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"SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- One could say she has the determination ... but lacks the drive.",
"Driving agency estimates woman has spent more than $2,888 in exam fees.",
"A 68-year-old South Korean woman this week signed up to take her driving test once again -- after failing to earn a license the first 771 times.",
"The woman, identified only as Cha, first took the written portion of the exam in April 2005, said Choi Young-cheol of the Driver's License Agency in the southwestern city of Jeonju.",
"At the time, she made her living selling goods door-to-door and figured she would need a car to help her get around, Choi told CNN.",
"She failed the test.",
"She retook the test the next day and failed again.",
"And again. And again. \"You have to get at least 60 points to pass the written part,\" said Kim Rahn, who wrote about the unflappable woman in the Korea Times, an English-language daily.",
"\"She usually gets under 50.\"",
"In the beginning, Cha went to the license office almost every day.",
"Now, she no longer works but still turns up once a week, Choi said.",
"The office estimates she has spent more than 4 million won ($2,888) in exam fees.",
"Cha's last failed attempt was Monday.",
"She tries for the 772nd time either Thursday or Friday.",
"-- CNN's Kathy Paik and Saeed Ahmed contributed to this report."
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"68-year-old South Korean woman has signed up to take her 772nd driving test .",
"She first took the written portion of the exam in April 2005 .",
"License office estimates she has spent $2,888 on test applications ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- She's been called the \"mother of the believers,\" a middle-aged woman possibly responsible for recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers in Iraq and involvement in at least 28 terrorist operations.",
"Television picture reportedly showing Samira Ahmed Jassim during her alleged confession.",
"Now she's in jail, arrested on January 21 in what an Iraqi commander called \"heroic\" security force operations that unfolded without \"any losses.\"",
"Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta, spokesman for the Baghdad command, identified the suspect as Samira Ahmed Jassim, also known as Umm-al-Moumineen, or \"the mother of the believers.\"",
"The arrest is considered a major stride in confronting the challenge of female suicide bombers, more than 30 of whom detonated themselves last year.",
"Atta couldn't say where she was detained for intelligence reasons.",
"That's because the authorities are after more targets.",
"The bombers were recruited in Baghdad and Diyala province for the Ansar al-Sunna militant group, said Atta, who added police were aware of the identities of the women, including their fake names on fake IDs, and were on the hunt for them.",
"They said they were also trying to verify Jassim's confessions.",
"Atta played a DVD for reporters with excerpts of the confessions of Jassim, who is in her 40s or 50s.",
"Wearing a black robe and veil, she said she was asked by a man named \"Shaker\" to recruit women for an Ansar al-Sunna operative named Hareth, also known as Abu Rami.",
"She spoke about a number of the women she recruited, spending days talking to prospective operatives and persuading them to carry out attacks.",
"Jassim said she would deliver a recruit to Shaker.",
"Later, she returned and picked up the recruit, dropping them at locations like the Muqdadiya police station, a Sons of Iraq office and a Baghdad car park.",
"One woman she recruited didn't even look at Jassim when she was picked up for a job.",
"She just whispered Quranic verses en route to a bombing.",
"Another woman -- described as psychologically challenged -- came from a financially hard-up family.",
"In November, 18 would-be female suicide bombers turned themselves in to coalition forces in northern Iraq.",
"The women, whose ages and names were not released by the military, gave themselves up after being persuaded by religious leaders and family members to \"cease their training in suicide operations and reconcile,\" the U.S. military said.",
"The women were connected to al Qaeda in Iraq suicide bombing cells, but it was not clear where they had been training or operating.",
"The statement also did not say where the women turned themselves in, though the northern city of Mosul and surrounding parts of northern Iraq are still a hotbed for insurgent activity and considered the last stronghold for al Qaeda in Iraq.",
"Troops have launched operations targeting members of families of suspected female bombers trying to break up the rings that are recruiting the women and girls.",
"Intelligence gathered from detainees indicates that al Qaeda in Iraq is looking for women with three main characteristics: those who are illiterate, are deeply religious or have financial struggles, most likely because they've lost the male head of the household.",
"Females always have played a role in the insurgency in Iraq, helping feed militants, hiding them in their homes and helping to sneak weapons around the country.",
"They have proven to be highly effective in their operations, because of the cultural convention that women are not to be searched by men for cultural and religious reasons.",
"The U.S. military has created a program called the Daughters of Iraq, analogous to U.S. backed Sons of Iraq, to conduct searches of women."
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"Jassim also known as Umm-al-Moumineen, or mother of the believers .",
"Arrested on Jan. 21 in what an Iraqi commander called \"heroic\" security operation .",
"Considered a major stride in confronting challenge of female suicide bombers .",
"Troops have launched operations targeting families of suspected bombers ."
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"(CNN) -- Mike Myers' \"Love Guru\" may speak of \"yin and yang,\" but the Hollywood version of bad balanced by good might be the Razzies and the Oscars.",
"Mike Myers' \"The Love Guru\" was one of the year's biggest bombs.",
"The day before the Motion Picture Academy releases the Oscar nominations -- honoring the movie industry's best -- the Golden Raspberry Award foundation reveals nominations for the Razzies, which recognize the worst films of 2008.",
"And in 2008, Razzie founder and self-styled \"Head Raspberry\" John Wilson said, the bad seemed to outweigh the good among the 578 movies released.",
"\"We are saying that it wasn't just the economy that tanked,\" Wilson said.",
"\"So did the quality of the movies being offered to those of us who don't have as much money to buy tickets.\"",
"\"All of the voting was very close this year,\" he said.",
"\"There just was too much stuff to choose from.\"",
"The bumper crop of \"putrid motion pictures\" may be partly a result of last spring's writers' strike \"when nobody was rewriting, polishing or improving anything and it was still getting filmed,\" Wilson said.",
"Bombs also happen when studios hedge their bets with high-priced stars by having them \"do what worked before, coming back to same well.\"",
"Which brings us back to Myers' \"Love Guru,\" which followed his hugely profitable \"Austin Powers\" franchise.",
"Myers' portrayal of \"a platitude-spouting mystic\" leads the Razzie list for worst picture, Wilson said.",
"It may also have been the biggest box office bomb: the film, expected to be a summer hit, lost $30 million, he said.",
"Other worst picture nominees include \"Disaster Movie\" and \"Meet the Spartans\" -- both featuring the same writer-directors and essentially the same cast.",
"The latter film \"somehow managed to work references to Britney Spears into an ancient Spartan 'plot,' \" Wilson said.",
"Also competing for the top dishonor is \"The Happening,\" which Wilson described as \"an eco-disaster tale whose 'villain' drew more guffaws than gasps,\" and Paris Hilton's \"The Hottie and the Nottie,\" which earned three Razzie nominations overall.",
"\"She really is neither a movie star or an actress,\" Wilson said of Hilton.",
"The movie -- for which Hilton was listed as executive producer -- sold only $27,000 in tickets but cost about $2 million to make.",
"Other Razzie nominees include actor-comedian Eddie Murphy, who received two nominations for \"Meet Dave\"; Oscar winner Al Pacino, who earned a Razzie nod for making \"two rotten movies this year,\" in Wilson's words (he's referring to \"88 Minutes\" and \"Righteous Kill\"); and \"Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,\" which was singled out as \"Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel.\"",
"Despite the opinions of Wilson and the Razzie voters, it was the year's third-highest-grossing movie.",
"And a rare Razzie for \"Worst Career Achievement\" will go to \"Bad Movie Uber-Meister\" Uwe Boll for \"In the Name of the King,\" Wilson said.",
"The film, based on a video game, had a $60 million budget, yet brought in under $5 million at the box office, he said.",
"Wilson said he began the Razzies in 1981 as a counterpoint to the Oscars.",
"It takes guts to show up in person to accept a Razzie, but some notable actors have embraced the infamy, Wilson said.",
"Tom Green, who made \"a horrible little thing called 'Freddy Got Fingered' \" several years ago, \"insisted that he made the film with the intent of sweeping the Razzie Awards,\" Wilson said.",
"Green showed up to accept his three awards with great enthusiasm, he said.",
"\"At the end of the ceremony, he launched into a harmonica solo and we had to pry his hands off the podium and physically remove him from the stage,\" Wilson said.",
"The classiest and most memorable acceptance speech came in 2005 when Halle Berry showed up to get her worst actress Razzie for her \"Catwoman\" performance.",
"Berry, who won a best actress Oscar for \"Monster's Ball\" in 2001, was given a one-minute standing ovation, Wilson said.",
"\"She had her Oscar in one hand and her Razzie in the other,\" Wilson said.",
"Berry's speech was a parody of her Academy Award acceptance and \"she was quite funny,\" he said.",
"\"She said that her mother had taught her that if you cannot accept valid criticism, you also, by the same token, are not entitled to bask in the glory when you get the good reviews,\" he said.",
"The appearance and her sense of humor earned Berry a lot of respect, he said.",
"The awards show -- a \"shorter parody\" of the Oscars -- can be seen only by members and journalists in person at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Hollywood on February 21.",
"It cannot be televised or streamed online because studios would likely withhold permission for clips used in the presentation to be shown, Wilson said.",
"Unlike the Oscars and other honors, Golden Raspberry Awards are not meant as recommendations for people to rent the DVDs, Wilson said.",
"\"If you were going to do that, I would suggest you put away all sharp implements before putting the DVDs in your machine,\" he said."
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"Razzie Awards, honoring Hollywood's worst, are a counterpoint to Oscars .",
"Among this year's leaders: Mike Myers' \"The Love Guru\"\n\"Bad Movie Uber-Meister\" Uwe Boll will receive Razzie for career achievement ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office asked police to do more investigative work before a decision is made on whether charges will be filed in the domestic violence case against singer Chris Brown, according to a spokeswoman for the DA.",
"Chris Brown attends a party saluting music producer Clive Davis in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday.",
"The LAPD's chief investigator in case, Detective Deshon Andrews, told CNN he hand-carried his findings to the district attorney Tuesday afternoon.",
"Prosecutors looked at the files and then asked Andrews for \"an additional investigation,\" DA spokeswoman Jane Robinson said.",
"Andrews said that to keep photos and documents from leaking to the media, he has kept the case file closely guarded and allowed no copies of the material to be made.",
"Watch the latest about the case » .",
"Police have refused media requests to hear the 911 call that led to their investigation early Sunday, but Andrews said it mostly recorded the sound of \"a screaming woman.\"",
"Brown, 19, turned himself in Sunday night after police said they were looking for him.",
"He was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats.",
"Brown was later released on a $50,000 bond.",
"He is expected to appear in court on March 5.",
"Police said Brown and a woman were in a vehicle near Hollywood's Hancock Park early Sunday when they became involved in an argument.",
"The woman \"suffered visible injuries and identified Brown as her attacker,\" police said.",
"Police did not identify the woman, but sources close to the couple told CNN the alleged victim was his girlfriend, singer Rihanna, 20.",
"Brown's lawyer has not responded to several requests for comment.",
"CNN's Jennifer Wolfe and Ninette Sosa contributed to this report."
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"NEW: L.A. DA's office wants more investigation of Chris Brown case .",
"Police: Brown turned himself in after woman accused him of attacking her .",
"Police haven't named woman; sources say it was girlfriend Rihanna ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As a career military officer, Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry is familiar with sacrifice for his country and long stretches away from home.",
"Karl Eikenberry testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee March 26.",
"But he apparently doesn't want any more separation from his wife, Ching Eikenberry.",
"If he is approved as the next U.S.",
"Ambassador to Afghanistan he wants her to come with him.",
"That could collide with State Department rules.",
"Afghanistan is designated \"an unaccompanied post\" by the department because of the dangers of the war and terror attacks.",
"That means family members are not allowed.",
"Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, who as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee was running Eikenberry's confirmation hearing last week, was in favor of the idea.",
"\"I know you are hoping to take your wife there with you, and I think I certainly, and I think the committee is entirely supportive,\" Kerry said.",
"\"I think it would be a terrific message and a strong boost of morale for the Embassy, and obviously wherever possible we should try to encourage that.",
"So I hope that will be facilitated.\"",
"Said Eikenberry, \"Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for that support.\"",
"There was no immediate reaction from the State Department."
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"Karl Eikenberry awaits Senate confirmation to be next ambassador to Afghanistan .",
"If approved, Eikenberry wants to take his wife with him .",
"But that request could collide with State Department rules ."
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"(AOL Autos) -- With the explosive growth of the light truck segment as well as the impending onslaught of winter, I thought it would be fitting to write about four-wheel drive systems.",
"There are a few different types available; and there are special maintenance practices that might cause some confusion.",
"So let's get enlightened!",
"Four-wheel drive systems can make driving safer on wet road conditions.",
"4WD systems can be classified as Part Time 4WD, Full Time 4WD, and Permanent 4WD.",
"Part Time 4WD is the most basic of all 4WD systems.",
"It gives the driver the choice of driving in two-wheel drive or 4WD.",
"That sounds pretty good!",
"However, the downside is that you shouldn't engage the 4WD on pavement unless it's very slippery.",
"That's because, with this system, when you engage 4WD you lock the front and rear wheels together through the transmission and transfer gearbox.",
"This is great for straight-ahead traction and very slippery surfaces.",
"However, on dry pavement it makes for odd cornering, and handling characteristics.",
"Also you can harm the drive train components by driving in 4WD for extended periods of time on dry pavement.",
"Consequently, you may find yourself having to stop the vehicle to engage or disengage, depending on the road conditions.",
"AOL Autos: Top 5 SUVs .",
"So why choose this type of system?",
"Two good reasons: .",
"• It's less costly to build and therefore to buy .",
"• It's very durable under heavy stress (generally more durable than the other 4WD systems, since it has fewer components) Full Time 4WD is the most commonly used system on the market.",
"Full Time 4WD offers both two-wheel drive mode and 4WD, depending on road conditions (driver must engage and disengage the 4WD).",
"In addition, the 4WD mode offers both a high and low mode for when the going really gets tough (driver shifts to high or low).",
"AOL Autos: Top 5 crossover vehicles .",
"Besides a transmission and transfer gearbox, a center differential couples the front and rear wheels.",
"This differential allows the front and rear wheels to turn at different speeds as needed (unlike Part-Time 4WD system) for better handling.",
"When the wheels start to spin due to slippery road conditions, the system reacts to wheel spin by progressively locking the front and rear wheels together to optimize traction.",
"Although Full-Time 4WD requires the driver to engage it, once engaged it offers more \"control\" through the high and low mode selection (based on road conditions) and better cornering and handling on varying road conditions due to the differential.",
"AOL Autos: Best luxury wagons .",
"Permanent 4WD is similar to Full-Time 4WD but it has no two-wheel drive mode.",
"The vehicle is always in 4WD, so you don't have to determine whether conditions are right to engage it.",
"AOL Autos: Cars with best Blue Book values .",
"We still have transmission, transfer gearbox and center differential coupling the front and rear wheels.",
"The only difference is that torque (or power) is constantly being applied to all the wheels, giving maximum traction in all weather and road conditions.",
"Current systems have high and low modes for when the going gets tough; however, most importantly, the system does the thinking for you ... it automatically applies as much lock up (to all the wheels) as necessary for maximum traction.",
"AOL Autos: Best-selling trucks and SUVs .",
"Next, a few definitions of common 4WD-drive terms that you may have heard of: .",
"Locking Differential - locks both wheels on the axle, forcing them to turn together to allow maximum traction .",
"Limited-Slip Differential - detects slippage in one wheel and sends torque to the other wheel that is not spinning.",
"It operates is automatically.",
"On-The-Fly-Shifting - allows the 4WD to be engaged while driving the vehicle (many systems require that you stop the vehicle in order to engage the 4WD).",
"Manual Hubs - In order for 4WD to work, you must have a means of engaging the front wheel drive mechanism.",
"This is done through the front hubs.",
"On vehicles equipped with manual hubs, the operator must manually \"lock in\" the front wheels by turning a mechanical switch.",
"Automatic Hubs - Instead of manually \"locking in\" the front wheels in order to drive in 4WD, automatic hubs \"lock in\" the front wheels by a simple flip of an electrical switch in the comfort of your warm, cushy, SUV or pickup.",
"Transfer Gearbox - an auxiliary gearbox attached to the transmission, which allows you to shift into a high and low range of 4WD for serious pulling or hauling.",
"4WD Maintenance Tips .",
"4X4s have a transfer case, locking hubs, and front and rear differentials (some have an additional center-coupling differential).",
"The maintenance of the transfer case is the same as on a standard transmission.",
"Therefore, when checking the fluid, you are checking for (1) proper level, (2) the presence of moisture, (3) the presence of wear particles... either in the form of metal or friction material.",
"A small amount of wear material is acceptable.",
"However, excessive wear material can be an indication of a problem.",
"One of three types of lubricants is used, depending on the carmaker.",
"These lubricants are: ATF (Automatic Transmission Fluid), 30W motor oil, or 90W-gear oil.",
"The maintenance interval (which involves changing the lubricant) for transfer cases that use ATF and 30W motor oil is every 50,000 miles.",
"For 90W gear oil the recommended interval is 80,000 miles.",
"In regards to the locking hubs, maintenance is extremely critical.",
"Locking hubs come in two forms: automatic and manual.",
"Regardless of which one you have, they must be disassembled, cleaned and lubricated every two years or 24,000 miles.",
"Snow, ice, water, salt, and mud usually find their way into these mechanized units, rendering them useless and costing the owner big bucks!",
"By keeping up the maintenance on them you minimize expense and downtime.",
"With respect to differential maintenance, there's not a whole lot to do except check the fluid level every oil change and visually inspect for any leakage.",
"The technician should check the gear lubricant for proper level, color, and consistency.",
"Low lubricant level indicates a leak; a milky color indicates moisture in the lubricant; and the presence of metal in the lubricant indicates mechanical wear.",
"Check your owner's manual for the recommended fluid change intervals.",
"And check your owner's manual for specific operating instructions of your 4X4 system because the various systems function differently.",
"There you have it, four wheeling made easy.",
"Now go out and climb a mountain!",
"Tom Torbjornsen is a veteran of 37 years in the auto service industry, an automotive journalist registered with IMPA."
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"Vehicles can have Part Time 4WD, Full Time 4WD or Permanent 4WD .",
"Part Time 4WD: Don't drive for extended time on dry pavement with 4WD engaged .",
"Full Time 4WD offers both two-wheel drive mode and 4WD .",
"Maintenance is extremely critical for locking hubs on 4WD vehicles ."
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"KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Taliban gunmen executed a young couple for trying to elope in rural Afghanistan, a local police chief told CNN Tuesday.",
"The woman was forced by her parents to become engaged to a man she did not like, said Police Chief Gabar Furdali, and decided to leave home with another man.",
"Local Taliban commanders found out and set out to punish them, said the police officer in the village of Man De Khe in the Kash Rud district of Nimruz province, a remote southwestern province that borders on Iran and Pakistan.",
"The Taliban gathered residents of Kash Rud to watch the execution of the two.",
"The man, Abdul Aziz, and the woman, who was not named, were shot to death, the police officer said.",
"He did not say when the killings took place.",
"NATO troops who patrol the country have \"limited presence in that particular area,\" a spokesman told CNN.",
"The killings were not \"within our area of responsibility, but we are aware of the reports\" said the spokesman for the NATO mission who declined to be named, in line with policy.",
"There is a tradition of \"honor killings\" in the region that long predates the Taliban, said Barnett Rubin, an Afghanistan expert at New York University.",
"Journalist Tawab Qurayshi contributed to this report ."
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"Police chief says couple were killed for planning to elope .",
"He says woman wanted to get away from forced engagement to another man .",
"Incident happened in Nimruz province, a remote area that borders Iran and Pakistan .",
"NATO aware of the reports but said it was not their area of responsibility ."
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"RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (CNN) -- Antiviolence protesters stretched out 16,000 coconuts on Brazil's world-famous Copacabana beach Saturday, each one representing a victim of urban violence.",
"Protesters used dummies to represent victims of violence on Brazil's Copacabana beach this week.",
"Activists from ONG Rio de Paz led a protest march Saturday morning that included residents and tourists who usually can be found on the beach on weekends.",
"The protesters strung up a sign on the sand that said \"Shame\" in Spanish, Portuguese, English and French.",
"They finished with a minute of silence for the victims of violence.",
"Rio de Paz said the coconuts represent victims of violence, homicides, dead police officers and those who have been shot in gunfights between authorities and gangs of narcotics traffickers.",
"The figure itself was obtained from official information from the Rio de Janeiro governmental Institute of Public Security.",
"It was the second protest staged this week on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach by the group Rio de Paz.",
"On Tuesday, the group created a mock cemetery in the sand with mannequins representing 9,000 people who Rio de Paz says have been slain and secretly buried since January 2007.",
"Rio de Paz President Antonio Carlos Costa said he believes that about 6,000 of the missing people were killed, many by drug traffickers fighting for territory in Rio's slums and poor neighborhoods.",
"Others, he said, were killed by hit squads and police acting on their own.",
"\"In general, they are assassinated by police -- police acting outside of their regular work hours,\" Costa said Tuesday.",
"\"They are also assassinated by narcotraffickers.",
"The bodies are disposed of in secret cemeteries in the metropolitan Rio de Janeiro area or incinerated alive by narcotraffickers in what they call 'microwaves.'",
"\" To illustrate the point, demonstrators also constructed facsimiles of the \"microwaves\" that narcotics traffickers and death squads reportedly use to cremate remains of those they have abducted.",
"CNN's Fabiana Frayssinet contributed to this report."
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"Protesters line up coconuts on Brazil's Copacabana beach .",
"Rio de Paz says coconuts represent victims of urban violence, drug wars .",
"Protesters string up sign in sand that says \"Shame\" in four languages .",
"Earlier, group staged mock cemetery in beach sand representing missing people ."
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"PARIS, France -- Argentina ended their magnificent World Cup campaign as they started it, stunning hosts France in their own back yard with a sensational performance to claim the tournament's bronze medal with a 34-10 victory.",
"Argentina players celebrate another try on their way to a stunning 34-10 victory over France.",
"The result, secured thanks to Pumas tries by Felipe Contepomi and Omar Hasan in the first half and Federico Martin Aramburu, Ignacio Corleto and Contepomi again in the second, brought back memories of the shock 17-12 win earned by the South Americans on the tournament's opening night.",
"That Stade de France triumph was built around sturdy defense and although they showed the same resolve here at the Parc des Princes, their attacking edge came to the fore this time.",
"The tries by Aramburu and Corleto were especially memorable, and helped earn the Argentinians a record success over the French.",
"Contepomi added three conversions and a penalty to give himself a 19-point personal haul for the night, while Les Bleus could only manage a try from Clement Poitrenaud -- converted by Lionel Beauxis -- and a Jean-Baptiste Elissalde penalty.",
"It was a disappointing way for their head coach Bernard Laporte to depart -- he takes up a post in the French government now -- but departing Pumas coach Marcelo Loffreda, who is off to Leicester Tigers, was all smiles at the final whistle.",
"With the pressure off, the shackles were well and truly removed from the hosts, who were the more fired-up of the two sides throughout.",
"Indeed, they bossed the majority of a fiery opening 40 minutes, but somehow found themselves 17-3 behind going into the break.",
"Les Bleus, throwing the ball around like the country's teams of old, had a try disallowed in the 10th minute when Imanol Harinordoquy was adjudged to have passed forward prior to Elissalde touching down.",
"The likes of Yannick Nyanga and Christophe Dominici were finding gaps in the Pumas defence but all they had to show from a dominant opening 20 minutes was an Elissalde penalty, for Patricio Albacete's hands in the ruck.",
"Their lack of cutting edge was ruthlessly punished by Argentina, who scored two tries in four minutes around the half-hour mark.",
"Contepomi, who had levelled matters with a 22nd-minute penalty, was the first player to go over, running onto a delayed Agustin Pichot pass to force himself over in the left corner.",
"Then, after Juan Martin Hernandez had crashed a drop goal against the post, the Pumas retook possession and prop Hasan was there at the bottom of a pile of bodies to ground.",
"The try needed the say-so of the video referee and Contepomi -- like he had after his own try -- added the extras for 17-3.",
"It was a bizarre scoreline, given France's dominance of the early possession.",
"Even when they were encamped on Argentina's line in the last five minutes of the first half, the hosts still could not break through their opponents' obdurate rearguard.",
"Nyanga came closest to scoring in the second minute of injury time, but dropped the ball as he was attempting to ground.",
"The half ended with Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe and Raphael Ibanez receiving yellow cards after another heated exchange, but the start of the second period was engagingly open.",
"France needed to score first to make a game of it but they were hit by Aramburu's sucker punch in the 53rd minute.",
"And what a try it was. Aurelien Rougerie's chip-and-chase was fielded by Felipe Contepomi before Corleto set off on a magnificent 50-yard winding run.",
"The ball was fired out to the right -- through the hands of Manuel Contepomi and Hernandez -- to Aramburu, who jinked inside Dominici to ground.",
"Contepomi missed the conversion but the France supporters were already whistling with their team 22-3 down.",
"Sebastien Chabal was brought on for the final 20 minutes, and almost immediately he was floored by a late hit by Juan Manuel Leguizamon.",
"It earned the London Irish flanker a yellow card, but Argentina made light of their numerical deficit by running in a sensational fourth try.",
"Off turnover ball, Horacio Agulla was set clear down the left.",
"His inside pass was taken by Corleto and just as he did in the opening game of the tournament, he scorched past the covering defense to dive over in the corner.",
"The try France deserved came in the 69th minute, the recalled Poitrenaud easing over in the left corner following an initial Harinordoquy break.",
"The night belonged to the Pumas, though, and Contepomi rounded things off with his second try of the night with three minutes left to add insult to injury for the French.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Argentina stun France once again to claim third place in the rugby World Cup .",
"The Pumas go over for five tries against France's single try in a 34-10 victory .",
"The result brought back memories of their 17-12 success in the opening game ."
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's central bank introduced a $10 billion note worth less than 20 U.S. dollars, as the once-prosperous southern African nation battles against spiraling hyperinflation.",
"Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe at Zanu-PF National Political Commissar Elliot Manyika's burial last week .",
"The new note, expected to buy just 20 loaves of bread, comes just a week after Zimbabwe issued a $500 million note to ease a cash shortage.",
"Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono said the $10 billion note was being introduced for the \"convenience of the public ahead of the festive season.\"",
"On Thursday, the U.S. dollar traded for about 600 million Zimbabwe dollars, and the hyperinflation was expected to continue.",
"People slept overnight at the bank doors, hoping to get money for the next day.",
"President Robert Mugabe apologized to his ZANU-PF party supporters Thursday for the problems Zimbabweans were facing but insisted his nation has turned a corner in its fight against its worst humanitarian crisis, the state-owned Herald newspaper reported.",
"Shortages of most essentials such as electricity, fuel, medicine and food have become a common feature in Zimbabwe, forcing people to flee the country.",
"Zimbabwe has slashed zeros from the amount of its worthless currency during the past two years -- the latest being 10 zeros in August.",
"Once one of Africa's most promising economies, Zimbabwe is reeling under its worst humanitarian and economic crisis.",
"A cholera outbreak has killed more than 1,000 Zimbabweans since August, forcing hundreds to cross the border into South Africa and Botswana to seek treatment.",
"Five million people are in need of food aid in a nation that once exported food to its neighbors, the United Nations says.",
"But Mugabe -- blamed for the crisis by his critics -- said the worst was over.",
"He said he was optimistic about resuscitating the power-sharing deal he signed with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in September, the Herald reported.",
"\"We will be inviting the two leaders -- Mr. Morgan Tsvangirai and Professor Arthur Mutambara -- to come and discuss the way forward,\" Mugabe said.",
"The deal has yet to take effect, as Tsvangirai blamed Mugabe for grabbing all key ministries such as home affairs, local government, finance, home affairs, information and defense.",
"Mugabe said Western nations and neighboring Botswana were against the formation of an inclusive government in Zimbabwe.",
"\"I was reading recent utterances by Condoleezza Rice that African leaders are not prepared to topple President Mugabe and bring about regime change,\" he said.",
"\"She condemned this inability on the part of African leaders.",
"How could African leaders ever topple Robert Mugabe, organize an army to come?",
"It is not easy. I do not know of any African country that is brave enough to do that.",
"\"Botswana is making some stupid noises.",
"They are just hollow noises to assure the MDC that the Botswana government supports it and also in response to Britain and America that Botswana is a good mouthpiece of the white men.\"",
"The MDC is Tsvangirai's opposition party -- Movement for Democratic Change.",
"On cholera, Mugabe said the country was failing to import adequate water treating chemicals because of the sanctions imposed by the west."
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"Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor: New note issued ahead of \"festive season\"\nThe country slashed 10 zeros from the amount of its worthless currency in August .",
"Five million people are in need of food aid, the United Nations says ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The woman allegedly assaulted by singer Chris Brown in Hollywood early Sunday was his girlfriend, singer Rihanna, according to sources close to the couple.",
"Chris Brown attends a party saluting music producer Clive Davis in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday.",
"While Los Angeles Police have a policy against identifying alleged domestic violence victims, two people who know both Brown and Rihanna confirmed she was the woman police said had \"suffered visible injuries and identified Brown as her attacker.\"",
"Brown, 19, turned himself in to police Sunday night after police said they were looking for him.",
"He was arrested on suspicion of making criminal threats.",
"Brown was later released on a $50,000 bond and given a March 5 court date.",
"\"Detectives investigating the alleged domestic violence felony battery booked him for criminal threats,\" a statement from the Los Angeles Police Department said.",
"\"At the time the case is presented to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, additional charges may be filed.\"",
"Brown, nominated for two Grammy Awards, was scheduled to perform at the show.",
"His girlfriend, singer Rihanna, abruptly canceled her planned Grammys performance, but neither her spokesman nor the show organizers gave a reason.",
"\"Rihanna is well,\" her spokesman said in a written statement.",
"\"Thank you for concern and support.\"",
"Watch the latest developments in the case » .",
"Brown, 19, and Rihanna, 20, were seen together Saturday night at a pre-Grammys dinner at the Beverly Hills Hilton, about five miles from where police said the alleged incident happened at 12:30 a.m. Sunday.",
"The police statement said Brown and a woman were in a vehicle near Hollywood's Hancock Park when \"they became involved in an argument.\"",
"\"After stopping his car, Brown and the woman got out and the argument escalated,\" police said.",
"After receiving a 911 call at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, officers found the woman at the scene of the alleged fight, but Brown had left, the department said.",
"Investigators were treating the incident as a possible felony battery case, police said.",
"Executives with Brown's record label at the Grammy Awards told CNN they knew nothing about the incident and declined further comment.",
"Brown was nominated for two Grammys this year, including in the best male R&B vocal performance category for his song \"Take You Down.\"",
"He also shares a best pop collaboration with vocals nomination with Jordin Sparks for \"No Air.\"",
"The introduction to the CBS broadcast of the Grammys, apparently pretaped, listed both Brown and Rihanna as performers."
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"Police: Brown turned himself in after woman accused him of attacking her .",
"Brown a no-show at Grammy Awards, where he was to perform Sunday .",
"Police haven't named woman; Brown's girlfriend, Rihanna, cancels performance ."
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"(CNN) -- Over 28,000 Liverpool fans marked the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster in a special memorial service at Anfield on Wednesday.",
"Liverpool supporters at the Kop end paid their respects in an emotional afternoon at Anfield.",
"A total of 96 supporters died on April 15, 1989 before the FA Cup semifinal between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's stadium, the worst-ever tragedy in English sporting history.",
"To commemorate the anniversary, the city of Liverpool came to a standstill at 3.06 pm (1406 GMT) with the bells of the two cathedrals and its civic buildings ringing out in memory of those fans who lost their lives.",
"On Anfield's famous Kop, 96 candles were lit while commemorations took place at Hillsborough and also in Nottingham.",
"Members of the current Liverpool team stood somberly as hymns were played before a roll call of the dead was read out.",
"Club legend Kenny Dalglish, who was Liverpool manager at the time of the disaster, then read a short prayer.",
"The mayor of Liverpool, Steve Rotherham, who was at the game 20 years ago, helped organize the emotional memorial.",
"\"Hillsborough affected so many lives, not just on Merseyside but across the whole of the UK,\" he said.",
"\"I attended the match 20 years ago and the passing years do not diminish the importance and the poignancy of this occasion.\"",
"Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard, whose 10-year-old cousin Jon-Paul Gilhooley was the youngest victim of the tragedy, spoke of his feelings this week.",
"\"Time has gone by, but the scars will never ever be healed and the fans will never ever forget.",
"So you can always rely on our supporters to be there for you when you need them.\"",
"The Liverpool fans died in a crush which started just before the kick-off as the gate at the Leppings Lane End was opened with terrible consequences.",
"The match started but when the scale of the tragedy became clear, it was swiftly abandoned at 3.06 pm.",
"In the immediate aftermath, the British government commissioned Lord Justice Taylor to conduct an inquiry which would have a far-reaching impact on football.",
"Taylor was deeply critical of the police operation at Hillsborough, but his most significant recommendations were the removal of perimeter fencing and the creation of all-seater stadia.",
"His report also cleared Liverpool fans of blame for the tragedy after lurid tabloid headlines provoked revulsion on Merseyside.",
"Prime minister Gordon Brown paid reference to the controversy in an interview released on Liverpool's official television channel.",
"\"It was wrong for people to blame, as some did, Liverpool fans on that day,\" he said.",
"\"That's probably what matters most -- that people understood that the behavior of Liverpool fans in helping each other was magnificent.",
"\"Let's never forget the fans who cruelly lost their lives on a day when we know the people of Liverpool were trying to help each other,\" he added.",
"However, the people of Liverpool are still angry and bitter at the lack of justice for those who died -- and that frustration surfaced when Andy Burnham, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport took to the stand to address the crowd.",
"As Burnham spoke, the crowd rose as one to sing \"Justice for the 96\".",
"The Kop chant boomed around the stadium and Burnham, an Everton fan, was left in no doubt about the strength of feeling over the lack of accountability from officialdom over the tragedy.",
"Fittingly, the ceremony was concluded with Gerry Marsden leading the fans in singing Liverpool anthem 'You'll Never Walk Alone'."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- There is an increasing threat of homegrown terror stemming from segments of a deeply isolated and alienated Somali-American community, a U.S. Senate committee hearing concluded Wednesday.",
"Sen. Joseph Lieberman says a number of Somali-Americans support terrorist groups.",
"The hearing, conducted by the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee, focused on the attempted recruitment of young Somali-American men by al-Shabaab, \"a violent and brutal extremist (Somali) group\" with significant ties to al Qaeda, according to the U.S. State Department.",
"\"Over the last two years, individuals from the Somali community in the United States, including American citizens, have left for Somalia to support and in some cases fight on behalf of al-Shabaab,\" noted the committee's chairman, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Connecticut.",
"Al-Shabaab -- also known as the Mujahedeen Youth Movement -- was officially designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government in March 2008.",
"The hearing highlighted the case of Shirwa Ahmed, a 27-year-old Somali-American who had been radicalized by al-Shabaab in his adopted home state of Minnesota before traveling to Somalia and blowing up himself and 29 others in October.",
"The idea that Ahmed was radicalized in the United States raised red flags throughout the U.S. intelligence community.",
"The incident -- the first suicide bombing by a naturalized U.S. citizen -- was the \"most significant case of homegrown American terrorism recruiting based on violent Islamist ideology,\" Lieberman said.",
"\"The dangers brought to light by these revelations is clear: radicalized individuals trained in terrorist tactics and in possession of American passports can clearly pose a threat to the security of our country,\" said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.",
"Segments of the Somali-American community have been made vulnerable to recruitment by al-Shabaab because of a particularly tumultuous adjustment to American life, noted Andrew Liepman, deputy director for intelligence at the National Counterterrorism Center.",
"\"Despite significant efforts to facilitate their settlement into American communities, many Somali immigrants face isolation,\" Liepman said.",
"\"The (tough) adjustment to American society has reinforced their greater insularity compared to other more integrated recent immigrant communities and has aggravated the challenges of assimilation for their children,\" he said.",
"Somalis began arriving in the United States in significant numbers following the U.S. intervention in Somalia's humanitarian crisis in 1992, Liepman said.",
"The Somali-American population is now concentrated in clusters primarily in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Columbus, Ohio; Seattle, Washington; and San Diego, California.",
"The potential recruitment of young Somali-American men has been made possible by \"a number of factors that come together when a dynamic, influential and extremist leader gains access to a despondent and disenfranchised group of young men,\" Liepman said.",
"Many refugees, he said, \"lack structure and definition in their lives\" and are \"torn between their parents' traditional tribal and clan identities and the new cultures and traditions offered by American society.\"",
"Liepman pointed out that there was no evidence of a radicalization of the entire Somali-American community, now believed to number between 70,000 and 200,000 people.",
"In fact, he said, the Somali-American community has been victimized by a \"small group of extremists who are essentially terrorizing their own community, who are recruiting and radicalizing young people within that community.\"",
"\"We don't have radicalized communities.",
"We have radicalized clusters of (young) people,\" emphasized Philip Mudd, a director of the FBI's national security branch.",
"The potential terrorist indoctrination and recruitment was a consequence of these clusters, Liepman said, and is the product of \"the refugee experience of fleeing a war-torn country combined with isolation, perceived discrimination, marginalization and frustrated expectations.",
"\"Local criminal familial and clan dynamics make some members of this community more susceptible to (this) sort of extremist influence\" of groups such as al-Shabaab, he said.",
"Liepman said there is a serious concern about individuals being indoctrinated by al Qaeda and al-Shabaab while in Somalia and then returning to the United States \"with the intention to conduct attacks.\""
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"Hearing highlighted case of the first suicide bombing by a naturalized U.S. citizen .",
"Recruitment is a result of \"refugee experience\" and \"isolation,\" official says ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- A new sleeper virus that could allow hackers to steal financial and personal information has now spread to more than eight million computers in what industry analysts say is one of the most serious infections they have ever seen.",
"Experts say a single infected laptop could expose an entire network to the worm.",
"The Downadup or Conficker worm exploits a bug in Microsoft Windows to infect mainly corporate networks, where -- although it has yet to cause any harm -- it potentially exposes infected PCs to hijack.",
"Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at anti-virus firm F-Secure, says while the purpose of the worm is unclear, its unique \"phone home\" design, linking back to its point of origin, means it can receive further orders to wreak havoc.",
"He said his company had reverse-engineered its program, which they suspected of originating in Ukraine, and is using the call-back mechanism to monitor an exponential infection rate, despite Microsoft's issuing of a patch to fix the bug.",
"\"On Tuesday there were 2.5 million, on Wednesday 3.5 million and today [Friday], eight million,\" he told CNN.",
"\"It's getting worse, not better.\"",
"Hypponen explained to CNN the dangers that Downadup poses, who is most at risk and what can be done to stop its spread.",
"How serious is it? It is the most serious large scale worm outbreak we have seen in recent years because of how widespread it is, but it is not very serious in terms of what it does.",
"So far it doesn't try to steal personal information or credit card details.",
"Who is affected? We have large infections in Europe, the United States and in Asia.",
"It is a Windows worm and almost all the cases are corporate networks.",
"There are very few reports of independent home computers affected.",
"What does it do? It is a complicated worm most likely engineered by a group of people who have spent time making it very complicated to analyze and remove.",
"The real reason why they have created it is hard to say right now, but we do know how it replicates.",
"How does it spread? The worm does not spread over email or the Web.",
"However if an infected laptop is connected to your corporate network, it will immediately scan the network looking for machines to infect.",
"These will be machines that have not installed a patch from Microsoft known as MS08-067.",
"The worm will also scan company networks trying to guess your password, trying hundreds and hundreds of common words.",
"If it gets in, even if you are not at your machine, it will infect and begin spreading to other servers.",
"A third method of spreading is via USB data sticks.",
"How can I prevent it infecting my machine?",
"The best way is to get the patch and install it company-wide.",
"The second way is password security.",
"Use long, difficult passwords -- particularly for administrators who cannot afford to be locked out of the machines they will have to fix.",
"What can I do if it has already infected?",
"Machines can be disinfected.",
"The problem is for companies with thousands of infected machines, which can become re-infected from just one computer even as they are being cleared."
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"A new sleeper virus has now spread to more than eight million computers .",
"Industry analysts say is one of the most serious infections they have ever seen .",
"The worm exploits a bug in Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows software .",
"Virus could allow its creators to hijack entire networks ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- Three professors and a former professor at Columbia University's Teachers College received hate mail this week, the New York Police Department said.",
"It's the campus that was shaken by several bias crimes directed at black and Jewish professors in 2007.",
"Columbia University's Teachers College is once again the target of a hate campaign.",
"Three professors received manila envelopes Tuesday with images of swastikas in them.",
"The fourth, a former professor who is an African-American, was sent a manila envelope containing an image of a noose, according to NYPD deputy commissioner Paul Browne.",
"Among those receiving a swastika image was Elizabeth Midlarsky, a Jewish psychologist who has studied psychological principles in the context of the Holocaust, police said.",
"In 2007, her office door was spray-painted with a swastika.",
"(A swastika is the right-angles cross symbol used on Nazi Germany flags).",
"The NYPD Hate Crimes Unit is leading the investigation into the incident.",
"No arrests have been made.",
"\"The TC community deplores these hateful acts, which violate every Teachers College and societal norm,\" said an e-mail Wednesday to faculty and students from the college's president, Susan Fuhrman; and dean, Tom James.",
"No arrests were been made in the 2007 incidents.",
"Police declined to say if they believe there is a connection between those cases and the mailings this week."
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"Jewish psychologist at Teachers College among those receiving swastika .",
"In 2007, same psychologist's office door was spray-painted with a swastika .",
"NYPD Hate Crimes Unit is leading investigation; no arrests made ."
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"(CNN) -- Conservationists have found a new population of orangutans in a steep, mountainous corner of Indonesia -- a discovery that significantly adds to the number of the endangered red-haired primates.",
"The orangutans were discovered in a mountainous corner of Indonesia.",
"About 65,000 orangutans are thought to remain in the wild, limited to rain forests on two islands in Malaysia and Indonesia: Borneo and Sumatra.",
"The latest population was found in the eastern edge of Borneo, with conservationists counting 219 nests.",
"Even by conservative estimates, that raises the total number of the orangutan population by at least a couple of hundred, maybe thousands.",
"\"We rarely have something positive to report in the conservation world.",
"Most of the stories are about declining population or animals dying.",
"It's all pretty negative,\" said Erik Meijaard, a senior ecologist with the U.S.-based Nature Conservancy.",
"\"So to find a substantial population of potentially several hundred to several thousand animals is very exciting.\"",
"Locals in the area had long spoken of an orangutan population in the hard-to-access limestone mountains of the Kalimantan province.",
"A group of conservationists reached the area in December after driving for a day, taking a boat for another, and then hiking across steep mountainous terrain for two, Meijaard said.",
"The remoteness of the area has meant that the animals have been undisturbed by development.",
"Elsewhere, the orangutan's forest habitat has been cut down for timber extraction and palm oil, used in food and cosmetics.",
"Orangutans, a species of great apes, with hair that is usually reddish-brown instead of the black or brown.",
"The name is derived from the Malay and Indonesian words for \"orang\" (person) and \"hutan\" (forest).",
"They spend most of their time on trees, subsisting on fruit and leading a solitary existence except to mate.",
"The expedition in December found the nests crammed into just a few miles in the 2 million-acre forest.",
"\"The immediate steps include going back to the area to see how far the population ranges and to put better protection in place,\" Meijaard said."
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"Discovery significantly adds to number of the endangered red-haired primates .",
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"A woman was jailed for eight years by a British court Friday for her part in the kidnap of her own daughter.",
"Karen Matthews and Michael Donovan were both involved in the plot to kidnap Shannon.",
"Nine-year-old Shannon Matthews was locked in an apartment for 24 days after going missing from her home in February last year.",
"After a massive police investigation, Karen Matthews, 33, was found guilty last month of kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice.",
"She was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court in West Yorkshire, northern England, the British Press Association reported.",
"Her former partner's uncle, Michael Donovan, 40, was also convicted of the same offences and received an eight-year jail term, PA said.",
"Prosecutors say Donovan abducted Shannon as she was on her way home from school in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.",
"They claim he gave her Temazepam -- a type of sleeping tablet -- and travel sickness pills and kept her tethered to an elasticated strap attached to a roof beam through a loft hatch when he went out.",
"Meanwhile Matthews kept up a \"wicked and dishonest lie\" as her daughter became the subject of a massive police search operation and a reward fund offered by a local newspaper grew to $50,000, jurors were told.",
"Donovan planned to release Shannon and then \"discover\" her, prosecutors said.",
"According to PA, Matthews told five versions of what happened to Shannon, ranging from being a distraught mother whose daughter had gone missing to blaming the crime on her former partner Craig Meehan and other members of his family.",
"It also emerged in court that Donovan abducted one of his own daughters after he became involved in a custody battle with his former wife, PA said."
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"Girl, 9, drugged, tethered, as part of kidnap plot staged by mother and uncle .",
"Karen Matthews, 33, and Michael Donovan, 40, jailed for 8 years .",
"Guilty of kidnap, false imprisonment and perverting the course of justice .",
"Prosecutors say Shannon was tethered to roof beam, given sleeping tablets ."
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"BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) -- Daniel Rendon Herrera, Colombia's most-wanted drug kingpin suspect, was arrested early Wednesday, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe announced at a news conference.",
"Police escort suspected drug kingpin Daniel Rendon Herrera, left, on Wednesday in Bogota, Colombia.",
"The government had offered $2.1 million, or 5 billion pesos, for information that would lead to the arrest of Rendon, also known as Don Mario.",
"Officials said Wednesday that they will determine how that reward will be paid.",
"Rendon, who was captured in the Uraba region of northwestern Colombia, was transferred to the capital, Bogota, on Wednesday afternoon.",
"A live TV broadcast of his arrival at the Military Airport of Catam, on the outskirts of Bogota, showed a somber-looking Rendon being led off an airplane to a police van.",
"Rendon was wearing a two-toned, gray and blue shirt and gray pants, and his hands were bound in front of him with white plastic cuffs.",
"The arrival was broadcast on CNN affiliate Caracol TV.",
"Uribe, whose news conference also was televised, said he learned of the arrest while meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.",
"The Colombian president called Rendon \"one of the most feared narcotraffickers and criminals in the world.\"",
"The president's Web site also carried news of the arrest.",
"The United States had issued an extradition order for Rendon, whom 300 members of an elite police unit captured.",
"Thirty members of Rendon's gang were arrested with him, El Tiempo newspaper said on its Web site.",
"Authorities had been concentrating on Rendon's capture for the past nine months and moved undercover operatives into the area where he was hiding on April 6, Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos said.",
"Authorities nearly captured Rendon twice in the past few months, but he escaped, Santos said at the military airport.",
"The suspect was found in the jungle, where he had been hiding for two days.",
"\"He was virtually like a dog,\" Santos said.",
"Telephone intercepts, human intelligence and cooperation from the United States were crucial in Rendon's capture, El Tiempo newspaper said.",
"Santos also issued a message Wednesday to a cartel suspect he identified only as \"El Cuchillo,\" the Knife.",
"\"My message is that he give up, because he is next,\" Santos said.",
"\"We are getting close.\"",
"Rendon is the brother of the imprisoned Freddy Rendon Herrera, known as \"El Aleman\" (the German) for the efficiency with which he ran his drug operation."
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"Daniel Rendon Herrera is Colombia's most-wanted drug kingpin suspect .",
"Rendon \"one of the most feared narcotraffickers\" in world, Colombian leader says .",
"Thirty members of gang also arrested, report says ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- A grand jury Tuesday indicted three New York police officers on charges related to the alleged sodomy of a man on a Brooklyn subway platform in October.",
"Michael Mineo says New York Police officers sodomized him inside a Brooklyn subway station.",
"The indictments came after two other officers told the grand jury they saw Officer Richard Kern assault 24-year-old Michael Mineo with a police baton in October, authorities said.",
"\"I think that both officers who stepped forward acted in a responsible, if not a heroic, way,\" Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said Tuesday.",
"\"I think both of them deserve a great deal of praise for doing that.\"",
"Kern, 25, faces charges including aggravated sexual abuse, a felony that could put him in prison for up to 25 years if convicted.",
"Officers Andrew Morales and Alex Cruz, both 26, face charges including hindering prosecution.",
"Both are accused of trying to cover up the incident by falsifying records.",
"All three pleaded not guilty Tuesday at their arraignment before Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge John Walsh.",
"Authorities say Kern and Morales approached Mineo, a Brooklyn tattoo artist, on October 15 after seeing him walking down a street smoking what they believed to be marijuana.",
"As the uniformed officers approached Mineo, he fled.",
"The officers chased him into a Brooklyn subway station, where they apprehended him on the platform, authorities said.",
"Cruz and a transit policeman, Kevin Maloney, joined the other officers and helped to subdue Mineo, who was then handcuffed with his hands behind his back, according to authorities.",
"Mineo claims Kern used his retractable police baton to sexually assault him on the subway platform.",
"Witnesses said they heard Mineo's cries.",
"Mineo's lawyers said he showed officers he was bleeding, but they provided no medical attention and didn't call a supervisor as Mineo requested.",
"Kern gave Mineo a summons for disorderly conduct, and Mineo was released, authorities said.",
"Mineo sought treatment at an area hospital, and hospital staff notified police that they treated a patient who claimed to be a victim of police brutality.",
"Hynes said that based on forensic information gathered by a medical examiner and the police lab, there was enough evidence to move the case to a grand jury.",
"The grand jury started hearing testimony October 28.",
"Maloney and another officer testified that they had seen Kern assault Mineo with his baton.",
"After Tuesday's arraignment, Kern was released on $15,000 bail; the other two officers were released on their own recognizance.",
"Cruz's defense attorney called the case \"paper thin.\"",
"Kern's attorney said Mineo's accusations were motivated by money, saying Mineo is planning to file a civil suit.",
"Mineo's attorneys would not explain why their client ran from police.",
"The attorneys said they plan to file a civil suit, but they did not give information on the damages they plan to seek.",
"Mineo said he still suffers the effects of the attack.",
"\"I relive this every day,\" Mineo said Tuesday.",
"\"Nobody should have to go through something like this.\""
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"(CNN) -- My eyes stung, I was coughing, my nose was running.",
"Along with cameraman David Hawley and freelance producer Kareem Khadder, I had just been tear-gassed -- not for the first time last Friday -- during a day-long clash between Palestinian kids and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank town of Na'alin, on the West Bank.",
"An Israeli soldier confronts Palestinian protesters during a demonstration Friday in the West Bank village of Jayyus.",
"We had gone there to gauge the Palestinian view of Tuesday's Israeli elections.",
"Na'alin, and many other towns and villages like it in the West Bank, are in the forefront of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.",
"Here, it all comes down to the most basic element in the century-old conflict: control of the land.",
"Na'alin is an old town, with factories and workshops, surrounded by olive groves.",
"But in recent years neighboring Israeli settlements, built since the June 1967 war, have increasingly encroached on Na'alin's farmland, and Israel, on grounds of security, has built its security barrier around the town.",
"As a result, Na'alin residents say they have lost access to much of their land, their water sources, in short their livelihood.",
"Beginning two years ago, every Friday they hold protests against Israel's settlement expansion and barrier building.",
"Most Na'alin residents are not ideological hotheads; before the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising, in September 2000, many worked in Israel.",
"Most are still fluent in Hebrew and do business with Israelis looking for a good deal on car repairs and other services.",
"For that reason I thought Na'alin would be a good place to see what Palestinians were thinking.",
"What I heard was universal pessimism.",
"No one I spoke with expressed the slightest hope that any of the leading candidates --Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu, Kadima's Tzipi Livni, Israel Beitenu's Avigdor Lieberman and Labour's Ehud Barak -- would do anything to remove the settlements that are slowly closing in on Na'alin.",
"As we sheltered from the tear gas behind a house, Na'alin resident Hani Khawaja told me, \"I don't expect anything to come out of the elections that will please the Palestinians.",
"Just killings, expulsions and land confiscations.\"",
"Another man, Ayub Srour, had a slightly different approach.",
"He prefers Israeli leaders to be honest about their intentions, and not raise hopes only to dash them later.",
"He wants Likud leader and long-time hardliner Benjamin Netanyahu to win.",
"\"At least he's honest.",
"He says he'll expel us, and he will expel us.",
"He says he's slaughter us, and he will slaughter us.\"",
"I've covered almost every Israeli election since 1996.",
"With each election, the Palestinian feeling of despair and hopelessness only deepens.",
"Since the last election in the spring of 2006, Palestinians have seen Israel and Hezbollah go to war, West Bank settlements continue to expand, Hamas and Fatah fight it out in Gaza with Hamas taking control in June 2007.",
"They've also seen a series of Israeli incursions into Gaza, culminating recently in the 22-day Israeli offensive that left large parts of the strip in ruins.",
"Meanwhile many Palestinians say their leadership -- often described as moderate and pro-western -- in Ramallah is incapable of reversing the trend of settlement expansion.",
"The same leadership has been unable to convince Israel to remove few of the hundreds of roadblocks and checkpoints that make travelling around the West Bank a test of patience and endurance.",
"In short, when Palestinians look back over the last 15 years since the Oslo Accords were signed, they've seen their lot only go from bad to worse.",
"As a result, more and more Palestinians are convinced the only way to beat the Israelis is to join them, to discard failed attempts at creating a Palestinian state in an ever smaller, ever more economically unviable territory, and go for what is known as the one-state solution.",
"That would mean Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza relinquishing their dream of an independent Palestinian state, and instead insisting on equal rights in the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, an area that is, for all intents and purposes, under Israel's control anyway.",
"The one-state solution is an anathema to many Israelis, who are well aware that, with their higher birth-rate, Palestinians (those living within Israel proper, plus Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza) could well become a majority within a generation.",
"Israelis increasingly worry the national struggle between Israel and the Palestinians will be transformed into an internal struggle, for equal rights for all those living within historic Palestine.",
"Those fears prompted Israel's current caretaker prime minister, Ehud Olmert, to warn as far back as November 2007 that if Israel doesn't move quickly to achieve a two-state solution, it will be in a position not unlike South Africa during the apartheid area, whereby a minority -- in this case Israeli Jews -- rules over a restive majority -- the Palestinians -- by means of force, repression and discriminatory laws.",
"Many Palestinians argue that is already the case, citing Israeli restrictions on movement, residence, and work.",
"The bedrock of Israeli antipathy toward the Palestinians is part of the reason for the growing strength of the Israel Beiteinu (Israel is Our Home) Party, led by Avigdor Leiberman.",
"He argues that Israel's Palestinian minority (they make up about 20 percent of the population) as a potential fifth column working against the aims of the Jewish majority.",
"Leiberman has focused much of his fire on Palestinian Knesset members such as Ahmed Tibi, accusing him and others of sympathising with Israel's enemies, Hamas and Hizballah.",
"His solution is to compel all of Knesset members -- and possibly all Israeli citizens -- to take an oath of loyalty to the state.",
"Another of Leiberman's proposals is to redraw Israel's boundaries to exclude as many of its Palestinians as possible.",
"Tibi responds that Leiberman's growing clout is symptomatic of \"an obvious fascist phenomena invading Israeli society.",
"During the last years, racism became mainstream.\"",
"Back in the town of Na'alin, the kids throwing stones at Israeli troops do have some odd companions.",
"Young Israelis, some of them self-described anarchists, also take part in the protests.",
"They don't throw stones, but they do offer useful advice.",
"\"Laththam! Laththam!\" one Israeli with black tattoos on his arms tells a young boy, no older than 12, hurling rocks with a home-made sling.",
"\"Laththam\" is Arabic for \"cover your face,\" the advice imparted because if Israeli troops can identify stone throwers, they arrest them.",
"There still is cooperation of sorts between Palestinians and Israelis, but it's an increasingly rare commodity.",
"And this election probably won't do anything to bridge the growing gap between the two -- the curious friendship in Na'alin notwithstanding."
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"Israel votes Tuesday after election campaign dominated by the country's right .",
"More and more Palestinians see \"one-state solution\" as only way forward .",
"Israelis oppose one-state solution for fear Palestinians would be majority ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A former CIA station chief in Algeria is under investigation by the State and Justice departments after being accused of raping at least two women while he held the post, a source confirmed to CNN on Wednesday.",
"Two Algerian women allege that the CIA's former Algeria station chief raped them at his home, a source says.",
"The women told investigators that they think date-rape drugs were used in the assaults, which are said to have occurred at the officer's official residence, according to the source.",
"The story was first reported by ABC News.",
"The allegations were made in the fall, when the unidentified officer was still serving as station chief.",
"In October, soon after the allegations were made, the man returned to the United States for a previously scheduled trip and was ordered not to return to his post, the source said.",
"A senior U.S. official confirmed that the case is under investigation but refused to comment on the details.",
"State Department spokesman Robert Wood issued a brief statement in response to a CNN inquiry, saying that \"the individual in question has returned to Washington and the U.S. government is looking into the matter,\" and referring reporters to the Justice Department.",
"The women, who are Algerian citizens, brought their allegations to a U.S. government official, and federal authorities then launched an investigation.",
"A search of the station chief's residence in Algeria was approved by a U.S. District Court judge after a request from the Justice Department.",
"The search found pills believed to be of a type commonly used in date rape, the source said.",
"In that search, authorities also found about a dozen tapes that are thought to show the officer engaged in sexual acts, the source said, including some in which women are believed to be in a semiconscious state.",
"CNN's source had not seen the tapes but had been briefed on their content.",
"Some of the tapes include date stamps indicating that the recordings happened when he would have been serving in Cairo, Egypt, before his tenure in Algeria.",
"The investigation includes his time in both posts as well as other locations where he traveled.",
"The identity of the officer could not be learned, and CNN was unable to reach a representative of the officer.",
"It is against the law to reveal identities of covert officers.",
"When the allegations surfaced in the fall, they were viewed as \"tremendously explosive, no doubt about that,\" the source said, especially because Algeria is a Muslim country.",
"The Justice Department and the CIA would not comment on the allegations or any investigation.",
"\"I can assure you that the agency would take seriously and follow up any allegations of impropriety,\" CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield said.",
"The officer has not been charged, the source said.",
"The source would not speak for attribution because the investigation is ongoing and the source was not authorized to speak publicly.",
"One federal law enforcement source said that no developments or activities relating to the case are \"imminent.\"",
"A station chief heads the CIA's office in a foreign country, establishing a relationship with its host intelligence service and overseeing agency activities in the country.",
"CNN producers Jim Barnett, Pam Benson, Carol Cratty and Elise Labott contributed to this story."
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"Women say date-rape drugs were used in assaults .",
"Source: Man was relieved of job as CIA's Algeria station chief after allegations .",
"Tapes showing apparently semiconscious women, sex acts found, source says ."
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"Editor's note: Clark Howard, the Atlanta, Georgia-based host of a nationally syndicated radio show, is host of a television show designed to help viewers save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off during these tough economic times.",
"The show airs at noon and 4 p.m.",
"ET Saturdays and Sundays on HLN.",
"Clark Howard says use the Internet to hook up with powerful networking groups.",
"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Many years ago, I had the opportunity to start an Atlanta-based civic program called Career Action.",
"The program's goal was to provide free resources to help the jobless and underemployed find steady work.",
"That was 1979. Today, it's 2009 and the need for job assistance is greater than ever as unemployment continues to rise.",
"The conventional wisdom about education and employment -- that as your level of education rises, the less likely you are to be impacted by layoffs -- has been completely flipped on its head.",
"This recession knows no boundaries in terms of education, skill level, training or years on the job.",
"So, what do you do if you're laid off or have your hours cut at work?",
"First, don't panic!",
"You're going to need to apply for unemployment insurance.",
"I'm hearing a lot of people badmouthing unemployment compensation.",
"There's nothing shameful about it.",
"Employers pay premiums over time during the good years to provide for those who get laid off in lean times.",
"It's not beneath you to accept this insurance money.",
"Next, you need to triage your finances so you know which debts to prioritize and which to neglect if your money runs out.",
"Paying your car note is central to finding employment for most people.",
"It's practically higher than paying your mortgage or rent.",
"In fact, you may need to live with friends or relatives until you can get back on your feet.",
"What shouldn't you prioritize paying?",
"Your credit cards.",
"People say, \"But that will hurt my credit...\" Look, if you're in a situation where there's no money coming in and you have to decide between paying the mortgage and putting food on the table, chances are your credit is already damaged.",
"Once you get organized financially, it's time to job hunt.",
"Looking for work is a full-time job and you need an action plan.",
"Start by reviewing your list of contacts, but understand that people don't like to be called and asked if there's a job.",
"But they do love to give advice that may lead to a job opportunity.",
"Visit in person with your contacts if possible.",
"I'm also a big believer in networking groups and unemployment support groups.",
"Networking for jobs has become something of a lost art in our country because people think the Internet replaces everything else.",
"It doesn't. However, there are ways to use the Internet to hook up with powerful networking groups.",
"There's even a new organization called LaidOffCamp that is like a free day camp for the underemployed.",
"According to the movement's Web site, it's \"an ad-hoc gathering of unemployed and nontraditionally employed people (including freelancers, entrepreneurs and startups) who want to share ideas and learn from each other.\"",
"You never know whom you might meet.",
"When you are job hunting on the Internet, be sure to check out screen-scraper sites like SimplyHired and Indeed.com.",
"They're both \"one-stop shops\" that collect content from all the traditional job sites such as Monster and Yahoo!",
"HotJobs, plus the career pages of individual company sites.",
"In addition, The Boston Globe recently recommended several specialty sites when you're looking for work in a specific field.",
"BioSpace.com is geared toward the science and biotechnology fields; Idealist.org focuses on the nonprofit charity world; and for those who are 50 years or older, there's a site called WorkForce50.com.",
"In the course of your job search, you may find that you need money immediately and can't sit around waiting for a job offer to materialize.",
"In that case, certain skill sets -- Web design, programming, marketing and videography, to name a few -- lend themselves to consulting work or freelancing on a project.",
"The Internet also offers a variety of sites that match freelancers up with employers.",
"A recent article in The San Francisco Chronicle suggested ELance.com, oDesk.com, Guru.com and crowdSPRING.com as starting points.",
"And if you can afford it after all of your necessities, it's always a great idea to keep your mind sharp by taking classes to improve your skills or learn new ones.",
"You can never be too smart."
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"You need to know which debts to prioritize, which to neglect if your money runs out .",
"Clark suggests you join networking and unemployment support groups .",
"With certain skills, try consulting work or freelancing on a project ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- The pilot who landed a crippled US Airways jetliner on the Hudson River thought there would have been \"catastrophic consequences\" if he tried to make it to a nearby airport, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Saturday night.",
"US Airways Flight 1549 remained in the icy Hudson River on Saturday.",
"Instead, pilot Pilot C.B.",
"\"Sully\" Sullenberger decided to ditch the plane in the Hudson River close to vessels moving about the water \"to improve chances of recovery,\" NTSB board member Kitty Higgins said.",
"It was the first time the public heard comments from Sullenberger and first officer Jeffrey B. Skiles describing Thursday's emergency landing.",
"Skiles was flying US Airways Flight 1549, bound for Charlotte, North Carolina, when he noticed a flock of birds less than 90 seconds after the plane had taken off from New York's LaGuardia International Airport, Higgins said.",
"In an instant, the plane was rocked by loud thuds and both engines went out, Higgins said.",
"Watch the plane hit the water » .",
"\"He commented on the formation, and he said the next thing he knew, the windscreen was filled with birds.",
"There was no time to take evasive action,\" Higgins said.",
"Sullenberger took control of the aircraft while Skiles began complicated procedures to try to restart the engines, Higgins said.",
"Sullenberger thought the plane was moving \"too low, too slow\" to risk returning to LaGuardia through the maze of buildings.",
"Nor did Sullenberger think the powerless aircraft could make it over the densely populated New Jersey area to Teterboro, Higgins said.",
"\"There could be catastrophic consequences if we didn't make it,\" she quoted Sullenberger as saying.",
"Watch CNN's Lisa Sylvester report on the pilots » .",
"City officials, passengers and aviation experts have lauded Sullenberger and the flight crew for their handling of the landing and also praised first responders who acted quickly to minimize passengers' injuries in below-freezing temperatures.",
"All 155 people on board the plane survived.",
"\"These are both very experienced pilots.",
"They knew what they had to do,\" Higgins said.",
"Neither Sullenberger nor Skiles attended the news conference.",
"Earlier in the day, the NTSB revealed the content of communications between the cockpit and controllers at LaGuardia in the brief period during which the incident unfolded.",
"\"This is cactus 1549, hit birds, we lost thrust in both engines,\" Sullenberger told controllers at approximately 3:27 p.m. Thursday.",
"\"We're turning back towards LaGuardia.\"",
"Controllers immediately began preparations to clear a runway for an emergency landing, but less than a minute later, Sullenberger reported that the aircraft wouldn't make it, Higgins said.",
"The last communication from the plane to controllers, Higgins said, was the pilot saying, \"We're gonna be in the Hudson.\"",
"Watch a former pilot tell how to water-land a plane » .",
"Higgins also quoted two of the flight's attendants, who were in jump seats at the front of the aircraft when they heard a loud thud shortly after takeoff.",
"\"It was a sound that neither one of them had ever heard before,\" Higgins said.",
"\"They said all the engine noise ceased.",
"They described it as complete silence, like a library.\"",
"Efforts to raise the jetliner from the river proved successful late Saturday, as cranes lifted it clear of the water about 11:30 p.m.",
"ET following several hours of work by crews in frigid conditions.",
"Video from the scene showed the right side of the aircraft with the engine intact but its covering mangled.",
"It was not clear visually whether the damage was from an in-flight incident or from the landing impact.",
"Investigators planned to tow the plane on a barge to an undisclosed location for their examination.",
"Watch water wash over the plane » .",
"Searchers using sonar think they have found the left engine on the river bottom.",
"Divers will try to confirm the finding, Higgins said.",
"Watch workers begin the retrieval process » .",
"The flight data and cockpit voice recorders -- both crucial to determining exactly what happened Thursday -- remained on the aircraft, which was still largely submerged in the Hudson River but was secured to moorings.",
"Strong currents and cold water thwarted divers' efforts to retrieve the recorders from the tail section of the jetliner, Higgins said.",
"Also Saturday, authorities released audio and transcripts of two 911 calls from people who said they saw that the plane was in trouble.",
"Listen to callers report plane in the river » .",
"One caller said he saw the plane descend and reported hearing a loud noise shortly after the aircraft took off.",
"\"Oh, my God! It was a big plane, I heard a big boom just now.",
"We looked up, and the plane came straight over us, and it was turning.",
"Oh, my God!\" a man calling from the Bronx told a 911 operator at 3:29 p.m., three minutes after the plane left LaGuardia.",
"Minutes later, at 3:33 p.m., a woman called 911 and reported seeing the plane in the water.",
"\"A plane has just crashed into the Hudson River,\" she told an operator.",
"\"A US Air big DC-9 or -10 has crashed into the Hudson River.",
"... Oh, my gosh!\" CNN's Mike Brooks, Jeanne Meserve, Richard Davis and Mike Ahlers contributed to this report."
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"Pilot said aircraft was flying \"too low, too slow\" to risk returning to airport .",
"Plane in air less than 90 seconds when collision occurred .",
"One engine in river, one still attached, investigators say ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Singer Chris Brown, sought by Los Angeles police after an alleged domestic violence incident, turned himself in Sunday, police said.",
"Chris Brown attends a party saluting music producer Clive Davis in Beverly Hills, California, on Saturday.",
"Brown, nominated for two Grammy Awards, was a no-show Sunday night at the nationally televised awards show.",
"He was scheduled to perform at the show.",
"His girlfriend, singer Rihanna, abruptly canceled her planned Grammys performance, but neither her spokesman nor the show organizers gave a reason.",
"\"Rihanna is well,\" her spokesman said in a written statement.",
"\"Thank you for concern and support.\"",
"Police have not identified the alleged victim, who they said \"suffered visible injuries and identified Brown as her attacker.\"",
"Brown, 19, and Rihanna, 20, were seen together Saturday night at a pre-Grammys dinner at the Beverly Hills Hilton, about five miles from where police said the alleged incident happened at 12:30 a.m. Sunday.",
"The police statement said Brown and a woman were in a vehicle near Hollywood's Hancock Park when \"they became involved in an argument.\"",
"\"After stopping his car, Brown and the woman got out and the argument escalated,\" police said.",
"After receiving a 911 call at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday, officers found the woman at the scene of the alleged fight, but Brown had left, the department said.",
"Investigators were treating the incident as a possible felony battery case, police said.",
"Executives with Brown's record label at the Grammy Awards told CNN they knew nothing about the incident and declined further comment.",
"Brown was nominated for two Grammys this year, including in the best male R&B vocal performance category for his song \"Take You Down.\"",
"He also shares a best pop collaboration with vocals nomination with Jordin Sparks for \"No Air.\"",
"The introduction to the CBS broadcast of the Grammys, apparently pre-taped, listed both Brown and Rihanna as performers."
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"NEW: Police: Brown turned himself in after woman accused him of attacking her .",
"Brown a no-show at Grammy Awards, where he was to perform Sunday .",
"Brown, woman were in vehicle when alleged fight started, authorities say .",
"Police haven't named woman; Brown's girlfriend, Rihanna, cancels performance ."
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"(CNN) -- Singer Chris Brown's arrest on a domestic violence charge prompted Wrigley to suspend its Doublemint gum campaign that uses Brown as a spokesman.",
"\"Wrigley is concerned by the serious allegations made against Chris Brown,\" Wrigley spokeswoman Jennifer Luth said.",
"Brown was arrested Sunday night in connection with an alleged domestic violence incident in Hollywood early Sunday morning, police said.",
"He was released on a $50,000 bond and given a March 5 court date.",
"A Doublemint commercial features Brown singing about the gum to the tune of his hit song \"Forever.\"",
"\"We believe Mr. Brown should be afforded the same due process as any citizen,\" Luth said.",
"\"However, we have made the decision to suspend the current advertising featuring Brown and any related marketing communications until the matter is resolved.\""
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"Chris Brown has been featured in ad for Wrigley's gum .",
"Brown was arrested Sunday in connection with an alleged domestic violence incident .",
"Wrigley's spokesperson: We've suspended Brown ads until \"matter is resolved\""
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"JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI will not visit Israel's Holocaust museum when he makes his first trip to the region as pope in May, though he will visit a memorial that is part of the site, his ambassador to Israel said Tuesday.",
"Pope Benedict XVI, shown at the Vatican during a prayer Sunday, has spoken out forcefully against the Holocaust.",
"He will also become the first pontiff to visit the Dome of the Rock, one of the holiest sites in Islam, said the envoy, papal nuncio Antonio Franco.",
"Foreign heads of state normally visit the Holocaust museum, which is part of the Yad Vashem complex in Jerusalem.",
"But it includes controversial wording describing the role of Pope Pius XII during World War II, which is why Pope Benedict balked, an Israeli official said.",
"Critics have accused Pope Pius of doing too little to prevent the mass murder of European Jews by the Nazis under Adolf Hitler.",
"A caption in the museum says he maintained a neutral position during the years of mass extermination of Europe's Jews.",
"The Vatican defends him and is gradually opening its archives in an effort to show that he acted behind the scenes.",
"Franco gave the news of Pope Benedict's visit to Yad Vashem at a news conference in Jerusalem.",
"Pope John Paul II also did not visit the museum section on his historic pilgrimage to Israel in 2000, Father Federico Lombardi, a papal spokesman, said as he confirmed that Pope Benedict will not do so.",
"An official with Israel's Foreign Ministry said the decision was made jointly because of the sensitivity of the matter.",
"Yigal Palmor conceded that there is an argument over the wartime pope's actions during the Holocaust and noted that the museum has a sign stating that the facts are in dispute.",
"He said that Pope Benedict may visit other parts of the Yad Vashem complex, which is divided into several compounds, and that the pontiff will lay a wreath at the site's Hall of Remembrance, which is part of the protocol for visiting heads of state.",
"The announcement that Pope Benedict will visit only part of Yad Vashem also follows international outrage over his rehabilitation of a rebel bishop who denied the Nazis systematically murdered 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.",
"The Vatican ordered the bishop, Richard Williamson, to recant, and said the pope was not aware of Williamson's views on the Holocaust when he lifted the excommunication of the bishop.",
"Pope Benedict, who was born in Germany and forced to join the Hitler Youth as a teenager, has spoken out forcefully against the Holocaust on a number of occasions, including on a visit to the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp.",
"Pope Benedict will make his pilgrimage to the Holy Land May 8-15 with stops in Amman, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth, according to the itinerary released by the Vatican.",
"He will be celebrating Mass in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Nazareth, the city where Christians believe Jesus preached and lived.",
"Some 50,000 pilgrims are expected to attend that event, the bishop of Nazareth said.",
"In Jerusalem, a city holy to all three of the major monotheistic faiths, Pope Benedict will visit the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which Catholics believe is the site of the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ.",
"The pope will also meet Israel's chief rabbis and enter the Dome of the Rock with the chief Muslim cleric in the Holy Land, the grand mufti of Jerusalem.",
"He will also meet Jordan's King Abdullah and Israeli President Shimon Peres, as well as Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, Franco said.",
"CNN's Guy Azriel in Jerusalem and Alessandro Gentile in Rome contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Trip to be May 8-15 with stops in Amman, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Nazareth .",
"In Jerusalem, he'll visit Yad Vashem's memorial section, will skip museum .",
"Pope Pius XII criticized for WW II actions; Vatican says he acted behind the scenes ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Five people got the lavish ride of a lifetime as the only passengers on a transatlantic flight, causing environmental groups to criticize the major carrier for leaving a wasteful carbon footprint.",
"American Airlines has faced criticism for a transatlantic flight carrying only five passengers.",
"Using about 68,000 liters (15,000 imperial gallons) -- or 13,000 liters per passenger -- of jet fuel for the nine-hour trip from Chicago to London, American Airlines is being accused of unnecessary waste.",
"Each passenger left a footprint of 35.77 tons of carbon dioxide, enough to drive an average car 160,000 kilometers (100,000 miles).",
"\"Flying virtually empty planes is an obscene waste of fuel.",
"Through no fault of their own, each passenger's carbon footprint for this flight is about 45 times what it would have been if the plane had been full,\" Friends of the Earth's transport campaigner Richard Dyer said.",
"Because of a mechanical malfunction, AA flight 90 was 14 hours late leaving Chicago's O'Hare airport on February 8.",
"Though most passengers made other arrangements to London, five lucky passengers unable to be rebooked made the 6,400 kilometer (4,000 mile) flight in business class, with two crew members per passenger.",
"American Airlines said it chose to continue with the flight because of the full load of passengers waiting at London's Heathrow airport to return to the United States.",
"\"With such a small passenger load we did consider whether we could cancel the flight and re-accommodate the five remaining passengers on other flights,\" says American Airlines' European spokesperson Anneliese Morris.",
"\"However, this would have left a plane load of west-bound passengers stranded in London Heathrow who were due to fly to the U.S. on the same aircraft.\"",
"Morris was quick to point out that despite the staggeringly low passenger count, the flight did carry a full cargo load.",
"\"We sought alternative flights for the west-bound passengers but heavy loads out of London meant that this was not possible.",
"The only option was to operate the flight,\" Morris said.",
"\"This put the aircraft in London Heathrow for the following day, enabling us to operate a full schedule and avoid further inconvenience to our passengers and cargo customers.\"",
"Environmental groups such as Friends of the Earth say that international governments should hold the aviation industry accountable for the amount of CO2 they produce each year, and point to instances like this to show that airlines should pay a fuel tax to rein them in.",
"\"Governments must stop granting the aviation industry the unfair privileges that allow this to happen by taxing aviation fuel and including emissions from aviation in international agreements to tackle climate change,\" Dyer said.",
"But despite these accusations, Kieran Daly, air transport intelligence editor for Flight International magazine, said the amount passengers carried was irrelevant.",
"\"Airlines are still a business.",
"The cargo had to be flown and perhaps some of it was time-sensitive,\" Daly said.",
"\"It's just not practical for an airline to tell its customers that it won't fly until it has a full passenger load.",
"Customers won't be happy and the airline will quickly be out of business.\"",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"The passengers were unable to be rebooked after flight delayed by 14 hours .",
"AA says canceling flight would have left many more stranded in London next day .",
"The transatlantic flight did carry a full cargo load, according to the airline ."
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"(CNN) -- An apparent natural gas explosion in downtown Bozeman, Montana, leveled three businesses Thursday morning, according to city and state officials.",
"An explosion rocks downtown Bozeman, Montana, on Thursday in a photo from iReporter Sean Gallik.",
"\"When we say gone, we mean gone.",
"These three businesses are gone,\" said Montana Gov.",
"Brian Schweitzer, who added that the state is providing help for clean up, and to businesses and residents who are affected.",
"One person remained unaccounted for Thursday evening, Bozeman Assistant City Manager Chuck Winn said.",
"\"The situation remains unsafe for anyone to enter,\" Winn said.",
"\"So in terms of a search -- we are unable to do so at this time.\"",
"Winn said city crews are making progress cleaning up the area, but the damage is great.",
"He said a meeting was planned Friday morning to give business owners and residents information about when they can return.",
"\"It literally looks like a bomb went off in downtown Bozeman,\" he said.",
"iReport.com: Photos from the scene .",
"\"Roofing material, construction material is scattered for three or four blocks,\" he said.",
"\"It was a very violent explosion.\"",
"Schweitzer added that the situation would \"not be over in 24 hours.\"",
"The blast occurred about 8:15 a.m. on the town's Main Street, Fire Chief Jason Shrauger told CNN.",
"The city government declared a local emergency after the blast.",
"Initially, 11 people were reported missing, but 10 were later accounted for, Winn said.",
"It was not clear what triggered the blast.",
"Bozeman is in south-central Montana, about 100 miles southeast of the state capital, Helena."
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"(CNN) -- Evander Holyfield failed in his bid to become the oldest heavyweight champion when he lost on points to giant Russian Nikolai Valuev in Zurich, Switzerland on Saturday.",
"Holyfield struggles to escape the reach of seven-foot Russian world champion Valuez in Zurich.",
"One judge scored the bout a draw while the others had Valuev winning 115-114 and 116-112 thus denying 46-year-old Holyfield the heavyweight title for the fifth time.",
"American Holyfield will take time to consider whether to return to the ring after his defeat.",
"\"I will go home and think about the future,\" he said.",
"\"But I knew I could still do it.",
"\"I fought very well and won the fight but I did not get the decision.",
"I think I showed tonight that I still can box and that age does not matter.\"",
"Valuev said it was an honor to fight a legend like Holyfield.",
"\"I am proud to have been in the same ring with him,\" he said.",
"\"He was very fast and hard to hit.",
"I can only advise people not to get hit by him.",
"I expected a tough fight and that is what it was.",
"Holyfield is a great fighter and he proved it tonight.\"",
"With Valuev controlling the centre of the ring in the opening rounds, Holyfield danced around his opponent, hitting with occasional single shots.",
"He did well to stay away from Valuev´s long left jab and hit him with a big left in the fourth, but the Russian answered with a strong right uppercut.",
"Much to the delight of the crowd, the fifth was a good round for Holyfield who first landed a right-left combination to the body and later connected with a big left hook to the head.",
"Both men were on target during a mid-round exchange in the sixth, but Valuev´s left jab looked more effective.",
"In the seventh, the crowd raised the roof when Holyfield fired in a combination to the head.",
"Valuev´s corner urged him to be more aggressive and he eventually landed a strong right in the eighth when Holyfield seemed to tire a little.",
"The seven foot Russian remained on the front foot as there was a big exchange during the ninth, and in the 10th Holyfield landed a strong right-left combination.",
"Valuev finished better and pushed his opponent in the corner in the 12th .",
"After the final bell, both men hugged each other, with either fighter claiming the win.",
"When the scorecards were read, boos rang out as the crowd favorite's narrow defeat was confirmed."
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"Lost on points to giant Russian Nikolai Valuev in Zurich, Switzerland .",
"American Holyfield, 46, will take time to consider whether return to ring ."
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"(CNN) -- Wimbledon have confirmed plans to hold an exhibition event on Centre Court to test conditions under the new roof ahead of next year's tennis championships.",
"Wimbledon first unveiled plans for a retractable roof over Centre Court in 2004 with capacity increased to 15,000.",
"The special one-off event has been scheduled for Sunday, May 17, just over a month ahead of next year's Championships where Rafael Nadal defends the title for the first time.",
"Former British number one Tim Henman, four times a semifinalist at the grass-court grand slam and a member of the All England Club, has been lined up to play.",
"The club's chief executive, Ian Ritchie, explained the need for a pre-tournament event: .",
"\"The key thing for the new roof is the atmospherics and humidity conditions, \" he told BBC Radio Four on Tuesday.",
"\"We need to get 15,000 people inside to test the humidity.",
"It's a roof over a grass court and it's not like a football or rugby pitch, we need it to be absolutely bone dry.",
"\"We have to test the air conditioning and playing surface as well.\"",
"Former champion John McEnroe is also being lined up to make a sentimental return to Centre Court.",
"\"We are looking to put together a good raft of people to come and play.",
"\"We will probably put several matches on as we want to put on a day of entertainment and enjoyment to try to get a maximum crowd to come and see it,\" said Ritchie.",
"Wimbledon first announced plans for a retractable roof over Centre Court in 2004, with the redevelopment increasing the capacity to 15,000.",
"It will mean an end, on Centre Court at least, to the famous Wimbledon rain delays, which have frustrated spectators and players alike over the years, arguably costing Henman his best chance of Wimbledon glory in 2001 when he lost a protracted semifinal to eventual winner Goran Ivanisevic."
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"Former British number one Tim Henman and John McEnroe lined up to play .",
"New roof will house increased 15,000 capacity on most famous court in tennis ."
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"LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) -- His job was to drive the bus.",
"But Meher Mohammad Khalil is now being hailed as a lifesaver.",
"On Wednesday Meher Mohammad Khalil went back to the place where gunmen attacked his bus.",
"When gunmen jumped out of bushes and began spraying bullets at the bus carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team Tuesday, Khalil quickly sized up his options and got everyone to safety.",
"\"First I thought there were some firecrackers going off.",
"Then, when I saw the elite force cars in front of me taking fire, I immediately lost my voice,\" Khalil told CNN on Wednesday.",
"\"At that time, the other elite car that was with us gave me cover, and then, when I saw he was giving me cover, my courage and my patience returned.",
"Watch CNN's interview with Khalil » .",
"\"I decided to take the vehicle from there, and one way or another, even if I had to drive over someone, I would take this bus and escape.\"",
"Watch the gunmen attack » .",
"Khalil returned to the scene of the attack in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Wednesday to honor those who were killed and to place flowers in their memory.",
"One of the dead was Zafar Khan, a friend and fellow bus driver who had been in a vehicle behind Khalil.",
"\"My eyes filled with tears that these were people that I was eating with and who died in doing their duty.\"",
"Khalil had been part of a convoy heading to Gaddafi Stadium, where the Sri Lankan cricket team was to continue a match against Pakistan.",
"Six police officers were killed, in addition to Khalil's friend Khan who was driving a bus with the match umpires.",
"See where the attack happened » .",
"The Sri Lankan cricketers praised Khalil's quick thinking and action, saying he saved their lives.",
"Six team members were injured by broken glass and shrapnel.",
"Team captain Mahela Jayawardene wrote on his Web site of Khalil: \"He probably saved our lives, showing remarkable bravery in the face of direct gunfire to keep the bus moving.\"",
"Crowds mobbed Khalil as he paid his respects at the place where his life changed in an instant.",
"\"He is a hero, a real hero, a real man of the people,\" a man in the crowd said.",
"Private donors in Lahore have rewarded Khalil with 300,000 rupees (more than $3,000) -- a small fortune for a Pakistani bus driver.",
"Today, Khalil says all he can feel is pain of the loss of life.",
"And he called on the attackers to recognize that their victims are humans just like them, with mothers and sisters.",
"\"For God's sake, please stop this terrorism and let this nation breathe a sigh of relief,\" he said.",
"CNN's Zein Basravi contributed to this report."
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"ATHENS, Greece (CNN) -- Thousands of youths demonstrated in central Athens Friday as anger flared in the Greek capital following the shooting of another teenager.",
"High school students protest in front of their school in the western Athens suburb of Peristeri.",
"A group of youths targeted the French Institute, a language and cultural institute, and police scrambled to the scene to contain the incident.",
"The situation began heating up during a protest rally Thursday that followed the bizarre shooting of a high school student in an Athens suburb earlier this week.",
"The 17-year-old was hit in the hand by an unknown assailant as he was talking to a group of schoolmates in the western suburb of Peristeri.",
"Initial police reports showed the student -- the son of a leading trade unionist -- was hit with a .38-caliber handgun.",
"Police said no officers were patrolling the region at the time of the incident.",
"The mysterious shooting has enflamed widespread student anger over the fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old boy December 6, which sparked Greece's worst riots in decades.",
"Watch more about the flare-up of protests » .",
"Students rallied Friday in response to the shooting of the 17-year-old.",
"One of the rallies was planned for central Athens; the other in the suburb where the student was shot.",
"Later in the day, scores of artists are scheduled to gather in central Athens to stage a protest concert in response to the initial shooting of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos.",
"Daily protests since the December 6 shooting, including riots, have thrown Greece into turmoil and have become a simmering anger about the conservative government's handling of the economy, education, and jobs.",
"A string of labor unions called on workers to march on Parliament Friday to protest the voting of the 2009 state budget, which calls for additional belt-tightening measures in response to the global financial crisis.",
"Student unions were also gathering to across the country to determine their course of action for the next few weeks.",
"At least 800 high schools and 200 universities remain shut as thousands of youths have seized the grounds and campuses in protest.",
"The unrest is threatening the government's hold on power, with some opposition groups calling for fresh elections.",
"Stores and international businesses have been attacked, and at least 280 people have been detained by police.",
"Of that total, 176 were arrested, 130 of them for looting.",
"Of the two officers involved in the death of the 15-year-old, one is charged with premeditated manslaughter and the other with acting as an accomplice."
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"Simmering anger exists about government's handling of economy, education, jobs ."
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"TAIJI, Japan (CNN) -- Mention a dolphin to someone in the United States and they'll think about a trip to Sea World or the 1960s-era TV program \"Flipper.\"",
"Residents in Taiji, Japan, have been hunting dolphins for hundreds of years.",
"Talk about a dolphin in rural Japan and some people think of dinner.",
"Fishermen hunt dolphins about every day in Taiji, a town of about 3,000 in southwestern Japan that juts into the Pacific Ocean.",
"Locals know they offend Western sensibilities by eating dolphins, but they say it's a tradition hundreds of years old.",
"And they say outsiders have no more right to tell them to stop eating dolphins than they would have to demand that Westerners stop slaughtering, say, chickens or cows.",
"Watch fishermen catch dolphins » .",
"\"I know there are many different ways of thinking in different societies, but for us who've been eating this for a long time ... it's an awkward thing to be criticized for,\" says Kayoko Tanaka, a retired middle school teacher.",
"\"I either fry dolphin meat or turn it into a stew.\"",
"That disgusts Ric O'Barry, a 68-year-old retired dolphin trainer from Miami who makes a second home in Taiji, where he goes to unusual lengths to fight against the tide of local tradition.",
"O'Barry sometimes dresses as a woman or wears a large surgical mask to disguise his Western identity on trips to spots overlooking the ocean.",
"He prowls the cliffs with a video camera, hoping to catch fishermen in the act with footage that could stir emotions and raise awareness in the West.",
"\"This here is ground zero for the largest slaughter of dolphins on planet Earth,\" says O'Barry, who trained five dolphins to play \"Flipper\" on the TV series of that name.",
"\"It's absolutely barbaric and it needs to stop.\"",
"He says the dolphins face a cruel fate.",
"\"It takes a very long time to die.",
"They bleed to death.",
"And some of them are dragged in the boats with hooks while they're still alive,\" he says.",
"\"Many of them are gutted while they're still alive.\"",
"Looming beyond questions of whether the slaughter is humane, however, are larger and more complex questions of culture and perspective.",
"To some puzzled people in rural Japan, the question comes down to this: What's the difference between killing and eating a dolphin and killing and eating a fish?",
"Or a chicken? Or a cow? Most Japanese do not eat dolphins -- it's common in a few small fishing villages -- but the government respects the rights of people in towns like Taiji, says Joji Morishita, the international negotiator for Japan's Fisheries Agency.",
"Many Japanese consider the deer a sacred messenger from the gods, he says, but they would never suggest that people in other parts of the world stop venturing into the woods on a quest for venison, Morishita says.",
"\"We don't like to play God to say this animal is just for food and this is not,\" he says.",
"\"Because we know nation to nation we have totally different ideas.\"",
"That's obvious in the growing clash between Australia and Japan over whale hunting.",
"Japanese ships crisscross the Antarctic Ocean each winter to capture and kill up to 1,000 whales.",
"Whaling is allowed under international law when done for scientific reasons, which Japan cites as the legal basis for its hunts.",
"Legal justifications aside, however, the whale hunts offend many people in Australia, where new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has turned up the political pressure on Japan.",
"His government has dispatched a customs ship to monitor and videotape the whalers.",
"And Rudd says Australia could even file charges against Japan in an international court to try to stop the whaling.",
"Back in Taiji, the fishermen are well aware of the Western sentiment that motivates whaling opponents.",
"They realize the danger to their way of life that can come with prying cameras from other countries.",
"When CNN trained its cameras on fishermen gutting some freshly killed dolphins, the fishermen erected some tarps to obstruct the view.",
"Representatives of the Taiji Fishermen's Union declined CNN requests for an on-camera interview.",
"So did the town's mayor and several others.",
"And O'Barry says he's gotten into a few shouting matches with fishermen, who resent him and his camera.",
"So what does O'Barry say to their claim that he has no right to tell them to abandon a tradition that has flourished in their small corner of the world for more than 400 years?",
"\"If someone came to my hometown and told me what to do, what to eat, I'd be outraged,\" he says.",
"\"But that's not going to stop me from doing it.",
"I mean, tradition?",
"It used to be traditional for women not to vote.",
"So do we keep that going because it's traditional and cultural?",
"Of course not.\" Complicating the debate are findings suggesting that eating dolphins may not be good for one's health.",
"The Japanese government said in 2005 that bottlenose dolphin meat contains 12 times more mercury than blue fin tuna -- high levels of mercury in fish can cause health problems in pregnant women and young children.",
"A city councilman in Taiji, Junichiro Yamashita, grew so concerned about mercury levels that he persuaded locals schools to stop serving dolphin meat at lunch.",
"He even plucked some of his hair, sent it off for testing and discovered that it contained seven times as much mercury as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers safe.",
"The mercury findings have not swayed Masaru Matsushita, a Taiji fish dealer.",
"He says that dolphin activists like O'Barry only see their needs without understanding the culture in his town.",
"\"I understand that they think the dolphin in a cute animal, and I agree they're cute doing performances,\" he says, \"but it is our culture to eat dolphins.\"",
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"(CNN) -- A Florida company is suspending launch of its \"Caylee Sunshine\" doll following a public outcry that included members of slain toddler Caylee Anthony's family.",
"The \"Caylee Sunshine\" doll would have cost $29.99 but sales of the doll have been suspended.",
"Jaime Salcedo, president of Showbiz Promotions, told CNN that the Jacksonville-based company intended for the dolls to honor children who die young and raise money for charity.",
"But on Tuesday the company announced on its Web site that it is suspending the promotion.",
"The dolls were scheduled to go on sale at noon Tuesday for $29.99, according to the company's Web site.",
"The dolls have blond hair, rather than Caylee's brown hair, and wear jeans and a T-shirt that says \"Caylee Sunshine.\"",
"According to the Web site, each doll plays the song \"You are My Sunshine.\"",
"\"However, after reviewing the response to our media introduction of the Sunshine Caylee Doll and listening to the advice of the general public, we feel that it is best to suspend the launch,\" said a statement on the Web site -- called the \"Caylee Anthony Tribute Site\" -- signed by Salcedo.",
"\"While we still feel it is important to raise awareness and raise money to help stop this type of crime from being committed, we feel we can be more effective using traditional methods,\" the statement said.",
"Watch Nancy Grace grill Salcedo » .",
"Caylee was 2 when she was last seen in June.",
"Her skeletal remains were found last month in woods about a half-mile from her grandparents' home.",
"Her mother, Casey Anthony, 22, faces charges including first-degree murder in her death.",
"\"Holding a Caylee Sunshine Doll can help us remember that all the children taken from this world prematurely are dancing, playing and singing their sunshine song forever,\" the Web site says.",
"Brad Conway, attorney for the girl's grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony, told the Orlando Sentinel on Monday, \"This is an example of another person trying to profit from the tragedy of Caylee's death.",
"\"He has never met my clients, spoken to my clients and has not gotten authority of any type to do this,\" Conway said.",
"\"And after I have a chance to research it, I will likely take whatever legal action I can.\"",
"Salcedo appeared Monday night on \"Nancy Grace\" on CNN's sister network HLN to defend the doll.",
"The criticism, he said, was \"not something that we did not expect.",
"We actually have been over it several times ... and for that exact purpose, we did not create the Caylee Sunshine Doll in the likeness of Caylee Anthony.",
"We thought that that would be way off base in this,\" he said.",
"\"The fact that you gave the little doll blond hair, how does that somehow remove the sleaze from this whole thing?\"",
"Grace asked.",
"Showbiz Promotions said on the site http://www.cayleedoll.com/ that 100 percent of its profits would be given to charity.",
"Salcedo told Grace that \"a portion of the sales are going to charity.\"",
"He would not be more specific, however, saying he did not know how much would be donated because none have been sold.",
"Salcedo also refused to name the charity that would receive the money.",
"\"We contacted a few of the biggest organizations in the world, and especially in the United States,\" he told Grace.",
"\"They don't want to partner up because it's -- it's a policy that they have to follow.",
"They cannot get themselves involved with a case that they're handling.\"",
"Pressed on the issue, he said he had contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, but \"their answer was real simple.",
"They don't speak about Caylee Anthony on their Web site.",
"It's not that it's good or bad. They can't do it. They don't raise funds using the name of any children or any situation that they're following.",
"So it was difficult for us.",
"That is the organization that we want to give to.\"",
"A disclaimer on the site says, \"The Inspirational Caylee Doll is being used to bring awareness to missing and exploited children around the world.",
"Any similarities or likeness to Caylee Anthony are false ... CayleeDoll.com is not affiliated with Caylee Anthony, her relatives or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, nor do we make any claim thereof.\"",
"The \"comments\" portion of the Web site mainly contains posts from people saying they are disappointed the doll was suspended.",
"\"Thank you for making this doll and bringing awareness to the situation because Caylee is not the only child that has fallen victim to this type of crime, and it's heartbreaking that people ignore it and just turn away,\" one post said.",
"But another post said, \"I want to thank you for not proceeding with the making of this doll.",
"I understand your point and what you were trying to do.",
"I just think that making a doll based on a child's death is too painful for the public.\"",
"\"This is just one more atrocity,\" said a posting on the Orlando Sentinel Web site.",
"\"I have no doubt there have been so many people other than myself who literally began to cry when they ran the video of Caylee singing that song just days before she was killed.",
"Thank goodness the public spoke out loudly enough to stop this.\"",
"Caylee Sunshine T-shirts ($12.99) and bracelets and stickers ($3 each) are still offered for sale on at www.cayleedoll.com.",
"Showbiz Promotions' Internet sales are the subject of an investigation by the Florida attorney general's office, according to the office's Web site.",
"Consumers allege they ordered and paid for merchandise from the company's Web sites, including www.vickdogchewtoy.com and www.wheresmyplea.com, but did not receive the items, the office said.",
"The first Web site offers a dog chew toy in the likeness of Michael Vick, the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback who is imprisoned on charges related to dog fighting, for $7.77.",
"The second Web site is no longer operational."
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"(CNN) -- Paul O'Neill, who was appointed treasury secretary in 2001 by President Bush, says the federal government is not doing enough to fix the U.S. financial system.",
"Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill says he's hoping for a \"V-shaped\" recession.",
"O'Neill appeared on CNN's \"Fareed Zakaria GPS\" on Sunday to talk about his outlook on the recession and what the Treasury Department should demand of major financial institutions in order to get the U.S. economy back on track.",
"Following is an edited transcript of their conversation.",
"Fareed Zakaria: Looking at the current economic crisis, do you think there is any prospect of what people call a \"V-shaped recession,\" that is, a quick recovery?",
"Or are we in for a long, perhaps years of sluggish growth, what economists call an \"L-shaped recession\"?",
"Paul O'Neill: You know, I've got to tell you, I'm praying for a V- shape.",
"But I'm one who doesn't believe we're going to start moving back up until there is a credible fix for our financial system.",
"And I think, in spite of all of the things that have been done now by the federal government, we're not quite there.",
"If I were secretary, I would do this.",
"I would order the 19 major financial institutions to put on the Internet the classifications of their assets by investment grade rating, beginning with AAAs down through BBB-minuses, which is the final level of investment grade ratings.",
"And for those parts of their asset holdings that can't be rated investment grade -- or, in fact, as they say, can't be valued or can't be fairly valued -- I would create a new device which I call a \"quarantine account.\"",
"One could make a judgment about the value of these institutions, and the institutions could make a self-judgment, about how much more lending capacity they had, if the quarantined assets are set aside.",
"Watch O'Neill offer his advice to Obama administration » .",
"Zakaria: The basic idea -- the basic proposal you're making is transparency.",
"Let everyone understand what's on the banks' books.",
"O'Neill: Right.",
"Zakaria: Isn't that a lot like Tim Geithner's stress test?",
"O'Neill: Well, I don't think so.",
"Let me ask you a question.",
"How do you think it's possible to do a so-called \"stress test,\" if 30 or 40 percent of the assets in the institution can't be valued?",
"Here's another plea I have: If you can't value the assets, please don't buy them with my money.",
"Zakaria: You mean the government shouldn't be buying these toxic -- these assets.",
"So you think the Treasury Department's proposals so far are all wrong.",
"I mean, it sounds like you think they're doing all of the wrong things.",
"O'Neill: Well, you know, excuse me, but I'm not one who cares much for the notion of separating the idea of the government as some disembodied entity that has a life independent of me.",
"The money that they're committing and spending is at least in part mine.",
"I'm a substantial taxpayer, and I don't want my representative to buy assets with my money that I wouldn't buy.",
"Why would I want to do that, Fareed?",
"Why should we want them to do that? Zakaria: But this is a pretty frontal assault then on the Treasury's bank plan so far.",
"O'Neill: Well, you know, I don't mean to be offensive to this administration or the last one, but it seems to me, if you're an intelligent investor, you invest in things where there is truth and transparency.",
"And you have a shot, if you're a good leader, at earning the cost of capital and maybe even something more.",
"And I think that basic principle ought to apply to how our government thinks about what it's doing in the name of \"we, the people.\"",
"You know, I really don't like this idea that somehow the government can do things that intelligent people wouldn't do, and we don't notice.",
"Zakaria: One of the other things the government is doing is running up large deficits.",
"There's this large fiscal expansion.",
"Now, you were opposed to the Bush tax cuts, because of your concern about what they would do to the deficit.",
"At that time, the deficit projection was $500 billion, and to you that seemed just too much.",
"The deficit projections now are going to be in the $1.75 trillion range.",
"There are many people who say, you know what, this is that once-in-a-75-year moment where the government has to spend money because nobody else is spending money.",
"Do you buy that? O'Neill: I think, honestly, I'm not so much worried about the stimulus and its components as I am about what I consider to be an essential job -- to get a floor under the financial system, so that we can go back to economic growth in this country and around the world, because there is no hope until we do that.",
"There's not enough ink in the printing presses at the Federal Reserve to print enough money to fill the void created by the absence of real economic growth in our society and around the world.",
"Zakaria: When you were treasury secretary, you were famously suspicious of the financial sector.",
"I mean, you thought there was a little too much attention being paid to it.",
"You looked around at all those Bloomberg screens in the Treasury Department and said, you know, what do these guys make?",
"In a way, reflecting your background in Alcoa.",
"Do you look at this unraveling and feel like the financial sector and the financial system got overweight and fat?",
"I mean, what happened here?",
"O'Neill: We had a whole lot of people who were the public face of all of this financial activity that got ever more exotic.",
"And I think, in truth, very few of them understood the detailed business activity that was going on underneath them.",
"They were all kind of floating up here in the ether.",
"And I think it's true, if you listen to the commentary, even today, what some of these people are saying, they had no idea what was going on.",
"It just felt really good, and it seemed like they were making a lot of money.",
"Zakaria: And do you think that, on the bank issue, are you hopeful that Geithner may, when he unveils the plan, have some of the components that you're suggesting?",
"Or is it your sense they're just headed in the wrong direction?",
"O'Neill: You know, show us the money.",
"Let us see for ourselves.",
"If I was buying a company, I would not put up with someone else giving me a certification that the assets were worth something.",
"I'd go and look in the boiler room and find out if there's rust on the valves.",
"You know, we're talking about providing the wherewithal for intelligent investors to make decisions that they can rely on the facts.",
"And I think the administration hasn't gotten to the point yet of insisting that the big 19 financial institutions put their facts on the table, and for that matter, a place like General Electric put all of its facts on the table, so investors can make an informed decision.",
"I've said this to some people, and they've said -- some of them have said, \"We'd be happy to do that, and we would be OK with that.\"",
"Some other major financial institutions have said, \"Oh, my God, if we did that, people would see how bad it really is.\"",
"I think knowing how bad it really is, is the only way we're going to create a foundation for going forward, Fareed."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Bucking tradition, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will bypass Europe and travel to Asia on her maiden voyage overseas, diplomats familiar with the planning said Tuesday.",
"Bill Clinton looks at his wife Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as she is sworn in on February 2.",
"Clinton is expected to visit China, Japan and South Korea on her first trip overseas.",
"The diplomats said she may also add other stops, including one in Southeast Asia.",
"The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity because Clinton's schedule was still being finalized.",
"The State Department has not commented on her travel plans.",
"Making Asia Clinton's first overseas destination illustrates the Obama administration's desire for a broader partnership with China and its commitment to resolving the North Korean nuclear issue, as well as strengthening ties with Tokyo and Seoul, the diplomats said.",
"The White House said President Barack Obama told Chinese President Hu Jintao in a Friday phone call that he looked forward to \"to early contacts and exchanges between senior officials of our two countries.\"",
"Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month she hoped to make an early trip to Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation where Obama spent part of his childhood.",
"Clinton said she wanted to restart Peace Corps programs there, which were suspended in the 1960s.",
"Traditionally U.S. secretaries of state make Europe or the Middle East their first official trip overseas.",
"But given that Vice President Joseph Biden is headed to Europe this week for a security conference in Germany, and special envoy George Mitchell is currently in the Middle East, Clinton is free to break with tradition.",
"However British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and German Foreign Secretary Walter Steinmeier will be Clinton's first foreign guests to the State Department on Tuesday.",
"Clinton was sworn in as America's 67th secretary of state on Monday -- for a second time.",
"Watch Clinton being sworn in » .",
"Biden administered the oath to Clinton in a ceremonial star-studded gathering at the State Department, with actor Chevy Chase and designer Oscar de la Renta among those on hand.",
"\"It is an overwhelming honor ... to assume this position,\" Clinton said.",
"\"We have a lot of work to do [to ensure that] America's future can be even brighter than our storied past.\""
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"(CNN) -- You may have noticed: Clint Eastwood has become respectable in his old age.",
"\"Gran Torino,\" says Tom Charity, is all about Clint Eastwood.",
"And that's a great thing.",
"To judge by the release pattern and some of the more reverent reviews, you would think the 78-year-old director's second movie of the season (after \"Changeling\") was another prestige picture with Oscar firmly in its sights, along the lines of \"Million Dollar Baby\" or \"Letters from Iwo Jima.\"",
"Nominations may be forthcoming, or they may not (we'll find out January 22), but trust me, \"Gran Torino\" is not that kind of animal.",
"It's a crude but pungent stab at popular filmmaking, blue-collar and bare-knuckle.",
"Which is not to say it's disappointing.",
"On the contrary, it's an entertaining star vehicle that does its job well.",
"Other films around right now tackle \"important\" themes -- the Holocaust, justice, alienation -- but \"Gran Torino\" is all about Clint: the suspicious squint, granite composure and bad-ass attitude.",
"Is Eastwood important?",
"If you have grown up with this enduring American icon, there's no question about it.",
"Apparently Nick Schenk's screenplay wasn't written specifically for him, but after seeing the film it's impossible to imagine it with anyone else.",
"Eastwood's Walt Kowalski is a Korean War veteran and retired auto worker, a grumpy old man and the last white guy holding on to his property in an inner-city neighborhood that's been taken over by Asian-Americans.",
"The movie opens at his wife's funeral.",
"(How many times have we seen Eastwood with a wife on screen?",
"Not too often.) Walt's not happy, of course, but more than anything, he seems pissed off.",
"His kids are a sore disappointment.",
"The grandkids merit nothing more than a growl.",
"At the wake, even the priest, Father Janovich (freckle-faced Christopher Carley), is quickly shown the door.",
"Walt is alone now, and he means to keep it that way.",
"He sits on a deck chair out on his front porch, a cooler of beer beside him, the American flag hanging limp over his square patch of lawn.",
"It's a portrait of implacable American isolationism -- until the teenage son of his Hmong next-door neighbor encroaches on Walt's turf.",
"Thao (Bee Vang) nearly gets his head blown off trying to steal Walt's prized 1972 Ford Gran Torino.",
"To apologize, and to thank the white guy for stepping in to save him from the gangbangers who put him up to the stunt, Thao reluctantly reports for a week of whatever chores Walt might ask of him.",
"The grudging mutual respect that develops between them is entirely predictable, but in Eastwood's clean, unfussy but discreetly patient direction, even a banal task -- like wrestling an old fridge out of the basement -- assumes the bonding power Alan Ladd and Van Heflin found in digging out a stubborn tree stump in \"Shane.\"",
"Like other Eastwood heroes before him, Walt sacrifices his independence by accepting that others depend on him.",
"The relationship is also laced with plenty of gruff humor.",
"If you're feeling indulgent, the film has almost as many laughs as a comedy.",
"The older man introduces Thao to his barber (John Carroll Lynch) for a lesson in guy talk -- which turns out to be the art of barking invective with impunity.",
"(PC, it's not.) Meanwhile, Walt's own racist (Archie) Bunker mentality thaws when Thao's self-assured sister Sue (Ahney Her) introduces him to the pleasures of Thai food.",
"All the while, the neighborhood punks hover in the background, waiting for the right moment to test whether Dirty Old Harry is firing anything more than blanks these days.",
"Schenk's screenplay isn't subtle, and some of the young cast struggle to camouflage its crudeness, but Eastwood revels in the pragmatic design and roughneck humor of the piece.",
"Walt may be a dinosaur, but he carries a big footprint.",
"In a similar way, \"Gran Torino\" is no classic, but at least it's a star vehicle worthy of a true legend.",
"\"Gran Torino\" is rated R and runs 116 minutes.",
"For Entertainment Weekly's take, click here."
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"NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- More than 100 people were killed and several dozen wounded when an overturned petrol tanker exploded in Kenya early Sunday, authorities said.",
"The blast is the second multi-fatality incident in the east African country in four days.",
"A supermarket fire in Nairobi on Wednesday killed at least 27 people, with another 57 still missing.",
"The tanker explosion occurred near Molo, a small town in the Rift Valley Province -- about 130 kilometers (80 miles) from the capital, a spokesman for the Kenyan police said.",
"The tanker overturned along a highway spilling gallons of gas which hundreds of residents rushed to scoop up, said Titus Mung'ou of the Kenyan Red Cross.",
"\"People were lining up trying to get the fuel,\" he said.",
"\"They were siphoning off petrol for over an hour.",
"Some people had drilled holes in the tanker and were charging a fee for the assembled crowd.\"",
"The vehicle exploded about an hour later, apparently after one of the residents lit a cigarette or started a fire at the crash site, Mung'ou said.",
"Four policemen, who were trying to control the crowd, were believed to be among the victims, Mung'ou said.",
"Another 117 people were wounded in the blast, police said.",
"The figures are expected to rise, officials said.",
"The Red Cross sent more than 80 people to help with rescue efforts.",
"Those who were seriously wounded were flown to a hospital in Nairobi.",
"Meanwhile, the death toll from last week's Nairobi supermarket fire rose to 27 on Sunday, the Red Cross said.",
"Rescue workers found the latest victims as they searched through the rubble of the scorched structure in downtown Nairobi.",
"The fire ignited Wednesday afternoon during a somewhat busy hour in the 24-hour Nakumatt supermarket.",
"Police launched a criminal investigation to look into allegations that security guards locked people into the burning building.",
"Employees of the supermarket refused to comment on the allegations.",
"The fire angered Kenyans for what they perceived as a lack of disaster preparedness.",
"Emergency numbers failed to work and water ran out during attempts to put out the fire, said Mung'ou of the Kenyan Red Cross.",
"\"There is the need to strengthen the capacity in handling fires,\" Mung'ou said."
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"BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A 13-year-old Chinese girl tried to commit suicide because she wanted her family to donate her liver to her cancer-stricken father, state media reported Thursday.",
"The girl, Chen Jin, swallowed more than 200 sleeping pills after she discovered a medical note in her mother's purse that said her father was dying of liver cancer and had three months left to live, the news agency Xinhua said.",
"Jin's mother returned home after visiting her husband in the hospital to find the front door locked.",
"The mother climbed in through a back window and found two empty bottles of sleeping pills.",
"\"Mom, I'm sorry I couldn't stay with you any longer,\" read a note that the teen had left next to her.",
"\"Please give my liver to dad and save him after my death.\"",
"The incident occurred January 24 in Jiangsu province in east China.",
"The teen was taken to the same hospital as her father, where she remains in intensive care, drifting in and out of consciousness, Xinhua said.",
"Doctors say that even if she pulls through, she will need surgery for burns she suffered from an electric blanket on her bed when she lost consciousness, the China Daily newspaper said.",
"According to Chinese media reports, the family -- whose monthly income is about 1,000 yuan ($146) -- has already spent nearly 100,000 yuan ($14,600) in medical expenses since the father was diagnosed with cancer more than a month ago.",
"The mother, who is also in poor health, retired early more than eight years ago.",
"The woman told China Daily she is now trying to keep her husband from learning of their daughter's desperate act of love."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Barack Obama's inauguration marks a profound manifestation of the Rev.",
"Martin Luther King's dream, civil rights leaders say, but the movement would be foolish to drop its guard now.",
"Christine King Farris sits next to a photo of her brother as she reads to kids to commemorate his birthday Thursday.",
"King did not fight tirelessly and ultimately give his life so African-Americans could take office; he fought for the disenfranchised and downtrodden, no matter their color, said Charles Steele, president and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King and Steele's father helped found.",
"\"President-elect Barack Obama is just a piece of the puzzle,\" he said.",
"\"This tells us that we are at a station, but it's not our destination.",
"We've got to get back on the train.\"",
"Steele said he worries that those who espouse King's dream may grow lackadaisical because an African-American has taken the reins of the free world.",
"But it is imperative, he said, that they \"march now more than ever before.\"",
"Steele points to 1963, when tens of thousands of protesters converged on Washington to demand equal rights.",
"It was there King delivered his \"I Have a Dream\" speech from the Lincoln Memorial steps.",
"President Kennedy's administration was considered the most receptive ever to the concerns of the civil rights movement, Steele said.",
"But rather than sit back and hope Kennedy did the right thing, King and thousands stormed Washington to lay out demands that later would yield the Civil Rights Act and National Voting Rights Act.",
"Those down for the cause today must do the same with Obama, Steele said.",
"\"Back in the '60s we were fighting for President-elect Barack Obama; we just didn't know it was him,\" Steele said.",
"\"It was civil rights, not politics, that got us to this position, and we can't forget that.\"",
"Andrew Young remembers pickets outside City Hall the day he took office as Atlanta's second black mayor in 1982.",
"Young, a former King lieutenant, said he was initially confused when he noticed some of the protesters were his supporters.",
"\"I said, 'I haven't changed.'",
"They said, 'Yes, you have. You're in charge,' \" recalled Young, who also has been a U.S. congressman and U.N. ambassador.",
"\"They were there reminding me I was the man.\"",
"Obama, too, needs to be reminded of the concerns of the African-American community, Young said, warning civil rights supporters not to assume Obama owes them something.",
"\"He is one of the fruits of our labors,\" Young said, \"and all he has to do is plant more seeds and grow more trees that bear more fruit.\"",
"Young's words rang true with Kee-Shawn Smith, 19, a sophomore at the historically black Clark Atlanta University.",
"She said King and Obama have \"set the way\" for African-Americans and it's time to concentrate on race, the human one.",
"\"America gives you that one thing -- opportunity,\" she said.",
"\"A lot of African-Americans have to realize we have the same opportunities as any other race, any other culture.",
"... People should take strides to do better than [Obama].\"",
"Neither Obama's election nor the King holiday represent that \"we just want African-Americans to have this.",
"It's more a global perspective,\" said Jeffrey Harrell, 20, a junior at Morehouse College, another historically black school.",
"\"It's about everybody.\" Today, there are still immigrants and women fighting for rights, there are people who are hungry and others without homes, Harrell said.",
"\"Until everyone is able to take part in what's called the American dream, the struggle's not done,\" he said.",
"Harrell also said he was struck by the timing of the inauguration, which falls the day after the King holiday, and he wasn't alone in his belief that it was more than coincidental.",
"\"It shows it's supposed to be this way,\" he said.",
"His words struck a theme, as poet and author Maya Angelou called the timing \"amazing\" and said it was as if \"someone in the outer sphere\" planned it.",
"The Rev. Joseph Lowery, a close friend of King's who will deliver the benediction at Obama's inauguration, said the timing of the two events \"reflects the mysticism of the movement.\"",
"Details: Is it coincidence or \"divine order\"? ...",
"Young chuckled upon hearing Lowery's words relayed and added, \"I always say that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. ...",
"I can't think of a nicer birthday present for Martin Luther King.\"",
"King's only living sibling, Christine King Farris, told CNN that she, too, felt the timing was \"in divine order.\"",
"Watch Christine King Farris talk about her brother, Obama » .",
"King Farris spent part of Thursday morning, her brother's birthday, reading to children at the national park bearing his namesake.",
"She read tales about the shenanigans of a mischievous young King and his brother, Alfred Daniel -- M.L.",
"and A.D. -- who once conspired to get out of music practice by loosening a leg on the piano stool.",
"The prank sent the piano instructor crashing to the floor, King Farris recounted, to the giggles of elementary and preschool students.",
"But she also spoke of her brother's prophecy when he once told their mother, \"One day, I'm going to turn this world upside down.\"",
"Farris said afterward it's important that children understand that though King is portrayed as larger than life, he was once a child like them.",
"It's a necessary lesson in a nation that has struggled with the concept of \"equitable opportunity.\"",
"\"It's going to take some time because it deals with attitudes and, really, the upbringing of children and young people to understand that although we are different in color, in hue and so forth, we are still together.",
"We should be like brothers and sisters,\" she said.",
"Setting aside race and working together is paramount to the success of Obama's presidency, Angelou said, and with each day it grows more vital.",
"\"We needed President-elect Obama desperately, and he needs us,\" she said.",
"\"We need to be up and doing. ... What he needs are a lot of foot soldiers.",
"He needs a lot of us going out trying to help, to allow him to become the president he's come here to be.\"",
"CNN's John Blake contributed to this report."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Mohammad has announced he has pulled out of a peace deal in the violence-plagued Swat Valley, saying the government is not serious about implementing Islamic law, or sharia, in the region.",
"Supporters of cleric Sufi Mohammad gather as they march during a peace rally in the Swat Valley.",
"Mohammad brokered the cease-fire in late February between the Pakistani government and his son-in-law, Maulana Fazlullah, who commands the Taliban in Swat Valley.",
"With the deal, the area would come under sharia law, which -- under the Taliban's strict interpretation -- would prevent women from even being seen in public without their husbands or fathers.",
"Mohammad has set up a protest camp at the headquarters of his son-in-law's Taliban-aligned group, Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM), according to a police official.",
"The headquarters are located in Batkhelah in the Malakand agency of North West Frontier Province.",
"Speaking to reporters Thursday, Mohammad expressed frustration that President Asif Ali Zardari had not signed off on the peace deal.",
"He blamed the Pakistani government for any bloodshed that might follow.",
"Watch how peace talks have hit a hurdle » .",
"Mohammad's pullout does not automatically mean the deal is over.",
"The Taliban, itself, has not announced whether or not it too is pulling out.",
"A lawmaker with the Awami National Party (ANP) of the North West Frontier Province -- where Swat is located -- said he did not expect fighting to resume.",
"\"God willing, there won't be anything that happens to take this [peace] out of our hands,\" said Hashem Baber of the ANP.",
"The province's government will send a contingent to meet with Mohammed and hear his complaints.",
"\"We'll meet and talk and if they have an complaints, we'll try to push those away and solve the situation to get back to the peace deal,\" Baber said.",
"Critics of the cease-fire have called it a major concession by the Pakistani government in an attempt to hold off Taliban attacks.",
"Indeed, after the deal went into effect, Fazlullah proclaimed himself the Emir of Swat.",
"Swat Valley was once one of Pakistan's biggest tourist destinations.",
"It is near the Afghanistan border and is 186 miles (300 kilometers) from the capital, Islamabad.",
"The central government has long exerted little control in the area, but it launched an intense military offensive in late July to flush out militants from areas of the North West Frontier Province .",
"As retaliation for the military presence, the Taliban carried out a series of deadly attacks, beheadings and destruction of girls' schools.",
"They also continued to gain ground, setting up checkpoints throughout the area.",
"Sufi Mohammad was released from jail last year by Pakistani authorities after he agreed to cooperate with the government.",
"He was detained in 2002 after recruiting thousands of fighters to battle U.S. forces in Afghanistan.",
"Fazlullah took over TNSM during Sufi Mohammed's jail stint and vowed to continue his fight to impose fundamentalist Islamic law in the region.",
"Last May, Pakistan's government announced it reached a peace deal with militants in Swat Valley.",
"In the months that followed, the Taliban seized control of the region and carried out a violent campaign against government officials, including local politicians.",
"The head of the secular Awami National Party -- which represents the region -- was forced to flee to Islamabad amid death threats from the Taliban.",
"Pakistan is under enormous pressure to control the militants within its borders, blamed for launching attacks in neighboring Afghanistan where U.S. and NATO forces are fighting militants.",
"The United States -- using unmanned drones -- has carried out several airstrikes inside Pakistan on suspected militant targets, including one on Wednesday that killed three suspected Taliban militants in the tribal region.",
"Such incursions have infuriated many Pakistanis and their leaders.",
"Pakistan's military operation in the region is unpopular among Pakistanis, but efforts to deal diplomatically with militants have not worked in the past.",
"Pakistan's previous leader, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, reached a cease-fire deal with militants in South Waziristan in 2006 which was widely blamed for giving al Qaeda and the Taliban a stronger foothold in the region.",
"CNN's Zein Basravi contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Sen. John McCain on Tuesday proposed lifting the ban on offshore drilling as part of his plan to reduce dependence on foreign oil and help combat rising gas prices.",
"Sen. John McCain says it's time for the federal government \"to put our own reserves to use.\"",
"\"The stakes are high for our citizens and for our economy,\" McCain, the presumed Republican nominee for president, said at a press conference Tuesday in Houston, Texas.",
"Hours later, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said President Bush on Wednesday will ask Congress to lift the ban on offshore drilling.",
"Bush has long called for opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil exploration, but Perino said he now wants to go further.",
"\"For years, the president has pushed Congress to expand our domestic oil supply, but Democrats in Congress have consistently blocked such action,\" she said.",
"Earlier in the day, McCain, describing the high price of fuel, confused the cost of gallons versus barrels, which drew laughs from the crowd and the candidate himself.",
"He quickly corrected himself.",
"\"And with gasoline running at more than $4 a barrel ... a gallon ...",
"I wish ... $4 a gallon, many do not have the luxury of waiting on the far-off plans of futurists and politicians,\" he said.",
"\"We have proven oil reserves of at least 21 billion barrels in the United States.",
"But a broad federal moratorium stands in the way of energy exploration and production.",
"And I believe it is time for the federal government to lift these restrictions and to put our own reserves to use.\"",
"McCain's plan would let individual states decide whether to explore drilling possibilities.",
"Watch a McCain adviser describe the proposal » .",
"The proposal could put McCain at odds with environmentalists who say it is incongruous with his plans to combat global warning.",
"California Gov.",
"Arnold Schwarzenegger, a McCain ally, opposes offshore drilling.",
"Florida Gov.",
"Charlie Crist had expressed opposition to exploring coastal waters, but he said this week he supports McCain's plan to lift the moratorium and would not rule out letting his state choose to drill offshore.",
"\"It's the last thing in the world I'd like to do, but I also understand what people are paying at the pump, and I understand the drag it is on our economy,\" Crist told the St. Petersburg Times.",
"\"Something has to be done in a responsible, pragmatic way.\"",
"The current law, which has been in effect since 1981, covers most of the country's coastal waters.",
"Many officials from coastal states oppose offshore drilling because of the risk of oil spills.",
"Environmentalists want offshore drilling to stop to protect oceans and beaches from further pollution.",
"\"The next president must be willing to break with the energy policies, not just of the current administration, but the administrations that preceded it, and lead a great national campaign to achieve energy security for America,\" McCain said Tuesday.",
"McCain on Monday said incentives could possibly be provided for states that choose to permit exploration off their coasts, adding that \"exploration is a step toward the longer-term goal.\"",
"Tuesday's discussion marks the first in a series of talks about America's energy security that McCain will hold during the next two weeks as he lays out his plan to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil.",
"McCain opposes drilling in some parts of the wilderness and says those areas must be left undisturbed.",
"\"When America set aside the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, we called it a 'refuge' for a reason,\" he said.",
"McCain also criticized the energy policy of Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama.",
"\"He says that high oil prices are not the problem, but only that they rose too quickly.",
"He doesn't support new domestic production.",
"He doesn't support new nuclear plants.",
"He doesn't support more traditional use of coal, either,\" McCain said.",
"\"So what does Sen. Obama support in energy policy?",
"Well, for starters, he supported the energy bill of 2005 -- a grab bag of corporate favors that I opposed.",
"And now he supports new taxes on energy producers.",
"He wants a windfall profits tax on oil, to go along with the new taxes he also plans for coal and natural gas.",
"If the plan sounds familiar, it's because that was President Jimmy Carter's big idea too -- and a lot of good it did us.\"",
"McCain argues that a windfall profits tax will only increase the country's dependence on foreign oil and be an obstacle to domestic exploration.",
"\"I'm all for recycling -- but it's better applied to paper and plastic than to the failed policies of the 1970s,\" he said.",
"Obama on Tuesday blasted McCain for changing his stance on offshore drilling.",
"\"John McCain's support of the moratorium on offshore drilling during his first presidential campaign was certainly laudable, but his decision to completely change his position and tell a group of Houston oil executives exactly what they wanted to hear today was the same Washington politics that has prevented us from achieving energy independence for decades,\" he said.",
"\"It's another example of short-term political posturing from Washington, not the long-term leadership we need to solve our dependence on oil,\" he said.",
"Democratic Florida Sen. Bill Nelson also criticized McCain's plan, saying it would ruin his state's tourism industry and would not solve the problem.",
"\"I thought John McCain was serious when he said he wanted to make America less dependent on oil.",
"I didn't think he was a flip-flopper.",
"He knows that more drilling isn't the solution to high gas prices,\" Nelson said Tuesday.",
"Obama said a windfall profits tax would ease the burden of energy costs on working families.",
"He also wants to invest in affordable, renewable energy sources.",
"Controversy over offshore drilling surfaced in the United States in 1969, after a crack in the seafloor led to a huge oil spill off Santa Barbara, California.",
"During the 1970s, when many Arab nations launched an oil embargo, many U.S. officials pushed for the exploration of offshore drilling of the coastal United States.",
"Environmentalists responded with loud protests.",
"CNN White House Correspondent Ed Henry contributed to this report ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Britain's foremost aviation showcase celebrates its 60th anniversary this year.",
"The Spitfire is one of the aircraft from Farnborough's inaugural show getting airborne once again to celebrate the airshow's 60th year.",
"The 46th Farnborough International Airshow will commemorate the first show ever held in 1948 at this year's event in Hampshire which runs from July 14 to 20.",
"\"As we look back on the past 60 years, we also are excited to continue looking forward to the next 60 years,\" said John Cairns, Head of Services at Farnborough International Limited (FIL) which runs the biennial airshow.",
"To mark the occasion, Farnborough's world-renowned flying display will include aircraft which flew at the first show like the Swordfish, Spitfire, Sea Hawk and Sea Fury.",
"Adding a modern twist to the mix will be the debut of The Blades, the world's only globally accredited aerobatic airline.",
"The airshow was first established as a way for the British public to see and learn about the best of aviation.",
"Staying true to its original purpose, on both Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 July -- Farnborough's \"public weekend\" -- there will be a four-and-a-half-hour flying display.",
"Highlights include perennial favourites the Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force aerobatic team who will close the show with their aerial gymnastics, as well as the debut of the Aero Sekur Shooting Stars, an Italian ladies' parachute team who will be providing daily skydiving displays.",
"\"Farnborough, in essence, has always been about innovation, and I am delighted that to a long line of distinguished 'Farnborough Firsts' I am able to add some very worthy new firsts, including the first ever women's parachute team to appear at the Airshow; the world's first aerobatic airline and the first business aviation jet to have been developed at Farnborough,\" continued Cairns.",
"As well as displaying aircraft for the public, Farnborough has also established itself as one of the world's premier showcases for the aviation business world.",
"This year, 1,500 companies from 35 countries as diverse as Colombia and Bahrain will be exhibiting planes and other technologies in a show that is predicted to be Farnborough's biggest to date.",
"On the trade days which run from Monday 14 to Friday 18 July, business attendees will be able to see the world's latest aerospace innovations in the air.",
"A full range of civil, business and defence aircraft will take part in flying displays.",
"These include the Airbus AB380; HAL helicopters; the Kestrel JP10 (originally conceived at Farnborough airfield); the MiG 29; the EADS Eurofighter; the F 16 and F18; the MB 346; the AB 609; MB 311.",
"In 2006, Farnborough trade week accumulated $42 billion worth of orders including $550 million in business aviation orders.",
"The Airbus A380 also made its UK debut at Farnborough that year.",
"\"Our intention has always been to build on the success of the 2006 event, and to ensure that this year's show delivers an incomparable business service for our exhibitors and their customers, ensuring that they can gain maximum benefit and opportunity from attending Farnborough Airshow -- whether that is taking orders, making sales or developing new business,\" said Amanda Stainer, the Airshow's Exhibition and Events Director.",
"To find out more about Farnborough International Airshow go to: www.farnborough.com/ ."
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"(CNN) -- The Czech Republic's practice of surgically castrating convicted sex offenders is \"invasive, irreversible and mutilating\" and should stop immediately, the Council of Europe's Anti-Torture Committee said in a report made public Thursday.",
"The central European country castrated at least 94 prisoners in the 10 years up to April 2008, when investigators from the Council of Europe, a human-rights forum, visited the Czech Republic.",
"The Council of Europe condemned the practice as \"degrading.\"",
"The procedure is being performed even on first-time, non-violent offenders, such as exhibitionists, its investigation revealed.",
"Prisoners have to request castration under Czech law, but many fear they will be jailed for life if they do not, the investigation found.",
"\"In practically all the cases, these patients indicated that their application was at least partially instigated by fear of long-term detention,\" the report said.",
"\"Some patients claimed that the treating sexologist had explicitly told them that surgical castration was the only available option to them and that refusal would mean lifelong detention.\"",
"And it warned that some \"significantly\" mentally retarded people had been castrated.",
"\"In at least five cases, legally incapacitated offenders were surgically castrated,\" the report said.",
"\"In all of these instances, the court-appointed guardian had signed the consent form; in two cases, the guardians were mayors.\"",
"The investigators found only two convicts who had spontaneously volunteered for castration, while others they interviewed said mental health staff specializing in sexuality had recommended it.",
"\"The other patients interviewed indicated that the treating sexologist had suggested surgical castration, in several cases within a week of the patient's admission to hospital,\" the report said.",
"\"Some of the sexologists interviewed by the delegation themselves affirmed that for certain patients there was no alternative treatment to surgical castration.\"",
"The Czech Republic defends the practice as voluntary, saying castration aims permanently to reduce testosterone levels in order to diminish the offender's sexual urges.",
"The process, officially called \"therapeutic testicular pulpectomies ... are performed upon a written request of an adult man,\" the Czech government responded.",
"It said the operation had to be approved by a committee of experts.",
"\"Prior to the performance of such intervention, the patient must express his consent with its performance.",
"Castration is considered with respect to men who cannot manage their sexual instincts and are sexually aggressive,\" the Czech government said, saying the Council of Europe had not proven its case sufficiently for the country to abandon castration.",
"It argues the procedure is effective in reducing repeat offenses.",
"But the Council of Europe questioned the statistics on repeat offenses and said even if they were correct, castration was not an appropriate way to reduce recidivism.",
"\"The committee's delegation came across three cases in which sex offenders had committed serious sex-related crimes, including serial rape and attempted murder, after they had been surgically castrated,\" the human-rights group said.",
"\"Surgical castration is no longer a generally accepted medical intervention in the treatment of sex-offenders,\" the report said.",
"It said candidates for castration often received information about the procedure which was too technical to understand -- or no information at all.",
"\"Several patients who had undergone surgical castration told the delegation that they would never have applied for surgical castration had they been properly informed,\" the report warned.",
"It condemned the practice as \"an irreversible intervention that always leads to infertility and, in the long run, a significantly increased risk of osteoporosis,\" also warning of possible depression and changes in appearance.",
"It said it was impossible to determine how many people had been castrated in keeping with a 1966 law.",
"The Council of Europe delegation visited the Czech Republic from March 25 to April 2, 2008.",
"It issued its report and the Czech response on July 23, 2008.",
"It made them public on Thursday at the request of the Czech government, it said."
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"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN -- Relations between Arab nations and the United States hinge on American leaders living up to their rhetoric about commitment to lasting peace in the Mideast, Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal told CNN Saturday.",
"Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal talks with CNN's Nic Robertson about U.S. relations with Arab nations.",
"\"President Obama, in his statement yesterday, said that he's genuinely making the effort to accomplish a peaceful resolution,\" al-Faisal, who served as Saudi ambassador to the United States from 2005 to 2007, told CNN's Nic Robertson in an interview Friday.",
"\"We've heard this before,\" al-Faisal said.",
"\"We need to see implementation.",
"We need to see facts on the ground change.",
"We need to see rhetoric change.",
"We need to see presence on the ground.\"",
"He said he was encouraged by Obama's appointment of George Mitchell as Mideast envoy, saying, \"Mitchell comes with a track record of success.\"",
"But he suggested Mitchell spend some time in the region to make real progress.",
"\"American envoys, when they've dealt with the Middle East, have always come and gone,\" he said.",
"\"I think it would be wise for Sen. Mitchell ... to pitch his tent in Ramallah or in Jerusalem, let's say, and spend a year, two, perhaps three years on the ground dealing with the daily aspects of making peace there.\"",
"Watch as al-Faisal talks about how the U.S. and the Mideast could build trust » .",
"The United States' backing of Israel, in light of the latest Israeli military operations in Gaza, does not improve its standing in the Arab world, he said.",
"\"What happened in Gaza, people have called it a tragedy,\" al-Faisal said.",
"\"I'd go further and say it was a catastrophe in all aspects of that word.",
"The killing and the destruction was so barbaric by Israel, and unprecedented in a such a small area like Gaza.",
"They [Israelis] claim that they were very careful about collateral damage and they targeted only Hamas, as they call them, militants and operatives.",
"Well, look at the figures.",
"\"More than 400 children killed out of 1,300 [total deaths].",
"That doesn't show any precision of targeting.",
"Israel claims that these are mishaps of war.",
"If they are mishaps of war, well, why should you have a war?",
"\"I think this is one of the issues that makes the relationship between the Arab world in general and Saudi Arabia in particular threatened when it comes to dealing with the United States,\" al-Faisal said.",
"\"... And President Bush, I think callously and unforgivably, gave Israel a green light to do everything that they wanted to do in Gaza without restraint.\"",
"U.S. and Israeli officials should recognize that operations like the recent one only serve to strengthen Hamas, as \"Israel is a radioactive element in the area.",
"Anyone it touches becomes heroic and legitimate ... because he or she is a victim.\"",
"Al-Faisal said he believes the United States and Israel should negotiate with Hamas.",
"Reminded that the two nations consider Hamas a terrorist organization, he said, \"I think this is another of the things that has to be reviewed by President Obama.\"",
"He believes that negotiations with Hamas should not undermine the Palestinian Authority, saying the authority's President Mahmoud Abbas \"in my view, is the most tailor-made Palestinian leader for making peace and bringing stability and security to the Palestinian people.\"",
"Israel's operation in Gaza came after what it said was a barrage of rockets fired by Hamas militants into southern Israel.",
"Asked how to stop the rockets, al-Faisal said he thinks the key is to bring Hamas into the political fold.",
"\"Put it the other way,\" he said.",
"\"How can we convince Israel itself not to provoke Hamas into firing rockets?\"",
"Israel claims that Hamas fired first, and al-Faisal said these claims underscore the importance of having someone on the ground like Mitchell.",
"\"To see who is telling the truth in a case like that is needed, and a necessity today, more than at any other time,\" he said.",
"The United States has called for nations like Saudi Arabia to accept Israel and normalize relations with the nation, he said, but Israel must make the first move.",
"\"Israel has to normalize relations with Palestine before Saudi Arabia will normalize relations with Israel.",
"Everybody asks us to recognize Israel and to normalize ... nobody asks Israel to recognize Palestine and normalize relations with Palestine.",
"I think that's unfair.\"",
"Arab nations stand ready to make peace with Israel, he said, but Israel has not demonstrated an equal willingness.",
"\"That's the pity of it.\" He said Obama should ask Israel to accept the Arab peace plan.",
"\"And when the Israelis accept the Arab peace plan, the Arab world has already set up a mechanism to deal with that issue.",
"They've chosen Egypt and Jordan to sit down with the Israelis and deal with the Arab peace initiative.\"",
"Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev told CNN the nation does not publicly discuss contacts with Arab nations with which it has no official diplomatic relations.",
"Israel welcomed the Saudi peace initiative, he said, and is willing to negotiate with all Arab countries, including the Palestinians.",
"Asked about his confidence in Obama, al-Faisal said, \"I'll have confidence when I see things done on the ground, and President Obama can do something and gain the confidence and support of the Arab and Muslim nations by showing that he has done things on the ground and not simply expressed a wish for that.\"",
"If not, he said the Arab world's relationship with the United States is at stake.",
"\"Popular sentiment, already America is at its lowest level in the history of its engagement with the Arab and Muslim world,\" he said.",
"\"In terms of government relations, that is something that will have to be decided by the leaderships in the Arab world and America, but it's not a pretty picture.\""
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- A Zimbabwe High Court judge is trying to take the country's first lady to court, accusing her of using political muscle to wrest from him a farm he was given during the land seizures.",
"Judge says Grace Mugabe, pictured with her husband, effectively took his farm by force.",
"The matter has not been given a date, however, amid reports that other judges have been refusing to hear it.",
"High Court Judge Ben Hlatshwayo is suing a company owned by Grace Mugabe, wife of President Robert Mugabe, for grabbing Gwina Farm in Banket, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) northwest of Harare.",
"The farm is near Mugabe's rural home.",
"The judge said he acquired the farm in December 2002 as part of President Mugabe's controversial land grabs, in which Mugabe took land from white commercial farmers and distributed it to black Zimbabweans.",
"In an affidavit, filed at the High Court in Harare, the judge said the \"unlawful conduct\" by Grace Mugabe's company, Gushungo Holdings, amounted to spoilation -- or taking of the farm by force.",
"He said emissaries of the first lady have been visiting the farm frequently and issuing instructions to workers, according to court documents.",
"\"There is clearly no lawful basis for such interference, which conduct, by its very nature, amounts to spoliation,\" Hlatshwayo wrote in the papers.",
"Lands and Resettlement Minister Didymus Mutasa said the judge had been given alternative land as compensation for the farm that Grace Mugabe wants to have.",
"Mutasa opposes the judge's affidavit.",
"Hlatshwayo said he had been operating his farm in \"quiet, undisturbed, peaceful possession, occupation and production\" since it was allocated to him.",
"Since the land grabs, Zimbabwe has been facing acute shortages of food that critics say is a result of Mugabe giving the land to inexperienced peasant farmers.",
"But Mugabe blames the West for the shortages, saying Western countries are sabotaging him after he took the land for his people.",
"Mugabe says the land reform was meant to reverse colonial imbalances remaining after British rule.",
"The legal wrangle comes after Grace Mugabe was accused of assaulting a journalist in Hong Kong who wanted to take photos of her while she was on a shopping spree.",
"Lawmakers were supposed to debate a bill next week for a constitutional amendment that would create the new posts called for under the deal, including the post of prime minister for opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.",
"The delay could prolong the country's political and economic crisis.",
"The delay comes a day after the MDC accused Mugabe's ZANU-PF of backtracking on the implementation of a power-sharing deal the party signed with Tsvangirai in September.",
"Tsvangirai agreed last week to join the unity government if \"outstanding issues\" were addressed.",
"While government officials could not be reached for comment, Zimbabwean Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa was quoted by the state media as saying the delay in debate on the constitutional-amendment bill would push back next week's deadline.",
"A coalition government is seen by many as a panacea to halt the meltdown of Zimbabwe's economy.",
"The country is also facing its worst humanitarian crisis, with acute shortages of all essentials such as fuel, food, electricity and public-health delivery system.",
"A ravaging cholera outbreak has affected 65,000 people and claimed close to 3,500 lives since its outbreak in August."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- For more than a year, the criminal justice students jotted details of Chandra Levy's final movements onto a huge timeline taped to a classroom wall, culled the Internet and public records for scraps of information, and pored over the model skeleton laid out on a table in their lab at Bauder College in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"Antonio Wilson, from left clockwise, Lashaun Bates, Jennifer Gosdin and Charna-Marie Dixon.",
"They spent hours with the slain intern's mother, Susan Levy, who flew from her home in California to Atlanta just to talk to them.",
"Chandra Levy had studied criminal justice in college, too.",
"They began with a list of five suspects, then narrowed it down to one.",
"On December 28, they mailed their findings to the police chief in Washington, D.C.",
"They never heard back.",
"But on Saturday, the text and phone messages began to fly.",
"There's a suspect, they told each other with excitement.",
"An arrest is imminent.",
"\"It completely validates 15 months of work,\" their teacher, Sheryl McCollum, said that Saturday morning.",
"\"We knew this case was solvable.",
"There was no reason for it not to be solved.\"",
"Meet the members of the campus crime club » .",
"A week ago, the police chief in Washington, D.C., called Levy's parents and told them a suspect in the 2001 slaying soon would be arrested.",
"\"I got a call from the Washington police department, just to give me a heads up that there's a warrant out for the arrest,\" said Susan Levy, the victim's mother.",
"She added that police did not provide a name, but sources later identified him to CNN as Ingmar Guandique.",
"Guandique is serving a 10-year prison sentence for two assaults in Washington's Rock Creek Park that occurred around the time of Levy's disappearance.",
"Levy's remains were found in the park.",
"For the Bauder College students, the break in the case was no cause for self-congratulations.",
"They can't disclose their findings to the public.",
"It's part of the deal they make at the start of each investigation.",
"Even though they couldn't name their suspect, or even discuss details of what they found, they didn't carry themselves like people who had missed the mark when they met with CNN on Monday.",
"There were big smiles and, in more reflective moments, small tears.",
"Antonio Wilson and Jennifer Gosdin, two students who last year shared logs of their progress with CNN, said they hoped Levy's mother, father and brother can now find some comfort and peace.",
"If they were able to help the Levys in some way, they are glad.",
"Wilson, who hopes to be a probation officer, said he got more out of the experience than he ever expected.",
"\"It's not my area, but I loved it,\" he said.",
"\"Once you get involved in it, it becomes personal,\" Gosdin agreed.",
"For Naomi Barkley and La-Shawn Bates, the case got personal when they met Susan Levy.",
"\"You could see the hurt in her face,\" Bates recalled.",
"\"You can't help but want to make it right for her.",
"McCollum was in Florida with her family when the news of a suspect broke.",
"She was on the phone with Susan Levy before the sun came up in California.",
"Yes, Levy said, it's true, adding that she was grateful to the students for keeping people focused on her daughter's case, McCollum recalled.",
"McCollum worked as a victims' advocate in the criminal justice system in Fulton County, Georgia, for 25 years before taking a teaching job at Bauder College.",
"In 2005, she launched the Cold Case Investigations Research Institute.",
"It's a fancy name for a campus crime club.",
"The students aren't graded, and they don't receive class credits.",
"But the payoff for the hours they invest includes hands-on experience working real cases and access to experts and criminal justice professionals.",
"Using real-life cases is the best way to groom the next generation of crime-solvers, McCollum believes.",
"Many of the 850 students at Bauder College juggle full-time jobs and families with their course work.",
"About 80 of them are members of the crime club.",
"They are joined by students at two other campuses: Auburn University-Montgomery and Faulkner University in Alabama.",
"Auburn students examined crime scene and geographic details, while Faulkner students delved into the victim's profile.",
"The Bauder students focused on the suspects.",
"Past cases include Tupac Shakur, the hip-hop artist gunned down in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Wayne Williams, the man convicted in the Atlanta child murders case.",
"Students found the Williams case solvable, but Shakur's slaying was ruled \"undetermined.\"",
"The Levy investigation was deemed \"solvable.\"",
"It seemed to carry special meaning for the students.",
"\"With Chandra, she was a criminal justice major at one time, and she had aspirations of going into the federal government; a lot of our students do as well,\" McCollum said at the outset of the project.",
"\"The students became completely dedicated once they met the family members of the victims,\" McCollum said.",
"\"The victims are real people, the cases are real cases, and the research is real investigative work.\""
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The collective cry throughout India of \"Jai ho\" (May you win) received a resounding answer when composer A.R.",
"Rahman took home two Oscars for the movie \"Slumdog Millionaire.\"",
"Composer A. R. Rahman, \"The Mozart of Madras,\" celebrates his double Oscar win -- for Best Score and one for the song \"Jai Ho\" from the film.",
"Rahman's wins -- one for the song \"Jai Ho\" and the other for Best Score -- were just two reasons for Indians to erupt in boisterous celebrations Monday morning.",
"\"Slumdog,\" which was shot in the streets and slums of Mumbai bagged eight golden statuettes in total, including one for Best Sound Mixing.",
"Indian Resul Pookutty shared it with fellow sound editors who worked on the film.",
"\"This is the finest hour of Indian cinema in the global scenario,\" said Anand Sharma, the country's junior external affairs minister.",
"Indians crowded around television sets in dorm rooms, restaurants and homes, exhaling in relief as Rahman's name was announced as the winner.",
"They high-fived each other, hugged, shrieked and wept.",
"\"I cannot describe this feeling,\" said Nikhil Jyonti, a Mumbai resident.",
"\"I'm bursting with pride for India.\"",
"In the Mumbai slum of Dharavi, where many of the scenes in \"Slumdog\" were shot, a television was set out for the street children to watch the ceremony.",
"Few in the teeming slum of one million people had heard of the Oscars, but they knew Rahman's win was a source of pride for the country.",
"Danny Boyle's rags-to-riches film tells the story of a tea-boy at a Mumbai call center who earns a spot in the Indian version of the quiz show \"Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?\"",
"He raises the suspicion of the show's host when, despite the lack of a formal education, he begins to answer the increasingly difficult questions with ease.",
"The movie also won four Golden Globes and a host of honors at other award shows.",
"While the overwhelming sentiment was one of pride Monday, the movie has faced backlash from many Indian movie critics who took exception to its depiction of Mumbai's underworld without highlighting any of the city's achievements.",
"Among the most notable criticisms was one offered by Amitabh Bachchan, considered the most successful movie star in Bollywood history, and a former real-life host of the Indian \"Millionaire.\"",
"The film,\" he said, \"projects India as the third world's dirty underbelly ... and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots.\"",
"But most Mumabikers, still reeling from a terrorist attack in their city in November, embraced the movie while looking for something positive to root for.",
"They found that in Rahman, a composer who has consistently broken barriers in his musical scores for dozens of Bollywood hits and is known as the \"Mozart of Madras.\"",
"Rahman has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide -- more than the Beatles -- but has remained relatively unknown in Europe and the United States.",
"Director Spike Lee used one of his songs in his 2006 heist film, \"Inside Man.\"",
"Many hope the Oscar win will bring Rahman greater exposure.",
"Rahman and Pookutty, however, aren't the first Indians with Academy Awards to their names.",
"In 1992, legendary Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray received an honorary award for his contribution to world cinema.",
"And in 1982, Bhanu Athaiya shared an Oscar for costume design for the movie \"Gandhi.\"",
"CNN's Saeed Ahmed and Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report ."
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"Rahman winning two awards at last night's Oscars .",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration is looking into a report that Louisiana Sen. David Vitter had an angry altercation with an airline worker at Washington Dulles International Airport last week.",
"Louisiana Sen. David Vitter reportedly went into a \"tirade\" with a Washington Dulles International Airport worker.",
"The agency is not doing a formal investigation, TSA spokesman Sterling Payne told CNN, but it is gathering information to determine if one is needed.",
"\"We are looking into the reported incident,\" Payne said.",
"An aide to Vitter said Friday morning the Republican senator had not been contacted by the TSA and maintains the media account of the incident is overblown.",
"Roll Call had a report in its gossip column earlier this week, based on an unnamed eyewitness, that Vitter arrived at the airport 20 minutes before his United Airlines flight was scheduled to depart.",
"The door to the boarding bridge was already closed, but Vitter opened it anyway, triggering an alarm.",
"The paper said an airline worker warned him not to enter the walkway, which led to a \"tirade\" by Vitter who \"remained defiant.\"",
"The source told Roll Call the senator left the area before airport police arrived.",
"Vitter has refused to answer reporters' questions about the incident, but in a statement Wednesday described his actions more innocently and the Roll Call report \"silly.\"",
"\"After being delayed on the Senate floor ensuring a vote on my anti-pay raise amendment and in a rush to make my flight home for town hall meetings the next day, I accidentally went through the wrong door at the gate,\" he said.",
"\"I did have a conversation with an airline employee, but it was certainly not like this silly gossip column made it out to be.\"",
"Vitter has been the subject of unwelcome headlines before.",
"In 2007, he was linked to a Washington, D.C., prostitution ring.",
"He denied allegations he had relationships with prostitutes, but apologized for \"a very serious sin.\"",
"Joel DiGrado, Vitter's spokesman, said the congressman would not comment further on the issue.",
"CNN's Mike Ahlers contributed to this report."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Hundreds of thousands of visitors to the National Mall crowded Metro stations around Washington on Tuesday, slowing movement to a crawl after the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States.",
"A security tower stands over the crowd that came to watch Barack Obama's inauguration.",
"\"All of our stations are overcrowded,\" said Lisa Farbstein, spokeswoman for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.",
"\"It's taking hours for people to get back into the stations.\"",
"Police were holding people outside some Metro stations until there was room for them to get in, Farbstein said.",
"But as evening fell and celebrations moved indoors, observers said crowd flow on the Metro system was smoother, if still an effort in patience.",
"As of 7 p.m. Tuesday, the Metro had counted 973,285 passenger trips, setting a record with several hours and many miles yet to go.",
"\"Throughout the weekend, we've effectively dealt with record-breaking crowds,\" said Metro General Manager John Catoe.",
"\"By 5 p.m., people had taken nearly 874,000 trips, breaking yesterday's ridership record with nine more hours of service to go.\"",
"Monday's 866,681 passenger trips had been the Metro record.",
"The Metro numbers were just one record-setting tally in a day that lived up to expectations in sheer crowd size alone.",
"Crowds on the National Mall were so large that the National Park Service began closing portions of it by 9 a.m., three hours before Obama took his oath of office.",
"A crowd of 1.5 million people packed the Mall for the inauguration, according to an analysis of satellite imagery provided to CNN by IHS Jane's, a leading information provider on defense, international risk and national security.",
"Officials said the massive security for the event was running smoothly, although there had been what they described as minor miscommunications, such as a Metro station entrance being closed when it was not supposed to be.",
"The crowd was orderly, and there had been no reports of major incidents or concerns.",
"FBI spokesman Jason Pack said there had been no arrests related to the inauguration so far.",
"FBI and partner agencies investigated about a dozen reports of suspicious incidents or people, but none was anything serious.",
"About 957 people visited the medical tents on the mall for various first-aid needs.",
"Some security screening lines ran slowly, officials said, but there had not been any major systemic problems.",
"Earlier in the day, federal officials were reviewing an unspecified threat to disrupt the inauguration, according to the Department of Homeland Security.",
"The FBI was investigating two \"streams of intelligence\" suggesting that Somalia-based terrorist organization Al Shabaab may have been plotting an attack timed to coincide with the event, the FBI and Homeland Security said in a joint threat advisory obtained by CNN.",
"Security officials made some readjustments to inauguration security as a precaution and did not change the threat level, an administration official said.",
"The ceremony went off without incident.",
"Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice designated al-Shabaab, also known as the Mujahedeen Youth Movement, a \"Foreign Terrorist Organization\" in February.",
"The State Department calls it \"a violent and brutal extremist group with a number of individuals affiliated with al Qaeda.",
"Many of its senior leaders are believed to have trained and fought with al Qaeda in Afghanistan.\"",
"Also Tuesday, a false alarm prompted police to temporarily close a 25-mile stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike, authorities said.",
"Investigators had received a tip that a man headed to Washington was threatening the inaugural, but they eventually determined \"there is no danger to the public,\" FBI spokesman J.J. Klaver said.",
"Two law enforcement sources said the man's mother phoned in a tip to authorities saying her son was traveling in a vehicle containing a bomb.",
"New Jersey State Police stopped a man in a vehicle on the highway Tuesday afternoon, questioned him and searched his vehicle, several law enforcement sources said.",
"Officials said he never posed a threat.",
"It's unclear what, if any, action might be taken against the mother.",
"Tuesday in Washington, tens of thousands of police officers, federal agents and National Guardsmen were deployed on land, water and in the air in an unprecedented effort to make sure the inauguration was secure.",
"The security effort involved Secret Service agents; 8,000 police officers from the District of Columbia and other jurisdictions; 10,000 National Guardsmen; about 1,000 FBI personnel; and hundreds of others from the Department of Homeland Security, the National Park Service and U.S. Capitol Police.",
"Another 20,000 members of the National Guard were ready to respond if there was an emergency, said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.",
"Security planners drew up procedures to deal with improvised explosive devices, suicide bombers and the use of a weapon of mass destruction.",
"A recent intelligence assessment, however, said a lone wolf would pose the greatest potential threat.",
"Chertoff said an individual or small group planning to do harm is difficult to detect.",
"\"Whether the motivation is racism or some psychological disorder ... in an open society, it is impossible to keep a single individual from doing some damage,\" he said.",
"Watch the anti-sniper detail prepare » .",
"Federal officials acknowledged that the inauguration of the first African-American president could make an attractive target.",
"Since Obama's election, the number of threats against him has increased, according to a recent federal intelligence assessment.",
"The FBI has been especially aggressive in examining white supremacist groups.",
"They have ramped up their anti-Obama comments, officials said, but it appears to be more talk than action.",
"Because inaugural events are spread over four days, security is especially challenging.",
"Organizers say they started their security planning the day after the last inauguration and ramped up their efforts in July.",
"CNN's Jeanne Meserve, Pam Benson, Kevin Bohn, Carol Cratty and Rob Frehse contributed to this report."
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"Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a nationally syndicated columnist and a member of the editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune.",
"Read his column here .",
"Ruben Navarrette says Mexico isn't a failed state, but the fate of its drug war is important for US.",
"SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- You may have heard the rumor that, as a result of a bloody drug war that has claimed more than 7,000 lives since January 2007, Mexico is on the verge of being declared a \"failed state.\"",
"Drawing a lot of its oxygen from cable demagogues and talk radio, the chatter intensified several weeks ago when the Pentagon issued a report warning that our neighbor -- along with Pakistan, no less -- could face a \"rapid and sudden\" collapse because \"the government, its politicians, police and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and pressure by criminal gangs and drug cartels.\"",
"How's this for pressure? The police chief in Ciudad Juarez resigned last week after drug traffickers began to make good on their promise to kill police officers in that city until the chief stepped down.",
"The Mexican drug war is the real deal, and so is the threat to both Mexico and the United States.",
"The casualties are mounting.",
"The killings are becoming more brutal, and now include the beheading of soldiers.",
"The cartels are essentially terrorizing the Mexican people in the hopes of convincing them to put pressure on the government to relent in its efforts to put the bad guys out of business.",
"Take it from someone who has known Mexican President Felipe Calderon since before he took the job -- back when we were in graduate school together nearly a decade ago -- that's not going to happen.",
"Calderon was brave enough to take on the drug cartels by arresting their leaders, confiscating their product, and -- most importantly -- seizing the large shipments of cash that they need to operate.",
"And he's smart enough to know that letting up on the pressure before the task is done would only make matters worse and basically hand Mexico over to the drug lords .",
"Meanwhile, there is no question that Americans will pay a price if the drug violence spills over the border.",
"Just a few days ago, the U.S. State Department issued a blunt travel advisory warning Americans with plans to travel in Mexico to be extra careful.",
"\"Recent Mexican army and police confrontations with drug cartels have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades,\" the advisory reads.",
"\"Large firefights have taken place in towns and cities ... and during some of these incidents, U.S. citizens have been trapped and temporarily prevented from leaving the area.\"",
"Firefights will put a crimp in the tourist industry.",
"But, Mexicans are quick to point out the irony.",
"Here Americans are worried about their safety in Mexico when one of the reasons the Mexican government is having such a difficult time fighting the drug cartels is because the enemy has plenty of money and guns.",
"And both are coming from the north.",
"According to most estimates, about 90 percent of all the cocaine flowing into the United States comes from Mexico and about 90 percent of the guns seized in drug-related violence come from the United States.",
"Former President George W. Bush and Congress deserve credit for pushing through $400 million in emergency aid in the Merida Initiative to help the Mexican government fight the cartels.",
"And even though Mexico is still waiting for delivery of most of those funds, there were signals this week that the Obama administration understands the stakes involved.",
"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced new measures to prevent the violence from spreading to this side of the border and told Congress that the issue demands the \"utmost attention.\"",
"Attorney General Eric Holder called the drug cartels a \"national security threat\" to the United States and said Americans \"simply can't afford to let down our guard.\"",
"Even so, this business about Mexico on its way to being a \"failed state\" is just a lot of hot air.",
"The rumors of our neighbor's demise have been greatly exaggerated.",
"A country of 110 million people, Mexico is still a functioning democracy with press freedoms and bold leaders, like Calderon, who are tackling the issue of drug violence head on.",
"There is plenty of reason for optimism.",
"Frankly, one reason the doomsday talk about Mexico catches on is because it distracts Americans from our own problems.",
"I learned a long time ago that, for many of my countrymen, Mexico serves a purpose in tough times by providing something to which we can feel superior.",
"Even with the banking bailouts, mortgage crisis, a plummeting stock market and rising unemployment, the thinking goes, we can at least be grateful that we're not Mexico.",
"For Mexican-Americans like me, that's cold comfort.",
"I expect a lot more of my country -- the United States -- than I do the country that my grandfather left behind a hundred years ago when he legally immigrated north.",
"And right now, what I expect is for all Americans to realize -- and for the Obama administration to never forget -- that it's impossible to feel safe when there is a wildfire in the neighborhood.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ruben Navarrette."
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"Navarrette: Mexico's president is smart and brave and knows he can't surrender .",
"The country has a big population, free press and bold leaders, he says ."
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"(CNN) -- An e-mail from one of the crewmen aboard the Maersk Alabama tells a gripping tale of sailors fighting back against pirates who had taken over their ship.",
"Crewman Matt Fisher hopes other ships can learn lessons from the Maersk Alabama takeover and recapture.",
"It also contains some of the lessons they learned and hope to pass on to others who could face the same danger.",
"Crewman Matt Fisher sent the e-mail to a fellow sailor aboard another Maersk ship.",
"The U.S.-flagged Alabama was already heading to Kenya when he sent it, but it was before the U.S. Navy rescued the cargo ship's captain, who was held hostage on a lifeboat by the four pirates.",
"\"The pirates got up to the bridge very quickly once they were onboard,\" Fisher wrote.",
"\"We had a locked cage door over the ladder well from main deck, but it only took a second for them to shoot it off.",
"They then got to the bridge up the outside ladders.\"",
"Fisher said that Capt.",
"Richard Phillips and three other sailors were on the bridge when the pirates arrived, adding that he didn't know why they stayed.",
"The rest of the crew, Fisher said, headed below and took positions in the engine and steering areas.",
"One sailor kept watch in the engine control room, he said, while another \"was out on deck tracking the pirates' movement.\"",
"\"We kept swinging the rudder side to side,\" Fisher wrote.",
"\"The pirates' boat capsized, though I'm not sure exactly when or what caused it.",
"After about 20 minutes, the engine was killed, I don't know by whom.\"",
"After the engine was killed, the sailors shut off the power to the ship as well as the fuel line to the ship's emergency diesel generator.",
"\"I think this was critical,\" Fisher wrote.",
"\"The pirates were very reluctant to go into the dark.\"",
"Fisher said the sailors were safe where they were, since the pirates had no grenades and would never have been able break through with only firearms.",
"The only problem, he said, was the heat and a shortage of water.",
"\"In the future, we will store food and water in various spots for emergency usage,\" he said.",
"\"I think we will also run a fresh water line into the steering gear.\"",
"Fisher said the sailors were able to sneak up to the engine room water fountain and filled some bottles, and the sailor who'd been on deck tracking the pirates dropped fruit and sodas from the ship's galley through a standpipe to the hidden sailors.",
"At one point, Fisher wrote, the pirates sent one of the four sailors who had remained on the bridge to hunt for the other crew members -- unescorted.",
"He escaped and joined his comrades.",
"Later, one of the pirates escorted another sailor into the engine room, again searching for the missing crew members, but one of the sailors \"was able to jump him in the dark and we took him prisoner.\"",
"\"No one else came down into the E/R (engine room),\" he said.",
"\"As the day went on, the pirates became desperate to get out of there.\"",
"Phillips finally talked the pirates into taking a small boat used for rescuing a sailor who falls overboard.",
"The three remaining pirates and the captain went down into the boat, and the sailors, now in control of their ship again, dropped food, water and fuel to them.",
"But the small boat wouldn't start.",
"The sailors on board the ship dropped the lifeboat into the water and took it -- and their prisoner -- to the stranded boat with the pirates and the captain, intending to trade boats and prisoners.",
"\"We were supposed to exchange their guy for the Captain, but they ended up keeping him,\" Fisher wrote.",
"\"They motored off in the lifeboat.",
"They had no way of getting back aboard, so we followed them.\"",
"A few hours later, the USS Bainbridge arrived on the scene.",
"Watch crew arrive in the United States » .",
"\"We stayed close by for some time, but then the Navy asked us to head out,\" Fisher said.",
"\"I heard that several other pirate vessels were heading our way and the Navy wanted us out of the way.",
"That's about it.\" Eventually, Navy SEALs shot and killed three of the pirates aboard the lifeboat.",
"Phillips was freed, and the remaining pirate was taken prisoner.",
"But the Maersk Alabama, with U.S. Navy protection aboard, was nearing Mombasa, Kenya, by that time.",
"At the end of his e-mail, Fisher went over the what the Alabama's crew had learned.",
"\"Have a well-fortified location with food and water supply.",
"Kill all the lights.",
"Leave the alarms going, the noise helped cover our movements through the house.",
"Flashlights and radios are very handy, as well as the sound-powered phone.\"",
"\"It was a pretty stressful situation,\" Fisher wrote.",
"\"I have to say I am impressed with how the entire crew responded.",
"We didn't have anybody who wanted to give up.\"",
"Fisher also said he was \"pretty confident\" that his captain would come out of the ordeal \"OK.\" Watch Capt.",
"Phillips arrive in Kenya » .",
"\"They have to know that if they kill him they'll be done,\" he said."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Interrogation tactics such as waterboarding, sleep deprivation and slapping did not violate laws against torture when there was no intent to cause severe pain, according to a Bush-era memo on the tactics released Thursday.",
"Attorney General Eric Holder says government workers who followed protocol won't be prosecuted.",
"\"To violate the statute, an individual must have the specific intent to inflict severe pain or suffering,\" said an August 2002 memo from then-Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee to John Rizzo, who was acting general counsel for the CIA.",
"\"Because specific intent is an element of the offense, the absence of specific intent negates the charge of torture.",
"... We have further found that if a defendant acts with the good faith belief that his actions will not cause such suffering, he has not acted with specific intent,\" Bybee wrote.",
"The Bybee opinion was sought on 10 interrogation tactics in the case of suspected al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah.",
"The memo authorized keeping Zubaydah in a dark, confined space small enough to restrict the individual's movement for no more than two hours at a time.",
"In addition, putting a harmless insect into the box with Zubaydah, who \"appears to have a fear of insects,\" and telling him it is a stinging insect would be allowed, as long as Zubaydah was informed the insect's sting would not be fatal or cause severe pain.",
"\"If, however, you were to place the insect in the box without informing him that you are doing so ... you should not affirmatively lead him to believe that any insect is present which has a sting that could produce severe pain or suffering or even cause his death,\" the memo said.",
"Other memos allowed the use of such tactics as keeping a detainee naked and in some cases in a diaper, and putting detainees on a liquid diet.",
"On waterboarding, in which a person gets the sensation of drowning, the memo said, \"although the waterboard constitutes a threat of imminent death, prolonged mental harm must nonetheless result\" to violate the law.",
"Authorities also were allowed to slap a detainee's face \"to induce shock, surprise or humiliation\" and strike his abdomen with the back of the hand in order to disabuse a detainee's notion that he will not be touched, the memos said.",
"Bybee noted in the memo that the CIA agreed all tactics should be used under expert supervision.",
"Other memos said waterboarding can be used only if the CIA has \"credible intelligence that a terrorist attack is imminent\" and if a detainee is believed to have information that could prevent, disrupt or delay an attack, and other methods fail to elicit the information.",
"Another memo to Rizzo, from Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Steven G. Bradbury on May 10, 2005, noted that nudity could be used as an interrogation technique.",
"\"Detainees subject to sleep deprivation who are also subject to nudity as a separate interrogation technique will at times be nude and wearing a diaper,\" it said, noting that the diaper is \"for sanitary and health purposes of the detainee; it is not used for the purpose of humiliating the detainee and it is not considered to be an interrogation technique.\"",
"\"The detainee's skin condition is monitored, and diapers are changed as needed so that the detainee does not remain in a soiled diaper,\" the memo said.",
"Another Bradbury memo laid out techniques and when they should be used in a \"prototypical interrogation.\"",
"\"Several of the techniques used by the CIA may involve a degree of physical pain, as we have previously noted, including facial and abdominal slaps, walling, stress positions and water dousing,\" it said.",
"\"Nevertheless, none of these techniques would cause anything approaching severe physical pain.\"",
"All of the CIA techniques were adapted from military \"survival evasion resistance escape\" training, according to a May 30, 2005, memo from Bradbury to Rizzo.",
"\"Although there are obvious differences between training exercises and actual interrogations, the fact that the United States uses similar techniques on its own troops for training purposes strongly suggests that these techniques are not categorically beyond the pale,\" the memo said.",
"The memo said waterboarding and other techniques were used on Zubaydah; Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, believed to be the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and identified as \"KSM\" in the memo; and another suspected al Qaeda leader, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.",
"\"The CIA believes that it would have been unable to obtain critical information from numerous detainees, including KSM and Abu Zubaydah, without these enhanced techniques,\" the memo said.",
"\"These legal legal memoranda demonstrate in alarming detail exactly what the Bush administration authorized for 'high value detainees' in U.S. custody,\" said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a statement.",
"\"The techniques are chilling.",
"This was not an 'abstract legal theory,' as some former Bush administration officials have characterized it.",
"These were specific techniques authorized to be used on real people.\"",
"In releasing the memos in response to a public records request from the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups, the Obama administration informed CIA officials they will not be prosecuted for past waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics.",
"Attorney General Eric Holder promised in a separate statement that officials who used the controversial interrogation tactics were in the clear if their actions were consistent with the legal advice from the Justice Department under which they were operating at the time.",
"\"My judgment on the content of these memos is a matter of record,\" President Obama said in a statement released from the White House.",
"Obama prohibited the use of \"enhanced interrogation techniques\" such as waterboarding shortly after taking office in January.",
"Such techniques \"undermine our moral authority and do not make us safer,\" he said Thursday.",
"The president said that while United States must sometimes \"protect information that is classified for purposes of national security,\" he decided to release the memos because he believes \"strongly in transparency and accountability\" and \"exceptional circumstances surround these memos and require their release.\"",
"Obama argued that \"withholding these memos would only serve to deny facts that have been in the public domain for some time.\"",
"\"This could contribute to an inaccurate accounting of the past, and fuel erroneous and inflammatory assumptions about actions taken by the United States,\" he said.",
"He added that the officials involved in the questionable interrogations would not be subject to prosecution because the intelligence community must be provided \"with the confidence\" it needs to do its job.",
"The president pledged to work to ensure the actions described in the memos \"never take place again.\"",
"CNN's Kate Bolduan and Terry Frieden contributed to this report."
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"CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met Thursday in Cairo amid escalating cross-border violence between Israel and Hamas.",
"Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni meets Thursday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo.",
"The session follows the end of a tenuous 6-month-long cease-fire between the Israeli military and Hamas militants in Gaza.",
"Egypt mediated the first truce and is trying to negotiate an extension despite what Israel says are dozens of rockets fired by Hamas into the Jewish state this week.",
"Livni criticized Hamas after her meeting with Mubarak.",
"\"Hamas needs to understand that Israel's basic desire to live in a tranquil region doesn't mean that Israel is willing to accept ongoing shooting at its population,\" she said, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.",
"\"Enough is enough.",
"We cannot accept this situation, and the situation will change.\"",
"Egypt expressed concern about a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, an Israeli Foreign Ministry statement said.",
"The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said this week that it would help countries and organizations deliver aid through Egyptian territory to Palestinians in Gaza.",
"Livni also met with the head of Egyptian intelligence Thursday and is scheduled to talk with the Egyptian foreign minister.",
"Israeli military officials said Hamas militants fired more than 65 rockets into southern Israel on Wednesday.",
"Meanwhile, the Israeli air force said it killed a Hamas militant who was part of a group launching the rockets into Israel.",
"An Israeli police spokesman said no one had been injured in the latest barrage of rocket attacks.",
"But emergency workers with Magen David Adom, Israel's Red Cross agency, treated 57 people suffering from shock, half of them children, an agency official said, adding that 200 ambulances were standing by in the area.",
"\"I think the circumstances are extremely tragic, that Muslim zealots of Hamas have decided to shatter and ruin the Christmas celebrations of the Christian brothers in the Holy Land, both in the West Bank and of course in Gaza itself,\" Israeli Welfare Minister Isaac Herzog said.",
"\"If things deteriorate further, then of course we'll have to take necessary action, which will be very painful,\" Herzog said, adding that civilians had gathered in shelters in southern Israel to try to stay safe amid the rocket attacks.",
"Asked about the possibility of Israel coming up with a new strategy, Herzog responded, \"The new strategy could be, of course, an all-out conflict against Hamas, which is a possibility that voices in Israel are calling for.",
"We are trying to show restraint.\"",
"Hamas is a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization whose military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, has admitted responsibility for terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians as well as attacks against the Israeli military.",
"Israel and the U.S. State Department consider Hamas a terrorist organization, though it also operates an extensive social services network in the territories.",
"Mark Regev, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said, \"Our position is clear: We will answer quiet with quiet, and we will answer attacks with measures designed to protect our people.\"",
"Olmert has threatened to respond to the ongoing attacks.",
"The truce between the Hamas government in Gaza and Israel expired Friday.",
"Under the Egyptian-brokered deal, Hamas agreed to end militant attacks on Israel from Gaza, and Israel agreed to halt raids inside the territory and ease its blockade on humanitarian goods.",
"In reality, the truce had started breaking down two months ago.",
"Rocket attacks by militants became more frequent, and Israel resumed airstrikes inside Gaza.",
"\"We really appreciate the Egyptian efforts.",
"...,\" Herzog said.",
"\"The Egyptians have tried endlessly and tirelessly in the past few weeks to bring Hamas back to cease-fire mode.\"",
"Olmert said Sunday that Israel will \"take the necessary measures\" to respond to the rocket attacks and \"will know when to respond correctly and with the necessary responsibility.\"",
"\"A responsible government is neither eager for battle, nor does it shy away from it,\" he said."
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"Meeting follows end of cease-fire between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza .",
"Israel: Hamas militants fired 65-plus rockets into southern Israel on Wednesday .",
"Israeli prime minister has threatened to respond to ongoing attacks ."
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"(CNN) -- The French Navy captured 11 suspected pirates off the coast of Kenya Wednesday, the French Ministry of Defense announced.",
"The French frigate Nivose, pictured last year patrolling the Gulf of Aden.",
"The Navy tracked the pirates overnight after they attacked a ship called the Safmarine Asia.",
"The French launched a helicopter from the frigate Nivose to head off the attack Tuesday night, then seized the suspected pirates Wednesday morning, the statement said.",
"Both the European Union and the United States have been patrolling the region since an upsurge in piracy off the coast of Somalia last year.",
"U.S. snipers killed three pirates holding a U.S. ship captain hostage Sunday.",
"The captain, Richard Phillips, was held in a lifeboat for days after his ship, the Maersk Alabama, was seized last week .",
"But pirates in Somalia vowed revenge, saying that an attack on another ship, the Liberty Sun, was a response to the killing of Phillips' captors.",
"\"It was a revenge,\" Hassan Mohamud told a Somali journalist.",
"\"The U.S. ship escaped by a matter of chance.\""
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"Helicopter launched from frigate Tuesday night; 11 captured Wednesday ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- George Harrison's closest friends and family gathered in Hollywood on Tuesday to dedicate the late Beatle's star on the Walk of Fame.",
"From left, musicians Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Paul McCartney join Harrison's relatives for dedication of his star.",
"\"There's someone here from every important stage of George's life and career,\" Harrison's widow, Olivia, said.",
"Harrison, who was 58 when he died of cancer in 2001, becomes the second Beatle with a Hollywood star.",
"John Lennon was the first.",
"The new star is next to the iconic Hollywood headquarters of Capitol Records, the distributor of much of Harrison's music for the past five decades.",
"Tuesday's ceremony coincided with the Capitol/EMI announcement that it will release Harrison's first solo greatest hits collection -- \"Let it Roll: Songs by George Harrison\" -- on June 16.",
"Actor Tom Hanks said the world changed for him in January 1964 when he heard his first Beatles song.",
"\"That's when we escaped the doldrums and moved on to a brighter, better, more joyful future,\" Hanks said.",
"Superstar musicians Paul McCartney, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh and Jeff Lynne attended the star's dedication, but they did not address the crowd.",
"Scores of Harrison fans showed up for the event, with some traveling from as far as Liverpool, England.",
"\"We all have deep feelings for George, because he was such a deep-feeling person,\" Olivia Harrison said.",
"\"He was a beautiful, mystical man, living in a material world,\" she said.",
"\"He was funny as the day is long and just as perplexing.\"",
"His son, Dhani, 30, joked about his father's star.",
"\"It's good, it's lovely and it's nice and shiny and I'm glad it's not outside of Frederick's of Hollywood,\" he said.",
"Harrison was just 15 when schoolmate Paul McCartney asked him to join his and John Lennon's band, the Quarrymen.",
"The band evolved into the Beatles and the rest is history.",
"Harrison played lead guitar and sang for the Beatles.",
"Songs penned by Harrison included \"Taxman,\" \"While My Guitar Gently Weeps,\" \"Something\" and \"Here Comes the Sun.\"",
"Harrison was a pioneer of what has since become a tradition of rock stars supporting charitable causes with their music.",
"In 1971, he helped organize the star-studded \"Concert for Bangladesh\" at New York's Madison Square Garden.",
"In addition to his post-Beatles solo career, Harrison played with several groups -- most notably the Traveling Wilburys, alongside Petty, Lynne, Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan.",
"CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report."
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"Harrison, who died of cancer in 2001, is second Beatle with star after John Lennon .",
"Some fans travel from as far as Liverpool, England for dedication of Harrison's star .",
"Harrison penned many Beatles songs before launching successful solo career ."
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"(CNN) -- NASA scientists say new data provided by twin spacecraft analyzing the sun will help them more accurately predict how so-called solar tsunamis wreak havoc on our planet.",
"NASA says new data on so-called solar tsunamis will help predict how they will affect our planet.",
"The tsunamis -- powerful explosions known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs -- produce solar cosmic rays that can interfere with technology, causing power blackouts and disrupting air traffic communications and cell phone networks.",
"NASA says images captured by its twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO, spacecraft have enabled scientists to map the tsunamis in 3D to examine their structure, velocity, mass and direction.",
"The solar ejections, its says, can release billions of tons of high-velocity plasma into space, producing a shockwave that generates cosmic rays which then plow into our atmosphere.",
"These can create the brightly-colored auroras, more commonly known as the Northern or Southern lights, but also have more damaging effects, posing particular threats to spacecraft and astronauts.",
"Solar physicist Angelos Vourlidas of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington said the new data from the STEREO craft -- launched into orbit in October 2006 -- will revolutionize the study of cosmic weather patterns.",
"\"Before this unique mission, measurements and the subsequent data of a CME observed near the sun had to wait until the ejections arrived at Earth three to seven days later,\" he said in statement.",
"\"Now we can see a CME from the time it leaves the solar surface until it reaches Earth and we can reconstruct the event in 3D directly from the images.\""
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"New data could help predict what effects the phenomena will have, NASA says ."
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Roy Bennett, the former Zimbabwean opposition activist who was arrested Friday shortly before he was due to become a Cabinet minister, has been charged with conspiracy to commit banditry, sabotage and terrorism, his lawyer told CNN.",
"Roy Bennett, left, pictured with MDC leader Morgan Tzvangirai, is also the party's treasurer.",
"The Movement for Democratic Change nominated Bennett to be deputy minister of agriculture in a national unity government with President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, which has ruled the country since independence in 1980.",
"Bennett was arrested on Friday while on his way to South Africa, where he has been living for three years.",
"Bennett, who is also the party's treasurer, was pulled from an aircraft at the airport in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, the MDC said.",
"Police accuse him of funding the acquisition of weapons to commit the crimes he is charged with.",
"Bennett will appear in the Mutare magistrate's court on Monday, his lawyer Trust Maanda told CNN.",
"Bennett, a white coffee grower, is an old foe of Mugabe's government.",
"His farms were seized during the country's controversial land reform program.",
"He has previously being jailed for assaulting Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa in parliament.",
"Hundreds of party members and supporters Friday surrounded the Mutare police station where Bennett was being held, the party said.",
"The incident happened the same day that other MDC ministers in the new unity government took their oaths of office.",
"The swearing-in eventually took place but was delayed, the MDC said, because Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party wanted to appoint more ministers than they were allowed in the new government.",
"Under the power-sharing deal signed in September, the ruling ZANU-PF party gets 17 cabinet posts and the MDC gets 13.",
"Mugabe brought a \"bloated\" list of 22 Cabinet ministers to the swearing-in ceremony, but the MDC leadership insisted Mugabe stick to the 17 agreed Cabinet posts.",
"The stalemate lasted for more than an hour, until Mugabe's party agreed that only 17 of their proposed ministers take office.",
"CNN's Nkepile Mabuse contributed to this report."
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"MDC supporters rallied at police station where Bennett was held ."
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"(CNN) -- Yes, she is 28.",
"Yes, she is a Sunday school teacher, and yes, her name is Melissa Huckaby.",
"Melissa Huckaby of Manteca, California, is also a 28-year-old Sunday school teacher.",
"But the woman from Manteca, California, said she wants people to know that she is not that Melissa Huckaby.",
"This Melissa Huckaby lives about 14 miles from Tracy, California, where the other one was arrested and accused of raping and killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu.",
"That hasn't stopped national talk shows from calling her and people from threatening her, forcing her friends to bring guns to church in an effort to protect her.",
"Her MySpace page has been mistaken so many times for the one of the murder suspect that she has had to shut it down, Huckaby said.",
"\"They hear the name, and a lot of people think it's me,\" Huckaby told CNN affiliate KOVR-TV.",
"\"I was getting hate mail.\"",
"Even Melissa Huckaby of Manteca has noticed the similarities with her namesake in nearby Tracy.",
"Watch how the Manteca woman deals with the confusion » .",
"Not only are they the same age and both teach Sunday school, the two women resemble each other slightly.",
"Melissa Huckaby of Tracy is accused of killing an 8-year-old playmate of her 5-year-old daughter.",
"Melissa Huckaby of Manteca has two daughters -- 8 and 5.",
"But that's where the similarities end, the Manteca woman said, noting that she's never even received a speeding ticket."
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"Melissa Huckaby shares name and age of suspect in 8-year-old girl's slaying .",
"Woman receives hate mail, threats; she takes MySpace page down .",
"Manteca, California, woman says she's never even gotten a speeding ticket ."
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"(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 too 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 or 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.\""
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- It was inevitable that a tragedy on the scale of Hillsborough, when 96 Liverpool fans were crushed to death during an FA Cup semifinal with Nottingham Forest, would have a transformative effect on English football.",
"A Liverpool supporter Wednesday, outside Anfield.",
"Ninety-six fans died from the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.",
"But there was little reason to believe 20 years ago that, rather than being pushed even further towards the margins of society, the sport was on the brink of a revolution that would give birth to a global sporting phenomenon.",
"Even before Hillsborough, it had seemed as if there was something irredeemably rotten at the heart of English football.",
"Hooliganism, a scourge synonymous with the English game, had receded from its peak in the 1970s but English clubs were outlawed from European competition after rampaging Liverpool fans caused a wall to collapse at Brussels' Heysel Stadium before the 1985 European Cup final, causing the deaths of 39 people, mostly supporters of the Italian side Juventus.",
"British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, showing little understanding or patience for the traditions of the sport, had virtually ghettoized fans, promoting a scheme to have each supporter issued with an identity card.",
"On the field, sides such as Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur and Nottingham Forest were renowned for their attractive play but elsewhere a corrosive cult of long ball football pervaded the game.",
"That trend seemed to find vindication when arch-exponents Wimbledon, who in the course of a decade had bullied and scrapped their way through four divisions to reach the top flight, defeated Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final, prompting match commentator John Motson to declare that \"the Crazy Gang have beaten the Culture Club.\"",
"With its clubs banned from Europe, many top British players opted to leave England altogether -- Gary Lineker and Mark Hughes to Barcelona, Glenn Hoddle to Monaco, Chris Waddle to Marseille -- adding further to the sense of terminal malaise.",
"Hillsborough had not been caused by hooliganism but the tragedy was a product of the environment that hooliganism had created; stadiums resembling decrepit fortresses, the fans caged inside steel bars and heavy-handed policing which treated all supporters equally -- as potential troublemakers.",
"Coupled with Heysel and a fire at Bradford in 1985 in which 56 fans died, it also served to reinforce the belief that going to a football match was something which could put your life in danger.",
"In \"The Last Game: Love, Death and Football,\" a book examining the lasting impact of the events of 1989 on the sport, author Jason Cowley describes Hillsborough as English football's \"psychological moment, the point of no return.\"",
"\"The culture of the game had to change definitely if football was ever to be perceived as anything more than the preserve of the white, working class male, a theatre of hate and of violence, often racist and misogynistic excesses, if it was to survive at all,\" says Cowley.",
"English football not only survived but within a few years had reinvented itself, in the elite \"Premier League\" division of the country's top clubs at least, as an internationally recognized super brand capable of attracting the world's best players and broadcast around the planet.",
"The engine for this transformation, in the wake of Hillsborough, was the Taylor Report, an inquiry into the causes of the disaster which called for the steel fences inside grounds to be dismantled and for the phasing out of the traditional terraces of standing fans with all-seater stadiums.",
"Initially clubs received government funding to help them meet the costs but the sport was about to receive an injection of cash that would radically change its financial prospects.",
"Despite its poor reputation, there remained a huge appetite for televised football -- ironically, itself a by-product of the fact that many supporters were no longer going to matches.",
"Realizing this, the country's top clubs broke away from the game's traditional power structure, setting up the Premier League and selling TV rights for £191 million ($286 million) to media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's newly established satellite television venture, BSkyB.",
"The money was a shot in the arm for football, while Sky's coverage regenerated interest in the sport by repackaging it as something shiny, exotic and exciting.",
"On a Europe-wide scale, the replacement of the old knockout format European Cup with the Champions League achieved something similar, creating a clique of continential superpowers.",
"The television rights boom also convinced many in the sport that football could actually be profitable.",
"Some clubs raised more cash by floating on stock markets and others, such as Bolton, Middlesbrough and Sunderland, invested in shiny flying saucer-like new stadiums.",
"But the success of the Premier League also owed something to events on the pitch.",
"If Hillsborough marked a nadir for English football, the 1990 World Cup in Italy -- and Paul Gascoigne's tears during the national side's epic semifinal defeat by West Germany -- offered a moment of catharsis that rekindled many casual fan's residual love for the game.",
"Subtle changes to the rules implemented worldwide by FIFA, including banning back passes to goalkeepers, automatic sendings off for professional fouls and changing the offside rule to give the benefit of the doubt to forward players, gradually made the game a more attractive spectacle.",
"Meanwhile, the emergence of Alex Ferguson's young and exciting Manchester United team as the Premier League's dominant force, perfectly captured the spirit of the new age yet grounded the game in the traditions of the past.",
"Finally, the 1995 Bosman Ruling, which granted players across Europe freedom of movement when out of contract, and the end of restrictions on the number of foreign players teams could field, created an international transfer market which lifted the horizons of the English game and brought genuine world class stars including Eric Cantona and Dennis Bergkamp, and eventually Cristiano Ronaldo and Fernando Torres, to the Premier League.",
"Still, for many football fans, the glamour and wealth of the Premier League, with its homogenized stadiums and corporate entertainment suites -- in which clubs are bought and sold by global plutocrats from Siberia to Texas via Thailand and Abu Dhabi -- represents a betrayal of the sport's traditional values.",
"\"There's still a powerful nostalgia among fans of my generation for a lost, less aggressively commercial era of football, when the game seemed less cynically concerned with exploiting the loyalty of those who pay to watch and with selling itself to a global audience,\" says Cowley.",
"Yet in a week when four Premier League sides featured in the quarterfinals of the Champions League and public appetite for the game appears insatiable, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that English football is in a better state than anyone who witnessed the horror at Hillsborough 20 years ago could ever have dared believe.",
"More importantly, it is virtually inconceivable to imagine the circumstances in which 96 fans died ever being repeated in an English stadium."
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"Disaster created impetus for all-seater grounds, improvements in infrastructure .",
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"JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- South Africa has refused the Dalai Lama a visa to attend an international peace conference in Johannesburg this week, a presidential spokesman said.",
"The Dalai Lama fled China in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.",
"The Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Laureate did not receive a visa because it was not in South Africa's interest for him to attend, said Thabo Masebe.",
"South Africa thinks that, if the Dalai Lama attended the conference, the focus would shift away from the 2010 World Cup -- the global soccer championship it will host next year.",
"\"We cannot allow focus to shift to China and Tibet,\" Masebe said, adding that South Africa has gained much from its trading relationship with China.",
"The Dalai Lama's fellow laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, said he would boycott the event.",
"Watch the controversy surrounding South Africa's decision » .",
"Former president F.W.",
"De Klerk, another laureate, backed Tutu, saying in a statement that he would also not participate in the conference if the Dalai Lama remained excluded.",
"De Klerk said that the decision to refuse the visa made a \"mockery\" of the peace conference.",
"\"The decision to exclude the Dalai Lama is irreconcilable with key principles on which our society is based including the principles of accountability, openness and responsiveness and the rights to freedom of expression and free political activity,\" he said.",
"\"South Africa is a sovereign constitutional democracy and should not allow other countries to dictate to it regarding who it should, and should not admit to its territory - regardless of the power and influence of the country.\"",
"A representative of the Dalai Lama said he was not surprised by the decision.",
"The Tibetan government in exile thinks that China has pressured many countries to refuse a visit by the Dalai Lama, according to Chhime Chhoekyapa, an aide in Dharamsala, India.",
"The peace conference was billed as an opportunity to showcase South Africa's role as a human-rights champion ahead of its hosting of soccer's World Cup next year.",
"It was to bring together Noble Laureates and top soccer officials.",
"In addition to Tutu and De Klerk, laureates Nelson Mandela and Martti Ahtisaari, Sepp Blatter, president of soccer's international governing body, and actress Charlize Theron were invited to attend.",
"The event had the blessing of the Nobel Committee."
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"Fellow laureate Desmond Tutu said he would boycott the conference ."
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"(CNN) -- More than 2,100 registered North Carolina sex offenders were found on the social networking site MySpace, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday.",
"North Carolina bans sex offenders within the state from social networking sites where children are members.",
"In response to a subpoena from state Attorney General Roy Cooper, \"MySpace turned over the names, IP and e-mail addresses of 2,116 convicted North Carolina sex offenders found on its social networking Web site,\" Cooper's office said in a written statement.",
"Cooper has requested similar information from Facebook, another popular social networking site, the statement said.",
"MySpace has told North Carolina authorities that the sex offenders it identified have been removed from the site.",
"North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation is sharing the sex offenders' information with all 100 sheriffs in the state, Cooper's office said.",
"\"It's no secret that child predators are on these Web sites,\" Cooper said in the statement.",
"\"Turning over information about these predators to law enforcement helps, but MySpace, Facebook and other social networks need to do much more to protect kids online.\"",
"North Carolina passed a law last year banning sex offenders within the state from social networking sites where children are members, making it a felony offense.",
"Sex offenders on social networking sites is not a new issue.",
"Last month, Newsweek magazine reported that Facebook said it had removed 5,585 convicted sex offenders from its site between May 2008 and January 2009.",
"MySpace also announced it had removed 90,000 sex offenders in a two-year period, the magazine said.",
"Last June, the Texas attorney general's office said it had arrested seven convicted sex offenders who violated their parole conditions by creating MySpace profiles, according to an article on the TechNewsWorld Web site.",
"Cooper and Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut's attorney general, for more than three years have led a group of attorneys general in working to make social networking safer, Cooper's office said.",
"The group is pushing social networks to use technology such as age and identity verification to better protect users who may be children.",
"After discussions with the group, MySpace became the first social networking site to develop technology aimed at finding and removing sex offenders, the North Carolina statement said.",
"Cooper is pushing Facebook to take similar steps.",
"But, Cooper's office said, \"the information provided by MySpace does not include sex offenders who have not been convicted, are not registered or may be using aliases on the site.",
"Cooper remains concerned about other sex offenders on the site who may be lying about who they are, and is continuing to ask MySpace to do more to protect children on the site.\""
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"MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- They could probably smell him coming for miles.",
"Circus performers Andrea and Daniel Raffo with their son, Davian.",
"\"Breakfast, boys,\" Daniel Raffo proclaimed as his cats jumped with excitement in their cages.",
"Raffo set down his wheelbarrow, filled with Grade A beef.",
"Using a pitchfork, he fed his Bengal tigers.",
"It's the morning ritual at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.",
"Raffo is the show's tiger trainer.",
"He's a fifth-generation circus performer from Argentina.",
"On this morning, the show awakes in Miami, Florida.",
"\"You get up in the morning; you wash the animal, clean it up; you feed them, then you play with them a bit,\" Raffo said.",
"\"And then during the day, you spend some time with your family.\"",
"He lives in a trailer with his family so he can stay close to the tigers.",
"He, wife Andrea and son Davian are all on a two-year tour with Ringling Bros.",
"But why would anyone live on the road like this, with a 4-year-old?",
"Andrea is also part of the circus, performing an aerial ballet, hanging by her hair high above the crowds, just like her mother and grandmother, who taught her the act.",
"\"I can finish my act and then go up and see my son, so it's good, 'cause we're always together,\" Andrea Ayala Raffo said.",
"The Raffos keep a home in Florida but are rarely there.",
"\"Home is actually my trailer, when we travel, and have dinner every night and watch TV.",
"That's really my home,\" Andrea Raffo said.",
"And these lives on wheels come with real family needs.",
"Just outside Section 405 at Miami's American Airlines arena, across from the Mexi-go Taqueria and Nacho Time food stands, school is in session.",
"Jonathan Leiss is a licensed teacher with the circus.",
"He uses a nationally recognized home-schooling curriculum.",
"He pitches a one-room schoolhouse in every city where the show pitches its tent, for all of the school-age children of the circus.",
"School is open five days a week.",
"He teaches all the subjects, and every one of his students gets personal attention.",
"\"I would describe it as a rigorous curriculum,\" he said.",
"\"We don't want to allow anything to slip through the cracks because we're traveling.",
"This is a real school.\"",
"Leiss added, \"If I was teaching in a public high school, I could have 120 students.",
"That's a lot less opportunity to really address what each student needs.\"",
"Katherine Stuart is one of the students.",
"The 8-year-old is growing up quickly, surrounded by circus people from 32 countries.",
"One of the performers is teaching her Spanish.",
"She says she likes to wash the elephants, and she loves the travel.",
"\"You can see all these different places and what it looks like, and I also wanted to know what each state looked like, so I get to do it,\" she said.",
"Katherine's dad is Mike Stuart, the general manager.",
"With his wife, Mary, and son Tylar, 3, he hits about 36 cities a year.",
"When CNN arrived at his temporary office at the Miami arena, Katherine was reading with Mike.",
"Tylar was with Mom, playing a \"Blues Clues\" game on the computer.",
"\"This is a 24/7 job, so I make time pretty much every day to sit with my kids, go out with my kids,\" Mike Stuart said.",
"The Stuarts, like most of the 350 circus members, live on a train, with all of a home's amenities.",
"But finding a park or a playground is a must for them.",
"\"I have a house in Massachusetts.",
"I probably see it once a year, maybe for a week or two,\" Stuart said.",
"\"But, more or less, we travel on the train.",
"It's year-round, basically. ...",
"So really, home is wherever the circus takes me.\"",
"One disadvantage is that the kids do not have a lot of friends to play with.",
"But the family is always together.",
"\"I think there's a lot of people who travel for their jobs, that are not fortunate enough to travel with family, where this job allows us to be able to do that,\" Mary Stuart said.",
"The Stuarts believe that their lives and the lives of their children have been enhanced by the real-world learning experiences.",
"\"Instead of just reading it in books, they're going to see these things, and to me, that's more fulfilling,\" Mike Stuart explained.",
"Citing privacy reasons, the circus did not allow CNN to see the train.",
"With any traveling family, there will inevitably be spiritual needs.",
"Sister Dorothy Fabritze is a full-time circus worker and Catholic nun who holds religion classes, working across cultures, sharing the circus lifestyle.",
"\"I saw that these people needed to find that they too were a parish, that they too were a community,\" she explained.",
"\"We can support and walk with each other in this journey that we call life.\"",
"Fabritze arranges for clergy to visit the circus weekly.",
"She's a former missionary who spent 16 years in Papua New Guinea.",
"Here, she says, she hopes to be a biblical presence amid the glitzy backdrop and colorful characters, from acrobats to clowns to animal trainers.",
"\"Some come asking for Bible study.",
"We'll do that. Some come forward and say, 'My child needs the sacrament, with confession and communion.",
"Can you help me?' Of course I can,\" she explained.",
"For about two years, Fabritze also worked backstage, opening and closing the curtain between acts, for 800 shows in two years.",
"She remembers those times as \"God moments.\"",
"\"They knew that I'd be there, and they would just come over and in the darkened area just talk to me about whatever they wanted to talk, and wonderful things happened.",
"Wonderful spiritual things happened, just because I was there,\" she said.",
"And although things may sometimes seem, quite literally, a bit upside down here, it's just life under the big top at the greatest show on Earth."
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"(CNN) -- The operation on Ronaldo's injured left knee \"went well\" but the Brazilian striker faces a lengthy rehabilitation as he bids to save his football career.",
"Ronaldo leaves the field in agony after suffering his latest injury blow against Livorno.",
"Ronaldo had surgery in Paris on Thursday, the two-hour operation perfomed by Dr. Eric Rolland with Dr. Gerard Saillant, who carried out a similar repair to his right knee in 2000, in attendance.",
"\"The operation went well,\" said Saillant.",
"\"The intervention was of the same type as the one in 2000.",
"The healing period should last nine months,\" he said in sports paper L'Equipe.",
"Ronaldo was injured playing for AC Milan in a 1-1 draw with Liverno on Wednesday night and teammate Clarence Seedorf gave CNN a graphic description of the incident.",
"\"It was like a film I already saw,\" said the Dutch star who was on the pitch when Ronaldo suffered his previous serious injury.",
"\"I saw his reaction, I was frozen by the reality, a bad, bad thing.",
"My heart went out to him because it was his second injury.",
"I hope he has the will to come back,\" added Seedorf.",
"Ater the two-hour operation at Pitie-Salpetriere hospital, the three-time FIFA World Player of the Year is likely to need about 10 days of physical therapy, L'Equipe said.",
"Ronaldo, 31, has battled serious injuries throughout his career, and has played sparingly since joining Milan from Real Madrid in January 2007.",
"Wednesday's match was only his fifth in Serie A this season after injuring his thigh during preseason training on July 31.",
"He returned in November, but has been in and out of the team due to a series of recurring problems.",
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"(Parenting) -- How to weigh whether to have another child -- and what to know about raising an \"only\" Couples feel more pressure to have second child than first, says one expert.",
"My husband and I decided to be a one-child family long before our son Oliver was born.",
"With several years of reproductive-health scares behind me, conceiving a child felt like a Powerball win; I didn't need another chance at the jackpot.",
"Scott thought we could avoid the inevitable slings and arrows of sibling warfare.",
"We both hail from large families, in which continuation of the family name is assured through siblings and cousins.",
"We were content with our decision, and our families took it well, too.",
"A few months after Oliver was born, I bagged up my maternity clothes for a tag sale, and Scott started researching permanent birth-control options.",
"But one afternoon while absentmindedly sorting through blue and green baby clothes, the thought hit me like a punch: \"I'll never sort through pink clothes.\"",
"For years I'd imagined myself the mom of a daughter.",
"After all, it had been a popular refrain throughout my adolescence (\"I'll never tell my daughter what I think about her clothes,\" I'd intone to my mother).",
"And I secretly hoped that my daughter would continue the tradition of attending my all-women alma mater.",
"It wasn't that I was disappointed with a son.",
"To be honest, I was relieved the day we found out we were having a boy because I could work the experience of being the older sister to three younger brothers to the fullest.",
"Hearing the door clang shut on my fantasy daughter, however, made me doubt.",
"When acquaintances asked, \"So, are you having any more?\"",
"my voice quivered when I answered no.",
"A woman in my local mothers' group worried aloud, \"How would you feel if something happened to Oliver and you didn't have any more children?\"",
"Did I really need another child as an insurance policy?",
"One night when the anxiety felt particularly overwhelming, I asked Scott, \"Is it okay if we hold off on that vasectomy for a while?\"",
"\"It's normal to wonder if you're making the right choices and decisions, no matter how many kids you have,\" says Susan Jeffers, Ph.D., author of I'm OK, You're a Brat!",
"Setting the Priorities Straight and Freeing You From the Guilt and Mad Myths of Parenthood.",
"\"Even if you decided to have two or more children, you'd wonder if your life would have been easier with only one child.\"",
"Choosing to have one .",
"Haseena Correia of Valley Stream, New York, mom to Zachary, 2, has long planned to have one child.",
"\"Once I understood how much work it takes to have a career and raise a child at the same time, I pretty much decided one was all I could handle,\" she says.",
"Correia says being a one-child family allows her the right balance.",
"\"It gives me the joy of being a mother, but it's not too overwhelming to the point where I don't have any time for myself or my husband,\" she says.",
"Financial barriers were also a factor in their decision.",
"\"With a mortgage, skyrocketing taxes, and two cars, we have to be a two-income family.",
"Having another child is financially just not an option for us,\" she says.",
"At some point, parents will need to ponder: .",
"• Can we cope emotionally and physically with another child?",
"• How will we juggle another child with our jobs?",
"• Where do we want to be in three years?",
"Five? • How will another child affect our finances?",
"What about our marriage? • If we wait any longer to decide, will our choices be limited by our age?",
"There are social and emotional pressures to consider, too.",
"\"If your friends are having second -- and third -- children, you can feel left out,\" says Susan Newman, Ph.D., author of Parenting an Only Child.",
"\"Or you or your spouse may want more kids, but the other doesn't.\"",
"Sorting out our feelings on most of these things was actually easy for me and Scott.",
"(It was the emotional pull that gave me second thoughts.)",
"We have similar goals for the future, and we realized that with our temperaments, one child would be best for our marriage.",
"We're happy for our friends who are having second and third children, but for us, Oliver completes our family.",
"When you don't have a choice . Sometimes the twists and turns of life narrow your choices or eliminate them completely.",
"Jennifer Lawler of Eudora, Kansas, always thought having four kids sounded perfect.",
"But when her daughter Jessica was born with life-threatening health problems and Lawler's uterine fibroids compromised future pregnancies, she and her husband knew Jessica would be their only child.",
"Lawler says, \"Raising our daughter was going to take a lot of emotional, physical, and financial resources.",
"If I had any more children, I didn't think I could handle it.\"",
"Time made the situation easier.",
"\"It's a process of acceptance,\" says Lawler.",
"\"One thing that was helpful for me was not to focus on the past or the future.",
"I put my energy toward making this the brightest moment.",
"There were times when we thought Jessica wouldn't live, talk, or walk.",
"She's done all those things, so I feel relief and gratitude.\"",
"Answering to everyone .",
"As you work out what's best for your family, you'll face some tough questions all around: .",
"• From yourself: Laura Miller of Ottawa, Kansas, mom to Emma, 6, is undecided about having more children.",
"\"If finances and circumstances ever allow, we might have another child,\" she says.",
"\"But we're happy the way our family is now.\"",
"She admits she still has fears.",
"\"My husband and I both have brothers and sisters --I can't imagine not having them to lean on.",
"But after we're gone, Emma will be alone.\"",
"In my darkest moments, I've been known to worry about the unthinkable: With no other children, what would I do if I lost Oliver?",
"But, of course, parents of onlies don't own the front and center on worry.",
"\"Parents fear for all their children,\" says Newman.",
"\"Families with a number of children are equally devastated and blown apart when a child dies -- the pain is no less just because you have others.\"",
"We need to accept that something so dramatic as death is highly unlikely and try not to live our lives in a state of anxiety.",
"• From others: \"The pressure to have a second child is often greater than for the first,\" says Newman.",
"But the fact is that the friends, family, and even strangers who are exerting pressure aren't the ones who'll be caring for these future children till they reach adulthood.",
"After Lawler's daughter was born, she answered her questioners with \"We're going to take care of Jessica.\"",
"Sometimes intrusive questions and opinions can drive us nuts, which is why it can be helpful to look within before lashing out.",
"\"When you are affected by this pressure, it means you're looking for that person's approval,\" says Jeffers.",
"\"Ask yourself, 'Why am I reacting this way?",
"Am I afraid of criticism from this person?'",
"As soon as you stop needing their approval, you can relax and appreciate the decision you made.\"",
"Once a mom is feeling calmer, she can answer the critics with, say, \"I understand you really want this, but it's not right for me\" or \"Well, thanks for passing on your ideas.\"",
"• From your child -- it happens: Many onlies will ask -- loudly, often -- for a little brother or sister, or wonder aloud why they're stuck being an only child.",
"A straightforward answer is the best bet, says Lise Youngblade, Ph.D., associate director of the Institute for Child Health Policy at the University of Florida in Gainesville.",
"\"The last thing parents want to do is get into a negotiation,\" she says.",
"Instead, respond with something like \"We've decided that our family size is just right.",
"There are lots of different kinds of families, and this is how ours is.\"",
"With an older child, you can point out that many of the advantages he enjoys as an only -- his own specially decorated bedroom, for instance, or the one-on-one time he has with Mom and Dad -- may be things he wouldn't have with a brother or sister.",
"You can also try asking your child what he thinks would be the benefits of having a sibling.",
"It could be as simple as having a bunk bed.",
"If a child's demands don't abate, Jeffers points out that \"children complain, period.\"",
"Parents with two or three kids sometimes hear, \"Mommy, it's time to send the baby back to the hospital.\"",
"In my case, it took me time to say goodbye to my fantasy daughter, but when Oliver was 18 months old, I finally said to Scott, \"Let's do it,\" on the vasectomy.",
"I'm very happy with my son and our decision, and I've looked for other ways to indulge my daughter needs.",
"I volunteered as a Big Sister and counseled a 15-year-old on boyfriends.",
"When I spot cute girly-girl dresses, I buy them for my friend's daughters.",
"And I console myself that when I go through menopause, there won't be two hormonal women under this roof.",
"E-mail to a friend .",
"Try a FREE TRIAL issue of Parenting Magazine - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright 2009 The Parenting Group.",
"All rights reserved.",
"Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- The chairman of India's UB Group, which includes Bangalore-based Kingfisher Airlines and United Breweries, made the winning $1.8 million bid on a number of Mahatma Gandhi's personal items on auction.",
"Mahatma Gandhi was known for his peaceful opposition to tyranny, which led to India's independence.",
"Vijay Mallya was expected to return the items to the Indian government, according to CNN-IBN, CNN's sister station in India.",
"Controversy surrounded the sale Thursday of Gandhi's items -- among them his metal-rimmed glasses, pocket watch, sandals, bowl and plate -- prompting the seller, James Otis, to ask that the items be withdrawn from the auction.",
"India voiced strong objections to the auction.",
"Its Ministry of External Affairs said the bidding would \"commercialize and thereby demean the memory of the Father of the Nation and everything that he stood for in his life, beliefs and actions.\"",
"On Tuesday, a New Delhi court issued an injunction to stop the sale.",
"Watch the auction stoke high interest » .",
"But the Antiquorum auction house in Manhattan went ahead with the auction as scheduled.",
"The Indian government had rejected an offer from Otis, who had asked the Indian government to expand its spending on the poor in exchange for the items.",
"India's government already spends a large amount of money on the country's disadvantaged sectors, India's culture minister Ambika Soni told reporters Thursday.",
"Still, the government had hoped Otis would not allow the public to bid on the items.",
"Soni, the culture minister, said that India's government exercised several options to stop the auction at the Antiquorum in New York.",
"Gandhi, who waged a long struggle against British rule in India, was assassinated in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic on January 30, 1948.",
"He is still widely revered for his insistence on non-violent protest to achieve political and social progress.",
"Many Indians believe selling Gandhi's items for profit is outrageous.",
"\"I feel very sad about it because Gandhi himself never believed in private possessions,\" said Varsha Das, director of India's National Gandhi Museum, using a term of endearment for Gandhi.",
"\"He gave away everything.",
"He did not even have a home to live in.\"",
"CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- The Georgia company whose peanut products have been blamed for a nationwide salmonella outbreak shipped some products even though they had tested positive for the bacteria and no other tests indicated they were safe, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.",
"The FDA confirmed Friday the Peanut Corp.'s Blakely, Georgia, plant shipped tainted product without retesting.",
"Previously, Peanut Corporation of America had said it shipped products only after subsequent tests on them came back negative.",
"Items made with its peanut products have been linked to more than 500 cases of illness, including eight deaths.",
"The agency said the company's management told FDA inspectors last month during an inspection of the plant that they shipped products that first had tested positive for salmonella, but only if they later had tested negative.",
"But, it said, \"FDA determined that certain information provided by PCA management during the inspection was not consistent with the subsequent analysis of the company's records.\"",
"As a result, the agency amended its report Thursday.",
"\"In some situations the firm received a positive salmonella test result, followed by a later negative result, and then shipped the products,\" said the FDA report, which was included in an e-mail to CNN.",
"\"In some other situations, the firm shipped the products [which had already tested positive] before it had received the [second] positive test results.\"",
"Watch Senate hearing on food safety amid peanut recall » .",
"In some cases, it said, \"no additional testing appears to have been done.\"",
"No one from the company returned a call seeking comment.",
"Federal authorities have initiated a criminal investigation into the company."
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"(CNN) -- The Baptist minister who was fatally shot Sunday as he led services at a church in suburban Saint Louis, Missouri, was carrying out work he believed in fervently, a church official said Monday.",
"The Web site for First Baptist Church of Maryville includes a photo of slain Pastor Fred Winters.",
"\"I believe that he would want us to know that he died doing exactly what he believed passionately about,\" Worship and Music Pastor Mark Jones told reporters outside First Baptist Church in Maryville, Illinois, about Pastor Fred Winters, who was killed the day before.",
"Jones expressed gratitude for an overwhelming response from the public that has included more than 1,000 e-mails of support.",
"They will be compiled \"into a huge book of love\" to be given to Winters' widow, he said.",
"Investigators have charged Terry J. Sedlacek, 27, with first-degree murder in the killing.",
"Sedlacek was further charged with two counts of aggravated battery related to the stabbing of parishioners Terry Bullard and Keith Melton.",
"Their wounds were not life-threatening, said Illinois State Police spokesman Ralph Timmins.",
"Sedlacek himself was seriously wounded in the melee, Timmins said Sunday.",
"Asked what led Sedlacek to the church, Jones said, \"We're scratching our heads on that one.\"",
"Watch response of grieving church » .",
"Jones said another church official visited Sedlacek's family on Monday.",
"\"We wanted them to know that we're praying for them, we're praying for the attacker,\" Jones said.",
"Speaking of Sedlacek, Jones added, \"Maybe he, too, needs to go back to the Bible and read the book and ask the question, 'Is this really God's word?",
"Do I need to reconsider some things?'",
"\" Watch aftermath of shooting in church » .",
"Winters and the gunman exchanged words before the gunman fired four shots during Sunday morning services, hitting the minister's Bible and then hitting Winters himself, said Illinois State Police Director Larry Trent.",
"\"The only thing we know is that the suspect said something to the pastor, and the pastor said something back to him -- we don't know what that was,\" Trent told reporters Sunday.",
"\"It was almost as if the pastor may have recognized him, but we're not sure about that at all.\"",
"Trent said the gunman's .45-caliber pistol jammed after he shot Winters.",
"The man then pulled out a knife before being subdued by some of the approximately 150 worshippers attending the church in southern Illinois.",
"\"When he was tackled by two of the members, we don't know whether he fell on the knife, injuring himself at the time, or whether [his injury] was self-inflicted during the struggle,\" Trent said.",
"Watch police describe \"heroic action\" of parishioners » .",
"Trent said police were trying to determine a motive in the shooting, noting that church members did not recognize the gunman.",
"Last August, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch profiled Sedlacek in a story it did about Lyme disease.",
"His mother, Ruth Abernathy, told the newspaper he began acting strangely during his junior year in high school; he seemed confused and stopped participating in activities that had interested him.",
"The newspaper identified him as a resident of the Troy, Illinois, in suburban St. Louis.",
"Abernathy told the paper her son was initially diagnosed with mental illness and then later diagnosed with Lyme disease.",
"Lyme disease diagnosis, effects and treatment has caused disagreement in the medical community.",
"A spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that mental illness associated with Lyme disease is highly unusual, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America said Lyme disease \"is not known to cause violent behavior.\"",
"But a study published in 2002 in the American Journal of Psychiatry and carried out in the Czech Republic found that 36 percent of 900 psychiatric subjects had antibodies to the bacterium linked to Lyme disease, versus 18 percent of 900 healthy control subjects.",
"The Illinois shooting is believed to be the nation's first in a church since July, when a 58-year-old man opened fire in a Knoxville, Tennessee, church during a children's play.",
"Two people were killed and six wounded in the shooting at Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church.",
"Jim Adkisson told police he targeted the church because of its \"liberal teachings,\" according to court papers.",
"Adkisson pleaded guilty last month in a deal that allowed him to avoid the death penalty with a sentence of life in prison without parole, court officials said.",
"CNN's Miriam Falco contributed to this story."
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"\"We're scratching our heads,\" says Music Pastor Mark Jones .",
"Terry J. Sedlacek , 27, charged with murder in Winters' death, aggravated battery .",
"Police: Attacker, two worshippers who tried to subdue him suffered knife wounds ."
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"(CNN) -- The mountain gorillas in a national park in Congo appear to be hanging on well despite such dangers as civil warfare and poaching, according to an ongoing census.",
"Park rangers conducting the census in November.",
"Workers have identified 75 \"habituated\" gorillas in Virunga National Park, three more than there were in the last census nearly a year and a half ago, said Samantha Newport, the park communications director.",
"Habituated gorillas are those who are accustomed to contact with humans.",
"They are easier to spot than non-habituated gorillas, thought to number around 120.",
"Newport said the census should be completed by around January 20 and officials hope that more habituated gorillas will be identified.",
"She said the fact that gorillas have survived amid civil war in the region is \"nothing short of a miracle.\"",
"Laurent Nkunda's Tutsi armed force that had been fighting Congolese soldiers and their militia allies has had control of large swaths of the 8,000 square-kilometer park.",
"The gorilla section is in a strategically important area near the borders of Rwanda and Uganda.",
"Officials have long said that the 250-square kilometer gorilla reserve in the southern part of Virunga National Park is where around 200 of the world's 700 mountain gorillas live."
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"So far, 75 gorillas found which are accustomed to human contact .",
"That's three more than last census and conservationists hope to identify more ."
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"(CNN Student News) -- Students will examine Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous \"I Have a Dream\" speech.",
"Also, they will compose responses to Dr. King in which they compare his historic vision of racial equality in the United States to the reality of present-day life.",
"Procedure . In class discussion, have students define the following terms: racism, prejudice and discrimination.",
"Have them give examples of each.",
"Inform students that, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared his vision of racial equality in America in his historic \"I Have a Dream\" speech.",
"Then, point out that in his speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of being judged not by the color of one's skin, but by the content of his or her character.",
"Direct your students to read or watch Dr. King's famous \"I Have a Dream\" speech and discuss its content in class.",
"Then, challenge each student to compare Dr. King's dream to the reality of life in the U.S. in the year 2009.",
"Direct each student to compose a response to Dr. King, explaining what life is like in the U.S. today and to what extent his dream has been realized.",
"(Encourage students to be creative in their responses.",
"For example, students could write a letter, a speech, a song or a poem, or produce a brief video.)",
"After students share their responses to Dr. King, pose the following questions for class discussion: .",
"Correlated Standards .",
"Social Studies .",
"II. Time, Continuity and Change Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of the ways human beings view themselves in and over time.",
"X. Civic Ideals and Practices Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of the ideals, principles, and practices of citizenship in a democratic republic.",
"The Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands/ ) are published by the National Council for Social Studies (http://www.socialstudies.org/ )."
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"Students will compose responses to the speech based on life in 2009 ."
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"(CNN) -- The woman and children held captive in a cellar for years by their incestuous father will take years to recover from their disturbing ordeal, doctors warned Wednesday as the family at the center of the case remained in psychiatric care.",
"The bathroom used by Elizabeth Fritzl, who was held captive for more than two decades, and her three children.",
"Members of the Fritzl family will also be offered the chance to adopt new identities in an effort to help them lead normal lives, officials said.",
"Hans-Heinz Lenze, the head of local social services said the family was \"doing as well as can be expected in the circumstances\" and said any change of identity would be the family's decision.",
"Elizabeth Fritzl -- now 42 -- spent more than two decades in the windowless basement after being drugged, handcuffed and locked up by her father, Josef Fritzl, as an 18-year-old.",
"Repeatedly raped, she gave birth to seven children by Fritzl, one of whom died as an infant.",
"Three of the children -- Kerstin, 19; Stefan, 18; and Felix, 5 -- remained imprisoned underground with their mother.",
"The other three lived in an apartment upstairs with Fritzl and his wife who believed Elizabeth had abandoned them after running away from home.",
"Elizabeth and five of the children were continuing to receive treatment at a local clinic near Amstetten after being reunited on Sunday.",
"Kerstin, whose hospitalization at the weekend finally brought the family's plight to the attention of authorities, remained in a coma at a nearby hospital.",
"\"It is astonishing how easy it worked that the children came together, and also it was astonishing how easy it happened that the grandmother and the mother came together,\" clinic director Berthold Kepplinger said.",
"But Kepplinger warned that the family would require extensive counseling.",
"\"We're talking of 20 years of darkness, incest and its effects and other illnesses they might have suffered from.\"",
"Kepplinger said the two sets of children were tentatively getting to know one another, adding that the two boys who had lived underground had an unusual way of communicating with each other.",
"A policeman who had accompanied the boys to hospital after their discovery on Sunday said the pair had \"screamed with excitement\" during the car journey as they experienced the outside world for the first time.",
"\"The two boys appeared overawed by the daylight they had never experienced before,\" said Chief Inspector Leopold Etz.",
"\"The real world was completely alien to them... We had to drive very slowly with them because they cringed at every car light and every bump.",
"It was as if we had just landed on the moon.\"",
"In an interview with the Austrian newspaper, Oesterreich, psychiatrist Max Friedrich, who treated the abducted teenager Natascha Kampusch, estimated it would take \"between five and eight years\" for the children to recover from their experiences.",
"Another psychologist, Bernd Prosser, told Austrian television that it would be impossible for the four held prisoner underground to lead normal lives.",
"\"I am afraid it is too late for that.\"",
"Kampusch, the Austrian girl abducted as a 10-year-old and held captive in a basement for more than eight years until she escaped in 2007, also offered her help to the family on Tuesday, but questioned the decision to move them from the cellar into psychiatric care.",
"\"Pulling them abruptly out of this situation, without transition, to hold them and isolating them to some extent, it can't be good for them,\" said Kampusch, now 20, in an interview with Austrian TV station Puls 4.",
"\"I believe it might have been even better to leave them where they were, but that was probably impossible.",
"This case is not like mine, where that was not my environment.",
"They were born there and I can imagine that there is a strong attachment to that place.\"",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"(CNN) -- Witnesses caught up in the terrorist attack on Mumbai have spoken of how they ran for their lives, smashed windows to escape and sheltered in hotel rooms as the horror that has claimed more than 100 lives unfolded.",
"An Indian police officer directs people leaving the Taj Mahal after gunmen attacked the hotel overnight Wednesday.",
"One of the targets for the gunmen was the Taj Hotel, one of Mumbai's most famous landmarks.",
"Anthony Rose, an Australian visiting Mumbai to produce a travel show, told CNN Thursday that he checked into the Taj hotel just a minute before attackers stormed into the lobby Wednesday night.",
"\"They came in with all guns blazing,\" Rose said.",
"\"It was just chaos.\" Watch Rose's comments on terror attacks » .",
"Rose and others found refuge in a hotel ballroom, where they waited for six hours hoping to be rescued.",
"Although they could hear explosions and gunfire nearby, there were no sirens or police evident, he said.",
"Watch how terror attacks have shaken India. ...",
"Help never arrived and the group were forced to smash a thick glass window and climbed down to the street on curtains.",
"\"As soon as the hotel was on fire, we knew we had to go,\" Rose said.",
"Meanwhile Manuela Testolini, founder of the In A Perfect World children's foundation and ex-wife of music icon Prince, described how she saw someone shot in front of her at the Taj before sheltering with 250 other terrified people in the darkened ballroom.",
"Watch Testolini describe her escape » .",
"Testolini was eating dinner at a restaurant across the street from the Taj when she saw the gunmen approach.",
"\"We heard some gunshots,\" she said.",
"\"My colleague saw someone get shot just outside of the glass doors of the restaurant.",
"Obviously, that prompted us to jump up and run.\"",
"Testolini left all her possessions and scurried through the kitchen of the restaurant to the sound of gunshots behind her, before heading with colleagues and restaurant staff to a darkened ballroom in the Taj.",
"There they waited for two hours, listening to constant bullet barrages and grenade attacks outside.",
"Another witness, Yasmin Wong, a CNN employee, was also staying in the Taj Hotel.",
"She said she hid under her bed for several hours after she was awoken by gunfire.",
"Watch Wong's comments on attack » .",
"She then received a phone call from the hotel, telling her to turn her lights off, put a wet towel by the door and stay in her room until told otherwise.",
"So Wong sat in the dark, watching smoke rise outside her hotel window.",
"\"I saw a guy outside the window above me who had smashed the window and was hanging out,\" Wong said.",
"\"At that point, authorities told us to run out of the hotel.\"",
"Wong said she passed dead bodies in the hotel's halls as she searched for an exit, finally leaving through the pool entrance.",
"Wong said: \"I thought it was going to end but it seemed to never end.\"",
"Meanwhile Mark Abell spoke to CNN from a hotel room near the Taj.",
"Watch Abell describe attack on Taj » .",
"\"I came back from dinner last night at nine with a colleague, came into the lobby,\" Abell said.",
"\"The security fences weren't operating; the hotel shook with an immense blast.",
"Three or four minutes later, there was another large blast, the whole building shaking.",
"\"I looked outside to see a crowd running.",
"It was chaos, gunshots; it looked all very, very nasty.\"",
"The Oberoi Hotel, which also has a reputation as one of Mumbai's most famous hotels, was also targeted by the gunmen.",
"Gautam Patel was staying in the Trident Hotel, which is adjacent to the Oberoi, when the attacks began.",
"Watch Patel describe the evacuation » .",
"\"I was up on the 11th floor and while I was on a conference call, I heard two large noises, and they sounded like thuds from within the room, and that's when we realized that there was something serious happening.",
"\"When I heard the two thuds, that's when I looked out window and onto my left I could see the Oberoi Hotel -- there was a restaurant in the Oberoi Hotel -- which was under flames,\" Patel said.",
"\"We left our room, walked down the fire exit, the hotel staff met us down at the bottom of hotel and put us into large banquet hall where we saw about 150 to 200 people.",
"The lights were out, so we were just told to huddle there until we heard further.\"",
"\"We stayed there for about one hour, that's when we heard another large two bangs.",
"We couldn't tell if they were from outside or within the hotel, then we heard some gunfire.",
"Twenty, 30 minutes past that, one of the senior advisers of the hotel mentioned we would be escorted to the back of the hotel, put into groups of 10 people and told to run to the neighboring cinema hall, where we would be safe.",
"\"I think most of the activity was happening in the lobby,\" Patel said.",
"\"People were talking, rumoring about the fact that terrorists were in the hotel, so there was a search by room-to-room, so I think the activity was happening in the hotel and the front of the hotel.\"",
"New York-based filmmaker Smriti Mundhra and her parents were staying in an apartment near the Oberoi.",
"Watch Mundhra talk about the scene outside her door » .",
"\"We're all safe in our apartment right now, following instructions by the police to stay at home with the doors locked and away from windows,\" Mundhra told CNN.",
"\"Just as we were getting ready for bed last night, I heard a little bit of commotion on the street and some police sirens and didn't really think much of it.",
"Then my parents came in and told me something was going on in the neighborhood.",
"So we watched the news and realized essentially there's a terrorist attack happening just outside our door.\"",
"\"We've been indoors since we've been hearing things from out of the window -- bombs and police sirens and all kinds of chaos,\" Mundhra continued.",
"\"I've been watching in on TV and it's very hard to connect the two, that all of that is happening right outside our doors.",
"\"We haven't really been in touch with our neighbors, we've just been locked down in to our apartment.",
"\"We were told to stay indoors, not leave our houses, stay away from windows.",
"I know that the people who are in buildings surrounding the Oberoi have been advised to keep lights off and windows and blinds closed and we've done all of that, and just keeping an eye on our family.\""
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"Hotel guests describe how they saw people shot in front of them, fled for their lives .",
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"(CNN) -- More timely now than when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008, \"Sunshine Cleaning,\" an agreeable, midrange independent film, makes light work of heavy burdens.",
"Amy Adams gets to work cleaning up as Rose in the indie comedy \"Sunshine Cleaning.\"",
"Sisters Rose (Amy Adams) and Norah (Emily Blunt) struggle with menial jobs and periods of unemployment.",
"Together, they're also coping with the nasty emotional residue of their mom's long-ago suicide -- a trauma that is likely responsible for their current troubles.",
"Self-esteem isn't a strong suit for either of them.",
"As \"Sunshine Cleaning\" dawns, they're both scraping by.",
"If Norah is out of work before we've settled into our popcorn, she's not overly concerned by her situation.",
"Rose, on the other hand, is desperate to graduate from cleaning other people's middle-class homes.",
"It's not just that the humiliation of laundering for her old cheerleader team is getting her down; she needs the money to put her \"difficult\" kid (Jason Spevack) into the kind of school that will give him a chance.",
"It's Rose's married boyfriend -- and old high school sweetheart -- Mac (Steve Zahn) who spies a new niche for the sisters.",
"A homicide detective, he's watching the cleaning crew bag the blown brains of a shotgun enthusiast when he overhears the proprietor of the building grousing about the \"three grand\" it's costing him.",
"Granted, blood and intestinal juices aren't everybody's cup of tea, but that kind of return sure beats washing Mrs. Johansson's drapes for $30 an hour.",
"\"CSM: Crime Scene Maid\" isn't a job you're likely to find down at the employment office, but somebody must be doing the dirty work.",
"Rose and Norah -- incorporated -- find that the stench takes some getting used to, and there's a whole new arsenal of cleaning fluids to master, but they get to work with a positive attitude and like to think they're doing their bit to put the world right.",
"From this unusual setup, the movie might have skewed in any number of ways.",
"The sisters might have uncovered evidence of corruption and murder, for instance, perhaps implicating Mac?",
"\"Sunshine Cleaning\" is nowhere near so abrasive or generic as such a scenario.",
"Written by Megan Holley and directed by Christine Jeffs (\"Sylvia\"), it instead puts a sympathetic, gentle comic gloss on the characters' fundamentally forgivable foibles and imperfections.",
"Norah tracks down the daughter of one suicide (Mary Lynn Rajskub) to present her with mementos that should have been destined for the junkyard.",
"Blunt's edgy performance keeps us guessing.",
"Norah's a bit of a flake, but she's animated by her anger and her rebellious streak.",
"If she's hard to read, it's because she's still young and doesn't know herself yet.",
"Rose is easier to understand.",
"She's determined to seize this chance to dig herself out of the hole and recapture the promise she used to see in herself.",
"Adams has a knack for putting a brave face on things -- something about the way she tilts her chin up while her mouth goes in three directions at once.",
"She keeps our rooting interest in Rose alive even when her choices seem misguided or naive.",
"A subplot concerning Rose's son bonding with Joe (Alan Arkin), the sisters' lovable but infuriating father (you know the kind: He buys bulk orders of shrimp off the back of a truck) tips us too far into the realm of indie quirk.",
"The character is a useful sounding board, and an amusing grouch, but it's just about impossible to imagine this man bringing up these girls.",
"Ironically, for a movie that's marketed with the one-liner \"Life's a messy business,\" Holley's script has been polished to within an inch of its life.",
"Emotions are experienced most vividly when they're raw, but in \"Sunshine Cleaning,\" feelings come filtered through neat-and-tidy grace notes.",
"The film flirts with dangerous material, but it's too intent on putting the sunny side up to get its hands dirty.",
"The way director Jeffs tells it, not only is suicide painless it can be positively feel-good.",
"That's not to say there isn't a lot to enjoy in this well-acted and humanistic comedy.",
"Buoyed by its up-and-coming stars and its optimistic message, it should do very nicely with discriminating audiences. ...",
"It might even clean up."
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"Movie presents feelings in neat-and-tidy packages, reviewer says ."
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"(CNN) -- If a bed and 14 other antiques up for sale in New York next week look familiar, it might be that you saw them in a movie.",
"An American Renaissance gilt, carved, inlaid and ebonized bed is expected to go for $500,000.",
"Pieces of furniture owned by two very rich 19th-century Americans were destined for a trash pile before they were rescued for the silver screen.",
"They will find new life on the auction block next week.",
"Made by the Herter Brothers in the 1870s, the furniture sat in Warner Brothers' Hollywood props department since 1942, when the studio bought it at an estate auction for a fraction of the original cost.",
"Warner Brothers, owned by CNN parent Time Warner Inc., could get $2 million from the auction, and it means valuable space will be cleared out in the props department storage.",
"One studio source said using such expensive -- although authentic -- props on movie sets doesn't make business sense.",
"Jon King, director of Bonham's, the New York auction house that will put the furniture on sale next Thursday, said he did not have the studio's permission to reveal in which movies the furniture might have been used.",
"You can watch post-1942 Warner Brothers period films to find them.",
"\"You have to go slow-motion and stop and start an awful lot,\" King said.",
"\"I would imagine that if any of these were in movies they might steal the scene away from the actors,\" said King, an expert in 19th-century furniture.",
"A New York Times article about the furniture, published in 1995, said it appeared in Warner Brother's \"Saratoga Trunk,\" a 1945 movie starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.",
"Few records were kept over the decades to track the pieces' appearances, a studio source said.",
"King said he saw Herter Brothers furniture from the same estate in Alfred Hitchcock's \"Psycho,\" filmed in 1960 on Universal's lots.",
"Universal bought its furniture at the same 1942 estate auction that Warner Brothers attended.",
"The studio sold its collection years ago, King said.",
"The furniture -- in American Renaissance and American Aesthetic styles -- was made with \"very exotic and very expensive materials\" for two very rich California men -- Gov.",
"Milton Slocum Latham and railroad magnate Mark Harper, King said.",
"The most dramatic piece is an ornate bed commissioned for the master bedroom at Latham's Menlo Park, California, home.",
"It could sell for $500,000, King said.",
"\"A lot of people in the field regard that as the finest bed ever made in the 19th century in America,\" King said.",
"\"Basically, the quality of carving and the number of things going on in there in the bed, it's just amazing.\"",
"Changing times and tastes made the furniture obsolete for anything but a period movie by 1942.",
"Movie studios were scouring the country for cheap furniture for their props departments, King said.",
"But recent decades have see a steep rise in values for Herter Brothers craftwork, he said.",
"King said next week's sale is significant for collectors because \"this is the last studio collection.\"",
"The Herter Brothers -- German immigrants who set up their furniture-making shop in New York City after the Civil War -- also made furniture for the White House, where some pieces remain."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Liverpool and England midfielder Steven Gerrard has denied assaulting a man during a nightclub brawl last month, a court in Southport, northern England, heard on Friday.",
"Gerrard leaves court on Friday after pleading not guilty to actual bodily harm and affray.",
"Gerrard, 28, issued a not guilty plea to affray and assaulting company director Marcus McGee, 34, at the Lounge Inn, Southport, after Gerrard scored twice in Liverpool's 5-1 win at Newcastle, reported the UK's Press Association.",
"The Liverpool captain was charged with occasioning actual bodily harm and affray along with co-defendants John Doran, 29, and Ian Smith, 19.",
"Dozens of photographers were kept back from the magistrates' court entrance in a penned area as Gerrard arrived in a dark blue suit.",
"Nick Evans, prosecuting, asked for the case to be heard next on April 3 after a 10-week break to prepare it.",
"But after submissions from the defense solicitors including Gerrard's, Richard Green, the magistrates adjourned the case back to the court at Southport on March 20.",
"Gerrard, a father of two young daughters, spoke only to confirm his name and address and say he intended to plead not guilty along with the other defendants."
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"Alleged incident came hours after Gerrard scored twice in win at Newcastle .",
"Gerrard pleaded not guily and will return to the court in Southport on March 20 ."
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"(CNN) -- Australian Tim Cahill dealt Liverpool a desperate and potentially damaging blow with the goal that salvaged a 1-1 draw for bitter rivals Everton and stopped the Reds returning to the top of the Premier League.",
"Tim Cahill earned Everton the point they deserved with a header three minutes from the end to deny Liverpool.",
"Liverpool had grabbed the lead when Steven Gerrard, captaining the Anfield club for the 250th time, swept home a low drive midway through the second half for his 14th goal of the season.",
"But Cahill earned Everton the draw their contribution deserved when he met Mikel Arteta's 87th minute free-kick with a powerful header from inside the six-yard box.",
"Spain striker Fernando Torres returned to Liverpool's starting line-up for the first time since November following hamstring problems, for the 209th Merseyside derby.",
"And Torres should have broken the deadlock in the first half when he surged between Joleon Lescott and Phil Jagielka only to prod his shot against a post from a few meters.",
"Referee Howard Webb was kept busy as the tackles flew in and he lectured Phil Neville, Joleon Lescott and Arteta after a series of fouls on Gerrard.",
"Webb later refused Liverpool a penalty two minutes after the interval when Torres went down theatrically after being nudged by Jagielka.",
"Everton believed they were entitled to a spot kick when Martin Skrtel looked to send Victor Anichebe tumbling.",
"The referee again waved away the appeals, and the complaints were still raging on the pitch -- and the touchline -- as Liverpool surged away for Gerrard to crash home a 30-yard drive to put the hosts ahead after 68 minutes.",
"It had been more than 10 hours since Everton had conceded a goal and it looked as though it would be enough to send Liverpool back to the top ahead of Manchester United.",
"Cahill had other ideas -- and the sides will go through it all again on Sunday when Liverpool host Everton in an FA Cup fourth round clash."
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"PARIS, France (CNN) -- Police evacuated a major department store in central Paris Tuesday after finding five sticks of dynamite inside, French police told CNN.",
"Paris's Printemps department store, which has been hit by a security alert, pictured last month.",
"CNN affiliate BFM-TV reported the dynamite was not rigged to explode, but police did not immediately confirm the report.",
"French news agency AFP said it received a letter in the mail Tuesday morning, claiming to be from an Afghan revolutionary group and saying that a bomb was at the renowned Printemps department store.",
"The news agency alerted the police, who evacuated the store, AFP told CNN.",
"The letter specified three locations where explosives had been placed, and urged the news agency to contact the police \"quickly or you will have blood on your hands,\" according to a copy of the letter obtained by CNN which AFP confirmed was accurate.",
"\"I assure you that this is not a prank,\" the letter said.",
"The bomb squad found the dynamite around 11 a.m. (5 a.m.",
"ET), police said.",
"It is not clear if the explosives were found where the letter said they would be.",
"See where Printemps is located in Paris » .",
"AFP said the letter was signed by a group called \"Front Revolutionaires Afghan,\" or Afghan Revolutionary Front.",
"BFM-TV reported the group is calling for the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan by the end of February 2009.",
"\"Make sure the message is relayed to your president of the republic that he withdraw his troops from our country (Afghanistan) before the end of February 2009 or we will strike again your capitalist department stores but without warning,\" the letter said.",
"It is the second time in a week that AFP has received a warning about the store.",
"The agency said it received a phone call from a similar Afghan group a few days ago regarding the store, but at the time, police chose not to evacuate.",
"Printemps, one of France's most renowned stores, is popular with tourists and locals alike and located on the Boulevard Haussman.",
"Most of the store reopened later in the day, although the area where the dynamite was found remained closed.",
"Jim Bittermann, CNN's senior European correspondent based in Paris, said: \"These kind of stores at this time of year are absolutely packed with shoppers.\"",
"He added that France has a considerable number of troops in Afghanistan.",
"In August, 10 French soldiers were killed in fighting near the Afghan capital Kabul.",
"French President Nicolas Sarkozy said earlier this year that his government was willing to commit more troops to the war in Afghanistan.",
"\"We cannot afford to see the Taliban and al Qaeda returning to Kabul,\" Sarkozy said during a state visit to the UK in March.",
"\"Whatever the cost, however difficult the victory, we cannot afford it.",
"We must win.\" Paula Newton, CNN's international security correspondent, said that the group involved was previously unheard of.",
"\"This may be termed a hoax attack but it will cause real anxiety on the ground.\"",
"CNN's Jim Bittermann and Niki Cook contributed to this report ."
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"ET)\nPolice: Could not confirm French TV reports that package contained dynamite .",
"Printemps is an upscale department store on the Boulevard Haussman .",
"Alert came after letter from group claiming Afghan links, criticizes Sarkozy ."
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"HAVANA, Cuba (CNN) -- William Potts picks up his daughters from school every day.",
"People consider him a generous neighbor and a good father.",
"William Potts smuggled a firearm aboard a flight, hijacked the plane and forced the crew to fly to Cuba.",
"But few know how this eccentric American ended up in Cuba.",
"\"I came to Cuba 25 years ago.",
"I hijacked an airplane,\" said Potts, who was convicted of air piracy.",
"Potts says he was enthused by Fidel Castro and his revolution.",
"He imagined a racial and social utopia that could be replicated in his own country.",
"In 1984, he smuggled a firearm aboard a commercial flight and forced the crew to fly to Havana, Cuba.",
"No one was injured.",
"\"In my revolutionary naivete, I came looking for military training,\" he says.",
"Instead, he ended up in jail.",
"He spent 13 years behind bars in Cuba.",
"In 1971, the United States and Cuba signed an agreement in which each government agreed to prosecute hijackers or return them to the other country.",
"Potts, who married after being released from prison, is now divorced and lives on the outskirts of Havana with his two daughters, ages 4 and 7.",
"He makes some money letting his neighbors use his prized Internet connection.",
"But the New Yorker is homesick and says his elderly parents need help.",
"\"I committed a crime and paid for it,\" he says.",
"\"Now what I want is to return home because I have to attend to my family.\"",
"Watch Potts explain why he thinks he deserves a pardon » .",
"He says the time is right.",
"Potts wrote a letter to President Obama asking for a pardon that would let him return to the United States without fear of being jailed.",
"There are thought to be 700 American fugitives hiding in Cuba.",
"Members of the Black Panthers, Puerto Rican independence movement members and common criminals have sought sanctuary on the island.",
"For the most part, they try to go unnoticed.",
"Perhaps the most famous is black activist Assata Shakur, who was convicted for killing a police officer in New Jersey in 1973 but escaped from prison in 1979 and ended up in Cuba.",
"Potts says he wants to leave behind his radical days and expects that Obama will finally allow him to do that."
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"Potts served 12 years in a Cuban jail and now lives outside Havana .",
"Potts asking Obama for pardon to allow him to return to U.S. to care for family .",
"\"I committed a crime and paid for it,\" he says ."
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"UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The United Nations humanitarian chief Wednesday criticized a two-day pause in the fighting between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tiger rebels as \"inadequate.\"",
"U.N. Nations humanitarian chief John Holmes said he would have liked a \"proper humanitarian pause.\"",
"John Holmes, the under secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, told reporters that the 48-hour break in hostilities was not sufficient, even as fighting resumed in the northeast of the country.",
"The brief cessation of hostilities was announced by the Sri Lankan government on April 12 and allowed the U.N. and its partners to bring in necessary aid, said Holmes.",
"He said he would have liked a \"proper humanitarian pause\" that lasted longer than two days, but hoped the break allowed for some progress to occur.",
"Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon had originally welcomed the announcement by the Sri Lankan government.",
"However, Ban also expressed his concern that, \"This is less than the full humanitarian pause of several days I had pressed for.\"",
"But Ban added that the pause \"is nevertheless a useful first step and an opportunity to move towards the peaceful and orderly end to the fighting now so badly needed.\"",
"The government of Sri Lanka has been battling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) rebels in a civil conflict that has lasted nearly 25 years.",
"The LTTE has been declared a terrorist organization by 32 countries, including the United States and the nations of the European Union.",
"As many as 70,000 people have been killed since the conflict officially began in 1983.",
"The most pressing concern now, according to Holmes, is the fact that over 100,000 people are currently crowded in a \"very small pocket of land\" that is about five square miles, or about twice the size of New York's Central Park.",
"\"It is a very small area indeed for what we believe is very large number of people\" Holmes explained.",
"The crowded population, primarily comprised of Tamil civilians, is subject to the continuing Sri Lankan government assaults.",
"The British and French foreign ministers released a joint statement as well on Wednesday, claiming that the LTTE is also using Tamil civilians as human shields.",
"Holmes also called attention to the fact that the press has been barred from covering the civil strife in Sri Lanka.",
"Ultimately, Holmes and the United Nations would like to see a peaceful end to the hostilities, but \"its pretty clear, frankly, that a ceasefire as such is not something available at present circumstances.\""
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"Sri Lankan government has been battling LTTE rebels for nearly 25 years ."
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"OXON HILL, Maryland (CNN) -- Crew members of the Maersk Alabama, safely back in the United States after being attacked by pirates last week off Somalia, recounted their ordeal Thursday.",
"Navy personnel recover the lifeboat from which Maersk Alabama Capt.",
"Richard Phillips was rescued Sunday.",
"\"They start firing before they climb, with AK-47,\" crew member Zahid Reza said.",
"\"I was scared for my life.",
"I was almost close to that.",
"And they tried to shoot me many times,\" he said, pointing to his head.",
"\"Pointing gun all over.",
"Here, there, in the back.\" Pirates tried three times to board the U.S.-flagged cargo ship before their fourth attempt was successful, fellow crew member William Rios said, adding that the groups of pirates were different but that he thinks they were working together.",
"Rios said he was working on deck when he was called back to lock down the ship.",
"Then, he said, there were gunshots, and an alarm went off to alert all crew members to wake up and get on deck.",
"\"We went to our training,\" he said, declining to provide details: \"If I tell you all what we did, pirates, they would know.\"",
"Watch the crew praise their captain » .",
"The pirates intended to ask for a $3 million ransom, Reza said.",
"He said he and the ship's chief engineer took one of the pirates hostage.",
"Reza said he persuaded the pirate -- whom he described as a young man, maybe 18 or 19 -- to trust him, pointing out that he is Bangladeshi and the pirate was Somali.",
"\"His name is Abdul,\" Reza said.",
"\"I told him, 'Trust me.",
"I am Muslim; you are Muslim.'",
"\" He told Abdul he would take him to the engine room to find more crew members.",
"When they got there, the room was dark, he said, and he didn't know the ship's chief engineer was in there.",
"He said the chief engineer jumped the pirate first, then Reza stabbed him with his knife, and the two men tied the pirate's hands and feet.",
"Reza said he intended to kill the youth, but the chief engineer told him, \"No, we need him alive.\"",
"Watch Reza talk about wanting to kill the pirate » .",
"\"He was fighting me and chief engineer, to get away from us.",
"A lot of yelling, shouting and screaming.\"",
"Rios said he went to the lifeboat, where Capt.",
"Richard Phillips was being held, to exchange Abdul for Phillips but was unsuccessful.",
"The captain -- who offered himself as a hostage in exchange for the freedom of his crew -- was rescued by U.S. Navy SEALs on Sunday.",
"The SEALs, on the nearby guided-missile destroyer USS Bainbridge, fatally shot three pirates and rescued Phillips.",
"A fourth pirate was arrested.",
"\"I feel great they got killed,\" Reza said.",
"\"I am happy.\" He said he was proud of the Navy.",
"Phillips arrived in Mombasa, Kenya, aboard the Bainbridge on Thursday.",
"The crew arrived at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland overnight.",
"Watch crew arrive in U.S. » .",
"Rios said Phillips is \"outstanding; he's extraordinary; he's [a] very brave man.\"",
"Another crew member, John White, said they were \"damn lucky to be alive.\"",
"Rios called for more security in the Gulf of Aden.",
"\"Put more military to patrol the waterway for us transporting material back and forth,\" he said.",
"\"... All the countries got to get involved with this.\"",
"Reza echoed the call.",
"\"I think government should get involved,\" he said.",
"\"They should think about our safety, yes. ...",
"This piracy is getting bigger and bigger.\"",
"CNN's Paul Courson, Virginia Nicolaidis and Dugald McConnell contributed to this report."
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"NEW: \"I feel great they got killed,\" crew member says of pirates .",
"NEW: Crew calls for international effort to secure shipping lanes ."
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"(CNN) -- A 23-year-old Mexican beauty queen and seven men were taken into custody late Monday after being found in vehicles containing weapons and cash in central Mexico, police said Tuesday.",
"Laura Zuniga and seven men were found in vehicles with guns and $50,000, Mexican police say.",
"Laura Zuniga and the men were traveling in two vehicles that contained AR-15 assault rifles, handguns, cartridges and $50,000 in cash, said Luis Carlos Najera Gutierrez de Velazco, secretary of public security for the state of Jalisco.",
"The eight were stopped in Zapopan, outside Guadalajara, and will face arms charges and an investigation by a federal organized crime team, Najera said.",
"Police, who had received a tip that a group of armed men were in a home, \"detected\" the vehicles as they were traveling to investigate the call, Najera said.",
"One of the men in the vehicles was 29-year-old Angel Orlando Garcia Urquiza, who is Zuniga's boyfriend and the brother of \"one of the greatest capos of narcotraffic,\" Najera said.",
"Najera said Urquiza's brother, Ricardo Garcia Urquiza, is a member of the Juarez cartel and already was in police custody.",
"All eight were filed before the news media Tuesday.",
"Zuniga, wearing blue jeans and a gray sweater, raised her handcuffed wrists to cover her face in a police picture.",
"Zuniga is from Culiacan in the state of Sinaloa, a center of drug activity.",
"In July, she won the title Nuestra Belleza Sinaloa.",
"That gave her the right to compete two months later in the national Nuestra Belleza Mexico in Monterrey, where she won \"The Election of the Queens,\" one of five special recognitions, and came in third overall.",
"In October, she won the title \"Hispanoamerican Queen 2008\" in Santa Cruz, Bolivia.",
"According to the Nuestra Belleza Mexico Web site, she is to represent Mexico in next year's Miss International contest."
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"Zuniga, men found in vehicles with weapons, $50,000, police say .",
"Zuniga won state beauty contest, finished third in national competition .",
"She won \"Hispanoamerican Queen 2008\" title in October ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- More than half the Christian population has fled the northern Iraqi city of Mosul in reaction to a campaign of killings and intimidation, according to the United Nations.",
"Christian women attend a religious service Sunday at a church in Baghdad.",
"An estimated 13,000 Christians have left because of oppression the U.S. government blames on al Qaeda in Iraq.",
"Mosul, in Nineveh province, is one of the last Iraqi cities where al Qaeda in Iraq has a significant presence and routinely carries out attacks.",
"An estimated 2,300 families have fled Mosul this month, but the exodus has started to ebb, Nineveh province's Deputy Gov.",
"Khasro Goran said Tuesday.",
"No Christian family has left the city over the past seven days, and at least 100 families returned to their homes in and around Mosul during that time, Goran said.",
"Authorities said they believe Christian demonstrations earlier this month may have prompted the attacks.",
"Hundreds of Christians took to the streets in Mosul and surrounding villages and towns demanding adequate representation on provincial councils, whose members will be chosen in local elections in January.",
"The violence that followed those protests left at least 14 Iraqi Christians dead and prompted the Iraqi government to dispatch more security forces to patrol the city.",
"Violence has declined as a result, Iraqi officials said.",
"Last week, U.S. Defense Department spokesman Geoff Morrell said the anti-Christian attacks and threats are partly \"due to elements of al Qaeda that still enjoy some ability to operate up there.\"",
"\"This is an attempt, it appears, to try to inflame tensions and fault lines that exist between religious and sectarian groups,\" Morrell said.",
"The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees is helping many of the displaced families, most of whom have fled to nearby villages in Nineveh province.",
"About 400 others have crossed into Syria, but many have said they no longer feel safe there, according to the refugee agency.",
"Syria already hosts more than 1 million Iraqi refugees.",
"The U.N. agency said many of the Iraqi Christians told stories of intimidation and death threats.",
"\"One woman said she and her mother left Mosul early last week, two days after someone called one of her colleagues at work and said that all Christians should leave the city immediately or be killed,\" according to a UNHCR news release.",
"\"She said she was unnerved but decided to leave only after hearing reports that 11 people had been killed at a checkpoint by militiamen dressed as police officers.",
"She and her mother escaped with a couple of bags and all the money that they had in the house -- they did not dare go to the bank to remove their savings.\"",
"A nurse told UNHCR that the threats against Christians in Mosul began months ago \"with phone calls, letters and messages left on doors.\"",
"In other violence Tuesday in Mosul, four police officers were killed and four wounded when gunmen opened fire on their vehicle, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.",
"Gunmen in cars ambushed police as they were on their way to start work in west Mosul's al-Amil neighborhood, the official said.",
"Also Tuesday in Baghdad, six civilians died and 23 were hurt in four bombings, the official said.",
"In eastern Baghdad, in the Shiite al-Baladiyat neighborhood, a roadside bomb exploded Tuesday afternoon, killing one civilian and wounding five others, the official said.",
"Earlier, a parked car exploded near a busy outdoor market in the western al-Jihad neighborhood, killing at least five people and wounding 11 others, the Interior Ministry official said.",
"No other details were available about the blast.",
"Two roadside bombs exploded in central Baghdad's al-Nahdha commercial area, wounding seven people, the official said.",
"The first blast hurt four civilians, while the second wounded three, the official said.",
"Also Tuesday, the Iraqi army and police discovered 20 decomposed bodies in the basement of an abandoned house in Tal Afar, a town about 43 miles (70 kilometers) west of Mosul.",
"There was no indication of how the victims -- who could not immediately be identified -- were killed, the official said.",
"Authorities discovered the bodies after receiving tips from local residents.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"Intimidation, killings chase 13,000 Christians from Mosul, U.N. agency says .",
"Exodus is slowing, and some have returned, Iraqi official says .",
"Four police, five civilians killed Tuesday in Mosul and Baghdad, ministry says ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- After a week when he could not be traced, Egyptian striker Amir Zaki is back at his Premier League club side Wigan Athletic in northern England.",
"Wigan and Egypt striker Amir Zaki has mended relations with his club manager.",
"According to Wigan manager Steve Bruce the two have patched up their differences after he launched a verbal tirade against the 26-year-old striker.",
"Zaki told Al-Hayat TV that the pair \"ended up laughing\" about his absence -- when he failed to return from international duty and had a hamstring strain which no one knew the seriousness of.",
"But, it wasn't all laughs a week ago.",
"On Wigan's club Web site, Bruce had said of Zaki: \"I just feel it's time that we went public on just what a nightmare he has been to deal with.",
"I can honestly say that in all my time in football I have never worked with someone as unprofessional.",
"\"I have already fined him the maximum allowed but this just seems to have no effect,\" Bruce said.",
"After giving Zaki a fine for his misdemeanor the Wigan manager also revealed it was the fourth time he had gone AWOL after international duty.",
"Are players selling their fans and clubs short when they go AWOL?",
"How do you think should they be punished by clubs?",
"Zaki's case certainly isn't the first high profile instance of a player going missing.",
"Inter Milan striker Adriano sparked kidnap fears after failing to return earlier this month, following a World Cup qualifier in South America.",
"It was not the first time the Brazilian had failed to report back to his club following international duty.",
"After a two-week absence, Adriano later announced he was taking a break from professional football at a news conference in Brazil.",
"He told reporters: \"I've lost the happiness of playing.",
"I wouldn't like to go back to Italy, I want to live in peace here in Brazil.",
"\"I don't know if I'm going to stay for one, two or three months without playing.",
"I'm going to rethink my career.\"",
"Other notable cases include Nigerian forward Ayegbeni Yakubu, who failed to return to club duty at Premier League side Everton after the African Cup of Nations last year.",
"When he returned to Everton,Yakubu was hit with a maximum £80,000 fine.",
"Manager David Moyes said at a news conference at the time: 'Yakubu's back in it now.",
"That episode has ended.",
"He let us down by not coming back.",
"But it's over and we've moved on.\" German club Schalke fined defender Rafinha a record $1million for making an unauthorized trip to the Beijing Olympic Games and spending a total of 35 days away.",
"One of the most bizarre examples was that of Moroccan defender Youssef Rossi, who surprised everyone when he returned to training at Dunfermline Athletic a year after having his wages stopped by the Scottish club.",
"Rossi had previously gone AWOL from the club and returned to training with Raja Casablanca back in his homeland."
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"Wigan manager Steve Bruce described Zaki as \"unprofessional\"\nAdriano went AWOL for two weeks and later said he was taking a break from football .",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A day before embarking on a trip to Latin America, President Obama described his planned talks with Latin American leaders as discussions among equals.",
"President Obama refuses to criticize Latin American leaders.",
"\"Times have changed,\" Obama told CNN en Español Wednesday.",
"Referring to his planned meeting later this week with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, he said, \"My relationship with President Lula is one of two leaders who both have big countries, that we are trying to solve problems and create opportunities for our people and we should be partners.",
"\"There's no senior partner or junior partner.\"",
"Obama and Lula da Silva are among leaders scheduled to attend the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago.",
"Obama refused to criticize the leaders of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, who have taken measures to change their constitutions to extend their holds on power.",
"\"I think it's important for the United States not to tell other countries how to structure their democratic practices and what should be contained in their constitutions,\" he said.",
"\"It's up to the people of those countries to make a decision about how they want to structure their affairs.\"",
"Asked how he plans to interact with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a fierce critic of the United States who once described former President George Bush as the devil, Obama offered no criticism.",
"\"Look, he's the leader of his country and he'll be one of many people that I will have an opportunity to meet.\"",
"Though he said he believes the United States has a leadership role to play in the region, Obama qualified that role, saying, \"We also recognize that other countries have important contributions and insights.",
"We want to listen and learn as well as talk, and that approach, I think, of mutual respect and finding common interests, is one that ultimately will serve everybody.\"",
"Asked about Cuba, Obama, who recently eased restrictions on travel and sending money to the island, offered a prod and a carrot to Havana.",
"\"What we're looking for is some signal that there are going to be changes in how Cuba operates that assures that political prisoners are released, that people can speak their minds freely, that they can travel, that they can write and attend church and do the things that people throughout the hemisphere can do and take for granted,\" he said.",
"\"And if there is some sense of movement on those fronts in Cuba, then I think we can see a further thawing of relations and further changes.\"",
"Obama sought to distance his administration from that of his predecessor, noting that he plans to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where \"some of the practices of enhanced interrogation techniques, I think ran counter to American values and American traditions.\"",
"He said his team has spoken with the Spanish government about a Spanish judge's call for an investigation into the role of Bush administration officials in the detention of five Spaniards at Guantanamo.",
"But he did not dwell on his predecessor's legacy.",
"\"I'm a strong believer that it is important to look forward and not backward and to remind ourselves that we do have very real security threats out there.\"",
"Though the U.S. image abroad may have suffered in recent years, \"there's a reason why there are consistently so many immigrants to our country from Latin America,\" he said.",
"Obama lauded Mexican President Felipe Calderon, with whom he is to meet Thursday in Mexico City, as having done \"an outstanding and heroic job in dealing with what is a big problem right now along the borders with the drug cartels.\"",
"He vowed that the United States can be counted on to help.",
"\"We are going to be dealing not only with drug interdiction coming north, but also working on helping to curb the flow of cash and guns going south,\" Obama said.",
"Obama described himself as \"a strong proponent of comprehensive immigration reform,\" and said he has met with the congressional Hispanic Caucus \"to try to shape an agenda that can move through Congress.\""
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"(CNN) -- Archaeologists believe they have unearthed only a small fraction of Egypt's ancient ruins, but they're making new discoveries with help from high-tech allies -- satellites that peer into the past from the distance of space.",
"The enclosure wall of the Great Aten temple in Egypt, as seen from the QuickBird satellite.",
"\"Everyone's becoming more aware of this technology and what it can do,\" said Sarah Parcak, an archaeologist who heads the Laboratory for Global Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.",
"\"There is so much to learn.\"",
"Images from space have been around for decades.",
"Yet only in the past decade or so has the resolution of images from commercial satellites sharpened enough to be of much use to archaeologists.",
"Today, scientists can use them to locate ruins -- some no bigger than a small living room -- in some of the most remote and forbidding places on the planet.",
"In this field, Parcak is a pioneer.",
"Her work in Egypt has yielded hundreds of finds in regions of the Middle Egypt and the eastern Nile River Delta.",
"Parcak conducted surveys and expeditions in the eastern Nile Delta and Middle Egypt in 2003 and 2004 that confirmed 132 sites that were initially suggested by satellite images.",
"Eighty-three of those sites had never been visited or recorded.",
"In the past two years, she has found hundreds more, she said, leading her to amend an earlier conclusion that Egyptologists have found only the tip of the iceberg.",
"\"My estimate of 1/100th of 1 percent of all sites found is on the high side,\" Parcak said.",
"These discoveries are of no small significance to the Egyptian government, which has devoted itself anew to protecting archaeological sites from plunder and encroachment.",
"The Supreme Council of Antiquities has restricted excavation in the most sensitive areas along the Nile -- from the Great Pyramids at Giza on the outskirts of Cairo to the carvings of Ramses II in the remote south.",
"Antiquities officials hope the move will encourage more surveys in the eastern Nile Delta in northern Egypt, Parcak said, where encroaching development in the burgeoning nation of 82 million poses the greatest threat to the sites.",
"Old and modern methods .",
"Parcak's process weds modern tools with old-fashioned grunt work.",
"The archaeologist studies satellite images stored on a NASA database and plugs in global positioning coordinates for suspected sites, then tramps out to see them.",
"Telltale signs such as raised elevations and pot shards can confirm the images.",
"As a result, the big picture comes into view.",
"\"We can see patterns in settlements that correspond to the [historical] texts,\" Parcak said, \"such as if foreign invasions affected the occupation of ancient sites.",
"\"We can see where the Romans built over what the Egyptians had built, and where the Coptic Christians built over what the Romans had built.",
"\"It's an incredible continuity of occupation and reuse.\"",
"The flooding and meanders of the Nile over the millennia dictated where and how ancient Egyptians lived, and the profusion of new data has built a more precise picture of how that worked.",
"\"Surveys give us information about broader ancient settlement patterns, such as patterns of city growth and collapse over time, that excavations do not,\" said Parcak, author of a forthcoming book titled \"Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeology.\"",
"The vagaries of climate in the region make satellite technology advantageous, too.",
"\"Certain plants that may indicate sites grow during certain times of the year,\" Parcak said, \"while sites may only appear during a wet or dry season.",
"This is different everywhere in the world.\"",
"Archaeologists working in much more verdant climates, such as Cambodia and Guatemala, also have used the technology to divine locations of undiscovered ruins.",
"They have been able to see similarities between the vegetation at known sites and suspected sites that showed up in fine infrared and ultraviolet images covering wide areas of forbidding terrain.",
"\"For the work I do [in Egypt], I need wet season images as wet soil does a better job at detecting sites with the satellite imagery data I use,\" Parcak said.",
"\"I can pick the exact months I need with the NASA satellite datasets.\"",
"Benefits of a bird's-eye view .",
"Remote subsurface sensing has been used in archaeology in one form or another for years, though the term \"remote\" doesn't necessarily imply great distance.",
"Typically, a surveyor has wheeled a sensing device over a marked-out area to determine what lies below.",
"The sensing devices employ any of an array of technologies, such as Ground Penetrating Radar.",
"They bounce signals off objects below the surface and translate the data into images that a scientist's trained eye can decipher.",
"Multispectral imaging encompasses technologies that \"see\" what the human eye can't, such as infrared and ultraviolet radiation.",
"Scientists have used it for years to study the Earth's surface for a variety of purposes.",
"Until resolution of these images improved, though, the only way to produce a sharp image was to be relatively close to the ground.",
"For those lugging unwieldy gear across jungle and desert, an effective bird's-eye view can change the world.",
"It lets them leave behind the days and days of meticulous \"prospecting\" and get results from airplane-mounted sensors or, later on, a flyover by an advanced satellite.",
"One of the most advanced is called QuickBird, which has been in orbit since 2001 and can provide high-resolution images of 11-mile-wide swaths.",
"The satellite can collect nearly 29 million square miles of imagery data in a year, according to DigitalGlobe, which developed and operates QuickBird.",
"The company, based in Longmont, Colorado, is working on an upgrade.",
"WorldView-2, to be launched in 2009, will offer sharper resolution of visual and multispectral images than QuickBird, according to the company's Web site.",
"In the end, though, a tool is only as useful as its wielder.",
"\"Most of the advances have come through processing on the ground by end users such as Dr. Parcak,\" said DigitalGlobe spokesman Chuck Herring."
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"Pictures from commercial satellites have been sharp enough only for past decade .",
"Images have helped archaeologist Sarah Parcak find hundreds of Egyptian sites .",
"Colorado company's new, advanced imaging satellite to be launched in 2009 ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reached an important milestone Wednesday in her quest to pay the debt from her failed 2008 presidential bid: For the first time in eight months, her campaign committee reported having more money in the bank than it owes.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign committee reported owing $2.3 million in debt at the end of March.",
"On a day most Americans were preoccupied with filing their federal income taxes, Clinton's campaign committee filed finance documents with the Federal Election Commission, reporting a total of $2.3 million in debts at the end of March, compared with $2.6 million in the bank.",
"The nation's top diplomat has been steadily chipping away at unpaid campaign bills since suspending her White House bid in June 2008, when her debt peaked at $25.2 million.",
"That amount covered $12 million owed to vendors, as well as the $13.2 million she loaned her campaign from personal funds.",
"Clinton's campaign was unable to repay that personal loan by the time the Democratic National Convention convened in Denver, Colorado, last August, the deadline mandated by the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance law.",
"The former New York senator was forced to forgive the entire loan amount.",
"Her campaign owed $6.4 million to 16 creditors at the end of November; $5.9 million to five creditors at the end of December; and the current $2.3 million owed to just one creditor at the end of March.",
"That creditor is Penn, Schoen & Berland, a political consulting and polling firm that advised Clinton during her presidential bid.",
"The firm's president, Mark Penn, was Clinton's senior campaign strategist until he stepped down last April amid revelations that he had lobbied on behalf of Colombia for a U.S.-Colombia trade deal that Clinton opposed.",
"Penn remained involved with the campaign.",
"Earlier this year, Clinton and her supporters raced to pay as much of the debt as possible by the time she was confirmed and sworn in as the nation's 67th secretary of state on January 21.",
"As of that date, Clinton became subject to a federal law known as the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from personally soliciting or accepting political contributions.",
"The Hatch Act allows others to keep raising money on Clinton's behalf, without her direct involvement.",
"This week, longtime Clinton ally James Carville, a CNN contributor, sent a fundraising e-mail to Democrats on behalf of Clinton's campaign, requesting contributions of as little as $5 in exchange for a chance to win one of several prizes, including spending a day with former President Bill Clinton.",
"\"I won't spend a lot of time trying to convince you to help Hillary,\" Carville e-mailed.",
"\"I know what she means to you, and I'm sure you know how important it is for her to have her campaign pay off all its obligations.\"",
"It's unclear whether the campaign will use the $2.6 million in the bank to clear its $2.3 million in debts in the short term.",
"Continued fundraising indicates that it will not.",
"Additional operating expenses and other outlays could emerge.",
"Any extra money from the campaign could be donated to political causes or returned to donors.",
"Clinton's campaign reported raising $938,000 in contributions in the first three months of 2009.",
"In addition to tapping traditional fundraising, the campaign also generated money by selling or renting various campaign assets to other organizations.",
"It received $2.6 million from Clinton's \"Friends of Hillary\" U.S. Senate campaign committee for the sale of unspecified assets and an additional $2.2 million from renting out its lists of campaign supporters.",
"Organizations that have rented Clinton's lists include the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the inaugural committee of then-President-elect Barack Obama, and the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation.",
"Those organizations each paid $274,297.",
"Clinton's political action committee, HillPAC, rented the lists for $822,492.",
"Among the Democratic candidates who have rented Clinton's campaign lists are Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln; Virginia gubernatorial candidate and former Clinton campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe; New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed to fill Clinton's seat; and New York congressional candidate Scott Murphy, who hopes to succeed Gillibrand in the U.S. House."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Editor's note: Watch MainSail on CNN International at the following times: Thursday 16th April at 1230 GMT; Saturday 18th April at 0700 and 1730 GMT; Sunday 19th April at 0300 and 0730 GMT; Monday 20th April at 0300 GMT.",
"CNN's MainSail anchor Shirley Robertson has won two Olympic gold medals in an extremely successful sailing career, but, she has never climbed to the top of a huge mast.",
"Tall task: MainSail host Shirley Robertson takes on the world's biggest aluminium mast .",
"Until now, that is. On this month's MainSail programme, Shirley reaches the top of the tallest aluminium mast in the world - aboard the 56 meter Perini Navi vessel, Salute.",
"The mast reaches a remarkable 250 feet (76 meters) into the air, and even with a small swell and light breeze, the top of the mast can swing through as much as ten meters -- five meters each side -- of its center point.",
"Going up the mast is a dangerous job, but it is also a common necessity on any large yacht -- whether it be to check the rigging or complete a repair.",
"Shirley has to wear all of the appropriate safety equipment for the climb -- which she has to do alone.",
"Fortunately for Shirley, she doesn't have a big fear of heights and she receives some expert instruction, too.",
"Watch Shirley climb the mast » You can also watch the full MainSail show and catch up with the latest news and features on the MainSail homepage."
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"Robertson has never climbed a big mast before this .",
"She takes on the 250 foot mast aboard the 56-meter yacht Salute ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- The YouTube and Carnegie Hall generations collided Wednesday night in New York City as a nearly sold-out audience looked on in amazement.",
"Images from musicians' videos are projected during the YouTube Symphony Orchestra concert in New York.",
"Almost 100 musicians from around the world -- the world's first symphony orchestra comprised of members who auditioned solely online -- played their debut gig.",
"They may have forever changed the audition process in their journey.",
"The YouTube Symphony Orchestra bore a new era of classical performance at Carnegie Hall, and according to a YouTube employee, that's exactly what they wanted to do.",
"\"We hope this is game changing in the sense it redefines audition space, it brings people closer together and lets them collaborate, transcending geographical and linguistic boundaries,\" said marketing manager Ed Sanders.",
"Participants were chosen from more than 3,000 YouTube video submissions from more than 70 countries and territories spanning six continents, according to a press release.",
"Watch orchestra play » .",
"Their YouTube channel has received more than 15 million page views thus far with members hailing from more than 30 countries.",
"The symphony orchestra's members participated in the three-day Classical Music Summit at Julliard and their Carnegie Hall debut served as the finale.",
"Michael Tilson Thomas directed the performance and also served as the artistic adviser and conductor to the orchestra.",
"He refined and nurtured each member through their musical selections online until the entire orchestra met in the real world a few days ago.",
"\"For us it's somewhere between a classical music summit conference and a scout jamboree with an element of speed dating thrown in,\" Thomas said.",
"While some participants traveled from as far as South Korea, Malaysia and Lithuania, bass player Kurt Hinterbichler lives in New York City.",
"A theoretical physicist working on his doctorate at Columbia University, Hinterbichler was enamored at being chosen to participate.",
"\"Carnegie Hall is still sort of the unofficial pinnacle of achievement of the classical music world,\" he said.",
"\"You know once you've made it to Carnegie Hall you've really made it.\"",
"So, how do you get to Carnegie Hall?",
"\"Upload, upload, upload [YouTube videos],\" joked Thomas, updating the old \"practice, practice, practice\" punchline.",
"Violin player Jennifer Lindsay, who is a systems engineer by day, said she was floored when she learned she was selected.",
"\"YouTube gave me this opportunity to perform at Carnegie Hall.",
"There's no other way that someone like me who is not even a professional musician would have ever made it.\"",
"World-renowned composer Tan Dun created a piece especially for the orchestra titled \"Internet Symphony No.",
"1, Eroica.\" Dun told YouTube his inspiration for this piece came from the streets of many international cities.",
"\"On the streets of New York, London, Paris, Beijing, Shanghai, I heard the street noise...then I thought this is the spirit beyond, this is the spirit of today.\"",
"Dun has also created music for the movie \"Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon\" and the Beijing Summer Olympics.",
"The symphony orchestra played to a Carnegie Hall audience that was almost 90 percent of capacity.",
"Audience members seemed to love not only the performance, but the idea as a whole.",
"Peter Newton and his wife were on vacation in New York from London and decided to attend the concert.",
"\"The mixture between the music and democracy... it's interesting that at the end of the day, you bring them together for this performance,\" he said.",
"Aaron Polsky attended the performance in support of his sister, who helped organize it.",
"He was amazed at how limitless the performance seemed.",
"\"I think it's great... there are really no boundaries other than owning a computer and an Internet connection.\"",
"Musicians Lindsay and Hinterbichler both said they had no doubts the event would be a success.",
"\"Absolutely do not underestimate the motivational power of playing at Carnegie Hall,\" Lindsay said.",
"Hinterbichler agreed, \"We've got world class conductors, it will come together.\"",
"In the spirit of YouTube, Travis Threlkel designed videos that accompanied all 15 musical selections.",
"The lights in the room changed from green to red during some segments to match the mood of the selection.",
"Dun said he thought the concert would be a hit with the Internet community.",
"\"The whole world tonight is Googling around what's happening in Carnegie Hall,\" he said.",
"Hinterbichler said he still did not grasp the vast reality of the situation.",
"\"It's going to be one of those life experiences you know.",
"I probably won't know what it means until ten years down the line when I look back at it,\" he said.",
"So, what will the folks at YouTube come up with next?",
"\"There should be a live Internet performance [by the orchestra],\" said Newton, the audience member.",
"After Wednesday night, that certainly seems like a possibility."
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"YouTube Symphony Orchestra played a live concert to an amazed audience .",
"Orchestra assembled from musicians around the world who \"auditioned\" online .",
"So, how do you get to Carnegie Hall?",
"\"Upload, upload, upload videos\""
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"(CNN) -- Police in Boston, Massachusetts, are searching for a man suspected in the murder of one woman and the armed robbery of two others, all of whom, they say, he may have met through their Craigslist ads for personal services.",
"Julissa Brisman, 26, was described as \"a really sweet, goofy, energetic kid.\"",
"Officers discovered New York resident Julissa Brisman, 26, unconscious with multiple gunshot wounds at Boston's Copley Marriott Hotel on Tuesday night.",
"She was transferred to Boston Medical Center, where she died shortly afterward.",
"Police said Brisman, a model, offered massages via Craigslist, a popular online classified ad service.",
"The confrontation between Brisman and her killer seems to have begun as an attempted robbery, police said.",
"\"It appears that there was a struggle between the victim and the suspect in the threshold of the hotel room immediately prior to the shooting,\" the Boston Police Department said in a statement on its Web site.",
"Police speculate the man may also be responsible for the recent robberies of two other young women who offered personal services via Craigslist.",
"Four days before Brisman's slaying, a 29-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint at a Westin Hotel in Boston.",
"Police spokesman Joe Zanola would not disclose the details of her Craigslist ad but said she and Brisman were \"involved in similar professions.\"",
"On Thursday night at a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, Rhode Island, a man tied up and demanded money from a 26-year-old dancer who had posted a Craigslist advertisement, according to Warwick's police chief, Col. Stephen McCartney.",
"The robbery was interrupted when the woman's husband entered the room.",
"After pointing his gun at the husband, the suspect fled, according to McCartney.",
"He said that no conclusions could be made but allowed that the incident \"may be related to similar crimes occurring in the Boston area.\"",
"Matthew Terhune, a photographer who met Brisman when he took pictures of her for a calendar last year, described her as \"just a really sweet, goofy, energetic kid.\"",
"He added that she was enrolled in Alcoholics Anonymous and was contemplating counseling fellow recovering addicts.",
"He had been unaware of her side job as an Internet masseuse.",
"Surveillance videos from the hotel where Brisman was murdered showed a tall, clean-cut young blond man in a black windbreaker leaving the property, said the Boston Police Department, which is asking the public's help in identifying the man.",
"Representatives from Craigslist did not respond to a request for comment."
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"Man may be behind two recent robberies, they say .",
"Boston police seek public's help identifying man on video ."
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"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Is cheese the answer for Cayuga County, New York?",
"Larry Rosenbaum surveys the field where he hopes to build a high-end specialty cheese factory.",
"Like small towns all across America, this agricultural community is suffering, with unemployment approaching 10 percent.",
"Entrepreneur Larry Rosenbaum thinks he can do his part to turn things around.",
"For a decade, the insurance man by trade has been dreaming of building a factory for high-end specialty cheese.",
"One key selling point: His product would meet the strictest standards of the Jewish and Muslim faiths.",
"Rosenbaum says the demand for kosher and halal cheese is high but the selection is slim.",
"So he's been eyeing a plot of barren farmland between Aurelius and Auburn -- two Cayuga towns -- as the future home of a $40 million, 64,000-square-foot factory that would churn out feta and brie.",
"The goal is for his company, Saratoga Cheese Corp., to produce 30 million pounds of cheese in the first year and distribute it domestically and internationally.",
"\"It's the beginning of a trend of bringing back manufacturing industry to New York,\" said Rosenbaum.",
"According to the Public Policy Institute of New York State, manufacturing in New York declined more than 30 percent between 1997 and 2007.",
"Watch Rosenbaum talk about his plans » .",
"Rosenbaum estimates that Saratoga Cheese Corp. would bring 75 factory jobs and 150 temporary construction jobs to the region.",
"Plans also include 50 yeshiva work-study students to be placed on participating farms.",
"In addition, several rabbis and imams would supervise production.",
"If Saratoga Cheese can get off the ground, it could mean a boost for local farmers like Dale Hemminger, who has agreed to supply kosher milk to Saratoga Cheese Corp. Hemminger says it could be a crucial new market for his milk.",
"And though he was at first skeptical of Rosenbaum's plan, Hemminger says he admires Rosenbaum's vision.",
"But that vision is still $10 million short of becoming reality.",
"Rosenbaum has secured $30 million in government grants, loans and private funding, but needs $40 million before Saratoga Cheese Corp. can break ground.",
"Given the recession, securing the final amount is proving no small feat.",
"According to Bill Teator, a board member of Saratoga Cheese Corp., the best-case scenario is a combination of investment by a kosher dairy company and private lending.",
"Teator says that though investors are confident about the business plan, the economic environment makes it tough to secure the needed cash.",
"But support from local lawmakers is abundant.",
"Republican state Sen. Michael Nozzolio is optimistic that Saratoga Cheese Corp. will find a home in his 54th District.",
"And with an estimated $140 million in local revenue hanging in the balance, there's reason to hope.",
"Recession or not, Rosenbaum is steadfast in his belief.",
"For him, it's not a question of if the factory will get built, but when.",
"\"We're not going to quit until we make it,\" says Rosenbaum.",
"It's a persistence that is necessary in a recession that has proved legendary."
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"He sees plot of barren farmland as future home of $40 million feta-and-brie plant .",
"Key selling point: Product would meet strict standards of Jewish, Muslim faiths .",
"He hopes factory can help turn around declines in manufacturing, employment ."
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"(CNN) -- Capt. Richard Phillips, whose capture and dramatic rescue in the pirate-infested waters off the coast of Africa last week captivated the nation, returned home to Vermont on Friday.",
"Capt. Richard Phillips says, \"I'm not the hero.",
"The military is the hero.",
"Thank them.\" Phillips landed shortly after 4:30 p.m. at Burlington International Airport.",
"He was met by family members, who climbed the steps of his plane to greet him.",
"He then strolled across the tarmac with his family, his arm wrapped around his daughter, Mariah, who wiped away tears.",
"\"I just want to thank you for your prayers and support of my family while I was gone,\" Phillips said after landing in Vermont.",
"\"I'm just a bit part. I'm a seaman like all the other seamen out there.\"",
"Watch Phillips' happy homecoming » .",
"Close-up camera shots of Phillips on Friday showed what appeared to be rope burns on his forearms, presumably from being tied by the pirates.",
"Phillips spoke for a short time and mostly thanked the military for saving him.",
"\"I'm not the hero,\" he said. \"The military is the hero.",
"Thank them.\" Watch Phillips thank military, Maersk » .",
"He offered no details of what happened to him during his time as a hostage besides calling it \"indescribable.\"",
"He also took the time to thank crew members on his ship.",
"\"We did it. I told you it wasn't going to be 'if'; it was going to be 'when,' \" he said.",
"\"We did what we were trained to do. We're just seamen. [We] do the best with what we've got, and my crew did an excellent job, and I'm so proud of them that they're all home and they're with their loved ones.\"",
"Watch how crews train for pirate attacks » .",
"He had just completed an 18-hour flight out of Mombasa, Kenya, on a jet owned by Maersk.",
"Family members said they planned to spend some quality time together later Friday at their home in Underhill, Vermont -- Phillips' mother-in-law was making brownies and his best friend planned to bring over chicken pot pie and Phillips' favorite beer, they said.",
"Phillips offered himself as a hostage last week, when four pirates boarded his U.S.-flagged ship, the Maersk Alabama.",
"The pirates held him aboard a lifeboat for several days in a standoff against the U.S. Navy.",
"Navy sharpshooters shot and killed three pirates, freeing Phillips.",
"The other pirate had been taken into custody.",
"The captain's wife, Andrea, also spoke at his homecoming, calling it \"one of the happiest moments of our lives.\"",
"She said she was extremely proud of his bravery, but also acknowledged the captain would say he was just doing his job.",
"\"I have always been proud to call myself an American,\" Andrea Phillips said.",
"\"Today, I'm even prouder.",
"To everyone who has been involved in this that made this day possible, I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart.",
"Through this past week, having Richard back safe was all that my family and I ever wanted.",
"Now our prayers have been answered, and we have a lot of people to thank.\"",
"The 53-year-old Vermont native was praised Thursday by engineer John Cronan, one of the 19 other crew members.",
"\"He went above and beyond the call to ensure our safety,\" Cronan told CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"",
"\"I can't thank that man enough.",
"He is the reason I'm here tonight.\"",
"Watch Cronan tell King about the experience » .",
"Asked whether she wants to see Cronan continue working as a merchant mariner, Cronan's fiancee said it was up to him.",
"\"John and I have an agreement,\" said Heather Giardinelli, who works as a pharmaceutical marketing researcher.",
"\"He doesn't tell me how to do my job, and I won't tell him how to do his.\"",
"Asked whether he plans to return to sea, Cronan said, \"Yes, sir.",
"However, the Staten Island Ferry has become much more appealing.\""
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"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 last of three exclusive reports.",
"The first focused on the violent rules gangs live by and the second looked at how gangsters are honored in death.",
"Forensic investigators and federal police dig bodies out of mass graves in the desert near Juarez.",
"JUAREZ, Mexico (CNN) -- Heat waves shimmer over the desert.",
"A team of forensic experts clad in white overalls excavate three shallow graves.",
"The sand gives up nine bodies -- seven men and two women.",
"At least one of the victims' hands were cuffed behind their back.",
"Others had been trussed up with duct tape.",
"The stale stench reveals that the corpses had been dumped there several days earlier and were decomposing fast.",
"That grisly find in mid-March came a week after thousands more soldiers had been deployed to Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.",
"The arrival of the soldiers and more federal police agents had coincided with a short lull in the killings.",
"Snapping photos of the scene from behind the police line was Lucio Soria, photographer for Juarez's main newspaper, El Diario de Juarez, and its sister paper, PM.",
"PM is a perfect example of Mexico's so-called \"red press,\" newspapers that specialize in covering violence.",
"Soria seems like a perfect ambassador.",
"\"I've gone for a week and a half without taking pictures of dead people.",
"I was thinking 'Hell, what am I going to do?'",
"At this rate I'll end up taking pictures for the social pages,\" he said.",
"Soria realizes snapping pictures of blood and gore may seem heartless.",
"But he stays cheerful, cracking dark jokes with colleagues, all while listening to police communications on a radio scanner and searching for clues about where to find the next drug war victim.",
"\"It might seem ugly, but that's our job,\" Soria said.",
"He and fellow photographers have been busy in recent months.",
"Last year, Juarez became the poster city for Mexico's narco-violence, with more than 1,600 gang killings.",
"Watch musicians play \"narco-ballads\" honoring hitmen » .",
"This year, Mayor Jose Reyes is trying to turn a page on the killings and make Juarez a showcase for solutions.",
"Military and federal police convoys patrol the streets around the clock.",
"Cops armed with AR-15 assault rifles, identities obscured by ski masks, hang off pickup trucks that speed around in twos and threes.",
"Watch cops round up gang suspects » .",
"Soldiers strike a warlike pose behind heavy machine guns mounted on American-made Humvees.",
"Whether it's working depends on whom you ask and how hard you read between the lines.",
"\"I think this is very effective because it closes transport routes for the movement of [cartel] personnel and weapons,\" said a state officer, assigned to guide us, at a federal police checkpoint.",
"The officer, known only by his call sign Trojan One, seemed confident.",
"The agent in command of the checkpoint was less convinced.",
"\"Of course organized crime is trying to avoid us.",
"I'm not sure what methods they use to operate.",
"We don't know how they work,\" said the officer, identifying himself only as Aztec One.",
"On another day we ran into a three-truck federal police operation staking out a house in a middle-class Juarez neighborhood.",
"See photos of police, gang life in Mexico » .",
"The commander said his men believed they had made what he termed a \"major\" cocaine bust.",
"When I met him they had already been waiting almost 24 hours for a judge to issue a search warrant.",
"When they gained access they discovered some 500 half-gram bags of cocaine.",
"In Juarez those bags sell for around $8.",
"Now do the math, 500 half-gram bags at possibly 60 percent purity means around 150 grams of pure cocaine -- hardly a major strike in the drug war.",
"Reyes' solution has been to hand the military all civilian police functions, even down to traffic control.",
"Mexico's military has little experience in urban warfare, little experience in policing and has been unable to shake a decades-old reputation for human rights abuses.",
"When I bump into Reyes at a transfer-of-command ceremony at city hall I ask him what he's doing about alleged corruption and complicity among politicians and businessmen, who permit the cartels to move their shipments and help launder the proceeds.",
"\"My opinion in Juarez is that that kind of political corruption does not exist,\" he said adamantly.",
"Two weeks later, in Monterrey, I caught up with outspoken lawyer Raquenel Villanueva.",
"She knows a thing or two about politicians colluding with Mexico's mafia.",
"Watch how drug lords pay tribute to a highway bandit, looking for luck » .",
"Mexican media have dubbed her the \"devil's advocate\" for her role in defending a string of senior cartel figures and their hitmen.",
"Last year, she was detained for 90 days, accused her of being a member of the Gulf Cartel.",
"She was freed without charge.",
"Throughout her career, she's survived four assassination attempts and taken 10 bullets, two of them in the head.",
"Her office is crammed with religious iconography: crosses, paintings of the Virgin of Guadalupe and a four-foot-high wooden statue of Saint Jude Thaddeus.",
"Two bullets are encrusted in the effigy after the last attempt on her life in 2000.",
"\"I know about official corruption and exactly who is doing what because my clients tell me,\" she said.",
"\"To win the drug war you have to tell the Americans to take better care of their young people, tell them to stop being so cold and materialistic,\" Villanueva lectured.",
"\"Then you have to end corruption and that means changing the government cabinets of half the countries in the world.\""
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"Opinions vary on whether tactics are working .",
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"(CNN) -- An archeological team is set to break new ground in its excavation of an Egyptian temple where doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony may be buried.",
"An excavation of an Egyptian temple my reveal where doomed lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony are buried.",
"A ground-penetrating, radar survey of the temple of Taposiris Magna and its surrounding area, west of Alexandria, was completed in March, following three years of digging, according to a statement from Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities.",
"Taposiris Magna is one of the ancient towns located on Lake Mariut, which is today called Abusir.",
"According to the council, the radar revealed three possible spots of interest where a tomb might be located.",
"Recently, the team discovered a large, previously unknown cemetery outside the temple enclosure.",
"\"The discovery of this cemetery indicates that an important person, likely of royal status, could be buried inside the temple.",
"It was common for officials and other high-status individuals in Egypt to construct their tombs close to those of their rulers throughout the Pharaonic period,\" according to the council.",
"The expedition has so far turned up 27 tombs, 20 of them shaped like vaulted sarcophagi, and seven simple burial chambers that are reached by staircases.",
"Inside these chambers, the team found 10 mummies, two of them gilded.",
"Other discoveries include an alabaster bust of Cleopatra, and 22 coins bearing her \"beautiful\" image, according to council Secretary-General Zahi Hawass.",
"The discovery contradicts some recent reports that describe her as unattractive, he said.",
"\"Among the most interesting finds is a unique mask depicting a man with a cleft chin.",
"The face bears some similarity to known portraits of Mark Antony himself,\" Hawass said.",
"The love story of Antony and Cleopatra has been a favorite theme for writers and filmmakers.",
"The 1963 Oscar-winning movie of the couple starred Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, who themselves became star-crossed lovers.",
"Cleopatra ruled Egypt between 51 B.C.",
"until her suicide in 30 B.C., following Mark Antony's naval defeat against Caesar's adopted son Octavian at Actium in the Mediterranean.",
"Mark Antony, once a general in Caesar's army, killed himself before Cleopatra took her own life, after being falsely informed that Cleopatra already had died."
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"Antony, Cleopatra committed suicide in 31 B.C.",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. State Department threw aside diplomatic language Tuesday, attacking Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for creating what it calls a \"catastrophe\" by throwing many international aid workers out of the country.",
"President Omar al-Bashir ordered the expulsion of aid groups after he was indicted on war crimes charges.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued a direct challenge to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Tuesday, warning that he and his government \"will be held responsible for every single death that occurs in\" the refugee camps of the Darfur region.",
"Al-Bashir ordered the expulsion of 13 international aid groups from the Sudan earlier this month after he was indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes.",
"While other aid groups remain in Sudan, the United Nations said the 13 expelled groups provided roughly half the assistance delivered in Darfur.",
"Nearly 300,000 people have died in the Darfur conflict, and millions are homeless, according to the U.N.",
"Calling the situation in Darfur \"horrendous,\" Clinton said President Obama's administration will appoint a special envoy for Sudan \"in the coming days.\"",
"On Wednesday, retired Air Force Gen. J. Scott Gration was appointed as U.S. special envoy for Sudan, the White House announced in a written statement.",
"\"Sudan is a priority for this administration, particularly at a time when it cries out for peace and for justice.",
"The worsening humanitarian crisis there makes our task all the more urgent,\" President Barack Obama said in the statement.",
"\"General Gration's personal and professional background, and his service to the country as both a military leader and a humanitarian, give him the insights and experience necessary for this assignment.\"",
"Gration, a former fighter pilot, served as assistant deputy undersecretary of the Air Force for international affairs.",
"Fluent in Swahili, he was raised partly in Africa, where his parents were missionary teachers .",
"Clinton said the real question now is what kind of pressure can be brought to bear on al-Bashir and the government in Khartoum to make them understand \"that they will be held responsible for every single death that occurs in those camps.\"",
"State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters, \"It's just a catastrophe that Bashir has created.",
"We're going to continue to make this case and we're imploring others to make this case that he needs to reverse that decision he took.",
"Thousands, hundreds of thousands of people, could possibly be at risk and it's irresponsible, the action he took, and he needs to reverse it and reverse it immediately.",
"People's lives are at risk.\"",
"Clinton said countries that support al-Bashir's expulsion order \"have the responsibility to persuade the government in Sudan to change its decision to let the aid workers back, or they must replace with money and personnel those who have been expelled so that innocent lives are not lost and further undermined.\"",
"Clinton said the United States is \"very concerned\" and is looking for more effective ways to convince the Sudanese government that \"they have assumed an even greater sense of responsibility and infamy in the eyes of the world by turning their backs on these refugees whom they created in the first place.\"",
"Wood said it is clear that Bashir is the sole person at fault.",
"\"Bashir is to blame for this crisis on the ground,\" he said.",
"His actions have only made things a lot worse.",
"We are trying to get him to reverse this decision.",
"We want to call on all those who have influence with the government of Sudan, institutions like the African Union, the Arab League, to do what they can to get Bashir to reverse his decision.\"",
"Obama, during his election campaign, made the crisis in Darfur a major focus.",
"Since then, some have criticized him for putting it on the back burner.",
"Seeking to rebut that view, Wood listed all recent steps the administration has taken to resolve the situation.",
"Last week, he said, Obama discussed the deteriorating situation in Sudan with U.N. Secretary General Ban ki-Moon.",
"U.S. officials have been meeting in New York, Washington and Khartoum with delegations from what Wood called \"like-minded nations.\"",
"Last weekend, the U.S. charge d'affaires in Sudan met with UNAMID (the African Union/United Nations operation in Darfur) and visited a camp for internally displaced people.",
"And last week in New York, U.N.",
"Ambassador Susan Rice spoke with the president of South Sudan and the Sudanese ambassador to the U.N. Wood said the U.S. has been reaching out to the Arab League, the African Union and other countries with influence on Sudan, trying to convince them the decision to expel some aid groups \"not only costs lives but serves to further isolate the country.\"",
"Asked whether the U.S. supports a move to defer the ICC indictment of Bashir, Wood said it does not support \"any deferral.\""
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"LONDON, England -- Painfully hot, they make your eyes water, your heart race and can turn your face embarrassingly red.",
"Chilies have been used for many millenia both for their medicinal benefits and exciting falvor.",
"Once only a staple of cuisine from far flung regions of the world, chilies can now be found in almost any dish around the globe.",
"Last week an Indian woman wolfed down 51 \"ghost chilies,\" -- the world's spiciest -- in two minutes and smeared the seeds on her eyes for an entry into the Guinness World Records.",
"Anandita Dutta Tamuly, 28, achieved the bizarre and fiery undertaking in the Indian north-eastern state of Assam.",
"She was cheered on by British chef Gordon Ramsay, who also attempted a bite of the hot stuff before begging for water.",
"A single seed can cause watering eyes, as well as a burning sensation in the mouth that can last up to five hours.",
"A chili's spiciness is measured in Scoville units; the number of times a chili extract must be diluted in water in order for it to lose its heat.",
"The \"ghost chili\", also known as bhut jolokia, has more than 1 million Scoville units, while Tabasco sauce ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 Scoville units and jalapeno peppers from 2,500 to 8,000 units.",
"Chilies have formed part of the diet in the Americas since approximately 7,500 BC and owe most of their fame to their sometimes unbearably spicy flavor.",
"But they have also long been recognized for their health benefits.",
"Scientific research --and legend-- have attributed health wonders to chilies over the years.",
"Diego Alvarez Chanca, a physician on explorer Christopher Columbus' second voyage to the West Indies in 1493, first wrote about the pepper's medicinal effects back in 1494.",
"Below we look at effects eating chilies has on the body.",
"Skin . Other than for its flavor-enhancing qualities, chili is, oddly enough, used to fight the summer heat.",
"As the chili causes extreme sweating and blood rushing to the face, it cools the body down when the sweat evaporates, making it useful for combating heat.",
"These same heat inducing properties are said to have a cumulative effect and over time are believed to alleviate pain when used in treatments for anything from arthritis and psoriasis to shingles and severe burns.",
"Brain . The substances that give chili peppers their intensity when eaten or applied on the skin are called capsaicinoids.",
"When consumed, capsaicinoids connect with pain receptors in the mouth and throat that are normally responsible for sensing heat.",
"Once activated by the capsaicinoids, these receptors send a message to the brain that the person has consumed something hot.",
"The brain responds to the burning sensation by raising the heart rate, increasing perspiration and releasing endorphins, called the body's \"natural painkillers\" and \"happy hormones.\"",
"Stomach . Chilies have long been associated with soothing the digestive system, by acting as stomach cleansers.",
"According to the UK Food Guide, chili helps to settle stomach upset and encourages the production of good digestive acid.",
"Chili aficionados believe the fruits can also induce weight loss because the substance that makes them \"hot\" speed up the body's metabolism.",
"However, one study by the American Institute of Cancer Research performed in Mexico showed in 2003 that a high consumption of chilies (approximately nine to 25 jalapeno peppers per day) is in fact associated with stomach cancer.",
"Immune system .",
"Red chilies contain high amounts of carotene and vitamin C. It is said that chilies contain more vitamin C than citrus fruits.",
"Chili peppers are also a good source of vitamin B6 and are very high in potassium, magnesium and iron, giving them a reputation for naturally boosting the body's immune system.",
"Heart and other cardiovascular effects .",
"A 2006 study published in the British Journal of Nutrition showed that after adding chili to the diet, bad cholesterol, that can often lead to heart problems, took a longer time to develop into heart diseases."
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"The ghost chili has 1 million Scoville units, the measurement of a chili's heat .",
"Chilies have also long been recognized for their health benefits ."
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"(CNN) -- Cristiano Ronaldo's sixth-minute strike saw holders Manchester United become the first English team to win in Porto, reaching the semifinals of the Champions League 3-2 on aggregate in the process.",
"Ronaldo scores in spectacular style as Manchester United reached the Champions League semis.",
"The European Player of the Year fired a spectacular 35-yard strike into the top corner as United remained on course to become the first team to retain the Champions League -- and will now face Premier League rivals Arsenal for a place in the final in Rome.",
"The stunning goal was Ronaldo's 20th of the season but only his second in the Champions League since scoring the opener in last year's final in Moscow.",
"After drawing the first leg 2-2 at Old Trafford, Porto only needed a low-scoring draw to reach the last four, but in truth they never looked threatening against a United defense superbly marshalled by Nemanja Vidic and the returning Rio Ferdinand.",
"In fact, had Vidic been able to keep his close-range effort under the crossbar after John O'Shea had got the faintest of touches to a Ryan Giggs corner just before the interval, United would surely have completed their task in the first 45 minutes.",
"\"We were very solid at the back tonight and that stability helped us,\" United manager Sir Alex Ferguson told Sky Sports.",
"\"The return of Rio Ferdinand alongside Vidic was a major boost and scoring an early goal helped settle us.",
"It was a great strike by Cristiano and although we didn't score a second goal, I thought we never looked in danger of conceding,\" he added.",
"The result puts Ferguson head-to-head with his old foe, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, for a place in the final against either Chelsea or Barcelona.",
"It also keeps alive United's dreams of claiming an astonishing five trophies this season after also winning the English League Cup and the Club World Cup."
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"Manchester United beat Porto 1-0 to reach the Champions League semifinals .",
"Cristiano Ronaldo scores a sixth-minute stunner to put holders into last four .",
"United become first English team to win in Porto and now face rivals Arsenal ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- Legendary football coach and broadcaster John Madden is retiring, he announced Thursday.",
"John Madden appears at the TV Critics Association Press Tour in Beverly Hills, California, in 2008.",
"\"It's been such a great ride ... the NFL has been my life for more than 40 years, it has been my passion -- it still is,\" he said in a statement released by NBC Sports.",
"Madden, 73, was a Hall of Fame coach for the Oakland Raiders, but is best known to millions as an ebullient football commentator.",
"He won 16 Emmy awards for outstanding sports analyst/personality, NBC said."
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"Legendary football coach and broadcaster John Madden announces he is retiring .",
"\"The NFL has been my life for more than 40 years, it has been my passion,\" he says .",
"Madden is best known to millions as an ebullient football commentator ."
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"(CNN) -- Nearly two centuries ago Wednesday, Massachusetts Gov.",
"Elbridge Gerry signed an obscure redistricting law that helped his party stay in office and, more importantly, codified one of the most enduring legacies in U.S. politics: gerrymandering.",
"The U.S. House of Represenatives, home to many beneficiaries of gerrymandering.",
"Now a part of an American lexicon often heard in Washington's K Street bars and among \"inside-the-beltway\" crowds, the term is seen as a combination of the governor's name and the word \"salamander,\" because of the salamander-like shape one electoral district took on after the redistricting.",
"Elected governor in 1810, Gerry signed the redistricting bill two years later, enabling greater and perhaps disproportionate Republican representation in the Massachusetts legislature.",
"The controversial move has become a favorite across the country among incumbent parties, which pack opposition voters into districts already lost in an effort to minimize the opposition's influence over the state's broader electorate.",
"But some political analysts cry foul.",
"\"In the end, democracy comes out the big loser,\" former federal prosecutor Edward Lazarus wrote in a 2004 column for CNN.",
"\"The effect of such partisan gerrymandering is to block new entrants into high political office and to make the result of almost every congressional election a foregone conclusion.",
"This, in turn, effectively disenfranchises all those voters who don't support the preordained winner,\" he wrote.",
"In 2006, the Supreme Court threw out part of a Texas congressional map, but found the overall redistricting plan orchestrated by House Republicans acceptable.",
"The redistricting helped Republicans in Texas defeat four Democratic congressmen in the 2004 elections.",
"The court ruled that the redistricting plan, promoted by then-U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, unfairly weakened the voting strength of Latinos in two congressional districts.",
"\"A state may not trade off the rights of some members of a racial group against the rights of other members of that group,\" wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy.",
"\"The question is therefore not whether line-drawing in the challenged area as a whole dilutes minority voting strength, but whether line-drawing dilutes the voting strength of the Latinos in [Texas'] District 23.\"",
"The court ordered that District 23 be redrawn.",
"States are constitutionally required to redraw congressional districts every 10 years in line with population shifts documented by the U.S. Census Bureau, a part of the Department of Commerce.",
"This year, controversy re-emerged when President Barack Obama announced a decision to cross party lines and nominate U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg, R-New Hampshire, to run the Commerce Department.",
"The move sparked criticism from leaders of minority groups concerned that the Census Bureau under Gregg, who voted to abolish the Commerce Department in 1995, might lack the resources needed to accurately count minorities.",
"The White House promised to work directly with bureau's director to assuage those concerns, but that response drew further criticism from House Republicans concerned about greater executive influence in the Census Bureau.",
"In a letter to the president, House Republicans Patrick McHenry and Darrell Issa described the White House as \"circumventing the secretary of commerce\" and called it \"both outrageous and unprecedented,\" suggesting the Obama administration could affect U.S. census results and congressional districting due out in 2010.",
"The move, they say, could insulate Democratic congressional power.",
"The White House said it recognizes the importance of an accurate census count \"free from politicization\" and added it \"has not proposed removing the census from the Department of Commerce.\"",
"\"From the first days of the transition, the census has been a priority for the president, and a process he wanted to re-evaluate,\" it said in an earlier statement.",
"The method through which the Census Bureau collects data has long been a topic of partisan bickering.",
"Republicans have generally favored the \"door-to-door\" approach, which actually is done primarily by self-enumeration through the U.S. mail.",
"Democrats commonly prefer a statistical sampling method meant to fill in \"population gaps\" they say occur because some members of minority groups and homeless populations are missed by the door-to-door approach.",
"A 1999 Supreme Court ruling said statistical sampling could not be applied to the redistribution of congressional seats, but it did not put gerrymandering of the political landscape entirely off limits.",
"So, almost 200 years after Elbridge Gerry helped coin the term, gerrymandering remains a key part of American politics.",
"CNN's Bill Mears and Keating Holland contributed to this report."
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"Term coined after Massachusetts Gov.",
"Gerry signed redistricting law in early 1800s .",
"Political parties can use tactic to pack opposition voters into districts already lost .",
"Gerrymandering still a key part of American politics .",
"It's already becoming an issue with the 2010 census looming ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Federal safety officials want the Federal Aviation Administration to immediately ground a type of small sports aircraft, saying six of the planes have broken up in flight in the past three years, killing 10 people.",
"The National Transportation Safety Board questions the safety of the Zodiac CH-601XL.",
"In an urgent letter to the FAA, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board says there is \"substantial circumstantial evidence\" that aerodynamic \"flutter\" preceded some, if not all, of the fatal accidents, and that more accidents are likely to occur if action isn't taken.",
"Flutter is a condition in which airflow around the plane causes unsafe structural vibrations.",
"The vibrations can quickly cause the plane to break up if it is not sufficiently dampened, the safety board said.",
"The aircraft involved is the Zodiac CH-601XL, a single-engine, two-seater that was designed by Zenair Inc.",
"It is built by various manufacturers and also sold as a kit.",
"In making its recommendation, the safety board said it reviewed six fatal accidents, including crashes in Spain and the Netherlands, and said flutter is the likely cause of the accidents.",
"The board said it also considered other incidents that did not result in deaths.",
"The NTSB said two other countries, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, have grounded the aircraft.",
"The FAA had no immediate response to the safety board's recommendation.",
"A Zenair official did not immediately return a reporter's phone call.",
"But the NTSB letter says Zenair contends that the flutter problem can be addressed by proper cable tension, and asserted that a November 2005 certification flight test confirmed the plane is protected from flutter.",
"But the safety board said the type of testing used may not be adequate to uncover all susceptibility to flutter.",
"The NTSB said the FAA certified the CH-601XL as a Special Light Sport Aircraft in 2005.",
"This type of certification does not require that the FAA approve the airplane's design.",
"Instead, the airplane model is issued an airworthiness certificate if the manufacturer asserts that the plane meets industry-accepted design standards and has passed a series of ground and flight tests.",
"The safety board is asking the FAA to prohibit further flight of the Zodiac CH-601XL until the board can determine that the airplane is no longer susceptible to aerodynamic flutter.",
"\"The NTSB does not often recommend that all airplanes of a particular type be prohibited from further flight,\" NTSB Acting Chairman Mark V. Rosenker said in writing comments.",
"\"In this case, we believe such action will save lives.",
"\"Unless the safety issues with this particular Zodiac model are addressed, we are likely to see more accidents in which pilots and passengers are killed in airplanes that they believed were safe to fly.\"",
"The safety board also found that the stick-force gradient -- a measure of the force applied to the control stick and the increase in lift that results -- was not uniform throughout the range of motion, particularly at high vertical accelerations or increased gravitational forces.",
"The lessening of the gradient at high gravitational force could make the airplane susceptible to being inadvertently over-controlled by the pilot, which could create a condition in which the airplane is stressed beyond its design limits, leading to an in-flight structural failure.",
"CNN's Mike M. Ahlers contributed to this report."
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"National Transportation Safety Board questions safety of the Zodiac CH-601XL .",
"Officials: Six planes have broken up in flight in past three years, killing 10 people .",
"Zenair, designer of plane, has said proper cable tension addresses issue .",
"FAA had no immediate response to the safety board's recommendation ."
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