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"(CNN) -- Barcelona survived a late onslaught from rivals Real Madrid to win their Spanish Cup quarterfinal tie 4-3 on aggregate and knock the holders out on Wednesday.",
"In a dramatic game at Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium, the hosts went 2-0 up thanks to goals from Pedro and Daniel Alves before strikes from Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema leveled the match at 2-2.",
"Real laid siege to their opponents' goal in the final stages, even after defender Sergio Ramos was sent off, but couldn't find the goal that would have taken them through.",
"Jose Mourinho's side complained bitterly to the referee after the match but the result is sure to intensify pressure on the Portuguese coach, who has been forced to deny press rumors he is set to leave the club in June.",
"Is Mourinho finished at Madrid?",
"\"You sometimes score a goal without trying much for one, and we happened to fail to score from four or five of our chances,\" Mourinho said.",
"\"It was easy to talk to my men during halftime.",
"I had few things to change.",
"Halftimes are short when your team isn't playing well; those ten minutes don't seem enough.",
"I only needed one minute today because my team played very well in the first half.",
"I told them to keep it up. \"Maybe Pep Guardiola congratulated us after winning last year's final because it was a clean match without any havoc.",
"If you like I'll congratulate him for winning last week's match.",
"I have no problem doing so. They deserved to win that game.\"",
"Real had the first chance of the match inside 15 seconds as a mistake from Gerard Pique let Gonzalo Higuain in on goal but the Argentina striker fired wide with only Barca keeper Jose Manuel Pinto to beat.",
"Higuain had another two chances to open the scoring but Pinto saved his close-range effort from Xabi Alonso's free kick, before blocking a shot after he had surrendered possession.",
"Germany international Mesut Ozil then struck the bar with a fierce shot from 35 yards with Pinto beaten, before Ronaldo drew another save from Barca's reserve keeper.",
"A melee ensued after Real midfielder Lassana Diarra brought down Argentina striker Lionel Messi and was fortunate not to receive a second yellow card.",
"Real were made to pay for their profligacy when Messi ran at Real's defense and teed up substitute Pedro to score shortly before the break, and just minutes later Brazilian fullback Alves made it two with a thunderous drive into the top corner.",
"In the second half Real came back at their opponents as Ronaldo rounded Pinto from Ozil's pass to make it 2-1 and when France international Benzema made it 2-2 with 18 minutes left Real sensed victory.",
"They continued to pour forward after Ramos was shown a second yellow card but couldn't find the vital third goal.",
"Barca's night was marred by an injury to Andres Iniesta, who has a suspected hamstring tear and was replaced by Pedro after half an hour.",
"His fellow Spain midfielder Xavi celebrated his 32nd birthday by equaling Joan Segarra's Barca record of 31 appearances in Clasico matches.",
"Barcelona will now face either Valencia or Levante in the semifinals.",
"The pair play Thursday, with Valencia 4-1 up from the first leg.",
"In Wednesday's other tie, Athletic Bilbao sealed a clash with third division Mirandes in the final four after a 1-0 win at Mallorca sealed a 3-0 aggregate victory in an all-La Liga encounter.",
"In England, Liverpool booked a League Cup final date with second division Cardiff after beating Premier League leaders Manchester City 3-2 on aggregate at Anfield.",
"Trailing 1-0 from the first leg, Nigel De Jong brought City level on aggregate with a vicious long range drive before Steven Gerrard restored Liverpool's advantage from the penalty spot.",
"Striker Edin Dzeko put City back on terms when he tapped in Aleksandar Kolarov's cross on 62 minutes before Wales forward Craig Bellamy equalized against his former club to make it 2-2 on the night and secure a 3-2 aggregate win.",
"In Italy, two goals from Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani helped Napoli to knock out Italian Cup holders Inter Milan and reach the semifinals.",
"Napoli will next face Siena, who beat Chievo Verona 1-0 thanks to Mattia Destro's goal."
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"Barcelona beat Real Madrid 4-3 on aggregate to knock holders out of Spanish Cup .",
"Real fight back from 2-0 down in second leg but 2-2 draw not enough .",
"Liverpool beat Manchester City 3-2 on aggregate to reach English League Cup final .",
"Napoli knock holders Internazionale out of the Italian Cup with a 2-0 victory ."
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"(CNN) -- AC Milan stayed just one point behind Serie A leaders Juventus with a convincing 3-0 win over Cagliari in the San Siro Sunday.",
"Juve had kept up the pressure with a 2-1 win over Udinese Saturday, but Milan responded in style.",
"Star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic set them on their way as he curled home a 20 meter free kick in the first half.",
"Antonio Nocerino doubled their lead before halftime and Massimo Ambrosini added a fine third in the 75th minute.",
"But Milan's city rivals Inter saw their seven-match winning run ended with a 1-0 defeat at strugglers Lecce.",
"Guillermo Giacomazzi scored for Lecce just before the break and they held out for a valuable win.",
"Lazio stayed in fourth, eight points behind the leaders, with a 3-0 win at Chievo.",
"Hernanes put them ahead in the first half with a late double from Miroslav Klose sealing the three points.",
"In Germany, Borussia Monchengladbach kept pace with the leading three in the Bundesliga with an impressive 3-0 win at Stuttgart.",
"Star striker Mike Hanke gave the visitors the lead in the first half with Marco Reus and Igor de Camargo adding further goals after the break.",
"Valencia substitute Aritz Aduriz salvaged a point for his side in a 2-2 draw at Racing Santander in La Liga Sunday.",
"Both teams ended with 10 men after Pedro Munitis for Santander and Valencia's Ricardo Costa both saw red in injury time.",
"Aduriz then cropped up to score the leveler as his team stay third, five points ahead of Levante, who earlier lost 2-1 at home to Getafe."
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"AC Milan keep pace in Serie A title race with 3-0 win over Cagliari .",
"Zlatan Ibrahimovic scores opener in easy win in San Siro .",
"Borussia Moenchengladbach beat Stuttgart 3-0 in Bundesliga .",
"Valencia consolidate third in Spain after 2-2 draw ."
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"(CNN) -- Schalke joined Bayern Munich at the top of the Bundesliga on Saturday after a 3-1 win over Stuttgart at the Veltins Arena.",
"Schalke's 20-year-old Cameroon midfielder Joel Matip opened the scoring in the third minute with further goals coming from Greek defender Kyriakos Papadopoulos in the 57th minute.",
"Eighteen-year-old midfielder Julian Draxler added a third ten minutes from time.",
"Japan striker Shinji Okazaki scored a consolation goal for Stuttgart near the end but it couldn't deny Schalke the win which lifts them level on points with Bayern.",
"Bayern lose at Moenchengladbach as Bundesliga resumes .",
"Goals from Alexander Esswein and Dominic Maroh earned strugglers Nuremberg a valuable 2-0 win against Hertha Berlin.",
"Wolfsburg also claimed three much-needed points with a 1-0 win at home to Cologne courtesy of a goal from striker Sebastian Polter 12 minutes from time.",
"The clash at the bottom saw Freiburg beat Augsburg 1-0, meaning the clubs swap places at the foot of the table.",
"The game between fifth-place Werder Bremen and Kaiserslautern ended goalless as did the mid-table match between Hoffenheim and Hannover.",
"Sunday's fixtures see fourth-place Borussia Dortmund travel to Hamburg while sixth-place Bayer Leverkusen host Mainz."
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"Schalke draw level on points with league leaders Bayern after beating Stuttgart 3-1 .",
"Nuremberg defeat Hertha Berlin 2-0; Wolfsburg earn three points with 1-0 win over Cologne ."
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"(CNN) -- Sudan qualified for the quarterfinals of the Africa Cup of Nations after beating Burkina Faso 2-1 at the Estadio de Bata on Monday, ending a four-decade wait for victory at the tournament.",
"Two goals in either half from Mudather Eltaib was enough to secure second place in Group B ahead of Angola, who lost 2-0 to Ivory Coast at the Estadio de Malabo.",
"Eltaib gave Sudan the lead in the 33rd minute when he sidefooted past keeper Daouda Diakite.",
"It stayed that way until the 80th minute when Eltaib found the target again, capitalizing on a mistake by Diakite before firing home into an empty net.",
"Burkina Faso skipper Moumouni Dagano managed a consolation goal moments before the end, but it couldn't stop Sudan recording a first win in the competition for 42 years to set up a meeting with Group A winners Zambia on February 4.",
"Etuhu: Expect more shocks at the Africa Cup of Nations .",
"Ivory Coast were assured of a place in the final eight of the competition before Monday's matches, while their opponents Angola needed a point to progress.",
"Despite fielding an under-strength side -- stars Didier Drogba, Yaya Toure, Salomon Kalou all started on the bench -- The Elephants ran out comfortable winners.",
"Goals from Emmanuel Eboue in the 33rd minute and a Wilfried Bony strike midway through the second half ensured maximum points from the group and confirmed a meeting with co-hosts Equatorial Guinea at the same stadium next Saturday."
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"Sudan progress to quarterfinals after beating Burkina Faso 2-1 in final Group B match .",
"Angola are out after losing 2-0 to Ivory Coast in Malabo .",
"Sudan's first win in competition in over four decades sets up tie with Zambia .",
"Ivory Coast meet co-hosts Equatorial Guinea in quarterfinals ."
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"(CNN) -- Holders Inter Milan are through to the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup, defeating Genoa 2-1 at the San Siro despite coach Claudio Ranieri resting a host of key players.",
"Goalkeeper Julio Cesar, defenders Lucio and Walter Samuel and strikers Diego Milito and Giampaolo Pazzini were among those given a night off by Ranieri, but Inter still proved too good for their rivals, who also made a host of changes to their side.",
"Inter took the lead in the ninth minute when Brazilian defender Maicon let fly with a superb 25-yard shot that gave Cristiano Lupatelli no chance in the Genoa goal.",
"Who are football's top January transfer targets?",
"And the home side doubled their lead five minutes after the break when Andrea Poli played a one-two with Joel Obi before volleying home his first goal for the club.",
"Genoa pulled a consolation goal back in injury time when Lucas Pratto's shot hit the crossbar and Valter Birsa reacted first to score from close range.",
"But Inter held on for victory and they now face a tricky trip to Napoli in next week's quarterfinal tie.",
"The other last eight matches see Juventus entertain Roma, Chievo face Siena and Milan take on Lazio.",
"Meanwhile, in Spain, Valencia look to have booked their place in the semifinals of the Copa del Rey after beating Levante 4-1 in their quarterfinal first leg.",
"Goals from Jonas, Roberto Soldado, Pablo Piatti and Tino Costa have put Valencia in a strong position ahead of next week's second leg tie."
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"Holders Inter Milan are through to the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup .",
"Goals from Maicon and Andrea Poli give Inter a 2-1 win over Genoa .",
"Inter will now face Napoli for a place in the semifinal of the competition .",
"Valencia defeat Levante 4-1 in the first leg of Copa del Rey quarterfinal ."
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"(CNN) -- Tunisia and co-hosts Gabon secured dramatic last-gasp victories to reach the quarterfinals of the Africa Cup of Nations Friday.",
"Tunisia needed a final minute goal from Issam Jemaa to beat Niger 2-1 while Gabon came from behind to beat Morocco 3-2 with their winner in the eighth minute of added time.",
"It left them tied on six points and assured of a place in the last eight, while Morocco and debutants Niger are going home and are pointless with a match to play in Group C. The first game in Libreville saw Niger put up a brave challenge and Tunisia coach Sami Trabelsi was relieved by his team's victory.",
"\"We knew Niger would be well organized and rigorous on the counter attack.",
"The spirit of my team was there for all to see.",
"Thank God we were able to win, thank God,\" he told AFP.",
"Tunisia were ahead after only three minutes when Youssef Msakni beat several defenders before shooting home.",
"Blog: Expect more shocks at the Africa Cup of Nations .",
"But within five minutes Niger were level as William Tonji Ngounou scored their first ever goal in the Africa Cup of Nations finals.",
"Niger had the better chances to win the match, but a point was cruelly snatched from them by Jemaa's late strike.",
"That was forerunner for the drama of the second match of the evening at the Stade l'Amitie stadium and an incredible finish which sent the home fans into wild celebrations.",
"Gabon looked set for a 2-1 victory as second half goals from Daniel Cousin and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had put them in control after Houssine Kharja's first half opener for Morocco.",
"But in the first minute of added time Morocco won a penalty and Kharja equalized with his second of the match.",
"Then up cropped Bruno Mbanangoyes to curl home a free kick in the eighth minute of stoppage time of a remarkable encounter."
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"Tunisia and Gabon secure second wins in Africa Cup of Nations Group C .",
"Last minute goal from Issam Jemma gives Tunisia 2-1 win over Niger .",
"Co-hosts Gabon later beat Morocco 3-2 to join Tunisia in last eight .",
"Bruno Mbanangoyes grabs dramatic winner for Gabon in stoppage time ."
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"(CNN) -- Mali beat Botswana 2-1 Wednesday to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations quarterfinals from Group D of the competition.",
"Goals from Garra Dembele and Barcelona star Seydou Keita with the winner secured the runners-up spot from the group behind Ghana, who were held 1-1 by Guinea in a match played at the same time in Franceville.",
"It earned Mali, reaching this stage for the first time in eight years, a match against their coach Alain Giresse's former team, co-hosts Gabon.",
"Botswana opened the scoring in Libreville six minutes into the second half with Moemedi Moatlaping converting after a fine move.",
"Mali leveled after 56 minutes when Abdou Traore crossed for Dembele to volley home.",
"Mali substitute Ousmane Coulibaly hit the crossbar with an effort before Tidiane Cheick Diabete set up Keita to net from close range with 15 minutes left.",
"Blog: Does Football really need transfer windows?",
"The Mali players had to wait until the Ghana-Guinea game had finished to make sure they went through, at the result celebrating wildly their passage to the last eight.",
"Ghana, who put on the best showing of an African side at the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa, have earned a quarterfinal match against Tunisia.",
"The Black Stars went ahead in the 28th minute through Emmanuel Badu with a blistering shot from outside the area.",
"But Abdoul Razzagui Camara drew Guinea deservedly level in first half stoppage time.",
"Guinea were reduced to 10 men in the second half after Bah Dioulde was sent off after being booked for a second time on 70 minutes."
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"Mali secures second qualifying spot from Group D of Africa Cup of Nations .",
"Mali reaches quarterfinals after beating Botswana 2-1 in Libreville .",
"Barcelona star Seydou Keita scores winner for Mali .",
"Ghana top group after being held 1-1 by Guinea ."
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"(CNN) -- Paris Saint-Germain completed the signing of Brazilian international defender Alex from Chelsea Friday on a two-and-a-half-year deal.",
"The 29-year-old is re-united with PSG coach Carlo Ancelotti, who was in charge at Chelsea when they won the English Premier League and FA Cup double in 2010.",
"He had fallen out of favor under Andre Villas-Boas and was also a target for fellow EPL side Queens Park Rangers, but chose the Parisian giants.",
"\"I knew about PSG's immense stature and that made me want to come,\" Alex told the club's official website.",
"\"For the past two months I've wanted to leave Chelsea and we finally opened talks with PSG.",
"Everything went very well.\"",
"Alex has won 18 Brazil caps and was in their squad which claimed the 2007 Copa America, but he will be battling five other players, including club captain Mamadou Sakho, for places in central defense.",
"\"I know him very well. He's a fantastic man and a fantastic player.",
"He's a good investment for the team,\" said Ancelotti.",
"Ancelotti, who took charge in December, also revealed that the Qatari-backed club had ruled out an immediate move for Manchester City striker Carlos Tevez.",
"The Italian said they had been in discussions with Tevez and his connections but talks had broken down.",
"\"We discussed a move with the player but there is ultimately no agreement,\" Ancelotti told the club website, but left the door open for a future deal.",
"Meanwhile, Tevez's advisor Kia Joorabchian told British radio station TalkSport that it was likely the striker would stay at City until the summer.",
"\"We've been in negotiations with three big clubs but I don't think they have reached the figures Manchester City want,\" Joorabchian claimed.",
"Joorabchian also said he believed his player could end up at PSG next season.",
"\"PSG want to build a long-term project and I think Carlos is six months too early for them.",
"But there is a big chance he will go there in the summer,\" he added."
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"Paris Saint-Germain complete signing of Brazil defender Alex from Chelsea .",
"Alex re-united with former Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti .",
"Ancelotti rules out January move for Manchester City's Carlos Tevez .",
"Tevez's agent Kia Joorabchian claims his player will eventually join PSG ."
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"(CNN) -- Co-hosts Gabon beat Tunisia 1-0 on Tuesday night to seal top spot in Group C and maintain their 100% record in this year's Africa Cup of Nations.",
"Both teams had already guaranteed their passage through to the knockout stages with both winning their opening two matches, but it was The Panthers who came out on top in a close encounter in Franceville.",
"A 62nd-minute goal from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang proved enough against an under-strength Tunisian side, who chose to rest some of their top players including skipper Karim Haggui, Khaled Korbi and Mejdi Traoui, .",
"Nevertheless, the 2004 champions proved a handful as they had the better of the opening exchanges.",
"But it was Gabon who came closest to scoring in the first half when Tunisia failed to clear their lines from an Aubameyang cross.",
"The resulting chance fell to skipper Daniel Cousin but he conspired to drag his shot wide.",
"Four minutes after Aubaneyang scored, Cousin was presented with another chance to score but once again his shot was off-target.",
"The win left him and his teammates with nothing to rue as they claimed the three points, setting up a meeting with the runners-up in Group D in Libreville next Sunday.",
"Tunisia will face the winners of Group D. In Group C's other match, Morocco took all three points beating Niger 1-0.",
"Both teams were pointless heading into the game and had no chance of progressing to the quarterfinals, but it was the Atlas Lions who restored some pride as Younes Belhand scored ten minutes from the end."
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"Co-hosts finish top of Group C after 1-0 win over Tunisia in Franceville .",
"Niger lose to Morocco 1-0 to finish bottom of group with no points ."
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"(CNN) -- Dider Drogba scored the only goal of the game against Sudan as much-fancied Ivory Coast got their Africa Cup of Nations campaign off to a winning start.",
"Drogba, who currently plays for English Premier League club Chelsea, grabbed the winner just before half time but Ivory Coast, nicknamed The Elephants, struggled for much of the game.",
"But the nation who many fancy for the title, especially given the absence of African heavyweights like Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt, got the job done to get off to a good start in Group B. Balboa goal stuns Libya in Africa Cup of Nations opener .",
"Ivory Coast dominated the opening half with Gervinho, who plays for English club Arsenal, squandering two good opportunities to score.",
"But Drogba pounced on 39 minutes to nod home a left wing cross from Chelsea teammate Salomon Kalou.",
"The goal stirred Sudan into action against a team ranked 102 places above them in the world soccer standings, as Eltaib Mudathe's shot was tipped onto the crossbar by Ivory Coast keeper Boubacar Barry.",
"Will Africa's new stars shine at Cup of Nations?",
"Alaadine Yousif tested Barry after the interval but the keeper was equal to it, while at the other end Drogba again went close before substitute Max Gradel fired wide when well placed.",
"Ahmed Nazar had Sudan's last chance of the match but he shot wide of the target.",
"In the Group's other game, Angola beat Burkino Faso 2-1 thanks to a 68th minute winner from former Manchester United player Manucho.",
"Mateus had put Angola ahead just after half time but Alain Traore leveled the scores with a well taken free kick before Manucho's precise shot from outside the penalty area ensured Angola went joint top of Group B with Ivory Coast."
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"Didier Drogba seals victory for Ivory Coast as they win their African Cup of Nations opener .",
"Chelsea striker's goal helps his country to edge past Sudan 1-0 in Group B clash .",
"Angola beat Burkino Faso 2-1 thanks to a 68th minute winner from Manucho ."
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"(CNN) -- Argentina's David Nalbandian and Eduardo Schwank kept Argentina's Davis Cup dreams alive after they thrashed Spain's Feliciano Lopez and Fernando Verdasco in the doubles rubber 6-4 6-2 6-3 in Seville on Saturday.",
"Trailing 2-0 after Friday's singles matches, Argentina had to win Saturday's only rubber to stop Spain from claiming their fifth win in the competition.",
"Fighting Ferrer give Spain commanding lead .",
"Nalbandian and Schwank never looked in any trouble throughout the match, breaking in the fifth game of the first set before racing into a 4-0 lead in the second.",
"Spain's only two chances to break came in the sixth game of the third set but both times Nalbandian denied them.",
"Argentina now trail Spain 2-1.",
"If they win both singles rubbers on Sunday they will become the first team in 72 years to win the David Cup from 2-0 down.",
"Juan Martin Del Potro will face Rafael Nadal in the first singles match while Nalbadian is scheduled to face David Ferrer."
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"Argentina trail Spain 2-1 in Davis Cup after straight sets doubles win .",
"Nalbandian and Schwank beat Spain's Lopez and Verdasco 6-4 6-2 6-3 .",
"Nadal to play Del Potro in Sunday's first singles match on Sunday ."
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"(CNN) -- Spain have won the Davis Cup for a fifth time, and the third time in four years, after Rafael Nadal recovered from dropping the opening set to defeat Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro in Sunday's penultimate singles rubber in Sevilla.",
"The hosts won Friday's first two singles matches, but Argentina claimed Saturday's doubles to give them a foothold in the final going into the final two matches, .",
"And del Potro started like a man on a mission, crushing the world number two 6-1 in an impressive opening set.",
"Resurgent Federer hungry for more major titles .",
"But in the same stadium where Nadal became the youngest Davis Cup winner in 2004, the world number two fought back in impressive fashion to secure a 1-6 6-4 6-1 7-6 (7-0) triumph to spark scenes of wild celebration.",
"Nadal told reporters: \"It was a very emotional match and I am happy for the team.",
"\"It was the most amazing atmosphere I have ever played in.",
"The crowd were crazy.",
"and everything was perfect for us,\" he continued.",
"\"It was complicated at the start of the match, but the beginning of the second set was very important and at 1-0 and 40-0 that was the turning point for me.\"",
"Spanish captain Albert Costa added: \"It was an unbelievable match.",
"These guys are great and that's why we were in the final.",
"\"Rafa tried to play deeper and harder because at the start Del Potro was inside the line and hitting so hard.",
"He fought hard so that's why we won.\"",
"The result handed Argentina an unwanted record fourth Davis Cup final defeat, but Spain's fifth victory still leaves them trailing the United States (32) and Australia (28) in overall successes."
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"World number two Rafa Nadal beats Juan Martin del Potro to win Spain the Davis Cup .",
"Nadal fights back from dropping the opening set to secure the point Spain needed .",
"Spain's victory over Argentina ensured they won the Davis Cup trophy for a fifth time ."
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"(CNN) -- John Mensah proved the match-winner for Ghana as they beat Botswana 1-0 at the Africa Cup of Nations but his side had to fight hard for their victory after the defender was sent off.",
"Mensah struck the only goal of the game on 25 minutes but will now miss Ghana's next match with Mali after he was shown a straight red card for a professional foul.",
"Ghana's ten-men clung onto to three points to go top of Group D, while they were later joined by Mail who beat Guinea 1-0 thanks to Bakaye Traore's goal.",
"Mensah, who plays for French club Lyon, bundled a corner into the net with his knee after a flick on from Asamoah Gyan, who is on loan at Al-Ain in the United Arab Emirates from English club Sunderland.",
"African ambition: Tiny nations host football feast .",
"Gyan had a chance to double Ghana's lead soon after but he blazed over the crossbar before Botswana squandered their best chance when John Boye cleared Moemedi Moatlhaping's header.",
"Mensah was dismissed in the 67th minute, bringing down Jerome Ramatlhokwane as the striker raced clear on goal, but Botswana couldn't force an equalizer.",
"\"We controlled the game until the red card for Mensah,\" Ghana coach Goran Stevanovic was reported as saying by the AFP news agency.",
"\"We created some chances but they closed down the game with 10 men behind the ball.",
"\"All the same, it was very important that we won our first game of a tournament that has already produced some surprises.\"",
"Botswana coach Stanley Tshosane defended his team's defensive tactics.",
"\"I'm not happy with the result but with the performance especially in the second half,\" said Tshosane.",
"\"We were cautious at the beginning because we have never played Ghana before at this level and so we preferred to study how they play.\"",
"Mali are also on three points after they saw off Guinea in the Gabonese capital of Franceville.",
"The only goal of the match was scored when Bakaye Traore's long range strike deflected off a defender to loop over Guinea's goalkeeper Naby Yattara on the half hour mark."
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"John Mensah scores the winner for Ghana but then gets sent off .",
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"(CNN Student News) -- October 21, 2011 .",
"Media Literacy Question of the Day .",
"Why do you think that journalists often use multiple sources when reporting on a major news story?",
"Can you think of scenarios in which a journalist would publish a story based on a single source?",
"Explain. ... ... Know Your News -- The following questions relate to events that were covered this week on CNN Student News.",
"Write your answers in the space provided.",
"Click here for a PDF version of this Newsquiz.",
"1. Whose national memorial was dedicated on the National Mall on October 16? ... ...",
"2. What nation agreed to exchange 1,027 Palestinian prisoners for one of its captured soldiers? ... ...",
"3. This week is designated for raising safety awareness among teens engaging in what activity? ... ...",
"4. In what U.S. city was a Republican presidential debate held on October 18? ... ...",
"5. Engineers have discovered that the tower that houses Big Ben is leaning.",
"What kind of object is Big Ben? ... ...",
"6. Who became the first U.S.",
"Cabinet-level official to visit Libya since the fall of former leader Moammar Gadhafi? ... ...",
"7. In what country did protesters hold a two-day strike against recent austerity measures? ... ...",
"8. On Thursday, California held a preparedness drill for what kind of natural disaster? ... ...",
"9. What U.S. government agency agreed to a deal with most American wireless companies that would warn consumers about some cell phone fees? ... ...",
"10. On what continent will you find the capital cities of Kampala and Kinshasa? ... ..."
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"(CNN Student News) -- October 28, 2011 .",
"Media Literacy Question of the Day .",
"What tools could you use in a news report to put the world's population in perspective? ... ...",
"Know Your News -- The following questions relate to events that were covered this week on CNN Student News.",
"Write your answers in the space provided.",
"Click here for a PDF version of this Newsquiz.",
"1. What is the currency used by the 17 nations of the eurozone? ... ...",
"2. U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford was pulled out of what nation this week due to concerns about his personal safety? ... ...",
"3. What Asian country declared five holidays, beginning on Thursday, as a result of severe flooding? ... ...",
"4. What U.S. statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886? ... ...",
"5. What nation are almost 39,000 U.S. troops scheduled to leave by the end of the year? ... ...",
"6. What country was struck by a devastating 7.2-magnitude earthquake on Sunday? ... ...",
"7. In what Islamic nation did women burn veils and head scarves in a protest on Wednesday? ... ...",
"8. A group of U.S. senators is pushing for a ban on chewing tobacco in what professional sports league? ... ...",
"9. More than 80 percent of what North African country's registered voters participated in an election on Sunday? ... ...",
"10. According to the United Nations, on what date is the global human population expected to reach 7 billion people? ... ..."
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"(CNN) -- Four-time grand slam champion Kim Clijsters made a successful return from injury by defeating world number one Caroline Wozniacki in an exhibition match in Antwerp, Belgium.",
"Clijsters, U.S. Open champion in 2005, 2009 and 2010, has been out for almost four months after sustaining a stomach muscle injury in August.",
"\"So far, and today, everything felt really great,\" the 28-year-old said told the 10,000-strong crowd after winning 6-2 7-6 (7-5) at the Antwerp Sports Palace on Thursday.",
"The Belgian will now focus on preparing to defend her Australian Open crown in Melbourne in January after securing victory in one hour and 35 minutes.",
"Clijsters climbed to the top of the world rankings in February before sustaining shoulder and ankle injuries in April.",
"She injured her stomach while attempting to recover in time to challenge for a fourth U.S. Open title and is only now regaining full fitness.",
"\"I am happy to have played a match and break the rhythm of daily training,\" the 41-time WTA Tour winner said.",
"Clijsters initially retired from tennis in 2007 to concentrate on raising her daughter, but in 2009 she performed a u-turn and announced she would return to sport.",
"It was a spectacular comeback as Clijsters gained wild-card entry to the U.S. Open before going on to win the title at Flushing Meadows two years in a row.",
"However, the Australian Open draw will be missing Sweden's former world No.",
"4 Robin Soderling, who has confirmed his absence from the 2012 season's first grand slam.",
"The two-time French Open finalist contracted the virus infectious mononucleosis in September, but his recovery has taken longer than initially anticipated.",
"\"I am feeling better with each day but it will still take some time before I can start practicing in full speed,\" the 27-year-old said via his official Twitter account.",
"\"My goal is to start with practice in January and I hope for tournament comeback in February, but at this stage it is hard to know when and where.",
"\"I hope my body will allow me to do that.",
"I will try to give you more updates.",
"I love reading your messages and appreciate your support and encouragement very much.\"",
"Soderling has not played since defeating David Ferrer to win the Swedish Open on home soil in July, but still finished the year ranked 13th."
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"Four-time grand slam winner Clijsters scored a 6-2 7-6 (7-5) success .",
"The pair faced each other in an exhibition match in Antwerp, Belgium on Thursday .",
"Sweden's Robin Soderling will miss January's Australian Open due to long-term illness ."
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"(CNN) -- Brazil, which recently overtook the UK as the world's sixth-largest economy, has been enjoying a lot of positive press.",
"It is sealing its reputation as a dynamic place, a fun place, a diverse place -- but, with this last point in particular, the country still suffers black eyes.",
"A recent court ruling ordered Sony Music Brazil to pay a hefty fine for a song with racist lyrics.",
"The song, about a black woman's hair, led civil rights organizations to sue Sony not just because it is offensive but because such pejoratives remain common in Brazil.",
"An appeals court in Rio de Janeiro ruled December 15 that Sony must pay nearly 1.3 million reais (U.S. $723,000) for publishing \"Veja os Cabelos Dela,\" or \"Look at Her Hair,\" by the singer and comedian Tiririca.",
"Tiririca, whose real name is Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, is now a federal congressman and was not named in the suit.",
"Even the judicial process for this case was slow: The song came out more than 15 years ago, and the initial lawsuit was filed in 1997.",
"\"In the bigger picture, I think the music companies are going to be more careful when they choose music to sell,\" said Humberto Adami, the lawyer for the rights organizations.",
"The recent ruling was simply the completion of the monetary part of the case; the heart of it was decided years ago, and Sony has abided by it, the company said.",
"\"Since 1997, spontaneously, Sony Music Brazil removed the track from this product and reissued it in the market,\" the company said.",
"Adami, who recused himself from the case for a period while he served as ombudsman for Brazil's agency for racial equality, said the ruling comes in an environment where racism lingers.",
"Tiririca's song, which he reportedly wrote to his wife, includes lyrics comparing a woman's hair to \"scouring pots and pans\" and about her \"stench.\"",
"In fact, Adami's clients lost in the first trial because the judge ruled that such comments and \"jokes\" were commonplace in Brazil and that Sony shouldn't be singled out to pay for it.",
"But the rights organization persisted, given the outrage over the song.",
"Some black children did not go to school because others were bullying them by singing the song, Adami said.",
"\"Bullying combined with racism is a very difficult thing, a very sad and awful thing,\" he said.",
"An appeals court later ruled against Sony by a vote of 2-1, with the dissenting judge using the same argument as the judge in the first trial.",
"The case was appealed to Brazil's highest court, but it declined to take the case, so the appeal court ruling stands.",
"But the case was far from over and dragged on for years as both sides went back to the lower courts to fight about how big the fine should be.",
"Sony had paid a smaller fine, but an appeals court last month upheld a ruling that the actual amount to be paid was much larger, closer to the 1.3 million reais.",
"\"This case is a real step forward for Brazil, and Brazil is changing,\" said France Winddance Twine, a sociology professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara.",
"Brazilians see themselves as a tolerant society -- interracial marriage was never illegal, other forms of state-sanctioned racism were never implemented, and there were no groups like the Ku Klux Klan -- but the truth is not as tidy.",
"The particular form of racism found in Tiririca's song has been tolerated for a long time in songs and jokes, said Twine, who has written a book about race in Brazil.",
"\"For the first time, the court is saying, yes, this is common, but it is no longer acceptable,\" she said.",
"\"They are acknowledging that this is harmful to people.\""
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"The case is a step forward for Brazil, an expert says ."
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"(CNN Student News) -- September 30, 2011 .",
"Media Literacy Question of the Day .",
"What forms of media could be used to inform the public about a food-borne illness? ... ...",
"Know Your News -- The following questions relate to events that were covered this week on CNN Student News.",
"Write your answers in the space provided.",
"Click here for a PDF version of this Newsquiz.",
"1. What holiday, known as the Jewish New Year, started at sunset on Wednesday? ... ...",
"2. What month is National Bullying Prevention Month? ... ...",
"3. What bacteria is being blamed for contaminating cantaloupes from a Colorado farm? ... ...",
"4. What nation launched an unmanned space lab module on Thursday? ... ...",
"5. A college student was recently arrested for allegedly helping high school students cheat on what major exam? ... ...",
"6. Engineers, looking for cracks caused by a recent earthquake, rappelled down which U.S. national monument? ... ...",
"7. A shipwreck discovered off the coast of Ireland may contain around 200 tons of what precious metal? ... ...",
"8. This week, some U.S. political leaders held town hall meetings at major technology companies in what California region? ... ...",
"9. What is the name of Germany's high-speed highway system? ... ...",
"10. What phenomenon, also known as the Northern Lights, is a colorful glow that occurs in the upper atmosphere? ... ..."
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"(CNN) -- The US has slapped sanctions on three firms including a major Chinese oil trader for selling refined oil products to Iran, just days after US Treasury secretary Tim Geithner travelled to Beijing to press for Chinese support on Iran sanctions.",
"The US State Department announced late Thursday night that penalties would be imposed on China's Zhuhai Zhenrong, the Singapore-based oil trader Kuo oil, and the UAE-based independent oil trader FAL.",
"While the measures are unlikely to have a big immediate impact on these three companies, they send a strong warning signal to energy companies working in Iran at a time when the US has been canvassing Asian countries for more support in isolating Tehran.",
"The US State Department called the sanctions against the three firms an \"important\" step in convincing Iran to change its behaviour, and highlighted the \"potential connection between Iran's revenues derived from its energy sector and the funding of its proliferation [of] sensitive nuclear activities.\"",
"A spokesperson for Zhuhai Zhenrong said the company had not sold gasoline to Iran.",
"\"We've never exported a barrel, not even a wee bit of refined fuel to Iran,\" said Zheng Mei, director of the public affairs department.",
"According to the statement, the three firms violated US restrictions on supplying Iran with refined oil products that were passed in 2010.",
"\"Under the sanctions imposed today, all three companies are barred from receiving US export licenses, US Export Import Bank financing, and loans over $10m from US financial institutions,\" the US State Department said.",
"Importing refined oil products like petrol and diesel is crucial for Iran's economy because the country doesn't have sufficient refining infrastructure to process enough of its own crude into products.",
"China is the biggest buyer of Iran's crude oil and, according to the US State Department, is also a significant source of gasoline for Iran, but Chinese companies have until now avoided sanctions from the US.",
"China supported the most recent United Nations sanctions resolution on Iran in 2010, and some analysts believe that in exchange for that support the US may have turned a blind eye to Chinese companies which may have violated US laws.",
"Last year the US placed sanctions on seven companies for selling refined oil products to Iran, but none of those were Chinese.",
"Zhuhai Zhenrong is a state-owned oil trader based in Southern China.",
"The company has a special mandate from the State Council to do crude trades that offset military trade debt with Middle Eastern countries, according to their website.",
"Ms Zheng, the spokesperson for Zhenrong, said the company would continue buying Iranian crude.",
"\"Zhuhai Zhenrong's trade with Iran is carried out under the two governments.",
"The trade accords with international law and Chinese laws and regulations,\" she said.",
"\"What we've signed with Iran are long-term contracts and we import around 12m tonnes of crude from Iran each year,\" Ms Zheng said.",
"\"We've never exported gasoline to Iran.",
"This is out of thin air! \" The US State Department said Zhuhai Zhenrong is Iran's largest supplier of refined oil products, brokering sales of gasoline worth more than $500m between July 2010 and January 2011.",
"The sanctions are likely to have little immediate impact on Zhenrong because the company does very little, if any, business in the US.",
"Additional reporting by Gwen Chen in Beijing ."
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"(CNN) -- At least three people were killed Sunday when a passenger train derailed near Toronto, Canadian officials said.",
"All three people were employees of Via Rail Canada, Michelle Lamarche, a spokeswoman for the railway, said, calling it a \"very sad day for Via.\"",
"At least 45 passengers were injured, three severely, according to John Marginson, chief operating officer of Via.",
"The derailment occurred around 3:30 p.m. in Burlington, about 40 miles southwest of Toronto, Lamarche said.",
"The train, carrying 75 passengers, was traveling from Niagara Falls to Toronto, according to Lamarche.",
"An investigation into the cause of the wreck is under way."
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"(CNN Student News) -- September 23, 2011 .",
"Media Literacy Question of the Day .",
"How might a charitable organization use different forms of media to promote its cause? ... ...",
"Know Your News -- The following questions relate to events that were covered this week on CNN Student News.",
"Write your answers in the space provided.",
"Click here for a PDF version of this Newsquiz.",
"1. World leaders met in what U.S. city this week for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly? ... ...",
"2. What invasive pest, which can carry a parasite that causes meningitis, was recently found in Miami, Florida? ... ...",
"3. What document does the U.S. observe the signing of every September 17? ... ...",
"4. Two American hikers were released on Wednesday after being detained for more than two years by what country? ... ...",
"5. According to the United Nations charter, from what group must Palestinians first get approval in order to obtain U.N. membership? ... ...",
"6. Because it eats both plants and meat, a grizzly bear is an example of what kind of animal? ... ...",
"7. What is the name of a typhoon that struck Japan on Wednesday? ... ...",
"8. Which U.S. president expanded Hispanic Heritage Week into Hispanic Heritage Month in 1988? ... ...",
"9. Instead of attending the U.N. General Assembly meeting, what European country's prime minister stayed home to focus on his nation's ongoing financial crisis? ... ...",
"10. What U.S. institution is the nation's central bank, which manages interest rates in order to control inflation? ... ..."
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"Tune in to CNN on Sunday morning at 9 ET for live coverage of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial dedication, 48 years after the March on Washington and his historic \"I Have a Dream\" speech.",
"Coverage continues Sunday night at 7 ET with a special look at King's writings in the CNN documentary \"MLK Papers: Words that Changed a Nation.\"",
"(CNN Student News) -- Program Overview Through rare access to the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection, CNN's Soledad O'Brien examines the personal determination and private courage and concerns of the preacher and civil rights leader.",
"Objectives . The CNN special: MLK Papers - Words That Changed a Nation and its discussion questions and research activity challenge students to: .",
"Research and interpret the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a historical and modern-day context; .",
"Discuss the relevance and significance of the King papers collection; .",
"Examine Dr. King's leadership through primary documents and eyewitness accounts; .",
"Analyze the ideology and goals of Dr. King and the civil rights movement; .",
"Evaluate the legacy of Dr. King.",
"Discussion Questions .",
"1. What was the civil rights movement?",
"Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and what was his role in the civil rights movement?",
"What goals did Dr. King and other civil rights activists hope to achieve during the 1950s and 1960s?",
"2. Throughout the program, friends and colleagues refer to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a poet.",
"What evidence did they use to support this characterization?",
"How would you describe the delivery and tone of MLK's speeches and sermons?",
"For whom do you think that Dr. King wrote his speeches and sermons?",
"How did Dr. King use his words and his pulpit in his efforts to further the goals of the civil rights movement?",
"3. Other than delivering speeches, what methods did Dr. King and his followers use to further their cause?",
"What was Project \"C\"? What did King's personal papers reveal about his strategies for achieving his goals?",
"Why do you think that Dr. King encouraged his followers to practice non-violence and passive resistance?",
"What role did India's Mahatma Gandhi have in shaping Dr. King's ideologies and strategies for social change?",
"4. How do those interviewed for this program describe the leadership style and qualities of Dr. King?",
"Why do you think that Soledad O'Brien describes Dr. King as \"an accidental leader\"?",
"Based on what you learned in this program, how would you describe Dr. King's leadership style?",
"Provide examples.",
"5. What do Dr. King's personal writings reveal about his private concerns and fears?",
"How did Dr. King respond to the challenges and dangers he and other activists faced during their civil rights struggle?",
"Do you think that courage is a necessary trait for leadership?",
"Why or why not? What evidence of courage can be drawn from Dr. King's private papers?",
"6. What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?",
"What event provided the catalyst for the boycott?",
"According to friends and colleagues, why was Dr. King chosen as the \"consensus candidate\" to lead the boycott?",
"What was the main goal of the boycott?",
"Did the bus boycott achieve this goal?",
"Explain. 7. Why was Dr. King arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963?",
"How was he able to secure the paper on which he would write \"Letter from a Birmingham Jail\"?",
"According to the program, what messages did Dr. King hope to convey in this document?",
"Why do you think that this document has had such a lasting significance?",
"8. According to the program, why did Dr. King and other activists encourage teenagers to participate in the civil rights struggle?",
"What roles did teens play in the fight for civil rights?",
"Do you think that the strategy of using teenagers was effective at furthering the civil rights cause?",
"Explain. 9. According to Rev.",
"Wyatt Tee Walker, why did Dr. King's \"inner circle\" want to revise the \"I Have a Dream\" theme for his speech at the March on Washington?",
"Why do you think that Dr. King chose to deliver the \"I Have a Dream\" portion of the speech rather than the revised version?",
"Why do you think that some refer to this speech as one of the most important speeches in human history?",
"Do you find personal meaning in this speech?",
"Explain. 10. What did the King papers reveal about Dr. King's personal reaction to the church bombing deaths of four young girls on September 15, 1963, in Birmingham?",
"Why was this event significant for Dr. King, for the civil rights movement and for the nation?",
"11. How was Dr. King publicly recognized for his work towards achieving civil rights?",
"What do eyewitnesses and Dr. King's private papers reveal about the significance of these awards for Dr. King and for the civil rights movement?",
"12. What was \"Bloody Sunday\"?",
"What impact did this event have on Dr. King and the movement he led?",
"13. What events brought Dr. King and his colleagues to Memphis, Tennessee, in early 1968?",
"According to eyewitnesses, how did these events refocus Dr. King's efforts towards addressing the connections between poverty and bigotry?",
"14. How and where was Dr. King murdered?",
"How old was he when he was killed?",
"What was he able to accomplish in his short life?",
"How does his death continue to impact his friends and colleagues like Andrew Young?",
"15. How does this program's treatment of Dr. King compare with other sources of information on the civil rights movement?",
"In your opinion, what is the value of examining historical figures through their personal papers and through the eyes of those who knew them well?",
"Why do you think that there has been such a huge effort to preserve Dr. King's personal papers?",
"What, if anything, did you learn about Dr. King from this program?16.",
"The producers of this program organized it around select speeches and sermons from the Morehouse College MLK collection.",
"From what speech, sermon or document did each of the following quotations come?",
"• \"There is a new Negro in the South.\"",
"• \"I am not afraid of the word tension.\"",
"• \"I have a dream.\" • \"We must substitute courage for caution.\"",
"• \"I still believe that we shall overcome.\"",
"• \"The door that slams shut.\"",
"How do these quotations shed light on Dr. King's hopes and fears?",
"17. The title of this CNN Special Investigations Unit program is MLK Papers -- The Words That Changed a Nation.",
"Based on what you learned in the program, to what extent, if at all, do you think that Dr. King's words changed the nation?",
"What do you think is the legacy of Dr. King?",
"In your view, what civil rights issues, if any, exist in the United States today?",
"What historical lessons explored in this program, if any, could be applied to modern-day civil rights issues?",
"Suggested Activity .",
"Examining the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.",
"Inform students that, in 1985, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, Coretta Scott King, initiated a massive research effort to gather and share historical information about her late husband.",
"This research endeavor, called the King Papers Project, seeks to publish a 14-volume series of Dr. King's most significant letters, sermons, speeches, published works and unpublished manuscripts.",
"Ask students: Why do you think that historians and researchers have engaged in this effort?",
"Who else might find such a definitive collection valuable?",
"Organize students into pairs, and have each pair consult print and online resources to select a different work either written or spoken by Dr. King.",
"Instruct students to assume the roles of historians as they answer the following questions about their chosen documents: .",
"• When was the work written or spoken?",
"• Who do you think was the primary audience for the work, and why?",
"Do you think that there might have been a secondary audience?",
"If so, who was that audience? • What do you think was the intended goal or message of the work?",
"• What is the tone or mood of the work?",
"What techniques, if any, did Dr. King use in the work to convey his message?",
"• What does the work reveal about life in the U.S. at the time when it was written or spoken?",
"• How might different groups of people have interpreted this work at the time when it was first written or spoken?",
"• If you had the opportunity, what questions would you have asked Dr. King about the work?",
"As students present their research, post each work along a civil rights timeline.",
"Discuss each work in the historical, social and political context in which it was originally presented.",
"Then, encourage students to examine the philosophies of Dr. King over the course of his lifetime.",
"Pose the following questions for discussion: .",
"• What is the historical significance of Dr. King's works?",
"• Do you see any patterns or changes in Dr. King's ideology as expressed in works as time passed?",
"If so, how might those changes be reflective of the changes in society or in the civil rights movement?",
"• What significance do they have today?",
"• Do you think that the study of historical documents can provide lessons for addressing modern-day social, economic or political struggles?",
"If so, how? If not, why not? Curriculum Connections .",
"Grade Level: 6 - 12, College .",
"Subject Areas: U.S. History, Civics, Government, Current Issues .",
"Historical Thinking .",
"Standard 4 - Historical Research .",
"Formulate historical questions from encounters with historical documents, eyewitness accounts, letters, diaries, artifacts, photos, historical sites, art, architecture, and other records from the past.",
"Interrogate historical data by uncovering the social, political, and economic context in which it was created; testing the data source for its credibility, authority, authenticity, internal consistency and completeness; and detecting and evaluating bias, distortion, and propaganda by omission, suppression, or invention of facts.",
"U.S. History Standards .",
"Standard 4: The struggle for racial and gender equality and for the extension of civil liberties.",
"Standard 4A: The student understands the \"Second Reconstruction\" and its advancement of civil rights.",
"Analyze the leadership and ideology of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X in the civil rights movement and evaluate their legacies.",
"The National Standards for History (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/standards/) are published by the National Center for History in the Schools (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/)."
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"Students will analyze the goals of Dr. King and the civil rights movement .",
"Students will evaluate the legacy of Dr. King ."
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"(CNN) -- Severe weather tore through the Southeast Sunday night and Monday, killing at least two people and injuring more than 100.",
"The National Weather Service confirms tornadoes touched down in Alabama and Arkansas.",
"Possible tornadoes were also reported in Mississippi and Tennessee.",
"Alabama Gov.",
"Robert Bentley declared a State of Emergency for all of the state's 67 counties.",
"The Alabama Red Cross estimates 211 homes have been destroyed and 218 suffered major damage, making them unlivable.",
"Disaster relief crews are responding to the immediate needs of storm victims across the Southeast.",
"There are ways you can help. Red Cross . The Alabama Red Cross dispatched two emergency response vehicles to provide food to storm victims and opened shelters in Clay, Center Point and St. Clair County.",
"Disaster teams in Arkansas are helping several displaced families secure emergency shelter after the storms damaged their homes.",
"Local residents can volunteer at the Alabama Red Cross call bank.",
"Contact Whitney Somerville with the Red Cross for details.",
"Go online to make a donation to the Red Cross Disaster Relief fund or text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10 donation from your mobile device.",
"Salvation Army .",
"The Salvation Army of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi is providing relief services in Jefferson and Chilton counties.",
"Five mobile feeding units sent to the area served over 400 meals on Monday.",
"The organization is assessing additional needs and says it expects to maintain an extended presence in the damaged areas.",
"To support the Salvation Army's Emergency Disaster Services fund, go online or call 1-800-SAL-ARMY (725-2769).",
"Designate donations for \"January 2012 Tornado Relief.\"",
"Alabama Tornado Animals .",
"Alabama Tornado Animals is a group of local Alabama animal rescuers committed to helping lost pets find their way home.",
"The group began in April 2011 after a deadly tornado outbreak devastated the region.",
"The group is again helping to reunite lost pets with their families after Monday's severe weather.",
"E-mail reports of missing or found pets with a description, post to Facebook or tweet @ALtornadopets.",
"Samaritan's Purse .",
"Samaritan's Purse sent a Disaster Relief Unit, a tractor-trailer with emergency equipment and supplies, to Trussville, Alabama, northeast of Birmingham.",
"The organization is coordinating volunteers to help with cleanup efforts.",
"Log on for more information on how to participate.",
"Samaritan's Purse also responded to the April 2011 tornado outbreak in the Southeast and continues to rebuild homes destroyed in that storm.",
"To support the Samaritan's Purse US Disaster Relief fund, make a donation online."
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"(CNN) -- With Germany's title race set to resume in earnest on Sunday, Bayer Leverkusen took center stage in Saturday's Bundesliga action by claiming fifth place with a 2-0 win at struggling Cologne.",
"Midfielder Lars Bender scored both goals to give Leverkusen successive victories for the first time since August and a one-point advantage over Werder Bremen, who crashed 1-0 at Nuremberg in the late kickoff.",
"But it still left Leverkusen seven points adrift of Schalke, who travel to third-placed Bayern Munich on Sunday.",
"Champions Borussia Dortmund, meanwhile, can stretch their two-point lead with victory at home to Hanover following second-placed Borussia Monchengladbach's home draw with Hamburg on Friday.",
"It could be a pivotal round of matches, with five points separating the top four teams.",
"Nuremberg climbed eight points clear of the relegation zone as Alexander Esswein's 65th-minute goal gave the visitors a second win in the last 10 meetings with the 2004 league champions.",
"Bremen hold a two-point advantage over Hanover in the race for the final Europa League qualification spot, with Stuttgart a further five points back despite the 4-1 win over bottom side Freiburg in which Martin Harnik scored twice.",
"Hoffenheim stayed behind their south-west rivals on goal difference after winning 2-1 at Wolfsburg, who dropped behind Hamburg and Mainz -- 4-0 victors over second-bottom Kaiserslautern.",
"Cologne are four points above the relegation playoffs after a sixth defeat in seven, while Augsberg moved out of the bottom three with a 3-0 win over fellow strugglers Hertha Berlin thanks to two second-half goals from striker Torsten Oehrl."
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"(CNN) -- Like two heavyweight boxers slugging it out over 12 rounds, Briny Baird and Bryce Molder stood toe-to-toe.",
"With darkness descending, the pair traded blows for a remarkable two hours before Molder, at 31 eight years Baird's junior, triumphed in the longest and most dramatic golfing playoff of 2011.",
"In the end, Molder's six-foot birdie putt on the sixth extra hole of October's Frys.com Open in California proved enough to snatch victory and ensured that Baird's 348th PGA Tour event would go the same way as the previous 347.",
"When CNN contacted Baird we expected to find a man down on his fortunes, ruing another missed opportunity to finally claim the first Tour victory of his career.",
"Yet nothing could have been further from the truth.",
"The 39-year-old Florida native was out fishing, relaxing on his 22-foot Pathfinder boat in a bay off Stuart on the Atlantic coast, about 90 minutes north of Miami.",
"And he already had his dinner plans taken care of for the evening.",
"\"I've caught two speckled trout and one red fish,\" he told me enthusiastically.",
"\"I am going to a friend's house later, where we will clean them up and have them for dinner.",
"I only really play golf so I can support my fishing!\"",
"If that really is the case, then Baird's fishing hobby has been pretty well supported over the years, to the tune of $12,460,542 to be precise, and his latest heartbreaking near-miss added another $540,000 to the coffers.",
"That impressive prize fund puts him in 87th position on the all-time PGA Tour money list, ahead of such luminaries and major winners as Tom Kite, Ben Crenshaw, John Daly, Craig Stadler and the legendary Tom Watson, to name just a few.",
"\"I would rather be the guy who has won the most money without a victory than the guy who has won the least money!",
"A stat is only as bad as you want it to be,\" said Baird.",
"\"If you are going to do something for a living that you love to do, and you are financially rewarded for doing it, that is a complete bonus.",
"On the flip side, the negative is true and I cannot deny it.",
"I am not out there trying 'not to win.'",
"Not winning is not something I relish.\"",
"Golfing is in Michael Jancey Baird's blood -- his nickname comes from a character in Herman Wouk's novel \"The Winds of War,\" which his mother was reading when Briny was a young boy.",
"The son of professional Butch Baird, the young Briny was introduced to the sport at a very early age.",
"\"My dad being a golfer was a big part of my life growing up.",
"It gave me an insight into how you should go about playing golf and he was a good player -- winning twice on the PGA Tour.",
"\"He was completely hands on -- my golf swing was made by my father -- but my parents went through a really bad divorce when I was 18 and I and haven't spoken to my dad for eight years.",
"\"From three to 18, everything I learned, 100%, was from my dad.",
"The next 20 years, nothing through him.\"",
"Baird pauses for a moment, before continuing: \"People are disbelieving when I tell them, but for me it is a non-issue.",
"\"I think people find it more shocking because we both have the same careers -- they don't relate to it as life, just golf.",
"My dad and I don't speak because of life, not because of golf.\"",
"Baird's early college years were spent in exalted golfing company at Georgia Tech.",
"\"I was in the same golf team as David Duval and Stewart Cink (both winners of the British Open).",
"\"We had a great time and are all still firm friends now, but out of school I didn't enjoy it as much, so I left for Division Two school Valdosta State, where I had a blast ... and met my wife!\"",
"Despite becoming a millionaire from playing the sport he loves, Baird has also experienced the downside of being a professional.",
"He lost his PGA Tour card in 2004, agonizingly finishing one place outside the top 125 players that are invited back, while last year he again just missed out, finishing 127th.",
"That meant he was playing on a limited schedule this year, although his second place in California ensures no such worries for 2012.",
"\"Having to play in the qualifying school sucks, it is not fun at all,\" says Baird.",
"\"You are playing for your job for the entire year and possibly for your entire career -- it is more pressure than any other tournament.",
"A guy can miss a putt on the 18th hole and not have a tour card as a result.",
"It's very hard.\" Perhaps the phrase is overused, but Baird is genuinely one of golf's nice guys.",
"We chat away for over half an hour like old friends and nothing seems too much trouble for him, although the feeling remains that finishing second for a fifth time in his career, and in such dramatic circumstances, will leave an indelible mark on Baird.",
"But his mood is upbeat, positive and determined.",
"Briny Baird is convinced he will win a tournament one day.",
"\"Look, I am not going to lie to you, it was a massive disappointment to lose that playoff.",
"I honestly felt I was going to win the tournament.",
"I know I can win on tour.",
"In fact, I know I can win more than once on tour,\" he says.",
"\"I walked away thinking I had done things I hadn't done before.",
"I played to win and in my mind I knew I was going to win.",
"\"I felt in control and played really good coming down the stretch.",
"I don't know how many times I have done that, for me that was a big hurdle to overcome.\"",
"If self belief was a golf tournament, Briny Baird would be a multiple winner, and his latest narrow defeat will not dent his confidence or dilute his desire to secure that elusive first victory.",
"Golf's richest runner-up is determined to reel in that big prize soon, don't be surprised if he hooks his biggest-ever catch in 2012."
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"American Briny Baird has won over $12 million in prize money since turning pro .",
"Baird has been professional since 1995 and has played in 348 career events .",
"Although never winning a tournament, Baird has finished second five times .",
"The 39-year-old is ranked in 87th position in the all-time PGA Tour money list ."
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"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- A day after an election official announced that Nigeria's parliamentary election was postponed for two days, the nation's election commission announced that all elections would be pushed back a week.",
"The Independent National Election Commission said the parliamentary, presidential and gubernatorial elections would be put off because of the late arrival of voting materials.",
"\"We cannot proceed with these elections if we want them to be free, fair and credible if there are no result sheets,\" said Attahiru Jega, chairman of the election commission, on Saturday, when the parliamentary race was supposed to happen.",
"\"We cannot bury our heads and say there are no problems.",
"It is regrettable. It is unfortunate. It should not have happened.\" Jega also had said he took full responsibility for the fiasco but he said a vendor that was supplying results sheets and ballots was unable to deliver them on time.",
"The vendor, said Jega, cited the diversion of planes to carry relief supplies to earthquake-stricken Japan as the reason for the delay.",
"Citizens of Africa's most populous nation were supposed to vote Saturday for 360 House of Representatives seats and 109 Senate seats.",
"That vote will now be held April 9.",
"And they were scheduled to vote next Saturday in a presidential election and for state governors the following week, all of which has been bumped to April 16 and 26, respectively.",
"Before the logistical problems, the election, the most expensive in Nigeria's history, had already been marred by riots, bombings and assassinations.",
"\"The unprecedented levels of violence that have seen several people either killed, maimed, kidnapped or intimidated for political reasons pose the single most significant threat to the conduct of general elections,\" warned the Nigeria Elections Situation Room -- a forum of groups focusing on the upcoming elections.",
"Human Rights Watch estimates at least 70 people have been killed in political violence in the run-up to the voting.",
"The European Union described Nigeria's 2007 elections as the worst they had ever seen anywhere in the world, with rampant vote rigging, violence, theft of ballot boxes and intimidation.",
"Nigeria had hoped to gain a cleaner image this year.",
"CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report."
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"Late arrival of voting material has forced the delays .",
"The election commission chairman had apologized for the delay .",
"The election is the most expensive in Nigerian history ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Human rights groups met a somewhat skeptical Supreme Court on Tuesday as they presented arguments on whether foreign victims of torture and other crimes against humanity can sue corporations and other organizations in U.S. federal courts.",
"The cases argued could have enormous global impact from a moral, political, and financial perspective.",
"At issue is the scope of two federal laws that are increasingly being used in an effort to hold businesses accountable for human rights atrocities committed overseas.",
"Two separate civil cases before the high court involve Nigerian political activists claiming foreign oil companies were complicit in violent abuse at the hands of the country's military; and an American family alleging their father was tortured and killed while in the custody of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Liberation Organization.",
"Both cases were earlier blocked from going to trial in federal courts, for separate legal reasons.",
"Now the justices are being asked to sort out whether political groups and corporations enjoy broad immunity, and whether the American laws intend only for individuals to be held liable for international law violations.",
"\"There's no connection to the United States whatsoever\" in these lawsuits, said Justice Samuel Alito.",
"The statute being challenged here \"was enacted -- there seems to be a consensus -- to prevent international tension, and this kind of lawsuit only creates international tension.\"",
"But Justice Elena Kagan, an active questioner, was convinced such cases could proceed.",
"\"Take an example that has all the extraterritoriality aspects of this case taken away from it,\" she said.",
"\"Let's assume that the French ambassador is assaulted or attacked in some way in the United States, and that that attack is by a corporate agent.",
"Would we say that the corporation there cannot be sued\" under the federal law?",
"The first appeal was filed on behalf of residents of the oil-abundant Ogoni area of the Niger River delta.",
"Two decades ago, they protested the long-standing environmental harm caused by Shell and other energy firms from the petroleum extraction.",
"They and their families claim the Nigerian government brutally suppressed them, \"aided and abetted\" by private corporations doing business there.",
"The Ogoni 9 -- as the key leaders became known-- were allegedly detained, tortured, and tried by a special Nigerian military tribunal, in violation of international human rights treaties.",
"The government's 1993-95 crackdown sparked global outrage after author Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists were convicted, then hanged.",
"Among those bringing suit is his nephew, Charles Wiwa, who escaped the Nigerian oppression and now lives in Chicago as a political refugee.",
"He described being a student activist beaten by soldiers for hours in front of a crowd of onlookers, then detained and tortured for days .",
"He claims Shell -- based in the Netherlands and Britain -- conspired with the government to keep its business operations going in the face of protests, and should be held accountable for ignoring or encouraging a pattern of killings, rapes, beatings, and property destruction.",
"He said the only place to obtain justice is in the United States.",
"\"Nigeria's dictatorship has grown rich from its oil,\" Wawa told CNN.",
"\"It is important those (oil) companies be held responsible, because we cannot bring any legal action in courts in Nigeria.\"",
"The law in question is the Alien Tort Statute, or ATS, which gives federal courts jurisdiction over claims from foreigners that they were harmed by international law violations.",
"It was ignored for decades, but has now become an important legal vehicle for those bring human rights claims.",
"Similar lawsuits involve Chevron and Exxon energy operations in Indonesia; Chiquita Brand fruit farms in Colombia; and businesses that operated years ago in the now-outlawed apartheid system in South Africa.",
"The high court in 2004 endorsed use of the ATS, but only in limited circumstances.",
"That approach was apparent among several of the conservative justices during Tuesday's two-hour oral arguments.",
"\"In this case, the corporations have residences and presence in many other countries where they have many more contacts than here,\" Justice Anthony Kennedy said.",
"Later he told the Obama administration lawyer supporting the Nigerian plaintiffs, \"Suppose an American corporation commits human trafficking with U.S. citizens in the United States.",
"Under your view, the U.S. corporation could be sued in any country in the world, and it would have no international consequences.",
"We don't look to the international consequences at all.\"",
"\"If there is no other country where this suit could have been brought, regardless of what American domestic law provides,\" asked Chief Justice John Roberts, \"isn't that a legitimate concern that allowing the suit itself contravenes international law?\"",
"But Kagan and Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg were skeptical about giving corporations a judicial free pass of sorts.",
"Breyer pointed out the ATS was passed more than two centuries ago in response to piracy on the high seas.",
"He used a humorous hypothetical to make his point.",
"\"The principle that here would apply is Pirates Inc. Do you think in the 18th century if they'd brought Pirates Inc. (to court in a lawsuit), and we get all their gold, and Blackbeard gets up and he says: 'Oh, it isn't me, it's the corporation' that is responsible -- do you think that they would have then said: 'Oh, I see, it's a corporation.",
"Good-bye. Go home.'\" \"Yes, the corporation would not be liable\" even in that case, said attorney Kathleen Sullivan, representing Shell.",
"The second case involves the Torture Victims Protection Act, passed two decades ago, and whether its provisions for liability for human rights abuses apply only to \"natural persons.\"",
"The family of Palestinian-born Azzam Rahim Mohamad -- a naturalized U.S. citizen -- claims intelligence officers are responsible for his beating death in 1995.",
"U.S. officials later said three of the officers were implicated in the incident, but Rahim's relatives believe the Palestinian organizations that have defacto control of the disputed Mideast territories hold ultimate responsibility.",
"The civil lawsuits in the international law context have been compared to a separate, high-profile domestic political dispute.",
"The high court in 2010 concluded corporations -- businesses, unions, and issue advocacy groups -- enjoy the same free speech rights as individuals when it comes to independent election spending.",
"Now the issue is whether corporations and political entities should be treated the same as individual offenders when it comes to enforcing international human rights.",
"The cases are Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (10-1491) and Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority (11-88).",
"Rulings can be expected by late June."
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"Two U.S. cases seek to sue corporations for actions abroad .",
"The justices are being asked to sort out whether laws intended for individuals apply .",
"Justice Alito: \"There's no connection to the United States whatsoever\" in these lawsuits .",
"Justice Breyer: Would Blackbeard get off by blaming crimes on Pirates Inc.?"
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"(CNN) -- A Virginia man pleaded no contest to capital murder on Tuesday in the death of his girlfriend and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, Roanoke County officials said.",
"Jeffrey Scott Easley, 33, was accused of murdering 41-year-old Tina Smith and abducting her 12-year-old daughter.",
"Smith's body was discovered in her home on December 6, 2010.",
"The daughter was found five days later in San Francisco after being spotted outside a supermarket.",
"Circuit Court Judge James Swanson accepted Easley's plea and found him guilty of capital murder.",
"He dropped the \"abduction with intent to defile\" charge and sentenced him to life in prison with no chance of parole.",
"In January 2011, Easley wrote a letter to the Roanoke Times, saying the girl was his willing cross-country companion.",
"\"I did not kidnapp her or take her aginest her will,\" Easley wrote in a misspelled letter postmarked from the Western Virginia Regional Jail.",
"\"She made me promise not to leave her.\"",
"Smith died from blunt force trauma to the head, strangulation and suffocation."
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"A judge sentences Jeffrey Scott Easley to life in prison without the possibility of parole .",
"He was also accused of abducting his girlfriend's 12-year-old daughter .",
"The child was found five days later in San Francisco ."
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"(CNN) -- Victims and campaigners from the Bhopal disaster of 1984 have staged a \"die-in\" outside the UK's sports ministry to protest at the sponsorship role Dow Chemical Company will play in the London 2012 Olympics.",
"The demonstrators object to the International Olympic Committee's 10-year deal with Dow, who in 2001 became owners of the firm that caused one of the worst industrial disasters in India, when nearly 4,000 people were killed by a gas leak at the Union Carbide plant.",
"An estimated 45,000 others were said to be affected by the emission of poisonous gas at the site in Bhopal, which has caused cancer, disability and renal failure.",
"The demonstrators want the Indian government to boycott the 2012 Games if the IOC keeps Dow as a sponsor, and said they will continue their protests after the Olympic body insisted their partner was not responsible for the tragedy.",
"The campaigners are lobbying the UK government to rectify what it claims are \"transparent errors of moral judgment and legal reasoning\" in its failure to remove all support for Dow's sponsorship.",
"India's government has written to the IOC to ask it to drop ties with Dow, while the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) has threatened to withdraw from the Games if no action is taken.",
"In a letter to the IOA, Jacques Rogge, president of the IOC, said: \"IOC recognizes that the Bhopal tragedy in 1984 was an horrific event for India and the world.",
"\"The Olympic Movement sympathizes with the grief of the victims' families and regrets the ongoing suffering people face in the region.",
"\"Dow had no connection with the Bhopal tragedy.",
"Dow did not have any ownership stake in Union Carbide until 16 years after the accident and 12 years after the $470 million compensation agreement was approved by the Indian Supreme Court.",
"\"We only enter into partnerships with organizations that we believe work in accordance with the values of the Olympic Movement.\"",
"But with the Indian Supreme Court reviewing the case for a third time, the protestors claimed Dow was engaged in an \"unethical refusal to deal with its unresolved legal and moral liabilities in Bhopal.\"",
"They also claimed Dow are misrepresenting facts and \"prolonging the suffering of thousands of people in Bhopal, including that of unborn generations.\"",
"Officials from the protest group met with representatives from the UK's high commission and handed over a petition complete with 21,000 signatures that asked for Dow to be dropped as an Olympic sponsor."
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"Indian group protest to UK government over sponsorship deal for London 2012 Games .",
"Group angry Dow Chemical Company signed 10-year Olympic contract in 2010 .",
"Protestors claim Dow is involved in avoiding liability in Bhopal tragedy of 1984 .",
"IOC says it sympathizes with demonstrators' position but defends Dow deal ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Drug Enforcement Administration is extending for another six months its emergency ban on five chemicals used to make synthetic drugs such as Spice, the DEA announced on Wednesday.",
"The DEA already had banned the substances for a year, but with that period soon to expire, the DEA announced it will file a notice in the Federal Register on Thursday that will mean the chemicals will continue to be illegal.",
"The substances used to make the fake pot products are: JWH-018, JWH-073, JWH-200, CP-47,497 (that's all one chemical CP-47,497) and cannabicyclohexanol.",
"The names sound like an alphabetical and numerical soup.",
"But the drugs are marketed as herbal incense under such names as K2, Blaze, Spice and Red X Dawn and have been popular with teenagers and young adults.",
"The DEA says the products are made of plant material coated with chemicals that claim to mimic THC, the key ingredient in marijuana.",
"The DEA's emergency action means the chemicals are designated as Schedule 1 substances, the most restrictive category of drugs under the Controlled Substances Act.",
"\"Schedule 1 substances are reserved for those substances with a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States and a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug under medical supervision,\" according to a DEA press release.",
"Poison control centers reported about 13,000 calls about problems with synthetic drugs in 2011, Deborah Carr of the American Association of Poison Control Centers said earlier this month.",
"\"Sixty percent of the cases involved patients under the age of 25,\" said Carr.",
"The poison centers and emergency room doctors say users of these synthetic drugs might have symptoms as convulsions, elevated heart rates, vomiting and disorientation.",
"DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart said the chemicals \"present an imminent danger to public safety.\"",
"The DEA's emergency powers to restrict the drugs cannot be extended more than 18 months, but the Department of Health and Human Services can take action to make the ban permanent.",
"DEA officials also would like to see Congress pass legislation to outlaw synthetic drugs.",
"The House passed a bill but the Senate has not followed suit."
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"The Drug Enforcement Administration is extending its ban for six months .",
"The one-year ban on the chemicals was set to expire soon .",
"Drugs marketed as herbal incense under such names as K2, Blaze, Spice, Red X Dawn .",
"Users of these synthetic drugs might have convulsions, vomiting, disorientation ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Dozens of Israeli security personnel stormed the compound housing the al-Aqsa mosque Friday after Palestinians threw rocks at nearby police, according to Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.",
"More than 100 Palestinians began throwing rocks at a police location following Friday prayers, prompting the police to enter the compound, Rosenfeld said.",
"According to witnesses, Israeli forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the Palestinians.",
"Ziad Hammouri, the director of Palestinian Jerusalem Center for Socio-Economic Rights, said a number of Palestinians were arrested and there were reports of some injuries.",
"The disturbances mark the latest in a series of clashes and rock-throwing incidents around the compound in the past week, amid reports that Israeli authorities were allowing right-wing Jewish activists access to the site in order to stoke tensions with Palestinians."
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"Israeli security personnel enter mosque compound after Palestinians throw rocks at police .",
"Hammouri says some Palestinians were arrested ."
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"Cairo (CNN) -- A group of American and British pro-democracy activists accused of fomenting unrest in Egypt have left the country on a U.S. military plane, U.S. and Egyptian officials said Thursday.",
"The workers were among a group of international workers for pro-democracy groups that had been under a travel ban that Egypt's government lifted Wednesday.",
"One of the organizations involved praised the decision, but expressed concern for its Egyptian staffers who remained behind.",
"Sixteen Americans were among the 43 workers for non-governmental organizations targeted in a December crackdown by Egypt's military-led government.",
"They faced fraud charges before an Egyptian court, straining ties between Egypt and the United States, its leading ally.",
"An Egyptian appellate judge, Abdel Moez Ibrahim, said Wednesday that the charges are still pending.",
"And a lawyer representing some of the defendants, Negad El Borei, said the defendants paid bail of 2 million Egyptian pounds (about $132,000) before being allowed to leave.",
"An Egyptian court opened their trial on fraud charges Sunday, but adjourned until late April after the charges were formally read.",
"The three judges handling the case stepped down Tuesday.",
"The workers are charged with operating in Egypt without being officially registered and receiving foreign funding.",
"Egyptian authorities called their work part of a pattern of international interference that was stoking continued protests against the current government.",
"One of those charged is Sam LaHood, director of Egypt operations for the International Republican Institute and the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.",
"The group said Thursday that it \"welcomes this decision and is hopeful that the charges against its expatriate and local Egyptian staff will be dismissed.\"",
"\"IRI views the decision as a positive development, but remains very concerned about the situation and our Egyptian employees along with the continuing investigations of Egyptian civil society groups and the impact it will have on Egypt's ability to move forward with the democratic transition that so many Egyptians have sought,\" it said in a written statement.",
"Other groups targeted by the raids included the National Democratic Institute, Freedom House, the International Center for Journalists and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.",
"Only seven of the Americans were believed to have remained in Egypt, all of them at the U.S. Embassy.",
"Their departure could ease a tense patch between Egypt and the United States, which provides more than $1 billion in annual aid to Egypt's military."
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"The activists had faced charges in an Egyptian court .",
"Their organizations were targeted in a government crackdown in December .",
"One of the groups praised the decision, but expressed concern for its Egyptian staff ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine\" (Relic Entertainment, THQ) deftly takes the popular tabletop miniatures game and puts it into a video game with gun-blazing, sword-swinging action and a story that flows well.",
"Players control Titus, a captain of the Ultramarines, as they and their comrades attempt to battle orks, demons and the forces of Chaos.",
"There are plenty of weapons to satisfy your melee or missile tendencies in battle.",
"All the action takes place in the third-person point of view, so the field of battle is easily kept in sight at all times.",
"Minor enemies attack en masse and in waves, while tougher enemies usually show up to scrap all alone.",
"Boss battles are demanding, and pulling off multiple attacks is almost required to conquer the last foe.",
"Players often are accompanied by two other space marines who contribute to the wholesale slaughter of lesser opponents but seem to have little effect on boss battles.",
"Hand-to-hand weapons can be knives, swords, axes and hammers while long-distance weapons start with pistols and go all the way to cannons.",
"Ammunition and grenades can be found strewn around the battlefield to supply whatever weapons you have in your possession.",
"Modes of combat are interchangeable and offer plenty of ways to wipe out enemies.",
"Trigger buttons control the long-range weapons while controller buttons activate hand-to-hand abilities such as stun and execution.",
"Performing an execution on a stunned enemy also rewards the player with points for good health.",
"Hack-and-slash action makes for an enjoyable fight and really enhances the game.",
"But it is more than just blood and gore (which, incidentally, gets splashed all over your character during battle, then magically disappears afterward) that make \"Space Marine\" worthy.",
"The characters seem like they are ripped right from the British navy, with accents that sound like they come from the streets of London.",
"Each character has his own feel and motivations, giving personality to even the lowliest speaking ones.",
"The game's three main space marines all have their own quirks and idiosyncrasies.",
"They are outfitted in colorful armor that probably would feel right at home in a \"World of Warcraft\" setting but with nods to symbols and icons of ancient civilizations.",
"I found myself listening a little more intently than normal as characters spoke about their trials and tribulations.",
"Small bits of soldiers' lives were revealed, helping make the entire experience more immersive.",
"The story -- one of honor, courage and sacrifice -- could have readily been ignored or glossed over to focus more on the combat.",
"However, developers were able to knit together a tale that also includes loss and betrayal while giving the player a feeling of omnipotence that makes it unique for shooters.",
"But the single-player campaign game felt like it didn't last long enough, and the maps, while beautiful, were linear -- not allowing for exploration.",
"The panoramic views and immense weaponry teased with the prospect of a wide world to be explored and liberated, only to be stifled by rubble and downed machinery at every turn.",
"The ending, a cliffhanger of sorts, really was a jaw dropper.",
"It's a testament to the writers for crafting an interesting (but short) story as well as the developers for making me feel so invested in my characters.",
"I have never played \"Warhammer 40,000\" on the tabletop (mainly because I didn't have the funds to lay out for the miniature figures that are required), but \"Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine\" on the console is well worth the investment.",
"\"Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine\" is available for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.",
"It is rated M for mature due to blood and gore and intense violence.",
"This review was done playing the single-player campaign on the Xbox 360."
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"All the action takes place in the third-person point of view .",
"Hand-to-hand weapons can be knives, swords, axes and hammers ."
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"(InStyle.com) -- From the royal wedding to Beyonce's baby bump reveal, this year has been full of major style.",
"Check out these unforgettable moments of 2011.",
"Beyonce's baby bump reveal .",
"Beyonce made her entrance at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in August wearing a one-shoulder Lanvin gown while clutching her newly-sprouted baby bump.",
"The mom-to-be later took the stage in a sequined Dolce & Gabbana tux for her performance of \"Love On Top.\"",
"\"I want you to feel the love that's growing inside of me,\" she said before unbuttoning her jacket and patting her belly.",
"The royal wedding .",
"Over 2 billion people watched the nuptials of Prince William and Catherine Middleton on April 29, and what a wedding it was!",
"The bride emerged in a custom Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen dress that is forever etched into the memories of millions.",
"InStyle.com: See Kate Middleton's wedding gown from every angle .",
"J. Lo: Back and better than ever!",
"After taking time to start a family and live privately, Jennifer Lopez triumphantly returned to the spotlight this year.",
"With a stint as judge of American Idol, a new CD with hit singles, a line with Kohl's, a campaign with Tous, and the #1 spot on People magazine's Most Beautiful People list, this woman won't let anyone get in her way of making it to the top!",
"Missoni for Target sells out .",
"Missoni's capsule collection for Target caused a shopping frenzy!",
"The 400-piece line made its debut at the opening of a Missoni for Target pop-up shop in New York, but the store had to shut down almost immediately because it completely sold out.",
"After the collection finally made its way to Target.com in September, record-breaking crowds crashed the site, leaving shoppers to raid their local Target stores and scour eBay for what was left of the zig-zag striped pieces.",
"The biggest haircut of the year .",
"Even halfway around the world in Madrid, Jennifer Aniston set American beauty, fashion, and entertainment press on fire when she debuted her new above-the-shoulders haircut during a press call for Just Go With It in late February.",
"Fans debated if they liked it or not, and Aniston's legacy of trendsetting styles continued.",
"InStyle.com: Jennifer Aniston's transformation .",
"Emma Watson ends \"Harry Potter\" on top!",
"2011 saw the end of the Harry Potter film franchise, and Emma Watson made sure to go out with a bang!",
"The actress hit the red carpet on her Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 press tour in July in chic cropped hair and a series of dramatic designer looks by Oscar de la Renta, Rafael Lopez and Bottega Veneta (shown).",
"Pippa: The world's it girl .",
"If the Royal Wedding made Catherine Middleton a Duchess, then it made Pippa Middleton a star.",
"The younger sister and maid of honor to Catherine wowed the world in a form-fitting Alexander McQueen gown for the Royal Wedding, and both the paparazzi and fashion fans have followed her every move since.",
"InStyle.com: Pippa Middleton's best outfits of 2011 .",
"Remembering Elizabeth Taylor .",
"The world lost a screen legend on March 23, when Elizabeth Taylor passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 79.",
"Taylor, an AIDS activist and two-time Academy Award winner, was known for her collection of both jewelry and husbands.",
"Alexander McQueen breaks records .",
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York houses a fashion exhibition every spring, and this year the late British designer Alexander McQueen was its subject.",
"The exhibition, entitled \"Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty,\" included over 100 pieces from McQueen's archives, spanning from his post-graduate collection in 1992 to his last collection named Angels & Demons, which showed on the runway after his February 2010 death.",
"The exhibition drew 661,509 visitors from May through August, making it the eighth biggest show on record at the Met.",
"See all of the most memorable style moments of 2011 at InStyle.com.",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2011 Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Pippa Middleton wowed the world in a form-fitting Alexander McQueen gown .",
"Missoni's capsule collection for Target caused a shopping frenzy .",
"Jennifer Lopez triumphantly returned to the spotlight this year ."
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"Havana (CNN) -- Angelita Castro, the older sister to Cuban presidents Fidel and Raul Castro, died in Havana on Tuesday, her sister Juanita Castro said.",
"She was 88. Juanita Castro told CNN her sister had suffered from Alzheimer's disease and died surrounded by her family.",
"\"She was a dedicated and loving mother; her family took very good care of her after she became ill,\" she said.",
"Juanita Castro told CNN she had not seen her sister since leaving the island in 1964 and becoming a critic of the Cuban revolution.",
"Angelita's Castro's death was not reported on Cuba's state-run media."
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"Angelita Castro had suffered from Alzheimer's disease .",
"Juanita Castro says she hadn't seen her sister since leaving the island in 1964 .",
"Her death was not reported by Cuba's state-run media ."
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"Dakar, Senegal (CNN) -- Jazz, soul and a blend of rock and roll combine to make Senegalese music sound quite familiar, while the sound of the sabar, a traditional Senegalese drum, keeps the music true to its West African roots.",
"I'm listening to the mbalax style of music for my latest \"Inside Africa\" assignment: to experience the special sounds of Senegal.",
"Without a doubt, the biggest name in Senegalese drumming is Doudou N'Diaye Rose.",
"He's almost mythical; every person I interviewed spoke of him as the \"sabar master.\"",
"With more than forty children and an untold number of grandkids, he's been performing since the 1930's, gradually crafting the unique rhythm of this part of the world -- literally with his bare hands.",
"Meeting the legend was not what I expected.",
"At 82 years old he has a small frame and is such a humble person.",
"When we arrived at one of his homes, he was more concerned with our crew eating breakfast than showing off his many accomplishments.",
"Doudou has performed with the Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, at the Cannes Film Festival and has been declared by UNESCO as a \"living human treasure.\"",
"Most of his children learned from him, playing in a traveling orchestra.",
"Even his female grandchildren formed a group, practicing on the rooftop.",
"However, when Dakar's chief drum major -- who is draped in an elaborate Grand Boubou print -- steps behind his wide array of drums, modesty leaves the room.",
"The beats are complex, quickly changing from soft, rapid taps of the finger tips and palm to loud strikes by the galan, or stick.",
"Strings pull the shaved goatskin surface tight and, by twisting a series of cylindrical pegs, each drum can be tuned just like a guitar.",
"Doudou explains that what I'm hearing is more than music -- it's a beautiful language reminiscent of his childhood in the Plateau district.",
"A time when certain types of drums would be used to communicate certain ideas; calm, joyful messages for wedding ceremonies, or exciting, encouraging sounds for young men heading off to battle.",
"See also: Senegal island exposes horrors of the slave trade .",
"Today, younger Senegalese artists are taking the Doudou sound and modernizing it.",
"He often appears as a special guest on stage with artists like Coumba Gawlo -- currently one of the best selling female singers in the country.",
"When I watched her performing, she was serenading crowds in the local language of Wolof, belting out the mbalax sound as she was being lowered in a golden cage onto a smoke-filled stage.",
"But even next to a curvaceous woman wearing a sparkling dress, Doudou holds his own -- an octogenarian with as much stage presence as a pop star.",
"From inside a lively recording studio elsewhere in town I find more local artists who cite Doudou as their inspiration.",
"Daara J Family is a group made up of Faada Freddy and Ndongo D, plus the support of drummers, electric guitar players and a keyboardist.",
"The sound is eclectic; I can hear Jamaican reggae influences in their beats and in Ndongo D's fast rapping style.",
"Faadda Freddy tells me that in songs like \"Bayi Yoon,\" they pull from the South African vocal tradition, essentially sampling from every place they've toured.",
"Local history is important to them as well.",
"On Daara J Family's second album they included a song about Senegal's Goree Island as a modern way of discussing the trans-Atlantic slave trade.",
"But mostly, the group is optimistic and forward-looking.",
"Ndongo D explains to me that while they pull from the Doudou-created Senegalese sound they want to include more aspects of music in the African diaspora because \"we all came from Africa, and then went to different horizons to settle.\"",
"Their aim is to connect with people globally.",
"See also: Beach life gives a taste of real Senegal .",
"On this journey of discovery, it's becoming more apparent to me that music has been a powerful form of communication, expression and family bonding in Senegal.",
"Getting to a place of a strong, almost spiritual connection is what mbalax is really about - even though it might sound quite foreign to many of us.",
"It was a privilege to meet Doudou (and even get a personal lesson in drumming), wonderful to see traditional music get a contemporary twist, and eye-opening to see West African artists reaching out to the rest of the world.",
"Faada Freddy summed up my impressions best: \"Being African is not a matter of color -- it's about heart.\""
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"Mbalax, combining jazz, soul, and rock with traditional beats, is the dance music of Senegal .",
"The godfather of the scene is the 82-year-old drummer Doudou N'Diaye Rose .",
"His instrument is the sabar, the traditional drum played with the hand and a stick .",
"Younger generations are fusing the sound with new influences to reach international audiences ."
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"(CNN) -- Prue Murdoch, the daughter of Rupert by his first marriage, once told me that her abiding memory of her father over the breakfast table was not of his beaming face, but of the back page of a newspaper.",
"One doubts if James Murdoch even remembers that.",
"Judging by his evidence to the parliamentary inquiry into the \"industrial-scale\" hacking of innocent parties' phones by the News of the World and The Sun -- over which he presided, as executive chairman of their publisher, News International -- he appears to have suffered so bad a case of amnesia that it's a miracle he even remembered his own name.",
"That his inquisitors, competitors and shareholders have struggled to believe his evidence is an understatement.",
"Nonetheless, it still came as a surprise when James resigned from his position Wednesday, congratulating himself on the successful launch of the new Sun on Sunday last weekend.",
"Coming so soon after the closure of the News of the World -- in apparent contrition for its despicable and illegal snooping, but in fact because advertisers had withdrawn their support -- the publication of the new Sunday rag has been widely perceived as an act of breathtaking cynicism.",
"Pundits have even wondered if it was the Murdochs' plan all along to cut costs by replacing two papers with one leaner, seven-day operation.",
"But that's another story.",
"Today's questions are: Why did James go now; and how has his departure played in Parliament, in the press and with the public?",
"To the first, the quick answer is that his I-don't-know-nuthin' stance was becoming untenable.",
"Even the News of the World's ex-lawyer has pointed the finger at him, and it can only be a matter of time until hard proof of his complicity in either the hacking or its coverup becomes apparent.",
"At another level, it can be seen as a PR move: Let the parliamentarians think they've got a scalp; and let the public and shareholders think there's a new broom in New International's Augean stable.",
"If so, it has certainly impressed the money men: News International's share price rose 2% on the news, and there is speculation that the company is being primed for a sale.",
"Many politicians are also happy.",
"Against all the academic research, it is generally believed that the press has a huge effect on the public's voting intentions.",
"And since the Murdoch press generally leans to the right, while its tormentors lean leftward, they are counting James' resignation as a victory for the common man.",
"While the Conservative Party has been rather muted on the subject, Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman has weighed in with veiled demands for James' arrest and prosecution.",
"But what of the common man?",
"The truth is, he probably doesn't give a flying fig.",
"A friend of mine who works in the popular press tells me that she recently commissioned some research into the attitudes of 1,000 former readers of the News of the World.",
"\"If the paper was still being published, they would still be buying it,\" she said.",
"\"Ninety-five percent of them either didn't know or didn't care about the methods by which the paper got its stories.",
"\"They can feel sympathy for the parents of Milly Dowler [the murdered schoolgirl whose phone was hacked by News of the World investigators], as they can for Charlotte Church [the celebrity singer and another phone hacking victim].",
"But at the end of the day, their interest in a story will always outweigh any qualms about how it was obtained.\"",
"True, the public's interest in the James Murdoch story has hardly been piqued.",
"Most papers have made very little of it.",
"Maybe that's because they have their own misdemeanors to conceal; maybe because, in such a close-knit profession, it limits job prospects to attack the son of a major employer; maybe because of an unspoken convention among the press barons that they don't attack each other.",
"But one suspects that our editors know what their readers really care about.",
"Today, that's the death of Monkees frontman Davy Jones.",
"And ain't that a shame? The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Tim Willis."
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"James Murdoch resigned as the chairman of News International on Wednesday .",
"Tim Willis: His I-don't-know-nuthin' stance was becoming untenable in the hacking scandal .",
"Willis: Politicians are happy about the resignation and count it as a victory for the public .",
"He says the public has far more interest in the death of Davy Jones than Murdoch news ."
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"Buena Park, California (CNN) -- A hostage situation in a Southern California bank ended abruptly Thursday when the suspect was shot, police said.",
"Aerial footage showed a person being carried on a stretcher through broken glass that earlier had been the window for a Saehan Bank branch in Buena Park, about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles.",
"Emergency personnel could be seen attending to a person -- who appeared to be shirtless, bloodied and not moving -- before the person was taken away by ambulance.",
"Around that time, Buena Park police Officer Andy Luong said, \"Shots have been fired, (and) the suspect is down.\"",
"It was not immediately clear what had happened, and the wounded person's condition also was unknown.",
"Luong described the suspect then as \"still uncooperative.\"",
"A short time later, Luong said that \"the hostage is safe\" and the alleged kidnapper had been apprehended.",
"Buena Park police said earlier that authorities got 911 calls shortly after 11 a.m. (2 p.m.",
"ET) from customers who saw a man enter the bank with a gun.",
"Bank employees also called police to report the largely silent gunman was walking around the bank, which serves predominantly Korean customers, according to Buena Park police Sgt.",
"Bill Kohanek.",
"A bank employee called 911 early on, helping negotiate the release of about 10 employees, customers and a security guard, police said.",
"Kohanek said that, for a time, authorities were able to communicate with the hostage taker.",
"\"He complied in all but one (case): He asked the bank manager to remain with him,\" the police sergeant said.",
"The armed suspect was described, by police, as a man of Asian descent who was approximately 45 years old.",
"The bank manager was a woman of about the same age.",
"Authorities created a buffer zone between one-quarter and one-half mile of the small storefront bank, which is located in a strip mall next to a dentist's office.",
"A Buena Park SWAT team was on hand and an FBI team was also ready to act, Kohanek said."
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"NEW: \"The hostage is safe,\" police say .",
"Police say an armed man entered a Saehan Bank branch in Buena Park .",
"10 employees, customers got out, leaving the suspect and bank manager .",
"Police said shots were fired and \"the suspect is down\""
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"(CNN) -- An international tribunal will issue a verdict in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor next month, the United Nations said.",
"Taylor, who led Liberia from 1997 to 2003, was the first African ruler to appear before an international war crimes tribunal.",
"Prosecutors allege he armed rebels and fueled a bloody civil war that led to widespread murder, rape and mutilation in Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone.",
"He has pleaded not guilty to charges including five counts of crimes against humanity and five counts of war crimes.",
"The U.N-backed war crimes court said it will issue its ruling April 26.",
"Taylor has been on trial since 2007 at the special court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands.",
"United Nations officials and the Sierra Leone government jointly set up the tribunal to try those who played the biggest role in the atrocities.",
"In 2010, the United States said the trial faced a financial crisis and pledged to expedite a $4.5 million grant to the court.",
"At the time, Washington urged the international community to donate to the court before its financial resources ran out.",
"Closing arguments occurred last year.",
"During the trial, the judges heard testimony from more than 100 people, including Taylor and supermodel Naomi Campbell .",
"Campbell testified that Taylor gave her \"dirty-looking\" uncut diamonds as a gift during a dinner in South Africa.",
"Prosecutors were hoping her testimony would tie him to so-called blood diamonds used to fund rebels during the war."
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"Taylor is the first African ruler to appear before an international war crimes tribunal .",
"He has pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity and war crimes .",
"Prosecutors allege he fueled a bloody civil war in Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone .",
"His trial included testimony from dozens, including supermodel Naomi Campbell ."
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"(CNN) -- Starbucks, better known for amusingly complicated premium coffee offerings, took a cue from fast-food chains and announced a plan Monday to sell pairings of coffee and breakfast for $3.95, citing the economic downturn.",
"Will that be a breakfast sandwich or a roll with your coffee?",
"Starbucks says it's offering breakfast pairings.",
"With the $3.95 breakfast offer, customers will be able to get a 12-ounce coffee with a breakfast sandwich or roll or a 12-ounce latte with either oatmeal or a coffee cake.",
"The company called the latest promotion an extension of various other recent Starbucks offers, including a loyalty card and discounting 16-ounce cold drinks to customers who made a purchase at Starbucks that morning.",
"But the move may be more targeted to drawing back business lost to more cost efficient retailers like McDonald's and Dunkin' Donuts.",
"Starbucks reported a profit of 9 cents per share in the last quarter of 2008, compared to a 28 cents per share profit a year earlier.",
"The company announced last month it was slashing 6,700 jobs and closing 300 stores on top of the 600 stores it shut down in 2008.",
"Over the last two decades, Starbucks transformed coffee from a commodity drink into a luxury item, growing into a chain with over 10,000 cafes internationally.",
"But sales have taken a hit in the recession.",
"In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Howard Schultz, the company's chief executive, said the economic environment \"is a reset of both economic and social behavior.\"",
"Research done by William Blair & Co. suggests Starbucks' price premium \"has nearly evaporated over the past 18 months, with pricing now largely on par with Dunkin' Donuts.\"",
"The survey found that when adjusted for size differences, some varieties of Starbucks coffee were cheaper than Dunkin' Donuts.",
"According to the research, McDonald's is still cheaper, but the price gap has narrowed since 2007.",
"Blair & Co. also predicted that a trend downward in same store sales in 2008 would continue in 2009.",
"Michelle King, a spokesperson for Dunkin' Donuts, told CNN the company still believes it is \"the faster and more affordable alternative.\"",
"Calls to McDonald's were not immediately returned."
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"Starbucks to offer pairings of coffee, breakfast for $3.95 .",
"Company's sales have taken a hit as the recession has deepened .",
"Survey: Starbucks' price premium has dropped over the past 18 months .",
"Starbucks' pricing \"now largely on par with Dunkin' Donuts,\" research found ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama hosted a dinner to salute soldiers recently back from Iraq -- marking his first major tribute to the veterans since officially withdrawing all troops from the nation.",
"The White House said it invited more than 100 veterans and one guest each to the event Wednesday night, and a few veteran groups and Gold Star families.",
"\"In the history of this house, there has never been a night quite like this,\" Obama said.",
"\"This evening we welcome not the statesmen who decide great questions of war and peace, but citizens men and women from every corner of our country, from every rank of our military, every branch of our service, who answer the call, who go to war, who defend the peace.\"",
"Touching upon veteran difficulties following the Vietnam War, Obama pledged to thank and honor the service of wartime veterans.",
"\"You succeeded in your mission,\" Obama said.",
"\"In your resilience, we see the essence of America because we do not give up.",
"All of you taught us a lesson about the character of our country.\"",
"At the end of his 10 minute speech, the president raised a glass of water and toasted his guests.",
"\"To the country we love, to the men and women who defend her, and to that faith -- that fundamental American faith -- that says no mission is too hard, no challenge is too great,\" Obama said.",
"\"Through tests and through trials, we don't simply endure, we are stronger than before, knowing that America's greatest days are still to come.",
"And they are great because of you. Cheers.\" The dinner, which the White House called \"A Nation's Gratitude: Honoring those who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn,\" also included remarks from Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.",
"\"Thank you for your duty, for your dedication, for your service to this great nation,\" Panetta said.",
"\"Tonight we are truly in the company of heroes.\"",
"The president promised that these types of events would continue.",
"\"This is not the first time we've paid tribute to those who served courageously in Iraq,\" Obama said.",
"\"This will not be the last. The last U.S. soldiers pulled out of Iraq in December, ending nearly nine years of war that killed 4,500 Americans and left tens of thousands injured."
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"\"In the history of this house, there has never been a night quite like this,\" Obama says .",
"He pledges to thank and honor the service of wartime veterans .",
"At the end of his speech, the president raises a glass of water and toasts his guests ."
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"New Brunswick, New Jersey (CNN) -- The man Tyler Clementi was intimate with just days before he committed suicide took the stand Friday, telling jurors that he had noticed a web camera aimed at Clementi's bed.",
"The witness, who prosecutors named only as \"M.B.\"",
"to protect his identity, testified during the sixth day of the trial of a former Rutgers University student, Dharun Ravi.",
"Ravi is accused of spying on and intimidating Clementi, his former university roommate, because he was gay.",
"M.B., 32, testified Friday that he first met Clementi on an internet social networking site for gay men and that they eventually met in the student's dorm room three times.",
"The two conversed online, exchanged text messages and later had sex.",
"At one point when they were together in the dorm room, M.B.",
"glanced over at Ravi's desk and saw \"a camera lens pointed at (Clementi's) bed.\"",
"He also testified that he had briefly met Ravi while visiting Clementi.",
"Ravi on one occasion allegedly left the room and came back, \"walked to his desk, shuffled around a bit and then walked out.\"",
"M.B. testified that on September 19, 2010, he drove to meet Clementi at his building, three days after the first visit.",
"When he left, M.B. said he saw about five people milling around the hallway who seemed to be looking at him.",
"\"They didn't say anything,\" he said.",
"But they were looking at him in a way that made him wonder why they were staring, he said.",
"\"But as I was a guest in their building, I just brushed it off.\"",
"Ravi's lawyer, Steve Altman, has said M.B.",
"looked out of place at the university because of his age, which had prompted the stares.",
"Students also testified that he appeared to look \"shabby.\"",
"Altman has argued that his client had switched on the web cam to monitor his personal items because he did not trust his roommate's visitor.",
"But prosecutors say Ravi and another student placed the camera in the room without Clementi's knowledge to spy and humiliate the student because he was gay.",
"After one particular visit, M.B.",
"testified, \"We were both laying together in (Clementi's) bed.",
"I could hear people talking in the courtyard.",
"People joking, people laughing.\"",
"M.B. said he last met Clementi on September 21.",
"Just days later, the 18-year-old student took his own life by leaping from the George Washington Bridge and into the Hudson River.",
"During his testimony, M.B.",
"appeared uncomfortable, shifting his eyes between Clementi's family and the ground.",
"On Thursday, Rutgers graduate Geoffrey Irving testified that Ravi had told him after an ultimate Frisbee practice that he set up the web cam and was planning to do it again that evening, September 21.",
"Ravi, 20, now faces a 15-count indictment in Clementi's death that includes charges of bias intimidation, invasion of privacy, tampering with physical evidence, witness tampering and hindering apprehension or prosecution.",
"His trial began last Friday.",
"If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.",
"Last year, he turned down a plea deal that would have allowed him to avoid jail time.",
"Less than a month after Clementi's suicide, President Obama released a videotaped message condemning bullying.",
"In November, Clementi's family consented to the use of his name on federal anti-harassment legislation called the \"Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act.\"",
"The proposed law would require schools that receive federal student aid \"to create policies prohibiting the harassment of any student,\" said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey."
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"Friday is the sixth day of the trial of a former Rutgers University student accused of spying .",
"An unnamed witness offered his account of the encounter .",
"Just days after the alleged spying incident in 2010, Tyler Clementi committed suicide ."
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"New York (CNN) -- The University of Connecticut men's basketball program will be penalized for recruitment violations, including a suspension for head coach Jim Calhoun, the NCAA announced Tuesday.",
"\"The case includes more than $6,000 in improper recruiting inducements, impermissible phone calls and text messages to prospective student-athletes,\" the NCAA said.",
"Additional allegations include, \"failure to monitor and promote an atmosphere for compliance by the head coach, failure to monitor by the university, and unethical conduct by the former operations director.\"",
"Following a two-year investigation, the Division I Committee on Infractions found that UConn men's basketball staff members violated NCAA rules, exchanging 150 calls and 190 text messages with prospective recruits, and providing complimentary game tickets.",
"The committee also found that Calhoun, who has been head coach for 24 years, knowingly allowed a booster and certified NBA agent to participate in recruitment and make prohibited financial contributions to a potential student-athlete.",
"\"Penalties include suspension of the head coach for three conference games during the 2011-12 season, scholarship reductions for three academic years, recruiting restrictions, permanent disassociation of a booster and three years probation,\" the NCAA announced.",
"Calhoun responded, saying, \"I am very disappointed with the NCAA's decision in this case.",
"My lawyer and I are evaluating my options and will make a decision which way to proceed.\"",
"In addition, the coaches and compliance staff must attend the NCAA Regional Rules Seminar.",
"The former operations director was penalized with a two-year show-cause order, which essentially prevents him from participating in college basketball during the time allotted.",
"\"Let me be very clear, we will comply fully with the NCAA's sanctions and work with great resolve to restore the luster to our men's basketball program,\" University of Connecticut President Philip Austin said Tuesday.",
"Dr. Dean Thomas, chair of the Committee on Infractions, defended the decision against claims from reporters that the punishment might have been too weak.",
"\"I can assure you with 100% accuracy that the committee is not influenced by high-profile cases or high-profile coaches,\" Thomas said on a conference call.",
"\"The committee bases its deliberations on the information presented.\""
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"Allegations include improper recruiting inducements, prohibited phone calls and texts .",
"Head coach Jim Calhoun on his three-game suspension: \"I am very disappointed\"\nPenalties include recruitment restrictions, scholarship reductions, 3 years probation .",
"The NCAA is being criticized for being too soft on punishing the UConn coaching staff."
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"Davos, Switzerland (CNN) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel launched an outspoken defense of the European project on Wednesday, but warned that the bloc's richest nation would not make bailout promises to solve the eurozone crisis that it cannot keep.",
"Speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos, Merkel said Germany is rightly seen as being relatively strong.",
"But if her country commits to paying for a huge expansion of the eurozone's bailout funds, and even that is torpedoed by the capital markets, then there is a real problem.",
"Merkel told a standing room-only crowd that the \"people say it has to be double, then it has to be triple, then we will believe you.\"",
"\"We have said right from the start we wish to stand up for the euro, but we don't want to ... make a promise that we can't fulfil.\"",
"Map: Europe in crisis .",
"The eurozone set up a temporary bail-out fund -- the European Financial Stability Facility -- after Greece's first bail-out in May 2010.",
"It initially had €250 billion ($326 billion) in lending capacity, which was later boosted to €440 billion as more eurozone countries stumbled.",
"The creation of the eurozone's permanent facility, the European Stability Mechanism, was brought forward and it will now be in place this year rather than 2013.",
"It will have lending capacity of €500 billion, and is backed by paid-in capital from eurozone member countries.",
"Q&A: Will new deal solve Europe's problems?",
"Merkel appeared to show her frustration with the rest of the European community, some of whose members are suspicious of the motives of the bloc's two strongest economies.",
"\"It is on the one hand expected from Germany and France that we show a harmonious front.",
"\"They don't like us when we don't like each other and they don't like us when we agree on matters before we come here because then we are the ones that call the shots apparently, and that is frustrating.\"",
"Merkel also warned that the structure of the \"great European project\" needed substantive reform if the crisis that has brought the European single currency to the brink of collapse is to be resolved.",
"\"There is a clear lack of political structures and underpinnings to make this work.\"",
"She was speaking the day after the International Monetary Fund lowered its outlook for the world economy.",
"It called for immediate action to avert a global depression -- raising the specter of the downturn of the 1920s.",
"The IMF now expects the world economy to grow 3.3% in 2012, compared to its previous prediction of 4% expansion this year.",
"The pessimistic outlook was mainly driven by the intensifying debt crisis in Europe, with the 17 nations of the eurozone expected to suffer a mild recession this year, the IMF said.",
"\"We are not going to become fainthearted.",
"We will not be able to wave a magic wand to address this,\" she told delegates in Davos, adding that there was \"a clear erosion of confidence\" in the rest of the world with Europe.",
"In comments that could cause concerns about Germany's growing influence in Europe, Merkel said: \"We have seen that something needs to be changed here, so it is not only austerity measures ... but also structural reforms that lead to more jobs.\"",
"Outside the conference hall, Martin Sorrell, head of advertising giant WPP, said Merkel's \"call for greater political unity was the price for Germany bailing Greece out and putting a firewall around Italy to avoid severe contagion\" in world markets.",
"Sorrell said her call for stronger fiscal and political integration in Europe could mean further confrontation between Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron.",
"EU leaders agreed in October to provide a second €130 billion rescue package for Greece and announced a deal with private sector investors to voluntarily write down the value of Greek government bonds by 50% as part of a debt exchange.",
"But on Tuesday a major credit agency warned that Greece will eventually default on its debts, even if the nation reaches a restructuring deal with creditors.",
"Negotiations with the private sector have also stalled and there is disagreement among some policymakers over whether requiring Greece to enact more austerity as a condition of a second bailout will help or hurt the nation's fragile economy.",
"Merkel, who with Sarkozy, has been at the heart of efforts to rescue the eurozone from the debt crisis, conceded in a newspaper interview published on Wednesday she did have doubts about her demand for more fiscal rigor from debt-ridden governments, which have met widespread opposition.",
"\"Good politicians always have doubts, as a way of constantly reviewing whether they are on the right track,\" the Guardian reported her as saying.",
"Nevertheless she insisted the European court of justice should enforce the public spending and budget policies of eurozone nations.",
"And in another policy that sets her at odds with many euroskeptic politicians including Cameron, Merkel raised the specter of full European political union, with more national laws ceded to Brussels.",
"The only good piece of news for Merkel was that German business confidence brightened for a third month in a row, suggesting that growth may already be resuming in Europe's largest economy.",
"Peter Wilkinson was reporting from London.",
"Irene Chapple was reporting from Davos, Switzerland."
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"German Chancellor Angela Merkel delivers opening address at Davos Economic Forum .",
"Merkel warns structure of \"great European project\" needs substantive reform .",
"She said Germany would not make bailout promises it could not keep .",
"She was speaking day after IMF lowered outlook for world economy ."
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"(CNN) -- The careers of Russian oligarchs who have sought to wield power against the Kremlin in the media or politics have not tended to go far.",
"Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, an oil magnate who backed an opposition party, has been in jail since 2003 and was convicted in 2005 on charges of tax evasion and fraud.",
"Vladimir A. Gusinsky and Boris A. Berezovsky, both of whom owned media outlets that were critical of the government, fled the country.",
"During the 1990s, it was common for oligarchs to oppose the Kremlin, said Henry Hale, director of the Institute for Europe, Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University.",
"But once Vladimir Putin became president in 2000, \"He started making examples of high-profile business people/oligarchs,\" Hale said.",
"Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, was building an organization that could have served as a platform from which to challenge Putin in 2004, Hale said.",
"\"His real sin was mobilizing a campaign that seemed aimed at the presidency,\" he added.",
"Khodorkovsky's jailing in 2004 \"served as an example for most of the others,\" Hale said.",
"\"You didn't see many other big business people openly challenging the government since that time.\"",
"Instead, wealthy Russians have been careful not to draw the Kremlin's ire, he said.",
"\"They either laid low or supported the Kremlin's leadership actively.\"",
"Now, it's Mikhail Prokhorov, the owner of the New Jersey Nets whose $18 billion puts him among the world's richest people and who announced Monday he is running to replace Putin.",
"Profile: Who is Mikhail Prokhorov?",
"Though Prokhorov is unlikely to topple the incumbent, his fate could prove more benign than that of many of his fellow oligarchs, said Stephen Cohen, professor of Russian studies and history at New York University.",
"\"He would not do it without the support of Putin or the men around Putin,\" said Cohen in a telephone interview.",
"\"He's not an independent actor ... his wealth is still dependent on Kremlin approval.\"",
"Prokhorov, like all the oligarchs who remain in Russia with their wealth intact, has made political and probably financial accommodations with the Kremlin, said Cohen, author of \"Soviet Fate and Lost Alternatives.\"",
"Among Prokhorov's assets are vast mineral holdings that remain underground.",
"\"He'd like to sell them outright, or at least a controlling share of them, to Western countries so he can cash in while his political standing is OK,\" Cohen said.",
"But companies in the West will not deal with him or any other oligarch unless a commission established in Russia for such investment approves it, he said.",
"\"And the chairman of the commission is Putin.\"",
"That means Prokhorov is unlikely to do anything to offend Putin, Cohen said.",
"So, why is he running against him? As things now stand, Putin will be running against Gennadi A. Zyuganov, the longtime leader of the Communist Party, which represents the only real electoral opposition in the country, according to Cohen.",
"Though not well-funded, the party is well-organized and efficient and could make Zyuganov a more formidable opponent at the polls by the March election, Cohen said.",
"That scenario is even more likely if Zyuganov benefits from protest votes by the thousands of Russians who have taken to the streets in recent days, Cohen said.",
"If the demonstrators and their sympathizers are members of the affluent middle class, as some observers have suggested, \"Then it would make sense to give them somebody other than the Communists to vote for -- if you're looking to divide the anti-Putin vote,\" he said.",
"\"They'll vote for the so-called successful businessman.\"",
"Demonstrations challenge Putin's hold on power .",
"Prokhorov's candidacy would likely draw the anti-Putin vote away from the Communists and divide the opposition, Cohen said.",
"\"They think they know what they're doing, and I guess they do,\" he added.",
"But Hale was not persuaded that Prokhorov's candidacy is fake.",
"\"Conspiracy theories sometimes, actually, are just conspiracy theories,\" he said in a telephone interview.",
"\"In this particular case, it seems to be real.\"",
"Citing the civil unrest shaking Russia, he said, \"people like him are sensing now's the time to criticize the Kremlin.",
"Still, Hale acknowledged, Prokhorov appears to have hedged his bets.",
"\"He has criticized people around Putin, but not Putin himself.\"",
"But even if pseudo-candidates wind up in the election, that's not necessarily a bad omen for democracy, Cohen said.",
"More choice \"is the foundation of a democratic system,\" he added.",
"One reason that suggests Prokhorov may be sincere in his putative effort to unseat Putin is the fact that his sister runs quasi-academic journals financed by her brother that are frequently critical of the Kremlin, said Harley Balzer, a professor of government at Georgetown University.",
"But he, too, said it was not clear.",
"\"It's an important story; I wish we knew what the hell was going on,\" he said in a telephone interview."
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"Mikhail Khodorkovsky's jailing \"served as an example,\" professor says .",
"Mikhail Prokhorov would not run without Kremlin's support, professor says .",
"Vladimir Gusinksy and Boris Berezovsky fled the country ."
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A Chinese factory that makes iPhones said Wednesday that it has suspended several staffers after an employee committed suicide, apparently under duress when a prototype went missing.",
"Foxconn manufactures the popular iPhone for U.S.-based Apple in China.",
"Sun Danyong, 25, jumped off the 12th floor of the Foxconn Science and Technology Group in the southern city of Shenzhen last week.",
"The recent engineering school graduate sent 16 model phones to phone manufacturer, Apple, but only 15 were received, said the state-run newspaper New Beijing Post.",
"Because of the missing phone, Sun was questioned by company officials and -- according to posts on online forums by his friends -- detained, searched and beaten.",
"Apple China said it was awaiting the results of an investigation into Sun's death.",
"\"We require that our suppliers treat all workers with dignity and respect,\" Apple said in a statement.",
"Foxconn also released a statement outlining several steps it has taken following the suicide, including counseling for its employees.",
"\"I can honestly say Foxconn has not given anyone permission to do anything unlawful,\" executive Li Jing Ming said.",
"Employees connected to the incident were either fired or suspended without pay, the statement said.",
"\"Regarding the loss of such a young life, the company and I express our deepest sorrow and regret and are apologetic to his family as we were not able to properly take care of him,\" Li said.",
"The company said it will support Sun's family with funeral arrangements and other matters."
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"Sun Danyong, 25, jumped off the 12th floor of building in southern city of Shenzhen .",
"Recent graduate sent 16 model phones to Apple, but only 15 were received .",
"Apple China said it was awaiting the results of an investigation ."
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"(CNN) -- Andre Villas-Boas' troubles as Chelsea manager deepened on Saturday as he watched his side go down to a 1-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion in the English Premier League.",
"An 82nd minute strike by defender Gareth McAuley was enough to sent the Blues' crashing to a seventh league defeat.",
"The result also means they lose ground on London rivals Arsenal in the race to finish fourth place and secure Champions League football next season.",
"\"It wasn't good enough and it's not been good enough for quite some time.",
"We don't win enough games and they are not numbers that make us proud.",
"In football there is joy and there is pain,\" Villas-Boas told BBC Sport after the game.",
"Robin van Persie's deft injury-time volley gave Arsenal all three points against Liverpool at Anfield.",
"Liverpool were awarded a penalty in the 19th minute when Tomasz Szczesny brought down Luis Suarez, but made amends palming Dirk Kuyt's spot kick to safety.",
"But four minutes later the Reds went ahead when Laurent Koscielny turned the ball into his own net as he tried to divert Jordan Henderson's cross.",
"But the lead didn't last long as van Persie headed home his first from a Bacary Sagna cross in the 31st minute.",
"The game looked to be heading for a draw when the Dutch striker caressed the ball past Pepe Reina in the second minute of injury time to leave Liverpool 10 points adrift of a Champions League place.",
"Arsenal are now three points clear of Chelsea in fourth place with 49 points.",
"League leaders Manchester City enjoyed a comfortable 2-0 win against Bolton Wanderers at the Etihad Stadium.",
"A 23rd-minute own goal by Icelandic defender Gretar Steinsson handed Roberto Mancini's team the lead.",
"Mario Balotelli's 14th goal of the season in the 69th minute ensured all three points and a five-point lead at the top of the table.",
"Nearest rivals Manchester United play Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on Sunday.",
"Bolton remain mired in trouble, level on 20 points with bottom side Wigan who also lost on Saturday going down 2-0 at home to Swansea City who despite the win stay in 14th place with 33 points.",
"Stoke City made it back-to-back wins in the league with 1-0 victory over Norwich at the Britannia Stadium -- a result which keeps them in eighth place.",
"Queens Park Rangers drew 1-1 with Everton at Loftus Road to rise to 16th in the table.",
"West Brom's win means Everton drop to 11th.",
"An 85th-minute header from David Dunn earned Blackburn Rovers a point against Aston Villa who took the lead through Charles N'Zogbia in the 24th minute.",
"Steve Keen's team remain in 18th with 22 points while Villa stay in 15th.",
"Newcastle United take on Sunderland in the northeast derby on Sunday while Wolves travel to Fulham."
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"Robin van Persie brace hands Arsenal 2-1 win over Liverpool at Anfield .",
"League leaders Manchester City move five points clear with 2-0 win over Bolton ."
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. Navy rescued a survivor from an Iranian cargo vessel that sank in the Persian Gulf, killing at least three other crew members, the military said Sunday.",
"It was the latest incident in a string of rescues since the beginning of the year, against a backdrop of high tensions between the United States and Iran.",
"The coastal patrol boat USS Firebolt and the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Maui conducted a search and rescue mission for survivors of the capsized Iranian dhow -- a sailing vessel typically used to haul cargo -- on Saturday and Sunday, the Navy said in a statement.",
"The Firebolt's crew also recovered the remains of three of those who had died in the sinking, the Navy said.",
"One survivor was recovered and treated for shock and hypothermia.",
"He said the dhow sank in bad weather Friday night with six mariners aboard.",
"The sailor reported that four of his shipmates died and one was missing, according to the Navy.",
"The U.S. ships searched for the possible survivor and the fourth body, in an effort that also included two Seahawk helicopters and the dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor.",
"But they could not find them, and ultimately ended the search due to bad weather, the Navy said.",
"The Iranian mariner was transferred to the Maui, and then to an Iranian Coast Guard vessel.",
"In January, U.S. sailors from a carrier strike group rescued 13 Iranian sailors from a hijacked fishing boat, and the U.S. Coast Guard rescued six Iranian mariners from a flooded vessel at the northern end of the Gulf."
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"The Iranian dhow sank in bad weather, a survivor tells the U.S. Navy .",
"Several ships searched for another possible survivor, to no avail .",
"It was the latest in a string of rescues by U.S. personnel ."
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"San Francisco (CNN) -- As Nokia prepares for its next crucial venture into the U.S. and high-end smartphones, the Finnish cell-phone maker is missing a crucial piece: an abundant catalog of applications.",
"Nokia is attempting to woo app developers with such incentives as pre-installing their software on the forthcoming phone, prominent promotion for their products and funding development of an app, according to three people involved in the negotiations.",
"A vibrant app store has become a major selling point to smartphone customers.",
"In the past, Nokia, which sells the highest volume of mobile phones worldwide, has made efforts to work with some creators of apps for its platforms.",
"A Nokia spokeswoman said the company offers app developers a variety of incentives, some in partnership with Microsoft, which include coding assistance and marketing.",
"\"We do not disclose these arrangements, as each is different,\" she said.",
"Microsoft declined to comment for this story.",
"The premiere phone, which is codenamed Sea Ray and currently being field tested by company executives, will be Nokia's first to run Windows Phone 7, the year-old mobile operating system from Microsoft.",
"Nokia is expected to release the phone in the next few months, say two executives who are familiar with the plans but not authorized to speak publicly.",
"On Tuesday, Microsoft began distributing the new version of Windows Phone, which will run on the Nokia device.",
"Last year, Microsoft made similar offers to developers that make apps trendy on other platforms.",
"Some companies took the cash, but others declined because they feared wasting time working on a platform that would prove unpopular and then having to maintain it.",
"The people involved in the Nokia negotiations expressed similar concerns.",
"One veteran app developer, Ken Sun, said that when he was working at eBay, Microsoft offered his team money to fund the development of a Windows Phone app.",
"Sun, who is now a product manager for Mint financial software, declined to comment on current talks with Microsoft.",
"Developers that turned down earlier offers from Microsoft and are fielding new deals from Nokia should be able to \"double dip,\" or collect payments from both companies, Sun said.",
"Todd Moore, who makes a sleep-companion app called White Noise, received a free Windows Phone device from Microsoft last year in exchange for building his app for the platform.",
"But the version for Windows Phone has performed poorly compared to other platforms and has not generated enough revenue to fund ongoing development, he said.",
"\"It was kind of a horrible experience,\" Moore said.",
"\"The whole thing was just a complete mess.",
"I had to get on the phone with Microsoft just to get my app published.\"",
"Offering prizes in exchange for apps is not unheard of.",
"Sony and Adobe Systems recently held a contest for Android tablet apps in which the companies will pay $200,000 in November to the winning developers.",
"Hardware manufacturers and carriers occasionally approach developers with free promotion on their app stores in exchange for offering software for a particular system or storefront, but dispensing cash in private deals as Nokia is doing is less common, according to people familiar with the matter.",
"In a crowded smartphone market quickly being dominated by Google's Android and Apple's iPhone, Windows Phone has struggled to gain traction.",
"That's partly due to its meager offering of apps, as well as a lack of commitment from phone manufacturers and cellular carriers that have favored Android for their flagship products.",
"Microsoft is hoping to solve both problems with its long-term \"strategic partnership\" with Nokia, the highest-volume cell-phone manufacturer worldwide.",
"At the same time, Nokia is hoping to regain smartphone sales sapped by competitors.",
"Nokia's share of the smartphone-platform market sunk to 22% in the second quarter from nearly double that a year ago, according to Gartner, a Stamford, Connecticut-based tech research firm.",
"Nokia said on Thursday that it plans to cut 3,200 jobs, which comes after laying off 7,000 workers in April.",
"Mobile versions of Windows had 1.6% of the mobile operating-system market in the most recent quarter, less than it had a year ago, according to Gartner's data.",
"In contrast, Google had 43%, and Apple had 18%.",
"\"We felt that with Windows Phone we had a greater chance of maintaining long-term differentiation,\" Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, a former Microsoft executive, said at a conference in June.",
"However, \"we need the Windows Phone ecosystem to grow overall.\"",
"Nokia is opening its wallet in the hope of spurring that growth."
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"Nokia is offering to pay developers to make apps for its new phone, sources say .",
"Such payments from phone manufacturers are unusual .",
"Microsoft did something similar last year, but its Windows Phone app catalog is still lacking .",
"Nokia is set to launch its first Windows phone by the end of the year, sources say ."
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"(CNN) -- Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar was again denied the chance to secure a record 100th international century on Friday as Australia won the second Test in Sydney by an innings and 68 runs to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the four-match series.",
"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 last year.",
"The 38-year-old batsman made 73 in the first innings of India's 122-run defeat in Melbourne, and this time the \"Little Master\" fell for 80 after being caught by Michael Hussey off the part-time bowling of Australia captain Michael Clarke.",
"Having started the penultimate day on 112-4, 354 runs behind Australia's 659-4 declared, the tourists were dismissed for 400 to end any hopes of a first series win on the continent.",
"Clarke's triple ton squeezes India .",
"It was another frustrating dismissal for Tendulkar, who fell agonizingly short against the West Indies in his home city Mumbai in November when he was out for 94.",
"His last century came against South Africa at the 50-over World Cup when he reached 111.",
"Tendulkar's wicket was all the more sweet for man of the match Clarke, whose unbeaten 329 with the bat put Australia in control of the match.",
"\"It's a very nice wicket to have, that's for sure,\" Clarke told reporters.",
"\"To be able to get such a great player out is a very handy wicket, so I was stoked with that.",
"\"Sachin's been such a great player for so long, everyone goes through that period.",
"It's nice that he's not made his 100th hundred in this series, but there's a long way to go.",
"Never write off great players.",
"As a team we have the greatest respect for him.\"",
"Resuming on eight, Tendulkar quickly reached 50 off 89 balls -- including seven fours -- and went to the lunch break on 70, before being caught at slip from Clarke's gentle left-arm off-spin.",
"Opening batsman Gautam Gambhir earlier fell for 83, while VVS Laxman added 103 with Tendulkar before becoming the fifth man to depart for 66.",
"Laxman and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2) both went to fast bowler Ben Hilfenhaus, who completed a five-wicket haul when he dismissed Ravi Ashwin for 62 to end the innings.",
"\"We have lost the chance of winning the series, but with two more Test matches to go we can level the series so that's what we're looking to do,\" said Dhoni, whose team made a disappointing 191 in the first innings.",
"\"It is a bit of a worry but the good thing is in the second innings we saw the batsmen score runs.",
"What we have seen in the last couple of Test matches is everybody has scored at least a 50 which gives us an indication that we need to convert those fifties into big innings and put runs on the board.\"",
"Hilfenhaus ended the Sydney match with figures of 8-157, but Australia's celebrations were tempered by the news that promising young fast bowler James Pattinson will miss the final two clashes of the series due to a foot injury.",
"The 21-year-old played a major role in Australia's victory, taking four wickets in the first innings and one in the second, and has an impressive haul of 25 wickets in his first four Test matches.",
"Meanwhile, South Africa clinched a long-awaited 2-1 series victory at home to Sri Lanka after winning the third Test in Cape Town by 10 wickets on Friday.",
"The tourists reached 342 in their second innings after a battling 115 not out by Thilan Samaraweera, which meant the Proteas needed just two runs for victory.",
"Sri Lanka resumed on day four at 138-4 with Samaraweera on 19, and raised hopes of setting a decent target as he took his partnership with Angelo Mathews to 142.",
"But Vernon Philander trapped all-rounder Mathews leg before wicket for 63, and the fast bowler then claimed his third wicket as young wicketkeeper Dinesh Chandimal went for one.",
"Spinner Imran Tahir and all-rounder Jaques Kallis mopped up the tail to also finish with three wickets each as South Africa won a series at home for the first time since 2008."
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"The 38-year-old batsman caught off part-time bowling of Michael Clarke for 80 .",
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"South Africa clinch 2-1 series victory over Sri Lanka after winning third Test in Cape Town ."
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"NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- She burst on the music scene as one-third of Destiny's Child, the highest-selling female group of all time.",
"Kelly Rowland took an AIDS test in a tiny counseling room in a Kenyan hospital.",
"And then she proved it doesn't take three to make hits.",
"Sassy Kelly Rowland showed the world she could go it alone and still hit No.",
"1 on the charts. But now this Grammy-winning R&B sensation is using her considerable charm and charisma to take on the scourge of AIDS.",
"She is the first ambassador for MTV's Staying Alive Foundation, which works to empower young people to protect them against AIDS.",
"In silver high heels and a sundress, Rowland arrived Thursday at the Kenyatta Hospital in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, to take a public stand against stigma and undergo an HIV test.",
"\"For me, knowing your status is glamorous because then you get to carry that with you and you get to protect yourself,\" she said.",
"Rowland and 22-year-old Kenyan John Ngugi took the test together in a tiny counseling room at the testing center at this public hospital.",
"He also wanted to know his status, but he couldn't suppress a large grin at times sitting next to such star power.",
"Watch CNN's David McKenzie report on Rowland's trip » .",
"\"As a young person from Mathare slum and having a super star to actually have a test with,\" said Ngugi, \"It is just a big promise for me and a big promise for my community and I am just grateful for the test.\"",
"Like much of Africa, Kenya struggles with the AIDS pandemic.",
"UNAIDS, the joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, estimates that more than 22 million adults and children are living with HIV on the continent.",
"And it strikes the youth hardest.",
"\"You could take a situation like having HIV and think of it as having a disability and think of it as something that is going to bring you down,\" said Rowland, \"but I have met kids and young people that are just so inspiring.",
"They inspire me.\" In Kenya, as in many parts of Africa, people are often afraid to take an HIV test for fear of being stigmatized.",
"In Kenya, antiretroviral drugs are free for HIV-positive people, but many people would rather not know whether they are HIV positive for fear of facing discrimination in the workplace and in the community.",
"And so Kelly Rowland has added her voice to the campaign to help end the suffering of so many victims.",
"\"It's killing us as people and I think above anything these numbers aren't changing,\" she said.",
"\"The more that I get involved, you get everybody out there ... involved, then hopefully we can see a change -- a big change.\""
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"Rowland is first ambassador for MTV's Staying Alive Foundation .",
"The foundation works to empower young people to protect themselves from HIV .",
"Rowland and 22-year-old Kenyan John Ngugi take the test together ."
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"(EW.com) -- Four new movies were no match for the feline phenom \"The Lion King 3D,\" which ruled the box office for the second weekend in a row with $22.1 million, according to studio estimates.",
"The 1994 Disney classic dropped only 27 percent -- an incredibly impressive hold considering this is the re-release of a 17-year-old film that's coming out on Blu-ray/DVD in one week.",
"The 3-D version has now grossed $61.7 million, bringing \"The Lion King\"'s cumulative tally to $390.2 million.",
"Disney says it plans to extend what was originally intended to be just a two-week release, although details are still being ironed out.",
"The weekend's runner-up was the new Brad Pitt baseball drama \"Moneyball,\" which batted a solid $20.6 million.",
"If the estimate holds, that'll represent the best opening ever for a baseball film, beating 2006′s \"The Benchwarmers\" ($19.7 million).",
"Surprisingly for a sports movie, \"Moneyball\" drew a crowd that was evenly split between men and women, although it skewed quite older, with 89 percent of the audience at least 25 years old.",
"Both critics and moviegoers were fans -- the PG-13 film received some of the strongest reviews of the year and earned an \"A\" rating from CinemaScore participants.",
"\"Moneyball\" will now try to follow in the box-office footsteps of last year's \"The Social Network,\" which debuted to a similar $22.4 million en route to a domestic total of $97 million.",
"Both movies were released by Sony in the middle of fall and were written by Aaron Sorkin (who co-wrote \"Moneyball\" with Steven Zaillian).",
"The two films even cost around the same amount to produce: $50 million for \"Moneyball\" and $40 million for \"Social Network.\"",
"Right behind \"Moneyball\" was the PG-rated family drama \"Dolphin Tale\" with $20.3 million.",
"The Warner Bros. film joined \"Soul Surfer\" and \"The Help\" to become the year's third release to score an \"A+\" from CinemaScore audiences.",
"As a result, \"Dolphin Tale\" is expected to hold up particularly well in the next few weeks and should easily earn back its $37 million budget.",
"Showings in 3-D theaters accounted for 50 percent of the film's opening.",
"Fourth place went to Lionsgate's \"Abduction,\" starring \"The Twilight Saga\"'s Taylor Lautner is his first solo lead role.",
"The PG-13 action film debuted to a modest $11.2 million -- slightly below industry predictions.",
"The $35 million movie received most of its business from young women, with 68 percent of the audience being female and 56 percent under than age of 25.",
"Abduction garnered a lackluster \"B-\" rating from CinemaScore moviegoers, though women under the age of 18 were more generous with an \"A-\" grade.",
"And according to CinemaScore, 56 percent of ticket buyers listed Lautner as their main reason for attending the movie.",
"So the 19-year-old actor does have box-office potential, but it's currently limited to teenage girls.",
"Finally, in fifth was the R-rated thriller \"Killer Elite,\" which snagged a disappointing $9.5 million.",
"The $66 million movie, starring Jason Statham, Clive Owen, and Robert De Niro, is the first picture to be released by Open Road Films, a partnership between the AMC and Regal theater chains.",
"But despite its buzz-worthy cast, the film couldn't match the $11.4 million debut of Statham's last live-action project, January's \"The Mechanic.\"",
"CinemaScore graders handed \"Killer Elite\" a so-so \"B\" rating.",
"In limited release, the action biopic \"Machine Gun Preacher\" -- starring Gerard Butler as real-life biker-turned-defender-of-Sudanese-orphans Sam Childers -- underwhelmed with $44,000 at four theaters.",
"And \"Puncture,\" featuring Chris Evans as a drug-addicted lawyer, also disappointed, grossing $35,700 from four locations.",
"1. The Lion King 3D -- $22.1 mil .",
"2. Moneyball -- $20.6 mil .",
"3. Dolphin Tale -- $20.3 mil .",
"4. Abduction -- $11.2 mil .",
"5. Killer Elite -- $9.5 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."
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"\"The Lion King\"'s cumulative tally came to $390.2 million .",
"\"Moneyball,\" batted a solid $20.6 million .",
"Right behind \"Moneyball\" was \"Dolphin Tale\" with $20.3 million ."
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"(CNN) -- Tributes have flooded in for former West Indies Test player Runako Morton, who was killed in a car crash in Trinidad Sunday.",
"The 33-year-old Morton played all three forms of international cricket for the West Indies, last representing them two years ago.",
"Reports said he was driving home alone on his way home from a match when the tragic accident occurred in central Trinidad.",
"West Indies Cricket Board president Dr Julian Hunte gave the official reaction to his death.",
"\"Runako's passing, still in the prime of life, leaves us all in shock,\" he said.",
"\"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends as we all try to come to terms with his loss.",
"\"He will be remembered as a fierce competitor on the field who gave no quarter whether he was playing for West Indies, Leeward Islands, Nevis or Trinidad and Tobago.\"",
"Former captain Chris Gayle tweeted: \"We lost a True Warrior WI Cricketer Runako Morton - May (h)is soul .",
"rest in peace!",
"While former teammate Wavell Hinds also used his Twitter blog to express his feelings.",
"\"Gone far too soon brother Runako.",
"I will treasure the great memories for sure.",
"RIP. God knows best.\"",
"Morton, who hailed from the tiny island of Nevis, scored 573 Test runs at an average of 22.03 and 1519 in one day internationals (ODI) at 33.75.",
"His Test debut came against Sri Lanka in Colombo in 2005, and he made his maiden ODI hundred against New Zealand a year later.",
"But despite being an acknowledged talent, Morton was unable to cement a regular place in the West Indies team in any format.",
"In other cricket news Monday, former New Zealand captain Chris Cairns has began his High Court action in London against former Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi.",
"Cairns, 41, is suing Modi for substantial libel damages over an \"unequivocal allegation\" made on Twitter that he was involved in match-fixing.",
"The disputed tweet was picked up and reported on the cricket website Cricinfo, but they were forced to remove it by Cairns and pay him damages.",
"However Modi refused to apologize and pleaded justification, maintaining that the charge was true.",
"The case, without a jury, is expected to last two weeks."
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"(Financial Times) -- India's weakening economy grew 6.1 per cent in the quarter to the end of December, the slowest in three years, deepening fears about the country's growth prospects.",
"A slowdown in manufacturing, mining and agriculture has accelerated the shift of Asia's third-largest economy to lower growth after a failed push to hit double-digits.",
"Rajiv Kumar, the director-general of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, said that an official target of 6.9 per cent growth for the full year was out of reach and a bounce back next year unlikely.",
"He warned that the strong performance of the services sector in the three months to December was unlikely to be sustained in the fourth quarter, January to March, and could be pulled back by poor performance of other sectors.",
"\"It's a sobering number, below consensus.",
"The numbers are telling us that we will be lucky to get 6.9 per cent growth overall for this year,\" Mr Kumar said.",
"He said India was on course for 6.8 per cent growth in fiscal year 2013.",
"The government, by contrast, has predicted a bounce back to 8.5 per cent next year.",
"Data released on Wednesday showed economic growth for the quarter to the end of December slowed to an annualised 6.1 per cent, weighed on by two years of progressive monetary tightening, a retreat of foreign capital and a weakening local currency.",
"\"Policymakers are battling inflation, falling confidence, a stalled government and tepid global demand.",
"They'll be lucky to have growth hit 6.5 per cent in 2012,\" said Glenn Levine, senior economist at Moody's Analytics.",
"Sonal Varma, economist at banking group Nomura in Mumbai, said the slowdown in Asia's third-largest economy was \"clearly evident\".",
"\"What is surprising is the slowdown in investment and manufacturing is worse than during the 2008 global financial crisis.",
"It's the worst for these sectors for a decade.\"",
"Economists have taken heart from recent efforts by senior policymakers to energise the economy and make progress with economic reforms.",
"They are now putting considerable store in a central bank monetary policy review meeting on March 15 and the national budget on the following day to take action to arrest the slide in growth.",
"\"India needs concerted policy measures at all levels to support trends at 7 per cent [growth],\" said Rohini Malkani, economist at Citigroup in Mumbai.",
"Samiran Chakraborty, economist at Standard Chartered Bank in Mumbai, said the Congress-led government had to take steps to revive domestic investment.",
"\"Unless action happens from the government to stimulate growth the outlook looks quite ominous,\" he said.",
"Criticism has grown in past months about Mr Singh's economic management.",
"Many senior business figures blame the country's political leadership for throwing away a golden opportunity to put India's domestically-driven economy on better terms with neighbouring China and trading partners in the west.",
"Top executives, like Sunil Bharti Mittal, the chairman of telecoms group Bharti Airtel, and Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Group, have appealed to feuding political leaders to revive a parliament now notorious for stalling legislative progress .",
"© The Financial Times Limited 2012 ."
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"Slowest in three years, deepening fears about the country's growth prospects ."
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"Beijing (CNN) -- China said Sunday it plans to increase its defense budget by 11.2%, following similar increases in years past and coming on the heels of a renewed U.S. push in the region.",
"The planned increase would lift spending to some 670 billion yuan ($106.4 billion) in 2012, which is almost 68 billion more than 2011 spending, said Li Zhaoxing, spokesman for the National People's Congress.",
"By comparison, the proposed U.S. defense budget for the 2013 fiscal year is $613.9 billion, including $525.4 billion in base spending.",
"That budget cuts half a trillion dollars in spending increases over the next 10 years.",
"Li spoke a day before the annual session of the Chinese legislature is scheduled to start in Beijing.",
"\"The Chinese government follows the principle of coordinating defense development with economic development.",
"It sets the country's defense spending according to the requirement of national defense and the level of economic development,\" he said.",
"Last year, China announced it would increase its defense budget by close to 13%.",
"It reported a 7.5% increase the year before.",
"Li stressed that China's defense spending will go primary toward living expenses, training, maintenance and equipment, China's state news agency Xinhua reported.",
"Given the country's population, long coastline and large territory, the outlays are low, he said.",
"\"The limited military strength of China is solely for safeguarding its national sovereignty and territorial integrity, and will not pose a threat to any country,\" the news agency reported Li as saying.",
"Still, China's announcement is sure to stoke concerns among some its neighbors.",
"China regards Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to use force against the island if it ever formally sought independence.",
"China also has claimed a significant portion of the South China Sea as its own territorial waters, putting it in conflict with other nations that have made claims on portions of the region.",
"The move is similarly sure to raise eyebrows in Washington, where President Barack Obama is pursuing a more aggressive approach in the region.",
"During last year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, the president stressed the importance of the Pacific to global economic security.",
"And this year, Obama and top defense officials unveiled a new U.S. defense strategy that focuses heavily on the Asia-Pacific region, a fast-growing economic powerhouse with numerous potential flashpoints that the administration has identified as crucial to U.S. interests.",
"The strategy calls for the United States to increase its military's \"institutional weight and focus on enhanced presence, power projection, and deterrence in Asia-Pacific,\" said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.",
"Xinhua, while welcoming a peaceful U.S. role in the region, cautioned in a commentary then against the United States acting like a \"bull in a china shop.\"",
"CNN's Steven Jiang contributed to this report."
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"The planned increase would lift spending to some 670 billion yuan ($106.4 billion)\nIt follows similar rises in defense spending in years past .",
"The move is sure to stoke concerns among some of China's neighbors ."
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"(CNN) -- The heart of a 900-year-old saint has vanished from Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, police and the Cathedral said.",
"St. Laurence O'Toole's heart was kept in a heart-shaped wooden box in a cage bolted to a wall in Saint Lauds Chapel, Irish police said.",
"It disappeared between Friday evening and Saturday noon, police said.",
"Adding to the mystery, there was no sign of a break-in or of damage, police told CNN.",
"Nothing was taken from the chapel other than the heart, although Irish media said there were gold candesticks and other valuables there.",
"Cathedral staff called the disappearance of the relic \"truly awful and strange\" and said they were \"shocked and saddened.\"",
"St. Laurence O'Toole was born in 1128, lived until 1180, and was made a saint in 1225, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia.",
"Catholics often preserve body parts from saints, believing they should be venerated.",
"When Pope John Paul II was declared \"blessed\" -- a step below sainthood -- last year, a vial of his blood was displayed as a relic."
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"The heart of St. Laurence O'Toole was kept in a box in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin .",
"It disappeared some time on Friday or Saturday, police say .",
"There are no signs of a break-in and nothing else was taken .",
"The Cathedral calls the disappearance \"awful and strange\""
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"(CNN) -- Fehmi Khairullah, a Syrian-American doctor living in New Jersey, says he cannot sleep these days.",
"\"The humanitarian situation in many parts of Syria has reached its lowest point.",
"It is so horrific,\" said Khairullah, who collects and delivers aid to Syria.",
"As violence escalates in the sanctions-hit country and - - many argue -- the lack of government cooperation, humanitarian groups have been unable to reach those suffering the most in the country.",
"Even the International Committee of the Red Cross & Red Crescent, the only independent international aid agency operating inside Syria, has not reached trapped citizens in devastated areas such as the Baba Amr neighborhood in the city of Homs.",
"Last weekend, the aid group released a statement saying it started distributing aid to people in the restive city.",
"But Saleh Debaki, its Damascus-based spokesman, said Thursday the aid is located at nine distribution centers around the city, but none has reached ravaged neighborhoods such as Baba Amr.",
"Residents and activists in the neighborhood said Friday they have not had any humanitarian aid reach them in more than a month.",
"\"It is the 13th days of shelling over our neighborhood,\" said Abu Omar, who was reached by satellite internet at a Baba Amr shelter.",
"\"We have not had any electricity, phone service, ... or even running water for weeks.",
"We have not had any food or medical supplies either.",
"We are so desperate! There are only a few houses here that have water wells.",
"That's our only access to any water!\"",
"Abu Omar, who did not want to reveal his real name over safety fears, said the few dozen people staying at shelters in Baba Amr shower once every five days or so and limit other use of water to only drinking.",
"Khalil Ahmed, another resident of Baba Amr, said he has not seen any bread coming from outside the neighborhood in weeks.",
"\"That's why we decided to collect whatever flour we could find to bake some bread and share at the shelters,\" Ahmed said.",
"\"We have no baby formula.",
"Parents put bread in water ... and that's what babies eat and drink.\"",
"There is only one medical facility in Baba Amr operating out of a basement of a mosque.",
"It moved there because its last location was shelled in January, killing three medics, according to Mohamed al-Mohamed, one of a handful of doctors running the makeshift clinic using \"primitive tools.\"",
"Back in the United States, Khairullah says the suffering will only get worse in many parts of Syria unless there is a way to deliver humanitarian aid to those who need it most.",
"Shortly after the Syrian uprising began on March 15, Khairullah and other Syrian-American professionals started the Syria First Coalition to collect donations and deliver them to affected families in the nation.",
"\"In light of the sanctions, we did not want to fall into any legal traps.",
"And we did not want to deal with the government's institutions.",
"So we started paying influential businessmen inside Syria in U.S. dollars and get food, water, blankets among other humanitarian items in return,\" Khairullah said.",
"This worked for only a few months until no more businessman could risk doing that under the watchful eye of the regime, he said.",
"So he identified financial institutions in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon -- to which the group transferred money in order to buy aid locally.",
"The aid was then smuggled across the Syrian borders.",
"But with more and more limited safe passages into Syria and a drying flow of cash, this option became even harder.",
"The current sanctions allow transferring money to charitable groups in Syria.",
"\"But how could we trust these government-sponsored Syrian groups to oversee the distribution of aid?'",
"Khairullah said.",
"A couple of international humanitarian groups such as the Humanitarian Relief for Syria admit that they only go through Syrian charity organizations to reach affected people inside the country.",
"Others -- such as Islamic Relief and Zakat Foundation -- only reach out to Syrian refugees in neighboring countries.",
"\"The only way to reach us in Homs is through establishing safe passages,\" Abu Omar said.",
"On the international level, France is trying to revive a plan it first introduced in November that tries to do just that.",
"The idea is to provide safe access for relief organizations to deliver aid to affected populations through land border routes, a sea port or an airport - - all under the watch of international observers.",
"But such a plan needs either Syrian government approval or the backing of armed peacekeepers.",
"In the latter case, a U.N. resolution may be needed.",
"French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé discussed his government's \"humanitarian corridors\" plan Thursday with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in order to avoid a veto on a possible U.N. Security Council resolution.",
"The two met in Vienna to reach a compromise despite Moscow vetoing a U.N. resolution based on an Arab League proposal on Feb. 4, according to Russia's state-run Itar-Tass.",
"\"We can possibly reach a compromise on a short-term objective.\"",
"Juppé told reporters \"We are ready to work in New York on a draft resolution inspired by the Arab League to stop the violence and provide humanitarian aid.\"",
"Lavrov was not committed to the plan and said more details are needed before an agreement, Itar -Tass reported.",
"But many Syrians seem to have no choice but to be optimistic as their tragedy plays out on the international stage.",
"\"I am hopeful,\" Khairulla said.",
"\"I am finally sensing change among international and regional powers regarding the suffering in Syria ... And it is about time!\""
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"\"The humanitarian situation in many parts of Syria has reached its lowest point,\" doctor says .",
"An international aid agency operating inside Syria cannot reach trapped citizens .",
"The suffering will only get worse in Syria unless there is a way to deliver humanitarian aid ."
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"(CNN) -- The founder of the shuttered file-sharing site Megaupload appeared in a New Zealand court Monday, as the U.S. Department of Justice seeks to extradite him and other company officials on criminal charges.",
"But his lawyer insisted his client is innocent.",
"The U.S. authorities shut down Megaupload last week and announced indictments against seven people connected to the site, accusing them of operating an \"international organized criminal enterprise responsible for massive worldwide online piracy of copyrighted works.\"",
"Four of those charged were arrested in New Zealand at the request of the U.S. government.",
"They included Kim Dotcom, the site's founder, who is also known as Kim Schmitz.",
"The New Zealand police detained Dotcom, a German citizen, on Friday after a dramatic raid on his luxury mansion in the affluent North Shore area of Auckland, the country's largest city.",
"In a packed court on Monday, Dotcom's lawyer, Paul Davison, argued that his client was innocent and should be granted bail.",
"\"Mr. Dotcom emphatically denies any criminal misconduct or wrongdoing and denies the existence of any 'mega-conspiracy,'\" Davison said in the North Shore District Court.",
"But the New Zealand government prosecutors, acting on behalf of the U.S. authorities, argued that Dotcom's bail request should be denied because he presented an \"extreme\" flight risk.",
"Dotcom is a resident of both New Zealand and Hong Kong.",
"Anne Toohey, the prosecuting lawyer, said Dotcom had chartered private planes, helicopters and yachts in the past.",
"\"This kind of access to private transportation is a significant issue in terms of flight,\" she told the court.",
"Megaupload, which traffic-tracking service Alexa ranked as the world's 72nd most visited website before it was taken down, allowed users to share and download files -- many of which were copyrighted works made available for download without permission, according to the U.S. authorities.",
"They said the operation had generated more than $175 million in illegal profits through advertising revenue and the sale of premium memberships.",
"Authorities have seized the company's servers and domain names and frozen $50 million in assets.",
"Among the company's assets were 18 luxury vehicles seized by the New Zealand police in the raid on Dotcom's mansion, including several top-end Mercedes, a Rolls Royce Phantom and a 1959 pink Cadillac.",
"Davison said that without access to his assets or travel documents, Dotcom did not present a realistic flight risk.",
"He also noted that his client wanted to stay in New Zealand with his pregnant wife and children.",
"He criticized the \"aggressive\" approach taken by the police and prosecutors in accusing and detaining Dotcom, saying it had \"amplified the nature and gravity of this alleged offending beyond any reality.\"",
"He suggested it had created \"a real misunderstanding and misconception of the business of Megaupload.\"",
"The judge at the hearing reserved his decision on the bail request for Dotcom and the other Megaupload officials -- Finn Batato, Mathias Ortmann and Bram van der Kolk -- until Tuesday or Wednesday.",
"Despite the charges against him, Dotcom appeared \"really calm\" in court, said Emma Brannam, a reporter for TV3 New Zealand, who attended the proceedings.",
"He remained quiet during the hearing and didn't turn to look at the dozens of Megaupload supporters who were watching from the public gallery, she said."
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"The U.S. shut down Megaupload and announced indictments against seven people .",
"The site's founder, Kim Dotcom, and three others appear before a New Zealand court .",
"Dotcom's lawyer says his client denies the charges, criticizing the authorities' approach .",
"Prosecutors say Dotcom presents an \"extreme\" flight risk and should not be granted bail ."
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"(CNN) -- A series of explosions at an ammunition depot killed 200 people and wounded about 2,000 more in Brazzaville, the capital of Africa's Republic of Congo, Congolese officials said Monday.",
"The explosions occurred shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday (2 a.m.",
"ET) when a fire at the depot set off a cache of tank shells, said Betu Bangana, director of protocol for President Denis Sassou-Nguesso.",
"Bangana said at least 200 people had been confirmed dead by Monday morning, and many bodies may be \"unfindable.\"",
"Ministry of Information press attache Bruno Impene said hospitals were overflowing, with the wounded lying in the corridors.",
"The blasts destroyed numerous homes in the neighborhoods surrounding the installation, Bangana said.",
"The force of the explosions broke windows up to 5 km (3 miles) away in Kinshasa, the capital of the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo.",
"The DRC's military responded by putting tanks and troops on the streets and the banks of the Congo River, which separates the two cities, until it became clear that no attack on the capital was under way.",
"Impene said a short circuit the suspected cause of the fire.",
"Authorities are treating the blaze as accidental, Bangana said.",
"CNN's Nkepile Mabuse and journalist Fred Robarts contributed to this report."
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"Hospitals are overflowing with wounded, an official says .",
"An electrical short is the suspected cause of the ammo dump blasts .",
"Congo's government says the explosions killed at least 200 people .",
"The concussions broke windows across the Congo River in Kinshasa ."
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"(CNN) -- Federal prosecutors want baseball legend Barry Bonds to serve 15 months in prison for his obstruction of justice conviction, according to a sentencing memo filed in court Thursday.",
"Defense lawyers argued in their filing that the judge should accept the probation office's recommendation that Bonds be sentenced to two years probation, fined $4,000 and ordered to perform 250 hours of community service.",
"Bonds, 47, is set to be sentenced on December 16 in a San Francisco federal courtroom, less than two miles from the ballpark where he broke Hank Aaron's major league home run in August 2007.",
"Jurors who found Bonds guilty in April said he was \"evasive\" in his testimony to the federal grand jury investigating illegal steroids use by pro athletes.",
"\"Because Bonds's efforts were a corrupt, intentional effort to interfere with that mission, a sentence of 15 months imprisonment is appropriate,\" the prosecution said in its memo to U.S. District Judge Susan Illston.",
"But jurors, who were deadlocked on three perjury counts, said that it was not proven that Bonds lied when he testified that he had not knowingly used steroids.",
"Prosecutors decided not pursue a retrial.",
"Prosecutors still argued in the sentencing memo that Bonds' denial that he was \"taking steroids and human growth hormone were patently false.\"",
"\"Whether his purpose was to protect his drug suppliers or his own reputation, Bonds's pre-testimony efforts to sway the testimony of Giants trainer Stan Conte established that he approached his grand jury testimony with a plan,\" the prosecution said.",
"\"That plan was to evade telling the truth to the grand jury through any means possible, whether through lies, half-truths, non-sequiturs, or simply bluffing his way through the testimony.\"",
"\"Bonds's pervasive efforts to testify falsely, to mislead the grand jury, to dodge questions, and to simply refuse to answer questions in the grand jury makes his conduct worthy of a significant jail sentence,\" the prosecution argued.",
"Bonds' testimony in December 2003 was part of the BALCO investigation that targeted employees of a California drug testing laboratory and Bonds' personal trainer Greg Anderson.",
"The testimony that led to his conviction came when a grand jury prosecutor asked Bonds if Anderson ever gave him \"anything that required a syringe to inject yourself with.\"",
"Bonds told the grand jury that only his personal doctors \"ever touch me,\" and he then veered off the subject to say he never talked baseball with Anderson.",
"A juror, who identified herself only as Jessica and who would not give her last name, told reporters they agreed unanimously that Bonds was \"not directly answering the question, just kind of evading the question.\"",
"Defense lawyers argued that Bonds' thought the creams and ointments Anderson was giving him were made of flaxseed oils.",
"In their sentencing memo, the defense urged the judge to accept the probation office's conclusion that Bond's \"prior history of good works,\" including \"charitable and civic contributions\" should factor into the sentencing.",
"\"It is believed that Mr. Bonds can use his status, as well as his past record of giving to youth-related causes for some beneficial and significant impact to society,\" the report said.",
"Also, the conviction \"appears to be an aberration when taken in context of his entire life,\" the probation office report said.",
"The prosecution rejected the probation office conclusions.",
"\"Bonds's conduct was not a spontaneous act of aberrant behavior, and his charitable works, while laudable, should not allow him to escape responsibility for his criminal conduct,\" prosecutors wrote.",
"\"The conduct in this case was neither aberrant nor insignificant.",
"To the contrary, Bonds's actions were the product of a calculated plan to obfuscate and distract the grand jury from its role in getting to the truth in the Balco inquiry.\"",
"Bonds' legal troubles began in 2003 when he was subpoenaed to testify before the federal grand jury investigating the illegal distribution of performance-enhancing drugs to athletes.",
"Bonds was told he was not a target of the investigation, which was centered on the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative, known as BALCO.",
"His personal trainer, Greg Anderson, was a target.",
"\"All he had to do was tell the truth,\" Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeff Nedrow said in his closing arguments last week.",
"Bonds lied to the grand jury because he knew the truth about his steroids use would \"tinge his accomplishments\" and hurt his baseball career, Nedrow said.",
"\"His secret was so powerful that he couldn't admit it, wouldn't admit it.\"",
"The grand jury transcript showed that when he was asked about anabolic steroids before the 2003 baseball season, he said he had not knowingly used them.",
"He did acknowledge using substances Anderson gave him known as \"the clear and the cream.\"",
"Nedrow argued that it was \"implausible\" that Bonds would take drugs \"and really not know what they were.\"",
"A urine sample given by Bonds in the summer of 2003, just months before his grand jury testimony, tested positive for anabolic steroids, but another sample taken weeks earlier tested negative for the drugs.",
"The San Francisco Giants star ended his 21-year major league career in 2007 with 762 home runs.",
"He also set the record for most home runs in a single season in 2001, when he hit 73."
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"Bonds should get prison for his \"corrupt, intentional effort\" to mislead, prosecutors say .",
"The probation office report calls for two years probation, a fine and community service .",
"Baseball's home run king will be sentenced on December 16 in San Francisco .",
"A jury convicted Bonds of obstruction of justice in April ."
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"(CNN) -- The world of Formula One may seem an unlikely source of inspiration for a major carbon-cutting initiative, but technology used for coordinating pit-stops is primed to slash emissions from airports across the globe.",
"According to Britain's National Air Traffic Services (NATS), more than half the planes landing at London's Heathrow airport are stuck in circles overhead -- often for 20 minutes at a time -- as they wait for its congested runways to clear.",
"NATS says the carbon cost of this pile-up in the sky is an estimated 600 tons a day.",
"And this is where McLaren, the hugely successful Formula One team behind former world champions Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, have come in with an unexpected solution.",
"Over the years the company has developed modeling software to analyze live racing data and visualize a range of potential scenarios -- allowing pit crews to make strategic decisions in the blink of an eye -- all in an effort to get their cars back out onto the racetrack milliseconds ahead of their competitors.",
"It's this ground-level tracking technology that could hold the key to unlocking congestion, reducing CO2 emissions by streamlining the way aircraft make their own pit-stops once they've landed -- dropping off passengers, refueling and departing again with F1 efficiency.",
"This similarity between a motor race and an airport runway was first observed by Peter Tomlinson, head of aviation data solutions at NATS, while attending a workshop on cross-industry collaboration at McLaren's UK technology center three years ago.",
"\"It became clear that the pit-stop in a race track, with cars coming in, changing tyres and refueling and going out again actually is pretty similar to an aircraft arriving at the airport, parking at the gate, passengers getting off, refueling and going out,\" said the air traffic veteran, who has over 30 years experience in the industry.",
"The beauty of McLaren's system is that it reduces the complexity of a racetrack into a circle \"so at the point of decision, presentation of the data is very simple, which allows the engineer in a very stressful environment to make the right strategic decision and also see the data in a very clear, crisp format,\" said Tomlinson.",
"For the last three years NATS has been working with McLaren's engineers to map Heathrow's taxiways and runways -- much as they do a Formula One track.",
"But now, says Tomlinson, in place of a race strategist the system is operated by Heathrow's air traffic control, and instead of a circle the airport's network of runways and taxi lanes are represented by a simple rectangle -- enabling planes to be guided around the airport with greater ease and accuracy once they've landed.",
"The collaboration has been \"groundbreaking\" according to Geoff McGrath, managing director of McLaren Applied Technologies -- the F1 team's tech division.",
"\"To my knowledge this is a first -- NATS has invested in this because there is nothing like it available,\" he added.",
"The system is now in its \"proof of concept\" stage and hopes are high that it will be used by airports around the world within a year.",
"\"Think in terms of the environmental benefits of that,\" enthused Tomlinson.",
"\"Large airports with about 1300 to 1400 flights a day - if you save just one minute of taxi time per flight on average, that equates to one day's worth of taxi time - and that's how much we could save using McLaren's technology.\""
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"London's Heathrow airport hopes to cut C02 emissions by using motor racing technology .",
"Software developed by F1's McLaren reduces waiting time in pit-stops .",
"Britain's National Air Traffic Services, software could be use to cut air congestion ."
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"(CNN) -- No. 2 Alabama clobbered No.",
"1 Louisiana State University Monday night, winning college football's Bowl Championship Series 21-0.",
"The rematch of the century took place in New Orleans, and this time, there was more at stake than just bragging rights.",
"Follow the SI.com live game blog .",
"The showdown for the BCS title came two months after the two giants battled in a tense Southeastern Conference matchup.",
"Both teams went into that November 5 game undefeated.",
"College football pundits dubbed it the game of the century.",
"Alabama, playing at home in Tuscaloosa, lost 9-6.",
"For the Crimson Tide, Monday was a chance at redemption -- and to settle the debate, once and for all, who is the best team in college football.",
"\"These kind of competitive games, especially this game, playing somebody in your league that you already played, I think makes this a more special challenge,\" Alabama coach Nick Saban told reporters before the game.",
"\"The opportunity that our players have to play LSU again is something that is unique.\""
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"The two battled in November, with LSU coming out on top ."
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"Baghdad (CNN) -- At least nine people were killed and at least 72 others wounded Tuesday when four car bombs and a roadside bomb exploded in mostly Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad, police officials said.",
"The first two attacks took place in Sadr City, an area in eastern Baghdad, police said.",
"A car bomb exploded in al-Mudhafar Square, near a group of laborers who were waiting to be picked up for a daily job, police said.",
"A few minutes later, a second car bomb exploded near a busy fuel station.",
"Police said seven people were killed and 35 people were injured in the attacks in Sadr City, which is home to about 1.5 million people.",
"A third car bomb exploded on a road in the al-Hurriya neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad, killing at least one person and wounding 13 others, police said.",
"In a fourth attack, a roadside bomb wounded six people when it exploded near Adan Square in northwestern Baghdad.",
"And a fifth explosion, a car bomb, blew up near an elementary school in the Shulaa neighborhood of northwestern Baghdad, police said.",
"Two people were killed, and 18 others -- including some students from the elementary school -- were wounded.",
"Since the beginning of this year, a wave of attacks in Iraq have killed almost 200 people.",
"Most of those killed were Shiites marking Arbaeen, a Shiite pilgrimage at the end of a 40-day period commemorating the seventh century Imam Hussain, who was killed in a battle.",
"The latest attacks raised concerns among ordinary people about the ability of Iraqi security forces to ensure security in this country, particularly after the United States withdrew troops by the end of 2011.",
"However, Iraqi people are more concerned now about the political crisis.",
"Last week, Iraq's Council of Ministers decided to ban members who are boycotting Cabinet meetings, a government spokesman said.",
"The banned ministers will not be allowed to manage their ministries, according to spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh.",
"Last month, the Sunni-backed Iraqiya party announced it would boycott parliament and Cabinet meetings, saying Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a Shiite, was cutting the party out of the decision-making process.",
"Iraqiya spokeswoman Maysoun Damluji said the Iraqiya bloc was not surprised by the prime minister's move, calling it unconstitutional and illegal.",
"Iraq's political crisis deepened last year when a warrant was issued for Sunni Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, who is accused of organizing his security detail into a death squad that targeted government and military officials.",
"Al-Hashimi has denied the charges, saying the accusations are politically motivated amid the rivalry between his political bloc and al-Maliki's Shiite majority bloc.",
"In recent weeks, Iraq's Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani, called for a \"national conference\" to address the political crisis.",
"But in the past week, a number of Sunni politicians who are members of Iraqiya bloc were arrested in Baghdad and Diyala province, officials with Iraqiya bloc said.",
"Diyala's deputy governor in charge of investment, Ghadban al-Khazraji, was arrested Friday by Iraqi security forces.",
"Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi recently accused al-Maliki of targeting al-Iraqiya members and deepening the political crisis.",
"Allawi warned al-Maliki that if the national conference fails, he will have no choice but to call for changing the prime minister and call for early elections, or the Iraqiya bloc will completely withdraw from the political process -- a move that could bring Iraqi politics to complete standstill."
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"A blast near an elementary school kills two and injures 18, including some students .",
"Five attacks take place in mostly Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad .",
"They include four car bombings and a roadside bomb attack .",
"Two explosions take place in Sadr City, an area in eastern Baghdad ."
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"Wukan Village, China (CNN) -- In the end, Xue Jianwan gave up her short-lived political career after family pressure proved even harder to overcome than official intimidation.",
"\"My enthusiasm was just extinguished by my Grandma's tears,\" the 21-year-old elementary school teacher posted early Sunday morning on Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter.",
"\"I decided to call it quits as soon as they announced the initial election result -- sorry if I let anyone down.\"",
"Xue had been running to become a deputy chief of her native Wukan, a fishing village of some 12,000 residents in southern China, part of an unprecedented exercise in grassroots democracy in a country where the Communist Party usually reigns supreme.",
"Some 80% of the 8,300 registered voters, state media reported, flocked to Wukan School on a balmy Saturday to select a new village leadership.",
"As red flags fluttered in an early spring breeze and loudspeakers played folk music, villagers marked their choices in booths marked \"secret balloting\" with election workers and volunteers standing by to answer any questions.",
"Dozens of foreign reporters -- used to government interference in the field -- savored a rare moment to roam freely, filming the event and interviewing voters, as several officials watched from a second-floor balcony.",
"The orderly scene was soon disrupted by the appearance of Xue who was besieged by photographers jostling to get a shot of her.",
"With her small frame disappearing in a sea of flashing cameras, Xue's friends had to rescue her from the press pack.",
"The young woman's celebrity only served as a poignant reminder of the tumultuous period the village had just passed through.",
"From September to December 2011, thousands of locals took to the streets of Wukan, protesting the illegal seizure of their farmland by corrupt officials, expelling local Communist Party leaders and clashing with anti-riot police who surrounded the village.",
"The months-long \"siege of Wukan\" culminated when security agents took several protest leaders into custody early December, and one of them -- Xue Jinbo -- soon died in jail.",
"Authorities blamed sudden illness, but his family and most villagers believed he had been beaten to death.",
"As the untimely death became a rallying call, provincial authorities relented and agreed to the protesters' demands, sacking local officials, launching an investigation into the land dispute, and promising an open and fair village election.",
"When CNN first met Xue Jianwan, who is Xue Jinbo's daughter, in January, she was still reeling with anger and disbelief after the death of her father.",
"Her distraught mother could barely speak.",
"\"Dad was like Superman to us,\" she said at the time, her eyes welling up with tears.",
"\"How can I just accept that he's suddenly no longer with us?\"",
"With a maturity beyond her years, Xue vowed to get her father's body back, which had been held by the authorities, confronting every official who visited the family to offer condolences.",
"Although her father's body was eventually returned in February, and the family received government compensation of 900,000 yuan ($143,000), Xue Jianwan made it clear she would continue to seek justice for his death.",
"Lighting incense sticks and kneeling in front of a large portrait, Xue paid tribute to her late father at home Saturday morning before heading to the polls.",
"Xue tweeted that she had decided to stand for election at the last minute, defying officials who warned her that she may lose the job that provides the only income for her mother and two younger siblings.",
"\"The villagers want me to run,\" she told CNN.",
"\"And I think of my father -- I want to do something for him.\"",
"She may be the most unlikely candidate on the ballot, but plenty of voters were willing to embrace a daughter carrying on a cause her father died for.",
"\"We all liked him and are now voting for her,\" said Wu Fang, a 53-year-old villager lingering on the school ground after voting.",
"\"She told us at meetings that she would follow her father's footstep to help us and look after our welfare.\"",
"As Wu and her fellow villagers exercised their hard-fought democratic right, some analysts have wondered whether the \"Wukan effect\" could bring wider political freedoms.",
"China watchers estimate the country saw some 180,000 \"mass incidents\" in 2010, most of which occurred in rural areas and were related to land confiscations.",
"While the Chinese central government has permitted direct village elections since the 1980s, critics say the Wukan election is nothing more than symbolism and that the Communist Party still keeps a tight grip on dissent nationwide, especially in the wake of the Arab Spring.",
"Back at Wukan School, Wu Fang echoed other local villagers when she said a \"fairer\" election wouldn't solve the core issue that triggered the original protest: the sale of almost 1,000 acres of land by local officials to developers without any compensation to farmers.",
"\"How can we farmers live without our land?\"",
"she said. \"We want our farmland back and there hasn't been much progress.",
"Without news coverage, our struggle would have died a long time ago.\"",
"With two prominent protest leaders declared the winners for the top two positions on Saturday night, it remains to be seen whether there will be any real change in rural China.",
"\"A democratic election produces capable village officials who will help villagers get back their seized land and stolen assets -- so it's a necessary step in the process,\" Yang Semao, who was elected deputy village chief, told CNN before casting his ballot.",
"Xue failed to get enough votes for an outright victory, but is eligible to compete in a runoff Sunday.",
"Worried that she may meet her father's fate, some family members had vehemently opposed her political career from the outset.",
"As her decision to quit the race spread online, reaction among her 25,000 Weibo followers appeared mostly encouraging.",
"\"It doesn't matter whether or not you get elected,\" one supporter wrote.",
"\"Your family has already paid the ultimate price for Wukan.\"",
"\"Don't blame your grandmother -- she's been through too much,\" another one chimed in.",
"\"You're still young and there will be time for another run.\""
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"Daughter of Wukan villager who died in police custody ends political career .",
"Local election seen as unprecedented exercise of grassroots democracy in China .",
"Xue Jianwan's celebrity a poignant reminder of the village's tumultuous recent past .",
"Analysts ponder whether the \"Wukan Effect\" could take hold in other parts of China ."
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"(Mashable) -- Facebook, which is one of the world's largest photo-sharing sites (in addition to being the leader among social networks), is rolling out some marked improvements to its Photos product.",
"These upgrades include hi-res photos, photo-download links, bulk tagging options and an elegant lightbox interface for viewing images from anywhere on the site.",
"The lightbox in particular reminds us of similar features recently rolled out by Flickr; and some of these improvements, such as hi-res and downloading capabilities, are what have prevented Facebook from serious competition with Flickr as a photo-sharing destination.",
"In the recent past, Facebook photos were best for capturing memories of places, people and events through small images and mobile snapshots; however, these changes allow a whole new class of image-sharing, up to and including photography, modeling and graphic design portfolios.",
"With its 500 million users around the world, Facebook is now poised to take over the photo-sharing market.",
"Beginning today and rolling out to all users soon, you will be able to upload and download hi-res photos up to 2048 pixels wide or high -- that's large enough for print-quality images.",
"(Currently, Facebook only displays 720 pixels; larger photos simply get resized.)",
"Each photo will come with a link to download the JPEG file, as well.",
"Follow Mashable social media on Twitter .",
"The site's new bulk tagging options will allow the uploading individual to temporarily group images and tag friends by simply clicking on thumbnails.",
"Another interesting change is Facebook's lightbox UI, which strongly and clearly puts the focus on images.",
"Starting soon, any time you click on an image anywhere on Facebook, be it in an album or in your News Feed or on a friend's Wall, you'll see a black box hovering over the rest of the screen with some minimal navigation controls and relevant social features, allowing you to concentrate completely on the image at hand.",
"While we don't love the ads in place here, we do realize that hosting hi-res photos costs a lot more and will attract a lot more usage -- both from uploading parties and from viewing individuals -- all of which puts more strain on Facebook's servers.",
"We'll sacrifice an ad-free experience for higher quality photos.",
"What do you think about these changes?",
"Do you think Facebook -- which already competes with Twitter as a status service, Google as an advertiser, and every major social network as a digital hub for friends -- will soon be competing with Flickr for the photos of pros and amateurs alike?",
"© 2011 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Facebook is one of the world's largest photo-sharing sites .",
"Upgrades include hi-res photos, photo-download links, bulk tagging options .",
"User can now upload and download hi-res photos up to 2048 pixels wide or high .",
"Another change is Facebook's lightbox UI, which puts the focus on images ."
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"Tehran (CNN) -- Iran's top cleric has blamed the CIA and Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, for killing an Iranian nuclear scientist, Iran's state broadcaster said.",
"Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who died Wednesday, was the third Iranian nuclear scientist in two years to be killed by what Iran described as a magnetic bomb attached to his car.",
"A fourth survived a similar assassination attempt.",
"Roshan's death shows that \"the global arrogance spearheaded by the U.S. and Zionism has reached a deadlock in confrontation with the determined, devout and progressive nation of Islamic Iran,\" Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was quoted as saying by the state-run Press TV.",
"Those responsible will not own up, Khamenei said, but the attack \"has been carried out by the planning or support of CIA and Mossad [spy] services, like all other crimes of the network of international state terrorism.\"",
"Khamenei ended his message of condolence with a warning: \"We shall persist in punishing the perpetrators of this crime, as well those supporting them behind the scenes.\"",
"Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent his condolences Friday to the families of Roshan and his driver, who also died following the attack, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.",
"He pointed the finger at \"agents of imperialism and international Zionism,\" a reference to Israel.",
"Other Iranian officials also blamed the killings on Israel and the United States, both of which have accused Tehran of pursuing a nuclear bomb -- a claim it denies.",
"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton \"categorically\" denied any role in the attacks, but urged Iran to halt its quest for a nuclear bomb.",
"Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reiterated that message Thursday, telling troops in Texas: \"We were not involved in any way -- in any way -- with regards to the assassination that took place there.",
"\"I'm not sure who was involved, we have some ideas as to who might be involved... but I can tell you one thing: the United States was not involved in that kind of effort, that's not what the United States does.\"",
"Brig. Gen. Yoav Mordechai, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said on his Facebook page Wednesday: \"I have no idea who targeted the Iranian scientist but I certainly don't shed a tear.\"",
"United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned any terrorist action or assassination of anyone, \"whether scientist or civilian.\"",
"\"It is not acceptable,\" he said via his spokesman Eduardo del Buey.",
"\"Human rights must be protected.\"",
"Meanwhile, a newspaper aligned with Khamenei called Thursday for the Islamic republic to respond in kind to the killings of its nuclear scientists, suggesting Israeli officials could be targeted.",
"The editor of Tehran daily Kayhan, considered the organ of Khamenei's supporters, questioned why Iran should not \"exercise its legal right to retaliate.\"",
"Mohammad Khazaee, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, said the assassinations of scientists were intended to deprive Iranians of the right to peaceful nuclear energy.",
"\"We believe that these terrorist attacks are supported by some elements -- especially within the Israeli regime as well as some quarters around the world,\" he said.",
"Iran says its nuclear program is aimed at producing civilian energy, not weapons.",
"But it has rebuffed international demands to halt its enrichment of uranium, and the International Atomic Energy Agency says it has credible evidence that Iran has conducted weapons-related research.",
"The IAEA, which serves as the U.N. nuclear watchdog, reported in November that it can no longer verify that the Iranian nuclear program remains peaceful.",
"The scientist's death comes as Western powers and Japan are tightening the screws on Tehran.",
"Japan announced Thursday it was prepared to gradually reduce oil imports from Iran, which supplies about 10% of its crude supply, while U.S.-led sanctions targeting Iran's central bank are driving down the value of the Iranian currency and driving up consumer prices.",
"At the same time, U.S. observers say a covert campaign of sabotage appears to be under way against Iran's nuclear program.",
"In addition to the deaths of nuclear researchers, Iran's Natanz enrichment plant -- where Roshan was the deputy director for commercial affairs -- has been hit with a computer worm that Western analysts say has damaged about 10% of the centrifuges used in the enrichment process.",
"In the face of increased pressure, Iran has threatened to close off the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway at the mouth of the oil-rich Persian Gulf.",
"It brought down and captured a U.S. surveillance drone over its territory and claims to have arrested a dozen American spies, including an Iranian-American former Marine who was sentenced to death this week.",
"The United States says he was wrongly accused."
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"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offers his condolences to the victims' families .",
"\"We shall persist in punishing the perpetrators of this crime,\" Khamenei warns .",
"U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta: \"We were not involved in any way in the assassination\"\nAn Israeli official says he has \"no idea\" who is behind the attack ."
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"(CNN) -- Great Britain's rhythmic gymnastics team has won an appeal against a decision by its own federation to exclude them from the London 2012 Olympics.",
"British Gymnastics ruled that the team had missed an agreed qualifying standard at the Olympic test event in North Greenwich area January.",
"But the team appealed to independent arbitrator Sports Resolutions UK, who overturned the decision Monday.",
"The British Olympic Association has now to inform the world governing body of gymnastics, the FIG, that Britain will be taking up the host nation spot.",
"The argument between the rhythmic gymnastics squad and its federation centered on the target of 45.223 points.",
"The British team fell agonizingly short of that mark in qualifying where it was intended to be met to mirror the Olympic experience.",
"But in the final day of the test event, the team scored 47.200 and appealed the decision on that basis.",
"Team captain Rachel Smith said they will now focus on making Britain \"proud\" at the summer Games.",
"\"We went into the competition thinking we could get the score on three days and we're really sad that it happened but on the bright side it has raised the profile of the sport,\" she told the Press Association.",
"\"We want to prove to everyone that we do deserve to be there and to make the country proud.\"",
"British Gymnastics has accepted the appeal decision."
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"Team can now compete in the 2012 London Olympics .",
"British Gymnastics had ruled they missed qualification target .",
"Independent arbitrator overturns that decision ."
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"Vienna, Austria (CNN) -- The United States and other countries offered to resume negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program on Tuesday as Iran signaled a willingness to let international inspectors visit a key military base.",
"The United States, France, Britain, China, Russia and Germany offered to resume stalled talks in a letter from European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.",
"She was responding to an overture that Iran made last month.",
"The prospect of negotiations comes amid rising concern that Israel may attack Iran to disrupt its nuclear program.",
"Israel and the United States suspect Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon.",
"International inspectors also have voiced concern, but Iran insists that its nuclear program is for peaceful, civilian purposes.",
"Meanwhile, Iran offered Tuesday to let international nuclear inspectors into one of its military bases, but only after significant details are worked out, its team at the International Atomic Energy Agency said.",
"The head of the IAEA, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, said Monday inspectors wanted to get into the Parchin base as soon as possible because of evidence of ongoing activities at the base, which is suspected of being involved in testing related to nuclear weapons.",
"Also on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that Israel will remain \"the master of its fate\" in ensuring that Iran not obtain a nuclear weapon.",
"\"Israel must reserve the right to defend itself, and after all, that's the very purpose of the Jewish state: to restore to the Jewish people control over our destiny,\" Netanyahu said in Washington.",
"He said time for diplomacy was running out.",
"\"We've waited for sanctions to work,\" he said.",
"\"None of us can afford to wait much longer.",
"As prime minister of Israel, I will never let my people live in the shadow of annihilation.\"",
"On Sunday, President Barack Obama warned that \"all elements of American power\" remain an option to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.",
"He also emphasized that he prefers a diplomatic solution.",
"IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano declined Monday to provide details on whether the activities at the Parchin military base involve ongoing testing or efforts to remove evidence.",
"\"But I can tell you that we are aware that there are some activities at Parchin and it makes us believe that going there sooner is better than later,\" Amano said.",
"IAEA inspectors had asked to visit the facility during a February trip to Iran but were rebuffed, the agency and Iran have both said.",
"Iran's permanent mission to the United Nations agency said Tuesday the IAEA had been out of line to request access to Parchin, but that once the agency formulated an appropriate request, Iran would let inspectors in.",
"Iran said Tuesday that the request came \"in spite of\" an agreement between Iran and the IAEA.",
"\"Considering the fact that it is a military site, granting access is a time consuming process and cannot be permitted repeatedly,\" Iran said.",
"Nevertheless, it said it would allow access after the IAEA submits paperwork about \"all related issues.\"",
"Inspectors believe Iran may have used Parchin to test high explosives that could be used to detonate a nuclear weapon.",
"IAEA inspectors visited Parchin twice in 2005, but inspectors did not go into the building that housed the test chamber then, according to the IAEA.",
"Iran offered access to another site late in the February visit, Amano said.",
"But the inspection team in Iran was not outfitted to examine Marivan, a site the IAEA believes may have been used to test elements of a nuclear weapon in 2003.",
"Iran has said its nuclear program is entirely peaceful, but Amano said Iran's failure to cooperate with international inspectors makes it impossible to be sure.",
"In fact, the agency \"continues to have serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions\" of Iran's nuclear program, Amano said.",
"Because Iran is not following an agreement to provide expanded information and broader access to international inspectors, the agency is \"unable to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities,\" he said in a statement preceding his news conference.",
"He added that the concern stems from \"overall credible information that indicates that Iran engaged in activities relevant to the development of nuclear explosive devices.\"",
"IAEA inspectors traveled to Iran in January and again in February to discuss the issue, but failed to reach an agreement, Amano said.",
"Monday's statement by Amano is not the first time the agency has questioned the purposes behind Iran's nuclear program.",
"Most recently, after the February visit by inspectors, the agency issued a report announcing that Iran had stepped up its efforts to produce enriched uranium in violation of international resolutions calling on it to stop.",
"The agency expressed \"serious concerns\" about potential military uses by Iran in that report.",
"Among other things, Iran has tripled its monthly production of uranium enriched to contain a 20% concentration of radioactive material and taken other steps to ramp up its nuclear program, Amano said Monday.",
"While Iran has said the higher-level enrichment is meant to produce therapies for cancer patients and other peaceful purposes, international critics have called the efforts a troubling step toward possible militarization of nuclear technology.",
"Nuclear weapons require concentrations of about 90%.",
"Amano said the agency would continue discussions with Iran and urged the country to abide by IAEA and U.N. resolutions on its nuclear program.",
"Iran is under increasing international pressure regarding its nuclear program.",
"The United Nations, the United States, the European Union and other countries have imposed sanctions related to Iran's nuclear research, and speculation regarding a possible military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities has been rampant in recent months.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah, Matthew Chance and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"NEW: EU foreign policy chief makes offer on behalf of the U.S. and several other countries .",
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"Israel and the United States vow not to let Iran get a nuclear weapon ."
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"New Brunswick, New Jersey (CNN) -- In text messages, a former Rutgers University student touted that \"people are having a viewing party\" to watch what he expected would be surreptitious webcam footage of his roommate being intimate with another man, according to testimony Monday.",
"The then-student, Dharun Ravi, is on trial on a 15-count indictment for allegedly spying on and intimidating his roommate, Tyler Clementi, because Clementi was gay.",
"Days after that and other messages were sent, the 18-year-old Clementi took his own life by leaping from the George Washington Bridge and into the Hudson River.",
"One of Ravi's high school friends, Michelle Huang, testified Monday at his trial in a New Brunswick, New Jersey, courtroom.",
"She read out a Twitter messages from September 19, 2010, in which Ravi wrote that he went into a mutual friend's room, \"turned on my webcam\" and saw his roommate \"making out with a dude.\"",
"Huang testified Monday that two days later, Ravi sent another message telling his Twitter followers -- of which Huang was one -- \"I dare you to videochat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12.",
"Yes, it's happening again.\"",
"According to Huang, Ravi explained that day in a text to her that he'd set his \"computer to alert (him) if anyone is in (the room) when I'm not there.\"",
"Specifically, Ravi wrote that it \"checks\" his bed.",
"Ravi said that he was \"creeped out\" by the September 19 romantic encounter between Clementi and another man, which he suggested he witnessed -- via his hidden camera -- with several others.",
"\"Keep the gays away,\" he wrote, according to a text message that was shown on a screen in the courtroom.",
"Huang said it was her understanding that Ravi planned to broadcast another liaison, without Clementi's knowledge, for others to see.",
"\"Mad people are going to do it,\" she said he texted her, using slang to suggest large numbers planned to watch.",
"\"People are having a viewing party with a bottle of Bacardi and beer in this kids room for my roommate.\"",
"That \"viewing party\" never happened, Ravi wrote in a subsequent text exchange.",
"Yet on September 22, 2010, Clementi took a train to New York and posted a mobile status update on his Facebook page that read, \"Jumping off the gw bridge sorry,\" before killing himself.",
"Ravi's lawyer, Stephen Altman, meanwhile, introduced a message sent the next day in which his client told Huang that his roommate had committed suicide and described it as \"crazy.\"",
"\"I guess he was quiet because he was depressed,\" wrote the defendant.",
"When she brought up the \"viewing party\" that he'd written about it earlier, Ravi wrote back: \"No that was a joke.\"",
"Last week, Rutgers graduate Geoffrey Irving testified that Ravi had told him after an ultimate Frisbee practice that he set up the webcam and was planning to do it again the evening of September 21.",
"Yet previously, Altman has argued that his client had switched on the webcam to monitor his personal items because he did not trust his roommate's visitor, not necessarily because Clementi was gay.",
"And amid testimony Monday by Detective Douglas Rager of the Rutgers Police Department, the defense lawyer noted that Ravi cooperated fully when investigators talked with him for the first time after Clementi's death.",
"Authorities seized Ravi's Blackberry after that initial 45-minute discussion.",
"The trial of Ravi, now 20, began February 24.",
"When it's complete, the jury will weigh his guilt or innocence on various charges including bias intimidation, invasion of privacy, tampering with physical evidence, witness tampering and hindering apprehension or prosecution.",
"If convicted, Ravi faces up to 10 years in prison.",
"Last year, he turned down a plea deal that would have allowed him to avoid jail time.",
"He wasn't the only one charged after Clementi's suicide.",
"Molly Wei, who admitted joining Ravi to watch the September 19, 2010, webcam encounter, was charged with two counts of invasion of privacy.",
"She reached a plea deal in May 2011 that required her to testify against her friend and former high school classmate, as well as to complete a three-year program on cyberbullying and do 300 hours of community service.",
"The charges will be dropped if she does all of those things.",
"Testifying last week, Wei said she was surprised to learn that Ravi had talked and taken to Twitter to hype the webcam scheme and to essentially advertise that others could watch an upcoming liaison.",
"\"I was very surprised because my friends brought it up, and I had no idea how they knew, but they said that Dharun had told them. ...",
"They told me about these Twitter, tweets, that they received on Tuesday about him trying to have a viewing party,\" she said.",
"Clementi's suicide stirred national discussion regarding bullying, with President Barack Obama releasing a videotaped message less than a month later condemning such treatment.",
"And Clementi's family consented in November to the use of his name on federal anti-harassment legislation called the \"Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act.\"",
"The proposed law would require schools that receive federal student aid \"to create policies prohibiting the harassment of any student,\" said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey.",
"InSessions' Jean Casarez in New Brunswick contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Fans of classic 1970's films like \"Network\" and \"The Parallax View\" should flock to \"The Ides of March,\" George Clooney's fourth outing as a director and second produced screenplay.",
"It's a taut and engaging political thriller that should resonate with Americans of any political persuasion.",
"Liberal, left-wing Pennsylvania Gov.",
"Mike Morris (Clooney) is in the fight of his life, running for the Democratic nomination for president.",
"He leads in the polls and the delegate count, but anything can happen in the week before the primary and a potential spoiler/kingmaker waits in the wings in the form of North Carolina Sen. Thompson (Jeffrey Wright).",
"Stakes are high.",
"The old saying of \"as Ohio goes, so goes the nation\" implies that a win in the primary is the key.",
"However, Sen. Thompson controls a large group of delegates who are likely to go to whatever candidate he endorses.",
"So while trying to win Ohio, both Morris and his rival are at the same time clandestinely courting Thompson's favors, with New York Times reporter Ida Horowicz (Marissa Tomei) doggedly looking for the scoop.",
"With so much of modern politics playing out in the media, the results often hinge on the dance between campaign and reporter.",
"This complicated pas de deux with Tomei's reporter is performed on the campaign side by grizzled veteran campaign manager Paul Zara (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and hotshot young press secretary Stephen Meyers (Ryan Gosling).",
"(Which kind of makes it a pas de trois, but never mind.)",
"Gosling is at the center of the film, once again proving that he is more than capable of holding his own in a group of heavyweights, inhabiting Myers like he's been playing him on stage for years.",
"In fact, \"The Ides of March\" is adapted from Beau Willimon's play \"Farragut North.\"",
"Ambitious and aggressively idealistic, the only thing Myers cares about more than winning is believing in his candidate, which of course sets him apart from virtually all the real-world political operators working inside the D.C. Beltway and sets him up for a vicious life lesson.",
"As Gov. Morris, Clooney is at his best, with his campaign speeches and television appearances echoing Bill Clinton, but with a charm that leans more towards the urbane than the folksy.",
"At one point Morris flat out tells a debate audience not to vote for him if they don't agree with his positions on the issues.",
"Imagine! It is in the private moments, however, that the true, cynical face of politics shows its face and it is in this cynicism that \"Ides\" finds its true footing.",
"A throwback film in a sense, \"Ides\" is not the \"Pretty Woman\" look at politics and things get ugly.",
"An old saw is that working in politics is a great place to meet women and this holds true here, as Myers meets young, aggressive campaign intern Molly (Evan Rachel Wood) and their short and rather unsubtle flirtation leads to a series of events that, before they conclude, affect virtually everyone involved in dramatic ways and shakes Myers' beliefs to the core.",
"At one point the 30-year-old Myers brags that he's worked on more campaigns than most people have by the time they're 40, but Hoffman's Zara and equally seasoned rival campaign manager Tom Duffy (Paul Giamatti) in turn play Myers like a violin, proving that \"The X-Files\" was right: Trust no one.",
"To which I would add: and keep your mouth shut.",
"In essence, \"Ides\" is about tests.",
"A test of idealism in the face of reality and a test of political resolve in the face of events that shake conviction.",
"Gosling's Myers is playing with the big boys and navigating the often ethically muddy waters of presidential politics is not for the faint of heart.",
"It is also about compromise.",
"How much of your ideals, integrity and reputation are you willing to sacrifice for \"the greater good\" and does that greater good actually exist?",
"While the choices may be integrity vs. career and ethics vs. ambition, it's not always clear which choice will produce which result.",
"Despite Clooney's outspoken left-leaning politics, this is a film without a partisan agenda and one that both sides of the aisle ought to see and in which they may quite possibly see themselves.",
"It's an entertaining, suspenseful and deeply cynical film, but politics is a cynical business and maybe this will be seen as a cautionary tale...though I doubt it. Was that too cynical?"
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"(CNN) -- As the nation and the world's attention turned to the impending execution of Hank Skinner in Texas before a late stay by a Texas court, one question seemed paramount: \"Why the rush?\"",
"The answer to that question is buried deep inside the psychology of prosecutors and the culture of Texas.",
"Skinner was scheduled for execution on Wednesday for the 1993 killing of his girlfriend, Twila Busby, and her two sons, until the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (the top criminal court in that state) issued a stay late on Monday.",
"While Skinner was found hiding in another house after the murders and some tests showed the blood of the victims on his clothes, he has maintained his innocence.",
"He claims he was in the house at the time of the killing, but was too incapacitated by alcohol and codeine to have hurt anyone.",
"Some question his conviction and point to Busby's uncle as another suspect, and Skinner wants some of the items found at the scene tested for DNA.",
"Even the foreperson of the convicting jury has now stepped forward to ask that the tests be conducted.",
"However, the prosecutors have steadfastly refused to allow such testing, and Skinner's attorneys have failed (thus far) to get a court order requiring those tests.",
"The prosecutors have been adamant about an immediate execution, precluding further tests, and it is this fact that many people find baffling.",
"As a former prosecutor who then spent 10 years training future prosecutors in Texas, I am not surprised by this development.",
"Quite simply, the prosecutors are committed to their conviction in a way that should surprise no one.",
"To a prosecutor, convicting dangerous people and incapacitating them is a life's work, nothing less than their duty to a community.",
"Prosecutors have wide discretion in choosing whom to charge with capital murder and whether to seek the death penalty for the person they have charged.",
"Once they have chosen that path, though, it is a somber commitment: It is nothing less than a public pledge to kill another person, and that is the kind of thing that is not done lightly.",
"There is a deep emotional component to it, and that emotional commitment cannot be ignored, especially when it no longer matches the trajectory of justice.",
"Academics such as Susan Bandes and Ellen Yaroshefsky have studied the emotional overcommitment of prosecutors, and explain it in part by looking to peer groups.",
"Throughout the post-conviction process, prosecutors are usually surrounded by people (such as supervisors and investigators) who share their commitment to a conviction.",
"At the same time, ethical rules keep them away from the person with the highest stake in the game, the defendant, who may want to challenge the outcome.",
"Among those complaining about the rush to execution has been the government of France.",
"Here's a news flash: Texans really don't care much what the French think.",
"What do Texans care about?",
"As even a casual observer of the campaign of Texas Gov.",
"Rick Perry for president has probably noticed, many Texans care about the Bible.",
"Texas, for good or bad, has a highly Christianized political culture, and the very center of the Christian gospels themselves contain a dramatic warning against the dangers of overcommitted prosecutors.",
"At the trial of Christ it was the chief priest, Caiaphas, who took the role of prosecutor.",
"As the trial wore on, he became frustrated.",
"The evidence had contradicted itself; it suggested more than one story.",
"Finally, Caiaphas could take no more and demanded an immediate outcome.",
"He tore his shirt and said, \"Why do we still need witnesses?\"",
"It was only then that Christ was condemned to die.",
"That emotion, enough to tear your own shirt, is the kind of commitment that is in the heart of prosecutors.",
"It is a passion born of good intentions, but one that can turn against the good.",
"Caiaphas was not a hero, and Texans of all people should understand that.",
"The commitment of prosecutors is too rooted in emotion to be a deciding factor in a case such as this, and the objectivity of courts must bring to bear what is right.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Mark Osler."
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"Texas was set to execute man who wanted evidence tested for DNA .",
"Court stayed his execution Monday over objection of prosecutors .",
"Mark Osler says prosecutors who try death penalty cases display certainty .",
"He says courts need to step in to make sure justice is being done ."
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"Samm Farai Monro, better known as Comrade Fatso, is Zimbabwe's most popular protest poet as well as a leading political activist and grassroots blogger.",
"He has performed his rebel poetry all over the world and says his debut album has been banned in his own country for being \"too political.\"",
"CNN has invited him to blog on events unfolding in Zimbabwe.",
"HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Things are quiet today.",
"The calm before a storm.",
"The silence before swearing.",
"In. People are waiting for Bob to swear himself in.",
"The streets are quiet.",
"People are pensive.",
"Everyone knows this beast.",
"It likes nothing more than victory.",
"No matter how hollow.",
"No matter how bloody.",
"So the people wait for Bob to declare his illegitimate victory.",
"There's no impatience here. No curiosity about results.",
"We all know that he will take all the ballot papers, spoilt and unspolit, and he will build his house of cards.",
"His house of ballot papers built by serial killers.",
"And we wonder how long it will take us to make it fall apart.",
"June 27 (p.m.) HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Sometimes a slogan meant to instill fear can come humorously true.",
"Samm Farai Monro, AKA Comrade Fatso, is a blogger, protest poet and political activist in Zimbabwe.",
"ZANU (PF)'s slogan over the past month for the Presidential Run Off has been \"June 27 Mugabe Chete, June 28 Mugabe Muhofisi.\"",
"So the slogan \"June 27 Mugabe's the Only Choice, June 28 Mugabe in Power\" has become reality in a very ironic way.",
"But not necessarily how the powers-that-shouldn't-be hoped it would.",
"Today, Zimbabweans were faced with a single-candidate election in a land with seven-digit inflation where most people eat a single meal each day.",
"So the choice was obvious.",
"Stay away or spoil your vote.",
"The single candidate participating wasn't worth an \"X.\"",
"\"I voted first thing this morning,\" says young, dreadlocked Tindo from the sprawling township of Dzivarasekwa.",
"\"I drew 10 'X's all over Bob and spolit my ballot!\"",
"Collin from Highfields was a bit more poetic.",
"He wrote a letter on his ballot paper, voicing his frustration with the election.",
"Many others have spolit their ballots or simply stayed away, despite threats of violence from ZANU's drugged-up militias.",
"The turnout in most high density and low density areas has been tiny.",
"There have only been higher turnouts in areas where the militias have forced people to report to their bases with their ballot paper serial number so that the militias can \"check\" if they voted \"correctly.\"",
"So Zimbabwe's subversive, totemless urban dwellers have once again invoked their right to stay away, last used in the late 1990s against ZANU's failed Structural Adjustment Programmes.",
"And apart from a few stragglers it seems that in the urban polling stations it has really been \"Only Mugabe.\"",
"June 27 (a.m.) HARARE, Zimbabwe -- In this town appearance and reality are often two different things.",
"ZANU-PF posters arrogantly hug every wall.",
"Their red, yellow, green and black colors hang from every third car's rearview mirror.",
"Kombis, our public transport, have the party's colors emblazoned on their sides, their drivers, their conductors.",
"These are the lies that license Zimbabweans to live.",
"Every youth militia road block demands that kombis and passengers are in ZANU (PF) regalia.",
"Without this you are beaten.",
"At least. In their hearts Zimbabweans are different.",
"Stubborn. \"Why aren't they sending in the U.N.?",
"It's a war zone here isn't it?\" says the one man in the paint-peeling bar with a Robert Mugabe poster encrusted on its walls.",
"\"None of us will vote tomorrow,\" said the other.",
"\"It will end. And the old man knows it.\"",
"Later in the day comrades from the high-density suburb of Highfields talk of the systematic intimidation by ZANU-PF militias.",
"\"They say we must tell them the serial number of our ballot paper after voting and then they will check who we voted for,\" says Taurai.",
"\"But we all know that we should spoil our ballots if they force us to vote.\"",
"Even the school children know the truth.",
"\"They are beating and killing people for these elections,\" says a wise 8-year-old school girl.",
"\"Mugabe is a bad man.",
"He must just go.\" Thousands of posters can't cover up the deep feelings of a hurt, betrayed people.",
"The run off has no legitimacy.",
"And everyone knows that.",
"June 26 HARARE, Zimbabwe -- What's happening.?",
"What are we doing? What's going to happen on Friday?",
"Harare, the rumor city, seems to have been struck by questions.",
"The usual commas and exclamation marks have been electorally cleansed from street talk.",
"From the hustlers on street corners to restaurant kitchen staff, all talk in question marks.",
"The week has gone from the familiar certainty of a bloody election to the unknown reality of a boycott.",
"And Zimbabweans can't find the answer to that.",
"So question marks hang over the people's heads like paused sickles.",
"Some still joke.",
"Mugabe decided that multiple choice in elections was an imperialist creation so he has given the people a simplified election: a single candidate.",
"But that's the length of the joke.",
"And even the jokes here are said with question marks lurking at the end.",
"Like paused sickles above the people's heads.",
"May 22, 2008 .",
"HARARE, Zimbabwe -- A sick, old man shuffled towards me as I walked towards my car from a civil society discussion on elections.",
"I said instinctively that I didn't have any money.",
"He asked me to wait.",
"Patiently, hopefully, urgently.",
"His quiet desperation stopped me.",
"\"Please just listen to me.\"",
"I listened. \"I am sick. I am going to die if I don't have this operation.\"",
"All he asked was that I take his bank account details and see if I could deposit some money towards his operation.",
"This is public healthcare Zanu (PF) style.",
"Everything has fallen apart here.",
"A once excellent public health care system is now a mortuary of unaffordable drugs.",
"The roads have more potholes than white lines.",
"The zeros on our dollars are so many that the supermarkets now ask us to add three zeros in order to work out the actual price.",
"Some restaurants make up their own concepts, charging in \"thollars\" -- thousands of dollars -- so that once again the customer has to add three zeros to the bill.",
"The Zanu (PF) military junta's only policy at the moment is to beat its disobedient people into line.",
"What they don't realize is that fists and sovereignty won't make us vote.",
"It's the stupid economy.",
"May 7, 2008 .",
"HARARE, Zimbabwe -- As the fireworks erupted we thought that maybe there was hope.",
"Harare's sky was burning with fire.",
"With what-could-be. Hope, anger, resistance, sadness.",
"And hope again. This was the opening show of HIFA, the Harare International Festival of the Arts.",
"Comprised of some of Zimbabwe's leading singers and artists it was a show about a people whose dreams are stolen by a tyrannical king.",
"This Idi Amin suit-clad king was modeled on our own dictator here in Zimbabwe.",
"His hyenas were a symbol of the scavenger-like youth militia terrorizing the peasants.",
"But the people's deepest dreams and strongest songs cannot be stolen.",
"So songs of resistance like Bob Marley's \"Zimbabwe\" were sung to the crowd of 8,000 Zimbabweans gathered in Harare Gardens last week.",
"As the king's hyenas marauded on the stage attacking young children the singers broke into revolutionary songs from the liberation struggle.",
"It culminated in an emotional rendition of John Lennon's \"Imagine\" by Zimbabwe's leading vocalist, Chiwoniso.",
"All of us artists involved felt as if we were given a window into what-could-be.",
"As fireworks went off over the heads of thousands of dreamers we all dreamt of a peaceful country without tortured bodies and burnt homes.",
"For the one week of the festival we believed.",
"For one week we had a window into the future.",
"And it's beautiful. For more of Comrade Fatso's writing and music, click here.",
"You can comment on this blog using \"sound off,\" below."
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"Comrade Fatso, a popular poet on the Zimbabwe arts scene, writes for CNN .",
"His work is described as urban street poetry that mixes Shona with English .",
"CNN has invited him to blog on events unfolding in Zimbabwe ."
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"Bournemouth, England (CNN) -- When Rowena Macintosh was deciding on whether or not to get breast implants, she told the operating surgeon that she was concerned about leaking silicone from the implants.",
"So he placed in front of her an implant and sliced it open to show her how the silicone remained solid inside, assuring her it would not spill out into her body.",
"She said it looked like jelly candy.",
"\"When I was told that there was absolutely no chance of this breast implant leaking because of this 'jelly baby effect', if you like.",
"Well, that was about 50% of the decision because it felt safe and it was guaranteed for 25 years,\" Macintosh told CNN at her home in Bournemouth.",
"\"I didn't think to check the manufacturer ... because it's not something you do.",
"You go to someone who's supposed to be medically qualified and you trust them,\" she said.",
"\"When you go to a doctor, you don't say: Who makes your medicine?",
"You just assume they're going to be safe.\"",
"The manufacturer was PIP -- the bankrupt French company that appears to have used industrial grade silicone intending for stuffing mattresses inside breast implants.",
"Now, there are concerns that PIP implants are also more prone to leaking and rupturing.",
"French authorities announced last month that the government would pay for the removal of the bankrupt company's implants.",
"Authorities in France and England have dismissed fears of cancer from the implants, but have said the devices are prone to rupture and could cause inflammation, scarring and fibrosis.",
"More than 500 French women have had the implants removed since last year, according to the French government agency that evaluates the safety of medical products.",
"Since then, more than 1,000 implants have ruptured, the agency said.",
"Germany, UK weigh in on breast implant concerns .",
"Months after her surgery, Macintosh says she began to get burning and stabbing pains in the area.",
"More recently, she has found a hard mass in one breast.",
"She fears that her PIP implants have leaked and she wants them removed and replaced immediately.",
"\"It's like a ticking time bomb inside me.",
"Until someone says you can have them taken out and put back in again, I'm going to be worried,\" Macintosh says.",
"The problem: Who will pay for the operation?",
"Britain's National Health Service does not pay for cosmetic surgery, so an estimated 95% of breast implant operations are done in private clinics.",
"But now that women are demanding PIP implants be removed, some clinics are refusing to treat them.",
"Rowena Macintosh says she saved up and paid almost $8000 for her breast implants, including surgery and after care.",
"But the clinic refused to giver her a scan to detect ruptures, she says, and also declined to consider removing and replacing the implants until there was a proven problem.",
"The clinic refused to comment to CNN citing privacy concerns.",
"\"I think ultimately it's the surgeons and the clinics, whoever bought the implants and certified their use, that should be held responsible,\" she says.",
"The British government agrees, but says there is still no statistical data to show that PIP implants are either toxic or more prone to rupturing.",
"\"Our advice remains the same that there is not sufficient evidence to recommend routine removal.",
"We have always recommended that women who are concerned should speak to their surgeon or GP,\" British Health Secretary Andrew Lansley in a statement.",
"\"The NHS will support removal of PIP implants if, after this consultation, the patient still has concerns and with her doctor she decides that it is right to do so.",
"\"We believe that private healthcare providers have a moral duty to offer the same service to their patients that we will offer to NHS patients -- free information, consultations, scans and removal if necessary,\" Lansley said.",
"But if clinics do not follow through, he added, the National Health Service will be called upon to step in and support patients.",
"Ultimately, taxpayers may have to foot the bill in some cases.",
"That's not what Rowena Macintosh wants.",
"She wants the private clinic and surgeon to pay to remove and replace the PIP implants as soon as possible, but she realizes that may not happen until after a long legal battle.",
"She doesn't regret the decision to get implants, she says, but she does wish she had chosen a different, more discerning clinic.",
"\"And to think I've got mattress silicone inside me and God knows what else they used,\" she grimaces over a cup of tea in her kitchen.",
"\"It's just disgusting, really.\""
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"The French government has agreed to pay for replacement surgeries there .",
"Officials: the silicone is prone to rupture, but pose no immediate health risk ."
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"San Antonio, Texas (CNN) -- For Holly Hirshberg, gardening started as a way to bond with her children.",
"But when the recession hit, her backyard hobby became a necessity.",
"\"In 2008, my husband lost his job just like many other Americans, and we were living off of our garden,\" she said.",
"Hirshberg and her family of four ate a variety of homegrown foods -- including broccoli, carrots, okra, squash and tomatoes -- so they could make ends meet.",
"She was pleasantly surprised by how simple and healthful they were.",
"\"It was nice to know that not only could I take care of (my family) out of what I grew in my garden, but I could take care of them really well,\" she said.",
"After realizing how much nutritious food she was able to grow, Hirshberg began collecting seeds from her garden and sharing them with others.",
"In 2008, she started The Dinner Garden, an organization that provides free packs of seeds to people so they can grow enough food to feed a family of four.",
"Since its inception, The Dinner Garden has provided seeds to 65,000 families across the United States.",
"\"When you're having trouble or struggling, you have so many things to worry about,\" said Hirshberg, 39.",
"\"How are you going to pay your mortgage?",
"How are you going to afford your medicine ... your kids?",
"If you know you have food, you don't have to worry.\"",
"According to a 2009 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 14.7% of American households were \"food insecure\" at least some time during that year.",
"\"Food insecure\" means all household members did not always have access to enough food for an active, healthy life.",
"Hirshberg is hoping to help change that by making gardening simple and accessible to anyone.",
"The Dinner Garden offers gardening supplies and tips, and its website lists locations throughout the United States where seeds are available for pickup.",
"People can also fill out a seed request form online, and Hirshberg and her volunteers will send seeds directly to them.",
"\"If you have a willingness to garden, we can help you find a way to do it,\" Hirshberg said.",
"\"The seeds do all the work.",
"You put them in the ground, they will grow.",
"... With just a couple minutes a day, you really can grow a lot of food for your family.\"",
"Do you know a hero? Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes .",
"The Dinner Garden gets its seeds through donations from seed companies as well as some of the people it sent seeds to in the past.",
"\"People who get seeds from us are some of our biggest donors. ...",
"They save their seeds from the stuff they grow and donate back for us so they can help another family in need,\" Hirshberg said.",
"\"I love that.\" Hirshberg's evenings are often spent packing and labeling seeds, and she also runs volunteer seed-packing sessions.",
"The packs of seeds are customized for recipients' areas and climates to ensure they will have success growing the produce.",
"\"We find between 10 and 11 varieties of seeds that will grow in their area,\" Hirshberg said.",
"\"We do melons and carrots, broccoli and all the good things, and then we throw in something interesting in each one ... to expose them to something new and different.\"",
"Hirshberg said she started to love vegetables after growing her own, and she believes that there is a veggie eater in everyone.",
"\"What you see in the grocery store is such a small percentage of what's available,\" she said.",
"\"A lot of tomatoes come in black and purple and striped.",
"You can get the broccoli in purple ... or carrots that come in red ... that are more fun to eat, I think.\"",
"Seed recipients often call or write Hirshberg for information about gardening, and she tries her best to respond to all of them.",
"\"We want to help people provide for themselves,\" she said.",
"\"Gardening is a skill that once you get it, you have that for the rest of your life.",
"You can garden if you have a disability.",
"You can garden if you're blind.\"",
"Julie Autaubo lives with a disability but has found gardening to be a great way to cope.",
"It has also helped her financially.",
"\"I would not be able to afford vegetables if it wasn't for my garden,\" said Autaubo, 52, who got her first seeds from The Dinner Garden and now volunteers with Hirshberg.",
"\"I can grow tomatoes, eggplant, bell pepper in just flower pots. ...",
"I've got a trellis with cucumbers growing on it.",
"If I want a carrot, I just go out to the garden and get a carrot.",
"I don't even have to leave my apartment.\"",
"Hirshberg said The Dinner Garden isn't just about the seeds and the food.",
"It's about keeping people healthy and giving them hope.",
"\"It is about showing people another way to live,\" she said.",
"Bill Beam's health had been deteriorating since a fall left him disabled last year.",
"The 56-year-old said eating fresh food grown from The Dinner Garden seeds has helped him turn his life around.",
"\"Ever since I hooked up with The Dinner Garden, I've been doing a lot, lot better,\" Beam said.",
"\"My health improved.",
"... My diabetes and my blood pressure are finally under control after being sky-high for so long.\"",
"Ultimately, Hirshberg hopes that her work is helping families get ahead.",
"\"Every pepper they have is a pepper they don't have to buy,\" she said.",
"\"Every tomato they have ... that's a little something less that comes out of the food budget.",
"Maybe they have a little extra money for medicine for their pets, for rent.",
"They just have a little bit extra.",
"And so many families these days don't have a little bit extra.\"",
"Want to get involved?",
"Check out The Dinner Garden's website at www.dinnergarden.org and see how to help."
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"The Dinner Garden provides free seeds to people so they can feed a family of four .",
"The nonprofit was started by Holly Hirshberg, who turned to her garden during tough times .",
"Report: Nearly 15% of American households were \"food insecure\" in 2009 .",
"Do you know a hero?",
"Nominations are open for 2011 CNN Heroes ."
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"(CNN) -- One of Asia's youngest self-made billionaires, 35-year-old Yoshikazu Tanaka looks the part of a young internet tycoon.",
"The Japanese founder and CEO of mobile social gaming business Gree arrived for his CNN interview wearing a hooded sweatshirt, ripped jeans and a pair bight red shoes.",
"His personal wealth is valued at $2.2 billion so he can afford to wear whatever he wants to the office.",
"Gree has grown from Tanaka's self-financed project into a company with a market value of around $7 billion.",
"The share price is more than sevenfold what it was at its 2008 IPO.",
"The company is now partnered with Tencent, one of the largest social networks in China, and in April 2011 it acquired OpenFeint, a large U.S.-based gaming network.",
"Tanaka hopes to take Gree into Europe, the United States and emerging markets like Brazil to increase the number of users to one billion, five times the current level.",
"Q&A: Andrew Stevens meets Japan's 'Zuckerberg' What makes Tanaka's success so intriguing is that he's built a profitable business against the tide.",
"The Japanese economy has just begun its third decade of lackluster economic growth and large Japanese companies like Sony, Panasonic and Toyota are retrenching after facing record losses or scandals abroad.",
"The triple blow of last year's earthquake, tsunami and reactor meltdown at the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear plant added to the country's gloomy economic outlook.",
"Sony expects nearly $3 billion loss .",
"If traditional Japanese corporate powerhouses are flagging, few have risen up to replace them.",
"Tanaka believes a key weakness of corporate Japan has been its insular attitude.",
"\"I think the biggest problem is that so many people have not been able to accept the fact that we cannot survive without trying to compete globally,\" he says.",
"It's easy to lay blame at the feet of the politicians but Japan is a democracy and so everyone has to share responsibility, believes Tanaka.",
"He hopes Gree can have positive impact on Japan as an example of a successful start-up.",
"\"People say there is no culture of growing a business from scratch in Japan but actually social games and our company Gree became successful within seven years,\" he says.",
"Tanaka is aware of the comparisons to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and not just in his dress sense.",
"Both men started companies for themselves in 2004 and continue to lead them as they've grown into global players.",
"Both believe there is more to business than just making money.",
"\"Facebook became very big; big enough to change society.",
"I think we can change society as well, but in our own way,\" he says of Gree.",
"He doesn't know if the online gaming industry can be the savior of corporate Japan, but he believes there are few other sectors where the prospects are so bright in this struggling country."
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"The company is valued at $7 billion; personal wealth $2.2 billion .",
"Tanaka hopes his company can change Japanese society .",
"Mobile gaming sector one of few areas experiencing growth ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama gave the go-ahead for U.S. forces to raid a northern Pakistan housing compound based on \"what was probably a 50-50 chance that Osama bin Laden was there,\" his national security adviser said.",
"\"It was a circumstantial case ...",
"But what he had 100 percent confidence in was the ability of our special forces to execute the mission,\" Tom Donilon told CNN's Candy Crowley on Saturday, part of an interview that aired Sunday on \"State of the Union.\"",
"On April 28, Obama attended the last of several National Security Council meetings focused on finding and going after the al Qaeda leader.",
"During that meeting, some advocated for the commando raid while others advised against it, Donilon said, given there had been no clear-cut sightings of bin Laden by that point.",
"\"He had gotten divided counsel, and that happens a lot in these things, as you would imagine,\" Donilon said.",
"After a night's sleep, Obama told Donilon at 8:20 a.m. the next day to draft the order for the raid.",
"By Sunday evening -- which was early Monday morning in Pakistan -- the 38-minute mission was over, the 25-strong U.S. team having flown out of the country along with bin Laden's dead body.",
"Like other Obama administration officials, Donilon applauded the decision and its end result of knocking out the No.",
"1 man on the FBI's \"Most Wanted Terrorist\" list.",
"He called it \"the single biggest achievement we've ever had\" in the fight against al Qaeda.",
"Especially as they continue poring through voluminous material taken from the complex, U.S. authorities are more convinced than ever that bin Laden had a significant operational and strategic role, not to mention a key symbolic one, in the terrorist network.",
"His death, said Donilon, is a major blow to al Qaeda.",
"\"At the end of last year, we assessed that al Qaeda had been diminished ... to its weakest since 2001,\" said the security adviser, who previously served in the administrations of presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.",
"\"And they took a very big step back Sunday.\"",
"One reason for that assessment is what Donilon called the \"extraordinary\" amount of intelligence that U.S. special forces were able to take from the Abbottabad compound.",
"A multi-agency task force is currently poring through those documents, computer hard drives and other materials -- intermittently releasing information including five videotapes featuring bin Laden that came out Saturday.",
"\"This is the largest cache of information gotten from a senior terrorist -- gotten from any terrorist in one operation,\" Donilon said, calling the amount of seized material about equal to \"the size of a small college library.\"",
"Despite doubts from some conspiracy theorists, al Qaeda itself has admitted that bin Laden was killed.",
"That means that his deputy, Egyptian doctor and radical Ayman al-Zawahiri, will rise to the top of the FBI list, according to Donilon, even as U.S. and allied forces continue their efforts to find him and other al Qaeda leaders.",
"Last week, CIA Director Leon Panetta (who Obama has nominated to succeed Robert Gates as defense secretary) told House members during a closed-door briefing that Pakistan was \"either involved or incompetent,\" according to two sources in attendance.",
"There have been no indications Pakistani authorities knew about or acted upon knowledge that bin Laden was living in the same town as one of its top military academies.",
"Donilon did not suggest Pakistani authorities knew the al Qaeda leader lived in the city, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of the capital Islamabad, or that they somehow harbored him.",
"He said, \"I have not seen any evidence, at least to date, that the political, military or intelligence apparatus knew about the presence of Osama bin Laden.\"",
"Yet U.S. authorities are troubled by the fact that the al Qaeda leader could stay there \"for six years or so\" undetected, said Donilon.",
"\"We'll clearly be working with (Pakistani authorities) to understand how we got to this point,\" he said.",
"Donilon noted Pakistan's active role in tracking down terrorists, calling them a \"very important partner\" despite the existence of some \"differences\" with U.S. authorities.",
"He said, \"If we find things ... that are highly disturbing, we'll certainly press that\" -- though he expected that Islamabad and Washington would continue to work together.",
"\"We need to look at this in a calm and cool way,\" Donilon said, adding, \"a relationship with Pakistan, given everything we have at stake in that region, is an important relationship.\""
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"(Financial Times) -- China plans to boost its official defence budget by 11.2 per cent this year as Beijing is balancing the modernisation of its armed forces against the need to keep military spending in line with economic development.",
"Defence expenditure is budgeted to rise to Rmb670.247bn ($110bn) in 2012, Li Zhaoxing, spokesman of the National People's Congress, told reporters a day before China's rubber stamp parliament opens to hear premier Wen Jiabao's budget report.",
"The rate of increase is slightly lower than last year's 12.7 per cent but in line with the growth trajectory over the past two decades.",
"China has reported double-digit increases in official military spending for each year since 1989 except for 2009, when the announced growth rate dropped to 7.5 per cent.",
"Beijing says it is committed to keeping military spending in line with the overall pace of economic development.",
"Foreign analysts agree that Beijing's official defence budget does not represent the full amount China spends on the military, but most external estimates still assume that the overall growth trajectory of military spending is in line with the announced figure.",
"The Stockholm Institute for Peace Research, one of the most respected independent research institutions, estimates that the official figure accounts for about 60 per cent of China's total military spending.",
"Some of the remaining funds are for the People's Armed Police, a force directly under central government orders which has a separate budget, and the militia, which is partly funded by local governments.",
"The SIPRI analysts say the biggest uncertainty is hidden in research and development and acquisitions of new weapons systems.",
"In general, the Chinese government lists soldiers' pay, training and maintenance, and equipment costs as the three areas on which its military budget is spent.",
"In a departure from this terse formula, Mr Li claimed that the official number included all other spending.",
"\"Spending on the research, testing, acquisition, maintenance, transport and storage of equipment, including new weapons systems, are also included in the defence budget figure which is announced every year,\" he said.",
"Independent defence experts doubt this claim as they believe the official figure is not enough to cover for the cost of major weapons systems that the People's Liberation Army has under development or which it has started deploying.",
"Last year, the PLA finished refurbishment of an old aircraft carrier which it has started using for exercises.",
"\"Given that they're taking it out for navigation training and that they're training large numbers of pilots for carrier operations, the cost here has to soar,\" said a south-east Asian military official in Beijing.",
"The Chinese military has also started deploying a land-based anti-ship missile with which it intends to limit access for US carrier groups to regional waters.",
"Foreign defence experts said the additional radar and satellites needed for accurate targeting were also bound to cause a spike in weapons acquisition cost.",
"The 11.2 per cent increase comes as the US, which has the world's largest military budget, is cutting defence spending while at the same time shifting its focus to Asia-Pacific, widely seen as an effort to re-assert its regional influence against a rising China.",
"Over the past year, the Obama administration has moved to strengthen military ties with traditional allies in the region including Australia, Japan and the Philippines.",
"South-east Asian countries welcome a stronger US presence in the region to balance what they see as an increasingly assertive China.",
"As Beijing has stepped up patrols in disputed waters of the South China Sea and continued to add advanced military hardware, neighbours such as Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia have reacted by stepping up weapons purchases themselves.",
"For the US, maintaining its naval presence in Asia is more difficult and more costly than for China -- Washington relies on a 'forward' structure of foreign bases and carrier groups whereas the People's Liberation Army can concentrate on building equipment which will allow it to deny US forces access to regional waters.",
"\"It is important to note that Beijing views itself as reacting to the increasingly assertive policies of other countries and has repeatedly said that it does not want to provoke military confrontation,\" said Sarah McDowall, Asia-Pacific analyst at IHS Jane's, a leading defence research firm.",
"\"That said, the increase will be partially motivated by Washington's strategic campaign to re-assert itself in Asia Pacific and will underscore China's growing means to assert its power over maritime claims in disputed waters of the South China Sea, East China Sea and Yellow Sea.\"",
"IHS Jane's recently forecast the pace of Chinese defence spending growth to jump to an average 18.7 per cent per year.",
"But analysts believe that any bigger increases would have to wait until a new generation of political leaders have taken over.",
"Xi Jinping, the vice president who is expected to succeed Hu Jintao as president and Communist party chief, has much closer ties to the military than Mr Hu.",
"However, even next year's budget will still be drafted under Mr Hu.",
"© The Financial Times Limited 2012 ."
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"Editor's note: Business Insider is contributing a series of columns to CNN.com that challenge commonly held beliefs about the tech world.",
"(Business Insider) -- Here's the truth about AT&T's wireless network: On the whole, despite what you've heard, it's not actually that bad.",
"It's just bad for the wrong people in the wrong places -- mostly tech- and media-types in New York and San Francisco, California.",
"Those two cities in particular -- and parts of other big cities, like downtown Chicago, Illinois -- are sort of the perfect storm for AT&T.",
"There's a huge concentration of Apple iPhones, owned by tech- and media-savvy folks who demand a ton of bandwidth, and love to complain loudly on Twitter and in the press.",
"And there are tall buildings, landlords and construction processes that make running a wireless network more challenging.",
"That helps explain why there are so many dropped calls and pokey mobile Internet connections in those cities, and also why there are so many angry tweets and news articles.",
"And that's why even Apple CEO Steve Jobs has come to AT&T's side, defending how his partner has tried to beef up its infrastructure in its most troubled markets.",
"At a recent press event, Jobs said that when AT&T wants to add a cell tower in Texas, it may only take three weeks.",
"But in San Francisco, on average, it takes three years.",
"\"No one wants a cell tower in their back yard, but everyone wants perfect reception,\" Jobs said, according to a rough transcript.",
"The rest of the country, overall, isn't such a mess for AT&T.",
"How can we tell? One way is to look at AT&T's customer turnover statistics to see if people are fleeing from AT&T and its supposedly terrible service.",
"The reality is that they are not. During AT&T's second quarter, its monthly \"churn\" -- the percent of customers who leave every month -- was 1.29 percent.",
"If you exclude prepaid subscribers, who tend to switch carriers or discontinue their service more often than average, AT&T's monthly churn was even lower, at 1.01 percent.",
"Those are both record lows for the company and represent improvement over the same period last year.",
"How do those stats compare to the rest of the wireless industry?",
"You'd think that Verizon Wireless -- whose network has a stellar reputation compared to AT&T's -- would have much, much lower churn.",
"Not quite. Verizon Wireless customers are indeed more loyal than AT&T's, but barely.",
"Its monthly churn last quarter was 1.27 percent, only a hair below AT&T's.",
"If you exclude prepaid subscribers, it was 0.94 percent -- again, better than AT&T's, but not by much.",
"For comparison, Sprint was almost twice as bad, and T-Mobile was more than twice as bad as AT&T and Verizon.",
"If things were that bad at AT&T -- and comparatively, that much better at Verizon Wireless -- you'd expect a greater difference in their churn rates.",
"Another recent study leans in AT&T's favor.",
"A 3G wireless performance test carried out by PC World showed that AT&T's network was almost always faster than its competitors, and that its reliability was on par.",
"Both measurements showed significant improvements over its 2009 tests.",
"But indeed, AT&T's performance and reliability in New York and San Francisco weren't as strong as in other cities, such as Seattle, Washington, or Baltimore, Maryland.",
"Anecdotally, I've noticed similar things traveling around the country with an iPhone and 3G-enabled iPad.",
"Last weekend in Maine, my 3G connection seemed much snappier than it typically does in New York.",
"I was even able to stream a Netflix video to my iPad in a moving bus -- something I can't even do reliably when I'm stationary in Manhattan.",
"AT&T pours billions of dollars -- between $18 billion and $19 billion this year alone -- into trying to improve its network.",
"For example, it's going cell site by cell site to add more bandwidth to support faster speeds, a process that will continue through this year and next, an AT&T spokesman says.",
"Many of the carrier's improvements have focused on New York and San Francisco.",
"For instance, AT&T has doubled the capacity of its network in New York over the past year, and is in the process of doubling its capacity in San Francisco.",
"It has also installed specialized indoor systems in high-traffic areas, including Grand Central Station and Yankee Stadium in New York.",
"As a result, mobile download speeds in New York are up 31 percent over the last six months, according to internal testing data.",
"Blocked calls are down almost 40 percent in Manhattan so far this year, and dropped calls are down 23 percent, AT&T says.",
"The company has also complemented its strained 3G network with more free wi-fi hot spots for its customers, including a network recently installed in New York's Times Square, one near Wrigley Field in Chicago and all Starbucks locations.",
"In addition to adding 400 percent more 3G capacity at AT&T Park in San Francisco, it has also doubled the number of wi-fi hot spots there.",
"In those situations, the idea is that customers could hop on wi-fi to send emails or access the Internet, taking a load off cell networks.",
"To be sure, despite these improvements, the company obviously still has a lot of problems in New York and San Francisco.",
"And because of the concentration of tech and media industry types there, we'll probably see the \"AT&T sucks\" rants and \"attfail\" tweets for the foreseeable future.",
"At least until Verizon Wireless gets Apple's iPhone.",
"Then we'll know if this whole mess is really AT&T's fault or just the unique situation of having to support millions of iPhones in use at one time.",
"But in reality, things aren't as terrible for AT&T as you've been led to believe.",
"It's just really bad in the wrong places, for the wrong people.",
"Copyright © 2011 Business Insider."
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"Cities such as New York and San Francisco can strain wireless networks .",
"They have a large concentration of iPhone owners who love to complain in the press .",
"PC World: Test shows AT&T's network almost always faster than competitors .",
"Spokesman: AT&T adding more bandwidth to support faster speeds ."
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"(EW.com) -- Chris Meloni has booked his first post-\"SVU\" gig -- and it's a bloody good one.",
"The former star of the Dick Wolf drama will join HBO's \"True Blood\" in season 5 as \"ancient, powerful vampire who holds the fate of Bill and Eric in his hands.\"",
"He will be a series regular.",
"Meloni's role on Alan Ball's drama marks a homecoming, of sorts: The actor previously played Chris Keller on the pay cabler's gritty drama \"Oz\" from 1998 to 2003.",
"Earlier this year, Meloni decided to step down from playing Detective Elliot Stabler on the long-running NBC drama.",
"See the full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Christopher Meloni will join HBO's \"True Blood\" in season 5 .",
"He will play an \"ancient, powerful vampire who holds the fate of Bill and Eric in his hands\"\nThe actor previously played Chris Keller on the pay cabler's gritty drama \"Oz\""
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"New York (CNN) -- New York police arrested 50 protesters Saturday on what organizers from Occupy Wall Street were dubbing a day to \"re-occupy,\" coinciding with the movement's three-month anniversary.",
"Those arrested were charged with trespassing after they attempted to scale a fence belonging to a church in lower Manhattan, NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said.",
"Browne added that the arrests \"may have stymied plans to cut through the fence on multiple sides.\"",
"The fence protected an area of Duarte Park that is owned by Trinity Church.",
"Though supportive of the movement, the Rev.",
"James H. Cooper, the rector of the church, said he does not believe setting up a tent city at Duarte Park enhances its mission or that of the protesters.",
"\"The vacant lot has no facilities to sustain a winter encampment,\" Cooper said in a statement Saturday.",
"\"In good conscience and faith, we strongly believe to do so would be wrong, unsafe, unhealthy, and potentially injurious.\"",
"A spokesman for Occupy Wall Street expressed disappointment that the movement did not get more support from the church.",
"\"Churches have been supportive venues -- it is a shame that this came to this,\" Karanja Gacuca said.",
"Protesters are looking for a new home after being evicted last month from the city's Zuccotti Park -- the movement's physical birthplace -- when a New York Supreme Court judge ruled that they could protest at the park, but not camp out.",
"Upon hearing of the protesters' plan to set up camp at the church, officials from the Episcopal Church, which oversees Trinity, warned Friday that demonstrators would be subject to police and legal action should they attempt to trespass on the property.",
"\"In a country where all people can vote and Trinity's door to dialogue is open, it is not necessary to forcibly break into property,\" Archbishop Desmond Tutu said in a statement Friday.",
"Gacuca said Saturday that protesters aren't \"interested in seizing property -- we are interested in justice and expressing our frustrations.\"",
"\"The area we're talking about is empty and vacant.",
"It is a tragedy because it is a waste of resource,\" he said.",
"Earlier, Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered in Duarte Park for speeches and music.",
"Protesters called Saturday \"part of a call to re-occupy in the wake of the coordinated attacks and subsequent evictions of occupations across the nation and around the world,\" according to their website.",
"It is unclear when the arrested protesters will be released.",
"A smaller number of Occupy participants marched to Times Square on Saturday night."
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"Those arrested attempted to scale a fence belonging to a church, NYPD spokesman says .",
"The arrests \"may have stymied plans to cut through the fence on multiple sides,\" police say .",
"Church rector says the lot is un-equipped for a winter encampment .",
"Occupy spokesman expresses disappointment with the church's position ."
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"(CNN) -- There are no pure \"winner-take-all\" contests on Super Tuesday, but almost all of the 10 states holding contests on the biggest day of the primary season offer candidates some chance of shutting out their opponents in the all-important race to amass delegates.",
"Mitt Romney is the most plausible beneficiary of the states' complex allocation rules.",
"If the former Massachusetts governor can rack up enough of the vote in Idaho, Massachusetts, Vermont and Virginia, he stands to be the sole winner of the combined 133 delegates from those states, almost a third of the 419 delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday.",
"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a chance of picking up all of Georgia's 76 delegates, according to recent polling.",
"Ohio, Oklahoma, and Tennessee also offer candidates an opportunity to receive all of the delegates available from those states, although various party rules make this a much less likely outcome in these states.",
"Here's a state-by-state breakdown of the \"winner-take-all\" scenarios: .",
"IDAHO . Delegate allocation rule: Extremely complicated version of proportional.",
"Each county holds multiple rounds of voting until one candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in that county.",
"Winner of a county wins that county's allotment of total delegates.",
"If one candidate receives a majority of total delegates, he receives all 32 of the state's delegates.",
"Winner-take-all scenario: Each county is allotted a share of the state's total number of national convention delegates.",
"One candidate wins enough counties to amass more than 16 of the state's 32 delegates and thus automatically receives all 32 delegates.",
"Likelihood: Very possible.",
"State rules were designed to favor a winner-take-all outcome.",
"GEORGIA . Delegate allocation rule: Proportional.",
"34 statewide delegates allocated in proportion to statewide vote, with a 20% threshold; 42 district delegates (14 districts with 3 delegates each) winner-take-all by district if winner gets more than 50%, otherwise modified proportional.",
"Winner-take-all scenario: If the winner keeps all opponents under 20% of the statewide vote and wins all 14 districts with more than 50% of the vote, then he wins all the state's delegates.",
"Gingrich leading comfortably in polling, but the question is whether he can hold Romney to below 20% of the statewide vote, while also winning every district with a clear majority.",
"MASSACHUSETTS . Delegate allocation rule: Proportional.",
"All 38 delegates allocated in proportion to the statewide vote, with a 15% threshold.",
"Winner-take-all scenario: If only one candidate reaches the 15% statewide vote threshold, then he wins all the state's delegates.",
"If Romney wins his home state with a big margin and keeps Gingrich, Ron Paul or Rick Santorum under 15%, then he wins all 38 delegates.",
"Former candidates Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Rick Perry and \"No preference\" are also on the ballot to further split the anti-Romney vote.",
"OHIO . Delegate allocation rule: Proportional.",
"15 statewide delegates winner-take-all if a candidate receives more than 50% of statewide vote, otherwise proportional with 20% threshold; 48 district delegates (16 districts with 3 delegates each) winner-take-all by district vote.",
"Santorum did not submit any delegate slates in three districts (congressional districts 6, 9, and 13), which means he cannot win any delegates from these districts.",
"In six additional districts (CDs 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, and 16), he submitted only partial delegate slates, which means that if Santorum wins any of these districts, he will only receive one or two out of the three possible delegates in that district.",
"Winner-take-all scenario: If the winner gets more than 50% of the statewide vote and wins every CD, then he gets all the state's delegates.",
"Or if only one candidate receives more than 20% of the vote and also wins every CD, he wins all the state's delegates.",
"Likelihood: Unlikely.",
"If Santorum wins statewide, he cannot win every CD because he hasn't fielded full delegate slates.",
"If Romney wins, it's unlikely he'll win more than 50% statewide and also unlikely that he would carry every CD.",
"OKLAHOMA . Delegate allocation rule: Proportional.",
"25 statewide delegates winner-take-all if candidate receives more than 50% of statewide vote, otherwise proportional with 15% threshold; 15 district delegates (five districts with three delegates each) winner-take-all by district vote if winner gets more than 50% of district vote, otherwise proportional by CD vote with modified 15% threshold .",
"Winner-take-all scenario: If the winner gets more than 50% of the statewide vote and wins every CD by more than 50%, then he gets all the state's delegates.",
"Or if only one candidate receives more than15% of the vote and also wins every CD by more than 50%, he wins all the state's delegates.",
"Likelihood: Unlikely that one candidate will receive more than 50% of the statewide vote and in every CD, according to polling.",
"Also unlikely that only one candidate would reach the 15% threshold.",
"TENNESSEE . Delegate allocation rule: Proportional.",
"28 statewide delegates winner-take-all if winner receives more than 66% of statewide vote, otherwise proportional with 20% threshold; 27 district delegates (nine districts with three delegates each) winner-take-all by district vote if winners receives more than 66% of district vote, otherwise proportional with 20% threshold.",
"Winner-take-all scenario: If winner gets more than 66% of the statewide vote and wins every CD by more than 66%, then he gets all the state's delegates.",
"Or if only one candidate receives more than 20% of the vote and also wins every CD by more than 66%, he wins all the state's delegates .",
"Likelihood: Very unlikely that one candidate will receive more than 66% of the statewide vote and in every CD.",
"Also unlikely that only one candidate would reach threshold.",
"VERMONT . Delegate allocation rule: Proportional.",
"14 statewide delegates winner-take-all if winner receives more than 50% of the statewide vote; otherwise proportional with 20% threshold; three district delegates winner-take-all by statewide vote.",
"Winner-take-all scenario: If winner gets more than 50% of the statewide vote, he gets all the state's delegates.",
"Or if only one candidates makes the 20% threshold, he wins all the state's delegates.",
"Likelihood: Very possible that Mitt Romney could win the statewide vote by more than 50% and thus win all delegates.",
"VIRGINIA . Delegate allocation rule: Proportional.",
"13 statewide delegates winner-take-all if winner receives more than 50% of statewide vote, otherwise proportional with 15% threshold; 33 district delegates (11 districts with three delegates each) winner-take-all by district vote.",
"Winner-take-all scenario: If winner gets more than 50% of the statewide vote and wins every CD, he gets all the states delegates.",
"Likelihood: Very possible that Mitt Romney could win the statewide vote by more than 50% and win every CD.",
"He and Paul are the only candidates on the ballot.",
"CNN's Adam Levy contributed to this report ."
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"State party rules allow some chance of candidates shutting out opponents .",
"Mitt Romney is most likely to benefit from complext allocation rules .",
"Newt Gingrich has shot at picking up all of Georgia's 76 delegates .",
"Winner take all scenarios possible in other states but unlikely ."
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"(CNN) -- More than a million people have signed a petition to recall Wisconsin's governor, the state's Democratic Party said Tuesday.",
"That's nearly twice the 540,208 signatures required to seek a recall of first-term Republican Gov.",
"Scott Walker, who drew the ire of labor unions and public school teachers after he stripped public employees of their collective bargaining rights.",
"State Democratic Party officials said they would submit the signatures by close of business Tuesday.",
"The officials also said they would turn in more than the required number of signatures needed for recall elections for the state's Republican lieutenant governor and three state senators.",
"The Wisconsin elections board will review the recall petitions.",
"\"I think it's going to be a very impressive number that we hand in, beyond any challenge that this election is going to happen,\" Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate told CNN affiliate WTMJ Monday.",
"Walker's administration gained national attention last year when he, along with Republican legislators, pushed forward a bill to cut state workers' collective bargaining rights.",
"That bill was signed into law in March, following weeks of protests at the state capitol building in Madison.",
"This would be the first time in Wisconsin's history that a governor has faced recall.",
"In fact, there have only been two successful gubernatorial recalls in United States history, that of California Gov.",
"Gray Davis in 2003 and that of North Dakota Gov.",
"Lynn Frazier in 1921.",
"The more difficult battle will begin once the signatures are approved, and the state schedules a recall election.",
"Both sides will be well financed and ready to battle, said Kenneth Goldstein, president of the Campaign Media Analysis Group.",
"Walker was undaunted by the recall effort, WTMJ reported.",
"\"The optimist in me looks at that and says: the overwhelming majority of the people in the state chose not to sign that and I earned the trust of the majority the last time.",
"My hope is I will earn their trust again,\" he said.",
"Walker set off a firestorm in January 2010 when he moved to curtail the collective bargaining rights of most state employees.",
"With majorities in both houses of the Legislature, Walker and his GOP allies voted to limit raises for public employees except police and firefighters to the rate of inflation, bar unions from deducting dues from workers' paychecks and force them to hold a new certification vote every year.",
"Republicans insisted it was necessary to control the skyrocketing costs of public employee benefits and close the budget shortfall.",
"Democrats argued it was an attempt to gut public-sector labor unions, one of their core constituencies.",
"The public brouhaha all but shut down the Wisconsin state legislature for weeks.",
"It also drew protesters by the tens of thousands, among them union supporters and public employees, who called the measure an attack on workers.",
"A group of Democratic lawmakers left the state for some time in an effort to not allow a quorum for a vote.",
"Eventually, the law was passed and signed by Walker in March.",
"The state Supreme Court upheld the law in June but the battle birthed a storm of political activism that led to the recall effort.",
"Read more about this story from CNN affiliate WTMJ."
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"NEW: The Wisconsin Democratic Party says it has collected more than 1 million signatures .",
"Gov.",
"Scott Walker drew the ire of labor unions and public school teachers last year .",
"State Democratic Party chair: The \"impressive number\" is \"beyond any challenges\"\n\"The overwhelming majority of the people in the state chose not to sign,\" Walker says ."
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"Anchorage, Alaska (CNN) -- It's a competition that brings out some of the toughest, hardiest, most ferociously determined athletes in the world.",
"In fact, most of the competitors in this sport aren't even human.",
"It's a race boasting more mileage and fur coats than perhaps any other on the planet -- worn by both participants and spectators bundled from head to toe to face a punishing 2012 Alaska winter.",
"Dubbed the \"Last Great Race\" by organizers, the Iditarod sled dog trail in Alaska is legendary.",
"The race is currently celebrating its 40th running, now under way on the trail between Anchorage and Nome.",
"This year, Iditarod spectators had to brave near-record snowfall in Anchorage just to get a glimpse of their favorite teams -- howling at top of their lungs in anxious anticipation of their turn at the starting point.",
"The nearly 1,000-mile race covers some of the most extreme terrain on Earth, each team powered by 64 booted paws and a musher's dogged desire to be the first to reach the finish line on the Bering Sea Coast.",
"The Iditarod has been an annual Alaskan sporting event since 1973, drawing spectators and competitors from across the world.",
"Each year, hundreds of spectators travel to Alaska hoping for some personal interaction with the mushers and their four-legged teammates.",
"There are many opportunities for visitors to meet their favorite mushers along the trail, but it takes some advance planning to get the most out of an Iditarod vacation.",
"The 2012 trail covers approximately 945 miles, so spectators must first determine which portion of the race they aim to see.",
"The ceremonial start of the race is, by far, the most popular choice of fans seeking access and convenience.",
"There are a number of events in and around Anchorage leading up to the Iditarod start, such as the Mushers' Banquet, various Iditarod educational seminars featuring mushers and race officials, and even a competing annual festival and parade in Anchorage, the Fur Rondy.",
"On the first Saturday of March, thousands of Iditarod enthusiasts line Anchorage's historic Fourth Avenue to participate in the celebratory send-off.",
"Race officials personally introduce each team as they depart \"the chute,\" announcers struggling to be heard over a cacophony of howling dog teams.",
"Mushers and their dogs often don festive regalia at the noncompetitive ceremonial start while also toting warmly bundled \"Iditariders\" in their sleds.",
"Iditariders are fans who bid on a ceremonial sled ride as part of a program which helps to support the race financially.",
"The chance at a ceremonial 11-mile Iditarod sled ride begins at $500 and can cost as much as $7,500 for the opportunity to experience the event in a sled driven by a popular race champion.",
"Following a Saturday ceremonial start, mushers quickly regroup their dog teams and reorganize trail necessities for the following day's \"official start\" of the race in Willow, Alaska, 79 miles north of Anchorage.",
"Spectators who travel to Willow by car or shuttle bus can once again line \"the chute\" on Sunday afternoon to cheer on mushers as the race clock officially begins.",
"For most spectators, the next eight to 12 days involve closely monitoring the race online with the assistance of real-time GPS tracking and video coverage from the trail checkpoints -- available on www.Iditarod.com .",
"Behind the scenes at Iditarod 2011 .",
"However, for those seeking a more intensive race experience, travel operators offer various \"flightseeing\" and snowmobile excursions in order to catch mushers crossing through some of the more than 20 remote checkpoints.",
"The price to travel across the diverse Alaskan landscape by bush plane can be expensive during the Iditarod, but the experience is almost always described as unforgettable.",
"The Gold Rush-era town of Nome is the end of the trail where the famous Iditarod \"burled arch\" forms the finish line.",
"Crowds of spectators line narrow, snow-packed Front Street to greet the winner.",
"Last year's Iditarod Champion, John Baker, made it to Nome with a record-setting pace -- 8 days, 18 hours and 46 minutes.",
"A loud siren sounds day or night throughout Nome announcing the arrival of teams nearing the finish line.",
"Hotels in Nome, however, are scarce and must be booked months in advance for die-hard fans and visitors hoping to be present when the leaders arrive.",
"For other spectators happy to simply get any glimpse of the remaining teams' arrivals at the finish line, opportunities continue for approximately a week.",
"While the Iditarod may be known as \"The Last Great Race,\" there's no sign it's coming to an end anytime soon.",
"If you're unable to witness this year's race at points along the trail, 2013 promises to deliver yet another compelling Iditarod -- a truly Alaskan experience.",
"CNN's Karen Denice contributed to this story."
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"Plan for next year's race finish by booking rooms in Nome well in advance .",
"Fans can become \"Iditariders\" by bidding on sled rides during the ceremonial start .",
"Flightseeing in bush planes is another way to see the race in progress ."
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"FAIRFAX COUNTY, Virginia (CNN) -- It was just after 7 a.m. and Cassie Graham was lighting up her second cigarette of the morning.",
"Cassie Graham, a 17-year-old high school senior, joined a school support group to help her quit smoking.",
"A school bus passed her parked car, a sign that that it was time for the 17-year-old high school senior from Fairfax County, Virginia, to stop smoking and head to class.",
"If Graham has her way, that will be the last time she ever lights up.",
"\"It's getting pretty bad,\" said Graham who started smoking at age 15.",
"\"It used to be fun and now I have to smoke.",
"I know that it's not normal to smoke all the time, and I have to find some way to quit.\"",
"Watch more on Cassie's struggle to kick the habit » .",
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 20 percent of high school students smoked cigarettes last year.",
"Smoking rates among ninth- to 12th-graders have remained stable for the past five years.",
"\"When I see a young kid smoking, it's just so frustrating because I actually know the power of tobacco to cause disease,\" said Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society.",
"Nearly half of all adults in the United States who suffer from emphysema and 40 percent with chronic bronchitis are smokers, the CDC reports.",
"More than 430,000 Americans die each year from smoking-related causes, the American Lung Association estimates.",
"While researchers have a good idea how to help adults kick the habit, little information is available on what to do to assist teenage smokers.",
"\"It's really hard for somebody who is a teenager in high school to stop smoking, even if they wanted to stop smoking,\" Brawley said.",
"Peer pressure can be tremendous among young smokers, he said.",
"What's more, Brawley noted, it may be difficult for a teenager to seek help from a doctor or counselor without a parent's knowledge.",
"Smoking cessation drugs, patches, gum and lozenges are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for anyone under 18.",
"So what's left to help a teen kick the habit?",
"Support groups.",
"Cassie Graham signed up for a 10-week smoking-cessation class held during one of her free periods at Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax County.",
"\"I'm not of legal age to smoke,\" Cassie said.",
"\"So I was kind of skeptical at first, like 'Am I going to get in trouble for going to this class?'\"",
"Samuel Wagner, a substance abuse counselor at the school, didn't discount Graham's concerns about showing up for the session.",
"\"It's very gutsy,\" he said, \"because students do have that fear that if they come to this group, all we're doing is rounding them up to get them busted.\"",
"Wagner, along with school counselor, Tami Marcheski, sat down with five students who've signed up for the support group called Not-on-Tobacco or N-O-T.",
"The American Lung Association designed the program a decade ago for regular smokers, ages 14 to 19, who want to quit.",
"Marcheski called the success rate at her school outstanding.",
"\"Thirty-seven percent of kids have quit and 60 percent reduced the number of cigarettes smoked,\" she said.",
"This particular session was called \"quit day.\"",
"Cassie and her classmates talked openly about their reasons for wanting to quit.",
"Almost everyone mentioned health concerns and the expense of the habit.",
"David Thomas, 18, added \"I want to smell better.",
"I won't have to use cans and cans of Axe.",
"I can work out longer and I don't have to worry about carrying mints around.\"",
"Lia Pisa-Relli said she started smoking when she was 12.",
"Now at the age of 17, she worries that she has a lot of breathing problems.",
"\"I want to be able to run.",
"I can't even run up the stairs.",
"I can't even walk up two flights of stairs.",
"It's pretty bad.\"",
"The counselors spoke with the teens about how to handle nicotine withdrawal symptoms.",
"They passed out lollypops and stress balls to take their mind off cravings.",
"They urged the students to lean on one another and their families for support.",
"Their final exercise of the day was to write down their concerns and fears about quitting on note cards.",
"Cassie read her comments aloud to the group: \"One of my biggest concerns was that I wouldn't be able to quit, but now I know if I just stick to it and actually try hard to quit then I'll be able to.\"",
"She and her classmates crumpled up the cards and tossed them in the trash as if they were throwing away a bad habit.",
"Cassie's final words in class: \"I can quit now.\""
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"More than 430,000 Americans die each year from smoking-related causes .",
"The CDC estimates 20 percent of high school students smoked cigarettes last year .",
"Smoking cessation drugs, patches and gum are not approved for those under 18 .",
"Support groups are one of the few stop-smoking aids available to teens ."
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"(CNN) -- Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has admitted he is considering bringing goalscoring legend Thierry Henry back to the club on a short-term loan deal.",
"The 34-year-old Henry, who is Arsenal's record all-time scorer with 226 goals for the club between 1999 and 2007, currently plays for MLS side New York Red Bulls, and does not need to return to the United States until March.",
"Wenger is facing a shortage of strikers with Ivorian Gervinho and Moroccan Marouane Chamakh both appearing for their countries in the Africa Cup of Nations in January and February -- and Henry's return could be a viable solution to the problem.",
"Wenger told the official Arsenal website: \"I have to think about it.",
"Short-term is ideal for us, but I haven't made any enquiry yet.",
"Thierry is not with the club at the moment and it has never come up in any conversation.",
"He added: \"January 1 is the vital date for us and I will make a decision in the next seven days on players.\"",
"Frenchman Henry, who recently had a spell back training with the club, had a statue of himself unveiled outside the Emirates Stadium earlier this month as part of Arsenal's 125-year centenary celebrations.",
"In his eight years at Arsenal, Henry won two English Premier League titles and three FA Cups, before being sold to Barcelona in 2007."
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"Arsene Wenger admits he is considering re-signing Thierry Henry on a short-term deal .",
"The Arsenal manager is looking for striking cover during the Africa Cup of Nations .",
"Henry, Arsenal's all-time top scorer, currently plays for MLS side New York Red Bulls ."
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"(CNN) -- Joe Ledley scored the only goal of the game as Celtic beat Rangers 1-0 in the Old Firm derby clash Wednesday night.",
"The Welsh international netted with a 52nd minute header as his team took over from their arch Glasgow rivals at the top of the Scottish Premier League.",
"Reigning champions Rangers might have scored with a header of their own by Lee Wallace in the first half but it was ruled not to have crossed the line.",
"On such tight decisions these often frantic affairs are decided and victory for Neil Lennon's men saw them revenge defeat in the first Old Firm match of the season at Ibrox.",
"It has also seen them overturn a 15-point deficit at the start of November to lead Rangers by two points going into 2012 after their ninth straight SPL victory.",
"Blog: Out with the old and in with the new in 2012 .",
"Conditions at Celtic Park were hardly conducive to football, with strong gusting winds making control difficult, but both teams played their part in an entertaining game.",
"Wallace saw his seventh minute header from a Sone Aluko header clawed away via the post by Fraser Forster, but it was the home team who had the better of the chances and Rangers keeper Allan McGregor was kept busy.",
"Celtic made the breakthrough early in the second half as Ledley rose to head Charlie Mulgrew's corner into the net.",
"Bombs, songs and soccer, Glasgow confronts a religious divide .",
"Scott Brown and Mulgrew came close to adding a second while Nikica Jelavic wasted a volleyed opportunity in a rare glimpse of goal for Rangers.",
"Elsewhere, St Johnstone beat Kilmarnock 2-0, St Mirren and Dundee United drew 2-2, Aberdeen and Hearts ended goalless while Pat Fenlon picked up his first point as Hibernian manager in a 1-1 draw with Inverness."
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"Celtic beat Rangers 1-0 in Old Firm clash at Parkhead .",
"Second half header from Joe Ledley secures victory .",
"Celtic leapfrog Rangers at top of Scottish Premier League .",
"Hibernian gain first point under Pat Fenlon ."
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"Sao Paulo (CNN) -- Brazil¹s Congress postponed a vote on Tuesday on a controversial forest code, which has pitted farmers and ranchers against environmentalists.",
"According to state-run Agencia Brasil, the vote was rescheduled for next Tuesday so the government can try to secure support for the current text.",
"Lawmakers are still sharply divided, with the rural lobby in Congress demanding more protection for farmers who have cleared land and environmentalists accusing the government of repealing landmark laws.",
"Over the past decade, Brazil has cracked down on clear-cutting, especially in the biodiverse Amazon rain forest, reducing the rate of deforestation by 80%.",
"Environmentalists are concerned that some of those gains could be threatened if the new legislation is passed.",
"The bill eases limits on deforestation and extends an amnesty to some developers who cut down trees illegally in the past.",
"Still, it is more eco-friendly than an earlier version of the bill that was supported by the rural lobby in Brazil¹s Congress.",
"The Amazon rain forest covers a huge area, roughly half as large as the United States, with about 60% of it in Brazil.",
"It is estimated that nearly a fifth of the Brazilian forest has been lost since 1970.",
"Initially cleared by loggers, much of it was turned into pastures and farmlands as Brazil went from being a food importer to a global agricultural powerhouse."
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"Brazil¹s Congress postpones vote on controversial forest code for a week .",
"Rural lobby in Brazil's Congress is demanding more protection for farmers .",
"Environmentalists are concerned ecological gains could be threatened .",
"Amazon rain forest is huge -- roughly half as large as the United States ."
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"(CNN) -- The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday it will look into alleged juror misconduct in the murder trial of Jason Young, a man convicted of beating his pregnant wife to death.",
"Judge Donald Stephens requested the investigation after receiving information from employees of a TV station concerning Facebook posts by people who purported to know that a juror might have improperly discussed the trial with members of the public.",
"\"In spite of the fact that this type of gossip is usually baseless, any information reported to the court that challenges the integrity of a jury verdict has to be investigated.",
"The integrity of the court system is more important than any person, any case, or any verdict,\" he wrote in a letter addressed to the director of the SBI.",
"N.C. Department of Justice spokeswoman Noelle Talley later said that the SBI would open an investigation.",
"To his letter, Stephens attached a copy of the social media conversation in question, in which one post reads: \"My hairdresser is friends with a woman in the jury.",
"She was supposedly texting her telling her how the vote was going.\"",
"If the allegations of juror misconduct prove true, they would also have to be shown to have had an impact on deliberations to affect the verdict, said Assistant District Attorney Howard Cummings.",
"\"I still have all the faith in the jury,\" he said, characterizing the claims as unsubstantiated and \"just junk.\"",
"Months after his first trial ended in a hung jury, Young, 37, was convicted this week of first-degree murder.",
"Jason Young convicted of beating pregnant wife to death .",
"Michelle Young was discovered dead in 2006 in the bedroom of her Raleigh home.",
"Her husband, Jason, first went on trial in June but a jury could not unanimously agree on a verdict.",
"But that was not the case Monday, when several of Michelle Young's relatives embraced and wiped away tears after this jury's decision was announced.",
"Afterward, Stephens ordered Young to be sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole.",
"The defense had argued that intruders, and not the defendant, had killed Michelle Young.",
"They pointed to what they described as holes in the prosecution's case -- including the lack of blood in Jason Young's car and on the jeans he supposedly wore the night his wife died.",
"InSession's Lena Jakobsson and Beth Karas contributed to this report."
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"Judge Donald Stephens requests the investigation .",
"\"I still have all the faith in the jury,\" says an assistant district attorney .",
"Jason Young was convicted of beating his pregnant wife to death .",
"He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole ."
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"(CNN) -- \"Give the man his money.\"",
"That was the demand from Jerome Brown, my teammate when I played for the Philadelphia Eagles more than 20 years ago.",
"It was a Saturday night and we were having one of our regular special team meetings, where we'd watch highlights from the previous week and review the big hits and plays.",
"Jerome was calling for the $100 reward that a player had coming to him for an interception or forcing a fumble or, of course, the de-cleating big hit.",
"It was 1988 and I was in the NFL that I was raised on.",
"I dreamed about being a player in that highlight reel.",
"In 1989, in the midst of my second year with the Eagles, we traded kicker Luis Zendejas to the Dallas Cowboys.",
"Several weeks later we played the Cowboys in Dallas, and the night before the game I talked with Luis and reminded him \"to keep your head on a swivel.\"",
"He knew exactly what I was talking about.",
"Days later, that game came to be known as the \"Bounty Bowl\" and our coach Buddy Ryan was accused of putting a bounty on his head.",
"But it was nothing like that at all.",
"No one player was targeted.",
"The incentive was the big play that changed the game.",
"The hit had to be a clean and legal hit.",
"Cheap shots, late or illegal hits were not only disallowed, they were met with boos.",
"The money on the back end was merely ceremonial.",
"For players making league minimum, it became a part of their service, like a tip to a waiter.",
"This was the NFL I grew up watching, and I was playing with guys I watched on TV as a child.",
"It was the NFL that gave us \"Monsters of the Midway,\" the \"Purple People Eaters\" and the \"Steel Curtain.\"",
"Bloody knuckles and vicious hits were the script by which the raw, orchestrated violence of the NFL was sold.",
"When the revelations of the bounty that players of the New Orleans Saints players had for their opponents became public, my first thought was the rate of inflation: $10,000 seemed excessive -- but so too does a $100 million dollar contract from someone of my generation.",
"The big money makes the big hit seem more perverse.",
"Still, the whole thing seems rather routine to me.",
"I must admit that when I first retired from football I did not view it as a violent game.",
"While I had been aware of our society's appetite for violent entertainment, the violence of the game remained inconsequential to the goal.",
"But taking a step to the sidelines, I could now see the carnage of the game and modified my view.",
"It's impossible to get past the reality of the way the game has grown.",
"Big hits, big stages, big-time players and big salaries have characterized the growth of the game and its image.",
"And, every player's contract is loaded with performance incentives that work to raise the level of competition.",
"It seems to me that the coaches and players of the Saints were playing according to the model given.",
"Listening to the indignation by the public and most especially the sports media world as they condemn the behavior of the Saints players and coaches, it's hard not to hear some hypocrisy.",
"To be sure, the league has presented the game over the years as a show of hard knocks, where athlete warriors wage their fight.",
"And, young athletes, like I was in the 1970's, grow up striving for that moment they make the highlight reel.",
"The hits must be clean and the intent must never be to maim an opponent.",
"However, as Tom Jackson of ESPN put it, the intent is to physically and psychologically \"damage\" a player with a hit.",
"As someone who was often the one being hit, I understood that quite clearly.",
"Today we are more aware of head injuries and the violent nature of football.",
"But this game has never been sold as the \"two-hand touch\" most boys played in their youth.",
"It's common knowledge that football is not a \"contact sport\" but a \"collision sport.\"",
"And, while we must do all we can to prevent injuries, we must also recognize the insatiable appetite we have for the violence -- and the subsequent reward, of admiration and dollars, we bestow on NFL players.",
"We must also be honest about what we expect.",
"This will not go away with admonishment from the media or sanctions from the league -- unless, of course, the media and the league stop promoting the violence and reward how the game is played when it presents it to the next generation.",
"The tradition will not stop on a dime any more than a player can stop as he charges towards an opposing player at full speed.",
"Every football player has heard the phrase \"reckless abandon.\"",
"That's the way we were raised to play.",
"Donald McPherson is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, a feminist and social justice educator.",
"Follow him on Twitter, @donmcpherson."
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"Don McPherson says in his early career, payouts for \"big hits\" were common .",
"He says the amount is far less, and no individual players were targeted .",
"He says as a player, he didn't think of the game's violence; fans and players expect it .",
"McPherson: If fans are appalled by \"bounty system,\" they should lower their lust for violence ."
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"Managua, Nicaragua (CNN) -- Daniel Ortega marked the beginning of his third term as Nicaragua's president during an inauguration ceremony Tuesday -- an event both buoyed by his pledges of moderation and marred by months of discord over voter irregularities.",
"The Nicaraguan leader pledged that his socialist government would continue efforts to promote peace and attack poverty.",
"\"Savage capitalism, it is no longer possible.",
"There is no space on this planet for savage capitalism,\" Ortega said in a wide-ranging inauguration speech that touched on a international events, including war in Afghanistan, last year's earthquake in Japan and the killing of former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.",
"Shortly after taking his oath of office, Ortega hugged Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who were among a number of dignitaries at the ceremony.",
"\"People have tried to give many interpretations to the visit of (Ahmadinejad).",
"I think they still don't understand that it is necessary to look for an authentic path toward peace,\" Ortega said during his inauguration address, stressing that it was within Iran's right to use nuclear technology for energy needs.",
"\"They cannot deny that right to any people,\" he said.",
"Ahmadinejad's Latin American tour .",
"Ortega is known as a Venezuela ally, had been a public supporter of Gadhafi and remains a stalwart U.S. critic.",
"In his speech Tuesday, the Nicaraguan president decried Gadhafi's killing.",
"\"A head of state in Libya was assassinated in the most brutal manner, with some television media basking in the crime.",
"If there were accusations, it was logical to detain him,\" he said.",
"Cable channels throughout the Central American nation were blocked during Tuesday's inauguration ceremony, which drew a crowd of thousands and was broadcast on national television.",
"Since the country's November elections, Ortega, 66, has reached for the political middle, making overtures to the business class with promises of encouraging foreign investment.",
"But his critics say they fear the former leftist revolutionary is looking to solidify Sandinista party control over state institutions and have pointed to reports of ballot fraud and voter intimidation.",
"According to a report presented by the Organization of American States, irregularities included problems providing identification cards to vote, problems in the accreditation of observers and imbalances in political parties present at polling stations.",
"Ortega, who fought against the U.S.-backed contras during the 1980s, won the country's elections in November with 64% of the vote, though subsequent protests and clashes have left several people dead.",
"Nicaragua's constitution bars presidents from being re-elected, but that did not stop Ortega from running in his sixth straight presidential race.",
"Ortega was first elected as president in 1985, and ran unsuccessfully in 1990, 1996 and 2001 before being elected again in 2006.",
"CNN's Luis Carlos Velez contributed to this report."
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"NEW: President Daniel Ortega: \"Savage capitalism ... is no longer possible\"\nOrtega officially begins his third term at a ceremony in Nicaragua .",
"In recent months, he has reached for the political middle .",
"November's elections have been marred by months of discord over voter irregularities ."
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"(CNN) -- Virgin, a leading branded venture capital organization, is one of the world's most recognized and respected brands.",
"Conceived in 1970 by Richard Branson, the company started out with a magazine four years before that, which Branson began while still at school.",
"The next move was into the music industry, setting up Virgin as a music retailer and then branching out into music production.",
"The first recording was the 1973 smash \"Tubular Bells,\" by Mike Oldfield.",
"The Virgin Group has gone on to grow very succesful businesses in sectors ranging from mobile telephony, to transportation, travel, financial services, leisure, music, holidays, publishing and retailing.",
"Virgin has created more than 200 branded companies worldwide, employing approximately 50,000 people, in 29 countries.",
"Revenues around the world in 2006 exceeded £10 billion ($20 billion).",
"In 2002, the combined sales of the different Virgin holding companies exceeded £4 billion ($8 billion).",
"The equity of Virgin Music Group -- record labels, music publishing and recording studios -- was sold to THORN EMI in 1992 in a $1 billion deal.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Student Magazine, started by Branson at 16, was forerunner to the group .",
"Today Virgin has more than 200 companies in a range of industries ."
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"London (CNN) -- He may be one of the most sought-after painters you have never heard of, but Emil Filla's name is doing the rounds of newsrooms and international art-loss registers following an audacious theft of his works from a collection in the Czech Republic.",
"Four oil paintings by the Czech Cubist artist, who lived from 1882 until 1953, were stolen on November 18 from a collection at a castle in Peruc, northwest of Prague.",
"The works, which date from the 1920s to the 1940s, are estimated to be worth between 50 million and 80 million Czech crowns (approximately $2.6 million and $4.2 million) according to the Art Newspaper.",
"A spokesperson for the Art Loss Register, an international database of stolen and missing works of art and antiquities, confirmed the works were still registered as stolen on their database.",
"Chris Marinello, Executive Director and General Counsel of the Art Loss Register, said that if any of the paintings were offered to the register's subscribing auction houses, they would be notified immediately.",
"\"Either they are recovered relatively quickly or they will go underground and won't resurface for years,\" he said.",
"The theft comes as interest in Filla's work is rising both in the Czech Republic and abroad.",
"In November, a painting by the artist dating from 1911 and entitled \"Utesitel\" (\"Comforter\" in English) was sold at an auction in Prague for 12 million Czech crowns (approximately $640,000), according to Galerie Art Praha, which staged the auction.",
"A spokesperson for the gallery told CNN Filla is undoubtedly \"a major figure\" in avant-garde European painting, having exhibited across Europe and even in the U.S. between World Wars I and II, but has not had much exposure over the last 50 years.",
"All that is changing, according to Czech art historian Vojtech Lahoda.",
"\"Even though there are more collectors of Filla from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, there are more and more foreign collectors (interested in his work),\" he said.",
"The reason may be down to his famous contemporaries, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Guillaume Apollinaire, whom Filla knew when he lived in Paris before World War I and who inspired him to adopt their Cubist style.",
"According to Lahoda, his work presents \"the other face of Cubism, something that is very parallel (to French Cubism) but also different,\" and therefore increasingly sought-after by collectors of work from that style and period.",
"\"It's very difficult to buy the original Cubist works of Picasso and Braque from the 1910s but you can still buy Filla's works from those years,\" said Lahoda.",
"Though he cannot say whether the theft of Filla's paintings from the collection in Peruc is related to his recent upswing in popularity, Lahoda believes it may have been an opportunistic heist, with the thieves taking advantage of the collection's reportedly limited security.",
"\"The Peruc case is a very strange one, because the paintings that were stolen are known, they were published in catalogs and journals, so I would say they are publicly unsellable,\" he said, echoing Marinello's fears they may go underground.",
"Works by the artist are currently on display as part of an exhibition on Czech Modernism at the Gallery of Visual Art in Ostrava, Czech Republic, entitled \"Black Suns: Reverse Side of Modernity 1927--1945.\"",
"\"If you want a good collection of Czech modern art from the 1920s and 30s, you can't miss (Filla),\" said Lahoda."
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"Paintings by Czech artist Emil Filla stolen in audacious theft from collection near Prague .",
"Four works worth between $2 million and $4 million taken from castle at Peruc .",
"Painter's popularity is growing among local and international art collectors.",
"Filla was once a contemporary of Picasso and Braque, exhibited across Europe and in U.S."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- If we could each pick a few songs to banish from our heads, Diana de Vegh would nominate all those soggy old refrains that say there's one -- and only one -- true love for each of us: our better half, our shining knight, the person we'll be lost without.",
"That line of thought, says de Vegh, a therapist in private practice in New York, isn't benignly corny -- it's harmful, feeding what she calls the myth of love scarcity.",
"\"In the scarcity model, where there's only one person out there, we're all competing for the guy who's rich and handsome,\" she says.",
"Our relationships become fear based: We obsess and clutch instead of creating an environment in which two people try to unfold.",
"Oprah.com: 4 ways to finally get through to your man .",
"De Vegh, a casually elegant woman with penetrating blue eyes, meets with clients in her Greenwich Village office, where richly textured wall hangings, a deep purple sofa, and a fireplace give evidence of a delight in color and comfort as well as an assured originality.",
"Her strong sense of self was hard-won: The reason she has thought so much about how we can separate romantic passion from the misconceptions that often surround it is that she's seen for herself how damaging they are.",
"As a very young woman, de Vegh was swept into an affair with then president John F. Kennedy -- perhaps the ultimate fairy-tale prince.",
"Her own experiences, and those of so many of the women she has counseled over the past 15 years, have sharpened her insights into the ways fantasy romance, rather than completing us, undoes us.",
"\"Love is the ideological bone women have been thrown,\" she says, meaning that in our society, men often get the real power while women are fed the false promises of \"magic candy\" romance -- that someone special will shower us with attention, give us our identity, read our mind, and intuit our needs.",
"\"Mind reading,\" she says, \"is useful between a mother and an infant but not in a sexual relationship between adults.\"",
"Oprah.com: Should you really tell him everything?",
"When you want someone who can anticipate your thoughts and desires, you're really looking for an idealized parent -- usually a combination of Mommy and Daddy wrapped into one.",
"\"For years, I was looking for men who would think I was charming and make me feel safe -- like Daddy's best girl,\" she says.",
"The craving for that kind of attention is rampant.",
"\"I see women all the time who say they're looking for romantic relationships, but I believe they're really looking to be parented.",
"We all want to feel special and dear, with our foibles bathed in the loving glow of a doting father,\" she says.",
"\"At the same time that we want Daddy's strong arms, we also want a mother's sweetness and tenderness.\"",
"And when the romance goes south, she says, you end up feeling like a child who's been abandoned and is lost.",
"\"We all naturally fall in love with a handsome, married man -- our fathers,\" she says.",
"\"They bring us out into the world.",
"And if we're secure, we grow up to want something more interesting than parent-child love; we want an adult partnership.\"",
"But the precondition for that, she says, is a good relationship with ourselves.",
"It's when you view yourself as powerless, with your worth dependent on how someone else treats you, that love gets corrupted, de Vegh says.",
"\"Letting men determine who we are is the negative hinge that turns desire into vulnerability, changes our bodies from sites of pleasure to sites of betrayal, and transforms solitude into loneliness.",
"I think that when people say they're lonely, what they're really saying is that they don't like their own company.",
"And something should be done about that, because if you don't like your own company, then you're the victim of whoever passes by.\"",
"Oprah.com: 4 steps to healthy communication .",
"De Vegh suggests we create abundant lives for ourselves, and subscribes to what she calls the salad theory.",
"\"Just as a salad needs some lettuce, a little tomato, cucumber, this and that, a full life involves friends, work, arts, and community.",
"When I ask clients, 'What do you believe you can only get from him?'",
"they say, 'He's so interested, he listens to me, he thinks I'm special, we do things together.'",
"We can do things with zillions of people.",
"Why is it that only he can get you doing things?",
"\"There's no scarcity of love,\" she says.",
"\"We can find it with our coworkers, with our friends and families, in our dance class.",
"We can love what the world offers us; we can love our own vitality.",
"And without question, there can be passionate love between a man and a woman, where you open your heart and soul and you can be yourself -- your 7-year-old self, your 30-year-old self, your 60-year-old self.",
"And he can say, 'I get you, and here I am. Sometimes I act like a spoiled brat, and sometimes I'm a straight-up guy.'\"",
"But the relationship has to be an \"emotional peership\" between partners who are already working toward becoming fuller and fuller individuals.",
"Such a union requires both heart and mind, which is why de Vegh is wary of unexamined attraction.",
"\"Often what we call chemistry is a mix of familiarity and anxiety, and it can be an excuse for not having to think,\" she says.",
"\"Feelings are great, but we also have brains so we can decide what to do with those feelings.",
"Now when someone comes into my office and says, 'Oh, we looked at each other, and I so knew this man,' I think that maybe what she recognized was, for instance, the withholding narcissism of her father.",
"\"If we really had such good parents that we felt filled up with self-respect and the ability to engage in the world, we wouldn't be waiting to be bowled over by chemistry.",
"We'd be saying, 'Oh, you look like a good and interesting person.",
"Here's what I think about the world; what do you think?'",
"We wouldn't be looking to get our needs met.",
"Adults meet their own needs.\"",
"Oprah.com: The art of self-exposure .",
"Having seen so many women devastated by the end of an affair -- \"They feel they've failed, and that the halo they were given is gone\" -- de Vegh is adamant that we not label ourselves as losers in love.",
"\"At the church I used to go to, they always said faith enters through a wound.",
"I think wisdom comes through our wounds, that our wounds have to turn into our blessings,\" she says.",
"\"They make us soft and aware so we can say, 'Oh, yes, I learned that.'",
"If it turns out that you and your partner have a different view of reality, that's good to know.",
"You can honor that, and find someone who shares your view.",
"If you're losing yourself in a relationship and he has all the power, it's important to take the self-respecting action of leaving and learning from the experience.\"",
"The best thing that can happen after a breakup is that you declare, I give up any hope of ever being parented the way I wish I'd been when I was a child.",
"\"You might have to grieve for that loss,\" she says.",
"\"And there will be moments in a healthy partnership when you can say, 'I'm brain-dead and hysterical.",
"Draw me a bath and put in some rubber duckies.'\"",
"But that's temporary. We have to give up the longing to be the child in the relationship, she says.",
"The good news is that once we do, we're free to find love that's genuinely pleasure based.",
"\"We each have a potential song in us,\" de Vegh says -- one that can find its unique expression after we drop the sour chord of scarcity, dependency, and fear.",
"Oprah.com: How to communicate with your husband .",
"By Dawn Raffel from O, The Oprah Magazine © 2011 .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2011 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"\"In the scarcity model, we're all competing for the guy who's rich and handsome\"\nWanting someone who can anticipate your thoughts is really looking for an idealized parent .",
"De Vegh: \"We have to give up the longing to be the child in the relationship\""
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"PARIS, France (CNN) -- Drawings on the back of a Leonardo da Vinci painting may have been sketched by the Italian Renaissance artist, but only more tests by museum experts will tell.",
"Experts from the Louvre are carrying out tests on the painting.",
"The Department of Paintings at the Louvre Museum in Paris and restoration and research experts from the Museums of France discovered the images this year on the back of the painting \"The Virgin and Child with St. Anne,\" the Louvre said in a news release Thursday.",
"The style of the sketches resembles that of da Vinci, but the experts said closer examinations must be done to confirm they are his.",
"After the art experts began studying the circa 1500 painting, an oil on wood, a conservator from the Paintings Department discovered two barely visible drawings on the back of it -- a horse's head and a partial skull.",
"Closer scrutiny also revealed another sketch showing the infant Jesus with a lamb.",
"The drawings, almost impossible to see with the human eye, were photographed with an infrared reflectographic camera, to reveal the underdrawings.",
"The technique intensifies the degree of absorption of certain pigments, such as those that are carbon-based, which was the preferred material used for preparatory drawings during da Vinci's era.",
"According to the experts, drawings on the back of paintings is \"extremely rare,\" and none have been found so far that can be attributed to da Vinci."
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"Tests continuing to determine if the drawings were by da Vinci .",
"Drawings are a horse's head, a partial skull and infant Jesus with lamb ."
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"London (CNN) -- We may not immediately equate the activities of archaeologists to trash sifting.",
"Or imagine that the glass-encased artifacts in museums might be one-time refuse.",
"But quite often, this is exactly the case.",
"Studying ancient trash from around the world gives archaeologists and historians the chance to understand the habits that defined people's daily lives, said Dr. Richard Meadow, Director of the Peabody Museum's Zooarchaeology Laboratory and Senior Lecturer on Anthropology at Harvard University.",
"It may not be glamorous but, he said, \"much of what archaeology knows about the past comes from trash, if trash is defined as the products of human consumption.",
"Trash is a proxy for human behavior.\"",
"The Peabody Museum is staging a series of talks and events, entitled Trash Talk: The Anthropology of Waste until Spring 2012, on the importance of trash to our understanding of human behavior, both in the past and now.",
"Meadow, who has excavated sites including the ancient Indus city of Harappa in present-day Pakistan, has gleaned much from studying centuries-old trash.",
"Early dumping grounds, or \"middens,\" are often archaeological and anthropological gold-mines, he said, not just for what can be found there but for what they tell us about ancient civilizations, what they consumed and how they organized their urban space to deal with their waste.",
"\"The way that ancient cities used to grow and change through time is actually very much related to the evolution of trash,\" Meadow explained.",
"Ancient people, he said, quite literally lived with their trash, usually dumping it in the streets outside their homes when it wasn't collected and deposited in special pits.",
"Sometimes, he said, whole cities would be filled with trash, to the point where the street levels would rise, submerging homes and forcing people to build on top of it.",
"While this might sound revolting and unhygienic to us now, ancient peoples, said Meadow, became acclimatized to it.",
"And they were at least adept at recycling their trash.",
"\"I think almost all civilizations recycled in one way or another,\" Meadow said, explaining that ancient peoples across the world would recycle organic matter as fuel, while inorganic refuse would be used to build the foundations of a house.",
"Precious metals, he said, would be melted down and re-shaped for a variety of tools.",
"\"It's only when you get to the modern period of consumerism that you get this culture of obsolescence,\" he said.",
"Dr. Jose Remesal Rodriguez is a professor of Ancient History at the University of Barcelona and an expert in the social and economic history of the Roman Empire, with a special interest in the production and trade of food in the ancient world.",
"He is the director of excavations at an ancient dump site in Rome called Monte Testaccio.",
"An artificial hill composed of more than 25 million discarded Roman amphorae -- or vase-shaped containers -- it tells us much about the ancient Roman trade in olive oil, which these amphorae were used to transport.",
"\"A dump can be a particularly interesting source (for finding out) about the daily life (and) development of the civilization that created it,\" said Remesal.",
"From the shards found at Monte Testaccio, he said, archaeologists were able to trace the evolution of food policy in the Roman Empire.",
"\"Testaccio is a very special dump, which gives us information about a concrete product -- olive oil -- and the relations between the capital of the Empire and one of its provinces,\" Remesal explained.",
"This prizing of ancient trash may seem at odds with our attitudes to waste today.",
"But according to Meadow, scientists are already at work studying our trash and what it says about us.",
"He cites as an example American archaeologist William Rathje, director of the \"Garbage Project\" in Arizona, which has sifted through and studied garbage from 1973 to the present day.",
"\"Some amazing statistics have come out of this -- how much food gets thrown out in the trash that was probably OK to eat, and other things hardly used that were thrown away,\" said Meadow.",
"\"It's an incredible array of material,\" he concluded.",
"Dr Richard Meadow will give a lecture entitled 'The archaeologist's view of trash' at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology on October 6."
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"Scientists are studying our trash right now to find out what it says about our culture ."
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"Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- In a city slashed by war, a tiger fights for life.",
"Osama, a Siberian tiger at the Tripoli Zoo, has been suffering for days.",
"He is on his side, breathing shallowly, his huge paws motionless -- caramel, black-and-white-striped fur covered with flies that he is too weak to brush off.",
"A team of animal-welfare experts from Austria's Four Paws International gently rolls the tiger over and Dr. Amir Khalil, dripping sweat, searches for a vein, then puts in an IV drip to give the animal vitamins.",
"Asked why the tiger is so sick, the veterinarian replies, \"Honestly, we don't know but I believe he's old, 21 years.",
"That's number one.",
"Number two, it was a lot of stress in the surroundings here.\"",
"During the struggle for Tripoli, gunfire raged just outside the zoo.",
"When the fighting was at its height some Libyans packed up their cars and fled.",
"The animals at the Tripoli Zoo didn't have that option.",
"The deafening sounds of shooting, the acrid smell of battle -- there was no respite for these sensitive creatures.",
"Shells still litter the zoo grounds.",
"As the zoo's director, Dr. Abdulfatah Husni, leads a CNN crew to the mammal house, he points out bullet casings on the sidewalk.",
"\"This is for Kalashnikov. You know Kalashnikov?\"",
"he asks, referring to automatic rifles.",
"In the mammal house, the roof is marred by a a gaping hole blasted by a rocket propelled grenade.",
"Luckily, no animal died or was injured.",
"For two weeks there was no water in much of Tripoli.",
"For the hippos at the zoo, it was a disaster.",
"The huge, stolid animals stand forlornly by their almost-empty pool, now slowly being filled with water from a large hose.",
"Husni says that during the worst of it, the animals had to drink whatever water remained but they could not swim, as they usually do.",
"The staff had to sprinkle them with what water remained to keep their tough skins moist.",
"\"They're shiny now,\" he says.",
"Even as fighters shot it out on the streets near the zoo, 15 members of the staff came in every day to feed and water the animals, risking their own lives; if they hadn't, many of the animals would have died within three to four days, Husni says.",
"In the tiger house, meanwhile, the animal rescue team still struggles to save Osama the tiger.",
"Dr. Khalil rushed here from Vienna to help after seeing CNN reports about the fate of these animals.",
"He grows more quiet as his efforts seem to have little effect.",
"\"He's finished,\" he finally whispers, acknowledging that the tiger has died.",
"\"It was too late.\" The Tripoli Zoo, originally opened in 1986, was under major reconstruction when the revolution broke out.",
"Without the fighting, it was scheduled to be completed in May.",
"But the South Korean construction company working on the project pulled out because of security concerns, Husni says.",
"He hopes the project will continue and says the new anti-Gadhafi transitional leaders pledge to give the zoo support.",
"There will be exchanges with zoos around the world, he says, something that stopped during the Gadhafi regime.",
"He will be able to attend conferences around the world, to learn new techniques of protecting animals in captivity.",
"And, he predicts, the zoo will welcome new animals unscarred by war."
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"Animal experts from Austria saw CNN reports on the Tripoli Zoo and rushed to help .",
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"The zoo's director says Libya's new leaders pledge to give the zoo support .",
"But for one tiger, the fight for survival is lost ."
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"(Southern Living) -- On a bright Big Bend afternoon in far-west Texas, I steer myself along a high-desert, two-lane highway, tufts of dried-up tumbleweed thistle packed like snow against barbed-wire fences.",
"The sky above opens up its cobalt tent; the space beneath stretches as far as an ocean.",
"Rugged landscapes and wide-open spaces inspire artists and visitors in West Texas.",
"U.S. 90 leads me through the Davis Mountains and ocotillo-and-cactus flats to Marfa, Alpine and Marathon, a string of three Big Bend towns just 60 miles apart.",
"Here they live as siblings in a remote, starkly beautiful landscape as mysterious to me as Mars.",
"\"Driving from Dallas, we often joke, 'Who would put a town out here?",
"And who would live in it?'\"",
"says Marfa wood artist Camp Bosworth.",
"\"And we realize, well, us.\"",
"Far-off inspiration .",
"It's hard to believe inspiration can come in so far-off and austere a place, but it's all around you.",
"Marfa, Alpine and Marathon sit along U.S. 90 like hitching posts.",
"On first glance, the three are all Mayberrys of another era.",
"Marfa's one blinking red light; the Alpine Dairy Queen and Big Bend Saddlery; Marathon's three blocks of storefronts facing the railroad.",
"But I visit in search of the defining quality that draws people 400 miles west of San Antonio to live and to visit.",
"I'm looking for the real towns, what makes them so alluring and freeing, to \"slow down and see,\" as Bosworth describes.",
"As one New York transplant to Marfa tells me, \"Good things come with space.\"",
"Vintage and vogue .",
"Bosworth introduces himself on my first night in Marfa at the opening of a gas-station-turned-folk-art-gallery called Yard Dog.",
"The two rooms of Yard Dog glow in the pitch-black stillness of the nearly 2,000-person town.",
"Inside, the scene teems with locals, some who look like Willie Nelson, some like Brooklyn hipsters, all toasting yet another gallery émigré.",
"Bosworth, who moved to the Big Bend eight years ago, wears a canvas Carhartt jacket and black designer eyeglasses, a stylish mix of rancher and Warhol seen all over Marfa.",
"We step outside.",
"\"Out here you can just breathe,\" he says, referring to the whole Big Bend, where Texas leans toward the Rio Grande and Mexico reaches back.",
"\"That constant push to do is gone.",
"And instantly at night, there are a million stars.",
"In the openness you suddenly feel creative.\"",
"SouthernLiving.com: Marfa Travel Planner .",
"True cowboys ride bikes .",
"In Marfa, vintage bicycles replace horses.",
"Bosworth himself owns more than 10 throwback Schwinns and Flyers.",
"After a night's sleep at the Thunderbird Hotel, a motor court revamped with minimalist looks (and record players), I rise early and pedal through town on a hotel bike.",
"I pass the high school, the silver water tower, and the pinkish 1886 Presidio County courthouse -- all signs of Big Bend normalcy.",
"Large cherry red letters mark one gorgeous white building -- JUDD -- near Maiya's, a sleek Italian cafe, and down from the hacienda-like Hotel Paisano.",
"I stop near the single flashing signal by Marfa Book Company and Marfa Public Radio, where NPR programs mix with station manager Tom Michael's local news and interviews.",
"Food Shark .",
"Late morning, the Food Shark, an aluminum-body gourmet lunch truck, rolls into town and parks near the tracks, where honey-colored benches and tables sit under the farmers market pavilion.",
"Jack the dog roams around while folks buy Mediterranean dishes from the Food Shark, manned by a friendly couple, Adam and Krista.",
"Savoring open space .",
"From my chickpea Marfalafel basket, it's off to the Chinati Foundation, a former army base filled with art installations by Donald Judd and his contemporaries.",
"Judd, whose work has had tremendous influence on modern sculpture, began buying land south of Marfa and buildings in town in the 1970s for preservation purposes as well as his own use.",
"He savored Marfa's open space.",
"High desert inspiration .",
"Of the highway town trio, Alpine is the busy one, where outliers visit for dry cleaning, a pharmacy, an Amtrak pickup station or the largest grocery.",
"Alpine's thriving liberal arts university Sul Ross State looks down on the town, which, like its neighbor communities, lives at nearly mile-high elevation.",
"Sweet aromas in the mountain-fresh air pull locals to Judy's Bread and Breakfast, where folks pass the paper over homemade cinnamon rolls.",
"Even as a passerby, I get warm looks that say pull up a chair.",
"SouthernLiving.com: Alpine Travel Planner .",
"Makin' it rattle .",
"A block down Holland Avenue at Kiowa Gallery, the spirited Keri Artzt greets me at the door, as colorfully dressed as the walls in her place.",
"\"You don't come to Alpine for a mall fix,\" Peggy Martin, a nine-year employee, says.",
"\"But we can make it rattle if we need to.\"",
"In a town of painted murals -- I see several driving from Kiowa to the Big Bend Saddlery -- Alpineers draw from the same creative wellspring as do its sister towns.",
"Listen to the music .",
"As the sun curves to its peak, Alpine steals a few hours from winter, and guitar-maker Michael Stevens wipes a bead of sweat off his brow.",
"Living on 10 acres just south of town, his workshop window faces uninterrupted miles of native grasses and wispy clouds.",
"His completed instruments, shiny and perfect, hang inside.",
"You'd swear laser-guided machines made the guitars.",
"The craft is astounding.",
"Jackrabbits can talk .",
"Back in town, comic strip artist Chris Ruggia opens his small studio with pleasure.",
"\"Jack,\" his cartoon ode to the ecology of the vast Big Bend wilderness, stars kangaroo rats, jackrabbits and coyotes.",
"\"It's such an emphatic region,\" the quiet man says.",
"\"As an artist, you really respond to it.\"",
"Guided by biologists from The Nature Conservancy and Sul Ross, interpreters from Big Bend National Park and his own wandering eye, Ruggia's more than 40 \"Jack\" online episodes bring art and the landscape side-by-side.",
"Long way home .",
"In the couple of days I've spent traveling around these three towns, I've found the rolling drive between places to be quite calming.",
"Peggy Martin at Kiowa Gallery said I would.",
"\"This is a healing place,\" she says, \"because people have time.\"",
"From Alpine, I tune into KRTS-FM:93.5, the region's community station, letting the midday classical hour play sound track to the passing miles of sage brush, desert willow and limestone rises.",
"Welcome to Marathon .",
"Thirty miles flash by as a cello player finishes a piece that sounds like strings singing through the radio.",
"Marathon (population 455) is by far the smallest of the three.",
"For days, people in Marfa and Alpine have mentioned two mainstays in Marathon over and over: the Gage Hotel and photographer James Evans.",
"SouthernLiving.com: Marathon Travel Planner .",
"Worth a thousand words .",
"\"The landscape is like a relative now,\" Evans tells me, lounging on a leather chair in his highway photo gallery.",
"Window-size, silver gelatin prints of his \"800,000-acre backyard,\" as he calls Big Bend, hang in the serene, wood-planked room.",
"Evans lights up when I ask about the vistas surrounding us, where the onetime Gage Hotel cook has spent 20 years documenting the region.",
"\"When I first go back, I usually start on old River Road,\" he says about his journeys from Marathon into the rough country.",
"He describes a flashing creek photographed by moonlight on a 30-minute exposure, much the way Ansel Adams shot Yosemite; floating through the Santa Elena Canyon; and how he hikes to spots by dusk so he can wake up there.",
"\"I could shoot this area forever.\"",
"Whispering memories .",
"This brief moment with Evans is telling.",
"The photographer's eyes drift off.",
"His voice softens.",
"And he's gone away somewhere miles from this room.",
"His 60,000 photos of the Big Bend must carry countless memories, unspoken things that act as muse and healer both.",
"I find myself remembering this as night falls over Marathon.",
"A fire crackles in my Gage Hotel room, while the fountain in the courtyard slowly begins succumbing to a sinking chill.",
"Outside, I stand in the cold, looking up over the adobe walls at a sky full of stars, believing these places have whispered to me as well.",
"Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .",
"Copyright 2009 Southern Living magazine.",
"All rights reserved."
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"The towns of Marfa, Alpine and Marathon sit along U.S. 90 like hitching posts .",
"\"Good things come with space,\" says a New York transplant to west Texas .",
"Of the highway town trio, Alpine is the busy one ."
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"(CNN) -- At least 50 vehicles were involved in a wreck that hurt dozens of people and closed part of a highway in southeastern Texas on Thursday, authorities said.",
"At least 54 people were taken to various medical centers, including four who were in critical condition, said Deputy Rod Carroll of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.",
"Two vehicles caught fire, and several had heavy damage, he said.",
"\"We are very fortunate not to have any fatalities,\" Carroll added.",
"\"Not in my 23 years working have I seen anything like that.\"",
"Poor visibility stemming from a mixture of fog and smoke probably caused the wreck, authorities said.",
"Wildfires produced the smoke.",
"A portion of state Highway 73, about 5 miles west of Port Arthur, was closed in both directions."
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"NEW: 54 people are injured in a vehicle pileup on a Texas highway .",
"NEW: Four people remain in critical condition .",
"NEW: Texas state Highway 73 is shut down after a pileup involving at least 50 vehicles .",
"It was likely caused by poor visibility stemming from a mixture of smoke and fog ."
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"(Oprah.com) -- Like most of us, you've probably heard of graphic novels -- but haven't read too many.",
"Here are four new titles (plus one classic) that make you think, feel and daydream just like any other book.",
"What It Is . One of the most moving and emotionally direct forms of the whole graphic genre is the memoir -- in part because it allows for all kinds of inventive approaches to telling life stories, such as using the drawings to show how people look and feel to the writer (a huge, tall, monstery dad, for example).",
"It also helps to have thoughtful, deeply poignant writing, which is exactly what you'll find in Lynda Barry's \"What It Is.\"",
"This memoir of a young artist came out in 2008, but it's the one to start with if you've never read a graphic book before.",
"(Note: Graphic novels can be novels, memoirs, biographies or anything in between.)",
"Barry uses text, drawings and even collages to re-create her violent, TV-saturated childhood, describing how she used art as her way out of the trailer park.",
"\"We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality,\" she says.",
"\"We create it to be able to stay.\"",
"Discouraged at every turn by her parents and teachers, she grew into an adult who felt that she had little to say creatively and, further, that she couldn't say that little well enough.",
"That is, until she rediscovered an imaginary game from childhood, one that required her simply to sit very still in the corner of a room and wait for inanimate objects (say, the pattern on the wallpaper) to come \"alive\" and move.",
"The magic of that moment and of all Barry's self-examinations is that her ideas apply to just about everybody.",
"We've all had those moments when we think we're not good enough or original enough.",
"Her transformation belongs to all of us.",
"Oprah.com: How to Tame Your Overstuffed Bookshelves in 48 Hours .",
"Big Questions .",
"\"Big Questions\" is just what a novel should be, if by novel we mean a very long story that creates an entire imaginary universe that involves us so deeply that we begin to think of ourselves as characters within it.",
"The book is 585 pages long (not including appendixes), a number that might seem overwhelming in a traditional format.",
"In this case, you'll finish in two days, not only because graphic novels contain a lot less text but also because you'll race through the first time, desperate to figure out the big stuff, only to turn around and reread it in order to figure out all the little stuff you missed.",
"The story takes place in an anonymous bucolic countryside (trees, fields, the occasional house) and follows a flock of birds, each with its own personality and philosophical struggles, from questioning the monotony of a seed diet to wondering about the true perils of snakes to considering \"to what extent are we responsible for the fulfillment of our destinies?\"",
"Life goes on in this manner -- think, peck, think, peck -- until an undetonated bomb drops into their lives, a bomb that many (but not all) in the flock believe is a long, warm metal egg that may contain a savior baby bird.",
"The hilarity and discord that result will astonish you, as will the pathos.",
"Some of the most poignant scenes concern two humans -- an elderly caretaker and her mentally disabled grandson or son -- who are watched by the birds.",
"Nilsen's artwork here needs no words.",
"The endless labor of the old woman -- firewood, dishes, scrub the floor, soak the dentures, weep in secret -- is drawn into brutal reality, as is her unexpected beauty.",
"The six-panel homage to her brushing the long, young-looking hair you never knew she had (it's usually tied in a bun) is, like the rest of the book, an unforgettable visual and emotional experience.",
"Oprah.com: 14 Ways to Have a Successful Book Club .",
"Radioactive . Though National Book Award nominee \"Radioactive\" is ostensibly a biography of Madame Curie, its real allure is romance.",
"Twenty-four-year-old Marie Sklodowska travels to Paris from Warsaw and finds work in the laboratory of Pierre Curie, studying the relationship between heat and magnetism.",
"The attraction is not just between molecules, however, and soon the scientists fall in love and marry.",
"They go on, of course, to make incredible leaps and bounds in the world of science, discovering the elements polonium and radium.",
"In this poignant tale of discovery and passion, Lauren Redniss also examines the greater question of nuclear proliferation through the lens of the couple's work, proving that their research is more than relevant today.",
"A collage of different media, the artwork in the book includes drawings, as well as an electric blue background wash created by a process called cyanotype printing, in which light-sensitive chemicals soaked into paper become intensely bright when subjected to UV rays from the sun.",
"Redniss feels the technique \"captured on the page what Marie Curie called radium's 'spontaneous luminosity.'\"",
"Oprah.com: First Novels That May Help You Change Your Life in 2012 .",
"I'll Be Dead by the Time You Read This .",
"Technically, \"I'll Be Dead by the Time You Read This: The Existential Life of Animals\" isn't a graphic novel or even a graphic short story collection.",
"Maybe it's best described as a graphic poetry collection: When Alaeff adds a line of dialogue to his stand-alone illustrations of a cat or jellyfish or ram, he creates something more resonant than a caption.",
"The key to understanding (and laughing and going \"Ouch!\"",
"with recognition at) these creations is reading the introduction, in which Alaeff describes how he collected bits of overheard conversations between his fellow humans.",
"These verbal snippets, which sounded \"bittersweet if not downright tragic,\" led him to think it was \"a bit absurd that we regularly torture ourselves with thoughts that seem at odds with our well-being.\"",
"And so he attached them as bubbles over the heads of nonhumans.",
"Thus, a bear will mournfully say, \"Everyone seems so young all of a sudden,\" or a so-called proud lion will tell himself, \"I need to shut up.\"",
"One of the marvels of the book is that the more you read, the more you smile, and then -- bam!",
"-- suddenly you're wondering if you're the cheetah or the snail.",
"My advice: Identify with the bumblebee who claims, \"I know there's happiness in me somewhere.\"",
"Oprah.com: The Best Fiction of 2011 .",
"Moby-Dick in Pictures .",
"Don't mistake this gorgeous and wholly original book for a blow-by-blow comic-book-style retelling of \"Moby-Dick.\"",
"What artist Matt Kish has done is create one drawing for and inspired by each page of Melville's 552-page masterpiece (for the record, the Signet Classics version).",
"The result is less a story and more a cabinet of visual and literary curiosities.",
"Each image -- rendered in ink, colored pencil or paint -- is accompanied by a single exquisite line from the novel, such as \"But high above the flying scud and dark-rolling clouds, there floated a little isle of sunlight from which beamed forth an angel's face\" or \"Thus, while in life the great whale's body may have been a real terror to his foes, in death his ghost becomes a powerless panic to a world.\"",
"Only the most devoted \"Moby-Dick\" fans will need to read the whole creation sequentially.",
"The rest of us will dip in and out, enjoying the interplay of the insanely beautiful words and images (my favorite, on page 346, is an anatomical drawing of a whale in vivid reds, blues and black) and examining the connection between the two.",
"The most solid and compelling narrative may actually be in the introduction, in which Kish describes not only his lifelong love for the original novel but also his lack of formal artistic education and the only place he had to work, \"a closet that measures about three feet wide by six deep\" inside of which he made 500 drawings.",
"Even if you don't enjoy the book, let it sit on your coffee table as testament to what all of us human beings can do if we stick with it -- and believe in the great white whale of what we are doing.",
"Oprah.com: 16 Books to Make Way for in January 2012 .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2011 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"\"Big Questions\" is a long story containing an entire imaginary universe .",
"\"Moby-Dick in Pictures\" has an illustration for every page of the original novel ."
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"Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Yemen holds a presidential election Tuesday with only one candidate on the ballot to replace longtime ruler Ali Abdullah Saleh.",
"Vice President Abdurabu Mansur Hadi took over Yemen's government in November, when Saleh handed over power after months of protests.",
"Though Hadi will be the only name on the ballot on Tuesday, he has insisted on standing for election to make his presidency official.",
"Posters of Hadi with slogans such as \"A new president for a new Yemen\" have gradually replaced images of his predecessor.",
"But some of those who took part in the protests that drove Saleh from power after 33 years say they're not particularly excited about Tuesday's vote.",
"\"Maybe you can call them elections,\" said Nadia Abdullah, an activist in Change Square, the epicenter of the anti-Saleh movement.",
"\"But for me, elections should have more than one candidate.\"",
"The 65-year-old Hadi is a British-, Egyptian- and Soviet-trained army officer, recently promoted to the rank of field marshal.",
"He has served as vice president since 1994 and is running for a two-year term as president on pledges of improving security and creating more jobs.",
"But he's never had much of a power base of his own, and Yemen's problems will take much longer to fix than the two-year mandate he's expected to receive.",
"It's the poorest country in the Middle East, with a severe shortage of water and rising levels of malnutrition among its population of about 25 million.",
"Even before last year's upheaval, Saleh faced a separatist movement in the south, sectarian tensions in its north and the growing presence of what Western officials describe as al Qaeda's most dangerous affiliate, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.",
"For some, particularly in the once-independent south, Hadi is too closely tied to Saleh's rule to represent any change.",
"\"Why do people expect southerners to celebrate that Saleh is gone?\"",
"Mohammed Mosed Okla, a prominent separatist leader in the southern port of Aden, told CNN.",
"\"His regime is still in control, and his family still control all the major security factions in the country.",
"We will not be tricked again, and southerners will not celebrate until complete change takes place in south Yemen.\"",
"There was heavy security in Aden for the vote, with at least 10 new checkpoints had been set up around the city.",
"Explosions rocked four separate neighborhoods late Monday, with gunfire reported in one following the blast, but security officials told CNN that no injuries had been reported.",
"Explosions reported ahead of Yemen vote .",
"Hussein al-Aqil, a professor at Aden University and another separatist leader, said Hadi watched as Saleh \"oppressed us for more than two decades.\"",
"\"I was imprisoned for three years because I expressed my opinion and rejected the corruption that Ali Saleh stood behind,\" al-Aqil said.",
"\"The old regime tortured me and made me suffer for years.",
"Hadi is part of the old regime, and will not be recognized as a southern leader.\"",
"But in Sanaa, Abdullah says Yemen's people are looking to Hadi to start the political reforms needed to save the country.",
"\"If he goes through with it, we will stand hand-in-hand with him,\" she said.",
"\"If he doesn't, or if we see a lot of game-playing between him and the government, I believe the youth will remain in the squares.",
"They would say, 'Leave,' as they did to Ali Abdullah Saleh.\"",
"Saleh handed over power to Hadi as part of a deal brokered by Persian Gulf states and will formally relinquish his office after Tuesday's vote.",
"He is now now seeking medical treatment in the United States for wounds suffered in a June assassination attempt at his presidential palace during weeks of street battles between government troops and tribal fighters.",
"The United States, meanwhile, has been backing Yemeni efforts against al Qaeda and has periodically struck targets inside Yemen, as in the September drone strike that killed American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.",
"Gerald Feierstein, the U.S. ambassador to Yemen, told CNN that the transition laid out in the Gulf plan as well as efforts to boost the economy and deliver basic services will be critical \"in terms of our ability to defeat al Qaeda and other violent extremist organizations in the country.",
"\"All of these elements are going to help us defeat al Qaeda and eliminate them as a threat here in Yemen, to the region and to the world,\" Feierstein said.",
"But for patrons in one Sanaa cafe, a bit of normalcy would be welcome.",
"One man said Hadi's first objective should be to \"repair all the damage that was caused by the recent upheavals -- like the electricity crisis, like the gas crisis and all the crises in the country in general.\"",
"Journalist Hakim Almasmari contributed to this report for CNN."
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"Activists say they're looking to Hadi to start promised reforms .",
"Separatist leaders in south Yemen say they expect little change ."
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