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[ "LIMA, Peru (CNN) -- Doctors in Peru started a 48-hour strike Tuesday over pay and other benefits they say the government agreed to last year but has not delivered.", "The Medical Federation of Peru's Julio Vargas says, \"The stoppage ... will require the cooperation of all doctors.\"", "The doctors' union, the Medical Federation of Peru, called the strike after meeting Monday with Prime Minister Yehude Simon, news sources reported.", "\"The stoppage that we will implement ... will require the cooperation of all doctors and that they suspend their external consults, although we will reinforce intensive and emergency care,\" union President Julio Vargas was quoted as saying in El Comercio newspaper.", "Health Minister Oscar Ugarte said the government has complied with all the agreements reached last year and the doctors have no reason to strike, RPP radio reported.", "Ugarte also warned doctors they will not be paid while on strike, the Andina news agency and El Comercio said.", "\"You can't stop working and later come and say, 'Pay me,' \" Ugarte said in El Comercio.", "\"That is immoral and does not conform with professional ethics.\"", "At issue are pay for special work and more equal pay among state doctors, the news reports said.", "Salaries for doctors in Peru have decreased to one-fourth of 1976 levels, The Lancet professional medical journal reported in May 2008.", "As a result, physicians often hold two or more jobs to make ends meet.", "An average doctor's salary in Lima, the capital, is the equivalent of $670 a year, The Lancet said.", "A 2007 survey of 202 interns in Lima showed that 38 percent were thinking about migrating to a developed country to practice medicine, the publication said.", "Salary was one of the main reasons given." ]	[ "Doctors' union calls for 48-hour strike after meeting with Peru's prime minister .", "Doctors say government has failed to deliver on agreements last year .", "Health minister says doctors have no reason to go on strike .", "Medical journal: Salaries for doctors have decreased to one-fourth of 1976 levels ." ]	[ 2, 4, 9 ]
[ "SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (CNN) -- Search operations resumed Monday for six U.S. citizens missing since their small plane crashed Sunday evening off the north coast of Puerto Rico.", "The U.S. Coast Guard found debris late Sunday night in the area where the single-engine Cessna 206 went down, half a nautical mile from the shoreline of the city of Quebradillas.", "But despite five searches Sunday and two others throughout the night, rescue crews were not able to find the pilot or the five passengers from the plane, the Coast Guard said Monday.", "Three searches are planned for Monday, said Coast Guard spokesman Ricardo Castrodad.", "The private plane, chartered by Tropical Aviation Corp., took off from the Dominican Republic and was on its way to an airport in Puerto Rico when it went down Sunday evening, officials said.", "Three male and two female passengers were returning to Puerto Rico after spending the weekend in the Dominican Republic, said Noemi Corporan, service manager for Tropical Aviation Corp.", "The passengers were San Juan residents and had flown to the Dominican Republic on Friday, she said.", "Four HH-65 Dolphin helicopters from Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen and the Coast Guard Cutter Matinicus are taking part in the search, said spokesman Castrodad.", "The airplane took off from Casa de Campo International Airport in the Dominican Republic and was supposed to land at the Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport in Carolina to clear U.S. Customs before going on to the Isla Grande Airport in San Juan, the Coast Guard said.", "A 911 emergency operator notified the Coast Guard at 6:51 p.m. Sunday that an aircraft had crashed into the waters off Quebradillas.", "The debris field was found around 10:30 p.m." ]	[ "NEW: Three searches are planned for Monday, according to Coast Guard .", "Coast Guard found debris that might come from downed Cessna .", "Rescue crews have yet to find Americans despite seven searches .", "The pilot and five passengers took off from the Dominican Republic ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Capt.", "Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger's run-in with a flock of Canada geese may be the most famous man-versus-nature story in recent months.", "But a federal database opened to the public Friday reveals just how commonplace airplanes' encounters with wildlife are.", "A feather found inside one of the engines of the plane that ditched in the Hudson River.", "At New York's LaGuardia Airport, where Sullenberger's US Airways flight originated, planes hit birds nearly once a week on average, according to the records.", "But the number has grown from 16 hits in 1990 to 86 in 2008, according to the database.", "Nationwide, there were 98,328 reports of aircraft striking birds or other wildlife since January of 1990, although the actual numbers probably are far higher.", "The Federal Aviation Administration said only 20 percent of incidents are reported under the voluntary system of data collection.", "The database shows strikes resulted in \"substantial damage\" to aircraft on about 3,000 occasions.", "Eleven people died in incidents relating to bird strikes.", "The FAA initially fought to keep its database closed, saying publication of the details might discourage the industry from reporting information.", "After it was made public, an airline industry organization was quick to say the data could wrongly lead some people to believe flying is unsafe.", "\"While bird strikes have attracted a lot of attention, they are, of course, rare events.", "The vast majority of cases result in little or no aircraft damage,\" said the Air Transport Association of America.", "A top pilots union -- the Air Line Pilots Association -- also had argued to keep the database closed.", "But the National Transportation Safety Board recommended opening up the data to the public.", "It also says reporting wildlife strikes should be mandatory.", "\"If you strike a bird you really don't have to report this to the FAA, which means we're really not getting the full picture,\" said Mark Rosenker, acting chairman of the safety board.", "The database includes information on more than 2,000 airports and 500 airlines and aircraft companies.", "When possible, it identifies the types of wildlife involved, chronicling the misadventures of 460 species.", "While bird strikes account for the majority of the mishaps, the database contains numerous aircraft encounters with deer, moose, caribou and even fish.", "According to the records, a fish hit a US Airways aircraft landing in Warwick, Rhode Island, in May of 2000.", "The fish had been dropped by an osprey.", "The FAA opted to make the database public after being pelted with criticism from passengers, media organizations and the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates crashes.", "Interest in aviation bird strikes has been heightened by several recent incidents in addition to Sullenberger's flight -- the January 15 ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York's Hudson River.", "All on board survived.", "The transportation safety board says a bird strike may have preceded the crash of a Sikorsky helicopter near Morgan City, Louisiana, just 11 days earlier.", "The crash killed eight of the nine people aboard." ]	[ "Planes hit birds nearly once a week on average at LaGuardia Airport .", "Number has grown from 16 hits in 1990 to 86 in 2008, the database shows .", "Strikes resulted in \"substantial damage\" to aircraft on about 3,000 occasions .", "Officials say database likely only includes 20 percent of actual strikes ." ]	[ 4, 5, 8 ]
[ "COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Colombo has been hit by a second bomb blast in only 24 hours following the fall of the Tamil Tigers' capital to government troops.", "Police and army officials at the site of a suicide bombing in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo Friday.", "Two people were wounded and a store damaged in the Petard commercial district Saturday.", "A day earlier a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up outside an air force headquarters in Colombo, killing two air force police officers and a member of the bomb-disposal unit.", "Another 30 people were injured.", "The attacks come after President Mahinda Rajapaksa urged the Tigers to lay down their arms and end a quarter-century of civil war.", "He made his call after government troops retook the separatists' capital, Kilinochchi.", "In a televised statement Friday evening, Rajapaksa called the recapture of Kilinochchi \"a victory against separatism.\"", "\"The time is not far off when people of the north can breathe freedom again,\" Rajapaksa said.", "He invited the Tigers -- who have fought for an independent homeland for Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority since 1983 -- to surrender as government troops closed in on their last remaining strongholds.", "Rajapaksa's announcement was met with fireworks in Colombo, and Friday's news prompted celebrations in other cities as well.", "The Tamil Tigers ran a parallel administration from Kilinochchi with their own police force, courts, prisons and taxes, and they had declared government plans to retake the city a \"daydream.\"", "But after Sri Lanka launched a new offensive against the rebels in the fall, the insurgents moved their nerve center and logistics bases to Mullaitivu, on the northeastern coast.", "Sri Lankan troops have been on the outskirts of Kilinochchi, about 580 km (360 miles) north of Colombo, for more than a month.", "They took a key highway junction and a town outside the city Thursday.", "The civil war has left more than 65,000 people dead.", "The U.S. State Department has designated the Tamil Tigers a terrorist organization." ]	[ "Suicide bomber strikes in Colombo, injuring two and damaging store .", "Second blast in the capital in 24 hours following capture of rebel capital .", "President Mahinda Rajapaksa calls on rebels to lay down arms ." ]	[ 0, 2, 5 ]
[ "CNN -- Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world, particularly in developing countries.", "Tobacco use is one of the largest causes of cancer in the world.", "In 2008 a report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer revealed that, until recently, cancer was considered a disease of westernized, industrialized countries.", "Today the situation has changed dramatically, with the majority of the global cancer cases now found in the developing world.", "However, myths and misconceptions about cancer still abound.", "Below CNN's Vital Signs has compiled facts from the World Health Organization about this killer disease.", "-- There are more than 100 types of cancers; any part of the body can be affected.", "-- Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide: In 2007, it accounted for 7.9 million deaths (around 13 per cent of all deaths) in 2007.", "-- The five most common types of cancer that kill men worldwide are (in order of frequency): lung, stomach, liver, colorectal and esophagus.", "-- While for women worldwide the five most common types of cancer are: breast, lung, stomach, colorectal and cervical.", "-- About 72 per cent of all cancer deaths in 2007 occurred in low- and middle-income countries.", "-- Deaths from cancer worldwide are projected to continue rising, with an estimated 12 million deaths in 2030.", "-- The WHO estimates that 30 per cent of cancers can be prevented, mainly by not using tobacco, having a healthy diet and being physically active.", "-- Tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause of cancer in the world.", "-- A third of cancers could be cured if detected early and treated adequately.", "-- A fifth of all cancers in the world are caused by a chronic infection, for example human papillomavirus (HPV) causes cervical cancer and hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes liver cancer.", "Source: The World Health Organization ." ]	[ "The majority of cancer cases are now found in developing countries .", "72 per cent of all cancer deaths in 2007 occurred in poorer countries .", "By 2030, WHO estimates there will be 12 million cancer related deaths worldwide .", "A third of cancers can be cured if detected early and treated adequately ." ]	[ 3, 10, 11, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Same-sex couples in California may be able to obtain marriage licenses on June 17, state officials said Wednesday.", "Marriage licenses for same-sex couples may be available in June, officials said.", "The California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional in a May 15 ruling, clearing the way for the state to become the second to legalize such marriages.", "The state Department of Public Health -- which serves as State Registrar and oversees vital records -- said in an announcement that June 16 is the last day the state Supreme Court can rule on any requests for re-hearing.", "It released new marriage license forms for counties to use beginning the following day.", "The new forms, which were also released, have lines for \"Party A\" and \"Party B.\"", "However, the \"general information\" page for California marriage licenses still stated as of Wednesday that \"only an unmarried male and an unmarried female may marry in California.\"", "The California Supreme Court issued the ruling in a consolidated case involving several gay and lesbian couples, along with the city of San Francisco and gay rights groups.", "A lower court had ruled San Francisco acted illegally in issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2004.", "In its 4-3 ruling, the state Supreme Court called marriage a \"basic civil right.\"", "Opponents of same-sex marriage have said a constitutional marriage amendment should be placed on the November ballot, and that national efforts should be made to generate a federal marriage amendment.", "A constitutional amendment initiative that would specify marriage is only between a man and a woman is awaiting verification by the California Secretary of State's office after its sponsors said they had gathered enough signatures to place it on a statewide ballot.", "Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriages in 2004, and gay couples need not be state residents there to wed.", "However, then-Gov.", "Mitt Romney resurrected a 1913 law barring non-resident marriages in the state if the marriage would be prohibited in the partners' home state.", "Subsequent court and agency decisions have determined that only residents of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Mexico may marry in Massachusetts, unless the parties say they plan to relocate there after the marriage.", "New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey and Connecticut permit civil unions, while California has a domestic-partner registration law.", "More than a dozen other states give same-sex couples some legal rights, as do some other countries." ]	[ "Court officials said licenses could be given out next month .", "California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage .", "That ruling earlier this month found the ban unconstitutional .", "June 16 is the last day the state Supreme Court can rule on a re-hearing ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan launched an offensive against the Taliban on Saturday, the biggest military push against militants in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region since a civilian government took power in March.", "A Pakistan army vehicle patrols a troubled district of South Waziristan, in the northwest of Pakistan.", "Army spokesman Gen. Athar Abbas said the operation occurred in the Khyber section of the tribal region, west of Peshawar, the capital of the North-West Frontier Province.", "And it comes as the new administration announced that it would get tough with radicals in the region.", "There had been reports that Peshawar was being threatened by militants.", "Although Abbas said the reports were exaggerated, the military determined that the conditions in the area necessitated action.", "Troops cleared three militant outposts and pushed the insurgents west, Abbas said.", "There were no immediate reports of militant resistance or any casualties.", "The area is not far from the Afghan-Pakistan border.", "The Taliban militant movement has a strong presence in the tribal region and in neighboring Afghanistan, and there also have been numerous attacks on that restive border in recent weeks.", "U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said this week that he hopes a newly announced Pakistani effort to clamp down on Islamic militants in its northwestern tribal districts will improve the situation in Afghanistan.", "\"What has happened is that as various agreements have been negotiated or were in the process of negotiation with various groups by the Pakistani government ... the pressure was taken off of these people and these groups, and they've therefore been more free to be able to cross the border and create problems for us,\" he said at the Pentagon.", "Meanwhile, the the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan reported that 32 militants had been killed two days ago during Afghan and coalition operations in southern Afghanistan.", "The fighting occurred in Uruzgan province and the report comes amid Pentagon warnings of a \"resilient insurgency\" by the Taliban.", "Afghan and coalition forces were ambushed Thursday during a patrol.", "They returned fire and called in airstrikes that killed three militants.", "Soon after, the militants again attacked the patrol.", "The forces then killed 29 insurgents.", "\"During this engagement, insurgents attempted to disguise themselves in women's clothing in order to escape,\" the coalition said.", "A child and two police officers were wounded.", "This is the latest report of fighting across Afghanistan, where there has been an uptick in Taliban militant activities in the south, the east, and the Afghan-Pakistan border region.", "On Friday, a coalition service member was killed in Farah province.", "The death toll of U.S. and allied troops killed in Afghanistan in June has reached 40, the highest monthly toll of the war.", "Also, NATO's International Security Assistance Force were attacked in Paktika and Kunar provinces.", "Strikes in Kunar killed two civilians and wounded 11 others.", "Insurgents in both Pakistan and Afghanistan fired rockets at the Paktika base, but there were no casualties reported.", "A Pentagon report on security in Afghanistan underscored the tenacity of the Taliban.", "It said that although there has been some progress in battling the Taliban, setbacks are expected.", "Although NATO and Afghan force operations kept the insurgency down in 2007 by killing or capturing key leaders and clearing out Taliban safe havens, the report predicted that the Taliban would be back in 2008." ]	[ "Pakistani forces launch major offensive against Taliban fighters in Khyber region .", "Military action is first taken by new government amid concern over threat to Peshawar .", "32 militants killed in clashes with coalition forces in Afghanistan, coalition says ." ]	[ 0, 4, 12, 17 ]
[ "FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CNN) -- Richard Barboza sits behind the steering wheel, patiently working a crossword puzzle.", "There's no rush. Time is one thing Barboza has plenty of.", "Richard Barboza, left, and John Nilsen are among those struggling in the current economic recession.", "It's just after sun-up. The streaks of light shimmer off the car windows.", "In the back of the Ford Explorer John Nilsen stirs.", "This is home. Clothes are kept in a suitcase.", "Food is wherever they can find it.", "\"It's definitely not something that you ever see yourself being, homeless,\" Nilsen says.", "But homeless they have been for the past six weeks, ever since the money ran out and they were evicted from the Fort Lauderdale, Florida, apartment they shared.", "Nilsen had lost his job, and Barboza is waiting for disability checks to start arriving.", "The line of homeless men and women has already started to form at the food bank when the two men walk up.", "The faces are always the same, with a few more added every day.", "Michael is a regular.", "He makes grasshoppers out of palm fronds, then sells them when he can for whatever he can get.", "James says he once played professional football for the Miami Dolphins.", "No one believes him.", "Nilsen and Barboza wait quietly for their turn to get in the front door.", "\"There's a lot of emotional and mental turmoil when you're in a situation like this,\" Nilsen says.", "Breakfast at the Cooperative Feeding Program is rushed.", "There are so many to feed. Seats at the tables are a premium.", "Nilsen and Barboza eat quickly their meal of sausage patties, an orange wedge, some cake and coffee.", "They want to get moving.", "It's back in the car and off to the County Library.", "They can charge their cell phone there and use the public computers for an hour.", "Nilsen checks Facebook to see how his friends are doing That's how he stays in touch.", "The two men then begin searching for places to rent on Florida's West Coast.", "\"Big old double-wide trailer,\" Nilsen snickers.", "A two-bedroom catches their eyes.", "\"I like the location,\" whispers Nilsen, \"It's just north of Tarpon Springs.\"", "If they can get enough money together, Barboza says they'd like to get out of Fort Lauderdale.", "\"After having spent 20 years here I'm due for a change anyway.\"", "Nilsen agrees.", "\"We've agreed that we're going to go together, that we're going to stick together.", "We've been through enough as it is. It's easier to have someone you trust with you when you're in a situation like this.\"", "In the afternoons, the two men try making a few bucks.", "Nilsen got $25 for participating in a food tasting.", "Barboza has an opportunity to be in a focus group that will pay him $75.", "Nilsen had been donating plasma twice a week, but now that he's homeless they can't use him anymore.", "Barboza made about $20 by panhandling on an Interstate 95 exit ramp for about an hour.", "He stopped after some other homeless men threatened to kill him for working their turf, he says.", "It's not easy finding work when your address is a license plate number.", "For Nilsen and Barboza, it's doubly difficult.", "Both men have disabilities.", "Barboza was injured in a car wreck.", "Nilsen had a blood clot in his right leg when he was 16.", "He walks with a limp and uses a cane.", "\"When we pull ourselves out of this,\" Nilsen says, \"it's gonna be something you can look back on and draw from and say, 'You know what, if I was able to get through that ...' \" The long days together living in a car don't allow for much space and not much alone time.", "\"We're at the point now when I know when not to say anything and he knows not to say anything.", "And he knows when I'm in a bad mood,\" Nilsen says with a laugh.", "\"He's got his strengths and weaknesses,\" adds Barboza, \"and I've got mine.", "We balance each other out.\" By the time five o'clock rolls around, the two are getting hungry.", "There was no lunch today.", "A nearby church is serving dinner.", "It's time to stand in another line.", "They know most of the people here from breakfast at the Cooperative.", "Many are longtime homeless.", "\"If they know better than I do how to survive, then let me ask and let me get the knowledge I need to survive for however long it's gonna be,\" Nilsen says.", "Outside the church a van pulls up The homeless are handed bags of toiletries.", "You take what you can get because you don't know how long it's gonna be before you get more, Nilsen says.", "A sliver of a moon shines now.", "\"The toughest part of the day for us,\" Barboza says, \"is once it gets dark until we go to the place where we sleep at night.\"", "For the next few hours the two men drive the neon sign-lit Fort Lauderdale streets.", "There are very few places, they say, where they can stop and park without police chasing them off.", "Once in a while they pull into a local park for a couple hours until the lights on the fields are turned off and the gates closed.", "At least here, they're not wasting gas.", "Every night is a challenge making it until 11 p.m., they say, when they can finally drive to their secret spot and bed down in the back of the old SUV." ]	[ "Two men evicted from their apartment when their money ran out .", "Home for the disabled pair is now an old Ford Explorer .", "Men wait in line with other homeless people for free meals .", "They say police often chase them off when they park their vehicle ." ]	[ 4, 8, 10, 16, 62, 65 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Luciano Pavarotti died Thursday at the age of 71 after suffering from pancreatic cancer.", "I-Report contributors shared their memories of the famed opera tenor.", "Here is a selection of those stories: .", "Annamaria Capicchioni shared this snapshot from the 1993 Pavarotti San Marino Grand Prix in Modena, Italy.", "Leslie Oakley of Davenport, Florida I grew up in a small town in Kentucky where opera didn't exactly fit in the scheme of things.", "My family wasn't at all musical either but seeing as though I took an interest in it, my parents indulged me with opera recordings.", "One of the first ones I received was The Three Tenors.", "Luciano Pavarotti was to me what Michael Jordan was to other children.", "He was my hero. I even did a report on him one year in high school.", "I can remember sitting in my room listening to his voice, closing my eyes and seeing the operas unfold in my mind.", "He inspired me to teach myself to sing, and I went on to win awards in high school and to sing for three professional groups out of college.", "Singing has enriched my life immeasurably, and I owe it all to that beautiful voice that so entranced me as a child.", "I have many fond memories of Pavarotti.", "His voice always moves me to tears.", "It is the feeling of being given a glimpse of the divine that I will most remember about him.", "My prayers and thoughts are with his family and friends.", "There will never be another Pavarotti.", "Edmund Chua of Singapore Maestro's voice was truly a blessing.", "That exciting, that fascinating quality, that, sigh ... too many adjectives.", "Of course, there was that unforgettable personality.", "Personally, (don't know if this is a right thing to say but) I saw Italy in him, so to speak, always loving life.", "Knew he was fighting cancer but always thought he'd recover.", "I was hoping I'd be able to watch him live but I guess it'll only be in the footage.", "He's indeed a legend lost, a legacy remembered.", "... We'll miss him. Tina Minges of Woodland, California I never cared for opera ... then I heard Pavarotti ... and from that point I loved it.", "Sandra Miser of Dallas, Texas I consider him the greatest singer ever.", "His voice had a quality like no others.", "I cried going to work this morning when I heard he was gone.", "When I listen to his music I can disappear into the beauty of it and be a peace.", "He will be greatly missed.", "Thank goodness for CDs so that we will never be without his voice.", "George Wendy of Eatons Neck, New York We had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Pavarotti sing a few times.", "His recital with James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera House was remarkable.", "I could not imagine feeling more emotion from listening to someone sing.", "Ciao, Luciano!", "Shannon Broussard of Springfield, Missouri Heaven now has a tenor for its choir.", "Chris Nissen of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania I heard Pavarotti perform twice in Philadelphia during the years he sponsored an operatic competition for young performers.", "I still have goose bumps thinking about the brilliance of those two evenings.", "Not only was his performance breathtaking, but his genuine joy in sharing the stage with the winners of the competition was obvious and written all over his face with a grand smile.", "Whenever I need to feel inspired with my own work I go and dig out my Pavarotti CDs.", "Bravo to the great one!", "Reynaldo O. Arcilla, Philippines Even Mt.", "Etna wept when Luciano Pavarotti, one of the greatest opera singers of all time, died.", "Marelize, South Africa In the mid-'90s, Luciano Pavarotti came to South Africa and performed in the town of Stellenboch.", "It was a very exclusive open-air concert.", "The tickets were very expensive and all the rich and famous in South Africa were there.", "Next to the stadium is a river that runs through the town.", "On the night, crowds of people gathered along the banks of the river.", "Like me, they could not afford the concert.", "From where we stood we could see the beautiful mountains, see the lights of the stadium and we could not see him, but we could hear his amazing voice.", "I looked at the people around me, they all had an expression of sheer wonder on their faces.", "He gave us all a wonderful gift that night.", "I will never forget it!", "He made us fall in love with opera!", "Edgardo J. Tria Tirona, Philippines This great tenor's death is like the dimming of a star at the break of dawn.", "But, as in the final strains of Nessun Dorma \"All'alba vincero!\"", "- at daybreak, he [again] conquers!", "The world's loss is now heaven's gain.", "Barry, New York City As a former employee of the New York Metropolitan Opera, it was my pleasure and \"thrill of a lifetime\" to watch and listen to \"the Maestro\" sing from the wings of the stage.", "I still get goose bumps thinking about that glorious voice, golden tenor.", "Ozonato, Kuala Lumpur Luciano Pavarotti's death was a shock, I attended his concerts in Hong Kong (SAR) 2005.", "Wife Nicoletta Mantovani [and his] daughters should have courage to bear the loss.", "I like the power of his strength of music.", "He was famous during his lifetime, may he rest in the Lord.", "Mario Rizzotti of Lincolnwood, Illinois ARRIVEDERCI GRANDE LUCIANO!!!!!!", "In your honor all the opera houses in USA should have the Half-Staff Flag.", "Sei stato grande.", "Your Italian Friends that fell in love with your singing and used your singing to make ladies fall in love, will always remember you.", "Now you rest in peace you can say:\" VINCEROOOOOOOOO.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Opera singer Luciano Pavarotti died Thursday at his home in Modena, Italy .", "CNN.com readers recall the tenor's \"amazing voice\" and \"strength\" of music .", "\"The world's loss is now heaven's gain,\" one user writes ." ]	[ 0, 57, 62 ]
[ "(CNN) -- For actress Kyra Sedgwick, it's the public's approval that makes it worth being away from her family for six months to tape her critically acclaimed series \"The Closer.\"", "Kyra Sedgwick and her husband, Kevin Bacon, at the 66th annual Golden Globe Awards this month.", "But she may be getting more approval from her peers, too.", "Sedgwick will walk the red carpet again Sunday night at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, where she is nominated for a fourth consecutive year for outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series for her role as Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson.", "She's also won a Golden Globe for her performance, in 2007.", "The TNT series resumes Monday night where it left off in September with what Sedgwick called \"a fantastic five episodes.\"", "(TNT is a unit of Time Warner, as is CNN.)", "\"I said to the writers, 'I really want a lot of personal stuff for Brenda,' \" Sedgwick said.", "\"I feel like there's some of those personal quiet moments with her alone, is something that I've been missing as an actor, and I feel like the audience has been missing, too.", "\"She is such a complicated, fascinating character, and watching her growth and lack of growth is something that is really interesting,\" she said.", "When CNN asked whether the new episodes might include a wedding for her character, Sedgwick laughed.", "\"That might very well happen,\" she said.", "\"That's pretty insightful of you.", "I'm just going to just say that.\" A marriage for Brenda Johnson would be \"a complicated, difficult situation,\" she said, because \"she's basically married to her work.\"", "Sedgwick's job also complicates her real-life marriage to Bacon, since the show is produced in Los Angeles and the couple lives in Connecticut with their two children.", "That's where the approval -- whether on the street from fans or at award shows -- has \"been a wonderful phenomenon for me,\" she said.", "\"On a personal level, that's really good for me, because I really miss my family when I'm working on the show six months in L.A.,\" she said.", "\"As much as I try to get my kids to move to L.A. and my husband, they just wouldn't have it.", "\"It's challenging, and I'm glad that people are watching, because otherwise it would be kind of hard to go to work,\" Sedgwick said.", "Sedgwick has moved into an executive producer's role on the show, which she said she expects to continue for at least two more years.", "\"I love being with a group where there's not a power struggle,\" she said.", "\"I have a lot of say, and I always have.", "And that feels really good.\"", "CNN Radio's Jackie Howard contributed to this report ." ]	[ "TNT resumes Sedgwick's series \"Closer\" where it left off in September .", "Sedgwick is also up for two SAG awards Sunday .", "Sedgwick expects to be in the executive producer's role for at least two more years ." ]	[ 4, 5, 19 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Several hundred Sri Lankan Tamil protesters shouted slogans at the British Parliament for a second day Tuesday, urging it to act to end the \"genocide\" against their people in Sri Lanka.", "Police clash with Tamil protesters outside the Houses of Parliament.", "\"Stop the genocide!\"", "they shouted. \"Stop the war!\" They waved the red flag of Tamil Eelam, the Tamils' traditional homeland in northern and eastern Sri Lanka.", "The flag is emblazoned with a yellow roaring tiger.", "Most of the protesters slept overnight on the streets around Parliament Square after beginning their unauthorized protest Monday afternoon.", "At one point, the protesters blocked the street leading to Westminster Bridge over the River Thames, police said.", "That led to road closures around Parliament.", "By Tuesday morning, a solid ring of police had hemmed the protesters in Parliament Square across the street from the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben.", "Roads were open again, but the protest and police presence caused traffic congestion in the area.", "Hariram Shan, 24, is a Sri Lankan Tamil who said he has lived in Britain for six years.", "He said the protesters hope the British government will intervene to stop Sri Lanka's crackdown on Tamil Tiger rebels, which he said harms civilians.", "\"They can force economic sanctions,\" Shan told CNN.", "Dushyanthy Sukumar, 47, said the Sri Lankan government is retaliating against innocent civilians.", "\"The Sri Lankan government has now cornered the rebels, the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam), and what they are doing is killing the people,\" she said.", "Sukumar, who said she has lived in Britain since leaving her homeland in 1987, said she is angry at the British government for supporting Sri Lanka.", "\"The Sri Lankan government is doing their dirty work through this government,\" she said.", "The Sri Lankan military said Sunday that it had captured the last rebel stronghold and killed five rebel leaders after three days of gunbattles.", "It said more rebels could still be hiding in a 20-square-kilometer \"safety zone,\" but that it would not enter the area because it is home to some 50,000 people.", "The Tamil Tigers have fought since 1983 for an independent homeland for the country's ethnic Tamil minority.", "The civil war has left more than 70,000 people dead." ]	[ "Several hundred Tamil protesters demonstrate outside UK parliament .", "Protesters urge UK lawmakers to \"act to end the genocide in Sri Lanka\"\nTamil Tiger separatists have fought since 1983 for an independent homeland .", "Sri Lankan military said Sunday it had captured last rebel stronghold ." ]	[ 0, 17, 19 ]
[ "Iceland's new prime minister wants her country to join the European Union and adopt the euro as its official currency to help lift the Nordic nation from financial ruin, a spokesman said Tuesday.", "Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir took office earlier this week.", "The announcement by Johanna Sigurdardottir, 66, came just two days after she was sworn in as prime minister and a week after the Cabinet resigned in the fallout from Iceland's financial collapse.", "She is Iceland's first female prime minister and the world's first openly gay leader.", "Iceland has been in political turmoil since October, when its currency, stock market and leading banks crashed amid the global financial crisis.", "The island nation's Nordic neighbors sent billions of dollars to prop up the economy, as did the International Monetary Fund in its first intervention to support a Western European democracy in decades.", "Sigurdardottir touted EU membership at a joint news conference Tuesday with Finance Minister Steingrimur Sigfusson, whose Left-Green Movement teamed up with the prime minister's Social Democratic Alliance to form the new two-party minority government.", "The Alliance party was until recently the only movement in Iceland's five-party parliament to push EU membership as a viable way to rescue Iceland's suffering economy.", "However, Sigfusson and his party aren't convinced that the country should join the EU's 27 other members.", "Instead, he said he is considering a monetary union with Norway, meaning Iceland would adopt the Norwegian krone as its currency.", "Iceland's newly instated minority government will only be in power for 80 days and elections are scheduled for April 25.", "Until then, no decisions about the country possibly joining the European Union will be made -- though the question could be important during the elections, Sigurdardottir's spokesman, Kristjan Kristjansson, said.", "CNN's Per Nyberg contributed to this report." ]	[ "No decision on joining EU will be made before April elections .", "Prime minister wants nation to adopt euro as official currency .", "Iceland's stock market, banks crashed last autumn during financial crisis ." ]	[ 0, 4, 11 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized Friday for a department assessment that suggested returning combat veterans could be recruited by right-wing extremist groups.", "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says she offered her \"sincere apologies for any offense.\"", "She met with American Legion National Commander David Rehbein at Homeland Security headquarters.", "\"The secretary started the meeting with an apology to me personally, to the American Legion and to the entire veterans community,\" Rehbein told reporters after the meeting.", "In a statement issued by the department, Napolitano said, \"We connected meaningfully about the important issues that have emerged over recent days, and I offered him my sincere apologies for any offense to our veterans caused by this report. ...", "I pledge that the department has fixed the internal process that allowed this document to be released before it was ready.\"", "The report was an unclassified assessment sent to law enforcement agencies.", "It was titled \"Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.\"", "The mention of combat veterans surfaced on a conservative radio program earlier this month, and it drew the scorn of commentators and conservative members of Congress.", "Rep. John Carter, R -Texas, called on Napolitano to resign.", "Rehbein said Friday it is time to move forward.", "\"In the mind of the American Legion, I think her apology was sufficient,\" he said.", "\"The way the Vietnam veterans were treated once they came home, that's what drives the sensitivity to this, because those things start small and then grow from there, and we need to make sure anytime something like that happens we need to step on that and make sure it goes away very quickly.\"" ]	[ "Homeland Security report says veterans could be recruited by right-wing extremists .", "Homeland Security chief apologizes for \"any offense caused by this report'\nNapolitano says document was released before it was ready .", "American Legion commander accepts apology, says it's time to move on ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 5, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Nursing school seemed like a good idea to Tracy Kidd, but not just because she was interested in medicine.", "Tracy Kidd, 37, just started nursing school.", "Nurses are high in demand, despite the souring economy.", "Kidd, 37, and her husband recently took a massive pay cut -- the painting business they own in Mesa, Arizona, once brought in about $70,000 a month.", "Now they're lucky to get $800 a month.", "They have moved in with Tracy's father because their house was foreclosed on.", "\"I knew that nurses are always needed, and I didn't want what just happened to us to ever happen again,\" said Kidd, who started a licensed practical nurse (LPN) program two weeks ago that will allow her to work while finishing her registered nurse (RN) degree.", "Kidd's logic squares with the numbers: While industries such as manufacturing have had decreasing job openings, there continues to be a deep need for health care positions such as nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists and primary-care physicians.", "See how health job openings compare with other industries » .", "With the unemployment rate at 8.1 percent and thousands of Americans getting laid off every day, the employment landscape looks bleak.", "But some experts say there are many job opportunities in the health care sector.", "Nursing . The number of nurses usually goes up when the economy goes down, said Beverly Malone, CEO of the National League for Nursing.", "Irrespective of this recession, the number of nurses has been growing anyway because of high demand.", "Nearly 182,000 new students in 2006-2007 entered prelicensure RN programs, which prepare students to sit for the RN licensing exam, according to the National League for Nursing.", "This represents a 9 percent increase over the previous year.", "There are about 2.9 million nurses eligible to practice, with 2.6 million in the workforce, she said.", "As of May 2007, a registered nurse in the United States earned on average $62,480 per year, according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics.", "View a map of jobs and unemployment in the U.S. At the associates level, a student usually takes at least two years to earn a degree, while a Bachelor of Science in Nursing takes at least four years.", "Nurse educators are in huge demand, in part because they earn less than practicing nurses, Malone said.", "A master's degree is required for these positions, and sometimes a doctorate.", "Physician assistants .", "Jobs for physician assistants have also stayed steady, as these medical practitioners help offset the national physician shortage, said Cindy Lord, president of the American Academy of Physician Assistants.", "Like doctors, physician assistants see patients individually, diagnose conditions, and in some cases even write prescriptions.", "They must at least have telecommunication with a physician, because they are technically working in a team.", "Employment for physician assistants is projected to grow much faster than average because health care institutions increasingly use these practitioners to contain costs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.", "Rural and inner-city clinics are especially good for job opportunities, the bureau said.", "The average salary for a new graduate from a physician assistant program -- which takes an average of 27 months to complete -- is $75,000 to $80,000 per year, she said.", "Those who have been practicing longer or specialize in specific fields earn around $90,000, she said.", "To get into a program, many schools require at least two years of college and some health care experience, and college-level biology, chemistry and math courses are sometimes necessary before matriculation.", "Visit CNNhealth.com, your connection to better living .", "Satisfaction with the profession is high -- one survey found that 88 percent of physician assistants would choose that career again, Lord said.", "\"I would do this over a hundred times,\" she said.", "\"The privilege and honor of practicing medicine is very rewarding.\"", "The hospital scene .", "Hospitals say they are still hiring, although there are fewer openings now than normally.", "Massachusetts General Hospital has fewer vacancies now than at any point in the last 10 years, as well as the lowest turnover, said Jeff Davis, senior vice president of human resources.", "That's because people who have jobs don't want to leave them, he said.", "Still, there are about 400 openings available at the hospital, which has about 20,000 workers including physicians.", "Nursing jobs are available, and the more skill a job requires, the more it's in demand at Mass General, he said.", "People looking to change careers can take accreditation courses to become X-ray technologists or professionals involved in patient care, but the more skills you can get, the better, Davis said.", "With the population of Massachusetts aging, more people are likely to utilize the health care system.", "Davis said he would encourage people to become registered nurses or physical therapists in response to that demand.", "The UCLA Health System in Los Angeles, California, has fewer openings than last year or the year before, but is still hiring, said Robin Ludewig, director of recruitment.", "Some of these positions do not require much formalized training.", "Positions in demand include clinical lab scientists, which requires a four-year degree and an internship.", "Sterile processing technicians, who prepare surgical equipment, are also needed, and can get training in community colleges.", "\"It doesn't really matter how the economy is.", "People still get ill,\" she said.", "For anyone interested in changing careers to health care, experts recommend exploring courses at local community colleges and vocational schools.", "Some schools offer short courses in medical terminology to get things started.", "With talk of reforming the health care system, it is uncertain how those changes would affect the health care job market.", "Still, there will always be a need for skilled individuals to practice medicine, experts said.", "A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll showed that 9 percent of Americans think health care is the most important issue facing the country.", "The telephone poll of 1,019 adults had a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.", "As for nursing student Kidd, she says she's optimistic about her future, and recognizes that life has its ebbs and flows.", "\"We just happen to have caught ourselves in a bad situation,\" she said.", "\"My husband and I, we're not stupid people.", "We just really were victims of the economy.\"" ]	[ "Despite recession, there continues to be a deep need for health care workers .", "The number of nurses in the United States continues to grow .", "Some positions in demand do not require much course work .", "Massachusetts General Hospital has about 400 jobs open ." ]	[ 7, 12, 33, 43 ]
[ "BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- A new boatload of Rohingya refugees washed up on the shores of Thailand early Tuesday, raising questions about the type of treatment they would receive.", "Male refugees show scars they say were caused by beatings at the hands of the Myanmar navy.", "The boat was carrying about 78 people, Thai police said, and many had severe burns from a fire that broke out on board.", "Most were members of neighboring Myanmar's Rohingya minority, which has been fleeing persecution by the country's hard-line government for years.", "Other members of the Rohingya have allegedly been abandoned at sea after being rounded up by Thai authorities.", "A recent CNN investigation found evidence that the Thai military towed hundreds of refugees into open waters only to abandon them.", "CNN obtained several photos of this activity including one photo that shows the Thai army towing a boatload of some 190 refugees far out to sea.", "CNN also interviewed a refugee who said he was one of the few that survived after his group of six rickety boats were towed back to sea and abandoned by Thai authorities in January.", "Watch Dan Rivers' BackStory on the investigation » .", "The Thai army has denied this allegation, while the Thai government has launched an inquiry.", "But one source in the Thai military, after extensive questioning, did confirm to CNN that the Thai army was operating a dump-at-sea policy.", "The source defended it, insisting that each boatload of refugees was given sufficient supplies of food and water.", "That source claimed local villagers had become afraid of the hundreds of Rohingya arriving each month, accusing the refugees of stealing their property and threatening them.", "The Rohingya, a minority in Myanmar, have been fleeing their country in make-shift boats for years in search of a better life, and maintain that they are fleeing persecution by the regime in Myanmar, formerly Burma.", "The Thai government maintains that \"there are no reasonable grounds to believe\" that the Rohingya are fleeing Myanmar out of fear of persecution.", "\"Their profile and their seasonal travel further support the picture that they are illegal migrants, and not those requiring international protection,\" it said in a statement released Tuesday by the foreign ministry.", "In that statement, the Thai government maintained that its policies in dealing with all illegal migrants are in accordance with its laws and international guidelines.", "It said \"basic humanitarian needs\" are given to the migrants before they are returned home.", "\"We have upheld our humanitarian tradition and ensured that new arrivals are adequately provided with food, water and medicines, with necessary repairs to their boats,\" the ministry's statement said.", "The government noted that Thailand has already been inundated with as many as 20,000 illegal migrants -- most of them Rohingyas -- and \"accepting those arriving in an irregular manner would simply encourage new arrivals.\"", "The government \"categorically denied\" media reports blaming Thai authorities for mistreating the illegal migrants, and intentionally damaging their boats.", "It said it would seriously investigate such cases if any \"concrete evidence\" is presented.", "-- CNN's Dan Rivers and Kocha Olarn contributed to this report." ]	[ "The latest boat was carrying about 78 people, Thai police say .", "Thai army denies setting refugees adrift; government has launched an inquiry .", "Thailand: No grounds to believe Rohingya fleeing Myanmar out of fear of persecution .", "Statement added that \"basic humanitarian needs\" are given to the migrants ." ]	[ 2, 9, 14, 17 ]
[ "CNN -- When Maria Rubeo closed her arm, she felt something \"very big -- like a lemon.\"", "Although Hispanic women have a lower incidence rate for breast cancer, they often get the diagnosis at later stages.", "Her doctor said the lump in her breast was nothing, so Rubeo, who didn't have health insurance, didn't seek a second opinion.", "With two jobs and two kids, she was busy and didn't go to the doctor's office for another year.", "During her next visit, with a different doctor, Rubeo learned she had breast cancer -- and the tumor had been there for a while.", "Her story may not be particularly rare.", "Research suggests that breast cancer may be harder to treat in Hispanic women because they wait longer to receive care.", "Women in the fastest-growing minority group in the United States face issues such as language and cultural barriers, lifestyle choices and lack of insurance that could affect their health and medical care, according to research released Wednesday at the Science of Cancer Health Disparities Conference.", "Like Rubeo, about half of women in a study of 230 Mexican-American breast cancer patients in Arizona and Texas noticed changes in their breasts, but waited more than a month to seek medical attention, according to research presented at the conference hosted by the American Association for Cancer Research.", "\"We asked what the reasons were,\" said Rachel Zenuk, a graduate student at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, who spoke about the study.", "\"A third cited they didn't have insurance or were unable to afford medical care.", "Or they thought it was not important to report the medical finding to a professional.\"", "Other factors included fear of the results and difficulty scheduling an appointment, she said.", "More than a decade after her mastectomy, Rubeo urges Hispanic women in the San Francisco, California, Bay area not to wait after seeing changes in their breasts.", "\"I explain: Take time for you to see the doctor,\" she said.", "\"[Some women] don't have insurance, don't speak English, it's very difficult.\"", "Hispanics are the largest U.S. minority group, constituting 14 percent of the nation's total population.", "While Hispanic women have a lower incidence rate for breast cancer than whites, blacks and Asians, they have a less favorable prognosis because of delayed treatment.", "\"They're not getting more breast cancer than other women, but they're less likely to survive as long,\" said Dr. Amelie G. Ramirez, a member of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's National Health Advisory Council and chairwoman of the Komen Foundation National Hispanic/Latino Advisory Council.", "\"The reason is they're diagnosed at a later stage of the cancer.\"", "\"We're seeing them at later stages, so the cancer is more advanced.", "Their five-year survival rates are lower than non-Hispanic whites,\" Ramirez said.", "Data also showed that about two-thirds of breast cancer cases in the 230 Mexican-American women were found through self-detection, which suggests that the women were not receiving routine mammogram or exams.", "Rubeo said that when she first noticed the lump, she \"had no time for me to take care of myself.", "Only work, work, running, no time to eat.", "Sometimes you forget yourself, so there's time for everybody and not enough for yourself.\"", "At the Latina Breast Cancer Agency in San Francisco, she tells other women how she didn't take care of herself while working two jobs, 16 hours a day.", "\"I explain to the ladies my experience.", "Sometimes they cry and say it's true,\" Rubeo said.", "She now runs support groups for breast cancer patients, talking about health screenings, accompanying women to the hospital and helping them with paperwork.", "Aside from the pressures of being a busy, working mother, there are language and cultural barriers for Latina women.", "\"For women we work with, our focus is breast health,\" said Olivia Fé, founder and executive director of the Latina Breast Cancer Agency.", "\"Within Latino culture, within family, the husband doesn't want the wife to see a male doctor.", "... That is a big deal.\" The group partnered with public hospitals in San Francisco and San Mateo counties and made sure the medical staff who work with Hispanic breast cancer patients are female and speak Spanish.", "Hispanic women don't take advantage of the free breast health screenings, because there's a lack of awareness, Fé said.", "Many women speak only Spanish, so prevention messages in English don't get through.", "Research showed that the women with more education and exposure to English-language media, such as television and radio, were more likely to have had a mammogram.", "Ramirez said there are now public service announcements in Spanish that target Hispanic women of all ages, so the younger ones will know the importance of family history and the older ones will become informed about the importance of mammograms.", "The Komen Foundation funds local efforts to increase enrollment of Hispanic women in clinical trials, provide medical interpretive and transportation services, and have Spanish peer support for 24-hour breast cancer hotlines.", "Lifestyle choices have an important role in breast cancer development, said Esther John, a research scientist and epidemiologist at the Northern California Cancer Center.", "One study that examined 2,533 Hispanic women found that the women born in foreign countries had 50 percent less risk of developing breast cancer than women born in the United States.", "This San Francisco Bay Area Breast Cancer Study compared the known breast cancer risks such as obesity, use of hormones, alcohol consumption, fat intake and lack of physical activity between the two groups and found women born in the United States had greater risk.", "\"The pattern suggests that when Hispanic women move to the U.S., there are important changes from the traditional lifestyle to the Americanized lifestyle,\" John said.", "\"There are lifestyle factors that increase risks of breast cancer.\"" ]	[ "Hispanic women learn of breast cancer at later stages, research shows .", "Language, cultural barriers and lack of insurance may impede medical care .", "Other factors include fear of results and difficulty scheduling an appointment ." ]	[ 7, 12 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Chelsea and England defender Ashley Cole has apologized to London police for a foul-mouthed tirade that led to him being arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct in the early hours of Thursday morning.", "Ashley Cole, pictured signing an autograph at a charity event in London Wednesday.", "In a statement released by the left-back, Cole said he swore out of his frustration with the paparazzi and insisted he would never disrespect the police.", "However, Cole admits he did not heed their warnings to calm down and regrets not taking their advice.", "He also made it clear that he had not consumed a vast amount of alcohol.", "Cole declared: \"I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the police officers on duty last night for my language.", "\"I felt I was being harassed by paparazzi and while complaining to the police about this at the scene they did warn me to calm down, a warning that I regrettably did not heed.", "\"I fully appreciate that whatever frustrations I may have had with others that it was completely inappropriate to vent those in conversations with the police.", "\"However, I do want to make clear that I swore in frustration at the paparazzi's behavior.", "I would never disrespect police officers in anyway.", "\"I take very seriously my responsibilities as a professional footballer, this includes keeping my body in the best condition.", "Although I had consumed some alcohol earlier in the evening on a night out with friends it had not been excessive.", "\"But I accept that the language I used on this occasion was wrong.", "I regret my actions and how it reflects on myself and Chelsea Football Club.\"", "The 28-year-old was arrested in Brompton Road in the upmarket west London area of South Kensington, close to Chelsea's Stamford Bridge ground, at about 2.15am on Thursday morning after emerging from the Collection nightclub.", "Police sources said the officers were already on patrol in the street and were not called to any disorder.", "One source denied reports they were following up a complaint from a photographer over an alleged bust-up with Cole.", "Cole was taken to a central London police station and issued with an £80 fixed penalty notice for being drunk and disorderly before being released shortly after 5.30am.", "Cole is likely to be fined by Chelsea.", "Before his arrest, Cole had joined Chelsea's first-team squad and more than 300 charity workers, celebrities and supporters for the second annual Chelsea FC and Armani charity fundraiser.", "Cole, who previously played for Arsenal before joining Chelsea in 2006, is married to the Girls Aloud singer and reality TV judge Cheryl Cole, who is currently on a charity climb on Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro." ]	[ "Chelsea defender Ashley Cole apologizes after his arrest on Thursday morning .", "28-year-old England left-back was charged with drunk and disorderly conduct .", "Cole blames his frustration at paparazzi for swearing at London police officers .", "Cole is married to the Girls Aloud singer and reality TV judge Cheryl Cole ." ]	[ 0, 2, 20 ]
[ "HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Watching the news out of Mexico is causing a case of déjà vu for Dr.", "Lo Wing-Luk.", "The sight of people wearing masks became common in Hong Kong after the SARS outbreak of 2003.", "\"Seeing the people in masks today reminds me of Hong Kong during SARS,\" said Lo, an epidemiology expert who was among those on the frontline during the outbreak of SARS in Hong Kong in 2003, which within three months infected 8,000 and killed nearly 800 in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Toronto.", "Historically, Hong Kong has been center stage for recent infections that threatened to spiral across the world, such as SARS and Avian Influenza, which first struck and killed people here in 1997.", "Southern China -- with the close proximity of its rural agriculture to population centers and globally connected transportation -- has been an ideal conduit for past animal diseases that spread to humans and then to the rest of the world.", "But with the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico and the United States, Hong Kong suddenly finds the world looking to it for lessons on how to stop the spread of disease.", "\"Managing a (potential) pandemic can't be from the top down, it must be from the ground up,\" said Lo, a former Hong Kong legislator representing the medical community.", "In the early days of SARS, cooperation was lax between Hong Kong health officials and public officials across the border in mainland China, where the live animal wet markets in Guangdong province is suspected in the virus' jump to humans.", "\"One of the most important lesson of SARS was the importance of good communication,\" says Dr. KY Yuen, head of the microbiology department of Hong Kong University, which found the first human cases of Avian Influenza in 1997 and first identified SARS in 2003.", "\"There were outbreaks in the middle to late November in Guangdong Province, but the first cases were reported in Hong Kong three months later,\" he said.", "\"We could have reduced the impact (of SARS) if there had been better communication\" between Hong Kong and mainland China health authorities.", "The communication channels have improved between China and Hong Kong, health officials said, as well as better surveillance of the disease.", "Every visitor who comes through Hong Kong International Airport now is scanned by infrared monitors and immediately isolated if suffering from a fever or respiratory illness.", "\"Quarantine and isolation of people (suspected to be ill) is crucial now,\" Yuen said.", "As the disease spreads, there is a conflict between the need for a quick response and the time required for appropriate scientific study -- which can result in some bad decisions, Yuen said.", "For example, in the case of SARS health experts wore full-body protection suits because of initial hunches the disease was being spread by airborne causes.", "More people were exposed to the disease because of the harried medical staff's improper use of the cumbersome equipment.", "\"It turned out globes, masks and hand washing were far more effective\" than a breathing apparatus, Yuen said.", "\"Presumptions are dangerous,\" he added.", "If Hong Kong is any example, governments who fail to meet the challenges of an outbreak will face rising public heat.", "In July 2003, half a million Hong Kong residents took to the streets to protest the government, in part because of frustrations over the response to the SARS outbreak, says Cecilia Chan, director of the Center of Behavioral Health at Hong Kong University -- adding to the woes of the already beleaguered administration of former Hong Kong Chief Executive Tung Chee Wah, who later stepped down in the middle of his second five-year appointment." ]	[ "Hong Kong at center of recent infections that threatened to spiral across world .", "First human cases of Avian Influenza reported in 1997, SARS identified in 2003 .", "Disease expert: Managing a (potential) pandemic can't be from the top down .", "Lack of good communication during SARS outbreak was a key failing ." ]	[ 4, 7, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sri Lanka ordered an end to combat operations against Tamil Tiger rebels in the country's north, the president's office said Monday.", "But the rebels accused the military of continuing to bomb civilians.", "Sri Lankan soldiers stand guard next to a tank captured from the Tamil Tigers.", "\"Our security forces have been instructed to end the use of heavy-caliber guns, combat aircraft and aerial weapons which could cause civilian casualties,\" according a statement from the Presidential Secretariat.", "A rebel Web site, Tamilnet.com, immediately accused the government of violating its own order and \"deceiving the international community.\"", "\"Two Sri Lanka air force fighter bombers continued to bomb civilian targets in Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal after the announcement by the Sri Lankan forces that it would not deploy heavy weapons or carry out air attacks,\" Tamilnet said, citing S. Puleedevan, director of the Tamil Peace Secretariat.", "\"Obviously we need to see what that means in practice,\" John Holmes, the head of U.N. humanitarian operations, said about the government announcement to end combat operations.", "\"But, on the face of it, I think it's good news.\"", "The military will now concentrate on \"saving\" and \"rescuing civilians,\" who have been caught in the fighting between government forces and rebel fighters, the presidential statement said.", "The government's decision followed an unscheduled meeting of the National Security Council called by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.", "The session included the commanders of the army, navy and air force.", "The developments came a day after Sri Lankan officials rejected a proposed cease-fire from the Tamil rebels, warning instead that government troops would continue a new offensive until the group surrendered, a senior government official told CNN.", "\"The government is firm that (the rebels) lay down their arms and surrender.", "We do not recognize this so-called offer,\" said Lakshman Hulugalle, director of Sri Lanka's Media Center for National Security.", "The Tiger leadership had asked the international community to \"pressure the Sri Lankan government to reciprocate\" on the cease-fire offer.", "The United States, the United Nations, the European Union and India have called for a cease-fire.", "The foreign ministers of three nations are due in Sri Lanka on Wednesday -- David Miliband of the United Kingdom, Bernard Kouchner of France and Carl Bildt of Sweden.", "The rebels' proposed cease-fire came six days after the Sri Lankan army launched a new offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE).", "Government troops made significant advances into rebel-held territory on Friday and Saturday, according to Sri Lankan army sources.", "A government-imposed deadline for the Tigers to surrender passed last Tuesday.", "Tens of thousands of displaced civilians currently remain wedged in a dwindling swath of territory controlled by the Tigers along the country's northeastern coast.", "Government troops say they have rescued 39,000 civilians trapped in the area, but a U.N. refugee agency said Friday that a wave of \"fresh displacement\" now exceeds 100,000 people.", "Watch civilians describe what they are experiencing » .", "Fifty metric tons of relief supplies -- which landed in Colombo on Monday -- will be sent by UNICEF to the north to help displaced residents.", "UNICEF, which called the situation in the north a \"catastrophe for children,\" said the displaced lack food, water and basic medical supplies.", "The rebels estimate the number of civilians still located in the territory at more than 160,000.", "The Sri Lankan military said it \"freed 3,254 civilians from LTTE clutches\" in operations Sunday.", "The Tigers have been fighting for an independent state in Sri Lanka's northeast since 1983.", "As many as 70,000 people have been killed since the civil war began, and the group has been declared a terrorist organization by 32 countries, including the United States and the European Union." ]	[ "Tamil rebels say Sri Lankan forces ignoring orders to end military operations Sri Lanka: Forces ordered to cease use of heavy-caliber guns, combat aircraft Rebels say fighter bombers continued to bomb civilian targets after announcement .", "Developments come after Sri Lankan officials reject rebels' cease-fire offer ." ]	[ 0, 3, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Amber Easton has gone from $80,000 a year in salary to scrambling for work.", "At a time in her life when she should be scaling the corporate ladder, she has instead spiraled into a deep depression.", "She recently lost her car and now faces eviction from her apartment.", "Job fairs have been on the rise amid the nation's hard economic times.", "Just last week, the 35-year-old longtime working professional attended two job fairs with friends in the Detroit area.", "They stood in line for over three hours with hundreds of professionals of all types.", "\"It was a real eye-opener to see the caliber of people we were in line with -- very educated with vast skill sets,\" Easton said in an e-mail.", "\"Afterwards, we went to the restaurant located in the same hotel and it was filled with unemployed professionals sharing their story, from engineers to graphic designers to marketing professionals.\"", "Easton's saga began in July 2007 when she traded in her job as a corporate compliance officer to attend law school, what she thought would help advance her career.", "But after a year of law school, she decided it wasn't for her.", "By then, her old job was gone and the job market had shrunk.", "\"It's hard not to be depressed during a time like this,\" she wrote iReport.com.", "\"I never imagined in a million years that I would be in such a situation at my age and at this point in my career.", "I am humiliated. I am praying for everyone else out there is who are facing the same problems.\"", "She has applied to 70 different companies but gotten few leads.", "She recently went through a rigorous interview process for one job in another state, but to no avail.", "Share your economic survivor story .", "Every day, she searches for new job possibilities and every day results in more desperation.", "She estimates she's making $20,000 -- \"if that\" -- as a contract employee working from her home.", "\"I just haven't made enough to keep up.\"", "Her Detroit neighborhood a couple years ago was booming, she said, but now \"it's like a ghost town around here.\"", "\"It's bad everywhere, but it's so, so bad here,\" she said.", "Across the nation, people like Easton are feeling the pinch.", "Good jobs have evaporated.", "Former full-time employees are now working part-time contract positions just to get by.", "Nearly 2.6 million jobs were lost during 2008, the highest yearly total since the end of World War II in 1945.", "This week alone, major corporations have announced more than 80,000 job cuts, bringing this year's total to well over 200,000.", "Dr. Rosalind Dorlen is a clinical psychologist in Summit, New Jersey, an area she calls a \"Wall Street ghetto\" where formerly high-flying executives are out of work.", "\"Here, the people earn millions of dollars with bonuses that are astronomical,\" said Dorlen, who is also the public education coordinator in New Jersey for the American Psychological Association.", "\"There is a demoralizing aspect to having a huge salary and a huge bonus and then having to look for a job that is going to pay much, much less.\"", "She added, \"What I'm hearing is a terrible sense of betrayal, anxiety and people experiencing lots of stress.\"", "That, in turn, can lead to an increase in unhealthy coping behaviors, such as an uptick in alcohol consumption, unhealthy eating and worse sleeping habits.", "Dorlen has several tips for people out of work: .", "• Don't panic; . • Find a support group, even if it's just an informal group of friends; .", "• Seek employment counseling when available; .", "• Be professional in your job hunt; .", "• Network with other professionals; .", "• Take time to exercise during hard times; .", "• Spend valuable time with your family.", "On a practical note, she said people should contact their creditors to let them know the situation.", "She also advises people to do volunteer work and to cultivate a \"spirit of optimism.\"", "\"Bad times pass, and it's sometimes hard to see that when you're in the throes of a terrible place,\" she said.", "\"I think we do need to hold onto a spirit of optimism and a sense of confidence.\"", "See Top companies: They're hiring!", "\"I think we're getting mired in the gloom and doom, and we need to hold on to the fact that lots of people are working.\"", "CNN's user-generated site, iReport.com, has been flooded with messages from people out of work.", "One woman held up her husband's résumé and said, \"Please, please, please take him off my hands.\"", "Watch woman plead case for hubby .", "\"My husband can knock out a honey-do list like nobody's business, and he meets my great, high standards every day.", "Don't let my husband slip through your hands.", "He would be a great addition to your team,\" the woman said under the headline \"Wife Seeking Job for Husband.\"", "In Delaware, Manoj Philip, 24, said he had a full-time job in 2007 with Agilent Technologies making about $55,000 a year, including all the perks and benefits that came with it.", "But in July 2007, he quit that job to pursue a career in real estate.", "\"I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but I didn't think it would be this tough,\" he said.", "By September 2008, Philip needed a second income because of the withering housing market.", "He picked up a full-time contracting job and continues to do real estate about 20-30 hours per week.", "It was a shock, he said, to return to full-time work while putting his real estate dreams on hold.", "\"It took a lot for me to change that mental outlook.", "Because before I would've thought of it as something holding me back,\" Philip said.", "\"But I don't look at it like that anymore.\"", "He's since learned the value of living within his means, budgeting and making every dollar he spends count for something.", "\"These are really important lessons to learn.", "I'm glad I learned it at such a young age.\"", "In Detroit, Easton said she knows America will bounce back at some point, but \"in the meantime, people are losing everything.\"", "\"That's what scares me,\" she said." ]	[ "Detroit woman goes to job fair; stunned by the hundreds of professionals in line .", "\"I never imagined in a million years that I would be in such a situation\"\nClinical psychologist advises people not to panic, to try to remain optimistic .", "\"Bad times pass, and it's sometimes hard to see that,\" Dr. Rosalind Dorlen said ." ]	[ 12, 41 ]
[ "(CNN) -- World number one Rafael Nadal continues to prove unbeatable on his favorite clay-court surface, as he won his fifth Barcelona Open title in a row with a straight sets victory over fellow-Spaniard David Ferrer on Sunday.", "Rafael Nadal lifts the massive Barcelona Open trophy for the fifth year in a row after his win over David Ferrer.", "The 22-year-old Nadal, who last week secured his fifth Monte Carlo title in succession, repeated that feat on home soil by winning 6-2 7-5 in a repeat of the 2008 final.", "The victory gave Nadal his 35th career title (24 of them coming on clay) and meant the Barcelona tournament was won by a home player for a seventh straight year.", "\"I could have never have imagined that I would win here for a fifth time,\" a beaming Nadal said after the match.", "\"Congratulations to David also.", "Even if it was impossible for him to win today, he had a great tournament.", "For me, this is much more than a dream,\" he added.", "Nadal will have no time to celebrate as he heads directly for the Rome Masters which begins on Monday.", "Last year, an obviously exhausted Nadal lost in his opening match to compatriot Juan Carlos Ferrero." ]	[ "Rafael Nadal defeats David Ferrer in straight sets to lift Barcelona Open title .", "World number one wins 6-2 7-5 to take the trophy for a fifth year in succession .", "The title was Nadal's 35th of his career with 24 of those coming on clay-courts ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday he appreciated U.S. President Barack Obama's friendly gestures at last weekend's Summit of the Americas, but said they don't change his view of the United States as an imperialist nation.", "Hugo Chavez had handshakes and smiles for President Obama at the Summit of the Americas last weekend.", "Chavez's fiery diatribes against the United States have included referring to former President George W. Bush as the devil.", "He was photographed with Obama at least twice at the summit -- once when Obama shook hands with him and other leaders, and again when he approached Obama to give him a book.", "\"The hand[shake], yes.", "And the smile, yes -- one time and a second time and a third time and a fourth time,\" Chavez said during a televised address.", "\"But nobody should be mistaken.", "The empire is there, alive and kicking.\"", "The book Chavez presented to Obama as cameras rolled is titled \"Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.\"", "The book chronicles Europe's and the United States' role in \"the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America,\" according to one reviewer.", "As he has in the past, Chavez noted Obama's historic role as the first black U.S. president.", "\"I hope Obama, for the dignity of his race, may be the last president of an imperialist United States,\" he said." ]	[ "Venezuelan president in TV interview: [U.S.] \"empire is there, alive and kicking\"\nFriendly exchanges with Obama didn't change his view of U.S., Chavez says .", "Chavez: \"I hope Obama ... may be the last president of an imperialist United States\"" ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Carl Edwards, one of NASCAR's elite, makes a living traveling at speeds upwards of 200 mph and is on the road more than 200 days a year.", "So when he wants to slow down, he heads to his hometown of Columbia, Missouri.", "NASCAR driver Carl Edwards grew up in Columbia, Missouri.", "He grew up in Columbia and couldn't wait to get out of town, but after living in North Carolina for three years, he was ready to come back.", "\"I realized after being away, there just aren't many places cooler than this,\" Edwards said.", "\"So I moved back, and now I live here and I'm really proud to live here.\"", "He competes in both the Nationwide Series and the Sprint Cup Series for NASCAR.", "He won a Busch Series Cup in 2007, finished last year's Sprint Cup Series in second, and is fiercely fighting for Sprint Cup honors this year.", "Edwards has recovered from a frightening crash-ending to his last race in Talladega, Alabama, and is looking forward to racing in Richmond, Virginia, this week, hoping for his first trip of the season to victory lane.", "His fans are eagerly awaiting that trademark victory back flip.", "But through all of the excitement and acclaim, Edwards remains grounded and true to his Missouri roots.", "He took CNN home with him to Columbia -- which is between Kansas City and St. Louis -- to share some of his favorite spots.", "The day started at Rock Bridge State Park, 2,273 acres of natural beauty and serenity that is hard to believe is only 10 minutes from the bustling center of this college town.", "\"This park is one of Columbia's best secrets.", "It's a beautiful place to come mountain biking, hiking.", "There's a cave that runs under this ground that goes for over 50 miles.\"", "The park boasts 15 miles of trails and endless possibilities for adventure, from hiking and biking to canoeing and even cave exploration.", "When Edwards gets the need for speed at home, he opts for two wheels instead of four.", "He grabs his bicycle and heads to the Katy Trail, just up the road from Rock Bridge Park.", "\"This used to be an old railroad, and now it's a state park.", "It's 10 feet wide, it's over 200 miles long, and all of this is open to the public.\"", "Edwards also showed us one of his favorite trail features: a beautiful giant bur oak tree simply referred to by Missouri natives as \"the big bur oak.\"", "Edwards says it's one of the oldest in the state and thinks that it is one of the coolest spots along the trail.", "All that exercise and fresh air can certainly rev up an appetite, and Edwards has two favorite places to cure that.", "For what he calls the best burger in the world, he heads to Booches Billiard Hall, one of his high school hangouts.", "\"We used to come here in high school when we probably should have been in school.", "We'd shoot pool, eat booch burgers and just have a good time,\" he said.", "We were greeted by one of the owners, Charlie Kurry, who poked a little fun at Edwards' trademark backflip celebration.", "\"The only thing flipping in here is the burgers,\" Kurry said.", "Booches has been in operation in Columbia since 1884.", "Next up is Shakespeare's Pizza, which has been serving slices in Columbia for more than 35 years.", "\"They can make you anything you want.", "They've got whole wheat crust if you're into the health stuff like I am.", "And it's so good, they even catered my wedding.\"", "These are just some of the hidden gems of Carl Edwards' Columbia, but this town has much more to offer.", "There are museums, festivals and parades, and the University of Missouri has provided a lot of athletic excitement with its football and basketball teams over the past few years.", "It's a perfect weekend getaway from its larger surrounding cities.", "And if you live farther away than that, it's worth the trip!" ]	[ "NASCAR driver Carl Edwards shares his favorite spots in Columbia, Missouri .", "He's a fan of Rock Bridge State Park, only 10 minutes from the center of town .", "Edwards also frequents Booches Billiard Hall for the \"best burger in the world\"" ]	[ 2, 12, 24 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Over-the-counter painkillers and fever reducers will now carry new labels warning consumers of the potential risks of liver damage and internal bleeding associated with the drugs, according to a final ruling Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration.", "The new warning labels will affect over-the-counter pain relievers including Tylenol, aspirin and ibuprofen.", "The new rule covers acetaminophen, the popular pain medicine also known as Tylenol, and a class of drugs known as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs.", "The most commonly used NSAIDs include aspirin, ibuprofen (the main ingredient in Motrin and Advil), naproxen and ketoprofen.", "The modified labeling also applies to all products that contain these ingredients, such as cough and cold medicines.", "Under the new rule, package labels and bottles must prominently state in highlighted text the drug's ingredients.", "For acetaminophen, the label must include bold lettering warning patients about severe liver damage.", "The new labeling also instructs patients using the blood thinner warfarin to consult their doctor before using acetaminophen.", "Bold lettering on NSAIDs labels must warn of severe stomach bleeding.", "\"Acetaminophen and NSAIDs are commonly used drugs for both children and adults because they are effective in reducing fevers and relieving minor aches and pain, such as headaches and muscle aches,\" said Dr. Charles Ganley, director of nonprescription drugs in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.", "\"However, the risks associated with their use need to be clearly identified on the label so that consumers taking these drugs are fully aware of the potential harm they can cause.", "It is important that they know how to take these medications safely to reduce their risk.\"", "The new labeling for acetaminophen also warns against taking multiple drugs that contain acetaminophen at the same time and exceeding the recommended dosage of the drug.", "And, it warns that drinking alcohol -- three or more drinks a day -- while using the painkiller can increase the risk of liver damage.", "For NSAIDs, the new labels will also caution users that alcohol use and taking the drugs for longer than directed can increase the risk of stomach bleeding.", "The agency says the use of blood thinning drugs or steroids while taking NSAIDs can also increase the risk of internal bleeding.", "The American Pain Foundation is pleased with the new rule.", "\"This ruling will not only help protect consumers using OTC pain medication on a periodic basis,\" APF said, \"But will be especially meaningful for people suffering from chronic pain who may face co-morbid conditions and are taking OTC pain medication along with their prescribed pain medication.\"", "According to the FDA, some manufacturers have already voluntarily started listing some of these risks on their product labels.", "The new rule gives manufacturers one year from today's date to re-label their products." ]	[ "FDA requires OTC painkillers to carry new warnings on liver damage, bleeding risks .", "New rule covers acetaminophen (Tylenol) and NSAIDs (aspirin and ibuprofen)\nIbuprofen is the main ingredient in Motrin and Advil, naproxen and ketoprofen .", "Manufacturers have one year from today's date to re-label their products ." ]	[ 3, 19 ]
[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- In radio broadcasts and sermons, Taliban militants have been promoting themselves as Islamic Robin Hoods, defending Pakistan's rural poor from a ruling elite that they describe as corrupt and oppressive.", "Mohammed Daoud, with his son Faisal, is among those who have embraced the Taliban's message.", "That message has been resonating throughout the Pakistani countryside, where the culture is deeply conservative and the people are desperately poor.", "In farmlands just 15 miles (24 kilometers) from the center of Islamabad, Mohammed Daoud and his 15-year-old son Faisal eke out a living by cutting grass for their four water buffalo.", "They feed their family of seven, earning the equivalent of around $50 a month by selling buffalo milk.", "Two months ago, Daoud said, the government bulldozed his family's house, probably because they were illegally squatting on property they did not own.", "\"Justice [in Pakistan] is only for people who have money,\" Daoud said, while slicing through handfuls of grass with a small scythe.", "\"We are illiterate,\" he added, \"but we are hoping that with Islamic sharia law, our lives will get better.\"", "Across this overwhelmingly Muslim country, there is widespread hope that adopting a strict code of law based on the Koran will transform a society where corruption is rampant and where at least a quarter of the population lives under the poverty line.", "Watch why the Taliban's message would resonate .", "Enforcement of sharia law is the platform the Taliban have been using to justify recent land-grabs, such as last week's armed occupation of the district of Buner, some 60 miles from the Pakistani capital.", "In an interview with CNN, Muslim Khan, the Taliban spokesman in the militant stronghold of Swat Valley, denounced the Pakistani government, calling the prime minister and lawmakers \"un-Islamic.\"", "\"They're making money like in a supermarket,\" Khan said, adding that under sharia law both the rich and the poor would be treated equally.", "Militants have slowly taken over territory in northwestern Pakistan by first targeting unpopular landlords and bureaucrats, according to Amnesty International, the human rights watchdog.", "\"Its systematic. The Taliban move into an area, they use local existing resentments.", "They often go in with the guise of being Robin Hoods,\" said Amnesty International representative Sam Zarifi.", "\"They scare away some local thieves, they impose very, very quick justice, very harsh justice, and initially in some places they are even welcomed.\"", "The Taliban's promise of Islamic justice would be welcomed in farm fields on the outskirts of Islamabad.", "Rows of wheat -- along with the posh villas of Pakistan's ruling elite -- are within sight of Islamabad's iconic white Faisal Mosque.", "\"In the present judicial system, even the innocent people are punished,\" said Sajeet Hussein, as he and a group of farmers shared lunch under the shade of a tree.", "The group explained that they were losing a court battle to stop the government from seizing their land, because they claimed they couldn't afford to bribe policemen and judges.", "\"Every part of the country should have sharia law, like in Saudi Arabia,\" said Hussein's brother Babar, who sported a long bushy beard.", "\"Then poor and rich people will be equal.\"", "\"We love the Taliban,\" announced one Pashtun farmer who asked not to be named.", "He called the militants heroes.", "Sports star-turned-politician Imran Khan summed up his response to the Taliban in Pakistan by saying, \"The poorer section of society is joining them...this is now developing into a battle between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots.'", "\"What the Taliban are giving them is cheap -- in fact, free -- accessible justice at the village level,\" he added.", "\"This is what Pakistan should be doing for its own people.\"", "But if farmer Babar Hussein has his way, Taliban justice would mean taking away freedoms from Pakistani women, like the right to have a driver's license.", "\"Women should not even come out of their houses.", "That's against Islam\" he said, while complaining about the un-Islamic fashions he saw women wearing in Islamabad.", "When Taliban militants overran Buner last week, they told women to stay indoors, warned men to stop shaving their beards, and threatened shopkeepers who sold movies and music.", "In Pakistan's rural society, male strangers are not even supposed look at local women.", "And yet, some farmers enjoy blaring Bollywood music and even dancing on trailers full of hay, while driving their gaudily-decorated tractors.", "If the Taliban's rural revolt succeeds, it could bring silence to the Pakistani countryside." ]	[ "Amnesty International: Taliban first targets unpopular landlords, bureaucrats .", "Taliban spokesman in Swat Valley calls Pakistani government as \"un-Islamic\"\nIslamabad's Faisal Mosque surrounded by posh villas of Pakistan's ruling elite .", "Imran Khan: Battle shaping up as one \"between the 'haves' and the 'have-nots' \"" ]	[ 11, 13, 18, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Meeting planner Gail Murphy heard about the travel warning to Mexico too late in the day on Monday to do anything about her plans to head to Cancun the following day.", "Alberto Morales wore a mask on his flight from Mexico City to Denver, Colorado, on Monday.", "\"I'm in good health,\" said Murphy, who is heading to the Eighth Annual Mexico Showcase and Travel Expo from her home in Shelburne, Vermont.", "\"I'm a risk taker, so I'll go anyway.\"", "In light of the swine flu, the U.S. State Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning against any non-essential travel to Mexico.", "The move could potentially devastate an already struggling tourism industry in the country.", "The World Health Organization urged countries not to restrict international travel or close borders, as such measures would not in themselves stem the outbreak.", "Efforts to contain the outbreak by restricting travel would be unlikely to work without \"draconian measures,\" said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the agency's assistant director-general.", "But he said people who are ill should put off trips abroad, and people who fall ill after a trip should see a doctor.", "Mexico is the epicenter for the swine influenza virus outbreak.", "More than 100 deaths in Mexico are being investigated as possibly tied to the outbreak.", "The WHO confirmed 73 cases of swine flu Monday, but health officials in Scotland, California and Texas confirmed nine more, bringing the worldwide total to 82.", "Reports of the illness in Mexico couldn't have come at a worse time for the country's tourism industry, which is already grappling with negative publicity about drug-cartel fueled violence.", "\"They were having a terrible time anyway with all of the problems on the border and now to be hit with this, too,\" said Barbara Nassau, owner of New York-based In House Travel Solutions.", "She added that the outbreak has the potential to hamper travel similar to the way it was affected when bird flu hit China.", "iReporter Dyana Pari Nafissi works in international business development in Mexico City and said tourism in the country had already been dealt a blow by fears of violence.", "iReport.com: Watch Dyana discuss what's happening in Mexico .", "\"We've been on a steady decline since the first U.S. travel warning about the drug cartels,\" she said.", "\"When you look at the kids that braved [that travel warning], and now they are back [in the U.S.] and they are sick.", "It's devastating to the economy here.\"", "Some of the confirmed cases in the United States were high school students who recently returned from a trip to Mexico.", "News of the outbreak didn't seem to overly concern travelers arriving Monday at Denver International Airport on a Mexicana flight from Mexico City.", "Two Mexicana crew members who didn't want to be named said about 60 percent of the passengers wore masks during the flight.", "Ernesto Vargas, a Mexican businessman, didn't wear a mask.", "\"I thought about carrying one with me, but the crew wasn't wearing a mask.", "So we asked them, and it seemed quite safe.\"", "Alberto Morales, another businessman, said he wore a mask in the Mexico City airport and on the plane.", "\"Yes. I have a mask, and we are using the mask.\"", "Is he concerned? \"Don't worry, I am OK,\" he said with a laugh.", "\"People are afraid about the flu, but we have many precautions and the government has a good sense for this trouble,\" Morales said.", "Ian Jeffries, a spokesman for Expedia.com, said the company had no data as of Monday on cancellations or changes caused by fear of swine flu, but added that it was prepared to aid any of its customers that had concerns.", "\"Expedia is currently offering to waive Expedia-imposed change and cancel fees for hotel and air reservations originally booked to Mexico,\" he said.", "\"We will continue to monitor the situation and modify our policy accordingly.\"", "Several major U.S. airlines also are waiving fees for those who want to change their travel plans to Mexico.", "Jeffery Brown arrived at the airport in Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday after spending five days in Cancun with his wife.", "They saw people in surgical masks but didn't notice any widespread concern.", "\"My wife and I were a little concerned, but you know we haven't seen anybody sick in our resort, and we haven't seen anybody sick at the airport,\" he said.", "\"Nobody said a word about it [at the resort].\"", "Mexico isn't the only country that potentially has a tourism headache on its hands.", "Cases of swine flu have also popped up in Canada and Spain as well as the United States and Scotland.", "Watch how businesses might be affected by swine flu » .", "Steve Weakland, border security coordinator for the United States Customs and Border Protection Atlanta field office, said all of his personnel have received illness recognition training.", "If a traveler exhibits symptoms of the disease, CBP employees have been trained to inform the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to further investigate.", "\"Our guys are more the recognition aspect of it,\" Weakland said.", "\"We wouldn't make any diagnosis or anything along those lines.\"", "Teresa Roberts planned to take her mom to Akumal, Mexico, for Mother's Day and said she was more worried about traveling to New York for business than she is about contracting swine flu south of the border.", "\"Just because of the number of different travelers that go through the airports in New York from all around the world,\" said Roberts who flies about two or three weeks a month from her home in Atlanta, Georgia.", "\"I'm not nervous about going to Mexico at all.\"", "Many in the tourism industry appeared to be taking a wait-and-see approach.", "Disney Cruise Lines, which does not sail into Mexico, said it is closely monitoring the situation, as did officials for theme parks including Universal and Sea World in Orlando, Florida.", "Meg Barton travels several times a year to Mexico from her home in Round Rock, Texas, and also isn't overly worried.", "Because of her father's recent heart surgery, she is already an avid hand washer and is always cautious about germs when abroad.", "\"I don't drink a lot of water in Mexico ever, and I am really more concerned about the drug issues in Mexico than I am the swine flue,\" Barton said.", "\"We take antibiotics and Pepto with us when we travel.\"", "Eric Meyer of Lafayette, Colorado, flew in to Minneapolis-St. Paul with his wife and baby to visit family in Minnesota and lamented that \"It's out there, but what can you do?\"", "\"Wash your hands maybe and call it good,\" he added.", "\"Put a mask on? [I'm] not gonna go that far and be that guy yet.\"", "Rochelle Yates said a client of her New York City-based Yates Travel is planning to take plenty of antiseptic products on an upcoming trip to Cancun.", "Most seasoned travelers know to guard against infectious disease ordinarily, Yates said.", "\"My clients are people who travel all over the world, and they know that you have to take precautions regardless,\" Yates said.", "\"You have to wash your hands no matter where you are, if you are on a cruise ship, in a hotel or even in your own house.\"", "CNN's Chris Welch, Jim Spellman and Amy Zerba contributed to this story." ]	[ "U.S. issues an advisory against non-essential travel to Mexico .", "Tourism industry waiting to see effects of swine flu .", "Mexico tourism already dealing with reports of violence .", "Theme parks, cruise lines and others monitoring situation ." ]	[ 4, 12, 48 ]
[ "(CNN) -- On Monday night, CNN's Larry King had an exclusive interview with actor George Clooney, who returned from the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan and just finished meeting with Vice President Joe Biden.", "George Clooney, left, talks with Vice President Joe Biden at the White House on Monday.", "King spoke with the activist actor live from the White House on the humanitarian crisis Clooney says we must confront, along with getting a couple of tidbits about what's next for Clooney's acting career.", "The following is a partial transcript, edited for brevity and clarity: .", "Larry King: We begin with George Clooney, the Oscar-winning actor and activist.", "He's traveled to Darfur at the refugee camps near the Sudan/Chad border last week and met with Vice President [Joe] Biden today.", "He's standing, as you see, in front of the White House, where it's 12 degrees.", "And we thank him for doing this, because he's freezing to death.", "George Clooney: I should have worn an overcoat tonight.", "King: You have no coat on? Clooney: No -- and no pants either ... King: Well, you've always been a little strange, George.", "Anyway, you met with the vice president today about Darfur.", "What did you tell him? Clooney: Basically, we were just talking about coming back from Chad, right on the border of Darfur.", "And we were talking about there's a moment coming up relatively soon, probably by the middle of next week, where the International Criminal Court is going to indict the president of Sudan for war crimes, which has never happened before -- a sitting president.", "And we talked about this being an opportunity, perhaps, not just for the United States, but all of us together to work with the international community in a real diplomatic effort to try and bring some sort of peace to this region.", "King: What scale of interest did Biden show?", "Clooney: Vice President Biden has been incredibly vocal on the issue.", "We had a long talk about the idea of, first and foremost, appointing a high level, full-time envoy that reports directly to the White House so that it's not just temporary.", "We need somebody working on this, you know, every day -- getting up every morning with their sole job to find peace in the area.", "King: What did you see last week?", "Clooney: It was rough.", "You know, it's always rough over there.", "You feel terrible for them.", "They're hanging on by a thread.", "We saw an awful lot of fear.", "There was [also] a tremendous amount of hope.", "You know, there was a lot of hope that these indictments and this new administration are going to be able to help move the international community toward toward a real peace.", "King: How do you handle just meeting with these people and seeing this tragedy?", "Personally, how do you handle it?", "Clooney: I could tell you a million stories about how it actually affects you personally.", "But I don't think people should be going there and coming back and saying how it affected them.", "I think somehow we should all know that these people are hanging on by the skin of their teeth.", "King: Was your safety in jeopardy?", "Clooney: Oh, you're talking about the U.N. story.", "King: Yes. What, they pulled your security, right?", "Clooney: I was never in jeopardy.", "I was with journalists who wanted to go into some areas that weren't particularly safe.", "And we decided that we would go.", "And that wasn't necessarily part of what the U.N. was looking to do.", "And so we just went on our own. It was fine. I wanted to say something, also, Larry, which I forgot to say about what I just did today.", "I delivered 250,000 postcards signed by people all across the country who wanted to help give some political capital to and remind this administration of how important this issue is.", "It was from the Save Darfur people.", "But it's from all across the country.", "And we're probably going to have another 700,000 by the end of the week.", "King: What specifically, George, do you want Secretary of State Clinton and the administration to do?", "Clooney: It doesn't appear that the United States is going to send troops in or that the U.N. Is going to send in an army to do this.", "What it really means is that we're going to need diplomacy.", "And diplomacy has to start and it has to be aggressive and it has to start soon.", "We have an opportunity here. King: One other quick thing.", "Are you going to be in the final presentation of \"E.R.", "?\" Clooney: Actually, I'm doing a remake of \"Friends,\" which -- I didn't want to break the news.", "King: Oh, my gosh.", "Clooney: I'm going be playing the Jennifer Aniston role.", "King: I'm thrilled for you, George.", "Clooney: Thank you.", "It's a career move.", "It's a choice. King: Are you going to be in \"E.R.?\"", "Clooney: I am. I'm in the last episode with Susan Sarandon and Julianna Margulies.", "So it should be fun. King: Thanks, George.", "Get out of the cold. Clooney: Thank you. It's good to talk to you." ]	[ "CNN's Larry King talks with George Clooney about his trip to see Darfur refugees .", "Clooney meets with Vice President Joe Biden, urges aggressive U.S. diplomacy .", "Actor on Darfur refugees: \"They're hanging on by a thread\"\nClooney says he'll be back on \"E.R.\"", "for final episode of long-running series ." ]	[ 0, 2, 22, 55 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Maybe you had one as a kid, or knew someone who did.", "It's the iconic little red wagon with the Radio Flyer logo.", "Radio Flyer is developing a prototype of a wagon with digital controls and an MP3 player dock.", "If so, you might not recognize the newest product dreamed up by the brain trust at Radio Flyer's Chicago, Illinois, headquarters.", "This wagon, called the Cloud 9, is equipped with enough high-tech bells and whistles to make the family minivan jealous.", "\"We approached this product much like an automotive company might with a concept car,\" said Mark Johnson, Radio Flyer's product development manager.", "Outfitted with 5-point safety harnesses, padded seats, cup holders, foot brakes and fold-out storage containers, the sleek, curved Cloud 9 has every family covered for a ride through the park.", "But that's just for starters. There's a digital handle that tracks temperature, time, distance and speed -- just in case energetic parents want to track their split times around the playground.", "And there's a slot for an MP3 player, complete with speakers, for some cruising tunes.", "That's right: The little red wagon has gone 2.0.", "\"Music is such an important part of kids' and families' lives, we thought it would be great to have a speaker system built in the wagon,\" said Tom Schlegel, vice president of product development.", "The Cloud 9 is still a prototype, but it wasn't developed on a whim.", "The company did extensive market research beforehand, then tested it out on the real experts at home.", "\"We sit down [and] observe how moms and kids are using our products,\" said Schlegel.", "\"That's where our new ideas come from.\"", "To develop those ideas, Radio Flyer's designers are using state-of-the art technology.", "They use Wacom Cintiq graphic tablets, allowing them to draw directly onto digital renderings of new products.", "And Radio Flyer also has its own in-house computer numerical control, or CNC, machines that create prototypes right on site.", "Radio Flyer's blend of cutting-edge design and old-fashioned products appears to be a successful recipe.", "In an economy where businesses and families alike are tightening their belts, the company is still going strong.", "\"Radio Flyer survived the Great Depression, and this year has been a difficult year for a lot of companies,\" Schlegel says, \"But Radio Flyer is actually growing this year.", "We're actually looking for engineers and designers in our product development group to keep up with the growth of the company.\"", "That's quite a testament for a company nearly 90 years old.", "Theirs is an American success story that started when Italian immigrant Antonio Pasin started building wooden toy wagons in 1917.", "He had limited success but was encouraged enough to start the Liberty Coaster Company in 1923.", "The company changed names seven years later, becoming Radio Steel & Manufacturing.", "The world was introduced that same year to the first steel wagon, called the Radio Flyer.", "Since then, Radio Flyer has become perhaps the world's most famous maker of wagons, tricycles and other toys.", "The company's best-known product even inspired a 1992 movie, \"Radio Flyer,\" about a boy who imagines converting his red wagon into a flying machine to help his little brother flee an abusive stepdad.", "Whether you grew up on Rock-'em Sock-'em Robots or Xbox, the little red wagon has remained a mainstay of child's play.", "It's certainly evolved over the years, though -- the rusty metal has been replaced with plastic.", "But the spirit of Radio Flyer, which conjures memories of a simpler time, remains intact.", "\"One of the most important things about Radio Flyer products is that they really help [keep kids active outdoors],\" Schlegel said.", "\"So when we're designing our products, we're really looking at how can we get kids outside and playing, away from the video games and TV screens and computer screens.\"", "CNN.com's Brandon Griggs contributed to this story." ]	[ "Radio Flyer, maker of the classic red toy wagon, is creating a high-tech new product .", "The Cloud 9 wagon has digital controls, speakers and a dock for an MP3 player .", "The wagon is still a prototype, developed after extensive market research .", "Radio Flyer's founder began building wooden toy wagons in 1917 ." ]	[ 1, 2, 11, 20, 23 ]
[ "(Parenting.com) -- Bed has always been a place I can't get enough of: the sex; the sleep; cozy afternoons reading; lazy Saturday mornings listening to hyper neighbors mow their lawns.", "\"I learned that Dad really can be interchangeable with Mom, if only I'll let him.\"", "After my husband and I had kids, bed also became the object of my dearest fantasies -- the oasis I dreamed about in my late-afternoon stupor, when I knew that many hours still lay between me and the sheets.", "My covetous view of bed changed, however, midway through my third pregnancy, when some suspicious bleeding led my obstetrician to prescribe bed rest for several days, possibly longer.", "\"But I have two small kids!\"", "I protested. For those of you more gestationally fortunate, \"bed rest\" means lying there for hour upon idle hour -- or in the worst cases, week upon idle week -- afraid that even taking a quick shower or reaching for the TV remote might make you lose your baby.", "Parenting.com: 71 new-mom truths .", "What would my 4-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter do without Mama to attend to them every second of their exhausting days?", "Who could I get to fill my maternal shoes?", "Our relatives live far away.", "Hiring a nanny was financially out of the question.", "The answer, of course, was that the children's father would have to be their mother (he runs his own company from home), although I must confess I had my doubts.", "George is a wonderful, involved dad; he changes diapers, does \"this little piggy,\" and pitches baseballs equally well -- and equally willingly.", "But George has always slept straight through 3 a.m. feedings and bad dreams.", "I'm the chief of childhood minutiae around here; the one who pours the juice, monitors the wee-wees, and knows what \"do the coyote\" means (a dry-eye technique for shampooing hair).", "On top of being both Mama and Daddy, George would have to play nurse to me too.", "But -- the biggest, overriding but -- the unborn baby's health was paramount.", "\"Get in bed, stay in bed, and don't worry about a thing,\" George ordered.", "Parenting.com: How men change, from lover to husband to father .", "The first few hours went quickly enough.", "There was the novelty of gliding between fresh sheets in the middle of the day and the welcome release from snack doling and bottom wiping.", "\"Mommy's sick,\" my husband explained to the kids, closing my door.", "I read straight through one of those books that ordinarily serve as dust catchers.", "I napped. With the door closed and the fan whirring, you couldn't even tell there were two tots downstairs.", "It was so quiet. Quiet usually means trouble's afoot.", "Did George realize this?", "\"Mommy! Mommy!\" I heard them cry. Or did I? My maternal engines idling nervously, I pictured the kids stoned on Cheetos and Popsicles; my daughter's unchanged Pull-Ups sagging to her knees; six straight hours of the Cartoon Network turning their little eyeballs into black-and-white checkerboards.", "Darn it, why was it so quiet downstairs?", "\"Mommy! Mommy!\" It was the kids, bursting through my bedroom doorway with excited squeals.", "George had taken them out to dinner and bought each child a toy doctor's kit.", "They were palpably relieved at being able to take an active part in my scary convalescence.", "Solemnly, they listened to my heartbeat, \"tested\" my blood pressure, and administered innumerable shots.", "\"You must stay in bed!\"", "admonished the 2-year-old, wagging a pudgy finger.", "I had to admit that, had the circumstances been reversed, with me filling in for a bedridden George, I'd never have thought of something so clever.", "Then the object of my admiration appeared.", "\"Okay, you can get up now,\" he said, handing me my robe.", "Already? I wondered. Was he throwing in the towel after just a few hours?", "Then two young muscle-bound guys materialized in the bedroom and began to remove the saggy, full-size, 10-year-old mattress on which I had just been lying.", "A few minutes later, they marched back up the stairs brandishing a brand-new, ultra-firm king-size model.", "George put down new sheets and sent me back to bed.", "Wow! That wasn't all. My dinner that evening arrived on a tray -- stuffed salmon, baked potato, and broccoli on good china, with a chocolate bar on the side.", "The kids sat with me quietly, impressed and awaiting the chocolate.", "Now, I don't know what the kitchen looked like or exactly how often my daughter's Pull-Ups were changed, but for the next several days George knocked himself out keeping everyone happy.", "He rented six movies for me (half based on Jane Austen novels, half starring Harrison Ford).", "He monitored the kids' frequent visits to give me more \"shots\" and let them deliver my mail (from which he'd removed all the bills, leaving only the juicy catalogs).", "They went to the park and the zoo.", "Blessedly, my bout with bed rest lasted less than a week.", "The bleeding stopped as mysteriously as it had begun, and four and a half months later my baby daughter was born beautiful and perfect.", "But the lessons of the episode linger on today.", "And that it takes more than one person to keep a family running -- it's a minuet among all its members.", "When one of us falls back, the others fill in.", "Parenting.com: How to slow down, relax, and enjoy motherhood .", "Sometimes now, on particularly long days, when all three kids are crying at once and I begin to unspool, shrieking back at them like the Anti-June Cleaver, my husband will say to me, in an oh-stop-being-a-martyr tone of voice, \"Why don't you just go to bed?\"", "And you know what? I do. 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." ]	[ "Pregnant mother of two is ordered to mandatory bed rest .", "She worries kids are eating candy and Pull-Ups never changed .", "Dad buys kids toy doctor kits to calm their fears over sick mom .", "He delivers great meals, new bed and takes kids out to play ." ]	[ 3, 4, 6, 12, 21, 26, 29, 53 ]
[ "ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) -- Regrowing a fingertip cut off in an accident sounds like something from a futuristic movie.", "But with innovative technology developed by the U.S. Army, such regrowth is possible today.", "This remotely controlled robot, called BEAR, could help remove injured soldiers from battlefields.", "This research project and a hundred others were on display this month at the 26th Army Science Convention.", "Some the greatest minds in science from around the world gathered at the four-day conference to exchange ideas and showcase collaborative projects between the Army's research laboratories, universities and partner industries.", "The main goal is to develop technology to make soldiers safer and more effective, said Thomas H. Killion, the Army's chief scientist.", "The Army's regenerative medicine study combined properties from the intestinal lining and the urinary bladder to create a regenerative substance called Extracellular Matrix.", "The cream-colored crystallized powder, called \"magic dust,\" boosts the body's natural tendency to repair itself, said U.S. Army Biological Scientist Sgt.", "Glen Rossman.", "When the matrix is applied to a missing digit or limb, \"the body thinks it's back in the womb,\" Rossman said.", "One civilian participated in the regenerative-medicine study after cutting off the tip of his finger in a model plane's propeller.", "Researchers continually applied the matrix to the wound, and after four weeks, the body grew skin and tissue to replenish the damaged area.", "The U.S. military branches have begun a consortium with private institutions to develop treatments for severely injured troops.", "With the help of grants, the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine is studying nerve and vein transplantation, treating burns without scarring and regeneration of tissue, skin and even bone.", "Through both animal studies and civilian clinical trials, the institute is developing therapies for the large number of soldiers injured by improvised explosive devices and other explosives in Afghanistan and Iraq.", "\"We are working on trying to regenerate limbs, to repair limbs and to keep them from being amputated,\" institute Project Director Col. Bob Vandre said.", "Army scientists also have developed an engineered skin substitute made in a laboratory from patients' own cells.", "A postage stamp-sized patch of skin could grow several times larger than the original sample.", "The engineered skin could then be placed over a wound or burn, protecting it from infection, and eventually cover large portions of the body that have been damaged.", "\"Our goal is to restore the function to our wounded warriors who have given so much in battle,\" Vandre said.", "Armed Forces Institute scientists also say they also have developed a process to rebuild missing or damaged bone.", "A web-like tube of calcium-phosphate ceramic, called hydroxyapatite, acts as a biodegradable scaffold that is set in place of the missing bone, giving the body a platform on which to rebuild.", "Scientists say the scaffold allows the body to regrow its own natural tissue, bone and veins so it can support itself.", "Because of the complexity of the process, researchers so far have regrown only 3 centimeters of bone in clinical trials on rats, but they hope to reach 5 centimeters in two years.", "With the regrown bone, scientists could avoid placing titanium or other medical devices in the body.", "Of course, to apply this technology, the Army needs a way to safely remove injured soldiers from combat zones.", "Enter the Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot, or BEAR, a human-shaped machine with eyes, ears and arms for lifting heavy objects.", "Built by Vecna Technologies in association with the Army, BEAR is still a prototype.", "But its potential is promising.", "BEAR is outfitted with lights, two cameras and infrared abilities, and it can travel up to 10 mph.", "The device also can lift 250 pounds while balancing on its toes.", "Vecna robotic engineer Andrew Allen says BEAR can be remotely operated, reducing the chance of injuries to soldiers' human rescuers.", "\"BEAR can easily be replaced; it costs money and not lives,\" Allen said.", "Robot technology has exploded in the past six years, said Army scientist John Parmentola.", "Robot prototypes of all kinds were on display at the conference, and about 10,000 military robots are expected to be deployed in the field in 2009.", "Robots can be outfitted to accomplish various tasks.", "One can detect 38 different chemical or biological explosives from a distance of 3 to 5 meters.", "The robot could be used to scan car doors or truck lids for explosives or chemical residue.", "Another, called Packbot, is deployed in Iraq for surveillance, reconnaissance and explosives removal.", "Packbot has been outfitted to react to voice commands, given remotely through an earpiece.", "Loud background noises do not distort the commands, because the system monitors the vibrations of the operator's jawbone.", "Finally, some robots come with a retractable apparatus called a Zipper Mast or Situational Awareness Mast, which can be equipped with a camera or antenna and raised to peer over walls or send radio communications.", "The smallest Zipper Mast is not much bigger than a coffee pot and can extend to a height of 8 feet.", "Designed by the U.S. Army's Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, the larger mast is affixed to tanks and can reach heights over 30 feet." ]	[ "Cutting-edge technology on display at U.S. Army Science Convention .", "Some of greatest minds in science gathered at four-day conference in Florida .", "Regenerative-medicine research could help injured soldiers regrow tissue and bone .", "Remotely controlled robots could help remove wounded from combat zones ." ]	[ 2, 3, 4, 25 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday federal regulators have the authority to clamp down on the broadcast TV networks that air isolated cases of profanity, known as \"fleeting expletives.\"", "The Supreme Court ruled federal regulators can stop TV networks from airing profanity.", "The 5-4 vote was a victory for Bush-era officials who pushed fines and sanctions when racy images and language reached the airwaves.", "Controversial words have been aired in scripted and unscripted instances on all the major over-the-air networks in the past six years -- dating back to when the Federal Communications Commission began considering a stronger, no-tolerance policy.", "\"It suffices the new policy is permissible under the statute, there are good reasons for it, and the agency believes it to be better,\" said Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the conservative majority.", "The high court, however, refused to decide whether the commission's policy violates the First Amendment guarantee of free speech, only the agency's enforcement power.", "The justices ordered the free-speech aspect to be reviewed again by a federal appeals court.", "ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox were parties in the case.", "A federal appeals court in New York had ruled in their favor, calling the commission's policy \"arbitrary and capricious.\"", "The commission then appealed to the Supreme Court, seeking restoration of its power to penalize the networks airing \"indecent\" speech, even if it is broadcast only one time, and even if it does not describe a specific sex act.", "The high court agreed to some extent.", "\"Even when used as an expletive, the F-word's power to insult and offend derives from its sexual meaning,\" wrote Scalia.", "Such language is heard with greater, albeit varying frequency on cable television, the Internet, and satellite radio, which do not use public airwaves.", "But the federal government is charged with responding to viewer complaints when \"indecent\" language reaches broadcast television and radio, which is subject to greater regulation.", "That is especially relevant during daytime and early evening hours, when larger numbers of families and younger viewers may be watching.", "The FCC's acting chairman, Michael Copps, called Tuesday's ruling a \"a big win for America's families.\"", "The commission formally reversed its policy in March 2004 to declare even a single use of an expletive could be illegal.", "The changes became known as the \"Golden Globes Rule,\" for singer Bono's 2003 acceptance speech at the awards show on NBC, where he uttered the phrase \"really, really, f---ing brilliant.\"", "The commission specifically cited celebrities Cher and Nicole Richie for potty-mouth language in the 2002 and 2003 Billboard Music Awards, which aired on Fox.", "Richie, in an apparent scripted moment said, \"Have you ever tried to get cow s--t out of a Prada purse?", "It's not so f---ing simple.\"", "The complaint against ABC involved \"NYPD Blue,\" a now-canceled scripted police drama, and the CBS' complaint involved \"The Early Show,\" a news and interview program.", "Enforcement of the law had been put on hold while the case was being argued.", "In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens said \"customs of speech\" and context made the Federal Communications Commission's position unworkable.", "\"As any golfer who has watched his partner shank a short approach knows, it would be absurd to accept the suggestion that the resultant four-letter word uttered on the golf course describes sex or excrement and is therefore indecent,\" he wrote.", "\"But that is the absurdity the FCC has embraced in its new approach to indecency.\"", "And Stevens wondered why the agency was going after words that he said had a \"tenuous relationship\" to sex and bodily functions, while at the same time prime-time commercials \"frequently ask viewers whether they, too, are battling erectile dysfunction or are having trouble going to the bathroom.\"", "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made clear how she viewed the broader free speech questions the high court may be forced to confront in coming years.", "\"There is no way to hide the long shadow the First Amendment casts over what the commission has done,\" she wrote.", "The Supreme Court first ventured into the broadcast speech debate in 1978, when it ruled as indecent a monologue by comedian George Carlin on society's taboo surrounding \"seven dirty words.\"", "The bit had received some radio airplay.", "Stevens, 89, was the author of that opinion.", "Justice Clarence Thomas sided with his fellow conservatives on the narrow question presented to the court, but noted the changing landscape of television since Stevens' 31-year-old ruling.", "He said that and other high court precedents \"were unconvincing when they were issued, and the passage of time has only increased doubt regarding their continued validity.\"", "He questioned the communication commission's underlying authority as a \"deep intrusion into the First Amendment rights of broadcasters.\"", "And he noted the four networks no longer have a virtual monopoly on television content.", "\"For most consumers, traditional broadcast media programming is now bundled with cable or satellite services,\" he said, but the Federal Communications Commission's authority extends only to over-the-air television and radio content.", "Conservative and family groups called Tuesday's ruling an \"incredible victory.\"", "\"We implore the broadcast networks to abide by today's court's ruling rather than to pursue a path of attempted obstruction with countless legal maneuverings,\" said Tim Winter, president of the Parents Television Council, which monitors content on the airwaves.", "\"And we encourage the FCC to use today's opinion to break the indecency complaint logjam, and rule on the merits of the tens of thousands of indecency complaints currently awaiting review at the commission.\"", "There was no immediate reaction from the broadcast networks, but groups representing the artistic and creative community expressed displeasure.", "iReport.com: Share your thoughts on indecency on television .", "\"Today's decision is extremely disappointing,\" said Andrew Jay Schwartzman, head of the Media Access Project.", "\"We remain hopeful that the FCC's restrictive policies will ultimately be declared unconstitutional, but there will be several more years of uncertainty, and impaired artistic expression, while the lower courts address the First Amendment issues which the court chose not to confront today.\"", "Time Warner -- the parent company of CNN -- filed a friend of the court brief supporting the networks fined by the communications commission.", "The company is part owner of the CW broadcast network, and operates several cable networks.", "The case is FCC v. Fox Television Stations (07-582)." ]	[ "NEW: FCC's acting chairman calls ruling \"a big win for America's families\"\nNEW: Thomas sides with majority, but questions FCC's \"underlying authority\"\nNEW: Media Access Project head warns of \"impaired artistic expression\"\nSupreme Court ruled 5-4 federal regulators can clamp down on \"fleeting expletives\"" ]	[ 0, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos began their \"supervised release\" Friday after President Bush commuted their sentences in January for convictions related to the shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler.", "Ignacio Ramos has been out of prison since Febrary after serving time in the shooting of an illegal immigrant.", "Ramos and Compean were able to remove their electronic monitoring devices and leave their homes in El Paso, Texas, on Friday for the first time since they left prison in February.", "After spending two \"hard, long, lonely\" years in prison, the two said they were looking forward to spending time with their families and putting this chapter of their lives behind them.", "\"There are more important things than the people that have done this to us or what we have gone through and I am not going to sit here and dwell on that,\" Ramos said in an interview with CNN's \"Lou Dobbs Tonight.\"", "\"We are looking ahead.", "We're optimistic for a very good future and that's what's more important,\" Ramos said.", "Their release in February marked a significant turning point in a case that served as a flash point in the debate over immigration and border security.", "The two were sentenced in 2006 to 11- and 12-year sentences stemming from the February 2005 shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila near the U.S.-Mexico border south of El Paso, Texas.", "Critics of U.S. immigration policy rushed to the agents' defense, saying they were merely doing their jobs.", "Civil liberties advocates argued that Compean and Ramos used excessive force.", "Ramos credited the outside support with helping him win clemency and keeping his spirits up during his imprisonment.", "\"Members from Congress were speaking about us, people writing us constantly, it felt so good to know that people didn't give up on us and that people constantly believed in us,\" he said.", "\"How can you give up when people aren't giving up on you?\"", "Compean echoed his sentiments, saying he was shocked to this day over the support he received.", "\"I didn't expect it. I expected people to really forget all about us once we turned ourselves in,\" he said.", "Like Ramos, Compean said the most difficult part of going to prison was leaving behind his wife and children.", "\"I think that's been the hardest.", "When I turned myself in, my son was 4 months old,\" he said.", "\"There's really nothing special I want to do.", "The only thing I'm really looking forward to is getting out of the house and going out to dinner with my wife and going to the park with my sons,\" Compean said.", "Their legal cases are far from over.", "The convictions still stand and the two remain felons while appeals are pending, which means they cannot contact one another or reapply for their jobs, something Ramos said he would like to do.", "Ramos shot Aldrete-Davila in the buttocks after he ditched a vehicle carrying more than 700 pounds of marijuana and fled on foot toward Mexico.", "The agents said during trial that Aldrete-Davila had brandished a gun while resisting arrest, but Aldrete-Davila said he was unarmed and trying to surrender when Compean attempted to beat him with a shotgun.", "\"In exchange for immunity, Aldrete-Davila agreed to cooperate with the investigation of the shooting, and he returned to the United States so that the bullet could be removed from his body,\" according to court documents.", "Ramos and Compean were convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon, lying about the incident and violating Aldrete-Davila's Fourth Amendment right against illegal search and seizure.", "Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a vocal critic of the decision to grant Aldrete-Davila immunity, said several key pieces of evidence were withheld from the jury that convicted Ramos and Compean.", "The jury, for instance, never learned that Aldrete-Davila was running drugs at the time of the shooting.", "Nor did jurors learn that Aldrete-Davila breached his immunity agreement by continuing to smuggle drugs into the United States, Cornyn has said.", "\"Several jurors have since come forward to state that if they had been told about the excluded evidence, they would have changed their verdict,\" Cornyn wrote in a January plea to Bush, requesting clemency for the agents.", "Despite Ramos' and Compean's appeals for clemency, a senior Bush administration official said the men were \"convicted felons who violated their oaths to uphold the law.\"", "Leading Democrats and Republicans, however, supported Bush's commutation, the official said.", "\"The president has reviewed the circumstances of this case as a whole and the conditions of confinement and believes the sentences they received are too harsh and that they and their families have suffered enough for their crimes,\" the official said." ]	[ "Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean begin their supervised release Friday .", "Men say they look forward to being with family, putting incident behind them .", "\"There are more important things than the people that have done this,\" Ramos says .", "President Bush in January commuted their sentences for shooting drug smuggler ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A gaggle of reporters pushed their microphones and cameras toward the North Korean official shortly after he arrived at a college campus here.", "North Korean diplomat Kim Myong-gil gathered with other officials to discuss North Korea's energy needs .", "But Kim Myong-gil's comments were off the record -- a sign of the sensitive nature of openly discussing concerns about North Korea's nuclear program.", "The U.S. State Department's director of Korean affairs, Kurt Tong, also agreed to participate in Thursday's conference as long as his statements were not published.", "Tong and Kim, a North Korea representative at the United Nations, gathered with others including former diplomats and academics at the Georgia Institute of Technology to discuss North Korea's energy needs and the status of the six-party talks on its nuclear program.", "Although the two top-level diplomats kept their remarks private, other participants in the conference at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs aired their opinions openly.", "Much of the Korea conference focused on the scientific details of North Korea's infrastructure and how it could be improved to handle sources of energy other than nuclear, such as an oil pipeline or utilizing its significant mineral resources.", "But all those ideas will never be realized without a change in relations between North Korea, its neighbors and the United States, and that is why diplomacy was also part of the discussion.", "Thursday's conference coincided with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's announcement that her new envoy to North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, will travel to Russia, China, South Korea and Japan next week \"to consult on the next steps to move the six-party process forward.\"", "Senior administration officials said Bosworth is considering heading to Pyongyang on that visit, but only if the leaders of the other parties involved in the talks are comfortable with that overture.", "Speaking at a joint news conference with Clinton, Bosworth said there is no doubt the United States plans \"to engage with North Korea.\"", "\"The question as to whether we're going to engage with them on this particular trip remains to be decided,\" he said.", "\"That will depend upon our consultations in the region, and it will depend upon what we hear back from the North Koreans.\"", "Thursday's conference also coincided with reports that North Korea is apparently preparing to test-fire its long-range missile, the Taepodong-2, under the guise of launching a satellite into space.", "Leon Sigal, a specialist on North Korea who used to work for the State Department, stressed that President Obama is at a \"starting point\" with North Korea.", "Mindful that the new U.S. leader is preoccupied with his country's economic recession, Sigal said Obama must act swiftly and decisively with regards to North Korea to avoid the mistakes of the previous administration.", "\"The only way to fix this problem is to negotiate,\" said Sigal, who is currently director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York.", "Part of Sigal's proposal includes helping North Korea construct conventional power plants as it moves toward denuclearization.", "He outlined two \"troubling questions\" facing the Obama administration: how to avoid having to constantly react under pressure to North Korea's provocations, and how the scenario could change, possibly for the worse, if there is a change in leadership, \"now that Kim Jong-Il's health is at issue.\"", "\"It seems to me the answer to both is for Washington to put a bigger deal on the negotiating table now,\" Sigal proposed.", "That drew a couple of comments and questions from the audience.", "One graduate student asked why the United States should \"put more oil in a leaky bucket,\" referring to the idea of sending more fuel oil shipments to North Korea when the previous shipments -- part of an agreement to get Pyongyang to shut down its nuclear facility -- have done little to deter the country from abandoning its nuclear program.", "North Korea maintains that it is due the oil shipments because it fulfilled its obligation to disable its Yongbyon nuclear complex.", "The United States has demanded Pyongyang verify that by allowing U.N. inspectors to inspect the facility, which it has refused.", "At Thursday's conference, former U.S. ambassador to South Korea James Laney cautioned against resorting to the same rhetoric about which side had violated previous agreements.", "\"I can understand how we want to score points ... but there are times when prudence or better wisdom or real strategy dictates that we have to (have) some sort of engagement,\" he said.", "Laney, who was instrumental in defusing the North Korean nuclear crisis in 1994, suggested that the United States propose a peace treaty to replace the 1953 armistice which effectively ended the Korean War.", "\"A peace treaty would mean there are two nations on the Korean peninsula,\" said Laney.", "\"There are two nations now, but a treaty would recognize (this).\"", "Victor Cha, who was the White House's director of Asian affairs under the Bush administration, cautioned against moving forward on securing a peace treaty before North Korea takes further steps toward denuclearization.", "\"Even if there are some (in North Korea) who would want to give up nuclear weapons in exchange for a peace treaty, there may be others that say, 'Once we have a peace treaty ... we can be recognized as a nuclear state,'\" according to Cha.", "Cha, who said he routinely has to apologize for being a member of the Bush administration, praised Obama's government, which he said has \"none of the hang-ups\" in dealing with North Korea's leadership that the previous administration had.", "Laney urged the new administration to \"move beyond sticks and carrots,\" which was the stated approach of the Bush administration.", "While there is no guarantee that a peace treaty or any other overture to North Korea would work, Laney and Sigal said the administration has to try a new approach.", "\"You see, I'm 81 and I want to see something (happen) before I die,\" said Laney, who worked in U.S. Army counterintelligence before serving in the Korean War.", "\"Fifty-five years is a long time.\"", "Sigal concurred, saying that \"diplomatic give-and-take is the only policy\" for North Korea.", "\"But sustaining diplomacy ... will be difficult,\" he added.. \"Kim Jong-Il wants to force America to be his friend,\" he said, referring to the North Korean leader.", "\"He seems unwilling to unclench his fist and shake Obama's hand.", "We may have to settle for a fist bump.\"" ]	[ "Officials, academics gather to discuss North Korea's energy needs .", "Diplomacy was part of the discussion at Georgia Tech conference .", "Conference coincided with reports North Korea is going to test-fire missle ." ]	[ 1, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Japan's defense minister has ordered two destroyers to help fight piracy in the waters off Somalia, officials with the defense ministry told CNN.", "Pirates are caught on camera off the Somalian coast.", "The Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers will be dispatched Saturday, the defense ministry said.", "The order, which the Cabinet approved earlier Friday, marks the first policing action for the MSDF, whose major missions overseas have focused on background support such as transport and refueling, Japan's Kyodo news agency said.", "A bill approved on the same day allows the MSDF to be deployed in piracy-infested waters as needed.", "The move comes after Somali pirates released a Panamanian-flagged, Japanese-owned vessel that was hijacked in the Gulf of Aden in November, according to a non-governmental group that monitors piracy.", "The ship was released last month.", "The 18 Filipino and five South Korean crew members were reportedly unharmed.", "It was unclear whether the pirates were paid a ransom to release the ship.", "Japan Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada said the provision would be used on an interim basis, the news agency reported.", "Two destroyers with about 400 personnel and eight coast guard officers will be aboard the ships, whose escort mission will start in early April after about three weeks of sailing toward Somalia, according to the news agency." ]	[ "The order marks the first policing action for the MSDF .", "Mission will start in early April after about three weeks of sailing .", "Move comes after Somali pirates hijacked Japan-owned vessel in November ." ]	[ 5, 10 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- A day after publishing a cartoon that drew fire from critics who said it evoked historically racist images, the New York Post apologized in a statement on its Web site -- even as it defended its action and blasted some detractors.", "A New York Post cartoon has sparked a debate over race and cartooning this week.", "Many of those critical of the cartoon said it appeared to compare President Obama to a chimpanzee in a commentary on his recently approved economic stimulus package.", "\"Wednesday's Page Six cartoon -- caricaturing Monday's police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut -- has created considerable controversy,\" the paper said about the drawing, which shows two police officers standing over the body of a chimpanzee they just shot.", "The drawing is a reference to the mauling of a woman by a pet chimpanzee, which was then killed by police.", "In the cartoon, one of the officers tells the other, \"They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.\"", "The Post said the cartoon was meant to mock what it called an \"ineptly written\" stimulus bill.", "\"But it has been taken as something else -- as a depiction of President Obama, as a thinly veiled expression of racism,\" reads the statement.", "\"This most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.\"", "Watch reaction to Post's apology » .", "But the statement immediately swerves to fire back at some of the image's critics.", "\"However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past -- and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback,\" the statement says.", "\"To them, no apology is due.", "Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon -- even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.\"", "Several African-American leaders, including the Rev.", "Al Sharpton, attacked the image, which was drawn by artist Sean Delonas.", "Sharpton said Thursday he and the leaders of \"various groups\" would respond at 5 p.m. Friday outside The Post's offices in midtown Manhattan.", "\"Though we think it is the right thing for them to apologize to those they offended,\" the statement appeared to blame those who raised the issue \"rather than take responsibility for what they did,\" Sharpton said.", "He accused the newspaper of having \"belatedly come with a conditional statement after people began mobilizing and preparing to challenge the waiver of News Corp in the city where they own several television stations and newspapers.\"", "Delonas has made Sharpton the butt of previous cartoons in The Post.", "In a brief phone interview with CNN, Delonas called the controversy \"absolutely friggin' ridiculous.\"", "\"Do you really think I'm saying Obama should be shot?", "I didn't see that in the cartoon,\" Delonas told CNN.", "\"It's about the economic stimulus bill,\" he added.", "Col Allan, the Post's editor-in-chief, said Wednesday that the cartoon \"is a clear parody of a current news event.\"", "\"It broadly mocks Washington's efforts to revive the economy.", "Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist,\" Allan said in a written statement.", "But Sharpton was not alone in his criticism.", "Barbara Ciara, president of the National Association of Black Journalists, said The Post showed a \"serious lapse in judgment\" by running the cartoon.", "\"To think that the cartoonist and the responsible editors at the paper did not see the racist overtones of the finished product should insult their intelligence,\" Ciara said in a written statement.", "\"Instead, they celebrate their own lack of perspective and criticize those who call it what it is: tone deaf at best, overtly racist at worst.\"", "iReport.com: Share your reaction to the N.Y. Post cartoon .", "\"Comparing President Obama and his effort to revive the economy in a manner that depicts violence and racist inferences is unacceptable,\" said National Urban League President Marc Morial in a statement issued Wednesday.", "The nearly $800 billion stimulus package was the top priority for Obama, the first black U.S. president, who signed it Tuesday.", "In an open letter to The Post, musician John Legend criticized the newspaper and called on New Yorkers not to buy it, or talk to its reporters or buy its advertising space.", "Addressing the newspaper's editors, Legend wrote, \"Did it occur to you that our president has been receiving death threats since early in his candidacy?", "Did it occur to you that blacks have historically been compared to various apes as a way of racist insult and mockery?", "Did you intend to invoke these painful themes when you printed the cartoon?", "\"If that's not what you intended, then it was stupid and willfully ignorant of you not to connect these easily connectable dots.", "If it is what you intended, then you obviously wanted to be grossly provocative, racist and offensive.\"", "Either way, Legend said, the fact that the cartoon was printed \"is truly reprehensible.\"" ]	[ "Sharpton: \"Various groups\" would respond at 5 p.m. at Post headquarters .", "New York Post apologizes on Web site; blasts some \"opportunist\" detractors .", "Paper said cartoon was meant to mock what an \"ineptly written\" stimulus bill .", "Paper also said \"no apology is due\" to those who want payback for the past ." ]	[ 6, 12, 16 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- European officials expressed frustration at Russia and Ukraine's inability to enforce an agreement to resume delivery of natural gas, amid heat and cooking gas shortages and sub-zero temperatures endured by millions of people.", "A woman passes in front of a manometer set on a gas pipe in the Ukrainian city of Boyarka, near Kiev.", "German Chancellor Angela Merkel was expected to meet Friday with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Timoshenko in an emergency meeting in Berlin.", "Merkel said she was likely to reinforce the EU's position as a natural gas customer.", "\"There is a risk that the confidence in Russia may be lost due to the ongoing disruption,\" said Merkel.", "On Thursday European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso urged Ukraine and Russia to quickly implement a compromise that would return natural gas deliveries from Russia's Gazprom's pipelines through the Ukraine as soon as possible.", "\"If the agreement is not honored, it means that Russia and Ukraine are no longer to be considered reliable partners for the EU in matters of energy supply,\" said Barroso.", "Ukraine is a major entry point for Russian gas into Europe.", "Russia and Ukraine's dispute over pricing and contractual terms began nearly a year ago, escalating into the present crisis that has prompted Russia to turn off its taps.", "Both nations help deliver about 25 percent of Europe's natural gas.", "In the long term, the EU eyed plans to build a pipeline to purchase natural gas from Central Asia and eventually Iraq and Iran.", "It was also building up infrastructure to import liquefied gas from North Africa and the Middle East and exploring nuclear energy.", "During Wednesday's open session, European Parliament members and commissioners lashed out, with EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs saying, \"We are living through one of the most serious energy crises yet-comparable with the 1970s oil crisis.\"", "\"Despite promises and the protocol signed on Monday, gas is not yet flowing from Russia through Ukraine.\"", "Piebalgs said Russia had resumed gas deliveries on Tuesday, at one-third of normal flow, but Ukraine had stopped it claiming that Russia had chosen a difficult entry point.", "Eastern Europe was experiencing a historic low in temperatures and Siberian weather conditions.", "When Russia's natural gas delivery was halted, it relied on its stockpile, which is quickly running out.", "Croatia's government has declared pre-alert measures and announced gas shutdowns for everyone except for households, hospitals, schools and kindergartens.", "In the capital city of Zagreb, businesses are losing money due to the shortage, an estimated 10,000 Euros a day.", "Five hundred companies have been cut-off so far.", "Danijel Zadijeloviae, owner of Lipik Glass, said the shortages have lost his business millions of Euros.", "\"If we had lost gas for only a second, it would caused us damages of up to 3 and a half million euros,\" he said.", "CNN's Jim Boulden and Matthew Chance contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Merkel says Russia risks the loss of confidence due to disruption .", "EU is building up infrastructure to import liquefied gas from North Africa, Mideast .", "Ukraine government says it has agreed to hold talks with Russia over gas row .", "Dispute leaves countries across Europe with gas shortages ." ]	[ 4, 7, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When Kellogg's dumped its endorsement of Michael Phelps after a photograph surfaced of the Olympic gold medalist using a bong, the company was stuck with thousands of boxes of cereal featuring the swimmer's image.", "Kellogg's ended its Michael Phelps endorsement, so it sent two tons of cereal with his face on it to a food bank.", "No problem. The company, based in Battle Creek, Michigan, made short order of the already-printed and filled boxes, donating two tons of cereal to the San Francisco Food Bank late last month.", "With food banks across the country reporting shortages of food, the donation was a welcome one, said the food bank's director of development, Christopher Wiley.", "It took only two weeks for about 3,000 boxes to move through warehouse.", "\"Thousands of families benefited from the donation\" Wiley said.", "\"It was a surprise to us.", "We were lacking a lot of cereal.", "It is a great product many low-income families really need.\"", "\"The real story for us was not the box but what's inside the box.", "The food is so valuable for the community.", "It's making good from bad,\" Wiley said.", "The food bank has seen a 6 percent increase in its customer base since the beginning of the year, he said.", "Phelps, 23, won a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.", "He admitted \"regrettable behavior\" after a British newspaper published the controversial photograph in early February.", "The tabloid News of the World showed Phelps using the bong during what it said was a November party at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.", "A bong is a device commonly used to smoke marijuana.", "The Phelps box attracted considerable attention to the food bank.", "Administrators received several calls from people wanting to get the box as a novelty item.", "But, said Wiley, all the cereal went to food bank customers.", "Kellogg's was the only one of Phelps sponsors to drop the athlete, although U.S.A.", "Swimming, the nation's governing body for competitive swimming, suspended him for three months, withdrew financial support and barred him from competition during the period of his \"reprimand.\"", "CNN's Jackie Castillo and Mayra Cuevas contributed to this report." ]	[ "Kellogg's donated two tons of cereal to the San Francisco Food Bank .", "Company dumped the cereal boxes with Michael Phelps' face after bong incident .", "Food bank director: Helpful donation is \"making good from bad\"\nMore than 3,000 boxes of cereal went to help those who were hungry ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 11 ]
[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Barely a year after the country celebrated its return to democracy, Pakistan is ensnared in a new political crisis.", "Riot police block a street on Thursday leading to a court building in Karachi, Pakistan.", "Thousands of lawyers planned a four-day march to the country's capital, Islamabad, on Thursday, demanding that the government immediately reinstate judges whom the previous president ousted.", "The protesters plan a sit-in at the parliament building on Monday, and say they will continue their demonstrations indefinitely until their demands are met.", "At the same time, the country's main opposition leader and his supporters have joined in the nationwide protests, but for reasons of their own.", "The government responded by banning political demonstrations in two of the country's biggest provinces -- Punjab and Sindh.", "It also detained several hundred activists Wednesday.", "The political chaos has forced the government's attention away from a deadly fundamentalist insurgency in its tribal areas and an economy that's on the verge of collapse.", "To understand the reasons behind Pakistan's latest political chaos, one needs to keep three central characters in mind: .", "What do the lawyers want?", "The lawyers want President Zardari to live up to a promise to reinstate judges sacked by former President Musharraf.", "Musharraf fired about 60 judges when he declared a state of emergency in November 2007.", "The fired judges include 14 of 18 judges who sat on the Supreme Court, including Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.", "Critics say Musharraf sacked the judges because they were preparing to rule against the legitimacy of his third term in office.", "He had been re-elected president by a parliament stacked with his supporters, they said.", "After sweeping into power in parliamentary elections last year, the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party promised to reinstate the judges within 30 days of taking office.", "The deadline came and went.", "Why have the judges not been reinstated?", "One reason behind the delay, some experts have surmised, may be that the Supreme Court was expected to look into the controversial amnesty granted to former PPP leader Benazir Bhutto and her husband and current party head, Zardari, for corruption charges.", "When Bhutto was prime minister, Zardari was accused many times of corruption, stealing from government coffers and accepting kickbacks.", "Pakistanis derisively labeled him \"Mr. 10 percent.\"", "Zardari said the cases were politically motivated.", "He spent several years in jail on the charges but was never convicted.", "Bhutto herself faced corruption charges in at least five cases, but was not convicted.", "In October 2007, with his popularity plummeting and under pressure from the West to hold elections, Musharraf allowed Bhutto to return from exile and participate by granting her and her husband amnesty.", "Bhutto was assassinated during a campaign rally.", "Her husband became head of the party and the new president of Pakistan.", "Why is the opposition protesting?", "The country's second-biggest party, the Pakistan Muslim League -- N (PML-N), is led by opposition leader and former Prime Minister Sharif.", "Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that Sharif cannot hold public office, citing a criminal record that dates to the late 1990s.", "The court also stripped Sharif's brother, Shahbaz, from his post as chief minister of Punjab -- the Sharif party's power center.", "The Sharifs condemned the court's decision as politically motivated.", "They accuse the court of acting at the behest of Zardari.", "Adding to their outrage, Zardari suspended Punjab's parliament and imposed executive rule there for two months.", "The Zardari administration said the executive rule was needed to maintain stability in the province.", "Supporters of PML-N have rallied in large numbers opposing the ruling.", "Why did the court bar Nawaz Sharif from elected office?", "The case against Sharif dates to the late 1990s, when he was prime minister.", "At the time, Musharraf was military chief.", "And Sharif feared Musharraf was plotting his ouster.", "When Musharraf was returning home from an overseas trip, Sharif refused the airliner to land.", "That order eventually led to Sharif's conviction for hijacking and treason when Musharraf took power in a bloodless coup.", "Separately, Sharif also was convicted of corruption.", "He went into exile instead of prison, but returned to Pakistan to challenge Musharraf's rule in late 2007.", "However, the election commission barred Sharif from the parliamentary race.", "His brother, Shahbaz, was shut out because of financial irregularities, the commission said.", "The Supreme Court upheld the commission's decisions.", "What does the turmoil mean for Pakistan?", "The renewed tensions threaten to take the focus away from the government's attempts to quash an escalating pro-Taliban insurgency in the country.", "At the same time, Pakistan's economy is in shambles.", "The worsening security situation is part of the reason.", "Rising food and oil prices have also contributed to the crisis.", "In November, the International Monetary Fund approved a $7.6 billion loan to Pakistan to help the South Asian country of 170 million people avoid an economic collapse.", "Many in Pakistan worry that the latest turmoil could once again force the army on to the streets if it worsens.", "In its 61-year history, Pakistan has been under army rule more than half the time.", "For now, Gen. Ashfaq Kayani has said he will not interfere in political matters." ]	[ "Pakistan's main opposition will join protests demanding reinstatement of judges .", "Political protests may divert attention from efforts against pro-Taliban insurgency .", "Nation has been under military rule for more than half of its 61-year history ." ]	[ 7, 54 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Singer-actress Mandy Moore and rocker Ryan Adams were married this week in Savannah, Georgia, Moore's publicist told CNN on Wednesday.", "Mandy Moore first found recording success in 1999 with her single \"Candy\" and is now a well-known actress.", "The wedding took place Tuesday, said Jillian Fowkes, who gave no further details about the nuptials.", "Rumors first surfaced almost a year ago that Moore, 24, and Adams, 34, were dating, as paparazzi photos surfaced of the couple out together in Los Angeles, California.", "Moore's first success as a recording artist came in 1999 with her debut album, \"So Real,\" which went platinum with the help of her top-10 single \"Candy.\"", "Adams is known for producing rock music with a country influence.", "He is best known for his song \"New York, New York\", which appeared on his 2001 release \"Gold.\"", "Adams is also an author and has produced music for Jesse Malin and Willie Nelson.", "He recently announced that he was leaving his band, The Cardinals, because of inner ear troubles affecting his balance and hearing.", "Adams has fronted The Cardinals since 2004." ]	[ "Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams married quietly in Savannah, Georgia .", "Couple was first spotted together by paparazzi almost a year ago .", "He recently announced he is leaving The Cardinals ." ]	[ 3, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A German supermarket employee got a surprise this week when she opened two boxes of bananas to find them filled with more than 60 pounds of cocaine worth $2 million, police said.", "Government-released photos show bananas and packages of what is identified as cocaine.", "\"This is obviously a matter of a logistical mistake,\" a spokesman for the Bavarian State Bureau of Investigation, based in Munich, told CNN Friday.", "A 26-year-old employee with the discount chain Lidl in the sleepy town of Illertissen was randomly checking the boxes on Wednesday morning, police said.", "The fresh bananas had just been taken off a food truck, an hour after the store was open, they said.", "The employee was suspicious of the boxes because they felt lighter than normal, police said.", "As she unpacked the bananas to take them into the store's produce section, police said, she found 26 small yellow parcels hidden underneath the fruit.", "She immediately called police.", "The investigators established that the substance is cocaine and confiscated the goods, police said.", "The cocaine totaled 28 kilos, or 61.7 pounds, police said.", "The German shipper who delivered the bananas also made stops at other stores in southern Germany, but police said no other box with cocaine had been found at those stores yet.", "The freight had come from Antwerp, Belgium, but originated from Colombia, police said.", "\"The drug courier obviously screwed up.", "He simply was not quick enough,\" the Bavarian State Bureau of Investigation spokesman said.", "He dubbed the finding a \"discovery by accident.\"", "Police said they did not know why the shipment of illegal drugs was delivered to the particular store in Illertissen, halfway between Munich and Stuttgart.", "The town is right next to a major highway, a North-South route between Scandinavia in the north and Italy in the south.", "The freight might have been delivered to the wrong address, the spokesman said.", "Police were not releasing any further details because of their ongoing inquiries.", "They said they did not know if a drug cartel or a drug courier was using Illertissen as a hub." ]	[ "Supermarket employee uncovers 28 kilograms worth of cocaine, police say .", "Packages were discovered in supermarket in southern Germany .", "Freight came from Belgium, originated in Colombia, authorities say .", "Town of market is along route between Scandinavia and Italy ." ]	[ 1, 11, 16 ]
[ "(Coastal Living) -- Leave behind the mainland and sneak away to these heavenly hideaways.", "At Petit St. Vincent, 22 understatedly elegant stone cottages overlook the water.", "Petit St. Vincent, Grenadines .", "The fantasy: Your own sun-blessed, beach-fringed island in the Caribbean, with sailing, snorkeling and other pastimes available at your whim, and a staff to provide anything from meals to massages.", "The reality: At Petit St. Vincent, it's the same as the fantasy.", "Twenty-two understatedly elegant stone cottages, overlooking the water and open to the breezes, scatter across this 113-acre island.", "With rates starting at $675 a night, Petit St. Vincent qualifies as a splurge, but the price covers all activities and meals.", "Open November through August; 800/654-9326 or psvresort.com.", "The Inn on Peaks Island, Maine .", "Rocky, rustic, small-town New England floats languidly in Casco Bay, two miles from downtown Portland.", "Summer brings visitors seeking art galleries, nature and relaxation.", "In winter, you can snuggle up at the inn and enjoy the muted clang of buoys in the bay and the sharp scent of a wood fire.", "Six pleasantly furnished suites feature fireplaces, private decks and spa tubs.", "The Pub restaurant serves seafood and locally brewed beers year-round.", "A 20-minute ferry ride connects Peaks with the shopping, dining and nightlife of Portland.", "Prices range from $175 to $300; 207/766-5100 or innonpeaks.com.", "The Inn at Mama's Fish House, Maui, Hawaii .", "The handful of cottages that make up this hideaway rest under coconut palms on Maui's North Shore, just off the scenic Hana Highway.", "\"Old Polynesia\" decor and a low-key atmosphere mark it as a throwback to an era when Hawaii meant tropical exoticism, not real-estate opportunities.", "Coastal Living: More on Maui .", "A short drive west takes you to the town of Paia.", "A short drive east reveals the bright sails of windsurfers swooping just off Hookipa Beach.", "And simply staying put ensures the pleasures of lounging on the sand in front of your cottage or savoring the seafood at Mama's Fish House Restaurant next door.", "Rooms from $175; 800/860-4852 or mamasfishhouse.com.", "The Collier Inn, Useppa Island, Florida .", "In the early 20th century, northern tycoons made Useppa their winter playground.", "Today, anyone can share its still-genteel lifestyle at the posh Collier Inn.", "Seven antiques-filled suites recall the pre-Depression boom years when ad exec and developer Barron Collier held sway over most of Southwest Florida, and gentlemen in white suits competed civilly at croquet.", "The 80-acre island, accessible only by water and explored mostly by golf cart, contains neither cars nor roads.", "The Pink Promenade, a pathway of shells and pink sand, winds past banyan trees and tropical flowers.", "Prices range from $125 to $395; 239/283-1061 or useppa.com.", "Hotel del Coronado and Glorietta Bay Inn, Coronado Island, California .", "Technically Coronado is a peninsula, but it has been an island -- at least at high tide.", "And, true to island character, it feels like a place apart.", "The red-roof turrets and dormers of the 1888-vintage, beachfront Hotel del Coronado confirm it.", "Across the street, so does the Glorietta Bay Inn, which incorporates a 1908 Italian Renaissance mansion.", "Coastal Living: Southern California eateries .", "Rooms in The Del's rambling original building have more character, but the newer structures (especially the Beach Village cottages and villas) tend to offer nicer accommodations; 800/468-3533 or hoteldel.com.", "Rooms in the main resort range from $255 to $1,650; Beach Village accommodations range from $450 to $5,400.", "At the Glorietta, choose the mansion.", "Rooms start at $185; 800/283-9383 or gloriettabayinn.com.", "English Country Garden B&B, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia .", "Only the most spectacular scenery could draw tourists all the way to this remote Atlantic island on the eastern end of Nova Scotia.", "Cape Breton delivers; ask anyone who has ever driven the Cabot Trail along the coast of the ruggedly glorious Highlands.", "Accommodations tend to be comfortable but rustic -- except at English Country Garden Bed & Breakfast (at Indian Brook), which opts for comfortable and luxurious.", "The four rooms include a tiny, secluded log cottage with a porch overlooking a small lake.", "The breakfasts and the optional, reservation-only dinners are equally sumptuous.", "Rooms from $120 Canadian (about $98 US); 866/929-2721 or capebretongarden.com.", "Casita de Maya, Cozumel, Mexico .", "Don't confuse it with Cancún, the party-hearty spring break destination a few miles north.", "The laid-back Caribbean island of Cozumel attracts scuba divers and snorkelers, beach bums and honeymooners who prefer quiet togetherness.", "Coastal Living: Mexico travel tips .", "Tucked away next to the airport, of all places (but away from the flight paths, so jet noise does not intrude), Casita de Maya provides the perfect headquarters for a getaway.", "The four rooms, beautifully appointed in earthy colors, open onto a pretty little courtyard with a pool.", "Owner Dan Komorowsky and his staff can answer any question about the island and arrange expeditions.", "They also know when to disappear and give guests time for themselves.", "Rates from $59; 281/214-1122 or casitademaya.com.", "MacKaye Harbor Inn, Lopez Island, Washington .", "Like most out-of-the-way places, Lopez (north of Seattle in the San Juan Islands) attracts residents who want to do something different.", "As you meander the mostly flat roads, you'll encounter organic farmers and winemakers, cattle ranchers, artists and such establishments as the Love Dog Café and Vortex Juice Bar & Good Food.", "MacKaye Harbor Inn, in a huge restored farmhouse near the south end of the island, lends guests mountain bikes to explore.", "Of course, you'll want to be back at the inn in time for evening chocolates and spectacular sunsets.", "Rooms from $135; 888/314-6140 or mackayeharborinn.com.", "A Water's Edge Retreat, Kelleys Island, Ohio .", "A 19th-century limestone industry left this Lake Erie island (off Sandusky) with a 21st century legacy of grand Victorian houses.", "You can't miss this bed-and-breakfast, with its bright coral-and-aqua exterior.", "Despite the punchy paint job, the rooms are traditional and refined.", "Guest perks include onsite spa services and sailing trips on Lake Erie.", "Alas, the inn operates only April through October.", "But that does cover the summer tourist season, as well as the spring and fall, allowing a chance to catch sight of migrating raptors, waterfowl and songbirds.", "Rooms from $199; 800/884-5143 or watersedgeretreat.com.", "Jekyll Island Club Hotel, Jekyll Island, Georgia .", "You probably don't vacation with an entourage that requires a 25-room mansion, but a century ago you might have -- if you were a Rockefeller.", "In the late 1800s, America's business elite began gathering at Jekyll Island each year for winter vacation.", "Some stayed in the extravagant clubhouse; others built grand holiday homes nearby.", "Coastal Living: What to pack for coastal Georgia .", "The Jekyll Island Club Hotel now occupies the clubhouse and several other historic buildings, including a couple of the cottages, keeping up the standards splendidly.", "You can wander the 240-acre Millionaire's Village and envision yourself in the Gilded Age.", "And you can play golf and tennis, cruise around the island by bicycle, inhale the fresh salt air on the beach, and ride in a horse-drawn carriage.", "Rooms from $149; 800/535-9547 or jekyllclub.com.", "Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .", "Copyright © Coastal Living, 2009 ." ]	[ "Suites at The Inn on Peaks Island in Maine feature fireplaces and spa tubs .", "A restored farmhouse houses MacKaye Harbor Inn on Washington's Lopez Island .", "Jekyll Island Club Hotel in Georgia was a retreat for the business elite in the 1800s ." ]	[ 8, 12, 57, 60, 71, 73 ]
[ "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Six U.S. soldiers were killed Wednesday in Iraq when a bomb exploded in a booby-trapped house while they were on patrol north of Baghdad, the military announced.", "U.S. soldiers conduct a house-to-house assessment mission in Baghdad on Wednesday.", "Four soldiers were also wounded in the attack and evacuated to a coalition forces hospital, Multi-National Corps-Iraq said.", "The troops were taking part in Operation Iron Harvest -- a new drive against Islamic militants in northern Iraq after a spate of attacks on local anti-insurgent groups.", "The operation is part of a nationwide push against jihadists loyal to al Qaeda in the provinces of Diyala, Salaheddin, Nineveh, and Tameem.", "\"It will be a difficult fight, but we will continue to execute simultaneous operations in each one of our four provinces,\" said Maj. Gen. Michael Hertling, commander of U.S. troops in northern Iraq.", "But resistance in the \"breadbasket\" region in eastern Diyala so far is \"less than anticipated,\" he said.", "The offensive -- which has been centered near Muqdadiya -- has left 20 to 30 suspected insurgents dead in the area around that city, Hertling said.", "About 24,000 U.S. troops, 50,000 Iraqi soldiers and 80,000 local police are based in the region.", "In addition, about 15,000 Iraqis are taking part in anti-insurgent groups known as Concerned Local Citizens or Awakening Councils.", "The groups will perform defensive security tasks during the operation, the U.S. military said.", "The new push comes just short of a year since President Bush ordered almost 30,000 additional troops to Iraq to secure Baghdad and its surrounding provinces.", "Al Qaeda in Iraq has been deeply rooted in Muqdadiya, about 62 miles north of Baghdad, since about 2004.", "Wednesday's deaths occurred in an agricultural area on the north side of the Diyala River from the city.", "The U.S. military has conducted operations there in the past and has frequently come under fire.", "One recent operation ended with several insurgents killed and a large amount of weapons and explosives seized, a military source told CNN.", "The bombing Wednesday was the first incident involving multiple deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq since September 10, when seven Multi-National Division-Baghdad soldiers died and 11 were injured in a vehicle accident in western Baghdad.", "The last attack in which so many U.S. troops died from hostile action happened May 28, when six Task Force Lightning soldiers were killed by explosions near their vehicles during operations in Diyala province.", "Awakening Councils .", "Iraq's concerned-citizens groups began forming in the country's predominantly Sunni Arab regions in late 2006, and their cooperation with U.S. forces against the jihadists has been credited with much of the decline in violence in Iraq since summer.", "But that cooperation has made them an increasing target for al Qaeda in Iraq, which Hertling said has launched a campaign of intimidation against the locals.", "Monday, five severed heads were left on a road leading to Baquba \"with Arabic writing in blood on the forehead which said, 'Join the Concerned Citizens and you will end up like this,' \" Hertling said.", "And he played video from an aerial surveillance drone that showed three people in Diyala assassinating another person -- pulling the victim from a vehicle, shooting him and leaving him in a ditch.", "They were eventually captured, and information was found linking them to al Qaeda in Iraq, he said.", "Hertling said that even though there has been a reduction in attacks across the country, there has been an increase in \"high-profile, spectacular\" events in his region, citing a suicide vest attack and a bridge bombing that sparked media attention and made the region look as if it were \"reeling.\"", "But he said attacks like those will prove to be the jihadists' \"Achilles' heel,\" turning the population against them and driving them toward the concerned citizens' groups.", "\"It's sort of a reverse counterintuitive logic,\" Hertling said.", "\"They are trying to intimidate people that join them by killing them, and it's causing more people to go against them.\"", "And Hertling said Nineveh -- home of the country's third-largest city, Mosul -- is an important geographic region because it borders Syria.", "Sunni militants long have crossed the border from Syria into Iraq to stage attacks, and Mosul's diverse, cosmopolitan population has made it an easy place for jihadist operatives to hide, he said.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "NEW: Troops were taking part in new offensive, dubbed Operation Iron Harvest .", "Six soldiers die when bomb explodes in booby-trapped house .", "Blast also leaves 4 U.S. soldiers wounded .", "It's the first incident involving multiple deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq since September ." ]	[ 0, 3, 16 ]
[ "TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN) -- Softball, drunken orgies and a prison system run like the mafia.", "That's what Florida's former prison secretary says he inherited when he took over one of the nation's largest prison systems two years ago.", "This house, on prison grounds in Florida, is described as a party house where prison officials held orgies.", "In fact, on his first day on the job, James McDonough says he walked into his office -- the same one his predecessor used -- and there was crime scene tape preventing anyone from entering.", "\"That was an indication we had a problem in the department,\" McDonough told CNN in an exclusive interview before he stepped down last Thursday.", "McDonough revealed a startling list of alleged abuses and crimes going on inside Florida's prisons: .", "• Top prison officials admitting to kickbacks; .", "• Guards importing and selling steroids in an effort to give them an edge on the softball field; .", "• Taxpayer funds to pay for booze and women; .", "• Guards who punished other guards who threatened to report them.", "\"Corruption had gone to an extreme,\" McDonough said, saying it all began at the top.", "\"They seemed to be drunk half the time and had orgies the other half, when they weren't taking money and beating each other up.\"", "Watch a corrupted prison system » .", "He added, \"Women were treated like chattel in this department.\"", "McDonough described a bizarre prison culture among those that ran the system -- one that he says seemed obsessed with inter-department softball games and the orgies after games.", "\"I cannot explain how big an obsession softball had become,\" he said.", "\"People were promoted on the spot after a softball game at the drunken party to high positions in the department because they were able to hit a softball out of the park a couple times.\"", "\"The connection between the softball and the parties and the corruption and the beatings was greatly intertwined.\"", "The parties and orgies were often carried out at a waterfront ranch house built on prison grounds for a former warden with taxpayer dollars, McDonough said.", "The house was complete with a bar, pool table and hot tub.", "See photos of the \"party house\" » .", "McDonough is a former Army colonel who commanded troops in Vietnam and Africa.", "He served as Florida's drug czar before taking on the job as the head of Florida's prison system, which oversees 90,000 inmates.", "He left his post last Thursday as secretary of Florida's Department of Corrections because, he says, he feels he has cleaned up the corruption.", "It's time, he said, \"to turn this over to law and order people that have made this their life's goal.\"", "A Brooklyn, New York, native, McDonough says he witnessed the way the mafia worked in his youth and it provided him a keen insight into how his prison predecessor, James Crosby, operated.", "\"It reminded me of the petty mafia I saw on the streets of Brooklyn when I was growing up in the late 1950s, early 1960s -- petty, small-minded, thugish, violent, dangerous, outside the law, and completely intolerable for a society such as ours in the United States of America,\" he said.", "Crosby would later plead guilty to bribery charges in relation to kickbacks from a prison vendor.", "He's now locked up in a federal prison.", "He refused CNN's request for an interview for this report.", "\"He's serving time in a federal prison.", "I hope he reforms and gets out and prospers,\" McDonough said.", "He added, \"When you have a rotten guy at the top, or gal at the top, it can be very invasive, and it's a cancer that needs to be excised.\"", "And getting rid of this \"cancer\" is exactly what McDonough says he did.", "McDonough fired 90 top prison officials -- wardens, supervisors, colonels and majors -- claiming they were corrupt or, at the very least, not to be trusted.", "He demoted 280 others.", "Criminal charges were filed against more than 40 others, and most were convicted.", "In addition to the orgies and other misconduct outside the cell blocks, there were other allegations of prisoners being harmed, McDonough said.", "\"In some of the pockets of corruption that we found, they [prisoners] were being abused,\" he said.", "Among those arrested were seven officers accused of beating inmates, including five accused of forcing a prisoner to drink toilet water.", "All have pleaded not guilty.", "Tina Hayes, the director of the prison's department initiatives who has worked in the prison system for 28 years, said the atmosphere before McDonough arrived was \"a little tense\" with workers \"always on edge.\"", "She said employees who didn't attend softball games or play on the teams were \"isolated\" and \"pushed aside.\"", "\"I used to tell staff day in and day out: Keep your head high; do what's right; you know what morally is right; you've got some ethics; don't bow down to it,\" Hayes told CNN.", "McDonough, she said, brought \"standards back into the department.\"", "\"People can speak out now without being afraid to say what they need to say.\"", "McDonough says the majority of the prison system's 28,000 employees were honest, hard-working people who weren't corrupt at all.", "But he says many of the top prison officials weren't and he believes he has weeded out \"an organized vein of corruption.\"", "\"They were like frat boys out of control.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Former head of Florida's prisons says orgies were common before he arrived .", "James McDonough also says the system was run like the mafia .", "\"They were like frat boys out of control,\" McDonough tells CNN .", "His predecessor is currently in prison after pleading guilty to bribery charges ." ]	[ 0, 25, 27, 33, 48 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A lawyer for Howard K. Stern says the longtime partner of late sex symbol Anna Nicole Smith will fight conspiracy charges announced Thursday.", "Krista Barth, an attorney for Howard K. Stern, says it's not appropriate to talk publicly about details of the case.", "Stern was Smith's \"chief enabler,\" obtaining a variety of prescription drugs to keep the former Playboy model sedated and compliant, California Attorney General Jerry Brown said in announcing the charges against Stern and two doctors.", "Lisa Bloom of In Session and guest host Joy Behar questioned Stern's attorney Krista Barth Friday night on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"", "BEHAR: Did Howard see this all coming?", "BARTH: No, we did not see this coming.", "We knew that there was obviously the raid earlier on Dr. [Sandeep] Kapoor's office.", "But this was something that we honestly never expected.", "Watch part of the discussion » .", "BEHAR: Well, they are very serious charges.", "There are so many counts here, eight felonies.", "Will he plead not guilty?", "What's he going to do? BARTH: Well, he will plead not guilty because he is not guilty.", "BEHAR: Now, the attorney general, Jerry Brown, called Stern \"the principal enabler\" in what he says was a conspiracy among three individuals.", "Do you have a reaction to that? BARTH: I think it's reminiscent of what happened at Duke.", "I don't think that this was something that should have been stated in a public forum.", "I think it's contrary to the rules of professional conduct regarding trial publicity.", "And you have to wonder why such a statement was made.", "But to say that something like that would not bias my client is beyond me.", "I can't even be -- I can't even venture a guess.", "BLOOM: Krista, the difference, though, between the Duke case and this case is that we know that she had at least 11 different medications in her system, the very same medications that are in this criminal complaint.", "We know that she was taking these drugs for years.", "We saw her zoned out of her mind with the slurred speech on her reality show and every awards show.", "So it was pretty common knowledge that Anna Nicole was an addict.", "And I think your client has even admitted that.", "There's a substantial amount of evidence here.", "It doesn't mean your client is guilty.", "But I think it's enough to raise eyebrows so that ever since she's died, people have wondered: How did she get all of those medications?", "How was it possible that doctors were giving her all that stuff?", "BARTH: The most basic tenet of our judicial system is that Mr. Stern is presumed innocent.", "... And the concern that I have is that the public nature of the statements by the attorney general in the state of California is a bit troubling.", "And when I make the analogy to the Duke case, I think you're missing the point, in that that was done during an election campaign.", "There are sometimes political motivations for things that are done.", "You have to ask why is this case important to so many when what Attorney General Brown is talking about is a pervasive, over-prescription of prescription drugs.", "BEHAR: How much responsibility do the tabloids have in this case?", "I mean, it really was all over the place.", "BLOOM: I think that's going to be part of the defense, that they got prescriptions under false names because the tabloids were after her and they wanted every detail and she wanted some privacy.", "And as a celebrity, she may be entitled to that.", "I think that may be a valid defense as to why they were under false names.", "But there's no defense that I can see why thousands of pills.", "BEHAR: Krista, where did she get thousands of pills?", "BARTH: Well, you know what?", "Discussing the details of this is not appropriate.", "I think that the most important thing to focus on here is the way that our judicial system is supposed to work.", "I mean how often does that happen, that we're talking about a situation, you are not supposed to say, and I'm quoting here, something that you know reasonably should, or reasonably should know will have a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing an adjudicative proceeding in this matter?" ]	[ "California attorney general's comments are prejudicial, lawyer says .", "Brown saying too much about Anna Nicole Smith case, Krista Barth says .", "Barth is attorney for Smith's ex-partner, Howard K. Stern .", "Stern, two others charged with conspiring to supply Smith with drugs ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "Editor's note: CNN writer Alan Duke has had two small voice-only roles in Tyler Perry's TV series, \"House of Payne,\" which airs on CNN's sister network TBS.", "He has had no relationship with Perry beyond observing him on set.", "Tyler Perry stars in \"Madea Goes to Jail,\" which is due out Friday.", "Perry is trying to expand his reach to Europe.", "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Tyler Perry wants to take his character Madea to Europe, but he's been told that audiences there won't relate to his stories about African-American lives.", "The films have made nearly $300 million at U.S. box offices.", "The challenge to conquer Europe has \"sat in my spirit,\" Perry wrote in a newsletter to his fans.", "Perry, who just a few years ago was homeless and broke, has made a fortune proving naysayers and critics wrong with a successful string of low-budget movies based on his Christian-themed stage plays.", "\"I was once told [by] someone that my movies only appeal to black people and no one else,\" Perry wrote.", "\"Now, I know that's not true.\" When his first movie -- \"Diary of a Mad Black Woman\" -- debuted in 2005, people who had seen his stage plays in person or on DVD flocked to theaters, making it the week's top movie with almost $22 million in ticket sales.", "Critics, who consistently pan Perry's productions, were confounded.", "\"They think I don't know what I am doing,\" he said in a CNN interview.", "\"They think that this is all haphazard, that I am some sort of idiot or something.\"", "Watch Perry sound off on \"Madea\" and other topics » .", "Perry said he does not write to please the critics, but for a broad audience of all ages.", "With six films already out and a seventh -- \"Madea Goes To Jail\" -- coming soon, Perry has never made a box office flop.", "His movies average nearly $22 million on opening weekends and almost $47 million in total domestic sales.", "\"Tyler Perry has a definite and growing fan base in this country and it's simply a matter of, can he create and grow a fan base in other countries,\" said independent producer Alex Franklin.", "Franklin -- a former development executive at Lionsgate, the film company that distributes Perry's films in the United States -- was the first person at that studio to read his script for \"Diary of a Mad Black Woman.\"", "He agrees that Perry's movies should sell in Europe, but he said there is a tendency by distributors there to avoid films about African-Americans and films without major American stars who are well-known in Europe.", "While Perry's casts have included Angela Bassett, Janet Jackson and Kathy Bates, many of his characters, including Madea, come from his stage plays, which are known only to a mostly black American audience.", "But David Mann -- who is \"Mr. Brown\" in Perry's productions -- said he has seen the audience broaden since the early years of the stage plays.", "\"I can recall when we first started, I would say 90 to 95 percent of the audience would be African-American,\" Mann said.", "\"But now, you look out there and it's like, 'Wow!", "It's just a rainbow.' \" Perry, in his message to fans, said he sees his stories as universal.", "\"I know that even though I write from an African-American experience and most of the time I have an all-African-American cast, that doesn't mean that other people from other walks of life can't relate,\" he said.", "\"I think that any human being who goes through what we all go through can relate to my films.", "\"I know and remember that when I'm writing,\" he continued.", "\"But when this person said that to me, they also said Europeans would never relate, and that sat in my spirit.\"", "Perry said he flew to Europe in January -- \"to find out for myself\" -- with visits to Rome, Madrid and London.", "It was there that he wrote his letter to his American fans.", "\"So far, all of us seem to be pretty much the same,\" he said.", "\"We love to laugh, we all have problems, we all want love, and we all have a church in every country.", "And since these are the things I usually write about, I don't see how that statement can be true.", "Do you?\" Perry could get his answer soon.", "Lionsgate has not said if \"Madea Goes To Jail,\" which debuts Friday, will be marketed to European audiences.", "But the company signed a joint venture deal last year with Eros International, an Indian film company, to distribute its films in India -- the second largest English-speaking market in the world.", "If that arrangement does not take Madea around the world, then perhaps Perry will try it on his own, Franklin said.", "\"He has the money to back up his intentions,\" he said.", "\"He proved his naysayers wrong in America, with his will and perseverance.", "There's no reason he can't do the same overseas.\"", "CNN's Kara Yates and KJ Matthews contributed to this report." ]	[ "Tyler Perry hoping to find market for his films in Europe .", "Perry has already overcome obstacles to get his films seen in America .", "Latest Perry film, \"Madea Goes to Jail,\" is out Friday ." ]	[ 2, 29, 34 ]
[ "(AOL Autos) -- If you don't eat, sleep and breathe cars, or devour car magazines in minute detail, there's a good chance you don't know all the technological terms that pop up in the media, new car advertising and literature.", "With new models being released all the time, the acronyms can be overwhelming.", "With every new model year, it seems, there are new technology and acronyms.", "Here's a concise list of the terms you're most likely to see and read about in the 2008 literature.", "ABS: The most common passive safety system found on cars today is ABS or anti-lock brake system.", "ABS continuously counts wheel revolutions electronically and when one or more wheels stops moving during a skid, the system quickly applies and releases the brakes on the skidding wheels.", "This is done so that the tires continue to rotate and the car can be steered around an object or an impending accident situation.", "Tires that are skidding can't do much steering.", "ALS: This is a relatively new term that stands for active lighting system or automatic lighting system.", "On some luxury vehicles, you can opt for headlamps that turn left or right (up to about 15 degrees) as the front tires turn to light the road as you make your turns.", "AWD (also FWD, RWD, 2WD, 4WD): These terms refer to how many and which wheels on your car deliver power from the engine to the road surface.", "AWD means all-wheel drive and generally means there are no buttons, levers or lower gear ranges.", "These systems can be full-time, driving all four wheels all the time, or part-time, controlled by computers when conditions dictate the need for more traction.", "The 4WD label means four-wheel drive and these part-time systems usually have a selector switch or lever to select two-wheel drive, four-wheel drive or even four-wheel drive in a lower gear or locked position for very difficult driving situations.", "In 2WD, only the two front or rear tires have power.", "Traditional RWD or rear-wheel drive is almost always found on luxury cars, sports cars, or racing cars.", "FWD or front-wheel drive is more compact and is more often found on small cars, minivans and crossover vehicles.", "DOHC: Engineering shorthand for double-overhead camshaft.", "A DOHC engine has one camshaft that opens the intake valves and one camshaft that opens the exhaust valves, a design derived from racing engines.", "DOHC engines are more complex than single-overhead-cam engines (SOHC) and overhead-valve engines (OHV) but generally make more power and torque at higher rpm levels because they let the engine breathe better.", "EBD: An acronym given to the ABS subsystem called electronic brake force distribution.", "EBD is rapidly becoming standard equipment on cars that already have ABS brakes.", "In a panic braking situation, EBD distributes the most braking force to the tires that have the most traction.", "This helps to keep the car from spinning and reduces stopping distances on slippery surfaces.", "ESC/ESP: Electronic stability control or electronic stability program are interchangeable terms for the same software and hardware.", "An extension of ABS, ESC uses sensors and computers to determine whether a vehicle is oversteering (rear wheels out) or understeering (front wheels not turning in the desired direction).", "ESC/ESP reduces engine power and/or applies one of the front or rear brakes to get the vehicle back into its intended path of travel.", "As a means of protecting against rollover accidents, ESC will be required on all new light vehicles sold in America by September 2011.", "GPS: All automotive navigation systems communicate with Global Positioning System or GPS satellites.", "GPS satellites were launched into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense but are now used by motorists, hikers and explorers all over the world.", "GPS systems are accurate anywhere in the world from 10 to 50 feet.", "Combined with a CD or DVD map in the vehicle's navigation system, the satellites can track latitude, longitude, altitude and direction of travel in all weather conditions.", "I6 (also V6, V8, V10, W12, H4): These terms refer to the number and physical arrangement of cylinders in the engine.", "The I stands for inline, and means that the cylinders are lined up in a single row, (I4, I5, and I6, usually).", "V engines have two rows or banks of cylinders in a V pattern, with three, four, five or even six cylinders per bank, hence V-6, V-8, V-10, and V-12.", "The W engine used by Audi and VW has three rows of cylinders, in this case four cylinders, making it a W-12.", "Other engine designs include H-4 and H-6 engines, horizontally opposed or flat engines with either two or three cylinders on each side, a design used by Porsche (engine in the rear) and Subaru (engine in the front).", "The oddball engine on the U.S. market is the Wankel, a rotary engine used only in the Mazda RX-8.", "It has no cylinders, no banks and no reciprocating parts.", "L (as in 1.8L or 3.5L): L is for liters a metric measurement of engine size, also called displacement or swept volume, which has replaced cubic inches in the U.S. industry.", "It's the total volume of all the engine's cylinders.", "Smaller engines generally generate less power and use less fuel, larger engines make more and use more, so don't buy more engine than you need.", "RSC: One of the newest government regulations proposed for vehicles in the near future is protection against rollover accidents.", "The system that the industry has created to combat those is generally called roll stability control.", "RSC uses computers and sensors to analyze vehicle speed, steering wheel angle and body angle.", "If it senses that the vehicle is about to roll over, it cuts engine power and applies the brakes on one side or the other to bring the vehicle back to a stable position.", "TCS: Like ABS brakes, traction control systems are becoming more widely available, even on low-priced cars, because they add so much safety.", "A traction control system takes data from the ABS about tire rotation and compares the information in the computer.", "If one or two of the tires are spinning faster than they should be, indicating a loss of traction, the TCS system can cut engine power or engine torque going to the tires and apply brakes individually until the tires are all rotating at the same speed again.", "TPMS: This is a relatively new acronym that stands for tire-pressure monitoring system.", "The federal government has mandated that all vehicles in the future should have these systems to protect vehicles and occupants from rollovers and other accidents caused by low or deflating tires.", "Some currently available systems work by sending radio messages from each tire to the warning on the instrument panel.", "Others infer from the ABS system that one or more tires has a different rolling diameter, because it is going flat, than the other three tires and sends a warning to the instrument panel.", "VVT: Engineering term that stands for variable valve timing.", "Until a few years ago, timing the opening and closing of the engine's valves was a purely mechanical function and could not be varied.", "VVT systems use a combination of computers, engine oil pressure and mechanical linkages to change valve timing so that the engine idles smoothly, produces lots of power and torque when needed and burns fuel cleanly and economically." ]	[ "Most common car safety system is ABS or anti-lock brake system .", "EBD: subsystem of anti-lock brakes called electronic brake force distribution .", "GPS is system that drives new navigation systems: Global positions system .", "RSC: roll stability control, new government regulation to prevent rollovers ." ]	[ 4, 20, 28, 43 ]
[ "NHA TRANG, Vietnam -- Editor's note: Football fans Daniel and Clinton Rowling were in Vietnam late December when the country won a major tournament for the first time.", "The event sparked wild celebrations in the South East Asian nation but joy soon turned to carnage as five people died and dozens were injured in the celebrations.", "They share their story.", "Celebration time: Five people were killed on Vietnamese roads as football joy got out of control.", "After spending a month in Vietnam we can safely say that the Vietnamese are passionate about three things: Ho Chi Minh, or Uncle Ho as the locals call him; football; and the tourist dollar.", "Everywhere you look you see football.", "The locals proudly sport imitation merchandise of their favorite European team anywhere and everywhere they can.", "Other than on your person, the next best place to show your allegiance is on your motorbike through stickers.", "Some local football teams even play in the strips of their favorite club.", "While we were in Vietnam the ASEAN cup was contested.", "It is the premier football contest in South East Asia.", "Every second year the countries of the region do battle for the crown.", "Up until 2008, the only winners of the cup had been Singapore and Thailand with three titles each (Indonesia has been the bridesmaid three times).", "After pool play, the best of two finals series was played out between Thailand and Vietnam.", "Thanks to the close proximity, and some historical conflict, there is a strong rivalry between these two countries.", "The Thais played host to the Vietnamese in the first leg, where the visiting underdogs were winners, stunning the home crowd by winning the match 2-1.", "The reverse leg was played in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.", "After unexpectedly winning the first final, local interest was even higher than normal.", "We watched the game in the coastal city of Nha Trang.", "The locals flocked to their TV sets and the beer flowed freely.", "Each TV was like a magnet for thirsty football fans.", "Do you have a great football tale to tell?", "Send us your story and you could be featured on Football Fanzone!", "We quickly realized there was a pecking order and that the most hardcore fans had the best seats, whilst the \"fair weather supporters\" were relegated to the back benches.", "As foreigners we were at the very bottom of the pecking order.", "We were resigned to watching the match from the street kerb on small plastic seats half in the rain which refused to dampen the crowds' spirits.", "Predictably Thailand took the lead and were up 1-0 (making it 2-2 on aggregate) and time was ticking away.", "Vietnam's tactic of playing breakaway \"Kung fu\" style football was looking largely ineffective against the more structured, controlled and dominant Thai approach.", "Still, the Vietnamese were doing enough to create the odd opportunity to gives the locals hope.", "Still tied up on aggregate, and with the end of regular time looming, the Vietnamese were awarded a free kick.", "The unexpected happened.", "The kick came in and a Vietnamese player managed to find it with the crown of his head sending the ball to the back of the net and the locals through the roof.", "Everyone jumped to their feet, there were hugs, high fives and toasts.", "As outsiders we sat stunned and could only watch the spectacle unfolding.", "With the game effectively over, the victors were overcome with emotion whilst the fans were overcome with energy.", "The locals were eager to include us in celebrations, with the nominated English speaker communicating with us in his limited vocabulary.", "We replied with our full Vietnamese vocabulary of smiles, nods and numerous thumbs up.", "The older men who had been doing the majority of the drinking were content sitting and enjoying each other's company, while the younger and more boisterous sections of the crowd had their own form of celebration and they swiftly brought the streets alive with a massive motorcycle posse.", "Led by the rider with the biggest Vietnamese flag, they proceeded to lap the town honking their horns and generally getting excited.", "With the roads slick from a weeks worth of rain and the drivers impaired from a cocktail of excitement and alcohol, we wisely watched from the sidelines.", "After finding out that dozens of people were injured and there were even a few deaths -- it seems we made a good choice to keep out of it.", "But while we did watch on, we were left wondering: How do the passengers stay on the bikes when they jump up and down?", "How can anyone see where they are going with all the flags?", "And, where were the traffic police?", "We're offering a reward to anyone that can tell us what the Vietnamese supported before cable television brought top flight football to the masses.", "Whatever it was, we suspect it died a very quick death." ]	[ "Daniel and Clinton Rowling in Vietnam when the country wins ASEAN Cup .", "Vietnam defeated Thailand in Hanoi to claim the trophy for the first time .", "In the post-match celebrations five people were killed and dozens injured ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- A police officer was killed Monday in a suicide bombing at the gate of a police station in Islamabad, authorities said.", "The bombing took place at a police station in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.", "The explosion occurred on Pakistan Day, a national holiday.", "The bomber apparently walked up to the police station and blew himself up at its gate.", "The station houses a special intelligence-gathering branch of Islamabad police.", "Two people -- the suicide bomber and a police officer -- were killed, police told CNN.", "Pakistan's GEO-TV reported three people were dead and 10 wounded in the blast.", "The blast blew the doors off the police branch and damaged a mosque adjacent to the building, according the network.", "\"Parts of the bodies, the human bodies, are spread around the area,\" GEO-TV's Hamid Mir told CNN.", "The explosion was heard at CNN's offices, 2 or 3 miles away.", "Members of the police branch housed in the building help protect government officials such as the prime minister, CNN's Reza Sayah said, and with the explosion, someone is \"trying to send another message to the federal government here in Islamabad.\"", "Watch more on the bombing » .", "\"(The blast) underscores the acute security situation this government is facing,\" he said.", "If the blast was a suicide bombing, it would be the second in the area within a week, Mir said.", "On March 16, a suicide attack targeted a bus station near Islamabad.", "The office targeted Monday is in a crowded area, said Mir, who added: \"This intelligence office is not secret.", "It's a very well-known intelligence office.\"", "However, the area was not in a high-security zone, he said.", "Asked about the Pakistanis' attitude toward these repeated attacks, Mir said public opinion in Pakistan was divided.", "\"Everybody's against the terrorism, but they think the Americans also need to change their policies.", "They are in trouble after 9/11.", "America is secure, but the people in Pakistan are not secure.\"", "CNN's Ram Ramgopal contributed to this report." ]	[ "A loud explosion has been heard in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital .", "Suicide bomber apparently targeted special police branch .", "Blast came as Pakistanis celebrated their national day ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "CHINHOYI, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was celebrating his 85th birthday with a lavish all-day party Saturday despite the fact that the country is gripped by an economic and health crisis.", "President Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace, attend a cake-cutting ceremony for his birthday Saturday.", "Mugabe's ZANU-PF party said it raised at least $250,000 to hold the party in Mugabe's hometown of Chinhoyi, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) outside of the capital, Harare.", "Critics of the president say the country is desperate for that amount of money to be spent instead on its citizens, who are suffering from a cholera outbreak, food shortages, and spiraling hyperinflation.", "On Friday, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai visited a hospital's closed intensive care unit that he said needed $30,000 to resume operating.", "During the celebrations, Mugabe announced that his controversial land reform would not be reversed.", "The program is designed to have white-owned farms given to blacks, and there have been violent seizures of such farms since the program began in 2000.", "Watch Mugabe's birthday bash » .", "He emphasized that the country's \"indigenization program\" -- which forces all major foreign companies operating in Zimbabwe to have at least 51 percent black ownership -- will be carried out.", "It began last year and hasn't been implemented yet.", "Mugabe's birthday falls on February 21 but his party loyalists postponed the celebrations as they were raising money for the event.", "\"I think it is going to be a great day for the legend and icon whose birthday we are celebrating today here,\" said Mugabe's nephew Patrick Zhuwawo, one of the fund-raisers for the birthday.", "\"The country might be having problems, but we need to have a day to honor the sacrifices the president has made for this country.\"", "What do you think about the celebrations?", "Zhuwawo said about 100 beasts would be slaughtered for the birthday bash.", "iReport.com: What do you think about Mugabe's lavish party?", "Mugabe also invited schoolchildren from around the country to attend the party, being held at Chinhoyi University.", "The farming town of Chinhoyi is usually quiet, but Saturday's event has changed everything.", "Cars with Mugabe's supporters could be seen hooting and some ZANU-PF supporters sang Mugabe's praises.", "A banner in Chinhoyi read, \"Age ain't nothing but a number.\"", "Mugabe invited Tsvangirai, his new partner in a power-sharing government, but a Tsvangirai spokesman said the opposition party leader turned it down.", "He said it is political party function, with most of the attendees being ZANU-PF elite.", "As the prime minister, Tsvangirai is not obligated to attend, the spokesman said.", "The spokesman would not acknowledge whether Tsvangirai had initially agreed to attend, but it was widely reported in Zimbabwean media that he had agreed to do so.", "\"Mr. Tsvangirai has other commitments, as far as I know,\" said Nelson Chamisa, a spokesman for Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change.", "Tsvangirai last year said Mugabe's birthday party was \"a gathering of the satisfied few.\"", "But at that point, he and the president were preparing to face off in a hotly contested presidential election.", "As Saturday's celebrations began in a carnival atmosphere, just less than a kilometer (0.62 miles) away stood a deserted Chinhoyi government hospital -- a reflection of the country's dire health situation.", "A few nurses are attending to patients.", "\"There are no medicines. These patients have no option but to come here, but there is nothing we can do,\" said one nurse at the hospital.", "On Friday Tsvangirai visited Harare Hospital, one of the country's biggest, and said its intensive care unit will need $30,000 in order to start operating again after a funding shortage.", "Once a darling of Zimbabwe, Mugabe is blamed for driving the country into a meltdown.", "A cholera epidemic that broke out in August has since hit every corner of the country, killing 3,731 people and infecting nearly 80,000, according to the World Health Organization, which quoted Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health.", "The preventable disease has spread through Zimbabwe's 10 provinces through lack of access to clean water, faulty sewage systems, and uncollected refuse, according to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), which released a report this month on the outbreak.", "The problems, MSF said, are \"clear symptoms of the breakdown in infrastructure resulting from Zimbabwe's political and economic meltdown.\"", "On Sunday, Tsvangirai appealed to the international community to help Zimbabwe's crippled economy, saying it would take $5 billion to stabilize the country.", "The cholera outbreak has worsened Zimbabwe's economic crisis.", "Failed government policies and an acute food shortage because of years of poor agricultural production and widespread corruption have ravaged the currency of Zimbabwe, which has the world's highest inflation rate.", "CNN's Nkepile Mabuse contributed to this report." ]	[ "Mugabe's ZANU-PF raised $250,000 in order to hold the party .", "NEW: At party Mugabe said controversial land reform would not be reversed .", "Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai turned down invitation to party, official said .", "Zimbabwe is struggling to cope with a cholera epidemic due to funding shortages ." ]	[ 2, 5, 20, 22 ]
[ "LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region said they killed six government soldiers after the military attacked one of its camps on Thursday.", "Heavily armed Nigerian rebels pose a constant threat to oil pipelines in the country.", "The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, in an e-mail, said three military gunboats attacked one of its camps around the Ke River in the country's Rivers state.", "The group said the gunboats were repelled, with six soldiers dying and three militant fighters wounded in the skirmish.", "There was no immediate reaction from the government.", "Nigeria is Africa's largest crude oil producer and the fourth-largest supplier of oil to the United States.", "MEND has demanded that more of the country's oil wealth be pumped into the region instead of enriching foreign investors, and the militants have been attacking oil pipelines in retaliation against government forces, limiting the amount of crude oil that can leave the country.", "MEND -- the largest rebel group -- has targeted foreign oil companies since 2006.", "It has bombed pipelines and kidnapped hundreds of foreign oil workers, typically releasing them unharmed, sometimes after receiving a ransom payment.", "MEND hopes to secure a greater share of oil wealth for people in the delta, where more than 70 percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day.", "Its attacks on oil facilities have taken a toll.", "\"Anytime a pipeline is affected, anytime any production gets shut down, you see oil prices jump up one or two dollars a barrel just because there is no slack in the system,\" said Jim LeCamp, a senior vice president with RBC Wealth Management, which manages assets for wealthy clients worldwide.", "Exxon and Shell are two of several companies that have been extracting 2 million barrels of oil a day in Nigeria.", "Recent rebel attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta have cut overall production by roughly 10 percent -- meaning 200,000 fewer barrels of oil on some days.", "That decrease in production comes at a time of increased demand from oil-hungry regions such as China, Russia and Latin America.", "\"Anytime there's a disruption there, it really affects the system,\" LeCamp said in a recent interview with CNN." ]	[ "Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region say they killed 6 soldiers .", "Deaths came after military attacked one of militants' camps .", "Largest rebel group has targeted foreign oil companies since 2006 ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- An English football club is being forced to close a stand at its 25,000-seat stadium to cut costs, in what could be the first of many similar moves at other clubs, a sports business expert predicts.", "Darlington Arena, home of English club side Darlington F.C., where a stand will be closed to cut costs.", "The affected club, Darlington F.C., is currently in seventh place in League Two, however, it slumped into administration last week following problems attracting crowds to the home matches.", "The average home crowd at the stadium is currently below 3000 people.", "Ticket prices are £16 ($22) per adult.", "The move to close the west stand at its ground, Darlington Arena, is an attempt to improve the atmosphere and cut costs at the club, the side's commercial director, Christine Balford, said on the club's Web site.", "Balford said the move was forced by administrators.", "\"This is an attempt to improve the atmosphere at home games, whilst saving costs.", "\"All season ticket holders will be temporarily relocated and will be able to use the facilities of the south stand,\" Balford said.", "Darlington F.C.", "has also increased the cover price of match day programs and has cut the number of complimentary tickets given away for home matches.", "Professor Simon Chadwick, director of the Center for the International Business of Sport (CIBS) at Coventry University, UK, told CNN that many football clubs may soon find themselves in the position of having to make a similar move.", "\"This is the economic reality of having to strip costs.", "\"Generally, League One and League Two and even some Premier League clubs may be affected.", "What you will start to see is other clubs having to follow suit.\"", "Chadwick said Darlington's case was a particularly bad one as they had a stadium which was far too big for the club's size.", "However, the issue of crowds not filling stadiums was a wider concern for many clubs.", "\"This is their life-blood.", "A lot of their revenue comes from selling tickets ...if they're not filling stadiums then it is a big issue for them,\" he said.", "Chadwick said closing stands could help cut match-day costs and was often a more palatable option for fans, rather than selling players." ]	[ "English club Darlington F.C.", "closes stand to cut costs and improve atmosphere .", "The club has struggled to attract good-sized crowds to its home matches .", "Sport business expert Professor Simon Chadwick says this could start trend ." ]	[ 1, 5, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Over the next week CNN has special coverage of one of the world's biggest gatherings of the luxury industry from Basel, Switzerland, bringing you the views of the people behind some of the biggest brands.", "Companies suggest the top tier of luxury goods is less affected by the downturn.", "In this time of economic upheaval, these brands are being put to the test.", "People are spending their hard-earned money much more carefully.", "If they're going to shell out thousands of dollars for a timepiece or a trinket they want to know it's worth it.", "A luxury brand's name, history and quality are cornerstones of its marketing and advertising.", "But is that enough? That is the question we will ask the CEOs of brands like Chopard, Bulgari, Patek Phillippe and Tag Heuer, to name a few.", "There are conflicting reports over whether luxury brands are immune to the effects of a recession.", "Some suggest that people are not spending as much as they used to.", "Renowned British department store Harvey Nichols, which houses high-end luxury goods, posted a 40 percent drop in profits and a 5 percent drop in sales in the year ending March 31, 2009.", "Other reports however suggest that consumers are still spending, just more carefully.", "The CEOs of the high-end brands like Boucheron and Patek Phillippe tell us there are three tiers in the luxury industry: the lower level where the brand's name is licensed and goods are mass marketed, the mid range where products are expensive but still widely available, and then there's the top tier where the goods are only available to a select few.", "These products are very expensive and only a few pieces are produced.", "Companies suggest this top tier isn't really affected by the downturn as consumers at this level still can afford to spend.", "Can luxury brands survive?", "Send us your views .", "The CEOs also suggest this downturn means a return to the notion of true luxury that is defined by its aspirational, not affordable quality of a product or a lifestyle.", "Geography plays a big part in a brand and company's sales and profitability.", "Before the credit crunch, the United States was the top market for luxury goods.", "Today some reports indicate that China has surpassed the U.S. for its hunger for designer brands.", "According to chinadaily.com, China consumed $8.6 billion worth of luxury goods in the two years ending January 2009.", "The Middle East and emerging markets like India are also major hubs of luxury consumption as importers of luxury brands.", "Here companies have set up shop in cities from Dubai to Delhi.", "These markets have been seen almost as the life rafts in this turbulent economy because there, the thinking is, people will still spend, spend, spend on known brands.", "Last year at Baselworld, the then-CEO of the luxury watch brand Ebel, Thomas van der Kellen, told us that consumers in the emerging markets \"are growing opportunities for the luxury watch business...the money is there, it's very much a branded culture..so we see a lot of opportunity to make up for potential loss on the western hemisphere.\"", "The bottom line for all brands in the luxury industry is no one is exempt from feeling the constrictions of the market.", "Every aspect of the business is and will be affected in some way, whether it's at the production end (rising costs of raw materials and manufacturing) to the retail end (flow of traffic into their stores).", "What separates those who will survive and even flourish in this industry are the ones that define themselves as true and aspirational luxury where the product is seen as an investment and worth it." ]	[ "Next week CNN focuses on some of the biggest names in luxury goods .", "We ask CEOs of top brands how they plan to battle economic downturn .", "Conflicting reports over whether luxury brands are immune to effects of recession ." ]	[ 0, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An eruption may not be imminent after all for Alaska's Mount Redoubt, authorities said Thursday.", "Fears that Alaska's Mount Redoubt would erupt have diminished.", "\"For the past two weeks or so, the seismic activity at Redoubt volcano has significantly decreased,\" said Michelle Coombs, a geologist for the Alaska Volcano Observatory and the U.S. Geological Survey.", "The status is now at a \"yellow\" level, meaning the volcano is \"exhibiting heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of eruption, timeframe uncertain, or eruption is underway with no or minor volcanic-ash emissions.\"", "In late January, experts began paying close attention to the volcano and raised the alert to \"orange,\" indicating that it could erupt at any time.", "\"We believe based on what we're seeing now, that if it were to erupt, that we would see enough increase in seismic activity to give us sufficient warning to go back up to orange,\" Coombs said.", "Two other volcanoes in Alaska are also at the \"yellow\" status currently, and Mount Redoubt could remain at that level for months, Coombs said.", "\"There's a certain level of unpredictability,\" she said.", "The 10,197-foot peak is located in southern Alaska, about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, the state's most populous city.", "Mount Redoubt last erupted nearly 20 years ago, in December 1989.", "That eruption lasted until April 1990.", "CNN's Robyn Sidersky contributed to this story ." ]	[ "Scientists say it is now less likely that Alaska's Mount Redoubt will erupt .", "An eruption at the volcano previously was thought to be eminent .", "The 10,197-foot peak is located about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage .", "Scientists say an eruption is still possible, but is not certain ." ]	[ 0, 3, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An Air Force nurse has been charged with murdering three terminally ill patients by giving them fatal overdoses, the Air Force said Tuesday.", "Capt. Michael Fontana is continuing to work at Wildford Hall Medical Center.", "Capt. Michael Fontana, a nurse at Wilford Hall Medical Center at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, also was charged Monday with conduct unbecoming an officer for changing a medical document.", "\"The charges are the result of an Air Force investigation that occurred after irregularities were discovered in Capt.", "Fontana's administration of medications which may have resulted in the death of an end-of-life patient,\" hospital spokesman David Smith told reporters.", "The nurse was charged with three counts of violating Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.", "\"It is considered murder,\" Smith said.", "After an Article 32 hearing, akin to a civilian grand jury proceeding, the commander will decide whether the case goes to court-martial.", "The three deaths occurred in July, Smith said.", "He cited the privacy act in refusing to divulge the suspect's age and hometown.", "He said he did not know the motive but was confident no other patients were victimized.", "\"We know that there are no other patients involved in this case,\" he said.", "Fontana, an intensive-care unit nurse who has been working at the hospital since 2006, the year he joined the Air Force, has been released on his own recognizance and is continuing to work at the hospital, though he is no longer involved in patient care, Smith said.", "\"As far as we can tell, he has been an exemplary nurse,\" Smith said.", "Fontana also served as a nurse at the Air Force Theater Hospital in Balad, Iraq, Smith said.", "His work there was investigated, \"and there was nothing found,\" he said.", "A call to a San Antonio phone number listed as belonging to Michael Fontana got a message that said, \"Thank you for calling.", "Due to the ongoing investigation, I have no comment for you right now, but I do appreciate your call and will talk to you soon.\"", "Relatives of the dead patients have requested privacy, the Air Force said.", "Wilford Hall Medical Center is the Air Force's largest medical facility." ]	[ "Man is accused of giving terminally ill patients fatal overdoses .", "He worked at a hospital at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas .", "He is also charged with conduct unbecoming an officer ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "Editor's note: Tara Wall is deputy editor for The Washington Times.", "Before joining the newspaper, she was a senior adviser for the Republican National Committee and was named a public affairs director in the Department of Health and Human Services by President Bush.", "Read her columns here.", "Tara Wall says President Bush will be remembered for keeping America safe.", "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In his final radio address as president-elect on the Sunday ahead of his inauguration, Barack Obama said President Bush \"extended the hand of cooperation\" to him throughout this period of transition.", "It was a final act of civility, on Mr. Bush's part.", "It is a trait that is not surprising to those who know Bush (or those paying some attention at least half of the time).", "At least one Democrat has given him credit for it.", "Unfortunately, that tone of civility has been lost on the Democratic leadership over the past eight years.", "Civility aside, how others -- more importantly, history -- will judge the 43rd president of the United States, is the question that has followed Bush out the door.", "Lucky for him, it won't just be up to Democrats to determine.", "\"I believe President Bush will be vindicated,\" said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in an interview a couple of weeks ago.", "She may be an ardent defender of Bush, but I believe she's right.", "She, like I, have a different vantage point than what has been routinely portrayed.", "While sitting in the Oval Office with the 43rd president, for what was his last official week in office last Thursday, I got the sense that he feels he will be vindicated, too.", "He won't say as much, directly, but indirectly points to what matters most in his eyes -- protecting the homeland.", "\"History will eventually see ... that not only was it necessary to take the steps I took, but [they] led to a better world,\" the president told me.", "On a personal level (and for the sake of full disclosure), I must say that I have had the pleasure of working for and knowing Bush from his first campaign for president and throughout his presidency.", "I started as a volunteer in 1999, then worked as a spokeswoman during his second campaign and then as an appointee in his administration.", "Not only have I counted it an honor and a privilege to serve the 43rd president, but I have always had a deep respect for him as a person of faith, his strident conviction in doing what was right for the country and his commitment to closing the disparities that exist between black and white Americans -- no matter the mistakes made and lessons learned.", "Above all, it is his dignity and civility that stand out to me most.", "Yet, for many conservatives (not just liberals), Bush has failed on many fronts.", "From the miscalculation of the insurgency in Iraq, to failed intelligence gathering and the issues of maintaining fiscal conservatism and delivering real immigration reform -- I can't tell you how many Republicans and conservatives I've spoken to over this past year who have told me how \"disappointed\" they've been with Bush.", "A few among them voted for \"change\" as a result.", "The legacy Bush leaves behind won't be everything he wanted (particularly as it relates to popularity), but on many fronts, it will be better than that of his predecessor.", "Bill Clinton may have been popular, but his moral failings brought shame on the office of the presidency and tainted the people's house.", "That will forever be a stain on Clinton's legacy.", "Not to mention, there was no such \"civility\" or \"cooperation\" when Clinton turned the keys over to Bush.", "I prefer principle over popularity any day.", "On the moral front, President Bush delivered.", "On the social front, he delivered.", "On the fiscal front he failed considerably.", "Yet, on the national security front and on many domestic policies, he succeeded.", "Depending on your vantage point, success may mean something wholly different.", "The details will be debated for decades to come.", "Among the many uncertainties, one thing is certain -- you can't judge history in the midst of it.", "Declaring one \"the worst\" president while he's still in office is an effort in rhetorical futility.", "Historians know this all too well.", "The best prediction one can make was summed up by presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on \"Meet the Press\" last year: \"If Iraq became the model democracy or even just a democracy, and in doing so changed the whole complexion of the Middle East, then obviously that would be the legacy that would justify what Bush did and what our troops did.\"", "And that's exactly what Mr. Bush is banking on.", "During my Oval Office interview with the president, I asked him to complete the sentence \"President Bush was... [fill in the blank].\"", "He responded (uncharacteristically in third person): \"President Bush was the president at a time when our nation was attacked, he clearly saw the dangers, he pursued the enemy, he put tools in place so the professionals could better protect the people, and the homeland was not attacked.\"", "That is the legacy he wants.", "Popular or not, he kept America safe.", "And if nothing else, for that, he will be vindicated.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Tara Wall." ]	[ "Tara Wall: Barack Obama praised President Bush for cooperative nature of transition .", "Wall: It was a final act of civility by Bush; she says he wasn't given same by Clinton .", "She says Bush delivered on national security and many domestic issues .", "Bush will be remembered for keeping America safe, Wall says ." ]	[ 3, 5, 32 ]
[ "(CNN) -- As \"The Dark Knight's\" crusading District Attorney Harvey Dent vigorously tries to combat Gotham City's crime spree, he quotes the old saying: \"The night is always darkest before the dawn.\"", "The late Heath Ledger plays the Joker in \"The Dark Knight,\" a performance already garnering raves.", "But the dawn may have been the brightest time for \"The Dark Knight,\" which was scheduled to have about 3,000 late-night showings, including almost 100 showings at 3 and 6 a.m. Friday, according to Fandango.com spokesman Harry Medved.", "Medved said he couldn't remember the last time there were more than two or three such showings in the middle of the night -- usually in New York or Los Angeles.", "\"Isn't that when people are just thinking about waking up and going to Starbucks?\"", "Medved asked.", "\"I predict coffee sales will increase tomorrow.\"", "With the film's running time of two and a half hours, Medved is declaring \"The Dark Knight's\" opening day Dark Friday, predicting that attendance at work could be dramatically down.", "During a survey given to people who buy tickets through Fandango.com, 38 percent of those who are working said they would be taking either some time or the day off to see the movie.", "According to MovieTickets.com, \"Dark Knight\" sold out more than 150 performances in Los Angeles and New York alone.", "The midnight show times were not just for major movie centers, either.", "Medved said cities such as Fresno, California; Orlando, Florida; and towns in Minnesota are hosting early-morning showings.", "Enthusiasts showed up in groups, some dressed head to toe in costume to celebrate the movie's release.", "The midnight showing at the 428-seat Henry Ford IMAX theater in Detroit sold out in less than a week, according to the Detroit Free Press.", "One group attending the showing, which was preceded by a costume party, showed up with a homemade version of the Batmobile and outfits representing nearly every major Batman character.", "The film also opened Thursday in Australia and Wednesday in Taiwan.", "It will be released in Japan on August 9.", "See when the film is opening around the world .", "\"The Dark Knight\" has risen to second place on Fandango.com's all-time list of advance tickets sales, second only to \"Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.\"", "\"The Dark Knight\" tickets represent 94 percent of Fandango's sales, Medved said.", "Interest is high at IMAX theaters, too, especially because six film sequences were shot with IMAX cameras.", "And it's not just the movie business that were looking to cash in on the blockbuster.", "Corporate America hopes to capitalize on the hype, too, with Dominos offering a Gotham City pizza and Comcast showing behind-the-scenes movie footage and interviews with the cast and filmmakers via its On Demand service.", "As fans left the midnight screenings, the hype surrounding the movie has only continued to build.", "The film is even earning Oscar buzz, thanks to the late Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker.", "Moviegoers purchasing tickets on Fandango echoed those sentiments, with 53 percent saying his performance was their main motivation for seeing the film.", "Ledger's performance has been hailed as \"indelible\" (Los Angeles Times' Kenneth Turan), \"powerful\" (The Washington Post's Stephen Hunter, in an overall mixed review) and \"mesmerizing\" (CNN.com's Tom Charity); clips of his character have dominated the movie's marketing campaign.", "See how Ledger made the joker his own » .", "His absence was conspicuous Monday at the New York premiere, his co-stars noted.", "\"He should be here, shouldn't he? Because this is his big moment; because he is the most amazing thing in the picture,\" said Michael Caine, who plays Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred.", "\"And it's not because he's dead or something and everyone's concentrating on him.", "He would have been the most amazing thing in the picture anyway.\"", "Caine also praised the late actor's commitment to immersing himself in a character, something he says is evident from Ledger's opening monologue.", "\"It's one of the finest close-ups I've ever seen,\" Caine said.", "Other members of the cast praised Ledger for redefining the character brought to life in the past by Mark Hamill (\"Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker\") and Jack Nicholson (\"Batman\").", "See members of the cast praise Ledger » .", "Aaron Eckhart, who plays District Attorney Harvey Dent, said it was tragic that Ledger wasn't around to celebrate his achievement.", "\"It's hard to talk about; this is his. He created the Joker,\" Eckhart said.", "\"He did it in his own way, and it's sad, but on the other hand, I am proud to be able to honor him tonight.\"", "Director Christopher Nolan also praised the rest of the cast, including Christian Bale as Batman, Gary Oldman as police Lt. Jim Gordon, Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes and Morgan Freeman as tech wizard Lucius Fox.", "Nolan, who directed \"Batman Begins\" three years ago, said he was glad he was able to take a step back and opt for a different approach.", "See the cast on the \"black carpet\" » .", "\"I think we've tried to expand the scope of the story, to tell a grander, more epic tale,\" he told CNN.", "\"We've tried to really take the character and take it to darker territory by introducing it to the Joker.\"", "Nolan seems to have made believers even out of those who were not die-hard fans of the Batman series, including Gyllenhaal, who said she was \"never a superhero movie kind of girl.\"", "\"I watched a Batman here, a Batman there, but this is different,\" she said.", "\"Chris [Nolan] wanted us to play everything for truth.", "It's about real people in the midst of this wild crazy Batman world.", "And I became a Batman fan shooting it.", "I mean, have Batman sweep you up and save you from certain death.", "It converts a girl, you know?\"", "The movie was expected to be shown on a record-breaking 9,200 screens in its opening, according to its studio, Warner Bros. (Like CNN, Warner Bros. is a division of Time Warner.)", "Hollywood columnist Nikki Finke said that insiders at the studio are being conservative, predicting a weekend opening of between $90 million and $100 million -- strong but not record-breaking.", "But box office experts, according to Finke, are saying the movie could make as much as $130 million, which would make it a narrow third for best opening weekend, behind \"Spider-Man 3\" ($151 million) and \"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest\" ($136 million).", "Regardless of how much money the movie grosses, by far the biggest anticipation may be whether the Academy Awards agree with those -- including Oldman -- who say Ledger should earn an Oscar.", "\"I just wish that he was here to talk about his performance,\" he said.", "\"I really feel that there is at least an Oscar nomination, if not a win for him.", "He really is that good.\"", "CNN entertainment producer Doug Ganley contributed to this report." ]	[ "\"The Dark Knight\" will open with about 3,000 late-night shows .", "Fandango.com: Movie will have almost 100 shows at 3 and 6 a.m. Friday .", "Cast praises Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- A grand jury has indicted four people in the shooting death of a woman during what police say was a Ku Klux Klan initiation rite in the Louisiana woods, St. Tammany Parish prosecutors said.", "Raymond \"Chuck\" Foster is reputed to be the leader of the Klan Group.", "He was among the four indicted.", "Raymond \"Chuck\" Foster, 44, was indicted on second-degree murder charges Wednesday in the November death of Cynthia Lynch, 43, of Tulsa, Oklahoma.", "If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison, said Rick Wood, spokesman for the St. Tammany Parish district attorney's office.", "\"That's what he was charged with,\" Wood told reporters on Wednesday.", "\"The grand jury agreed with that charge.\"", "Two other men, including Foster's son, Shane Foster, were indicted on a count of obstruction of justice, and a woman, Danielle Jones, was indicted on one count of being an accessory after the fact.", "Wood said Thursday Foster's case was assigned to one judge and the others' cases were assigned to another.", "Foster is scheduled to be arraigned March 3, he said, and the others are set for arraignment next week.", "Eight people initially were arrested in the case.", "The remaining four were not indicted.", "\"Haven't seen one like this,\" Wood said Wednesday.", "\"We've had a lot of high-profile cases, but not one like this.", "... As (district attorney) Walter Reed said, it will be to the max.", "They will be prosecuted to the max.\"", "Authorities said Lynch was recruited over the Internet and took a bus to Slidell, Louisiana, where she was met by two Klan members.", "They then went to a campsite in the woods near Sun, Louisiana, about 60 miles north of New Orleans, where they met other members of the group, police said.", "During the initiation rite, members of the Klan group, which calls itself the Sons of Dixie, shaved Lynch's head, according to Capt.", "George Bonnett of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Department and Sheriff Jack Strain, who spoke to CNN in November.", "After 24 hours of drills, including chanting and running with torches, she asked to be taken to town.", "An argument began, authorities said, and the group's leader, Raymond Foster, pushed Lynch to the ground and shot her without warning.", "Lynch apparently wanted to leave because she was homesick, investigators found after talking to her family members.", "After the shooting, \"Foster, we believe, removed a knife from his pocket and rolled over the victim and began a process of trying to remove the bullet from her body ... because he was trying to destroy evidence where law enforcement would not be able to piece these things together,\" Strain said.", "Police believe other members of the Sons of Dixie helped cover up the slaying on Foster's behalf, Strain said at the time, including burning some of Lynch's personal items.", "\"We're up to the challenge,\" Wood told reporters after the indictments were handed up Wednesday.", "\"This office is ready to proceed and take care of business.\"", "Authorities received the initial tip about the slaying from a convenience store clerk, after two group members went into the store and asked him if he knew how to get bloodstains out of their clothes.", "The clerk told them he did not, then called police after they left.", "Officials tracked down those two members and arrested them, then arrested others at the campsite and Foster.", "All the members surrendered without incident, police said.", "Investigators found Confederate battle flags, Ku Klux Klan banners, five Klan robes and an Imperial Wizard robe at the campsite, authorities said.", "Lynch's body was found under loose brush along a road several miles from the campsite.", "Raymond Foster has a history of Ku Klux Klan activity dating back seven years, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Montgomery, Alabama-based organization that tracks hate groups." ]	[ "Police say Cynthia Lynch of Tulsa shot as she tried to leave KKK rite .", "Raymond \"Chuck\" Foster is reputed leader of Klan group .", "Foster, his son, two others accused in indictment of second-degree murder .", "\"They will be prosecuted to the max,\" spokesman for prosecutor said ." ]	[ 1, 3, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Ricin, a poison thought to have been found in a Las Vegas, Nevada, hotel room Thursday, can be made from the waste left after processing castor beans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.", "Ricin is made from castor beans.", "The toxin comes in the form of a mist or pellet and can be dissolved in water or weak acid, according to the CDC.", "It works by getting inside the cells of the body and preventing them from making the proteins they need.", "As little as 500 micrograms -- an amount the size of the head of a pin -- can kill an adult.", "Here are some ricin cases: .", "• September 1978, London, England: Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is killed by a ricin-filled poison dart fired from an umbrella.", "Markov, a communist defector working for the BBC World Service, was waiting at a bus stop when he was killed.", "• 2002, Iraq: A primitive testing facility run by members of Ansar al Islam, a Kurdish Sunni Islamist group, is discovered.", "Authorities say ricin had been tested on barnyard animals there.", "• January 2003, United Kingdom: Scotland Yard arrests seven terror suspects from Algeria after traces of ricin are discovered at their homes.", "A U.S. official later connects the men to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who led al Qaeda in Iraq until his death in 2006.", "Four of the men were charged with terrorism offenses under Britain's Terrorist Act 2000 and with \"being concerned in the development or production of chemical weapons\" under the Chemical Weapons Act of 1996.", "• March 2003, France: Small bottles containing traces of ricin are found in a Paris train station, according to French police.", "• October 2003, United States: Ricin is found in a sealed envelope in a postal handling facility in Greenville, South Carolina.", "Watch CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta explain the potency of ricin » .", "• November 2003, United States: The Secret Service intercepts a letter addressed to the White House that contains a vial of ricin.", "The letter, signed by \"Fallen Angel,\" complained about trucking regulations, and was nearly identical to one discovered October 15 in South Carolina.", "• February 2004, United States: Ricin is found in the mailroom of the Dirksen Senate Office building in Washington D.C.", "The mailroom handled correspondence addressed to then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and others.", "Frist said no one became sick.", "• January 2005, United States: An Ocala, Florida, man with no known ties to terrorists or extremists is arrested by the FBI after agents found ricin in the home he shares with his mother.", "Steven Michael Ekberg pleaded guilty in federal court to possession of a biological weapon.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Ricin found in four U.S. cases since 2003 .", "Bulgarian dissident killed by dart containing ricin in 1978 .", "500 micrograms of ricin, size of a pinhead, can kill an adult ." ]	[ 4, 5, 6, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The White House insists that it was entirely former Sen. Tom Daschle's decision to withdraw his nomination, but some observers say he didn't have a choice.", "Tom Daschle said Tuesday that he's stepping aside as the nominee for secretary of health and human services.", "Despite the controversy over his tax records and his work in a field that some consider lobbying, Daschle was expected to be confirmed.", "His withdrawal shocked Capitol Hill, and Democratic colleagues expressed regret over his decision.", "\"I think one of the major factors had to be that the political climate has changed radically just in the last couple of weeks,\" CNN Senior White House Correspondent Ed Henry said.", "President Obama ripped Wall Street executives last week for their \"shameful\" decision to hand out $18 billion in bonuses in 2008 while accepting federal bailout money.", "The next day, news broke that Daschle hadn't paid his taxes in full.", "Daschle said Monday that he was \"deeply embarrassed\" for a series of errors that included failing to report $15,000 in charitable donations, unreported car service and more than $80,000 in unreported income from consulting.", "Daschle recently filed amended tax returns and paid more than $140,000 in back taxes and interest for 2005-07.", "\"That, in this political climate, really tripped up Tom Daschle because it looked awful politically for this White House,\" Henry said.", "In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, Obama said he made a mistake in handling the nomination of Daschle.", "\"I think I screwed up.", "And, I take responsibility for it and we're going to make sure we fix it so it doesn't happen again.", "\"Ultimately, I campaigned on changing Washington and bottom-up politics,\" Obama said.", "\"And I don't want to send a message to the American people that there are two sets of standards -- one for powerful people and one for ordinary folks who are working every day and paying their taxes.\"", "At a news conference Tuesday afternoon, press secretary Robert Gibbs insisted that the White House did not pressure Daschle to step down.", "Watch Gibbs answer questions about Daschle's move » .", "Pressed on whether Daschle was given any sort of signal to resign, Gibbs said, \"I don't know how much more clear I could be.", "The decision was Sen.", "Daschle's.\" A Daschle ally familiar with his thinking said Tuesday that he was not aware of any White House pressure on the former Senate majority leader to withdraw his nomination.", "Asked whether Daschle was pushed, the source said, \"things don't work that cleanly.\"", "The issue was not whether Daschle could \"survive\"; it was what that process \"would do to Obama\" and his health care reform and economic agenda.", "It's a question of the \"price of that confirmation,\" he said.", "The source said Daschle read the Tuesday New York Times editorial urging him to withdraw from consideration but would not say whether that might have played a part in his decision.", "\"Tom has been a politician for a very long time,\" the source said.", "\"He understands this town.", "He made a mistake; he apologized, but timing matters.", "There was a critical mass building.\"", "Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said he thought Daschle made the decision Tuesday morning.", "\"I have to believe that Sen. Daschle having spent as many years as he has up here had a clear picture that there was going to be a delay, and I think he didn't want to contribute to that.", "In announcing his withdrawal, Daschle said it was an honor to be chosen to lead the reform of America's health care system.", "\"But if 30 years of exposure to the challenges inherent in our system has taught me anything, it has taught me that this work will require a leader who can operate with the full faith of Congress and the American people, and without distraction,\" he said in a statement.", "\"Right now, I am not that leader and will not be a distraction.\"", "Mark Preston, CNN's political editor, pointed out that Daschle has a \"history of making 11th-hour decisions.\"", "Six years ago, Daschle made a last-minute decision not to run for president after he had been all set to go.", "\"I think that the Tom Daschle we saw yesterday was all set to go, and then the pressure started mounting ... and then he decided to pull out,\" Preston said.", "Although he was expected to be confirmed, it was also expected that he'd have to undergo a bruising confirmation hearing that could have led to negative headlines for Obama.", "As news broke of the withdrawal, some senators said they were sad to see Daschle step aside, but others said it was the right thing to do.", "\"I'm in shock. I didn't know that. I don't know what happened,\" said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California.", "\"I talked to him ... the night before last, and he showed no signs of withdrawing.\"", "Feinstein praised Daschle as rare person who could get something like health care through the Senate and said she wishes he had not withdrawn.", "\"I have great faith in him.\"", "Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Daschle \"did a service to President Obama\" by stepping aside.", "\"I think it really would have looked bad for the Senate to close ranks around a fellow member and sort of reinforce the idea that they were going to protect a member as part of the good ol' boys club,\" he said.", "Daschle has a lengthy history with members of Congress.", "He represented South Dakota in the House of Representatives for four terms, and he served in the Senate for three terms.", "He was the Senate majority leader from June 2001 to January 2003 and served as the minority leader before losing his re-election bid in 2005.", "Sen. John Ensign, R-Nevada, said Daschle \"saved the president from being embarrassed\" by withdrawing.", "Watch Republicans weigh in on the move » .", "Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said he was \"a little stunned\" by Daschle's decision.", "\"I thought he was going to get confirmed.", "I thought -- he's a good man, and I thought he'd be confirmed.", "I'm surprised,\" said Baucus, D-Montana.", "Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, insisted that Daschle had owned up to his mistakes.", "\"He's made his decision, I respect his decision, and we go on from there,\" Kerry said.", "Daschle's resignation came hours after Nancy Killefer's withdrawal as Obama's chief performance officer, a new post in the administration.", "Officials said privately the reason for Killefer's withdrawal was unspecified tax issues.", "The much-touted post was designed to scrub the federal budget.", "CNN's Lisa Desjardins, Candy Crowley and Kristi Keck contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Political climate tripped up Daschle, says CNN's Ed Henry .", "Source says Daschle was worried about what his confirmation would do to Obama .", "Senators say they did not see the withdrawal coming .", "Daschle's nomination questioned due to tax problems, work in recent years ." ]	[ 0, 9, 16, 21, 37 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Three people were arrested Saturday after chaos broke out at an \"America's Next Top Model\" audition at a New York hotel, police said.", "A large crowd at the Park Central New York hotel got unruly Saturday during a \"Top Model\" audition.", "Six people were injured, and two of them sought treatment at a hospital, authorities said.", "Police said they didn't know what provoked the bedlam.", "Three people were charged with disorderly conduct and inciting a riot in connection with the incident at the Park Central New York hotel in Manhattan.", "The audition was shut down after the incident, authorities said.", "Calls to Park Central management were not immediately returned on Saturday.", "The \"Top Model\" competition, hosted and produced by supermodel Tyra Banks and aired by the CW network, is in its 12th cycle." ]	[ "Police: 3 people were arrested Saturday after chaos broke out at a TV show audition .", "\"America's Next Top Model\" audition was being held at a New York hotel, police said .", "Two people sought treatment at a hospital, authorities said .", "\"Top Model\" competition is hosted by Tyra Banks and airs on CW network ." ]	[ 0, 2, 7 ]
[ "TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- The clicking of dozens of news cameras drowned out the sobs of the 13-year-old girl, but her face explained what was happening in the departure hall of Japan's Narita International Airport.", "Arlan and Sarah Calderon hug their daughter Noriko farewell.", "Noriko Calderon, wearing her school uniform, was being forced to make one of the most wrenching choices of her young life: To stay in the country of her birth rather than join her parents being deported to the Philippines.", "The scene was the emotional climax to a story a decade and a half in the making -- one that has tugged at heartstrings in Japan, but ultimately failed to sway to an unyielding bureaucracy that activists say violates human rights.", "Sound off: Do you think Japanese authorities are doing the right thing?", "Filipinos Arlan and Sarah Calderon illegally entered Japan in the early 1990s on fake passports.", "They married and had a daughter, Noriko.", "Arlan found a stable job working for a construction company.", "Noriko grew up Japanese, attending school and never learning her parents' native language.", "Noriko, like many Tokyo girls her age, loves hip-hop and hopes to be a dancer or a teacher at a dance school someday.", "But her future in the only country she's ever known went into limbo when Japanese immigration authorities arrested her mother in 2006.", "Her parents decided to fight Japan's notoriously rigid immigration laws and for three years under a harsh media spotlight, they argued their case all the way to the country's High Court, saying Arlan is gainfully employed and their daughter only speaks Japanese.", "The family lost their case in the High Court, and Japan ordered Arlan and Sarah Calderon be deported back to the Philippines.", "Watch CNN interview with family » .", "Activists claim Japan's notoriously rigid immigration laws violate human rights.", "An estimated 500 families are in the same situation according to lawyers, who accuse Japan of not respecting the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.", "Japan's Immigration Bureau in a statement to CNN said the couple's illegal presence in the country as an \"extremely malicious\" violation that \"shakes the foundation of Japan's immigration control.\"", "But when it came to 13 year old Noriko, the government gave the girl a choice: Her country or her parents.", "\"Japan is my homeland,\" says Noriko, when asked why she is choosing to stay behind.", "She will move in with an aunt, allowed to stay in Japan under a visa that the government will reassess yearly.", "Her life, say her parents, will be better in Japan.", "She'll have schooling and the dreams a big city like Tokyo can offer her, versus the impoverished farm community her parents will move back to in the Philippines.", "But as the Calderons packed up their small apartment in the days leading up to the deportation, the reality of what would soon happen to the family became more and more harsh.", "\"Until I'm an adult, I need my parents,\" Noriko said, her pink cheeks stained with tears.", "\"We won't be there when she needs us the most,\" said Arlan Calderon.", "\"She has to protect herself on her own. I'm so sorry about that.\" Shogo Watanabe, the Calderons' attorney, collected more than 20,000 signatures in Japan to try and keep the family together in the country.", "\"Children should be protected when their parents are punished.", "It's the child's right.", "But there's no consideration for that at all. I do not think the government is being flexible,\" said Watanabe.", "Under Japanese immigration laws, the Calderons won't be allowed back into Japan for five years.", "They've asked for a special waiver to visit their daughter after a year, but it hasn't been granted yet.", "So their last, public hug could be the last time they see their daughter until she's 18." ]	[ "Noriko Calderon born and raised in Japan by Filipino parents .", "Parents deported after years of living in country .", "Schoolgirl says she will stay, meaning she may not see parents until she's 18 ." ]	[ 2, 8, 18, 19, 31 ]
[ "Editor's note: Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist and CNN political contributor, was a political consultant for Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992 and was counselor to Clinton in the White House.", "Paul Begala says Republicans are failing to respond to the real economic pain felt throughout the U.S. (CNN) -- As the fight over President Obama's economic recovery package heats up, the two sides are beginning to define themselves with admirable clarity.", "The president says we have a crisis that is heading toward a catastrophe.", "In announcing his new Economic Recovery Advisory Board, President Obama declared, \"The situation could not be more serious.", "These [new unemployment] numbers demand action.", "It is inexcusable and irresponsible for any of us to get bogged down in distraction, delay, or politics as usual, while millions of Americans are being put out of work.\"", "The Republicans, on the other hand, have honed their economic message: Denial, Delay, Do Nothing.", "Denial . It begins with denial.", "Former Bush adviser Karl Rove and Fox News host Bill O'Reilly opined in December that it's the media's fault.", "The said the press is overhyping bad news; the economy, they suggested, is not really all that bad.", "\"So you are agreeing with me,\" O'Reilly said, \"that there is a conscious effort on the part of The New York Times and other liberal media to basically paint as drastic a picture as possible, so that when Barack Obama takes office, that anything is better than what we have now?\"", "\"Yes,\" said Mr. Rove.", "OK. I guess if you're wealthy like Mr. Rove and Mr. O'Reilly you can afford to pretend the recession is a vast media conspiracy.", "But for the 3.7 million Americans who have lost their jobs in the Bush-Republican recession, Messrs. Rove and O'Reilly seem dangerously out of touch.", "Delay . \"Let's slow down. Let's take our time,\" said Sen. Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska).", "\"Few things are going to be as important as this.\"", "Generally that's good advice.", "But with the economy losing 19,000 jobs a day, is delay really a wise strategy?", "Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) seems to think so.", "He told CNN's John King, \"We could shelf this bill and start again.", "That's what we really need to do.\"", "Do Nothing . South Carolina Gov.", "Mark Sanford is widely considered a rising star in the GOP.", "He was even mentioned as a potential running mate for 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain.", "His strategy, again articulated to John King on \"State of the Union,\" is to do nothing -- let companies, communities and families fail.", "\"We're going to go through a process of deleveraging,\" Sanford said.", "\"And it will be painful. The question is, do we apply a bunch of different Band-Aids that lengthen and prolong this pain or do we take the Band-Aid off?", "I believe very strongly: Let's get this thing over with, let's not drag it on.\"", "Set aside the callousness of Sanford's metaphor -- that joblessness at the highest level since the Great Depression is somehow like a scratch that doesn't even need a Band-Aid.", "Focus instead on Sanford's substantive message: You're on your own.", "Write if you get work.", "This befits a party which has high-ranking members who deny the effectiveness of the New Deal.", "What's next, denying that the federal government put a man on the moon?", "What Bipartisanship? Given the GOP's combination of flat-earth economics and scorched-earth politics, it should come as no surprise that it looks like 98.6 percent of Washington Republicans oppose President Obama's economic recovery package.", "They either do not understand the depth of the recession or they do not realize the results of the recent election.", "I don't know what more President Obama can do.", "He has named three prominent Republicans to his Cabinet (Robert Gates at Defense, Ray LaHood at Transportation and Judd Gregg at Commerce).", "He has helped persuade New Hampshire Gov.", "John Lynch to replace Sen. Gregg with a Republican.", "He has met behind closed doors with the entire House and Senate Republican conferences.", "He has hosted bipartisan cocktail parties, a Super Bowl party and -- what's left, a slumber party?", "He has agreed to ditch progressive provisions from the stimulus bill, like support for family planning (earning him a rebuke from Planned Parenthood) and accepted more tax cuts than many Democrats would like.", "iReport.com: Share your thoughts on the stimulus package .", "Still, there's bipartisanship and there's bipartisanship.", "Real-world Republicans support President Obama's recovery plan.", "Florida Gov.", "Charlie Crist is a supporter, and as the ubiquitous John King has reported, the very Republican mayor of the very Republican town of Carmel, Indiana, supports Obama's plan as well.", "\"Government should be investing in infrastructure,\" Mayor James Brainard told King.", "\"That is what government is meant to do.", "It creates long-term value.", "I think the stimulus plan is a good one.\"", "So take heart, Mr. President.", "In the real world of layoffs, foreclosures and plant closings, you have the support of both Republicans and Democrats.", "They agree with you that Denial, Delay and Doing Nothing is not an economic strategy.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul Begala." ]	[ "Paul Begala: Republicans are adopting strategy of blocking action on economy .", "He says they have denied the extent of the problem and delayed action .", "Begala: Some in GOP adopt a callous attitude that we should do nothing .", "Still, he says, some Republicans outside Washington see the need to act ." ]	[ 2, 24, 52, 54 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The man accused in the brutal killing of Arkansas television anchor Anne Pressly will appear next Thursday in Pulaski County Circuit Court, where he will enter a plea in the high-profile case.", "Anne Pressly, 26, was a news anchor at KATV in Little Rock, Arkansas.", "Curtis Lavell Vance, 28, was formally charged Thursday with capital murder, rape, residential burglary and theft, Prosecutor Larry Jegley said Friday.", "Neither he nor police would discuss details of the case because of a gag order imposed by the judge.", "Jegley hasn't said whether he will seek the death penalty.", "Jegley said Vance, who denies he was in Little Rock, Arkansas, when Pressly was killed, was being held at the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility.", "Vance was linked to the killing through DNA testing.", "Lt. Terry Hastings, spokesman for Little Rock police, told CNN in December that investigators are \"110 percent\" certain Vance killed Pressly, 26, who was the morning news anchor for KATV, a CNN affiliate.", "Pressly was found unconscious in her home October 20 and died five days later at a hospital.", "\"She fought for her life.", "She fought her attacker.", "Her left hand was broken from trying to fight this man off,\" Pressly's mother, Patti Cannady, told NBC.", "\"Six weeks ago this morning, I found my daughter beyond recognition with every bone in her face broken, her nose broken, her jaw pulverized so badly that the bone had come out of it; I actually thought that her throat had possibly been cut.", "Her entire skull had numerous fractures from which she suffered a massive stroke.\"", "Hastings told CNN that DNA evidence also ties Vance to a rape in April in Marianna, Arkansas, about 90 miles east of Little Rock.", "The affidavit related to the Pressly case, from Little Rock detective Tommy Hudson, said police made contact with Vance at his home in Marianna.", "Hastings said investigators have found no link between Pressly and Vance, and they do not believe Pressly's being on TV had anything to do with the killing.", "\"I think he saw her someplace, probably followed her home with intention of robbing her.", "And then went from there.\" The killer also took Pressly's purse, Hastings said." ]	[ "Curtis Lavell Vance, 28, has been charged with capital murder, rape, burglary, theft .", "Anne Pressly was found unconscious in her home in October and died five days later .", "Vance was linked to the killing through DNA testing .", "DNA evidence also ties Vance to a rape in April in Marianna, Arkansas, police say ." ]	[ 2, 6, 8, 14 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- A warning of more attacks on UK bankers was made on Wednesday after the home of former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin was vandalized.", "A recovery vehicle removes a Mercedes from the Edinburgh home of Fred Goodwin.", "Windows were smashed in Goodwin's house in the Scottish capital Edinburgh and those of a Mercedes-Benz limousine parked outside.", "It is not known if anyone was at home at the time.", "Goodwin -- dubbed \"Fred the Shred\" by the media for his ruthless cost-cutting -- and his family have not been living in the house since it was revealed that the 50-year-old Goodwin was receiving an annual pension of $1 million (£700,000) for life.", "A statement issued to media organizations including the Press Association after the attack said: \"We are angry that rich people, like him, are paying themselves a huge amount of money and living in luxury, while ordinary people are made unemployed, destitute and homeless.", "\"Bank bosses should be jailed.", "This is just the beginning.\" No group was named in the message and it did not explicitly claim responsibility for the attack.", "Goodwin took early retirement after RBS nearly collapsed amid the economic crisis and was later part-nationalized.", "Watch more on the attack » .", "On the same day as the size of his pension was revealed RBS announced a UK record loss of $34.6 billion (£24.1 billion) for 2008.", "Politicians and commentators have expressed fury about the deal and excessive bonuses being given by bailed-out banks.", "Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, head of the Treasury, urged Goodwin to give up his pension.", "He refused, saying he had already given up a number of contractual rights which had cost him a lot of money.", "Watch consternation at Goodwin's £16 million pension fund » .", "The statement warning of more attacks on bankers came days after AIG sent a memo to employees giving them security advice as fury grows in the U.S. over millions paid out in bonuses by the bailed-out U.S. insurance giant.", "Employees were warned not to wear the company logo, to travel in pairs and park in well-lit places, and to phone security if they notice anyone \"spending an inordinate amount of time near an AIG facility.\"", "AIG employees have received death threats since the company handed out $165 million (£115 million) in bonuses and security at AIG offices has been increased.", "And last month British police warned that officers were preparing for a \"summer of rage\" as protests mount across Europe against the economic crisis.", "David Hartshorn, who heads the Metropolitan Police's public order branch, said growing unemployment, failing companies and the recession could spark a \"mass protest.\"", "Hartshorn said the G-20 economic summit starting next week could lead to unrest as leaders of the world's richest nations head to London." ]	[ "Scottish home of former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Fred Goodwin vandalized .", "Statement issued to media oorganizations warns of more attacks on bankers .", "Embattled U.S. insurance giant AIG last week gave employees security advice .", "Last month British police said officers were preparing for \"summer of rage\"" ]	[ 0, 15, 18 ]
[ "BRADDOCK, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- What happens when business and government turn their collective back on a town and just walk away?", "Braddock, Pennsylvania, is what happens.", "Braddock, Pennsylvania, has suffered since the steel mills went out of business in the 1970s and 1980s.", "When steel was king, the population of Braddock surged to more than 20,000 people.", "With its proximity to Pittsburgh and its location on the Monongahela River, it was an ideal location for a steel town.", "When steel mills began closing in the 1970s and 1980s, Braddock was not immune.", "In 1982, Braddock's main mill, the Carrie Furnace, closed its doors, putting thousands of people out of work.", "Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, residents left the town seeking work in other parts of Pennsylvania.", "The 2000 census put the population of Braddock at 2,900, but it has dropped further, according to residents.", "Home prices have plummeted and real estate is as inexpensive as $6,000 for a single-family house.", "Historic pictures show a polished downtown and a bustling community.", "Now, most businesses have closed their doors, leaving only a handful to serve the community.", "A drive down Braddock Avenue, the main street, indicates the town has seen the bottom.", "The avenue is lined with crumbling offices and stores, boarded windows and empty lots where buildings once stood.", "But there is hope in the town. In 2005, Braddock elected John Fetterman by one vote as its mayor.", "He is originally from York, Pennsylvania, and has lived in the area of Braddock for eight years.", "He has an MBA from Harvard and started a program that helped dislocated youth from the area receive their high school equivalency degrees.", "At 6 feet 8 inches and 325 pounds, he is an imposing figure.", "He chooses to dress in Dr Martens boots, baggy jeans and Dickies short-sleeved shirts because he feels he is able to connect with the people better dressed that way.", "He shaves his head and has a goatee.", "Possibly the most intimidating aspects of Fetterman's appearance are his tattoos, clearly visible on his forearms, including the numbers 15104, the town's ZIP code.", "Watch as the mayor talks about his revitalization plan » .", "When asked if he thinks the town is at rock bottom, Fetterman replies, \"I don't believe that it's the bottom in the sense that this is a bad place.", "This is what can happen when you turn your back on a community.\"", "Since he was elected, Fetterman has made it his mission to give Braddock a prosperous future.", "He has given incentives to businesses to relocate to his town.", "The main incentive is large manufacturing space at a fraction of the cost in a normal market.", "A company that converts diesel engines into vegetable-oil burning engines, Fossil Free Fuel, relocated to Braddock from Allen, Pennsylvania.", "\"The initial building was about 14,000 square feet and supposedly the asking price was $25,000.", "And we were like how do you get so much space for so little money?\"", "said David Rosenstraus, one of the owners of Fossil Free Fuel.", "\"I think for a very small business like us, not having very much capital to work with building a shop, and investments going into tools and things inside the shop, [we] would be spread thin if we had to pay a lot for the actual building.\"", "On the site where the Carrie Furnace steel mill building still stands, the county plans to convert the contaminated land into commercial and residential space.", "Allegheny County executive Dan Onorato is driving this plan, \"We don't look at this like a liability.", "We see some potential here.", "We can take back 147 acres, take back the riverfront and make this a viable spot again.", "But you have to invest public money into the infrastructure to make that happen.", "It won't happen on its own. For example, this place closed 25 years ago, it's still here.", "The public sector has to come in and invest.\"", "Braddock still has many obstacles to overcome, but Fetterman believes that it's possible to grow, \"I'd like to see Braddock move towards -- continue to move towards -- a safer place that is moving towards better outcomes for everybody.\"" ]	[ "Braddock, Pennsylvania, thrived as a steel town .", "Thousands of people left after mills shut down .", "Mayor trying to use incentives to bring business back to area .", "Real estate prices are incredibly low, enticing some to move to town ." ]	[ 0, 2, 9, 25, 34 ]
[ "HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe said Monday that he does not believe foul play was involved in a car wreck that killed his wife.", "The vehicle the couple were traveling in was left overturned off the highway.", "\"When something like that happens there is speculation, but I want to assure you if it was foul play, it is one in a thousand,\" he said Monday.", "\"It was an accident that took her life.\"", "Tsvangirai's comments came amid widespread speculation that the wreck was caused by his political opponents aligned with President Robert Mugabe.", "Tsvangirai's political party, the Movement for Democratic Change, has said the crash was an assassination attempt.", "It has called for an independent inquiry.", "Zimbabwe's new prime minister was hurt in the wreck and returned home Monday from neighboring Botswana.", "\"Life has to go on and I'm certain that if she was here she would liked life to go on,\" he said.", "\"It will be difficult to fill the gap left by her.\"", "Tsvangirai has long been a leading opposition figure in Zimbabwe, but he joined a coalition government with Mugabe last month.", "That seemed to resolve an impasse created by a disputed presidential election between Mugabe and Tsvangirai last year.", "Tsvangirai received the most votes in the March 2008 election, but he fell short of the 50 percent required to avoid a runoff.", "He withdrew as a candidate in the runoff, citing political violence and intimidation targeting his supporters.", "Negotiations between the two sides culminated in the power-sharing agreement that was implemented just weeks ago.", "Questions about the wreck surfaced shortly after it happened Friday on a busy two-lane highway between Tsvangirai's hometown of Buhera and the capital city of Harare.", "On Saturday, members of Tsvangirai's political party, the Movement for Democratic Change, told CNN that Tsvangirai believed that the driver of the truck that struck his car deliberately drove toward him in an effort to take his life.", "The party's secretary-general, Tendai Biti, said police should have provided better security for Tsvangirai.", "The wreck might not have happened, he said, if a police escort been on hand.", "A former U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe, Tom McDonald, said the wreck raised suspicion.", "\"I'm skeptical about any motor vehicle accident in Zimbabwe involving an opposition figure,\" said McDonald, who was ambassador to Zimbabwe from 1997 to 2001.", "\"President Mugabe has a history of strange car accidents when someone, lo and behold, dies -- it's sort of his M.O.", "of how they get rid of people they don't like.\"", "McDonald, however, was quick to add that traffic accidents are common in Zimbabwe.", "The highway on which Tsvangirai was traveling is a two-lane road on which tractor-trailers are common, he said.", "Vehicles in the country are often in bad shape and many drivers are inexperienced, he said.", "\"It's certainly plausible that this was just one of those tragic things,\" he said.", "-- CNN's Nkepile Mabuse contributed to this report." ]	[ "Tsvangirai: \"It was an accident that took her life\"\nPM returned home from Botswana and addressed mourners at his residence .", "Much speculation the wreck was caused by his political opponents .", "Former U.S. ambassador to Zimbabwe said the wreck raised suspicion ." ]	[ 3, 4, 7, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Tim Masters squarely blames Fort Collins, Colorado, police and prosecutors for his inability to land gainful employment and for his not having a wife and kids at this stage in his life.", "Tim Masters, left, stands with attorney David Wymore, right, before Masters' release from prison last year.", "In 1987, Masters became the prime suspect in the slaying of Peggy Hettrick, a 37-year-old found in a field near his house.", "Among the reasons police said they focused on Masters was that he failed to report the body after he found it and his childhood drawings and stories suggested he was fixated on death.", "Masters was convicted of murder in 1999, but a judge last year threw out the conviction and released him from prison, citing new evidence that did not implicate Masters.", "Masters now has a lawsuit pending against several police officers, ex-prosecutors and the city.", "The city of Fort Collins has asked a federal judge to dismiss the case.", "Now 37, Masters sat down for a phone interview with a CNN reporter who covered his case and subsequent release.", "He said he still holds a grudge against the police and prosecutors who put him behind bars.", "Watch Masters the day after his 2008 release » .", "He's living in Greeley, Colorado, and doesn't get back to Fort Collins much, but he does love traveling.", "Most notably, he's traveled to Amsterdam, Netherlands, to appear on a talk show with Richard and Selma Eikelenboom, the Dutch forensic scientists who discovered the DNA evidence that ultimately freed Masters.", "Things can be tough sometimes, but anything is better than prison, Masters said of his first year as a free man since being imprisoned.", "CNN: How have things been in the year since your release?", "Masters: It's a struggle to earn enough money to pay my bills and everything, make a living.", "Other than that, life is good. CNN: Do you have a job? Masters: I buy stuff at auction and I sell it on eBay.", "CNN: Do you have trouble finding a job because of your time in jail?", "Masters: Yeah, I think that has a lot to do with it.", "The first thing that comes up on a background check is \"charges dismissed -- first-degree murder.\"", "Watch Masters thank those last year who worked to free him » .", "CNN: How else have you been keeping yourself busy?", "Masters: Pretty much work.", "That's it. CNN: Describe a typical day.", "Masters: The big challenge is, first of all, you've got to find out where the auctions are.", "Once you get that down, then you go to the auctions.", "Another disadvantage I have is I'm a little outdated on the prices of things, so I'm thinking things are worth a lot less than what they're going for.", "So I have to learn what things are worth now.", "I go to the auction, and I bid on stuff.", "I try and buy it cheap enough that I can make a profit on it, load it into the truck, bring it back to the house.", "I have shelves all in my basement full of just odds and ends.", "I put it all on the shelves.", "I do research on the computer and find out which ones I can actually make a profit on, and I list those.", "You list the item on eBay and let it run its course through the auction for usually seven days.", "If it sells, you pack it and ship it off.", "If it doesn't sell, you can either re-list it as an auction item, re-list it as a store item or throw it in the trash.", "CNN: What kind of money do you make in a typical week?", "Masters: Not enough.", "CNN: What do you enjoy doing most that you weren't able to do in prison?", "Masters: Travel.", "I've been to see my sister about four times since I've been out.", "She's in California. I have an uncle in Arizona.", "This goes along with the eBay business.", "I go down there every once in a while. He has a warehouse full of used restaurant equipment, and I go down there every so often.", "I go through his warehouse, take pictures of all the new stuff he's got in and I list it on eBay for him.", "Sometimes it sells, sometimes it doesn't.", "In April, a TV station over in Amsterdam paid to fly me over there to be on a talk show with Richard and Selma [Eikelenboom] from the DNA lab.", "That was cool. Watch a prosecutor explain why Masters' conviction was reversed » .", "CNN: What did you have the hardest time getting used to after being in prison so long?", "Masters: Maybe cell phones?", "Cell phones are everywhere now.", "They didn't used to be so common.", "I had a cell phone before I was arrested, but the last year before I was arrested, I didn't even keep service on it.", "Now, I don't know what I'd do if I didn't have a cell phone.", "It has my calendar, my address book, everything on it.", "CNN: You spent some prime years of your life -- late 20s, early 30s -- in jail for a crime you didn't commit.", "What do you think you missed most by not being a free man in those years?", "Masters: There's so much.", "Right off the top, I'd say having a family.", "I think they're very much responsible for me not having a family right now, a wife and kids.", "But it goes back further than just them arresting me.", "It goes all the way back to my high school days when they labeled me a murder suspect among all my peers and my teachers and everything.", "It goes back a long time.", "Watch police interrogate a 15-year-old Masters » .", "CNN: They did the same thing when you were in the military, too, right?", "Masters: Yeah, in '92.", "CNN: You said last year that you were staying away from alcohol because you were uncertain what emotions it might stir up.", "Are you still staying away from booze?", "Masters: Yeah, that went to hell when I went to Europe.", "I had a couple beers over in Europe.", "I didn't get drunk, but we'd have a few beers.", "CNN: Are you still cautious with your use of alcohol?", "Masters: Yeah, I think I am.", "CNN: Why? Masters: No. 1, I don't want a hangover [laughing].", "I have a lot of repressed anger from all those years, but I don't think it's going to snap on anybody when I have a couple of beers though.", "CNN: Any hard feelings toward the Fort Collins Police Department or the prosecutors in the case?", "Masters: Oh, absolutely.", "They locked me up for a decade for something I didn't do.", "Read how DNA pointed to a new killer .", "CNN: If you could talk to the prosecutors or police who handled your case, what would you say to them?", "Masters: I don't want to talk to them at all.", "CNN: Talk about your lawsuit against the prosecutors and police.", "Who does it target? Masters: Mainly, [former prosecutors, now Judges] Jolene Blair and Terri Gilmore and [Fort Collins police Lt.] Jim Broderick, but there are a few other defendants involved and the city, but in my mind those are the big three.", "Key players in the case » .", "CNN: Tell me about the suit, what it alleges.", "Masters: You'd probably be better to talk to the lawyers about that.", "CNN: What would you say to the Hettrick family, which is now left to wonder what happened to their daughter?", "Masters: I don't know what I'd say to them.", "It's a damned shame that [the police] did this to them, too, telling them they got the guy when they didn't have the right person.", "I don't know what I'd say to them. That's a tough question.", "CNN: Do you get back to Fort Collins much?", "Masters: I try to stay away from Fort Collins.", "I still have family over there though, so I'm over there every once in a while.", "CNN: Does going there bring back bad memories?", "Masters: Yeah, and every time I go over there I feel like I'm on the defensive, every time I see a police car with someone pulled over or something -- well, let me give you an example.", "One day, my aunt and I were coming back from having lunch, and we were about to make a left and the road kept going straight.", "On the other side of the street, they had the yellow police tape up, and this is only two blocks from my aunt's house.", "I'm thinking, \"Oh great, I wonder when they're going to come interrogate me for something that happened over here.\"", "It turns out the yellow tape was up because there was a telephone pole that was leaning over, but it looked like crime scene tape.", "I didn't know. But I can't live like that, wondering when they are going to harass me for something that I didn't have anything to do with.", "They did it to me before. CNN: So you're keeping a low profile?", "Masters: Yeah, pretty much." ]	[ "Tim Masters relies on eBay for income because record still mentions murder charge .", "Masters says he's still getting used to cell phones, the current prices of things .", "City of Fort Collins asking federal judge to dismiss Masters' lawsuit .", "Wrongful conviction leaves Masters anxious when he sees police, he says ." ]	[ 3, 6, 43, 48, 56, 67 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A missing 5-year-old Florida girl was most likely abducted from her home in rural Florida, police said Wednesday.", "Haleigh Cummings, 5, went missing Monday night from her home near Orlando, police said.", "Haleigh Cummings has been missing since 3 a.m. Tuesday, when her father's girlfriend called 911 to say the child had vanished from her Putnam County home.", "\"There's no longer any reason to believe that the child simply wandered outside,\" said Putnam County Sheriff's Office Maj. Gary Bowling.", "The police must \"assume abduction,\" he said.", "\"All the answers to why you'd want to take a 5-year-old are ugly,\" Bowling said.", "Police have no official suspects, but are treating everyone they interview as one.", "\"All the world's a suspect\" now, Bowling said.", "Hear the frantic 911 call » .", "A nationwide Amber Alert says the girl was last seen wearing a pink shirt and underwear.", "Police plan to use infrared aviation technology after dark Wednesday in their search.", "\"She's a 5-year-old child, and she's afraid of the dark,\" Bowling said.", "On Monday night, Ronald Cummings' girlfriend, 17-year-old Misty Croslin, was watching Haleigh and her 4-year-old brother, police said.", "Croslin put Haleigh to bed at 8 p.m. and then went to bed herself at 10 p.m., they said.", "Croslin told police she woke up at 3 a.m. and discovered Haleigh missing.", "Croslin then called 911 and told a dispatcher that she found a brick on the floor of the family's double-wide trailer, according to CNN affiliate WJXT-TV.", "The station's Web site printed the text of the 911 call, which included this exchange: .", "Dispatch: OK. All right, you said your back door was wide open?", "Caller: Yes, with a brick.", "Like, there was a brick on the floor.", "Like, when I went to sleep the door was not like that.", "The brick was actually holding open the door to the trailer, Putnam County Sheriff's Office Lt. Johnny Greenwood told CNN.", "Croslin is staying with relatives as the investigation continues, said Bowling, describing the girlfriend as a \"child herself.\"", "Earlier Wednesday, Cummings pleaded for his daughter's safe return.", "\"All I want is my child ... please ... all I want is my child,\" he said, his voice breaking.", "On Wednesday, Haleigh's maternal grandmother, Marie Griffis, told reporters that she feared the worst.", "\"She's out there somewhere, I can feel her.", "I can feel her presence,\" Griffis told CNN affiliate WFTV-TV.", "\"She's screaming.\" Watch grandparents plead for girl's return » .", "Haleigh's mother, Crystal Sheffield, wept as she stood in front of reporters.", "\"I just want whoever's got her to bring her home,\" the girl's mother said.", "\"That's all I want, is my baby home.\"", "Watch mother's tearful plea » .", "Griffis said that her daughter and Ronald Cummings had a \"rocky relationship\" and that the two took turns spending weekends with their daughter.", "Sheffield lives near the Florida-Georgia line and has been interviewed by law enforcement, according to police.", "Investigators are looking into various angles of the case, including finding out the location of 44 registered sexual offenders who live within a five-mile radius of the Cummings home, Greenwood said.", "Though that number may sound high, it includes both Putnam and Palatka counties, which are separated by the St. Johns River, the law enforcement spokesman told CNN.", "Police are offering but not requiring all those interviewed in the case to take polygraph tests.", "Anyone with any information is encouraged to call the Putnam County Sheriff's Office at 386-329-0800 or the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse at 888-FL-MISSING." ]	[ "NEW: \"All the world's a suspect\" now, police say .", "Haleigh Cummings was reported missing at 3 a.m. Tuesday, police say .", "Father's 17-year-old girlfriend was caring for Haleigh on Monday night, police say .", "The girl's father says he believes someone snatched the child from her bed ." ]	[ 2, 4, 7, 12, 28 ]
[ "Harold Holzer, co-chairman of the U. S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, is the author of the new book, \"Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861\" and author, co-author or editor of 32 other books.", "Harold Holzer says Obama represents validation of Lincoln's hope of equal opportunity for all.", "NEW YORK (CNN) -- They are big shoes to fill by any standard, political or historical.", "Pointing to his oversize, specially made boots, Abraham Lincoln once confided that he may have been slow to put his foot down, but once he did, he never went back.", "That's a lesson worth learning for any president-elect.", "And few incoming chief executives have been as conscious of the 16th president as the 44th: Barack Obama.", "The new president-elect wrote about Lincoln in his acclaimed books.", "He not only chose to announce his candidacy for the presidency on Lincoln's birthday, in 2006, but did so outside the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, where Lincoln delivered his famous \"House Divided\" speech in 1858 and where he had his headquarters as president-elect.", "The myriad comparisons between the two skinny, big-eared Illinoisans -- Obama's own fond description -- are already entering the realm of modern legend.", "Both were believed too inexperienced to be president.", "See iReporters don stovepipe hats to pay tribute to Lincoln .", "Both were long-shot underdogs for their party's nomination.", "Yet each went on not only to win, but to nominate the defeated party favorite (who happened to be a senator from New York) as secretary of state.", "William H. Seward was Lincoln's choice, Hillary Clinton is Obama's.", "But of course there are substantial differences: Lincoln got his education \"by littles,\" he once embarrassingly admitted, spending less than a year all told in primitive one-room schoolhouses.", "Obama was superbly educated at Columbia University and Harvard Law.", "One man was a Republican, the other is a Democrat.", "And while Barack Obama scored an impressive victory, the nation divided bitterly over Lincoln's 39 percent plurality in a four-person race, to the degree that the Electoral College validation remained in question -- much more like Bush vs. Gore -- as late as February 1861, while seven Southern states seceded rather than accept a Lincoln presidency.", "Yet fascinating similarities predominate.", "Both men wrote best-selling books (yes, Lincoln, too: he brought out a hugely popular edition of his Lincoln-Douglas debates).", "Both won fame through their transcendent oratory.", "Both got into political trouble over their church affiliations -- Lincoln for leaving his church too soon, Obama for not leaving soon enough.", "Both refused to take pets along to the White House, but promised to shower their small children with pets once they arrived (the Lincolns left their mangy dog Fido behind and President-elect Obama has vowed to get a dog for his girls once settled in Washington).", "He might have to do better.", "Willie and Tad Lincoln eventually obtained kittens, turkeys and ponies.", "And here is another fascinating side story.", "Both men felt the need to make one final visit -- before their life-altering presidencies -- for reunions with the women, neither one a natural mother, who helped raise them.", "Obama, of course, went back to Honolulu to see his gravely ill grandmother right before Election Day; Lincoln, right before Inauguration Day, visited rural Charleston, Illinois, to say goodbye to his aged stepmother -- who wound up outliving him.", "But most extraordinary of all, surely, is the fact that Barack Obama's victory serves to help complete the \"unfinished work\" Abraham Lincoln spoke about in his Gettysburg Address: that America fulfill its dream of equal opportunity regardless of race.", "Lincoln, of course, advanced black freedom and black voting rights; Obama represents the validation of those elusive aspirations.", "It is not difficult to understand why so many Americans see Barack Obama as the second coming -- of Abraham Lincoln, if not more.", "Lincoln once declared, \"We cannot escape history,\" and after years of national indifference to, or defiance of, the lessons of the past, our next president seems to love, comprehend, and use the past to illuminate the future.", "iReport.com: Can you speak like Lincoln?", "Comparisons can invite problems, too.", "On his triumphant election night, Obama properly noted that Lincoln faced a crisis far graver than our own, then quoted Lincoln's hope that \"while passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.\"", "Those words came right out of Lincoln's first inaugural address.", "But in fact they were written not by Lincoln himself -- rare for America's greatest writer-president -- but by his incoming Secretary of State Seward.", "Lincoln later performed an editing miracle to transform the draft into near-poetry.", "Using this lesson, Obama should be asking Hillary Clinton for a draft.", "But that probably won't happen.", "Sometimes reality trumps even history.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Harold Holzer." ]	[ "Harold Holzer: Obama has much in common with Lincoln, the 16th president .", "He says the two were underdog candidates, authors, famed orators .", "Yet Holzer says there are many differences in their stories .", "Holzer: Obama represents validation of Lincoln's hope of equal opportunity ." ]	[ 0, 1, 11, 18, 41 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A person's risk of stroke is associated with the number of fast-food restaurants near their residence, according to a study presented Thursday at a stroke conference in San Diego, California.", "Fast-food restaurants may be associated with stroke risk, a new study says.", "Some say there's not enough evidence.", "Researchers led by Dr. Lewis B. Morgenstern at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor counted 1,247 strokes caused by blood clots in 64 census tracts in Nueces County, Texas, which includes Corpus Christi, from January 2000 through June 2003.", "They also mapped the county's 262 fast-food restaurants and then adjusted for socioeconomic status and demographics and found a statistically significant association.", "\"The association suggested that the risk of stroke in a neighborhood increased by 1 percent for every fast-food restaurant,\" the authors wrote in a poster presented at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference.", "Residents of neighborhoods in the 75th percentile of fast-food restaurants had a 6 percent increased risk of stroke compared with residents of the 25th percentile of such eateries, according to the study, which was paid for by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.", "Morgenstern, director of the University of Michigan's stroke program and professor of neurology and epidemiology, warned that the finding does not prove that proximity to fast-food restaurants caused the increase in strokes of people living nearby.", "Watch more on the link between fast food restaurants and stroke » .", "\"What we don't know is whether fast food actually increased the risk because of its contents or whether fast-food restaurants are a marker of unhealthy neighborhoods,\" he said.", "Still, he added, \"If this association is causal, the findings have large public health importance due to the high prevalence of fast-food restaurants.\"", "A spokeswoman for the National Restaurant Association lambasted that concern as unsupported by the data.", "\"This article is seriously flawed and by its own admission shows no correlation whatsoever between dining at chain restaurants and incidence of stroke,\" Beth Johnson said.", "\"Further, it tells us nothing about the eating and exercise habits of the individuals involved.", "The restaurant industry continues to offer a growing number of healthier offerings, move away from the use of trans fats and provide more nutrition information.", "\"In fact, the National Restaurant Association strongly supports a national, uniform approach to providing detailed nutrition information in chain restaurants.", "Constructive and responsive measures like these, and not misleading studies, will help consumers make healthy choices for themselves and their families,\" she added." ]	[ "Study looked at 1,247 strokes in Nueces County, Texas .", "Risk of stroke in a neighborhood increased by 1 percent for every fast-food restaurant .", "Spokeswoman for National Restaurant Association says study is flawed ." ]	[ 5, 6 ]
[ "Editor's note: Ed Rollins, who was political director for President Reagan, is a Republican strategist who was national chairman of former Arkansas Gov.", "Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign.", "Ron Silver, seen in a 2006 photo, was an actor with a strong interest in justice and peace, Ed Rollins says.", "NEW YORK (CNN) -- The lights on Broadway were dimmed Wednesday night to honor Ron Silver, the Tony-award winning actor who was buried Wednesday after a courageous battle against cancer of the esophagus.", "Ron was a lifelong social liberal and a Democratic activist, but you couldn't narrowly define him.", "And to those of us privileged to be his friend, he was an extraordinary pal.", "In the 25 years we were friends, he and I faced off most of that time on opposite sides of the political spectrum.", "In this era when people want bipartisanship, Ron was the role model.", "Our earliest encounters began when I was managing Ronald Reagan's campaign and he was a Dukakis supporter.", "He was passionate and a true intellectual.", "I have spent much of my life around smart people (fortunately a lot smarter than I) and Ron was one of the smartest.", "Whatever the topic, he had an opinion on it and probably had just read a book or two on the subject.", "Ron was a Chinese and international relations scholar and had no casual thoughts, only deep convictions.", "He backed up his opinions with empirical evidence and could rattle off facts like a baseball statistician.", "\"Eddie, why do you think that way?\"", "(Only my mother and wife have called me Eddie.)", "\"Why would a smart man like you ever come to that conclusion?\"", "And then we would proceed to discuss the topic for hours.", "I don't think we ever changed each other's opinions, but after a bottle or two of wine or a bottle of Scotch had been emptied, we still respected each other.", "We never had a cross word and no discussion ever ended in anger.", "After a while I learned it wasn't personal and it wasn't because I was Republican.", "Ron argued with everyone -- even those on his side in an issue -- because he had great curiosity and always wanted to know more.", "The closest we ever came to harsh words was when I teased him on his Emmy nomination for a recurring role as a slick campaign strategist on the TV show \"The West Wing.\"", "\"You would have won if you asked me how to play the part,\" I declared.", "\"After all you're just an actor. I am the real thing.", "I worked in the real West Wing and I managed a real campaign that won 49 states,\" He quickly replied with a big grin: \"Why the hell would I want the input of a guy who lost Minnesota [the only state Reagan lost]?", "And remember, you only won because you had an actor named Ron making you look good!\"", "Our discussions often ended in laughter.", "Because for Ron, politics was serious but it was also fun.", "I don't think he enjoyed anything more than a great political debate.", "To Ron, debate was an educational experience.", "To those of us on the opposite side it was like a combat sport.", "Several years ago, I was approached by one of the planners for the 2004 Republican Convention in New York.", "He wanted to know if I could recommend any movie or entertainment stars who would be willing to participate in the convention.", "Since the passing of the Reagan era, Republicans haven't had a long list of entertainers to choose from.", "From our discussions, I knew that Ron supported President Bush's battle against Islamic terrorism and the war in Iraq and he had been profoundly affected by 9/11.", "I asked him would he be willing to participate if asked.", "He said yes, but emphatically stated he was remaining a Democrat.", "But he also knew that when he publicly supported Bush on the war, it would affect his long relationships in Hollywood and could cost him future work.", "Ron's Monday night convention speech was short, less than five minutes and only 429 words in length.", "It wasn't covered by any of the major networks, but it was still one of the best of the night.", "When he stated: . \"I am grateful for the chance to speak tonight to express my support for our commander-in-chief, for our brave troops and for the vital cause which they have undertaken,\" his career as a major Hollywood player was over.", "Even though he had been a president of both the Actor's Equity Guild and the Creative Coalition that he co-founded, he challenged the entertainment industry with these spoken words: .", "\"Even though I am a well-recognized liberal on many issues confronting our society today, I find it ironic that many human rights advocates and outspoken members of my own entertainment community are often on the front lines to protest repression, for which I applaud them, but they are usually the first ones to oppose any use of force to take care of these horrors that they catalog repeatedly.\"", "Ron was disappointed when he did lose future work and even a few \"so-called Hollywood friends,\" but not surprised.", "But he said what he believed and never regretted doing it.", "Ron was always determined to give back something to his country and New York, the city where he, his parents, grandparents and great grandparents were born and loved.", "Whether he was fighting for the cause of Israel or social justice for the poor or for more funding for the National Endowment for the Arts or AIDS research, he was passionate about his causes.", "Even though he was close to death, he attended President Obama's inauguration because he thought it was a great day for the country and he didn't want to miss it.", "And just a few weeks ago while still undergoing chemotherapy, Ron attended the latest board of directors meeting in Washington of The United States Institute of Peace.", "The Peace Institute is an independent, nonpartisan institution established and funded by Congress whose 12 members are appointed by the president.", "The organizational goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts.", "Ron was appointed in 2007 and was confirmed by the Senate for a four-year term.", "He told me it was his most important role and a part he was never prouder to play.", "As the dimming of the lights on Broadway signaled Wednesday night, Ron's voice is now quiet -- and missed.", "His life's work not only lit up Broadway and filled the big screen, it also inspired others to action.", "The many roles he played on the stage, in movies and on television pale in comparisons to the real roles he lived in his life.", "Ron was a great friend, a great father and a great American.", "We will miss you, my friend.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ed Rollins." ]	[ "Ed Rollins: Ron Silver was a liberal Democrat, but impossible to narrowly define .", "He says Silver was passionate and knowledgeable about current events .", "He says Silver faced a backlash in Hollywood because he supported Bush on war .", "Silver's work lit up Broadway, television and films, Rollins says ." ]	[ 2, 4, 9, 38, 55 ]
[ "TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- A Swiss diplomat was released from jail Thursday after being arrested on a sex charge, the Iranian media reported.", "The first secretary of the U.S.", "Interests section of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran had been in an \"indecent sexual relation\" with an Iranian woman in his car, Iran's Press TV reported, citing Iranian police.", "Police spotted the car with diplomatic plates in a parking lot and caught the diplomat.", "The woman was \"improperly dressed and in an obscene situation,\" Press TV said.", "The \"sexual relation\" occurred after the diplomat, who was not named, promised he would marry the woman, Press TV reported.", "Both were released on bail.", "It was not clear what charges were filed against the woman.", "Press TV said it had contacted the deputy head of the U.S. Interest Section in Tehran, Elizabeth Bucher, but she would not comment on the report.", "The suspect is a Swiss diplomat who represents the United States in Iran in the absence of a U.S. presence.", "The United States and Iran have not had full diplomatic relations since the 1979 Islamic revolution." ]	[ "Diplomat said to have been in \"indecent sexual relation\" with woman in car .", "Swiss embassy staffer was seen with woman \"in an obscene situation\"\nIncident occurred after diplomat promised to marry the woman, reports said ." ]	[ 2, 4, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Arsenal striker Eduardo has been ruled out for two weeks with a hamstring injury just days after returning from a broken leg.", "Eduardo sinks to his knees after opening the scoring on his Arsenal first team comeback on Monday.", "The Croatian international only made his comeback after a year out in Monday's FA Cup fourth-round victory against Cardiff.", "The 25-year-old marked his return with two goals in the 4-0 success at the Emirates Stadium, but his latest setback is not described as serious.", "Manager Arsene Wenger told Arsenal TV Online: \"Eduardo is out for two weeks.", "He picked up a hamstring injury two minutes before I took him off.", "What a nightmare. \"Nobody knows how it happened but I knew straight away after the game it would be a two-week job.", "It is nothing like he had before but I do know that little setbacks like this are part of being nine months out.", "\"After that long out nobody plays six months on the trot.", "It is impossible. But at the same time it is a blow because, of course, he can score goals.", "He had shown that on Monday night.\"" ]	[ "Arsenal striker Eduardo is ruled out for two weeks due to a hamstring problem .", "The Croatian was hurt on Monday in his first game back after a year's absence .", "Eduardo scored twice against Cardiff on his return to action from a broken leg ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Tennis Channel has canceled plans to broadcast a tournament in Dubai because an Israeli player was banned.", "Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer was denied a visa by the United Arab Emirates.", "Shahar Peer, the 45th-ranked women's player according to the World Tennis Association, qualified to compete in this week's Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships but was denied a visa by the United Arab Emirates.", "Dubai is one of the seven emirates of the UAE.", "The cable network had planned to air parts of the tournament this weekend.", "\"Tennis Channel recognizes that this exclusion has been made by state authorities and neither the tour nor tournament directors themselves,\" said a statement posted on the channel's Web site Wednesday.", "\"However we also honor the role and proud tradition that tennis has always played as a driving force for inclusion both on and off the courts.", "\"Preventing an otherwise qualified athlete from competing on the basis of anything other than merit has no place in tennis or any other sport, and has the unfortunate result of undermining the credibility of the very nature of competition itself.\"", "The announcement comes the same day The Wall Street Journal Europe announced it is dropping its sponsorship of the tournament.", "\"The Wall Street Journal's editorial philosophy is free markets and free people, and this action runs counter to the Journal's editorial direction,\" the Journal said in a written statement.", "The paper also said it plans to cancel a special tennis-themed advertising section scheduled for Monday and its backing of a men's tournament in Dubai scheduled for next week.", "After days of international criticism, including the WTA saying it would review whether the UAE should be allowed to host future tournaments, the event's organizers said Peer was barred from the tournament for her own protection, apparently alluding to Israel's recent military offensive in Gaza.", "\"We do not wish to politicize sports, but we have to be sensitive to recent events in the region and not alienate or put at risk the players and the many tennis fans of different nationalities that we have here,\" organizers said in a written statement.", "The statement cited anti-Israel protests before one of Peer's matches at a recent tournament in New Zealand.", "But this is not the first time the UAE has barred Israeli tennis players.", "Last year, an Israeli men's doubles team was denied entry.", "The emirate also cited security concerns then.", "In a statement posted on the Tennis Channel's site, Peer thanked the cable channel for its decision.", "\"I was very moved and excited to hear about your decision not to broadcast the Dubai tournament following their denial to allow me to participate in the event,\" she wrote.", "\"You at Tennis Channel were the first ones to add action to the words and this is leading the way to other organizations as well.", "\"All I want is to play tennis and do well.", "I believe you are helping me to do exactly this.\"" ]	[ "United Arab Emirates denies visa to Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer .", "Tennis Channel: Sport should be 'driving force for inclusion ... on and off the courts'\nWall Street Journal Europe drops sponsorship of Barclays Dubai Tennis tourney .", "Peer thanks channel: 'I was very moved and excited to hear about your decision'" ]	[ 1, 2, 6, 8, 18 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- A jury Tuesday acquitted three men of charges that they helped the bombers who carried out the July 7, 2005, attacks on the London transportation system.", "Sadeer Saleem was accused of helping to plan the July 7, 2005 bombings in London .", "The four bombers died in the blasts, but Waheed Ali, Sadeer Saleem and Mohammed Shakil were accused of helping them by conducting reconnaissance and conspiring with them.", "Two of the men -- Ali and Shakil -- were convicted of a second charge of conspiracy to attend a place used for terrorist training.", "They will be sentenced Wednesday, London's Metropolitan Police said.", "Tuesday's verdicts came at the end of the men's retrial at Kingston Crown Court in southwest London.", "A separate jury failed to reach a verdict in their first trial, which ended in August after three months.", "The bombings in 2005 killed 52 people in blasts on three subway trains and a bus.", "At least 900 people were wounded.", "Police arrested the three in March 2007 after piecing together what they called a \"complicated jigsaw with thousands of pieces.\"", "They were charged in April 2007.", "Police said they analyzed more than 4,700 phone numbers and 90,000 calls.", "They discovered the three men had made a trip to London in December 2004 -- seven months before the fatal bombings -- which prosecutors claimed was a reconnaissance trip to scout potential targets.", "Prosecutors said that on December 16, 2004, the men traveled from the northern English city of Leeds to London, along with Hasib Hussain, one of the July 7 bombers.", "When they got to the capital, they met with Lindsay.", "Over the next two days, prosecutors claimed, the men visited tourist sites including the London Eye ferris wheel, the London Aquarium and the Natural History Museum, as well as underground train locations.", "Some of the spots, prosecutors said, were near where the July 7 bombs were eventually detonated.", "Police called it \"the first feasibility study\" for the London bombings -- and whether they were looking at tourist or transportation sites, the men were seeking out potential bomb targets, police said.", "The three men, who always denied the charges, acknowledged making the trip but said it was just an innocent outing to visit Ali's sister in London.", "Saleem told the court that he had had \"no idea whatsoever\" about the plot.", "Traces of DNA linked all three alleged accomplices in some way to the bombers, police had claimed.", "Investigators found Ali's fingerprints on evidence found at the bomb-making sites.", "Khan, Lindsay, Hussain and a fourth bomber, Shehzad Tanweer, set off a series of bombs the morning of July 7, 2005.", "They exploded on underground trains near Liverpool Street, Russell Square and Edgware Road and on a double-decker bus at Tavistock Square.", "Police have previously said they believe others with knowledge of the attacks remain at large.", "The jury found that in July 2001, Ali went with Khan to Pakistan.", "In July 2003, Shakil went with Khan to a camp in Pakistan, where the two undertook firearms training with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and AK-47 assault rifles, London police said.", "The jury found Ali and Shakil guilty of conspiring to attend a place used for terrorist training, knowing or believing that instruction or training would be provided for purposes connected with the commission or preparation of acts of terrorism, London police said.", "\"Mohammed Siddique Khan and Mohammed Shakil told other attendees that their aim was to fight in Afghanistan,\" said John McDowall, head of the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command.", "\"They were proficient in the use of and handling of terrorist weapons, and were certainly not enjoying a day out in a beautiful and mountainous area of Pakistan, as was suggested in court.", "\"Shakil himself accepted that the camp at Malakand was a serious business, whose purpose was to train willing volunteers to fight and kill in Afghanistan on behalf of the Taliban, a cause to which both he and Ali were, and remain, sympathetic,\" McDowall said." ]	[ "Jury acquits three accused of involvement in July 7, 2005, attacks on London .", "Verdicts came at the end of the men's retrial .", "Three men had always denied the charges ." ]	[ 0, 5 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- William Jackson was a slave in the home of Confederate president Jefferson Davis during the Civil War.", "It turns out he was also a spy for the Union Army, providing key secrets to the North about the Confederacy.", "William Jackson, a slave, listened closely to Jefferson Davis' conversations and leaked them to the North.", "Jackson was Davis' house servant and personal coachman.", "He learned high-level details about Confederate battle plans and movements because Davis saw him as a \"piece of furniture\" -- not a human, according to Ken Dagler, author of \"Black Dispatches,\" which explores espionage by America's slaves.", "\"Because of his role as a menial servant, he simply was ignored,\" Dagler said.", "\"So Jefferson Davis would hold conversations with military and Confederate civilian officials in his presence.\"", "Dagler has written extensively on the issue for the CIA's Center for the Study of Intelligence .", "Watch the stories of slaves as spies » .", "In late 1861, Jackson fled across enemy lines and was immediately debriefed by Union soldiers.", "Dagler said Jackson provided information about supply routes and military strategy.", "\"In Jackson's case, what he did was ... present some of the current issues that were affecting the Confederacy that you could not read about in the local press that was being passed back and forth across local lines.", "He actually had some feel for the issues of supply problems,\" Dagler said.", "Jackson and other slaves' heroic efforts have been a forgotten legacy of the war -- lost amid the nation's racially charged past and the heaps of information about the war's historic battles.", "But historians over the last few decades have been taking an interest in the sacrifice of African-Americans during those war years.", "Jackson's espionage is mentioned in a letter from a general to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.", "Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell refers to \"Jeff Davis' coachman\" as the source of information about Confederate deployments.", "Watch grandson of slaves: \"They call me Little Man\" » .", "Dagler said slaves who served as spies were able to collect incredibly detailed information, in large part because of their tradition of oral history.", "Because Southern laws prevented blacks from learning how to read and write, he said, the slave spies listened intently to minute details and memorized them.", "\"What the Union officers found very quickly with those who crossed the line ... was that if you talked to them, they remembered a great more in the way of details and specifics than the average person ... because again they relied totally on their memory as opposed to any written records,\" he said.", "Jackson wasn't the only spy.", "There were hundreds of them. In some cases, the slaves made it to the North, only to return to the South to risk being hanged.", "One Union general wrote that he counted on black spies in Tennessee because \"no white man had the pluck to do it.\"", "No one was better than Robert Smalls, a slave who guided vital supply ships in and out of Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.", "He eventually escaped and provided the Union with \"a turning of the forces in Charleston Harbor,\" according to an annual report of the Navy secretary to President Lincoln.", "\"A debriefing of him gave ... the Union force there the entire fortification scheme for the interior harbor,\" Dagler said.", "One of the most iconic spies was Harriet Tubman, who ran the Underground Railroad, bringing slaves to the North.", "In 1863, she was asked by the Union to help with espionage in South Carolina.", "She picked former slaves from the region for an espionage ring and led many of the spy expeditions herself.", "\"The height of her intelligence involvement occurred late in 1863 when she actually led a raid into South Carolina,\" Dagler said.", "\"In addition to the destruction of millions of dollars of property, she brought out over 800 slaves back into freedom in the North.\"", "As the nation marks Black History Month in February, Dagler said that history should include the sacrifices of the African-Americans who risked their lives for their nation.", "Many paid the ultimate sacrifice.", "\"They were all over the place, and no one [in the South] considered them to be of any value.", "Consequently, they heard and saw virtually everything done by their masters, who were the decision-makers,\" Dagler said.", "Whatever happened to William Jackson, the spy in Jefferson Davis's house?", "Unfortunately, that remains a great unknown.", "\"He simply disappeared from history, as so many of them have.\"", "CNN's Wayne Drash contributed to this report." ]	[ "William Jackson, a slave, learned key details inside the home of Jefferson Davis .", "Davis was president of the Confederacy; Jackson leaked key secrets to the Union .", "\"Because of his role as a menial servant, he simply was ignored\" by Southerners .", "Author said history must never forget the sacrifice of African-Americans in Civil War ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5 ]
[ "BABAHOYO, Ecuador (CNN) -- At least 10 people have died and thousands have been left homeless after torrential rains inundated large parts of Ecuador, officials said Thursday.", "Authorities said the rains, which began a week ago, were the worst in a quarter century.", "Civil defense officials said more than 10,000 families have been affected.", "Los Ríos -- north of Guayaquil -- was the hardest hit of nine provinces affected, civil defense officials said.", "In Los Ríos province, five people died when an ambulance drove into a hole at the side of a street at dawn Thursday.", "A newborn boy, his parents, a doctor and a driver were killed.", "Streets also were flooded in the capital of Quito.", "Watch the scenes of devastation in Ecuador » .", "On Wednesday, President Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency and ordered 2,000 members of the army and the police to help rescue workers.", "Correa increased by $25 million the $10 million he already had allocated for the emergency efforts.", "He also directed another $88 million to municipalities.", "Once the crisis has eased, an emergency fund will give seed and fertilizer to help farmers whose fields were washed away, Ecuador's government said.", "There also have been reports of livestock drowning.", "Cristina Medina, a spokeswoman for the Ecuadorean Red Cross, said provinces most heavily affected were along the Pacific coast, where drinking water was often in short supply.", "In some towns, high waters forced entire neighborhoods to evacuate, Medina said.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "At least 10 people have died in torrential rains in Ecuador, officials say .", "Authorities say the rains are the worst in a quarter century .", "Civil defense officials say more than 10,000 families have been affected .", "Ecuador's president declares state of emergency, orders army, police to help ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- After a nearly decade-long effort, the National Congress of Black Women on Tuesday honored Sojourner Truth by making her the first African-American woman to have a memorial bust in the U.S. Capitol.", "Speaker Nancy Pelosi and first lady Michelle Obama applaud the unveiling of the Sojourner Truth bust.", "Truth, whose given name was Isabella Baumfree, was a slave who became one of the most respected abolitionists and women's rights activists.", "\"One could only imagine what Sojourner Truth, an outspoken, tell-it-like-it-is kind of woman ... what she would have to say about this incredible gathering,\" first lady Michelle Obama said at the Celebration of Truth ceremony.", "\"We are all here because, as my husband says time and time again, we stand on the shoulders of giants like Sojourner Truth.\"", "\"And just as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott would be pleased to know that we have a woman serving as the speaker of the House of Representatives, I hope that Sojourner Truth would be proud to see me, a descendant of slaves, serving as the first lady of the United States of America,\" she said.", "Dignitaries and congressional leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, House Republican Leader John Boehner and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, attended the ceremony marking the unveiling of the statue.", "Along with musical performances, actress Cicely Tyson recited \"Ain't I A Woman,\" Truth's famous 1851 speech to a women's rights convention.", "Clinton and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, who worked together to draft legislation to commission the bust, were among speakers who paid tribute to the late C. Delores Tucker, former chairwoman of the NCBW, who spearheaded the effort for the Truth memorial.", "\"What a wonderful day it is to be here in Emancipation Hall for this great occasion when Sojourner Truth takes her rightful place alongside the heroes who have helped to shape our nation's history,\" Clinton said.", "\"Today, she takes her place in this Capitol, and we are the better for it,\" Clinton said.", "\"She is a sojourner of truth, by truth, and for truth.", "And her words, her example and her legacy will never perish from this earth, so long as men and women stand up and say loudly and clearly, 'We hear you echoing down through the years of history.", "We believe that your journey is not yet over, and we will make the rest of that journey with you.'", "\" The bronze statue, which was crafted by Los Angeles, California, sculptor Artis Lane, will stand in Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Center.", "\"All the visitors in the U.S. Capitol will hear the story of brave women who endured the greatest of humanity's indignities.", "They'll hear the story of Sojourner Truth, who didn't allow those indignities to destroy her spirit, who fought for her own freedom and then used her powers ... to help others,\" Michelle Obama said.", "\"The power of this bust will not just be in the metal that delineates Sojourner Truth's face; it will also be in the message that defines her legacy.", "Forevermore, in the halls of one of our country's greatest monuments of liberty and equality, justice and freedom, Sojourner Truth's story will be told again and again and again and again.\"", "In 1997, Congress passed a special act that called for relocating the Portrait Monument from the Capitol basement to the rotunda.", "The 7.5-ton statue depicts three leaders of the suffragette movement -- Anthony, Stanton and Mott.", "A group called the Sojourner Truth Crusade was upset about the statue's relocation because it didn't incorporate Truth.", "After Congress agreed to go ahead with a move, advocates proposed commissioning a new statue that would include Truth.", "In 2006, Congress passed a bill to honor the abolitionist with her own memorial." ]	[ "Sojourner Truth was an abolitionist and women's rights activist .", "Her bust will be on display at Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Center .", "Ceremony follows a nearly 10-year effort by National Congress of Black Women .", "\"Sojourner Truth's story will be told again and again,\" first lady Michelle Obama says ." ]	[ 0, 14, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- At least 50 officers and civilians were feared dead after Bangladeshi paramilitary troops staged a mutiny, taking dozens of high-ranking officers and military brass hostage, the country's law minister said Thursday.", "Bangladeshi soldiers take position armed with automatic weapons in Dhaka on Wednesday.", "As dawn broke, the rebelling troops with the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) allowed government officials entry into the headquarters in the capital city of Dhaka -- the scene of a day-long standoff Wednesday.", "The troops agreed to lay down their arms after Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina agreed to offer them amnesty.", "Ministers went door to door within the compound's officers' quarters to assure frightened women and children it was safe to come out.", "\"Nearly 50 people have been killed in sporadic fighting in the headquarters of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR),\" Mohammad Quamrul Islam, state minister for law and parliamentary affairs told reporters.", "In addition to military officials and BDR brass, the dead and wounded included passersby, including a rickshaw puller, struck by stray bullets during the gun battle, the Dhaka Medical College Hospital said.", "CNN was not immediately able to confirm the exact casualty count, with medical officials saying a final number will come after they had a chance to comb through the premises looking for bodies.", "At around 4:30 a.m. (10:30 p.m. GMT) Thursday, Bangladeshi TV channels broadcast video of Home Minister Sahara Kahtun telling rebelling paramilitary officers in the room that she could assure them the government would listen to their grievances.", "As she spoke, officers deposited weapons and ammunition onto a table in front of her and into piles on the floor.", "The video was initially broadcast on state run TV station BTV.", "Various private networks picked it up soon after.", "The Rifles is a paramilitary force responsible primarily for guarding the country's borders.", "The force, more than 65,000-strong, also takes part in operations such as monitoring polls.", "The troops staged their rebellion on the second day of BDR Week when officers and troop members from various BDR outposts along the border were in the capital for celebrations.", "At least 5,000 -- maybe more -- BDR personnel were inside the compound in the Pilkhana area of the capital when the mutiny occurred about 7:45 a.m. local time Wednesday, said Mohammed Sajjad Haider, spokesman for the information ministry.", "Their mobile phones were turned off, making it difficult for the government to get a handle on the situation, he said.", "The rebelling troops were low-ranking members of the BDR, akin to infantrymen, who were angry at the way they were treated by their superiors, Haider said.", "\"They have several demands,\" Haider said.", "\"They want pay parity with the army, they want job security, they want better food rations.\"", "The mutiny is the most serious crisis for Bangladesh's newly elected government, which came into power in December after two years of army-backed rule.", "Throughout the day and into the night, curious onlookers gathered outside the compound -- only to scramble for cover as sounds of gunfire periodically pierced the air.", "Plumes of black smoke coming from inside the compound could be seen for miles throughout the capital.", "Occasionally, the rebelling troops -- red bandannas covering their faces and guns slung over their shoulders -- walked past the closed gates of the compound, chanting, \"We have been deprived for a long time, we have deep grievances.\"", "\"I've been hearing gunfire all morning,\" said Zunaid Kazi, a San Diego, California, resident who is staying at a house a few blocks from the headquarters.", "Watch as Kazi describes what he saw and heard » .", "\"There will be a little lull and then the sustained gunfire will pick up again,\" he said.", "\"I can hear military helicopters in the sky. It's very rattling.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Home minister shown assuring rebel officers their grievances would be heard .", "NEW: Ministers go door to door to assure frightened women and children of safety .", "NEW: Dead and wounded include military officials, BDR brass and passersby .", "NEW: Rebelling troops were low-ranking members of BDR, information ministry says ." ]	[ 0, 4, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Andriy Shevchenko's agent admits it is highly unlikely the AC Milan striker will stay at the San Siro beyond the end of the season.", "Shevchenko has made just two Serie A appearances in a disappointing season for Milan.", "Shevchenko returned to Milan on loan from Chelsea last summer but has disappointed since his move back to Italy.", "The Ukraine striker has found himself mainly on the substitutes' bench, making just two league appearances this season, and agent Fabio Parisi believes his client will not be in Italy next season.", "\"Shevchenko is a player on loan at Milan from Chelsea and I think he will return to London,\" he told www.Calciomercato.it.", "\"Frankly, I don't think it's possible that the Rossoneri will decide to keep him.", "I don't know what kind of rapport he has found with coach(Carlo) Ancelotti and his team-mates, the only problem is that he is a player on loan and, given how the season has gone, I think Andriy will return to Chelsea.", "\"It does depend on who will be the coach and what he wants to do -- but I don't think the doors of Italy will re-open for him next season.", "\"Anyway, Sheva will decide on his own, he's quite calm, he doesn't need anyone's help.", "However, another country seems to me the more likely option.\"", "Shevchenko admitted at the end of March that he would probably return to London but, after scoring for Ukraine against England and providing a crucial assist against Lecce, the 32-year-old claimed earlier this month that he hoped to still be at the San Siro next season." ]	[ "Andriy Shevchenko unlikely to stay at AC Milan next season claims his agent .", "Ukrainian Shevchenko returned to San Siro on loan from Chelsea last summer .", "However he has played only two Serie A matches in a disappointing campaign ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- African Voices catch up with Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, Africa's man of letters.", "A contender for the title of Africa's most widely read novelist, his first work \"Things Fall Apart\" has been translated into 40 languages.", "\"I think story telling was my life.", "I was very curious about story telling.", "Even attempting to remember the first one is like trying to remember the day you were born, I'm not sure you can,\" he told CNN." ]	[ "Celebrated Nigerian author has been resident in New York for over 20 years .", "Most famous work, \"Things Fall Apart\" translated into over 40 languages .", "\"It's my ambition to distinguish between good and bad novels,\" he told CNN ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- It's often said that a real Southerner can \"claim kin\" with anyone.", "Tony Rand and his son Ripley learned last year that some of their relatives were African-American.", "Tony Rand realized the same could be true for him.", "Rand, whose family can trace its roots back to the 1700s, is a Democratic state senator in North Carolina.", "Until he watched the 2008 CNN documentary \"Black in America,\" he had no idea that some of his relatives were black.", "Although firmly anchored in the South, the Rands are spread across the country.", "What connects them is their link to a common ancestor -- the family patriarch William Harrison Rand.", "\"Hal\" Rand, as he was known to most, was a white farmer and slave owner.", "In 1842, Hal married Sarah Ann Mullens and they had seven children.", "Hal also fathered seven children with his mistress, Ann Albrooks Rand, a black woman.", "Every other year, hundreds of African-American descendants of Hal Rand get together at a different location for a massive family reunion.", "It's a time to catch up and share stories, eat barbecue and have a good time.", "The 2007 Rand family reunion, held in Atlanta, Georgia, was featured in \"Black in America.\"", "After the program aired, dozens of viewers across the country had the same revelation -- they, too, were related to the Rands.", "\"I was sitting there, that Saturday night, just up reading the week's papers and watching the program,\" says Rand with a hearty Southern accent.", "The Rand family's missing link » .", "\"Then I hear, 'We are the Rands.", "The mighty, mighty Rands,\" he recalls, referring to the words sung by family members as they embarked on their bi-annual pilgrimage.", "\"And then I said to myself, 'What?'\" Tony Rand listened as the family historian, Martha Rand Hix, described the family's patriarch.", "\"When they were talking about William Harrison Rand, I knew that was the William Harrison Rand in our family,\" he said.", "\"Then they started talking about North Carolina, and I said, 'Well, God oh mighty,' ... it was just amazing.\"", "The next day, he telephoned his 41-year old son, Ripley Rand, and asked him to contact their black relatives.", "Soon, Tony and Ripley Rand were invited to attend the next Rand family reunion in July in Sacramento, California.", "See photos of the Rand family members » But, what Tony Rand didn't know was that his son, a North Carolina Superior Court judge, had already been diligently working on the family genealogy.", "Ripley Rand had begun typing out a hand-bound version of a 100-page manuscript compiled by his great-uncle, Oscar Ripley Rand III, and started to create a digital version.", "Oscar Ripley Rand III was a Rhodes Scholar and retired Army colonel who spent years researching the family's history, according to Ripley Rand.", "Although Oscar Ripley Rand III had scoured the National Archives and spent years collecting information about the family, his memoirs contained no mention of William Harrison Rand's relationship and children with Ann Albrooks Rand.", "\"My whole life I have heard about the history of our family and we had no idea about [the African-American side of the family],\" Ripley Rand said.", "\"The most surprising thing about it,\" he added, was that his great-uncle \"probably never heard anything about it.\"", "Ripley Rand said he plans to attend the Rand family reunion this summer with his father and has updated his great uncle's research to include the story of the black side of the family.", "Both he and his father say they're looking forward to meeting their cousins.", "\"I think it will be fun to see what the connections are,\" Ripley Rand said.", "\"There's a whole group of family members who we did not know existed until last year.\"", "The revelation has inspired a few jokes among the senator's family and friends.", "\"I always knew you were one of us,\" an African-American friend told the senator with a nudge and wink.", "Tony Rand is also quick to crack a joke about anything from sports and politics to food.", "Namely chitterlings -- a traditionally Southern delicacy made from pig intestines -- and barbecue pork.", "A few of the things a \"Yankee\" might not know much about.", "\"There's an old joke in the South,\" he explained.", "\"If somebody was cooking chitlins and collards at the same time -- the smell was so strong that the fire would try to break out of the house.\"", "A proud member of the Wake County Chitlin Club, a group of politically active men who gather every year at the annual Chitlin Dinner, Tony Rand is proud of his Southern heritage.", "Calling North Carolina barbecue \"good\" won't do for the senator, who insists his state has the best \"pig pickin.\"", "\"North Carolina is a great place, we've got the mountains, we've got good college basketball and we've got good barbecue,\" he said.", "\"What more could a good person aspire to?\"", "Given that barbecue is also a tradition at the Rand family reunion, there's already some common ground for the lawmaker and his kin.", "Even though he's \"expecting to meet some interesting people\" at this year's reunion, he's not expecting much in the way of barbecue \"given that it's in California and all.\"" ]	[ "North Carolina Sen. Tony Rand had no idea some of his relatives were black .", "Family patriarch \"Hal\" Rand fathered children with his white wife, black mistress .", "Tony Rand and his son, Ripley, plan to attend the 2009 Rand family reunion ." ]	[ 4, 9, 22, 29 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- British union leaders will recommend Thursday ending an unofficial strike that has dragged on more than a week at the country's third-largest oil refinery, the arbitrator in the dispute announced Wednesday.", "Protesters at the Lindsay Oil Refinery are opposed to plans to employ non-British workers at the plant.", "Workers walked off the job January 28 to protest the hiring of hundreds of foreign workers for a construction project at the Lindsey oil refinery in eastern England.", "Their action has prompted similar \"wildcat\" strikes, unsanctioned by national unions, at other sites across the country.", "The compromise will involve opening 101 new jobs to British workers, the arbitration service ACAS said in a written statement.", "Local union leaders had earlier told demonstrators they were near their goal of being offered half the jobs involved in one of the latest subcontracts connected to the construction project -- 102 new jobs for a minimum of nine weeks.", "\"If you can't be happy with that, you can't be happy with anything,\" a local union official said at a demonstration televised by Britain's Sky News.", "The union leader did not identify himself.", "The French-based oil company Total, which owns the plant, confirmed a deal was in the cards.", "\"Union officials will present details of the agreement to the workforce at 7:30 a.m. (2:30 a.m.", "ET Thursday) and recommend a return to work,\" Total said in a release.", "Stephen Hughes, a Labour legislator in the European Parliament, warned that the reported compromise could itself run afoul of European labor law, opening the way for foreign workers who lose out to British labor to claim they were being discriminated against on the basis of nationality.", "Union leaders have been meeting over three days with Total, Jacobs, the main site contractor, and IREM, the Italian firm hired to carry out the project, in talks moderated by ACAS.", "They had already rejected one proposal, a union official told CNN.", "Union leaders accuse Total of discriminating against British workers by subcontracting with IREM, which has hired workers from Italy and Portugal.", "Total rejects the allegation.", "Overall, the construction project has employed, directly or indirectly, 600 to 1,000 workers for about 18 months, Total said.", "\"It has never been, and never will be, the policy of Total to discriminate against British companies or British workers.", "We have been a major local employer for 40 years and the majority of our 500 permanent staff are local,\" the company said in a statement released Monday.", "It said IREM had won the sub-contract through a fair and legal bidding process.", "ACAS will investigate the bidding process and report within weeks, it said Wednesday.", "Hundreds of workers at British power plants and refineries have been walking off the job in unofficial \"wildcat\" strikes since the Lindsey workers put down their tools last Wednesday.", "Spontaneous strikes took place Tuesday in every corner of the country: at the Stanlow oil refinery in western England, Drax power station in the northeast, Petroplus Coryton Refinery in the southeast and Longannet power station in Scotland.", "A total of nearly 1,000 workers were off the job at the three English locations.", "Scottish Power did not specify how many workers were on strike.", "Representatives of all four plants said contractors, not full-time staff, had walked off the job, and all said operations were not affected.", "But resolving the Lindsey strike may not be the end of the matter.", "Union leaders say the strike there is only a reflection of problems with the way Britain implements European Union employment directives.", "Unite, one of the UK's largest unions, called last week for a national protest in London.", "The country's main labor groups have all issued statements in support of the striking workers.", "\"The government is failing to grasp the fundamental issues.", "The problem is not workers from other European countries working in the UK, nor is it about foreign contractors winning contracts in the UK.", "The problem is that employers are excluding UK workers from even applying for work on these contracts,\" Unite General Secretary Derek Simpson said Tuesday.", "\"No European worker should be barred from applying for a British job and absolutely no British worker should be barred from applying for a British job.\"", "The dispute has reverberated up to the highest levels of government, with the prime minister and the leader of the opposition trading barbs about it in Parliament on Wednesday.", "Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he hoped workers would accept the ACAS-moderated deal despite their \"reservations.\"", "Brown also rejected accusations by Conservative leader David Cameron that his use of the slogan \"British jobs for British workers\" in a 2007 speech had pandered to \"protectionist fears.\"", "\"Can anybody here say that they don't want British workers to get jobs in our country?\"", "Brown retorted in the House of Commons." ]	[ "Deal agreed to end strike over non-UK labor at British oil refinery .", "Arbitration service says deal involves offering 101 new jobs to British workers .", "Member of European Parliament warns deal might break EU labor law .", "Protests sparked by Total awarding project to Italian firm employing Italians ." ]	[ 1, 4, 12, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Americans planning to go to Mexico should \"postpone\" their trips because of the swine flu outbreak, a top health official said Tuesday.", "Two women wear face masks as they arrive at Germany's Frankfurt International Airport from Mexico City.", "\"Based on what I know as a public health official and as a physician, I would not recommend people go on nonessential travel,\" said Dr. Richard Besser, the acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.", "\"If I had vacation plans in Mexico coming up right now, I'd look to postpone those,\" he said on CNN's \"American Morning.\"", "The CDC issued a travel health warning about Mexico on Monday, and the U.S. State Department issued a travel alert -- not the more serious warning -- based on the CDC advice.", "U.S. consular operations in Mexico will be affected by the swine flu outbreak, the State Department said in its alert Monday.", "European Union health commissioner Androulla Vassiliou warned Monday against nonessential travel to \"areas which are reported to be the center of the clusters\" of infection.", "Learn more about swine flu » .", "She did not issue a travel advisory, as some reports initially suggested.", "The EU does not have the power to issue such warnings.", "\"I would also suggest to travelers to seek immediate medical advice if they have any of the symptoms described,\" she said, in what the EU later clarified was a personal statement.", "Some European Union countries issued travel warnings of their own, including Britain.", "That prompted some tour operators to cancel trips to Mexico, including Thompson First Choice, Thomas Cook and Virgin Holidays, three of Britain's biggest travel agencies.", "Thompson is bringing vacationers home to Britain from Mexico and canceled flights there Tuesday.", "Thomas Cook put all trips to Cancun on hold for a week and offered free changes in destination to anyone booked to vacation in Mexico in May.", "Virgin is shelving trips to Mexico through May 5.", "There are probably 10,000 British people on vacation in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, Frances Tuke of the Association of British Travel Agents said .", "\"That's a lot of flights that are needed\" to bring them home, she said.", "\"There are a lot of logistics issue there in terms of bringing people home.\"", "Carnival Cruise Lines canceled ports of call in Mexico for three of its ships Tuesday, the company said.", "It is continuing to finalize plans for upcoming cruises, it said, and planned to release details later Tuesday or early Wednesday.", "Canada's Air Transat is postponing its flights from Canada to Mexico through June 1 and from France to Mexico through May 31, it announced in a statement.", "Many countries are checking travelers as they arrive, including China, which is screening aggressively in the wake of the SARS outbreak that killed almost 350 people there in 2003.", "Indonesia is putting travelers through a thermal scanner that spots excessive heat; those who test positive go through a \"body-cleaning machine\" that sprays a disinfecting solution of 70 percent alcohol on their hands and body.", "The system does not detect viruses and was not put in place because of swine flu, Indonesian health officials say, but is intended as an early-warning system to prevent diseases from entering the country.", "Japan suspended visa waivers for Mexican visitors, a Foreign Ministry official said.", "CNN's Alysen Miller, Isa Soares, John Zarrella, John Vause and Arwa Damon contributed to this report." ]	[ "CDC head: \"I would not recommend people go [to Mexico] on nonessential travel\"\nThe CDC issued a travel health warning about Mexico on Monday .", "The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert .", "Countries around the world are taking precautions to stem spread of swine flu ." ]	[ 2, 4, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A crew member on a U.S.-flagged cargo ship captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia is suing his employers, claiming they sent him into pirate-infested waters without adequate protection, his attorney said Monday.", "Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse has been charged with piracy in federal court in New York.", "Richard Hicks of Royal Palm Beach, Florida, a crew member on the Maersk Alabama, filed suit Monday against Waterman Steamship Corp. and Maersk Line Limited, according to the attorney, Terry Bryant.", "A spokeswoman for Mobile, Alabama-based Waterman Steamship Corp. said she did not know about the suit and did not immediately comment.", "A spokeswoman for Maersk Line Limited did not immediately return a call from CNN seeking comment.", "The Maersk Alabama was hijacked by pirates April 8.", "Hicks, working as chief steward and preparing food for other crew members, heard over the loudspeaker that pirates were on board, and he and other crew members gathered in the ship's engine room for nearly 12 hours, according to a news release from Bryant.", "\"The engine room was dark and hot, maybe 130 degrees,\" Hicks said in the news release.", "\"We were all cramping up with heat stroke symptoms when we were able to take a pirate hostage and tried to negotiate the return of our captain.\"", "The pirates promised to exchange Capt.", "Richard Phillips for the pirate hostage, but reneged on that agreement, the news release.", "Phillips offered himself as a hostage in exchange for the freedom of his crew.", "He was held on a lifeboat until U.S. Navy snipers on a nearby ship fatally shot three pirates, rescued Phillips and arrested a fourth pirate.", "The ship's owners -- the two companies -- knowingly exposed their employees to danger and took no steps to provide appropriate security and safety for the crew, Bryant alleges.", "\"Waterman Steamship Corp. and Maersk Line Limited chose to rely on the United States military and taxpayers to provide after-the-fact rescue operations,\" Bryant said in the news release.", "\"This choice caused substantially more cost and risk to human life than what would have been incurred by defendants had they provided appropriate levels of security in the first place.\"", "Hicks is seeking at least $75,000, and \"reserves the right to amend this pleading for a certain amount in the future, as it is too early to determine the maximum amount of plaintiff's damages,\" according to the suit.", "Hicks is still suffering from injuries as a result of the incident and is afraid to return to work, the news release said." ]	[ "Suit alleges crew sent into pirate-infested waters without protection .", "Representatives of ship's owners have yet to comment .", "Maersk Alabama was hijacked by pirates April 8 .", "Plaintiff Richard Hicks, of Royal Palm Beach, Florida, was the ship's steward ." ]	[ 0, 2, 5 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House and Senate Democrats reached agreement late Monday on a budget resolution for 2010, which includes key spending priorities for the young Obama administration.", "The Senate and House could vote on the budget resolution Tuesday.", "President Obama's budget request is $3.67 trillion.", "\"This budget is a major accomplishment,\" Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad said in a statement.", "\"We are meeting President Obama's goals of reducing our dependence on foreign energy, striving for excellence in education, reforming our health care system, and providing middle-class tax relief.\"", "The agreement came as lawmakers were reconciling the House and Senate versions of the budget package.", "The president's budget request is $3.67 trillion.", "The full Senate and House are each expected to vote on the fiscal 2010 budget resolution this week.", "The House vote could come as soon as Tuesday.", "Budget negotiators have fast-tracked part of the budget process.", "Major health reform is likely to pass this year, because the special process -- known as budget reconciliation -- won't allow Republicans to filibuster the legislation, as was widely expected.", "Democrats, who currently control 58 seats in the Senate, will be able to pass it with a simple majority vote, instead of the 60 needed to overcome a filibuster.", "Separately, conservative Democrats in the House, who have been pushing for a strong statement from leadership on fiscal responsibility in the budget, may have some of their concerns addressed.", "A Democratic aide told CNN that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer are drafting a letter to Senate leaders \"throwing down the gauntlet\" to insist that a pay-as-you-go system be followed, which would require new federal spending to be offset with budget cuts or tax increases.", "President Barack Obama called for the so-called \"PAYGO\" legislation in his weekend radio address.", "The budget resolution would limit increases in non-defense discretionary spending to 2.9 percent through 2014, according to Conrad.", "\"While the budget resolution takes important steps in the near-term of cutting the deficit in half by 2012 and by two-thirds by 2014, it is clear that more will be needed to address the long-term fiscal imbalance confronting the nation beyond the five-year budget window,\" said Conrad.", "President Obama gathered his Cabinet members last week and challenged them to cut a total of $100 million in the next 90 days.", "In the context of the federal budget, $100 million in savings is a tiny amount, critics said.", "It is the equivalent, according to one example, of having a car dealer offer to shave $1 from the cost of a $36,700 vehicle.", "\"Any amount of savings is obviously welcome,\" Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said at the time.", "\"But ($100 million is) about the average amount we'll spend every single day just covering the interest on the stimulus package that we passed earlier this year.\"", "White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said ordinary Americans would nevertheless appreciate the savings effort.", "\"Only in Washington, D.C., is $100 million dollars not a lot of money.", "It is where I'm from. It is where I grew up. And I think it is for hundreds of millions of Americans.\"", "CNN's Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report." ]	[ "House and Senate Dems say President Obama's goals addressed in resolution .", "Democratic leaders urge pay-as-you-go system that Obama has emphasized .", "Senate and House are each expected to vote on the budget resolution this week ." ]	[ 2, 7, 13 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Editor's note: Watch The Screening Room March show at the following times: Saturday 28 March: 0730, 1800, Sunday 29 March: 0530, 1830, Monday 30 March: 0400 (all times GMT) Buzz around the release of DreamWorks' latest animated feature, \"Monsters vs. Aliens,\" will add new momentum to the drive towards a fully-3D movie industry.", "DreamWorks Animation's 3D movie, \"Monsters vs. Aliens\" should give Hollywood's new medium of choice a welcome boost in tough economic times.", "It is a welcome boost to the 3D schedule: The introduction of special screens and digital projectors into cinemas across the world has slowed in the last six months along with the economy.", "Instead of the 5,000 3D screens expected to roll out, the figure is closer to 2,000, as the cost of installing new technology during the downturn causes pause for thought.", "The release of \"Monsters vs. Aliens,\" along with the recent announcement that Pixar 3D animation, \"Up\" will open the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in May, should give Hollywood's new medium of choice a lift.", "\"Monsters vs. Aliens,\" which U.S. movie industry bible, Variety describes as \"'Monsters, Inc.' Meets 'War of the Worlds'\" features a fight between a collection of well-loved movie monsters ( think 1950s B-movie characters like a 50 ft woman, a friendly amorphous blob, and a genius cockroach scientist) and alien invaders who want to take over Earth.", "The brains behind the feature -- which has an all-star cast including Reese Witherspoon and Kiefer Sutherland -- are Rob Letterman, the writer-director of Will Smith animated pic, \"Shark Tale\" and Conrad Vernon, the director of \"Shrek 2.\"", "The film is one of a number of 3D films, like James Cameron's sci-fi \"Avatar,\" already in production that are slated for 2009 and 2010 release.", "Of course, 3D is not new: Films like \"The Creature from the Black Lagoon\" and \"It Came from Outer Space\" first emerged during the affluent years of the 1950s, but because 3D was quite gimmicky the medium fell into decline and exhibitors turned their attention to other technologies.", "\"Monsters vs. Aliens\" is one of the new breed of 3D movies, projected digitally and very immersive for audiences, that Hollywood is hoping will lure paying audiences out of the comfort of their living rooms and back into cinemas.", "\"Hollywood is throwing themselves into 3D like never before,\" said Nick De Semlyen, critic for British movie magazine, Empire.", "\"All the big directors from Spielberg to Peter Jackson from 'Lord of the Rings,' they are making 3D films and it's looking like pretty much every big film is going to be in 3D in the next couple years ...", "It's a huge thing, it's a revolution.\"", "Do you think 3D will be a movie revolution or is it all hype.", "Tell us below in the SoundOff box.", "\"Monsters vs. Aliens\" is the first film that DreamWorks Animation, the Hollywood giant behind movies like the \"Shrek\" franchise, \"Madagascar\" and last year's \"Kung Fu Panda,\" has designed from scratch as a purely 3D movie.", "Dennis Laws is Chief Projectionist at the BFI IMAX, which is home to the UK's biggest cinema screen and also has 3D capability.", "He told CNN, \"It's the first film from DreamWorks that was designed from the very beginning to be in 3D and DreamWorks are very proud of the fact.\"", "DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg is probably 3D's most devoted advocate.", "He has said that the medium's introduction may be as significant to the movies as sound, and that all DreamWorks animations will be made in 3D from now on.", "\"Mr Katzenberg was so articulate in explaining what he wanted to do, and it was very different than anything that I had ever heard of before, which was 3-D used as a gimmick in a film,\" Keifer Sutherland told CNN at the UK premiere of \"Monsters vs.", "Aliens.\" Watch Kiefer Sutherland talking about \"Monsters vs. Aliens\" \"He actually wanted to envelope the audience in the movie and make you feel like you were part of the scene.", "\"That not only knocks down the fourth wall between the movie and the audience but it also furthers telling the story.\"", "With commercial 3D still in its infancy, all eyes are on each new release to take in the advances in the technology, which is moving forward very quickly.", "\"The technology is growing really fast,\" De Semlyen told CNN, \"It's very exciting.\"", "Mairi Mackay contributed to this story." ]	[ "Buzz around \"Monsters vs. Aliens\" adds new momentum to drive for fully 3D industry .", "Economic slowdown affected introduction of 3D screens and projectors in cinemas .", "Other 3D films, like James Cameron's sci-fi \"Avatar,\" slated for 2009 release .", "British film critic, Nick De Semlyen on 3D: \"It's a revolution\"" ]	[ 1, 7, 10 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Good, but not enough, the Rev.", "Al Sharpton said in response to New York Post Chairman Rupert Murdoch's apology for a controversial editorial cartoon published in the newspaper.", "Online Wednesday, some Post readers reacted similarly.", "Rev. Al Sharpton, center, leads protests against the New York Post cartoon on February 19 in New York City.", "Sharpton has lead a chorus of criticism and allegations that the cartoon published Feb. 18 was racist.", "He said Murdoch's apology was a \"good gesture,\" but he still had questions.", "Public debate on the issue continued to rage on the New York Post Web site early Wednesday, with some saying they were offended enough to cancel their subscriptions.", "Others defended the cartoon, calling it harmless and calling critics of it oversensitive.", "Murdoch's \"apology leaves a lot more questions than it gives answers,\" Sharpton said Tuesday.", "\"The question is what will guarantee that these kinds of things will not happen again.", "Let us make no mistake about it: We have seen two apologies in one week -- really one and a half apologies -- which is unprecedented, but clearly not far enough.\"", "The cartoon by Sean Delonas referenced the mauling of a Connecticut woman by a chimpanzee who was later shot and killed by police.", "In its caption, one of the officers says, \"They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.\"", "The cartoon was published the day after President Obama signed the stimulus bill.", "Watch CNN's Lou Dobbs talk with Sharpton » .", "The Post issued a statement the following day, apologizing but noting that the cartoon was meant to mock what it called an \"ineptly written\" stimulus bill.", "Many critics said the cartoon played on historically racist images by appearing to compare Obama, the nation's first black president, to the chimpanzee.", "Murdoch apologized Tuesday.", "\"Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted,\" according to the statement from Murdoch, who is also chairman and CEO of News Corporation, which owns the paper.", "\"I can assure you -- without a doubt -- that the only intent of that cartoon was to mock a badly written piece of legislation.", "\"It was not meant to be racist, but unfortunately, it was interpreted by many as such.", "We all hold the readers of the New York Post in high regard, and I promise you that we will seek to be more attuned to the sensitivities of our community.\"", "Leaders of the NAACP on Saturday called for the firing of Delonas.", "Delonas called the controversy \"absolutely friggin' ridiculous.\"", "\"Do you really think I'm saying Obama should be shot?", "I didn't see that in the cartoon,\" Delonas told CNN.", "iReport.com: Should Murdoch, N.Y. Post do more?", "\"It's about the economic stimulus bill,\" he added.", "\"If you're going to make that about anybody, it would be (House Speaker Nancy) Pelosi, which it's not.\"" ]	[ "Sharpton: Rupert Murdoch's apology is a \"good gesture,\" but he still has questions .", "Murdoch is chairman of N.Y. Post, which published chimp cartoon that created a fury .", "Many critics said the cartoon played on historically racist images .", "Cartoonist calls the controversy \"absolutely friggin' ridiculous\"" ]	[ 1, 5, 16, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The figure peers down silently from an upper floor of the ruins of a Scottish castle, wearing what looks like an outfit from the Middle Ages.", "Could this be a long-dead Scottish earl, or just a random, modern-day visitor?", "The mysterious image captured by Chris Aitchison at Tantallon Castle in eastern Scotland.", "The eerie image is captured in a photograph taken by tourist Christopher Aitchison in May 2008 at Tantallon Castle, which sits on a rocky outcrop along the Scottish coast, east of Edinburgh.", "The \"person\" appears to be wearing an old-style greenish ruff around the neck.", "Aitchison insists he did not tamper with the image and cannot explain it.", "\"I was not aware of anyone, or anything, being present in my picture, only noticing the anomaly when I got home,\" Aitchison said.", "\"Staff have verified that there were no sinister dummies in period costume or historical reenactments going on that day at the castle.", "I did not notice any nice old ladies wearing ruffs walking around the stairs!\"", "The picture was made public Friday by Richard Wiseman, a professor of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire who also studies the paranormal.", "Wiseman said he was looking for \"photographic evidence for ghosts\" ahead of a session on the subject at the Edinburgh International Science Festival next week.", "See gallery of haunted photographs » .", "Wiseman solicited such photos from around the world and collated them for the conference.", "He said the majority of images showed mysterious-looking orbs, mists, figures and faces.", "In one picture, a face appears in the side-view mirror of a parked Mercedes convertible.", "The photographer insists no one was around when he took the picture; skeptics say the mirror could be reflecting the headrest or be the result of digital manipulation.", "Another photo of a person walking through a creek in the woods appears to show a second person wearing a hooded sweatshirt, standing on a rock nearby.", "Skeptics say the \"figure\" is an illusion created by tree branches and the rock formation in the background.", "Two friends raising a drink to the camera in a third photograph are joined by a ghostly third figure in the background with a face that looks like a Halloween monster mask.", "\"Many of the photographs can be easily explained,\" said photographer Gordon Rutter, who also examined the pictures.", "\"Orbs can be caused by the camera flash reflecting off tiny dust particles, mists can result from condensed breath in front of the lens, long exposures can create ghostly figures, and apparent faces are often people seeing patterns in random shapes.\"", "But the \"ghost\" in the Scottish castle has generated the most attention.", "What do you think about the image?", "Tantallon Castle was built in the 1350s by a nobleman and soon became the stronghold of the Douglas dynasty.", "For 300 years, the Douglas earls of Angus held sway at the castle as one of the most powerful families in Scotland, according to Historic Scotland, which looks after historic sites for the Scottish government.", "The castle also was the scene of violence, enduring three great sieges: in 1491, 1528 and 1651.", "The last, by Oliver Cromwell's army, resulted in such destruction that the fortress was abandoned.", "It remains the \"last truly great castle\" built in Scotland, with enormously thick and high stone walls enclosing large courtyards, and high stone towers.", "That stonework could explain the mysterious figure in the photograph, having caused unusual shadows.", "It is also possible that a member of the public was standing there when the picture was taken, Wiseman said -- in which case, he hopes they will come forward.", "\"I think it's probably a person who's been caught in slightly odd dress,\" Wiseman told CNN.", "\"We know the day it was taken ... so somebody might come forward to say, 'That was me.'\"", "He added, \"If they can explain it, e-mail me.", "Or indeed, if they have photos they think are better, e-mail them to me.\"", "A similar mystery happened five years ago at another medieval site, Hampton Court Palace, built by King Henry VIII west of London.", "A security camera captured a figure in period dress opening a window, peering out, then closing it again.", "Palace officials insisted at the time that no one was in the room, and they were at a loss to explain the figure.", "It later emerged that a member of staff wearing a medieval costume was the person in the video." ]	[ "Photograph taken by Christopher Aitchison in May 2008 at Tantallon Castle .", "The \"person\" appears to be wearing an old-style greenish ruff around the neck .", "Aitchison insists he did not tamper with the image .", "Picture made public by a psychology professor who studies the paranormal ." ]	[ 3, 4, 5, 9 ]
[ "AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (CNN) -- Investigators are trying to determine what caused the crash of an airplane with a good safety record, flown by a well-respected airline, at one of the world's most modern airports.", "One of the casualties is taken from the crash site.", "At least nine people were killed and 55 injured when the Turkish Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed Wednesday in a field near Amsterdam's main airport, splitting into three parts, officials said.", "It is too early to determine the cause of the crash but the flight data and voice recorders have been recovered, said Michel Bezuijen, acting mayor of Haarlemmermeer municipality, which is home to Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.", "He said investigators still need to determine what, if anything, the pilots said in the moments before the crash.", "The injured included both crew and passengers, he said.", "The names of the dead and injured will not be released before Thursday, Bezuijen said.", "\"It will take more time. Probably tomorrow afternoon we can tell you about the identity of the victims, including the fatalities,\" he said.", "Another official said earlier that both pilots and an apprentice pilot are among the dead.", "\"There are still three crew members in the cabin,\" said Bob Steensma of the Dutch Justice Department.", "\"I'm sorry to say they are dead.", "We leave them there because we have to investigate the cockpit before we take the cockpit apart.\"", "Turkish Airlines said earlier the plane was carrying 134 people -- 127 passengers and seven crew members.", "Six people were critically injured, Ineke Van Der Zande of Amsterdam Emergency Services told reporters at a briefing.", "Watch aerials from the crash site » .", "Twenty-five passengers were severely injured, she said, and 24 were lightly injured.", "Some 60 ambulances transported 84 people to 11 hospitals throughout the region, she said.", "There was no word on injuries to the others who were transported.", "Witnesses said they saw the nose of the plane pitch up suddenly before the crash, according to RTL journalist Greg Crouch.", "The plane broken into three pieces.", "One break was in front of the wing, splitting the \"Turkish\" logo in two, and a larger break was farther back along the fuselage.", "Most of the injured were seated toward the back of the plane, which sustained the most damage, a passenger on the plane told Turkish station NTV.", "Many of the passengers simply walked off the plane through the cracks in the fuselage, witnesses said.", "A passenger on the plane who spoke to Turkish network DHA said he saw injured people trapped and squeezed between the seats when he walked out.", "iReport: Send your videos, stories .", "Flight 1951 was arriving at Schiphol from Istanbul, Turkey, when it went down around 10:40 a.m. (4:40 a.m. ...", "It came to rest in a farmer's field about 500 yards short of the runway, near the major A9 highway.", "Crouch said the weather at the time was partly sunny with no wind or rain.", "No fire broke out after the crash, Bezuijen said.", "Watch how Twitter was first to report the crash » .", "A bank manager who was a passenger on the plane told NTV that there were no emergency announcements.", "The crew's last word to the cabin was an announcement to fasten their seat belts and prepare for landing, the bank manager said.", "He said he felt the pilot giving more power to the engines before feeling \"turbulence,\" then a sudden drop.", "He described the crash as similar to a sudden impact that was over in a matter of seconds.", "The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team of investigators to Amsterdam to assist in the crash investigation.", "The Boeing 737-800 is a reliable aircraft that has been successful and safe in service, said aviation expert Kieran Daly of Air Transport Intelligence.", "\"They really are pretty much state-of-the-art airlines with every imaginable technical benefit the industry has come up with over the years,\" Daly told CNN.", "\"You would be optimistic that they would be quite survivable in an accident.\"", "Daly said Turkish Airlines, a national carrier, has a \"very good record.\"", "Turkish Airlines said it has 52 Boeing 737-800s in its fleet.", "They can carry as many as 165 passengers each, it said.", "Before Wednesday, the airline's last accident was of a small commuter jet in 2003, Daly said.", "It was a fatal crash that happened at a remote airfield in southeastern Turkey, he said.", "\"Their mainline operation is safe,\" Daly said.", "\"Their pilots are well thought of.\"", "Worldwide, there have been two fatal commercial airline crashes this year.", "The last previous fatal incident at the Amsterdam airport happened in April 1994 when a KLM aircraft crashed as it tried to return to Schiphol shortly after takeoff.", "Three of the 24 passengers and crew members on board were killed.", "CNN's Ivan Watson in Istanbul, Turkey, contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Mayor says too early to determine cause of Wednesday's plane crash .", "Investigators find data and voice recorders from Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 .", "At least nine of the 134 people on board died; 55 wounded; six critical .", "Accident involved respected airline and modern airport in good weather ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Investigators are pursuing several new leads in the case of a missing 5-year-old girl in Florida, they said Tuesday.", "Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings, 5, who vanished a week ago, may have been abducted, police say.", "The Putnam County Sheriff's Office on Monday night searched the neighborhood of Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings, who vanished a week ago.", "Deputies also searched surrounding neighborhoods.", "Authorities said the girl may have been abducted.", "Officials wouldn't release any details on the leads.", "\"Those leads, like I said, are as a result of doing the neighborhood canvass last night, and we will be following up on those leads today,\" said Capt.", "Steve Rose of the Putnam Sheriff's Office.", "Since opening the case a week ago, authorities have received more than 1,200 tips about the missing girl, 500 of them since Monday, Putnam County Sheriff Rick Ryan said.", "Tuesday afternoon, the sheriff's office announced they have changed the Amber Alert they originally put out for the little girl, saying they changed the description of the clothing.", "\"What we need people to focus on is the face, because we do not know at this time what the clothing was at this point,\" said Dominick Pape with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.", "Rose said investigators also conducted a checkpoint in the area last night.", "Ronald Cummings' girlfriend, 17-year-old Misty Croslin, told police she was watching Haleigh when she went missing sometime before dawn February 10.", "Watch why police now question the sitter's story » .", "Cummings shares his double-wide mobile home with Croslin, daughter Haleigh and a 4-year-old son in Satsuma, east of Gainesville.", "He has said that when he returned home at 3 a.m.", "ET, he was surprised to see Croslin awake and asked her why she was up.", "Croslin waited until Cummings came home to phone 911 about the girl's disappearance, though it's unclear how long that wait was, authorities said.", "Police said last week that Croslin had tucked the girl and her brother into bed at 8 p.m. before going to sleep at 10.", "The girl, boy and Croslin usually sleep in the same bed.", "Officials said they originally thought Haleigh may have wandered outside on her own but are now certain that she was abducted.", "Investigators are looking into various angles of the case, including finding out the location of 44 registered sexual offenders who live within a 5-mile radius of the Cummings home, said Lt. Johnny Greenwood of the Putnam Sheriff's Office.", "A nationwide Amber Alert said the girl was last seen wearing a pink shirt and underwear." ]	[ "NEW: Sheriff's office changes description of missing girl's clothing in Amber Alert .", "Officers search Florida neighborhood of Haleigh Ann-Marie Cummings, 5 .", "Investigators won't give details of new leads they say they've found .", "Girl disappeared from home last week while in teenager's care ." ]	[ 0, 2, 9 ]
[ "(Entertainment Weekly) -- They have come to glimpse the miracle.", "They have come to witness the revolution.", "They have come for \"Watchmen\" -- the allegedly unfilmable superhero movie, the long-awaited adaptation of the comic book that changed the face of comic books forever.", "Billy Crudup plays Dr. Manhattan, a powerful superhero in \"Watchmen.\"", "On this warm July morning, over 5,000 fans attending the annual geek pop summit known as Comic-Con have assembled inside the San Diego Convention Center for a first look.", "Many spent the night on the sidewalk.", "Some have come in costumes.", "Behind the stage, indie-movie icon Kevin Smith parks himself in front of a closed-circuit TV, a happy grin on his bearded mug.", "\"You have to understand, I've been waiting for this moment for years,\" says Smith.", "\"This is it, man. This is the pinnacle.\" All this, for a violent, ironic superhero epic that doesn't like superheroes in the first place.", "Directed by \"300's\" Zack Snyder, \"Watchmen\" presents a set of familiar superhero archetypes -- and then subverts them completely.", "Rorschach (Jackie Earl Haley) is like the Spirit ... except he's a joyless, hard-line misanthrope.", "The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is like Captain America ... but loyal only to sadistic thrills and a corrupt worldview.", "Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson) is part Batman, part Iron Man ... except he's also a schlubby, impotent coward.", "Ozymandias (Matthew Goode) is the resident genius ... who's built an empire on superhero toys.", "(You see what we mean by irony.)", "Says Billy Crudup, whose blue, naked Dr. Manhattan is an almighty Superman dangerously detached from his own humanity: \" 'Watchmen' is a kind of thrilling thought experiment.", "What would people who dress up in costumes to fight crime actually be like?", "Well, they'd probably be fetishists who lived on the fringes of society.", "They'd all be a bunch of freaking lunatics.\"", "Yet for all its self-awareness and cynicism, \"Watchmen\" isn't some cheap-and-silly \"Scary Movie\" parody.", "Adapted faithfully, if not completely, from the celebrated 1986 comic-book series, Snyder's film is visually and intellectually ambitious, filled with heady ruminations about savior figures, pop culture, and the politics of fear.", "At a time when superhero stories are commonplace and our shaken country is pinning its recovery on an idealistic new president, \"Watchmen's\" director believes his movie can serve as a bracing blast of healthy skepticism.", "\"Someone asked me if I thought that because Barack Obama had been elected president, the movie was no longer relevant.", "I said, 'Wow, that's a very optimistic view of the future!'", "\" says Snyder.", "\"The movie, like the comic, says, 'These superhero stories you've been feasting on?", "What if we took them seriously?'", "... That's the fun.\" But fun for whom? When \"Watchmen\" hits theaters on March 6, the comic-book cognoscenti will be there in droves -- although some are already sweating the heresy of dramatic changes.", "EW: What didn't make it? And, for mainstream moviegoers, such talk of \"subverting superhero archetypes\" is liable to elicit a great big \"Huh?\"", "EW: A \"Watchmen\" primer .", "\"Watchmen's\" financial backers are clearly hoping the success of \"The Dark Knight\" has primed the market for sophisticated superhero films -- especially one that's two hours and 41 minutes long.", "But where \"The Dark Knight\" transcended genre conventions, \"Watchmen\" wallows in them.", "Violently. Created by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, \"Watchmen\" is most often praised as the comic book that brought respect and maturity to a medium long dismissed as juvenile.", "It was the fanboys' \"Catcher in the Rye\" -- and maybe their first Playboy, too.", "\"I was 13 when I read 'Watchmen,' and it came to represent my coming of age,\" says \"Lost\" co-creator Damon Lindelof.", "\"I felt like 'Watchmen' was this very, very bad thing that I shouldn't be reading, and if my mom caught me with it I'd be f---ing doomed.\"", "Hollywood was similarly struck by \"Watchmen,\" but has been much less successful at avoiding the doom.", "In 1986, Twentieth Century Fox acquired the comic's rights for producer Larry Gordon, but could never get an adaptation rolling.", "Over the next decade, \"Watchmen\" bounced among many studios and between many before finding what appeared to be a happy ending at Paramount.", "But in 2005, with helmer Paul Greengrass deep into preproduction, a Paramount regime change killed the project.", "Certainly, it's a hard project to get your head around.", "\"Watchmen\" is set in the year 1985.", "The U.S. and the Soviet Union are on the brink of nuclear war, and the president is Richard Nixon, whose success at ending the Vietnam War (he asked Dr. Manhattan to blow up the Vietcong) has earned him five terms of office from a grateful nation.", "Conservative politics are popular, as are Indian fast food and pirate comics.", "But costumed heroes, once all the rage, are now outlawed.", "When the Comedian gets murdered, Rorschach tries to round up his old allies to investigate.", "They eventually uncover an insidious conspiracy hatched by an unlikely villain, one whose grand ambition isn't world domination but something else altogether.", "iReport.com: Will you watch 'Watchmen'?", "And that's only half the comic.", "Hence, \"Watchmen's\" rep as the Unfilmable Graphic Novel.", "But tides changed in late 2005 when Warner Bros. acquired the property from Paramount (or at least they thought they did) with the hope of rolling on \"Watchmen\" ASAP.", "(Warner Bros. is a unit of Time Warner, as is CNN and Entertainment Weekly.)", "The studio turned to Snyder.", "At that point, the director had only done stylish TV commercials and the 2003 zombie remake \"Dawn of the Dead.\"", "But he was also deep in the middle of shooting the studio's action epic \"300,\" another adaptation of a brilliantly brutal comic, and the execs liked what they were seeing.", "Snyder's approach was simple: He would remain religiously faithful to the comic.", "\"We treated that thing like a freakin' illuminated text,\" says the director, who embraced all the peculiar idiosyncrasies, from the Nixonian alternative America to the deep-dive digressions into character origin stories.", "(None of this faithfulness can please Moore, who feels that no adaptation can do his work justice and has taken his name off the film.)", "The director also believed that an \"adult\" superhero epic needed to be explicit about its \"adult\" content.", "He wanted to hear the characters' philosophical musings.", "He wanted to see the blood spurt.", "And instead of the chaste kisses of most superhero movie romances, he wanted to see some naked getting-it-on.", "\"I wanted to make sure everyone understood: This is not a kid movie,\" says Snyder.", "\"Violence has consequences.", "And doing that with a PG-13 just dilutes that message.\"", "And then there was the worry that all that effort was all for naught.", "Last February, Twentieth Century Fox sought to stop Warner Bros. from moving forward with \"Watchmen's\" release, claiming via lawsuit that Warner Bros. had not properly acquired the distribution rights.", "The dispute exploded in the media last August when a judge declared that Fox's lawsuit had merit.", "\"How do you not know whether or not you have the right to make a movie?\"", "says Crudup.", "\"Hilarious.\" But after months of intense press coverage that put \"Watchmen\" in the mainstream eye, the two studios reached a settlement.", "(Warner Bros. and Fox both declined to comment.", "As for producer Gordon: \"It was unfortunate,\" he says simply.)", "Now Team \"Watchmen\" waits to see if any of that notoriety can help make them some money.", "With a $100 million-plus budget and a running time of 161 minutes, \"Watchmen\" will need to launch with a big opening weekend and strong reviews.", "So, will geek love -- and geek dollars -- be enough?", "Snyder hopes so.", "He says he made the film for that crowd.", "\"I don't think there ever has been a movie more custom-made for them.", "Not at this scale,\" he says.", "\"And now they have an opportunity to really influence pop culture in a serious way, just as the comic influenced comics.", "They can say: 'These stories can be used to say something about the world.", "Give us more of them.' \" This is an edited version of Entertainment Weekly's cover story on \"Watchmen.\"", "For the complete story, click here.", "CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .", "Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "\"Watchmen\" movie, after years in the works, finally coming out March 6 .", "Film based on classic graphic novel that influenced many .", "Film does not shy away from controversial themes, violence in novel ." ]	[ 5, 28, 42, 50, 64, 69 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Everyone was blogging about Tuesday's inauguration -- even the people who were putting it on.", "President Obama, pictured, giving his inaugural speech.", "Fittingly for an election campaign that was won partly by galvanizing millions of young people to get out and vote via the Internet, Obama's inauguration ushered in a new digital age for the U.S. presidency.", "As the clock struck 12.01 in Washington Obama's administration took control of the White House Web site, with the simple words \"Change has come to America.\"", "The first blog post by director of new media for the White House, Macon Phillips, said: \"Millions of Americans have powered President Obama's journey to the White House, many taking advantage of the Internet to play a role in shaping our country's future.\"", "It was an unprecedented move in the history of presidential inaugurations and it reflected the mood of the blogosphere, which came alive with comments as excitable bloggers mulled on topics ranging from what Michelle Obama would wear to their thoughts on Obama's speech.", "Watch President Obama's full speech » .", "The New Yorker's George Packer wrote in his blog that \"President Obama uttered no words today that will be quoted in a hundred years.\"", "\"He delivered something better than rhetorical excitement -- he spoke the truth, which makes its own history and carries its own poetry,\" Packer added.", "But it was not just traditional bloggers who were giving their two cents worth.", "Social network sites were also buzzing with the excitement of the occasion.", "CNN.com provided a live video streaming platform for Facebook users to interact with the inauguration ceremony by updating their status as they watched proceedings.", "Online viewers could choose between their friends or \"everyone watching,\" seeing live thoughts such as \"I've actually got shivers!\"", "to \"Barack H.? What a copout!\" Many were captivated by Aretha Franklin's eye-catching hat, with comments ranging from: \"Now that's a hat,\" to \"Aretha is wearing the hell outtta that hat.\"", "There was also no escaping the ubiquitous \"Tweeple\" (Twitter people) posting 'tweets' on everything from their opinion of the inaugural speech to their celebrity spots.", "One 'tweeter' even blogged about using the VIP toilets at the inauguration site in Washington, saying: \"Just used the VIP porta potty.", "Contrary to what they might tell you, fancy people's **** does indeed stink.\"", "More than 40,000 photos of the events on Capitol Hill tagged with the word \"inauguration\" were also posted to the photo-sharing site, Flickr.", "No aspect of the inauguration was left undissected, but Pastor Rick Warren's invocation prayer proved a hot topic amongst bloggers, who by turns criticized him for being too inclusive and not inclusive enough.", "Warren attracted some criticism for using words from the Jewish, Christian and Muslim holy texts as well as including the name of Jesus -- in several languages including Hebrew.", "However Dan Gilgoff, the \"God & Country\" blogger for U.S. News & World Report, acknowledged the difficult position Warren faced when he wrote: .", "\"For me, the two most salient features of the Rev.", "Rick Warren's inauguration invocation were its emphasis on the values of unity and mutual respect, which seemed partly a reaction to the controversy his selection as invocation speaker sparked, and its bold invocation of Jesus in the form of the Lord's Prayer.", "\"For some, those two themes would seem incongruous.", "It was trademark Warren, who -- like Barack Obama -- has been accused of trying to be all things to all people.\"", "For some, it was about looking ahead to how long the adulation for President Obama would last.", "Conservative blogger Dr. Melissa Clouthier, who was liveblogging the inauguration, debated that the \"Obasm\" would last 4 years.", "\"His voters voted for him not for his ideas,\" she wrote.", "\"He didn't really articulate specific plans.", "He just gave vague promises.", "Voters were so enamored with the idea of him and he'll be around for four years, so the love will continue.", "\"The Press and the voters, too, imbued Obama with so much wonderfulness that to turn on him is to turn on their own perfect judgment.", "Since the vote was essentially narcissistic and people don't hate themselves, Obama will be loved for a good long time.\"", "It remains to be seen whether her prediction will come true." ]	[ "Inauguration set blogosphere alive with comments .", "From Facebook to Twitter, everyone wanted to have their say online .", "Obama's speech, Michelle's outfit and Rick Warren's prayer proved popular themes ." ]	[ 5, 6, 18 ]
[ "JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The Israeli Military said Thursday that the \"vast majority\" of Palestinians killed in the recent Gaza conflict were \"terror operatives\" and the number of people killed was less than Palestinian sources reported.", "Israel says the majority of Palestinians killed during \"Operation Cast Lead\" were \"terror operatives.\"", "In an e-mailed statement the Israel Defense Forces spokesman's office claimed their figures contained the names of 1,166 Palestinians killed in the conflict, called \"Operation Cast Lead.\"", "The Israeli military said 709 of them were \"identified as Hamas terror operatives, among them several from various other terror organizations.\"", "The remaining, the statement claims, were comprised of 162 names who \"have not yet been attributed to any organization.\"", "\"Furthermore, it has come to our understanding that 295 uninvolved Palestinians were killed during the operation, 89 of them under the age of 16, and 49 of them were women.\"", "The Israeli military said it was releasing the findings to counter \"false information originating from various Palestinian sources, and in order to remove any doubt regarding the number of Palestinians killed in Operation Cast Lead.\"", "The numbers presented by the Israeli military differ sharply from those reported by Palestinian sources.", "At the conclusion of the fighting, the Hamas controlled Ministry of Health in Gaza had put the death toll at over 1,300, with the majority made up of non-combatants.", "More recently the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) published a study that put the total death toll at 1,417, including 926 civilians of which 313 were children under the age of 18 and 116 women.", "It reports that the remainder was made of 255 \"non-combatant\" police officers and 236 who were took \"an active part in hostilities.\"", "Jaber Wishah, a deputy director for PCHR told CNN his organization \"stands firmly on our published figures\" and that Israel's choice to classify police officers as combatants is \"illegal.\"", "\"Such classification constitutes a willful violation of the principle of 'distinction' which is a key component of customary international law.", "This raises serious doubts about the accuracy of the figures published by the Israelis,\" he said.", "Wishah said the civilian death toll included \"large numbers of deaths inside people's homes and other civilian facilities\" and that it indicated \"the extent to which civilians were intentionally targeted.\"", "Wishah said that until the Israeli government produced the names and details on which its figures were based that he could not comment further.", "The Israeli military has maintained that it went to great lengths to minimize civilian deaths and put the responsibility of civilian deaths on Hamas.", "\"The Hamas terror organization placed the primary fighting scene at the heart of civilian neighborhoods as it booby-trapped homes, fired from schools and used civilians as human shields,\" the IDF said.", "Asked about the discrepancy in numbers, an Israeli military official suggested that natural occurring deaths in Gaza had been included in the Palestinian death toll numbers and that the total ratio of non-combatant to combatants killed was low.", "A spokesman for the Israeli military said it could not immediately make the list of killed Palestinians available and could not offer more detail on methodology." ]	[ "Israel: \"Vast majority\" of Palestinians killed in Gaza were \"terror operatives\"\nMilitary says number of people killed less than Palestinian sources reported .", "Israel says 1,166 died, with 709 \"identified as Hamas terror operatives\"" ]	[ 0 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Layoffs for sea lions?", "Furloughs for frogs?", "Is there no job security, anywhere?", "State budget cuts mean New York's 76 zoos, botanical gardens and aquariums will lose $9.1 million in funding.", "The recession may be coming to a zoo near you.", "State budget cuts mean many zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens will lose crucial state funding for their exhibits.", "New York's 76 zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens will lose $9.1 million in state funds next year.", "\"We're faced with this very difficult problem of firing the animals, as it were,\" said Steve Sanderson, the CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society, which manages the Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium.", "They will lose $3 million to budget cuts.", "The Bronx Zoo has made a short video posted on its Web site www.bronxzoo.com/ to draw attention to the cuts.", "In the video, the zoo director fires a porcupine and a frog.", "\"I am sure you have heard that Gov.", "[David] Paterson's proposed budget will mean severe cuts here at the Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium,\" the zoo director says.", "\"Next year, all 76 zoos, botanical gardens and aquariums in the state will lose all of their state funding.", "There is no easy way to say this: Even though you bring record numbers of people to New York and help the economy, we are going to have to let you go.\"", "Firing a porcupine and a frog may be a cute way to get publicity for their budget woes, but it's a serious matter and zoo officials say the recession will certainly affect the animals.", "Zoo officials say some collections with \"short life cycles\" will not be replaced when they die, and other animals could be sent to other zoos or wildlife sanctuaries.", "The state of New York funds just 2.7 percent of the Bronx Zoo and the New York Aquarium's budget, but zoo officials say it will be difficult to make up.", "Between the state budget cuts, the loss in the value of their endowment and fewer people renewing memberships -- times are so tough for the zoo and aquarium -- they say they may lay off 120 to 130 people.", "\"Two-thirds of our budget is people, and so two-thirds of the cuts will come in cutting positions,\" Sanderson said.", "\"And we'll also cut back what we provide in the way of education and entertainment and nature experiences for people.", "So it affects everything.\"", "Zoo officials questioned the state's priorities.", "But just about everybody getting taxpayer funds has to cut back.", "Jeffrey Gordon, a spokesman for the New York State Budget Office told CNN the cuts are regrettable but necessary considering the state's current financial crisis.", "Citing a \"dramatic reduction in revenue,\" Gordon said, \"Every entity that receives state funds must do what the state has done, which is to review its operations and identify ways to operate at lower costs.\"", "The Bronx Zoo isn't the only one affected; cutbacks are happening everywhere.", "The Los Angeles Zoo in California stopped work on its $42 million elephant exhibit last year, and there are big budget cuts for zoos in Maryland, Missouri and North Carolina.", "There's no relief for the zoos in the $819 billion economic stimulus package.", "Section 1109 of the stimulus bill which passed this week in the House forbids the use of federal taxpayer money to plug the budget gaps.", "Taxpayer watchdog groups lobbied to keep zoos, aquariums, swimming pools, golf courses and casinos out of the stimulus, arguing that there are higher priorities for Americans' money during a recession." ]	[ "State budget cuts threaten funding for zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens .", "New York's 76 zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens will lose $9.1 million .", "Bronx Zoo: Some animals won't be replaced; others may go to zoos, sanctuaries .", "Zoos in Florida, Maryland, Missouri and North Carolina face budget cuts ." ]	[ 3, 5, 6, 16 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States signed an agreement Thursday on civil nuclear cooperation with the United Arab Emirates.", "Calling the agreement \"a powerful and timely model for the world and the region,\" Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed the deal, along with UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed.", "\"We applaud the UAE's commission -- commitment to the highest standards of safety, security and nonproliferation in its pursuit of nuclear power,\" Rice said.", "Congress has to ratify the agreement before it can take effect, and congressional critics fear it could spark an arms race and proliferation in the region.", "The UAE's ties to Iran also have caused concern.", "Under the \"1-2-3 deal,\" similar to one the United States signed last year with India, Washington would share nuclear technology, expertise and fuel.", "In exchange, the UAE commits to abide by the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and the International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards.", "The small oil-rich Gulf nation promises not to enrich uranium or to reprocess spent nuclear fuel to extract plutonium, which can be used to make nuclear bombs.", "The deal is part of a major UAE investment in nuclear energy.", "It has already signed deals to build several nuclear power plants.", "\"We are a country that is very rich in its oil and gas, but we do look forward that we have a program, a nuclear, peaceful program that could sustain our future needs,\" said bin Zayed.", "Rice said she hoped existing work by U.S. companies on the UAE nuclear program would be expanded under the agreement.", "\"We believe our technology is the best in the world, and we hope that the UAE will give that technology strong consideration,\" she said.", "The United States has stressed its role in global nonproliferation initiatives and has donated $10 million to establish an International Atomic Energy Agency international fuel bank.", "The U.S. has held up the UAE's development of nuclear energy in stark contrast to Iran, which is suspected of enriching uranium for a nuclear bomb.", "Rep. Howard Berman, a Democrat from California, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called the safeguards in the agreement \"encouraging\" but voiced concerns that Iran could take advantage of the agreement.", "\"This could be a significant advance in nonproliferation policy, and a model for future nuclear cooperation agreements,\" Berman said in a statement.", "\"However, I and many other members of Congress place a very high priority on the international effort to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability and will be analyzing this and any other nuclear cooperation agreement in the context of how it implicates the attainment of that goal.\"", "Iran is the among the UAE's largest trading partners.", "In the past, the port city of Dubai, one of the UAE's seven emirates, has been used as a transit point for sensitive technology bound for Iran.", "Dubai was also one of the major hubs for the nuclear trafficking network run by Pakistani scientist A.Q.", "Khan. But U.S. officials said the UAE has taken major steps to improve export controls and prevent money laundering.", "Still, such ties contributed to stiff opposition in Congress to the failed deal for Dubai Ports World to manage U.S. ports.", "The U.S. already has similar agreements with Egypt and Morrocco, and U.S. officials said Washington is working on similar pacts with Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Jordan." ]	[ "U.S. Congress has to ratify the agreement before it can take effect .", "Congressional critics fear it could spark an arms race and proliferation in the region .", "Under the deal, the U.S. would share nuclear technology, expertise and fuel .", "The UAE will abide by the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, other safeguards ." ]	[ 3, 6 ]
[ "This is the second part of a two part series on the best used luxury cars.", "(AOL Autos) -- Recently, Consumer Reports magazine issued its list of best and worst used cars, and divvied them up by price range.", "The Porsche 911 has several versions, but all have been annointed with the \"supercar\" appellation.", "Using CR's recommendations as a guideline, here is a list of some of the best used luxury cars currently on the market in the $30,000+ price range: .", "2007 Acura MDX .", "The newer MDX is classified as a crossover SUV, but it's a deluxe version.", "It was all-new in '07, and was built on a proper platform -- as opposed to being adapated from the Accord passenger-car platform.", "It also came in three flavors: Base, Technology and Sport Packages, and all three were powered by a 3.7-liter 300-hp V6.", "The voice-activated navigation system is a nifty feature, as it comes with rearview camera and AcuraLink satellite communications with real-time traffic data.", "AOL Autos: Used Acura .", "2007 BMW 328i sedan .", "The 328i is another sleek, finely-tuned and beautifully-designed driving machine, offering sporty performance and Euro-style luxury.", "It is widely considered to be the definitive \"sports sedan.\"", "The '07 328i was propelled by a 3.0-liter 230-hp inline six-cylinder engine, which you can find mated to either a six-speed manual or six-speed automatic transmission.", "Consumer Reports also recommended the 3-Series coupe and convertible that joined BMW's model line-up in '07.", "AOL Autos: Used BMW .", "2004 BMW M3 .", "The M3 is the top-of-the-line, high-performance-tuned version of the 3-series coupe.", "Performance power, therefore, is much higher than the other 3-Series editions.", "It came as a coupe or convertible, and churned out 333 horses.", "The M3 is often favorably compared to the Porsche 911 when it comes to quick acceleration, crisp braking and taking tough corners at brisk speeds without breaking a sweat.", "2007 Infiniti FX35 .", "Well, the marketplace surely is not lacking for luxury crossovers.", "Here is yet another one that appeals to luxury buyers with its balance of SUV-type spaciousness, pampering amenities, deft handling and burly engine muscle.", "For '07, the FX35 was a two-wheel-drive vehicle powered by a 280-hp 3.5-liter V6 and a five-speed automatic transmission.", "AOL Autos: Used Infiniti .", "2006 & 2007 Infiniti M .", "Infiniti's M series is another winner, which seamlessly synergizes sleek styling, aggressive engine performance and a bevy of luxo-line amenities.", "It comes in both the M-35 and M-45.", "During the last used-model year, '07, the primary distinction between the two was that the M35 was powered by a V6 that kicked out 275 horses, while the M45 muscled up to a 325-hp V8.", "Luxury features included standard leather seats with heating and ventilation, and optional 10-way power adjustments for the driver's seat.", "Lexus . Just like in the $24,000-to-$30,000 category, Consumer Reports recommended a slew of world-beating used Lexus models in this segment: the '06-'07 6-cylinder GS RWD; the '07 GS450h Hybrid; '05-'07 GX; '07 IS; '04-'07 LS; '03-'06 LX and '06-'07 RX.", "AOL Autos: Used Lexus .", "Lexus has placed No 1 in the JD Power Dependability Survey every year for the last 12 years - until '07, when another carmaker, Buick, finally tied them for first.", "Porsche 911 (various years) Consumer Reports included the '98 911 in the $24,000 to $30,000 category.", "Here, the model years get more recent as the price range climbs.", "The 911 went through some changes over this time period, of course, but all have been anointed with the \"supercar\" appellation.", "AOL Autos: Used Porsche .", "And by the latest recommended used-model year, the '07, you could choose among various styles and engine sizes, including the Carrera, with its 3.6-L 325-hp flat-six plant; the Carrera S and S Cabriolet, with the 3.8-L 355 hp V6; the 911 Turbo, with twin-turbocharged 480 hp six-cylinder engine; and the GT3 track model, powered by a high-revving 415-hp six-cylinder engine." ]	[ "Newer Acura MDX is classified as a crossover SUV, but it's a deluxe version .", "BMW 328i is sleek, finely-tuned and beautifully-designed driving machine .", "Infiniti's M series is another winner with an aggressive engine performance .", "Consumer Reports recommended a slew of used Lexus models ." ]	[ 5, 11, 27, 32 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Yet another scale Il Divo has mastered: scaling the heights of success.", "The quartet was formed in 2004 after a global search.", "The operatic quartet's new album, \"The Promise,\" debuted atop the UK charts, their third collection to hit the No.", "1 spot. The album (which was released in the U.S. last Tuesday) features Leonard Cohen's \"Hallelujah,\" Frankie Goes to Hollywood's \"The Power of Love,\" and the traditional \"Amazing Grace.\"", "Il Divo also takes a chance on the ABBA hit \"The Winner Takes it All.\"", "The group is the brainchild of \"American Idol\" judge Simon Cowell, who saw a potential market for an international, \"popera\"-style act after the soaring success of the Andrea Bocelli-Sarah Brightman duet \"Time to Say Goodbye (Con te Partiro).\"", "Watch Il Divo in action » .", "Formed in 2004 after a global search, Il Divo (Italian for \"divine male performer\") consists of Spanish baritone Carlos Marin, American tenor David Miller, French pop singer Sebastien Izambard, and Swiss tenor Urs Buhler.", "According to Syco Music, Il Divo's UK-based label, the quartet has sold more than 22 million albums worldwide.", "It seems Cowell knew what he was doing.", "CNN caught up with Il Divo to find out how close they are to Cowell, and which American pop diva they dream of collaborating with.", "CNN: Who do you most get compared to, the Three Tenors or the Backstreet Boys?", "Carlos Marin: (laughs) It's a mix of everything.", "I mean at the end [of the day] we are just a pop act.", "We just sing pop songs, and we just converted mostly the big endings into operatic style.", "But we are just us, Il Divo.", "CNN: Are you surprised by how much of a hit you've become?", "Marin: In a way, yeah.", "I still remember the first time we went to number one (in the UK).", "We knocked out Robbie Williams and it was just like \"Wow!\"", "CNN: What is the big appeal of Il Divo?", "Urs Buhler: I think it has a lot to do with the big variety we have inside the group, the fact that we are all from four different countries, from different cultural music backgrounds.", "And we bundle all those different energies ... and bring it together for that one cause -- to make the most beautiful music that we possibly can together.", "It's not like we have a strategy or recipe for it, it's just that we're passionate about what we do.", "It works somehow.", "It's magic. CNN: How involved is [Simon Cowell] with the day-to-day Il Divo operation?", "Buhler: With the day-to-day operation, I would say his involvement is next to nothing.", "He's only involved in the actual A&R-ing and the executive producing, which means we meet him about twice a year for an hour.", "CNN: You took a lot of time off in 2007.", "In fact you took nearly the whole year off.", "When you regrouped did you find anything was different?", "David Miller: Absolutely.", "The first three years were just a roller coaster of experiences: having the number one in the UK and then that turning into the number one in all the different countries, and going all around the world and being on tour, being on tour with Barbra Streisand and then more albums.", "Everything kind of bled into everything else and we didn't really have any time to appreciate all the things that we had done.", "So after this break, [when] we came back together in the studio, it was really like a breath of fresh air.", "Like the magic of the first album was back.", "We could appreciate the music again.", "We could appreciate each other again.", "And it was a lot more relaxed and a lot more fun.", "CNN: When you're standing on stage and you look out at the audience what do you see ... is there a certain age range, a certain sex?", "Miller: It depends on the country we go to.", "For example, when we go to the UK, it's a slightly more mature audience.", "When we go to Spain it's a lot younger audience.", "When we go to South Africa, it's a family affair.", "So it really just depends, but everywhere we go the universal thing that ties them all in is that they're all music-lovers and they appreciate what we do.", "CNN: How many languages do you sing in?", "Buhler: We [sing] in French, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, English ... that would be six.", "And we speak about seven or eight.", "CNN: Do you speak the language of love?", "Marin: Yes, we do! Buhler: That would be the ninth language.", "CNN: Who is the biggest diva in the group?", "Marin: We are really four divas.", "Four captains, one ship.", "Sebastien Izambard: We have very strong personalities, and we're the producers of our tour and we sit down -- the four of us -- and decide what we're going to do, what set, what choice of the music or lighting.", "We're four grown-up people and we make that very possible.", "[In the beginning] everyone had their own opinions.", "Now we just know what's best for Il Divo.", "It's easy. Everything's easy.", "CNN: How are you being received in America?", "Miller: I think in America it's more of a slow burn.", "I think it's more difficult to put us on the radio because we fall between the cracks in a way.", "We're a little bit too pop for the classical stations, we're a bit too classical for the pop stations.", "And right now hip-hop and rap sort of reign supreme on the airwaves.", "But there is a big following and it's growing all the time.", "CNN: If there was someone you could collaborate with who you haven't yet, who would it be?", "Izambard: Beyonce.", "Christina Aguilera.", "Marin: Tina Turner.", "CNN: These are all pop acts.", "So you really do want to stay within the pop realm?", "Buhler: Yeah, definitely.", "I mean that's a very conscious choice.", "I don't think we're all opera purists, but for me personally, a \"Nessun Dorma\" [Puccini aria] is as good as it is and I don't see the point of adding a breathy voice, or adding harmonies to it.", "While the pop repertoire ... it's just more out there for everyone to take it and do with it whatever without offending people.", "All you want to do with a pop song is somehow transmit emotion.", "So far there's [been] much more freedom in pop music and that's why we stay in there ... we pretty much can do whatever we want.", "And as Simon Cowell just said recently, \"Nobody owns music.\"" ]	[ "The group is the brainchild of \"American Idol\" judge Simon Cowell .", "The operatic quartet's new album, \"The Promise,\" debuted atop the UK charts .", "Il Divo (Italian for \"divine male performer\") is made up of singers from four countries ." ]	[ 2, 5, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- James Dobson, the influential evangelical leader of the Christian ministry Focus on the Family, has stepped down as board chairman, he announced Friday.", "James Dobson is expected to stay in his public role as an advocate for socially conservative issues.", "During a meeting with employees, Dobson, 72, said the move means he will no longer be involved with the administrative side of the organization, according to spokesman Gary Schneeberger.", "But Dobson's public role isn't expected to change.", "He'll still appear on his daily radio broadcast and as an advocate for socially conservative issues, Schneeberger said.", "\"There won't be a whole lot of difference,\" the spokesman said.", "\"You'll still hear him on the radio.", "You'll still see him on the networks like CNN with Larry King.", "\"He said to the staff today, 'I've got more to say -- I'm not ready to stop fighting for the things I've fought for for the past 32 years.'", "\" Founded in 1977, Focus on the Family is a nonprofit organization devoted to what it considers Christian family values, with Dobson's daily program geared largely toward advice on parenting from a religious perspective.", "But in recent years the ministry, like Dobson himself, has become more active in promoting social and political views.", "Last year, Dobson caused a huge political stir when he announced he \"cannot and will not\" vote for Republican nominee Sen. John McCain.", "He later changed his tune, after McCain's pick of Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin as his running mate, calling her selection \"one of the most exciting days of my life,\" on the syndicated Dennis Prager Show.", "Dobson has gained widespread attention again with his criticisms of a 2006 speech by now-President Barack Obama on his religious views.", "He accused Obama of \"deliberately distorting the traditional understanding of the Bible to fit his own worldview, his own confused theology.\"", "That led to a backlash.", "A group of ministers started an online petition, James Dobson Doesn't Speak for Me, that drew more than 12,000 signatures.", "Kirbyjon Caldwell, pastor of Houston, Texas' Windsor Village United Methodist Church, led that effort.", "\"Dr. Dobson has made a tremendous contribution to the spiritual and social fiber of this country.", "I've always said that and will continue to say it although, obviously, we have not always agreed,\" Caldwell said Friday.", "\"The fabric of the evangelical community here in America is very strong.", "One or two disagreements here and there are surely not going to cause the community to tear apart at the fringes.\"", "Dobson has spoken out loudly against abortion rights and gay marriage and even weighed in on the Harry Potter fantasy series, with a statement on the group's Web site denouncing the books' \"trend toward witchcraft and New Age ideology.\"", "\"He built his media empire around, sort of, parenting and family issues and he has since used his audience and his media presence to push a political agenda,\" said Peter Montgomery, a senior fellow with the liberal People for the American Way, which advocates, among other things, for the separation of church and state.", "\"In the last several election cycles, he's constantly complained that the Republican Party isn't far enough to the right and sort of has a habit of saying he's going to take his followers and walk if they don't do more to push his agenda,\" Montgomery said.", "Focus on the Family says its broadcasts reach more than 220 million people in 155 countries.", "Its newsletter, in which Dobson will continue to write, goes to 1.6 million people.", "Dobson's announcement that he and his wife, National Day of Prayer Chairwoman Shirley Dobson, are stepping down from the board of directors comes six years after he resigned as the ministry's executive director.", "\"One of the common errors of founder-presidents is to hold the reins of leadership too long, thereby preventing the next generation from being prepared for executive authority ...,\" Dobson said in a written release.", "\"Though letting go is difficult after three decades of intensive labor, it is the wise thing to do.\"", "Montgomery, whose group has been critical of what it calls an \"assault on Americans' liberties\" by Focus on the Family, said it's unclear how influential the group will be when Dobson is no longer its public face.", "While Dobson is the personality that drives the ministry, Focus on the Family has a vast communication and fundraising infrastructure that could continue to make it a player in social and political issues for years to come, he said.", "In the meantime, Montgomery said, he doesn't expect Dobson's influence to wane because of the behind-the-scenes changes.", "\"He's still a rock star among conservative religious activists,\" he said." ]	[ "NEW: \"He's still a rock star among conservative religious activists,\" scholar says .", "NEW: Dobson has spoken out against abortion rights, gay marriage, Harry Potter .", "Dobson, 72, tells employees he won't be involved with ministry's administration .", "Dobson still expected to remain in public role, be conservative advocate ." ]	[ 1, 23, 34 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Five members of Liverpool's backroom staff have followed manager Rafael Benitez in committing their long-term futures to the Premier League title challengers.", "Rafael Benitez's backroom staff have followed his example in signing new contracts with Liverpool.", "Benitez signed a new contract with the club last week, following months of speculation, keeping him at Anfield until 2014.", "Now the Spaniard's lead has now been followed by assistant manager Sammy Lee, first-team coach Mauricio Pellegrino, goalkeeping coach Xavi Valero, fitness coach Paco de Miguel and chief scout Eduardo Macia -- all of whom have agreed contract extensions of at least two years.", "\"I said when I signed my own deal recently that it was a priority to sort out the future of the technical staff,\" Benitez told PA Sport.", "\"We work extremely well as a team, and continuity is essential if we are to build on the progress we have made this season and move the club further forward.", "I am delighted we have been able to sort out the contracts,\" he added.", "The news caps a remarkable month for the club, who have thrashed Manchester United and Aston Villa to re-enter the Premier League title race and also crushed Real Madrid 5-0 on aggregate to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League." ]	[ "Five members of Liverpool's backroom staff sign new contracts with the club .", "The news follows the decision of manager Rafael Benitez to finally agree terms .", "The signings are a further boost as Liverpool chase Europe and domestic glory ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5 ]

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