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[ "(CNN) -- For most people in the world, freedom of religion is of such paramount importance and warrants all the legal and constitutional respect and protection.", "It is fair to say that this concept has been imbedded in numerous people's mind such that any accusation of its violation almost automatically triggers waves of condemnation.", "A woman reads a state media newspaper Saturday in Beijing with coverage of Tibet.", "That may explain why so many people, especially in the West, are so agitated if they conclude that the Tibetan question boils down to freedom of religion, or, even worse, to its violation.", "However, their agitation will be significantly muted if they are reminded that, while freedom of religion is of paramount importance, it is equally important to keep church and state separate, lest disasters and tragedies ensue.", "In this light, it is important to be reminded that what those Tibetan diaspora outside of China want to restore is a unique and anachronistic system which mixed church and state into such a lethal institution: clergy and nobles accounting for barely 5 percent of the population ruled over millions of serfs who were dealt with as chattels and animals, with no single iota of human rights.", "That was not ancient history, that was Tibet barely 50 years ago.", "Watch a recent history of Tibet » .", "Anyone in a major Western country advocating freedom of religion to the disregard of separation of church and state will be either marginalized or held with ultra suspicion.", "If a clergy does so in the United States, his church will lose tax exemption and all the other privileges of a religious institution.", "Mankind knows too well that mixing church and state together can be a recipe for disasters, especially in a diverse and heterogeneous society.", "Watch Victor Gao discuss Tibet with CNN » .", "Therefore, what looks as a matter of freedom of religion to many people in the West is viewed by China more importantly as a matter of separation of church and state.", "But why such sharp contrasts?", "Many people in the West eagerly embrace the Dalai Lama as a spiritual leader.", "China would wish His Holiness were indeed nothing but a spiritual leader, otherwise many problems would have been much simpler to resolve.", "What looks like a spiritual leader to many in the West is viewed by China as less a spiritual leader than a political activist with dangerous political motivations.", "Watch an online address by the Dalai Lama » .", "It goes without saying that religious differences need to be handled with extra care and sensitivity.", "Human history has been plagued with wars and conflicts either in the name of religion or in the excuse of religion with ulterior motives.", "Therefore, whenever religion is touched upon, normally \"your religion for you and my religion for me\" is a good guidance for avoiding calamities.", "If anyone in the West wants to convert to Tibetan Buddhism and revere the Dalai Lama, or the 14th Dalai Lama to be more accurate, as not only a spiritual leader, but as the reincarnation of all the previous 13 Dalai Lamas and, more amazingly, as the reincarnation of the great God Avalokite Svara, China, rather than having any grudges against him, probably would treat him with all the due respect as a true believer.", "But China views many Western sympathizers of the Dalai Lama, especially those Western politicians, as having ulterior political motives aimed at infringing upon China's sovereignty and territorial integrity.", "The Tibetan issue has become a major divider and sensationalizer in the world today.", "But if reason prevails over passion, the following simple truths may be shocking to learn for those much agitated people: .", "Therefore, let's avoid mixing apples with oranges, or oranges with apples.", "Let's avoid any double talk.", "If one is using \"Free Tibet\" as an expedient alternative for \"Independent Tibet,\" then don't complain about China's wrath at his real motivation.", "If one is advocating freedom of religion to the disregard of the separation of church and state, then don't complain about being accused by China as a hypocrite.", "If one is mesmerized by the Dalai Lama as a spiritual leader or even the reincarnation of God, he should not accuse China for being cool-headed enough to see through the religious veil which covers major political agendas.", "For those who warn China that, being in his mid-70s, Dalai Lama's earthly years may be numbered and his eventual passing away may turn Tibetan diaspora and some Tibetans in China into violence and terror, the word of caution is that, now that the whole world is caught in deteriorating financial and economic crisis, any attempt to use violence and terror to further damage global stability and security will be condemned as a public enemy and dealt with as such.", "It is ludicrous to fancy that any threat of violence or terror will bent the will of China.", "On the other hand, China needs to continue the dialogue with the Dalai Lama and his followers both at home and abroad, and seek a mutually convenient solution.", "From China's perspective, the bottom line is loud and clear: if the Dalai Lama is indeed nothing but a spiritual leader, then the solution can be quick and easy; if the Dalai Lama is wearing the spiritual hat for political purposes, then nothing will be easy.", "As for me, ever since my first trip to Tibet, I have been telling everyone I know that you need to visit Tibet, at least once in your lifetime, because Tibet is so unique, so extraordinary, so magnificent, so holy, that not visiting Tibet may be an eternal loss and regret." ]	[ "Victor Gao: Important to consider church-state separation on Tibet debate .", "Beijing accuses Dalai Lama of causing conflict, seeking independent Tibet .", "Dalai says he seeks autonomy for region, not independence .", "Tuesday marks 50th anniversary of failed uprising in Tibet against Chinese rule ." ]	[ 2, 7, 8, 11, 12, 17, 29 ]
[ "SARGODA, Pakistan (CNN) -- Mohammed Iqbal said he has been told by his landlord to pay up on debts and is left with a choice facing others in this impoverished corner of Pakistan: Sell your children or a kidney.", "This man's landlord forced him to pay off money he borrowed for his children's medical bills.", "For the 50-year-old Iqbal, there is only one option.", "Despite a law passed in late 2007 banning transplants for money, he has decided to sell his kidney and has already been for pre-operation tests.", "The sale will net him between $1,100 and $1,600.", "\"What's incredible here is the law that bans the operation he's going to go through came into place in 2007,\" said CNN's Nic Robertson.", "\"He's still able to go to a doctor, the doctors given him advice, that's what he has to do under law...", "He's going to make money out of it 100,000-150,000 rupees, and that is absolutely illegal.", "Yet, in just a few days, he's expecting to sell his kidney.\"", "Iqbal was not alone in facing this difficult decision.", "Others in Pakistan's rural heartland have opted to sell their kidneys.", "One of them was Rab Nawas, who was deep in debt about a year ago to his landlord after borrowing money to pay for his wedding and to cover medical bills for his wife and six children.", "He, too, faced the choice: sell his children, his wife or a kidney.", "See photos of Pakistan's impoverished kidney donors » .", "\"I am helpless. Should I sell my children?", "Should I go sell my children?", "So, it's better I sell my kidney.", "I had to return the money,\" said Nawas, who now bears a foot-long scar that wraps around from his back to his belly and is too weak to work the same hours he could before.", "Watch Nawas show his operation scar » .", "People bearing the tell-tale scar of an organ removal in the villages around the farm where Nawas works are not hard to find.", "At one point, there were about 2,000 transplants a year -- with 1,500 of them going to what the government said were so-called \"transplant tourists.\"", "The 2007 law was aimed at ending Pakistan's dubious status as one of the world's leading organ bazaars.", "Nawas sold his kidney after the law was passed and said the procedure was performed at the Rawalpindi Kidney Center in the northern city of Rawalpindi.", "When he went to the Rawalpindi center, after CNN asked him to show where the procedure was done, he said a doctor told him they did not have a record of his operation because they destroy such records when a patient leaves.", "The Rawalpindi clinic -- which prior to the law was a leading user of purchased kidneys -- told CNN that it abides by the law and does not get involved in deals between kidney donors and recipients.", "\"Standing there it's hard for me to fully understand the courage it took for him to make the journey.", "In this country, he has few rights, and even less security,\" said CNN's Robertson." ]	[ "A law passed in late 2007 bans selling organs for money .", "Still, many poor Pakistanis have no choice but to sell their kidneys .", "At one time, there were about 2,000 transplants a years .", "Law aims to end Pakistan's status as one of the world's leading organ bazaars ." ]	[ 3, 20, 21 ]
[ "ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI had surgery on his right wrist Friday after he broke it in a fall, the Vatican said.", "Pope Benedict XVI arrives at a resort in northern Italy's Val d'Aosta region Monday.", "He broke his wrist Thursday.", "The pope left the hospital Friday afternoon and was returning to his summer home in Italy's Val d'Aosta region, spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told CNN.", "Doctors administered local anesthesia and put the pope's wrist in a cast, Lombardi said, adding the procedure was minor.", "\"There is no particular reason to cause alarm,\" Lombardi said.", "The pope, 82, fell Thursday night in his room in Val d'Aosta, a mountainous region of northwestern Italy, the Vatican said.", "The pope arrived there Monday.", "The pope \"tripped or slipped in his room,\" Lombardi said.", "\"It was dark, in the middle of the night.", "It was not due to dizziness.", "The fact that the Holy Father waited to go to the hospital shows that it was not serious.\"", "He was taken to the hospital in the region's central town of Aosta on Friday morning after celebrating his daily private Mass, the Vatican said.", "Benedict's schedule for the coming days must still be confirmed, but Lombardi said he believed the pope will be able to hold his weekly Sunday Angelus from his summer home this weekend.", "CNN's Hada Messia contributed to this report." ]	[ "Pope Benedict XVI briefly hospitalized after breaking wrist in fall .", "The pope, 82, fell Thursday night in his room at mountain retreat .", "He went to hospital Friday after celebrating his daily private Mass ." ]	[ 0, 6, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The U.S. military is distributing pamphlets in eastern Afghanistan in an effort to find a soldier who has been missing for more than two weeks, the military said Thursday.", "A soldier mans a weapon at the rear of a U.S. Army helicopter over Afghanistan in May.", "The Taliban has claimed responsibility for kidnapping the soldier, who has not been identified, along with three Afghan soldiers.", "All went missing on June 30 in southeastern Afghanistan.", "The military believes the soldier may have been moved to various locations, including across the border into Pakistan, U.S. military officials said.", "There are two versions of the pamphlets, which are in the Pashto language and were made available to CNN by U.S.", "Forces Afghanistan.", "One shows the image of an American soldier shaking hands in a group of kids with the message, \"One of our American guests is missing.", "Return the guest to his home.", "Call us at ...\" and lists a phone number.", "The other shows a U.S. soldier kicking down a door, and then an outstretched hand with the superimposed image of a soldier, his head and arms drooping, and the words, \"If you do not release the U.S. soldier then ... you will be hunted,\" Capt.", "Elizabeth Mathias, a U.S. military spokeswoman, said Thursday.", "Soldiers have posted and handed out the pamphlets across Ghazni and Paktia provinces over the past 24 hours, Mathias said.", "Days after the soldier went missing, a senior U.S. military official said, he and the three missing Afghan soldiers were captured by low-level militants and then quickly \"sold\" to the clan and network led by warlord Siraj Haqqani, who is believed to be deeply involved in the action.", "The Haqqani clan operates on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border and is well known to the U.S. military.", "The soldier apparently left his small outpost on his own on June 30 with no apparent means of defending himself, the official said.", "Taliban commander Mulvi Sangeen said the U.S. soldier visited a military post in the Yousaf Khel district in Paktika province, got drunk, and was ambushed while returning to his car.", "Sangeen said the soldier was taken to a safe place.", "Paktika and Paktia provinces are adjacent.", "CNN could not independently verify Sangeen's claims.", "A source with the U.S. military denied the claim that the soldier was drunk.", "\"The Taliban are known for lying, and what they are claiming [is] not true,\" the source said." ]	[ "Taliban says it kidnapped U.S. soldier, who has not been identified .", "Soldier, with 3 Afghan soldiers, went missing June 30 in southeastern Afghanistan .", "Pamphlets come in two versions: One has an appeal, the other has a warning .", "Soldier apparently left outpost on his own with no means of defending himself ." ]	[ 0, 2, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Comedian Joan Rivers and real estate mogul Donald Trump -- that's a twosome never known for mincing their words.", "Joan Rivers appeared on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" Monday night and explained her explosive confrontations.", "Trump selected Rivers as this season's winner of \"The Celebrity Apprentice,\" and they appeared on \"Larry King Live\" Monday night, full of their classic candor.", "Among the topics covered: Rivers' long-running war of words with runner-up Annie Duke, her dust-up and make-up with Clint Black and the \"reason\" she is against same-sex marriage.", "And the Donald explains why Rivers had what it took to emerge the winner.", "The following interview has been edited for brevity and clarity: .", "Larry King: Donald, was it a tough decision?", "Donald Trump: Well, it was.", "Joan fully understands it was a very, very tight race.", "And Annie [Duke] was terrific and Joan was terrific.", "In the end, I decided to go with Joan.", "She displayed tremendous courage.", "She really took a lot of abuse over the course of 14 weeks.", "King: Joan, in last night's finale, you beat poker champion Annie Duke.", "You and Annie were still at each other up until the final moments.", "Let's take a look.", "[King shows a video clip from \"The Celebrity Apprentice\"] .", "Annie Duke: I do not know a boardroom in this country where someone would be allowed to say that someone would spit on the ground and drown their mother in it, where someone would be allowed to call their friends Mafia, where someone would be allowed to say that someone is worse than Hitler.", "If that happened in a real office... Joan Rivers: You're not worse than Hitler ... Duke: ...in a real boardroom.", "Rivers: Hitler never had PMS.", "Duke: This is what I'm saying.", "If it happened in a real boardroom, she would have to be fired or that would be actionable.", "Rivers: ... I have run a business for 20 years honorably.", "I have never fired anybody.", "I am the Number One jewelry business on television, with honor.", "[End of video clip] .", "King: Oh, boy.", "Rivers: Yes, oh boy.", "Trump: And, Larry, that was the nice part.", "Watch Larry King's interview with Rivers and Trump » .", "King: Joanny, where did you come up with that 'worse than Hitler' crack?", "Rivers: Oh, I don't know.", "You know, you're always saying things.", "Hitler is the worst villain in the world.", "So when you really get furious at someone, you say, 'Oh, you're a female Hitler' or something, you know?", "It's just an expression. But I stand behind it.", "King: What did she do to you? Rivers: She was very duplicitous ... there was so much mud-slinging, which I'm not going to go into.", "I was told she said she wished I would die; she said I was a cancer.", "King: What did you make of that squabble, Donald?", "Trump: Well, I liked it very much. ...", "Especially this morning, when the ratings came in, because it was a ratings bonanza last night for NBC.", "King: What does Joanny get now?", "Trump: She got $250,000 plus she raised hundreds of thousands more during the course of the 14 weeks.", "But she gets $250,000.", "That goes to God's Love We Deliver, which is a great charity in New York.", "King: What surprised you about this contest?", "Trump: Well, I was just impressed with the intelligence, with the energy and verve that Joan had.", "I mean, Joan's energy was beyond everybody else's.", "And she wasn't necessarily the youngest person on the panel.", "King: Joan, what surprised you about this experience?", "Rivers: How it became so much more than a television game or a show.", "It became absolutely something I wanted to do.", "It was like I was going to win for my charity.", "King: What got you so emotionally involved, not just with Annie, other contestants?", "Rivers: Larry, I play totally full-out.", "And you get very worn down. It's all these weeks and weeks of getting up at 5:30 in the morning, working until 11:00 at night, no assistants to help you.", "You're out there on the firing line.", "And, you know, the differences arise and show very quickly.", "You know who's good, you know who's bad, you know who's a liar, you know who's lazy, you know who's brilliant, you know who's a good worker.", "And after a while, you just play -- it becomes \"Lord of the Flies.\"", "King: Joan, by the way, written a Web exclusive for us about her \"Celebrity Apprentice\" win.", "Click here for Joan Rivers' blog, exclusively on CNN.com .", "King: Do you think you'll ever make up with Annie?", "Rivers: Well, I went over afterward; I went over to congratulate her, and I made her stand up.", "... Nobody lost last night, for God's sake.", "No one heard of Annie Duke before this show.", "Now everyone's heard of her.", "Her charity made $700,000.", "... And what did upset me was on the way out, her whole group gave us the finger and booed.", "And I thought that was .. not good.", "Not good. King: Why does this get so dramatic?", "Rivers: Because it's \"Lord of the Flies.\"", "You have no sleep. King: Weren't you and Clint Black kind of mad at each other for a while and now it's OK?", "Rivers: Oh, yes.", "Clint is a chauvinist.", "My joke is now he wouldn't even let his wife have Equal in her coffee.", "You know, that's Clint.", "But Clint is Clint.", "You get very angry at him, but at least you know that's Clint.", "You know what's going to be dealt to you.", "King: What did you learn from doing this?", "Rivers: So many people in this country are counted out from the age of 60.", "When I walked in, I looked them all over, I thought: 'I can take you all with one behind my back at 75.'", "King: Did you expect to win?", "Rivers: Truly, no.", "Donald plays it so close and so intelligently.", "I did not know until they called out her name.", "I really thought they were going to say, Joan you're wonderful, but you're too emotional and blah, blah, blah.", "And Annie raised so much money -- which, indeed, she did.", "I was in shock and thrilled.", "Rivers: Can I say one thing quickly?", "King: Quick.", "Rivers: Gay marriage, I am so against it because all my gay friends are out.", "And if they get married, it will cost me a fortune in gifts." ]	[ "Joan Rivers infuriated \"Apprentice\" rival Annie Duke over comparison to Hitler .", "Donald Trump says he loved the confrontations -- and the ratings that followed .", "Rivers says experience of being on \"Apprentice\" is like \"Lord of the Flies\"\nShe jokes Clint Black is so chauvinist he wouldn't let his wife have Equal in her coffee ." ]	[ 2, 3, 49, 71, 74, 75, 85 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The defense secretary will not ban smoking by troops in war zones despite a recommendation to do so by a Pentagon-commissioned study.", "Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he does not want to compound stress in combat zones by banning smoking.", "Secretary Robert Gates' decision stems from concern about the stress troops face, said his spokesman.", "\"We are fighting two wars right now, using a force that we are demanding more of than we ever have before.", "They are under enormous stress and strain, and the secretary does not want to compound that stress by taking away from them one of the few outlets they have to relieve that stress,\" Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Wednesday.", "A new study commissioned by the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs recommends a complete ban on tobacco, which would end tobacco sales on military bases and prohibit smoking by anyone in uniform -- including combat troops in the thick of battle.", "According to the study, tobacco use impairs military readiness in the short term.", "Over the long term, it can cause serious health problems, including lung cancer and cardiovascular disease.", "The study also says smokeless tobacco use can lead to oral and pancreatic cancer.", "Morrell said that Gates has not seen the report and will consider the recommendations to move towards a goal of a smoke-free military.", "\"There may be things we can do to try to move towards that goal.", "But he has been very clear to me, up front, that one of the things he is not prepared to do is to restrict the use of tobacco products in combat zones,\" Morrell said.", "Anti-smoking activist Richard Daynard said Gates' decision was logical.", "But he predicted that, as smoking is banned on military bases outside combat zones, \"then the problem over time will resolve itself, even in combat zones.\"", "The founder of the Tobacco Products Liability Project likened the situation to that which prevailed during the 1980s, when smoking aboard U.S. commercial airlines was banned.", "\"There was an exception for the cockpit, at least on some airlines, on the theory that you probably don't want your pilot, if he's hooked on nicotine, to be cold-turkey while he's trying to navigate your plane.\"", "But, he said, the exception has been phased out.", "CNN's Adam Levine and Tom Watkins contributed to this story." ]	[ "No ban despite recommendation to do so in Pentagon-commissioned study .", "Spokesman: Secretary does not want to take away outlet to relieve stress .", "Study recommend banning tobacco sales on bases, prohibit smoking in uniform ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(Entertainment Weekly) -- In the enchantingly original and romantic (500) Days of Summer, Summer (Zooey Deschanel) is a girl -- capricious, alluring, and not entirely knowable -- and Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is the greeting-card writer who convinces himself that she's \"better than the girl of my dreams.\"", "Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel fall in love -- for a time -- in \"(500) Days of Summer.\"", "Five hundred days is the duration of their relationship, but the movie presents those days out of order, as an impish romantic flipbook, so that we keep skipping forward and back -- from, say, day 8 to day 154.", "Most romantic comedies have half a dozen situations at best: Meet Cute, Infatuation, Pop Song Montage, Contrived Mix-Up, Angry Breakup, and Final Clinch.", "\"(500) Days of Summer\" is about the many unclassifiable moments in between.", "Director Marc Webb, working from Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber's witty script, stages each scene as a vivid snapshot memory, and his sense of play is boundless.", "The film leaps in a heartbeat from the furtive glances (and shared fixation on the Smiths) that ignite an office love affair to a rooftop-party reconciliation that plays out, via split screen, in two simultaneous versions (how the hero wants it to be and how it happens) to a morning-after-the-first-sex saunter that evolves, with joyful hilarity, into a musical number scored to \"You Make My Dreams.\"", "This has to be the first movie ever to give equal props to Morrissey and Hall & Oates.", "\"(500) Days\" is like a mood ring cued to the ups, downs, and confusions of modern love.", "It's a Gen-Y \"Annie Hall\" made by a new-style Wes Anderson who uses his cleverness for humanity instead of postmodern superiority.", "None of it would work, though, without such lived-in performances.", "Deschanel makes the lovely, sensuous Summer just precocious enough to know what she wants without coming out and saying it, and Gordon-Levitt, with his junior Springsteenian chin jut, lets you read every glimmer of hope, pain, lust, and befuddlement beneath his nervy facade.", "It's a feat of star acting, and it helps make \"(500) Days\" not just bitter or sweet but everything in between.", "EW Grade: A . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .", "Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "\"(500) Days of Summer\" is absolutely wonderful, says EW .", "Film is about an 18-month relationship, but avoids pitfalls of formula .", "Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel are outstanding ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Ramin Ostadhosseini needed to vent, and this gathering seemed the place to do it.", "Teens at Camp Ayandeh learn how to blend their parents' history and culture with their contemporary lifestyles.", "\"I get Raymond, Roman and sometimes Ramen noodles,\" he told the circle, describing how non-Iranians butcher his name.", "This group felt his pain.", "Here, sprawled out on a manicured lawn at Emory University were dozens of youths attending a weeklong summer camp designed to generate discussion on what it means to be Iranian-American.", "Like many attending Camp Ayandeh -- or \"future\" in Farsi -- Ramin has parents who were born in Tehran and immigrated to the United States after the Iranian revolution in 1979.", "Born in Baltimore, Maryland, six years after the revolution, Ramin grew up with two distinct and, at times conflicting, influences: the American side that met him at school and the Iranian one that greeted him at home.", "It's a first-generation story as old as the United States.", "It's so common that Ayandeh counselors said the camp was created three years ago to address both Iranian and American parts of a new generation of Iranian-American youth -- a community they define as being \"hyphenated.\"", "Watch campers learn how to accept their backgrounds » .", "\"We're really becoming mindful of how we define things,\" said Natasha Sallahi, a first-time counselor and aspiring filmmaker.", "\"We realize that sometimes one word doesn't cover it all.", "So we're trying to create better definitions ... by putting two things [Iranian-American] together.\"", "Camp Ayandeh is sponsored annually by Iranian Alliances Across Borders, a largely volunteer organization funded by individual donors and PARSA, a California-based philanthropic organization.", "First established on Thompson Island off eastern Massachusetts, Ayandeh began its gradual migration south the second year -- setting up at a campgrounds near Fairfax, Virginia.", "Iranian-American teens from high schools across the nation now flock to the new Georgia address to learn about their heritage and ask questions that range from relationships and college admissions to sexual orientation and discrimination -- issues that can come with distinctly different social parameters than their parents were once accustomed to in Iran.", "Camp counselor Siavash Samei remembers such angst all too well.", "\"There was not a single person that I could look at and say, 'He is me,' \" Samei said, describing an absence of elder Iranian-American role models. \"", "'He is what I can do. He can snap and he can dance.", "And at the same time, he can talk English without an accent.'", "\" After two years as a camper, Samei returned this summer as counselor to help answer many of the same questions that plagued him a few years earlier.", "The typical adolescent anxieties and struggles were mixed with another layer of cultural confusion.", "\"As a high school student, I had a horrible time,\" he said.", "\"One day I would come into school very dressed up thinking, 'I'm looking Iranian.'", "One day I would be wearing the baggy pants and dressed completely American.", "And I had no clue which one was right.\"", "According to the U.S. Census Bureau, nearly 400,000 Iranian-Americans live in the United States.", "The largest wave of Iranian immigrants came to the U.S. immediately following the ouster of the Shah of Iran and the Islamic-led revolution in 1979.", "Nearly three decades later, a new generation of Iranian-American youths are struggling to define themselves in these \"hyphenated\" communities.", "Bobak Moazami, a 17-year-old kid from Manhattan's Upper West Side, said he likes to think of himself equally as part of both communities.", "\"I eat American food for lunch,\" he said.", "\"Every day at school I have a grilled chicken sandwich.", "Then I come home and have chelo kabob or qormeh-sabzi.\"", "For many of these students, traditional Iranian dishes such as qormeh-sabzi -- a stew of herbs and beef or lamb -- are a part of a heritage that at one time could only be preserved by their families.", "But with campers rediscovering pride in their cultural heritage, these teens are learning how to blend their parents' history and culture with their contemporary lifestyles.", "Put simply, why not appreciate the old-world beats of the tonbak alongside the edgy lyrics of Kanye West?", "At Camp Ayandeh, games of \"vasati,\" or Iranian dodgeball, and Iranian dancing sessions are scheduled next to public speaking and college prep workshops.", "And the campers bring their bicultural experiences back home.", "\"I read about American literature in the morning [at school],\" Moazami said.", "\"We talk about great English poets like Shakespeare and Lord Byron, and then I come home and experience another set of great [Iranian] poets such as Hafez and Saadi.\"", "Nava Behnam, a 17-year-old who's attended the camp twice, has a story that started out slightly different from most of those at Ayandeh.", "Unlike many of the American-born campers, Behnam immigrated to the United States at 5 after being born in Tehran.", "She has experienced little in the way of Iranian culture and tradition outside her home in Rockville, Maryland.", "\"I was never really surrounded by it too much,\" she said.", "\"Or if I was, it was Persian gatherings with my parents where I'd sit in the back and be bored and have nothing to do.\"", "Twelve years after arriving in the U.S., Behnam is part of a loyal following that returns to Camp Ayandeh each year.", "\"I come here to find my roots and to come to terms with where I belong and where I come from,\" she said.", "After going to Camp Ayandeh, Behnam said she now has \"an appreciation for Persian culture and our customs,\" even though she still describes herself as \"just another teenage girl going to high school in America.\"" ]	[ "Camp Ayandeh helps Iranian-American youth come to terms with both cultures .", "Iranian Alliances Across Borders sponsors summer camp .", "Nearly 400,000 Iranian-Americans live in the U.S., Census Bureau says .", "Teen at camp says she has learned \"an appreciation for Persian culture\"" ]	[ 26, 47 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Somalia's interim prime minister said Thursday that he has spoken to one of two French hostages seized earlier this week by gunmen who stormed their hotel in Mogadishu.", "Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke said the government will hold Hizbul Islam responsible for the safety of both men.", "Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke told a news conference at the presidential palace in the Somali capital that the hostage said he was in good health and is being treated well.", "Sharmarke said three low-level security officials have been arrested for their involvement in the kidnapping.", "The Somali government is negotiating the release of the hostages, who are being held by Islamist militants, he added.", "The two French nationals -- who have not been identified -- were abducted Tuesday when a group of about 10 armed men raided the hotel where they were staying.", "The French Foreign Ministry said the two were on an official mission to help the Somali government with security.", "The ministry has not divulged any details of its efforts to release the hostages, saying only that it is \"mobilized.\"", "The two advisers had apparently told the hotel they were journalists, something that the media watchdog group Reporters Without Borders has criticized.", "\"We hope these two advisers are freed quickly, but we are shocked that they were passing themselves off as journalists,\" Reporters Without Borders said.", "\"They were on an official mission and had no need of cover.", "Their behavior endangers journalists in a region where media personnel are already in danger.\"", "Sharmarke said the two hostages were kidnapped by the militant group Hizbul Islam but later were transferred to Al-Shabaab.", "Both Islamic insurgencies are trying to topple the current Somali government.", "Eyewitnesses said a group of gunmen stormed into the Sahafi hotel, which is frequented by foreigners, and took the two blindfolded and bound hostages on foot toward Mogadishu's Bakara market, a stronghold for Islamist insurgents fighting against the Somali government.", "The Somali prime minister said that the government will hold Hizbul Islam responsible for the safety of both men.", "He did not say if any demands had been made for the hostages' release.", "Hizbul Islam is led by Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a bitter rival of Somalia's transitional president, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed.", "The two men once shared leadership of the Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia, which opposed the presence of Ethiopian forces in Somalia.", "The alliance split because the two leaders disagreed over whether to use force to oust the Ethiopian forces.", "Hizbul Islam and Al-Shabaab have continued their fight in Somalia despite the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces earlier this year.", "The United Nations had hoped that the withdrawal of the Ethiopians and the election of Ahmed -- an Islamist -- to the post of transitional president would help quell the insurgency in Somalia.", "The Islamist insurgency is led by Al-Shabaab -- an al Qaeda-linked group that is on the United States' terror list.", "It wants to overthrow Somalia's weak, transitional government and implement a radical version of sharia, or Islamic law.", "Fighting in Somalia's capital city has displaced 200,000 Mogadishu residents since early May, according to the United Nations.", "Journalist Mohamed Amin Adow contributed to this report." ]	[ "Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke reported hostage said he was in good health .", "Two French nationals abducted Tuesday by gunmen from their hotel .", "Sharmarke said they were kidnapped by militant group Hizbul Islam .", "The two advisers had apparently told the hotel they were journalists ." ]	[ 2, 8, 12 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A former engineer for Rockwell International and Boeing was convicted Thursday of economic espionage and acting as an agent of China, authorities said.", "A Delta IV rocket launches on March 10, 2003 at Cape Canaveral, Florida.", "Dongfan \"Greg\" Chung, 73, was accused of stealing restricted technology and Boeing trade secrets, including information related to the space shuttle program and the Delta IV rocket.", "U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney convicted him on charges of conspiracy to commit economic espionage; six counts of economic espionage to benefit a foreign country; one count of acting as an agent of the People's Republic of China; and one count of making false statements to the FBI, according to a statement from federal prosecutors.", "Carney presided over Chung's three-week bench trial last month.", "In a bench trial, there is no jury and the judge decides whether to convict a defendant after hearing testimony.", "Chung was free on bond after his arrest by FBI agents and NASA investigators in February 2008.", "He was taken into custody after Carney's ruling was read.", "Chung, a native of China who is a naturalized United States citizen, was employed by Rockwell International from 1973 until Boeing acquired its defense and space unit in 1996, and by Boeing thereafter.", "He retired from Boeing in 2002, but returned as a contractor, a position he held until September 2006, prosecutors said.", "Chung held a \"secret\" security clearance, authorities said.", "\"For years, Mr. Chung stole critical trade secrets from Boeing relating to the space shuttle and the Delta IV rocket -- all for the benefit of the government of China,\" said David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security, in the prosecutors' statement.", "\"Today's verdict should serve as a warning to others willing to compromise America's economic and national security to assist foreign governments.\"", "The case against Chung resulted from an investigation into another engineer who obtained information for China.", "That engineer, Chi Mak, and several of his relatives were convicted of providing defense articles to the PRC, authorities said.", "Mak was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison last year.", "According to evidence presented at trial, individuals in the Chinese aviation industry began sending tasks to Chung via letter as early as 1979, federal prosecutors said.", "Over the years, the letters directed Chung to collect data related to the space shuttle and various military and civilian aircraft.", "In his letters back to China, Chung referenced materials he had already sent, including 24 manuals relating to the B-1 bomber, which Rockwell had forbidden for distribution outside the company and federal agencies.", "In addition, between 1985 and 2003, Chung traveled to China several times and met with government officials.", "His contacts in China discussed these trips in letters and recommended methods of passing information, authorities said.", "In a 2006 search of Chung's home, FBI and NASA agents found more than 250,000 pages of documents from Boeing, Rockwell and other defense contractors in the house and in its crawl space, prosecutors said.", "They included \"scores of binders containing decades' worth of stress analysis reports, test results and design information for the space shuttle.\"", "Each economic espionage charge carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and a $500,000 fine, authorities said.", "The charge of acting as an agent for a foreign government carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.", "The charges of conspiracy to commit economic espionage and making false statements to federal investigators each carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.", "Chung is set for sentencing November 9." ]	[ "Dongfan Chung, 73, convicted of economic espionage; acting as agent of china .", "Accused of stealing restricted technology, Boeing trade secrets .", "Technology included information on space shuttle; Delta IV rocket .", "Chung is a native of China who is a naturalized United States citizen ." ]	[ 0, 2, 8 ]
[ "MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- A federal judge ordered 10 municipal police officers arrested Saturday in connection with the slayings of 12 off-duty federal agents in southwestern Mexico, the attorney general's office said.", "The recent spate of violence was sparked by the arrest of high-ranking drug cartel member Arnoldo Rueda Medina.", "The federal officers' bodies were found Tuesday on a remote highway in Michoacan state, where at least 18 federal agents and two soldiers have been killed since July 11 due to drug-related violence.", "Video from the scene showed three signs, known as narcomensajes, or narcomessages, left by the killers.", "They all stated the same thing: \"So that you come for another.", "We will be waiting for you here.\" The officers arrested Saturday are on the police force in the city of Arteaga.", "Mexican President Felipe Calderon, whose home state is Michoacan, responded to the violence by dispatching 1,000 federal police officers to the area.", "The infusion, which more than tripled the number of federal police officers patrolling Michoacan, angered Michoacan Gov.", "Leonel Godoy Rangel.", "He called it an occupation and said he had not been consulted.", "Authorities said Wednesday they were searching for the governor's half-brother, who they say is a top-ranking member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel.", "The cartel is blamed for most of the recent violence in the state.", "The governor's brother, Julio Cesar Godoy Toscano, was elected July 5 to the lower house of Congress.", "The governor has publicly urged his brother to surrender.", "There were no reports of his apprehension as of late Saturday.", "The sudden spike in violence followed the arrest July 11 of Arnoldo Rueda Medina, described as a high-ranking member of La Familia.", "La Familia members attacked the federal police station in Morelia to try to gain freedom for Rueda shortly after his arrest, authorities said.", "When that failed, cartel members attacked federal police installations in at least a half-dozen Michoacan cities.", "Under Mexican law, the officers arrested Saturday will be held for 40 days while officials determine whether to formally charge them." ]	[ "Officers arrested Saturday are on the police force in the city of Arteaga .", "Slain agents were found Tuesday on a remote highway in Michoacan state .", "Governor calls infusion of federal agents in Michoacan an occupation .", "Governor's half-brother, said to be key figure in drug cartel, still at large ." ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Alternative treatments are as varied as the regions of the world they come from.", "And while they attract skepticism from some Western medical practitioners, they are an undeniable part of global health.", "Shark cartilage is a popular dish in Japan where it is regarded as having health benefits.", "In parts of Asia and Africa, 80 percent of the population depend on these treatments as their primary form of healthcare.", "Shark fin has long been used in traditional Asian medicine.", "Shark fin soup is regarded as a tonic that promotes general well-being, and shark fin has even been claimed to have anti-cancer properties.", "Shark fins are mainly composed of cartilage, a type of connective tissue found in the skeletal systems of many animals.", "In Japan, they are sold by herbalists as a powder, in tablet form or as whole fins.", "While shark fin has been used for centuries in Asia, in recent years it has become more popular in the West.", "A book called \"Sharks Don't Get Cancer,\" published in 1992, popularized the idea of shark fin as an alternative cancer treatment in the West, and powdered shark fin is now sold as dietary supplement.", "But scientific evidence doesn't support the idea.", "A 2000 report by researchers at George Washington University Medical Center in Washington D.C. said more than 40 tumors had been documented in sharks, skates and rays.", "Clinical studies on cancer patients, including a 1998 study by the Independent Cancer Treatment Research Foundation in Illinois, haven't shown cartilage powders to have any anti-cancer benefits.", "Cancer Research UK, an independent cancer-research organization, states \"We don't recommend alternative therapies such as shark cartilage, as there is no scientific or medical evidence to back up the claims made for these 'treatments'.\"", "The use of shark fins has also been criticized by environmentalists who say the practice is threatening shark populations.", "In addition, environmental groups say that fins are often cut off live sharks at sea, with the bodies thrown back in the sea to drown, a controversial practiced know as \"finning.\"", "The ancient art of herbal healing also remains highly popular in Africa.", "In South Africa, the name given to the practice is muti.", "In Johannesburg's Faraday market muti practitioners sell wares that are popular with locals and tourists alike.", "Illnesses are diagnosed by \"sangomas,\" who employ techniques including communicating with the spirits of ancestors.", "\"Sangomas\" then refer their patients to \"inyangas,\" who supply muti treatments.", "\"Inyangas\" make use of South Africa's diverse flora and fauna, selling treatments made from herbs and animal parts.", "Roots, bark and leaves are all used to prepare infusions that are said to cure ailments ranging from headaches to skin rashes.", "Other muti medicines deal with psychological conditions, curing nightmares, bringing good luck and warding off evil spells.", "Acupuncture is one of the most widespread of all traditional treatments.", "An ancient Chinese healing technique thought to date back at least 2,000 years, acupuncture is now widely practiced alongside modern medicine in the East and West alike.", "Traditional acupuncture works on the idea that energy, known as \"qi,\" flows along pathways in the body, called meridians.", "According to acupuncture theory, if these meridians become blocked, \"qi\" cannot flow freely and illness can result.", "Diagnosis of ailments is carried out by, among other things, feeling a patient's pulse and inspecting their tongue.", "Marian Rose of the British Acupuncture Council told CNN that an important part of the diagnosis process involves asking patients a range of questions about their well-being, including their digestion, sleep patterns, and health history.", "Treatment involves inserting fine acupuncture needles at critical points in the body in order to stimulate the flow of \"qi,\" described by Rose as \"the body's motivating energy.\"", "Traditionally, acupuncture can be used to treat headaches, chronic pain, asthma, depression, addiction, and problems with the digestive system.", "Acupuncture has been the subject of extensive research and in the West the practice has been studied in terms of modern medical knowledge.", "Dr Mike Cummings is the medical director of the British Medical Acupuncture Association, which promotes Western medical acupuncture.", "He told CNN that research has shown acupuncture to be effective at treating pain in particular.", "Cummings says that it is believed that when an acupuncture needle is inserted into a muscle, it stimulates nerves.", "That affects the spinal gate, where sensory input is modulated, reducing activity in pain pathways.", "Whether backed by medical science or simply by years of use, traditional treatments remain popular and as more research is carried out, some may even come to complement modern medicine." ]	[ "Even in the era of modern medicine, traditional treatments are still widespread .", "In Japan, shark fin is sold by herbalists, and is believed to promote well-being .", "Muti practitioners sell their wares in Johannesburg's Faraday market .", "Acupuncture has spread all over the world from its roots in ancient China ." ]	[ 5, 7, 18, 24 ]
[ "Editor's note: LZ Granderson is a senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com, and has contributed to ESPN's Sports Center, Outside the Lines and First Take.", "He is the 2009 Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) award winner for online journalism and the 2008 National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) winner for column writing.", "LZ Granderson says criticism of President Obama by the gay community has gone too far.", "(CNN) -- Far from flowing rainbow flags, the sound of Lady Gaga and, quite honestly, white people, stands a nightclub just outside of Wicker Park in Chicago, Illinois, by the name of The Prop House.", "The line to get in usually stretches down the block, and unlike many of the clubs in Boystown and Andersonville, this one plays hip-hop and caters to men who may or may not openly identify as gay, but without question are black and proud.", "And a good number of them are tired of hearing how the gay community is disappointed in President Obama, because they are not.", "In recent weeks, one would have thought the nation's first black president was also the nation's biggest homophobe.", "Everyone from Oscar winner Dustin Lance Black and radio personality Rachel Maddow to Joe Solmonese, the president of Human Rights Campaign, the country's largest gay advocacy group, seem to be blasting Obama for everything from \"don't ask don't tell\" to Adam Lambert not winning American Idol.", "In their minds, Obama is not moving fast enough on behalf of the GLBT community.", "The outcry is not completely without merit -- the Justice Department's unnerving brief on the Defense of Marriage Act immediately comes to mind.", "I was upset by some of the statements, but not surprised.", "(After the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, President Ronald Reagan's initial handling of AIDS and, more recently, Katrina, there is little that surprises me when it comes to the government and the treatment of its people.)", "Still, rarely has criticism regarding Obama and the GLBT community come from the kind of person you would find standing in line at a spot like The Prop House, and there's a reason for that.", "Despite the catchiness of the slogan, gay is not the new black.", "Black is still black.", "And if any group should know this, it's the gay community.", "Bars such as The Prop House, or Bulldogs in Atlanta, Georgia, exist because a large number of gay blacks -- particularly those who date other blacks, and live in the black community -- do not feel a part of the larger gay movement.", "There are Gay Pride celebrations, and then there are Black Gay Prides.", "There's a popular bar in the heart of the nation's capital that might as well rename itself Antebellum, because all of the white patrons tend to stay upstairs and the black patrons are on the first floor.", "Last year at the annual Human Rights Campaign national fundraiser in Washington, D.C. -- an event that lasted more than three hours -- the only black person to make it on stage was the entertainment.", "When Proposition 8 passed in California, white gays were quick to blame the black community despite blacks making up less than 10 percent of total voters and whites being close to 60 percent.", "At protest rallies that followed, some gay blacks reported they were even hit with racial epithets by angry white participants.", "Not to split hairs, but for most blacks, the n-word trumps the f-word.", "So while the white mouthpiece of the gay community shakes an angry finger at intolerance and bigotry in their blogs and on television, blacks and other minorities see the dirty laundry.", "They see the hypocrisy of publicly rallying in the name of unity but then privately living in segregated pockets.", "And then there is the history. The 40th anniversary of Stonewall dominated Gay Pride celebrations around the country, and while that is certainly a significant moment that should be recognized, 40 years is nothing compared with the 400 blood-soaked years black people have been through in this country.", "There are stories some blacks lived through, stories others were told by their parents and stories that never had a chance to be told.", "While those who were at Stonewall talk about the fear of being arrested by police, 40 years ago, blacks talked about the fear of dying at the hands of police and not having their bodies found or murder investigated.", "The 13th Amendment was signed in 1865, and it wasn't until 1948 that President Harry S Truman desegregated the military.", "That's more than an 80-year gap.", "Not to be flip, but Miley Cyrus is older than Bill Clinton's \"don't ask, don't tell.\"", "That doesn't mean that the safety of gay people should be trivialized or that Obama should not be held accountable for the promises he made on the campaign trail.", "But to call this month's first-ever White House reception for GLBT leaders \"too little too late\" is akin to a petulant child throwing a tantrum because he wants to eat his dessert before dinner.", "This is one of the main reasons why so many blacks bristle at the comparison of the two movements -- everybody wants to sing the blues, nobody wants to live them.", "This lack of perspective is only going to alienate a black community that is still very proud of Obama and is hypersensitive about any criticism of him, especially given he's been in office barely six months.", "If blacks are less accepting of gays than other racial groups -- and that is certainly debatable -- then the parade of gay people calling Obama a \"disappointment\" on television is counterproductive in gaining acceptance, to say the least.", "And the fact that the loudest critics are mostly white doesn't help matters either.", "Hearing that race matters in the gay community may not be comforting to hear, but that doesn't make it any less true.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of LZ Granderson." ]	[ "LZ Granderson: Blacks tired of hearing about gays' disappointment in Obama .", "He says black gays strongly support first African-American president .", "He says gay rights movement is not comparable to the civil rights struggle .", "Granderson: Gay movement has to overcome its own racial issues ." ]	[ 2, 5, 14 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Once he roamed the streets, moving from shelter to shelter.", "Now, Oliver Gomes rubs shoulders with Washington's elite.", "Oliver Gomes says working in the halls of Congress gave him the motivation and money to get off the streets.", "Squatting next to a white wall outside a Senate hearing room recently with a cell phone glued to his ear, Gomes is being paid to hold a place in line for a lobbyist at a hearing on the climate-change bill.", "Gomes -- 6 feet tall, with long curly hair pulled back, wearing a polo shirt and shorts -- is one of the contracted men and women holding places in line for this hearing.", "Many have been waiting since midnight to ensure their clients a seat.", "By 9 a.m., more than 100 people are lined up for the hearing.", "Only 10 seats are available to the public, and the first 10 spots are held by line-standers.", "The rest are shut out. Though the practice is controversial, Gomes said it has lifted him from life on the street.", "\"Sitting in the halls of Congress made me feel a little better,\" he said.", "\"It elevated me and made me feel like, well, you know, maybe I do belong here, maybe I can contribute even at that little minute level.\"", "Watch Gomes tell his story » .", "As the need for couriers on Capitol Hill declined with e-mail and fax, courier services like Quick Messenger Service of DC, Inc. have added the service of contracting men and women to hold places in line for lobbyists at hearings.", "The seats are valuable to lobbyists because the hearing is often their only face time with legislators.", "For big hearings with limited availability, line-standers may wait 20 to 30 hours.", "They're paid anywhere from $11 to $35 an hour.", "Gomes was living in a shelter when he started line-standing.", "He said working in the halls of Congress gave him the motivation and money he needed to get off the streets.", "He now makes extra money by recruiting men for the line-standing services from the homeless shelters where he used to stay.", "\"When I was down and out and I was on the Hill and I had that little bit of hope that while I was actually here, it gave me the incentive to dress a little better, more professional,\" Gomes said.", "Many of the contracted line-standers are homeless or formerly homeless like Gomes.", "Williams Howard Johnson Jr., one of Gomes' recruits, found his bright yellow button-down shirt, green patterned tie, and slacks at a donation center because he wanted to dress well for his job.", "\"That comes from being a part of something that's really meaningful to not only me but to society,\" Johnson said.", "Johnson was among those who had been in line since midnight for the 10 a.m. climate-change bill hearing, but he said he was happy to be there.", "\"I'm a part of something today and I'm very happy about that,\" Johnson said.", "Although Johnson and Gomes are glad to have a job and a feeling of importance on Capitol Hill, many people are opposed to the practice of hiring line-standers.", "Kalen Pruss, a fellow at the Internet environmental group avaaz.org, and her group of cheering green T-shirted environmentalists were shut out of the hearing.", "\"It's very unfortunate that the people who come here to line-stand always beat us here cause they can stand here all night,\" Pruss said.", "John Winslow, director of linestanding.com, said the committees might be creating the lines by limiting the number of seats for the public in the hearing rooms.", "At this hearing, some of his clients that paid for line-standers to wait at midnight were not able to get into the hearing.", "\"It's really a question of logistics, how many people does the committee want to service,\" Winslow said.", "\"And it seems like overwhelmingly they try to limit the number of people who attend these hearings and that just drives up demand artificially.\"", "Critics see the practice as just another way lobbyists are buying influence on Capitol Hill.", "In 2007, Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri introduced legislation to ban the practice of line-standing.", "\"I have no problem with lobbyists being in hearings, but they shouldn't be able to buy a seat,\" McCaskill said.", "\"It seems to me that if we are going to make sure lobbyists aren't buying meals for senators, and we are going to make sure lobbyists aren't buying elected officials gifts, then we ought to make sure they aren't buying seating at a public hearing.\"", "Maria Foscarinis, an advocate for the homeless, thinks it's ironic that some of the most powerful people in the country are using some of the most vulnerable to hold a place in line for them.", "\"They're likely to be standing in line for people who well may be opposed to universal health care that would be a benefit for poor and homeless people,\" Foscarinis said.", "\"And yet they may be standing there for the purpose of access for the interests that are opposed to their own.\"" ]	[ "Contracted line-holders stand for hours to ensure their clients get seats .", "Seats at hearings often only chance for lobbyists to get face time with legislators .", "Line-standers, some homeless, are paid anywhere from $11 to $35 an hour .", "Critics see practice as another way lobbyists are buying influence on Capitol Hill ." ]	[ 13, 15, 29, 32 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- New Haven, Connecticut, firefighter Frank Ricci, the lead plaintiff in perhaps the most controversial case involving Judge Sonia Sotomayor, said Thursday that Sotomayor's rejection of his reverse discrimination claim had undermined the concept of a merit-based civil service system.", "New Haven firefighter Frank Ricci sued after the city threw out results of a 2003 firefighter promotion exam.", "Ricci was one of a group of 20 mostly white firefighters who sued the city of New Haven after it threw out the results of a 2003 firefighter promotion exam because almost no minorities qualified for promotions.", "The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, including Sotomayor, backed the city in the 2008 case Ricci v. DeStefano.", "The ruling of the Circuit Court was overturned in June by a 5-4 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.", "The \"belief that citizens should be reduced to racial statistics is flawed,\" Ricci told the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.", "\"It only divides people who don't wish to be divided along racial lines.", "The very reason we have civil service rules is to root out politics, discrimination and nepotism.", "Our case demonstrates that these ills will exist if the rules of merit and the law are not followed.\"", "Watch firefighters testify » .", "Ricci also criticized Sotomayor's 2nd Circuit for disposing of the case in an \"unsigned, unpublished summary order that consisted of a single paragraph.\"", "Sotomayor was not present when Ricci spoke.", "She left the session after concluding her remarks earlier Thursday.", "Sotomayor argued before committee members Tuesday that her ruling in the Ricci case was decided on the basis of \"a very thorough, 78-page decision by the district court\" and followed an established precedent.", "\"This was not a quota case or (an) affirmative action case,\" she said.", "The case was a challenge to a firefighter test that had a wide range of difference between the pass and failure rate of different groups.", "The city of New Haven, she noted, was at risk of being sued by employees who could show they were \"disparately impacted\" by the test.", "New Haven city officials, after a number of days of hearings, decided they wouldn't certify the test but would instead attempt to develop a test of equal value in measuring a candidate's qualifications without having a disparate impact, she said.", "The question before the 2nd Circuit, Sotomayor said, was whether the city's decision was based on race or its understanding of what the law required it to do.", "The Circuit Court ruled that it was based on the latter.", "Based on established legal precedent, the 2nd Circuit decided that the city's decision was proper under established law.", "The Supreme Court, however, applied a new standard, she said, based on a different area of law.", "If she were ruling on that case today, she said, she would be bound by the new standards set by the Supreme Court.", "Ricci was one of several witnesses who testified both for and against Sotomayor.", "Linda Chavez, head of the conservative Center for Equal Opportunity, which opposes affirmative action, argued that \"it is clear\" from Sotomayor's record \"that she has drunk deep from the well of identity politics.\"", "It is impossible for Sotomayor to be a fair judge when she has \"shown a willingness to let her policy preferences guide her,\" Chavez said.", "Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel testified on Sotomayor's behalf, arguing that her opinion in the Ricci case was, in fact, an example of judicial restraint.", "It followed a string of legal precedents dating back almost three decades, he said.", "New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg also testified in favor of Sotomayor, telling committee members that she is an \"independent jurist\" with a \"sharp and agile mind\" who would bring \"a wealth of unique experience\" to the high court." ]	[ "Frank Ricci one of 20 firefighters who claimed reverse discrimination in promotions .", "Plaintiff: Decision undermined concept of a merit-based civil service system .", "Sotomayor: Ruling was based on \"a very thorough\" decision by the district court .", "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, others spoke in favor of judge's confirmation ." ]	[ 0, 9, 13 ]
[ "OXFORD, England (CNN) -- You might expect Oxford and Cambridge universities to ask prospective students to compare the works of Chaucer to Boccaccio or to explain the theory of relativity.", "Cambridge students may have to field questions in the application process that would baffle some observers.", "Instead, Oxford wants to know: \"Would you rather be a novel or a poem?\"", "Cambridge asks applicants: \"What would you do if you were a magpie?\"", "The idea, say administrators at the two ultra-prestigious schools in England, is to see how well prospective students can think, not just how much they know.", "\"What we're trying to do is move students out of their comfort zone,\" said Mike Nicholson, Oxford University admissions director.", "\"Many students will have a body of knowledge, and they may be expected to be trusted on that in the interview.", "What we want to do is take them beyond that point and get them to start thinking for themselves.\"", "See examples of the application questions » .", "In the United Kingdom, 90 percent of students are educated at state schools.", "But 53 percent of Oxford University's students come from state schools.", "That seems to indicate that wealthier students who can afford private schools have an advantage.", "Tutoring company Oxbridge Applications -- founded by Oxford graduates in 1999 -- says 68 percent of the 35,000 clients it has helped are state-funded students.", "It costs $300 for a day of mock interviews or $1,500 for a full weekend course.", "Oxbridge says 47 percent of its clients get into one of the elite colleges.", "The overall success rate for all applicants to the two schools -- commonly referred to as Oxbridge -- is 24 percent, the tutoring company says.", "\"At Oxbridge Applications, we have a network of 500 former tutors and former admissions tutors as well,\" said company founder James Uffindell.", "\"And we take the people that have been there and done it and help supply that information back to the people that want to go there.\"", "Still, some of the questions seem a bit odd to the casual observer.", "Watch people on the street react to some brainteasers » .", "\"It's totally out there really,\" said one passer-by interviewed on the street.", "\"Are they on drugs, these people in Cambridge?\"", "Some of the questions seem downright sinister: \"How would you poison someone without the police finding out?\"", "Cambridge asks.", "Others are perhaps downright practical: \"Instead of politicians, why don't we let the managers of Ikea run the country?\"" ]	[ "Oxford asks prospective students: \"Would you rather be a novel or a poem?\"", "Cambridge asks applicants: \"What would you do if you were a magpie?\"", "Administrators at prestigious schools say object is to get students to think .", "Observer on the street describes questions as \"totally out there really\"" ]	[ 2, 3, 4, 20, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Maryland man believed to have shot and stabbed his wife and three young children to death before killing himself with a shotgun was having money problems and left a note saying he suffered from \"psychological issues,\" authorities said.", "Five people, including three young children, were found dead in this house in Middletown, Maryland.", "Christopher Wood, 34, may have slashed at least some of his family members in the killings and used a small-caliber handgun on others, Frederick County Sheriff Charles Jenkins said.", "He was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted shotgun wound at the foot of the bed where the bodies of his wife and 2-year-old daughter lay, the sheriff said.", "Wood's sons were 5 and 4 years old, authorities said.", "His wife, Francie Billotti Wood, was 33.", "The boys were found in their beds in a single bedroom, the sheriff said.", "Authorities did not release the names of the children.", "\"These are horrific incidents,\" said Jenkins, who said he couldn't remember another homicide in the past 20 years in Middletown, a one-stoplight town northwest of Baltimore.", "\"No one should ever have to be exposed to this.\"", "Jenkins told CNN that at least five notes apparently handwritten by Wood were found inside the home.", "While the notes didn't immediately tell investigators what prompted the killings, they did provide some insight into possible problems.", "\"There is some indication in at least one of the notes that there might have been some psychological issues with Mr. Wood,\" Jenkins said.", "There was \"a mention of some medication\" in that note, according to the sheriff.", "Jenkins said the sheriff's office had no record of domestic violence or other family disputes at the Wood's home.", "He said investigators also have learned of money problems for Wood, a salesman for CSX Railroad.", "\"We are aware there were some, maybe, debt problems -- some financial problems,\" Jenkins said.", "Cpl. Jennifer Bailey said deputies went to the home shortly after 9 a.m. after Mrs. Wood's father called.", "Her family had not seen the Woods for about a day and her father forced his way into the locked home, finding the bodies, according to Jenkins.", "Authorities said a shotgun was found next to Christopher Wood's body and a .25-caliber handgun was found in a \"container\" in the kitchen.", "The sheriff said other weapons that could have been used to stab and cut the victims were found, but he did not say what those weapons were.", "Watch sheriff's department's statement » .", "Francie Wood's family were longtime residents of the Middletown area.", "Her brother had recently retired from a career as a sheriff's deputy, Jenkins said.", "The family had moved to town from Florida about four months ago.", "\"We're all in shock,\" said the Rev.", "Kevin Farmer, the family's minister at Holy Family Catholic Church.", "\"This was a family, though they hadn't been with us very long, they are an integral part of our community.\"", "Watch views from the crime scene » .", "He said the road the Woods lived on is a shortcut to the church and he would often see the children while riding a scooter he uses when the weather is good.", "\"They would always stop and wave and get big eyes as the scooter came by,\" he said.", "\"They were very happy kids.\"", "Jenkins said autopsies will be performed on the bodies over the next few days and that it could be weeks before the results are ready to be released.", "While the notes didn't immediately tell investigators what prompted the killings, they did provide some insight into possible problems, the sheriff said.", "The family had not been seen for several days, Bailey said.", "Authorities said several weapons, including a shotgun, were found inside the home.", "Christopher Wood had been an employee of CSX Railroad, Jenkins said.", "He said the sheriff's office had no record of domestic violence or other family disputes at the Woods' home.", "\"In my entire career, just about 20 years, this is probably the worst tragedy I've ever been a part of or ever seen in Frederick County,\" Jenkins said." ]	[ "NEW: Note indicated father was having \"psychological issues,\" sheriff says .", "NEW: Investigators say they've learned Christopher Wood also had money problems .", "Sheriff: Man apparently killed his wife and three young children, then shot himself .", "Slain mother's family were longtime residents of the Middletown, Maryland, area ." ]	[ 0, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- It doesn't matter that they can be feverishly hot.", "Or that crowds make for long food lines or the tickets may be hard to come by.", "Bassist and vocalist Esperanza Spalding performed at this year's New Orleans Jazz Fest.", "Music festivals worldwide attract thousands of fans wanting to hear their favorite artists live or discover under-the-radar musicians.", "Each major festival has its own special twist, specific to the event and city that hosts it.", "From the notorious mud baths at Glastonbury, England, to the breath-taking mountains surrounding Fuji Rock in Naeba, Japan, these are events that festival-goers wait for all year.", "Experience the New Orleans Jazz Fest » .", "Our guide prepares music fans worldwide for the best festivals this summer and later in the year.", "GLASTONBURY, Somerset, England June 24-28 ($255) Glastonbury has been around since dairy farmer Michael Eavis first held a free two-day festival on his farm in 1970, and it's long been the festival in England for seeing the biggest and best bands in the world.", "It also may be the muddiest -- heavy rain in several years, most notably 1997, turned Glastonbury into a muddy bog.", "Everyone from Radiohead to Jay-Z has headlined the festival, and with more than 700 acts each year, there is something for everybody.", "Some of the proceeds from the festival go to Oxfam and Greenpeace.", "This year's headliners include Franz Ferdinand, Blur, and Bruce Springsteen.", "ROCK AL PARQUE, Bogota, Colombia June 27-29 (free) The Rock al Parque festival, launched in 1995, has become South America's biggest rockfest in recent years -- some 320,000 people traveled to Simon Bolivar Park in 2006 for a weekend of Colombia's top rock bands and renowned international headliners.", "Funded by Colombia's culture secretary, the free festival has included some of rock's biggest names, including Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Manu Chao, and Bloc Party.", "In the days leading up to Rock al Parque, the festival organizers host a series of panel discussions on music production, management, and the recording industry.", "ROSKILDE, Denmark July 2-5 ($220) Since 1971, the rock festival in Roskilde has hosted the top names in music, from Bob Marley to Bob Dylan.", "It is the biggest summer festival in northern Europe, and the \"Arena\" stage boasts a 17,000-capacity tent, the largest in Europe.", "The festival has a daily newspaper and a 24-hour live radio station and is also home to the annual \"Naked Run,\" where the first naked person to cross the finish line receives a free ticket for next year's festival.", "Some 80,000 will travel to Roskilde to see headliners including Coldplay, Oasis and Nine Inch Nails.", "EXIT, Novi Sad, Serbia July 9-12 ($105) Created in 2000 by three university students as a protest against former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, the electro-focused festival in the heart of Serbia was named Europe's best festival in 2007 by fans voting in the UK Festival Awards.", "Over 200,000 people attended Exit last year, dancing at all-night raves in the gorgeous surroundings of Petrovaradin Fortress, an 18th-century castle near the Danube River.", "Some of techno's biggest names will be on hand to celebrate Exit's 10-year anniversary, including Moby, Kraftwerk, and The Prodigy.", "THISDAY, Abuja/Lagos, Nigeria Dates tba .", "The THISDAY festival in Nigeria -- launched in 2006 by the editor-in-chief of Thisday newspaper, Nduka Obaigbena, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the end of slavery -- is the biggest music and fashion festival in Africa.", "According to Obaigbena, the festival is meant to highlight the positive progress being made in Africa, and find sustainable solutions for the continent's problems.", "The theme of last year's festival was \"Africa Rising,\" and it showcased some of the world's best-known artists including Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Usher.", "Stay tuned for this year's lineup.", "FUJI ROCK, Naeba, Japan July 24-26 ($410) Japan's biggest outdoor festival takes its name from Mt.", "Fuji, the site of the first festival in 1997.", "Fuji Rock has been set amongst the cool forested mountains of the Naeba ski resort for the past ten years -- gondolas and hilly trails transport people from stage to stage, and the streams and forests between them are the reason why Fuji Rock has been called the most beautiful festival in the world.", "It's not just about the scenery, though -- over 100,000 people will trek through the mountains to see headliners Franz Ferdinand, The Killers, and Weezer.", "LOLLAPALOOZA, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. August 7-9 ($190) Rocker Perry Farrell began Lollapalooza in 1991 as a farewell tour for his band, Jane's Addiction.", "The biggest grunge rock festival during the '90s disappeared for awhile around the turn of the century, but it was revived in 2005 as a more traditional \"big weekend\" destination festival in Chicago.", "The past few years at Grant Park have been marked by hot summers, huge crowds, and even bigger bands.", "The anticipated crowd of nearly 200,000 is staggering, as are this year's headliners: Kings of Leon, Tool, Depeche Mode, and Beastie Boys, just to name a few.", "BESTIVAL, Isle of Wight, England September 11-13 ($205) The trendy Bestival, the original boutique weekend festival on the Isle of Wight, is the best way to end the summer festival season in Europe.", "Bestival boasts a yearly fancy dress competition -- last year's was \"30,000 freaks under the sea,\" and 2009 is the year of \"Outer Space,\" so make sure to dress accordingly.", "Thousands of Bestival-goers will witness an eclectic lineup including Lily Allen, Massive Attack, and MGMT in the picturesque surroundings of Robin Hill Park.", "For family fun, look no further than Camp Bestival, a three-day family festival at a castle by the sea in July.", "PARKLIFE, Australia Late September-Early October .", "The Parklife series of one-day music festivals kicks off the summer festival season across Australia.", "The dance-focused fests have featured heavyweights Justice, MIA, and Muscles over the past two years.", "The day-long festivals are followed by an official \"After Life\" party that runs until the early hours of the morning, so be prepared for a long one if you're one of the estimated 100,000 people attending a Parklife gig in one of several cities across Australia at the end of September.", "WOODSTOCK, Johannesburg, South Africa November 27-30 When people think of Woodstock, South Africa isn't necessarily what comes to mind.", "But for the past decade, the festival has been the biggest youth music event in that country, hosting a variety of both well-known and upcoming mainstream and hip-hop acts -- not to mention a variety of extreme sports stunt acts, paintballing, and flea-market stalls.", "Woodstock may not have the star power of the legendary American festival -- but with the wide range of music and outdoor activities it presents, its promoters aren't lying when they say that boredom simply isn't an option.", "SUNBURN, Goa, India December .", "Sunburn Festival launched in December 2007 as South Asia's first electronic music festival, and featured heavyweights like Carl Cox and John 00 Fleming.", "Located seaside in Goa, on India's west coast, the festival has its roots in \"Goa Trance,\" a type of pulsing, transcendental electro music that became popular in the early 1990s.", "Sunburn again treated more than 5,000 electro revelers to a three-day party by the beach in December 2008.", "The festival's founder has said Sunburn will always be free to attend, and it is not to be missed if you happen to be in India in December." ]	[ "CNN has put together a list of some of the best upcoming music festivals .", "You can dress to kill at England's Bestival's fancy dress competition .", "Enjoy the music, comedians and silent disco at Bonnaroo in Tennessee .", "Dance all weekend in the shadows of a 300-year-old Serbian castle ." ]	[ 0, 7, 37, 45 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Chinese authorities were explicit: Tear down the nation's first sex-themed amusement park before it gets going full steam.", "Visitors catch a glimpse of Love Land, billed as China's first-ever sex theme park, in southwest China.", "Love Land had not opened its doors yet, but authorities in the city of Chongqing -- a sprawling metropolis on the banks of the Yangtze River -- got all hot and bothered over the park's plans to display naked human sculptures, giant replica genitals and a photo gallery on the history of sex, the state-run China Daily reported.", "Lu Xiaoqing, park manager, told the newspaper he got the idea for building Love Land after a visit to a sex park in Jeju, a popular destination in South Korea.", "Love Land would include sex-technique workshops and sex education to help adults \"enjoy a harmonious sex life,\" Lu said.", "\"Sex is a taboo subject in China, but people really need to have more access to information about it,\" he told the newspaper.", "\"We are building the park for the good of the public.\"", "Whatever Lu's intentions, the newspaper said Chinese officials saw it another way: \"vulgar, ill-minded and misleading.\"", "The park was to open in October but was demolished over the weekend -- thongs, replicas of derrieres and all.", "Reactions posted on the Internet were varied, according to the China Daily.", "Some thought sex was best left behind closed doors, while others argued that a real need for sex education existed in China.", "\"Sex is a matter of privacy.", "It is not for publicity,\" said Xia Xueluan, a sociology professor at Beijing University.", "The officials in Chongquing apparently agreed." ]	[ "Love Land was to display giant replica genitals and photo gallery on history of sex .", "The park was to include sex-technique workshops and sex education .", "Reactions posted on the Internet were varied, according to the China Daily ." ]	[ 2, 4, 9 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Questions surrounding Judge Sonia Sotomayor's past speeches generated more controversy in the final day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings Thursday, as Democrats again called her a mainstream jurist and Republicans portrayed her as a liberal activist likely to legislate from the bench.", "Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor greets Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, Thursday.", "One GOP senator said Sotomayor's most controversial speeches \"bug the hell out of me,\" an expression of frustration as Republicans tried -- with little success -- to get Sotomayor to reveal more about her personal views in her fourth and final day of questioning.", "GOP critics also summoned New Haven, Connecticut, firefighter Frank Ricci, who was the lead plaintiff in perhaps the most controversial case in Sotomayor's appellate career.", "Ricci testified that her 2008 rejection of his reverse discrimination claim had undermined the concept of a merit-based civil service system.", "In a potential sign of Sotomayor's strong political momentum, however, Senate Republicans indicated they do not intend to filibuster her nomination on the Senate floor.", "They also indicated their belief that the full Senate would vote on her nomination before breaking for its August recess.", "Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, said he plans to put a confirmation vote for Sotomayor on the committee's calendar for next Tuesday.", "The committee's questions once again touched on a range of hot-button issues, including gun control, abortion, same-sex marriage, the death penalty, and the role of international law in American jurisprudence.", "\"I think you're a walking, talking example of the best part of the United States of America,\" Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-California, told Sotomayor.", "\"It is my belief that you are going to be a great Supreme Court justice.\"", "South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham was less complimentary, telling Sotomayor that she has \"said some things that have bugged the hell out of me,\" but he quickly conceded that her judicial record has \"been generally in the mainstream.\"", "\"Your speeches are disturbing, particularly to conservatives,\" Graham said.", "\"Those speeches to me suggested gender and racial affiliations in a way that a lot of us wonder, will you take that line of thinking to the Supreme Court in these cases of first precedent.\"", "But, Graham conceded, \"to be honest with you, your record as a judge has not been radical by any means.", "... You have, I think, consistently, as an advocate, took a point of view that was left of center.\"", "Graham defended the importance of probing Sotomayor's political beliefs by highlighting the high court's 1955 landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, which mandated the desegregation of schools.", "The ruling was \"instructive in the sense that the court pushed the country to do something politicians were not brave enough to do,\" he said.", "Watch Graham talk about Sotomayor's record » .", "The personal views of Supreme Court justices matter, he argued, because \"you're not going to find a law book that tells you\" how to rule on contentious social issues such as same-sex marriage or whether there is a \"fundamental\" right to bear arms.", "Sotomayor later fired back at the Republican line of questioning, asking Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, if he wanted a judge who pre-decided cases before hearing the evidence and facts.", "Watch Sotomayor's record on discrimination » .", "\"Would you want a judge or nominee who came in here and said, 'I agree with you, this is unconstitutional,' before I had a case before me?\"", "Sotomayor said, adding: \"I don't think that's a justice I can be.\"", "She noted that the Supreme Court spends considerable time on cases, including Second Amendment cases involving gun control -- an issue Republicans have repeatedly emphasized during her confirmation hearings.", "The National Rifle Association, unswayed by Sotomayor's assertion earlier in the week that she recognizes an individual right to bear arms, announced Thursday that it is opposed to her nomination.", "\"We believe any individual who does not agree that the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right and who does not respect our God-given right of self-defense should not serve on any court, much less the highest court in the land,\" said a joint statement by Wayne LaPierre, the NRA executive vice president, and Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA's Institute for Legislative Reform.", "Sotomayor repeatedly said she recognizes an individual right to firearms in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in the 2007 case District of Columbia v. Heller.", "The high court in that instance ruled that a sweeping handgun ban in the nation's capital violated the constitutional right to \"keep and bear arms.\"", "Sotomayor refused to say, however, whether she believed the right is \"fundamental,\" which in legal terms refers to whether a federal statute applies to the states.", "On gun control, as in other issues, Sotomayor repeated that the Constitution and facts of the case would be the basis of her rulings.", "The highly charged issue of affirmative action surfaced most prominently later in the day, when Frank Ricci testified before the committee.", "Ricci was one of a group of 20 mostly white firefighters who sued the city of New Haven after the city threw out the results of a 2003 firefighter promotion exam because almost no minorities qualified for promotions.", "The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals -- including Sotomayor -- backed the city in the 2008 case Ricci v. DeStefano.", "The ruling of the Circuit Court was overturned in June by a 5-4 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court.", "The \"belief that citizens should be reduced to racial statistics is flawed,\" Ricci told the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.", "\"It only divides people who don't wish to be divided along racial lines.", "The very reason we have civil service rules is to root out politics, discrimination, and nepotism.", "Our case demonstrates that these ills will exist if the rules of merit and the law are not followed.\"", "Ricci also criticized the 2nd Circuit for disposing \"of our case in an unsigned, unpublished summary order that consisted of a single paragraph.\"", "Sotomayor was not present when Ricci spoke.", "She told committee members earlier in the week, however, that her ruling in the Ricci case was decided on the basis of \"a very thorough, 78-page decision by the district court\" and followed a firmly established precedent.", "Watch Ricci testify at hearings » .", "The Supreme Court applied a new standard, she claimed, based on a different area of law.", "If she were ruling on that case today, she said, she would be bound by the new standards set by the Supreme Court.", "Ricci was one of a long list of witnesses who testified both for and against Sotomayor.", "Linda Chavez, head of the conservative Center for Equal Opportunity, which opposes affirmative action, argued that \"it is clear\" from Sotomayor's record \"that she has drunk deep from the well of identity politics.\"", "It is impossible for Sotomayor to be a fair judge, Chavez claimed, when she has \"shown a willingness to let her policy preferences guide her.\"", "Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel testified on Sotomayor's behalf, arguing that her opinion in the Ricci was case, in fact, an example of judicial restraint.", "It followed a string of legal precedents, he claimed, dating back almost three decades.", "FBI Director Louis Freeh and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg also testified in favor of Sotomayor.", "Bloomberg told committee members that she is an \"independent jurist\" with \"sharp and agile mind\" who would bring \"a wealth of unique experience\" to the high court.", "Committee Republicans, unswayed by such assertions, once again examined Sotomayor's controversial statement that a \"wise Latina\" could reach a better decision than a white man.", "Asked what she would say to people offended by her remarks, Sotomayor said that she regrets that she has \"offended some people.", "I believe that my life demonstrates that that was not my intent to leave the impression that some have taken from my words.\"", "Sotomayor was also asked to explain her remarks from a 2001 speech in which she said she agreed that \"there is no objective stance but only a series of perspectives -- no neutrality, no escape from choice in judging.\"", "She told the committee that, in every case, the two opposing parties view the facts from vastly different perspectives.", "\"You can't just throw up your hands and say I'm not going to rule,\" she said.", "There is a choice in judging, which means \"you have to rule.\"", "CNN's Dana Bash and Peter Hamby contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Senate wraps up Sotomayor's confirmation hearings .", "Chief plaintiff in Ricci case testifies during final day of confirmation hearings .", "Republicans fail to get nominee to reveal more about her personal views .", "GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham says Sonia Sotomayor's judicial record \"mainstream\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 42 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The chairman of Tennessee's Democratic Party wants a Republican legislative aide fired for sending out a \"reprehensible\" e-mail depicting President Obama as two cartoonish white eyes peering from a black background.", "Sherri Goforth, a Tennessee state senator's aide, said she mistakenly sent the image \"to the wrong list of people.\"", "Obama's image is in the last square of a collage containing portraits of the previous 43 U.S. presidents.", "The e-mail, which was sent to other GOP staff members, was posted on the Internet Monday.", "Sherri Goforth, an administrative assistant to state Sen. Diane Black, R-Gallatin, has admitted she sent the e-mail May 28 with the title \"Historical Keepsake Photo.\"", "She said, without elaborating, that she mistakenly sent it \"to the wrong list of people.\"", "According to the Tennessean, a Nashville newspaper, a note on the e-mail said it was paid for by the Tennessee Republican Party, but GOP officials denied they produced it.", "Black leads the Tennessee Senate Republican Caucus.", "There was no comment from the White House as of Tuesday afternoon.", "Black rebuked Goforth but didn't dismiss her.", "\"I want to be sure that everyone understands that the communication was sent without my knowledge,\" Black said Tuesday afternoon.", "\"It absolutely does not represent the beliefs or opinions of my office.", "I want to be very clear about that.\"", "The senator said as soon as she found out about the e-mail, she consulted the Legislature's human resources office, then followed their advice.", "\"Ms. Goforth did get a verbal reprimand as well as a very strongly worded reprimand, written, that was put in her file that if this should ever occur again, that she would be terminated,\" Black said.", "Watch Sen. Black discuss her response » .", "\"This is an employee who has had a stellar record,\" Black said.", "She added that Goforth has worked in state government for more than 20 years, and has had a clean record.", "\"We followed policy.", "And that's what you do when someone breaks the rules, you follow policy,\" she said.", "A phone message left for Goforth by CNN was not answered.", "\"Is this indicative of what Senate Republicans think about our commander-in-chief?\"", "asked state Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester in a statement posted on the party's Web site.", "\"I am calling on Sen. Black to reject this racist smear and fire this staffer who, on state government time, on state government computers, using a state government e-mail account, launched this bigoted attack on our president,\" Forrester said.", "\"Keeping her on the staff would send the message that this type of behavior is condoned by the Senate Republican Caucus.\"", "\"This e-mail is reprehensible, insults the office of the president, and is embarrassing to all Tennesseans regardless of political party,\" Forrester said.", "Goforth told Christian Grantham of the Web site Nashville Is Talking that she had received a letter of reprimand from her superiors but will remain on the job.", "Grantham said Goforth told him she felt \"very bad about accidentally sending it to the wrong list\" of people.", "\"I inadvertently hit the wrong button,\" Grantham quoted Goforth as saying.", "\"I'm very sick about it, and it's one of those things I can't change or take back.\"", "Forrester, in his Web posting, said, \"Ms. Goforth does not seem to understand what she did wrong.", "She has apologized for 'sending [the e-mail] to the wrong list of people.'", "I believe that any list of people would have recognized this e-mail as offensive and hateful.\"", "State Rep. Johnny Shaw, D-Bolivar, a member of the black and Democratic caucuses, said Goforth should be dismissed.", "\"I don't think a reprimand is enough.", "I think this lady needs to go.", "I don't think she should be a part of the people who represent the state of Tennessee,\" Shaw said.", "He said Goforth and Black, as well as Republican Lt. Gov.", "and Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, should make public apologies for the incident.", "\"I am appalled. It's despicable. It's disgusting. It should not have happened, but it does happen,\" Shaw said.", "\"It is the president of our country that we're talking about.\"", "Several other black Democratic lawmakers agreed Goforth should quit.", "\"The last thing we need in the state of Tennessee is to send out the impression and the image that we are still stuck in some backwater mentality and culture that feels it's OK to depict the president of the United States in that fashion,\" state Rep. John Deberry Jr., D-Memphis, told CNN Radio.", "Forrester added: \"Unfortunately, Sherri Goforth's e-mail joins the list of shameful episodes by Tennessee Republicans, from the infamous 'Birds of a Feather' direct-mail piece that featured black crows with the heads of Barack Obama and [African-American] Rep. Nathan Vaughn, to the \"Barack the Magic Negro\" song that former Tennessee GOP Party Chairman Chip Saltsman sent to RNC members during his failed campaign for RNC chair.\"" ]	[ "E-mail shows U.S. presidents; Obama depicted as white eyes on black background .", "It was sent by aide to Diane Black, head of Tennessee Senate Republican Caucus .", "Aide says she sent it to \"the wrong list of people;\" Black says she won't be fired .", "Tennessee Democrats call the e-mail \"racist smear,\" call for aide to be fired ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3, 7, 9, 31 ]
[ "(CNN) -- \"A gruesome scene\" is how one investigator described the aftermath of five killings in Tennessee.", "A sixth body was found in Alabama.", "Police gather outside one of the scenes of mutliple slayings in Fayetteville, Tennessee, on Saturday.", "Kristin Helm of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation told CNN on Saturday that authorities have Jacob Shafer in custody in connection with the deaths.", "She added that authorities are not looking for additional suspects.", "Huntsville, Alabama, Police Sgt.", "Mickey Allen said Tennessee authorities told him a man confessed to a slaying in Huntsville, Alabama, and to five other killings in Fayetteville, Tennessee.", "Allen didn't identify the man.", "Shafer has been questioned by the TBI and is expected to face murder charges, Helm said.", "Sheriff Murray Blackwelder, who held an afternoon news conference, called the slayings \"one of the worst crimes Lincoln County has ever seen.\"", "He didn't describe how the Lincoln County, Tennessee, victims died.", "Dr. Bruce Levy, medical examiner for Tennessee, was working to identify the bodies found in that state, Helm said.", "Fayetteville police responded to a call to South Lincoln Road about 10 a.m. (11 a.m.", "ET), Blackwelder said.", "Police found three crime scenes and five bodies on that street, he said.", "The five victims, some of whom were related, were found in two homes, Helm said.", "Investigators think the killings occurred either Friday night or early Saturday, she said.", "The sixth body was found at a business in Huntsville, Sheriff Allen said.", "He said he is unsure of the connection between the crime scenes in Tennessee and Alabama.", "Huntsville is about 30 miles from Fayetteville.", "\"We have no clue yet as to what unfolded there and how it relates to here,\" Allen said.", "CNN's Mayra Cuevas-Nazario contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Man taken in custody by Tennessee authorities in six slayings .", "NEW: Suspect identified as Jacob Lee Shafer, who faces murder charges, TBI says .", "NEW: Authorities say an undientified man has confessed to the killings .", "Five bodies were found at two homes in Tennessee; one victim in Alabama ." ]	[ 6, 8, 15 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- \"Guiding Light\" will go dark in September after 72 years and 16,000 episodes, CBS announced Wednesday.", "Gina Tognoni is one of many performers who have appeared on \"Guiding Light\" over the years.", "The daytime soap opera's declining viewership led to the decision, according to a CBS spokeswoman.", "The show, which the Guinness Book of World Records lists as the longest-running television drama, first aired on NBC radio in 1937 as a 15-minute serial, the spokeswoman said.", "It moved to television on the CBS network in 1952.", "The last episode is set to air on September 18, she said.", "The show is produced in New York." ]	[ "\"Guiding Light\" originally was radio serial on NBC, debuted in 1937 .", "Show moved to CBS, which put it on TV in 1952 .", "Last episode of show to air September 18 ." ]	[ 4, 5, 6 ]
[ "(CNN Student News) -- June 1, 2009 .", "Quick Guide .", "A Look Back - Take a drive back in time as another American icon's wheels come off.", "Cybersecurity Concerns - Plug into the reasons why President Obama has cybersecurity concerns.", "Reusable Lessons - Step onto the campus of a school that's a model of sustainability.", "Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.", "THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.", "CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Carl Azuz and this is CNN Student News!", "It is the first day of June and our last week before summer break.", "Thank you very much for joining us.", "First Up: A Look Back .", "AZUZ: First up, a major move for the country's largest automaker as General Motors is expected to file for bankruptcy today.", "This comes one month after Chrysler, another of the so-called \"Big Three\" U.S. car companies, did the very same thing.", "Under the terms of General Motors' bankruptcy, the company will be reorganized and essentially taken over by the government.", "Thirty years ago, GM made up more than 40 percent of U.S. auto sales.", "Today, that number is 19 percent.", "The company's reported more than $90 billion in losses since 2005.", "As the bankruptcy process begins, Christine Romans looks back at the history of GM and the American car.", "(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Henry Ford started at the beginning of the last century with four wheels and a running board; 1908 was the birth of American car culture.", "That same year, General Motors was formed in Flint, Michigan.", "It wasn't until 1925 when the \"Big Three\" was complete with the formation of Chrysler Corporation.", "JOHN DAVIS, HOST, MOTORWEEK: When the Big Three emerged, they not only emerged as rivals that really gave Americans much better automobiles at the time, but they also cemented the American automobile as a world standard.", "ROMANS: \"As goes General Motors, so goes the nation.\"", "That phrase defined America's economic power for much of the last century.", "PETER MORICI, ECONOMIST, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: So many folks were either employed at General Motors or the other two major car makers, making steel and all the other components that go into cars.", "It just meant that if the automobile companies were prospering, the country was prospering, too.", "ROMANS: Today, there are 74,000 rank-and-file GM workers in the U.S.", "But in its heyday, GM was the largest industrial company in the world; a technology leader.", "By 1979, 600,000 people worked for GM.", "Those good jobs helped build America's middle class.", "DAVIS: It also allowed us to migrate out from the cities to have the quarter lot in a suburb, to basically get away from a lot of the congestion of the metropolitan areas.", "ROMANS: General Moters was the company that revolutionized what we drove, how we thought about our cars, and how we paid for them.", "GM invented auto loans and the model year.", "It was the first to hire designers instead of engineers to create new car concepts; think big fins and chrome of the 1950s and 60s.", "And everything changed.", "Ford adopted flashy fins with the Ford Fairlane, as did Chrysler with the popular Desoto.", "Automobiles from the Big Three put their stamp on popular culture, from music to movies to television.", "What's considered to be the first rock and roll song ever recorded was \"Rocket 88\" by Ike Turner, about a GM product.", "The Pontiac GTO, considered by many to be the first true muscle car, was showcased in a song by Ronnie and the Daytonas.", "RONNIE AND THE DAYTONAS, \"LITTLE GTO\": Little GTO, you really.... ROMANS: The Corvette on Route 66.", "The 1948 Ford in the iconic movie \"Grease.\"", "FROM \"GREASE\": Go grease lighting, go grease lighting... ROMANS: The TransAm in Smokey and the Bandit, and Archie Bunker's Old La Salle.", "CARROLL O'CONNOR AND JEAN STAPLETON, \"ALL IN THE FAMILY\": Gee, our Old La Salle ran great.", "Those were the days... (END VIDEO CLIP) Shoutout .", "GEORGE RAMSAY, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Schultz's civics classes at David Brearley Middle School in Kenilworth, New Jersey.", "Where did the word \"cyberspace\" first appear?", "Was it in a: A)Movie, B) Book, C) Scientific paper or D) Magazine article?", "You've got three seconds -- GO!", "Author William Gibson is credited with creating the word in a science fiction novel.", "That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!", "Cybersecurity Concerns .", "AZUZ: It may have started as science fiction, but these days, practically all of us, including the government, spend time in cyberspace.", "But President Obama says we're not as prepared as we should be, as a government or a country, for cyber-attacks.", "That's why he's planning to create a new position: cybersecurity coordinator.", "Jeanne Meserve explains the new job.", "(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: Hackers cut power to a skyscraper and then reprogram it to play Space Invaders in a spoof video on YouTube.", "But cybersecurity is not a laughing matter.", "U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: It's now clear this cyberthreat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation.", "MESERVE: Americans use the Internet to bank and shop and talk to one another.", "Electricity, water, transportation all depend on it.", "But every day, there are attacks.", "The White House estimates in the past two years cybercrime has cost Americans more than $8 billion.", "And last year alone, hackers stole one trillion dollars worth of business secrets.", "Military and intelligence networks have been penetrated, and tests have shown a cyberattack can destroy critical infrastructure, like this generator.", "President Obama says the country is not prepared.", "OBAMA: From now on, our digital infrastructure, the networks and computers we depend on every day, will be treated as they should be: as a strategic national asset.", "Protecting this infrastructure will be a national security priority.", "MESERVE: The president will hand pick a cybersecurity coordinator to integrate policies across government, work closely with the private sector, and coordinate the federal response to attacks.", "Still unknown: who will get the job.", "JAMES LEWIS, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: If you get the wrong person, or you put them in an office that doesn't have very much power, you can have the best plan in the world and it still won't work.", "MESERVE: The plan is short on specifics, though the president says government will not dictate security standards to private industry, and will not monitor private networks or Internet traffic.", "Security experts say they generally like the steps the administration is taking, but warn there are many more steps to take on the long road to securing the nation's cyber-infrastructure.", "Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Washington.", "(END VIDEO CLIP) Big Ben's Birthday!", "AZUZ: Heading across the Atlantic now to celebrate a big British birthday.", "Big Ben, one of the world's most famous clocks, turned 150 years old yesterday.", "Recently voted as Britain's favorite monument, it's actually just the 14-ton bell that's named \"Big Ben,\" although most people use it describe the tower and clock, too.", "Despite a couple disruptions over the years, Big Ben has helped keep London on time since 1859.", "Extra, Extra Innings .", "AZUZ: This college baseball game didn't last quite 150 years, but it did go into extra innings; 16 of them!", "Texas and Boston College took the field at 7 p.m. and left it at 2 a.m. after playing the longest game in NCAA history: 25 innings, almost 3 full games.", "At one point, a relief pitcher threw 13 scoreless innings.", "In the end, an RBI single helped Texas triumph, 3-2.", "Word to the Wise . RAMSAY: A Word to the Wise... sustainable (adjective) capable of being maintained with minimal long-term effects on the environment .", "source: www.dictionary.com .", "Reusable Lessons .", "AZUZ: Sustainability projects can be as simple as recycling paper and plastic and using recycled materials, or they can be as complex as altering the viscosity of waste oil to convert it into biodiesel fuel.", "There's one place in Atlanta, Georgia that's doing all of this: a school!", "Jacqui Jeras takes us on a tour of the campus's environmentally-friendly efforts.", "(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) JACQUI JERAS, CNN WEATHER ANCHOR: The botany classroom is the great outdoors for students at the Lovett School in Atlanta.", "ELLIOT MCCARTHY, THE LOVETT SCHOOL: This is something that we'll actually use later in life.", "JERAS: They're digging in the dirt, getting lessons in environmental sustainability.", "MCCARTHY: It's much healthier for you, it's less chemicals, it's completely natural and it costs less.", "JERAS: The school's organic garden is just the beginning.", "ALEX REYNOLDS, SCIENCE TEACHER: The idea that your labor can then nourish you is a life lesson, you know, and the fact that you take responsibility.", "If you do something wrong, you have to fix it.", "JERAS: Food from the garden goes to the cafeteria.", "Menus change depending on what's fresh.", "The dining hall is also trayless, saving thousands of gallons of water used to wash them.", "The cafeteria does more than just cook with sustainability in mind.", "For example, all of the oil that is used for fried foods is ultimately turned into biodiesel.", "That biofuel is used to fill up the school's maintenance vehicles for half the cost of gas.", "There is even a wind turbine on campus creating electricity.", "But the key is keeping the students involved.", "BILL DUNKEL, PRINCIPAL, THE LOVETT SCHOOL: It's really important for us to educate young people to be good citizens for the 21st century.", "THOMAS MACDONALD, THE LOVETT SCHOOL: It's my earth and my water and my air, too, so I dont want anybody trashing it.", "JERAS: Jacqui Jeras, CNN, Atlanta.", "(END VIDEO CLIP) Before We Go .", "AZUZ: Before we go: the answer to one of life's great mysteries.", "Why did the chicken cross the road?", "To get a donut! At least that's this bird brain's excuse.", "Alright, he's actually a rooster, but you get it.", "Every morning, he'd hear the opening bell at Scrumdiddilyumptious Donuts and dash across the street to get his complementary breakfast.", "Did heavy traffic ever scare him away from his risky run?", "Goodbye . AZUZ: We already told you, this guy's no chicken.", "Well, we will be back tomorrow.", "You guys have a great one." ]	[ "Take a drive back in time as another American icon's wheels come off .", "Plug into the reasons why President Obama has cybersecurity concerns .", "Step onto the campus of a school that's a model of sustainability ." ]	[ 2, 3, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Some Iranian-Americans, watching the post-election unrest in Iran, say the tug-of-war between the people and their hardline government has come to a head after three decades.", "Crowds demonstrated in Los Angeles, California on Monday, June 15 over the Iran election results.", "\"I am absolutely convinced that what we are witnessing is a turning point in the history of the Islamic Republic,\" said Dr. Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York City.", "\"Even if the Islamic Republic survives this crisis, it will no longer be as it used to be,\" added Dabashi.", "The contentious election results between conservative incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and reformist challenger Mir Hossein Moussavi sent many Iranians protesting in the streets, while others celebrated Ahmadinejad's apparent victory.", "Kaveh Afrasiabi, who has taught at Tehran University and Boston University and identifies himself as an independent, told CNN that Ahmadinejad's widespread support in rural areas and small towns was the reason for his win.", "In results announced hours after the polls closed, Ahmadinejad received more than 62 percent of the vote, a figure hotly disputed by Moussavi's supporters.", "With the credibility of Friday's election under scrutiny, how the Islamic Republic of Iran overcomes it and reclaims its legitimacy in the eyes of some of its own citizens and the international community remains to be seen.", "\"There is good reason to believe that many if not most of the pro-Moussavi demonstrators are gladly taking an opportunity to safely protest something bigger: their enormous discontent with the entire system as it stands,\" said Shirin Sadeghi, a Middle East analyst for the Huffington Post.", "The unstable political, social and economic climate has some scholars questioning the future of the Islamic Republic.", "\"They are either going to crack down severely or they are going to cave in -- it could go either way,\" Dabashi said of the conservatives who now dominate Iran's government.", "Many Iranian-Americans say they see this as their opportunity for change.", "\"This is the best chance Iranians have to evolve to a better situation,\" said Dr. Ali Nayeri, a professor at the University of California at Irvine.", "That chance has sparked an unprecedented wave of spontaneous demonstrations not only within Iran but also thousands of miles away from Tehran --- scenes unparalleled since the 1979 revolution.", "\"Thirty years ago we had the war with Iraq.", "Now we have an internal war with our president and the fundamentalists,\" said Reza Goharzad, a political analyst who worked with Moussavi when he was prime minister of Iran.", "Goharzad, of Southern California, was among thousands of voters to cast an absentee ballot.", "\"This was the first time I voted in 30 years,\" said Goharzad.", "The enthusiasm that drove record numbers of Iranian-Americans to the voting booths was overshadowed by disappointment when a shortage of ballots prevented hundreds from voting.", "In addition, the election results were announced before many of the voting booths in the U.S. had closed.", "Alex Vatanka, senior Middle East analyst at IHS Jane's, a provider of defense and security information, said Iran's supreme ruler, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, may have miscalculated the mood of the country when he endorsed Ahmadinejad's victory before the country's election authority made the final call.", "Khamenei has since asked the authority, the Guardian Council, to recount some of the votes.", "But Moussavi is asking for fresh elections.", "Goharzad, like many other voters, questions the legitimacy of the election.", "He wants to know where his vote went.", "A student activist in Dallas, Texas, echoed that sentiment.", "\"The election volunteer at my voting location said that they had 500 ballots, which was not enough for the thousand or so people that turned out to vote,\" said the activist, who wanted to remain anonymous because he plans to visit Iran soon.", "For the first time, Iranian-Americans say, the post-revolution generation has seen the power of their unity unfold in masses.", "They say this has given Iranians at home and abroad hope that reform could be within their reach, if the ruling mullahs are willing to allow it.", "\"We are seeing a rise of a new generation of Iranians who are not taking it anymore,\" said Dabashi.", "\"This is no longer just about this election, this is full-fledged civil disobedience,\" he added.", "The divide within the Islamic Republic has pitted the reformists against the conservatives.", "\"The big difference between these protests and the student riots of 1999 and 2001 is that we are seeing senior caliber officials like Mir Hossein Moussavi, Mehdi Karrubi and Mohammad Khatami and Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani supporting the demonstrations,\" said Vatanka.", "Karrubi is a former Parliament speaker.", "Khatami and Rafsanjani are former presidents.", "Some experts say where Iran is headed actually has a lot to do with its past.", "\"Rafsanjani made no secret of his disdain for Ahmadinejad ahead of the election, and even back in 2005 when he lost the second round runoff to Ahmadinejad,\" said Sadeghi.", "Rafsanjani is chairman of the Assembly of Experts and oversees the 86-member body, which is responsible for appointing the supreme leader and monitoring his performance.", "Behind closed doors, Iran's political parties are caught in the middle of a power struggle between Supreme Leader Khamenei and Rafsanjani.", "Rafsanjani's role as chairman of the assembly gives him the ability to influence that body's attitudes toward Khamenei, Vatanka said.", "That could only add more fuel to the political fire and social unrest in the streets, analysts say.", "Politics aside, at the end of the day, Iranian expatriates such as Mitra Gholami, who participated in the historic 1979 protests, feel a sense of deja vu.", "Gholami, now an Atlanta resident, fled Iran with her three children 15 years ago.", "\"I want people to have a normal life,\" said Gholami.", "\"I want them to have freedom.\"" ]	[ "Some Iranians-Americans believe the Islamic Republic possibly is eroding .", "Protests in Iran continue after disputed presidential election .", "Tensions between Iran's clergy could be a reason for the unrest, analyst says .", "Iranian-Americans say they hope more freedom is result of unrest ." ]	[ 0, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The recent hacking of a Twitter employee's personal e-mail account is raising questions about the security of storing personal information and business data on the Internet.", "A Twitter co-founder says password toughness is important to online security.", "The Web has been buzzing since a hacker allegedly broke into a Twitter administrator's personal e-mail account about a month ago and used that information to access the employee's Google Apps account.", "That account housed some of Twitter's private financial documents and notes, according to Twitter's official blog.", "Some of those documents circulated the blogosphere on Wednesday, and TechCrunch, a technology blog, published a Twitter financial forecast.", "The hacker sent 310 documents to the tech site, according to a post by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch's founder and co-editor.", "In what appears to be a separate incident, a hacker broke into Twitter chief executive Evan Williams' wife's e-mail account and then accessed Williams' PayPal and Amazon accounts, Twitter says.", "It's unclear what if any impact the incidents will have on the future of cloud computing, the idea that documents and computing power can be stored \"in the cloud\" of the Internet rather than on desktops or laptops.", "Many tech blogs are weighing in on the hacking's impact.", "Some see the incident as an indication of serious security flaws at Twitter.", "Others say it's a sign Twitter has gotten big, and any rising company makes a good target for a cyberattack.", "People outside the Silicon Valley micro-blogging company, such as Twitter account holders, reportedly were not affected in the incident.", "\"This was not a hack on the Twitter service, it was a personal attack followed by the theft of private company documents,\" Twitter co-founder Biz Stone writes on the company's official blog.", "Google's suite of online applications, which allows users to share and store calendars, spreadsheets and text documents, is not to blame for the hacking, Stone said in the post, adding that Twitter continues to use Google Apps.", "\"This isn't about any flaw in Web apps,\" Stone writes.", "\"It speaks to the importance of following good personal security guidelines such as choosing strong passwords.\"", "Security experts say it's best for users to create new passwords for each of their online accounts.", "The passwords generally should be complicated, combining letters, numbers and symbols.", "And they should be changed often.", "CNET, a tech site that partners with CNN, says the hack highlights how interconnected information is online -- and how vulnerable that setup is to attack.", "\"Although it seems that Twitter has been thrust into this situation a bit unfairly, a hack along these lines could have happened to the executives of more Web companies than anybody would like to admit,\" Josh Lowensohn and Caroline McCarthy write on the news site.", "\"What it really highlights is the extreme interconnectedness of the social Web: with the likes of e-mail contact importing and data-portability services like Facebook Connect now commonplace, a savvy hacker can have access to multiple accounts simply by accessing one.\"", "Ken Colburn, a computer security expert, recently told CNN.com/Live that Google Docs are \"as secure as anything you're going to do on the Internet.", "It's not any more or less secure than Microsoft Office.\"", "Writing for Mashable, a blog that covers online social media, Stan Schroeder says the latest Twitter breach proves the micro-blogging site needs to address nagging security flaws.", "\"There have been so many problems [at Twitter] over the past couple of months that it's getting hard to keep track of them,\" he writes.", "\"It's time to fix it once and for all, because these security issues are a dark shadow looming over the otherwise bright future of this company.\"", "Adam Ostrow, editor-in-chief at Mashable, says the hacking is \"another embarrassing moment in Twitter's torrid growth, but nothing that's likely to bring the house down.\"", "Peter Kafka, senior editor at AllThingsD.com, offers another analogy.", "\"This looks roughly akin to having your underwear drawer rifled: Embarrassing, but no one's really going to be surprised about what's in there,\" he writes.", "Another debate happening online concerns TechCrunch's decision to publish some of the information stolen from Twitter.", "Arrington, of TechCrunch, writes that \"a few of the documents have so much news value that we think it's appropriate to publish them.\"", "Still, \"there is clearly an ethical line here that we don't want to cross, and the vast majority of these documents aren't going to be published, at least by us,\" he writes.", "Some, including TechCrunch readers, have criticized the blog's decision to publish any of the information.", "Twitter has said it is seeking legal counsel on the matter.", "\"We are in touch with our legal counsel about what this theft means for Twitter, the hacker, and anyone who accepts and subsequently shares or publishes these stolen documents,\" Stone writes on the site's blog.", "Ostrow, of Mashable, writes that there's nothing \"really juicy\" in the Twitter documents.", "\"The bottom line seems to be this: your Twitter accounts are safe, but there are a number of documents that Twitter would rather not have published publicly in other people's hands,\" he says.", "\"But if you're expecting something really juicy (like, how Twitter plans to make money), you should probably prepare to be disappointed.\"", "What do you think of the news?", "Are you worried about security and cloud computing?", "Do you use Google Docs and will you continue to?", "What about TechCrunch's decision to publish the info stolen from Twitter?", "Feel free to chime in with comments below." ]	[ "A hacker allegedly broke into a Twitter administrator's personal e-mail account .", "The hacker stole Twitter financial documents and leaked them to several blogs .", "Web is abuzz with opinions on the hacking's impact and the ethics of posting the info .", "Twitter says it is seeking legal counsel on the matter ." ]	[ 0, 2, 34 ]
[ "Editor's note: Ralph J. Begleiter teaches communication, journalism and political science at the University of Delaware.", "During two decades as CNN's \"world affairs correspondent,\" Begleiter was the network's most widely traveled reporter.", "Ralph J. Begleiter says the Pentagon's new policy on media access to coffins of war dead is a milestone.", "NEWARK, Delaware (CNN) -- The reversal of two decades of policy on images of returning war casualties is an important and welcome milestone for the American people.", "The Pentagon's decision announced Thursday allowing media coverage of coffins of war victims returning to Dover Air Force Base -- if families agree -- restores to its rightful, honorable place the immense value of the sacrifice American troops make on behalf of their nation.", "It allows the American people to honor the dignified and respectful return of war casualties to home soil for the last time.", "Although no one should have a veto over the nation's ability to pay respects to its fallen troops, I believe most families will decide that their sons and daughters deserve to be recognized publicly for their sacrifice.", "These men and women enlisted in the military for their nation.", "They fought for their nation.", "They died for their nation.", "Their return should be respectfully and publicly acknowledged by their nation.", "The ban on images of returning casualties started accidentally, and without any reference to the \"privacy\" of the families of those who gave their lives in service to the nation.", "The accident of media history occurred in December 1989 when poor White House scheduling placed President George H.W.", "Bush before live television cameras just as the first American casualties were arriving at Dover Air Force Base from the U.S. invasion of Panama.", "CNN and two other major TV networks fired up their split-screen technology, showing on one side the president joking with White House reporters just before the Christmas holiday -- and on the other the sober images of flag-draped military caskets being carried ceremoniously by honor guards across the tarmac at Dover.", "After the holidays, the president appealed publicly to reporters to \"help me\" overcome a public impression that he had been insensitive on TV about the returning casualties.", "News media had been covering the return of war casualties since World War II.", "Some military personnel believe the showing of those images -- and others from the jungles of Vietnam -- contributed to a gradual growth of anti-war sentiment during the 1960s.", "Just days before the Gulf War began in January 1991, the new media policy was formalized in a cable sent by the Defense Department to its posts: There would be no media coverage of returning casualties at Dover or other stops along the way home.", "The directive made no mention of anyone's privacy but portrayed the ban on coverage of returning casualties as an effort to ease pressure on stressed families, who might feel obliged to travel to Dover to witness the return of their loved one with news media watching.", "Over the next decade, several exceptions were made to the ban on media coverage at Dover, including for the return of Navy personnel killed in the bombing of the USS Cole off Yemen's coast, just weeks before the election that brought the second President Bush into office.", "Ironically, throughout the ban on media coverage of returning casualties, the Pentagon continued documenting this important part of any war by assigning military and government contract photographers to take pictures of the flag-draped caskets.", "Those images, among the most poignant, respectful and dignified tributes to troops who died in service of their nation, were carefully maintained by the Defense Department.", "They were used for training of honor guards and for commemorating the significance of war casualties.", "Although taken by the government, those images were withheld from public view.", "From the aftermath of September 11, 2001, through the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the Pentagon kept taking those pictures even as it expanded its ban on media coverage of returning casualties -- now arguing that such war images would somehow invade the privacy of families of the deceased troops.", "It was those images that a series of Freedom of Information Act requests pried loose in 2005 after months of legal skirmishing.", "(Those requests were initiated by Russ Kick, editor of a Web site called \"The Memory Hole.\"", "When the Pentagon refused to respond substantively to my own series of Freedom of Information Act requests, the National Security Archive at George Washington University and I took the government to court with a lawsuit over the images.)", "Just weeks before a federal judge was expected to rule in the case, the Pentagon pre-empted a precedent-setting order by releasing voluntarily more than 700 images of returning casualties.", "They remain to this day available to the public on the National Security Archive Web site.", "At the time Kick and I were seeking to make the Pentagon's pictures public, major U.S. news organizations were busy suiting up to cover the invasion of Iraq; they did not engage their lawyers to ask for access to Dover to witness the return of those who sacrificed their lives in the war and they have declined to do so since then.", "The Pentagon policy, which had come into being over the embarrassment of a president, evolved after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, into a complete ban preventing the American people from seeing the most important single measure of the cost of war.", "So desperate, apparently, was the White House desire to block public view of such images that military photographers at Dover were ordered to stop documenting the returns.", "To my knowledge, since 2005, no further photos have been taken showing those emotional moments when a casualty touches home soil for the last time.", "The Obama administration's reversal of two decades of policy on the visibility of returning casualties should have two immediate effects: .", "Public opinion -- consistently supportive of making the war casualty images public -- has reached a new high.", "Most recently, a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday reported that 67 percent of those questioned said they think the government should allow the public to see photos of caskets of U.S. troops at an Air Force base.", "I have had the privilege of speaking with a number of family members who have lost loved ones in Afghanistan or Iraq.", "Most think the pictures should be public, but only after families authorize it.", "This dramatic change in government policy should once again allow all Americans to see the full human cost of war, while paying respect to those who served their nation as well as to their families.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ralph J. Begleiter." ]	[ "Ralph J. Begleiter: U.S. policy on photographing war dead was result of coincidence .", "He says it was due to split-screen image of president joking while coffins returning .", "Begleiter: New policy allows the nation to pay proper respect to war dead .", "He urges government to resume using its photographers to document the toll ." ]	[ 2, 4 ]
[ "TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- In an unprecedented move in Iranian politics, a reformist presidential candidate accused President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of tainting the country's image by questioning the Holocaust and by wielding a reckless leadership style.", "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who came to power in 2005, is seeking a second term in office.", "The frontrunners in Iran's presidential race clashed during a fiery debate broadcast to a national television audience on Wednesday evening.", "The verbal jousting between Ahmadinejad and opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi -- a former prime minister and reformist candidate who poses a threat to the firebrand Iranian president -- lasted an hour and half.", "Mousavi said Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to a dictatorship.", "\"There are two ways of confronting the country's problems,\" Mousavi said.", "\"One is through a management style based on adventurism, instability, play-acting, exaggerations, wrongdoing, being secretive, self-importance, superficiality and ignoring the law.", "The second way is based on realism, respect, openness, collective wisdom and avoiding extremism.\"", "He said Ahmadinejad's denials of the Holocaust had repulsed Iran's allies.", "\"This has greatly damaged us,\" Mousavi said.", "The Iranian president called the Holocaust, in which six million Jews perished at the hands of the Nazis, \"a big deception.\"", "Ahmadinejad also has lashed out at the United States and Israel, calling at various times for the end of Israel's existence as a Jewish state.", "In addition to Mousavi, two other challengers -- former parliament speaker Mahdi Karoudi, another reformist, and hard-liner Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Expediency Council -- hope to unseat Ahmadinejad in the June 12 election.", "Neither took part in Wednesday's debate.", "The outcome of the election will set the tone for Iran's policies on crucial issues, including its nuclear ambitions and the possibility of bilateral talks with Washington.", "Wednesday night's event was the first of four debates that will pair two of the candidates against each other ahead of next week's presidential elections.", "Ahmadinejad, known for his attacks against his foes, accused Mousavi of colluding with Iran's former presidents Mohammad Khatami and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.", "Ahmadinejad, seeking a second term in office, accused the two Iranian figures of mismanagement, corruption and the masterminding of a plot to force him from power.", "\"I have tolerated all the personal insults and lies for four years and I forgive those responsible for them,\" Ahmadinejad said.", "\"But I do not have the authority to turn a blind eye when the people and the people's choice and their interests are insulted.\"", "Ahmadinejad accused Mousavi and the two former leaders of standing against the Iranian nation and conspiring against him.", "Ahmadinejad said that, in the early days of his presidency, Rafsanjani sent a message to the king of a Persian Gulf state that said: \"Do not worry.", "This government will fall within six months.\"", "Hours after the debate, Ahmadinejad and Rafsanjani met at a ceremony commemorating the death of Imam Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution that overthew the ruling monarchy in 1979 and established Iran as an Islamic republic.", "The meeting was cordial, with Rafsanjani holding on to Ahmadinejad's arm throughout their talk, the semi-official Fars news agency said.", "Rafsanjani, a powerful cleric who heads the Expediency Council and Assembly of Experts, remains an influential figure in Iran.", "He was president from 1989 to 1997 and then attempted to position himself in the political center in the 2005 elections, when he publicly favored a policy that would relax tensions with the United States.", "The two nations have had no diplomatic ties since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.", "Rafsanjani lost to the ultra-conservative Ahmadinejad, who was then Tehran's mayor.", "Ahmadinejad's accusations against the former Iranian presidents mark a change in traditional politics, in that he named them.", "Normally, charges are made via innuendo.", "Though the targets are clear, they go unnamed.", "The change could indicate that he has the backing of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.", "Analysts say that, without at least a nod from Khamenei, Ahmadinejad would not dare implicate members of Iran's powerful inner circle.", "Outside the TV station, supporters of both candidates stayed well after the debate had ended, chanting slogans and not fully dispersing until 4 a.m., according to the semi-official Fars news agency.", "CNN's Shirzad Bozorgmehr in Tehran contributed to this story." ]	[ "In a first for Iran, nation holds debates televised live ahead of presidential elections .", "Mir Hossein Mousavi accuses Ahmadinejad of behaving like a dictator .", "Mousavi: Ahmadinejad's denials of the Holocaust had repulsed Iran's allies.", "Ahmadinejad accused Iran's former presidents of corruption, mismanagement ." ]	[ 8, 15, 16, 17 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Despite a bleak economic environment featuring wide-ranging layoffs and rising unemployment, the nation's premier law enforcement agency is touting \"one of the largest hiring blitzes in our 100-year history.\"", "The FBI is about to embark on its biggest hiring spree since immediately after the September 11, 2001.", "The FBI posted openings for 850 special agents and more than 2,100 professional support personnel.", "Officials say it's the largest FBI job posting since immediately after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.", "The FBI's unexpectedly large number of job openings results more from attrition and a wave of retirements than from growing government appropriations, Bureau officials told CNN.", "The FBI routinely advertises openings for individuals with critical skills in computer science and language fluency.", "But John Raucci, assistant director of the FBI's Human Resources Division, says current needs are much more wide-ranging.", "\"We're also looking for professionals in a wide variety of fields who have a deep desire to help protect our nation from terrorists, spies and others who wish us harm,\" Raucci said.", "The lengthy list of openings includes positions in finance and accounting, security, intelligence analysis, training and education, nursing and counseling, physical surveillance, electrical engineering, physical and social sciences, and auto mechanics.", "Procedures for applying and a full listing of available positions are posted on the Web site fbijobs.gov.", "\"This is a great time to apply for a great job in the FBI,\" said the bureau's chief spokesman, Richard Kolko.", "Officials note at least a few jobs are currently available in every one of the FBI's 56 field offices across the nation.", "The FBI lists openings throughout the year, but seldom has anything close to the current number of available positions.", "The present job postings expire on January 16, but a new, possibly smaller set of openings will be posted shortly thereafter, the agency said." ]	[ "FBI goes on biggest hiring blitz since 9/11 .", "Postings on www.fbijobs.gov seek 850 agents, 2,100 support staffers .", "Retirements, attrition responsible for openings, FBI says ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Latin American nations overwhelmingly rejected nearly 50 years of U.S. policy toward Cuba on Wednesday, voting at a meeting of the Organization of American States in Honduras to revoke the communist nation's 1962 suspension from the multinational group.", "Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales says farewell to Hillary Clinton at Wednesday's OAS meeting.", "Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales said at the end of the two-day meeting in the city of San Pedro Sula that the OAS had rectified a serious error.", "The United States led the push to suspend Cuba from the OAS at the height of the Cold War, also breaking diplomatic relations with the island nation in 1961 and establishing an economic embargo the next year.", "\"This is an important message to the whole world, not just our continent,\" Zelaya said, later adding, \"The Cold War ended today in San Pedro Sula.\"", "The United States sought to obtain concessions from Cuba this year in exchange for readmission to the 35-nation group.", "In particular, the United States wants greater political and personal freedoms for the island's 11 million citizens.", "Cuba rejected any preconditions, with former President Fidel Castro saying this week Cuba had no interest in rejoining the OAS.", "Although the OAS lifted Cuba's suspension, Latin leaders did not automatically welcome the nation back.", "Instead, the OAS set up a mechanism by which Cuba could rejoin.", "Much of that dialogue will center on human rights.", "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she was \"pleased\" with the outcome, which came on a voice vote with no opposition.", "\"The member nations of the OAS showed flexibility and openness today, and as a result we reached a consensus that focuses on the future instead of the past: Cuba can come back into the OAS in the future if the OAS decides that its participation meets the purposes and principles of the organization, including democracy and human rights,\" Clinton said in a statement.", "She attended the two-day meeting but left before the vote to travel to Egypt, where President Obama was to make a major address to the Muslim world Thursday.", "Some analysts agreed with Clinton's assessment.", "\"The OAS emerged from a heated debate with a constructive compromise that revokes an obsolete Cold War resolution suspending Cuba,\" said Robert Pastor, who was a Latin America national security adviser for President Carter in the late 1970s.", "\"But rather than invite Cuba to join the OAS, which Cuba said it would not do, it invited Cuba to initiate a dialogue on the purposes and principles of the OAS.\"", "Others saw the vote as an outright rebuke for an outdated U.S. policy.", "\"I wouldn't say it was inevitable, but it was almost so,\" said Wayne Smith, who worked as a top level official at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba from 1958 to 1961 during the Cuban Revolution that brought Castro to power.", "\"The U.S. was totally isolated on this,\" said Smith, who also was the chief of mission at the U.S. interests section in Havana from 1979-82.", "\"The United States had some legitimate points on readmitting Cuba,\" Smith said, but went about it wrong.", "Larry Birns, director of the Washington-based Council on Hemispheric Affairs policy institute, saw the vote as a personal defeat for Clinton.", "\"This will be presented in Latin America as a big defeat for Hillary Clinton because people are not ready to take a swat at Obama yet,\" Birns said.", "\"It was hers to win, but she managed to lose it.\"", "The United States is being \"hypercautious,\" he said, rather than taking imaginative and bold steps toward normalizing relations.", "Analysts said many people in Latin America expected more from the newly elected Obama, who ran on a mantra of \"change.\"", "Said Smith: \"The Obama policy has reflected so little change that the other countries are just fed up.\"", "And many Latins gauge the United States -- long considered with suspicion, if not outright hostility -- by its stance toward Cuba.", "\"The road to rehabilitating relations with Latin America is through Havana,\" Birns said.", "\"That's something that the Latin Americans are very responsive to.\"", "Heather Berkman, a Latin America analyst with the Eurasia Group consulting firm, saw the vote as \"a largely symbolic gesture that will have little impact in the short term either on improving democracy and human rights on the island, or on increasing the likelihood that the U.S. will lift the embargo of the island.\"", "And the vote could have a backlash, she said.", "\"There will be a strong reaction among certain members of U.S. Congress who are passionately opposed to improving U.S.-Cuba relations while the Castros remain in power,\" Berkman said.", "That reaction was quick to come Wednesday.", "\"Today we witnessed an example of the Obama administration's absolute diplomatic incompetence and its unrestricted appeasement of the enemies of the United States,\" Cuban-American U.S. Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, R-Florida, and Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Florida, said in a joint statement.", "\"The OAS is a putrid embarrassment.\"", "Other Cuban-American members of Congress also released statements criticizing the vote.", "The United States provides about 60 percent of OAS funding, Berkman said, and some members of Congress have threatened to withhold the money if Cuba is allowed back into the organization.", "Some old Latin America hands agree that the OAS may have hurt itself.", "\"I never cease to be amazed at how destructive some of these Latin American leaders can be,\" said Otto Reich, who served in high-level Latin American posts for Presidents Reagan, George H.W.", "Bush and George W. Bush.", "\"They chose to revive something out of the Cold War.\"", "The Latin leaders, Reich said, misread Washington.", "\"Some of these countries have further isolated themselves from the Obama administration,\" Reich said.", "\"It will be a long time before they regain the trust of the American government.\"", "Reich, a strong anti-communist, also opposed the vote on ideological grounds.", "\"The problem is that the conditions that suspended Cuba still exist,\" he said.", "\"Cuba hasn't changed.\"" ]	[ "OAS revokes a 1962 decision suspending Cuba's membership .", "The 35-member Organization of American States met this week in Honduras .", "U.S. had led push toward the 1962 suspension during Cold War's height .", "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she's \"pleased\" with the outcome ." ]	[ 0, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A U.N. special investigator called for the resignation of top Kenyan officials and sweeping changes in the country's security forces to end reported widespread killings by police across the African nation.", "The report urged President Mwai Kibaki to publicly acknowledge his commitment to ending the killings.", "\"The special rapporteur concluded that police in Kenya frequently execute individuals and that a climate of impunity prevails,\" Philip Alston said in a report a recently submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.", "\"Most troubling is the existence of police death squads operating on the orders of senior police officials and charged with eliminating suspected leaders and members of criminal organizations.\"", "The report calls for the resignation of Kenya's attorney general and the immediate replacement of the police commissioner.", "It also says Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki should publicly acknowledge his commitment to ending unlawful killings by the police.", "The Kenyan government expressed its \"deep displeasure\" with the report, questioning the special investigator's \"approach, conduct and method of work.\"", "\"The government expresses grave concern regarding the allegations contained in the report by the special rapporteur,\" said Alfred Mutua, a spokesman for the Kenyan government.", "\"His questioning of the very basis of the Kenyan state and, in particular, its institutions is totally unacceptable and impinges on Kenya's sovereignty.\"", "Alston also accused government security forces of torturing and killing hundreds of men in a March 2008 crackdown on a militia in the Mt.", "Elgon district, in western Kenya.", "And he said there was compelling evidence that what he called police death squads were operating in Nairobi and Central Province with a mandate to \"exterminate\" suspected Mungiki gang members.", "\"These are not \"rogue\" squads, but police who are acting on the explicit orders of their superiors,\" he said.", "The Mungiki militia, which is loyal to Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe, began as a religious sect, but over the years has morphed into a gang that runs protection rackets -- particularly in the slums.", "The U.N. investigator suggested Kibaki acknowledge the alleged police killings and commit to stop them.", "He also advocated creating an independent civilian police oversight body, and said the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court should investigate violence after the 2007 election.", "He urged the government to create a witness protection program as well.", "Alston, who investigates human-rights problems around the world for the United Nations, traveled to Kenya at the government's invitation.", "He stayed for 10 days in mid-February while 100 interviews were conducted in the U.N. member nation.", "There is hope for Kenya despite his criticism, Alston said.", "\"While the existing situation is bad, it is far from intractable,\" the report says.", "\"If it so chooses, Kenya can significantly reduce the prevalence of unlawful killings.\"" ]	[ "Report: Police death squads operate on the orders of senior officials .", "Calls for resignation of attorney general, replacement of police commissioner .", "Philip Alston accuses security forces of killing hundreds of men in 2008 crackdown .", "Kenya questions investigator's \"approach, conduct and method of work\"" ]	[ 4, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sir Edmund Hillary has been laid to rest in New Zealand after thousands paid tribute to a mountaineer whose conquest of Mt Everest in 1953 was one of the 20th century's defining moments.", "A last farewell to Sir Edmund Hillary.", "Guests filled Auckland's Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral and an overflow area next door for a service.", "Among the guests were politicians, mountaineers and friends.", "Lady Hillary sat with family and Prime Minister Helen Clark.", "In the congregation were members of Nepal's Sherpa community and Buddhist monks.", "In front of them, Hillary's coffin was draped in a New Zealand flag and covered in wreaths.", "See photos of the funeral service » .", "As the service began, Sherpas laid Tibetan prayer scarves on the coffin.", "In Nepal, schools were due to ring bells as the service started.", "Hillary's son, Peter, told the congregation: \"Adventure was compulsory growing up in the Hillary household.", "He took us to the most extraordinary places.\"", "His daughter, Sarah spoke of a childhood where Sir Edmund was planning expeditions, and coming home to a family eager to see him again.", "\"When asked at primary school what my father did, I was unable to find an answer.\"", "Clark said: \"He was a role model for a generation of New Zealanders... We mourn as a nation because we know we are saying goodbye to a friend.\"", "On Monday, New Zealanders filed past Hillary's casket as they paid final respects in Auckland's Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral.", "Four soldiers, rifles at rest, stood guard as ordinary New Zealanders said goodbye to a national hero, whose achievements are known around the world.", "Hillary's widow attended the tribute, which featured Maori song and dance.", "Clark, called it a celebration of a \"very great\" life.", "Hillary, who was 88, died at Auckland City Hospital on January 11.", "On May 29, 1953, Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa guide, became the first men to climb the 29,035 feet to the top of Everest and safely return.", "Hillary, who served during World War II in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, began climbing while in high school and traveled to the central Himalayas to join a British party exploring the southern face of Everest in 1951.", "He returned in 1953, when he and Norgay made their ascent -- spending 15-30 minutes at the summit.", "He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II on his return to England, but continued exploring -- reaching the South Pole by tractor in 1958, joining the first group to climb Antarctica's Mount Herschel in 1967 and boating east Himalayan rivers and the Ganges.", "His Himalayan Trust has helped build schools, hospitals and airstrips in Nepal since 1961.", "He was also a strong supporter of environmental causes and worked to improve the lives of Nepal's Sherpas.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "New Zealand says final goodbye to national hero Sir Edmund Hillary .", "In the congregation is family, Nepalese Sherpas, politicians and friends .", "Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first men to climb Mount Everest ." ]	[ 0, 3, 20 ]
[ "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Bombs in Baghdad and Baquba killed four people, two police officers among them, and wounded seven others Sunday morning, an Interior Ministry official said.", "A wounded Iraqi woman cries at a Baquba hospital after being caught in a blast Sunday at a police building.", "One death came about 9 a.m. when a parked car bomb detonated near the Buratha Shiite mosque in northwestern Baghdad.", "The blast apparently targeted a convoy belonging to an endowment that manages Shiite mosques in the war-ravaged nation.", "Three people were wounded in the explosion.", "A roadside bomb attack an hour earlier struck a police patrol in western Baghdad's Mansour district, the Interior Ministry official said.", "Two police officers were killed and four others were wounded, he said.", "In another attack targeting authorities, a suicide car bomber slammed into the emergency police headquarters in central Baquba about 9:30 a.m., a Baquba police official said.", "Twelve people were hurt in the blast, including three police officers.", "The blast also damaged the police headquarters and three civilian automobiles, the police official said.", "The suicide bomber was the only person killed in the blast.", "The U.S. military told CNN it has no evidence of a reported attack by al Qaeda in Iraq militants on an Iraqi village near Baquba on Saturday.", "A Baquba police official said at least 10 people were killed when the AQI insurgents raided the village of Adwaila -- home to both Sunni and Shiite Iraqis -- who have opposed al Qaeda, making the village a target.", "\"CF [coalition forces] and IA [Iraqi army] searched the area by air and by ground for several hours and found no evidence of this attack,\" Task Force Iron spokeswoman Maj. Peggy Kageleiry told CNN in an e-mail sent on Sunday.", "\"An IA team that was called to investigate the alleged incident was attacked by small arms fire and not anywhere on the scale described in the original report from the media.\"", "The police official said al Qaeda in Iraq insurgents launched mortars into the village north of Baquba and then sent in dozens of fighters with small arms to storm the village.", "The police officials aid at least five homes were burned and destroyed.", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report." ]	[ "A parked car bomb explodes outside an organization that manages mosques .", "Two police officers killed in roadside bomb attack in Baghdad's Mansour district .", "Suicide car bomber dies after slamming into Baquba police building, injuring 12 ." ]	[ 5, 6, 7 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Director of National Intelligence is replacing the agency's inspector general just days after the public release of a blistering report critical of the DNI's office.", "DNI head Dennis Blair announced Friday Justice Department official Roslyn Mazer will replace Inspector General Edward McGuire as the DNI's internal watchdog.", "The inspector general's role is to examine the operations of the office and investigate any allegations of waste, fraud or misconduct.", "Earlier this week, Maguire testified before Congress about his report on the state of the DNI's office, outlining rampant communication problems, continuing turf battles within the intelligence community and financial mismanagement.", "All of those problems were supposed to be addressed when the position of DNI was created by Congress in 2004 to look at the intelligence failures associated with the 9/11 terrorism attacks and the claims of Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction.", "The classified inspector general report was completed in November 2008, but was not made public until this week.", "DNI spokeswoman Wendy Morigi said Maguire's departure has nothing to do with his report.", "She claimed Blair, who assumed his position two months ago, wanted to bring his own leadership team.", "\"The director appreciates the efforts and work of the previous inspector general and will continue to build on some of the suggested reforms,\" Morigi said." ]	[ "Inspector General Edward McGuire is being replaced as DNI's internal watchdog .", "Maguire's departure comes after blistering report critical of DNI .", "Report details turf battles within intelligence community, financial mismanagement ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Stumped on a tough decision?", "New Web sites are there to help.", "Hunch, a site open to the public Monday, asks questions and helps people make decisions.", "Hunch, a site that launches for the public Monday, will consider your quandary by getting to know you, asking you a series of questions and then spitting out three decisions.", "Another site, Let Simon Decide, makes a similar attempt.", "Caterina Fake, co-founder of the photo-sharing community Flickr, says she created Hunch not because people need help with emotional decisions but because it's too tough to find smart information online.", "You often have to replicate someone else's research, which is a waste, she said.", "Tech bloggers seem to be pleased with the effort.", "\"For the most part, I was impressed, though it quickly became clear that Hunch isn't capable of magically making up your mind for you,\" wrote Jason Kincaid, a reporter at TechCrunch, a technology blog.", "He called the site \"very clean and unintimidating.\"", "Fake spoke with CNN about decision making, her nerdy past and the power of collective knowledge.", "The following is an edited transcript: .", "CNN: Where did you get the idea for Hunch?", "Fake: It's a user-generated content site similar to Flickr, but the unit is not a photograph but a decision.", "And so it's sort of a similar thing in that way.", "We kind of built the system so people can contribute to it.", "They can ask questions on there and suggest questions.", "And then you sort of codify it into a decision tree.", "CNN: So you're answering questions about yourself?", "Fake: Well, there are two components.", "So you answer questions about yourself, and there's a little module that says things like, \"Alien abductions: real or fake?\"", "And what [Hunch] does is, it then puts together a profile of you, a taste profile.", "And then you can go into the system and ask it any question that's in the system.", "So it's things like, \"What HD-TV should I buy?\"", "or \"Where should I go to college?\"", "or, you know, \"Where should I eat in San Diego on a Saturday night?\"", "It could be just about anything.", "Once it kind of gets to know you, you can ask it questions, and then it gives an answer to you that it doesn't give to anyone else.", "CNN: What are the downsides?", "Fake: It depends on what the decision is.", "There is kind of an array of decisions that are too taste-oriented.", "Like, no matter how well we know you, we're not going to know that your backyard is like 25 feet by 10 feet, versus 10 feet by 10 feet [for a person looking to buy a backyard grill].", "You know what I'm saying?", "There's no system that can get to know that.", "So what we try to do is narrow it down.", "So we ask you questions about your aesthetics or your beliefs or your politics or your demographic.", "CNN: What kind of decision-maker are you?", "Fake: It's really funny, because I think there's a mistake that's generally made with people asking about Hunch, and it's that it's solving people's emotional problems.", "And it's not. It's solving people's informational problems.", "I don't have any problems making any decisions.", "I've never had any problem making decisions, but when I go to Google and I'm looking for information, say, about trademarks.", "I have to do all this research, and somebody has already done this research.", "CNN: So you see Hunch as a kind of search engine, almost?", "Fake: No, it's not a search engine.", "The feel of it is nothing like a search engine.", "It's something new.", "CNN: How do you think collective knowledge online will change the way people live, or the way we interact with each other?", "Fake: It's like it's an amazing period in the history of the Internet just in that way.", "... We know more in the collective than we do in the individual.", "It becomes even more amazing when you extend that out to people outside your social network.", "Like, I don't know anyone that has taken a yoga class in Romania.", "But I'm sure that if I ended up in Romania, and I wanted to sign up for a yoga class that somebody in the world would know three places to recommend me.", "The information is out there in a sort of disorganized fashion. ...", "These systems that are kind of growing up now -- and Hunch hopefully is among them -- are able to take this sort of collective knowledge and make it easy for people to use and easy for people to access.", "CNN: Is there anything in your background that influences your belief in this collective knowledge idea?", "Fake: I was a nerdy little girl.", "I played Dungeons and Dragons, and I had a little TRS-80 computer.", "It was really early on, I think it was, gosh, like 1994 when I first saw the Web, right?", "So I went online, and I saw these people uploading pictures of, like, their cats.", "And I remember there was a video cam of ... the famous coffee pot at the IBM research center that uploaded every 5 minutes to show that the coffee pot was full or empty or whatever.", "And so the Internet struck me as this incredible thing where anybody -- like anybody -- could publish anything, and then anybody anywhere else in the world could read it.", "And I never got over that. There was kind of this wonder, this sense of wonder that I had about this incredible culture of generosity on the Web -- of all these people sharing stuff with each other.", "I've always been so amazed by that.", "I love that. Like, I love that aspect of the Internet.", "That's the thing that always seemed like it was magic to me.", "CNN: What are some cool Web sites that are flying under the radar right now?", "Fake: Have you heard of Etsy?", "CNN: Yeah, is that where people buy and sell art?", "Fake: Yeah, it's great.", "I think it's gonna be like the next eBay.", "And I met those guys when they were really small.", "I've been helping those guys since it was three kids in a dorm room.", "I love those guys. It's one of my favorite companies.", "It has that same kind of ethic [as Hunch]: the power of the individual.", "There are like these housewives in the Midwest who had no idea they could make a living making Christmas ornaments or whatever.", "It's just kind of an amazing thing that can only happen on the Internet." ]	[ "CNN talks with Caterina Fake, founder of a Web site that makes decisions .", "Hunch.com asks you questions and then suggests answers .", "Fake says Hunch works best for informational problems, not emotional dilemmas .", "Fake's philosophy: \"We know more in the collective than we do in the individual\"" ]	[ 3, 5, 48 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Henry Joseph Madden was a good student and track team member in high school, but he had a secret: He sometimes wore his mother's pantyhose and underwear under his clothes.", "Dr. Jennifer Madden, a family physician, began her transition to being female at age 48.", "\"I really wanted to be a girl so bad, and that was one way for me to satisfy those feelings,\" Madden said.", "\"I always felt like someone was looking over my shoulder.\"", "The desire to be female never went away.", "At age 48, Madden confessed these feelings to a doctor, and started seeing a gender therapist who suggested Madden was transgendered.", "Through reconstructive surgeries, electrolysis, laser procedures and voice lessons, Henry Joseph became Jennifer Elizabeth, known as Jenny.", "She is a practicing family physician in Nashua, New Hampshire.", "Watch Jenny's story » .", "Chastity Bono, child of performer Cher and the late entertainer and politician Sonny Bono, announced Thursday the beginning of a transition from female to a male.", "While still relatively rare -- one advocate estimates that 0.25 to 0.5 percent of the American population is transgendered -- the idea of changing gender identity has become more widespread in recent years.", "The term \"LGBT\" (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) is more commonly recognized, and transgendered people have been portrayed in the 1999 film \"Boys Don't Cry\" as well as the 2002 book \"Middlesex\" by Jeffrey Eugenides.", "Many people who have transitioned, including Madden, say they knew they had been born into the wrong gender from childhood.", "As early as age 3, Dr. Julie Praus, born male, didn't understand why her father wanted to play catch.", "As a boy, Praus learned how to fish and hunt, but enjoyed collecting Depression-era glassware vases.", "Praus, 48, a psychiatrist in Brattleboro, Vermont, started living as a woman in March 2008.", "\"I get up every morning and say, 'Wow, I can actually look at myself in the mirror,' because I've never been able to do that in my life, because what would stare back at me was not me,\" Praus said.", "iReport.com: Share your story of gender change .", "Doctors speculate that there is a biological foundation to gender identity, but no one has determined what in the biological makeup determines that gender.", "The interactions between personality and culture also contribute to identity, said Chris Kraft, clinical director at the Johns Hopkins Sexual Behaviors Consultation Unit.", "The process of changing genders .", "For people who want a gender change on a biological level, the first step is therapy, experts say.", "Dr. Gary Alter, a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, California, said patients don't come to him until they've been in therapy, a process that can take as much as a year.", "A therapist then gives a physician approval to start the patient on hormone treatment.", "At that point, the patient may or may not start living as the chosen sex, Alter said.", "Females seeking to transition into males may elect to have their breasts removed via surgery.", "With testosterone, they will grow hair on their face and chest after about two years.", "Read one man's female-to-male advice to Chaz Bono .", "A higher percentage of males transitioning to females will go forward with genital surgery than females going to males, Alter said.", "Surgical methods for creating a penis -- which range from making one out of the clitoris to using the skin from the forearms -- are \"not perfect,\" and many patients are happy with just chest surgery, he said.", "Genital surgeries for creating female genitalia are better, he said.", "Alter's method is to make a clitoris out of the head of the penis, and make space for a vagina.", "Facing the rest of the world .", "It is rare for people to undergo a gender transition and then want to reverse it, especially when surgery is involved, experts say.", "Some say changing genders is one of the best things they've done, like Jamison Green, 60, author of \"Becoming a Visible Man,\" who went through chest reconstruction and genital surgery.", "\"I don't have too hard of a time telling people about it,\" Green said.", "\"I worried about that a lot in the beginning, before there was any kind of community and support about this condition, but one of the things I learned early on was that living in fear and shame is not very healthy.\"", "Green, who started his transition at age 40, is now happily married to a woman whom he did not know before his change.", "Praus is also married to a woman, who knew her before her transition.", "Madden has a boyfriend.", "\"For the longest time, I really felt like I had a mental illness, and I don't feel that way anymore,\" Madden said.", "But all three have experienced shock and dismay from others around them.", "Green said his mother took five years to adjust.", "One of Praus' sons doesn't speak to her.", "Madden's marriage to a woman ended in divorce during her transition, and her children have struggled.", "Yet these three transgendered individuals say they feel better in many ways in their chosen gender roles.", "\"My patients say I'm a better doctor,\" Praus said.", "\"Some of it is that I'm not exerting so much energy hiding myself.\"", "Psychologists recommend that people who change genders adopt a \"transgendered identity,\" and not keep their history of transition a secret.", "But some who \"pass\" as their new genders don't want to risk stigma, and tell only people closest to them, Kraft said.", "Often, males who transition to females face more problems than females who become males, Kraft said.", "Transgendered individuals who start as men tend to face more stigma, particularly if they are more noticeably transgendered.", "Transgendered individuals do face some legal quandaries.", "Some states require people to show proof of a medical procedure before changing gender on documents such as driver's licenses, while others require that the person has taken hormones, Kraft said.", "People may also elect to change their birth certificates to reflect chosen gender.", "Chastity Bono, who now goes by \"Chaz,\" has been a prominent gay-rights activist.", "\"You could speculate that that could make it more complicated -- when you're a public figure -- to take on something stigmatizing\" such as a gender transition, Kraft said." ]	[ "Estimate: 0.25 to 0.5 percent of the American population is transgendered .", "Doctors speculate that there is a biological foundation to gender identity .", "People rarely undergo gender-reassignment surgery and then want to reverse it ." ]	[ 10, 33 ]
[ "Editor's note: Rich Roll, one of Men's Fitness magazine's \"25 Fittest Guys in the World\" in 2009, was the first athlete to compete in the Ultraman World Championships on an entirely plant-based diet.", "He's sharing insights today as part of Dr. Sanjay Gupta's \"Four Months to Fitness\" effort.", "Before: At 40 years old, Rich Roll called himself \"fat, unhappy and fed up.\"", "(CNN) -- I can still remember it, vivid as yesterday.", "It was the eve of my 40th birthday, and I walked upstairs to take a shower.", "And I was winded. I mean very winded.", "As I was trying to catch my breath, I took off my shirt, looked in the mirror and tried to convince myself that I was still that fit guy I had always thought I was.", "Somehow, I had been able to skate by on this delusion for all too many years.", "But the denial had finally caught up to me.", "I saw my true reflection, and I couldn't lie to myself anymore.", "I was in the worst shape of my life.", "I was fat, unhappy and fed up.", "It's the typical story.", "First it's the career.", "Then comes marriage, followed by kids.", "Your time is no longer your own, and you resign yourself to \"maturity,\" \"filling out\" or whatever euphemism for middle age that soothes that idea that you are simply overweight, unfit and unhealthy.", "I'm here to say that it doesn't have to be that way. I don't care how busy you are. I don't care how old you are, how many kids you have or how little time you think you have.", "The power rests within yourself to enact any change in your life you desire.", "And I can say this because I have seen it happen in myself and countless others.", "After that fateful day of clarity, I made a decision to change my life.", "Not a vague, wishy-washy notion that I should \"get in shape,\" maybe \"eat better\" or possibly \"go on a diet,\" but rather a specific long-term plan to enhance my wellness in a way that would not only stick, but fit within the parameters of my busy life as a full-time lawyer, husband and father of four small children.", "In my case, it began with a well-researched and supervised seven-day fruit and vegetable juice cleanse (during which time I weaned myself off caffeine), followed by an entirely plant-based nutrition program -- an animal-product-free regimen I have adhered to ever since.", "The immediate result was a rather surprising and unexpected increase in my energy levels, leading to a very gradual return to exercise, building up slowly over an extended period of time.", "The results were hardly overnight.", "But two years later, I had lost well over 30 pounds.", "And not only did I keep the weight off, I was the most fit I had ever been in my life.", "At 42 years old, I competed in the Ultraman World Championships, a grueling three-day uber-endurance triathlon circumnavigating the Big Island of Hawaii that involves 6.2 miles of swimming, 260 miles of cycling and culminates with a 52.4-mile double marathon run.", "I placed 11th overall and was the third-fastest American.", "To top it off, Men's Fitness magazine recently named me one of the \"25 Fittest Guys in the World.\"", "(Not that I actually believe I deserve such an honor!)", "Quite an extreme contrast from that day I looked in the mirror.", "I'm not advocating that everyone should test himself or herself so severely.", "But my point is that change starts with a decision followed by baby steps along a new, consistent trajectory that, over time, can lead to dramatic results.", "I'm nothing special.", "I'm not a professional athlete.", "I'm just a normal family guy.", "But if I could experience such a vast transformation in my own life, I know with certainty that everybody has within himself the power to enact his own well-balanced transformation.", "Change is never easy.", "And despite what you may see advertised, I'm sorry to say there is no secret diet, mystery pill or overnight miracle that will do it for you.", "But there is a solution. Here are some helpful tools I employed along the way that can help you get started: .", "Set a goal: Vague, nonspecific notions of \"getting fit,\" \"going to the gym,\" or \"eating better\" are all fine, but they are not true \"goals\" and all too typically devolve, paving the way for relapse to old habits.", "Instead, establish something very concrete you would like to achieve on a future date.", "The more specific, the better.", "Then create a solid plan with reasonable interim \"steppingstone\" milestones along the way to achieving the larger goal.", "Chart your progress, as meeting interim milestones will boost your confidence and invest you more deeply in the ultimate goal.", "Create community and accountability: If you go public with your quest, then you are on the hook.", "A good support network is a key to success.", "But beware of the negative dream crushers.", "Be selective, surrounding yourself with people who encourage your success.", "Do what you love: When it comes to exercise, it shouldn't be too painful.", "Ideally, it should be fun.", "If you absolutely hate running, find something else you enjoy.", "Otherwise, you set yourself up to fail.", "And don't be too rigid -- mix it up with a variety of activities you like to keep it interesting and fresh.", "Don't diet: Instead, get honest about your habits and embark on implementing healthy, lasting changes in your nutrition.", "I feel quite strongly that a nutrition program built entirely around plant-based foods and completely devoid of animal products is optimal.", "Conventional wisdom would say that an athlete cannot perform on plants alone.", "But I am living proof that this is false, and I have ample research to support this position.", "Personally, I cannot overemphasize the difference this has made in my own life, a secret weapon for enhanced athletic performance and overall long-term wellness.", "(In the last two years, I have not gotten sick or even suffered a cold.)", "I realize, of course, that not everyone is ready to go 100 percent vegan, but a program built on a strong foundation of fresh organic vegetables, fruits and grains should be the focus.", "Don't skip meals, but reduce your portions slightly.", "Read the labels and educate yourself.", "Avoid saturated fats, processed foods and soft drinks, all of which are entirely devoid of nutritional value.", "Eating whole fresh foods high in nutritional content will also stave off those unhealthy urges to binge.", "One day at a time: Large goals can seem insurmountable.", "The idea that you can never eat a cupcake or sleep in again is daunting at best.", "Instead, just focus on what is happening today, even if it's hour to hour, and don't worry about tomorrow.", "\"Today, I'm not going to eat that cupcake.", "Maybe I'll eat it tomorrow, just not today.\"", "And if you miss a beat, don't flog yourself; it only leads to discouragement and quitting altogether.", "The important thing is to make sure you get right back on it the next day -- don't let another day go by.", "Prioritize: Take an honest look at your average week, identify your inefficient uses of time and eliminate the things that don't serve your goals.", "No matter how busy you are, if you are truly honest about this inquiry, I guarantee you can make some cuts and carve out some time.", "Remember: Nothing changes if nothing changes.", "Be consistent: It's not about how much you do in a given workout or how hard it is.", "Ten minutes of core exercises four to five times per week is far better than one long run a week.", "Establishing a consistent rhythm of repetition is key, and another reason that your choice of exercise should be something you truly enjoy.", "Let's join together to shift the world's perspective on long-term health and wellness.", "No matter how old, overweight or out of shape you are, you have the power to make a decision, set a goal and create a plan.", "Positive change is always within your grasp, and today still remains the first day of the rest of your life.", "Make it count!", "The opinions expressed in this article are solely those of Rich Roll." ]	[ "Rich Roll: Approaching 40, \"I was in the worst shape of my life\"\nTwo years later, he was the most fit he'd ever been .", "This year, Men's Fitness named Roll one of the \"25 Fittest Guys in the World\"\nTo become fit, set a specific goal, be consistent and take it one day at a time, he says ." ]	[ 0, 2, 25, 28, 65 ]
[ "(AOL Autos) -- Ah, that new car smell, that eau de car-logne; it does an ego good while it does a wallet bad.", "And now it turns out, it can do bad things to your health, too.", "Air freshners can contain aldehydes, esters and ketones, industry spokesman says.", "All these years, while we were being offered safety first, last and front, side and rear ways, hardly anyone in the vehicle industry had given much thought to what actually was in that perfume de profit, the new car smell that car buyers sought and bought.", "As everyone knew, pollution related to vehicles originated from the exhaust pipe, not the shifter knob.", "It was spewed out the back of the rear, not the back of the rear view mirror.", "Well, what everyone thought they knew was wrong.", "It turns out -- take a deep breath -- that most of that new car smell is not some carefully-compounded, luxury, feel-good incense to the Mammon gods.", "But the new car smell comes from toxic gases.", "Not only that, but like a two dollar cologne, the effects can linger and linger for years, stinking up not only your shiny new car, but the reputation of the entire vehicle industry itself.", "AOL Autos: Best new small cars .", "Who says so? Just about everyone in the vehicle business these days.", "But the initiator was The Ecology Center (EC), a membership-based, nonprofit environmental organization based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.", "AOL Autos: 10 most fuel-efficient new cars .", "In a 2006 industry-awakening report entitled \"Toxic At Any Speed: Chemicals in Cars and the Need for Safe Alternatives\", this independent green organization declared that much of the material in most car interiors that produce that new car smell is made with toxic chemicals known to pose major public health risks.", "The report went on to say that not only are vehicle drivers and passengers breathing toxic air, but are also in constant physical contact with dangerous chemicals leaching from just about every interior surface of a new vehicle.", "The report says these chemicals give off gases that not only contaminate the air, but also coat interior surfaces with toxic \"fog,\" generally seen as that new car film common to new car interior windshields and windows.", "These are the same type of chemicals that are, \"linked to birth defects, impaired learning, liver toxicity, premature births and early puberty in laboratory animals amongst other serious health problems,\" according to EC.", "Fake is probably as bad as real.", "The companies that market those \"new car smell\" products that are sold at car washes and auto accessories stores generally will not reveal product contents.", "One fragrance industry spokesman indicated they can contain artificial leather odor, plus aldehydes, esters and ketones, which are all organic or chemical compounds.", "AOL Autos: Safest cars under $30,000 .", "Back to real. We are not speaking of plastic doodads here.", "There is an average of 250 pounds of plastic in new cars, the largest portion used for interior seat cushions, arm rests, door panels, steering wheels, dashboards, wire insulation and the plethora of aircraft-type knobs and switch controls throughout a car's cockpit.", "AOL Autos: 10 least expensive new cars .", "In addition to acettonitrile, decanol, formaldehyde, naphthalene and carbon disulfide used in foams, adhesives and fabrics, the two major problem chemicals in most new vehicles are (a) the PBDEs, which are used as fire retardants throughout the industry and (b) phthalates, which are widely employed to soften PVC plastics.", "AOL Autos: Best financing deals of the month .", "Extended research by the Ecology Center covered samples from model years 2000 to 2005 made by 11 manufacturers.", "Part of the research showed significantly higher levels of PBDEs in those vehicles as compared to those levels in homes and offices that had been measured in previous studies, making in-car pollution a major source of indoor air pollution and health danger.", "In the resultant table of contamination levels, Hyundai rated lowest and Mercedes highest in PBDEs.", "Volvo rated lowest and Hyundai highest in phthalates.", "Not only are these toxic elements dangerous in any situation, but the combination of higher temperatures caused by the surrounding glass of windshields and windows and UV exposure from the sun can cause PBDE flame retardants to become even more dangerous with solar exposure, up to five times higher than in homes and offices.", "Imagine the gas chamber you're creating by also smoking in the car, Jack.", "Report coauthor and EC's Clean Car Campaign Director Jeff Gearhart wrote, \"We can no longer rely just on seatbelt and airbags to keep us safe in cars.", "Our research shows that autos are chemical reactors, releasing toxins before we even turn on the ignition.", "There are safer alternatives to these chemicals ... \" The Ecology Center called for these actions: .", "Manufacturers: Should phase out PBDEs and phthalates in auto material parts.", "Government: Should provide phase-out guidelines and provide technical assistance and research to vehicle manufacturers for development of alternatives.", "At a most recent count, nine states have passed laws banning two forms of PBDEs with at least six more coming aboard.", "Vehicle occupants: Should minimize health risks by using solar reflectors, ventilating car interiors with open windows and non-recirculating air conditioning and parking out of direct sunlight whenever possible.", "In other words, get rid of that new car smell.", "Although the automotive industry took notice of the report, there was no instant fire drill to rectify the status quo.", "Reaction to the report was slow-growing, but due to things green busting out all over, just about every vehicle manufacturer began to initiate research and development to reduce or eliminate built-in passenger compartment pollution.", "Actually, research on toxic chemical reduction and elimination had been underway for some time in the electronic and electrical industries.", "As far back as 2003, the European Union had passed legislation requiring the phase-out of PBDEs.", "Companies like Apple, Dell, HP, IBM, Panasonic and Sony have already eliminated PBDEs from their products.", "Addressing progress or lack of same in its recent Second Annual Report, the Ecology Center graded the country's eight leading car manufacturers on their plastics policies and practices.", "The report said that Ford and Honda had made the most significant improvements since the original findings and had joined Toyota as the three leaders in using \"safe\" plastics for indoor auto parts by (a) use of bio-based materials, (b) improving interior air quality and (c) reducing the use of PVC.", "Bio-based materials .", "Toyota led the group with a 'B' grade by developing an eco-plastic made from sugar cane or corn and building a pilot plant to produce it.", "DaimlerChrysler came in second through increased use of renewable materials, and Ford came in third for developing a soy-based foam and a bio-fabric for seating.", "Interior air quality .", "Ford headed this group with a B for having four vehicles certified to an independent allergy-free standard.", "Toyota got a C+ in this group for its goal to reduce in-cabin VOC (volatile organic compound) levels in all vehicles globally by 2010, but it's noted that Toyota didn't say to what levels they would be reduced.", "PVC reduction .", "Honda was tops with a B for removing PVC from most applications in its products.", "Also cited were Hyundai, Toyota and DaimlerChrysler for replacing PVC parts in some lines.", "But not all is mountain fresh air in vehicleland.", "While these studies show progress, vehicle manufacturers still have miles to go before the interiors of their offerings are safe from \"new car smell.\"", "When grading the manufacturers that account for 94% of total vehicles in sales in the US, it resulted in the highest overall grade of a C+ for Toyota and a C for Ford, while the lowest score in this group overall was a D- for Volkswagen.", "Much of Ford's good grading came from its Volvo component.", "Volvo, which had the Ecology Center's lowest emissions of phthalates and a lower incidence of the flame retardant PBDE than in most other cars, actually led the Ecology Center to encourage other car manufacturers to follow Volvo's example.", "\"Safety is more than crumple zones and air bags,\" said a Volvo spokesman.", "\"All of our interiors comply with Oeko-tex 100, probably the toughest cabin standard being used today.\"", "Oeko-tex 100 is an international environmental standard for textiles which demands that seat belts, carpets, thread and fabrics contain no harmful substances, that leather upholstery undergoes chromium-free tanning with natural plant substances and even smaller parts, such as handbrake buttons and steering wheel emblems, be tested as possible contact allergy sources.", "Finally, the greenies also found their share of doubting Thomases, or in this particular case, Hermanns or maybe Hanses.", "A group of German scientists decided to conduct their own tests of indoor vehicle pollution.", "They ran tests of volatile organic compounds originating from the interiors of vehicles and concluded that there was no evidence of toxic effects when they exposed human lab cell cultures to cabin pollutants.", "Although they declared their research showed no evidence of any health harm, the scientists didn't explain why so many people derive such pleasure from inhaling new car smell, which comes from alky benzenes, alkanes, formaldehyde and acetone.", "Or could it be that inhaling those fumes could lead the mind to such wondrous suggestions?", "Either way, now that you have the facts about that once-desirable, now-controversial new car smell, you can breathe easier.", "Well, maybe not." ]	[ "Ecology Center study shows \"new car smell\" comes from toxic gases .", "Effects of gases can linger for years .", "Toyota, Honda and Ford lead in using \"safe\" plastics for indoor auto parts .", "German scientists run alternate tests -- say no evidence of toxic effects ." ]	[ 8, 35, 47 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nearly two decades after the first Gulf war and six years after Saddam Hussein was removed from power, Iraq still is subject to 73 United Nations resolutions.", "A March 1991 photo shows burning oil wells in Kuwait damaged by Iraq military forces.", "Now Iraq's foreign minister says his country \"will not regain full sovereignty and independence without getting rid of these resolutions.\"", "Speaking to reporters in Washington, Hoshyar Zebari said Monday that Iraq has paid \"billions\" of dollars under Chapter 7 of the U.N. sanctions placed on Iraq as a result of the 1990 Iraq invasion of Kuwait and subsequent war.", "The U.N. Security Council is reviewing the sanctions, and Zebari said he had \"intensive discussions\" in New York with members of the Security Council.", "He said \"I think the outcome is positive.\"", "\"We felt a great deal of good will that, really, time has come for Iraq to get rid of all these restrictions and to regain its international standing and position as a normal country.\"", "The Iraqi foreign minister said bringing Iraq out of Chapter 7 is an \"American commitment also\" since Iraq signed the status of forces agreement with the United States, which governs the presence of U.S. forces in Iraq, based on its understanding that the U.S. would help Iraq to come out of Chapter 7.", "Foreign Minister Zebari said the sanctions impose a heavy burden on Iraq -- it continues to pay 5 percent of its oil revenues to Kuwait, down from the initial 30 percent.", "Iraq's security forces, he told reporters, have \"proven they are capable of defending themselves and the country.\"", "In the next six months, however, he said, the country faces some risks.", "\"What can be seen as problems could become crises unless this administration keeps its focus and support to push the situation forward; otherwise this overall strategy of responsible redeployment could be undermined.\"", "If that happens, Zebari said, it \"will impact what the U.S. is doing in the Middle East, in the Arab peace process, with Iran, even in Afghanistan because Iraq is such a crucial player in the region.\"" ]	[ "Iraq's FM says his country won't be fully independent until U.N. sanctions end .", "Iraq has paid \"billions of dollars\" under U.N.'s Chapter 7, foreign minister says .", "\"Intensive discussions\" held with Security Council members, minister says ." ]	[ 2, 3, 4 ]
[ "ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI preached and greeted well-wishers Sunday, three days after breaking his wrist in a fall.", "The pope celebrates mass with his broken wrist in plaster.", "He held the text of his speech in his uninjured left hand, then circulated among the crowd who came to hear him in Romano Canavese, pictures from the northern Italian town showed.", "The 82-year-old pope had surgery on his right wrist after he fell Thursday night, spokesman Father Federico Lombardi told CNN on Friday.", "The pope is \"learning\" to live with his cast, Lombardi told Vatican Radio.", "The most painful aspect of the incident for Benedict is having to give up writing by hand, which he had intended to do frequently during his annual vacation Italy's Val d'Aosta region, Lombardi told the official Vatican station.", "\"I know that here, too, in the Ivera region, many families are facing economic hard times due to a lack of work,\" he said, referring to the now-defunct Olivetti typewriter manufacturer in the region.", "\"Dear friend, do not be discouraged,\" he added, according to Agence-France Presse.", "\"Providence always helps those who do the right thing and seek justice; it also helps those who think not only of themselves, but also think of those in worse situations than their own.\"" ]	[ "Pope preaches and greeted well-wishers, three days after breaking his wrist .", "Benedict XVI had surgery on his right wrist after he fell Thursday night .", "Most painful aspect for pope is having to stop writing by hand, spokesman says ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Seventh graders at Ron Clark Academy became an overnight sensation during the presidential election when their YouTube performance of \"You Can Vote However You Like\" catapulted them to online stardom.", "\"The higher the expectations, the higher the results,\" says Ron Clark, seen here with his students.", "Now, their creative and scholastic talents have proved the students to be more than just \"one hit wonders.\"", "Academy students showcased their poetry and writings for CNN's documentary \"Black in America 2,\" hosted by Soledad O'Brien.", "Cultivating student creativity is just one of the goals of academy founder Ron Clark, an enigmatic educator known for his unconventional teaching methods.", "Under his strict tutelage, students at Ron Clark -- who are predominantly African-American -- are expected to excel in all subjects and maintain a high standard of respect for their peers and teachers.", "\"I'm teaching an eighth-grade curriculum to fifth-graders,\" says Clark.", "\"Some people say my expectations of the kids, academically, is too high, but the higher the expectations, the higher the results.\"", "But with high academic expectations come an equally high quotient for fun.", "It's become one of Clark's trademarks: singing and dancing to popular rap and R&B songs during class to get the kids engaged.", "\"My first day at Ron Clark Academy, I thought all the teachers were psychopaths,\" says seventh-grader Jai Springs.", "\"I thought Ron Clark was going crazy.", "He was up in front of the kids on desks, he was dancing. ...", "I never saw a teacher get up on a desk and dance.", "But now I'm used to it, so I get up on the desk and dance too,\" says Jai.", "Clark, formerly a schoolteacher from South Carolina, founded the academy with money he earned from his book titled The Essential 55, which detail Clark's 55 golden rules for success -- in and out of the classroom.", "Clark was invited to be a guest on the Oprah Winfrey show after winning Disney Teacher of the Year Award in 2001.", "Oprah believed so much in the well-mannered Southern school teacher from South Carolina that she encouraged him to write the book.", "Later she promoted The Essential 55 on her show, prompting it's ascension to New York Times bestseller list.", "Together with co-founder Kim Bearden, Clark transformed a decaying factory in a rough part of Atlanta, Georgia, into a state-of-the-art educational model for middle schools across the country.", "Soon after the school opened its doors in 2008, a Christmas package from Winfrey arrived for Clark in the form of a $365,000 grant, or \"a thousand dollars for each day of the year,\" as Oprah referred to it in the letter.", "Then came the elections, with a tight presidential race between Sens.", "Barack Obama of Illinois and John McCain of Arizona.", "Inspired by rapper T.I.", "'s hit song \"Whatever You Like,\" Clark's seventh grade class penned their own lyrics and dance moves.", "The students' performance carried a message: Cast your ballot because you support a candidate's policies rather than just his skin color.", "When they perform the song, half the seventh grade class touts the virtues of GOP's McCain while the other half root for Democrat Obama: \"Obama on the left.", "McCain on the right.", "We can talk politics all night.", "And you can vote however you like.\"", "The students \"can talk politics with the best of them,\" says Clark.", "Video clips of the kids performing have garnered over 15 million hits on YouTube.", "\"We got lots of media attention.", "But when the media arrived to the school they realized the song is not the story, it's the kids,\" says Clark.", "One of Clark's credos is teaching a \"global curriculum\" with a heavy emphasis on current events.", "Himself an avid world traveler, Clark believes it's essential for his students to travel to other countries to develop an understanding and appreciation of the world in which they live.", "Through Delta's corporate sponsorship of the school, administrators have been able to send all 100 of their fifth to eighth grade students abroad before they graduate.", "\"I'm not nearly as shy as I used to be,\" says seventh-grader Chi Chi Kasarachi after her first year at the academy.", "\"My knowledge of the world has improved, I know more about what's going on in other countries and I'm more curious about things. ...", "I'm just hungry for knowledge,\" says Chi Chi.", "In fact, the students at Ron Clark Academy are better versed in current events and politics than many adults.", "\"I never thought I'd be interested in watching the news,\" says seventh-grader Osei Avril.", "\"Now I find it interesting because I have learned the stories behind the news,\" he says.", "Osei -- who pronounces Iranian President Ahmadinajad's name perfectly -- says he's interested in learning about world issues such as the Iranian elections, the Taliban in Pakistan, and the Palestinian- Israeli conflict.", "\"At the beginning,\" says Clark, \"the kids will say something like 'I've been to East Point [a suburb of South Atlanta].", "After a few years they've been to Kenya, Japan, or South Africa, or England. ...", "They've become very comfortable with understanding the country and understanding themselves.\"", "But it's not just the travel or even the singing and dancing to rap music that make the school so special, say the students.", "It's the academy teachers' creative ways of instilling education, solid values, and a passion for learning.", "\"They want you to pass the people at the top,\" says Jai.", "\"To be at the top nonstop, be at your fullest, to be creative, to think out of the box.\"", "But school isn't all fun and games, she says.", "Clark is a strict disciplinarian that expects -- and enforces -- model behavior from all of the students.", "\"I love Mr. Clark with all my heart, he's like a father to me,\" says Chi Chi.", "\"He might fuss a lot, but I know he's doing it for our own good.\"" ]	[ "Ron Clark Academy students' '08 YouTube rap performance got millions of hits .", "Clark teaches \"global curriculum\" with heavy emphasis on current events .", "\"I'm teaching an eigthth-grade curriculum to fifth graders,\" says Clark .", "Student: \"My knowledge of the world has improved.", "...", "I'm hungry for knowledge\"" ]	[ 6, 34, 38, 39 ]
[ "SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (CNN) -- Honduras' interim government on Sunday rejected a proposal to reinstate ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya, ending a round of negotiations aimed at resolving the country's political crisis.", "Jose Manuel Zelaya was ousted from the Honduran presidency on June 28.", "The proposal had been presented by Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who was mediating the talks between the two Honduran sides at his home over the weekend.", "\"I'm very sorry, but the proposal you presented [is] unacceptable by the government of Honduras that I represent,\" Carlos Lopez, who was representing interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti at the weekend negotiations, said of the proposal advanced by Arias.", "Representatives of Zelaya, who was ousted in a June 28 coup, said this marked the end of talks with Honduras' interim government.", "The weekend's talks were the second attempt by Arias to negotiate a resolution.", "He vowed Sunday to continue his mediation efforts.", "\"I want to take 72 hours to continue working, even more arduously this time, to see if we can really reach an agreement between the parties in this conflict,\" Arias said.", "Arias expressed concern that violence could ignite in Honduras if the sides stop talking, and that a civil war could result.", "Shortly after announcing the end of the negotiations, Lopez indicated in an interview with CNN en Español that Micheletti's delegation would be open to further talks in the future.", "At a news conference later Sunday, the head of the Organization of American States said he had been enthusiastic about the proposal advanced by Arias.", "\"We regret deeply the attitude of Micheletti,\" said OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza.", "\"I think [the proposal] was a good one.\"", "The proposal, presented by Arias to both sides on Saturday, would have returned Zelaya to the Honduran presidency.", "It would also have compelled Zelaya to abandon efforts to modify the country's presidential term limits.", "In remarks to reporters before starting Sunday's talks, representatives of Zelaya said he accepted the seven-point proposal.", "Micheletti has said he would not accept Zelaya's return as president, and remarks by Zelaya printed in a Brazilian newspaper contradicted Zelaya's acceptance of the proposal, Micheletti negotiator Arturo Corrales said.", "In Sunday's editions of the Folha newspaper, Zelaya was quoted in support of continuing with his push for a reform to term limits.", "\"We cannot betray the people and abandon the process,\" the paper quoted Zelaya as saying.", "\"Yesterday they said one thing, and today another,\" Micheletti negotiator Corrales said, adding that Zelaya's remarks broke the good faith behind the talks.", "The newspaper, however, noted that Zelaya was interviewed one day before he agreed to Arias' seven-point proposal.", "Zelaya was removed from office June 28 in a military-led coup that has drawn international condemnation.", "Congressional leader Micheletti was sworn in hours later as provisional president.", "Micheletti and his supporters, including the Honduran supreme court, congress and the military, argue that the action was not a coup, but a constitutional transfer of power.", "Other steps proposed by Arias included moving up elections scheduled for late November, establishing a national unity government, providing amnesty for all political crimes and setting up an international commission to oversee implementation of the accord.", "Under Arias' proposal, oversight of the Honduran military would have switched from the executive branch of government to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal one month before the elections.", "Delegations representing Zelaya and Micheletti also met at Arias' home in Costa Rica last week but did not reach an accord.", "Zelaya, a leftist who took office in 2006 on a narrow victory, had been at odds with Honduran lawmakers, the country's supreme court and the military over his attempts for a referendum.", "He sought the referendum, which he planned to hold last month, to see if voters wanted a measure on November's ballot to establish a constitutional assembly to study whether a president could run for re-election.", "Under the current charter, a president can serve only one four-year term.", "Congress had forbidden the referendum and the supreme court ruled it illegal.", "The military declined to participate in its usual role of safeguarding the vote, saying it could not take part in an illegal act.", "Zelaya vowed to hold the vote anyway, but was toppled before the voting started." ]	[ "Talks between Honduras' interim government, ousted president end without deal .", "Interim government's representative: Proposal to reinstate Zelaya \"unacceptable\"\nZelaya had OK'd proposal presented by Costa Rican president, who was mediating .", "Zelaya was removed from office June 28 after he pushed for term-limit reform ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4, 21 ]
[ "NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- While many now recognize the scientific explanation for a solar eclipse, the phenomenon is still marked with tradition and sometimes suspicion in Hindu-majority India.", "People test the \"sky watching telescope\" at the Gujarat Council of Science City in India.", "The \"exceptionally long\" eclipse that will cross half the planet Wednesday will be able to be seen by virtually all of the population of China and India.", "For beggars in India, the occasion means an extra day of receiving alms and food.", "The panhandler in Sandeep Jaggi's neighborhood normally visits the block every week on Tuesdays and Saturdays, as well as the days of a new and full moon.", "And because his patrons mark an eclipse with alms-giving, prayers and bathing, he rarely misses the chance to meet them on this day as well.", "\"It's a family tradition and I follow it,\" says 34-year-old Jaggi.", "He will fill the beggar's small steel pail with mustard oil and coins and his disheveled sash with lentils.", "For others in the country, the eclipse is not a reason to celebrate, but a more ominous phenomenon.", "Send us your photos of the eclipse .", "Most pregnant women hope to avoid giving birth during an eclipse.", "\"None of the expectant mothers under my treatment are willing to have deliveries on Wednesday,\" Shivani Sachdev Gour, a gynecologist at New Delhi's Fortis La Femme hospital, told CNN.", "In fact, there are critically ill patients who do not want to be in the hospital on the day of the eclipse, she said.", "Indian astrologers even advise expectant mothers to stay indoors when this celestial event occurs.", "\"It may not cause any physical harm to the baby, but it may affect the child's overall personality,\" said R.K. Sharma, who describes himself as a \"remedial astrologer.\"", "A solar eclipse, he says, weakens the sun god temporarily because of an encounter with dragon Rahu and leaves some cascading results everywhere.", "\"Bathing in holy rivers and ponds during this time thus helps protect health and develop positivism and greater will power,\" he explained.", "About 1.5 million people are expected at one such pond -- the Brahmsarovar, or the pool of Hindu god Brahma -- in northern India on Wednesday.", "\"They offer prayers to the sun god and take holy dips during an eclipse,\" said Ashok Kumar Bansal, the sub-divisional magistrate of Kurukshetra, an ancient Hindu city.", "But the century's longest total solar eclipse is not just about the dragon-sun combat, it also means business for some.", "Travel firms in India have plans in place to cash in on the phenomenon.", "Cox and Kings India has a planeload of eclipse watchers heading for the eastern state of Bihar, one of the most preferred locations for sighting the event.", "The plane will hover over Gaya in Bihar and return to New Delhi the same day, company spokesman Thomas C. Thottathil told CNN.", "Passengers were given two options: to book a \"sunside\" seat facing the eclipse for about $1,640, or reserve an \"earthside\" seat for about $610, Thottathil added.", "\"And it's a sold out flight now!\" he said." ]	[ "Solar eclipse marked with tradition and often suspicion in Hindu-majority India .", "Most pregnant women in India hope to avoid giving birth during eclipse .", "Some critically ill patients do not want to be in hospital on day of eclipse .", "Astrologer: Eclipse weakens sun god because of encounter with dragon Rahu ." ]	[ 10, 12, 15 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Video showing Pfc.", "Bowe Bergdahl, captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan, is just another example of how captors use the medium for psychological warfare.", "U.S. Army Spc.", "Shoshana Johnson, who was held by insurgents in Iraq, prepares to enter a plane to safety.", "The latest video shows Bergdahl, of Ketchum, Idaho, looking comfortable and eating food.", "While he expresses concern about not seeing his family and girlfriend again, he does appear to speak calmly and has no visible signs of abuse.", "\"I have a very, very good family that I love back home in America, and I miss them every day that I'm gone,\" he says in a 28-minute video released by his captors.", "\"I miss them, and I'm afraid I might never see them again and that I'll never be able to tell them I love them again.", "I'll never be able to hug them.\"", "But that is in stark contrast to the well-publicized captures of U.S. servicemen and women in conflicts past.", "Vietnam . Sen. John McCain, whose plane was shot down during a combat mission over Vietnam in 1967, is considered one of the most famous prisoners of war.", "He was captured by the Communist Viet Cong and spent nearly six years in a prisoner of war camp, where he was often tortured.", "A grainy black-and-white film released by his captors showed a severely injured McCain talking on camera in the so-called \"Hanoi Hilton.\"", "McCain later refused to be released before other prisoners.", "He eventually returned to the United States in 1973.", "\"During the years, we were kept in solitary confinement or two or three to a cell because they didn't want us to see each other.", "We'd spend all our time tapping on the walls to each other and encouraging each other and organizing, organizing, organizing with our chain of command.", "The days and hours go by,\" McCain told CNN's John King last year.", "Iraq . And most recently, in 2003, video from Iraq painted a picture of an unruly and chaotic terror organization holding U.S. soldiers captured in the Iraq military theater.", "Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson was shown on videotape being interrogated -- with five other soldiers including Pfc.", "Jessica Lynch, who was badly wounded and was held prisoner at a separate location.", "Nine of their fellow soldiers were killed when their convoy was ambushed.", "Johnson appeared frightened, with her eyes darting quickly left and right.", "\"I was terrified. I didn't know what was going to happen to me,\" Johnson said in a past CNN interview.", "\"And I was in a lot of pain.\" Lynch's videotaped rescue made her a celebrity, and she was used by the Pentagon to put a face on the men and women who were fighting the war against the regime of Saddam Hussein.", "Johnson and the other POWs spent 22 days as prisoners until Marines rescued them.", "Chris Voss, a former lead international kidnapping coordinator for the FBI, says that as a lesson from the Johnson video, the Taliban may have learned to try to appear more political than radical.", "\"They're hoping that ... this gets to other media outlets that will make them appear so that they are a reasonable political force,\" he says.", "\"There is very much a lack of overthreat in the [Bergdahl] video, and they clearly thought this through ... specifically strategic for these purposes.\"", "Somalia . Army Chief Warrant Officer 3 Michael Durant, a Black Hawk helicopter pilot, was shot down in 1993 during a combat mission in Mogadishu, Somalia.", "The body of one of his fellow pilots being dragged through the streets was captured on video.", "After the crash, he was captured by a mob and held for 11 days.", "Durant suffered several serious injuries, including a broken back and face and leg wounds.", "He was later released.", "His bloodied and bruised face was splashed on the covers of several national magazines, including Time and Newsweek, and on TV networks.", "His story later inspired Mark Bowden's bestseller \"Black Hawk Down\" and a movie by director Ridley Scott.", "Voss says his image was depicted in a different way than others had been.", "\"The media picked that up and ran in a way that was very accusatory towards the United States,\" he says.", "\"There were pictures of Mike Durant in a clearly beaten-up condition, and the captions in the various national magazines were, 'What in the world are we doing?'", "\" Voss says that from that incident, the United States may have learned to apply the mostly mum stance it's using during the Bergdahl capture.", "\"The U.S. government gave a knee-jerk reaction to that, which I think they've learned from,\" he says.", "\"So how this plays out in the media, the Taliban is being very cautious to appear to be reasonable ... because they don't want to make themselves look like they're fanatical.", "They are trying to be very reasonable.\"" ]	[ "Army Pfc.", "Bowe Bergdahl was captured nearly three weeks ago in Afghanistan .", "Sen. John McCain is considered one of the most famous prisoners of war .", "Video of captured soldiers in Iraq painted a picture of rogue captors ." ]	[ 1, 10, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Alicia A.S. Duque knew she had some pounds to lose, but she had no idea how much being overweight affected her until the television cameras started rolling.", "Alicia Duque performs with her partner on Oxygen's new hit \"Dance Your Ass Off.\"", "\"Going into it, I knew it was a TV show, I knew it was a weight-loss show and I knew it was a dance show, but I didn't think I was going to learn so much about myself through the process,\" said the 23-year-old Duque, a contestant on the new show \"Dance Your Ass Off.\"", "\"I didn't know how many issues and problems I had with my weight until I faced it on the show.\"", "Duque's struggle with weight loss is one of many on television that is resonating with those tuning into programming aimed at and featuring the plus-sized.", "Style Network's \"Ruby,\" NBC's \"The Biggest Loser,\" Lifetime's \"Drop Dead Diva\" and Fox's forthcoming dating show \"More to Love\" all center on the overweight and are tapping into an audience that can relate to the desire to shed a few pounds.", "Obesity has risen dramatically in the United States during the past 20 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.", "And this year television has seen an increase in shows featuring participants and stars who look more like the viewing public.", "Oxygen Channel's \"Dance Your Ass Off\" combines elements of ABC's \"Dancing With The Stars\" and NBC's \"The Biggest Loser.\"", "Contestants learn dance routines for which they are judged before weighing in to determine how much they have lost.", "Amy Introcaso-Davis, senior vice president of original programming and development at Oxygen, said dance and diet are two areas of interest for younger viewers of the channel, so combining the two made sense.", "The 12 contestants, from the smallest to the largest, have struck a chord with viewers, she said.", "\"People find the contestants so relatable,\" she said.", "\"We cast very purposely across the board in terms of how many pounds people needed to lose -- we had anywhere from people who needed to lose 40 [pounds] to over 150.\"", "The premier of \"Dance\" rated highly for Oxygen, with more than 1 million viewers tuning in.", "Oxygen also found success earlier with \"Mo'Nique's F.A.T.", "Chance,\" a plus-size pageant where women of substance strutted their stuff to be crowned \"Miss Fabulous And Thick.\"", "For a nation grappling with obesity, Introcaso-Davis said, there is a hunger for such shows.", "\"If you have five pounds to lose or you have 150 pounds to lose, it's something you think about all day long,\" she said.", "\"You take a bite of cheesecake and you think 'Should I be doing this?'", "\" Esther Rothblum, a professor of women's studies at San Diego State University and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology \"The Fat Studies Reader,\" said she wonders if part of the appeal of plus-sized shows stems from the overweight being held up for public ridicule.", "The subject of her book is an emerging field that has been defined as \"confronting and critiquing cultural constraints\" against notions of \"fatness\" and \"the fat body.\"", "\"Most people feel too fat in this country and are made to feel very unhappy with their bodies,\" she said.", "\"So by portraying somebody who weighs so much more than they do, it's almost a way to make the audience feel like 'I could look worse' or 'At least I'm not them.'", "\" Ruby Gettinger said she supports any show that does not mock the overweight.", "Her hit show \"Ruby\" started out as a documentary and has transformed Gettinger into a reality star who has lost more than 100 pounds and appeared on \"Oprah.\"", "\"We are really all on this journey together, and I tell [viewers] that all of the time,\" said Gettinger, who at her heaviest weighed 716 pounds.", "\"There are a lot of shows out there and I think people are trying to find a way to beat it and lose weight.\"", "Gettinger, who is traveling around the country walking in various cities to inspire fans to become more active, said shows featuring the obese can really touch the audience if they are authentic.", "\"[My show] is the truth, not to say that the others aren't,\" she said.", "\"When I started out on this journey and met with Style [Network, which airs the show] I said 'I have to keep my truth because this is about my journey and addiction and I want to deal with that because too many people are struggling.'", "\" Her show portrays her grappling with everything from temptation to embarrassment at having to visit the gynecologist, but Gettinger said it's all worth it if it inspires others.", "Actress Marissa Jaret Winokur, who starred in the Broadway musical \"Hairspray,\" said she agreed to host \"Dance Your Ass Off\" because she saw the potential for inspiration in viewers witnessing overweight people being active and feeling confident and sexy -- even in skimpy dance outfits.", "Reality television has become so popular because viewers are attracted to watching real people, and there is a craving for viewers to see folks like themselves, she said.", "\"It became that so many people on reality shows were only beautiful skinny people, and I think a lot of people got sick of that,\" said Winokur, who has been blogging about her own struggles with weight for People magazine.", "\"Really, who's home watching TV is the everyday person who is not a TV model.", "I think there is much more interest in watching people like yourself.\"" ]	[ "Shows about and featuring the overweight are flourishing .", "\"Dance Your Ass Off\" drew more than a million viewers for its premier .", "Star of show says programs resonate because of truth .", "Professor wonders if shows inspire ridicule of the overweight ." ]	[ 1, 14, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A North Carolina man is accused of arranging to have his wife raped through personal ads on the Web site Craigslist, police said Wednesday.", "The 25-year-old man, of Kannapolis, North Carolina, was arrested in connection with the incident that occurred at his home early Sunday, police said in a statement.", "Police responded to the home at about 2:45 a.m. after receiving a 911 call indicating a male armed with a knife appeared in the couple's bedroom and sexually assaulted the man's wife, authorities said.", "The man was present at the time of the assault, and two young children were in the home, but were unharmed and unaware of the incident, the police statement said.", "\"During the investigation, investigators interviewed the victim and her husband,\" the statement said.", "\"Investigators became suspicious when they noticed there was no sign of forced entry to the home.", "Investigators also developed information that led them to note specific inconsistencies in the initial statement provided by [the man].\"", "But on Tuesday, police found that the man \"had responded to at least two personal ads on Craigslist.com in an effort to arrange for someone to come to his home and have sex with his wife using some type of scare tactic.\"", "\"Investigators believe [he] arranged this incident without the knowledge or consent of the victim,\" the police statement said.", "The woman was taken to a hospital after the assault, where she underwent a forensic examination and was interviewed, police said.", "She suffered no serious physical injuries and was released shortly afterward.", "Police did not release the identity of the victim.", "CNN is not naming the victim's husband in an effort to avoid identifying her.", "The incident remains under investigation, police said.", "The man faces charges including first-degree rape, two counts of first-degree sexual offense and one count of attempted first-degree sexual offense, according to the police statement.", "Kannapolis is about 26 miles northeast of Charlotte, North Carolina." ]	[ "Police: Man arranged wife's rape through ads on Craigslist.com .", "Male appeared in bedroom and sexually assaulted man's wife Sunday, police say .", "Attacker was armed; husband was in bedroom at the time, police say .", "Husband charged with rape, sexual offense ." ]	[ 2, 7 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two federal agencies warned consumers Friday not to eat raw Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough.", "Consumers are advised to throw out all prepackaged, refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough products.", "The company said it is recalling an estimated 300,000 cases of the dough as a precaution after reports of food-borne illness in 28 states.", "There are concerns that the premade dough may be contaminated with the bacterium E. coli 0157:H7, which causes abdominal cramping, vomiting and diarrhea, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.", "Young children and the elderly can suffer more serious symptoms.", "Nestle issued a statement saying, \"While the E. coli strain implicated in this investigation has not been detected in our product, the health and safety of our consumers is paramount, so we are initiating this voluntary recall.\"", "According to Nestle spokeswoman Laurie MacDonald, raw dough was one of the things the sick people reported eating.", "\"The health and safety of our consumers is our No.", "1 priority,\" she said.", "\"We felt the best thing to do is a voluntary recall.\"", "She said the company was informed by the FDA Wednesday night \"and immediately took action.\"", "\"We really want to remind consumers that raw cookie dough should not be eaten,\" she said.", "Since March, the CDC says, 66 people have become sick in 28 states after eating raw cookie dough.", "Twenty-five people were hospitalized.", "No one has died. The FDA and the CDC say people who have become sick after eating refrigerated Toll House cookie dough should contact their doctors.", "They advise consumers to throw out all prepackaged, refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough products.", "Retailers and restaurateurs should not sell or serve any Toll House cookie dough products, the agencies said.", "The company said the market share for Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough for the most recent 52-week period was 41 percent.", "The recall does not include already-baked Toll House cookies, varieties of Toll House morsels, chocolate baking bars or cocoa or Dreyer's and Edy's ice cream products with Nestle Toll House cookie dough ingredients." ]	[ "300,000 cases of Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough being recalled .", "66 cases of food-borne illness reported in 28 states; dough is one common link .", "Dough may be contaminated with E. coli, which causes gastric symptoms .", "Nestle: E. coli not detected in product; recall is safety precaution ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When Neil Armstrong took one small step onto the moon in 1969, it seemed only a matter of time before the advent of thriving space colonies and summer vacations on distant planets.", "But after an initial flurry of moon landings, manned lunar expeditions dwindled: the last time an astronaut left his footprints on the moon was in 1972.", "Plants such as lettuce, peppers and tomatoes will be on the menu at Moon Base One.", "Then, in January 2004, President Bush announced NASA's intention to return humans to the moon by 2020, and in 2006, NASA announced plans to set up a manned lunar outpost by 2024, with the European and Russian Space Agencies now planning bases of their own.", "After years in limbo, the dream of living in space is alive once more.", "Sustaining long-term space habitation presents space agencies with a whole new set of technological and logistical challenges.", "Currently, the International Space Station supports three astronauts in a low Earth orbit, with food supplied periodically by space shuttle.", "But, just as home cooking is cheaper than getting takeout, when it comes to more permanent settlements, this kind of supply voyages would be prohibitively expensive: we will need to grow our own food in space.", "Raymond Wheeler, a plant physiologist at Kennedy Space Center, explained to CNN, \"In the near term it's not needed, for example on the space station and initial short sorties to the moon, but as you go further and stay longer, regenerative systems become much more cost effective.\"", "Wheeler sees this development of space farming as a gradual process in which space outposts become increasingly self-sufficient.", "\"It would probably be evolutionary,\" he said.", "\"The first human missions to Mars might set out with everything stowed, but they might set up the beginnings of an in-situ production system -- maybe a plant chamber -- that you could use to grow perishable foods.", "You wouldn't be providing everything, but in subsequent missions if you returned there you could expand the infrastructure.\"", "Of course, this means growing plants in conditions very different from those on Earth.", "Yet research has shown that plants are surprisingly adaptable.", "For example, while plants normally use gravity to direct the growth of their stems and roots, in low gravity conditions they can use light to orient themselves.", "And research suggests that plants can grow well even at very low atmospheric pressures.", "That reduces the leakage of oxygen and carbon dioxide from their growth chamber out into space, but crucially, it also reduces the structural requirements of a \"space greenhouse,\" meaning less construction material needs to be shipped into orbit.", "Nor is the absence of soil a problem.", "Many supermarket vegetables are already grown hydroponically in nutrient-enriched water, and research indicates this technique could work well in space.", "Some have even suggested the loose rock regolith on the surface of the moon or Mars as a growing medium, although additional minerals would need to be brought from Earth.", "So what's on the menu at Moon Base One?", "Well, initial crops would need to be small in stature and grow well in controlled environments with artificial light.", "Plants such as peppers and tomatoes are already extensively grown hydroponically, while lettuce, with its short lifecycle, would yield fast returns for pioneering space colonists.", "But again, Wheeler sees the choice of crops as part of an evolutionary process.", "He tells CNN, \"The first things you might grow would be perishable foods -- maybe vegetables or fruits -- things that don't keep very well if you're on a journey to Mars.", "Even though you're not providing a lot of calories, these things could have a strong impact in terms of adding color, flavor and texture to the diet.\"", "\"The other reason for considering freshly consumed foods on early missions is that they don't require any processing,\" he continued.", "\"If you were to grow grains, like wheat, you'd have to thresh the seed out of the head, then clean it and mill it to make flour.", "Staple crops like wheat, soy bean, rice and potato -- things that would provide carbohydrates, protein and fat -- they're the final end point.\"", "Crops need a sheltered environment, protected from the extreme temperatures and frightening levels of radiation found on the moon's surface, with water, carbon dioxide and light.", "Researchers at the University of Arizona's Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC), in collaboration with Sadler Machine Company (SMC), have come up with one solution: to house plants and astronauts in an inflatable habitat.", "They are working on a full-scale prototype Mars Inflatable Greenhouse.", "Space-worthy inflatable structures have been around since the 1960s and are lightweight, compact in transit and easy to assemble on landing.", "But what's novel about the CEAC design is that it incorporates a bio-regenerative life-support system -- the kind of technology that could one day not only feed an outpost on the moon or Mars, but also provide it with oxygen and recycle its water.", "Gene Giacomelli, Director of CEAC, told CNN, \"If people get to Mars we want to be able to feed them, but maybe even more importantly revitalize the atmosphere -- allow the plants to consume the carbon dioxide as they do so well here on Earth, and provide oxygen.\"", "In the prototype designed by Phil Sadler (SMC) and evaluated by Giacomelli and graduate student Lane Patterson, plants are grown hydroponically.", "As water evaporates from their leaves, air moisture is condensed and re-used for irrigation.", "The inedible bits of plants, the stems and leaves, are fed into a composter that breaks down the biomass, releasing carbon dioxide that can be re-used by growing plants.", "In a working moon base, waste water from the astronauts' showers and laundry could also go into the composter, where it would be cleaned by microbes and then used in the plants' hydroponic system, before being condensed and re-used by the astronauts once again.", "The CEAC team intends to test the finished prototype in Antarctica, a harsh and remote environment that provides a realistic analog of conditions on the moon.", "The team has already provided a food growth chamber for the Amundsen-Scott South-Pole Station and the time Sadler and Patterson have spent there has provided a unique insight into some of the other benefits that bio-regenerative life support might provide for inhabitants of a space base.", "\"It's not just oxygen, fresh water and food that it provides, but it's also the green, living plants that psychologically become so important to people living and working in a confined, harsh, black and white space at the South Pole or in a moon or Mars base,\" says Giacomelli.", "Patterson adds, \"Bright lights, high humidity, green plants and the fragrance as well -- these are things that are missing in that environment.", "Those things shouldn't be underestimated.\"", "The CEAC project offers a tantalizing glimpse of the kind of habitat that may house settlers in the space colonies of the future.", "And perhaps one day, as you relax in your inflatable villa by the Sea of Tranquility, plants will provide much more than just your dinner.", "................................................................................................................... Do you think farming on the moon will be a reality by 2024?", "Should man be developing stations on the moon?", "Send us your thoughts by using the \"Sound Off\" below." ]	[ "NASA plans lunar outpost by 2024 .", "Long-term space habitation will require space farming .", "CEAC and SMC working on prototype Mars Inflatable Greenhouse .", "Greenhouse could provide food, oxygen and recycle water ." ]	[ 5, 32, 34, 47 ]
[ "(CNN) -- No drawn butter will ever touch Fiona's tail.", "She's an extremely rare, seven-year-old \"yellow\" lobster.", "Fiona's colorful hue makes her a one-in-30 million rarity.", "Fiona belongs to Nathan Nickerson, the owner of Arnold's Lobster and Clam Bar in Eastham, Massachusetts, who has been in the restaurant business for 32 years.", "The special lobster was caught off the coast of eastern Canada last week by a friend of Nickerson.", "\"In 57 years in Cape Cod, I have never seen a yellow lobster and I doubt that I will ever see one again,\" he said Thursday.", "Experts say Fiona's colorful appearance makes her one in 30 million.", "Fiona's not really yellow, but more of a bright orange, She's not quite the red color your typical lobster looks after it's been cooked.", "Nickerson has plans for his new ocean-dwelling friend, but it has nothing to do with the boiling pot.", "He said he'll keep the 1.75-pound crustacean in a viewing tank at his restaurant, hoping to draw in a few extra customers.", "CNN's Samuel Gardner contributed to this story." ]	[ "Rare \"yellow\" lobster making waves at Massachusetts restaurant .", "Fiona was caught off coast of eastern Canada, given to restaurant owner .", "Her colorful appearance makes her 1 in 30 million rarity .", "Owner has no cooking plans for Fiona ." ]	[ 2, 3, 4, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- We all know what happens when urban sprawl gets out of control: Commutes back up, smog thickens, and concrete suburbs gobble up green spaces.", "The oceans are growing crowded, and governments are increasingly trying to plan their use.", "But what about \"ocean sprawl\"?", "Until recently, no one gave that idea much thought.", "But the oceans, like the land, have gotten crowded, and now scientists and policy makers are looking for ways to plan ocean development -- with the aim of preventing our public-owned seas from turning into sprawling, watery versions of Houston, Texas, or Atlanta, Georgia.", "\"The oceans are kind of the last frontier for use and development,\" said Amanda Leland, ocean policy director at the Environmental Defense Fund, an advocacy group.", "\"Even in the 1970s we thought that the oceans were limitless resources of fish.", "We know today now that fisheries are collapsing all around the world.\"", "In an attempt to address this and other crowding problems, governments are for the first time devising comprehensive plans for their marine waters.", "The Obama administration on June 12 announced a task force devoted to federal ocean planning.", "By September, the group must recommend a national policy on the subject that's designed to protect ocean ecology, address climate change and promote sustainable ocean economies.", "A handful of states, including Massachusetts and Rhode Island, are charting similar courses.", "Massachusetts on June 30 published a draft plan for its coastal waters, which is scheduled to be finalized by the end of the year.", "One of the state's main aims is to make space for two ocean wind farms -- taking up 2 percent of the state's waters -- without angering fishing industries, killing whales or harming ecosystems.", "Internationally, several European countries, including Denmark, Belgium, the United Kingdom and France, are pioneering the new field, said Fanny Douvere, a co-principal investigator at UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.", "Ocean advocates say these planning processes are urgently needed and have been a long time in coming.", "One reason it's taken so long is that people can't see that the oceans are filling up, said Sandra Whitehouse, a marine biologist and senior adviser at the Ocean Conservancy, an environmental group.", "\"The majority of the ecosystem is under the water,\" Whitehouse said.", "\"So it's out of sight, out of mind.", "We're only looking at the surface.\"", "Beneath the water, though, overfishing has caused some fish stocks to collapse.", "By one report, wild fish could disappear by mid-century.", "The energy sector threatens to take up large chunks of water.", "Shipping lanes cross the paths of endangered whales.", "Fish farms are growing in some countries.", "Climate change is altering ocean chemistry.", "And power lines, reefs, lobster traps and sunken ships compete for seafloor space.", "In Europe's North Sea, expanding industries have tried to claim three times the amount of ocean space than is available, said Douvere, of UNESCO.", "What happens on land also affects the oceans.", "A 2003 report by the Pew Oceans Commission says that each year, coastal development destroys 20,000 acres of estuaries and near-coast fish habitat.", "Furthermore, pavement on land creates \"expressways\" for oil and other pollutants to run into the ocean.", "\"Every eight months, nearly 11 million gallons of oil run off our streets and driveways into our waters -- the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill,\" the report says.", "When the renewable energy sector started trying to move into the sea, the situation went from crowded to unmanageable and without a clear plan, said Whitehouse, of the Ocean Conservancy.", "\"There's a lot of pressure to be able to harness this energy,\" she said, \"but it's very important that this be done in a proactive and comprehensive way, because we also have so many important economic aspects of our oceans.\"", "Since there are new uses but not new space, planning is necessary, said Charles Ehler, another co-principal investigator at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission.", "He added, \"There's not enough space for everything, and there are going to have to be trade-offs that are made.\"", "Current efforts focus on broad public interest rather than specific conflicts, Ehler said.", "Until now, the ocean primarily was divvied up in a sort of \"free-for-all\" in which \"whoever gets there first gets the access,\" he said.", "Leland, of the Environmental Defense Fund, said the patchwork of federal agencies managing the oceans in the United States contributes to the problem.", "More than 140 federal laws govern the ocean's use; and six federal departments, along with dozens of agencies, are in charge of implementing those laws, according to the Pew Oceans Commission report.", "Charles M. Wahle, a marine ecologist and senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said Obama's ocean-planning efforts are a complete shift in thinking.", "\"We're acknowledging that we want and need to use the ocean in a lot of different ways,\" he said.", "\"They all have standing, and we need to figure out a way to allocate them fairly and sustainably.\"", "He added, \"Fifty years from now, you should be able to go to a place [in the ocean] and know what will be happening there.\"", "There are skeptics of the shift.", "Commercial fisheries are hampered by current regulations and could be further harmed if the ocean is divided up among too many groups, said Jim Ruhle, president of Commercial Fishermen of America, an industry group.", "\"We make our livelihoods from that ocean, and we want to make sure that we have reasonable plans in effect to allow that to take place,\" he said.", "Some other fishing groups oppose new ocean uses, like offshore wind energy, entirely.", "Despite this new emphasis on planning, there's still a chance that ocean waters could go the way of haphazard cities.", "\"The proof will be in the pudding,\" said Wahle, of NOAA.", "But he said it's exciting that so many groups are on board for a new way of thinking.", "\"If we do our jobs right, overall, the oceans will be healthier, ecosystems will be more productive, people will derive more services and benefits and value from those ecosystems,\" he said, \"and industry will be able to plan and commit and invest in ways that actually work.\"" ]	[ "The oceans are growing crowded, and some scientists worry about \"ocean sprawl\"\nFor the first time, governments plan ocean use in a comprehensive way .", "Advocate says oceans are the \"last frontier for use and development\"\nPresident Obama creates task force to map out the future of the oceans ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5, 9, 24 ]
[ "(Budget Travel) -- With rates as low as $36, these flashy new European hotels take the convenience of the pod concept and expand it with style.", "Qbic hotels have a clever lighting concept -- Deep Purple Love, anyone?", "You can pick the color you like, or turn them off altogether.", "YOTEL . Where: Inside terminals at London's Gatwick and Heathrow airports (in Terminal 4), and Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.", "The concept: Catering to those with a long layover, these glossy, no-nonsense capsule hotels are small but convenient for business travelers -- or someone just looking for a nap and a shower.", "What you get: A windowless room (about 75 square feet) that looks like a cruise ship cabin -- there's a shower, a TV, a fold-out work desk and an overhead storage rack; Wi-Fi is free.", "Bonus: a 24-hour room-service menu of snacks and drinks delivered within 15 minutes.", "What it'll cost: There's a four-hour minimum, which costs about $36 for a standard cabin in the London locations.", "After that, pay by the hour (about $10).", "Premium cabins are probably better for shares -- those start at $57 for four hours.", "yotel.com. QBIC . Where: Antwerp, Belgium; Maastricht and Amsterdam, the Netherlands.", "The concept: A completely self-service hotel.", "You check yourself in at the kiosk and buy everything with your hotel key card.", "What you get: In the center of each room is a Cubi, a 75-square-foot enclosed platform for the bed, a bar-like work-and-dine space and the bathroom.", "The lighting is at your discretion -- Mellow Yellow, Deep Purple Love -- it's all pretty club-like.", "There's a vending machine in the lobby filled with drinks, locally made snacks such as organic bread and things you may have forgotten -- like neckties.", "What it'll cost: From $91. qbichotels.com.", "CITIZENM . Where: Near Amsterdam's Schiphol airport and in central Amsterdam's posh Zuid neighborhood, which started taking guests this April.", "The concept: Keeping prices down by using prefabricated everything -- the 150-square-foot rooms are built in a factory, stacked up and then shot through with plumbing and electrical wiring.", "Budget Travel wrote about citizenM in a February 2009 story on boutique hostels.", "Budget Travel: See photos of the boutique hostels .", "What you get: Only single-bed rooms are offered, each with an ultramodern cylindrical shower.", "Use a control panel (called a moodpad) to manage the room temperature, blinds, alarm clock, stereo and lighting -- there are clever choices like \"I'm here to party,\" with intense colored lighting and dance music.", "There's also a 24-hour self-service cafeteria; if you're craving a martini, a bartender is on duty in the evenings.", "What it'll cost: From $109. citizenm.com.", "EXPANSION PLANS .", "All three of these mini chains have plans to expand -- some more than others.", "CitizenM will open a third hotel in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2009, and plans to expand into London and New York City in the next five years.", "Yotel will open in London and then at all major airport hubs in Europe and the U.S., but there are no fixed dates.", "Qbic hopes to pursue a franchise model -- if you (really) like what you see, apply to be a franchise-owner on the Web site.", "Get the best travel deals and tips emailed to you FREE - CLICK HERE!", "Copyright © 2009 Newsweek Budget Travel, Inc., all rights reserved.", "Note: This story was accurate when it was published.", "Please be sure to confirm all rates and details directly with the companies in question before planning your trip." ]	[ "Pay just $36 for four hours in one of Yotel's London locations .", "At Qbic hotels, colorful lighting schemes give the rooms a club-like feel .", "CitizenM rooms feature an ultramodern cylindrical shower ." ]	[ 7, 14, 21 ]
[ "TYRE, Lebanon (CNN) -- Diab Diab lost an eye and part of a leg trying to clear unexploded bombs from the fields of southern Lebanon.", "But now he is going to lose his job, too.", "Despite the dangers of clearing mines, Diab Diab wants to continue his work.", "For though there are possibly thousands of unexploded bombs and shells littering the landscape, the money for cleanup operations has disappeared in the global recession.", "Diab knows the dangers all too well, but said he wants to continue working for British specialist clearance company BACTEC.", "\"It's hard to lose one's job -- despite the risks and the dangers you run, you get used to it,\" he said.", "Countries such as the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates all pledged to help Lebanon clear the landmines, cluster bombs and other unexploded ordnance left by Israeli forces as they withdrew from their conflict with Hezbollah in the summer of 2006.", "More than $43 million in international donations has been spent so far on clearing the region.", "Britain and the Netherlands have been the largest single donors, each giving more than $5 million.", "The United States gave $2 million soon after the conflict and Saudi Arabia's contributions are now at $1.5 million, a report by the United Nations Mine Action Service shows.", "But with the economic crisis sweeping around the globe, some of the donor cash has dried up, and BACTEC, which had been responsible for a quarter of the clearing work, has to shut down its operations in Lebanon.", "There are some areas that BACTEC operations manager Johan Hann can mark as \"cleared\" on a map in his office.", "Elsewhere, the map shows areas that have not been touched and a vast swath of land where no one knows what lies in the ground.", "Watch mom cry for her daughter, maimed by a bomb » .", "Cluster bombs leave huge craters but also spread bomblets over a wide area.", "Not all the bomblets will necessarily detonate on impact, and those that do not explode are left, like ticking time bombs in the ground.", "The United Nations Mine Action Service says Israel has provided no information as to where bombs were dropped.", "Nor has Israel contributed to the funding for the U.N.-led mine clearance effort.", "Land has to be cleared field by field, section by section and yard by yard.", "A piece of red and white tape fluttering across a piece of land shows how far Hann's team got before they had to stop.", "Mohammed Cheaito looks to the other side of the tape, to the land that he should be farming but that could be full of hidden danger.", "\"If they are going to stop now, it means we will stop planting and working, too; we can't get to our land anymore,\" he said.", "\"Of course, I am upset.", "They're supposed to finish their work so we can walk freely and cultivate our land in order to make a living.\"", "But the risks of straying onto uncleared land are all too obvious.", "At least 328 people have been killed or wounded by bombs left in the soil of the region that borders Israel.", "One of them is Naimah Ghazi, who stepped on a cluster bomb in her garden in 2007 and lost half a leg.", "She used to provide for her family by farming tobacco, but now she spends most of her day sitting in the very garden that hid the weapon that injured her.", "Her mother, Khadija, finds it almost unbearable to look at her.", "\"I cry so much I can barely see with my eyes.", "I cry when I look at the state my daughter is in,\" the 86-year-old wails.", "Phone calls asking for jobs are still coming in to BACTEC's offices, Hann said, even as the mine clearers pack up their tents and climb into their trucks for the last time.", "They leave behind thousands of acres of land around the villages that they haven't been able to check and an untold number of bombs, perhaps still waiting for a victim." ]	[ "Bomb disposal teams leave Lebanon as funding dries up in economic crisis .", "Thousands of unexploded bombs litter landscape around Lebanese villages .", "Hundreds have been killed, hurt by deadly remnants of 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict ." ]	[ 10, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Queen of the Blues is dead.", "Koko Taylor performs in Spain in 2005.", "Her last performance was in May of this year.", "Koko Taylor, a West Tennessee sharecropper's daughter who went to Chicago, Illinois, with \"35 cents and a box of Ritz Crackers\" at 24 and wound up an award-winning blues legend, died Wednesday at her Chicago home at 80.", "She died of complications from a May 19 surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding, her Web site reported.", "Just days before the surgery, Taylor won her 29th Blues Music Award, picking up the trophy for Traditional Female Blues Artist Of the Year.", "She performed her signature song, \"Wang Dang Doodle,\" at the ceremony.", "Known for her powerful vocals, Taylor was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1997, won the Blues Foundation Lifetime Achievement Ward in 1999 and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 2004.", "She also won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1985 for her album \"Queen of the Blues.\"", "Taylor was born Cora Walton and picked up the nickname \"Koko\" because of her love of chocolate as a child.", "She also displayed a love of singing from an early age.", "She and her future husband, the late Robert \"Pops\" Taylor, traveled to Chicago in 1952, where Pops Taylor worked for a packing company while Koko Taylor cleaned houses.", "By night, the two roamed Chicago's blues clubs, where Koko Taylor sat in with top bands and was soon a popular guest artist.", "But it took 10 years for Koko Taylor to record on her own, after Willie Dixon got her signed to Chess Records and produced several singles, including \"Wang Dang Doodle.\"", "Taylor landed a permanent home with Alligator Records when Chess was sold in 1975.", "Her final performance was the May 7 blues award show, but earlier in the year she performed at the Kennedy Center Honors program honoring actor Morgan Freeman.", "Throughout her lengthy career, she shared the stage with nearly every blues performer imaginable, from Junior Wells and B.B.", "King to Taj Mahal and Muddy Waters.", "She was a strong influence to later performers, including Bonnie Raitt and Janis Joplin.", "Survivors include Taylor's husband, Hays Harris, daughter Joyce Threatt, son-in-law Lee Threatt, grandchildren Lee Jr. and Wendy, and three great-grandchildren." ]	[ "Taylor dies at Chicago home of complications from May 19 surgery .", "Her final performance was a May 7 blues award show .", "She sang her signature song, \"Wang Dang Doodle,\" at the ceremony .", "Taylor won Grammy in 1985 for her album \"Queen of the Blues\"" ]	[ 4, 6, 8, 15 ]
[ "MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- One man was gored in the abdomen and another suffered facial injuries on the third day of the annual running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, a hospital doctor told Spanish state television Wednesday.", "A fighting bull leaps over a fallen runner at the Mercaderes curve during the running of the bulls.", "A 22-year-old Californian, who was gored, was taken to a hospital and was \"stable and conscious,\" said the doctor, Ignacio Yurss, medical director of Hospital de Navarra.", "The patient's name was not released.", "The man who suffered facial injuries comes from Greece and was injured in the nose, Yurss added.", "The latest injuries bring to 20 the number of runners who have been hurt in the first three days of the running.", "Watch the running of the bulls in Pamplona » .", "Two of those were due to bull gorings -- the Californian gored Wednesday and a Spaniard gored Tuesday.", "The other 18 injuries resulted from falls or collisions, the regional government of Navarra reported.", "Ten of the injured are Spanish.", "The other 10 include three Americans and one each from England, Australia, New Zealand, Greece, South Africa, South Korea, and Romania, the Navarra government said.", "Many of the 20 have already been released from the hospital.", "The running of the bulls in Pamplona started 400 years ago and became popular worldwide after Ernest Hemingway wrote about it in the 1920s.", "The running is held for eight consecutive days, July 7 to 14, as six bulls and a pack of tame steers run from the corrals through Pamplona's old town to the bull ring, where the bulls will die later in the day in a bullfight.", "A total of 13 people have been killed in the runs since 1924, when record-keeping began.", "The last was a 22-year-old American gored to death in 1995.", "The runs begin off at 8 a.m. (2 a.m.", "ET) each day, with a few thousand runners participating daily, although crowds swell at the weekend." ]	[ "One man gored in the abdomen, another facially injured at Pamplona bull run .", "Californian and Greek hospitalized following event, now more than 400 years old .", "Latest injuries happened on the third of eight scheduled runs in the Spanish city .", "NEW: Twenty people injured so far this year; last fatality was an American in 1995 ." ]	[ 0, 15 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A former death row inmate in Tennessee has been cleared of murder, three years after the Supreme Court raised repeated questions about his conviction.", "After 22 years on death row, Paul House was released on bail and has now been cleared of murder charges.", "State prosecutors on Tuesday asked a judge to drop all charges against Paul House, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to die in 1986.", "Special Judge Jon Blackwood accepted the request.", "House had been scheduled to be retried next month for the 1985 murder of Carolyn Muncey.", "He had been on death row for 22 years but was released on bail last year.", "He has multiple sclerosis and must use a wheelchair.", "The high court ruled in June 2006 that House was entitled to a new hearing.", "\"Although the issue is closed, we conclude that this is the rare case where -- had the jury heard all the conflicting testimony -- it is more likely than not that no reasonable juror viewing the record as a whole would lack reasonable doubt,\" wrote Justice Anthony Kennedy for the 5-3 majority.", "House's appeal was championed by the Innocence Project, affiliated with the Cardozo School of Law in New York.", "\"In the three years since the U.S. Supreme Court stepped into this case and sent it back to the trial court, substantial additional DNA testing and further investigation have shown that he is innocent,\" said Peter Neufeld, the group's co-director.", "\"Each time a layer of this case was peeled away, it revealed more evidence of Paul House's innocence.\"", "Muncey disappeared from her rural Luttrell, Tennessee, home on July 13, 1985.", "Her body was found a day later, badly beaten and showing signs of a struggle.", "She had been raped. House, who was on parole at the time as a sex offender, was questioned by police.", "He denied any involvement in the crime.", "He was a friend of Muncey's husband, but claimed he was in his own house several miles away the evening of the murder.", "But prosecutors found a hole in his alibi, discovering that he had left his home the night of the murder and returned about an hour later with unexplained cuts and bruises.", "Forensic evidence found Muncey's blood on House's jeans, but questions were later raised whether the samples were contaminated en route to an FBI lab for analysis.", "Subsequent state-of-the art DNA testing conducted after the conviction showed that semen on the victim belonged to her husband, not House.", "Blood under her fingernails and cigarette butts discovered near the wooded crime scene also did not match the accused.", "But prosecutors maintain that other evidence points to his guilt.", "Muncey's family has also continued to believe that House was involved in the crime.", "In 2005, House told CNN he did not rape or kill Muncey, and he wondered why he was still on death row.", "\"I guess that's the million-dollar question,\" he said.", "While maintaining his innocence, he said that lying to police about his whereabouts that night was a big mistake.", "Kennedy, in his 2006 high court ruling, offered an extensive summary of the facts of the investigation, especially the DNA evidence, which he said might point to \"a different suspect.\"", "Kennedy said jurors might conclude that Muncey's blood found on House's pants may have inadvertently spilled there during the autopsy or through mishandling by police at the crime scene.", "District Attorney Paul Phillips wrote in his petition this week that he still believes House could have been convicted again in a new trial, \"but the new evidence (including the forensic examinations) raises a reasonable doubt that he acted alone and the possibility that others were involved in the crime.\"", "But Phillips noted the \"substantial sentence\" House has served as another reason for the charges being dropped now." ]	[ "New evidence prompts judge to drop murder charges against Paul House .", "House, of Tennessee, spent 22 years on death row for murder of Carolyn Muncey .", "House, who uses a wheelchair, was released on bail in 2007 .", "New DNA testing helped raise doubts ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Four teenage boys in Tampa, Florida, were charged as adults Wednesday on allegations of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy.", "Lee Louis Myers, 14, from Tampa, Florida, is one of the defendants in the case.", "Charged with four counts each of sexual battery were Randall John Moye, 14; Raymond A. Price-Murray, 14; Lee Louis Myers, 14; and Diamante J. Roberts, 15.", "CNN is naming the defendants because they were charged as adults.", "Hillsborough County prosecutors allege the four boys raped the 13-year-old victim multiple times over two months with a broomstick and hockey stick.", "At a bond and arraignment hearing, the defendants appeared before Hillsborough County Judge Wayne Timmerman to hear the counts against them read in court.", "Prosecutor Kimberly Hindman described to the court how two defendants held down the victim while the other two defendants violently sodomized him with the sticks.", "\"The victim screamed and cried, telling them to stop,\" Hindman said.", "The prosecutor said the victim's screams could be heard outside the boys' locker room at Walker Middle School, in southern Tampa, where the alleged assaults took place.", "Multiple people witnessed the attacks, but no one reported the incidents, including the victim, Hindman said.", "The school began an investigation after a fight that began on the football field and continued until a coach broke it up in the locker room, said the prosecutor.", "During the fight, the victim said, \"I'm tired of them getting on me,\" Hindman said.", "When school officials questioned the defendants, all four admitted in a written statement that they had sexually assaulted the victim.", "The defendants \"all implicated themselves in a sexual-battery incident,\" Hindman said.", "The victim did not acknowledge the attacks until questioned.", "School officials contacted authorities, who initially charged the four as minors with sexual assault and false imprisonment.", "Several students witnessed the incidents over the two months, said the prosecutor, who added that she could not understand why no one reported the attacks.", "The victim made a statement in court, telling the judge how his father was angry and his mother couldn't stop crying when they heard about the attacks.", "Defense attorneys told the judge their clients were good students and had never been in trouble before.", "Attorney Tim Taylor, representing Randall Moye, said his client's family is among the finest in the community.", "Taylor presented six character witnesses, including his client's mother, Jeanne Myers, who said her son wants to attend college.", "The prosecutor asked her about her son's written statement about the attacks.", "Myers said her son described clowning around in the locker room with a hockey stick.", "She added that he told her about holding down the victim for a few seconds.", "The victim finished the academic year at home instead of returning to school, authorities said.", "The judge set bond for each defendant at $15,000, with ankle monitors for all but one, who has left the area.", "The four boys were taken into custody in court and booked into the adult jail.", "The judge warned the four to have no contact with one another, the victim or any witnesses in the case.", "The defendants could spend up to 120 years in prison if convicted on all four counts." ]	[ "Prosecutors: Victim, 13, raped over 2-month period with broomstick, hockey stick .", "Multiple people witnessed attacks, but no one reported incidents, prosecutor says .", "The 4 teens gave written admission of assaults to school officials in Florida .", "Defense attorney for one teen says client's family is among the finest in Tampa ." ]	[ 1, 4, 9, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A close aide to Pakistan's Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud said he is breaking ties with him and confirmed reports that Mehsud was behind the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.", "Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007 at a campaign rally.", "Qari Turkestan Bhitaini, a self-proclaimed right-hand man of Mehsud, said Mehsud was behind the December 27, 2007, assassination of Bhutto, Pakistan's Express TV reported.", "Bhitaini said he is breaking ties with Mehsud because he blames the Taliban chief for killing scores of innocent Muslims in recent attacks in Lahore.", "The Pakistani government and CIA officials have said in the past that Mehsud was responsible for Bhutto's death.", "Bhutto, 54, was heading the opposition to then-President Pervez Musharraf when she was assassinated during a campaign rally in Rawalpindi ahead of parliamentary elections.", "The Pakistani government, who has struggled to control terrorism, is waging a military offensive against the Taliban in the country's North West Frontier Province." ]	[ "Report: Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud responsible for Benazir Bhutto's slaying .", "Mehsud's former aide makes allegations, blames him for killing Muslims .", "Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007 at campaign rally ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Man-made climate change threatens to stress water resources, challenge crops and livestock, raise sea levels and adversely affect human health, according to a report released by the Obama administration on Tuesday.", "Farmers and workers in central California are suffering through the third year of a worsening drought.", "The nearly 200-page document on global climate change -- released by the White House science adviser and mandated by Congress -- does not include new research, but encompasses several recent studies on the effects of global warming over the last half century.", "Among the report's key findings are an \"unequivocal and primarily human-induced\" rise in the Earth's temperature of 2 degrees Fahrenheit over the last 50 years, and a projection of more rapidly changing temperatures over the next several decades.", "\"It's not just a problem for the future,\" said Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.", "\"We're beginning to see the impact on our daily lives.\"", "The continuing temperature rise is likely to spur a series of negative consequences for the Earth's energy supply, water, transportation, ecosystems and health, the study said.", "\"[The report] tells us why remedial action is needed sooner rather than later, as well as showing why that action must include both global emissions reductions to reduce the extent of climate change and local adaptation measures to reduce the damage from the changes that are no longer avoidable,\" said John P. Holdren, the White House science adviser.", "Among the study's specific predictions: Longer and more intense heat waves; increased heavy downpours likely to cause widespread complications such as flooding and waterborne diseases; reduced summer runoff, creating greater competition for water, especially in the West; rising ocean water temperatures that will threaten coral reefs; an increase in wildfires and insect infestations; and more frequent coastal flooding caused by rising seas.", "The report is the first in almost a decade to break down impacts of climate change on regions and economic sectors of the United States.", "For example, warming trends in coming decades are expected to reduce the lobster catch in the waters of the Northeast, increase the intensity of hurricanes in the Southeast and accelerate drought in the Southwest, it said.", "Authors of the comprehensive report said they hope it can serve as a valuable tool for policymakers and other Americans, such as farmers making crop decisions or local governments passing zoning restrictions in coastal areas.", "The report comes as Congress debates a White House-backed climate change bill that seeks to reduce the United State's greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050 through a so-called \"cap and trade\" program.", "The bill cleared a key House committee vote in May and could be considered by the entire chamber within the next two weeks, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday.", "The bill's future remains unclear in the Senate, where leaders are holding off advancing their own version of the legislation until it clears the lower chamber." ]	[ "Man-made climate change is adversely affecting the U.S., says a federal report .", "Report: Changes will stress water resources, challenge crops and raise sea levels .", "Document is released by White House science adviser and mandated by Congress .", "Report's predictions: Hotter heat waves, more flooding and an increase in wildfires ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In keeping with President Obama's pledge of an administration that is \"transparent and accountable,\" the White House has launched a site that promises to show taxpayers where their stimulus-package dollars are being spent.", "Visitors to Recovery.gov are greeted with a video message from President Obama.", "The site, Recovery.gov, allows visitors to track efforts to jump-start a teetering economy in the midst of a slumping housing market and massive job losses.", "It breaks down the $787 billion package by category: $288 billion for tax relief, $59 billion for health care, and so on.", "The site promises that more detailed spending information will be posted once federal agencies decide how they are going to allocate the money.", "Learn more about where the money is going » .", "Using graphs, charts and layman's terminology, the online portal is an example of how the tech-savvy Obama administration is taking its message to the American people.", "While running for president, Obama harnessed the Web's fundraising and social-networking capabilities to energize his grass-roots campaign.", "And the moment he was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, administration officials unveiled a sleek interactive version of Whitehouse.gov, the official White House Web site.", "Recovery.gov, launched within hours of Obama's signing of the stimulus bill Tuesday, continues the theme of offering information in a user-friendly format.", "Visitors are greeted by a brief video address from Obama.", "\"The American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan represents a strategic and significant investment in our country's future,\" the president explains.", "\"The size and scale of this plan demand unprecedented efforts to root out waste, inefficiency and unnecessary spending.", "Recovery.gov will be the online portal for these efforts.\"", "The site will publish information on how the stimulus funds will be spent in a \"timely, targeted and transparent manner,\" Obama said.", "Edward Glaeser, a professor of economics at Harvard University, said transparency has \"been a watch word for good government types for years.\"", "\"There is sense that taxpayers will feel a lot better about this if they actually know where their money is going,\" Glaeser said.", "\"Better transparency makes evaluation much easier.\"", "Glaeser pointed out that the idea behind Recovery.gov is not entirely new.", "He noted that the Office of Management and Budget has for years had a site where citizens can learn the available cost-benefit information of several government programs.", "Clicking on \"Where is Your Money Going\" on the new site brings up a chart displaying key areas where the $787 billion will be distributed, including tax relief, energy, health care and infrastructure and science.", "Under \"Accountability and Transparency,\" there is a statement that reads, \"This is your money.", "You have a right to know where it's going and how it's being spent.", "Learn what steps we're taking to ensure you can track our progress every step of the way.\"", "Like other Obama online portals, the site encourages user interaction.", "The public is invited to share stories on how the Recovery Act is affecting them.", "Scrolling over a map of the United States reveals data on the number of jobs created and saved in each state.", "Those with some time on their hands can also read, in its entirety, the full text of the legislation." ]	[ "New White House Web site explains economic stimulus spending .", "Obama administration continues promise to be \"transparent and accountable\"\nRecovery.gov is similar to other Obama-backed sites .", "Harvard professor: \"Better transparency makes evaluation much easier\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 17 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday that another stimulus package might be needed to help the ailing economy.", "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with economists and other Democrats on Tuesday to discuss the stimulus.", "Pelosi, whose comments followed a meeting with several economists, said the measures already taken by the Obama administration are helping to restore confidence in the shaky financial markets.", "But \"we have to keep the door open and see how this goes,\" the California Democrat added.", "House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey of Wisconsin said on Tuesday night he's already instructed his staff to start drafting a second stimulus proposal.", "Obey said his staff is preparing the outline of a stimulus bill but he cautioned there is no timeline to move on it.", "One of the economists in the meeting with Pelosi and other Democrats, Mark Zandi with Moody's Economy.com, said more taxpayer money would likely be needed to bolster the economy.", "Another economist, Allen Sinai, chief global economist at Decision Economics Inc., urged patience.", "But he questioned President Obama's prediction that the $800 billion stimulus package enacted last month would create or save as many as 3 million to 4 million jobs.", "\"Initially ... the jobs created may be a little disappointing,\" Sinai said.", "Sinai said his analysis showed that about 2.5 million jobs would be saved or created over the next two years and he said it is more realistic to project 3 million jobs over a longer period of three years.", "The most recent prediction from the Congressional Budget Office, released last week, estimates the recovery package will create or save from 1.2 million jobs to 3.6 million jobs." ]	[ "\"We have to keep the door open and see how this goes,\" the House Speaker says .", "House Appropriations Committee chairman's staff is preparing second proposal .", "More taxpayer money will likely be needed to bolster economy, economist says .", "Economist questions whether current stimulus will save or create 4 million jobs ." ]	[ 3, 4, 6 ]
[ "ROME, Italy (CNN) -- An Italian newspaper and magazine published excerpts of what they said were audio recordings of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi talking with an escort at the center of a corruption probe.", "Veronica Lario, the wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, pictured, filed for divorce in May.", "The daily La Repubblica and its sister magazine L'Espresso said the recordings posted on their Web sites Monday were of Berlusconi and Patrizia D'Addario.", "She has said that an Italian businessman hired her and other women to attend parties at Berlusconi's homes.", "In June, D'Addario told CNN that she had turned the tapes over to a prosecutor in Bari, southern Italy.", "Through her attorney, she refused to comment on the authenticity of the excerpts released Monday.", "But in a statement carried by the Italian news agency ANSA, Berlusconi lawyer Niccolo Ghedini said the prime minister is challenging the \"truthfulness and legality\" of the recordings.", "\"We can only regard the material as worthless, completely false and the result of invention,\" Ghedini said.", "\"In any case, the act of its publication is an illegal act in itself, which will need to be pursued, and all legal actions will be taken against any body who publishes such material.\"", "Berlusconi, the 72-year-old media mogul-turned-prime minister, has denied the allegations.", "According to La Repubblica, the conversation between D'Addario and Berlusconi took place in October and November at the prime minister's house in Rome.", "It also published an excerpt of what it said was a conversation between D'Addario and Gianpaulo Tarantini, the businessman accused of hiring D'Addario and other escorts.", "Prosecutors in Bari, in southern Italy, are investigating allegations that Tarantini bribed health officials to buy prosthetics and other medical supplies from a company he and his brother own.", "Tarantini has denied any wrongdoing and says he brought women to the parties to make a \"beautiful impression.\"", "\"I have never paid money to those who accompanied me except for refunding their trip expenses,\" he said in a statement issued last month.", "\"I exclude that the premier could have been aware of these reimbursements and I want to ask forgiveness for having involuntarily damaged him.\"", "Berlusconi's private life has been in the spotlight since his wife of 19 years, Veronica Lario, filed for divorce in May.", "The split followed reports that Berlusconi went to the birthday party in Naples of an 18-year-old girl, with whom Berlusconi has denied having an inappropriate relationship.", "And the Spanish newspaper El Pais has published what it said were photos of racy parties at Berlusconi's villa on the island of Sardinia, including one picture that showed scantily clad women.", "But despite the swirl of scandal, Berlusconi remains popular, consistently scoring approval ratings well over 50 percent.", "CNN's Hada Messia contributed to this report." ]	[ "D'Addario refuses to comment on authenticity of excerpts released Thursday .", "Berlusconi attorney calls act of publication \"an illegal act\"\nLa Repubblica: Conversation between D'Addario, Berlusconi took place at his home .", "La Repubblica publishes alleged conversation between D'Addario, businessman ." ]	[ 5, 10, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- It is possible more U.S. troops could be added in Afghanistan if the new U.S. commander there needs them, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he does not expect a significant increase.", "U.S. Marines sweep for bombs in Afghanistan this week.", "During a visit to troops at Fort Drum, New York, on Thursday, Gates said he is waiting to hear what Gen. Stanley McChrystal recommends after he completes a review of operations in Afghanistan.", "McChrystal is expected to complete a classified report for Gates by the end of this month, assessing where the war stands, and what needs to be done.", "He will tell Gates whether he needs more U.S. troops to fight the escalating conflict, according to a senior U.S. military official.", "Gates asked McChrystal to \"state his requirements for resources,\" said the official -- who did not want to be identified because the report is not completed.", "The review is also expected to recommend that the number of Afghan troops be increased beyond the goal of 134,000, other military sources said.", "During a speech and question-and-answer session with troops at Fort Drum, Gates acknowledged he would consider a recommendation to boost U.S. troops beyond the level of 68,000 already approved.", "\"We'll see what Gen. McChrystal recommends,\" he said.", "\"But I think there will not be a significant increase in troop levels in Afghanistan beyond the 68,000, at least probably through the end of the year.", "Maybe some increase, but not a lot.\"", "Gates has made clear in the past he is reluctant to approve additional major increases in troop levels, preferring to keep the U.S. at a lower profile in the nation.", "About 57,000 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan, with the other 11,000 to arrive by the end of this year.", "Gates has said he wants to see if that level of troops would be sufficient.", "Gates' press secretary, Geoff Morrell, told CNN the Fort Drum comments \"are not necessarily a foreshadowing of what's to come.\"", "He said Gates \"doesn't want to impose an artificial troop cap on the commander,\" but does want to see if the strategy can be carried out with the approved troop levels." ]	[ "Defense secretary would consider it if U.S. commander says he needs more .", "Gen. Stanley McChrystal preparing review of operation for Gates .", "Still, Secretary Gates said, any amount over 68,000 approved would not be much .", "Wants low U.S. profile in Afghanistan, chance to see if 68,000 is enough ." ]	[ 0, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The House of Representatives voted Friday to impeach a federal judge convicted of obstruction of justice while in office.", "Judge Samuel Kent was the first federal judge to be charged with sexual crimes while in office.", "U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent of Texas pleaded guilty in February, admitting he lied to investigators about nonconsensual sexual contact with two employees in his courthouse.", "As part of a plea agreement, other counts alleging sexual misconduct were dropped.", "Kent was the first federal judge to be charged with sexual crimes while in office.", "He has submitted his resignation, but made it effective June 1, 2010, meaning he would be paid for a year while in prison.", "That drew a heated response among some members of Congress, and a House Judiciary Committee task force unanimously approved four articles of impeachment against Kent on the grounds of sexual assault, obstruction of justice and providing false statements to federal investigators.", "Before the House vote, Judiciary Committee member Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia, said to House members that Kent collecting a salary of about $174,000 while in prison constituted \"an attempt to extort hundreds of thousands of dollars from the American people.\"", "There were no dissenting votes.", "The decision on whether to convict Kent will be made by the Senate.", "A conviction would mean he would lose his seat on the federal bench and his pension.", "Kent, who turns 60 this month, was sentenced in May to 33 months in prison and began serving the sentence Monday.", "He was ordered to undergo treatment for alcoholism while in prison.", "An attempt to reach Kent's attorney for comment was unsuccessful Friday afternoon.", "President George H.W.", "Bush nominated Kent, who took his seat on the bench of the Southern District of Texas on October 1, 1990.", "Kent is the 14th federal judge to be impeached by the House.", "The last impeachment -- on charges of lying to a federal grand jury -- was of Mississippi Judge Walter Nixon in 1989." ]	[ "Samuel Kent says he lied about nonconsensual sexual contact with 2 employees .", "Kent submits resignation effective June 2010, which allowed him to collect salary .", "To keep Kent from being paid while in jail, House panel votes to impeach .", "Decision on whether he'll lose his seat on the bench and pension rests with Senate ." ]	[ 2, 5, 9, 10, 16 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Commuters on the New York-New Jersey Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) rail system will have added security screening Wednesday as part of a month-long pilot program, according to a news release from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.", "Riders of the New York-New Jersey PATH trains will see a new security system in place on Wednesday.", "The screening system is called the Passive Millimeter Wave.", "It can detect threats, including explosive devices, hidden under clothing, the Port Authority explained in the news release.", "The Transportation Security Administration and the Port Authority stress that there is no current threat to the mass transit system, nor do they anticipate delays for commuters from the new technology, which has already been tested at several other transit locations.", "The Passive Millimeter Wave \"detects threats by analyzing the energy generated by the human body,\" according to TSA spokesperson Lara Uselding.", "The camera-like device displays an image for operators, and \"an indicator produces a strength bar from green to red that indicates the presence/absence of anomalies that could have security implications, including the possible presence of explosives,\" according to the TSA Web site.", "The TSA and the Port Authority emphasize that the device is non-invasive and completely safe.", "The Port Authority's news release explains that all PATH passengers are subject to the pilot security screening, and passengers who do not want take part must leave the station.", "The TSA has partnered with agencies in various cities in the past to test out the same security screening system, including in 2007 at Washington's Union Station and on New York's Staten Island Ferry.", "The TSA has also tested the system at several U.S. airports including Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; Denver, Colorado; and Boston, Massachusetts." ]	[ "PATH riders to have new security starting Wednesday; part of a month-long program .", "System called Passive Millimeter Wave; it detects hidden explosives under clothing .", "Don't want to be screened?", "Then leave station, says Port Authority .", "System previously tested at Staten Island Ferry, several U.S. airports ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3, 8, 10 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A one-of-a-kind bicycle belonging to U.S. cycling legend Lance Armstrong was stolen from a team truck in California just hours after he rode it Saturday on the first day of a nine-day race.", "Lance Armstrong's bike was stolen after he competed in the first day of the Amgen Tour of California.", "Cancer survivor and seven-time Tour de France champion Armstrong is racing in the Amgen Tour of California this week as he attempts another comeback after retiring from the sport in 2005.", "Armstrong's first comeback came in 1998, two years after he was diagnosed with advanced testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain.", "Doctors gave him a less than 50 percent chance of survival.", "Armstrong announced the bike theft on his Twitter account Sunday morning and posted a photograph.", "\"There is only one like it in the world therefore hard to pawn it off.", "Reward being offered,\" he wrote.", "The bicycle that was stolen is not the one Armstrong rides every day during the race.", "The stolen bike is used only for time trials, a race in which cyclists ride individually at staggered intervals over a set distance and try to get the best time.", "The thieves took four bicycles from a truck Armstrong's Astana team had parked behind a hotel in Sacramento.", "The other three bicycles belonged to team members Janez Brajkovic, Steve Morabito and Yaroslav Popovych, Astana said.", "Armstrong, 37, won the Tour de France, considered the premier bicycle race in the world, a record seven times from 1999-2005.", "The 750-mile Amgen Tour of California ends Sunday.", "It is the second major race in which Armstrong has participated since announcing his comeback in September.", "He raced last month in the Tour Down Under in Australia, finishing 29th.", "Armstrong said he is aiming for another Tour de France victory this summer and was not expected to contend in the Australian race, which he used to gauge his fitness level after more than three years out of the saddle." ]	[ "One-of-a-kind bicycle taken from team truck in California .", "Armstrong posted announcement of theft on Twitter account .", "Champion cyclist aiming for comeback with participation in Amgen Tour ." ]	[ 0, 5, 13 ]
[ "(Tribune Media Services) -- If you think being a secret agent is all just one giant adrenaline rush, think again.", "Cracking the safe at the International Spy Museum .", "Our mission on the other side of the world: Retrieve a missing nuclear trigger before it falls into enemy hands.", "We don't know whom to trust in Kandahar.", "We can't speak the language.", "We've got to conduct video surveillance on an always-moving target, decrypt a secret audio conversation when we can barely hear through the static, crack a safe and then escape from a heavily guarded compound.", "Phew. We kept the terrorists from getting the trigger.", "Everyone heaves a giant sigh of relief.", "The three middle-schoolers in the group performed admirably.", "Welcome to Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum (www.spymuseum.org) in Washington, D.C. \"Today intelligence is the first line of defense against ideology-driven terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and other threats to our country,\" explains Peter Earnest, executive director of the International Spy Museum, who spent 36 years at the CIA.", "The idea, he explains, is to put civilians like us in a situation that mirrors a real mission.", "But I've got a bigger mission ahead this weekend: Can I make a visit to the nation's capital, museums and historic sites at every turn, fun?", "I've brought along two sixth-graders from Stamford, Connecticut -- my cousin's son, Max Weinberg, and his friend, Miles Singer -- to see if I'm up to the challenge.", "So far so good. The kids loved Operation Spy and the spy tools in the museum's permanent exhibits -- a Soviet listening device hidden inside the heel of a target's shoe, a lipstick pistol and poison gas gun nearly as much as they loved the gift shop, which offered every spy toy imaginable.", "New lasers in hand, we adjourn next door to the upscale Zola restaurant (www.zoladc.com), which has a sophisticated ambience and menu to please the grown-ups, as well as a welcoming attitude toward kids ... not to mention terrific fries.", "(Memo to parents: If you take kids to a restaurant like this and they've outgrown the kids' menu, suggest they share a meal -- assuming they want the same thing.)", "Over dinner, the boys confess that learning about intelligence gathering was a lot more fun than learning how Congress works, and taking the Amtrak train (www.amtrak.com) was a lot more fun than driving or flying, because they could stay \"plugged in\" the entire trip, playing video games, watching movies and buying pizza and hot dogs.", "(Kids ride Amtrak for half price.)", "The Palomar Hotel, a Kimpton Hotel, (www.hotelpalomar-dc.com), just a short walk from DuPont Circle and Rock Creek Park) proved an ideal choice for my \"mission\" too.", "The theme of this hotel is \"art in motion\" and when we get to our room, the kids find personalized cartoons drawn by a local cartoonist and an iHome to plug in their iPods.", "\"This makes me feel like a king,\" Miles declares, jumping on the bed.", "That's exactly what General Manager Brett Orlando, himself the father of young twins, wants to hear.", "\"Our job is to create an experience for kids as well as parents,\" he explains.", "There is a treasure chest of toys for younger kids to borrow, a lending library of DVD movies and welcome swag that includes a card for free cookies from room service.", "(Check the hotel Website for the Link in Luxury package that allows you to book one room at a going rate -- weekend rates start at $229 and a second adjoining room for the kids for $50.", "Fall and winter weekends are a great time to visit D.C. with bargain hotel rates.", "Visit www.washington.org).", "The boys, of course, would have preferred to never leave the hotel but I promise we can skip all the \"boring stuff\"\" -- like the Capitol Building, the Supreme Court, all art museums and even the White House.", "But even without these stops, we had plenty to fill up our weekend.", "At Jaleo, (www.jaleo.com), they sampled tapas for the first time -- but passed on the octopus and squid and reveled at being treated like grown-ups at the trendy D.C. Coast (www.dccoast.com).", "They declared \"Shear Madness,\" which has been running in the Kennedy Center's Theater Lab (http://www.kennedy-center.org/) for almost 20 years, a high point -- with campy humor and the opportunity for the audience to help solve the scissor-stabbing murder of a concert pianist who lives above the hairstyling salon.", "They also liked the view from the top of the Washington Monument, though they were disappointed when they learned they had to take a 70-second elevator ride rather than climb the 800-plus steps.", "(TIP: Even in the fall, the entire day's tickets had been given out before 10 a.m.", "Arrive before 9 a.m. at the kiosk at 15th Street and Madison Drive to get one.)", "The kids also gave a thumbs-up to The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (www.bep.treas.gov) where they watched from an overhead glass window, as money was made and sorted.", "NOTE: Though (free) tickets aren't required September through February, tours still fill up.", "Be prepared. You may need to wait.", "At the National Air and Space Museum (www.nasm.si.edu) where a new exhibit, America by Air, will open next month, the boys were most interested in the gift shop -- until they discovered the Simulator Rides ($8 each) that allowed them to try their skills as a pilot and gunner aboard an F-4 Phantom II Jet Fighter.", "\"I wish we could do it again and again,\" Max said.", "I insisted they see the original 1903 Wright Flyer but after a cursory look, they were done.", "Sure I could have forced them to spend more time at the museum -- maybe I should have -- but that would have just made them cranky.", "Me too. Instead, we all left happy.", "The Smithsonian museums and the capital will be here next trip.", "E-mail to a friend .", "(For more Taking the Kids, visit www.takingthekids.com, where Eileen Ogintz welcomes your questions and comments.)", "Copyright 2009 EILEEN OGINTZ, DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC." ]	[ "The International Spy Museum is popular with kids .", "Fall and winter weekends in D.C. are a great time for bargain hotel rates .", "Arrive before 9 a.m. for tickets to climb up the Washington Monument ." ]	[ 1, 24, 25 ]
[ "SACRAMENTO, California (CNN) -- Debbie Brown used to process medical and dental forms for a living before a debilitating illness forced her into early disability retirement and left her in a simple, no-frills wheelchair -- a rented wheelchair that has cost taxpayers about $1,200.", "CNN found a wheelchair similar to Debbie Brown's taxpayer-funded Medicare wheelchair for a fourth of the price.", "Brown says the public should be outraged about her wheelchair.", "Why? She says she could buy a comparable wheelchair on the Internet for $440 if she had the money.", "It sounded hard to believe that her rented, $1,200 taxpayer-funded wheelchair could be bought for $440, so CNN decided to check -- and instead found an even better deal.", "CNN went to the same company that charges Medicare for Brown's chair, Apria Healthcare, and bought it for $349 -- about a fourth of what taxpayers' have paid for Brown's rented wheelchair.", "That's why this slightly built woman, who lives modestly with her husband in Sacramento, California, believes her story and her wheelchair underscore the bigger problem of reforming health care in America.", "\"Now you multiply that by how many people have a manual wheelchair, especially the baby boomers, it multiplies and multiplies and that money could be spent, even a hundred dollars out of that ... could give someone else the options that they need,\" Brown said.", "Reforming health care is at the top of the agenda in Washington.", "Everyone seems to agree this nation's health care costs and care availability are out of whack.", "Fixing it is another problem altogether.", "The Clintons failed.", "President Bush tried and got push-back as well.", "Now President Obama says he will do it because America can't put it off any longer.", "But he, too, is finding the way forward is not an easy path.", "Terms like \"affordability,\" \"single payer,\" \"universal coverage,\" and an entire lexicon have become part of the health care buzz lingo.", "It is a complex issue with so many facets, so many lobbyists and so many special interests that one proposal seems to result in a competing proposal or proposals, or competing parties with concerns of their own.", "To illustrate how difficult it will be to overhaul America's health care, CNN decided to focus on one item in the nation's health care bill: a basic wheelchair.", "The wheelchair, in its own small way, CNN discovered, gives a glimpse of the contentious and complex debate swirling around health care reform.", "CNN interviewed Brown and her husband, Dennis Brown, at a community center in Sacramento.", "It is a place the couple visits frequently; it is free, offers programs, books, entertainment and features a park to stroll in.", "Debbie Brown sent an e-mail to CNN months ago, outraged over the continuing Medicare payments for a wheelchair that after four years of use is not in the best shape.", "It squeaks and is hard to navigate.", "Her ride in it is made more difficult because her husband, retired from the armed services, is also on disability and has trouble getting the wheelchair in and out of the car.", "On days he is not well, he sometimes has trouble pushing her.", "She showed CNN her bills and documented the fact that Medicare is still paying for the wheelchair after all these years.", "Medicare, with Brown's permission, confirmed the payments.", "Brown referred us to the Internet sites where comparable chairs -- and better ones than hers -- are listed for a fraction of the cost Medicare pays over time.", "The Browns have a limited income and say they cannot afford to buy one.", "That's when CNN decided to check Brown's story by buying one directly from Apria, based in Lake Forest, California.", "CNN paid cash for the chair after calling one of Apria's offices in an Atlanta, Georgia, suburb.", "Apria representatives told the CNN buyer that the chair Brown had is no longer made but offered the model that is being rented and sold as the replacement model for the one Brown still uses.", "When CNN asked Apria why it rented wheelchairs to the government for $1,200, but sold it to us for $349, the company said it was an \"honest, unfortunate mistake.\"", "Lisa M. Getson, Apria executive vice president for government relations, said in a letter that CNN \"should have been charged $949, in accordance with Apria's retail price....\" \"Since there's no comparable sale option in the Medicare system for such a wheelchair, our employee was confused by the sale request and charged the incorrect amount,\" Getson said.", "But the amount CNN paid is comparable to many other companies' prices on the Web.", "A quick check found two firms selling the Invacare Tracer SX5 for $289.00 and $249.00, including delivery.", "The manufacturer's suggested retail price is nearly $300 less than the corrected Apria price.", "Apria Healthcare said its costs are higher because of the stringent paperwork required by the government and because it provides 24-hour on-call service.", "Apria also points out that the cost of the wheelchair over the past four years has been less than 78 cents per day, a bargain because it allows the patient to remain at home.", "Wheelchairs are classified as durable medical equipment, along with such items as oxygen tanks and home infusion therapies.", "Apria is the nation's leading provider of home health care products and services, according to its Web site.", "The nation's $1 billion annual durable medical cost is only a fraction of Medicare's $444 billion budget last year, but one government officials believe it is time to rein in.", "That's where this story of the rented wheelchair gets caught between all the interests involved.", "Congress sets the rates Medicare pays and Congress determined that wheelchairs should be billed on a monthly rate for 13 months -- the renter has to pay 20 percent of the costs.", "After 13 months, a user can opt to own it -- if the user knows about the rule.", "Brown, who worked in claims processing for years, said no one ever told her the wheelchair that barely works for her now is hers if she wants it.", "Instead, now that her rental term has ended, she gets billed by Apria every six months for service.", "Medicare pays $63 and she pays $16.", "Jonathan Blum, one of Obama's picks to reform the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said it is simply wrong that a wheelchair an individual can buy for $349 has cost the government $1,200.", "He said the government has a plan to fix it: competitive bidding.", "\"The good news is we have new authority right now to use competitive bidding to give the program much more flexibility,\" Blum said.", "But that's where the rubber -- or in this case, a wheelchair -- meets the road.", "Medicare has tried for years to get a bidding project off the ground.", "Last year, a bidding project was stopped after two weeks.", "The industry is flat-out against the government's proposed bidding project, contending it isn't competitive bidding at all.", "Opposing a bidding project is a well-funded lobbying industry, small- and durable-equipment businesses and special-interest groups who worry their ill clients won't be served if a bidding process as proposed by Medicare is put in place.", "So CNN loaded its wheelchair onto a Delta 757 to Washington and rolled it through the halls of Congress to find out why any representative -- not to mention 84 of them (the number who signed an April letter asking that competitive bidding be put on hold once again) would object to a plan that Medicare maintains will save taxpayer money.", "From Republican and Democrat alike, the answer was nearly identical as they sat for interviews next to CNN's $349 wheelchair.", "\"Well, you know what? I am a big believer in competitive bidding,\" said Rep. Betty Sutton, a Democrat from Ohio, where Invacare, one of the biggest manufacturers of durable equipment, is based.", "\"So at the outset I absolutely concur.", "But this program as it has unfolded, as it's been developed it really is a competitive bidding process that isn't competitive bidding.\"", "Rep. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican from Tennessee, agreed.", "\"My hope is that as we look at health care reform that some of those that are working off of theory, if you will, and the federal system will slow down and we look at where the lessons learned should be and we will think long and hard before they move aboard a single-payer or mandated to restrict choice and restrict options for individuals,\" said Blackburn.", "The American Association for Homecare, which represents many in the durable-equipment industry, said the bidding program is anti-competitive.", "In a statement, the association said the bidding program would \"sacrifice care for seniors and people with disabilities\" as it \"reduces patient access to and choice for medical equipment.\"", "The association said competitive bidding will \"increase Medicare costs because it will lead to longer, more expensive hospital stays.\"", "But John Rother, the head of policy and strategy for the retiree advocacy group AARP, said what's really happening is business trying to protect profits -- in this case profits four times the cost of Brown's wheelchair rental.", "\"It's an outrage,\" Rother said.", "\"It's a ripping off of the taxpayer.", "It doesn't make any sense to have those kinds of expenses for products that could be bought for so much less.\"", "Medicare again plans to try to get its competitive bidding program started later this year in at least nine markets, although Blum said it is unlikely to go into effect until next year.", "As for Brown, her four-year-old wheelchair needs replacing.", "She's reluctantly applied through her doctor for a new one.", "CNN's Marcus Hooper contributed to this report." ]	[ "Woman: Rented, $1,200 taxpayer-funded wheelchair can be bought for $440 .", "CNN found chair that could be bought for a fourth of the price .", "Debbie Brown believes her story, wheelchair underscore problem health care reform .", "Legislators, companies debate competitive bidding to fix problem ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- New IBO light-welterweight world champion, Manny Pacquiao, is planning a career in politics, the 30-year-old told CNN on his return to his native Phillipines.", "Philippine boxing champ Manny Pacquiao sits with Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources Lito Atienza (L) and former governor Chavit Singson (R) in Manila.", "Though \"Pacman\" will concentrate on boxing until next year, the man dubbed the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world suggested he could retire the following year to run for congress.", "\"I want to be a Congressman so I can help the people,\" Pacquiao told CNN's Andrew Stevens.", "But when asked if becoming the Filipino president was his ultimate aim he added: \"I wouldn't think about that because my ambition is only to run for congress.", "Pacquiao previously ran in the 2007 congressional elections for President Arroyo's party but was beaten by the Nationalist People's Coalition candidate Darlene Antonino-Custodio, who received 139,061 votes to Pacquiao's 75,908, Britain's Daily Telegraph said.", "Pacquiao is a national hero in the Phillipines but has seen his popularity grow around the world since his comprehensive victory over British fighter Ricky Hatton in Las Vegas.", "\"I'm happy to be back (in Manila) because there's a lot of people supporting me here.", "I expected it in the Phillipines but I had many supporting me in America too.\"", "The man dubbed the \"National Fist\" will be a busy man over the next few months as he plans to make his second film and record a TV programme.", "This is a long way from his humble origins growing up in General Santos City, southern Philippines, a reality that Pacquiao says he struggles to believe sometimes.", "\"I never dreamed I would reach the levels of success I have reached, he said.", "\"But I have faith in God and discipline in myself to make the sacrifices (needed) and to train hard.\"", "In 14 years as a professional, Pacquiao has won world titles in four weight divisions -- from 7st 8lb to 9st 9lb, at flyweight, super bantamweight, super featherweight and lightweight.", "In his last contest, in December, in what many felt would be a step too far, he dismantled America's most popular boxer, Oscar De La Hoya, at the 10st 7lb limit, in eight one-sided rounds.", "Pacquiao is currently rated by The Ring, the sport's most respected trade magazine, as the best boxer in the world.", "His career earnings stand at an estimated £30 million, with major paydays coming relatively late in his career.", "However he remains modest despite the success.", "\"It's a big honour to me and my family to be looked up to by so many people.", "\"My inspiration comes from my family -- the people who are always there behind me supporting me and love me.\"" ]	[ "Manny Pacquiao plans career in politics .", "Wants to run for Philliphines congress .", "World's best pound-for-pound fighter coulf retire in 2010 ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch expects News Corporation-owned newspaper Web sites to start charging users for access within a year in a move which analysts say could radically shake-up the culture of freely available content.", "Murdoch said the existing Internet business model was \"malfunctioning.\"", "Speaking on a conference call as News Corporation announced a 47 percent slide in quarterly profits to $755 million, Murdoch said the current free access business model favored by most content providers was flawed.", "\"We are now in the midst of an epochal debate over the value of content and it is clear to many newspapers that the current model is malfunctioning,\" the News Corp. Chairman and CEO said.", "\"We have been at the forefront of that debate and you can confidently presume that we are leading the way in finding a model that maximizes revenues in return for our shareholders...", "The current days of the Internet will soon be over.\"", "Murdoch said the experience of the News Corp.-owned Wall Street Journal had proved that charging for content could be made to work.", "Would you pay to use news Web sites?", "Sound Off below . He said 360,000 people had downloaded an iPhone WSJ application in three weeks.", "Users would soon be made to pay \"handsomely\" for accessing WSJ content, he added.", "Murdoch said he envisaged other News Corp. titles introducing charges within 12 months.", "Murdoch's international newspaper empire includes the New York Post, the News International stable of UK titles including the Sun and the Times, and a cluster of Australian papers including the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun.", "His comments come with the U.S. newspaper industry in a state of crisis amid plunging advertising revenues and falling circulations with several historic titles already going out of business.", "Joshua Benton, Director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, said Murdoch was not the only executive looking to generate new income streams from online content.", "\"News executives are starting to recognize that online advertising revenues are not enough on their own,\" Benton told CNN.", "But he said the challenge for media organizations was finding a balance between advertising and subscription revenues and figuring out how to charge for content without alienating existing users -- which could lead to Web sites offering tiered levels of free and paid-for material.", "\"I suspect within any readership there is a small slice -- maybe three percent -- that is willing to pay.", "News organizations are going to have to find a way of getting money from that slice without driving away everybody else,\" Benton said.", "\"I don't think you can afford to put a lock and chain on the front page.", "Benton said the U.S. newspaper industry was in a \"horrible state\" which was likely to get worse.", "\"We're starting to see holes where newspapers were.", "The question is, will new Web sites fill the holes, will traditional names come in -- or will they just not get filled?\"", "Earlier this week, the 137-year-old Boston Globe said it would be forced to shut down unless it reached an agreement with unions over a $10 million program of cost-cutting measures.", "Watch media chief discuss charging for online content » .", "The paper's owners, The New York Times Co., postponed plans to close the paper after reaching a deal with six of seven employees' unions but said the Globe was expected to lose $85 million in 2009 if it did not make major cuts.", "The developments followed the demise of print editions of The Rocky Mountain News in Denver, Colorado; The Seattle Post-Intelligencer; and The Christian Science Monitor.", "The Rocky Mountain News shut down completely; both the Seattle paper and the Christian Science Monitor remain in online editions.", "At least 120 newspapers in the U.S. have shut down since January 2008, according to Paper Cuts, a Web site tracking the newspaper industry.", "More than 21,000 jobs at 67 newspapers have vaporized in that time, according to the site.", "Despite the general mood of gloom over the state of the economy, Murdoch said he believed the worst of the financial crisis had passed.", "\"I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good,\" he said.", "\"But it is increasingly clear the worst is over.\"" ]	[ "Rupert Murdoch says News Corp.", "Web sites will charge for content within year .", "Murdoch's newspapers include New York Post, UK's Sun, Times .", "Wall Street Journal proves users can be charged for content, Murdoch says .", "Murdoch: \"The current days of the Internet will soon be over\"" ]	[ 0, 5, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Cycling legend Lance Armstrong -- a survivor of testicular cancer -- and girlfriend Anna Hansen are expecting a baby, CNN learned on Tuesday through his charitable organization.", "Cyclist Lance Armstrong has announced he will come out of retirement and race once again in the Tour de France.", "The baby is due in June.", "Armstrong was diagnosed in 1996 with testicular cancer that had spread to his brain, lungs and abdomen.", "He underwent treatment for the disease and was able to return to cycling, eventually winning seven consecutive Tour de France's.", "The harsh chemotherapy left him unable to have children, although he and then-wife Kristin Richards had three children using sperm the cyclist had donated before the treatment.", "Armstrong and Hansen, however, are expecting without the use of any artificial fertilization process.", "\"This is a hopeful thing for testicular cancer survivors,\" CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said.", "\"It means his body healed from the chemotherapy and surgery.\"", "Armstrong retired from cycling after his seventh Tour de France win in 2005, and focused his energy on the Lance Armstrong Foundation (livestrong.org), which supports people affected by cancer.", "Armstrong founded the organization in 1997.", "The 37-year-old Texan announced in September that he was launching a comeback with the goal of winning the Tour de France in 2009.", "\"After talking with my children, my family and my closest friends, I have decided to return to professional cycling in order to raise awareness of the global cancer burden,\" he wrote on LiveStrong's Web site.", "He is training for several races leading up to the Tour de France, including Australia's Tour Down Under and the Giro d'Italia." ]	[ "Seven-times Tour de France winner Armstrong is a survivor of testicular cancer .", "The 37-year-old Texan already has three children from his marriage .", "\"This is a hopeful thing for all testicular cancer survivors,\" says Sanjay Gupta ." ]	[ 7, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An international peace conference in Johannesburg has been cancelled after South Africa refused the Dalai Lama a visa to attend the event.", "Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Monday he would boycott the conference.", "Announcing the postponement at a news conference Tuesday, Irvin Khosa, chairman of the South African football league, did not offer an explanation.", "A presidential spokesman, Thabo Masebe, said little.", "\"South Africa has made this decision,\" he said.", "\"We stand by the decision.\"", "The peace conference had been scheduled to start Friday.", "Officials said they would like to have a conference in the future, but they did not offer a specific date.", "The conference had been organized by South African soccer officials, led by Khosa, and was billed as an opportunity to showcase South Africa's role as a human-rights champion ahead of the 2010 World Cup -- the global soccer championship the nation will host next year.", "The presidential spokesman had said earlier that the Dalai Lama -- Tibet's spiritual leader and a Nobel Laureate -- did not receive a visa because it was not in South Africa's interest for him to attend.", "Masebe said South Africa thinks that, if the Dalai Lama attended the conference, the focus would shift away from the World Cup.", "\"We cannot allow focus to shift to China and Tibet,\" he said.", "He added that South Africa has gained much from its trading relationship with China.", "Khosa made the announcement at a news conference also attended by Chief Mandla Mandela, grandson of former South African President Nelson Mandela.", "Mandla Mandela said it was a sad day for the country's democracy and the African continent that the South African government had denied the Dalai Lama a visa.", "South Africa should not succumb to international pressure, Mandela said.", "A representative of the Dalai Lama said he was not surprised by the visa refusal.", "The Tibetan government in exile thinks that China has pressured many countries to refuse a visit by the Dalai Lama, according to Chhime Chhoekyapa, an aide in Dharamsala, India.", "The Dalai Lama fled China in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.", "The peace conference was to bring together Nobel laureates and top soccer officials.", "Archbishop Desmond Tutu; former President F.W.", "De Klerk; laureates Nelson Mandela and Martti Ahtisaar; Seff Blatter, president of soccer's international governing body; and actress Charlize Theron were among those invited.", "The event had the blessing of the Nobel Committee." ]	[ "South Africa refused the Dalai Lama a visa to attend the event .", "Spokesman: Not in South Africa's interest for him to attend .", "Grandson of Nelson Mandela said it was a sad day for country's democracy ." ]	[ 9, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Five years from now, there's an excellent chance you won't have the same health insurance you have (or don't have) right now.", "That's because members of Congress are gearing up to reform the U.S. health care system, and unlike in 1993 when then-first lady Hillary Clinton tried her hand at changing the medical system, this time the important players -- doctors, insurance companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers -- seem to be on board.", "You heard a lot about health care reform this week, and you'll be hearing even more in the months to come.", "It's an incredibly confusing, complex issue, so in this week's Empowered Patient, we break it down for you with 10 frequently asked questions about health care reform.", "Overhauling health care is key to U.S. economic stability, President Obama tells doctors Monday.", "1. Why is health care reform such a hot issue right now?", "Fewer and fewer Americans have health insurance, and therefore cannot afford good medical care.", "Nearly 46 million Americans have no insurance, and 25 million more are underinsured.", "One major reason for this crisis is that many employers have stopped offering insurance to employees because of the high cost.", "In the United States, total health care spending was $2.4 trillion in 2007 -- or $7,900 per person -- according to an analysis published in the journal Health Affairs.", "The United States spends 52 percent more per person than the next most costly nation, Norway, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.", "There's little debate that health care reform is necessary -- President Obama, Republican and Democratic members of Congress, the American Medical Association and America's Health Insurance Plans, which represents the insurance industry, all have agreed the system needs to be changed, although they disagree on how to do it.", "2. So let's start with Obama.", "What are his plans for revamping the system?", "A central point of the president's plan is to create a government-sponsored health insurance program that would be an option for all Americans, similar to how Medicare is now an option for Americans over age 65.", "He has also said he'd \"like to see\" prohibitions against insurers discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions, and incentives for people to use preventive services and wellness plans.", "Obama outlined this plan last week at a town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and on his Web site.", "3. How does the president plan to pay for this?", "Obama said he's already identified \"hundreds of billions of dollars\" worth of savings in the federal budget that could help finance health care reform, such as rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid.", "He's also proposed reducing tax deductions for high-income Americans.", "4. What do the Republicans think of Obama's plan?", "In particular, they don't like the idea of having a government-sponsored health insurance program for all Americans.", "They fear employers would opt for the government-run insurance over private insurance because the government option would most likely be less expensive, but Republicans say it would also be lower quality.", "For information, see House Minority Leader John Boehner's Web site.", "5. Since they don't like Obama's ideas, how would Republicans like to reform health care?", "Republicans think Obama's plan is costly and will make health insurance more expensive, not less.", "In a plan outlined this week, House Republicans proposed individual tax breaks for buying health insurance and \"pools\" of states and small business to get lower-cost health care plans.", "They also proposed increasing incentives for people to build health savings accounts, allowing dependent children to stay on parents' policies until age 25 and encouraging employers to reward employees for improved health.", "6. I'm happy with the insurance I receive from my employer.", "What would health care reform mean for me?", "If you receive high-quality health insurance from your employer, Obama said, his plan won't change that, and you can still keep your insurance and your doctors.", "Republicans, however, said that if Obama gets his way, there's a good chance your employer will stop buying the private insurance you have now and instead opt for the less-expensive government plan.", "7. I have a pre-existing condition and can't get health insurance.", "Will health care reform help me?", "You have a terrible problem and you're in good company.", "Millions of people who don't get insurance through their employer try to get insurance on their own and are turned down because they have a pre-existing condition.", "Obama said at the Green Bay town hall meeting that under his reforms, no insurance plan \"would be able to deny coverage on the basis of pre-existing conditions,\" but he didn't explain how he would force insurance companies to insure people with pre-existing health problems.", "Similarly, Boehner wrote on his blog that \"quality health coverage must exist for every American, regardless of pre-existing health conditions,\" but did not explain how he would pay to insure people with pre-existing conditions.", "8. How do doctors feel about health care reform?", "The American Medical Association said while it believes in health care reform, \"the AMA does not believe that creating a public health insurance option ... is the best way to expand health insurance coverage.\"", "The AMA has told members of Congress that doctors fear a new government-sponsored health insurance program would reimburse them at Medicare rates.", "\"Medicare reimbursement rates have not kept pace with the cost of practice,\" AMA President Dr. Nancy Nielsen told CNN earlier this week.", "\"Our Medicare rates are back at 2001 rates, and the reality is, that's not where our rent is, that's not where the electricity is.", "The system for paying doctors is a broken system, and everybody acknowledges it.\"", "Other doctors' groups, however, support the idea.", "The American Academy of Family Physicians, the National Physicians Alliance and other groups put out a statement of support this week for Obama's plan.", "\"Having the choice of a public health insurance plan will help make health care more affordable for patients, foster greater competition in the insurance market and guarantee that quality, affordable coverage will be there for our patients no matter what happens,\" they wrote in a joint statement.. 9.", "Obama has mentioned high health care costs in McAllen, Texas, several times.", "What's up with that? According to research conducted at the Dartmouth Institute, the average per person health costs for McAllen are sky-high compared with costs in other cities.", "In McAllen, the average Medicare beneficiary spends $15,758 per year, while the average Medicare patient in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, spends $6,412 per year.", "Another comparison: The cost in Miami, Florida, is $18,170, compared with $7,478 in Portland, Oregon.", "Dartmouth researchers believe doctors in high-priced cities tend to refer to specialists more and are more likely to put patients in the hospital rather than handling their problems on an outpatient basis.", "10. How do health care costs in the U.S. compare with costs in other countries?", "In the United States, every person spends on average $6,714 for health care.", "That's significantly higher than in the United Kingdom, where $2,760 per person is spent; or in France, where the cost is $3,449 per person; or in Canada, where medical costs are $3,678 per person, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.", "While some would argue that medical care is better in the United States than in these other countries, others would say the opposite is true.", "For example, the United States ranks 50th in life expectancy, and 180th infant mortality (meaning 179 countries have higher infant mortality rates such as Angola and Turkey and 43 countries have lower infant mortality rates such as France and Sweden) according to the CIA World Factbook.", "For more on international price comparisons, see this segment » on CNN Newsroom.", "CNN's Jennifer Pifer Bixler, Marcy Heard and Sabriya Rice contributed to this report ." ]	[ "President Obama says health care reform is a priority; other stakeholders on board .", "U.S. spends 52 percent more per person than the next most costly nation .", "Obama wants government-sponsored health insurance program .", "Republicans think plan is costly, will make health insurance more expensive ." ]	[ 4, 10, 25, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A man accused of killing eight people in a shooting spree at a North Carolina nursing home is the husband of a woman who worked there, police said Monday.", "Robert Stewart faces eight counts of first-degree murder in the nursing home shootings.", "The two may have been separated, said Carthage, North Carolina, Police Chief Chris McKenzie.", "He did not say if the wife was in the building at the time.", "The alleged gunman, Robert Stewart, was carrying several weapons, authorities said.", "Seven patients and a nurse were killed, and three people were wounded, including a visitor and a police officer.", "All the wounded are expected to survive, McKenzie said.", "Officer Justin Garner was shot in the leg, McKenzie said.", "\"As I understand, there were three pellets in his shin, leg and foot,\" he said.", "Garner entered the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center alone with no backup and brought the shooting spree to an end with a single shot, hitting Stewart in the \"chest, upper torso area,\" McKenzie said.", "\"If that's not heroism, I don't know what is,\" he said.", "Garner is \"in very good spirits, resting at home,\" he added.", "McKenzie said he did not know the latest on Stewart's condition.", "The alleged gunman's motive remained a mystery.", "Stewart has not made a public statement nor has an attorney on his behalf.", "His wife has not issued a statement either.", "Meanwhile, his ex-wife, Sue Griffin, told CNN affiliate WTVD-TV in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, \"He did have some violent tendencies from time to time.\"", "She added that when she heard the news of Sunday's shooting, \"I couldn't believe it -- then I stopped, thought about it and thought, 'It is possible.", "It's possible.' \" At a news conference Monday, McKenzie described the shooting spree as \"unimaginable\" and \"horrific.\"", "\"Everything that you can possibly imagine that is bad in the world,\" he said.", "\"This doesn't happen, but it did.\" He described the small town as \"strong, faith-based -- and that faith will get this community through this.\"", "The tragedy draws attention to what McKenzie called the toughest part of training police officers.", "Officers are told not to wait for backup when there are many lives on the line, he said.", "\"That's the hardest thing -- to try to convince them you can't wait, you have to go.\"", "If Garner had waited for backup, \"there would have been a lot more people [killed],\" McKenzie said.", "The slain patients ranged in age from 78 to 98, Moore County District Attorney Maureen Krueger said.", "A witness told CNN affiliate WRAL-TV in Raleigh-Durham that Stewart was armed with a rifle, a shotgun and other weapons.", "Jerry Avant Sr. told WRAL that his son, Jerry Avant, a 39-year-old registered nurse, was the employee who was killed in the shooting.", "He said a doctor told him that his son had been shot more than two dozen times.", "The elder Avant said the doctor told him his son \"undoubtedly saved a lot of lives.\"", "Watch dad praise his son's bravery » .", "Stewart faces eight counts of first-degree murder and one count of felony assault on a police officer, and other charges are pending, Krueger said.", "Carthage is about 60 miles southwest of Raleigh.", "See map showing Carthage and Raleigh » ." ]	[ "NEW: Alleged gunman may have been separated from wife .", "NEW: Lone police officer took down shooter, chief says .", "NEW: Police say they don't have motive in slayings .", "Eight people shot and killed Sunday at North Carolina nursing home ." ]	[ 0, 2, 7, 13 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In 1994, universal health care was a key policy plan for then-President Bill Clinton.", "It eventually failed.", "In 1993, President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton listen to a man's story about health care problems.", "Now, 15 years later, another Democratic president is taking on the challenge, but facing an uphill battle from not only from Republicans, but from members of his own party.", "Will failing to reform health care have the same consequences for Obama's administration as it did for Clinton's?", "Like Obama, Clinton came into office with reforming the nation's health care system as one of his top priorities.", "Then-first lady Hillary Clinton, who headed the administration's task force on reforming the system, delivered a 1,000-page plan that was dubbed \"Hillary Care,\" which required Americans and permanent resident aliens to enroll in a health plan.", "Other provisions included Americans below a certain income level paying nothing for care.", "Republicans decried the plan as overcomplicated and used it to tag the administration as big government-loving, tax-and-spend liberals.", "The plan's failure emboldened Republicans and led to huge Democratic losses in the 1994 midterm elections, allowing the GOP to take control of Congress and stymie other Clinton initiatives.", "Now, 15 years later, Obama potentially faces a similar fate.", "Obama seeks the overhaul to ensure that health insurance is available to the 46 million Americans currently without coverage while preventing costs to both the government and individuals from continuing to climb.", "Watch more on the health care debate » .", "The president had set a deadline for passage of a bill before the August congressional recess, but in an interview Monday with PBS's Jim Lehrer, the president said that if Congress tells him it's \"going to spill over by a few days or a week,\" that's fine.", "iReport.com: Weigh in on the health care debate .", "A senior White House official adds that while there is a \"long way to go\" in coming up with legislation, there is a true effort being made to devise a bipartisan plan.", "See how the plans compare » .", "\"[The Senate] is working in a bipartisan way and despite all of the cacophony of attacks you've heard from some Republicans, I think you've got to give some credit to the Republicans on the finance committee who are making right now a good faith effort, despite pressure, probably from their own party, to work with Democrats to try to come up with something that people can get behind,\" said White House Communications Director Anita Dunn on Wednesday.", "Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, says in order for health care reform to get passed, it will take a well-coordinated bipartisan effort.", "\"I think the president is right.", "He really does want a bipartisan effort.", "And that's what it's going to take for it to be for the American people.", "But the approach to it is kind of like a doctor practicing bad medicine where you fix only symptoms and don't treat the disease.", "... the disease is only going to get worse.\"", "But the battle over health care reform is weighed down by complex problems, competing interests, a $1 trillion price tag, conservative Democrats in sticker shock and Republicans sensing an opportunity to regain some of the power they lost in the 2006 congressional elections.", "Conservative Bill Kristol wrote in his blog that there is an opportunity to inflict political damage to the president and that opponents shouldn't compromise: .", "\"My advice, for what it's worth: Resist the temptation,\" Kristol wrote.", "\"This is no time to pull punches.", "Go for the kill.\" The White House has so far resisted another idea for raising revenue -- creating a tax on the medical benefits provided by employers.", "Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus said he likes the idea, but Obama said it could be too disruptive to a system in which 180 million Americans have health coverage provided by their employers.", "But while Obama has remained mostly popular in national polls so far, support for his health care plan has begun to wane.", "A CNN Poll of Polls released Wednesday indicates that less than half the country approves of how he's handling the issue.", "Forty-seven percent in the poll approve of how the president is dealing with health care reform, with 44 percent disapproving.", "The poll averaged the three most recent national surveys that asked about Obama's performance on health care: USA Today/Gallup (July 17-19); ABC/Washington Post (July 15-18) and CBS News (July 9-12).", "Meanwhile, Coburn -- a fierce opponent of the current plans being worked up in Congress -- says that Congress needs to slow down.", "\"Getting this right is better than meeting a political deadline ...", "I want him to back off the timeline,\" he said.", "\"Let's start over ... let's fix it all and do it in a way that the American people won't charge it to their grandkids.\"", "CNN Senior Political Analyst David Gergen, who has worked under several administrations, including Clinton's, says there's is concern that Obama may be trying to ram health care legislation through Congress as he did with the economic stimulus plan.", "\"And they [Americans] don't have a lot of confidence in the past effort in the stimulus plan to put together something comprehensive and -- 'here we go again' ... something that looks like it's being thrown together to many people in the public.", "So they're not confident that they want it.", "And Coburn's argument -- along with nearly all congressional Republicans' -- could pose a risk to Obama's political capital with Americans.", "Gergen agrees.", "\"I think he's got two other problems: One is that he doesn't have a firm plan to sell.", "... Second thing is, from his point of view, there are many in the public that'd like to hear from him and also like to see just how he's negotiating the plan,\" he said.", "\"What they look for is a leadership that says, 'Here's where we're going to go,' not a leadership that says, 'I'm urging Congress to make more progress' \" Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who Obama had tapped to be Health and Human Services director and the point person on health care reform before tax problems derailed his nomination, said getting health care reform passed now will be a major factor in defining Obama's presidency.", "\"Because he's made it such an issue, and because he has invested so much personal time and effort, this will, more than stimulus and more than anything he has done so far, be a measure of his clout and of his success early on,\" Daschle was quoted in the New York Times.", "\"And because it is early on, it will define his subsequent years.\"", "CNN's Dana Bash, Paul Steinhauser and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report." ]	[ "President Obama is urging Congress to come up with a health care reform plan .", "CNN analyst sees similarities between Obama's push and Clinton's in 1994 .", "Obama and top Democrats are seeking coverage for 46 million Americans ." ]	[ 0, 38 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An Arkansas man suspected in a shooting that killed one soldier and wounded another at a Little Rock military recruiting center was angry over the treatment of Muslims, authorities said Tuesday.", "Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway, Arkansas, was killed in Monday's attack.", "Abdulhakim Bledsoe, 23, of Little Rock, also told police he recently watched a video \"pertaining to subversive activities which spurred him to commit this act,\" according to court documents.", "Bledsoe pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Tuesday and was ordered held without bail.", "He faces one count of capital murder and 16 counts of engaging in a terrorist act, said Little Rock Police Chief Stuart Thomas.", "The terrorist counts stem from the shots fired at an occupied building.", "Watch scenes from Tuesday in court » .", "Before the not guilty plea, authorities said Bledsoe waived his Miranda rights after the shooting Monday and gave a video statement indicating that \"political and religious\" motives were involved.", "He \"stated that he was a practicing Muslim ... that he was mad at the U.S. military because of what they had done to Muslims in the past,\" homicide detective Tommy Hudson said in a police report.", "Bledsoe told police \"he fired several rounds at the soldiers with the intent of killing them,\" according to Hudson's report.", "The suspect is a Muslim convert who has also gone by the names Carlos Bledsoe and Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad.", "He changed his name from the latter April 23, citing religious reasons, court records show.", "A leader of the Muslim community in Little Rock said he did not know Bledsoe.", "The suspect had been under investigation after visiting Yemen, a federal law enforcement official said.", "The official declined to provide further information.", "Police believe the shooter acted alone \"with the specific purpose of targeting military personnel,\" Thomas said.", "Kent Krause, Bledsoe's public defender, said a formal hearing would be held for his client, but no date has been set.", "Residents left flowers and miniature American flags outside the recruiting center after the shooting.", "A lone candle burned on the sidewalk next to bouquets of white and red roses.", "A note that said \"Thank you for your service\" was attached to the flowers.", "The shooting Monday killed Pvt.", "William Long, 23, of Conway, Arkansas, and wounded Pvt.", "Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville, Arkansas, who were outside the military recruiting center.", "Bledsoe told police he was driving around and saw Long and Ezeagwula smoking outside the building, according to Hudson's report.", "He said he pulled into the parking lot and shot the two soldiers and added that \"he would have killed more soldiers if they had been on the parking lot,\" according to the report.", "Ezeagwula was in stable condition Tuesday, the police chief said.", "The soldiers were part of a recruiting program called \"hometown recruiting assistance,\" said Lt. Col. Thomas F. Artis, commander of the Oklahoma recruiting battalion that oversees the Little Rock Army-Navy recruiting center.", "Under the program, soldiers tell their stories to potential recruits.", "It's a volunteer position taken while soldiers are visiting or based back in their home region, Artis said.", "\"I'm relieved there's a suspect in custody,\" said Capt.", "Matthew Feehan, commander of the recruiting center.", "He said several people were in the building at the time of the shooting, but nobody else was injured.", "Bledsoe was arrested after officers on Interstate 630 pulled over his car, which matched witnesses' description of a black Ford sport utility vehicle seen leaving the scene of the shooting.", "Police recovered three guns from the suspect's vehicle -- an SKS semi-automatic rifle, a .22-caliber rifle and a .380-caliber automatic pistol, Thomas said.", "The victims were shot with an SKS rifle, according to the police report.", "Police also seized from Bledsoe's vehicle and apartment several rounds of ammunition, two homemade silencers, handwritten notes in Arabic, CDs with handwritten Arabic labels, a computer and cell phones, according to court documents.", "Melvin Bledsoe of Memphis, Tennessee, was listed on the police report as Bledsoe's father.", "He declined to comment, referring questions to Little Rock police." ]	[ "Police say \"political and religious motives\" were indicated .", "Convert said he was angry over military's treatment of Muslims, police say .", "One soldier killed, one wounded in Monday's shootings ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "WASHAKIE COUNTY, Wyoming (CNN) -- Federal agents have apprehended accused child molester Edward Eugene Harper, who was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list, an FBI official said Thursday.", "Edward Eugene Harper is believed to have lived a nomadic lifestyle since fleeing Mississippi.", "Harper, 63, is accused of molesting two girls, ages 3 and 8, in his neighborhood in Hernando, Mississippi, more than a decade ago, the FBI said.", "The FBI said it received a telephone tip in June at the Denver office regarding Harper, and brought a SWAT team and a hostage negotiation team to apprehend him in rural Wyoming on Thursday.", "He surrendered without incident, the FBI said, and later admitted his identity to agents.", "Harper was living in a 1979 truck with a camper top in the southern portion of Washakie County's Big Horn Mountains, the FBI said.", "He is believed to have lived a nomadic lifestyle, moving from place to place and earning a living by doing odd jobs and herding sheep, the FBI said in a statement.", "He was indicted in April 1994 with conspiracy to commit sexual battery, fondling a child and sexual battery.", "He failed to appear for a scheduled court hearing and a state warrant was issued for his arrest in October 1994.", "He was later charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, a federal offense.", "The FBI added him to its 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list last year.", "Before living in Mississippi, Harper had been a ranch hand, working with cattle and sheep in Montana and Wyoming, the FBI said in its release on Harper last year.", "He has also worked as a truck driver, the agency said.", "According to the FBI, Harper subscribed to \"sovereign citizen\" ideology and claimed to be a member of the Montana Freemen, a group that rejected the authority of the U.S. government.", "The group became famous for an 81-day standoff with federal agents in Montana in 1996.", "But after the arrest and conviction of many of its members, the group essentially disintegrated, according to Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center.", "\"As far as I know,\" they don't exist, he said.", "\"Most of them went to prison and there was nothing left.\"" ]	[ "Edward Eugene Harper accused of molesting two girls ages 3 and 8 a decade ago .", "Harper surrendered without incident after telephone tip in June led FBI to him .", "FBI says he was working as sheep herder, living in camper in rural Wyoming .", "Harper was indicted in Mississippi on charges of sexual battery, fondling a child ." ]	[ 2, 3, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Dallas Cowboys scouting assistant suffered a broken back and has been permanently paralyzed after the collapse of the team's practice canopy during a heavy thunderstorm, the Cowboys announced Sunday.", "An aerial view of the scene shows the Dallas Cowboys logo amid the ruins of the indoor practice facility.", "Rich Behm, 33, was one of three Cowboys staffers seriously hurt when the storm struck their practice facility Saturday afternoon.", "Behm's spinal cord was severed by a fractured vertebrae, paralyzing him from the waist down, the team said in a written statement.", "\"To the Behm family, we extend our love, comfort and the full support of every person and resource within the organization,\" Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said.", "\"Rich is a courageous member of our family and someone for whom we care deeply.", "We ask for all friends and fans of the Dallas Cowboys to join us in embracing him and his family with their thoughts and prayers at this very difficult time,\" Jones said.", "A total of 12 people were hurt when a severe thunderstorm knocked down the air-supported, metal frame structure that covered the team's practice field.", "About 70 people, including more than two dozen of the team's rookies, were in the facility when it was blown down.", "Cowboys special teams coach Joe DeCamillis had a fractured cervical vertebra, while assistant trainer Greg Gaither had two broken bones in his leg, the team said.", "Watch CNN's Don Lemon with update on conditions of those injured in collapse » .", "A line of heavy thunderstorms was moving through the Dallas area at the time, but no other damage to buildings was reported, said Mike Adams, a dispatcher for the Irving, Texas, Fire Department.", "Watch the roof collapse on players, coaches » .", "Arnold Payne, a photographer for WFAA, was shooting the Cowboys' practice session Saturday when rain began falling \"tremendously hard.\"", "\"I noticed the walls started to waver ... and then I noticed that the lights that were hanging from the ceiling started to sway, and it wouldn't stop,\" Payne told CNN.", "Shortly after that, he said, \"It was as if someone took a stick pin and hit a balloon.\"", "Watch Payne describe being inside when structure collapsed » .", "Payne said Cowboys staff photographers were up in the metal framework beneath the canopy to film the practice session and \"actually rode the building down with the storm.\"", "\"There was nowhere for them to go, and it fell so fast -- it just collapsed as if it was being imploded,\" Payne said.", "CNN's Matt Smith contributed to this report." ]	[ "Rich Behm one of three Cowboys staffers seriously hurt Saturday .", "Behm's spinal cord severed by a fractured vertebrae, paralyzing him from waist down .", "Canopy over Dallas Cowboys' practice facility collapsed during thunderstorm .", "Team photographers were up in framework of structure, rode it down, witness says ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- A crowd in southern Lebanon threw rocks at U.N. peacekeepers over the weekend, wounding 14 of them in an effort to prevent the investigation of an explosion in the area, the United Nations said.", "U.N. peacekeepers were investigating reports of an explosion in a Hezbollah stronghold.", "The troops with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) were lightly wounded, and some vehicles were damaged including a UNIFIL ambulance, officials said.", "The explosion took place Tuesday in Khirbet Salim, in what Lebanese authorities said was an uninhabited house.", "Ammunition stored there caused the blast due to the high temperature and humidity, Lebanese officials said.", "The region is a stronghold for Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group and political party that fought a war with Israel in 2006.", "Hezbollah has carried out attacks against civilians, and the United States and Israel list the group as a terrorist organization.", "Hezbollah officials had no comment Monday.", "UNIFIL called last week's explosion \"a serious violation of Security Council resolution 1701,\" which was aimed at ending the 2006 conflict, \"notably the provision that there should be no presence of unauthorized assets or weapons in the area of operation between the Litani River and the Blue Line.\"", "Israel said the blast indicated that Hezbollah continued to store weapons near the Israeli border.", "Israeli Ambassador Gabriela Shalev argued that the Lebanese Army had assisted Hezbollah in preventing U.N. personnel from investigating the scene.", "UNIFIL, in a statement Monday, said it was conducting a joint investigation with the Lebanese military.", "When troops Saturday night arrived \"at a location 1 km from the site in order to verify elements related to the explosion, approximately 100 persons gathered and attempted to hamper the activity.", "\"The amassed population threw stones and confronted the UNIFIL personnel on the ground.", "As the gathering grew both UNIFIL and LAF deployed additional personnel on the ground in order to contain the situation and prevent any further escalation.", "\"As UNIFIL troops were leaving the area, one patrol, surrounded by a group of persons, fired warning shots in the air to clear its exit path.\"", "During the incident, the 14 peacekeepers were injured and the vehicles were damaged, the UNIFIL statement said.", "CNN's Cal Perry and Kevin Flower contributed to this report." ]	[ "Crowd in southern Lebanon throw rocks at U.N. peacekeepers injuring 14 .", "Peacekeepers were trying to check an explosion in the area .", "Ammunition stored in house caused blast due to temperature and humidity ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- When man first walked on the moon 40 years ago, it was not only a \"giant leap for mankind\" but also a boon for everyday items.", "A NASA-inspired tracking system is helping monitor endangered whale sharks.", "Sports shoes, for example, took a huge leap forward in the late 1980s when AVIA Group International, then a subsidiary of Reebok, turned to space technology to make them more flexible and durable.", "Freeze-dried food, artificial limbs, cordless vacuum cleaners and edible toothpaste were also developed using research that can be linked to NASA's forays into space.", "They are listed in detail in \"Spinoff,\" a NASA magazine first compiled in 1976 as a definitive guide to the commercialized products whose development can be tied to space technology.", "\"We are fairly liberal with our application of the term spinoff,\" said editor Daniel Lockney.", "\"The product has to contain a component that was developed for NASA, some aspect of it or it could just be NASA's know-how that helped the commercialization of the product,\" he said.", "More than 1,660 articles on space-related products have been published since the magazine's first edition.", "Watch some of the spin-offs developed from space technology » .", "What you won't find on the list is the bright orange powered drink, Tang, or Teflon, or Velcro -- all products that have over time been erroneously linked to NASA's space mission.", "\"Tang was developed by General Foods before NASA was even made a federal agency, but it was popularized during astronaut tasting experiments,\" Lockney said.", "\"Velcro was invented by a Swiss engineer in the 1940s,\" he said, adding \"Teflon was created by Dupont.", "It has many applications within NASA but is not a NASA technology.\"", "Infant formula makes the grade due to an ingredient discovered during NASA research into algae as a source of food supplements.", "\"Different experiments led to the discovery of a nutrient substance that has previously only been found in breast milk.", "[This is] believed to be important in the development in the eyes and the brain.\"", "It's now in 95 percent of infant formula sold in the U.S. and in 65 countries around the world, Lockney said.", "It may have been 40 years since NASA put the first man on the moon, but the number of products that use space technology doesn't seem to be diminishing.", "\"Spinoff\" publishes articles on 40 to 50 new space-related products every year but receives many more submissions for inclusion.", "The next edition due out in October will feature a new tracking system for endangered animals, including polar bears and whale sharks, which was derived from an algorithm developed for tracking star patterns.", "\"Tracing theses animals is something that previously a small core group of scientists would go out and do.", "We're now able to have ordinary citizens upload their pictures of these animals that have been spotted through Flickr and Facebook.", "Logging times and dates will significantly increase the level of monitoring of these endangered species,\" Lockney said.", "For more space-related products see NASA's \"Spinoff\" Web site." ]	[ "Many common products can be traced back to research conducted by NASA .", "Freeze-dried food, artificial limbs, edible toothpaste are among NASA spin-offs .", "Contrary to rumors, Tang, Velcro and Teflon not developed for space travel .", "It has been 40 years since NASA's Apollo 11 mission took man to the moon ." ]	[ 3, 12, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- English football star Steven Gerrard has admitted punching a man in a bar, but the Liverpool captain insisted in his court testimony that it was in self-defense.", "England international Steven Gerrard is in court defending his actions after a bar brawl late last year.", "The 29-year-old is facing a charge of affray after an incident in the early hours of December 29, when he attacked businessman Marcus McGee following a dispute about the music that was being played.", "If found guilty, Gerrard faces a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a fine of $7,200.", "Gerrard, who denies the charge, told a judge on Thursday that he was sorry about his actions in Southport's Lounge Inn, but at the time he thought McGee was going to attack him.", "They had been involved in an argument after Gerrard tried to change the music on the bar's sound system, but McGee would not let him, the UK Press Association reported.", "\"I thought he was going to hit me,\" Gerrard said.", "\"He was on his way forward to me and his behavior had changed from when I was having a discussion with him.", "I didn't know why.\" Gerrard said he was unaware that his friend John Doran had already punched McGee when he himself started to hit the 34-year-old.", "\"I am certainly mistaken in thinking he was coming towards me to throw punches at me,\" the midfielder said.", "\"Now I know, obviously, he had been struck, reacted and thought the strike was by me and he came into me and that's when I reacted.", "I am sorry about the whole incident.", "\"I grabbed the back of his jumper as he moved forward to me.", "When I had hold of Marcus, I remember swinging my right hand two or three times.", "\"I was trying to stop still and I felt I had arms all over me.", "I could see a melee around Marcus McGee.", "When I was getting pulled away I realized people were patting me, some of whom were my friends.", "\"I wanted to help control the situation.", "I was worried the fight I had with Marcus was going to get worse because people were going past me in that direction.\"", "Gerrard said that his friends had earlier told him to \"forget\" the argument, but he felt he needed to confront McGee.", "\"I couldn't understand why the guy had such a problem with me, why he was so aggressive,\" he said.", "\"I was also concerned that if I did leave it I would not have been able to enjoy my night, he may have come over to me.", "\"I wanted to see why he had such a problem with it, why a total stranger had such a problem with me putting my favorite songs on.", "I asked why I couldn't have an input in the music and tried to explain that I had permission from the manageress.\"", "\"I asked Marcus what was the problem with the music machine and why he treated me like that.", "Very quickly he came off the bar stool and was in my face right by me.\"", "Gerrard had been celebrating after scoring two goals as Liverpool thrashed Newcastle 5-1 to remain top of the Premier League, and admitted that he had been drinking alcohol.", "\"I certainly knew I had had a drink.", "I was certainly in control of how I felt in my surroundings,\" he said.", "The father of two said he had not been in trouble with the police since the age of 19, when he was banned from driving for nine months for drink-driving." ]	[ "English football star Steven Gerrard has admitted punching a man in a bar .", "But the Liverpool captain says in court testimony that it was in self-defense .", "Gerrard, 29, denies charge of affray for attacking businessman Marcus McGee .", "If found guilty, he faces maximum penalty of six months in jail and $7,200 fine ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Texas authorities released court documents Thursday detailing the items seized from the medical office and storage unit of Dr. Conrad Murray, the cardiologist who was with Michael Jackson when he fell ill and died on June 25.", "Dr. Conrad Murray's office was searched Wednesday for \"evidence of the offense of manslaughter.\"", "Detectives searched both sites in Houston on Wednesday for \"evidence of the offense of manslaughter,\" according to court documents.", "Murray's attorney confirmed the search Wednesday.", "Among the items removed from Murray's office were a computer; 27 tablets of Phentermine, a prescription-strength appetite suppressant; 1 tablet of clonazepam, an anti-anxiety medication; and some Rolodex cards.", "From Murray's storage unit, authorities removed two computer hard drives; an \"important contact list\"; a suspension notice from Houston's Doctors Hospital; notices from the Internal Revenue Service; and a list of medical and hospital documents.", "Jackson's former nurse, Cherilyn Lee, was also approached on Wednesday by investigators who wanted copies of medical files she had on the singer, Lee told CNN's Nancy Grace.", "Lee said she handed over the files to officials with the coroner's office.", "Ed Chernoff, a Houston lawyer hired by Murray soon after Jackson's death, confirmed that Los Angeles Police detectives and federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents used a search warrant to enter Murray's office in northeast Houston on Wednesday morning.", "\"The search warrant authorized law enforcement to search for and seize items, including documents, they believed constituted evidence of the offense of manslaughter,\" Chernoff said in a written statement Wednesday.", "Chernoff said members of Murray's legal team were at the medical office during the search, which he said \"was conducted by members of the DEA, two robbery-homicide detectives from the Los Angeles Police Department and Houston Police officers.\"", "\"Law enforcement concluded their search around 12:30 p.m. and left with a forensic image of a business computer hard drive and 21 documents.", "None of the documents taken had previously been requested by law enforcement or the L.A. coroner's office,\" Chernoff said.", "Tammy Kidd, a spokeswoman at Chernoff's office, said the search \"was absolutely a surprise to us, because we've had open lines of communication this whole time.\"", "\"Based on Dr. Murray's minute-by-minute and item-by-item description of Michael Jackson's last days, he should not be a target of criminal charges,\" Chernoff said Tuesday.", "\"Dr. Murray was the last doctor standing when Michael Jackson died and it seems all the fury is directed toward him.\"", "Los Angeles investigators have interviewed Murray twice, Chernoff said.", "A third interview has not been scheduled, he said.", "Police impounded his car, which had been parked at Jackson's Holmby Hills home, the night after Jackson's death.", "It was released to Murray several days later.", "\"Dr. Murray is frustrated by negative and often erroneous media reports.", "He has to walk around 24-7 with a bodyguard,\" Chernoff said.", "\"He can't operate his practice.", "He can't go to work because he is harassed no matter where he goes.\"", "At least two investigations are under way into Jackson's death.", "The Los Angeles County coroner is waiting for toxicology results to determine a cause of death, while the city Police Department, with assistance from the Drug Enforcement Administration, is looking at the possibility of criminal charges.", "A coroner's office spokesman said the autopsy findings could be released in the next week or more.", "Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton told CNN he would wait for the coroner to determine the exact cause of Jackson's death.", "\"And based on those, we will have an idea of what it is we are dealing (with): Are we dealing with a homicide, or are we dealing with an accidental overdose?\"", "he said. CNN's Alan Duke, Ted Rowlands and Randi Kaye contributed to this report." ]	[ "Texas office and storage unit of Dr. Conrad Murray searched .", "Among items seized are pills, computer hard drives, contact lists, officials say .", "Jackson's former nurse says she has been asked for copies of records .", "Murray's lawyer says his client \"should not be a target of criminal charges\"" ]	[ 1, 14, 17 ]
[ "BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- A 23-year-old medical student pleaded not guilty Monday to an indictment alleging first-degree murder charge in a killing tied to Craigslist.", "Philip Markoff is charged with killing a woman and robbing another in Boston hotels in April.", "Philip Markoff is accused in the the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery another in Boston hotels earlier this year.", "A Massachusetts grand jury late last week indicted him on seven counts, including first-degree murder.", "Markoff is charged with the April 14 fatal shooting and attempted robbery of Julissa Brisman, 25, and the armed robbery of a 29-year-old Las Vegas woman on April 10.", "Investigators have linked both crimes to ads on the popular Web site Craigslist.", "He is also charged with \"the armed and forcible confinement\" of the two women, as well as two counts of unlawful firearm possession, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said.", "Watch Markoff in court » .", "The grand jury returned the indictment late Thursday, and it moves the case from Boston Municipal Court to Suffolk Superior Court, where Markoff entered his not guilty plea on Monday.", "He previously had pleaded not guilty in the city court and is being held without bail.", "Markoff's attorney, John Salzberg, had no comment on the new indictment.", "Prosecutors said Brisman, a model from New York who advertised as a masseuse on Craigslist, was shot three times at close range and suffered blunt head trauma at the Marriott Copley Place hotel.", "The Las Vegas woman was robbed of $800 in cash and $250 in American Express gift cards at the Westin Copley Place hotel, police reports said.", "Markoff, a second-year medical student at Boston University's School of Medicine, also has been charged in a nonfatal hotel assault in Rhode Island.", "He has been charged with assault with the intent to rob, assault with a dangerous weapon, possession of a handgun and use of a firearm while committing a crime of violence, stemming from an April 16 robbery attempt at a Holiday Inn Express in Warwick, Rhode Island." ]	[ "NEW: Suspect pleads not guilty to slaying of woman, robbery of another .", "Philip Markoff charged in seven-count indictment .", "Police: Both April incidents linked to ads on Craigslist.com .", "Slain woman was masseuse who advertised on Craigslist, prosecutors say ." ]	[ 1, 5, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper was suspended Wednesday for five days without pay following a highly publicized scuffle with a paramedic in Okfuskee County in May, according to the Highway Patrol.", "This is an image from a video that captured an Oklahoma trooper's scuffle with a paramedic in May.", "The incident, which was caught on dash-camera and cell-phone video, showed Trooper Daniel Martin pulling over a Creek Nation ambulance for a traffic-stop violation.", "During the incident, Martin is heard repeatedly using profanity and twice getting into a scuffle with one of the paramedics.", "Both paramedics and family members of the patient in the ambulance informed Martin several times by there was a patient inside, but he did not allow the paramedics to continue to the hospital while the video continued.", "In a news conference Wednesday, Oklahoma Highway Patrol Captain Chris West said Martin \"failed to recognize that it would have been more reasonable and appropriate to immediately allow the ambulance to continue to the hospital once he understood there was a patient onboard the ambulance.\"", "Watch the confrontation » .", "West also said Martin had \"probable cause to make the traffic stop and justification to arrest the paramedic for obstructing a police officer\" but that the incident \"resulted in conduct unbecoming an officer.\"", "Martin's attorney, Gary James of Oklahoma City, did not immediately return a phone call from CNN.", "In a disciplinary letter sent to Martin, Oklahoma Public Safety Department Commissioner Kevin Ward, concluded that the \"disregard for the welfare of the patient [justified] severe discipline.\"", "Martin will also be required to take an anger assessment, West said.", "The trooper had no previous discipline action in his record, according to West.", "On Tuesday, the paramedic involved in the scuffle, Maurice White, filed a lawsuit against Martin in federal court claiming his civil rights were violated.", "CNN's Mayra Cuevas-Nazario contributed to this report." ]	[ "May incident was caught on dash-camera and cell-phone video .", "Trooper Daniel Martin shown pulling over a Creek Nation ambulance .", "During incident, Martin heard using profanity and getting physical with paramedic .", "Martin continued to hold up ambulance despite being informed of patient inside ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Finnish prosecutors will file genocide charges against a Rwandan man in the killings of 15 people during Rwanda's ethnic cleansing bloodbath in 1994, authorities said Monday.", "The case is the first genocide trial in Finland's history.", "Accused of complicity in the killings, the unidentified man would face life imprisonment if convicted.", "\"It is obvious, according to the pre-trial investigation, that the man has committed a crime of genocide in the municipality of Nyakizu in April and May 1994 with intent to destroy the Rwandan Tutsis partly or totally,\" Finland's prosecutor-general said in a statement.", "The man, a 58-year-old Hutu, has denied the charges.", "Stoked by the assassination of then-Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, extremist militias made up of ethnic Hutus slaughtered ethnic Tutsis across Rwanda, beginning in April 1994.", "Within 100 days, an estimated 800,000 people were killed.", "The genocide ended when Tutsi-led militias backing Rwandan President Paul Kagame ousted the Hutu government supporting the massacre.", "The Rwandan man was living in Porvoo, about 50 km (31 miles) east of the Finnish capital of Helsinki, when he was arrested.", "Prosecutors said they interviewed nearly 100 witnesses abroad before proceeding with charges against the man." ]	[ "The case is the first genocide trial in Finland's history .", "The 58-year-old Hutu man living in Finland when he was arrested .", "Estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis slaughtered in 1994 by Hutu-led militias ." ]	[ 1, 3, 4, 6, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Last August, then-Republican presidential nominee John McCain introduced to the nation his surprise pick for vice president, Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin.", "Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin has a strong base of supporters, as well as a steady supply of vocal critics.", "At the time, little was known about the fresh-faced, first-term governor, but within days, Palin's face was on newspapers, magazines and tabloids.", "Since then, Palin has become a polarizing figure in the Republican Party.", "Her passionate supporters are countered with equally fervent critics.", "And even though it's been nearly a year since she ventured onto the national stage and more than eight months since the Republican ticket lost the election, as Palin prepares to leave office, the public's interest in her has yet to wane.", "Palin explains why she's stepping down .", "\"She's kind of a shooting star that caught fire and kept burning,\" said Lorenzo Benet, an assistant editor for People magazine and author of \"Trailblazer: An Intimate Biography of Sarah Palin.\"", "\"When she walks into a room, she definitely commands attention and she gets more than most.", "She's definitely a star,\" said Benet, who was the only national journalist to have spent much time with Palin in the weeks before she was announced as McCain's running mate.", "Palin, a mother of five, \"caught the imagination\" of the public because there is no one else like her, Benet said.", "\"Particularly for conservative America, there hasn't been a rallying figure of this type,\" he noted.", "In the days leading up to Palin's debut speech at the Republican National Convention last September, Palin revealed that her 17-year-old daughter Bristol was pregnant.", "The announcement followed Internet rumors that Sarah Palin's 4-month-old baby was actually Bristol's.", "The instant fascination with Palin and her family was just a glimpse of what was to come.", "The public wanted to know everything it could about the Alaska governor, whose resume also included beauty queen, high school basketball star, TV sportcaster and mayor of the small Alaska town of Wasilla.", "Amid all the rumors and negative press, Palin showed herself to be a fierce attack dog and came out throwing punches in her speech at the RNC.", "The self-described \"hockey mom\" tore into then-candidate Barack Obama as two-faced, inexperienced and intoxicated by the sound of his own voice.", "Even her critics recognized the spirit she brought to the GOP.", "Palin continued to throw flames on the campaign trail, energizing her supporters and outraging her adversaries.", "\"She yelled fire in a crowded theater.", "She really did, in some of her speeches --'palling around' with terrorists and some of the other slurs she was hurling in the way of Obama and the Democrats,\" said Larry Persily, a former Palin staffer and Alaskan journalist.", "\"That turned off an equally big chunk of the American public that found it distasteful, destructive, divisive, mean and ignorant.", "Whereas others said, 'Way to go girl.", "You stick it to them,\" he said.", "But Palin hasn't always been such a divisive figure.", "Before entering the national scene, Palin, who knocked out incumbent Republican Frank Murkowski in the gubernatorial primary, was touted as one of the most popular governors in the country, with approval ratings nearing 90 percent.", "She was seen as a champion of ethics, determined to root out corruption and challenge the status quo.", "For those in Alaska, Palin's Reaganesque appeal was nothing new.", "She secured her role as a local hero back in 1982 when she led Wasilla High School's basketball team to a state championship.", "And in a small community like Wasilla, that was a big deal.", "Alaskans liked her \"combativeness and feistiness,\" Benet said, and resurrected her nickname of \"Barracuda\" during her successful 1996 campaign to be Wasilla's mayor.", "But when Palin's \"Barracuda\" side hit the national stage, it was met with mixed reactions.", "Evangelia Souris, the president of Optimum International Center for Image Management, says Palin's potential is the driving force behind the public's love-hate relationship with her.", "\"That's what people are drawn to, and that's what actually threatens others.", "She definitely has the power to shake up a lot of old-school institutions.\"", "said Souris, who has advised politicians.", "Furthermore, Souris said, \"I just don't think people were ready for somebody so attractive and so fashionable and so hip to actually be campaigning.", "She falls out of the norm,\" Souris added.", "But despite grumblings from some that they're sick of hearing about her, stories about her continue to get a lot of attention.", "Benet said People magazine follows two politicians: \"One is Obama, and one is Sarah Palin -- and then there's everybody else.\"", "From being dogged by ethics complaints, to her public fight with Levi Johnston (the father of her grandson and ex-fiance of her daughter), to her recent announcement that she's resigning this week as governor, Palin has maintained a steady presence in the public eye since stepping off the campaign trail.", "Michael Carey, a columnist with the Anchorage Daily News, says Palin stirs excitement -- and hostility -- because \"people want to see her even if they don't like her.\"", "He likens the public's interest with her to \"drinking on the sly.\"", "People say, \"I don't want to do this, I know I shouldn't, but I do it anyway,\" he said.", "Some people love Palin, Persily said, because they can relate to her.", "\"I think much of America said, 'Oh gee look at her, she's just like us.", "Kind of dumb on some things, kind of smart on others.", "Imperfect. And not at all embarrassed to show all of her imperfections.'\"", "But others saw her imperfections as inadequacies.", "\"She's simplistic. Some people love the simplistic approach to problems.", "Others shake their heads and say, 'My God, you don't get it.'\"", "Persily added.", "Opponents have been quick to question Palin's intellectual chops, pointing to her spotty college career.", "Palin attended five colleges, graduating from the University of Idaho with a communications degree in 1987.", "A series of botched national interviews didn't do much to disprove their point.", "But even Palin's critics admire her ability to connect with the people, Benet said.", "\"I don't think I've ever really met anyone like that, except maybe Bill Clinton, that will have that interpersonal eye contact with you and will remember your name and your kids' names, and make small talk with you and be really sincere about it,\" he said.", "Benet predicted that while Palin might take a short break to recoup once she hands off power on Sunday, \"she'll be back in the public eye.\"", "\"I do see her turning this to her advantage,\" he said, noting that she's made a similar move before.", "In 2004, Palin stepped down as chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after less than a year on the job, amid controversy over ethics allegations against another committee member.", "She turned that move around and used it as a launchpad to run for governor, because she went after the corruption going on in Alaska at the time.", "\"For me, I think she's just catching her breath.", "She's just too young to retire,\" he added.", "\"She did say 10 years ago she wanted to be president some day.", "She hasn't backed off from that.\" In Carey's opinion, Palin's career as an elected official is over, but he doesn't expect Palin to be leaving the headlines anytime soon.", "\"She's gone from being our governor or a public figure in Alaska to being a national celebrity,\" he said.", "\"It's clear that her days of governor -- there are just a few of them left, but she's really only at the beginning of her career as a celebrity.\"" ]	[ "Alaska Gov.", "Sarah Palin stepping down from office on Sunday .", "In the year since her national debut, she's become a polarizing figure in the GOP .", "People are drawn to -- and threatened by -- her potential, image consultant says .", "Palin is beginning her career as a national celebrity, columnist Michael Carey says ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5, 7, 43, 44, 68 ]
[ "SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- A man at a Fort Lewis army post on Wednesday fatally shot a woman before turning the gun on himself, military authorities said.", "The shootings on Wednesday occurred outside the main post exchange at Fort Lewis in Washington state.", "The man, who was hospitalized earlier in the day, was pronounced dead late Wednesday, Fort Lewis spokesman Joe Kubistek said.", "The man shot the woman and then shot himself in the head, said Maj. Mike Garcia.", "He said the shootings occurred outside the main post exchange, as retail stores at military installations are called.", "Garcia said the 59-year-old shooter was a retired soldier.", "The woman he shot, Garcia said, was a civilian who worked as a vendor in the store.", "Neither was identified.", "Kathy Johnson had taken her elderly mother to shop at the store when shots rang out.", "\"I heard five to six shots and hit the floor,\" Johnson said, \"I was hiding under a clothing rack and people were yelling that we were being taken hostage.\"", "Eventually, Johnson said, customers were told over the store intercom that it was safe to leave the store.", "Outside military police had surrounded the store and were posted on nearby rooftops, she said, .", "It was not immediately clear what the relationship between the man and woman was, Garcia said.", "He said since the shooting took place on a federal installation, the FBI would lead the investigation into the shootings.", "CNN's Patrick Oppmann contributed to this report." ]	[ "Alleged shooter is a 59-year-old retired soldier, Fort Lewis spokesman says .", "Slain woman was a civilian who worked as a vendor at the post, spokesman says .", "\"I heard five to six shots and hit the floor,\" witness says .", "FBI will lead probe into shootings on the federal facility, spokesman says ." ]	[ 5, 6, 9, 13 ]
[ "(The Frisky) -- Groucho Marx once famously quipped \"I don't care to belong to a club that would have me as a member.\"", "I sort of feel the same way about online dating sites.", "There has got to be a better way to meet people.", "Sadly, mental telepathy does not work.", "Unless you know what I was just thinking, in which case, e-mail me.", "We flock to digital artifices that both feed and coddle our egos, says writer of online dating sites.", "I've recently begun... researching popular dating sites.", "Not because I need a date. No! I don't need a date. I'm up to my ears in hot lady action.", "No, this research is for you, for all of you. It's a testament to my generosity of spirit I waded through these interweb love sewers in order to impart some sort of wisdom.", "Here's the wisdom: dating sites are terrible.", "Possibly, if I was in prison, an Alaskan crab fisherman or a morbidly obese shut-in so humongous I had to wash myself with a ShamWow stapled to a broom handle, I could see the value in such sites.", "But I'm not isolated, nor confined to a forklift.", "I don't need a middleman brokering a get together between the potential woman of my dreams and my own abilities to self-sabotage and humiliate myself.", "I can do this without an intermediary.", "The Frisky: Have to go online to get a date?", "This might or might not be a totally uninformed opinion.", "The extent of my research began and ended with me signing up for OK Cupid, and failing to finish my profile.", "I couldn't even bring myself to pick a pseudonym, which just seemed like the first of many lies required to meet anyone.", "Do I call myself OptimusGandalf and admit from the get-go that I'm an alpha nerd?", "Do I overshare a little too much and pick EdgarAllanEeyore?", "Or do I just admit to being a snarky, pretentious creep and go for HumbertHumbert?", "The Frisky: Online dating dos and don'ts .", "I tried to fill out the profile, but instead, it just filled me with a quiet rage.", "The self-summary section was baffling.", "It pushed me into an existential identity crisis.", "Who am I? Or more importantly, who am I when it comes to who I want someone else to think I am, so they will contact me, go out with me, and eventually kiss me?", "Am I a sensitive guy, or a romantic, or sarcastic?", "Maybe I'm all three.", "I love long walks, going to see live indie bands, and whatever.", "I made sure to pepper everything with winking non-sequiturs and casual attempts at pop profundity.", "Then there was the section where I define myself by the books, movies, and music I listen to.", "My music list was a near impenetrable list of overly eclectic bands that reflect my excellent taste, punctuated by \"and Genesis.\"", "My movies were all '80s flicks, foreign films, and David Lynch.", "By the time I got to books, and wrote \"Pynchon,\" I was in a full-fledged state of self-loathing.", "The Frisky: Five online dating types to avoid .", "Let me get this straight: I'm going to spend a ton of time crafting a persona that is a borderline dishonest amplification of the personality traits I think other people will find attractive so I can find someone who's done the same thing, and we can both go out and discover that we're equally compatible idiots fakers.", "It's like a masquerade party in the Twilight Zone: I take off my Brad Pitt mask just so I can reveal Sloth from \"The Goonies.\"", "The Frisky: Downside of online dating .", "There are, no doubt, many of you who have met the love of your life via online dating sites.", "Good for you. Congratulations on basically winning the lottery.", "I firmly believe I have a better chance of getting a girlfriend dressed like Zeus, stopping women on the street, and bellowing, \"Rut with me, mortal beauty, and feel thine mighty, fleshy thunder!\"", "Not that I want a girlfriend.", "I just broke up with six the other day.", "I can deal with the risks of love.", "The threat of heartbreak is what makes finding that one person who sparks your fuse so precious.", "But I have to be honest, the online dating thing freaked me out.", "It touched a nerve, and I'm flummoxed as to why.", "The only conclusion I could come up with was that, maybe, we deserved them.", "Perhaps online dating sites accurately reflect a generation of singles so entitled to instant happiness and acceptance, we flock to digital artifices that both feed and coddle our egos.", "Virtual environments where we can indiscriminately reject dishonest projections of identity, while simultaneously being insulated from the very rejection we dole out.", "A play land of false romantic promises and deferred risk.", "A huge solipsistic waste of time.", "TM & © 2009 TMV, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved ." ]	[ "Writer has trouble filling out his profile for an online dating service .", "He figures if he is borderline dishonest about his traits, his date will be too .", "Thinks he would be better off dressing like Zeus, bellowing on the street at women .", "Says online dating sites draw singles who feel entitled to instant happiness ." ]	[ 1, 2, 40, 48 ]
[ "(CNN) -- NFL quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, accused of sexually assaulting a woman last summer, said Thursday that he is innocent.", "Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger says there is no merit to the accusation.", "\"Saturday was the first that I learned of her accusations,\" the Pittsburgh Steeler said, calling the accusation reckless, false and an attack on his family.", "The woman filed a civil complaint against Roethlisberger last week.", "\"I would never, ever force myself on a woman,\" he said.", "The complaint, filed Friday in the 2nd Judicial District Court in Washoe County, Nevada, alleges that Roethlisberger sexually assaulted the woman -- an executive casino host at Harrah's Lake Tahoe -- while he was staying at the resort for a celebrity golf tournament in July 2008.", "Teresa Duffy of the Douglas County, Nevada, Sheriff's Department, said the department does not intend to open an investigation unless the alleged victim comes forward and tells authorities she wants them to.", "Roethlisberger said that he would not discuss the \"civil case in the media,\" but that he would fight to protect his family and his reputation.", "Roethlisberger and eight Harrah's employees are named in the suit, which seeks at least $390,000, plus unspecified punitive damages, from the defendants.", "Harrah's itself is not named as a defendant.", "The woman said that the employees contributed to her emotional distress and that some defamed her and tried to cover up the incident.", "According to the complaint, on July 11, 2008, the woman was working on the 17th floor -- the same floor as Roethlisberger's room -- when Roethlisberger told her that his television and sound system were not working.", "He asked her to try to fix it, the complaint said.", "When she entered his room and deemed that the television was working, she tried to leave, but Roethlisberger blocked her way, the complaint states.", "He then, against her will, kissed her, groped her and sexually assaulted her, the complaint states.", "The woman says that in the months following the incident, she incurred emotional distress that resulted in hospitalizations that included treatment for anxiety and depression, the complaint said.", "Calvin Dunlap, the woman's attorney, said earlier this week that his client did not pursue criminal charges after the alleged assault because she felt discouraged when the resort's chief of security did not investigate the matter.", "According to the complaint, the chief told her she was \"overreacting.\"", "Dunlap said the chief has \"close ties to law enforcement.\"", "Of the eight employees, all but two are still employed by Harrah's, according to a spokeswoman for Harrah's Entertainment.", "Marybel Batjer of Harrah's declined to comment on the suit, other than to say that the alleged victim still works at Harrah's Lake Tahoe as an executive casino host.", "Another Harrah's Entertainment spokesman, Gary Thompson, said the company was \"confident that a much different story will emerge and that the Harrah's employees will be dismissed from the lawsuit.\"", "Roethlisberger's attorney, David Cornwell, released a statement saying the charges were false.", "\"The timing of a lawsuit and the absence of a criminal complaint and a criminal investigation are the most compelling evidence of the absence of any criminal conduct,\" he said.", "CNN's Sara Weisfeldt contributed to this report." ]	[ "\"I would never, ever force myself on a woman,\" Ben Roethlisberger says .", "Woman filed complaint saying quarterback raped her in Lake Tahoe last summer .", "Roethlisberger, 8 Harrah's employees named in $390,000 lawsuit .", "Sheriff's department says it won't investigate unless alleged victim calls for it ." ]	[ 0, 4, 5, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Humiliation and comedy have always been natural bedfellows, but the one doesn't guarantee the other, as poor Katherine Heigl discovers in this crude, sub-par stab at a modern screwball comedy.", "Katherine Heigl plays the sophisticated female boss of Gerard Butler in \"The Ugly Truth.\"", "The \"Grey's Anatomy\" and \"Knocked Up\" star plays Abby, a supposedly intelligent producer on a local Sacramento TV news show.", "We're repeatedly assured that she's good at her job, though there's little or no evidence for that in what we see, and apparently the ratings are in the toilet.", "That's why her boss drafts controversial cable clown Mike (Gerard Butler), whose bargain basement show \"The Ugly Truth\" gives viewers the real dope on the opposite sex.", "Mike's straight talk isn't exactly edifying -- or original.", "It boils down to this: men are only interested in one thing, and it's not your IQ score.", "His advice to women: swallow your pride -- and anything else that might come up.", "Abby is understandably skeptical, both professionally and personally, but the sweeps prove her wrong.", "Mike may be outrageous, but Sacramento loves him for it.", "A smarter comedy might make mischief from these base ingredients, the sophisticated female boss and her rude, reactionary star employee.", "But this movie, which is credited to three female screenwriters, bends over backward to accommodate Mike's tired old sexist world view and fails to be funny in the process.", "Abby really is a neurotic control freak, living alone with her cat and a checklist about what constitutes the perfect guy.", "And when a close approximation of the type moves in right next door (Eric Winton as a handsome young doctor), she only lands him by putting herself in Mike's hands: accentuating her cleavage, losing the ponytail and trading in dinner and an art show for a hot dog and a baseball game.", "Directed by Robert Luketic (\"Monster in Law\"), \"The Ugly Truth\" barely attempts to disguise its own lifts and tucks.", "The most craven of these gambits involves Abby going into multiple orgasm at a business dinner, a variation on Meg Ryan's famous scene in \"When Harry Met Sally,\" except that in Ryan's case, she was in full control, demonstrating her mastery of the fake-out.", "Abby, though, is sent into inadvertent paroxysms when the remote control of the vibrating panties she's wearing -- don't ask -- falls into the hands of a curious kid.", "Watch the stars describe the scene » .", "In other scenes, Heigl is caught hanging upside down from a tree in her nightgown, hiding in her office closet and furiously rubbing a stain out of the doctor's crotch in front of a stadium of ball fans.", "Presumably this is what picking up Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock's cast-offs entails these days.", "Katharine Hepburn would weep.", "But what about Mike? Surely he has lessons to learn and comic indignities to endure?", "Not so much. In contrast to Abby's makeover, he's allowed to be comfortable in his own rather corpulent skin.", "Gerard Butler evidently hasn't worked out since Sparta; heck, he hasn't even bothered to shave.", "You won't be surprised that the avowed bachelor boy falls in love with dear Abby.", "Of course he's a nice guy underneath.", "We know that from the way he looks out for his fatherless nephew.", "So what if he's a sexist pig?", "He's a sexy sexist pig, and obviously father material.", "What more could any woman want?", "\"The Ugly Truth\" is rated R and runs 97 minutes.", "For Entertainment Weekly's review, click here." ]	[ "\"The Ugly Truth\" is a romantic comedy starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler .", "Movie bends over backward to accommodate a tired old sexist world view .", "Film fails to be funny in the process ." ]	[ 1, 11 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- When shots rang out at the U.S.", "Holocaust Memorial Museum last week, security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston were stunned.", "Harry Weeks, left, and Jason McCuiston fired on James von Brunn at the Holocaust Memorial Museum.", "\"I would say it was surreal, both of us couldn't believe what was happening,\" Weeks told CNN in his first national televised interview since the June 10 shooting.", "\"I know myself I just, I heard 'pop, pop' and it was surreal.\"", "McCuiston added: \"It wasn't normal.", "You knew something was wrong and you knew it was very bad.\"", "What went terribly wrong is that white supremacist James von Brunn allegedly walked into the museum and started firing his rifle, shooting security officer Stephen Johns in the chest.", "Despite their initial shock, Weeks and McCuiston kept their composure enough to draw their weapons and start shooting at von Brunn, 88.", "Weeks had fired his gun in the line of duty 25 years earlier as a Washington, D.C., police officer.", "But he said nothing compared to this bloody confrontation.", "\"This was terrible,\" Weeks said softly.", "\"This was worse. ... We lost Officer Johns.\"", "Johns died shortly after the shooting, leaving behind a family that includes a teenage son who told CNN affiliate WUSA-TV the day after the tragedy that his dad was \"my hero.\"", "Watching a video clip of those comments, McCuiston started crying.", "\"First thing I thought about, I have an 11-year-old,\" the officer said before breaking down.", "Watch the officers tell their story » .", "Just moments before their joint interview with CNN on Thursday, McCuiston and Weeks attended a grief counseling session together, and both men say they are still struggling with their emotions.", "The security officers said they believe von Brunn will survive his wounds and eventually face trial.", "So they would not discuss details of the shootout out of a fear of jeopardizing the criminal investigation, but they were willing to discuss their memories of Johns so that the public knows more about him.", "McCuiston said the 6-foot-6-inch, 300-pound Johns was a \"gentle giant\" who was always friendly to colleagues and museum visitors.", "\"Just an awesome guy,\" he recalled.", "\"Grin from ear to ear.", "You'd never know that man probably ever had a bad day in his life.\"", "Weeks said he wanted the world to see \"what a man of hate did to this family, and the grief he caused.", "Let's all remember Officer Johns, and his family, because he took the ultimate -- he did his job and he was where he was supposed to be -- and the family suffered.", "That could have been anyone.\"", "McCuiston and Weeks, however, deflected suggestions that they may be heroes as well because if they had not stopped von Brunn, there's no telling how many of the more than 2,000 people visiting the museum at the time could have been injured or killed.", "\"A lot of people are going to be saying what they have been saying, 'You are a hero, you're this, you're that,' \" McCuiston said.", "\"It's like we tell everybody, 'We chose this job, it's a job.", "It's the same as a firefighter who would walk into a building, that is his job, he chose to do it.'", "\" Johns' funeral on Friday has been moved to a larger church in the Washington area to accommodate all of the people who want to attend, and the museum will be closed most of the day so that his colleagues can attend.", "\"Everyone knows when you lose someone, death is one of the worst things, even though it is reality,\" McCuiston said.", "\"Time will hopefully heal all, and hopefully there will be a little bit of closure with us and the family and we can all just move forward but never forget what a wonderful man he was.\"" ]	[ "Security officers Harry Weeks and Jason McCuiston recall shooting, fellow officer .", "When they heard shots at museum, they knew something had gone terribly wrong .", "They call slain officer a \"gentle giant\" who was always friendly to colleagues, visitors .", "Men, who shot shooting suspect, say they're not heroes, were just doing their jobs ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- After meeting a number black couples in crisis, Nisa Muhammad and Dr. Rozario Slack were inspired to create Basic Training for Couples.", "Nisa Muhammad, who founded National Black Marriage Day, co-created the Basic Training for Couples program.", "The eight-week program educates dating, engaged or married couples about the value of commitment, responsibility to the black community, psychological differences between the sexes, sexual intimacy and conflict resolution.", "Slack created the male-friendly portion while Muhammad, who founded National Black Marriage Day and the Wedded Bliss Foundation, created the female-friendly portion.", "In the program, couples also learn about the history of the African-American marriage and many for the first time plot their own family tree to trace marriage and divorces.", "The following is rundown of the eight-week course: Class No.", "1: Why marriage?", "This class teaches the benefits of marriage for men, women, children and the community.", "It gives the history of marriage in the black community from slavery when marriage was illegal to today's trends.", "Icebreaker: Q & A: How couples met?", "Homework: . 1. Choose songs to reflect their love for each other .", "2. Marriage family tree .", "Class No. 2: From I to we; the sweetness of surrender .", "This class helps couples transition from \"I thinking\" to \"we thinking.\"", "It helps them understand the value of making their marriage a priority in their lives.", "Class No. 3: Communication; getting your message understood .", "This class helps couples take responsibility for their communication and teaches skills to improve their communication techniques.", "Main lessons: .", "• Respecting differences between men and women .", "• Learning to talk to each other and not at each other .", "• Format: Teaching session with dialogue.", "• Activity: The talking stick, during conversation only the individual holding the stick can speak.", "Class No. 4: Conflict management .", "This class helps couples understand that conflict needs to be managed, or it will manage you.", "It helps to normalize some conflict that couples experience with the understanding that some conflict cannot be resolved and can only be managed.", "Lessons: . • This class targets biases.", "When there's a difference of opinions, generally the stronger spouse wants his or her way.", "• How to bring closure to old issues instead of combining them into new issues/conflict.", "• Agree to disagree and not degrade your spouse for having a difference of opinion.", "Activity: Break up into gender groups to discuss current conflicts.", "The group works out ways to solve the issue .", "Class No. 5: Let's make love .", "When the sex is good in a marriage, it's only about 20 percent of what's going on.", "When it's bad, it's a significant problem.", "This class helps to solve some of those problems.", "The approach was from a physiological and biological perspective of the differences between the male's and female's body.", "Discussion included chemical bonding effect in women and men.", "Class No. 6: From yours and mine to ours . Many couples in the black community bring children from other relationships to their marriage.", "This class helps to blend the family into one cohesive unit.", "It also talks about preventing in-laws from becoming outlaws.", "Class No. 7: Keeping the FIRE burning .", "FIRE is an acronym for Faithful, Intimacy, Responsibility and Excitement.", "This class helps couples maintain the FIRE in their relationship.", "Class No. 8: From this day forward .", "This class helps couples understand the value of commitment in their marriage and never to make divorce an option.", "They create their own place for success.", "Recap of all the lessons together: .", "• Remembering people gravitate to the applause • Ways to appreciate and affirm your spouse • Setting time for just the two of you • Learning to communicate, getting your message heard and understood .", "Bonus class: Hot monogamy .", "Gets couples comfortable to discuss sex with their spouse.", "Graduation . A ceremony of new beginnings, couples testify what the class brought to their marriage over the eight-week period.", "Lots of emotions and bonding during this time between husbands and wives.", "Graduating couples are encouraged to bring a couple from their community or family who needs help." ]	[ "Nisa Muhammad and Rozario Slack created a Basic Training for Couples .", "The eight-week program helps dating, engaged and married couples stay on track .", "Unhealthy relationships give kids inaccurate views of marriage, says Muhammad ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- Police and soldiers killed at least 133 people during two days of riots between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria last year, Human Rights Watch alleged Monday.", "Anti-riot policemen patrol the streets in Jos, Nigeria, following riots between Christians and Muslims.", "Most of the victims of violence by security forces were young Muslim men, often unarmed, the group charged in testimony before a state commission examining the riots and in a separate report.", "More than 700 people died in the violence last November, the group said, citing local religious authorities on both sides of the divide.", "A 26-year-old mechanic described seeing anti-riot police known as MOPOLs hunting down people near where he worked.", "\"I saw them enter one house just across the street from us,\" the unnamed witness said.", "\"We heard shots and later we saw five bodies there.", "Anyone they found hiding in the garage, they shot them.", "They combed the garage hunting for people.", "This went on for about 10 minutes or so.", "Then they returned to their truck and left.\"", "Another witness described police units going from house to house, summarily executing unarmed men and boys.", "A third said he saw an unarmed shopkeeper plead for his life.", "Police ordered him to lie down on the ground, the witness said.", "\"He kept saying, 'Please God, allow me to live.'...", "One of them said, 'Today you go die,' and then he shot him in the side.", "Then the same MOPOL shot him again.", "As he was going to shoot him a third time, the other MOPOL said ... 'Leave it, he's already dead.'\"", "The shopkeeper managed to drag himself to a neighbor's house, where the neighbor tried to stop the bleeding from wounds to the back and abdomen.", "Police then returned and shot tear gas into the neighbor's house, he testified.", "The shopkeeper \"died a short time later,\" the neighbor said.", "In the report, released Monday, Human Rights Watch says it \"documented 133 of these killings but believes that the actual number of arbitrary killings by security forces may be substantially higher than these figures.\"", "James Manook, a spokesman for Plateau State where the violence occurred, said the Human Rights Watch claims are \"one of the issues that the commission has under inquiry, and given that - I do not want to comment while it's under investigation.\"", "However, he added, \" I assure you that we remain respectful of the rule of law.\"", "The clashes followed a dispute over an election that pitted a Christian candidate against a Muslim one in late November 2008.", "Police and soldiers responded to the riots with deadly force, on the same day the governor of the state issued a \"shoot-on-sight\" order, Human Rights Watch said.", "The group based its allegations on 151 interviews in the city of Jos in Nigeria's Plateau State, it says in the report.", "It withheld the names of many of the people it interviewed over the course of 18 days in December 2008 and February 2009.", "The report includes photographs of burned-out mosques, Christian boarding schools, and homes and businesses.", "The rights group said the state commission examining the riots should investigate and call for the prosecution of security forces involved.", "\"At least 130 men were killed by members of the very institutions charged with protecting them,\" said Corinne Dufka, senior West Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch.", "\"These investigative bodies owe it to the victims and their families to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into these extremely serious allegations.\"", "Eric Guttschuss, a Human Rights Watch researcher, testified before the commission Monday.", "There is a history of religious violence in central Nigeria, where majority-Muslim north Africa meets largely Christian sub-Saharan Africa.", "Human Rights Watch estimates that more than 1,000 people were killed in riots in 2001.", "Local religious leaders in Jos have been trying to bridge the differences, including setting up a soccer league with teams on which Christians and Muslims play side-by-side.", "CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report." ]	[ "Nigerian police, soldiers accused of killing 133 during riots in November 2008 .", "U.S.-based Human Rights Watch says main victims were young Muslim men .", "Witnesses say police units summarily executed unarmed men and boys .", "HRW says death toll could be \"substantially higher\" than documented cases suggest ." ]	[ 0, 2, 11, 21 ]
[ "(AOL Autos) -- With car companies going in into bankruptcy and shedding famous names left and right, it's important to remember that today's automotive titans started out as tiny startups, not unlike Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.", "General Motors was almost called International Motors Co. Names like Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Toyota and Porsche call to mind the huge corporate successes of the past and the great automotive families that survive today.", "But behind every brand name, there is a flesh-and-blood inventor, entrepreneur or industrialist.", "Most of the time, they gave their name to the companies.", "And that fame was often about all they ended up with.", "David Buick, who invented the overhead valve engine, founded the Buick Motor Car Co. in 1903.", "William C. Durant, the industrialist who would eventually found GM, took over the company in 1904, when it ran into financial trouble.", "Buick stayed on as a director, but left in 1908, never making much money from the enterprise.", "He reportedly died in 1929, unable to afford one of his cars.", "Durant kept the name for one of his company divisions and for the car, even though he worried that people might pronounce it \"Boo-ick,\" according to one author.", "Strangely enough, the man who practically created General Motors single-handedly never really liked the idea of a 'Durant' car.", "In another example, Robert Hupp invented the Hupmobile,'a two-seat runabout, in 1908.", "But he sold his stock in his Hupp Motor Car Company in 1911.", "He turned around and founded the Hupp Corp. that same year.", "Investors in his first firm took him to court to make him drop the \"Hupp\" from his new company's name and they won.", "His own automotive glory quickly faded, although the Hupmobile survived until the 1940s.", "Swiss-born Louis Chevrolet's experience was similar.", "Durant brought him into a new car-building venture in 1911, hoping to trade on his fame as an absolutely fearless race car driver.", "Chevrolet left the company in 1913, apparently unable to make the adjustment from racing to building production vehicles.", "But its name stuck to the new Chevrolet vehicles; Durant reportedly liked its musical lilt.", "It could also work the other way around.", "In 1925, Walter P. Chrysler got the naming rights to the Maxwell Motor Co. after he and another industrialist steadily bought up shares in the firm over a two-year period.", "Things turned out a little differently for Henry Ford.", "He suffered the ignominy of being booted from an early auto company that bore his own name.", "But his revenge was sweet.", "The Henry Ford Company, which traded freely on Ford's early fame as an inventor, fired him in 1902 \"because he was spending all his time developing a race car, not a passenger car,\" according to the Encyclopedia of American Business and Biography.", "AOL Autos: Ford's 'Wonder Woman' engineers most important new car .", "After Ford was gone, the company was renamed Cadillac, after Antoine Laumet de la Mothe Cadillac, the French nobleman who founded Detroit in 1703; his heraldry became the model's badge and the company became a part of General Motors in 1909.", "After his firing, Ford quickly found investors to help him found his own firm, the Ford Motor Co., in 1903.", "He introduced the company's first new vehicle, the Model and followed it up with other low-cost vehicles, including his greatest achievement, the Model T, in 1908.", "Its price tag started at $850 and fell steadily as Ford introduced more production innovations.", "The young firm became phenomenally successful.", "AOL Autos: 10 classic American rides .", "In the 1920s, he got the chance to buy the five-year-old Lincoln Motor Co. out of bankruptcy.", "It was then owned by one of the very people, Henry Leland, who fired him in 1902.", "Then he used the former aircraft company to launch his own line of luxury cars bearing the Lincoln name.", "For its part, General Motors almost didn't get the name it bears today.", "Durant actually incorporated his company under the name \"International Motors Co.\", in New Jersey in 1908.", "But his attorney advised him that it would be easier to raise capital under a new name.", "\"We might use 'United Motors Company' were it not for the fact that there is already a United Motor Car Company in that state,\" the attorney wrote.", "\"We suggest the name General Motors Company, as we have ascertained it can be used.\"", "A newly coined French word, auto-mobile, inspired many vehicle names of the early years.", "Inventor Ransom E. Olds filed a patent for an \"auto-mobile\" during the mid-1890s.", "Names like Bugmobile, Locomobile, Hupmobile, and of course, the Oldsmobile, could not have come along without it.", "The origins of some names can be tricky to trace.", "The first use of Jeep, for instance.", "is shrouded in mist.", "Jim Allen, the author of a book called \"Jeep,\" concludes that it's based on early World War II slang for \"a new, unproven recruit or a new unproven vehicle.\"", "It wasn't until 1950 that Toledo-based Willys-Overland, Inc., one of the producers of the early four-wheel-drive vehicle, trademarked the term.", "Many of the names were not originally associated with the auto industry.", "The Toyota name came from the Toyoda loom works in Kariya, Japan; When it turned to car production, the Toyoda family changed the 'd' to a 't' to make it simpler and more elegant in Japanese script.", "AOL Autos: Top 10 best car names .", "There's little doubt about other brand names.", "Pontiac was an offshoot of the Pontiac Buggy Co., a horseless carriage manufacturer named after a renowned Indian chief.", "Mechanic Soichiro Honda started producing motorized bicycles after the devastation of World War II and eventually graduated to cars.", "AOL Autos: Pontiacs we'll never forget .", "Volkswagen, a response to Adolf Hitler's call for a car for the common folk, means 'people's car' in German, evidently beating out the prototype's name, 'Strength through Joy,' for the honors.", "In 1917, the Rapp Engine Works became known as the Bayerische Motoren Werke GmbH, or Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) as the four-year-old airplane engine firm diversified into motorcycle engines, with a stylized white propeller against a blue sky as its logo, according to some authorities.", "The first BMW cars were produced 11 years later.", "The legendary Jaguar name is considered one of the best sports car names of all time.", "It beat out a long list of lackluster animal names compiled by a British ad agency in 1935.", "In 1939, Ford struck gold with Mercury, the fleet-footed messenger of the gods.", "It tapped into Greek and Roman mythology for the name, just as it did for the similarly styled Lincoln Zephyr, the god of the wind, three years earlier.", "Some other storied automotive brands are based on acronyms.", "Fiat stands for Fabbrica Italiani Automobili Torino, or Italian Automotive Works Turin.", "Similarly, Saab stands for Svenska Aeroplanaktiebolaget, or Swedish Aeroplane Ltd., hearkening back to the automaker's origins as an aircraft company.", "Ford might have done better with an acronym in 1958.", "The Edsel was conceived as a new, distinct Ford Motor Co. brand, with its own models, badge and division.", "The mission was to take on GM's Oldsmobile.", "After considering thousands of suggestions, Ford named the new brand after Edsel Ford, Henry Ford's only child.", "He had been a major styling influence within the company and was its president at his fathers death in 1943.", "The name Edsel was an immediate letdown.", "Ford stock fell 10 points on the day it was announced.", "One disenchanted executive predicted that the name alone would cost the new vehicle 200,000 units in sales.", "AOL Autos: Best and worst automotive designs of all time .", "Its name wasn't the sole reason for its failure.", "It didn't help that the country was in recession or that the new car seemed based on Ford and Mercury models.", "But all that didn't stop Edsel from entering the vocabulary as an idea or project fated to failure." ]	[ "David Buick invented the overhead valve engine, founded Buick Motor Car Co.\nFearless race car driver Louis Chevrolet's name stuck for its musical lilt .", "The Henry Ford Company fired its namesake who later started Ford Motor Co.\nToyota name came from the Toyoda loom works in Kariya, Japan ." ]	[ 5, 19, 22, 50 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A top executive for the company which built the flight data recorder aboard Air France Flight 447 says he hopes his firm's 100 percent recovery record from air accidents will be maintained despite concerns the device may be lost at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.", "A Brazilian diver floats on wreckage of Flight 447 spotted Wednesday.", "Although some debris has been retrieved, air crash investigators remain in the dark about what caused the airliner to plunge into the sea off the coast of Brazil with 228 people onboard earlier this month.", "The wreckage is believed to be about 4,500 meters (15,000 feet) deep, amid underwater mountains and mixed in with tons of sea trash.", "A French nuclear submarine and other vessels are searching for the flight data recorder by attempting to trace its locator beacon, which sends acoustic pulses, or \"pings,\" to searchers.", "The U.S. Navy has contributed two high-tech acoustic devices -- known as towed pinger locators -- which have been attached to French tug boats and can search to a maximum depth of 20,000 feet.", "Honeywell Aerospace's Paolo Carmassi -- the firm's president for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India -- told CNN that retrieving the flight data could help solve the mystery of the plane's fate and said his company had never lost a black box involved in an accident.", "\"We believe that our technology is well-positioned to, in this case, contribute to solve the big question around this particular accident,\" Carmassi said.", "\"We have a 100 percent recovery rate of all the black boxes that we have installed that unfortunately may have been involved in accidents, so we hope that we will be able to maintain our record and be able to shed some light on what happened.\"", "Watch what clues investigators are looking at » .", "But Carmassi acknowledged it was hard to estimate how much battery life the locator beacon had left.", "\"There is a certain duration which depends on the particular environmental conditions, whether it's underwater or on land, whether it's at 10 meters or 4,000 meters.", "So, it's very difficult to pinpoint exactly the duration,\" he said.", "Yann Cochennec, an aviation expert with Air et Cosmos magazine, told CNN that a recorder had been retrieved from the seabed in 2004 after an Egyptian charter flight crashed into the Red Sea shortly after leaving Sharm el-Sheikh.", "But he said the depth of the Atlantic, strong currents and bad weather would make retrieving the recorder from the Air France wreckage far more difficult.", "The flight data recorder -- sometimes called a \"black box\" -- is actually an orange, metal cylinder weighing about 13 pounds.", "Inside is a stack of memory chips designed to survive high temperatures, strong impact and tons of pressure.", "The devices record virtually every detail about how an aircraft is working, including cabin pressure, speed and altitude, remaining fuel and whether that fuel is flowing properly.", "They have played a crucial part in air crash investigations since they were first fitted to commercial aircraft in the 1940s." ]	[ "Maker of flight data recorder aboard AF447 has \"100 percent\" recovery rate .", "Top executive says finding flight data recorder could reveal cause of air crash .", "Plane wreckage believed to be on Atlantic seabed, around 4,500 meters deep .", "Device's underwater locator beacon has limited battery life ." ]	[ 0, 3, 10 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- Researchers in the United States are buoyed by the results of a study which has determined that a giant grass could help the country to meet its steep biofuel targets.", "Stephen Long amid Miscanthus stalks found to outperform other biofuel sources.", "After successful long-term trials in Europe, a three-year field study of Miscanthus x giganteus by the University of Illinois has revealed that it outperforms traditional biofuel sources, producing more than twice the ethanol per acre than corn or switchgrass, using a quarter of the space.", "Crop sciences professor and study leader Dr. Stephen Long told CNN that while there probably isn't one magic bullet to fix our climate woes, Miscanthus -- also known as elephant grass -- promises to be one of five or six options that could help the U.S. to reach its target of replacing 30 percent of gasoline use with biofuels by 2030.", "\"I think it's important in the biofuels debate that we don't throw the baby out with the bath water.", "The idea we use the sun's energy to grow plants and then make fuels from those plants is essentially a good one,\" Dr. Long said.", "\"It's been tainted by the fact that the easy way to do it is to just use food crops, but society needs to realize there are big opportunities beyond food crops and beyond the use of crop land.\"", "Miscanthus, for instance, is able to grow on land too marginal for crop production, so it doesn't have to compete with land for food crops.", "It also doesn't require major input or fertilization after planting and once established will yield for around 15 years.", "Yet even with the success of these trials in the U.S. and the earlier European ones, it could be years before the full potential of Miscanthus is realized.", "This is due in part to the fact that it's much more complex to make cellulosic ethanol -- ethanol made from non-food plants -- than it is to turn simple food starches found in corn or wheat into ethanol.", "In the United Kingdom, Miscanthus is recognized by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as an energy crop and it's currently being used to co-fire the Drax power station in England's Yorkshire.", "Even still, Dr. Geraint Evans from the UK's National Non-Food Crops Centre said rather than plants like Miscanthus, wheat grain will be used to meet the UK target of replacing five percent of fuel with renewable sources by 2010.", "\"Miscanthus has the potential to be more efficient, producing between 4,000 and 7,000 liters of fuel per hectare, whereas ethanol made from wheat grain makes about 1900 liters per hectare.\"", "\"Wheat grain-derived ethanol is what we can do today with the technology we have available today.", "The technology to use Miscanthus is not yet commercially available,\" Dr. Evans told CNN.", "In addition to the technical hitch, Dr. Evans said a further downside is that even though Miscanthus is a low maintenance crop, it can be costly to plant compared to wheat or rapeseed canola and the first yield wouldn't occur for at least three years.", "In an effort to overcome some of the challenges, Dr. Long now intends to turn his attention to experimenting with the wild Miscanthus used in the U.S. trial.", "And if the sort of improvements made to corn in the last 50 years are any indication, Miscanthus could be well be used to fuel the future in a matter of years.", "Is Miscanthus the next big thing in biofuels? Sound off below." ]	[ "A U.S. study has revealed a giant grass outperforms other biofuel sources .", "Miscanthus produces more than double the ethanol of corn per acre .", "It's already used to co-fire the Drax power station in north England .", "The full potential of Miscanthus as a biofuel may take years to realize ." ]	[ 1, 2, 11 ]
[ "(WIRED) -- Got a few grand to spare for a $3,000 phone?", "Yeah, we didn't think so.", "Nobody does -- and that's a problem for the makers of luxury phones, such as Motorola, Bang & Olufson, LG and Vertu.", "Vertu makes phones starting at $6,000 and going up in price.", "After years of chasing the ultra-wealthy with exclusive devices that carry designer logos and promise craftsmanship from materials such as sapphire and stainless steel, luxury phone makers are now pulling back.", "\"The culture has shifted away from conspicuous consumption, so if you are going to have a super expensive product this may not be the time for it,\" says Avi Greengart, research director for consumer devices at Current Analysis.", "Motorola has already gotten the memo.", "Earlier this week, the company reportedly canceled the Ivory E18, a device tentatively priced around $3,000.", "The phone had met with lack of interest from telecom carriers.", "Motorola declined to comment.", "If that sounds like an obvious outcome, perhaps it shouldn't.", "In the last few years, luxury phones had turned into an attractive new business, as designer houses rushed to get a foothold in the tech sector.", "Prada collaborated with LG to launch two LG Prada phones in Europe and Asia.", "Last September, Samsung launched the M75500 Night Effect phone, which carried the Emporio Armani insignia.", "A month later, Motorola offered a $2,000 phone, called the Aura, which was fashioned out of stainless steel and sported a 62-carat sapphire crystal lens.", "And then there's Vertu, a company that makes true luxury phones, the cheapest of which costs about $6,000.", "The recession put a spoke in those plans.", "And it's not just the 401Ks of middle-class Americans that have been in peril.", "In Russia, many newly-minted billionaires saw their fortunes slip away with falling oil prices.", "By the first quarter this year, the U.S. economy had shrunk 5.5 percent.", "Even 50 Cent has complained about losing more than a few Benjamins on the stock market.", "And just like that, the crystal dominoes started to fall.", "Last October, Bang & Olufsen, whose phones retailed in Europe for more than $1,500, shuttered its cellphone business as it decided to trim its costs and get out of non-profitable ventures.", "Motorola is the latest to pull back its luxury line.", "Luxury phones have never been a big phenomenon in North America, says Greengart.", "Their manufacturers have had better luck in emerging markets.", "But now even in those countries, where once 8 percent GDP growth seemed conservative, wealthy consumers are feeling the pinch.", "\"Super expensive, bling bling phones are big in markets where conspicuous consumption is a way to tell your countrymen you have arrived,\" says Greengart.", "\"But now, it's a very different economy for everyone.\"", "Many of the troubles that the uber-expensive phones face are because they are created by companies whose main expertise is in targeting a mass market, says Frank Nuovo, former chief of design for Nokia and current head of Vertu.", "\"I didn't start this business to soak the phones in diamonds and jewels,\" says Nuovo.", "\"The concept is same as a fine watch or a fabulous car.", "To be a true luxury product, you have to look at making something that doesn't have an 18-month shelf life.\"", "True luxury, as Nuovo defines it, doesn't apply to a mere $2,000 phone: A Vertu device, soaked in platinum, can run up to $70,000.", "The company's one-off phones, designed in collaboration with luxury jewels house Boucheron, cost even more.", "Nuovo may have inadvertently hit on the real problem with luxury phones: Phones are still a very feature-driven products.", "They are products where the rapid advances in technology can rend older models obsolete very quickly.", "\"Phones aren't like a handbag where the fundamental utility remains the same and the design changes all the time,\" says Greengart.", "But Nuovo isn't convinced.", "\"Take watches and cars,\" he says.", "\"They all run the same but everyone has a unique way of delivering them stylistically.", "We can do the same with phones.\" Despite the bumps on the road now, Nuovo says the luxury phones will bounce back and find an audience.", "\"It is no different than a fine watch or a car,\" he says.", "\"If you take people who value something that is made extraordinarily well there will always be a group interested in it.\"", "Vertu is determined to prove that.", "It will launch its latest handset the Carbon Fibre Ascent Ti in August.", "The phone is made of high-gloss carbon fiber and has a sandblasted titanium surface.", "The price tag? $9,800. Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!", "Click here! Copyright 2009 Wired.com." ]	[ "The luxury phone market is in decline because of the recession .", "Uber-high-end phones are more popular outside the U.S.\nVertu makes luxury phones that start at $6,000 and go up in price .", "Some phones pair with designer brands or are made from rare materials ." ]	[ 3, 8, 15, 29 ]
[ "SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- A 100-inch, high definition screen projects an intense college basketball game.", "Massage therapists rub the nervous tensions of men and women away.", "Scissors skillfully cut men's hair.", "Two chandeliers adorn the main room, complimented by brick walls and a glass bar that doubles as a retail counter.", "Sean Heywood, right, and Kumi Walker own MR., a barbershop and wine bar in San Francisco, California.", "This is not your typical barbershop.", "And that has always been the vision of owners Kumi Walker and Sean Heywood.", "\"We are literally trying to create a new version of the country club golf experience.", "But we're replacing golf with haircuts, and we're putting it in urban environments,\" says Heywood.", "MR. (for mister) is their first business venture.", "It's an upscale barbershop, wine bar and lounge in the financial district of San Francisco where memberships cost $65 to $250 a month.", "In addition to the basic services, those who become members benefit from exclusive services like golf putting clinics and human resource workshops.", "\"We're trying to thrive, not just survive,\" Heywood said.", "MR. takes the cultural aspect of the black barbershop experience and modernizes it, making it a place where businesspeople of all races can network.", "\"We looked at our social lives, and we had black friends, Asian friends, Latino friends, white friends.", "We would do a lot of things socially together, but when it came to getting our hair cut, we would all split up,\" Walker says.", "Watch Walker talk about the difficulty of starting and running a business » .", "The two entrepreneurs are bridging a cultural divide, and also giving back to the community.", "They offer free lifetime memberships to MR. to those in good standing with a re-entry program called Back on Track.", "Among other things, Back on Track offers first-time, low-level criminal offenders GED preparation, tutoring, money-management instruction and job training and placement.", "And that's where MR. steps in. The membership provides them with one free haircut, trim, and shoeshine monthly.", "\"We'll take care of their grooming so that they don't have to.", "And they're ready for all the different jobs that they pursue going forward,\" Walker says.", "Giving back is paramount for the entrepreneurs.", "And the story of one black business district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, inspires them.", "It was known as Black Wall Street, and it was destroyed in a race riot and fire 88 years ago.", "\"All of the businesses that we wanted to create, we wanted to encompass the culture of, if that community still existed today, what it would look like,\" says Walker, who says he read about the riot six years ago.", "Imagine a credit union, a barbershop, a library, and men in freshly pressed suits with top hats sauntering on sidewalks.", "The melodic sounds of jazz flow into the streets from several nightclubs.", "A thriving community of black-owned businesses serve their clientele across a 42-block area.", "That was the community that existed in the segregated neighborhood of Greenwood from 1830 to 1921.", "But on the evening of May 31, 1921, white mobs entered Greenwood with torches and guns.", "Black residents gathered to protect a young man accused of assaulting a white woman.", "When the smoke from fires cleared on June 1, more than 1,000 homes, businesses and other institutions were burned or destroyed, according to the report of the Oklahoma Commission to Study the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.", "\"People came and said, 'Run, they are shooting people,' \" says Wess Young, who was 4 then.", "\"We evacuated. They were destroying everything.\"", "The death toll has been debated for years, because many victims were dumped in mass graves.", "An American Red Cross estimate puts the total at 300, much higher than the 36 reported by local officials.", "The riot devastated the social underpinnings of the Greenwood community and leveled a black economic force.", "Greenwood was rebuilt, but it never recovered.", "\"It was a really tragic end to thriving businesses.", "I think we'd be a lot further ahead had that area been able to continue to thrive,\" says Walker.", "Wess Young and his family rebuilt their lives in Tulsa.", "When asked what he thought America would be like if the Tulsa race riot had not happened, he answers without hesitation, \"We would have had a black president before now. ...", "He has done a good job, but we [blacks are] still in a box.\"", "His advice to people is to let go of the past once they've learned from it.", "\"Hate will destroy your whole universe -- got to learn how to forgive, but never forget,\" Young says.", "Walker says these stories of black struggle and survival motivate him.", "\"I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors,\" he says.", "\"I just want to be as successful as possible so I can turn around and be mentors and sponsors to other people who come after me.\"" ]	[ "Entrepreneur read about famed Black Wall Street that was destroyed in 1921 .", "He and partner created modern barbershop to honor memory of district .", "Black Wall Street burned to ground during massive race riot in Tulsa, Oklahoma .", "Tulsa race riot survivor: \"Learn how to forgive, but never forget\"" ]	[ 24, 25, 33, 46 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- British airlines have put into effect measures to stop people with swine flu boarding flights in a bid to prevent the virus from spreading further.", "Medical screening for the swine flu virus has been introduced at many airports.", "British Airways said there had been a \"very small number of cases\" where people who had checked in with symptoms of H1N1 had been advised not to travel after having medical checks.", "Virgin Atlantic also said victims would not be allowed to board one of its planes without a fit-to-fly certificate from their doctor or a hospital, though there had been no cases yet.", "The World Health Organization declared the virus a global pandemic June 11.", "More than 120 countries have reported cases of human infection.", "About 98,000 cases have been documented worldwide, with 440 deaths, according to the WHO.", "Watch as airlines ban sufferers » .", "With 29 deaths and a huge rise in the number of cases, Britain has the worst swine flu figures in Europe.", "Eight British schoolchildren remained in hospital in China on Monday after contracting swine flu on a trip to the country, the Foreign Office said.", "The teenagers were diagnosed with the H1N1 virus in Beijing.", "More than 50 of their classmates and teachers are also quarantined in a hotel.", "Watch as students are quarantined » .", "Medical screening for the swine flu virus has been introduced at many airports around the world for passengers arriving on international flights but there are concerns that many people may not be aware they are infected.", "Those who do have symptoms have been advised by Britain's health authorities to delay their journeys until the signs have cleared up.", "\"We have a medical team within the airline as well as a contingency planning group which has met for the past few years to look at the issue of a flu pandemic,\" A British Airways spokeswoman said.", "\"We have a wide range of contingency plans in place which we can use depending on how the situation may evolve.", "\"If we have concerns about a customer or the customer is concerned, then we have a 24-hour medical service we can call to give advice to staff.", "\"They will speak to the customer and an assessment will be made about their fitness to fly.", "\"There have been a number of cases where we have advised customers not to fly on the basis of their diagnosis or symptoms of H1N1.\"", "Watch as a CNN reporter is quarantined » .", "BA told CNN Monday though that it was \"business as usual\" and all flights were operating normally.", "Virgin Atlantic spokesman Paul Charles said: \"If there are signs of something being wrong, be it excessive sneezing or coughing, not looking well, high temperature, then the airport staff can call in a medical team for extra advice.", "\"If the medical team believe there are reasons not to fly, the passenger will be asked to produce a fit to fly certificate from their doctor or a hospital, and they will be put at our cost on to the next available flight.\"", "Swine flu has spread so rapidly and extensively around the globe that the World Health Organization is changing tactics against the H1N1 virus, including stopping a tally of cases and focusing on unusual patterns.", "\"At this point, further spread of the pandemic, within affected countries and to new countries, is considered inevitable,\" the WHO said.", "The counting of all cases is no longer essential because it is exhausting countries' resources, the organization said.", "\"In some countries, this strategy is absorbing most national laboratory and response capacity, leaving little capacity for the monitoring and investigation of severe cases, and other exceptional events.\"", "Monitoring is still required, the organization urged, but should focus on exceptional patterns.", "\"Because the numbers of cases have increased in so many countries, it is very hard to keep up,\" Keiji Fukuda, WHO assistant director-general, said earlier this month.", "Laboratories have been inundated with testing requests and the virus is showing up in most lab tests in countries with major outbreaks, he said.", "The organization said it will not issue global tables showing confirmed cases for countries that have reported cases, according to the release.", "However, it will still report on nations that have not had cases so that its presence can be confirmed.", "\"WHO will continue to request that these countries report the first confirmed cases and, as far as feasible, provide weekly aggregated case numbers and descriptive epidemiology of the early cases.\"", "Meanwhile, governments should should be on the lookout for unusual patterns, the organization said.", "While most patients have reported mild symptoms, a rise in severe symptoms or respiratory ailments that require hospitalization should be cause for concern, it said.", "Governments should also pay attention to unusual patterns linked to fatal cases, the WHO said.", "Any changes in prevailing patterns should be flagged, including a rise in school and job absenteeism, and an increase in visits to the emergency room.", "An overwhelmed health system may mean there is a rise in severe cases, the organization said." ]	[ "British airlines stop people with swine flu boarding flights .", "Around the world there have been 98,000 cases of swine flu in 120 countries .", "With 29 deaths, Britain has the worst swine flu figures in Europe .", "Medical screening for virus has been introduced at many airports ." ]	[ 6, 8, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Oguchi Onyewu, who made his AC Milan debut in a 2-1 friendly defeat to Mexico's Club America, is the first player from the United States to be signed by the Serie A giants and is a rising talent in world football.", "Oguchi Onyewu has cut a commanding figure at the center of defense for the U.S. national team.", "The \"Rossoneri\" have put their faith in a 27-year-old defender, who has become a lynchpin of his national team in recent times -- but how did the stopper climb the ladder of success?", "The imposing Onweyu, who stands 1.93 meters tall and tips the scales at 95 kilograms, was born in Washington D.C., one of a family of five to Nigerian-born parents.", "While at high school in Maryland, he showed immediate promise and was selected for a soccer academy run by International Management Group (IMG).", "After graduation, Onyewu spent two years in collegiate soccer at Clemson University before taking his chance in Europe.", "CNN's Patrick Snell interviews Onyewu. ...", "He was originally at Metz in France before being loaned out to La Louviere in the Belgium league and finally to Standard Liege where he has spent the majority of his professional career.", "Because of his strong performances with Standard, Onyewu was constantly linked with a number of leading European clubs, but finally had his chance when sent out on loan to Newcastle United in the English Premier League.", "Joining for the back end of the 2006-07 season, he formed an uncertain partnership with Titus Bramble in the center of defense, which, combined with the arrival of new manager Sam Allardyce, was to cost him his place.", "Newcastle decided not to make his loan move permanent and Onyewu returned to Standard to help them win successive Belgian league titles.", "He was involved in a controversial incident at the end of the current season during the championship playoff against Anderlecht.", "Onyewu claimed Anderlecht defender Jelle Van Damme called him a \"dirty ape\" and persisted despite being reported to the referee.", "The Times of London reported on June 2 that Onyewu had taken legal action in a Brussels court over the alleged slur, hoping it will help eradicate such incidents in the future.", "His lawyer Jean-Louis Dupont said Onyewu felt compelled to take it further.", "\"He was convinced it was his duty to lodge the complaint,\" Dupont said.", "\"It is not a question whether Van Damme is racist.", "The issue is that these slurs are still used on the pitch, and are being used because they know it hurts.\"", "Onyewu made his debut for the U.S. national team in 2004 and played all three games for the side before their exit from the 2006 World Cup.", "But it was his performances in the recent Confederations Cup in South Africa which showed his qualities to the full.", "After the U.S. beat Egypt 3-0 to reach the semifinals, Onyewu was outstanding again in the shock 2-0 defeat of world number one-rated Spain to reach the final.", "The U.S. went on to lose the final 3-2 to Brazil, but Onyewu had again sparked renewed interest, including Milan, who had tracked him since 2004.", "He signed a three-year deal earlier this month with the seven-time European champions, who are in a rebuilding process after the retirement of club legend Paulo Maldini and departure of Kaka to Real Madrid.", "Onyewu is the second U.S. international to play in Serie A.", "Former national captain Alexi Lalas played for Padova in the 1990s." ]	[ "Oguchi Onyewu is the first U.S.-born player to be signed by AC Milan .", "Onweyu was a star performer for the U.S. team in 2009 Confederations Cup .", "The 27-year-old has Nigerian parents and went to Clemson University ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Carrie Prejean's lawyer gave Miss California USA executive director Keith Lewis what he said was a final warning to retract statements made about the former beauty queen or face a defamation lawsuit.", "The lawyer for former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean, says the ousted beauty queen's good name is \"tarnished.\"", "Prejean, stripped of the Miss California USA title last week, \"suffered severe emotional distress\" and her reputation was harmed by Lewis, Charles LiMandri said in a letter sent Thursday to Lewis' lawyer.", "LiMandri's letter also accused Lewis, whom he referred to as a \"gay activist,\" of setting Prejean up to be fired because of her statements opposing same-sex marriage.", "When Prejean, 22, was dethroned, Lewis said it was for \"contract violations,\" including missed public appearances.", "He told CNN's Larry King last week that it wasn't one thing Prejean did, but \"many, many, many things.\"", "\"She came to us and said I'm not interested in your input; I'll make my own decision what I'm going to do,\" Lewis said.", "\"You know, when you have a contract, when you're working for someone, you have a responsibility to follow through on what that requirement is.\"", "Lewis told King it was clear \"she was not interested in upholding the title or the responsibilities.\"", "\"Carrie Prejean's good name has been tarnished by your client's false and defamatory accusations,\" the letter from her lawyer to Lewis' said.", "\"Please view this letter as a last opportunity for Mr. Lewis to retract the defamatory statements made against my client and to seek to restore her good name,\" LiMandri said.", "\"If he does not comply, I will have no alternative but to recommend that Ms. Prejean proceed to do so through litigation.\"", "In response to the letter, Lewis issued a statement that said: \"Mr. LiMandri obviously has never watched 'The Apprentice' if he believes that Mr. Trump could be so easily fooled.", "Facts are facts, and we stand by them.\"", "LiMandri denied any contract violations, saying it was a \"complete and utter pretext\" for her firing.", "The list Lewis gave to reporters of Prejean's missed appearances was \"an outright fraud,\" he said.", "Prejean \"did not refuse reasonable appearance requests\" that could \"be expected to promote and further the intended purposes of Miss California USA,\" he said.", "The beauty queen expected to be asked to attend \"Rotary conventions and avocado festivals,\" not events Lewis suggested, LiMandri said.", "\"She did not think it was appropriate for her to accept Mr. Lewis' invitation to attend a gay documentary in Hollywood promoting same-sex marriage,\" he said.", "\"It was not my client's job, as Miss California, simply to help your client promote his personal or business interests as a Hollywood agent and producer, or gay activist.\"", "He accused Lewis of trying to make commissions off Prejean's appearances.", "\"Your client was trying to wrongfully profit off of my client's participation as Miss California, in violation of her contract, by taking 20 percent of any appearance fee she would earn, such as at the Las Vegas jewelers convention she attended at his request,\" LiMandri's letter said.", "LiMandri cited a statement he said Lewis made during a May 15 conference call that \"clearly shows that your client was trying to 'set-up' our client for termination\" by relaying an offer to appear semi-nude in Playboy.", "Three people who worked for a public relations agency representing Prejean at the time heard it, he said.", "\"All three of those people distinctly remember Keith Lewis talking about sending Ms. Prejean an offer to do a Playboy photo shoot 'so when they take her title away, she doesn't sue me,' \" he said.", "LiMandri said Lewis -- and former co-executive director Shanna Moakler -- were \"bound and determined to get her fired, and they have now finally gotten their way.\"", "Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump announced last month that Prejean could keep her title despite a controversy over topless photos, missed appearances and her statements against same-sex marriage.", "Trump reversed himself last week.", "\"I told Carrie she needed to get back to work and honor her contract with the Miss California USA organization, and I gave her the opportunity to do so,\" Trump said.", "\"Unfortunately, it just doesn't look like it is going to happen, and I offered Keith my full support in making this decision.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Pagaent director responds, \"Facts are facts, and we stand by them\"\nAttorney Charles LiMandri pens ultimatum to Miss California USA director's lawyer .", "Carrie Prejean's lawyer says dethronement caused \"severe emotional distress\"\n\"Please view this letter as a last opportunity\" to retract statements, LiMandri writes ." ]	[ 2, 10, 13 ]

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