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"Boston (CNN) -- Out of sheer boredom, Susumu Ito, in World War II, became a forward artillery observer, one of the most dangerous jobs available.",
"\"I lied to my mom and told her it was assigned,\" he recalled.",
"\"I didn't want to tell her I thought it was exciting.\"",
"Forward artillery observers are among the first to go behind enemy lines, scouting for enemy installations and troop formations, targeting them for artillery strikes.",
"In combat, he used an artillery periscope to spot enemy positions and direct cannon fire.",
"Ito had been in the Army since 1940, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor, many Japanese-American soldiers were discharged, and even those kept on were disarmed and reassigned.",
"\"They took our rifles away, they didn't know what to do with us,\" Ito said.",
"At first, the Army made him a mechanic, a job he found tedious.",
"\"Except for reveille at 6 o'clock in the morning, we had duties that were entirely like civilians.\"",
"In 1943, the creation of the segregated 442nd Regimental Combat Team allowed Japanese-Americans to prove their loyalty to the United States.",
"Ito and thousands of other Asian-Americans welcomed the chance to demonstrate their courage in combat.",
"\"The majority got into the infantry, and that's what I expected, but I was happy to be in the artillery,\" he said.",
"On Wednesday, Ito, along with more than 1,000 members of the 100th Battalion, 442nd RCT, will be honored on Capitol Hill with a Congressional Gold Medal for their extraordinary accomplishments in World War II.",
"The Congressional Gold Medal is the nation's highest civilian award.",
"Japanese-American WWII vets awarded special medal .",
"During World War II, Ito watched as hundreds of men, including dozens of his friends, fell in battle.",
"He witnessed prisoners in striped uniforms look back at their liberators with sunken eyes.",
"He even got to walk around the Berghof, Adolf Hitler's residence near his famed \"Eagle's Nest\" retreat in the Alps.",
"Before deploying to Europe, Ito had seen and been behind the barbed wire that surrounded his family's barracks at Rohwer Relocation Center in southeast Arkansas.",
"After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese-Americans were labeled \"enemy aliens,\" and more than 110,000 were sent to internment camps across the United States.",
"Though he was concerned, Ito says that he and his family accepted this as something that had to be done.",
"\"It was a strange feeling to have an armed guard give me a pass in order to be let in,\" he said.",
"Ito captured many of his wartime experiences with his small Argus camera.",
"Under orders not to bring cameras, he brought one anyway, as he wanted to keep a record.",
"\"It was quite unique because no one to my knowledge had a camera, they all obeyed orders.",
"I bent them whenever possible.\"",
"Ito is now 92 years old, a retired Harvard Medical Emeritus professor who spends his days inside a laboratory using high-tech microscopy equipment to view his cell specimens.",
"His photographs still generate a range of emotions.",
"Many are group shots of smiling war buddies, posing near their howitzers or against scenic backdrops.",
"Some feature the capture of German soldiers or the damaged buildings of the Berghof, and others contain more solemn reminders of the concentration camps, which evoke a sense of indignation.",
"Ito's unit, the 522nd Field Artillery, liberated concentration camp prisoners from a subcamp of Dachau, a town in southern Germany.",
"\"It was an awful feeling, hearing a Lithuanian teenager, in his gray uniform, translate what had happened,\" he recalled.",
"As he snapped photos of the survivors, he thought of his parents and the stark difference in treatment between the German and American camps.",
"\"I have objected to Americans calling the U.S. relocation centers 'concentration camps,' because in my mind, they were nothing compared to the emaciated bodies and crematoria we found in Germany,\" he said.",
"The 442nd motto was \"Go for Broke,\" a saying that rings true for the regiment's battle-hardened soldiers.",
"Most notably, it related to the famous rescue of the Lost Battalion in France in October 1944, when around 230 men in the 141st Regiment, 36th Texas Division, were surrounded by German forces in the Vosges Mountains.",
"Ito still gets goose bumps talking about it.",
"The 442nd dug foxholes in the dense woods, as trees burst and casualties mounted from shrapnel.",
"\"It was so dark, you couldn't see the man in front of you,\" he said.",
"Artillery continued to rain down on them.",
"On the fifth day, two infantry companies, plus 2nd Lt. Ito and his three men, were ordered to charge the hill and reach the 141st.",
"The hill was later renamed Banzai Hill. \"",
"'Banzai' was a Japanese battle cry,\" Ito explained.",
"The Japanese were notorious for massed suicidal offenses, and now the Americans were directing the same charge at the Germans.",
"Ito and the three men under his command were part of the K and I companies that sent up 371 men.",
"Only 25 soldiers reached the battalion unhurt; including Ito and his three artillerymen.",
"\"I lost so many colleagues in the rescue,\" Ito recalled, his voice hoarse.",
"The 442nd suffered 800 casualties in less than a week.",
"\"I don't know why I was so fortunate.",
"I'm very grateful for the time given to me.",
"I aim to make the most of it.\" Needless to say, Ito is proud of his regiment's accomplishments and humbled by the recognition after all these years.",
"He believes this unit's dedication to American patriotism is finally being noticed.",
"\"Despite the fact that we were rounded up, segregated and interned, I think the message I would like to spread is that our loyalty to the United States is unquestioned.\"",
"CNN's Amanda White contributed to this story ."
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"Members of the 442nd RCT are being honored on Capitol Hill with a Congressional Gold Medal .",
"The Congressional Gold Medal is the nation's highest civilian award ."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- CBS's \"Two and a Half Men\" is now actually one man, played by Jon Cryer, one near-man, played by Angus T. Jones, and one manchild.",
"That would be Ashton Kutcher, who made his debut Monday night on the de-Sheened sitcom as Walden Schmidt.",
"Walden is nearly the opposite of Charlie Sheen's now-dead sleaze king Charlie Harper: Sweet, unsarcastic but -- here we stay true to the show's gawping bawdiness -- possessed of an astounding anatomical endowment that he soon puts to use.",
"The instant verdict: Kutcher was not at all bad.",
"He was quite likable.",
"First, though, we must dispose of the corpse.",
"I think if creator Chuck Lorre could have had all the cast and crew come out shrieking and tear apart a lifelike effigy of departed star Sheen, with blood and viscera and intestines tossed into a vat of hot oil, he would have.",
"It's not as if anyone would blame Lorre: Sheen's outrageous behavior earlier this year left a top-rated sitcom without a completed season, without an anchor -- and, regardless of how you regard Sheen personally, without one of the best sitcom actors in prime time.",
"And so the first half of the episode practically danced with sadistic, vengeful glee in explaining how Sheen's character, the irredeemably low-life womanizer Charlie Harper, had perished: At a memorial service, crazy Rose (the very funny Melanie Lynskey) hinted that she had shoved him under the Paris Metro after she caught him cheating during their honeymoon.",
"\"His body just exploded,\" she said, \"like a balloon full of meat.\"",
"The only memories Charlie's many lovers shared were about the sexually transmitted diseases he'd given them, and one woman regretted not being able to spit on the body.",
"None of this was funny.",
"It probably wasn't supposed to be.",
"It was a shiv, and it was being stuck in Charlie Sheen.",
"Enter Ashton .",
"Then Kutcher showed up as Schmidt, sopping wet from having tried to drown himself over a broken heart.",
"(He gave up, he said, because the water was too cold.)",
"With his long hair, scruffy beard and hippie-dippy, somewhat stupid sincerity, he seemed at first to have wandered in from a production of Godspell.",
"Except that, as mentioned, he is apparently better endowed than Young Frankenstein and, unlike Mr. Sheen, possesses a body that can be paraded around naked with a preening, unembarrassed confidence.",
"He's very nearly a character out of porn.",
"Did you think you were tuning in to \"Downton Abbey?\"",
"And the fact is that Kutcher, despite having spent so much time over the past few years branding and Tweeting himself, is a good comic actor.",
"Not great. His limit may be that he knows how to play a doofus while subtly reminding us that he really isn't -- he likes to clown, but he probably doesn't want to BE a clown.",
"His self-love may not allow that.",
"Sheen, on the other hand, had the cold toughness of loathing, anger and regret, a comic style almost radical (for prime time) in its thin ash of contempt.",
"True comedy doesn't require a smiley face.",
"How else could Sheen have managed to sell tickets for something called the Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour?",
"But you see where we are now: Kutcher on Sheen's old sitcom.",
"Sheen, appearing on the Emmys, wishing all the best for \"Two and a Half Men,\" seemingly purged of his acidic irony.",
"It was like watching the rebel Winston from Orwell's \"1984\" after Big Brother got through with him.",
"Kutcher is the one known for punking.",
"Sheen, one might say, is the one who ended up punk'd.",
"See full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Ashton Kutcher made his debut Monday night on the de-Sheened sitcom as Walden Schmidt .",
"Walden is the opposite of Sheen's now-dead sleaze king Charlie Harper .",
"The instant verdict: Kutcher was not at all bad -- he was quite likable ."
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"(CNN) -- The spotlight will soon shine on three granddaughters of South African and global icon Nelson Mandela, as the women become focal points of a new reality TV show.",
"The program possibly will air in the United States starting in January, said David Manaway, who is married to one of Mandela's granddaughters involved in the production.",
"It hasn't been announced on what channel it will appear, with Manaway saying only \"negotiations\" are ongoing.",
"The show came about after Zaziwe Dlamini-Manaway -- 34 and the oldest granddaughter being featured -- managed to arrange a meeting with Dr. Robert Rey, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who is the subject on an E!",
"reality show, when he came to South Africa.",
"Dlamini-Manaway, her sister and a cousin met Rey's executive producer, Rick Leed, according to information provided Thursday by Cutting Edge Communications, which is working with two South Africa-based production companies on the program.",
"Leed also is known for feature films including \"Where the Heart Is\" and \"Company Man.\"",
"The sisters and cousin -- all granddaughters of Mandela and all raised in Boston -- set up Leed with two South African companies, New Vision Pictures and Out of Africa Entertainment.",
"They discussed crafting a reality show following the trio's personal and professional lives.",
"\"The pieces of the puzzle just fitted, the decision was fast, one Skype call and the rest, as they say, is history,\" said Leed.",
"Dlamini-Manaway, described as the \"mother figure,\" is the child of Mandela's daughter, Zenani, who was born to Mandela's second wife, Winnie.",
"Dlamini-Manaway is married to David Manaway, an American businessman she met while studying psychology at Clark Atlanta University, and has a 10-year-old son and a 2-year-old daughter.",
"Her third child is due in January.",
"Her 32-year-old sister Swati Dlamini is a single mother with a 3-year-old daughter.",
"She works in the communications field, as well as in setting up a charitable foundation focused on housing, education and health, according to show producers.",
"The youngest granddaughter to be showcased on the show is Dorothy Adjoa Amuah, 27, whose grandmother was the South African leader's first wife, Evelyn.",
"She has a law degree and recently earned her master's in business administration -- specializing in luxury management -- from a school in Monaco, according to show producers.",
"Described as sociable and fun, she lives with her brother and dog, Pan.",
"The description of the show describes all three women as \"refreshingly authentic\" and \"positive role models to women all over the world.\"",
"The Mandela family supports \"the right for their children to choose their own destiny and their own path,\" the Cutting Edge release said.",
"CNN's Nadia Bilchik contributed to this report."
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"One of their husbands says it will air on an unspecified U.S. channel in January .",
"It came after a meeting involving the women and reality TV star Dr. Robert Rey ."
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"(CNN) -- Airline passengers left stranded by a freak snowstorm that pounded the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states were waiting to get to their destinations Sunday, many after spending a restless night on cots or airport floors.",
"\"Whatever kind of system they had, it completely and utterly broke down,\" said passenger Fatimah Dahandari, who spent a night in Hartford, Connecticut's Bradley International Airport while trying to get to New York.",
"\"It looks like a refugee camp in here.\"",
"More than 4 million people in at least five states were without power Sunday as the storm moved offshore.",
"Up to five deaths, some in traffic accidents, were blamed on the storm.",
"Dhandari said her Boston-to-New York flight diverted to Connecticut after being told there was a problem on a runway at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and the JetBlue plane did not have enough fuel to continue circling.",
"\"We land in Connecticut and then it was one series of problems after another,\" she said.",
"Her flight spent nine hours \"literally sitting on the runway\" with no food and water, she said.",
"Passengers were told the plane was waiting to refuel, then was waiting for a gate, then had to get behind another plane that had an emergency on board, she said.",
"By the time it was her plane's turn, the plane was snowed in and could not move, she said, so there was another wait to get a truck to tow it to the gate.",
"Once she got into the airport, Dahandari said everything was closed, providing passengers with no food options.",
"They were told that the hotels were booked, she said, and if they left the airport they could not come back in.",
"She spent a night on the floor, and Sunday morning was standing in line with hundreds of others, hoping to receive a boarding pass and a spot on board a flight.",
"Cell service inside the airport was spotty, she said, and \"everybody's phones are dying.",
"People are trading chargers and laptops.\"",
"Overall, she said, passengers have been calm.",
"\"I keep waiting for somebody to freak out, but nobody is.\"",
"She said people were being courteous to airline employees, despite their irritation, as \"they're kind of stuck here too.\"",
"The fashion consultant had hoped to attend two private Halloween parties in New York Saturday night that were important to her business, and planned to wear a $400 custom-made costume.",
"\"Not only is this the worst traveling experience I've ever had, it's also the worst Halloween I've ever had,\" she said.",
"JetBlue spokeswoman Victoria Lucia said in a statement Sunday that 17 flights were diverted on Saturday \"due to a confluence of events, including infrastructure issues in New York/JFK and Newark (New Jersey).\"",
"Six of those flights were diverted to Hartford, the statement said.",
"\"We worked with the airport to secure services, including remote deplaning and (lavatory) servicing,\" Lucia said.",
"\"Obviously, we would have preferred deplaning much sooner than we did, but our flights were six of the 23 reported diversions into Hartford, including international flights.\"",
"In addition, Bradley Airport \"experienced intermittent power outages, which made refueling and jetbridge deplaning difficult,\" she said.",
"\"We apologize to the customers impacted by this confluence of events, as it remains JetBlue's responsibility to not simply provide safe and secure travel, but a comfortable experience as well.\"",
"Passengers will receive a refund on their flight, as well as a voucher for the same amount as their round-trip fare, Lucia said later Sunday.",
"The airline said on its web site that it was waiving change or cancel fees, along with fare differences, for travelers in a handful of airports -- Hartford; Newark, New Jersey; Newburgh, New York; New York from JFK or LaGuardia airports; and Westchester County, New York.",
"Passenger Mara Dhaerman was also stranded in Hartford and said her JetBlue flight, initially from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to Newark, New Jersey, spent nine hours on the tarmac in Connecticut.",
"Passengers were told the plane was refueling, then de-icing, and that it was going to try to get back to Newark, but eventually a stairway was brought in and firefighters and troopers helped passengers deboard.",
"She said she received a cot to sleep on about 1 a.m. Sunday.",
"\"It's just very annoying,\" she said.",
"CNN's Richard Roth was among those stranded in Hartford.",
"\"It's been a tough night for everyone,\" he said Sunday.",
"JetBlue planned to fly three flights to JFK Sunday and one to Newark, he said passengers were told, along with at least one to LaGuardia.",
"The storm prompted the closure of Newark International Aiport.",
"Also in New Jersey, Teterboro Airport closed Saturday afternoon but reopened hours later, the Federal Aviation Administration said.",
"The FAA also reported major delays of up to 5 hours or more at New York's John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports on Saturday.",
"As of 10 a.m. Sunday, the FAA was reporting no delays.",
"Other forms of travel were also impacted.",
"An Amtrak train with 48 passengers on board was stuck for nearly 13 hours when a rock slide resulting from the snow storm blocked the tracks near Palmer, Massachusetts, said Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham.",
"The train, which originated in Chicago, was headed for Boston when it was forced to stop about 10 p.m. Saturday, she said.",
"A bus was sent to pick up the passengers, but did not arrive until nearly 11 a.m. Sunday.",
"The buses took so long because of the weather and road conditions, she said.",
"The train cars never lost heat or electricity, Graham said, and passengers were given complimentary food and beverages.",
"\"It's like a blizzard -- you can't see far at all,\" Alban Ajro of Watertown, Connecticut, said Saturday night.",
"\"This is the first time that I can ever recall this kind of storm happening before Halloween.\"",
"The early onslaught meant heaps of wet snow fell on trees still heavy with leaves -- adding to the risk of falling branches and downed power lines.",
"In Philadelphia, Interstate 95 was closed Sunday morning after black ice caused some 30 cars to crash, authorities told CNN afiliate KYW.",
"Two people were killed, the station said.",
"At least three deaths on Saturday were linked to the unusual October snowstorm.",
"An 84-year-old man was napping on his recliner in Temple, Pennsylvania, on Saturday when a part of a large, snow-filled tree fell into his house and killed him, according to a state police report.",
"With numerous downed trees in the area, rescue crews took two hours to safely remove the victim, police said.",
"A motorist died in Hebron, Connecticut, state emergency spokesman Scott Devico said.",
"A third person was killed in Springfield, Massachusetts, when a man in his 20s ignored police barricades surrounding downed power lines and touched a metal guard rail, which was charged, said city fire department spokesman Dennis Legere.",
"Snow buried parts of New Jersey and New York on Saturday, including 15.5 inches in West Milford, New Jersey, and 12 inches in Harriman, New York.",
"Cities in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland saw more than 9 inches of snow in less than one day.",
"iReport: Winter weather near you .",
"But the storm did little to deter Occupy Wall Street protesters, who camped out in tents coated with a layer of snow in New York's Zuccotti Park.",
"A day earlier, dozens of firefighters removed the group's propane tanks and six generators, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, citing fire hazards.",
"That left the demonstrators to battle the cold weather seeping through their tents, blankets and sleeping bags.",
"\"Occupy\" demonstrators face bite of wintry storm .",
"The governors of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts issued emergency declarations for their states.",
"Connecticut Gov.",
"Dannel Malloy said Sunday that some 40 shelters are open, in addition to places where people can go to warm up, take a shower or charge their phones.",
"\"We are expecting record lows tonight ... which means we're going to have some freezing conditions in the morning,\" he said.",
"Malloy added that authorities have left it up to municipal officials whether or not to postpone Halloween celebrations because of the storm.",
"Sunday evening, the state's largest utility -- Connecticut Light and Power -- reported nearly 788,000 customers were still without electricity.",
"A total of about 807,500 households were in the dark in Connecticut.",
"Elsewhere, about 1.9 million customers were without power Sunday in Pennsylvania; 639,000 in Massachusetts' 584,000 in New Jersey; and 299,000 in New York, according to figures from power companies in those states.",
"Thousands also lost power in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.",
"CNN's Miguel Susana, Chris Boyette; Greg Morrison, Sara Weisfeldt, Elizabeth Cherneff, Susan Candiotti and Ivan Cabrera contributed to this report."
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"More than 4 million people are without power .",
"JetBlue: Passengers are getting refunds, round-trip voucher .",
"As many as five people are killed ."
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"CNN (CNN) -- The FBI interrogator who bluffed al Qaeda detainees into giving up significant intelligence began his career in an unusual way.",
"Ali Soufan's fraternity brothers bet him that the agency would never hire a guy like him.",
"A Lebanese-born American studying international relations at a Pennsylvania college, Soufan had just returned to his frat house after talking with a school official about what he should do with his life.",
"It was 1994. His buddies gave him some good-natured ribbing.",
"They said the agency would mark his application, \"return to sender.\"",
"He laughs at the memory, joking that he thought the idea was crazy, too.",
"But Soufan's nature has always been to take the dare, he writes in his new memoir \"The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda.\"",
"\"I did some research (about the FBI) beyond 'The X-Files,' \" he told CNN.com.",
"He sent in his application.",
"And to his shock, got a letter asking him to report to FBI training.",
"It was the beginning of a storied career in intelligence.",
"During his FBI stint from 1997 to 2005, Soufan was the lead investigator on major terror investigations such as the October 2000 attack on the Navy's U.S.S.",
"Cole which killed 17 sailors.",
"He helped the agency investigate the attacks on U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in the late 1990s, and was a key interrogator of al Qaeda detainees after the 9/11 attacks.",
"Read more about the global security firm he now leads.",
"Soufan's book details some of those interrogations of al Qaeda operatives, which he says led to the naming of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the mastermind of 9/11 and led to the arrest of alleged dirty bomber Jose Padilla.",
"\"The Black Banners\" opens with his earliest memories of growing up in Beirut, Lebanon, clinging to his family's staircase as bombs exploded outside his home.",
"\"Everybody is scared of things,\" he told CNN.com.",
"\"I'm not scared of the dark. ...",
"I'm talking about growing up and you don't have (security) most of the time.",
"You're not going to be scared of the dark.",
"On a human level, I have a lot of fears, but you live with these fears everyday.\"",
"The book weaves vivid, inside details about the war on terror, and asserts that playing \"mental poker\" with terrorism suspects is far more effective at making them give up their secrets than being physically aggressive.",
"\"There is a difference between compliance and cooperation,\" he said.",
"Compliance can result from torture -- a detainee will do anything to make the rough treatment end.",
"But real cooperation, says Soufan, comes from engaging the detainee after learning everything possible about them.",
"Soufan's opinion contrasts with the Bush administration's assertion that waterboarding and other harsh tactics was their best option with several al Qaeda operatives.",
"When Soufan finished training at Quantico in November 1997, he was assigned to one of the FBI's busiest field offices in New York.",
"He was the only agent in the office who spoke Arabic at the time; one of only eight agents in the country who was fluent, he says.",
"A new job is an exciting time for anyone, and Soufan was thrilled and nervous.",
"\"You want to talk about fear?",
"I was scared, I was nervous on my first day,\" he said.",
"\"I thought, really, my God, how the heck did I end up here?",
"It was fear mixed with excitement, mixed with adventure.\"",
"In his first months on the job, Soufan relied on his language ability and his personal interest in the Middle East and North Africa to keep close watch on what mattered in the region.",
"At the time, a Saudi millionaire named Osama bin Laden was consistently making news with his calls for jihad against the West.",
"In early 1998, the young agent wrote a paper urging the FBI to focus on bin Laden.",
"His bosses noticed and told him about bureau investigations of bin Laden.",
"\"Unfortunately, politicians in Washington didn't want to discuss (bin Laden),\" Soufan said.",
"The young agent attracted the attention of Special Agent John O'Neill, a legendary figure well known in the FBI who ran the New York office.",
"O'Neill took Soufan to dinner.",
"It became a tradition for the rookie and the veteran.",
"They would talk late into the night about al Qaeda and what seemed to both of them to be America's most significant threat.",
"\"He was the boss of the boss of the boss.",
"John could be a very intimidating individual,\" Soufan recalled.",
"\"He saw of me a person who was genuinely hard working. ...",
"These are the things, at least I hope, that he saw in me.",
"He took me under his wing. He taught me a lot, and I am forever grateful.\"",
"O'Neill left the FBI in the summer of 2001, and became the chief of security at the World Trade Center.",
"He died in the 9/11 attacks.",
"By that time, Soufan had been working the Cole case.",
"On September 12, the agent opened a manila envelope from the CIA containing secret information on men involved in the Cole attack, he said.",
"Soufan said he'd been asking for the intelligence in the Cole attack repeatedly for more than a year and had not gotten it.",
"And now it was September 12, 2001.",
"The information in the envelope linked the Cole attack to 9/11 hijackers.",
"Soufan was stunned.",
"He ran to the bathroom and vomited.",
"\"It wasn't easy. It was very hard moment.",
"I hope I will never feel like this again in my life,\" he said.",
"He couldn't talk to anyone that day about his anguish.",
"His wife only knew that he was in Yemen working the Cole.",
"He couldn't tell her anything more.",
"He couldn't share anything with his family.",
"But he was haunted. He wondered: If the FBI and the CIA had been more open with sharing intelligence, could the 9/11 attacks been thwarted?",
"In the years ahead, as the U.S. ratcheted up its campaign against al Qaeda and went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, Soufan felt more determined than ever.",
"Soufan handled a key interrogation of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard.",
"Through what Soufan calls \"mental poker,\" he got Abu Jandal to unwittingly give up the names of several 9/11 hijackers, he writes in his book.",
"Jandal, Soufan said, opened up to him after the agent engaged him in a long debate about theology.",
"Read an excerpt about the Jandal interrogation .",
"\"I never liked any of them (the detainees he interrogated),\" Soufan said.",
"\"I think you have to put your emotions and feelings (aside).",
"...You have to have the empathy and knowledge of human nature.",
"That's No. 1. No. 2 is you need to learn a lot about your cases and your target.",
"If you'd put me in an interrogation room with a Chinese spy, I would go nowhere with it because I don't know the language, the threats.\"",
"Soufan said he wants a detainee to think he already knows what they're hiding, a tactic he learned from watching experienced interrogators.",
"In 2002, Soufan found himself in another al Qaeda interrogation, this time playing his hand against training camp chief Abu Zubaydah, who had been captured in a Pakistan firefight.",
"Zubaydah was injured in the battle, and Soufan and his partner worked over many weeks to soften the detainee.",
"It wasn't working. The terrorist continued to try to lie to his interrogators.",
"So the agent referred back to a detail he had read in intelligence files about Zubaydah.",
"\"I said, 'OK, what if I call you Hani.'\"",
"That was a nickname Zubaydah's mother called him, according to the terrorist's files.",
"It seemed like a big turn in the interrogation.",
"Zubaydah believed that his interrogators knew a lot about him.",
"His ability to lie was significantly diminished, but Soufan didn't betray the victory on his face.",
"\"You cannot have your ego take the best of you in an interrogation because you have to keep all options on the table,\" Soufan said.",
"Zubaydah, Soufan writes in his book, would go on to accidentally give up Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.",
"The revelation came after Soufan's partner mistakenly printed a picture of Mohammed.",
"Soufan showed the photo briefly.",
"Zubaydah saw it and startled Soufan when he indicated Mohammed was behind the attacks.",
"Soufan, once again, kept a stoic face.",
"In \"The Black Banners,\" much of the chapter Soufan devotes to his time with Zubaydah is blacked out.",
"And for those who might be concerned that the information in his book could be valuable to al Qaeda, it's important to note that much of what he reports is already extensively published in public record, in the \"9/11 Commission Report,\" and in the book \"The Looming Tower,\" which won a Pulitzer.",
"\"The Looming Tower\" author Lawrence Wright wrote about Soufan in the story \"The Agent\" in the New Yorker in 2006.",
"After the FBI approved a copy, that copy was sent to the CIA which Soufan says ordered the redactions.",
"Most of a chapter called \"The Contractors Take Over\" -- which Soufan said details how Zubaydah's interrogation was taken out of his hands and given to a less experienced interrogator who used torture -- has been blacked out.",
"\"It's unfortunate,\" Soufan said of the CIA's choice to redact.",
"The redactions don't change the narrative, said Soufan.",
"\"They didn't take away from the points I'm trying to make in the book.\"",
"Blacking out passages, Soufan suggested, only gives his story more legitimacy.",
"\"You only classify and redact stuff that's true."
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"(CNN) -- Charges of bribery against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and Halliburton by Nigeria's anti-corruption police may be dropped after an agreement to pay a $250 million fine.",
"\"Discussions focus on the possibility of a plea bargain arrangement,\" said Femi Babafemi, a spokesman for Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.",
"\"Allowing the company and former officials to pay heavy fines in lieu of prosecution ... they would pay $120 million as fines and $130 million from bad money stored in Switzerland from the original deal -- so $250 million in total.\"",
"This month, the commission charged Cheney -- who ran Halliburton in the 1990s -- and nine others with \"conspiracy and distribution of gratification to public officials.\"",
"The investigation is part of a long-running case involving Halliburton and a subsidiary firm, Kellogg, Brown and Root, over alleged bribes paid to Nigerian officials to secure $6 billion worth of contracts for a liquefied natural gas project in the Niger Delta.",
"The bribes are said to have amounted to $180 million between 1994 and 2004.",
"The firm pleaded guilty to foreign bribery charges in the United States last year and paid a $402 million criminal fine, the U.S. Justice Department said.",
"KBR and Halliburton also paid $177 million to settle civil complaints related to the bribery, the Justice Department said.",
"Investigations in Nigeria, however, have been ongoing, and there are allegations that the bribes went all the way to the top, to aides, officials and possibly then-President Olusegun Obasanjo.",
"Many observers in Nigeria regard the move as a publicity stunt by the commission ahead of national elections in April and as a symbolic effort to display resolve against government corruption.",
"The agency has had limited success in getting successful prosecutions and hasn't charged any high-profile people since its top commissioner was removed from the body in 2007.",
"Cheney's atttorney has said that there is no reason to suspect that his client is guilty.",
"\"This matter involves the activities of an international four-company joint venture (which included KBR, then a subsidiary of Halliburton) well over a decade ago,\" Terrence O'Connell said.",
"\"The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission investigated that joint venture extensively and found no suggestion of any impropriety by Dick Cheney in his role of CEO of Halliburton.\"",
"The latest discussions on reaching a settlement ended this weekend in London, Babafemi said.",
"The arrangement is now waiting for Nigeria's Minister of of Justice to officially agree to the deal, a decision that is expected by the end of the week."
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"(CNN) -- Attorneys on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate faced off Monday in a federal appeals court in California, as a panel of judges heard arguments about the constitutionality of Proposition 8.",
"In August, a federal judge ruled that the voter-approved measure, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, violated the U.S. Constitution.",
"The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considered an appeal of that judge's ruling Monday.",
"The three-judge panel opened Monday's hearing with tough questioning of parties seeking to appeal the decision, including ProtectMarriage.com and Isabel Vargas, who's a deputy clerk and deputy commissioner of civil marriages for Imperial County, California, where voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 8.",
"\"What's your best case to allow for your standing in federal court?\"",
"one judge asked attorney Charles Cooper, representing ProtectMarriage.com.",
"\"Your honor, I don't have a case,\" Cooper responded, referring to relevant court cases.",
"Cooper later urged the panel to consider how the California Supreme Court earlier ruled in favor of the voter-approved Proposition 8.",
"\"If you don't agree with me that we have standing,\" Cooper told the court, \"then I do urge you to answer the California Supreme Court decision.\"",
"Then Judge Stephen Reinhardt questioned attorney Robert Tyler, who represented Vargas, about how a deputy clerk, instead of the clerk, could have legal standing in the appeal.",
"After a lengthy exchange, Reinhardt appeared frustrated and stated: \"If you don't know the answer, say so, as the prior attorney did.\"",
"In asserting that his client has standing in the appeal, Tyler told the court that the county clerks are local officers, but they perform state functions such as civil marriages.",
"Monday's arguments in San Francisco, California, were being divided into two hour-long sessions -- one over the legal standing of those appealing the decision, and one over the constitutionality of Proposition 8.",
"Monday's hearing is the latest in a lengthy legal battle over same-sex marriage in California.",
"The state's high court had allowed same-sex marriage, but then the 2008 Proposition 8 voter referendum passed with 52 percent of the vote.",
"The California Supreme Court subsequently allowed that initiative to stand, saying it represented the will of the people.",
"Two same-sex couples filed a federal challenge, saying the law violated 14th Amendment constitutional protections of due process and equal protection.",
"On August 4, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker agreed, ruling that the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.",
"\"Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license,\" Walker, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President George H.W.",
"Bush, wrote in his 136-page opinion.",
"\"Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.\"",
"Same-sex marriage is currently legal in five states and in the District of Columbia.",
"The five states are Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, Iowa and New Hampshire.",
"Walker's landmark ruling led to a swift federal appeal that could ultimately reach the Supreme Court."
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"A panel of judges will hear arguments over whether the measure is constitutional .",
"A lengthy legal battle continues after voters approved Proposition 8 .",
"A federal judge's earlier ruling says the proposition violates the Constitution ."
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"HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- A 16-year-old Hong Kong boy makes two phone calls for delivery: One for pizza, the other for the drug ketamine.",
"Two teenage girls are found semi-conscious in a car park after overdosing on ketamine.",
"A 13-year-old boy joins a gang and is given free ketamine.",
"Glass capsules containing ketamine, which has become the drug of choice for Hong Kong's youth.",
"These are anecdotes told to CNN by police, a family doctor and a former gang member.",
"Ketamine has become the drug of choice among young people, as the number of people under 21 taking drugs has surged 57 percent in the last four years in Hong Kong, said Commissioner for Narcotics, Sally Wong.",
"\"We started off with a very small number of young people taking drugs.",
"We are now more worried about the trend,\" Wong said.",
"\"We don't want a runaway trend; that's why we are stepping up action.\"",
"Ketamine, an animal tranquilizer, can put users in a dazed stupor for about two hours, doctors said.",
"Long-term use of ketamine can impair cognitive function and damage internal organs.",
"An oversupply of the drug in Hong Kong and the fact that it is cheaper than other narcotics makes ketamine popular with young people, said Superintendent Wilson Fok of the Hong Kong Police Narcotics Bureau.",
"One gram of ketamine sells on the street here for $13 and is enough to be shared with two other people, while cocaine, for example, sells for $103 a gram, Fok said.",
"The drug is legal for medical use, but it is trafficked into Hong Kong from other parts of Asia, such as India and mainland China, and sold on the streets illegally, Fok said.",
"Police have recently stepped up their efforts to crack down on drug use at clubs and bars in Hong Kong and Shenzhen, a city in mainland China just across the border.",
"Nearly 120 alleged drug users from Hong Kong, mostly under the age of 30, were arrested at entertainment venues in Shenzhen in July and held for 15 days in sweeps that made headlines for days here.",
"However, narcotics police said entertainment venues are not the only places they find drug abuse.",
"\"Forty percent of young people abuse drugs in public toilets and playgrounds.",
"That's what our recent data from last year shows,\" Fok said.",
"\"They want to find some other places to take drugs.\"",
"The problem has gotten so bad that authorities have decided to do something never done here before: random school drug tests.",
"Beginning in September, some two dozen schools will conduct tests, as part of a trial program.",
"Officials say the drug screening will most likely be in the form of urine tests, though they are still working out the details.",
"Ketamine can be detected in urine for at least three days, doctors said.",
"Dr. Cheng Chi Man, a family practice doctor, runs a seminar that trains doctors to detect the signs of drug abuse in young patients: drowsiness, skin problems, frequent urination (ketamine can affect bladder function) and frequent sick leave.",
"\"When we were 10 years old, we were still in primary school watching TV and eating candy.",
"But they are now taking drugs.\"",
"Alman Chan, principal of Hong Kong's only drug rehab school for youth, the privately-run Christian Zheng Sheng School, said he has watched as drug use has grown.",
"See photos of the rehab school in remote Hong Kong » .",
"\"Just look at our school development.",
"I was here 14 years ago.",
"At that time, I was the only teacher.",
"I had 18 kids. I only had one student who was 15,\" he said.",
"\"But now, I have one third -- about 40 of them -- who are 15 years old or younger.",
"That shows you the number of students getting into drugs is bigger and also getting younger and younger.\"",
"There were a few reasons why children were getting involved with drugs, such as troubled homes and difficulties at school, he said.",
"\"People are more concerned about material things and they are getting lost,\" he added.",
"Hong Kong Police have arrested children as young as age 13 for drug offenses, according to Commissioner for Narcotics, Sally Wong.",
"Police last week reportedly busted a network that allegedly recruited teenagers to sell illegal drugs-- mainly to students.",
"One of those arrested -- a 14-year-old school dropout -- was found with 28 grams of ketamine, according to the South China Morning Post.",
"But ketamine abuse is not limited to young people.",
"It is the second-most popular drug among all age groups in Hong Kong, Superintendent Wilson Fok of the Hong Kong Police Narcotics Bureau said.",
"Many young drug abusers end up in Alman Chan's drug rehab school for youth, which is located in a remote part of Lantau Island west of Hong Kong.",
"CNN visited the campus, which is home to 99 boys and 24 girls.",
"The closest road is a three-hour hike through the woods.",
"Chan calls the school \"the last stop before jail\" for drug abusers.",
"That was the case for Tai Ming Hung's son Keith, a former gang member.",
"She learned he was using ketamine when he ended up in the hospital after taking the drug a few years ago.",
"\"I was in denial. I just didn't believe it was true.",
"When I first heard about it, we all didn't know how to react, because we hadn't heard of those drugs before,\" she said.",
"\"I didn't really understand why we have these harmful drugs in the world.",
"And I was so afraid that it would kill my son.\"",
"18-year-old Keith, who said he began using ketamine at the age of 13 when he joined a gang, has recovered and is now living at Chan's school.",
"\"I have a feeling that he's really growing up, he keeps improving,\" his mother said.",
"The school's curriculum involves regular school subjects and chores.",
"The goal is for each student to finish their court probation and either sit for the university exam or continue on to a vocational school.",
"Many of the students have become interested in video editing and photography.",
"There is a video lab on campus and the students showed CNN some video projects they have done.",
"Other students run a pizza parlor and tea shop on a neighboring island.",
"The average stay at the school is three years and students are encouraged to plan for life after rehab.",
"\"We have vocational training.",
"We help them get some marketable skills; therefore, they may get a job or continue training afterward,\" Chan said.",
"\"I believe everyone deserves a second chance.\""
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"Drug use among those under 21 has jumped 57 percent in the last four years .",
"Police stepping up crackdowns, say parks and public toilets hot spots for drug use .",
"Hong Kong has one drug rehab center for youth, located on a remote former pig farm ."
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"(CNN) -- In brief remarks to the media just after returning to her hometown of Seattle, an emotional Amanda Knox thanked those who believed in her and supported her fight to overturn her murder conviction in Italy.",
"\"I'm really overwhelmed right now,\" said a tearful Knox, who arrived to cheering supporters at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.",
"\"I was looking down from the airplane, and it seemed like everything wasn't real.\"",
"\"What's important for me to say is just thank you, to everyone who has believed in me, who has defended me, who has supported my family,\" she said, her voice shaking.",
"Being with her family, she said, is \"the most important thing to me right now.\"",
"\"Thank you for being there for me,\" she said.",
"Knox and her family were on a British Airways flight that landed in Seattle about 8:12 p.m.",
"ET. Before beginning her remarks, Knox smiled and said, \"They're reminding me to speak in English, because I'm having problems with that.\"",
"An Italian appeals court on Monday overturned Knox's murder conviction in the 2007 death of her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher.",
"Knox initially was sentenced to 26 years in prison.",
"Knox's mother and stepfather, Edda and Curt Mellas, also thanked those who have supported their family, as well as the Italian attorneys who fought on her behalf.",
"\"Meredith was Amanda's friend,\" said Philadelphia attorney Theodore Simon, who spoke at the news conference.",
"Knox wants the Kercher family to be remembered, Simon said as Knox nodded and appeared to fight tears.",
"Knox supporters in Seattle said they planned a rousing welcome.",
"\"To Amanda herself, we say, 'Way to go, kid,' \" Tom Wright, founder of the group Friends of Amanda Knox, said Monday night.",
"\"We look forward to welcoming you home with open arms and open hearts,\" Wright said, reading a statement.",
"\"You have well deserved, and will well deserve, all the joy and warmth and fun of your normal life returned to you.\"",
"The statement also said that it was \"primarily a sad occasion,\" and that the group's \"deepest sympathies\" were with Kercher's family.",
"CNN affiliate KOMO-TV reported that Wright was among a group of more than a dozen supporters who gathered at a hotel suite to watch the jury return its decision about Knox more than 5,000 miles away.",
"Afterward, Margaret Ralph was among those crying tears of joy.",
"Asked what she'll say when she sees Knox, Ralph told KOMO, \"I won't say anything.",
"I'll just give her a big hug and kiss.\"",
"\"It was incredible,\" fellow supporter Kellanne Henry told KOMO, adding that it took a minute to absorb the news.",
"\"They finally got it right,\" she said.",
"Many Seattle residents took to social media to post messages.",
"\"I am so happy this nightmare is over for you,\" Seattle resident Jenn Whitney wrote in a posting on one of several Facebook pages devoted to Knox.",
"Whitney said she \"cried with joy\" when Knox's conviction was overturned.",
"\"I pray that God brings you home safely,\" she added.",
"\"If I had the chance to greet her when she lands back here in Seattle, the only thing I would do is hand her a rose, give her a hug and say 'welcome home!'",
"\" Jeff Bamby posted.",
"On another Facebook page, Tamara Slater wrote, \"Amanda you have been in the prayers of so many people, it must be heart warming to know you were never forgotten.",
"Welcome home!\"",
"CNN affiliate KIRO-TV reported that when staff went out to gauge reactions to the news out of Italy on Monday, \"We met just a few people in West Seattle who disagreed with Monday's ruling and thought that Knox was guilty.\"",
"Jordan Adams said he thought Knox was guilty, but he was willing to accept the decision to overturn the conviction.",
"\"I did think she was guilty, but I guess, good luck to her since she's been freed and cleared,\" he told KIRO.",
"Early Tuesday morning, a jogger who spotted a CNN crew in Seattle's Queen Anne Hill neighborhood stopped and yelled, \"Yay Amanda!",
"But later, another resident walked up to a CNN crew to say that she could not \"care less about Knox returning home\" and that she believed Knox committed the crime.",
"CNN's Josh Levs and Sandra Endo contributed to this report."
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"London (CNN) -- Fans and friends of Paul McCartney gathered in central London Sunday to watch the ex-Beatle walk down the aisle for the third time, as he married girlfriend Nancy Shevell.",
"The couple arrived together just before 3:30 p.m., the groom in a blue suit and the bride in a long-sleeved white gown with a white flower in her hair.",
"Both wore outfits by McCartney's fashion designer daughter Stella, said Monique Jessen of People magazine.",
"The crowd of hundreds went wild when they appeared, with one well-wisher saying of the match: \"It just seems right.\"",
"McCartney, 69, and his 51-year-old bride left Marylebone Town Hall about an hour later and waved to crowds while being showered with confetti, before arriving at McCartney's home.",
"Ringo Starr, the only other surviving former Beatle, was there, as was iconic U.S. television host Barbara Walters, who reportedly played a role in introducing McCartney and Shevell, an American trucking heiress.",
"Walters is Shevell's second cousin, she said on her show \"The View\" in 2007.",
"McCartney and Shevell got engaged in May, a McCartney representative told CNN at the time.",
"The wedding took place at the same venue where McCartney married his first wife, Linda, in 1969.",
"She died of breast cancer, aged 56, in 1998.",
"A memorial service for her two months later was the first time McCartney, Starr and George Harrison appeared together in public since the Beatles split in 1970.",
"John Lennon, the fourth member of the band, was shot dead in New York in 1980.",
"Shevell, the bride, is the daughter of a New Jersey trucking magnate.",
"She is an executive at her father's company, New England Motor Freight, and a 10-year member of New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority.",
"She was married once before, to lawyer Bruce Blakeman, who is active in Republican and Jewish circles in New York state.",
"He ran unsuccessfully for Senate against Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand last year.",
"Her father's company has annual revenues of about $400 million, says Blakeman's biography on his law firm's website.",
"Press reports say they have a 19-year-old son.",
"Alison Cathcart, who performed McCartney's third wedding, called the venue \"a rock 'n' roll place to tie the knot.\"",
"Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit married there, as did Melanie Griffiths and Antonio Banderas.",
"Cathcart has conducted marriage services for celebrities including Sylvester Stallone and Joan Collins, Westminster City Council says.",
"McCartney's second marriage -- to model Heather Mills -- ended in a bitter divorce in 2008 after four years.",
"They have a daughter, Beatrice.",
"Mills fought for a large divorce settlement, saying McCartney had limited her ability to work as a model during their marriage and that she had acted as a psychologist to him as he grieved for his first wife.",
"Judge Hugh Bennett all but laughed both assertions out of court, saying her testimony was not only \"inconsistent and inaccurate but less than candid.\"",
"He awarded her 24.3 million pounds ($48.6 million at the time) -- less than one-fifth of the 125 million pounds she had asked for.",
"Sunday would have been John Lennon's 71st birthday.",
"CNN's Erin McLaughlin contributed to this report."
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"\"It just seems right,\" one well-wisher says of the match .",
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"(CNN) -- The Jacksonville, Florida, man accused of hacking celebrities' online accounts for nude photos and other private information said Friday, \"I am very sorry for all of this.\"",
"A federal judge ordered Christopher Chaney, 35, to appear in a California courtroom on November 1 to answer charges, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office said.",
"\"What I'm most sorry about is that I had to drag my mom into all of this, and my family and my neighbors and they just want to live their lives,\" Chaney told reporters.",
"He did not respond to questions.",
"Chaney is accused of hacking into the accounts of more than 50 celebrities, including movie stars Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis and singer Christina Aguilera.",
"A grand jury indicted Chaney on nine counts of computer hacking for gain, eight counts of aggravated identify theft, and nine counts of illegal wiretapping.",
"If convicted of all 26 counts, Chaney would face a maximum of 121 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said.",
"The aggravated identity theft charge alone carries a mandatory two-year prison sentence, he added.",
"The suspect's attorney, Christopher Chestnut, said his client \"remains very remorseful\" and understands the importance of privacy.",
"Still, Chestnut indicated the potential sentence appeared harsh.",
"\"People who murder kids don't get 120 years in prison,\" he said.",
"Earlier this week, Chaney told a reporter that he had became \"addicted\" to the intrusion and \"didn't know how to stop.\"",
"\"I know what I did was probably one of the worst invasions of privacy someone could experience,\" Chaney told CNN affiliate WAWS/WTEV in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday.",
"\"And these people don't have privacy to begin with.",
"And I was in that little sliver of privacy they do have.\"",
"The FBI's Los Angeles office said he was arrested as part of \"Operation Hackerazzi,\" which looked into computer intrusions targeting individuals associated with the entertainment industry.",
"\"Unfortunately, Mr. Chaney was able to access nude photos of some of the celebrities and some of them were uploaded on the Internet,\" Birotte said Wednesday.",
"A recently circulated nude photo of Johansson is part of the investigation, he said.",
"Chaney allegedly \"also took financial information, movie scripts and conversations that the celebrities believed to be private,\" Birotte told reporters.",
"In the interview with WAWS/WTEV, Chaney said the hacking \"started as curiosity and it turned into just being, you know, addicted to seeing the behind-the-scenes of what's going on with these people you see on the big screen every day.\"",
"\"It just happened and snowballed,\" he said, adding that he wishes it had never begun.",
"Chaney said he felt \"almost relieved months ago\" when authorities seized his computer because \"I didn't know how to stop doing it myself.",
"I wasn't attempting to break into e-mails and get stuff to sell or purposely put it on the Internet.",
"It just -- I don't know.\" Authorities allege that Chaney distributed the photos he obtained illegally and offered them to celebrity blog sites.",
"Some of the files, including private photographs, were posted online \"as a result of Chaney's alleged activities,\" authorities said in a statement.",
"\"I've had like six months to think about it,\" Chaney said, \"it eats at me. ...",
"When you're doing it you're not thinking about what's going on with who you're doing it to.\"",
"According to the FBI's Los Angeles field office, investigators believe that Chaney used publicly available sources to mine for data about his targets.",
"Once Chaney gained access and control of an e-mail account, \"he would obtain private information, such as e-mails and file attachments, according to the indictment,\" the FBI said in a statement.",
"Authorities allege that once Chaney hacked into a celebrity's e-mail account, he would use the contact lists to find other celebrities' e-mail accounts.",
"This allowed him to add new victims, authorities charge.",
"He allegedly set his victims' accounts to automatically forward their e-mails to his account, Birotte said.",
"This allegedly allowed Chaney to continue to receive celebrities' e-mails even after a password was reset, authorities said.",
"Chaney made his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday afternoon, and was released on a $10,000 unsecured bond with the conditions that he can't use any computer or other device with Internet access and he can't have any controlled substances or excessive use of alcohol, said Laura Eimiller, an FBI spokeswoman in Los Angeles.",
"CNN's Michael Martinez, Josh Levs, Carey Bodenheimer and John D. Sutter contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) -- As the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial was officially dedicated Sunday, speakers called for carrying on King's ideals and values and confronting issues including bullying and social and economic justice for all Americans.",
"\"Nearly 50 years after the March on Washington, our work -- Dr. King's work -- is not yet complete,\" President Barack Obama said at the dedication ceremony.",
"The nation faces many challenges, he said, including an ailing economy, substandard education, war and tragedy.",
"Progress, he said, can often be a slow and painful process.",
"During the civil rights movement, \"progress was purchased through enduring the smack of billy clubs and the blast of fire hoses.",
"It was bought with days in jail cells and nights of bomb threats.\"",
"Every victory was met with setbacks and defeat, Obama said.",
"Today's America can draw strength from that struggle, from King's belief that we are one people and from his refusal to give up, the president said.",
"\"Let us not be trapped by what is,\" Obama said.",
"\"We can't be discouraged by what is. We've got to keep pushing for what ought to be.\"",
"He noted that King \"will stand for all time, among monuments to those who fathered this nation and those who defended it.",
"A black preacher, no official rank or title, somehow gave voice to our deepest dreams and our most lasting ideas.\"",
"\"I know we will overcome,\" the president said.",
"\"I know there are better days ahead.",
"I know this because of the man towering over us.\"",
"The monument to the slain civil rights leader was due to have been dedicated on August 28, the anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington when King delivered his world-altering \"I Have a Dream\" speech, but Hurricane Irene forced the event to be postponed.",
"Perhaps, said the Rev.",
"Bernice King, one of King's daughters, that postponement was due to divine intervention.",
"\"Perhaps God wanted us to move beyond the dream into action,\" she said.",
"\"As we dedicate this monument, I can hear my father saying that oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever,\" she said.",
"\"The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself ...",
"I hear my father saying what we are seeing now, all across the streets of America and the world, is a freedom explosion.\"",
"She called for \"a radical revolution of values and reordering of priorities in this nation.\"",
"She urged attendees to also pay homage to her mother, Coretta Scott King, who even as a grieving widow with four children \"raised a nation in my father's teachings and values.",
"It was vitally important to her that his life and principles become institutionalized.\"",
"The memorial site, which features a striking 30-foot statue of King gazing out on the iconic Tidal Basin, lies between the Lincoln Memorial and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial on the National Mall.",
"The statue, representing a \"Stone of Hope,\" sits forward from a \"Mountain of Despair.\"",
"Visitors pass through the mountain on their way to King's statue and an expanse along the basin rimmed with an inscription wall covered with stone carvings of some of his most famous quotes.",
"The four-acre area will also feature the iconic cherry blossom trees that draw thousands of tourists to the Mall each spring.",
"\"The very first time that I came to the site, I was almost overwhelmed,\" Martin Luther King III said.",
"\"I really was impressed by this artist.",
"He was able to capture the essence of my dad.\"",
"On Sunday, he described his father as \"a champion of human rights and social justice for all people,\" regardless of race, gender and ethnicity.",
"\"Let us not forget that he paid the ultimate price for our civil rights,\" he said.",
"But, he said, \"we've lost our souls,\" noting the recent killing of a black man in Mississippi; child bullying; wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; and the lack of social and economic justice.",
"The American dream, he said, has \"turned into a nightmare for millions.\"",
"Former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather said that while King's main battle was racial injustice, today's fight is against greed and for economic justice.",
"\"This time we judge people, not on the content of their character, but the color of their money,\" he said.",
"\"Once again, we have Americans on the outside looking in.\"",
"\"There is heavy lifting to be done again,\" Rather said.",
"\"And in the spirit of Dr. King's lasting legacy, we need to start now.\"",
"If King were here today, said the Rev.",
"Jesse Jackson, he would tell the Occupy Wall Street protesters to \"keep protesting.",
"Remain nonviolent.",
"Stay disciplined.",
"Stay focused.\"",
"U.S. Rep. John Lewis recalled protesting in Washington 48 years ago.",
"Of those that spoke near the Lincoln Memorial that day, \"I'm the only one still around,\" he said.",
"He recalled that King never asked protesters to do anything he would not do himself.",
"\"He was arrested, jailed, beaten and constantly harassed.",
"His home was bombed.",
"He was stabbed. He suffered the slings and arrows of hate.\"",
"He said he's heard talk that nothing has changed.",
"\"Come and walk in my shoes,\" he told attendees.",
"\"Dr. King is telling you that we have changed.",
"We're better people.",
"We're a better nation.\"",
"Other speakers at the dedication included the Rev.",
"Al Sharpton; the Rev.",
"Joseph Lowery; actresses Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll and 12-year-old Amandla Stenberg; and Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund.",
"Singer Aretha Franklin sang \"Take My Hand, Precious Lord,\" a tune she said King often requested.",
"The Obamas listened intently as she sang.",
"Michelle Obama applauded in spots, while the president closed his eyes.",
"The Obama family toured the memorial before the president's speech.",
"Controversy still lingers around the statue and a quote from King.",
"Sculptor Ed Dwight, who has made seven statues of King, objects to the memorial's depiction of the icon -- and to the artist chosen to create it.",
"\"This idea of having this 30-foot-tall sculpture of this man, and this confrontational look, he would not appreciate that, because that was not him,\" Dwight argues.",
"He also objects to the choice of Chinese artist Lei Yixin.",
"\"I feel strongly that the whole thing should've been done here in America,\" Dwight said.",
"Harry Johnson Sr., head of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Foundation, said: \"We got the best man for the job.\"",
"And Lei, for his part, said America did not have sole claim on King.",
"\"Martin Luther King is not only a hero of America, he's also a hero of the world,\" he said.",
"Celebrated poet and author Maya Angelou has a different objection to the memorial, saying that one of the quotes has been edited to make King appear arrogant.",
"It reads: \"I was a drum major for justice peace and righteousness.\"",
"Angelou says an important clause was taken out of the passage from a 1968 sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.",
"King's original words were: \"If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice.",
"Say that I was a drum major for peace.",
"I was a drum major for righteousness.",
"And all of the other shallow things will not matter.\"",
"Leaving out the \"if\" changes the meaning, Angelou said.",
"\"It should not be seen like he was so full of himself.",
"Because he was not. He was a very humble man,\" she said.",
"\"It is not an apt reportage of what Dr. King said.",
"It is an edited statement.\"",
"The memorial's executive architect Ed Jackson stood by the wording and said there are no plans to alter the structure.",
"Jackson, who oversaw the memorial's design and construction, said in a statement that the memorial foundation \"feels comfortable with the choices we needed to make based on the space available and the messages that we wanted to convey to visitors.\"",
"He said a \"council of historians\" had been consulted, adding they suggested 14 quotations and two statements for possible inclusion on the monument's granite walls that \"best characterize and reflect\" King as a leader as well as his values.",
"\"In no way do we believe that this paraphrased statement diminishes Dr. King's intent of the words he delivered,\" Jackson said.",
"\"The inscription on the Stone of Hope comes directly from Dr. King's words.\"",
"Former U.N.",
"Ambassador, former Atlanta mayor and civil rights leader Andrew Young said King was sensitive about his small stature, as he stood only 5 feet 7 inches.",
"\"Now he's 30 feet tall, looking down on everybody,\" Young said.",
"CNN's Athena Jones, T.J. Holmes and Roland Martin contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Obama: \"We've got to keep pushing for what ought to be\"\nKing's children urge that his ideals and values be remembered .",
"Speakers at the ceremony urge the pursuit of economic justice .",
"Celebrated writer Maya Angelou says King has been edited to make him seem arrogant ."
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"(CNN) -- With lessons learned from previous titles and a sense of finality to the franchise, \"Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception\" exceeds expectations with a wonderful storyline, dynamic action and witty dialogue from its characters.",
"The latest in the franchise from Naughty Dog, \"Uncharted 3\" returns to follow hero Nathan Drake on yet another historical adventure that promises fortune and glory but invariably involves a lot of danger.",
"As in games past, Nathan is a treasure hunter who follows clues to find lost riches in far-off lands and gets help from other characters in his missions.",
"The game's storyline follows the path of \"Seven Pillars of Wisdom,\" the T.E.",
"Lawrence book that inspired the epic movie \"Lawrence of Arabia.\"",
"Amy Henning, the writer for the \"Uncharted\" series, pulls elements from Lawrence's book and weaves them into a stunning narrative about Nathan's search for a lost city called Iram of the Pillars.",
"Keith Guerrette, lead visual effects artist from Naughty Dog, said Henning really opened up the characters in the game and delves deeply into Nathan's past as well as his connections to his companions.",
"While some of the story is told in flashbacks, it never feels disjointed or out of place and flows with the action in the game.",
"The pace, for the most part, is quick and occurs over several different types of environments.",
"From a vast desert to historical chateaus, the scenes are beautifully rendered and help deepen the moment.",
"There were a couple of missions that bogged down the story in places, but those were few and far between.",
"Many times, I felt like I was in an \"Indiana Jones\" movie.",
"There were moments when the gameplay was very similar to what I've seen on the big screen.",
"For example, one mission had me chasing after a caravan transporting my longtime friend, Victor Sullivan, through a narrow cavern in a scene that was reminiscent of \"Raiders of the Lost Ark.\"",
"Like Dr. Jones, Nathan has to solve puzzles and use his journal to reference solutions.",
"The puzzles were not extremely challenging once the clues in the journal were deciphered.",
"There are other little touches that are Jones-esque, but they add to the story rather than taking away from it.",
"The action is high adventure with a twist of humor and whimsy along the way.",
"The dialogue helps keep the mood light as character banter flows naturally and feels like what it is -- conversations between people who don't take themselves too seriously but have experienced life-changing events.",
"There is humor, caring, concern and sarcasm that one would expect from longtime friends.",
"It feels natural and gets the player emotionally involved.",
"\"We've been building up to this one,\" Guerrette said.",
"\"We went in thinking, 'How can we take our tech and art and make them even better?'",
"\" There are subtle effects in the environment, like shadows from a fire, ripples in water and disappearing footprints in sand.",
"But the most dynamic action fills the screen during intense missions in which Nathan takes on his enemies while the background moves.",
"Much of Nathan's movement occurs along the sides and rooftops of buildings, like the \"Assassin's Creed\" games.",
"That motion becomes more challenging when floors and walls are also moving around.",
"The game's combat has been fine-tuned but still seemed uneven at times.",
"Guerrette said the development team worked hard to eliminate some of the cover problems that were evident in previous titles.",
"Melee was improved (I enjoyed getting up close and personal with my enemies) and moving while firing is nearly mandatory.",
"Stealth has become a more effective tool in some missions.",
"There was one mission, however, where I used stealth to eliminate all the bad guys and avoid raising the alarm -- only to discover two bandits guarding a door that I could not stealth kill.",
"It was a little bit frustrating to work so hard on being stealthy when there was no way to avoid having to be obvious to advance.",
"Targeting specific areas on enemies also didn't seem to matter.",
"There were times when I shot an enemy multiple times in the head before he would fall down.",
"Yet it would take the same number of shots to an enemy's arm to get him to collapse.",
"Nathan can also throw back grenades that are tossed his way.",
"The audio is funny, but the effects are devastating.",
"A split-screen co-op version (a fan request) offers a unique story with the chance to unlock multiplayer bonuses and skills.",
"This version can be played either on or offline.",
"The multiplayer version also features improved cinematic techniques, boosters and the ability to upload great (or not-so-great) gameplay moments into social media platforms.",
"A buddy system can be used for cooperative play in multiplayer mode, or you can go it alone during competitive play.",
"\"Uncharted 3\" is an outstanding adventure game that gives you a feature-film feeling.",
"The environments are open and interactive.",
"The story is unique and fresh.",
"And the characters are portrayed in ways that make them feel real and emotional.",
"While developers wouldn't say if this was the final act for Nathan Drake, there are moments in the game that answer lingering questions from previous games.",
"Those are the \"aha\" moments that put an extra shine on a wonderful game.",
"If this is the end, \"Uncharted 3\" provides a fitting conclusion with an immersive game that keeps players invested until the final treasure is obtained.",
"Popcorn not included."
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"The game's pace is quick and occurs over several different types of environments .",
"Its combat has been fine-tuned but still seems uneven at times .",
"Puzzles in the game are not that challenging, but they add to the story ."
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"(CNN) -- An early goal from Theo Walcott gave Arsenal a vital 1-0 victory over Udinese in the first leg of their Champions League final qualifying round tie at The Emirates.",
"England international Walcott timed his run into the area perfectly to volley home Aaron Ramsey's fourth-minute right-wing cross from close range, to give Arsene Wenger's side a vital advantage to take into the second leg in northern Italy next week.",
"Arsenal came into the match on the back of a trying week, which saw captain Cesc Fabregas leave for Barcelona and more rumors surface of Samir Nasir's impending transfer to Manchester City.",
"What now for Arsenal and Fabregas?",
"The Gunners had to field a make-shift side with Nasri and new captain Robin Van Persie both suspended and key midfielder Jack Wilshere injured.",
"To compound matters, Wenger himself had to watch from the stands because of a one-match UEFA ban.",
"But despite a few nervy moments, primarily when Udinese captain Antonio Di Natale struck the crossbar with a long-range strike, Arsenal held on.",
"And Walcott nearly added a second goal late on, forcing a superb save from goalkeeper Samir Handanovic.",
"There were four other matches played on Tuesday evening, with Lyon coming from behind to beat Russian side Rubin Kazan 3-1 at the Stade de Gerland.",
"Rubin are looking to reach the group stages for a third successive year and they took a third minute lead when Vladimir Dyadyun turned in Bebras Natcho's right-wing corner.",
"However, the French side levelled seven minutes later when Bafetimbi Gomis got in between two defenders to finish a Michel Bastos cross.",
"And they went ahead five minutes before half-time when a Gomis cross-shot from the left found the net off defender Saba Kvirkvelia.",
"Lyon sealed their victory 19 minutes from time when Jimmy Briand headed home a Kim Kallstrom corner.",
"Meanwhile, an entertaining match in the Netherlands saw FC Twente draw 2-2 at home to Benfica, a result that leaves the Portuguese giants favorites to reach the group stage.",
"Luuk de Jong fired the hosts in a sixth minute lead, but Benfica leveled when Paraguay striker Oscar Cardozo curled home a superb equalizer.",
"Benfica led at the break after a fine flowing move saw Nolito score from close range but, with 10 minutes left, Bryan Ruiz headed home for Twente as the match finished all-square.",
"The other two matches saw BATE Borisov of Belarus draw 1-1 at home to Austrian side Sturm Graz, while Czech champions Viktoria Plzen secured a superb 3-1 win at FC Copenhagen of Denmark."
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"Arsenal defeat Udinese 1-0 in the first leg of their Champions League qualifier .",
"Theo Walcott scores the vital winning goal in the fourth minute at the Emirates .",
"Lyon come from behind to beat Russian side Rubin Kazan 3-1 in their first leg ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Lithuania's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday rejected a report from lawmakers saying the country had hosted secret CIA prisons as part of the \"war on terror.\"",
"\"There are neither facts nor information that secret CIA detention centers existed in Lithuania,\" the ministry said in a statement, contradicting Amnesty International statements a day earlier based on a report by Lithuanian lawmakers.",
"\"It has neither concluded that the territory of Lithuania was used to transfer persons under suspicion of terrorism nor that such persons had been brought in or transported from the territory of Lithuania,\" the Foreign Ministry said of the parliamentary report.",
"Amnesty International said a day earlier that the former Soviet republic, now a NATO member, had become the first country to admit it hosted secret CIA detention centers for terror suspects.",
"The tiny country on the Baltic Sea contained two \"black sites,\" the group said -- the first holding a single prisoner in 2002.",
"In 2004, a former riding school outside the capital, Vilnius, was converted to hold up to eight detainees, according to the Lithuanian parliamentary report, Amnesty International said.",
"The Bush administration came under fierce criticism for the alleged practice of \"extraordinary rendition\" -- capturing suspected terrorists in one country, moving them to another country without proper legal protections, and using \"enhanced interrogation techniques\" on them.",
"Opponents of the practice say the interrogations amounted to torture.",
"Former CIA agent Bob Ayers explained Tuesday how it worked.",
"\"There were flights coming in from the battlefields and Iraq or Afghanistan.",
"There were flights that were coming in from other nation-states which were not at war but we were collaborating with -- for example, Egypt or Jordan -- where suspected terrorists were picked up and brought to the interrogation centers where they were interrogated,\" he said.",
"\"And then the information gained from those interrogations was then shared among the participating nations.\"",
"The Obama administration says it no longer operates black sites, but has not formally ended the process of extraordinary rendition.",
"A CIA spokesman declined to confirm or deny the Lithuanian lawmakers' report.",
"\"The agency's terrorist detention program is over, and the CIA has not commented publicly on where facilities associated with that effort may or may not have been,\" said Paul Gimigliano of the CIA Office of Public Affairs.",
"He added that the allegation that Lithuania hosted black sites was \"not new.\"",
"Amnesty International said it was not important whether the allegation was new or not.",
"\"Confirmation of the existence of a secret prison in Lithuania marks a modern low point for human rights protection in Europe,\" said Julia Hall, Amnesty International's expert on counterterrorism in Europe.",
"\"But the Lithuanian inquiry signals a turning point in the quest for the truth about what role European states played in helping the United States in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks.",
"Other European governments should take note and commit to full investigations of similar serious allegations.\"",
"Other European states, like Poland and Romania, have also been accused by human rights groups -- and even the European Parliament and the Council of Europe -- of housing secret CIA prisons and colluding in extraordinary renditions.",
"Lithuania's parliamentary report may put more pressure on other states to come clean.",
"But there are lingering doubts about aspects of the report by the Lithuanian parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense.",
"It accuses the Lithuanian security services of providing the CIA with the facilities without the knowledge of the country's political leadership.",
"Analysts say that seems unlikely.",
"\"To think that any national government would have foreign aircraft flying into its airspace, people being taken from aircraft and moved to control facilities somewhere within their sovereign territories -- and neither the central government, police, customs or air traffic control, no one knew anything about this except for the head of the security service ... that's just not believable,\" said Ayers, the former CIA officer.",
"It would be a violation of Lithuanian law if true, Amnesty pointed out.",
"\"The Lithuanian government should have known what its own agencies were doing and is ultimately responsible for the secret prison and any human rights violations that may have taken place there,\" the advocacy group said.",
"\"The inquiry's findings are only a first step toward accountability,\" said Hall.",
"\"The investigation in Lithuania should continue and those persons responsible for any involvement in the secret site must be identified and prosecuted.\"",
"CNN's Matthew Chance in Moscow, Russia, and Jim Barnett in Washington contributed to this report."
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"Amnesty International says report shows Lithuania took part in \"extraordinary rendition\"\nLithuanian Foreign Ministry denies the report in Wednesday statement .",
"CIA spokesman refuses to confirm or deny, says \"terrorist detention program is over\""
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"(CNN) -- A little earlier this year the art world made an extremely rare discovery -- a painting by Leonardo da Vinci.",
"Only some 15 paintings by Leonardo still exist, including the \"Mona Lisa\" and \"The Last Supper.\"",
"So, this newly discovered painting -- known as \"Salvator Mundi\" or \"Savior of the World\" -- is a truly remarkable find.",
"The 500-year-old painting depicts the head and shoulders of Christ and is in sparkling condition after cleaning and restoration.",
"It will be included in a-once-in-a-lifetime Leonardo da Vinci show at the National Gallery in London from November 9th -- the first time \"Salvator Mundi\" will have shared space with other Leonardos for many centuries.",
"CNN has been given rare access to this newly discovered work.",
"In a half hour special program, Nick Glass travels to New York to meet Robert Simon, an Old Masters dealer, who is acting on behalf of the owners of \"Salvator Mundi,\" and gets to see the painting first hand.",
"During his time in New York, Glass also talks with restorer Dianne Modestini, who brought the painting back to its original state.",
"Intrigued, Glass heads to Florence to learn a little more about the life and work of da Vinci, the ultimate Renaissance man.",
"Further interviews with world renowned da Vinci experts shed more light on the man, his paintings and his contributions to science and medicine.",
"Finally, Glass returns to the National Gallery where the \"Salvator Mundi\" will be on show to the public until February 2012.",
"Will another painting like this ever be discovered and is the adjective \"priceless,\" accurate in this instance?",
"This program will attempt to answer these questions, while telling the story of the most talked about piece of art unveiled this century.",
"Watch Leonardo -- The Lost Painting in November at the following times (all times GMT): .",
"Friday 11 November: 16:30 .",
"Saturday 12 November: 14:00, 21:30 .",
"Sunday 13 November: 10:30, 21:30 .",
"Monday 14 November: 04:30, 08:30 .",
"Tuesday 15 November: 10:30, 17:30 ."
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"A new Leonardo Da Vinci painting known as \"Salvator Mundi\" has been discovered .",
"In excellent condition, it depicts the head and shoulders of Christ .",
"The discovery will feature in an exhibition at The National Gallery in London from November 9 ."
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"(CNN) -- Hunter S. Thompson's slim early novel -- written in 1959, when he was 22, but only published 40 years later -- gets a dream screen treatment courtesy of producer-star Johnny Depp and \"Withnail and I\" writer-director Bruce Robinson.",
"By rights Depp -- who already played Thompson's alter-ego Raoul Duke in Terry Gilliam's grandly grotesque \"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas\" -- should be too old to play the latest recruit on a failing American newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico.",
"But even when he's hung over and wretched (which is often) he easily passes for 30, the age of the book's \"Paul Kemp.\"",
"Of course the fact that this engagingly left field movie has spent three years on the shelf helps.",
"When Kemp washes up in San Juan, his greatest literary achievement is his resume.",
"He's promptly put on the astrology desk.",
"But he's hungry to make a name for himself, which gives him an edge over his pickled colleagues.",
"It's enough to attract the patronage of local wheeler-dealer Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart), a property developer who has big plans for the island -- and his eye-catching girlfriend, Chenault (Amber Heard).",
"It would be an exaggeration to call \"The Rum Diary\" a dry run for \"Fear and Loathing\" (and \"dry\" wasn't really in Thompson's vocabulary, though Kemp does make vain promises to cut back on the hard stuff from time to time).",
"Still, in Depp and Robinson's hands you can't miss the roots of Gonzo.",
"This is more than ever the portrait of the artist as a young man -- fermented, refined and distilled from the book.",
"Compared to his cartoonish Raoul Duke (or his Jack Sparrow) Depp's agreeably deadpan performance is scaled back several notches, though it's hard to think of another movie heartthrob who uses his body to such clownish effect when the occasion arises.",
"Frequently shuttered behind a slick pair of shades, Kemp is a stranger in paradise and not quite sure of his bearings yet.",
"He's an avid observer trying to figure out where a real writer might fit between the stinking shantytowns and the shiny luxury beach houses.",
"Robinson has no doubts about which side he's on in that fight, and smuggles in pertinent asides on the parlous state of today's heavily mortgaged newspaper business.",
"Vibrantly photographed by Dariusz Wolski, the movie lays on the local color with gusto -- we get fighting cocks, voodoo and carnival - but we also see broken down plumbing, simmering racial tension, permanent flop sweat and killer lines like Sanderson's, after Kemp marvels at the beauty of the place: \"It's God's idea of money.\"",
"Admittedly Kemp's picaresque misadventures don't add up to much of a plot -- the wheels come off in a climax that slouches off miserably in search of some future happy ending -- but there's so much to enjoy along the way, the movie's delayed release is hard to fathom.",
"Depp's easy rapport with Michael Rispoli, as photographer/sidekick Sala, is a low-key delight.",
"I loved the way Aaron Eckhart's imperious uber-confidence slips where Chenault is concerned; and even anomalies like a jewel-encrusted tortoise... \"I got the idea from a book,\" Sanderson explains -- as if it did.",
"Bruce Robinson has never topped the riotous comic miserabilism of his first film, the cult classic \"Withnail and I\" -- he's never even come close -- but \"The Rum Diary\" might be considered hair of the dog after a 24-year-long career hangover.",
"He's back in his debauched and debunking element, which is reason enough to celebrate."
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"Paris, France (CNN) -- Flash floods killed at least 20 people in the southern French region of Var, French authorities said Wednesday.",
"The flooding began Tuesday, and more storms were expected Wednesday evening, the Var prefecture said in a statement.",
"Authorities warned of \"possible intense rain and thunderstorms, sometimes violent in the coastal area.\"",
"Eleven helicopters worked overnight to rescue people and 1,000 people have been placed in shelters, the prefecture said.",
"Some 1,200 firefighters and 650 police officers were taking part in the rescue effort, it said.",
"All schools in the region were closed Wednesday and more than 96,000 people were without electricity.",
"Authorities earlier said 12 people were missing, but by the end of the day they said all the missing had been found, either alive or dead.",
"Var includes the Cote d'Azur, a popular tourist destination along the French Riviera.",
"CNN's Saskya Vandoorne and Pat Thompson contributed to this report."
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"More storms expected Wednesday night in flood-stricken region .",
"1,000 people rescued and placed in shelters, officials say .",
"All schools in the region closed; more than 96,000 people without electricity .",
"Flooding area includes popular tourist destination Cote d'Azur ."
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"Hong Kong (CNN) -- If you can tolerate the junkies on the stairwells or the rats that sometimes scale the 12 floors of her building on the external electrical wiring, Lui's penthouse shack ticks all the boxes for a multi-million dollar property in Hong Kong.",
"It's light, it's well ventilated and it has sweeping views of Kowloon's Lion Rock Hill.",
"Constructed from recycled materials, the design is customized to her lifestyle down to the last detail.",
"\"This is my washing machine,\" says Lui, pointing proudly to a small stainless steel basin on the terrace side of her rooftop house in Sham Shui Po.",
"\"I do my tai chi exercises here in the morning, and on moonlit nights I like to sit out here and look out on the mountain.\"",
"Anywhere else in Hong Kong, luxury apartments can often fetch HK$100 million (US$12.85 million), and a house with these features could easily cost the average transaction price of HK$13.25 million (US$1.7 million), according to data released by agency Midland Realty earlier this year.",
"The only difference is that as an unprepossessing corrugated iron shack that forms part of Hong Kong's extensive network of sky slums -- technically illegal rooftop structures barnacled onto the roofs of tenements built in the 1950s and 60s -- the market is sluggish.",
"Nevertheless, a gray market in these slum dwellings does exist.",
"\"Of course the agent never explicitly says it's a rooftop dwelling.",
"The listing will say something like small apartment with a unique view or interesting features,\" says Dr. Ernest Chiu of Hong Kong University who has studied informal housing.",
"\"I've heard anecdotal evidence of them changing hands for HK$40,000 (US$5,000) but that was three years ago when I was doing my research.\"",
"In the volatile world of Hong Kong property prices, says realtor Janice Chan of Y&L Properties, they could now be worth a lot more.",
"\"Even if a dwelling has an illegal structure status, I would say that it was absolutely impossible to get anything in Hong Kong for under $HK1 million (US$129,000),\" Chan says.",
"World's most expensive luxury city is... She contends prices could even exceed this, making Lui's hand-built shanty one of the most expensive slum dwellings in the world.",
"According to the latest Hong Kong census from 2006, there are 3,962 rooftop dwellers in 1,556 households in Hong Kong.",
"Mostly found in old urban areas in Kowloon -- Sham Shui Po, Kwun Tung and Tai Kok Tsui -- the houses are crammed together so tightly that they form their own above-ground streetscapes, complete with gardens, playgrounds and places of worship.",
"The slums are a hangover from the housing crises of the 1950s and 1960s when successive waves of refugees from mainland China set up squatter cities in Hong Kong.",
"Many of the residents have lived in the slums for more than 30 years, and new arrivals tend to be underprivileged migrants from either mainland China, Pakistan, Nepal or other parts of Asia.",
"Since 2001, when 16,359 people lived on Hong Kong's rooftops, the number of illegal dwellings has reduced dramatically.",
"While government policy has played a part, more often the tenements -- under constant pressure due to the shortage of land in Hong Kong -- are torn down to make way for new shopping and residential developments.",
"For the government, which supplies these rooftop communities with a postal service, water and electricity; collects rates; and even levies stamp duty on their sale and purchase, the sky slums operate under an established practice of \"tolerance versus demolition,\" says Chiu.",
"Their existence, while not ideal, keeps almost 4,000 people off a crowded public housing queue, he adds.",
"Fire restrictions are strict (those with a single rather than double fire exits are earmarked for demolition as a top priority), and building codes rigidly enforced (adding an extra floor to a non-structural building is forbidden), but the Building Department's normal practice is simply to issue a notice that slates the illegal structure for eventual demolition.",
"Under this system, illegal rooftop dwellings often survive for decades and are bought and sold with the demolition notice as part of the negotiated price of the transaction.",
"Despite their quasi-legal status, Chiu explains, authorities will act promptly, if they receive complaints from third parties, making the residents vulnerable to abuse.",
"\"There have been reports of some owners, living on the floor immediately below the rooftop huts, making complaints to the building authority to get their rooftop neighbors evicted,\" he says.",
"\"In other cases, the landlord renting these huts may make complaints to evade their responsibilities as stipulated in the landlord-tenant contract.\"",
"As for Lui, she says she has owned her house for decades.",
"The double fire exit on the roof has made her structure safe from demolition, and she has no plans to move from Sham Shui Po.",
"\"If they moved me to public housing it would shorten my life,\" she says, pointing to the nearby tower blocks.",
"\"Those flats are too small.\"",
"While there are disadvantages -- she says the house rocks in typhoons, the dark stairwell attracts drug users, and the rats are too clever to be trapped -- she says there's nowhere else she'd rather live.",
"\"My neighbors are great, the police are quick to come if we have any trouble with drugs, there's no crime, the shops are downstairs and everything is just so convenient,\" she says.",
"\"People may look down on me, but I certainly don't look down on myself.\"",
"Alexis Lai contributed to this report."
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"Mostly found in old urban areas in Kowloon -- Sham Shui Po, Kwun Tung and Tai Kok Tsui .",
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"Manila, Philippines (CNN) -- A second typhoon in a week pounded the Philippines over the weekend, weakening Sunday only after prompting evacuations, causing severe flooding and contributing to one death.",
"Typhoon Nalgae, known locally as Quiel, had lost some strength by Sunday morning.",
"But it still had maximum sustained winds of 130 kph (80 mph), with gusts recorded 30 kph stronger, according to a 4 a.m. Sunday advisory from the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Administration.",
"At that point, its center was 200 kilometers (124 miles) west of Baguio City.",
"The storm follows Typhoon Nesat, which left at least 52 people dead and caused damage in 34 provinces since it hit Tuesday, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council.",
"The two typhoons will or have already affected about 3 million Filipinos, the nonprofit World Vision group estimated in a news release Saturday.",
"The second typhoon -- Nalgae -- made landfall in Dinapigue, in Isabela province, on Saturday morning, the disaster council said.",
"It is expected to have moved past the east Asian island nation by Sunday, forecasters said, after having brought rain of 15-25 millimeters per hour (0.6-1 inch) in many locales.",
"Over the course of the weekend, the storm had made several roads impassable in the cities of Calasiao and Dagupan on Luzon island, according to the state-run Philippines News Agency.",
"Affected residents are being evacuated from those communities and others, including Santa Barbara.",
"The disaster council, in a Sunday morning update, said that a 35-year-old man was killed and a 22-year-old woman injured in landslides triggered by the storm the previous day.",
"At least 850 families, or roughly 3,500 people, in the provinces of La Union and Pangasinan have been directly affected by flooding, according to the council.",
"Also Saturday, the San Roque Power Corporation opened two gates at one of its dams along the Agno River in north Luzon, due to high waters there related to the storm, the news agency said.",
"Presidential spokesman Abigail Valte earlier Saturday urged residents of low-lying and mountainous areas that could be hit hard by the storm to evacuate, the state news agency said, citing an interview conducted on a government radio station.",
"World Vision, the Christian humanitarian organization, said Saturday that it had to postpone some of its relief efforts due to Nalgae, with two of three emergency teams set to deploy once the storm passes.",
"Another team is in Bulcan province, most of which is \"still submerged\" because of Nesat.",
"The group is focusing its post-Nesat efforts on two communities in Manila and three in the northern Isabela and Zambales provinces.",
"Vouchers are being distributed so people can buy needed items, some emergency supplies are being given out directly to citizens and 3,000 Manila children will receive school supplies.",
"Sherbien Dacalanio, a CNN iReporter in the Philippines, described one area of Manila as being devastated by Nesat.",
"\"The damage is shocking.",
"It's like a damage brought by earthquake and tsunami,\" Dacalanio said.",
"CNN's Ivan Cabrera and journalist Arlene Samson-Espiritu contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Related flooding has affected at least 3,500 people, an agency reports .",
"At least 52 people were killed by Typhoon Nesat, which hit earlier this week ."
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"Johannesburg (CNN) -- Miffed by a visa delay that led the Dalai Lama to cancel a trip to South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu lashed out at his government Tuesday, saying it had acted worse than apartheid regimes and had forgotten all that the nation stood for.",
"\"When we used to apply for passports under the apartheid government, we never knew until the last moment what their decision was,\" Tutu said at a news conference.",
"\"Our government is worse than the apartheid government because at least you were expecting it from the apartheid government.",
"\"I have to say that I can't believe this.",
"I really can't believe this,\" Tutu said.",
"\"You have to wake me up and tell me this is actually happening here.\"",
"The Dalai Lama scrapped his planned trip to South Africa this week after the nation failed to issue him a visa in time, his spokesman said.",
"Visa applications for him and his entourage were submitted to the South African High Commission in New Delhi, India, at the end of August, and original passports were submitted on September 20, more than two weeks ago, a statement on his website said.",
"However, South Africa's foreign affairs office said it did not refuse a visa.",
"\"South Africa will not comment on the decision, because it is not our decision, it is his decision,\" according to spokesman Clayson Monyela, who said the visa application was still under consideration.",
"The Dalai Lama had been invited to the country to receive the Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and Reconciliation and to speak at a number of events, including a lecture in honor of Tutu's 80th birthday.",
"Tutu and the Dalai Lama are recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.",
"Tutu said he would pray for the defeat of South Africa's government, led by the African National Congress (ANC), which is rooted in the fight against the system of apartheid, or legal racial separation, that was present in South Africa until 1994.",
"\"You are disgraceful,\" Tutu said about the government.",
"\"You are behaving in a way that is totally at variance with the things for which we stood.\"",
"The ANC plans to call on government officials to explain to South Africans why the visa process was delayed, spokesman Jackson Mtembu said.",
"He said everyone was in the dark about this matter.",
"But he also suggested that Tutu calm down.",
"A comparison to apartheid regimes, he said, was unfair.",
"This is not the first time the Dalai Lama has not been able to visit South Africa.",
"In 2009, South Africa refused the Tibetan spiritual leader a visa to attend an international peace conference, saying it was not in the country's interest for him to attend.",
"In refusing the 2009 application, South Africa said that if the Dalai Lama attended the conference, the focus would shift away from the 2010 World Cup, the global soccer championship it was hosting.",
"\"We cannot allow focus to shift to China and Tibet,\" presidential spokesman Thabo Masebe said, adding that South Africa had gained much from its trading relationship with China.",
"The Dalai Lama fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, and China pressures governments around the world to deny him any legitimacy.",
"Speculation surfaced Tuesday that this year's visit was also affected by South Africa's relationship with China.",
"South African Vice President Kgalema Motlanthe visited Beijing last week and met with Chinese President Hu Jintao to discuss bolstering bilateral ties.",
"Motlanthe said South Africa was ready to boost the strategic partnership between the two countries to a new stage, according to the official Chinese news agency Xinhua.",
"But Monyela said the application had nothing to do with China.",
"\"We are a sovereign nation which takes decisions in our domestic interest,\" Monyela said.",
"The Dalai Lama posted a message on Twitter last week that said: \"Even if the Chinese leave nothing but ashes, Tibet will rise from these ashes as a free country even if it takes a long time to do so.\"",
"Kim Norgaard, CNN's Johannesburg bureau chief, contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- An earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Bali early Thursday, rattling buildings and sending dozens to hospitals with minor injuries.",
"The 6.0-magnitude quake hit 100 km (62 miles) southwest of Bali, the U.S. Geological Survey said.",
"At least 43 people were taken to local hospitals, including five who suffered serious injuries, medical officials said.",
"A few suffered broken bones and are undergoing treatment, said Wayan Sudanti, an official at a local hospital.",
"Another medical official at a nearby hospital said several others were undergoing treatment for minor injuries, but did not specify how many.",
"The quake had a depth of 38 miles, and no tsunami alert was issued, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.",
"Indonesia is on the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.",
"In 2004, a 9.1-magnitude underwater earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra, triggering a tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people in 14 countries.",
"The tsunami, which washed away entire communities, caused nearly $10 billion in damage and more casualties than any other tsunami in history, according to the United Nations.",
"Indonesia was among the hardest hit nations."
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"The 6.0-magnitude quake hits southwest of Bali ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush said Tuesday that Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah \"knows our position loud and clear\" on the punishment of the victim of a gang rape.",
"President Bush said he would be angry with a state that did not support a rape victim.",
"However, Bush said he did not recall having raised the issue during a recent telephone conversation with the king.",
"The woman was sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in prison for violating the kingdom's strict Islamic law by being alone with an unrelated man before the rape.",
"The president said during a White House news conference that upon learning of the case, \"My first thoughts were these: What happens if this happened to my daughter?",
"How would I react?",
"And I would have been ... I would have been very emotional, of course.",
"\"I'd have been angry at those who committed the crime.",
"And I would be angry at a state that didn't support the victim.",
"\"And our opinions were expressed by [White House press secretary] Dana Perino from the podium.\"",
"Asked whether he personally had pressed King Abdullah about the matter, Bush responded, \"I talked to King Abdullah about the Middle Eastern peace.",
"I don't remember if that subject came up. ...",
"He knows our position loud and clear.\"",
"Last month, the Saudi Ministry of Justice said the woman had had an \"illegitimate relationship\" with a man who was not her husband, and that she was raped by seven men after she and the man she was with were discovered in a \"compromising situation, her clothes on the ground.\"",
"The woman, now 19, was initially sentenced to 90 lashes for meeting with the man -- described by the woman's attorney as a former friend from whom she was simply retrieving a photograph.",
"When she appealed her sentence, a Saudi court more than doubled it.",
"The rapists initially received sentences ranging from 10 months to five years in prison.",
"After the woman's appeal, the Qatif General Court also increased the sentence for the rapists, to two to nine years in prison.",
"The Justice Ministry had previously said the woman's sentence was increased after evidence came to light against her when she appealed her original sentence.",
"The attacks took place in the eastern city of Qatif in March 2006, when the woman was 18 and engaged to be married.",
"Her husband has told CNN that \"from the onset, my wife was dealt with as a guilty person who committed a crime.",
"She was not given any chance to prove her innocence or describe how she was a victim of multiple brutal rapes.\"",
"Under Saudi Arabia's Islamic law, women are subject to numerous restrictions, including a strict dress code, a prohibition against driving and a requirement that they get a man's permission to travel or undergo surgery.",
"The rape victim's husband, who has not been identified publicly in order to protect the identity of his wife, said he considered his wife's decision to meet with the man \"a bad choice on her part,\" but denied that she had admitted meeting with the man illicitly.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Saudi court sentenced victim of gang rape to 200 lashes, jail time .",
"Court says sentence related to meeting with a man, not rape ."
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"(CNN) -- Twitter was abuzz Thursday with the death of Apple visionary Steve Jobs but another topic was gathering steam as the day progressed.",
"Who will win this year's coveted Nobel Peace Prize?",
"Not Jobs, though many among his huge global following posted messages that he should.",
"The Nobel is never awarded posthumously and that rule also eliminates Mohamed Bouazizi, the unemployed college graduate whose self-immolation in Tunisia sparked a popular uprising that led to the fall of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali's government.",
"The Tunisian revolt began this year's so-called Arab Spring.",
"Some years, there are clear frontrunners -- Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi.",
"This year, it's anyone's guess with a record number of nominations -- 241 -- received by the Nobel committee.",
"Of those, 53 are organizations, including WikiLeaks -- the website founded by Julian Assange that facilitates the publication of classified information and made headlines for leaking documents and videos related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"It also released thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables.",
"\"Liu Xiabao was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year for his struggle for human rights, democracy and freedom of speech in China,\" blogged Norwegian lawmaker Snorre Valen of the Socialist Left Party, who nominated WikiLeaks.",
"\"Likewise: WikiLeaks have contributed to the struggle for those very values globally, by exposing (among many other things) corruption, war crimes and torture -- some times even conducted by allies of Norway.\"",
"Liu's win upset the Chinese and set off a diplomatic squabble.",
"The year before, the world gasped collectively at Barack Obama's win, a shocker that the U.S. president had won even before he had completed his first year in office.",
"Despite the controversy that has swirled around perhaps the world's most prestigious prize, some experts say this year is a no-brainer, given the seismic events that have gripped the Arab world.",
"Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of Norway's Peace Research Institute Oslo shortlisted men and women who did their share in fomenting peaceful revolts against repressive regimes.",
"Harpviken's top choice is Israa Abdel Fattah, who helped organize Egypt's online April 6 Youth Movement in 2008.",
"She was arrested by Egyptian security that year and soon became a symbol of defiance against Hosni Mubarak's government.",
"She has earned the monikers \"cyber dissident\" and \"Facebook girl\" and was named one of Arabian Business Magazine's 100 most powerful women in 2011.",
"The peace research institute's website said that Fattah is a good choice because the Nobel committee \"has emphasized its wish to be relevant, to speak to dominant themes of the present, and to see the prize giving leverage in unfolding processes.",
"Secondly, Harpviken believes that the prize is likely to be awarded to a female leader or activist who has been an innovator of new tools for bringing about peace.\"",
"Another potential winner is Wael Ghonim, the former Google executive who used social media to jump-start social change in Egypt.",
"Ghonim fired off a steady stream of messages on Twitter and Facebook and worked behind the scenes to galvanize thousands to march on the streets to demand change.",
"Tunisian blogger Lina Ben Mhenni is also on many top lists.",
"Censored in her own country, she criticized the regime long before the uprisings began, dispersing information to the outside world.",
"\"A prize to Mhenni would be a prize to independent reporting, in the form of social media, as well as recognition of the peaceful protests of the Tunisian people at large,\" the peace institute website said.",
"Some experts think that Gene Sharp, an American scholar who founded the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston, could be recognized for his work on the principles of non-violence, including \"From Dictatorship to Democracy.\"",
"The downloadable writings in many languages have proved a source of inspiration around the world, including the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa.",
"Harpviken also named Memorial, a Russian civil rights group known for its fight for to protect refugees and victims of political persecution and human rights violations in war zones.",
"Natalya Estemirova, Memorial's lead researcher in the Chechen republic, was abducted and killed in July 2009.",
"Human Rights Watch said it \"appeared to be clearly connected to her work uncovering human rights violations in Chechnya. \"",
"Bookmakers Paddy Power listed Sima Samar, head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, as a favorite at 5/4 odds.",
"A physician and trailblazer for women's rights, Samar was named deputy premier after the toppling of the Taliban in 2001, the first woman to win such a high government post.",
"She has been threatened with death and harassed for questioning conservative Islamic laws and practices, including the burqua, the head-to-toe garment Afghan women have been forced to wear.",
"Paddy Power picked the right winner last year.",
"That bodes well for Samar.",
"Other names on global shortlists include: .",
"-- Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy leader who was released from house arrest last year.",
"Suu Kyi is already a Nobel laureate -- she was awarded the peace price in 1991.",
"No individual has won it twice, though two organizations -- the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees -- are repeat winners.",
"-- German Chancellor Helmut Kohl .",
"-- Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payas Sardinas .",
"-- Ghazi bin Muhammad, a Jordanian advocate of interfaith dialogue .",
"The winner will be announced Friday.",
"Until then, the speculation continues to heat up.",
"Twitter user Alu Abunimah (@avinunu) offered one last candidate for consideration to his more than 16,000 followers.",
"\"Maybe the Nobel Peace Prize will go to The Markets, to help Calm them and make them Feel Better,\" he said.",
"\"Also they need the money.\"",
"The Nobel Peace prize laureate will win about $1.5 million.",
"CNN's Joe Sterling contributed to this report."
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"Many experts say an Arab Spring nominee will win the peace prize .",
"WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange have also been nominated .",
"The Nobel committee received a record number of nominations this year .",
"The winner will be announced Friday at 11 a.m. (5 a.m.",
"ET) in Oslo, Norway ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- A Japanese power company restarted a nuclear reactor this week, the first to come back online since a March earthquake and tsunami in the nation.",
"The March 11 disasters sparked a nuclear crisis and a backlash that postponed plans to reopen reactors shut down because of damage, inspections or unrelated technical problems.",
"Kyushu Electric Power Co. said it has started generating electricity from the No.",
"4 reactor late Tuesday at the Genkai nuclear power plant in western Japan.",
"The reactor was taken offline in October after technical problems.",
"Company officials won approval from a local governor and a mayor to bring the reactor online, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported.",
"Nuclear safety critics criticized the reopening, with the power company receiving more than 200 calls Tuesday from citizens who opposed the move.",
"Another power company said it may have suffered a setback in its efforts to handle damaged nuclear reactors.",
"Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it detected the chemical element xenon in a nuclear reactor at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a sign that nuclear fission may have occurred.",
"The power company said it began injecting boric acid into the cooling system and has not seen a temperature change that would suggest nuclear fission has occurred.",
"The reactor, No. 2, was one of several damaged in the wake of the historic March 11 disaster.",
"Recently, Japanese officials said it may take 30 years to decommission the four damaged reactors at the power plant.",
"A draft report, released by Japan's Atomic Energy Commission of the Cabinet Office last week, said the removal of debris -- or nuclear fuel -- should begin by the end of 2021."
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"It is the first reactor brought back online since the March 11 disaster in Japan .",
"The move is criticized by some who are concerned about nuclear safety ."
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"(CNN) -- Powered by the same energy produced by a toaster, this weekend 39 solar-powered cars are preparing to race across the Australian outback reaching speeds in excess of 100 kilometers per hour (62 miles per hour) along the way.",
"Setting off from Darwin on Saturday, many of the cars taking part in the biennial, 3,021-kilometer (1,877-mile) Veolia World Solar Challenge to Adelaide look more like ping-pong tables on wheels rather than conventional cars.",
"However, the spirit of adventure and quest for more energy efficiency is what drives the teams of volunteers, university students and organizers.",
"\"We think about it in terms of the land-based version of ocean yacht racing,\" says Chris Selwood, the event director.",
"\"Really it's about how much you can do with how little.",
"We're looking for the ultimate efficiency in electric cars.\"",
"This year is the 11th race and Selwood is happy to point out that while most of the cars don't resemble anything else that will be rumbling down the Australian highways this weekend, some of the innovations pioneered by the vehicles over the years have made it into the mainstream.",
"Energy-efficient, \"low-rolling resistance\" tires that are on the market now were used by Michelin in World Solar Challenge events of the early 1990s, and since the inaugural event in 1987 the electric motors have improved in efficiency by at least 30%, says Selwood.",
"Some of the motors being used by teams have been engineered to work at 98% efficiency in turning electricity into motor power.",
"\"That could drive a washing machine, ceiling fan or even electric vehicle,\" says Selwood.",
"\"There are many uses for a motor like that in our daily lives across a range of applications.\"",
"For the top teams, though, the aim is to get to Adelaide first and worry about the legacy of the technology later.",
"Nuon Solar Team's Nuna6 car is one of the favorites to win this year's competition.",
"As winners of the events from 2001 to 2007, Nuon Solar Team, made up of students from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, hope to claim back the crown they lost in 2009 to Japan's Tokai University's team.",
"To aid their attempt, Nuna6 is made of a carbon fiber also used by some Formula 1 cars, making it 10% lighter than its predecessor in 2009.",
"And like Formula 1, strategy is expected to be important in giving each team the edge.",
"Each team has to extract enough power from a battery with just 5 kilowatt hours of capacity (10% of the power competitors are anticipated to need to complete the race), while also judging when to charge it up for the next day.",
"\"The biggest challenge is to drive non-stop, but we've got a good chance,\" says Nuon Solar Team's Nadine Rodewijk.",
"For others, making a solar car more appealing to the public is a greater priority than seeing the checkered flag first.",
"To highlight that solar cars are getting closer to the real thing, Bochum University in Germany's SolarWorldGT has shunned the sleek, aerodynamic design seen by Nuna6 and others in favor of something more recognizable with two doors and two seats.",
"That the SolarWorldGT can still effectively compete the race is thanks in part to improvements in solar and motor technology in recent years, and a new competition rule that has reduced the solar panel capacity allowed on each car by 25% compared to 2009.",
"\"They've got to use that energy wisely to get up hills and get out from under clouds,\" says Selwood.",
"\"By keeping some reins on some of these keys factors, we're seeing some very clever ways in addressing them.\"",
"But for all the goodwill and innovation on offer, when the rubber hits the road it will still be a race.",
"\"Our aim as a team is to win,\" says Nadine Rodewijk from Nuon Solar Team.",
"\"Although personally, for each of us, it's about the experience and adventure, learning and preparing for the future.\""
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"Washington (CNN) -- The United States will be looking for nations around the world to get tougher on Iran in the wake of the alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, a senior State Department official said Tuesday.",
"The official said that although Iran is under multiple sanctions, many countries are not enforcing the restrictions, and sometimes if they have problems with Iran, they don't speak out publicly.",
"The official said the United States is going to be looking for countries to enforce existing sanctions, implement new ones and cut ties with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, to basically match what the United States has already done.",
"To make the case, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other senior officials in the department are going to be placing calls to leaders and foreign ministers, U.N. Security Council members and others with influence on Iran, the official said.",
"The official said the United States is looking for what Clinton calls a \"chorus of international condemnation\" of Iran.",
"A senior administration official, asked if there will be sanctions on more individuals related to this particular plot, responded, \"We've done what we think is the network here.\"",
"Asked what actions the United States would take next, the official said, \"We are continuing to look for additional ways to apply financial sanctions on Iran.",
"We are very much in the business of increasing pressure on Iran through sanctions so Iran understands they have a clear choice to be made between coming to the table seriously (and) meaningfully, and facing further isolation and sanction.",
"\"We're continuing on that course.\"",
"Meanwhile, Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns plans brief the diplomatic corps Wednesday at the State Department on the alleged Iran plot, a second senior department official said Tuesday.",
"The official described it as an \"informational briefing\" and said that Burns will explain the details of how it went down, how the Obama administration handled it and the need to hold Iran accountable.",
"A third senior State Department official told CNN that the briefing will also try to allay any concerns that were raised in diplomats by word of an assassination plot against an ambassador in Washington.",
"The official said the State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security is working with the Secret Service and \"taking all appropriate measures\" to protect foreign diplomats and diplomatic facilities.",
"Saudi Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir has always had his own State Department Diplomatic Security detail, as have previous Saudi ambassadors."
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"The diplomatic corps is to be briefed, another senior State Department official says ."
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"(CNN) -- Actress Lindsay Lohan's father jumped from a third-floor balcony Thursday to try to escape re-arrest, police said, but officers soon caught up with him and took him into custody -- again.",
"Officers detained Michael Lohan after his girlfriend, Kate Major, said he violated terms of his release from jail earlier this week by calling her, the Tampa Police Department said in a statement.",
"Investigators arrested Lohan on suspicion of domestic violence after an incident on Monday night, but they let him out of jail after he posted bail.",
"Just after 1 a.m. Thursday, Lohan's girlfriend called police to say Lohan had violated the terms of his release by calling her, the police statement said.",
"Lohan called his girlfriend again while she was talking with police, and she put him on speakerphone, it said.",
"After prosecutors authorized Lohan's re-arrest, officers went to a hotel, the Tahitian Inn, where he was staying.",
"\"Upon seeing officers, he jumped out of a third-story balcony in an attempt to escape arrest,\" the police statement said.",
"Officers took him into custody after a short chase and discovered after taking him to jail that he may have broken his foot, police said.",
"Doctors were evaluating him.",
"Lohan is not expected to be released from Tampa General Hospital Thursday and has been admitted for overnight observation, said Tampa police spokeswoman Andrea Davis.",
"Police responded to a domestic violence call at Michael Lohan's home Monday and arrested him for the battery of his live-in girlfriend, police said.",
"Lohan told reporters Wednesday he \"didn't lay a hand\" on his girlfriend.",
"\"I did not hurt her,\" he said. Lohan also said he never was served with a restraining order to stay away from the woman.",
"According to CNN Tampa affiliate WFTS, a Sarasota County judge issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday.",
"Lohan, 51, was arrested in Los Angeles in March in connection with alleged domestic violence and was charged with one misdemeanor count of corporal injury to a cohabitant.",
"The relationship between Lohan and his daughter has been publicly strained for years, although the two did undergo family counseling together during her treatment at the Betty Ford Center.",
"CNN's Rich Phillips contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama, who has enjoyed Apple's products along with millions of other Americans, Wednesday night hailed Steve Jobs as one of America's greatest innovators, a man \"brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.\"",
"\"The world has lost a visionary.",
"And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented,\" the president said in a statement.",
"Praising Jobs' breadth and the impact of his work from personal computers to iPhones to movie production, the president added, \"Steve was fond of saying that he lived every day like it was his last.",
"Because he did, he transformed our lives, redefined entire industries, and achieved one of the rarest feats in human history: He changed the way each of us sees the world.\"",
"This week, Obama, known for his affection for the BlackBerry, revealed he actually was a recipient of an advanced copy of the iPad 2 directly from Jobs.",
"\"Steve Jobs actually gave it to me, a little bit early,\" he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos.",
"\"Yeah, it was cool. I got it directly from him.\"",
"In March, CNN photographed the president holding an iPad.",
"The president and Jobs met several times, including at a dinner in San Francisco in February with Silicon Valley executives and last year when they discussed issues revolving around technology and the economy.",
"Many politicians also praised Jobs as the truest example of the American dream, an icon.",
"House Speaker Rep. John Boehner, who also uses an iPad, tweeted: \"Steve Jobs changed the world for the better w/his innovations and genius.\"",
"House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, tweeted, \"There is not a day that goes by, and often not an hour, that a Steve Jobs invention does not better my family's life.",
"Thank you Steve.\"",
"Fellow Californian Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, called Jobs \"a visionary who changed the way we live, an innovator whose products brought joy to millions, a risk-taker who wasn't afraid to challenge the status quo,\" and also said in a statement, \"His sage advice was respected by policymakers on both sides of the aisle.",
"His courageous fight against cancer brought strength to many.\"",
"CNN Congressional Producer Deirdre Walsh contributed to this story."
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"Boehner tweets on his iPad: \"Steve Jobs changed the world for the better\""
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"(CNN) -- Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described Moammar Gadhafi's crush on her as \"weird and a bit creepy,\" saying she breathed a sigh of relief when she realized a video he made of her was not raunchy.",
"In her new book, \"No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington,\" Rice said the ruler once played her a video montage of herself set to a tune called \"African Flower in the White House.\"",
"A Libyan composer wrote the song, she said.",
"Earlier this year, anti-Gadhafi fighters ransacking his compound in Tripoli found an album of photos of the former top Bush administration official.",
"\"Quite extraordinary, weird and a bit creepy, \" Rice told CNN's Piers Morgan on Wednesday night about the scrapbook.",
"\"I had actually known that he had this fixation on me.\"",
"Rice said when Gadhafi showed her the video montage years ago in Libya, she tried to keep the conversation on business.",
"\"My job was to go there and do diplomatic business and get out, so that's what I did,\" she said.",
"\"But I have to say I did have that terrible moment when he said that he had the video.",
"I am just glad that it all came out all right.\"",
"Gadhafi was captured and killed in October, ending a Libyan revolution that started in February against his regime.",
"Rice also weighed in on GOP presidential contender Herman Cain's claims that racism is behind the recent surfacing of old sexual harassment allegations against him.",
"\"I actually don't like playing the race card on either side,\" Rice said.",
"\"I don't like it when people say that the criticism of President (Barack) Obama is because he is black.",
"The criticism is because he is the president, and we tend to criticize our presidents.\"",
"Rice said Cain is \"an interesting person.",
"He has an interesting background.",
"Obviously, a lot of business experience.",
"He is sort of shaking up the race.",
"I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.\"",
"Watch Piers Morgan Tonight weeknights 9 p.m.",
"ET. For the latest from Piers Morgan click here."
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"Rice says Gadhafi once showed her a video montage during a visit to Libya .",
"He played the video montage to a tune called \"African Flower in the White House\"\n\"I had actually known that he had this fixation on me,\" she says ."
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"Istanbul (CNN) -- Turkey's judicial system faced an uproar this week after one of the country's highest courts upheld a decision to reduce sentences against 26 men convicted of having sex with a 13-year old girl.",
"Public outrage stemmed from a court ruling that the 13-year old girl had willingly engaged in \"consensual\" sexual relations with the 26 men.",
"Among the growing chorus of critics was Turkey's President Abdullah Gul.",
"\"I take particular care not to make any direct statements on issues that are in the judicial process,\" Gul wrote in a series of statements on his Twitter account on Friday.",
"\"[But] the decision about reducing the punishment related with what happened to a young child of ours made me deeply uncomfortable... there is still the possibility for an appeal.",
"I am hoping for an outcome that will comfort the public conscience.\"",
"The case in question dates back to 2002, when 26 men from the southeastern Turkish town of Mardin were accused of repeatedly having sex with a 13-year old girl identified only by the initials \"N.C.\" According to Turkish media reports, the men, who included village 'muhtars' [mayors] and a gendarme officer, were accused of paying money to two adult female intermediaries during a 7-month period for repeated access to the girl.",
"Turkey's Supreme Court of Appeals has now found itself under fire from women's rights groups, lawyers' associations, and senior government officials.",
"In response, the head of the Supreme Court's 14th Criminal Office adopted a somewhat contradictory position.",
"\"The evaluations of the court were correct.",
"We made a decision.",
"This decision is not definite, it is also not possible for this decision to be changed by making noise,\" said Fevzi Elmas of the Supreme Court of Appeals, in an interview with the semi-official Anatolian Agency on Friday.",
"The courts sentenced the 26 accused rapists' according to an earlier version of the country's penal code, which underwent significant revisions in 2005.",
"The older penal code entailed lesser punishments for defendants found guilty of sexually assaulting children.",
"\"In the old penal code there was a very clear article which said it didn't matter if you were under 15 [years of age] or over 15... if any rape or sexual assault happened with the consent of the girl or the woman, then the sentence would be reduced,\" said Pinar Ilkkaracan of the group Women for Women's Human Rights, who lobbied for the 2005 revision of the Turkish criminal code.",
"\"In the new Turkish penal code there is no question of consent, that is incredibly important for us,\" Ilkkaracan added.",
"\"In terms of girls and boys under 15 it says very clearly any violation of the body for sexual purposes is defined as sexual abuse in the new code.",
"Which means that sexual assault or the violation of the body should have a higher sentence.\"",
"According to Turkish media reports, some of the 26 defendants were acquitted, while others received jail sentences of one to four years.",
"\"This decision is an outright scandal,\" said Ilkkaracan, the women's rights advocate.",
"In his statement to Anatolian Agency, Elmas, the official from the Supreme Court of Appeals, argued that the court had no choice but to sentence the defendants according to the pre-2005 version of the penal code.",
"\"We don't have any other option,\" Elmas said.",
"\"This is an undebatable rule of law.\"",
"But that decision was challenged by the Union of Turkish Bar Associations on Friday, which called the ruling \"legally inappropriate.\"",
"Meanwhile, in a written statement released on her ministry's web-site, Family and Social Policies Minister Fatma Sahin argued the ruling violated not only the current criminal code, but also the older version which had been in force in 2002 at the time when the 26 men were accused of having sex with the 13 year old.",
"\"I find the decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals 14th Criminal Office to approve the verdict of the local court that a 13-year old child 'got together with the defendants of her own free will' unacceptable and worrying,\" Sahin wrote.",
"\"I would like to remind the judiciary that its primary task is to protect the victim and the rights of the one who was sexually abused,\" she added."
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"The ruling said the girl had engaged in \"consensual\" sex .",
"Turkey's president said the ruling made him \"deeply uncomfortable\""
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"(CNN) -- Violence in the United States is not related to illegal Mexican immigrants, but violence in Mexico is connected to vast shipments of weapons from the United States, Mexico's foreign minister told CNN Thursday.",
"Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa pointed to efforts by Mexico to stop the flow of weapons, the great majority of which come from the United States.",
"\"Since 2006,\" she said in a wide-ranging interview with CNN's editorial board in New York City, \"the Mexican government has seized over 85,000 weapons in Mexico.\"",
"She noted that it's not just \"regular weapons,\" but also machine guns, grenades and other high-power arms.",
"Robert Pastor, a Latin America national security adviser for President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, pointed out last year there were at least 6,600 U.S. gun shops within 100 miles of the Mexican border and more than 90 percent of weapons in Mexico come from the United States.",
"In contrast, Espinosa said, there's no evidence linking high crime rates with illegal immigration, as some U.S. politicians have contended.",
"The two largest Latino populations in the United States are in the New York City and Los Angeles areas, she said, but both locales have seen a \"dramatic drop in the crime rate.\"",
"Government and police statistics show that the crime rate has been decreasing in New York for the past 15 years.",
"Similarly, statistics show that rate for most major crimes in Los Angeles also has fallen in recent years.",
"\"This clearly shows that linking immigration directly with violence is not connected,\" Espinosa said.",
"Others make the case, however, that illegal immigration and high crime are strongly linked.",
"Supporters of SB 107, the controversial Arizona immigration law, parts of which were struck down in federal court in July, used that argument to pass the bill this year.",
"\"Border violence and crime due to illegal immigration are critically important issues to the people of our state,\" Arizona Gov.",
"Jan Brewer said earlier this year.",
"\"There is no higher priority than protecting the citizens of Arizona.",
"We cannot sacrifice our safety to the murderous greed of the drug cartels.",
"We cannot stand idly by as drop houses, kidnappings and violence compromise our quality of life.\"",
"But statistics from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency and the FBI indicate that both the number of illegal crossers and violent crime have decreased recently.",
"According to the FBI, violent crimes reported in Arizona dropped by nearly 1,500 incidents between 2005 and 2008.",
"Reported property crimes also fell, from about 287,000 incidents to 279,000 in the same period.",
"These decreases are accentuated by the fact that Arizona's population grew by 600,000 between 2005 and 2008.",
"According to the non-partisan Immigration Policy Institute, proponents of the bill \"overlook two salient points: crime rates have already been falling in Arizona for years despite the presence of unauthorized immigrants, and a century's worth of research has demonstrated that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes or be behind bars than the native-born.\"",
"Espinosa also addressed comments by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this month comparing Mexico's drug war to an \"insurgency\" similar to the problem Colombia faced more than 20 years ago.",
"\"[W]e face an increasing threat from a well-organized network, [a] drug-trafficking threat that is, in some cases, morphing into or making common cause with what we would consider an insurgency, in Mexico and in Central America,\" Clinton said at a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.",
"\"It's looking more and more like Colombia looked 20 years ago.\"",
"Mexican officials, from President Felipe Calderon on down, took exception to that characterization.",
"Espinosa reiterated the point Thursday.",
"\"The realities are very different,\" she said.",
"Colombia, she said, was fighting drug-producing and drug-trafficking organizations that also were working with an entrenched Marxist guerrilla movement.",
"\"In Mexico,\" she said, \"the situation is very different.",
"In Mexico, we are dealing with very powerful and strong transnational criminal organizations.\"",
"Espinosa also addressed the issue of drug cartels spreading south to Central American nations, which seems to have become a bigger problem in recent years.",
"\"The world is becoming smaller every day,\" she said, adding that \"transnational organized crime does not recognize any borders.\"",
"And while the problem is not particularly new, she said, \"What has changed is the power of these transnational crime organizations.\"",
"Espinosa said some governments in Central America have gotten weaker or don't have the technological capabilities to fight crime, and the drug cartels have taken advantage.",
"\"They have found a place to develop their activities,\" she said.",
"CNN's Mariano Castillo contributed to this report."
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"Crime rates have decreased in Latino areas of the U.S., says Mexico's foreign minister .",
"But large numbers of guns are flowing from the United States to Mexico, she says .",
"Some analysts note there are 6,600 U.S. gun shops within 100 miles of the Mexican border ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Nine Septembers have come and gone and yet, the many days that separate America now from a chilling day in its history did not dull remembrance Saturday.",
"Once again, the nation paused in silence to mark the times when hijacked jets crashed into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, and nearly 3,000 lives were lost in a matter of minutes.",
"But this year, a national debate over a proposed Islamic center near ground zero hovered over the day's heart-stopping sorrow, and the president once again pleaded for the tolerance that has come to define America.",
"Rallies in favor of and against the center were held later in the day.",
"At Manhattan's Zuccotti Park, adjacent to the September 11 memorial site, thousands gathered, wanting to be as close as they could to hallowed ground.",
"As has become customary, the names of the 2,752 who perished at the World Trade Center were read out aloud -- each belonging to a mother or father, son or daughter, husband or wife, a friend, or even a stranger.",
"\"We have returned to this sacred site to join our hearts together with the names of those we loved and lost,\" said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the start of the ceremony.",
"\"No other public tragedy has cut our city so deeply,\" he said.",
"\"No other place is as filled with our compassion, our love, and our solidarity.\"",
"Silence befell New York at 8:46 a.m., the time when the first plane struck the North Tower.",
"Another moment of quiet followed a few minutes later, at 9:03 a.m., when a second jet pierced through the South Tower.",
"Shortly after the second moment of silence, Vice President Joe Biden read a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.",
"\"Build today, then strong and sure with a firm and ample base; and ascending and secure shall tomorrow find its place. \"",
"With each toll of the bell, an emotional chord struck hearts.",
"Family members stepped forward to talk about those who were lost.",
"And with each word, hot tears rolled down cheeks.",
"A woman remembered her mother, Larissa Ceylon Taylor.",
"\"Although I was 11 years old when you passed, you were my best friend and the greatest mom.",
"We all love you and we miss you. God bless you, Mom.",
"I love you.\" Another spoke of her sister, Deborah Ann Dimartino.",
"\"We will hold you close to our hearts.\"",
"And a brother, Christopher Epps, who was a Star Wars fan.",
"\"Christopher, so handsome and, oh, so fine.",
"With a heart of gold, why, oh why did you have to leave us behind?",
"And I said to myself, I know why. God was looking for a captain of a ship, someone who qualifies as a jedi.",
"So go on, dear brother, don't be shy.",
"Your ship awaits you with 2,000 and more to stand by your side, to travel with you on your journey into the sky.",
"May the force be with you, Christopher Epps.",
"We love you and you are embedded in our hearts forever.\"",
"In his weekly address, President Barack Obama highlighted the scope of America's loss.",
"\"We think about the milestones that have passed over the course of nine years -- births and christenings, weddings and graduations -- all with an empty chair,\" he said.",
"\"On this day, we also honor those who died so that others might live: the firefighters and first responders who climbed the stairs of two burning towers; the passengers who stormed a cockpit; and the men and women who have, in the years since, borne the uniform of this country and given their lives so that our children could grow up in a safer world,\" Obama said.",
"Later, Obama laid a wreath at the Pentagon, where American Airlines Flight 77 struck and killed 184 people, and sounded again a message of tolerance, keenly aware that this anniversary was cast under a different light.",
"Beyond the outpouring of grief on this day lay rising anti-Muslim sentiment and furious controversy over a proposed Islamic center two blocks away from where the World Trade Center once soared.",
"It's an issue that has even split the families and survivors of the 2001 attacks.",
"New York police beefed up security as Americans voiced their opinions Saturday afternoon at rallies over the site.",
"Speakers in favor of the location reminded the nation that Muslims, too, were among the victims of the September 11 attacks and that anti-Islamic sentiment in America is the result of misguided wrath.",
"\"Unity yes, racism no,\" the demonstrators chanted.",
"Shortly afterward, opponents held their own gathering, chanting \"No Mosque\" and \"USA\" as speakers decried the plans and said the nation shouldn't forget the terrorist attack on September 11.",
"Attorney General Eric Holder vowed the Justice Department would continue \"working tirelessly to combat terrorism in all its forms and to hold accountable all those responsible for the September 11 attacks in a manner that is consistent with our nation's values.\"",
"Holder spoke Saturday at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington.",
"He paid tribute to the 72 law enforcement officers killed that day.",
"\"This work goes on, and it will always remain my highest priority,\" Holder said.",
"\"Let us take their dream of a world that is better, safer and more just and make it our own.\"",
"Obama reiterated that America is not at war with Islam but with al Qaeda's \"sorry band of men which perverts religion.\"",
"\"They may wish to drive us apart but we will not give in to their hatred and prejudice,\" he said.",
"\"The perpetrators of this evil act didn't simply attack America, they attacked the very idea of America itself.",
"\"And so the highest honor we can pay those we lost, indeed our greatest weapon in this ongoing war, is to do what our adversaries fear the most -- to stay true to who we are as Americans, to renew our sense of common purpose, to say that we define the character of our country and we will not let the acts of some small band of murderers who slaughter the innocent and cower in caves distort who we are,\" he said.",
"Fueling further controversy, a Florida pastor had threatened to burn a Quran on this fateful day.",
"But just before the ceremonies began, the Rev.",
"Terry Jones said he was canceling the Quran burning planned for 6 p.m. \"We will definitely not burn the Quran,\" Rev.",
"Terry Jones told NBC's \"Today\" on Saturday.",
"\"Not today, not ever.\"",
"In Shanksville, first lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Laura Bush led the commemoration for the victims of Flight 93, which crashed and burned as passengers and crew fought hijackers determined to strike the U.S. Capitol.",
"\"I come here as an American, filled with a sense of awe at the heroism of my fellow citizens,\" Michelle Obama said.",
"\"I come as a wife, a daughter, and a sister, heartbroken at the loss so many of you have endured.\"",
"Laura Bush said the hijackers of United Flight 93 had other targets in mind, but the crash spot near Shanksville \"was chosen by the passengers, who spared our country from even greater horrors.\"",
"Before his wife's comments, George W. Bush issued a statement recalling the day that came to shape his presidency.",
"\"On September 11, 2001, Americans awoke to evil on our shores,\" he said.",
"\"We recall the many acts of heroism on that day, and we honor those who work tirelessly to prevent another attack.\"",
"In New York, the ninth September 11 anniversary was also different in another way: for the first time people gathered amid signs of rebirth rising from the ashes.",
"Next year, on this day, a new memorial is expected to open and on Saturday, the families of those who died were able to see some tangible progress of the structures that are being erected to honor their loved ones.",
"The planned memorial includes six skyscrapers, a museum, two waterfalls in the footprints of the twin towers, a performance center and a rail terminal.",
"The first 16 oak trees of more than 400 that will line the memorial have already been planted.",
"They will surround the acre-size waterfalls around which will be the names of the dead, etched in bronze.",
"Earlier this week, workers installed two 50-ton steel columns that once ringed the north tower at what will be the entrance to the memorial and museum.",
"And there is a reflecting pool, around which police, firefighters and dignitaries gathered, and later throngs of people stopped to toss a solitary long-stemmed rose.",
"By the time the ceremonies came to a close Saturday, it had turned into to a plush blanket of bloom.",
"CNN's Susan Candiotti and Naima Pettigrew contributed to this report."
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"Rallies held in favor of, against Islamic center near ground zero .",
"Americans mark the times when the planes crashed with solemn silence .",
"At the Pentagon ceremony, Obama makes a plea for religious tolerance ."
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"(CNN) -- While the coastal town of Savannah, Georgia, fills with spectators on Saturday for the Rock 'n' Roll marathon, Chris Fenton and Laura Devrieze will be focused on the finish line.",
"For Fenton, crossing that line means completing his 10th marathon in six months.",
"For Devrieze, it means finishing her first.",
"For both, it's about running 26.2 miles for a parent with cancer.",
"Fenton and Devrieze are a part of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team in Training program.",
"As the world's largest endurance sports training program, Team in Training has raised $1.2 billion for blood cancer research.",
"The program started 23 years ago when Bruce Cleland formed a group to run the New York City Marathon in honor of his daughter, a leukemia survivor.",
"Approximately 45,000 runners are signed up this year for the New York marathon, which takes place on November 6.",
"Many are associated with one of the 200 registered charities; in 2010 the race raised more than $30 million for different causes.",
"Train with Sanjay: 2012 Fit Nation Triathlon Challenge .",
"Leukemia & Lymphoma Society communications manager Kristin Hoose says having a cause helps athletes focus on a goal, and having an athlete to support helps donors open their wallets.",
"\"When people share their personal stories, and those of their heroes ... people see that their $10 can make a big difference.\"",
"A mother's strength .",
"Chris Fenton was on a business trip in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, when he got a message from the secretary.",
"His sister had called from Manhattan.",
"Fenton looked at his watch and realized it was close to midnight in the States.",
"Something was wrong.",
"\"You hear those words for the first time: 'Mom has cancer.'",
"You just kind of drop the phone and go into shock and say 'Oh my god.",
"Oh my god. Oh my god,'\" he said.",
"His mom, Barbara, is the matriarch of the Fenton family.",
"As the second oldest of 14 children and a mother of six, Barbara received an outpouring of love after her non-Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis.",
"She had always taken care of everyone else, now they would take care of her.",
"Treatment was hard.",
"Barbara endured four courses of chemo and four of radiation therapy.",
"In October 2001, she went into remission.",
"Fenton's left Achilles tendon is screaming at him as he talks about his mom -- now the picture of health at 78 -- from home in Kohler, Wisconsin.",
"\"She's settling in, loves to be a grandmother and spoil the grandkids, and (is) just kind of enjoying the golden years,\" he says with a laugh.",
"A long-time runner, Fenton started his journey to honor his mom in May.",
"He's running 10 marathons (to celebrate her 10th anniversary of going into remission) in six months -- the time it took from diagnosis to remission.",
"Since May, he has logged more than 200 official miles.",
"Saturday marks his final race.",
"\"I'm still a middle-of-the-pack plodder,\" he says, \"but I'm able to find my way around a marathon course.\"",
"He has raised close to $100,000 over the last 10 years and hopes to continue supporting blood cancer research with Team in Training.",
"\"My mom's story had a positive outcome.",
"There are a lot of people who don't.\"",
"A father's joy .",
"People loved Harry Devrieze.",
"With thinning dark hair and bright blue eyes, he had a smile that lit up a room.",
"Friends and family were his priority and he never hesitated to lend a helping hand.",
"The owner of a construction business, he often came by his daughter Laura's house in Carrollton, Georgia, to make repairs.",
"It was from him that she learned plumbing, drywall and her way around the Home Depot store.",
"\"He loved doing that -- he loved fixing things, he loved gardening, he loved working around the house.\"",
"Two years ago, Harry developed a rare, aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.",
"After chemotherapy, he was giving a clean bill of health, but the cancer returned and was discovered in January.",
"The Devrieze family was almost surprised by the intensity of the disease the second time around.",
"The toll it took on Harry's body was more menacing.",
"\"This was a full attack on his bones, his lungs, his muscles,\" Devrieze remembers.",
"It was during this time that she went to her first Team in Training meeting and signed up for the Rock 'n' Roll marathon.",
"Running gave her time to clear her mind and be by herself.",
"Her dad supported Devrieze's decision to race and to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.",
"\"It was always important for him for me to be involved and kind of have a cause,\" Devrieze says.",
"\"He's the reason I was doing it, but he didn't want to be the reason I was doing it.\"",
"While she ran 5 miles, then 10, then 15, her dad started preparing for a stem cell transplant.",
"He spent the month of May at Emory University Hospital.",
"On Saturdays, Devrieze joined Team in Training in Atlanta for a run and then went to visit him.",
"Harry was released from the hospital in late June after the transplant didn't take.",
"He passed away on August 16, 2011 at age 70.",
"For a couple of weeks, Devrieze refused to run, clutching to the friends and family Harry had held so close.",
"Then she picked up her shoes and moved with the pain.",
"For Devrieze, Saturday will be yet another reminder of her loss.",
"Her dad won't be there to watch her cross the finish line.",
"That's why she's all the more determined to do exactly that.",
"\"He was very proud and very excited.",
"This is the longest I've ever run.",
"It's mind over body, and having a greater purpose ... makes the mind part work better.\""
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"Chris Fenton is running 10 marathons in six months in honor of his mother .",
"Sharing personal stories helps runners focus on the goal, donors open wallets ."
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"(CNN) -- The growth of the Hispanic population in the United States is outstripping pre-census estimates, the Pew Hispanic Center report released Tuesday says.",
"\"The number of Hispanics counted in the 2010 Census has been larger than expected in most states for which the Census Bureau has released detailed population totals so far,\" the report says.",
"The Census Bureau has released its tally of Hispanics in 33 states.",
"\"Those states' combined Census 2010 total of 38.7 million Hispanics was higher by 590,000 people,\" the report says.",
"Data on the remaining states will be released by the end of March.",
"Last month, a Pew Hispanic Center report said a two-year decline in the unauthorized immigrant population in the United States had leveled off.",
"A rebounding economy may be a counteracting force, one of the study's authors, Jeffrey S. Passel, said.",
"\"What we've seen historically is that when employment opportunities have increased, we've seen increased flows\" to the United States, he said.",
"The economy in 2009 was better than in 2008, and indications are that the numbers will be even better for 2010, hinting that illegal immigration numbers could potentially creep back up, he said."
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"The number of Hispanics is 'larger than expected' in most states .",
"The Census Bureau has released its tally of Hispanics in 33 states .",
"There are an estimated 38.7 million Hispanics in those states ."
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"QUANTICO, Virginia (CNN) -- Motorcycle accidents have killed more Marines in the past 12 months than enemy fire in Iraq, a rate that's so alarming, it has prompted top brass to call a meeting to address the issue, officials say.",
"Despite crashes, Gunnery Sgt.",
"Art Tucker rides a sport motorcycle.",
"\"I enjoy it. ... It relaxes me,\" he says.",
"Twenty-five Marines have died in motorcycle crashes since November -- all but one of them involving sport bikes that can reach speeds of well over 100 mph, according to Marine officials.",
"In that same period, 20 Marines have been killed in action in Iraq.",
"The 25 deaths are the highest motorcycle death toll ever for the Marine Corps.",
"Gen. James Amos, the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, told CNN that commanders are trying to drill down on what \"we need to do to help our Marines survive on these sport bikes.\"",
"\"The Marines are very serious about it,\" he said.",
"Watch these aren't your father's Harleys » .",
"Marine Gunnery Sgt.",
"Art Tucker knows all too well about the dangers of sport bikes.",
"An owner of a Kawasaki Ninja, Tucker has had two crashes, and the second one nearly killed him.",
"\"I sustained a broken collar bone; I tore the shoulder out of the socket; I tore three ligaments in the shoulder, the rotator cuff; I broke three vertebrae,\" said Tucker, a drill instructor for new officers.",
"\"The worst was a head injury I received: a bruised brain.",
"And it caused hemorrhaging, and from that I had partial paralysis of the left leg, full paralysis of the left foot and toes, and that was for approximately six months.\"",
"Amos said he and other top Marine officials will spend half the day Monday \"focusing on nothing but motorcycle issues.\"",
"The commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James Conway, and other senior leadership will attend the meeting at the Quantico, Virginia, Marine base, he said.",
"About 18,000 of the nearly 200,000 Marines are believed to own motorcycles, Amos said.",
"The Marines have taken some measures.",
"The Marine Corps has had a long-standing policy for all Marines who ride motorcycles to take a mandatory basic riding course.",
"More recently, it added a second training course specifically designed to train Marines who ride sport bikes.",
"Any Marine caught riding, even on leave, without going through the training courses faces Marine Corps punishment, officials say.",
"On a recent day at the Quantico training track, Marines whizzed by on their bikes.",
"\"I think the basic rider course has been great,\" said Cpl.",
"Austin Oakley.",
"\"Here, they put you in situations you want to be wary of out in that open road.\"",
"Oakley said he recently returned to the United States from Japan, and he immediately jumped at the chance to buy a sport bike.",
"He said it's not uncommon for Marines to have motorcycle clubs within their units.",
"\"We'll go out on rides together.",
"Fridays for lunchtime, we'll all meet up and go to lunch,\" Oakley said.",
"\"When I get on my motorcycle, it's me and the motorcycle.",
"I don't need to go fast.",
"I don't need to do anything like that.",
"It's just being free.\" The rise in motorcycle deaths isn't confined to Marines.",
"The Navy says it's had 33 deaths on motorcycles over the past 12 months, a 65 percent jump from the previous time period.",
"And authorities say motorcycle deaths have been a problem in the civilian world, too.",
"Military officials say they're not sure why the deaths are on the rise.",
"They initially believed that the accidents might involve mostly young Marines and sailors about 18 or 19 years old.",
"But Navy statistics show that five of the victims were 25, the most prevalent of any age involved in the crashes.",
"And two 40-year-old sailors were killed in motorcycle crashes.",
"Amos said the Marines have seen a similar trend.",
"But he says the new training seems to be working: Of the 300 young men and women who have gone through the sport-bike course, only three have had accidents.",
"The safety course instructors said some Marines who go through the training decide the sport bike is not for them.",
"But even some Marines who've survived past crashes still want to ride again, even after they get the new training.",
"\"I enjoy it,\" said Tucker.",
"\"I can actually get on my motorcycle and ride, and it's just like if I were to do bowling or rock climbing or scuba diving.",
"It's something for me. It relaxes me.\""
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"Top Marine official: \"The Marines are very serious about\" addressing problem .",
"All but one of the deaths have involved super-fast sport bikes .",
"Marines have recently implemented a mandatory sport-bike course ."
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"Miami (CNN) -- NASA's Inspector General's Office says an investigation is under way after a white powdery substance found at the Kennedy Space Center tested positive for cocaine.",
"\"Law enforcement personnel field tested the substance, which indicated a positive test for cocaine,\" said Renee Juhans, an executive officer with the office.",
"\"The substance is now at an accredited crime lab for further testing,\" she said.",
"Juhans said that 4.2 grams of a white powdery substance was found in a NASA facility March 7.",
"She could not confirm where, at the Kennedy Space Center, the drug was found.",
"\"A NASA Office of Inspector General investigation is ongoing,\" she said.",
"NASA has a zero-tolerance drug policy.",
"All employees may be randomly tested.",
"It is not known whether any employees have been asked to submit to drug testing in this investigation.",
"\"We have no further comment,\" Juhans said.",
"In January 2010, about 200 Kennedy Space Center workers were tested when a small bag of cocaine was found inside a space shuttle processing facility where Discovery was being readied for flight.",
"That case was closed, and there were no arrests."
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"It was discovered March 7, but officials can't confirm where .",
"NASA has a zero-tolerance drug policy ."
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"(CNN) -- Bruno Senna has signed for Formula One constructor Williams 18 years after his uncle, former three-time world champion Ayrton, died driving for the team.",
"The Brazilian will partner Pastor Maldonado when the 2012 F1 season gets underway in Australia on March 18, replacing veteran compatriot Rubens Barrichello.",
"Bruno's uncle Ayrton is one of the greatest drivers the sport has seen, winning drivers' championship crowns in 1988, 1990 and 1991 before he died in a crash at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994.",
"It was only his third race for Williams.",
"Williams' cars have carried his name ever since the tragedy at the Imola racing circuit, and Bruno, who made his debut for HRT in 2010, says he is excited to follow in his uncle's footsteps.",
"Ferrari's Alonso slams F1 testing rules .",
"\"It will be very interesting to drive for a team that my uncle has driven for, particularly as quite a few of the people here actually worked with Ayrton,\" the 28-year-old told Williams' website.",
"\"Hopefully we can bring back some memories and create some great new ones too.",
"I also want to get some good results in return for the support my country has given me to help get me to this position today.",
"\"I am very proud to be Brazilian and more motivated than ever to demonstrate what I can do.",
"Ever since I first sat in a go-kart I never wanted to do anything else.\"",
"Team principal Frank Williams, who was in charge of Williams when Ayrton Senna died, said he was looking forward to seeing Bruno compete at the highest level.",
"The driver struggled with HRT in the team's debut season, then moved to Renault as a reserve driver before replacing Nick Heidfeld for the final eight races of 2011, but scored points in just one of his eight races as he finished ninth at the Italian Grand Prix.",
"\"The circumstances of Bruno's two seasons in Formula One have not given him an ideal opportunity to deliver consistently so it was essential that we spent as much time with him as possible to understand and evaluate him as a driver,\" he said.",
"\"We have done this both on track and in our simulator and he has proven quick, technically insightful and above all capable of learning and applying his learning quickly and consistently.",
"Now we are looking forward to seeing that talent in our race car.\"",
"Senna's deal with Williams could spell the end of Barrichello's Formula One career as the 39-year-old is now without a team with the new season two months away.",
"He said on his official Twitter account: \"I won't be driving the Williams car this year.",
"I wish my friend @BSenna all the best..the future is wide open.\"",
"HRT is the only team with a seat available, having yet to confirm a race partner for Pedro de la Rosa."
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"Bruno Senna joins Formula One constructor Williams for the 2012 season .",
"Senna is nephew of three-time world champion Ayrton, who died 18 years ago .",
"Ayrton was driving for Williams when he was killed in San Marino in 1994 .",
"Bruno will partner Pastor Maldonado when new Formula One season begins ."
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"Paris (CNN) -- Flamboyant fashion designer John Galliano went on trial Wednesday, accused of making anti-Semitic comments against at least three people in a Paris cafe.",
"Galliano, who was fired by fashion giant Christian Dior in March after video surfaced showing him praising Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, testified Wednesday that drugs were to blame.",
"Judge Anne-Marie Sauteraud read out a list of the abuse Galliano is accused of hurling at Geraldine Bloch and Philippe Virgitti, including obscenities mixed with remarks about their ethnic backgrounds.",
"\"He said 'dirty whore' at least a thousand times,\" the judge said.",
"Galliano said on the witness stand that he had no memory of making the comments.",
"Asked to explain his \"lack of memory,\" he said: \"I have an addiction.",
"I am currently undergoing treatment.\"",
"Galliano's attorney said before the trial began the designer \"was a sick person, who was suffering from addiction and this is something we are demonstrating through medical evidence, expert reports.\"",
"\"We must not judge a man who for 30 years has been dedicated to diversity, who has been a loving person for all races, cultures and religions ... based on 40 minutes where he was sick through alcohol and medication,\" Aurelien Hamelle said.",
"Galliano testified that he suffered from an increasing workload and no time to mourn after the 2007 death of his alter ego at Dior, designer Steven Robinson.",
"\"With his death, I found I had no protection,\" Galliano said.",
"His body became dependent on drugs, he said.",
"\"I was taking sleeping pills during the day,\" he testified.",
"\"I've only just discovered since rehab what a lethal mix I was taking.\"",
"Bloch testified Wednesday that she encountered Galliano on a crowded cafe terrace, which led to an angry exchange.",
"\"I don't remember his exact wording; there were different phrases,\" Bloch told the court.",
"\"It's true that I was angry.",
"I insulted him, too.\" Virgitti testified the confrontation, which he called \"just an argument in a bar,\" began when Galliano sat down next to his party at the cafe.",
"\"He started speaking to us very quickly after arriving,\" Virgitti said.",
"\"He told Geraldine to speak less as she was disturbing him.",
"We didn't know what to do. The situation got worse.",
"He started touching her hair, saying she had no hair.",
"I told him, 'Don't touch her.'",
"\" He acknowledged during his testimony that while Galliano \"said things he shouldn't have,\" the incident \"has been so overly played out in the media.\"",
"Galliano faces a six-month jail term and a fine of 22,500 euros ($32,410) if he is convicted, according to prosecutors.",
"A verdict in the case did not come Wednesday.",
"Galliano will be judged in one trial over two separate incidents, one in October and one in February.",
"After the second incident, Galliano was taken to a police station where a test revealed he had a high level of alcohol in his blood, authorities said at the time.",
"He was later released.",
"The video is from yet another incident.",
"He is not being tried for the incident because the couple involved chose not to press charges.",
"\"I love Hitler,\" Galliano said in a video obtained by Britain's Sun newspaper.",
"\"Your mother, your forefathers would be f---ing gassed and f---ing dead.\"",
"Christian Dior condemned his \"deeply offensive statements and conduct.\"",
"French law prohibits the incitement of racial discrimination, hatred or violence based on a person's origin or their membership -- or nonmembership -- in an ethic, national, racial or religious group.",
"Galliano apologized after the video was released.",
"\"I only have myself to blame and I know that I must face up to my own failures and that I must work hard to gain people's understanding and compassion,\" Galliano said in a statement.",
"\"Anti-Semitism and racism have no part in our society.\"",
"Galliano has kept a low profile since his firing, but Vanessa Friedman, fashion editor of the Financial Times newspaper, said that given time, he could return to the industry.",
"His career is over in its present form, she said.",
"But he could return to Britain, where there is \"residual love for him,\" lay low and make a comeback in a few years, she said.",
"\"People love a redemption story,\" Friedman said.",
"CNN's Saskya Vandoorne, Catherine Clifford and Richard Allen Greene contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- The top part of a burning television tower collapsed in the Netherlands, leaving a trail of thick billowing smoke and fiery flames.",
"It was unclear what caused the fiery collapse in Hoogersmilde Friday.",
"The incident disrupted television, radio and mobile phone networks nearby.",
"Fire crews arrived before the collapse, but moved to a safe distance when they realized they could not extinguish the blaze, Mayor Jan Broerjes said Friday.",
"No one was injured.",
"An investigation is under way.",
"CNN's Ben Brumfield contributed to this report ."
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"Prague, Czech Republic (CNN) -- Presidents and princes paid their final respects Friday to Vaclav Havel, the former Czech president, writer and dissident who helped bring down his country's Communist regime and end the Cold War.",
"Dignitaries inside Prague Castle's towering St. Vitus Cathedal included former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, while thousands of admirers stood outside in cold temperatures to watch the funeral on big screens.",
"Havel, a shy but iron-willed intellectual endowed with a playful sense of humor and a powerful moral compass, died Sunday at the age of 75.",
"Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who was born in Prague, praised a man she said was pleased to have had as a friend.",
"\"Few were as Czech as Vaclav Havel, but his wit and kindness, his wisdom and the depth of his thoughts spoke to all,\" she said, addressing mourners in Czech during the funeral.",
"His former political advisor Jiri Pehe called Havel \"a politician who wasn't a politician, catapulted into politics by history.",
"Throughout his presidency he was a dissident politician who liked to do things in a different way.\"",
"Speaking before the funeral, Pehe said he would remember Havel more for his personality than his politics, recalling his \"booming laugh\" and saying: \"to work with him was a joy ... To be around him was simply inspiring.\"",
"Dissident friends of Havel arrived grim-faced for the funeral Friday.",
"Many hugged each other before going into St. Vitus Cathedral.",
"Havel's picture stood to the side of the altar draped in black ribbon in a state funeral both grand and religious, an irony given his personal modesty and the fact that the Czech Republic is among the least religious countries in Europe.",
"Former dissident and Havel friend Petr Uhl refused to come to the funeral, saying Havel was not a Christian and none of his predecessors had had a state funeral of this kind.",
"Havel was \"a great figure of our modern history.",
"... A man whom we will remember with thanks and respect has gone,\" Czech President Vaclav Klaus told mourners, who also included French President Nicolas Sarkozy, British Prime Minister David Cameron and his predecessor John Major, and singer Suzanne Vega.",
"Havel's widow Dagmar sat next to Klaus in the front row, a few seats down from Ivan Havel, the late writer's closest living blood relative.",
"Members of the public fought back tears as the Czech song \"My Country\" swelled at the end of the funeral over a gun salute.",
"Then they burst into applause -- as did some inside the cathedral -- as six soldiers shouldered Havel's coffin and carried it out to a waiting hearse.",
"Prague Castle did not announce where or when Havel would be buried, saying it was up to his family.",
"Authorities estimated that 30,000 people lined up to bid farewell to Havel when his body lay in state on Wednesday and Thursday.",
"They waited for hours in freezing weather in the early winter night before the funeral to pay their last respects, holding flowers, candles and notes to lay by his coffin.",
"Many of the messages, from those handwritten by schoolchildren to those printed off computers, bore the same words: \"Thank you, Mr.",
"President.\" Alena Sturmova, who came with her husband and son, remembers being at Prague Castle when Havel was elected the first post-Communist president of her country, almost 22 years ago to the day.",
"Seeing him there on a balcony, instead of the Soviet-backed authorities who had governed her country her entire life, meant something special to her, she said: \"Maybe the possibility of freedom.\"",
"Her husband, Daniel, called Havel \"a symbol of the Velvet Revolution,\" when Czechs and Slovaks overthrew an ossified regime by pouring into Prague's Wenceslas Square and jingling their key rings as a signal to their leaders to go home.",
"Havel was a symbol of that revolution, Daniel Sturm said by way of explaining why he and his family were waiting to lay flowers by Havel's coffin.",
"\"We just wanted to come here and tell him thank you,\" he said, before pausing and continuing: \"... for the last time.\"",
"Havel, a chain-smoking, rock-loving intellectual, became one of the world's most famous dissidents in the 1970s for his public writings against Eastern Europe's Communist regimes.",
"He was jailed for about four and a half years over essays such as \"The Power of the Powerless,\" which urged people to simply stop pretending to believe the lies their government fed them and act on what they knew to be true.",
"\"Truth and love must triumph over lies and hatred,\" Havel insisted.",
"With the Soviet Union saying it would no longer intervene in the affairs of its satellites, and Communist regimes crumbling in Poland and East Germany in 1989, Czechs and Slovaks rose up in answer to the call of Havel and other dissidents around him.",
"In a matter of days, the authorities resigned and a parliament stuffed full of Communist party functionaries elected Havel president of Czechoslovakia.",
"He served as head of state until politicians decided to divide the country in two in 1992, then went on to be elected president of the Czech Republic twice.",
"His country joined NATO and the European Union under his stewardship, but he lost out on many of the major domestic political battles of his presidency, including his effort to keep Czechoslovakia together."
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"(CNN) -- Dozens of oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces caught fire Saturday after gunmen attacked in Pakistan's western Baluchistan province, local police said.",
"Unknown assailants attacked 28 vehicles with a machine gun and rockets, said Meeran Bukhsh, a police official in the Bolan district.",
"Two people were injured, police said.",
"The attack is the latest in a series of strikes against vehicles in Pakistan carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan.",
"The convoys are generally operated by contracted Pakistani firms, using Pakistani trucks and drivers.",
"At least six attacks have been carried out since October 1, leaving at least seven people dead.",
"The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for several of the attacks, including one on Wednesday that damaged 54 oil tankers.",
"Ihsan Ullah Ihsan, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, said Wednesday's attack was carried out by a special squad created especially to attack American assets in Pakistan as a response to the increase in suspected U.S. drone strikes.",
"\"We are satisfied by the performance of our special squad,\" Ihsan said this week.",
"CNN's Samson Desta contributed to this report."
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"BILOXI, Mississippi (CNN) -- It's been almost three years since Hurricane Katrina cut a merciless path of destruction across the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,800 people and displacing tens of thousands more.",
"Cameron Sinclair on site in Biloxi, Mississippi -- one of many rebuilding projects that Architecture for Humanity is overseeing.",
"The coastal resort of Biloxi was among the hardest hit; hurricane-force winds leveled homes, stripped branches from trees and created a trail of devastation that rendered the popular Casino town virtually uninhabitable.",
"Three years on, homes are still being rebuilt to house people who were forced to seek shelter wherever they could.",
"For some, that's meant spending years living in cramped conditions in caravans until they could afford to rebuild.",
"Cameron Sinclair, Co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, is leading a project to rehouse residents of Biloxi affected by the storm.",
"On July 9, he'll be taking part in a Principal Voices debate on Design for Good: How can clever design conserve precious resources and lead to a greener way of life?",
"CNN caught up with Cameron Sinclair in Biloxi and started by asking him what the difference is between design and design for good?",
"Cameron Sinclair: Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but design for good is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.",
"CNN: How many countries are you working in and what are you doing?",
"CS: We are currently in about 26 countries and we have around about 4000 volunteer architects and designers globally.",
"We are working on a whole range of projects whether it be bringing health services into remote Nepal or working on a chocolate factory in the Amazon which is actually a conservation project, or doing low income housing in Cape town, South Africa, so we're pretty global in our reach.",
"CNN: You have worked all over the world, Iran, Africa, and Asia.",
"When you think of people's living conditions, are you surprised that Americans don't realize how tough people have it in their own country?",
"Have you seen things in the U.S., for example, that are worse than in so-called developing countries?",
"CS: Yeah, I mean people find it kind of shocking when I talk about this.",
"You know, there are places in rural America, especially in places like the reservations, we've done a lot of work with Hopi and Navajo and we're about to start work with the Iroquois where I look at the housing stock and it is far worse then I've seen in somewhere like South Africa or you know, in Ghana.",
"You know, Americans are unbelievably open, welcoming and helpful, they donate to everybody.",
"But quite often we don't look at the reality of our own lives.",
"The fact that we have a crumbling school system, that our healthcare in this country is just diabolical, the support for nurses and teachers is just out of control and I look at all these facilities that are happening in the U.S. and I begin to question.",
"This is supposed to be the most powerful place in the world but we can't build a decent school for our kids so you know there is a reality check that needs to happen.",
"CNN: When you look at the big picture of the problems the world is facing, what solutions can you see that cities and their designs can offer when it comes to global issues such as global warming?",
"CS: What worries me the most is you have all these global issues that are out there, whether its lack of education or lack of healthcare or climate change, and people think they are separate compartmentalized issues, but they're all interweaved so that when we're working on structures, we're thinking about how can we make the building energy efficient.",
"How can we make the design open, allowing access to everybody so that you're hitting on all these things.",
"We're working in neighborhoods where sustainability is a matter of life or death for people so climate change is an issue for us, but we may not be putting solar panels on the side of the building we just may be looking at creating a way of getting clean water into the village and that mechanism is important.",
"CNN: How vital is sustainability?",
"CS: It's very vital. I mean, we've never pushed ourselves as a green organization.",
"We've never done that kind of branding, you know, of great green buildings but all our architects and all our designers in the field realize that they have to have an element of sustainability because communities can't maintain things they can't afford and if its not sustainable both materialistic and also financially then the building will be underutilized so it's a waste of everybody's time.",
"If you build something that is out of the reach of the community, then they can't own it.",
"There's no empowerment in taking over that structure.",
"CNN: How do you see your role in all of this?",
"CS: The main thing is, I'm not the architect on this.",
"We have architecture firms in a 100 countries right now, who are working on projects and as a way, we're working as a bridge, so architecture humanity bridges that kind of leg between the community, the design and the funding, so we have to bring in all the funding.",
"We have to make sure that we have the legal and financial constraints in place and understood that the designers are committed to the process so in a way we're acting as that mediator between all those different stake holders.",
"CNN: I'm curious how on a personal level it has impacted your life, I mean you came out of college or university and basically went straight into this.",
"It is your life in a way. CS: Yeah, no. I mean, this really has become my life and a lot of other people that work with me, it's their life but we haven't become financially rich but we've become rich in many other ways.",
"Just in the last month some of the communities that we have sat down and had dinner with and talked about their lives and the things their hopeful about is incredibly inspiring.",
"It's what keeps us going.",
"CNN: So it's not a job, is it? CS: No, I don't think anyone could live if they just had a job.",
"A career is a job you love, right?",
"That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit.",
"That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love so I'm going to make it my career.",
"Do you have a question for our panelists?",
"If so, click on the \"Sound Off\" box below or fill out the form on www.cnn.com/pv."
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"New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans police lined up \"like at a firing range\" and fatally shot an unarmed man in the back as he fled from them in the days after Hurricane Katrina swept ashore, a witness to the shooting told CNN.",
"It marks the first time a witness has come forward publicly with information about the shooting of Ronald Madison, a 40-year-old mentally retarded man whose death has sparked a police investigation and a grand jury probe into what happened in and around the Danziger Bridge that day.",
"\"He just fell like he was collapsing,\" Kasimir Gaston told CNN.",
"\"Like something just wiped him out.\"",
"Gaston was one of many flood refugees living on the second floor of the Friendly Inn, a low-income motel on the city's east side.",
"On Sunday, September 4, 2005, he says he woke up and stepped onto the balcony of the motel and saw a man running, hands outstretched and being fired upon.",
"Former officer pleads guilty in shooting .",
"Initial police accounts said that Madison reached for his waistband and turned on police, but Gaston said Madison did not appear to have a weapon and that he was running away from police \"hands out, full speed\" when he was shot.",
"Police declined CNN's request for an interview.",
"After the shooting last year, police said officers had responded to reported gunshots on the Danziger Bridge and that a running gunbattle ensued with six suspects.",
"One teenager was killed near the base of the bridge and three other people were wounded, according to police reports.",
"A police department press release from October 4, 2005, said Madison, described as an unidentified gunman, was \"confronted by a New Orleans Police officer.",
"The suspect reached into his waist and turned toward the officer who fired one shot, fatally wounding him.\"",
"When asked if Madison had a gun, Gaston said, \"I didn't see any on him.\"",
"No gun was found on Madison's body.",
"An autopsy obtained previously by CNN and verified by the Orleans Parish Coroner said Madison suffered five gunshot wounds to his back and two in his shoulder.",
"Gaston said he came forward now because he is still troubled by what happened.",
"He said he decided to break his silence after watching a \"CNN Presents\" documentary, \"Shoot to Kill,\" about the days after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.",
"CNN has visited the room where Gaston was staying.",
"From that balcony, it is about 100 feet to where Madison was shot and killed.",
"The police department has said the shooting has been thoroughly investigated.",
"But Gaston said no officer or detective approached him about what he saw.",
"He was not asked for his name or phone number, Gaston said.",
"Gaston said his only contact with police on that day was when officers told him not to touch Madison's body, which was lying behind Gaston's truck, parked in the motel entranceway.",
"CNN has obtained a newspaper photo taken that Sunday morning that shows where the body fell.",
"The back of a truck with a rusted trailer hitch and broken tail light can be seen in the photo.",
"The photo appears to be Gaston's truck, which now sits in a parking lot in Dallas, Texas, where he now lives.",
"\"They notified me that I had two bullet holes in the passenger side,\" he said.",
"Two bullet marks can be seen at the right rear of the truck today.",
"Mary Howell, an attorney suing New Orleans police on behalf of the dead man's family, says there were several potential witnesses living at the Friendly Inn at the time of the shooting.",
"She has accused police of violating procedures by failing to even write down their names.",
"Howell said Ronald Madison and his older brother, Lance Madison, were trying to avoid the shootout between police and others that day when they ran up the Danziger Bridge, toward the other side of the Industrial Canal.",
"Lance Madison has said a policeman pointed what looked like a rifle or shotgun at his brother and shot Ronald near the top of the bridge.",
"Lance said he helped carry his wounded brother to the entrance of the motel and left him there while he ran for help.",
"After being arrested, Lance was brought back to the motel where, he says, he first saw his brother was dead.",
"Howell said police, in the chaos after Hurricane Katrina, failed to properly investigate the fatal shooting and are now trying to put everything behind them.",
"\"There's a lot of things that have been washed away with this hurricane,\" Howell said.",
"\"We are doing everything we can to make sure this is not one of them.\"",
"While the family of Ronald Madison presses on with its lawsuit, a grand jury in New Orleans is investigating the case.",
"Gaston said he is willing to testify before the grand jury if it will help get to the truth.",
"\"I'm not trying to say nobody did this and nobody did that,\" Gaston said.",
"\"I'm just saying what I saw and being truthful and honest about what I saw with my own eyes.\""
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"(Ars Technica) -- With the planned settlement between Google and book publishers still on indefinite hold, a legal battle by proxy has started.",
"Google partnered with many libraries at US universities in order to gain access to the works it wants to digitize.",
"Now, several groups that represent book authors have filed suit against those universities, attempting to block both digital lending and an orphaned works project.",
"The suit is being brought by the Authors' Guild, its equivalents in Australia, Quebec, and the UK, and a large group of individual authors.",
"Its target: some major US universities, including Michigan, the University of California system, and Cornell.",
"These libraries partnered with Google to get their book digitization efforts off the ground and, in return, Google has provided them with digital copies of the works.",
"These and many other universities have also become involved with the HathiTrust, an organization set up to help them archive and distribute digital works; the HathiTrust is also named as a defendant.",
"The suit seeks to block two separate efforts.",
"In the first, the universities have created a pooled digital archive of the contents of their libraries, maintained by the Hathitrust.",
"No one contests that these works remain in copyright, or that the universities have rights to the nondigital forms of these works.",
"What the authors object to is the fact that the digital works are derived from an unauthorized scan, and will be stored in a single archive that is no longer under the control of the university from which the scan was derived.",
"The suit suggests that the security of this archive is also suspect, and may allow the mass release of copyrighted work.",
"A separate issue in the suit is an orphaned works project started by the Hathitrust that focuses on some of the works within this archive.",
"The group is attempting to identify out-of-copyright books, and those where the ownership of copyright cannot be established.",
"If attempts to locate and contact any copyright holders fail, and the work is no longer commercially available, the Hathitrust will start providing digital copies to students without restrictions.",
"This has not gone over well. The executive director of the Australian Society of Authors, Angelo Loukakis, stated, \"This group of American universities has no authority to decide whether, when or how authors forfeit their copyright protection.",
"These aren't orphaned books, they're abducted books.\"",
"The authors' coalition would like to see everything grind to a halt -- Google and the libraries kept from any further scanning, the HathiTrust's orphaned works project shuttered, and the digital copies on its servers impounded.",
"The digital works wouldn't be deleted, but it wants to see \"any computer system storing the digital copies powered down and disconnected from any network, pending an appropriate act of Congress.\"",
"(Note that they want them shut down and unplugged, just to be sure.)",
"The Authors Guild was actually a party to the Google book settlement, so it's not like it objects to the effort per se.",
"However, the university libraries had not been a party to it, so this may be the Guild's attempt to tie up loose ends when it comes to nailing down digital rights.",
"Alternately, they may simply be sending a message that, until the settlement is approved, none of Google's efforts should be reaching even a limited segment of the public.",
"In either case, this suit could go a long way towards establishing how many digital rights are granted with the ownership of a book.",
"More on Law & Disorder from Ars Technica .",
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"Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Muslims staged rallies across Indonesia on Sunday to protest U.S. President Barack Obama's planned visit to the southeast Asian nation this week.",
"The protests -- organized by Muslim group Hizbut Tahrir -- included women and children.",
"\"We don't see the differences between Obama and Bush, they both oppress Muslims, they both have blood on their hands,\" said Ismail Yusanto, a spokesman for the Muslim group in Indonesia.",
"\"That's why we reject Obama and we don't believe that he's reaching out to Muslims.\"",
"The spokesman said about 20,000 people attended the rallies.",
"With about 205 million Muslims, Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim country, according to the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in Washington, D.C. More than one in 10 of the world's Muslims live there.",
"Although it has a reputation for being home to a relatively tolerant and easy-going brand of Islam, a Pew Forum analysis rates it as having high levels of legal restrictions on religion and religious social tension.",
"Government restrictions on religion are tighter in Indonesia than in Russia or Turkey, and social tensions are higher than in Nigeria or Egypt, the think tank says.",
"Obama is scheduled to arrive in Jakarta on Tuesday as part of a 10-day visit to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan.",
"He is expected to finalize a comprehensive partnership with Indonesia.",
"Obama spent part of his childhood in Indonesia.",
"On Wednesday, the president will visit Istiqlal mosque.",
"He will also address the biggest Muslim nation from an undetermined location.",
"However, Muslims in Indonesia remain pessimistic.",
"\"Obama can talk all he wants in Cairo and in Jakarta, the fact is that he still has his troops in war with Muslims,\" Yusanto said.",
"\"It's all lip service.\"",
"Protesters chanted \"No Obama\" and held up posters that said \"Stop oppressor.\"",
"Obama's visit to Asia started Saturday with a three-day visit to India.",
"His visit to India -- the third largest economy and one of the world's few growth markets -- also includes meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi and addressing the nation's parliament."
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"(CNN) -- David Goldman says he can't understand why he can't have custody of his son following his ex-wife's death in Brazil.",
"The U.S. government agrees.",
"David Goldman is fighting for custody of his son after Bruna Bianchi Goldman died during another childbirth.",
"Goldman told CNN's Larry King he had no idea when he dropped off his wife and 4-year-old son at Newark International Airport in 2004 for a two-week vacation to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that he was about to become embroiled in an international custody battle.",
"Shortly after Bruna Bianchi Goldman arrived in her homeland she called to say she wanted a divorce, which she obtained in Brazil, and would stay there with their son, Sean.",
"The running custody battle has taken many twists and turns and has gained the attention of the Department of State and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.",
"\"A child belongs with his family, and there is no reason why David Goldman should not get his child back,\" Clinton said in a recent interview on NBC's Today show.",
"\"And we're hoping that that will be resolved very soon.",
"Obviously, if not, we will continue to raise it with the Brazilian government.\"",
"For nearly five years, Goldman has fought to regain custody of his son.",
"It's a case that has been complicated by Bianchi Goldman remarrying, getting pregnant and dying during childbirth last summer.",
"Sean Goldman is said to be living with his stepfather, who has been granted provisional guardianship.",
"\"I went down ... to bring my son home,\" Goldman said on CNN's Larry King Live Wednesday, figuring his ex-wife's death had made the custody issue a moot point, and \"we find out that this man doesn't file custody, but he files to remove my name from a Brazilian birth certificate that they had issued for my son, who was born in Red Bank, New Jersey.\"",
"Goldman continues to press his case through the U.S. government.",
"\"The Department of State is working diligently to ensure that David and Sean Goldman are accorded their rights under the Hague Convention of 1980 on the civil right aspect of International Child Abduction,\" the agency said in a statement.",
"\"We'll continue to insist that the Brazilian government fulfill its obligations under the treaty and international law.\"",
"The convention, to which Brazil is a signatory, \"is a multilateral treaty, which seeks to protect children from the harmful effects of abduction and retention across international boundaries by providing a procedure to bring about their prompt return,\" according to the Hague Convention Web site.",
"Brazilian courts have refused to return Sean Goldman to the United States for any custody hearings that New Jersey courts have ordered and the Brazilian government has not intervened.",
"As a result, the case remains a stalemate.",
"\"I would tell him that he's been very brave, as he has fought to have his son returned to him,\" Clinton said in the NBC interview.",
"\"His son is the most precious person in the world to him and he has gone not just the extra mile, but mile after mile, back and forth, trying to make it clear that his son Sean deserves to be returned to him.\"",
"But on Larry King Live, Helvecio Ribeiro, a Bianchi family spokesman, questioned Goldman's fitness as a parent.",
"\"I don't question the biological right,\" he said.",
"\"The fact of the matter is that in order to be a parent, you have to be more than just a DNA donor, Mr. King.",
"Fatherhood is not about making home movies and taking pictures, it's about sacrifice.",
"It's about providing support to your child.",
"It's about being there even when you're not there. \"And Mr. Goldman, while Bruna was still alive, failed to do so,\" Ribeiro said.",
"Goldman visited his son for the first time in more than four years last month -- a bittersweet experience that was heartbreaking when it was time to return to the United States.",
"\"He asked me why I haven't come to see him in all this time,\" Goldman told Larry King, \"and that was very, very painful -- and the anguish on his face when he asked me that question.",
"I didn't want to tell him that ... they're holding him.\"",
"International custody fights are common and were supposed to be simplified by the 1980 Hague agreement, but conflicting court systems and conflicting accounts of relationships can trump international law.",
"The next step in this case is uncertain."
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"David Goldman dropped off his wife and 4-year-old son at airport in 2004 for vacation .",
"Wife got a divorce in Brazil, later got remarried, got pregnant and died during birth .",
"Wife's family lawyer questions Goldman's fitness as a parent .",
"State Department, Hillary Clinton working to help get son returned to United States ."
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"(CNN) -- The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China called for the hastening of reform that would give these emerging economies more power in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.",
"\"The IMF and the World Bank urgently need to address their legitimacy deficits,\" the leaders said in a statement released at the second summit of the so-called \"BRIC\" economies meeting on Thursday in Brasilia.",
"\"Reforming these institutions' governance structures requires first and foremost a substantial shift in voting power in favor of emerging market economies and developing countries to bring their participation in decision making in line with their relative weight in the world economy,\" the BRIC communiqué said.",
"The countries urged for voting power reform to give developing countries a larger say in the World Bank at the upcoming \"Spring Meetings\" on April 24 and 25 in Washington and similar quota reform of the IMF completed by the G-20 Summit scheduled for November.",
"The BRIC summit -- the second since the group met in Russia last year -- was moved up a day, as Chinese President Hu Jintao cut his trip short to return to China after the earthquake in Qinghai province near the Tibetan border killed more than 700 people.",
"The BRIC nations -- a term coined by Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs in 2003 as the group of the fastest growing world economies -- comprise 40 percent of the world's population and about a quarter of its landmass.",
"Together their GDP is roughly two-thirds that of the United States."
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"The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China called for reform of the IMF and World Bank .",
"\"The IMF and the World Bank urgently need to address their legitimacy deficits\"\nThe summit was cut short because of the earthquake in Qinghai, China ."
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"Rio de Janeiro (CNN) -- Rio de Janeiro's special forces moved quickly and didn't stop to chat Monday as they peered in windows and knocked on doors in Rocinha, the city's biggest shantytown.",
"In a predawn raid the day before, 3,000 troops seized control of the hilltop favela, wresting from the hands of drug traffickers.",
"They declared victory in just two hours, without firing a single shot.",
"\"Today a lot of the drug dealers are gone,\" said Luis Machado, one of the officers in charge of the door-to-door searches.",
"\"Others are hidden.",
"And it's now that we're going to find them and the weapons.\"",
"The massive operation was part of efforts secure Rio de Janeiro and eliminate bloody drug gangs ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the Olympic Games two years later.",
"For many of Rocinha's 100,000 residents, it was business as usual on Monday.",
"Food stalls displayed strings of garlic and onions while motorcycle taxis zipped up and down the winding roads.",
"\"Thank god it's over,\" said Giovani, a food vendor.",
"\"It's 100% better.",
"It's better than normal.\"",
"Rocinha's top drug trafficker, Antonio Francisco Bomfim, known as Nem, was captured by police last week, days before the invasion.",
"According to residents, a three-story house overlooking the shantytown and beachside condominiums below had been his home until his arrest.",
"Inside, all appliances and even bathroom fixtures had been ripped out, but the signs of luxury are evident, including a small pool and private gym.",
"An empty bottle of Black Label whiskey sits on the glass bar.",
"Still, in many ways, the hard work has only just begun.",
"Mountains of trash line the streets, and tangled masses of electrical wires dangle over houses.",
"\"Before this was called a favela because it was full of criminals,\" said Juliete, an 18-year-old physical trainer.",
"\"Now things have to be done to call it a neighborhood.",
"We need running water, proper sewage and things for young people to do.\"",
"Raimundo Cesario, who has lived in Rocinha for 40 years, agreed.",
"\"The system trapped young people in a life of crime.",
"But it's also true that they helped people when they needed it,\" he said.",
"\"We'll have to see if things are better or worse under the police.\""
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"\"It's 100% better.",
"It's better than normal,\" a food vendor says .",
"Rio de Janeiro is trying to crack down on crime before the 2014 World Cup ."
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"(CNN) -- Emergency teams on Sunday were assessing damage from deadly storms that devastated parts of Missouri, Kentucky and West Virginia this weekend -- even as the threat of more severe weather continued.",
"West Virginia Gov.",
"Joe Manchin tours Mingo County to assess damage caused by extensive rain and flooding.",
"The storm that tore through Madison County, Kentucky, on Friday was a category EF-3 tornado, the National Weather Service said Sunday.",
"An EF-3 is the third-strongest category of tornado, with winds of 136 to 165 mph, strong enough to destroy large buildings and lift cars off the ground.",
"At least one person was killed by that storm, with several other serious injuries.",
"A waste water treatment plant was destroyed, two fire departments sustained major roof damage and some manufacturing facilities were damaged, local authorities said.",
"Three people were killed in southern Missouri during high winds, thunderstorms and flash floods.",
"A couple was killed when a tree fell on their car on a highway near Poplar Bluff.",
"A man died of a heart attack near Springfield when winds tossed him and his wife into an open field, officials said.",
"A weekend of storming in West Virginia destroyed as many as 400 buildings and severely damaged an additional 1,000, said Rob Jelacic of the West Virginia Office of Emergency Services.",
"\"We are in recovery mode,\" Jelacic said Sunday.",
"There were no known deaths in West Virginia from the storms.",
"After the storms came floods.",
"On Sunday, parts of the Meramec and Big rivers were rising feet above flood levels, causing residents already hit by the storms to seek higher ground.",
"Forecasters expected the Meramec to crest Monday 4 to 8 feet above flood state in St. Louis County.",
"The big river was expected to crest a half-foot higher on Monday than it did Sunday."
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"Three killed in southern Missouri during high winds, thunderstorms, flash floods .",
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"Storm in West Virginia destroys 400 buildings, severely damaged an 1,000 ."
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"(CNN) -- Connectivity was the name of the game at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, held last week in Las Vegas -- especially when it came to health-related products.",
"From cloud-connected scales to music-connected sex toys, these gadgets rose above the rest as those that might really help you keep your New Year's resolutions.",
"Sleep soundly .",
"A small, lightweight band users wear on their heads during sleep, the Zeo Sleep System measures brain waves while you're in dreamland, and will sync via Bluetooth with your smart device.",
"Zeo's free app plots out how many hours of quality snooze time you're getting each night.",
"Great feedback for our highly caffeinated, tech-obsessed society, it also plots out sleep quality based on behaviors you input.",
"How much did those three glasses of vino affect your sleep?",
"How about that late night fast-food run, or actual run?",
"Zeo gives you concrete tips for improving your sleep routine based on your habits, and will even wake you up at the optimum time in your sleep cycle.",
"The Zeo is available for a one-time purchase price of $99.",
"(No monthly subscription required.)",
"Body bands .",
"A bevy of body bands made a splash at CES this year, among them the BodyMedia Fit and the Basis Band.",
"BodyMedia's Fit monitoring system consists of a small electric band the user wears on his or her arm, that works in conjunction with a software interface that's available on your smartphone or online.",
"Users input their daily calorie intake, and the device monitors calories burned.",
"The band uses sweat sensors, an accelerometer and skin temperature monitors to figure out how much exercise you're doing, and for how long.",
"It compares that to your food intake to give a picture of your daily health.",
"The accelerometer knows when you're lying on your back for hours at a time (presumably sleeping), and adds that to your fitness picture as well.",
"The Fit CORE is available for $149, but requires plugging in to synch your data.",
"The new Fit LINK is Bluetooth-enabled for wireless synching, and is available for $179.",
"Both products require a $6.95 monthly subscription to BodyMedia's online dashboard.",
"Similar to the BodyMedia's Fit, the Basis Band adds real-time heart rate monitoring to the mix by using a optical engine that \"looks through the skin to see actual blood flow,\" similar to the technology used in pulse oximeters (those little things they put on your finger at the doctor's office.)",
"The Basis Band is also worn on the wrist rather than on the arm, and looks more like a trendy watch than a fitness monitor.",
"The Basis is available for pre-order, shipping sometime this quarter; and will be $199.",
"The price includes lifetime access to the cloud service and online interface -- no monthly subscription required.",
"Smart medical devices .",
"Smart medical devices abounded on the expo floor this year.",
"The Withings Wi-fi Body Scale, a sleek device that looks like an iPhone you can step on, connects with your iPhone, or other iOS or Android-capable phone.",
"The scale measures your weight, lean and fat mass and calculates your BMI almost instantaneously.",
"To keep things simple (and less depressing), the display only shows your weight -- the rest of the information floats up to the cloud, and is available on your smartphone.",
"The free app interface also lets you invite friends, family members or your doctor to view your progress; and it will keep track of data for up to eight users.",
"The Withings Wi-fi Scale is available for $159, which includes lifetime access to the web and phone service.",
"Unfortunately, just because this scale is cloud-connected, doesn't mean you're going to be any lighter.",
"Withings also had another smart medical device: the iPhone Blood Pressure Cuff.",
"Wrap it around your arm and then plug this bad boy into your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.",
"A small compressor in the device inflates the cuff, using power from your device.",
"Once the reading is complete, the information is logged in a free app, and is available to send to your doctor for analysis and tracking.",
"The cuff is available for $129 with no recurring monthly fees.",
"California-based iHealth Labs also brought a Wi-Fi scale and blood pressure cuff to the table; but a third product really caught our attention: the Smart GlucoMeter.",
"As more of the connected generation starts dealing with diabetes, this high-tech tool may encourage diabetics to check their blood sugar more often.",
"The device is simple: Plug a pack-of-gum-sized accessory into the bottom of your Apple device, insert a test strip, prick your finger (unfortunately, they haven't been able to eliminate that step).",
"Put a drop of blood on the strip.",
"Within a few seconds, the device measures your blood sugar, and catalogs it for you and your doctor to track.",
"The GlucoMeter is pending approval with the FDA, and should be available in the latter half of 2012.",
"The price has not yet been set.",
"Health apps .",
"Just as cool as some of the hardware at CES was the software.",
"\"Gamification\" of health was a popular phrase on the show floor, and several companies weighed in with entries to that category.",
"Among the coolest were ... UnitedHealth Group's OptumizeMe is a social fitness app that lets you challenge friends and family to get healthy.",
"The app allows users to make their own health challenges or select from a list of popular challenges.",
"Among them: competitions to see who can walk the most steps in a day, who can be the first to run 100 miles, and who can eat their daily servings of fruits and veggies.",
"The app allows you to add a prize for the top dog and share your results on social networking sites with friends.",
"OptumizeMe is a free app, and it allows you to sync fitness information with your employer's benefits plan if your company has United Healthcare coverage.",
"(TimeWarner, CNN's parent company, is a member of United Healthcare insurance coverage.)",
"This app isn't a new entry into the category, but a much improved one.",
"Lose It! is a weight-loss management tool that allows users to keep track of food and exercise on the go.",
"The app has a catalog of thousands of the most popular foods, and all of the nutrition information for each of them.",
"Popular new additions to the app include bar-code scanning of your favorite prepackaged food items, the ability to create and share custom foods and recipes with your friends, and a FourSquare-like badge-earning system, that rewards users' daily entries, weight loss milestones, and sharing activities.",
"Lose It! is a free app, and will integrate data from many of the connected medical devices listed above into your health picture.",
"The cool stuff .",
"There are a few other notable additions to the list, though they only sort of qualify as health devices.",
"The 4Moms Origami Stroller is so cool, it might make you want a baby!",
"This \"iPhone of baby strollers\" both collapses and rebuilds itself at the touch of a button, using on-board motors that are charged when the user pushes the stroller.",
"It also features daytime-running lights, a cupholder, and a smartphone-charging pouch (using the same charge-as-you-push technology).",
"An onboard LCD screen monitors the weather, battery level and whether or not your child is in the seat -- critical info if you're considering pushing the \"fold\" button.",
"But rest assured, the device isn't as scatter-brained as new moms tend to be, and won't fold if your bambino is inside.",
"The origami is available for $849.",
"The Nest Thermostat gives some much needed love to the oft-neglected category of home heating and cooling interfaces.",
"This $249 piece of wall art automatically learns your temperature preferences, and your comings and goings to make sure your house is cool when you want it to be.",
"Users can also control the Wi-Fi connected device remotely via smartphone; and special plastic technology enables it to pick up the color of the wall it's on to blend in with your decor.",
"And for those of you whose New Year's resolutions included having more, uh, fun in the bedroom, the OhMiBod musical vibrators use an audio-enabled microchips to vibrate to the beat of your favorite music.",
"The line features personal-use and partner-friendly devices; even a wearable model to take with you to the clubs.",
"This product was a little difficult to test on the show floor, though."
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"(CNN) -- It has been nearly a year since Haiti held elections, but it was not until late Tuesday night that the troubled nation finally was able to form a new government.",
"Garry Conille, a United Nations development specialist and aide to Bill Clinton, was ratified by the Haitian Senate after debate that lasted more than seven hours.",
"President Michel Martelly, who took office in May, congratulated his new prime minister, saying that the installation of new leadership was a step forward in implementing change in Haiti.",
"Martelly's two former prime ministerial nominations -- businessman Daniel Rouzier and lawyer Bernard Gousse -- were rejected by the Senate.",
"The inability to form a working government had raised concerns about Haiti's ability to move forward after a devastating earthquake in January 2010.",
"However, Conille was welcomed in many corners as someone knowledgeable on development challenges and someone who had experience in working with the global community.",
"Conille, 45, a gynecologist, earned a master's degree in health administration from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.",
"He worked for the United Nations Development Program and was a protege of economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University.",
"\"You need someone like Garry Conille who understands the international community because this is a country which depends on the largesse of the international community,\" said Garry Pierre-Pierre, editor and publisher of the New York-based newspaper The Haitian Times.",
"Most recently, Conille served as chief of staff for former President Clinton, the special U.N. envoy in Haiti.",
"In that role, he was involved in international aid delivery to Haiti.",
"Martelly and Conille have a tough road ahead.",
"Critics say post-quake progress in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, has not been swift enough.",
"Thousands of people remain displaced from their homes, many still in vulnerable makeshift camps.",
"The new government has to take on recovery.",
"Pierre-Pierre said it will be important for Haiti to choose a finance minister who has experience in the private sector, whose partnership with the government will be key to Haiti's future.",
"\"I just hope (Conille) is able to bring in someone who is as high-powered in the financial world as he is the development world,\" Pierre-Pierre said.",
"\"Too often in Haiti, we have loaded the government with good bureaucrats (and) not enough people with private sector experience.\""
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"Senators ratified Garry Conille as Haiti's next prime minister .",
"President Michel Martelly had failed to get his first two choices approved .",
"Conille is a development expert who served as an aide to Bill Clinton .",
"The new government must lead post-earthquake recovery efforts ."
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"JERUSALEM (CNN) -- A car bomb killed one of Israel's most prominent crime bosses in Tel Aviv Monday, Israeli police sources say.",
"Police at the scene of the car bomb blast which killed crime boss Yaakov Alpheron.",
"Police say Yaakov Alperon was killed instantly when an explosive device was apparently detonated by remote control on a busy street in Tel Aviv.",
"The blast injured two other people, including a 13 year-old boy.",
"Head of one of Israel's most notorious crime families, Alperon is the most senior figure to be killed and the latest casualty of ongoing mob wars that have left scores of innocent people dead.",
"In the past these mob-style hits have led to more revenge attacks."
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"Police sources say Yaakov Alperon was killed instantly .",
"Explosive device was apparently detonated by remote control in Tel Aviv ."
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"(CNN) -- Beyond the noise of raucous crowds and angry protesters who have turned town hall meetings into shouting matches is genuine concern from ordinary citizens who are afraid that President Obama's health care proposals would only make things harder for them, experts say.",
"The battle over health care reform has energized people on both sides of the debate.",
"\"The reason that we see these protests and people asking tough questions at town hall meetings is because they feel like the president is going to take something away from them.",
"That motivates people.",
"That gets them out,\" said Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.",
"Those fears were heard Tuesday at Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter's town hall meeting in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.",
"\"This is going to take away my freedom,\" charged one man who wanted assurance from Specter that the private option for health insurance would stay viable.",
"Specter repeated Obama's pledge, telling the crowd, \"If you like your policy, you can keep it.\"",
"Acknowledging the skepticism at a town hall meeting Tuesday, Obama tried to alleviate fears that reform would take something away.",
"\"I recognize there's an underlying fear here that people somehow won't get the care they need.",
"You will have not only the care you need, but also the care that right now is being denied to you, only if we get health care reform.",
"That's what we're fighting for,\" he said at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, event.",
"Since his days on the campaign trail, Obama has promised the public that those who like their health insurance plans won't have to give them up, but he's stopped short of saying at what cost.",
"\"I think that's the fear,\" said Diana Owen, an associate professor of political science and the director of American studies at Georgetown University.",
"\"Even though they are going to keep the plan, the plan is going to be at a much greater cost.",
"And he's not been able to really allay that fear.\"",
"Watch what happened at Specter's town hall meeting » .",
"The themes coming up at town hall meetings across the country are broadly the same as doubts expressed during the campaign.",
"Critics are voicing fears about socialism and the dismantling of the government they are used to.",
"And those who have sufficient health care coverage worry they'll have to foot the bill for reform, echoing concerns heard during the presidential campaign that Obama would \"spread the wealth around.\"",
"\"That was one of the campaign critiques of Obama that seemed to work well, that seemed to resonate well,\" Owen said.",
"\"I really do think that it was an issue, and I think the opponents of the health care plan, by bringing that back up again ...",
"I think that it could be an effective obstacle to what he's trying to accomplish.\"",
"Obama originally asked Congress to send him a health care bill before the August recess, but neither chamber met the deadline.",
"As lawmakers spend the break in their home districts, they've been met with sometimes fierce opposition to Obama's proposals.",
"\"It's not anti-reform -- it's anti-bad reform,\" Cannon said.",
"\"I think the public is reacting to what's in the legislation.",
"And I think that's why the president wanted the House and the Senate to pass their versions before the August recess, because the president knew that the public would object to a lot of what is in these bills.\"",
"The White House, however, said that Obama \"asked Congress to move quickly because we can't wait any longer to begin fixing what's wrong with our system.\"",
"iReport.com: Are you attending a town hall?",
"Share photos, video .",
"Obama's health care battle has been compared to former President Clinton's failed effort more than 15 years ago, but lawmakers didn't experience the same backlash during the Clinton years.",
"Part of the reason was because of the calendar, CNN Senior Political Analyst Bill Schneider said.",
"Clinton proposed his plan in September 1993, and by the time Congress went on recess in August 1994, the plan was dead.",
"People also didn't use the Internet the way they use it today, \"so you didn't have the viral communications that rally people to attend town halls,\" Schneider noted.",
"Today's hypersaturated media, where rumor is picked up as fact and disseminated to millions via blogs and discussion boards, has contributed to the misinformation being lobbed at lawmakers, Owen said.",
"Coming out of one of her town hall meetings Monday, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, said that \"people are just getting information that's flat wrong.\"",
"But as unfounded as some of the claims may be, such as charges that Obama will set up death panels to decide who will live or die, the emotional appeals resonate with the public.",
"\"I don't think that this is debate that is going to go away,\" Owen said, noting that given the outpouring seen at the town hall meetings, Congress can't just pick up where it left off when it returns from break.",
"\"I think the public is going to remain engaged and energized.\"",
"Cannon said the debate has \"stunted the president's momentum\" and will make it harder for his administration to get through the types of reforms they were hoping for.",
"Cannon predicted that Obama's plan will fail, but advocates \"are going to try more incremental reforms to improve the health care sector.\"",
"The same thing happened after the Clinton plan failed.",
"Congress passed less sweeping reform like the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).",
"iReport.com: Share views on health care reform .",
"Owen said the response to his proposals has likely been \"a stark awakening to [Obama] about maybe on this particular issue, he's going to need a new tactic.\"",
"\"When Congress comes back they'll have to kind of rethink the plan and rethink particularly how they present it to the public.",
"and that means the Obama administration as well,\" she said."
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"Concerns coming up at town hall meetings echo sentiments from the campaign .",
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"(CNN) -- Somalia's president on Wednesday declared three days of national mourning for the victims of a suicide truck bomb that killed more than 70 people in Mogadishu, the nation's capital.",
"According to the Health Ministry, 72 were killed Tuesday and 103 remained injured, 38 of those in serious condition.",
"A majority of the victims were students and their parents who were registering for an education program at a government complex.",
"Al-Shabaab, an Islamist movement that has links to al Qaeda, claimed responsibility.",
"President Sharif Ahmed visited the scene and some of the hospitals where the victims were, the government said in a statement.",
"Some of the injured who cannot be treated in Somalia will be flown to other countries.",
"\"At this time, when the country is in the midst of a worsening humanitarian crisis, the terrorists could not have attacked the Somali people at a worse time,\" said Abdulkadir Hussein Mohamed, the country's minister of information.",
"According to the government, Tuesday's bombing was the second Al-Shabaab attack in two years that specifically targeted students.",
"In December 2009, a suicide bomber attacked a university graduation ceremony in Mogadishu, killing more than 20 people.",
"Al-Shabaab is a group in Somalia that was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States government in March 2008.",
"It is waging a war against Somalia's government to implement a stricter form of Islamic law, or Sharia.",
"Federal and African Union forces in the impoverished and chaotic nation have battled the group for years.",
"Many analysts believe that Al-Shabaab has been severely weakened by the African Union Mission in Somalia, targeted strikes against foreign members and the weakening of al Qaeda."
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"MUNICH, Germany (CNN) -- Alleged Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk had no choice but to bring Jews to their deaths in extermination camps, Demjanjuk's defense argued Monday as his long-awaited trial got under way.",
"Demjanjuk, 89, faces charges of being an accessory to about 27,900 murders during World War II.",
"But his defense attorney, Ulrich Busch, said Monday the court was imposing a \"moral and judicial double standard.\"",
"The retired auto worker from Cleveland, Ohio -- a native Ukrainian -- was a prisoner of war during the conflict, and would have been killed had he not done what the Nazis ordered, the defense team argued.",
"The defense line that Demjanjuk was forced to help the Nazis represents a change for the defendant, who has denied in the past that he was a camp guard.",
"The guards forced to help the Nazis were \"victims, not culprits -- survivors, not murderers,\" defense lawyer Busch said.",
"Higher-ranking German SS officers in a similar situation have been found not guilty of war crimes, the defense argued.",
"The Munich state prosecutor brought the charges against Demjanjuk for his alleged role at the Sobibor death camp in Poland, where the Nazis and their accessories killed at least 167,000 people, according to the U.S Holocaust Memorial Museum.",
"About 30 relatives of victims have joined the prosecution case.",
"In Germany it is possible for the families to join the prosecution case as co-plaintiffs, representing named individuals who died in the death camps.",
"If Demjanjuk is found guilty, it will not be only for 27,900 anonymous murders, but for the murders of victims specifically named by the co-plantiffs.",
"There are very few remaining survivors of Sobibor.",
"Demjanjuk's defenders say he was a Soviet prisoner of war at the Trawniki camp, where Nazis trained prisoners to assist with the extermination of about 2 million Jews in occupied Poland.",
"Those prisoners of war had no choice but to assist, the defense said.",
"Demjanjuk was brought into the court in a wheelchair, accompanied by medical personnel and a German-Ukrainian translator.",
"He did not speak in the opening phase of the trial, and had his eyes shut most of the time.",
"The trial is expected to last until May of next year.",
"He was deported in May from the United States to Germany.",
"The German court originally accused him of complicity in about 29,000 murders.",
"The prosecutor's office said it revised the number because some of those who had allegedly died in the camp when Demjanjuk was there were already dead during the transport to Sobibor.",
"Demjanjuk lost a U.S. Supreme Court case against his deportation.",
"His lawyers had asked the high court to consider their claims that he was too ill and frail to be sent overseas.",
"They also raised human rights and other legal issues.",
"The Munich State Court ruled earlier this year he was fit to stand trial.",
"But doctors have restricted the time he can be tried each day to two sessions of 90 minutes each, said Anton Winkler, Munich state prosecutor.",
"The accusations against Demjanjuk date to the late 1970s, when the U.S. Justice Department accused him of being a Nazi guard known as \"Ivan the Terrible.\"",
"His U.S. citizenship was revoked in 1981, and he was extradited to Israel in 1986.",
"Demjanjuk was convicted in an Israeli court in 1988 and sentenced to death, but that conviction was overturned in 1993 amid evidence that someone else was \"Ivan the Terrible.\"",
"A federal court restored Demjanjuk's citizenship, ruling the government withheld evidence supporting his case.",
"But his citizenship was revoked again in 2002 after a federal judge ruled his 1952 entry into the United States was illegal because he hid his past as a Nazi guard.",
"CNN's Diana Magnay contributed to this report."
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- It looks like Sinead O'Connor is walking away from her 16-day marriage bolder but wiser.",
"The \"Nothing Compares 2 U\" singer, 45, announced her split from fourth husband, Barry Herridge, on Monday, 18 days after the two tied the knot in a well-planned December 8 drive-through wedding in Las Vegas.",
"Now, O'Connor tells Britain's Sun tabloid, \"I don't think I will even date anyone.\"",
"What sabotaged the union?",
"\"It felt like I was living in a coffin.",
"It was going to be a coffin for both of us, and I saw him crushed,\" she says of Herridge, 38.",
"\"The whole reason I ended it was out of respect and love for the man.\"",
"In addition, O'Connor owns up in the interview that she went on a frantic hunt for cannabis on their wedding night.",
"\"We ended up in a cab in some place that was quite dangerous,\" O'Connor is quoted as telling the Sun.",
"\"I wasn't scared -- but he's a drugs counselor.",
"What was I thinking?\" She adds: \"Then I was handed a load of crack.",
"Barry was very frightened -- that kind of messed everything up a bit, really.\"",
"See full article at PEOPLE.com.",
"© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"O'Connor announced her split from fourth husband, Barry Herridge, on Monday .",
"The two tied the knot in a well-planned December 8 drive-through wedding in Las Vegas .",
"O'Connor says she went on a frantic hunt for cannabis on their wedding night ."
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"(CNN) -- A lengthy investigation into the erratic behavior of a Brazilian accused of ordering the murder of a 73-year-old American nun led to his recent arrest, a Brazilian prosecutor in the state of Para told CNN.",
"U.S. missionary sister Dorothy Stang as seen in 2004 working in the Amazon forest in Para, Brazil.",
"Regivaldo Pereira Galvao was recently seen at what authorities say is the site of the 2005 slaying of Sister Dorothy Stang to pressure peasants there into giving him the property rights, said federal prosecutor Felicio Pontes Tuesday.",
"The site is located in a 7,400 acre plot known as \"Lot 55\" that is under dispute in the Amazon.",
"Police arrested Galvao Friday on charges of land fraud and slavery.",
"He is already facing a conspiracy to murder charge in connection with Stang's death.",
"Before her death, Stang had defended the right of landless peasants by giving them access to public land and promoting sustainable farming practices that would help halt deforestation.",
"Her land distribution project, the Project for Sustainable Development (PDS), has received praise by officials with the Brazilian government.",
"\"Sister Dorothy's PDS project is the very most successful land reform project in the Amazon,\" said Pontes, adding, \"It has helped more than 300 settlers make a living in a sustainable way.\".",
"A recently released film called, \"They Killed Sister Dorothy,\" narrated by American actor Martin Sheen, has won international acclaim for its original, in-depth investigation of Stang's life and the details surrounding her murder.",
"The film contains exclusive interviews and information that will be used against the suspects, Brazilian investigators told CNN.",
"\"This film has been very important for us.",
"It not only explains the dilemma Brazilians are facing in protecting the Amazon, but it also contains interviews with the suspects which we will certainly use against them,\" said Pontes.",
"Aside from Galvao, five people have been accused in Stang's killing.",
"Four have been convicted, and one has been acquitted.",
"Stang was gunned down along a muddy road near Lot 55 as she worked with the peasants.",
"Galvao's presence at Lot 55 adds to evidence against him in the murder case, Pontes said.",
"\"We have been keeping an eye on him since he left prison, since he has always said he had nothing to do with that land, and therefore was not behind the murder of Sister Dorothy,\" Pontes told CNN.",
"\"Now we nailed him, we know he lied and he did have a lot of interest in that allotment,\" he said.",
"Galvao sat in prison for a year after Stang's death while awaiting trial.",
"He was released by Brazil's high court in 2006, though he is still awaiting trial.",
"Galvao has consistently denied illegally obtaining land and being involved in Stang's murder.",
"He has also denied any involvement with Lot 55, which has been divided among poor settlers for Stang's sustainable farming projects.",
"\"I'm deeply sorry about this whole tragedy, but I am also a victim of it,\" Galvao said in a statement from jail after his arrest in 2005 which was posted on a Web site that proclaims his innocence.",
"\"I'm innocent. I never stained my hands with any crime, or ordered anyone else to stain theirs.\"",
"Prosecutors accuse Galvao of forging land titles and forcefully seizing public lands under the government's law reform program.",
"Elizabeth Dowyer, a nun with the Sisters of Notre Dame where Stang was ordained, told CNN she was happy when she heard the announcement of Galvao's arrest.",
"\"We are relieved in a sense because we knew he was also involved in slavery and he was an illegal land grabber,\" she said.",
"\"We also strongly believe he was involved in a consortium to grab that plot.\"",
"Dowyer, who also was involved in Stang's land reform movement in the Amazon, said Stang knew her would-be killers and even prayed for them.",
"\"In her letters, she named the people she tried to mediate with.",
"On the night before her death, she invited her own killers who bragged to the community of what they were about to do,\" she said.",
"\"She really believed people could change.\"",
"The day after the meeting, hired killers murdered her, Dowyer said.",
"Land reform is the crux of many of Brazil's social problems.",
"Most agricultural lands rest in the hands of a few wealthy landowners, who are engaged in export-crops like soy and sugar cane as well as cattle ranching, according to the Landless Peasant Movement in Brazil."
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"Prosecutor: Galvao's recent presence at murder site adds to evidence against him .",
"Galvao was arrested Friday on charges of land fraud and slavery .",
"He already faces a conspiracy to murder charge in connection with nun's death .",
"Galvao has denied illegally obtaining land and being involved in Stang's murder ."
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"Mexico City (CNN) -- A US Airways flight attendant was found dead in his hotel room in Mexico City, company spokeswoman Tina Swail said Saturday.",
"Authorities are investigating the circumstances of Nick Aaronson's death, she said.",
"A spokesman for the attorney general in Mexico City said authorities were called in the early morning to the Hilton Hotel, where they found the body of a man, estimated to have been between 30 and 35 years old.",
"His body indicated he had been struck several times, Rene Hernandez Cueto said.",
"Investigators are collecting evidence in the case, he added.",
"Preliminary reports do not indicate a safety breach at the hotel, according to a statement from the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) Council 66.",
"\"Therefore, we do not believe our crew members are at risk.",
"However, until this matter is resolved, layover crews will be temporarily relocated to an alternative location,\" said the union.",
"Deborah Volpe, president of AFA Council 66, described Aaronson as \"very popular\" and a \"much-loved flight attendant.\"",
"\"This was a very tragic event and it has affected us all.",
"Right now, we are focusing on taking care of our crew members,\" she said.",
"CNN's Krupskaia Alis, Carloo Perez and Helena DeMoura contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Nick Aaronson is remembered as \"very popular\" and \"much loved\"\nNEW: His body indicates he had been struck several times, authorities say .",
"Officials are investigating Aaronson's death .",
"Union: Reports do not indicate a safety breach at the hotel ."
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"(CNN) -- France and Britain plan to abstain from a Security Council vote on the Palestinians' bid for statehood, two U.N. diplomats said Thursday.",
"France told members of the U.N. Security Council about its intentions at a Thursday afternoon meeting of the admissions committee for new U.N. membership, a Security Council diplomat told CNN.",
"Another U.N. diplomat told CNN that Britain will also abstain, with one of its representatives likewise announcing its intentions at the same closed-door meeting.",
"The U.N. Security Council is set to meet November 11 to discuss a report about whether or not to admit a Palestinian state as a member of the international organization.",
"The membership bid has been controversial, with Israel among those opposed.",
"Diplomats have said it appears unlikely the Palestinians will succeed in their bid, given that the United States -- one of five permanent security council members -- has warned it will veto the attempt.",
"However, a veto may not be necessary if a minimum of nine nations -- out of 15 on the U.N. council -- don't support the Palestinians' bid."
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"France tells U.N. members about its plans at a Thursday meeting, a diplomat says .",
"Another diplomat says that Britain similarly announced its intentions .",
"Palestinians have applied to become a U.N. member state, despite Israeli opposition ."
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"(CNN) -- The brief detention in Havana, Cuba, last week of a Portland, Oregon, church group comes on the heels of the detention of an American contractor and could indicate an increasingly chilly reception for some American visitors, according to the church travelers.",
"The December 26 trip for 14 members of the First Unitarian Church of Portland is a reminder of the entrenched tensions between Cuba and the United States despite the Obama administration's loosening of previous restrictions.",
"The church group was traveling on a U.S.-issued license and planned to do humanitarian work.",
"The group was denied entry to Cuba.",
"Part of the group spent the night detained inside the Havana airport before being put on a plane to Mexico, the church's social justice minister, the Rev.",
"Kate Lore, told CNN.",
"The most recent trip was under a religious license, but the bulk of the mission was to be devoted to projects such as an AIDS clinic and teaching women how to make baby clothes .",
"The church made three trips in November without incident, but things went sour almost immediately after the 14 volunteers exited the plane in December, one of the participants, Jacquie Jones, told CNN.",
"Most of the group passed through customs without a problem, but five members of the group were stopped and had their passports and licenses checked, Jones said.",
"Jones said she told the Cuban officials, \"We love the Cubans.",
"We have many friends here; there is no reason to keep us out of the country.\"",
"The Cuban authorities told the five that they were not allowed inside Cuba because they were there for religious reasons and forced them to wait for almost an hour and a half before putting them on a commercial flight back to Mexico, from where they had traveled.",
"Jones pointed out the U.S. gives travel permits to Cuba for religious work, but the island, at least in this case, rejected the group for the same reason.",
"\"It's a total Catch-22,\" she said.",
"The reason for the brusque treatment is likely because of the detention of another American earlier this month, several church members said.",
"The detained man, whose name has not been released, is a subcontractor for Development Alternatives Inc., an international development group on contract with the U.S. government to promote human rights in Cuba.",
"Cuban leader Raul Castro said that the man was detained because he was distributing satellite communications equipment in order to destabilize Cuba.",
"For nearly a half a century, the United States has maintained a trade embargo against Cuba that many on the island nation have blamed for their country's woes.",
"\"I don't blame the Cuban government, or our government, but I truly believe something has to be done to normalize relations,\" Jones said.",
"The nine others who had already passed through customs faced additional questioning and were detained inside the airport overnight, Carol Slegers, who was part of that group, told CNN.",
"Later, it was learned that Cuban authorities considered imprisoning them, she said.",
"Instead, they were left to find a place to sleep on the floor of the airport.",
"The group ended up sleeping underneath a staircase, using fabric they brought for the clothes-making project as sheets, Slegers said.",
"The next morning, they were put on a plane to Mexico.",
"The Cuban officials \"were rude and cold and indifferent,\" Slegers said.",
"\"It was very psychologically disarming.\"",
"But, Slegers and others made clear, they were not mistreated by the Cubans.",
"\"We're upset because of the treatment, but ultimately, we want the policy to change,\" she said.",
"\"I hope goodwill and improvement of relations will come out of this incident, moving the two countries beyond the my-belt-is-bigger-than-your-belt diplomacy of the last half century.\""
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"Incident could indicate an increasingly chilly reception for some American visitors .",
"Group traveling on a U.S.-issued license, planned to do humanitarian work .",
"Cuban authorities put five back on plane to Mexico; rest spend night on airport floor .",
"In another recent incident, an American contractor was detained ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Finding al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and rolling back a resurgent Taliban are necessary steps toward winning the war in Afghanistan, the top U.S. commander there told a Senate committee Tuesday.",
"Bin Laden remains at large more than eight years after the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington that triggered the Afghan war, and is widely believed to be hiding along the rugged border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.",
"Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said the world's most wanted terrorist is \"an iconic figure\" whose survival \"emboldens al Qaeda as a franchising organization across the world.\"",
"\"It would not defeat al Qaeda to have him captured or killed, but I don't think we can finally defeat al Qaeda until he is finally captured or killed,\" McChrystal told the Senate Armed Services Committee.",
"But he said if bin Laden is hiding across the border, \"It is outside of my mandate.\"",
"In addition, he said, pushing back the Taliban -- which allowed al Qaeda to operate from Afghanistan before 9/11 -- is a \"prerequisite\" for destroying the terrorist network.",
"\"To pursue our core goal of defeating al Qaeda and preventing their return to Afghanistan, we must disrupt and degrade the Taliban's capacity, deny their access to the Afghan population, and strengthen the Afghan security forces,\" he said.",
"McChrystal's appearance before senators was his second round of testimony on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, following a session with the House Armed Services Committee earlier in the day.",
"Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, joined him in both hearings.",
"Both men were called to testify about President Obama's new plan for the Afghan war, which involves the deployment of another 30,000 U.S. troops and a July 2011 date for the beginning of an American withdrawal.",
"McChrystal said the next 18 months will be \"critical\" to the war effort and said U.S. forces must convince Afghans that \"we are going to win.\"",
"The United States and its NATO allies must reverse the Taliban's actual and perceived momentum and establish \"contiguous security\" around the country rather than the pockets that currently exist, McChrystal said.",
"One advantage U.S. troops have is that the Taliban -- which ruled most of Afghanistan before the 9/11 attacks -- remain largely unpopular among Afghans and draw support only through the threat of violence.",
"\"I have never seen evidence that the Taliban have popular support like a political liberation movement,\" he said.",
"In August, the general had cautioned that a failure to reverse Taliban gains within 12 months could make defeating the insurgents impossible.",
"But his testimony Tuesday lengthened that timeline.",
"\"The sober fact is that there are no silver bullets,\" he told the House committee.",
"\"Ultimate success will be the cumulative effect of sustained pressure.\"",
"McChrystal said he \"participated fully in the president's assessment and decision-making process\" and fully supports Obama's decision.",
"And Eikenberry, whose leaked cables to Washington indicated that he opposed sending large numbers of troops to the conflict, told the Senate he is \"100 percent\" behind the new strategy \"with the refinement of the mission.\"",
"His initial questions, Eikenberry told the House, were about the number of troops, the timeline for those troops, and the context in which those troops would operate.",
"\"The mission was refined, the ways forward were clarified, and the resources now have been committed to allow us to achieve the refined mission,\" said the ambassador, a retired general who held a senior post in Kabul before retiring from the Army.",
"\"With that, at this point in time ...",
"I am unequivocally in support of this mission and I am exactly aligned with Gen. McChrystal in moving forward now to vigorously implement the assigned mission.\"",
"Both Eikenberry and McChrystal went out of their way to minimize the differences in their views after reports of an Eikenberry cable advising the president that McChrystal's plans to send more troops would be ill advised because of a lack of confidence in the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.",
"In their opening statements, both said they were honored to testify together and each called the other a friend.",
"But more of those differences were seen when the men gave their predictions about the final outcome of the war.",
"\"I believe we will absolutely be successful,\" McChrystal responded when the committee chairman, Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Missouri, asked the general point-blank about the chances for success of the U.S. mission.",
"Earlier, in his opening remarks, the general had said, \"The mission is not only important, it is also achievable.",
"We can and will accomplish this mission.\"",
"Eikenberry was more cautious, saying that \"success is not guaranteed but it is possible.\"",
"But McChrystal emphasized that the July 2011 date is only a marker in the broader picture, and not a \"major factor\" in U.S. military strategy.",
"\"I don't view July 2011 as a deadline.",
"I don't believe it is a deadline at all,\" he told lawmakers, later adding that he assumed a U.S. troop withdrawal will begin at that time.",
"\"It is a solid decision the president has made and I operate under the assumption that we will begin to decrease our forces beginning in July 2011,\" the general said.",
"McChrystal said that the influx of additional troops should bring \"significant progress\" in the war by next summer, and by next December he should be able to \"lay out progress\" and show evidence of success in a report he will present.",
"\"My expectation is the insurgency will be less robust in the summer of 2011, significantly so, and it is also my expectation that the Afghan security forces will be more robust,\" McChrystal said.",
"\"I see confidently in the summer of 2011 that beginning the reduction of forces will be appropriate, the pace and scope of which needs to be conditions-based on how strong is insurgency at that point.\"",
"He said the Taliban must not become \"an existential threat\" to the Afghan government, \"and thus to the Afghan people.\"",
"\"So rather than wipe out every Taliban member, what we need to do is lower their capacity to the point where -- within their own means -- Afghanistan can hold them from being a major threat to either their way of life or their government.",
"\"I think that, over time, that will cause the Taliban to go away, to become irrelevant, and cease to exist,\" he explained.",
"At present, 68,000 U.S. troops are operating under both NATO and U.S. commands in Afghanistan, and around 42,000 non-U.S. forces are under NATO.",
"The Pentagon announced 1,500 more Marines would be deploying this month as part of the new strategy.",
"Last week, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said that Britain, Italy, Poland, Slovakia and non-NATO member Georgia are among at least 25 countries offering to send a total of 7,000 additional troops to Afghanistan.",
"CNN's Jill Dougherty contributed to this report."
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"NEW: General, U.S. ambassador testify before House and Senate armed services committees .",
"McChrystal: Perceptions of Afghan people and insurgency will be critical to success .",
"McChrystal: \"I don't view July 2011 as a deadline.\""
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"(CNN) -- Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karrubi and their wives were placed in a \"safe house\" for their own welfare, but they have not been arrested, Iranian government sources told CNN Saturday.",
"\"The opposition movement is very much looking for martyrs so if this is true it's for their own safety,\" one source told CNN.",
"The pro-reform opposition movement \"is always looking for an excuse to create something, so this may be done to keep someone from doing something to them,\" the source added.",
"But the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expressed concern for the safety of the leaders and their wives.",
"\"Moussavi and Karrubi and their wives have been disappeared; they are being held incommunicado in an unknown location, a severe breach of Iranian and international law,\" Aaron Rhodes, a spokesman for the campaign, said in a statement.",
"\"Given the lynch mob-like calls for their execution by numerous Iranian politicians and clerics, there is reason to be deeply concerned for their safety and well-being,\" Rhodes said.",
"State-run Press TV aired video of Iranian lawmakers earlier this month chanting, \"Moussavi, Karrubi ... execute them.\"",
"The human rights organization also pointed out that \"a 'safe house' is considered a place for the secret detention of high security-value detainees, which is not under the control of the judiciary or any other monitoring mechanisms.",
"The Revolutionary Guards and Iranian intelligence agencies are well-known for using safe houses for all methods and techniques to get confessions from detainees without scrutiny or pressure from other legal bodies.\"",
"\"Given the use of so-called safe houses to mistreat opponents of the government in the past, the campaign finds it deeply disturbing that Moussavi and Karrubi have reportedly been removed to such a facility,\" the statement said.",
"Iranian authorities began rounding up many government opponents this month amid calls for protests like those that have swept across North Africa and the Middle East.",
"Iranian leaders have praised the revolution that overthrew Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, but when protesters in Iran took to the streets of Tehran on February 14, the government cracked down hard.",
"The Iranian government rounded up activists ahead of the protests after Karrubi and Moussavi called for supporters to gather at Azadi Square -- the site of mass protests by Iran's opposition movement after the disputed 2009 presidential elections.",
"Despite the security crackdown, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in Tehran.",
"Dozens of demonstrators were detained during those protests, while videos posted on YouTube showed others had been chased and beaten.",
"One person was shot and killed during the protests, according to Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency.",
"Several others were injured and listed in serious condition as a result of the shooting, which the Iranian government blamed on \"agitators and seditionists.\"",
"The Iranian government source claimed Saturday that Iranians are disturbed by the opposition's demonstrations.",
"\"The people are not happy with these protests and these people (Moussavi and Karrubi) making announcements for more protests.",
"The people believe their peace is being disrupted and they want these protests to stop,\" the source said.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday accused Iran of a repressive crackdown on protesters and political opponents in the past 10 days, including the killing of peaceful demonstrators by security forces.",
"International journalists have been limited in their ability to gather news in Iran, where the government has cracked down on the media and maintains tight control of state-run news organizations.",
"During the protests earlier this month, foreign journalists were denied visas, accredited journalists living in the country were restricted from covering the demonstrations, and internet speed slowed to a crawl in an apparent attempt to restrict information from being transmitted out of the country."
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"Iranian government sources say the \"safe house\" is for the leaders' welfare .",
"The leaders and their wives are not under arrest, the sources say .",
"A human rights group is alarmed, saying the move violates international law ."
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"Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Three Japanese lawmakers were denied entry at a South Korean airport Monday after they announced they would attempt a visit to an island near disputed territory in what Korea calls the East Sea and Japan calls the Sea of Japan.",
"The lawmakers arrived at Gimpo International Airport near Seoul at 11:20 a.m. but were denied entry by the immigration service, according the Ministry of Justice.",
"The trio is expected to return to Japan on a later flight, but details were not yet available, the Ministry of Justice said.",
"The Japanese politicians announced they would visit Ulleung Island -- adjacent to the disputed Dokdo islets -- after the two countries clashed over a civilian aircraft running a test flight over the area.",
"The islets in the sea to the east of Korea, known as Dokdo in Korea and Takeshima in Japan, have been a prickly issue for both countries.",
"Japan has long claimed the islets as its territory, but Seoul said all Korean territory was returned after the country won independence from colonial rule by Japan in 1945.",
"The South Korean Foreign Ministry warned Friday that the government would not allow the three politicians to enter the country, saying it cannot guarantee the safety of the lawmakers and that the decision is out of consideration of bilateral relations.",
"Monday's visit is widely viewed as an act of protest by right-wing politicians after the two countries clashed over the islets last month.",
"The Japanese government issued a ban on flying with South Korea's flagship airline, advising Japanese officials to refrain from flying with Korean Air in July.",
"Korean Air had conducted a test flight over the islets twice to celebrate the launching of its new aircraft in June.",
"Seoul demanded Tokyo withdraw the ban, but with no success.",
"South Koreans view the islets as a source of national pride and have taken various measures to reassert its ownership of the islets.",
"The land is largely uninhabited with only seven registered residents."
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"The disputed islets are known as Dokdo in South Korea and Takeshima in Japan .",
"In July, Korean Air conducted a test flight over the islets .",
"The Japanese government issued a ban on flying with Korean air ."
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"(CNN) -- Retired army Gen. Otto Perez Molina won Sunday's runoff presidential election in Guatemala, seizing on voters' concerns about growing insecurity in the Central American nation.",
"Perez Molina led with more than 53% of the vote, Guatemala's election authority said.",
"His opponent, businessman Manuel Baldizon, garnered 46% of the vote.",
"\"I want to tell you that we are happy, that we are very excited by this decision, but at the same time we have a big responsibility not to fail the Guatemalans in the next four years,\" Perez Molina told a crowd of cheering supporters.",
"Perez Molina said unity across party lines would be a key step in solving the country's security problems.",
"\"Let's put these elections behind us ... and come together in the the things we have in common, to pull Guatemala out of this crisis that we are living,\" he said.",
"In Guatemala City Monday, Perez Molina's supporters celebrated the news.",
"\"I am very happy because we are going to have a change in our country,\" Jazmin Dominguez said.",
"Perez Molina, a retired army general who pledged to take a tough stand on crime, was the front-runner heading into the election.",
"He won the most votes in the first round of voting in September.",
"Low voter turnout was reported in Sunday's election, according to the state-run AGN news agency.",
"Concerns about violence in Guatemala, which has worsened as Mexican drug cartels have stepped up operations in parts of the country, dominated the vote.",
"In a Vox Latina national survey in July, more than two-thirds of Guatemalans said violence was what concerned them most, far outpacing the combined totals for the economy, unemployment, poverty and lack of education.",
"\"Let's hope that it's not like it's been with the government in the past, that they aren't just lies.",
"The truth is that it's important that we return our country to the right path.",
"We need security, education, health.",
"We really hope the new president does all this,\" Guatemala City resident Juan Diego said Monday.",
"Campaign posters for Perez Molina, who led in polls before Sunday's election, featured a clenched fist.",
"The 60-year-old retired general pledged to bring a \"mano dura\" -- firm hand -- to Guatemala's highest office.",
"In a debate co-hosted by CNN en Español this year, Perez Molina called for \"elite units of the army\" to play a larger role in the nation's battle against gangs and drug cartels.",
"But that proposed approach -- and Perez Molina's high rank in the military during Guatemala's decades-long civil war -- worries human rights groups both in Guatemala and abroad.",
"Concerns stem from the fact that the Guatemalan military committed multiple atrocities during the civil war, though Perez Molina has never been directly implicated in any of them.",
"The former general campaigned for president a second time this year.",
"He was defeated in 2007 by incumbent President Alvaro Colom.",
"First-time candidate Baldizon, 41, who ran under the banner of the Leader Party, energized young voters.",
"He promised to continue social and economic programs that he warned would be at risk, if Perez Molina won.",
"Like the former general, Baldizon championed a crime-fighting plan.",
"Poverty is endemic in Guatemala, and the country has one of the worst crime rates in Latin America.",
"Forty-three percent of children under 5 are chronically malnourished.",
"And the murder rate last year was 42 per 100,000 people -- one of the highest in the world.",
"While supporters praised his tough stance on crime, others said they feared the president-elect's platform did not adequately address poverty.",
"\"I think that he is going to make a government of the rich.",
"I do not think that they are thinking about the poor and they are going to leave us forgotten again,\" Guatemala City resident Nelson Guzman said.",
"This is only the fourth time that Guatemala has held presidential elections since peace accords were signed in 1996, officially ending a civil war that devastated the country for 36 years.",
"The conflict left more than 100,000 people dead and a million refugees.",
"Perez Molina will take office in January."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Archaeologists excavating a site in East London have made an \"extremely rare and unprecedented\" find -- a delicately detailed dish made of hundreds of pieces of tiny glass petals, the Museum of London Docklands announced Wednesday.",
"The dish unearthed after about 2,000 years.",
"The \"millefiori\" dish (the name means \"thousand flowers\") was found buried in the grave of a Roman Londoner, the museum said.",
"Based on the other grave goods found at the site, archaeologists believe the person buried there was wealthy, the museum said.",
"The dish was highly fragmented when archaeologists unearthed it, the museum said, but it had been held together over the centuries by the earth around it.",
"A conservator at the museum reassembled the dish, which is now on display at the Museum of London Docklands.",
"\"Piecing together and conserving such a complete artifact offered a rare and thrilling challenge,\" said conservator Liz Goodman, who did the work.",
"\"We occasionally get tiny fragments of millefiori, but the opportunity to work on a whole artifact of this nature is extraordinary.",
"The dish is extremely fragile but the glasswork is intact and illuminates beautifully nearly two millennia after being crafted.\"",
"The glass petals are blue with white borders and are each indented.",
"They were originally embedded in opaque red glass, the museum said, and while the red coloring has diminished across most of the dish, it can still be seen around the edge.",
"\"The complexity of its manufacture indicates that the dish was a highly-prized and valuable item,\" the museum said in a statement.",
"Such beautifully crafted vessels were in vogue in the 1st and early 2nd centuries, the museum said.",
"Dating is under way to determine the precise period of the find.",
"The excavations that uncovered the dish are part of an ongoing dig at the extensive eastern cemetery of Roman London, which was then called Londinium.",
"The site now lies in the neighborhood of Aldgate.",
"The cemetery -- which, by law, lay outside the city walls -- spanned more than 400 years of Roman occupation from the late 1st to early 5th centuries, the museum said."
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"Millefiori dish was fragmented but held together for about 2,000 years .",
"Complexity of the dish indicates it was highly-prized and valuable item .",
"Dish on display at the Museum of London Docklands ."
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"(EW.com) -- Although the tower in question in the gimcrack action comedy \"Tower Heist\" is fictional, many New York tourists will recognize the aggressive nouveau-riche opulence of the building's exterior as that of an actual Manhattan hotel condominium owned by aggressive nouveau-riche Donald Trump.",
"The aesthetic pairing of The Donald and director Brett Ratner is a natural.",
"This brassy production, an imitation \"Ocean's 13½,\" features the name-brand talents of Ben Stiller (as an honorable Tower manager named Josh) and Eddie Murphy (as a con man called Slide) leading rookie thieves in an elaborate Robin Hood-style heist.",
"Their target? The oversize penthouse of one Arthur Shaw (Alan Alda), a shady billionaire who keeps a rare 1963 Ferrari in his living room.",
"In other words, \"Tower Heist\" is the cinematic version of a Trump property: overblinged, eye-catching, and essentially tacky.",
"For a movie that claims its heart is with the masses -- the 99 percent!",
"-- there's an awful lot of production-design admiration lavished on the trappings of the effin-rich 1 percent.",
"(Ratner had specific ideas about which pedigreed modern-art reproductions he wanted on the walls.)",
"Shaw is a fictional variation on Bernie Madoff: Entrusted with the retirement savings of the multicultural low-wage employees who keep the Tower running, he takes their money and ruins their lives.",
"And so, rallied by egalitarian friend-to-all Josh -- the guy takes the subway to work from Queens, so you know he's a mensch -- and hastily educated in criminal technique by Josh's less honorable Queens neighbor Slide, these blue-collar little people rise up in triumph to steal their money back.",
"By the moral standards of Occupy Hollywood, the crime earns an ethical thumbs-up.",
"You may think I am picking too much on what's built to be a fun, diverting, New York-state-of-mind caper comedy -- a joke-filled cavalcade that marks 50-year-old Eddie Murphy's welcome return to the edgier stuff that made him famous.",
"Alrighty, let's talk about Murphy: He's nowhere to be found in the first half of the movie!",
"And he's only there to illuminate selected scenes in the second: He's like the spot lighting supplied by a big-a** chandelier in an ostentatious Trump lobby.",
"That's too bad, because when Murphy is on screen, his comedic vigor -- reminiscent of Chris Tucker's jive-talk mania in Ratner's \"Rush Hour\" movies but with a blast of Murphy-specific danger -- gooses the movie's energy level.",
"I've missed that guy.",
"But whenever Murphy wanders off, the movie's pulse rate drops.",
"Tower Heist is in effect two movies: One belongs to Murphy, the other to the rest of the cast.",
"Josh's drippy in-house recruits include Matthew Broderick as a broke ex--Wall Streeter and Tower resident (and the kind of fretful nebbish he perfected on Broadway in The Producers); Michael Peña as an uncouth rookie bellhop; and \"Ocean\"'s alumnus Casey Affleck as an unreliable concierge who happens to be Josh's stressed-out brother-in-law.",
"(The band of gentlemen credited with the story and screenplay includes Ted Griffin, who worked on Steven Soderbergh's 2001 \"Ocean's Eleven.\")",
"Two female characters also join the increasingly frantic male-driven mayhem.",
"(Here's where I mention with an eye roll that, in what I hope is a quickly passing trend in male- as well as female-driven comedies, vaginas are briefly discussed, this time by Affleck.)",
"Téa Leoni, who worked with the director 11 years ago in \"The Family Man,\" gamely plays a no-nonsense FBI agent with cute rough edges.",
"And Gabourey Sidibe, the striking plus-size Oscar-nominated star of \"Precious,\" makes her Hollywood leap as a feisty Jamaican chambermaid who gets in on the heist action.",
"(The girl's got mad safecracking skills.)",
"I don't know why Ratner and cinematographer Dante Spinotti felt compelled to push the camera in close, as if gawking at Sidibe's dramatic coloring and size.",
"But then, I also don't know why she wasn't used more: Murphy never looks more alive and excited by a fellow actor -- challenged to peak performance -- than during ribald, flirtatious banter with Sidibe's self-possessed working girl.",
"She's something new; Murphy in \"Tower Heist\" is something rebooted.",
"Together they build something with more visual interest than any Trump Tower on any tourist map.",
"EW.com rating: C+ .",
"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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"(ArsTechnica) -- Amazon has clarified that the next generation of its 3G Kindle, the Kindle Touch 3G, will not be able to browse the Internet without a WiFi connection.",
"Users will still be able to use 3G to sync book and document purchases, but anything beyond Wikipedia will be off-limits.",
"Browsing was (and still is) an experimental feature on the last iteration of the Kindle, now known as the Kindle Keyboard 3G.",
"The experiment appears to have failed as far as Amazon is concerned, as it will restrict the 3G access of the Kindle Touch 3G to browsing Wikipedia and downloading books and periodicals.",
"The Kindle Touch 3G's webpage does not directly note this restriction, stating only that it has \"free 3G wireless\" that \"works globally,\" but a post in the official Amazon forums states that \"experimental web browsing (outside of Wikipedia) on Kindle Touch 3G is only available over WiFi.\"",
"Since Amazon subsidizes all Kindle owners' 3G use, the company may have determined the model isn't cost-effective enough to support the use of the entire Internet.",
"The 3G version of the Kindle Touch with special offers costs $149, 50 percent more than the $99 WiFi version, so this restriction may make the jump from WiFi to 3G much harder for customers to justify when both models become available November 21.",
"The announcement doesn't affect the new Kindle Fire announced last week and due for launch November 15, since it is WiFi-only.",
"The Kindle Keyboard 3G, while it is still available, will continue to have unfettered Internet access through the experimental browser.",
"We asked Amazon for confirmation of this policy, but have not received a response as of yet.",
"COPYRIGHT 2011 ARSTECHNICA.COM ."
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"The new Kindle Touch 3G will have limited access to the Internet .",
"The 3G version of the Kindle Touch with special offers costs $149 .",
"The Kindle Keyboard 3G will continue to have unfettered Internet access ."
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"(CNN) -- It's the worst-kept secret since Adam Lambert's sexuality: Apple is expected to unveil a new iPhone on Tuesday.",
"There are a bunch of reasons you already knew this.",
"For one, every tech journalist on earth has been writing about the new-now-next-generation iPhone since the company's last \"Jesus phone\" -- the iPhone 4 -- graced us with its presence in June 2010.",
"You've seen the gossip here, and on countless Apple-focused blogs with apt and obvious names like MacRumors and TheAppleBlog.",
"The rumor mill, you'll likely recall, revved to full throttle in early September when CNET reported that an Apple employee lost a prototype of the next iPhone -- likely called the iPhone 5 -- in a Mexican restaurant and bar in San Francisco.",
"To cap it all off, Apple sent out an e-mail on September 27 teasing reporters with phone-related pictures and this not-so-cryptic tagline: .",
"\"Let's talk iPhone.\"",
"So, yeah, we pretty much know what's coming.",
"And at the same time, we don't. The tech specs of the new phone are still hotly debated, as reporters scour Apple patents, SKU codes and, of course, Bay Area bars for any remaining iPhone-rumor morsels sure to grab the public's attention.",
"All will become clear at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday when Apple hosts its iPhone \"launch\" event at its headquarters in Cupertino, California.",
"But for those of you who are drooling for the details, here's the wisdom du jour from the People of the Internet: .",
"-- The phone will be called the iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S.",
"Or both (see below). -- It likely will cost $200 with a 2-year wireless service contract from AT&T or Verizon.",
"-- The iPhone may come to Sprint, too.",
"The Wall Street Journal was reporting Monday that Sprint Nextel has entered into an eye-opening agreement with Apple to buy more than $20 billion worth of iPhones over the next four years.",
"(But the phone won't be coming yet to T-Mobile, as Mark Milian reports).",
"-- It will be \"skinnier, shorter and wider\" than before, according to Gizmodo, which is basing these assumptions on supposed leaked cases for the phone and on \"informed renderings.\"",
"-- PC World (irony noted) expects the iPad's faster processor to squeeze its way into the iPhone.",
"-- The phone will have a \"teardrop\" back, meaning it's fatter at the top than the bottom, according to the blog This is My Next.",
"The iPhone 4 is flat on both sides.",
"-- It may have a \"world mode,\" meaning it could transition onto other cell networks easily.",
"-- It will have an upgraded, 8-megapixel rear camera.",
"-- It may employ new voice-recognition features, says Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.",
"His evidence? That e-mail Apple sent to journalists: \"Let's talk iPhone.\"",
"Voice-recognition.",
"Get it? -- It's possible Apple will unveil not one -- but TWO iPhones.",
"-- If so, the second likely will be cheaper and will have less storage capacity.",
"Some bloggers have taken to calling it the iCloud Phone, because it could tie in with Apple's new cloud-computing services.",
"(Side note: Al Gore, an Apple board member, gave some credence to the second-iPhoners when he mentioned \"the new iPhones coming out next month\" during a speech in South Africa).",
"-- Based on Apple's past iPhone release patterns, the phone (or phones) will likely go on sale later this month (most bloggers predict mid-October).",
"Of course, as is the case with any Apple product, die-hard fans will buy whatever the new thing is -- no matter what it is exactly, and no matter how much it costs.",
"The other mysteries surrounding the Tuesday event are all about Apple's leadership.",
"This is the first product announcement for Apple -- the world's most valuable company -- under the direction of its new CEO, Tim Cook.",
"There's speculation about whether Cook, who is reported to be a private person, will take center stage at the event or yield the spotlight to his deputies.",
"And there are rumors that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who handed over the company to Cook in August following a medical leave of absence, will make an appearance at the event.",
"It seems likely that Cook will run the show, and BusinessInsider and plenty of others expect as much.",
"It wouldn't be the first time Cook helped with an Apple presentation -- he appeared onstage in January when the company unveiled an iPhone on Verizon's network -- but it would be his first time as headliner.",
"But, like the rest of you, we'll just have to hang on until Tuesday -- when all these rumors get zapped with a dose of reality."
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"Apple is expected to debut a new iPhone on Tuesday .",
"Rumor has it the phone will be called iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S .",
"Tech blogs have been speculating about the phone for months .",
"Tim Cook, Apple's new CEO, expected to make announcement at headquarters ."
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"(CNN) -- The parents of a missing 10-month-old Missouri girl late Thursday indicated they are cooperating with detectives, counter to what police said earlier in the evening, a relative said.",
"A woman who identified herself as Ashley Irwin, sister of Jeremy Irwin, read a statement on behalf of her brother and Deborah Bradley, parents of missing infant Lisa Irwin.",
"\"We have never stopped cooperating with the police.",
"We've been cooperative from day one and we continue to assist the police with the investigation,\" the statement said.",
"\"The main goal has always been to find Lisa and bring her home.",
"That remains the sole focus of the parents.\"",
"Ashley Irwin said the parents, who will release another statement Friday, wanted to thank police and the community for their efforts and prayers.",
"Kansas City, Missouri, police Capt.",
"Steve Young had said earlier that the pair had stopped assisting police in the investigation.",
"\"I don't have to illustrate how that affects the investigation,\" Young said of the development.",
"\"It speaks for itself.\" Young, who said \"our door is always open\" to the parents, told reporters that there are no suspects in the case.",
"Earlier Thursday, the parents told reporters about how they discovered Lisa to be missing.",
"\"She's everything,\" Bradley said of Lisa.",
"\"She's our little girl.",
"She's completed our family, and she means everything to my boys.",
"We need her home. I can't be without her.\" Irwin urged anyone with information to call police.",
"\"Anything, even the smallest information, could help lead to her return,\" he said.",
"Lisa Irwin was last seen around 10:30 p.m. Monday, asleep in her crib, police said.",
"They were called to the home at about 4 a.m. Tuesday.",
"\"It appears the suspect entered/exited through a bedroom window,\" authorities said in a statement.",
"\"Evidence at the scene leads police to believe the child has been abducted.\"",
"Jeremy Irwin told reporters that he found Lisa missing when he got home from work.",
"\"The front door was unlocked,\" he said Thursday.",
"\"Most of the lights were on in the house, and the window in front was open -- all very unusual.\"",
"The couple claimed three cell phones were missing at their home, Young said, but the information has not turned up anything.",
"Police have said the parents are not considered suspects in Lisa's disappearance.",
"Young on Wednesday told reporters the family had been cooperative, but \"everything is still on the table.",
"We haven't ruled anything out.\"",
"He said then that investigators \"really haven't developed any good, hard information that we can go forward with.\"",
"Nearly 50 tips have been received through a hotline, he said, but not all of them have been pursued, as some of them have been vague -- a person calling to report a child seat seen in a car, for instance.",
"\"I know everybody's hearts are in the right place, but that's not anything we can do anything with,\" Young said.",
"Police have conducted more than 300 \"knock-and-talks\" and searches of residences in the area, and more than 300 officers were searching for Lisa.",
"There have been three searches of a wooded area near the family's home, he said.",
"\"I promise you, if there's anything we think we can be doing, we've probably done it two or three times already,\" Young said.",
"An Amber Alert was issued for Lisa early Tuesday but has been canceled.",
"\"Although the investigation and search for Lisa Irwin continue, an active Amber Alert is no longer necessary in this case,\" police said.",
"However, Lisa is still considered missing and endangered, according to authorities.",
"Lisa is described as 30 inches tall with blue eyes and blond hair, police said.",
"She weighs between 26 and 30 pounds.",
"She was last seen wearing purple shorts and a purple shirt with white kittens on it.",
"She has two bottom teeth, a small bug bite under her left ear and a \"beauty mark\" on her right outer thigh.",
"She currently has a cold with a cough, police said."
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"Lisa Irwin's mother says the girl is \"everything\"\nLisa was last seen asleep in her crib at 10:30 p.m. Monday .",
"Police say her parents are not suspects in her disappearance ."
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"(CNN) -- An Arkansas TV station has officially replaced former weatherman Brett Cummins, a month after he was found in a tub next to a dead body, the station's news director said.",
"KARK has named Keith Monahan, who had been working at KIAH in Houston, as its new chief meteorologist, said news director Rob Heverling.",
"\"As soon as we watched Keith, we knew he was a very good fit,\" said Heverling.",
"On the morning of August 7, Christopher Barbour said he awoke in his home outside Little Rock and found the body of 24-year-old Dexter Paul Williams in an empty tub, his face blue and purple and a chain around his neck, a Maumelle Police Department report said.",
"Cummins, 33, was asleep next to the corpse, whose head was lying behind the meteorologist's shoulder, Barbour told police, according to the report.",
"The witness said that he awakened Cummins, who screamed after noticing Williams' discolored face and cold skin and ran to the living room, where he vomited next to the couch.",
"Days later, Cummins resigned from his job at the Little Rock-based station, his attorney Mark Hampton said.",
"Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Larry Jegley said Thursday that his office should know in the coming weeks if any charges will be filed in relation to Williams' death.",
"The night before the incident, Williams and Cummins arrived together at Barbour's house, Barbour told police.",
"Once there, the three had drunk alcohol and snorted illegal narcotics, though Barbour could not identify the drugs, according to the report.",
"Maumelle police Lt. Jim Hansard said the manner of Williams' death remains \"undetermined.\"",
"He added that the medical examiner cited several contributing factors, including intoxication with methamphetamine and amphetamines.",
"The investigation remains open, and there is \"no indication (from the medical examiner) in any way that there was a strangulation,\" said Hansard."
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"Brett Cummins resigned after being found next to a corpse in an empty tub .",
"The incident occurred at a home outside Little Rock, Arkansas .",
"The cause of the man's death is \"undetermined,\" say police ."
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"(CNN) -- American Amanda Knox and her Italian former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, won their appeals of their convictions in the killing of British exchange student Meredith Kercher.",
"Here is a guide to the Italian appeal process.",
"On what grounds did Knox and Sollecito appeal their convictions for murder, sexual assault, possession of a weapon, interfering with a crime and theft?",
"The defense sought to discredit DNA evidence linking the two of them to the killing, in which British exchange student Meredith Kercher's throat was slashed.",
"Her partially clothed body was found in the house she shared with Knox in Perugia, a central Italian university town.",
"Two experts argued that DNA evidence found on the knife used to kill Kercher and on her bra clasp was unreliable and contaminated by poor handling.",
"Prosecutors in 2009 had said there were traces of Knox's genetic material on the handle and Kercher's in a tiny groove on the blade.",
"Knox and Sollecito's defense teams have suggested Rudy Guede, who is already serving a 16-year sentence for the murder, could have been the sole killer.",
"The case against Knox and Sollecito .",
"Who made the decision?",
"Eight jurors -- six members of the public and two judges -- decided the case.",
"The judges take part and vote as part of the jury: their role is to guide but not to instruct the other jurors how to vote.",
"The presiding judge, Claudio Pratillo Hellmann, who was also one of the jurors, read out the verdict.",
"What were the possible rulings in the appeal?",
"There were three possible outcomes for the defendants: .",
"1. Verdict is upheld: In this case, Knox and Sollecito would have continued serving their respective 26- and 25-year jail sentences.",
"However, prosecutor Manuela Comodi had called for their sentences to be increased to life.",
"2. Verdict is overturned .",
"3. Verdict is partially overturned, with a decrease in sentence (verdicts can be upheld on some counts but not others; this would result in a decrease in their sentences, which is what happened).",
"Does Monday's ruling mean the case is closed for good or could there be further appeals?",
"There will most likely be appeals by the prosecution.",
"Both the defense and prosecution can take their case to Italy's highest court.",
"Both Knox and Sollecito returned to prison to complete paperwork and collect their belongings.",
"But Knox was freed within an hour; CNN understands Knox will leave the country Tuesday morning.",
"Knox, 24, need not remain in Italy pending a possible appeal by the prosecution.",
"After the ruling, the judge has 90 days to write a report on why the court reached its conclusions.",
"The parties then have 45 days to file an appeal to the High Court, which then must schedule it, according to Luiss University law professor Nicola Di Mario.",
"So there'll be at least four months between the verdict and any possible High Court appeal.",
"A High Court hearing would be very short and dependent on key technical issues and arguments, not a review of the actual trial itself, according to Di Mario.",
"Where would an acquittal of just Knox and/or Sollecito have left the case of the other?",
"That was the big question.",
"The co-defendants appealed together, and while different verdicts could theoretically have been delivered for each of them, this was highly unlikely.",
"A third person convicted of the murder, Rudy Guede, has already appealed to the High Court and had his sentence reduced to 16 years.",
"Can the defendants ever be tried again for the same crime?",
"After the case goes to Italy's highest court and assuming it does not overturn the appeals ruling, Knox cannot be tried again for the same crime under the \"double jeopardy\" rule.",
"What will happen if a possible appeal by the prosecution to Italy's highest court is successful after Knox has returned to the United States?",
"If Italy's highest court overturns the lower court's decision, it effectively revalidates the trial court's sentence, which means 26 years in prison for Knox.",
"Italy would then have to put in a request to U.S. authorities for extradition, and it would remain to be seen if that would granted or not.",
"Deputy State Department spokesman Mark Toner told CNN: \"Questions regarding Italian law and process are not ones we can answer.",
"They need to be addressed to Italian authorities.",
"\"The United States and Italy do have a bilateral extradition treaty, which has been in force since 1984.",
"Questions about possible return to the U.S., extradition request, etc.",
"are too speculative for us to be able to comment.\"",
"Does Italian law allow for any civil action by the defendants or by Meredith Kercher's family following a criminal case?",
"Yes, a civil action for damages took place alongside the original criminal trial.",
"The family of Kercher sought $36 million in damages from the three co-defendants if they were convicted on the criminal charges.",
"Their acquittal on the criminal charges frees them of civil liability as well.",
"Did the defendants face any other charges?",
"Knox also appealed an additional charge for which she was convicted: Defamation of Patrick Lumumba, the club owner whom Knox accused of killing Kercher.",
"He was arrested but released after his alibi checked out.",
"He later sued Knox for libel, winning 40,000 euros ($54,000) in damages.",
"The appeals jury upheld that conviction and ordered Knox to pay Lumumba.",
"It also sentenced her to three years in prison, but because she has already been held for four years, she was freed immediately.",
"Hada Messia contributed to this report."
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"Eight jurors -- six members of public and two judges -- ruled on appeal .",
"Knox need not remain in Italy pending possible appeal by prosecution ."
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"(CNN) -- A Texas man convicted of murdering a San Antonio police officer before turning his gun on his wife was put to death Thursday evening, soon after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his last-minute appeal.",
"The time of death for Frank Martinez Garcia was 7:02 p.m. CT (8:02 p.m.",
"ET), said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Becky Blanton.",
"Garcia was 28 on March 29, 2001, when San Antonio police officer Hector Garza responded to a call about a domestic disturbance at the home Garcia shared with his parents, his wife, Jessica, and their children.",
"Garza, 49, died first after being shot three times by Garcia, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said on its website.",
"Garcia's wife died after he shot her six times.",
"He also fired several shots at others outside the home, wounding his wife's uncle, according to authorities.",
"The couple's 5-year-old daughter witnessed the murders, according to the Department of Criminal Justice.",
"The office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott stated, on its website, that Garcia -- who had been arrested with gang members in 1992 -- also fired his weapon at the vice principal of a nearby elementary school, hitting the front door of the school.",
"Garcia eventually surrendered to police, later admitting in a formal written statement that he had intentionally killed both the police officer and his wife, according to the attorney general.",
"A Bexar County grand jury indicted him in September 2001 for capital murder.",
"During his trial, jurors saw photos from inside Garcia's home showing him and his wife brandishing weapons.",
"Prosecutors also noted that his wife Jessica sought help from a battered women's shelter in 1994, after alleging physical and emotional abuse, while her co-workers had seen marks and bruises on her.",
"In February 2002, Garcia was convicted and sentenced to death.",
"The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his conviction two years later.",
"And in 2007, the same court denied his application for habeas corpus relief -- in other words, claiming the state didn't have a right to hold him -- according to the attorney general.",
"A U.S. district court turned down a similar petition in 2009, and a U.S.",
"Circuit of Appeals court rejected his appeal the following year.",
"In March 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court denied his writ of certiorari review, a legal term related to a higher court reviewing a lower court's decision.",
"CNN's Bill Mears and Nick Valencia contributed to this report."
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"He also wounded a relative and fired at a nearby elementary school .",
"The U.S. Supreme Court turned down his last-minute appeal Thursday ."
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"Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Thailand's floodwaters inched toward downtown Bangkok Saturday, threatening some subway stations as leaders urged residents not to open defenses set up to divert the waters from the capital.",
"At least six subway stations are on the floodway, authorities said.",
"Residents have threatened to open the defenses to drain water from their flooded neighborhoods, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration said.",
"\"The main problem of solving flood is no longer technical but people,\" Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said during the weekly radio address.",
"The flooding has killed 442 people, the Interior Ministry said.",
"Of Thailand's 64 provinces, 25 have been affected.",
"Bangkok's central business district is still dry but other parts of the bustling metropolis of 12 million people are inundated.",
"The flooding has had an enormous business impact as many factories and offices have been under water for more than a month.",
"Affected businesses include Hi Tech Industrial Park, where Canon and Sony own assembly plants.",
"CNN's Kocha Olarn contributed to this report."
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"Interior Ministry: Flooding has killed 442 people .",
"It is Thailand's worst flooding in decades ."
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"(CNN) -- Cholera has already killed almost 3,000 Haitians.",
"Now it is threatening to cause misery in another vital way.",
"A chunk of Haiti's rice harvest will probably be lost because of farmers' fears of cholera contamination, the United Nations said Wednesday.",
"On top of that, consumers are afraid to buy rice grown in areas affected by the cholera outbreak.",
"The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and the Haitian Ministries of Agriculture and Health are providing hygiene information to farmers who are reluctant to step into rice paddies, fed by rivers and canals, to harvest the crops.",
"The U.N. food agency, concerned that lost crops may lead to food shortages, urged more outreach and hands-on training in rural communities.",
"The effects of the cholera outbreak were magnified by floods in November caused by Hurricane Tomas.",
"\"Without a timely response to the damage caused by floods and cholera to Haitian agriculture, food security could plunge, worsening the effects of last January's earthquake on the poor rural population,\" the FAO said in a statement.",
"Cholera has sickened more than 130,000 people in Haiti and 2,761 have died.",
"But those numbers from the Haitian health ministry are from December 18.",
"Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors Without Borders), which has been operating cholera treatment centers throughout Haiti, warned that the disease is still spreading.",
"Symptoms of the acute, bacterial illness, which is caused by drinking tainted water, can be mild or even nonexistent.",
"But sometimes they can be severe: leg cramps, profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting, which can cause rapid loss of body fluids and lead to dehydration, shock and death.",
"Some aid groups, including MSF, have criticized the cholera response in Haiti as woefully inadequate, given the fact that about 12,000 aid groups operate within the country.",
"\"I recently went to Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, and found my Medicins Sans Frontieres colleagues overwhelmed, having already treated more than 75,000 cholera cases,\" MSF International President Unni Karunakara wrote in a commentary published this week in a British newspaper, the Guardian.",
"\"In the 11 months since the quake, little has been done to improve sanitation across the country, allowing cholera to spread at a dizzying pace.\""
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"A reduced rice crop could lead to food shortages .",
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"(CNN) -- Up to 30 million people are facing \"a humanitarian disaster\" as one of Africa's biggest lakes shrinks, a United Nations agency warned Thursday.",
"Porters remove goods from a boat on Lake Chad in 2007.",
"Lake Chad was about the size of Maryland -- bigger than Israel or Kuwait -- in 1963, satellite images show.",
"By 2001, it covered less than one-fifth of that area -- making it smaller than Delaware or Mauritius.",
"The drying-up of the shallow lake is fueling conflict and migration, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization said.",
"Once one of the biggest bodies of water in the world, it could disappear entirely in about 20 years, the FAO said, citing forecasts from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.",
"\"If that happens it's going to be a disaster,\" Parviz Koohafkan, director of the Land and Water Division of the FAO, told CNN by phone from Rome.",
"The Lake Chad basin is \"one of the most important agriculture heritage sites in the world -- the biodiversity, the migratory birds, not to mention more than 20 million people living out of Lake Chad -- fisherpeople, farmers.\"",
"\"It would be a human disaster, a tragedy,\" he said.",
"\"In this case we have people who are the poorest of the poor.\"",
"\"In addition to an approximately 60 percent decline in fish production, there has been degradation of pasturelands, leading to a shortage of animal feed estimated at 45 percent in certain places in 2006, reduction in livestock and biodiversity,\" the agency said.",
"The disappearance of the lake is being caused by climate change, population pressure and natural variations in climate, the FAO said.",
"Two rivers which feed the lake, the Chari and Logone, have been significantly reduced in the past 40 years, the agency said.",
"The organization will unveil the results of a study into the diversion of the Oubangui river in an effort to help Lake Chad at a conference, \"Saving Lake Chad,\" in Rome, Italy, on Friday.",
"\"Water transfer is not a new thing,\" Koohafkan told CNN.",
"\"The major problem is that this is water transfer among different countries.",
"\"These options cost money, and need policy work, need technical work,\" he said.",
"\"Some kind of public-private partnership would be needed\" to pay for any solution as ambitious as diverting a river.",
"The lake borders on Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria, one of Africa's most populous countries.",
"It measured about 25,000 square kilometers (9,652 square miles) in 1963 and 1,500 square kilometers (579 square miles) in 2001 -- just under 17 percent its size 38 years earlier.",
"Lake Chad is only one of many inland bodies of water which are drying up.",
"Similar warnings have been issued about lakes in Mexico, Russia and elsewhere."
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"Lake Chad could dry up in 20 years, U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization says .",
"Lake supports livelihoods of 30 million people .",
"In 2001, lake was one-fifth of 1963 size .",
"Climate change, population pressure fuel lake's decline, agency says ."
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"Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- At least two car bombs exploded Friday near the television studios of Televisa in Ciudad Victoria, the capital of Tamaulipas state in northeastern Mexico, authorities said.",
"One blast occurred outside the TV station while the second happened next to the municipal transit service offices, said the state attorney general's office.",
"No fatalities or injuries were reported.",
"The nearly simultaneous blasts occurred shortly after midnight.",
"The explosion in front of Televisa, a CNN affiliate, damaged the building and knocked out power on the block, the station said.",
"The station also was knocked off the air locally, Televisa said.",
"Images of one of the blasts show the carcass of a car, the explosion leaving only the vehicle's mangled frame but not causing much damage to nearby buildings or trees.",
"The wreckage lies next to a wooden street pole that is slightly tilted and holds a stop sign.",
"The car that exploded in front of the television studio was a red Chevrolet Corsica with Texas license plates, the attorney general's office said in a news release.",
"The car in front of the transit office was a white Mazda, also with Texas license plates, officials said.",
"Tamaulipas is the state where authorities discovered 72 bodies this week on a ranch believed to be used by narcotraffickers.",
"Authorities are investigating whether the 58 men and 14 women, who were migrants from Central and South America, were killed by the Zetas cartel.",
"Televisa previously came under attack August 15 when a grenade damaged apartments near the TV station's office in the city of Monterrey in neighboring Nuevo Leon state.",
"There were no reports of injuries in that attack.",
"A similar attack occurred the previous day, when a grenade was launched against the Televisa offices in the city of Matamoros, in Tamaulipas.",
"The building was damaged but there were no reports of injuries.",
"It was not clear Friday why Televisa is being targeted.",
"Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon have become a bloody battleground between the Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, which ended an alliance earlier this year.",
"The Zetas used to be the armed branch of the Gulf Cartel but have split off into a separate drug-trafficking organization.",
"Journalists have come under increasing attack in Mexico, as drug cartels try to limit the information being distributed about their activities.",
"The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit organization, criticized this month's grenade attacks against Televisa.",
"\"No journalist is safe in Mexico when criminal groups feel free to wage grenade attacks on a national broadcaster,\" said Carlos Lauria, the organization's senior program coordinator for the Americas.",
"\"Drug traffickers are increasingly terrorizing the press and defining what is news and what isn't.",
"We urge the Mexican authorities must fully investigate these incidents and bring those responsible to justice.\"",
"Eight journalists were killed in Mexico in 2009 and another eight have been killed so far this year, the Committee to Protect Journalists said this month.",
"In total, 54 journalists and media workers have been slain in Mexico since 1992, the group said.",
"Car bombings by Mexican cartels are a new phenomena.",
"Among the first was a July 15 explosion in Ciudad Juarez that killed four people."
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"One car bomb targeted Televisa, a CNN affiliate .",
"The attacks occurred in the same state where 72 bodies were discovered this week .",
"No fatalities or injuries were reported in the bombings .",
"Televisa was previously attacked nearly two weeks ago in Monterrey ."
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"(Mental Floss) -- We all know about the Confederate states leaving the Union.",
"But that was far from the only secessionist movement in American history.",
"Here are some rebellious regions you won't find in too many history books.",
"This map shows some rebellious regions that have tried to seceed from the United States.",
"1. The Kingdom of Beaver Island .",
"Beaver Island, a small island in Lake Michigan, became the home of Mormon leader James Strang and his followers -- called Strangites -- in 1848.",
"Two years later, Strang declared himself king of the church -- complete with crown, scepter, robe, and a harem of 15 wives.",
"However, most of the island's inhabitants were his followers, so he essentially became King of Beaver Island.",
"The power got to his head, and he began forcing his rule onto the non-believers, causing some violence between the two factions.",
"In 1856, the USS Michigan pulled into the harbor and invited Strang aboard.",
"As he was walking towards the ship, he was shot in the back by disgruntled followers, who then ran up the gangplank and escaped.",
"Adding to the mysterious circumstances, the assassins were set ashore on nearby Mackinac Island and never charged for their crime.",
"Shortly after the assassination, angry mobs from surrounding islands eventually forced the Strangites from their homes, thus ending the short-lived Kingdom of Beaver Island.",
"2. The state of Superior .",
"Concern over a perceived lack of interest from the Michigan state government, the people of the Upper Peninsula (U.P.",
"), affectionately known as \"Yoopers,\" have been trying to secede and form the State of Superior since as far back as 1897.",
"The movement gained momentum after 1957 when a bridge connecting the U.P.",
"region to Lower Michigan made it easier for southern \"Trolls\" (people who live \"below the bridge\") and Yoopers to mingle.",
"This animosity continued into the mid-1980s, when 20,000 signatures were collected and submitted to the state for a secession request.",
"However, the number was shy of the 36,000 required, and the request subsequently denied.",
"The secessionist drive lives on today, as numerous grassroots organizations are trying to muster support for another official attempt at an independent U.P.",
"Until that day comes, though, the Yoopers and Trolls will just have to try to get along.",
"3. The Great Republic of Rough and Ready .",
"Rough and Ready, California, was a mining town founded in 1849 by the Rough and Ready Company of Wisconsin.",
"As the town's population rapidly exploded to 3,000, lawlessness was on the rise -- and the U.S. government was not much help squelching the rampant crime.",
"Mental Floss: Three controversial maps .",
"Additionally, a new federal tax on mining operations added fuel to the region's civil unrest.",
"Seeing little support from Washington, on April 7, 1850, the townspeople voted to secede from the Union.",
"But just three months later, as the Fourth of July approached, The Great Republic of Rough and Ready wanted to have a celebration (which seems odd considering they were no longer technically Americans).",
"When nearby Nevada City wouldn't sell liquor to \"foreign miners,\" it was decided that maybe America wasn't so bad after all.",
"The townspeople voted themselves back into the Union on the very same day and the party went off as planned.",
"4. The Conch Republic .",
"In the early-1980s, the U.S. Border Patrol set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the Florida Keys in an effort to stop illegal drugs and immigrants.",
"The time to check everyone's identification at the checkpoint resulted in a 20-mile traffic jam that turned tourists away, thus damaging the economy in the Keys.",
"After numerous legal attempts to have the checkpoint removed, on April 23, 1982, Key West mayor Dennis Wardlow declared the Florida Keys were seceding from the Union.",
"Moments later, now-Prime Minister Wardlow symbolically declared war on the U.S. by breaking a stale piece of Cuban bread over the head of a man dressed in a U.S. Navy uniform.",
"One minute later, Wardlow turned to the Admiral in charge of the U.S.",
"Naval Base at Key West and surrendered, thus ending the Conch Republic's Civil Rebellion.",
"He then immediately asked for $1 billion in federal aid to help rebuild his war-torn nation's economy.",
"While officially the Republic only existed for one minute, the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the rebellion lives on.",
"Today you can buy Conch Republic citizen and diplomatic passports (both of which have been used for international travel, though they are not intended to be official documents) and even an official flag of the republic (complete with the awesome motto, \"We seceded where others failed\").",
"The community has even minted a series of limited edition one-conch dollar coins that can be used as legal tender while in the Keys.",
"5. The State of Absaroka .",
"Feeling that the Democratic southern half of Wyoming was not working in conjunction with the rest of the state, a secessionist movement was launched by northern Republicans in 1939 to create a new state that would better serve its more conservative population.",
"This state, Absaroka -- so named after the nearby mountain range -- was to be made up of northern Wyoming, southeast Montana, and the western region of South Dakota.",
"While the secessionist movement was never very large or pursued through legal channels, that didn't stop A. R. Swickard, the street commissioner of Sheridan, Wyoming, from appointing himself governor of the \"state.\"",
"The movement went so far as to press Absaroka license plates and crown a Miss Absaroka beauty queen.",
"Absaroka could even brag about a visit from a foreign dignitary, King Haakon VII of Norway (though he was officially visiting Wyoming and just happened to be in Absaroka).",
"Despite all of the hoopla, the state never came to be, and now, so many years later, the intent of the secessionist movement is in question.",
"Some believe there was a genuine attempt to create a new state, while others say it was just a fun way for cowboys to distract themselves during tough economic times.",
"6. The State of Jefferson .",
"Northern California and southern Oregon have been trying to merge since 1852.",
"The attempts have been met with mixed results, though the \"State of Jefferson\" movement of 1941 came closest to making it happen.",
"The region felt it was being ignored by their respective state legislatures, so in response the people created the \"State of Jefferson Citizen's Committee\" to explore the possibilities of secession.",
"The group began stopping cars on Highway 99 to hand out the state's \"Proclamation of Independence,\" a pamphlet outlining the grievances they held and the solutions they proposed.",
"To help rally their cause, they developed a state flag made up of a gold miner's pan with two black X's inside, representing the double-cross they felt the Oregon and California state governments had pulled.",
"Mental Floss: Thomas Jefferson .",
"On December 4, 1941, Judge John Childs was elected governor of Jefferson in the state's temporary capital of Yreka, California.",
"The event was filmed by numerous newsreel companies who were set to air the footage during the week of December 8.",
"History had other plans, as the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor the day before the big premiere.",
"Driven by a sense of national obligation, the Jefferson secession was put aside and never really regained momentum.",
"While the official movement might have died out, the residents of this region still hold the concept in their hearts, with many identifying themselves even today as the population of the great state of Jefferson.",
"7. The McDonald Territory .",
"Noel, Missouri, located in McDonald County in the far southwest corner of the Show Me State, has been a popular tourist destination for many years.",
"Therefore, when the Missouri State Highway Commission left Noel off their annual \"Family Vacationland\" map in 1961, the region was not happy pleased.",
"To display their dissatisfaction, McDonald County drew up papers of secession and presented them to the state legislature, declaring itself the independent McDonald Territory.",
"The county went so far as to elect officials, form a territorial militia, and even printed up visas that were issued to visitors so they could travel throughout the territory.",
"Perhaps the most lasting impression were the thousands of McDonald Territory stamps that were printed and sold throughout the area.",
"While most agree that the secession was done purely for publicity, the state of Missouri wasn't necessarily happy about the type of publicity it was garnering.",
"So in order to end this mock rebellion, the state declared that state employee retirement pension payments would be suspended for McDonald County, all current state employees would be fired, and all state funding would be withheld.",
"Needless to say, McDonald Territory surrendered and returned to being simply McDonald County, Missouri, once again.",
"And here's one more secessionist movement that's been in the news this year.",
"From 1995 to 2002 (except for a few months in 2000), Alaska's First Dude Todd Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence Party.",
"Fellow Mental Floss writer Jeff Fleischer has the story on the AIP: .",
"8. Alaska . For decades, a well-organized separatist movement has campaigned to turn America's largest state into its own nation.",
"The bitterness dates back to 1958, when Alaska's citizens were given a simple yes-or-no vote on statehood.",
"Many Alaskans felt they were denied more options on the issue, prompting a land developer named Joe Vogler to organize a re-vote that would offer Alaskans four possibilities -- remain a territory, become a state, take commonwealth status, or become a separate nation.",
"Using the vote as his platform, Vogler ran for governor in 1974 -- and soon made a habit of it.",
"With colorful slogans such as, \"I'm an Alaskan, not an American.",
"I've got no use for America or her damned institutions,\" Vogler spearheaded the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP), and his campaign has twice topped 5 percent of the vote.",
"Mental Floss: Nine modern-day independence movements .",
"More surprisingly, former U.S. interior secretary Wally Hickel got elected governor on the AIP ticket in 1990.",
"Unfortunately for the party, Hickel only ran on the ticket because he lost the Republican primary.",
"Never a supporter of the plebiscite idea, Hickel left the AIP and rejoined the Republicans in 1994.",
"Today, the AIP continues to draw about 4 percent of voters statewide.",
"And in 2006, Alaska took part in the first-ever North American Secessionist Convention, joining other groups from Vermont, Hawaii, and the South.",
"As for Vogler, he was murdered in 1993 -- reportedly the result of an argument over a business deal.",
"On a brighter note, honoring his wish to never be buried in U.S. soil, Vogler was laid to rest in Canada's Yukon Territory.",
"For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .",
"Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Mormon leader James Strang named himself king of Beaver Island, Michigan .",
"Key West mayor declared Florida Keys were seceding from Union in 1982 .",
"Northern California and southern Oregon have been trying to merge since 1852 .",
"\"Yoopers\" and \"Trolls\" are forced to get along in Michigan ."
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"Ras Lanuf, Libya (CNN) -- The military forces of Moammar Gadhafi on Friday pounded Ras Lanuf, the key oil port once in the hands of rebel forces, with its leadership confidently vowing to retake all territory from the opposition despite growing international pressure.",
"Even as it targeted its domestic enemies, the Tripoli government continued to parry with leaders around the globe.",
"Deputy Foreign Minister Khaled Kaim, for instance, said Friday that Libya has suspended diplomatic relations with France, one day after the French government recognized the newly created Libyan opposition movement as the sole representative of the country.",
"In Ras Lanuf, pro-Gadhafi forces cranked up an intense and steady bombardment of the city, believed to be by rocket, artillery and tank fire.",
"A storage tank at an oil refinery was on fire after an air raid there.",
"\"We saw a bomb fall about a kilometer to the southwest of the refinery, and moments later saw thick black smoke rising from the refinery.",
"We don't know, and no one we spoke to could say with any level of certainty or veracity, what caused the fire,\" said CNN Correspondent Ben Wedeman.",
"Dozens of pickup trucks and cars belonging to the opposition were heading away from the city amid fear that Libyan forces were advancing as the bombardment continued.",
"The rebels evacuated to a checkpoint outside the town, but that and other rebel positions also were targeted by airstrikes.",
"Rebels said the eastern city has been essentially empty as civilians fled and opposition forces retreated from sustained attacks.",
"On Thursday, state media said the town was \"cleansed\" of the fighters.",
"This reflects the turn in fortunes for Gadhafi's well-equipped military, which has gained an upper hand after rebel fighters seized ground across Libya.",
"Along with its offensive in Ras Lanuf, government soldiers beat back rebels Thursday in Zawiya east of the capital, Tripoli.",
"Zawiya's Martyrs' Square was littered with the bombed-out, scorched carcasses of army tanks and other military vehicles.",
"Workers swept up the evidence as Gadhafi supporters chanted slogans and waved green flags.",
"Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, one of Gadhafi's sons and a spokesman for the regime, vowed Thursday to retake other areas in eastern Libya that were controlled by the opposition and warned the international community that Libyans won't welcome NATO and Americans.",
"NATO is contemplating the establishment of a no-fly zone, but says it needs a clear U.N. mandate to do it.",
"\"I receive hundreds of calls from the east daily, and they are saying, 'Save us.'",
"They are begging us and pleading for us to save them, and my answer is two words.",
"Listen to me, and I want those armed groups to listen to me real well, and I want our people in the east to hear this as well: We're coming,\" he said.",
"Saif al-Islam Gadhafi is one of two Moammar Gadhafi sons who share the first name Saif.",
"On the diplomatic front, meanwhile, opposition to Moammar Gadhafi continues to gain momentum.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama reiterated Friday that he wants the Libyan leader to \"step down.\"",
"He added that he \"won't take (the) decision lightly\" to decide whether to use military force, including helping enforce a no-fly zone, saying it is critical to \"balance costs versus benefits.\"",
"Obama noted that NATO officials will meet Tuesday to consider whether to implement a no-fly zone.",
"He said U.S. actions so far, including freezing assets and other sanctions, are \"slowly tightening the noose\" on Gadhafi.",
"\"We have moved about as swiftly as an international coalition has ever moved to impose sanctions,\" he said.",
"The U.S. Treasury Department beefed up those sanctions Friday, freezing the assets of nine more individuals.",
"Among them are the wife and four sons of Libya's leader, including Saadi, Hannibal, Muhammad and Saif Al-Arab Gadhafi.",
"Libya's defense minister, military intelligence director, external security organization head and public works coordinator are also included.",
"Also Friday, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon introduced former Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah Khatib as his new special envoy to Libya.",
"Khatib will leave New York over the weekend, accompanied by humanitarian and U.N. officials, to \"convey, in no uncertain terms, the concerns of the United Nations and the international community,\" Ban said.",
"\"I (hope) that this effort ... will succeed in stopping the killings and ending the suffering of the civilian population, in addressing their humanitarian needs and in preserving the unity of the Libyan people and the territorial integrity of their homeland,\" Khatib said, adding that Gadhafi's government \"welcomed\" the visit.",
"In Brussels, Belgium, the European Council, a body of the European Union, issued a declaration saying Gadhafi \"must relinquish power immediately.\"",
"\"His regime has lost all legitimacy and is no longer an interlocutor for the EU.",
"The European Union has adopted restrictive measures against the country's leadership and against entities holding sizeable assets controlled by the regime and stands ready to adopt further sanctions.",
"\"The objective is for Libya to rapidly embark on an orderly transition to democracy through a broad-based dialogue.",
"The European Union welcomes and encourages the interim transitional national council based in Benghazi which it considers a political interlocutor.\"",
"Some members are clearer than others in their support for the National Transitional Council as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.",
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in his news conference that \"we consider the National Council based in Benghazi as the proper interlocutors for Libya and they need to be recognized as such and encouraged.\"",
"German Chancellor Angela Merkel was more cautious in her approach to the council and called them a possible interlocutor.",
"Sarkozy said the European Council decision is a very strong one, and he stressed that a U.N. mandate and a request from the region are needed for intervention.",
"\"We are considering and examining all necessary options to deal with the situation,\" he said.",
"\"We cannot stand by and watch this happen.\"",
"He wouldn't say whether France or Britain would take unilateral military action if a U.N. mandate wasn't achieved.",
"British Prime Minister David Cameron said in Brussels that authorities are tightening \"the net\" on Gadhafi and \"his henchman\" with tougher financial sanctions.",
"\"We have added the Libyan Central Bank and the Libyan Investment Authority to the Libyan EU asset freezing list and, in doing so, the UK has frozen a total of 12 billion pounds of Libyan assets,\" Cameron said.",
"On Friday, the Libyan ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations will call on the United States to follow France's lead and recognize the opposition as the legitimate representative of Libya.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced plans to meet with opposition leaders when she visits Tunisia and Egypt next week.",
"She said the United States was suspending relations with the Libyan Embassy in Washington, and an administration official added that the embassy \"must shut down.\"",
"Protests against the 68-year-old Gadhafi began February 15 as anti-government demonstrators sought his ouster after nearly 42 years of rule, and the discontent devolved into a fierce and bloody civil war.",
"Death toll estimates earlier this week ranged from more than 1,000 to as many as 2,000.",
"As of Thursday morning, the war had forced out nearly 250,000 people, many of them poor migrant workers who have been stranded at both the Tunisian and Egyptian borders, the U.N. refugee agency said.",
"CNN's Jonathan Wald contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Gadhafi's government suspends diplomatic relations with France, a minister says .",
"NEW: The U.S. broadens its sanctions, freezing assets of Gadhafi's relatives and officials .",
"The EU council calls for Gadhafi's departure .",
"Pro-Gadhafi forces steadily bombarded the oil port city of Ras Lanuf ."
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"Tokyo (CNN) -- Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station returned to the plant Friday after a strong aftershock forced them to leave a day earlier, the plant's owner said.",
"The quake forced crews at the plant to evacuate as it rattled northern Japan late Thursday night.",
"They returned to the plant about eight and a half hours later, and no fresh damage to the facility had been reported Friday afternoon, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said.",
"Before the quake, engineers had been injecting non-flammable nitrogen into the No.",
"1 reactor containment shell to counter a buildup of hydrogen in the chamber.",
"That process continued while the plant was evacuated, and so did the pumping of fresh water into that reactor and units 2 and 3, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.",
"Hydrogen buildup is a symptom of overheated fuel rods in the cores of the reactors, which plant workers have been struggling to keep under control since the earthquake and tsunami.",
"The nitrogen injections are aimed at displacing oxygen in the reactor shell, reducing the possibility of an explosion -- a chance Tokyo Electric called \"extremely low.\"",
"A hydrogen explosion blew the roof and upper walls off the No 1. reactor building two days after the quake, and another blast two days later blew apart the No.",
"3 building.",
"A suspected hydrogen explosion is believed to have damaged the No.",
"2 reactor on March 15 as well.",
"Both the Japan Meteorological Agency and the U.S. Geological Survey have rated Thursday's quake a magnitude 7.1, though the Japanese initially rated it at 7.4.",
"It was centered in the Pacific Ocean about 90 kilometers (56 miles) north of the plant, near the epicenter of the magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami that knocked out the plant's coolant systems four weeks ago Friday.",
"It also caused radioactive water to spill from the spent fuel cooling pools of another nuclear power plant, Tohoku Electric's Onagawa plant, the Sendai-based utility and NISA reported Friday.",
"About 15 liters (3.9 gallons) of water spilled, and the concentration of radioactive particles was far below levels that would pose an immediate threat to human health, the company said.",
"The three reactors at the Onagawa plant, about 140 kilometers (88 miles) north of Fukushima Daiichi, shut down automatically when the March 11 earthquake struck and have not been restarted.",
"Workers at Fukushima Daiichi have been struggling to keep the reactors from overheating for four weeks, pouring tons of fresh water an hour into the reactors and trying to contain the spread of radioactive contamination that has been pouring out.",
"About 78,000 people who live within a 20-kilometer radius of the plant were ordered to leave their homes in the days following the quake, and another 62,000 within 20 to 30 kilometers have been told to remain indoors.",
"But government readings show that people beyond the current restricted zone may be exposed to dangerous long-term doses of radiation even though the readings fall below levels that now require an evacuation, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told reporters Thursday.",
"Edano, the Japanese government's point man on the crisis, said the country may set standards for long-term radiation exposure that would effectively extend the evacuation zone around the damaged plant.",
"\"It is time for the government to consider setting another category for accumulated exposure,\" Edano told reporters.",
"\"The safety of the people is the first priority, and social needs come after that.\"",
"There is no timetable for a decision, Edano said.",
"Readings released Thursday by the country's science ministry from areas outside that zone indicated that long-term exposure could top the government's one-time standards for an evacuation within a few months.",
"Some of those are in towns to the northwest, where prevailing winds have blown radioactive particles released from the Fukushima Daiichi plant.",
"The recorded doses are far below those that would cause radiation sickness but could pose a long-term risk of cancer, according to medical experts.",
"The anti-nuclear group Greenpeace and the International Atomic Energy Agency raised alarms about the spread of radioactivity beyond the 30-kilometer zone in late March.",
"Hiroo Saso and Ailing Chang contributed to this report for CNN."
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"(CNN) -- Zuccotti Park is not Tahrir Square, because the United States is not Egypt.",
"In case this is not obvious to those camping out near Wall Street and in various other cities around the country, consider the following: In about 13 months, all 435 members of the House of Representatives must stand for election.",
"In addition, 33 Senate seats and residency at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will be up for grabs.",
"And this is just at the federal level.",
"So if the \"Occupy Wall Street\" crowd wants to peacefully overthrow the government, there is no need to gather in a public square.",
"The demonstrators can work for a candidate or run themselves.",
"Unfortunately, those who are part of this movement seem to have dismissed this option.",
"The New York group has produced a manifesto of sorts, entitled a \"Declaration of the Occupation of New York City.\"",
"Among the grievances listed (which they helpfully note are not \"all-inclusive\") is \"that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power.\"",
"So are we to conclude that since corporations control American politics, the best thing for us to do is to sit outside in a park and issue manifestos?",
"Writing in the pages of CNN.com, Douglas Rushkoff chastises those of us who don't understand the point of all this, explaining that Occupy Wall Street is \"the product of the decentralized networked-era culture, it is less about victory than sustainability.",
"It is not about one-pointedness, but inclusion and groping toward consensus.\"",
"Well, in the U.S., groups made up of disparate individuals \"network\" themselves together to make collective decisions all the time.",
"We call it democracy.",
"As for \"victory\" being exchanged for \"sustainability,\" how is it that these are interchangeable nouns?",
"Political processes tend to be ongoing and aimed at \"sustainability.\"",
"Congress does not just take a vote and then dissolve.",
"\"Victory,\" as Rushkoff terms it, is just a way of saying that we have reached a decision.",
"It is probably not our first, and let's hope, not our last.",
"And though it is not always pretty, President Barack Obama, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Harry Reid spend most of their time \"groping toward consensus.\"",
"They must do so, however, in the real world, where people disagree.",
"But let's get back to that idea about democracy not being possible because corporations run everything.",
"This feeling, I think, is at the root of the Occupy Wall Street movement.",
"Now, no one is going to say that money doesn't play a role in politics.",
"It always has, and it always will.",
"What does this mean? Well, if you want to influence the nation's politics you have to raise money.",
"So raise some money.",
"In this sense, Rushkoff is right to talk about how, in a networked and wired world, politics is different.",
"It is now much cheaper to get your message out.",
"Where 20 years ago a candidate would have to raise hundreds or thousands of dollars to fund a mass mailing, voters are now just a mouse click away.",
"Not enough money to buy traditional advertising?",
"There is the Internet -- Facebook and Twitter, for example.",
"Ron Paul, hardly a favorite of corporate America, has managed to use this new technology to raise several million dollars in just a day.",
"Technology has leveled the political playing field.",
"Still, as they say about the lottery, you have to be in it to win it.",
"So if you want to change America, you have to get in the game.",
"But here's the rub: Occupations and rallies are fun.",
"Electoral politics is hard.",
"The rules are complex, and so are the voters.",
"A gathering in the street has a lot in common with a party.",
"Running for office and working for a candidate is like a 9 to 5 job.",
"And getting involved in the political process forces you out of your comfort zone.",
"Instead of hanging out with a few hundred -- or a few thousand -- people who basically agree with you, you have to confront and perhaps persuade those who don't agree with you.",
"In the process, however, you will learn more about democracy then you will at any teach-in.",
"So my suggestion to Occupy Wall Street and their affiliates throughout the country is to pay as much attention to their 15th Amendment right to vote as they do to their 1st Amendment right to peaceably assemble.",
"In other words, get out of your sleeping bags and onto the ballot!",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul Sracic."
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"Paul Sracic says if Occupy Wall Streeters want change, they should run for office .",
"He says demonstrating in a park won't do anything about corporate power in U.S.",
"He says protesters want inclusion, consensus, but they have it; it's called democracy .",
"Sracic: Rallies are fun; running for office not as much.",
"To change U.S., get in game ."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- Can an innocent Christmas present plunge a normal family into consensual madness?",
"Yes, it can, especially if the catalyst is a three-foot My Size Barbie, the first exceedingly popular toy that my daughter, Gaby, ever asked for insistently.",
"Her obsession meant I ended up in some remote Toys \"R\" Us (in another state!)",
"one Christmas Eve about ten years ago, vying with other desperately doting dads for the last few items on well-looted shelves.",
"But I managed to bag my first Big Gift.",
"The next morning, Gaby exuberantly unwrapped the My Size Barbie, immediately and inexplicably christening the doll Jessica Lynn Cohen.",
"Why that oddly specific appellation, with its country-western triple cadence, we'll never know.",
"It was Christmas, and it was her doll, and it stuck.",
"Gaby and Jessica Lynn Cohen became instant BFFs.",
"Gaby lent Jessica Lynn Cohen her clothes, they played school, hosted tea parties, went to the park, sat on the stoop together, reenacted scenes from Disney movies.",
"But then came the inevitable cooling off.",
"Kids tire of gifts.",
"And they abruptly and blithely cast them into oblivion.",
"No big deal. We put Jessica Lynn Cohen in the basement, in a spare room we use as a catchall storage space.",
"Oprah.com: How to stretch your dollars this Christmas .",
"In the beginning, we'd each move her around just to scare one another.",
"But then she seemed to move around on her own.",
"She'd appear in various rooms without anyone having touched her -- or at least without anyone admitting to having touched her.",
"I'd go downstairs to attend to a blown fuse and there'd be Jessica Lynn Cohen in the boiler room.",
"We'd find her in the pantry with her arms outstretched in a sort of pious Joan of Arc gesture of supplication or in the bathroom with one leg raised high over her head like a Folies Bergère dancer.",
"Coming upon her this way could be frightening.",
"She had taken on the stricken phantasmal look of a ghost from a shipwreck.",
"She also started terrifying other people.",
"I could always tell by the ashen face of some poor plumber or cable guy that he had accidentally stumbled upon Jessica Lynn Cohen in a dark corner of the house.",
"So we decided to get rid of her.",
"But very bad things happened to us whenever we tried to throw her out.",
"Oprah.com: Get organized and tame the holiday madness .",
"Within hours of the first time I left her out on the street for the garbage men, my wife, Mercedes, who'd never had a single related symptom, had a severe gallstone attack and needed to be rushed to the emergency room.",
"I reluctantly brought Jessica Lynn Cohen back inside.",
"A couple of months later, I was hit by a car as I crossed a street in Culver City, California.",
"At the moment of impact, I did not have that common experience of seeing my life passing before my eyes; I had the unmistakable feeling that Jessica Lynn Cohen was angry.",
"I called Mercedes and asked if anything unusual had occurred in the days preceding my accident.",
"She admitted that she'd taken Jessica Lynn Cohen to the Salvation Army.",
"Get her back, I said.",
"We tried finding a new home for her.",
"A friend -- a single guy without kids -- finally agreed to take her in.",
"Within two weeks, he'd developed a pilonidal cyst and his brother in Florida was arrested for embezzlement.",
"Our friend returned her and asked that we never again discuss her in his presence.",
"We eventually had to reach an accommodation with Jessica Lynn Cohen and accept her as a permanent member of our family.",
"She is now the unrivaled centerpiece of our Christmas tradition.",
"On Christmas Eve we keep her in a special \"secret detention room.\"",
"(We worry that Santa, because of his facility for seeing into the souls of all things, might discern in Jessica Lynn Cohen something irredeemably bad, and be frightened off before he has a chance to deliver our presents.)",
"But on Christmas morning, there she stands, in her honored place of precedence, next to the tree.",
"Oprah.com: How to start a new holiday tradition .",
"Yes, I suppose you could say she's an evil zombie doll who led our family to madness.",
"But, damn it, she's our evil zombie doll.",
"We adore her. And we're never, ever going to abandon her.",
"And so, another Christmas will come and go, under the vigilant, unflinching gaze of Our Gracious Lady of Nonrefundable Gifts, Our Jessica Lynn Cohen.",
"By Mark Leyner from O, The Oprah Magazine, December 2009 .",
"Mark Leyner is the author of eight books, including \"Why Do Men Have Nipples?",
"Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini.\"",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2011 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"(CNN) -- Penn State students and supporters of head football coach Joe Paterno rallied Tuesday evening outside his home amid growing calls for him to resign related to his response to child sex abuse allegations brought against a former assistant.",
"The crowd in State College, mostly young people, greeted and cheered Paterno hours after his weekly news conference was canceled.",
"Speaking outside and from a window at his residence, the 84-year-old Nittany Lions legend said he was praying for victims in the case.",
"Paterno, a longtime coach with a largely spotless record, is under pressure because of his response to allegations brought to him in 2002 by a graduate assistant who said he had seen retired defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky sexually assaulting a young boy in the shower at the campus football complex.",
"Paterno reported the allegations to his boss, and Pennsylvania's attorney general said it appeared that the coach had met his obligations under state law.",
"Still, some critics have said that he should have reported the suspected abuse to police.",
"\"We don't yet know who is legally guilty,\" SI.com columnist Michael Rosenberg wrote on the website.",
"\"But several prominent employees at the state university are morally guilty.",
"And one of them is Joe Paterno.\"",
"On Tuesday, Paterno's son, Scott Paterno, said on Twitter that reports in the New York Times, citing people briefed on the matter, that university officials were planning an end to Paterno's 46-year coaching tenure were \"premature.\"",
"\"No discussions about retirement with JVP,\" Paterno said, using his father's initials.",
"He said the decision to cancel the news conference was not his father's.",
"\"Due to the ongoing legal circumstances centered around the recent allegations and charges, we have determined that today's press conference cannot be held and will not be rescheduled,\" the university said in a statement.",
"Joe Paterno said Tuesday afternoon that he hopes to hold another news conference soon.",
"\"I know you guys have a lot of good questions, and I'd like to answer them, but I can't do it now,\" Paterno said after practice.",
"A preliminary hearing for Sandusky, originally set for Wednesday, has been rescheduled for December 7, officials said Tuesday afternoon.",
"Sandusky's attorney has said more time was needed to bring in witnesses.",
"On Sunday, Penn State announced that two university officials accused by state authorities of failing to report suspected abuse had stepped down, one of them returning to retirement and the other taking administrative leave.",
"Attorney General Linda Kelly said Monday that the alleged failure of Penn State Athletic Director Timothy Curley, 57, and Gary Schultz, 62, the university's senior vice president for finance and business, to report abuse claims \"likely allowed a child predator to continue to victimize children for many, many years.\"",
"Curley and Schultz, who are each charged with one count of perjury and one count of failure to report suspected abuse, were released Monday on $75,000 bail each.",
"At the arraignment hearing, their attorneys said the men were innocent of the charges and would fight to clear their names.",
"Sandusky is accused of sexual offenses, child endangerment and \"corruption of a minor\" charges involving eight boys, most or all of whom he met through the Second Mile, the charity he founded to help troubled youth, according to prosecutors.",
"Sandusky's involvement with the group provided him with \"access to hundreds of boys, many of whom were vulnerable due to their social situations,\" the grand jury said.",
"The former coach is said to have engaged in fondling, oral sex and anal sex with young boys over at least 15 years, according to the investigative grand jury's summary of testimony.",
"A source with direct knowledge of the investigation confirmed to CNN's Jason Carroll that a man walked into a Montoursville, Pennsylvania, state police station and claimed he was victimized by Sandusky.",
"Interviews with the man will determine whether he's a ninth victim, the source said.",
"Sandusky, who served 23 years as defensive coordinator for the Nittany Lions football team before retiring in 1999, is free on $100,000 bail.",
"His attorney, Joseph Amendola, has not returned a message from CNN seeking comment.",
"Overheard on CNN.com about Joe Paterno .",
"The grand jury investigation that led to the charges began with the claims of one alleged victim who said Sandusky had \"indecently assaulted\" him and engaged in sex acts while he was a guest at the coach's home, according to the attorney general.",
"The victim met Sandusky through the Second Mile, and Sandusky allegedly used expensive gifts such as trips to professional and college games, golf clubs, a computer and money, Kelly said.",
"The relationship, which began in 2005 and lasted into 2008, included overnight stays at Sandusky's home, where touching led to sexual acts, according to Kelly and grand jury testimony.",
"However, the most explosive charges in the grand jury report involve a 2002 incident in which a graduate student reported seeing Sandusky in the shower performing anal sex on a young boy, according to the grand jury and prosecutors.",
"\"One of the most compelling and disturbing pieces of testimony in this investigation came from an eyewitness to a late-night sexual assault that allegedly occurred in March of 2002, in the locker room of the Lasch Football Building on the University Park Campus,\" Kelly said.",
"\"Hearing what sounded like sexual activity in the showers of a building that was supposed to be empty, a graduate assistant reportedly observed Sandusky sexually assaulting a naked boy who appeared to be about 10 years old.\"",
"The assistant reported the incident to Paterno, who in turn alerted Curley.",
"Paterno said in his statement that he had done his duty in informing Curley.",
"\"It was obvious that the witness was distraught over what he saw, but he at no time related to me the very specific actions contained in the grand jury report.",
"Regardless, it was clear that the witness saw something inappropriate involving Mr. Sandusky.",
"As Coach Sandusky was retired from our coaching staff at that time, I referred the matter to university administrators,\" Paterno said.",
"But instead of reporting the incident to authorities, Curley and Schultz took Sandusky's locker room keys and banned him from having children from Second Mile visit the football building, Kelly said.",
"In his statement, Paterno called the charges \"shocking.\"",
"\"While I did what I was supposed to with the one charge brought to my attention, like anyone else involved, I can't help but be deeply saddened these matters are alleged to have occurred,\" he said in the statement.",
"Prosecutors have not ruled out the possibility of additional charges or victims in the case.",
"CNN's Jason Carroll and Kiran Khalid contributed to this report."
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"Reports of Paterno's retirement \"premature,\" son says on Twitter .",
"Sandusky's preliminary hearing rescheduled to December 7 .",
"Two other university officials are charged with failing to report abuse ."
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"(CNN) -- Chuck Klosterman's seventh book and second novel, \"The Visible Man\" (Scribner), is out Tuesday.",
"Its story is told by an Austin, Texas, therapist named Victoria Vick and centers around one of her clients, Y___, a man whose name we never learn and who, more importantly, has an unusual talent.",
"Thanks to a suit and some cream he helped develop, Y___ can basically render himself invisible to the untrained eye.",
"But more than simply a book about a guy with a special ability, \"The Visible Man\" is about how people act when they're not being watched, and the sketchy moral line that's crossed by the watcher.",
"CNN spoke with Klosterman about the inspiration for the book, writing about and participating in the interview process, and how no one is going to relate to the two main characters in his new novel.",
"CNN: What was the inspiration for \"The Visible Man\"?",
"Chuck Klosterman: I think it was probably when I was writing the previous book, the essay collection (2009's \"Eating the Dinosaur\").",
"I had to reread H.G.",
"Wells' \"The Time Machine\" for an essay I was writing.",
"I was living in Germany at the time, teaching for the University of Leipzig, so I got it through Amazon Europe or whatever, and it was an edition of the book that was \"The Time Machine\" and \"The Invisible Man.\"",
"So I decided I would read \"The Invisible Man\" too, since I hadn't read it since fifth or sixth grade.",
"It was a totally different book than I'd remembered (which is what happens when) you're an adult.",
"The thing that was most interesting to me was that the invisible man was such a jerk.",
"He was just this kind of egocentric, weird person.",
"Of course, as I thought it over, what type of personality would pursue something like invisibility?",
"It would have to be someone who was both very smart and really sort of egocentric -- would lack the normal boundaries a person would have.",
"At the same time, I was thinking a lot about the process of interviewing.",
"Sort of the unreality of being interviewed.",
"I started to wonder, if you really want to understand what someone's like, how would you do it?",
"Interviewing or surveying or anything when a person is around other people is so impacted by the experience.",
"So those two things together sort of ended up becoming this book.",
"CNN: You like to talk about interviewing while being interviewed.",
"Having written this book, which includes a lot of interview-based conversation, was your position on interviewing altered?",
"Klosterman: No. The more you profile people and the more you try to learn things from people through asking them questions, the shortcoming and failures of this process become more and more present in your mind.",
"I can't imagine that, as I grow older, I'm going to reverse my thinking and start believing the interviewing process is more valuable than I think now.",
"It will probably just keep eroding.",
"But here's the trick, or, I guess, the paradox: Even though interviewing is this incredibly flawed process, it's still the best means we have for understanding people we don't know.",
"It's completely imperfect, but still better than every other option.",
"CNN: Do you think your opinion of interviewing will erode to the point where you no longer interview people or get interviewed?",
"Klosterman: What else would I do?",
"I mean, I'm a journalist.",
"There's certainly a thinking, and I didn't see this as much when I worked in newspapers, but when I moved to New York and ended up being surrounded mostly by critics, I came to the realization that a lot of people sort of work under the impression that not only is interviewing not helpful, but that it's mostly detrimental.",
"That if you want to write about the band Wilco, it's a disadvantage to meet Jeff Tweedy, because that's going to warp your real perception of the music.",
"You're going to hear his music through these things you learned in the interview.",
"Maybe he charms you, maybe you see something in him, maybe you don't like him.",
"I understand that, and I think that's why a lot of pretty smart writers, as they age, do tend to do less reporting.",
"I don't know that that'll ever happen to me.",
"CNN: One of the two main characters in the book, and the one who tells the book's story, Victoria, admits on Page 1, \"I am not a writer.\"",
"Did writing in this person's voice allow you to free yourself of writerly conventions, or was there a pressure to authentically write in an unwriterly fashion?",
"Klosterman: To me, that was totally a decision based around verisimilitude, I guess is the word?",
"To me, if someone had never written a book before and was now attempting to write a book based on the fact that they had one metaphysical encounter, that would be their fear.",
"That's one of the weird things about this book.",
"There are two primary characters, obviously, and the one character, because he's this psychopathic scientist, he is this kind of unlikable, egocentric person.",
"But what kind of therapist would allow themselves to almost become (involved with) this person?",
"Well, it would be someone who is insecure, and someone who is just smart enough to be kind of dumb.",
"As a product, neither one of these two characters are very relatable to people.",
"I can't imagine someone reading this and going, \"I really relate to this man or this woman.\"",
"But that's just how it goes. CNN: There's a battle between actual sense of self and pop-culture-produced sense of self in this book, especially with regards to reality television.",
"Do you worry that pop culture is taking too strong of a hold on our daily lives?",
"Klosterman: The short answer is yes.",
"The long answer is that it's an extremely complicated question which often collides with this classic problem of, \"Is this idea bad or is it just new?\"",
"I'm just thinking about it constantly.",
"In probably all of my books, except maybe the very first one, but even that one probably, is this idea of, \"What is reality?\"",
"I mean, it's kind of a cliche thing; it seems like something you worry about when you're 17, but I've never stopped worrying about it.",
"It's the main thing I think about in my life.",
"(laughs) CNN: Does writing about a guy like the one in this book help, or does it confuse the issue?",
"Klosterman: Both. You start with a core problem, and maybe you answer that question to what you've decided is an acceptable degree, but of course, that just creates a new question.",
"If you think about reality, and you think about the problems of reality, there's never going to be a point where there's no more questions to ask.",
"The questions just get harder and less clear.",
"But at the same time, if you keep going on that, eventually you end up writing a book where the whole premise is, \"This book exists.\"",
"Like, \"Am I really writing a book?\"",
"is sort of a zero-sum game.",
"CNN: In describing the book, are you hung up on the semantics of invisibility, like its main characters?",
"If someone says, \"'The Visible Man' is about a man who becomes invisible,\" does that bother you?",
"Klosterman: Well, it's a very good question, I guess, would it bother me.",
"If somebody asked me, \"What is this book about?\"",
"and I know that I only have one sentence to tell them, I would say, \"Well, it's how it would be to be the invisible man's therapist.\"",
"But if I read a review that said that and simplified it down, I would be like, \"That's totally wrong!\"",
"It might bother me if someone else said it, but it doesn't bother me when I think it.",
"The simple fact is that people can't be invisible.",
"I think that, in general, when I write nonfiction, I want it to seem like hyperreality, for it to feel like you're reading fiction.",
"But when I write fiction, I want it to seem like journalism."
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"The author says he wants his fiction to feel like journalism ."
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"(CNN) -- Events at a West Virginia air show were canceled for a second day Sunday after a crash a day earlier that killed a stunt pilot, show organizers said.",
"No one on the ground was injured in the crash Saturday.",
"Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board arrived in Martinsburg on Sunday to begin piecing together what went wrong.",
"The crash occurred about five minutes into a planned 15-minute flight, said NTSB investigator Tim Monville.",
"Some victims of Nevada air race crash identified .",
"\"During one of the planned aerobatic maneuvers ... two opposing airplanes were to pass each other laterally,\" then pull up and perform a roll, Monville said.",
"The plane that crashed \"did not complete the maneuver.\"",
"Monville declined to identify the pilot.",
"CNN iReporter Jennifer Clark took pictures of the 2:30 p.m.",
"ET crash, showing flames and black plumes of smoke rising from the ground.",
"\"We saw a flash of light ... and heard the explosion sound,\" she told CNN's Don Lemon on Saturday.",
"\"It was scary.\" \"You just heard the whole crowd gasp simultaneously and everybody just kind of went silent and was just watching what was going on,\" she said.",
"Event organizers on Sunday urged those who witnessed the crash \"to seek out support if they feel that viewing the accident traumatically affected them.\"",
"The West Virginia crash came one day after another deadly air crash.",
"A pilot lost control of his vintage plane during an air race in Reno, Nevada, on Friday, plummeting toward thousands of spectators before narrowly missing a grandstand and slamming into box seats.",
"Nine people, including the pilot, died in that accident, according to local police."
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"San Francisco (CNN) -- iSad.",
"That was the reaction of many as millions took to the web with the news of the death of 56-year-old Steve Jobs.",
"Facebook and Twitter messages were filled with links and anecdotes about the impact technology -- and more specifically, Apple -- had on users' lives.",
"Apple invited people to email their thoughts, memories and condolences after announcing Jobs' death Wednesday, saying the company lost a \"visionary and creative genius and the world has lost an amazing human being.\"",
"CNN's iReport is also collecting reactions.",
"Jobs' death jolted a generation that has never known a world without a cellular phone, and it elicited reactions from those who watched Apple grow from a Silicon Valley garage startup in 1976 to today's leading tech company.",
"\"RIP, Steve Jobs,\" read many Facebook messages.",
"Still others invoked the visionary's signature stage pitch, \"And one more thing ...",
"Thank you.\" Many tweeted simply: iSad or iHeaven.",
"\"Oh my God, dad.",
"Steve Jobs has died.",
"He's my generation's Walt Disney,\" 20-year-old Lauren Harrington of Atlanta told her father upon learning Wednesday night that Jobs had died.",
"Celebrities, corporate executives and politicians, including President Barack Obama, paid tribute to Jobs.",
"\"Our parents had JFK, we had Steve Jobs.",
"Edison gave us electricity, Jobs gave us the Jetsons in real life,\" tweeted director and actor Kevin Smith.",
"\"We lost an icon today.",
"Mourn him.\" Actor Ashton Kutcher tweeted: \"Sending love & light to everyone @Apple & the entire Jobs family.",
"Today we lost a Giant who will be missed even by those who didn't know him.",
"I never thought I could be so busted up about the loss of someone I never met.\"",
"Obama hailed Jobs as one of America's greatest innovators, a man \"brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.\"",
"\"The world has lost a visionary.",
"And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented,\" Obama said in a statement released Wednesday.",
"Obama, an avowed BlackBerry fan, revealed this week to ABC's George Stephanopoulos that Jobs personally gave him an advanced copy of the iPad 2.",
"House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) tweeted: \"There is not a day that goes by, and often not an hour, that a Steve Jobs' invention does not better my family's life.",
"Thank you Steve.\"",
"The flood of messages slowed Twitter to a crawl at times or produced error messages saying the site was over capacity.",
"On the social networking sites, many quoted from Jobs' heartfelt commencement address at Stanford University in 2005, where he first detailed his battle with pancreatic cancer.",
"Actor Hill Harper, paraphrasing the speech, tweeted: \"Do what you believe is great work.",
"And the only way to do great work is to love what you do!",
"... Don't settle.\" Apple flew the flags at its Cupertino, California, office at half-staff, and an impromptu memorial sprang up at the venue as people arrived with flowers, letters and mementos, CNN affiliates reported.",
"Several employees tweeted messages containing only the Apple logo.",
"The many websites devoted to Apple rumors and products placed large banners in memory of the company's co-founder.",
"The alternative-culture blog Boing Boing revamped its design in honor of Jobs to resemble retro Macintosh software.",
"Wired painted its front page black, with a shadowed picture of Steve Jobs in the center.",
"Google's co-founders posted statements about Jobs' importance to them personally and to the industry, and underneath the search box on Google.com, the company added: \"Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011.\"",
"Research in Motion, from its BlackBerry Twitter account, called Jobs \"a great visionary and respected competitor.\"",
"Microsoft's Bill Gates, who once worked with Jobs and later competed against him in the mobile world, said on his Twitter account: \"For those of us lucky enough to get to work with Steve, it's been an insanely great honor.",
"I will miss Steve immensely,\" — Bill Gates.",
"And two men, whose social networking sites gained in popularity thanks in part to Jobs' mobile-computing revolution, paid their respects to Apple's mogul.",
"In a message, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg said: \"Steve, thank you for a being a mentor and a friend.",
"Thanks for showing that what you build can change the world.",
"I will miss you.\" Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey wrote simply: \"Thank you.\"",
"CNN's Mark Milian, Douglas Hyde, Ed Payne, Chelsea J. Carter and Kevin Bohn contributed to this report."
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"Facebook and Twitter users post \"RIP, Steve Jobs\"\nApple is inviting people to email their memories and condolences .",
"Flags are flying at half-staff at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, California .",
"The many websites devoted to Apple rumors and products place large banners in memory of the company's co-founder ."
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"Atlanta (CNN) -- Ryan Brunn, the man who this week was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to murdering a Georgia girl, apparently killed himself in his prison cell Thursday, a corrections spokeswoman said.",
"Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Kristen Stancil said that Brunn was found unresponsive at 4:15 p.m. in his cell at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson.",
"Brunn was pronounced dead at a hospital at 5:37 p.m. due to an apparent suicide, she said.",
"The case since has been referred to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, according to Stancil.",
"Brunn had entered a guilty plea Tuesday at a hearing in a Cherokee County courthouse, during which he described in detail how he enticed, molested and killed 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera.",
"He was subsequently sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole, avoiding a potential death sentence by lethal injection.",
"The girl's father, Ricardo Galarza, told CNN en Espanol that news of Brunn's death partly made him \"feel good but, on the other hand, it doesn't because my daughter will never be with me again.\"",
"Galarza said that he felt that a lifetime of Brunn being watched after, \"eating three times a day (and) sleeping with air conditioning\" while in prison was not enough.",
"\"What I wanted was for them to put him in the electric chair and burn him,\" the father said.",
"\"I would have taken him there myself and prepared it, so he would burn.\"",
"Jorelys' mangled body was found in a trash compactor three days after she went missing on December 2 from an apartment complex in Canton, about 40 miles north of Atlanta.",
"According to the indictment, Jorelys was severely beaten and stabbed repeatedly in the face, neck and chest.",
"Brunn, 20, who worked as a maintenance man at the same apartment complex, was arrested on December 7 and charged with the crime.",
"Last week, Brunn was indicted on 13 counts including murder, aggravated assault, cruelty to children, aggravated child molestation, enticing a child for indecent purposes, false imprisonment, abandonment of a dead body, making a false statement and sexual exploitation of children.",
"He told the court Tuesday that he had never talked to Jorelys before the day of her murder.",
"He said he devised a plan after he found one of her skates.",
"Brunn took a picture of the skate and approached her with it, asking if the skate was hers.",
"She said yes, and Brunn promised to take her to it.",
"Instead, he took her to an empty apartment and instructed Jorelys to pull down her pants.",
"He then put tape over her face and cut her throat with a razor.",
"At this point, she was still alive, he told the court.",
"He said that he then took Jorelys to the bathroom and beat her to death with the skate.",
"He said he did not have sex with the girl.",
"Increasingly, Brunn told the court, he grew concerned about what he had done.",
"So he took a receipt, wrote on the back of it, \"She is in the trash can,\" and taped it to the compactor.",
"He admitted lying to investigators who had questioned him about the case.",
"Brunn said he knew right from wrong, adding he \"never had an idea of killing a child in my life.\"",
"\"I'd like to apologize for everything I've done, and I do deserve everything that you're about to give me,\" he said in court."
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"The girl was found dead in a trash compactor three days after she went missing ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Few issues divide the Supreme Court -- and the country at large -- more than church-state matters, and arguments before the Supreme Court on Wednesday involving a workplace discrimination lawsuit against a Lutheran church proved especially touchy.",
"At issue is whether the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to hiring and firing decisions involving \"ministerial employees\" like teachers who may have primarily secular job duties.",
"The justices appeared at odds over whether this is substantive discrimination or simple retaliation against a Michigan teacher, after she complained to government authorities over her treatment on the job.",
"\"You're asking for an exemption (to lawsuits) so these issues can't even be tried\" in a government hearing on the merits, said Justice Anthony Kennedy.",
"\"She was fired simply for asking for a hearing.\"",
"\"It's none of the business of the government to decide what the substantial interest of the church is,\" countered Justice Antonin Scalia.",
"\"There, in black and white in the text of the Constitution, are special protections for religion.\"",
"Court records show Cheryl Perich went on medical leave for narcolepsy in 2004.",
"When she tried to return several months later to the Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School, officials refused to accept her, saying a substitute had been hired to complete the school year.",
"After weeks of often acrimonious discussions between her and the school, Perich was fired for insubordination and \"regrettable\" conduct toward church leaders.",
"She then complained to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which sued the church on her behalf.",
"Federal courts have upheld an exception in the Americans with Disabilities Act blocking government intrusion in the employment decisions between religious institutions and ministerial workers.",
"The church said Perich was just such an employee and therefore the institution could not be sued.",
"Perich had been hired five years earlier, and eventually became a \"called\" teacher, meaning she could not be fired without cause.",
"Assigned to third and fourth grades, she led instruction in math, language arts, social studies, gym and music, with much of the curriculum identical to that of the local public schools.",
"Perich also taught a religion class four days a week, and engaged in daily prayers and devotionals with her students.",
"The religion-based activities typically took up about 45 minutes of the seven-hour school day, according to court documents.",
"She also led chapel services with her class twice a year, on a rotation basis with other instructors.",
"The faculty has two types of teachers: \"lay\" employees, who are on one-year contracts, and called teachers like Perich, who have completed a formal colloquy, receiving a certificate of admission into the teaching ministry.",
"Those parochial instructors are hired on an open-ended basis and cannot be summarily dismissed without proper justification.",
"Perich began as a contract teacher, but fulfilled the requirements to be a called teacher, becoming a \"commissioned minister\" in the Lutheran Church.",
"Perich attended the one-hour oral arguments at the high court, saying afterward, \"I can't fathom how the Constitution in any way can be interpreted to deny me my fundamental rights.",
"I hope the court sees it that way.\"",
"The Redford, Michigan, school is affiliated with the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, but does not require its teachers to be called, or even Lutheran.",
"A federal appeals court in Cincinnati eventually ruled for Perich, saying her primary duties as a teacher were not religious in nature.",
"In the oral arguments at the high court, Douglas Laycock, representing the church, said, \"Government does not set the criteria for selecting and removing officers of the church.",
"That's a bedrock principle.\"",
"Justice Sonia Sotomayor jumped in.",
"\"Doesn't society have a right at some point to say certain conduct is unacceptable,\" and deserving of government intervention.",
"\"We know from the news recently that there was a church whose religious beliefs centered around sexually exploiting women and, I believe, children.\"",
"She added, \"Once we say that's unacceptable, can and why shouldn't we protect (from retaliation) the people who are doing what the law requires, i.e.",
"reporting it?\" Arguing for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Justice Department lawyer Leondra Kruger said, \"The government's interest in this case is not in dictating to the church-operated school who it may choose to teach religion classes and who it may not.",
"It is one thing and one thing only, which is to tell the school that it may not punish its employees for threatening to report civil wrongs to civil authorities.\"",
"Chief Justice John Roberts was incredulous.",
"\"You're making a judgment about how important a particular religious belief is to a church,\" he told Kruger.",
"\"You're saying: We don't believe the Lutheran Church when it says that this is an important and central tenet of our faith.\"",
"Kruger later suggested the government could not bring action against the Catholic Church for its historic policy of men-only priests, but that retaliation claims against the Lutheran Church in this case are justified.",
"But Justice Samuel Alito said any such lawsuit would invariably involve questions of religious doctrine, from which religious groups would be constitutionally insulated from any claims.",
"\"I can't reconcile your position on those two issues without coming to the conclusion that you think that the Catholic doctrine is older, stronger and entitled to more respect than the Lutheran doctrine,\" he said.",
"The Constitution's First Amendment bars any government from passing laws \"respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.\"",
"The high court in the past has typically dealt with such church-state disputes by allowing Ten Commandment displays in public buildings; the mention of \"God\" on currency and in the Pledge of Allegiance; manger and menorah displays in public parks; and school and legislature prayer.",
"Legal experts say federal courts have been split on the current issue, and it gives the justices a rare opportunity to explore a religious freedom dispute from an employment context.",
"Several dozen supporting briefs supporting both sides have been filed by religious and civil liberty organizations, employment groups, and eight other states.",
"Six members of the high court are Catholic, the other three are Jewish.",
"The case is Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC (10-553).",
"A ruling is expected early next year."
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"A former teacher wants to sue the church school that dismissed her .",
"The Evangelical Lutheran Church and School says it is immune from such suits .",
"Justice Sotomayor: \"Doesn't society have a right\" to censure \"certain conduct?\"",
"Chief Roberts: The EEOC is judging \"how important a ... religious belief is to a church\""
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"Istanbul (CNN) -- Several thousand opponents of new Internet filtering rules, set to take effect in Turkey in August, marched in protest in Istanbul on Sunday.",
"Demonstrators carried signs in Turkish and English reading \"Don't touch my Internet\" and \"We don't need protection,\" while they chanted slogans against website censorship.",
"Internet users must choose among four filtering options, including family, children, domestic or standard settings, as a part of Turkey's \"Safe Internet Service.\"",
"The regulations are designed to protect children from indecent online content, according to BTK, the prime minister's information technology board.",
"Critics argue that it is not clear how the filtering system will work.",
"The marchers stopped several times to stage brief sit-ins during the two-hour route from the Taksim Square to the end of Istiklal Street.",
"Organizers claimed the marcher numbered in the \"thousands,\" which appeared to be accurate to a CNN reporter on the scene.",
"The new filtering rules will be enforced beginning August 22, the government said.",
"A \"Enemies of the Internet\" report issued this month by Reporters Without Borders included Turkey on its 2011 list of \"countries under surveillance.\"",
"The BTK was \"not fooling anyone when it claims to be rendering a service to Internet users by giving them a choice between a lot of restrictions and fewer restrictions,\" the report said.",
"Turkey already blocks more than 7,000 websites, \"in most cases without reference to any court,\" the report said."
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"\"We don't need protection,\" marchers' signs say .",
"Turkey rules \"not fooling anyone,\" journalism group report says ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- The British police practice of keeping DNA records of anyone they arrest is a human rights violation, The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously Thursday.",
"The European Court of Human Rights says the UK should not be keeping DNA records of everyone they arrest.",
"Two Britons took the case to the court after the police retained their fingerprints and DNA when criminal cases against them ended without conviction.",
"Both then requested that the samples be destroyed, but their request was denied on the basis of a British law authorizing them to be retained indefinitely.",
"The court awarded them 42,000 euros ($53,000) to cover their legal costs.",
"The court was \"struck by the blanket and indiscriminate nature of the power of retention in England and Wales,\" it said in a statement announcing the ruling.",
"It ruled the British practice was a violation of the \"right to respect for private and family life\" under Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights.",
"The two applicants are both from the northern English city of Sheffield.",
"One, Michael Marper, was arrested in March 2001 and charged with harassment of his partner.",
"The case was formally discontinued three months later when he and his partner reconciled.",
"The second applicant, a minor identified in court papers only as S., was arrested in January 2001, aged 11, for attempted robbery.",
"He was acquitted in June 2001, on the same day the case against Marper was dropped.",
"Marper told CNN he was surprised the case went as far as it did.",
"\"It's a shame it had to go all the way to the European Court.",
"It was only a trivial thing in the beginning,\" he said.",
"He was in favor of the police DNA database when it was introduced.",
"\"I wasn't against the principle of it. I'm all for DNA investigation at a crime scene.\"",
"He added that he did not object to retaining the DNA of convicted criminals \"so if you committed a crime later it could be traced and checked out.\"",
"But, he said, if a case \"has not been to court, then the DNA evidence should be thrown out with it.\"",
"The court ruling cannot be appealed, and theoretically requires the British government to change its policies.",
"But British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who is responsible for the police, said she was \"disappointed\" by the ruling and that the existing law would \"remain in place while we carefully consider the judgment.\"",
"\"DNA and fingerprinting is vital to the fight against crime, providing the police with more than 3,500 matches a month,\" she said in a statement released by the Home Office Thursday.",
"\"The government mounted a robust defense before the court, and I strongly believe DNA and fingerprints play an invaluable role in fighting crime and bringing people to justice.\"",
"CNN's Laura Perez Maestro contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- The Syrian government resigned Tuesday amid an unusual wave of unrest that has roiled the nation, state TV reported.",
"President Bashar al-Assad accepted the resignations Tuesday, the same day that tens of thousands of Syrians poured onto the streets of Damascus to demonstrate in favor of the government.",
"A new government should be named within hours, said Reem Haddad, a spokeswoman for the Syrian Information Ministry.",
"Meanwhile, the president is expected to address the nation in a speech before the People's Assembly at 11 a.m. (5 a.m.",
"ET) Wednesday, state TV said.",
"The state-run SANA news agency reported the speech would \"reassure the Syrian people.\"",
"The pro-government rally on Tuesday followed violent clashes between protesters and security forces in the cities of Daraa and Latakia in recent days.",
"At least 37 people have been killed since last week, according to the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.",
"Syria is the latest in a string of Arabic-speaking nations beset with discontent over economic and human rights issues.",
"Syria's discontent is centered in Daraa, a southern city in the impoverished country's agricultural region, where security forces and anti-government protesters have sporadically clashed for nearly two weeks.",
"Many demonstrators at the pro-government rally held posters of the president.",
"Others waved Syrian flags, while some painted their faces and chests in national colors.",
"Crowds filled the square in front of the Central Bank and jammed all roads leading to it, aerial pictures on state TV showed.",
"There were also pro-government rallies in the cities of Aleppo, Hama and Hasaka, the broadcaster said.",
"CNN's Yousuf Basil contributed to this report ."
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"NEW: The president is expected to speak on Wednesday .",
"A new government will be named shortly, a government spokeswoman says .",
"The government has resigned, state TV reports .",
"At least 37 people have been killed in demonstrations since last week, the U.N. says ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Dennis deLeon, former New York City human rights commissioner and long-time AIDS activist, has died, according to the organization he helped launch.",
"He was 61. The Latino Commission on AIDS issued a news release Monday, saying that deLeon was a \"pioneer\" and a \"visionary,\" as well as a \"tireless advocate for social justice and one of the first openly HIV-positive Latino leaders in the country.\"",
"New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised deLeon on Monday, saying in a statement that the activist \"demonstrated a lifelong commitment to public service.\"",
"After being appointed as the director of the mayor's Commission on Latino Concerns in 1986, deLeon went on to serve in other civic roles, including being selected by then-Mayor David Dinkins in 1990 to head the New York City Commission on Human Rights.",
"In 1994, he returned to the private sector and helped found the Latino Commission on AIDS, where he served as its president for 15 years.",
"According to its Web site, \"The Latino Commission on AIDS is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Latino community.\"",
"\"It will be a challenge to pick up the mantle Dennis has left for us at the Commission.",
"Dennis was a friend, a mentor and an example of what a national leader should be.",
"... His work and his dedication to our community will not be forgotten,\" said Guillermo Chacon, current Latino Commission on AIDS president, in the release."
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"Cap-Haitien, Haiti (CNN) -- The Christian Motorcyclists Association came to Haiti to distribute motorcycles to pastors.",
"Instead, angry Haitians, some of them on motorbikes, ended up attacking the 11 American missionaries when they tried to flee this city aboard a big, yellow bus.",
"\"We almost made it out of town,\" team member Kerry Gibson told CNN in a phone call after his team survived the attack unharmed.",
"Until Wednesday morning, Gibson and his fellow volunteers had been holed up in a hotel on a hilltop overlooking Cap-Haitien, after demonstrators put up networks of barricades through the streets and began attacking the bases of United Nations peacekeepers with rocks, bottles and petrol bombs.",
"The demonstrators have accused peacekeepers of starting the cholera outbreak.",
"The motorcyclist team is part of an American organization that has hundreds of branches across the country.",
"One of its goals, Gibson said, is to donate motorcycles to Christian leaders.",
"\"We put wheels under indigenous local pastors,\" Gibson explained.",
"\"We were presenting seven here in Cap-Haitien.",
"Obviously, that won't happen now.\"",
"Given the violence that has led to the death of at least one protester, the team decided Wednesday to cut their trip to Haiti short by a week.",
"A Haitian pastor informed Gibson that the road out of town was open, so the missionaries climbed aboard a commercial bus and tried to make it into nearby Dominican Republic.",
"But on the outskirts of Cap-Haitien, the bus suddenly ran into trouble.",
"\"We saw one guy with a machete raised up and he's running and yelling and screaming and pointing up ahead.",
"We suspect they put a blockade up in front of us.",
"That's when we stopped and they busted out the glass on the door,\" Gibson recalled.",
"\"Our driver, he was like a NASCAR driver.",
"He started backing up,\" Gibson said.",
"\"But they put out two burned-out cars on the road in an effort to block us.\"",
"Gibson said protesters began hurling rocks at the bus and smashed the windshield.",
"The bus was incapacitated and started spraying oil.",
"At some point, demonstrators dragged a Haitian employee of the bus company out of the vehicle and began beating him.",
"Gibson said the driver then maneuvered the bus onto the sidewalk and lurched the vehicle forward toward the gate of a nearby U.N. peacekeeping base.",
"\"I feel like God protected us,\" Gibson said.",
"\"Just the fact that the bus stopped, died right in front of the U.N. compound, is confirmation that he's looking out for us.\"",
"Peacekeepers from Chile opened the gate and ushered the bus and its passengers inside the compound.",
"The 11 CMA representatives were preparing to spend the night with the Chilean military and pondering their next step for escaping Cap-Haitien.",
"Gibson insisted that, throughout the adrenaline-packed attack on the bus, he never felt he was in danger.",
"The man who was dragged off the bus escaped without serious injury, Gibson said.",
"\"Of course it's a nerve-wracking situation, but I never got the impression that there was any real effort to do physical harm to us.\"",
"Asked what he planned to do Thursday, he said, \"Pray a lot.\"",
"Journalist Dmitri Fourcand contributed to this report."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Five security guards from Blackwater Worldwide have been indicted on charges related to a 2007 shooting in which 17 Iraqis were killed in a Baghdad square, two sources said Friday.",
"An Iraqi woman looks at a blood-stained car of two women killed in the 2007 Nusoor Square shooting.",
"A sixth security guard is in plea negotiations, the sources told CNN.",
"The exact charges handed up by a federal grand jury were not revealed.",
"The sources requested anonymity because the indictment remains under court seal.",
"It is expected to be made public by Justice Department officials as early as Monday.",
"The Justice Department had no comment on the development, and defense attorneys for the men could not be reached for reaction.",
"The State Department, which employed Blackwater to protect U.S. diplomats and other employees, also had no comment.",
"Blackwater said it wouldn't comment until there's an official announcement.",
"Iraqi authorities accused Blackwater guards of killing 17 civilians and wounding nearly 30 in the September 2007 shootings in Nusoor Square in western Baghdad.",
"Blackwater said its guards were protecting a U.S. diplomatic convoy when they came under attack from armed insurgents.",
"The guards returned fire, Blackwater said.",
"But an Iraqi investigation called the killings \"premeditated murder\" and accused the guards of firing on civilians indiscriminately.",
"The first U.S. soldiers to arrive on the scene also told investigators they found no evidence the guards were fired upon, sources told CNN.",
"The complex legal case has been dogged by difficulties and may present a major challenge to federal prosecutors.",
"Among the potential problems is the uncertain limit of a law passed by Congress that prevents prosecution of military personnel or others working for the military and leaves open the question of those working for other U.S. government departments and agencies abroad.",
"The incident heightened tensions between U.S. and Iraqi government officials and contributed to a protracted debate over the extent of immunity that U.S. military personnel and civilian contractors have from Iraqi laws.",
"Security contractors have had immunity from Iraqi law under a provision put into place in the early days of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.",
"But starting next year, under a U.S.-Iraq security agreement that Iraq approved Thursday, Iraq will have the \"primary right to exercise jurisdiction\" over U.S. contractors and their employees.",
"The State Department renewed Blackwater's contract this year over strong objections from the Iraqi government."
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"Sixth guard in plea negotiations, sources say .",
"Charges are not publicly known because indictment is under seal .",
"Charges could be made public as early as Monday ."
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"(CNN) -- The top U.N. human rights official deplored the \"devastatingly remorseless toll of human lives\" in Syria and exhorted the world community on Friday \"to take immediate measures\" to protect citizens.",
"\"The onus is on all members of the international community to take protective action in a collective and decisive manner, before the continual ruthless repression and killings drive the country into a full-blown civil war,\" said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, in a written statement describing a dire human rights situation in Syria.",
"Her remarks came as protesters took to the streets Friday in various Syrian cities, a nationwide outpouring supporting the \"free army,\" a reference to personnel who have defected from President Bashar al-Assad's military and to the recently formed Syrian Free Army.",
"At least 12 people were reported dead in the latest protests, according to Syrian Observatory, an activist group.",
"Pillay said the government has \"manifestly failed to protect its population\" and has \"ignored the international community's calls to cooperate with international investigations,\" she said.",
"\"At stake are the universal rights to life, liberty and security of person which must never be brushed aside in the interests of realpolitik.",
"The international community must speak with one voice and act to protect the Syrian people.\"",
"Protests erupted in Syria seven months ago, with demonstrators demanding changes to regime policies and/or an end to the regime.",
"Opposition activists have accused officials of killing protesters, but the government has said it is going after armed groups.",
"The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights, a London-based activist group with a network of informants across Syria, estimates that more than 3,100 people have died since the uprising began in mid-March.",
"Most of them are civilians but some are military personnel as well.",
"Pillay also said the death toll has exceeded 3,000 people and at least 187 of them were children.",
"She said more than 100 people have been reported killed in the past 10 days.",
"The government \"has consistently used excessive force to crush peaceful protests,\" she said.",
"\"Sniping from rooftops, and indiscriminate use of force against peaceful protesters -- including the use of live ammunition and the shelling of residential neighborhoods -- have become routine occurrences in many Syrian cities,\" she said.",
"\"In addition, thousands have been arrested, detained, forcibly disappeared and tortured.",
"Family members inside and outside the country have been targeted for harassment, intimidation, threats and beatings.",
"As more members of the military refuse to attack civilians and change sides, the crisis is already showing worrying signs of descending into an armed struggle.\"",
"Two months ago, she said there had been \"credible allegations of crimes against humanity in Syria\" and urged the U.N. Security Council to refer the matter to the International Criminal Court.",
"Countries across the globe have expressed outrage over the instability in Syria.",
"The European Union and the United States have imposed sanctions against the regime.",
"The Gulf Cooperation Council, six Gulf Arab states, urged an immediate meeting of Arab League states to discuss the country's violence.",
"The meeting should be at the foreign ministers level, the council said in a statement Thursday without providing details.",
"Syria is a member of the Arab League.",
"Two Obama administration officials provided testimony about U.S. efforts to deal with Syria for a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Friday.",
"Wendy Sherman, undersecretary of state for political affairs, cited \"targeted financial measures to increase pressure on the Syrian regime and its enablers.\"",
"She added the administration \"remains committed to pursuing multilateral sanctions at the Security Council.\"",
"She said the United States is working to \"ensure expeditious, unfettered and sustained access for international human rights monitors and journalists,\" Also, she said it is working with \"international partners\" to keep Syria from circumventing American and European sanctions.\"",
"Noting that Iran has \"long used Syria as a strategic and logistical connection\" to terror groups, she said the United States is working to break those ties with the sanctions.",
"David Cohen, the Treasury Department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said, \"The sanctions are having a palpable impact,\" with the regime \"struggling to find buyers for its oil, to access foreign currency, and to maintain economic stability.\"",
"\"Echoing an action that we have taken, just this morning the EU announced sanctions on the commercial bank of Syria.",
"By far the largest bank is Syria and it's key remaining link the international financial system,\" he said at the hearing.",
"Demonstrations occur regularly in Syria, but activists mount nationwide demonstrations every Friday after Muslim prayers and those events regularly have labels, like the \"Free Army Friday\" theme.",
"The Syrian Observatory said seven civilians killed and more than 30 wounded in the city of Dael in Daraa province in the south amid sustained gunfire.",
"A woman and a child were killed in the Daraa Province town of Inkhel.",
"A 10-year-old was killed in Damascus, a civilian was killed during clashes in the Damascus suburb of Saqba, and another was killed in Aleppo province, it said.",
"An activist from the Coalition of Free Damascenes for Peaceful Change said security forces fired on demonstrators, and that army defectors, including members of the Free Syrian Army, clashed with security.",
"The activist said the person killed was a passer-by not participating in demonstrations.",
"\"We have lost many lives and our businesses and farmlands are destroyed.",
"We need someone to defend us and stand up for our freedom,\" the activist said.",
"Activists said security forces fired on protesters in the cities of Homs, in the west, and in Damascus, the capital, and besieged worshipers at a mosque in Banias, in the west.",
"More than 4,000 people chanted for the Free Syrian Army in Idlib province, in the northwest.",
"In the city of Douma, in the south, communication lines, including cell phones, were cut off after earlier demonstrations, the group said.",
"In Hasaka in the northeast protesters outside a mosque chanted \"freedom.\"",
"The Syrian Arab News Agency, the government news outlet, said \"armed terror groups\" planted an explosive device in Daraa that was dismantled by soldiers.",
"It also reported \"10 army and law enforcement officers\" were killed after they were \"ambushed by an armed terrorist group\" in the Idlib province town of Binnish on Thursday.",
"This narrative directly contradicts that of the opposition, which claims defector soldiers and civilians were killed.",
"At least 15 people were killed Thursday, including two young children, the Syrian Observatory said.",
"Twelve of those killed were in Binnish, which soldiers raided searching for dissidents and army defectors, activists said.",
"Among those SANA reported killed on Thursday in Binnish was Lt. Col. Abdul-Majeed al-Misri from Daraa.",
"But on Friday, Omar Idlibi, a Beirut-based spokesman for the opposition Local Coordination Committees told CNN al-Misri, whom he called a brigadier general, was in fact killed in the city of Hama, in the west.",
"Idlibi told CNN that Syrian security forces fired on al-Misri's car, killing him, after he defected from the military.",
"An opposition video shows people marching and denouncing Bashar and Hafez al-Assad in al-Misri's home village of Atman outside the city of Daraa.",
"Hafez al-Assad was Bashar's father and preceded him as Syrian president .",
"The man filming the video says at the beginning, \"This is Free Army Friday, after the burial of Abdul-Majeed al-Misri.\"",
"Thirty seconds into the video, a man holds up a martyr's portrait, purportedly of al-Misri.",
"The crowd is chanting \"God damn you Hafez and Bashar.\"",
"CNN cannot independently confirm events in Syria, which restricts international journalists from accessing many parts of the country.",
"CNN's Ivan Watson, Salma Abdelaziz, Hamdi Alkhshali and Joe Sterling contributed to this report ."
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"The death total in Syria includes at least 187 children, the United Nations says .",
"Activist reports clashes between military defectors and security .",
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"(CNN) -- An Orthodox Jewish man apparently preparing to pray prompted authorities to divert a Louisville, Kentucky-bound US Airways Express plane Thursday.",
"FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver said there appeared to be no threat from the man, who was described as wearing something on his head that included leather pieces.",
"The description appeared to match that of tefillin, or phylacteries, which Orthodox Jewish men wear during prayer.",
"The flight had taken off from New York's LaGuardia Airport, the FBI said, and was diverted to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.",
"The Transportation Security Administration said it was notified of what it called a disruptive passenger on Flight 3079, operated by Chautauqua Airlines, around 8:30 a.m.",
"ET, and the plane landed without incident at Philadelphia International Airport about 20 minutes later.",
"US Airways spokesman Morgan Durrant said the diversion was a \"security precaution\" for the 50-seat ERJ 145.",
"It was not immediately clear how many passengers were on board.",
"Earlier, Durrant said the flight had been evacuated, but the TSA did not offer any details on whether that had occurred.",
"TSA and law enforcement officials met the flight, interviewed the passenger and did a security sweep of the plane without finding anything of concern, the agency said.",
"CNN's Evan Buxbaum contributed to this report."
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"ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- At least 56 people were arrested Monday after police fired projectiles and used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse a crowd demonstrating near the site of the Republican National Convention.",
"Police fire tear gas to dispurse protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota, Monday.",
"CNN photojournalists witnessed police detaining between 20 and 30 individuals with plastic handcuffs a few blocks from the security perimeter around the Xcel Center in downtown St. Paul.",
"A crowd of 300 individuals was later seen conducting what appeared to be a sit-in at a parking lot near the Mississippi River.",
"Earlier Monday, a group of self-described anarchists threw park benches into streets and smashed windows, police said.",
"Watch police detain nearly two dozen people » .",
"Thomas Walsh, a public information officer for the St. Paul Police Department, said Monday afternoon that 13 people had been arrested so far, accused of damage to property and conspiracy to riot.",
"Those arrested will be formally charged in Ramsey County District Court on Tuesday, he said.",
"The arrest of the \"anarchists\" came after nearly 5,000 protesters marched peacefully outside the site of the convention site.",
"While Walsh described the individuals as a being part of a \"splinter group\" from the main body of protesters, he said it would not characterize their activity as being a protest.",
"Watch the police use pepper spray » .",
"\"I think they did a disservice to those that came here to protest,\" he said.",
"Besides damaging private property, the group also smashed in the windows of five squad cars.",
"iReport.com: Protesters swarmed at RNC .",
"Police on Sunday saw little disruption in advance of the convention, which is being greatly scaled back because of Hurricane Gustav.",
"And, despite the disruptions Monday, the security scheme is working as planned, Walsh said.",
"Watch the police take on the protesters » .",
"\"We had some expectation that there may be some of this activity,\" he said.",
"The Republican convention, which officially began Monday, has been designated a \"national special security event,\" which means the Secret Service is responsible for planning and implementing the security scheme.",
"View the convention security plan » .",
"But the primary responsibility for street-level security falls to the local police agencies.",
"St. Paul received $50 million in federal grant money to pay for additional security measures.",
"The St. Paul Police Department estimated it would require $34 million to bring in and pay 3,500 extra officers.",
"The rest of the money is for training and new equipment, the department said.",
"Numerous federal agencies are helping to provide security.",
"The Federal Protective Service, the Customs and Border Protection agency, the FBI, the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration and other agencies are providing resource to help the Secret Service implement its plan.",
"CNN's Joe Johns contributed to this report."
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"NEW: CNN staff sees police use projectiles, tear gas and pepper spray .",
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"Editor's note: This story is the second of a three-part series focusing on the FBI as the agency hits the 100-year mark.",
"A lab worker examines a tire tread at the FBI's famed crime lab in Quantico, Virginia.",
"QUANTICO, Virginia (CNN) -- Behind closed doors, the scientists and agents of the FBI scrutinize fibers, poisons, explosives, DNA and just about any other shred of evidence that might help solve crimes.",
"They can't talk about specific cases they're working.",
"Yet the work they're doing can put people behind bars or lead to major advances in crime-solving techniques.",
"As the FBI hits the 100-year-mark and continues to evolve to meet the demands of the world, CNN visited the state-of-the-art crime lab in Quantico, Virginia.",
"It's the same lab that inspired the hit television series \"CSI.\"",
"Dozens of experts from an array of fields work under one roof.",
"\"I think that's what really made a name for the FBI lab,\" said Robert Fram, chief of the FBI's scientific analysis section.",
"\"We were able to get involved in a lot of very high-profile cases and get it done completely.\"",
"Get a behind-the-scenes look at the lab » .",
"The lab has played roles in everyday cases as well as some of the most significant crime investigations in the nation's history, from the assassination of President Kennedy to the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 to the September 11 terrorist attacks.",
"The lab now employs 500 agents, scientists and other personnel, far from its origins in 1932.",
"Back then, there was only one agent working in a single room in Washington.",
"His name was Charles Appel, a handwriting analysis expert.",
"Appel's background allowed the lab to play an important role in one of its first big cases: the kidnapping and killing of the toddler son of aviator Charles Lindbergh.",
"Appel linked the handwriting from ransom notes to a suspect, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, who was convicted.",
"Since then, the lab has been on the cutting edge of crime-solving techniques.",
"The advent of DNA analysis was a revolution in forensic science, and it's a key part of what the FBI lab does.",
"See photos of the FBI as it turns 100 » .",
"Richard Guerrieri is a chief DNA analyst at Quantico.",
"\"Our unit handles anywhere from 1,500 to 1,800 submissions a year of evidence,\" Guerrieri said during a tour of the lab.",
"Often, that involves examining clothes for bodily fluids that can help identify a suspect or a crime victim.",
"The DNA unit is one of the first areas of the lab to use robotics to speed up the processing of evidence.",
"Another scientific advancement is the Direct Analysis in Real Time machine, which can quickly identify substances such as poisons and explosives.",
"\"The whole premise behind this technology is that almost every chemical we analyze has its own unique weight,\" said Dr. Marc LeBeau, chief of the lab's chemistry unit.",
"Lab officials say their advanced techniques are essential to fighting crime.",
"But they also say that sometimes, those advances can unrealistically raise expectations.",
"Television shows like \"CSI\" show speedy DNA or fingerprint matches and criminals in handcuffs in just one hour, something lab workers say doesn't happen in the real world.",
"\"We work on some cases for years at a time and keep putting more and more evidence together,\" said Carlo Rosati, a forensic examiner in firearms and tool marks.",
"FBI officials say many juries expect DNA and fingerprints to be found at every crime scene.",
"\"Why isn't there a fingerprint; why isn't there DNA?\"",
"Fram asked, describing jurors' expectations.",
"\"And they're going as far as feeling that they can't convict someone because you didn't find A, B or C, where you just don't always find those things.\"",
"The FBI lab has had some missteps.",
"In 2004, authorities matched a fingerprint belonging to Oregon lawyer Brandon Mayfield to evidence found at the site of the Madrid, Spain, train bombings.",
"Mayfield was cleared, sued the FBI and received a $2 million settlement.",
"In the 1990s, a Justice Department investigation found flaws in lab analysis and trial testimony in some cases, which led to reforms.",
"\"No one's infallible,\" Fram said.",
"\"A mistake can be made.",
"The idea is to minimize it.",
"And the idea is to act on it if it was made and correct it, and make sure it doesn't happen again.\"",
"Officials at the lab say they are strict about handling evidence.",
"When a CNN crew visited in June, it was not allowed into areas where scientists were working with real evidence.",
"CNN was shown demonstrations with test materials.",
"Karen Lanning, chief of the evidence control unit, said evidence has to be dealt with correctly from the second it arrives at the FBI.",
"\"It's critical for every case, whether it's to put somebody who really should be in jail or to help exonerate somebody.",
"It's somebody's life that we're dealing with, so it has to be taken very seriously.\""
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"(CNN) -- Like thousands of other Iranian women, Parisa took to Tehran's streets this week, her heart brimming with hope.",
"\"Change,\" said the placards around her.",
"Iranian women demonstrate Thursday in the streets of Tehran, the capital city.",
"The young Iranian woman eyed the crowd and pondered the possibility that the rest of her life might be different from her mother's.",
"She could see glimmers of a future free from discrimination -- and all the symbols of it, including the head-covering the government requires her to wear every day.",
"Women, regarded as second-class citizens under Iranian law, have been noticeably front and center of the massive demonstrations that have unfolded since the presidential election a week ago.",
"Iranians are protesting what they consider a fraudulent vote count favoring hardline incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but for many women like Parisa, the demonstrations are just as much about taking Iran one step closer to democracy.",
"\"Women have become primary agents of change in Iran,\" said Nayereh Tohidi, chairwoman of the Gender and Women's Studies Department at California State University, Northridge.",
"The remarkable images show women with uncovered heads who are unafraid to speak their minds and crowds that are not segregated -- both the opposite of the norm in Iran, Tohidi said.",
"She said a long-brewing women's movement may finally be manifesting itself on the streets and empowering women like Parisa.",
"\"This regime is against all humanity, more specifically against all women,\" said Parisa, whom CNN is not fully identifying for security reasons.",
"\"I see lots of girls and women in these demonstrations,\" she said.",
"\"They are all angry, ready to explode, scream out and let the world hear their voice.",
"I want the world to know that as a woman in this country, I have no freedom.\"",
"Though 63 percent of all Iranian college students are women, the law of the land does not see men and women as equal.",
"In cases of divorce, child custody, inheritance and crime, women do not have the same legal rights as men.",
"In the past four years, Ahmadinejad has made it easier for men to practice polygamy and harder for women to access public sector jobs, according to CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour.",
"Amanpour, who has reported extensively from Iran, describes Iranian women as \"very strong.\"",
"In 1997, it was women who came out along with young people to put reformist candidate Mohammed Khatami into the presidency, Amanpour said.",
"Increasingly, women's voices are gaining power as their numbers rise and their demands grow louder.",
"Even the granddaughter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the architect of the Islamic republic, voiced frustration at the way women are treated.",
"\"Women are just living things,\" Zahra Eshraghi told Amanpour.",
"\"A woman is there to fill her husband's stomach and raise children.\"",
"For the first time, women were allowed to register for the presidential race, though none, including Eshraghi, were deemed fit to run by the religious body that vets candidates.",
"But women's issues surfaced in the campaign.",
"That was partly the result of a women's movement comprised of educated, urban, middle-class women that has grown in recent years with the addition of more conservative and poorer women, said Tohidi, a longtime observer of women's rights in Iran.",
"Ironically, traditional women first gained voice under the clerics.",
"\"Khomeini needed their votes, so he encouraged them to be publicly active,\" Tohidi said.",
"The middle-class women who enjoyed certain freedoms in prerevolutionary days refused to turn back, while a new generation of conservatives were awakened to feminism.",
"In 2003, lawyer and women's rights activist Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize, providing a \"big boost\" for Iranian women, Tohidi said.",
"At the same time, private organizations and charities that deal with women's issues blossomed under the presidency of reformist Mohammed Khatami, growing by as much as 700 percent, Tohidi said.",
"Marriage age increased as more women opted to marry for love, instead of entering arranged marriages.",
"The One Million Signatures Campaign officially launched in 2006 sprouted new discourse and attention with a petition that asks the parliament to reform gender discriminatory laws.",
"In this year's presidential campaign, Iranian women pressured candidates to agree to ratify the U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.",
"The 1979 treaty has been ratified by 186 nations, including several Islamic states.",
"Two opposition candidates, Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karrubi, vowed to look into parts of the Iranian constitution that defer women's rights to what is regarded as an outdated version of sharia, or Islamic, law.",
"Moussavi had even promised to appoint women as cabinet ministers for the first time.",
"Some women in Iran looked to Moussavi to carry their banner, perhaps because they were inspired by his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, a much-admired academic who told CNN's Amanpour that Iran's 34 million women want civil laws and family laws revised.",
"Author and journalist Azadeh Moaveni, who spent several years working in Iran, said Ahmadinejad's fundamentalism has pushed Iranian women to the edge.",
"\"He has been a catastrophe for women,\" said Moaveni, who wrote \"Lipstick Jihad\" and co-authored \"Iran Awakening\" with Nobel laureate Ebadi.",
"The weight of discrimination against women is felt most profoundly through Iran's legal system, but Moaveni said Ahmadinejad added to the hardship by clamping down on women's lifestyles.",
"He mandated the way women dress and even censored Web sites that dealt with women's health, Moaveni said.",
"A woman would be hard-pressed to conduct a Google search for something as simple as breast cancer.",
"Moaveni was almost arrested because her coat sleeves were too short and exposed too much skin.",
"In that setting, she said, it's striking to see women protesting, especially without their hijabs, or head coverings.",
"\"While it's not at the top of women's grievances, the hijab is symbolic.",
"Taking it off is like waving a red flag,\" Moaveni said.",
"\"Women are saying they are a force to be reckoned with.\"",
"Azar Nafisi, a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and author of \"Reading Lolita in Tehran,\" said she has been watching the footage from Iran with \"inordinate pride.\"",
"She marched on the streets during the 1979 revolution because she believed in greater freedoms for her people, only to see her dreams shattered as hardline clerics took hold of Iran.",
"\"Reading Lolita\" is largely a memoir of her harrowing days in Iran until 1997, when she immigrated to the United States.",
"\"The way I walked down the street became a political statement,\" Nafisi said.",
"She recalled her own mother being a devout Muslim who chose not to wear a veil.",
"Her grandmother, like more traditional women in Iran, wore a veil but resented the government ordering her to do so.",
"Covering up, Nafisi said, was a matter of faith, not politics.",
"Nafisi believes that women have become a symbolic statement of the power of the Islamic state.",
"She called Iranian women canaries of the mind -- barometers of how free society is.",
"It's impossible to predict what will transpire in Iran in the coming days.",
"Nafisi believes a regime change will not be enough; that only a change in mindset can lead to greater freedoms for women.",
"Moaveni said the sheer scale of the demonstrations assures her that the political and social climate will never again be the same in Iran.",
"Tohidi is keeping her fingers crossed that the protests won't prompt Iran's hardliners to clamp down and rule by repression.",
"But all of them shared the hopes of the women -- like Parisa -- who are marching on the streets.",
"\"Today, we were wearing black,\" Parisa said, referring to the day of mourning to remember those who have died in post-election violence.",
"\"We were holding signs.",
"We said, 'We are not sheep.",
"We are human beings,'\" she said.",
"Parisa was thankful for all the images being transmitted out of Iran despite the government's crackdown on international journalists.",
"She was thankful, too, that the world cared.",
"\"Today,\" she said, \"I had this feeling of hope that things will finally change.\""
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"Many hope the protests will lead to changes in gender discriminatory laws .",
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"(CNN) -- She stands just over 4 feet tall and prowls the stage rasping Lady Gaga hits.",
"But come weekends, you won't find Terra Jolé in the nightclubs partying like a rock star.",
"\"Most short people are at boobie or neck range\" with other patrons in the clubs, she explains.",
"\"I'm at ass range.\" Such quips are definitive Jolé, a petite chanteuse who is as self-deprecating as she is earnestly committed to her career as \"Mini-Gaga,\" an impersonator.",
"The singer-actress has found success in combining the uniqueness of being a little person with her determination to become a star.",
"Who better to portray than Lady Gaga, who is known for her willingness to traffic in the unexpected?",
"\"Gaga is so exciting to me because she's like an animal,\" Jolé says.",
"\"As long as you are feeling powerful and emotionally driven for the night ...",
"I would say that you are really taking the right steps to becoming 'mini-Gaga.'\"",
"Not that Jolé doesn't consider herself a performer in her own right.",
"Born in San Antonio to an average-sized family, Jolé has dreamed of a career in Hollywood for as long as she can remember.",
"Along with the blond good looks and the big personality one might expect from a Texas rose, Jolé also has achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism.",
"The pint-sized performer decided early on not to let size stop her.",
"\"I've grown up saying, 'Lord please, all I want to do is become a singer,' and I believe he has granted that wish,\" Jolé says.",
"\"The fact that it's not exactly what I envisioned doesn't mean that I'm not still envisioning something more grandiose.\"",
"She first came to the public's attention in 2003 with an appearance on MTV's \"True Life: I'm a Little Person\" special, which chronicled her attempts to break into show business.",
"After performing as a part of mini-KISS for a few years, she had an offer to perform at a party and was surprised that rather than be asked to come as \"an Oompa Loompa or something like that,\" the client bought into her idea of showing up as \"Mini-Britney Spears.\"",
"That launched her career as a Lilliputian look-alike, and soon she was appearing everywhere, from television shows like \"CSI: Las Vegas\" to touring with rapper T-Pain and Lil Wayne and starring in the Las Vegas show \"Little Legends.\"",
"On the big screen, Jolé has appeared in films such as \"Jackass 3D\" and \"Tales From Beyond.\"",
"She now has her own company, \"Mini-Popstars,\" with other small impersonators, including \"Mini-Beyonce,\" \"Mini-Michael Jackson\" and \"Mini-Vanilli.\"",
"And like any big star, she shies away from talking money and fees; she'd much rather focus on how fortunate she feels to be doing what she loves.",
"\"I truly feel like this is so much like the rest of our lives in that if you believe that you can do it, put effort and work into it, then anything is possible,\" she says.",
"Jolé has all the trappings of a celebrity: costume designer, manager, publicist and fans who love to be photographed with her.",
"She has met Britney Spears (who Jolé says couldn't have been sweeter) and a quick search of the Web turns up a picture of Lindsay Lohan hanging with Jolé in her Mini-Britney gear.",
"Jolé has spent hours volunteering with the nonprofit organization Little People of America, and she has written into her contracts a clause that says if the word \"midget\" is used she will walk.",
"Yet there are still some in her community who aren't thrilled by her career.",
"\"A lot of little people question me and state, 'It's so demeaning' and 'I can't believe you would do that; why don't you just do your own show?'",
"\" she says. \"That's just like telling any other person why don't you just become your own famous person and see what kind of press you get.",
"No matter who you are or what you are doing, you are always going to get some negative reaction.\"",
"Working the stage clearly gives Jolé a buzz.",
"She's meticulous in her preparations.",
"From the makeup to the outrageous costumes, she works hard to achieve the illusion, though she admits she doesn't look much like Gaga or Britney.",
"As for the sound, Jolé says she sings most of the songs herself -- except for the last number in her act, when she is usually out of breath.",
"Pulling off Gaga's \"Bad Romance\" is fairly simple given that the husky tune falls in Jolé's natural range.",
"Besides, she says, fans get that she is more tribute performer than spot on.",
"The biggest challenge, she says, is trying to replicate Gaga's sense of style.",
"\"Everyone remembers the nude latex outfit that she wore at the Grammys when she came out of the egg,\" Jolé says.",
"\"I couldn't find sheets of latex, but I found these heavy shower curtains that I thought would work.",
"Bad idea. It was the worst costume malfunction known to man.\"",
"Even though Jolé sometimes gets confused with other little people like Amy Roloff, the mother on TLC's \"Little People, Big World,\" the singer says she enjoys a healthy fan base, especially in the gay community.",
"Could it only be a matter of time before there is a Terra Jolé impersonator?",
"Absolutely, if she has her way.",
"\"This is like the practice round before I actually become the 'Terra Jolé Show,'\" she says, laughing."
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