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[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Suspected Taliban militants blew up a bridge early Tuesday in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan, suspending NATO supply lines.", "A Pakistani policeman sits near a police check post in the tribal area of Khyber Agency on February 12, 2008.", "The blast occurred about 6 a.m. Tuesday in the Khata Kushta area of Jamrod in the Khyber Agency in Pakistan Federally Administered Tribal Areas.", "The bridge connected Landi Kotal and Jamrod.", "Transport has been suspended, and authorities are assessing damages.", "Engineers also are on location and work is under way to open a temporary route.", "Details were unclear on the size of the blast, but most of the iron bridge was destroyed, local officials said.", "No deaths or injuries were immediately reported.", "Authorities are looking for alternate supply routes for NATO supply trucks and traffic going from Pakistan to Afghanistan, because the route is the main one between the two countries.", "All vehicles must cross the bridge when going from Peshawar toward the crossing point into Afghanistan.", "This is the first time militants have targeted a bridge or roadway in efforts to disrupt NATO supplies, a local official said.", "Previously, militants have targeted truck depots where supply convoys wait to cross into Afghanistan or have attacked trucks on their way through Pakistan and into the Khyber Agency.", "On Monday, at least 35 suspected militants were killed as part of ongoing operations in the Swat Valley, the Pakistan military confirmed to CNN.", "Government security forces engaged 70 to 80 suspected militants with artillery and attack helicopters about 11 p.m., after observing their movements in the Khwaza Khela District of the Swat Valley, the military said.", "Though only 35 militants were confirmed dead, many more were injured in the attack and the death toll was expected to rise, the military said.", "Also on Monday, a Taliban FM radio sermon announced that militants had killed 16 Pakistan army soldiers in the Swat Valley.", "Officials at the Swat media center said that report was false." ]	[ "Suspected Taliban militants blown up a bridge in Pakistan's Khyber Agency region .", "Khyber Agency is in border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan .", "NATO supply lines suspended; No deaths or injuries were immediately reported .", "At least 35 suspected militants killed as part of operations in the Swat Valley ." ]	[ 0, 7, 12 ]
[ "BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- Bedraggled, hungry and dazed, the refugees arrived on the shores of Thailand after fleeing one of the most repressive governments in the world -- the hard-line military regime in Myanmar, also known as Burma.", "This picture provided to CNN is said to show refugees being towed out to sea by the Thai army.", "But a CNN investigation has uncovered evidence that for hundreds of Rohingya refugees -- members of a Muslim minority group -- abuse and abandonment at sea were what awaited them in Thailand, at the hands of Thai authorities.", "Extraordinary photos obtained by CNN from someone directly involved in the Thai operation show refugees on their rickety boats being towed out to sea, cut loose and abandoned.", "One photo shows the Thai army towing a boatload of some 190 refugees far out to sea.", "Watch the backstory on the investigation » .", "For days, accusations have been carried in several regional papers that the Thai army has been systematically towing boat-loads of Rohingya refugees far out to sea and setting them adrift.", "The army denied it, and the Thai government has launched an inquiry.", "CNN's investigation -- based on accounts from tourists, sources in Thailand and a Rohingya refugee who said he was on a boat towed back out to sea -- helps to piece together a picture of survival thwarted by an organized effort not just to repel arriving refugees, but to hold them prisoner on shore, drag them in flimsy boats far out to sea and then abandon them.", "Watch CNN's investigation into reports of refugees being set adrift » .", "Three tourists recently voiced concern to CNN over what they had seen -- and in some cases photographed -- near Thailand's tourist areas.", "One tourist provided CNN with photos last week of refugees detained by Thai authorities on a beach near a tourist site, with the refugees prone on the sun-bleached sand while guards stood nearby.", "\"Whenever someone raised their head or moved, they [guards] would strike them with a whip,\" said Australian tourist Andrew Catton.", "A CNN crew traveled to a remote stretch of the Thai coast four hours north of the tourist island of Phuket to investigate the growing reports that the Thai military was secretly detaining Rohingya refugees before towing them out to sea and setting them adrift.", "In an isolated beach area, debris including sandals and campfire remnants indicated that large numbers of people had been there but were nowhere to be seen.", "The crew then traveled to a nearby island, where residents reported that refugees who had escaped were living in the jungle.", "In one hamlet, villagers had captured a Rohingya man they believed had been living in the jungle for days.", "The refugee, who identified himself as Iqbal Hussain, told CNN he was on one of six boats in a makeshift refugee fleet that arrived in Thailand in December.", "He said all six boats with their refugee cargo were towed back out to sea in January, and five of the six boats sank.", "His boat made it back to shore, and he hid in the jungle for days until nearby villagers captured him.", "In broken English and using sign language and drawings, he described what happened to the other men on the boats: .", "\"All men dead,\" he said, putting the number of dead at several hundred.", "The Rohingya, a persecuted minority in Myanmar, have been fleeing their country in rickety boats for years, in search of a better life.", "In Thailand, many instead have found deprivation and the possibility of desertion far off shore, according to the CNN investigation.", "The source who provided CNN with photos of refugees in a boat being towed out to sea stressed that the Thai army had given the refugees food and water, but he also confirmed that the boats had been pulled for more than two days into international waters before they were set adrift.", "His account directly contradicts briefings by senior Thai army sources who denied any such operation was undertaken.", "A source in the Thai military, after extensive questioning, did confirm to CNN that the Thai army was operating a dump-at-sea policy.", "But the source defended it, insisting that each boatload of refugees was always given sufficient supplies of food and water.", "That source claimed local villagers had become afraid of the hundreds of Rohingya arriving each month, and that they were accusing the refugees of stealing their property and threatening them.", "CNN asked the government for comment and was told that an investigation was being launched and that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has plans to call an emergency meeting once the country's foreign minister returns from Cambodia.", "Panitan Wattanayagorn, a government spokesman, gave no timeline for the foreign minister's return or the emergency meeting.", "He did say the government is taking the matter very seriously." ]	[ "CNN finds evidence hundreds of Rohingya refugees abandoned at sea by Thai army .", "Photos show refugees on their rickety boats being towed out to sea, cut loose .", "The army denies setting refugees adrift; Thai government has launched an inquiry .", "Rohingya have been fleeing persecution of the hard-line military regime in Myanmar ." ]	[ 3, 6, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Relatives of missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings have given DNA samples, and the mobile home where she lived is no longer off-limits as a crime scene, authorities in Florida said Friday.", "Haleigh Cummings, 5, was last seen as she was put to bed about 8 p.m. February 9.", "The blue double-wide trailer near the tiny town of Satsuma, Florida, has been turned over to the child's father, but he does not plan to live there, said Capt.", "Dick Schauland of the Putnam County Sheriff's office.", "The 25-year-old father, Ronald Cummings, \"is just not comfortable\" living in the trailer where his daughter was last seen, Schauland said.", "Authorities have collected DNA samples from Haleigh's father, her mother and other people connected to the case, including the father's 17-year-old girlfriend, Misty Croslin, Schauland added.", "Police have said they think Haleigh was abducted but have provided few details of their investigation.", "Watch Hailey's grandmother plead for her return » .", "Croslin said she tucked Haleigh and her 4-year-old brother into bed about 8 p.m. February 9.", "She said she went to sleep herself about 10 p.m. but woke at 3 a.m. to find Haleigh missing and a back door propped open by bricks.", "Ronald Cummings called police and reported his daughter missing when he returned from work at dawn.", "Haleigh's younger brother later told family members that a man dressed in black came into the trailer and took Haleigh from her bed.", "Go inside Haleigh's bedroom .", "Authorities have used cadaver dogs to search the area near the trailer.", "The searches were suspended a week ago, Schauland said.", "Haleigh was reported missing on the same day a memorial service was held for Caylee Anthony, a Florida girl who had been missing for months before her remains were found in December.", "Her mother has been charged with murder.", "Haleigh's case received wide publicity as television crews made the short trip from Caylee's service in Orlando to Haleigh's home in Satsuma, east of Gainesville in northern Florida.", "Caylee Anthony's grandfather, a former police officer, later traveled to the command post to comfort and advise the missing child's father.", "Family members of Ronald Cummings and Haleigh's mother, Crystal Sheffield, set up camp under tents near the police command post, going on camera to beg for the child's safe return.", "The relationship between Cummings and Sheffield has been described as \"rocky.\"", "The two shared custody of the children, with each parent caring for the children every other weekend.", "Schauland said authorities have received about 2,400 tips from across the country: \"all kinds of folks, psychics.\"", "Asked how the family was holding up, he said, \"It's really tough on them, as you can imagine. ...", "I can't imagine what they're going through.\"" ]	[ "Missing child Haleigh Cummings' kin give DNA samples .", "Mobile home where Haleigh last seen no longer a crime scene .", "Double-wide has been released to girl's father .", "Police think 5-year-old was abducted from her bed February 9-10 ." ]	[ 0, 1, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An outspoken Saudi human rights advocate who was imprisoned without charge for nearly eight months was freed this weekend, according to a fellow human rights activist.", "Matrook al-Faleh, shown in 2004, was seized after he criticized prison conditions, says Human Rights Watch.", "Matrook al-Faleh \"is doing very well\" after leaving Al-Hayer maximum security prison near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, late Saturday, said colleague Mohammed al-Qahtani, who visited al-Faleh on Sunday.", "\"He is very healthy and his morale is quite high -- surprisingly after eight months,\" said al-Qahtani.", "Both men are Saudi college professors.", "It's unclear why al-Faleh was arrested.", "A Human Rights Watch report condemning the arrest and urging al-Faleh's release said his detention came two days after he publicly criticized conditions in a prison where two other Saudi human rights activists are imprisoned.", "It was also unclear why he was held for so long.", "According to al-Qahtani, Saudi law mandates that no one can be held for more than six months without charge.", "\"The criminal code says you charge him or release him, but sometimes they do not respect the law they issued,\" al-Qahtani said.", "An official at the Saudi Interior Ministry said he had no details about al-Faleh's case.", "Jamila al-Uqla, al-Faleh's wife, spoke to CNN in May, shortly after her husband was detained.", "She described how her husband had been arrested without charge and interrogated repeatedly.", "Al-Faleh had decided to go on a hunger strike to demand that he be told why he was being held, she said.", "His wife stressed that she and al-Faleh are patriotic Saudis.", "\"My husband is transparent and doesn't hide anything,\" said al-Uqla.", "\"He says whatever he sees.", "He has loyalty to his country and the interests of his country.\"", "It was not Al-Faleh's first brush with the Saudi legal system.", "Al-Faleh, Abdullah al-Hamid and Ali al-Dumaini, who runs a Saudi discussion Web site, were arrested in 2004 for circulating a petition meant for then-Crown Prince Abdullah which called for a constitution guaranteeing basic human rights.", "A court sentenced al-Faleh, Abdullah al-Hamid and Ali al-Dumaini, to six, seven and nine years respectively.", "But King Abdullah pardoned them in August 2005, Human Rights Watch said." ]	[ "Saudi professor Matrook al-Faleh imprisoned for eight months without charge .", "He was released from a prison near Riyadh late Saturday, fellow activist says .", "Rights group: Al-Faleh's detention came after he criticized prison conditions ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Almost three years after losing her right leg in a bomb explosion in Iraq, Tara Hutchinson decided to post her photo and profile online to ask for help.", "Dave Mahler spent his entire career in technology and decided to apply his know-how to help veterans.", "The soldier was having financial problems last fall and needed $1,000 for one month's mortgage on her house in San Antonio, Texas, where she is being treated for her injuries.", "Her husband, who is also in the Army, is still deployed in Iraq.", "Hutchinson, 32, is among dozens of active-duty U.S. troops and veterans who have asked for help through USAtogether.org, which listed their stories and specific needs online.", "The charity is one of many set up to help U.S. troops beyond the compensation and benefits the government offers, but it's not run by a church group, a veterans association or even a military family.", "Watch how some veterans are having tough times back home » .", "Instead, it was founded by a group of Silicon Valley professionals in California.", "The project is the brainchild of Dave Mahler, whose résumé includes an engineering degree, 13 years at Hewlett-Packard designing servers and software, co-founding a start-up and serving on nonprofit boards -- but no military background.", "Mahler also happens to live four miles from a Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, which he had driven past for 25 years but never visited, he said.", "It was on his mind a year and a half ago when he was looking for a new community service project and decided to focus his energy on helping U.S. troops hurt in the line of duty.", "Hatching a plan over coffee .", "Mahler described what he did next as a \"very startup-oriented thing.\"", "He called a senior person at the hospital out of the blue and invited her out for coffee to learn how he could help.", "Mahler said he was ready to sweep the halls or read to a veteran but envisioned something with more leverage.", "\"I had a bias towards wanting to use the things that we've learned in Silicon Valley and across the country in building Internet properties to apply that technology into this arena,\" Mahler said.", "So after finding out that there was usually an outpouring of help once a community knew about a veteran's financial plight, he decided to start a Web site showcasing specific stories and needs.", "Anyone who wanted to help could browse through the requests and decide exactly whom to support.", "Mahler, 52, said the goal was to get rid of all the bureaucracy in the process by combining elements of Craigslist -- the popular go-to place for online classifieds and forums -- and Kiva.org, a micro-lending Web site that lets users browse profiles of entrepreneurs in the developing world and choose someone to give a small loan to.", "\"The unique thing about Kiva, and to some extent Craigslist, is that it's one to one.", "You're not giving money to some organization and then they decide who to give it to,\" Mahler said.", "Visitors to USAtogether.org can search for requests by ZIP code, branch of service or type of need.", "Requests can be filled quickly, so the organization is looking for more service members and their families to list their needs, Mahler said.", "A recent visit to the site showed only two open appeals for help.", "Hutchinson said her request for assistance with a mortgage payment was filled within a couple of months of posting and has made a big difference.", "\"There are a lot of people who believe that Americans are not giving, [but] I think that we're the most giving culture in the world,\" Hutchinson said.", "\"I am so grateful that there are people who were willing to help me.\"", "Volunteers stay connected .", "Hutchinson didn't have any apprehension about posting her story online.", "But for some visitors, the pictures and requests for baby items, appliances and even job leads can be uncomfortable to see, Mahler said.", "The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs declined to comment on whether it had any qualms about veterans listing their stories on the site.", "\"That's a personal choice,\" said VA spokesman Jim Benson.", "USAtogether has no office or employees, keeping the operation \"outrageously efficient,\" Mahler said.", "The handful of Silicon Valley professionals who run the nonprofit organization work on a volunteer basis out of their homes, using Skype conference calls, text messages and other technology to communicate.", "The volunteers check out service members, who must meet eligibility criteria.", "They also make sure the requests are appropriate and within limits.", "Direct financial assistance is limited to $1,000, for example, and someone asking for a plasma-screen TV might be coached to request help with an electric bill instead.", "The assistance is meant to be a short-term safety net, so service members with recurring financial problems are referred to the many other groups that help veterans.", "Hearing the service members' stories can take a toll on the team, Mahler said.", "\"I've spent my entire career in technology, and the reality of it is, when you're building the next widget that's smaller or faster or cheaper, it's really impersonal,\" Mahler said.", "\"In this case, you're focusing on people's lives, and it's a very emotional business.", "It is draining when you first hear the stories.", "But that is for the most part balanced when we're able to get folks assistance.\"" ]	[ "Silicon Valley professionals start Web site to connect donors with troops in need .", "Founder models site on Craigslist and Kiva.org, so people can decide who to help .", "Veterans and active-duty troops can list their stories, photos and specific requests .", "\"I am so grateful that there are people who were willing to help me,\" soldier says ." ]	[ 4, 7, 17, 26 ]
[ "(Tribune Media Services) -- Two young Iranian parents smiled at me, showing mock desperation as their little boy and girl eagerly dragged them into a shop famous for its pistachio ice cream sandwiches.", "Around the corner, filling the side of a 15-story building, a government-sponsored propaganda mural showed a perverted American flag, with skulls for stars and falling bombs for stripes.", "Iranian women must wear a scarf, but many leave a tuft of hair showing at the forehead.", "That bizarre mixture -- of saber-rattling politics alongside the personal warmth of individual locals -- is what struck me on my recent 12-day trip to Iran to film a public-television show.", "I found Iran to be perhaps the most misunderstood and fascinating land I've ever visited.", "And I learned a lot.", "The country is not free.", "It seems that people -- motivated by fear of Western influences and love of their children -- have forgone democracy for their theocracy.", "Parents told me, \"We do not want our girls to grow up to be Britney Spears,\" and they are willing to sacrifice some freedom to achieve that goal.", "They feel their \"revolution of values\" provides an environment where they can raise their children free from the cheap sex, drug abuse and crass materialism of the West.", "After several days, that provocative tuft attracted my eye like cleavage.", "Making sure that what they can show is as beautiful as possible, Iranian women, per capita, lead the world in nose jobs.", "Faces are beautifully made up, and -- when so much else is covered -- can be particularly expressive and mysterious.", "Eye contact is riveting.", "Before arriving in Iran, I was so afraid of anti-Americanism that we had nearly left our big expensive TV camera in Athens and considered flying in with a less obtrusive model.", "But once there, I found people curious, courteous and quick to smile -- especially when they learned we were American.", "I've never had such fun with people or found them so chatty than on the streets of Iran.", "Tehran is modern and bustling, with thriving shopping malls, cars clogging the streets and most people wearing Western-style clothes.", "Unlike many Muslim capitals, minarets do not dot the skyline, and I barely heard a call to prayer.", "And yet it's clearly a theocracy.", "Multiple TV stations broadcast religious programming (along with BBC and CNN) that's perfect for praying -- images of the sun setting on the sea, or the pilgrimage center in Mecca in real-time.", "In the United States, billboards and ads encourage us to consume, but in Iran, government-sponsored billboards, Muzak and TV programming is all about the teachings of great holy men.", "I asked my guide if it's okay to be non-Muslim in Iran.", "\"Yes,\" he said, \"We have religious freedom, as long as it is not offensive to Islam.\"", "Christian? \"Sure.\" Jewish? \"Sure.\" Bahai? \"No. We believe that Mohammed -- who came in the 7th century -- was the last prophet, so the Bahai prophet (19th century) is offensive to Islam.\"", "I asked, \"What if you want to get somewhere in the military or government?\"", "My guide answered, \"Then you better be a Muslim -- a practicing, Shiite Muslim.\"", "Every film crew stops at the former U.S. Embassy.", "It was here in 1979 that a gang of revolutionary students stormed what they called the \"Den of Spies\" and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.", "For Iranians back then, it was a proud moment of triumph against the nation that had meddled in their affairs for years.", "The embassy wall is still covered with anti-American murals painted at that time.", "But the hostage crisis was 30 years ago.", "Most Iranians weren't even born then.", "It's ancient history to our young guide.", "With our work done, we hurried to catch our flight home.", "As we crawled through Tehran's traffic, our driver cursed, \"Death to traffic.\"", "Shocked, I said, \"What?", "I thought it was death to America.\"", "He said, \"Here in Iran, when something frustrates us and is out of our control, we say 'death' to that.\"", "Then I thought, when people in my society say, \"Damn those teenagers,\" they don't mean they wish them to die and burn in hell for eternity ... they just want the kids to turn down the music.", "Boarding our plane, the Air France flight attendants -- so stylish with hair flowing freely -- seemed to welcome us as if onto a life raft.", "Women pulled off their scarves, wine was poured, and we flew west with the raw footage of a program we hoped would humanize a proud country of 70 million people.", "Rick Steves writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio.", "E-mail him at rick@ricksteves.com, or write to him c/o P.O.", "Box 2009, Edmonds, Wash. 98020.", "Copyright 2009 RICK STEVES, DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC." ]	[ "Rick Steves writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows .", "Recently Steves has been working on a series on Iran .", "Steves' company, Europe Through the Back Door, conducts European tours ." ]	[ 4, 42 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Deep-sea explorers say they have solved \"one of the greatest mysteries in naval history\" with the discovery of what was \"the world's mightiest and most technically advanced warship\" when it sank in 1744.", "The HMS Victory sank in 1744.", "The HMS Victory -- the predecessor to a historic British flagship of the same name -- was found \"far from where history says it was lost,\" Odyssey Marine Exploration said in a news release Monday.", "The find in the English Channel exonerates Adm. Sir John Balchin, one of \"the greatest admirals in English history,\" because it shows that the ship went down in a violent storm, not due to any mistakes he made, Odyssey said.", "It did not specify the ship's exact location.", "Maritime lore said the ship went down in the northern part of the Channel Islands, south of England near the coast of France.", "Stories about treasures -- including gold -- that may have been on the ship have existed ever since its disappearance.", "This HMS Victory was a predecessor to the historic British ship that took the same name and which served as Admiral Nelson's flagship in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.", "In court papers seeking exclusive salvage rights, Odyssey says the wreck site \"consists of cannons and other unidentified objects.", "Odyssey believes that potentially valuable cargo may be located at or near the site.\"", "The papers were filed in U.S. District Court in Tampa, Florida, where Odyssey is based, seeking exclusive salvage rights.", "There were nearly 1,000 people aboard -- \"900 sailors, plus a complement of marines and 50 volunteers drawn from the noblest families of England,\" Odyssey said in information about the ship released together with the Discovery Channel, which chronicled the find.", "Based on reports from the time, there may be as much as four tons of gold on the ship, Odyssey and the Discovery Channel said.", "\"Additional research indicates that there were large quantities of both silver and gold coins aboard.", "... Research suggests that this prize money will also likely be located at the wreck site. ...", "However, no coins have been located at the site to date, and no accurate assessment as to their value can be made prior to location, recovery and analysis.\"", "The potential treasure also comes in another form -- bronze weaponry.", "\"The site's anticipated ordnance collection\" includes \"the single largest collection of bronze cannon in the world\" and \"the largest consignment of bronze guns ever manufactured and preserved today,\" Odyssey said.", "Two cannons have been recovered -- \"a 12-pounder featuring the royal arms of George II\" and a \"42-pounder bearing the crest of George I,\" it said.", "\"The huge 42-pounder recovered is the only known example of a gun of this type and size currently in existence on dry land.", "The only other artifacts recovered to date were two small brick fragments that were brought into U.S. federal court in order to file an admiralty arrest of the site.\"", "Admiralty arrest is a step mandated under international maritime law.", "The discovery could set up a legal battle with the British government.", "If it really is the HMS Victory, \"her remains are sovereign immune,\" the British Ministry of Defense (MOD) said in a statement on its blog Monday.", "\"The wreck remains the property of the Crown.", "We have not waived our rights to it.", "This means that no intrusive action may be taken without the express consent of the United Kingdom.\"", "In its statement, Odyssey said it \"has been cooperating closely\" with the ministry, and \"all activities at the site have been conducted in accordance with protocols agreed with MOD and Royal Navy officials.\"", "The ship has deteriorated to the point that recovering it is impossible, Odyssey said.", "\"A plan is being developed for an archaeological excavation of the site, and artifacts will be recovered in accordance with a scientific project plan, which will be submitted to the UK MOD for review and approval.\"", "The company has proposed that it be paid \"with either ... a percentage of the value of the collection that has been recovered, conserved and presented to the UK government, or a percentage of the coins or other artifacts that the government decides to (sell).\"", "The ship was found nearly 100 km (62 miles) \"from where the ship was historically believed to have been wrecked on a reef near the Channel Islands,\" Odyssey's statement said.", "\"Having discovered it in deep water far from where history says it was lost has served to exonerate Admiral Balchin and his officers from the accusation of having let the ship run aground on the Casquets due to faulty navigation,\" said Greg Stemm, Odyssey's chief executive officer, in the statement.", "Odyssey said the \"prevailing belief\" about the ship's fate was that it had \"smashed into the Casquets, a group of rocky islets\" north of Guernsey, the second largest of the Channel Islands.", "But the evidence, Odyssey's statement said, suggests \"the ship sank as the result of a violent storm and suggests that the design and construction of the ship contributed to her loss.\"", "Odyssey released press materials about the ship in cooperation with the Discovery Channel, which chronicled the find and will be showing it in a program this week called Treasure Quest.", "\"The English Channel is a treacherous place to navigate,\" Discovery Channel President John Ford told CNN Radio.", "\"The ship was returning from Portugal and got caught up in a storm.", "And despite being judged unsinkable at the time, sort of like the Titanic was, this very, very large ship went down in a storm and vanished without a trace.\"", "CNN Radio's April Williams contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Team says it has discovered the wreck site of HMS Victory .", "Victory sank in 1744 between England and France .", "If find is confirmed, it could set up a legal battle with the British government .", "Replacement HMS Victory served as Nelson flagship for Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 ." ]	[ 1, 7, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Madonna said she hopes the Malawian girl she wants to adopt and the boy she already adopted \"will one day return to Malawi and help the people of their country.\"", "A judge has rejected Madonna's adoption application.", "A Malawian judge this month rejected the American pop star's petition to adopt 3-year-old Chifundo \"Mercy\" James, but her lawyer has filed an appeal.", "\"I want to provide Mercy with a home, a loving family environment and the best education and health care possible,\" Madonna said in an e-mail to The Nation, a Malawian newspaper.", "\"And it's my hope that she, like David, will one day return to Malawi and help the people of their country.\"", "Madonna's statement, which her publicist provided to CNN, steered away from commenting on her legal battle.", "\"Though I have been advised that I cannot publicly discuss the pending appeal regarding my desire to adopt Mercy, I do want to say how much I appreciate the level of support that I have received from the people of Malawi and my friends around the world,\" she said.", "The judge who ruled against the adoption said she had \"a gripping temptation\" to approve it, but decided doing so would open doors to child trafficking, court records show.", "\"Anyone could come to Malawi and quickly arrange for an adoption that might have grave consequences on the very children that the law seeks to protect,\" Justice E.J.", "Chombo wrote in her ruling.", "The judge also said she thought the child was in good hands at an orphanage.", "Another Malawian judge approved Madonna's adoption of David Banda in 2006.", "Chombo's ruling followed weeks of criticism by human-rights activists, who accused the mother of three of using her fame to circumvent a residency law for foreigners adopting in the southern African country.", "Save the Children UK had also urged Madonna to let the child be raised by her relatives in her home community.", "The denial was applauded by a coalition of Malawian nonprofits.", "\"Inter-country adoption is not the best way of providing protection to children. ...", "Supporting children from outside our country only helps five of the 1.5 million orphans we have,\" said Mavuto Bamusi, national coordinator of the Malawi Human Rights Consultative Committee.", "Malawi government officials have said that they supported Madonna's second adoption.", "The recently divorced singer was married to British filmmaker Guy Ritchie.", "She has been involved with Malawi for several years and made a documentary, \"I Am Because We Are,\" to highlight poverty, AIDS and other diseases devastating children in that country.", "She also co-founded a nonprofit, Raising Malawi, which provides programs to help the needy." ]	[ "Madonna is appealing a Malawian judge's rejection of her adoption petition .", "The pop star did not meet residency requirement for adoption, judge says .", "Critics say Madonna tried to use fame to circumvent adoption process .", "Madonna has a son she adopted from Malawi ." ]	[ 1, 2, 12, 15, 17 ]
[ "LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (CNN) -- Chilling winds and more snow were expected for Kentucky on Tuesday, bad news for more than a quarter of a million people still without power after an ice storm.", "Ice covers nearly everything in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, Tuesday.", "Forecasters said as much as 3 inches of snow could fall in areas of Kentucky, one of several states dealing with snow.", "The snowfall could hamper efforts of Kentucky National Guard troops that have been going door-to-door to check on families.", "The storm has been blamed for at least 16 deaths, several from carbon-monoxide poisoning caused by exhaust from generators, authorities said.", "Kentucky Gov.", "Steve Beshear has called the ice storm \"the biggest natural disaster that this state has ever experienced in modern history.\"", "Beshear toured areas in western Kentucky over the weekend, the hardest hit area, where National Guard troops also were focusing their efforts.", "In a statement, Beshear said the call-up of troops \"represents the strongest possible effort to relieve human suffering and ensure the safety and well-being of our citizens.\"", "iReport.com: Share photos of icy, snowy weather in your town .", "One of the people guard members checked on was 83-year-old Paul Jenkins, who was using water stored in buckets, had no power and was relying on kerosene for heat.", "\"When we lose power, we're in trouble 'cause all we got is electric,\" said Jenkins, who lives in Breckinridge County west of Louisville.", "Kentucky wasn't the only place battling icy conditions.", "The National Weather Service put out winter storm advisories Tuesday for areas in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Virginia.", "In many areas, trees remain in roads or even on homes.", "Louisville resident John Randolph pointed to tree branches that fell onto his two-story suburban home.", "\"Just the overall power of the branches falling was actually pretty frightening\" when the ice storm was setting in, Randolph said.", "He added: \"The baby slept through the night and didn't wake up once.", "My wife and I, once we heard the first branches falling, we didn't go back to sleep the whole night.", "We didn't know what to do. ... Ultimately, we sort of just stayed in our bedrooms, and I just kind of went outside periodically and assessed the situation.\"", "Randolph's home -- which escaped serious damage -- is among those without power.", "See images of the ice storm's aftermath » .", "Arthur Byrn, mayor of Mayfield -- one of the cities suffering from the storm -- told CNN Radio that authorities were conducting a \"door-to-door welfare check of the entire Graves County area, which is 38,000 people.\"", "Graves County is in the southwest corner of Kentucky, near the Missouri and Tennessee lines.", "Byrn said it could take as long as two months for the county to have 100 percent of its power back.", "iReport.com: Tour ice storm damage in Elizabethtown, Kentucky .", "\"It's quite disconcerting to go out at 7 o'clock at night and not see a light anywhere other than [a headlight] coming down the street,\" Byrn said.", "\"Devastation is sometimes an overused word, but I would say that's what we had.\"", "CNN's Susan Candiotti and Andy Rose contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Forecast calls for up to 3 inches of snow following ice storm .", "About a quarter-million still without power from last week's storm .", "National Guard troops continue visiting houses to check residents' welfare .", "Storm blamed for at least 16 deaths, several from carbon-monoxide poisoning ." ]	[ 0, 3, 4, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Norway has condemned the ransacking of the Sri Lankan embassy in Oslo by Tamil demonstrators.", "The entrance to Sri Lanka's embassy in Oslo on Sunday.", "Video posted on Norway's TV 2 Web site showed demonstrators smashing through re-enforced glass at the embassy on Sunday.", "The aftermath showed embassy offices that had been trashed, with furniture, artwork and potted plants dumped on the floor.", "Countertops had been bashed and splintered.", "\"Please help the Tamils.", "Stop the massacre of Tamils,\" a sign carried by one of the demonstrators said.", "The foreign ministry said it has requested that police tighten security at the embassy, which is located in an office building.", "\"I deeply deplore the fact that unauthorized persons unlawfully forced their way into the Sri Lankan embassy in Oslo and caused extensive damage,\" said Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store.", "\"This is a violation of Norwegian law and an action that is totally unacceptable.\"", "Rohitha Bogollagama, Sri Lanka's foreign affairs minister, called for authorities to \"seek immediate arrest of the perpetrators of this serious act of terror\" during a CNN interview in New Delhi, India.", "The attack came as Sri Lanka's president ordered military troops to restrict their offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels while the nation celebrates the Sinhala and Tamil New Year.", "The two-day celebrations began Monday.", "The order was meant to allow the thousands of Tamils trapped by the fighting to travel for the New Year, said a statement from the office of President Mahinda Rajapakse.", "Troops are in the midst of an intense military push in northern Sri Lanka, where they have snatched back large swaths of land from the Tamil rebels.", "The rebels have fought for an independent homeland for the country's ethnic Tamil minority since 1983.", "The civil war has left more than 70,000 people dead.", "A statement on the Sri Lankan defense ministry Web site called on Norway to \"bring the perpetrators to justice immediately.\"", "\"The perpetrators can be readily identified on the CCTV recording which has been made available to the authorities,\" the statement said.", "\"The demonstrations, which had been building up in intensity in the past few days, provide an indication that something was being planned.\"", "CNN's Harmeet Singh and Iqbal Athas contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Norway's FM says actions by Tamil protesters are \"totally unacceptable\"\nThe foreign ministry has requested that police tighten security at the embassy .", "Sri Lanka foreign affairs minister calls for authorities to arrest perpetrators .", "Tamil rebels have fought for an independent homeland since 1983 ." ]	[ 7, 15 ]
[ "MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Florida Law enforcement officials said Monday they had launched an investigation into a tragic boating accident near St. Augustine, Florida, that took the lives of five people and seriously injured seven others.", "CNN affiliate WJXT shows the scene of the deadly boating accident near Jacksonville, Florida, on Sunday.", "The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has taken over as the lead agency involved in the investigation.", "The incident took place on Sunday around 7:15 p.m., in the intracoastal waterway in St. Johns County, Florida, about 20 miles north of St. Augustine.", "According to FWC investigators, a 22-foot boat with 12 people on board rammed into the rear and right side of a 25-foot tugboat.", "\"We are still investigating and haven't come to any conclusions yet,\" said Carol Pratt, spokeswoman for FWC.", "She said they still do not know who was driving the boat.", "They also are waiting for victims' next of kin to be notified before releasing any of their names and ages.", "The tugboat was at a dock and boat launch under construction on the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Valley, said Jeremy Robshaw, a spokesman for St. Johns County Fire and Rescue.", "Robshaw said rescuers couldn't initially reach the end of the unfinished dock, but laid plywood sheets on the structure to get to crash victims.", "No one was onboard the tugboat, which is registered to F&A Enterprises in St. Augustine.", "The seven injured were taken to Shands Jacksonville Hospital in Jacksonville, Florida.", "Two patients remain in critical condition, one is considered serious and three are in fair condition.", "A hospital spokesman did not have information on the seventh victim.", "FWC told CNN that they hope to release more information on the incident and on their investigation.", "As in any accident, toxicology studies will be done on the driver of the boat, to determine whether he or she was impaired, spokesman Carol Pratt told CNN." ]	[ "Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission takes lead in the investigation.", "Boat crashed into tugboat, barge and dock under construction .", "Five people killed; remaining seven taken to hospital with serious injuries .", "Rescuers had to use plywood panels to reach the passengers ." ]	[ 2, 8, 9, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Chris Nowinski's professional wrestling career didn't end with a pink slip or a celebratory sendoff, but with a swift kick to his chin.", "Chris Nowinski was a WWE wrestler when he suffered a concussion, but didn't realize how badly he was hurt.", "Nowinski played college football at Harvard -- a defensive tackle.", "He was a promising newcomer to World Wrestling Entertainment.", "At the time he suffered the injury -- the hit that would cut his career short -- he was performing in a summer 2003 tag-team match as his WWE character, Chris Harvard, a blonde, blue-eyed symbol of Ivy League elitism.", "Nowinski didn't know he had suffered a concussion.", "He didn't know that he shouldn't have been wrestling immediately afterward, and he didn't know that this was probably the sixth concussion of his athletic career.", "There was a lot Nowinski didn't know about concussions.", "Hard hits were nothing new to Nowinski, 28, a tree of a man who had played sports since childhood.", "Blows to the head punctuated many of the games and matches in his career, he said.", "Sometimes he blacked out.", "\"The sky would change colors, or I would see stars, and get really dizzy, and I would just collect myself on the field or in the ring, and continue going, because that's what I thought I was supposed to do,\" he told CNN in a telephone interview.", "\"I didn't realize that it was a serious brain injury.\"", "Nowinski continued to wrestle, which aggravated the injury, he said.", "He developed post-concussion syndrome, a condition characterized by prolonged concussion symptoms.", "\"After my last concussion ...", "I was stuck with four years of headaches and immediate memory problems and depression and sleep-walking,\" Nowinski said.", "He said he still endures migraines and memory loss.", "\"My head just feels differently all the time,\" he said.", "Concussions are common, particularly among athletes in heavy contact sports.", "The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that at least 300,000 sports-related concussions occur annually in the United States.", "Nowinski waited a year and a half for his head to clear so he could return to the ring -- a day that never came.", "So, the fallen wrestler decided to change what he considers the sports world's biggest liability.", "He's now on a mission to eliminate the \"damage\" from head injuries in athletics.", "His task is two-fold: To educate coaches, parents and athletes about identifying and treating concussions and to help facilitate research to pin down the injury's long-term effects.", "\"I knew I had the information that could prevent suffering for a lot of people, a lot of people that I cared about,\" said Nowinski.", "\"It wouldn't have been right for me to just go on with my life, make money, do whatever, while that information just sat in my head.\"", "He wrote \"Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis from the NFL to Youth Leagues,\" published in 2006.", "He's been speaking before youth leagues, sports conferences and other public events for more than three years.", "And he and a group of top neurologists have recently formed The Sports Legacy Institute.", "Part of that organization's purpose will be to study the effects of multiple head injuries, investigating cases of a condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, Nowinski said.", "CTE is a dementia-like condition caused by repetitive blows to the head over an extended period of time, according to the National Institute of Health.", "Hoping to prove to the rest of the world that multiple concussions have permanent, sometimes ruinous consequences, Nowinski began to work with a University of Pittsburgh neuropathologist, Dr. Bennet Omalu, who found the condition in the brains of two deceased former National Football League players, Terry Long and Mike Webster.", "With Nowinski's help in obtaining the brain tissue, Omalu diagnosed the condition in two other former players who died, Andre Waters and Justin Strzelczyk.", "Both Long and Waters committed suicide.", "In the case of Waters, Omalu said, \"Major depression was the cause of his suicide ... And the underlying causation here was trauma.\"", "But aside from the research and studies that garner headlines and national attention, a large part of Nowinski's task lies in his clear-spoken testimony.", "In smaller groups, in schools and other events, often away from the stare of the cameras, Nowinski tells people what he knows.", "Despite the repeated occurrence of concussions amid practice, games or matches, Nowinski says many coaches and players -- from youth leagues to professionals - still don't know how to properly treat concussions or even how to identify them.", "And what's worse, he said, just like in his case, athletes often try to play while they are still injured.", "A second concussion suffered while a player is recovering from the first could result in death, according to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.", "Furthermore, some studies show that there are cumulative long-term effects from multiple concussions.", "Nowinksi says he's had mixed reactions to his message.", "Some, like Carmen Roda, president of the Westport, Connecticut-based PAL football program, say Nowinski's lecture is imperative for coaches.", "\"Bottom line, if they care about kids, they should listen to this lecture,\" Roda said.", "Others have shown more resistance.", "\"I['ll] go to schools to speak, and the football coach will refuse to show up to the talk,\" Nowinski said.", "But the former wrestler says the biggest hurdle to better practice and treatment of concussions are the professional sports leagues.", "He is particularly critical of the NFL.", "\"They need their best players on the field to sell tickets,\" Nowinski said.", "\"And a lot of these problems from playing through concussions don't show up until these guys are retired.", "So their incentive to protect them while they're players is not where it should be.\"", "NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league puts its players' interests as first priority and the individual teams \"do an excellent job in the care and management of concussions that affect NFL players.\"", "Dr. Joseph Maroon, the neurosurgeon for the Pittsburgh Steelers and a member of the league's committee on mild-traumatic brain injury, applauds the NFL's efforts to protect its players.", "Asked about studies that suggest long-term damage from concussions, Maroon said there are other factors that could affect the ability of a person's brain to function normally.", "\"It's extremely difficult and quite impossible to ascribe problems that develop 20 or 30 years after someone played to a concussion that's experienced 20 or 30 years before,\" he said.", "Nowinski said players still do not understand the seriousness of concussions.", "They need to be educated, he said, and the \"tough-it-out\" culture inherent to football and other sports needs to change.", "\"If within a few years, everybody doesn't know that playing through concussions is a terrible idea, then I'll be surprised and disappointed,\" he said.", "\"The idea is we make the change that needs to be made as quickly as possible,\" Nowinski said.", "\"And then I can do something else.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Chris Nowinski played football at Harvard, then wrestled professionally .", "Still suffers effects of six concussions .", "Nowinski says athletes ignore dangers to get back in contests .", "NFL says it is taking steps to study effects on players ." ]	[ 2, 19, 38, 48 ]
[ "AUGUSTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Walking into the Colur Tyme Tattoo Parlor is a lot like walking into a head shop.", "One wall is lined with gang monikers and symbols, the other with bongs for smoking marijuana and other drugs -- one even shaped like a skull.", "The Colur Tyme Tattoo Parlor was set up by authorities to get at the heart of gang members.", "Only this head shop was a setup.", "It was a police front in a sting operation to bust gangs in this Georgia river city that most people associate with the Masters Tournament -- not violent thugs with high-powered weapons.", "Authorities said some guns sold to the shop were used in crimes just hours earlier.", "The tattoo parlor was the brainchild of Richmond County Sheriff Ron Strength, who wanted to snuff out gangs carrying out violent crimes in his east Georgia community.", "The idea was to create a place where the gang members would feel right at home, said sheriff's Lt. Scott Peebles.", "And that they did. \"We put the idea in their heads that there's no way these guys are in law enforcement,\" he said.", "On Wednesday, more than 100 sheriff's officers, state investigators and agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives carried out a major bust after an 18-month joint investigation into the gang activity.", "Watch cops set up tattoo parlor » .", "Sixty-eight suspects were arrested on charges ranging from trafficking of illegal weapons to serious drug offenses.", "Authorities seized more than 300 weapons, including high-powered assault rifles.", "Rich Marianos, a special agent with the ATF, said such gang activity is spreading across the nation, with small-town gangs increasing their ties with gangs in major cities.", "For instance, New York gangs have begun moving as far south as the Carolinas, where they set up operations to buy and sell guns and drugs, he said.", "Chicago gang activity extends more than 60 miles into the Illinois city's suburbs for narcotics and weapons trading.", "In fact, Marianos said the ATF has begun seeing some Chicago gangs establishing a \"pipeline\" for illegal arms more than 500 miles away in Mississippi.", "\"It's not just an urban problem,\" Marianos said.", "\"We're seeing it all over the country.\"", "The ATF, he said, has seen one of the most dramatic increases in gang activity in the last three years and is cracking down.", "\"We want to look at a way to go after these offenders and prevent it before it happens,\" he said.", "\"[We're] making the community safer by disarming the bad guys -- not taking guns away from the American citizen, but going after the people who shouldn't have them in the first place.\"", "That's why setting up a tattoo parlor in Augusta was key.", "Strength, the Richmond County sheriff, said he remembers when the worst crimes in these parts were lawn mower thefts and vandals pushing over birdbaths.", "But those days are long gone, with gangs such as the Georgia Deadly Boys and Fairington Gangster Thugs causing mayhem on a regular basis.", "\"In the past 2 1/2 years, we've noticed some major changes,\" he said, \"with the type of criminal offenses they were involved in.\"", "So he devised the undercover business.", "The Colur Tyme Tattoo Parlor on Tobacco Road was set up on the outskirts of Augusta.", "It's a location not heavily patrolled by police, but staffed 100 percent by undercover agents.", "Business was slow at first, but then things took off.", "Gang members soon began dropping in to sell guns, drugs and even stolen cars, authorities said.", "Every transaction was recorded by surveillance cameras around the store.", "Soon the shop had so much business the Richmond County Sheriff's Office had to call in reinforcements from the ATF.", "Four federal agents helped the sheriff's deputies man the counters; others worked behind the scenes.", "Vanessa McLemore, ATF special agent in charge, said the teams had to coordinate their behaviors so it seemed like they fit in the store.", "\"They spent a lot of time together learning each other's mannerisms, learning each other's body language.", "It had to be a brotherhood,\" she said.", "On the store counter was a jar of colored markers to invite clients to write their favorite gang affiliation on the wall.", "Peebles said agents used the wall for intelligence.", "\"At the very least we got names,\" he said.", "The shop even put up its' own MySpace page.", "\"You think it, we ink it\" was the MySpace slogan.", "It featured the back of a tattooed man, and below in large red letters agents told visitors to the site, \"We buy what others won't.\"", "Authorities said the guns came rolling in, and then came this week's bust.", "\"Today marks the end of one era and the beginning of another,\" McLemore said.", "\"The era that is ending is one that has brought destruction and decay to the streets of Augusta.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Tattoo parlor run by cops leads to major bust of Georgia gangs .", "Authorities even set up a MySpace page as part of the ring .", "ATF says big-time gangs are gaining ground outside major cities .", "ATF agent: \"We're seeing it all over the country\"" ]	[ 2, 13, 18, 40 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Bolivians are widely expected to approve a new constitution Sunday that would allow leftist President Evo Morales to run for another term this year, which he can't do under the current document.", "The new constitution would eliminate term limits and allow President Evo Morales to run again for president.", "The new constitution would replace the 1967 charter and give greater voice to the indigenous people who make up most of the country.", "It would also give more power to the central government.", "Morales, speaking at rallies in La Paz and Cochabamba this week, said the new document will propel the nation.", "\"Once approved, this will be the refoundation of Bolivia and the refoundation of a new state where there will be equality and we will all have the same rights and the same obligations,\" he said.", "Others say the referendum is a way for Morales to keep himself in power, a move that could plunge the country into further violence, division and uncertainty.", "That effort, critics say, is in ample evidence as some regions fight to break away and as the deaths of up to 30 peasant government supporters a few months ago led to accusations of a right-wing massacre.", "\"What will be opened is a new chapter of violence,\" said Carlos Toranzo, an investigator in La Paz with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, a policy institute associated with the Social Democratic Party of Germany.", "As campaigning on Sunday's referendum came to a close Thursday with massive festive rallies for each side, Bolivians gave voice to the chasm that separates them.", "\"What this constitutional project does is divide us,\" said Fernanda San Martin, who was at the final opposition rally in the city of Santa Cruz.", "\"What it does is feed hate and racism in the country.\"", "Efrain Tico Quispe, at a rally in favor of the new constitution, sees it from a different perspective.", "\"For them, it's division. It doesn't benefit them,\" he said.", "\"But for humble people of our class, it serves us well.\"", "The referendum has two parts: a straight yes-or-no vote on adopting the new constitution and a question asking Bolivians whether the maximum amount of private property that can be owned should be 5,000 or 10,000 hectares (12,355 or 24,710 acres).", "The wide-ranging constitution would give the government a greater role in the economy and more control over natural resources, broaden nationalization of private industries and increase the rights of indigenous people.", "The new document also would eliminate term limits for all elected offices and would allow the president to run for re-election to a second consecutive five-year term.", "The current constitution limits the president to one five-year term.", "Under provisions of the new constitution, current terms would not be counted, so Morales could run in December and in 2014.", "In return for support for the constitution, Morales reportedly has agreed not to run in 2014 if he wins this year.", "But Morales, who was elected in December 2005 by the largest margin since civilian rule was restored in 1982, would still be in office for nine years.", "That part bothers those who see the vote as a way for Morales to keep himself in power.", "Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue policy institute in Washington, warns against politicians \"who use democracy to concentrate power.\"", "Sunday's vote comes after a long and troubled path that saw the referendum postponed three times.", "Morales, who campaigned on a promise to change the constitution, convened a constitutional assembly in July 2006, with a referendum scheduled for August 2007.", "The assembly did not have a draft document ready until December 2007.", "After much wrangling and accusations that opponents were locked out of crucial votes, the Bolivian congress approved a referendum in February 2008, scheduling it for May.", "But the government suspended that vote in March because some of the nation's nine departments, or states, wanted to hold local referendums on greater autonomy during the May balloting.", "In August, Morales said the referendum would be held in December.", "That vote also was postponed after unrest in Pando department in which pro-government peasants were killed.", "In October, an agreement was reached to hold the referendum January 25, 2009.", "Hakim and others understand why many Bolivians are eager for the vote, particularly in a country with 85 percent indigenous or mestizo lineage and only 15 percent white.", "\"There's a certain amount of ethnic identity that's involved.", "That's really important,\" said Peter DeShazo, director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.", "\"People believe that somehow this is going to translate into something positive for their lives.\"", "A turning point came with the election of Morales, the nation's first Indian president.", "\"In Bolivia, you have a society that was very segregated,\" Hakim said.", "\"There was a lot of repression against Indian groups.", "There's a lot of impatience in the country.", "They feel that past governments have neglected them.", "They feel that the international communities and the United States have ignored them.\"", "Morales, who won a recall vote last summer by a two-thirds margin, also is eager for a vote.", "The referendum is as much about him as it is the constitution.", "\"It's a very important development,\" said Erasto Almeida, an analyst with the Eurasia Group, a political research and consulting firm.", "\"Morales came into office with an agenda of radical change.", "The new constitution is an important step to consolidate this agenda.\"", "Analysts and everyday Bolivians agree that the referendum is nearly certain to pass.", "DeShazo notes that more than 100 new laws will be required to put the constitution into play.", "That will take time. Almeida points out that Morales had to compromise on many issues \"as the result of a long and difficult negotiation.\"", "More than 100 of the 411 articles in the constitution Morales' party drafted in 2007 were changed as a result of negotiations with congress, DeShazo said.", "\"The fact that Morales made concessions and made the constitution more moderate makes the constitution more resilient,\" Almeida said.", "He sees a couple of ways in which the opposition might try to make trouble for Morales.", "\"He's going to get about two-thirds [of the vote].", "That's what's expected,\" Almeida said.", "\"If he gets lower, you could have more tension because the opposition will be emboldened.\"", "If Morales gets significantly more of the vote than expected and tries to ram through his agenda, the opposition also could be energized, Almeida said.", "Toranzo, the La Paz investigator with the Ebert Foundation, has a more dire forecast.", "\"From Monday on,\" he said, \"Bolivians won't know what to respect: what was before or what will come.", "This will destabilize the country.\"", "He also thinks Bolivia's faltering economy may factor into Sunday's vote.", "The constitution was formulated, he said, \"during a time of fat cows, but it is being voted on during a time of skinny cows.\"", "Though spirited, the campaign has been relatively trouble-free.", "About 3.8 million Bolivians are eligible to cast ballots in the mandatory voting.", "Jennifer McCoy, director of the Americas Program at the Carter Center, is head of a nine-person group of observers sent by former President Carter, who frequently monitors elections.", "The Organization of American States has sent a 65-person delegation, and the European Union has 45 observers, she said.", "\"It's fairly quiet now.", "It's fairly calm,\" she said Friday.", "\"There were some protesters. There was a little bit of rock-throwing.", "But there has been no real violence, no deaths.", "There's more real calm than previous events in Bolivia.\"", "Hakim agrees, to a point.", "\"It's a drama that's playing itself out now,\" he said.", "\"The degree of polarization and friction does not leave me terribly optimistic.", "On the other hand, things haven't gotten out of hand.\"", "CNN's Gloria Carrasco in La Paz, Bolivia, contributed to this report." ]	[ "New constitution would eliminate term limits, give more voice to indigenous people .", "Some say it's just way for president to keep himself in power .", "Critics express concern that dramatic change could lead to violence, divisions .", "Policy investigator: \"Bolivians won't know what to respect\" under new constitution ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3, 6, 58 ]
[ "(AOL Autos) -- Regular readers of AOL Autos know that we have done a series of stories on the development and increasing popularity of cars that run -- or will eventually run -- on alternative fuels.", "The mandatory use of CNG in public service vehicles began in New Delhi, India in 2000.", "We've written about hybrids, clean-diesel engines, fuel-cell technology, ethanol and more.", "That brings us to another entry in the auto industry's ongoing research and development of green-technology: compressed natural gas (CNG).", "Scientists are trying to determine which alternative fuel will best strike a balance between being environmentally friendly and commercial viability.", "CNG might be the answer.", "Vehicles running on CNG have actually been around since the early 1990s, but have not been a dominant force in the marketplace mostly because the infrastructure (i.e.", "re-fueling stations) is not yet in place to support high-volume sales of CNG-powered cars.", "Presently, there are only about 1,600 CNG refueling stations in the U.S, compared with up to 200,000 gas stations.", "Currently there is only one CNG-powered model sold on the consumer market that is actually manufactured as a CNG-powered car.", "That's the Honda Civic GX, which boasts an EPA-estimated fuel economy of 24/36 miles per gasoline-gallon equivalent.", "AOL Autos: Best hybrids .", "Rich Kolodziej, president of Natural Gas Vehicles for America said there are other natural-gas-powered vehicles on the road -- about 130,000, he estimates -- but that the vast majority of those are part of commercial or transit fleets or have been converted from gasoline-powered cars.", "\"They're mostly fleet vehicles, like transit buses, delivery trucks, and the fleets maintained by the gas company, the electric company, etc,\" he said.", "\"We don't have hard figures about conversions, but I'd bet that about 25 percent of those 130,000 were once gasoline-powered vehicles that have been converted to CNG vehicles,\" Kolodziej said.", "\"There are a growing number of companies making certified conversion systems and installing them.\"", "NGVAmerica maintains a list of certified conversion systems on its Web site: www.ngvc.org.", "AOL Autos: Fuel-efficient used cars .", "Some of those 130,000 are also natural-gas-powered vehicles manufactured and sold by Ford, Chrysler and GM back in the early '90s, he says -- back when the U.S. manufacturers were still in the business of making CNG-powered cars.", "But we'll get back to that later.", "But with the price of gasoline currently averaging over $4 a gallon nationally, Kolodziej predicts there will be more and more demand for CNG-powered vehicles like the Civic GX.", "\"I went to a conference a couple of months ago, and every manufacturer we talked to said that their phones were ringing off the hook, from people who are saying they'd be interested in buying a CNG-powered car,\" Kolodziej said.", "\"And there are more and more people and companies who want to get into the conversion business.\"", "AOL Autos: Hybrid SUVs .", "The cost of conversions varies by the type of vehicle, Kolodziej noted.", "\"But most cost in the $10,000 range.", "Most conversion systems are certified for Ford and GM models, among others,\" he said.", "On the financial side, natural gas is about 30 percent less expensive than gasoline when it is purchased at a refueling station.", "It's about 50 percent less expensive when you fill 'er up at home, via home refueling appliance that tap into your natural gas line, Kolodziej said.", "Owners of the Honda Civic GX in New York and California who have natural gas piped into their homes can purchase the \"Phill\" re-fueling system for about $3,500.", "This Phill system can be used whether your CNG vehicle was manufactured that way or converted, he said.", "AOL Autos: Luxury cars with best gas mileage .", "\"The Phill is about the size of a pay phone, and you hang it on the garage wall, and vent it like a dryer and plug it into a gas line and also into an electric socket,\" Kolodziej explained.", "The primary environmental benefit of a CNG car is that it produces 90 percent fewer smog-forming pollutants (oxides of nitrogen), compared to the output of a conventional gas engine, said Steve Ellis, manager of alternative fuels for American Honda Motor Co.", "The Civic GX has reaped many environmental awards.", "This year, it was named by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) as the \"greenest vehicle in the nation -- for the fifth consecutive year.\"", "The GX, which was first introduced in 1998, has the cleanest internal combustion certified by the EPA, Ellis noted.", "AOL Autos: Most-popular fuel-efficient cars .", "The Civic GX is not a high-volume vehicle in terms of sales.", "Ellis said annual sales have fluctuated between 500 to 1000 units a year since it was rolled out, with sales of 1,100 units last year.", "He expects that to go up in 2008.", "For comparison purposes, about 40,000 Honda Civic Hybrids were sold last year, with sales of 48,000 anticipated for this year.", "Most of the sales of the Civic GX are concentrated in southern California, followed by Phoenix and Salt Lake City -- primarily because those markets are where many of the 1,600 re-fueling stations are presently located.", "\"As the infrastructure builds up, we'll sell more of them in other markets,\" Ellis predicted.", "\"Right now, this is a car that people use regionally.", "If you live here in Los Angeles, you can drive to Las Vegas and back and not worry about being able to find a refueling station.", "As for cost, the GX natural-gas vehicle is priced at about $24,500, compared to $17,000 for a comparably-equipped Civic LX, Ellis said -- except that buyers get a $4,000 tax credit on the purchase of the GX.", "And until recently, California buyers got an additional $3,000 rebate from the California Air Resources Board.", "\"But the program was so popular, they are out of funds, and looking to add more money to the coffer so they can continue with the rebates,\" Ellis said.", "\"But people who buy a Civic GX, when we ask them about the math, in term of comparing those two Civics, they sort of give us blank stares,\" Ellis continued.", "\"Most of these folks who are buying the GX are trying to get out of having to commute to work every day in a pick-up truck, SUV or even a passenger car that's only getting 15 or 20 miles a gallon.", "And they're also the same kind of people who've said they'd pay $25 or $50 a week to be able to drive in the car-pool lane.\"", "Interestingly, many of the automakers, like Volkswagen, Mercedes, Fiat, GM Opel, Ford Europe, Peugeot and Renault, do produce CNG-powered vehicles for other countries, said NGVAmerica's Kolodziej, who noted that \"about 1.5 million of the natural gas vehicles have been sold in Brazil, another 1.5 million in Argentina, another 1.5 million in Pakistan, and so on.\"", "And, once upon a time, in the early '90s, U.S. automakers did sell CNG vehicles in the United States.", "\"But the federal government kept adding more loopholes to the energy policy that was supposed to encourage the increased manufacture and sales of CNG vehicles,\" Kolodziej said.", "\"Then the government opted not to expand the coverage of the program the way the law allowed -- or the way the automakers expected.", "Without that demand pull, the U.S. automakers didn't believe they could sell enough of them here.\"", "\"U.S. automakers zigged when they probably should have zagged\" added Ellis of American Honda.", "\"They turned their backs on CNG and began to focus on bio-fuels.\"", "But, noted Ellis, \"We're definitely keeping our stake in the CNG business, because we know we can add it to other platforms.", "We used to think of the Civic GX as 'The Little Engine That Could' -- you know, saying, 'I think I can, I think I can' in terms of becoming more commercially viable.", "\"But, with gas prices going up and up, now we're thinking more along the lines of 'I know I can, I know I can.'", "And more and more people are genuinely interested in going more green because of the environmental impact,\" he said.", "\"A lot of people got into the hybrids, and then, after a while, began to ask, 'How can I do more?'", "And they're looking to natural-gas-powered cars as the answer to that.", "\"So, we're in this for the long haul,\" noted Ellis, who said the company is definitely looking to do bigger business and make a profit from the GX.", "\"Now, it's just a matter of society continuing to change, and to continue to become more environmentally-minded.", "As they do, we think there will be increasing interest in CNG, and we'll see a shift in emphasis toward CNG and away from bio-fuels.\"" ]	[ "Scientists trying to determine which alternative fuel is best for future .", "Some say compressed natural gas could be the answer .", "Only only one CNG-powered model sold on the consumer market today .", "About 1,600 CNG refueling stations in U.S, compared to 200,000 gas stations ." ]	[ 4, 5, 8, 9 ]
[ "MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A mother and her teenage son are kidnapped.", "The kidnappers place a cell phone in the car of the boy's father so they can communicate their ransom demands.", "The son is burned with a blowtorch.", "The mother implores the father to pay the ransom.", "A terrifying scenario, but one that the FBI and police say was all orchestrated by the mother to get some fast cash from her ex-husband.", "The mother, Alejandra Arriaza, her boyfriend, Angel Ponce, and his nephew, Joel Boza, were charged Tuesday with federal kidnapping counts.", "If convicted, they could be sentenced to life in prison.", "According to an FBI affidavit, all three have admitted their roles in the phony kidnapping.", "\"We took it very seriously and believed a couple of lives were at risk,\" said Jim Leljedal of the Broward County, Florida, sheriff's office.", "\"And then to find out that one of the victims was involved in the plot was pretty surprising.\"", "The three suspects will have a detention hearing Wednesday in a federal court in Miami, Florida.", "The U.S. attorney's office would not comment on the case.", "According to the FBI affidavit, written by special agent Scott Wilson, the plot was Arriaza's idea.", "It began, court papers say, when she and her boyfriend found out her ex-husband had recently come into some money from the sale of a business, and that he kept a large amount of cash in his home.", "The father and son are not named in the affidavit, which refers to the father as \"H.P.\"", "and to his 17-year-old son as \"N.P.\"", "The affidavit says that the plot began Thursday when Arriaza told her son she wanted to take him to Wal-Mart to purchase an Apple iPhone.", "When they got back to their car, a masked intruder appeared from the back seat, pointed a gun at the son's back and told him and his mother that they were being kidnapped, according to the affidavit.", "The kidnapper placed thick tape over the son's eyes and instructed his mother to drive to a mobile home in southwest Miami, where a second person, who introduced himself as \"El Negro,\" was waiting.", "The affidavit says the men forced N.P.", "to sit in a chair, where they bound his hands.", "His torso was bound to the back of the chair with shrink wrap, and his legs were bound with tape.", "The boy's head was wrapped in thick tape from the top to the tip of his nose, and he was put in a closet, where he spent the night.", "The next day, according to the FBI affidavit, the kidnappers called the boy's father on a cell phone they had placed in his car.", "The father then called authorities, who began to record the phone calls.", "At one point during the abduction, the son told the kidnappers that his father had about $50,000 in a bank, the affidavit says.", "When the kidnappers felt that the father was not complying with their demands, they threatened to burn his son, and at one point, according to the affidavit, \"the kidnappers put a lit blowtorch close to the phone, so he could hear it.\"", "During another phone call, Arriaza, who is the father's ex-wife, told him that kidnappers were burning their son's feet.", "She implored him to pay the kidnappers their ransom, the affidavit says.", "At one point, Wilson wrote, the kidnappers held the blowtorch so close to N.P.", "\"that it burnt the hair off his leg.\"", "\"I think they wanted to impress him with the seriousness so that he would relay ... to his father to come up with some money,\" Leljedal said.", "Under the FBI's guidance, the father arranged to pay the ransom.", "But late in the evening of April 10, before the ransom was paid, law enforcement located the mobile home and rescued the son, who immediately identified his mother's boyfriend, Angel Ponce, as one of the men inside the unit where he was being held.", "A search of the home turned up a fake gun, a blowtorch, tape and three cell phones.", "According to the affidavit, Ponce said Arriaza came up with the idea to have herself kidnapped, along with her son, to get money from her ex-husband.", "Arriaza later admitted her involvement in the kidnapping and said her son had no involvement in the ruse, according to the FBI.", "\"We don't think she meant to harm to her son.", "She just wanted to collect from her ex,\" Leljedal said.", "In the end, he said, it was all about one thing: \"The basic motive of greed.\"" ]	[ "Woman, boyfriend, third man charged in bizarre fake kidnapping .", "Feds say abduction was staged to collect $50,000 from woman's ex-husband .", "They said kidnappers bound teen with tape, burned him with blowtorch .", "Detention hearing set for Wednesday in Miami federal court ." ]	[ 2, 10, 20, 35 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- After about 30 hours of deliberation, a jury on Monday convicted music producer Phil Spector of second-degree murder in the death of actress Lana Clarkson more than six years ago.", "Phil Spector will not remain free on bail pending his May 29 sentencing.", "Wearing a black suit with a red tie and pocket square, Spector showed no reaction as the verdict was announced.", "Now 69, he faces a sentence of 18 years to life in prison when he is sentenced May 29.", "Asked if he agreed to the sentencing date, Spector quietly answered, \"Yes.\"", "Prosecutor Alan Jackson said he believed the jury reached the correct verdict, and he acknowledged the strength and backing of Clarkson's family.", "But defense attorney Doron Weinberg said Spector's defense team disagreed and planned to appeal.", "\"We don't believe justice was done,\" Weinberg said.", "Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler declined to allow Spector to remain free on bail pending sentencing, citing Spector's years-long \"pattern of violence\" involving firearms.", "Watch the lawyers give their views of the verdict » .", "\"This was not an isolated incident,\" Fidler said, noting Spector's two previous firearm-related convictions from the 1970s.", "\"The taking of an innocent human life, it doesn't get any more serious than that.\"", "Spector's wife, Rachelle, was in the courtroom to hear the verdict Monday, as was Clarkson's mother, Donna.", "Clarkson, 40, was found dead, slumped in a chair in the foyer of Spector's Alhambra, California, mansion with a gunshot wound through the roof of her mouth in February 2003.", "A mistrial was declared in Spector's first trial in September 2007.", "After deliberating 15 days, jurors told Fidler that they were unable to reach a verdict.", "Spector was also charged with second-degree murder in that trial.", "Jurors deadlocked 10-2 in favor of conviction.", "In closing arguments at the retrial, prosecutor Truc Do called Spector \"a very dangerous man\" who \"has a history of playing Russian roulette with women -- six women.", "Lana just happened to be the sixth.\"", "Weinberg argued that the prosecution's case hinged on circumstantial evidence.", "He said the possibility that Clarkson committed suicide could not be ruled out.", "Do pointed out, however, to jurors that Clarkson bought new shoes on the day of her death -- something a suicidal woman would not have done, the prosecutor said.", "A female juror who declined to be identified told reporters the jurors considered all the evidence and testimony to reach their verdict.", "\"This entire jury took this so seriously,\" she said with tears in her eyes, before adding that \"it's tough to be in a jury,\" because another person's life is in the jury's hands.", "Clarkson starred in the 1985 B-movie \"Barbarian Queen\" and appeared in many other films, including \"DeathStalker,\" \"Blind Date,\" \"Scarface,\" \"Fast Times at Ridgemont High\" and the spoof \"Amazon Women on the Moon.\"", "She was working as a VIP hostess at Hollywood's House of Blues at the time of her death.", "In the 2007 trial, Spector's attorneys argued that Clarkson was depressed over a recent breakup and grabbed a .38-caliber pistol to kill herself while at Spector's home.", "But prosecution witnesses painted Spector as a gun-toting menace.", "Five women took the stand and claimed he had threatened them with firearms.", "His driver testified that he heard a loud noise and saw the producer leave the home, pistol in hand, saying, \"I think I killed somebody.\"", "Spector's retrial began in October.", "Fidler ruled that jurors could consider the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter against Spector.", "Spector's professional trademark was the \"Wall of Sound,\" the layering of instrumental tracks and percussion that underpinned a string of hits on his Philles label -- named for Spector and his business partner, Lester Sill -- in the early 1960s.", "iReport.com: What do you think of this verdict?", "The roaring arrangements were the heart of what he called \"little symphonies for the kids\" -- among them No.", "1 hits like the Ronettes' \"Be My Baby\" and the Righteous Brothers' \"You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'.\"", "Spector co-produced the Beatles' final album, \"Let It Be,\" and worked with ex-Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon on solo projects after the group broke up.", "His recording of Harrison's 1971 benefit concert for war relief in Bangladesh won the 1972 Grammy award for album of the year.", "Spector has won two Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, but he stayed out of the public eye for two decades before his 2003 arrest in Clarkson's death." ]	[ "NEW: Defense says it will appeal; \"We don't believe justice was done\"\nPhil Spector guilty of second-degree murder at retrial .", "He faces 15 years to life in prison for shooting death of Lana Clarkson .", "Renowned music producer accused in death of actress in 2003 ." ]	[ 0, 3, 7, 31 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Rapid-fire TV news bulletins or getting updates via social-networking tools such as Twitter could numb our sense of morality and make us indifferent to human suffering, scientists say.", "Scientists say updates on networking tools such as Twitter are often to quick for the brain to fully digest.", "New findings show that the streams of information provided by social networking sites are too fast for the brain's \"moral compass\" to process and could harm young people's emotional development.", "Before the brain can fully digest the anguish and suffering of a story, it is being bombarded by the next news bulletin or the latest Twitter update, according to a University of Southern California study.", "\"If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about other people's psychological states and that would have implications for your morality,\" said researcher Mary Helen Immordino-Yang.", "The report, published next week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition, studied how volunteers responded to real-life stories chosen to stimulate admiration for virtue or skill, or compassion for physical or social pain.", "iReport.com: Growing pains for Twitter, Facebook?", "Brain scans showed humans can process and respond very quickly to signs of physical pain in others, but took longer to show admiration of compassion.", "\"For some kinds of thought, especially moral decision-making about other people's social and psychological situations, we need to allow for adequate time and refection,\" said Immordio-Yang.", "She said the study raises questions about the emotional cost, particularly for young people, of heavy reliance on a torrent of news snippets delivered via TV and online feeds such as Twitter.", "She said: \"We need to understand how social experience shapes interactions between the body and mind, to produce citizens with a strong moral compass.\"", "USC sociologist Manuel Castells said the study raised more concerns over fast-moving TV than the online environment.", "\"In a media culture in which violence and suffering becomes an endless show, be it in fiction or in infotainment, indifference to the vision of human suffering gradually sets in.\"", "Research leader Antonio Damasio, director of USC's Brain and Creativity Institute, said the findings stressed the need for slower delivery of the news, and highlighted the importance of slow-burn emotions like admiration.", "Damasio cited the example of U.S. President Barack Obama, who says he was inspired by his father, to show how admiration can be key to cultural success.", "\"We actually separate the good from the bad in great part thanks to the feeling of admiration.", "It's a deep physiological reaction that's very important to define our humanity.\"", "Twitter, which allows users to swap messages and links of 140-characters or less, says on its Web site that it sees itself as a solution to information overload, rather than a cause of it.", "This function, it says, \"means you can step in and out of the flow of information as it suits you and it never queues up with increasing demand of your attention.\"" ]	[ "USC study says rapid-fire Twitter and news updates are too fast for brain .", "Scans show humans respond rapidly to pain, but not compassion, admiration .", "Scientists say reliance in Twitter or news snippets could harm moral compass ." ]	[ 0, 2, 7 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Listen closely and you'll hear squeals of disgust from a watchdog group tracking congressional pork in the nation's capital.", "Research on swine odor is one of the projects listed in the \"Pig Book,\" released Tuesday.", "Citizens Against Government Waste is out with its annual \"Pig Book\" -- a list of lawmakers whom the group considers the most egregious porkers, members of the House and Senate who use the earmarking process to funnel money to projects on their home turf.", "Fittingly perhaps, the list includes nearly $1.8 million for swine odor and manure management research in Iowa.", "\"In fiscal year 2009, Congress stuffed 10,160 projects into the 12 appropriations bills worth $19.6 billion,\" the group said in a report released Tuesday.", "The amount marks a 14 percent increase over 2008.", "The \"Pig Book\" also names dozens of what it considers the most blatant examples of pork-barrel spending.", "See a list of those projects » \"Taxpayers are ready to revolt,\" said Tom Schatz, the organization's president.", "\"Despite repeated claims by members of Congress that earmarks have been reduced, the Pig Book belies that claim.\"", "Included in the funding is $3.8 million for the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy -- a group dedicated to finding a new use for the stadium that the Detroit Tigers baseball team played in from 1896 through 1999.", "An additional $1.9 million went to the Pleasure Beach water taxi service project in Bridgeport, Connecticut, requested by then-Rep. Chris Shays.", "A bridge fire more than a decade ago means beach-goers have to travel a couple of extra miles to get to the beach.", "Alaska led the nation in pork per capita, at $322 a person.", "At the bottom of the list was Arizona, with less than $12 per resident.", "Sen. John McCain does not request earmarks for his home state.", "See where each state ranks » .", "Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, the ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, topped the list of senators receiving earmarks, with a total of $653 million.", "The chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, was second, with $445 million.", "Hawaii Reps. Neil Abercrombie and Mazie Hirono, both Democrats, topped the list for earmarks in the House of Representatives.", "Abercrombie's pet projects received a total of almost $257 million; Hirono's received almost $153 million.", "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, was granted the organization's so-called \"Porkasaurus\" award for earmarking $143,000 for the Las Vegas Natural History Museum.", "\"Sen. Reid is fond of saying that earmarks have been around since we were a country.", "Now he must be blaming it on the dinosaurs,\" Schatz said.", "Some recipients of the earmarks disagreed with the characterization of their projects as \"pork.\"", "Kathleen Wendler, a member of the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy's board of directors, argued that the $3.8 million dedicated to the old ballpark was critical to revitalizing the surrounding Detroit neighborhood.", "The money \"is not pork at all,\" she said.", "The ballpark, if properly utilized, can be an \"economic development generator for the local business district.", "This project will help draw younger people into the neighborhood.", "It will help save the neighborhood in the long run.\"", "To qualify for the \"Pig Book,\" a project must meet at least one of these standards: It was requested by only one chamber of Congress; was not specifically authorized; was not competitively awarded; was not requested by the president; greatly exceeded the president's budget request or the previous year's funding; was not the subject of congressional hearings; or served only a local or special interest.", "-- CNN's Alan Silverleib contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Senate Appropriations Committee leaders from both parties top earmarks list .", "NEW: Some recipients of earmark funds say their projects are not pork at all .", "Watchdog group releases its annual list of lawmakers it considers the worst porkers .", "Citizens Against Government Waste has criteria for citing projects as pork ." ]	[ 2, 23, 25 ]
[ "Editor's note: Annette Gordon-Reed won the 2008 National Book Award for \"The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family.\"", "A law professor at New York Law School and a history professor at Rutgers University, she will speak at the dedication of a new visitors center Wednesday at Monticello.", "Annette Gordon-Reed says Thomas Jefferson's ideals have been a powerful force in American life.", "(CNN) -- Does the legacy of Thomas Jefferson speak to Americans today?", "Or perhaps we should ask about Jefferson's legacies, for there are many.", "His fingerprints are everywhere.", "Politics, government, race, slavery -- our third president's life and words touch on so many aspects of the nation's journey from rebellious colony to world superpower that it is impossible to understand the country's history without dealing with him in some fashion.", "Even today, Jefferson's name is regularly invoked in the news -- the latest example being writers harking back to the forceful action he took against the Barbary pirates 200 years ago.", "His soaring language in the Declaration of Independence -- \"all men are created equal\" and pronouncement of the right to \"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness\" -- galvanized many during his lifetime.", "Those words have resonated across the years with diverse groups of Americans seeking to gain full citizenship in the United States.", "Working-class whites, blacks, women, immigrants, gays -- all have turned to the Declaration as a form of promise, a credo for the nation to live up to.", "It is particularly interesting to ponder Jefferson's legacies at this moment in American history.", "The election of the country's first African-American president has brought an intense focus on America's past, specifically the history of relations between the races.", "Again, it is not possible to consider that history in any serious way without thinking of Jefferson.", "The great and often remarked-upon paradox is that the man who wrote about the equality of all mankind, and who wrote insightfully and forcefully about the evils of slavery, was also a lifelong slave owner in a racially based slave system.", "He was not alone in this, of course.", "Some of the most prominent founders -- including four of the first five presidents -- owned slaves, too.", "All these men, at various points in their lives, claimed to abhor the institution that provided their sustenance.", "Jefferson tends to be held to a higher standard on this question largely because he, not George Washington, James Madison or James Monroe, wrote the Declaration of Independence.", "And, as hard as it may be for some to believe now, he early on developed a reputation as a dangerous radical.", "There was his attitude toward religion.", "Jefferson did not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and, to the consternation of many, insisted upon the separation of church and state.", "There is no doubt that he would enthusiastically endorse President Obama's statement on his recent trip to Turkey that \"one of the great strengths of the United States\" is that it does not consider itself \"a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation.", "We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.\"", "And, of course, there was his politics.", "Jefferson was, in the eyes of many, a \"leveler\" bent on destroying all social distinctions; a move that his detractors felt would eventually lead to the breakdown of racial barriers.", "Indeed, during the period leading up to the American Civil War, later generations of white Southerners emphatically repudiated Jefferson's Declaration and, in some cases, the man himself.", "They knew that whether he truly believed those words or not, the ideas embodied in the Declaration mattered greatly.", "The logic of Jefferson's words, the conclusions that one could draw from them, could not be contained.", "They would transcend their original context and find meaning for generations of Americans yet unborn.", "Those who feared that outcome -- and those who welcomed it -- were right: Jefferson's words have made a profound difference.", "Then there is Jefferson's life, more specifically the place where he lived it: Monticello, the image on the back of the American nickel.", "Each year, thousands of people from all over the world make the trip up the 867-foot little mountain to visit a place that was home not only to Jefferson, but to hundreds of enslaved blacks who labored in his fields, plantation industries and house.", "Indeed, enslaved men and teenage girls shaved off the top of the mountain, digging with their hands and shovels to level the ground to make it ready for Jefferson's architectural masterpiece.", "And then, other enslaved people helped build the house and maintained it over the years.", "Tangled bloodlines are also a part of the Monticello story.", "Jefferson's wife, Martha, brought to the mountain the six children her father, John Wayles, had with an enslaved woman named Elizabeth Hemings.", "Later, long after Martha's death, one of those children, Sarah (Sally) Hemings, would have children with Jefferson, playing out a common scenario in the plantation South.", "Many enslaved families lived at Monticello for generations; some spending far more actual time on the land than Jefferson or any member of his legal white family.", "Take Betty Brown, a Hemings, though not a child of John Wayles.", "She came to the mountain in 1772 as the 15-year-old personal maid to Martha.", "She was, probably, the last person to leave the place, residing there into the 1830s, long after Jefferson's death and long after his property, including human beings, had been sold to pay the enormous debts on his estate.", "So Monticello, perhaps the most well-known slave plantation in the world, stands as one of Jefferson's most important and enduring legacies.", "It is more than just a white family's legal residence, a place of arresting beauty.", "It is a site where some of the most compelling and tragic dramas of American history were played out.", "Slavery in all its aspects -- forced labor, separated families, the whip, the owners and the owned linked together by slavery's law and by blood -- can be found there.", "For many Americans -- most importantly the numerous school children on field trips -- Monticello has been, and will be, their only firsthand experience of an American slave plantation.", "For that reason, as we have grown and matured as a nation, it has become a place not only to celebrate the contributions and genius of one man -- although there is that, and rightly so.", "It is a place to learn much and to think hard and intelligently about America's past -- the awe-inspiring and the awful -- a vista from which to contemplate and prepare for America's future made possible, in part, by Jefferson's vision.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Annette Gordon-Reed." ]	[ "Annette Gordon-Reed: Thomas Jefferson still relevant today .", "She says his words in Declaration of Independence resonate in all kinds of ways .", "His affirmation of freedoms coexisted with his ownership of slaves, she says .", "She says Monticello is a slave plantation and a place to celebrate Jefferson's ideals ." ]	[ 2, 5, 8, 43 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- If you're a comedy fan, you've probably heard of him by now.", "Comedian Brian Regan, 50, is famous for his clean jokes about everyday life.", "He is on tour. Famous for his clean jokes about everyday life, comedian Brian Regan is at the peak of his career, gaining new followers with every performance.", "On a recent Saturday night, he dazzled a sold-out audience of more than 2,000 people near Atlanta as part of his 2009 comedy tour.", "The easygoing 50-year-old comedian with a boyish smile and energetic presence pranced back and forth across the stage Saturday telling jokes that brought laughter to issues both serious and silly -- from the stressful economy to the quirks of text messaging.", "Regan, a Miami, Florida, native, has been performing stand-up comedy since 1980 by starting at small venues and comedy clubs.", "His breakthrough came in the late 1990s after the release of his album \"Brian Regan Live,\" which sold 150,000 copies despite the comedian's relative obscurity at the time.", "The album featured simple routines that made fun of childhood memories such as Little League baseball games and seat belts.", "His witty, clean style of humor on the album, which resonated with a wide audience from college kids to grandmothers, catapulted him to success.", "Since then, he has gone on to release three DVDs.", "Punchline Magazine, a comedy publication, named Regan's most recent DVD, \"The Epitome of Hyperbole,\" one of the top five comedy DVDs of 2008.", "Nowadays, he routinely appears on television, including specials on Comedy Central and slots on the \"Late Show With David Letterman.\"", "His tour this year will visit more than 80 cities, nearly twice as many as four years ago.", "CNN.com sat down with Regan to learn more about his brand of comedy and what's in store for the future.", "CNN: How did you become interested in comedy and stand-up?", "Brian Regan: This isn't the main reason, but when I was in college [Heidelberg College in Ohio], my name was Rip for Rip van Winkle.", "I had a 7 a.m. class, and I missed it almost every day.", "I would wake up and run across campus.", "I remember thinking, \"What's going to happen if I don't wake up for things?\"", "And then a comedian performed at our college, and I went to the show, and I noticed the show started at 8 p.m. and I was like, well, the hours are good.", "I can handle a job that starts at 8 p.m. CNN: Who are some of your influences?", "Regan: I love Steve Martin.", "He took silliness to a level of brilliance, I think.", "CNN: How do you get your ideas?", "Regan: I used to try and sit down with a blank piece of paper.", "I would stare at the paper, and it just continues to stay blank.", "I've learned that for me, it's easier for me to go out and live my life and do my thing.", "CNN: You don't really use the crass language many comedians rely on.", "Is there a reason for that? Regan: I don't really know those words [laughing].", "I used to have a few jokes here and there with a four-letter word in it.", "I was always 90 to 95 percent clean with my jokes anyways, and I'm kind of anal so, why be 95 percent something when you could be 100 percent something?", "It worked out, and people really seem to respond to it so I guess that other 5 percent wasn't that important anyways.", "CNN: Do you try to incorporate the economy into your jokes?", "Regan: I do a few jokes about the economy but from an everyday person perspective.", "People like to laugh, and they especially like to laugh during difficult circumstances.", "One of the best shows in New York I had was the week after 9/11.", "I was surprised this comedy club was even going to have a show.", "They said people were looking for a diversion.", "I went up and said I'm not trying to make light of what happened, I'm just trying to forget about it for an hour.", "I find it's similar to what is happening with the economy.", "Obviously, it's not as serious as 9/11, but people are looking for an escape.", "I think people want to laugh.", "CNN: How can comedy help people through tough times?", "Regan: I think comedy is a good way to deal with anything.", "I hear about people in the hospital who are ill, and they use humor to help them through it.", "I think it's a great remedy for many things.", "They say a formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time.", "A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.", "Sometimes I wonder if I could be so mentally healthy to subtract the time part.", "Like what if there is a flat tire, and it's raining outside?", "Instead of laughing a month later, why not laugh while you are changing tires in the rain?", "CNN: Your fan base has really grown in the last five years.", "How does the fame feel? Regan: It's been a slow gradual thing for me.", "I've never had a single event or television show that did it.", "I just pick up a couple more fans and a few more fans, and before you know it, it's like hey man, things are going OK. CNN: What's in store for the future?", "Regan: This is what I like doing, and I will hopefully do it forever.", "If something else comes along, I'd be open to that.", "CNN: What about a television show?", "Regan: I'm not really interested in being an actor.", "But I would like to get on a television show that would capture my comedy and in that role do a little acting.", "I'd like to do something that has to do with my comedy." ]	[ "Brian Regan has become a top-ranked comedian by keeping material clean .", "Regan's humor is observational, focuses on everyday life .", "One inspiration for comedy career was being able to sleep in, Regan says .", "\"Comedy is a good way to deal with anything,\" Regan says ." ]	[ 2, 10, 43, 58 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Penny Ireland's family is so scattered around the world that Facebook, the popular social networking site, has become the family's No.", "1 way to communicate.", "The fastest-growing age group on Facebook is women older than 55, Inside Facebook says.", "\"We call it our living room,\" the 56-year-old mother said by phone from her home in Houston, Texas.", "\"Everybody can tell what everybody else is doing.\"", "\"Everybody\" includes Ireland's five kids and her 83-year-old mother, who has a Facebook profile she accesses daily, Ireland said.", "While online social networks like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace are known hang-outs for younger adults and teenagers, older generations in recent months have been taking to the medium at a faster rate than any other age group, according to industry reports.", "Many of these older folks use social networks to keep tabs on younger family members and they often find fruitful connections with their peers after they've friended all of their kids and grandkids, according to an informal survey by Stanford University professor BJ Fogg.", "Join a conversation on this topic at CNN's Facebook page .", "The trend is still relatively confined.", "Only about 7 percent of people older than 65 have online social-networking profiles, according to research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.", "But Facebook's popularity is growing most quickly among women older than 55, according to a site called Inside Facebook, which tracks Facebook's growth.", "There are now about 1.5 million female users older than 55 on the site, the group says -- roughly a 550 percent increase over six months ago.", "By comparison, membership among people younger than 25 grew by less than 20 percent over the same period, Inside Facebook says.", "Facebook now says it has 200 million users, making its user base larger than the populations of all the world's countries except China, India, the United States and Indonesia.", "Such a vast presence, coupled with news media buzz about all social media, has pushed online social networking to a \"tipping point,\" said Amanda Lenhart, a senior research specialist at the Pew Internet & American Life Project.", "Fogg, the Stanford instructor, said the trend has spread outward from college towns, where Facebook was first adopted, and inward from the American coasts.", "Facebook today has a global presence, with 70 percent of users living outside the U.S., the site says.", "\"We've reached critical mass where there's been enough talk about Facebook and people have gotten so many invitations from their friends, they're going, 'OK, what is this Facebook thing?", "I've got to get onboard or I'm going to be left in the dust,' \" Fogg said.", "Parents who are interested in their kids' online activities contribute to the sharp increase in older users on Facebook, said Linda Fogg-Phillips, a 49-year-old who, with her brother, co-taught a six-week class at Stanford called \"Facebook for Parents.\"", "\"Parents are finally at the point where they realize this is not going away.", "They better figure out how to get on it and they'd better figure out how to use it,\" said Fogg-Phillips, who is a mother of eight in Las Vegas, Nevada.", "\"It's a snowball effect.", "It's viral in a good sense.\"", "Older people often must overcome fears about privacy issues before they will join Facebook, Fogg-Phillips said.", "Once they do, they often find unexpected uses for the network, she said.", "iReport.com: Facebook, Twitter growing pains?", "That was the case for Craig Costa, a 55-year-old fly-fishing guide in Park City, Utah, who said family members forced him to join Facebook.", "Costa still finds parts of the site annoying, and isn't comfortable having his personal information made public, but he has connected with old friends he wouldn't have otherwise -- including his ex-wife, who now is a Facebook friend of his current wife.", "\"It's been really interesting because so many people have a connection to me,\" he said.", "\"I was married before and my wife is now talking to my ex-wife.", "And some of her old friends are telling old stories about me to my wife.", "It's just bizarre for me.\" Costa said he also can more easily keep up with his 28-year-old son, who lives in New York and also keeps a Facebook page for his dog.", "Karen Essman, 61, uses Facebook but said she has trouble convincing her peers to join social-networking sites.", "They often don't understand the interface or are afraid of scams, she said.", "\"It's a little bit more difficult for older people,\" she said.", "Margaret Brooks, 63, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, joined the site because there was no other place for her to see her 18-year-old grandson's artwork.", "She asked to be his friend online, and at first she worried he wouldn't respond.", "\"I did think, 'Oh my goodness, I'm old grandma.", "He doesn't want to have anything to do with grandma on Facebook,' \" she said.", "\"But he did, and every time I send something to him he sends something to me.\"", "Joanne Woeppel joined Facebook so she could keep tabs on her 13 grandkids.", "But the Web site also has helped the 71-year-old keep up with other people without changing her routine.", "\"I'm pretty much what you would call a loner.", "I'm content in my own company.", "I can find things to do to entertain myself that I don't need to be out and about,\" she said by phone from her three-bedroom house near Dallas, Texas.", "\"I don't go out to socialize.\"", "A former call center worker and aspiring sci-fi author, Woeppel visits the online social network about once a day.", "Spending time on Facebook, which she joined in September, helps her feel connected to family all over the country -- especially to the youngsters, she said.", "She has family members who live nearby, but says she's found a way to communicate with them in their own language through Facebook.", "\"Let's face it, kids that age aren't really interested in talking to people my age very much.", "It's more, 'Hi grandma how are ya? ...", "Bye!' \" she said with a laugh.", "\"That's basically what I get from my grandkids, so if I can engage them through just a little bit of chit-chat [online], it's a lot more than I can get over the phone.\"" ]	[ "Women older than 55 make up the fastest-growing age group on Facebook .", "Expert says the site has hit a \"tipping point,\" causing older people to join .", "Some older family members use the site to get in touch with younger generations .", "One mother says Facebook has become her family's \"living room\"" ]	[ 1, 2, 11, 17 ]
[ "MANAMA, Bahrain (CNN) -- Efforts to protect ships from pirates in the waters off Somalia's east coast face a tremendous challenge: The vastness of the area makes it difficult to get to ships that are in danger.", "The crew of the Maersk Alabama talked with media after the ship docked in Mombasa, Kenya.", "\"To put it in perspective, draw a box from Houston to Chicago to New York City down to Jacksonville, Florida.", "It's an immense body of water,\" U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Bill Gortney told reporters Sunday.", "When the Maersk Alabama, a U.S.-flagged cargo ship, reported an attempted attack by pirates the day before the pirates successful attempt on Wednesday, \"our closest vessel from all the navies that were out there -- we have 16 navies that are patrolling those waters -- and the closest one was the USS Bainbridge, and it was over 300 nautical miles,\" Gortney said.", "The next day, when the Maersk company reported pirates had boarded its ship, \"we were closing Bainbridge as quickly as we [could], but 22 knots, 300 miles, it takes a while to get there.\"", "View a timeline of the attack and its aftermath » .", "He added, \"There's about a 10-minute window from when the pirates are able to get onboard that we have time to act.\"", "Things are different on the north side of Somalia, in the Gulf of Aden, where many piracy incidents have taken place.", "That area is \"a little bit more concentrated,\" Gortney said, speaking from Bahrain.", "\"We've had more successful attempts\" at breaking up piracy efforts in that region, he said.", "\"But out on the east coast of Somalia, such a vast area, we simply do not have enough resources in order to cover all those areas.\"", "Gortney spoke to reporters by telephone Sunday after Navy snipers shot and killed three pirates who had held Maersk Alabama Capt.", "Richard Phillips hostage since Wednesday.", "Phillips was freed by the U.S. Navy uninjured.", "Watch how U.S. forces believed Phillips was in danger » .", "Phillips graduated from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, which trains mariners on the dangers of piracy, the president of the academy said.", "\"The sea is a dangerous place -- pirates [are] just one of the many dangers,\" Adm. Rick Gurnon of the academy told reporters after the rescue.", "The academy \"tries to educate you and prepare you to keep you from danger, but it doesn't always work.\"", "He noted that while Phillips' story had a happy ending, more than 200 mariners remain captives at sea, and called on the international community to beef up security in the waters by arming crews, increasing warships and reducing the ability of Somalis to obtain ships from coastal safehavens.", "\"It will certainly take hard work and money and focus,\" he said, \"but we've got to stop it or we begin to risk lives in areas of the world that are vital for national security.\"", "Chris Voss, former FBI international kidnapping negotiator, told CNN that the pirates from the impoverished, war-torn nation need an alternative way to make money.", "\"Unfortunately, they found themselves in a position where they could start piracy in the region and it's become a virus,\" Voss told CNN.", "\"It's easy money ... and once it gets into a culture, it's very difficult to get out, and the only way to get it out is attack on multiple levels.\"", "Asked whether he was concerned that this incident, including the deaths of three of the four pirates involved in the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama and the kidnapping of Phillips, could escalate violence in the region, Gortney responded, \"Yes ...", "This could escalate violence in this part of the world.", "No question about it.\" But some experts believe the rescue may help set a tone that will eventually deter piracy in the region.", "\"This one incident, if it is the only time that we take this robust action, will not deter,\" retired U.S. Army Brig.", "Gen. Mark Kimmitt told CNN.", "\"But this incident, the next incident, the next incident after that -- a long term pattern will certainly have a deterrent effect against piracy.\"" ]	[ "U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Bill Gortney: \"It's an immense body of water\"\nGortney: Size of a box from Houston to Chicago to New York to Jacksonville, Florida .", "Gortney: \"There's about a 10-minute window ... that we have time to act\"\nGortney spoke after U.S. Navy snipers killed three pirates, freeing U.S. hostage ." ]	[ 2, 3, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A man with a pistol killed one person and wounded three others at a cafe in the Dutch city of Rotterdam on Saturday morning, a police spokesman said.", "Police officers stand next to the body of the victim killed by the cafe gunman in Rotterdam.", "Patrons at the cafe managed to capture the shooter, a 45-year-old man, and hold him until police arrived, Rotterdam Police spokesman Gerde Jung told CNN.", "Police arrested the man and recovered his weapon, Jung said.", "The shooting was probably the the result of a quarrel the man had earlier, but details of that argument were unclear, Jung said.", "All of the victims were male, he said." ]	[ "Gunman shoots one person dead, wounds three others at a Rotterdam cafe .", "Patrons at the cafe manage to capture the 45-year-old man .", "Police: Shooting was probably the the result of a quarrel ." ]	[ 2, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan killed a female Canadian soldier and wounded four other troops, the Canadian military said Tuesday.", "Trooper Karine Blais, 21, is the second Canadian female soldier to die in Afghanistan.", "Trooper Karine Blais was killed Monday when the troops' armored vehicle struck the bomb.", "The attack occurred north of Kandahar in the Shah Wali Kowt District of Kandahar province.", "Blais' death was the 117th Canadian troop fatality in the Afghan war, and she is the second Canadian female soldier killed in Afghanistan.", "The first, Capt.", "Nichola Goddard, was killed in a May 2006 firefight with insurgents in Kandahar province, where Canadian troops have been based during the conflict.", "Brig. Gen. Jonathan Vance, commander of Canadian troops in Afghanistan, called the 21-year-old Blais \"an energetic soldier who gave 100 percent to every challenge she faced using a unique sense of humor based on her honesty and frankness.\"", "Vance said Blais \"demonstrated the qualities of a future leader\" and was \"respected by all members of her squadron.\"", "\"Our thoughts are with the friends and family of our fallen comrade during this difficult time,\" the Canadian Forces said in a news release.", "\"All members of Task Force Kandahar are thinking of the family and friends of our fallen comrades during this sad time.", "We will not forget their sacrifice as we continue to bring security and hope to the people of Kandahar province.\"", "Blais, from the 12th Canadian Armored Regiment at Valcartier, Quebec, near Quebec City, was serving with the 2nd Battalion, Royal 22th Regiment Battle Group.", "A chopper evacuated the four other troops to a medical facility at Kandahar airfield.", "Before Monday's attack, the last Canadian deaths in Afghanistan occurred March 20 when four soldiers were killed in two roadside bombings." ]	[ "Female soldier killed, four other troops wounded in roadside bombing .", "Karine Blais, 21, is second Canadian female soldier killed in Afghanistan .", "There have been 117 Canadian troop deaths in the Afghan war ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The declaration of a state of emergency in Thailand following violent clashes between anti-government and security forces marks the latest escalation in a long-running political crisis which has plunged the southeast Asian country into frequent bouts of disorder and instability.", "The scene from the streets of Bangkok on Monday showed widespread protests against the government.", "This weekend's protests, which included forcing the postponement of a summit of Asian leaders in the southern coastal city of Pattaya and demonstrations on the streets of Bangkok, were orchestrated by red-shirted supporters of the controversial and corruption-tainted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.", "Thaksin -- a multibillionaire media tycoon elected in 2001 on a populist platform that promised universal healthcare and cash handouts to poor villagers -- was ousted from power in a bloodless army coup in 2006 and has been in exile abroad since being sentenced last October to two years in prison after being convicted of a corruption charge by Thailand's Supreme Court.", "But Thaksin remains a polarizing figure in Thailand, commanding substantial support in the countryside.", "Until last year, Thaksin's allies had remained in power with the government headed by the exiled prime minister's brother-in law, Somchai Wongsawat, despite disruptive protests by the opposition People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), whose supporters dressed in yellow and represented Thailand's traditional ruling class, suspicious of Thaksin's populist model of democracy.", "But the PAD achieved its goal of ousting Somchai in December after a week-long occupation of the prime ministerial Government House offices and blockading Bangkok's main airports, stranding thousands of tourists.", "Thailand's Constitutional Court subsequently disbanded Somchai's People Power Party for electoral fraud and barred Somchai from office for five years, paving the way for Thai lawmakers to elect opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as prime minister.", "iReport.com: \"Red shirts\" take to streets .", "But Thaksin's supporters insist that Abhisit was not democratically elected and have vowed to protest until fresh elections are held.", "On Sunday, Thaksin told protesters via a video link from an unknown location that he would return home to lead them in a march on the capital if necessary.", "\"Now that they have tanks on the street and the soldiers are coming out, so it is time for the people to come out for a revolution,\" Thaksin said.", "Writing in a blog, CNN's Bangkok Correspondent Dan Rivers said he saw five possible scenarios emerging from the current crisis.", "Firstly, Abhisit could call a snap election, which he would be unlikely to win because Thaksin's allies continue to lead polls.", "Secondly, he could resign, resulting in the creation of another coalition which would struggle to unify the rival factions, leaving open the likelihood of further protests from one side or the other.", "Thirdly, Thaksin could return from exile to lead a red-shirted uprising; a scenario which Rivers describes as \"messy and bloody.\"", "iReport.com: \"Numerous buses set ablaze\" Fourthly, the army could again intervene, as it has done in the past, although Rivers says that would do little to heal the deep divisions between both sides.", "Finally, Rivers said, Abhisit could choose to ride out the protests or \"get tough.\"", "But both strategies would likely damage his standing.", "\"Trying to ignore the protests will leave him looking even weaker; ordering a violent crack-down may simply harden the resolve of the red shirts and provide fodder to their questionable claims that Abhisit has dictatorial tendencies,\" Rivers said." ]	[ "Thai state of emergency is latest episode in ongoing political crisis .", "Thailand has been unstable since former PM Thaksin ousted in coup in 2006 .", "Thaksin's supporters insist current government is illegitimate, want new elections .", "Thaksin: \"It is time for the people to come out for a revolution\"" ]	[ 0, 9, 11 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Male singers regularly photographed wearing a hat are usually covering up a receding hairline.", "Jason Aldean has had six Top 10 country singles.", "His new album, \"Wide Open,\" is just out.", "But not Jason Aldean.", "He has a full head of hair, and wears a cowboy hat to signify his commitment to country music.", "The same is true for his well-fitting jeans and cowboy boots.", "It's a formula that seems to be working.", "The 32-year-old rising star has just notched his sixth Top 10 country single with \"She's Country,\" the lead track off his third CD, \"Wide Open\" (Broken Bow).", "We caught up with the Georgia native in his dressing room before a recent sold-out show at the House of Blues in Los Angeles, California.", "The following is an edited version of the interview.", "Jason Aldean: Definitely a cowboy hat in L.A. makes you stand out a little bit.", "CNN: It's a fashion statement in L.A. Aldean: It is!", "You've got to wear it with confidence, too.", "Watch Aldean talk about his new album » .", "CNN: Are you nervous about your new album?", "Aldean: I wouldn't say I'm nervous.", "If you have an album that you're kind of on the fence about, then yeah, you would be kind of a little nervous.", "CNN: Have you ever had one of those -- or if you had, would you admit it?", "Aldean: When we went in to record the second album (2007's \"Relentless,\" which went gold), I think it was a good album, but I felt like I was under a lot of pressure recording that album -- more than the other two.", "You hear people talking about the sophomore slump and all that stuff, and so I think all that stuff sort of got to me after a while.", "Combined with being on the road 200 to 250 days [a year], I just didn't have that much fun recording it.", "I was exhausted. And so going into this third album, I just feel like mentally, I was back in the right place.", "CNN: As an artist, do you ever really think you got it right?", "Aldean: If at any point you're recording an album and you think it's the greatest thing that you've ever done, and you'll never be able to top it, then you should probably quit.", "Michael Jackson -- he made \"Thriller,\" so I can see why he might have said, \"I'm done.\"", "But even he kept making records.", "CNN: Were you a Michael Jackson fan growing up?", "Did you moonwalk as a kid?", "Aldean: Of course!", "I had my glove and everything.", "Used to wet my hair so it looked like a Jheri curl.", "(Cracks up) CNN: Who else did you listen to as a kid?", "Aldean: Guns N' Roses -- the '80s rock stuff.", "Then I was into John Mellencamp, and Bob Seger and a lot of the Southern rock stuff -- the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Marshall Tucker Band.", "I listened to a lot of different kinds of music.", "CNN: Are you finding that the economy has affected ticket sales?", "Is it harder to sell out shows these days?", "Aldean: I think everybody has kind of seen a little bit of a hit.", "We're no different. We've tried to make it more affordable for people to come to a show with lower ticket prices [most of the time in the $20-40 range].", "Maybe go in and play a show for less money than we would normally go in to play a show for, just so people can afford to come out and buy a ticket.", "I mean, you're looking at 200 bucks if you've got a wife and two kids -- and then by the time you come there and buy a couple of T-shirts, or some drinks or whatever, you're spending three, four hundred dollars, and right now, people are a little hesitant to do that.", "CNN: What do you consider an expensive ticket?", "Aldean: If Elvis was still around, I don't know if I'd pay 80 bucks to go see him.", "I surely would not pay 80 bucks to go see me!", "CNN: From a financial standpoint, touring is more important to an artist than selling records these days.", "Aldean: The music industry is so different now than it was even when I hit the scene in 2005.", "If you go to Wal-Mart and you want a song, you've got to buy the whole album for ten bucks -- or you can go to iTunes, and if you want a song, you can pay a dollar to get it.", "So in return, the record label is going to make less money, which is us making less money to pay them back.", "The way it works is the record label basically fronts the money for us to record an album.", "As the money comes back in off of that, they take that and repay the debt that we owe them.", "So if they're not making enough to repay that debt, they're not going to keep us employed on the label for very long.", "CNN: As an artist, do you worry about that?", "Aldean: Oh, absolutely.", "I think every artist worries about that.", "As a consumer, I think iTunes is a great thing.", "As an entertainer, not so much.", "I would much rather have somebody buy an album as a whole.", "Bad thing about purchasing singles -- if you have an artist you like and you keep doing that, there's not going to be music enough for you to go and get, because they're not going to have a deal anymore.", "But who knows? Record labels may one day be out all together, and people may be making their own music and selling it on their Web sites.", "CNN: That seems to benefit established artists more than up-and-coming ones.", "Aldean: Radio's really accepted us, and proven that they're really going to play my stuff as long as I give them something good to play.", "Fans are coming out to the show, so I mean what more could I ask for?", "My original plan when I got started in this deal was just to be able to make a good living for my family and play music.", "I've been able to do that, which is all I've ever wanted." ]	[ "Jason Aldean riding high with new hit, \"She's Country\"\nGeorgia native conscious of ticket prices, giving value .", "Aldean: \"[I] would not pay 80 bucks to go see me!\"" ]	[ 3, 37, 42, 43 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The National Transportation Safety Board began four days of hearings Tuesday on how to stem the \"drastic increase\" in medical helicopter accidents.", "Smoke rises from Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after a helicopter crash in May.", "Over a recent 12-month period, the board probed nine fatal medical helicopter accidents that killed 35 people, a development that one board member called \"alarming.\"", "Medical helicopters \"provide an important service to the public\" in swiftly transporting ill and injured patients and donor organs, the board said on its Web site.", "Chopper pilots must operate \"safely and quickly\" in bad weather, at night or on \"unfamiliar landing sites,\" the board added.", "\"This hearing will be extremely important because it can provide an opportunity to learn more about the industry so that possibly we can make further recommendations that can prevent these accidents and save lives,\" said Robert Sumwalt, chairman of the hearing's board of inquiry.", "Watch Sumwalt's remarks at hearing » .", "Flying at night in poor weather conditions likely contributed to the crashes in Texas and Alaska of three medical helicopters that killed 11 people, the NTSB said.", "The three crashes occurred near South Padre Island, Texas, in February 2008; Huntsville, Texas, in June; and Whittier, Alaska, in December 2007. iReport: Watch smoke pour from a medical chopper crash in Michigan .", "A December 2007 accident in Cherokee, Alabama, was likely caused by the pilot flying too low over trees, the NTSB said.", "The helicopter was shining a searchlight on a hunter who had been lost as rescue personnel on the ground tried to reach him.", "The pilot, a paramedic and a flight nurse were killed, the NTSB said.", "Among the issues to be discussed at the hearing will be flight operations, aircraft safety equipment, training and oversight.", "Expert witnesses such as pilots, medical personnel, managers and Federal Aviation Administration officials will give sworn testimony on what has been an \"ongoing concern\" of the safety board, which issued a report on emergency medical services operations in 2006.", "The NTSB said there were 55 EMS-related aviation accidents -- both fatal and nonfatal -- between January 2002 and January 2005 that could have been prevented with \"simple corrective actions.\"", "In those crashes, 54 people were killed, and 18 were seriously injured, the NTSB said.", "The agency recommended to the FAA in January 2006 that all medical chopper operators be required to develop and implement risk evaluation programs, use dispatch and flight procedures that include up-to-date weather information, and install \"terrain awareness and warning systems\" on their aircraft.", "A fourth recommendation would require medical flight operators to follow federal regulations regarding their flights.", "The recommendations have not been fully implemented, the NTSB said." ]	[ "Transportation safety board beginning four days of hearings .", "Board examines reported \"drastic increase\" in accidents and deaths .", "Nine air ambulance crashes killed 35 people during one-year period .", "Board's 2006 safety recommendations not fully implemented, it says ." ]	[ 0, 2, 18 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Firefighters will need at least until midweek to get control of wildfires that have destroyed more than 900 homes and other structures in Southern California, a Los Angeles County Fire Department spokesman says.", "High winds have fanned blazes from Santa Barbara to Anaheim since Thursday, scorching an estimated 40,900 acres of land.", "Sustained winds eased Monday, but locally gusty conditions and humidity in the single-digit range could continue into Tuesday, the National Weather Service predicted.", "\"If we were being very optimistic, we would be looking at the middle of the week,\" Los Angeles County fire Capt.", "Dennis Cross said.", "\"If the weather forecast holds and we continue to get the great work being done in the last 24 hours, we're hoping midweek.\"", "The most extensive losses have been in the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in the Sylmar district of Los Angeles, where winds clocked as high as 70 mph drove a wall of flames across the hillsides and destroyed nearly 500 of the park's 608 mobile homes on Saturday.", "iReport.com: Map shows fire's devastation .", "A two-day search that ended Monday found no human remains amid the scorched wreckage, authorities said.", "But Deputy Police Chief Michel Moore said authorities still haven't accounted for the residents of 166 homes, and he wanted them to check in with investigators.", "\"Help us bring full closure to this,\" Moore said Monday evening.", "Watch how fires destroyed hundreds of homes » .", "Moore said residents of the mobile home park would be allowed to return Tuesday \"to come in and collect their belongings.\"", "The largest of three fires, the Freeway Complex fire, had set ablaze nearly 29,000 acres in Orange, Los Angeles and Riverside counties.", "Most of the damage was in Orange County, in the Los Angeles suburbs of Anaheim and Yorba Linda, where more than 100 homes were destroyed.", "Fire officials said the blaze, with 3,700 firefighters and other emergency personnel battling it, was about 40 percent contained Monday.", "Watch how it may take days to contain fires » .", "iReporter Carol Menke said she last saw her home in the Hollydale Mobile Home Estates in Brea Canyon around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday.", "\"I know our firefighters are the best and the bravest in the world, but that wall of fire looked insurmountable,\" she said at the time.", "iReport.com: 'Insurmountable' wall of flames looms .", "Firefighters on Sunday night told Menke that one home was destroyed and one damaged in Hollydale, but neither was hers.", "See damage in Sylmar via satellite photography » .", "\"I am so thankful that I am at a loss for words.", "My heart goes out to those not as fortunate,\" she said.", "The Sayre fire, which destroyed the mobile home park in Los Angeles' Sylmar district, was about 40 percent contained Monday morning after burning about 10,000 acres.", "Five firefighters and one civilian suffered minor injuries in the blaze, the Los Angeles County Fire Department reported.", "See images from the Los Angeles County fire » .", "In Santa Barbara County, northwest of Los Angeles, firefighters said they had a wildfire 95 percent contained after it destroyed more than 100 homes.", "Among the losses in the 1,900-plus acres it incinerated were a monastery and several mansions in a community where celebrities have homes.", "The fire destroyed the $11 million Montecito, California, home of Christopher Lloyd, star of \"Back to the Future\" and \"Taxi.\"", "He showed the charred remnants to ABC's \"Good Morning America\" on Monday.", "Lloyd talks about his destroyed home .", "\"It's amazing, its just gone,\" Lloyd told \"Good Morning America.\"", "\"Rebuilding would be -- it's too much.", "You can't rebuild that.\" Investigators believe the Santa Barbara County blaze was \"human-caused,\" having eliminated \"all accidental causes,\" said Doug Lannon, a spokesman for the state fire agency.", "iReport.com: Share wildfire photos, video .", "Authorities said they believe the fire started in the Tea Garden Estate, a privately owned multiple-acre property about one mile north of Santa Barbara's exclusive Westmont College.", "Although the fire did not hit the college campus, 15 faculty members lost their homes nearby, according to the college's Web site.", "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared states of emergency for the four affected counties after the fire damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes and closed major freeways.", "The move frees any state resources needed, and makes the counties eligible for federal assistance grants.", "CNN's Kara Finnstrom contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Search of mobile home park ends; no one found dead .", "More than 900 homes, structures destroyed by three fires .", "Single-digit humidity, wind gusts pose problems for firefighters .", "Santa Barbara County fire has human cause, officials say ." ]	[ 8, 11, 24, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The head of the U.N. Children's Fund has expressed concern over a Saudi judge's refusal for a second time to annul a marriage between an 8-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man.", "UNICEF's Ann Veneman said consent cannot be free if either party is too young to make an informed decision.", "\"Irrespective of circumstances or the legal framework, the marriage of a child is a violation of that child's rights,\" said Ann Veneman, executive director of UNICEF.", "\"The right to free and full consent to marriage is recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.", "Consent cannot be free and full when either party to a marriage is too young to make an informed decision.\"", "The most recent ruling, in which the judge upheld his original verdict, was handed down Saturday in the Saudi city of Onaiza, where late last year the same judge rejected a petition from the girl's mother, seeking a divorce for her daughter.", "Have your say by clicking here .", "A relative said the judge, Sheikh Habib al-Habib, \"stuck by his earlier verdict and insisted that the girl could petition the court for a divorce once she reached puberty.\"", "The family member, who requested anonymity, added that the mother will continue to pursue a divorce for her daughter.", "The case, which has drawn criticism from local and international rights groups, came to light in December when al-Habib declined to annul the marriage on a legal technicality.", "The judge ruled that the girl's mother -- who is separated from her father -- was not the girl's legal guardian and therefore could not represent her in court, Abdullah al-Jutaili, the mother's attorney, told CNN at the time.", "The girl's father, according to the lawyer, arranged the marriage in order to settle his debts with the man, who is a close friend of his.", "At the time of the initial verdict, the judge required the girl's husband to sign a pledge that he would not have sex with her until she reaches puberty, al-Jutaili told CNN.", "The judge ruled that when the girl reaches puberty, she will have the right to request a divorce by filing a petition with the court, the lawyer said.", "Last month, an appeals court in the Saudi capital of Riyadh declined to certify the original ruling, in essence rejecting al-Habib's verdict, and sent the case back to him for reconsideration.", "Under the complicated Saudi legal process, the appeals court ruling meant that the marriage was still in effect, but that a challenge to the marriage was still ongoing.", "The appeals court in Riyadh will now take up the case again and a hearing is scheduled for next month, according to the relative.", "The issue of child marriage has been a hot-button topic in the deeply conservative kingdom recently.", "While rights groups have petitioned the government for laws to protect children from such marriages, the kingdom's top cleric has said that it's OK for girls as young as 10 to wed. \"It is incorrect to say that it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger,\" Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, the kingdom's grand mufti, said in remarks last January, according to the regional Al-Hayat newspaper.", "\"A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married.", "Those who think she's too young are wrong, and they are being unfair to her.\"", "Al-Sheikh reportedly made the remarks when he was asked during a lecture about parents forcing their underage daughters to marry.", "\"We hear a lot in the media about the marriage of underage girls,\" he said, according to the newspaper.", "\"We should know that sharia law has not brought injustice to women.\"", "Sharia law is Islamic law.", "Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism.", "CNN was unable to reach government officials for comment.", "Christoph Wilcke, a Saudi Arabia researcher for Human Rights Watch, told CNN in December that his organization has heard of many other cases of child marriages.", "\"We've been hearing about these types of cases once every four or five months because the Saudi public is now able to express this kind of anger -- especially so when girls are traded off to older men,\" Wilcke said.", "Wilcke said that although Saudi ministries might make decisions designed to protect children, \"It is still the religious establishment that holds sway in the courts, and in many realms beyond the court.\"", "In December, Zuhair al-Harithi, a spokesman for the Saudi government-run Human Rights Commission, said his organization is fighting against child marriages.", "\"The Human Rights Commission opposes child marriages in Saudi Arabia,\" al-Harithi said.", "\"Child marriages violate international agreements that have been signed by Saudi Arabia and should not be allowed.\"", "He added that his organization has been able to intervene and stop at least one child marriage from taking place.", "Wajeha al-Huwaider, co-founder of the Society of Defending Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia, told CNN that achieving human rights in the kingdom means standing against those who want to \"keep us backward and in the dark ages.\"", "She said the marriages cause girls to \"lose their sense of security and safety.", "Also, it destroys their feeling of being loved and nurtured.", "It causes them a lifetime of psychological problems and severe depression.\"" ]	[ "UNICEF: Marriage of a child is a violation of that child's rights .", "Judge said girl could petition \"once she reaches puberty,\" relative tells CNN .", "Girl's father arranged her marriage to a 47-year-old to settle debts, lawyer says .", "Girl's mother says she will continue to seek daughter's divorce ." ]	[ 2, 11, 13 ]
[ "(Mental Floss) -- Benjamin Franklin said that nothing is certain in this world but death and taxes.", "The federal government allows taxpayers a $500 exemption for housing victims of a Midwestern disaster.", "In our more fast-paced times we might add the certainty of having to replace our iPods at least once every two years, but you get the point.", "Taxes are a part of the fabric of modern human society, yet they are totally beguiling to most ordinary folk.", "With laws like this, it's no wonder.", "1. The jock tax . You can thank Michael Jordan for this one.", "After Jordan's Chicago Bulls put the hurt on the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1991 NBA finals, the state of California began to enforce a nonresident income tax on visiting performers, especially athletes.", "Basically, the tax applies to any income earned while competing or performing in California, and it allowed California's Franchise Tax Board to reach into the pockets of Jordan, Pippen, et.", "al. to extract some revenge for the hard-court beatdown.", "Not to be outdone, Illinois, and eventually 18 other states, instituted a jock tax, making a patchwork quilt of tax laws that basketball, baseball, and other sports figures have to consider.", "Thanks to these regulations, it's more difficult to file a professional athlete's tax return than to map the human genome on a Commodore 64.", "2. The crack tax . In 1983, Arizona became the first state to implement a \"Cannabis & Controlled Substances Tax\" in order to boost state revenues and further punish those found guilty of possession.", "It works like this: if you are in possession of an illegal drug or illegally produced liquor (aka moonshine), you need to go down to the state tax collection agency and pay the tax on your illegal substances.", "You are then given tax stamps to affix on your illegal goods.", "Sounds insane, right?", "Well, part of the code now on the books in more than 30 states says that the tax collection agency is not allowed to rat you out to the local law enforcement agency.", "This should put every drug dealer's mind at ease, yet so few of them pay their required taxes.", "The truth is, many of these taxes are levied in arrears after the local constabulary has caught the criminal dealer.", "It's really an additional fine for dealing that gets paid straight to the state coffers.", "And what of those few people that pay the tax?", "Records show that the vast majority of them are stamp collectors.", "Mental Floss: 10 controversial stamps .", "3. Take in a midwesterner .", "For 2008 and 2009, the IRS is allowing a $500 exemption for each person that you help house from a Midwestern disaster (e.g.", "the floods in Iowa and surrounding states).", "In typical IRS fashion, the rules dictating who can and cannot be counted for this charitable act are both coldly technical, and moderately vague.", "Need more info? Check out the scintillating IRS Publication 4492-B.", "It's a great beach read.", "4. It's not a tattoo tax, it's a body art tax .", "Arkansas has added getting a tattoo to its list of services that require an additional 6 percent state tax.", "One other service that's subject to the tax is electrolysis.", "Mental Floss: Your tattoo might not mean what you think .", "5. Hide the window, the taxman is coming .", "You'll never have to worry about this last tax since it was repealed in 1851, but it's just too silly not to mention.", "In 1696, a tax was placed on British homes based on the number of windows the home had.", "Previously the tax was levied per household, no matter the size of the house or the number of residents.", "The law changed, however, to levy higher taxes on larger homes with, presumably, more windows.", "Instead of paying the higher taxes, people just bricked up the windows that they found to be extraneous.", "An astute visitor to England can still see evidence of this law today in the scores of walled up windows in older buildings throughout the country.", "Mental Floss: 4 other times our economy tanked .", "For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .", "Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "In 1983, Arizona was first state to tax holders of illegal drugs or moonshine .", "Similar laws in 30 + states say collectors aren't allowed to rat out taxpayers .", "If you house a victim of a Midwestern disaster, IRS offers $500 tax exemption .", "Arkansas taxes tattoos, electrolysis; out-of-state pro-athletes taxed in 19 states ." ]	[ 1, 11, 12, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Perhaps it really WAS destiny.", "\"Slumdog Millionaire,\" the little film that overcame tremendous odds simply to earn an American release, won eight Oscars Sunday night at the 81st annual Academy Awards, including best picture.", "\"Most of all we had passion and we had belief, and our film shows if you have those two things, you have everything,\" said producer Christian Colson, surrounded by many members of the film's huge cast and crew.", "It was a supremely unlikely success story.", "\"Millionaire,\" which combines elements of Bollywood melodrama and documentary grit, features no stars.", "It's set largely among the poverty-stricken districts of Mumbai, India, and one-third of the film is in Hindi.", "Its initially reluctant director, Danny Boyle, is better known for brash British films such as \"Trainspotting\" and \"28 Days Later.\"", "And the film almost went straight to DVD in America, thanks to the folding of initial studio Warner Independent Pictures (like CNN, it's a unit of Time Warner).", "But the film's orphaned, poverty-raised hero, played by Dev Patel, overcomes his challenges to earn a spot on the game show \"Who Wants to Be a Millionaire\" -- not necessarily to win money, but to connect with his lost love.", "On the show, he's told that perhaps he is a figure of destiny.", "\"It is written,\" the show's smarmy host tells him, somewhat mockingly, after Patel's character aces several questions.", "List of winners, nominees .", "\"Slumdog's\" filmmakers were jubilant at the wins, which also included Oscars for best director (Boyle), best adapted screenplay (Simon Beaufoy), score (A.R.", "Rahman), cinematography (Anthony Dod Mantle), song, sound mixing and film editing.", "Boyle jumped up and down as he accepted his award, saying he'd told his children that if he ever won, he'd bounce like Tigger from \"Winnie-the-Pooh.\"", "Rahman was equally appreciative.", "\"All my life I've had a choice between hate and love, and I chose love, and now I'm here,\" he said.", "Gallery: See what the stars are wearing » .", "\"Slumdog's\" main competition, \"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,\" won just three Oscars, all in minor categories.", "The film had led the pack with 13 nominations.", "The rest of the Oscar broadcast alternated between host Hugh Jackman's smooth song-and-dance numbers, some comic moments from Steve Martin, Tina Fey and Ben Stiller, and politics, generally focused on gay rights and California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8.", "Sean Penn won best actor for playing Harvey Milk in \"Milk,\" the story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office.", "Penn earned laughs and applause for his speech.", "iReport.com: What do you think of the winners?", "\"You commie homo-loving sons of guns,\" the sometimes truculent actor began, to laughter.", "\"I did not expect this, and I wanted to be very clear that I do know how hard I make it to appreciate me, often.", "But I am touched by the appreciation.\"", "After a series of thank-you's, he turned serious in talking about gay marriage.", "\"For those who saw the signs of hatred as our cars drove in tonight, I think it's a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect on their great shame and their shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that support,\" Penn said.", "\"We've got to have equal rights for everyone.\"", "Dustin Lance Black, who won original screenplay for \"Milk,\" also gave an impassioned speech in favor of gay rights.", "\"I think [Milk] would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight ... that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.\"", "Heath Ledger won best supporting actor for his performance as the Joker in \"The Dark Knight.\"", "His parents and sister accepted the award for the actor, who died in January 2008.", "\"This award tonight would have humbly validated Heath's quiet determination to be truly accepted by you all here -- his peers -- within an industry he truly loved,\" said Ledger's father, Kim.", "Ledger is only the second actor to win a posthumous actor.", "Peter Finch won best actor for 1976's \"Network\" two months after he died in early 1977.", "Other winners included Kate Winslet, who won best actress for her performance in \"The Reader\"; Penelope Cruz, who won best supporting actress honor for \"Vicky Cristina Barcelona\"; and \"WALL-E,\" which won best animated feature.", "Most of the winners, if not foreordained, were expected.", "The evening's sole shock came with best foreign-language film, which went to the Japanese film \"Departures.\"", "Among the films it beat were France's \"The Class\" and Israel's \"Dances With Bashir,\" two of the best-reviewed films of the year.", "The Oscars moved at a steady pace, largely thanks to Jackman's brisk, jokey work.", "Only the introductions to the four acting categories, in which previous winners read tributes to current nominees as if they were about to appear on \"This Is Your Life,\" considerably slowed the show, which ran close to three and a half hours.", "At various points, Jackman cracked wise about downsizing -- \"Next year,\" said the \"Australia\" star, \"I'll be starring in a movie called 'New Zealand' \" -- performed songs about each best picture nominee in various musical styles, and paid tribute to various celebrities as if pointing out VIPs in a nightclub.", "He even physically carried Anne Hathaway on stage to play Richard Nixon in a \"Frost/Nixon\" send-up.", "Blog: Behind the scenes .", "But it was \"Slumdog Millionaire\" that carried the evening.", "At one point, Resul Pookutty, who won for sound mixing, seemed overwhelmed as he accepted his Oscar.", "\"I dedicate this award to my country,\" he said.", "\"Thank you, Academy, this is not just a sound award, this is history being handed over to me.\"", "Given the import of East meeting West, the movie business can say the same thing." ]	[ "\"Slumdog Millionaire\" wins eight Oscars, including best picture and director .", "Sean Penn wins best actor for \"Milk\"\nKate Winslet wins best actress for \"The Reader\"\nHeath Ledger wins best supporting actor for \"The Dark Knight\"" ]	[ 32, 37 ]
[ "LOUISVILLE, Colorado (CNN) -- While the economy sputters here on Earth, space entrepreneurs in Colorado are looking to the heavens.", "Diane Dimeff and Scott Tibbitts of eSpace, a not-for-profit that helps aerospace companies test space technology.", "In a cavernous testing facility called the \"Incubator,\" specialized equipment recreates the unique conditions of a journey into space -- from platforms that mimic the violent shaking at liftoff to chambers that replicate space's bitter cold and complete vacuum.", "This is home to eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship, a not-for-profit partnership between SpaceDev, Inc., a private aerospace company, and the University of Colorado.", "Launched last month, eSpace helps fledgling aerospace companies try out new gadgetry and meet NASA specifications.", "\"One of the most important things in making space hardware is that it's going to [have to] work in space, because you can't repair it,\" said Scott Tibbitts, executive director of eSpace.", "\"It's up there, it has to work.\" Tibbitts believes that in the near future, NASA's programs will be supplemented more often by entrepreneurial space ventures.", "He thinks eSpace can help these companies work toward making space exploration more affordable and accessible to private citizens.", "\"Our goal is to help small aerospace companies to get off the ground,\" said eSpace director Diane Dimeff.", "eSpace will help entrepreneurs \"to commercialize their technology and to help develop the work force that will fuel their growth.\"", "The center's Incubator doubles as the headquarters of SpaceDev, which Tibbitts founded almost by accident more than a dozen years ago.", "He developed a paraffin actuator, a mechanism filled with a waxlike substance that melts when it reaches a certain temperature, flipping a switch.", "The device worked on hot-water heaters, but Tibbitts thought it might have high-tech applications elsewhere.", "\"I ended up contacting NASA and they said yeah,\" Tibbitts said.", "\"So we started building them for spacecraft instead of water heaters, and the business was built around that.\"", "But it wasn't quite that simple.", "The first actuator for NASA cost $32,000 to make, and Tibbitts had to sell his Triumph sports car to raise the money.", "Also, Tibbitts' specialty was hot water heaters, not spacecraft.", "Products for NASA have to go through rigorous testing and be made to strict specifications.", "\"I knew nothing about it,\" he said.", "\"We'd ask NASA, 'Can we use Super Glue?'", "And they'd say, 'No, you can't use Super Glue.'", "\" Tibbitts' goal with eSpace is to help entrepreneurs avoid making the same mistakes.", "eSpace mentors new companies and helps guide them on the long journey from the workbench in the family garage to the launch pad.", "A important part of the process is access to the sophisticated testing equipment at the Incubator, located in a suburb northwest of Denver.", "\"The people making the hardware can test the hardware in that chamber and see if it's going to work in the harsh conditions of space,\" said Tibbitts while leading a tour of the facility.", "\"This is a half-a-million-dollar chamber.", "That's not something a small company can afford.\"", "Dimeff hopes eSpace's collaboration with the University of Colorado will help guide young engineers into careers in space technology.", "To facilitate this, eSpace will fund three hands-on projects for graduate students to design aerospace technologies with commercial applications.", "\"They have great skills for the aerospace industry, and they would never have thought of going into the aerospace industry but for this program,\" Dimeff said.", "A few miles down the road, another space hardware company is hoping to benefit from eSpace's programs.", "\"I think the eSpace concept is really a very important one,\" said Michael Tupper, executive vice president of Composite Technology Development Inc., which makes resins, thermal insulation and other products.", "\"We can be much more effective when we are working with other entrepreneurial companies and combining our capabilities and technologies,\" he added.", "\"So eSpace will both create a network of companies and will also help with the educational basics.\"", "Tupper sees huge growth ahead in space technologies and in technologies developed for space making their way back to Earth.", "High-temperature insulation his company developed for space is being repurposed for use in wind turbines and geothermal equipment.", "In that way, eSpace could help prepare engineers for a variety of jobs beyond the aerospace field -- a key benefit in a battered economy.", "\"The space market is a vital market, and it does require a lot of jobs,\" Tupper told CNN.", "\"But I think it's quite clear the terrestrial market has more jobs in larger industries.", "We're going to be needing to hire more and more people.\"" ]	[ "The eSpace center helps fledgling aerospace companies try out new gadgetry .", "eSpace boasts the \"Incubator,\" which recreates the conditions of space .", "Its equipment can mimic the violent shaking at liftoff and space's bitter cold .", "eSpace director: \"Our goal is to help small aerospace companies get off the ground\"" ]	[ 2, 4, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Call it the second coming.", "Jennifer Connelly and Keanu Reeves star in \"The Day the Earth Stood Still.\"", "Klaatu the spaceman first visited these parts in Robert Wise's 1951 Cold War classic \"The Day the Earth Stood Still,\" when he threatened to blow us all up unless we stopped threatening to do the job for him.", "Klaatu wasn't exactly greeted with open arms back then -- he was shot and hounded for his troubles -- and if the earth has moved on over the past half century, you wouldn't know it from the trigger-happy welcoming committee that surrounds his luminous snowball of a space craft in New York's Central Park.", "Where sci-fi films in the 1950s used to see red(s), today they go green.", "Directed by Scott Derrickson (\"The Exorcism of Emily Rose\") and scripted by David Scarpa (\"The Last Castle\"), \"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" 2.0 ditches the Cold War theme.", "Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) means to save the planet, but war isn't the problem.", "Mankind is the problem.", "The filmmakers have come up with an effective Spielbergian prologue, cutting from the Himalayas in 1928 to contemporary biology professor Helen Benson (Jennifer Connelly), whisked from her home by uniformed men in response to an undisclosed national emergency.", "It's strange to think that in the final hour the government will turn to molecular biologists for guidance, though true to form (as in the 1951 original) the scientists are quickly overruled by the politicians.", "But once Keanu-Klaatu emerges from his blubbery placenta spacesuit, the movie shifts into familiar fugitive thriller terrain and the tension slowly drains out of it.", "Dr. Benson helps him escape to New Jersey where he can meet with an alien undercover agent in McDonald's, and she can introduce him to a true world leader, a Nobel laureate played by John Cleese.", "If you're going to cast a top star as an alien being, Reeves seems a solid choice.", "He's always been able to process human emotion with a Spock-like detachment.", "\"This body is going to take some getting used to,\" Klaatu cautions shakily in his first scene, but in fact he gets the walking-talking thing down pat in no time.", "He's a messianic figure -- he fires lasers out of his wrists, like a reverse-stigmata and he has the power to resurrect the dead (though unlike Jesus, Klaatu killed the guy in the first place).", "The climax even includes a plague of robotic locusts.", "But the movie never comes up with a convincing explanation for why his superpowers don't extend to, say, picking up a telephone.", "Apparently the aliens have been monitoring us for at least 70 years, but Klaatu is taken aback to discover our emotional side.", "Mostly he learns this from Jaden Smith, who plays Dr. Benson's stepson Jacob.", "It's not necessarily a good emotional side: Jacob is a whiny, obstinate and disobedient little boy that would lead most extraterrestrials -- and not a few of the rest of us -- to reach for the destruct button.", "Still, it's surely remiss to wipe out the species before lending an ear to Johann Sebastian Bach.", "The original movie is beginning to show its age, but at least it holds up as a story.", "That's more than you can say for a preachy, draggy blockbuster that espouses a radical message of Luddite technophobia at the same time as it conspicuously plugs Honda and LG Electronics, and dresses up its half-baked thinking in blinding (but not that brilliant) CGI wizardry.", "Johnny Carson used to joke that his 1964 bomb \"Looking for Love\" was so bad it was transferred to flammable nitrate film stock.", "If they're so determined to be green, perhaps the producers of \"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" would consider something biodegradable.", "\"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" is rated PG-13 and runs 103 minutes.", "For Entertainment Weekly's review, click here." ]	[ "\"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" a remake of 1951 classic .", "Keanu Reeves plays Klaatu, alien come to earth to tell humanity to straighten up .", "New version suffers from preachy script, long, dull scenes ." ]	[ 1, 2, 16 ]
[ "Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose forthcoming book is \"Late Edition: A Love Story.\"", "Police tape surrounds the scene of a shooting in southern Alabama on Wednesday.", "(CNN) -- Carnage in Germany, carnage in Alabama, and one of the most saddening aspects of the killings is this: .", "The impulse to ask \"why,\" while present, seems somehow muted.", "There will be a search for answers -- why did Michael K. McLendon, the gunman in the American South, murder 10 people, why did Tim Kretschmer, the gunman in the German South, murder 15 people -- but even when a tentative answer is arrived upon, it almost certainly won't mean much.", "Because the real answer we're searching for -- the answer that will stop these bursts of bloodshed -- seems destined to ever elude us.", "There is always an impulse to blame obscene killing sprees on outside stimuli.", "In the years just after World War II, comic books were cited as an incitement for young people to harm each other.", "Violent television programs were subsequently blamed, as video games sometimes are today.", "The connective theory has long been: if society desensitizes people to violence, if violence becomes a commodity, then it will proliferate.", "If people are passively taught that violence is everywhere, then violence will sprout, if not everywhere, then many wheres.", "But to place the brunt of the blame for this on outside forces is to duck a truth that we are understandably reluctant to face: the impulse to murder without remorse seems to be, in some people, almost like a learned language, deriving from somewhere deep and difficult to find.", "Thankfully, it remains relatively rare, although during weeks like this one it is not easy to take much comfort in that.", "Yet with each new torrent of killings, with each new demonstration that, to some among us, the idea of spreading heartache and horror is not only acceptable, but attractive... With each new demonstration of that, we find ourselves once again looking for lessons, in a search that can seem perpetually futile.", "Are the gunmen in cases like these out to make a name for themselves?", "If so, they are ordained to fail; there was a time when multiple, random murders were enough to give the perpetrators such notoriety that their names became catchphrases.", "Charlie Starkweather, whose name means nothing to most people today, had more than one movie made about him after his killing spree on the American Plains in the 1950s.", "There was a time when we could ascribe, to people who murdered without mercy, a dark desire for the worst kind of fame.", "But that's gone. Those names you read in the second paragraph of this story -- Michael McLendon, Tim Kretschmer -- may be freshly in the news today, but you will have forgotten them in a month or two.", "That's one more numbing sign of just how ordinary extraordinary violence has become: the names fail to stick.", "The protagonists are interchangeable.", "How to stop this? There has long been a debate over whether the death penalty is a deterrent to murder, but this week the murderers themselves are both dead, and almost certainly they considered that probability before they set out to kill.", "The learned language of violence seems to contain a concession, on the part of those who absorb it, that their acts may very well conclude with their own dying -- and that the price, in their minds, is acceptable, even, perhaps, sought.", "Which may be the most chilling lesson of all.", "Because if even death for those who do it is not enough to stop the profane slaughters around the globe, then our impotence in the face of this feels all the more profound.", "Whatever our need may be to grasp for answers, the killers, by dying on the day they kill, deny us the chance for even that scant solace.", "It's the ultimate taunt; it is as if they are saying: You want to know why?", "You'll never know.", "Which leaves us with only one certainty: .", "Before long -- in a matter of days, or weeks, or months -- we'll be asking these questions again.", "The names will change; the specks on the map will be different.", "But somewhere, someone who has learned the wordless language of spreading hurt and grief will do this once more, and we will pause anew in our daily lives to wonder what has become of us.", "And feel all the more empty at the silence that greets our question.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene." ]	[ "Bob Greene: The real reason mass murderers kill people is elusive .", "He asks whether outside influences play a role in inciting violence .", "Greene: These days, killers seeking lasting fame seem destined to fail .", "He says killers who commit suicide prevent us from knowing their motives ." ]	[ 5, 17, 22, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Canadian researchers say they have discovered the smallest known North American dinosaur, a carnivore that roamed areas of the continent 75 million years ago and weighed less than most modern-day house cats.", "Researchers say Hesperonychus, whose name means \"western claw,\" was about 1.6 feet tall.", "Hesperonychus elizabethae, a 4.4-pound (2-kilogram) creature with razor-like claws, ran through the swamps and forests of southeastern Alberta, Canada, during the late Cretaceous period, the researchers said.", "The diminutive dinosaur likely hunted insects, small mammals and other prey, perhaps even baby dinosaurs, said Nick Longrich, a paleontology research associate in the University of Calgary's Department of Biological Sciences.", "\"It's basically a predator of small things,\" Longrich said.", "Longrich co-wrote a paper on the dinosaur with University of Alberta paleontologist Philip Currie.", "The paper appeared in Monday's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.", "The researchers said the clawed dinosaur was slight, ran on two legs and had dagger-like teeth.", "It had an enlarged sickle-shaped claw on its second toe, the researchers said.", "Although fossilized remains of Hesperonychus were collected in 1982, they remained unstudied until Longrich came across them in the University of Alberta's collection in 2007, the university said.", "Because of their size, some of the fossilized parts had been thought to be from juveniles.", "Longrich said he suspected the claws had come from another, smaller adult species, but said finding a fossilized pelvis in which the hip bones were fused -- which happens only once an animal is fully grown -- convinced him.", "\"The claws were kind of a bread-crumb trail that we followed along,\" until finding the well-preserved pelvis, Longrich said.", "Longrich and Currie determined that Hesperonychus, whose name means \"western claw,\" stood about 1.6 feet (50 centimeters) high.", "Albertonykus borealis, a 2.5-foot-long insectivore, had been previously thought to be the smallest North American dinosaur.", "Longrich came across the dinosaur's bones in storage at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller and decided to analyze them, Canadian Broadcasting Company reported in September.", "A dinosaur smaller than Hesperonychus has been found in China, Longrich said.", "He said he found searching through museums' storage more productive in the short term than working in the field.", "\"People collect stuff so much more quickly than they can process,\" he said.", "CNN's Taylor Gandossy contributed to this report." ]	[ "Hesperonychus elizabethae, a 4.4-pound carnivore, lived 75 million years ago .", "Remains discovered in '82; scientist began studying them in 2007 .", "Canadian researchers say it ran through swamps and forests in Alberta ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- \"Hannah Montana: The Movie\" is exactly what it purports to be, no more, no less: a two-hour version of a \"Hannah Montana\" TV episode.", "Miley Cyrus stars as Hannah Montana -- and Miley Stewart -- in \"Hannah Montana: The Movie.\"", "Hannah's popularity becomes too much for Miley Stewart (Cyrus).", "Miley retreats to Tennessee, learns what really matters, performs some songs and kisses a boy, and everything turns out all right in the end.", "Peter Chelsom -- whose checkered career includes the terrific \"Funny Bones\" and \"Hear My Song\" as well as the bomb \"Town & Country\" -- handled the direction.", "It's a sunny movie for Easter weekend.", "There are no Blofelds threatening the world, no sexual intercourse with pies, no bodies shot into pieces by machine guns smuggled in cocaine.", "Just sweet Miley Cyrus, her soul-patched dad and the huge Disney movie machine humming along.", "Watch Miley and Billy Ray Cyrus talk about \"Hannah\" » .", "Which means that perfect counterprogramming is \"Observe and Report,\" which walks a fine line between brilliant and revolting.", "CNN.com's Tom Charity thinks it's great; the New York Press' Armond White calls it \"the ugliest, most hate-filled comedy since 'Borat.'", "\" (Which, for many, could make \"Observe\" a must-see; if White wanted to discourage people, he should have said \"the ugliest, most hate-filled comedy since 'Waiting.'", "\") Also opening this weekend is \"Dragonball: Evolution,\" and, for a handful of markets, there's \"Anvil!", ": The Story of Anvil,\" about an '80s metal band that never grasped the brass ring but whose history certainly makes for entertaining watching.", "That film is earning a 98 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes and 83 percent at Metacritic, some of the highest marks of the year.", "Watch a preview of \"Dragonball\" » .", "On the DVD front, more 2008 holiday movies have found their way on to video, including \"Yes Man,\" \"Bedtime Stories,\" \"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" and \"Doubt,\" the latter of which was nominated for five Oscars.", "That's five more than \"Yes Man,\" \"Bedtime Stories\" or \"The Day the Earth Stood Still,\" for what it's worth.", "Bob Mould, Neil Young and the Doves released albums last week; among the acts putting out albums Tuesday are Fastball and Silversun Pickups.", "(And now \"The Way\" is running through my mind.)", "Watch an interview with country star Jason Aldean » .", "So, not a bad Easter weekend -- and it will conclude (more or less) with the final round of the Masters golf tournament.", "Miley Cyrus will probably not be there.", "She's got some wholesome singing to do." ]	[ "\"Hannah Montana: The Movie\" opens this weekend, starring Miley Cyrus .", "\"Observe and Report\" is \"Hannah's\" opposite: crude and cutting .", "Masters golf tournament ends Sunday ." ]	[ 1, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A military junta that toppled Guinea's government announced its new leader Wednesday in a nationwide radio address.", "Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara wrapped in the Guinean flag Wednesday.", "Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara declared himself president of the National Council for Democracy, which he called a transitional body that will oversee the country's return to democracy.", "In effect, that would make Camara president of Guinea, which was thrown into turmoil Monday after the death of President Lansana Conte.", "Camara also declared a curfew from 8 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. local time.", "Guinea's parliament is holding negotiations with the military, Africa News reporter Mamdou Dian Donghol Diallo told CNN.", "\"For the time being the situation is calm and negotiations are under way,\" Diallo said.", "\"There is no traffic. Everyone is staying inside their homes.\"", "Camara, previously the spokesman for the National Council for Democracy, suspended the government, constitution, political parties and trade unions, Diallo said from Conakry.", "The newly formed government, made up of 26 military personnel and six civilians, is negotiating a power-sharing deal that would reflect its ethnic make-up, Diallo said.", "But some in the military may not support the new leadership, he said.", "International institutions, including the African Union, have condemned the coup.", "Guinea, in western Africa bordering the Atlantic Ocean, has had two presidents since gaining independence from France in 1958.", "Conte came to power in 1984, when the military seized control of the government after the death of the first president, Sekou Toure.", "The country did not hold democratic elections until 1993, when Conte was elected president.", "He was re-elected in 1998 and 2003 amid allegations of electoral irregularities.", "Worsening economic conditions and dissatisfaction with corruption and bad governance prompted two massive strikes in 2006, the CIA World Factbook says.", "A third nationwide strike in early 2007 sparked violent protests that resulted in two weeks of martial law.", "To appease the unions and end the unrest, the Factbook says, Conte named a new prime minister in March 2007.", "Guinea is one of the poorest countries in the world, despite its mineral wealth, according to the British charity Plan UK.", "The country hosts large refugee populations from neighboring Liberia and Ivory Coast." ]	[ "NEW: Capt.", "Moussa Dadis Camara named de facto president of Guinea .", "Coup leaders impose overnight curfew; government, constitution suspended .", "President Lansana Conte died Monday after near 25-year rule .", "Coup condemned by African Union ." ]	[ 2, 3, 11 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Jewish students and faculty at California universities fear for their safety on campus because of threats aimed at them over the Middle East conflict, the father of a slain Wall Street Journal reporter said Friday.", "Judea Pearl, the father of slain reporter Daniel Pearl, says anti-Semitism is on rise on college campuses.", "Judea Pearl, whose son, Daniel Pearl, was kidnapped and killed by al Qaeda extremists while on assignment in Pakistan in 2002, told reporters at a news conference that anti-Semitic e-mail and verbal threats have escalated since Israel's three-week invasion of Gaza in January.", "Pearl teaches computer science on UCLA's Westwood campus.", "On the school's Web site, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block issued a statement about the university's policy.", "\"The conflict in the Middle East and current events in Gaza are some of the most highly controversial issues of our time, stirring deep emotions on all sides,\" the statement read.", "\"We have a responsibility to protect the freedom of expression.", "We also all have a responsibility to listen and engage -- respectfully -- even as we must understand that not every campus forum on a controversial topic will satisfy passionate and concerned members of the campus and broader communities,\" said Block.", "Pearl and officials at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, where the news conference was held, are concerned that administrators on college campuses across the country are not doing enough to foster freedom of expression while protecting Jewish students and faculty members from acts of intimidation on campuses.", "\"The verbal abuse is there, the intimidation is there, the feeling of helplessness is there, not only among students but among faculty,\" said Pearl.", "Pearl cited an incident several years ago in which he was threatened.", "\"I received hate messages from someone at UCLA who did not identify himself and said, 'I saw you in Ackerman Union and I know where your office is and I'm going to beat the (expletive) out of you,'\" Pearl said.", "\"I handed it to the campus police, and they did not do anything.\"", "UCLA spokeswoman Elizabeth Boatright-Simon told CNN there is no record of Pearl's complaint to campus police but said the university plans to meet with him.", "Wiesenthal Center officials cited another incident three weeks ago at San Jose State University where the consul general of Israel was verbally abused and forcibly driven from the stage during a guest-speaking engagement aimed at fostering understanding of Jewish culture.", "The diplomat, Akiva Tor, had to be escorted out of the room by security officers and campus police before the event ended, according to Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Wiesenthal Center and Michelle Salinsky, president of Spartans for Israel, the group which co-sponsored the speaking event.", "\"We were extremely concerned about our safety and Mr. Tor's safety,\" said Salinsky, a senior majoring in political science.", "\"Mr. Tor said he's never felt more disrespected.", "This was clearly an infringement of our expression of free speech.", "I think a lot of Jewish students do not feel safe on campuses because of the escalation of hate perpetrated against Jews.\"", "San Jose State University spokeswoman Pat Harris told CNN the sponsors of the event were responsible for moderating the speaking forum but maintained that officers and security personnel acted appropriately.", "In a statement, the university president Jon Whitmore defended the university's policies but expressed concern about the event.", "\"Our campus places high value on the free exchange of ideas in a manner that is inclusive and respectful of differing views,\" the statement read.", "\"At a recent campus event, numerous members of the audience with views differing from the invited speaker were so vocal in their expression of opposition and so uncooperative with the moderator's requests for orderly means of handling questions and answers that they disrupted the event and did not allow the speaker to respond to posed questions.", "The university fully endorses the free expression of ideas and opinion, but does not condone behavior and methods of expression that disrupt free and orderly discussion.\"", "As part of an effort to promote tolerance, the Wiesenthal Center announced plans to unveil a public service campaign next month which will be distributed online at Columbia University, UCLA, UC-Berkeley, San Jose State University and the University of Chicago, among other campuses.", "\"There are a lot of Jewish kids in California and elsewhere who are beginning to look elsewhere and saying maybe the UC system is not a user friendly place to go and we can't accept that,\" said Cooper." ]	[ "Judea Pearl says anti-Semitism on rise since January's Gaza conflict .", "Pearl's son, Daniel Pearl, was killed in 2002 by al Qaeda extremists .", "Pearl claims he received a threat, but UCLA police did nothing .", "UCLA spokesman says there is no record of Pearl's complaint ." ]	[ 1, 2, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Police on Saturday arrested a registered sex offender suspected of luring a 15-year-old girl on Myspace.com, authorities said.", "William Joe Mitchell, a registered sex offender, is suspected of luring a 15-year-old girl online.", "William Joe Mitchell was apprehended at a \"The Flying J Truck Stop\" just outside of Winchester, Virginia, authorities said.", "Virginia State Police arrested him without incident.", "Detectives received a tip Saturday that he was at the truck stop, located off Interstate 81, according to the Polk County sheriff's department.", "Personal items belonging to the teenager were found in his car, according to the sheriff's statement.", "Mitchell had allegedly been communicating with Alyssa Frank on the popular Web site Myspace.com, officials said.", "Mitchell, 46, told Frank he was 24 years old, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told CNN.", "Virginia and Polk County, Florida, authorities and the U.S.", "Marshals Service in Tampa, Florida, were working together on the case.", "Polk County Sheriff's detectives found Frank earlier this week, one day after she disappeared.", "She was found wandering around a Wal-Mart store in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, and had apparently been abandoned by her alleged abductor.", "A store employee called police after noticing the girl.", "Mitchell took Frank to the store in an apparent attempt to \"dump her,\" Judd said.", "Mitchell, in leaving the girl, told her not to draw attention to herself or he would kill her, Judd said in a statement.", "Frank is believed to have left her house in Bartow, Florida, before dawn Monday to rendezvous with Mitchell, Judd said.", "He then apparently took her to Alabama.", "Mitchell brought her back to DeFuniak Springs, which is between Pensacola and Tallahassee on the Florida Panhandle.", "Polk County authorities said Mitchell faces charges including solicitation to commit a lewd act; enticing a child via the Internet; interference with custody; and traveling to meet a minor.", "He also is sought on warrants from Jacksonville, Florida, and Alabama, said Polk County sheriff's spokeswoman Donna Wood.", "The teen's father, Rodger Frank, told CNN Saturday he had no idea his daughter had been communicating with Mitchell.", "He urged parents to talk to their kids about what they are doing online.", "\"We've had serious talks about [not putting] information of your own out there to the people,\" he said.", "\"The Internet is for information.", "It's not a playground.\" Frank said he is installing spy software on his computer to help him monitor what his daughter is doing.", "\"We think our children are well-behaved,\" he said.", "\"We have to watch them harder.", "We don't know everything.\"", "Speaking with Rodger Frank, Judd warned others who are trying to take advantage of young people.", "\"We'll hunt you down like the felon and criminal you are,\" he said.", "\"You keep your hands off our children.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Police arrest registered sex offender William Joe Mitchell at Virginia truck stop .", "Mitchell suspected of luring teen girl on Myspace.com .", "Girl found in Wal-Mart parking lot earlier this week, after alleged abduction .", "Girl left house in middle of night to meet up with Mitchell, sheriff said ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 10, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Dutch-based finance and insurance group ING is cutting up to 7,000 staff in an effort to help save $1.4 billion.", "The Dutch financial giant ING is cutting up to 7,000 jobs this year in an effort to save $1.4 billion.", "It also announced Monday that CEO, Michel Tilmant, was stepping down.", "Tilmant will continue to serve ING as an adviser until his retirement in August, ING said in a statement.", "His designated replacement is Jan Hommen, currently chairman of ING's supervisory board.", "Shareholders must still approve Hommen's transition to CEO.", "In October, the Dutch government injected $13.4 billion into ING to shore the company caught in the global financial crisis." ]	[ "Dutch-based finance and insurance group ING is cutting up to 7,000 staff .", "Move part of effort to help save $1.4 billion over the next year .", "It also announced Monday that CEO, Michel Tilmant, was stepping down." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- A 31-year-old Ecuadorean man who was beaten last Sunday in what New York City authorities say may have been a hate crime has died at a Queens hospital, his brother said Saturday.", "Jose Sucuzhanay was beaten after leaving a party at a Catholic church.", "Jose Sucuzhanay and his brother, Romel, had left a party on December 7 at St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church when several men approached them in a car in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, police said.", "The men allegedly began shouting anti-gay and anti-Latino vulgarities at the two men.", "Jose Sucuzhanay suffered severe head trauma and was taken to Elmhurst Hospital.", "He died Friday night from his injuries.", "Romel Sucuzhanay, 38, escaped with minor scrapes and has talked with detectives on the case.", "City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said she was \"horrified to learn that anti-LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual) and anti-Latino slurs were used by one or more of the assailants, raising this event to the level of a hate crime.\"", "Watch how attack has outraged the Latino community » .", "Quinn said she was in touch with the NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force.", "According to police, however, the attack has not been categorized as a hate crime.", "\"This is a wake-up call and shows how far we still must come to address the devastating problem of hate crimes in our communities,\" said Diego Sucuzhanay, Jose's brother, in a written statement.", "\"Only by exposing these crimes and working together will we be able to make a difference.\"", "No arrests have been made in the case.", "Police are offering a $22,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in the attack.", "Sucuzhanay's mother arrived Saturday in New York from the family's home outside Quito, Ecuador, only to learn that he son had died, said family spokesman Francisco Moya.", "He said the victim had lived in the United States for more than a decade and was a legal resident, working as a real estate broker.", "A news conference is expected to be held Sunday afternoon." ]	[ "Immigrant dies from injuries sustained in possible bias attack .", "Jose Sucuzhanay, brother assaulted by group of men after leaving party .", "Group allegedly yelled anti-gay, anti-Latino vulgarities at men .", "Mother learned of son's death shortly after arriving from Ecuador ." ]	[ 2, 3, 5 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- The number of homicides in New York City rose about four percent in 2008 compared with the previous year, preliminary figures from the city's police department showed.", "There were 516 homicides in New York City in 2008, according to preliminary police figures.", "The NYPD's CompStat data showed 516 homicides in the city last year, up from 496 in 2007.", "That's still a dramatic change from 1990, when 2,262 homicides earned New York the title of \"murder capital\" of the nation.", "Though the figures are subject to change, the 2008 tally also represents a drop from the 596 homicides investigated in New York in 2006.", "The NYPD, which began compiling the report in 1963, cited its Operation Impact as a chief reason for the improvement in recent years.", "The operation places more uniformed officers in concentrated areas where crime rates are high, the NYPD said." ]	[ "There were 516 homicides in the city last year, up from 496 in 2007 .", "That's still a dramatic change from 1990, when there were 2,262 homicides .", "The NYPD cites its Operation Impact as a chief reason for the improvement .", "The operation places more uniformed officers in areas where crime rates are high ." ]	[ 2, 3, 5, 6 ]
[ "(OPRAH.com) -- It's probably good that I'm not rich.", "Money, it seems to me, sends people in one of three directions: .", "Lisa Kogan cites the increase in intelligent, witty, creative women as a reason she can be cheerful.", "It accelerates an innate inclination to be generous, or it accelerates a kamikaze inclination to party with the Olsen twins, or it sucks away your sense of purpose and produces a desperate need to eat nothing but those little white cheddar Cheez-It crackers while staring blankly at an endless cycle of \"Will & Grace\" reruns.", "I like to think that if I were rich, I'd be the kind of person who looks at the world and decides to fund cancer research and build schools and feed the hungry, and save whoever needs saving, but there's an excellent chance I'd be the kind of person who looks at the world and decides never to get out of bed again.", "In fact, despite my very real (and utterly inconvenient) need to earn a living, I'm still the kind of person who leans toward the whole Cheez-It thing.", "To begin with, I have a slight tendency toward depression (think Sylvia Plath listening to a freshly downloaded acoustic set from Leonard Cohen).", "And when this particular brain chemistry is confronted with the incredibly unsettling knowledge that people no longer work like dogs to get ahead, they work like dogs just to stay where they are, well, a girl starts needing a few good reasons to get up, put on a little lipstick, and venture out.", "But it's no secret that it's not pretty out there.", "Food prices are soaring, the housing market is plummeting, the middle class is disappearing, the climate is changing, and Madonna is touring.", "This is all the more reason to keep a soothing thought or two close at hand.", "Someday soon, I promise, we can sit down together and come up with a breathtaking bucket list that finally commits us to skydiving with Morgan Freeman just as we've secretly prayed we would, but today I'm offering a different kind of list.", "Oprah.com: How you (yes, you!)", "should live your life . Good reasons to put on a little lipstick and venture out (or at least put on clean pajamas and raise your window shade a couple of inches): .", "• Junior high is just one long daisy chain of nonstop mean, and you have officially survived it.", "That's right, my friend, you may have to face locusts, drought, and World War III, but you can now go forth secure in the understanding that seventh grade is over.", "You get to wake up each and every morning without worrying that Arleen Posner got the same Frye boots as you.", "You will never have to read \"Beowulf,\" be groped by a 13-year-old reeking of his father's Aqua Velva, or feather your bangs again.", "The enormity of this revelation must not be underestimated.", "• Javier Bardem walks among us.", "• My delightfully decadent friend Stephen Whitlock recently discovered a recipe for bacon ice cream (DavidLebovitz.com), and get this -- the first step involves candying the bacon!", "Let's all take a moment of hushed reverence to contemplate this.", "Oprah.com: Five friends every woman should have .", "First came the polio vaccine, then Neil Armstrong made a giant leap for mankind, and today we actually have the technology to combine pork fat with butter fat, salty with sweet, crunchy with creamy.", "I firmly believe that what chicken soup does for the common cold, bacon ice cream will one day do for the premenstrual woman.", "• One word: Spanx.", "We can now have our scoop of bacon ice cream and wear a clingy Diane Von Furstenberg jersey wrap dress too.", "• Intelligent, witty, creative women appear to be on the rise.", "I like men. I like men so much that I even had a baby with one of 'em, but the baby is now 5, and it's nice to be able to show her some brilliantly talented females -- Rachel Maddow (MSNBC host), Mindy Kaling (playwright, producer, actress, \"The Office\"), Janice Lee (her debut novel, \"The Piano Teacher\", hits stores in January, and it's an absolute knockout) -- who are very good at what they do.", "As role models go, Dora the Explorer only takes a mom so far.", "Besides, check out Dora's expressionless little brow -- I'm pretty sure it's coursing with Botox.", "• Ordinarily, I would not include houseguests on my list of bright spots, but Mabel, the dog I am currently babysitting, is causing me to rethink my position.", "Mabel suffers from a chronic greeting disorder that manifests itself as follows: I leave the room for 10, maybe 12 seconds.", "Upon reentry, Mabel welcomes me with a level of enthusiasm usually reserved for soldiers returning from three years in a POW camp -- a one-dog mariachi band of pure, unmitigated joy.", "Unless my boyfriend and our daughter sense that I'm carrying a pizza, my return from nine or 10 hours at the office rarely merits more than a mumbled \"They never came to fix the dishwasher.\"", "There's something to be said for a bit of good old-fashioned, uncomplicated affection, even when it comes from a shedding, slightly incontinent 14-year-old beagle.", "• Tony Soprano is either dead or eating onion rings, but Don Draper is alive and mesmerizing every week on \"Mad Men.\"", "• You know those little stain remover pens that everybody keeps in their bags and desk drawers?", "I couldn't care less about them. Life is inherently messy, and I accept the odd spot of cranberry juice as part of God's great plan for me and the vast majority of my T-shirts.", "But the other night at our local diner when Julia accidentally catapulted her chocolate milk shake across our booth, there was my pal Valerie, dry cleaner's pen, ice water, and paper napkins at the ready.", "Val is just one of those intuitive, insightful, ironic, wildly generous, deeply adorable women who, despite working two jobs, is quietly, unequivocally there for the people she loves.", "If you need a complex carbohydrate, she's got the whole grain pasta salad.", "If you need a sock puppet, she's got the glue gun.", "If you need a boost, she's got the ceramic vase brimming with sunflowers.", "The woman once went on vacation, and I was absolutely bereft.", "Two weeks without Valerie Soll feels like a house without books.", "You see, Javier Bardem, bacon ice cream, and all the mad men in the world don't change the hard truth that plans frequently fail and dreams have been known to dim.", "But come the morning, there are your friends offering sweet salvation and good gossip and the occasional glass of Sauvignon Blanc with lunch.", "If ever there was a reason for hope, I think maybe that's it.", "By Lisa Kogan from \"O, The Oprah Magazine,\" November 2008 .", "Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.", "That's like getting 18 issues FREE.", "Subscribe now! TM & © 2009 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved." ]	[ "Columnist shares a few excellent reasons to venture out in the world .", "Reason one: You survived junior high, \"Beowulf,\" feathering your bangs .", "Reason three: Friend invented bacon ice cream .", "Reason seven: Don Draper is mesmerizing every week on \"Mad Men\"" ]	[ 14, 36, 46 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A woman accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter and dumping her body in Texas' Galveston Bay went on trial Tuesday on capital murder charges in the child's death, court officials said.", "Kimberly Dawn Trenor has pleaded guilty to an evidence-tampering charge, her attorney says.", "Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 20, pleaded guilty last week to tampering with evidence in the case, but she pleaded not guilty to the capital murder charge, said her attorney, Tom Stickler.", "Trenor's husband, Royce Clyde Zeigler II, 25, also faces capital murder and evidence-tampering charges, but is being tried separately and has not been arraigned.", "The body of Trenor's daughter, Riley Ann Sawyers, was found in October 2007 in a large plastic blue container on an uninhabited island in Galveston Bay.", "Jurors in Trenor's trial also will determine her sentence on the evidence-tampering charge, which carries a penalty of two to 20 years in prison, according to The Houston Chronicle.", "Riley Ann's case drew national attention after a fisherman found her body.", "Authorities were unsure of her identity, and police dubbed her \"Baby Grace.\"", "After authorities distributed composite sketches of the girl nationwide, Sheryl Sawyers, the girl's paternal grandmother, contacted police from her Ohio home to say the drawing resembled her granddaughter.", "DNA testing confirmed the child's identity.", "According to an affidavit, Trenor told police Riley had been beaten and thrown across a room and that her head was held under water before she died on July 24, 2007.", "She said the couple hid the girl's body in a storage shed for one to two months before they put it in the plastic container and dumped it into the bay.", "The disposal of the girl's body led to the evidence-tampering charge.", "A medical examiner said Riley's skull was fractured in three places, injuries that would have been fatal.", "A capital murder charge carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison, the Chronicle reported.", "A cross has since been erected on the island where the toddler was found, which was named Riley's Island in her honor, according to the Houston newspaper.", "Trenor and the girl moved to Texas from Ohio in May 2007 to be with Zeigler, whom Trenor had met on the Internet.", "While in custody, Trenor gave birth this summer to another child, who is now in the care of relatives, her attorney, Tom Stickler, said." ]	[ "Kimberly Dawn Trenor accused of killing her 2-year-old known as \"Baby Grace\"\nChild's body was found in plastic container on island in Texas' Galveston Bay .", "Trenor could receive sentence of life in prison if convicted ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A former hospital worker systematically shot and killed four people in upstate New York on Saturday, authorities in two counties said.", "Former hospital worker Frank Garcia, 34, has been accused in the shooting rampage.", "Frank Garcia, 34, was arrested Saturday afternoon.", "Garcia knew all four victims, police said, but they didn't reveal details about the relationships.", "\"The individuals who were shot were known to the suspect.", "It was not necessarily a random act,\" Monroe County Sheriff Patrick O'Flynn said.", "The first two victims -- Mary Sillman, 23, and Randall Norman, 41 -- were fatally shot before 5 a.m. at Lakeside Memorial Hospital in Brockport, where Garcia was once employed, O'Flynn said.", "Another woman was wounded and is undergoing treatment at a nearby hospital, he said.", "The second shooting happened at a house in nearby Ontario County on Saturday afternoon.", "Christopher Glatz, 45, and his wife, Kim, 38, were killed \"execution-style\" while their two teenagers were in the suburban Rochester home, Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero said.", "The teens were not wounded, but it is unclear whether they witnessed the event.", "Povero said neighbors reported Garcia went door-to-door looking for the Glatzes' home.", "\"He was in fact looking for the residence,\" Povero said.", "\"He was saying different things to different people, but he was clearly looking for that home.\"", "Ballistic evidence has connected the two crime scenes, Povero said.", "Investigators found the matching brass cartridges from a pistol found on Garcia when he was arrested, he said.", "Garcia was arrested at a restaurant Saturday afternoon, CNN affiliate R-News in Rochester reported.", "Garcia was to be arraigned Saturday night in Monroe County, where the first shootings occurred, on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder in the second degree, O'Flynn said.", "Sillman was a certified nursing assistant at Lakeside's long-term care center, hospital officials said.", "\"During Mary's brief time within the system, those who worked closest with Mary described her as warm, kind and compassionate toward the residents of Lakeside Beikirch Care Center,\" Lakeside interim CEO Michael Stapleton said in a statement.", "Garcia likely will face similar charges in Ontario County, Povero said.", "\"This certainly speaks to a tragedy that is enormous, not only the taking of the lives that were taken, but the people that were left behind, the person in Brockport and the two teenage children who were present when their mother was systematically murdered,\" Povero said." ]	[ "Suspect went door-to-door in search of victims' residence, authorities say .", "Christopher Glatz, 45, and wife Kim, 38, were shot \"execution-style\" in home .", "The couple's teenage children at suburban Rochester home but were not injured .", "Mary Sillman, 23, and Randall Norman, 41, shot at a hospital earlier Saturday ." ]	[ 4, 6, 9, 11 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- One of the main stumbling blocks to talk with Iran has been the condition that Iran suspends its uranium enrichment.", "Now, the Obama administration may take that option off the table, at least for now.", "This is from an Iranian nuclear plant in the central province of Isfahan on April 9.", "The United States and its European allies, which have just invited Iran to a fresh round of nuclear talks, are coming to the realization that if Iran's nuclear program isn't quite at the point of no return, it will be soon.", "With 5,500 centrifuges, roughly enough for about two weapons worth of uranium a year, Iran isn't going to just shut down its enrichment facility as a goodwill gesture.", "For years, Iran has been willing to endure sanctions and economic isolation.", "What it hasn't been willing to do is suspend enrichment.", "Iran maintains enriching uranium for nuclear energy is its right.", "Now the West seems to have come around to Iran's way of thinking.", "Last week during a speech on proliferation in Prague, Czech Republic, President Obama admitted as much when he said, \"We will support Iran's right to peaceful nuclear energy with rigorous inspections.\"", "The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, has long argued to allow Iran to maintain a small face-saving nuclear enrichment program under the guise of \"research and development.\"", "Allowing such a program under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, at least while negotiations continue, would involve strict IAEA inspections -- something which may give the international community the kind of insight into Iran's nuclear program which it has long sought.", "It would also give Iran the cover to come back to the table without claiming it never gave in to the West.", "Rather, Tehran can boast the international community came around to its point of view.", "Preventing Iranian enrichment may be an ultimate pipe dream, but officials hope the right package of incentives, coupled with the threat of tougher sanctions, which could cripple its stumbling economy, could deter Tehran from developing a nuclear bomb.", "If adopted, the new strategy will undoubtedly be condemned by Israel, which has warned the U.S. that it has until the end of the year to put an end to Iran's uranium production before it takes matters into its own hands.", "However, moving beyond the issue of enrichment helps Obama inch closer toward engagement with Iran, something he promised during the campaign and has begun to undertake with small, albeit significant, steps, most noticeably his New Year's message to the Iranian people.", "Those who watch Iran closely say Obama's outreach is being warmly received in the region.", "While the response from spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamanei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems vague at first glance, experts argue the regime is being quite conciliatory, even flirting with the U.S. overtures and opening the door for talks.", "Now the administration is taking another leap, inviting Iran to several meetings on Afghanistan as a way to engage on issues of mutual interest.", "The U.S. is also seriously considering allowing U.S. diplomats around the world to interact with their Iranian counterparts and setting up a U.S. interests section in Iran.", "Officials say not to expect any dramatic breakthroughs before the Iranians head to the polls to elect a new president in June.", "But Obama's conservative critics, including several Republican lawmakers, worry Obama is making it too easy for Iran to come back to the table and is giving credibility to Iran's defiant Ahmadinejad in his bid for re-election.", "The goal of stopping Iran from building a nuclear weapon remains, but the tactics are shifting and the rules of the game have changed.", "Obama and his advisers are betting that by finally giving Iran what it thinks it wants, the U.S. and its allies will get what they need -- a way to bring Iran to the table and start meaningful negotiations, which have eluded them for the past four years." ]	[ "White House may drop key condition that Iran suspend its nuclear program .", "Obama administration hopes change will bring Iran to negotiation table .", "Obama says he supports Iran's nuclear program \"with rigorous inspections\"\nIsrael wants U.S. to force Iran to end its uranium production program ." ]	[ 9, 15, 24 ]
[ "MORRISTOWN, New Jersey (CNN) -- Since the beginning of the year the family clinic at the Children's Hospital of New Jersey has seen an influx of young children coming in for flu shots.", "New Jersey requires children from 6 months to 5 years old to get the flu vaccine to attend daycare or pre-school.", "The rush for vaccinations is prompted by a new law that makes New Jersey the only state requiring children between 6 months and 5 years old to get the flu vaccine to attend a licensed daycare or pre-school.", "The deadline for the flu shot requirement was December 31.", "Some parents are upset about the requirement.", "John General and Alnisa Bernabela brought their 4-year-old twins Jahmein and Jameir to the clinic last week for the flu shots.", "\"I'm really not okay with it because I think it should have been my choice,\" said Bernabela.", "\"By them forcing this, I feel like our rights have been violated,\" said General, holding his crying son Jameir being vaccinated.", "Last fall, hundreds of parents with the New Jersey Coalition for Vaccination Choice challenged the flu shot requirement at a rally in Trenton, New Jersey.", "The NJCVC and parents interviewed by CNN, expressed concern about the safety of influenza vaccines and possible long-term effects on young children.", "But the New Jersey Department of Health says the new law is for the public good citing Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention numbers showing an average of 20,000 children under age 5 are hospitalized nationwide each year because of influenza complications.", "\"Parents are certainly concerned about the health and safety of their children,\" says Dr. Christina Tan, state epidemiologist for the New Jersey Department of Health.", "\"But it's equally important to understand that the flu vaccine is safe and effective in preventing illness, not only in children, but also among the community as a whole.\"", "Many doctors support the decision, saying it helps protect a higher risk population.", "Some parents object to mandatory vaccines » .", "\"Kids under the age of 5 are targeted by this recommendation because when they get the disease they get sicker than adults do.", "They also are the ones who are more likely to transmit the flu because they are in closed quarters,\" said Dr. Nwando Anyaoku, who heads the clinic at the Children's Hospital of New Jersey.", "She says influenza tends to peak in New Jersey towards the end of January through early February.", "Jennifer Frank says she's committed to the public health goal but not on the state's schedule.", "Her 2-year-old son Caleb was hospitalized twice for extreme eczema as an infant.", "At one point, he was on a feeding tube, and she says he couldn't get vaccinated.", "\"There was literally no clear space to put a needle,\" says Jennifer Frank.", "Caleb's doctors were stumped and couldn't make a diagnosis for his condition.", "Since then, the Franks with their pediatrician's approval, have Caleb on a delayed vaccination schedule.", "As a result, they didn't meet the state's December 31 flu shot deadline and now their local board of health has banned Caleb from pre-school.", "\"When he gets his shots, that same rash flares up,\" says Joshua Frank, the father of Caleb.", "\"You know, it's frightening.", "It's very real. And for them to say, 'Well, we don't care, even though your doctors agree with you,' is outrageous.\"", "The Franks have appealed the local board of health's decision all the way to the state level, but officials have not wavered.", "While New Jersey does offer medical exemptions for some children, the rules are specific, and eczema is not considered a valid medical reason for delaying the flu vaccine.", "\"By allowing broader exemptions this could potentially erode the very core of protection,\" says Tan.", "But the Franks believe the new law should include an appeal procedure, especially for families like theirs that are willing to vaccinate their children.", "New Jersey Republican Assemblywoman Charlotte Vandervalk has been working on legislation to allow parents to decide which vaccines they want their child to receive.", "\"The bill gives conscientious objection so that people can opt out of certain vaccines.", "Maybe they want some vaccines and not others and this would give them the right to do that,\" said Vandervalk.", "For now, though, Caleb must remain out of school.", "He's confused as to why he can't return.", "\"He doesn't understand what's going on,\" says Jennifer Frank.", "\"It's been hard to explain it to him.\"", "The New Jersey Department of Health says it won't immediately know what kind of effect the new flu shot requirement will have on the state's population.", "\"As far as trying to identify whether there's actually a drop in disease incidence in the community, that's going to be a longer term type of evaluation that we're starting to look at,\" says Tan.", "American Morning correspondent Alina Cho contributed to this report ." ]	[ "New Jersey requires flu vaccine for children to attend daycare, pre-school .", "Some parents oppose new law; believe it should be their choice to vaccinate kids .", "Flu vaccine is safe; many doctors believe law protects a higher-risk population ." ]	[ 1, 2, 13, 14, 31 ]
[ "SAMSON, Alabama (CNN) -- \"Get home now.\"", "Sheriff's Deputy Josh Myers' wife and toddler daughter were killed; his son and baby daughter survived.", "Geneva County Sheriff's Deputy Josh Myers quickly hung up the phone after he got his friend's message on Tuesday and started for the town of Samson, having no idea what had happened to his wife or his three children.", "Then, another urgent message: .", "\"We got notified on the radio that a trooper was chasing a suspect that had fired shots,\" Myers told reporters on Wednesday.", "Instead of heading home, the deputy drove to Reliable Metal Products plant in the nearby town of Geneva, where he engaged in a shoot-out with the suspect, who then entered the building and shot and killed himself.", "Myers had no idea that 30 minutes earlier, the suspect had shot and killed his wife and 1½-year-old daughter, Corinne Gracy, and shot and wounded his 3-month-old baby girl, Ella Kay.", "They were victims of the bloodiest rampage in Alabama's history, carried out by Michael McLendon, who killed 10 people before turning one of his guns on himself.", "A family friend found the couple's 4-year-old son hiding in the Myers' home after the shooting.", "Watch Josh Myers tell his story: \"I need help\" » .", "\"He was present when it happened,\" Myers said.", "\"He knows something's wrong.", "He asked where mama was, and I had to tell him she was with Jesus.", "This is going to take a long time to work through it.\"", "Andrea Myers, 31, was holding Ella Kay and talking with her neighbors on their porch across the street when the gunman -- identified by police as Michael McLendon -- opened fire.", "The neighbors turned out to be McLendon's relatives, although it was unclear why he targeted them.", "He said his neighbor Alina Knowles saved his wounded daughter's life.", "iReport.com: Officials investigate .", "\"She ran up on the porch and got my baby girl and took her to safety,\" Myers said.", "Knowles said she scooped up Myers' crying 3-month-old daughter and ducked behind a minivan as McLendon cruised down an adjacent street, still firing at people.", "Read Knowles' full account .", "The 10 people McLendon killed before he shot himself to death included his mother, grandmother, other relatives and strangers.", "Ella Kay, who was shot in the leg, will have surgery on Wednesday at a hospital in Pensacola, Florida, to remove the bullet or shrapnel that is near her femoral artery, Myers said.", "A day after Tuesday's shootings, Myers stood in front of his home, across the street from the house where his family was killed, and spoke to reporters.", "Watch report on Alabama rampage » .", "\"It's supposed to be me out here getting shot, not my family,\" Myers said, speaking barely above a whisper.", "\"I'd step out on the street any day and take a bullet for anybody in this community.", "Anybody. I take that risk when I go to work every day, I take that risk when I'm off.", "\"Nobody's family should have this done,\" he added, holding pictures of his wife and daughters." ]	[ "Deputy sees body of Alabama gunman having no idea what awaited him at home .", "Josh Myers had responded to report trooper was chasing shooter .", "Gunman killed Josh Myers' wife and 18-month-old daughter on their porch .", "Police say Michael McLendon killed 10 people that day in southern Alabama ." ]	[ 2, 6, 7, 14, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- For years after his NFL career ended, Ted Johnson could barely muster the energy to leave his house.", "In healthy brain tissue, virtually no protein tangles, which show up as brown spots, are visible.", "\"I'd [leave to] go see my kids for maybe 15 minutes,\" said Johnson.", "\"Then I would go back home and close the curtains, turn the lights off and I'd stay in bed.", "That was my routine for two years.", "\"Those were bad days.\" These days, the former linebacker is less likely to recount the hundreds of tackles, scores of quarterback sacks or the three Super Bowl rings he earned as a linebacker for the New England Patriots.", "He is more likely to talk about suffering more than 100 concussions.", "\"I can definitely point to 2002 when I got back-to-back concussions.", "That's where the problems started,\" said Johnson, who retired after those two concussions.", "\"The depression, the sleep disorders and the mental fatigue.\"", "Until recently, the best medical definition for concussion was a jarring blow to the head that temporarily stunned the senses, occasionally leading to unconsciousness.", "It has been considered an invisible injury, impossible to test -- no MRI, no CT scan can detect it.", "Watch more on what goes on in athlete's brains » .", "But today, using tissue from retired NFL athletes culled posthumously, the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE), at the Boston University School of Medicine, is shedding light on what concussions look like in the brain.", "The findings are stunning.", "Far from innocuous, invisible injuries, concussions confer tremendous brain damage.", "That damage has a name: chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).", "On Tuesday afternoon, researchers at the CSTE released a study about the sixth documented case of CTE in former NFL player Tom McHale, who died in 2008 at the age of 45, and the youngest case to date, an 18-year-old multi-sport athlete who suffered multiple concussions.", "While CTE in an ex-NFL player's brain may have been expected, the beginnings of brain damage in an 18-year-old brain was a \"shocking\" finding, according to Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, and co-director of the CSTE.", "\"We think this is how chronic traumatic encephalopathy starts,\" said McKee.", "\"This is speculation, but I think we can assume that this would have continued to expand.\"", "CTE has thus far been found in the brains of six out of six former NFL players.", "\"What's been surprising is that it's so extensive,\" said McKee.", "\"It's throughout the brain, not just on the superficial aspects of the brain, but it's deep inside.\"", "CSTE studies reveal brown tangles flecked throughout the brain tissue of former NFL players who died young -- some as early as their 30s or 40s.", "McKee, who also studies Alzheimer's disease, says the tangles closely resemble what might be found in the brain of an 80-year-old with dementia.", "\"I knew what traumatic brain disease looked like in the very end stages, in the most severe cases,\" said McKee.", "\"To see the kind of changes we're seeing in 45-year-olds is basically unheard of.\"", "The damage affects the parts of the brain that control emotion, rage, hypersexuality, even breathing, and recent studies find that CTE is a progressive disease that eventually kills brain cells.", "Chris Nowinski knows well the impact of concussions.", "He was a football star at Harvard before wrestling professionally with World Wrestling Entertainment.", "In one moment, his dreams of a long career wrestling were dashed by a kick to his chin.", "That kick, which caused Nowinski to black out and effectively ended his career, capped a career riddled with concussions.", "\"My world changed,\" said Nowinski.", "\"I had depression. I had memory problems.", "My head hurt for five years.\"", "Nowinski began searching for studies, and what he found startled him.", "\"I realized when I was visiting a lot of doctors, they weren't giving me very good answers about what was wrong with my head,\" said Nowinski.", "\"I read [every study I could find] and I realized there was a ton of evidence showing concussions lead to depression, and multiple concussion can lead to Alzheimer's.\"", "Nowinski decided further study was needed, so he founded the Sports Legacy Institute along with Dr. Robert Cantu, a neurosurgeon and the co-director of the CSTE.", "The project solicits for study the brains of ex-athletes who suffered multiple concussions.", "Once a family agrees to donate the brain, it is delivered to scientists at the CSTE to look for signs of damage.", "So far, the evidence of CTE is compelling.", "The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, along with other research institutions, has now identified traumatic encephalopathy in the brains of late NFL football players John Grimsley, Mike Webster, Andre Waters, Justin Strzelczyk and Terry Long, in addition to McHale.", "Grimsley died of an accidental gunshot wound to the chest.", "Webster, Long and Strzelczyk all died after long bouts of depression, while Waters committed suicide in 2006 at age 44.", "McHale was found dead last year of an apparent drug overdose.", "\"Guys were dying,\" said Nowinski.", "\"The fact of the matter was guys were dying because they played sports 10 or 20 years before.\"", "So far, around 100 athletes have consented to have their brains studied after they die.", "Ted Johnson was one of the first to sign up.", "He said he believes that concussions he suffered while playing football explain the anger, depression and throbbing headaches that occasionally still plague him.", "Johnson said he played through concussions because he, like many other NFL athletes, did not understand the consequences.", "He has publicly criticized the NFL for not protecting players like him.", "\"They don't want you to know,\" said Johnson.", "\"It's not like when you get into the NFL there's a handout that says 'These are the effects of multiple concussions so beware.'", "\" In a statement, the NFL indicated that their staffs take a cautious, conservative approach to managing concussions.", "While they support research into the impact of concussions, they maintain that, \"Hundreds of thousands of people have played football and other sports without experiencing any problem of this type and there continues to be considerable debate within the medical community on the precise long-term effects of concussions and how they relate to other risk factors.\"", "The NFL is planning its own independent medical study of retired NFL players on the long-term effects of concussion.", "\"Really my main reason even for talking about this is to help the guys who are already retired,\" said Johnson.", "\"[They] are getting divorced, going bankrupt, can't work, are depressed, and don't know what's wrong with them.", "[It is] to give them a name for it so they can go get help.\"", "\"The idea that you can whack your head hundreds of times in your life and knock yourself out and get up and be fine is gone,\" said Nowinski.", "\"We know we can't do that anymore.", "This causes long-term damage.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Researchers find start of brain damage in 18-year old athlete who died .", "NEW: Same type of brain damage found in sixth dead NFL player .", "Damage from repeated concussions is called chronic traumatic encephalopathy .", "Symptoms can include depression, sleep disorders, headaches ." ]	[ 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 46 ]
[ "MUMBAI, India (CNN) -- The lawyer for the main suspect in last year's deadly terrorist attack in Mumbai was removed Wednesday, delaying the high-profile trial that was set to begin.", "Soldiers patrol in Mumbai on the eve of the trial of a key suspect in last year's attacks in the Indian city.", "The trial start for Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, is expected to be moved to Thursday as officials scramble to settle the lawyer issue.", "Kasab is thought to be the only one of 10 gunmen to survive the three-day siege, which killed more than 160 people in November.", "As the trial was to begin, the judge removed attorney Anjali Waghmare because she also was representing a witness in the case.", "Waghmare argued that she had no idea that the person was a witness in the terror case, and she was representing this person in a different case.", "But the judge declared that it was a conflict of interest.", "An Indian court appointed Waghmare two weeks ago to represent Kasab, and it was unclear who would replace her.", "Kasab demanded that his attorney be replaced with a Pakistani lawyer.", "But the judge denied that request and said that a Pakistani lawyer may be able to be brought in as a consultant from outside the courtroom.", "Kasab, a Pakistani national, faces more than a dozen charges, including murder, conspiracy to wage a war against the nation and terrorism.", "During the proceedings Wednesday Kasab seemed relaxed and smiled many time at the large crowd of journalists in the courtroom.", "Kasab also requested newspapers to be brought in so that he could see what the media was writing about him.", "Prosecutors last month accused him of trying to delay the trial by insisting that the 11,000-page document detailing the charges against him -- which was written in English and the local Marathi language -- be translated into Urdu, the official language of Pakistan.", "The court rejected his request.", "Wednesday's trial was to take place in a makeshift court set up in a jail where Kasab -- who has been communicating with the judge via videolink -- is being held.", "Indian authorities have long blamed the Mumbai attacks on Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a Pakistan-based militant outfit, but the group has denied responsibility.", "The violence initially heightened tensions between the two nuclear states.", "India has urged Pakistan to destroy what it calls terrorist infrastructure in that country.", "The two nations are longtime rivals that have fought three wars since their independence from the British, and conducted countering nuclear weapons tests in 1998.", "CNN's Sara Sidner contributed to this report." ]	[ "Main suspect's lawyer removed as she represents a witness in the case .", "Trial was to start Wednesday, unclear when court proceedings will resume .", "Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 21, is accused of being the only gunmen to survive siege .", "The November siege targeted victims at Mumbai hotels, hospitals, railway stations ." ]	[ 2, 3, 4 ]
[ "Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose forthcoming book is \"Late Edition: A Love Story.\"", "Bob Greene says Navy SEALs demonstrate an extraordinary devotion to duty.", "(CNN) -- There is a beach in Coronado, California, just across the bridge from San Diego.", "It offers a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean, which is why it attracts tourists who are drawn to the sun.", "I thought about that beach yesterday, when the news from the Indian Ocean near the Horn of Africa was flashed around the world -- the news that the captain of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama had been rescued from Somali pirates by U.S. forces operating off the USS Bainbridge.", "That beach in California seems quite placid, even sedate.", "The historic, red-gabled Hotel del Coronado sits upon it -- the place where the Marilyn Monroe-Jack Lemmon-Tony Curtis movie \"Some Like It Hot\" was filmed.", "The feeling of the place is one of genteel manners, of delicate tradition.", "You almost expect to see guests carrying parasols and making reservations to play croquet.", "But down the beach there is another kind of tradition.", "That's what I was thinking about on Sunday.", "When I have stayed on Coronado, I walk down that beach toward the Naval Amphibious Base.", "I remember a makeshift fence separating the beach from the far reaches of the base.", "But it was easy to walk around, and no one appeared to take it especially seriously.", "I haven't been back since September 11, 2001; I would be very surprised if the barriers aren't more formidable now.", "On that part of the beach, on the outskirts of Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, I saw Navy SEALs in training.", "Here, the Navy winnows the men who would be SEALs from the ones who fall short.", "It was a humbling thing to witness.", "As the Navy itself puts it, SEAL training is like few other competitions: .", "\"Prospective SEALs go through what is considered by many military experts to be the toughest training in the world. ...", "The most important trait that distinguishes Navy SEALs from all other military forces is that SEALs are Maritime Special Forces, as they strike from and return to the sea.", "SEALs (Sea, Air, Land) take their name from the elements in and from which they operate.", "Their stealth and clandestine methods of operation allow them to conduct multiple missions against targets that larger forces cannot approach undetected.\"", "They looked so young, those prospective SEALs on Coronado beach.", "The maximum age to apply to be a SEAL is 28.", "They all know what they're getting into when they sign up, but to see their faces -- including the faces of the ones who were falling behind, who probably weren't going to make the cut, who were gasping for air on the arduous runs along the beach and having trouble during the maneuvers in the ocean -- was to see a devotion to the concept of duty on a level few of the rest of us will ever know.", "Maybe you, during the recent days when Capt.", "Richard Phillips was held captive on that lifeboat off the coast of Africa, were asking yourself who in the world could come to his rescue.", "Who had the training, and the courage, to carry out such a mission.", "We probably don't ask ourselves that kind of question often enough.", "Usually, military operations are talked about in the abstract, as if they're lines on a chalkboard, or brightly glowing diagrams on a computer screen.", "But once in a while, like now, we stop to focus on what we ask of the people who serve in our stead when the task seems all but impossible.", "Ronald Reagan would sometimes quote a line that summed up our wonder at those who make the choice to serve our country in this way: \"Where do we find such men?\"", "We find them among us, although we usually don't know it when we see it.", "On Coronado, on Orange Avenue, there was a bar called McP's, owned by an ex-SEAL named Greg McPartlin.", "Whenever I would stop in there, groups of guys from the naval base would be having a cheeseburger, maybe listening to a local acoustic band play a guitars-only version of The Beatles' \"We Can Work It Out.\"", "You'd sit among them, and it was easy to forget what brought them to this strip of sand.", "It wasn't for vacation, or relaxation.", "Where do we find such men? Sometimes at the next table over, listening to the music.", "From the Navy SEALs' creed: .", "\"My loyalty to country and team is beyond reproach.", "I humbly serve as a guardian to my fellow Americans, always ready to defend those who are unable to defend themselves.", "I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions.", "I voluntarily accept the inherent hazards of my profession, placing the welfare and security of others before my own.", "I serve with honor on and off the battlefield.", "The ability to control my emotions and my actions, regardless of circumstance, sets me apart from other men. ...", "In the absence of orders I will take charge, lead my teammates and accomplish the mission. ...", "I will never quit.", "I persevere and thrive on adversity.", "My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies.", "If knocked down, I will get back up, every time.", "I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates and to accomplish our mission.", "I am never out of the fight.\"", "Where do we find such men? Over the weekend, we learned the answer anew.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene." ]	[ "Bob Greene: Navy SEALs go through training in San Diego .", "Navy says they go through what may be toughest military training in the world .", "He says SEALs show a devotion to duty that few of us can ever attain ." ]	[ 1, 19 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- British military officials on Sunday said Prince William had not breached any rules when he used a Royal Air Force helicopter to drop in at his girlfriend's house.", "Chinhook helicopters are normally used for transporting troops and equipment in war zones.", "The prince, second in line to the throne, landed a Chinook helicopter -- normally used for transporting troops -- in a field next to the home of Kate Middleton, according to the News of the World tabloid.", "The paper said the trip had caused fury among some in the military who saw it as a waste of time and money at a time when British forces are thinly-stretched, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.", "The Ministry of Defense said the maneuver was part of a planned training exercise designed to help the prince learn to fly in combat situations.", "\"Battlefield helicopter crews routinely practice landing in fields and confined spaces away from their airfields as a vital part of their training for operations,\" a statement said.", "\"These highly honed skills are used daily in conflict zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan.\"", "The Ministry said that due to a shortage of landing fields available for practice, an offer to land near the Middleton house on April 3 was readily accepted.", "It said no one got on or off the aircraft, which spent 20 seconds on the ground.", "Britain's air forces have already come under criticism for allowing William, 25, to fly a Chinook to attend a bachelor party, accompanied by his brother, Prince Harry.", "William, a second lieutenant in the British Army, graduated as a pilot earlier this month following a detachment to the Royal Air Force.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Prince William drops in at girlfriend's house using RAF Chinook .", "Ministry of Defense says operation was standard training procedure .", "Newspaper says the landing has angered some in the military ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A woman who was beheaded near Buffalo, New York -- allegedly by her husband -- may have been on the phone with her sister when she was killed.", "Muzzammil Hassan has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Aasiya Zubair Hassan.", "Asma Firfirey of suburban Cape Town, South Africa, told the Afrikaans newspaper Die Burger that she was on the phone with her sister, Aasiya Zubair Hassan, last week when she heard Hassan tell her husband to calm down.", "She said she heard Hassan say the two could talk about their impending divorce the following day.", "Then she heard something that sounded like her sister struggling to breathe, she said.", "\"I can only imagine how scared and emotional she must have been before she died,\" Firfirey said in the interview, reported in English by South Africa's News 24.", "Police have charged Hassan's husband, Muzzammil Hassan, with second-degree, or intentional, murder in the death of his wife, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.", "Her decapitated body was found at the offices of Bridges TV, the television network where Muzzammil Hassan was chief executive officer and Aasiya Hassan was general manager.", "Hassan told Orchard Park police his wife was dead, led officers to her body and was arrested Thursday, said Erie County District Attorney Frank Sedita III.", "He is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.", "Orchard Park Police Chief Andrew Benz on Tuesday contradicted a CNN report that quoted him as saying Hassan confessed to the crime.", "A Buffalo attorney told CNN on Tuesday that he expects to represent Hassan but declined further comment, saying details had not yet been worked out.", "Hassan came to America from Pakistan 25 years ago and became a successful banker, but he and his wife were troubled by the negative perception of Muslims, Voice of America reported in 2004.", "Speaking in December 2004, Hassan said his wife, then pregnant, was worried about that perception and \"felt there should be an American Muslim media where her kids could grow up feeling really strong about their identity as an American Muslim.\"", "\"So she came up with the idea and turned to me and said, 'Why don't you do it?'", "\" he said. \"And I was like, I have no clue about television.", "I'm a banker. ... And her comment was, 'You have an MBA.", "Why don't you write a business plan?'", "\" Bridges TV began as a television network for Muslim-Americans, aimed at overcoming the negative stereotypes associated with the religion.", "\"There should be a Muslim media,\" Muzzammil Hassan told VOA, \"so that Muslim children growing up in America grow up with the self-confidence and high self-esteem about their identity both as Americans and as Muslims.\"", "In the past few years, according to a former employee who asked not to be named for fear of retribution, Bridges TV transformed itself into more of a cross-cultural network seeking to bridge the gap between all cultures.", "Most of their employees were not Muslim, the former employee said, and Muzzammil Hassan himself was not devout.", "Aasiya Hassan filed for divorce February 6, police said, and Muzzammil Hassan was served with divorce papers at the station.", "That night, he showed up at the couple's home, she notified authorities and he was served with a restraining order.", "Police are not commenting on details of the crime, except to say the woman's body did not appear to have been moved.", "They also would not divulge what Muzzammil Hassan told police or the suspected motive.", "The law firm representing Aasiya Hassan refused to comment, only confirming that she had filed for divorce.", "Benz told CNN on Tuesday that police had responded to several domestic violence calls at the couple's address, but no one was arrested.", "Firfirey, as well as a Pakistani woman identifying herself as another of Aasiya Hassan's sisters, characterized her as living in fear.", "Firfirey said the last time she saw her sister was in May 2008, when she visited South Africa.", "When she arrived, she was badly injured, and Firfirey's family paid the equivalent of about $3,000 for her to be treated, she said.", "Aasiya Hassan returned to America, she said, because she wanted to complete her MBA degree and \"didn't want to leave her children with that monster.\"", "She said she calls Muzzammil Hassan \"the fat man with evil eyes.\"", "Aasiya Hassan would have graduated March 6, Firfirey said.", "A woman in Pakistan using the name Salma Zubair posted on a blog that she is the sister of \"this brutally murdered woman.\"", "\"She lived her 8 years of married life with fear in heart,\" Zubair wrote.", "\"He had already frightened her enough that she couldn't muster up her guts and leave him, and when she finally did gather that much strength he killed her so brutally.", "She lived to protect her children from this man and his family and she died doing so.\"", "She said Aasiya Hassan \"had always been a very loving person, not even one person in this world can say a small wrong word about her ... she had always dreamed a life of a happily married family, which she did her best to achieve.\"", "Both women said they were worried about the couple's children, ages 4 and 6.", "Firfirey said they were being cared for by a colleague of the couple.", "Muzzammil Hassan also has two older children from a previous marriage.", "Members of Muzzammil Hassan's family did not return calls from CNN on Monday.", "The former employee told CNN that Aasiya Hassan was popular at the station and was very kind.", "Muzzammil Hassan was known among employees for having a temper -- he sometimes would yell at and demean his wife, but at other times appeared to be a loving husband and father, the former employee said.", "Bridges TV released a statement Monday saying its staff was \"deeply shocked and saddened by the murder of Aasiya Hassan and the subsequent arrest of Muzzammil Hassan.", "Our deepest condolences and prayers go out to the families of the victim.\"", "Imam Mohamed Hagmagid Ali, vice president of the Islamic Society of North America, said Aasiya Hassan's death serves \"as a wake-up call to call of us, that violence against women is real and cannot be ignored ... the Muslim community is not exempt from this issue.", "We, the Muslim community, need to take a strong stand against domestic violence.\"", "CNN's Mary Snow contributed to this report." ]	[ "New York man charged with second-degree murder after wife found beheaded .", "Police: Woman's decapitated body found at TV station where she, husband worked .", "Report: Sister says she may have been on phone with victim when she was killed .", "Aasiya Zubair Hassan had filed for divorce from Muzzammil Hassan days earlier ." ]	[ 0, 1, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The sole survivor of Sunday's shooting rampage in Wisconsin \"played dead\" after a sheriff's deputy shot him three times, Wisconsin's attorney general said Tuesday.", "Tyler Peterson, a sheriff's deputy, shot and killed six people, police said.", "After Tyler Peterson shot him once, Charlie Neitzel, 21, begged him to stop.", "But Peterson fired again.", "Neitzel fell to the floor, was shot a third time, and didn't move.", "\"Playing dead until Peterson left, Neitzel survived,\" Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen said.", "Neitzel underwent surgery Tuesday and was in stable condition Tuesday night, a hospital employee told CNN.", "The families of the six slain young people -- all current or former graduates of Crandon High School in Crandon, Wisconsin, asked that media leave them alone in their grief, Van Hollen told reporters.", "But the families of the victims also wanted it known that they had met with Peterson's family.", "\"They hold no animosity toward them,\" Van Hollen said, conveying the families' wishes that the Peterson family be allowed space and time to heal.", "On Sunday around 2 a.m. (3 a.m.", "ET) Peterson, a full-time Forest County Sheriff's deputy, went to a party at a home in the small town of Crandon apparently to make amends with an ex-girlfriend, a friend of Peterson's told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.", "Peterson argued with Jordanne Murray, accusing her of dating someone else, said Van Hollen.", "Peterson lost control after people called him a \"worthless pig,\" Peterson's friend Mike Kegley told the paper.", "Peterson left the party and got a police-style AR-15 rifle from his truck, forced his way back into the apartment and fired about 30 rounds at about 2:45 a.m. (3:45 a.m. ...", "Six people were killed.", "According to The Associated Press, investigators found three bodies on or next to a couch -- Lindsey Stahl, 14; Aaron Smith, 20; and Bradley Schultz, 20.", "Murray, 18, was found in the kitchen.", "Lianna Thomas, 18, was found in a closet, and Katrina McCorkle, 18, was just outside it.", "Both had apparently been trying to hide, Van Hollen said, according to AP.", "Neitzel was the last person shot, Van Hollen said.", "Less than 20 minutes later, a patrolling Crandon police officer, reported hearing gunfire and approached the apartment building to investigate, Van Hollen said.", "The officer, Greg Carter, 21, said he saw Peterson exit the building with a rifle, and momentarily lost sight of him.", "Then, Carter \"heard multiple rounds of gunfire\" and Carter's windshield burst, Van Hollen said.", "Van Hollen said Peterson drove \"aimlessly\" through three Wisconsin counties and made false calls to authorities to \"throw police off his tail.\"", "He eventually stopped in Argonne, Wisconsin, where he spoke to friends and confessed, Van Hollen said.", "Peterson was killed in a shootout with law officers Sunday after negotiations for his surrender failed.", "The details of the negotiations are not being released at this time pending an ongoing investigation, Van Hollen said Tuesday.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Charlie Neitzel, 21, begged Tyler Peterson to stop shooting, AG said .", "AG: After Peterson fired second time, Neitzel dropped to floor and didn't move .", "Peterson was shot three times in the head; once in bicep, AG said .", "Peterson opened fire on a party of young people Sunday, killing six ." ]	[ 1, 2, 3, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The first guests checked back into the Taj Mahal Palace and the Oberoi-Trident hotels Sunday, marking the reopening of the two luxury venues damaged by terrorist attacks in Mumbai last month.", "Guests arrive Sunday at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai.", "Along with new guests, the hotels' five restaurants were booked with diners, representatives of the Taj Mahal said.", "\"Today has been an incredibly moving day.", "The Taj has been reopened, after a massive concerted effort, in dedication to all of those who lost their lives in the attacks on Mumbai,\" said Ratan Tata, the chairman of the company that owns the the Taj Mahal Palace hotel.", "Representatives at the Oberoi-Trident marked the reopening of that hotel with a multi-religion prayer meeting.", "Watch as the Taj Mahal hotel reopens .", "\"All the 550 guest rooms, including the executive floors, of the hotel are ready to receive guests,\" a hotel spokesman said, adding the business was reopening with \"heightened security,\" There were still portions of both hotels that could not reopened because of damage, including the Heritage wing of the Taj Mahal and the Oberoi wing of the Oberoi-Trident.", "The scene Sunday is a far cry from November 26 when the hotel and many other locations in Mumbai were paralyzed by a mass of coordinated attacks.", "Terrorists using bombs, gunfire and fire caused the deaths of more than 160 people over three days of sieges throughout the city that is India's commercial capital.", "They took hostages at the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and Oberoi-Trident hotels.", "The assaults also targeted a historic train station, a Jewish cultural center and other landmarks.", "CNN's Harmeet Singh contributed to this report." ]	[ "Mumbai's Taj Mahal Palace Tower, Oberoi-Trident luxury hotels reopen .", "Both were targeted by gunmen in last month's attacks in which around 160 died .", "Parts of both hotels still closed because of damage suffered during three-day sieges ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- A medical ailment that has worried male members of string sections across the music world for over 30 years has been exposed as a hoax.", "Male cellists of the world can breathe easy again.", "A senior British lawmaker confessed to making up the condition known as \"cello scrotum\" -- which relates to chafing from the instrument -- after reading about another musically-related ailment called \"guitarist's nipple\" in the British Medical Journal in 1974.", "Elaine Murphy, who is a member of The House of Lords and a trained doctor, came clean about the prank she devised with husband John in a letter to the BMJ published on Wednesday.", "She said: \"Perhaps after 34 years it's time for us to confess that we invented cello scrotum.", "\"Reading (Dr) Curtis's 1974 letter to the BMJ on guitar nipple, we thought it highly likely to be a spoof and decided to go one further by submitting a letter pretending to have noted a similar phenomenon in cellists, signed by the non-doctor one of us.", "\"Anyone who has ever watched a cello being played would realize the physical impossibility of our claim.\"", "Murphy's confession may have been hastened by the fact that cello scrotum was referenced by a medical researcher in the BMJ late last year.", "The article, entitled \"A symphony of maladies,\" focused on health problems among musicians and contained references to such ailments as fiddler's neck, flautist's chin and cellist's chest.", "Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, told Britain's Independent newspaper: \"It seems the BMJ has been deliciously hoaxed.", "It is wonderful it has been going all these years and no one realized.", "\"We frown on misconduct and medical fraud is taken very seriously.", "But in this case I hope I am right in saying that no harm has been done.\"", "Murphy was made a life peer in 2004 and is active on mental health and ageing issues in the House of Lords." ]	[ "Elaine Murphy is a member of The House of Lords and a trained doctor .", "She made up cello scrotum ailment after reading about guitarist's nipple in 1974 .", "Cello scrotum was referenced in a British Medical Journal article last year .", "\"A symphony of maladies\" focused on health problems among musicians ." ]	[ 2, 3, 8 ]
[ "MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia declared an end Thursday to its 10-year anti-terror \"operation\" in the autonomous republic of Chechnya.", "Russian forces have been operating in Chechnya since Boris Yeltsin's order in 1999.", "The end to the offensive could see the withdrawal of thousands of troops from the Muslim-majority region, where Russia has fought two wars since the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991.", "The head of the Federal Security Service \"canceled the decree declaring a counterterrorist operation in the territory of the republic as of midnight of April 16,\" Russia's anti-terror committee said.", "It said it did so to create \"the conditions for the future normalization of the situation in the republic, its reconstruction and development of its socio-economic sphere,\" it said in a statement.", "The late president Boris Yeltsin ordered the counter-terrorist operation in 1999.", "Since then, the region has been relatively stable." ]	[ "Russia declares end to 10-year anti-terror \"operation\" in Chechnya .", "Thousands of troops could be withdrawn from Muslim-majority region .", "Former president Boris Yeltsin ordered the counter-terrorist operation in 1999 ." ]	[ 0, 5 ]
[ "(Entertainment Weekly) -- After all the anticipation and hubbub, the weekend is coming to an end and the box office results are here: \"Watchmen\" (No.", "1) grossed $55.7 million during its first frame, according to early estimates from Media by Numbers.", "\"Watchmen\" led the weekend box office, grossing $55.7 million during its first weekend.", "That's a solid sum, to be sure, although it's certainly on the low end of most projections.", "\"Watchmen\" premiered in more theaters (3,611) than any other R-rated movie in history, and it averaged an impressive $15,413 per venue, despite a potentially problematic long running time.", "It also scored the biggest debut of 2009 so far.", "Nonetheless, the movie's $55.7 million take (including $5.5 million from 124 IMAX screens) is substantially smaller than the $70.9 million that 300, the last R-rated graphic-novel movie from director Zack Snyder, earned on its opening weekend two years ago.", "And aside from that theater-count statistic (which almost any film could break at any time, really), there will be no major records to report on this weekend (for example, \"Watchmen's\" debut was just the fifth-best opening ever for an R-rated movie).", "I'd argue, in fact, that this opening is a bit soft, considering the great expectations that came with Snyder's adaptation of Alan Moore's landmark comic book -- not to mention \"Watchmen's\" hefty grosses from screenings at midnight on Friday and throughout its first day.", "After attracting some major initial interest, banking $25.1 million on Friday, the film's audience dropped off dramatically during the weekend: It grossed $19 million on Saturday and is expected to bring in just $11.5 million on Sunday.", "These are all big numbers, don't get me wrong, but, when combined with the fact that the film got a lukewarm CinemaScore grade of B from an audience that was largely comprised of older men, it all points to a rapid downward trend that may be difficult to reverse in the weeks to come.", "Elsewhere -- yes, there were other movies playing at the multiplex this weekend!", "-- a number of films continued to do what \"Watchmen\" must now aspire to, perhaps in vain: They stayed strong deep into their long runs.", "Tyler Perry's \"Madea Goes to Jail\" (No.", "2) grossed $8.8 million on its third weekend; the film, Perry's biggest yet at the box office, has banked $76.5 million to date.", "\"Taken\" (No. 3) also moved along like the unstoppable force it has been for more than a month now, earning $7.5 million and bringing its six-week sum to $118 million.", "Best Picture winner \"Slumdog Millionaire\" (No.", "4) was next with $6.9 million, which boosted its domestic haul to $125.4 million.", "And \"Paul Blart: Mall Cop\" (No.", "5) took its eight-week total to $133.6 million thanks to another $4.2 million gross.", "iReport.com: What did you think of 'Watchmen'?", "Meanwhile, \"Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience\" (No.", "9) completely fell off the map, dropping a staggering 78 percent to gross just $2.8 million.", "According to Box Office Mojo, that's the 15th biggest second-weekend decline of all time.", "Overall, the cumulative box office was up nearly 8 percent over the same frame a year ago, when 10,000 B.C.", "opened big, making this the fifth consecutive \"up\" weekend at the multiplex.", "So, all in all, I'd say today's was a good report, indeed.", "CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .", "Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "\"Watchmen\" premiered in more theaters than any other R-rated movie in history .", "Tyler Perry's \"Madea Goes to Jail\" (No.", "2) grossed another $8.8 million .", "Best Picture winner \"Slumdog Millionaire\" took the No.", "4 slot with $6.9 million ." ]	[ 4, 13, 14, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Just as \"Y2K\" and its batch of predictions about the year 2000 have become a distant memory, here comes \"Twenty-twelve.\"", "The sun shines through the door of the Seven Dolls Temple, in the Maya ruins of Dzibilchaltun in Mexico.", "Fueled by a crop of books, Web sites with countdown clocks, and claims about ancient timekeepers, interest is growing in what some see as the dawn of a new era, and others as an expiration date for Earth: December 21, 2012.", "The date marks the end of a 5,126-year cycle on the Long Count calendar developed by the Maya, the ancient civilization known for its advanced understanding of astronomy and for the great cities it left behind in Mexico and Central America.", "(Some scholars believe the cycle ends a bit later -- on December 23, 2012.)", "Speculation in some circles about whether the Maya chose this particular time because they thought something ominous would happen has sparked a number of doomsday theories.", "The hype also has mainstream Maya scholars shaking their heads.", "\"There's going to be a whole generation of people who, when they think of the Maya, think of 2012, and to me that's just criminal,\" said David Stuart, director of the Mesoamerica Center at the University of Texas at Austin.", "\"There is no serious scholar who puts any stock in the idea that the Maya said anything meaningful about 2012.\"", "Find out more about the history and culture of the Maya » .", "But take the fact that December 21, 2012, coincides with the winter solstice, add claims the Maya picked the time period because it also marks an alignment of the sun with the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and you have the makings of an online sensation.", "Type \"2012\" into an Internet search engine and you'll find survival guides, survival schools, predictions and \"official stuff\" to wear, including T-shirts with slogans such as \"2012 The End\" and \"Doomsday 2012.\"", "Theories about what might happen range from solar storms triggering volcano eruptions to a polar reversal that will make the Earth spin in the opposite direction.", "If you think all of this would make a great sci-fi disaster movie, Hollywood is already one step ahead.", "\"2012,\" a special-effects flick starring John Cusack and directed by Roland Emmerich, of \"The Day After Tomorrow\" fame, is scheduled to be released this fall.", "The trailer shows a monk running to a bell tower on a mountaintop to sound the alarm as a huge wall of water washes over what appear to be the peaks of the Himalayas.", "'Promoting a hoax' One barometer of the interest in 2012 may be the \"Ask an Astrobiologist\" section of NASA's Web site, where senior scientist David Morrison answers questions from the public.", "On a recent visit, more than half of the inquiries on the most popular list were related to 2012.", "\"The purveyors of doom are promoting a hoax,\" Morrison wrote earlier this month in response to a question from a person who expressed fear about the date.", "A scholar who has studied the Maya for 35 years said there is nothing ominous about 2012, despite the hype surrounding claims to the contrary.", "\"I think that the popular books... about what the Maya say is going to happen are really fabricated on the basis of very little evidence,\" said Anthony Aveni, a professor of astronomy, anthropology and Native American studies at Colgate University.", "Aveni and Stuart are both writing their own books explaining the Mayan calendar and 2012, but Stuart said he's pessimistic that people will be interested in the real story when so many other books are making sensational claims.", "Dozens of titles about 2012 have been published and more are scheduled to go on sale in the coming months.", "Current offerings include \"Apocalypse 2012,\" in which author Lawrence Joseph outlines \"terrible possibilities,\" such as the potential for natural disaster.", "But Joseph admits he doesn't think the world is going to end.", "\"I do, however, believe that 2012 will prove to be... a very dramatic and probably transformative year,\" Joseph said.", "The author acknowledged he's worried his book's title might scare people, but said he wanted to alert the public about possible dangers ahead.", "He added that his publisher controls the book's title, though he had no issue with the final choice.", "\"If it had been called 'Serious Threats 2012' or 'Profound Considerations for 2012,' it would have never gotten published,\" Joseph said.", "Growing interest .", "Another author said the doom and gloom approach is a great misunderstanding of 2012.", "\"The trendy doomsday people... should be treated for what they are: under-informed opportunists and alarmists who will move onto other things in 2013,\" said John Major Jenkins, whose books include \"Galactic Alignment\" and who describes himself as a self-taught independent Maya scholar.", "Jenkins said that cycle endings were all about transformation and renewal -- not catastrophe -- for the Maya.", "He also makes the case that the period they chose coincides with an alignment of the December solstice sun with the center of the Milky Way, as viewed from Earth.", "\"Two thousand years ago the Maya believed that the world would be going through a great transformation when this alignment happened,\" Jenkins said.", "But Aveni said there is no evidence that the Maya cared about this concept of the Milky Way, adding that the galactic center was not defined until the 1950s.", "\"What you have here is a modern age influence [and] modern concepts trying to garb the ancient Maya in modern clothing, and it just doesn't wash for me,\" Aveni said.", "Meanwhile, he and other scholars are bracing for growing interest as the date approaches.", "\"The whole year leading up to it is going to be just crazy, I'm sorry to say,\" Stuart said.", "\"I just think it's sad, it really just frustrates me.", "People are really misunderstanding this really cool culture by focusing on this 2012 thing.", "It means more about us than it does about the Maya.\"" ]	[ "December 21, 2012, marks the end of a 5,126-year cycle on a Mayan calendar .", "Some think the date is ominous, others say it may signal the dawn of a new era .", "Theories are fabricated on the basis of very little evidence, Maya scholar says .", "\"The whole year leading up to it is going to be just crazy,\" another scholar warns ." ]	[ 3, 4, 20, 38 ]
[ "JERUSALEM (CNN) -- U.S. envoy George Mitchell was in Israel on Thursday for his first visit since right-wing politician Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister.", "U.S. envoy George Mitchell, right, meets Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday in Jerusalem.", "It is Mitchell's third visit to the region since President Obama appointed him as special envoy for Middle East peace.", "Mitchell plans to meet with Netanyahu and other Israeli politicians Thursday, as well as Palestinian leaders -- including President Mahmoud Abbas -- in the West Bank and Jerusalem on Friday.", "The former senator and seasoned diplomat has not been shy in articulating the U.S. desire to see a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which has led to speculation that the new Israeli government and the Obama administration may find themselves on a collision course.", "Netanyahu has indicated he wants serious negotiations with the Palestinians to continue, but he has not explicitly stated his support for Palestinian statehood.", "Questions about the new Israeli government's commitment to a negotiated peace process came up when the new foreign minister, nationalist politician Avigdor Lieberman, declared the Annapolis process \"null and void.\"", "The Annapolis process, launched by the Bush administration in 2007, paved the way for the resumption of Israeli and Palestinian talks after they stopped earlier in the decade.", "After meeting Lieberman on Thursday morning, Mitchell said he had reiterated the U.S. stance.", "\"U.S. policy favors, with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a two-state solution which would have a Palestinian state living in peace alongside the Jewish state of Israel,\" Mitchell said.", "\"We look forward also to efforts to achieve a comprehensive peace throughout the region.\"", "Lieberman said the two men had a \"great opportunity to exchange some ideas\" and spoke about close cooperation.", "\"We spoke to coordinate our position regarding the Palestinian issue, regarding the area problems,\" he said.", "\"We are looking forward to the next meeting for some really deep dialogue about security, about economy, about all problems in the entire region.\"", "The Israeli foreign minister said Israel will do everything necessary to improve the Palestinians' economic situation.", "But in a statement after his meeting with Mitchell, he emphasized that Israel expects an \"unequivocal commitment\" from the international community to Israel's security and to the Jewish state.", "Mitchell met Wednesday night with Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who told the U.S. envoy that the countries' bilateral relationship is \"deep and close.\"", "\"It is possible to reach cooperation and understanding on all issues that are on the table,\" said Barak.", "The issue of Iran and its nuclear program was also a topic Thursday.", "After Mitchell met with Israeli President Shimon Peres, the president said he emphasized dialogue on the issue.", "\"It is our common interest that dialogue with Iran will expose if there is an opportunity with Iran or is it all a hoax,\" Peres said.", "\"We all want a world that is clean of nuclear bombs, but the problem is that those holding the bombs are religious fanatics, extremists, that do not cringe from all methods of killing.", "\"We need to create a wide international cooperation regarding the matter of Iran,\" he said.", "\"All this talk about a possible attack by Israel in Iran are not true.", "The solution to Iran is not a military solution.\"", "Lieberman said the subject of Iran is a \"major problem\" for Israel and the whole region.", "\"If you are looking for a stable solution to the Palestinian problem, before everything else you have [to] stop the intensification and the spreading of the Iranian threat,\" Lieberman said in his statement.", "CNN Jerusalem Bureau Chief Kevin Flower contributed to this report." ]	[ "George Mitchell to meet with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu .", "Netanyahu has not explicitly said he supports Palestinian statehood .", "Israel's foreign minister has said Annapolis peace process is \"null and void\"\nIsraeli President Shimon Peres meets with Mitchell, supports dialogue with Iran ." ]	[ 1, 5, 6, 19, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The two young women were as different as could be when they met in a small farming village outside Uganda's capital in 2004.", "Orphans perform at the opening ceremony for their new home in Mutungo, Uganda.", "Brittany Merrill was a 19-year-old Southern Methodist University broadcast journalism student from an affluent family in suburban Atlanta, Georgia.", "She was teaching literature in Uganda for the summer when she decided to visit Mutungo, a crowded shantytown of mud huts and wooden shacks, where children in torn clothes ran around in bare feet, and people lingered in the noisy streets to avoid the oppressive heat inside their homes.", "At 22 years old, Sarah Kamara felt God had called on her to take in homeless children begging on Mutungo's streets.", "In addition to her own daughter, Kamara was caring for 23 children in her one-room home.", "Some were AIDS orphans, others had been abandoned by families who had too many children.", "But Kamara took them in, alienating herself from neighbors, relatives and her husband, who briefly separated from her in protest.", "Despite Kamara's broken English and Merrill's culture shock, the two found common ground in their compassion for the children, whose zeal for life was unmitigated by the poverty, disease and death that had brought them to Kamara's home.", "\"They taught me about what is meaningful in this world and gave me purpose,\" Merrill said of the children.", "\"Their love and faith has challenged my heart.", "They shook me out of my complacency.\"", "Merrill left Uganda determined to help Kamara realize her dream of opening a full-fledged orphan home, where sets of \"mamas\" and \"uncles\" would care for children in separate living spaces, nurturing their emotional, physical and spiritual needs.", "Four years and roughly $800,000 later, the two brought their vision to life with the opening of the Ranch on Jesus Orphanage in March.", "The home, which will accommodate 180 orphans at capacity, is named after the nonprofit ministry that Kamara and her husband, Theophilius, started after they met Merrill in 2004.", "Local dignitaries and the orphans' relatives, who couldn't afford to care for them, attended the opening.", "It was a rousing celebration of song and dance, ceremonial ribbon-cuttings and speeches that highlighted how cultural barriers crumbled before the wills of the two women.", "See images from the opening ceremony » .", "\"Here in Africa, ladies don't do such big, big things,\" Kamara said after the ceremony.", "\"I'm a young lady, and Brittany is also a young lady, but the Lord has used us in a great, great way.\"", "After Merrill's first trip to Uganda, she knew her life's path had been irrevocably altered.", "She started using her free time to take classes in nonprofit management at SMU and read up on fundraising before securing a loan from her father to buy property for the orphanage.", "She expanded upon her vision in her senior year, forgoing a social life so she could draw up facility plans and file paperwork for a nonprofit.", "\"My friends thought I had fallen off the face of the Earth,\" she said.", "She also began fundraising in earnest, sharing her vision with family and friends at fundraising dinners in Atlanta and Dallas, Texas, and relying on word of mouth to expand her pool of donors.", "By the end of 2005, she had put her vision on paper with the creation of the Ugandan Children's Orphanage Fund.", "After graduation, her dream of becoming a journalist was replaced by new goals.", "As her friends started marrying and taking jobs stateside, Merrill was visiting Uganda with greater frequency, bringing along more recent graduates from the United States each time.", "\"I'd never been involved in community service, never planned on being in Africa, this wasn't my plan for my life, so to watch my own heart change to learn to love people who are different from me in every possible way, that's something that has really changed me and the way I see the world, and my role in the world in the context of others,\" she said.", "Merrill's dedication to Uganda grew as the Mutungo Orphanage Project made headway, first with the construction of a temporary orphanage, and then with the groundbreaking in 2007 of a facility consisting of family-style apartments for the children and caregivers.", "Meanwhile, the Kamaras founded Ranch on Jesus Ministries, a nonprofit that runs the orphanage and a nearby school serving children from the orphanage and others from Mutungo.", "As Merrill's relationship with the community grew, so did her ambitions for development projects in the region.", "By the time she moved to Uganda in 2007, the Ugandan Children's Orphanage Fund had become the Ugandan American Partnership Organization, and the foundation had started two more projects with the help of Ugandan entrepreneurs and community leaders and more fundraising on the part of Merrill and board members in Dallas, Atlanta and Birmingham, Alabama.", "\"When our relationships are bad, the projects suffer.", "When our relationships are strong, our projects thrive, they don't feel forced,\" Merrill said.", "\"To me, it's really amazing to see how some of the most beautiful and bountiful relationships come out of transcending race, culture and economic status.\"", "So far, the Amaazi Project has successfully drilled six water wells in rural villages in Eastern and Northern Uganda, providing more than 3,000 villagers with clean water.", "The Akola Project has grown into a crafts cooperative in a village of the same name.", "The cooperative provides more than 100 widows with an additional source of income through making jewelry.", "Merrill credits her youthful inexperience with helping the organization succeed.", "\"I think that because we were so young, we started with a blank slate and we didn't think we knew the answers.", "We learned to listen, we came in with open ears and an open heart and listened to the people in the community about their ideas for development,\" Merrill said.", "\"Because of that, we've been successful with developing projects and forming strong relationships with people we work with.\"" ]	[ "Orphanage starts with 23 children in Sarah Kamara's ramshackle home .", "American college student Brittany Merrill raises funds to build bigger orphan home .", "Vision for orphan home grows out of meeting between the two women in 2004 .", "Ranch on Jesus Orphanage will house 180 orphans in Mutungo at capacity ." ]	[ 4, 13, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Donald Trump visited \"Larry King Live\" on Wednesday night to tout his new book, \"Think Like a Champion.\"", "In a wide-ranging interview, Trump shared his thoughts on how to prosper in this economy, Bernie Madoff, how President Obama is doing, taxes and his daughter's love life.", "On CNN's \"Larry King Live\" Wednesday night, Donald Trump said it's a great time for entrepreneurs.", "The following interview has been edited for brevity and clarity: .", "Larry King: Why this book?", "Donald Trump: A lot of people wanted me to do a book right now about these troubled times that we're all in.", "And it's been sort of interesting.", "They're great times, as an entrepreneur.", "I don't think I've ever seen better times as an entrepreneur.", "But the world is a mess, and the country is a mess.", "King: Why [is it a] good time for an entrepreneur and not necessarily for others?", "Trump: Well, this is a time for smart people.", "This is a time for entrepreneurial people.", "This is a great time for people like me -- and maybe people like you, Larry, because I know you're a great investor. ...", "Weren't you involved with [Bernie] Madoff?", "King: A little bit, yes.", "You weren't, huh? How did you resist him? Trump: Honestly, I got lucky.", "He might have duped me like he did a lot of other people.", "He is a disaster. But now he's where he belongs. King: With troubled times like this for the average guy, is this the time to think like a champion?", "Watch Larry King's entire interview with Donald Trump » .", "Trump: This is the best time to think like a champion.", "As an example, the house is being foreclosed.", "You go see your bank -- maybe you can make a deal, maybe you can't.", "But you can make a deal with a bank on another house, and much better than the one you're living in. ...", "They'll do any deal to get rid of their product.", "They have houses by the thousands.", "And you go see that bank and you make a deal.", "King: How do you assess [Barack Obama]?", "Trump: Well, I really like him.", "I think that he's working very hard.", "He's trying to rebuild our reputation throughout the world.", "The previous administration was a total disaster, a total catastrophe.", "And, you know, the world looks at us differently than they used to. ...", "He was handed a pretty bad deck of cards.", "And I'm not saying I agree with everything he's doing. ...", "I do agree with what they're doing with the banks.", "Whether they fund them or nationalize them, it doesn't matter, but you have to keep the banks going.", "King: Do you assess him as a champion?", "Trump: Oh, yes, he's a champion.", "I mean, he won against all odds. When he first announced, people were giving him virtually no chance.", "And he's just done something that's amazing.", "King: Is fear harmful in this [economic] situation, Donald, or is it realistic?", "Trump: Well, I think it's realistic.", "People are afraid.", "They're scared. They're losing their jobs.", "They're losing their homes.", "And certainly there is a word known as fear, and there's nothing wrong with being fearful.", "But you have to do something about it. And that's what I write about in the book.", "You go out. You go to the right place, where there's better employment.", "You get a trade where they really need people.", "King: Have you had to lay off people?", "Because it seems everyone has had to do that.", "Trump: It's a sad thing, but whether it's \"The Apprentice\" or not, the fact is you have to say to some people: \"You're fired.\"", "The world is different.", "King: You said that this is a good time to buy real estate.", "What about financing? What if you want to buy and you can't get the mortgage?", "Trump: Larry, this is a great time to buy real estate.", "And as far as financing is concerned, the only financing you should be thinking about is seller financing.", "If the seller won't give you financing, don't do it, because the banks are not doing their job.", "They're not providing financing for deals.", "King: New York state is planning a so-called millionaire's tax.", "It would affect those with incomes starting at $300,000.", "Yea or nay? Trump: Well, it's a ridiculous thing.", "Albany is going to destroy ... this state.", "And they are raising taxes on rich people.", "The rich people have lots of options, Larry.", "One option is Palm Beach, Florida.", "You move down to Palm Beach; it's not the worst thing in the world.", "I don't have to live on Fifth Avenue.", "I don't have to live on Park Avenue.", "It's hard, psychologically, for me to leave, but very easy physically.", "King: Why don't patriots want to pay taxes?", "Trump: Well, I don't know that that's necessarily unpatriotic.", "I think they want to pay taxes.", "Obviously, you have to pay taxes.", "But they want to pay a reasonable tax, and they don't want to see the money squandered.", "Money in this country is being squandered.", "King: OK. But then we would debate reasonable.", "Trump: Well, you always debate reasonable.", "I think unreasonable is the war in Iraq.", "I mean, there's $1 trillion right there.", "And, more importantly, thousands of people -- both on our side and the other side -- hundreds of thousands of people killed and maimed and so badly hurt, I think it's just a shame.", "Now, to me, that's unreasonable. And, by the way, ... Saddam Hussein did not knock down the World Trade Center.", "King: Has the economy at all cramped your lifestyle?", "Anything you had to change?", "Trump: No, because I think I understand life.", "I think I understand how to live.", "I'm enjoying my life.", "I don't really live in an as extravagant a way as people think.", "As an entrepreneur, this is the best time I think I've ever seen in business.", "King: There's buzz that your beautiful daughter Ivanka is engaged or getting engaged.", "What's up? Trump: She has a beautiful boyfriend.", "He's a great guy, but they are not engaged.", "King: Would you like them to?", "Is he the kind of guy you would except as a son-in-law?", "Trump: He certainly is a wonderful guy.", "But it's all up to her. If she's happy, I'm happy." ]	[ "Trump advises to take advantage of low prices, get seller to do the financing .", "Trump: Obama rebuilding U.S. reputation; previous administration was a disaster .", "He's mad about possible higher taxes in New York, says he could move to Florida .", "Trump likes the guy his daughter is dating, but she's not engaged ." ]	[ 1, 5, 18, 31, 52 ]
[ "(CNN) -- President Obama visits Mexico with many issues on the table, but reinstating the ban on assault weapons in the U.S. isn't likely to be one on which the two countries can reach agreement.", "Mexican federal police officers this week display an arsenal seized near the U.S. border.", "Mexican officials say criminals use assault weapons from the U.S. in the violent border region.", "Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Arturo Sarukhan, Mexico's ambassador to the U.S., say reinstating the ban would stop the deadly flow of weapons across the border.", "Under the Clinton administration in 1994, Congress banned possession of 19 military-style assault weapons.", "The ban was allowed to expire 10 years later during the Bush administration.", "Earlier this year, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said that Obama would like to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons, noting, \"I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico at a minimum.\"", "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last month that as a senator, she supported a measure to reinstate it.", "And the urban policy section of the White House Web site says Obama and Vice President Joe Biden \"support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent.\"", "Obama still supports reinstating the ban, as he did during the presidential campaign, but there are no plans to reintroduce it anytime soon, according to an administration official.", "Obama thinks more can be done to stop the illegal flow of weapons to Mexico within existing laws, the official said, noting that the president has taken steps to deploy more law enforcement to curb the illegal flows of drugs, weapons and cash in both directions across the border.", "The administration is unaware of any broad-based efforts in Congress to reinstate the ban, the official said.", "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told CBS on Thursday that reinstating the ban \"simply is not part of the plan that we're talking about here.\"", "Watch what Napolitano says about drug violence » .", "The Obama administration says the U.S. shares responsibility for the situation in Mexico, but as far as the ban goes, \"there's a lot on our plate,\" White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said.", "Watch what's on the table for Obama's trip to Mexico » .", "Gun rights advocates stress that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to own firearms without restriction.", "Gun control supporters interpret the amendment to mean that states shall keep militias but that an individual's right to own firearms may be restricted.", "Those who support the assault weapons ban as a way to curb violence cite figures from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that say American gun sellers supply the Mexican drug cartels with 95 percent to 100 percent of their guns.", "But others say that claim cannot be substantiated -- and argue that less that 20 percent of weapons used in crimes in Mexico are traced to the U.S. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president and chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association of America, says U.S. rights are not the cause of Mexico's wrongs.", "In a commentary on CNN.com, LaPierre wrote that to believe U.S. freedoms are fueling the violence \"you have to believe these butchers and beheaders break every Mexican law they want except Mexican gun laws, which they honor -- while they break American gun laws.\"", "\"Everything Mexico's murderous thugs are doing is already illegal.", "At issue is not the absence of law, but the absence of political will to enforce the laws that both nations already possess,\" he wrote.", "On the other side, however, there are those who say loopholes in America's gun laws fuel violence in both Mexico and the United States.", "\"We need to realize that the Mexican drug cartels are arming themselves here because our gun laws have loopholes so large that criminals and gun traffickers can easily drive gun-laden trucks through them,\" former Maryland Lt. Gov.", "Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, daughter of the late U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, wrote in a commentary for CNN.com.", "\"We need to prevent Mexican criminals and the traffickers who supply them from buying guns by changing our gun laws and strengthening U.S. law enforcement's ability to crack down on corrupt gun dealers.\"", "On the eve of Obama's arrival, Calderon told ABC he thought the weapons ban was \"very good legislation.\"", "\"During that period, we didn't suffer a lot, like we suffered in the four or five years,\" he said.", "And Sarukhan told CBS this weekend, \"There's a direct correlation between the expiration of the assault weapons ban and our seizures of assault weapons.\"", "He said, \"We cannot determine how Congress and the administration will move on this.", "What we will say is that this is one of the instruments by reinstating the ban that could have a profound impact on the number and the caliber of weapons going down to Mexico.\"", "Obama was to meet Thursday with Calderon in Mexico City ahead of his trip to Trinidad and Tobago for the Summit of the Americas.", "But Mexico isn't the only consideration when it comes to gun control.", "In the United States, gun control is a wedge issue -- and one that can carry serious political ramifications.", "Democrats tend to shy away from remarks that could be interpreted as anti-gun, especially in swing states and districts.", "(Remember the frenzy that ensued after then-candidate Obama said people in small towns get bitter and \"cling to guns or religion\"?)", "Democrats are usually thought of as the party more likely to enforce ownership restrictions, while Republicans are associated with ownership rights.", "As a candidate, Obama promised, \"I'm not going to take away your guns.''", "Any other message would have been unpopular in the traditionally Republican states he won such as North Carolina and Virginia.", "Other Democrats, such as Sens.", "Mark Warner and Jim Webb of Virginia, also are getting elected with the help of NRA supporters.", "Even so, with a Democrat in the White House and a Democrat-controlled Congress, there's been a surge in requests for background checks of potential gun buyers, according to the FBI, and some gun owners say they think restrictions are somewhere on Obama's to-do list.", "Asked Thursday if it's just too politically difficult now to reinstate the ban, Gibbs said, \"I think the president believes that we can have a greater outcome in the short term working to enforce the laws that are on our books.\"" ]	[ "Mexico: U.S. ban on assault weapons would curtail flow of weapons into country .", "Ban instituted in 1994 during Clinton era and expired 10 years later .", "President Obama has no immediate plans to try to reinstate ban, official says .", "Obama meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon in Mexico City ." ]	[ 0, 3, 5, 9 ]
[ "Editor's note: Journalist Karl Penhaul spent several weeks tracking the gangs of the Mexican underworld, the corrupt officials who support them and the cops trying to halt the violence.", "This is the second of three exclusive reports.", "Part one looked at the violent rules gangs live by.", "The faithful leave this \"Holy Death\" statue offerings including cigarettes and cocaine, visible in the nose.", "CULIACAN, Mexico (CNN) -- A baseball cap dangles from a cement cross.", "The slogan on the hat reads \"power, money, respect.\"", "On the brim there's the logo of the classic gangster movie \"Scarface.\"", "Etched on the gravestone, the words: \"Jesus Guadalupe Parra.", "12 December 1986 to 25 August 2008.\"", "\"Lupito,\" as friends and family knew him, went down in a hail of bullets before he reached 22.", "Authorities said he died alongside three others in a gunfight with a rival drug gang high in the Sierra Madre mountain range that is the backbone of Mexico's Pacific coast state of Sinaloa.", "A printed banner draped over his tomb offers a deeper insight.", "It shows a photo of him alongside a marijuana plantation and an AK-47 assault rifle fitted with a 100-round ammunition drum.", "The drab grave of this cartel triggerman, at the Jardines de Humaya cemetery in state capital Culiacan, stands in stark contrast to the mausoleums of dead capos, or drug bosses.", "Those are elaborate two- and three-story constructions, some perhaps 25 feet high, made of bullet-proof glass, Italian marble and spiral iron staircases.", "A bricklayer at work in the cemetery told me the fanciest cost between $75,000 and $150,000.", "He said grateful drug barons often pay for loyal hitmen to be buried here, the city's toniest graveyard.", "Like so many other people we've met over the last few weeks, he declined to give his name or speak on camera.", "\"I can't. El patron [the boss] would kill me,\" he said.", "Days later I track down Lupito's cousin, Giovanni Garcia, on the phone.", "He's an undertaker and by coincidence he took the call that Lupito had been shot.", "\"My cousin loved that way of life,\" Garcia said briefly before turning down a recorded interview.", "\"We can't talk. You must understand how things are around here these days.", "It's not a good time.\" That Sunday, I linger at Lupito's graveside.", "Three young men show up.", "They look about the same age as the dead gunman, the same cropped-hair, one heavily scarred around his eye.", "In the breeze they struggle to light a dozen foot-high candles.", "I introduce myself. A few grunts later and I can see this conversation is going nowhere fast.", "\"We couldn't make it to the burial.", "This is the first time we've come to pay our respects,\" one of them explained.", "He never offered his name.", "Drug rivalries have been known to spill over at funerals so many mourners opt to stay away leaving only the closest relatives to bury their dead quietly and without public complaints.", "I stick around hoping to meet more talkative mourners.", "My wait is cut short.", "A fourth man appears between the tombstones some 20 yards away, apparently having seen me.", "As he talks into a phone I hear him say: \"Hey, take your chance.", "Go grab f**king baldy.\"", "I look around.", "No other bald men in sight -- just me.", "Time to leave.", "At Jardines de Humaya and across town at the 21 de Marzo cemetery, rows of recently dug graves are filled with the young foot soldiers of Mexico's drug war.", "A crosscheck of their names in the obituary columns of the local newspaper reveal tales of men in their late teens and early 20s, gunned down in firefights, shot in cold blood on their doorsteps or killed in prison clashes.", "Jesus Gaston earns around $40 for every three graves he digs.", "But he can see the lure of easy money in the drug trade is little more than a mirage.", "\"The easy money lasts for just a few days because it's all about time before they kill you too.", "You kill somebody and somebody will come back for you,\" he said.", "\"Some how, some way they will find you.\" When the reality boils down to kill or be killed, it's unsurprising the hitmen and the narco-traffickers want to improve their odds of survival.", "Most days, you can hear a brass band or a cowboy trio thumping out tunes in a small building on a Culiacan side street.", "It's a shrine to a highway robber called Jesus Malverde.", "In the century since he died he's become known as the patron saint of the drug trade.", "Watch men pay respects to their narco-saint » .", "Men in cowboy hats and ostrich-skin boots duck in and out of view.", "Some try to conceal their faces behind a musician's trombone or tuba.", "The day I dropped in, one man was paying around $600 for a band to play for three hours.", "Off camera he told me it was his way of repaying a favor to Malverde.", "I asked him about that favor and he said he was celebrating a bumper harvest -- of beans and corn.", "He said he was shy about appearing on camera.", "I told another man, who gave his name as \"Rosario,\" that he looked like a stereotypical narco.", "He had the ostrich-skin cowboy boots and shaved head.", "Besides that he seemed to be spending a small fortune, by Mexican standards, on live music, foot-high candles and fresh flowers to place at Malverde's altar.", "Rosario laughed off my suggestion and laughed again in my face as he told me he was paying tribute to Malverde after a good few months working as a carpet fitter in Arizona.", "It was refreshing to find a straight-talking trombone player at the shrine, Jaime Laveaga.", "He makes his living playing music and he's clear about who his main clients are.", "\"It sounds bad to say it but Culiacan is a city with a big drug mafia.", "They like brass band music and they love to celebrate -- 15th birthdays, weddings, family birthdays.", "They even celebrate their dogs' birthdays,\" he explained.", "Needless to say, the Catholic Church takes a dim view of those who worship Malverde and another growing cult known as the \"Holy Death,\" which critics say is also popular among thieves and narcos.", "\"People are looking for easy solutions where they don't have to make any sacrifices.", "If they don't find any support for their killings or their drug trafficking from the Catholic Church then they look for other options,\" Father Esteban Robles, spokesman for the Culiacan diocese told me.", "\"They're looking for something that will justify their actions.\"", "Tomorrow, Penhaul examines how the gangs dispose of their victims and what officials are doing to stem the violence." ]	[ "Graveyards in Mexican town show tributes to gang leaders and hitmen .", "\"Lupito,\" who a relative said loved hitman life, was killed when he was 21 .", "Cartel bosses are buried in mausoleums surrounded by bullet-proof glass .", "Followers pay bands, leave tributes including cocaine at shrines to cult heroes ." ]	[ 3, 13, 14, 16, 24, 59 ]
[ "MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) -- David and Christina Macfarlane always dreamed of opening a restaurant.", "And with David's background as a White House chef, they certainly have the in-house culinary ability.", "David and Christina Macfarlane in their Minneapolis restaurant, L'Ecosse.", "But they never imagined they'd be doing it in one of the toughest economic times ever, and they wondered if it would even be possible.", "\"The banks were like, 'You're opening a restaurant now?'", "\" Christina says. \"", "'Yeah, we're opening a restaurant now.'", "\" David was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but moved to the United States with his family in his early teens and soon found his passion for the palate.", "Soon after high school, he joined the U.S. Navy, where he ultimately spent years cooking -- two of which were spent in the kitchen at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as a chef for President Clinton at the beginning of his first term in 1992.", "Looking at a picture of himself and the former president, David describes a favorite memory.", "\"He said that was the best meal he ever ate.", "I was pretty geeked about that.\"", "See more about that favorite meal » .", "But the Macfarlanes wanted more time as a family -- something not suited to David's high-profile job.", "They moved a number of times before settling down in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, suburbs where, most recently, David worked for Fusion Culinary -- until his position was eliminated, that is.", "Christina says that as dismayed as David was over the job loss, she saw it as \"a blessing.\"", "\"I thought, 'Thank you, Lord!", "Thank you, Lord!'", "\" she says, adding that she saw it as the perfect opportunity to follow through with their dream.", "Now, despite the battered economy, the two stand behind the bar in their new restaurant, L'Ecosse, which, incidentally, is French for \"Scotland.\"", "However, they have a slightly different take on the menu than perhaps they would have had if times were perkier.", "\"We went to over a dozen restaurants looking at menus, pricepoints, [and] realizing the struggles in the economy,\" Christina recalls.", "The two concluded that while people are still eating out, they aren't seeking \"fancy\" food -- in other words, they weren't seeking the type of fare one might typically associate with state dinners at the White House.", "David says that's all a misconception anyway.", "\"Comfort food,\" he says.", "\"That's what the president wanted most.\"", "Some of the president's favorite foods, David says were nachos and salsa, tuna sandwiches, or just warm milk and cookies.", "\"[President Clinton] wasn't looking for any of the fancy frou-frou stuff.", "We did that for state dinners or we did that for dignitaries that would come in, but ... at lunchtime when the president would be in the Oval Office by himself, [he'd say] 'Lemme have a tuna sandwich.'", "\" At L'Ecosse, tuna and warm cookies are on the menu.", "Keeping with his Scottish upbringing, David's menu also is largely UK-centric: meat pies and fish and chips are two of the specialties.", "He does it all with fresh, local ingredients and says he can keep prices down because he does a lot of the work himself and with the help of a very minimal staff.", "Watch the chef talk about keeping it simple » .", "Everything on the breakfast and lunch menus is priced under $10, and the two say that when they expand to a full dinner menu once their liquor license is approved, they want to keep prices similarly low.", "\"The reason we did that was so nobody had sticker shock,\" David says.", "\"They're very good items, but they're also inexpensive items and you're not going to break the bank.\"", "\"If you want to come in and get Bill Clinton's favorite, it doesn't have to be $15 during the day.", "And that's what we want people to understand -- we understand where you're at.\"", "As Christina puts it, \"You are going to get great food that your mother used to make for you.\"", "And, ideally, the bill won't send you into debt." ]	[ "Former White House chef opens restaurant to serve \"comfort food\"\nMenu designed to take the \"sticker shock\" out of dining .", "Former president was fan of salsa, tuna sandwiches, warm cookies and milk .", "Owners say prices lower due to local ingredients, minimal staff ." ]	[ 24, 26, 31, 34 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Thousands of mourners filled a Tracy, California, high school gym Thursday to remember slain 8-year-old Sandra Renee Cantu.", "Sandra Cantu, 8, had been missing almost two weeks before her body was found.", "The little girl made national headlines after she went missing March 27 from a mobile home park in Tracy where she lived with her family.", "She was on her way to a friend's home and her playful skipping down an alley was caught by a surveillance camera.", "Police later found her body stuffed into a suitcase and submerged in a pond at a nearby dairy farm.", "Photos of Sandra, flowers and stuffed animals covered the front of the stage.", "Family members, friends and state dignitaries memorialized the child during a ceremony that lasted just over an hour.", "The printed program called the memorial service \"A Celebration of Life,\" and organizers said they hoped the service would help ease the pain the community has suffered since Sandra's disappearance.", "\"We are left with the haunting image of her skipping on the streets of Tracy.", "But today she is skipping on the streets of gold, into the arms of a loving God\", said Brent Ives, mayor of Tracy.", "Cindy Sasser, principal at Jacobsen Elementary School told mourners, \"We should all strive to be like Sandra -- always smiling, wanting to help, to look out for others and to be caring.\"", "The service included a video that showcased some of the family's favorite photos.", "People from across California attended, filling the gymnasium, cafeteria and the football stadium at West High School.", "Melissa Huckaby, 28, a Sunday school teacher who lived in the same mobile home park as Sandra's family, has been charged with murder, kidnapping, the performance of a lewd and lascivious act on a child under 14, and rape by instrument.", "If convicted, she would face the death penalty or life in prison without parole, San Joaquin County District Attorney James Willett said this week.", "A private memorial service for Sandra was held Wednesday.", "Her casket, signed by classmates, was taken to a nearby burial site by a horse-drawn carriage." ]	[ "NEW: Photo montage shown at service for Sandra at a high school in Tracy .", "Girl, 8, disappeared March 27; her body was found in suitcase on April 6 .", "Police arrested Melissa Huckaby, 28, and charged her with killing and raping Sandra .", "If convicted, Huckaby faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole ." ]	[ 1, 4, 13, 14 ]
[ "HONOLULU, Hawaii (CNN) -- It's been more than a year since a racial slur threatened to end the television career of Duane \"Dog the Bounty Hunter\" Chapman.", "But the incident still weighs heavily on his mind.", "Duane \"Dog the Bounty Hunter\" Chapman watches his son's baseball game this month in Honolulu, Hawaii.", "A&E briefly suspended his top-rated reality show in late 2007, and his reputation was on the line.", "Now, with his show back on the air and at the top of the network's ratings list, Chapman insists that he does not want the controversy to be forgotten.", "\"They said, 'It'll pass,' and I said to the guy, 'You know what?", "I won't let it.' \" Chapman, 56, spoke candidly about accusations of racism on a recent windy Saturday afternoon on the sidelines of 8-year-old son Garry's baseball game.", "It was his other son, Tucker, who recorded a profanity-laced conversation with his father and reportedly sold the recording -- which included Chapman repeatedly using the \"n-word\" -- to the National Enquirer in 2007.", "Some African-American leaders called for the cancellation of his show.", "Chapman said he was advised to lay low for several weeks, but he refused.", "\"All the spin doctors ... all those guys told me, 'Dog, say that you were this, say you were that, [but] if you go out there, you're done.'", "I said, 'I'm going out in a hail of glory.", "You may call me a convict ... but you ain't gonna call me something I'm not.", "I'm going out swinging.'\"", "Chapman said his meetings with leaders of the black community were more than an attempt to redeem himself in the public eye and get his show back on the air.", "In a February 8, 2008, foreword to his book, \"You Can Run But You Can't Hide,\" he writes that \"giving up cussing is just the first step toward my evolution as a human.\"", "He said he was referring to his use of the racial slur, which he admits -- even on the recording -- knowing that it would spark public outrage.", "But as a former prison inmate of mixed ethnicity -- he is part Native American -- Chapman said he felt he could use the word without it defining him as a racist.", "\"I was with 38,000 black men at the age of 22 in the '70s, the [prison] guards -- whether they're black or white -- called them that [the slur] every day,\" he said.", "\"Once I said it and met with leaders of the black community and realized what that word meant, that's when I said, 'I will never again utter that word.", "Ever.' \" He said, \"I don't give a damn that [it] was a private call they burglarized; I knew not to do that.", "I didn't know not to say the word because what it would do, but I do now.", "Now if you catch me [saying it], you won't have to stop my show, I'll resign.\"", "Controversy is something that Chapman draws on; it defines his character both publicly and privately.", "He ran with motorcycle gangs before he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to a five-year prison term in 1977.", "He maintains his innocence and served a fraction of the sentence.", "His determination to prove he was the world's best bounty hunter led him to Mexico in 2003, where he and his team captured the heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune, Andrew Luster, who was convicted in absentia on charges of rape.", "The Mexican government charged Chapman and his team with kidnapping and demanded their extradition, but the charges later were dropped.", "His life story of an ex-con-turned-vigilante is the hallmark of his celebrity and leads many people to tune in to his show, which began in 2004.", "Chapman said his fans perceived the racial slur incident differently.", "\"Not one black person to this day has walked up to me and said anything bad; it's all been the whites,\" he said.", "\"[Others said], 'You know here's a bounty hunter, was convicted, went to prison, 30 years later he's arrested 7,000 people.", "You think he might say a couple bad words.'", "That's the good things that were said to me.\"", "His 10-year-old daughter, Bonnie Jo, heard about what happened on the radio.", "\"And she goes, 'Dad, you know you can't use that [word], you're not a rapper.", "OK, love you, Dad, see you.'", "And I'm like, 'And is that what your friends are saying?'", "'Yep, they know you're not a rapper.", "They know you're Dog the Bounty Hunter.", "And it was over, just like that.\" While some of his viewers have forgotten the controversy, Chapman does not want it to go away -- particularly the accusations that were leveled against him in the media.", "\"You better not forget the s*** you put me through over that.", "I ain't lettin' 'em forget it.", "Ever. You think black guys forget it?", "It hurts my feelings to hear it [the slur].", "So, yeah, there's such a thing as passing, but I never heard of that.", "It ain't passing.\" He added, \"I understand the saying now, 'Lest ye forget.'", "Don't ever forget that.", "Please don't forget that, that I went through that. That I learned.\"" ]	[ "Use of slur threatened to end TV career of Duane \"Dog the Bounty Hunter\" Chapman .", "Chapman says he does not want the controversy to be forgotten .", "Chapman was heard repeatedly using racial slur in recording sold to tabloid .", "Reality show has returned successfully to A&E network ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- A 47-year-old charity worker who says she has never been kissed is now a YouTube sensation after a singing performance that wowed the notoriously harsh talent judge Simon Cowell.", "The YouTube video of Susan Boyle's performance has had more than 5 million hits.", "Susan Boyle, from West Lothian in Scotland, appeared on the television show \"Britain's Got Talent\" last weekend with an inauspicious start.", "Slightly plump and with short brown curly hair, Boyle stood somewhat uncomfortably in the middle of the stage wearing a gold lace sheath.", "She told the judges and the audience of the show that she was single, she lived with her cat, Pebbles, and she had never been kissed.", "\"I'm trying to be a professional singer,\" Boyle asserted, as the audience laughed.", "\"I'm going to make that audience rock.\"", "When she added that she wanted to be as famous as Elaine Paige, who's been called the \"first lady of British musical theater,\" some members of the audience snickered and rolled their eyes.", "But after Boyle sang the first few notes of \"I Dreamed a Dream\" from the musical \"Les Miserables,\" the audience erupted in wild cheers and applause, and two of the three judges' jaws dropped.", "The applause lasted the length of her performance, which ended with the crowd on its feet.", "Cowell, who also serves as a judge on \"American Idol\" and who's known for his stinging criticism of those he deems to have no talent, said Boyle's performance was fantastic.", "\"I knew the minute you walked out on that stage that we were going to hear something extraordinary,\" he proclaimed.", "His fellow judge, Piers Morgan, said it was \"the biggest surprise I have had in three years on this show.\"", "\"When you stood there, with that cheeky grin, and said, 'I want to be like Elaine Paige' everyone was laughing at you.", "No one is laughing now.", "That was stunning. An incredible performance,\" Morgan said, adding he was reeling from shock.", "Amanda Holden, the third judge, had tears in her eyes and described Boyle's singing as \"a privilege to hear.\"", "A clip of her performance on YouTube.com has had more than 5 million hits, and many fans say they were moved to tears by the story.", "Boyle said after the show that she felt \"bloody fantastic.\"", "Each of the three judges voted \"yes\" to Boyle's return to the actual competition round of the show.", "The performance this weekend came during the auditions." ]	[ "47-year-old British charity worker wows Simon Cowell with singing .", "Clip of Susan Boyle singing has become a YouTube sensation .", "Boyle, from West Lothian, Scotland, said she wanted to be a professional singer ." ]	[ 0, 2, 5 ]
[ "PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) -- Basketball great Charles Barkley began serving a three-day sentence in Arizona's infamous Tent City on Saturday, jailed by the same sheriff whose autobiography he endorsed 12 years ago.", "Charles Barkley bristled at the implication he should be wearing stripes instead of a red-and-bue sweatsuit.", "\"You come here when you screw up,\" Barkley said at a news conference hours after he reported at the Maricopa County jail.", "\"I don't blame anybody for this situation but myself.\"", "Barkley, 45, pleaded guilty last month to misdemeanor drunken-driving charges stemming from a New Year's Eve arrest after he left a Scottsdale, Arizona, nightclub.", "A judge sentenced him to 10 days in jail, but his sentence was reduced in exchange for Barkley's attending an alcohol-awareness course.", "At the news conference, Barkley sat next to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed \"Toughest Sheriff in America.\"", "Arpaio is known for giving inmates old-fashioned, black-and-white-striped uniforms, making some of them live in tents and reinstituting chain gangs, even for women.", "\"I'm an equal incarcerator,\" Arpaio said of Barkley, who will be sleeping in one of the tents.", "\"We don't discriminate.\" He said Barkley has been \"a gentleman, cordial.\"", "\"He's taking his medicine,\" Arpaio said.", "\"I hope that something comes out of this.\"", "In a free-wheeling news conference, Barkley spoke out against drunken driving, made some observations about President Obama (\"Rush Limbaugh and a lot of jackasses are giving him a hard time right now\") and commented on felony charges singer Chris Brown faces for allegedly beating his girlfriend, singer Rhianna.", "Watch Barkley speak at news conference » .", "\"I wish both of them the best, but it's never acceptable to hit a woman.", "Period,\" Barkley said.", "Barkley wore a red-and-blue sweatsuit, not the black-and-white stripes that other inmates -- who watched the news conference through a chain-link fence --were wearing.", "Barkley said it's because he's on the jail's work-release program, and bristled at questions about it.", "\"None of the work-release people do that,\" he said.", "\"But if y'all really, really want to put me as low as I can go, I can do that and make you feel better.", "\"I know when [someone is] famous, you like to see people humiliated.\"", "Arpaio, who joked with Barkley over the pink underwear he routinely issues inmates, held up a copy of his 1996 book, \"America's Toughest Sheriff.\"", "On its back cover, alongside endorsements by Limbaugh, Arizona Sen. John McCain and others, is one from Barkley.", "\"This man, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is a role model for all Americans,\" Barkley wrote in the blurb.", "Barkley is a basketball commentator for TNT, which like CNN is a Time Warner company.", "A star for the Philadelphia 76ers and Phoenix Suns, Barkley was named the NBA's Most Valuable Player in 1993 and inducted into its Hall of Fame in 2006." ]	[ "Charles Barkley begins serving 3-day jail sentence in Maricopa County, Arizona .", "The jailer is the sheriff whose autobiography Barkley endorsed 12 years ago .", "Barkley speaks out against drunken driving during topically diverse news conference .", "\"He's taking his medicine,\" Sheriff Joe Arpaio says of his famous inmate ." ]	[ 0, 6, 10, 15 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President George W. Bush granted pardons Tuesday to 19 citizens charged with a variety of crimes, but none was prominent.", "President Bush walks down the White House Collonade on Tuesday as he departs for Camp David.", "Presidential pardon lists are being closely monitored in the final weeks of the Bush administration, particularly to see whether former vice presidential aide Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby will be granted the presidential favor.", "One of the men pardoned is Charles Winters, who died almost 25 years ago.", "His son had worked on winning a presidential pardon for his dad, who had helped smuggle weapons to Jews fighting in what was then Palestine in the late 1940s.", "A Protestant from Boston, Massachusetts, Winters spent 18 months behind bars.", "He was the only U.S. citizen to serve time for helping fly weapons to Jews struggling to create Israel.", "A 20th person received a commutation of a life sentence for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.", "That individual, Reed Raymond Prior, was ordered released from prison in February 2009.", "He will have served more than 12 years.", "\"We commend President Bush's decision to grant a commutation to Reed Prior, who is deserving of a second chance,\" Julie Stewart, president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, said in a written statement.", "\"Of course, clemencies only underscore the larger problem -- the systemic injustice caused by mandatory minimum sentences that fill the prisons with low-level drug offenders in the first place.\"", "Bush has granted 191 pardons and nine commutations, far fewer than Presidents Clinton and Reagan in their two-term administrations.", "Read the full list of pardons .", "Among the more notable who have applied for some form of clemency are: .", "• Former Rep. Randall \"Duke\" Cunningham, Republican from California, who was convicted of receiving bribes.", "• Publishing executive Conrad Black, who was found guilty of fraud.", "• Former junk bold salesman Michael Milken.", "• Former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, convicted of accounting fraud.", "The parents of John Walker Lindh, who was given a 20-year sentence after pleading guilty to supporting terrorists in Afghanistan, held a news conference last week urging Bush to commute their son's sentence.", "It is unclear how many more requests Bush may grant before leaving office, although administration officials have said they do not expect any last-minute announcements, as was seen when President Bill Clinton pardoned fugitive financier Marc Rich, setting off a firestorm of controversy.", "A commutation reduces a convict's prison term, but the conviction remains on the person's record.", "A pardon, however, wipes the slate clean by erasing the record of the conviction.", "A president has the sole authority to grant clemency and to whom, although a Justice Department office usually reviews applications and makes recommendations after considering standards such as a person's degree of remorse and ability to lead a responsible and productive life after release.", "Those applying for a pardon through the Justice Department are required to wait at least five years after their conviction or release from confinement.", "Roughly 1,300 requests for commutation and 860 pardon applications are still pending.", "There is a long tradition of presidents issuing pardons and commutations during the holiday season." ]	[ "President Bush continues a Christmas tradition by issuing pardons .", "Convicted Cheney aide Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby is not among those pardoned .", "Posthumous pardon issued for man who ran guns to Israeli Jews in late 1940s .", "Life sentence of man convicted of methamphetamine commuted ." ]	[ 4, 7, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- While there may be a fascination with Nadya Suleman and her brood, she is hardly the first.", "\"Jon & Kate Plus 8\" is one of the more popular shows featuring a large family with multiples.", "The mother of 14, dubbed \"Octomom\" after the birth of her octuplets in January, is the target of much speculation these days as to whether she and her multitude will become the subjects of a reality show.", "But programming centered on large families and those containing multiples has long been popular.", "With so many struggling to keep up with the homework and extracurricular activities -- as well as the financial responsibilities -- of one or two children, American viewers seem fascinated with watching parents juggle life with so many kids.", "\"People tell me all the time, 'But for the grace of God it could be me,' \" said Bill Hayes, founder of Figure 8 Films, the production company behind the popular shows \"Jon & Kate Plus Eight\" and \"18 and Counting,\" the latter of which features the Duggar family.", "\"People relate that it's a challenge to have any children, much less so many.\"", "\"Jon & Kate Plus Eight\" has been a ratings juggernaut and follows the lives of Jon and Kate Gosselin and their eight children, including fraternal twin girls and a mixed-sex set of fraternal sextuplets (three girls and three boys).", "Watch Kate Gosselin discuss the challenges of parenting » .", "Hayes' company brought the family's story to television, as well as that of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, who are the parents of 18 children (all conceived without the use of fertility drugs).", "The Duggars recently announced they're soon to be first-time grandparents.", "Viewers enjoy watching wholesome, family programming, especially when the subjects are as relatable as the Gosselins, Hayes said.", "The couple is often shown dealing with the stress that comes with having eight children under the age of 9.", "\"Family is very important for many people,\" he said.", "\"Most of us struggle with our family lives.", "It's not easy typically in most families.", "We're fortunate that Jon and Kate are very emotionally honest and they come clean.\"", "Fame comes with a cost, however, and the couple has become tabloid fodder with stories of interfamily squabbles and marital discord.", "Cable networks like TLC, Discovery Health (which are both a part of Discovery Communications) and WE: Women's Entertainment have found success with programming about super-sized families.", "Imitation is the sincerest form of television, comedian Fred Allen once said, and TLC in particular has made the most of its large families.", "In addition to the Gosselins and the Duggars, the network recently debuted \"Table for 12,\" which chronicles the daily experiences of Eric and Betty Hayes and their three sets of multiples.", "All told, the Hayeses have 10 children, including a special-needs child.", "Eileen O'Neill, president and general manger for TLC, said viewers tune in to see how it all works.", "\"There's that innate kind of curiosity about a family on a scale of the Duggars or 'Jon & Kate,' whether it's multiples or sheer number,\" O'Neill said.", "(She should know: She's a twin herself.) \"Those logistics are fascinating as well as entertaining and ultimately inspiring.", "So many of us are part of families or run a family and I think seeing it on a super-sized level is inherently appealing.\"", "As more women turn to fertility medication to help them conceive, the odds of multiple births increase.", "Maureen Doolan Boyle is executive director of MOST (Mothers of SuperTwins) a Long Island, New York-based organization that has worked with more than 20,000 families since its founding in 1987.", "Attitudes about multiple births vary around the world, Doolan Boyle said.", "In some cultures a large brood is welcomed; in others, it's viewed as a \"freak show\" or a curse.", "Canada's Dionne quintuplets, a group of five girls born to an Ontario farming family in 1934, became such a sideshow.", "When the girls were 5 months old, the provincial government declared the parents unfit and put the sisters under the care of a doctor and other guardians.", "The Dionnes were put on display in a nursery across the road from their family's farmhouse, becoming a huge tourist attraction.", "They even appeared in a handful of films before their parents regained custody in 1943.", "That \"freak show factor\" is one of the reasons there has been so much buzz surrounding Suleman and her family of 14 children, said Michael Levine of LCO, a Los Angeles-based public relations firm.", "Watch whether Suleman is close to signing a deal » .", "As reality shows push boundaries to gain viewers, Levine said he understands the interest in a series on the octuplet mom and her family, but adds that he has doubts a deal can be struck because of the liability issues surrounding putting the children on television.", "\"What was novel three years ago is no longer novel, and I predict craziness to be the order of the day when it comes to reality television,\" he said.", "Still, he sees the attraction: \"Big families provide a very wonderful context for a lot of conflict and complexity that most people can relate to,\" he said.", "TLC's O'Neill said there are no plans at this time to have a Suleman show on her network.", "\"We are watching that story develop at a distance and hoping for the best for that family,\" O'Neill said." ]	[ "Reality shows about large families bring big ratings for cable networks .", "TLC is one that has found success featuring super-sized families .", "Buzz surrounds possible show featuring octuplet mom and her children .", "Expert: Such large families offer \"freak show\" factor ." ]	[ 18, 34 ]
[ "(Entertainment Weekly) -- In the movies, \"the suburbs\" are never just a place.", "They're a state of mind, a mythology we all know in our bones.", "Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio share a happy moment in \"Revolutionary Road.\"", "The myth goes something like this: The suburbs are comfortable, maybe even beautiful, but their serenity is rooted in a friendly American conformity, so that the people who live there have to repress their true selves, which will emerge when they drink too much and have affairs, or rage at each other for their dishonesty, which was all caused in the first place by ... the suburbs.", "The best thing about \"Revolutionary Road,\" a cool-blooded and disquieting adaptation of Richard Yates' 1961 novel about a powerfully unhappy Connecticut couple, is that it doesn't end with that rote vision of bourgeois anomie.", "It only begins there. Frank and April Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet) are about 30, with two kids, and both believe they can evade the traps of the existence they've chosen.", "The year is 1955, and Frank has a New York job that bores him, marketing business machines.", "He takes solace in feeling superior to his work, and also in his midday martinis and occasional dip into the secretarial pool.", "April, meanwhile, wanted to be an actress, and still feels she's meant for higher things.", "Watch DiCaprio and Winslet talk about their reunion » .", "Moved to reach for something more, April comes up with a plan: She and Frank will sell their home and move to Paris, where she'll work as a government secretary and he will ... find himself.", "(It's like a '60s fantasy a decade ahead of time.)", "\"Revolutionary Road\" was directed by Sam Mendes, who made the glibly scathing \"American Beauty,\" only here he wants us to share not just Frank and April's misery but the frail reveries that hold them together.", "The escape-to-Paris idea is naive, impractical -- a pipe dream.", "Yet it's fueled by something Mendes captures about the '50s, an era when people often had deep imaginative sparks that exceeded their ability to voice them.", "Winslet has the tricky job of making us see the glimmer of wisdom in April's cockeyed plan, and she pulls it off, even as DiCaprio's Frank -- chipper, forthright, wholesome even in betrayal -- tugs the couple back to reality.", "\"Revolutionary Road\" has deception, adultery, operatic shouting, the then-forbidden specter of abortion, and a few scenes that spotlight the remarkable performance of Michael Shannon as John Givings, a mathematician who's been hospitalized for insanity, and who proves how unfit for society he is by making every acid comment cut to the truths that no one else will speak.", "The film is lavishly dark -- some might say too dark -- yet I'd suggest it has a different limitation: For all its shattering domestic discord, there's something remote and aestheticized about it.", "April brings a private well of conflict to her middle-class prison, but Winslet is so meticulous in her telegraphed despair that she intrigues us, moves us, yet never quite touches our unguarded nerves.", "EW Grade: B+ .", "CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .", "Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "\"Revolutionary Road\" story of two suburbanites wanting to break free .", "Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet give good performances .", "Movie suffers from some glibness, but many parts cut through ." ]	[ 2, 5, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- India is trying to reclaim the famous metal-rimmed glasses and some other artifacts from freedom leader Mahatma Gandhi that are up for auction next week in New York, a top official said Saturday.", "Mahatma Gandhi was known for his peaceful opposition to tyranny, which led to India's independence.", "\"The government will be doing whatever is required to get them back,\" India's culture ministry secretary Jawhar Sircar told CNN.", "He said there were \"several options\" in place for India.", "When asked whether India planned any indirect participation in the bidding reportedly scheduled next week at the Antiquorum auction house on New York's Madison Avenue, he said it is one of the \"speculative\" options.", "\"I can't disclose what (exactly) those options are.", "But we are doing something,\" Sircar remarked.", "The glasses are scheduled to be auctioned off along with Gandhi's pocketwatch, sandals, bowl, and plate with letters of authenticity, according to the Web site for Antiquorum, which specializes in watches.", "The glasses and other items are estimated to sell for as much as $30,000, the Web site said.", "CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report." ]	[ "Auction scheduled to take place in New York .", "Glasses and other items estimated to sell for as much as $30,000 .", "Indian official: India has \"several options\"\nGandhi's pocketwatch, sandals, bowl, and plate among items on auction ." ]	[ 3, 7, 8 ]
[ "Editor's note: Nathaniel Frank is author of \"Unfriendly Fire: How the Gay Ban Undermines the Military and Weakens America\" and is senior research fellow at the Palm Center, a think tank at the University of California, Santa Barbara, that has focused on gender, sexuality and the military.", "He also teaches on the adjunct faculty at New York University.", "Nathaniel Frank says there's no evidence that letting gays serve openly would harm the military.", "(CNN) -- This week, four senior retired officers wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post predicting \"grave harm\" to the military if President Obama moves forward with his vow to let gays serve openly.", "\"Our experience,\" they wrote, \"and that of more than 1,000 retired flag and general officers,\" suggest that lifting the ban would harm unit cohesion, recruitment and retention, and would ultimately \"break the All-Volunteer Force.\"", "The argument is an old one, and was an effective canard in defeating President Clinton's move to lift the ban in 1993.", "But it has never been rooted in fact or evidence, and the effort of these officers to defeat equal treatment this time around will face mountains of opposing data and a dramatically changed cultural landscape.", "The officers who oppose openly gay service do not base their arguments on any new information.", "In addition to their own experience -- an impressive credential that's nevertheless too vague to hang an argument on -- the officers rely on a single poll.", "They cite an unscientific survey -- it does not draw from a representative sampling but from newspaper subscribers -- indicating that 58 percent of the military oppose lifting the ban and that, if it's lifted, 24 percent claim they will leave or consider leaving after their tour ends.", "But it's naïve at best, and disingenuous at worst, to confuse this opinion survey with a sound prediction of actual behavior.", "When both Britain and Canada proposed lifting their gay bans in the 1990s, similar opinion surveys found much higher numbers -- about two-thirds in both cases -- claiming they, too, would leave.", "In each case, no more than three departures were attributed to the policy change.", "Three. In fact, the evidence showing that openly gay service works is overwhelming.", "Since 1957, when the U.S. military began doing its own studies on gays in the military, every last bit of research has shown that openly gay service works.", "Studies of foreign militaries include a 1993 Government Accountability Office study of allied nations that found that \"the presence of homosexuals in the military is not an issue and has not created problems in the functioning of military units\"; a 1994 assessment by the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences finding that predicted negative consequences of ending gay exclusion in the Canadian Forces never materialized; the 2000 assessment of the British Ministry of Defense, calling its new policy of equal treatment \"a solid achievement\" with \"no discernible impact\" on recruitment or other critical variables; and four academic studies conducted by the Palm Center, where I work, finding that lifting bans in Britain, Israel, Canada and Australia had no negative impact on military readiness, including on recruitment and retention.", "The officers writing in The Washington Post question the relevance of foreign militaries to this debate, mocking the idea that the U.S. military \"must emulate Denmark, the Netherlands and Canada.\"", "But they failed to note that 24 of our closest allies let gays serve openly, including Britain, whose combat-tested soldiers and sailors serve shoulder to shoulder with U.S. forces.", "While our military and culture are unique in the world, it's an astonishing vote of no-confidence in American troops to say that they are not capable of doing what 24 other militaries have done successfully.", "Ours is a professional, disciplined fighting force, and the assertion that a diverse military would lack order and discipline is, as Rep. Patrick Murphy, an Iraq War veteran, has said, \"an insult\" to him and the entire U.S. military.", "But it's not just foreign militaries that provide real evidence on gay service.", "A majority of U.S. troops know of, or suspect, gays in their units, giving the lie to the most basic assumption underlying the gay ban: that openly gay service could never work.", "After all, gays are already serving, and serving openly, without causing problems.", "Yet despite the law's failure to keep many open gays out, the ban's persistence means that gay troops are subject to random dismissals and are often unable to access military support services for fear of being found out and fired.", "Even extensive research by our own military has concluded the gay ban is unnecessary, including a large 1993 study by the RAND Corporation -- a think tank created by the military itself -- and two official military studies -- a 1989 study by the Defense Personnel Security Research Center and the Navy's 1957 Crittenden report -- which all found sexual orientation is irrelevant to military performance.", "Indeed, neither the military nor anyone else has ever turned up a shred of evidence tying openly gay service to impairment of the military.", "When the officers' claims are pitted against the wealth of actual facts and research on this issue, they are shown for what they really are: fear and intolerance, rooted in a world that's largely disappeared.", "Indeed, the vast majority of these retired officers, including the authors of this week's op-ed, retired before the current \"don't ask, don't tell\" policy even began in 1994.", "Their military is not the same as today's, where three-quarters of troops are \"personally comfortable\" with gays and lesbians, and \"don't ask, don't tell\" is considered \"a joke.\"", "These officers attribute current efforts to lift the ban to \"gay rights activists,\" when in fact, according to consistent polling, four-fifths of the American public favors repeal, including majorities of Republicans, conservatives and even churchgoers.", "It also includes many retired officers who did serve under, and used to support, the current policy, such as Gen. John Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who sees the ban as a threat to military readiness.", "The officers say there is \"no compelling national security reason\" to accept the \"risks\" of lifting the ban, which they say include the likely loss of \"experienced personnel who are not easily replaced.\"", "But under current policy, more than 800 \"mission-critical specialists\" have been fired just because they're gay, including more than 60 Arabic linguists.", "Due to the military's overall struggle to meet its recruiting goals, it has had to lower standards and admit convicted felons.", "Kicking out capable troops while replacing them with ex-convicts is not a recipe for good order and discipline.", "Forcing soldiers to lie to each other is not good for morale or cohesion.", "Drumming out Arabic linguists at a time when we don't have enough to translate what our enemies are saying is bad, not good, for national security.", "If these officers care more about our nation than about preserving an embalmed military culture, they'll cease and desist.", "The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of Nathaniel Frank ." ]	[ "Nathaniel Frank: Some retired military officers oppose letting gay troops serve .", "He says they don't understand wide acceptance of gays today in military .", "He says many other nations have approved gay service without harm .", "Frank: Polls vastly exaggerate number of officers who might leave ." ]	[ 2, 7, 21 ]
[ "SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (CNN) -- The official count of confirmed deaths grew to 15 Friday afternoon, one day after a 6.1-magnitude earthquake shook north central Costa Rica, a government emergency official said.", "iReporter Leonardo Diaz photographed the damage in Plaza Mayor Shopping Center in San Jose.", "Reinaldo Carballo, a spokesman for the federal Commission for National Emergencies, said the updated death toll came from information given to the agency by Costa Rica Vice President Rodrigo Arias.", "In addition, Carballo said, rescuers were trying to reach 300 tourists stranded in a hotel in Varablanca.", "Carballo said he did not know the tourists' nationalities or the name of the hotel.", "There were conflicting reports on the number of dead from Thursday's earthquake.", "The Commission for National Emergencies had issued a news release earlier Friday saying the quake had killed four people.", "Also earlier Friday, Red Cross official Milton Chaverri told CNN there were 14 dead and 22 missing.", "Red Cross spokeswoman Fiorella Vilca said Friday afternoon there were nine dead and 42 missing.", "The discrepancy may result from the fact that the Commission for National Emergencies reports only deaths it has confirmed, Carballo said.", "About 32 people were injured, he said.", "On Friday, the U.S. government dispatched a team of 34 U.S. military personnel and four helicopters from Honduras-based Joint Task Force-Bravo to Costa Rica to assist.", "Survivors described the suddenness and brutality of the quake.", "Landslides, tumbling rocks and collapsed buildings caused widespread devastation and death.", "\"I saw how the earth moved and how it took my family -- my aunt, my cousin and her babies,\" Miguel Angel Marin told CNN affiliate Teletica TV.", "\"It was very hard because I wanted to save them, but I couldn't.\"", "A sobbing Vilma Cambronero was asked what happened to her family.", "\"Some are well,\" she said. \"Others are buried.\"", "An unidentified woman told Teletica, \"Everything started to move and everything fell on top of us.", "It was a miracle we got out.\"", "More than 1,200 people were stranded, without a way to get out of towns or homes, Chaverri said.", "Another 1,000 people were living in shelters, he said.", "iReport.com: Are you there?", "Send photos, video .", "\"Many people were injured, many buildings were damaged and landslides blocked roads in the area,\" the U.S. Geological Survey said.", "The dead included three young girls, officials said Friday.", "Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez was scheduled to tour the affected area Friday.", "On Thursday, he appealed for calm.", "The remote area near Alajuela, where the quake hit strongest, is difficult to reach, and officials said they were having to rely on helicopters for medical evacuations and to airlift supplies.", "Randall Picado, a government rescue official, said many residents were without water and other necessities.", "About 400 volunteers and Red Cross personnel were giving aid in 15 communities, Chaverri said.", "The temblor was felt throughout Costa Rica and in southern and central Nicaragua, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on its Web site.", "\"I felt the earthquake,\" Costa Rican office worker Erick Solorzano told CNN in an iReport message.", "\"I work in a sixth floor, and it was very strong.", "We felt the building was going to collapse.\"", "About 2,000 aftershocks have been felt in San Jose, the capital, and other cities throughout the nation, Red Cross spokeswoman Vilca said.", "The Geological Survey placed the earthquake's epicenter at 20 miles (32 kilometers) north-northwest of San Jose at a depth of 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers)." ]	[ "NEW: Rescuers trying to reach 300 tourists stranded in hotel .", "NEW: \"I saw how the earth moved and how it took my family,\" survivor says .", "Reports on number of people killed in quake conflict; up to 42 may be missing .", "More than 1,200 stranded, 1,000 more in shelters, Red Cross official says ." ]	[ 3, 14, 20, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Television and YouTube singing sensation Susan Boyle has promised to be on her best behavior if she wins the right to sing for the queen.", "Susan Boyle sings \"I Dreamed a Dream\" -- and becomes a worldwide sensation.", "The 47-year-old Boyle, who says she has never been kissed, was catapulted into the spotlight after her rendition of \"I Dreamed a Dream\" from the musical \"Les Miserables,\" on the television show \"Britain's Got Talent\" at the weekend.", "The winner of the show gets to sing for the queen at the Royal Variety Show.", "Boyle has a long way to go though -- having just won through to the second round after judge Simon Cowell described her first performance as \"extraordinary.\"", "Still, she was already thinking of how she would behave.", "\"Whatever comes my way, I am ready.", "It would be lovely to sing for the queen.", "There would be less of the carry on from me, and more of the singing.", "Watch Boyle tell CNN 'it must have been a miracle' » .", "\"She is a very regal lady, very nice, so I would be nice too, and just get up there and give it a bit of wellie (try),\" Boyle told the show's Web site.", "Boyle said she was trying to take her new found fame in her stride.", "\"It's a challenge. Life is a challenge sometimes but this is different.", "And I like to test myself. \"If it all gets too much and they lock me up, I want a great big strait-jacket with spots on it.", "A pink one... and a big zip on the back so I can escape.\"", "A clip of Boyle's performance had more than 11 million views on YouTube by Thursday, and the world's media have beaten a path to her door in Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland.", "Watch Boyle's singing wow the world » .", "Cowell is reportedly already trying to piece together a record deal for Boyle, an unemployed charity worker, who lives with her cat, Pebbles.", "For fans of Boyle, who attracted laughs and sniggers when she first appeared on stage before winning a standing ovation, the album cannot come quick enough.", "CNN has been inundated with hundreds of messages of support for Boyle.", "Simone said: \"I've been so depressed all day but hearing this woman sing and reading her story gave me a pick-me-up...", "I look forward to hearing more of her and I hope to buy her CD as soon as it hits the shelves.\"", "Cynthia wanted Cowell to move quickly.", "\"She brought tears to my eyes and a lump in my throat.", "I hope Simon does get her a record contract...I'll buy her CD.", "Never judge a book by it's cover.", "Susan Boyle, you go, girl!\"", "Jim described Boyle's talent as \"unbelievable\" and \"beautiful.\"", "\"I wish Susan the very best in her new life and hopefully someone has put her under contract.", "Thank you for such a beautiful song.\"", "Larry wanted to offer Boyle a kiss.", "\"I have just heard you sing for the first time -- thanks to CNN -- and I must tell you this: You are a fabulous talent, simply amazing to me that no one took advantage of your voice and passion up until now.", "I am a happily married man, but if I were not, and if I was in the audience, I can guarantee you that I would ask for a kiss, and if you were gracious enough to indulge me, well that would have been one of the great highlights of my life.", "Looking forward to the first of many albums.\"" ]	[ "Unexpected star grabs spotlight with more than 11 million YouTube hits .", "Susan Boyle fans want her to release an album -- now .", "Performance on \"Britain's Got Talent\" won standing ovation .", "The unemployed charity worker lives in northeast Scotland with pet cat ." ]	[ 15, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Everyone aboard US Airways Flight 1549 survived when the plane crash-landed into the Hudson River, and that may be due as much to diligent rescue training as luck.", "Passengers and crew line up outside the plane as boats move in to rescue them.", "The Coast Guard rescuers who quickly got to the scene and many of the ferries and boats that first responded train for water rescues.", "\"We, the Coast Guard, we do train for these type of events and these type of situations, scenarios, and one thing we do try to do is try to coordinate with our other maritime agency partners [so] that incidents like this go off without a hitch or as safely as possible,\" said Coast Guard Lt. C.K.", "Moore, who helped coordinate the response.", "Within minutes of the plane crash-landing into the water, the aircraft was surrounded by ferry boats that had been making their regularly scheduled trips across the Hudson and other boats coordinated by, and including, the Coast Guard.", "The passengers had begun exiting the plane -- getting into rafts or standing on the wings.", "But as more people began to exit, the plane started to become submerged and passengers' feet started getting cold.", "See photos of the crash and rescue .", "The quick response may have helped save the lives of passengers, who if not for the rescuers may have been subjected to the frigid Hudson water.", "It's one of the things Moore said the Coast Guard focuses on during water rescues, especially in the winter.", "After only three minutes in cold water, people can lose the use of their arms and legs, according to the Oregon State Marine Board.", "At the time of the crash it was 21 degrees outside, the water temperature in the Hudson was 32.5 degrees and winds were blowing at 15 mph.", "Oregon State Marine Board: Surviving cold water immersion .", "Thankfully for passengers, ferry captains like Brittany Catanzaro came quickly to their rescue.", "Watch passengers describe what happened » .", "She was at the helm of a New York Waterway ferry during a normal commute across the river when she looked to her right and saw a plane in the water.", "\"I had to do a double-take,\" she said.", "But Catanzaro knew exactly what to do.", "She said she and her crew train each month for water rescues.", "\"We have to do man overboard, and we're constantly drilling.", "Constantly,\" she said.", "\"And when something comes, you already know how to take effect and how to put everything together, so it just went very smoothly.\"", "Catanzaro immediately told her crew to get life jackets on, take extras to throw in the water, and prepare a cradle to help bring passengers onto the boat.", "The boat was the second on the scene.", "\"When I got there, my crew went to work and started pulling out people,\" she said.", "\"Some people were sighing with relief, some people were crying.", "It was nerve-wracking.\"", "In all, Catanzaro's crew helped bring 24 people aboard.", "\"I was telling my crew, even if we pulled out one person, that was one more person we saved,\" she said.", "\"And to pull out 24 people, that's 24 people.\"", "The Coast Guard was able to pluck at least 35 people from the water and wing of the plane.", "Catanzaro's crew and the Coast Guard were able to take nearly half the plane's passengers out of the Hudson.", "That's a credit to their training, Moore said, which is done exactly for this scenario.", "\"We do train with each other from time to time to understand what each other can bring to the table when it comes to -- to search and rescue,\" he said.", "\"This is one of the situations where this has come to fruition, and it's a great -- it's a great thing to see it happen like this.\"" ]	[ "Coast Guard, ferry training enable quick response, rescue .", "Ferry captain says they drill each month for man overboard scenarios .", "Boats help pluck passengers off wings, out of the water .", "Coast Guard lieutenant: \"It's a great thing to see it happen like this\"" ]	[ 3, 14, 19, 20, 35 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A man suspected in the slayings of his girlfriend and her four children admitted choking the Oklahoma woman to death, but said the children were not present at the time, according to an affidavit filed in the case.", "Joshua Steven Durcho was arrested Tuesday after a car chase with police.", "Joshua Steven Durcho, 25, was arrested Tuesday night in Hamilton County, Texas, officials said.", "He is suspected of killing Summer Rust, 25; her son Teagin, 4; and daughters Evynn, 3, and Autumn and Kirsten, both 7.", "All five bodies were found in Rust's apartment in El Reno, Oklahoma, about 30 miles west of Oklahoma City, on Monday.", "Durcho's first cousin notified authorities he found the body of Rust, who is identified in the affidavit as Summer Dawn Garas.", "Police also found the children's bodies in the apartment, according to the affidavit, written by a special agent with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and filed Tuesday in Canadian County, Oklahoma, District Court.", "\"The Medical Examiner's Office has reported to our agents that the preliminary assessment of the cause and manner of death for all five individuals was asphyxiation, suffocation and strangulation,\" the affidavit said.", "\"It was also reported that each body had ligature marks around the neck.", "The ligature marks were also observed by OSBI crime scene investigators.\"", "A spokeswoman for the state medical examiner's office told CNN on Wednesday that the cause of death for Summer Rust and Teagin was strangulation, and that a ligature -- which could include a string, cord or wire -- was used to strangle them.", "Autopsies on the three girls were being conducted Wednesday, the spokeswoman said.", "A woman told police Durcho came to her apartment Monday afternoon and told her he had \"choked\" Summer Rust to death and that he was leaving Oklahoma, according to the affidavit.", "The woman asked Durcho about Rust's children, the affidavit said, and \"Durcho told her that the children were at their grandmother's residence ... while he and Summer worked out their relationship problems.\"", "The woman called Durcho's mother and told her what he had said about killing Rust, the affidavit said.", "Durcho's mother drove to the apartment to check on the woman, but no one answered her knocks.", "She then called her nephew, Durcho's cousin, to accompany her, leading to the discovery of Rust's body, according to the document.", "About 6:30 p.m. Monday, the affidavit said, Durcho went to the home of another cousin, a female, and told her \"he was in trouble and that he was headed out of state.\"", "Durcho was driving Rust's 1989 white Ford Thunderbird, the document said, and asked his cousin to swap cars with him, but she declined.", "A surveillance video showed Durcho at a truck stop on Interstate 40 about three hours later, driving the Thunderbird, the affidavit said.", "Early Tuesday morning, a text message was sent from a cell phone in Durcho's possession to his mother's cell phone, according to the affidavit.", "Tracking and cell phone records showed Durcho's phone was located in Wichita Falls, Texas, at the time.", "Later that morning, Durcho called his mother, with the call shown to be from the Abilene, Texas, area, the affidavit said.", "Durcho's mother said \"Durcho told her he loved her and had to go,\" according to the document.", "Police said Durcho was arrested after a car chase Tuesday night.", "A Texas state trooper attempted to stop the car Durcho was driving because the trooper suspected the driver was drunk, according to Erin Mangrum of the Canadian County sheriff's office.", "When the trooper ran the license plate on the car, it matched the tag number of a vehicle sought by Oklahoma police.", "The car sped off, Mangrum said, and during the ensuing chase the car crashed.", "Durcho suffered only minor injuries and was taken into custody, Mangrum said.", "A court hearing was to be held for Durcho on Wednesday in Hamilton County, according to CNN affiliates.", "The Hamilton County district attorney's office did not immediately return a call from CNN.", "Durcho was being held in the county jail Tuesday night, Mangrum said.", "Rust's mother, Susan Rust of Carson City, Nevada, said Durcho was unemployed and had been living with Rust and her children." ]	[ "NEW: Affidavit describes suspect's actions after slayings .", "Mother, son strangled with ligature, autopsy shows .", "Suspect arrested after chase in Texas .", "Family found dead in Oklahoma apartment on Monday ." ]	[ 1, 4, 6 ]
[ "Editor's note: Republican Leslie Sanchez was director of the White House Initiative on Hispanic Education from 2001 to 2003 and author of \"Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other.\"", "She is CEO of the Impacto Group, which specializes in market research about women and Hispanics.", "Leslie Sanchez says Republicans should treat Hispanics as part of the mainstream of America.", "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As the members of the Republican National Committee prepare to choose a party chairman to serve for the next two years, the calls for new \"Hispanic outreach\" initiatives are flying -- in my view, unnecessarily.", "It is probably true that President Obama's election marks the beginning of a post-partisan, post-racial America, or at least a time when these issues are less divisive than in years past.", "But will the two political parties be as able to look beyond the stereotypes of Latinos and what the Latino experience is in this country, as they have for other ethnic and racial groups?", "As Republicans, we need to win at least 35 percent of the Hispanic vote to win the presidency.", "In 2008, John McCain got 31 percent, slightly exceeding the average for the past eight presidential elections.", "We've had our high points (George W. Bush 2004, 44 percent) and low points (Bob Dole 1996, 21 percent).", "Ten years ago, as an RNC press aide, I was given the responsibility for developing a team that would design a multimillion-dollar ad strategy to appeal to the nation's emerging Latino electorate.", "We conducted seminal research on Hispanic voting patterns that is still of value today.", "For example, we identified a \"GOP Upside\" of another 25 percent of Hispanics who were voting Democrat on the generic presidential ballot question but would be interested in voting for a Republican who offered a campaign agenda focused on family, education and job-creation issues.", "So it is mystifying to me to hear the ongoing references to the party's need to find \"a new way\" to speak to the nation's largest minority bloc.", "It's like being asked to reinvent the wheel.", "This isn't just a Republican problem.", "Democrats do this too, relating to Latinos as if we're primarily poor, immigrant or both.", "It doesn't work anymore, if it ever did.", "And although the anti-immigrant rhetoric spouted by Tom Tancredo and others was offensive to Hispanics and projected a \"We don't want you here\" image for the GOP, the fact is that it was offensive to a lot of other people, too.", "In the age of Obama, that kind of exclusive message is just not marketable.", "If Republicans truly want to develop a winning strategy for appealing to Hispanics, they need look no further than Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.", "They appealed to them not as Hispanics or immigrants but as Americans with an equal stake in the future of the country.", "What Hispanics want, and what we as Republicans want them to want, is to be included in the American experience.", "During the period in which Hispanics constituted a small minority of the overall nation, efforts like Richard Nixon's to ensure that they were counted in the national census were important because it meant inclusion.", "When people believe that they are already part of a community, such patently obvious efforts come across as patronizing.", "Hispanics, especially young professionals like me who were born and raised here in the United States, believe that we deserve more than a couple of high-profile meetings and a few Spanish-language ads.", "That was certainly true during the 2008 presidential campaign, which had little to interest Hispanics at all.", "McCain trumpeted his record as a champion of comprehensive immigration reform to Hispanics, while his campaign tried to make him more palatable to Republican conservatives by de-emphasizing his record as a champion of comprehensive immigration reform.", "McCain was hurt among Latinos by the perception that he caved in on immigration enforcement and abandoned his own bill.", "Obama's campaign message to Hispanics, though delivered largely in Spanish through his campaign Web site, was patronizing.", "In the summary of issues for his Latino Blueprint for Change, Obama talked about a narrow group of issues that, in my view, are important to only a small percentage of Latinos.", "For example, on education, his message focused largely on English as a second language and in-state tuition for undocumented students.", "On immigration, he tried to counter the Republicans.", "On jobs and the economy, he highlighted the minimum wage.", "These issues, which may have been important to a majority of Hispanics when Cesar Chavez was leading striking farm workers, are not at the top of the list for Hispanics today.", "To remain largely focused on them is to patronize millions of upwardly mobile Hispanics who are not immigrants and who don't think of themselves as hyphenated Americans.", "Which is probably why Obama's echoing of Chavez's \"Sí, Se Puede!\"", "during his concession speech after the Texas primary was met with silence and blank stares.", "Hispanic political sophistication is increasing alongside Hispanic economic progress.", "A new HispanTelligence Research report suggests that the number of Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States will increase to 4.3 million over the next six years.", "We need to appreciate that it is not the message as much as it is the audience.", "Speaking past Hispanics or down to Hispanics is not the way to invite them into a long-term relationship.", "We no longer see ourselves as hyphens or as members of the Hispanic community only; we see ourselves as Americans, with a broad array of interests.", "Before the development of the virtual world, communities were defined by geography, ethnicity, religion, income, race and other elements that were as apparent to those inside a community as outside it.", "Now, through social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter, which the Obama campaign exploited to new degrees of success, people are developing their own communities of common interest.", "Hispanics want to see the political parties realize that they do, in fact, belong to the larger community called \"America\" as well as myriad interest groups.", "We may choose to define ourselves as part of certain \"ethnic\" or \"interest\" groups.", "It's not the job of a political party to define us.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Leslie Sanchez." ]	[ "Leslie Sanchez: Republicans are talking about a new outreach to Hispanics .", "She says Hispanics are part of the American mainstream with broad interests .", "Sanchez: Candidates, including Obama, talked about narrow issues .", "She says Hispanics want to be seen as Americans, with a stake in the future ." ]	[ 2, 20, 29 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Jon Hamm has a confession to make: He hates his hair.", "Jon Hamm poses with his partner, Jennifer Westfeldt, at the premiere of \"The Day the Earth Stood Still.\"", "That may come as a surprise to fans of the actor, whose slick-backed hair is part of his signature look on \"Mad Men\" -- the show that just earned him another Golden Globe nomination for best actor in a TV drama.", "In the new movie \"The Day the Earth Stood Still,\" Hamm sports a slightly different 'do, with his bangs combed rakishly over one eye.", "It was in the context of promoting the sci-fi remake that Hamm revealed his tonsorial frustration.", "\"It's the bane of my existence.", "Goofy hair,\" he said in a self-deprecating interview with CNN.", "\"It never looks good ...", "It's a pain.\" Hamm says he's always worn his hair long, but had to cut it for AMC's TV series, in which he plays a 1960s Madison Avenue ad executive.", "He says stylists on the show, armed with hair spray and blow dryers, mold his coiffure into a hard shell.", "Helmet hair has come in handy at work.", "\"I've had a piece of the set fall on my head and my hair didn't move,\" he said.", "\"I had seven stitches in my head and my hair didn't move.", "That's impressive.\" Whether it's his hair, good looks, acting chops or a combination thereof, Hamm's star is on the rise in Hollywood.", "Apart from his co-starring role in \"The Day the Earth Stood Still,\" Hamm recently completed work on the murder mystery \"The Boy in the Box.\"", "He hosted \"Saturday Night Live\" this fall, he's due to play Tina Fey's love interest on \"30 Rock\" and he continues to receive accolades for his work on \"Mad Men\" (nominations for an Emmy and a Golden Globe so far).", "How does that make Hamm feel?", "\"Exciting is the right way to say it.", "It's been a good year. It's very exciting,\" he said.", "\"I get to read a lot more scripts.", "I get to meet interesting people.", "I get to work with interesting people ...", "It's fun to be sort of invited to the party.\"" ]	[ "\"Mad Men\" star Jon Hamm earned another Golden Globe nomination .", "Hamm says hair is a pain -- especially short and lacquered for \"Mad Men\"\nActor currently appearing in \"The Day the Earth Stood Still\"" ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Ricky Gervais says he's not sure if the lead in \"Ghost Town\" -- an anti-social, cynical dentist named Bertram Pincus -- was written for him.", "Ricky Gervais has established a career playing characters with an abrasive edge.", "And he's not sure if he wants to know.", "\"I'm scared to ask,\" he says in a phone interview from Los Angeles, California.", "\"[Writer-director David Koepp] says that when they first had the idea, that it should be played by me, [and] they never looked back.", "Now I don't know whether that was as they were coming up with it, or whether it was because they found out no one else was available.", "Steve Carell had said no, Will Ferrell had said no, Jack Black had said no, Ben Stiller had said no ... everyone had said no, and they went, 'Oh, is there no one ...", "I wonder if HE'S available.'", "\"I don't know which is closer.", "I'd like to think the first one's closer.\"", "But, he adds, he was more than happy to take the role.", "\"When I read it, I thought, 'This is me,' \" he says.", "\"It was my voice; it's something I could have written.", "Even the lines sounded like that grumpy misanthrope I often play.", "And then they made it even more me.\" Watch a clip from \"Ghost Town\" with Mr. Moviefone » .", "Indeed, Gervais, 47, has risen to fame playing characters who are, let us say, less than friendly.", "On the original UK version of \"The Office,\" which he created with longtime writing partner Stephen Merchant, he played David Brent, the socially tone-deaf general manager of a paper company branch office who continually shocked co-workers with his immature jokes and patronizing attitude.", "He followed that as Andy Millman in \"Extras,\" a borderline performer always angling for the main chance.", "And in \"Ghost Town,\" which came out on DVD Sunday, Gervais' Dr. Pincus can't stand to communicate with the ghosts he starts meeting after a near-death experience.", "He does have a bit of redemption.", "He strikes up a romance with Gwen (Tea Leoni), an antiquities expert, and ends up helping out a few of his late comrades.", "But in Gervais' portrayal, Pincus retains his abrasive edge.", "The movie earned generally good reviews and a decent box office upon its late-summer release, with the Boston Globe's Ty Burr comparing Gervais to a Hollywood legend.", "\"Someone once said about W.C. Fields that he had the rare ability to despise amusingly.", "I can imagine no greater compliment than to say that Ricky Gervais seems, at his best, like a young Fields,\" Burr wrote.", "That kind of misanthrope is the furthest thing from the Gervais of the phone interview, an engaging man who answers questions with patience and thoughtfulness.", "Asked why British actors play socially unpleasant roles so well, he ponders the question, makes asides to how often British actors play villains and \"bumbling fops\" and soon offers a disquisition on the differences between British and American culture.", "Watch more insight on interviewing Ricky Gervais » .", "\"I think we play the loser well because England's full of them,\" he says.", "\"We celebrate our losers, we celebrate our underdogs, we celebrate those people -- [and then] we build them up and then we don't like them anymore.", "Whereas Americans celebrate success.", "Americans are brought up to believe they can be the next president of the United States.", "British people are told it won't happen to you.", "It sounds like a generalization, but it's true.\"", "He adds that he just finished writing a film with Merchant called \"The Man from the Pru,\" set in early-'70s England.", "\"It's about class, and it's about can you escape being born living, growing up and dying in the same street,\" he says.", "\"I know that's the same the world over ... but it's because Britain is so small and so diverse.", "\"You really couldn't get out of your class before celebrity came along.", "The American class system always seemed a bit fairer to me, because it was built on achievement as opposed to blood.\"", "Since Gervais likes to write his own material, he's careful about the roles he takes, even with Hollywood beckoning.", "\"Ghost Town\" was a good fit, he says, because he and Koepp hit it off so well.", "\"The whole thing was really collaborative,\" he says.", "\"I'm not usually an actor for hire, but this was great.\"", "Indeed, it's the collaboration that made it, he says.", "He welcomes that kind of bouncing ideas back and forth, and says he'd love to do something with Steve Carell, who plays the American version of Brent, Michael Scott, on the U.S. version of \"Office.\"", "The two had a memorably hilarious exchange at this year's often unfunny Emmy show.", "\"I would love to host anything with Steve Carell,\" he says.", "\"I would do a cat show with Steve Carell.", "I would do Computer Nerds' Mr. Universe with Steve Carell.", "So if anyone asks me if I will host a show with Steve Carell, the answer's yes.\"", "Perhaps that could happen soon: Gervais' name is often bandied about in rumors about awards show hosting duties.", "However, he adds, he remains in the dark about it all.", "\"I'm on a list,\" he says. \"But I don't know what that means.\"" ]	[ "Ricky Gervais plays misanthropic dentist in \"Ghost Town,\" now out on DVD .", "Role was \"me,\" he says, \"something I could have written\"\nGervais rose to fame with UK \"Office,\" \"Extras\"" ]	[ 0, 12, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Just days before he was sworn in, President Obama was giving his daughters a tour of the Lincoln Memorial when one of them pointed to a copy of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address carved into the wall.", "President Obama strides into history as the nation's first black president.", "Obama's 7-year-old daughter, Sasha, told her father that Lincoln's speech was really long.", "Would he have to give a speech as long?", "Obama's answer was completed by his older daughter, 10-year-old Malia.", "\"I said, 'Actually, that one is pretty short.", "Mine may even be a little longer,' \" Obama told CNN recently.", "\"At which point, Malia turns to me and says, 'First African-American president, better be good.'", "\" The story is light-hearted, but it touches on a delicate question: Will people hold Obama to a different standard because he is the first African-American president?", "Americans appear split by race on that answer.", "According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, 53 percent of blacks say the American public will hold Obama to a higher standard than past presidents because he is black.", "Most whites -- 61 percent -- say Obama's race will not matter in how he will be judged.", "The question divided several people who were racial pioneers themselves.", "Alexander Jefferson was one of the first blacks allowed to become a fighter pilot.", "He was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of black pilots who escorted bombers in World War II.", "\"We had to be twice as good to be average,\" he says.", "Obama won't face the same pressures he did because his presidential predecessor was so inept, Jefferson says.", "\"No, the world is ready for him,\" he says.", "\"The [George W.] Bush debacle was so depressing.\"", "Jefferson was shot down by ground fire on his 19th mission and spent a year in German prison camps.", "He wrote about his POW experiences in \"Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW.\"", "Jefferson says he dealt with the pressures of being a racial pioneer by drawing on the strength of black leaders who opened doors for him.", "\"I sit on the backs of everyone who came before me,\" says Jefferson, who attended Obama's inauguration with other Tuskegee Airmen.", "Jefferson says he would have emotionally imploded if he'd thought too much about the pressures of representing all blacks and dealing with the racism he encountered when he returned home to a segregated America after the war.", "\"I did what I had to do so I didn't go stark-raving mad,\" he says.", "\"There wasn't all this self-analysis and back and forth.", "I was too damn busy with a wife, a child and a mortgage.\"", "Michele Andrea Bowen couldn't avoid a bout of constant self-analysis.", "She was one of the first African-American students admitted to a doctorate program in history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.", "\"I know Obama is going to be held to a different standard,\" says Bowen, author of \"Up at the College\" and books such as \"Holy Ghost Corner,\" which celebrate black faith and culture.", "Bowen says she faced relentless scrutiny, and so will Obama.", "\"You know that it was hard for you to get in it, and you know they're watching you,\" Bowen says.", "\"And you know that they're judging you by a critical standard that's sometimes not fair.\"", "Bowen says a white classmate, her partner in dissertation, once confided to her that he received the same grades as she did, even though he knew his work was inferior.", "\"It toughened me up,\" Bowen says.", "\"It can give you headaches and stomachaches.", "I learned you have to be thankful that God blessed you with that opportunity.", "At some point, you stop worrying, and you trust God.\"", "'Would Bush have been president if he were black?'", "Perhaps Obama will avoid those stomachaches because of the massive good will his election has generated.", "But that could change quickly if Obama makes a controversial decision or a mistake, says Andrew Rojecki, co-author of \"The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America.\"", "Rojecki says people who say Obama isn't going to be held to a different standard because of his skin color didn't pay attention to his campaign.", "He says Obama had to deal with challenges that other candidates didn't have to face.", "Obama's run for office was almost ended by his association with his minister, the Rev.", "Jeremiah Wright, whose incendiary sermons shocked many.", "But Republican presidential nominee John McCain's relationship with the Rev.", "John Hagee, who was accused of anti-Semitism, never threatened to end his campaign, Rojecki says.", "\"Obama was held responsible for what his minister said, and McCain was associated with Hagee, but somehow that didn't stick,\" says Rojecki, a communication professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.", "Even people who regard themselves as the most progressive, open-minded supporters may subconsciously hold Obama to a different standard, Rojecki says.", "He says several academic studies show that it often takes people longer to associate good qualities to blacks when different faces are flashed across a screen.", "\"They have these stereotypes buried in their subconscious,\" he says.", "\"That's why people cross the street when they see a young black man.", "They'd rather not take a chance.\"", "Obama virtually had to be perfect to overcome those stereotypes, Rojecki says.", "He was the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review, he has an Ivy League-educated wife and adorable daughters, and he ran a great campaign.", "\"He's the perfect symbol of achievement,\" Rojecki says.", "White candidates for office don't have to have an uninterrupted life of achievement to be considered for the Oval Office, Rojecki says.", "\"If George W. Bush were black, do you think he would be president?\"", "Rojecki says.", "Jefferson, the Tuskegee Airman, says Obama should have at least one consolation.", "The problems he confronts now are so immense that anyone, even someone who was considered by many to be perfect, would not be able to escape withering judgment.", "\"If the president was Jesus Christ, '' Jefferson says, \"they would still debate if he's qualified.\"" ]	[ "Racial pioneers say they felt pressure to be extraordinary .", "Poll shows Americans split by race over how Obama will be judged .", "Racial pioneer says pressure can make person \"stark-raving mad\"" ]	[ 9, 11, 24 ]
[ "(InStyle.com) -- Michelle Obama dazzled on the dance floor Tuesday night at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball in Washington, wearing an elegant, one-shouldered ivory gown created for her by 26-year-old designer, Jason Wu.", "First lady Michelle Obama dazzled in a Jason Wu original gown.", "The one-of-a-kind silk chiffon confection was embellished with organza rosettes, Swarovski crystal rhinestones and silver embroidery.", "The first lady accessorized with diamond chandelier earrings, a white gold and diamond ring and a stack of diamond bangles by jeweler Loree Rodkin.", "The president summed up his wife's look best before their first dance -- to Beyoncé's rendition of \"At Last\" -- when he said, \"First of all, how good-looking is my wife?\"", "Michelle Obama has worn Wu once before, during an interview with Barbara Walters.", "Wu, one of America's leading young designers, debuted his first collection in February 2006 and has since earned accolades such as Fashion Group International's Rising Star Award.", "Watch InStyle.com's Joe Berean discuss the gown » .", "Obama was likely introduced to the designer in one of her favorite Chicago, Illinois, boutiques, Ikram.", "The new first lady has made a conscious effort to support young, diverse talent in the fashion community.", "In choosing Wu, who is originally from Taiwan, Obama continues a tradition of wearing American designers who hail from other countries.", "They include Cuban-American designers Isabel Toledo, who designed her yellow lace inauguration ensemble; Narciso Rodriguez, designer of the red and black dress she wore on election night; and designer Thakoon Panichgul, originally from Thailand, who designed the floral dress she wore the evening her husband accepted the Democratic nomination for president.", "Michelle Obama's style statement is one meant to inspire ethnic and class diversity in the world of fashion.", "Aside from being a socially conscious purveyor of style, Obama also sends a clear message of hope and promise by choosing colorful, reasonably priced pieces.", "Watch the Obamas enjoy the night » .", "She prefers bright, cheerful shades such as yellow, electric blue, red and purple, and has been seen on multiple occasions in head-to-toe looks from moderately priced American retailer J.Crew.", "In fact, daughters Malia and Sasha braved Tuesday's chilly weather in coats from the brand's children's collection.", "Michelle Obama was first seen in J.Crew during a visit to the \"Tonight Show\" with Jay Leno on October 27.", "\"This is a J.Crew ensemble,\" she told the host.", "\"We ladies, we know J.Crew.\"", "The first lady also said she had a penchant for Internet shopping, saying, \"When you don't have time, you gotta click!\"", "Obama wore J.Crew again at the Kids' Inaugural Concert on Monday.", "She gave the colorful ensemble a luxe spin with dangling green sapphire earrings from Loree Rodkin and a Deco-inspired belt buckle.", "InStyle magazine Fashion Director Hal Rubenstein appreciates Obama's straightforward approach to fashion.", "\"People tend to think classic looks are synonymous with boring, but they're not,\" he explains.", "\"Michelle Obama has a specific style that works for her.", "She has a lady-like approach to style that is elegant and inspiring.", "\"What we'll see as a result is this idea of looking put-together and sophisticated, as opposed to being daring or flamboyant.", "It's all about looking polished, like you know what you're doing.\"", "Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!", "Copyright © 2009 Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "First lady's elegant, one-shouldered ivory gown created by 26-year-old Jason Wu .", "The one-of-a-kind silk chiffon confection was embellished with organza rosettes .", "Michelle Obama has tradition of wearing American designers from other nations .", "Her time-saving shopping secret -- buying on the Internet ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "DECATUR, Georgia (CNN) -- One falling tree saved John Kiefer from another.", "Windstorms in Atlanta, Georgia, uprooted several trees, including this one that fell through John Kiefer's home.", "Kiefer was sitting on his sofa Monday morning while a brief but intense windstorm blew through the Atlanta, Georgia, area, including Decatur.", "He heard a tree crash in his backyard and got up to investigate.", "That tree knocked down a chain-link fence, and Kiefer was getting worried about several other large backyard trees that were swaying in the wind.", "\"And as I'm watching those move and sway, this crashed down,\" he said.", "\"This\" was a 50-foot red oak in the front yard that fell onto his living room, splitting his house in half and coming to rest a few inches above where he had been sitting on the couch.", "\"Yeah, it's a mess,\" he said as he surveyed the tangle of broken wood beams, plaster, bricks and gray insulation.", "Curiously, Kiefer's electricity was still on, and cable TV was still playing less then 10 feet away from the massive tree trunk in his living room.", "An ancient upright piano and various collectibles on it were unharmed.", "Kiefer had been away over the weekend, visiting a son in Cincinnati, Ohio, and his three dogs were still at the kennel where he boarded them.", "They'll be staying there a bit longer.", "Three years of drought in Georgia have weakened trees' root systems, and recent heavy rains loosened the soil around them, said Kiefer, who works at a plastics recycling company in nearby Stone Mountain.", "The windstorm brought down hundreds of trees in the area, including one that crushed a car, killing the person inside, and one that fell on a nursing home, where no one was hurt, CNN affiliate WGCL reported.", "Service was disrupted on Atlanta's MARTA rail transit system, according to WGCL.", "Power and traffic signals were out in many areas.", "Watch CNN report about dangerous storms » .", "Despite having a tree lying across his living room, Kiefer seemed remarkably calm, but that was a new development.", "\"Couple of hours ago my knees where shaking pretty good,\" he admitted.", "But, he said, God was looking out for him.", "\"Actually, he saved my life,\" Kiefer said.", "\"When I came outside to investigate that noise, that was my warning to get up off that couch.", "And then, not to go back in the house when it got real windy, but to stand right there where that tree stopped. There are no coincidences.\"" ]	[ "Brief but intense windstorm blows through Atlanta, Georgia .", "Winds brought down hundreds of trees, including one that killed person inside car .", "Another tree fell on a nursing home; no one was hurt ." ]	[ 2, 13 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Porn icon Marilyn Chambers was found dead in her Los Angeles home Sunday night, but investigators do not suspect foul play, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's spokesman.", "Marilyn Chambers rose to fame as an adult-film actress in the 1970s.", "Chambers began her career in 1970 as a model for Ivory Snow soap, and starred two years later in the porn classic \"Behind the Green Door.\"", "\"She was a really nice girl,\" said actor Ron Jeremy, who co-starred with Chambers in adult films starting in the 1970s.", "Chambers' death was a \"total shock,\" Jeremy said, because they had been scheduled to sign a contract Monday to perform together in an off-Broadway \"tongue-in-cheek\" re-enactment of the porn classic \"Deep Throat.\"", "\"What's strange is that she was at a stage where she was totally happy and totally content with her life,\" Jeremy said.", "\"Her life was falling together, and she was doing really well.\"", "A family member found Chambers, 56, in the mobile home where she lived in the Canyon Country area and called police Sunday evening, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitemore said.", "The death appeared to be from natural causes, although toxicology tests have not been completed, Whitemore said.", "The coroner's investigation has not been completed, and no cause of death has been determined, according to a spokesman with the Los Angeles Medical Examiner's office.", "Although her career was mostly in X-rated films, Chambers' fame was boosted by the irony that her face had graced the Ivory Snow box, a soap advertised as \"99 and 44/100 percent pure.\"", "Chambers eventually co-starred with all of the best-known porn actors of the 1970s and 1980s, Jeremy said." ]	[ "NEW: She had been set to sign contract for off-Broadway show with Ron Jeremy .", "Marilyn Chambers starred in some of the most famous porn movies of '70s .", "Chambers, once a model for Ivory Snow, was in \"Behind the Green Door\"\nChambers' body was found Sunday; investigators do not suspect foul play ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Barack Obama has talked of ripping out the White House bowling alley and replacing it with a basketball court.", "The former reserve player for Punahou High School's 1979 state championship team brings an enthusiasm for pickup basketball games to a place where golf, baseball and football have been the most-discussed sports.", "Reggie Miller says he'd pick Barack Obama for his squad because he likes the president-elect's team approach.", "And if he puts hoops in the White House, Reggie Miller, the retired basketball star and sports broadcaster, wants in.", "\"I would love to be the first to go there and play,\" said Miller, whose record-breaking 2,560 three-pointers with the Indiana Pacers electrified basketball fans.", "Today Miller, 43, is an NBA analyst for TNT, which is owned by Turner Broadcasting, parent company of CNN.", "Miller and others have said Obama's playing style yields clues to the type of president he will be.", "Miller, who said he backed Obama in the election, spoke Monday to CNN.com.", "iReport.com: What would you like to ask Obama?", "CNN: Do you know Barack Obama?", "Reggie Miller: I have never met him personally, but from afar, obviously I admire the man and the courage and the strength, the wisdom.", "I respect how much of a family man he is.", "CNN: Where does basketball fit in your view of Barack Obama?", "Miller: It seems like he has a regular pickup game, which I like because as a ballplayer, you like to do the same routine. ...", "He plays with the same guys, he likes to get a good sweat in. ...", "When you get a good workout in, you feel good for the rest of the day.", "It helps clear the mind.", "CNN: He's a left-hander; he likes to fake right and go to the left?", "Miller: I've seen clips of his Punahou [high school] days, when he played in Hawaii, and I saw that HBO special with Bryant Gumbel when they had that informal game. ...", "He is a point guard, and most point guards are right-handed, so it would be definitely be difficult to guard a point guard that was left-handed.", "And in that [HBO] clip, I loved his decision-making, because it looked like he tried to get everyone involved, until it was game point and it was tied up.", "Obviously, the commander in chief decides the game [Obama made the winning shot], and I like it.", "I think that trickles down into, you let your colonels, your generals do all the little work, but when it's time to make the big decision and win the game -- then it's the commander in chief, top dog, numero uno.", "But I will say this, if I was playing against him in a pickup game, I would definitely force him right because it looks like he loves to go left.", "CNN: Does he remind you of anyone you played against?", "Miller: Well, it's funny because you don't play against a lot of left-handed point guards.", "Greg Anthony of the Knicks, a left-handed point guard from UNLV.", "... [Nate] \"Tiny\" Archibald, I believe he was left-handed as well.", "CNN: From what you've seen, how good a player is Obama?", "Miller: I would not mind picking him up on my squad; if there were 10 guys and we had to pick, he could definitely be in my squad.", "Because he knows what his strength is -- making sure that everyone gets involved, and that's the kind of point guard I want.", "Those are guys like Magic Johnson, Mark Jackson, John Stockton, it's not all about them; it's about let's make sure our team is good.", "He's going to get the ball to everyone.", "CNN: Speaking of being commander in chief, what are the lessons that you take away from Obama's basketball that you think would be useful?", "Miller: If you look at his demeanor, he's very cool; you have to be cool under pressure.", "You can't make hasty decisions.", "You've got to look at the full picture as a whole and then you assess it.", "And I think from a strategic and a political standpoint, I think that very much sums up Mr. Obama.", "You look at him during the debate and during the campaign, he pretty much never got too high and never got too low; he just kind of stayed right in the middle.", "When you're making the decisions that he's going to be making, for our economy, for Iraq, Afghanistan, you want someone who's levelheaded who's going to look at the big picture, who's going to rely on his Cabinet, which would be the other players.", "You want them to all be on same page, which you want your starting five to be, and then you go out there and execute it.", "CNN: You think he's going to have an impact on the sport of basketball by example?", "Miller: It's not just basketball, I think sports in general.", "You know he's already said yes, \"I think we should have a BCS\" [playoff system for deciding the nation's college football championship], and I think everyone agrees with him.", "I think his love of basketball is only going to help the high school, collegiate and professional ranks.", "... For sports in general, it's good to have a person in the White House who's physically fit, who loves sports but also understands and knows how to run a country.", "CNN: In that order? Miller: I don't know about that order.", "I think I would probably start with running the country first.", "I think what we do is more entertainment and letting people escape.", "I think running the country is a little more important than worrying about the BCS title game.", "I think getting jobs is probably first and foremost and getting our economy straight and getting our troops home, I think those are the most important things for the president-elect.", "But if he does find time to get a BCS playoff, that would be nice." ]	[ "Reggie Miller: Barack Obama's basketball style offers clues to his leadership .", "He says Obama tries to involve the whole team but also will take final shot .", "Miller: Obama's interest in sports and fitness is a good example for the U.S." ]	[ 2, 6, 45 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Liberty Sun, a U.S.-flagged cargo ship bound for Mombasa, Kenya, was attacked Tuesday by Somali pirates, according to a NATO source with direct knowledge of the matter.", "Pirates attacked The Liberty Sun, a U.S.-flagged cargo ship, but were unable to board.", "\"The pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at the vessel, which sustained damage,\" said a statement from New York-based Liberty Maritime Corporation, which owns the vessel.", "The ship was carrying U.S. food aid for African nations, the statement said.", "The pirates never made it onto the ship and the vessel is now being escorted by a coalition ship, still bound for Mombasa, officials said.", "Two senior defense officials said the Liberty Sun was being escorted by the guided missile destroyer USS Bainbridge.", "It is the ship carrying Richard Phillips, the captain of the container ship Maersk Alabama, which was hijacked last week.", "Phillips spent days as a hostage of the pirates before being rescued Sunday.", "Katy Urbik of Wheaton, Illinois, said her son, Thomas, was aboard the Liberty Sun at the time of the attack.", "She shared the e-mails he sent as the ship came under fire.", "\"We are under attack by pirates, we are being hit by rockets.", "Also bullets,\" said one e-mail sent Tuesday afternoon.", "\"We are barricaded in the engine room and so far no one is hurt.", "[A] rocket penetrated the bulkhead but the hole is small.", "Small fire, too, but put out.", "\"Navy is on the way and helos and ships are coming.", "I'll try to send you another message soon.", "[G]ot to go now. I love you mom and dad and all my brothers and family.\"", "\"My heart stopped after I realized there wasn't going to be a 'just kidding' after his comment,\" Katy Urbik said.", "About 1½ hours later, Thomas Urbik sent another e-mail to his mother, which said, \"The navy has showed up in full force and we are now under military escort ... all is well.", "I love you all and thank you for the prayers.\"", "In an e-mail only hours before the attack, Urbik's son tried to assure his mother that his crew was safe and taking precautions.", "\"Don't worry too much.", "I am fine and we are being well monitored by the U.S. Navy, who is demanding we send them a report every six hours on our position and status,\" Thomas Ubrik's e-mail said.", "He added, \"We in fact are going to be the second American ship to arrive into Mombasa after the Maersk Alabama.", "It should be interesting to say the least.", "... We have had several drills to prepare ourselves to secure ourselves in the engine room.", "[W]e can do it pretty quick by now.\"", "The company said the ship had dropped off food aid last week at a Sudanese port and the ship was going around the Horn of Africa to reach Kenya when it came under attack.", "However, the exact location of the attack remained unclear.", "Earlier Tuesday, pirates off the coast of Somalia seized two freighters, proving they remain a force to contend with just days after the U.S. Navy dramatically rescued an American captain held by other pirates.", "First, pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Tuesday hijacked the MV Irene EM, a 35,000-ton Greek-owned bulk carrier, according to a NATO spokesman and the European Union's Maritime Security Center.", "The crew of the Greek carrier was thought to be unhurt and ships have been warned to stay clear of the area for fear of further attack, the Security Center said.", "Later Tuesday, pirates on four skiffs seized the 5,000-ton MV Sea Horse, a Lebanese-owned and Togo-flagged vessel, said Cmdr.", "Chris Davies of NATO's Maritime Component Command Headquarters in Northwood, England.", "Details about the ship and its crew weren't immediately available.", "NATO has an ongoing anti-piracy mission off Somalia called Operation Allied Protector.", "The mission involves four ships covering more than a million square miles, Davies said.", "A U.S.-led international naval task force, Combined Task Force-151, is also patrolling in the region.", "Tuesday's hijackings came two days after sharpshooters from the U.S. Navy SEALs killed three pirates who had been holding Phillips hostage on the water for days.", "Phillips had offered himself as a hostage when pirates attacked the Alabama on Wednesday, officials said.", "The ship had been on its way to deliver aid to Mombasa, Kenya.", "A fourth pirate had been aboard Bainbridge when the shootings occurred and was taken into custody.", "Watch the tough tactics the Navy uses » .", "The incident follows four freighters being seized over the past two days by pirates off the Somalian coast, proving they remain a force to contend with.", "Pirates on Monday hijacked two Egyptian fishing boats carrying a total of between 18 and 24 people, the Egyptian Information Ministry told CNN.", "The Egyptian Foreign Ministry is working to end the hijacking, the ministry said.", "Egyptian boats are known to use Somali waters illegally for fishing, taking advantage of the lawless state of the country and the lack of enforcement of its maritime boundaries.", "Those who have tracked pirate activity in Somalia say it started in the 1980s, when the pirates claimed they were trying to stop the rampant illegal fishing and dumping that continues to this day off the Somali coast.", "Piracy accelerated after the fall of the Somali government in the early 1990s and began to flourish after shipping companies started paying ransoms.", "Those payments started out being in the tens of thousands of dollars and have since climbed into the millions.", "Some experts say companies are simply making the problem worse by paying the pirates.", "CNN's Mike Mount, Barbara Starr and David McKenzie contributed to this report." ]	[ "Crewman e-mailed hours before attack that Navy was monitoring the ship .", "Crewman e-mails, \"We are under attack by pirates, we are being hit by rockets\"\nFour freighters seized in last two days .", "Greek 35,000-ton bulk carrier and Lebanese-owned, Togo-flagged both seized ." ]	[ 10, 21, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Seydou Keita wrecked any chance of a Bayern Munich comeback in their Champions League quarterfinal return with a second half equaliser as Barcelona drew 1-1 for an emphatic 5-1 aggregate win.", "Bayern scorer Franck Ribery embraces Barcelona's Lionel Messi after Bayern's European exit.", "Primera Liga leaders Barcelona arrived in Germany with a comfortable first leg cushion and will now host Chelsea in their semifinal first leg at the Nou Camp on April 28.", "No side in the tournament's history had overturned a four goal deficit and Bayern were always up against it.", "\"We were much better in the personal duels, things were a bit more normal, and we played the way you need to against such a good team,\" said Germany defender Philipp Lahm.", "\"But unfortunately we have still lost the tie.\"", "And Bayern Munich president Franz Beckenbauer -- who was scathing after the first-leg debacle -- said the Germans had gone some way to redemption.", "\"I think the team has rehabilitated itself, although Barcelona's equalising goal was needlessly conceded\", said Beckenbauer.", "After going close in the first-half, Franck Ribery finally unpicked the Barcelona defense on 47 minutes before Keita equalised for the Spanish with less than 20 minutes left.", "No Spanish side has ever won the treble of league, Kings Cup and Champions League, but Barcelona are on course to take all three titles as coach Josep Guardiola hopes to lead the Spaniards to a third European title after 1992 and 2006.", "France striker Thierry Henry succumbed to a high temperature for Barca, while Bayern's Germany strikers Lukas Podolski and Miroslav Klose were ruled out with calf and ankle injuries respectively.", "That left Italian World Cup winner Luca Toni as the lone forward with Ribery playing just behind him.", "Bayern coach Jurgen Klinsmann was booed by his own fans before kick-off, but this result on the back of the weekend's 4-0 win over Frankfurt in the German league will have taken some of the pressure off the ex-Germany coach." ]	[ "Seydou Keita wrecks Bayern Munich comeback bid as Barcelona progress .", "Barcelona led Champions League tie 4-0 from first leg and won 5-1 on agg .", "Spanish giants now face Chelsea at Nou Camp in semifinal first leg clash ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "Editor's note: Tom Wilkerson is chief executive officer of the United States Naval Institute, a nonprofit professional association which describes itself as an independent forum for examining issues related to the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard.", "He spent 31 years in the military, rising to major general of Marines and, in his last assignment, serving as commander, Marine Forces Reserve.", "Retired Major General Tom Wilkerson says the U.S. should attack the pirates at their bases.", "(CNN) -- It is well past time to take a serious look at piracy off the coast of Africa.", "Initially, the U.S. ignored the threat, and when public outcry about our seeming indifference became louder, we formed a combined task force of international navies in the Gulf of Aden under command of a U.S. Navy rear admiral to \"deter, disrupt and thwart\" the pirates.", "Today, it is clear that initiative has failed.", "In fact, this bit of muscle-flexing did so little to intimidate pirates operating out of Somalia that they have actually increased the number of attacks in the last month.", "Significant among those attacks, pirates on Wednesday boarded and temporarily held a U.S.-flagged vessel, the container ship Maersk Alabama.", "The U.S. crew and its captain retook the vessel, but at the price of the captain becoming a hostage to the four pirates in one of the Maersk Alabama's lifeboats.", "Several hours later a U.S. warship, the Aegis destroyer USS Bainbridge, arrived on scene and, as I write, the standoff with the pirates continues.", "What an embarrassing and frustrating event!", "A bunch of maritime thugs brazenly seized a vessel flying the flag of the nation with the most powerful navy the world has ever known.", "The fault does not lie with the ships and sailors of Combined Task Force-151.", "They have been given the proverbial mission impossible -- stop pirate attacks in an area four times the size of Texas with only three U.S. Navy ships and a total of 12 to 15 allied/friendly warships.", "Not gonna happen!", "But embarrassment aside, there is real potential for loss of life and for continued attacks on vessels plying these waters.", "The issue is simple but difficult -- how do we eliminate the pirate threat?", "Strangely, we seem unable to learn from our own history.", "In 1804 President Thomas Jefferson said \"Enough\" to paying 20 percent of the U.S. national budget as tribute to Barbary pirates.", "His response was clear and successful -- build a strong naval task force, equip it with a sizeable contingent of Marines, and send it to attack and defeat the pirates in their lair.", "The sailors and Marines sent on that mission did just that -- and in the process wrote a stirring page in our nation's early history.", "The problem today is that we have refused to take the Jefferson model.", "We've confined our anti-piracy efforts to the open seas and left the pirates' home bases on land as a sanctuary.", "Thus, the pirates continue to operate with relative freedom and stealth.", "We and our allies only respond, never seizing the initiative.", "The Jefferson model is a better answer: Take on the pirates where they are, rather than guessing where they will be.", "In short, attack them at their home bases.", "There they are vulnerable. There is where they plan and prepare for raids on vessels.", "There is where they arrange ransom for held ships and crew members.", "From these bases, pirates are free to conduct raids without fear of reprisal, let alone interference from organized justice.", "They are free to venture out to prey upon one of the 33,000 ships that pass near their coast each year, knowing that they can return to the absolute security of their land bases and enjoy their spoils.", "It is time to change strategy and take the fight to the pirates, as our military predecessors did with great success more than 200 years ago.", "In the 21st century, anti-piracy measures should ideally be the responsibility of local and regional law enforcement.", "Unfortunately, the non-functioning government of Somalia is unable to bring police or military forces to bear against criminal piracy launched from its own territory.", "The predicament has done much to foster piracy, greatly growing the number of pirates and further encouraging their lawless behavior.", "They are well aware that the rewards of their activities far exceed the risks.", "With the potential to make millions of dollars through extortion, the Somalia-based pirates take comfort in having no fear of being arrested in their homes for their crimes, and obviously have little fear of being caught on the high seas despite the presence of the combined task force.", "Of course, attacking pirate land bases in Somalia as the U.S. did against the Barbary pirates in Tripoli two centuries ago is not a simple proposition.", "Even without a functioning government present in Somalia, the U.S. and other countries whose ships are threatened are not free to conduct military operations on Somali soil at will.", "There are many complicated legal issues concerning sovereignty and laws of armed conflict that need to be thought through before any real action can be initiated.", "However, these issues must be explored so that the option of a more forceful policy can be duly considered.", "iReport.com: How should the U.S. respond?", "Some may argue that the destruction of the ships and bases of pirates is merely attacking the symptom without curing the disease.", "They believe that piracy cannot be defeated until its causes are sufficiently addressed.", "These causes are usually identified as abysmal economic conditions and the lack of a strong national infrastructure.", "Previous attempts to undertake larger scale law-and-order projects in Somalia, however, have resulted in a tragedy now memorialized in the national psyche simply as Black Hawk Down.", "Hence my argument for consideration of smaller-scale actions targeted specifically against the criminal pirates.", "Retaliatory and preemptive strikes on known bases are certainly not the only options in dealing with the Somalia pirates, but current policy has already proven to be fairly futile in dissuading attacks.", "iReport.com: 'Stop the pirates, Obama!'", "Those who desire to combat piracy by bringing stability to Somalia must accept that the noble effort will take several years, potentially leaving thousands of ships vulnerable to attack in the meantime.", "One thing is for certain: Allowing the pirates to have sanctuary while also giving them a clear advantage in the rules of engagement is not going to stop their activities any time soon.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Tom Wilkerson." ]	[ "Tom Wilkerson: Pirates based in Somalia represent threat to crews and cargo .", "He says U.S. strategy so far has failed to deter piracy .", "Wilkerson: We should follow example set 200 years ago by Thomas Jefferson .", "He says the U.S. needs to attack the pirates at their bases ." ]	[ 2, 5, 18, 49 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Retired Gen. Colin Powell has a choice blend of political and military experience, and many thought he'd make a great president, but Powell said Wednesday that he just didn't have it in him.", "Colin Powell, left, embraces Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel at the inauguration Tuesday.", "His wife, Alma, had feared that such an endeavor would change their family life.", "She also had concerns about Powell's safety, he said Wednesday on CNN's \"American Morning.\"", "\"But I was a soldier. That wasn't my concern,\" he said.", "\"I never found inside of me the internal passion that you've got to have to run for elected office.\"", "Many GOP pundits had hoped Powell, who served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Bush's father and President Clinton, would make a run at the Oval Office.", "The former four-star general and Vietnam War veteran's military credentials are staunch, rivaled only by his accomplishments as a statesman.", "Watch Powell explain why the White House wasn't for him » .", "In addition to chairing the Joint Chiefs, the lifelong Republican served as national security adviser under President Reagan and oversaw the 1989 invasion of Panama that toppled Gen. Manuel Noriega as well as Operation Desert Storm during the 1991 Gulf War.", "He has two Presidential Medals of Freedom to his name.", "As Bush's secretary of state, he spearheaded efforts to increase U.S. foreign assistance throughout the world, and he helped develop Bush's HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment program, which is credited with being the largest such endeavor ever.", "However, Powell drew heavy criticism over his remarks before the United Nations that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.", "Powell made the assertion while attempting to convince the world body that the U.S. should go to war with Iraq.", "Powell abruptly retired from Bush's Cabinet in 2005, but he did not cite his time a secretary of state Wednesday when explaining why he never sought the presidency.", "\"I never woke up a single morning to go think about this, to talk to people about it and find in my heart and soul the passion that a Barack Obama or a John McCain or a George Bush or a Bill Clinton had,\" he said.", "\"It just wasn't me, and you've got to be true to yourself, and I've tried to be true to myself.\"", "The stance is not new for Powell, who held a news conference in November 1995 to announce that he would not run for president.", "\"To offer myself as a candidate for president requires a commitment and a passion to run the race and to succeed in the quest,\" he said then, \"a passion and commitment that, despite my every effort, I do not yet have for political life, because such a life requires a calling that I do not yet hear.\"", "No stranger to advising presidents, Powell told CNN that Obama has a great deal of work ahead.", "Not only does he have to deal with the crisis du jour -- like righting the economy at home -- he needs to keep his eyes on crises abroad while never foregoing long-range planning.", "Watch what Powell says Obama must do » .", "\"You can never avoid it,\" he said.", "\"Once you're the president, every crisis comes to your desk, and you have to deal with it. ...", "But that doesn't mean that you can't stand back and look farther out.\"", "Repairing America's broken image and poverty alleviation -- both at home and abroad -- will pose major challenges, he said, and both have wide-ranging implications.", "Poverty incubates terror, and it is incumbent upon the U.S. to stamp out the hunger, unemployment and illiteracy that breed suicide bombers and other insurgents, Powell said.", "He called poverty alleviation \"one of the most important challenges facing the world.\"", "\"For those of us who are wealthy, we should reach out not only to our own citizens who need help, but the rest of the world,\" he said.", "\"If you want to get rid of sources of terrorism, if you want to get people moving in the right direction, you've got to help them get jobs, clean water, health care for their kids, educate their kids -- and America has a great responsibility to do this.\"", "Obama also needs to consider what other nations think of the U.S. and help repair the American reputation.", "The challenge is daunting, but Powell said America's good standing is \"recoverable.\"", "The sea of diverse faces in attendance at Obama's inauguration ceremony speaks to the reverence that America still enjoys in the world, said the son of Jamaican immigrants and father of three.", "If Obama can turn the economy around and rectify situations in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East, he will begin repairing the nation's image, \"because there's still a solid, residual level of affection and respect for the United States of America.\"", "But Powell acknowledges that his former boss and Obama's predecessor made things difficult.", "\"Iraq and the Guantanamo situation -- which I have been preaching for years should have been closed years ago -- Abu Ghraib and a lack of progress in the Middle East and a certain way in which we deal with the world on international issues, I think damaged our reputation with the world,\" he said.", "Obama is off to a good start, he said, and is doing the right thing by reaching across the aisle for help.", "It was gracious of Obama to hold a dinner in Sen. John McCain's honor after a testy campaign and gracious of McCain to accept, and Powell said he hopes that spirit will permeate Obama's presidency.", "Powell conceded, though, that bipartisanship won't always be the answer to Obama's problems and said the 44th president will need to rely on the wisdom of those who forged the country more than two centuries ago.", "\"We're supposed to be a partisan country.", "That's the way the founding fathers intended for us to move forward,\" he said.", "\"People have strong views on both sides of an issue.", "Argue it out. Fight it out, just like they did in that summer of 1787 when they were writing the Constitution -- and then ultimately both sides make compromises in order to achieve consensus, and then you move the country forward.\"", "CNN's John Roberts contributed to this report." ]	[ "Powell: I just didn't have the passion that a Barack Obama or George Bush has .", "Many in GOP felt former Joint Chiefs chairman, secretary of state could be president .", "Poverty \"one of the most important challenges facing the world,\" ex-general says .", "Iraq, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib among factors damaging U.S. reputation in world ." ]	[ 6, 21, 27, 35 ]
[ "(CNN) -- For Sherrie Muldoon, the credit card debt was $46,244.", "But the relief she felt after paying it off was priceless.", "So much so that the Colorado resident and her husband threw a party Saturday for friends and family after mailing off the final check.", "The event at a community center featured a cake decorated with the debt amount in green icing, CNN television affiliate KUSA reported.", "The couple had been paying the debt for three years and seven months, Muldoon told CNN, adding that the last payment they made recently was for $1,500.", "\"When we mailed that last check ...", "I sat down in the car, I looked over to my husband and I just burst out into tears,\" she said.", "iReport.com: Have you paid off a huge debt lately?", "The typical American household with at least one credit card has nearly $10,700 in credit card debt, according to CardWeb.com.", "The average interest rate runs in the mid- to high teens, according to the Web site.", "Muldoon said the soaring costs of their nine credit cards left them with two options: Either file for bankruptcy or make a drastic lifestyle change.", "They opted for the latter, she told KUSA.", "\"We changed everything ... to bare-bones minimum,\" Muldoon told CNN.", "\"Basically, if it wasn't essential to support life, we didn't do it.\"", "The Muldoons are part of a national trend in easing off credit card use.", "Total consumer borrowing fell 3.5 percent in February, from the month before, according to the Federal Reserve.", "A government report shows the tumble in consumer credit was caused by a sharp decline in credit card use.", "The ailing economy and controlled spending caused by unemployment have contributed.", "Muldoon said she found a way to make money by doing extra jobs, including teaching fitness classes at night and cleaning office buildings on the weekends.", "Watch Muldoon describe how she whittled away at debt » .", "\"Dan says I'm obsessed.", "I prefer the term 'focus-driven,' \" Muldoon told KUSA.", "\"There were times last winter when dinner was white rice and gravy.", "That was what there was. We weren't starving to death, but I can't tell you the last time I had a steak.\"", "Muldoon said the quest to save money extended to the party, which she hosted using items that were either on sale or had been purchased with coupons.", "No steak was served there, either: She used ham from \"a couple of pigs\" she raised last year.", "Despite the merriment, she had one regret: She had paid full price for the black balloons that adorned the party room.", "\"I had some anguish over that,\" she said.", "\"But I moved past it fairly quickly.\"" ]	[ "Sherrie Muldoon: \"When we mailed that last check ...", "I just burst out into tears\"\nHow did they pay off $46,244 in less than four years?", "Drastic lifestyle changes .", "She also took extra jobs on weekends, such as cleaning office buildings .", "Even party was on the cheap; she served ham from a couple of pigs she raised ." ]	[ 0, 5, 6, 18, 25 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- They left home with hope in their hearts, thousands of fans true to the Liverpool anthem, dreaming of reaching another Wembley FA Cup Final.", "The disaster at Hillsborough football stadium in 1989 resulted in the deaths of 96 football supporters.", "But what began as a day out in the spring sunshine 20 years ago ended as the darkest hour in the history of British football.", "I had settled into Row B Seat 2 of the press box in the south stand at Hillsborough, home to Sheffield Wednesday and neutral venue for the game.", "From there I would have had an uninterrupted view of the semifinal showdown between Liverpool and Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest.", "Clough, one of the legends of the British game, had been denied an FA Cup Final with Forest a year earlier, when his side lost to Liverpool at the same stage of the competition and at the same venue.", "The atmosphere in the ground for the 1989 semifinal exploded as the teams emerged onto the pitch.", "But none of us was prepared for what was to follow.", "The match action lasted less than six minutes.", "I can't remember a single kick.", "What I do recall quite vividly are the scenes of distress, desperation and death at the Liverpool end that destroyed so many families and shocked the world.", "Looking to my left and behind Liverpool keeper Bruce Grobbelaar's goal, I was drawn to a huge mushroom-like effect among the crowd in the central standing enclosures around kick-off time.", "See Liverpool players and fans paying tribute to victims of Hillsborough disaster » .", "The match had not long started when the first signs of a major problem surfaced.", "Fans began frantically attempting to climb over the perimeter fence to escape the crush at the Leppings Lane end of the ground.", "I didn't know it at the time, but the swell was the exit point of a tunnel that ran under the stand.", "Through it hundreds of Liverpool fans had attempted to make their way without realizing the two caged pens it led to were already overcrowded.", "Many had the life squeezed out of them in that tunnel.", "Others were trampled or crushed to death on the terraces.", "The lucky ones clambered to safety, many collapsing on the pitch.", "Some fans were hoisted up into the stand above by fellow supporters, but the main escape route was over the high perimeter fence and later through a small gate that was forced open as police -- who initially thought they were dealing with a pitch invasion -- recognized the true scale of the problem.", "Advertising boards were used as makeshift stretchers and some of those being carried away had their heads covered by coats.", "The Sheffield Wednesday gymnasium became a mortuary.", "The Liverpool end of the pitch resembled a casualty station with frantic efforts being made to treat the injured and save lives while others wandered aimlessly around the pitch in a daze.", "I will always remember the bid to revive one young fan in front of the main stand.", "Those efforts seemed to go on forever before finally hundreds of spectators let out a huge cheer as the lad at last showed some sign of life.", "I still wonder to this day whether or not he made it.", "Meanwhile I had an open phoneline to a copytaker at The Press Association and described those shocking events unfolding in front of me, including news of the first fatalities.", "For the second time in four years I had gone to cover a football match and ended up filing a disaster report.", "In 1985 I had been in Brussels with Liverpool to cover their European Cup final against Juventus, when 39 fans, mainly Italian, were killed at the Heysel stadium as a wall collapsed after trouble on the terraces.", "That match eventually went ahead after a delay of 85 minutes.", "Within hhours of returning from Belgium, I was among a small group of football writers summoned to No.", "10 Downing Street for a meeting with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.", "Mrs Thatcher planned draconian measures to combat what became known as the English disease, but it was the appalling events at Sheffield that finally became the catalyst for change.", "The Hillsborough tragedy was played out in full view of 53,000 spectators and TV cameras.", "People who came to watch a football match went home haunted by scenes of carnage and chaos that will stay with them for the rest of their lives.", "Later, in an area beneath the empty south stand, FA chief executive Graham Kelly faced media at an impromptu press conference and expressed his shock, sadness and sorrow.", "Understandably, he didn't have all the answers as questions were fired his way.", "What led to the disaster is well documented.", "Lord Justice Taylor, a High Court judge commissioned by the government to produce a report, concluded that police operational errors were largely to blame for allowing the gates to be opened to relieve congestion outside the ground.", "Many questioned why the kickoff to the game had not been delayed.", "English football was quick to react with perimeter fences pulled, followed by the phased-in arrival of all-seater stadia.", "In the aftermath grieving fans turned Liverpool's Kop stand and the Anfield pitch into a shrine draped with thousands of scarves, flags and flowers.", "A permanent memorial to the victims was later erected adjacent to the Shankly Gates -- named after the club's most famous manager -- and which bear the title of the Reds' anthem: You'll Never Walk Alone.", "The oldest victim at Hillsborough was 67, the youngest 10-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley, a cousin of current Liverpool captain and England international Steven Gerrard.", "Gerrard was six weeks away from his ninth birthday at the time of tragedy.", "There is nothing Liverpool would want more than to mark the 20th anniversary season with at least one gleaming trophy.", "They did it in 1989, beating Forest when the semifinal was later replayed, then going on to defeat city rivals Everton after extra time at Wembley.", "On that occasion they returned home with hope in their hearts." ]	[ "96 Liverpool fans died as a result of the Hillsborough disaster on April 15, 1989 .", "Fans were crushed against stadium fencing during an FA Cup semifinal .", "Liverpool fans say there are still unanswered questions regarding the disaster .", "Current Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard lost a family member in the tragedy ." ]	[ 1, 4, 29, 44 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Promising \"a new era of openness in our country,\" President Obama signed executive orders Wednesday relating to ethics guidelines for staff members of his administration.", "Members of the National Economic Council brief President Obama on the economy Wednesday.", "\"Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency,\" Obama said.", "In his first full day in office, Obama touched upon many of the major issues facing his administration, and even carved out time to retake the oath of office.", "The move was aimed at dispelling any confusion that might arise from Tuesday's oath, which Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed by mixing up the order of the words.", "The do-over was also intended to erase any questions regarding the legitimacy of Obama's presidency, although per the Constitution, Obama became president at noon Tuesday without taking the oath.", "Earlier in the day, Obama said he would issue a pay freeze for his senior staff members.", "The new president has also promised swift action on the beleaguered economy.", "House Democrats, at Obama's urging, have signed an $825 billion economic recovery package that the president says will save or create up to 4 million jobs and invest in health care, energy and education.", "Watch Obama address his staff » .", "House Republican leaders, however, asked to meet with Obama on Thursday to offer major changes to the recovery proposal.", "\"The challenge as we see it is to create a plan that helps middle-class taxpayers and small businesses without wasting money or exploding our national deficit,\" the leaders wrote in a letter to the new president.", "Rep. Paul Ryan, the top Republican on the House Budget committee, argued that the main tax provision in the Democrats' plan -- cutting payroll taxes -- was not an effective way to jump-start the economy.", "House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence declined to say whether the Democrats' package would get any Republican support if it didn't change significantly.", "Obama also moved fast to address a campaign promise to close the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention facility.", "The administration is drafting executive orders calling for the closure of the detention facility, according to two administration officials.", "Obama began the day with a moment of solitude in the Oval Office.", "When he arrived, he spent 10 minutes alone there, reading a note left for him on a desk by outgoing President George W. Bush.", "White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel met with the president 10 minutes later to discuss the daily schedule, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.", "Obama called Middle East leaders, including King Abdullah of Jordan, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Gibbs said.", "On Sunday, Israel and Palestinian militants declared a cease-fire after 22 days of fighting in Gaza.", "First lady Michelle Obama joined her husband in the Oval Office at 9:10 a.m., shortly before the first couple departed for the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral.", "Later in the day, Obama and the first lady greeted those who came to the White House for a formal open house.", "Obama joked, \"Don't break anything.\"", "Obama also met with his economic team and top brass from the Pentagon.", "iReport.com: What do you think Obama should do first?", "Later in the afternoon, he met with the Ambassador to Iraq, the commander in Iraq, and the \"theater commander\" in the region for an update on the situation in Iraq.", "\"The meeting was productive and I very much appreciated receiving assessments from these experienced and dedicated individuals.", "During the discussion, I asked the military leadership to engage in additional planning necessary to execute a responsible military drawdown from Iraq,\" he said in a statement.", "\"In the coming days and weeks, I will also visit the Department of Defense to consult with the Joint Chiefs on these issues, and we will undertake a full review of the situation in Afghanistan in order to develop a comprehensive policy for the entire region,\" he said.", "He plans to tell the top U.S. officers that he wants them to plan to have combat forces out of Iraq in 16 months, as he promised during his election campaign, an adviser said." ]	[ "NEW: Obama retakes oath of office Wednesday night .", "NEW: Obama meets with military advisers to assess situations in Iraq, Afghanistan .", "Administration drafting executive orders calling for Guantanamo Bay's closure .", "President to freeze pay for senior staff, signs ethics guidelines ." ]	[ 0, 6, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The possibility of engine fires has prompted General Motors to recall nearly 1.5 million passenger sedans manufactured between 1997 and 2003, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Monday.", "The recall involves certain GM vehicles in which oil apparently can leak and ignite.", "The recall covers certain mid- and full-size passenger sedans under GM's Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac brands.", "The affected vehicles have naturally aspirated 3.8 liter V6 engines -- that is, engines that use atmospheric pressure rather than a mechanical blower to bring in air for combustion -- according to documents that GM filed with federal regulators last week.", "On Friday, the federal government acknowledged the filing and agreed to the plan.", "The problem involves a potential for oil to leak on the exhaust manifold during hard braking.", "When a car operates under normal conditions, the manifold can get very hot.", "Oil that runs below the manifold's heat shield could ignite and spread to plastic channels that hold spark plug wires.", "As a solution, the company recommends a change in the bracket that holds spark plug wires, which will be done free of charge.", "Owners and dealers affected by the recall will be notified by letter next month with details.", "The vehicles involved are: • 1997-2003 Buick Regals.", "• 1998-2003 Chevrolet Luminas, Monte Carlos and Impalas.", "• 1998-1999 Oldsmobile Intrigues.", "• 1997-2003 Pontiac Grand Prix.", "GM issued a recall on a similar engine in 2008, according to the company's filing with the government.", "That problem was traced to a faulty gasket on the engine rocker cover." ]	[ "Recall involves certain Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac sedans .", "Problem involves potential for oil to leak on the exhaust manifold, then igniting .", "General Motors to send details to owners next month ." ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the leaders of Madagascar to resolve their differences after an anti-government rally a day earlier turned violent and left more than two dozen people dead.", "Protesters rally Saturday before violence broke out near the Presidential Palace.", "In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Ban deplored the violence and called Sunday on authorities \"to urgently initiate a fair process by which those responsible will be brought to justice.\"", "Ban also blamed the \"tragedy\" on a \"lack of restraint on all sides.\"", "\"The Secretary-General calls upon all concerned parties to resolve their differences through peaceful and democratic means and through the exercise of responsible leadership,\" according to the statement.", "A police official said the death toll from Saturday's violence outside the Presidential Palace in the capital city of Antananarivo had risen to 26.", "More than 80 were injured during the demonstration, officials said.", "The capital city was quiet as mourners attended a public ceremony for the dead.", "The violence stemmed from an ongoing dispute over who is in charge of the government.", "Andry Rajoelina, the mayor of Antananarivo, took to the streets one week ago, declaring himself the Indian Ocean island nation's leader after a week of violence and looting that killed at least 80 people and wounded more than 300.", "Watch an iReport on the Madagascar violence » .", "But President Marc Ravalomanana has fired him and put someone else in the mayoral job.", "Rajoelina had called the rally to unveil his new government at the May 13th Plaza, according to Brittany Martin, an American citizen who is a Harvard Fellow and lives in Antananarivo.", "Martin said the rally was peaceful in the morning hours of Saturday, until gunshots rang out in the afternoon after the protesters marched from the plaza to the palace.", "She said it was unclear where the shots were coming from.", "Some media reports blamed foreign mercenaries for the shootings; others said army guards were responsible or that the army was firing at the mercenaries to protect the crowd.", "Violence in Madagascar began January 26, when protesters stormed state-run television and radio stations in Antananarivo.", "Hours earlier, the government had shut down a radio station owned by Rajoelina and, weeks ago, had similarly shut down Rajoelina's television station after it aired an interview with ex-President Didier Ratsiraka.", "See pictures from last week's upheaval » .", "Ravalomanana took power in 2001 after ousting Ratsiraka in a tense, hotly contested election.", "Ratsiraka fled to France afterward.", "Loyalists blame Ratsiraka's family members for inciting the recent trouble.", "Anger has risen in Madagascar, where the World Bank says the average person earns about $320 a year, over reports that Ravalomanana recently bought a $60 million airplane.", "Rajoelina has urged supporters to demand the resignation of Ravalomanana and said he planned to take charge until a transition government could be established in the nation off Africa's southeastern coast.", "Map » . \"What we've been pushing for is dialogue the whole time,\" said Rodney Ford, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy.", "He said he had received reports that palace guards used tear gas and shot into the air to try and disperse the crowd.", "Journalist Dregoire Pourtier in Antananarivo, Madagascar, contributed to this report." ]	[ "Ban blames the \"tragedy\" on a \"lack of restraint on all sides\"\n26 dead, more than 80 wounded during an anti-government rally on Saturday .", "Violence stems from a dispute over who is in charge of the government .", "Andry Rajoelina, the mayor of Antananarivo, declares himself Madagascar's leader ." ]	[ 3, 8, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- President Obama stepped into office with big approval ratings met with high expectations as he faces a deteriorating economic situation, an unpopular war in Iraq and the Middle East conflict.", "The economy has been the main focus of the first week of President Obama's presidency.", "In his first week, Obama has focused on the economy, but he's also addressed other campaign promises.", "Bill Schneider, CNN's senior political analyst, describes Obama's first week as a \"neat balancing act.\"", "As Obama signs executive orders signaling a clear change of direction, he's also working hard to get bipartisan support for his economic stimulus, Schneider said.", "\"Mr. Obama doesn't have to do that. He could get a stimulus bill passed almost entirely with Democratic votes.", "But Obama doesn't want to be yet another president who divides the country,\" he said.", "The president has been working the phones with his party and made an unusual trip to Capitol Hill to meet with the opposing party to rally support for his $825 billion economic aid package.", "Following a meeting Tuesday with GOP congressman, Obama said he respects the \"legitimate philosophical differences\" between Democrats and Republicans on how to stimulate the economy.", "\"I don't expect 100 percent agreement,\" he said.", "\"But I hope we can put politics aside.\"", "Watch more on Obama's economic push » .", "Throughout the election season, Obama campaigned on his plan to restore economic equilibrium, and in his first public remarks after winning the election, he vowed to \"confront this economic crisis head-on.\"", "Obama faces his first test with Congress on Wednesday when the House of Representatives votes on his economic recovery plan.", "The president has said he hopes to have the plan passed by Congress and on his desk for signing by mid-February.", "Obama also has wasted no time in putting his military and diplomatic agendas into action.", "In his first week, he already promised to send as many as 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan to boost the U.S. presence on the ground and increase development and reconstruction assistance.", "Seeking to demonstrate the Obama administration's early commitment to the country, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met last week with Afghan women legal professionals who were in Washington on a State Department training program on justice reform in Afghanistan.", "Obama also has pledged to crack down on militants in neighboring Pakistan.", "During the campaign season, Obama received a lot of criticism for saying that if it were necessary to root out terrorists, he would send U.S. forces into Pakistan without the country's approval.", "The president has called Afghanistan and Pakistan the \"central front in our enduring struggle against terrorism and extremism,\" and Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that missile strikes in Pakistan will continue to root out al Qaeda members.", "\"Let me just say, both President Bush and President Obama have made clear that we will go after al Qaeda wherever al Qaeda is.", "And we will continue to pursue this,\" Gates said.", "As Obama seeks to stabilize the region, his administration has been advocating multilateralism and stressing \"smart power\" diplomacy by using all the tools of foreign policy available.", "Obama dispatched newly appointed Middle East envoy George Mitchell to the region and tapped diplomatic heavyweight Richard Holbrooke as his special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan.", "Obama also gave his first formal interview as president to Al-Arabiya, an Arab news channel, sending a message to the region that he wants a dialogue.", "\"My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy,\" Obama told the Dubai-based satellite television network.", "\"We sometimes make mistakes.", "We have not been perfect.\" Watch how Obama is reaching out to Muslims » .", "During his run for the White House, Obama pledged to improve ties with the Muslim world, draw down U.S. troops in Iraq and close the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.", "Two days after his inauguration, Obama issued an executive order to close the camp within a year.", "Another order formally bans torture by requiring that the Army Field Manual be used as the guide for terrorism interrogations, essentially ending the Bush administration's CIA program of \"enhanced interrogation\" methods.", "Guantanamo Bay and reports of torture there were huge points of contention for the Bush administration and were widely considered to have damaged the reputation of the United States.", "In another reversal of his predecessor, Obama struck down a rule that prohibited U.S. money from funding international family-planning clinics that promote abortion or provide counseling or referrals about abortion services.", "In a statement, Obama said that family planning aid has been used as a \"political wedge issue,\" adding that he had \"no desire to continue this stale and fruitless debate.\"", "As Obama moves into the second week of his presidency, polls show that most Americans approve of the way he is handling his job so far.", "Former President Carter said he thinks Obama is \"doing just great.\"", "\"I was particularly gratified that he carried out his promise, which didn't surprise me, that he would start working on the Middle East peace process the first time he was in office and not wait until the last year he was in office,\" Carter said on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"", "Carter said he has confidence in Obama on economic issues, but he cautioned that the expectations for the new president are too high.", "\"I think a lot of the expenditures that will come as rapidly as possible might not occur until maybe 18 months from now -- some earlier.", "So we're going to have to be patient,\" he said.", "President Bush also won praise during the first week of his first term for staying on message.", "He built his first week around education and received positive reviews in the media during his honeymoon period.", "Bush's predecessor, however, was not met with such a warm welcome.", "President Clinton's showdown with Congress over the question of gays in the military and the withdrawal of his attorney general nominee overshadowed early efforts to move ahead with his agenda." ]	[ "President Obama faces first test with vote on $825 billion economic stimulus plan .", "Obama reverses Bush policy on abortion, orders closing of Guantanamo Bay camp .", "Obama grants first formal interview of his presidency to Arab news channel .", "New administration advocating multilateralism, \"smart power\" diplomacy ." ]	[ 13, 23, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Pro wrestling legend Hulk Hogan, embroiled in a bitter divorce with his wife, Linda, told Rolling Stone magazine he can \"totally understand\" O.J.", "Simpson, the former football great found liable for the deaths of his wife and another man.", "Linda and Hulk Hogan enjoy happier times at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards in New York in 2006.", "\"I could have turned everything into a crime scene like O.J., cutting everybody's throat,\" Hogan said in the interview for a feature that will run in Friday's edition of the magazine.", "\"You live half a mile from the 20,000-square-foot home you can't go to anymore, you're driving through downtown Clearwater [Florida] and see a 19-year-old boy driving your Escalade, and you know that a 19-year-old boy is sleeping in your bed, with your wife ... \"I totally understand O.J.", "I get it,\" Hogan said.", "A spokeswoman for Rolling Stone magazine confirmed the quote to CNN.", "Watch report on Hogan's statements » .", "It has been widely reported that Linda Hogan, 49, is dating a younger man.", "She filed for divorce in 2007 after nearly 25 years of marriage.", "Simpson was found not guilty of murder in the 1994 stabbing deaths of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, but was found liable for their deaths by a civil court jury.", "Simpson later was found guilty in a Las Vegas, Nevada, armed robbery case and sentenced in December to up to 33 years in prison.", "A spokesman for Linda Hogan said Wednesday that the statement amounts to a death threat and that her attorney is \"weighing all options necessary to protect his client.\"", "\"Sadly, his recent comments remind us that his definition of fair is much different than what the law dictates,\" Linda Hogan said in a written statement.", "Her spokesman, Gary Smith, linked the comments to the 55-year-old Hogan's three-decade career, during which he held multiple championship titles and, during his heyday in the 1980s, was easily the most popular wrestler in the world.", "\"We have always maintained that the fear that Linda has had to live with comes from the rage and instability much too often associated with pro wrestlers,\" Smith said in the statement.", "CNN was unable to reach Hulk Hogan's publicist for comment on Wednesday.", "In comments to Access Hollywood, a spokesman said the comments were not intended as a threat and that Hogan \"in no way condones\" Simpson's actions.", "\"As part of a larger conversation, he referred to it to exemplify his frustration with his own situation,\" the spokesman said.", "Hulk Hogan's real name is Terry Bollea.", "His wife alternately goes by Linda Hogan and Linda Bollea.", "CNN's Marc Balinsky and Doug Gross contributed to this report." ]	[ "Hulk Hogan, in a bitter divorce with his wife, Linda, talks to Rolling Stone magazine .", "\"I could have turned everything into a crime scene like O.J.,\" Hogan said .", "Spokesman for Linda Hogan says the statement amounts to a death threat .", "Hulk Hogan spokesman: Comments not a threat, just expression of frustrations ." ]	[ 0, 3, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Mojave boneyard in the California desert is where old airplanes go to die -- a wasteland of decrepit planes, titanic heaps of titanium and aluminum waiting to be scrapped for metal in India or China.", "Plane boneyards are a rich source of spare parts for MotoArt to create their functional furniture.", "But for Dave Hall and Donovan Fell, the boneyard is only the beginning.", "They own MotoArt, a company based in California that turns old aircraft parts into high-end furniture and functional art.", "From beds and desks to light fixtures and wall partitions, Hall and Fell say they are doing more than reinventing cast-offs from retired planes, they're creating pieces of aviation history.", "\"Once they are gone we can never get them back again,\" said Hall of the abandoned planes at Mojave.", "\"So what we like to do is actually take these aircraft parts and preserve them and give them a second life in some really fun, functional art.\"", "MotoArt began in 2000 when Hall and Fell, former co-workers at an architectural sign company in Los Angeles, collaborated on an art exhibition that showcased Fell's polished B-17 bomber propeller sculptures.", "See before and after photos of recycled plane parts » .", "\"We sold out the entire show, and the gearheads all loved it,\" said Fell.", "It was then that the duo realized their unique art project could have a much wider audience.", "Encouraged by the success of the exhibit, the duo began exploring the nearby Mojave boneyard for more than just propellers -- B-25 rudders for desks, 747 jet engine cowlings for beds, F-4 ejection seats for, well, ejection seats.", "\"Who's never wanted an ejection chair?\"", "laughs Fell, sitting in the company's studio in Los Angeles, where the MotoArt team bring back the treasures they find in the Mojave Desert.", "Watch Dave Hall at work at the Mojave boneyard » .", "The duo's most popular pieces of 'functional art' are their desks, ranging from the sleek 8-foot DC-9 tail stabilizer desk, which retail at around $15,000, to the imposing 14-foot DC-4 conference table, which costs a whopping $60,000.", "According to Hall, hundreds of hours are sometimes spent cutting, sanding, polishing and surfacing a single piece.", "It took the MotoArt team 220 hours to turn a single 747 cowling, the large shiny aluminum strip covering a jumbo jet engine, into a spectacular 8.5-foot diameter chrome receptionist's desk.", "Hall said it takes hundreds of hours to produce a fuselage partition, from using a chainsaw to slice 10-foot sheets out of the main section of a plane, to polishing and readying it for the showroom floor of the Dutch carmaker Spyker, which has commissioned MotoArt to create exhibitions for the company around the world.", "Hall and Fell began the company out of their garage, and now have 15 employees and a 12,000 square-foot studio with a showroom that could double as an aviation museum.", "\"It's like a larger version of my room when I was 10 years old,\" says Fell of the MotoArt headquarters.", "But MotoArt is anything but child's play -- in just nine years the company has carved out a niche in the high-end furniture market, creating a multi-million dollar business thanks to a wide range of corporate clients.", "The company counts Boeing, Microsoft, Red Bull and the United States government as happy MotoArt customers, as well as a number of airplane enthusiasts and celebrities.", "But for Hall and Fell, it is the preservation of the planes that gives them the greatest satisfaction.", "\"It's heartbreaking to see these planes that have serviced our country for decades being crunched up and destroyed, and it gives us a little piece of heart that we are able to recycle this and give it a second life,\" he said." ]	[ "Men at MotoArt search boneyards for old plane parts to recycle into furniture .", "They use B-25 rudders for desks, 747 jet engine cowlings for beds .", "MotoArt prides itself on preserving aviation history with functional art ." ]	[ 1, 3, 11 ]
[ "(Mental Floss) -- President-Elect Obama's mother-in-law will be moving to Washington with the first family, at least temporarily, his transition team has confirmed.", "Marian Robinson will be the latest in a line of presidential in-laws who, for good or ill, lived under the same roof as the president.", "President Dwight Eisenhower and his mother-in-law, Elivera Doud, pose for pictures with some of the grandchildren.", "Here are four stories that confirm the old truism: While America can choose its president, the president can't choose his in-laws.", "1. Ulysses S. Grant and 'The Colonel' You would think that the Civil War was settled at Appomattox, and no question of its outcome would have been raised in the White House of Ulysses S. Grant, who, after all, was the general who won the war.", "But you would be wrong, because living with Ulysses and Julia Grant was the president's father-in-law.", "Colonel Frederick Dent (his rank seems to have been self-selected) was an unreconstructed Confederate, a St. Louis businessman and slaveholder who, when his daughter Julia went to the Executive Mansion early in 1869, decided to relocate there as well.", "The Colonel didn't hesitate to make himself at home.", "When his daughter received guests, he sat in a chair just behind her, offering anyone within earshot unsolicited advice.", "Political and business figures alike got a dose of the Colonel's mind as they waited to meet with President Grant.", "When the president's father, Jesse Grant, came from Kentucky on one of his regular visits to Washington, the White House turned into a Civil War reenactment.", "According to \"First Families: The Impact of the White House on Their Lives\", by Bonnie Angelo, Jesse Grant preferred to stay in a hotel rather than sleep under the same roof as the Colonel.", "And when the two old partisans found themselves unavoidably sitting around the same table in the White House, they avoided direct negotiations by using Julia and her young son, named for the president's father, as intermediaries, Betty Boyd Caroli writes in \"First Ladies\": \"In the presence of the elder Grant, Frederick Dent would instruct Julia to 'take better care of that old gentleman [Jesse Grant].", "He is feeble and deaf as a post and yet you permit him to wander all over Washington alone.'", "And Grant replied [to his grandson and namesake], 'Did you hear him?", "I hope I shall not live to become as old and infirm as your Grandfather Dent.'\"", "Mental Floss: 5 feisty first daughters .", "The Colonel remained in the White House -- irascible and unrepentant -- until his death, at age 88, in 1873.", "2. Harry S Truman and the Mother-in-Law from Heck .", "Harry Truman and Bess Wallace met as children.", "He was a farm boy; she was the well-heeled granddaughter of Independence, Missouri's Flour King.", "When they married in 1919, Truman was a struggling haberdasher, and Bess's mother, Madge Wallace, thought Bess had made a colossal social faux pas.", "Until she died in 1952, Madge Wallace never changed her mind about Harry Truman.", "Her Bess had married way below her station.", "Madge had plenty of opportunities to let her son-in-law know it.", "The newlyweds moved into the Wallace mansion in Independence, and the three lived together under the same roof until the end of Madge's life.", "When Harry Truman was elected senator, \"Mother Wallace,\" as Truman judiciously called her, moved with her daughter and son-in-law to Washington.", "In the family's apartment, she shared a bedroom with the Trumans' daughter, Margaret.", "And when Truman became president, she moved with them into the White House, where she cast her cold eye on the new commander-in-chief.", "\"Why would Harry run against that nice Mr.", "Dewey?\" she wondered aloud, as Truman was fighting for his political life in the 1948 presidential race, according to \"First Mothers\" by Bonnie Angelo.", "And when Truman fired Gen. Douglas MacArthur for insubordination, Mother Wallace was scandalized.", "\"Imagine a captain from the National Guard [Truman] telling off a West Point general!\"", "In December 1952, shortly before Truman's term ended, Madge Wallace died, at age 90.", "For the 33 years they lived together, she never called her son-in-law anything but \"Mr. Truman\" to his face.", "Mental Floss: Presidential siblings and the headaches they caused .", "3. Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Mother-in-Law of the Year .", "If Truman's story sounds like the set-up for a film noir, his successor's relationship with his mother-in-law might have been a Technicolor musical.", "Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud, Mamie Eisenhower's mother, was \"a witty woman with a tart tongue,\" Time magazine wrote, and Dwight Eisenhower thought she was a hoot.", "\"She refuted every mother-in-law joke ever made,\" Time wrote.", "There was no question that she would join her daughter and son-in-law in the White House.", "Ike called her \"Min,\" the name of a character in the Andy Gump comic strip.", "Ike and Min \"constituted a mutual admiration society, and each took the other's part whenever a family disagreement would arise,\" said Eisenhower's son, John.", "The New York Times observed, \"The president frequently looks around him sharply, and inquires, 'Where's Min?'\"", "Widowed shortly before Eisenhower became president, Min spent the winters in the White House and summers at her home in Denver.", "It was while visiting his mother-in-law's home that Eisenhower suffered a heart attack in 1955.", "Two years later, in failing health, Min returned permanently to Denver.", "She died in 1960, at age 82.", "4. Benjamin Harrison and the Reverend Doctor .", "Benjamin Harrison's father-in-law, John Witherspoon Scott, bore a double title: \"reverend doctor.\"", "Scott was born in Pennsylvania in 1800, did post-graduate work at Yale and took a professorship in mathematics and science at Miami University, in Ohio.", "He was also a Presbyterian minister and an outspoken abolitionist.", "The reverend doctor was rumored to have shielded runaway slaves in his home as a stop on the Underground Railroad.", "Whatever the truth, Miami University dismissed him for his anti-slavery beliefs.", "He accepted a post at Farmer's College, a prep school in Cincinnati, where he became a mentor of a student named Benjamin Harrison.", "During his visits to the Scott home, Harrison became friendly with the reverend doctor's daughter, Caroline.", "Young Harrison spent so many evenings at the Scotts' home that he got the nickname \"the pious moonlight dude,\" according to \"The Complete Book of the Presidents\" by William A. DeGregorio.", "He and Caroline were married in 1853 at the bride's house.", "The reverend doctor officiated.", "John Witherspoon Scott later became a clerk in the pension office of the interior department.", "He gave up the position when Harrison was elected president in 1888.", "A widower since 1876, Scott moved into the White House with his daughter and their family.", "It was the president's custom to lead the family in a half-hour of Bible reading and prayer after breakfast, Anne Chieko Moore and Hester Anne Hale wrote in \"Benjamin Harrison: Centennial President.\"", "When the president was absent, his father-in-law took his place.", "Caroline Harrison died in October 1892, two weeks before her husband lost the presidential election.", "Her father died the next month, at age 92.", "An obituary described John Witherspoon Scott as \"a man of wonderful physical vigor, tall, broad chested and well preserved mentally.\"", "Mental Floss: The bizarre history of White House pets .", "For more mental_floss articles, visit mentalfloss.com .", "Entire contents of this article copyright, Mental Floss LLC.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "Several U.S. presidents had in-laws move into White House with them .", "Pres.", "Truman's mother-in-law scandalized by his firing of Gen. Douglas MacArthur .", "Pres.", "Eisenhower and his mother-in-law had \"mutual admiration society\"\nPresident Grant's father-in-law gave his opinion freely at the White House ." ]	[ 2, 5, 28, 31, 37, 67 ]

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