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[ "(PEOPLE.com) -- Kevin Bacon is not the kind of guy to look back at his past work.", "But when the studio unearthed his audition tape from 1984's original \"Footloose,\" he couldn't help himself.", "\"It was like a weird time-travel, out-of-body type thing,\" Bacon, 53, told PEOPLE.", "\"It's like if you went and saw the interview you did for your first job.", "Wow. I literally turned the thing off, went into the bathroom, looked myself in the mirror and went, 'Jesus, is that even the same guy?'", "\" So was he impressed with himself? \"Honestly, I was,\" says Bacon, who at the time he shot the movie was a relatively unknown off-Broadway actor, despite roles in \"Animal House,\" \"Friday the 13th\" and \"Diner.\"", "\"The energy, the hunger, the determination ... it was cockiness really.", "I oozed it.\" Double Vision .", "While Bacon is justifiably proud of himself and the film -- which went on to earn more than 10 times its reported $8 million budget -- he does have a few regrets.", "For one, while he says he did a majority of his own dancing, he wished he had been able to do some of the flips and complicated dance moves in the movie's famous warehouse scene.", "\"Are you kidding? I was furious,\" Bacon says with a smile.", "\"It's like a starting pitcher getting taken out of a game -- no one wants to be told they can't get the guy out.\"", "On the day of the movie's famous warehouse shoot, \"I had a stunt double, a dance double and two gymnastics doubles,\" recalls Bacon.", "\"There were five of us in the f---ing outfit, and I felt horrible.\"", "One thing that Bacon was unwilling to do was stay quiet about his dance double.", "\"When the movie came out, the studio told me to never mention that they used a double,\" he says.", "\"While I was in no position to do this, I told them, ''You are out of your f---ing mind!'", "\" The new \"Footloose\" opens Friday.", "Click here for PEOPLE's review.", "See the full article at PEOPLE.com.", "© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "Bacon says he did a majority of his own dancing .", "He wished he had been able to do some of the flips .", "The new \"Footloose\" opens Friday ." ]	[ 9, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency issued a critical report Tuesday saying that it has \"serious concerns\" about Iran's nuclear program and has obtained \"credible\" information that the Islamic republic may be developing nuclear weapons.", "The IAEA report, the most detailed to date on the Iranian program's military scope, found no evidence that Iran has made a strategic decision to actually build a bomb.", "But its nuclear program is more ambitious and structured, and more progress has been made than previously known.", "\"The agency has serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran's nuclear program,\" the report said.", "\"After assessing carefully and critically the extensive information available to it, the agency finds the information to be, overall, credible.", "The information indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device.\"", "U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the report had just arrived and refrained from commenting on details at an afternoon briefing.", "But a senior U.S. official called the report \"a big deal.\"", "\"The report is very comprehensive, credible, quite damning, and alarming,\" the official said.", "Read the IAEA report here .", "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad slammed the report as a fabrication of facts aimed at satisfying U.S. allegations about Iran's nuclear program.", "Ahmadinejad essentially called Yukiya Amano, the director general of the IAEA, a U.S. puppet and said the United Nations agency has no jurisdiction in Iran.", "\"The Americans have fabricated a stack of papers and he keeps speaking about them,\" he said on state-run Press TV.", "\"Why don't you do a report on the U.S. nuclear program and its allies?", "Present a report on the thousands of U.S. military bases where Washington has nuclear arms that threaten global security.\"", "The IAEA had released another report on Iran in September but this one was highly anticipated because of the military aspect.", "Since 2002, the IAEA has regularly received new information pertaining to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile, the report said.", "It said Iran has made \"efforts, some successful, to procure nuclear related and dual use equipment and materials by military related individuals and entities\" and has acquired nuclear weapons information from \"a clandestine nuclear supply network.\"", "It has also worked on mastering the design of a nuclear weapon and tested components, the report said.", "The IAEA said the some of the activities have both civilian and military applications, but others are specific to nuclear weapons.", "Iran has repeatedly insisted its nuclear program is for peaceful, civilian energy purposes only.", "According to the IAEA report, Iran is believed to have continued weapons research and technology development after 2003, when the intelligence community thought Iran had stopped.", "Instead of halting, it seems Iran took a temporary hiatus at the time, although the program progressed at a more modest pace since then, the report said.", "After the report's release, top Republicans in Congress called on President Barack Obama's administration to ratchet up economic sanctions against Iran.", "Rep. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, raised the fear that Israel would attack Iranian nuclear facilities without further steps by the United States and its allies.", "Rogers, R-Michigan, said new sanctions should cut off the supply of refined fuel to Iran and target its central bank, which he said is being used to finance Tehran's nuclear program.", "\"If we talk about it for a long time, if we're not really leading on it, I will tell you we leave this option to the Israelis,\" he told CNN's \"John King USA.\"", "And in a written statement, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen called on Congress to pass two bills targeting Iran's energy sector.", "The Florida Republican leads the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which recently sent legislation to the House floor to do just that.", "\"If fully implemented, they have the potential to cripple the regime's ability to continue its nuclear program,\" she said.", "\"If the Iranian regime acquires nuclear weapons capabilities, the U.S., Israel and our other allies in the region and around the world will face an unimaginable threat to our security.", "The clock is ticking.\"", "Previous IAEA reports have cited concerns by the organization that Iran has been seeking to develop nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles to deliver them.", "Word of the latest report drew strong comments in Israel, where talks of how to deal with Iran have recently hit fever pitch.", "Israel considers Iran its arch-nemesis for its repeated innuendos about the destruction of the Jewish state.", "Ahead of the report's release, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned that his nation would consider every option in countering Iran's bomb-making capabilities.", "\"Israel does not want a confrontation, but if it happens, the state of Israel will not be destroyed and there will not be 10,000 dead and not even 500 dead in any possible scenario,\" Barak said Tuesday on Israel Radio.", "Iranian Defense Minister Brig.", "Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said Iranian armed forces were in \"full combat readiness and will give a crushing response to those daring to attack the country,\" IRNA said.", "The United States, Vahidi said, was trying to \"promote Iranophobia\" in a bid to attain its \"sinister goals.\"", "Western powers have long suspected that Iran's nuclear program is geared toward weapons development.", "The United States is looking to increase the heat on Iran, including a possible strengthening of existing sanctions on Iran's financial and banking sectors and additional political pressure -- all of which could be applied by the United States alone or in coordination with other allies.", "The United States also hopes international organizations, such as the United Nations, will take steps to further isolate Iran diplomatically.", "Officials said that one of several options being considered is sanctioning the Central Bank of Iran, although the United States is mindful of the impact such a move could have on oil prices during a time of global economic turmoil.", "U.S. officials said the Obama administration will use the report to lobby the international community to slap new economic sanctions against Iran.", "Obama said he discussed the upcoming report with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Cannes, France, during a meeting of the G-20 industrialized nations.", "The U.S. president said the two leaders \"agreed on the need to maintain the unprecedented international pressure on Iran to meet its obligations.\"", "CNN's Elise Labott, Jill Dougherty and Moni Basu contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: GOP members of Congress urge White House to ratchet up economic sanctions .", "NEW: Sanctions should target refined fuel supply, Iran's central bank, Rep. Mike Rogers says .", "A nuclear watchdog report expresses serious concern over Iran's nuclear program .", "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad dismisses the report as fabrication ." ]	[ 10, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Tests detected low levels of radioactivity on 17 U.S. Navy helicopter crew members when they returned to the USS Ronald Reagan after conducting disaster relief missions in Japan, the military said Monday.", "No further contamination was detected after the crew members washed with soap and water, the Navy said.", "In addition, the Navy said the U.S. 7th Fleet has temporarily repositioned its ships and planes away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after detecting low-level contamination in the air and on its planes in the area, the Navy said.", "One ship was operating about 100 miles northeast of the power plant when \"airborne radioactivity\" was detected, the Navy said.", "The Navy's statement, however, provided some perspective, noting that the maximum potential radiation dose received by personnel when the ship passed through the area was \"less than the radiation exposure received from about one month of exposure to natural background radiation from sources such as rocks, soil, and the sun.\"", "On Sunday, the USS Ronald Reagan started delivering aid in the coastal regions of Japan's Miyagi prefecture.", "Crew members, in conjunction with the Japan Maritime Self Defense Forces, conducted 20 sorties delivering aid pallets.", "Eight U.S. and Japanese helicopters were used to distribute the pallets, according to Sgt.", "Maj. Stephen Valley of U.S.", "Forces Japan.", "Workers are scrambling to cool down fuel rods and prevent a full meltdown in three reactors at the earthquake-hit plant.", "Radioactive steam has been released, intentionally to lessen growing pressure in the reactors." ]	[ "The Navy says washing with soap and water removed the radioactivity .", "The U.S. 7th Fleet moves ships and planes away from the Fukushima Daiichi plant .", "The Navy says \"airborne radioactivity\" was detected 100 miles away from the plant .", "The most exposure anyone onboard received is less than a month's normal radiation dose ." ]	[ 2, 3, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A shootout in a border city that leaves five alleged drug traffickers sprawled dead on the street and seven police wounded.", "A police chief and his bodyguards gunned down outside his house in another border city.", "Four bridges into the United States shut down by protesters who want the military out of their towns and who officials say are backed by narcotraffickers.", "Mexican police carry a body after a clash with gangs that left 21 dead in the state of Chihuahua on February 10.", "That was Mexico on Tuesday.", "What is most remarkable is that it was not much different from Monday or Sunday or any day in the past few years.", "Mexico, a country with a nearly 2,000-mile border with the United States, is undergoing a horrifying wave of violence that some are likening to a civil war.", "Drug traffickers battle fiercely with each other and Mexican authorities.", "The homicide rate reached a record level in 2008 and indications are that the carnage could be exceeded this year.", "Watch a reporter duck to avoid gunfire » .", "Every day, newspapers and the airwaves are filled with stories and images of beheadings and other gruesome killings.", "Wednesday's front page on Mexico City's La Prensa carried a large banner headline that simply said \"Hysteria!\"", "The entire page was devoted to photos of bloody bodies and grim-faced soldiers.", "One photo shows a man with two young children walking across a street with an army vehicle in the background, with a soldier standing at a turret machine gun.", "Larry Birns, director of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs, calls it \"a sickening vertigo into chaos and plunder.\"", "By most accounts, that's not hyperbole.", "\"The grisly portrait of the violence is unprecedented and horrific,\" said Robert Pastor, a Latin America national security adviser for President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s.", "\"I don't think there's any question that Mexico is going through a very rough time.", "Not only is there violence with the gangs, but the entire population is very scared,\" said Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based policy center.", "Speaking on a news show a few weeks ago, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich called it a civil war.", "Birns agrees.", "\"Of course it's a civil war, but that only touches the violence of it,\" he said Wednesday.", "\"It's also a civic conflict, as an increasing number of people look upon the law and democratic values as something that can be violated.\"", "Hakim is not prepared to go that far.", "\"One has to be careful and not overdo it,\" he said.", "\"Mexico is a long way from being a failed state.", "Mexico has real institutions.", "It paves roads and collects the garbage.", "It holds regular elections.\"", "Enrique Bravo, an analyst with the Eurasia consulting group, points out that the violence so far is mostly affecting just drug gangs and is primarily localized along the U.S. border and Mexico's western coast.", "The violence along the border is particularly worrisome, analysts say.", "\"The spillover into the United States is bound to expand and bound to affect U.S. institutions,\" Birns said.", "Pastor and Hakim note that the United States helps fuel the violence, not only by providing a ready market for illegal drugs, but also by supplying the vast majority of weapons used by drug gangs.", "Pastor says there are 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.", "And it's not just handguns. Drug traffickers used a bazooka in Tuesday's shootout with federal police and army soldiers in Reynosa, Mexico, across the border from McAllen, Texas.", "\"The drug gangs are better equipped than the army,\" Hakim said.", "Pervasive corruption among public officials is central to the drug cartels' success.", "\"There is so much money involved in the drug trade, there is so much fear involved in the drug trade, that no institution can survive unaffected,\" Birns said.", "\"This has really revealed just how corrupt Mexican officeholders are,\" Hakim said.", "In one recent instance, Noe Ramirez Mandujano, who was the nation's top anti-drug official from 2006 until August 2008, was arrested on charges that he accepted $450,000 a month in bribes from drug traffickers while in office.", "Such dire problems call for a new way of looking at the situation, some say.", "\"The unthinkable is happening,\" Birns said.", "\"People are beginning to discuss decriminalization and legalization. ...", "There's only one thing that can be done: Take the profit out of it.\"", "Pastor calls the problem in Mexico \"even worse than Chicago during the Prohibition era\" and said a solution similar to what ended that violence is needed now.", "\"What worked in the U.S. was not Eliot Ness,\" he said, referring to the federal agent famous for fighting gangsters in 1920s and '30s.", "\"It was the repeal of Prohibition.\"", "That viewpoint has picked up some high-level support in Latin America.", "Last week, the former presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil called for the decriminalization of marijuana for personal use and a change in strategy on the war on drugs at a meeting in Brazil of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy.", "\"The problem is that current policies are based on prejudices and fears and not on results,\" former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria said at a news conference, in which the 17-member commission's recommendations were presented.", "Mexican President Felipe Calderon has taken the war on drugs to the cartels and some say it's not working.", "\"It's as if the burden of being the main arena of the anti-drug war has overwhelmed Mexican institutions,\" Birns said.", "\"The occasional anti-drug battle is being won, but the war is being lost.", "And there's no prospect the war is going to be won.\"", "In the meantime, the killings will continue at a record pace.", "On Wednesday, the Mexican cities of Torreon and Gomez Palacio reported at least eight shootouts involving heavily armed men.", "The toll: seven dead, seven wounded." ]	[ "Drug-related conflicts bring waves of violence, death that some liken to a civil war .", "U.S. helps fuel violence with market for illegal drugs, weapons supply for drug gangs .", "\"The drug gangs are better equipped than the army,\" expert says .", "Pervasive corruption among public officials also at center of drug cartels' success ." ]	[ 32, 35, 36 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A French Mirage 2000 jet fighter collided with a Lithuanian plane during a training mission Tuesday in Lithuania, the French Defense Ministry said.", "No one was hurt during the training exercise at an air force base in Siauliai, Northern Lithuania, military officials from both countries said.", "Two French jet fighters and and a Lithuanian jet trainer were in the air when one of the jet fighters collided with the Lithuanian plane, officials said.", "Both pilots of the Lithuanian L-39 Albatross ejected and are safe.", "Their plane crashed.", "The French jet landed, Lithuanian officials said." ]	[ "French plane collides with Lithuanian plane during training exercise .", "No one is hurt ." ]	[ 0, 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Should zombies rise up someday soon and take over the world because of an unidentified plague or virus that's caused the collapse of modern society as we know it, how would you react?", "Such is the fundamental question of AMC's widely successful show \"The Walking Dead,\" which returns this Sunday for its second season.", "Based on Robert Kirkman's comic book, the series is one of the more odd yet complex dramas on television today.", "At its core, it's about survival and the psychological stress that spending every waking moment together has on a small group.", "But that could be said about all human beings in that surviving the world is something we do on a daily basis; the trick with \"The Walking Dead\" is that a pack of ravenous zombies could be lurking around the corner, ready to make you into dinner.", "Viewers are consistently presented with questions of morality, instinct and terror, where plots are less about discovery -- there's no race for the cure -- and more about the struggle to exist.", "CNN checked in with \"The Walking Dead\" showrunner/executive producer Glen Mazzara to see what's in store for season two, how the show finds its storytelling voice and just how they get that authentic zombie feel.", "CNN: On average, how much are you thinking about zombies each day?", "Mazzara: All of them. I wake up thinking about zombies.", "How do I keep them scary?", "What's new, what's different, what's fun that we can do with zombies?", "CNN: How did this show become so popular on just a six-episode first season?", "What's the appeal? Mazzara: It's visceral.", "There's an immediacy for anyone watching it, where they think, \"what would I do?\"", "People buy into the idea that a plague could wipe out things.", "We've seen that, and it's in the zeitgeist now.", "It's playing on the everyman level where it's about the survivors and not about what happened to the collapse of government or infrastructure.", "You get in the car, and it runs out of gas, and then what?", "Meanwhile, you're being chased by zombies.", "CNN: Remember the swine flu?", "That was a legit panic.", "Mazzara: Yeah.", "It's like when you're watching a horror movie and the people move into a haunted house.", "And you're wondering, why didn't think just move out?", "Everything our survivors are doing, hopefully, strikes people as realistic.", "They're making decisions that ordinary people would make.", "And none of those decisions have very good consequences.", "CNN: There's also weird psychological dynamics between the characters where they have to get along while also ensuring that they survive, they want to survive, and everyone around them survives too, because as far as they know, they're it.", "Mazzara: Right.", "Our characters are definitely flawed.", "But they're stuck together because, hopefully, there's survival in numbers.", "It's an interesting dynamic that we're going to play out all season where people are deciding, are they better off with the group or without?", "CNN: In a few of the articles that have come out, you mention the desire to showcase your own storytelling voice.", "What would that entail, exactly, for the viewer?", "Mazzara: Part of what I hope to do this season is really focus on the character of Rick and his questions of leadership.", "Taking over a successful show, I'm facing my own questions of leadership, so that's easy to write.", "But I feel that the work I've done in the past, especially on \"The Shield,\" where it was a very surprising, violent show, yet grounded work -- that's something I'm trying to bring to this piece as well.", "Because it's a heightened reality, one where people are being chased by zombies, you have to be careful not to tip that line where it becomes unrealistic.", "You have to be grounded, and that's something we worked very hard on \"The Shield\" to achieve.", "At the same time, it can't be bleak.", "It has to be hopeful. Otherwise, it becomes too depressing.", "The show this year has a lot of heart.", "It is about the moments of personal heartbreak between the characters; it's something I'm excited about and the other writers have bought into.", "It's something we see as an important part of the season.", "CNN: For viewers, there's always this idea that a \"walker\" could appear and eat your face.", "How do you develop characters that are more than just \"scared\" but also still keep the viewer psychologically afraid?", "Mazzara: Our characters do deal with it in different ways.", "Some do lose hope; some have a sense of humor; some rise to the challenge; some develop in a way that they couldn't in the pre-apocalyptic world.", "For example, Glenn or Andrea, when she comes into her own this season.", "They have new roles or opportunities available to them before the zombies took over.", "We're trying to explore it in a lot of different ways, where it's individual to each character.", "CNN: Back to the zombies: Are there certain guidelines the actors have to follow to get that \"authentic zombie feel\"?", "Mazzara: Greg Nicotero is our zombie king.", "He actually runs a zombie school, where he brings in extras and actors, where he teaches them all about zombies.", "Depending on how they do, he positions them in the shot.", "The better zombies get more makeup and are more up-front.", "Those zombies who are not as scary, they're more in the back of the shots or the edge of the frames.", "What's great about Greg is when the writers have questions like \"would a zombie do this?\"", "and we call Greg and talk through a lot of zombie science and zombie law.", "He's our resident expert.", "CNN: Obviously they're hideous, but they all have a different lurch.", "Mazzara: Yeah, I think that's how Greg is working with them.", "He spends a lot of time making sure each zombie can be featured.", "Also, if you think about it, every zombie is an individual who died.", "You want to make them individual.", "CNN: As the show evolves over season two, what are some of the larger thematic issues you see playing out?", "Mazzara: Rick's dilemma of trying to lead his group to a save haven and the romantic triangle between Lori, Shane and Rick.", "That really complicates life as everyone wrestles with what they know, what they think they know and what they don't know.", "And a question we want to handle is, what is life like for the children in this world?", "Do they represent hope, or are they just fodder for the zombies?", "That's the question: How much hope is there?", "We have a lot of themes we're juggling every episode.", "CNN: You take out the phrase \"post-apocalyptic zombie wasteland,\" and much of it could be applied to what's going on today.", "Mazzara: That's the whole trick.", "That's something that sometimes our character's step back from the horror, and they realize that.", "How things have changed.", "Has there been any guarantee of hope and survival?", "Has it all been just an illusion? Is this the real world, where we're just in the doorway between life and death?", "It's interesting, and this is what we want to see our characters wrestle with.", "Our show revolves around character; it doesn't rely on revelation.", "No one knows why the zombies took over, but it's not about finding the cure.", "It's about staying alive and figuring out what to do.", "Our concerns are immediate.", "Season two of \"The Walking Dead\" premieres Sunday night at 9 p.m. EST on AMC." ]	[ "Glen Mazzara is executive producer and showrunner for \"The Walking Dead\"\nThe popular serires returns Sunday night for its second season .", "Mazzara says he is constantly thinking about zombies in his spare time .", "He offers insights into how the show comes together ." ]	[ 1, 6, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- At 31, Sean Parker has a lot more going for him than Justin Timberlake.", "As the co-founder of music-sharing service Napster and the former president of Facebook, he's an Internet pioneer.", "He's a billionaire. And he throws a hell of a party.", "Last week, during Facebook's f8 conference in San Francisco, Parker transformed an empty warehouse into one big VIP room, complete with a lavish buffet and celebrity guests.", "Despite having only two days to plan the event, he somehow managed to get Snoop Dogg, the Killers and Jane's Addiction to perform for a few hundred invited guests.", "Estimates put the party tab at $1 million or more.", "The purpose of the shindig was to celebrate the U.S. arrival of Spotify, the music-streaming service in which Parker is a major investor.", "Spotify also is partnering with Facebook to let users play and share music within the social network.", "The event featured an onstage chat between Parker and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek.", "Beside every chair in the media's seating section sat a bottle of high-end tequila.", "Of the hundreds of media events I've attended over the years, this is the first time I've seen that.", "Not in attendance was Timberlake, the singer-turned-actor who portrayed Parker as a backstabbing opportunist in last year's \"The Social Network.\"", "In past interviews, Parker has called the movie \"a complete work of fiction.\"", "After the Killers played, I sat down with Parker for a few minutes in a private area upstairs.", "The first thing we talked about was Napster.", "I mentioned that I would never forget that feeling of downloading free music, that it felt like you had won one of those contests where you could fill up your shopping cart for free.", "\"I still hear that a lot,\" he told me.", "Here are a few excerpts from our talk, edited for clarity: .", "On his affinity with Napster co-founder Shawn Fanning: .", "\"Fanning and I immediately realized that we had an interest in more than just computers and software and hacking and security, that we actually had an interest in doing something with a broader cultural importance.", "One of those ideas was Napster.\"", "On being a billionaire . \"I definitely wanted to earn my freedom.", "But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.", "I think the perception of wealth and power is that things just become easier and easier when in reality as you raise the stakes things become more stressful.", "You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more -- I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.\"", "On Apple's Steve Jobs .", "\"Steve is one the greatest business artists in history and has had more impact through his product design in Apple than any other CEO.\"", "On Timberlake's unflattering depiction of him .", "\"It's a blessing and a curse in the sense it definitely raised my profile somewhat -- that character in the film played by Justin Timberlake represents a set of values that I just don't agree with.", "It's difficult watching a character using your name and interacting with people [while] supposedly [doing] a portrayal of you.\"", "On his business role .", "\"Early on I wanted to run a company, but I quickly realized there was this other model available.", "Maybe I'm blazing a new path with this model because you don't typically see this.", "You see investors who have portfolio companies but aren't very active, or entrepreneurs who typically run one company for their entire life, or occasionally, serial entrepreneurs who do a series of small companies.", "But they typically run them for a fairly long period of time.", "I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do.", "But I realized it fit my personality.\"" ]	[ "Sean Parker throws $1 million party to celebrate arrival of Spotify .", "Parker says primary motivation for business isn't becoming a millionaire .", "\"Steve [Jobs] is one the greatest business artists in history,\" Parker says ." ]	[ 5, 6, 22, 26, 30 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Magnificent snow-peaked summits and quaint thousand-year-old villages provide the backdrop for an unforgettable adventure in Nepal.", "Exploring the dramatic landscape on foot is nothing short of extraordinary, trekkers say.", "\"[One night] the back doors were open towards the view of Mount Everest and the other peaks of the Himalayas.", "It was so beautiful with snow-capped mountains and the sky was full of stars.", "I think that was one of the most magical moments I've ever had,\" says iReporter Kuna Rajandran, who trekked to Everest base camp in April.", "Planning a Nepal expedition may seem daunting at first -- and you will be challenged -- but in the end, itÂ¹s worth it.", "You will come away with some of the greatest memories of your life, from savoring locally cooked meals at teahouses to soaking in breathtaking views of the high Himalayas, according to adventurers who've made the trip.", "There are endless options when it comes to planning a trek in Nepal.", "One of the most popular routes is the Annapurna Circuit, which loops around the base of the Annapurna range.", "And, of course, the more difficult Everest base camp trek is a magnet for many visitors.", "Worlds away in Kathmandu .", "Experts urge travelers to be wary of individual porters and guides who approach you on the streets of Kathmandu.", "They are most likely uninsured, cautions Mohan Lamsal, general secretary of Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal (TAAN).", "Have a detailed discussion with your chosen trekking company to assess their professionalism, Lamsal advises.", "While booking in advance is a sure thing, some adventurous iReporters say making arrangements in Kathmandu is a convenient way to cut out the middleman.", "Be careful not to overestimate your abilities.", "Even if you feel completely comfortable with the people and the landscape and think you can make the trek on your own -- don't.", "Trekking with at least one companion is a must, especially if you're a beginner, experienced trekkers say.", "Since both the Annapurna base camp and Everest Base camp treks are located in conservation areas, you will need permits, said iReporter Barry Wenlock, a Kathmandu resident and an experienced Himalayan trekker who has been leading tours since 1995.", "You can get permits before you begin or upon entry into the parks.", "Additionally, every trekker needs a Trekkers' Information Management System (TIMS) pass.", "You or your trip organizer can get this card, which is part of a database that stores visitor information for safety reasons.", "When deciding on when to make your trek, there is generally one rule of thumb: Avoid the monsoon season (June through August).", "The most popular times to trek are late spring (March and April) and early to mid-fall (October and November), but keep in mind that is also when the trekking routes are busiest.", "To beat the rush, try going a week or two earlier or later, suggests Wenlock.", "\"There are such beautiful forests [at the foothills of the Annapurna], and it's Nepal's primary rhododendron forest, so if you visit there in the last week of March, first week of April, the rhododendrons are full and it's an absolutely staggeringly beautiful place.", "And the pink and red rhododendrons all up the hillside, a few magnolias mixed in, some jasmine,\" Wenlock says.", "Before heading to Nepal, it's important not only to prepare your itinerary, but also your body.", "Even the mild or \"Nepali Flat\" parts of the \"easier\" Annapurna trek have their fair share of steep inclines.", "\"Walking around the golf course isn't enough -- you really need to do uphill walking.", "You can do that for a few weeks before you come, that will make it much easier,\" Wenlock says.", "It's cold in Nepal -- really cold.", "Weather-appropriate supplies are a must for any trekker, novice or expert.", "Remember to pack your warmest down jacket and broken-in hiking boots as well as sun and eye protection.", "Based on his experience trekking the Annapurna Circuit in 2009, iReporter Dean Gakos, an avid hiker, recommends watching out for knock-off gear, like fake North Face jackets, which he saw in Kathmandu.", "You don't want to climb up into the mountains only to realize your jacket contains synthetic down.", "If you're planning on trekking up to higher altitudes, be cautious of altitude sickness.", "Warning signs include vomiting and weakness of the body, says Rajandran.", "iReporter Udayan Mishra, a Kathmandu resident who has been on several expeditions in Nepal, suggests taking the trek gradually to acclimatize yourself -- overexertion in the beginning may lead to problems later on.", "Make sure you have enough Nepalese currency before you get on the path.", "Gakos recalls that there was \"one ATM on the whole trek.\"", "And even if there is an ATM, there's no guarantee that it has been recently stocked with money.", "There are two typical types of treks: the more popular teahouse trekking and a fully organized camping trip.", "A teahouse trek gives you the comfort of knowing that lodging and food will be provided.", "You can carry additional supplies -- clothing, snacks, sleeping bag -- on your own or hire a porter to carry it for you.", "Once you finish walking, five to six hours on average per day, you settle down in a village.", "If you don't have a guide to recommend a teahouse, talk to other travelers and consult guidebooks for suggestions.", "In teahouses that provide lodging and food, guests are expected to eat at least two meals: dinner at night and breakfast the next morning, Gakos says.", "Don't expect a hotel experience -- expect better.", "Nepali locals are known for being extremely kind and hospitable.", "Wenlock says you'll be treated like family during your stay.", "Gakos was looking for that kind of personal exchange.", "'\"That's why] we picked Annapurna, it was the perfect balance of wilderness and viewing the high Himalayas while also getting the Nepali culture,\" Gakos says.", "Past visitors consistently praise trekking in Nepal as one of the best experiences of their lives.", "CNN iReporter Ruth Stewart, who trekked to the Everest Base Camp in winter 2010, says Nepal was the most beautiful part of the world she's ever been to.", "Take advantage of the majestic mountains and the pristine landscape.", "Unlike many other mountain ranges, the Himalayan area in Nepal is practically untouched.", "\"There's no rubbish, there's no gondolas going up to the highest view, there's no cars, there's no traffic -- it's just complete serenity and it's just the most incredible experience,\" Stewart said." ]	[ "iReporters agree that trekking in Nepal is an incredible experience .", "To prepare for the terrain do some uphill walking before you go .", "Before you get on the path, make sure you have enough Nepalese currency ." ]	[ 29, 39 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An Australian panel on Thursday suggested changes to the country's Constitution to give better recognition to the indigenous population that inhabited the vast continent long before Europeans settled there.", "The indigenous Australians -- often referred to as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples -- suffered at the hands of the settlers and the government they established.", "Australian politicians have since apologized for the past mistreatment, but Aborigines remain disadvantaged socially and economically compared with the overall population.", "Explicit references to Aborigines in the original Constitution, drafted in the late 19th century, were subsequently deemed to be negative.", "Australians voted overwhelmingly to remove those points in a 1967 referendum, but many people say the document can be further improved to acknowledge the role of the country's indigenous population.", "The panel -- which included Aboriginal leaders, business executives, legal experts and members of the main political parties -- handed over its report on Thursday to Prime Minister Julia Gillard, whose government has promised to hold a referendum on the matter by the next general election.", "After spending the past year gathering opinions from people across Australia's huge territory, the panel faced the delicate task of proposing meaningful changes to the Constitution that would receive support from across the political spectrum.", "Without the backing of all the major political parties, the proposed measures would have little chance of success at a referendum.", "And rejection by voters could deal a blow to Australia's self-image.", "\"For many Australians, the failure of a referendum on recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples would result in confusion about the nation's values, commitment to racial nondiscrimination, and sense of national identity,\" the panel said in its report.", "\"The negative impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples would be profound.\"", "The challenge is highlighted by the track record of past efforts to change the Constitution by vote: only eight of the 44 referendum proposals have passed in Australia's history, with the last successful one in 1974.", "The panel said it had put forward changes that it thought would be likely to secure broad-based approval from Australians.", "It proposed repealing two provisions that are still considered to have racist connotations: one that allows states to disqualify people of \"all persons of any race\" from voting at elections; and another that authorizes parliament to make \"special laws\" for \"the people of any race.\"", "That recommendation was expected and had already been supported by the government and the opposition.", "The panel also made the more politically sensitive suggestion of adding a new section that would give Parliament the power to make laws \"for the peace, order and good government' of Australia \"with respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.\"", "That section would include a passage recognizing that \"the continent and its islands now known as Australia were first occupied by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.\"", "The report also proposed a section prohibiting racial discrimination while still allowing for the possibility of measures to protect and help \"any group.\"", "Some politicians and commentators had expressed concern before Thursday that the panel may put forward new provisions that, if enacted, would give too much power to the courts to interpret the wording as they saw fit.", "The government said in a statement that it would \"carefully consider the panel's recommendations before determining the best way forward.\"" ]	[ "A panel proposes new sections for the Australian Constitution to recognize indigenous people .", "The government says it will consider the recommendations before deciding how to proceed .", "It has promised a referendum on the issue by the next election .", "Changes to the Constitution by referendum rarely do well in Australia ." ]	[ 0, 5, 19 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- In a move that could improve security and keep airport lines moving, the Transportation Security Administration early next year will begin testing machines that match a traveler's boarding pass with his or her government-issued ID, while verifying that both documents are authentic.", "The machines will assist the TSA \"travel document checkers,\" who now conduct checks assisted only by ultraviolet flashlights and magnifying loupes.", "In 2006, an Indiana University doctoral student created a website allowing people to create fake boarding passes to demonstrate how a known terrorist on the \"No Fly\" list could use a fake boarding pass to get past a checkpoint.", "Once on the other side, the terrorist could use a real boarding pass acquired under an alias to board a plane.", "And in June, a Nigerian man was arrested after he flew across the country allegedly with a false boarding pass.", "Authorities said they found several other phony boarding passes in his luggage.", "The new technology would authenticate government-issued IDs by comparing written information on the card with information encoded in the ID's bar codes, magnetic strip or computer chip.", "It would also match the ID to the boarding pass.", "The system will alert screeners if either document does not pass validation.", "If the issue is easily rectifiable, such as misspelling of the passenger's name, the TSA may allow the person to proceed.", "If not immediately resolved, the passenger will be directed to a TSA supervisor.", "\"This technology will help facilitate risk-based security, while making the process more effective and efficient,\" TSA Administrator John S. Pistole said.", "The TSA has awarded contracts of $79 million each to three companies: BAE Systems Information Solutions, NCR Government Systems and Trans Digital Technologies, LLC.", "Each company will provide 10 machines for testing at U.S. airports.", "The TSA has not disclosed which airports will get the machines.", "In August, the TSA's chief privacy officer issued a report saying the machines have minimal privacy implications because only a limited amount of personal information is collected by the machines and because this information \"is deleted after use.\"", "A TSA spokeswoman said earlier versions of the technology were tested at two Washington-area airports in 2009." ]	[ "The TSA will test machines that match a boarding pass with the passenger's ID .", "The TSA has not disclosed which airport will get the test machines .", "The machines will be tested starting early in 2012 .", "The machines could improve security and traffic flow in airports ." ]	[ 0, 10, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- It all sounds eerily familiar.", "A new iPhone.", "Massive sales.", "Then, an apparent glitch that, while it doesn't affect everyone, is prevalent enough to irk customers and catch the eyes of tech journalists everywhere.", "Poor battery life on the iPhone 4S, released on October 14 to great fanfare and record sales, has been the new model's Achilles' heel in the minds of many users.", "While complaints about the perceived problem haven't reached the fevered pitch that last year's iPhone 4 release saw about its so-called \"death grip\" problem, they don't seem to be going away.", "There were, of course, the expected number of early-adopter quibbles with the phone: from troubles with new carrier Sprint, to a sometimes slow-moving camera, to limits on the voice-activated Siri \"personal assistant\" outside the United States.", "But as most of those gripes either got sorted or users got used to the limitations, complaints about the phone's battery life have persisted.", "A post on the Apple support forums, begun on October 15 to discuss battery problems, was still active Tuesday -- two weeks and 185 pages worth of comments later.", "\"I purchased what I thought was a top-of-the-line product only to be terribly disappointed,\" one user wrote Tuesday.", "\"This is my first iPhone and may well be my last.\"", "Battery life was a frequent complaint about the iPhone 3GS, but concerns about the phone's short battery life seemed to have been addressed on the next-generation iPhone 4.", "According to Apple's official specs, the iPhone 4S should have enough juice in the battery for up to eight hours of talk time, six hours of Internet surfing, 10 hours of video viewing and 200 hours on standby.", "(All activities on a 3G connection -- 2G and wireless have different figures).", "All of those numbers are within an hour or so of the iPhone 4, except for one.", "The older phone's specifications promise 300 hours of standby power: a full 50% more than the 4S.", "Users complaining on the Apple forum and elsewhere say that their phones aren't lasting anywhere near even that reduced length of time.", "Various independent tests of the new phone have suggested that some phones have problems with poor battery life, while others don't.", "The general consensus among tech-inclined owners is that the problem may not lie with the battery itself, but with the way the phone utilizes Apple's latest mobile operating system, iOS 5.", "Specifically, the theory goes, its location-based services are a power drain.", "If the phone is constantly trying to pinpoint where it is, it will suck power even when the user isn't actively doing something with the phone.", "(For a comparison, think about how quickly your battery drains when you forget to turn off Wi-Fi searches while you're driving.)", "The new phone also has a more powerful processor -- the same one that's in the iPad 2.", "That could cut battery life, even though Apple CEO Tim Cook specifically said that it wouldn't during the iPhone 4S unveiling event last month.", "Apparently, reading from the well-worn Apple playbook, the company has not commented publicly about the battery complaints.", "Messages and e-mails to Apple seeking comment on these complaints were not returned.", "It's unclear whether the company acknowledges there's a battery problem (although there have been reports that Apple is contacting iPhone 4S users to try to get to the bottom of it).", "And while it's too early for direct comparisons, the extended silence looks remarkably like the public-relations two-step that was Apple's handling of the iPhone 4's antenna issues.", "(As you may recall, Consumer Reports and others said the iPhone 4 had antenna problems that caused it to drop calls.", "People dubbed the situation \"Antennagate.\")", "First, the company refused to publicly acknowledge the issue.", "Then, there was a software patch apparently aimed at fixing it (although Apple never explicitly said so).", "There would eventually be a news conference in which then-CEO Steve Jobs spent most of the time denying there was any real problem, then announcing that the company would give away free bumpers -- minimalist iPhone cases -- to prevent dropped calls.", "But before that, there were the private e-mails and public statements saying, in essence, that users were holding their phones wrong.", "Then, weeks after the free-bumper news conference, Jobs and others doubled back, saying that there was never really much of a problem and discontinuing the freebie program.", "As Apple's silence persists (the company has said in the past that it spends time researching potential problems before addressing them publicly), users and observers are complaining and speculating in the vacuum.", "And that's not always pretty.", "\"It hits you when you least expect it.", "It slips away under a mask of dormant inactivity.", "And it can ruin your entire day,\" TechCrunch's Jordan Crook wrote Tuesday.", "\"It's your iPhone 4S battery life, and it sucks.\"" ]	[ "Complaints about iPhone 4S battery life mount .", "Some iPhone owners say their batteries drain much faster than advertised .", "Apple has not publicly acknowledged the concerns .", "Comments on a post on Apple's support forums go for 185 pages ." ]	[ 8, 11, 24 ]
[ "Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- Nearly four years after she was arrested on suspicion of having killed her roommate in this picturesque Italian university town, Amanda Knox pleaded with a jury Monday to overturn her conviction for murder.", "\"I am not what they say I am. I did not kill. I did not rape. I did not steal,\" Amanda Knox said, her voice trembling with emotion.", "She was making perhaps the most important speech of her life, and it showed.", "She got out only a few words before her voice choked off, she stopped, and said under her breath: \"OK.\" Then she launched into the crux of her plea: .", "\"People always ask 'who is Amanda Knox?'", "I am the same person that I was four years ago, exactly the same person.", "The only thing that now separates me from four years ago is my suffering.", "\"In four years, I've lost my friends in the most terrible and unexplainable way.", "My trust in the authorities and the police has been damaged.", "I had to face charges that were totally unfair, without any basis.", "And I am paying with my life for something I haven't done,\" she said, speaking fluent, flawless Italian.", "Knox and co-defendant Raffaele Sollecito are fighting to be acquitted of the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher.", "Prosecutors have called for the pair's sentences -- of 26 and 25 years, respectively -- to be increased to life.", "Kercher's family, meanwhile, held out hope that the conviction would remain in place.", "\"It isn't just the DNA or on one specific thing,\" Meredith's mother, Arline Kercher, said when the family spoke to members of the media.", "\"It's the overall evidence.\"", "Meredith's sister Stephanie said the family remains \"satisfied\" with Knox's conviction and believes it was right, short of someone else coming along and saying, \"I did it.\"", "\"I think Meredith has been hugely forgotten in all of this,\" Stephanie Kercher said, adding that the family wants \"truth\" and \"justice\" for Meredith.", "The Kercher family spoke calmly as they -- and millions around the world, gripped by this case -- awaited word from the jury.", "Earlier, before Knox spoke in court, Sollecito made a dramatic appeal to the court to free the two of them.", "He removed a white plastic bracelet from his wrist and fingered it nervously as his closing statement came to an end.", "\"It says 'Free Amanda and Raffaele,'\" he said.", "\"I have never taken it off. ...", "I think now is the moment to take it off.\"", "His voice fading almost to inaudibility, he concluded, \"I hope this is part of history and that Amanda and I have a future.\"", "\"I have never hurt anybody,\" he said.", "Knox did not look at Sollecito as he addressed the court, though he detailed for the judges and jurors the night of Kercher's murder.", "The couple have maintained they were together at Sollecito's residence the night Kercher was killed.", "He described the night as a happy, almost idyllic one for him: \"I was about to hand in my thesis.", "I had just met Amanda, a beautiful, sunny girl.\"", "The case is now in the hands of two judges and six jurors, who retired together within minutes of Knox's statement to consider their ruling.", "As they deliberated Monday morning, Rocco Girlanda, a member of the Italian Parliament, said Knox was calm.", "\"She is playing and singing songs in the chapel.", "... She is calm, very, very calm. She says, 'Unfortunately I have some terrible hours ahead of me, because I have to wait,' \" said Girlanda, who has become an advocate for Knox.", "But the lawmaker said Knox was hopeful.", "\"She is absolutely convinced she will fly home to the U.S. tonight,\" he said.", "Knox and Sollecito were convicted of murder, sexual assault and related crimes in December 2009.", "Their appeal has focused largely on DNA evidence found on a knife and on a bra clasp belonging to the victim.", "Knox's words capped a dramatic week of closing arguments by the host of lawyers battling over the outcome, from the lawyer for a man falsely accused of the crime, who called Knox \"Lucifer-like, demonic, Satanic,\" to the Sollecito defense counsel Giulia Bongiorno, who insisted that like the buxom cartoon temptress Jessica Rabbit in the movie \"Who Framed Roger Rabbit?\"", "Knox is not bad, just \"drawn that way.\"", "Knox told the court she always wanted justice for Kercher, her roommate at the university.", "\"I am innocent. Raffaele is innocent,\" she said.", "At the conclusion of her statement, Knox put her hands on her face and wept, burying her face in the shoulder of defense lawyer Carlo dalla Vedova, who put a comforting arm around her and offered her a handkerchief.", "Knox was 20 and Kercher was 21 years old, studying at Perugia's university for foreign students, when Kercher's semi-naked body was found in the house they shared.", "Her throat had been slashed.", "Sollecito, 23 at the time, was Knox's boyfriend, studying computer science at another university in Perugia.", "Prosecutors and police say Kercher's genetic material was on the knife blade and Knox's was on the handle, and that a Kercher bra clasp found at the crime scene had Sollecito's DNA.", "Defense lawyers and independent experts argued strenuously during the appeal that the DNA testing process was badly flawed and the results should be inadmissible.", "As Knox defense lawyer Luciano Ghirga made his final statements to the court before Knox and Sollecito spoke Monday, he reminded the jury that the standard is \"beyond a reasonable doubt.\"", "\"We ask you to give complete freedom to Amanda Knox,\" he said.", "Knox has addressed this jury at least twice before, telling them in June she was \"shocked\" by the testimony of the third person convicted of the crime, Rudy Guede, a drifter originally from the Ivory Coast.", "Guede admitted having sexual relations with Kercher but denied killing her.", "Guede was sentenced separately to 30 years behind bars for the murder, a sentence that was reduced to 16 on appeal.", "In June, he refused to tell the court hearing Knox and Sollecito's appeal that they had not been involved.", "A prosecutor then read a letter Guede had written to a newspaper from prison, saying he thought they had killed Kercher.", "\"The only time Rudy Guede, Raffaele Sollecito and I were in one room together was in a courtroom,\" Knox told the court in June.", "Her defense dismissed Guede's letter as based on \"a feeling,\" not facts or events he witnessed.", "Before the hearing began Monday, Knox's stepfather told CNN he was optimistic about the outcome of the appeal.", "He made his way into the court through a throng of reporters, ignoring shouted questions from journalists.", "Either side can appeal this court's ruling to Italy's High Court, but such an appeal would be on narrow technical grounds only.", "CNN's Hada Messia, Matthew Chance, Paula Newton and Chelsea J. Carter contributed to this report." ]	[ "It isn't just the DNA,\" Kercher's mother says .", "The Kercher family remains \"satisfied\" by the conviction, Kercher's sister says .", "Amanda Knox tells the court: \"I haven't murdered.", "I haven't raped.", "I haven't stolen.\"", "She is fighting to be acquitted; prosecutors want her sentence increased ." ]	[ 4, 10, 14, 16, 40 ]
[ "(CNN) -- If Herman Cain committed sexual harassment and is now lying about it, his goose is cooked and it should be.", "But if he is telling the truth, there is something terribly disconcerting about the way the Washington \"scandal industrial complex\" -- full of reporters, former campaign workers and pundits -- has reacted to this sad story.", "After the story broke in Politico, Cain the next day denied that he sexually harassed anyone, which after all, is the core issue.", "Since then, other anonymous sources claim they too were harassed, without anyone really knowing what the alleged harassment entailed.", "He has been consistent, unwavering and on the record in his denial.", "But that's not good enough for the way things work in Washington, where the manner in which he reacted to the news is said to be a sign of whether he would make a good president.", "He is being assailed because he remembered more information and therefore \"his story changed,\" an unforgivable development for those who cover scandal news.", "Journalists trotted out their well-worn formula for keeping a scandal story alive by saying that his \"answers led to more unanswered questions,\" even though he already answered the only question that matters -- did he harass anyone?", "Experts who know scandals decry his failure to have \"gotten ahead of the story.\"", "He should have seen this coming, they say, and pre-empted it, the way all clever Washington politicians, skilled in the art of survival, would have done.", "My problem with this line of attack is it's exactly what has made politicians, and often the reporters who cover them, so disconnected from the rest of the country.", "Cain's reaction has been human.", "It's been just the opposite of what a politician who prizes political survival above all would have done.", "Imagine that you were accused of doing something you did not do 12 years ago.", "You have a staff and your staff figured out a way to make it go away.", "Good, you might say.", "I didn't do it and it deserves to go away.", "You then put the issue out of your mind.", "Then 12 years later, the allegations re-emerge.", "It's not unnatural that you start to remember more facts.", "Some details come back to you.", "Some don't. That's the way the human mind works.", "It's not the way political minds work.", "In a year in which people of all parties are fed up with how Washington conducts its business, it's ironic that Cain is now being assailed by Washington insiders for his failure to act like a Washington insider.", "I know all the tricks of the trade.", "If Cain spent 21 years in Washington like I did, he would have pre-empted the issue by giving a speech about what it takes to make it in business.", "As he cited his successes, he could have addressed how hard it can sometimes be to make it in America today.", "How innocent statements he once made to his staff led to threatened lawsuits.", "How despite his knowing he did nothing wrong, he was advised to \"settle\" the matter so it didn't become a bigger distraction.", "What's $35,000 to a multimillion dollar industry?", "Trial lawyers, excess regulations, union demands all make it so hard to create jobs and achieve growth.", "He could have gotten the news out himself, framed in a way that minimized the \"scandal\" and maximized his themes about the economy.", "How very Washington, and clever, that would have been.", "If Cain was the same type of skilled politician who has made Washington what it is has largely become -- an assemblage of smooth-talking, gifted experts in creating a massive debt that risks our future, while being seemingly incapable of doing anything about it other than blaming the other guy -- he might have acted differently.", "But he's not an insider. He said what came naturally.", "He remembered more facts -- a very human development -- and said them.", "Scandal experts will tell you not to remember more information.", "Stick to your denial and say nothing else, they would advise.", "Cain didn't do that because he's not like that. He genuinely is different.", "And because he's different, he's being pilloried for how he has handled the allegations.", "Before these anonymous allegations hit, I publicly said, and I repeat, I like the fact that Cain is an outsider, but I don't think he's ready for the Oval Office.", "I wanted someone who thinks like an outsider but who has also served as a governor (think Indiana's Mitch Daniels) so he or she has the knowledge and experience to get programs through Congress.", "I'm neutral in this primary.", "But as well-versed as I am in the ways of Washington, I'm the first to admit that the ways of Washington are a big part of the problem.", "The public is yearning for someone who is genuine and who doesn't act like a perfect politician.", "Unfortunately, the scandal industrial complex does its business the Washington way, judging Cain's reaction according to formulas that were written by perfect politicians.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ari Fleischer." ]	[ "Herman Cain has repeatedly denied sexually harassing women .", "Ari Fleischer: If he is lying, he's in big trouble .", "But if Cain is telling the truth, the response to story is disconcerting, Fleischer says .", "Fleischer: Washington's scandal industry has kicked into full gear ." ]	[ 1, 2, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Jeanne Tripplehorn's movie is about women and breast cancer.", "And it's airing on Lifetime.", "Uh oh, this could get weepy.", "Tripplehorn, who has starred in cable show \"Big Love,\" knows how preachy and awkward cancer movies can get.", "\"This was something different,\" she said, of the film ,which airs Monday at 9 p.m. \"I spoke with Lifetime and they wanted it to be a new approach and a new way of looking at cancer.\"", "The actress has seen the disease's toll.", "\"Like all women, I had been affected,\" she said.", "\"Women in my family dealt with breast cancer.", "They all survived. It was important for me to do this on a lot of different levels.", "It wasn't just a paycheck.\" The movie, \"Five\" tells stories of different women coping with breast cancer in five vignettes.", "Tripplehorn's character, an oncologist is the tie that binds the five stories together.", "Her character loses her mother to breast cancer as a young girl and becomes an oncologist.", "The project has a bevy of star power.", "The executive producers are Jennifer Aniston, Marta Kauffman, co-creator of the series \"Friends\" and Kristin Hahn, who was the executive producer of \"The Departed.\"", "Aniston, Demi Moore and Alicia Keys each directed one of the vignettes.", "The ensemble cast includes Patricia Clarkson, Rosario Dawson, Ginnifer Goodwin, Josh Holloway, Tracee Ellis Ross, Tony Shalhoub and Jeffrey Tambor.", "Tripplehorn answered a few questions for CNN not long ago.", "CNN: Did you work with an oncologist, or consult a doctor for your role?", "Tripplehorn: I consulted an oncologist.", "I read a lot. The thing that I found confusing and frustrating is once you have this diagnosis, there is this maze of doctors.", "There wasn't one particular way of dealing with a diagnosis.", "I was just very confused to the journey that one takes after a diagnosis.", "You have your mammogram, your radiologist, your oncologist.", "Jen [Aniston] and her producing partner Kristin [Hahn] toured a clinic that hopefully will become a model for clinics across the country.", "It's almost a one-stop shop with everything a woman needs - the doctors, radiologists.", "It's all under one roof. And hopefully that will simplify before we get a cure.", "CNN: What resonated with you about the story?", "Tripplehorn: Just the way they were telling the story -- the five short films dealing with different women with the diagnoses.", "I thought it was an interesting way of telling stories.", "Five directors who are women, for me, personally, it was a great experience to work with each of these directors.", "Alicia Keys is a first time director.", "You would never know it when you see her film.", "CNN: Did having family members who've had breast cancer influence you in taking part in this project?", "Tripplehorn: I had two women on my mother's side of the family; both went through bouts of breast cancer.", "Both survived. My grandmother was a two-time survivor of breast cancer.", "She passed away of something different 15 years after her last diagnosis.", "It's close to my heart and experience.", "CNN: Having family members who've had this disease, does it make you concerned about your risk?", "Tripplehorn: It's a constant reminder.", "It's always in the news.", "It's always out there. So, it's just what you live with. It's what you face. You try to watch your diet, you're constantly aware of it.", "Some people put their head in the sand and I'm not that kind of person.", "I'm very aware of it. CNN: Your character in the movie gets genetic testing for breast cancer.", "Have you ever thought about it?", "Tripplehorn: I think it's a personal thing.", "It's not something that I'm thinking of doing.", "It's very personal. CNN: What's your message through this movie?", "Tripplehorn: No woman should have to go through this.", "I've seen it up close and personal.", "The fact that we're airing this during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it's a small part that I could do -- if I could raise awareness, if women see this and get a mammogram.", "When I started this project, it had been two years since I got a mammogram, because I was so busy.", "That's what happens with women.", "They are so busy taking care of other people, they don't put themselves first.", "You have to go out and do these small things.", "Getting a mammogram, doing your monthly self-exam, your diet, just taking care of yourself.", "If this film will remind women out there to do just that, that's a step in the right direction.", "It's not every project that you can do this -- that can possibly directly impact somebody's life. And that was my hope." ]	[ "Jeanne Tripplehorn knows how preachy and awkward cancer movies can get .", "\"Five\" tells stories of different women coping with breast cancer in five vignettes .", "Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore and Alicia Keys each directed a vignette ." ]	[ 3, 9, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When I became one of Bill Clinton's earliest and chief accusers for the sexual harassment charges against him, two things were eminently true about my motives: (a) I did not become an accuser because Bill Clinton was a Democrat and I was a Republican, I didn't care one whit what the partisan fallout would be; and (b) I spoke out because the charges were plentiful enough and serious enough (I repeat, charges, not facts) to degrade not only all of our politics but all of our country, and because there are certain codes of honor, written and unwritten, for all men, Democrat and Republican.", "Indeed I wrote a book on this, laying it out, even before we knew the full extent of Bill Clinton's lies.", "It is hypocritical in the extreme for those members of the media who didn't take the charges and allegations against Bill Clinton seriously to be taking the allegations against Herman Cain that we now have as seriously as they are.", "Hypocritical is probably too soft a word, frankly.", "That said, Herman Cain and his campaign chief of staff, Mark Block, cannot go on as they have.", "There has been a pattern now that is both unhealthy for our politics and unhealthy for our polity.", "Four women are not an insignificant number.", "One or two anonymous charges, perhaps.", "Three anonymous charges (where, as I understand the story, Cain knows of at least two of the women) plus one woman who went very public and opened herself up to all manner of investigation are a lot.", "It is no longer insignificant.", "Neither is it insignificant that the Cain campaign discounted the charges in the initial stories, saying they were based on anonymous sources, only to make a mockery by blaming other campaigns with less substantiation than the original stories.", "If Herman Cain wants to be taken seriously as a public advocate for anything, never mind running for the chief executive and commander in chief of the most powerful and important and blessed country in the world, he needs to give a full press conference dedicated exclusively to this issue and these allegations.", "I have watched long enough and held my tongue long enough to give him the benefit of the doubt, but can no longer say this is a witch hunt, \"a lynching\" to use his word, or any other euphemism.", "There are allegations out there that matter and they have stacked up.", "For we who led the charge against Bill Clinton on a number of related issues to continue to blame the media or other campaigns or say it simply doesn't matter makes us the hypocrites as well.", "As I say, all of this is bad for our politics and polity.", "If Herman Cain cannot stand up to these charges, if he refuses to, then he should step out of the race.", "A man big enough to run for president should be big enough to have a full and candid press conference on all of this -- he wants us to elect him president after all, he's asking us to trust our lives and the country's life to him.", "This could be one of his finest moments and it could be one of his worst.", "But either way, he must confront the moment candidly and manfully.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of William J. Bennett." ]	[ "William Bennett: Herman Cain should confront allegations of sexual harassment .", "He says four women making such claims cannot be dismissed as insignificant .", "If Cain is to be taken seriously, he needs to respond directly, Bennett says .", "Bennett says those who criticized Bill Clinton's behavior can't ignore issue ." ]	[ 2, 6, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- They distrust government and the justice system as well as Europe's political elite.", "They rail against multiculturalism and believe their national identity is being swamped by immigration and their culture strangled by Islam.", "They are implacably hostile to \"big money\" -- banks and other financial institutions.", "They are getting organized, online and off, and thriving amid Europe's eurozone crisis.", "\"They\" are populist groups and parties from Scandinavia to Hungary.", "Some compete in elections with growing success, picking up protest votes that yield seats in government and the European Parliament.", "Others are street movements like the English Defense League and Bloc Identitaire in France that eschew the political process.", "But they have one thing in common: a growing following through social media.", "A new survey by the think tank Demos found that 14 prominent populist movements in Europe had 436,000 Facebook followers between them -- with the far-right British National Party and the Austrian Freedom Party each having more than 80,000.", "Of those followers, 32% were younger than 21.", "Demos asked supporters of these populist groups on Facebook to respond to a survey -- and more than 12,000 did.", "The survey found the supporters were predominantly young men, more likely to take part in protests than other groups and highly disillusioned with mainstream politics.", "Only 20% of these online supporters trusted their national governments.", "And the vast majority listed immigration and Islamic extremism as their greatest concerns.", "Significantly, while a majority of those surveyed disavowed violence, 26% regarded it as \"acceptable to achieve the right outcome.\"", "Among followers of Bloc Identitaire in France and CasaPound Italia in Italy, the proportion rose to well over 40%.", "CasaPound is named after American poet Ezra Pound, who supported dictator Benito Mussolini, and its leader told the Guardian newspaper this week that the fascist leader was the group's \"point of reference.\"", "Several supporters of Bloc Identitaire last month staged a \"white die-in\" on the streets of Dijon as a protest against perceived inaction by the authorities after the murder of a white teenager.", "This mind-set has already led to a violent response among a tiny minority, as the Norway massacre earlier this year -- and admitted to by suspect Anders Breivik -- showed.", "Breivik purportedly authored a 1,500-page manifesto critical of Muslim immigration and European liberalism.", "The sort of grievances that motivated Breivik are echoed throughout the Demos survey.", "One supporter of the English Defense League wrote: \"No way can a Muslim race bring their rules to our country.\"", "Another respondent identifying himself as a supporter of the Dansk Folkeparti, which has 25 seats in the Danish parliament, reflected a view widely held among respondents: \"The foreigners are slowly suffocating our lovely country.", "They have all these children and raise them so badly that in three or four generations there'll be no ... well-behaved children at all.\"", "A supporter of the German group Die Freiheit said his priorities were \"human rights...against Islamisation of Europe and intolerance by Turkish and Arabic immigrants towards gays and Jews,\" an unusual twist on the traditional phobias of the far right.", "By country, supporters of the French National Front and Bloc Identitaire were the most concerned about immigration, while followers of the Dutch Freedom Party were the most likely to rate Islamic extremism among their top concerns.", "The party, part of the current coalition government in the Netherlands, is led by Geert Wilders, who has described Islam as a 'fascist' religion.", "While some respondents were openly racist, others were more concerned that Muslim immigrants avoided assimilation.", "\"Prevent the oppression of Islamic women,\" wrote one Swedish respondent, \"by banning the burqa in public places.\"", "Many respondents share a loathing of what they see as a corrupt and complacent political class.", "A Facebook follower of the French National Front lamented \"the desperate lies of the MPs, the comfortable way in which they live while the French face a multitude of problems such as insecurity, mass immigration...\" A supporter of the Northern League in Italy, which has a significant presence in the national and regional assemblies, commented \"I hate politicians; they are all disgusting, especially when they get to the armchair of power.\"", "This sentiment feeds into a gloomy assessment of Europe's future among followers of these populist movements.", "Asked whether their country was on the right track, supporters of French, British, German and Belgian groups were the most downbeat, with fewer than 10% optimistic about the future.", "Increasingly, the sentiment appears to be feeding growing hostility toward the European Union.", "Large majorities of supporters in all but one group (the exception being the Northern League in Italy) regard the EU as a waste of money, with inadequate control over its external borders, and hold it responsible for a loss of cultural identity.", "Demos says the survey shows how the convergence of virtual and real-world political activity \"is the way millions of people -- especially young people -- relate to politics in the 21st century.\"", "The challenge to European politicians, as they lurch from one crisis summit to the next, is to ensure this alienated generation does not desert civic society altogether." ]	[ "Populist movements in Europe have a large online following .", "Supporters rail against multiculturalism and Islamic extremism .", "Some parties compete in elections with growing success ." ]	[ 5, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Syrian activists say opposition forces have wrested control of the town of Zabadani from government troops, but the authorities' tanks remain perched on its outskirts.", "\"There was massive protests in Zabadani, so the Syrian Army tried to disperse them.", "But our troops were very organized and aggressive with a counter attack that left them fleeing and they withdrew completely out of the city,\" said Lt. Col. Mohamed Hamdo of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), a group made up of former government soldiers.", "\"Our forces raised the flag of independence in Zabadani.\"", "Hamdo said, though, that the opposition fighters \"expect another confrontation\" as the government forces regroup outside the town.", "The FSA destroyed at least three armored vehicles during the fighting, a Zabadani-based member of the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, an opposition umbrella group, told CNN.", "Cold weather and snow hindered troop movements into the town, located at the head of a mountain valley, said the activist, who identified himself only as Faris.", "Faris said Zabadani residents aided the rebel force by providing them with clothing and shelter.", "No civilians were killed there on Wednesday, he added.", "Jordan's king: Don't expect change soon .", "Another activist in Zabadani told CNN that Syrian government forces had ringed the town and were shelling it from outside.", "And a third activist, based in the northern city of Homs, told CNN that about 6,000 people in Zabadani turned out for a demonstration to celebrate Wednesday evening.", "Video posted on YouTube showed marchers clapping and chanting, waving their fingers in the air in victory signs and voicing thanks to the Free Syrian Army.", "Syrian authorities have restricted the activity of journalists during the 10-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, so CNN cannot independently verify events there.", "But a CNN crew accompanied an Arab League monitoring team during a visit to Zabadani on Sunday, when crowds carried the monitors on their shoulders and urged them to stay to prevent reprisals.", "The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency made no mention Wednesday of events in Zabadani.", "Elsewhere, the Local Coordination Committees of Syria said 21 more people were killed by government troops on Wednesday.", "Of those, 13 were killed in Homs, the scene of the worst violence in recent weeks, with the rest scattered around the country, the LCC said.", "Four people were killed in Idlib, two in the Damascus suburbs, one in Aleppo and one in Daraa, according to the LCC.", "The Syrian Arab News Agency, meanwhile, said 15 police officers and soldiers, including an army colonel, had been killed in recent fighting.", "EU plans new sanctions against Syrian regime .", "The Arab League monitoring mission was scheduled to end Wednesday.", "But Adnan Al Khudeir, the Cairo-based head of the operation, said the league and the Syrian government were in talks over an extension, and a source close to the mission in Damascus told CNN that all the monitors had been told to remain at their bases on Thursday.", "Zabadani is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Damascus, near the border with Lebanon.", "Mohamed Fahmy contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Opposition official says another confrontation is expected in Zabadani .", "The opposition says Syrian troops were driven from Zabadani .", "Residents aided defecting soldiers in the fight, an activist says .", "Arab League monitors visited Zabadani on Sunday ." ]	[ 0, 10, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In the midst of a swirl of rumors about Herman Cain, a woman who accuses him of sexual harassment holds a news conference.", "Her attorney, Gloria Allred, employs her studied grimace as Sharon Bialek tells of an encounter 14 years ago that, if true, constitutes an unreported sexual assault.", "At his own press conference the next day, candidate Cain issues a heated denial, having earlier hinted at a willingness to take a lie detector test.", "How would the court system, America's formal arbiter of truth, evaluate the competing claims?", "The courts would refuse to even consider them.", "In the legal world, courts scrupulously enforce statutes of limitations on accusations of improper or criminal conduct.", "The rules exist because it is unfair to force the accused to defend against a charge of ancient vintage.", "Witness memories and evidence have grown stale and the courts believe that evidence is best evaluated and most reliable when it is fresh.", "The rare exceptions to this rule almost always involve the abuse of children and particularly heinous crimes like murder.", "The law provides no sanctuary for women who seek to resurrect sexual harassment claims from as distant as 14 years in the past.", "But Herman Cain now exists in the realm of politics and not the courtroom.", "Cain must find a way to prove his innocence to a skeptical public regarding a suspiciously large number of claims for which the statute of limitations has long since expired.", "Unfortunately, finding a path to the truth of sex harassment charges can often be a perilous journey.", "Today, most professionals structure their interactions with employees of the opposite sex carefully to avoid even the hint of sexual impropriety.", "Glass-walled office suites are the norm, insuring that employee relationships remain open to public view.", "The world of \"Mad Men's\" Don Draper and his blatantly sexual overtures to female employees is mostly a thing of the past.", "Today's sexual harassment is far more subtle.", "Although legitimate claims deserve compensation, the sex harassment litigation story has a seedy underside.", "False complaints are sometimes rewarded with generous monetary awards and then hidden from public view with confidentiality agreements and sealing orders.", "Employment lawyers are accustomed to meeting with CEO clients who are initially defiant and determined to resist a false claim of sexual harassment.", "They want their reputations and integrity preserved.", "But when a high-ranking executive is involved, the company rumor vine begins to grow.", "Depositions are taken.", "Employees are pulled out of the workplace to back one side or the other.", "Sterling reputations begin to bleed under the slash of a thousand paper cuts.", "And of course, the litigation process is expensive for the company.", "Knowing this, experienced lawyers often urge even the innocent accused executive to agree to mediate claims informally and avoid the possibility of a very public and very embarrassing federal lawsuit.", "Legitimate victims are also urged to settle rather than risk losing at trial.", "Once mediation begins, the parties are told that public humiliation and legal costs can be avoided with a quiet, confidential settlement.", "Both plaintiff and defendant are simultaneously silenced by the agreement's penalty provisions.", "The truth of the claims will never be tested in any public forum.", "That is, unless the accused decides to run for public office.", "Then it appears the art of the leak can undermine the solidity of even the most carefully drafted of confidentiality agreements.", "Herman Cain said he never consented to the mediation process.", "The National Restaurant Association, through its board, might have negotiated its own deal with the two women who made allegations of sexual misconduct against Cain to avoid bad publicity and legal costs.", "Businesses will often \"settle and seal\" the case rather than endure the expense and embarrassment of defending even a falsely accused chief executive.", "Based on the sketchy reported accounts, the initial case against Cain might have been paper-thin.", "There is no assertion of overt sexual contact between him and the female employees in question.", "The website Politico, which broke the story, refers to witness accounts of episodes of conversations filled with \"innuendo\" and of \"physical gestures that were not overtly sexual\" but which made female employees feel uncomfortable.", "No one who has followed Cain's astonishingly successful presidential campaign would be surprised to hear that he uses blunt language and gestures to express himself.", "The question of whether this blunt language constituted true sexual harassment may never be known.", "The claimant represented by attorney Joel Bennett, and recently identified as a federal government employee, has refused to go public despite the National Restaurant Association's highly unusual decision to release her from the negotiated confidentiality agreement.", "The second and third women remain anonymous, while Bialek surfaces with very old, never formally reported claims.", "In a court of law, Cain would clearly win.", "But in this case we are not litigating a claim but selecting a president.", "The American public, exercising its common sense about the character and integrity of this presidential candidate, will be the only and final judge of the facts of this case.", "Given the secrecy of the sex harassment litigation process and the grave difficulty in determining the truth of old and moldy claims, it looks like a hung jury is the likely outcome.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul Callan." ]	[ "Paul Callan: The women accusing Cain relate encounters from years ago .", "The courts wouldn't hear these cases because of statute of limitations, he writes .", "Harassment claims, true and false, often settled out of court to avoid bad publicity .", "Callan: Cain might win in court, but in politics, what matters is public judgment ." ]	[ 5, 9, 10, 31, 34, 43 ]
[ "London (CNN) -- Following a year in which \"people power\" was the rallying cry from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement, the annual World Economic Forum might seem an elitist anomaly.", "Never mind the 1%, this is the 0.00004%: around 2,600 of the world's top political and business leaders, coming together to address the big issues -- most pressingly, the eurozone debt crisis -- in the luxurious surrounds of a Swiss ski resort.", "Among those gathering in Europe's highest-altitude town from January 25 to 29 will be royalty from Saudi Arabia, Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands, billionaires like philanthropist George Soros, senior executives from Facebook, Google and other tech giants, and the leaders of countries including Germany, South Africa, Mexico, and the world's youngest nation, South Sudan.", "While admission is free for heads of state, civil society or faith leaders and international organizations, among others, those paying will face a $20,000 price tag for admission, plus other costs which can easily push the bill to $40,000.", "But the true barrier to entry is having the power and influence to secure a \"white badge\" of invitation, the only means of admission to this most exclusive of clubs.", "As undemocratic as the event may seem, the forum's architects say that the current global atmosphere of unrest will give discussions an even greater significance.", "This year's theme is \"The great transformation: shaping new models.\"", "Klaus Schwab, the German economist who founded the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 1971, says new decision-making models are needed to account for changed global realities.", "The WEF has cautioned that the backlash against rising inequality, seen in the discontent behind the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, risks derailing globalization and constitutes a threat to economies worldwide.", "Amidst the turmoil of the current economic environment, emphasis needs to be placed on finding new models for assessing the quality of economic growth -- ensuring it is both sustainable and inclusive.", "Given rising youth unemployment -- in Spain, Europe's worst affected country, joblessness among young people stands at about 45% -- a new model for job creation is also needed.", "\"For the first time in generations, many people no longer believe that their children will grow up to enjoy a higher standard of living than theirs,\" said Lee Howell, the WEF managing director behind the Forum's Global Risks 2012 report.", "The key to avoiding catastrophe, Schwab argues in a discussion paper, is \"to provide young people with the capability to create their own jobs: to move from the pure concept of unemployment to the concept of micro-entrepreneurship.\"", "Those who dismiss the forum as an ineffectual talk-fest for the wealthy and privileged may point to the thematic similarities with previous years' forums as evidence that the event does little to actually implement change towards its stated ends.", "It's certainly true that the problems that have given a more austere tone to proceedings in recent years have only endured, or worsened, since the world's elite last visited Davos.", "At least this year's discussions will not want for a sense of urgency.", "Delegates will meet against the backdrop of the eurozone debt crisis, with European nations bickering over the fiscal compact they hope will be their salvation.", "But ahead of the EU summit which immediately follows Davos on January 30, the situation remains bleak.", "France and Austria recently lost their prized AAA credit ratings in a downgrade by Standard & Poor's which affected seven other eurozone nations.", "Budget deficit numbers for Greece, the country which triggered the current crisis, are getting worse, while crucial talks between the country's government and its creditors on debt haircuts have struck difficulties.", "The world's largest economy suffered the same indignity as France when, in an unprecedented move, the U.S.was stripped of AAA status in August.", "This followed of months of uncertainty stemming from the political paralysis over raising the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling, the resolution of which meant the country narrowly avoided a potentially calamitous default.", "And, a year on from its outbreak, the failure of the Arab Spring to deliver dividends has some questioning whether it really constitutes a new dawn.", "In Egypt, unemployment is at a decade-long high, tourism is down by a quarter, the Cairo Stock Exchange was 2011's worst performer and the once celebrated military has been recast as a villain.", "The success of Islamist parties on the new political landscape of the Middle East has disappointed some secularists and liberals, and raised concerns about the social changes that could ensue.", "For those in attendance, Davos will provide an opportunity not just to air opinions, but perhaps also to build a consensus on how to approach these new realities.", "The real action will be conducted behind the scenes, at exclusive cocktail parties and black-tie events in the town's most expensive hotels.", "Eventually though, from the muted hum of discussions, a better sense of the global agenda for the year ahead will emerge, even for those of us without white badges." ]	[ "The world's elite will converge on Davos with the eurozone crisis at the forefront of discussions .", "The theme of this year's event is \"The great transformation: shaping new models\"\nForum organizers say the backlash against rising inequality is jeopardizing globalization .", "Critics say the event does little to actually implement change towards its stated ends ." ]	[ 5, 6, 13 ]
[ "(EW.com) -- \"Real Steel\" showed what it was made of, as the robot-boxing action drama won the weekend with an estimated $27.3 million.", "That's the strongest opening ever for a boxing-themed picture, beating \"Rocky IV\"'s $20 million debut in 1985 (when not adjusting for inflation).", "DreamWorks' $110 million film, which was released by Disney's Touchstone Pictures, scored a superb \"A\" rating from CinemaScore graders.", "That bodes well for the movie's box-office stamina, especially since there are no other major family films hitting theaters until \"Puss in Boots\" pounces on October 28.", "Unsurprisingly for a movie about mechanical fighters beating up one another, \"Real Steel\" skewed male -- 66 percent of the audience according to Disney.", "It also attracted a younger crowd, with 44 percent under the age of 25.", "The PG-13 movie's respectable opening must also come as a relief to star Hugh Jackman, who hasn't had a non-X-Men film open to more than $20 million since 2004â€²s \"Van Helsing.\"", "In second with $10.4 million was the political thriller \"The Ides of March.\"", "The R-rated film -- which George Clooney directed, co-wrote, and co-stars in along with Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, and Marisa Tomei -- particularly appealed to older women.", "According to Sony, 58 percent of the audience was female and 60 percent was over the age of 35.", "The $12.5 million movie earned a \"B\" grade from CinemaScore participants, which is a bit lower than expected considering its awards buzz and positive reviews.", "\"The Ides of March\" will need to hold up well the next few weeks if it wants to keep its Oscar hopes alive.", "The rest of the top five consisted of prior releases that all dropped around (a very commendable) 35 percent from last week.", "In third place, the family film \"Dolphin Tale\" slipped 34 percent for $9.2 million, pushing the film's cumulative tally to $49.1 million.", "The Brad Pitt baseball drama \"Moneyball,\" a critical darling, grossed $7.5 million for a 38 percent decline.", "And the well-reviewed cancer comedy \"50/50,\" starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen, fell 36 percent for $5.5 million.", "In limited release, the why-does-this-movie-exist horror sequel \"The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence\" stitched together a decent $54,000 from 18 theaters, with most locations only offering late-night showings.", "1. Real Steel -- $27.3 mil .", "2. The Ides of March -- $10.4 mil .", "3. Dolphin Tale -- $9.2 mil .", "4. Moneyball -- $7.5 mil .", "5. 50/50 -- $5.5 mil .", "See the full article at EW.com.", "CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .", "© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "\"Real Steel\" won the weekend with an estimated $27.3 million .", "With $10.4 million was the political thriller \"The Ides of March\"\n\"Dolphin Tale\" slipped 34 percent for $9.2 million ." ]	[ 0, 7, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- My favorite part of academic debate has always been the cross-examination period.", "We got a little piece of that (but not enough) in the Republican presidential debate Tuesday hosted by Bloomberg and the Washington Post.", "The presidential hopefuls were allowed to ask an opponent one question.", "Mitt Romney faced seven opponents, and four of them directed their questions at him because he is seen as the frontrunner.", "While this can be a good idea in theory to try and trip up the frontrunner, it actually helped Romney.", "The only two people to get significant air time in the first hour were Romney and Herman Cain.", "So by asking Romney more questions, the other candidates gave him even more time to present his case to the public.", "The strategy of the other candidates might have worked if he was on the ropes or was stumbling in the debate, but Romney had not given his opponents any obvious openings.", "In his answers to the four questions from his opponents, Romney did well.", "His answer to Newt Gingrich's question was one of Romney's strongest moments of the debate when he highlighted how his economic plan would help the middle class.", "He underscored that the middle class has been hit the hardest by the economic downturn, so any presidential candidate should begin by focusing on helping them.", "Herman Cain is pretty clever in these exchanges.", "You can tell he has a few lines that are well rehearsed.", "In fact, when it was his turn to ask a question, I actually thought he might try to ask himself the question.", "That way he could insert 9-9-9 into both a question and an answer (which would be a feat even for him).", "Instead he asked Romney if he could list off all 59 points of his plan.", "This question was designed to showcase the simplicity of Cain's plan in comparison.", "The question was effective enough, but might have backfired when Romney used it to his advantage to say that simple answers are oftentimes inadequate.", "Romney took a unique approach.", "His question was directed at Michele Bachmann.", "On its face, it seems like a puzzling approach, but I actually like the strategy.", "It gave air time to someone Romney does not think will be a factor, thereby taking time away from his main rivals.", "Plus, he simply asked Bachmann how she could help the economy by putting people to work, which guided her answer away from attacking Romney in her free time.", "It was a smart choice.", "Three of the candidates used their questions to also make solid points.", "Ron Paul asked Cain about his time spent chairing a Federal Reserve Bank, which is a negative with Paul.", "Paul's question made the argument that he was correct all along about not trusting the Federal Reserve.", "Michele Bachmann used her question to attack Rick Perry and remind everyone that she has always been a conservative while Perry used to be a Democrat working for Al Gore.", "Rick Santorum also asked Cain a question that made an argument.", "As part of his question, he attacked the 9-9-9 plan by asking the audience who wanted to pay a 9% sales tax.", "Santorum then asked the audience if they believed the federal government would stick to a 9% income tax.", "He used their silence to question and attack Cain.", "Share your view on the debate .", "Rick Perry doesn't seem to get any part of these debates right, and that included the section where he was allowed to ask any other candidate a question.", "Perry asked Romney a question about health care, but he failed to have depth in his question or attack.", "Perry failed to make a positive point about his own health care policy and forgot that in answering the question, Romney would get to freely blast away at the lack of health care for children in Perry's home state of Texas.", "This was a perfect example of the person answering the questions turning it against the questioner.", "As is becoming a trend in these debates, Perry came out on the wrong end of that exchange.", "Presidential candidates should get to ask each other more questions in the future.", "Such an approach would add substance, and allowing follow-up questions by the candidates would be even better, since we could more easily judge the depth and knowledge of each candidate.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Todd Graham." ]	[ "Todd Graham: Candidates directed their questions at front-runner Romney .", "He says Romney handled the questions deftly .", "Graham says Cain seems well prepared while Perry fares poorly .", "He says candidates should get to ask each other more questions in the future ." ]	[ 3, 6, 38 ]
[ "Jerusalem (CNN) -- A second 18-year-old was set Monday to make his first court appearance in connection with the torching of a mosque in the northern Israeli village of Tuba Zangaria, authorities said.", "The suspect, who was not identified, is the second to be arrested in connection with last week's attack, Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, told CNN.", "The mosque was set on fire and scrawled with graffiti that indicated it was a revenge attack over the killing of Asher Palmer and his 1-year-old son, who were killed when rocks were thrown at their car in Hebron more than two weeks ago.", "Words written on the mosque's walls said \"price tag,\" \"revenge\" and \"Palmer.\"", "\"Price tag\" attack is a term frequently used by radical Israeli settlers to denote reprisal attacks against Palestinians in response to moves by the Israeli government to evacuate illegal West Bank outposts.", "Lately \"price tag\" attacks have also targeted Israeli military forces and police stationed in the West Bank.", "It is rare for them to carry out attacks inside Israel.", "After the overnight attack, around 200 residents from the village gathered on the outskirts and started marching towards the neighboring Israeli town of Rosh Pina, an Israeli police spokesman said.", "Residents blocked the road, hurled rocks at police and burned tires, police said.", "The police responded by firing tear gas.", "The second suspect in the mosque burning is also an 18-year-old who appeared before the Kfar Saba Magistrate Court on Thursday, Rosenfeld said.", "He said the suspect was arrested \"on suspicion of being involved in arson on the mosque in Tuba.\"" ]	[ "Two suspects have been arrested on suspicion of torching a mosque in northern Israel, the police say .", "The second suspect, an 18-year-old, is scheduled to appear in court, the police say .", "The mosque was set on fire and scrawled with graffiti in an apparent \"price tag\" attack .", "Residents angered over the mosque attack, blocked the road and hurled rocks at police, authorities say ." ]	[ 0, 2, 8, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- \"Success breeds success.\"", "So reads the motto of Aga Khan Studs, one of the most formidable breeding operations anywhere in the world.", "It is at the Aga Khan's vast stud in Normandy that one of the most eagerly-awaited births in the history of racing took place in February of this year when Zarkava, the winner of the 2008 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, gave birth to her foal by 2009 winner Sea the Stars.", "\"I've rarely had that quality of stock to breed with,\" explains Georges Rimaud, stud manager to the Aga Khan.", "\"It's not every year you get a female winner of the Arc and a stallion that is also a champion and that you have access to.", "We tend not to do this type of mating with an unproven horse, with an unproven mare, but we thought this really had to be done.\"", "Despite an undefeated racing career of seven wins over seven starts, including her magnificent Arc triumph, Zarkava is said to be \"unproven\" because she has not as yet produced any winners herself.", "Many successful racehorses fail to make an impact at stud.", "But Rimaud believes that the majestic thoroughbred has every chance of being a superior brood mare.", "\"It's all in the blood. If the foal can get all of the qualities of each of his parents then that would be marvelous.", "But if he does just half of what they each did individually then I think he will still be pretty good.\"", "Despite his illustrious pedigree, experts are divided about the exact role that genetics plays in determining a future champion.", "Richard Piercy, a professor at the UK's Royal Veterinary College, believes punters shouldn't be pinning their hopes on the \"superfoal\" just yet.", "\"Estimates that have been looked at from my research perspective to see how well performance can be inherited suggest that somewhere in the order of between 10-40 per cent of inheritance can come from the parents with regards to performance,\" said Piercy.", "\"But of course many other factors can relate to whether an animal can be successful or not, such as conditions of the day, the ability of the jockey, the temperament of the horse and other environmental factors -- all of those things also play a role.\"", "Rimaud is sanguine about his colt's chances of emulating the success of his parents: \"We have some very well-bred horses that cannot run to save their lives.", "That happens. \"Our role is to give him all the opportunities: give him the right food, the right care.", "There are so many things that are going to happen between now and the day he starts racing.", "Lots of people are going to be involved.", "It's a team effort, including him, he's part of the team.", "\"'Success breeds success'.", "This is what we say. And it seems to work.\"", "What's in a name? The foal is, as yet, unnamed.", "He won't be given a formal name until he starts racing at two years old.", "Georges Rimaud explains the logic behind the name: \"Ideally it should contain a reference to both parents.", "\"You would take the first three letters from the dam's name and combine that with something to make a word that had some significance.", "We present a list of names to His Highness the Aga Khan and he makes the final decision.\"" ]	[ "Aga Khan Studs is located in the Normandy region of France .", "The \"Superfoal\" born in February is the product of two champion horses .", "The foal is the child Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winning duo Zarkava and Sea the Stars ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Millions of Muslims from around the world were in the holy city of Mecca on Saturday for the first day of Hajj, the annual pilgrimage that every able-bodied Muslim is expected to perform at least once in his or her life.", "Dressed in white and following in the footsteps of the prophet Mohammed, pilgrims climbed Mount Arafat, just outside the Saudi Arabian city.", "Hajj, a five-day pilgrimage, consists of a series of detailed rituals in Mina, Muzdalifa, Arafat and Mecca.", "It is one of the five pillars of Islam.", "Will this year's Hajj have an 'Arab Spring' effect?", "This year's pilgrimage is unique as it is the first to happen since the Arab Spring began last year.", "Some experts are watching for potential flare-ups in Saudi Arabia, a country governed by an unelected royal family and where freedoms are limited.", "The pilgrims this year have come from 183 countries, the Saudi Press Agency reported.", "About 54% of the pilgrims are male.", "U.S. President Barack Obama released a statement of Saturday to coincide with the start of Hajj.", "Eid al-Adha, or the Festival of Sacrifice, begins on Sunday.", "\"Michelle and I extend our greetings for a happy Eid al-Adha to Muslims worldwide and congratulate those performing Hajj.", "Thousands of Muslim Americans are among those who have joined one of the world's largest and most diverse gatherings in making the pilgrimage to Mecca and nearby sites,\" he said.", "\"The Eid and Hajj rituals are a reminder of the shared roots of the world's Abrahamic faiths and the powerful role that faith plays in motivating communities to serve and stand with those in need.", "On behalf of the American people, we extend our best wishes during this Hajj season.\"", "CNN's Yasmin Amer contributed to this report." ]	[ "The pilgrims this year reportedly have come from a total of 183 countries .", "President Obama and his wife extend greetings for a happy Eid al-Adha .", "Hajj is an annual pilgrimage that lasts about five days ." ]	[ 7, 8, 11 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Pop star Lady Gaga stepped up her battle against bullying Wednesday, announcing the creation of a new foundation aimed at empowering youth.", "In a statement, Lady Gaga called the Born This Way Foundation a \"passion project\" that she will direct with her mother, Cynthia Germanotta.", "\"Together we hope to establish a standard of bravery and kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment,\" Lady Gaga said.", "The non-profit charity -- named for a hit Lady Gaga song -- will support programs and initiatives that empower youth, a statement announcing the foundation said, \"by addressing issues like self-confidence, well-being, anti-bullying, mentoring and career development and will utilize digital mobilization as one of the means to create positive change.\"", "The John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the California Endowment and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University are also part of the effort, which will officially launch next year.", "An advisory board and more details about the organization will be announced soon, the statement said.", "In September, Lady Gaga said she was aiming to make bullying illegal after the suicide of bullied teen Jamey Rodemeyer.", "The 14-year-old was found dead outside of his parents home in Buffalo, New York.", "Rodemeyer, who'd been harassed at school because of his sexuality, counted Gaga as an inspiration.", "He said in a video he recorded as part of the It Gets Better campaign that he'd found solace and encouragement in the pop star's message of self-acceptance.", "Following the teen's death, Gaga tweeted, \"The past days I've spent reflecting, crying, and yelling.", "I have so much anger...It is hard to feel love when cruelty takes someones life....Bullying must become illegal.", "It is a hate crime.", "I am meeting with our President.", "I will not stop fighting.", "This must end.\" CNN's Breeanna Hare contributed to this report." ]	[ "Lady Gaga calls the Born This Way Foundation a \"passion project\"\nShe will direct the organization with her mother, Cynthia Germanotta .", "The charity will use \"digital mobilization ... to create positive change,\" a statement says .", "Several other foundations are also partners ." ]	[ 1, 3 ]
[ "(EW.com) -- After ABC changed a new show's mildly profane title during development, upcoming comedy \"Apartment 23\" has now more-or-less reverted to its original head-turning name.", "The official new title of the show is \"Don't Trust The B----- in Apartment 23,\" dashing out the letters of the curse in an attempt to soften its impact (not entirely unlike how CBS solved buying short-lived \"S*t My Dad Says\" last season, substituting the non-word \"$#!\").", "The Disney-owned network has two upcoming shows that previously used the word \"bch\" in their title -- \"Don't Trust the Bch in Apartment 23\" and drama \"Good Christian Bches.\"", "The former was shorted to \"Apartment 23\" right before the network's broadcast upfront presentation in May.", "The latter was change to \"Good Christian Belles,\" and was then changed again to \"GCB.\"", "(\"Good Christian Bches,\" in particular, was singled out by some culture critics who were ready to pounce on the show should it hit the air with its original title).", "'Dancing with the Stars': Cher was there!", "(Not that Chaz Bono noticed) In the case of \"Apartment 23,\" the new title was rather anonymous; it didn't tell you anything about the show.", "The new version more clearly suggests the show's premise -- about a naive midwesterner (Dreama Walker) who moves in with a hardcore party girl (Krysten Ritter).", "And given that CBS' \"2 Broke Girls\" and Fox's \"New Girl\" have successfully launched girl-with-new-roommate(s)-in-the-big-city premises this fall, the cleverly written \"Apartment 23\" might likewise pop for viewers.", "The show does not yet have a premiere date, but is expected to debut sometime this season.", "Although networks are wary about the swear word in a show's title, on-air use is fair game.", "According to a story in the New York Times a couple years ago, the use of the word \"b**ch\" in primetime tripled in the last decade, growing to 1,277 uses on 685 shows in 2007 from 431 uses on 103 prime-time episodes in 1998.", "See full article at EW.com.", "CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .", "© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "The sitcom's title was shorted to \"Apartment 23\" before the upfronts in May .", "The official new title of the show is \"Don't Trust The B----- in Apartment 23\"\n\"Good Christian B**ches\" was changed to \"Good Christian Belles\" and then to \"GCB\"" ]	[ 1, 2, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The family of boxing great Joe Frazier on Wednesday announced details of his Philadelphia funeral services and said he died as \"one of God's men.\"", "Frazier, who handed the legendary Muhammad Ali his first defeat, died Monday, just a month after being diagnosed with liver cancer.", "The 67-year-old athlete's remains will be in public view at the Wells Fargo Center from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. Saturday, the family said.", "\"This will be an opportunity for his many fans, supporters and boxing lovers from around the world to pay their final respects to Joe Frazier.\"", "The service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church.", "\"The Family of Joe Frazier continues to stress that they want everyone to know that Joe Frazier was a man of God and a man who loved all of his family,\" relatives said in a statement.", "Star boxer Floyd \"Money\" Mayweather offered to pay for Frazier's funeral.", "The family said donations in Frazier's memory can be made to the American Cancer Society.", "The former heavyweight champion became a legend in his own right and personified the gritty working-class style of his hard-knuckled hometown, Philadelphia -- a fitting setting for the \"Rocky\" film series, starring Sylvester Stallone as hardscrabble boxer Rocky Balboa.", "Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter called Frazier the \"quintessential Philadelphia boxer.\"", "\"You could hear him coming, snorting and grunting and puffing, like a steam engine climbing a steep grade,\" Bill Lyon wrote in a Philadelphia Inquirer column about Frazier, nicknamed \"Smokin' Joe.\"", "Frazier used his devastating left hook with impunity during his professional career, retiring in 1976 with a 32-4-1 record and staging one last comeback fight in 1981.", "Frazier bested Ali at 1971's \"Fight of the Century\" at Madison Square Garden.", "In the 15th round, Frazier landed perhaps the most famous left hook in history, catching Ali on the jaw and dropping the former champ for a four-count, according to Frazier's bio at the International Boxing Hall of Fame.", "Frazier left the ring as the undisputed champ and handed Ali his first professional loss.", "Ali won a 12-round decision in a January 1974 rematch, setting the stage for the classic \"Thrilla in Manila\" just outside the Philippine capital in 1975.", "Ali took the early rounds, but Frazier rebounded before losing the last five rounds.", "By the end of the 14th, Frazier's eyes were nearly swollen shut, and his corner stopped the bout, according to the biography.", "Frazier, a two-time heavyweight champion for nearly three years until he lost in January 1973 to George Foreman, ran a well-known boxing gym in Philadelphia for years." ]	[ "Services are scheduled for Monday in Philadelphia .", "Frazier was diagnosed with liver cancer only recently .", "Public may view his remains Friday, Saturday ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his government's decision Wednesday to speed up construction in East Jerusalem.", "\"We will continue to build in Jerusalem.", "This is our right and obligation,\" Netanyahu said at a Knesset memorial ceremony for former tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi, who was assassinated by Palestinian militants a decade ago.", "\"This is not a punishment -- it is our national right to build our capital.", "I guarantee that we will never return to the situation we had on the evening of the Six Day War,\" Netanyahu said.", "His remarks came a day after his government announced it was expediting construction of 2,000 housing units in East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank and suspending the transfer of Palestinian tax revenue in wake of the Palestinian Authority's successful membership bid at UNESCO, the U.N. cultural, science, and education agency.", "British Foreign Minister William Hague released a statement Wednesday condemning the Israeli measures and calling them \"a serious blow to the (Middle East) Quartet's efforts to restart peace negotiations.\"", "\"This settlement building program is illegal under international law and is the latest in a series of provocative and unhelpful settlement announcements,\" he said in the statement.", "In Washington, White House press secretary Jay Carney said President Barack Obama's administration was \"deeply disappointed\" with Israel's announcement.", "\"Unilateral actions work against efforts for direct negotiations\" necessary to achieve a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Carney told reporters Wednesday.", "On Tuesday, a senior Israeli official said the planned construction involves 1,650 units in East Jerusalem and the rest in the West Bank settlements of Efrat and Maaleh Adumin.", "The construction will take place in areas that are expected to be part of Israeli territory in any future peace agreement, the official said, and there is no contradiction between it and the various peace plans that have been on the table.", "Palestinians claim the land Israel occupied in East Jerusalem and the West Bank after the 1967 war as part of a future Palestinian state.", "Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said repeatedly that the Palestinians will not return to negotiations until Israel halts all settlement construction and accepts the borders in place before the 1967 Six Day War.", "Israel, for its part, has maintained that negotiations should begin with no preconditions.", "\"You cannot expect Israel to continue to be restrained when the Palestinian Authority leadership repeatedly slams the door in our face,\" said the Israeli official, who was not authorized to speak to the media.", "As an example of a door slamming, the official cited the UNESCO bid and the effort to win membership in the United Nations among other instances of Palestinian actions that damaged prospects for a peace deal.", "The Israeli government has also put a temporary hold on the transfer of Palestinian tax revenue collected by the Israeli government, the official said.", "Palestinians rely on the revenue to fund government operations, including the payment of public sector salaries.", "Hague, in his statement, expressed concern about that as well, saying it would have \"direct implications for the Palestinian Authority's ability to maintain effective security in the West Bank.\"", "Nabil Abu Rudeineh, Abbas' spokesman, criticized the Israeli construction announcement Tuesday, calling the decision one \"to accelerate the destruction of the peace process,\" according to WAFA, the Palestinian Authority's official news agency.", "Senior Palestinian negotiator Mohamad Ishtayeh also condemned the move.", "\"Two days ago, they (the Israeli government) announced the building of 1 million settlement housing units over the span of 10 years.", "What Israel decided today was another episode in settlement construction.", "Using the UNESCO Palestinian membership is only looking for excuses and another way of building settlement housing units.", "This fits within the overall plan which was announced two days ago before the UNESCO vote,\" he told CNN.", "Separately on Tuesday, the permanent observer of the Palestinian Authority to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, said he sent a letter to the U.N. secretary-general and the president of the Security Council about Israel.", "\"We write today to express our grave concern about the military escalation undertaken by Israel, the occupying Power, against the Gaza Strip,\" he wrote.", "Within the past four days, Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 11 people and injured many more, Mansour said.", "Since Saturday, scores of rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza, resulting in the death of one Israeli civilian and the temporary closure of schools and universities in the southern part of the country.", "The United States said Monday that it would cut funding to UNESCO after the agency voted in support of Palestinian membership.", "The vote, which required two-thirds approval by UNESCO members, passed with 107 in favor, 14 against, and 52 abstentions.", "It was the first such vote by a part of the world body and is separate from the Palestinian bid for full membership in the United Nations.", "After Monday's vote, Palestinian officials told CNN they are considering the pursuit of membership in other international groups, such as the World Health Organization.", "\"Instead of sitting around the negotiating table,\" Netanyahu said after the vote, Palestinian leaders \"have decided to make an alliance with Hamas and are carrying out one-sided endeavors in the U.N., including today.", "We will not sit with folded arms against these measures which are hurting Israel and are violating bluntly the most basic obligations the parties took in the peace process, to solve the conflict between us through negotiations.\"" ]	[ "NEW: The White House expresses disappointment at Israel's move .", "Netanyahu: \"It is our national right to build our capital\"\nAbbas' spokesman said the decision is \"to accelerate the destruction of the peace process\"\nThe announcement follows UNESCO's approval of the Palestinians' bid for full membership ." ]	[ 3, 20, 24 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- As snow fell across New York Harbor, Isabel Belarsky clutched her mother, Clara, aboard a passenger ship that puttered toward Ellis Island and wondered what their new lives would bring.", "The year was 1930. About a week earlier, the 10-year-old girl from what is now called St. Petersburg, Russia, had embarked on a transatlantic journey with her Ukrainian parents from the French port city of Cherbourg, escaping what she described as Jewish persecution at the start of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.", "On an island near Manhattan stood the copper colossus that would etch her first memories of the new world.", "\"It was a wonderful sight,\" she said of the Statue of Liberty, which marked its 125th anniversary Friday.", "The idea for the monument is thought to have been conceived at a 19th-century dinner party among French aristocrats, historians say, who sought to pay tribute to American liberty.", "And while the French gift is also widely believed to have at least in part catered to domestic politics, for many, it quickly became a symbol of hope and promise in America's post- Civil War period.", "\"The arrival on Ellis Island is the fulfillment that you know something good is going to happen to you,\" said Belarksy, now a 91-year-old widow living in a Russian enclave of Brooklyn, New York.", "Her family became part of the more than 12 million immigrants processed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954, according to the U.S. National Park Service.", "Adjacent to Ellis towers Lady Liberty, measuring more than 305 feet from base to torch.", "Originally, the statue was supposed to be an Egyptian peasant girl that would have stood at the entrance of Egypt's then-new Suez Canal, but plans would evolve into the Roman goddess who would instead adorn New York Harbor.", "\"The sculptor, (Frederic) Bartholdi, was very clever,\" said Edward Berenson, professor of history and director of the Institute of French Studies at New York University.", "\"He put (the statue) where he did because it's right at the narrows of New York Harbor, so he knew that every boat that came into New York would have to come really close to it.", "People felt like they could reach out and touch it,\" he said.", "Inspired perhaps by Egypt's colossal statues during his own travels to Cairo, Berenson noted, Bartholdi sought to build a monument of his own in a tribute to American liberty and its newfound emancipation of the slaves.", "The statue rests atop a sculpted wrangling of broken chains on New York's Liberty Island.", "Only years later, Berenson argues, did the monument come to symbolize immigration to the broader public, despite the structure's engraved plaque bearing the now-famous poem by Emma Lazarus, asking for the \"huddled masses yearning to breathe free.\"", "Like many who made the perilous journey, Belarsky said, she had often wondered what kind of life was waiting for her on the shores behind the monument.", "\"It was quite frightening,\" she recalled.", "\"The three of us, my father, my mother and I, wanted for someone to come with money or to tell us what's next.\"", "And though a U.S. law passed six years earlier had largely restricted immigration, her father, Sidor, had managed to secure three tickets to America by way of a talent scout who visited the Leningrad conservatory where he had performed as an opera singer.", "\"He had such a beautiful voice,\" she said.", "Their travel permit, however, was only temporary.", "Sidor had acquired a six-month visa to teach at Brigham Young University, Belarsky said.", "The young family would nonetheless settle more permanently in a west Manhattan apartment.", "And unlike many who eventually returned to their homelands in Europe, the Belarskys decided to leave St. Petersburg -- then known as Leningrad -- behind.", "\"Authorities were starting to clamp down and consolidate the social state and Soviet power around Stalin,\" said Fiona Hill, a Russia expert at the Washington-based Brookings Institution.", "\"As an opera singer, you might not have wanted to start singing Soviet anthems.\"", "So the young family left Russia without plans to return, Belarsky added.", "And though many immigrants entered the United States through Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, New Orleans and Miami, historians say steamship companies most often cruised into New York Harbor, commonly making the Statue of Liberty the first land sighting for new arrivals.", "\"Everybody spoke of the golden land,\" Belarksy said. \"", "'Come to America, where there's gold on the streets,' until they came here and they had to live in walk-up tenement houses,\" she said, referencing hardships often endured in overcrowded city buildings.", "Immigrants also commonly faced unsanitary and unsafe work conditions on docks and in factories as America's need for industrial labor grew.", "\"If you think immigration is unpopular now,\" Berenson said, \"if anything, it was even more unpopular in the 1890s and the first part of the 20th century.\"", "Successive immigrant waves, however, still rushed to America's shores through Ellis Island and past the Statue of Liberty, often buoyed by the prospect of economic opportunity.", "\"I think it took a while for people to think of themselves as Americans,\" Berenson said.", "\"For an awful lot of people, what they wanted was to think of themselves as whatever they were originally and as Americans too.\"", "Anniversary celebrations of the Statue of Liberty were marked Friday by a series of official speeches and an array of webcams, provided by Earthcam, that streamed video footage from the torch.", "The statue will close for renovations starting Saturday, though Liberty Island will remain open, according to the National Park Service." ]	[ "Friday marks the 125th anniversary of the unveiling of the Statue of Liberty .", "A Russian immigrant recalls her Ellis Island passage in 1930 .", "The Statue of Liberty was a French gift .", "Webcams stream video footage from the torch on anniversary ." ]	[ 2, 3, 36 ]
[ "(CNN) -- During a 1996 interview with television talk show host Charlie Rose, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs took exception to Rose's characterization of him as \"a guy who founds high-tech companies and tries to make another billion.\"", "\"Yeah, well, I don't think of myself that way,\" Jobs said.", "\"The things that I have done in my life, I think the things we do now at Pixar [the animation company he bought in 1986], these are team sports.", "They are not something one person does.\"", "If pop culture were a team sport, Jobs would have certainly played quarterback.", "From the invention of iTunes, which completely changed the business of music, to offering the world its first completely full-length computer-generated animated film with Pixar's \"Toy Story\" in 1995, Jobs left his indelible fingerprints on the entertainment industry.", "The other \"toys\" he helped create like the iPod, iPhone and iPad not only changed the way the world consumed media, but also inserted both Jobs and Apple firmly into the entertainment zeitgeist.", "Even the commercials, from the 1984, George Orwell-inspired Super Bowl Macintosh ad to the more recent \"Are you a Mac or a PC,\" were uber-cool.", "While Jobs has been more well known and hailed for his innovation with high-tech, he also made some power moves which forever changed Hollywood.", "And in what sounds like a fantasy dreamed up by the geek gods, it all began with George Lucas.", "As Jobs explained to the news program \"60 Minutes\" in 2003, when Lucas was creating \"Star Wars\" he reasoned that digital copy of his film would be clearer and cleaner than analog.", "The computer graphics division of his Lucasfilm company, which honed the technology behind the process, would go on to become Pixar Animation Studios after Jobs bought it for $10 million in 1986.", "As chairman and chief executive officer of Pixar, Jobs led the way in marrying the endless possibilities of technology with the glitz and glamour of the entertainment industry.", "The world hadn't even heard of computer-generated imagery (CGI) in 1991 when Pixar struck a deal with Walt Disney Studios to develop and distribute three full-length animated films.", "The first of these, \"Toy Story,\" captured audience's hearts with its tale of the adventures of a group of children's toys.", "\"Toy Story\" went on to become the top-earning film of that year, grossing $192 million in domestic box office receipts and $362 million worldwide.", "It spurred two sequels, theme park attractions and an extensive line of merchandise.", "It was followed by films like \"A Bug's Life,\" \"Monster's Inc.,\" \"Finding Nemo,\" and \"The Incredibles,\" the last two of which won Academy Awards for best animated feature.", "Jobs sold Pixar to Disney in 2006.", "By then he was firmly back in the driver's seat as the chief executive officer of Apple, which was setting the world afire with its inventions.", "One of his biggest launches was in 2003 with the iTunes Music Store, which revolutionized the world of music downloads.", "\"Other companies sold digital music before Apple,\" said Bill Werde, editorial director of Billboard, said in a statement.", "\"Other companies made digital music available on computers and digital phones and used it in commercials.", "Apple's brilliance -- and I don't think anyone doubts that this was Steve Jobs' brilliance -- was that Apple made it exciting and simple and effortless and fun.\"", "Jobs was a major influence on portable media, which paved the way for gamers to be able to engage in their favorite past time via handheld devices and film fans to be able to stream movies almost anywhere.", "The introduction of the 99-cent single meant music lovers no longer had to purchase an entire album to selectively enjoy their favorite tunes.", "The ability of the iPod, and later the iPhone and iPad, to hold thousands of songs also meant that fans never had to be far from their tunes.", "\"Thanks for allowing me to put my whole CD collection in my pocket,\" Sebastian Bach, ex-frontman of the heavy metal band Skid Row tweeted after news of Jobs' death was made public.", "\"You have made air travel a lot more fun among other things.\"", "Innovation was not without some growing pains, however.", "Some industry insiders worried that digital downloads were negatively affecting sales of music and the issue of piracy became a hot one.", "On Tuesday, Miramax chief executive officer Mike Lang in his keynote address at MIPCOM, a TV and entertainment event held in Cannes, France, pointed to digital monopolies like the one Apple has as potentially damaging to the industry.", "\"Apple is the strongest company in the music industry because there was not enough competition, and still to this day there is not enough competition,\" Lang said.", "\"As an industry it can't then influence packaging, merchandising -- all the things that are vital.\"", "Billboard's Werde also noted that \"Today, the music business has a complex relationship with Apple, which has become yet another entity that built an enormous business atop the rights of music companies, much like radio and MTV before it.\"", "\"But I think you'd be hard-pressed to find one music executive worth his or her salt who wouldn't agree that Jobs' vision and tenacity blazed a trail for digital music as we know it today,\" Werde said.", "\"Without a doubt, when you think of the Mount Rushmore of the music business -- pioneers like Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, Clive Davis and Jimmy Iovine - Steve Jobs has earned his prominent place.\"" ]	[ "Steve Jobs pioneered inventions that changed the way the world consumed media .", "Pixar made the first fully computer-generated animated film .", "Billboard editor says Jobs brillance made buying music easy and fun ." ]	[ 5, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- ESPN says it has severed its relationship with singer Hank Williams Jr. \"We have decided to part ways with Hank Williams Jr. We appreciate his contributions over the past years,\" the network said in a statement released Thursday.", "The success of 'Monday Night Football' has always been about the games and that will continue.\"", "Williams, the 62-year-old son of the legendary country singer Hank Williams and a widely popular entertainer himself, compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, a remark that prompted controversy and resulted in \"Monday Night Football\" pulling his popular musical introduction from this week's game.", "The song \"All My Rowdy Friends\" had been the \"Monday Night Football\" theme on both ABC and ESPN since 1991.", "Williams issued a statement giving a very different version: \"After reading hundreds of e-mails, I have made MY decision.", "By pulling my opening Oct 3rd, You (ESPN) stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE.", "It's been a great run.\" In an appearance on Fox News' \"Fox and Friends\" on Monday morning, Williams referred to a June golf game in which Obama and House Speaker John Boehner were on the same team, against Vice President Joe Biden and Ohio Gov.", "John Kasich, as \"one of the biggest political mistakes ever.\"", "Asked what he didn't like about it, Williams said, \"Come on, come on.", "That'd be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu.", "OK. Not hardly.\" When one of the Fox News interviewers later pointed out that Williams invoked \"one of the most hated people in all of the world to describe ... the president,\" Williams responded: \"That is true, but I'm telling you like it is, you know.", "That just wasn't a good thing.", "It just didn't fly. So anyway, like Fred Thompson said, you don't want to ask me a question because I'm going to give you too straight of an answer.", "So talk about something else.\"", "The singer apologized on Tuesday, saying, \"My analogy was extreme -- but it was to make a point.", "\"I have always been very passionate about politics and sports and this time it got the best or worst of me.", "\"The thought of the leaders of both parties jukin' and high fiven' on a golf course, while so many families are struggling to get by, simply made me boil over and make a dumb statement, and I am very sorry if it offended anyone.", "I would like to thank all my supporters.", "This was not written by some publicist,\" Williams wrote.", "The Anti-Defamation League condemned Williams' comments on Tuesday and praised ESPN for pulling his \"Are You Ready for Some Football?\"", "musical recording that has opened \"Monday Night Football\" for years.", "\"The Holocaust was a singular event in human history, and it is an insult to the memory of the millions who died as a result of Hitler's plan of mass extermination to compare the Nazi dictator to any American president,\" said Abraham H. Foxman, the league's national director and a Holocaust survivor.", "\"Hank Williams Jr. should know better.", "He owes an apology to Holocaust survivors, their families, and the brave American soldiers who gave of themselves to fight the Nazi menace during World War II.", "The last thing we need is to enter another election cycle on a sour note tainted with inappropriate, tired and over-the-top analogies to the Nazis,\" he said.", "Williams has criticized Obama in the past, when the Democrat was running for the presidency.", "In 2008, Williams was even mentioned in some media outlets as saying he was considering running for the U.S. Senate as a Republican in the next election cycle, but those plans never materialized.", "Williams, who supported the Republican ticket in 2008 and even penned a song called \"McCain-Palin Tradition,\" said during that campaign that candidate Obama didn't like the national anthem.", "The \"McCain-Palin Tradition\" song, which is a riff on the Williams tune \"Family Tradition,\" included a line suggesting that Obama has \"terrorist friends.\".", "Williams was born May 26, 1949, and his iconic father nicknamed him \"Bocephus\" after a ventriloquist dummy used by Rod Brasfield, a country comedian, Williams' website says.", "He debuted on the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, at age 11.", "In addition to \"All My Rowdy Friends,\" his other hits include \"Long Gone Lonesome Blues,\" \"Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound,\" \"Old Habits,\" \"Born to Boogie,\" and \"A Country Boy Can Survive.\"", "The bearded Williams, who wears a hat and sunglasses during performances, suffered facial and head injuries in a 1975 mountain climbing accident.", "\"Those familiar with Hank Jr.'s legend know it hasn't been an easy road.", "Every life and career has its peaks and valleys, but Williams has had more than his share.", "When he sings \"A Country Boy Can Survive,\" there's an authority in his voice, because he's done just that.", "He literally fell from a mountain top, yet lived to tell the tale.", "He's battled his own demons and now on the other side of 50, it's obvious he has been the victor,\" his website bio says." ]	[ "NEW: \"All My Rowdy Friends\" has been the MNF intro since '91 .", "Williams slammed the Obama-Boehner golf outing with a comment referring to Hitler .", "Williams says ESPN \"stepped on the toes of the First Amendment''" ]	[ 3, 5, 9, 25 ]
[ "Mexico City (CNN) -- Authorities found two severed heads along a highway in Mexico City on Monday morning, the city's attorney general said.", "The heads were inside a car near the border dividing the city from neighboring Mexico state, Attorney General Miguel Mancera told reporters.", "The nation's defense ministry was also nearby.", "A lengthy message was left beside the heads, Mancera said, detailing that a drug gang known as \"The Hand With Eyes\" was responsible.", "\"It ends saying that the territory of 'The Hand With Eyes' is so extensive that it has reached the metropolitan area and hasn't disappeared,\" Mancera said.", "Police in Mexico City arrested the gang's suspected leader, Oscar Osvaldo Garcia, also known as \"The Hand With Eyes,\" in August.", "Mancera said Monday that authorities remained committed to tracking down members of the gang and stopping its growth.", "Authorities were still working Monday to identify the victims.", "Beheadings have become a signature sign of the brutally violent turf battles between drug cartels that have plagued cities across Mexico.", "Last week authorities in the beach resort city of Acapulco made a similar discovery, finding five severed human heads inside a small wooden crate, Guerrero state authorities said.", "But such violence is rare in the country's capital.", "\"Mexico City has been surprisingly calm in the midst of the turbulence of this conflict with organized crime, while other major cities are experiencing major upturns in violence,\" said Eric Olson, a security expert at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.", "\"It hasn't exploded the way it has (elsewhere).", "There's always that fear of that happening, because there's nothing to guarantee that it won't.\"", "CNN's Krupskaia Alis, Rene Hernandez, Rafael Romo and Catherine E. Shoichet, and CNNMexico.com contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: A message left by a drug gang claims responsibility, the city's prosecutor says .", "NEW: Mexico's defense ministry is near the site where the heads were found .", "The heads were found near the border between Mexico City and neighboring Mexico state .", "Brutal turf battles between drug cartels, common elsewhere in Mexico, are rare in the capital ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 8, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Voldemort did not die in vain.", "Ralph Fiennes may have dedicated a good part of the last decade to torturing Harry Potter, but he's also found the time, the energy and the clout to pull off his first film as director.", "By any standards, \"Coriolanus\" is an ambitious undertaking, a modern-day interpretation of one of Shakespeare's meatiest but less frequently performed plays.", "Although not everything comes off, Fiennes' bold, dynamic movie will make you glad he took up the challenge.", "Set in \"Some place calling itself Rome,\" but filmed, very tellingly, in battle-scarred Serbia and Montenegro, \"Coriolanus\" imagines a modern state rocked by food shortages and border disputes.", "Gen. Caius Martius (Fiennes) returns triumphant from vanquishing archenemy Tullus Aufidius (Gerard Butler) and the Volsces from their stronghold, Corioles, and takes on the name of this, his most famous victory.", "But an attempt to make him consul, or head of state, alarms some senators who know his contempt for ordinary civilians.", "While he easily carries the Senate, tradition demands that Caius, now known as \"Coriolanus,\" must also seek the assent of the citizenry in the public market.", "Too proud to court public opinion, he goes through the motions, but when his enemies turn the crowd against him, his fury only makes matters worse and the general is banished from Rome.", "Alone and angry, he swears vengeance and offers his services to Aufidius.", "As in other modern-dress Shakespearean adaptations, there are anomalies and eccentricities in this production, which brandishes guns and tanks but talks of swords and ultimately falls back on knife fights.", "The notion of the warrior-hero who can carry battles single-handedly doesn't really jibe with modern warfare, and it's been a while since we had a military man as president.", "Shakespeare's play leaves no doubt that however we value heroism on the battlefield, it's no qualification for success in politics.", "Coriolanus is undone by his own peculiar integrity, a refusal to exploit his war record for votes; but only because he finds the democratic process demeaning -- he's a pure elitist, the kind of person who believes that birthright is destiny.", "In power, he'd be a disaster.", "Not that the scheming, cynical professional politicians come out much better in this telling, or the fickle and easily manipulated populace for that matter.", "Politics is a dirty business, but Coriolanus betrays everyone he's ever known to uphold his own warped sense of honor.", "Head shaved, scarred, and often caked in blood, Fiennes is utterly compelling, a kind of Roman Rambo.", "We know he can play villains, but even if he's essentially a fascist, there is something noble about Coriolanus, and tragic, too, in his inability to bend or compromise.", "He is his own man, though we see very well that he's entirely the creation of his ferocious mother, Volumnia (a magnificent Vanessa Redgrave), and ultimately powerless before her.", "Substantially streamlined by screenwriter and playwright John Logan (whose scripts for \"Rango\" and \"Hugo\" also made it to the screen last year), Shakespeare's verse sounds a bit strange in the voice of cable TV newscasters, but the device works very well to convey background information and keep the action flowing.", "Logan has cut the play in half, but what it loses in detail the movie more than picks up in clarity and punch.", "Budget constraints probably account for Rome's surprisingly meager population and a Volsci army that seems to number about two dozen, but you can't argue with the talent in the foreground: Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain and Gerard Butler don't misplace a single syllable between them.", "This is Shakespearean acting of the highest caliber, and a powerful, bloody vision of \"honor\" gone mad." ]	[ "By any standards, \"Coriolanus\" is an ambitious undertaking .", "Ralph Fiennes' bold, dynamic movie will make you glad he took up the challenge .", "Fiennes is utterly compelling, a kind of Roman Rambo ." ]	[ 2, 3, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Before Saturday, a Florida teenager who sent or received nude photos or video could have been charged with a felony and forced to register as a sex offender.", "But a new law, recognizing the proliferation of cell phones and computers, eases the penalties for \"sexting\" infractions.", "A first offense is punishable by eight hours of community service or a $60 fine; the second is a misdemeanor and the third is a felony.", "State Rep. Joseph Abruzzo, D-Wellington, sponsored the legislation, which was approved in June.", "\"When our child pornography laws were written, they failed to take into account advances in technology, such as cell phones,\" Abruzzo said in a statement published on the website of CNN affiliate WPBF in West Palm Beach.", "\"(This bill) modernizes these laws to ensure that children's lives are not ruined due to youthful indiscretion.", "This reform will let our youth know that such behavior is wrong without labeling them sex offenders for the rest of their lives.\"", "CNN could not immediately reach Abruzzo for comment Saturday.", "Under House Bill 75, teens who receive explicit images won't be charged if they took reasonable steps to report it, did not solicit the image and did not send it to someone.", "A recent Associated Press/MTV poll of Internet behavior found one of three teen and young adult respondents said they've taken part in \"sexting,\" which includes sending sexually charged texts.", "The survey is part of MTV's \"A Thin Line\" campaign, a multi-year effort to stamp out digital abuse.", "Seventy-one percent of the survey's respondents said that \"sexting\" is a problem for Web users their age.", "Ten percent of respondents who said they'd exchanged sexual messages said they'd done so with people they know only online -- a steep drop from the 29 percent who said they'd done so in 2009.", "\"There's probably a lot of kids who don't realize how this (sexting) could impact their life,\" Karl Bergstrom of Fort Myers told CNN affiliate WINK." ]	[ "New Florida law eases penalties for teens engaged in \"sexting\"\nPreviously, they could have been charged with a felony, forced to register as a sex offender .", "Law provides for range of penalties, from fine to felony charge ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- William Beach was one of those people who fixated on certain foods.", "He would eat the same thing voraciously for a few days, and then, when he tired of the same tastes, he moved onto something else.", "In August, when summer's heat seemed unending in Mustang, Oklahoma, Beach took to savoring fried chicken -- and soft, sweet cantaloupe.", "Beach was elderly -- 87 -- but after eating the fruit, his health declined rather suddenly and before anyone in his family knew what was wrong, he was dead.", "He is among 15 people who died from Listeria monocytogenes in what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling the deadliest U.S. outbreak of a food-borne illness since 1998.", "Gallery: The decade's 10 biggest food-borne illness outbreaks .", "The bacteria was traced to Rocky Ford cantaloupes grown at Jensen Farms' fields in Granada, Colorado.", "As of Monday, the outbreak had affected people in 19 states.", "The CDC first reported it publicly on September 12, six days after William Beach's family buried him.", "Listeria? What's that? Beach and his wife Monette bought the tainted cantaloupe at a Homeland grocery, where the store motto says: \"the best is fresh.\"", "A week after he ate the fruit, Beach felt malaise, perhaps not unusual for a man of 87 years.", "But then his face turned the shade of a tomato.", "Soon he had trouble breathing and collapsed on the living room floor, according to a wrongful death lawsuit filed against Jensen Farms.", "Monette heard him struggling to pull himself up off the floor.", "She hobbled into the room with her cane and saw her husband of 67 years unable to speak, unable to get up.", "She dialed 911 and an ambulance whisked Beach to Baptist Hospital in nearby Oklahoma City.", "He was discharged the next day but when he got worse at home, he returned to the hospital.", "One of Beach's six daughters, Brenda Hathaway met her father at the emergency room.", "Beach told her he didn't want Monette to see him this way.", "Listeriosis causes fever, muscle aches, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms.", "It is rarely a serious concern for healthy children and adults, according to the CDC, but it is particularly dangerous for pregnant women and the elderly or people with weakened immune systems.", "On the evening of September 1, medical staff tried to intubate Beach but he began hemorrhaging from the mouth and nose, the court documents said.", "Soon after, he died. Monette never saw her husband alive again.", "Two days after his funeral, an official from the Oklahoma State Department of Health called Hathaway.", "She was told then that her father had tested positive for Listeria.", "Hathaway's sister Debbie Frederick said the family wondered why it took the hospital two days to release her father's body.", "They had assumed he died of natural causes.", "\"We knew it was some sort of infection, but we did not know what it was,\" she said.", "But Listeria? She had never even heard that word before.", "What you need to know about Listeria .", "Health officials began questioning Beach's daughters.", "What had he eaten in the weeks prior?", "They specifically asked if he had consumed cantaloupes.", "Frederick, meanwhile, glued herself to her computer, determined to learn more about the illness that killed her father.", "\"Doing all that reading, it became patently clear that the health departments knew there was an issue,\" she said.", "\"They knew there was a Listeria problem.\"", "The Beach family's angst led to a lawsuit filed against Jensen Farms.", "Frederick said she hopes the lawsuit will help strengthen food safety laws.", "\"It's a terrible thing to lose someone you love to something that could be prevented,\" she said.", "\"I pray that it's over. I hope nobody else has to lose a loved one.\"", "Battling the bacteria .", "In Littleton, Colorado, Jeni Exley's parents, Herbert and Elaine Stevens, were getting ready to celebrate 60 years of marriage on September 8.", "They still had a good life together.", "Despite his age -- 84 -- he felt spry enough to take the dogs out for a walk in their Littleton neighborhood.", "He let Elaine do most of the grocery shopping and cooking but he could make his own sandwiches for lunch.", "How to keep your food safe .", "In early August, Elaine came home from the nearby King Soopers market with half a Jensen Farms cantaloupe.", "She didn't buy the whole thing -- it was only the two of them.", "Besides, she liked to able to see through the cellophane and decide if it was ripe enough.", "She and Herbert both ate the lush fruit.", "Herbert started to feel sick, just like William Beach.", "Four days before Beach was rushed to hospital in Oklahama, Stevens couldn't get up from the toilet in Colorado.", "He had a fever of 103 degrees and felt nauseous.", "Elaine called an ambulance which ferried her husband to Littleton Adventist Hospital.", "Unlike the Beach family, Stevens' daughters learned after a few days that their father was infected with Listeria.", "Exley, 55, like Frederick, went online to learn more about the bacteria that had sickened her father.", "Health officials, after questioning Elaine about what the couple had eaten in the last few weeks, determined that Herbert Stevens was a part of the latest outbreak.", "After antibiotic therapy, Stevens was transferred to a nursing home.", "Exley arrived on her parents anniversary with chocolate milkshakes in hand.", "But her father wasn't feeling well.", "He was sent back to the hospital when his condition worsened.", "Stevens eventually regained some of his strength.", "He was sent to a skilled nursing facility to recuperate on September 19, the same day that the Food and Drug Administration announced it had found Listeria monocytogenes in samples of Jensen Farms' Rocky Ford cantaloupes.", "Stevens' Listeria is gone but at that age, he will probably never return to the man he was, Exley said.", "A little bit of him went with his bout with the bacteria.", "He uses a walker now to move around; all his body functions seem affected, Exley said.", "\"I think it is amazing that he even survived,\" she said.", "\"I am surprised he is not one of those people who died.\"", "The Stevens are also suing Jensen Farms in hopes of recouping some of their medical costs.", "Exley, who loves cantaloupe, feels extremely lucky her family escaped tragedy.", "She, too, had bought some of the tainted fruit and received an automated phone call at home warning her about the recall.", "She, like Frederick, thought she could trust what she was buying at the neighborhood grocery store.", "From now on, she will think twice.", "And fill her shopping cart with apples and oranges instead." ]	[ "Before his family knew what Listeria was, William Beach was dead .", "After eating Jensen Farms cantaloupe, Beach collapsed on the floor .", "In Colorado, Herbert Stevens is still recuperating from his bout with the bacteria .", "Both families are suing Jensen Farms ." ]	[ 3, 6, 49, 54, 68, 72 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Gerardo Naranjo's \"Miss Bala\" is one of these films that comes along every so often that captures the imaginations of the critics and has most of us dancing around singing \"Hallelujah.\"", "Every time this happens, however, there are one or two critics of otherwise sound mind who have a less than enthusiastic reaction.", "This time it's my turn. Not to say that \"Miss Bala\" isn't an entertaining, well made and thought provoking film.", "It is. It also boasts some exceptional acting work from its lead, Stephanie Sigman, as well as a chilling turn from Noe Hernandez, as the menacing gangster who insinuates himself into her life.", "It's just that I wasn't blown away and while we critics don't exactly have a hive mind, when you come across a film that is worshiped by many colleagues who you respect that you simply \"like,\" you wonder if only for a moment, whether there's something wrong with you.", "Laura (Sigman) is a stunningly beautiful young woman in her early 20s living in Tijuana, Mexico, who dreams of winning the Miss Baja title.", "The day before she is to audition for the pageant, Laura and her friend Suzu (Lakshmi Picazo), also an aspiring beauty queen, end up in a seedy nightclub populated by dangerous men and the women who love them (which includes Suzu).", "A victim of \"wrong place at wrong time\" syndrome, Laura ends up being the only living witness to a massacre perpetrated by Lino (Hernandez) the local drug kingpin and his gang, as they storm the nightclub.", "While searching for Jessica the next morning, Laura makes the mistake of trusting a local traffic officer with her story and things go markedly downhill from there.", "Lino takes an immediate shine to Laura (who wouldn't?)", "and rather brazenly begins to use her in his criminal endeavors, including running cash across the border for weapons, all in exchange not only for the safety of her father and brother, but also so Lino will fix the beauty pageant.", "It's like watching the fastest case of Stockholm Syndrome on record.", "Laura comes across as a weak and superficial woman and while this isn't a problem in and of itself, it can be frustrating to watch such a character repeatedly make what, to me, were obvious mistakes.", "Then again, I have never been in her situation.", "I guess you could say I had a failure in my ability to suspend disbelief.", "The film is expertly shot, however, and director Naranjo does a great job creating dread, building suspense and pacing the film as things get darker and darker for Laura.", "Alas, along the way she makes mistake after mistake.", "\"Miss Bala\" is based on the true story of former Miss Sinaloa, Laura Zúñiga, who was arrested in 2008 for being part of an international drug trafficking ring.", "All in all, there is enough suspense, quality acting and truly harrowing scenes in \"Miss Bala\" but I felt like I should like it more than I did.", "\"Miss Bala\" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian).", "It's extremely violent with contact gunbattles and contains an upsetting but non-graphic scene of rape." ]	[ "\"Miss Bala\" is based on the true story of former Miss Sinaloa, Laura Zúñiga .", "Laura (Stephanie Sigman) is a beautiful woman who dreams of winning the Miss Baja title .", "The film is expertly shot and director Naranjo does a great job creating dread ." ]	[ 5, 15, 17 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Several unions endorsed the two-week-old Occupy Wall Street movement and plan to join the protesters' street theater in New York on Wednesday, labor leaders said.", "\"It's really simple.", "These young people on Wall Street are giving voice to many of the problems that working people in America have been confronting over the last several years,\" Larry Hanley, international president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, which has 20,000 member in the New York area, told CNN.", "\"These young people are speaking for the vast majority of Americans who are frustrated by the bankers and brokers who have profited on the backs of hard-working people,\" Hanley added in a statement.", "\"While we battle it out day after day, month after month, the millionaires and billionaires on Wall Street sit by -- untouched -- and lecture us on the level of our sacrifice.\"", "Contribute your images, video and words to CNN's coverage .", "Transport Workers Union Local 100 spokesman Jim Gannon said the Occupy Wall Street movement, which denounces social inequities in the financial system and draws inspiration from the Arab Spring revolutions in Africa and the Middle East, has advanced issues that unions typically support.", "\"Their goals are our goals,\" Gannon said.", "\"They brought a spotlight on issues that we've believed in for quite some time now.... Wall Street caused the implosion in the first place and is getting away Scot-free while workers, transit workers, everybody, is forced to pay for their excesses.", "\"These young folks have brought a pretty bright spotlight,\" Gannon added.", "\"It's kind of a natural alliance.\"", "Just who are these people? President Michael Mulgrew of the United Federation of Teachers, the sole bargaining agent for most non-supervisory New York City public teachers with 200,000 members, said he was \"proud\" to support the Occupy demonstrators, who have been camping out in New York and elsewhere across the nation.", "\"The way our society is now headed it does not work for 99% of people, so when Occupy Wall Street started ... they kept to it and they've been able to create a national conversation that we think should have been going on for years,\" Mulgrew said.", "The labor officials couldn't provide a projection on how many of their members will take the day off from work Wednesday and join the protests.", "The demonstrators have bivouacked in the park in New York's Financial District, calling for 20,000 people to flood the area for a \"few months.\"", "The protest campaign -- which uses the hashtag #occupywallstreet on the microblogging site Twitter -- began in July with the launch of a simple campaign website calling for a march and a sit-in at the New York Stock Exchange.", "Over the past two weeks, demonstrations have addressed various issues, including police brutality, union busting and the economy, the group said.", "Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless movement made largely of twentysomethings upset with the state of the economy, the state of the war in Afghanistan, the state of the environment, and the state of America and the world in general.", "View a gallery of high-resolution photos from the protests .", "In less than three weeks, the movement has become a magnet for countless disaffected Americans at a time when an overwhelming majority of U.S. adults say the country's on the wrong track.", "Occupy protests have been held in Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle and Boston.", "Occupy Wall Street and its offshoots have clear strains of liberal economic populism -- a powerful force in U.S. history during various times characterized by growing economic stress.", "That said, it could be a mistake to label or tie the movement to a specific agenda, said Susan Olzak, a Stanford University sociology professor.", "\"It's difficult to classify a social protest movement early on in its history,\" Olzak told CNN.", "\"Clearer goals could eventually emerge, but there's no guarantee.\"", "\"Many movements fizzle out.", "Others become more organized,\" she said.", "But \"I think we run a risk (by) taking a snapshot at any one point in time, and trying to categorize the movement in any one way based on that snapshot.", "The only way to study these protest movements is to follow them over time.\"", "CNN's Terry Frieden contributed to this report." ]	[ "Labor leaders say the Occupy Wall Street protesters raise issues they support .", "The movement is more than two weeks old .", "Protesters are camping in a park in New York's financial district .", "Labor organizers don't have an estimate on Wednesday's participation ." ]	[ 0, 1, 14 ]
[ "(Mashable) -- Apple is scheduled to host an education-related event on January 19 -- shrouded with a veil of mystery, as always.", "A new report from Ars Technica says the company is about to unveil a set of tools to create interactive e-books.", "Previous rumors said that Apple will show no new devices, and that the event will center around Apple's new partnerships with textbook publishers.", "If this new report is true, the event might turn out to be much more significant.", "Ars Technica's sources say Apple's about to present new authoring tools described as \"GarageBand for e-books,\" making it easy for everyone to create interactive digital books.", "The company also plans to expand its platform to distribute these e-books to iPhone and iPad users.", "Apple, who currently supports the ePub 2 e-book standard (with some additions) is also expected to announce support for the ePub 3 standard for iBooks.", "This venture is described as the pet project of Steve Jobs, who -- according to Walter Isaacson's biography -- believed the textbook industry is ripe for \"digital destruction.\"", "According to Ars Technica's sources, Jobs was very closely involved on the project and has worked on it for several years.", "See the original article on Mashable.com .", "© 2011 MASHABLE.com.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "Ars Technica says Apple is about to unveil a set of tools to create interactive e-books .", "Previous rumors said that Apple will show no new devices .", "Report says company also plans to expand its platform to distribute these e-books ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, Brandon Griggs and Stephanie Goldberg break down details from the new Steve Jobs biography.", "The book, written by Walter Isaacson and released this week in the wake of Jobs' death, takes the reader behind the scenes of Jobs' rise to the top of the consumer-tech world, not always casting the Apple co-founder in a positive light.", "We also look at Unthink, an upstart social-networking site that is trying to find a niche by being the anti-Facebook.", "Will calling Facebook, and rival Google+, \"greedy giants\" and adopting an anti-corporate approach, work?", "And what's up with that YouTube video?", "Our Reader Comments of the Week come from our story on \"Take This Lollipop,\" a viral Web video that uses your Facebook information to give the creepy, horror-inspired short film a personal twist.", "And our Tech Fail of the Week goes to Netflix, which had some bad news to report this week after a couple of months of public-relations missteps the online movie-rental service would probably like to forget.", "(Bonus: Wondering what tech-inspired Halloween costume Stephanie's donning this year?", "Of course you were. Tune in to find out!) To listen to Tech Check, click on the audio box to the left.", "To subscribe, you can add Tech Check to your RSS feed here.", "You can also listen, or subscribe, on iTunes." ]	[ "Tech Check is the weekly podcast from CNN Tech .", "This week we look at not-always-shiny details from the new Steve Jobs biography .", "Will upstart Unthink take a bite out of Facebook?", "We break it down .", "Netflix earns the not-so-coveted Tech Fail of the Week award ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- South Korea and the United States postponed joint anti-submarine military exercises due to an approaching tropical storm, U.S.", "Forces Korea said.", "The exercises were scheduled to begin Sunday and run through Thursday, the forces said in a statement.", "Tropical Storm Malou is forecast to arrive in the region Monday.", "Military officials said the exercise could have gone ahead despite the weather, but safety concerns prompted the postponement.", "\"Although the alliance is capable of operating in all weather conditions, this decision was made in the interest of safety for the participants,\" the U.S. military said in its statement.", "\"Both high winds and heavy seas would have directly impacted the exercise area and the training objectives.\"", "The exercises will be rescheduled but a new date has not been set, the statement said.", "U.S. officials have said the naval exercises off the western coast of the Korean peninsula are in response to North Korea's alleged sinking of a South Korean warship last March.", "\"We said that we would continue a series of exercises that are defensive in nature, that are designed to send a clear message to North Korea,\" Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said in August.", "Tensions between North Korea and South Korea, as well as between North Korea and the U.S., have escalated since a May report from Seoul, South Korea, blamed the North for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March.", "The report, whose findings have been endorsed by the U.S., alleged that a North Korean sub sank the Cheonan warship with a torpedo, killing 46 sailors.", "North Korea denies it sunk the ship and has sharply criticized the military exercises, describing them as war games conducted under a false pretext.", "\"The U.S. forces side would be seriously mistaken if it calculates it can browbeat [North Korea] through large-scale war exercises,\" the state-run KCNA news agency said in July.", "\"It should immediately stop the [anti-North Korean] nuclear war racket.\"", "\"[This] double-dealing attitude is a dangerous one of driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to a war phase,\" KCNA said." ]	[ "An approaching tropical storm prompts the two countries to hold off on military training .", "North Korea had blasted the planned maneuvers as war games conducted under a false pretext .", "South Korea accuses North Korea of sinking one of its ships this year ." ]	[ 0, 8, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In my mind -- and in the law -- there are two kinds of sexual harassment.", "The first kind is quid pro quo and easy to spot.", "A really detestable (usually) man gives his (usually) female subordinate employee or student an ultimatum: Put out or lose some opportunity, be it a grade, a job or a promotion.", "During the \"Mad Men\" era, bosses got away with such, and women thought it the price of a life outside the kitchen.", "No more. Women no longer think this is OK. Professors even lose tenure over this clearly sexist and illegal behavior these days.", "We've come a long way on the road to equality on this front.", "Lawyers don't settle such claims for a few months' salary and a promise of silence.", "No one knows right now if this is the kind of sexual harassment that Herman Cain is accused of, but I doubt it.", "For one thing, several others have claimed they witnessed the harassment of the women in question, and such bold threats aren't often made over the dinner table in a restaurant with observers.", "But then there is the other kind of sexual harassment, the behavior that makes the workplace uncomfortable, that creates an environment that is hostile to women in general, or just to one person because of her (or his) sex, gender, race or ethnicity.", "Everyone agrees that workplaces ought not to differentiate between actors simply because of their sex, gender, race or ethnicity.", "But beyond that, when sex and gender are involved, we often get into a \"he said/she said\" dialogue.", "For example, he believed the jokes were simply funny and created a more friendly setting; she believed they were offensive and created an us (the boys) versus them (her or her and other women) organizational climate where she was always going to be outside the loop, outside informal conversations and social networks that mattered.", "Another example might be when a powerful man is attracted to one of his co-workers and simply wants to start some sort of sexual friendship, an offer he perhaps had made many times before and occasionally was accepted.", "But this time, the woman finds a sexual overture from a married boss intimidating and off-putting.", "She believes it changes forever the climate of the workplace.", "Even if he never threatened her status after the \"invitation,\" she didn't believe the professional relationship would ever be the same after what she perceived to be sexual harassment.", "If we look at sexual harassment in these terms, as he said/she said, we will never find a solution -- ethical, legal or moral to the problem.", "At this point, we have yet to create any consensus around the appropriate way to deal with sexual attraction and sexual desire in the workplace.", "No one can deny that workplaces are often where adults meet their life partners.", "In a 24/7 work environment, where else do you have to meet a spouse?", "And indeed, in a world where people often think of themselves as defined by \"what they do,\" it makes sense that those who also do it are the people we have enough in common with to fall for, whether it's to fall in love, or even just in lust.", "And yet, we are still in a world where the most powerful class of actors happens to be older men.", "We do not live in some post-feminist world, where power is yet equally shared.", "No one wants to anger or displease one's boss, even a little.", "Nor do we live in a world where the workplaces have become truly integrated by sex.", "In fact, the most recent research suggests that in the last decade, we've stalled at integration by sex.", "While women are getting more and more of the degrees, they remain in traditionally female-dominated fields, and are not moving forward in male-dominated ones.", "My hypothesis for why is that heavily male-dominated occupations, including politics, are so heavily masculine in their cultures, full of sexual innuendo and -- perhaps -- the kind of sexual harassment of which Cain is accused.", "I don't have an easy answer, but I do know we'll never solve the problem by trying to figure out what he said or she said.", "Instead, we have to decide what, as a society, we want to be acceptable or not in our workplaces and schools and then enforce the norms with legal penalties.", "Here's a first volley: It should be illegal for men (or women) to make sexual overtures to their subordinates.", "End of story. Power always gets in the way of easily saying no.", "But more than that, if we want workplaces that do not privilege the men who have previously dominated the social space, we need to change the culture in which sexual banter objectifies women and turns them into the \"other,\" and take seriously the claims by women that men harass them.", "The more subtle kind of sexual harassment has consequences not only for the individual woman who finally complains, but for all of us, by sustaining a culture where the powerful positions in many occupations, including politics, remain dominated by men.", "Should accepting boorish sexual banter and unwanted sexual approaches be the price of admission to male-dominated occupations?", "It's up to us as a society to set the standards.", "Here is a moment in time to take stock: Let's hear what the women who were silenced by being paid off have to say about the private behavior of a very public man who is running for president.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Barbara Risman." ]	[ "Barbara Risman: Society hasn't reached consensus on what's OK in workplace .", "She says sexual harassment cases often involve \"he said/she said\" dialogue .", "Risman: Men remain more powerful in workplace, so rules must be consistent .", "She suggests rule that it's illegal for bosses to make sexual overtures to subordinates ." ]	[ 11, 16, 31, 38 ]
[ "(CNN) -- After 60 years of waiting, Egyptians may very well find themselves with a strong, assertive Parliament.", "On Monday and Tuesday, millions of Egyptians spent hours in long, looping lines, waiting to cast ballots in the country's first elections since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak.", "The two days of voting felt like a success, particularly because in the days leading up to the vote, Egypt seemed on the verge of implosion.", "Street battles in Tahrir Square had claimed more than 40 lives, as police used brute force in an attempt to subdue protesters.", "There was talk of postponing the vote.", "But elections were held as scheduled, and, surprisingly, there was neither major violence nor reports of systematic fraud or irregularities.", "Why, then, does the optimism that Egyptians have every right to feel remain tenuous?", "Part of the attraction of voting is the release that comes from knowing who won.", "Here, though, delayed gratification is the order of the day.", "Egypt has an odd, three-round voting system, so Egyptians won't know the official outcome until January.", "(Preliminary results, though, appear to show the Muslim Brotherhood with a commanding lead.)", "More problematic, though, is the confusion surrounding the role of Parliament.", "The ruling military council is hoping for a weak Parliament; Egypt's political parties, however, may have other plans.", "During political transitions, institutional roles often remain undefined and fluid, shaped by the decisions of the individuals and parties themselves.", "A strong Parliament depends on a critical mass of parliamentarians who believe in -- and fight for -- their institution's power.", "Because Egypt is still operating under a presidential system, with the ruling military council as the executive authority, Parliament will not be able to form a government.", "But it will likely be able to withhold confidence from the Cabinet, oversee the budget, and pass legislation.", "Most importantly, the Parliament will appoint a committee to draft a new constitution.", "This constitution will determine the balance of powers between the executive branch and legislative branches.", "The Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party -- which will control a sizable plurality of seats -- supports a pure parliamentary system, with either a ceremonial president or no president at all.", "Some of the Brotherhood's critics see this as a relatively transparent power grab, which it may, in fact, be.", "At the same time, with the real risk of a military-approved candidate winning free presidential elections, a mixed system with a powerful president comes with its own pitfalls.", "The real battle for Egypt may no longer be on the streets of Cairo but, rather, within its institutions.", "This new phase will be defined by a precarious balancing act between different power centers, each with its own distinct sources of legitimacy.", "The military will continue to call on its history as \"protector of the nation\" and, now, \"protector of the revolution.\"", "But the Parliament will be the only nationally elected body that can claim to represent the will of the people.", "If the turnout figures are indeed high, as preliminary reports indicate, then the Parliament can claim an even stronger popular mandate.", "This struggle for power will be just as meaningful -- and likely much more contentious -- than the elections that preceded it.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Shadi Hamid." ]	[ "Shadi Hamid: Egypt election seems a success despite street protests the week before .", "He says real problem looms when elected Parliament and military council vie for power .", "He says Muslim Brotherhood wants pure parliamentary system; this comes with pitfalls .", "Hamid: Military wants to hold on to power, but Parliament reflects will of people, mandate ." ]	[ 15, 19, 25, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A powerful and dangerous Bering Sea storm prepared to slam Alaska's west coast late Tuesday, bringing a brutal mix of high seas, blizzard conditions and strong winds, the National Weather Service said.", "Sustained winds in some areas are expected to reach up to hurricane-force levels of 75 and 80 miles per hour, with higher gusts possible, meteorologist Stephen Kearney told CNN.", "Nome, with a population of about 3,700, will endure sea levels 7 to 8 feet above normal, with occasional 10-foot waves, he said.", "Chip Leeper, incident commander with the Nome government, said people in low-lying areas and on the edges of a sea wall are being advised to seek shelter elsewhere.", "There were no mandatory evacuations late Tuesday.", "While the town was taking the matter seriously, residents were taking things in stride.", "\"Most people are a hardy lot,\" Leeper told CNN.", "\"We don't scare easy.\"", "Forecasters said the storm would cross the Chukotsk Peninsula and take a northwestern track into the Chukchi Sea on Wednesday.", "Widespread flooding and severe beach erosion are expected in several areas, including Norton Sound.", "While fall storms happen, this one has officials particularly concerned because of the anticipated coastal flooding.", "Usually, the less-populated Aleutian Islands to the south are most affected.", "The U.S. Coast Guard said it had moved helicopters into positions to assist.", "\"We are prestaging helicopters from Air Station Kodiak to parts of Western Alaska in response to severe weather advisories, including hurricane force winds and high seas that are forecast all along the west coast of Alaska,\" said Capt.", "Daniel Travers, Coast Guard District 17 chief of incident management.", "A 143-foot fishing trawler, Rebecca Irene, had lost an engine in the Bering Sea and Coast Guard crews were preparing to remove non-essential personnel, the Coast Guard said in a statement .", "The mayor of Point Hope, an Inupait village, told CNN Fairbanks affiliate KTVF the community was prepared.", "Mayor Steve Oomittuck said, if necessary, everyone in the village of about 700 will go to the school, which sits on higher ground." ]	[ "National Weather Service tracks major storm in Bering Sea .", "U.S. Coast Guard makes preparations .", "Business district of Nome largely protected by sea wall ." ]	[ 0, 14 ]
[ "Montgomery, Alabama (CNN) -- Alabama's attorney general questioned Wednesday whether the federal government has the legal right to ask for data from school districts in the state, which has recently passed controversial legislation intended to reduce illegal immigration.", "In a letter sent Wednesday, Attorney General Luther Strange said he was \"perplexed and troubled\" about a request from the Justice Department for information about Alabama's schools.", "The Justice Department issued the letter Tuesday to Alabama school districts to ensure they are complying with federal law, which declares that a child may not be denied equal access to schools based on his or her immigration status.", "Strange's letter noted that the law was still being litigated.", "Strange set a Friday noon deadline for Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for DOJ's civil rights division, to provide the legal authority for his request.", "Last spring, the Alabama legislature passed the law known as HB 56 relating to illegal immigration and a federal judge allowed most of its provisions to go into effect, including a mandate for public schools to ask about the immigration status of students enrolling in the system.", "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit granted the Justice Department's request for an emergency injunction for that section of the law but allowed other controversial parts to continue being enforced.", "Justice urges Alabama schools' compliance on immigrant laws .", "The Alabama Department of Education sent a memorandum to school districts recommending they wait for resolution of the issue between the state attorney and Justice Department before responding to the DOJ request.", "In the days following the implementation of HB 56, the number of Latino students skipping class spiked.", "Malissa Valdes, communication manager for the Alabama Department of Education, said the number of Latino absentees has since leveled off but remains several hundred higher than normal.", "The Department of Education also released enrollment numbers for the current school year showing an overall decrease in the student population but a 2.8 percent increase in Latino students, who represent some 35,000 of the state's 740,000 students.", "Valdes said the state tried to inform the districts of possible changes related to HB 56 while stressing that no student should be denied enrollment regardless of legal status.", "\"If everyone sticks exactly to what the law asks from them and they don't go beyond, then there should not be any danger to the education of all students that are welcomed, no matter what,\" Valdes said.", "Allison Neal, the American Civil Liberties Union's legal director in Alabama, said she is happy the Justice Department is asking state educators to do what they can to prevent Latino students from becoming discouraged about attending school.", "\"We want to make sure students have the right to their education,\" Neal said.", "Valdes said the state sent letters to the schools and to students' parents before and after the law was enacted to prevent confusion.", "The ACLU declined to comment on Strange's response to the DOJ request.", "Officials at Birmingham City Schools have tried to encourage parents to keep their children in our schools and have told them their children would not be affected by the immigration law, said Michaelle Chapman, the schools' director of communications, in a statement.", "\"On the heels of the court decision allowing the law to go into effect, we sent an automated call to all parents explaining that no information would be collected regarding children who already were enrolled.", "The call went out in Spanish to our Latino families.\"", "The Montgomery School District sent Spanish-speaking teachers to areas with large numbers of Latinos to encourage the families to continue to send their kids to school.", "At Evergreen Estates, a mobile home park on the outskirts of Montgomery, parents awaiting the return of their kids from school said they were not aware that some parents were keeping their children home out of fear of the law.", "A Guatemalan woman in the United States without legal papers said she had left from Georgia with her eighth-grade son when the state started talking about a similar law and was considering leaving Alabama, too.", "\"I hear they are looking for farm workers in Florida,\" she said.", "But, she added, she had never considered taking her child out of school.", "Valdes said the number of students withdrawn from state schools will not be known for months because the schools have not received official notification from the families about permanently removing their kids.", "She said the department will continue to work to ensure all children in Alabama continue to be educated.", "\"We are here to educate the children but have to follow every law that is passed and active,\" Valdes said.", "CNN's Terry Frieden and Joe Sutton contributed to this story ." ]	[ "Attorney General Luther Strange says he is \"perplexed and troubled\" over DOJ request .", "Feds want to make sure that Alabama schools are not denying children equal access to schools .", "Move comes after Alabama passes a controversial immigration law ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "Mosi-oa-Tunya, Zambia (CNN) -- \"Stop the car, stop the car!", "There's a bull elephant in the road!\"", "Words I listen to closely as they're being shouted by a man sitting next to me clutching an AK-47.", "His name is John, a park ranger protecting myself and the CNN crew as we venture through the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park in Zambia for \"Inside Africa.\"", "We jump out of the car, cameras rolling; he tells me villagers nearby have complained of a rogue male elephant storming through, damaging crops -- this may be him.", "Just 25 meters separate us and the elephant's enormous tusks.", "The magnificent animal stands defiantly at approximately three meters tall or more.", "It sees us but refuses to move, instead continuing to pull down branches, eat leaves and take his time.", "We don't know how long he will remain calm and we certainly won't challenge or disturb him, so we find another way out.", "Discovering the real Zambia .", "It was an incredible stroke of luck to find a peaceful bull elephant and get so close, especially since we were leaving after many fruitful hours of a walking safari.", "This park is part of a UNESCO World Heritage site that includes Victoria Falls, so the semi-wild animals here are protected by armed rangers like John.", "He walked with me as we discovered beautifully striped zebras and stood in front of me as three dozen buffalo caught our scent and moved aggressively our way.", "John then took me to a distant part of the of park to show me something the rangers are extremely proud of; their white rhinos.", "As we approach their grazing area, stepping over bushes, pushing branches aside, I could feel my heart racing.", "Then, all of a sudden, quietly and without ceremony, two rhinos appeared; a mother and her 12-month-old baby.", "They're shorter than I expect but much wider too, mud drying on their rough skin after a hot summer's day.", "The ranger tells me the mother, they've named \"Inonge,\" was brought here from South Africa, where poachers are pushing one type of white rhino to extinction.", "They're here in an effort to reintroduce the animals to natural surroundings and hopefully increase their numbers.", "It's a surreal feeling to be quietly occupying the same shaded space as such important creatures.", "Dramatic elephant rescue .", "Now I understand why the rangers are gushing over \"Hope,\" the baby.", "It's the first of its kind born at the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park and represents a Zambian success story.", "It also shows the extent to which locals truly care about preserving the natural wonders that surround them.", "I saw the same level of appreciation along the banks of the mighty Zambezi river, meeting Zambians who literally live and work in the \"mist that thunders.\"", "I approach one woman among a group of families enjoying the cool waters; her name is Mary and she is all smiles.", "Her baby is also called Hope and is staring at me curiously, peeking over Mary's shoulder.", "Meeting two babies called Hope, it strikes me how optimistic Zambians are about the future.", "I discover that Mary and Hope are from northern Zambia, making their first trip to Victoria Falls together.", "She tells me it's a privilege to be able to come down to Victoria Falls, bask in the waters and socialize with the other parents.", "Elsewhere, I meet a group of young men, snapping pictures of the massive waterfalls with their small cell phones.", "While talking with them I find that they're construction workers building a brand new ticketing office on the Zambian side of the main bridge over the Zambezi.", "This is their after-work stroll along what's described as the most magnificent waterfall in the world.", "See Errol bungee jump at Victoria Falls .", "The men live in camping tents while working on the new building yet seem proud of their situation.", "One even tells me Zambians are \"blessed people\" and therefore it's their responsibility to maintain the natural attractions.", "It wasn't a salesperson's pitch, or a canned, prepared response, it was genuine expression of appreciation that people from all corners of the globe come to their home.", "At this point I realize the encounters with wildlife were sublime but it was listening to people and their stories that really resonated with me.", "Hours walking with John the ranger, moments chatting along the Zambezi with Mary and her baby and talking to what seemed to be sensitive construction workers.", "They all represent typical Zambia in some way, and I cannot get over the fact that my job is to meet these kinds of people all over the African continent.", "My thrilling time here has come to an end, and next I'll take you to Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.", "My journey of discovery \"Inside Africa\" continues ..." ]	[ "CNN's Errol Barnett has a close encounter with a bull elephant in Zambia .", "Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage site .", "Breeding program aims to increase numbers of white rhinos .", "Zambians proud that their country is a tourist destination ." ]	[ 1, 3, 11, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Apple rivals Google and Samsung said Friday that they have canceled the launch of a new smartphone next week to honor the death of Steve Jobs.", "The press announcement for the Android phone was set for Tuesday at a wireless industry trade show in San Diego, but representatives from Google and Samsung decided Thursday night, a day after the Apple co-founder's death, that they would postpone the event, Samsung spokesman Kim Titus said in a phone interview.", "\"We just felt that it wasn't the right time to make a major product announcement while the world is still paying tribute to Steve Jobs,\" Titus said.", "\"There's never been such an iconic figure in our industry pass away before.\"", "A Google spokesman said in a statement: \"We believe this is not the right time to announce a new product as the world expresses tribute to Steve Jobs' passing.\"", "He added that the development is on schedule.", "Titus also said the product is on track and that the delay is related only to Jobs' death.", "Google and Samsung were expected to showcase a new Nexus phone with a curved glass screen, which would be the first to run a next-generation version of Android called Ice-Cream Sandwich.", "They have not set a new date for the news conference, Titus said.", "Titus acknowledged that Apple and its partners are carrying on in the wake of Jobs' death.", "Apple and its cellular operators began selling pre-orders for the iPhone 4S on Friday.", "Sprint Nextel, the newest carrier for the iPhone, announced Friday that its next-generation 4G network will debut in 120 cities by the end of next year.", "\"Under the current circumstances, both parties have agreed that this is not the appropriate time for the announcement of a new product,\" Titus said in a statement to reporters and clients.", "Despite Jobs' public disparagement of Apple rivals, executives from Google and Samsung voiced only condolences after the technology pioneer's death.", "Google CEO Larry Page expressed his sadness at the news and said Jobs had always been an inspiration to him.", "He also revealed that a sick Jobs offered Page advice earlier this year when Page took over as CEO from Eric Schmidt, a former Apple board member.", "Sergey Brin said he and his co-founder, Page, had admired Jobs' \"vision and leadership\" skills.", "In comments on Apple earnings calls and at conferences, Jobs described Android as a flawed, fragmented system and lamented about how Google, once a close partner, decided to compete with Apple.", "In a string of legal disputes around the world, Apple and Samsung have traded assertions that they copied the other's inventions, and both companies are trying to block the sale of each other's gadgets.", "After Jobs' death, Samsung CEO Choi Gee-Sung said in a statement: \"Steve Jobs introduced numerous revolutionary changes to the information technology industry and was a great entrepreneur.", "His innovative spirit and remarkable accomplishments will forever be remembered by people around the world.\"", "Similar statements came from other Apple competitors that Jobs had waged public wars with in the past, including Microsoft, Nokia, Research in Motion and Sony." ]	[ "Google and Samsung say they canceled an event in honor of Steve Jobs' death .", "The companies were set to unveil a new Android phone next week .", "The event was planned to conincide with a wireless industry trade show ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A 52-year-old cruiserweight who spent 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit won his professional boxing debut Saturday night.", "Dewey Bozella defeated Larry Hopkins by unanimous decision in the four-round match at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.", "The pugilist served time in New York's Sing Sing prison after being found guilty of murder in 1983; his conviction was overturned two years ago.", "According to a biography on his website, Bozella was offered several opportunities for an early release if he would admit guilt and show remorse.", "\"Anger at his imprisonment gave way to determination and instead of becoming embittered, he became a model prisoner\" and earned several degrees, the site says.", "President Barack Obama called Bozella this week, offering him encouragement in his fight.", "During his incarceration, Bozella was crowned the Sing Sing heavyweight champion.", "The main event Saturday night features Bernard Hopkins, 46, who first became a world champion 16 years ago.", "The American boxer made history in May when he was awarded a points victory over Canadian Jean Pascal to become the sport's oldest-ever holder of a global belt.", "The World Boxing Council (WBC) light heavyweight champion was to defend his title against Chad Dawson late Saturday.", "Hopkins is significantly older than his opponent.", "Dawson, currently ranked by Ring Magazine as the fourth-best light heavyweight in the world, is 29, 17 years younger than the Pennsylvania-born Hopkins.", "Bozella's story resonated with Hopkins, who served a five-year stretch in Graterford Prison in Pennsylvania between 1983 and 1988.", "So impressed was Hopkins with Bozella that he trained with the newcomer ahead of his much-anticipated fight.", "\"It inspired me,\" said Hopkins of Bozella.", "\"He chose to do what he did, and not only did he get freedom, but he got humanity.", "An opportunity to do something that was taken from him years and years ago.", "To be on a major, major fight card.", "\"And now that we became, I can say friends, and have understanding about that dark place that I put myself in, you know, I wasn't innocent.", "But we still understand that dark place.", "Everybody has a story, but his is beyond a story.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Dewey Bozella, 52, defeated Larry Hopkins by unanimous decision .", "Bozella spent 26 years on a murder conviction overturned two years ago .", "The fight, at L.A.'s Staples Center, was Bozella's first professional bout .", "The main event features Bernard Hopkins, 46, against a man 17 years his junior ." ]	[ 1, 2, 7, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Just imagine, for a moment, a world in which Steve Jobs had never lived.", "How might daily life be different?", "Computers are still around, but not as you know them.", "They're complex, hateful things, mostly used in the office for spreadsheets and other business applications.", "Nobody bothered to sell a good-looking user interface with a desktop and mouse, because nobody could be sure there was a mass market for it.", "Thousands of people use PCs at home, but they're mostly hobbyists and amateur programmers.", "If you want to have fun with electronics, you hook up a videogame console to your TV.", "The Internet still exists, but it never really had as much of a platform to take root on.", "There's a thriving market in trading MP3s online, but all of it is illegal.", "The record labels never got their act together on selling digital copies of songs.", "MP3 players are large, clunky things with too many buttons.", "No movie studio makes really good computer-animated films.", "Smartphones are bulky bricks with thick keyboards.", "Touchscreen tablets exist -- as prototypes in a few computer labs.", "Okay, so maybe things wouldn't have been quite that bad without Jobs.", "Perhaps Xerox PARC's management would have figured out it was sitting on a goldmine in its Graphical User Interface and early-model mouse.", "Microsoft might have come up with Windows without the example of the Macintosh.", "Maybe Steve Wozniak would have found another compadre to help him design, sell and market the Apple II, the PC that started it all.", "But none of that seems very likely.", "Many words have been written attempting to distill the magic of Steve Jobs.", "To my mind, it boils down to this: He saved technology from itself.", "He stopped it from being scary to a mass audience.", "He took the excitement and optimism that Silicon Valley already felt about computing, and never ceased to find new ways to communicate that to the world.", "For all of his celebration of crazy revolutionaries who liked to \"think different,\" Jobs was a champion of the mainstream.", "His business idols, he liked to say, were the Beatles.", "That wasn't just because the way their four personalities balanced each other was a good model for management.", "It was also because what they made was accessible -- and enjoyed by everyone on the planet.", "I've written about my experiences interviewing Jobs for Time magazine here, but the first time I ever spoke to him was a prime example of his mainstream approach.", "This was shortly after his return to Apple, in an interview for a now-defunct supplement called Time Digital.", "After a handful questions, Jobs suddenly lost his temper.", "\"I know hundreds of people who read Time Magazine,\" he fumed.", "\"I don't know anyone who reads Time Digital.\"", "With that, the interview was over. Thankfully, we had dozens of pleasant encounters after that.", "But I would always understand that he knew exactly who he was talking to, and that he was always laser-focused on reaching as wide a readership as he could.", "He gave great quotes -- quotes that didn't talk down to the reader, but rather let them peek behind the scenes at Apple.", "\"The dirty little secret of the iTunes store is that there's no way to make money,\" he told me when it launched on the PC.", "\"We do it because we're selling iPods.\"", "iPods, iPhones, iPads -- Jobs had his product road map worked out way in advance, and it was all about getting supremely easy-to-use products into the hands of as many users as possible.", "Compromised, committee-designed devices, such as the ho-hum Motorola Rockr iTunes phone, only served as examples of what Apple shouldn't make.", "So what now? Is there another visionary in the world with that kind of drive, ambition, focus and zeal?", "Plenty of pundits have said we'll never see the likes of Jobs again -- but I hope they're wrong, and I think Jobs would hope that too.", "Because who wants to see a world without the mid-21st century equivalent of the Macintosh, or the iPod, or Pixar?", "If someone does pick up that baton and champion mainstream-friendly, fear-free technology, think where we'll go next.", "Just imagine. © 2011 MASHABLE.com.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "Apple genius always kept users in mind .", "Gadgets designed around experience, not electronics .", "Jobs always knew exactly whom he was addressing ." ]	[ 2, 28, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- At least 12 Chinese sailors have been killed after their cargo ships were attacked on the Mekong River in the northern Thai province of Chiang Rai, the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Yunnan Province has said.", "The ministry's website stated that two Chinese cargo ships -- the Hua Ping and Yu Xing 8 -- were attacked with gunfire on October 5.", "According to the initial investigation, all six sailors from Hua Ping and six of the seven sailors from Yu Xing 8 were found dead, while one remained missing.", "Though still in the early stages of their investigation, Thai police say they cannot rule out the involvement of drug gangs in the killings.", "Chiang Rai police colonel Popkorn Khuncharoensuk told CNN that the two ships were raided by a joint task force of army, marine police, local police and paramilitary following the attack, and found almost one million amphetamines on the vessels.", "\"This is the most gruesome incident I have ever seen,\" Popkorn said.", "According to Popkorn, one of the bodies was found aboard the Hua Ping, while the rest were found in the Mekong River near Chiangsaen port.", "Three of the bodies remained unidentified, and some were found with their hands cuffed or tied.", "\"I can't rule out all possibilities, but initially there appears to be drugs involved,\" Popkorn said.", "\"But we can't just quickly jump to the conclusion that it was carried out by drug gangs.", "The case is complicated, and we have to be very thorough.\"", "The violent incident has unnerved many of those who ply their trade on the river.", "\"There are no cargo ships leaving or coming to Chiangsaen port,\" said Surachart Janthawatcharakorn, Chief of Chiangsaen Customs Office.", "\"They have all halted their traveling because they are still frightened by the incident, and are still very concerned about their safety.\"", "The Chinese Foreign Ministry said the Chinese Embassy in Thailand and its consulate general in Chiang Mai were investigating the murders and were working closely with Thai authorities and other relevant countries to hunt down the criminals.", "CNN's Kocha Olarn and Haolan Hong contributed to this report." ]	[ "Two Chinese ships were attacked on the Mekong River on October 5 .", "China's Foreign Ministry says at least 12 sailors were killed in the attack .", "China says it's working with Thai authorities to hunt down the criminals ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Detroit (CNN) -- The judge in the federal trial of alleged \"underwear bomber\" Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab refused Tuesday to prevent the prosecution from calling the device he allegedly carried a \"bomb.\"", "U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds also refused to exclude a photo of AbdulMutallab's burned genitals from the evidence.", "Before the prosecution began its opening statement, defense standby counsel Anthony Chambers asked that the prosecutors not be allowed to use the words \"explosive device\" or \"bomb\" during the trial.", "It's up to the jury to decide whether the device AbdulMutallab was carrying was a bomb, Chambers argued.", "\"I'm going to deny that motion,\" responded Edmunds.", "\"It makes no sense whatsoever.\"", "As for the photo, the judge said it did not seem \"unusually prejudicial.\"", "AbdulMutallab, accused of trying to detonate an explosive device in his underwear aboard a Christmas 2009 flight to Detroit, has said he will represent himself.", "The prosecution delivered a 90-minute opening statement.", "The defense said it would reserve the right to give an opening statement at a later point in the trial in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.", "At one point, AbdulMutallab joined the attorneys for a sidebar with the judge.", "While at previous court appearances AbdulMutallab has had outbursts -- including yelling \"Osama's alive,\" a reference to Osama bin Laden, according to a court official -- he remained calm Tuesday.", "AbdulMutallab wore a traditional African gown, gray with gold-colored braiding.", "AbdulMutallab was indicted on charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism, and possession of a firearm or destructive device in furtherance of an act of violence.", "He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.", "He was a passenger on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route from the Netherlands to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.", "U.S. officials say the terror group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was behind the alleged bombing attempt.", "Jonathan Tukel, chief of the National Security Unit for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Michigan, laid out details of the flight in his opening statement.", "Passengers were from 26 different countries, most of them American and Dutch, he said.", "\"Everyone had someplace to be.", "All but one.\" Pointing to AbdulMutallab, Tukel said, \"His sole reason for being on Flight 253 was to kill all of the passengers and himself.", "He thought he'd end up in heaven.\"", "After taking numerous trips to the bathroom, AbdulMutallab went back to the bathroom about an hour before the plane was to land, \"to purify himself to die,\" Tukel said.", "AbdulMutallab did not eat or drink on the plane, a fast that was part of ritual purification, Tukel said.", "A witness testified that AbdulMutallab was in the bathroom for about 15 to 20 minutes, which seemed long to the passenger, Tukel said.", "When AbdulMutallab returned to his seat, he pulled a blanket over his head, \"pushed the plunger on the bomb and prepared to die,\" Tukel said.", "Passengers heard a loud noise, which sounded like a firecracker, Tukel said.", "AbdulMutallab became enveloped in a fireball which then spread to the wall and carpeting of the plane, yet he remained in his seat \"expressionless, completely blank,\" Tukel said.", "Four passengers helped subdue him and tried to put out the fire, Tukel said, and AbdulMutallab was escorted up to first class.", "When a flight attendant asked him what he had in his pockets, he called it \"an explosive device,\" Tukel said.", "Tukel added that AbdulMutallab was very verbal and spoke with many people, including some on the flight and officials once the flight landed.", "The prosecution also called its first witness Tuesday, Michael Zantow, who was on the flight one row behind AbdulMutallab.", "Zantow, a 20-year veteran of the Army, was among those who tried to restrain the defendant.", "Within a minute of the loud sound on the plane, a passenger said to AbdulMutallab, \"Hey man, your pants are on fire!\"", "Zantow testified.", "The passenger repeated himself two or three times, and AbdulMutallab did not respond, Zantow said.", "The jury is made up of three white men and nine women -- six white, two African-American and one Southeast Asian.", "CNN's Deborah Feyerick and Laura Dolan contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: \"He thought he'd end up in heaven,\" the prosecutor says of AbdulMutallab .", "NEW: A witness testifies that another passenger yelled, \"Hey man, your pants are on fire!\"", "NEW: AbdulMutallab joins attorneys for a sidebar with the judge .", "NEW: AbdulMutallab remained calm through the proceedings ." ]	[ 10, 21, 33 ]
[ "Los Angeles (CNN) -- A medical marijuana advocacy group sued the Obama administration Thursday, saying its policy \"to subvert local and state medical marijuana laws in California\" is unconstitutional.", "Americans for Safe Access accused the U.S. Justice Department of deploying aggressive SWAT-style raids, prosecuting medical marijuana patients and providers, and threatening local officials for implement state medical pot laws.", "The group, a nonprofit based in Oakland, California, that says it's the country's largest medical marijuana advocacy organization, cited U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag of the northern district of California in its federal lawsuit filed in San Francisco.", "\"Under the Tenth Amendment, the government may not commandeer the law-making function of the state or its subdivisions or indirectly through the selective enforcement of its drug laws,\" the lawsuit said.", "\"It is this misuse of the government's commerce clause powers, designed to deprive the state of its sovereign ability to chart a separate course, that forms the basis of the plaintiff's claim.\"", "Earlier this month, federal prosecutors in California announced a series of actions targeting what they characterized as the \"large, for-profit marijuana industry\" that has developed since the state legalized medical marijuana for select patients 15 years ago.", "Four U.S. attorneys -- Benjamin Wagner, Andre Birotte Jr., Laura Duffy and Melinda Haag -- detailed in a joint press release and later a press conference in Sacramento some steps that have been taken in conjunction with federal law enforcement and local officials in California.", "They include letters of warning to landlords and lien holders of places in which marijuana is being sold illegally, \"civil forfeiture lawsuits against properties involved in drug trafficking activity\" and numerous criminal cases.", "The latter refers to arrests in recent weeks related to cases filed in federal courts in Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and Fresno, all part of an effort that Wagner claimed has resulted in the seizure of hundreds of pounds of marijuana, tens of thousands of plants and hundreds of thousands in cash.", "Thursday's lawsuit seeks declaratory and injunctive relief and was filed on behalf of its 20,000 members in California, the medical marijuana advocacy group said.", "\"This case is aimed at restoring California's sovereign and constitutional right to establish its own public health laws based on this country's federalist principles,\" the association's chief counsel, Joe Elford, said in a statement.", "In 1996, California voters approved Proposition 215 to exempt doctors and seriously ill patients from marijuana laws and allow them to grow and use it in treatment.", "The bill didn't legalize marijuana for all, but it did lead to the emergence of hundreds of dispensaries where people -- legally only those with medical conditions and a doctor's authorization -- could get the drug.", "In explaining the federal crackdown earlier this month, Wagner, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California, said authorities \"are not focused on backyard grows with small amounts of marijuana by seriously ill people.", "We are targeting commercial operations, which profit from growing and distributing ... and often use the trappings of state law for cover, but in fact are abusing state law.\"", "Haag, U.S. attorney for California's northern district, claimed that \"profiteers ... motivated not by compassion, but by money\" had \"hijacked\" the intent of voters to help those suffering from debilitating conditions.", "And Birotte, from California's central district, said a chief problem lies in operations that make money not by selling marijuana to the sick, but to relatively healthy people.", "CNN's Rich Porter and Erica Henry contributed to this story." ]	[ "Americans for Safe Access sues the feds for their California crackdown on medical pot .", "The suit contends the federal government is violating the Tenth Amendment .", "This month, California's four U.S. attorneys target big commercial pot growers .", "Prosecutors say the growers sell medical pot to healthy people ." ]	[ 1, 13 ]
[ "(EW.com) -- \"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows\" features one of the more soul-destroying death orgies in Fantasy-lit history, with a whole cavalcade of Potter supporting players winding up as casualties in the climactic wizard battle.", "The series never shrank from death -- Books 4 through 6 each end with a major character dying, and the whole saga begins with Harry as a newly orphaned baby.", "But in a new special feature on the \"Deathly Hallows 2\" DVD, author J. K. Rowling notes that she'd planned one fatality that would have probably scarred a generation of young readers.", "As reported by the Guardian, Rowling says, \"I did seriously consider killing Ron.\"", "Apparently, she briefly thought about killing off Harry's red-headed sidekick around the middle of the series, when she \"wasn't in a very happy place.\"", "It's an interesting piece of what-might-have-been trivia.", "In some ways, it reminds me a little bit of the mythic notion that Han Solo was supposed to die in Return of the Jedi -- an idea which was supported by original Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz and Harrison Ford.", "Kurtz told the Hollywood Reporter that Solo lived because George Lucas didn't want to kill off any of his main characters.", "It's hard to accuse Rowling of any such anxiety, given the \"Deathly Hallows\" bloodbath.", "Still, it's fun to speculate on how such a major change would have altered the book series.", "Rowling doesn't specify in what context she was picturing Ron's death, but it's easy to imagine that he might have bit the dust relatively early.", "Lots of people were shocked when Rowling killed off Cedric Diggory in \"Goblet of Fire,\" but Diggory was a minor character who, in hindsight, was always kind of a handsome readymade corpse -- think of how much freakier the latter Potters would have felt without good ol' Ron around to relieve the tension.", "Conversely, imagine if Ron had sacrificed himself in Deathly Hallows' climax.", "It certainly would have changed the tone of the ending, which was a pretty upbeat Happily Ever After, all considering.", "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." ]	[ "\"I did seriously consider killing Ron,\" Rowling said .", "It's easy to imagine that he might have bit the dust relatively early .", "How much freakier the latter Potters would have felt without good ol' Ron around ." ]	[ 3, 10, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- As South Carolina Republicans begin voting in the first primary of the south today, GOP insiders say that all the candidates have had their problems in Palmetto State, one reason why today's outcome has been so hard to predict.", "One veteran South Carolina GOP operative summed up the dilemma of many of his colleagues in the state who are still on the fence.", "\"For the first time in my professional life I am not working for a candidate and undecided on whom I will vote for.", "My heart says one thing, my mind says another.\"", "According to a CNN survey of 46 South Carolina GOP insiders -- including state legislators, state and local party officials, business and conservative interest group leaders, veterans of previous presidential primary campaigns, Palmetto State GOP political consultants, and other party activists -- former Massachusetts Gov.", "Mitt Romney's biggest hurdles in South Carolina are his Massachusetts political roots and his more centrist views.", "Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls Romney a \"Massachusetts moderate.\"", "What do you think has been the biggest obstacle for Romney in South Carolina?", "His record in Massachusetts -- 85% .", "His Mormon faith -- 13% .", "His role at Bain Capital -- 2% .", "Now that Romney wants the GOP presidential nomination again, he has moved to the right from some of his positions and the tone of his previous campaigns in the state.", "And that has fed the perception that Romney is willing to change his stands for political expediency.", "Ironically, Romney's continued defense of the Massachusetts health care reform law he helped enact as governor remains a stumbling block with some conservatives who would rather he repent on that issue.", "\"The two big issues that stick out to me regarding his record are his flip-flopping on abortion which many voters in South Carolina don't understand, and of course his signing of 'Romney-care,' \" said one South Carolina insider.", "\"As a result, many don't trust him and wonder if he will simply say anything in order to win the election.\"", "And while Gingrich maintains that he's the logical alternative for conservatives, the former House Speaker's problem has been that, up until Thursday, there were two other options for South Carolina voters who were uneasy with Romney -- former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Gov Rick Perry, who has since suspended his campaign.", "However, the insiders don't think Gingrich's personal issues have played as much of a factor, although they were surveyed before reports surfaced on January 19 that Gingrich's second wife said he asked her for an \"open marriage.\"", "What do you think has been the biggest obstacle for Gingrich in South Carolina?", "Conservative vote is too divided among candidates -- 52% .", "Attacks against Romney's role at Bain Capital backfired -- 33% .", "The negative ads run against him -- 13% .", "Personal baggage (volunteered) -- 2% .", "\"Newt's populism resonates with red-meat voters in South Carolina, but the Romney-alternative field (has been) too crowded for him to lock down a solid win here,\" said one GOP insider.", "The other main contender for the fervent conservative vote in South Carolina has been Santorum and he shares Gingrich's problem of being one of too many choice on the right.", "What do you think has been the biggest obstacle for Santorum in South Carolina?", "His past record as senator on earmarks and right-to-work -- 41% .", "Conservative vote is too divided among candidates -- 56% .", "Doubts about him among Southern voters -- 2% .", "\"The biggest obstacle for all the 'not-Romney' candidates has been in a word, 'ego,' \" said one GOP Insider.", "\"All of their egos were too big to drop out (early) and work to truly consolidate conservative voters.\"", "But another operative noted that in a state where the Republican governor had battled with the Obama administration over whether Boeing could move airplane production from assembly lines that were unionized in Washington State to a nonunion facility in South Carolina, Santorum's defense of his opposition to right-to-work laws while he was a senator has been \"awkward, at best.\"", "Texas Rep. Ron Paul's liability in South Carolina has been the same as in Iowa and New Hampshireâ€”his isolationist views on foreign policy and his eagerness to cut military spending.", "What do you think has been the biggest obstacle for Paul in South Carolina?", "His stance on national security -- 78% .", "He didn't spend enough time in the state -- 20% .", "Perception that he can't win in the general election -- 2% .", "\"Because of this and other stands, no one takes him seriously outside of his hard-core supporters,\" said one GOP Insider.", "The CNN South Carolina GOP insiders were surveyed on these questions from the evening of Jan. 16 thru Jan. 18.", "The survey was conducted over the internet.", "The South Carolina insiders were given anonymity for their individual answers in order to encourage candid responses.", "And while some insiders were aligned with one or another of the presidential campaigns, two-thirds said they had neither endorsed nor were they working for any candidate in the race.", "Here are the names of the participants in the survey: Eric Bedingfield, Peter Brown, Kevin Bryant, Luke Byars, Drea Byars, Chris Carino, Phillip Cease, Alan Clemmons, Chad Connelley, Wesley Donehue, Shannon Erickson, Justin Evans, Scott Farmer, Chip Felkel, Becky Fleming, Douglas Ford, Greg Foster, Mark Harmon, Wes Hayes, Allen Klump, Scott Malyerck, Janice McCord, Joe McKeown, Drew McKissick, Ed McMullen, Matt Moore, Matthew Nichols, Mark Nix, Ralph Norman, Randy Page, Sunny Philips, Mike Pitts, Tommy Pope, Richard Quinn, Jay W. Ragley, George Ramsey, Scott Richardson, Oran P. Smith, Bob Taylor, Adam Temple, Taylor Tompkins, Trey Walker, Chad Walldorf, Ellen Weaver, Joe Wilson, Robert Yerger." ]	[ "GOP insiders in South Carolina say that each candidate has worrisome issues .", "Romney has been seen as too centrist, says poll .", "The anti-Romney vote is split between Gingrich and Santorum .", "Ron Paul's national security positions keep him out of mainstream, says poll ." ]	[ 0, 3, 24, 34 ]
[ "(PEOPLE.com) -- Jenny Craig may have helped its spokesperson Carrie Fisher lose 50 lbs.", "over the past year, but it was the psychiatric hospital Silver Hill in New Canaan, Connecticut, that helped her get her life back together, she says.", "\"They really did heal me.", "It's the alma mater that matters,\" the Star Wars star, 55, told the assembled guests at Thursday's Silver Hill Hospital gala at Manhattan's Cipriani 42nd Street.", "Extolling the virtues of the 80-year-old facility, where she was treated for alcohol addiction and bipolar disorder, Fisher said that during her stay \"there was a president at Silver Hill, I'm not kidding.", "And he had really bad breath, so I used to tell people not to get down wind of the president.\"", "She did not name him. \"It will be a year on Thanksgiving,\" Fisher, who topped out at 180 lbs., told PEOPLE about her Jenny Craig start date anniversary.", "Of what how she looked and felt a year ago, she said, \"You have that last gigantic meal, look in the mirror.", "None of your clothes fit, and ... forget it.\"", "Working to lose the weight and struggling to keep it off, \"I have a lot of trouble,\" admitted Fisher, who still hopes to lose 10 more lbs.", "\"I really have to be held down when I pass a 31 flavors.\"", "She also exercises.", "\"You do the treadmill first, which is this horrendous, evil thing,\" she said.", "\"And then you get on the elliptical\" for 30 to 52 minutes.", "Buying new clothes and again fitting into old ones, Fisher said, \"Oh, my God.", "Both things are fun.", "To get back into something I never thought I'd see except on my daughter [Billie Lourd].", "This YSL has vintage,\" she said of the black ensemble she wore to the event.", "\"But I'm vintage now.\" And Silver Hill?", "\"It was one of the best places I was ever institutionalized.\"", "See the full article at PEOPLE.com.", "© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "\"It will be a year on Thanksgiving,\" Fisher said .", "Fisher still hopes to lose 10 more pounds .", "\"You do the treadmill first, which is this horrendous, evil thing,\" she said ." ]	[ 9, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Two idyllic South Pacific islands are facing a water crisis; they're running out of it, and fast.", "The island nations Tuvalu and Tokelau have declared states of emergency after six months of little or no rainfall.", "It's estimated that at the current rate of consumption the Tuvaluan atoll of Funafuti, home to 5,000 people, will run out of drinking water in two weeks.", "Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand with a population of 1,500, could run dry in just one.", "\"We are all working in line with the fact that we recognize this national emergency situation,\" Jo Suveinakama, the general manager of the Tokelau government told Radio New Zealand.", "The New Zealand Red Cross flew emergency supplies to Tuvalu Monday on a New Zealand Defense Force flight along with two aid workers and two foreign ministry staff.", "\"We have mobilized 2,000 collapsible water containers, hand sanitizers, tarpaulins to be used to capture rain (and) two emergency desalination units,\" Andrew McKie, New Zealand Red Cross International Operations and Emergency Manager said in a statement Tuesday.", "The emergency desalinators are being sent south on a patrol boat at midnight Tuesday to the small atoll of Nukulaelae, part of Tuvalu, whose population of 330 is reported to be down to its last 60 liters of water.", "Schools have closed as residents conserve what little water they have and pray for rain.", "\"It's a pretty dire situation there,\" Gareth Smith, New Zealand High Commissioner to Tuvalu told Radio New Zealand.", "Smith is one of the two foreign ministry staff sent to Tuvalu this week.", "In Nukulaelae, water is being rationed.", "Families - some with as many as 10 people - are forced to live on just 40 liters a day, according to Dave Hebblethwaite, a water management adviser from the Applied Geoscience and Technology Division of Secretariat of the Pacific Community.", "\"Families are getting by washing in the sea and only having a short wash in fresh water if at all,\" he said, adding that most of the fresh water is being reserved for drinking and cooking.", "The Tuvalu government briefed a group known as the \"Diplomatic Corps\" Tuesday in the Fijian capital of Suva on the type of aid that might be needed.", "Delegates included head of foreign missions, international agencies and regional organizations.", "Parts for desalination units and fuel top the list, Hebblethwaite said.", "Tuvalu, the world's fourth smallest country, is a nation of four reef islands and five atolls covering 26 square kilometers in the Pacific Ocean halfway between Hawaii and Australia.", "The island nation relies almost exclusively on rainwater collected from the roofs of homes and government buildings to supply a population of 10,000.", "However, three dry spells over the last three years has gradually drained the community's water supplies.", "\"Communities in Tuvalu are pretty used to doing it tough,\" Hebblethwaite said.", "\"Atoll environments are really hard environments to live in and when you're just relying on rainfall for all of your water, you find yourself in situations where you do need to make the most of every small amount.", "\"For these communities to be asking for external assistance, it shows that the situation is quite serious,\" he said.", "New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully has warned the water crisis could lead to food shortages as crops fail.", "\"We're now doing an assessment, not just in Tuvalu but also in other areas of the Pacific that are affected by the shortage of rainfall, making sure we deal with the drinking water issue most urgently,\" he told Radio New Zealand.", "Tuvalu imports the bulk of its food but its people also grow their own crops, mostly taro.", "The root vegetable is grown in pits filled with organic matter due to the lack of soil available on the atoll.", "\"We know that on some of the islands, particularly on Nukalaelae, many pits are suffering damage from either drying out or getting saline from the water table.", "So there's certainly an impact on food security,\" Hebblethwaite said.", "\"We're even finding that some fruit trees are suffering, even coconuts, which is unusual.", "Coconut palms on Nukalaelae are starting to lose their fronds,\" he said.", "Tuvalu has been very vocal in its calls for international help to mitigate the effects of climate change.", "It has warned that it is in danger of \"sinking\" as sea water levels rise.", "\"The information we have about climate change and rainfall patterns is getting better and better every month,\" Hebblethwaite said.", "However he added that assessing long term trends on the islands was difficult to due the lack of rain gauges.", "\"One thing's for sure, water will be the main mechanism by which climate change impacts on these island communities, whether it be by droughts or by storms or floods,\" he said.", "\"So building their resistance to today's climate variability that they're experiencing will be a key defense they can employ against the future impacts of climate change, and I think people are recognizing that.\"" ]	[ "Tuvalu and Tokelau in the South Pacific running out of drinking water .", "Tokelau with a population of 1,500, could run dry in just one week .", "Tuvalu, located midway between Hawaii and Australia, has two weeks of water ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In their attacks on the food stamp program, some Republican presidential candidates are leaving a deeply misleading impression of the nation's leading anti-hunger program.", "No one aspires to enroll, but for those who must, it is an essential lifeline that addresses one of the harshest impacts of poverty and unemployment -- hunger.", "The food stamp program, now officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), provides about 46 million Americans in about 22 million low-income households with debit cards to buy food each month.", "Participants include families with adults who work in low-wage jobs, unemployed workers and people on fixed incomes, such as Social Security.", "About three-fourths of SNAP recipients live in households with children; more than one-quarter live in households with seniors or people with disabilities.", "SNAP reduces poverty while providing people with much-needed help to buy food.", "The program kept more than 5 million people out of poverty in 2010 and lessened the severity of poverty for millions of others, under a measure of poverty that counts SNAP benefits as income.", "SNAP is also highly efficient, with one of the most rigorous quality control systems of any public benefit program.", "In 2010, only 3 percent of payments went to ineligible households or to eligible households in excessive amounts.", "Payment accuracy has been improving in the past few years, despite a large increase in SNAP enrollment.", "While some have attributed that enrollment increase to Obama administration policies -- Newt Gingrich has termed President Barack Obama the \"food stamp president\" -- in reality it has two main causes that have little to do with this administration.", "Millions of people hit by the recession a few years ago became eligible for SNAP.", "Today's large SNAP caseloads mostly reflect the extraordinarily deep and prolonged recession and the weak recovery that has followed.", "Long-term unemployment hit record levels in 2010 and has remained extremely high.", "Today, 43% of all unemployed workers have been out of work for more than half a year; the previous post-World War II high was 26% in 1983.", "Workers who are unemployed for a long time are more likely to deplete their assets, exhaust unemployment insurance and turn to SNAP for help.", "It is one of the few safety net programs available to them.", "In most states, other programs -- such as cash assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and state General Assistance programs -- have not responded effectively to the rising need brought on by the economy.", "More than one in five workers who had been unemployed for over six months received SNAP in 2010, according to Congress's Joint Economic Committee.", "The increase in enrollment is also because it's easier for eligible families to participate.", "Federal and state officials as well as Congress, with leadership from both parties, have worked throughout the last decade to simplify SNAP procedures so that the program can reach more eligible households, particularly working families and senior citizens.", "These efforts are paying off: The share of eligible individuals who participated in SNAP rose from 65% in 2007 to 72% in 2009, the most recent year for which we have the data.", "The recent growth in SNAP enrollment and spending because of the sluggish economy is temporary.", "One of SNAP's great strengths is its ability to respond, quickly and automatically, to changes in the economy: Enrollment grows during downturns but contracts during periods of economic growth.", "The Congressional Budget Office predicts that SNAP spending will fall in the coming years as the economy recovers more robustly and the temporary benefit increases of the 2009 Recovery Act expire.", "By 2021, SNAP is expected to return nearly to pre-recession levels as a share of the economy.", "Over the long term, SNAP is not growing faster than the economy.", "So it is not contributing to the nation's long-term fiscal problems.", "A weak economy has swelled the numbers of unemployed workers and poor families.", "That's a serious problem that our policymakers need to address.", "In the meantime, SNAP helps protect the most vulnerable from very difficult circumstances.", "Join CNN Opinion on Facebook and follow updates on Twitter.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Stacy Dean." ]	[ "Stacy Dean: Criticism aside, food stamp program is a lifeline for 46 million people .", "Dean: Program is highly efficient; only 3% of funds went to ineligible people .", "Numbers of recipients growing because of weak recovery and joblessness, she says .", "Number of recipients will go down as jobs increase, she says, but the need is high now ." ]	[ 2, 6, 7, 8, 19, 26, 28, 32 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Agnieszka Radwanska faces a nervous wait to see if she will make the WTA Tour Championships after losing to Czech Lucie Safarova in the second round of the Kremlin Cup Wednesday.", "Victory for the pole would have seen her qualify as the eighth and final player, but Safarova battled to a 6-4 4-6 6-4 win in Moscow.", "France's Marion Bartoli, seeded fourth at the tournament, can now pip Radwanska if she takes the title Sunday.", "The 22-year-old Radwanska came into the event off the back of claiming titles in Japan and China, but continued her poor run against Safarova, who is now 4-1 in their clashes.", "Safarova will now play Russia's Vera Dushevina, who beat compatriot Nadia Petrova 6-2 7-6.", "Earlier, top seed and home favorite Vera Zvonareva cruised into the quarterfinals with a 6-1 6-1 win over Serbian teenager Bojana Jovanovski in just 64 minutes.", "\"I took into consideration all of the mistakes I made in my previous meeting with Jovanovski at this year's Australian Open,\" Zvonareva said.", "Zvonareva had taken three sets to win their clash at the opening grand slam of the season.", "But Italian Francesca Schiavone, the 2009 champion, went out, losing 6-4 5-7 7-6 to Estonia's Kaia Kanepi.", "In the men's ATP tournament being run at the same time, defending champion and second seed Viktor Troicki of Serbia cruised through his opening match with a 6-4 6-4 win over Spain's Pere Riba.", "Russia's fourth seed Nikolay Davydenko, a three-time champion, saw off compatriot Teimuraz Gabashvili 7-5 6-2 and will next face Germany's Michael Berrer, who shocked Italy's eighth seed Andreas Seppi 4-6 6-3 6-2." ]	[ "Agnieszka Radwanska crashes out of Kremlin Cup to Lucie Safarova .", "Pole Radwanksa misses chance to seal spot in WTA Championsips .", "Marion Bartoli can claim final place if she wins Kremlin Cup .", "Defending men's champion Viktor Troicki eases to opening victory over Pere Riba ." ]	[ 0, 9 ]
[ "Cupertino, California (CNN) -- Tim Cook, Apple's newly appointed CEO, did not introduce a single product on Tuesday.", "At Cook's first news conference since officially taking over for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, his team of executives announced a new iPhone, an application for sending greeting cards, and a location-based social network called Find My Friends.", "But Cook himself did not announce a single thing.", "To use artistic metaphors, perhaps that's indicative of how Cook sees his role as Apple leader -- not as a sculptor but as an orchestra conductor.", "Jobs is renowned for his ability to mold the shape of products during their development and for his involvement in seemingly trivial details of the business.", "He does not hesitate to tell his employees or powerful partners outside the company when he thinks they are wrong and need to rethink products.", "And, as even those who have been on the receiving end admit, he's usually right.", "Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates once said of Jobs, \"I'd give a lot to have Steve's taste.\"", "Cook, who filled in for Jobs when he had taken medical leaves in past years, opened and closed Tuesday's iPhone 4S presentation alone, a role typically reserved for Jobs.", "The event was an important exam for Cook, and analysts say he passed.", "\"I think Tim Cook did fine today,\" said John Jackson, an analyst at Boston-based market research firm CCS Insight, who attended the keynote.", "\"The bench picks up where Steve left off.\"", "At Apple's developers conference in June, when Jobs was on medical leave and Cook was filling in as interim CEO, Jobs was the first to take the stage.", "At that event, he unveiled the ambitious iCloud Internet service and then concluded the keynote.", "On Tuesday, however, Eddy Cue, who was Cook's first top-level executive appointment since becoming chief, handled the iCloud segment.", "Cook, Apple's longtime operating chief before rising to CEO, has had limited stage experience.", "He appeared in New York earlier this year for a Verizon Wireless news conference where the U.S. cellular giant announced that it would start carrying the iPhone.", "Tuesday was Cook's first test on his home turf.", "Although some observers on Twitter griped during the event about a lack of eye-popping news, Cook appeared comfortable and confident.", "He recited his lines flawlessly, and cracked jokes about iPads making planes more fuel-efficient, which elicited hearty laughs.", "(However, Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing exec, drew the most laughs when describing the improved camera on the iPhone 4S and how hard it was to get a squirrel to stand still for a photo shoot.)", "Apple's fall announcements are typically held at a convention center in San Francisco and focus heavily on new iPods, but this one took place in a small auditorium on Apple's campus here, which limited the size of the crowd.", "\"It's sort of like inviting you into our home,\" Cook said to a crowd of reporters, analysts and executives.", "\"Just 10 years ago, we launched the original iPod here, and it went on to revolutionize the way we listen to music.\"", "In between discussing Apple Store openings in China and explaining sales and market share data, Cook made several comments that seemed humble and personal.", "\"I consider it the privilege of a lifetime to have worked here for 14 years and am very excited about this new role,\" he said at the outset.", "And he closed with, \"I am so incredibly proud of this company.\"", "The amount of preparation and rehearsal that went into Cook's onstage arrangement was evident, said Gartner analyst Michael King, who did not attend the event but followed along from Washington.", "\"I actually thought it was a little more crisp than a Jobs presentation,\" he said.", "\"Less story time, more presentation.", "It was extremely well timed.\"", "The first row of seating in the room was filled with Apple execs, with one obvious omission.", "Jobs, who is now an Apple director and chairman of its board of directors, was nowhere in sight and was not mentioned once during the presentation, though his presence was felt.", "The experience was different with Cook taking center stage, but not drastically.", "\"Certainly, the tone was different,\" Jackson said.", "\"It does herald a certain cultural shift at Apple.", "These events aren't going to be the same as they ever were.\"", "\"It's not going to be the Steve Jobs show that generates headlines worldwide,\" he added.", "Apple has carefully crafted the persona of Jobs in recent years as a visionary who is dynamic, charismatic and likable, said Sasha Strauss, a director for consulting firm Innovation Protocol.", "While Apple works its marketing magic on Cook, the company and its leader will need to figure out what role he should serve in the public eye.", "Maybe Cook is well-positioned to conduct an orchestra of Apple's key supporting players.", "But will the company's product launches continue to make the same splash without a superstar?" ]	[ "New Apple CEO Tim Cook passed his first test as presenter, analysts say .", "Observer: A Cook keynote is unlike a \"Steve Jobs show\"\nCook looked more like an orchestra conductor than a pitchman .", "Analyst: \"I thought it was a little more crisp than a Jobs presentation\"" ]	[ 1, 9, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Authorities will have to await a necropsy to find out killed one of the equine world's top athletes, a stallion named Hickstead.", "Hickstead collapsed and died in front of hundreds of spectators at the Rolex F.E.I.", "World Cup in Verona, Italy, on Sunday.", "The Dutch Warmblood stallion completed the 13-track show jumping course and collapsed on the ground under his rider, the reigning Olympic champion and world number one Eric Lamaze.", "As shocked fans watched, Hickstead lay shaking on the ground for several minutes before he died.", "A dazed Eric Lamaze was then led out of the ring.", "Officials stopped the competition at the request of the riders.", "\"Hickstead really was a horse in a million and my heart goes out to Eric and everyone connected with this wonderful horse,\" said Princess Haya bint Al Hussein, the wife of the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and the president of the sport's governing body, Federation Equestre Internationale.", "\"This is a terrible loss, but Hickstead truly will never be forgotten.", "We were very lucky to have known him.\"", "Lamaze rode Hickstead to win an individual gold for Canada at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and countless Grands prix and Nations Cup victories.", "\"Our deepest sympathies go out to the owners, to Eric and to all the connections of one of the greatest jumping horses of all time,\" said FEI Jumping Director John Roche.", "\"Hickstead's presence on the circuit will be very sadly missed.\"", "A necropsy to determine the cause of death is scheduled in the coming days." ]	[ "The horse collapses and dies in front of hundreds of spectators .", "His rider is led out of the ring in shock .", "Lamaze rode Hickstead to several wins, including an Olympic gold ." ]	[ 1, 5, 10 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- A pretrial hearing is scheduled for Friday in the case of a former Rutgers University student who allegedly used a web cam to stream footage of his roommate's sexual encounter with another man.", "Dharun Ravi faces a 15-count indictment, which includes hate crime charges, in connection with the death of his roommate , Tyler Clementi.", "Clementi killed himself after the incident, jumping from the George Washington Bridge between New York and New Jersey.", "Last month, Ravi turned down a plea deal that would have allowed him to avoid jail time.", "\"You want to know why he's rejected the plea?\"", "his attorney, Steven Altman, said in December.", "\"Simple principle of law, simple principle of life -- he's innocent.", "He's not guilty. \"Ravi is a citizen of India who was studying in the U.S. legally.", "The deal offered by Middlesex County prosecutors would have required Ravi, 19, to undergo 600 hours of community service, counseling and to dispose of any information that could identify the man that Clementi was with.", "Prosecutors also offered to help Ravi avoid deportation, though they said they could not guarantee it.", "A second student charged in the scandal, Molly Wei, 19, reached a plea deal and that requires her testify against Ravi.", "In May, Wei pleaded not guilty to two counts of invasion of privacy, according to a statement from the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office.", "Less than a month after Clementi's suicide, President Barack Obama released a taped video message condemning bullying." ]	[ "Dharun Ravi will go to trial in February over a 15-count indictment involving hate crime charges .", "He has turned down a plea deal that would have allowed him to avoid jail time .", "His roommate, Tyler Clementi, later killed himself, jumping from the George Washington Bridge .", "The plea deal would have required 600 hours of community service, among other things ." ]	[ 1, 2, 3 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai appeared to endorse talks between the United States and the Taliban that could lead to the opening of a Taliban liaison office in Qatar.", "Karzai's announcement Wednesday followed news a day earlier from the Taliban that it tentatively agreed to open an office in Qatar's capital city of Doha to facilitate talks on the Afghan conflict.", "It appears to be the first time the Taliban -- who ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when they were ousted in a U.S.-led invasion -- have offered talks without the condition of an American withdrawal from the country.", "\"Afghanistan, to save the country from war, conspiracies, the killing of innocent Afghans and to reach peace, agrees with the talks between United States of America and Taliban that will end up in establishing an office for Taliban in Qatar,\" Karzai said in a palace statement.", "In the statement, Karzai appeared to broadly endorse peace negotiations for a country that has been embroiled in more than 30 years of war.", "It was unclear what, if any, outcome there would be in talks between the United States and the Taliban as Karzai, top Afghan peace officials and the Americans have all previously said that talks had to take place between Afghans.", "\"The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan with an emphasize on its firm position yet again, believes that talks and negotiation are the only way to reach peace and to come out of the atmosphere of war and imposed violence on Afghan nation,\" the palace statement said.", "Recent media reports have said the United States and other foreign governments with a stake in the Afghan war may try to strike a separate deal with the Taliban.", "The Washington Post reported in December that the Obama administration reached a tentative deal with Taliban negotiators that would have included the transfer of five Afghans from Guantanamo Bay, and the Taliban's public renunciation of international terrorism.", "The deal collapsed, the Post said, because of Karzai's objections.", "Any talk of a peace process slowed in September, when suicide bombers killed senior Afghan peace negotiator and former President Burhannudin Rabbani.", "Ismail Qassemyar, a member of Afghanistan's High Peace Council has called peace talks \"an Afghan process\" and warned against the United States or other nations trying to strike their own peace deal with the group.", "Qassemyar said a Taliban office in Qatar would by no means legitimize the Islamist group.", "Karzai told CNN in December that the government cannot hold talks until the Islamic militia identifies a representative with the authority to negotiate." ]	[ "Karzai appears to endorse opening of Taliban office in Qatar .", "Karzai says talks are the only way to end violence in Afghanistan .", "Recent reports say the U.S. and others may want to strike a peace deal with the Taliban ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- A spirited and leaderless protest in the Wall Street section of New York has entered its third week, helping to inspire a growing number of demonstrations united in their passion if not necessarily their reasons for hitting the streets.", "The hub of the movement, in Lower Manhattan, was abuzz with activity on Sunday as activists continued to vent their frustrations with everything from \"corporate greed\" to high gas prices to insufficient health insurance.", "No single group or person heads the effort, which has adopted the name \"Occupy Wall Street.\"", "While a \"general assembly\" is held daily for those gathered -- be it for a few short hours or by camping out long-term -- to discuss the goings-on and work toward a common mission, the stances being touted currently are diverse.", "\"We've gathered here in this place ... to shape a statement of what it is we want, and how we're going to get to it,\" said Robert Segal, one of the New York protesters.", "Video: Police arrest hundreds of protesters in NYC .", "The lack of coherent message has not stopped similar efforts from popping up elsewhere in the United States.", "\"Occupy Chicago,\" for instance, entered its 10th day on Sunday, a day after an associated website touted \"a huge afternoon march.\"", "The motto atop a website for \"Occupy Los Angeles,\" which kicked off Saturday with a march from Pershing Square to City Hall, reads: \"The revolution is happening ...", "It's just not in the news.\" There are 34 organizations -- from unions to ethnic organizations to activist groups focused on everything from foreclosure prevention to climate change to justice-related issues -- listed as being involved in a like-minded activist coalition in Boston.", "This group, which held a festival and march Friday and Saturday and has explicitly targeted Bank of America in recent weeks, states on its website that its aim is to \"stop their greed,\" \"fight for an economy that works for all of us\" and \"build cities that are democratic, just and sustainable.\"", "The website of Seattle demonstrators describes the nationwide effort as \"a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions.\"", "\"The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%,\" the statement continues, referring to what it sees as a sharp divide between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of society.", "Most demonstrations thus far have been peaceful and uneventful, though in a few cases they have led to numerous arrests.", "The most high-profile such incident came Saturday, when New York police arrested more than 700 protesters who had occupied the iconic Brooklyn Bridge.", "They were cited for blocking the roadway, authorities said, and eventually released after being given tickets.", "The confrontation came as protesters along the road banged drums and chanted, \"The whole world is watching\" as police moved in.", "Paul J. Browne, the deputy commissioner for the New York City Police Department, said they were given \"multiple warnings\" to stay on the pedestrian walkway and not the main roadway.", "The incident led to a shutdown of Manhattan-to-Brooklyn bridge traffic for several hours.", "Demonstrators have said they take their inspiration from the Arab Spring protests that swept through Africa and the Middle East this year.", "The protest campaign -- which uses the hashtag #occupywallstreet on the microblogging site Twitter -- began in July with the launch of a simple campaign website calling for a march and a sit-in at the New York Stock Exchange.", "It has gained steam since early September, with crowds taking up residence in a park in New York's financial district and calling for 20,000 people to flood the area for a \"few months.\"", "In recent weeks, the New York demonstrators have addressed various issues, including police brutality, union busting and the economy.", "CNN's Susan Candiotti and Jordana Ossad contributed to this report." ]	[ "A park in Lower Manhattan is crowded with \"Occupy Wall Street\" protesters .", "This effort began in July, and people have camped out there for 3 weeks now .", "Similar efforts have sprung up in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Seattle .", "The movement is leaderless and its members have various \"political persuasions\"" ]	[ 2, 11, 21, 22 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Allied forces suffered a day of heavy losses in Afghanistan Friday after a helicopter crash killed six U.S. Marines and an attack killed four French soldiers, prompting Paris to consider an early troop withdrawal.", "The Marines died after their CH-53 helicopter crashed in Helmand province, a U.S. military official said.", "The NATO-led force reported no enemy activity in the area, but the Taliban claimed credit for bringing down the chopper.", "Separately, an Afghan soldier killed four French soldiers and injured 15 others, one critically, in eastern Afghanistan, French officials said.", "President Nicolas Sarkozy said he was suspending French training operations and combat help as a result.", "\"The French army is not in Afghanistan to be shot at by Afghan soldiers,\" he said.", "France could bring its troops back early from Afghanistan if the necessary security is not restored, Sarkozy said.", "France has 3,935 troops in Afghanistan, according NATO's International Security Assistance Force.", "Sarkozy will send French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet to Afghanistan, he said.", "\"It was during a training session inside the base that a shooter killed four of our soldiers.", "This is unacceptable and demands a full investigation,\" Longuet said.", "A French official told CNN the French troops were unarmed as they were inside their base, conducting normal training operations with their Afghan partners.", "The official, who was not authorized to speak to the media, said 15 soldiers were injured.", "The attack in Kapisa province follows a similar shooting last month by an Afghan soldier that killed two French soldiers serving in an engineers' regiment, also in eastern Afghanistan.", "Friday's suspected shooter, who was a member of the Afghan National Army, has been apprehended, according to an ISAF statement.", "Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he was deeply saddened by incident.", "\"France has been generous to provide extensive assistance to Afghanistan over the past 10 years,\" Karzai said.", "\"Throughout history, the two countries have enjoyed a sincere relationship, which the Afghan people will always cherish.\"", "Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid called the attack \"sensible.\"", "\"This was the latest attack by those sensible and zealous Afghans who have entered the enemy's army and it was also the best one so far as it killed more soldiers than any other such attacks before,' Mujahid said.", "Responding to last month's shooting, Sarkozy stressed his country's \"determination to continue working within the International Security Assistance Force to restore peace and stability in that country and contribute to its development.\"", "NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen paid tribute to those killed and injured Friday, saying it was a \"very sad day\" for ISAF troops in Afghanistan and for France.", "\"Such tragic incidents are terrible and grab headlines, but they are isolated,\" he said.", "\"The reality is that every day, 130,000 ISAF troops from 50 nations fight and train with over 300,000 Afghan soldiers.", "That takes a lot of trust among a lot of soldiers.", "\"We have the same goal. An Afghanistan that is responsible for its own security.", "That is what Afghans want.", "And we remain committed to helping Afghans.\"", "ISAF spokesman Lt. Col. Jimmie Cummings also played down the threat, saying, \"We train and are partnered with Afghan personnel every day, and we are not seeing any issues or concerns with our relationships.\"", "Friday's shooting was the latest in a series of attacks on NATO forces by members of the Afghan army.", "In October, a gunman wearing an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on coalition forces during training, killing three and wounding several others.", "The shooter was killed in the incident in southern Afghanistan.", "Meanwhile, the cause of the helicopter crash, which happened around midnight Kabul time, is still under investigation, ISAF said.", "There was no enemy activity in the area when the helicopter went down in Helmand, said Col. Gary Kolb, an ISAF spokesman.", "The Taliban claimed responsibility Friday for bringing down the helicopter.", "Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, told CNN via text message: \"A Chinook was shot down in Zubair Karez area, between Musa Qala and Zamin Dawar in southern Helmand province, and a number of foreigners traveling in it were killed.\"", "NATO is scheduled to withdraw its forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.", "Many ISAF members are involved in missions to train and support Afghan forces as they prepare to take on greater security responsibilities.", "CNN's Nick Paton Walsh, Saskya Vandoorne, Masoud Popalzai, Pierre Meilhan, Barbara Starr, Mitra Mobasherat and Adam Levine contributed to this report." ]	[ "Six U.S. Marines die in a helicopter crash, a U.S. military official says .", "French troops are killed by an Afghan soldier were unarmed at the time, an official says .", "President Nicolas Sarkozy: France may bring troops home early if security isn't restored .", "NATO chief Rasmussen pays tribute to four French soldiers killed in Afghanistan ." ]	[ 0, 6, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- With an apology to his former business partner, ex-Facebook president Sean Parker has broken down and tweeted.", "\"Sorry Zuck, I had to do it eventually,\" Parker wrote Monday on his newly minted Twitter account.", "The apparent mea culpa to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is, so far, Parker's only post.", "But, by Tuesday morning, he had already racked up nearly 24,000 followers on the rival networking site.", "Parker was co-founder (or maybe an early employee, depending on who you believe) of music-sharing site Napster and created sites Plaxo and Causes in addition to helming Facebook in its early days.", "He's perhaps best known to most folks through his fictional interpretation by Justin Timberlake in the movie \"The Social Network.\"", "(Movie-version Parker was responsible for two of \"The Social Network's\" most famous lines, urging Zuckerberg to drop the \"the\" and just be \"Facebook\" and saying that \"what's cool\" is not $1 million, it's $1 billion.", "For his part, the real Parker has called the movie pure fiction, saying he was portrayed inaccurately).", "His tweet goes on to \"blame\" Scooter Braun, an entertainment marketer best known as Justin Bieber's agent.", "Parker's Twitter debut comes, perhaps not coincidentally, as he looks set to launch his latest e-venture -- a video service called Airtime.", "His biographical information on Twitter includes a link to a Forbes profile titled \"Sean Parker: Agent of Distruption.\"", "It also links to The Founders Fund, the venture-capital firm in which Parker is a partner.", "And maybe he doesn't owe Zuckerberg a full apology just yet.", "Parker's Facebook page has more than 38,000 people who \"like\" it -- outpacing his Twitter feed, at least for now." ]	[ "With a nod to Zuckerberg, ex-Facebook president Sean Parker joins Twitter .", "\"Sorry Zuck,\" starts Parker's lone tweet on the account he started Monday .", "Parker co-founded Napster and is known through his portrayal in \"The Social Network\"\nNew account comes as Parker is reportedly about to launch a video service ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Four members of Florida A&M University's fabled Marching 100 band have been arrested on hazing charges, a spokeswoman for the Tallahassee college said Friday.", "The charges are unrelated to the November hazing death of drum major Robert Champion.", "FAMU police arrested three of the students Thursday night; the fourth turned himself in Friday morning, said Sharon Saunders, the FAMU spokeswoman.", "The students -- Hakeem Birch, Brandon Benson, Anthony Mingo and Denise Bailey -- were charged with hazing five Marching 100 band members who wanted to join a group in the clarinet section known as the \"Clones.\"", "The five told police they were made to line up according to height at the start of each meeting.", "Then they were punched, slapped and paddled, according to the arrest warrant.", "One of the students, who quit the pledging process after the first meeting, took a digital photo of the bruising on her body.", "The initiation meetings, which began last September, took place at the home of Birch and Benson, the warrant said.", "Champion's death prompted FAMU's board of trustees to approve a three-part plan to tackle the issue of hazing on campus.", "The plan includes an independent blue-ribbon panel of experts to investigate.", "Trustee Belinda Reed Shannon told board members the panel would take a \"forward-looking\" approach at hazing on campus, and would not conflict with any current investigations into the Marching 100 band.", "Champion, 26, collapsed in Orlando on a bus carrying members of the band after a November football game that included a halftime performance by the group.", "Christopher Chestnut, a lawyer for Champion's family, has charged that Champion died after receiving \"some dramatic blows, perhaps (having an) elevated heart rate\" tied to \"a hazing ritual\" that took place on the bus.", "Some band members have said Champion died after taking part in a rite of passage called \"crossing Bus C.\" One member, who spoke on condition of anonymity, explained that students \"walk from the front of the bus to the back of the bus backward while the bus is full of other band members, and you get beaten until you get to the back.\"", "No one has been charged in Champion's death; the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Orange County Sheriff's Office are investigating the case.", "The Florida Department of Law Enforcement also launched a separate investigation into band employees, who were allegedly engaged in financial fraud.", "The medical examiner's office has said Champion \"collapsed and died within an hour of a hazing incident during which he suffered multiple blunt trauma blows to his body.\"", "An autopsy conducted after his death found \"extensive contusions of his chest, arms, shoulder and back,\" as well as \"evidence of crushing of areas of subcutaneous fat,\" which is the fatty tissue directly under a person's skin.", "An attorney for the band's director, on paid administrative leave since shortly after Champion's death, said his client issued letters of suspension and withheld scholarships \"of all students whose names were provided to him once the incident was reported.\"", "Julian White also informed campus police, attorney Chuck Hobbs said in a written statement.", "\"Dr. White applauds the efforts of law enforcement to arrest individuals that he suspended for hazing and hopes that they are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,\" according to the statement.", "\"Dr. White has been the leading anti-hazing advocate on the FAMU campus for years and his legal team continues to call upon President James Ammons to fully reinstate him to his position since the original reason for termination -- failure to report hazing -- is clearly unfounded by the record evidence.\"", "White originally had been suspended with termination scheduled for December 22, but he was subsequently placed on leave until completion of the investigation into Champion's death.", "CNN's Vivian Kuo contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: The band director's attorney again calls for reinstatement .", "The arrests are not related to the November hazing death of Robert Champion .", "They four students are charged with hazing those who wanted to join a clarinet group .", "The college is looking into how best to address hazing problems ." ]	[ 1, 3, 23 ]
[ "Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- Just like any other first family in the world, North Korea's secretive Kim dynasty is often the focus of gossip and rumors, especially in neighboring South Korea.", "There was a lot of speculation after a recent report that Kim Jong Il's grandson, identified as 16-year-old Kim Han-sol, was scheduled to enter an international school in Bosnia.", "Less than a week after the report, YouTube screen shots and pictures -- reportedly of the grandson -- have been plastered on the news in South Korea.", "South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported that it had tracked down photos of the grandson from the Bosnian school's Facebook page and published the pictures.", "The young man appears in photos wearing a suit and black horn-rimmed glasses posing with a woman at what appears to be a party.", "In another photo, the young man sports a blonde hairdo and is wearing a black T-shirt on the streets.", "The news agency reported Kim's nationality on the school website was set as North Korean.", "The school, the United World College in Mostar, confirmed its acceptance of a 16-year-old North Korean student named Kim Han-sol through a press release but stopped short of confirming the identity of the individual.", "\"The entry of a student from North Korea, furthermore from a very well-known family, has understandably generated surprise and comment, some of it critical,\" it said in a statement.", "According to Yonhap News Agency, Kim Han-sol is the son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's oldest son, Kim Jong-nam.", "Kim Jong-nam is the family's most outspoken member and has been seen at airports and other venues outside of North Korea.", "He is viewed by many as the outcast of the Kim family.", "It is believed the oldest Kim fell out of favor when he was stopped in Japan trying to enter on a forged passport on his way to Disneyland in 2001.", "The South Korean media has also focused on YouTube postings that Yonhap News Agency says feature Kim Han-sol.", "Yonhap released shots in which the YouTube user claims to be a North Korean studying in Macau.", "The person also claims to be \"related (to the Kim family).\"", "CNN could not independently confirm the identity of the YouTube user or the person shown in the pictures in the South Korean media.", "There are no known public photographs of Kim Han-sol and there's been no comment from the Kim family.", "The reclusive nature of the family leaves media outlets to leap at whatever opportunity they can to gain more insight into the lives of the Kim Jong Il family.", "Experts have commonly used photos released by the North Korean state-run news agency to speculate on the health of Kim Jong Il, examining facial color, posture, and even the style of shoes the leader is wearing.", "But the lack of access to verify most of what is circulated in the news has also led to blunders in the past.", "A photograph once released as an exclusive shot of one of the leader's sons later turned out to be an average South Korean man.", "The incident was only corrected after the man in the photo spoke out saying he was shocked to see he had turned into a Kim dynasty member overnight.", "As the latest round of speculation continues, the YouTube account reportedly linked to the grandson is no longer accessible and has been closed." ]	[ "Yonhap News Agency has published alleged photos of Kim Jong Il's grandson .", "The 16-year-old Kim Han-sol will reportedly attend a Bosnian international school .", "The reclusive North Korean first family is rarely shown in photographs ." ]	[ 1, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, who had a storied career in professional football as a coach, commissioner and owner, died Saturday, the team said.", "He was 82. In a brief post on their website, the Raiders said a statement would be issued later in the day.", "The cause of death was not immediately released.", "Much of Davis' career was spent in Oakland, where he first arrived as a coach in 1963 -- tasked with turning around a team that was picked to be at the bottom of the standings.", "The results were almost immediate, finishing 10-4 that season, and Davis was selected as coach of the year.", "At 33, he was both the coach and general manager of the Raiders, the website said, making him the youngest person to hold that dual position.", "His career started in 1950 as a line coach at Adelphi College in New York, the Raiders website said.", "He also coached at The Citadel, Southern California and for the then-Los Angeles Chargers before going to the Raiders.", "According to the Raiders website, by the time he arrived in Oakland, Davis had already been labeled a \"young coaching genius\" by Sports Illustrated.", "As commissioner of the American Football League in 1966, he played a role in the merger of that league with the National Football League.", "Davis' story, the Raiders website said, \"is a standard that no one in the history of professional football can match for winning and excellence.\"", "He was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame in 1992.", "\"Al Davis's passion for football and his influence on the game were extraordinary,\" NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on his Twitter account.", "\"The respect he commanded was evident in the way that people listened carefully every time he spoke.", "He is a true legend of the game whose impact and legacy will forever be part of the NFL.\"", "New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson also shared his sympathy on the news of Davis' death.", "\"Al Davis was one of the most innovative and dynamic pioneers in the history of the National Football League.", "He was passionate about his team and about the game of professional football and he personified the legacy of the Raiders,\" he said." ]	[ "Al Davis was \"a true legend,\" NFL commissioner says .", "Al Davis was the owner of the Oakland Raiders .", "He had a six-decade career in professional football .", "The cause of death was not immediately known ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- On Tuesday, new Apple CEO Tim Cook is expected to help unveil Apple's latest iPhone at its first big event since co-founder Steve Jobs stepped aside in August.", "Cook will no doubt be scrutinized for how he fulfills his new role Tuesday as chief pitchman for Apple's products.", "And the new iPhone, expected to go on sale sometime in mid-October, will almost certainly draw lines of shoppers outside Apple's stores.", "Then the question becomes: Can Apple make enough iPhones fast enough?", "As demand for its gadgets continues to skyrocket, keeping Apple growing at its amazing pace will be a key hurdle for Cook's regime.", "The consumer shift toward cheaper, portable computers -- and Apple's huge success there with the iPhone and iPad -- means creating and selling an ever-increasing number of devices each year.", "Right now, for example, Apple will have to ramp up production of millions of new iPhones, and possibly new iPods, for the holidays.", "After that there will be more iPads, Macs, and other products.", "It's important that Apple's new devices be stylish and technically impressive.", "But it's equally important that they be in stock when people want to buy them, something that Apple hasn't always been able to deliver.", "Only recently, for example, has the iPad 2 supply been able to meet demand.", "And as time goes on, thanks in part to new markets such as China, demand for each gadget will only grow.", "It's not enough for Cook and his team to keep coming up with exciting new products.", "They also must continue Apple's logistics revolution, so that consumers don't have to wait forever to buy new Apple devices -- or turn instead to the competition.", "Consider the total number of devices Apple must now have built and shipped per year.", "In 2011, including all iPhones, iPods, iPads, and Macs, Apple could end up shipping more than 175 million gadgets -- some 50 million more than it did last year, representing roughly 40% growth.", "Next year, Apple is expected to ship an all-time high of around 215 million devices, or another 40 million more than this year.", "And so on. It wouldn't be insane for Apple to have to ship 500 million units per year by the end of the decade.", "So Cook will have to figure out how to become the type of company that can ship 500 million gadgets per year -- from staffing to product design to iCloud server infrastructure to components to manufacturing, sales and support.", "The good news: Cook is already, arguably, the best in the business when it comes to this stuff.", "Over the past decade, he's made Apple's supply chain an industry leader.", "For Cook and Apple's SVP of Operations Jeff Williams, the plan is to keep it that way.", "(See Fortune Magazine's recent profile of Williams here.)", "As Apple enters its next chapter, some of Cook's biggest practical challenges will include scaling production, deciding how to prioritize the company's existing businesses and figuring out which new businesses to enter -- such as making TVs.", "(Then there's the whole \"vision thing,\" which is a whole different challenge -- and where Jobs, the master innovator, may prove to be irreplaceable.)", "Later this month, Cook will make his first pitch to Wall Street as Apple's CEO, as Apple reports its quarterly results.", "A year from now, we'll be in good position to judge his performance at the helm of the world's most valuable tech company.", "But first, it's time for a new iPhone.", "Copyright © 2011 Business Insider." ]	[ "Maintaining Apple's rapid growth will be a big challenge for new CEO Tim Cook .", "Cook must keep driving product development and Apple's logistics revolution .", "Apple could end up shipping more than 175 million gadgets this year .", "Cook is expected to unveil a new iPhone Tuesday in California ." ]	[ 0, 12, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Back in 2005, when he stopped studying third down tendencies long enough to work on a motivational self-help book, Nick Saban kept hammering on one phrase.", "The book's title was \"How Good Do You Want to Be?", "A Champion's Tips on How to Lead and Succeed at Work and in Life.\"", "The phrase the University of Alabama's football coach was stuck on was mercifully shorter.", "\"Eliminate the clutter.\"", "The clutter is you. The clutter is me. The clutter is this story, another horn in the vast media brass section trumpeting a college football game taking on Homeric proportions.", "\"It's everything out there that can take away from your focus,\" said Saban's co-writer, Brian Curtis.", "This week Saban -- called \"the most powerful coach in sports\" by Forbes magazine in 2008 -- is up to his furrowed brow in clutter.", "His No. 2 Crimson Tide plays No.", "1 Louisiana State Saturday night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in the most anticipated college football game in years.", "Both teams are undefeated, and it's the first ever SEC regular season game matching the country's two top teams.", "SI.com: LSU vs. Alabama really does mean everything to some, and that's OK .", "Saban, who just turned 60, is not exactly a willing contributor to the ruckus that surrounds big-time college football.", "When his own players doused him with the traditional Gatorade victory shower after Alabama won the BCS Championship Game in January, 2010, he looked genuinely irked by the display.", "Saban's no-nonsense nature -- he and a statue of him outside Alabama's football stadium are tied for number of memorable one-liners -- perfectly equips him for a moment like Saturday night.", "\"It's fun to play in games like this,\" Saban said this week.", "And then he broke out the wet blanket.", "\"But I also think it's important to be able to stay focused on what you need to do to play well.", "You can't drain yourself emotionally because of all the things that are happening surrounding the game.\"", "SI.com: Alabama hosts LSU in the Game of the Year .", "The Saban method certainly has paid off.", "His overall college coaching record is 137-53-1, a .717 winning percentage.", "He has won as many national titles (two) as all-time major college wins leader Joe Paterno.", "But Saban is the only coach to win a BCS championship with two different programs.", "It is a testament to both Saban's coaching genius and his tumbleweed past that his DNA is on both programs involved in Saturday's showdown.", "Here's how he got there: . The son of a West Virginia gas station owner, he began coaching as a grad assistant at alma mater Kent State in 1973.", "Over a lengthy career, he has been employed by nine different college programs, and three more NFL franchises.", "Following four years as head coach at Michigan State, Saban was brought to Baton Rouge in 2000 after LSU had gone 7-15 the previous two seasons.", "Within four years, Saban delivered a national title.", "His professional travelogue didn't end there.", "Saban left to test himself as an NFL head coach with the Miami Dolphins in 2005.", "Two seasons there produced a 15-17 record, and then Saban was seduced by a once proud southern belle who had fallen into disrepute.", "\"I'm not going to be the Alabama coach,\" Saban infamously declared on December 21, 2006.", "On January 4, 2007, he was introduced as the Crimson Tide's next coach.", "He was apologizing for that one three years later in a Sporting News interview.", "Sort of. \"I apologize for any professional mishandling that might have occurred,\" he said.", "But there is a reason Alabama ponied up $4 million a year for Saban (university President Robert Witt makes a reported base of $490,000 a year).", "He is one rainmaker of a coach.", "While perhaps not always so dedicated to the truth about his comings and goings, Saban is all in with building winning football programs.", "And in 2007 Alabama needed him badly.", "With 13 national championships in the bank, and the legend of Bear Bryant growing dim, the Alabama football program of the early 2000s was a mess.", "One coach was tangled up in a sexual harassment charge and eventually got the program placed on NCAA probation.", "One hire never coached a game, fired after an off-season Florida strip-club romp became public.", "One abandoned ship after two seasons, informing his team he was leaving for Texas A&M via video conference.", "Another had the name (Mike Shula, son of Hall of Fame NFL coach Don Shula) but won few hearts with his 26-23 record.", "Then came Saban, whose stern dictatorship cut through all the nonsense.", "He is 51-11 at 'Bama, with one national title and the hopes of another resting on Saturday.", "His success did not sit well a couple states to the left.", "When Saban first left for the pros, LSU fans were mostly understanding.", "They even cheered him when he returned to Baton Rouge with the Dolphins in 2005 to take on the New Orleans Saints, who had been displaced from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.", "But when he took over a conference rival, he was a direct threat to their team and the game changed.", "On Saban's trip to Baton Rouge in 2008, he was greeted with the requisite effigy burning.", "The LSU student newspaper produced an editorial that proclaimed: \"For the record, Nick, the Tiger faithful hate your guts.\"", "\"What people suddenly didn't seem to understand is that he didn't leave LSU for Alabama,\" said Glenn Guilbeau, who covers the Tigers for Gannett News Service.", "After ditching the Dolphins, \"the only open jobs were Alabama, Louisville and Tulane.", "What was he supposed to do?\" Time has somewhat softened the Saban-is-Satan storyline when LSU and Alabama play now.", "His connection to LSU was brought up only once in his press conference last Monday.", "In response, Saban sounded almost wistful.", "\"I really don't think a lot about that, but there are a lot of personal relationships we have with a lot of people because of the association we had with LSU,\" he said.", "\"The older you get -- and everybody knows I'm getting old -- you kind of cherish those relationships and really respect and appreciate them.", "I'm happy to say a lot of those things don't get affected by this game and what happens in this game.\"", "Are the halcyon days of Saban-hating gone?", "After his clumsy departure from the Dolphins, Saban appeared as No.", "9 on a Forbes top 10 list of most disliked people in sports.", "He has not made the last two editions of that list.", "When he completes this season, his fifth, it will match his longest stay at any of his coaching posts.", "\"I think there's a feeling that this is the right place for him and his wife at this stage of their lives,\" Curtis said.", "The Saban family was out front in the recovery effort after a devastating tornado swept through Tuscaloosa in April, only reinforcing his Alabama identity.", "Saban's Nick's Kids Foundation provided the $50,000 seed money to start Project Team Up, which coordinates aid for those who lost homes and loved ones to the storm.", "Saban, his wife Terry and his team have been out front throughout the recovery process, said Riz Shakir, Project Team Up's managing director.", "\"As you know, Nick is not one to be exuberant, but he shows he really cares through his actions,\" Shakir said.", "\"When he cracks a little smile (doing the relief work), it's like you or me jumping for joy.\"", "Maybe some will even begin taking him at his word that, \"When I came here, I came here with the idea I'd be here for the rest of my career.\"", "Saban may never be the warm and fuzzy good ol' boy kind of southern football coach.", "Because that is just the kind of clutter that has nothing to do with a final score, he's unlikely to spend much time courting favor.", "At least he has settled into one place long enough now that those who wish to appreciate him know where to find him." ]	[ "No.", "1 LSU faces No.", "2 Alabama Saturday in college football game of the year .", "Alabama coach Nick Saban has coached both teams to national championsips .", "Saban has angered some with his ugly departures from previous coaching jobs .", "Saban is only coach to take two different schools to college football's BCS championship ." ]	[ 8, 9, 19, 23, 24, 62 ]
[ "(CNN) -- At least 510 people were killed in Caracas, Venezuela, in December, giving support to a recent report that called the city the murder capital of the world.", "A chalk message reads No More Murders as a student protests killings in Caracas in this file photo.", "It's against that backdrop that the country's minister for Interior Relations and Justice announced efforts this week to combat crime in 2009.", "Minister Tareck El Aissami said Monday he will form 50 community police units in Caracas and take other measures so that \"we can have in a short time a culture of peace, tranquility and calm for all the Venezuelan public.\"", "By all accounts, it will be a tall order.", "Foreign Policy magazine said in September that Caracas tops the list of five murder capitals of the world, with an official tally of 130 homicides per 100,000 residents.", "The city, which is Venezuela's capital, has about 4 million inhabitants.", "Foreign Policy is owned by The Washington Post Co. and published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.", "The United States made the magazine's top five, too, with New Orleans, Louisiana coming in at No.", "3. Its murder rate is estimated as 67 per 100,000 by its police department and 95 per 100,000 by the FBI.", "Still, the rate in Caracas comes in far ahead of the following four murderous capitals.", "\"Caracas has become far more dangerous in recent years than any South American city, even beating out the once notorious Bogota, [Colombia],\" Foreign Policy said.", "\"What's worse, the city's official homicide statistics likely fall short of the mark because they omit prison-related murders as well as deaths that the state never gets around to properly 'categorizing.'", "\"The numbers also don't count those who died while 'resisting arrest,' suggesting that Caracas' cops -- already known for their brutality against student protesters -- might be cooking the books,\" the magazine said.", "CNN affiliate Globovision TV reported this week that officials reported 510 killings in Caracas this month, capping a particularly brutal year.", "\"It's shocking,\" said Jennifer McCoy, director of The Americas Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta.", "\"It's the biggest concern of the population -- crime and security.\"", "Federico Welsch, a political science professor at La Universidad de Simon Bolivar in Caracas for 25 years, has seen that crime up close.", "\"Violence is the major problem for Venezuelans, according to any source you use,\" Welsch told CNN on Tuesday.", "\"It's doubly sad because, primarily, the deaths occur almost exclusively in the poor sectors, and, secondarily, it's among youth under 30 years old.\"", "McCoy points out that the killings are \"basically poor on poor.\"", "From the 1970s to the 1990s, the poverty rate nearly tripled, from 25 percent to 65 percent, McCoy said.", "Even though the poverty rate declined during the oil boom that started in the 1990s, she said, the rate remains high.", "\"It's a combination of economic-driven crime ... with other types of gangs, to police abuse,\" McCoy said.", "\"The police are not properly trained and not properly equipped.\"", "Anti-crime efforts in Caracas also suffered, she said, when the national government took over the city's police force in 2002.", "\"There has been trouble getting the police force back to par,\" she said.", "Welsch said he doubts the anti-crime measures El Aissami announced Monday will work.", "\"You can't resolve this problem with police,\" Welsch said.", "\"The government is co-responsible for there being so many firearms.", "There is no good gun control, there are no permits and there is no good control over the militias.\"", "The problem, Welsch and McCoy said, transcends the drug trade and gang battles.", "\"You don't have the guerrilla problems,\" McCoy said.", "\"You don't have drug cartels.", "You don't have a large mafia.\"", "Welsch lays much of the blame on the 10-year-old government of socialist President Hugo Chavez.", "\"The government discourse,\" he said, \"is that if you are lacking something it is because of injustice.", "Then look for it, take it away from those who have it.", "You can obtain justice with your own hands.\"", "The magazine lists, in descending order, Caracas; Cape Town, South Africa; New Orleans; Moscow, Russia; and Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, as the top five murder capitals in the world." ]	[ "Foreign Policy magazine names Caracas, Venezuela, the murder capital of the world .", "Venezuela to step up efforts to fight crime in Caracas in 2009 .", "Violence is gang- and police-related, and often poor on poor .", "New Orleans, Louisiana, comes in third on magazine's list of top five ." ]	[ 2, 5, 6, 20, 39 ]
[ "(CNN) -- \"An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.\"", "-- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, New York Times Co. vs. Sullivan, 1964 .", "It's downright disgusting to listen to conservative and Republican lawmakers, presidential candidates, business owners and media commentators use such vitriol to describe the Occupy Wall Street protesters as hell-bent on destroying America.", "How in the world can anyone even form their lips to say such a thing when this very country was founded on the basis of dissent?", "Self-professed rodeo clown Glenn Beck castigates the Occupy Wall Street protesters, but he's always running off at the mouth about the Founding Fathers and how brilliant they were.", "Without dissent and protest, there is no United States of America!", "It's as if these folks never picked up a history book to understand how this nation was formed.", "The very notion of a United States of America started with someone saying, writing and screaming, \"Enough is enough!\"", "And when more and more of the early settlers became enraged at the heavy-handed actions of the British, that's when we were on our path to the American Revolution.", "Do any of these so-called strict constructionists even read the very U.S. Constitution they love to wave in the faces of their critics?", "Every American, no matter if you're young or old; rich or poor; red state or blue state; Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Native American; has the freedom to assemble and freedom of speech, which is at the heart of these protests.", "In this same space, I praised the tea party for not sitting around and complaining.", "Instead, they organized and mobilized to affect the political discourse in the Republican Party and have definitely had their voices heard.", "I may disagree with a number of things the tea party advocates, but there is no way I would condemn them for doing it.", "As Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas said, \"The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.\"", "It's increasingly clear that some Americans love to talk a good game about protests, yet hate it when someone who opposes their views decides to stand up and be heard.", "Remember all of those political voices championing the people of Iran taking to the streets to protest?", "How about Tunisia? Egypt? Libya? Bahrain? What would this world be without protest?", "We would have never seen freedom in Eastern Europe were it not without the people there, in the words of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, being \"sick and tired of being sick and tired.\"", "Praise God that the children of South Africa, led by the African National Congress, didn't ignore the calls of history.", "If so, Nelson Mandela would be dying in jail and freedom would have never ended apartheid.", "This nation would not have been forced to make real the very principles cited in the Declaration of Independence, or treat every human being as an equal, were it not for the civil rights movement.", "Those brave men, women and children chose not to accept the status quo, and this nation and the world are much better off because they did.", "As a supporter of Occupy Wall Street, I understand fully the sentiment that is being expressed.", "The massive corporate greed that has devastated the wages of the common worker, and seen the pay of a bunch on Wall Street go through the stratosphere for literally making nothing tangible, has been immoral and obscene.", "Wall Street and their protectors in Washington -- Democrat and Republican -- say nothing is wrong with making a profit.", "That is absolutely true.", "But what is shameful and outlandish is to watch the American taxpayer save the jobs (and big bonuses) of these financial miscreants, only to see them jack up fees left and right.", "Without the American people they would have had to pack up their belongings and hit the pavement.", "Instead, they refuse to work with homeowners struggling to meet the big mortgage payments that Wall Street helped underwrite; then sell in exotic transactions that wrecked this nation's financial infrastructure.", "Conservatives call this an assault on capitalism.", "No, Occupy Wall Street is about trying to bring some decency and honesty back to an industry that used to have some.", "Instead, what we have today are literal financial pirates trying to take the largest booty they can find.", "They don't care about the long-term health of this country.", "It's all about the next quarterly earnings reports and their massive year-end bonuses.", "This fight that Occupy Wall Street is engaged in is nothing short of a battle for the soul of this nation.", "Are we going to continue to allow ourselves to be held hostage by the big banks?", "Will we continue to allow them to trample over us with their \"too big to fail\" attitude?", "No, no, and hell no. It's time to bring these Goliaths to their knees by any means necessary.", "That mean the young and righteous Davids must protest, march, sit-in, work the halls of Congress and state capitals nationwide, and make it clear that as long as Wall Street, its lobbyists and political protectors continue to mistreat the common man and woman, they are our mortal enemy.", "Now is not the time to dismiss the protesters as a bunch of lefty college students with no guidance, no substance and no mission.", "Instead of listening to politicians pimp the next generation, these folks are saying in the words of the founders of the nation's first black newspaper, Freedom's Journal: \"We wish to plead our own cause; too long have others spoken for us.\"", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin." ]	[ "Without dissent and protest, there is no United States, Roland S. Martin says .", "Characterizing Occupy Wall Street protesters as anti-American is disgusting, he says .", "Martin: It's not an assault on capitalism, but a call for decency in in the financial industry ." ]	[ 2, 5, 26, 30, 42 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Lower Manhattan's controversial Park51 Islamic center is now in a court battle with utility Consolidated Edison, which says the center owes it $1.7 million in a dispute over back rent.", "In court papers, Park51 says it owes Con Edison only $881,000 and calls the utility's demand \"grossly inflated.\"", "The center has filed suit against the company over a default notice it was issued in September, and a New York state judge has stayed any action until after a hearing in November.", "In a statement to CNN on Sunday, Con Edison said it \"remains hopeful\" that it can work out an agreement with Park51, which leases part of its property from the utility.", "Park51's developers did not return a phone call seeking comment.", "The center, which includes a mosque, drew intense opposition in 2010 from politicians, conservative activists and some families of the victims of the al Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center.", "The twin towers stood about two blocks from the site before they were destroyed by the suicide hijackings on September 11, 2001, leading critics to dub the project the \"Ground Zero Mosque.\"", "The interfaith center's leaders said the project will be a 16-story community center with recreational, educational and cultural programming rooted in a spirit of cooperation and coexistence.", "City officials refused to block its construction, and Park51 held its grand opening in September.", "According to court documents, Park51 has exercised an option to purchase the Con Edison portion of the site for $10.7 million.", "The center says it has been paying $2,750 a month -- minuscule by New York standards -- under its initial lease.", "The rent was to be recalculated based on the market value of the property after it renewed the lease in 2008, but disputes over the appraisal lasted until this August.", "In September, Con Edison demanded the $1.7 million it said it was owed.", "\"The lease for the property calls for the tenant to pay this money now that an appraisal process has been completed,\" the utility told CNN.", "\"Under the terms of the lease, Con Edison requested payment of outstanding rent, but to date, tenant has not yet made the required payment.\"", "But lawyers for Park51 argue the demand is based on \"a fundamental misreading\" of its lease and have accused Con Edison of improperly trying to take back the property.", "\"Whether it is bowing to political pressure or seeking to retain the valuable premises for itself, Con Ed appears intent upon proceeding with its wrongful termination (and cancellation of plaintiff's right to purchase the premises) and it has expressly threatened to do so,\" they wrote.", "Con Edison said Sunday it has defended Park51's right to buy the land.", "CNN's Chris Boyette contributed to this report." ]	[ "The Park51 center is locked in a dispute with Con Edison .", "The utility says Park51 owes back rent .", "The center says the demand is \"grossly inflated\"\nPark51's plans drew intense opposition in 2010 ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A security camera video of a toddler being run over twice on a street in China has swept across the Web in recent days and has drawn a chorus of horrified denunciations.", "How, we wonder, could so many passers-by have so callously ignored the girl's plight?", "As humans, we are horrified when we learn that a person in distress is not helped, even when, as in this case, many potential helpers are present.", "Our horror increases if the person is victimized in a particularly vicious or careless way by fellow human beings.", "Our horror is further heightened when we learn that the victim is helpless and the kind of person who normally stimulates our instinct to aid and protect.", "Our spontaneous reaction is to say: \"Had I been there, I would have helped; what is wrong with these people?\"", "If an incident occurs in a foreign country or culture, it is easy -- maybe tempting, as we grapple with something so baffling -- to conclude that the particular culture is to blame, that it is being callous, uncaring or egotistical.", "It is true that cultural differences exist in many aspects of human behavior, and many of these differences are not trivial.", "But in the Chinese incident, in which the small child was gravely injured before someone finally carried her away, it would be too facile to think that apathy in the face of others' suffering is a signature of the local culture.", "First, the public outcry and outrage within China was quite the same as what one would see in other countries.", "Second, there have been, of course, similar cases in other countries.", "Indeed, there was the torture and murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York, in a 1964 street attack.", "Early reports, which may not have been entirely accurate, indicated that many people listened to or watched the attack and did nothing to stop it, and so a media blitz followed .", "Commentators asked: What is wrong with New York City, what is wrong with these times, and what is wrong with the particular neighborhood?", "Outrage in China after toddler run over, ignored .", "The incident spawned research on the so-called bystander effect: a set of brilliant experiments conducted by John Darley and Bibb LatanÃ©, who showed in their 1968 study that as the number of bystanders goes up, the probability of any individual bystander intervening goes down.", "This is so because each bystander is trying to solve a so-called \"volunteer's dilemma.\"", "If everyone responds, the cost could be high and the volunteers might get in each others' way.", "It would be best if only one bystander responded, the thinking goes.", "If this is so, it is reasonable to ask who it will be and why it should be me.", "Since the original experiments, many studies have explored the bystander effect.", "Recently, I was part of a research team brought together by Peter Fischer of the University of Regensburg, Germany.", "We surveyed the existing scientific literature and statistically integrated the findings from 105 data sets.", "We found that the bystander effect is quite robust, that it has declined somewhat in magnitude over time, and that there are certain conditions under which it disappears or is even reversed.", "For example, in a situation in which several bystanders need to band together to overwhelm a perpetrator, they will be more likely to act collectively than to act alone.", "The heroic effort of the passengers on United Flight 93, which was suspected to be in line to strike a Washington target on 9/11/2001, comes to mind.", "It is these extreme cases, the callous injury of a helpless toddler and the heroic revolt of ordinary people in the face of terrorism, that capture our attention.", "With a bit of luck, most of us will not find ourselves in such existential situations.", "We must ask ourselves, however, how we will respond in more mundane situations that present us with fellow human beings who are in need.", "Will we help or hope that someone else will?", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Joachim Krueger." ]	[ "Joachim Krueger says video of a toddler run over twice in China has shocked, horrified many .", "He says we wonder why it took so long for someone to help and ask are people in China callous?", "He says what researchers call \"volunteers dilemma\" not unique to China; cites NY case .", "Krueger: \"Bystander effect\" sometimes less when a group is needed, as in United Flight 93 ." ]	[ 0, 2, 19, 29 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Last month, President Obama proposed cutting almost $72 billion from Medicaid, the program that provides health care to America's poor.", "Such deep reductions are necessary, he declared, to bring down our staggering national debt.", "But what if there were a way to both save taxpayer dollars and improve Medicaid patients' health?", "We can achieve both if we are willing to consider an unorthodox solution: Pay Medicaid recipients who are smokers to quit using cigarettes.", "Thirty-three percent of the Medicaid population smokes, compared with 20% of the U.S. population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.", "Evidence of the dangers of smoking, coupled with smoking bans and steep tobacco taxes, has cut the smoking rate in half for the overall U.S. population over the past 50 years.", "Now, it is widely acknowledged that smoking is largely isolated in vulnerable populations.", "Why don't Medicaid smokers quit in response to policies that are effective for others?", "One reason is that investing in preventive health care is difficult when you live month-to-month.", "But an indulgence the poor really can't afford is cigarettes.", "Smoking is expensive.", "A pack-a-day smoker could save more than $2,000 per year by quitting.", "How would the proposed incentive system work?", "Smokers on Medicaid would receive small payments in return for quitting or getting cessation counseling as a step toward quitting.", "Participants would have to hold up their end of the bargain.", "They would get paid only if medical claims data indicated that they were getting counseling or they tested to be smoke-free.", "Tests can easily be conducted using breathalyzers to measure carbon monoxide levels.", "It may seem implausible that such a limited compensation could push anyone to quit a practice as addictive as cigarette smoking, but there is solid evidence that it works.", "Research on addiction has repeatedly demonstrated that small payments have persuaded even cocaine addicts to stop using.", "Furthermore, in my research, I have found that the financial motivation to quit is more effective for low-income smokers than a motivation based on health concerns.", "Small payments can be effective by providing tangible, immediate and clear-cut gains.", "Taxpayers would have a lot to gain from this approach, too.", "Medical care for tobacco-related diseases costs Medicaid an estimated $22 billion every year.", "Treating the many illnesses associated with smoking -- emphysema, coronary heart disease and lung cancer, to name a few -- is expensive.", "Pregnant smokers risk premature childbirth and often expensive medical treatment for their newborns.", "Sensible as they are, incentive payments to smokers on Medicaid face many obstacles before they can be adopted by the federal government.", "Many people, including politicians, will chafe at paying people to do something they ought to do on their own.", "Smoking carries the taint of a moral vice, a bad habit that should require no incentive to abandon.", "But providing incentives to promote positive behaviors is a common practice and often uncontroversial.", "Employers and life insurers, for example, increasingly provide financial incentives to stop smoking.", "They consider these incentives good investments.", "Paying such incentives could both improve health for the poor and lower Medicaid costs for taxpayers.", "Another obstacle to implementation is a lack of research on how best to design such a program for low-income populations.", "While in previous studies of heroin users I found that paying higher incentive payments is both more powerful and more cost-effective, we do not know the best level of payments for Medicaid smokers.", "Also we do not know whether it would be better to pay for using the counseling or only for actually stopping smoking, or a mix.", "We are getting closer to answering these important questions.", "Ten states, including my own state of Connecticut, were just granted the approval and the funds from the federal government to test the effectiveness of incentive payments in Medicaid.", "My research group, in collaboration with the state, will be investigating how a smoking-cessation program based on such payments could be made maximally cost-effective.", "We want to save Medicaid money while improving recipients' health.", "What if we really could make a difference by paying a little to save a lot?", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jody Sindelar." ]	[ "Jody Sindelar says paying Medicaid recipients to quit could save taxpayers money .", "She says Medicaid recipients smoke more than rest of population, can afford it less .", "She says tobacco-related disease costs Medicaie $22 billion a year; incentives can help .", "Sindelar: Challenge in structuring such a program; some states are experimenting now ." ]	[ 11, 22, 31, 38, 40 ]
[ "Cairo (CNN) -- I strolled through the halls of the Arab League's headquarters in Cairo the other day, perusing all the family photos of Arab leaders at various summit meetings over the years.", "There was deposed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, deposed and violently disposed of Libyan \"Brother Leader\" Moammar Gadhafi, exiled Tunisian President Zine Abedine Ben Ali, Yemen's beleaguered President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and Syria's embattled President Bashar Al-Assad.", "Uneasy, I thought, must sit the other heads of state featured in those photos.", "But it was those surviving leaders, of such less-than-democratic countries as Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Sudan, to name a few, who instructed their foreign ministers to vote Saturday to suspend Syria from the Arab League over its bloody suppression of the eight-month-old uprising there.", "In the final months of 2011, the future is looking very uncertain for the creaking Arab political order.", "Egypt and Tunisia are no longer solid, reliable members of the bloc of conservative, pro-Western \"moderate\" Arab regimes the United States cobbled together in the aftermath of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war.", "Revolutions and revolts -- finished and ongoing -- must be depriving many rulers of a good night's sleep.", "The citizens of the Arab world have finally had enough of the tired charades of the past.", "Increasingly endangered are the sham referendums where presidents won 99 percent of votes, where hardly anyone took the time to cast a ballot, the \"parties\" that were little more than mafias with empty slogans, and the state intelligence thugs who were a law unto themselves.", "That stuff just doesn't cut it anymore.", "As we strolled together through a ransacked intelligence headquarters in Sabha, Libya, a few months ago, one man told me: \"We used to fear our rulers.", "Now they fear us.\" This year almost every Arab state, from the Atlantic to the Gulf, has had to at least go through the motions of initiating political reform.", "And while they'd be loathe to share their true motivations, I suspect Arab rulers didn't vote against Syria because they are new converts to people power or support the bloodied opponents of al-Assad.", "No, there is more to this vote than the so-called \"Arab Spring.\"", "As much as aging Arab autocrats fear their people, they also fear Iran.", "The last 10 years have been good for Iran.", "First, the United States led an international coalition to oust Iran's bitter enemies, the Taliban, from power in Afghanistan.", "Less than two years later, the Americans did it again in Iraq, bringing down another implacable foe of Iran, Saddam Hussein, and then installing a new political order in Baghdad much more friendly to Tehran.", "In 2006 the Americans backed Israel's ill-fated summer war against Iran's Lebanese ally, Hezbollah, which emerged from the 33-day conflict stronger than ever.", "In 2007, Hamas, also friends with Iran, ousted the U.S.-backed Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas from Gaza.", "Iran was an enthusiastic backer of the revolt against the leaders of Bahrain earlier this year, though that uprising was crushed with Saudi help.", "In the meantime, there is growing fear over Iran's perceived nuclear ambitions, those fears stoked by regular pronouncements over the past two decades from Tel Aviv that Iran \"is on the verge of producing a nuclear weapon.\"", "Against this backdrop is an across-the-board diminution of American power in the Middle East.", "At the end of this year the United States will end its military presence in Iraq, and soon afterward, it will do the same in Afghanistan.", "The Obama administration, with 2012 elections looming and after several half-hearted false starts and high-profile humiliations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, appears to have given up trying to broker real peace between Israel and the Palestinians.", "Above and beyond regional issues, the U.S. economy -- and thus, its political clout -- is in decline.", "Increasingly, America is viewed in the Middle East as an economically bankrupt, militarily and diplomatically overextended, withering superpower.", "In short, a huge vacuum looms in the region, and Iran could be the chief beneficiary.", "Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states are alarmed, and are eager to cut Iran down to size.", "The uprising in Syria went a long way to undercut Iran's oldest and most reliable Arab ally in Damascus, and Saturday's vote to suspend Syria from the Arab League was an added bonus.", "Syria is now isolated more than ever before, which means Iran's other allies in the region -- Hamas and Hezbollah -- could suffer, too.", "There are other players in this great game.", "Turkey, having been repeatedly rebuffed in its attempts to gain membership in the European Union, has struck out on its own under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.", "Missing in the emerging regional equation are any Arab counterweights to a resurgent Turkey, but more immediately, Iran.", "Saddam Hussein, who fought an 8-year war with Iran, has been replaced by a government in Baghdad with close ties to Tehran.", "Egypt, the Arab world's most populous nation and once one of the main pillars of the old order, is in the throes of post-revolutionary upheaval.", "The surviving members of those group photos at the Arab League are clutching at anything they can to make sure they can live for another summit meeting -- and another group photo." ]	[ "There is more to the vote against Syria than the \"Arab Spring\"\nAs much as Arab autocrats fear their people, they also fear Iran .", "Iran's regional position has strengthened in the last decade .", "America's is perceived to be withering ." ]	[ 13, 14, 15 ]
[ "Warrenton, Georgia (CNN) -- Coach David Daniel's worried pacing along the sidelines of a recent game doesn't even begin to tell the story inside his mind.", "But the wound over his right eye gives you a sense of his pain inside, two weeks after he was caught in the middle of a post-game melee that sent him to a hospital.", "Some say he was intentionally targeted by the other team.", "Others say it was trash talking run amok -- including a text message by a coach -- all set against a raging high school football rivalry in rural Georgia.", "Either way, a lifelong high school football coach now has bolts holding together his eye socket after it was shattered by a player's football helmet.", "\"It was like if you had crushed up cornflakes, that's what all this bone looked like,\" Daniel said, motioning to his right eye.", "On the night of October 14, Daniel's team, the Screaming Devils of Warren County, defeated the Mighty Bulldogs of nearby Hancock County.", "As the Screaming Devils returned to the visiting team's locker room, they found the door locked.", "While waiting for a helper on their team to return with the key, the losing home team walked by, on the way to their locker room, and that's when it all began.", "No one seems to know who or what started the incident, but officials from both schools say both teams threw and swung helmets.", "\"It only took one to get the brawl started.", "Someone did not make the right decision,\" Hancock County Schools Superintendent Gwendolyn Reeves said.", "\"Whether it came from our side, or Warren County's side, I do not know.\"", "Warren County Schools Superintendent Carole Jean Carey said it was hard to tell what was going on because so many people were involved.", "\"We just saw this sea of people, and it was moving like waves,\" Carey said.", "\"Then all of a sudden, we saw a helmet go up.\"", "During the melee, sheriff's deputies pepper sprayed the players, and a player from each team suffered a concussion.", "After the incident was broken up, no arrests were made.", "Daniel says he was struck in the head with a helmet as he tried to intervene.", "He doesn't remember much about the incident.", "He lost a tear duct, and it's possible that he may need more surgery.", "\"It just makes no sense.", "I don't understand it,\" he said.", "Carey, the Warren County schools superintendent, wants a full investigation to determine if Daniel was the target of an attack.", "\"I'm not making any judgments right now ...", "I just have questions about how it could have happened and unfolded like that,\" she said.", "\"I think using a helmet, to smash somebody's face in, is using a weapon.", "I do. And we are very lucky the hit didn't move over just a little bit, and we could have had a dead coach.\"", "Those involved agree that the incident started a week before, with trash talking about the game in the community and on Facebook.", "All of the Facebook chatter has been pulled off of the site, but school administrators in both counties say it was alive and well in the week leading up to the game.", "\"There was talk on Facebook before this game.", "There was some back and forth on Facebook, maybe some text messages,\" Carey said.", "\"I'm sure that if you're a team and you keep seeing either side trash talk here or there, or back and forth, I'm sure it gets you riled up inside.\"", "The heated exchange also continued after the incident on October 14.", "According to a Warren County school affidavit, a former coach for the Warren County Screaming Devils who is now a volunteer assistant coach with the Hancock Central High School team sent text messages to his former players following the game, including this one: .", "\"Better stay yo stupid ass in wc (Warren County), B4 som1 get really hurt.\"", "And later that night, another text message, \"How th[e] [expletive] I kno[w] about yall bull[expletive].", "Yu started this [expletive] last week.", "Remember yu started this.\"", "A few days after the melee, Hancock County Sheriff Terrell Primus called in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.", "But he told CNN that he does not believe that Daniel was targeted, and he said the locker room's door was not locked on purpose.", "\"It takes time to investigate anywhere from 100 to 120-some people that has to be investigated,\" the sheriff said.", "\"This is not something that is done in two days.\"", "State law enforcement officials say the investigation could take months.", "\"We have no time frame.", "There are too many circumstances beyond our control to get a large number of witnesses to be interviewed,\" said John Bankhead of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.", "State law enforcement officials say they're looking into all aspects of the case including what role social media played in escalating the trash talking.", "The investigation will take place in these two rural northeastern Georgia counties, about 22 miles apart, both poor farming communities with high unemployment.", "\"The kids know each other. There are family members on both teams,\" said coach Zachery Harris of Hancock Central High School.", "Harris is also among those blaming social media for fanning the flames of the two schools' rivalry.", "\"Facebook kinda keeps everything going. ...", "So if I make a comment on Facebook that it was a great game, somebody may make a comment and say, 'Y'all gonna get your butt whooped,' and they go back and forth, and then, when they see each other, they've had this long conversation I have no idea about,\" he said.", "One school safety expert says that social media chatter and threats have a nationwide ripple effect that is forcing school officials to spend more time, money and energy on school security, at a time when dollars are hard to come by.", "\"Social media is increasing the communication speed to the point where threats that used to spread in hours and days now spread in minutes and seconds.", "And it's escalating very quickly, and the violence can escalate along with it,\" said Ken Trump, a school safety consultant.", "\"School administrators now find themselves dealing with things that start at night and at home, that can spread to athletic events.\"", "But who threw the first punch in the fight that sent two teenagers and a coach to the hospital?", "\"I have no idea. They say we did, we say they did,\" Harris said.", "In addition to the social media issue, Harris says another part of the problem is peer pressure to retaliate -- whether it's in person or through social media -- and what's being taught at home.", "As for Daniel, as he faces the possibility of more surgery to repair his crushed eye socket, he's in pain and still has severe headaches.", "\"People want me to be hateful, and I can't do that.", "I can't do that,\" he said. \"I think it all goes back to what's taking place in their home and who cares about them.", "I'm not going to paint these kids as different or bad.\"" ]	[ "On October 14, a melee broke out between two Georgia high school football rivals .", "One coach, trying to break up the fight, suffered serious injuries .", "A player from each team suffered a concussion .", "Some say the violence was fueled by talk via text messages and social media ." ]	[ 3, 16, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When Al Charette traveled to the North Pole, he went under it.", "The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, made history when it reached the North Pole on August 3, 1958, beneath the ice.", "Charette, who was part of that Cold War crew, recalls how this milestone was of much more significance than being a historical first.", "\"What we did,\" he says, \"is really expose 3,000 miles of coastline of the U.S.S.R.\" Submarines, which submariners call boats, played a pivotal role in intelligence gathering and nuclear deterrence at a time of political tension between the United States and Soviet Union.", "Attack submarines sought out and tracked Soviet ballistic missile submarines, while U.S. Navy missile boats tried to keep from being discovered.", "\"We didn't want to make any kind of a noise that a fish didn't make, \" the 79-year-old Charette remembers.", "The Cold War may be remembered as a conflict without any battles, but for submariners, the danger on the front lines was real.", "Jack Gallimore started on diesel-electric submarines, including the USS Hardhead and the USS Sablefish in 1958.", "Cat-and-mouse games of two superpowers aside, risks remain even today for sailors who head out beneath the waves, says Gallimore, now 73.", "\"All the submariners,\" he says, \"when they go to sea, they're in harm's way.\"", "Gallimore remembers an incident that happened during the turnover of older diesel subs to the Greek navy.", "He and other crew members acted as observers during the training phase.", "During a dive, the boat angled down steeply and the propellers shook.", "The sub managed to surface eventually, yet Gallimore insisted the danger was part of the job.", "\"We've all experienced when something went wrong,\" Gallimore says.", "Before any sailor can be called a submariner, he has to earn his \"dolphins,\" a pin that's the equivalent to a pilot's wings.", "The sailors must qualify on the submarines they are to serve by knowing the systems inside and out.", "The training and testing are rigorous.", "Greg Kane, 63, another Cold War veteran, qualified on the ballistic missile sub USS George C. Marshall.", "Earning that qualification was an enormous source of pride, he says.", "\"When you had those dolphins on,\" he says, \"you were a submariner.", "You were a part of the brotherhood of the fin.\"", "The standards to be part of that \"brotherhood\" exist to this day.", "Surrounded by a hostile environment at all times while submerged, any mistake by a single submariner could prove dangerous or even fatal for the entire crew.", "\"My life depended on my other shipmates,\" says retired Master Chief Bud Atkins, 77, \"and it didn't matter whether they were a seaman or a captain.\"", "Atkins, who spent time in diesel-electric and nuclear-powered boats, served below the waves from 1950 to 1980, when he retired.", "In addition to meeting these tough standards, submariners also faced the responsibility of knowing their boats might have to launch nuclear warheads at a foreign country.", "Kane, who maintained the launching systems for Polaris missiles during the Vietnam War era, says crew members underwent vigorous psychological testing well before even seeing a submarine.", "Various scenarios were thrown at them: What if your boat was called to launch a strike?", "Could you do it? \"The whole idea was really being aware of what the world situation was, what the dire consequences would be if you ever had to go through it and what would happen ... if you didn't have a deterrent force out there to stop something like that from happening,\" Kane says.", "Tom Russell, whose 20-year Navy career took him on a variety of vessels, also served on fleet ballistic missile boats in the 1960s.", "\"We just hoped that every time we went to battle stations that it was a drill because we all knew if it was not a drill, home would be in pieces,\" says Russell, 82.", "All these retired submariners speak of their service with pride, but they are guarded when it comes to details of their missions long ago.", "Charette grows nostalgic when recalling how a submarine could be in harbor or along a coastline and go unnoticed.", "Or suddenly surface somewhere unexpectedly just to send a message.", "Asked if he could describe any of these experiences, he replies with a grin, \"Not that I care to talk about.\"" ]	[ "The USS Nautilus was the first submarine to reach the North Pole in 1958 .", "Submarines played pivotal role in intelligence gathering and nuclear deterrence in Cold War .", "Submariners face rigorous training and high standards to qualify ." ]	[ 1, 3, 17, 22 ]
[ "San Francisco (CNN) -- Executing a successful remake of a video game can be like shooting blindfolded, and that's especially true when you're dealing with the fervent following behind Microsoft's \"Halo\" series.", "Longtime fans look for any reason to balk at attempts to repackage their beloved games, and for \"Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary,\" people who follow its development closely have reasons to be skeptical.", "It's the first game wholly developed without intervention from Bungie, the company that created \"Halo\" but which has since severed ties with Microsoft.", "\"Halo Anniversary\" is available only for the Xbox 360 starting Tuesday, the 10th anniversary of the original \"Halo,\" which launched alongside Microsoft's first home gaming console.", "The game adds high-definition graphics and a big-production musical score to the original, without changing much else.", "Producers often look at remakes as a way to add their signature to a well-regarded work, but the team shepherding \"Halo\" went to extraordinary lengths to preserve the feel of its decade-old model.", "Frank O'Connor, a development director for 343 Industries, the division Microsoft created to specifically handle the \"Halo\" franchise, stressed that \"Halo Anniversary\" was created to appease fans.", "The $40 price tag, versus the standard $60 price for new games, fits with that model.", "\"This is a celebration of the past.\"", "O'Connor leads a team of a few people within 343 Industries that's tasked with making the final say about whether a storyline for new games, books and other media fits with \"the Halo canon,\" he said.", "With several bestselling books and more products in the works, this is a fragile process.", "Sometimes O'Connor has to temper his own instincts in order to stay true to precedents set by earlier games.", "For example, he wanted to hide a rocket launcher behind a waterfall in the second level of \"Halo Anniversary\" as an Easter egg for explorers.", "His team challenged him on it, and so he conceded: no rockets, he lamented as he motioned to the waterfall while demonstrating the game.", "Designing a familiar but unique 'Halo 4' The team within 343 Industries that's working on \"Halo 4,\" the major new game scheduled to be released late next year, has been given more creative freedom than the external group that's programming \"Halo Anniversary.\"", "Kiki Wolfkill, the executive producer for \"Halo 4,\" said that being able to consult with O'Connor's team makes it \"incredibly easy\" to keep their stories straight.", "But Josh Holmes, the creative director for the game, said that despite the help, the breadth of the \"Halo\" franchise creates a minefield for storytellers to traverse.", "\"There are times when we're thinking about all of the different interconnected storylines,\" Holmes said.", "\"That's really important to us, because we believe in the universe and want to keep the universe consistent.\"", "They declined to talk much about \"Halo 4,\" but they said it will strike a delicate balance between keeping up with innovations in other first-person-shooter games and keeping the mechanics familiar to fans of the series.", "The game will have a familiar control scheme, using two analog sticks for movement, rather than doing a drastic departure with, say, Kinect camera navigation, 343 Industries executives said.", "It may incorporate limited Kinect functions for throwing grenades or toggling settings using voice commands, like those in \"Halo Anniversary,\" they said.", "\"One of the things that's really important to us is that the game feels, at its core, like 'Halo,' \" Holmes said.", "\"It feels like 'Halo,' yet it feels new and unique.\"", "Staying true to 'Halo' in 'Anniversary' edition .", "That same criteria are not what's driving \"Halo Anniversary.\"", "The primary concern for developers was that it feel almost identical to the original \"Halo.\"", "One roadblock that Saber Interactive, the team behind the single-player element of \"Halo Anniversary,\" ran into was a result of running an old game on the Xbox 360's faster hardware, O'Connor said.", "The game just felt smoother and speedier, he said.", "So the team tweaked the code in order to reproduce glitches found in the original.", "\"If things like that happen with physics or animation, and we go change it, then we're changing the game,\" O'Connor said after watching an alien in the game make an unintentional, jittery movement.", "\"Some things we had to go back and break to make it authentic.\"", "But like O'Connor's failed attempt at hiding a rocket launcher, Saber wanted to do more.", "O'Connor and his team had to talk the developers out of overreaching.", "\"They just wanted to put their own stamp on it,\" O'Connor said.", "\"But we said, 'This isn't about putting your stamp or our stamp.'", "\" New features for 'Halo Anniversary' While the characters and scenes from the first \"Halo\" have been re-created with an attention to detail that takes advantage of the Xbox 360's processor, \"Halo Anniversary\" players can switch to the vintage look at any time, except during video sequences.", "This results in a brief pause, but it can be a welcome distraction throughout the game.", "The feature lets players compare today's standards to what was cutting edge a decade ago.", "At some points, like in grassy environments, the original holds up surprisingly well, but the aesthetic changes in \"Halo Anniversary\" aren't just for show.", "Lighting effects and brighter textures on walls were used to guide the player along in places where it was once difficult to navigate.", "These changes are not likely to upset even sensitive fans.", "Perhaps more controversial, the developers made some significant alterations to a particular character and added video terminals throughout the game.", "Both were done for the purpose of broadening the plot and for relating it to games and books that have come out since the first game, O'Connor said.", "The floating blue-and-metallic orb named 343 Guilty Spark, which Microsoft's 343 Industries took its name from, has received a sort of makeover.", "The wisecracking robot, which guides players through certain levels but was known to stray, has been made more visible and talkative.", "His lines have been updated to hint at story elements from books and future games, O'Connor said.", "Likewise, the terminals placed throughout the levels, another element not found in the original, let players watch short clips that hint at events in \"Halo 4\" and other \"Halo\" media, O'Connor said.", "The online multiplayer component in \"Halo Anniversary\" has more in common with \"Halo: Reach\" than it does with the original.", "It uses the same \"Reach\" game engine that was designed by Bungie.", "Certain Affinity, an Austin, Texas, game developer, rebuilt versions of a few maps and weapons from the first \"Halo\" to be played with friends.", "\"Halo: Reach\" owners will be able to access the modes for free.", "The true test: Fan appraisals .", "You can never quite gauge how fans will react to seeing one of their beloved entertainment artifacts recreated for a new generation.", "Remember when George Lucas remastered \"Star Wars\" in the late 1990s?", "\"Han shot first,\" a reference to a particular scene from the original movie that was changed, remains the bane of many geeks.", "Eagle-eye followers of \"Halo\" have begun grumbling over the addition of metallic fins lining the bottom of the ring that surrounds the planet in the game.", "Execs from 343 Industries initially said the fins were present in the first game but not visible due to the low graphic resolution.", "In fact, the fins are an important element of the plot in the Greg Bear novel \"Halo: Primordium,\" which is set to come out in January, O'Connor said.", "Without them, the game would be inconsistent with the book.", "As \"Star Wars\" fans nervously await the three-dimensional remakes that are in the works, \"Halo Anniversary\" players with television sets that support the feature will get to play in 3-D glory.", "\"Halo Anniversary\" and \"Star Wars\" have one more thing in common.", "The musical score for the new \"Halo\" game was recorded using Lucas' Skywalker Symphony Orchestra.", "\"Halo Anniversary\" includes the ability to switch back to the music from the original game, \"though I don't see why you'd want to,\" O'Connor said." ]	[ "\"Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary\" is a remake of the original for Xbox 360 .", "The developers went to great pains to stay true to the first \"Halo's\" formula .", "The team working on \"Halo 4\" has more freedom to flex their creative muscles ." ]	[ 3, 11, 14 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Police hauled away protesters in various cities Sunday as Occupy Wall Street rallies continued for the 30th day.", "In Washington, D.C., 19 people were arrested by Supreme Court Police, a spokeswoman said.", "New York authorities arrested 14 people for violating a midnight curfew by sitting in a fountain with no water at Washington Square Park.", "The number was in addition to 78 arrested Saturday in citywide protests.", "\"It was a classic peaceful sit-in,\" said Paul Browne, the deputy police commissioner.", "In Chicago, a police spokesman said there were \"multiple\" arrests early Sunday for disorderly conduct and violating an 11 p.m. curfew.", "And in Minneapolis, a woman was arrested for trespassing, CNN affiliate KARE reported.", "City police officials declined to comment.", "About 150 people were camped out under a canopy near city hall after police took away their tents, a Minneapolis protest organizer said.", "\"It's cold. We don't have any protection from the elements,\" said organizer April Lukes-Streich.", "In New York, where the Occupy Wall Street movement started, authorities had warned protesters they would be arrested if they defied the curfew.", "Police stood guard at the entrance of Washington Square Park, sending protesters spilling out into nearby streets.", "They chanted anti-Wall Street slogans and banged drums as they wandered into the night.", "The arrests came hours after thousands marched to New York's iconic Times Square on Saturday night, hoisting signs and chanting.", "Browne described the Times Square rally as orderly.", "As police cleared the street, protesters chanted, \"We are peaceful\" and \"The whole world is watching.\"", "In another part of the city, another group of protesters made their voices heard.", "\"Banks got bailed out, we got sold out,\" chanted a crowd meandering east of the city's Zuccotti Park, considered a home base for the Manhattan protesters.", "Columns of police on patrol and atop scooters monitored the march, but as dusk fell, it appeared largely peaceful.", "In addition to the nationwide rallies, demonstrations have picked up steam, culminating in a global day of protests Saturday in Europe, Asia and Australia.", "The Occupy Wall Street movement started last month as a backlash against the economy and what demonstrators say is an out-of-touch corporate, financial and political elite.", "Organizers say they are inspired by the Arab Spring that led to the toppling of regimes in Tunisia and Egypt.", "The founding movement in the United States has spread to other major cities in the nation.", "CNN's Maria White, Susan Candiotti, Ross Levitt and Logan Burruss contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: 19 people are arrested in Washington, D.C.", "In Chicago, a police spokesman says there are \"multiple\" arrests .", "At least 14 people are arrested for violating a New York park curfew early Sunday .", "The New York protests are among several that took place in the U.S. and around the world ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama took the push for his stalled $447 billion jobs plan to North Carolina on Monday, telling two audiences that alternative proposals put forward by his Republican critics amount to little more than sops to the rich that will gut critical regulations and fail to restore economic growth.", "My \"bill will help put people back to work and give our economy a boost right away,\" Obama told a morning crowd at Asheville Regional Airport.", "\"But apparently, none of this matters\" to GOP leaders.", "\"I've gone out of my way to find areas of cooperation\" with congressional Republicans, the president declared.", "\"We're going to give members of Congress another chance to step up to the plate and do the right thing.\"", "But \"if they vote against these proposals again ... then they're not going to have to answer to me.", "They're going to have to answer to you,\" he said.", "Later Monday, Obama told students at West Wilkes High School in Millers Creek that Republican opposition to his plan \"makes no sense,\" and he criticized the GOP alternative proposal as an attempt to satisfy the party's conservative wing.", "\"It's way overdue for us to stop trying to satisfy some branch of the party and take some common-sense steps to help\" the economy and the nation, he said to a cheering crowd.", "Since Obama's plan was rejected in the Senate -- due to unanimous GOP opposition -- Democratic leaders have decided to try to move it through Congress by breaking it up into a series of smaller legislative proposals.", "But his appearance, analysts note, was as much about campaign politics as the bill.", "The president will spend the next three days on a bus tour through politically pivotal North Carolina and Virginia -- two states carried by Obama in 2008 but considered up for grabs next year.", "Veteran Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, whom Obama defeated in the 2008 election, criticized the president Monday for using the taxpayer-funded trip for what McCain called political campaigning.", "\"On the taxpayer-paid dime, the president is now traveling, attacking the Republican plan,\" McCain said on the Senate floor.", "While noting Obama's right to level such criticism in a political venue, McCain added: \"Is that appropriate on the taxpayer's dime, since it is clearly campaigning?\"", "In Asheville, the crowd repeatedly chanted \"four more years\" before and during Obama's remarks.", "\"I appreciate the 'four more years,' but right now, I'm thinking about the next 13 months,\" the president said.", "\"We don't have time to wait. We've got a choice right now.\"", "Obama's senior strategist, David Axelrod, vowed Sunday that every part of the bill will eventually have a vote.", "\"The American people support every single plank of that bill, and we're going to vote on every single one of them,\" Axelrod said on ABC's \"This Week.\"", "He would not say which part of the plan would come first.", "Republicans will \"get a vote on whether they believe we should protect tax breaks for small business owners and middle-class Americans, or whether we should protect tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires,\" Obama said in a written statement last Tuesday.", "Meanwhile, demonstrators in Southern California said they'd gather Monday to protest the GOP's stance on the president's jobs bill.", "House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and California Reps. Dana Rohrabacher and Ed Royce will be together in the area for a fundraising event.", "\"Members of the Courage Campaign, teachers and health care workers will deliver a petition to Speaker Boehner signed by 25,000 Courage Campaign members ... demanding that he hold a vote on President Obama's American Jobs Act,\" a statement from the demonstrators said.", "House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, said over the weekend that there could be agreement on some elements.", "\"Let's work together.", "Let's find some of the things in his plan that we agree with, and let's go ahead and do that for the American people,\" he told \"Fox News Sunday.\"", "The past week was an indication that \"we can come together,\" Cantor said, citing the passage of three trade bills.", "Cantor did not make clear exactly where areas of agreement may be.", "But he cited the need to help small businesses find capital, unemployment insurance reform and infrastructure spending as broad ideas for which both sides have expressed support.", "But \"we're not going to be for tax increases on small businesses,\" Cantor said of the president's plan.", "Republicans filibustered the Senate version of the president's jobs bill last week, though a handful of Democrats had said they would have opposed the measure if it had made it to the chamber's floor.", "Among other things, Obama's overall blueprint includes an extension and expansion of the current payroll tax cut, an extension of jobless benefits, new tax credits for businesses that hire the long-term unemployed and additional money to help save and create jobs for teachers and first responders such as firefighters.", "The largest measure in the package is the payroll tax cut, which comes at a projected cost of $265 billion.", "Employees normally pay 6.2% on their first $106,800 of wages into Social Security, but they are now paying only 4.2%.", "That break is set to expire at the end of December.", "Obama wants to cut the tax in half, to 3.1%.", "Republicans previously embraced the cut, but have increasingly questioned its economic merit.", "A second key measure -- estimated to cost roughly $44 billion -- is the extension of emergency jobless benefits to help the long-term unemployed.", "Lawmakers first expanded benefits to cover 99 weeks in 2009, and have since reauthorized the expansion five times.", "Republicans are at particularly sharp odds with Democrats over how to pay for the plan.", "GOP leaders oppose a provision that would fund the measure through a 5.6% surtax on annual incomes over $1 million.", "Republicans have accused the president of engaging in so-called \"class warfare,\" while Democrats say wealthier Americans need to share in the cost of fiscal responsibility.", "On Monday, a Senate Democratic leadership aide told CNN that Democrats will seek a 0.5% surtax on annual incomes over $1 million to pay for the first individual component of Obama's broader jobs package.", "That component of the larger jobs bill would provide $35 billion in aid to states to help preserve jobs for teachers and first responders, the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office said.", "However, a top Senate Republican leadership aide immediately said that Republicans -- and some Democrats -- probably would not be willing to go along with a tax increase to pay for the measure.", "CNN's Ted Barrett, Kate Bolduan and Virginia Nicolaidis contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Sen. McCain criticizes Obama, says he's campaigning on a taxpayer-funded trip .", "President launches a three-day visit to North Carolina and Virginia .", "The two states are key battlegrounds in the presidential race .", "The White House has called on Congress to pass the jobs bill incrementally ." ]	[ 11, 12, 22 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- A New York woman releases a deep sigh of relief as she reflects on a court ruling that her spouse will not be torn from her by the looming threat of deportation.", "\"Now we can make plans, and we have all the time in the world,\" Cristina Ojeda, 26, tells CNN.", "Monday, she received a letter confirming the ruling by Immigration Judge Terry Bain that will allow her wife, Argentina-born Monica Alcota, 36, to stay in the United States, according to the couple's attorney, Lavi Soloway.", "Soloway said this is the first time the government had asked an immigration court to close removal proceedings against a spouse in a same-sex couple since the Department of Homeland Security announced November 17 that a \"working group\" would be reviewing all pending immigration cases.", "The group began the process of identifying and closing \"low priority\" deportation cases three days after Soloway submitted the request to close Alcota's immigration case, the attorney said.", "\"We're really gratified because we feel that government moved in the right direction in the time we needed,\" Soloway told CNN.", "He made the request to halt deportation based on Alcota's marriage to Ojeda, who is a U.S. citizen, and on Alcota's \"strong moral character, family presence, and deep ties to members of the community.\"", "Alcota lives with Ojeda in Queens, where she restores antiques.", "Until Monday, life for Alcota and Ojeda had been put on hold for two years.", "Alcota had been living in the United States for more than 10 years since overstaying her tourist visa, when she was pulled off a Greyhound bus in July of 2009 and taken into a detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Ojeda explained.", "Ojeda, a social worker in Queens, traveled two expensive hours by subway, bus, train, and sometimes cab -- there and back every day for three months -- to see Alcota.", "\"Looking back on those days, we have come so far, we have accomplished something really big,\" Ojeda said.", "The couple was married in Connecticut in 2010, before New York law allowed same-sex marriages.", "\"We have gone through a really rough road these past two years.", "The burden was horrible.", "We never knew what was going to happen,\" Ojeda said.", "\"We lived in fear we were going to be torn apart,\" she told CNN.", "While celebrating their success, Ojeda said \"the battle is not over.\"", "She told CNN that Alcota's effort to be granted a green card, which was originally denied, now has been submitted for appeal.", "\"Of course, we will not have full equality until DOMA is gone,\" the couple said in written statement.", "The Defense of Marriage Act bans federal recognition of same-sex marriages.", "The act also says that states cannot be forced to recognize such marriages performed in other states.", "Despite the battle ahead, the happily wed lesbian couple is excited to have their life back.", "\"At least we have this. We know she is not going to be taken away, we can live our lives a little better, we can do things we haven't been able to do,\" an emotional Ojeda told CNN between joyous gasps.", "The couple is even turning over the idea of renting a new apartment and perhaps getting a new car.", "CNN's Kristen Hamill contributed to this report." ]	[ "A court ruling takes away the threat of deportation for a woman in a same-sex marriage .", "Monica Alcota's \"strong moral character, family presence, and deep (community) ties\" are cited .", "\"Now we can make plans, and we have all the time in the world,\" Cristina Ojeda says ." ]	[ 1, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sachin Tendulkar's wait for a history-making 100th international century continues after the legendary Indian cricketer fell short again in the first Test against Australia in Melbourne on Tuesday.", "The 38-year-old \"Little Master\" was dismissed for 73 in the final over of the second day as the tourists reached 214-3 in reply to Australia's first-innings total of 333.", "Tendulkar is international cricket's record run scorer in both the five-day and limited overs formats but has been stranded on 99 centuries since March.", "He added 117 with Rahul Dravid after coming to the crease at 97-2, following opening batsman Virender Sehwag's quickfire 67 off 83 balls.", "Sehwag passed 8,000 runs in Tests as he registered his 31st half-century.", "Australia lose late wickets against India .", "Tendulkar continued the brisk pace, as he hit eight fours and a six from 98 deliveries faced, reaching his 64th Test half-century before being bowled by Peter Siddle.", "Dravid was unbeaten on a patient 65 off 185 balls, with the 38-year-old notching his 63rd Test fifty, while Ishant Sharma successfully negotiated the final three balls of the day to leave India 119 runs behind Australia with seven wickets remaining.", "Dravid is the second-highest Test run scorer of all time behind Tendulkar on 13,162, having extended his margin over Australia's Ricky Ponting (12,718).", "India, seeking a first series victory in Australia in 64 years in the four-match competition, lost an early wicket when Gautam Gambhir was caught by wicketkeeper Brad Haddin off the bowling of Ben Hilfenhaus for just three runs with the score at 22.", "Australia had resumed on 277-6, with Haddin on 21 and Siddle unbeaten on 34.", "Both fell to Zaheer Khan with the addition of only 14 runs as Haddin was caught by Sehwag for 27 and Siddle by wicketkeeper captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for 41.", "Left-arm fast bowler Khan ended with figures of 4-77 off 31 overs, while off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin took the last two wickets to fall to finish with 3-81.", "Ashwin said the Indians were not concerned by Tendulkar's failure to reach the coveted landmark.", "\"It's going to eventually happen, no point in bothering about it.", "We're very happy to be in the position we are presently,\" the 25-year-old told reporters.", "In other Test action Tuesday, left-arm paceman Chanaka Welegedera took five wickets for 52 runs as Sri Lanka bowled out South Africa for just 168 at Kingsmead in Durban.", "It left the tourists with a commanding first innings lead of 170 in the second Test, having lost the first by an innings and 81 runs.", "Sri Lanka lost captain Tillekeratne Dilshan, dismissed by Dale Steyn, to be seven for one when bad light drew proceedings on the second day to an early close.", "Welegedera had all his victims caught behind or in the slips and was superbly backed up by left-arm spinner Rangana Herath, who four for 49.", "Earlier, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 338 with Thilan Samaraweera the last man out for 102.", "Marchant de Lange took seven wickets for 81 on his debut for South Africa, the best figures recorded by any bowler in Test cricket in 2011." ]	[ "Sachin Tendulkar dismissed for 73 in final over of second day in Melbourne Test .", "India reach 214-3 in reply to Australia's first-innings total of 333 in opening match .", "Record run scorer Tendulkar has been stuck on 99 international centuries since March .", "Chanaka Welegedera takes 5-52 as Sri Lanka skittle South Africa ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Actor and Iraq war veteran J.R. Martinez is the spokesman for Operation Finally Home, an organization that provides free custom-built homes for injured veterans.", "The nonprofit was started by Dan Wallrath, who was a top 10 CNN Hero last year.", "Martinez recently sat down with CNN's Sonya Hamasaki to talk about CNN Heroes, his recent success on \"Dancing With the Stars\" and the efforts of Operation Finally Home.", "Below are excerpts from that interview.", "Sonya Hamasaki: What inspired you to get involved with Dan Wallrath's efforts?", "J. R. Martinez: I heard about him in Houston, Texas, and that's where we met.", "I heard about the great things he was doing by himself with just a couple of friends.", "And I thought to myself, \"Anyone who's doing things from the goodness of their heart is somebody I want to be involved with.\"", "Hamasaki: How does Operation Finally Home work?", "Martinez: Operation Finally Home helps to give wounded troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan a mortgage-free home.", "It really changes lives, and it gives people hope.", "A lot of times, one of the biggest things for our troops is getting jobs.", "If they can have a home, it then kind of alleviates some pressure and they can start focusing on the job aspect of things.", "Hamasaki: What's it like to see the reaction when someone finds out they have a free home?", "Martinez: It's amazing to witness the transition ... to see their emotions and their body language completely change.", "And it's not just the service member; it's the spouse, it's the parent, it's the brother or sister, it's the child.", "There's this change all the way across the board.", "It's a beautiful thing to witness that kind of emotion.", "Hamasaki: What's your personal connection with the organization?", "Martinez: It's a great feeling to be able to be part of the movement.", "I know the emotional void and the mental struggles and the physical struggles that the men and women and the families go through when they're recovering.", "So it allows me to understand the importance of it, and it gives me the opportunity to serve.", "Hamasaki: What other projects are you working on?", "Martinez: I'm involved with \"Dancing With the Stars\" at the moment, and it's an exciting ride.", "It's fun, and it's a great platform for me to share who I am with people.", "At the same time, I'm still doing motivational speaking.", "I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.", "Hamasaki: Who are your personal heroes?", "Martinez: There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.", "My mother is my hero.", "My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.", "Then I come across wounded troops who persevere every single day, who smile, who have a positive attitude, and they're my heroes for what they have done.", "And Dan Wallrath is a hero for the hope he's given to these families by giving them a brand new home." ]	[ "Operation Finally Home builds custom homes for wounded U.S. veterans .", "Actor and Iraq war veteran J.R. Martinez is closely involved with the nonprofit .", "Martinez: I know the mental, physical struggles these veterans are dealing with ." ]	[ 0, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Authorities arrested at least nine people after a \"series of fights\" at the nation's biggest shopping mall sent chairs flying and caused after-Christmas shoppers to flee, officials in Minnesota said Tuesday.", "Police and security officers at the Mall of America arrested a mix of young adults and juveniles after a food-court fight around 4 p.m. Monday broke up into brawls elsewhere in the shopping center, Bloomington Police Department Commander Mark Stehlik said.", "At one point, police received reports of up to 10 separate fights, he said.", "Video of one incident showed a man picking up a chair to throw as crowds of shoppers, some screaming, fled a mall food court.", "The video also showed a group of what appeared to be youths brawling before police officers intervened.", "Witnesses described a chaotic scene.", "\"There were drinks thrown on the floor and chairs being thrown everywhere,\" witness Tess Dessalgne told television station KARE.", "She reported that \"everyone started running toward the fight,\" while the video showed others leaving the area.", "Another woman told CNN affiliate WCCO that she \"didn't really know what was going on\" when stores unexpectedly began closing down but soon saw police \"pushing us all away from Nordstrom (department store).\"", "\"Unfortunately, as we have witnessed at shopping sites across the country this week, large groups of individuals can come together and create bad situations,\" mall officials said in a statement.", "\"It is very unfortunate to see these incidents occurring, especially during the holiday shopping season when families are out spending time together.\"", "No serious injuries were reported, the statement said.", "The mall remained open, although some stores closed down temporarily.", "Some witnesses told WCCO the fights began after reports that rappers Lil' Wayne and Drake were visiting the mall.", "\"I've heard that and some other things as far as speculation.", "I don't know that there's anything to substantiate that,\" Stehlik said.", "Investigators are still working to determine what caused the fight, he said.", "\"Frankly, at this time, we don't really have any idea, and we might never.", "It's hard to say what starts a fight,\" he said.", "The mall responded to a query on Twitter by saying, \"Drake is not here.\"", "\"There was no shooting,\" the mall tweeted to one person.", "\"Chairs were thrown in the food court resulting in the loud noise you heard.\"", "At one point, more than 30 officers were trying to calm the crowd, Stehlik said.", "He described the series of fights as a \"highly unusual event.\"", "\"We kind of pushed people out toward one of the exit doors and out of the mall in an attempt to quell the crowd a little bit,\" he said.", "\"Once we got everybody out, the whole thing kind of just settled down and went back to business as usual.\"", "The Mall of America describes itself as the largest retail and entertainment complex in the United States.", "It says it has more than 520 stores, 50 restaurants and attractions that include an aquarium, flight simulator and a spa for children.", "CNN's Ashley Hayes and Catherine E. Shoichet contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Police: At one point, authorities received reports of at least 10 fights .", "A \"series of fights\" break out at the Mall of America, officials say .", "A witness says there were \"chairs being thrown everywhere\"\nThe mall describes itself as the nation's largest ." ]	[ 0, 2, 6, 26 ]
[ "Los Angeles (CNN) -- Lindsay Lohan's nude photo spread for Playboy is helping the men's magazine break sales records, according to Playboy founder Hugh Hefner.", "CNN calls to a dozen newsstands in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Atlanta Sunday found just one that is sold out of the issue, and that store expected more to arrive Monday.", "Lohan, 25, was reportedly paid close to $1 million to pose for the photos taken in a style reminiscent of the nude photograph of Marilyn Monroe that graced the debut issue of Playboy in 1953.", "Unlike Lohan, Monroe was reportedly paid just $50 for the 1949 photo shoot that produced the image that was bought by Hefner after she became a star.", "\"The Lindsay Lohan January-February Double Issue is breaking sales records,\" Hefner said in a message posted on his Twitter account Sunday.", "A Playboy spokesman would not give sales numbers, but the official did say it was selling \"very well.\"", "The Playboy gig was a rare moneymaking opportunity for Lohan, whose acting career has been hampered in the past two years by frequent trips to court, probation restrictions, extended drug rehab stints and several visits to jail.", "Her legal woes stem from two drunken-driving convictions in 2007, a necklace theft conviction in 2011 and several probation violations.", "CNN's JD Cargill and David Daniel contributed to this report." ]	[ "Just 1 of 12 newsstands in 4 U.S. cities surveyed report selling out of the issue .", "A Playboy official tells CNN sales are going \"very well\"\nLohan earns nearly $1 million for posing nude for Playboy .", "Legal troubles keep the actress off the big screen ." ]	[ 0, 2, 5 ]
[ "(PEOPLE.com) -- Reports that producers of NBC's \"The Voice\" plan to fire coach Christina Aguilera are baseless, says the network.", "\"There is absolutely no truth to the rumor,\" Paul Telegdy, NBC Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, said in an official statement.", "Aguilera, 30, remains under contract for the second season of the singing competition, which is set to premiere next February 5 in a key scheduling slot following the Super Bowl.", "Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton will continue to work alongside Aguilera in the coaching chairs.", "See full article at PEOPLE.com.", "© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "Aguilera, 30, remains under contract for the second season of the singing competition .", "\"The Voice\" is set to premiere February 5, following the Super Bowl .", "Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine and Blake Shelton will continue to work alongside Aguilera ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The $100 million lawsuit spurred by Charlie Sheen's dramatic firing from his hit CBS TV sitcom earlier this year has been settled \"to the parties' mutual satisfaction,\" Warner Bros. Television and Sheen's attorney said Monday.", "Warner Bros. and producer Chuck Lorre fired Sheen from \"Two and a Half Men\" in March, after a two-week public meltdown by the star that included attacks on Lorre.", "Sheen sued them for $100 million, accusing them of breaking his contract, which paid him a reported $1.2 million an episode.", "\"The pending lawsuit and arbitration will be dismissed as to all parties,\" the studio said.", "\"The parties have agreed to maintain confidentiality over the terms of the settlement.\"", "Sheen's attorney, Marty Singer, echoed that, telling CNN, \"The matter has been settled to the parties' mutual satisfaction.\"", "Sheen had wanted a public court trial, but a Los Angeles judge ruled in June that the arbitration clause in Sheen's contract required the legal dispute to be considered by a private arbitrator, not a judge.", "Sheen's character was killed off in the new season that started this month and Ashton Kutcher was added to the sitcom's cast." ]	[ "NEW: Sheen's attorney confirms lawsuit is settled \"to the parties' mutual satisfaction\"\nSheen's lawsuit against the studio and producer is dropped, Warner Bros. TV says .", "Sheen's suit stems from his firing from the hit CBS sitcom .", "Terms of the settlement of Sheen's $100 million lawsuit are not public ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "(PEOPLE.com) -- It's another \"Bachelor\" break-up: Vienna Girardi and Kasey Kahl have called it quits.", "\"Yes vienna and I have split.", "It's been 5 weeks now. I can't fake it anymore.", "I will always love, be there for her, and wish her the best,\" Kahl, 27, posted to Twitter on Sunday.", "\"@KaseyRKahl will always be my best friend, but yes we have split.", "No idea what the future holds for us but we will always remain friends,\" Girardi, 25, posted to her account.", "Girardi won Jake Pavelka's season of \"The Bachelor\" but the engagement didn't last long and the couple split in an ugly and highly publicized break-up.", "Kahl wooed Ali Fedotowsky on \"The Bachelorette\" with song, and his catch phrase, \"guard and protect your heart,\" ended up tattooed on his wrist.", "Fedotowsky was unimpressed.", "Girardi and Kahl didn't give up on love or on reality TV.", "On \"Bachelor Pad,\" Kahl and Girardi quickly became the power couple to beat, though they lost the competition to on-again-off-again couple Holly Durst and Michael Stagliano in the show's finale.", "See the full article at PEOPLE.com.", "© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "\"I will always love, be there for her,\" Kasey Kahl said on Twitter .", "Vienna Girardi won Jake Pavelka's season of \"The Bachelor\"\nKasey Kahl wooed Ali Fedotowsky on \"The Bachelorette\" with song ." ]	[ 3, 6, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The number of minors treated in hospital emergency rooms for drinking on New Year's Day 2009 was nearly four times the average daily figure, according to a federal study.", "The study, published this week in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, was based on data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network, which estimated that 1,980 emergency room visits on New Year's Day 2009 involved underage drinking, versus 546 such visits on an average day.", "\"This stunning increase in underage drinking-related emergency room visits on New Year's Day should be a wake-up call to parents, community leaders and all caring adults about the potential risks our young people face for alcohol-related accidents, injuries and death during this time of year,\" Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration chief Pamela S. Hyde said in a statement about the agency's study.", "\"Parents, clergy, coaches, teachers and other role models must do everything they can to positively influence young people -- including talking with them early and often about the many health dangers underage drinking poses to their physical and emotional health and well being.\"", "The findings translate into an increase in sobering statistics, said Kenneth R. Warren, acting director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.", "\"For example, during Christmas and New Year's, two to three times more people die in alcohol-related crashes than during comparable periods the rest of the year,\" he said.", "\"And 40% of traffic fatalities during these holidays involve a driver who is alcohol-impaired, compared to 28% for the rest of December.\"", "The New Year's Day levels outstripped those of other holidays.", "For example, Memorial Day emergency room visits for drinking by minors were 676; the Fourth of July level was 942.", "\"Whereas all underage alcohol consumption is of concern, consumption that leads to ER visits on New Year's Day should be of particular concern to parents and young people because such consumption may increase other risky behaviors,\" it said.", "\"Greater access to alcohol, less parental oversight and mixed messages from parents may fuel surges in underage drinking, which can result in visits to hospital emergency departments because of overconsumption or alcohol-involved accidents or injuries.", "The New Year's holiday may be particularly risky because underage individuals may drink more than during most other times of the year, including other holidays.\"" ]	[ "Study estimates 1,980 emergency room visits occurred on New Year's Day 2009 .", "That compares with 546 such visits on an average day .", "Parents, community leaders urged to pay attention ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- How did Amazon.com manage to build a tablet computer for less than the $199 price tag?", "According to analysts' estimates, the company couldn't.", "In order to meet the low asking price, Amazon will sell the Kindle Fire at a loss when it debuts on November 15, analysts said.", "The Internet's largest retailer is apparently aiming to make up the costs by selling other goods, as it and other retail giants such as Wal-Mart Stores often do.", "Each Fire costs $209.63 to build, which includes paying for parts and manufacturing, according to technology research firm IHS iSuppli.", "That amount does not factor in research-and-development investments or marketing, executives for the firm have said.", "The preliminary estimate is typically based on analysts' talks with people in the supply chain and does not change significantly once iSuppli is able to tear down the hardware for a thorough report, executives say.", "Shortly after Amazon's announcement on Wednesday, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster sent a note to investors saying Amazon is likely to lose $50 on each sale of the Fire.", "When factoring in marketing and other costs, Munster's estimate could jibe with iSuppli's.", "Another analyst group, UBM TechInsights, says the parts cost $150, not including assembly.", "Even if this estimate is accurate, the margins for Amazon would be razor thin.", "Amazon is making a potentially expensive entrance into the tablet market with its aggressively priced tablet.", "The company could make up for the losses with digital sales or physical products bought through its online store using the tablet.", "It could also heavily market the Amazon Prime club subscription to Fire customers.", "Though, over what timeframe Amazon will recoup its costs is unclear.", "\"We're very excited about tablet computers,\" Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a television interview last year, \"because they have great Web browsers, and they make it easier for people to shop at Amazon.\"", "Factoring in projections for all of the e-books, music and video that customers will likely purchase for the device, Amazon is expected to turn a profit of $10 per Fire, iSuppli said in a statement.", "By contrast, Apple's iPad 2, the most popular tablet, costs $333.25 to make, iSuppli says.", "The iPad costs at least $499 at stores.", "Not including Apple's expensive marketing campaigns, that's more than $100 in profit on each sale with better margins for the more expensive models that have larger storage capacities.", "The strategy to lowball the price of a sought-after product in order to \"upsell\" customers on other merchandise is common for retailers, but is less so in electronics hardware.", "Hewlett-Packard has found buyers after slashing the price of its TouchPad tablet to $99, which it only did because the company is discontinuing the product.", "However, the business strategy is not unheard of.", "Microsoft was able to break into the video-game market by selling the original Xbox, then the most powerful console, at a loss.", "In the next game generation, it took Sony years for the PlayStation 3's manufacturing costs to come close to catching the price customers paid.", "In that industry, console makers reap licensing fees from game software publishers.", "Amazon, too, can try to make up its losses on software.", "It hosts an app store, digital music retailer, streaming video service and bookstore, all of which it takes a cut from.", "Not to mention the piles of nondigital stuff Amazon sells to be delivered to customers' doors.", "The only thing missing from the Fire is an app to let the delivery person in." ]	[ "Analysts say Amazon.com's Kindle Fire will cost more to build than $199 .", "Selling the tablet for $199 is very aggressive compared to the $499 iPad .", "Amazon is apparently hoping to make up the losses on media sales ." ]	[ 0, 2, 12, 18 ]
[ "Waxahachie, Texas (CNN) -- Preliminary air quality tests show \"no threat to the public\" from a massive fire at a Texas chemical plant Monday, city and federal officials said.", "Waxahachie Fire Chief David Hudgins said authorities believe that the fire \"overran the sprinkler system,\" and it sent thick plumes of smoke high into the sky hours after it started.", "There were no flames visible by late afternoon, though by then the blaze might have discharged dangerous substances into the air, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.", "That prompted EPA staff to dispatch air monitors to test for toxic vapors.", "Around 4:45 p.m. (5:45 p.m. EST), Waxahachie city spokeswoman Amy Hollywood said initial tests did not indicate any danger to those in the area.", "That assessment was later confirmed by EPA official Nicolas Brescia.", "\"We have not seen any significant level that would cause a public health concern,\" Brescia told reporters.", "Brescia said that tests conducted from flights over and around the fire detected small amounts of two chemicals, but nothing that would be considered dangerous to anyone outside the immediate vicinity of the fire.", "A statement from his federal agency also indicated that \"ground-level portable sampling devices did not show elevated toxic chemicals.\"", "Earlier, Dave Bary -- a Dallas-based spokesman for the EPA -- said the most prevalent chemical that the company had documented, and produced on site, was anhydrous ammonia.", "The EPA official said earlier Monday that 48,630 pounds of the chemical, which creates a toxic vapor downwind when released, have been reported at the site.", "It was not known how much of the chemical was released into the air during the fire.", "Officials ordered the evacuation of a school, an apartment building and other industrial sites within an eight-block radius of the plant, said Diana Buckley, an official with Ellis County government.", "A shelter-in-place advisory is in effect for some smaller nearby towns northwest of the city, including Red Oak, she said.", "\"Everybody is out and safe,\" Donald Golden, environmental health and safety manager for Magnablend Inc., the plant's owner, said of employees and visitors to the plant.", "The plant stores and mixes numerous chemicals, said Amy Hollywood, a city spokeswoman.", "Images transmitted by CNN affiliates KTVT and WFAA showed orange flames devouring buildings and licking at tanker cars parked at the edge of the Magnablend plant, which is about 30 miles south of Dallas.", "Firefighters had pulled back and were using ladder trucks to spray water on the fire, Hollywood said.", "Multiple fire departments were on the scene.", "One of the them, the Midlothian Fire Department, reported that chemicals had been released in the fire, but no additional details were immediately available.", "Officials have said burning liquid continued to fuel the flames hours after it began, but they appeared able to wrestle the fire under control by early Monday evening.", "There was no immediate word on the cause on the fire, Golden said.", "No one was injured in the fire, Hudgins said.", "The nearby Wedgeworth Elementary School was evacuated, a school district official confirmed.", "Students were being taken to a school across town, school officials said.", "Navarro College's Waxahachie campus also evacuated, a receptionist confirmed.", "Southwestern Assemblies of God University, which is on the other side of town from the chemical plant, was keeping people inside but had not evacuated, spokeswoman Christina Freeze said.", "Magnablend produces custom chemicals for a variety of industries, including oil, agriculture, pet and animal feed, water treatment, construction and industrial cleaning companies, according to its website.", "Anhydrous ammonia is a clear, colorless gas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.", "It can be absorbed into the body by inhalation, ingestion, eye contact and skin contact.", "CNN's Ed Lavandera and Dave Alsup contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: The EPA says ground-level air tests don't \"show elevated toxic chemicals\"\nA city official says that any released toxins appear to pose \"no threat to the public\"\nThe Waxahachie fire chief says the fire overran the plant's sprinkler system .", "A main chemical produced at the plant was anhydrous ammonia, an EPA official says ." ]	[ 0, 1, 8, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The parents of a missing 10-month-old Missouri girl issued an impassioned plea for her return Wednesday, as police said they have found little to go on in investigating her disappearance.", "\"We just want our baby back,\" Deborah Irwin, clutching a teddy bear and crying, said of her daughter Lisa.", "\"Please bring her home.", "Our two other boys are waiting for her.", "Please, just drop her off anywhere, we don't care.", "Just somewhere safe where she can come home, please.\"", "Her husband, Jeremy, 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 at about 10:30 p.m. Monday, asleep in her crib, Kansas City, Missouri, police said.", "Police 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 discovered the child missing when he arrived home from work, CNN affiliate KSHB reported.", "Police have said the Irwins are not considered suspects in Lisa's disappearance.", "Police Capt.", "Steve Young on Wednesday told reporters the family has been cooperative from the beginning of the investigation, but \"everything is still on the table.", "We haven't ruled anything out.\"", "He said investigators \"really haven't developed any good, hard information that we can go forward with.\"", "Nearly 50 tips have been received through a tip 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.", "CNN's Ashley Hayes contributed to this report." ]	[ "Lisa Irwin was last seen asleep at her home at 10:30 p.m. Monday .", "Police say it appears someone came in through a window .", "Lisa's parents: Please drop her off in a safe place ." ]	[ 4, 8, 10 ]
[ "(PEOPLE.com) -- Rosie O'Donnell was attracted to Michelle Rounds the moment she saw her in a Starbucks this summer.", "But she never thought it would be reciprocated.", "\"I thought she was a 28-year-old heterosexual girl, because that's what she looked like to me.", "And she's a 40-year-old gay woman,\" O'Donnell, 49, tells ABC's \"Nightline\" in an interview airing Monday night.", "She adds with a laugh: \"My gaydar was way off!\"", "RELATED: Rosie O'Donnell: 'I've Stopped Being So Angry' But O'Donnell, who recently said she's in love, thinks maybe it's a good thing she thought Rounds was straight.", "\"I think if I had known that she was gay, I wouldn't have been brave enough to talk to her,\" she says.", "O'Donnell's new nightly talk show, \"The Rosie Show,\" debuts Monday on the OWN network.", "See full article at PEOPLE.com.", "© 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "O'Donnell recently said she's in love .", "O'Donnell was attracted to Rounds the moment she saw her in a Starbucks .", "Her new nightly talk show, \"The Rosie Show,\" debuts Monday on the OWN network ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "(Health.com) -- Ginny Bank was 14 when her mother sat her down and said they needed to see a gynecologist.", "While pregnant with Ginny in the mid-1960s her mom had taken a synthetic estrogen known as diethylstilbestrol (DES), which at the time was prescribed to prevent miscarriages and complications.", "Later that decade, however, doctors connected the drug to a rare form of vaginal cancer that was turning up in young women exposed to DES in the womb.", "Bank's first Pap test came back abnormal.", "Over the next several decades she endured countless abnormal results, biopsies, and preventive surgeries, but fortunately she never developed cancer.", "But in her early 30s DES came up in a different context, when she consulted a fertility specialist after trying for several months to get pregnant.", "\"I was filling out a questionnaire before my appointment, and there it was: 'Did your mother take DES?'\"", "Bank recalls.", "\"Before then, no one had ever told me I'd have a problem getting pregnant.\"", "Health.com: A top doctor reveals 8 fertility misconceptions .", "Cancer, it turns out, is just one of the potential health problems faced by the millions of women like Bank who were exposed to DES in the womb.", "According to a new government study published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, these so-called DES daughters are at higher-than-normal risk for an array of reproductive complications and other problems, including infertility.", "Researchers at the National Cancer Institute analyzed data from three separate studies that have followed more than 4,000 DES-exposed women since the 1970s.", "Compared with a control group of unexposed women, DES daughters were found to have higher rates of infertility (33% versus 16%), miscarriage (50% versus 39%), preterm delivery (53% versus 18%), and ectopic pregnancy (15% versus 3%).", "The DES-exposed women were also 82% more likely to develop breast cancer after age 40, and more than twice as likely to experience menopause before age 45.", "For most of the health conditions included in the study, the increase in risk was even greater for DES daughters who had been exposed to especially high doses of the drug.", "Health.com: 25 breast cancer myths busted .", "\"Investigators tend to just study disease rather than people.", "But this actually looks at...the risk for an individual woman who's been exposed and tells her what exactly it means to her,\" says Robert Hoover, M.D., the lead author of the study and the director of epidemiology and biostatistics at the NCI, in Bethesda, Maryland.", "\"When you look at it that way, the numbers are somewhat staggering.\"", "As many as 10 million people were exposed to DES in the womb between 1938, when the drug appeared on the market, and 1971, when the Food and Drug Administration urged doctors to stop prescribing it.", "(As if the health fallout weren't reason enough, researchers had also discovered that DES wasn't effective at preventing miscarriages.)", "Many of the potential health complications identified in the new study have been raised in previous research, in some cases with conflicting results.", "A 2010 study of DES daughters conducted in the Netherlands, for instance, found no link between exposure and breast-cancer risk.", "(Fifty-three DES daughters who developed breast cancer have brought a lawsuit against several DES manufacturers; the lawsuit is currently under way in Boston.)", "Health.com: 5 simple things that could cut your breast cancer risk .", "Researchers can't explain the apparent link between DES exposure and health problems, but lab experiments in animals have suggested that the drug may cause harmful cell changes or compromise immune function, the study notes.", "Despite the long history of DES research, the \"vast majority\" of health professionals working today know very little about the drug, says Candy Tedeschi, a nurse practitioner in Great Neck, N.Y., who worked for 20 years in a state screening center for DES daughters operated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.", "\"They either have never heard of it, or they think that it's long over with -- that the women affected are all dead,\" Tedeschi says.", "\"Hopefully this [study] will have a bigger impact and get doctors looking at some of the risk factors for these women that they weren't already.\"", "Hoover and his colleagues recommend that doctors and researchers continue to monitor women who were exposed to DES in the womb.", "Some researchers have also begun to look for abnormal health patterns in the daughters of DES daughters, a group known as the DES granddaughters.", "Health.com: Can pregnancy predict your risk of breast cancer?", "Bank, now 47, doesn't have to worry about passing any DES-related problems on to a daughter.", "Tests conducted in her early 30s showed that she had the hormone levels and reproductive system of a 45-year-old, as well as a very small uterus.", "(Like most DES-exposed women, Bank can't conclusively prove DES directly caused these abnormalities.)", "After an unsuccessful round of in vitro fertilization, Bank sought solace in an online advocacy and support group, DES Action, and a year later adopted a baby boy.", "Her experience has made her \"very wary\" of prescription drugs and dietary supplements that haven't been well-researched, even though she works as a consultant for the dietary-supplement industry in Boulder, Colorado.", "\"I don't know what I'm going to do when I get to menopause and have hot flashes, because I certainly don't want to take hormones,\" she says.", "Health.com: Can supplements ease menopause symptoms?", "For his part, Hoover says the new study reiterates the importance of continuing to make clinical research safer and more thorough in the future.", "\"If it wasn't for this small group of women with this bizarre cancer back in the '60s, we wouldn't know anything about what turned out to be a major public-health disaster,\" he says.", "\"It's a wake-up call for us to wonder how many other drugs might be out there that are also causing all sorts of adverse health effects.\"", "Copyright Health Magazine 2011 ." ]	[ "DES linked to vaginal cancer in young women exposed to drug in the womb .", "DES daughters at higher risk for reproductive complications, study says .", "DES-exposed women 82% more likely to develop breast cancer after 40 ." ]	[ 2, 14 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The head of the U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Program Office has resigned amid a fiscal firestorm over the bankruptcy of a company that received a $535 million federal loan, DOE Secretary Steven Chu said.", "The loan program's executive director, Jonathan Silver, was planning to leave his post and return to the private sector this fall, Chu said in a written statement.", "Silver informed Chu of his intentions in July, \"shortly after the fiscal year 2011 budget was completed by Congress and it became clear that no significant new funds were included for the loan program,\" the energy secretary said.", "However, two House Republicans looking into the bankruptcy of the solar energy company Solyndra linked the resignation to the loan.", "Approved in May 2010, the loan allowed the company to build a factory in Fremont, California, to produce state-of-the-art solar panels.", "The company filed for bankruptcy in August, laying off 1,100 workers.", "Silver testified last month before a House subcommittee about the DOE's handling of the loan, which has been at the center of a fierce political debate over the amount of government subsidies issued to new businesses.", "On Thursday, Republican Reps. Fred Upton of Michigan and Cliff Stearns of Florida said Silver's decision \"does not solve the problem.\"", "\"American taxpayers are already on the hook for the half-billion-dollar Solyndra bust -- what other shoes does this administration expect to drop?\"", "the representatives said in a joint statement that went on to criticize President Barack Obama's handling of the issue.", "Upton is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.", "Stearns heads up the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, which conducted the September hearings in which Silver testified.", "Self-described as the \"The Financing Force Behind a Clean Energy Economy,\" the program \"is currently supporting 28 projects with a total loan amount of $16 billion,\" Chu said in the written statement.", "CNN has confirmed that Silver will serve as a fellow at Third Way, a centrist think tank in Washington that focuses on the economy, energy, national security and domestic policy.", "CNN's Kevin Bohn, Diana Ozemebhoya and Ashley Killough contributed to this report." ]	[ "Jonathan Silver was head of Energy Dept.", "'s Loan Program Office .", "DOE Secretary Steven Chu: He has resigned to take a position in the private sector .", "Republicans say resignation \"does not solve the problem\"\nChu: Loan program supporting \"28 projects with a total loan amount of $16 billion\"" ]	[ 0, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The machine used by the late Dr. Jack Kevorkian in more than 100 assisted suicides will be among the items up for sale later this month, the auctioneer and his estate announced.", "The Michigan pathologist helped spur an international ethics debate by helping suffering patients die and pushing for this practice to be legalized.", "His conviction in one such case landed him in prison for eight years.", "He died in early June at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, at the age of 83.", "The auction will take place between 6 and 8 p.m. on October 28 at the New York Institute of Technology, according to a press release sent on behalf of both the late doctor's estate and the auctioneer.", "More than 100 pieces will be part of the sale, said Roger Neal, who is representing the two parties.", "Besides the noted Thanatron machine, which Kevorkian built, other items to be auctioned include some of Kevorkian's correspondences and invention ideas, a pearl flute, his doctor's bag, a master lock from prison and his signature blue sweater.", "People can also purchase provocative paintings that he created, which come with brief descriptions from the artist himself, according to Neal.", "The pieces are being kept under armed guard this week in Los Angeles, then will be shipped to New York.", "Neal said that the auction will be coordinated by David Streets, a Beverly Hills, California, fine art and celebrity memorabilia adviser, according to his website.", "A portion of the auction proceeds will go toward the charity Kids Kicking Cancer at the request of the attorney for Kevorkian's estate and the late doctor's niece and sole living heir, according to Neal.", "Kevorkian, dubbed \"Dr. Death,\" made national headlines as a supporter of physician-assisted suicide and \"right-to-die\" legislation.", "He was charged with murder numerous times through the 1990s for helping terminally ill patients take their own lives.", "He was convicted on second-degree murder charges in 1999 stemming from the death of a patient who suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease.", "He was paroled in 2007.", "After his release, he said he would not help end any more lives.", "In an interview with CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta last year, Kevorkian said he had no regrets about his work.", "\"No, no. It's your purpose (as a) physician.", "How can you regret helping a suffering patient?\"", "he said. CNN's Greg Botelho contributed to this report." ]	[ "Assisted-suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian died in June .", "On October 28, several items from his estate will be auctioned in New York .", "They include the machine that he used in more 100 assisted suicides ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Four Virginia men were arrested Tuesday on allegations of bribery and kickbacks in what prosecutors describe as an elaborate scheme thought to involve hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts connected to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.", "The suspects include two long-time Corps employees charged in an alleged conspiracy involving more than $20 million in bribes and kickbacks, as well as a plan to try to steer a $780 million contract to a favored contractor, the U.S. Justice Department reported.", "Another of the defendants is director of contracts for a company that did business with the federal government, the Justice Department said.", "Corps employees Michael Alexander, 55, and Kerry Khan, 53, as well as Khan's son, Lee, 30, and Harold Babb, 60, were all indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit bribery and wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and aiding and abetting, according to a Justice Department statement.", "Both Kerry Khan and Alexander also face one count each of receipt of a bribe by a public official.", "If convicted, both men could each face a maximum 40-year sentence behind bars.", "Babb, meanwhile, also was handed a charge related to unlawful kickbacks, and could face up to 35 years in prison.", "He was director of contracts at Eyak Tek, an Alaska Native-owned small business based in Dulles, Virginia.", "Lee Khan, who controlled a consulting company with his father, faces a sentence of up to 25 years if convicted, according to the Justice Department.", "All four men pleaded not guilty in federal court in Washington Tuesday afternoon.", "Thought to have used their positions within the Corps, the elder Khan and his colleague Alexander are suspected of having funneled more than $45 million in payments by way of a federal contract that they oversaw, according to the indictment.", "About $20 million in fraudulent expenses were built into those invoices, which were then diverted to all four defendants, prosecutors say..", "Authorities are in the process of seizing funds in 29 bank accounts, as well as three luxury vehicles and seven high-end watches, and are pursing a forfeiture allegation against 16 real properties financed in whole or in part with proceeds from the alleged crimes, the Justice Department said..", "It was not clear Tuesday whether the suspects have retained legal counsel." ]	[ "NEW: Defendants allegedly planned to try to steer a $780 million government contract .", "NEW: Two defendants are employees of the Army Corps of Engineers .", "NEW: The two are suspected of using their positions to try to funnel contracts ." ]	[ 1, 2, 10 ]
[ "Cupertino, California (CNN) -- The iPhone 4S may not look any different from its predecessor, but it is Apple's only model with a sort of robot living inside.", "Apple's new phone, which was announced on Tuesday to be sold in stores on October 14, will have a new function called Siri.", "The program lets people bark commands or ask questions to the phone, and it will provide an answer or ask follow-up questions in order to perform a given task.", "At the news conference, Phil Schiller, Apple's marketing executive, called Siri \"the coolest feature of the new iPhone 4S,\" and the company is expected to advertise Siri heavily in its sales pitches.", "Apple dedicated a significant chunk of the presentation to showing the extent of Siri's ability to interpret requests and respond.", "\"Do I need a raincoat today?\"", "incites a robo-female voice to reply: \"It sure looks like rain today,\" as Scott Forstall, Apple's mobile software executive, demonstrated.", "Ask Siri to remind you to buy flowers for your wife at a certain time, and Siri may ask you to identify her in the phone's address book.", "Siri then remembers who she is for future requests, Forstall said.", "The software integrates with Yelp and WolframAlpha for relevant queries.", "It can also schedule appointments in the phone's calendar and transcribe e-mails or text messages.", "With Google's Android phones, users can dictate messages, too, which are then transcribed by Google's servers.", "Other cell phones support voice commands, which is handy when operating a phone while driving, but few people take advantage of the option.", "Even the preceding iPhones had a basic version of this called Voice Control, which can be activated in the same way as Siri, by holding down the phone's home button.", "But Apple's ambitions for Siri are much greater.", "Steve Jobs has said that Siri's focus is on artificial intelligence.", "\"We like what they do a lot,\" the Apple co-founder and former CEO said at the AllThingsD conference last year.", "Forstall echoed that onstage Tuesday, saying: \"I've been in the AI field a long time, and this still blows me away.\"", "The big unveiling of the iPhone 4S on Tuesday was the first time most people learned about Siri, but the voice-assistant software is rooted in many years of extensive technical research.", "The project was born at SRI International, a nonprofit research organization.", "It was a part of an ambitious project called CALO, for Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes.", "The program was funded by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the government division responsible for Global Position System (GPS) and developments that led to the creation of the Internet.", "Work on Siri began in the summer of 2007, and SRI executives decided to spin out the project as a standalone business in 2008.", "Apple acquired the company in April 2010.", "\"The team was so happy when Apple did the acquisition,\" Norman Winarsky, a Siri co-founder who remained at SRI, said in an interview on Monday.", "\"They have a vision.\" Before joining Apple, Siri provided a free app for iOS mobile devices.", "Apple removed it from the App Store on Tuesday, which means only iPhone 4S owners will be able to access the service starting next week.", "The version integrated into the 4S is vastly superior to the now-defunct app based on onstage demos.", "Apple spokespeople did not respond to CNN's requests to try the product at the event on Tuesday.", "Siri's engineers were excited for the opportunity to bake their software deeply into the new iPhone and build features that a third-party developer would not be able to do because of Apple-imposed restrictions, Winarsky said.", "\"We are going to be very proud,\" he said.", "\"The world of virtual personal assistants is going to be everywhere.\"", "Siri's specialty is in its ability to interpret so-called natural-language requests.", "It was originally developed to handle typed queries, Winarsky said.", "For the voice transcription, Siri uses technology from Nuance Communications, Mike Thompson, an exec for Nuance's mobile division, said in an interview on Tuesday.", "Apple also licenses Nuance's voice transcription for features on the Mac.", "Like Siri, Nuance was spun out from SRI.", "\"We're thrilled with today's announcement,\" Thompson said.", "\"What you're seeing today is the beginning of the next generation [of mobile assistants].", "That's really the deep integration and the totality of the experience.\"", "For technologists, like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the ability to speak into a digital companion that can understand and respond is a sci-fi dream realized.", "\"I don't like to learn programs' methods of doing everything,\" Wozniak said in a recent interview with CNN.", "\"I just want to speak it and have it happen.\"", "Apple is betting that Siri's implementation of that will be a major selling point for the new phone.", "Despite no apparent technical limitations, the software will only be offered on the iPhone 4S at first.", "\"Siri is compelling,\" AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega said in an interview after the announcement.", "He indicated that he expected the feature would be a significant enough reason to spur current iPhone users to purchase the iPhone 4S." ]	[ "Apple's iPhone 4S will have a new voice-assistant feature called Siri .", "Siri is based on a government-funded research program .", "Apple acquired Siri in April 2010 ." ]	[ 1, 3, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The FBI was investigating after a dead newborn baby was found onboard a Carnival cruise ship, authorities said Sunday.", "The baby was found by a Carnival Dream crew member Wednesday morning in a guest cabin, said Special Agent Dave Couvertier, spokesman for the FBI field office in Tampa, Florida.", "Carnival personnel reported the discovery to Dutch authorities on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten, where the ship was docked.", "Dutch authorities took custody of the infant's body and interviewed the 20-year-old mother, an American passenger, Couvertier said in an e-mail.", "The FBI was coordinating with Carnival Cruise Lines, he said, adding the company has been \"fully cooperative.\"", "The FBI's Evidence Response team was activated Saturday when the ship returned to Port Canaveral, Florida, he said.", "Agents processed and searched two guest cabins and interviewed crew members and passengers.", "\"Due to the international and jurisdictional aspects involved with this incident, we are still working on obtaining facts and specific details,\" Couvertier said.", "\"No one has been charged as we are still working on obtaining facts and gathering any available evidence.", "As a result, no information has been released regarding any suspect at this time.\"", "The baby's mother remained in St. Maarten and is expected to return to the United States within the next 24 hours, Couvertier said Sunday.", "The FBI was coordinating with Dutch authorities.", "-- CNN's Kara Devlin contributed to this report." ]	[ "The baby was found on board the Carnival Dream .", "The 20-year-old mother was interviewed by authorities on St. Maarten .", "The ship has returned to Port Canaveral, Florida ." ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Iran's supreme leader took verbal jabs at the United States Saturday in his first public reaction since the United States accused Iran of plotting to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington.", "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei labeled the allegations \"meaningless and absurd.\"", "\"They (the U.S.) want to isolate Iran,\" Khamenei said over chants of \"down with America\" in a speech before thousands in the western Iranian city of Gilangharb.", "Also, an Iranian official said claims by the United States that a high-level U.S. diplomat had met Wednesday with an Iranian counterpart over the plot were untrue.", "\"There were no kinds of negotiations between the two countries, and there was not such a contact,\" said Alireza Miryousefi, press secretary for the Iranian Mission to the United Nations.", "The United States had reported having had \"direct contact with Iran\" about the alleged plot.", "State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland disclosed the contact to reporters.", "A senior administration official told CNN it occurred Wednesday and was initiated by the United States.", "Two State Department officials said U.S.", "Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice met with Mohammad Khazai, Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations.", "Ahead of Saturday's rebuttal of the claims of diplomatic contact, Iranian officials had previously declined to confirm the meeting.", "U.S. authorities have accused Iran of being involved in a plot to kill the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, in spring 2012.", "The alleged scheme involved a connection to the Quds Force, a branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, which formally answers to Khamenei.", "Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, and Gholam Shakuri, an Iran-based member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, are accused of conspiring to hire hit men from a Mexican drug cartel to bomb a restaurant, where the ambassador would have been.", "Authorities developed the case against the suspects with the help of an undercover informant posing as an associate of a Mexican drug cartel, according to officials and an FBI agent's affidavit.", "Reza Aslan, a religious scholar and author, told CNN on Saturday that the described plot \"just does not fit the Quds Force's M.O.", "(modus operandi).\"", "Using a drug cartel would be risky and a Quds Force agent would be more reliable than Arbabsiar, a used-car salesman in Texas, he said.", "\"It's sloppy. It's uncharacteristic,\" said Aslan.", "\"It really does not serve Iran's interest in any legitimate way.\"", "Iran could more easily target Saudi diplomats in the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere, Aslan said.", "\"Doing so on U.S. soil is unmistakably an attack on the United States, not on Saudi Arabia.\"", "CNN's Mitra Mobasherat and Hala Gorani contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Scholar says plot does not fit Quds Force \"M.O.\"", "Ayatollah Khamenei calls the U.S. allegations \"absurd\"\nIranian diplomat: U.S. claims of a meeting with Iran are not true .", "The U.S. alleges Iran was involved in a plot to kill a Saudi official in the United States ." ]	[ 1, 3, 11, 15 ]

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