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[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- In its opening weekend, \"The Haunting in Connecticut\" scared and thrilled millions of moviegoers across the country.", "In \"The Haunting in Connecticut,\" Virginia Madsen sees strange things happen in her old house.", "The film, which earned $23 million to finish No.", "2 at the box office, emphasizes psychological horror over slasher film blood 'n' gore, which its audience apparently appreciated.", "But Virginia Madsen, who plays Sara Campbell in the film, confessed that, while filming, fear was not just reserved for the screen.", "\"We all stayed in this big, old hotel which was kind of like the one in 'The Shining,' one of those turn-of-the- century big, old hotels,\" Madsen told CNN.", "\"I had a little chat with my room.", "I said, 'Just out of respect, if there are any entities around, I need to stay here, I have a lot of work to do, I have to sleep at night, so please leave me alone.'", "\" Yet, Madsen admitted, her belief in ghosts is not very strong.", "\"I do have an attraction to paranormal investigation and all those kinds of shows but I'm not sure if I really believe in ghosts,\" she said.", "\"The Haunting in Connecticut\" is based on the true story of Sara Campbell, a mother who moves her family into an old house in Connecticut in order to be closer to the hospital where her son, Matt (Kyle Gallner), receives cancer treatment.", "The house was once a funeral home and, shortly after their move, the family begins witnessing strange, supernatural activities.", "\"Something very powerful and very real happened to this family.", "Whether or not you believe it was some sort of demon or, you know, they're manifesting it -- whatever it is -- it changed their lives,\" Madsen said.", "Madsen, 47, is probably best known for her Oscar-nominated turn in \"Sideways\" as Maya Randall, the restaurant waitress who gets involved in a romance with the prickly writer played by Paul Giamatti.", "Since that 2004 film, the actress has made several films, including \"A Prairie Home Companion\" and \"The Number 23.\"", "She and the rest of the cast developed a close relationship on the set and were much like a family behind the scenes.", "\"I was more like a mother bear with my young actors,\" Madsen said.", "In fact, Madsen added, her close relationship with the younger actors made filming difficult at times.", "\"One scene in the movie that was the hardest for me to do was when [Matt] wakes up ... and his skin is all carved with these different incantations,\" she said.", "\"And I open his shirt and he's just looking up at me with these big blue eyes with tears ... and he really felt like my boy, he really felt like my second son.\"", "Madsen said the film, complete with ghosts, séances and creaking floorboards, is successful because it has all the elements of a good horror flick.", "\"The movie works ... because it plays on our most basic childhood fears.", "'Something's under the bed, something's in the closet, something's in the mirror.'", "And all of us still have those same childhood terrors,\" she said.", "The desire to experience those same terrors and to forget about everyday life, Madsen added, draws people to the theaters at an older age.", "\"I like things that go bump in the night, and scary things that are fun,\" she said.", "\"That's really what this movie really is.", "I think horror movies are so popular because times are especially hard and I think a horror movie more than any other kind of movie is a true escape ... You're forgetting about your life because you're like, 'Oh my God!'", "\" CNN's Elham Khatami contributed to this story." ]	[ "\"The Haunting in Connecticut\" had a successful opening weekend at box office .", "Virginia Madsen, who stars in film, likes \"things that go bump in the night\"\nMadsen, best known for \"Sideways,\" took motherly role over young co-stars ." ]	[ 1, 3, 14, 26 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- They've been called \"bromances\": those buddy films and TV shows, such as the movies \"Pineapple Express\" and \"The 40-Year-Old Virgin,\" that feature non-sexual but deep friendships between two or more males.", "Jason Segel and Paul Rudd star in \"I Love You, Man,\" which opens Friday.", "The forthcoming \"I Love You, Man,\" which opens Friday, appears to fit the bill.", "In the film, Paul Rudd plays a man who needs a best man for his wedding but has never made any male friends.", "Enter Jason Segel as Sydney Fife, whom Rudd's character, Peter Klaven, pursues on several \"man-dates\" that end up threatening his relationship with his fiancée (Rashida Jones).", "But don't call the film a \"bromance\" in the presence of Rudd and Segel.", "\"We hate that word,\" Segel told CNN.", "\"It was not part of the lexicon while we were filming,\" added Rudd.", "Still, both actors have plenty of experience in the, uh, guy-pal genre.", "Rudd has been in several comedies written, directed or produced by Judd Apatow, considered one of the leaders of the \"bromance\" trend with his softer, more openly emotional male characters.", "Segel has also been in Apatow projects -- including last year's \"Forgetting Sarah Marshall\" -- and he stars in the TV series \"How I Met Your Mother,\" which finds plenty of humor in male bonding.", "Segel observes that what helps the films work is the discomfort of two men trying to talk about their emotions while hoping to maintain a dispassionate, hard-edged, prototypically manly façade.", "And he knows he's good at bringing out that discomfort in his co-stars.", "\"Judd Apatow told me that my special skill was that I am able to maintain my likability while getting incredibly close to the creepy line, and that's what I should try to cultivate,\" he said.", "\"That's what he does,\" Rudd noted.", "\"He just holds [the moment] a little too long.\"", "\"It's the fraction of a second too long that makes people uncomfortable,\" Segel added.", "In \"I Love You, Man,\" Segel's character is rougher and looser than his characters in \"Sarah Marshall\" and \"How I Met Your Mother.\"", "He welcomed the change.", "\"It was a real treat for me, to be honest for a minute, to play this character, because I've played sort of a puppy dog guy in 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' and on ['Mother'] I play a husband, you know, a loving husband,\" he said.", "\"So to get to play a character who is a bit more of a man of mystery was very exciting for me.\"", "In real life, claims Segel, he even has a man cave.", "\"It's filled with puppets,\" he said.", "\"And I keep wondering why I don't have a girlfriend.", "I'm like, 'hey, this is my house; come check it out.", "This is where I keep my 40 puppets.' ...", "I think that I have a reputation for being weird because of that.\"", "But he quickly turns serious and maintains that \"I Love You, Man\" does have a message to go along with its comedy.", "\"I think we both had something to learn from each other,\" he said.", "\"Paul's character had to learn that it's all right to take a little distance from your significant other and have some dude friends and someone to vent to about things you can't necessarily talk about with your girl.\"", "\"Sometimes buddies hold a mirror up to the way you behave in ways that relationships with the opposite sex don't,\" Rudd said.", "\"Yeah, and my character had to learn that maybe it's time to grow up a little bit,\" Segel added.", "So, this \"bromance\" thing, allowing a few feelings to show.", "Perhaps it's not so bad after all?", "Rudd says that the idea has its upside, despite its name.", "And he's glad it's been successful.", "\"That's us in a nutshell, not macho, not tough,\" he said.", "\"I think that we've all been kind of drawn to real stories, you know, characters that hopefully people can relate to and what's funny about just certain insecurites and just certain things in life.", "\"They could easily be dramatic,\" he pointed out.", "\"Just less fart jokes.\"" ]	[ "\"I Love You, Man\" stars Paul Rudd, Jason Segel as two men trying friendship .", "Neither Rudd nor Segel likes the term \"bromance\"\nComedy makes some serious points about friendship, Segel says ." ]	[ 1, 5, 11, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- With President Barack Obama limiting how and where detainees at Guantanamo Bay can be interrogated, some analysts are asking if intelligence agencies will be able to get the information they need to keep the country safe -- and where the prisoners will eventually end up.", "President Barack Obama recently ordered the closing of Guantanamo Bay detention facility.", "Fresh off his inauguration, Obama issued executive orders relating to Guantanamo, including one requiring that the detention facility be closed within a year.", "During a signing ceremony at the White House on January 22, Obama reaffirmed his inauguration pledge that the United States does not have \"to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals.\"", "The president said he was issuing the order to close the facility in order to \"restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of war, even in dealing with terrorism.\"", "At its peak, Gitmo held 770 people the U.S. government believed may have been involved in terrorist activity or military action against the nation.", "The facility drew sharp criticism, including from Obama as he campaigned for the presidency.", "Human and legal rights advocates complained that many Gitmo detainees were being held indefinitely without charge.", "There were a handful of reports of mistreatment of detainees and Obama, among others, said the facility was not an effective way to deal with alleged enemy combatants or gather good intelligence.", "With the closing of Gitmo and secret overseas CIA prisons, future detainees may stay in foreign custody.", "Those countries might not have the same constraints on interrogations, and they could share what they learn or let U.S. intelligence sit in.", "Watch more on the Gitmo dilemma » .", "\"While you're able to say that you don't have U.S. secret prisons, in effect, you may be able to get the benefit through your relationship with foreign intelligence services,\" said CNN national security contributor Frances Townsend, who served as President Bush's national security adviser.", "But some say it's the mere image of closing Gitmo that will help U.S. relations around the world.", "\"Guantanamo is an extraordinary debilitating symbol in the United States and the United States' standing in the world community.", "Closing it makes good sense,\" Charlie Swift, a former naval defense attorney, said on CNN's \"State of the Union with John King,\" on Sunday.", "But Douglas Feith, who helped shape the Bush administration's terrorism policy, downplayed that notion.", "\"I don't think that it's much more than a symbolic decision,\" he said.", "\"The real issue is whether we can make sure that the extremely dangerous people that we're holding at Guantanamo can continue to be held so they don't engage in terrorism in the future.\"", "That issue was raised last week amid a new report by the Pentagon -- released days before Obama took office -- which said 18 former detainees are confirmed to have participated in attacks, and 43 are suspected to have been involved in attacks.", "Watch more on where Gitmo prisoners may go » .", "But security experts are questioning information released by the Pentagon, saying 61 former detainees from Gitmo may have returned to terrorist activities.", "That figure would be about 11 percent of the roughly 520 prisoners who have been released from the Guantanamo facility.", "But in a briefing Thursday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates -- an advocate for closing Guantanamo while serving under Bush and, now, under President Obama -- seemed to downplay the number of former detainees who have returned to fighting.", "\"It's not as big a number if you're talking about 700 or a thousand or however many have been through Guantanamo,\" he said.", "On Friday, a Pentagon spokesman defended the integrity of the report but would not directly answer questions about where the figures come from.", "\"We don't make these figures up.", "They're not done willy-nilly,\" spokesman Geoff Morrell said.", "Pentagon officials said they would not discuss how the statistics were derived because of security concerns that such information could give clues to how U.S. intelligence officers collect their data.", "CNN learned some former Guantanamo detainees have returned to the fight.", "An al Qaeda video viewed by CNN's Nic Robertson showed militants labeled with their former prisoner numbers.", "Saeed Shihri, Prisoner No.", "372, is believed to have been responsible for an attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen that killed nearly a dozen people in September, barely a year after he was released from Guantanamo.", "CNN's Susan Candiotti, Ed Hornick and Jeanne Meserve contributed to this report." ]	[ "President Obama signs executive order calling for Gitmo facility to close .", "Security experts question where the detainees will be relocated to .", "There are also concerns about how intelligence will be collected under new rules .", "CNN learned some former Gitmo detainees have returned to terrorism ." ]	[ 0, 29 ]
[ "(CNN) -- No longer able to fit into a booth at a restaurant and too embarrassed to ask for seatbelt extensions on an airplane, Maggie Sorrells was desperate to lose weight.", "Maggie Sorrells lost 300 pounds and went from wearing a size 5X or 64 in men's clothing to a size 6.", "The day she stepped on a hospital scale and realized she weighed 440 pounds she knew she had to do something.", "Name: Maggie Sorrells Age: 32 Hometown: Franklin, Tennessee Occupation: Receptionist in doctor's office Height: 5 feet 6 inches Heaviest weight: 440 pounds Current weight: 140 pounds Pounds lost: 300 pounds Defining moment The moment I saw that I weighed as much as I did, it scared me, and I knew I had to do something about it.", "How did you finally lose the weight?", "Diet: Weigh Down Workshop, a faith-based weight loss program.", "I ate whatever I craved, but only when I was truly hungry, and then I ate a lot slower, so I could tell when to stop.", "Exercise: Nothing out of the ordinary, occasionally I'd go for a walk, but never because I felt like I had to.", "How long did it take you to lose weight?", "Four years with two pregnancies within the same time period.", "One month after I lost 300 pounds, I became pregnant for the third time with my son.", "How has this changed your life?", "Drastically, the way I eat, the way I live my life.", "I am able to move better.", "I feel better emotionally and physically.", "I'm just a much happier person.", "I love to hike and I could never go when I was big.", "I almost killed myself going a half-mile.", "My chest would hurt and I would think I was having a heart attack.", "Just after we had our daughter, we went hiking all day and climbed rocks.", "I also love the beach.", "I'm no longer ashamed to go to the beach or wear a bathing suit.", "Do you have any tips for other people who want to lose weight?", "Yes, don't think about how much weight you have to lose because you'll get overwhelmed and discouraged.", "Set small goals, like 15 pounds.", "There were times I wanted to give up and there were days I felt like I couldn't do this.", "Food was my drug. Take [weight loss] in small increments because when you lose 15 pounds you'll be excited and before you know it you'll lose 50." ]	[ "Maggie Sorrells could no longer squeeze into restaurant booths at 440 pounds .", "Doctors had warned her that she might not live to the age of 30 .", "She shed 300 pounds following a faith-based weight loss program ." ]	[ 0, 2, 5 ]
[ "SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (CNN) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales on Monday accused a U.S. diplomat of contacting opposition groups, declared him \"persona non grata\" and ordered he be expelled.", "\"Francisco Martinez, a Mexican-U.S. citizen, was in permanent contact with opposition groups during the whole era of conspiracy,\" the leftist president said.", "\"He was the U.S. embassy person who contacted ex-police officers,\" Morales told reporters, according to The Associated Press, whose tape of the speech was broadcast on CNN en Espanol.", "\"The times of the colony will end in Latin America,\" Morales vowed to reporters.", "\"We are in profound transformation.\"", "Martinez was identified in media reports as the second secretary at the embassy in La Paz, Bolivia's capital.", "Heidi Bronke, a spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department's Western Hemisphere Affairs bureau, acknowledged the move, but said it had not been communicated through diplomatic channels.", "\"We reject the accusations made by the government of Bolivia,\" she said.", "\"This decision is unwarranted and unjustified.", "It is inconsistent with recent statements by the government of Bolivia expressing a desire to improve bilateral relations.\"", "Morales' move comes six months after he declared U.S.", "Ambassador Philip Goldberg persona non grata for allegedly having encouraged anti-government demonstrators to violence.", "Goldberg denied the charge.", "Journalist Gloria Carrasco contributed to this story from Santa Cruz, Bolivia ." ]	[ "Bolivian President Evo Morales expels U.S. diplomat .", "Francisco Martinez identified in media reports as second secretary .", "Diplomat \"contacted ex-police officers,\" said Morales .", "U.S. State Department rejects accusations, says spokeswoman Heidi Bronke ." ]	[ 5, 6 ]
[ "LYON, France -- Inter Milan have agreed to the transfer of Italian World Cup winning defender Fabio Grosso to six-time French champions Lyon.", "Grosso made 23 Serie-A appearances for Inter Milan last season.", "\"The player arrived late on Friday evening and passed his medical test before signing his contract with the club on Saturday morning, all three parties involved are in agreement,\" said Olivier Blanc, communications director of the French club.", "The 29-year-old Italian will be present at a ceremony at Lyon's Town Hall to launch the French champions 2007-08 season.", "Grosso is Lyon's highest-profile summer signing and will come as much sought after relief by a club who saw the departure of France international left back Eric Abidal to Barcelona.", "Lyon, chasing a record seventh consecutive League One title, have also signed Nadir Belhadj from French first division rivals Sedan and Mathieu Bodmer and Kadar Keita both from Lille.", "The Italian League champions Inter Milan decided to release Grosso after a below-par season and just one year at the club.", "The imposing defender played 23 matches in the league last term, scoring two goals.", "He will be bitterly remembered in France for scoring Italy's winning penalty in the final shootout that denied France their second World Cup success.", "Grosso will be the third Italian to play for the club since it was founded, following Orenzo Dito and Aridex Caligaris in the 1950s.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Lyon have completed the signing of Inter Milan defender Fabio Grosso .", "The Italian World Cup winner signed his contract on Saturday morning .", "Lyon will be bidding for a seventh consecutive French title next season ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Editor's note: Taresh Moore is a student at Winston Salem State University in North Carolina.", "The 21-year-old senior traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the inauguration.", "Alfred Bouey is a World War II veteran and a grandson of slaves.", "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Alfred Bouey, an 84-year-old African-American, still remembers the stories from his grandfather about the scars on his body from the beatings he took as a slave in the South.", "Bouey, of Oak Park, Illinois, attended Tuesday's inauguration of President Obama.", "Words can't express his excitement and happiness about witnessing history.", "A World War II veteran, he never thought he would live to see a black president in America.", "Bouey grew up in Arkansas and saw racism firsthand.", "He witnessed his mother being mistreated by whites in the South, but he never saw her give up.", "He eventually left Arkansas for Chicago.", "Bouey attended the inauguration after winning Brookdale Senior Living's Experiences of a Lifetime contest.", "Residents at various Brookdale Senior Living communities nationwide shared their experiences and submitted their wishes as part of the contest.", "Bouey shared his story and said he'd like to be there when Obama was sworn in.", "\"My grandfather and grandmother were whipped and beaten, and had the scars to prove it,\" he said.", "With CNN.com's help, Taresh Moore spoke with Bouey about the inauguration ceremony.", "Below is a transcript of their interview.", "Moore: How are you today?", "Bouey: I'm great.", "I couldn't feel any better right now.", "Moore: How did it feel to take part in this historic inauguration?", "Bouey: It felt very great.", "I can't find any words to express my happiness.", "I am speechless and full of joy.", "Moore: What will you remember most about the inauguration?", "Bouey: I will remember that I was actually there.", "I lived to see this historic event.", "I'm 84, and I had the chance to witness this.", "Not too many people had that opportunity, and I am honored.", "Moore: How did you feel when you found out that you and your family were going to Washington, D.C., to take part in the inauguration?", "Bouey: I was happy.", "At first when I was asked to take part in the survey, I didn't mind sharing my story because I had many stories to share.", "When I found out I had the opportunity to go, I was very grateful.", "I couldn't wait to get here. Moore: Did you ever believe you would live to see an African-American president in your lifetime?", "Bouey: No. I never thought I would live to see one.", "Growing up, my mother wanted me and my brother and sister to get an education.", "And we all did. An education will take you far, and we see that it did for our new president and for me.", "But I'm glad I lived to see this.", "It's a wonderful experience, and I am very proud of it!", "Moore: How was it growing up in the South?", "Bouey: I was born in Philadelphia and moved to Arkansas at the age of 1.", "Growing up, everything was segregated -- in the schools, restaurants and just everywhere.", "Blacks couldn't do this and we couldn't do that. I came to the point where I got tired of it all in the South and just moved away.", "I moved to Chicago on June 2, 1946.", "Moore: Was it better in Chicago?", "Bouey: Yes, a lot better.", "Better opportunities for blacks.", "Moore: You have lived a life that has seen the scars on the body of a former slave, who was your grandfather, to seeing America's first African-American president all in one lifetime.", "How does that make you feel? Bouey: I feel that America has come a long way.", "And I mean a very long way.", "My grandfather had scars from slavery.", "My mother wasn't a slave, but she still was beaten in the cotton fields.", "Beatings didn't stop for some years after slavery.", "But there are no slaves now. It shows the great progress this country has made.", "Moore: How do you think your grandparents and mother would feel to see the first African-American president?", "Bouey: I believe it would mean more to them than it means to me because of how they were treated and the hard work they put in.", "This would be like their reward for all of the work and suffering they endured.", "Others, like Martin Luther King, who I marched with, would be very happy as well.", "Moore: How did you feel when President Obama was first elected?", "Bouey: Well, I had tears of joy on Election Night.", "I cried. They almost had to mop up the floor due to all of the tears that came out of my eyes.", "It was just a great feeling.", "Moore: How do you feel about President Obama and the future of America?", "Bouey: I feel that America is headed in the right direction.", "The youth are our future, and the youth in the African-American community has a great example of a role model to look up to.", "Any youth from any race can look to President Obama.", "They don't have to sell drugs or other bad things.", "Be like Obama, get an education and succeed in life.", "Moore: Millions of people of all races filled Washington this weekend to witness history.", "Of those people, many white Americans filled the city to see a black man being sworn in as president.", "How does that make you feel? Bouey: I feel happy.", "It shows change.", "It's good to see the white Americans appreciate and show love to the new president.", "And it's good to see everyone come together for a special occasion.", "We're all equal, no matter what color your skin is.", "Moore: If you could say anything to President Obama, what would it be?", "Bouey: I would say job well done.", "Our prayers are with you. Keep your faith in God, and he'll keep you." ]	[ "Alfred Bouey, 84, attended the inauguration of the nation's first black president .", "Bouey, who grew up in Arkansas, saw his mother being mistreated by whites .", "\"It's good to see the white Americans appreciate and show love to the new president\"\nBouey says, \"I am ... full of joy\"" ]	[ 4, 8, 22, 39, 71 ]
[ "Editor's Note: CNNU is following two student teams from the University of Southern California as they work to improve the quality of life in India.", "The student teams will be writing about their experiences for CNNU throughout the summer.", "Check back regularly for updates on their work.", "CNNU first introduced the Oral Cancer Awareness Team.", "It now introduces the Water and Health Team.", "The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of CNN or its affiliates.", "Students visited slums to obtain data on the history of health and access to water in each household.", "(CNN) -- The World Health Organization reports that 88 percent of the 1.8 million deaths resulting from diarrhea can be attributed to unsafe water or inadequate hygiene or sanitation.", "Unfortunately, a significant population in the city of Hubli, India, fall victim to these causes, and they are not even aware of the cause.", "The University of Southern California Hubli Water and Health Team is spending this summer implementing a project model that will improve these statistics in the community.", "The team of six students, visiting from the University of Southern California, will guide a pilot project in the under-served community of S.M.", "Krishna Nagar.", "Over the course of the next year, the Team will employ local college students to maintain the program and monitor the efficiency of the water purification technology.", "And by subsidizing the cost for those living within S.M Krishna Nagar, the Team will be providing state-of-the-art purification systems at affordable prices, creating an important sense of ownership and empowerment for the people.", "The team also plans to build awareness within the local community about the need to drink purified water.", "While the source of water currently received by the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation is filtered, sewage leakage and the poor management of waste often contaminates drinking water on its way into the homes.", "This means that while the water from these pipes or the bore wells may look clean, it can be hazardous to drink.", "To compound the issue, even water contained in holding tanks on vehicles that visit the community is by no means guaranteed to be of sufficient, purified quality.", "The tanks carrying the water are rarely cleaned and the taps through which the water is dispersed may easily be contaminated.", "Families must be aware that the water they are provided is harmful to their health and provides a catalyst for breeding mosquitoes carrying malaria and other transferable diseases.", "Local reports have proven this, and communities in the past have fallen victim to water-related illnesses as a result of their consumption of unclean water.", "The USC Hubli Water and Health Team team hopes to shed light on this threatening issue, as confronting the challenge of dirty drinking water is a \"gateway\" step towards achieving measured, sustainable improvements in a wide array of serious health related issues.", "Through education at key points of community influence and the measured introduction of new technologies that encourage responsibility over simply charity, the Team will use its time in Hubli to affect change that is both scalable and sustainable." ]	[ "Students from University of Southern California go to India to improve quality of life .", "Team provides innovative water treatment measures to stop disease .", "Other team teaches how to prevent oral cancer, one of top 3 cancers in India .", "Students employ locals to maintain program and monitor efficiency over next year ." ]	[ 0, 3, 12 ]
[ "Editor's note: Frank Micciche is managing director of the Next Social Contract Initiative at the New America Foundation, a think tank that promotes thought from across the ideological spectrum.", "He has worked for Sallie Mae, former Michigan Gov.", "John Engler and former Massachusetts Gov.", "Mitt Romney.", "Frank Micciche says Detroit has to justify its bailout while Wall Street is getting more without tough scrutiny.", "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- There was good news and bad news in the recent filings Chrysler and General Motors made with the federal officials overseeing their multibillion-dollar rescue.", "The good news was that, if the federal government can see its way clear to adding another $21 billion or so to the more than $17.4 billion they received in bridge loans in December -- including a cool $7 billion by the end of March to forestall their insolvency -- the companies are confident that they will be able to retool, return to profitability and repay the money provided them.", "The bad news: it won't happen until late in President Obama's first term, if at all, and in the meantime they will eliminate at least 50,000 jobs this year alone, close even more plants than previously announced and discontinue several of their most recognizable lines of cars.", "If you think keeping the automakers afloat for another few years is expensive, you won't believe how much it would cost to let them fail.", "In the same report, GM CEO Rick Wagoner put the price tag for the feds should his company file for bankruptcy at $100 billion.", "Such is the through-the-looking-glass nature of bailout economics, circa 2009.", "Of course, even Wagoner's worst case scenario is a pittance compared to the more than $600 billion that will eventually flow to Wall Street through the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP).", "Which begs the question of why, after four months and nearly $400 billion in capital from the U.S. Treasury, we have still not seen anything remotely resembling the detailed disclosures and strategic planning required of the automakers from the banks that have received TARP funds?", "For that matter, shouldn't the state and local governments that stand to receive hundreds of billions of dollars under the recently enacted economic stimulus bill have to submit something, anything, that would explain how they intend to use this money, what their spending will do to speed and sustain the nation's overall recovery and what they will do to wean themselves from this emergency aid once the crisis has passed?", "Small nonprofits and community organizations that receive federal grants will tell you that the paperwork and scrutiny that comes with even the most modest federal award is often so exhaustive as to nullify the benefits of the grant.", "Not so, apparently, if your request is in the billions.", "Perhaps the secret to avoiding the withering glances of bean-counting bureaucrats is to ask for serious cash from Uncle Sam.", "How do we square the double standard in reporting required of Chrysler and GM, whose combined request is in the range of $40 billion, with the inability of even a pit bull like U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, to get answers as to exactly where and to what end the TARP money has gone?", "It may be that the situation on Wall Street is so complex, and the stakes so high, that lawmakers themselves have little confidence in their abilities to map a successful recovery for the industry, so they are relying on the sheer magnitude of their spending and the ingenuity of those left standing on Wall Street to work their market magic and revive the economy.", "The idea of a single \"Car Czar\" to oversee the rebuilding of the auto industry is now out the window, replaced by a task force led by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, two of the most over-extended men in the history of American government.", "But it's still easier for Washington to imagine that they can manage Chrysler and GM back onto the road to viability than that anything short of massive infusions of vaguely traceable capital will unfreeze the credit markets and restore financial stability.", "In the meantime, the automakers await word on the acceptability of their plans to dramatically reduce production and add tens of thousands of new Americans to the ranks of the unemployed.", "Forty billion just doesn't go as far as it used to.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Frank Micciche." ]	[ "Frank Micciche: Auto companies are planning job cuts and plant closings .", "He says they were required to give detailed plans in return for bailout money .", "Micciche: Wall Street firms getting much more money from federal government .", "He says the bankers haven't been required to provide their restructuring plan ." ]	[ 1, 4, 6 ]
[ "Editor's note: Penn Jillette -- the larger, louder half of Penn & Teller -- is a magician, comedian, actor, author and producer.", "Obama and McCain both promise a government that will watch over us ... \"I don't like that,\" says Penn Jillette.", "(CNN) -- Everyone I talk to seems to think the president of the United States right now is stupid.", "The Bush presidency is stupid speeches, stupid high gas prices, stupid bad economy, stupid war on terrorism, stupid war on drugs, stupid hurricane fixing, stupid global warming, stupid war -- stupid, stupid, stupid.", "They all seem to think we need to get a smarter guy in the White House fast, and Bush is so stupid, that task shouldn't be too hard.", "Not me. I'd like to say that I believe every president in United States history, including the stupid one we have now, is smarter than me.", "My alma mater is Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth Clown College, so I'm damning with faint praise, but I'm stupider than this here stupid president.", "Maybe I'm less stupider than Bush than I'm stupider than Jefferson.", "But I'm stupider than all the stupid in both of them put together.", "The idea, especially from the Democrats that I know, is, we just get a smarter guy in the White House, and all the problems will go away.", "We'll have smart speeches, smart high gas prices, smart bad economy, smart war on terrorism, smart war on drugs, smart hurricanes, smart global warming, smart war in Georgia -- smart, smart, smart.", "Barack Obama is way smarter than Bush -- so way, way smarter than me.", "Obama is way more charismatic than me.", "He did his big speech for about 80,000 people; I'll do my show tonight in Vegas for about 1,000 people.", "He's more ambitious than I; he's going to be the next president of the United States, and I couldn't even get to week three of \"Dancing with the Stars.\"", "Obama is a great leader.", "He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.", "He does smart speeches that promise everyone everything they need and make us feel good about our country and how much greater our government could be.", "But I don't think our next president being a great leader is a good thing.", "I'm worried about someone smarter than Bush taking over that tremendous power.", "Charisma and ambition increase my fear exponentially, and a great leader scares me to death.", "We need someone stupid enough to understand that the president of the United States can't solve many problems without taking away freedom and therefore shouldn't try.", "The only reason John McCain scares me a little less is because I think he's a little less likely to win.", "They both promise a government that will watch over us, and I don't like that.", "I don't want anyone as president who promises to take care of me.", "I may be stupid, but I want a chance to try to be a grown-up and take care of my family.", "Freedom means the freedom to be stupid, and that's what I want.", "I don't want anyone to feel my pain or tell me to ask what we can do for our country, or give us all money and take care of us.", "Gene Healy at the Cato Institute explains that the Founding Fathers wanted the president \"to faithfully execute the laws, defend the country from attack and check Congress with the veto power whenever it exceeded its constitutional bounds.\"", "That sounds like plenty to me.", "You gotta be smarter than me to do all that, but you don't have to be as smart as Obama, and you sure don't have to be a great leader.", "Our first seven presidents averaged a bit more than three public speeches a year, and they didn't promise jobs for everyone, day care, dental exams and free stuff.", "It's really hard to find someone who trusts Americans to take care of themselves and each other without government force.", "It's hard to find someone running for president who would be content to be what George Washington humbly called the \"chief magistrate.\"", "I think Ron Paul and Bob Barr mean it when they say they want much smaller government.", "But the government is already big enough, powerful enough and bipartisan enough (and \"bi\" means exactly two and no more) that Ron and/or Bob won't even be in the debates.", "People won't even hear someone suggesting that our president should do less and individual citizens should do more for themselves.", "The choice shouldn't be which lesser of two evils should have the enormous power of our modern presidents.", "The question should be, who would do less as president?", "Who would leave us alone?", "If we could find a lazier, less charismatic, stupider person than me to be president, I'd be all for it.", "But, it's not going to be easy; stupider than me is rare breed.", "So remember, the only way to waste your vote is to vote!", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer." ]	[ "Everyone thinks we need to get a smarter guy in the White House, says Penn Jillette .", "Jillette: Obama is a great leader who fires people up, gets them to do what he wants .", "McCain scares Jillette a little less because he's a little less likely to win .", "Ron Paul, Bob Barr say they want much smaller government ." ]	[ 4, 15, 16, 22, 34 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In the age of digital audio, what does good old-fashioned radio still have to offer?", "Teca Lima, the voice of RadarCultura, consults the Web site before talking into the mic.", "Plenty, according to the creators of RadarCultura, a community-based Web site and a daily three-hour AM radio program broadcast from Brazil's São Paulo.", "\"Radio is 'now,'\" says 22-year-old Brazilian André Avorio, who implemented the Web site.", "\"[Radio] is generally quick and live.", "This adds a special dynamic to the medium.", "Moreover, it is still one of the most popular means of mass communication in Brazil.", "Combining it with the power of the Internet can result in many new possibilities.\"", "RadarCultura is an experimental project of the Padre Anchieta Foundation to promote public participation in audio-visual programming, eventually aiming to fuse its radio, television and Web programs into a single interactive, real-time platform.", "Like many online music sites, RadarCultura is always looking for new music and emerging talents, but its primary focus is to preserve the memory of the Brazilian repertoire by resurfacing classic, forgotten or unknown songs.", "The Padre Anchieta Foundation also happens to boast the biggest archive of Brazilian music in Brazil, including more than 15,000 songs dating from the 1920's to the present.", "\"Making it easy to search through the vast archive of songs was an important feature since version one of the Web site,\" says Avorio.", "Producer Alceu Maynard observes two types of RadarCultura members: \"There are people who listen to the show because they are fans of Brazilian music.", "There are others who like to produce the content on our site -- they collaborate actively with suggestions, playlists and all aspects of programming.\"", "Meanwhile, RadarCultura team members Alceu, speaker Teca Lima and project manager Lia Rangel are busy podcasting interviews, moderating conversations, blogging, twittering and keeping the site relevant.", "Old media gets new blood .", "True to its non-visual origin, RadarCultura's Web site is strictly text-based, with icons that link to votes and streaming audio.", "And true to its Web-based platform, the site has adopted, and adapted, all Net-native systems for its daily operations.", "The site itself runs on the free Drupal content-management system, which allows content to rank and flow according to input and feedback from the site's online community.", "Members who wish to contribute their own audio material to RadarCultura's archive must either podcast it themselves first, or else they may upload it to the U.S.-based Archive.org to clear it of online rights.", "Given the quantity of music aired from the ever-expanding repertoire, copyright issues are the most common pretext to negotiation, most notably with ECAD, a privately owned civil society for the collection and distribution of copyright managed by 10 Brazilian music associations.", "Online, however, RadarCultura distributes the entirety of its streaming content under a Creative Commons license.", "The team has also been experimenting with the free CoveritLive software to enable live blogging, chatting and Twittering among audience, presenters and guests during its online coverage of radio and TV events, including the popular Roda Vivo TV show.", "RadarCultura's first live event coverage in February 2008 was of Campus Party Brasil, a seven-day tech-fest that saw people camping out in tents with broadband cables while sharing ideas and technological innovations.", "In April 2008, RadarCultura struck again with its live coverage of Virada Cultural, Brazil's largest cultural event, including art performances and exhibits in the streets of São Paulo during 24 continuous hours, attracting some 4 million people.", "\"I came up with the idea of inviting the audience to report directly from the streets using their mobile phones,\" says Avorio.", "\"A telephone system was installed, and the calls from the participants were automatically recorded.", "Our non-stop production team listened to every recording as they arrived and not only immediately published them online but geo-localized them on an interactive map of São Paulo.", "\"It was RadarCultura's first truly collaborative coverage, as the audience produced most of the interviews and reviews, of not only the main attractions of Virada Cultural, but also the very obscure ones that otherwise would not be covered by the mainstream media.\"", "Next: Music for the masses, on demand .", "But still much remains to be done with RadarCultura's original content -- music.", "\"Due to legal restrictions, it has been very difficult to exploit many of the possibilities previously imagined for the RadarCultura Web site, like listening online to playlists or to the thousands of songs in the archive,\" Avorio reflects.", "\"Live radio has been a great success and will remain so for a long time, but it is now clear the value of on-demand content -- whenever you want it, wherever you are, on whatever device you have handy -- from the iPod to your mobile phone.\"", "RadarCultura's Web site not only introduces Brazilian music and culture to the international online community, it brings its programming well beyond the limited broadcasting range of the station's native São Paulo to the rest of Brazil.", "In a nation notorious for violence rooted in social inequality, the democracy of the Web -- not unlike radio -- is a welcome new medium of communication.", "\"Certainly São Paulo is the most 'wired' city in the country, but the Internet and the possibilities associated with it have reached the most distant towns,\" says Avorio.", "\"It is amazing the value that such a technology delivers to a country in a fast development pace such as Brazil -- from education to more subtle ways of social inclusion.\"", "For Gioconda Bordon, Padre Anchieta Foundation's radio coordinator, RadarCultura's most memorable moment took place on December 17, 2008, when the program celebrated its first anniversary.", "\"We had here in our studio the great composer Tom Zé, a very well-known musician, singing and talking live with a very young singer, Mallu Magalhães, a teenager, actually,\" she recalls.", "\"The listeners were as happy as we were and, of course, as moved as the two artists were.", "It was a day in our history.\"" ]	[ "RadarCultura is a daily 3-hour radio program and community Web site .", "Its father foundation boasts the biggest archive of Brazilian music in Brazil .", "Web site invites members to create playlists, vote on, suggest music for air .", "RadarCultura also covers live culture and technology events ." ]	[ 2, 4, 10, 29, 33 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Brittany Zimmerman, a 21-year-old college student who wanted to be a doctor, called 911 as she was being attacked by a stranger, police say.", "Brittany Zimmerman's screams and struggle for her life were captured by a 911 tape.", "But the police did not come for 48 minutes.", "By that time, Zimmerman was dead.", "Her fiance found her body.", "Although the dispatcher claimed later to have heard nothing, the 911 tape captured screams, gasps and what sounds like a struggle, according to the court documents.", "Spring was in the air when college student Zimmerman returned April 2 from classes at the University of Wisconsin to the off-campus apartment she shared with her fiance, Jordan Gonnering.", "He was out when she arrived home.", "He discovered her body when he returned.", "Zimmerman had been stabbed multiple times in her chest, near her heart.", "She'd also been beaten and strangled, according to warrants released recently.", "Watch an update on the case » .", "Zimmerman managed to call 911 at 12:20 p.m.", "The call was taken by the Dane County 911 center and an internal investigation revealed the dispatcher did not hear any sounds that would signal an emergency.", "Because of that, police were not sent to the apartment until 48 minutes after Zimmerman made the call.", "Her fiance was already there.", "Dane County has taken some harsh criticism from the public regarding the delay, and tough questions have been raised about whether a prompt response might have saved Zimmerman's life.", "Police are still looking for her killer.", "\"We are working diligently on this case, have generated significant leads, and are making progress,\" said Joel De Spain of the Madison Police Department.", "The police said they believe Zimmerman was attacked by a stranger.", "Her apartment door showed signs of forced entry.", "After interviews with Zimmerman's family, friends and acquaintances, investigators determined there was no personal motive for the attack.", "\"In fact, we have not been able to determine any motive yet in this case,\" De Spain said.", "He emphasized that police have no reason to believe Zimmerman was the victim of a serial killer.", "During the investigation, police have tracked leads pointing to vagrants in Zimmerman's off-campus neighborhood.", "The vagrants often would knock on doors and beg for money.", "\"We are still investigating this avenue, but at this time we have not been able to develop any specific suspects,\" De Spain said.", "Zimmerman's family and friends describe her as a loving, warm young woman, who had much to look forward to.", "She was engaged to the love of her life and had dreams of earning a medical degree, they said.", "She was idealistic, and her goal was to help people, not to earn a large salary, they said.", "Other details in the released warrants reveal that Zimmerman was murdered in her bedroom, that her cell phone was found in \"parts,\" and that her bloody slippers and bloody computer paper were recovered.", "The murder weapon is described as a knife, two to five inches long.", "Police are not saying whether they have recovered it.", "DNA was collected from Zimmerman's body, as well as hair, blood samples, footprints and fingerprints.", "So far, no match has been made to a suspect.", "Zimmerman's family is offering a $14,000 reward, and Crime Stoppers is offering $1,000 for tips leading to the arrest and/or conviction of anyone responsible for Zimmerman's death.", "Please call the tip line at 608-266-6014." ]	[ "College student's battle for her life caught on 911 tape .", "Police did not respond to her call for help for 48 minutes .", "Brittany Zimmerman's fiance found her body .", "Police suspect she was attacked by a stranger and are eyeing vagrants ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 4 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The case against a Marine accused of murder in a 2005 incident involving the killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha \"is simply not strong enough to prove against a reasonable doubt,\" the investigating officer said Thursday.", "The investigating officer has recommended that Sgt.", "Frank Wuterich not be tried for murder.", "Lt. Col. Paul Ware recommended that Sgt.", "Frank Wuterich face trial for lesser charges of negligent homicide.", "The case involved allegations that Marines killed up to two dozen Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha, Iraq, in November 2005.", "Ware said the evidence indicated Wuterich \"failed to exercise due care in his own actions in supervising his Marines.\"", "\"When a Marine fails to exercise due care in a combat environment resulting in the death of innocents, the charge of negligent homicide, not murder, is the appropriate offense,\" he said in a statement.", "The recommendation goes to Lt. Gen. James Mattis, the commanding general overseeing the case, who will make the final decision.", "If the recommendation is accepted, it could mean that no one in the Haditha case will be tried for murder.", "Four enlisted Marines were initially accused in the case, and charges against two have been dropped.", "Murder charges remain against Lance Cpl.", "Stephen Tatum, although Ware has recommended dropping all charges against him.", "Ware said the evidence is too weak for a court martial.", "Four officers were later accused of failing to investigate and report the deaths properly.", "Charges against two of them have been dropped.", "Haditha, along the Euphrates River, was the target of previous Marine campaigns aimed at rooting out insurgents.", "Wuterich was leading a patrol through the city on November 19, 2005, when the unit was hit by a roadside bomb that killed one of its members.", "Twenty-four civilians were killed in what a human rights group and military prosecutors said was a house-to-house rampage by Marines after the bomb exploded.", "The military began investigating the killings in March 2006, and charges were brought the following December.", "A statement from the Marine Corps originally blamed the civilian deaths on the roadside bomb, triggering a parallel investigation into how commanders handled the incident.", "Arrest made in terrorist financing case .", "Earlier Thursday, the U.S. military announced the arrest of a man who smuggled $100 million into Iraq during the past few months to finance terrorist operations.", "The unidentified man, arrested Tuesday near Baghdad, allegedly employs 40 to 50 extremists at $3,000 per job for al Qaeda in Iraq bomb attacks against coalition forces, using money from supporters outside Iraq, the military said.", "\"The extremist financier is suspected of traveling to foreign countries to acquire financial support for terrorist activities and is suspected of supplying more than $50,000 to al Qaeda each month,\" the military said.", "The suspect, captured during a coalition raid in Kindi, operates a network of financing cells across Iraq, the military said.", "\"He is believed to have received $100 million this summer from terrorist supporters who cross the Iraq border illegally or fly into Iraq from Italy, Syria and Egypt,\" the military said.", "The $100 million figure is based on intelligence report estimates over several months, a spokesman for Multi-National Corps-Iraq said.", "The man is also accused of purchasing some of the explosives and weapons used in the 2006 attack on Samarra's al-Askariya mosque, also known as the Golden Mosque, and a second attack on it in 2007.", "The attacks heightened sectarian tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.", "During a separate operation in Radwaniya on Tuesday, Iraqi forces detained a suspected al Qaeda in Iraq platoon leader who commands 15 men in attacks on Iraqi and coalition forces with roadside bombs and direct assaults, the military said.", "Meanwhile, an Iraqi Ministry of Information spokesman said Thursday that Iraq has entered into a \"substantial\" deal with China to purchase weapons and light military equipment for its police forces, because the Asian nation promised the fastest delivery.", "Brig. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf told CNN he was unable to confirm that his country was spending $100 million for the items, a number reported in Thursday's editions of The Washington Post, which quoted Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.", "Khalaf said there have been delivery delays from other countries, including the United States, and adequately arming police forces is a priority in Iraq's goal to provide its own security.", "In the United States, there are several layers of review before military equipment sales are approved.", "Khalaf said the deal was made last June during a visit to China by Talabani and Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani, whose department is in charge of policing and border control.", "Other developments: . CNN's Jamie McIntyre, Saad Abedine and Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report." ]	[ "If advice accepted, it could mean no one in Haditha case will be tried for murder .", "Iraq to buy weapons from China; $100 million worth, Washington Post says .", "Pentagon: Detainee financed terror operations across country .", "Financier allegedly paid $3,000 per roadside bomb operation ." ]	[ 9, 23 ]
[ "(Oprah.com) -- It came as no surprise to a woman we'll call Joan when, after 16 years of marriage, she and her husband started discussing the possibility of divorce.", "Deep down she'd never believed her marriage, or any marriage, could be genuinely happy.", "Still, the reality was crushing.", "\"I was desperate,\" she says.", "\"I thought, 'I'd do anything to feel better.'\"", "How about singing every day, making lists of things that made her happy, and getting a \"joy buddy\"?", "Those are among the suggestions given in Awakening Joy, a class taught by James Baraz, a meditation instructor and founding teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, California.", "A series of exercises, lectures, and meditations stretched over 10 months, Awakening Joy is designed to bring more happiness to people's lives.", "Like some participants, Joan, who heard about the program while attending a meditation retreat at Spirit Rock, initially balked at the idea of singing.", "\"I thought James wanted me to join a choir,\" she says, \"but I took it on faith that the singing was going to work.\"", "So she started trilling along with the \"Hairspray\" soundtrack while driving.", "\"It seemed ridiculous, but that's what initially helped me the most.\"", "\"The course uses practices that lead the mind toward states of happiness and well-being,\" says Baraz.", "\"In other words, it teaches you to focus on how it feels to feel good.\"", "The first and most important step, he says, is intention: making the decision to be happy.", "Robert Holden, Ph.D., author of \"Happiness Now!", "Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast\" and director of the Happiness Project in the United Kingdom, agrees that this is key.", "\"Intention is another word for focus.", "Whatever you focus on will become more apparent and will grow.", "For centuries, optimists and pessimists have argued over who's right, and the answer is they both are; each sees what they're looking for.", "If you focus on happiness, that's what you become more aware of.\"", "Once participants have made up their minds to be happier, Baraz gives them the tools -- delivered in lectures to the live class he teaches in Berkeley and in twice-monthly e-mails sent to participants in other areas -- to teach them how to cultivate a positive state of mind.", "Among them: . • Writing what the word joy means to you .", "• Doing some form of physical movement -- such as yoga, dance, or walking -- a few times a week .", "• Making a \"nourishment list\" of activities you enjoy, checking off those you do regularly and circling the ones that could be done more often .", "• Checking in with your \"joy buddy,\" a kind of running partner in the pursuit of happiness.", "\"That's important,\" says Holden.", "\"One of the major blocks to happiness is a sense of isolation.", "If you're alive, you need help.\"", "There are also guided meditations, including instructions on how to be mindful --being present for whatever you're doing and, as Baraz says, \"simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different.\"", "For Joan, that turned out to be a bigger challenge than singing -- especially when her husband suggested that they begin the separation process.", "\"Awakening Joy isn't about being a happy little do bee,\" she says.", "\"You're taught that when feelings arise, no matter what they are, you stay with them.", "When my husband said we should contact a mediator, I cried years of tears.", "But by accepting those painful feelings, I had a watershed moment: I realized that I really wanted this marriage.\"", "Rather than assuming divorce was inevitable, Joan started to see other possibilities.", "\"From that day to this, it's been a whole different experience,\" she says.", "\"My husband and I are still together, and in a way that I honestly didn't think was possible.\"", "For Baraz, the best testimonials come from former skeptics; he admits that he himself wouldn't be the best case study.", "\"I've always been a relatively joyful, celebratory kind of person,\" he says.", "He found his spiritual path in Buddhism, but when his studies became very serious, so did he.", "\"Then I realized that the Buddha was called the Happy One, and he said, 'Go for the highest happiness.'", "That became the focus of my teaching.\"", "(Baraz points out that one needn't be a Buddhist, or of any particular faith, to reap the benefits of Awakening Joy.", "\"Ministers, rabbis, and secular experts have successfully used these basic principles,\" he says.)", "The idea for the course began eight years ago, when Baraz's wife, Jane, gave him a book called \"How We Choose to Be Happy,\" by Rick Foster and Greg Hicks.", "\"The instructions made a lot of sense, but they didn't have a spiritual dimension,\" Baraz says.", "\"So I added that and presented it as a series of talks with my weekly meditation group for about three months to see what would happen.\"", "The results: \"We got happier and happier!\"", "Baraz then turned Awakening Joy into a six-month class and found that participants maintained a positive attitude even after it ended (as long as they practiced the exercises; as with diets or working out, continuity is essential).", "Word of mouth about the course that could make people happier began to spread: The first round of Awakening Joy meetings consisted of about 40 members.", "The next numbered 100; the next, 200, and then 500.", "It went international when its members began e-mailing their monthly homework assignments from the lectures to friends.", "Baraz was thrilled to receive messages from strangers in Europe, Africa, and New Zealand.", "\"It works!\" they wrote. Apparently, you didn't have to be there to get the joy.", "Nor do you have to be the type who can deftly turn a frown upside down.", "\"I'm the person who walks into a nicely designed room and notices only that the painting was hung too high,\" says Gretchen, age 56.", "In addition to being a \"serious\" woman from a depressive family, Gretchen also found herself in chronic pain after sustaining a back injury.", "\"It was horrible,\" she recalls.", "\"Medication made me sick.", "I felt guilty about not being able to work, and I thought people were judging me.\"", "Though a specialist was able to alleviate some of her physical discomfort, Gretchen fell into a deep depression.", "She heard about Awakening Joy after taking Baraz's meditation classes at Spirit Rock.", "\"The first thing I was hit by was the instruction to notice what it feels like when you're happy,\" she says.", "\"I loved the walks I took to help my back, but before, I just plodded down the street, not noticing anything.", "Now I'm aware of how I feel when I'm walking, which enhances my enjoyment.\"", "Writing lists of things she's grateful for was also a big help.", "\"A lot of my seriousness has lifted,\" she says.", "\"I have a lighter heart.", "I still have chronic pain, but I know there's a lot to feel good about.\"", "Baraz is writing a book about Awakening Joy and the people who now routinely roll up the windows in their cars so they can sing as loudly as they want to.", "\"More than 2,000 people have tested it, so it's not some airy-fairy idea,\" he says.", "\"I've learned that it's possible to change, no matter what your history or the limiting beliefs you've held on to.", "If you have the intention to be happy and you do the practices, if you give it your best shot and are very patient, it works.\"", "We're all so used to thinking that we'll finally be content when we find the perfect partner, lose weight, or get our dream job.", "Is it really possible to become happier just by deciding you can?", "\"We use the language of having, getting, and chasing to describe happiness, rather than being,\" says Holden.", "\"What we've learned about happiness is that it isn't an it or a thing.", "Research has proven that there is no one set of circumstances that makes someone happy; it's more about having a healthy mental attitude toward whatever you're experiencing.", "So, you can either chase happiness or you can choose to be happy.", "It really is that simple.\"", "By Suzan Colón from \"O, The Oprah Magazine,\" January 2008.", "E-mail to a friend .", "Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.", "That's like getting 18 issues FREE.", "Subscribe now! TM & © 2009 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved." ]	[ "Joy is different for everyone, but some may not recognize it .", "Make a list of activities that nourish your spirit .", "Expert: What you focus on in your life will grow .", "Get a partner to encourage and nudge you towards joy ." ]	[ 18, 20, 25, 29, 82 ]
[ "ORLANDO, Florida (CNN) -- The grandparents of missing 2-year-old Caylee Anthony continue to stand by their daughter, who is accused of killing Caylee, an attorney said Monday.", "Caylee Anthony, 2, has been missing since June in a case that has received national attention.", "The lawyer's announcement came just hours before a source confirmed authorities discovered bones in the area where a body believed to be Caylee's was found last week.", "The bones were scattered in the dirt, perhaps by an animal, the source said.", "Crime scene investigators were searching the area where the body was found and will continue searching through at least Wednesday, according to Commander Capt.", "Angelo Nieves with the Orange County Sheriff's Office.", "Outside agencies, including the FBI, were helping the sheriff's office sift through the area \"in order to make sure that no stone, no area, is left untouched where the child's remains were found,\" Nieves said.", "\"Significant finds have been made,\" he added.", "\"At this point, we cannot identify what items have been recovered.\"", "George and Cindy Anthony were \"devastated\" upon learning a toddler's corpse had been found near their Orlando, Florida, home, attorney Brad Conway said, but the couple is waiting for authorities to confirm the body's identity.", "\"They're not grieving yet, because they don't know whose body this is, but if it is identified as Caylee they're going to go through that grieving process privately, and when they're ready to speak, they will,\" Conway told reporters.", "A utility worker discovered the remains in a plastic bag Thursday and alerted authorities.", "CNN affiliate WFTV-TV in Orlando reported the utility worker, a meter reader, picked up a bag at the site and a skull fell out.", "Listen to the disturbing 911 call » .", "Later that day, authorities searched the Anthonys' home and removed \"a number of items,\" Conway said.", "Authorities have said Casey Anthony, 22, waited about a month before telling her family Caylee was gone.", "Caylee's grandmother called police on July 15, saying her daughter would not tell her where Caylee was.", "See where remains were found » .", "The girl was 2 at the time of her disappearance.", "The FBI is using DNA analysis to try and positively identify the remains, Conway said.", "Though bureau spokesman Richard Kolko said Monday he did not know when tests would be complete, Conway said the FBI is likely to have results \"within the next week.\"", "Watch Conway describe the grandparents' devastation » .", "\"Everybody wants to make sure that there are no mistakes made, that the person responsible for this crime is held responsible for it and, if that happens to be Casey, a jury of her peers will have to make that decision after the state of Florida proves beyond a reasonable doubt,\" he said.", "If the remains prove to be those of their granddaughter, the body would be released to the Anthonys \"for proper and respectful burial,\" he said.", "Conway described his clients as \"good, honest, decent people that are getting publicity that they do not deserve.\"", "Orange County Sheriff Office's spokesman Carlos Padilla said last week that authorities believe the remains are Caylee's because no other children have been reported missing in the area, the remains are consistent with a child Caylee's age and the remains were found near the grandparents' home.", "Watch how a home became a crime scene » .", "Caylee and her mother had lived in the house with Caylee's grandparents, but Casey Anthony moved into an apartment at the time Caylee disappeared.", "Casey Anthony faces charges including first-degree murder in Caylee's disappearance.", "If convicted, she could face a sentence of up to life in prison.", "Prosecutors said this month they would not seek the death penalty.", "Casey Anthony's attorneys have insisted she is innocent.", "Watch Caylee's uncle dismantle a memorial » .", "After learning a corpse was found last week, attorneys sought a court order allowing them to observe the autopsy and conduct their own forensic tests.", "A judge denied the request after prosecutors said the motion was premature because the body had not yet been identified.", "Watch why police think it's Caylee » .", "\"What I don't want to see, bluntly, is 24 hours after viewing an autopsy, a defense expert on a national news show describing this child's remains,\" prosecutor Jeff Ashton argued.", "\"The specter of that is nauseating to me.\"", "Asked Friday how Casey Anthony responded to the news her daughter's remains may have been found, lawyer Jose Baez said, \"It's not something that someone takes well.\"", "Casey Anthony remains in protective custody and has no contact with other inmates, corrections officials said.", "A psychologist has seen her, and she is on psychological observation, which is not the same as suicide watch, according to a statement.", "Casey Anthony's trial, originally set for January, has been postponed until at least March.", "When questioned by police this summer, Casey Anthony gave conflicting statements, including some that were later disproved, according to hundreds of documents and investigative reports released in the case.", "She claimed she dropped Caylee off with a babysitter, but when police checked out her story, they learned the address Casey Anthony supplied belonged to an apartment that had been vacant for weeks.", "The woman Casey Anthony named as her babysitter told police she did not know her.", "Review a timeline of the case » .", "Investigators said cadaver dogs picked up the scent of death in Anthony's car as well as in her parents' backyard.", "They also said air quality tests conducted by the FBI found evidence consistent with human decomposition and chloroform in the car's trunk.", "A neighbor told police Anthony had asked to borrow a shovel.", "CNN's John Couwels and Natisha Lance contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Sheriff's official says \"significant finds have been made,\" doesn't elaborate .", "Source says authorities find bones near site where corpse was found .", "FBI should have DNA analyzed \"within the next week,\" he adds .", "Hair, age, measurements of remains match toddler, police and attorneys say ." ]	[ 2, 7, 25, 45 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari denied his nation was involved in last week's deadly attacks on Mumbai, India, and told CNN on Tuesday he's seen no evidence that a suspect in custody is a Pakistani national as Indian officials claim.", "Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari says he believes the Mumbai attackers were \"stateless actors.\"", "\"I think these are stateless actors who have been operating all throughout the region,\" Zardari said on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" in an interview set to air Tuesday night.", "\"The gunmen plus the planners, whoever they are, [are] stateless actors who have been holding hostage the whole world.\"", "At least 179 people were killed when a band of gunmen attacked 10 targets in Mumbai on Wednesday night, triggering three days of battles with police and Indian troops in the heart of the city -- the hub of India's financial and entertainment industries.", "Most of the deaths occurred at the city's top two hotels: the Oberoi and the Taj Mahal.", "Watch Zardari blame \"stateless actors\" » .", "Indian officials have publicly blamed Pakistani militants for the attacks, and called on Pakistan to hand over a group of wanted militant leaders suspected of plotting them.", "On Tuesday, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi proposed a joint investigation into the attacks and said, \"This is not the time to point fingers.\"", "Zardari confirmed he is willing to have Pakistani security officials participate with India in a joint investigation.", "\"The state of Pakistan is in no way responsible,\" Zardari told King. ...", "Even the White House and the American CIA have said that today.", "The state of Pakistan is, of course, not involved.", "We're part of the victims, Larry.", "I'm a victim. The state of Pakistan is a victim.", "We are the victims of this war, and I am sorry for the Indians, and I feel sorry for them.\"", "Indian officials have said that the only suspected attacker in custody has told police he is a Pakistani national.", "Indian intelligence sources have told CNN's sister network, CNN-IBN, that police believe all the attackers were Pakistanis.", "Indian police say nine of the 10 attackers were killed by Indian forces.", "Asked about the suspect in custody, Zardari said: \"We have not been given any tangible proof to say that he is definitely a Pakistani.", "I very much doubt it, Larry, that he is a Pakistani.\"", "He said Pakistan is looking into the allegation, but added, \"Like I said, these are stateless individuals.", "... We've had incidents the past two days in Karachi where we've lost more than 40 to 45 people, hundreds injured.", "These are stateless actors who are moving throughout this region.\"", "India summoned Pakistan's high commissioner, the top-ranking Pakistani diplomat in New Delhi, to External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's office Monday to inform him that last week's massacre in Mumbai \"was carried out by elements from Pakistan.\"", "It renewed a demand that Pakistan hand over a group of militant leaders whose extradition it has sought since a 2001 attack on India's Parliament that brought the South Asian nuclear rivals to the brink of war.", "\"The government expects that strong action would be taken against those elements, whosoever they may be, responsible for this outrage,\" a statement from India's Foreign Ministry said.", "\"It was conveyed to the Pakistan high commissioner that Pakistan's actions needed to match the sentiments expressed by its leadership that it wishes to have a qualitatively new relationship with India.\"", "The list reportedly includes Hafiz Mohammed, the head of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, a now-banned Islamic militant group that denied last week that it was involved in the Mumbai attack.", "The group is blamed for the 2001 attack on India's Parliament.", "\"I am definitely going to look into all the possibility of any proof that is given to us,\" Zardari said.", "\"At the moment, these are just names of individuals.", "No proof, no investigation, nothing has been brought forward.\"", "If proof of the individuals' involvement is provided, he said, \"We would try them in our courts, we would try them in our land, and we would sentence them.\"", "Indian authorities said the suspect in custody was trained by Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.", "Zardari told CNN that Lashkar-e-Tayyiba is a \"banned organization\" in Pakistan and around the world.", "\"If indeed they are involved, we would not know,\" he said.", "\"Again, they are people who operate outside the system.", "They operate like -- al Qaeda, for instance, is not state-oriented.", "They operate something on that mechanism, and ...", "I've already offered India full cooperation on this incident, and we intend to do that.\"", "\"I'm firmly committed to fighting terrorism per se,\" he said.", "\"That's why we are fighting them every day, Larry.\"", "Asked about the possibility of Indian military strikes against terrorist camps in Pakistan, Zardari said: \"I would not agree with that because this is a time to come together and do a joint investigation and look at the problem in the larger context.", "We have a larger threat on our hands ... it's a threat throughout the region.", "So that would be counterproductive.\"", "Pakistan and India, both nuclear powers, have a tense relationship and have fought three wars since the subcontinent was divided in 1947.", "On whether the Mumbai attacks could trigger a fourth war, Zardari said: \"Larry, democracies don't go to war.", "All those wars you're talking about did not take place in any democracy.", "They all happened in the times of dictators.", "... \"The whole nation of Pakistan is united to ... becoming friends with India,\" he said." ]	[ "Pakistani President Zardari: \"Stateless actors\" behind attacks in Mumbai, India .", "Indian intelligence sources tell CNN-IBN they believe attackers were Pakistani .", "Zardari says he doubts suspect in custody is Pakistani .", "He says he's willing to have Pakistan participate in a joint investigation with India ." ]	[ 0, 1, 9 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Michelle Crawley says she's a \"freak\" about putting sunscreen on her two girls.", "Emily Crawley and her dad, Jere, hit the pool on the first day of a Florida vacation, which left Emily sunburned.", "\"They are both pretty fair skinned,\" says the West Chester, Ohio, mother of two.", "So every time Emily, 6, and Claire, 3, go out into the sun, she slathers them with SPF 30 or higher .", "But during a recent trip to Key Largo, Florida, Crawley's vigilance wasn't enough.", "\"I wasn't sure if it was my technique, the sunscreen or being in Florida,\" Crawley said, but \"that evening they were just fried beyond belief.\"", "Slathering on sunscreen has become as much a part of the summer ritual as the vacation itself, but a consumer advocacy group has a warning for parents like Crawley who think they're protecting their family with sunscreen: You may be getting burned.", "The Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based nonprofit, has released an investigation of nearly 1,000 brand-name sunscreens that says four out of five don't adequately protect consumers and may contain harmful chemicals.", "The group says that some of the products of the nation's leading brands -- including Coppertone, Neutrogena and Banana Boat -- are the poorest performers.", "Read about the study .", "Coppertone was named by the Environmental Working Group as having 41 products that failed to meet the group's criteria for issues ranging from failing to protect adequately to containing potentially harmful ingredients to making unsubstantiated claims.", "But in a statement to CNN, the company says it \"rigorously tests all its products in the lab and in the real world\" to ensure that they're safe and effective.", "Watch more on what to look for in sunscreen » .", "The makers of Banana Boat, which also failed to meet the Environmental Working Group's standards for various reasons, did not respond to CNN's requests for comment.", "Neutrogena says its sunscreen products have been \"embraced by dermatologists and consumers for their efficacy\" and says its new Helioplex technology provides broad-spectrum UV defense against sun damage.", "The science of sunscreens is simple: Active ingredients are compounds that absorb, reflect or block ultraviolet light.", "Sunscreens are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration not as cosmetics but as over-the-counter drugs.", "Sunscreens are rated based on their SPF, or Sun Protection Factor.", "The higher the SPF, the better the protection against sunburn.", "The Environmental Working Group says that the SPF rating on a sun product is only part of what consumers need to know and that one of the biggest problems with sunscreens is that they don't fully protect against sunlight.", "\"A good, effective sunscreen must prevent against a broad spectrum of rays,\" said Sonya Lunder, a senior researcher at the Environmental Working Group.", "Sunlight is composed of two types of ultraviolet light: UVB rays, which cause sunburns, and UVA rays, which tan.", "Although both may increase the risk of skin cancer, sun damage and wrinkles, the FDA doesn't require sunscreens to protect against both, just UVB.", "The FDA acknowledges that new rules mandating UVA testing and labeling requirements are being evaluated, but the Environmental Working Group wants tougher standards now.", "\"The fact most sunscreens still don't don't offer UVA protection and the fact the FDA has been working for years to finalize its rules is really what provoked us to look at this issue,\" Lunder said.", "Another issue: Is a key sunscreen ingredient safe?", "Oxybenzone is a a popular UV filter in many sunscreens, one evaluated by the FDA as safe.", "The Environmental Working Group says its analysis of hundreds of studies of more than a dozen sunscreen chemicals finds that oxybenzone can penetrate the skin and pose health concerns, anything from hormone disruption to cancer.", "The industry group representing sunscreen makers denies that oxybenzone causes harm and deems such claims irresponsible.", "\"Questions about the safety of oxybenzone unnecessarily alarm consumers,\" said John Bailey, the chief scientist for the Personal Care Products Council, which offers its scientific information about the safety of sunscreen ingredients online.", "\"Safe sun\" has always been a priority for the American Academy of Dermatology, which sees sun overexposure as the single most preventable risk factor in the more than 1 million new cases of skin cancer expected to be diagnosed in the United States this year.", "Although dermatologists agree that broad-spectrum sun protection is important, some experts see an even bigger sun danger if people perceive that their sunscreen isn't safe.", "\"We're concerned this will raise unnecessary confusion and cause people to stop using sunscreen,\" said the Skin Cancer Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to educating the public about sun safety.", "\"Consumers should rest assured that sunscreen products are safe and effective when used as directed.\"", "While sunscreen effectiveness is debated, all skin experts agree that how a sunscreen is used is just as important as what kind of sunscreen is used.", "Dermatologists say that an ounce of sunscreen should be applied to all exposed areas 30 minutes before going outside and should be reapplied every two hours, or immediately if you swim or sweat.", "Common sense can also protect from the sun.", "Experts agree that children under 6 months old should be kept out of direct sun.", "Children need sunscreen with SPF 30 or higher.", "If you are sensitive to sunscreen, never go without.", "Instead, try sunscreens that provide a physical barrier, such as zinc oxide or titanium dioxide.", "New micronizing technology makes both appear more transparent on the skin, so you don't have to look like a lifeguard with a white nose.", "After her girls were sunburned, Crawley bought aloe and sun shirts, which they wore for the rest of their Florida trip.", "She is frustrated some consumers may not be getting the protection they think they are when they buy sunscreen.", "\"I think it's disappointing if you are putting your trust in these companies,\" she said.", "\"Someone needs to be keeping an eye on it to make sure they are meeting their claims.\"", "CNN correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, senior producer Jennifer Pifer and Melanie Diaz contributed to this report." ]	[ "Environmental Working Group: 4 out of 5 sunscreens tested don't adequately protect .", "Group says chemical in sunscreens can penetrate skin and pose health concerns .", "FDA allows the chemical in sunscreens, says it is safe .", "Sunscreen manufacturers say their products are safe and effective ." ]	[ 7, 26, 27, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Two teams of scientists say they have found a key area of the H5N1 bird flu virus which seems to be vital to its ability to copy itself, and hope the discovery could lead to new drugs to fight the infection.", "Human-to-human transmission of avian flu is rare, but in some cases, the virus has passed from poultry to humans.", "The discovery is generating excitement among scientists who are looking for a new weapon against the bird flu virus that typically kills more than half its human victims.", "Two separate groups of scientists -- one in China, one in France -- used a highly technical process to identify protein that seems to be involved in its ability to replicate itself.", "That gives researchers a new target, as they try and develop new medications.", "The announcements, detailed in the British-based journal Nature, come at an uneasy time for those who follow the bird flu strain called H5N1.", "So far this disease is mainly affecting birds in some countries and the number of human cases remains small, but the virus has shown no sign of growing milder since it first infected people back in 1997.", "It continues to decimate bird flocks in sporadic outbreaks, mostly in Asia, and occasionally breaks into the human population.", "China's Ministry of Health reported eight human cases last month, including four deaths.", "Since 2003, the World Health Organization has confirmed 404 human cases worldwide.", "Nearly two-thirds of the victims have died.", "While H5N1 doesn't make headlines the way it did in 2005, health officials say the continuing severity of the infections means the alarm is still on.", "Influenza viruses, in general, spread easily.", "If H5N1 were to acquire the genetic ability to pass easily from person to person, it could turn into a major catastrophe.", "Many countries have stockpiled both vaccines and antiviral medications, for such a scenario.", "The same medications that are used to treat regular flu, oseltamivir (Tamiful) and zanamivir (Relenza), also seem to be effective against H5N1.", "But that's no reason to rest easy.", "All flu viruses tend to mutate rapidly, which is why the flu vaccine one year, won't protect you against the next year's flu.", "Those rapid mutations mean the virus tends to develop a resistance to any widely used medication.", "Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, told CNN, \"It always happens that eventually, sooner or later, the [flu] virus will develop varying degrees of resistance.", "You just hope that it's kept to a minimum.\"", "The findings in Nature may lead to another option to fight bird flu, but an actual new drug is years away.", "A vaccine could be effective, but they first have to know what strain of flu they're fighting.", "The current strategy of health officials around the world is to try to contain isolated cases before they spread.", "The best case scenario would be, that this H5N1 killer remains primarily a disease for the birds." ]	[ "Experts say they have found key component of the H5N1 bird flu virus .", "It is hoped this will lead to better medication to fight the infection .", "China reported its first human-to-human infection in 2005 .", "Since 2003, the World Health Organization has confirmed 404 human cases ." ]	[ 0, 9 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A company accused of encouraging hundreds to illegally enter the United States and then hiring them using fake Social Security numbers has agreed to pay the largest settlement ever in a workplace immigration bust, the Department of Justice said Friday.", "Relatives of people arrested in IFCO raids gather for a news conference in July 2006.", "IFCO Systems North America, a pallet and crate company, will pay a $20.7 million settlement, which includes $18.1 million in fines and $2.6 million for overtime violations, the Department of Justice said.", "In early 2006, immigration officials raided 45 IFCO sites, arresting almost 1,200 low-level workers.", "Federal officials also charged several managers, accusing them of using \"as a business model the systematic violation of United States law.\"", "To date, nine IFCO managers and employees have pleaded guilty to criminal conduct, the Justice Department said.", "Four managers are awaiting trial on felony charges and the investigation is continuing, it said.", "The Justice Department said it will not pursue criminal charges against the company if it complies with the terms of the settlement.", "\"The agreement severely punishes IFCO for its serious immigration and employment violations,\" acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Baxter said.", "\"But it also allows the corporation to continue its operations, so that its lawful employees and innocent shareholders do not suffer the consequences of a business failure in this economy.\"", "IFCO's violation of the law was flagrant, officials said.", "More than half of the company's 5,800 workers during 2005 had invalid Social Security numbers, and the company ignored at least 13 letters from the Social Security Administration about questionable Social Security numbers.", "IFCO records suggests that as many as 6,000 illegal immigrants worked at company plants from 2003 to 2006, the Justice Department said.", "Federal officials said Friday that IFCO \"acknowledges and accepts responsibility for the unlawful conduct of its managers and employees.\"", "An IFCO official could not be reached for comment." ]	[ "Pallet and crate company IFCO Systems North America will pay $20.7 million .", "IFCO accused of luring workers to U.S., giving them fake Social Security numbers .", "Justice won't pursue criminal charges if company complies with settlement .", "As many as 6,000 illegal immigrants worked for company from 2003 to 2006 ." ]	[ 2, 7, 12 ]
[ "MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Searchers looking for a woman believed to have fallen from a cruise ship off the Yucatan coast of Mexico have seen no sign of her, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Friday afternoon.", "The Norwegian Pearl is on a seven-day Caribbean cruise.", "Lt. Matt Moorlag, based in Miami, said crews would work into the night to find 33-year-old Jennifer Feitz, whose husband reported her missing aboard the Norwegian Pearl about 3:40 a.m. Friday.", "Ship personnel called the Coast Guard for help when they couldn't locate Feitz.", "Moorlag said he had not spoken with the woman's husband.", "The search was centered about 15 miles east of Cancun, Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea, said Petty Officer 3rd Class Nick Ameen, a Coast Guard spokesman.", "\"Initial reports indicate the guest may have gone overboard while the ship was at sea, east of Cancun,\" a spokeswoman for the Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line said in a statement.", "AnneMarie Mathews said the ship left Miami on Sunday on a seven-day western Caribbean cruise.", "The Coast Guard dispatched an Air Station Miami HU-25 Falcon jet crew, and a C-130 fixed-wing aircraft crew from the Air Station in Clearwater, Florida, also was headed to the site, Ameen said.", "The Mexican government was aiding the search with a helicopter crew and three water- and ground-surface crews." ]	[ "Passenger Jennifer Feitz, 33, reported missing on Norwegian Pearl ship .", "U.S. Coast Guard in search about 15 miles east of Cancun, Mexico .", "Cruise line says, \"Initial reports indicate the guest may have gone overboard\"\nMexican government also is helping in the search ." ]	[ 1, 5, 6 ]
[ "ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Italy's prime minister held emergency meetings on Monday to discuss the growing garbage problem in Naples, where more than two weeks of closed dumps and uncollected garbage has led to mountains of trash across the city.", "Collectors stopped picking up rubbish on December 21, saying that dumps are full.", "The garbage problem has become so bad that Neapolitan residents have started burning their waste, leading to noxious fumes permeating the air in the southern Italian coastal city.", "On Monday, the government called on the army to help with emergency trash collection for the second time in a year.", "Bags of rotting, uncollected waste now line city streets and sit in alleys beneath residential apartment blocks.", "In some places, the piles of trash tower over the cars driving past.", "Prime Minister Romano Prodi met with the interior and environment ministers in Rome after President Giorgio Napolitano, who is from Naples, said he was alarmed by the crisis.", "The latest problems began on December 31, when the government closed one of the area's two working dumps.", "Gian Francesco Raiano, a spokesman for the government's \"garbage crisis administrator,\" said the dump was closed at the request of residents.", "That left only one working dump, in the town of Serre, which is able to accept only 2,000 tons of trash a day.", "Raiano said that was the reason trash started piling up on the streets.", "Authorities are hoping to alleviate the problem when they reopen a long-closed dump in the town of Pianura, near Naples, by the end of this week.", "The government announced on December 30 that it planned to reopen Pianura, and the decision immediately sparked protests by nearby residents.", "They blocked roads to stop trucks from entering the site to prepare to open it after 12 years out of commission, and there were scuffles as police tried to move protesters away.", "Problems with Naples' garbage have been around in some form for 14 years, when Italian authorities first declared the situation an emergency.", "Complicating the issue is the involvement of organized crime, which has long controlled the region's waste business.", "The Camorra, as the mafia is known in Naples, controls both dumps and garbage trucks, making the problem enormously difficult for the government to solve.", "Forty dumping sites have operated in the Campania region over the past 30 years, but most have been closed for various reasons, including criminal investigations related to the Camorra.", "Residents' protests, over-saturation, and lack of proper equipment were other factors.", "Italian media have cited statistics saying that Naples produces 1.6 million tons of garbage a year, and that the government has spent 1.8 billion euros ($2.7 billion) over the past 14 years to deal with the problem.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Prime Minister Romano Prodi holds emergency meetings over trash problems .", "Prodi forced to act after army called to help clear rubbish piles around Naples .", "City collectors stopped work on December 21 because dumps are full .", "Residents in a city suburb set up roadblocks in protest at dump reopening ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- He's the butt-kicking, karate-chopping, kung fu superstar who rose from nowhere to conquer Hollywood in a spectacularly visual style.", "Action star Jackie Chan celebrates winning Best Actor at the 25th China Golden Rooster in 2005 .", "With his compact but wiry 5-foot, 9-inch frame, Jackie Chan seems to pale into insignificance when compared with muscle-bound Hollywood tough guys such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Claude Van Damme.", "But combining extraordinary athleticism and an acrobatic style, Chan could probably take them both on in a fight and emerge victorious.", "Best known to western audiences as star of the Rush Hour trilogy, Chan is a prolific actor who has made more than 100 films spanning three decades.", "But success did not come easy for Chan, who made a string of flops in the early 1970s in Asia.", "He struggled for years to break out of the shadow of Bruce Lee, the undisputed kung fu king of the time -- even appearing as a stuntman in two of Lee's films.", "But in 1978, Chan landed his first hit in Asia with \"Snake in the Eagle's Shadow.\"", "This was quickly followed by \"Drunken Master,\" which catapulted him to fame, and he suddenly became one of the highest-paid actors in the industry.", "Chan is credited with creating a new film art form, with his comedic take on martial arts, reminiscent of Buster Keaton's slapstick style.", "\"He totally reinvented Hong Kong cinema,\" said Renee Witterstaetter, author of \"Dying For Action: The Life and Films of Jackie Chan.\"", "\"He created a new film art form, mixing humor with martial arts,\" Witterstaetter said.", "\"It was so different and unique.\"", "Watch TalkAsia's exclusive interview inside Jackie Chan's den » .", "Although a household name in his native Hong Kong and most of Asia, Hollywood seemed largely oblivious to his talents.", "It was not until 1994 when he made \"Rumble in the Bronx,\" which grossed $10 million in its opening weekend and made it to number one at the U.S. box office, that Chan finally cracked Hollywood.", "Soon big-budget hits such as the \"Rush Hour\" series and \"Shanghai Noon,\" followed.", "\"Rush Hour\" was Chan's first movie to break $100 million at the U.S. box office, earning $141 million, according to the box office tracking Web site, Box Office Mojo.", "\"Rush Hour 2\" made $226 million and \"Rush Hour 3\" has earned $137 million so far.", "His current cinematic venture sees him paired with longtime friend Jet Li in \"The Forbidden Kingdom\" in their first movie collaboration.", "Set in a mythic, ancient China, it is described as \"The Wizard of Oz with lots of martial arts.\"", "The martial arts dream team have already seen \"Kingdom\" debut at No.", "1 with $20.9 million in ticket sales last weekend, but Chan says the reason it took him so long to work with Jet Li is because he didn't like the Hollywood scripts they were initially offered.", "Chan, 54, is also quite candid about the fact that he doesn't like most of the Hollywood films he has made.", "He revealed to CNN: \"I didn't really like 'Rush Hour.'", "In America, everyone likes 'Rush Hour,' but in Asia nobody likes it.", "\"They like talking too much in America but in Asia they like to fight more in the films.\"", "After the film wrapped in 1998, he wrote on his Web site: \"When we finished filming, I was very disappointed because it was a movie I didn't appreciate and I did not like the action scenes involved.", "\"I felt the style of action was too Americanized and I didn't understand the American humor.\"", "Chan has certainly come a long way from his impoverished childhood in Hong Kong, where the story has it that his parents were so poor, they nearly sold him to a British doctor for less than $100.", "However, his parents instead enrolled him at the China Drama Academy, a talent school of hard knocks with a draconian regime that included training in music, acrobatics and martial arts that lasted 18 hours a day.", "Beatings were commonplace.", "Children were made to perform headstands for hours on end and Chan describes being forced to run, arms outstretched, carrying two full cups of water, with strict instructions not to spill a drop.", "With his parents now living in Australia, Chan stayed at the school for ten years and was adopted by his Master.", "Undoubtedly, the academy's grueling regime would later stand Chan in good stead, turning him into an incredibly driven and disciplined stuntman turned actor, who always choreographs and performs his own stunts.", "As a consequence, no insurance company will underwrite Chan's productions, which are legendary for his death-defying super stunts.", "They include water-skiing barefoot behind a speeding hovercraft, jumping off a building and swinging from a hot air balloon.", "Chan holds the Guinness World Record for \"Most Stunts By A Living Actor.\"", "He also holds the record for the most number of takes for a single shot in a film, having shot over 2900 retakes for a complex scene involving a badminton game in \"Dragon Lord.\"", "Unsurprisingly, Chan has suffered a litany of injuries in the course of his film career.", "Over the years, he has dislocated his pelvis and broken his fingers, toes, nose, both cheekbones, hips, sternum, neck and ribs on numerous occasions.", "When filming \"Police Story\" in 1985, he suffered second-degree burns to his hands and palms after sliding 100 feet down a pole festooned in Christmas lights.", "Many of the injuries have appeared, in eye-watering viewing, as outtakes or bloopers during the closing credits of his films.", "But in 1986, he came close to death while filming \"Armor of God,\" when he fell 45 feet from a tree and fractured his skull, leaving a permanent hole in his head.", "Chan explained to CNN's TalkAsia host, Anjali Rao that he never insists on doing his own stunts.", "It's just the way things are done in Hong Kong.", "\"Making a film in Hong Kong in the old days was not like Hollywood,\" he says.", "\"We didn't have protection like elbow pads and we didn't have the knowledge about safety.", "I had to risk my life jumping from building to building.\"", "Chan is a one-man movie-making machine.", "He has his own production and distribution company -- Jackie Chan Emperor Movies -- and controls all aspects of the movie-making process, from casting to directing, producing, screenwriting, choreographing and stunt coordinating.", "He even has his own stunt team and casting agency.", "His director on the Rush Hour series, Brett Ratner told CNN's The Screening Room that Chan's versatility gives him the edge over other martial arts stars like Bruce Lee and Jet Li.", "\"Jackie is the most gifted actor of the three because he has the most range.", "Bruce Lee is a legendary performer and martial artist, but I don't think he is as funny as Jackie Chan.", "\"Jackie can be funny, he can be dramatic, he can do the action and the stunts, he can direct, edit, shoot.", "He is also a stunt coordinator so he is everything wrapped into one.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Action star Jackie Chan is famed for combining humor with martial arts .", "His new film \"The Forbidden Kingdom\" is first pairing with kung fu star Jet Li .", "Chan holds the Guinness World Record for \"Most Stunts By A Living Actor\"\nHe has suffered a litany of horror injuries over his 30-year movie career ." ]	[ 11, 19, 37, 39 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Britain's Prince William received his Royal Air Force pilot's wings at a graduation ceremony Friday.", "Prince William while attending Remembrance Sunday ceremonies last November in London.", "His father, Prince Charles, presented the wings to his son and 24 other graduating students at the ceremony, held at the Cranwell Air Force base in northern England.", "Prince Charles smiled broadly as he pinned the badge on his son's lapel.", "The two shared a few words and shook hands as the audience clapped.", "William's girlfriend, Kate Middleton, was among those watching the ceremony.", "Watch William being presented with his wings » .", "William, 25, is already a second lieutenant in the British Army, where he serves in the Household Cavalry (Blues and Royals).", "Since January, he has been on a four-month attachment with the Royal Air Force designed to give the future king experience with the various branches of the military.", "William plans to complete a similar attachment with the Royal Navy later in the year, according to his office at Clarence House.", "During his time with the RAF, William learned to fly three different aircraft: a Grob 115E light aircraft, the faster Tucano T1 plane, and a Squirrel helicopter.", "The prince was only eight days into his flying course when he made his first solo flight, Clarence House said.", "At the time, William described it as \"an amazing experience.\"", "\"Going solo is one of those things -- if you had a list of the top 50 things to do before you die, it would be in there,\" he said in January.", "Clarence House said it was William's \"lifetime ambition\" to learn to fly.", "After the ceremony, he will be known in the RAF as Flying Officer Wales.", "Prince Charles earned his wings more than 35 years ago at the same air force base, graduating as a Flight Lieutenant.", "William's uncle, the Duke of York, flew Sea King helicopters during the Falklands War in 1982.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Britain's Prince William due to receive his Royal Air Force pilot's wings .", "Future head of British armed forces completes four-month stint with RAF .", "The 25-year-old has trained as a helicopter and fighter pilot .", "His father, Prince Charles, presented his wings at graduation ceremony ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York police have made an arrest in the case of an Ecuadorian immigrant beaten to death in an apparent anti-Latino and antigay hate crime in December, New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced Wednesday.", "Jose Sucuzhanay was beaten after leaving a party at a church.", "Police arrested Hakim Scott, 25, on Tuesday and charged him with second degree murder as a hate crime.", "Police are still looking for a second suspect.", "On December 7, 2008, police say Jose Sucuzhanay and his brother Romel had left a party at a church and were embracing each other to keep warm in the cold when Scott and another man approached them in a car in Brooklyn's Bushwick section, about a block from the brothers' home.", "Police say the two assailants shouted antigay and anti-Latino vulgarities and attacked the brothers.", "Scott first assaulted Jose with a beer bottle before chasing after Romel, police said.", "The second assailant proceeded to \"savagely beat Jose about his ribs, shoulders,\" head and back with an aluminum bat, according to Kelly.", "Jose Sucuzhanay, 31, died of his injuries in December hours before his mother arrived in New York from Ecuador.", "Romel Sucuzhanay, 34, suffered minor scrapes.", "Police were able to identify two suspects after inferring that they had crossed the Triborough Bridge in the course of their flight from the crime scene.", "They interviewed bridge toll booth employees and combed through videotape of cars passing through cash-only lanes on the bridge.", "Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said the incident should send a message that antigay violence endangers straights and gays alike.", "\"If there was ever a message to the people of this city or anywhere as to why heterosexuals have to stand up and not permit this type of violence ... it is this case,\" Hynes said." ]	[ "Hakim Scott, 25, charged with 2nd degree murder in New York case .", "Second suspect sought in beating of Jose and Romel Sucuzhanay .", "Brothers were hugging to stay warm; assailants made antigay remarks ." ]	[ 0, 2, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The slayings of two super-yacht staff within two weeks have shaken the luxury yacht industry and sparked calls for crews to exercise extreme caution.", "Australian luxury yacht captain Drew Gollan was killed in January in English Harbor, Antigua.", "Both slayings occurred in popular yachting destinations in the Caribbean and involved violent attacks.", "Last week, U.S. luxury yacht chef Sara Kuszak, of Savannah, Georgia, was killed after being abducted during a morning run in Puerto Rico.", "The body of Kuszak, who was five months pregnant, was found with a slashed throat in a field.", "A local man has been arrested by police in connection with the incident.", "On January 22, Australian Drew Gollan, captain of Perini Navi yacht Perseus, was shot dead in what was described as a \"failed robbery\" in English Harbor, Antigua.", "Gollan, 38, was described as a \"widely respected member of the yachting community.\"", "His death came less than a year after the double killing of a British couple on the island.", "Suspects have been arrested and charged with murder in both cases.", "Antigua, in particular, is highly dependent on the luxury yacht industry to boost its local economy -- and it appears news of the crimes is already having a negative impact.", "In a press release, the Antigua Charter Yacht Meeting acknowledged that \"a number of boats have decided to leave Antigua in the wake of this incident.\"", "Further reports from yachting magazine SuperYachtWorld suggest several captains on the island have also decided to leave.", "Meanwhile, luxury yacht staff who are remaining in the Caribbean have been urged by industry Web site yotcru.com to \"exercise vigilant personal safety at all times.\"", "After the death of Gollan, local Antigua politicians and yacht industry representatives held an emergency meeting to discuss the problem.", "At the meeting, the prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, Baldwin Spencer, said: \"Antigua is still a safe place to be.", "It's an unfortunate situation, however we are all hoping that justice will be done,\" SuperYachtWorld reported.", "Spencer also pledged new security efforts to help prevent future crimes.", "An international charter company manager and luxury yacht industry expert, Els Bucknell, said yacht crews and clients were \"shocked and saddened\" by the deaths, and there would likely be a short-term impact on the Caribbean region.", "\"Most people assumed that this part of Antigua was safe and I think it has come as a shock,\" she said.", "\"Some boats have already left and I think you will see some of that.\"", "However, Bucknell felt the incident would not affect the region in the long term.", "\"People do forget about these things over time ... and the local business people with police and other authorities have made a serious attempt to make it safer.", "\"The economy being the way it is has more to do with how business operates than these kind of things,\" she said." ]	[ "Australian captain Drew Gollan shot dead in Antigua on January 22 .", "U.S. yacht chef Sara Kuszak was abducted and killed in Puerto Rico last week .", "Reports indicate some yachts and crew members leaving Caribbean ." ]	[ 3, 6 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nearly seven years after the remains of federal intern Chandra Levy were found in a Washington park, a jailed laborer from El Salvador faces a murder charge in her death, authorities said Tuesday.", "Ingmar Guandique is serving a 10-year sentence for two assaults in the park where Levy's body was found.", "A judge on Tuesday signed an arrest warrant for Ingmar Guandique, 27, who is serving a 10-year sentence for two assaults in Rock Creek Park that occurred around the time of Levy's disappearance.", "Her remains were found in Rock Creek Park about a year after she was reported missing.", "\"We believe Levy was a random victim of Guandique, who attacked and killed her as she jogged in Rock Creek Park,\" said Jeffrey Taylor, U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.", "Guandique's public defenders said the case was far from over, and urged the public not to jump to conclusions.", "\"This flawed investigation, characterized by the many mistakes and missteps of the Metropolitan Police Department and every federal agency that has attempted to solve this case, will not end with the simple issuance of an arrest warrant against Mr. Guandique,\" the federal public defender's office said in a statement ... We look forward to trying this case before unbiased jurors who will not rush to judgment.\"", "Guandique faces a first-degree murder charge.", "A conviction on the charge would bring a mandatory sentence of 30 to 60 years in prison, Taylor said.", "The massive publicity surrounding the Levy case was largely a result of her romantic affair to then-Rep. Gary Condit, a California Democrat.", "Police questioned Condit many times in connection with the slaying, but the congressman was never considered a suspect.", "Watch the police announce arrest » .", "A California native working as an intern for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Levy, 24, disappeared May 1, 2001.", "Her remains were found in May 2002 by a man walking his dog in a remote area of the park.", "Guandique has been imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution-Victorville, a medium-security facility northeast of Los Angeles, California.", "Officials hope to transfer him from California to the nation's capital in 45 to 60 days.", "He's serving his sentence on the two assault convictions in California because there are no prisons in the District of Columbia.", "Those convicted of federal crimes in the capital are sent to various federal prisons across the country.", "Guandique was considered a person of interest in 2002 in connection with Levy's death, authorities said Tuesday.", "Before the new charges, his projected release date from prison was October 5, 2011.", "According to officials at Tuesday's news conference -- and the affidavit supporting the arrest warrant for Guandique -- circumstantial evidence played a large role in the case.", "Authorities presented no evidence Tuesday of anyone seeing Guandique and Levy together.", "Timeline of Levy's disappearance » .", "But the affidavit said a witness reported seeing and running from a man in the park, and she said she believed that occurred on the same day as Levy disappeared.", "Upon seeing a photograph of Guandique in the interim, the woman thought he looked like the man who followed her in the park, the affidavit said.", "Another witness reported seeing Guandique with \"a fat lip and scratches on his face\" about the time of Levy's disappearance, the affidavit said.", "The witness added that Guandique said he was injured by his girlfriend during an argument.", "Interviewed by police, Guandique's girlfriend at the time said that while he was violent with her on occasion, \"at no time during any of the arguments or fights did [she] ever strike Guandique or cause any injuries to his face or neck.\"", "Two other witnesses reported that Guandique told them he committed crimes against women, including rape and murder, according to the affidavit.", "And another witness last month told police Guandique admitted his involvement in Levy's killing, as well as that he tried to rape two other women in the park at knifepoint, the affidavit said.", "When news emerged last month that Guandique's arrest was imminent in the Levy case, the same witness told police Guandique \"became very anxious and said something to the effect of, '[Expletive], it's over.", "They got me now. What am I gonna do?' \" Authorities searching Guandique's cell in California in September found a photograph of Levy that apparently had been taken from a magazine, the affidavit said.", "Speaking last month as news emerged that an arrest in the case was imminent, Levy's mother, Susan, said, \"It's a bittersweet situation for me as the mother of a daughter who is no longer here.", "I want justice.", "I want to know that the person who did it is in jail and will not do it to anybody else.\"", "She added, \"Every day the elephant is there.", "Every day you get a knot in your stomach.", "It doesn't go away. It's a life sentence for the families and relatives that miss their loved ones.", "We have a life sentence of hurt.\"", "CNN's Carol Cratty contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Affidavit says suspect told fellow inmate last month \"They got me now\"\nNEW: Witness told police she saw man resembling suspect in park, affidavit says .", "Ingmar Guandique is serving a 10-year prison sentence for two assaults .", "Levy disappeared in May 2001; her body was found a year later ." ]	[ 1, 2, 11 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- A longtime employee and vault manager for a jewelry company in Long Island City, New York, stole millions of dollars worth of gold and gold jewelry from her employer over a six-year span, the Queens district attorney has alleged.", "Teresa Tambunting, 50, of Scarsdale, New York, is accused of stealing as much as $12 million from Jacmel Jewelry, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement Wednesday.", "At an arraignment Wednesday, she did not enter a plea to charges of first-degree grand larceny and first-degree criminal possession of stolen property, the district attorney's office said.", "She was released on $100,000 bail and will return to court May 19, the office said.", "Her attorney, David Kirby, did not return phone calls seeking comment.", "Tambunting, who worked for Jacmel for 28 years, has returned about $7 million worth of gold, but $4 million remains missing, according to Brown.", "\"The defendant is accused of establishing a virtual mining operation in Long Island City which siphoned off millions of dollars' worth of the precious metal from her employer,\" Brown said.", "Police say Tambunting -- whose job responsibilities involved monitoring the vault in which fine gold, finished products and raw materials were stored -- confessed that for several months last year, she hid gold in makeshift slits in her purse.", "An inventory in January revealed that as much as $12 million in merchandise was missing, Brown said in the written statement.", "After an investigation, Tambunting arrived at the jewelry company's offices wheeling a suitcase containing about 66 pounds of gold, an estimated $868,000, the district attorney's office said.", "In February, about 450 pounds of gold was taken from her residence, the office said.", "Tambunting became vault manager in 1991, the office said.", "The dates of the alleged thefts were not immediately clear.", "The value of the gold returned fluctuates because of the rise and fall of gold prices.", "However, the charges are based on what Jacmel claims it lost: $3 to $12 million, according to the Queens district attorney.", "Jewelry manufacturer owners often find themselves in precarious circumstances when protecting their companies from thievery, said Benjamin Mark, who owned a jewelry manufacturing company in New York for 20 years.", "\"Unless you have metal detectors where every single employee removes their shoes and belts, you can't be certain,\" said Mark, who now operates a one-man business.", "\"Stealing jewelry is relatively simple.\"", "Jacmel Jewelry is one of the country's largest manufacturers and distributors of popular price jewelry, according to its Web site.", "It employs more than 1,000 people worldwide, according to its president, Jack Rahmey.", "Rahmey said he is cooperating with authorities.", "Tambunting faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted." ]	[ "Vault manager worked for Jacmel Jewelry for 28 years .", "Authorities say she confessed to hiding gold in her purse .", "District attorney says she's returned about $7 million in gold .", "She could get 25 years in prison if convicted ." ]	[ 5, 7, 21 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- More than $20 million from dozens of clients is unaccounted for in the aftermath of what police say was a murder-suicide by the attorney who invested the money, according to a source with direct knowledge of deceased lawyer William Parente's financial dealings.", "Police say Stephanie Parente's father killed his family and himself in a Baltimore hotel Monday.", "Some investors fear their entire life savings have been wiped out, said the source, who based the $20 million amount on knowledge of Parente's finances.", "Some other investors are missing what could amount to another $7 million, CNN has learned, so the total of missing money tied to Parente could be upwards of $27 million.", "Baltimore County, Maryland, police say Parente, 59, killed his family before committing suicide.", "The bodies of Parente, his wife and their two daughters were found in a hotel room in Towson, Maryland, on Monday.", "The source, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitive financial information involved, said one investor had been involved with Parente for more than 15 years, receiving regular monthly payments from Parente until April 16, four days before the bodies were found.", "The source said Parente solicited personal loans from clients at high interest, promising to use the money for bridge financing of real estate projects such as shopping centers.", "The source did not know whether Parente, of Garden City, New York, had actually used the money for any legitimate investments.", "The source, who knew Parente for more than 15 years, described him as \"serious, somber and conservative.\"", "Parente told investors he was generating returns of more than 13 percent even in down markets, according to the source.", "Investors were not given investment statements and were not charged a management fee, but Parente did provide notices informing investors that he owed them money, according to the source.", "In other developments Friday, police said Parente bought a set of knives from a Crate and Barrel store in Towson, and one of the knives is believed to be the one Parente later used to take his own life.", "Baltimore County police said that knife is being tested as evidence in the murder/suicide case.", "Investigators say they found a receipt for the knife in the hotel room where the deaths took place, and the time stamped on the receipt was 5:25 p.m. Sunday.", "Police have said Parente's wife, Betty, 58, and daughters Catherine, 11, and Stephanie, 19, were killed by asphyxiation and blunt force trauma Sunday afternoon.", "Authorities said Parente took a call about midnight Sunday from his elder daughter's college roommate asking whether she was returning to her dormitory.", "Police believe Parente's daughter was already dead.", "He told the roommate his daughter was spending the night at the hotel with the family.", "Also Friday, other details emerged about some of Parente's other clients.", "One of Parente's investors was Queens lawyer Bruce Montague, and Montague's office has heard from 10 Parente clients whose investments are unaccounted for.", "Together, those clients had invested about $7 million.", "Through a law partner, Craig Gardy, Montague said he is missing $450,000.", "The clients are from New York, New Jersey, California and Florida, according to Montague's office.", "The office has referred those clients to the FBI.", "Gardy said Montague, who considered Parente to be a personal friend, remains too devastated about the deaths to provide details himself, but he authorized his partners to speak on his behalf.", "The scenario as given by his partners was that after the Bernard Madoff scandal broke last fall, Montague got \"cold feet\" and repeatedly asked Parente for his investment money back.", "On April 16, Montague tried to deposit a check from Parente for $245,000.", "On Tuesday, April 21, when Montague's bank notified him the check did not clear, he called Chase bank, where Parente's funds were held.", "Montague was told Parente's account was empty, according to Gardy, and it would be useless to deposit other checks received from Parente.", "Then Montague called the New York attorney general's office.", "He called the attorney general's office again after he learned about Parente's murder/suicide.", "Gardy said Montague believed he was investing in real estate notes -- short-term, high-interest loans made to developers, for example, who wanted to circumvent conventional bank loans.", "Montague did not receive monthly or quarterly statements.", "Gardy said Montague believed he was making money on interest from those loans and would sometimes get a check when the note was paid off.", "The FBI is continuing its investigation.", "Spokesman James Margolin said a number of banks are being contacted.", "He would not identify them.", "Funerals for Parente's wife and daughters are scheduled for Tuesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Garden City, New York.", "The funeral home handling arrangements said a separate, private service will be held for William Parente." ]	[ "Police say William Parente killed wife, 2 daughters and himself .", "Parente may have taken more than $27 million from dozens of clients .", "Clients got no investment statements and were not charged a management fee .", "A client nervous after Madoff case found there was no money in Parente's account ." ]	[ 0, 1, 11 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The federal judge whose husband and mother were slain in their family home in Chicago, Illinois, four years ago was honored Monday by U.S. marshals charged with combating a growing number of threats to the judiciary.", "Judge Joan Lefkow has advocated improving judicial security since her husband and mother were killed.", "Judge Joan Lefkow, who eventually returned to the bench, credited the marshals who protect federal judges at work and at home with major improvements in judicial security in the years since her family tragedy.", "\"It's now four years later, and I do see dawn has broken,\" Lefkow told a crowd of friends and federal officials gathered at the Marshals Service headquarters across the Potomac River from Washington.", "The improved security -- including home intrusion security systems and coordinated intelligence and threat analysis -- was badly needed, according to both judges and the Marshals Service.", "The number of threats has increased each year, and is expected to exceed 1,500 this year, up from 1,278 last year.", "\"We've already had 600 inappropriate communications reported in the first months of this year,\" said Marshals Service spokesman Dave Turner.", "Whether real threats or hoaxes, every e-mail, phone call, written note and letter -- including some with white powder -- is investigated.", "The scope and seriousness of the protective effort increased sharply after the Lefkow tragedy.", "On Tuesday, the Marshals Service dedicated the \"Joan Lefkow Conference Room\" in the new Threat Management Center to the memory of her slain husband, Michael Lefkow, and mother, Donna Humphrey.", "Judge Lefkow returned home on February 28, 2005, to find them shot to death.", "The man authorities said was their killer committed suicide 10 days later when he was stopped by police in Wisconsin.", "The killer was angry that Judge Lefkow had dismissed his medical malpractice case and he sought revenge, police concluded.", "U.S. Marshals Director John Clark credits Lefkow's advocacy for better security as the catalyst for dramatic changes.", "\"Because of her courage to speak out and her advocacy for reform in the protection of judges, things started to happen,\" Clark said.", "He cited congressional funding for home-intrusion alarms in every judge's residence and a sharp increase in funding to hire more threat investigators, protections specialists, analysts and trainers.", "The threat management center has been open for more than a year.", "Deputy marshals in the judicial protection effort attribute a growing number of the threats to disgruntled members of what is known as the sovereign citizenship movement.", "The movement is a loosely organized network of individuals and groups claiming not to be accountable to the federal government.", "The movement includes tax protesters, white separatists, zealots of fringe religious groups and desperate individuals lashing out at bankruptcy courts or judges who had wronged them.", "As a result, some judges have been given around-the-clock protective details by deputy marshals.", "\"While steady progress has been made, we must be ever vigilant and progressive in order to ensure we are providing the best possible protection to our nation's judiciary,\" Clark said." ]	[ "U.S.", "Marshals honor federal judge whose husband and mother were killed .", "Family killed by man angry at judge's decision to dismiss malpractice case .", "Judge Joan Lefkow, marshals have worked to help increase security for judges .", "Lefkow: \"It's now four years later, and I do see dawn has broken\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Paul Goydos pulled ahead of overnight co-leader Justin Leonard to move into a three-stroke lead at the halfway point of the Valero Texas Open.", "Goydos posted six birdies to hold a three-stroke lead after 36 holes of the Texas Open.", "The American had begun the day tied on seven-under-par with former Open champion Leonard, a Texas native, who started early at the par-70, 6,896-yard Resort Course at La Cantera and followed his first-round 63 with a two-under 68 to move to nine-under.", "Goydos set off in pursuit later in the day and got off to a bad start with a bogey on his first hole at the par-four 10th.", "But it was to be the only blemish on his card as the 2008 Players Championship runner-up knocked off six birdies for a five-under 65 to get to 12- under-par.", "\"Another good day,\" Goydos told reporters afterwards.", "\"Really only had one mediocre shot all day, and that was on the first hole.", "I made bogey, and after that I played reasonably well.\"", "Mathias Gronberg led a Swedish charge in San Antonio, opening the day on four-under and going one better with a second-round 65 to take a share of the clubhouse lead with Leonard on nine-under.", "American Ted Purdy improved by three strokes with a 67 while his compatriots John Mallinger, with a 64, and Scott Sterling, who posted a 63, made it a five-way tie overnight for second place." ]	[ "Paul Goydos leads by three strokes after the second round of the Texas Open .", "Goydos cards six birdies for five-under-par 65 to get to 12-under after 36 holes .", "Joint first round leader Justin Leonard among quintet to share second position ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "MEMPHIS, Tennessee (CNN) -- When James Earl Ray bought a white Mustang in the summer of 1967, he stood on a streetcorner in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, and pulled the cash out of his shirt pocket, $2,000 in all.", "James Earl Ray paid $2,000 cash for a white Mustang, similar to this one, the seller told the FBI.", "\"Mostly twenties, with some $100 bills,\" the seller would later tell the FBI about the sale to Ray, later convicted of assassinating the Rev.", "Martin Luther King Jr. \"He must have had a roll of twenties, if he paid that guy $2,000 in twenties, that'd be a lot of money,\" said Jerry Ray, James Earl Ray's brother.", "Police Capt.", "John Light, who was chief of detectives that year in Ray's hometown of Alton, Illinois, suspects the wad of money came from a still-unsolved bank robbery.", "While Ray was on the run as a prison escapee from Missouri that summer, two men walked into the Bank of Alton with a pistol and a sawed-off shotgun.", "Both wore stocking masks.", "The leaner man went behind the counter, scooped up the cash and fled with close to $30,000.", "Ray, King crossed paths before shooting » Within a day or two of that robbery, Ray would leave the area and head to Canada -- just as he did almost a year later when he fled the scene in Memphis, Tennessee, after King's murder.", "Light told CNN the stolen bank money consisted mainly of $20 bills.", "The partially burned shotgun and the stocking masks were found abandoned in a wooded area near a cemetery where Ray's mother is buried.", "Ray returned from Canada and bought the Mustang after seeing a classified ad in Birmingham the month after the robbery.", "In the months to come, Ray would keep spending $20 bills.", "When Ray underwent plastic surgery in Los Angeles 30 days before King's death, he paid in cash -- denomination unknown.", "When he drove back to Birmingham six days before the murder to buy a .30-06 high-powered hunting rifle for just under $250, the gun store salesman later told investigators, \"I remember he paid for the gun with $20 bills, paid cash.\"", "On April 4, 1968, only hours before King would die, the landlady at the boarding house where Ray rented a room told police, \"He gave me a $20 bill\" when he paid for a week's rent just across the street from the Lorraine Motel.", "In the sporting goods store where Ray went to buy binoculars, the salesman told police, \"He gave me two twenties; I think he had two twenties left...", "The bills came out of his right pocket, neatly folded, and nothing but bills.\"", "For Light, the bank holdup is the most likely answer to the question of where Ray got the money to travel as a fugitive to Canada and Mexico, then to flee again to Canada and finally London, England, after King's murder.", "\"Thirty-thousand dollars back in 1967 was a lot of money,\" Light said.", "In London, Ray ran short of money.", "Four days before he was caught, he robbed a bank.", "His thumbprint was found on the holdup note.", "He got little more than $200 -- enough to buy an airline ticket to Brussels, Belgium, where he hoped to join mercenaries fighting to keep white rule in southern Africa.", "He was stopped at a London airport when a police sergeant spotted his phony Canadian passport.", "Ray lived very cheaply on the run.", "He got change back for his $20 bill at the Memphis boarding house -- a week's rent there was $8.50.", "The original prosecutors in the Memphis case decided it would not have cost that much for all of Ray's travels.", "\"He was living on a dollar to two dollars a day,\" said current prosecutor John Campbell.", "\"He was even darning his own socks to be able to save money.\"" ]	[ "Police: James Earl Ray's money came from a bank robbery in his hometown .", "Gun, masks used in robbery found near burial plot of Ray's mother .", "Ray bought a Mustang and underwent plastic surgery before King's death .", "Prosecutors believe he lived very cheaply on the run ." ]	[ 0, 4, 5, 14, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Now it's the Republicans' turn.", "Charlie Daniels will headline a concert Wednesday in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.", "The Democrats turned out the star power for its convention in Denver, Colorado, right up to the final night, when the 80,000-strong crowd attending Sen. Barack Obama's closing speech at Invesco Field was serenaded by Sheryl Crow and Stevie Wonder, among others.", "The Republican National Convention, which begins Monday in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, may not have the same oomph, but it won't lack for well-known visitors.", "After mixing and mingling in Denver with Democrats, the nonpartisan Creative Coalition is scheduled to join the festivities in the Twin Cities.", "The organization is devoted to arts advocacy as well as issues such as health care and affordable housing.", "Its spokespeople include Warren Beatty, Dana Delany, Tim Daly, Giancarlo Esposito and Matthew Modine.", "The group is showing a film, \"14 Women,\" about the 14 female senators of the 109th Congress.", "Creative Coalition Executive Director Robin Bronk told The Hollywood Reporter that the organization was determined to present some steak with its celebrity sizzle.", "iReport.com: Share your photos, videos from around the Republican Convention .", "\"We have a great track record of bringing substance with splash,\" she said.", "The group is sponsoring a Charlie Daniels Band concert on Wednesday.", "The Black Eyed Peas played the group's Denver show.", "Retail chain Target is co-sponsor of both shows.", "Also in Minneapolis: a show titled \"The Songwriters Circle: The Songs We Love,\" which will feature performances by Brett James (who wrote \"Jesus, Take the Wheel\") and Greg Laswell (\"What a Day\"), according to RollingStone.com.", "The show is sponsored the The Recording Academy and its GRAMMY Foundation.", "Among other celebrities expected to be present are the Beach Boys -- who will be headlining a concert of their own Monday -- Gretchen Wilson and Sammy Hagar.", "However, one of the GOP's biggest celebrity names, California Gov.", "Arnold Schwarzenegger, may not make the trip.", "Schwarzenegger has said that state business may keep him in Sacramento.", "Not every event will be sanctioned by the convention, of course.", "The politically active band Rage Against the Machine, which played a free show in Denver, has scheduled a Minneapolis concert, though it's far from free: Tickets are $60 for the show at the Target Center on Wednesday.", "Rage guitarist Tom Morello is also teaming with Steve Earle for a union rally on Labor Day.", "There are also several arts-related events in a lower key.", "According to The New York Times, artists will be coming to Minneapolis-St. Paul to mount various forms of political theater, from creating ice sculptures to inviting the public to perform karaoke versions of convention speeches.", "Though some of the exhibits will be politically pointed, organizers are careful to characterize them as nonpartisan -- and expect some unusual discourse.", "\"You expect people to respond by organizing a protest and throwing their fists in the air, and you also expect people to respond by flying 1,000 American flags,\" Sarah Peters of Minneapolis' Walker Art Center, which is taking part in that city's \"UnConvention,\" told the Times.", "\"And those are two legitimate ways to respond to politics, but there is a whole in-between area that doesn't get talked about.\"" ]	[ "GOP convention to include celebrities, some performing, others visiting .", "Rage Against the Machine, which played in Denver, Colorado, also in Twin Cities .", "Art installations reportedly to express nonpartisanship ." ]	[ 4, 21 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Actor, author and Parkinson's disease activist Michael J.", "Fox spoke with CNN's \"Larry King Live\" to be aired Thursday.", "Michael J. Fox: \"I still travel with my kids, and I'm with them part of the day, every day.\"", "In the interview, Fox, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's in 1991, talks about his new book, which he describes as \"a memoir of the last 10 years.\"", "In it, he explores the nature of optimism.", "He also talked about his family, a new approach to acting and President Obama's lifting of a ban on stem cell research, among other things.", "Here are some excerpts from the show.", "Larry King: He's founder of The Michael J.", "Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.", "He's a best-selling author -- the new book is \"Always Looking Up.\"", "By the way, he has got an ABC special, \"Michael J.", "Fox: Adventures of an Incurable Optimist.\"", "It airs on May 7.", "You remain -- is it easy to be an optimist?", "Michael J. Fox: Well, for me it's second nature.", "It's just the way I look at life.", "And it's certainly a challenge now for most people to be optimistic, obviously, with all of the troubles we have and the problems that the country is facing.", "But I think it's exactly in those times when our optimism kicks in highest gear.", "I think -- there's an expression that I like that I always use: \"Don't wish for a lighter load, wish for broader shoulders.\"", "And I think that people are really -- I see a lot of broader shoulders these days, people are really working on the delts, you know?", "King: What was it like when you were diagnosed?", "Fox: Well, you know, it's hard to describe it, because I was so young, I was 29 years old.", "And so Parkinson's is not what you expect to hear.", "I had a twitch in my pinky and I figured it was some kind of nerve damage or I'd done something probably athletic. ...", "But then I got this diagnosis, and I thought the guy was kidding.", "And then it was shock, and then I had a certain amount of fear and I started to react to it in certain ways.", "I started drinking more heavily as a way of self-medicating it.", "And it took me -- you know, it's funny, because I sit and talk about \"Always Looking Up\" and being optimistic, and accept the losses and move on or find new gains, but it took me about seven years, I think, to really get to the point where I could tell people about it. ...", "I was diagnosed in '91, and it wasn't until '98 that I admitted publicly that it was a situation I was facing.", "King: It is not life-threatening, is it?", "Fox: No. And I would say you don't die from it, but you -- up to now, you'll definitely die with it if you have it.", "... King: Why did you write the book?", "Fox: The book was -- I wrote the first book because I had to, I think I had to kind of tell that story just for myself, just kind of to acknowledge all of the work that I had done on getting through that journey.", "And then this book was -- I thought about writing another, and I thought about people responding so positively to the optimism in the first book.", "And so many people wanted to talk to me about that.", "So I thought, well, optimism: What is optimism?", "And so I started to think about it more kind of empirically, writing a book about optimism as a subject, and interviewing researchers about it and talking to people who are optimistic and traveling to places where people are optimistic and all of this stuff. ...", "So I had to kind of tell it -- I couldn't tell, talk about optimism without -- and separate it from my experience.", "I had to make it part of my experience.", "So then, having done that, and written this book, which is really a memoir of the last 10 years, I still have these questions about optimism.", "So I went to ABC and I said, 'There was a thing I was going to do a book on, but I'd like to do a documentary special on.'", "And they said, great.", "And so we've been traveling around, talking to optimists.", "We went to Bhutan, which is a country in the Himalayas that actually measures its gross national happiness along with its GDP.", "King: Really?", "Fox: Yes. And it makes decisions on its development as a country based on how to affect the happiness of the people.", "And the people are uniformly happy.", "It's amazing. ... King: Speaking of optimism, in March, President Obama lifted the ban on federal financing for embryonic stem cell research.", "You've long fought for that.", "You've got to feel like a -- it has come true.", "... Watch Fox's talk about the lifting of the ban » .", "King: When you act, is it hard?", "Fox: Oh, yes.", "I don't have any access to the same tool kit that I always had.", "But it's like anything.", "It's like, you find new ways of doing things.", "And in those new ways, you maybe are able to do things you couldn't do before in ways you might not have approached before.", "And that's my whole kind of philosophy of life is -- in dealing with Parkinson's or any kind of setback or loss, is that if you avoid it or it creates a hole that you try to fill up with other stuff, with your ego and your needs and your wants and your control issues, then you're just going to dig deeper in a hole.", "But if you just recognize, 'look, it is what it is' -- now what's around it?", "I mean, the only thing that I don't have a choice about is whether I have Parkinson's.", "Everything else I have a choice about.", "... Fox explains how he handles the bad days » .", "King: Parts of your book are a love letter to your wife, Tracy.", "Without being saccharine, how important has she been?", "Fox: I couldn't have made the journey that I've made without her.", "And certainly I wouldn't have this family that I have.", "And three-quarters of our children were born after the diagnosis.", "And we knew what we were facing, what we were dealing with, and had some sense of what the prospects were, although they've turned out a lot better than we could have imagined.", "I mean, I'm 20 years after diagnosis, and there's very little that I don't do now that I used to do.", "I still travel with my kids, and I'm with them part of the day, every day.", "King: How old are they now? Fox: My oldest is 19 -- he'll be 20 next month.", "And the twins are going into high school next year; they are 14.", "And then I have a 7-year-old." ]	[ "Fox gratified Obama lifted ban on federal money for embryonic stem cell research .", "He says the research doesn't guarantee a cure, but it can't hurt .", "Fox has some bad days, but he tries to separate the physical from the emotional ." ]	[ 5, 6, 47, 52, 61 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An Ethiopian immigrant with a history of mental health problems is in custody after being accused of mailing a letter with HIV-tainted blood to Barack Obama when he was president-elect, according to court records.", "Police say blood-stained letters were addressed to President Obama and top aide Rahm Emanuel.", "Saad Bedrie Hussein told investigators that he is an admirer of Obama and that the letter -- containing his photo, an admission ticket to Obama's election night victory party in Chicago's Grant Park and six index cards containing writing and reddish stains -- was his way of seeking government help and tickets to Obama's inauguration.", "Hussein, who has HIV, said he \"purposely cut one of his fingers with a razor so he could bleed on the letter,\" according to an affidavit by Terry L. Cullivan, an investigator with the U.S.", "Postal Inspection Service.", "The letter, postmarked December 27 and written in an Ethiopian language, was addressed to Obama at the Illinois Department on Aging in Springfield, Illinois.", "When the letter was opened two days later, it was found to contain an orange powder, Cullivan said.", "A state employee then took the letter to another state office, resulting in a two-hour lockdown of the building, affecting more than 300 people, the affidavit says.", "During an interview, Hussein was unable to remember what the orange powder was, but tests revealed it to be a drink-mix powder, the affidavit says.", "According to the affidavit, during a December 29 interview, Hussein denied mailing any additional letters.", "But, the affidavit said, two days later, the Illinois Department of Revenue notified him it had received two similar letters, both with Hussein's return address.", "One was addressed to the Illinois Department on Aging, and the second to \"Emanuel,\" which investigators believe was intended for Obama aide Rahm Emanuel.", "Both letters contained what appeared to be dried blood and an orange powder.", "The criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Illinois alleges that Hussein \"knowingly mailed\" the letters containing HIV-infected blood \"with the intent to kill or injure another.\"", "In January, a federal judge ordered a mental evaluation of Hussein, saying \"there is reasonable cause to believe [Hussein] may ... be suffering from a mental disease or defect rendering him mentally incompetent [and] unable to understand the nature and consequences of the proceedings against him.\"", "According to court records, Hussein was arrested March 29, 2006, by Chicago police after setting a fire in the middle of a Chicago intersection, waving a Quran in the air and yelling \"Allah[u] Akbar\" -- Allah is great -- and other words.", "Hussein \"created a standstill in the traffic and refused to comply\" with police commands, Cullivan's affidavit says.", "Hussein's attorney, public defender Robert J. Scherschlight, could not immediately be reached for comment.", "U.S. Postal Service Inspector Peter Rendina said this is the second known case in which a person is alleged to have sent HIV-tainted blood through the mail for malicious reasons.", "In the other case, which is ongoing, a man sent blood to a person he thought was a business associate." ]	[ "Affidavit: HIV-positive man \"cut one of his fingers ... so he could bleed on the letter\"\nThe note, mailed with orange powder, was sent to Obama at an Illinois state building .", "Investigators think another letter, to \"Emanuel,\" was intended for Obama aide .", "Judge ordered mental evaluation of man, citing his history of instability ." ]	[ 3, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- This holiday season, it's still shoes off and liquids out at airport security, but changes may be on the way to part of this routine, and agents will be watching much more than the contents of your carry-on.", "Passengers prepare for a security screening at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia.", "In the coming months, the government expects to revisit its rule for the amount of liquids that may be brought aboard planes, while boosting the number of behavior detection officers deployed at checkpoints across the country.", "More than 2,000 are already on the job, and the program is growing every day, said Christopher White, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration.", "\"What the officers are looking for are physiological signs that cannot be manipulated that indicate stress, fear or deception,\" White said.", "\"We find bad people everyday with behavior detection officers.\"", "The specially trained agents, who work in teams, establish a baseline of behavior and then search for people who rise above that level, he added.", "The TSA has been taking steps to reduce stress for all travelers at security, such as adding special family lanes, to make it easier for the officers to spot passengers who are acting suspiciously.", "\"By calming the checkpoint down, it makes people with potential hostile intent really stand out,\" White said.", "\"If there's a shark fin in a rough sea, it's impossible to see.", "If there's a shark fin in a lake, it's very easy to see.\"", "The word on liquids .", "Meanwhile, new technology may help change a familiar part of the security screening process.", "By now, most air travelers know the government's 3-1-1 rule for liquids and gels: Containers no larger than 3 ounces are allowed in carry-on luggage, provided they are packed into one quart-size clear plastic zip-top bag, with one bag allowed per person.", "Those restrictions could be eased next year with the help of advanced X-ray machines that can be upgraded with software, like computers, White said.", "\"Scientists at the national labs have been working to develop an algorithm to plug into the machines that would allow us to tell the difference between a bottle of Coke and a bottle of liquid explosives,\" he said.", "The TSA is planning to have 600 of the machines installed at airports across the country by the end of this year and may look at changes to the 3-1-1 rule in fall 2009, White added.", "Coming much sooner: the expansion of the family lane program to every airport in the country starting Thursday.", "See where the nation's busiest airports are » .", "The special lanes are designed to make security screening as smooth as possible for people traveling with children, passengers with special needs or anyone unfamiliar with security procedures, while improving wait times for other travelers.", "What's not changing for the foreseeable future: taking your shoes off at security.", "Running them through the X-ray machine is simply the fastest way of ensuring there's nothing hidden inside, White said.", "Preparation and planning .", "If you are flying this Thanksgiving, expect lots of company but fewer people than last year.", "The Air Transport Association of America predicts a 10 percent drop in the number of people traveling on U.S. airlines during the holiday, compared with the same time period in 2007.", "\"Some of the capacity cuts that carriers put into place have finally taken effect, but also we do think that the economic downturn is finally taking a toll on consumer spending when it comes to travel,\" ATA spokeswoman Elizabeth Merida said.", "The trade association for U.S. airlines predicts that the busiest travel days of this Thanksgiving holiday will be Wednesday, November 26; Sunday, November 30; and Monday, December 1, with planes 90 percent full on average on those dates.", "Airports across the country are gearing up for the travel rush.", "\"We are making a commitment that even during peak periods, the [security] line will not exceed 20 minutes,\" said Ben DeCosta, aviation general manager at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia.", "The world's busiest airport has spent more than $25 million on improvements, including 10 additional \"high-productivity, speedy\" security lanes for a total of 32, he added.", "Hartsfield-Jackson also offers a number of queuing options for the more than 40,000 people who line up at its security checkpoints every day.", "\"Our line management segregates people by expertise and by preference, and it helps to speed everything up and to make people less anxious about the beginning of their trip,\" DeCosta said.", "Hartsfield-Jackson is also joining the growing number of U.S. airports with whole-body imagers at security checkpoints.", "The machines offer an alternative to pat-downs by officers.", "No matter what airport you're passing through, be prepared, White said.", "\"If you're ready for security with your boarding pass and your ID out, with your shoes and your coat off, and with your liquids out of the carry-on bag, your experience is going to be very good and very pleasant,\" he said.", "\"For passengers who are not ready, they not only slow down themselves, they slow down the entire checkpoint line.\"" ]	[ "Government's 3-1-1 rule for liquids and gels could be eased next year .", "TSA aims to reduce travelers' stress, making it easier to spot suspicious behavior .", "Taking shoes off at security expected to remain in place for the foreseeable future .", "Family lane program expands to every airport in the country starting Thursday ." ]	[ 7, 17, 20, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A diabetes test that measures a person's average blood glucose control over the preceding two to three months is being recommended as the new diagnostic tool for the condition.", "Diabetics have too much glucose in their blood when the condition is uncontrolled, and must monitor it.", "A committee of international experts recommended the test, called the the A1C assay, at the American Diabetes Association's 69th Scientific Sessions over the weekend.", "The report could instigate a change in the way diabetes is diagnosed, the American Diabetes Association said.", "The A1C assay, which has been used for nearly 30 years to determine how well a patient controls diabetes, is a more stable, reliable diagnostic tool than the techniques currently in use, the authors of the report said.", "\"This committee that I chaired is recommending that this be used as widely as possible to diagnose diabetes instead of the blood sugar test,\" said Dr. David Nathan, director of the Diabetes Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and chairman of the committee.", "The A1C test, which consists of a simple blood test, is also more convenient than the two tests commonly used for diabetes -- the fasting plasma glucose and the oral glucose tolerance test -- the authors said.", "In the fasting test, the patient does not eat for about 12 to 14 hours before a blood test.", "In the tolerance test, the patient drinks a sweet solution and has blood drawn two hours later.", "In addition, Nathan said, \"It probably is better related to the development of eye disease with diabetes, and therefore probably serves as a better diagnostic tool.\"", "The international committee was assembled by the American Diabetes Association, International Diabetes Federation and European Association for the Study of Diabetes, but those organizations have not officially endorsed the report.", "\"Basically, the American Diabetes Association supports the concept, supports the use of the A1C to diagnose diabetes, and just has to look at the implications of it, and the implementation of it,\" said Richard Kahn, Chief Scientific and Medical Officer for the American Diabetes Association, who was part of the committee.", "Using A1C in diagnosis would be particularly useful for determining whether patients have type 2 diabetes, which is more difficult to diagnose than type 1, said Dr. William Bornstein, assistant professor of endocrinology at Emory University, who was not part of the committee.", "\"This will be beneficial to the population in terms of helping us more clearly diagnose folks who are at risks for complications and help them manage that earlier,\" Bornstein said.", "Still, controversy likely will arise over the use of the A1C in diagnostics because of the long, established track record of using the other two methods, Bornstein said.", "iReport.com: Boxing champ talks about diabetes struggle .", "How it works . Humans cannot live without having sugar called glucose in their blood.", "Too much glucose, however, attaches to a variety of proteins in the body and harms them.", "Uncontrolled diabetes is characterized by too much glucose in the bloodstream.", "This excess glucose then glycates with -- or sticks to -- a protein called hemoglobin, which carries oxygen from the lungs to the body's cells.", "The A1C test measures the percentage of glycated hemoglobin in the blood, which is a reflection of average blood glucose control, according to the American Diabetes Association.", "A1C is a better measure of the problem that diabetes causes than glucose-based tests, at least for monitoring, said David Schoenfeld, professor of biostatistics at Harvard University.", "He and colleagues, including Nathan and a large group of international researchers, studied the relationship between A1C and average blood glucose.", "While many diabetics monitor their average blood glucose levels daily, at the doctor's office the patient receives a measurement in terms of hemoglobin A1C, Schoenfeld said.", "He and researchers created a chart to convert these two measurements, so that patients would not have to interpret two different numbers and feel confused.", "They concluded in a 2008 paper that, for most patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, A1C levels can be expressed as average glucose.", "The international committee concluded that an A1C level of 6.5 percent indicates that a person has diabetes, while values between 6 percent and 6.5 percent are likely to be at highest risk for developing diabetes.", "Experts note, however, that there is a continuum of risk for complications, and the \"cut-point\" of 6.5 percent should not be considered an absolute dividing line.", "All adults who are overweight and have additional risk factors, such as family history of diabetes, high blood pressure or abnormal lipid levels, should be screened for diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association.", "Adults aged 45 or older should be tested even if they do not have these risk factors, the association said." ]	[ "Committee says A1C test is more reliable and convenient than other tests .", "Tests in use now are fasting plasma glucose and oral glucose tolerance test .", "A1C test is currently used for monitoring patients' control of diabetes .", "Expert: Report may cause controversy because of track record of using current tests ." ]	[ 6, 14 ]
[ "Editor's Note: Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Carl Bernstein, best known for his reporting work with Bob Woodward about the Watergate scandal, serves as a political analyst for CNN.", "Most recently, Bernstein wrote \"A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton,\" a detailed portrait of the junior senator from New York and former Democratic presidential candidate.", "Carl Bernstein says Republicans returned to old themes, including patriotism, to attack Democrats.", "(CNN) -- Democrats take note: the Republican convention was resolutely on-message Tuesday night, sounding old themes and buzzwords that have worked for the GOP in the past.", "It's those same themes that John McCain, who once rejected the approach, has now embraced as the only way to the White House.", "\"The Angry Left,\" \"Liberals,\" \"The Media,\" -- the familiar litany of right-wing Republican demons -- rocked the house in St. Paul, Minnesota.", "The message: McCain, Sarah Palin and the Republicans are the true party of patriotism, as if the Democrats aren't.", "In the repetitious theme of the evening, the Republicans would \"Put Country First,\" as if the Democrats wouldn't.", "The Democrats' first response to the evening, in a statement from the Obama campaign about the GOP's failure to address economic problems in the country, said nothing -- perhaps at its peril -- about the real Republican message.", "The theme was first sounded by actor Robert Duvall in the short film he narrated; followed by speaker after speaker and later interspersed in filmed tributes to Ronald Reagan and to a Navy Seal hero who died in Iraq.", "That is the theme invoked as the motif of John McCain's life.", "Perhaps the most extreme example of the implication that the Republicans have a lock on patriotism and \"Putting Country First\" came in video footage of a first-responder going underwater to rescue occupants of a car that plummeted in the Minneapolis bridge collapse.", "(No word at the convention about problems of infrastructure in the country -- just people (apparently only Republicans) who would \"Put Country First.\"", "Meanwhile, consistent with the demonizing subtext of this theme, President Bush attacked (rather incongruously, but with plenty of antecedents in Republican history) \"The Angry Left\" -- perhaps an attempt to stigmatize those who would question Sarah Palin's credentials.", "A quick video tribute to Ronald Reagan referred to \"the media [who] despised him.\"", "Former Sen. Fred Thompson pounded Barack Obama as \"the most liberal\" presidential candidate in history, and brought the convention to its feet.", "He also warned of losing the Supreme Court to the Democrats and \"liberalism\" (to delirious applause).", "Thompson said McCain's pick of Palin had thrown the Democrats' \"friends in the media into a state of panic\" (pandemonium in the hall).", "John McCain, in a different time in his life (i.e.", "running against George W. Bush for the Republican nomination in 2000), specifically rejected this approach.", "He courted and charmed the dreaded \"media\" monolith and enunciated a post-partisan vision (yet definitely consistent with conservative orthodoxy on many big questions).", "McCain also railed against the culture wars that his party and campaign are now intent on stoking as the way to victory.", "(Remember, only months ago, when the promise of this election was that there were two nominees who understood the enduring damage of the culture wars to the country and its political system?)", "Will the Republican message on display last night work?", "It was essential to George W. Bush's defeat of John Kerry and pulled Bush to parity with Al Gore in 2000.", "George H.W.", "Bush relied on the approach in 1988.", "Bill Clinton recognized the strategy, addressed it substantively and forthrightly and buried it.", "The McCain campaign and the Republican Party of 2008 are betting that Barack Obama won't be nimble enough to repeat Clinton's feat, and that they have found the formula (including putting Palin on the ticket at a moment when the election seemed to be eluding them) to victory.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer." ]	[ "Tuesday's themes at GOP convention dealt with patriotism, \"Putting Country First\"\nPresident Bush attacked \"The Angry Left\" at convention .", "Bernstein: McCain once rejected old GOP themes, now embraces them ." ]	[ 3, 4, 12, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Everything about Jupiter is super-sized, including its colorful, turbulent atmosphere.", "But there's fresh evidence that one of the planet's most recognizable features, the Great Red Spot, is shrinking.", "NASA's Cassini spacecraft photographed Jupiter and its Great Red Spot, seen center near the equator, in 2000.", "The spot, which is actually an ancient monster storm that measures about three Earths across, lost 15 percent of its diameter between 1996 and 2006, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have found.", "It shrank by about 1 kilometer (about 0.6 miles) a day during that time period, said Xylar Asay-Davis, a postdoctoral researcher who was part of the study.", "Astronomers have observed for years that the clouds of the Great Red Spot have been waning, but this newest research focused on the motion of the storm -- a much more reliable way to measure its size, Asay-Davis said.", "He and fellow Berkeley researchers Philip Marcus, Imke de Pater, Michael Wong and Sushil Shetty developed software that tracked the movement of the spot's cloud patterns over long periods of time.", "\"It's not just the motion of the spot as a whole object.", "Within it, it has a very complicated swirl to it -- sort of a thin ring on the outside and then a sort of quiet area in the center -- and that shape of it has been changing over time,\" Asay-Davis said.", "\"What we actually look at is where the winds are the strongest in the vortex.", "It's the ring where they're the strongest, and that ring has been shrinking over time.\"", "The findings have been submitted for publication in Icarus, the International Journal of Solar System Studies.", "See photos of the other planets and find out what makes them stand out » .", "What makes it red? The researchers do not know why the storm is shrinking.", "In fact, little is known about the Great Red Spot at all.", "Even the exact cause of its distinctive color is a mystery.", "\"We don't actually know what causes any of the colors on Jupiter,\" said Amy Simon-Miller, chief of the Planetary Systems Lab at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.", "\"One of the leading theories is that [the storm] is dredging up stuff from much deeper below in the atmosphere that turns red when it's exposed to sunlight.\"", "The spot isn't always bright red; sometimes it's actually quite pale, Simon-Miller noted.", "Astronomers have been tracking it since the 1870s, said Glenn Orton, a senior research scientist at NASA'S Jet Propulsion Laboratory who investigates planetary atmospheres.", "It is possible that the spot may one day disappear, he added.", "\"It's just a storm that, like many things, has a natural growth and disintegration rate,\" Orton said.", "Astronomers see a dramatic difference in the spot's shape when comparing photos of Jupiter taken more than a century ago to recent images of the planet.", "Orton joked that the Great Red Spot used to be so long that its acronym should have stood for the \"Great Red Sausage.\"", "\"I just happened to look at an old picture and said to myself, 'That looks like a breakfast sausage.'", "It's very long. I mean, if you look at one of those pictures back from then and a picture now, you think, 'My God, this thing is going on a diet,\" Orton said.", "Now eye-shaped, the spot is expected to become circular by about 2040, he added.", "Chemical stew .", "The storm is a fascinating feature on a fascinating planet.", "It has some of the characteristics of a hurricane on Earth, including a circular motion and strong winds.", "They're Jupiter-strength inside the spot, with some gusting up to 400 miles per hour, Simon-Miller said.", "Unlike hurricanes on Earth, which are low-pressure systems, the Great Red Spot is a high-pressure system, so it's more stable -- one of the reasons it has lasted so long, she added.", "Another factor in its longevity is that there is no land on Jupiter to slow a storm in the way landfalls cause hurricanes to lose steam on Earth.", "Jupiter's atmosphere of colorful dots, swirls and bands may look like an impressionist painting from above, but it would quickly lose its beauty on closer approach.", "The clouds visible from space consist of ammonia ice and ammonium hydrosulfide -- a sort of smoggy chemical stew -- and the conditions below are brutal, especially inside the Great Red Spot.", "\"The winds are so strong, everything would get pulled apart pretty quickly.", "There's no surface to stand on and look up at it,\" Simon-Miller said.", "Probes sent by NASA towards the interior of the planet have been crushed by the gas giant's enormous atmospheric pressure.", "Still, the images of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot mesmerize astronomers.", "\"The pictures are just so beautiful, and they're different every single time we look,\" Simon-Miller said." ]	[ "Scientists: Great Red Spot lost 15 percent of its diameter between 1996 and 2006 .", "It is possible that the spot may one day disappear, astronomers say .", "Jupiter's famous feature is a monster storm that's been tracked since the 1870s .", "Winds inside gust up to 400 miles per hour; it's not exactly known what makes it red ." ]	[ 3, 13, 17, 20, 30, 38 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The bay pilot who steered a container ship into the San Francisco Bay Bridge in 2007, causing a massive oil spill, pleaded guilty Friday to violating misdemeanor pollution laws and faces up to 10 months in prison, federal prosecutors said.", "The Korean-flagged Cosco Busan rammed into San Francisco's Bay Bridge on November 7, 2007.", "Prosecutors dropped felony charges against him.", "John Joseph Cota, 61, pleaded guilty to violating the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, a law enacted in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, and the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.", "Cota gave orders to officers controlling the Korean-flagged Cosco Busan as the ship was leaving fog-shrouded San Francisco Bay, California, on November 7, 2007.", "The 901-foot ship struck fenders around the base of a bridge support tower, rupturing two of the ship's fuel tanks and spilling about 53,000 gallons of oil into the bay.", "At least 2,000 migratory birds were killed.", "At the time, officials estimated clean-up costs at $60 million.", "\"Today's guilty plea is a reminder that the Cosco Busan crash was not just an accident, but a criminal act,\" said John C. Cruden, acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division.", "\"John Cota was an experienced ship pilot that was handsomely compensated for his special knowledge of ships and expertise in local waters.", "His failure to act prudently under the circumstances caused a major environmental disaster that could have been far worse,\" said Joseph Russoniello, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California.", "Cota has piloted about 4,000 ships in the bay during his 27-year career, said his attorney, Jeffrey Bornstein.", "Bonstein said Cota is remorseful and accepts responsibility for his part in the accident.", "But Bornstein also criticized the accident investigation.", "He said it was unfair and protected others who also bear responsibility.", "\"Captain Cota has been vilified by the media, lost his job, will now go to jail for at least 60 days, and still suffers under the weight of crushing civil lawsuits,\" Bornstein said.", "\"He understands and accepts responsibility for his part in the accident and hopes that others will step forward and accept their roles and responsibilities as well.\"", "Cota will be sentenced to 2 to 10 months in prison and be fined between $3,000 and $30,000, if the plea terms are accepted by U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston.", "Sentencing is scheduled for June 19.", "Prosecutors said the plea included factual admissions by Cota, including an acknowledgment his negligence \"was a proximate cause of the [oil] discharge.\"", "Cota also admitted that he failed to discuss the planned route with the ship's master or crew as required, or to use the ship's radar in the final approach to the bridge.", "He also failed to recognize two red triangles on the ship's electronic chart system that marked bridge tower buoys.", "Attorney Bornstein said the ship's master told Cota the red triangles represented the lights on the bridge, \"which in Capt.", "Cota's knowledge were at the center of the span.", "He had no reason to think that the master didn't know what he was talking about.\"", "See the path . As part of the plea agreement with Cota, the government agreed to dismiss false statement charges pending against him.", "Those charges alleged that Cota failed to disclose his medications on required Coast Guard forms.", "The court ruled those charges would be tried separately.", "But Cota admitted in the plea papers filed Friday his 2006 physical exam form failed to disclose some of the medications he was prescribed.", "Among them were two pain medications, three different drugs prescribed as sleeping aids and an antidepressant prescribed for an off-brand purpose.", "Bornstein said there is no evidence that medication played any role in the accident.", "At Friday's hearing, Illston set trial for the remaining defendant in the case, the ship's manager, Fleet Management Ltd. (Hong Kong), for Sept. 14.", "The charges include acting negligently, killing protected migratory birds, obstructing justice and making false statements by falsifying ship records after the incident." ]	[ "John Joseph Cota pleads guilty to violating misdemeanor pollution laws .", "The pilot faces up to 10 months in prison, federal prosecutors say .", "Container ship Cosco Busan slammed into San Francisco's Bay Bridge in 2007 .", "Massive oil spill killed more than 2,000 birds and cost $60 million to clean up ." ]	[ 0, 6, 7 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- The debate about using technology to help referees has been re-ignited following a number of controversial decisions in the Champions League semi-final between Chelsea and Barcelona.", "The Hawk-Eye system is already widely used in tennis and has transformed the game.", "Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, the game's governing body, has consistently opposed the use of in-game video replays, but goal-line technology, to determine if the ball has crossed the goal line, has received more support.", "The Hawk-Eye system is extensively used in tennis, using cameras to calculate the trajectory of the ball.", "The system then uses the trajectory data to determine exactly where the ball has hit the ground, making it invaluable for marginal line calls.", "Using similar technology, Hawk-Eye Innovations, based in England, has developed a football system to determine if a goal has been scored.", "It again uses cameras to track the ball and computers to calculate its position.", "If the system detects that the ball has crossed the goal line a central computer transmits a signal to the referee via either a watch or earpiece.", "The system was tested at Premier League football club Fulham in 2006 and then at Reading's training ground in 2007.", "It was backed by the British Football Association and funded by the Premier League.", "Another goal-line technology, a microchipped football, was developed by Adidas and German firm Cairos Technologies.", "A microchip built into the football detects a magnetic field generated by underground cables in the penalty area.", "Like the Hawk-Eye system it uses a computer to send a signal to the referee's watch when a goal is scored.", "The system was tested at the World Under-17 Championships in 2005 and the 2007 World Club Championship in Tokyo.", "The International Football Association Board (IFAB), which decides the laws of the game, discusses new rules at an annual general meeting consisting of four representatives from FIFA and one each from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.", "Explaining the IFAB's decision, Blatter said the microchipped ball had failed in one of the seven World Club Championship matches because of interference to the signal sent to the referee and that it would be difficult to implement the chip technology in the many types of football used around the world.", "He added that it was not possible to ensure that the Hawk-Eye system worked in a crowded goalmouth, where players might block the cameras' view of the ball.", "\"FIFA are of the opinion that the systems are very costly, would not add anything to the game and would harm the position of the referee,\" the UK's Press Association reported at the time.", "Do you think goal-line technology should be used?", "Share your thoughts in the Sound Off box below.", "But Hawk-Eye managing director Paul Hawkins told CNN that he believes FIFA has decided that it doesn't want technology in football.", "\"I saw FIFA last week and told them that we can provide a system if they want it, but it's very clear they don't want the system,\" he said.", "Hawkins said his company cannot develop the technology any further without more testing in real stadiums, but that kind of testing requires FIFA's consent.", "The idea that football's governing bodies are opposed to more technology in football has been supported by statements from the sport's governing bodies.", "In March 2009, Blatter said in a statement: \"The IFAB believes that football is a game for human beings and, as such, we should improve the standard of refereeing - and not turn to technology.\"", "Michel Platini, President of UEFA, European Football's governing body, has expressed similar views.", "Instead of pursuing goal-line technology, the IFAB chose to trial the idea of having two extra match officials, one behind each goal.", "A FIFA spokesman told CNN that while the use of goal-line technology hasn't been ruled out forever, even after recent refereeing controversies, the IFAB's current position is to continue to experiment with extra officials.", "The IFAB's decision means there will be no goal-line technology used in the Champions League final on 27 May, which means there is the potential for more refereeing disputes.", "\"Maybe there will be a controversial goal in the Champions League final and maybe the discussion over the technology will begin again,\" Oliver Braun, marketing and communications director at Cairos Technologies told CNN.", "Hawkins agrees that it will take a controversial goal-line incident in a big FIFA match to get the IFAB to change their position, saying it took a series of contentious calls at the 2004 US Open for tennis authorities to seriously consider using the Hawk-Eye system.", "If that is the case, there will be some football fans hoping for plenty of goal-line drama come May 27." ]	[ "Debate over whether technology should be used to help referees .", "FIFA is opposed to video replays but has considered goal-line technology .", "Hawk-Eye system and microchipped footballs were rejected by IFAB .", "Some feel it will take a big-match controversy to re-open the debate ." ]	[ 1, 10, 12, 18, 30 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- How does a man from an unassuming Dutch village go to being loved in South Korea, adored in Australia, revered in Russia and admired in England?", "Guus Hiddink, the Russia and Chelsea coach, has had much to smile about in his 22-year managerial career.", "By being an exceptional football manager, for one.", "Enjoying success around the world -- at different levels with different players in different cultures -- has made Guus Hiddink one of the most admired bosses around.", "Born in rural Varsseveld, near the German border, in 1946, Hiddink's early years were unremarkable.", "While playing semi-professional football, he spent 10 years as a gym teacher at a school for children with learning difficulties.", "Most of his playing days were in the midfield of De Graafschap, a smallish club with no history of winning silverware.", "He later spent two years playing in America before returning to retire at De Graafschap.", "Watch CNN's exclusive interview with Hiddink » .", "Little, then, to suggest that here was a man who would achieve so much in his later career.", "But great players seldom become great managers.", "His first steps in that direction came at De Graafschap, Holland, where he was assistant manager before moving to the same role at Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven.", "See key moments from Hiddink's career » .", "By 1987, at the age of 40, he was in charge of PSV and led them to their 1988 European Cup win, a feat unthinkable today.", "He almost reached the final again in 2005 during his second spell in Eindhoven.", "Hiddink's keeper at PSV, Hans van Breukelen, revealed some of the manager's methods.", "\"He's very interested in people and immediately tries to create a family environment,\" he told Britain's Sun newspaper.", "\"I can vividly remember him smoking and having a cup of coffee with his players.", "I don't know if he still smokes, but he was a chain smoker at PSV.\"", "Hiddink's resume includes stints in other high-pressure jobs such as Fenerbahce, Valencia and Real Madrid, but it's on the international scene where his shrewd tactical mind, organizational skills and motivational prowess grabbed attention.", "Semifinalists with Holland at the 1998 World Cup, he took over South Korea in 2001 and led the co-hosts of the 2002 World Cup to the last four.", "No Asian country had ever gone as far in a World Cup before and he left the job a national hero.", "He agreed to coach another underdog in the shape of Australia in 2005 and led them to the 2006 World Cup.", "There, the Socceroos had eventual winners Italy rattled for much of their second-round match before succumbing to a late, controversial penalty.", "Hiddink took Russia to Euro 2008, where they were beaten by Spain at the semifinal stage.", "Naturally his hometown Varsseveld wanted to capitalize on Hiddink's huge global popularity.", "The \"Guuseum\" was built in his honor, which for a time was particularly popular with South Koreans on a pilgrimage to see from where their idol hailed.", "Chelsea were in the doldrums when he arrived on a short-term deal in January as a favor to his comrade, Roman Abramovich, the club's billionaire owner.", "And the Hiddink magic has worked again, giving the Blues direction to a season that was drifting under previous boss Luiz Felipe Scolari.", "But the straight-speaking Dutchman is loyal to the project he has in charge of the Russian national side and insists he will leave Chelsea at the end of the season regardless.", "Sure of himself but free of ego, Hiddink knows what he wants.", "And, as he's repeatedly proved, he knows how to get it too." ]	[ "Born in 1946, Hiddink has become one of the best managers in the world .", "Dutchman has enjoyed huge success at club and international level .", "He's currently coach of Russia and is in charge of Chelsea until end of May ." ]	[ 3, 4, 10, 29 ]
[ "SAVANNAH, Georgia (CNN) -- Walt Peters knows what it's like to fear for his life.", "He knows how it feels to board a plane, deploying for combat.", "He knows the feeling of making it home alive.", "Walt Peters is often among the last people soldiers see as they deploy and the first they see upon their return.", "That's why the retired Vietnam veteran has stood outside at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia, for the past four years as a beacon of pride and support, welcoming home returning soldiers and wishing \"Godspeed\" to those deploying.", "\"To me, if it wasn't for our soldiers and our veterans, we would not have this beautiful country,\" says Peters.", "\"These guys are our freedom.\"", "Peters, 64, has been one of the last people that about 20,000 soldiers so far have seen before boarding the plane for the war zone -- and one of the first seen upon return.", "No matter what time the soldiers' flights are arriving or departing -- many take place in the middle of the night -- Peters is there to shake their hands and give them a token of support: a small American flag.", "Some of those flags, Peters says, have gone to Iraq and back.", "\"When they touch that flag, we're giving them a piece of our country, saying, 'Thank you.'\"", "Peters is not the only volunteer showing his support at each flight.", "But he does all of this nearly blind.", "He says learned he had chemical diabetes nearly 10 years ago after he was exposed to Agent Orange during his Vietnam tours.", "He has lost almost all of his sight over the past few years, but that hasn't depleted his dedication to the soldiers.", "\"When I went to Vietnam on my tours I'd never had this.", "I had never had nobody say, 'We appreciate your service.", "We thank you for what you're doing for our freedom,'\" Peters says.", "\"When they get on that plane, they're gonna know that this old Vietnam vet cares.\"", "Peters first became involved greeting flights through the Savannah Red Cross in 2004 when a friend from his fraternal Moose Lodge brought him to welcome a returning flight.", "Peters has since become a flight greeting leader, bringing in and training his own volunteers.", "His crew includes Moose members and Vietnam veterans.", "So many flights come in, Peters says, that it's impossible to be present for all of them.", "He's worked as many as three flights in one day, in a 26-hour period.", "Watch how Peters sends off and greets deploying and returning U.S. soldiers » .", "Peters and his volunteers arrive two hours before a flight's arrival or departure to set up their tables and brew coffee.", "He makes sure he walks around and talks with the troops when they come through for processing.", "\"I'm a combat veteran; the soldiers know I can relate to them,\" Peters says.", "\"I tell them, 'It's OK to be scared.", "You stay scared, you stay alive.'\"", "Peters also talks to the soldiers about the Adopt-A-Soldier program, asking them to fill out a card so a family can \"adopt\" them and send care packages and necessities to them in Iraq or Afghanistan.", "Watch Peters and volunteers interacting with U.S. soldiers before their deployment to Iraq » .", "Peters says the most important thing is to show the soldiers \"the support and the spirit that they need behind them as they step up to get on that plane.\"", "\"Sometimes it breaks your heart because you ask yourself, 'Which one of these beautiful people is not coming home?'\"", "But as long as there are soldiers deploying and returning, Peters says he'll be there.", "Watch Peters talk about one of the highlights of his military career » .", "\"I see the roots of our country and our future in every one of these soldiers,\" he says." ]	[ "Walt Peters welcomes soldiers home, wishes \"Godspeed\" to those deploying .", "The Vietnam veteran has greeted an estimated 20,000 soldiers since 2004 .", "He says he lost sight as a result of chemical diabetes from Agent Orange exposure ." ]	[ 4, 13 ]
[ "HIGH BRIDGE, New Jersey (CNN) -- \"The thought that I can reach out and permanently improve someone's life for the better is addictive,\" says Dave Schweidenback.", "Dave Schweidenback saw transformative effects of bikes while in the Peace Corps in Ecuador from 1977-80.", "Several times a year, the 55-year-old can be found prepping large shipments of used bicycles bound for a developing country.", "For Schweidenback, gathering and breaking down these bikes is a labor of love -- one that is helping to keep the bikes out of landfills and give them new life.", "\"Used bicycles can transform the economic and social condition of families,\" says Schweidenback.", "\"[They] give people access to jobs, health care and education that is too distant for walking.\"", "Since 1991, Schweidenback's nonprofit Pedals for Progress has collected and shipped more than 115,000 used bicycles to 32 developing countries worldwide, where they are sold at a low cost to local residents like Don Roberto Garcia.", "\"A used woman's mountain bicycle changed my life,\" says Garcia, 54, a house cleaning supplies salesman in Nicaragua who works six days a week to support his six children and buy medicine for his wife, who suffers from cancer.", "For 20 years, Garcia walked six to seven hours a day, hauling his merchandise in a wheelbarrow along a 6 mile route.", "This earned him $2-$3 a day.", "\"More than anything, I would always return home so tired from the walk,\" Garcia recalls.", "Little by little, Garcia saved his money and was able to buy a used bicycle six years ago from a Pedals for Progress partner agency in Jinotepe, Nicaragua.", "\"Because of a bicycle, I now earn about $4 a day,\" says Garcia.", "\"I sell more and I do my rounds quicker.", "I tell everyone to go buy a bicycle.\"", "Watch Garcia explain how a used bicycle has helped him in Nicaragua » .", "The seeds for Schweidenback's Pedals for Progress were planted years ago while he was volunteering for the Peace Corps from 1977-80 in Ecuador, near the Amazon Basin.", "\"Besides the bus that comes through town and one guy that owned a pickup truck, everybody walked everywhere all the time,\" he recalls.", "\"My landlord was the exception because he owned the only bike in a 500-mile radius.", "He was the most successful man in the region because he could access a job and get wherever he needed to go.\"", "Years later, Schweidenback noticed used bicycles at garage sales and in garbage cans throughout his New Jersey community.", "\"I remembered how [the need] in developing countries was so great, that I couldn't stop thinking about it,\" he says.", "Knowing the bikes could be put to better use, Schweidenback asked members of his community to donate 12 used bicycles; he planned to send them to Ecuador.", "The community brought him 140.", "Within a year, Schweidenback had created Pedals for Progress and shipped roughly 500 bicycles to developing countries.", "Today, Schweidenback organizes 140 used bike drives each year and, on average, collects 90 bicycles in three hours.", "Donors are asked to pay a $10 fee per bike to help cover shipping costs and reduce the cost of the bicycle when it's sold overseas.", "Each bike is sold for about $15.", "Watch how Pedals for Progress bikes get from donors to people in developing countries » .", "\"There's a bike that's unloved in every garage in this country.", "Rather than put these old bikes in landfills for no reason, we can use them as economic stimulus to aid our neighbors,\" Schweidenback says.", "\"This is the transfer of wealth between nations because these have great value overseas.", "And they give people the ability to hold a job or a child the ability to go to school.\"", "Watch Schweidenback talk about his inspiration for Pedals for Progress » .", "Pedals for Progress bicycles have been sent to countries in Central America, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Caribbean.", "For Schweidenback, knowing he's making an impact keeps him going.", "\"You can change someone's life with your bike.\"" ]	[ "CNN Hero's nonprofit Pedals for Progress gives new life to used bicycles .", "Dave Schweidenback saw transformative effects of bikes while in the Peace Corps .", "More than 115,000 used bikes have been sent to 32 developing countries since '91 .", "Low-cost bikes help local residents gain access to jobs, health care and schools ." ]	[ 1, 5, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Olafur Ragnar Grimsson is currently enjoying a third term as President of the Republic of Iceland.", "Since first being elected in 1996, Grimsson has been a passionate advocate of international cooperation in combating climate change.", "Olafur Ragnar Grimsson .", "Whilst Iceland still imports oil for its transport, electricity is generated from hydroelectric power.", "And heating is provided by geothermal power -- an abundant source in energy due to Iceland's geographical position sitting above two continental plates.", "Iceland is also pioneering the use of hydrogen power with several projects testing the viability of this renewable energy.", "In his youth, Grimsson studied Economics and Political Science at Manchester University, gaining a B.A.", "and a Ph.D before returning to Iceland to take up a post as a professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland.", "He entered Althingi, the Icelandic parliament in 1978, served as minister of finance between 1988 and 1991 and was leader of the Peoples' Alliance from 1987 to 1995.", "Grimsson promotes the intelligent use of renewable energy resources and is providing world leaders with an invaluable insight into how their own economies might make the switch to more renewable sources of energy." ]	[ "Olafur Grimsson is Principal Voices' Frontline Pioneer for the Economics of Energy .", "Grimsson has been President of the Republic of Iceland since 1996 .", "He has called repeatedly for international cooperation on climate change ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- The concept may be radical, but it might just have to be if the worst predictions of climate change are realized.", "The Lilypad as imagined by architect Vincent Callebaut moored off the coast of Monaco.", "The Lilypad, a floating ecopolis for climatic refugees, is the creation of Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut.", "\"It is\" he says, \"a true amphibian, half aquatic and half terrestrial city, able to accommodate 50,000 inhabitants and inviting biodiversity\".", "Callebaut imagines his structure at 250 times the scale of a lilypad, with a skin made of polyester fibres coated in titanium dioxide which would react with ultraviolet light and absorb atmospheric pollution.", "The Lilypad comprises of three marinas and three mountain regions with streets and structures strewn with foliage.", "\"The goal is to create a harmonious coexistence of humans and nature,\" said Callebaut.", "With a central fresh water lagoon acting as ballast, the whole construction would be carbon neutral utilizing solar, thermal, wind, hydraulic, tidal and osmotic energies.", "With high density populations living in low-lying areas -- The Netherlands, Polynesia, Bangladesh -- the ecopolis, its creator believes, could be the answer to mass human displacement that global warming is predicted to cause.", "In its most recent 2007 report the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicted sea levels will rise by 60-90 cm during this century.", "Some climate scientists like James Hansen think that if greenhouse gas emissions aren't checked then those figures might be much, much worse.", "In practice, Callebaut envisages the Lilypad sailing the seas, following currents like a futuristic cruise ship.", "He also thinks that it could \"widen sustainability in offshore territories of the most developed countries such as Monaco\".", "You can't help thinking that the well-heeled residents of the Principality might have a thing or two to say about 50,000 climatic refugees bobbing around in the harbour, but you cannot fault Callebaut's ambition.", "His previous creations -- showcased on his website -- reveal an imagination working at full throttle with sustainable design lying at its heart.", "Anti-Smog -- a prototype of depolluting architecture and Ecomic -- an ecotower rising up from the foundations of Aztec ruins are two further examples of his eco design credentials.", "The Perfumed Jungle, Fields in Fields and The Fractured Monolith may sound like titles for various genres of novel but are, in fact, names for sustainable projects in Callebaut's growing portfolio.", "Now all he needs is to find someone brave enough to build on the vision he has created." ]	[ "Belgian architect imagines climate refugees living on a futuristic Lilypad ecopolis .", "The structure would support 50,000 inhabitants in a zero carbon environment .", "The goal is to \"create a harmonious coexistence of humans and nature\"" ]	[ 2, 6 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- The creators are billing it as one of the coolest hostels in the world and it's undoubtedly one of the most novel overnight stays you are ever likely to experience.", "Welcome to the Jumbo Hostel -- an old Boeing 747 which is being converted into a 25-room hostel at the Stockholm-Arlanda airport.", "The Jumbo Hostel is currently being refurbished and will open for business in December 2008.", "The idea is the brainchild of Swedish businessman and entrepreneur Oscar Dios, who has been running hostels in Uppsala, Sweden for the past five years.", "Renovation work is underway on a plane which used to carry in excess of 350 passengers.", "Jumbo Hostel is scheduled to open for business in December 2008 and will provide accommodation for up to 85 guests.", "CNN spoke to Dios about how he got the project off the ground.", "\"We were looking to expand the business but it was more or less impossible to find reasonably priced housing at the airport.", "And you cannot build a new house and run a hostel because it is too expensive,\" he said.", "It was in 2006 that Dios first heard about the Boeing 747, which was for sale.", "Formerly flown by the now defunct Transjet Airways, the plane was wasting away in a hangar at Arlanda airport and hadn't flown since 2002.", "\"The plane was in a terrible state when we first saw it,\" he said.", "\"But we contacted the owners and gave them a fairly good offer, I think.\"", "Although he wasn't prepared to let on exactly how much he paid for the old Boeing, Dios confirmed that the price tag was a six-figure sum (in euros).", "Dios took possession of the 1976 Boeing 747-200 -- one of 393 built by the company until 1991 -- in June 2007 and by December he had reached agreement with the airport authorities about his unique proposal.", "In August 2008 the plane was finally moved to its permanent home at Arlanda airport's main entrance, where it will now stay.", "Apart from the engines being removed from the wings before purchase, the plane, from the outside, looks almost exactly as it did when it was grounded.", "The interior, for obvious reasons, is a different matter.", "Dismantling and stripping out all the old equipment and instruments started earlier this year.", "The final phase of refurbishment is nearing completion and Dios says it complies with the same building regulations required for a house.", "There will be two types of accommodation.", "A basic room will be roughly six square meters in size with sleeping space for three adults.", "It will cost €110 ($150) per night.", "But if you fancy splashing out, you can book the top deck, complete with the cockpit suite, which comes with a private bathroom and panoramic views of takeoffs and landings.", "Dios envisages newlyweds taking advantage of this more expensive option, which costs €500 ($700).", "If you don't want to spend a whole night on board you can hop on and relax in the cafe suite for a couple of hours at a cost of €25 ($35).", "This will also afford you the opportunity of striding out onto the wing and taking in the views of the bustling airport.", "While most large commercial planes end up in vast aircraft boneyards, some, like the Jumbo Hostel, find new lives.", "New York based urban architects Lot-ek plan to create a library in Guadalajara, Mexico, made by recycling 200 Boeing 727 and 737 fuselages.", "And Californian millionaire Francie Rehwald has started building a house from the parts of another scrapped 747." ]	[ "Swedish entrepreneur to open a Jumbo Hostel at Arlanda airport in Sweden .", "Decommissioned Boeing 747-200 currently being renovated into a 25 room hostel .", "Jumbo Hostel will cost €110 per room per night or €500 for the cockpit suite ." ]	[ 1, 2, 22 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Plans to rejuvenate a dilapidated London icon -- known worldwide to movie and music fans -- were unveiled last week.", "The redevelopment of Battersea Power Station includes a new eco-dome and a solar chimney.", "Battersea Power Station, which has dominated the west London skyline since 1933, will -- subject to planning approval -- undergo an $8 billion redevelopment including shops, homes, a hotel, offices and a striking 300 meter eco-tower.", "The building appeared on the cover of the 1977 Pink Floyd album \"Animals,\" complete with a giant pig floating above its four distinctive towers.", "It has also appeared in numerous movies including sci-fi drama \"The Children of Men\", new Batman feature \"The Dark Knight\" and Alfred Hitchcock's \"Sabotage.\"", "Real Estate Opportunities Ltd (REO), who currently own the 38 acre site say the defunct and crumbling edifice will be: \"brought back to life in the most spectacular way.", "It will be a place to live, work and play\".", "An Irish development company, REO is planning to spend $300 million repairing the old coal-powered station and get it working again -- this time producing energy from biofuels, waste and other renewable energy sources.", "At the heart of the regeneration stands a vast new chimney and eco-dome, which as well as housing apartments and offices will act as a vast solar ventilation system cutting down the building's energy demand by two thirds.", "Managing Director of REO's development manager, Treasury Holdings UK, Rob Tincknell describes it as \"a power station for the 21st century...supporting a truly sustainable, zero carbon development\".", "Uruguayan architect Rafael Vinoly whose daunting job it was to come up with a workable new design for the much loved site describes the old power station as a \"remarkable architectural presence\".", "In creating a vast transparent chimney Vinoly hopes that it will contrast with what he describes as the \"monumental mass\" of J. Theo Halliday and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's original design.", "Of course, we've been here before. Since the turbines were shut down for the final time in 1983 the power station -- situated on the south bank of the river Thames -- has been the subject of several failed redevelopment ventures.", "In 1983, a scheme proposed by UK businessman John Broome promised to turn the power station into a gigantic theme park.", "But by the decade's close and despite the enthusiastic backing of UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher his funding package for redevelopment, much like the site itself, were in a ruinous state.", "In 1996, development company Parkview International headed up by Victor Hwang acquired the freehold for the site.", "By the time its current owners REO bought the site a decade later another over ambitious redevelopment scheme -- which included a single table restaurant atop one of the four chimneys -- had come and gone.", "By now the entire site was in a pretty parlous state -- the chimneys being declared beyond repair and threatened with imminent demolition.", "This new proposal has already provoked a chorus of dissent.", "Writing in London's Evening Standard newspaper, architecture critic Rowan Moore described the idea as: \"spectacularly, riotously, extravagantly nuts,\" telling the developers and planners to: \"Forget it.", "Do not try to compromise with a tower two-thirds as high.", "Do not build a tower.", "Aim for zero-carbon and beautiful buildings...\".", "The Guardian's resident architecture expert Jonathan Glancey gave the designs a cool reception describing them as; \"more than a little over the top\".", "CNN spoke to Keith Garner, an architect and member of the Battersea Power Station Community Group about the new proposals.", "He didn't mince his words.", "\"If you take it as a serious proposal, it's immensely harmful,\" he said.", "\"It is a massive tower -- about the same size as the gherkin.", "Battersea Power Station is a Grade II* listed building.", "If you put a tower of that mass next to it, you are going to diminish its significance.", "\"If you are serious about rescuing this building you would do it in stages.", "The old turbine halls and the switch houses are easily reusable.", "A sensible, rational approach to this would involve starting with the power station itself and doing the work in small achievable phases.\"", "Consequently, Garner doesn't believe that the new plans are credible.", "\"I think the developers have overplayed it.", "This is a joke and I think it needs to be denounced for what it is -- a ludicrous and unnecessary diversion from the principal task of repairing the building.\"", "Take a look at the photos of the new proposal and classic images on the tab at the top of the page.", "Tell us what you think of the latest redevelopment plans in the sound off box below.", "Do you think they will dwarf the old power station and compromise its iconic status?" ]	[ "New plans to rejuvenate the iconic Battersea Power Station site have been unveiled .", "A new chimney and eco-dome form part of a 21st century blueprint for sustainability .", "Critics remain unconvinced that the new development is desirable or achievable ." ]	[ 1, 24, 33 ]
[ "JOHNSTON, Iowa (CNN) -- Politics meets technology Thursday as a group of undecided Iowa Democrats has allowed themselves to be wired for the debate of Democratic presidential hopefuls.", "A dial-test graph is displayed over candidate Rudy Giuliani during a recent GOP debate.", "By the end of the debate, CNN hopes to be able to gauge which debater was the group's favorite and whose popularity fell -- and perhaps -- who may win the first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses on January 3.", "Across town, six Democratic candidates will be facing off for their final scheduled debate in the Hawkeye State before caucus night.", "The debate is hosted by the Des Moines Register and Iowa Public Television.", "Each member of the randomly selected group will watch the debate on a large-screen TV while operating special hand-held dial-testing devices which are approximately the size of typical remote-control devices.", "Viewers will react to the debate as it happens -- second-by-second -- as they move their dials to the right or the left.", "Dialing right indicates a positive response and dialing left represents a negative response.", "Southern Methodist University professors Rita Kirk and Dan Schill will track the average response of the group corresponding with each moment of the debate.", "Responses will be represented by a moving line on a video monitor.", "The group of Iowans, randomly selected by phone from a list of registered voters, will be recording their impressions of every moment of the debate.", "The Democratic participants will answer a series of questions both before and after the debate, to determine how the event may change their minds about the candidates.", "Among the questions to be posed before the face-off: Who do the group members think will perform best in the debate?", "Afterwards, they'll be asked who they think did the best.", "They also will be asked who they would vote for if the election were held today and who they think will win the nomination.", "All participants are planning to attend caucuses, but have yet to pick a candidate.", "Some are wavering between two candidates while some are considering several.", "They're hoping to get a better sense of the race from watching this debate, and CNN is hoping to get a better sense of their impressions of the debate by watching them.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Randomly chosen, undecided Democrats will watch debate while turning dials .", "Dials will rate their positive and negative responses to each debater .", "Group members will be asked questions about candidates before, after debate ." ]	[ 11, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The September issue of Essence magazine features an interview with Sen. Barack Obama and his family inside their Chicago home.", "Angela Burt-Murray is editor-in-chief of Essence magazine.", "Essence editor-in-chief Angela Burt-Murray said it took a year for the magazine to gain access to the Obama's Illinois home for an intimate interview with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, his wife, Michelle, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia.", "Burt-Murray talked Thursday with CNN \"American Morning\" anchor Kiran Chetry about the interview and the Obama family.", "Chetry: You are the first African-American media outlet to get this inside look.", "Did your team get a chance to see the real Obamas?", "Burt-Murray: I think we did.", "We went to their home on the South Side of Chicago and it was wonderful to see them as a family interacting with each other, and see the girls skipping around the house, just acting like it's a normal, everyday occurrence to have a camera crew in their home and Secret Service at different points throughout the house and around the yard.", "But it didn't really seem to impact the girls in any way.", "Watch what Essence found inside the Obamas' home » .", "Chetry: Much was made of an earlier televised interview they with their daughters and they said, looking back, they probably shouldn't have done that.", "There is so much interest about their family, and yet they want to protect their girls.", "How do they balance that? Burt-Murray: They try to take a look at who is around the family and make sure they try to keep things as structured as possible.", "But also, you have instances where magazines like Essence show up to take photographs, but the girls are very relaxed because they're in their home environment.", "And I think that's the difference between our photo shoot and what you saw on television.", "Taking the girls outside of their home and putting them in the spotlight is probably a bit more challenging for them as parents.", "Chetry: They have to deal with completing stereotypes, if you will: They were parodied as these angry black radicals and as these Ivy League elitists.", "In the magazine, Gwen Ifill wrote, \"The Obamas pride themselves on creating a family picture that is authentically black with shades of Norman Rockwell.\"", "Explain that. How are they getting that image out.", "Burt-Murray: I think it's the idea that they're just an average American family.", "They have strong family values, they're deeply rooted in their community and they want to show their girls a great example of achievement.", "But they also want to be a model for the rest of their community.", "The Obamas talk about in our story how important it is for them to continue to live in their South Side Chicago neighborhood because it's a neighborhood in transition.", "So you have children who have the opportunity to see an African-American man run for the highest office in the nation right in their neighborhood.", "So they're modeling not only for their children but also for the larger community.", "Chetry: They do live in a gated community, a $1.6 million home, so it's out of reach for a lot of people.", "Burt-Murray: But it's so accessible.", "While we were there photographing them for Essence, you could see the cars going by and stopping and people getting out to take photographs.", "The girls were on the porch and people could see them.", "There is some normalcy there, but it's also obviously something very special and different.", "Chetry: They said race had been prominent on the campaign trail.", "Barack Obama told Gwen Ifill that he thinks race is a national obsession.", "He thinks the racial divide is not as big an issue in this country as it's made out to be.", "Burt-Murray: As evidenced by the success that he's had with his campaign, you can certainly see that attitudes are shifting.", "But there are still challenges, obviously, that need to be addressed.", "And it keeps coming up throughout the campaign.", "So it will be interesting to see what happens when the country goes to the polls in November." ]	[ "Essence magazine interviews senator, wife and children in Chicago home .", "Editor says candidate, Michelle Obama try to keep daughters' life normal .", "Obamas have strong family values, roots in community, Angela Burt-Murray says ." ]	[ 1, 2, 20 ]
[ "RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- The Taliban in Afghanistan have momentum that makes any effort to negotiate with them difficult, the U.S. defense secretary said.", "Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Cairo, Egypt, on Monday.", "He's visiting Afghanistan on Wednesday.", "Secretary Robert Gates spoke to CNN's Chris Lawrence in an exclusive interview Tuesday evening before leaving for Afghanistan, where he is visiting troops and bases Wednesday.", "\"The political level of the Taliban probably isn't ready to think about reconciliation or any kind of accommodation at this point,\" Gates said in the interview.", "\"They probably feel like they have the momentum with them.", "And until that momentum changes, it will be difficult.\"", "As part of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, the military and Afghanistan government are attempting to reach out to elements of the Taliban who are engaged in the battle for financial gain, rather than ideological gain.", "\"There are really two groups we're talking about -- the younger, or less committed, who do this mainly to earn a living and put food on the table for their families, and those that are more ideologically committed.", "The latter are going to be a tougher pull, and we'll probably have to wait awhile before there's an opportunity there.\"", "On Monday, CNN's Nic Robertson interviewed a spokesman for the Taliban, Zabiullah Mujahid, who said the Taliban will only negotiate with the Afghanistan government when the United States leaves the country.", "\"Our conditions are clear, we want to negotiate and they [the U.S.] will not interfere in our affairs; secondly, they [the U.S.] will leave the country,\" Mujahid told CNN.", "Gates said the stance was not surprising.", "\"Well I don't know what else he'd say.", "He's leading the opposition, he's leading this insurgency.", "He's not going to sort of, sort of throw down and say 'We're ready to negotiate, we're about done here,' \" Gates said.", "The United States is adding 21,000 troops to the Afghanistan battlefield.", "The majority will be moving to the south to confront the Taliban along the porous Pakistani border.", "The Taliban have had mostly free rein in that area with few U.S. or coalition forces to confront them until now.", "Gates admitted moving the battle to the south will mean there is \"a tough fight ahead.\"", "\"I think, certainly, I have been pretty clear.", "As we move into areas of the south that have not seen any Afghan or coalition forces so far, we're clearly going to be going into areas where the Taliban are very entrenched,\" he said.", "\"And, sad to say, I expect with the rising level of our activity and operations, there probably will be higher casualties.\"", "In recent weeks, the Pakistani government has seen the Taliban gain control on its side of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.", "Privately, Pakistani officials have expressed concern to the United States that the increased fighting in southern Afghanistan will only push the Taliban back to the Pakistani side.", "\"Well I think it's just the reality that there are extremists on both sides of that border.", "And they threaten both the elected government of Afghanistan and the elected government of Pakistan.", "So like it or not, they both have a certain common enemy,\" Gates said.", "Gates said he is encouraged by recent cooperation efforts between the two countries to deal with the problem, and by Pakistan's recent confrontation with the Taliban in Bunir province, near the capital of Islamabad.", "\"The signs right now are pretty positive,\" he told CNN." ]	[ "U.S. defense secretary: Political level not ready for reconciliation, accommodation .", "U.S. trying to reach out to Taliban interested in financial gain, not ideological gain .", "Taliban spokesman: We will negotiate with Afghan government when U.S. leaves .", "Gates says that as U.S. forces build up in southern Afghanistan, fight will be tougher ." ]	[ 4, 6, 7, 10, 11 ]
[ "DAVOS, Switzerland (CNN) -- The worldwide economic recession has exposed a \"crisis of global governance\" that can only be addressed by the radical reform of the United Nations, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday as the World Economic Forum got under way in Switzerland.", "Kofi Annan says the United Nations needs to be reformed.", "\"The current architecture of managing global affairs is broken and needs to be fixed,\" Annan said on the opening morning of the five-day annual meeting of global political and business leaders.", "\"We have major new players coming on the scene and they need to be integrated and given a voice.\"", "Referring to the U.N. Security Council, which gives permanent places and vetoing powers to the U.S., the UK, Russia, China and France, Annan said: \"We cannot continue to run the world based on countries that won a war 60 years ago.", "It's either destructive competition or cooperation.", "We live in an interdependent world and the only way to move forward is to cooperate.\"", "Annan is one of six co-chairs at this year's WEF gathering, along with news tycoon Rupert Murdoch, HSBC Chairman Stephen Green, Werner Wenning of the German chemical group Bayer, Indian industrialist Anand G. Mahindra and Maria Ramos, Chief Executive of the South African transport group Transnet.", "He also urged delegates to address three interconnected challenges: the global recession, energy and security, and climate change.", "\"It is important leaders work on ways of finding effective, far-reaching policies -- even if they are radical -- that will allow us to create sustainable economic growth and create jobs for those who are out of jobs,\" Annan said.", "Newscorp. CEO Murdoch said delegates needed to be \"absolutely honest about where the world is at this point,\" warning that the consequences of $50 trillion being wiped off personal fortunes had left people feeling \"depressed and traumatized.\"", "\"We've been living in the Western world way above our means.", "We've been on a great binge and it's come to an end and we have to live though the correction,\" Murdoch said.", "But he said the downturn offered a chance to set about tackling issues of energy sufficiency and pollution.", "\"We must treat this crisis, whether it lasts for a year or five years, as an opportunity to set goals for how we want to come out of it.", "This is a time to shape the policies to help to solve some of those problems.\"", "HSBC boss Green said the banking industry needed to admit that it had not \"covered itself in glory\" in contributing to the collapse of the financial industry and called for continuing government intervention to \"stop a nasty recession spiraling down into something else.\"", "But he said the major banks could contribute to solving the crisis as well: \"I do not believe for a moment that you can have a successful economy without successful and properly functioning international capital markets.\"", "Wenning said he didn't expect any solutions to emerge from this year's meeting, but hoped delegates could achieve \"a joint understanding of the reasons for the financial crisis\" and called for a return to \"the basics of sustainable behavior.\"", "\"If we are really able to address these mega-challenges of the future then we would be able to restore the trust in leadership -- and I believe the world needs leadership.\"", "Political leaders will join the discussions later Wednesday with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin both due to deliver agenda-setting addresses." ]	[ "Kofi Annan calls for reform of U.N. at World Economic Forum in Davos .", "Annan says economic recession has exposed a \"crisis in global governance\"\nRupert Murdoch: Western world has been living \"way above our means\"\nHSBC boss Stephen Green admits banks \"didn't cover themselves in glory\"" ]	[ 0, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Taliban militants, who implemented Islamic law in Pakistan's violence-plagued Swat Valley last week, have now taken control of a neighboring district.", "Protests in Karachi against the creation of sharia courts in Swat Valley.", "Here are some answers about the Swat Valley, its history and what's taking place there.", "What is Swat Valley?", "Swat Valley is located in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, near the border with Afghanistan and about 185 miles (300 kilometers) from the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.", "The alpine region once was one of Pakistan's premier tourist destinations, boasting the nation's only ski resort until it was shut down after Taliban militants overran the area.", "It also was a draw for trout-fishing enthusiasts and those wishing to visit the ancient Buddhist ruins in the area.", "What's happening in Swat Valley?", "In recent years Taliban militants unleashed a wave of violence that claimed hundreds of lives in the province.", "The militants wanted sharia law -- or Islamic law -- imposed in the region.", "They took over the valley in 2008.", "The central government of Pakistan, which long exerted little control in the area, launched an intense military offensive in late July to flush out the militants.", "In retaliation, the Taliban carried out a series of deadly attacks and began gaining ground, setting up checkpoints in the area.", "Has the government intervened?", "The militants and the Pakistani government reached a peace deal earlier this year, which was recently signed into law by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.", "Under the deal, sharia law was imposed in the region.", "While the peace deal drew criticism for the Pakistani government, some analysts and political observers say the government had little choice but to capitulate, as militants have terrorized the region with beheadings, kidnappings and the destruction of schools.", "What's happening now? This week, the Taliban moved to seize control of the neighboring Buner district, bringing it closer to Islamabad than it has been since Taliban insurgency began.", "What is sharia law?", "Sharia law is Islamic law.", "While there are different interpretations of it, the Taliban's strict interpretation forbids women from being seen in public without their husbands and fathers, requires veils for women and beards for men, and bans music and television.", "Consequences are severe; during the Taliban struggle to impose sharia law, anyone found disobeying was pinned to the ground and lashed.", "Others were beheaded and hung from poles, with notices attached to their bodies that anyone daring to remove the corpse before 48 hours had passed would also be beheaded and hanged." ]	[ "Taliban militants in Pakistan's Swat Valley take control of neighboring Buner district .", "Swat Valley was once one of Pakistan's top tourist attractions .", "Militants are now closer to Islamabad than any point since start of insurgency ." ]	[ 0, 5, 7, 17 ]
[ "BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (CNN) -- If Russell Jackson has his way, any child who needs medical care but lacks the transportation to get there will have a safe and reliable alternative.", "Russell Jackson started Kid One, which has ferried thousands of children to medical appointments.", "\"We found that there were 80,000-plus children in Alabama living in a home with no car,\" Jackson says.", "\"And in the rural areas, there are no cabs, there are no buses, there are no trains. ...", "Millions of children in our country every day have no access to medical care when they need to reach it.\"", "Jackson is so determined that in 1997 he gave up his career as an Alabama firefighter, moved in with friends and dug into his retirement account to start Kid One Transport, a nonprofit organization that provides rides for needy children in his home state.", "In 11 years, Kid One's fleet of vans has ferried more than 16,000 kids to and from scheduled medical-related appointments all over Alabama.", "Watch Jackson describe the need for medical transportation in rural Alabama » .", "Jackson never anticipated he would leave the fire department to head up a nonprofit organization.", "After all, firefighting was the culmination of a lifelong dream.", "\"What little boy doesn't want to be a firefighter?\"", "Jackson says, laughing.", "But an emergency call to his department in March 1992 changed everything.", "Jackson was dispatched to help an unresponsive 2-year-old who had accidentally hanged himself in the family car while trying to retrieve a toy.", "\"We did everything that we could to try to revive that young child,\" he says.", "The 2-year-old died despite their efforts.", "\"I took it pretty tough,\" Jackson remembers.", "\"It's not that I had not been exposed to tragedies before, but this one hit me differently.\"", "At the advice of a counselor, Jackson started volunteer work to help him process his grief.", "A friend suggested Jackson volunteer in the small rural town of Sayre, Alabama.", "Jackson was stunned by what he saw just 25 minutes from his home.", "\"When I drove into the community, it was a world of its own.", "It was a lot of homes that were deplorable.", "And that's really the only way I can explain them,\" he says.", "Jackson says he was instantly ashamed by his own comfortable lifestyle.", "Watch Jackson describe the \"turning point\" that led to Kids One Transport » .", "\"All it took was the one visit,\" he recalls, \"and I knew I really wanted to come out and work with these folks, hand in hand, and do whatever I could to help make life a little bit easier for them.\"", "When social workers told him about the neighborhood children who had no way to travel to and from appointments for chemotherapy, physical therapy and even for regular checkups, Jackson started driving them there himself.", "Before long this one-man operation grew into a 13-van team covering 30 counties.", "Though Jackson recently stepped down from a daily role in the organization he founded, he says the best part of his work has been meeting the families and witnessing firsthand so many medical transformations.", "There were some who learned to speak, another who learned to walk, and others who recovered from life-threatening illnesses -- even when doctors were less than hopeful.", "Watch a child who relies on Kid One to get to medical appointments » .", "\"I saw so many lives changed, so many determined children and parents who wanted to beat the odds that were against them,\" Jackson says.", "He says he believes that getting them to the care they needed made the difference.", "\"We're that missing part of the puzzle that is preventing so many people from reaching what we'd consider as world-class medicine.", "... To know that they beat it all because of a simple ride,\" he adds.", "\"That has definitely been worth every bit of founding Kid One Transport.\"" ]	[ "More than 80,000 children in Alabama reportedly live in homes without a car .", "Fireman Russell Jackson quit his job to start a nonprofit to help fill that gap .", "Kid One has ferried 16,000 children to and from medical-related appointments ." ]	[ 1, 2, 6 ]
[ "DOHA, Qatar (CNN) -- One look outside the window gives a glimpse of the \"economics of energy\" in Doha, Qatar.", "Cranes dot the tops of half-finished towers, a monumental work in progress; the result of vast energy wealth being pumped out of the ground and poured into project after project.", "Doha, Qatar: A city skyline awash with cranes and towers powered by abundant oil and gas supplies.", "It's here that our Principal Voices met for the first of this year's roundtables.", "Outside Qatar, the economics of energy present a very different picture.", "Rising fuel costs are pricing power out of the means of some of the world's poorest people.", "And the environmental cost of continuing to exploit the world's fossil fuel supplies is now almost universally agreed to be so great that society can no longer afford to ignore it.", "Our Principal Voices come from diverse backgrounds: .", "The Icelandic President Olafur Grimsson -- the first head of state to sit on a Principal Voices panel -- grew up on a small island in the North Atlantic Ocean and over the past forty years has witnessed the country abandon coal to become the world's first clean economy.", "Dr Joseph Adelegan from Nigeria has seen poverty first hand in Africa where he worked closely with villagers to convert slaughterhouse waste to gas they use for cooking.", "And, Qatar-based businessman Hesham Ismail AbdulRahman Al Emadi is leading an ambitious project to create a global network of \"Energy Cities\" to house the oil and gas industry.", "For an hour and a half they spoke about how to solve what Icelandic President Grimsson called, \"the most fundamental question of the 21st century\": energy and whether there will ever be enough alternative sources of power to satisfy global demand if, and only if, the world manages to shake its addiction to oil and other fossil fuels.", "They spoke not only about the need to find alternatives to traditional energy sources, but whether there'll ever be a concerted effort in developed countries to conserve rather than consume precious resources.", "So what is holding us back?", "\"We are creatures of habit,\" Grimsson offered by way of explanation, adding that \"it usually takes a crisis to bring about change\".", "He warned that there is one potential disaster looming: the predicted melting of the glaciers in the Himalayas in 30 to 40 years which will cause catastrophic flooding in India and China.", "\"This is not just a discussion about the rich, about cities or about Europe or America or even China or India, the great economic powerhouses.", "This is also a question about the poorest of the poor.\"", "In a response to an emailed question about whether the developed world should face sanctions for not meeting any targets set by the international community on climate change, Dr Joseph Adelegan called for aid to help poorer countries --like the ones in Africa -- find alternatives to fossil fuels.", "The Middle East is facing different challenges.", "Hesham Al Emadi says energy subsidies in Gulf Cooperation Council countries and ignorance of the issues provide little incentive for residents to conserve energy or find greener alternatives: \"there is lots of ignorance.", "Awareness is a major issue.\"", "And what of countries like the U.S.?", "Would higher taxes on fuel be enough to move residents in the right direction?", "Acknowledging he's an optimist and \"a great friend of America,\" Grimsson said, politically, all the elements are already in place for a big shift in attitudes in the U.S. \"McCain, Hillary and Obama are all on the positive issue, as I call it,\" he said.", "He also said the world might be wise to look to the Middle East for guidance.", "\"I believe they are probably more aware than we are that the odds are that oil will run out sooner rather than later,\" Grimsson said, adding \"A visionary leader of a country who wants to create a good living for his or her grandchildren or great grandchildren thinks about these issues.\"", "We'll put more content from the debate on the website as soon as possible, including video highlights.", "What's your point of view?", "Send us an email by filling out the form on the front page, or perhaps send us an iReport explaining your views.", "Join the debate." ]	[ "First Principal Voices round table debate takes place in Doha, Qatar .", "Olafur Grimsson states \"it usually takes a crisis to bring about change\"\nJoseph Adelegan calls for aid to help poor countries find alternatives to fossil fuels ." ]	[ 7, 14, 18, 30 ]
[ "Editor's note: Maury Klein is professor emeritus of history at the University of Rhode Island.", "He is the author of 15 books, including \"Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929\" and most recently \"The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Made Modern America.\"", "Historian Maury Klein says it's important to remember that psychology plays a huge role in financial markets.", "(CNN) -- Friday marks the 79th anniversary of the day that launched the stock market crash of 1929.", "As an unprecedented wave of selling threw the floor of the New York Stock Exchange into pandemonium on a day that became known as Black Thursday, a show of organized support by a coterie of leading bankers halted the panic.", "But on the following Monday, the market collapsed in a tsunami of selling.", "Every intense convulsion of the stock market raises primal fears spawned by the Great Crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, which dragged on for a full decade and has haunted Americans ever since.", "The Panic of 2008 is no exception.", "In the past year, the market's fall has at times rivaled that of 1929.", "Are there connections or similarities between those earlier national traumas and our current crisis?", "First some facts about that earlier experience.", "The Great Crash and the Great Depression were two separate events.", "The Crash was a financial panic, the Depression an economic downturn.", "The one does not necessarily lead to the other; the market has collapsed several times in American history without bringing on a depression.", "Great Depression holds lessons for surviving a tough economy .", "The Crash began in October 1929, and the worst of it was over in three weeks; the Depression did not fasten itself on the nation for another year.", "To this day, the connection between them remains unclear, which makes it difficult to draw lessons or analogies from them.", "The Dow plunged 39 percent between October 23 and November 13, 1929, but it regained 74 percent of that loss by March 1930.", "Only when the economy failed to gain momentum in the spring did the market slip back.", "By fall the country had slipped into a depression, and the market resumed a downward course that did not touch bottom until July 1932.", "It did not again return to the levels of 1929 until 1954.", "The Depression did not end until increased military spending revived the economy in the spring of 1940.", "The bull market of the 1920s was unique in that it marked the first time large numbers of ordinary people participated.", "The market moved from Wall Street to Main Street and aroused intense interest even among people who were not active in it.", "The new investors, or \"fish\" as the pros called them, were prone to panic when the market fell sharply.", "Could it happen again?", "History never repeats itself, but historical patterns do -- though always in a new context.", "Here are just a few of the similarities and differences between the earlier crisis and its modern version.", "During the 1920s, the financial industry underwent a great expansion, bringing into the business many inexperienced people and new investment vehicles -- most notably the investment trust, the forerunner of the modern mutual fund.", "Nobody knew what impact they would have on the market with their buying and selling on a large scale.", "The business world hailed the 1920s as the \"New Era,\" one with new rules in which the old pattern of cyclical depressions would no longer occur and prosperity would be continuous.", "Compare this delusion with the \"New Economy\" of the 1990s.", "The 1920s marked the beginning of the consumer economy, and with it a broad expansion of credit.", "Installment buying made its debut on a large scale.", "Credit also was used to buy stocks on margin, greatly increasing the market's volume and volatility.", "The banking system was shaky throughout the 1920s, and failures escalated steadily after 1929.", "The Crash exposed many cases of fraud that led to investigations and passage of the most significant banking reform in American history.", "The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., or FDIC, gave rise to the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, and separated investment banks from commercial banks.", "The latter reform was repealed in 1999, giving banks free rein to perform both activities once again.", "Some differences between the eras are worth noting.", "Prior to 1933, the federal government played virtually no active role in relieving the banking crisis of the 1920s.", "The stock market did not have giant institutional buyers moving huge blocks of stock.", "Nor did it operate on a global scale, though it was deeply influenced by international events.", "After the crash, the banks had plenty of money to lend but no takers, the opposite of today's situation.", "Deflation became the mortal enemy as people removed their cash from banks and hoarded it.", "A familiar pattern emerged from these events.", "Business and the Republican Party in the 1920s demanded and got a \"free\" market unrestrained by government.", "Neither Wall Street nor the New York Stock Exchange was regulated by the government.", "The resulting disaster prompted outraged demands that Washington \"do something.\"", "Regulation was then forthcoming.", "Later, as prosperity returned and the market began soaring, the restraints were gradually removed and the pattern of excess began anew until it collapsed once again in our own time.", "With the fall comes renewed pleas for government to \"do something.\"", "Finally, it is important to remember that psychology plays a huge role in financial markets.", "Every panic has been at bottom a crisis of confidence.", "So too with the economy. As Frederick Lewis Allen observed, \"Prosperity is more than an economic condition; it is a state of mind.\"", "The trick is always to find out what exactly is needed to restore it.", "We are still fishing for the answer to that riddle.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Maury Klein." ]	[ "Maury Klein: The 1929 market crash and the Depression were separate events .", "Many financial panics have not led to depressions, Klein says .", "Before 1933, the government wasn't active in trying to save banks, he says .", "After crisis, people demanded regulation, which eventually faded, Klein says ." ]	[ 2, 11, 40, 41, 49 ]
[ "DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- On a historic night for America, Barack Obama secured the Democratic Party's nomination for president and emerged for the first time on stage in Denver with running mate Sen. Joe Biden.", "Obama on Wednesday officially became the first African American to lead a major party ticket.", "Delegates cried and cheered as former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton motioned to cut the roll call vote short, saying \"Let's declare together with one voice right here, right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president.\"", "The dramatic move was carefully choreographed to put down any fears of a divided party following the protracted primary battle.", "Watch emotional crowd nominate Obama » .", "The Democrats jumped to their feet as they made history with Obama as their leader.", "Outside the hall, Republican leaders also hailed the achievement.", "On Thursday, the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s \"I have a dream\" speech, in the culmination of the Democratic National Convention, Obama will address an estimated 70,000 people at Invesco field in Denver.", "Read more about the historic anniversary .", "\"This is something people like me have been waiting for for days, weeks.", "Years,\" said Howard Hemsley, an African-American delegate from New York.", "\"He's going to the White House.", "He's going to be our next president.\"", "iReport.com: \"Never thought I'd see this day\" Former President Bill Clinton reflected on the significance of the moment in his address before the Democratic National Convention.", "Read more on Clinton's case for Obama .", "\"Now, Sen. Obama's life is a 21st-century incarnation of the old-fashioned American dream.", "His achievements are proof of our continuing progress toward the more perfect union of our founders' dreams,\" he said.", "\"Barack Obama will lead us away from the division and fear of the last eight years back to unity and hope.\"", "Watch the sights and sounds of the convention events » .", "President Clinton and Biden, two of the party's elder statesmen, lavished praise upon the newly crowned nominee and did their best to paint Republican rival Sen. John McCain as a candidate who would lead the country down a dangerous path.", "Clinton cast Obama as the safe pick, and the only one who could bring about change.", "He sought to put to rest the main criticism of Obama -- that he does not have the experience to lead.", "Watch Clinton wow the Democrats » .", "Obama's perceived weakness compared to McCain on foreign policy and national security issues has been of concern to Democratic strategists, especially since Russia's conflict with Georgia intensified this month.", "According to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, 78 percent of registered voters said they believe McCain can handle the responsibilities of commander in chief, compared to 58 percent for Obama.", "\"Clearly, the job of the next president is to rebuild the American dream and to restore American leadership in the world,\" President Clinton said Wednesday night.", "iReport.com: Share your reaction to the convention speeches .", "\"And here's what I have to say about that. Everything I learned in my eight years as president, and in the work I have done since in America and across the globe, has convinced me that Barack Obama is the man for this job.\"", "The ex-president had been one of the most vocal critics of Obama during the protracted primary season.", "Republicans have used the Clintons' earlier criticism of Obama's experience in their attacks on the Democratic presidential nominee.", "Going into the convention, there were still a lot of questions about whether the Clintons were ready to embrace Obama following the bruising primary battle.", "Clinton seemed to change that narrative as he declared his support for Obama.", "David Gergen, a CNN senior political analyst who worked in the Clinton administration, said the speech was \"the most effective and the most important speech Bill Clinton has delivered since he left the White House.\"", "View an analysis of day 3 » .", "Continuing criticism leveled by Clinton and other speakers this week, Biden took to the stage and delivered an assault on Republican policies.", "\"As we gather here tonight, our country is less secure and more isolated than at any time in recent history.", "The Bush-McCain foreign policy has dug us into a very deep hole, with very few friends to help us climb out,\" he said.", "Biden rattled off a list of McCain's positions on issues ranging from taxes to alternative energy, repeatedly saying: \"That's not change -- that's more of the same.\"", "Read more about Biden's attacks .", "Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is widely believed to have been chosen for the Democratic presidential ticket based on his foreign policy credentials.", "Watch Biden accept the nomination » .", "The six-term senator pointed to his friendship with McCain, but said \"I profoundly disagree with the direction that John wants to take the country.\"" ]	[ "Barack Obama becomes first African American to lead major party ticket .", "Delegates cry, cheer during historic night .", "Former President Bill Clinton says Obama is ready to lead .", "VP nominee Joe Biden slams Republican John McCain, his long-time friend ." ]	[ 0, 1, 31 ]
[ "HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Deaths in Zimbabwe related to the cholera epidemic are approaching 2,000, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, and close to 40,000 people have been affected by the preventable water-borne disease.", "Two men rest in a cholera rehydration tent on the South Africa-Zimbabwe border in December.", "Statistics released by the Geneva, Switzerland-based organization WHO on Tuesday show 1,937 people have died in the raging epidemic from the 38,334 who contracted the disease since its outbreak in August.", "Cholera has spread to neighboring countries South Africa and Botswana.", "The epidemic comes at a time when President Robert Mugabe's government is facing its worst economic crisis, manifested in shortages of all essentials from food, fuel, cash, foreign currency and electricity and a hyperinflationary economy.", "Health experts have said Harare's failure to import adequate stocks of water-treating chemicals is the main driver of the disease.", "Most residents have resorted to rivers and shallow wells for drinking water, because taps are usually dry.", "On top of that problem, the waste-disposing system has collapsed.", "Children can be seen playing on heaps of uncollected garbage in the suburbs of most urban areas in Zimbabwe.", "Last month, Mugabe's government declared the cholera epidemic a national emergency.", "Since then, international governments and organizations such as WHO, Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, USAID and other U.N. groups have moved in to combat the disease that has engulfed all of Zimbabwe's provinces.", "But the situation has not immediately improved.", "Zimbabwean Health Minister David Parirenyatwa warned this month that the epidemic could get worse as the rainy season develops.", "Harare issued a warning Monday that some parts of the country are going to experience floods during rainy season, further compounding the fight against the disease.", "The season peaks in January or February and ends in late March.", "Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai signed a power-sharing deal in September to run the government after a hotly contested presidential election.", "It was widely hoped that the deal would be the panacea to the humanitarian and economic problems bewildering the once-prosperous Zimbabwe, but the pact is yet to take effect.", "The sides continue to debate the sharing of key Cabinet ministries such as information, local government, finance, defense and home affairs." ]	[ "World Health Organization says 1,937 people have died since outbreak in August .", "Cholera epidemic comes as Zimbabwe faces worst economic crisis .", "Expert: Failure to import adequate stocks of water-treating chemicals behind disease .", "Cholera has spread to neighboring countries South Africa and Botswana ." ]	[ 2, 3, 5 ]
[ "CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- One of Chicago's most well-known real estate moguls appears to have shot himself to death, police said.", "Steven Good was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot Monday, police said.", "The body of Steven L. Good was found in his Jaguar on Monday.", "The car was spotted in a parking lot of a wildlife preserve in Kane County, Illinois, just outside Chicago, authorities said.", "No note was found, and police say they do not know how long the 52-year-old had been in the vehicle.", "Good was the chairman and chief executive officer of Sheldon Good & Co., a major U.S. real estate auction company.", "The death comes amid great turmoil in the country's real estate industry.", "In his role as chairman of the Realtors Commercial Alliance Committee, Good commented on tough conditions last month at a business conference.", "On a memorial blog set up by the Chicago Association of Realtors, for which Good once served as president, friends and colleagues described him as a gregarious man with a big personality.", "He was a savvy businessman who built his company into a major national real estate company that did deals with Donald Trump, they said.", "\"It is testimony to Steve's leadership that Sheldon Good & Co. remains well-positioned for the future,\" said Sheldon Good President Alan R. Kravets.", "\"The guy was a true blue Realtor,\" said Barbara Matthopoulos, the association's spokeswoman.", "She was new to real estate when she met Good more than a year ago.", "He took time to give her advice that has helped her grow to love the business.", "\"Anybody who knew him would speak to his leadership, his generosity, his attitude.", "The guy was just very positive, always smiling, always telling you a story.", "He was engaged. Everyone is really very shocked,\" she said.", "\"I doubt anyone could help explain why this happened.\"", "Kane County Sheriff's Department spokesman Lt. Pat Gengler said authorities don't have any \"concrete evidence if this had anything to do with his finances.\"", "The company was founded by Good's father, Sheldon Good, in 1965, according to the firm's Web site.", "Steven Good had \"been involved in the sale of more than $4 billion of real estate, including commercial, office, retail, industrial, residential, and vacant land sites,\" it says.", "\"Mr. Good is the driving force behind the expansion of the company, which has been ranked as the largest firm in the United States exclusively conducting real estate auctions.\"", "Good, who was also an attorney, wrote a book, \"Churches, Jails and Gold Mines: Mega-Deals From a Real Estate Maverick.\"", "According to Amazon.com, Donald Trump wrote the afterword.", "The first chapter begins, \"Our auction company is to the real estate business what Sotheby's and Christie's is the fine art and collectibles business.\"", "The book goes to say that as of its 2003 publication, the firm had sold 40,000 properties totaling $8 billion.", "\"If you lined up 1,000 people and said pick the one that might do this to themselves, he would be the last person I would choose,\" said Wayne Caplan, who worked at Sheldon Good for six years and knew Steven Good personally.", "\"He had a zest for life. He has a wife and kids and he had so much in his life.\"" ]	[ "Steven L. Good was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound in his car Monday .", "Good was a well-known real estate businessman in Chicago .", "Friends, family shocked, saddened by what police say appears to be a suicide ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Thomas Friedman is never short of a word or two.", "Thomas L. Friedman: \"Incredible opportunities masquerading as insoluble problems.\"", "The celebrated commentator occupies a position in his profession that many of his contemporaries would rival.", "He gets to go where he wants, when he wants and write about what he thinks, or as he puts it: \"I get to be a tourist with an attitude.\"", "Officially, he's The New York Times' foreign affairs columnist -- a position he's held since 1995 -- as well as the author of five books.", "Through his syndicated column his opinion has become a recognizable American voice on the international stage, and with it has come a sense of responsibility.", "\"I agonize over every column.", "Precisely because I know it is going to be read by a lot of people and it's going to be in Google forever,\" he told CNN.", "\"So there is that sense of responsibility, but at the same time you do have to take the attitude of 'This is what I think.", "This is why I think it.' I'm not in a popularity contest.\"", "Before his current position, Friedman served in various posts at the New York Times, including chief economic correspondent, chief White House correspondent and bureau chief in Beirut and Israel.", "His reporting from Lebanon in 1983 and work in Israel in 1988 won him Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting.", "Taking in the world provides never-ending fascination, he says.", "\"I have the best job in the world, I mean, somebody has to have it.\"", "He's recently trained his eye on how America can reassert itself by leading the way in green technology, encapsulated in his latest book \"Hot, flat and crowded.\"", "As he admits, the environmental aspect is not the point of the book; really it's a treatise on how America \"lost its groove and why we need to get it back by taking the lead in the energy revolution.\"", "One man who will need to take a pivotal role is the incoming U.S. president, Barack Obama, Friedman says.", "\"I have a lot of high hopes for him.", "I think we are very lucky to have someone with his raw material as the next president.", "I think he brings together several things that we haven't had,\" Friedman told CNN.", "Whether Obama can solve the raft of problems he faces is another matter.", "\"Is he ready to be as radical as the moment?", "Really have the courage of our crisis?", "At the end of the day it's gonna be Barack Obama and (Chinese President) Hu Jintao.", "We're not going to get out of this without cooperating and working closely with China,\" Friedman said.", "While presenting a view from the United States, Friedman is still able to do a mea culpa on America's behalf when it comes to the current economic crisis.", "\"We were in the middle of a huge credit bubble which in its own way was a Ponzi scheme.", "We gave the world financial SARs.", "We just spread it around the world.\"", "An optimist by nature -- \"I do live by the motto that pessimists are usually right, but all the great change in history was done by optimists\" -- he's sanguine when it comes to the planet in the current climate of economic depression and environmental urgency.", "\"What I'm basically arguing is that you can look at the world today that is hot, flat, and crowded and you can have one of two reactions.", "One reaction is to say 'We're cooked, let's party,'\" he said.", "\"That's not the way I'd look at it. I'd look at it the way John Gardner, the founder of Common Cause, once described.", "I look at these problems that come from hot, flat and crowded and what I see are incredible opportunities masquerading as insoluble problems.\"" ]	[ "Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author: \"I'm not in a popularity contest\"\nOn U.S. and global economic situation: \"We gave the world financial SARS\"\nOn Barack Obama: 'Is he ready to be as radical as the moment?'" ]	[ 0, 9, 15, 21, 27 ]
[ "(LifeWire) -- Janice Shih might be the most educated pastry chef you'll ever meet.", "Janice Shih left her career in medicine at age 38 and became a pastry chef.", "Shih attended Johns Hopkins University, followed by medical school at George Washington University, then practiced for eight years as an obstetrician/gynecologist before realizing that baking, not medicine, was her calling.", "\"Everyone would say, 'You're a doctor; it must be so great to be able to save lives,'\" she says.", "\"But I felt like I was just pushing papers and feeling pressure to see more patients in less time.", "It was very draining. It just wasn't fun anymore.\"", "So in 2004, at age 38, she swapped her stethoscope for a rolling pin and enrolled in the pastry program at L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland.", "\"I had always been interested in pastries -- mostly interested in eating them,\" she says with a laugh.", "Shih now owns Tenzo Artisan, a bakery and catering company in Baltimore that specializes in pastries for people with food allergies -- it's rewarding, she says, to make birthday cakes for people whose dietary sensitivities had forbidden such treats.", "She's one of thousands of career changers who have left their cubicles for culinary school.", "Enrollment has risen 40 percent since 2000 at the Culinary Institute of America, and it's up 15 percent this year at The Art Institutes, which operates 30 culinary programs across the country.", "The trend is helped by a growing cultural interest in gourmet food and a proliferation of cooking-themed TV shows like the Food Network's \"Ace of Cakes\" and Bravo's \"Top Chef.\"", "Plenty of possibilities .", "Students attending the grueling programs, which can last six to 38 months, can dole out as much as $30,000 to $40,000 for the diploma.", "And then the real work begins.", "Neil Robertson, 44, was technical director at a graphic design firm in 2003 and felt like he no longer fit the mold.", "He quit his 18-year career and attended the French Pastry School in Chicago.", "\"I've always loved to bake,\" he says.", "\"But baking in a professional kitchen?", "I wasn't sure that I could handle it.\"", "In his first professional experience after pastry school, he found out how tough it can be: \"I came very close to tears.\"", "Yet he persevered, and five years later became head pastry chef at Seattle's Canlis restaurant.", "\"You're not a chef as soon as you finish culinary school,\" says Michael Ruhlman, author of \"The Making of a Chef,\" an inside look at life at the Culinary Institute.", "\"You're a chef only after spending several years further honing your craft and learning the ropes.", "To say otherwise would be like saying grads of medical school could instantly be called pediatric neurosurgeons the day after graduation.\"", "And becoming a chef isn't the only option.", "\"There are so many possibilities today,\" says Culinary Institute President Tim Ryan.", "\"Catering, sales, manufacturing -- we even have graduates who have launched clothing companies (or) become food scientists.\"", "Jen Beltz, 38, and Thom Householder, 40, testify to that.", "In 2004, they quit their jobs at AARP and followed their palates to Italy.", "Using the proceeds of their house sale, the couple attended a five-month culinary program in Florence, then a nine-month course in Canada.", "All the while, they had no idea where their gastronomic education would take them.", "\"Some of our friends and family seemed to think we were a bit insane,\" Beltz recalls.", "But with their newfound culinary know-how, Beltz and Householder launched Front Burner PR, a boutique public-relations and marketing firm in Portland, Maine, that focuses on restaurants, hotels and other food-related clients.", "Don't quit your day job just yet .", "Think carefully before writing your resignation letter -- culinary school is no cakewalk, says Robertson.", "\"It's hot. It's fast. It's high-stress.", "It's a pressure cooker.\"", "Ruhlman agrees.", "\"I can't even tell you how many people have read my book and thanked me for saving them from going to culinary school,\" he says, \"because they had no idea how hard it really is.\"", "Before taking the plunge, Robertson and Ruhlman suggest getting a feel for the job via a culinary vacation, like those offered through gourmetontour.com and foodvacation.com, or by shadowing a chef.", "For the second option, \"go to a restaurant that you like and respect and ask if you can spend a day in the kitchen,\" suggests Ruhlman.", "It's called trailing, and some restaurants are open to it.", "If you have some food experience, you might be able to stage (pronounced stauge), which entails working in a kitchen alongside a chef, without pay, for a day or two.", "\"You get to see what life is really like in a professional kitchen,\" he says, \"and it will really open your eyes.\"", "Looking back, Robertson says leaving his job for the culinary world was a bold move, but worth every deflated soufflé along the way: .", "\"I'm much more excited about what I'm doing now.\"", "LifeWire provides original and syndicated lifestyle content to Web publishers.", "Sarah Jio's work has appeared in \"Gourmet,\" \"Health,\" \"O, The Oprah Magazine,\" and many other publications." ]	[ "Physician one of thousands to leave office drudgery for cooking school .", "\"It just wasn't fun anymore,\" says doctor, now owner of catering business .", "Chef: School is \"hot.", "It's fast.", "It's high-stress\"\nTrend is fed by TV shows \"Ace of Cakes\" and \"Top Chef\"" ]	[ 5, 9, 11, 36 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Gunpowder, fireworks and attention-grabbing installations mark Cai Guo-Qiang as one of the world's biggest and brightest artists.", "Cai's fireworks will be seen by millions during the Olympics opening and closing ceremonies.", "The Chinese artist is about to show the world what he can do with a spectacular pyrotechnics display at the opening of the Olympic Games in Beijing.", "Despite not having lived in China since 1986, Cai has been selected to be the Director of Visual and Special Effects for both the opening and closing ceremonies at the Games.", "For the 51-year-old contemporary artist, whose work has previously caused controversy in China, the politics that have been swirling around the Games are secondary to the event itself.", "\"In any country, in any city, there will be political influence on what is said, what kind of images are to be projected and, yes, of course artists can be and are influenced by politicians,\" he told CNN.", "\"But what I also think is that our leaders at the very highest level want artists to be able to be free, to be creative and to show this other side of China that is vibrant.\"", "While some of his art is politically charged, Cai has established his reputation as much as a director of the spectacular, with his work often providing a visceral and visual bang.", "He studied stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute between 1981 and 1985 before moving to Japan a year after graduation.", "Now residing in New York, he gained wide-spread international recognition at the Venice Biennale in 1999, winning the Golden Lion prize.", "However, the work he displayed -- Rent Collection Courtyard, a replica of famous Chinese socialist-realist sculpture -- upset artists of the original piece in Shanghai who believed it diminished the sentiment behind the original work.", "Born in Fujian in 1957, Cai's father was also an artist, but had a much more traditional outlook than the one Cai developed.", "\"He and his friends always lamented about the good days and, that there's no vitality in today's art and culture.", "So, I really rebelled against that.", "I felt that what they were talking about had very little to do with how our lives were like at that moment,\" he said.", "Cai began using gunpowder in his work after moving to Japan.", "Detonating large trails of it on his two-dimensional pieces, creating small mushroom-clouds, or lighting enormous firework displays, explosions have been a continuous theme of his work.", "\"I have always been a coward as a child.", "I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.", "So, I am always trying to do things to kind of boost my own sense of courage a bit.", "So maybe that is why I use gunpowder,\" he told CNN.", "Cai has proffered different explanations for different projects that feature the same motifs.", "Perhaps that is not surprising when his influences come from a myriad of sources that include Taoism, Buddhist philosophy and UFO-observations.", "Recently exhibited at New York's Guggenheim Museum, \"Inopportune: Stage One\" is a set of 9 cars suspended above each other with illuminated shards shooting out.", "Cai has previously said it denotes Chinese craftiness in stealing western technology, while arrows piercing the life-sized stuffed tigers of \"Inopportune: Stage 2\" are also about the aesthetics of pain.", "\"For me cars are tigers, they are all bodies of the human form and it is a human form I am working with through this medium.", "For the cars the energy goes inward out and for the tiger piece the energy flows in,\" he told CNN.", "Meanings and interpretations then can be fluid, but as well as the explosions and visual excitement, there is a common social theme in his work.", "The most connected to this ethos is \"Reflection-A Gift from Iwaki 2004.\"", "The skeleton of a wooden boat found off the coast of Iwaki, Japan, that spills delicate pieces of porcelain from its hull is recreated piece by piece by the people who helped excavate it.", "\"This work and the history of this work belongs to the people of Iwaki and me.", "It is a shared experience, a shared history,\" he said.", "\"Some works of art have material other works have form, but this piece has something additional, it has a narrative, it has a story that is just as important as the material and form itself.\"", "Ultimately the most unifying and social part of his work is the spectacle of it all.", "Everyone loves fireworks, and if Cai's own careful planning and that of the Games organizers come together, he should provide a fitting opening and finale to the world's biggest spectacle." ]	[ "Chinese artist will curate Olympic Games' opening ceremony pyrotechnic display .", "Uses gunpowder and fireworks to produce spectacular large-scale pieces .", "International recognition winning Golden Lion at 1999 Venice Biennale ." ]	[ 2, 9 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- For Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau, the last two months have been a whirlwind.", "\"Full of the best moments and the scariest moments of my life,\" says the 24-year-old Olympic swimmer.", "Eric Shanteau said he felt angry when he found out he had testicular cancer.", "\"Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old.", "You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team.", "That's where I want to be'.\" In June, a week before the qualifying round of the Olympics he was told he had testicular cancer.", "\"My initial reaction was probably anger more than anything else,\" he says.", "\"I'm used to being in control of everything.", "I'm in control of how I train, how I race and then to all of a sudden have that control ripped away from me was tough.\"", "After weeks of tests to determine the \"stage\" or spread of the cancer, Shanteau's team of doctors cleared him to compete in the Beijing Olympics, which meant carefully monitoring his tumor but delaying treatment.", "Though putting off the surgery was controversial to some, Eric says it was an educated choice based on numerous doctor evaluations.", "\"I hope people understand that if I was in a different position with my test results, then I wouldn't have put off having surgery.\"", "Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports from Eric Shanteau's surgery » .", "He swam a personal best in the 200 meter breaststroke.", "He did not qualify for the finals.", "Cancer was a motivator, he says, because he knew it meant he could be facing his last competition.", "He put everything he had into that heat.", "\"Leave it all in the pool, and I don't look back and regret anything as far as how I raced.\"", "Once back from Beijing, Shanteau invited CNN to spend time with him the night before his surgery in Atlanta, Georgia.", "Though admittedly a little scared, he spent the evening relaxing with his family, cooking dinner, walking the dog.", "A source of inspiration, he says, were fans who shared their stories of beating cancer.", "\"They send me their story and it helps me to learn that people are going through the same thing I am all over the world,\" says Shanteau.", "\"They all affect me in a different way and it's been really encouraging to share in this experience with other people.\"", "Testicular cancer is diagnosed in about 1 in 300 men in their lifetime.", "It is the most common form of cancer for 15- to 34-year-olds.", "It is also one of the most curable if discovered early.", "Nearly 140,000 men in the United States are testicular cancer survivors.", "Shanteau says he experienced no symptoms of cancer and came across the tumor by chance.", "\"I've been in a Speedo half my life,\" he says.", "\"So I am really comfortable with my body.", "One day I just felt something that wasn't suppose to be there.", "I decided to go and get it checked out.\"", "He adds that although he had the \"greatest excuse in the world\" -- an Olympic dream -- to ignore the lump, he understood the importance of early detection.", "Shanteau's father Rick, is battling lung cancer and responding well to treatment.", "\"A lot of guys, if they hear a rattle in their car, they're at the mechanic the next day,\" he says.", "\"But if they feel something [physically] that they don't think should be there, it takes them a year to get to their doctor and that just is not smart.", "There's really no excuse, because it can save your life.\"", "Fast forward to Shanteau's recent operation at Emory University Hospital.", "CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta was with Shanteau during the surgery and spoke with the lead surgeon, Dr. Jeff Carney, moments afterward.", "\"I think the operation went very well,\" Carney said.", "\"Eric's a very healthy young man, very thin, in excellent shape.", "That makes my job easy.\"", "Later that week, Shanteau's pathology results revealed that the operation removed the most of the cancer.", "\"The majority of it is gone.\"", "he tells CNN. \"There is a small chance it could come back but I shouldn't need chemotherapy at this point, so I am really optimistic.\"", "His treatment plan is to keep a close eye on his health for the next year with regular medical tests.", "\"Obviously, it would have been nice if the doctor said, 'You're completely in the clear,' but my results are exactly what the doctors expected.\"", "Eric says the cancer diagnosis gave him a different perspective on life.", "\"I appreciate life much more now,\" he says.", "\"I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore.", "Food even seems to taste better.", "It is really great.\"", "As for Shanteau's swimming career, he plans to compete in the 2009 World Swimming Championship in Rome, Italy.", "\"2012 [the next Olympics] is a push for me.", "Right now I'm just kind of taking it year by year and we'll see what happens.\"" ]	[ "Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau found out about his cancer in June .", "He delayed treatment so he could compete in the games in Beijing .", "He plans to compete in the 2009 World Swimming Championship in Rome .", "Testicular cancer is diagnosed in about 1 in 300 men in their lifetime ." ]	[ 2, 23, 52 ]
[ "As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues high-level talks with Mexico's leaders this week, her comments about responsibility in the U.S.-Mexico drug trade have struck a chord with officials familiar with U.S. anti-drug efforts.", "Mexican federal police have been deployed openly in Ciudad Juarez, which borders El Paso, Texas.", "Clinton said the United States' \"inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border\" was a major contributor in Mexican violence along the border.", "She went on to say that the United States has \"a co-responsibility.\"", "In an interview Wednesday on \"American Morning\" with CNN anchor John Roberts, former Drug Enforcement Agency special agent Robert Strang talked about the three-pronged approach needed to curb drug use in America and the need to bust distribution rings.", "Strang is also CEO of Investigative Management Group.", "The following transcript has been edited for brevity and clarity: .", "John Roberts, CNN anchor: Everybody's blaming Mexico for [the U.S. drug trade], but the secretary of state yesterday said, 'Hey, the United States shares a lot of the blame because of the pent-up demand here, the insatiable demand for drugs.'", "Do you agree with her? Watch Clinton say, \"We have to do a better job\" » .", "Robert Strang, former DEA special agent: Let's face it, the average first drug use is 12 years old in our country.", "That means kids that are in the sixth grade are trying drugs for the first time.", "Marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, all these drugs are coming across the border because we demand them.", "We have the cash to pay for them, and we really are pretty much the No.", "1 consumer in the world for these drugs.", "Roberts: Is the United States doing enough to try to curb demand?", "The Office of National Drug Control Policy, I don't remember much coming out of it during the Bush administration, and I haven't seen anything come out of it in the Obama administration.", "Strang: We're trying all the time.", "I'm on the board for D.A.R.E. America, and that is teaching kids about the dangers of drugs and violence in schools.", "And constantly, we're trying to get money federally for this program and police officers go into the school.", "They teach the kids.", "It's a wonderful program in those trouble years, the fourth, fifth and sixth grade especially, and we need to have a little bit more money in this area.", "amFIX: React to Strang's comments about U.S. anti-drug effort .", "There's three things, John: It's treatment, it's enforcement and it's education.", "And it's like a three-legged stool.", "If all three things don't work, it's going to fall down.", "So, we can send all of the agents in the world down to the border.", "We can seize all the coke, heroin, methamphetamine that we want.", "If we don't have treatment on demand, and if we're not educating our kids in our country about the dangers of drugs, the problem's going to grow.", "Roberts: When you see the Department of Homeland Security prepared to spend these hundreds of millions of dollars on border security, what do you think?", "Strang: I'm happy that they're doing something.", "This is a small piece of the enforcement operation.", "The best thing to do is like the case that we saw three weeks ago, when the DEA announced 750 arrests involving 250 cities between Mexico and the United States, mostly in the U.S., this huge distribution network.", "Because when you dismantle those networks that constantly are putting drugs from the cartels to the street, when you can put those guys in jail, when you take their assets, then you have an impact.", "Watch how drugs from Mexico enter U.S. » .", "Roberts: But would you like to see them take some of that money, and you know, they take, I think, what, $700 million, and they throw it at the border.", "Would you like to see them take some of that money, maybe even just a fraction of it, and throw it into prevention programs?", "Strang: Absolutely.", "Instead of going to some of the financial institutions, I'd like to see it go for the drug problem.", "I'd like to see enforcement, treatment and prevention.", "I'd like it to be evenly divided, and I really think we could have an impact on the problem.", "We've got to look at this a different way.", "And I think that it's a combination of these things, and we're moving in that direction.", "Let's hope that we make some headway here." ]	[ "Robert Strang, former DEA special agent, says drug use starts as early as 12 .", "Strang: \"We can send all of the agents in the world,\" but border patrol not enough .", "Money aimed at financial institutions should go to prevention programs, Strang says ." ]	[ 9, 25, 36 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Americans have varied feelings about guns.", "In Focus: Guns in America is a series of stories by CNN photojournalists that looks at the complex views and emotions that surround this controversial subject.", "In a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Washington, D.C.'s, ban on handgun ownership, saying it violates the constitutional right to \"keep and bear arms\" by preventing individuals from having guns in their homes.", "In this series, Americans tell their stories about guns on a first-hand basis, providing a more intimate look at a topic that is often ignored until gun violence erupts.", "In one video, 32-year-old Steve Ferguson talks about a shooting in Washington that left him paralyzed, his battle to recover and his views on guns.", "In another story, Scott Morris shares his passion for his shooting range on a road he named 2nd Amendment Drive.", "CNN photojournalists also traveled to Massachusetts to play paintball, rural Pennsylvania to hunt turkeys, and to Hollywood to hang out on a movie set.", "They also meet Dale Tate, who hand-makes guns that he considers works of art, and they learn about new technology for less lethal weapons." ]	[ "The U.S. Supreme Court rejects Washington, D.C.'s, ban on handgun ownership .", "CNN photojournalists take a look at the views and feelings about guns in America .", "In this series, individual Americans tell their stories about guns ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Palestinian militants fired more rockets into Israel on Friday as a tenuous six-month truce between Hamas and Israel expired.", "Palestinian children look at a blast crater following an Israeli airstrike over southern Gaza on December 18.", "Two Qassam rockets were fired Friday morning from Gaza into separate Israeli communities, the Israel Defense Forces said.", "Earlier, Palestinians in Gaza shot at Israeli farmers working in their fields in Kibbutz Nirim, the IDF said.", "No one was hurt in the attacks and one car was damaged, it added.", "Islamic Jihad sources claimed responsibility for firing the rockets.", "Under the Egytian-brokered truce, which began June 19, the Hamas government in Gaza agreed to end militant attacks from Gaza on Israel.", "The pledge applied to all militant groups in the coastal territory, including Islamic Jihad.", "In return, Israel agreed to halt raids inside Gaza and ease its blockade.", "The truce held well for the first four months but began to fall apart in October, when there was a marked increase in the number of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel -- estimated at 200.", "Israel resumed airstrikes in Gaza as a result.", "Watch what may follow the end of the truce » .", "Israel has said a major military operation in Gaza may be unavoidable if daily rocket fire from the territory continues.", "However, both sides have expressed a desire not to see the situation worsen.", "Islamic Jihad said it planned a rally in Gaza City in the afternoon, after Friday prayers, announcing the end of the truce but also calling for a lifting of the Israeli siege.", "Israel has tightened its restrictions on border crossings and the flow of goods into the impoverished territory, making life extremely difficult for residents.", "Gaza depends on Israel for 90 percent of its imports, according to the U.N. Development Program.", "-- CNN's Ben Wedeman and Michal Zippori contributed to this report." ]	[ "Egyptian-brokered truce, which began June 19, has expired .", "Ceasefire had applied to all militant groups -- including Hamas, Islamic Jihad .", "Qassam rockets fired Friday from Gaza into separate Israeli communities .", "Islamic Jihad sources claimed responsibility for firing the rockets ." ]	[ 2, 5, 6, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Two inmates at New Jersey's Union County Jail made a movie-style escape Saturday and remained at large Monday, according to Union County Prosecutor Ted Romankow.", "Otis Blunt, left, and Jose Espinosa escaped from the Union County Jail Saturday night, officials say.", "Twenty-year-old Jose Espinosa and 32-year-old Otis Blunt, who are considered armed and dangerous, were discovered missing from their cells at about 5:15 p.m. Saturday, Romankow said.", "The men left behind dummies in their beds, cinder block dust and a note wishing authorities \"Happy Holidays.\"", "Espinosa, who recently pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter, was to be sentenced on January 25 and faced a minimum of 17 years in prison.", "Blunt was being held in lieu of $75,000 bond on weapon and robbery charges.", "Both men were being housed in the high security area of the multilevel jail, Romankow said.", "Police said Espinosa and Blunt were in adjacent cells and used a long metal wire to scrape away mortar around the cinder block between their cells and the outer wall in Espinosa's cell.", "Once the cement block between the cells was removed, they smashed the block and hid the pieces in a footlocker.", "According to police, Blunt, who is 5 feet 10 inches and weighs 210 pounds, squeezed into Espinosa's cell through an approximately 16- to 18-inch hole.", "The two inmates wiggled through another 18-inch hole in the outer wall.", "From a roof landing, the two men \"took a running jump or they were standing and they jumped approximately 15 feet out and about 30 feet down,\" Romankow said.", "Then they jumped a razor-wire fence onto a New Jersey transit railroad bed to freedom, police said.", "Authorities found two sets of footprints in the snow heading in opposite directions.", "At a news conference Monday, Romankow read the note that was found in Espinosa's cell, saying it represented the \"arrogance of these two men.\"", "\"Thank you officer -------- for the tools needed, you're a real pal, Happy Holidays,\" the note read, with a smiley face drawn next to it.", "Authorities are investigating the note's claims about the guard, the Associated Press reported.", "The guard has not turned in a report and disciplinary action has not been taken, Romankow said, according to AP.", "To delay discovery of the escape, Espinosa and Blunt used dummies made of sheets and pillows in their beds.", "They also hung photographs of bikini-clad women to hide the holes in the walls, a move reminiscent of a scene in the Hollywood hit \"The Shawshank Redemption.\"", "Romankow played down the comparison.", "\"I think this is a very serious situation you saw,\" he said.", "\"I really prefer not to compare with any movie, although I can understand why you might because it does look certainly very similar to some of them.", "Except in 'The Shawshank Redemption' they had a better poster on the wall.\"", "According to police, Blunt tried to escape in September using similar methods.", "There is an $8,000 reward for the men's capture.", "Romankow said a statewide hunt is under way, with several agencies involved.", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Brian Vitagliano contributed to this report." ]	[ "Two inmates broke out of Union County Jail Saturday night, officials say .", "They removed blocks from walls, hiding their work behind pinups of women in bikinis .", "The duo made it over 25-foot fence to escape jail's top-security area .", "One was awaiting sentence for manslaughter; the other faced robbery charges ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5, 18 ]
[ "Editor's note: Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.", "His new book, \"Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security -- From World War II to the War on Terrorism,\" will be published this fall by Basic Books.", "Zelizer writes widely on current events.", "Julian E. Zelizer says Democrats should be questioning themselves on several key points.", "PRINCETON, New Jersey (CNN) -- This week, Jews will conclude the eight-day celebration of Passover, a holiday that has often found its way into the political realm.", "Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. frequently invoked the story of the liberation of the Jewish people from the Egyptians in his struggle against white oppression.", "President Obama made headlines last week when he hosted a Passover Seder in the White House.", "Today, Democrats can draw an important lesson from Passover, this time not so much from the story that is retold during the holiday but through the rituals that are the focus of the week.", "Last Wednesday and Thursday evenings, Jews gathered with families, friends and other groups to have a Seder.", "These meals are not just about eating and talking, but also about learning and debating the stories of the holiday contained in a book called the Haggadah.", "There is no right answer to many of the questions that are raised, and discussions change over time as the life experiences of the participants bring new perspectives to the table.", "The highlight of the Seder is when the youngest child asks the Four Questions, asking the adults what makes these nights different from the others and then offering some possible answers.", "Politicians could learn a lot from the Seder, particularly when one party controls both the executive and the legislative branch, and the temptation is to act in lock-step.", "Republicans did not have enough moments of questioning and reflection between 2002 and 2006, which many observers agree was not just damaging to the country but to the party as well.", "While there was strong private, internal disagreement among Republicans over how to conduct the war on terror, over whether the war in Iraq was a wise move and over the basic contours of economic policy, most Republicans stayed silent in public.", "Even when they gathered in the private corridors of the White House, according to memoirs that have been published by former officials such as Scott McClellan, Republicans tended to remain deferential to President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.", "Historically, vigorous internal party debate has had the ability to strengthen a party politically.", "The fight that took place between Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford in the 1976 Republican primaries, where Reagan pushed President Ford to be more responsive to the growing conservative movement and avoid making all his decisions from inside the beltway, created a GOP that in the 1980s was a formidable political force.", "Bill Clinton's insistence that Democrats needed to rethink some of their conventional wisdom from the New Deal and Great Society periods, with his preference being to move toward the center, opened up a healthy debate about what Democrats should stand for that helped result in Barack Obama's victory in 2008.", "Thus far, Democrats have been more comfortable openly criticizing each other.", "Princeton economist Paul Krugman has emerged as the leading liberal critic of the administration by arguing that President Obama is not spending enough to stimulate the economy and that his financial bailout plan will only provide Band-Aid solutions that place all the risk on taxpayers.", "But Democrats will feel less comfortable having internal debates as the elections of 2010 and 2012 get closer, as the pressures of re-election intensify and as Republicans become more aggressive and more coherent in their attacks.", "To get the conversation started, it would be worth thinking about the four questions that Democrats should keep asking when they get together in the next few years.", "The first is: What are the issues on which Democrats are willing to compromise with Republicans, if any?", "The compromises will not be easy given that Republicans have refused to endorse Democratic proposals in the first few months of Obama's presidency.", "However, if the popularity of the GOP continues to erode and Obama's stays strong, there might be an opportunity for the president to act.", "Compromises means giving something up, so Democrats will have to talk among themselves about what that might be.", "The second question is: Where are Democrats willing to renege on campaign promises?", "Since November, Democrats have already backed off some very big promises.", "Though Obama ran as a candidate who promised to change the way that government worked, government reform has quickly dropped off the agenda.", "Nor has the White House been fully compliant with its promise to end the secrecy practiced by the Bush administration.", "It is natural that a party won't be able to do everything it said in a campaign, but Democrats need to think about which issues they are willing to let go and which they are determined to fulfill.", "The third question is: What is the foreign policy agenda of the current administration?", "This has been the murkiest part of the First 100 Days.", "When Barack Obama ran for president, it was clear what kind of foreign policy he opposed.", "His campaign took aim at the unilateralism, militarism and pre-emptive strategy of the Bush administration.", "Yet it is easier to be against something than for something.", "Now the burden is on President Obama to define what he will be about in the next four years and what he hopes to pursue.", "This agenda will be dynamic and unfold as international crises occur.", "But Democrats need to keep coming back to the questions and keep forcing the president to articulate what his goals are in this arena.", "The final question is: What are the policy priorities of the Democratic Party?", "This is always one of the most difficult questions for any party given that events move politics in unexpected directions.", "This White House has naturally been consumed by the economic freefall and the effort to stabilize economic conditions.", "With his budget, Obama has highlighted two priorities from the campaign -- health care and the environment, though some will get traded away in upcoming negotiations.", "Another issue that the White House may make a priority is immigration reform.", "Whereas the campaign established a certain framework for thinking about priorities, that framework fades as the election moves farther away.", "Democrats must keep getting together, asking their own version of the four questions and insisting on internal debates.", "Although the discussions can become uncomfortable (as most Jews will recall from their Seders), this is a formula for making the strongest party possible.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer." ]	[ "Julian Zelizer: Passover Seders involve four questions asked by youngest .", "He says Democrats should be asking themselves four key questions .", "Zelizer: Are they willing to compromise on their objectives to win GOP support?", "He asks what priorities will take precedence for the Democrats ." ]	[ 3, 23, 37, 46 ]
[ "JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Ahri's chin quivers, and his large dark eyes fill with tears the 11-year-old can't control.", "Holding Eka Jaya, Nuraini leads son Ahri, 11, to the orphanage with dad Joni Lubis and brother Mohammed.", "\"Be tough. I am sorry you have to go,\" his grandmother whispers while hugging him.", "His parents are taking Ahri to live in an orphanage.", "They swear they are not abandoning their son.", "\"I am not throwing my child away,\" says his mother, Nuraini, wiping away tears.", "\"I just want him to get a proper education.", "I hope that one day he'll do something useful for this country and help his brothers, because we are living in poverty.\"", "The family lives crammed into a home that's 17 feet by 17 feet in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Jakarta.", "Nuraini runs a small shop the family opened to try to make ends meet.", "Ahri's father, Joni Lubis, collects bottles from the streets, selling them to plastic and glass factories.", "Watch Ahri say goodbye » .", "Ahri's parents make $2 to $3 a day, with about half of that going toward their daily rent.", "With the increased cost of living, what's left just isn't enough to send Ahri to school and to feed him and his two brothers, 3-year-old Mohammed and 7-month-old Eka Jaya.", "\"I never imagined it would come to this,\" Nuraini admits.", "But for many Indonesians, it has.", "More than 80 percent of children in child care institutions have both their parents, according to the most recent survey conducted in 2006 by the Indonesian government.", "A recent study by Save the Children, UNICEF and the government says Indonesia -- the world's fourth most populous nation -- has more orphanages than any other country.", "This year, orphanages are reporting even higher number of parents giving up their children because they can no longer afford to feed them or send them to school.", "In the past year, the cost of living increased beyond many people's reach.", "In May, a 30 percent fuel hike set off countrywide protests.", "Ahri peers intently as his mother signs off custody of him to the orphanage.", "The other children cram their faces up against the window to see the new arrival.", "At least half of them at the Putra Utama 1 orphanage have been through this before as well.", "\"The prices have gone up.", "[Families] can't balance their income with the prices,\" orphanage staffer Utari says.", "\"By putting their children here, they are hoping that their children's education will improve.\"", "It doesn't take long for Ahri to make new friends.", "Soon, he's stuffing rice into his mouth and chatting with the other boys.", "His parents stand against the doorway and watch their son playing soccer.", "Here at least, there's enough space to do so.", "\"If my son can adapt, then I am happy,\" says Ahri's father, Joni Lubis.", "\"I can see that it's calm and peaceful here.", "That makes me happy.", "So does the school -- my son can be educated.\"", "Nuraini adds, \"There has to be a better chance for my two other sons.\"", "It's all they can hope for: that economic pressures will ease so they won't have to face such a decision again." ]	[ "Mother of three insists she is not \"throwing away\" her first-born child .", "Parents take 11-year-old to orphanage because they say they can't make ends meet .", "More than 80 percent in orphanages have two living parents, Indonesian study says ." ]	[ 5, 11, 16, 18, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Taliban advances in Pakistan are raising concerns in Islamabad and capitals as far away as Washington.", "CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson looks at how the Taliban spread and what could be done to help Pakistan.", "Students in burqas in Buner district .", "How is the Taliban extending its influence in Pakistan?", "It has extended its influence considerably over the last few years moving northwards along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, from South Waziristan to North Waziristan to Bajur and across now to Swat and Buner.", "But the Taliban has also extended its influence because it is now involved with several Punjab terrorist groups that have affiliated themselves with the border Taliban and have helped commit some attacks such as one on a police station in Lahore.", "The Pakistan government has been cutting deals with the different elements that were Taliban or became Taliban since 2004-2005.", "Those deals have enabled the Taliban to extend themselves.", "Is Pakistan going to fall or fail?", "The overall answer to that is no.", "But the Taliban is further destabilizing an incredibly unstable situation.", "There is a weak government that faces challenges, not only from the Taliban but also from almost every political party in the country.", "It faces challenges from across the border with its old enemy India, which means a large percentage of the Pakistan army is tied up on that border rather than fighting terrorism.", "The Taliban is not going to take Islamabad, but its attacks and advances are going to weaken an already unstable government and make an already dangerous situation even more volatile... and that will mean the Taliban will be able to wield more influence in the future than they do today.", "What options are open to the Pakistan government and other countries?", "Pakistan could form a broad-based government of national unity and appeal for more international support in terms of encouraging financial aid and having trade restrictions lifted so they can improve the economy.", "The international community could help Pakistan resolve issues with India.", "It would help the economy and help the government focus on its own internal problems and better influence the situation in Afghanistan.", "What the Pakistan government would also need to do is convince its people that outside support and help is in their best interests to deal with terrorism and stabilize the country.", "To do that the government would also have to win the support of its large Pashtun minority, from whom the Taliban draws a lot of its support ... and that is difficult particularly as the U.S. -- which would need to be a principle supporter of Pakistan -- continues to bomb targets in Pashtun areas leading to civilian casualties." ]	[ "Taliban influences in Pakistan has developed over years .", "Pakistan government weak and could be weakened further .", "Pakistan has options to deal with Taliban, but they come with problems ." ]	[ 3, 6, 10, 14, 16 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Obama administration is giving General Motors 60 days worth of financing for restructuring, according to senior administration officials.", "General Motors' Rick Wagoner, CEO of the company since 2000, is on his way out, sources say.", "Chrysler will receive as much as $6 billion and 30 days to complete an agreement with Italian automaker Fiat, the officials said.", "Meanwhile, White House and GM sources told CNN Sunday that GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner will resign as part of the federal government's bailout strategy for the troubled automaker.", "Wagoner's departure comes as President Obama is expected to announce Monday the latest details of the government's plans for restructuring GM and Chrysler LLC, which have been pushed to the brink by huge losses and a sharp decline in sales.", "Fritz Henderson, GM's chief operating officer, is expected to be named GM's interim CEO, according to two GM sources.", "A GM spokesman declined to comment on reports of Wagoner's resignation.", "A company statement said: \"We are anticipating an announcement soon from the administration regarding the restructuring of the U.S. auto industry.\"", "GM and Chrysler face a Tuesday deadline to prove to the Treasury Department that they can be viable in the long term.", "Without such a finding, the government can recall the $13.4 billion it already loaned to GM and the $4 billion it loaned to Chrysler.", "Wagoner, a 32-year company veteran, has been CEO of General Motors since 2000.", "Before becoming CEO, he was chief operating officer and led the company's North American operations.", "He also served as chief financial officer from 1992 to 1994.", "A senior GM official official told CNN that the White House and its auto task force had \"sent very clear signals\" that the key to more help was \"new leadership\" and something that would help the administration see real change.", "General Motors has been hit hard as auto sales have plummeted.", "Sales have continued to tumble through the early months of this year, falling 40 percent across the industry and about 50 percent at GM and Chrysler.", "The companies and industry analysts have slashed their sales estimates for the year, and that has heightened the need for more loans to keep GM and Chrysler afloat.", "Last month, the two companies filed reports on their restructuring efforts.", "GM said it needed up to $16.6 billion more in loans.", "Chrysler asked for an additional $5 billion, and said it would need the money by the end of March to avoid running out of cash.", "The Obama administration had been widely expected to approve the requests.", "Obama has repeatedly spoken about the importance of saving the struggling auto industry, and on March 19, the Treasury Department announced $5 billion in federal help for GM's and Chrysler's auto parts suppliers.", "CNN's Kate Bolduan and John King contributed to this report." ]	[ "Departure of General Motors' CEO part of government's bailout strategy, sources say .", "GM official: White House signaled that \"new leadership\" was key to more aid .", "Officials: GM to get 60 days of financing; Chrysler could get $6 billion .", "GM, Chrysler were told to prove viability to Treasury Department by Tuesday ." ]	[ 0, 3, 8, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A thin girl with caramel skin and a yellow silk blouse walks alone through a barren landscape of rubble.", "Nway prepares for her new job, selling vegetables from her aunt's garden.", "Her legs are marked by cuts.", "Her face is smeared with white streaks of powder.", "And her eyes are blank as she sifts through the debris of what used to be her home before Cyclone Nargis slammed into Myanmar one night and swept her parents away.", "Her name is Nway, and that's how she looked when aid workers found her after Nargis destroyed her isolated village.", "She refused to talk about the cyclone, pretending it never took place.", "She became, according to a CNN story, the \"girl who refuses to remember.\"", "A year later, an aid worker returned to the village to see how Nway was doing.", "She found Nway living in a tidy, bamboo house flanked by palm trees.", "The 8-year-old greeted her visitor with a big smile.", "Then she asked whether she could play with her visitor's hair.", "Pam Sitko, the aid worker, said Nway -- like thousands of people in Myanmar -- is slowly recovering one year after Nargis demolished their country.", "\"After all of her pain and loss, she really is a spunky girl,\" said Sitko, who works with World Vision International, a humanitarian group.", "\"She wasn't shy about reaching out to touch my blonde hair.\"", "The night everything changed .", "Nway's resilience is shared by many in Myanmar, aid workers say.", "Last year's cyclone was catastrophic.", "It killed at least 140,000 people and left at least 2 million people without homes, according to the United Nations World Food Programme.", "The brunt of the storm hit Myanmar's delta region, the country's bread basket.", "It wiped out crops, shrimp farms and fish ponds.", "A year later, many fields remain unplanted; supplies are short, and the lack of drinking water complicates recovery efforts, World Food Programme officials say.", "Yet some sense of normal life is returning, said Mia Marina, a program support manager for World Vision's Nargis response efforts.", "World Vision is building cyclone-resistant schools and providing supplies to cyclone survivors.", "\"Most of the people are going back to their livelihoods,\" Marina said.", "\"Kids are going to school.", "The markets are open.\"", "The people of Myanmar are also buying planting tools and seed in preparation for the monsoon rains that typically come in May, Sitko said.", "\"Everyone is hoping that this is the moment that it turns around,\" Sitko said.", "\"It's an exciting time, a time of hope.\"", "That hope appears to have spread to Nway.", "She is fortunate to be alive.", "The cyclone killed her mother and father.", "The winds were so powerful that they blew away the village buffalo.", "In Nway's village, 120 people out of a population of 430 people lost their lives.", "Nway survived because she was staying with her aunt.", "The pair joined a group squeezed in to the village headman's house to survive, Sitko said.", "Nway wouldn't talk about the cyclone after aid workers found her a month later.", "She would walk away whenever she was asked about that night.", "Now, according to Sitko, who wrote about her meeting for World Vision, Nway can talk a little about her loss.", "Sitko said Nway shared one memory from the morning after the cyclone while sitting in her aunt's house: .", "\"When I walked to my aunt's house that day, my legs were scratched, and I passed lots of dead bodies,\" Nway said.", "\"I wanted to help, because everyone was working, but I was too scared, so I only helped clean up my auntie's yard.\"", "Nway dreams of her future .", "Nway prefers to talk about other subjects.", "One is her new job.", "She helps her aunt sell vegetables from their garden.", "On most mornings, she smears white powder made from tree bark on her cheeks (it's used as a skin beautifier by women and children in Myanmar).", "Then she balances a tray of vegetables on her head and walks to a village road to call out to potential customers.", "Nway told Sitko that she's made \"four new best friends.\"", "They like to memorize new words and play hide and seek after school.", "\"I'm always the fastest runner,\" she told Sitko.", "Nway is starting to become aware of life outside her village.", "\"She was very proud,\" Sitko said.", "\"She explained that she had recently taken a trip to another village with her aunties, and she wasn't afraid.\"", "Nway doesn't know, though, where she would attend school as she gets older, Sitko said.", "She'll have to pay to attend school away from her village one day, but her aunt and uncle can't afford the costs.", "\"She wanted to study and said that she was smart,\" Sitko said.", "\"She said she would be willing to travel to a school outside of her village if she had to.\"", "Nway has already taken a more difficult journey.", "The shocked girl who aid workers met a year ago has changed, Sitko said.", "Now Nway can remember -- and smile again.", "\"I was expecting a very different girl,\" Sitko said.", "\"The little girl I met was very confident.", "I think she's been really transformed by our experience.\"" ]	[ "Girl who survives Myanmar cyclone pretends it never happened .", "Cyclone survivor becomes known as 'the girl who refuses to remember'\nAid worker returns to Myanmar a year later to see the girl .", "\"I was expecting a very different girl,\" worker says ." ]	[ 7, 8, 62 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Environmentalists are encouraged by President Barack Obama's focus this week on renewable energy and stricter emissions standards, although some economists are skeptical he can pull the country out of the recession while cleaning up the planet.", "President Barack Obama with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.", "Obama must strike a careful balance between stimulating the economy in the coming months and investing in the long-term future of the environment, said Raj Chetty, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.", "\"If you spend money too quickly, you lose site of the long-term vision,\" Chetty told CNN.", "\"If you focus too much on the long term, you may not act on spending money.\"", "Framing his remarks with an eye on the recession, the president on Monday announced a plan for \"a new energy economy that will build millions of jobs.\"", "Obama proposes to put 460,000 Americans to work through clean energy investments, increasing fuel efficiency in vehicles and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.", "By 2025, the Obama administration hopes one-fourth of the nation's energy will come from renewable sources.", "Over the long term, the president hopes to create millions of new jobs by investing $150 billion in taxpayer money to help private companies develop new sources of clean energy, such as wind, solar and geothermal power.", "It's about time, say scientists who often clashed with former President George W. Bush on environmental policy.", "\"By repowering our nation with clean energy, we will create millions of jobs that can't be sent overseas.", "By harnessing the energy of the sun and wind, we can refuel our nation and end our addiction to oil,\" said Wesley Warren, director of programs for the Natural Resources Defense Council.", "Environmental scholars, however, say the changes Obama seeks are not easy.", "\"These technologies are not new.", "They have been around for 10 to 15 years,\" said Bill Chameides, dean of the Nicholas School of Environment at Duke University.", "\"Government can push new policies, but it has to prove to be economically competitive or else it will not happen.\"", "\"It is going to require massive investments,\" said Joseph Romm, former acting assistant secretary of energy under the Clinton administration and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.", "\"The only question is, are we going to be the leader and export our technologies or a follower and continue importing our resources?\"", "Some economists question whether spending government money on new energy technologies is the best way to stimulate the economy in the short term.", "Opponents of Obama's proposals say renewable energy would be expensive, take up large amounts of land, and might not even be able to generate sufficient energy given the aging infrastructure of the nation's electric grid.", "\"If the private sector will not invest in these technologies, it will not be efficient,\" said Alan Reynolds, senior fellow at the Cato Institute.", "\"Creating jobs by switching from one form of energy to another is a bad idea,\" he added.", "\"You don't need subsidies for anything that is free.", "Getting a $7,000 rebate on a $100,000 plug-in electrical hybrid that gets its power from a coal plant doesn't make a lot of sense.\"", "Several events in Washington this week underscored the Obama administration's commitment to environmental issues.", "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday named a special envoy to pursue global agreements combating global warming.", "On Wednesday, former Vice President Al Gore urged Congress to approve Obama's stimulus package and said the United States needs to join international talks on a climate-change treaty.", "\"For years our efforts to address the climate crisis have been undermined by the idea that we must chose between our planet and our way of life, between our moral duty and economic well-being these are false choices,\" Gore told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.", "\"In fact, the solutions to the climate crisis are the same solutions that will address our economic and national crisis as well.\"", "Obama may have science on his side.", "By overwhelming consensus, scientists agree that our warming planet poses a greater global threat with every passing day.", "The replacement of current technology with energy generated from natural resources, such as sunlight and wind, could help reduce CO2 emissions by 50 percent by 2050, according to the International Energy Agency.", "\"Frankly the science is screaming at us,\" said Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, at Wednesday's hearing.", "\"Carbon dioxide emissions grew at a rate of four times faster in the Bush administration than they did in the 1990s.\"", "Even so, experts agree the faltering economy will complicate any discussion about investment in clean energy.", "\"The country is running two deficits,\" said David Orr, a professor of environmental studies and politics at Oberlin College, \"the economy in the short term, which will take one to five years to figure out [and] the environment in the long term, which if we don't do anything about it will see catastrophic effects.\"" ]	[ "Environmentalists are encouraged by President Obama's focus on renewable energy .", "Some economists are skeptical he can fix the economy and the planet at once .", "Scholar: Obama can push new policies, but they must be economically competitive .", "President announced a plan for \"a new energy economy\" that will build jobs ." ]	[ 0, 5, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- North Korea vowed Wednesday that it \"will take every necessary measure to protect its sovereignty\" in the midst of 12-day U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises.", "South Korean soldiers move into a building during a joint military exercise with U.S. troops in Pocheon Tuesday.", "\"These war exercises were kicked off by the U.S. and the South Korean puppet war-like forces across South Korea at a time when the inter-Korean relations have reached the worst phase and the situation has grown so tense that a war may break out (at) any moment due to the reckless policy of confrontation pursued by the South Korean conservative authorities,\" North Korea's official KCNA news agency said.", "Referring to \"war maneuvers\" and \"nuclear war exercises,\" a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman said they were \"designed to mount a preemptive attack on the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) in terms of their scale and contents from A to Z,\" according to KCNA.", "South Korea has defended the joint exercises.", "\"We have said several times that the U.S.-South Korean military exercises are annual defensive exercises,\" said Kim Ho-nyun, a Unification Ministry spokesman, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Monday.", "\"We again urge North Korea to maintain the agreed stance of mutual respect and to stop its verbal attacks and actions that are raising tensions on the Korean peninsula,\" he said.", "Tensions have ramped up in recent days, as North Korea threatened retaliation in the event of an interception of its \"satellite\" launch.", "U.S. and South Korean officials have said that North Korea appears to be preparing to test-fire its long-range missile, the Taepodong-2, under the guise of launching a satellite into space.", "The missile is thought to have an intended range of about 4,200 miles (6,700 kilometers), which -- if true -- could give it the capability of striking Alaska or Hawaii.", "On Saturday U.S. envoy Stephen Bosworth said he wanted dialogue with North Korea, but he also spoke against North Korea's move to go forward with a launch, saying it would be \"ill-advised.\"" ]	[ "N. Korean Foreign Ministry refers to U.S.-South Korean \"nuclear war exercises\"\nSouth Korea calls exercises \"annual defensive exercises,\" Yonhap reports .", "North Korea threatens retaliation in event \"satellite\" launch is intercepted .", "U.S., South Korea say North Korea appears to be prepping missile test firing ." ]	[ 4, 5, 7, 8 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush has expressed his \"deep concern\" and regret to Iraq's prime minister over the desecration of a Quran by an American soldier, the White House said Tuesday.", "President Bush called Nuri al-Maliki over the incident, al-Maliki's office says.", "The leaders are seen in September.", "National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Bush spoke to Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday in one of their regularly scheduled secure video teleconferences.", "\"President Bush expressed his deep concern over the incident and told Prime Minister Maliki that the soldier has been reprimanded by his commanders and removed from Iraq,\" Johndroe said.", "Al-Maliki's office on Tuesday said Bush issued an apology for the action on behalf of the United States and \"promised to present the soldier to the courts.\"", "The office said Bush made the apology in a call to al-Maliki on Tuesday morning.", "An American staff sergeant -- a sniper section leader -- used a Quran for target practice in Iraq earlier this month.", "The U.S. commander in Baghdad issued a formal apology Saturday and read a letter of apology by the shooter.", "Watch the U.S. military formally apologize » .", "The sergeant has been relieved of duty as a section leader \"with prejudice,\" officially reprimanded by his commanding general, dismissed from his regiment and redeployed -- reassigned to the United States, the U.S. military said.", "Reports of the Quran desecration have enraged Muslims in Iraq and elsewhere around the world.", "The soldier, whose name was not released, shot at a Quran on May 9, villagers said.", "The Quran used in the incident was discovered two days later, according to the military.", "A tribal leader said \"the criminal act by U.S. forces\" took place at a shooting range at the Radhwaniya police station on Baghdad's western outskirts.", "After the shooters left, an Iraqi policeman found a target marked in the middle of the bullet-riddled Quran.", "Pictures of the Quran show multiple bullet holes and an expletive scrawled on one of its pages.", "Officials said the soldier asserted he wasn't aware the book was the Quran, but U.S. officials rejected the claim.", "On Saturday, Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, appeared with leaders from Radhwaniya and apologized.", "\"I come before you here seeking your forgiveness,\" Hammond said to tribal leaders and others at the ceremony.", "\"In the most humble manner I look in your eyes today and I say please forgive me and my soldiers.\"", "Hammond also read a letter from the shooter, who called his actions \"shortsighted, very reckless and irresponsible,\" but he insisted he was not being malicious.", "\"I sincerely hope that my actions have not diminished the partnership that our two nations have developed together,\" the letter said.", "Hammond said the soldier's actions were tantamount to \"criminal behavior.\"", "\"I've come to this land to protect you, to support you -- not to harm you -- and the behavior of this soldier was nothing short of wrong and unacceptable,\" the general said.", "Another military official kissed a Quran and presented it as \"a humble gift\" to the tribal leaders.", "Many Iraqi leaders said the apology alone would not suffice.", "Watch villagers protest the desecration » .", "On Monday, the Iraqi Islamic Party, the movement of Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, condemned what it said was a \"blatant assault on the sanctities of Muslims all over the world.\"", "The party said it reacted to the news \"with deep resentment and indignation\" and wants the \"severest of punishments\" for the action.", "\"What truly concerns us is the repetition of these crimes that have happened in the past when mosques were destroyed and pages of the holy Quran were torn and used for disgraceful acts by U.S. soldiers,\" al-Hashimi said.", "\"I have asked that first this apology be officially documented; second a guarantee from the U.S. military to inflict the maximum possible punishment on this soldier so it would be a deterrent for the rest of the soldiers in the future.\"", "CNN's Ed Henry and Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report." ]	[ "Nuri al-Maliki's office: President Bush \"promised to present the soldier to the courts\"\nAn American staff sergeant used a Quran for target practice .", "Iraqi Islamic Party has demanded \"the severest of punishments\" for the soldier ." ]	[ 0, 5, 7 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- The negotiations are over.", "The treaty has been signed.", "The skies across the Atlantic are now open for free movement of flights between European and U.S. cities.", "Now the battle commences between airlines as they prepare for their new-found commercial freedom when the Open Skies agreement comes into action in March 2008.", "The choice of transatlantic routes is set to increases with the advent of the Open Skies agreement.", "The main beneficiaries of increased competition between airlines are likely to be business travelers.", "And while they may not see a dramatic reduction in ticket prices, they can look forward to a greater choice of flights from a greater number of airlines as well as an increase in business-only services.", "Airlines with the strongest brands and best quality products are likely to lure passengers away from European rivals by launching flights from other major European cities.", "British Airways has confirmed it will launch its first transatlantic flights from continental European cities once the agreement comes into place next year.", "And while it is not ready to confirm branding, types of aircraft, or even final routes, a BA spokesperson said likely contenders for new transatlantic routes will be from business destinations such as Paris, Frankfurt, Brussels and Milan.", "She also confirmed that, contrary to expectations, these flights would not be exclusively business class.", "Though they will offer premium cabins for business customers.", "Virgin Atlantic is expecting to place a greater focus on its business customers and has established a team to work towards the launch of business-only flights in 2009.", "These will fly from airports such as Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Zurich and the airline is currently in discussion with Airbus and Boeing to place orders for between 10 and 15 aircraft.", "Virgin and BA are both confident they can entice customers away from European national carriers due to the strength of their brands and service offering.", "As Paul Charles, director of corporate communications at Virgin Atlantic says, \"we are seen as a truly global brand and well-placed to compete with the quality of business services currently coming out of cities such as Paris and Milan.\"", "Open Skies will put an end to the exclusive arrangement granted to British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, United Airlines and American Airlines to fly transatlantic out of Heathrow.", "As a result, airlines including BMI, Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines are all lined up to launch direct transatlantic flights from Heathrow from next year.", "But with the airport currently operating at almost-maximum capacity, it is likely that new flights will be limited.", "Airlines operating from other airports, in particular the new business-only players such as Eos, Silverjet and Maxje, will, however, see an opportunity to expand their own services across the Atlantic.", "Joshua Marks, executive vice president for planning and development at U.S. business-class airline, Maxjet, says it expects to \"strengthen its position at Stansted\" as a result of the Open Skies agreement.", "\"With more flights moving from Gatwick to Heathrow, three major airports will become two in London.\"", "As such, he adds, Stansted could become the default airport for travelers coming from and to the east of the city.", "Now that the U.S. Department of Transport has given approval for Maxjet to launch flights from Stansted to other countries with open skies agreements with the U.S., business travelers in London should also be able to pick up Maxjet flights to destinations such as India.", "Maxjet has confirmed that it will not fight for slots at Heathrow, which Marks says has become an \"operational nightmare.\"", "Yet, other premium-only services are not ruling out the move.", "Silverjet, currently operating out of Luton, has been in discussion with (un-named) airlines interested in striking deals to launch flights out of Heathrow.", "Opportunities have been offered for flights to U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, says Lawrence Hunt, Silverjet's chief executive.", "\"This is an ongoing dialogue,\" he says.", "But before they make the move, they would need to see major changes to facilities at Heathrow in order for it to offer the \"personalized, discreet and carefree\" travel experience Silverjet offers customers from Luton.", "\"Heathrow has become a zoo and the customer experience has become appalling,\" he says.", "Airline executives agree that growth in transatlantic flights as a result of the Open Skies agreement will be aimed at business customers.", "As Hunt says, airlines have little else to offer, or gain, in terms of economy long-haul seats.", "And as Charles at Virgin points out, given the success of the new business-only entrants and the simultaneous ongoing demand for its business class seats, \"there's clearly a market out there for business-only flights.\"", "While there may be some softening of prices from Heathrow as airlines fight for slots, few expect prices for business travelers to drop dramatically as a result of the Open Skies agreement.", "As BA's spokesperson says, UK to North America is already a very competitive market.", "\"It is not as if we are moving from a monopoly,\" she says.", "Despite this, there is still a great deal to offer business customers and those that will make the most of the opportunity, says Anthony Concil, spokesperson from IATA, will be the most innovative.", "\"We have created a new playing field and it is up to players to make the most of that and for governments to take the agreement forward towards further liberalization.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Open Skies agreement lifts restrictions on transatlantic air services .", "British Airways and Virgin will launch flights from European capitals .", "Business-only services set to expand across London airports ." ]	[ 8, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The United Nations has sent police and military patrols to a camp in western Sudan after reports fighting there killed civilians, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.", "A file photo of refugees queuing for food in the Kalma camp in western Sudan.", "Aid groups have started evacuating wounded from the Kalma camp, home to 80,000 internally displaced people in the Darfur region of western Sudan.", "The U.N. said it received reports that Sudanese police vehicles surrounded the camp and that civilians were killed Monday during subsequent attacks inside the camp.", "The U.N. African Union Mission in Darfur \"is extremely concerned by this serious incident [and the] circumstances will be investigated,\" the mission said in a statement.", "\"It is closely monitoring the situation and [calls] on all parties to exercise restraint.\"", "A spokesman for the mission, Noureddine Nezni, said Tuesday the Dutch wing of Medecins Sans Frontieres had evacuated 47 wounded people who were being treated at a nearby hospital.", "Some of them -- mostly young men -- refused to be evacuated for fear of being arrested for having participated in the fighting, Nezni said.", "Nezni would not say how many people were killed in the Monday attacks.", "\"There are many figures being thrown around and we hesitate to give any numbers before we are sure,\" he said.", "\"We are still checking and hopefully we will have the correct figure late today.\"", "The Sudanese government said it entered the camp to look for \"huge quantities of arms and criminals,\" Nezni said.", "The U.N. African Union Mission in Darfur said it sent police and military patrols to Kalma to confirm the details of the incident and provide assistance.", "Nezni added that the mission and some aid groups were in talks with refugees at the camp to find a lasting solution to the problems.", "Fighting has displaced more than two million Sudanese -- and more than 238,000 refugees live in camps across the border in eastern Chad, the U.N. says.", "They have been displaced by fighting that broke out in 2003, when rebels began an uprising in Darfur and the government launched a brutal counter-insurgency campaign.", "The Sudanese authorities armed and cooperated with Arab militias that went from village to village in Darfur, killing, torturing and raping residents there, according to the U.N., Western governments and human rights organizations.", "The militias targeted civilian members of tribes from which the rebels draw strength.", "In the past five years, an estimated 300,000 people have been killed through direct combat, disease, or malnutrition, the U.N. says.", "Another 2.7 million people have been forced to flee their homes because of fighting among rebels, government forces, and allied Janjaweed militias.", "The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed genocide charges against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir last month for the campaign of violence in Darfur.", "CNN's Eunice Mafundikwa contributed to this report." ]	[ "United Nations sends police and military patrols to a camp in western Sudan .", "Move prompted by reports of fighting which killed civilians .", "47 wounded people evacuated for treatment at a nearby hospital ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- Prosecutors dropped corruption charges Monday against South Africa's ruling party president Jacob Zuma, who is expected to win the presidential race later this month.", "Jacob Zuma is expected to win the country's upcoming presidential election.", "The leader of the African National Congress had been charged with more than 700 counts of corruption and fraud.", "The charges, which were linked to a multibillion dollar arms deal in the country, were dropped after eight years of investigations.", "Zuma, who was named one of Time's Most Influential People in 2008, is favored to win the country's next presidential elections scheduled for April 22.", "He served as deputy president of South Africa from 1999 until he was fired in 2005 by President Thabo Mbeki over his alleged involvement in a bribery scandal.", "Opposition parties are accusing prosecutors of buckling under pressure from the ruling party.", "Mokotedi Mpshe, head of the National Prosecuting Authority, disagreed.", "\"An intolerable abuse has occurred,\" Mpshe said after reading transcripts of telephone conversations between two prosecution chiefs who appear to be planning to charge Zuma before ANC party elections.", "CNN's Nkepile Mabuse contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Jacob Zuma is president of the ANC, the most powerful party in South Africa .", "He is widely predicted to win the presidential vote, expected to take place in April .", "Zuma has denied claims of accepting bribes, money laundering, among others .", "Opposition parties accuse prosecutors of buckling under pressure ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "PARIS, France (CNN) -- The backstage gossip at recent fashion shows wouldn't be complete without rampant speculation about who is likely to replace esteemed American Vogue Editor in Chief Anna Wintour.", "Vogue editors Anna Wintour and Carine Roitfeld at AmfAR's 10th Annual New York Gala in January 2008.", "Wintour has yet to announce any plans to retire but her advancing age -- she's 60 this year -- has stoked speculation that after more than 20 years in the role it might be time to leave.", "One name touted as a possible replacement is Carine Roitfeld, the highly respected editor in chief of Vogue Paris.", "Read more about Carine Roitfeld .", "Roitfeld is accustomed to the speculation, describing it as \"frustrating.\"", "She told CNN she hadn't been offered the job and even if she was she probably wouldn't take it.", "\"It's a bit like for an actor.", "Do you want to go to Hollywood or do you want to stay here in Paris and do the cinema I like to do?,\" Roitfeld said.", "\"I think I prefer to stay here in Paris.\"", "Watch Carine Roitfeld Revealed .", "A fixture at the U.S. title since 1988, Wintour has a fearsome reputation, mostly courtesy of the 2006 film starring Meryl Streep, \"The Devil Wears Prada.\"", "The film is based on a book penned by a former assistant at American Vogue who has denied suggestions Wintour was the inspiration for the demanding and odious lead character.", "Roitfeld is anxious not to create any friction between her and her U.S. counterpart, telling CNN \"I think Anna does a great job...", "I think she's a great person.\"", "She said she would be honored to be asked to fill Wintour's shoes, but pointed out that \"it's a very different job.\"", "\"I'm very happy at French Vogue to be able to do everything -- almost everything -- I want in the magazine,\" she said.", "\"It would be too political at American Vogue for me.", "And I'm not sure I'm talking enough good English to work there.\"", "At Vogue Paris, Roitfeld knows her readers.", "They are a select group of incredibly stylish and wealthy women who are thrilled rather than alienated by unconventional ideas.", "The best-selling edition so far, in August 2003, featured French actress Sophie Marceau on the cover smoking a cigarette.", "At French Vogue, there's less pressure to appeal to the masses.", "Its circulation of some 139,000 is dwarfed by the million plus readers of American Vogue.", "Fashion shoots are about fantasy.", "There's no imperative to make any clothes they feature wearable.", "If it's unusual and innovative, then it's in.", "With just 25 staff, Roitfeld describes the team at French Vogue as like a family.", "And that's how she prefers it. Having said that, she told CNN she wouldn't dismiss any offer out of hand.", "\"Of course I would consider it because it would be ridiculous not to consider such a huge position -- in terms of money and in terms of power,\" she said.", "\"But I'm very happy. It's very much a small team (in Paris).", "America is a huge team.", "I know because I've worked for them before. I think it's not for me.\"" ]	[ "Style icon Anna Wintour is rumored to be leaving American Vogue in 2009 .", "Vogue Paris Editor in Chief Carine Roitfeld touted as a possible replacement .", "Roitfeld told CNN: \"I think I prefer to stay here in Paris...", "I'm very happy\"" ]	[ 3, 9, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Seven members of a joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping patrol have been killed by a heavily armed militia group in Sudan's Darfur region, the U.N. said.", "Peacekeepers drive into a Sudanese refugee camp near Farchana, east of Chad.", "Five of those killed were Rwandan, a U.N. peacekeeping official said, and the other two were a Ugandan and a Ghanaian.", "Twenty-two others were wounded in the attack, which was immediately condemned by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.", "\"The attackers used heavy weapons and engaged the UNAMID convoy in an exchange of fire for more than two hours,\" according to the statement released by Ban's spokesman.", "UNAMID is the acronym for the U.N.-AU mission in Darfur.", "The peacekeepers are allowed to used force when fired upon directly.", "\"The secretary-general condemns in the strongest possible terms this unacceptable act of extreme violence against AU-U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur and calls on the government of Sudan to do its utmost to ensure that the perpetrators are swiftly identified and brought to justice,\" the statement said.", "\"The secretary-general expresses his deepest condolences to the families of the peacekeepers who lost their lives, and reiterates his appreciation for their service, valor and commitment to the search for peace in Darfur.\"", "The ambush happened around 2:45 p.m. (1145 GMT) in northern Darfur.", "The rescue mission did not take place until after dark, she said.", "The peacekeepers who were attacked operated out of Shangil Tobayi -- a base to the west of El Fasher.", "In five years of war the U.N. says more than four million people have been affected: Two-and-a-half million people forced from their homes and more than 300,000 killed.", "Sudanese officials dispute those numbers claiming only 10,000 have died -- a number they say is normal for five years of war.", "U.S. President George W. Bush calls the killings genocide and has put sanctions on Sudan.", "The U.N. says Sudan's government is guilty of crimes against humanity and of violating international human rights laws every bit as heinous and serious they say as genocide.", "In February 2008, a fresh wave of killing forced 58,000 people to flee their homes as government troops and Janjaweed militiamen retaliated against rebels.", "A U.N. report said Sudan broke international law as 115 innocent civilians were killed using tactics similar to those employed in 2003, 2004, the worst years of the war.", "Peacekeepers are frequently targeted by militias in Darfur, where they are trying to protect civilians from \"janjaweed\" militias -- nomadic Arab militias, supported by Sudan's government, which target pastoral black Africans.", "Ten African Union peacekeepers were killed in October in an ambush on their peacekeeping base -- the deadliest single attack on AU peacekeepers since they began their mission in late 2004.", "A U.N. commission concluded in 2005 that the Sudanese government and militias \"conducted indiscriminate attacks, including killing of civilians, torture, enforced disappearances, destruction of villages, rape and other forms of sexual violence, pillaging and forced displacement\" in Darfur.", "In 2006, the U.N. Security Council authorized the creation of the joint AU/U.N.", "hybrid force of peacekeepers to protect civilians in Darfur.", "That hybrid force formally took over peacekeeping duties late last year from the force composed solely of members of the African Union.", "Yet the force is under-manned as a result of the Sudanese government's opposition to a U.N. presence, with just over 9,500 troops of an authorized strength of 26,000." ]	[ "U.N.: Seven peacekeepers, including five Rwandans, killed and 22 wounded .", "Attack immediately condemned by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon .", "In five years of war U.N. says more than 4 million people have been affected ." ]	[ 3, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The future of Detroit is electric cars, the governor of Michigan declared in an opinion piece on Newsweek's Web site.", "The Chevy Volt is one of the electric cars being developed by Michigan's auto industry.", "\"In Michigan, we are doing everything we can to become the home of this new electric auto industry -- and to the jobs this industry will create,\" wrote Gov.", "Jennifer Granholm.", "\"Again, the road to a stronger future for our country will begin in Michigan.\"", "She said that for automakers, replacing the 100-year-old internal-combustion engine is both \"revolutionary and daunting.\"", "Ann Marie Sastry, director of the energy systems engineering program at the University of Michigan, said the industry will have to take risks and government support will be essential.", "\"Gov. Granholm is doing exactly what we all hope our elected officials will do -- she is supporting partnerships and growth in critical economic areas,\" Sastry said.", "\"She's enunciated a vision for clean vehicles that builds our regional economy and provides global, sustainable transportation solutions.", "\"We understand that these investments will take time to reach profitability, but these are hard problems, and they are worth investment and risk.", "The risk of doing nothing is much, much greater.", "I'm glad she is making the case for Michigan.\"", "Granholm said all of Detroit's Big Three automakers -- General Motors, Ford and Chrysler -- are working on electric vehicles.", "\"General Motors plans to make lithium-ion battery packs to power the Chevy Volt, which is expected to earn a fuel-economy rating of more than 100 mpg,\" she wrote.", "\"... As Ford celebrates the sale of the 100,000th hybrid Escape, it is preparing for the introduction of a full line of new hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles.", "Chrysler, too, is electrifying its product lines.\"", "Sastry said she couldn't be more delighted with GM's plans for the Volt as a \"truly mass-marketed electrified drive train using electric technology.\"", "In 2008, GM sold 14,439 hybrid vehicles, according to a statement from the company.", "\"These companies are serious about transforming themselves and transforming us into a nation less reliant on foreign oil,\" Granholm wrote.", "Sastry said public opinion toward energy conservation is a major factor in the companies being willing to take the risk of creating the new types of cars.", "\"These very large companies are placing a bet on the future in no small measure because of the American public's change in attitude toward it,\" she said.", "In her commentary, Granholm referred to President Barack Obama's plan, announced in February, to direct $2 billion from the economic stimulus package into technology aimed at putting 1 million American-made, plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015.", "Sastry said it's hard to predict when something of that scale will happen -- many industry experts disagree on an exact time -- but it will happen.", "\"Keep in mind, several industries have to work together to make this happen,\" she said." ]	[ "Gov.", "Jennifer Granholm says auto industry's future is electric .", "University of Michigan expert agrees Big Three need to move to electric cars .", "Public opinion on energy conservation is pushing the move, expert says ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3 ]
[ "TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- A well-known Iranian filmmaker has written an open letter calling for the release of journalist Roxana Saberi.", "In a letter, Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi blames himself for urging Roxana Saberi to stay in Iran.", "Bahman Ghobadi said he kept quiet about the arrest and conviction of the Iranian-American journalist at the request of her family.", "After Saberi was convicted last weekend and sentenced to an eight-year prison sentence, he said he felt he had to do something.", "He told CNN that Saberi, whom he described as his fiancee, is caught in a \"game of politics.\"", "In his letter, which has been posted by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Ghobadi blames himself for urging Saberi to stay in Iran despite her desire to leave.", "Also, he writes, \"My letter is a desperate call to all statesmen ... and to all those who can do something to help.\"", "\"From the other side of the ocean, the Americans have protested against her imprisonment, because she is an American citizen,\" he writes.", "\"But I say no, she is Iranian, and she loves Iran.", "I beg you, let her go!", "I beg you not to throw her in the midst of your political games!", "She is too weak and too pure to take part in your games.", "Let me be present at her trial, sit next to her wise father and gentle mother, and testify she is without guilt or reproach.\"", "The 40-year-old filmmaker said that Saberi was planning to leave the country, but he kept her from leaving until his latest film -- which will be shown at this year's Cannes film festival -- was completed.", "Ghobadi won the 2000 Golden Camera award at the Cannes festival for his feature film, \"A Time for Drunken Horses.\"", "Saberi, 31, was sentenced Saturday to eight years in prison after a one-day trial that was closed to the public.", "The decision prompted sharp denunciations from President Barack Obama, as well as other U.S. and international officials.", "Iranian officials initially said Saberi was held for buying a bottle of wine.", "The Foreign Ministry later said she was detained for reporting without proper accreditation.", "On April 9, word emerged that Saberi had been charged with espionage.", "Saberi's lawyer has said he will appeal the verdict.", "Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi has ordered the head of Tehran's Justice Department to make sure the appeals process is quick and fair.", "Ghobadi wrote that he is \"optimistic about her release, and I firmly hope the verdict will be canceled in the next stage of the trial.\"", "\"My Iranian girl with Japanese eyes and an American ID, is in jail.", "Shame on me! Shame on us!\" CNN's Igor Krotov and Shirzad Bozorghmehr contributed to this report." ]	[ "Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi writes letter calling for release of jailed journalist .", "Filmmaker says fiancee Roxana Saberi is caught in a \"game of politics\"\nJournalist \"is without guilt or reproach,\" filmmaker's letter says .", "\"Shame on me!", "Shame on us!\"", "the letter concludes ." ]	[ 0, 1, 4, 24 ]
[ "Tokyo is a huge and often confusing city for travelers, but with these tips you needn't be daunted by the Japanese capital.", "100 Yen shops are great value for money.", "Subway Tokyo has an incredibly efficient subway, but the 13 lines are run by two different companies, Toei Subways and Tokyo Metro, meaning a bewildering variety of day passes are available.", "A good bet is the Toei and Tokyo Metro One-Day Economy Pass, which costs ¥1,000 and gives you a day of unlimited travel on all subway lines.", "During rush-hour the subway becomes an unbearable crush.", "All social niceties go out the window in a free for all that's best avoided completely.", "Taxis During the day traffic can be gridlocked, but in the evening, when traffic is lighter, taxis are reasonably alternative to the subway.", "Enter and exit taxis by the back left-hand door.", "Don't make the novice's error of trying to open or close the door -- your white-gloved driver will do that from the front seat.", "Ideally, have a map of your destination, or at least an address written in Japanese.", "Tipping is not expected.", "ATMs Although Tokyo is ultra-modern, you may have to revert to carrying travelers' checks for the duration of your stay.", "Few ATMs accept foreign cards, although you should have more luck at post offices and branches of Citibank.", "ATMs in busy areas stay open until 9 p.m. and most are closed at weekends, although Citibank has 24-hour ATMs.", "Credit cards are still not accepted as widely as you might expect, so travelers' checks are your best bet -- and make sure you're carrying cash if you're planning a night out away from the city center.", "What's on The best way to keep up with events and entertainment is with one of Tokyo's English language magazines.", "Metropolis and Tokyo Notice Board are two of the best -- and they're both free.", "100 Yen shops These bargain stores are hugely popular in Tokyo, selling everything from food to toiletries for ¥100 plus ¥5 tax -- about $1.", "They are also a great place to pick up an inexpensive, kitschy souvenir.", "Daiso 100-Yen Shop in Takeshita-dori (Village 107 Building, 1-19-24 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku) has four floors of cheap thrills.", "Etiquette As a foreigner, having a generally courteous demeanor will cover a multitude of sins, but there are a few rules you should try to remember: .", "- Never use your chopsticks to take food from someone else's and don't stick your chopsticks upright in your food when you've finished -- both of these denote funerary customs.", "- If you're eating with other people, don't pour your own drink.", "Fill your neighbor's glass and wait for them to reciprocate.", "- The Japanese don't pour sauces onto their rice.", "Leave any sauces in their serving dish and dip your food in lightly.", "- It's a faux pas be seen eating in public -- especially on a train.", "And blowing your nose in public is an absolute no-no.", ".................................. What are your tips for a great stay in Tokyo?", "Where have you found the \"real\" Tokyo?", "Send us your suggestions in the \"Sound Off\" box below and we'll print the best." ]	[ "Tokyo has a fantastic subway system -- just don't use it during rush hour .", "Few ATMs accept foreign cards, so you should take travelers' checks .", "100 Yen shops are hugely popular in Tokyo and are great value for money ." ]	[ 1, 4, 12, 17 ]
[ "ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced it is blocking the import from China of five species of seafood until their importers can prove they are not contaminated.", "About 10 percent of catfish eaten in the U.S. comes from China, according to the National Fisheries Institute.", "\"FDA is initiating an import alert against several species of imported Chinese farmed seafood because of numerous cases of contamination with drugs and unsafe food additives,\" said Dr. David Acheson, the agency's assistant commissioner for food protection, in a conference call with reporters.", "The species cited are catfish, eel, shrimp, basa and dace, he said.", "Basa is similar to catfish; dace is similar to carp.", "The medications cited include the antimicrobials nitrofuran, malachite green, gentian violet and fluoroquinolones.", "Nitrofuran, malachite green, and gentian violet have been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals.", "Use of fluoroquinolones in food-producing animals can result in antibiotic resistance.", "None of them is approved for use in farmed seafood in the United States and some of them have been shown to cause cancer when fed to laboratory animals for \"prolonged periods of time,\" Acheson said.", "Alerts have been issued in the past, but Thursday's announcement is the largest.", "The food will not be allowed into the United States until the importer can prove it is free from harmful contaminants, Acheson said.", "He said the agency decided to broaden its previous alerts for products from individual companies to a countrywide alert after tests showed that 15 percent of those species of seafood produced by 18 companies in China contained traces of one or more of the contaminants.", "\"FDA is taking this action to protect the public health of the American people,\" he said.", "Watch more on the FDA's import alert on five kinds of fish from China. ...", "The products \"could cause serious health problems if consumed over a long period of time,\" he said.", "Still, Acheson added, the low levels of contaminants means that there is \"no imminent threat\" to the public health.", "China is the world's largest producer of farmed fish, accounting for 70 percent of the total produced, he said.", "It is the third-largest exporter of farmed fish to the United States.", "The action is an import alert, which means that these products from Chinese processors \"will be detained and refused entry into the United States until the importer can demonstrate that the product is safe and in compliance with applicable regulations,\" said Margaret O' K. Glavin, FDA's associate commissioner for regulatory affairs.", "Last year, the FDA slapped a countrywide alert on all Chinese eel after tests showed residues of an antimicrobial agent, she said.", "Since then, and \"despite extensive communications between FDA and appropriate Chinese authorities to correct the problem, we have continued to find residues of certain veterinary drugs or food additives that are not permitted for use in the United States,\" she added.", "Glavin said the FDA inspects 5 percent of seafood from China.", "The first alert on Chinese seafood occurred before 2001, she said.", "\"We're not asking for this product to be withdrawn from the market or for people to take this out of their freezers and throw it away,\" Acheson said.", "\"This is a long-term health concern; it is not an acute health concern.\"", "China is not the sole offender, Glavin said.", "Import alerts have been ordered for firms in the Philippines, Mexico \"and several others,\" though this is the first countrywide import alert, she said.", "More than 80 percent of shrimp eaten in the United States is imported, including 7 percent from China, according to the National Fisheries Institute.", "About 10 percent of catfish eaten in the United States comes from China, the seafood industry advocacy group said.", "Last year, the United States imported 590,299 metric tons of shrimp from abroad; 68,150 metric tons of which came from China, according to the Department of Commerce.", "The United States imported $1.2 billion of fish from China in 2004, according to H. M. Johson & Associates, a seafood industry research group.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "FDA blocks import of shrimp, catfish, eel, basa and dace from China .", "Fish won't be allowed until importers prove they are safe .", "The fish were treated with antibiotics and antifungal medication .", "The antibiotics are not allowed in U.S. fish ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Tokyo was known as Edo until 1868, but it's hard to imagine that this high-rise, high-tech metropolis could possibly have existed in a time before electricity and concrete.", "Tokyo isn't just a futuristic city; it's the place that has shaped our vision of what the future will look like.", "In Tokyo, the future is a long-standing tradition.", "There's a sci-fi familiarity to areas like Shibuya, Shinjuku and Akihabara; the skyscrapers glowing with illuminated signs, subway stops inside shopping malls and taxis with automated doors could be straight out of \"Blade Runner\" or \"The Fifth Element.\"", "But the space-age topography of Tokyo has been shaped by a history of catastrophe.", "In the 20th century alone Tokyo suffered earthquakes, fires and devastating bombing.", "The result is a city that has repeatedly been forced to rebuild, shedding its past with each successive redevelopment.", "After centuries of expansion, Tokyo has grown vertically to accommodate its 12 million residents.", "Perhaps the inevitability of another catastrophic earthquake accounts for the lack of emotional attachment to the city's architecture; buildings are continuously being pulled down and replaced, creating the sensation that Tokyo's skyline is a permanent work in progress.", "While it can seem that the city is intent on stream rolling over its past, you can still see traces of old Edo.", "The Meiji Jingu Shrine tells of the city's Shinto heritage and there's something timeless about the charming chaos of Tsukiji Fish Market.", "Even the enduring formalities of Tokyo's social etiquette and the joy with which Tokyoites greet the coming of the cherry blossom are signs that the city maintains a lingering affection for its traditions.", "At first glance, Tokyoites may seem sober and industrious, efficiently going about the business of making their city a world capital of techno commerce, but shops filled with manga comics and anime DVDs hint at a desire to escape the obligations of real life.", "That appetite for escapism is most colorfully expressed in the phenomenon of \"cosplay\", which sees teenagers dress as characters from cartoons and comic strips, or in the outlandish uniforms of various distinctive subcultures.", "In the 80s, Japan's bubble economy created unsustainable growth in Tokyo and property prices in the capital went through the roof.", "When the bubble burst in the early 90s, Tokyo was hit particularly hard but, after years of recession, Tokyo has the buzz of a city regaining its confidence.", "For this endlessly fascinating city, it's back to business -- and back to the future." ]	[ "Known as Edo until 1868, Tokyo has been shaped by a history of disasters .", "There's a sci-fi familiarity to areas like Shibuya, Shinjuku and Akihabara .", "There are still traces of traditional Tokyo, such as at the Meiji Jingu Shrine ." ]	[ 3, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Danielle Dayton and Patrick Murray received the call Saturday afternoon: Their 4-pound son, Brayden Murray, was shipping out.", "Patrick Murray and Danielle Dayton say their tiny son's evacuation went smoothly.", "As coastal hospitals prepared for Gustav, tiny babies in the Newborn Intensive Care Units were among the first to be evacuated.", "\"The NICU babies are our first priority when it comes to evacuation,\" said Keith Darcey, a spokesman for East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie, Louisiana, where Brayden was a patient before being evacuated to Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge, Lousiana.", "Woman's Hospital started receiving phone calls Wednesday from coastal-area hospitals inquiring whether there was room in their NICU, spokeswoman Jodi Conachen said.", "By Sunday evening, the hospital was taking care of 32 evacuated babies.", "\"The hospitals started preparing early this time,\" she said.", "\"They learned their lesson from Katrina.\"", "The babies have done well since arriving in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said Darcy Gann, director of the NICU at Woman's Hospital.", "\"They act like they were barely affected by the transfer.\"", "The babies arrived by ambulance without their parents.", "Dayton and Murray drove to Baton Rouge to join their son after dropping off their 7-year-old daughter, Breanne, to stay with relatives far from the storm.", "While the couple took care of their children, they had a friend board up their business in Metairie.", "\"You have to deal with it the best you can. You can't panic, because it doesn't do anyone any good,\" Murray said.", "\"You do what's best for the baby.\" Although Murray said Brayden's evacuation went smoothly, one hospital administrator said the patient evacuation process had been \"incredibly frustrating.\"", "Watch part of the NICU evacuation » .", "\"There was at least a six- to eight-hour delay in evacuating the babies,\" said Dr. Kevin Jordan, chief medical officer of Touro Infirmary in New Orleans, which sent seven NICU babies to Woman's Hospital.", "\"It was very, very, very disorganized.\" Jordan blamed the state office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.", "He said Touro is still waiting to evacuate four critically ill adult patients on ventilators.", "\"It's been incredibly frustrating,\" he said.", "The secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals said each hospital is responsible for evacuating its own patients, adding that Touro asked for assistance Sunday morning, days after other hospitals had asked for help.", "\"It's never a perfect process,\" he said.", "\"It's never easy to evacuate thousands of people in 48 hours.\"", "Touro, which usually has between 215 and 245 patients, has evacuated all but around 65 to 70, he added.", "\"The sickest of the sick patients we're keeping and sheltering in place,\" Jordan said.", "\"We're concerned that evacuating them could do significant harm.\"", "Other hospitals took a different approach.", "East Jefferson evacuated only its three NICU babies, keeping its 210 adult patients in the hospital.", "\"We survived Katrina quite well and learned a lot from the experience,\" Darcey said, adding that since Katrina, the exterior of the hospital has been fortified.", "\"But you don't want to take any chances with the little babies,\" he added.", "\"Their temperatures have to be very carefully regulated, and if the air conditioning goes out, that could have a detrimental effect on their health.\"" ]	[ "Sick newborn babies among first evacuate area, as Gustav approaches .", "Touro Infirmary, sent seven NICU babies to Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge .", "\"It was very, very, very disorganized,\" says Touro's chief medical officer ." ]	[ 2, 3, 16, 17 ]
[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Hundreds of refugees on Wednesday blocked a main road in northwest Pakistan, to protest living conditions for some of the 1.5 million Pakistanis forced to flee their homes in the past three weeks.", "The refugee situation in Pakistan could be a bigger threat than fighting with Taliban, U.N. says.", "\"The government has been making big promises, but none of those were ever fulfilled,\" said Hazrat Bilal, a protester and refugee whose family has taken up temporary residence in a primary school.", "The refugees had blocked the main road in Pakistan's Mardan district since 8 a.m. Wednesday, Bilal said by telephone.", "The demonstrators were demanding food, water and other government services, he said.", "Mardan is a main transit point for the large numbers of Pakistanis fleeing the Swat Valley, the site of fierce fighting between Taliban militants and Pakistani soldiers.", "The first pictures from the fighting » .", "The refugee crisis could pose a bigger threat to stability in Pakistan than the war itself, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres told CNN while touring a refugee camp in the nearby Swabi district last week.", "The Pakistani government has been working with international aid agencies to establish camps for refugees, where tents, food, water and basic medical services are provided.", "But the scale and speed of the displacement -- said to be the worst since the Rwandan genocide in 1994 -- have overwhelmed aid workers, Guterres said.", "\"The scale of the problem is such that all our resources combined cannot cope with it.", "And it's very important for this population not to feel abandoned,\" Guterres said.", "\"Without massive support of the international community for the Pakistani people, this will become a very dramatic problem, and not only a humanitarian problem.\"", "On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced $110 million in humanitarian aid for Pakistani refugees.", "She also unveiled a system that lets Americans donate to the U.N. refugee effort, by sending a text message on mobile phone, including the word \"Swat.\"", "Meanwhile, Pakistan's military said it was continuing the assault on Taliban militants.", "Pakistani forces have targeted regional Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah and Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan, but have \"no information about whether we have been successful,\" said the spokesman, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas.", "He said 80 \"terrorists\" were killed Tuesday night in \"intense fighting\" in the town of Sultanwas, located in Buner district.", "One Pakistani soldier was also killed in recent fighting, Abbas said." ]	[ "Nearly 1.5 million Pakistanis have registered as displaced since May 2, U.N. says .", "U.N. believes refugee crisis could be bigger threat than fight with Taliban .", "United States is sending $110 million in aid to Pakistan ." ]	[ 1, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Rick Warren, founder and pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, is one of America's most influential authors and religious leaders.", "In August, he moderated a discussion on key issues between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain.", "Rick Warren says no matter what problem you have, there's a purpose behind it.", "His latest book is \"The Purpose of Christmas.\"", "He was interviewed by Kiran Chetry on \"American Morning\" on Friday.", "Here is an edited version of the exchange: .", "Chetry: We always say we don't want Christmas to be commercialized.", "It seems that at the end of the year, we end up in the same position, worried about buying presents, worried about spending money, worried about holiday cards, and how do you get back to the real meaning?", "Rick Warren: A lot of people are really hurting because of the economy and because of the fears about what's going to happen, and really those same problems are the problems that Mary and Joseph went through.", "Housing, no room at the inn, travel, economic unrest, things like that.", "So I wrote this book really to focus us on what is the true meaning of Christmas.", "It's a book of hope, and the big idea behind it is that no matter what problem you're going through, there's a purpose behind it.", "God has a purpose, and that purpose can help you make it through even the stressful times when we decide to write a note to everybody, buy a gift for everybody, redecorate our house, have five or six meals and go to eight or nine parties.", "Rick Warren: Shop more or pray more? ...", "Chetry: Exactly, because that's usually what ends up happening, and sometimes the spirit of giving and fellowship is lost in that.", "You also write in the book, remember that God loves you, but for somebody who is facing foreclosure -- let's say you lost a loved one or your job or dealing with an illness -- it can sound pat in a way.", "What do you say to people who say, pastor, I don't feel that God loves me or I wouldn't be going through this .", "Warren: Actually, sometimes what we think is a problem is actually a protection.", "For instance, last month my daughter-in-law, who is 25 years old, went through a brain tumor.", "She had her first child premature, about six weeks early, and when she had that baby early, it was breech.", "The cord was wrapped around its neck and it stopped breathing and they actually had to do an emergency C-section and resuscitate the child and save the baby's life and save her life.", "We looked at that and we thought, boy, that's a pretty tough problem, but we now know that she had a three-inch brain tumor at the base of her brainstem, and if she had pushed, it would have killed her.", "And so actually, seven weeks later, when she should have been delivering the baby, we discovered the brain tumor, and she would have been trying to have brain surgery, three surgeries, one was 20 hours long, at the same time as having a baby.", "So what we thought was a problem was actually a protection saving her life.", "And sometimes, we look at a tapestry, and from the top down, you can see the picture.", "From the bottom up, it's all of these different colors of threads.", "It makes no sense.", "It's all jumbled. When God looks down, he sees what he's doing.", "When we look up, we just see the jumble.", "Chetry: And she's OK? Warren: She's OK. Chetry: Thank goodness.", "I want to turn to politics now and ask you about the summit you hosted for both of the candidates.", "Great provocative questions and interesting answers we weren't hearing on the campaign trail.", "Now that the campaign is over, what is your reaction to the outcome and to President-elect Barack Obama?", "Warren: Well, there's no doubt about it, we need to be praying for our president.", "I don't think any president has come into a crisis so quickly as President-elect Obama has, and no president has come in with probably as high expectations as President-elect Obama.", "So we need to pray for him. We need to support him where we can, and we need -- we want the best for America.", "Chetry: Religion factored heavily into some of the back-and-forth in the campaign season.", "Many people believed [incorrectly] that Barack Obama wasn't really Christian, that he was Muslim, and, of course, the Jeremiah Wright thing.", "Religion ended up, unfortunately, being a divisive issue at times as opposed to one that was a uniting issue.", "How do you change that? Warren: Part of it is we have to end the caricaturization of the candidates.", "I know all of the candidates on both sides, and none of them were exactly as they were portrayed.", "We tend to overportray them whether it's Sarah Palin or Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or John McCain.", "They're not anything like the caricaturization that we often hear.", "We tend to push to extremes.", "They are a lot more practical and pragmatic, I think, than we want to give them credit for, and every president, when he becomes president, has to let go of some ideology and become more of a pragmatist because there's so many issues that you don't probably understand until you actually hold the office." ]	[ "Pastor Rick Warren: Problems we face similar to those of Mary and Joseph .", "He says we need to look for the purpose of Christmas and of our problems .", "Warren: We need to pray for new president and support him where we can ." ]	[ 8, 35 ]
[ "MUMBAI, India (CNN) -- The children in their party outfits on the red carpet were in full agreement with the woman in the middle of the slum: \"It's unbelievable!\"", "Azharuddin Ismail and Rubina Ali got to leave their homes in Mumbai to go to Hollywood for the Oscars.", "Nine-year-old Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, 10, were living a very different life and apparently loving every minute of it.", "The two, some of the child stars of the Oscar-winning \"Slumdog Millionaire\" movie, know the Indian slum well.", "It's where they've grown up, and it's where they will return at the end of their Hollywood dream trip.", "But before that, there was the red carpet and an interview with E!", "host Ryan Seacrest, where they grinned and repeated their disbelief at what was happening to them.", "\"Unbelievable. I never thought it would be an Oscar, this movie,\" said another of the children, Ayush Mahesh Khedekar.", "Then it was to the awards show itself, where their movie won first for its cinematography, script and music.", "Toward the end of the evening, Danny Boyle picked up best director, and then Rubina, Azharuddin and many of the movie's other stars got to storm the stage with producer Christian Colson to collect the best picture award.", "By that time, it was late morning in the children's home city of Mumbai, where family, friends and many fellow residents of the slum watched the results from Hollywood.", "Watch how Mumbai celebrated » .", "\"I don't really know what the Oscars are,\" Rubina's mom said.", "\"I'm just glad my daughter looks happy, though she told me she misses Indian food.\"", "The Oscar success of \"Slumdog\" distracted some from the drudgery of their daily lives.", "But the poverty and lack of opportunity that's a central theme of the film is always all around.", "\"Our children lead a dog's life,\" Rubina's mother said, pointing out garbage everywhere, the open drains and the lack of education opportunities.", "That at least may change for Rubina and Azharuddin.", "In a few days they will be back in Mumbai and back in the slums that are their home.", "Watch how 'Slumdog Millionaire' dominated at the Academy Awards » .", "But, according to media reports, Boyle has promised to help the children he plucked from the obscurity of the slum and see that they will now get to go to a proper school." ]	[ "Two child stars of \"Slumdog Millionaire\" come from the slum featured in the movie .", "They traveled from Mumbai to Hollywood for Academy Awards .", "Disbelief, joy echoed amid the red carpet glamour and in the squalor of the slums ." ]	[ 0, 3, 6, 19 ]
[ "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi police and soldiers on Saturday launched major raids in a once-notorious insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad.", "Saturday's raids in Falluja by Iraqi forces were similar to U.S.-led sweeps in the city in 2004, shown here.", "A police official in the Anbar province city of Falluja told CNN that a large number of security forces were scouring its Sinaie district for an array of weapons -- machine guns, mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and small arms.", "The Sinaie area, in Falluja's southeastern section, is an industrial district with factories, scrap yards and large, abandoned yards.", "The area used to be a stronghold of the insurgency in Falluja until the militants were driven out in major military operations five years ago.", "At that time, the U.S.-led offensive was largely in response to the brutal ambush, killing and mutilation of four U.S. security contractors.", "Their charred bodies were left dangling from a bridge over the Euphrates River in spring 2004.", "In November of that year, U.S. and Iraqi forces attacked insurgents in Falluja, killing about 1,200 militants.", "Eight Iraqi soldiers and 51 U.S. troops, mostly Marines, died in urban combat, according to the Pentagon.", "About 95 percent of Falluja's population was displaced.", "Falluja is about 37 miles, or 60 kilometers, west of Baghdad .", "After the city was pacified, the United States committed more than $200 million to reconstruction projects there, and changes became evident.", "Small cafes and grocery stores lined the streets once dusty and abandoned.", "Iraqis in Falluja got back to the rhythms of everyday life: They worked, shopped -- and rebuilt.", "As fragile security gains took root, American military officials marveled at the resurgent city of several hundred thousand.", "On Saturday, a police official denied reports that armed groups were trying to re-establish a foothold in the area.", "The U.S. military said Marines and police in the nearby town of Karma were also participating in a combined cache sweep.", "Violence has dropped in Iraq, and President Obama's administration has been gearing up to withdraw U.S. troops.", "The U.S. military continues to be on guard for flare-ups in violence and insurgent activity.", "The vast and predominantly Sunni Arab Anbar province was a battleground between the U.S. military and al Qaeda in Iraq during the earlier years of the Iraq war.", "But the insurgents eventually lost ground when a grass-roots movement called \"the awakening\" emerged.", "The tribe-based awakening forces rejected al Qaeda in Iraq and turned their allegiances toward the U.S. and Iraqi government.", "While the awakening doesn't have clout in Falluja, there are pockets of support just outside the city, as well as in the rest of the province.", "Al Qaeda in Iraq's strongest presence in the country is now in the Mosul area, in Nineveh province, north of Baghdad." ]	[ "Iraqi police official says security forces were scouring Sinaie district of Falluja .", "U.S. military: Marines and area police assisting in combined cache sweep .", "Anbar province is vast and violent scene of U.S. and al Qaeda in Iraq encounters ." ]	[ 2, 16, 21 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- The New York Times endorsed Arizona Sen. John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination over Rudy Giuliani and the rest of the GOP field, strongly criticizing the former mayor of its home city.", "Sens. John McCain, left, and Rudy Giuliani took part in a debate in Florida on Thursday.", "In endorsements posted on its Web site for Friday's editions, the Times also endorsed New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.", "\"Senator John McCain of Arizona is the only Republican who promises to end the George Bush style of governing from and on behalf of a small, angry fringe,\" the paper's editorial board wrote.", "\"With a record of working across the aisle to develop sound bipartisan legislation, he would offer a choice to a broader range of Americans than the rest of the Republican field.\"", "The endorsement anticipated readers asking how the New York paper could reject Giuliani, a man it endorsed for re-election in 1997 and praised for his work cleaning up crime in the city and during the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks.", "\"That man is not running for president,\" the paper wrote.", "\"The Rudolph Giuliani of 2008 first shamelessly turned the horror of 9/11 into a lucrative business, with a secret client list, then exploited his city's and the country's nightmare to promote his presidential campaign,\" the paper writes, describing Giuliani as \"a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man.\"", "Giuliani played down the harsh words, suggesting that the Times has a liberal editorial staff that often disapproved of him.", "\"I probably never did anything the New York Times suggested I do in eight years as mayor of New York City, and if I did, I wouldn't be considered a conservative Republican,\" Giuliani said during a Republican debate Thursday night hosted by MSNBC in Boca Raton, Florida.", "\"I changed welfare, I changed quality of life, I took on homelessness -- I did all the things that they think makes you mean and I believe show true compassion and true love for people.\"", "His wasn't the only Republican campaign taking that tack.", "An e-mail from the campaign of former Massachusetts Gov.", "Mitt Romney sarcastically noted that McCain had been endorsed by \"[t]hat bastion of conservative advocacy.\"", "The editorial was hardly full of praise for McCain, despite calling him a \"genuine war hero\" and a \"staunch advocate of campaign finance reform.\"", "\"Mr. McCain was one of the first prominent Republicans to point out how badly the war in Iraq was being managed.", "We wish he could now see as clearly past the temporary victories produced by Mr. Bush's unsustainable escalation, which have not led to any change in Iraq's murderous political calculus,\" it reads.", "\"At the least, he owes Americans a real idea of how he would win this war, which he says he can do.\"", "The paper praised Clinton's chief rival, Sen. Barack Obama, but called Clinton more qualified for the job.", "\"It is unfair, especially after seven years of Mr. Bush's inept leadership, but any Democrat will face tougher questioning about his or her fitness to be commander in chief,\" it reads.", "\"Mrs. Clinton has more than cleared that bar, using her years in the Senate well to immerse herself in national security issues, and has won the respect of world leaders and many in the American military.\"", "The Democratic editorial contrasts Clinton and Obama -- calling her \"the brilliant if at times harsh-sounding senator from New York\" and him \"the incandescent if still undefined senator from Illinois.\"", "The paper says Clinton \"sometimes overstates the importance of [her] resume,\" but that upon hearing \"her policies and answers for America's big problems, we are hugely impressed by the depth of her knowledge, by the force of her intellect and by the breadth of, yes, her experience.\"", "New York is one of a host of states that will vote during the February 5 Super Tuesday primaries.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Paper rips Rudy Giuliani as \"a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man\"\nGiuliani responds: I wouldn't be a conservative Republican if I did what paper wanted .", "Opinion piece says McCain will \"end the George Bush style of governing\"\nPaper praises Barack Obama but calls Hillary Clinton more qualified for the job ." ]	[ 9, 18 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The Rev.", "Martin Luther King is looking down on the United States, smiling, Otis Sutton said Wednesday.", "Otis Sutton, 78, recalls how times have changed since he grew up in the segregated South.", "\"That's what he wanted. He'd been preaching that all along,\" Sutton, 78, said of the nation electing its first African-American president.", "Sutton, who has worked on and off at the historic Busy Bee Cafe in Atlanta, Georgia, since it opened in 1947, was baptized by the civil rights icon's father, King Sr.", "He remembers playing pick-up football games in a dirt lot with King Jr. when they were both youngsters in Atlanta.", "Asked if King Jr. was any good at football, Sutton chuckled.", "\"He liked to read and study,\" he said with a reverence that prohibited him from disparaging King Jr. in any way, \"but he loved the game.\"", "Walk around Atlanta and you'll find plenty of African-Americans who hope Sen. Barack Obama will inspire young people to reach for a book rather than a football.", "\"As young, black Americans our society and our communities had told us that the only way we could make it out is if we entertain,\" said Cortez Tarver, 28, who cuts hair at the University Barbershop, just down the street from the historically black Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University.", "Hear Tarver talk about Obama's win » .", "\"They want us to be funny.", "They want us to cook their food, entertain them and play their sports -- and we do all that, we're just going to fit in.\"", "The media reinforce the erroneous notion that successful black men exist only in the realms of hip hop, football and basketball, Tarver said.", "The result is that fewer and fewer African-American children aspire to occupations like doctor and lawyer, he said.", "All that changed after Obama locked up the Electoral College vote on Tuesday night.", "\"Now, they can say they want to be president,\" Tarver said of young blacks.", "\"This shows us, hey, if we go to college, we study hard, we help out our communities, we can become president, we can become something great -- other than shucking and jiving, other than putting on a show.\"", "Sutton likens Obama's rise through the political ranks to Tiger Woods' rise through professional golf.", "Until about 12 years ago, when Woods turned pro, it was rare to find black youngsters swinging clubs at their local links.", "Even if they had the natural skills, they did not believe the game belonged to them, he said.", "\"You never seen black children playing golf till [Woods] started playing,\" said Sutton, explaining that even his 7-year-old grandson, Josh, now enjoys playing golf.", "What Woods did for golf, Sutton said, Obama has done for politics.", "Children across the nation were told Tuesday night that they, too, can aspire to the highest office in the land.", "\"If he can do it, they believe they can do it,\" Sutton said.", "Back at University Barbershop, Tarver's colleague, Spot Jackson, 28, said the only thing keeping him awake was some Burger King coffee and a few doughnuts after staying up until 6 a.m. watching election news.", "Like Tarver and Sutton, Jackson said he believes Obama shattered the ceiling for black men and women.", "He joked that Obama's victory made him want to start a foundation.", "Its mission would be simple, he said.", "\"We're going to eradicate the word 'can't.'", "We're going to try to get it out of every dictionary known to man,\" he said.", "\"There's nothing you can honestly say you can't do anymore; it just changes your perception as far as what you think is possible in this country.\"", "Jackson dismissed a question about whether the change was made possible by Obama's skin color, saying it was more about the man's character and platform.", "\"He could've been green and if the message was the same and it resonated the same way it did, then he still would've gotten the same support,\" he said.", "Jackson said he saw television footage of people in Indonesia celebrating the U.S. presidential election, something he's never seen in the 10 years he's been voting.", "Morgan Blanchard, 20, a junior at Clark Atlanta, said she also was impressed to see international footage from Italy and Australia of people celebrating the election.", "It shows Obama has broad appeal, which speaks more to his honesty and principles than to his skin color, she said.", "\"Oh gosh, it's not even that he's African-American,\" she said, noting with a sly smile that Obama's mother was white.", "\"It's the way he carries himself, the way he puts himself out there.", "I don't think race has anything to do with it.\"", "Her sentiments were echoed by fellow Clark Atlanta student Ashante Smith, 18.", "A sophomore studying music, Smith said many African-Americans voted for Obama because of his race, but she pointed out that he also snared millions of votes in white and Latino communities.", "\"I think he was just really committed to all communities,\" she said.", "And while she thinks Obama can help improve education, unemployment and the economy in general, she concurs with many who say he can hearten generations of African-Americans to reach higher in life.", "\"It just inspires me to go for what I want,\" she said.", "\"It's like we can do anything.\"" ]	[ "African-Americans in Martin Luther King Jr.'s hometown say Obama shattered ceiling .", "Otis Sutton says Obama did for politics what Tiger Woods did for golf .", "Blacks no longer relegated to \"shucking and jiving\" to get ahead, barber says ." ]	[ 1, 16, 18, 22 ]
[ "KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A Taliban leader has instructed fighters in Afghanistan to target U.S. and other coalition troops in response to the United States sending more troops into the war.", "U.S. Army soldiers, right, watch two Afghan soldiers at ISAF's Camp Bostick in the eastern Kunar province.", "A two-page statement sent to CNN instructs fighters to start new attacks against coalition troops and Afghan parliament members, and urges suicide bombers to strike.", "The statement was written by Mula Birather, a Taliban chief of at least 12 military groups in Afghanistan.", "Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed to CNN that the statement came from Birather.", "The statement also warned Afghans to not get \"near U.S. troops anywhere because we will target them any where they are and if anybody is killed in a attack on them we will not be responsible for their death.\"", "The statement comes as U.S. troops begin increased deployments in Afghanistan.", "President Barack Obama approved sending 4,000 additional troops to Afghanistan in March and pledged to send 17,000 more.", "Col. Greg Julian, a spokesman for U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, responded to the statement.", "\"The Taliban extremists are promising to bring more death and destruction to Afghanistan and limit the freedom of movement of all Afghans,\" Julian said.", "\"They offer no hope for the future, and only seek to kill... We will continue working side-by-side with our Afghan partners to improve security and demonstrate to these ruthless murders and criminals that they will not stop progress in Afghanistan.\"", "Meanwhile across the border in Pakistan, the country's military intensified its drive against the Taliban in the country's restive tribal regions, reclaiming a key town in the northwest district of Buner.", "CNN's Nic Robertson and Atia Abawi contributed to this report." ]	[ "Taliban leader instructs fighters in Afghanistan to target U.S., coalition troops .", "Statement written by Mula Birather, chief of at least 12 Afghan military groups .", "U.S. troops are beginning increased deployments in Afghanistan ." ]	[ 0, 3, 6 ]
[ "Editor's Note: Republican strategist Alex Castellanos was a campaign consultant for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and has worked on more than half a dozen presidential campaigns.", "Castellanos is a partner in National Media Inc., a political and public affairs consulting firm that specializes in advertising.", "Alex Castellanos says stimulus bill is a cover for a bold plan for government to rule key parts of private sector.", "(CNN) -- Two Congressmen walk into a bar to watch President Obama's first prime-time press conference.", "The Democrat says to the Republican.... D: Just watch the president tonight and you'll see how to get this economy back on track.", "Monopolies. R: Monopolies?", "D: Monopolies so big they will shame Parker Brothers and make them put the board game in a bigger box.", "Monopolies so huge, they'll make railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt look like a push-cart operator.", "R: Why monopolies?", "D: In these desperate times, we can't afford to let Americans choose inefficient cars or wasteful health care.", "We can't let innovation run wild on Wall Street or Main Street.", "We have to make sure Americans are secure in their health care and jobs, their incomes and energy.", "To serve the greater good, we have to organize America's economy so it achieves the best possible ends for all Americans.", "We can't leave that to chance.", "Who knows what might happen if individual Americans make those choices in a free market and organize themselves?", "R: A little less freedom, a lot more organization, all for the collective good?", "D: My friend, we need a directed economy, where we limit people's choices to those that serve the best social ends.", "Our nation's development is best controlled by monopolies, not some atomistic economy where Americans are free to make almost any choice and organize bottom-up, according to their own whims.", "That means, big, honking, all-powerful monopolies.", "R: But during the campaign, Obama talked about change, fueling \"bottom-up prosperity.\"", "This sounds like the same old, top-down, industrial-age stuff Democrats have been pitching for years.", "D: You betcha! Bottom-up campaign rhetoric just ran into the top-down Democratic establishment from Washington.", "Guess who won. We're going to create monopolies in the biggest sectors of the economy, starting with banking and financial services.", "Even after the meltdown, that's still the largest stock market sector, 16 percent of the S&P.", "R: Follow the money.", "D: Exactly. With massive regulation, caps on pay and restrictions on risk and competition, we can turn the entire financial sector into a cross between a public utility and the DMV.", "R: And then? D: We'll create an energy monopoly that would make J. D. Rockefeller look like a gas station attendant.", "If it has anything to do with energy, we will control it, plan it and direct it.", "You are going to love your windmill.", "R: I'm not feeling so good.", "D: That's next. A health care monopoly alone will organize another 16 percent of the economy.", "Choice and diversity are great, but not so much in health care.", "We'll throw in $20 billion at the start for paperless health records.", "Data, my friend, is power.", "You know where we will go: Cost controls.", "Restricted formularies.", "Nancy Pelosi can be your doctor.", "You don't need a lot of choice.", "Just a good choice.", "Or a good-enough choice.", "Cough for me. R: Watch that. I'm leaving. D: Now that you mention it, we can't forget the good old American auto industry.", "To borrow from Henry Ford, consumers can pick any color car they want, as long as it is green.", "R: Who are you going to get to run these monopolies?", "You are dealing with increasingly complex economic networks.", "How are you going to coordinate the sophisticated relationships, the subtle interests and ever-changing needs of millions of American consumers?", "Americans have traditionally done that themselves, in a natural and organic way, one to another, through the market.", "Who is smart enough to replace all that?", "D: Congress. R: You are making this stuff up.", "The president isn't talking about huge government-run monopolies.", "All he's talking about is the stimulus bill.", "iReport.com: Share your thoughts on the stimulus package .", "D: Of course. That's the beauty of the thing.", "As long as we call it \"stimulus,\" we can pass almost anything that expands the power of government to command people's lives.", "Why do you think Newsweek's cover says, \"We Are All Socialists Now?\"", "R: I need a drink.", "Don't they serve Congressmen in this bar?", "D: No. But you can buy one from a lobbyist.", "The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Alex Castellanos." ]	[ "Alex Castellanos: Democrats think we can't let the free market rule economy .", "He says Democrats are trying to micro-manage the crucial finance sector .", "Castellanos says they also want to make key decisions for health care .", "He says stimulus bill is being used as cover for introducing bigger government ." ]	[ 2, 9, 24, 57 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that House committees will begin action on President-elect Barack Obama's proposed economic recovery package in the next couple of weeks, with a vote in the full House slated for the week after Obama's inauguration.", "Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House will not go on a break until an economic recovery package is passed.", "Obama will take office January 20.", "If that schedule slips, Pelosi, D-California, pledged to cancel the House's planned weeklong break in mid-February for Presidents Day.", "\"We are not going home without an economic recovery package,\" Pelosi said.", "Pelosi said Obama's plan has broad public support \"almost sight unseen,\" citing a poll from Politico that says 79 percent of Americans support the president-elect's plan.", "A senior Pelosi aide said discussions about the details are ongoing between the Obama transition team and key leaders.", "The Ways and Means Committee will focus on the tax piece, approximately $300 billion in tax cuts.", "Obama transition aides met with Democrats on that committee Wednesday morning to discuss various proposals, according to another Democratic aide.", "The Appropriations Committee is tasked with drafting details on spending hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure projects, food stamps and other aid to states.", "Sidestepping a question on possible roadblocks for the bill, Pelosi instead touted the new muscle of the expanded Democratic majority.", "\"We have been so used to an uphill fight, but now we have arrived.", "We have a big, strong, something like an 80-vote majority in the Congress, in the House, with a Democratic president in the White House,\" she said.", "In a speech Thursday, Obama said it was imperative that Congress move quickly to pass the stimulus package once he takes office, warning that a failure to do so would have devastating long-term consequences to the nation's economy.", "\"We start 2009 in the midst of a crisis unlike any we have seen in our lifetime, a crisis that has only deepened over the last few weeks,\" Obama said at George Mason University in Virginia.", "Watch Obama call for \"dramatic action\" on the economy » .", "\"I don't believe it's too late to change course, but it will be if we don't take dramatic action as soon as possible,\" Obama continued.", "\"If nothing is done, this recession could linger for years.\"", "Key members of Obama's own party, however, said they opposed central tax measures of the president-elect's proposals after emerging from a closed-door meeting of the Senate Finance Committee.", "Watch Obama explain his tax proposals » .", "In particular, they do not think that giving employers a $3,000 tax credit for each worker they hired would work.", "\"I'm not that excited about that,\" said Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.", "\"Having a tax credit for hiring is not going to change that dynamic; creating a direct job will.", "So I'd rather spend the money on the infrastructure, on direct investment, on energy conversion and other kinds of things, much more directly and much more rapidly and much more certainly create a real job.\"", "Sen. Kent Conrad agreed.", "\"I think it's unlikely to be effective,\" the North Dakota senator said.", "\"If you think about it, businesspeople are not going to hire people to produce products that are not selling.", "Who is going to hire in the auto industry if you give them a $3,000 credit to make cars that people are not buying?\"", "A second Obama tax proposal that several Democrats were down on is payroll tax credits, amounting to about $20 per paycheck and totaling $500 per person and $1,000 for couples earning less than $200,000 a year.", "Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon said he doubted that proposal would do much to stimulate the economy.", "\"We have an example from the first stimulus that indicates just giving people $500 to $600, while certainly welcome when there's this much economic hurt, may not be the best use of stimulus,\" Wyden said.", "Instead, Wyden said, pumping more money into infrastructure spending would be more effective in creating jobs.", "Conrad agreed with Wyden.", "\"Twenty dollars a week?", "I don't think that will be effective, either.", "That is in terms of economic impact.", "We have got to focus on what is actually going to lift the economy,\" Conrad said.", "None of the senators CNN spoke with after the meeting said they thought the opposition to these provisions would derail the bill but suggested that many meetings would be needed with the Obama team to hammer out an agreement.", "First votes in the Finance Committee, which must approve the tax components of the stimulus plan, could come in the next two weeks, senators and aides said.", "CNN's Deirdre Walsh, Dana Bash and Ted Barrett contributed to this report." ]	[ "Speaker Nancy Pelosi sets full House vote on stimulus for week of January 25 .", "House committees will work on Obama's plan over the next couple of weeks .", "Senate Democrats balk at proposal to give employers $3,000 for each worker hired ." ]	[ 0, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The stock market crashed.", "Wall Street panicked.", "People stashed silver and gold under mattresses while businesses shut doors across America.", "People in Detroit, Michigan, line up for food at the Capuchin Soup Kitchen.", "We're talking, of course, about the Great Depression ... of 1873.", "That's the event that Scott Reynolds Nelson cites when asked to give an historical perspective on today's sputtering economy.", "The historian says the economic panic of 1873 started with the same toxic mix as today's crisis: risky mortgages, a stock market dive and the use of complex financial instruments that few understood.", "\"Until 1929, when people used the word[s] Great Depression they referred to 1873,\" says Nelson, a professor of history at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.", "\"That was a worldwide international depression that started with the banks.", "That's what we're seeing now. This looks like 1873.\"", "The nation's economic crisis is not only causing people to look more closely at their 401(k) account statements.", "They're also turning to their history books.", "Politicians and commentators routinely invoke the Great Depression and other historical events to describe today's economic crisis.", "Watch the debate over 'Depression' talk » .", "But how fair is that historical analogy?", "Why Great Depression comparisons may be unfair .", "James Kolari, an economist at Texas A&M University, says the nation experienced two \"rough\" recessions in the mid-1970s and the early 1980s.", "A recession is generally defined as a decline in the Gross Domestic Product for two or more consecutive quarters.", "He says it's not fair to compare the current economic crisis to the Great Depression, because the federal government was far more passive in the 1920s.", "\"We let 15,000 out of 30,000 banks fail,\" he says.", "\"Government efforts to jump-start the economy were slow and relatively weak until President [Franklin] Roosevelt came along with the New Deal.\"", "Kolari says people can learn more by looking at Japan.", "He says the U.S. economy is facing the same crisis as Japan in the 1990s when the Japanese economy collapsed from a real estate bubble and never fully recovered.", "\"The Japanese government moved too slowly and not aggressively enough,\" he says.", "\"The problems festered.\"", "David George, a professor of economics at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, says the federal government better protects ordinary people from financial ruin today than during the first stages of the Great Depression.", "Today we reap the benefits of policies created during that era, George says.", "Roosevelt helped create New Deal legislation to insure bank deposits and enacted other modern relief efforts like unemployment compensation to help those in distress.", "\"By any measure, incomes were lower then than now, and the worst imaginable loss of output today would still keep the nation well above where we were back then,\" George says.", "Marjorye Heeney is not an economist, but she definitely knows something about the Great Depression.", "Heeney, 83, grew up on an Oklahoma farm during the Great Depression and lived through the 1930s Dust Bowl storms.", "For much of that decade, \"black blizzards\" -- formed by a prolonged drought and poor farming techniques -- ravaged the southern Plains.", "Heeney, who now lives in Topeka, Kansas, snorted when told that today's conditions remind some of the Great Depression.", "During the Depression, crops failed, and few had a job, car or clothes, she says.", "\"Everyone had one nail for themselves in the clothes closet,\" Henney says.", "Henney says the Great Depression toughened people up.", "People grew and canned their own food, sewed their own clothes and learned how to make possessions last.", "\"No one really came from wealth, and nothing was easy,\" she says.", "\"But people got by because they had a wonderful spirit of survival.", "We're not as gutsy. I don't know if we have that today.\"", "Why this economic period is still frightening .", "Victor Matheson, an economist at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, says the nation's most recent recession was the dot-com bust, which hit around March of 2001.", "\"This recession has already eclipsed the dot-com bust in every fashion,\" he says.", "\"During that time, the GDP did not fall much, and unemployment did not rise much.\"", "Matheson offers one bit of good news, though.", "He says today's unemployment rate is not as bad as in previous eras.", "The unemployment rate reached 10.8 percent during the early 1980s and 25 percent during the Great Depression, he says.", "Yet Matheson says there is an ominous feature to the current situation: The Federal Reserve has already lowered interest rates as far as they can go, to around zero percent, but the recession marches on.", "The current recession is so \"scary\" that Matheson says he has reversed his attitude on Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan.", "He once opposed it but now supports it because he can't think of anything that might work better.", "He says the economy will not bounce back on its own anytime soon .", "\"You gotta go with what you got,\" he says.", "\"The Federal Reserve has loosed all of its cannons, and it has nothing left.", "Now we're down to fiscal policy.\"", "Nelson, the historian who has studied the panic of 1873, says today's economy might even be worse than the American economy in 1873.", "\"This is a perfect storm: banks failing, stock markets declining and commodity prices dropping,\" Nelson says.", "Nelson says it took America four years to recover from the 1873 panic.", "Tens of thousands of workers -- many Civil War veterans -- became homeless.", "Thousands lined up for food and shelter in major cities.", "The Gilded Age, where wealth was concentrated in the hands of a few \"robber barons like John D. Rockefeller,\" followed the panic.", "America, of course, pulled out of the panic.", "Nelson is just not quite sure how the nation is going to do it now.", "His ultimate assessment of today's economy is blunt: .", "\"It looks grim.\"" ]	[ "Is it fair to invoke Great Depression?", "Some economists say comparison overblown .", "Nation had another Great Depression few remember, scholar says .", "Depression survivor: \"People had a wonderful spirit of survival\"" ]	[ 7, 33, 35, 38, 61 ]
[ "Editor's note: CNN agreed not to use the full names of the family members in this article due to concern for their safety.", "Youssif and his surgeon, Dr. Peter Grossman, shake hands at the end of their Wednesday visit.", "SHERMAN OAKS, California (CNN) -- Youssif nervously scanned the doctor's examining room, his dark brown eyes darting around, from the floor to the wall to the ceiling.", "His mother stroked his hair and then his forehead to put him at ease before the doctor walked in to the room.", "A day earlier, the badly burned 5-year-old Iraqi boy had boarded a plane in Amman, Jordan, with his family, their first trip on an airplane.", "Now, more than 7,500 miles later, his mom, dad and 14-month-old sister were with him at the Grossman Burn Center in the heart of sunny Southern California.", "Dr. Peter Grossman strode into the room, a warm smile across his face.", "He held Youssif's hand.", "The boy turned shyly around and buried his face into his father's leg.", "\"This is not unusual,\" said Grossman, a plastic surgeon with more than 12 years of experience, including helping one young girl whose face had melted to her shoulder after a horrific accident.", "Watch Youssif show his scars to Grossman for the first time » .", "A father of two children, Grossman spoke softly and reassured Youssif that they would soon be friends.", "\"We're going to do everything we can to make him better,\" he told Youssif's parents.", "Perhaps haunted by the pain he suffered in Baghdad's hospitals, Youssif hiccupped back sobs as his father lifted him onto the examination table.", "But the boy put on a brave face after his father told him to let the doctor do his job.", "\"Who's the brave one? Youssif,\" his father whispered reassuringly.", "\"He's not going to hurt you, I promise.\"", "Grossman pulled out measuring tape and took measurements of scars under the boy's chin and around his nose.", "One swollen scar around his chin measured nearly 3 inches.", "He also examined burns on Youssif's hands, forehead and right ear.", "At one point, Youssif thrust his head back and opened his mouth as best he could for the doctor.", "But his lips barely separated, their movement hampered by the swollen, hardened flesh.", "\"What we want to eventually do is be able to get him to open his mouth as wide as he can,\" Grossman said.", "Youssif faces eight to 10 operations, possibly more, over the next six to eight months.", "He also will undergo psychological therapy to help him better adapt to all that has happened to him.", "See photos of the boy's arrival in the U.S. » .", "On January 15, masked men grabbed Youssif outside his central Baghdad home, doused him in gas and set him on fire.", "Grossman won't be able to make all the scars go away, he said, but he's confident that \"we can make him significantly better.\"", "\"We're going to do everything we can to move forward and to do a good job,\" he said.", "The boy's mother nodded solemnly.", "\"I just want my son's smile back,\" she told the doctor.", "Watch how masked men stole a boy's smile .", "Youssif was introduced to his other doctors, a pediatrician and anesthesiologist.", "The boy cuddled into the warm confines of his father's chest.", "His dark eyes kept a keen watch on all those around him.", "His first operation could come as early as next week and involve multiple procedures.", "Grossman will cut away scar tissue around his nose and put temporary skin from a cadaver over it.", "\"We're also going to stick a balloon underneath the good skin under his neck and on his face,\" the doctor said.", "\"The purpose of that is over time we will stretch the good skin, so that in about three months he will be able to go back to surgery, remove the scar tissue and pull up the stretched out good tissues.\"", "Grossman eventually will work to repair Youssif's upper lip.", "\"We're going to make you a lot better,\" he said.", "With that, the doctor brought this introductory session to a close.", "The two shook hands.", "He also tried teaching Youssif an American guy classic: hitting your fists together in cool approval.", "Youssif watched and listened.", "He stretched his fist out, then pulled it back.", "He looked up at his father and then slammed his fist with his father's -- the only man this wounded boy trusts right now.", "His father caressed his son's hair and planted a soft kiss on his head.", "He risked so much for this moment for his son.", "This was more than just a journey from Iraq to America.", "\"I'm emotionally exhausted,\" Youssif's dad said.", "\"We went from death to a new life.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Burned Iraqi boy will undergo eight to 10 surgeries in coming months .", "Youssif's medical treatment in California follows CNN story about him .", "Youssif remains cautious around doctor but eventually warms up .", "By the end of first visit, the boy, 5, and doctor shake hands ." ]	[ 1, 2, 4, 14, 23, 39 ]
[ "KARACHI, Pakistan (CNN) -- Some of the toughest criticism of Pakistan's pro-democracy movement comes from an unlikely source: the 25-year-old niece of Benazir Bhutto, who says Pakistani party politics do nothing but support military rule.", "It's an environment, she said, her late aunt is partly responsible for.", "Fatima Bhutto says she's not interested in \"perpetuating a really ineffectual form of politics ... because of my name.\"", "\"At this stage, we are in a state in Pakistan where so-called democratic forces are only interested in coming into office.", "So ultimately, they only prop up dictatorships,\" she told CNN from her home in Karachi.", "She raised her voice as she described what she feels is the core of Pakistan's political problems: the lack of a true democratic culture.", "Instead, she said, the country is run by power grabbers.", "\"Ultimately to them, it's a game of revolving chairs.", "As long as they get to be in one, they don't care who's in the other one.\"", "Fatima Bhutto said her aunt played this \"game of revolving chairs\" at huge costs to the Bhutto family, shattering the clan's unity.", "In 1996, Fatima Bhutto's father, Murtaza Bhutto, was gunned down by Pakistani security forces in front of the family compound.", "His sister, Benazir, was prime minister at the time.", "His widow blames her sister-in-law for the killing, because Murtaza had become a political rival.", "Watch Fatima Bhutto say she's not \"interested in being a symbol\" » .", "\"We have to seriously look at her political legacy, which is deeply flawed,\" Fatima Bhutto said.", "\"Both her governments were known for widespread corruption, for an abuse of human rights, and for an excess of police violence.\"", "Fatima Bhutto was estranged from her aunt and had not spoken to her since Benazir Bhutto returned to the nation for Pakistani elections.", "Benazir Bhutto was killed in a bloody December 27 attack.", "Her niece says now that Benazir Bhutto has herself been killed, she does not look back in anger.", "Watch a struggle over the Bhutto legacy » .", "\"We also have to take into account that Benazir Bhutto died bravely and that the attack on her is ultimately an attack on her country,\" she said.", "She added that she did attend her aunt's funeral.", "Some here in Pakistan believe Fatima Bhutto -- and not Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son, Bilawal -- is the true heir to the Bhutto political dynasty.", "Fatima Bhutto said she's a political person and does campaign for a splinter group of the Pakistan Peoples Party.", "That group is now run by her mother following the death of her father.", "She said her main political goal is to empower Pakistan's largely disenfranchised masses and end what she calls the perpetual cycle of \"dynastic\" cronyism.", "What her role would be in making that happen remains the great unknown.", "\"What I think we need to do is open the field,\" said Fatima Bhutto, who went to college in the United States and graduate school in England.", "\"It has to stop being this autocratic, dynastic environment. ...", "When that day comes and this happens -- that we have an open field -- if there's a way for me to serve this country, then I would be proud to.\"", "Until then, she said, she exerts her power from her writing.", "Fatima Bhutto is a successful columnist, author and poet; a staunch critic of Pervez Musharraf's government.", "And though her name would probably propel her to the highest levels of Pakistani politics almost instantly, she said that won't happen anytime soon.", "\"I'm not interested in being a symbol for anyone,\" she said emphatically.", "\"And I'm not interested in perpetuating a really ineffectual form of politics simply because of my name.\"", "She added, \"I have never believed in dynastic politics, or the politics of birthright. ...", "I think that's dangerous to the cause of democracy in Pakistan, and ultimately doesn't serve the people.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Benazir Bhutto's niece: Pakistan's democratic forces only \"prop up dictatorships\"\nFatima Bhutto, who was estranged from aunt, says country is run by power grabbers .", "Her goal: empower Pakistan's masses, end cycle of \"dynastic\" cronyism .", "The columnist, author and poet is a critic of Pervez Musharraf's government ." ]	[ 4, 6, 25, 31 ]
[ "PARIS, France (CNN) -- The wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy has spoken for the first time about the reasons her divorce in an interview with a French newspaper.", "The announcement ended weeks of speculation over their marriage.", "Cecilia Sarkozy told L'Est Republicain on Friday that the couple's relationship had not been able to survive the glare of the media spotlight following a highly public separation in 2005.", "The Sarkozys announced on Thursday they were divorcing by mutual consent after 11 years of marriage.", "A former model, Cecilia Sarkozy said that she was not comfortable with her position as first lady.", "\"I am someone who likes the shadows, serenity, tranquility.", "I had a husband who was a public man, I always knew that, I accompanied him for 20 years.", "But me, I think that is not my place.", "It is no longer my place,\" she was quoted as saying.", "The couple has been dogged by persistent rumors of infidelities, which Cecilia Sarkozy seemed to confirm in her newspaper interview.", "Explaining the events that led to the couple separating in 2005, she said: \"Two years ago an event happened of which unfortunately the whole of France is aware.", "In 2005, I met someone, I fell in love and I left.\"", "The French president, in Portugal for an EU summit, has declined to comment on his marriage breakdown.", "His divorce comes as he deals with crippling public sector strikes at home that have shut down much of France's transit system.", "Cecilia Sarkozy was a smiling figure at her husband's inauguration in May as she stood with the couple's five children.", "But she said recently she didn't see herself as having any role at all as the president's wife.", "For the French public, news of the divorce is unlikely to come as a shock.", "French presidents and their spouses have a long tradition of leading separate lives, even while carrying on the functions of state.", "Former President Francois Mitterrand not only lived apart from his wife, Danielle, but he maintained a secret second family that turned up in public only at his funeral.", "Jacques Chirac, who stepped down when Sarkozy was elected this year, hinted at a number of affairs.", "He and his wife lived largely separate lives, appearing together only at presidential functions.", "Nicolas Sarkozy said at the start of his term that he had no worries as president, except for his wife.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Cecilia says she didn't like spotlight .", "Former model said it was no longer possible to keep their marriage together .", "The split came after 11 years of marriage ." ]	[ 1, 3, 4, 15, 21, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Katy Brown is an Internet-savvy college freshman with conservative perspectives who worries about the future of the Republican Party.", "Katy Brown, Kevin Neugebauer, Barbara Rademacher and Chuck Burkhard discuss the future of the GOP.", "Brown, a student at Kent State University in Ohio, joined other Republicans and conservative independent iReporters in an online roundtable discussion.", "The Republican National Committee selected Michael Steele to become its chairman Friday during its annual winter meeting after the decisive victory of President Obama in November.", "Over the next four years, Republicans must regroup and establish a strategy, and the new GOP leader must navigate a political landscape where the Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress.", "\"I think we'll come with somebody who has experience, knows what they're talking about, is good with both liberals and conservatives, both Democrats and Republicans,\" Brown said of a future Republican presidential nominee.", "iReport.com: Watch Brown respond to one of Obama's Cabinet picks .", "Kevin Neugebauer of Katy, Texas, a Republican who voted for Sen. John McCain in the election, said during the chat that he thinks the majority of Americans are conservative and that he wants to see the party head in a more conservative direction.", "iReport.com: 'McCain wasn't conservative enough to win' Neugebauer thinks that abiding by conservative principles, especially fiscally, is the only way to solve the country's financial problems.", "\"I don't want to have to mortgage my kids' future to get us out of the things we're doing today,\" he said.", "Another panel participant, Chuck Burkhard of Windber, Pennsylvania, voted for McCain as a registered Republican but plans to become an independent.", "Watch the iReporters talk over a Web chat » .", "He feels that the Bush administration failed at making government smaller and reducing spending, which he thinks Republicans should make a top priority.", "He hopes that the party will take a new direction and reach out to more people.", "\"I really think the Republicans will reach out with a grass-roots campaign,\" he said.", "iReport.com: 'I choose Sen. McCain' Neugebauer said he thinks the Republican Party needs a \"fresh new face\" who can set the agenda.", "He says the government needs to be smaller and thinks politicians waste money on \"stuff that the government has no business being in.\"", "The fourth panel participant, Barbara Rademacher, said she had a difficult time making her decision during the 2008 election.", "She finally settled on McCain but says she is very much an independent voter.", "Social issues such as abortion are what swung her to the right, but she said the party focused too much on attacks.", "\"I hate the Republican Party the way it is right now.", "I hated the way they acted during the election and some of the ideas they came up with as election strategies,\" she said.", "Rademacher said she thinks former Gov.", "Mike Huckabee, a candidate in the 2008 race, would be a good president because of his experience.", "She says he has integrity, intelligence and charisma, as well as the ability to manage money.", "iReport.com: How will Huckabee reform the party?", "\"I think he may be the only hope for the Republican Party,\" she said.", "Burkhard, Brown and Neugebauer all agreed that Huckabee would be a good presidential candidate.", "Neugebauer said he also likes former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and advocated for a return to strong Republican politics.", "\"I just think what we need to do is, we need to concentrate on the core values that the Republican Party was started on,\" he said.", "\"There's too many fence-huggers.", "They'll say one thing just to get votes, and they actually are thinking the other way.", "You really need someone in there that can rally the troops and somebody with good morals and a good record.\"", "Paul A. Beck, a political science professor at Ohio State University, said that although Obama is president, there is a large number of conservative people in the country, and they will want their say.", "\"We have to remember that the 2000 and 2004 elections were very narrow elections,\" Beck said.", "\"The country was very divided in those elections.\"", "He said he feels that many voters looked at Bush's administration and blamed him for the downfall of the economy and the war in Iraq, creating trouble for the Republican candidates who would attempt to follow him.", "\"It looks like the Bush administration fumbled the ball.", "McCain didn't know quite what to do,\" he said.", "Hao Li, a student at the University of Southern California, said he wasn't Bush's biggest fan but thought the former president did \"the right thing.\"", "Li said he lives the divide in this country every day as a committed Republican and McCain voter in a state that went for Obama.", "He describes himself as strongly fiscally conservative and socially moderate.", "He feels that the GOP needs to make greater efforts to reach out to minorities and young people if party members hope for success.", "Watch Hao Li ask about reaching out to young people in a 'Digg Dialogg' \"The party has its way of saying, 'Just work hard, and you'll get there,' and they don't really outreach to the minority community.", "The party shouldn't change its basic principles, but the party should outreach to women and minorities.\"" ]	[ "Republican National Committee names Michael Steele as chairman .", "Katy Brown advocates bipartisan cooperation during iReport roundtable chat .", "Kevin Neugebauer suggests Republicans need to return to conservative roots .", "iReport.com: Hao Li asks how the party can reach out to younger voters ." ]	[ 3, 6, 7, 14, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The last eight years In the United States have included momentous events including the September 11 attacks, the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and an economic recession.", "Ted Stanke of New York created a symbolic map of the United States out of toy soldiers to protest the Iraq war.", "Historic moments defined President Bush's time in office, and now the world must wait to see how history will define him.", "Just 27 percent of the respondents to a recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll said they approved of Bush's handling of his job as president.", "Respondents also indicated they didn't want him to have future influence, with 66 percent saying they didn't want to see the president return to public life.", "We asked readers to share their views on Bush's legacy on iReport.com.", "The majority of the responses expressed disappointment with the president's performance.", "Many readers with whom we spoke said they were deeply frustrated with the way Bush handled issues such as the Iraq war, the economy and Hurricane Katrina.", "Watch Bush discuss handling of Katrina » .", "Cathy Cott, 49, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, vented her \"boiling anger\" on iReport.com.", "She voted Republican for 22 years until after the 2000 election when Bush won a narrow victory over Democrat Al Gore.", "She says she is now a registered Democrat who voted for Barack Obama.", "iReport.com: Bubbling over .", "\"I guess the simplest reason for my boiling anger is I have three kids and they will spend their lives paying for Bush's policies, wars, economic disasters and the general mess he is leaving behind both monetarily and in their general quality of life,\" Cott said.", "\"Eight years of frustration\" over the Iraq war and other military decisions inspired New York artist Ted Stanke to create painstakingly detailed and unmistakably symbolic artwork from toy soldiers.", "One piece shows a map of the United States with an inset globe made from the tiny fighters, while another depicts a bush constructed from the soldiers.", "iReport.com: See Stanke's toy soldier art .", "Some iReporters say they still support Bush, while others said they voted for him but changed their minds about him later.", "Kathi Cordsen is a Republican who describes herself as a Bush supporter.", "The Fullerton, California, resident says the September 11 attacks profoundly changed the way people perceived Bush.", "She says many people were too unwilling to give him a chance.", "iReport.com: In defense of Bush .", "\"He is a funny man, a kind man, a bit of a goofball and not very well-spoken,\" Cordsen said.", "\"But, he would not have been treated the way he is being treated now if not for 9/11.", "His presidency was thwarted by the 'evildoers.'", "I love that term of his.\" Chuck Burkhard of Windber, Pennsylvania, hopes history will remember Bush as a strong man who loved his country.", "Burkard said the president juggled unprecedented challenges during his term, including dealing with terrorism and facing up to financial forces that may not have been under his control.", "Critics of Bush should look within themselves for answers, he said.", "iReport.com: Working overtime .", "\"Most of us are spoiled by a have-it-our-way-now and reckless generation that must stop borrowing so much and start working more.", "We shift blame instead of looking to ourselves for resolve and drive.\"", "Burkhard said he feels Bush is one of the most overworked presidents in history and has shouldered too much blame for the current state of the economy.", "\"I personally have never seen this much responsibility thrown onto our country, in such a small amount of time,\" Burkhard said.", "\"We are responsible for the world economy, the global war on terror, global warming.", "You name it, we have our hands in it.\"", "Chris Molisani of Rochester, New York, says September 11 was a defining moment, not just for Bush's presidency, but also in his own life.", "He was in high school and college during Bush's eight years in the White House.", "iReport.com: Look back on how Bush changed the country .", "He can scarcely remember the Bush presidency before 9/11 and expects phrases such as \"weapons of mass destruction,\" \"Axis of Evil\" and \"You're either with us or against us\" to be associated permanently with him.", "He hopes for a brighter future with President-elect Barack Obama.", "\"History will likely be kinder to Bush than his contemporaries are, but a Washington, Lincoln or Roosevelt he will not become,\" Molisani said.", "\"What is interesting to note is that some of the worst presidents in history have been followed by the best presidents.", "Perhaps we will have a bright future to look forward to.\"", "Maria Davis of Prescott Valley, Arizona, voted twice for Bush but now regrets her decision.", "Her dislike for the Democratic candidates' running mates in 2000 and 2004 was a major factor, she said.", "iReport.com: Watch Davis discuss the pros and cons of the president's time .", "Although she wants Bush to get out of the national spotlight, she feels he needs to speak to the people and mend wounds.", "She hopes he will follow Sen. John McCain's example and make a gracious speech after the inauguration.", "\"Speak to the American people passionately and gracefully about Obama taking the presidency,\" Davis said.", "\"That would probably help people.\"", "His presidency wasn't all bad, she said.", "\"Well, he was good for 9/11, and he caught Saddam [Hussein], but he ran the country into the ground with unneeded funding for an unneeded war in Iraq,\" she wrote.", "Overall, Davis has mixed feelings now and has felt uneasy for a long time.", "She was laid off from her job and is trying to run a home eBay business that barely pays rent.", "She is having trouble finding jobs that pay more than $7 per hour.", "Her brother, who has a house payment and a child to support, was recently laid off, as well.", "She hopes the country can rebuild.", "\"It's hell, it's absolutely hell,\" she said.", "\"I really hope Obama can fix the economy so we can have our lives again and live the American dream.\"", "The desire to dream again was a common theme, and many iReporters said they yearn for more hopeful times.", "Robin Savage of San Juan Capistrano, California, said Bush's greatest legacy is the passionate voter turnout he unintentionally inspired in the 2008 election.", "She said she is glad to see Obama's rise as a result.", "iReport.com: One last thing before he goes .", "\"I think the one thing President Bush will be remembered for is not being able to really connect with people.", "If you compared him to Obama, I tell you, what a difference there is.\"", "Patrick Finney of Portland, Oregon, said he felt there was a large disconnect between Bush and the American people.", "He says the president ignored what ordinary folks wanted.", "\"I am afraid that George Bush will be judged harshly by history,\" Finney said.", "\"I am also afraid that judgment will be deserved.\"", "But critics should be careful about taking aim at Bush, warns David P. Kronmiller of Burbank, California.", "\"I do not think we should be blaming him for the misery of the last eight years.", "He is not to blame. We are. You are, the American people.", "We voted him into office.\"", "iReport.com: The Bush paradox .", "Kronmiller says he voted for Bush in 2000, but not in 2004, adding that he feels Bush is responsible for day-to-day decisions that placed the country in a state he finds unfortunate.", "He watched the final presidential news conference and said he thinks Bush should have better addressed the hardships faced by residents who were affected by Hurricane Katrina.", "\"I learned my lesson in four years,\" Kronmiller says.", "Jimmy Deol of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, said he believes Bush had good intentions.", "\"I think he meant well,\" Deol said.", "\"I wholeheartedly believe it.", "In his convictions, he always thought he was doing the right thing.", "The people elected him.", "There must have been something people liked.\"", "iReport.com: Quotes and commentary .", "Deol said he thinks Bush should take time out to help the veterans of the war he helped create.", "Overall, he said, the meaning of the Bush presidency will be defined by those who pick up where he left off.", "\"The movement of change?", "That's Bush's legacy.\"" ]	[ "iReport.com: Readers share impassioned, often angry, thoughts on Bush .", "Cathy Cott says she feels frustration coming to a boil at the mention of him .", "Chris Molisani says he can't remember Bush's years before September 11 .", "Maria Davis wants to see him give a unifying departing speech ." ]	[ 5, 20, 35, 46, 81 ]

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