverty at 6.1 million in 2010.",
"This negative trend has emerged as the 2010 census confirmed for the first time that Hispanics are the nation's No.",
"2 group, surpassing African-Americans.",
"Hispanics now make up 16.3% of the total American population -- but in the youth demographic, Hispanic kids comprise an even bigger share -- 23.1% of U.S. children are Latino, the study said.",
"See how Hispanics drove the growth of the white population .",
"The study found there are 6.1 million Latino children living in poverty, and more than two-thirds of them -- 4.1 million -- are children of immigrant parents.",
"Of those 4.1 million, 86% were born in America, the study said.",
"The remaining 2 million poor Latino children have U.S.-born parents, the study said.",
"Prior to the recession, more white children lived in poverty than Latino kids, but since the recession began in 2007, those positions reversed, and the number of poor Hispanic children grew by 36.3% between 2007 and 2010, or 1.6 million, the study said.",
"The number of white and black children in poverty also grew, but not as big, the study found.",
"See how the white population changed in relation to minorities .",
"The recession hit Latino families hard: the unemployment rate among Hispanic workers is 11.1%, compared with a national rate of 9.1%, and the household wealth for Latinos fell more sharply than for white or black families between 2005 and 2009, the study said.",
"Food insecurity also grew among Latinos, with one-third of households facing the problem in 2008, up from 23.8% the prior year, the study said.",
"Leaders of programs serving the poor said Thursday their experiences match the study's findings, which was released Wednesday.",
"In his twice-a-month acts of charity, Reverend Carlos Paiva has noticed the increasing number of Latino youngsters who arrive with their families at his Angelica Lutheran Church near downtown Los Angeles.",
"The church gives free rice, beans, potatoes, onions and fruits to needy families, he said.",
"\"The numbers are growing,\" Paiva said about Latino kids who show up at the church with their families.",
"\"The average age of the people who come here for food is 10 years old.\"",
"Michael Flood, CEO of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, said his group's recent summer lunch program for poor children saw \"a lot more kids from the Latino community.\"",
"\"It worries us,\" Flood said.",
"\"Given the fact that the economy hasn't turned around, it's a more desperate deal.\"",
"Victor Martinez, director of programming at Bienestar, a nonprofit that runs nine health community centers in southern California for Latinos, said he was \"sad and disappointed to see that my community is facing these problems.\"",
"\"Especially for the more recent immigrants, they have more limited resources to work.",
"We have more requests to go to the food bank and housing,\" Martinez said."
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"NEW: Pew Hispanic Center study: 4.1 million of those are children of immigrants .",
"NEW: Prior to 2007, more white children lived in poverty than Latino kids, study reports .",
"NEW: Providers of services to poor say the report reflects what they're seeing ."
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"London (CNN) -- A complete set of 100 etchings by Pablo Picasso -- never before seen in public -- is to go on display at the British Museum after an \"extraordinary\" $1.5 million gift.",
"Businessman Hamish Parker -- a long-term fan of the London museum -- donated the entire Vollard Suite in memory of his father, Major Horace Parker, who died last year.",
"The Vollard Suite -- one of the 20th century's most highly prized collections of etchings -- was created by Picasso between 1930 and 1937.",
"It features pictures of the artist's young lover, Marie-Therese Walter, depictions of the Minotaur, the half-man-half-beast from classical myth who would become a regular feature in Picasso's works, and also a number of portraits of art collector Ambroise Vollard, for whom the collection is named.",
"A spokeswoman for the museum said Parker -- a friend of the prints and drawings room -- had learned of the museum's hopes of acquiring the suite of etchings at an event there last year.",
"\"We already owned a few individual plates from the collection, five or so out of the 100, and one of those was on display,\" she told CNN.",
"\"Stephen Coppel, the prints and drawings curator, had placed a note beside it explaining that it was a long-term ambition of the British Museum to own the complete set.",
"\"But it was pie-in-the-sky stuff really -- we hoped to be able to add to the collection piece by piece over time.",
"Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine it would happen so quickly.\"",
"After his father died, Parker surprised museum bosses by telling them he planned to offer them the money to buy the full set, in memory of the Major.",
"\"It was very unexpected, and incredibly generous,\" the spokeswoman said.",
"\"We are delighted.\" The Vollard Suite will go on display at the British Museum in London from May 3 to September 2, 2012, the first time a complete set of the etchings has been shown in the UK for half a century.",
"The collection will be shown alongside examples of the classical sculpture, Rembrandt etchings and Goya prints which inspired Picasso in creating it..",
"The suite was commissioned by Parisian collector Ambroise Vollard, who planned to print and sell editions of it; however he died in a car accident in 1939 before the task was completed.",
"After his death most of the prints were sold to fellow art dealer Henri Petiet.",
"The British Museum's set, which has never been shown in public before and is in pristine condition, was bought from the Petiet family."
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"British Museum celebrates 'unexpected and incredibly generous' gift .",
"Complete set of Pablo Picasso's Vollard Suite etchings donated by friend of museum .",
"$1.5m bequest in memory of donor's father, Major Horace Parker, who died last year .",
"All 100 etchings are to go on display at the museum next summer ."
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"(CNN) -- It is the role that every fan of the beautiful game counts on but which few people envy.",
"The much-maligned position of the football referee is a job that attracts criticism, controversy and castigation on an almost weekly basis with little glory in return.",
"Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho is the latest to add his voice to the deafening boom of dissent so often aimed at various men in black around the world.",
"Despite a 5-1 victory for his side against Murcia in Spain's Cop del Rey, the Portuguese boss let rip at the referee Paradas Romero's record of showing more then six yellow cards per match.",
"Romero added to this with a red card for Mourinho himself, after the 47-year-old told the official to \"Go f*** himself\" during the game, according to the ref.",
"The incident follows similar controversy in Britain where Manchester United's game against English title rivals Tottenham last month ended in farce when Mark Clattenburg allowed Portugal winger Nani to score despite his clear handball in the build-up.",
"Should referees be relegated too?",
"Clattenburg's clanger came hot on the heals of referee Dougie McDonald's blooper in Scotland where he awarded a penalty to Celtic against rivals Dundee United, before overturning his own decision before the kick was taken.",
"In honor of all of the above, Fanzone takes a look at the best moments of on-pitch gaffes from soccer's finest: .",
"Brazilian ball boy scores equalizing goal .",
"Silvia Regina de Oliveira was the first woman to ever referee a match in the Brazilian National Championship, and went on to handle games at the 2004 Olympics.",
"But her career went into decline two years later when she inexplicably awarded Santacruzense a late equalizer against Atletico Sorocaba in a Paulista Football Federation Cup clash.",
"One of the home team's players had fired a shot into the outside of the net, and the waiting ball boy took the chance to cheekily evade the visiting goalkeeper and tap a shot over the goal-line.",
"De Oliveira did not see the incident, but noticed the ball was in the net, so consulted with her linesman and awarded a goal -- sparking scenes of mayhem as the Atletico players protested.",
"Despite the video evidence, the result of the match was allowed to stand.",
"\"I should have trusted my own vision,\" De Oliveira later admitted.",
"Three yellow cards equals one red .",
"Top English referee Graham Poll sabotaged his hopes of controlling a World Cup final in 2006 when he made a massive blunder in Australia's 2-2 draw with Croatia in a group-stage game in Germany.",
"Poll booked Josip Simunic after an hour and then in the final minute of regulation time -- but forgot to send the Croatian from the pitch.",
"He had the chance to compound his error in time added on when he handed Simunic a third yellow card.",
"It was third time unlucky for Poll, who had correctly dismissed Croatia's Dario Simic and Australia's Brett Emerton after giving the duo their second respective bookings just minutes earlier.",
"Poll, who later admitted putting Simunic's first yellow card against Australia defender Craig Moore's name in his notebook, was widely mocked as the video spread around the Internet, and the 42-year-old's house was blockaded by media.",
"\"It opened my eyes as to who my real friends are and how much my family meant to me,\" he said.",
"Fabiano one-ups Maradona with double handball .",
"French referee Stephane Lannoy was left with egg on his face after allowing Luis Fabiano to clearly handle the ball twice before scoring his second goal in the 3-1 win over the Ivory Coast at the 2010 World Cup.",
"Lannoy was pictured laughing with the Brazil striker when he questioned him about how he had controlled the ball.",
"\"I wasn't sure if it was the elbow, the upper arm or the chest.",
"So I decided to have a talk with him, he said it was chest.",
"Thereafter, I could do nothing but allow the goal.",
"It was after the match I realized that Fabiano had been dishonest,\" Lannoy told L'Equipe newspaper.",
"Lannoy had a nightmare match, later sending off Kaka for a second yellow card after Ivory Coast's Kader Keita went down in a heap following an innocuous collision with the Brazil playmaker.",
"Lannoy was duped again in a European Champions League match this month, when he waved play on and failed to book Barcelona's Jose Pinto after the goalkeeper whistled to distract an opposing player.",
"Pinto was subsequently handed a two-match ban for improper conduct for deceiving Copenhagen forward Cesar Santin, who thought Lannoy had blown for offside when he broke clear of the defense.",
"The case of the 'ghost penalty' Emerson Acuna was little known outside his native Colombia until December 2008, when the striker pulled off one of the most outrageous referee cons in the history of sport.",
"The Atletico Junior player, nicknamed \"The Parasite,\" flung himself to the ground despite not being within meters of any opposing America da Cali players.",
"The match official surprised everyone possessing a modicum of visual capacity when he awarded a spotkick despite having a clear view of Acuna's swan-dive, and the home team converted the penalty and went on to win 2-0.",
"However, Acuna did not escape completely unpunished as he was sent off for another incident later in the match.",
"A quick half .",
"German referee Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder secured his place in tales of notoriety with some decidedly erratic behavior in a 1975 Bundesliga match between Werder Bremen and Hannover 96.",
"He mistakenly blew for halftime only 29 minutes into what should be a three-quarter-hour period before a linesman pointed out his error, reported German journalist Eberhard Spohd.",
"Having finally completed the half, Ahlenfelder stuck his tongue out at a photographer, leading Bremen's president Bohmert to quip: \"For this show we could have charged a higher entrance fee.\"",
"Spohd said that Ahlenfelder initially denied drinking alcohol, but later admitted to consuming schnapps.",
"\"We are men -- we don't drink Fanta,\" the official reportedly said.",
"A thorny problem .",
"Scottish referee Les Mottram managed to be picked for the 1994 World Cup panel despite an embarrassing mistake in a domestic match the year before.",
"Mottram failed to award a goal when a shot by Dundee United's Patrick Connolly rebounded out of the net off a supporting stanchion and into the arms of a Partick Thistle player, who handed the ball to his goalkeeper.",
"Mottram somehow missed all that had transpired, not even noticing the illegal handball, and waved play on.",
"After the World Cup in the U.S., where he ordered an amazing 13 minutes of injury-time in Bolivia's 0-0 draw with South Korea, he left the unpaid ranks and took up a professional contract refereeing in Japan's J-League.",
"Dundee won their match against Partick 4-0, but English second division side Watford were denied a victory in 2008 when opponents Reading were awarded a goal for a shot which did not go between the posts.",
"Linesman Nigel Bannister convinced 25-year-old referee Stuart Attwell that the ball had in fact crossed the line, prompting a now retired Poll to comment in his column with British newspaper the Daily Mail: \"This is the most bizarre situation I've ever seen in 40 years watching football and 27 years refereeing.\"",
"The goal that never was .",
"Perhaps it is fitting that the last word should go to Clattenburg, who is unlikely to be on Tottenham's Christmas card list.",
"He has the reputation of being one of England's best referees, despite the Nani incident and this major error in another match at Manchester United's Old Trafford ground.",
"Clattenburg became the youngest Englishman to reach FIFA's international list at the age of 30 in 2006, but the year before he was vilified by Tottenham fans after failing to spot that Pedro Mendes' speculative long-range effort had bounced off United goalkeeper Carroll's chest and over the goal-line.",
"The hapless Northern Irishman scrambled back into his own net and shoveled the ball back into the field of play, and the match ended in a goalless draw.",
"Clattenburg was suspended from refereeing for eight months from August 2008 following an investigation into his business activities, having been charged with a breach of contract by his ruling body, Professional Game Match Officials Limited."
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"Incident in Manchester United-Tottenham game puts spotlight on refereeing decisions .",
"Female official in Brazil awards goal after ball boy puts shot into visiting team's net .",
"French referee embarrassed after World Cup incident involving Luis Fabiano .",
"Englishman finally sends off player after giving him three yellow cards ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- In an effort to hold onto the few remaining places they still control in Libya, Moammar Gadhafi's forces put up stiff resistance again Saturday as revolutionaries fought to wrest control of the loyalist strongholds of Sirte and Bani Walid.",
"Fierce fighting erupted in the coastal city of Sirte, the birthplace of Gadhafi and home to his tribe.",
"At least eight anti-Gadhafi fighters were killed and 31 others were wounded, said Ali Gheliwan, a spokesman for the Misrata Military Council.",
"NATO planes, meanwhile, bombed targets in the Sirte area Friday.",
"Gadhafi's forces unleashed hails of gunfire, using snipers in tall buildings to target their enemies.",
"Expected support from Sirte residents for the anti-Gadhafi forces did not materialize, as loyalists fought house to house with unexpected intensity.",
"The revolutionaries were forced to retreat after the chaotic urban warfare.",
"Despite such challenges, Col. Ahmed Bani of the National Transitional Council predicted it will not take long for all of Libya to be under the anti-Gadhafi forces' control.",
"He claimed, for instance, that Sirte's airport and the nearby Ghardabiya air base already have switched hands.",
"\"I can say that things will change drastically in the upcoming days in Sirte and Bani Walid,\" the group's spokesman said in his first press conference Saturday from Tripoli.",
"Bani claimed that part of Bani Walid, another loyalist hub located in a mountainous area southeast of Tripoli, is also under anti-Gadhafi forces' control despite stiff opposition.",
"City residents had been fleeing ahead of the offensive, which followed a 48-hour warning.",
"\"We were attacked by rocket-propelled grenades and snipers from the mountains,\" he said.",
"\"We repositioned, and we can say that the north is under control of our revolutionaries.\"",
"However, Salah Beniran, a field commander for anti-Gadhafi forces in Bani Walid, said Gadhafi loyalists have taken some residents hostage, \"and they are heavily armed with missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and machine-gun-mounted trucks.\"",
"\"They encircled us from the eastern front,\" Beniran said.",
"The clashes contrasted with the scene in several Sahara Desert towns more sympathetic to the revolution, where people cheered the anti-Gadhafi forces as they made their way toward the southern city of Sabha.",
"In Shati, there was no combat; only a peaceful transfer of power, perhaps the first in the eight-month uprising.",
"In the morning the tiny town had been under Gadhafi's grip.",
"By afternoon, no more. Residents fired their guns in celebration and burned the green flags of the former regime.",
"They welcomed the ordinary Libyans -- teachers, doctors, engineers -- who dropped everything to join the fight against Gadhafi.",
"They were rebels once. Now they were the armed wing of Libya's new governing body, the National Transitional Council.",
"But the situation was different in Sabha, a diehard pro-Gadhafi city in southwestern Libya.",
"Anti-Gadhafi forces took control of the Al-Birak air base in the city Saturday, but the battle was far from over, Bani said.",
"\"There has been fierce fighting for a while now,\" the spokesman said.",
"\"The people in Sabha are from different tribes.",
"There are a big number of loyalists who escaped from other cities, and they are still fighting.\"",
"Bani issued what he called a \"final call\" for all Gadhafi loyalists to switch sides and join his group, warning that -- if they do not -- they risk being charged with treason.\"",
"He added he hopes Gadhafi is in one of the three cities -- Sirte, Bani Walid and Sabha -- still in the throes of heavy fighting Saturday and not yet held by his forces, so that he can be taken into custody.",
"\"We hope he is ... so we can arrest him and give the world a break from his evils,\" the colonel said.",
"\"(Up) until now, there is no certain information about his location.\"",
"As these battles continued to rage in Libya, the international community came together to pledge support for the war-torn nation's new leaders in Tripoli.",
"The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Friday to establish a support mission in Libya for an initial period of three months and to take other measures to help the country get back on its feet.",
"The mission's mandate includes restoring public security and order and promoting the rule of law, beginning efforts to write a constitution and set up elections, promoting and protecting human rights, and thawing the assets freeze that had been imposed on the Gadhafi's government.",
"The resolution further asks U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to report on its implementation in two weeks and every month thereafter, or more often if he sees fit.",
"CNN's Jill Dougherty, Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Ben Wedeman, Richard Roth and Mick B. Krever contributed to this report."
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"An anti-Gadhafi official predicts \"drastic\" changes soon in Sirte and Bani Walid .",
"He says loyalists no longer control parts of Sirte, Gadhafi's birthplace .",
"\"Fierce fighting\" is ongoing in the southwestern city of Sabha, he adds .",
"A \"final call\" is issued for pro-Gadhafi forces to switch or face \"treason\" charges ."
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"(CNN) -- Oil company Royal Dutch Shell will pay $15.5 million to settle a lawsuit against its Nigerian subsidiary by the family of executed Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and other dissidents, the plaintiffs announced Monday.",
"A team from Royal Dutch Shell works amid spilled oil in Atali, Nigeria.",
"The lawsuit accuses Shell of complicity in the 1995 hanging of Saro-Wiwa and the killings or persecution of other environmental activists by the military government that ruled the country at the time.",
"Roughly half of the settlement will go into a trust fund to help the people of Nigeria's Ogoni region, according to court papers.",
"\"In reaching this settlement, we were very much aware that we are not the only Ogonis who have suffered in our struggle with Shell, which is why we insisted on creating the Kiisi Trust,\" Saro-Wiwa's son, Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr., said in a statement accompanying the settlement.",
"Nigeria's Ogoni people have complained for years that Shell was allowed to pollute its land without consequences.",
"Saro-Wiwa's death sparked a worldwide outcry, and his movement ultimately forced Shell out of the oil- and gas-rich Ogoniland region.",
"There was no immediate response from Shell to Monday's settlement.",
"The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights went to court on behalf of Saro-Wiwa's family and others in 1996.",
"Shell fought the lawsuit until last week, when a federal appellate court ruled that the plaintiffs could sue the company's Nigerian subsidiary in American courts, overturning a March decision in the company's favor.",
"\"This was one of the first cases to charge a multinational corporation with human-rights violations, and this settlement confirms that multinational corporations can no longer act with the impunity they once enjoyed,\" plaintiff's lawyer Jennie Green said in a statement released with the settlement."
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"Executed environmental activist's family sued oil company .",
"About half of settlement will go to help people of Ogoni region .",
"Residents have long complained that Shell was polluting land ."
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"(EW.com) -- Huge news for \"American Chopper\" fans: Jesse James is returning to the network that made him famous to compete head-to-head against the Teutuls on \"American Chopper.\"",
"Marking his first appearance on Discovery Chanel in five years, the former \"Monster Garage\" star will guest star on \"Chopper\" across two nights in December.",
"Not only that, but \"American Chopper\" is going live for the first time -- pitting James, Paul Teutul, Senior and Paul Teutul Jr. in a bike-building battle at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas.",
"The face-off airs December 5 and 6 at 9 p.m. both nights.",
"The first night is the regularly scheduled \"American Chopper.\"",
"You'll see Senior, Junior and James building the bikes, and viewers will vote for their favorite.",
"The second night is a live show from Las Vegas where the winning bike will be revealed.",
"For \"Chopper\" fans, this is the stuff of online message-board wish fulfillment.",
"Jesse James' documentary \"Motorcycle Mania\" helped launch the whole cable reality motorcycle craze back in 2000, whereas relative later-comer \"American Chopper\" helped bring the genre to a greater level in popularity.",
"James then left Discovery and went on to other ventures, including his short-lived Spike TV series \"Jesse James is a Dead Man\" (and drawing international headlines for his divorce from Sandra Bullock).",
"Though James and the Teutuls respective motorcycle garage shows overlapped during James' years at Discovery (\"Monster Garage\" ran from 2002-06; \"Chopper\" has aired since 2003), this event marks the first time the combustible personalities have gone head-to-head on one of the programs.",
"See the full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"The former \"Monster Garage\" star will guest star on \"Chopper\"\n\"American Chopper\" is going live for the first time .",
"James, Paul Teutul, Senior and Paul Teutul Jr. will be in a bike-building battle ."
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"(CNN) -- The Los Angeles Galaxy beat the Houston Dynamo 1-0 in the Major League Soccer final Sunday, in what could be David Beckham's last significant game on U.S. soil.",
"The Galaxy entered the final match, which was on their home turf in Carson, California, as the clear favorite.",
"The squad hasn't lost this year at The Home Depot Center, and overall have won 19 games, tied 10 and lost five.",
"The Dynamo, meanwhile, finished second in the Eastern Conference having won 12 games, tied 13 and lost nine.",
"Yet while the Houston squad had strong players like Brian Ching and Brad Davis on its roster, they couldn't match the star-power of the Galaxy.",
"That included U.S. national team stalwart Landon Donovan, Irish forward Robbie Keane and Beckham.",
"The sole goal of the game came in the 72nd minute.",
"Beckham flicked a header to Keane who passed the ball to Donovan -- who, in turn, sent it past Dynamo goalkeeper Tally Hall.",
"It was the Galaxy's third MLS title, and Beckham's first.",
"Beckham has been a global soccer icon for years, inspiring the movie, \"Bend It Like Beckham\" and starring for years with Manchester United, Real Madrid and the English national team.",
"He's also been a hot item off the field, as the husband of former \"Spice Girl\" singer and fashionista Victoria Beckham.",
"In 2007, he signed on with Major League Soccer -- a surprising move to some, given that he then was still considered one of the world's best players and the U.S. league's quality was considered inferior to many others worldwide.",
"Beckham said then that he hoped to help build the sport's standing in the United States and the league's profile internationally.",
"His $32.5 million contract is set to expire at year's end, and Beckham recently told CNN that he is still weighing where, if anywhere, he will go next.",
"Clubs rumored to have shown interest in him include European teams Tottenham Hotspur, Paris Saint-Germain and Queens Park Rangers.",
"\"People say I'm coming to the end of my career, which at 36 years old you usually are,\" he said last week.",
"\"But it's always nice to be wanted, and to be wanted by some of the biggest clubs in Europe still.\"",
"Beckham added that, at season's end, he plans to talk through his next steps with his family -- considering, among other factors, his health and \"what I think I can still achieve.\"",
"Beckham hoped to have an answer possibly before Christmas.",
"He also expressed his desire to somehow be part of the 2012 Summer Olympics, either as a player, \"an ambassador for the Olympics\" or simply a fan.",
"\"To be a proud Englishman, to get the Olympics in a part of London where I grew up, it was something that I loved being part of,\" Beckham said.",
"CNN's Paul Vercammen contributed to this report."
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"The sole goal came in the 72 minute .",
"Beckham's contract expires at the end of this year .",
"Referring to other teams' interest, he says, \"It's always nice to be wanted\""
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"(CNN) -- The flight down wasn't too bad, a little bumpy, but it went up and came down just fine.",
"U.N. peacekeeper force commander General Martin Luther Agwai .",
"When Sarah called the local office about permission to film, she got an earful of abuse.",
"The official wanted nothing to do with us.",
"I wasn't too worried yet, we'd made it to Darfur and we'd be with U.N. peacekeepers, UNAMID and for the most part out of the way of government officials.",
"The next day the surprises began.",
"We were in Darfur, we were with the U.N., but there was almost nothing we could shoot.",
"It soon became clear why.",
"The U.N. was in virtual lockdown.",
"It turned out that even as we were leaving Khartoum to fly down to Darfur, rebels were attacking the outskirts of the city.",
"In news terms, we were in the wrong place.",
"It was immensely frustrating being in the same country as significant breaking news, but unable to get to it.",
"We filmed what we could around the base and made the best of a bad situation by doing a few live shots with details about the attack gleaned from our sources.",
"My frustration began to dissipate fairly quickly the following day.",
"I realized we might have been in the wrong place to see the attack but we were in exactly the right place to see how the Sudanese government controlled the U.N. peacekeepers.",
"For the most part they didn't go out and their Force Commander General Martin Luther Agwai was grounded.",
"That morning we went to the airport to join Agwai on a flight.",
"When we got there Sudanese officials there said the U.N. couldn't fly even though commercial aircraft were free to come and go as they needed.",
"It's when you stand there face-to-face with the situation and the people responsible that you see who has the power, who calls the shots.",
"The U.N. was powerless.",
"That was a real eye-opener, but it was still a challenge to get it across on TV.",
"We couldn't pull the camera out and shoot the whole sequence.",
"The story was, the general couldn't work, and as the general was our story, if he wasn't doing anything we had nothing to shoot -- a sort of catch-22.",
"Fortunately cameraman Scottie is an old hand at these situations and we'd gone in prepared.",
"I had my radio microphone, so I could leave Scottie in the vehicle shooting me while I wandered around outside and he could still pick up what I was saying.",
"No one would be any the wiser.",
"We sneaked in a few reports at the gates to the airport that way.",
"It made us feel better to be getting something in the can.",
"The rest of the day was to be even more interesting.",
"As we couldn't go anywhere, we were able to get more briefs and shoot a few interviews.",
"I was starting to learn things that were shocking me.",
"Not least, that the U.N. had no power over the Sudanese government, but, for example, some of the female gate guards the U.N. employed were from the displacement camps.",
"Fair enough, I thought, until I found out their husbands were away fighting for the rebels.",
"The U.N. was effectively freeing men to keep the war going by supporting their families.",
"That night when we got back to our house, I wrote of list of everything shocking I'd learned that day.",
"I would be adding to it for the rest of my stay.",
"For example, rebels recruit in aid camps.",
"Sometimes people in the camps won't let the aid workers in.",
"And one that really caught me by surprise: The international community had been paying rebels millions of dollars to abide by a 2006 cease-fire agreement.",
"Many rebels had splintered their groups to get a bigger chunk of the cash.",
"Admittedly that as over now, but Agwai saw it as one of the root causes of the increasing lawlessness.",
"Rebels with a taste for cash turning to banditry when money handouts dried up.",
"It was making me realize just how complex the problems in Darfur are.",
"I knew that I was getting far more detail than I could ever hope to fit in to the half-hour program we planned, never mind a short news story.",
"But at the same time I felt a huge responsibility.",
"We'd been afforded very rare access.",
"The name CNN helps open doors.",
"We really needed to find out as much as we reasonably and safely could in the time available.",
"At times like this our unspoken contract with our audience comes to mind.",
"We are their eyes and ears, to open a window on a situation and let them decide what they make of it.",
"Not prejudice our reports with our own preconceptions of the story and put the camera down when we think we've got enough to call it a day based on what we thought already, but to be thorough.",
"In Darfur, as elsewhere, we are witnesses to history.",
"The innocent victims here have no other voice other than ours.",
"Only we are able to tell the world what's happening here.",
"When I read that back it sounds a bit pompous, high and mighty, but as our time with the peacekeepers and aid workers was to show, they walk a political and diplomatic tightrope.",
"If they speak out about the terrible injustices they see, they risk hampering their operations, hurting supplies and help for the people they are trying to protect.",
"We felt for General Agwai.",
"In the time we spent with him it's clear he's being let down by the international community.",
"The politics of his job -- that is, China's call at the U.N. Security Council to give Sudan an effective veto over which troops can come -- meant he was never going to get the strongest force the world could supply.",
"But then, like him, I was left wondering despite that huge set back why then couldn't he get a single one of the 24 helicopters he'd been promised.",
"I can't tell you the private conversations we had but they left me feeling a man with very good intentions is having the toughest time of his life.",
"I certainly didn't envy him his job."
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"(CNN) -- The mayor of North Chicago placed the city's police chief on leave and hired a retired officer to lead an investigation into six cases of alleged excessive use of force by police over the past 18 months.",
"Police Chief Michael Newsome is on paid administrative leave, Mayor Leon Rockingham Jr. said Tuesday.",
"\"I do think that is something that we do need to look into and make sure that things are being done properly in our police department,\" Rockingham said.",
"\"There's a lot of things that have come to light that I think does warrant us to take a second look.\"",
"In addition, the gender and race of the people involved in the incidents will be investigated, and reporting requirements will be tightened, he said.",
"\"I think that we, as the city of North Chicago, do need to make sure that the residents and people who are coming into our community are being handled properly,\" he said.",
"But Rockingham expressed confidence in police, whose job is to maintain order among the 36,000 residents of North Chicago, where the average income was $17,685, according to the 2010 Census.",
"\"I will say, if there's anyone we find that is not doing what they should be doing, we will do disciplinary actions to those officers,\" he said.",
"\"But I think, all in all, if you look at our department, we have a fine police force.\"",
"Over the past four years, the department has been involved in some 88 use-of-force incidents, the mayor said.",
"Asked how many of them were investigated at the time they occurred, Rockingham said that will be part of the newly announced investigation, which is to be completed by February 1.",
"Rockingham said the six cases came to light after publicity surrounding the November case of Darrin Hanna, who died days after police allegedly beat him and used a Taser on him during a domestic abuse call to his house.",
"\"I'm a mother who lost her son by a beating,\" his mother, Gloria Carr, told reporters recently.",
"Lawyer Kevin O'Connor is representing Hanna's family and three other alleged victims in the cases under investigation.",
"O'Connor said the North Chicago Police Department has a problem with a group of officers that have repeatedly beat people.",
"\"I think there are very good officers on the force, but it looks like the problem is in the night shift that is not very well supervised,\" said O'Connor.",
"\"There is about 10 that call themselves a gang.",
"We have heard stories that they handcuff people and tell them they have a time period to run before they are beaten.",
"So basically they are making them run, so that they can get a chance to beat them up.\"",
"O'Connor said his law firm has heard from more than 30 people who plan to come forward and tell their story about abuse from local police.",
"\"They were scared before, but now they want to tell their stories,\" O'Connor said.",
"\"I am glad the mayor did this.",
"This is the first step.",
"But why did it take someone dying before someone finally did something?\"",
"In a case that occurred last October, Christopher Harper, 31, of Waukegan, said he was preparing to leave his job as a bouncer at a North Chicago bar when a policeman pulled up shortly before midnight.",
"The radio in Harper's Dodge Magnum was cranked, which apparently bothered the policeman, Harper said.",
"\"He told me he was towing the car for loud music,\" Harper said.",
"Harper said he took his house keys out of his car's ignition and was walking away from the policeman toward the bar when he was struck repeatedly by electroshocks.",
"\"He just Tased me in my back for no reason and kept doing it.",
"I didn't understand that.\" The officer fired a Taser at least six times into his back, he said.",
"\"I ran 'til I couldn't take no more of the shockage, and then I just fell out.",
"I was asking him why was he Tasing me.\"",
"At least two of the Taser strikes hit him while he was on the ground, he said.",
"The officer then took Harper to jail, where he was charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer, which he denies.",
"\"I never touched him, so I don't know where that came from.",
"Not at all. I couldn't.\" The next day, after he was released, Harper drove himself to a hospital for treatment of burns and bruises on his back.",
"He said he stayed out of work for two weeks, had to pay $600 to get his car back and has not yet determined what he owes the hospital.",
"Harper said he has not filed a complaint but has contacted a lawyer about his treatment by the police.",
"\"They are just losing their minds for some reason,\" he said.",
"In another incident, a police video was played at a city council meeting last month that appeared to show an officer punching a detainee in the head and putting him in a choke hold.",
"A woman who answered the telephone Tuesday night at the police department said no one was available to talk to the news media."
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"North Chicago's police chief is on paid administrative leave, the mayor says .",
"Mayor orders investigation into six cases of alleged excessive use of force .",
"\"Why did it take someone dying before someone finally did something?\"",
"attorney asks ."
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"(CNN) -- World number two Maria Sharapova limped out of the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo after twisting her ankle during her quarterfinal match against Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic.",
"Sharapova had hoped for revenge after the Kvitova beat her in the final at Wimbledon this year.",
"But with Sharapova losing 4-3 in the first set the Russian fell and retired shortly after.",
"\"I hit a serve and then landed awkwardly on my left ankle.",
"I felt a sharp pain and next thing I knew I was on the floor.",
"It swelled up immediately and I knew there was no way I could continue,\" Sharapova said in a statement quoted by AFP.",
"\"I am incredibly disappointed and in a lot of pain.",
"I obviously really wanted to win and felt that I was playing well.\"",
"Sharapova's retirement means that Kvitova will now face another Russian, Vera Zvonareva, in the semifinals although the Czech player expressed her sadness at the manner in which the match ended.",
"\"We played very nice tennis, I think, and it was a great match,\" she told AFP.",
"\"I'm very sorry about her, because the ankle swollen was too big straight away.",
"Hopefully... she will be back early.\"",
"Victoria Azarenka of Belarus and Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland will contest the other semifinal.",
"But it was a day when injuries ruled the headlines after Novak Djokovic also pulled out of a tournament due to injury.",
"The Serbian player, ranked number one in the world after his stunning U.S. Open triumph earlier this month, announced he was pulling out of the China Open after injuring himself in a recent Davis Cup match.",
"The injury has also put Djokovic's appearance in next month's Shanghai Masters in doubt.",
"World number three Roger Federer and Frenchman Richard Gasquet have already pulled out of the event.",
"The injuries come at the end of a grueling season where several top players have raised the prospect of a strike over the amount of tennis being played."
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"Maria Sharapova pulls out of the Pan Pacific Open in Japan after twisting her ankle .",
"She was losing 4-3 in the first set of her quarterfinal match against Petra Kvitova .",
"World number one Novak Djokovic also announced he was pulling out of the China Open due to injury .",
"Players had threatened a strike due to tournament 'burn out'"
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"(CNN) -- A 12-year-old west Florida boy apparently struck by a bullet fired skyward during a New Year's Eve celebration is improving, but remains in serious condition, authorities said Tuesday.",
"Overnight, his condition was upgraded from critical to serious, said Larry McKinnon of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.",
"The bullet is still lodged in the boy's head, and doctors are working to control the swelling around his brain.",
"Until the bullet is removed, detectives cannot compare it to other bullets to help determine a possible suspect in the shooting, said McKinnon.",
"Diego Duran, 12, was sitting in the front yard of his Ruskin, Florida, home watching fireworks about 1 a.m. Sunday when he fell to the ground, bleeding from the nose and eyes, McKinnon said.",
"The victim's mother drove him to South Bay Hospital in Sun City Center, where doctors determined that a gunshot had gone through the top of the boy's head.",
"The child was then transported to Tampa General Hospital, where he was in critical condition Sunday afternoon.",
"The boy's mother, Sandy Duran, spoke to reporters Monday about her son.",
"\"His brain is still in that stage of the 48 to 72 hours where it swells.",
"There's a lot of inflammation going on, so the doctors cannot say what he will and won't be able to do,\" she said.",
"\"The good news is that he is moving his extremities.",
"He can move his hands.",
"He can move his legs. He has opened his eyes.\"",
"Duran described her son as \"noble\" and said he enjoyed skating and playing guitar.",
"He is the youngest of three children, and her family is taking it \"hour by hour,\" she said.",
"\"For me, it's a miracle that he's alive considering what has just happened to him,\" said Duran.",
"No one in the immediate area around the victim's house was firing a gun, the boy's relatives and neighbors told detectives.",
"Police believe that celebratory gunfire, possibly shot from miles away, wounded the boy.",
"If the wound is determined to be from a celebratory gunshot, it would not be the first time a child was inadvertently shot in the Southeast on New Year's Eve and in the hours after midnight.",
"In 2009, 4-year-old Marquel Peters died after a bullet went through the roof of a suburban Atlanta church and hit him.",
"The boy's mother, Nathalee Peters, has launched an online effort -- called Marquel's Pledge -- to urge people not to shoot into the air in celebration.",
"It's one of several such campaigns nationwide, including one in Miami called, \"One bullet kills the party.\"",
"Duran similarly spoke about the need to educate the public about the dangers of celebratory gunfire.",
"\"I'm speaking out because I don't think there's enough awareness out there,\" she said.",
"\"A firearm is a weapon.",
"It's a weapon that takes a life.",
"It's not a toy for celebration.\"",
"CNN's George Howell contributed to this report."
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"Diego Duran's condition is upgraded from critical to serious .",
"The bullet is still lodged in his head .",
"The 12-year-old boy was watching fireworks when he was hit .",
"\"It's a miracle that he's alive,\" says the boy's mother ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A suicide bomber killed 26 people and injured 63 others during a funeral procession in northwestern Pakistan Thursday, a senior police official told CNN.",
"Saleem Murrawat, the police chief of the Lower Dir district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said the ceremony was for a member of a pro-government anti-Taliban militia in the area of Jandol.",
"The chief said a suicide bomber blew himself up when he was standing with people at the procession.",
"There are usually no security checks in such ceremonies.",
"The chief said the bomber was around age 18.",
"Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the neighboring tribal region have been havens for militants and there have been many insurgent attacks in the area -- close to war-torn Afghanistan.",
"On Tuesday, a school bus loaded with children came under rocket and small arms fire near Peshawar.",
"The driver and three children were killed and 16 others wounded, police said.",
"The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan group claimed responsibility for the attack, according to the group's regional spokesman, Mohammad Talha, who said it was in response to growing support for local resistance groups against the Taliban in the region.",
"CNN's Nasir Habib contributed to this report ."
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"The ceremony was for a member of an anti-Taliban militia .",
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"(CNN) -- The popular uprising in Syria against the Alawi-led minority regime of Bashar al-Assad poses a serious challenge to U.S. national security in the Middle East.",
"As it fights for its survival amid escalating violence, the Syrian regime risks not only the deepening of civil strife in the country, but also provoking sectarian strife in the region, potentially drawing in U.S. military involvement.",
"Washington has thus far been cautious in dealing with Syria, favoring strong words and sanctions against the regime and supporting Arab efforts to stop the violent military crackdown.",
"But this could change as conditions in Syria deteriorate.",
"The recent arrival in Syria of Arab observers, as part of a Syrian-endorsed Arab League plan to stop the violence, has been met with mixed emotions.",
"Syrian opposition members rejected the plan, which was mediated by Iraq, on the grounds that it will give the bestial regime another chance to continue its brutal policies.",
"Syria pipeline attached amid ongoing killing .",
"Burhan Ghalioun, the head of the Syrian National Council opposition movement, emphasized that the observers cannot do their work because \"they cannot go where the authorities don't want them to go.\"",
"The Arab League's initiative is further tainted by the contemptible presence of Sudanese Gen. Mohammad Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, who heads the mission.",
"Al-Dabi held high military intelligence and security positions in the government of President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted on international charges of genocide in Darfur.",
"Meanwhile, Syria continues its slow, steady descent into sectarian strife.",
"There is the militarization of segments of the opposition, as manifested by the creation of the Free Syrian Army, and the targeted sectarian murders committed in mixed towns, especially in Homs.",
"Indeed, the recent twin suicide bombings in Damascus, regardless of the identity of the as-yet-unknown culprits, could well be a portent of what may happen in the multireligious, multiethnic country.",
"This premonition of escalating violence is shared by many in the region, including those within the ranks of the Syrian opposition.",
"Syria is tightly linked both to the evolving Arab politics -- as influenced by the past year's Arab popular uprisings -- and to the ongoing shifts in the Saudi and Iranian-led regional axes of powers that have resulted from withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.",
"To be sure, it is the Arab League mission that reflects more the deep divisions splintering the Arab world: The Arab League, led by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, initially determined to pressure the autocratic Syrian regime into submission, but this resolve was weakened by Iraq questioning the League's apparent double-standard policy.",
"Its stance on Syria contrasts sharply with its position on Bahrain.",
"Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf Cooperation Council countries, sent troops to Bahrain to help quash a Shi'a majority-dominated uprising against that kingdom's Sunni monarchy.",
"Similarly, the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, acting apparently in concert with Iran, has not concealed its desire to keep the Syrian regime in power.",
"Iran has described the violence in Syria as part of a Western-Israeli conspiracy against the regime.",
"And pro-Iranian forces in Iraq and Lebanon, such as the Sadrists and Hezbollah respectively, have expressed their readiness to support the Syrian regime.",
"Beyond this, the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq has apparently boosted the confidence not only of Iran and its proxies but also the Syrian regime.",
"Iran and Hezbollah laud the \"resistance\" for forcing the Americans from Iraq, and Syria no longer fears an American interference from Iraq.",
"In fact, the regime believes that Iraq now affords Syria another strategic buffer with regard to a potential anti-Syrian military intervention; the other being offered by Lebanon.",
"This will undoubtedly leave the international community facing neither an Arab nor a Russian solution.",
"Russia recently introduced a draft resolution the U.N. Security Council on ending the violence in Syria.",
"However, Russia, along with China, has had serious disagreements with other members of the Security Council, who favor sanctions against Damascus, including an arms embargo.",
"Washington will most likely confront urgent Arab and Syrian opposition requests for direct involvement in Syria.",
"Already, Ghalioun has called on the Security Council to adopt the Arab initiative; at the same time some Arab and Syrian opposition leaders have vocally called for a no-fly zone and NATO involvement to protect civilians.",
"But a word of caution.",
"The danger of this kind of involvement lies in the grave and complex reality that Iran still considers the security of the Syrian regime as part of its own security, and that, while both Tehran and Damascus have been preparing for a conflict with United States since its invasion of Iraq in 2003, including supporting proxy forces in the region, Washington has thus far pursued policies more reactive in nature to regional developments.",
"Washington should be careful about falling into the duplicitous trap of Middle Eastern politics.",
"Washington must act within the context that Syria is already in the throes of civil strife, which can only intensify and possibly spill over into Lebanon or Iraq, and that the Arab states are fighting two wars.",
"One is over the nature of future power in their capitals and the other is over which regional axis they will support.",
"Washington should also disabuse itself of the notion that the terminally ill Syrian regime will collapse soon.",
"The regime has life support from Iran, Iraq and Lebanon, and thrives on terror and Arab schisms.",
"This makes any reactive or reflexive American involvement in Syria fraught with uncertainties and serious risks.",
"Washington's policies should focus now on expanding and organizing its cooperation with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which have deep interest in a change of power in Damascus; supporting the Free Syrian Army through Saudi Arabia and Turkey; strengthening sanctions against Syria in concert with regional and international allies, including placing sanctions on Sunni merchants closely associated with the regime.",
"; maintaining and supporting a strong diplomatic presence in Iraq and Lebanon; seeking out Alawi and Christian political and military figures with the objective of reassuring them with the promise of political inclusion in the future of Syria.",
"Most importantly, Washington should not lead a campaign in Syria designed in the imperial corridors of the American capital itself.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Robert G. Rabil."
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"Robert Rabil says the popular uprising in Syria poses issues for U.S. foreign policy .",
"He says multiethnic nation headed for sectarian strife; some opposition militarizing .",
"He says Syria linked to shifts in both Arab politics and Saudi and Iranian-led axes of power .",
"Rabil: U.S. must use caution, focus on ties with regional allies, strengthening sanctions ."
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"(CNN) -- President Barack Obama announced recently that about 100 U.S. troops are being deployed to Central Africa to help \"apprehend and remove\" the elusive Joseph Kony and his top commanders of the Lord's Resistance Army.",
"It's not the first time the United States has gone in to help put an end to the marauding, murdering gang known as the Lord's Resistance Army -- LRA, for short.",
"The LRA has butchered, enslaved and displaced people in Uganda and Central Africa for two decades.",
"Although its brand of terrorism doesn't target the United States, Washington has listed it as a terrorist group.",
"The U.S. decision to help go after Kony is a strategic -- as well as a humanitarian -- one.",
"Africa is a frontier for terrorism.",
"Uganda is fighting Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia -- which helps the United States -- so in turn, the U.S. is helping Uganda fight the LRA.",
"The Lord's Resistance Army began in northern Uganda in 1987 as an opposition force to leader Yoweri Museveni.",
"Kony sees himself as a prophet who has said he wants to rule by following the Ten Commandments.",
"Instead, he has ruled -- and thrived -- by breaking a lot of those commandments.",
"The Ugandan army -- with the help of the U.S. military -- has tried for years to take him and his leadership out.",
"The International Criminal Court has had a warrant out for him since 2005.",
"The Lord's Resistance Army replenishes its ranks by abducting villagers -- men, women and children -- brainwashing them and forcing them to fight.",
"Or to serve as sex slaves for commanders.",
"LRA members survive by staying on the move constantly and stealing food and provisions.",
"Last month, according to researchers, an LRA band raided a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo soon after the World Food Programme had distributed food supplies there.",
"So what is LRA leader Kony's secret?",
"How has he evaded justice to operate his band of marauders and murderers with impunity for decades?",
"Here are five reasons some experts give: .",
"1. He uses terror strategically.",
"You've probably seen photos of children whose noses or ears were cut off -- because they didn't obey the LRA's orders.",
"He's forced children he's abducted to kill their siblings or parents.",
"(More: Woman recalls harrowing tale of captivity) \"They use very carefully thought-through strategies to have the biggest impact,\" said Tim Allen, a professor at the London School of Economics and co-author of \"The Lord's Resistance Army: Myth and Reality.\"",
"\"In northern Uganda in 2004,\" Allen said, \"they took some 20-odd women with their babies out of the displacement camp, laid them on the ground with their babies on their backs and smashed their brains in.\"",
"And they did it at the edge of the camp -- so that everyone in the camp would see.",
"\"They didn't do that very often,\" Allen said.",
"\"But you don't have to do that sort of thing very often to have a large impact on a lot of people.\"",
"2. Kony exploits regional politics and borders.",
"He got support from the Sudanese government for years.",
"And the LRA uses borders as a defense: It hasn't been in Uganda for years.",
"That's made it hard for the Ugandan army to pursue Kony.",
"The militia is split and is constantly moving between the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and southern Sudan.",
"3. Uganda's efforts to get Kony have flagged.",
"Uganda's army has been stretched to the hilt, fighting Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia as part of an African Union force.",
"4. Kony is a smart strategist.",
"His band travels in small groups, and they're a moving target.",
"And he has informants -- with cell phones.",
"The last time the U.S. military helped Uganda go after Kony, in 2008, it used a traditional air and ground assault.",
"Kony and his leaders escaped, then massacred hundreds of people in revenge.",
"This time, the United States is bringing Special Forces (and probably other intelligence agents) with equipment and tactics to track him in the jungle.",
"5. Kony mixes military discipline with cultish charisma and spiritual tactics to keep captives in line -- and sometimes, to keep the loyalty even of those who escape.",
"Allen, the London School of Economics professor, has talked to women who have escaped the Lord's Resistance Army but are still loyal to their LRA \"husbands.\"",
"\"He cultivates this image of himself as a medium for the power of the spirit and at other times, he presents himself as a ruthless military leader,\" said Ned Dalby, Central Africa researcher with the International Crisis Group.",
"\"So he's able to maintain cohesion as a group and maintain the loyalty of his fighters.\"",
"Dalby said some former LRA fighters from northern Uganda have given a clue as to why some outside the group have stayed loyal to Kony.",
"\"They expressed the feeling that because they were given a rank, they were given a certain purpose, and respect and authority,\" Dalby said.",
"\"And then, once they're outside the LRA, they find they've become just another poor person, trying to survive.\""
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"Lord's Resistance Army has terrorized people in Africa for two decades .",
"The group is led by the elusive Joseph Kony .",
"Experts point to Kony's strategies and politics as some reasons why he is still at large ."
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"(CNN) -- Egypt's revolution has made life tougher still for Cairo's 80,000 taxi drivers, struggling to make a living on the city's chaotic, congested and potholed streets, says the author who has written a best-selling book about them.",
"Khaled AlKhamissi's novel \"Taxi,\" first published in 2006, has been translated into 10 languages.",
"It features 58 fictional monologues with taxi drivers recreated from his own experience.",
"A new post-revolution English edition has just been published.",
"Despite the optimism that swept Egypt after president Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February, AlKhamissi said taxi drivers, and the rest of the country's poor, have in fact suffered more since then.",
"\"My taxi drivers are among the 55% of the population living under the poverty line of $2 a day,\" said AlKhamissi.",
"\"Those 55% were not on the streets during the revolution and are without a real voice now.",
"\"They are wise, they are watching, they are analyzing, but they are not acting.\"",
"He added: \"Life has changed for them in the wrong direction.",
"It's worse for them because we have no security and living on the streets without security is dangerous.",
"\"There is less tourism and more chaos on the streets.\"",
"AlKhamissi said it was too early to tell if life was improving for the middle classes who took to the streets during the revolution.",
"\"We are in the middle of a battle, and during the battle we can't see whether life is improving or not,\" he said.",
"AlKhamissi, whose second novel \"Noah's Ark\" -- also a bestseller -- was published in 2009, said he stopped writing his third novel at the start of the uprising on January 25 this year and has been unable to concentrate on writing since.",
"\"It's impossible to write because my mind is taken with what is happening day after day, hour after hour,\" he said.",
"Since January, AlKhamissi has filled his time with a weekly newspaper column, lectures and speaking events.",
"But the author wants to get back to writing fiction.",
"\"Every night I want to write because it is my only job, my only happiness,\" he said.",
"\"I have to find a solution soon or I will die.\"",
"\"Taxi\" was credited with single-handedly reviving an interest in reading in Egypt, according to its publisher Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation, but AlKhamissi denies his book is responsible.",
"He said: \"Some journalists have said that about my book, but it's nonsense to say that one book or 10 books can change reading habits.",
"\"Reading has increased in the last six years, but it has taken many social factors.",
"We have had a cultural revolution in the last six years in all matters: Theater, music, fiction and publishing.",
"\"This cultural revolution is related to youth searching for a dream.\"",
"AlKhamissi said he dreams of an Egypt where taxi drivers could have the time and education to read his -- or any other -- book.",
"\"They don't have time to read because they are struggling to survive,\" he said.",
"\"When we can increase the quality of education and decrease poverty, then they will be able to read.",
"I'm not interested in whether they read my book, I just hope they will read anything.\"",
"Another novelist credited with changing reading habits in Egypt is Ahmed Khaled Towfik, a 49-year-old medical professor described by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation as the Arab world's most prominent bestselling author of fantasy and horror.",
"He has written more than 200 books, selling millions of copies.",
"He said he was among the first Egyptian authors to write for young people.",
"\"Twenty years ago there was nothing for 16, 17, 18-year-olds to read,\" said Towfik.",
"\"We invented popular literature.",
"I think I made the youth fond of reading.",
"\"I think most of my readers were in Tahrir Square.",
"I changed a part of their thinking, although you can't compare that to their economic disappointment or the scourge of the police system.\"",
"Towfik's book \"Utopia,\" which has just been published in English, is a grim futuristic account of Egyptian society in the year 2023 with wealthy gated communities insulated from the poverty outside.",
"Towfik said that despite Egypt's revolution, he still fears the scenes in his book, first published in Arabic in 2009, could come true.",
"\"The first uprising came from the middle class, but I think another bloodier one could come from the lower classes, like described in my book 'Utopia'.",
"\"I still think there's a danger my book could come true.\"",
"He added: \"After nine months, nothing has been accomplished except getting rid of Mubarak.",
"We got rid of the head of the snake, but the body of the snake is still ruling everything.\""
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"Life has got harder for taxi drivers since the revolution, says Khaled AlKhamissi .",
"Author has been unable to concentrate on writing since January .",
"My grim futuristic novel could come true, says author Ahmed Khaled Towfik ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- The Palestinian Liberation Organization's leadership reiterated its push for recognition as an independent state by the United Nations and condemning Israel's latest proposal for new settlements on disputed territory, state-run media reported.",
"Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas led the meeting in Ramallah on Thursday to discuss the official position, according to the official WAFA news agency.",
"The U.N. Security Council's admissions committee is set Friday to review the Palestinian application for statehood.",
"Last week, the Middle East Quartet -- made up of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia -- called on Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace talks within a month and set the end of 2012 as the deadline for their completion.",
"But no such direct talks have taken place.",
"Abbas has said repeatedly that the Palestinians would not return to negotiations until Israel halted all settlement construction and accepted 1967 border lines as a basis for the return to talks.",
"Israel has maintained that negotiations should begin with no preconditions.",
"Besides calling for negotiation, the Quartet also called on both sides to \"to refrain from provocative actions\" -- in part a veiled reference to Israeli settlement-building in land Israel occupied as a result of the 1967 Mideast War.",
"This week, the Israeli Interior Ministry announced this week that a district planning committee had approved the construction of 1,100 homes in a southern Jerusalem neighborhood that was seized by Israel in 1967.",
"That decision will be open for public comment for the next 60 days, the ministry added.",
"Yasser Abed Rabbo, secretary-general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization's executive committee, read a statement after the meeting Thursday criticizing the Israeli move.",
"Palestinians, who want the land Israel now occupies in East Jerusalem and the West Bank to be part of a future Palestinian state.",
"A day earlier, Palestinian negotiator Mohammed Shtayyeh said the action suggests that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government are not serious about making peace.",
"\"He said at the United Nations he was giving his hand in peace, but actually, he is digging in the land to build more settlements,\" Shtayyeh said.",
"He further called Israel's move \"a slap in the face of the Quartet and the whole international community, which is saying 'stop settlements.'\"",
"In an interview with the daily Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu defended Israel's right to build in Jerusalem.",
"\"We plan in Jerusalem, we build in Jerusalem.",
"Period. The same way Israeli governments have been doing for years.\"",
"The Israeli move drew international criticism, with British Foreign Secretary William Hague condemning it while U.S. officials expressed disappointment.",
"\"Settlement expansion is illegal under international law, corrodes trust and undermines the basic principle of land for peace,\" Hague said in a statement.",
"\"We call on the government of Israel to revoke this decision.\"",
"White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the United States was disappointed by Israel's announcement, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called it \"counterproductive to our efforts to resume direct negotiations between the parties.\"",
"As for possible U.S. government criticism of the move, Netanyahu declared that the Americans \"know this -- they have followed this a long time.",
"There is really nothing new.\"",
"In the interview, Netanyahu also said Israel would not initiate another settlement freeze to get talks started again.",
"\"We already gave at the office,\" he said, referring to a 10-month freeze enacted by his government last year."
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"Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas leads the meeting in Ramallah .",
"In it, Palestinian leaders say they'll push for statehood at U.N.",
"They also condemn Israeli plans for settlements in a disputed area ."
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"(CNN) -- In the three years since \"Twilight\" bowed in theaters, we've learned a few things: .",
"One, while teen girls are a sizable portion of the fan base, they're not its totality.",
"Two, the first three films of the franchise have pulled in roughly $1.8 billion worldwide in ticket sales (not adjusted for inflation), according to BoxOfficeMojo.com.",
"That's apparently enough for Robert Pattinson, who stars as Edward Cullen, to talk of being able to afford to fail, and his co-star Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan) of donating some of her \"funds.\"",
"Three, there must be a just a teeny tiny footnote on each installment's budget for Taylor Lautner's wardrobe, because rare is the moment when the kid isn't walking around without a shirt.",
"But as \"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part I\" opens in theaters today, we're recounting 10 other (tongue firmly in cheek) lessons we've culled from the series, themes that have been carried from Stephenie Meyer's best-selling novels onto the big screen.",
"1. Love at first sight is overrated; he or she should fall for you at first whiff.",
"Before Edward Cullen got to know the human he eventually married, he smelled Bella from across the classroom.",
"Yes, his senses are attuned to the scent of human blood, but you're missing the point: Bella's smelled special, like his \"own personal brand of heroin,\" as he memorably says in the first film.",
"Ladies and gents, rethink your relationships if they don't inspire comparisons to narcotics.",
"2. \"He's Just Not That Into You\" had it all wrong -- silence, irritation, storming off and mood swings are actually signs of unexpressed affection.",
"Edward Cullen wasn't always the sparkly dreamboat of a blood-drinking gentleman you'll see in theaters this weekend.",
"At first, he was actually pretty rude, prone to angrily walking away from Bella, being short with her and repeatedly telling her to stay away from him because he's dangerous.",
"Talk about mixed messages!",
"The next time someone gives you the brush off, don't think he or she isn't into you.",
"Perhaps they're just trying to refrain from going for that vein in your neck.",
"Which brings us to our next lesson: .",
"3. Be accepting of your partner's eccentricities.",
"Quirks such as eye color fluctuations, superhuman strength, the ability to read minds and family members who try to devour you on your birthday are qualities that make a partner unique.",
"Don't let silly things like her predisposition to kill stand in the way -- every relationship has its obstacles!",
"Just be glad she's not a zombie.",
"4. There's no such thing as personal space when one's in love.",
"Edward and Bella are so into each other, the thought of being separated for more than a span of a few days could send one of them into an outburst that rivals a demonic possession out of \"The Exorcist.\"",
"This was depicted with strong commitment from Kristen Stewart in 2008's \"Twilight,\" as she made Bella appear to be on the verge of a stroke when Edward suggested they should maybe rethink this whole human/vampire relationship thing.",
"Really, your partner only needs enough space to go to the bathroom and change clothes, and even then, you should be waiting for them on the other side of the door.",
"5. In the event that you and your partner do breakup, withdrawing from life as you lived it while having hallucinations about your romantic partner are all expected side effects.",
"That's why they call it being lovesick, kids.",
"6. Since you can't control such emotions, one should be open to falling in love with a human, shapeshifter, immortal or a baby.",
"Taylor Lautner's Jacob Black and other select members of his tribe have the ability to phase into wolves to protect their land, and they can also \"imprint,\" essentially falling in love and linking themselves with the one person with whom they're supposed to be .",
"They also can't help whom they \"imprint\" on.",
"So if it happens that the woman of your dreams was born just a few days ago to the woman you used to have a crush on, well, you'll just have to wait.",
"7. If one love interest is the fun one, and the other love interest brings the passion, just hang out with both for as long as possible. ...",
"Committing to one person is a tough choice, especially when you could die just from hanging around said individual, so it's understandable if your affections get pulled in another direction during a vulnerable moment.",
"The best thing to do is to maintain one as the \"relationship\" and the other as the \"friendship\" until you can't play that game anymore.",
"Bonus if they're natural-born enemies.",
"* Frankly, this lesson makes some sense.",
"8. There's always going to be a rumble brewing, and one of you is always going to have to be saved.",
"Edward and Bella are always fighting off this enemy or that, right up until the very end.",
"Believe it or not, this kind of stress somehow benefits the relationship -- just think of all that drama as the\"spark\" that ignites the fire of romantic moments.",
"You know, \"It's us against the world/Volturi,\" etc.",
"9. When given the option, go ahead and stay human for the honeymoon.",
"And if you're not breaking the bed while vacationing on your new spouse's private island, you're doing it wrong.",
"Thankfully, there's hired help ready to clean it all up for you -- that's what happens when you wed an unbelievably wealthy immortal.",
"But if you get pregnant, get ready for one hellish gestation period.",
"10. One can both acknowledge the ridiculousness of lessons one through nine and still be in line for a midnight showing after reading the series (again).",
"Perhaps the biggest lesson of all?",
"Don't look for nuggets of enlightenment in \"Twilight.\"",
"As fans of the series could tell you, the biggest draw isn't the outlandish plot points or the unrealistic romantic ideals, but the classic fantasy of love somehow conquering all.",
"Have we missed a lesson you've learned?",
"We want to hear it in the comments."
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"\"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part I\" opens in theaters today .",
"The supernatural romantic series has plenty of tongue-in-cheek lessons .",
"\"Twilight\" shows how a partner's eccentric qualities just spice the stew .",
"Need to juggle two lovers?",
"\"Twilight\" is a great teaching tool ."
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"London (CNN) -- A comprehensive new study identifying the most threatened sea turtle populations worldwide has been published by conservationists.",
"The report, jointly produced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Marine Turtle Specialist Group (MTSG), Conservation International (CI) and the U.S.'s National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, is the first detailed appraisal of global sea turtle populations, say the authors, and will provide a blueprint for future conservation efforts.",
"\"This assessment system provides a baseline status for all sea turtles from which we can gauge our progress on recovering these threatened populations in the future,\" Roderic Mast, co-chair of the MTSG and vice-president of CI said in a statement.",
"\"Through this process, we have learned a lot about what is working and what isn't in sea turtle conservation, so now we look forward to turning the lessons learned into sound conservation strategies for sea turtles and their habitats,\" Mast added.",
"Almost half of the world's most threatened sea turtle species can be found in the northern waters of the Indian Ocean and on nesting beaches lying within Exclusive Economic Zones in countries such as India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, according to the report.",
"Threatened populations here include both loggerhead turtles (classified \"endangered\" by the IUCN Red List) and ridley turtles (\"vulnerable\").",
"\"The report confirms that India is a home to many of the most threatened sea turtles in the world,\" B. C. Choudhury, from the Wildlife Institute of India said in a statement.",
"\"This paper is a wake-up call for the authorities to do more to protect India's sea turtles and their habitats to ensure that they survive,\" he added.",
"Other hotspots for sea turtles include the east Pacific Ocean (running from the U.S. to South America) and the east Atlantic Ocean -- specifically off the coast of western Africa.",
"According to the report, threats to sea turtles vary from region to region but can be broadly categorized.",
"These include accidental (caught in fishing nets) and deliberate targeting (for trades in eggs, meat and shells), coastal development, pollution and climate change.",
"Join Philippe Cousteau for \"Your Green World\" As well as highlighting danger areas, the report also pinpoints regions which are supporting healthier populations which face relatively low threats.",
"Species including the hawksbill turtle and the green turtle are thriving in nesting sites and feeding areas in Australia, Mexico and Brazil, along with southwestern Indian Ocean, Micronesia (in Oceania) and French Polynesia.",
"The report helps set up \"priorities for different populations in different regions,\" says Bryan Wallace, director of science for the marine flagship species program at CI and lead author of the report.",
"\"Sea turtles everywhere are conservation-dependent, but this framework will help us effectively target our conservation efforts around the world,\" Wallace said in a statement.",
"The report is published in the online science journal PLoS (Public Library of Science)."
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"Report is first comprehensive status assessment of global sea turtle populations .",
"East Pacific Ocean also a danger zone for turtles along with east Atlantic Ocean .",
"Australia, Mexico and Brazil among areas where sea turtles are fairing better, report says ."
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"(CNN) -- The family of deceased Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi will file a war crimes complaint against NATO with the International Criminal Court, a lawyer representing the family said Thursday.",
"Members of the family believe NATO's actions led to Gadhafi's death last week, said Marcel Ceccaldi.",
"\"All of the events that have taken place since February 2011 and the murder of Gadhafi, all of this means we are totally in our right to call upon the International Criminal Court,\" Ceccaldi, a French attorney, said.",
"NATO responded that it \"conducts its operation in strict conformity with the relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions.\"",
"In a statement Thursday, a NATO official said, \"At no time during Operation Unified Protector has NATO targeted specific individuals.\"",
"The ICC had previously issued a warrant for Gadhafi's arrest, accusing him of crimes against humanity.",
"The ICC still has warrants for the arrest of Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, and his brother-in-law Abdullah al-Sanussi.",
"Questions surround the death of Moammar Gadhafi, who eluded forces loyal to the National Transitional Council for months.",
"Video shows Gadhafi was alive when captured by the opposition.",
"He died from a shot in the head, officials said, but the circumstances surrounding the shot remain unclear.",
"The United States said it supports an independent investigation, as called for by the United Nations and by Libya's new leadership.",
"Ceccaldi said the Gadhafi family's complaint will be filed in the coming days.",
"\"Now we will wait and see if the ICC is a judicial system which is independent and impartial,\" he added.",
"Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard, commander of the NATO military operation, said earlier this week that NATO \"did not get involved in anything beyond what was our legal mandate and we remain well within the mandate assigned to us by the North Atlantic Council.\"",
"While Gadhafi survived an airstrike in the Sirte area shortly before he died, Bouchard said NATO did not know the former Libyan leader was in the convoy.",
"\"We saw a convoy, and in fact we had no idea that Gadhafi was on board,\" Bouchard said.",
"Some vehicles in the convoy were carrying weaponry, and seemed to present a potential threat to the population, he said.",
"The news came as the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Thursday to end NATO's military operations in Libya."
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"The Gadhafi family blames NATO for Gadhafi's death, the lawyer says .",
"The family will file the complaint with the ICC, the lawyer says .",
"The ICC had a warrant for Gadhafi's arrest ."
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"(CNN) -- Two years ago, Carlo Ratti, the head of MIT's Senseable City Lab, decided to find out what happened when city residents disposed of trash.",
"His team recruited 500 volunteers in Seattle to put sensor tags on items they were throwing away, and the researchers tracked the travels of the trash.",
"Of the 3,000 discarded items that were tracked and visualized in the research, some traveled considerable distances, with one, an ink cartridge, being shipped to the East before winding up in Baja California, a journey of nearly 4,000 miles.",
"\"When you have all these traces of trash moving around,\" said Ratti, \"you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient.",
"Then we can make better decisions.",
"And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.\"",
"Ratti, a civil engineer and architect, spoke at the TED2011 conference in Long Beach, California, in March and was interviewed by CNN.",
"Watch Carlo Ratti's TED Talk .",
"\"Cities are 2% of the earth's crust but they are 50% of the world's population,\" and consume 75% of the world's energy, he said.",
"As computer technology has advanced in past decades, cities have been transformed into digital networks that can be analyzed and activated to improve urban living, Ratti said.",
"Ratti sees technology as a two-way street.",
"You can use it to make sense of the physical world, digitizing what's out there as he did with the Seattle trash project.",
"But you can also take something that's purely digital and make it real in the physical world.",
"Among other projects he has worked on was the \"Digital Water Pavilion,\" a building built for an expo in Zaragoza, Spain, with exterior and internal walls produced by flowing water controlled by a computerized system.",
"When you approach the building to enter, sensors stop the water flow to create a doorway you can step through without getting wet."
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"Carlo Ratti heads MIT's Senseable City Lab .",
"He used sensors to track flow of trash discarded by volunteers in Seattle .",
"He found that some items travel thousands of miles .",
"Ratti's projects use computers to create new urban structures ."
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"New York (CNN) -- The New York Police Department has the capability to \"take down\" threatening airplanes, Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in an interview broadcast on CBS's \"60 Minutes\" Sunday night.",
"Asked by interviewer Scott Pelley whether he is satisfied with the handling of potential aerial threats, Kelly responded, \"It's something that's on our radar screen.",
"In an extreme situation, we would have some means to take down a plane.\"",
"\"Do you mean to say that the NYPD has the means to take down an aircraft?\"",
"Pelley asked.",
"\"Yes,\" Kelly answered.",
"\"I prefer not to get into the details, but obviously this would be in a very extreme situation.\"",
"\"You have the equipment and the training?\"",
"\"Yes.\" There was no comment on the technology that would be used in such a situation.",
"The interview highlighted several other security measures undertaken by the police department's Counterterrorism Bureau, including random subway searches, officers carrying nuclear radiation detectors on their gun belts, and thousands of \"smart\" cameras in downtown Manhattan.",
"Kelly created the Counterterrorism Bureau in early 2002 in response to the September 11th attacks that occurred 10 years ago last month.",
"Since the attacks, more than $3 billion has been spent on New York City counterterrorism measures.",
"Units within the bureau include the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative, and the Terrorism Threat Analysis Group.",
"\"We're the number one target in this country.",
"That's the consensus in the intelligence community,\" Kelly said.",
"\"We're the communications capital.",
"We're the financial capital.",
"We're a city that's been attacked twice successfully, we've had 13 terrorist plots against us since September 11th.",
"No other city has had that.\" On Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg commented on the police department's counterterrorism efforts at an education conference in Manhattan.",
"\"Our job is to make sure that we stay safe going forward and that we show that the terrorists didn't win and that New York City is back,\" he said.",
"\"The New York City Police Department has a lot of capabilities that you don't know about and you won't know about them.\"",
"Although he said that he \"cannot guarantee that you are safe forever or perfectly safe,\" he added that \"I can tell you in 10 years we seem to have stopped a number -- and who knows how many additional we don't know about -- attempts to have terrorism here.\"",
"He went on to reinforce his support for the police department and the spending involved in its operations: \"We spend something like 8 1/2 billion dollars, including pension costs, on our police department and I think it is money well spent.\"",
"The specifics of the department's capabilities are not commonly discussed with the media.",
"Kelly has said the department is taking every possible measure to keep New Yorkers safe."
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"NEW: Bloomberg says NYPD \"has a lot of capabilities that you don't know about \"\nKelly: \"In an extreme situation, we would have some means to take down a plane\"\nThere was no comment on the technology that would be used in such a situation .",
"More than $3 billion has been spent on New York City counterterrorism measures ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- There may be an extra place setting around Jack Wagner's dinner table this holiday season -- and not just because he and longtime girlfriend Heather Locklear are no longer together.",
"Wagner, 52, discovered earlier this month that he has a long-lost 23-year-old daughter from a \"fling\" he had with the girl's mother in the late 1980s, TMZ reports.",
"The girl, named Carrie, introduced herself to Wagner backstage at a November 4 concert in Boca Raton, Florida.",
"where the actor was performing with Rick Springfield.",
"Less than two weeks after the encounter, Wagner and Locklear announced they had called off their engagement, saying planning their wedding was not allowing them enough time to spend with their children.",
"Reports say Carrie, who was given up for adoption as an infant, had recently tried to track down her birth parents, a search that led her Wagner.",
"Sources told TMZ that the two embraced at the Florida concert and, at a later performance, Wagner introduced her to the entire audience.",
"The newly expanded family appeared in public this week at the taping of the Hollywood Christmas Parade Tree Lighting Concert at Universal Citywalk, which will air December 12 on the Hallmark Channel.",
"Carrie and Wagner's two other children cheered their father on as he performed two songs.",
"\"They were completely having fun,\" according to an onlooker.",
"\"[Wagner] was in great spirits with his family.",
"They were all celebrating together.",
"The kids totally supported their dad, which was really cute.\"",
"See the full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Jack Wagner discovered earlier this month that he has a long-lost 23-year-old daughter .",
"The girl, named Carrie, introduced herself to Wagner backstage at a concert .",
"Reports say Carrie, who was given up for adoption as an infant ."
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"(CNN) -- What are we afraid of?",
"That's the one thing I still don't understand; the one question -- nearly a month removed -- I'd love to have answered.",
"What in the world are we so afraid of?",
"In its October 4 issue, Sports Illustrated released a seven-page excerpt from my new book, \"Sweetness: The Enigmatic Life of Walter Payton,\" a biography of the Chicago Bears' running back.",
"The short piece concerned Payton's post-football struggles, ranging from depression to infidelity to suicide threats.",
"It was, admittedly, a jarring look at a man who, to most Chicagoans, served as a beacon of light.",
"Throughout his 13 seasons as a Bear, Payton wasn't merely a phenomenal running back.",
"He was an NFL icon; one of the faces (and blinding smiles) of the league.",
"Hence, to learn that Payton was -- what's the word?",
"-- human, immediately rubbed many football fans (and, in particular, Chicago fans) the wrong way.",
"In 17 years as a journalist, I've never received so many vicious letters, so many confrontational tweets, so many threatening e-mails.",
"The general take (in sanitized terms): How dare you write a book about Sweetness when he's not here to defend himself?",
"How dare you. To be honest, I was initially taken aback.",
"You devote three years to a project, only to be judged on a sliver of a sliver of the full body of work.",
"I felt the need to defend my intentions and stand up for my honor and convince every single naysayer that \"Sweetness\" was a detailed, exhaustively researched biography that delves into the ... blah, blah, blah.",
"Now, I'm just mad. This is what biographies are supposed to do.",
"From Manning Marable's astonishing \"Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention\" to Richard Ben Cramer's \"Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life\" to Jane Levy's \"The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood,\" portraits of our icons should be truthful, fair and--perhaps most important--unflinching.",
"We should want and expect this.",
"They are written neither to love a subject nor loathe a subject, but to fully understand a subject.",
"In other words, to provide a history lesson.",
"In the years I spent trying to grasp Walter Payton, I learned to love -- truly love -- a uniquely giving, empathetic, quirky man.",
"The portrait of Payton that already existed in the popular consciousness had been an overly simplistic (ie: mindless) one: The hard-nosed gridiron warrior who cracked lots of jokes and always had time for the fans.",
"Payton's background?",
"No interest. Payton's motivations?",
"Meh. Payton's struggles and conflicts and pains?",
"No, thank you. So what if Payton's own autobiography, \"Never Die Easy,\" was an ode to the Chip Hilton school of gosh-golly-gee selective storytelling?",
"Hey, it made us smile and sounded awfully good.",
"Well, Walter Payton was so much more than good.",
"Back in the fall of 1970, he was a key peg in the desegregation of the Marion County (Mississippi) School District; he was the black football player who -- by running 70-yard sweeps and walking with a quiet, confident dignity -- convinced skeptical white classmates (many of whom had never before spoken with a black person) that, hey, maybe this will work out OK.",
"He went on to star at Jackson State University, where his brightest moment came not on the football field, but as a finalist on the Soul Train National College Dance Championship (he and his partner, Mary Jones, finished second -- a setback that haunted Payton as much as his failure to score a touchdown in Super Bowl XX).",
"While in college, Payton changed his birth year from 1953 to 1954, inexplicably hoping the extra youth would give him in edge in Heisman Trophy balloting (it worked wonders -- he placed 14th).",
"When he was drafted by the lowly Chicago Bears, he cried in disappointment -- literally, tears streamed down his face.",
"When his father died in a Columbia, Mississippi, jail in 1978 (the police thought he was intoxicated; truth be told, he was suffering from a brain aneurism), he cried in devastation -- vowing to never refer to the place as his hometown again.",
"Walter Payton signed every autograph request.",
"Walter Payton dodged myriad interview requests.",
"Walter Payton desperately wanted to be known as the greatest running back of all time.",
"When Walter Payton became the NFL's all-time leading rusher in 1984, he shooed the media away.",
"Walter Payton wanted people to know he didn't eat red meat.",
"Walter Payton consumed Whoppers and Big Macs like a vacuum cleaner.",
"Walter Payton was elated to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.",
"Walter Payton loathed the Hall of Fame induction ceremony -- knowing his wife and girlfriend would both be attending.",
"When he retired after the 1987 season, Payton found himself searching for meaning in places where no meaning could be found.",
"For 13 seasons he had been the toast of Chicago -- an incomparable running back and civic ambassador.",
"Then, suddenly, it was over. His efforts to become an NFL owner fell short.",
"His businesses yielded mixed results.",
"His marriage was merely for show.",
"He was lonely and angry and depressed, and -- at his absolute lowest -- he wrote suicide letters and contemplated taking his own life.",
"The truth is harsh.",
"Painful. Uncomfortable. And yet, it is also beautiful.",
"Throughout his darkest days, when Payton saw no hope and no future, he continued to treat the people of Chicago as if they were his closest friends.",
"On the streets of the Windy City, he'd offer hugs and smiles and pinches to complete strangers.",
"He'd pose for pictures, sign autographs, tell the stories of Super Bowl XX or breaking Jim Brown's all-time rushing record for the 12,471st time.",
"Never complaining.",
"Never moaning.",
"In the final months of his life, Payton was made aware his liver disease had morphed into bile duct cancer, that no transplant would be coming; that he was, quickly, dying.",
"At that time, with nothing to gain, the man known as Sweetness did one public service announcement after another, urging people to save a life and sign up as organ donors.",
"The impact: Thousands of new registers.",
"That's Walter Payton.",
"That's a story worth telling.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jeff Pearlman."
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"Jeff Pearlman says he took a lot of heat for the revelations in his Walter Payton biography .",
"He doesn't get it: Why are people angry, afraid when they learn the truth about their heroes .",
"He says Walter Payton was complex man of dualities; suffered hardships in early life .",
"Pearlman: After retiring, Payton adrift but remained open to fans; spoke out for organ donation ."
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"(Financial Times) -- When Macau unveiled record gambling revenues on Tuesday, the government was silent about the source of much of the cash fuelling the territory's boom: illegal money transfers from mainland China.",
"From pawn shops offering money withdrawal services, to underground banks using human mules to transport cash across the border, Macau tolerates the illicit methods that mainland punters use to bring money into the former Portuguese colony, which reverted to Chinese control in 1999.",
"Mainland tourists, who have made Macau the world's largest gambling centre, can legally bring only Rmb20,000 ($3,175) when crossing into the Chinese territory.",
"But many gamblers bring more cash to the casino tables by using their Unionpay debit card to withdraw money -- for a fee.",
"\"There is no risk. We pretend to sell the customer an expensive watch or a piece of jewellery, charge the amount in renminbi to the debit card, and then give him the equivalent amount in Macau patacas or Hong Kong dollars as if the customer had decided to return the object for an immediate cash refund,\" says the manager of a pawnshop up the street from the Grand Lisboa casino, Macau's oldest casino owned by Stanley Ho, the gambling tycoon.",
"The manager says the cardholder's records will register the transaction as a purchase.",
"Unionpay, which was formed by China's big banks, says it bans such transactions, but the company declined to comment on the fact that the practice remained widespread.",
"The company said it no longer released data on how much cardholders spent in Macau.",
"People familiar with the industry say the Macau government cannot afford to shut down the illegal services, which hundreds of pawn shops advertise publicly on neon signs.",
"\"The Macau government's hands are tied,\" says one veteran Macau policeman.",
"\"It is not going to initiate a crackdown, because over 75 per cent of its revenue comes from gaming taxes.\"",
"About 16m mainland Chinese visited Macau in 2011, an increase of more than 20 per cent on the previous year, and 60 per cent more than the 10m who visited in 2006.",
"Analysts estimate that up to 30 per cent of Macau's gaming revenue could be channelled through illegal channels.",
"\"Banking restrictions make it very difficult to transfer funds to Macau legitimately, but it is easy for people to find ways [around the rules],\" says a senior Chinese bank manager who gambles in Macau.",
"While the debit card cashback service is the most visible source of money for the less well-heeled punters, those with deeper pockets have found different ways to avoid the restrictions.",
"VIP punters -- whom analysts estimate generate 70 per cent of Macau's gaming revenues -- gamble on credit provided by so-called junket operators who seek out wealthy mainland gamblers.",
"The junket operators receive commissions from the casinos or get a share of the profits.",
"They, or their agents, sometimes use underground banks to return the money they have collected as debt on the mainland to Macau.",
"The lenders use criminal gangs from Fujian and Guangdong provinces who in turn pay human mules as little as $5 -- compared with Guangdong's average daily wage of $7 -- to smuggle cash across the border.",
"While the underground banks are part of what is known as the shadow banking system in China, providing credit to cash-strapped companies, their Macau-related business is limited to transferring money from other sources.",
"One former junket operator and a Hong Kong owner of a mainland factory in Guangdong province, just across the border from Macau, described how operators also use Hong Kong business people who own companies on the mainland to transfer money illegally.",
"He said operators handed over renminbi debts collected on the mainland to the factory owner, who used the money to pay his staff wages.",
"Then, the owner sent the equivalent in Hong Kong dollars from his Hong Kong bank account to the operator's account in Macau.",
"Both sides profited by agreeing a mutually beneficial exchange rate.",
"There is no public data available to indicate exactly how much of Macau's gaming revenue comes from illegal channels, and casino operators and government officials refuse to speak about the issue.",
"Macau's Gaming Inspection and Co-ordination Bureau refused to comment.",
"\"Neither the Macau government nor Beijing wishes to damage the Macau economy.",
"There's good reason to keep the scale of illegal transactions a closely guarded secret so nobody needs to take action,\" says the police officer.",
"While Beijing does not condone gambling on the mainland, it has so far not cracked down on the illegal transfers.",
"Analysts say it is unlikely to take action as the Chinese Communist party does not want to destabilise Macau just 13 years after the city returned to Chinese rule.",
"\"Beijing is unlikely to take measures such as tightening visa restrictions or clamping down on debit card cashback services, as long as Macau is seen as a safe and enjoyable place to visit and casino operators refrain from activities or comments that might portray the city in a bad light,\" says Grant Govertsen, the Macau-based managing partner at Union Gaming Research, a US research group.",
"© The Financial Times Limited 2012 ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- In a move that will further complicate international efforts to get Middle East peace negotiations restarted, the Israeli government Tuesday approved the construction of 1,100 homes in a southern Jerusalem neighborhood that was seized by Israel in 1967.",
"The Israeli Interior ministry announced that a district planning committee had approved the construction of the housing and that the decision would be open for public objections for the next 60 days.",
"The move brought quick condemnation from Palestinians who claim the land Israel occupied in East Jerusalem and the West Bank after the 1967 war as part of a future Palestinian state.",
"Palestinian officials said the action proved that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not serious about making peace.",
"\"He said at the United Nations he was giving his hand in peace, but actually, he is digging in the land to build more settlements,\" said Palestinian negotiator Mohammed Shtayyeh.",
"The Israeli move also drew international criticism, with British Foreign Secretary William Hague condemning it while U.S. officials expressed disappointment.",
"\"Settlement expansion is illegal under international law, corrodes trust and undermines the basic principle of land for peace,\" Hague said in a statement.",
"\"We call on the government of Israel to revoke this decision.\"",
"White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the United States was disappointed by Israel's announcement, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called it \"counterproductive to our efforts to resume direct negotiations between the parties.\"",
"Last week, the Middle East Quartet -- made up of the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia -- called on Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace talks within a month and set the end of 2012 as the deadline for their completion.",
"The Quartet also called on both sides to \"to refrain from provocative actions,\" a veiled reference to Israeli settlement building in land Israel occupied after 1967.",
"Shtayyeh called Israel's move \" a slap in the face of the Quartet and the whole international community, which is saying 'stop settlements.'",
"\" In an interview with the daily Jerusalem Post, Netanyahu defended Israel's right to build in Jerusalem.",
"\"We plan in Jerusalem, we build in Jerusalem.",
"Period. The same way Israeli governments have been doing for years.\"",
"As for possible U.S. government criticism of the move, Netanyahu declared that the Americans \"know this -- they have followed this a long time.",
"There is really nothing new.\"",
"In the interview, Netanyahu also said Israel would not initiate another settlement freeze to get talks started again.",
"\"We already gave at the office,\" he said, referring to a 10-month freeze enacted by his government last year.",
"Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to convene a PLO leadership meeting Thursday to discuss the Quartet proposal for the resumption of talks, but Netanyahu's comments and the announcement of Israeli construction on land that Palestinians maintain should form part of their future state is bound to further widen the large gap between the two sides.",
"Abbas has said repeatedly that the Palestinians will not return to negotiations until Israel halted all settlement construction and accepted 1967 border lines as a basis for the return to talks.",
"Israel, for its part, has maintained that negotiations should begin with no pre-conditions."
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"NEW: Britain's foreign secretary condemns the Israeli move .",
"Palestinians say the move proves Israel doesn't want peace .",
"Israel says it won't implement any more freezes on construction ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Ten people were killed Monday in a suicide bombing outside a U.N. compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan, officials said.",
"Three employees working for the U.N.",
"Refugee Agency were killed in the attack, as well as two Afghan civilians and an Afghan National Police officer, according to officials.",
"In addition, four assailants were killed, according to a press release from the local Kandahar government.",
"Five others were injured, Afghan officials said.",
"The attack began when a truck full of explosives blew up near the U.N. compound, according to the government release.",
"The massive blast, which shattered the windows of buildings surrounding the compound, was followed by an hours-long gunbattle with police, who prevented the insurgents from breaching the compound.",
"The U.N. Refugee Agency is \"seeking a fuller understanding of the circumstances of today's attack.",
"Nevertheless the fact remains that people working for us have been wounded and killed and the functioning of our Kandahar office seriously disrupted,\" according to a statement from the group.",
"Gen. Hamid Wardag, a local commander of the Afghan National Army, attributed the attack to the Taliban.",
"\"This is a tragedy for UNHCR and for the families of the dead and wounded,\" U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said in a statement.",
"\"It also underscores the great risks for humanitarian workers in Afghanistan.\"",
"The U.S. Embassy in Kabul also expressed its condolences to the families of the victims.",
"Kandahar province has seen a rash of recent violence.",
"On Thursday, insurgents launched attacks on a Provincial Reconstruction Team base and a military outpost, Afghan and NATO officials said.",
"Insurgents fired small guns and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) toward the Provincial Reconstruction Team, said Agha Lali, a member of the Kandahar provincial council.",
"Officials killed two of the attackers, according to a regional police chief.",
"And on October 22, three U.S. service members were killed when an improvised explosive device blew up near their assault force.",
"Journalist Nick Paton Walsh contributed to this report."
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"NEW: U.N. official calls the attack a \"tragedy\"\nA truck full of explosives blew up in front a U.N. compound, local officials say .",
"An hours-long gunbattle followed the blast .",
"Afghan security forces kill four assailants, officials say ."
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"(CNN) -- In the wake of a multi-state outbreak of listeriosis linked to bacteria-tainted cantaloupe, authorities assured the public that cantaloupe grown in places other than Colorado's Jensen Farms is safe.",
"But if in doubt about a fruit's origin, they said, it's best to throw it out.",
"The outbreak -- blamed on the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes -- was first reported September 12.",
"As of Wednesday, it had grown to 72 cases in 18 states and had killed 13 people, officials with the Centers for Disease Control said.",
"The number of cases is expected to rise, as it can take one to three weeks for a person who ingests the bacteria to show symptoms.",
"All of the tainted cantaloupes were grown at Jensen Farms in Granada, Colorado, although they were shipped to 17 states -- Illinois, Wyoming, Tennessee, Utah, Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, Kansas, New Mexico, North Carolina, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.",
"\"It's important to know that if you know the cantaloupe that you have is not Jensen Farms, then it's OK to eat,\" CDC Director Tom Frieden told reporters during a conference call Wednesday.",
"\"But if you're in doubt, then throw it out.\"",
"The recalled cantaloupes may bear a green-and-white sticker that says, \"Product of USA-Frontera Produce-Colorado Fresh-Rocky Ford-Cantaloupe,\" or a gray, yellow and green sticker that says, \"Jensen Farms-Sweet Rocky Fords.\"",
"But not all cantaloupes may have a sticker, Frieden said.",
"Consumers are urged to ask the supermarket or supplier if they know where the cantaloupes came from.",
"If the cantaloupe's origins remain unconfirmed, it should be disposed of, he said.",
"However, the likelihood of tainted cantaloupes in the nation's food supply is decreasing, thanks to the fruit's short shelf life -- about two weeks, officials said.",
"The recalled cantaloupes were shipped from July 29 through September 10, \"so we really are nearing the end of the shelf life of the product in addition to its recalled product,\" Sherri McGarry, a senior adviser with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), told reporters.",
"The recall itself should be removing the cantaloupes from shelves, she said, but the shelf life means the tainted cantaloupes will not be edible much longer.",
"\"But consumers do have their own practices so we need to be cognizant some folks may hold that a little bit longer than we might expect,\" she said.",
"If consumers do have a cantaloupe from Jensen Farms, authorities recommend they don't try to wash off the bacteria.",
"\"We want you to throw that product away,\" McGarry said.",
"The fruits should be disposed of in a closed plastic bag and placed in a sealed trash can, to prevent people or animals from eating them, the CDC said.",
"Refrigeration will not kill the Listeria bacteria, which can grow even at low temperatures, officials said.",
"And the longer a contaminated food is stored in the refrigerator, the more opportunity the bacteria has to grow.",
"\"It is very important that consumers clean their refrigerators and other food preparation surfaces\" in order to minimize risk, the FDA says on its website.",
"After washing refrigerators, cutting boards and countertops, the agency recommends sanitizing them with a solution of one tablespoon chlorine bleach per gallon of hot water and drying them with a paper towel or cloth that has not been previously used.",
"Jensen Farms has now ended its cantaloupe harvest for the season, so no new contaminated fruit will be entering the market, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said Wednesday.",
"Although Jensen Farms does produce other products, there is no concern for any other product from the company, McGarry said.",
"Listeriosis causes fever, muscle aches, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms.",
"It rarely is a serious concern for healthy children and adults, the CDC said, but can be dangerous for older adults or those with weakened immune systems.",
"It can be treated with antibiotics.",
"The source of the outbreak -- the deadliest U.S. outbreak of a food-borne illness since 1998 -- remained under investigation.",
"Officials could not give a figure Wednesday for the number of cantaloupes recalled."
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"If consumers don't know where a melon came from, they can ask the store .",
"If there is any doubt about a cantaloupe's origin, it should be thrown out, officials say .",
"Consumers should not try to wash off the bacteria ."
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"(CNN) -- A double strike from Welsh winger Gareth Bale helped Tottenham to a 3-1 English Premier League win over QPR on Sunday, a result that lifts them up to fifth place in the table and keeps their unbeaten run going.",
"Dutchman Rafael Van der Vaart was also on target for Harry Redknapp's side, who have not lost in 11 matches since their 5-1 home defeat by Manchester City back in August.",
"Bale put the home side ahead in the 19th minute when he fired home an angled drive after a long ball from the back was headed on by Emmanuel Adebayor.",
"And a rampant Tottenham doubled their advantage 13 minutes later when Van der Vaart picked up a mis-hit shot from Ledley King to place the ball inside the far post.",
"QPR fought back after the break and halved the arrears on the hour mark when Jay Bothroyd nodded home from close range.",
"But Tottenham sealed their victory with a superb goal 18 minutes from time, with Aaron Lennon and Bale exchanging a series of passes outside the box before Bale curled home a shot that gave keeper Paddy Kenny no chance.",
"Manchester City still blaze a trail at the top of the table, with nine wins and a draw from 10 matches.",
"They lie on 28 points, five clear of rivals Manchester United.",
"Chelsea, Newcastle and Tottenham are all level on 19 points but Chelsea have played a game more and unbeaten Newcastle will move up to third position if they get at least a draw against Stoke on Monday night.",
"Meanwhile, in Sunday's two German Bundesliga matches, Lukas Podolski netted twice in a 3-0 win over 10-man Augsburg.",
"Poland midfielder Slawomir Peszko added a third for the home side, while the visitors had Torsten Oehrl sent off for a dangerous tacle with 14 minutes remaining.",
"The win moves Cologne up to 11th place in the table with five wins and five defeats, but Augsburg are second bottom with just one win and eight points.",
"Hamburg are just one point and one place above Augsburg after they drew 1-1 with Kaiserslautern on Sunday.",
"The home side had Slobodan Rajkovic sent off in the 21st minute for elbowing Kaiserslautern captain Christian Tiffert and the visitors went ahead seven minutes before half-time through Pierre De Wit.",
"But Peru striker Jose Paolo Guerrero levelled for the hosts in the second-half, although the point was enough to lift Kaiserslautern up a place to 13th in the table."
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"Welshman Gareth Bale scores twice as Tottenham defeat QPR 3-1 on Sunday .",
"Rafael Van der Vaart also on target as Spurs go up to fifth in the table .",
"The result means Tottenham are unbeaten in their last 11 matches in all competitions ."
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"(CNN) -- The first recorded use of the phrase \"protest march\" was in 1913 to describe a demonstration organized by Mohandas Gandhi against the South African government's restrictions on Indian nationals.",
"After Gandhi was arrested and the protests grew more heated in response, the South African government labeled the gatherings \"riots.\"",
"Ever since, impassioned groups of politically similarly situated people have been called either protesters or rioters.",
"Which phrase you choose mainly depends on where your own political sympathies lie.",
"This weekend, after protesters involved in the Occupy Wall Street actions were arrested by police, the New York Post called the demonstration a \"near riot\" while Salon said the occupation involved mostly \"beds, kitchens, peaceful barricades\" I'm not going to weigh in the relative merits of the Occupy Wall Street protests.",
"Suffice it to say I'm sympathetic with their critique that our economy and political system is too beholden to the interests of Wall Street, overlooking or even abusing the middle class and the poor.",
"In fact, polls show that more than two-thirds of Americans think major corporations, banks and financial institutions have too much power in our society.",
"Yet I imagine there are some fed-up Americans nonetheless scratching their heads as to why a bunch of their fellow citizens are camped out in our nation's financial headquarters in New York.",
"Sure we have problems.",
"But we have a democracy. We get to vote. That's our power, right?",
"Unfortunately, that's not always enough.",
"We know the corporate lobbyists hold disproportionate sway over our elected officials compared with we, the people.",
"For instance, members of the congressional supercommittee charged with reaching a bipartisan deficit reduction solution have received $41 million from the financial sector during their time in Congress.",
"According to a new report by Public Campaign and National People's Action, at least 27 current or former aides to supercommittee members have worked as lobbyists for financial sector interests.",
"Unfortunately, these dynamics affect both political parties.",
"During his first presidential run, Barack Obama received more campaign donations from employees of investment banks and hedge funds than any other industry.",
"Throughout the rest of the world, especially in the Middle East and North Africa, ordinary people are rising up together to protest impenetrable and unjust political regimes.",
"Many of these protests are peaceful.",
"Sadly, some are not. But if you look at people's movements in places like Libya and Syria and think they are justified because those nations have entrenched, totalitarian regimes, think again.",
"America's financial and business titans may not use tanks and torture, but their power is nonetheless extraordinary and dangerous.",
"If the blatant injustice and inequality of the Arab world seems a million miles away, note that according to the CIA, income inequality in the United States is greater than in Yemen.",
"Frederick Douglass once said, \"Power concedes nothing without a demand.\"",
"Douglass knew of what he spoke.",
"Because black people and poor whites weren't even allowed to vote in the early days of our Union, slavery could only be ended through protest.",
"Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, black and white Americans launched protests and outright revolts against the system of slavery.",
"Sadly, some were not. But looking back, we don't condemn Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner and John Brown for their \"riots\" -- just as most Americans don't condemn the Rev.",
"Martin Luther King Jr. and Ella Baker, even though at the time, all these great heroes were attacked and tarnished for their protests.",
"What is brave and noble through the distance of history can often seem disorderly and disruptive in the present.",
"Think of the Boston Tea Party, which helped spark the American Revolution.",
"The nervous British ruling class denounced it as a riot.",
"And yes, that protest ultimately turned very violent.",
"I do not condone violence.",
"I believe in the power of protests to confront the ugliness of inequality and injustice with the beauty of people peacefully coming together and simply but strongly demanding change.",
"Then again, I understand that when people are angry, it's hard to be quiet.",
"In La Puente, California, Rose Mary Gudiel is facing foreclosure and ejection from her home after falling on hard times.",
"Gudiel is staying in her home until she, her brother and her elderly parents are forcibly removed by One West, the bank to which she has repeatedly appealed for lenience.",
"Gudiel is actively resisting the orders of police and government officials.",
"Is that violence? Will it be violent when the bank and cops remove her?",
"Where do we draw the line? The grandfather of protest -- or riots, depending on your perspective -- Gandhi deeply deplored violence.",
"But Gandhi also said, \"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.\"",
"Indeed, people in the United States and across the globe are feeling increasingly impotent in the face of the growing power and wealth of Wall Street, dimming the rest of our prospects for a prosperous future.",
"In the face of such injustice, I don't wonder why people protest.",
"I wonder why more people don't join them.",
"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Sally Kohn."
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"Sally Kohn: \"Occupy Wall Street\" is part of American tradition of protest .",
"Past protests seen now as noble were disorderly and disruptive at the time, she writes .",
"Kohn: Protests a choice when injustice so entrenched, a vote is not enough ."
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"(CNN) -- Why does French dressmaker Chanel always seem chic?",
"What does British seamstress Vivienne Westwood have that others don't?",
"And even though it's been 25 years since \"Top Gun\", why does everybody still want a pair of Ray Bans?",
"The short answer is, they're just really cool.",
"It might be a subjective concept -- one man's cool Hawaiian party shirt is another's discarded Christmas gift -- but certain brands do seem to stay in fashion forever.",
"It's a phenomenon highlighted by the UK's annual top 20 \"Cool Brands\" list released today.",
"Top of the pile is Aston Martin, James Bond's car-maker of choice, followed by Apple and motorbike designer Harley Davidson.",
"But numerous fashion labels make it onto the list, with Rolex highest among them at number four, followed by Nike, British designer Alexander McQueen and perennially cool Ray Ban sunglasses.",
"Why denim never fades from fashion .",
"So, how did these brands manage to acquire this ineffable quality -- at least in the eyes of the Brits?",
"We ask chief executive of the Centre for Brand Analysis and \"CoolBrand\" council chairman Stephen Cheliotis for his six rules of cool.",
"1. Style is everything .",
"From the door handles to the website and the tags on the clothes to marketing events: If people are to be persuaded a brand is the height of cool, the devil is in the detail, says Cheliotis.",
"\"It's not just about making your clothes look good,\" he insists.",
"\"Absolutely everything associated with the brand has to exude style -- from the packaging to the company website, to the type-face on the inside label.\"",
"2. Never try too hard .",
"No one likes a busybody and, says Cheliotis, even the word \"cool\" suggests a certain relaxed approach.",
"\"The original idea of being cool is being laid back, not running around like a headless chicken trying desperately hard to please everyone.\"",
"This, he says, is true for people and fashion brands alike.",
"So, if it feels like a brand is trying way too hard to impress -- chasing every trend going, for example -- then it probably won't.",
"Celebrity fashion labels: The good, the bad and the ugly .",
"3. Stay true to the brand .",
"It's not cool to fake it. In other words, if a company began life selling pretty knitwear, it should think very carefully before venturing into, say, leather jackets.",
"\"You must always remain true to your roots,\" instructs Cheliotis.",
"\"Shoppers want something authentic and it's obvious when you're out of your comfort zone.\"",
"Designer Alexander McQueen may have recently passed away, he adds, but it doesn't mean that his eponymous label should be tempted to change its style.",
"\"As long as it (the label) sticks to his original vision it will probably stay on the list.\"",
"4) Keep evolving .",
"This might sound at odds with the previous rule but, according to Cheliotis, it's certainly not.",
"\"One of the reasons we keep seeing the same brands on the list, like Nike and Rolex, is because they're always innovative, but at the same time they retain their core identity.\"",
"5) Don't be promiscuous .",
"Some fashion houses squander their hard fought cool rep by plastering a company logo on everything that moves.",
"In Cheliotis' view, bootmaker Dr. Martens have been guilty in recent years of such profligacy.",
"\"They were known for making really sturdy, simple and good quality footwear.",
"Now they've plastered their name on everything, it's cheapened the brand and undermined their core product.\"",
"6) Be humble . A stark word of warning for self-satisfied designers everywhere.",
"\"Successful brands don't fixate over being cool, instead they just do their own their own thing, stick to their founding principles and follow what they think is right,\" says Cheliotis.",
"In other words, if you think you're cool, you probably won't be for much longer."
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"Top \"Cool Brands\" list has been released, includes seven fashion labels .",
"Rolex and Chanel all make the cut.",
"What do they have that other brands don't?",
"We ask \"Cool Brands\" council chairman to tell share the secrets of cool brands ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- In a major blow to the Republican leadership, the U.S. House on Wednesday defeated a temporary spending measure that would have required spending cuts to offset additional money for federal disaster relief efforts.",
"The vote was 195-230, with 48 Republicans joining all but a handful of minority Democrats in opposing the short-term spending plan that would keep the government funded for seven weeks after the end of the fiscal year on September 30.",
"After the result, House Republican leaders met in Speaker John Boehner's office to decide if they would revise the measure and hold another vote on Thursday.",
"Options under consideration included removing or changing the spending offsets opposed by Democrats, or reducing the total amount of spending to appease conservative Republicans.",
"At issue was a short-term bill to fund government agencies through November 18 that would allocate fewer resources to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers for disaster response than the Democratic-led Senate approved last week.",
"Additional funds are needed because of recent major floods from Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee along the East Coast, and wildfires in Texas that required emergency responses exceeding the amount the agencies have left in their coffers to support recovery and rebuilding efforts.",
"The House measure included a total of $3.6 billion in disaster relief money -- $1 billion in emergency funds available when the bill is enacted and another $2.6 billion to be budgeted for those federal response agencies for the 2012 fiscal year that begins October 1.",
"In addition, House Republican leaders are insisting that the $1 billion in immediate disaster funding be offset with $1.5 billion in cuts to a loan program that helps automakers retool their operations to make more fuel-efficient cars.",
"Democrats objected to cutting spending for disaster funding, calling it unprecedented and politicizing emergency relief for Americans.",
"Conservative Republicans, including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, argued that the nation's expanding deficits require as much spending restraint as possible.",
"Earlier this month, President Barack Obama asked Congress for a total of $5.1 billion in additional disaster aid --- $500 million of which was for immediate relief.",
"Last week, the Senate bill that passed with bipartisan support included $6.9 billion for FEMA and other federal agencies for immediate disaster relief and for relief in 2012.",
"The Senate version required no spending offsets.",
"The impasse could leave the government without funding after September 30 if Congress fails to authorize further spending, which would cause a partial shutdown.",
"Cantor, however, said no shutdown would occur.",
"\"Suffice it to say there's not going to be a shutdown,\" Cantor told reporters.",
"\"I think everybody needs to relax.",
"We're trying to affect change in a way that we spend taxpayer dollars - that's what this whole thing is about.",
"No one is denying anyone disaster aid if they need it, and we're trying to be responsible and to do the right thing.\"",
"Meanwhile, Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the chamber's No.",
"2 Democrat, said his party would support the measure if the offset provision was removed.",
"\"They put something in that was clearly, we think, a job killer,\" Hoyer said of the offset that would eliminate the loan program for manufacturing fuel-efficient vehicles.",
"During floor debate on the measure, Hoyer and other Democrats complained that any kind of offset would be unprecedented for emergency funding to help Americans in need.",
"\"Even if they had the best offset in the world, I still think it's wrong\" to require equivalent spending cuts when getting money to disaster victims, said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California.",
"To Hoyer, the defeat of the GOP measure \"says that we are continuing to struggle to do things in a bipartisan fashion.\"",
"If House Republicans \"expect our votes, they have to work with us,\" he said.",
"\"They can't just give us something and say ... their way or the highway.\"",
"-- CNN's Ted Barrett, Deirdre Walsh, Kate Bolduan and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Remove the offset and Democrats will support it, Rep. Hoyer says .",
"NEW: House Republican leaders consider revising the measure .",
"The short-term spending measure falls on a 195-230 vote .",
"48 Republicans join Democrats in opposing it ."
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"Duncan, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Justin Boyles lay in bed, exhausted and depressed.",
"His 385-pound body sank into the mattress with each breath he took.",
"I have diabetes, he thought in disbelief.",
"His 6-year-old daughter, Autumn, crawled on top of the king-sized comforter and stared at him with bright blue eyes.",
"\"Daddy, will you get up and play?\"",
"\"No, baby, I'm tired.\"",
"She sat back to think.",
"Her mom had tried to explain why Justin was so sad, but Autumn didn't really understand diabetes or its dangerous implications.",
"\"Daddy, are you ever going to be healthy enough to ride a bike with me?\"",
"The question broke Justin's heart.",
"Tears started to roll down his face.",
"\"Yes, very soon. I promise,\" he said.",
"\"Do you pinky promise?\"",
"she asked, holding out her tiny finger.",
"Justin looped his last digit around hers and made the decision to change his life.",
"All kinds of excuses .",
"Shanon and Justin Boyles were high school sweethearts.",
"The first time they hung out at 16, Justin took Shanon to church.",
"He was smart, polite and made her laugh -- three qualities that helped Shanon overlook his size.",
"\"As long as I can remember, I've been overweight,\" Justin says.",
"\"I remember as a child coming home after school and having a stack of cookies and a giant glass of milk every day.\"",
"In high school Justin weighed close to 250 pounds; he was considered obese even at 6 feet 1.",
"As an adult he lived on fast food and spent most of his nights as a security guard sitting down.",
"He'd eat dinner at work -- frozen burritos, burgers and fries -- then stop off at Taco Bell on the way home for the advertised fourth meal.",
"\"I was really kind of in my own little hole, and I didn't want to get out or do anything,\" he says.",
"Shanon became worried.",
"Any time their extended family tried to get together for a birthday party or holiday, Justin refused to go.",
"\"He would have all kinds of excuses,\" she says.",
"\"He was really depressed.",
"He was down on himself real bad.\" Most concerning was his lack of time with Autumn, who got upset when her father wouldn't play outside.",
"\"She loves him. He's her hero,\" Shanon says.",
"\"I [knew] why he was feeling that way... but there was nothing I could do about it.\"",
"Small steps for a big change .",
"Since his diagnosis with type 2 diabetes in March -- and his pinky promise to Autumn -- Justin has lost more than 65 pounds.",
"He walks around his neighborhood whenever he can and makes sure to do the little things like taking the stairs and returning his shopping cart.",
"The family is also eating better with more vegetables, leaner meats and less sugar.",
"For example, at dinner Justin usually eats a spinach leaf salad with tuna or baked chicken with broccoli.",
"Shanon joins in; she's lost 20 pounds in less than six months on the new diet.",
"The family recently took a trip to the Oklahoma State Fair and walked around all day, something they never would have done last year.",
"\"I no longer lay in bed thinking that my weight is just too much to overcome,\" Justin says.",
"\"I enjoy being out with family and friends and having a good time.\"",
"He only weighs in once a month to avoid becoming obsessed with the numbers on the scale.",
"He hopes to get down to 200 pounds, a weight at which his doctor said he would probably be able to go off his medications.",
"\"I just want him to be healthy and happy.",
"I don't care what weight he's at,\" Shanon says.",
"The couple raised more than $7,500 for the American Diabetes Association's \"Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes\" in Oklahoma City on September 14.",
"Their team wore matching black T-shirts with a new slogan: \"Do you pinky promise?\"",
"On his website Justin has included a section where he asks readers to make their own promises -- to themselves or to their family -- to get healthy.",
"\"[Autumn] taught me that you can do anything you put your mind to,\" he says.",
"\"It doesn't take a big giant step.It takes doing a little something.\"",
"Justin still has a long way to go in his weight loss journey.",
"But rest assured that he'll keep going -- you just don't break a pinky promise, especially one made to your little girl.",
"Got a weight loss story to share?",
"Submit it on iReport.com ."
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"Justin Boyles learned he had type 2 diabetes in March 2011 .",
"Since making a promise to his daughter, Boyles has lost more than 65 pounds .",
"Boyles raised $7,500 for the American Diabetes Association's \"Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes\""
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"(CNN) -- A Texas Rangers fan who fell over a railing while trying to catch a ball will have a place at Rangers Ballpark next season after the team erects a statue in his memory.",
"Shannon Stone, a 39-year-old firefighter from Brownwood, Texas, fell to his death July 7.",
"His 6-year-old son Cooper witnessed the accident.",
"\"The statue, which is tentatively to be named Rangers Fans, is expected to be in place for the 2012 season,\" the Texas Rangers announced in a statement Monday.",
"It will depict Stone and his son attending a Rangers game.",
"\"The full-size bronze statue is likely to be located outside the home plate gate of Rangers Ballpark in Arlington,\" the Rangers said.",
"The tragedy took place in the second inning of the ill-fated game.",
"Star outfielder Josh Hamilton tossed a souvenir ball into the stands after a batter hit a foul ball.",
"Stone stuck out his glove and reached for the ball, but lost his balance and flipped over the railing of the outfield seats.",
"He fell about 20 feet and crashed head-first into an area near a scoreboard.",
"Stone died of blunt-force trauma, according to the Tarrant County medical examiner.",
"Rangers President Nolan Ryan, a Hall of Fame pitcher, has said the club would review the height of railings at the stadium, even though they already exceeded the city's code limits.",
"The team has set up an account accepting donations in Stone's honor with the Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation.",
"Donated money has been earmarked to help the Stone family.",
"The Rangers have donated an undisclosed sum, according to the team's website.",
"Stone's widow, Jenny, said she appreciates Ryan and the Rangers during the family's time of loss.",
"\"Shannon and Cooper had a special relationship, and we are touched and grateful that it will be memorialized at one of their favorite places,\" she said in the statement.",
"\"Our hope is that this statue will not be a symbol of our family tragedy but rather a reminder of the importance of a family's love -- love of each other, love of spending time together, and love of the game.\"",
"CNN's Sara Pratley contributed to this report."
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"Stone, 39, died in July after falling over a railing at Rangers Ballpark .",
"He was trying to catch a ball tossed into the stands ."
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"(CNN) -- Hurricane Ophelia got even more powerful Friday night as it churned across the Atlantic toward Bermuda, the National Hurricane Center reported.",
"A tropical storm watch was in effect for that mid-Atlantic island, but Ophelia's increasingly northerly path suggests it won't directly threaten the coastal United States.",
"The system was disorganized and seemed to be weakening last week.",
"But it has gained steam in recent days and earlier Friday was upgraded to a Category 3 hurricane.",
"According to the center's 8 p.m. update, Ophelia had maximum sustained winds of 120 mph, which is 5 mph stronger than those recorded three hours earlier.",
"Its center was located 480 miles south-southeast of Bermuda.",
"Ophelia has also gotten faster, increasing in speed 4 mph as it heads north at around 16 mph.",
"With an expected turn more to the north-northeast, the storm is expected to strike the eastern part of Bermuda late Saturday, reports the hurricane center.",
"The Miami-based forecasters said that there could be fluctuations in Ophelia's intensity over the next 12 to 24 hours, followed by a gradual weakening.",
"Hurricane-force winds extended about 30 miles from the storm's eye, center said.",
"Tropical storm-force winds, which are winds between 39 mph and 73 mph, have been recorded 175 miles away.",
"Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Philippe has strengthened somewhat as it spins farther east in the Atlantic, with its eye some 1,100 miles east-northeast of the Leeward Islands as of 5 p.m. Friday.",
"As of that update, its sustained winds were 50 mph, which is slightly stronger than the previous update.",
"The hurricane center predicted \"some weakening\" over the next 48 hours, during which it was set to turn more toward the west-northwest."
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"NEW: Ophelia now has maximum sustained winds of 120 mph .",
"NEW: It is set to hit portions of Bermuda late Saturday, hurricane center predicts .",
"Tropical Storm Philippe, meanwhile, is getting stronger in the eastern Atlantic ."
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"(CNN) -- Actor Sean Penn helped play a role in securing this week's release of two U.S. hikers imprisoned in Iran for more than two years, his representative confirmed Friday.",
"The report was first published by the Reuters news agency, which cited a source close to the release process as saying that Penn flew to Venezuela months ago to speak about the hikers' plight with President Hugo Chavez, an ally of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
"Mara Buxbaum, a rep for Penn, confirmed the Reuters report but declined to provide additional details.",
"Venezuelan state media reported Friday that Chavez was part of the mediation process that resulted in the release of Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer on Wednesday.",
"Upon their release, the men were flown to Muscat, Oman, where their families greeted them with elation.",
"\"We're so happy we are free and so relieved we are free,\" Fattal said.",
"\"Our deepest gratitude goes toward His Majesty Sultan Qaboos of Oman for obtaining our release.",
"We're sincerely grateful for the government of Oman for hosting us and our families.\"",
"Bauer said, \"Two years in prison is too long, and we sincerely hope for the freedom of other political prisoners and other unjustly imprisoned people in America and Iran.\""
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"Reuters: Penn flew to Venezuela to speak to Chavez about the American hikers .",
"Penn's rep confirms the report but declines to give additional details .",
"Chavez was part of the mediation process, state media says ."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- A car bomber who penetrated Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone this week was targeting the Iraqi prime minister, authorities said Saturday.",
"The attack Monday left two people dead and seven others injured in the Green Zone, which houses the nation's government offices as well as U.S. and other embassies.",
"Police said the blast occurred at an outdoor parking lot that belongs to the Iraqi parliament.",
"No more details were available immediately on whether lawmakers were among the casualties.",
"Initial inquiries revealed an attempt to kill Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, according to Major Gen. Qassim Atta, the Baghdad security operations manager.",
"The black car was loaded with explosives and had three ways to detonate: manual, electric and by cell phone, he said.",
"\"The intelligence information we have indicates that the vehicle was supposed to enter the building and park there until the arrival of the prime minister,\" Atta said.",
"Terrorists confessed that the car bomb was targeting the prime minister when he visits parliament in an upcoming session, according to Atta, who did not name the group behind the attacks.",
"The prime minister was not there at the time of the attack, he said.",
"The attacker was in a black Dodge with 20 kg (44 lb) of explosives, and was driving toward parliament when security forces stopped him because he did not have a proper badge.",
"The driver parked at the parliament compound, where the car exploded.",
"The attack comes amid a U.S. military withdrawal from the Middle Eastern country.",
"All American troops are scheduled to be out by the end of the year.",
"Iraqi security forces, including army and police officers, are to assume full responsibility after the withdrawal.",
"CNN's Hamdi Alkhshali contributed to this report ."
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"Police: The blast occurs at the Iraqi parliament's parking lot .",
"Terrorists confess that the car bomb was targeting the prime minister, official says .",
"The attack Monday kills two people and injures seven others ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- A typhoon that killed at least 39 people in the Philippines made landfall in southern China on Thursday.",
"Chinese authorities evacuated 300,000 people as they prepared for the effects of Typhoon Nesat, a disaster-response agency reported.",
"It is the strongest typhoon to hit China this year, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.",
"Nesat made landfall in southern China's Hainan province, bringing strong winds and rain to Wengitan Township and nearby areas, Xinhua reported.",
"In addition to evacuations, authorities in southern China recalled ships and suspended scheduled flights and ferry trips as they steeled for the typhoon's effect, the news agency reported.",
"The death toll from the storm in the Philippines, meanwhile, has increased.",
"The storm killed 39 people, injured 43 others and left 31 missing, according to the most recent figures from the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council.",
"Nesat -- referred to in the Philippines as Pedring -- displaced thousands in the archipelago nation, the state-run Philippines News Agency reported.",
"A baby boy was among the dead when the typhoon slammed into the Philippines on Tuesday, authorities said.",
"The storm struck the agricultural provinces of Isabela and Aurora the hardest.",
"But storm alerts were also issued for more than 40 other areas, including metro Manila, the state weather bureau Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said.",
"Nearly 680,000 people were affected by the typhoon in 31 provinces, the disaster council said.",
"More than 120 people were rescued across the country, the council said, many of them from boats.",
"Some roads around Manila were impassable due to flooding and falling debris, including branches that had been ripped off trees.",
"Several areas in Metro Manila and nearby provinces were without electricity as the powerful storm cut power and transmission lines.",
"Meanwhile, another storm -- Tropical Storm Nalgae -- is expected to make landfall in the Philippines on Saturday, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency's Typhoon Center."
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"(CNN) -- Lionel Messi has been hailed as the greatest soccer player the world has ever seen following his extraordinary exploits for European champions Barcelona.",
"The 22-year-old has scored 10 goals in his past four games, including two hat-tricks in consecutive Spanish league matches.",
"The diminutive Argentina forward has kept Barcelona in the hunt for a second successive La Liga title, and his two goals against Stuttgart last Wednesday helped put the Champions League titleholders into the quarterfinals of Europe's premier club competition.",
"Blog: Is Messi better than Maradona?",
"Sunday's treble against Zaragoza was his third this season, and his fifth since making his debut in 2004, taking him to 25 league goals this campaign -- five more than closest rival Gonzalo Higuain of Real Madrid, and two past his tally from last season with 11 games still to play.",
"Messi is now third on Barcelona's all-time scoring list, and has the chance to net his 200th goal for the club in Wednesday's league game against Osasuna.",
"After the Zaragoza game, Barcelona president Joan Laporta compared Messi -- who was named 2009's best player in the world -- with the club's legendary former stars Diego Maradona and Johan Cruyff.",
"\"He's the best player in the world right now and the best ever,\" Laporta told Barcelona's Web site.",
"\"Together with Cruyff and Maradona, he's the best we've seen at the club.",
"\"He's a player who can change everything in a game, but he also works for the rest of the team.",
"He's a real leader.\"",
"Coach Pep Guardiola said he had run out of superlatives to describe the performances of Messi, who has scored 11 of Barcelona's last 15 goals.",
"\"He's been more than decisive, and you can tell he's feeling fit the way he gets involved in everything.",
"I've run out of adjectives -- you'll have to put your own,\" Guardiola said.",
"\"That he's capable of doing everything that he does at his age is something impressive.",
"It doesn't make any sense.\"",
"Guardiola revealed that Messi had been in doubt for the Zaragoza game due to a gum infection in his mouth.",
"\"He was in a lot of pain. But in the morning I asked him how he was and he told me that he was better.",
"Before the game I asked if he wanted to play and he said yes, I asked him how many minutes and he told me the whole game,\" Guardiola told reporters.",
"\"He always wants to play, whether it's the Champions League final or against a third-division side.",
"For me it's difficult to leave him out, seeing the form he's in.",
"He's an amateur in this sense, he always wants to play.\"",
"Messi has not always carried his amazing club form onto the international stage with Argentina, but he has the chance to redress that situation in June at the World Cup in South Africa.",
"\"The person who most wants to see him succeed for Argentina is Messi himself, nobody should doubt that,\" Guardiola said."
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"Messi has scored 10 goals in past four games, including two hat-tricks .",
"The 22-year-old is third on the Spanish club's all-time scoring list with 199 goals .",
"Coach Pep Guardiola says he has run out of superlatives to praise the Argentine forward ."
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"(CNN) -- Hindered by painful stings and strong currents, endurance swimmer Diana Nyad ended her latest attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida about two-thirds of the way through the crossing Sunday.",
"The 62-year-old Nyad suffered jellyfish and Portuguese man-of-war stings Saturday, while ocean cross-currents were pushing her off course, team captain Mark Sollinger said.",
"She was pulled out of the water about 11 a.m. Sunday, about 67 nautical miles through the 103-nautical-mile passage.",
"Treading water before being helped out of the water, Nyad said the man-of-war stings had paralyzed some of the muscles in her back, given her chills and nausea.",
"Doctors warned her she could suffer long-term health problems if she suffered another sting.",
"\"I've never been in any pain, ever, like that in my whole life,\" she said, adding, \"Now it's set me so far back, I just don't' have the lung capacity to swim the way I can.\"",
"It was her third attempt to make the swim from Cuba to Florida.",
"Her first, in 1978, was brought to an end by strong currents and bad weather after almost 42 hours in the water.",
"She made a second try in August, before she was pulled from the water after 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 latest attempt, accompanied by shark divers, began just after 6 p.m. Friday from Havana's Hemingway Marina.",
"The former world champion swimmer projected the swim would take close to 60 hours.",
"There was a bit of excitement early Saturday afternoon as 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.",
"Nyad got back in the water at 12:20 a.m. Sunday and swam for nearly 11 hours before packing it in.",
"\"But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?\"",
"she said in a statement on her website.",
"\"This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.\"",
"CNN's Matt Sloane and Shasta Darlington contributed to this report."
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"\"Isn't life about determining your own finish line?\"",
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"(Health.com) -- People with depression are more likely to have a stroke than their mentally healthy peers, and their strokes are more likely to be fatal, according to a new analysis published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association.",
"Depression is a relatively minor risk factor for stroke compared to high blood pressure (hypertension) and other health conditions and behaviors that damage blood vessels, the researchers say.",
"Still, their analysis suggests that as many as 4% of the estimated 795,000 strokes that occur in the United States each year can be attributed to depression.",
"\"If you have depression but no other health issues, you probably don't have to pay too much attention to stroke risk,\" says An Pan, Ph.D., the lead author of the analysis and a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, in Boston.",
"\"But if you are depressed and are also obese, or have hypertension or...unhealthy lifestyle factors, your risk is going to increase dramatically.\"",
"Health.com: The 10 most depressing states in the U.S. Pan and his colleagues combined data from 28 studies dating back to the mid-1990s that included about 318,000 people overall.",
"Roughly 2.7% of the participants had a stroke during the studies, which ranged in length from two to 29 years.",
"Compared to those who showed no signs of depression, people who received a depression diagnosis from a doctor or who reported feeling depressed were 45% more likely to have a stroke and 55% more likely to die from a stroke, the researchers found.",
"Depression increased the risk of ischemic stroke, in which a blood vessel becomes blocked and cannot send blood to the brain.",
"But it did not measurably raise the risk of the other major type, hemorrhagic stroke, in which a blood vessel leaks or bursts open.",
"Health.com: 12 signs of depression in men .",
"The new study is the latest in a long line of research linking depression to chronic disease and serious physical health problems.",
"\"We knew that depression raises a person's risk of developing diabetes, obesity, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease,\" Pan says.",
"\"We also knew that depression can occur after patients suffer a stroke.",
"We just didn't have strong enough evidence to know if the reverse was true, or what really comes first.\"",
"Researchers have already established that depression increases the risk of heart attacks (and especially fatal ones), so it makes sense that depression would have a similar association with stroke, says Norman Rosenthal, M.D., a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, in Washington, D.C. \"Strokes and heart attacks both represent blood vessels becoming blocked and blood being withheld from a vital organ, whether it's the heart or the brain,\" says Rosenthal, who was not involved in the new study.",
"\"They're essentially the same disease.\"",
"Health.com: Careers with high rates of depression .",
"Depression could contribute to strokes in many ways, Pan says.",
"For starters, people who are depressed are more likely to smoke or drink heavily, to follow an unhealthy diet, and to neglect their personal health.",
"Most of the studies included in the analysis controlled for these and other risk factors, but the data suggests that at least some of the stroke risk in depressed people can be explained by an unhealthy lifestyle.",
"There are other possibilities, as well, that aren't as easily measured.",
"Depression can increase the production of stress hormones in the body, for instance, and can trigger dangerous inflammation in the blood vessels.",
"\"Little things, like keeping up good dental hygiene or socializing with friends, all affect inflammation levels -- and these are things that a depressed person is less likely to do,\" says Rosenthal.",
"Depression may also cause people to slack on taking medications needed to control other stroke-related conditions, such as diabetes or high blood pressure.",
"On the other hand, some medications prescribed for depression -- most notably the class of drugs known as atypical antipsychotics -- have been shown to cause weight gain and obesity, a known risk factor for stroke.",
"More research is needed to determine whether depression drugs contribute to stroke risk.",
"Doctors should monitor weight gain and blood pressure levels in patients taking these drugs, but there's no reason for patients to stop taking them, Pan says.",
"\"For now, physicians should prescribe medication if they think it is necessary, or if non-drug treatments haven't worked.\"",
"Although depression isn't the most important risk factor for stroke, the researchers say it likely has a noticeable impact on the stroke rate.",
"They estimate that depression is responsible for an additional 106 strokes per 100,000 people in the United States each year.",
"Copyright Health Magazine 2011 ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain told supporters Saturday that he is suspending his presidential campaign, which has become hobbled in recent weeks by allegations of sexual harassment and an Atlanta woman's claim that they carried on a 13-year affair.",
"While he will still be able to raise and spend campaign funds because he did not officially drop out, Cain's White House bid is effectively over.",
"Cain said he came to the decision after assessing the impact that the allegations were having on his wife, his family and his supporters.",
"Cain and his wife, Gloria, held hands as they walked up to the podium where Cain made his remarks in Atlanta.",
"The crowd chanted, \"Gloria!",
"Gloria!\" before the candidate spoke.",
"Even as he stepped aside under the weight of the allegations that have dogged him, Cain said that he was at \"peace with my God\" and \"peace with my wife.\"",
"He repeatedly called the allegations \"false and untrue,\" and added that \"the (media) spin hurts.\"",
"\"I am not going to be silenced and I will not go away,\" Cain said, announcing what he called his Plan B: A website, TheCainSolutions.com, through which he will continue to advocate for his platform.",
"His catchy \"9-9-9\" economic plan is not going anywhere, he said.",
"\"Your support has been unwavering and undying,\" Cain told his supporters.",
"He will endorse another of the Republican presidential hopefuls soon, he said.",
"Other candidates were quick to react.",
"\"Herman Cain provided an important voice to this process,\" Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said in a statement.",
"\"His ideas and energy generated tremendous enthusiasm for the conservative movement at a time it was so desperately needed to restore confidence in our country.\"",
"Fellow Georgian Newt Gingrich said the \"9-9-9\" plan \"got our country talking about the critical issue of how to reform our tax code and he elevated the dialogue of the Republican presidential primary in the process.\"",
"Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he knew the Cains made a \"difficult decision.",
"He helped invigorate conservative voters and our nation with a discussion of major tax reform.\"",
"Former Utah Gov.",
"Jon Huntsman said Cain brought \"a unique and valuable voice to the debate over how to reform our country's uncompetitive tax code and turn around the economy.",
"I understand his decision and wish him and his family the best.\"",
"Recently, Cain acknowledged that Ginger White's allegations of an affair have led to a drop in campaign contributions, and a Des Moines Register poll showed his support among likely Republican Iowa caucus-goers has fallen to 8%, down from 23% in October.",
"The poll has a sampling error of plus or minus 4.9 points, the newspaper said.",
"Respondents said they were most concerned that Cain does not understand important issues, but said the allegations against him contribute to their concern, the newspaper said.",
"This week, White told the news media that she and Cain engaged in an on-and-off affair for more than 13 years.",
"She described the affair as \"very casual.\"",
"White issued a statement, through her attorney, after Cain's announcement Saturday.",
"\"Ginger White respects Mr. Cain's decision regarding his campaign and indeed would have respected any decision he made,\" the statement said.",
"\"That being said, she is disappointed that he has not apologized for the public statements he has made about her and other women who have spoken out.\"",
"In a fund-raising letter Tuesday night, Cain referred to White as \"troubled.\"",
"Two women -- Sharon Bialek and Karen Kraushaar -- previously accused Cain of sexually harassing them in the 1990s while he was head of the National Restaurant Association.",
"Two other women also have said Cain sexually harassed them while they worked at the association, but they have declined to be identified.",
"Cain told the Union Leader in New Hampshire that he repeatedly gave White money to help her with \"month-to-month bills and expenses.\"",
"But he denied the relationship was sexual, as White contends.",
"He said the two were friends.",
"\"I send checks to a lot of people; I help a lot of people,\" Cain told Fox News on Thursday.",
"\"That in itself is not proof. So the other allegation in terms of it being a 13-year physical relationship, that is her words against my word.\"",
"In the interview, Cain said his wife, knew nothing about White nor his financial support for her until the mother of two came forward last week.",
"\"My wife now knows,\" he told the newspaper.",
"\"My wife and I have talked about it, and I have explained it to her.",
"My wife understands that I'm a soft-hearted, giving person.\"",
"Cain's announcement came a month before the Iowa caucuses, the first formal test of the primary season, scheduled for January 3.",
"New Hampshire Republican officials who supported Cain began to survey their options Saturday, with several state representatives saying their support could go to Gingrich or Ron Paul.",
"Cain's most prominent supporter in the state, former GOP state party chair Jack Kimball, said he would wait to learn who Cain would endorse before making his own decision.",
"Cain told staffers earlier this week he was reassessing his campaign in the wake of White's allegation of an affair, and he acknowledged to reporters Wednesday that her account had led to a drop in contributions to his campaign.",
"He said in the Thursday Union Leader interview that his wife's feelings, as well as the reaction from supporters and donors, would be important factors in deciding whether he will stay the race.",
"Cain told the newspaper he would drop out of the race if his wife asked him to, but quickly added that she wouldn't.",
"Though Gloria Cain rarely makes public appearances or statements, she told Fox News last month that she believed the sexual harassment allegations were \"unfounded.\"",
"CNN's Rachel Streitfeld contributed to this report."
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"Cain will endorse another candidate soon .",
"Cain's Iowa support fell to single digits, the Des Moines Register reports .",
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"Khartoum, Sudan (CNN) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out Monday at \"the powers of arrogance,\" saying that both Sudan and Iran were subject to \"pressures\" from the West because of their political positions.",
"\"They pressure Sudan and Iran; why?",
"Because we stand against the powers of arrogance,\" Ahmadinejad said during a visit to Khartoum.",
"Speaking to a crowd of cheering youths, students and supporters in Khartoum's Friendship Hall, Ahmadinejad criticized Europe and the United States for what he described as the \"stealing\" of Africa's wealth.",
"\"They stole the riches of Africa,\" he said.",
"\"Despite this wealth, we see poverty and deprivation.\"",
"Ahmadinejad arrived in Khartoum Monday morning on his way back to Iran after speaking to the United Nations General Assembly in New York, and after a brief stop in Mauritania.",
"Western delegates walked out of his speech at the U.N.after he repeatedly condemned the United States and said some countries use the Holocaust as an \"excuse to pay ransom... to Zionists.\"",
"\"They don't want to see Sudan strong so they pressured it into a referendum,\" he said, in reference to the South Sudan referendum that led to the independence of South Sudan last July.",
"\"Could there be a referendum in Europe, in the Basque (region of Spain) and other areas?\"",
"he asked. \"I am sure if there was a neutral referendum in the U.S., some states would secede from the U.S.,\" he continued.",
"\"The waves of consciences have started especially in the Muslim lands,\" he said, in reference to the popular revolutions that have sprung out in the Arab world.",
"Earlier, Ahmadinejad and Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir met, along with a large team of ministers from both countries.",
"\"We are looking for more economic cooperation with sisterly Iran,\" al-Bashir said in a meeting.",
"\"We confirm our support for Iran's right to develop its nuclear technology for peaceful purposes,\" he added.",
"In a joint statement by both governments, Iran stated that it was \"ready to transfer its experience in the science and manufacturing sectors, especially technical and engineering services, to improve Sudan's infrastructure.\""
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"The Iranian presidents was traveling home after speaking at the U.N. in New York .",
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"(Entertainment Weekly) -- Score a personal best at the box office for Quentin Tarantino this weekend.",
"\"Inglourious Basterds,\" his revisionist take on WWII starring Brad Pitt, grossed an estimated $37.6 million, besting the reigning box office champ \"District 9,\" and giving beleaguered studio The Weinstein Co. a little financial relief.",
"\"Inglourious Basterds,\" a revisionist take on WWII starring Brad Pitt, grossed an estimated $37.6 million.",
"\"Basterds'\" opening far surpasses Tarantino's previous best opener, \"Kill Bill Vol.",
"2,\" which brought in $25 million in April 2004.",
"The critical question now is how \"Basterds\" will hold up during the next few weeks.",
"Since Weinstein only has domestic rights to the movie -- Universal Pictures holds international -- a large overall gross stateside is mandatory for the company.",
"Warner Bros. had a much harder time with its release \"Shorts\" from auteur Robert Rodriguez.",
"Opening to only $6.6 million, the PG-rated kid flick landed in a weak 6th place finish for its opening frame.",
"The only other new release to reach the top ten was Fox Searchlight's post-college flick \"Post Grad\" starring Alexis Bledel.",
"Despite opening in 1,959 locations, the film grossed only an estimated $2.8 million for the three days.",
"Among holdovers, \"District 9\" did incredibly well considering Basterds was angling directly for its male audience.",
"The $30 million sci-fi movie from newcomer Neil Blomkamp dropped a scant 49% to $18.9 million putting its total ten day gross at an impressive $73 million.",
"\"G.I. Joe\" also hung in for its third week in theaters.",
"The high-octane actioner fell only 44 percent to $12.5 million.",
"It's three-week cume now stands at $120 million.",
"Female moviegoers helped keep \"The Time Traveler's Wife\" and \"Julie & Julia\" in the top five.",
"\"Time Traveler\" dropped only 46 percent to $10 million its second week putting its ten-day gross at $37.4 million while \"Julie & Julia\" fell only 25 percent, which is remarkable considering the movie is in its third week of release.",
"Grossing $9 million for the three days, the Meryl Streep, Amy Adams two-hander has now earned $59 million total.",
"Thanks to the strong opening of \"Basterds\" and the solid hold of the incumbent films, the box office was up 26 percent compared to the same time last year.",
"It's the third week in a row the box office was up after four weekends of unimpressive results.",
"Next weekend's horror mash-up of \"Halloween II\" and \"The Final Destination 3-D\" should yield some positive results too.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Joe\" also hung in for its third week, earning an additional $12.5 million .",
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court for the third time this year has stopped the pending capital punishment of a Texas inmate, giving lawyers for the man more time to file their appeals.",
"The justices on Tuesday issued an order granting a stay of execution for Cleve Foster, about 2 1/2 hours before his scheduled lethal injection.",
"The Gulf War veteran was convicted along with another man of the 2002 murder of Nyanuer \"Mary\" Pal, a Sudanese immigrant he met at a Fort Worth bar.",
"The court indicated it would need more time to rule on the inmate's claims of prior ineffective assistance of counsel, and related claims of innocence of the murder.",
"This is the third time Foster, 47, has been granted a high court reprieve.",
"His previous scheduled execution was stopped in January and April, once after he had already been given his last meal.",
"His April procedure was to be the state's first execution using a new sedative, the first in the lethal drug cocktail.",
"A nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental forced corrections officials to announce they would use pentobarbital, a barbiturate that has alternately been used to put animals to sleep.",
"Foster's lawyers had challenged that change, saying Texas foisted the new protocols so late, with little time for legal or medical review.",
"The state has since executed several inmates with the new drug mixture, without noted complications.",
"Foster has blamed his co-conspirator for the murder.",
"His lawyers in their Supreme Court appeal presented letters from three fellow inmates who said co-defendant Sheldon Ward told them he acted alone in Pal's murder.",
"The state countered Ward's statements to a psychologist implicating Foster as the mastermind behind the killing.",
"They also said DNA from both men were found in the victim.",
"Texas has a planned lethal injection Wednesday.",
"Lawrence Brewer, 44, was one of two white men convicted in the 1998 dragging death of James Byrd Jr., an African-American.",
"That widely reported crime led to national movement to step up prosecutions and penalties for hate crimes.",
"Brewer has no pending appeals.",
"It would be the 11th execution this year in Texas, the most active death-penalty state.",
"The current case is Foster v. Texas (11-6427)."
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"Court grants Cleve Foster his third stay of execution .",
"The order came just 2 1/2 hours before the scheduled lethal injection .",
"He was scheduled to die for the 2002 murder of a Sudanese woman .",
"Court said it needed more time to rule on his claims of ineffective counsel ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Hacker group The Script Kiddies successfully hacked another news organization when it logged onto USA Today's Twitter page and posted false statements Sunday evening.",
"USA Today promptly removed the messages and posted a statement about the hack.",
"Late Sunday evening USA Today posted to its Twitter page: .",
"\"@usatoday was hacked and as a result false tweets were sent.",
"We worked with Twitter to correct it.",
"The account is now back in our control.\"",
"The Script Kiddies, an offshoot of the hacker group Associated, takes full responsibility on their Facebook page: .",
"\"Just Hacked USAToday and made a new Facebook fan page, lost access to the last one.\"",
"Twitter responded by saying, \"As a policy, we don't comment on individual accounts for privacy reasons.\"",
"The Script Kiddies are also responsible for hacking into NBC News' Twitter account the weekend of September 11 and posting fabricated messages about a fresh attack on New York's ground zero.",
"The Script Kiddies also hacked the Fox News Twitter account in July.",
"The group falsely reported that President Barack Obama had been killed.",
"USA Today was unable to be reached for comment but tweeted this apology late Sunday evening: .",
"\"We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion caused to our readers and thank you for reading @usatoday.\""
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"(CNN) -- Authorities have identified seven of the 10 people who died following a crash at an air show in Reno, Nevada, on Friday.",
"The list includes the pilot, 74-year-old Jimmy Leeward, who lost control of his vintage plane before it plummeted into a crowd of spectators.",
"Seven people, including the pilot, were killed on the tarmac, while three others died at area hospitals.",
"Almost 70 people were injured.",
"The six others identified are Joseph Wogan, 22, of Arizona; George and Wendy Hewitt of Washington state; Regina Bynum, 53, of Texas; Sharon Stewart, 47, of Nevada; and Gregory Morcom, 47, from Washington state.",
"Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board announced Sunday that the small World War II-era plane was equipped with data and video recording devices that they hope to use to help determined what happened and why.",
"NTSB member Mark Rosekind described the devices, as well as the discovery of information and pieces that may have come from the devices, as \"significant new information.\"",
"It was also not entirely expected, given the size and nature of the P-51 aircraft.",
"\"I'm not aware of a lot of aircraft having it, this is the first one I came across,\" said Howard Plagens, the NTSB official heading the investigation.",
"Plagens was referring to a \"box\" that recorded key variables such as altitude, latitude and oil pressure.",
"In addition, there was an outward-facing video camera on the plane, according to Rosekind.",
"Several memory cards have been found at the wreckage site that may have come from either device and will be sent to the NTSB laboratory in Washington for a full analysis, Rosekind said.",
"They may belong to some of the 200,000 spectators who were at the annual National Championship Air Races and Air Show.",
"Investigators do have a copy of the \"box\" data, since it was sent in real time by telemetry to sources outside the aircraft.",
"Besides the cards, Rosekind said, parts of a plane's tail, an \"elevator trim tab\" and video camera fragments have been found.",
"\"There were thousands of pieces of debris,\" Plagens said, explaining how the site had been laid out in a grid system to help organize the investigation.",
"As with the memory cards, one of the authorities' first goals will be to determine whether these came from the plane.",
"Countering earlier reports, Rosekind said Sunday that Leeward did not send a \"Mayday call,\" indicating he was in distress.",
"Investigators have repeatedly stated that it is not known why the aircraft nosedived.",
"Some speculation has surrounded the elevator trim tab, which was breaking apart prior to the crash, a photograph shows.",
"Investigators also will pore over \"a tremendous (amount of) video that was captured\" at the scene, according to Rosekind.",
"A preliminary report will be available Friday, but Rosekind has said the full investigation could take six to nine months.",
"\"It's not just what happened, it's why it happened,\" he said Sunday.",
"\"(We're) trying to make sure this doesn't happen again.\""
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"The downed plane had video and data recording devices, an NTSB official says .",
"It's unclear why the aircraft crashed, investigators have said ."
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"(CNN) -- A partnership between NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Boeing will bring more than 100 jobs to Florida's Space Coast, the governor announced on Monday.",
"\"Florida has five decades of leadership in the space industry, which makes our state the logical place for the next phase of space travel and exploration,\" Gov.",
"Rick Scott said in a statement.",
"Boeing's plans include manufacturing and testing its Crew Space Transportation-100 spacecraft and locating its Commercial Crew program headquarters at Cape Canaveral.",
"The move is expected to create 140 jobs in Florida by June 2013 and 550 by December 2015.",
"Republican Rep. Sandy Adams called the announcement \"welcomed news\" as she recounted the devastating job losses her 24th Congressional District has suffered since the space shuttle program ended.",
"It was a little more than a year ago that NASA laid off more than 1,200 workers, even after a bill that extended the retirement date of the shuttle program from February to July 2011.",
"Thousands more, including shuttle workers and contractors, lost their jobs when the program ended.",
"Despite the massive job losses, state and federal leaders have worked hard to preserve the history of the space center and produce new jobs that will secure economic growth for years to come.",
"\"This marks the beginning of the vibrance of the economy of the Space Coast,\" Republican Rep. Bill Posey said.",
"NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Beth Garver thanked the Obama administration and Congress for their support and called the agreement \"the latest sign of tangible progress\" as the space center transitions from a government-only facility to a commercial space port.",
"The partnership is \"also part of a larger commitment on the part of NASA and the Obama administration to bring jobs and economic development to the Space Coast by building on all of Kennedy's world-class launch capabilities,\" Garver said.",
"\"The Boeing Co. is helping lead the way in the next chapter of human spaceflight, and I am proud that they chose our community for their home,\" Adams said.",
"The CST-100 spacecraft is a reusable capsule-shaped aircraft that has a crew module and service module, a statement from the governor said.",
"Boeing has planned test flights from Cape Canaveral in 2015."
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"Boeing partners with Kennedy Space Center to establish new headquarters .",
"The move is expected to bring 140-550 jobs to Florida .",
"Florida congresswoman calls partnership \"welcomed news\""
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"Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- The lawyer trying to get two American hikers freed from prison in Iran was not able to get a signature on bail paperwork because a judge is on vacation until Tuesday, he told CNN Sunday.",
"Bail has been paid for Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, lawyer Masoud Shafiee said, but he needs the signatures of two judges to prove it.",
"He went to a judge's office Sunday, when he was in court on a separate case, to see if he could get the second signature, but was told that the judge is on vacation until Tuesday and that Shafiee will have to return then, the lawyer said.",
"Separately, a delegation of American Muslim and Christian leaders asked Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to release the hikers, his office said Sunday.",
"The four leaders who met with him in Tehran included Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a photo of the meeting showed.",
"The head of the human rights department of the Iranian judiciary, Mohammad Javad Larijani, linked the case of Fattal and Bauer to America's treatment of detainees.",
"\"If the U.S. is so sensitive about two of its spies and tries to free them, it should look at the way it treats other nationalities,\" he said in an interview Sunday with the semi-official Fars news agency.",
"Fattal and Bauer have been held as spies for more than two years, after they apparently crossed an unmarked border between Iran and Iraq in July 2009.",
"The two men and a third hiker, Sarah Shourd, were seized while hiking in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.",
"Iranian authorities arrested them, claiming they were spies and had entered the country illegally.",
"Shourd, who is Bauer's fiancee, was released last year for medical reasons, although authorities said her case remains open.",
"Fattal and Bauer were convicted last month of spying and entering Iran illegally, and each was sentenced to eight years in prison.",
"Ahmadinejad recently said they could be freed, raising hopes that have been dashed and raised again several times since then.",
"He said in an interview with NBC's \"Today\" show that they will be released on humanitarian grounds \"in a couple of days.\"",
"But the judiciary shot back that only it could make decisions about their release.",
"Shafiee then announced that all the paperwork had been filed for them to be freed on bail, but their release was delayed.",
"He said he was \"very hopeful\" they would be released on Saturday, but the process is being held up by the lack of a judge's signature.",
"Shafiee said he would not know for sure the amount of the bail or who paid it until he sees the signed document.",
"Earlier reports put it at $500,000 for each American.",
"An Omani official flew to Iran on Wednesday to help work on any negotiation, a Western diplomat told CNN at the time.",
"Oman helped secure the release of Shourd, posting her bail last September, a senior Obama administration official said at the time.",
"Ahmadinejad is slated to travel to New York for the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, the semi-official Mehr News Agency reported.",
"He is expected to give a speech and meet with several other presidents and Iranians living in the United States.",
"But his visit is not linked to moves to release the Americans, said Larijani of the Iranian judiciary.",
"CNN's Shirzad Bozorgmehr contributed to this report."
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"U.S. Muslim, Christian leaders ask President Ahmadinejad for their release .",
"A judge who needs to sign bail paperwork is on vacation, their lawyer says .",
"Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer have been held as spies for more than two years ."
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"(CNN) -- Zainab Alhusni was a simple seamstress in Syria, well-loved by all her neighbors and friends.",
"Now, in a tragic turn of events, she has become a symbol of the cruelty gripping that conflict-wracked nation.",
"Alhusni was only 18 when she stepped away from her Homs residence last month to buy groceries.",
"Her family never again saw her alive.",
"She was whisked away by Syrian security forces to coax the surrender of her activist brother, and ended up beheaded and dismembered, a neighbor, activists and human rights groups say.",
"Waleed Fares, a neighbor and family friend, told CNN on Monday that Zainab's father died when she was just a toddler, leaving her mother and three siblings to fend for themselves in a country with often-unfavorable conditions for a single mother.",
"All four children dropped out of school at a young age so they could work as laborers to provide for their family, Fares said.",
"Zainab dreamed of owning her own tailor shop, so she could support her impoverished family, he said.",
"But she never had a chance to fulfill that dream.",
"Her older brother, Mohammed, became a well-known activist in the family's hometown of Homs in western Syria, often leading the demonstrations against embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and treating the wounded.",
"\"Protesters would carry Mohammed on their shoulders so he could lead the chants,\" Fares said.",
"\"He was very loved by everyone.",
"The protesters even had a chant they would say for him, using his nickname: 'Abu Ahmed, may Allah protect you!'\"",
"Security forces pursued Mohammed Alhusni for months, raiding his family's home several times, causing the family to flee to a nearby neighborhood on July 25, Fares said.",
"On July 27, Zainab Alhusni disappeared, leaving her family devastated and her siblings panicked and anxious, the neighbor said.",
"\"If it had been her brother it would have been different.",
"Taking Zainab, it became a matter of family honor and family pride.",
"Her mother was beyond depressed.",
"She seemed to be between life and death,\" Fares said.",
"Neighbors and family friends called on each other to collect donations to ease the family's financial troubles, but this became the least of the Alhusni family's concerns.",
"Several days after Zainab disappeared, security forces called the family and offered to meet them in a pro-Assad neighborhood where they would trade Zainab for her activist brother.",
"\"The family did not trust the security forces.",
"They would not even confirm to them that Zainab was alive, and they all believed it was a trap to take Mohammed, too,\" Fares said.",
"On September 10, the family says, Mohammed was wounded in a demonstration.",
"He came back to his loved ones a corpse.",
"The family believes he was tortured to death.",
"In a statement posted to YouTube, another brother, Yousif Alhusni, describes multiple gunshot wounds to Mohammed's chest and a single shot through his mouth.",
"\"His arms were broken and there were cigarette burns to his face,\" he adds.",
"The family went to collect Mohammed's body from a hospital when doctors told them another unclaimed body with the label \"Zainab Alhusni\" had been kept in the morgue's freezer for some time.",
"When the family received the body, her head and arms had been chopped off.",
"Chunks of her flesh were charred, appearing in places to have been melted or burned down to the bone.",
"Authorities forced Zainab's mother to sign a document saying both her daughter and her son had been kidnapped and killed by an armed gang, Amnesty International said in an online statement .",
"\"If it is confirmed that Zainab was in custody when she died, this would be one of the most disturbing cases of a death in detention we have seen so far,\" said Philip Luther, Amnesty International's deputy director for the Middle East and North Africa.",
"The case also drew the antipathy of the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which characterized the incident as \"appalling\" and an example of the \"targeting and attacking of families and sympathizers of the protesters by security forces.\"",
"The ferocious Syrian government crackdown against dissenters began in mid-March when anti-government protests unfolded.",
"The number of people killed over the past six months has reached at least 2,700, according to the U.N. human rights office.",
"Some activist groups put the toll at around 3,000.",
"Syrian authorities could not be reached for comment on the Alhusni case.",
"The Syrian government has maintained armed gangs with foreign agendas, not the regime, are responsible for the violence that has plagued the Arab country for months.",
"CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the video, the claims, or the death toll because the government has repeatedly denied requests for journalists to report inside Syria.",
"\"Perhaps more than any other family they were chosen to be at the front lines of the Syrian revolution,\" Fares said of the Alhusni family.",
"\"They were very poor, so they felt the brunt of the injustice more than any other family.",
"For Mohammed at least, he felt he had nothing to lose.\"",
"The neighborhood where the family lived, Bab Alsibaa, held a rally for Zainab on Sunday, and people vowed the brutality that destroyed the Alhusni family could only strengthen their resolve.",
"\"The case of Zainab Alhusni is not just for our town, or province, or even for the country of Syria.",
"It is a human rights issue that should bring the attention of the world,\" Fares said.",
"But despite Fares' insistence that \"after Zainab our chants are louder, our numbers greater,\" he admitted the people of Bab Alsibaa constantly worry about their female family members.",
"\"Even stepping outside the home is a risk for women now,\" he said.",
"CNN's Arwa Damon contributed to this report."
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"Instead, she has become in death a symbol of the cruelty gripping Syria .",
"\"They were chosen to be at the front lines of the Syrian revolution,\" neighbor says ."
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