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[ "(CNN) -- English contains more words than any other language on the planet and added its millionth word early Wednesday, according to the Global Language Monitor, a Web site that uses a math formula to estimate how often words are created.", "The Global Language Monitor says the millionth word was added to English on Wednesday.", "The site estimates the millionth English word, \"Web 2.0\" was added to the language Wednesday at 5:22 a.m.", "ET. The term refers to the second, more social generation of the Internet.", "The site says more than 14 words are added to English every day, at the current rate.", "The \"Million Word March,\" however, has made the man who runs this word-counting project somewhat of a pariah in the linguistic community.", "Some linguists say it's impossible to count the number of words in a language because languages are always changing, and because defining what counts as a word is a fruitless endeavor.", "Paul J.J. Payack, president and chief word analyst for the Global Language Monitor, says, however, that the million-word estimation isn't as important as the idea behind his project, which is to show that English has become a complex, global language.", "\"It's a people's language,\" he said.", "Other languages, like French, Payack said, put big walls around their vocabularies.", "English brings others in.", "\"English has the tradition of swallowing new words whole,\" he said.", "\"Other languages translate.\"", "The Internet, global commerce and global travel have accelerated the trend by putting English in contact with many other linguistic groups.", "This has made English more rich and more complex -- hence all of the new terms, he said.", "Still, Payack says he doesn't include all new words in his count.", "Words must make sense in at least 60 percent of the world to be official, he said.", "And they must make sense to different communities of people.", "A new technology term that's only understood in Silicon Valley wouldn't count as a mainstream word, he said.", "His computer models check billions of Web sites -- including the Global Top 5,000 media sites -- dictionaries, scholarly publications and news articles to see how frequently words are used, he said.", "A word must make 25,000 appearances to be deemed legitimate.", "Learn about how other languages stack up » .", "Payack said news events have also fueled the rapid expansion of English, which he said has more words than any other language.", "Mandarin Chinese comes in second with about 450,000 words, he said.", "English terms like \"Obamamania,\" \"defriend,\" \"wardrobe malfunction,\" \"zombie banks,\" \"shovel ready\" and \"recessionista\" all have grown out of recent news cycles about the presidential election, economic crash, online networking or a sports event, he said.", "Other languages might not have developed new terms to deal with such phenomena, he said.", "Language experts who spoke with CNN said they disapprove of Payack's count, but they agree that English generally has more words than most, if not all, languages.", "\"This is stuff that you just can't count,\" said Jesse Sheidlower, editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary.", "\"No one can count it, and to pretend that you can is totally disingenuous.", "It simply can't be done.\"", "The Oxford English Dictionary has about 600,000 entries, Sheidlower said.", "But that by no means includes all words, he said.", "For example, Sheidlower said \"great-great-great-great grandfather\" could be considered a word, but wouldn't be in the dictionary.", "There's a similar problem with numbers, which may be counted up by their pieces -- \"twenty\" and \"three\" -- but not always as a group, as in \"two-hundred twenty-three.\"", "Part of what makes determining the number of words in a language so difficult is that there are so many root words and their variants, said Sarah Thomason, president of the Linguistic Society of America and a linguistics professor at the University of Michigan.", "In the language of native Alaskans, she said, there are dozens of words for snow, but many of them are linked together and wouldn't be counted individually.", "Does that mean, she asked, that \"slush,\" \"powder\" and other snow words in English should be counted as one entry?", "Thomason called the million-word count a \"sexy idea\" that is \"all hype and no substance.\"", "Linguists and lexicographers run into further complications when trying to count words that are spelled one way but can have several meanings, said Allan Metcalf, an English professor at MacMurray College in Illinois, and an officer at the American Dialect Society.", "\"The word bear, b-e-a-r -- is that two words or one, for example?", "You have a noun that's a wild creature and then you have b-e-a-r, [which means] to bear left or to bear right, and there's many other things,\" he said.", "\"So you really can't be exact about a millionth word.\"", "Payack said he doesn't consider his to be the definitive count, just an interesting estimation based on set criteria he has helped develop.", "\"It's always an estimation,\" he said.", "\"It's like the height of Mount Everest is an estimation.", "The height of Mount Everest has changed five times in my lifetime because as we get better tools, the estimates get better.\"", "He said the count is meant to be a celebration of English as a global language.", "And, while he says other languages are being stamped out by English's expansion, it's a powerful thing that so many people today are able to communicate with such a vast list of words." ]	[ "Web site estimates English got its millionth word at 5:22 a.m. Wednesday .", "English accumulates new words from other languages and from its global reach .", "Linguists question group's formula, which estimates rate of new words .", "English has more words than any other language, site says ." ]	[ 0, 2, 12, 22 ]
[ "SPRING HILL, Tennessee (CNN) -- The town that Saturn put on the map is worried about its future and its residents hope the auto plant and jobs won't go the way of its most famous product.", "The move to shut down Saturn has left some in Spring Hill, Tennessee, disappointed and perplexed.", "General Motors announced this week that it would close its Saturn line after its sale to Penske Automotive Group fell through.", "At the end of \"Saturn Parkway\" in Spring Hill, Tennessee, sits the huge plant where -- as the ads touted -- \"a different kind of car company\" produced a \"different kind of car.\"", "The first Saturn, a red S-Series, rolled off the line in 1990 and it's still on display at the factory.", "The factory, along with the town, have played a major role in the company's image and advertisements, even hosting tours and \"reunions\" for Saturn car owners.", "At City Hall, the walls are decorated with old photos of the small town Spring Hill was before Saturn came to town and what it's grown into.", "\"I think people are very proud an American-made car was made here,\" area resident Barbara Williams said.", "Mayor Mike Dinwiddie credits most of the town's growth to the Saturn plant.", "\"GM, back in the mid 80's, is the reason this town began to grow in the first place,\" he said.", "Eventually, GM decided to move production elsewhere.", "The last Saturn made in Tennessee rolled off the line in 2007.", "After retooling, GM started building the Chevrolet Traverse in Spring Hill, but that production is now on its way out too.", "In November, it will be moved to a plant in Michigan, leaving Spring Hill's plant idle.", "The move to shut down Saturn has left some in town disappointed and perplexed.", "\"It's been a great car,\" remarked Keith Slep who runs an auto repair shop a few miles from the factory.", "Slep said he hoped Penske would have been able to keep the brand viable.", "\"He has a track record that won't quit of being a great business man and a good leader.", "I don't know what happened,\" Slep said.", "Williams said she was also stunned about the end of Saturn.", "\"I'm like everyone else, 'How can this happen?'", "GM has been a forerunner in the automobile industry, and it's just a really sad indictment on what is happening,\" she said.", "\"We are kind of curious as to why the decisions have been made that have been made,\" Dinwiddie said.", "\"I do know that what GM is trying to do now as a company -- as far as how they are trying to operate and what they are saying the improvements they need to make -- almost mirror what Saturn was 20 years ago.\"", "Resident Joyce Avello puts the blame squarely on the federal government.", "\"It's an abomination what the government is doing to the automotive industry ... Get it out of the government's hands.", "They don't know how to do cars. They can hardly do the government.\"", "As for the future of Spring Hill, Dinwiddie is optimistic.", "\"I have to believe the plant is going to come back.", "It all depends on the overall economy,\" he said.", "\"I hope that Americans start buying American products and start supporting the American auto manufacturing industry and if that happens, we'll get a product in this plant.\"", "Dinwiddie said he has been working with General Motors on a daily basis, and has invited President Obama and the auto recovery czar to come and tour the plant.", "\"I don't think they understand what this plant is capable of doing and once they see that, I think that they will be well aware of the situation, and I think they could probably give us some help,\" he said.", "At 94, G.W. Bowman has lived in Spring Hill most of his life and remembers stories of his grandfather collecting the mail in the area during the Civil War.", "With Saturn gone and the local plant preparing to idle, Bowman said, \"Of course, it's going to hurt, but it's not going to kill Spring Hill.\"" ]	[ "Saturn's demise leaves Spring Hill, Tennessee, residents dismayed .", "Town was where the first Saturn rolled off assembly line in 1990 .", "GM announced plans to shut down Saturn brand after Penske fails to reach deal ." ]	[ 1, 2, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Elizabeth Taylor is having a \"procedure on her heart,\" she announced on her Twitter page Tuesday.", "Elizabeth Taylor has used Twitter to share personal information.", "\"It's very new and involves repairing my leaky valve using a clip device, without open heart surgery, so that my heart will function better,\" the famed actress wrote.", "\"Any prayers you happen to have lying around I would dearly appreciate.", "I'll let you know when it's all over. Love you, Elizabeth.\"", "The 77-year-old Oscar winner did not go into further detail about her heart condition or the medical procedure.", "She was briefly hospitalized this summer for \"scheduled testing,\" she said at the time.", "She checked out \"sore, but intact,\" the actress said in an online message posted July 17.", "Her publicist had denied tabloid rumors that her hospitalization was brought on by her grief over the sudden death of her close friend Michael Jackson in June.", "Twitter is a social networking site that allows users to publish what they are doing using 140 characters or less.", "Taylor posts regularly on her account, DameElizabeth, which has more than 155,000 followers.", "She opened the account this year at the suggestion of her close friend, author and actress Kathy Ireland, publicist Dick Guttman said.", "She posted emotional messages in July to counter rumors about how she was dealing with the news of Jackson's death.", "\"Although my grief over Michael could not be any deeper, I am not on suicide watch as some of the cheaper 'rags' would have you believe,\" Taylor wrote July 5.", "Taylor -- who uses a wheelchair because of scoliosis, or abnormal curving of the spine -- gave fans several days advance notice of her last hospitalization.", "The London-born movie star has won two Academy Awards for best actress: first for \"Butterfield 8\" in 1961 and then for \"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf\" in 1967." ]	[ "Elizabeth Taylor takes to Twitter to announce surgical procedure .", "Actress did not go into detail about heart issue .", "She has used Twitter to talk about coping with Jackson's death ." ]	[ 1, 5, 12 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- A man has been arrested in connection with the July shooting death of former boxing champion Vernon Forrest, Atlanta police said Tuesday night.", "Vernon Forrest, seen in September, was killed July 25 near an Atlanta gas station.", "Demario Ware, 20, turned himself in to police on Tuesday and is being held in the Fulton County jail on charges of murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault, Atlanta police said.", "Forrest, 38, was shot in a neighborhood southwest of downtown Atlanta on the night of July 25.", "Police and his longtime manager have said Forrest was robbed, leading to a confrontation in which he was shot several times.", "Forrest died of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and thigh, the Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office said.", "Information on what led police to suspect Ware in Forrest's death wasn't immediately available.", "The case still is under investigation, said Officer J.", "Polite Jr., Atlanta police spokesman.", "Forrest's longtime friend and manager, Charles Watson, said last month that Forrest was returning from the gym after a late workout when he and his godson stopped at a Southwest Atlanta gas station on the night Forrest was shot.", "While Forrest was at the gas station, a man snatched his wallet out of his hand after asking him for money, said Watson, who spoke to police and the godson.", "Atlanta police told CNN affiliate WSB-TV in July that Forrest chased the suspect and that gunfire was exchanged.", "Forrest was the International Boxing Council junior welterweight champion in 1995, the World Boxing Council continental welterweight champion in 1997, the North American Boxing Federation welterweight champion from 1998 to 2000, the International Boxing Federation welterweight champion in 2001, the WBC welterweight champion in 2002-2003, and the WBC light welterweight champion in 2007-2008 and 2008-2009, according to the BoxRec Web site.", "He was named the World Boxing Hall of Fame fighter of the year in 2002, according to BoxRec.", "CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin contributed to this report." ]	[ "Police: Man, 20, arrested Tuesday in connection with July killing of Vernon Forrest .", "Forrest, 38, was robbed and then shot during confrontation, Atlanta police say .", "Police: Suspect held on charges of murder, armed robbery and aggravated assault .", "Forrest was former welterweight and light middleweight boxing champion ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Known for lederhosen, weisswurst and its beer festival, Munich is a city that counters these brassy cliches with a mix of art, history and style.", "From onion domes to beer halls, the city of Munich also has more than its fair share to entrance culture vultures.", "Don't be fooled by the chocolate box architecture in parts of the Altstadt (old town): Munich is the biggest city in the state of Bavaria with an ego to match -- no other state in Germany boasts its own \"national museum.\"", "Yet the city manages to mix regional traditions with a slice of urban savvy and sophistication.", "Visitors can take their pick from the cultural attractions and blend a little low and high culture together for a flying visit.", "The Altstadt is walkable and the place to begin a day with its mix of baroque and gothic architecture.", "The green onion domes of the Frauenkirche remain visible over the low-rise city center.", "Mostly destroyed during the Second World War, the Frauenkirche was rebuilt from its rubble and is worth a quick look inside for the peculiar windowless nave -- so designed after the architect made a pact with the devil, apparently.", "Nearby is Marienplatz and the fine gothic architecture of the new town hall with its ever-so-twee glockenspiel and animated chiming clock.", "From the Karlsplatz U-Bahn station to Marienplatz you'll find some \"any-town, anywhere\" shopping options, but push on towards Maximilianstrasse and you'll discover where the Munich money goes to splash the cash, although gaudy ostentation isn't a very Muenchner trait.", "For more down-to-earth shopping a few steps from Marienplatz is the Viktualienmarkt and Schrannenhalle, the former offering food and drink from across Europe and the re-built Schrannenhalle housing a buzzy mix of shops and places to grab a bite to eat.", "Alternatively the city is dotted with snack bars where you can grab a würst and hope for the best.", "From the boutiques and brands to the beer cellers.", "The city becomes a beer-lover magnet every autumn, when international boozers stagger into the city for the annual Oktoberfest beer festival.", "Things can get messy, but you can get a taste of the beer hall experience any time of year.", "There are a number of beer halls around the city, one on Marienplatz itself, although the most famous is the Hofbrauhaus a few minutes to the north.", "But if a darkened, boozy room with an oompah band and the sight of some ill-fitting lederhosen isn't your preferred choice for lunch, there are many cafes and restaurants around the Altstadt to cater for all tastes.", "Away from the traditional aspects of the city, Munich is a hub for high tech, high art and high rollers.", "BMW has its HQ here -- auto fans should motor over to its museum.", "The city also has more than its fair share of world-class cultural attractions.", "The Residence Museum, National Theater and Museum of Egyptian Art are just a few to be found between Marienplatz and the Hofgarten.", "Just to the north is one of Europe's largest city parks, the Englischer Garten, scene of the German tradition of the post-prandial walk.", "The park stretches about 5 km away from the city center.", "View photos of the Englischer Garten and more of Munich » .", "As you're walking through you can duck off to the west and you'll be close to Munich's cultural big hitters, the Pinakothek museums.", "The Pinakothek triumvirate have enough art and history to span hundreds of years, and take almost as long to see in their entirety.", "If you've only got a few hours it's a better idea to pick one.", "The latest edition is the Pinakothek der Moderne, which opened in 2002 and houses an impressive collection of 20th century and contemporary art in an almost equally impressive interior.", "If you've had your fill of art, take a short walk north and you'll hit the formerly bohemian residential area of Schwabing.", "Now more well-to-do, the area retains a bit of cultural mix, with the nearby university providing some youthful energy.", "Independent shops, cafes and bars are dotted around the streets, some catering for student budgets, others for those who paid off their student loans long ago.", "It's a fine area to stop for some afternoon coffee and cake -- The News Bar has a mix of the local demographic and Cafe Zeitgeist on Turkenstrasse is another choice spot.", "Further afield, there's the vast, but staid, Deutsches Museum on its own island in the middle of the River Iser, while to the west of the city is Olympic park.", "It's home to the Tollwood summer and winter festivals, but year round you can get a great view from the tower of the Olympic Stadium of the city and the former home to the city's two football clubs.", "The Allianz Arena, a huge swirl of a stadium that opened in 2005, is now the home of Bayern and lowly 1860 Munich.", "Football fans can visit the stadium with daily tours.", "From the masses to regal splendor, the Nymphenburg Palace was the summer residence of the Wittelbach dynasty that ruled Bavaria for over 700 years until 1919.", "The grand rooms should sate anyone's need for gold gilt and eighteenth-century grandeur.", "When evening comes, the city can accommodate those with a hunger for cosmopolitan dining as well as more traditional cuisine.", "For entertainment, theaters and the city's opera house provide more refined fare, while those in search of some more late-night, grungy fun can head to the complex of bars and clubs of the Kultfabrik -- a former industrial site now offering late-night kicks on an industrial scale.", "Better than Berlin?", "What do you think of Munich?", "Send in your travel tips for the Bavarian city using the Sound Off box below." ]	[ "The biggest city in Bavaria mixes local tradition and cultured sophistication .", "From beer halls to 17th-century palaces, visits can be tailored to suit all tastes .", "Oktoberfest is an annual exception; city is home to a number of world-class galleries ." ]	[ 15, 33 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Health officials expect more than 3 million doses of H1N1 flu vaccine to be available in the first week of October.", "Three flu shot manufacturers were licensed by the FDA last week.", "\"3.4 million doses of vaccines will be available,\" said Dr. Jay Butler, who heads the 2009 H1N1 Vaccine Task Force at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.", "\"All of that vaccine is the inhalable vaccine,\" he said Friday.", "That form of vaccine is marketed in the United States as FluMist and is approved only for healthy individuals between the ages of 2 and 49.", "Pregnant women are not allowed to get this type of vaccine because it contains a live virus.", "Butler added that he thinks there some flu shots may be available in early October as well, but he had a hard number only for the inhalable vaccine.", "Flu shots contain an \"inactivated,\" or dead, virus.", "Take a quiz about the H1N1 flu » .", "The 3.4 million doses of vaccine that will be shipped at the beginning of October are the first of 195 million doses the U.S. government has purchased from five vaccine manufacturers, Butler said.", "Last week, the Food and Drug Administration licensed the vaccine from four of those companies.", "Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis and CSL Limited all manufacture flu shots, and MedImmune manufactures the inhalable vaccine.", "GlaxoSmithkline, which also is producing injectable flu vaccine, still needs to have its vaccine approved by the agency.", "Health officials report that the new H1N1 flu virus has not changed from what was seen earlier this year, so they are expecting the vaccine to be very effective.", "In some parts of the country, the vaccine can't some soon enough.", "The deputy director of the CDC's Influenza Division, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, said 21 states are now reporting widespread flu activity.", "\"It's a very strange thing for us to see that amount of influenza at this time of year\" rather than much later in the flu season.", "Jernigan said there's been only a small an increase in hospitalizations, mainly among young children and adults.", "But there has been a lot of activity in outpatient settings.", "Watch a report on the surprising spread of flu » .", "Until the vaccine becomes available, health officials have recommended steps that people can take to cut their chance of getting sick or, for those already sick, prevent the spread of the flu, including frequent handwashing, sneezing into a tissue or sleeve rather than into one's hand, and staying home when sick.", "Those who are at the highest risk of getting seriously ill -- pregnant women, children, young adults and people with chronic lung or heart disease or diabetes -- should be the first to get vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus.", "Health care workers and emergency medical personnel are also encouraged be vaccinated early.", "\"Our goal is to ultimately make the vaccine available to every American who wishes to be vaccinated,\" Butler said.", "\"The vaccine demand is hard to predict.\"", "Learn more about the H1N1 flu from the CDC .", "According to a CNN/Opinion Corp. poll conducted in late August, 66 percent of Americans plan to be vaccinated against H1N1 flu.", "Health care workers may not necessarily be among them.", "In the past, only about 40 percent of health care workers have been vaccinated against flu, according to the CDC." ]	[ "Inhalable vaccine available only between ages 2 and 49; not for pregnant women .", "Some flu shots will be available in early October as well .", "New H1N1 has not changed much from earlier virus, officials say .", "21 states are now reporting widespread flu activity ." ]	[ 6, 13, 15 ]
[ "MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A Florida high school student was killed Tuesday by another student during an altercation at the school, officials said.", "One student was killed following an argument between first and second periods, police at the scene said.", "The incident occurred just after 9 a.m. at Coral Gables Senior High School in Coral Gables, the officials said.", "The school was placed on lockdown after the incident.", "Two students were arguing between the first and second period at the school, and one produced a weapon and killed the other, police at the scene told reporters.", "Miami-Dade Public Schools identified the victim Tuesday afternoon as Juan Carlos Rivera, 17.", "The students involved were both males, the district said.", "CNN affiliate WSVN reported the student was killed in the courtyard area of the school, where the 17-year-old was stabbed in the chest.", "A suspect was taken into custody just after the incident and was being interviewed, officials said.", "His name was not released.", "Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said students' parents were being contacted after the incident, and crisis psychologists were being made available to students, faculty and parents.", "Watch as bystanders gather at the Florida high school » .", "\"I think we need to understand that whether it's Liberty City, Opa-Locka or Coral Gables, children are responding to everyday stressful situations in very negative ways,\" Carvalho said.", "\"... Random acts of violence like the one we saw here today are almost not preventable.\"", "Coral Gables is about 8 miles southwest of Miami.", "CNN's Shawn Nottingham contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Victim identified in high school stabbing in Coral Gables, Florida .", "NEW: Juan Carlos Rivera, 17, was killed in altercation in school courtyard area .", "A male suspect is taken into custody, but police do not identify him .", "Superintendent: Violent acts such as this \"are almost not preventable\"" ]	[ 0, 5, 8, 13, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Garrison Keillor, author and host of the folksy radio show \"A Prairie Home Companion,\" was being treated Wednesday for a minor stroke he suffered over the weekend, a hospital spokesman said.", "Author Garrison Keillor attends an event in New York on November 18, 2008.", "Keillor, who turned 67 last month, was admitted to St. Mary's Hospital at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, on Sunday night, spokesman Karl Oestreich said in a news release.", "\"He is up and moving around, speaking sensibly, working at a laptop, and it's expected he'll be released on Friday,\" Oestreich said.", "\"He plans to resume a normal schedule next week.\"", "The live variety show \"A Prairie Home Companion\" is aired on Minnesota Public Radio.", "Keillor launched the program on July 6, 1974, in a St. Paul, Minnesota, college theater before an audience of 12 people.", "According to a \"Backstage Chat\" on the show, Keillor got the idea for it from watching the Grand Ole Opry.", "Keillor, also a storyteller and satirist, has written 11 books, including three for children.", "He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1994." ]	[ "Garrison Keillor, 67, was admitted to a hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, on Sunday .", "Spokesman: \"He plans to resume a normal schedule next week\"\nKeillor is expected to be released from the hospital on Friday ." ]	[ 2, 4 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Thursday after falling ill in her chambers, the court confirmed.", "Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became ill in her chambers on Thursday.", "Ginsburg, 76, felt faint, light-headed and fatigued about 4:50 p.m., around an hour after receiving a treatment for iron deficiency, the court said in a statement.", "She was monitored by an in-house physician, who performed blood tests and found her to be in stable health.", "Her symptoms improved, though she was taken to the Washington Hospital Center as a precaution at about 7:45 p.m., according to the court statement.", "Ginsburg had surgery in February for pancreatic cancer.", "She termed the removal of her cancer \"successful\" and was back on the bench 18 days later when the high court resumed oral arguments.", "Ginsburg, who was appointed by President Clinton, has been on the Supreme Court since 1993.", "She was the second woman appointed to the court." ]	[ "Ruth Bader Ginsburg feels faint, light-headed and fatigued about 4:50 p.m.", "The 76-year-old Supreme Court Justice had treatment for iron deficiency hour earlier .", "She's sent to Washington Hospital Center as a precaution at about 7:45 p.m." ]	[ 2, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The American man who swam to Aung San Suu Kyi's home in Myanmar said Thursday he still believes he did the right thing, even though his visit led to an extension of the pro-democracy leader's house arrest.", "John Yettaw told Aung San Suu Kyi he had a vision she would be murdered.", "John Yettaw, 53, swam across a lake to Suu Kyi's home in May and stayed for two days before authorities arrested him along with Suu Kyi and two of her staff.", "His presence violated the terms of Suu Kyi's house arrest -- which was about to expire -- leading a judge to extend it by another 18 months.", "But Yettaw said he made the trip to Yangon to save Suu Kyi from assassination, and that it was successful.", "What critics have described as a \"stunt\" brought enough attention to her plight, he said, to ensure that Suu Kyi could not be killed by the country's ruling military junta.", "Yettaw said on CNN's \"American Morning\" that he is \"grateful that she's alive, grateful that the entire world is watching and there's no way these generals are ever going to try to assassinate her.\"", "To many, however, his visit did more harm than good.", "Some thought he might be mentally ill to attempt what he did -- an idea he rejects, though he says he can understand why people believe it.", "But Yettaw said he had no idea that Suu Kyi would be arrested and put on trial for something that he would do.", "\"I wept every day and I've suffered every day\" because of the punishment she received, he told CNN.", "He called her sentence \"heartbreaking.\"", "The case of Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has been the symbol of the country's opposition for two decades, first came to Yettaw's attention when he was in Thailand and saw her photograph.", "\"I instantly had a premonition, or a vision, that I saw myself going through a lake and over a fence and was at a back door of a house,\" he told CNN.", "\"Then (I) Googled from there and realized she lived next to Inya Lake and I got a visa to get into Yangon.", "And I thought, since this has been presented to me, I'm going to make this happen.\"", "The retired bus driver and Vietnam veteran from Missouri told his wife only that he had a premonition he would become a political prisoner in Myanmar.", "She told her husband not to go, but he went anyway.", "In November 2008, Yettaw said, he managed to swim across the lake and leave scriptures from the Book of Mormon for Suu Kyi.", "But later he had a vision that Suu Kyi would be assassinated, so he decided to make another trip.", "That was the fateful trip on May 3.", "\"The second time that I came was the same route, in through the sewer tunnel and into the water,\" he said.", "\"But this time of year the water level was much lower and I had two bags filled with a lot of stuff, and so I had to military-crawl with these two bags and I got caught.", "Two soldiers spotted me.", "\"Fortunately, by the time they got close to me, I rolled over into the water with my bags which were tied together, and I literally was walking through the water and they were frightened.", "They, I don't think, saw me -- they saw this bag floating through the water and moving at a consistent rate, so they started throwing rocks at it.", "And inside I prayed, 'What do I do?'", "and the only response that I felt, inspiration, was 'keep walking.'", "And that's what I did.\" Yettaw managed to reach Suu Kyi's house and was able to explain that he had a vision she would be murdered.", "He said Suu Kyi didn't think he was crazy, and she was \"absolutely\" happy to see him.", "Yettaw was arrested and convicted of violating immigration laws, municipal laws, and the conditions of Suu Kyi's house arrest.", "He was sentenced to seven years of hard labor, though he was freed this month after U.S. Sen. Jim Webb traveled to Myanmar and intervened in his case.", "After his arrest, Yettaw said, he spent two and a half weeks under armed guard and was subject to interrogation at any hour of the day or night.", "Suu Kyi was initially sentenced to three years in prison after a military court found her guilty of violating her house arrest, but the head of the junta later commuted it to 18 months of home confinement.", "Suu Kyi's two housekeepers, who are her sole companions in her heavily guarded residence, also were sentenced to 18 months of house arrest to be served alongside Suu Kyi.", "The opposition leader told the court she didn't know Yettaw, was unaware of his plans to visit, and didn't report his intrusion because she didn't want him to get in trouble.", "Yettaw insists he saved Suu Kyi's life.", "He said the ordeal has made him value the rights people have in the United States.", "\"I'm so grateful we live in a country where we have freedom of speech, and over there (in Myanmar), where they speak the truth, they're killed and imprisoned,\" Yettaw told CNN.", "\"I want you to know that even on our worst day ... the United States is one of the greatest nations in the world.\"", "Suu Kyi was put under house arrest in 1989.", "The following year, her National League for Democracy party won more than 80 percent of the legislative seats in the first free elections in the country in nearly 30 years.", "The military junta disqualified Suu Kyi from serving because of her house arrest, annulled the election results and refused to step down.", "The government has said next year's scheduled elections will reintroduce democracy in Myanmar.", "But its rules forbids citizens who bore children with foreigners from running for office.", "That makes Suu Kyi ineligible because she married a British man and has two sons with him." ]	[ "John Yettaw: Made the trip to Yangon to save Suu Kyi from assassination .", "Said he had no idea pro-democracy leader would be arrested and put on trial .", "Yettaw had swam uninvited to Suu Kyi's house and stayed for three days .", "The visit to her home violated her house arrest terms, Myanmar government says ." ]	[ 0, 4, 9 ]
[ "(Entertainment Weekly) -- Punctuation promises comedy in \"The Informant!\"", "as if the title subject is a cartoon secret agent -- maybe Agent 86 in \"Get Smart.\"", "Matt Damon, as a corporate turncoat, offers up secrets in \"The Informant!\"", "But he's not. The whistle-blower worthy of an exclamation point in this groovy-looking, chuckle-baiting, fact-based movie from protean director Steven Soderbergh is Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon), a biochemist and well-placed executive at the agri-processing giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in Decatur, Illinois.", "It's the early 1990s.", "The company man is helping expose ADM's alleged global price-fixing activities to the FBI, cooperating with the feds long enough to gather invaluable evidence.", "But what Whitacre doesn't confide to his FBI handlers, and what his wheat-colored jackets, Dilbert ties, and weakling mustache hide, at least at first, is that this inside source is not completely trustworthy.", "Damon, fattened up to fit his boxy suits, wears Whitacre's slack demeanor beautifully.", "The star -- who has quietly and steadily turned into a great Everyman actor -- is in nimble control as he reveals his character's deep crazies.", "Watch why Damon gained 30 pounds for the role » .", "Soderbergh's amused study of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history is adapted from \"The Informant: A True Story,\" an amazing, deeply reported book by New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald.", "That book told the story without editorial eye-rolling.", "But somewhere between Eichenwald's journalistic attention to detail and the bubbly, dialogue-besotted script by \"The Bourne Ultimatum's\" Scott Z. Burns, Soderbergh has chosen to apply an attitude of arch whoopee, a greasy veneer of mirth over what is, no joke, a serious mess of malfeasance and mental instability.", "It's tempting to laugh, but what's the joke: Whitacre?", "ADM? The FBI? The fashion trends of Decatur?", "Smarty condescension lurks behind the suburban bushes.", "Had a '90s date and place card not been supplied, I would have remained in an honest muddle about the era depicted on screen.", "And since Whitacre is subliminally likened to bumbling, fictional Maxwell Smart, that's probably as the filmmaker intended.", "The artistic choice is reinforced by a '70s-era \"Laugh-In\" aesthetic seen in everything from the smiley yellow novelty typography of the opening credits to the fancy rubber-chicken music served up in heaps of horns and whistles by essence-of-'70s composer Marvin Hamlisch.", "Sock it to me. Playing it straight and letting his Sam-Donaldson-meets-Spock hairdo suggest otherwise, Scott Bakula makes an appealing FBI agent with a deadpan grimace just this side -- or maybe it's the other side -- of \"Dragnet's\" Joe Friday.", "Comedian Joel McHale from E!", "'s \"The Soup\" plays the fellow agent who stares with big round eyes while his partner squints at Whitacre's successive leakages of truth/lie/ truth/lie.", "The always wonderful, huggable Melanie Lynskey, who stole the show in \"Away We Go,\" does more great wifely work as Ginger Whitacre, her husband's biggest booster.", "A valued subset of Soderbergh's audience is sure to dig iconic hipster comic brothers Tom and Dick Smothers in small roles.", "In fact, the wily pair would fit right in with an \"Ocean's Whatever\" cast of coolios, enjoying some retro-style ensemble fun, regardless of whether the audience does.", "Soderbergh is as smart, stylish, and attentive a filmmaker as they come.", "And there are moments in \"The Informant!\"", "when I can almost be convinced that the tonal feints he establishes at the intersection of joke and no-joke are seriously, thoughtfully meant to replicate the misaligned synapses in Whitacre's own head.", "iReport.com: Damon's latest worth checking out .", "But if that's the intention, Soderbergh ultimately made the choice to abandon interesting, dispassionate empathy for the more quick-fix payoff of amusement.", "As Whitacre goes through his days, Damon recites interior monologues of distracted observation in voice-overs meant to demonstrate how his character's unusual brain works.", "In \"The Informant! \", that brain -- screwy and yet capable of doing important undercover work -- free-associates like Ellen DeGeneres on a swing through Walmart.", "Cute, but as even Agent 86 would say in \"Get Smart\": Missed it by that much.", "EW Grade: B .", "CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .", "Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "\"The Informant!\"", "stars Matt Damon as corporate worker giving info to FBI .", "Damon's character is an untrustworthy provider, and actor's performance great .", "But movie plays situations too much for laughs, says EW .", "\"The Informant!\"", "is directed by Steven Soderbergh ." ]	[ 2, 3, 8, 10, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Muslims around the world woke up Sunday and welcomed the end of a long month of fasting with hearty greetings of \"Eid Mubarak,\" or happy festivities.", "Egyptian women perform the Eid al-Fitr dawn prayer at a stadium in Mansura, 120 km north of Cairo.", "The faithful were ushering in Eid al-Fitr -- three days of celebrations that Muslims mark with joyous community prayers, acts of charity, visits from far-flung relatives, gift-giving and elaborate feasts.", "\"Think Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's -- all rolled into one.", "It's that huge for us,\" said Sajjad Aziz of Hoboken, New Jersey.", "Islam follows a lunar calendar, and the timing of Eid al-Fitr varies around the world depending on when the crescent of a new moon is sighted.", "So, while most countries -- including the United States -- observed Eid on Sunday, some will begin their celebrations on Monday.", "The night before Eid, entire communities gather on rooftops, scanning the sky with giddy anticipation.", "\"It only needs one sighting of the moon in the whole country, and the whole nation erupts in cheers,\" said Qazi Arif, 35, of Sirajgong, Bangladesh.", "\"It's a divine feeling, hard to describe.\"", "Eid al-Fitr bids goodbye to Ramadan -- a month of dawn-to-dusk abstinence from food, drinks and other sensual pleasures.", "Muslims believe the Quran, the religion's holy book, was revealed to Prophet Muhammad during Ramadan more than 1,400 years ago.", "The Eid is one of two major holidays in Islam, alongside another called Eid al-Adha.", "The latter commemorates the prophet Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son, Ishmael, for God.", "On the morning of Eid, Muslims don new clothes and head to prayers that are often held in open fields to accommodate crowds too big to contain in mosques.", "Those who can afford it donate a small percentage of their possession or its equivalent to the poor and needy so they too can avail themselves for the celebrations.", "Feasts await at every house.", "\"It's a festival principally about community.", "We're even asked to take a different route when we walk back from prayers so that we can meet different sets of people to greet and celebrate with,\" said Wasim Iqbal of Karachi, Pakistan.", "For Muslims in North America -- and countries where they are the minority -- Eid is a more subdued affair.", "\"If you have family close by, then you can kind of capture the mood that you remember from back home,\" said Abdallah Gamal, a native of Egypt who lives in St. Louis, Missouri.", "\"But it's not the same.\" Because the U.S. Census does not ask about religious affiliation, it is difficult to gauge the Muslim population in the United States.", "The Pew Muslim American study conducted two years ago estimated it at 2.5 million, while the Council on American-Islamic Relations places it as high as 6 million.", "On Saturday, both President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton offered greetings to American Muslims.", "\"We know there is more than unites peoples of faith than divides us,\" Clinton said.", "\"So as Ramadan draws to a close, let us hold on to that spirit of community throughout the year to achieve our common goals of peace, prosperity and stability.\"", "It is a message that Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, also shared during Eid prayers when he called on the Taliban to join the peace process in his war-weary country.", "The day wasn't one of universal comity, however.", "In Yemen, the government and rebels accused each other Saturday of breaking a cease-fire they both asked for to commemorate Eid.", "And Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei used his Eid sermon to launch another volley at the country's arch-rival Israel and at Western powers.", "\"We're not quite there, I'll will admit,\" said Mehreen Ali of Boston, Massachusetts.", "\"But have you seen an Eid prayer?", "Rows and rows of Muslims all prostrating together in unison.", "It's a feeling of such unity and brotherhood.", "You have to believe that with that spirit present, anything is possible.\"" ]	[ "Eid al-Fitr marks end of Ramadan -- dawn-to-dusk abstinence from food, drinks .", "Timing of Eid varies around world depending on when crescent of new moon sighted .", "On the morning of Eid, Muslims don new clothes and head to prayers .", "On Saturday Barack Obama offered greetings to American Muslims ." ]	[ 5, 10, 14, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Actor Michael Jai White thinks the negative connotation surrounding the term \"blaxploitation film\" is a bunch of jive.", "Michael Jai White stars in the new spoof \"Black Dynamite.\"", "\"The problem I have with the word is that it seems to encompass movies that don't fall under that category,\" White said.", "\"As soon as you hear the title 'Shaft' people think 'blaxploitation' and that is absolutely unfair because that film was made before the term even existed.\"", "White, the star and co-writer of the new movie \"Black Dynamite,\" would rather people focus on what he views as the positives of the genre of 1970s urban action films starring African-American actors.", "His new movie, which opened in limited release last weekend and will start going wider, follows the exploits of Black Dynamite, a former CIA agent who takes to the streets after his brother is killed by the mafia, orphanages are flooded with drugs and some bad malt liquor finds its way into the 'hood.", "It is both a spoof of, and homage to, the genre whose films like \"Black Caesar,\" \"The Mac,\" \"Foxy Brown,\" and \"Superfly\" have developed a cult following over the years.", "\"Black Dynamite\" caught the eye of Sony Pictures at the Sundance Film Festival and the studio acquired the rights to distribute the film.", "A viral marketing campaign helped whip up anticipation for the movie, which also features former late-night talk show host Arsenio Hall and \"In Living Color\" cast member Tommy Davidson as pimps.", "Director Scott Sanders said he has always been fascinated by the fact that while blaxploitation really only grabbed hold of the industry for about five years during the early 1970s, it was so influential.", "\"It was such an extreme genre with the look and the music and there were really no boundaries or rules,\" he said.", "\"It's always been a fascination for me given how much it influenced hip-hop, black culture and culture as a whole, given the brevity.\"", "White, best known for his roles in the films \"Spawn\" and Tyler Perry's \"Why Did I Get Married,\" said he is a huge fan of blaxploitation films and views his movie as a loving send-up.", "While he is aware that some of the films were unintentionally funny with their low-budget gaffes -- such as the appearance of mic booms in some scenes -- and their stereotypes, White said the genre is a valued part of the movie industry's history.", "\"These movies really saved Hollywood because the studio system was in trouble and they learned that they had a cash cow with these films,\" he said.", "\"Later they exploited it by making any movie and throwing the term 'black' in front of it and that's what made it exploitive.\"", "They also gave African-American actors a chance to work and reflected a people's pride following the gains of the civil rights era.", "Laurence Washington, managing editor and co-publisher of Blackflix.com, said the movies helped young, black fans like him realize that \"when we grow up we don't have to be train porters, busboys and waiters.\"", "The films instead portrayed handsome, brave and suave black heroes who always got the girl, Washington said.", "\"When the blaxploitation films came out in the '70s, black audiences had never had action film heroes they could identify with,\" he said.", "\"[The movies] also opened the door for today's black actors and directors to enter the mainstream.\"", "Darius James, author of \"That's Blaxploitation!", ": Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury),\" said blaxploitation films were like any other film that appeal to a specific audience, such as the indie movies of Roger Corman and Russ Meyer.", "James said he grew up seeing civil rights workers beaten and hosed on television and the movies came out time when there was a sense of defiance and resistance against the marginalization of African-Americans.", "\"These films, black exploitation films, reflected that spirit,\" James said.", "White said he wishes there were more action films starring black actors these days.", "The films of the past were fearless and about true emotion, he said.", "\"The 'black is beautiful' movement had taken off and there was so much pride,\" White said.", "\"When they called each other 'brother' they meant it.\"", "\"The heroes were strong, sexy and they kicked ass.\"", "\"I ask 'Where is that now?' I would like people to look at our film and say: 'Where are the black actors like that now?'", "\" Jay Potts, the cartoonist behind World of Hurt -- which bills itself as \"The Internet's #1 Blaxploitation Webcomic\" -- said he hopes \"Black Dynamite\" furthers interest in the genre.", "And while \"blaxploitation\" is a convenient moniker to lump in films that may not have always had the best production value, Potts said they were a testament to an era.", "\"The films came out at a time when black people were learning about themselves and flexing their creative muscles,\" Potts said.", "\"To me, there was a lot of fun, had a lot of energy and while it always wasn't perfect by any means there was so much life in it that I hope people take another look.\"" ]	[ "\"Black Dynamite\" spoofs the blaxploitation genre .", "Film stars Michael Jai White, who says he is a fan of the movies .", "Director Scott Sanders says genre greatly influenced the culture .", "Author says films reflected a post civil rights era spirit ." ]	[ 0, 1, 16 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Investigators have found the knife believed to have been used in the stabbing of a University of California, Los Angeles student in a chemistry lab, authorities said Friday.", "A student stabbing victim is recovering at UCLA Medical Center, authorities say.", "The 20-year-old, whose identity has not been released, is being treated at the UCLA hospital for multiple stab wounds, including ones to her neck, sustained in the Thursday attack.", "Police have arrested Damon Thompson, a 20-year-old UCLA senior, who is accused of stabbing the woman at the lab in Young Hall.", "He is being held on $1 million bail.", "The knife was found at the scene of the attack on Thursday, Detective Mike Pelletier told CNN, though he did not disclose details about the weapon.", "A statement Friday from the victim's family said, \"She is showing signs of improvement, and her surgeons expect a good result as she continues to heal.\"", "Last month, Connecticut authorities found the body of a 24-year-old pharmacology graduate student inside a wall of a lab building at Yale University.", "She had been strangled. Raymond Clark III, 24, a lab technician at Yale, is charged with murder in Annie Le's death.", "CNN's Monica Trevino and Sonya Hamasaki contributed to this report." ]	[ "Police have not released name of woman student stabbed in chemistry lab .", "Another UCLA student has been arrested in the case, is held on $1 million bond .", "Victim's family says she is recovering, \"showing signs of improvement\"" ]	[ 3, 4, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Henry Olszewski was stoked in 2008 when he, along with millions of Americans, drafted New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to his fantasy football team.", "Tom Brady's season-ending knee injury last year sparked an idea at Intermarket Insurance.", "About eight minutes into the season, a 220-pound safety was blocked into Brady's knee, tearing two of the quarterback's ligaments.", "Brady's season ended, as did Olszewski's.", "\"That Monday, [Olszewski] came in the office, and he was bummed out,\" said Anthony Giaccone, president of Intermarket Insurance.", "\"He asked, 'Why can't we buy insurance for fantasy team players?'", "\" Thus spawned the brainchild for Fantasy Sports Insurance, which guarantees that NFL players won't miss a certain number of games.", "FSI will reimburse a fantasy player's entry fee if they do.", "It's one of a blitz of bizarre businesses cropping up in the $800 million industry of turning quarterback stats to greenbacks, said Paul Charchian, president of the Fantasy Sports Trade Association.", "See fantasy football's top 10 prospects » .", "Charchian is familiar with the wellspring of offbeat companies fueled by the fantasy football craze; he owns LeagueSafe, which stores league entry fees in a bank until it issues a payout to the winner at season's end.", "Other specialty businesses, he said, range from the obvious, such as trophy companies, to the esoteric, such as fantasy dispute resolution.", "You read the last one correctly.", "Web sites like fantasydispute.com and sportsjudge.com offer to mitigate fretful fantasy feuds.", "Think there was collusion in a trade or your league commissioner is playing favorites?", "Write up your dispute and send it to one of the sites.", "For $15, a lawyer will settle your quibble.", "For the uninitiated: Fantasy football players generally \"draft\" NFL quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends and team defenses and use their statistics each week to score points in head-to-head matchups.", "Countless variations have proliferated, as have magazines and Web sites beholden only to fantasy players.", "Sort the top picks by position at SI.com .", "The NFL has introduced the RedZone Channel, which flips between games where a team is on the verge of scoring, CBSsports.com has launched a live Web show called \"Fantasy Football Today,\" and cable's FX is scheduled to air a sitcom based on a fantasy football league this year.", "The stakes have skyrocketed as well.", "The World Championship of Football offers a $300,000 top prize.", "The Fantasy Football Open Championship's is $1 million.", "The Wall Street Journal reported last year that a group of well-heeled financiers has a 10-team league with a $100,000 entry fee.", "A June study by the research company Ipsos says three in 20 American men (and one in 20 women) play some fantasy sport.", "\"It takes the fans of one sports team and makes them interested in every game that's happening,\" said Jason Kint, senior vice president and general manager for CBSsports.com.", "\"It's a welcome escape, as much of sports is right now.\"", "Not all fans are enamored, however.", "ESPN's Colin Cowherd explained his aversion on his radio show last month, saying fantasy football was too time-consuming and, in his experience, for \"total nerds and geeks.\"", "\"I'm a gambler, lived in Vegas.", "My friends are gamblers.", "We don't play fantasy football,\" he said.", "\"We're busy. We have jobs. We have careers. We have lives. We don't have time for three-hour draft parties and an hour or two on the computer every week to update our fullback situation.\"", "But more than 22 million Americans and Canadians do, Charchian said, and the economic downturn doesn't seem to be sacking the industry.", "\"It's hard to get out. It's enmeshed in your social circle,\" he explained.", "Also, with most leagues costing less than $10 a week and with the average player spending nine hours weekly researching and tweaking his or her roster, \"the dollar-per-entertainment value is really advantageous,\" Charchian said.", "Fantasy players at CBSsports.com spent an average of 102 minutes per visit on the site, according to Nielsen data from last year.", "The site has more users willing to pay to play, whereas competitors like NFL.com and Yahoo!", "host predominantly free games, \"so it's more meaningful to them,\" Kint said.", "Kint could not divulge specific figures but said \"millions\" play CBSsports.com's free and pay games.", "Entry fees and related fantasy products make up about 30 percent of the site's non-advertising revenue, he said.", "Advertisers are getting wise to the \"coveted market,\" comprised largely of young, educated males, Kint said, as evidenced by the site's partnerships with Ford, Snickers, Buffalo Wild Wings and Dave & Buster's.", "\"When people are down and depressed, they look for escapes.", "Fantasy football fills that void like booze and anything else that kind of distracts you,\" said Ed Reichow, owner of Titlecraft, which builds custom trophies only for fantasy footballers.", "Reichow had the idea after a decade of making trophies for his personal fantasy league.", "He sold 70 trophies in his first year and is on track to sell more than 100 this year.", "They are handcrafted from materials such as cherry, Carpathian elm and Swarovski crystal and range in price from $129 to $799, he said.", "\"It's something you can really pass down if you want to,\" he said.", "\"And the wife isn't going to get upset if you put it on the mantle, because it's nicer than some of the furniture in the room.\"", "But what would the wife think about buying insurance policies on your fantasy football players?", "Some spouses must be OK with it because, FSI's Giaccone reported, business has been threefold what he expected -- this, despite that it costs considerably more, percentagewise, to insure a fantasy quarterback than it does a real quarterback.", "Chris Nash, an underwriter with Australia-based Sportscover, which insures athletes, said the average U.S. football player pays up to 4 percent of the sum insured.", "FSI's products range between 10 percent and 15 percent of the league entry fee.", "Despite the contrast, Giaccone described fantasy insurance as a must-have for fantasy die-hards.", "He went so far as to question the sanity of some fantasy players who might ignore his product.", "\"If you are playing fantasy sports and you have Tom Brady on your team, you'd be crazy not to insure him,\" he said." ]	[ "Magazines, Web sites, TV shows spin off $800 million fantasy football industry .", "Two sites offer real lawyers to settle fantasy-sports disputes for $15 each .", "Experts: Game provides cheap entertainment, \"welcome escape\" from hard times .", "Prizes include $1 million, trophies made of Carpathian elm, Swarovski crystal ." ]	[ 8, 13, 16, 23, 27, 47 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Five members of a family were found slain in their Beason, Illinois, home, authorities said Tuesday, and they urged people in the area to be cautious until the killer is found.", "Police officers stand patrol outside the Gee household late Monday evening.", "\"This was a brutal homicide against an entire family and we are determined to identify and arrest those responsible,\" Logan County Sheriff Steve Nichols said in a news conference.", "He said authorities received a 911 call about a possible shooting at the home shortly before 4:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m.", "ET) Monday. When law enforcement officials arrived, they discovered the five bodies, Nichols said.", "He identified the dead as Raymond Gee, 46; Ruth Gee, 39; Justina Constant, 16; Dillon Constant, 14; and Austin Gee, 11.", "One survivor, a 3-year-old girl, is in a hospital in Peoria, Illinois, he said.", "He did not identify the girl.", "The sheriff did not release the manner of death, but said autopsies were under way Tuesday.", "He warned people in the area to be cautious.", "\"Until we find this person, we would consider this person armed and dangerous,\" Nichols said.", "He did not release any further details, and it was not immediately clear if authorities had identified a suspect.", "\"Leads have been developed and are being vigorously pursued,\" he said, without elaborating.", "Beason is about 45 miles northeast of Springfield, Illinois.", "CNN's Kara Devlin contributed to this report." ]	[ "\"This was a brutal homicide against an entire family,\" sheriff says .", "One survivor, a 3-year-old girl, hospitalized in Peoria, Illinois .", "Killings occurred in Beason, Illinois, about 45 miles northeast of Springfield .", "The latest on the investigation on tonight's Nancy Grace, HLN 8pm and 10pm ET ." ]	[ 2, 6, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar of Springdale, Arkansas, are the parents of 18 children, and their family is the focus of a TLC network reality series.", "Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar say they are grateful for their 18 children, and may have more.", "Joy Behar, guest host Thursday night on \"Larry King Live,\" asked the Duggars how they are able to stay debt free with such a large family and what they thought of Nadya Suleman, the single mother who recently gave birth to octuplets after having fertility treatments.", "Following is a transcript of their conversation.", "Joy Behar: Let me ask you something.", "What is your reaction to this octomom?", "Nadya Suleman, the story.", "What do you think about that? Michelle Duggar: Well, I just know from my own heart, I can't judge and look at her and judge her situation.", "I just know from my heart, and personally God changed our heart about children years ago.", "And so we've kind of gone about it the old-fashioned way.", "And so we are enjoying each one of the blessings that God has given us, and we're thankful for each one of them.", "Behar: Right, at least you guys enjoyed having the babies, you went through the sex then the giving birth.", "This woman didn't have any of that, except the giving birth, which must have been rough, don't you think?", "Michelle Duggar: Oh, my, I can't imagine.", "I had twins, but I have -- I just can't imagine having eight at once and the responsibility that that brings.", "Behar: Why do you suppose this woman has provoked such negativity?", "They have a \"USA Today\" Gallup poll saying 70 percent of those surveyed are unsympathetic to this woman.", "What is going on? Michelle Duggar: Well, you know, I feel like probably more than anything it's just the fact of the responsibility issues from their perspective, and I, you know, I imagine that's probably more of the animosity that's out there.", "And so -- but I do -- I just can't imagine, you know, her -- how she's going to handle that many little ones under the age of 8.", "That's a lot of little ones all at once.", "Jim Bob Duggar: We just need to pray for her.", "Behar: But you guys haven't experienced that kind of hostility for the children you have.", "Is that because you're married? Michelle Duggar: I don't know.", "I think maybe, you know, being that God's given ours one or two at a time and we've kind of done it the old-fashioned way, I don't know.", "We love them, we're enjoying them, and by God's grace we're taking care of them if he gives us one more.", "So I just think we're grateful.", "Behar: I understand that you guys are debt free.", "I can't even imagine how you pulled that off.", "... How did you do that? Jim Bob Duggar: Well, back about 18 years ago, we saw Jim Sammons' financial seminar on DVD, and it was life-changing.", "At that point, we purposed to try to get out of debt and try to stay out of debt.", "And our family motto is to buy used and save the difference.", "We shop a lot at garage sales, thrift stores.", "Michelle Duggar: Auctions.", "We bought our industrial kitchen equipment that way, our vehicles that way, and so we really cut corners and we live very frugally.", "Jim Bob Duggar: That's right, we've never bought a new vehicle.", "So we do live -- we try to -- we know how to stretch a dollar.", "Behar: How many cars do you have?", "Jim Bob Duggar: We actually have probably about, what?", "Seven or eight right now?", "Michelle Duggar: We have a lot of drivers, which is great.", "Behar: Seven or eight cars, well, that's an expensive proposition, isn't it?", "Do you get public assistance of any kind?", "Jim Bob Duggar: No, we don't -- we've never had any public assistance.", "Just like our 21-passenger bus, we bought at a sealed-bid auction for $2,100, we bought an '04 Suburban at an auction for like $7,000.", "Instead of $40,000 on a vehicle we ... Behar: Yeah, I got it.", "I see what you're doing. But you have a book deal and a TV show.", "That's got to help. Do you think the octomom could get a TV show like you have?", "That might help her a lot.", "Michelle Duggar: I could not imagine having that many little ones and being busy with a show.", "I think for our situation, our children are a lot older and our heart is really to just share with other families, encourage them that children are a gift and enjoy them while you have them because they grow up really fast.", "And so ... Behar: Well, you keep having more.", "But you have plenty to still enjoy.", "They keep coming.", "I don't see that you're ever going to have an empty nest syndrome.", "They're going to be there. Michelle Duggar: I hope not.", "Behar: You guys will never be alone.", "Michelle Duggar: We look forward to grandbabies, then.", "That'll be fun. Behar: You know, let me ask you one more question about her.", "If she did get involved in doing a reality show like you guys are doing, do you have any advice for her?", "What kind of show should she have? Maybe she needs a baseball team or something.", "What advice could you give her?", "Michelle Duggar: I don't -- I really -- I don't know.", "Jim Bob Duggar: Yeah, I think it's a full-time job just taking care of the children while they're young.", "Maybe 10 years from now when the kids are 10 years old, that might be an option.", "But when they're all small, I think there's a lot of needs.", "And so, I think, she'll have her hands full.", "As I know when we had seven that were 7 and under, it was a very busy time.", "Behar: Are you going to have some more, Michelle?", "Jim Bob Duggar: I've always left it up to Michelle.", "Michelle Duggar: We'll see.", "We'll take it one at a time.", "I would love more, but we'll see if the Lord sees fit and blesses us with another one.", "Behar: Do you ever say to Jim Bob, get away from me, I have a headache?", "Jim Bob Duggar: Actually, I can't keep her away from me.", "Behar: Oh, boy.", "You guys are funny.", "OK, thanks so much for sharing your time with us yet again.", "Good luck to you both. Michelle Duggar: Thank you.", "Jim Bob Duggar: Thank you, Joy." ]	[ "Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have 18 children, are subject of reality show .", "The Duggars have managed to stay debt-free by buying used and saving difference .", "Michelle on octuplets' mom: \"I just can't imagine having eight at once\"\nMaybe when octuplets are older, mom could handle doing reality show, Jim Bob says ." ]	[ 0, 1, 14, 30 ]
[ "(PopSci.com) -- Until last December, no one had ever seen the bottom of the Tasman Fracture, a trench that drops more than four kilometers below the surface of the ocean.", "A group of Australian and American researchers recently spent a month hundreds of kilometers southwest of the Tasmanian coast, exploring the fracture's depths.", "This funnel-shaped sea squirt, never before seen, will snap shut like a Venus flytrap around shrimp that are unfortunate enough to go near it.", "Jess Adkins, a professor at Caltech and one of the project's lead scientists, remembers sitting in his control room and watching the underwater life on his monitors with a sense of awe.", "Once, he says, none of the scientists or pilots said a word for 10 minutes straight as their submersible glided over an undiscovered coral reef full of urchins and sponges and sea stars.", "The researchers explored the fracture with Jason, a remotely-operated submersible the size of a small car.", "On loan from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, it carried a high-definition camera that weighed more than 500 pounds and beamed underwater video up to the ship through a long fiber-optic tether.", "At 3,000 meters below sea level, the crew saw thousands of sea spiders.", "At 3,500, millions of specimens of a new, purple-spotted sea anemone.", "At 4,000 meters, a single never-before-seen carnivorous sea squirt with a funnel-shaped body that snapped shut like a Venus flytrap around any shrimp unfortunate enough to brush against it.", "Back on land, the three new species (the anemone, the sea squirt, and a new kind of barnacle) have drawn the most attention, but it's the team's coral collection, some 10,000 pieces of it, that can tell us about the history of our climate and, perhaps, its future.", "A coral skeleton acts as a tape recorder of its environment.", "As it grows, the coral's chemical structure (specifically the weight of its oxygen molecules) varies depending on the temperature of the water around it.", "And, because the coral's uranium decays into thorium over time, it is conveniently datable.", "By charting different corals' ages and oxygen weights, researchers can map the ocean's changing temperature.", "During the coming months, expedition scientists will compare 40,000 years of oceanic and atmospheric records.", "The ocean's temperature and carbon dioxide levels are important because of their impact on our atmosphere.", "The watery part of the world absorbs and stores sixty times more CO2 than the atmosphere.", "Huge reservoirs of the ocean's CO2 lurk in its coldest, densest waters (found in the Tasman Fracture and off Greenland).", "Because cold water releases more CO2 into the air than warm water, the rate at which bottom water rises to the surface has a profound effect on the atmosphere above.", "Until recently, we had assumed that our climate was relatively stable.", "After all, for the past 10,000 years -- during which we developed the alphabet, electrical wiring, and microchip necessary for this article -- little has changed.", "But early-'90s research on Greenland's ice core proved that, over the past 100,000 years, climate stability has been the exception, not the norm.", "During the last glacial period, global temperatures fluttered up and down by as much as several degrees in as little as a decade.", "CO2 levels in the atmosphere changed along with the temperature, though more slowly.", "The researchers' ultimate goal is to see if changes in the ocean followed or proceeded changes in the atmosphere.", "Adkins suspects that the ocean (and in particular the depths of the ocean) played a part in triggering the climate's sudden fluctuations.", "He's sure, though, that we're adding more CO2 to the ocean now, in the form of burning fossil fuels, than it has ever held before.", "Given how little we know about how the ocean regulates the amount of CO2 in our air (we've mapped the surface of Mars, he points out, but not the ocean floor) he wonders if that's such a good idea.", "We do know that increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the ocean makes it more acidic.", "And whether or not it sets off a climate shift of Pleistocenic proportions, acidification could kill the researchers' newly-discovered, awe-inspiring reef, along with others we haven't even found yet.", "There would be just as much ocean to study, but less to find.", "Copyright © 2009 Popular Science ." ]	[ "Scientists studied the Tasman Fracture, a deep trench in the ocean .", "They used a remote-controlled machine which sent back video .", "Discoveries included a new anemone, the sea squirt and a new kind of barnacle ." ]	[ 10, 11, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When an earthquake threatens to turn part of an ocean into fast-moving walls of water, tsunami warning scientists can do nothing for the first five minutes except wait for information.", "But within the next five minutes, they have to decide whether to issue a warning of danger.", "Brian Shiro has been a geophysicist at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center for four years.", "And you thought your job was high pressure.", "\"If we see a set of circumstances and it fits into our criteria for [the] event, we just follow that criteria because we don't have much time to think.", "There isn't a lot of time for decision-making,\" said Paul Whitmore, director of the West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center.", "\"Weighing back there [in your mind] also is the effect of your decision.", "If the effect of your decision is going to evacuate the entire West Coast waterfront, you don't want to take that lightly,\" he said.", "With Tuesday's tragic tsunami that engulfed villages in Samoa and American Samoa, the pace of events was so frenetic that the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii --which tracks earthquakes and tsunamis for countries throughout the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean and Caribbean Sea -- had already been alerted to the looming disaster by the time the seismometer evidence came in.", "\"The National Weather Service director in American Samoa called the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center a few seconds before the alarms went off here, so we had an advanced warning and we were already sitting at the computer, looking at the data in real time,\" said Brian Shiro, a Pacific warning center geophysicist.", "It can take 30 seconds to five minutes for information from earthquake sensors placed strategically around the globe to roll into the two U.S. tsunami warning centers.", "When there's a clear tsunami threat, the center's operation room -- built to accommodate the two workers on duty -- becomes flooded with people all jostling to offer assistance.", "The phone lines consistently ring and \"people are yelling at each other so everyone will be on the same page, and you don't miss something important that someone else caught,\" said Bill Knight, a West Coast and Alaska warning center scientist.", "Scientists must \"locate the earthquake and then determine based on the science data whether there should be just a normal bulletin or whether there should be a warning,\" said Laura Kong, director of the International Tsunami Information Center.", "She added that it took the Pacific warning center 15 minutes to issue a warning for Tuesday's tsunami.", "This wasn't because the center's scientists were moving slowly, Shiro said, but a result of the sparse number of seismic stations in the Southwest Pacific region.", "The fewer stations there are, the longer it takes for scientists to receive adequate information.", "\"There was no delay yesterday,\" he said.", "\"You're only restricted by the earth itself and how fast the seismic waves can travel.\"", "As a result, workers at the two U.S. warning centers said they often have to make decisions based on incomplete information, erring on the side of caution by issuing a tsunami warning and canceling it later if more monitoring reveals a less dangerous situation.", "\"It can be a lot of pressure at first, and you have to get used to that,\" Shiro said.", "\"You do have a lot of responsibility on your shoulders: You have to act quickly and sometimes you have to issue your very first initial message based on incomplete information, because one of the important factors is time and you want to get it out.\"", "Since the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, the question of time has become more critical to tsunami warning scientists.", "The staff has doubled at the Pacific warning center, and when they're \"on shift,\" they sleep in on-site housing, said spokeswoman Delores Clark.", "The warning centers have turned into 24/7 operations.", "Scientist Knight and director Whitmore at the West Coast and Alaska center said constantly being on call does not interrupt their personal lives; neither of them have kids at home.", "Shiro, on the other hand, has a 2-year-old son and has to strike a balance.", "At first, his wife and son stayed with him when he was on shift, sleeping at the on-site housing with him.", "When that proved too disruptive, his family instead began visiting for meals and a bit of quality time during his weekly two-day shift.", "The Pacific center's on-site housing is unique, created so the workers can react to a tsunami whether they're fixing a meal or fast asleep, and while it may pose a slight inconvenience, it's all part of the job, Shiro said.", "The workers, drawn to the position by a mutual love of geophysical science, consider themselves lucky to work in one of the few science fields that allows them to do research while making a difference in people's lives.", "Instances such as Tuesday's tsunami, which killed at least 130 people, provide them with perspective on the importance of their position and the need for more tsunami education.", "Shiro is encouraging the Pacific center to use social networking as a tool, considering the massive response he got after he tweeted live updates Tuesday.", "For Knight, it's getting the word out about what to look for when disaster is imminent.", "\"One of the reasons we have an outreach program is because we know that people can't wait for us to make a decision,\" Knight said.", "\"If the ground is shaking for more than 20 seconds, you're experiencing a large earthquake and the more likely it is that a tsunami is going to happen.\"", "International Tsunami Information Center director Kong, whose work emphasizes the need for better, more local warning systems and education around the globe, agreed.", "\"It's especially tragic when you know that a number of us were in American Samoa and Tonga in July talking about tsunamis, telling them that in the worst case scenario they would only have 10 to 20 minutes and asking them to plan the best they could,\" she said.", "\"We kind of have a feeling when we're issuing those messages that something like this might happen, and it's your worst nightmare when it does come true.", "It's not a good feeling the next day when the numbers start to increase,\" she said.", "\"We can't prevent the tsunami from happening; it's going to happen.", "We can only do our best right now and plan beforehand, because when it does happen, there's just no time.\"" ]	[ "Time is always crucial when you work as a tsunami warning scientist .", "A warning can be issued anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes after a threat is identified .", "At the Pacific warning center, workers live on site for two days to monitor data .", "After the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, warning centers operate around the clock ." ]	[ 10, 22, 29 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Stewart Copeland and Sting get along great.", "Really. Stewart Copeland's background includes a wide range of musical influences, many of which emerged in the Police.", "OK, the Police's drummer and bassist may have argued from time to time.", "Perhaps even ferociously.", "And Copeland finds Sting's attempts to be a drum arranger annoying.", "OK, maybe infuriating.", "But, as he writes in his new book, \"Strange Things Happen\" (HarperStudio), \"We have discovered that we can be good friends -- as long as no one mentions music.\"", "Besides, Copeland adds in an interview, both Sting and guitarist Andy Summers \"are crap at drums.\"", "Watch Copeland dish on the band » .", "Copeland may be best known for the hitmaking musical trio, but he hasn't let the Police define him.", "The son of a CIA officer, he grew up in the Middle East and has let his musical fascinations range widely.", "He's written operas and dozens of film and television scores and is currently working on a concerto for the Dallas Symphony.", "(He also plays polo.)", "Copeland took some time to talk about his relationship with the Police, the importance of percussion and the social niceties of West L.A. private schools.", "The following is an edited version of the interview.", "CNN: The pace of the book makes it seem like you've been living \"A Hard Day's Night\" for the last 30 or 35 years.", "Is it really that busy?", "Stewart Copeland: Oh, it's pretty busy, but if it wasn't busy, I'd be stressed and anxious.", "In fact, this week I've got some down time, and I'm looking at the walls.", "CNN: It's been inescapable that people are focusing on the part of the book involving you and your fellow Police members.", "You say that you have a great relationship with Sting until music gets involved.", "Copeland: We get along in every way until it comes to music.", "... [But] both of them are crap at drums, so at least I don't have that to deal with.", "CNN: So Sting is not much of a drummer, despite the fact that he has all these ideas.", "Copeland: Actually, he can play a bit of drums, but he's much better arranging drums than playing them.", "And I think I'd rather have him as a drummer than as an arranger of drums, even though he's quite brilliant at [arranging].", "CNN: Has there always been that friction in the band?", "Copeland: Yes.", "With Andy, there's no friction at all; we get along great.", "... And by the way, he's not the man in the middle, either.", "He's not a mediator. He's his own little volcano.", "He's a very sharp point to the triangle.", "But this conflict ... when we did the reunion tour, it was like everything was different, but nothing had changed.", "From the first 16 bars, we were straight back into where we left off.", "CNN: With the Police, the friction seems -- for lack of a better term -- healthy.", "Copeland: Well, it's that musical dichotomy that makes the band what it is.", "If we didn't have those beautiful, sensitive songs, we'd be lost.", "Those beautiful, sensitive songs have an extra kick to them because there's a madman in the group.", "CNN: Does the madman change, or is it always Sting?", "Copeland: Actually, all three of us have our moments.", "CNN: You grew up in the Middle East.", "Do you see any reflections of that in the way you play the drums, in the way you feel the beat?", "Copeland: Absolutely.", "I grew up surrounded by Arabic music.", "The central element of Arabic music is the baladi rhythm, which is just Arabic for \"country.\"", "And it has that drop on the three-beat.", "And it has that use of negative space.", "And it also has the very ornate use of the 16th notes, which are very expressive in Arabic music.", "And I suppose those are all factors that show up in the Police.", "CNN: You mentioned in the book that you put aside the sticks for many years until [Primus'] Les Claypool got you back into it.", "The Police experience in the studio was so horrendous that my two colleagues actually managed temporarily to convince me that I had no talent and I was a menace to music.", "And I was distracted by composing. ...", "I wanted to play with all of those toys, and needed to shake off the rhythm label.", "And I think I was successful in doing that, to the detriment of my drumming career.", "CNN: Was picking up the sticks again like riding a bike?", "The rhythm is still there.", "The pulse is still strong.", "The persnickety bits -- the finesse -- that took awhile to come back.", "CNN: You mention getting together with all-star bands with others -- Gene Simmons, Stephen Stills -- at your son's school.", "Is that common in L.A.? Copeland: Well, in Los Angeles in the west side here, there are three or four schools where all the alpha types send their kids.", "Between the three schools, we have all of the glitterati.", "CNN: Do you still find yourself a fan in those situations, seeing musicians you admire?", "Copeland: Not really.", "I'll get completely filled with fan fervor in listening to the music, but I've just learned so many times that the person is not the music.", "... And also at these schools, everything is extremely downplayed.", "All of these alpha wives of these luminaries -- and the female luminaries themselves -- all go down to Gap especially to buy their school clothes.", "No bling, Gap clothing.", "It's all extremely dressed down and un-ostentatious.", "CNN: Is there a favorite or least favorite Police song you do?", "Do you get so that you think, \"If I have to play 'Roxanne' one more time ... \" Copeland: No, I still enjoy playing \"Roxanne.\" ...", "Some songs are more of a mountain to climb physically, [like] \"When the World Is Running Down.\"", "Andy takes a guitar solo that is so stratospheric, climbs so high and has such power, I get carried away.", "By the time he's finished, I am done.", "And I realize that I've just burnt every calorie, and I've got another 45 minutes of set to play.", "CNN: People don't realize how physically demanding it is.", "Copeland: But the thing is, when you're doing it, you're hardly aware of it as well, because you're sustained by 80,000 people freaking out. ...", "I don't want to get all metaphysical here or nothin', but something definitely happens.", "You are definitely empowered by the power of that huge audience. ... It pumps you up." ]	[ "Stewart Copeland writes about his life in new book, \"Strange Things Happen\"\nCopeland says he and Sting get along fine when music isn't involved .", "Besides, he says, group's \"sensitive\" songs helped by \"madman\" in trio .", "Copeland grew up in Middle East, says rhythms of region part of his roots ." ]	[ 0, 6, 10, 27, 29, 36, 42 ]
[ "SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- Many among the thousands of evacuees from California's wildfires were suffering from stress and worry about their homes after seeking shelter at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, said a pair of Navy medical volunteers Wednesday.", "Navy medics Daniel Brautigam, left, and Jacob Hackfeld volunteered to help wildfire evacuees.", "The stadium -- home to the NFL's Chargers -- at one time housed 11,000 evacuees, but that number dropped to 7,500 this morning.", "Of the thousands of people who've been sleeping, eating and passing time at the arena, many are showing symptoms of stress, said Petty Officer Daniel Brautigam.", "Patients are showing \"a lot of smoke-induced nausea,\" he said.", "\"A lot of people are watching TV while they're here -- they're watching their houses burn.\"", "Brautigam said the word \"panic\" came to mind to describe how some evacuees were feeling.", "\"But it's not. People are just worried sick.", "That phrase alone explains it all.\"", "Watch sailors tell more about treating evacuees » .", "According to the San Diego's mayor's office, medical staff treated between 70 to 100 people since the stadium opened to evacuees.", "He said counselors are being made available to the evacuees at Qualcomm, where volunteers have also been providing food, tents and cots to families and others fleeing the fires.", "\"We've been working nonstop now for about 48 hours with a few hours of sleep in between -- just enough to get well-rested,\" said Brautigam.", "Brautigam and another sailor, Seaman Jacob Hackfeld, stepped forward on their own to offer medical services after their nearby base was evacuated.", "Hackfeld said he was \"sitting on my couch watching TV and I'm thinking to myself, why can't we come out here?", "The community provides for us -- the military.", "Why can't we give back to them all the things that they've given to us?\"", "Although both men said they helped in the aftermath of 2005's Hurricane Katrina, they said the emergency response to both disasters was markedly different.", "\"Here you have complete organization,\" Brautigam said.", "\"You have a community coming together getting things done, helping people out -- cooperation between civilians, military, everybody.", "See dramatic photos of the disaster » .", "\"Here everybody comes together, and we're all just people.", "I think that's the most important thing that's going on right here right now.", "The main focus is just getting people the help that they need.\"", "About 300 convalescent patients who had been evacuated to Qualcomm from nearby facilities were expected to be returned later Wednesday, said George Biagi, spokesman for the San Diego mayor.", "More than 20 fires have scorched 400,000-plus acres from the Mexican border to northern Los Angeles County and inland into the San Bernardino Mountains since the weekend.", "Statewide, an estimated 950,000 people have sought refuge from the fires in shelters, hotels and at friends' homes.", "The National Weather Service said a red-flag warning for extreme gusty winds was in effect through 3 p.m. PT (6 p.m.", "ET) Wednesday, but forecasters said firefighters should see an end to the Santa Ana winds that have fueled the fires by Thursday.", "Some residents won't have to wait for Thursday to get home.", "People who evacuated earlier this week from Rancho Bernardo, Scripps Ranch and Del Mar Heights can go home immediately, San Diego emergency spokeswoman Lynda Pfieffer said Wednesday morning.", "The blazes have killed one person and injured at least 70 more.", "Thirty-four firefighters have been hurt, authorities said.", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Kiran Chetry and Miriam Falco contributed to this report." ]	[ "Evacuees at San Diego arena treated for nausea, worried about homes .", "Medic: \"A lot of people are watching TV here -- watching their homes burn\"\nNavy medics step forward to offer services to some 12,000 wildfire evacuees .", "Medics describe conditions at Qualcomm Stadium as organized, cooperative ." ]	[ 0, 2, 5 ]
[ "PESHAWAR, Pakistan (CNN) -- As a little girl, Maria Toor Pakay would beat up boys.", "Maria Toor Pakay has overcome unusual adversity to rank among the world's top 100 squash players.", "Now, she dispenses of anyone who takes her on within the walls of a squash court.", "Pakay, 18, is Pakistan's No.", "1-ranked women's squash player.", "But what makes her story remarkable is that she hails from the country's tribal region of South Waziristan.", "The region, along the border with Afghanistan, is home to the Taliban.", "There, suicide attacks are a way of life.", "And the militants, bent on imposing a strict form of Islamic law, punish girls who attend school -- let alone play sports.", "\"They have no future,\" Pakay said.", "\"They spend their entire lives in four walls in their home.", "Their ability is destroyed.\"", "But Pakay wasn't like most girls growing up.", "She sported a buzz cut and mixed with the boys.", "\"If someone argued with me, I used to beat them up,\" she said.", "\"I wanted them to obey me all the time.\"", "Her father, Shams-ul-Qayum Wazir, knew early on that his daughter was different.", "\"I didn't want her talent to go to waste,\" he said.", "\"If I would've kept her in the village, all she could do was housekeeping.\"", "Watch Pakay talk about her life's mission » .", "So, Wazir packed up the family and moved to Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province.", "Here, Pakay picked up the racquet and swatted down the competition with ease -- first winning the Under-13 championship, then the Under-15, then the Under-17.", "In squash, players take turns hitting a ball to the front wall of a court, until one misses.", "Pakay, it turned out, rarely did.", "\"I thought nobody could beat me,\" she said.", "\"From the beginning when I played squash, I thought I could be a world champion.\"", "Today, despite the lack of a sponsor and few resources, Pakay has gone pro -- and is ranked 91st in the world.", "Her father's sacrifice, she said, made her success possible.", "\"I think I have a great father -- so broad-minded,\" she said.", "For his part, Wazir -- a teacher -- was more circumspect.", "\"I sacrificed because I want to promote a message of peace,\" he said.", "\"If the tribal people pick up a racquet instead of a gun, there would be peace.\"" ]	[ "Maria Toor Pakay, 18, is Pakistan's No.", "1-ranked women's squash player .", "She hails from the country's tribal region of South Waziristan, home to the Taliban .", "There, militants impose strict Islamic law, punish girls who even attend school .", "Despite risks, lack of a sponsor, Pakay has gone pro, is ranked 91st in the world ." ]	[ 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 26 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Over-the-counter cold and cough medicines don't work for children under age 6, and giving the common medicine to young children cannot be recommended, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee said in October.", "An FDA panel has called for more studies on how cold medicines affect children.", "The panel of health experts, which looked at how safe and effective antihistamines, decongestants, antitussins and expectorants are in children, said it is not appropriate to take data from adults and apply it to children under 12.", "After a two-day hearing, the panel called for more studies about how the medicines affect children.", "Although the panel's recommendation is nonbinding, it could lead to changes in how cough and cold medicines are used.", "The votes are to be taken into consideration by FDA regulators, who might take action against the products at a later time.", "Dr. Jeff Jenkins, of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, said it could take a year or even years for the agency to make a final decision on the recommendations.", "During the panel's meeting, the experts looked at a number of proposals, including whether multiple-symptom over-the-counter pediatric cough and cold medicines should be banned for children under 6 years old.", "FDA experts voted 13-9 that certain cold medicines with certain ingredients should not be used by young children.", "The committee said medicines with the same ingredients could be used by children ages 6 to 12.", "The experts voted unanimously to require that standardized dosing devices accompany all liquid medicines, in an effort to reduce the likelihood of excessive or unintentional overdosing.", "Separately, the committee voted to allow marketing of multiple-symptom products to children between the ages of 2 and 12 if new research showed the products to be safe and effective.", "Combination products can be particularly susceptible to problems with overdosing because parents sometimes don't realize they are duplicating ingredients.", "Committee members also emphasized the importance of proper and easy-to-read labels.", "Dr. Daniel Rausch, director of the pediatric hospital program for New York University, said that cold medicine is effective only at doses that are too strong for young children.", "Rausch recommends a more traditional treatment where dosing isn't a problem: chicken soup.", "\"A cold does not kill, so people should just relax,\" Rausch said.", "\"Kids get sick and there's nothing that people can do about it, but they will get better.\"", "About 800 pediatric cough and cold products are sold in the United States, many using multiple ingredients that have been marketed for use in children for some 30 years.", "Earlier this year, the FDA completed a review that found that between 1969 and the fall of 2006, there were 54 reported child deaths from decongestants and 69 from antihistamines.", "Watch one family's tragic ending » .", "Most of the deaths occurred in children under 2.", "In August, federal health officials recommended the \"consult your physician\" advice to parents on the labels of cold and cough medicines aimed at young children be replaced by a warning not to use the medications in children under 2 unless directed to do so by a health care provider.", "Before the FDA hearings, some of the leading manufacturers of cold and cough medicines announced a voluntary recall of more than a dozen cold medicines for infants.", "The Consumer Healthcare Products Association said the products were being pulled \"out of an abundance of caution.\"", "Potential misuse of the medications, not product safety, is driving the voluntary withdrawal, the group said.", "The American Academy of Pediatrics applauded last week's decision to pull those products, saying, \"These medicines are ineffective and can have serious side effects.", "There are other ways to treat cold symptoms.\"", "The AAP suggests: .", "When the drug industry voluntarily withdrew products last week, it insisted that when used as directed, the drugs are safe, and they work.", "\"Parents can continue to trust over-the-counter cough and cold remedies for their children,\" said Linda A. Suydam, president of the Consumer Healthcare Products Association.", "\"We strongly encourage parents to adhere to the recommended dosing instructions for all medicines, recognizing that the vast majority of adverse events associated with their use are due to inadvertent overdosing and misuse.\"", "Suydam said CHPA will be launching a major educational campaign for parents and caregivers in coming months.", "Baltimore Health Commissioner Dr. Joshua Sharfstein headed the push that led to the FDA hearing.", "He became alarmed when four Baltimore children died after their parents gave them excessive doses of cold medicines.", "Until those deaths, he did not realize that a dose of cold medicine could turn into a life-and-death issue among young children, he said.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Panel: No evidence that the over-the-counter medicines help young children .", "More study sought about how cough, cold medicines work in children .", "About 800 pediatric cough and cold products are sold in the United States .", "Pediatrics group suggests \"other ways to treat cold symptoms\"" ]	[ 0, 3, 18, 27, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A jury in Manhattan found the son of Brooke Astor and one of his lawyers guilty Thursday of scheming to bilk millions of dollars from the late philanthropist's estate.", "Anthony Marshall was convicted of bilking millions of dollars from the estate of his mother, Brooke Astor.", "The verdict, returned on the 12th day of deliberation, ended a six-month trial that featured as witnesses a Who's Who of New York's social elite.", "Anthony Marshall showed no visible reaction as he was found guilty of 14 of the 16 counts against him.", "His wife, Charlene, who many believed fanned his greed and instigated his mistreatment of his elderly mother, also did not seem to react.", "Marshall was convicted of the most serious charges -- first-degree grand larceny and scheming to defraud.", "One of the most serious convictions involved Marshall giving himself a $1 million-a-year raise for handling his mother's affairs, said Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann.", "Marshall's former lawyer, Francis Morrissey, was convicted of all five counts against him, including forgery and scheming to defraud Astor.", "Watch Marshall's attorney vow to appeal » .", "\"These defendants, two morally depraved individuals, preyed on a physically and mentally ill 101-year-old woman to steal millions of dollars -- dollars that she had intended to go to help the lives of ordinary New Yorkers,\" Seidemann said, echoing his closing argument to the jury.", "Astor, who had Alzheimer's disease, was 105 when she died in August 2007.", "The prosecution called nearly 70 witnesses -- Henry Kissinger, Graydon Carter, Barbara Walters, Vartan Gregorian and Annette de la Renta among them.", "Prosecutor Seidemann called the case \"disturbing,\" and said the trial told the story of \"how a son, an only son, would stoop so low to steal from his own mother in the sunset years of her life in order to line his own pockets and the pockets of his wife.\"", "Marshall, who is free on $100,000 bail, faces a maximum 25 years in prison when he is sentenced on December 8.", "Morrissey faces up to seven years in prison.", "Author Meryl Gordon, who has followed the Astor story for years, was in the courtroom when the jury returned its verdicts.", "\"It was an incredibly bad, intense time,\" she said from her cell phone before hopping on a subway.", "\"I was a little surprised that Charlene did not get visibly teary.", "I guess she was braced for it.\"", "Marshall, Astor's only child, was indicted on criminal charges in 2006.", "The case kicked off a tabloid feeding frenzy that fostered headlines such as \"Bad heir day,\" \"Mrs. Astor's disaster\" and \"DA's kick in the Astor.\"", "Through her late husband's Vincent Astor Foundation, Brooke Astor is credited with giving New York, where the Astors made their fortune, about $200 million.", "The Astor Foundation gave millions to New York cultural jewels -- including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library -- as well as lower-profile programs.", "Astor was often quoted as saying, \"Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around.\"", "\"Mrs. Astor stood in New York as a symbol of generosity.", "And this trial stands as a landmark for the nefarious impact of money and greed,\" said her longtime friend, Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York.", "\"It will in many ways tarnish her memory,\" he said.", "\"It's a sad day, but at the same time, one good thing that will come out of this -- that Mrs. Astor would approve of -- is that the elderly cannot be abused.\"", "The case began when Marshall's son, Philip, filed a petition in 2006 asking the court to appoint a guardian for his grandmother.", "The court documents alleged \"elder abuse\" and were intended to remove Anthony Marshall's control of her affairs and transfer care to Astor's dear friend Annette de la Renta.", "He reacted to the verdict in an e-mail: .", "\"I hope this brings some consolation and closure for the many people, including my grandmother's loyal staff, caregivers and friends, who helped when she was so vulnerable and so manipulated,\" Philip Marshall wrote.", "\"I sincerely hope these sad circumstances contribute to the recognition of elder abuse and exploitation as a growing national problem.\"", "CNN's Ann O'Neill contributed to this story ." ]	[ "Anthony Marshall faces up to 25 years in prison .", "Marshall swindled millions from mother in her declining years .", "Prosecution witnesses included the cream of New York society .", "Astor's foundation gave $200 million to New York; she died at 105 ." ]	[ 1, 10, 14, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An altercation between a South Carolina high school student and a school resource officer ended tragically Friday with the student dead of a gunshot wound and the officer hospitalized after being stabbed.", "Police officers in body armor vests are on the scene after violence at a school near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.", "The incident took place about 8:25 a.m., and both the officer and the 16-year-old student were transported to Conway Medical Center, where the student died, said Sgt.", "Robert Kegler of the Horry County Police Department.", "The resource officer, who was a Horry County police officer assigned to the school, remains hospitalized, he said.", "Kegler had no other information.", "\"Anytime anything happens with a police officer like this, we ask an outside agency to come in to investigate,\" he said.", "\"In this case, the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is taking the lead.\"", "Teal Britton, a spokeswoman for Horry County Schools, said the student had asked to see the officer at Carolina Forest High School in Myrtle Beach.", "\"They went into his office, and the door was shut, and then the struggle began,\" she said.", "School officials have \"no clue in terms of what might have brought that about.\"", "Britton also had no further information and said the Law Enforcement Division had asked that the high school refrain from discussing details.", "Neither Britton nor Kegler named the officer or the student.", "The state agency has not responded to requests for comment.", "Myrtle Beach is a popular vacation destination in northeast South Carolina, on the Atlantic coast.", "CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Police confirm incident at South Carolina high school .", "Student, 16, dies after struggle with school resource officer .", "School hasn't named student or officer .", "Officer being treated for injuries at hospital, spokeswoman says ." ]	[ 0, 8, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Susie Levitt's and Katie Shea's feet had had enough.", "Walking around Manhattan sidewalks between classes in their high heels was getting unbearable.", "Katie Shea and Susie Levitt, founders of \"CitiSoles,\" said walking around Manhattan in high heels was painful.", "Tal Raviv felt frustrated.", "While studying in Hong Kong in 2007, he found that adjusting to a new city was hard enough.", "Even more aggravating was trying to connect with friends on Facebook whose names were common.", "Jaun Calle and Adam Berlin were bored.", "Watching college football on television isn't as exciting as being there in person, they thought.", "Instead of just grinning and bearing it, all of these university students did something: They started their own businesses.", "Levitt and Shea created \"CitiSoles,\" a shoe company that makes a foldable shoe for when the pain of high heels gets unbearable.", "Raviv created \"DropCard\" an e-business card that lets users send more contact information than is commonly found on a business card.", "Calle and Berlin formed \"SEC Excursions\" a travel company that provides busing, tailgate parties and hotel accommodations to college football games.", "The recession and lack of experience might stop most adults in their tracks, but these students weren't discouraged.", "\"There is no better time [to start a business],\" said Christopher Hanks, director of the entrepreneurship program at the University of Georgia.", "\"During a depression or recession, innovation always increases.\"", "The dorm is the new garage .", "While the founders of Google built success in their garages, these college students found it in their dorms.", "In addition to their course work, studying for midterms and balancing extracurricular activities, they wrote business proposals and figured out financing.", "\"From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., I am in chemical engineering classes, and from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m., I work on DropCard, so I don't get much free time,\" said Raviv, 22.", "Levitt and Shea said launching their shoe business was essentially nonstop, and the work didn't end on Friday.", "And for Calle, the compromises in his academic and social life weren't a burden.", "\"We enjoy ourselves,\" said Calle, 21.", "\"We don't see it as a sacrifice.\"", "Hanks said these attitudes are typical of student entrepreneurs.", "They don't have the pressure of supporting themselves -- their living expenses are usually being paid for -- and they have a wide support system.", "\"They certainly have their advantages ... their enthusiasm level is really high,\" Hanks said.", "\"They don't know what they don't know.\" Hanks added that the excitement of creating a business revs up the students even more than the chance of getting rich.", "\"They get excited about 'wouldn't it be cool if we did that' versus the money,\" said Hanks.", "\"The journey is not as much as about the money as about the challenge.\"", "Figuring it out . None of these students followed a set formula for starting their businesses.", "Levitt and Shea used Alibaba.com, an online trade portal, to pitch their idea to suppliers and dipped into their savings for start-up money.", "An investment firm helped Raviv, and Calle and Berlin found investors.", "Levitt and Shea, both 22, took \"less than $10,000\" from their savings to start CitiSoles in 2008.", "That covered the cost of the shoes and a Web site designer.", "From there, they worked with suppliers and factories in Asia to scope out which would be the best fit for their company.", "The pair conducted market research and found nothing similar sold in the United States.", "\"It was all done online,\" Levitt said.", "\"We became nocturnal.\"", "The shoes, made of imitation leather, come with a compact carrying case.", "A patent for the shoe is pending.", "When the first order for 1,000 pairs, weighing over 400 pounds, arrived at Shea's Long Island home unexpectedly, Levitt said they were overwhelmed.", "A few days later, an article about their company appeared in the New York Daily News, but they weren't ready for the onslaught of orders.", "They quickly set up a PayPal account.", "\"From there, we got on the phone to boutiques, sent out retail kits and samples ... and now there are 17 boutiques around the nation selling them,\" said Levitt, who is studying economics and will graduate this fall.", "Her partner, Shea, double-majored in finance and marketing and graduated in May.", "Last summer, Raviv, along with two of his friends, applied for funding for their e-business cards with DreamIt Ventures in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.", "DreamIt is a \"business incubator\" that helps entrepreneurs launch companies.", "Raviv, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a chemical engineering degree in May, was honest with the investment firm when it asked how his e-business cards would make money.", "\"I actually don't know,\" Raviv told them.", "\"They said 'Perfect.", "Thank you. We know there is no possible way to know right now.'", "\" Raviv said the lack of a detailed business plan helped DreamIt see how it could assist them.", "They received $20,000 from DreamIt.", "DropCard initially targeted technology companies but went after \"old-fashioned\" businesses like car dealerships that proved to be more lucrative.", "DropCard is currently in trials with four companies to see how they can tweak their business plan.", "Feedback is instrumental in DropCard's growth.", "\"We refine everything instead of sitting back and strategizing,\" Raviv said.", "\"Let our customers write our business plan.\"", "Calle, a senior at the University of Georgia who is pursuing a degree in business administration, launched SEC Excursions with a mix of investors and help from the Terry College of Business Entrepreneurship Program at UGA.", "Hanks helped Calle and Berlin in fleshing out their idea and making it potentially profitable.", "Started in July 2008, the company found success in a trial trip to Baton Rogue, Louisiana, for the UGA-Louisiana State University matchup.", "The first trip offered a two-night stay at a hotel, busing to the game and a tailgate party.", "The packages, which don't include tickets to the games, vary from $100 to $300 a person.", "The company has contracts with bus companies and various hotel chains.", "It has student reps at four college campuses and plans to add more.", "Calle said the company's \"most loyal customers are in the Greek systems,\" but it's open to all students who wish to purchase a package.", "\"The students really like it because everything is planned for them,\" Calle said.", "\"We've heard nothing but good things.\"" ]	[ "Susie Levitt and Katie Shea created a foldable-shoe company called \"CitiSoles\"\nTal Raviv co-founded \"DropCard,\" a new take on the business card .", "Juan Calle and Adam Berlin created \"SEC Excursions,\" a travel agency .", "\"There is no better time\" to start a business, an entrepreneur expert says ." ]	[ 9, 10, 11, 13 ]
[ "NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Indian tourism authorities will be holding English classes for auto-rickshaw drivers in New Delhi as the city prepares to host the Commonwealth Games in 2010.", "Auto-rickshaw drivers are being taught English ahead of the Commenwealth Games.", "More than 40,000 natural gas-fueled auto-rickshaws, or motorized three-wheeled taxis, run on the Indian capital's dilapidated roads, according to the city government statistics.", "The city is expected to host around 100,000 tourists during the Commonwealth Games scheduled from October 3-14 in 2010.", "About 9,000 athletes and officials of 52 Commonwealth countries are likely to participate.", "Some 8,000 auto-rickshaw drivers will be enrolled in the training program that will involve classes in yoga, life skills, first aid, spoken English and psychometric tests, federal Tourism Secretary Sujit Banerjee announced Tuesday.", "Each trainee will be paid Rs 200, or about $4, daily for attending the program spread over 200 sessions for a year.", "Indian auto-rickshaw drivers have often been accused of overcharging, refusing short trips and misbehavior.", "Traffic authorities have in the past opened a range of avenues for passengers to lodge their complaints -- such as on help lines, via text messages or simply calling a telephone number printed on the three-wheeled cabs.", "\"The India image that we strive to convey to a foreign tourist depends, to a large degree, on how good the taxi/auto-rickshaw (driver) that he or she meets is in his demeanor and conduct,\" Banerjee remarked." ]	[ "More than 40,000 auto-rickshaws ply roads of Indian capital .", "City expected to host 100,000 tourists during Commonwealth Games .", "8,000 auto-rickshaw drivers will be enrolled in training program ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Obama administration announced this week it is sending hundreds of federal agents and crime-fighting equipment to the Mexican border to try to make sure violence from Mexican drug cartels doesn't spill over into the U.S.", "Author John Gibler says the \"war on drugs\" approach with Mexico policy has been an absolute failure.", "John Gibler, author of \"Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt,\" appeared Friday on CNN's \"American Morning\" to talk about U.S. border security efforts.", "Following is a transcript of his conversation with CNN's John Roberts: John Roberts: You spent so much time along the border area there, going back and forth.", "The last three years, you've been down there pretty intensely.", "What is the situation like?", "John Gibler: Right now, in Ciudad Juarez, as you probably know, more than 7,500 army soldiers have arrived in the city and actually taken over the municipal police force.", "And that has obviously dampened the amount of incredible violence related to drug trafficking in the city, but fears on the ground are that simply the warring cartels packed up and left town for the time being or [have] gone underground while the army is out in the streets, and that they will be back.", "Meanwhile, the army is doing all of the municipal police force jobs, so they're effectively writing traffic tickets and driving around in cop cars.", "Roberts: All right, so you know that earlier this week, Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, announced this $700 million program, put more border agents and more [Drug Enforcement Administration] agents on the border along with some high-tech surveillance equipment to try to combat the war on drugs there.", "How effective do you think that plan will be?", "Gibler: Sadly, I do not think it will be effective.", "We're talking about a $30 billion a year industry just moving the drugs across the border.", "That is way too powerful for three more helicopters or 400 more border agents to really try and address.", "I think it is a deeply embedded social and economic problem that will have to be addressed with social and economic policy.", "Watch Gibler give his views on U.S. security efforts » .", "Roberts: So the president has reserved this idea of putting some troops down on the border there.", "I know that Gov. Rick Perry in Texas says that he wants to put 1,000 along the border.", "However, there in El Paso, where you are this morning, the mayor says, \"Whoa, we don't need any troops.", "Things are great here.\"", "Who's right? Gibler: Well, really, the mayor is right in a sense.", "If you look at 2008, 1,600 people were assassinated in Ciudad Juarez, and there were about 15 homicides that same year in El Paso.", "So, this whole idea of the violence spilling over is really, I think, kind of malformed or a bit sensationalizing the violence in Mexico, which is very real but the violence already exists in the United States, even though there isn't a national kind of political understanding or consciousness, if you will, about how that violence is related to drug trafficking and drug distribution.", "amFIX: Can the US win the war on drugs?", "Roberts: You know, we had Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron earlier this week.", "And he was talking about this idea of legalizing all drugs as a way to combat the drug war there in Mexico.", "What do you think of that idea?", "Gibler: I think it's time to consider all options, and I think it's evident -- more than evident that the \"war on drugs\" approach has been an absolute failure.", "It hasn't in any way stopped the amount of drugs being consumed in the United States or the drugs flowing over the border or the violence related to the illegal drug-trafficking industry. ...", "It's not that radical of a proposal.", "Even The Economist magazine led with an editorial about a week and a half ago about legislating or regulating drugs.", "Three former presidents of Latin American countries, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, recently released a report arguing also for really taking on the debate of legalization." ]	[ "Mexico's huge drug industry is too powerful for U.S. border efforts, John Gibler says .", "Author says social, economic policies are needed to battle Mexico's drug problems .", "It's time to consider legalizing drugs, Gibler says ." ]	[ 2, 13, 19, 27 ]
[ "KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A suicide car bombing exploded outside the NATO headquarters in Afghanistan early Saturday, killing seven people and injuring 91 just five days before the country holds presidential elections, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.", "A car burns after the suicide blast outside NATO's Afghanistan headquarters.", "The massive bomb detonated near the main gate of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters.", "Among the wounded were several coalition service members, according to ISAF.", "The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack, an ISAF spokesman told CNN.", "Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the front-runner in the polls, condemned the bombing.", "\"The enemies of Afghanistan, through such attacks in the run-up to the elections, want to spread terror among people, but they must know that Afghans are fully aware of the value of the elections and will cast their votes for the sake of security and peace in their country,\" Karzai said in a statement.", "But Ferishta, 21, who like many Afghans gives out only her first name, was deterred.", "\"After seeing today's events, I have no intention in voting,\" she said, wearing a blood-soaked shirt and connected to an intravenous drip.", "\"If we are not at peace, why should we vote, who should we vote for?\"", "One witness at the scene told CNN the explosion left a huge crater and damaged a coalition forces' vehicle.", "Billowing smoke rose over the city.", "\"The sound was like a very loud door banging right next to my ear,\" said CNN's National Security Analyst Peter Bergen.", "Watch Bergen describe blast .", "The attack occurred at 8:30 in the morning as people were heading to work and was particularly disturbing given the beefed-up security in Kabul ahead of the August 20 presidential and provincial elections, only the second since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.", "The area around the ISAF headquarters is heavily fortified with concrete blast barriers and extra security forces.", "Watch more on Saturday's explosion » .", "Security has been a key concern as Afghans prepare to go to the polls next week.", "The Taliban has vowed to disrupt the voting.", "\"This will make people living in Kabul perhaps think twice about going out in the next few days,\" Bergen said.", "Earlier this week, Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. State Department's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said the Afghan elections were critical to quelling a resurgence of the Taliban.", "\"Holding an election in a wartime situation is always difficult,\" Holbrooke said.", "\"Holding one when the enemy has said they're going to try to disrupt it makes it even more difficult.\"", "Despite Saturday's attack, ISAF spokesman Lt. Col. Todd Vician told CNN that NATO-led forces in Afghanistan remain confident the elections will be credible.", "\"There is a very robust security system in place,\" he said.", "This summer has been the bloodiest in Afghanistan since 2001, particularly in troubled Helmand province in southern Afghanistan.", "U.S., British and Afghan troops there have been fighting Taliban militants to help provide protection for the upcoming elections.", "Watch more on Afghan preparations for elections » .", "Kabul, however, had experienced relative calm in recent months.", "The last such attack in the Afghan capital was in January when a suicide bomb exploded near the German embassy.", "The Taliban also claimed responsibility for that incident.", "CNN's Atia Abawi and Hugh Williams contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: At least 7 people killed, 90 hurt from blast in Afghanistan's capital .", "Explosion took place near NATO headquarters, U.S. Embassy .", "Taliban claims responsibility for explosion .", "Blast takes place just five days before presidential elections ." ]	[ 0, 13, 16, 20 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Jury selection began Monday in Kentucky for the trial of a former high school coach charged with reckless homicide in the heat-exhaustion-related death of a player.", "Pleasure Ridge Park football coach Jason Stinson has pleaded not guilty to reckless homicide.", "A grand jury in January charged Pleasure Ridge Park football coach Jason Stinson in the death of Max Gilpin, 15, who collapsed during a practice in August 2008 and died several days later.", "Stinson pleaded not guilty and was released without bail.", "The school has reassigned him to non-teaching duties.", "The case has stirred strong feelings beyond the Louisville suburb where Gilpin died.", "Some say the teen's death was a tragic accident; others insist it was the result of a criminal act.", "\"The best example I can give you is like someone shooting into a building not knowing anyone is in there, then killing somebody,\" Commonwealth's Attorney R. David Stengel told CNN affiliate WHAS in January.", "\"They didn't know they were in there, but they should have known that shooting into a building where people normally are is something dangerous.\"", "Current and former students reacted with shock to the indictment of Stinson, a beloved coach and teacher.", "\"Coach is amazing,\" former player Casey Ford told WLKY earlier this year.", "\"Coach truly cares about his players.\"", "Stengel said investigators interviewed almost 100 players, eight coaches, school officials and bystanders before the grand jury convened earlier this year.", "A summary of the interviews was provided to the grand jury.", "The grand jury denied Stinson's request to give testimony.", "Questions surrounding the case include what school officials did before and after the high school sophomore collapsed.", "Craig Webb, the school's athletic director, said in a deposition obtained by WLKY that he witnessed the incident and went over to assess Gilpin's condition.", "\"He was breathing,\" Webb said during the deposition, WLKY reported.", "\"You know, he had a pulse.", "And we -- I automatically thought we might have had an exhaustion situation.", "He was sweating profusely.\"", "Gilpin's body temperature reached 107 degrees, officials say.", "Witnesses said Stinson had denied the student water on the hot August day, WLKY reported.", "Gilpin was taken to a hospital where he later died.", "The parents have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against six coaches at the school.", "The suit claims they were negligent in their actions and that more than 20 minutes passed between the time Gilpin collapsed and the time one of the coaches called paramedics, according to WHAS.", "Stinson is the only person who has been charged with a crime.", "Days after he was charged, Stinson told supporters, who had gathered on his lawn to pray, that his \"heart is broken.\"", "\"Part of my life has been taken away,\" he said, according to WHAS.", "\"I no longer teach, and I no longer coach at the school that I love.", "... \"The one thing people keep forgetting in this is that I lost one of my boys that day,\" he said.", "\"It was a boy that I loved and a boy that I cared for and a boy that meant the world to me.", "That's the thing that people forget.", "And that's a burden I will carry with me for the rest of my life.\"", "Gilpin's parents have released a statement saying they hope they will gain access to details of the investigation, including information they believe school officials have withheld from them citing confidentiality, the affiliate said.", "\"We intend to closely monitor the prosecution and expect anyone responsible for Max's death to be held accountable,\" the statement said, according to WHAS." ]	[ "Former high school coach is charged with reckless homicide .", "Player Max Gilpin, 15, died of heat exhaustion .", "Player's body temperature hit 107 degrees at August '08 practice ." ]	[ 0, 21 ]
[ "Editor's note: Alejandra Lopez-Fernandini is a senior policy analyst in the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank that seeks innovative solutions across the political spectrum.", "Alejandra Lopez-Fernandini says Americans have no choice but to increase the amount they save.", "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As the economy slows, millions of Americans will cut their budgets to stay afloat.", "This generates conflicting impulses: If I skip that morning coffee and granola, will my thriftiness put my local coffee shop out of business?", "Will that force America's granola farmers to lay off workers?", "What's a budget-conscious, patriotic and hungry girl to do?", "Not to worry, saving a few dollars now will not prolong the recession.", "And, more important, spending all your discretionary income will not end the recession.", "It's true that John Maynard Keynes' \"Paradox of Thrift\" suggests that, even while saving is beneficial to an individual, too much aggregate savings could deepen an ordinary recession.", "But in these extraordinary times, where banks and not just businesses are in desperate need of cash, this economic rule may not fully hold.", "More important, individuals need savings to be prepared for unanticipated expenses and income losses, especially now.", "The reality is that there is no bailout coming to you.", "And those getting the bailout might not be willing to lend to you, anyway.", "So now is the time to save. The money you save is your own personal safety net, what you tap when you have an unanticipated expense like a car repair or when you're between jobs, as many Americans find themselves nowadays.", "The past decade has seen Americans saving at historically low levels; we've substituted plastic for the piggy bank.", "But the days of cheap and easy access to credit have come and gone.", "We all need to save not because we want to but because we have to.", "For decades, our country's economy has flourished, but it relied too heavily on debt-driven consumer spending to power its growth.", "Excessive household debt, coupled with stagnating incomes and little to no personal savings, now places America in a precarious position.", "Compared with the 19 other major industrialized economies, the United States ranks dead last for personal savings.", "That's right, in 2003, the United States was the least thrifty nation among the G-20.", "Why is it important that we save more as a nation?", "Savings offers us the protection we need to make it through hard or uncertain times and to pay for important future needs such as a home, education or adequate retirement.", "Savings also creates pools of capital for investment purposes (who will fund the next neighborhood coffee shop?)", "and to keep interest rates low.", "It appears the current recession has scared us back to saving; we are no longer spending all of our disposable income.", "To ensure that the hopeful trend continues, government and employers should adopt a new generation of savings policies that are both innovative and simple.", "Common sense, along with research from the emerging field of behavioral economics, tells us why we aren't saving more already: .", "1) We like instant gratification .", "Whether it's iPhones or our paychecks, we want everything, and we want it now.", "We are so short-term-oriented that many of us would rather have a fatter paycheck now than set aside some of that happiness, even if the funds will be greater in the future.", "2) We tend to procrastinate .", "Once we start something (or fail to start something), it's really hard to change course.", "And we'd prefer a hassle-free world.", "Who doesn't, right? When it's hard just to figure out how to start saving, most people won't.", "However, the flip side is that when it's easy to start saving, a lot more people will.", "Think about current retirement savings.", "How many of us would open an account and make regular deposits if an employer didn't take it right out of our paychecks?", "When it comes to savings, we need someone to save us from ourselves.", "Smart savings policies should be automatic and utilize smart pre-made choices, or defaults.", "It would require action to NOT save.", "Of course, this type of policymaking underscores the importance of making the default choice a good one (an adjustable-rate mortgage with no down payment would be an example of a bad default).", "Employers can easily help their employees save for a rainy day, leveraging the payroll system and direct deposit to automatically send a small percentage of their paychecks to a savings account.", "This type of unrestricted savings is especially valuable for individuals who have limited liquid assets and who may otherwise be forced to meet emergency cash needs with high-cost payday loans.", "A truly transformative savings policy to broaden the base of American savers would encourage it from birth with Children's Savings Accounts.", "These \"start in life\" accounts would be \"seeded\" up-front with a modest initial deposit ($500), progressively funded for children born into lower-income households and restricted for specific asset-building uses like higher education, purchasing a home or starting a small business.", "For the economic health of the next generation, the United States should join the U.K. and Singapore, and others who are offering such lifelong savings accounts, and get some skin in the thrift game, too.", "We know it's plenty hard to save; it feels a lot like we're taking away what we've rightly earned.", "Taking advantage of windfall payments such as tax refunds is important, and so is removing the temptation to spend all of that refund.", "Tax filers can pre-commit a portion of their refund before it reaches their pocket to up to three accounts (including savings accounts!)", "with IRS Form 8888.", "Having accessible savings is critical to our personal and economic security.", "We must reorient the savings policy discussion to include the needs of shorter-term savers and consider policy that would make savings automatic and universal at birth.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Alejandra Lopez-Fernandini." ]	[ "Alejandra Lopez-Fernandini: America saves less than nearly all big countries .", "She says crisis is forcing an increase in savings by American families .", "Lopez-Fernandini: Government, firms should automatically encourage saving .", "She says you can designate part of a tax refund to go into a savings account ." ]	[ 0, 1, 42, 44 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Space shuttle Discovery is set to launch next week on a mission to the international space station, NASA's Flight Readiness Review team said Wednesday.", "The space shuttle Discovery is brought by crawler to its pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 4.", "Launch is scheduled for 1:36 a.m.", "ET Tuesday, NASA said.", "However, launches often are delayed because of inclement weather or technical concerns.", "Discovery will carry a crew of seven astronauts as it ferries equipment to the space station.", "One of the astronauts, Nicole Stott, will remain on the space station as a flight engineer, replacing astronaut Timothy Kopra, who will return home aboard Discovery as a mission specialist, according to the NASA Web page for the mission.", "Discovery will also be carrying the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) to the space station.", "The treadmill is named for fake newsman Stephen Colbert of Comedy Central's \"The Colbert Report.\"", "Earlier this year, NASA conducted an online poll to name the space station's newest compartment, asking voters to choose one of four given options or offer their own suggestion.", "Colbert urged his viewers to suggest \"Colbert,\" which won.", "But Colbert and the space agency compromised to give the moniker to the treadmill instead.", "The new module was given the name Tranquility.", "\"I'm so proud my treadmill will be going into space to help trim down those famously fat astronauts.", "Lay off the Tang, Chubby!\"", "Colbert said in a statement.", "The mission will be Discovery's 37th to space, and the 30th shuttle mission dedicated to assembly and maintenance of the space station, NASA says." ]	[ "NASA: Discovery slated to lift off Tuesday on mission to international space station .", "Shuttle will carry a crew of seven, ferry equipment to the space station .", "Astronaut Nicole Stott will remain on the space station as a flight engineer .", "Shuttle to deliver treadmill named after comedian Stephen Colbert ." ]	[ 5, 6, 7 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A man distraught because he could not find work shot and killed his mother-in-law, his wife and three sons and then killed himself inside a home in an upscale San Fernando Valley neighborhood, police said.", "Police say Karthik Rajaram left suicide notes taking responsibility for the murders of his family.", "Authorities said the man had an MBA in finance but appeared to have been unemployed for several months and had worked for major accounting firms, such as Price Waterhouse.", "The two-story rented home is in a gated community in Porter Ranch, about 20 miles northwest of Los Angeles.", "The shootings were discovered after 8:20 a.m. Monday, after a neighbor called police to report that the wife had failed to pick her up to take her to her job at a pharmacy, Deputy Chief of Police Michel Moore said.", "Ed Winter, assistant chief from the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, identified the suspect as Karthik Rajaram, 45.", "Winter said the victims included Rajaram's mother-in-law, Indra Ramasesham, 69, and his 19-year-old son Krishna Rajaram, a Fulbright Scholar and honor student at UCLA.", "Watch police remove body from home » .", "Also dead were Rajaram's wife, 39, Subasari Rajaram, and their two other sons, 12 and 7.", "Some of the victims had been shot more than once, and their identities were not immediately confirmed, he said.", "\"Due to the nature of their injuries, it's been a little difficult,\" Winter said, adding that there were no signs of a struggle.", "Police first found the mother-in-law shot in her bed in a downstairs bedroom, Moore said.", "Upstairs, the couple's eldest son was shot in the master bedroom; the wife in another bedroom with a gunshot wound to the head; the two younger sons in the bedroom they shared, both shot in the head.", "The 12-year-old was on the floor and the 7-year-old in bed, Moore said.", "Watch more on what police had to say about tragedy » .", "The suspect was also in that bedroom, a gun still in his hand.", "The killings are thought to have occurred after 6 p.m. Saturday, when the man was last reported seen, Moore said.", "Inside the house, police also found three letters, one to law enforcement acknowledging responsibility for the killings, a second to friends and relatives and a third that appears to be the suspect's will, Moore said.", "\"He attests to some financial difficulties, and he takes responsibility for the taking of the lives of his family members and himself as a result of those financial difficulties,\" Moore said.", "Neighbors, family and friends told police that the suspect, who had not worked for several months, had said in recent days he was having had extreme financial difficulties, Moore said.", "One of the letters, intended for friends and marked \"personal and confidential,\" detailed his financial transactions that resulted in \"an unfortunate, downward spiral,\" Moore said.", "\"His narrative is one of talking about this tragedy befalling him and his contemplation of an available exit or solution,\" Moore said.", "\"One is taking his own life and the other is taking the lives of his family and himself. ...", "He talked himself into the second strategy, believing that was, in effect, the honorable thing to do.\"", "Moore said the several-page narrative appeared to have been written over a period of time.", "\"This was something that was not a spur-of-the-moment type of event,\" he said.", "Moore said it was clear to police that the family members were close and \"had an affection for each other.\"", "He said the parents had given up their master bedroom to their eldest -- who was spending the weekend home from college -- \"out of respect.\"", "\"This is a perfect American family behind me that has absolutely been destroyed, apparently because of a man who just got stuck in a rabbit hole, if you will, of absolute despair, somehow working his way into believing this to be an acceptable exit.\"", "No neighbors reported having heard gunshots, and there was no sign of forced entry at the house, Moore said.", "Rajaram was involved in a financial holding company as part owner \"at least,\" Moore said.", "There is no evidence he had had any history of mental difficulties, nor was there an indication he had sought counseling, Moore said.", "Neighbor Trish Harrison, who lives three houses from the crime scene, said the family had lived in the community for about a year, but kept to themselves and had little interaction with neighbors.", "The parents were from India, she said.", "The Los Angeles Unified School District was making arrangements for crisis counselors to visit the schools attended by the two younger sons.", "CNN's Stan Wilson contributed to this report." ]	[ "One of man's three sons was Fulbright Scholar and honor student at UCLA .", "Officer speaks of man \"who just got stuck in ... absolute despair\"\nFather had MBA in finance but seemed to have been unemployed for months .", "Police: Man left three letters, including one taking responsibility for shootings ." ]	[ 1, 2, 6, 28 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The State Department on Monday continued to publicly downplay the threat North Korea presents to the United States with spokesman P.J.", "Crowley telling reporters North Korea \"represents an infinitesimal threat to the United States directly.\"", "A North Korean soldier looks at the South Korean side of the demilitarized zone earlier this month.", "The spokesman's statement followed comments from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an interview with ABC, broadcast Monday, in which she said the reason for the United States' low-key reaction to North Korea's recent missile test was that the United States wasn't \"going to give the North Koreans the satisfaction they were looking for, which was to elevate them to center stage.\"", "In that interview, Clinton said North Korea has a \"constant demand for attention,\" and she added, \"maybe it's the mother in me, the experience I've had with small children and teenagers and people who are demanding attention: Don't give it to them.\"", "After calling the direct threat to the U.S. \"infinitesimal,\" Crowley went on to say that \"North Korea, and its provocative actions, does represent a significant threat to the region and its actions recently have been unhelpful and potentially destabilizing.\"", "A senior U.S. official, who did not want to be identified, said there is a \"theoretical\" question of whether a North Korean missile could hit the United States.", "\"There's nothing in their recent development,\" he said, \"which would suggest that their technology is becoming more accurate.\"", "The United States says its primary concerns about North Korea's actions are its impact on security in the region and the risk of nuclear proliferation.", "Last week the United Nations imposed sanctions on a number of individuals, companies and goods connected with North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.", "Taking aim at several key North Korean officials, it subjected them to a freeze on their assets and an international travel ban." ]	[ "State Department spokesman: Recent actions \"potentially destabilizing\" to region .", "Secretary of State Clinton: North Korea has \"constant demand for attention\"\nThat is why U.S. had low-key reaction to missile tests, Clinton says ." ]	[ 3, 4 ]
[ "To: Interested Parties From: John King Re: Monday Memo .", "Egyptain President Hosni Mubarak will visit the White House on Tuesday.", "(CNN) -- Health care remains, without a doubt, President Obama's top priority, though the week ahead will bring more of a public focus on international and security issues.", "One key dynamic to keep an eye on is the reaction among leading House Democrats to the latest indication the White House is prepared to accept a health care bill that lacks a robust \"public\" or government insurance option.", "\"Not the essential element,\" is how Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius described the public option to us on CNN's \"State of the Union\" on Sunday.. \"Very difficult,\" is how veteran House Democrat Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas told us when asked how hard of a sell a health care bill absent a robust public option would be in among House Democrats.", "This might be a good time for Obama and former President Clinton to swap notes about 1993-94.", "Out of the box on Monday in Phoenix, Arizona, Obama addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Convention.", "It's a platform to share his views on the escalation of the U.S. commitment in Afghanistan just as U.S. forces begin to quicken their pace of withdrawal from Iraq.", "Back in Washington on Tuesday, a White House meeting with longtime Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will turn attention to the Middle East, where the administration and traditional Arab allies such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia are unhappy with the lack of discernible movement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.", "And Thursday's national elections in Afghanistan will keep a spotlight on the international stage and the uncertainties facing the Obama administration.", "It's safe to say the White House has profound worries about President Hamid Karzai's commitment to fight corruption and lead aggressively, but it's also safe to say the White House expectation is another Karzai term.", "The market closed down at the end of last week because of doubts the worst was over.", "This week offers a few interesting tests: .", "• Earnings reports on tap from companies that offer key glimpses of consumer spending -- among them Home Depot, Lowe's Target and Hewlett-Packard.", "• The Labor Department's Producer Price Index is released on Tuesday, along with Commerce Department figures on new housing starts.", "• And the report on economic leading indicators comes Thursday morning.", "And, finally, a few political notes for the week ahead: .", "• Fred Thompson and Bill Clinton will be lighting birthday candles on Wednesday.", "• Southern governors gather in Williamsburg, Virginia, with the economy and health care topping the agenda.", "• Mike Huckabee's political action committee gathers this week, through a series of house parties." ]	[ "On Monday, President Obama will have chance to discuss Afghanistan at speech .", "On Thursday, Afghanistan's elections will keep trouble nation on forefront .", "On Tuesday, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will visit the White House .", "On health care this week, watch how House Democrats react to latest moves ." ]	[ 1, 3, 9, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Classes resumed last Thursday at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, and by Monday 47 students had swine flu, a college official said.", "The CDC recommends someone sick with the virus remain out of class for 24 hours after fever has abated on its own.", "Although that's less than two-tenths of 1 percent of the 27,000-member student body, and no one has died or been hospitalized, the school has moved into action.", "\"The sanitizer's out,\" said Todd Cohen, director of university relations.", "The university sent e-mails to faculty members asking them to create contingency plans so that sick students are not required to go to class, and to commuter students and their parents warning them that the students may have to be isolated if they fall ill. That same message has gone to students in dormitories.", "Arrangements are being made to isolate anyone who's sick in their rooms by moving out their roommates and dropping off meals, Cohen said.", "None of the school's cases of swine flu -- also called H1N1 -- has proven fatal or resulted in a hospitalization, he said, and none of the reported cases has been confirmed.", "Public health officials are simply assuming that anyone with flu symptoms has swine flu, because it's the only form of the virus in circulation, he said.", "The school's health center can do little for those who show up for help.", "\"They're basically told to go home and rest and get better,\" Cohen said.", "Vaccines are unlikely to help much this year.", "Supplies are not expected until late October, and require some five weeks from the first inoculation -- two are required -- before they become effective.", "\"By then, it's December and the semester is almost over,\" he said.", "So public health officials are focusing on more basic medical efforts.", "Students already overloaded with information at the start of the semester are being urged to sneeze into their sleeves, wash their hands frequently and stay home if they get sick, Cohen said.", "\"It really comes down to them taking personal action,\" he said.", "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends someone sick with the virus remain out of class for 24 hours after fever has abated on its own.", "Firm figures on just how many people have the illness are tough to come by.", "Doctors are not required to report it to state or federal health officials, said Maggie Thompson, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.", "\"We've stopped accepting tests from county health departments,\" she said.", "Instead, the department is focusing on a surveillance system that will test only those sites deemed representative.", "Otherwise, Thompson said, the state's laboratories would become overwhelmed.", "\"There are just too many numbers.\"", "The state stopped counting laboratory-confirmed cases at 324: \"But that is just a fraction of what we think is going on,\" she said.", "\"There could be as many as 10,000 cases in Kansas already.\"", "KU students are not the only ones catching swine flu, Thompson said: \"If you called any university of this size around the country it's probably going to be about the same.\"", "At Auburn University in Alabama, 10 cases have been reported among the 24,000 students who started classes last Monday, a spokeswoman said.", "\"So far, everybody seems to be recovering,\" said Deedie Dowdle.", "The school's emergency management team was meeting this week to decide how to handle larger-scale absences, she said.", "\"I'm getting lots of reports of outbreaks in the Southeast Conference,\" said Dr. James Turner, president of the American College Health Association.", "\"I'm anticipating several thousand cases among college students this fall.\"", "Among the preparations are plans for mass vaccinations, he said.", "But with school just beginning, much remains unknown, he said.", "\"We are just kind of hunkering down right now waiting to see where this goes.\"", "Turner is also executive director for student health at the University of Virginia, where classes are slated to begin Tuesday.", "\"We're kind of bracing for what the week brings,\" he said.", "Turner said 63 students came down with swine flu during the summer session, and \"they all did fine.\"", "Last week, the CDC released tips for school administrators to follow.", "\"We're hoping we're on track to be ahead of this virus, to get the college-age population vaccinated once it becomes available in mid-October, and to keep students as safe and secure as possible,\" Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters in a conference call.", "Some U.S. colleges began reporting cases last April, after students returned from spring break.", "The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, which reported one case of H1N1 last spring, is taking extra precautions ahead of the fall semester.", "\"We are attacking the disease, from each person taking the responsibility for good hygiene and healthy habits,\" said Ann Kleva, the university's director of health services.", "The University of California has been stocking up on supplies for each of its 10 campuses over the past several months, university system officials said.", "Since mid-April, when swine flu was discovered, the CDC has tallied 522 deaths in the nation.", "\"We do know that H1N1 flu is circulating in the country right now,\" said Lisa Barrios, of the agency's division of adolescent and school health.", "\"For the most part, it's sporadic and regional.\"", "But she said the agency is not advising any schools to close.", "\"What we're doing is keeping a very close eye on what's happening with the flu during the fall and the winter,\" she said.", "The swine flu virus has captured the attention of public health experts because they worry it could mutate into a far more lethal form.", "\"If that does happen, then we may recommend that schools close, but right now we are not doing that,\" Barrios said.", "\"It's important to balance the risks with the benefits of keeping kids in schools.\"", "CNN's Emily Sherman, Leslie Wade, Miriam Falco and Elizabeth Cohen contributed to this article." ]	[ "Five days into new year, U. of Kansas at Lawrence has 47 cases of swine flu .", "No one has died or been hospitalized because of the illness .", "Last week, the CDC released tips for school administrators to follow .", "Universities and colleges across the country are bracing for swine flu spike ." ]	[ 0, 2, 37 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Serving a 36-year-old government-issue cake at an Army retirement ceremony sounds like a classic bureaucratic mistake, but there was no mistake about it.", "Retiring Army Col. Henry Moak uses a vintage P-38 to break the seal on government cake saved since 1973.", "Retiring Army Col. Henry Moak served it up himself -- at his own ceremony.", "Moak had saved the cake since 1973, when he got it while serving in Vietnam, and had long-standing plans to open it upon his retirement.", "Pound cake served in a can was standard fare in military C rations back then.", "Moak said it was his favorite, and he could not get enough of it.", "\"I would eat it any chance I could get, but not all of the meals came with pound cake,\" he said before opening it.", "In front of friends and family who attended his retirement ceremony Friday at the Pentagon, Moak eagerly opened the can.", "Answering the question of whether the anticipation was the same now as back then, Moak said, \"Yes, even more!\"", "\"I won't eat it if it's black and moldy,\" he told onlookers.", "\"You can hear the pop of the air coming out,\" he said referring to the vacuum seal on the can.", "To most people's surprise, the opened can revealed a still-edible yellow cake.", "The ceremonial sword used to cut Moak's real retirement cake was also used to dig into the can and cut out the cake.", "Moak took a bite and put up his thumb, \"It's good, it's still kind of moist,\" he declared." ]	[ "Retiring Army Col. Henry Moak treats himself to pound cake saved from 1973 .", "Moak says he always liked the cake and \"would eat it any chance I could get\"\nHe saved the C ration goodie to have alongside traditional retirement cake ." ]	[ 1, 3, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Palestinians on Tuesday urged the United Nations to \"punish\" Israel as a scathing U.N. report accused the nation of war crimes during its military offensive in Gaza last winter.", "A Palestinian boy kicks a football outside damaged homes in northern Gaza in January 2009.", "But Israel rejected the investigation as one-sided and shameful.", "The report accused Israel of committing \"actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity\" during its military incursion into Gaza from December 27 to January 18.", "Richard Goldstone, the South African judge who headed the U.N. investigation into the conflict, demanded that someone be held responsible for crimes committed during it.", "\"The lack of accountability for war crimes and possible crimes against humanity has reached a crisis point,\" Goldstone said Tuesday.", "\"This is the time of action.\"", "He formally presented the report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on Tuesday.", "It claims that the Israeli Defense Forces \"failed to take feasible precautions required by international law to avoid or minimize loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects.\"", "Ibrahim Khraishi, the Palestinian Authority's ambassador to the United Nations, called the report professional and unbiased.", "\"This report should not be another report to just document and archive,\" said Khraishi.", "\"My people will not forgive this council if they let these criminals go unpunished.\"", "But Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Aharon Leshno-Yaar, questioned the report in strong language Tuesday, calling it one-sided and shameful.", "\"This report is based on carefully picked incidents, cherry-picked for political effect,\" Leshno-Yaar said.", "\"The authors of this fact-finding report had little thought about finding facts.\"", "Israel did not cooperate in the U.N. investigation, calling it flawed and biased.", "There is an ongoing dispute about the number of people killed in the three-week military offensive which Israel called Operation Cast Lead.", "The Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights put the death toll at 1,419 and said that 1,167 of those were \"non-combatants.\"", "The Israeli military released its own figures earlier this year, claiming 1,166 people were killed and that 60 percent of those were \"terror operatives.\"", "A separate report released earlier this month by Israeli human rights organization B'tselem put the death toll at 1,387, claiming that more than half of those killed were civilians.", "Israel has said it \"had both a right and an obligation to take military action against Hamas in Gaza to stop Hamas' almost incessant rocket and mortar attacks upon thousands of Israeli civilians and its other acts of terrorism.\"", "Hamas is the militant Palestinian movement which governs Gaza.", "It rejects Israel's right to exist.", "The U.N. report said Israel fired the chemical agent white phosphorus in civilian areas, intentionally fired upon hospitals using high-explosive artillery shells, and failed to provide effective warnings to civilians or U.N. workers before attacks, all of which can be war crimes.", "It also claims that Israel used Palestinian civilians as human shields and deliberately attacked Palestinian food supplies in Gaza.", "The report recommends that the U.N. Security Council require the government of Israel to launch appropriate independent investigations into the findings of the report within three months.", "The findings also recommend that the alleged Israeli war crimes be explored by the International Criminal Court.", "Israel has launched a number of its own investigations into the conflict.", "The findings also call on Palestinian leadership to investigate alleged war crimes, for militants to respect humanitarian law, and for the release of the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped by Palestinian militants in 2006, on humanitarian grounds.", "Representatives from Russia, Cuba and Egypt applauded the Goldstone report.", "The U.S. representative to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Assistant Secretary of State Michael Posner, said some of the recommendations in the report were \"deeply flawed\" and called for Israel and Palestinian authorities to be allowed to finish conducting their own investigations before passing judgment.", "A spokeswoman for U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the Human Rights Council could draft a resolution on the issue by Friday.", "The group that prepared the report is called the U.N.", "Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict.", "Its 500-plus page report was released earlier this month and presented formally on Tuesday.", "CNN's Kevin Flower contributed to this report." ]	[ "U.N. group presents scathing report on Israel's conduct during Gaza offensive .", "Palestinians urge U.N. to address alleged crimes; Israel condemns report .", "Report accuses Israel of \"actions amounting to war crimes\" during offensive .", "Report finds Palestinian militants also committed war crimes ." ]	[ 0, 3, 22, 32 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A key Senate negotiator said Sunday that President Obama should drop his push for a government-funded public health insurance option because the Senate will never pass it.", "President Obama at a town hall meeting earlier this week pushing his health care reform plan.", "Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota said it was futile to continue to \"chase that rabbit\" due to the lack of 60 Senate votes needed to overcome a filibuster.", "\"The fact of the matter is there are not the votes in the United States Senate for a public option.", "There never have been,\" Conrad said on \"Fox News Sunday.\"", "His comment signaled a shift in the health care debate, with Obama and senior advisers softening their support for a public option by saying final form of the legislation is less important than the principle of affordable coverage available to all.", "At a town hall meeting Saturday in Colorado, Obama said the public option is just one of many issues critical to successfully overhauling the ailing health care system.", "\"All I'm saying is ... that the public option, whether we have it or we don't have it, is not the entirety of health care reform.", "This is just one sliver of it,\" the president said.", "Asked Sunday if Obama would accept a bill lacking a public option, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president insists on more competition in the health insurance marketplace to offer consumers better choices.", "\"The bottom line ... is: Do individuals looking for health insurance in the private market have choice and competition?\"", "Gibbs said on the CBS program \"Face the Nation.\"", "\"If we have that, the president will be satisfied.\"", "Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius echoed Gibbs, telling CNN's \"State of the Union\" on Sunday that a final health care bill will include competitive choices for consumers in one form or another.", "\"There will be a competitor to private insurers,\" she said.", "\"You don't turn over the whole new marketplace to private insurance companies and trust them to do the right thing.", "We need some choices and we need some competition.\"", "Opponents of overhauling the health care system argue the Democratic proposals under consideration by Congress go too far and will lead to a government takeover of the health care system.", "\"We have the best health care system in the world,\" Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama told \"Fox News Sunday.\"", "\"We need to expand it.", "We do not need to destroy it.\"", "At issue is how to provide coverage for an estimated 46 million uninsured people while reversing a climb in health care costs.", "Democratic proposals passed so far by House and Senate committees include a public insurance option, mandates for people to be insured and employers to provide coverage, and an end to insurance companies refusing to cover pre-existing conditions.", "Most Republicans oppose the public option and requirements for employers to provide coverage.", "They also call for limits on medical malpractice lawsuits -- something Democrats generally don't favor.", "However, the two parties generally agree on a number of provisions contained in the Democratic bills, including increased efficiency in Medicare and Medicaid and focusing on preventive health programs.", "Conrad is one of six Senate Finance Committee members -- three Democrats and three Republicans -- who are negotiating a compromise health care bill that would be the only bipartisan proposal so far.", "Instead of a public option, the negotiators are considering a plan proposed by Conrad to create nonprofit health insurance cooperatives that could negotiate coverage as a collective for their members.", "Conrad said such cooperatives would provide the competition sought by Obama and Democratic leaders to force private insurers to hold down costs and improve practices.", "The government would put up initial funding to provide required reserves but would have no other role, he said.", "\"It's not a public plan at all in terms of government running it,\" Conrad said.", "Shelby called the cooperative idea a \"step in the right direction\" and \"a far cry\" from other proposals, adding that Obama and Democratic leaders have \"read the tea leaves\" from town hall meetings around the country.", "However, Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas told CNN it would be \"very, very difficult\" to support a bill that lacked a public health insurance option.", "\"Without the public option, we'll have the same number of people uninsured,\" Johnson said in a \"State of the Union\" interview.", "\"If the insurance companies wanted to insure these people now, they'd be insured.\"", "She added that \"an option that would give the private insurance companies a little competition\" is \"the only way\" to be sure that insurance is available to low-income people and people without employer-provided coverage.", "Meanwhile, leaders of organizations representing America's doctors and senior citizens defended the proposed health care overhaul that their groups had opposed in past years.", "Dr. J. James Rohack, president of the American Medical Association, and John Rother of AARP -- formerly the American Association of Retired Persons -- told \"Fox News Sunday\" a comprehensive overhaul sought by Democrats was necessary.", "\"There are some moving parts that if you just do one and don't do the other, you're going to have unintended consequences,\" said Rohack, head of the nation's largest doctors' advocacy group.", "Rother, executive vice president of policy and strategy for the largest senior citizens' advocacy group, said properly addressing excessive health care costs and waste requires addressing both health insurance coverage and how health care treatment is delivered.", "Both men rejected accusations that a health care overhaul would bring rationing of health treatment based on bureaucratic measures such as cost and economic productivity of patients.", "\"There's a myth that rationing doesn't occur right now,\" Rohack said, noting that some companies currently deny coverage for pregnancy as a pre-existing condition.", "\"That's why this bill is so important,\" Rohack said.", "\"It gets rid of rationing happening right now\" and leaves decisions to patients and doctors.", "Rohack also condemned claims by some Republicans that a provision in one House bill would lead to so-called \"death panels\" encouraging euthanasia of senior citizens.", "\"That's absolutely wrong, it's a falsehood,\" he said, adding that the provision was intended to provide government support for consultations between patients and their doctors.", "Spreading of the \"death panel\" rumor by some conservative commentators and some Republican politicians prompted emotional opposition at town hall meetings across the country.", "Senate negotiators on a compromise bill say they have dropped the provision from their proposal due to potential misinterpretation of the intent." ]	[ "Democratic senator from North Dakota: Not enough votes to filibuster .", "Sen. Kent Conrad: President Obama should not \"chase that rabbit\"\nConrad, working on bipartisan proposal, suggests nonprofit insurance co-ops .", "Obama has been campaigning for a government-backed health care option ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nearly 40 years after members of a U.S. cavalry unit put their lives in peril to save 100 fellow soldiers trapped under blistering enemy fire in Vietnam, they received the Presidential Unit Citation on Tuesday.", "Veterans watch Tuesday's ceremony, which recognized members of a U.S. cavalry unit.", "It's an honor their captain says is long overdue.", "President Obama awarded the citation for extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry to 86 members of the Army's Troop A, First Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment.", "\"These soldiers defined the meaning of bravery and heroism,\" Obama said at a White House reception honoring the group's heroics.", "\"It's never too late.", "You can never say it enough.", "... We honor your service, and America is forever grateful.\"", "On March 26, 1970, the 120-member Troop A volunteered to rescue an American infantry company surrounded by an overwhelming enemy force at a site on the Cambodian border called the Dog's Face.", "The enemy had survived hours of aerial and artillery bombardment and was expected to kill or capture the 100 American infantrymen in Company C within hours.", "The Americans were running out of ammunition and could not move because of heavy casualties.", "There were no available landing zones for medical and rescue helicopters to touch down.", "Alpha Troop heard of their plight on a radio and rode in with an infantry company to rescue their comrades.", "\"Troop A skillfully penetrated four kilometers of nearly impassable jungle terrain and unhesitatingly mounted a fierce assault directly into the heavily fortified North Vietnamese army position,\" the presidential proclamation states.", "When the battle was over, more than 70 Americans lay dead or wounded.", "For retired Capt.", "John Poindexter, who led the rescue, the award is for all Vietnam veterans, many of whom came home to an unwelcome and sometimes hostile reception.", "\"The veterans of Alpha Troop feel very strongly that we stand in the stead of all veterans of the war of Vietnam,\" Poindexter told CNN before the ceremony.", "\"The fact is that we're being singled out for a very distinct honor, a very rare one, but it is our conviction that on any day in any other jungle in Vietnam, nearly every Vietnam veteran would have been willing to assume the task that we assumed on March 26, 1970, when we earned the Presidential Unit Citation.\"", "Poindexter had been trying to gain recognition for his men for the past seven years.", "Initially, he felt deep disappointment.", "In 2003, he discovered that the men he had recommended for decorations for their valor had not received those citations.", "Eventually, 14 men received individual decorations.", "That was not enough. \"My role in obtaining the PUC [Presidential Unit Citation] -- or in helping to obtain the PUC -- among the 200 persons who were involved in this matter over a seven-year period, was to be in the unhappy position of discovering that the men who I had recommended for decorations had not been recommended, had not been awarded those decorations,\" the retired captain said.", "\"The result of that was that we got 14 men decorated for their valor, but 14 men out of more than 120 who were engaged in the battle on that fateful day were only a pittance, only a minority, of those who might have been honored.", "Only a unit citation could honor all equally and impartially, and it was that task we set ourselves on nearly seven years ago. \"", "He believes lack of popular support for the war had much to do with it taking so long for Alpha Troop to be recognized.", "\"There's little question in our minds that the unpopularity of the war in Vietnam is a major contributing factor to the reception these men received when they returned to the United States and a major factor, in my opinion, in the silence that most of them have assumed since then,\" Poindexter said.", "\"Why talk about something that most people don't have a very high opinion of in all likelihood?", "And if that isn't true, nevertheless, it's what most of these men think.", "They were engaged in an unpopular venture that has bedeviled them for much of their adult lives.\"", "Now, the circle has been closed.", "\"It's a very elevating experience to see the men that I have not seen for 40 years since War Zone C in Vietnam,\" the former captain said.", "\"These are persons who have had success in life, and some have not had a lot of success in life, and to see how they've turned out, how they look these days, and to know I'll be with them in the White House [Tuesday] is a very fulfilling sensation for me.", "\"For me, the sensation of being honored is one of having closed an important chapter on my life in a very fruitful and rewarding way.\"", "The Presidential Unit Citation is awarded to armed forces units of the United States and allies for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy on or after December 7, 1941.", "The unit must display such gallantry, determination and esprit de corps under extremely difficult and hazardous conditions so as to set it apart from and above other units participating in the same campaign." ]	[ "86 in Army's Troop A, First Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment recognized .", "Cavalry saved 100 fellow soldiers trapped under enemy fire in Vietnam .", "Leader of 1970 rescue says award is for all Vietnam veterans .", "Presidential Unit Citation recognizes extraordinary heroism against armed enemy ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Hurricane Bill weakened Friday afternoon to a Category 2 hurricane, with its maximum sustained winds at 105 mph, forecasters said.", "Hurricane Bill is expected to pass between Bermuda and the U.S. East Coast over the weekend.", "As of 11 p.m. Friday, Bill's center was about 180 miles west-southwest of Bermuda, and about 545 miles east-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.", "Its forward speed had increased to about 20 mph as it continued moving north-northwest, forecasters said.", "The storm was expected to gradually turn toward the north late Friday and into Saturday.", "See Bill's projected path » .", "If the storm follows its current track, it should pass over the open water between Bermuda and the U.S. East Coast on Saturday, forecasters said.", "Earlier Friday, Bill's outer bands began producing rain in Bermuda as the storm neared the British territory, the hurricane center said.", "Forecasters expect Bill to pelt Bermuda with 1 to 3 inches of rain, although up to 5 inches is possible.", "iReport.com: Bermuda's preparations .", "The storm also was beginning to affect the U.S. East Coast, where dangerous rip currents and battering waves were developing, said CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.", "Rip currents form as wind and waves push water against the shore, where it is caught behind an obstacle such as a sandbar until it breaks free, sending a strong channel of water flowing away from the shoreline.", "The large swells are expected to affect most of the U.S. East Coast within the next couple of days, the hurricane center said.", "There were reports of waves at the center of the storm as high as 54 feet, Jeras said.", "With Bill advancing, the Bermuda Weather Service forecasts the storm tide will raise water levels by as much as 3 feet along the coast and produce large, battering waves.", "Large swells were affecting Puerto Rico, the island of Hispaniola and the Bahamas to the south, the agency said.", "Bermuda remained under a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch.", "The warning means winds of at least 39 mph are expected within 24 hours, while the watch indicates winds of at least 74 mph are possible within 36 hours.", "Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 85 miles from the center and storm-force winds outward as much as 275 miles, the hurricane center said.", "Forecasters advised people along the New England coast and in the Canadian Maritime provinces to monitor Bill's progress." ]	[ "Hurricane Bill downgraded to Category 2 storm .", "Hurricane expected to pelt Bermuda with 1 to 3 inches of rain .", "Battering waves developing on parts of U.S. East Coast .", "Bill is expected to pass between Bermuda and East Coast ." ]	[ 1, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck the Pacific near American Samoa, triggering towering tsunami waves that gushed over the island and leaving at least 22 people dead.", "The tsunami wave hit right in the middle of the harbor of Pago Pago, the capital.", "American Samoa Gov.", "Togiola Tulafono, speaking from Hawaii, said Tuesday's quake ranked \"right up there with some of the worst\" disasters on the island.", "He said about 50 people had been treated for injuries so far but he expected that number to rise.", "The quake hit the small cluster of South Pacific islands early Tuesday morning.", "By evening, Laumoli, standing outside the LBJ Tropical Medican Center morgue in the capital of Pago Pago, confirmed 22 deaths.", "\"I thought it was the end of the world,\" said Dr. Salamo Laumoli, director of health services.", "\"I have never felt an earthquake like that before.\"", "Laumoli feared more fatalities would turn up as rescue workers were still trying to access parts of the island severed by damaged infrastructure.", "Laumoli said people in outlying villages on one end of the main island have been cut off because the main bridge was washed away.", "\"Two or three villages have been badly damaged,\" he told CNN International.", "Listen to Laumoli speak about the impact of the quake and tsunami » .", "Tulafono cited extensive damage to roads, buildings and homes, and said he had spoken to the military about mobilizing reserve forces for assistance.", "The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Ewa Beach, Hawaii, canceled tsunami watches and warnings for American Samoa about four hours after the earthquake hit.", "However, a tsunami advisory is still in effect for for the coastal areas of California and Oregon.", "Watch report on end of tsunami warning » .", "The Japan Meteorological Agency also activated a tsunami advisory along its eastern coast.", "The precautionary alert means that the height of a possible tsunami wave would be less than a foot and a half.", "President Barack Obama \"declared a major disaster exists in the Territory of American Samoa\" late Tuesday and ordered federal aid to supplement local efforts.", "The declaration makes federal funding available to affected individuals.", "The tsunami waves hit right in the middle of the Pago Pago harbor, the capital, said Cinta Brown, an American Samoa homeland security official working at the island's emergency operations center.", "The water devastated the village of Leone.", "Watch a resident talk about what happened » .", "\"The wave came onshore and washed out people's homes,\" Brown said.", "The same happened on the hard-hit east and west sides of American Samoa, she said.", "The quake generated three separate tsunami waves, the largest measuring 5.1 feet from sea level height, said Vindell Hsu, a geophysicist with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.", "Preliminary data had originally reported a larger tsunami.", "Officials in the U.S. territory issued a clear call and were focusing on assessing the damage, Brown said.", "Reports of damage were still emerging, but a bulletin from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the waves \"may have been destructive along coasts near the earthquake epicenter and could also be a threat to more distant coasts.", "Authorities should take appropriate action in response to this possibility.\"", "Tulafono, the governor, was on his way back home Tuesday night on one of two U.S. Coast Guard C-130 transport planes flying to American Samoa with aid.", "The Coast Guard also will transport more than 20 officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to American Samoa, said John Hamill, external affairs officer for FEMA in Oakland, California.", "The FEMA team will include a variety of debris experts, housing experts, members of the Corps of Engineers, and other disaster relief specialists, Hamill said.", "Tulafono told reporters Tuesday that it was hard being away from home when disaster came calling.", "It was a time, he said, for families to be together.", "Those who experienced the massive quake described it as a terrifying event.", "Brown was standing in a parking lot when her sports utility vehicle began rocking left and right.", "\"You could hear the rattling of the metal\" of a large chain link fence around the lot, Brown said.", "\"It shakes you because you know something else is coming,\" she said.", "CNN's Augie Martin, Mariano Castillo, Moni Basu, Tess Eastment and Nick Valencia contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: White House declares major disaster; orders federal aid .", "U.S. sending plane with aid, officials to help American Samoa .", "Magnitude-8.0 quake strikes near Samoan Islands early Tuesday .", "Quake struck at depth of 7.4 miles, triggered three 5-foot tsunamis ." ]	[ 0, 5, 19, 31 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Swimming legend Michael Phelps struggled in his attempt to adapt to the old-style racing suits at the World Cup short-course event in Sweden on Tuesday.", "The 14-time Olympic gold medal winner qualified for finals in only one of three events in Stockholm, his best result being seventh of eight to go through in the men's 100 meter medley.", "Racing for the first time since winning five golds and a silver at the world championships in July, the American missed out on the 100m freestyle after qualifying in 16th of 23 competitors.", "His time of 47.77 seconds was 1.84 seconds slower than the leading mark set by Sweden's Stefan Nystrand.", "The 24-year-old, who was disqualified in the 100m backstroke, set a time of 53.13 seconds in the medley.", "The fastest man, South African Darian Townsend, came home in 52.48.", "Phelps was one of the few swimmers to revert to the old-style suits, which will become mandatory after January 1 as world ruling body FINA seeks to rein in the high-tech costumes which have sent records tumbling at an incredible rate in the past two years.", "He will swim in the 100m butterfly and 200m medley heats on Wednesday, and then head to the next leg of the World Cup in Berlin at the weekend.", "In Stockholm on Tuesday, Chinese swimmer Jing Zhao set a new world record in the heats of the women's 50m backstroke, clocking 26.08 seconds.", "She beat the mark of 26.17 posted by Australia's Marieke Guehrer in the previous meet of the series in Moscow on November 6.", "In the men's 50m butterfly, South Africa's Roland Schoeman was first in a new World Cup record of 22.29." ]	[ "Swimming star Michael Phelps struggles in old-style racing suits at World Cup short-course event .", "The 14-time Olympic gold medal winner missed out on two of three finals in Stockholm .", "He was one of the few to wear an old-style suit, which will be mandatory next year .", "Phelps has two more events on Wednesday before heading to the next leg in Berlin ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The woman who made the 911 call that led to Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates' controversial arrest wasn't present at the so-called beer summit.", "Lucia Whalen, who called 911 to report a possible break-in, speaks to reporters Wednesday.", "But she got a shot of kindness and a taste of gratitude from Gates himself.", "Lucia Whalen received a bouquet of flowers at her office from Gates, according to Whalen's attorney, Wendy Murphy.", "\"She described them as amazing, and appreciated them very much,\" Murphy said of the bouquet.", "The attorney described the flowers as being a beautiful assortment of what she believed were different colored roses.", "There was a note included from Gates, the details of which Murphy would not divulge.", "She said the note characterized Gates's \"expression of gratitude\" for Whalen's action.", "An officer responding to a report of a possible break-in at Gates' Cambridge, Massachusetts, home arrested the professor on July 16 for disorderly conduct.", "The charge was later dropped.", "The arrest sparked a national debate about race and police relations.", "Whalen said an older woman with no cell phone told her that she was worried someone was trying to break into the home, and decided to call 911.", "Whalen never referred to black suspects when she called authorities about the suspected break-in.", "On Thursday, President Barack Obama -- who had weighed in on the controversy, saying initially that police acted \"stupidly\" -- sat down for a beer at the White House with Gates and the officer who arrested him.", "The meeting has been called the \"beer summit.\"", "After the meeting, Obama said in a statement he was thankful to Gates and Cambridge police Sgt.", "James Crowley for joining him at for \"a friendly, thoughtful conversation.", "\"Even before we sat down for the beer, I learned that the two gentlemen spent some time together listening to one another, which is a testament to them,\" the president's statement said .", "Obama's initial comments on the incident drew criticism and later he softened his stance, saying, \"I could've calibrated those words differently.\"", "Murphy told CNN that Whalen has been receiving other apologies and accolades from people all over the world, but so far, no beer." ]	[ "Henry Gates sends flowers to office of woman who accidentally called police on him .", "Lucia Whalen \"appreciated them very much,\" her secretary says .", "Whalen called 911 after woman told her she suspected break-in at Gates' home .", "Whalen drew criticism for making call; says she'd do it again ." ]	[ 1, 3, 4, 11, 12 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sasha and Malia Obama had front row seats for Monday night's Kids' Inaugural Concert, but jumped on stage when the Jonas Brothers invited them up.", "Michelle Obama and her daughters pose with actress Keke Palmer at the Kids' Inaugural.", "Their mother -- incoming first lady Michelle Obama -- declared the show \"pretty cool.\"", "Thousands of kids -- mostly children of military families -- danced and yelled in Washington's Verizon Center as Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Bow Wow, the Jonas Brothers and others performed.", "\"Are we fired up in here?\" Michelle Obama asked as she took the stage halfway through the two-hour show.", "\"Are we ready to go?\" Obama called on the young people to play a part in their country's future now, in activities such as volunteering at shelters for the homeless, visiting elderly neighbors or writing letters of support to troops overseas.", "\"We all have something incredible to contribute to the life of this nation,\" she said, adding, \"And kids, this means you, too, right?\"", "Sasha, 7, kept her camera ready, getting photos of her favorite teen stars.", "While the Obama daughters have met many of the stars along the campaign trail in the past year, it was their first time to meet singer-actress Keke Palmer, a presenter at the show.", "Palmer, 15, said Michelle Obama told her \"she was really proud of me.\"", "Most of their backstage talk was about Palmer's movies and TV show, she said.", "Like the Obamas, Palmer is a Chicago, Illinois, native." ]	[ "NEW: At concert, Michelle Obama urges young people to get involved now .", "Concert features the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Bow Wow and Demi Lovato .", "Billy Ray Cyrus, Keke Palmer and Usher make introductions .", "Did you miss the show?", "It's available later on Disney.com ." ]	[ 1, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Florida court has approved the divorce of the father of Haleigh Cummings, a Florida girl who disappeared in February, and the girl's stepmother, a key witness in the case.", "Ronald Cummings divorced his wife, Misty, who was the last person to see his daughter, Haleigh.", "Ronald Cummings, 25, cites irreconcilable differences in ending his short marriage to his 17-year-old wife, whom he married more than a month after Haleigh went missing from her father's home in Satsuma, Florida, on February 9.", "Cummings has made several public pleas for information in her disappearance.", "Misty Cummings, then known as Misty Croslin, was the last person known to have seen Haleigh the night she disappeared from the family's rented mobile home.", "The teenager said she tucked Haleigh and her 4-year-old brother into bed about 8 p.m. and went to sleep herself two hours later, but awoke at 3 a.m. to find the girl missing and a cinder block propping open a back door.", "Ronald Cummings called police and reported his daughter missing when he returned from work at dawn.", "Investigators have said they do not feel Misty Cummings has told them everything she knows.", "\"The police have been telling me that I've been keeping Misty under my wing and that's why she hasn't talked to the cops,\" Ronald Cummings told a HLN's \"Nancy Grace\" producer earlier in October.", "\"So now, here you go, I divorced her.", "So now go find my baby.\"", "The Putnam County Sheriff's office said in August that \"the evidence and investigatory effort has minimized the likelihood that Haleigh's disappearance is the work of a stranger.\"", "Ronald Cummings and Crystal Sheffield, Haleigh's mother, are not considered suspects, police said.", "\"Investigators believe that Misty Croslin-Cummings continues to hold important answers in the case,\" the sheriff's office said in a written statement.", "\"She has failed to provide any sort of detailed accounting of the hours during the late evening and early morning of Haleigh's disappearance.", "Furthermore, physical evidence at the scene contradicts Misty's sketchy account of her evening activities.\"", "Croslin has not been named a person of interest or suspect in the case.", "In televised interviews, Croslin has said she does not know what happened to the little girl, while also saying she believed \"the other side of the family\" knows where she is.", "The couple lived together for about six months before marrying in March.", "Under the divorce settlement approved Thursday by a St. John's County court, both sides permanently and irrevocably waive any rights to alimony and other types of financial payments." ]	[ "Ronald Cummings, wife Misty finalize divorce after brief marriage .", "Misty Croslin was last person to see 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings .", "Haleigh Cummings disappeared from home in February while in Croslin's care ." ]	[ 2, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The people who died Thursday at a spiritual resort in Arizona had spent time in a \"sweatbox\" similar to what Native Americans and other cultures have used for prayer and purification rituals throughout history.", "Two people died and were 19 injured after spending up to two hours inside this \"sweatbox\" at an Arizona resort.", "And those who use them say they can be dangerous if care is not taken.", "From Scandinavia to South America to Africa, people have come together in the sauna-like structures -- typically heated by pouring water on hot lava rocks -- for a variety of reasons, said Joseph Bruchac, writer and author of The Native American Sweat Lodge.", "He's part Abenaki, a tribe concentrated in the northeast United Staes, and part European.", "\"Each tribal nation has its own traditions, so one group might do it differently from another so you cannot generalize too much,\" said Bruchac, who runs an outdoor education center in Greenfield Center, New York.", "In North America, most Native American tribes use the term \"sweat lodge\" to refer to a dome-shaped structure where the intimate ritual of the sweat takes place, said Bruchac, who has his own sweat lodge on his property in the foothills of the Adirondacks.", "\"Sweat lodges are typically used for a ritual preparation, like before a hunt, or nowadays, people might do it before a wedding or dance or some kind of community event as a way of putting yourself in balance,\" he said.", "Bruchac noted that incidents like the one in Arizona tend to raise discussion in Native American communities over whether non-Natives should be allowed to adapt traditional ceremonies.", "\"It's a very meaningful ceremony.", "I can understand why people find it attractive,\" Bruchac said.", "\"But I consider it sacrilegious and foolish to do someone else's rituals without proper guidance or practice, especially in sweat lodges where you're raising people's body temperatures.", "With that many people, oxygen is going to be depleted, and if you have heart problems or breathing problems, you could faint or die.\"", "No information about the sweatbox at the Angel Valley Resort near Sedona could be found on the Web site Saturday.", "The two people who died and the 19 others who fell ill there were attending a program by self-help expert James Arthur Ray, authorities said Saturday.", "Authorities said between 50 and 60 people were in the structure for nearly two hours -- far exceeding the number who ordinarily would participate in a traditional sweat, according to Bruchac.", "In a typical ritual, the leader of the sweat gathers four to 12 friends, family members or guests inside the structure, usually made of willow and covered with blankets or canvas, he said.", "\"The person running the sweat has to be very aware of the people in the lodge because he takes control of them mentally, physically and spiritually,\" said Bruchac.", "\"The leader is responsible for them, so he has to be aware of their physical conditions and their motivations, their reasons for being there.\"", "After everyone is inside, a firekeeper heats stones, usually lava rocks, and brings them into the lodge, placing them in a hole in the ground and carefully pouring water over the stones to release steam.", "The technique of releasing the heat is done with great care so that no one is injured by the steam, which can burn skin or lungs if someone inhales it, said Father Raymond Bucko, Director of Native Studies at Creighton University.", "\"Nobody will make it so hot that no one can stand it,\" said Bucko.", "\"Religious leaders are very careful about people's health in the sweat.", "If they're not healthy, people can sit outside the sweat and pray and others can go in for them.\"", "A ritual of speaking or prayer may follow, depending on the group's intention for gathering.", "\"People talk and often there's lot of humor, but at any time if it's too hot, some one can say so and they will immediately open the door and people are encouraged to go out,\" he said.", "The Jesuit priest and cultural anthropologist participated in sweats with the Crow and Lakota people for nearly 30 years, until he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis two years ago.", "\"It's not about toughing it out or proving anything.", "It really is a beautiful experience of people coming together, of intense prayerfulness.\"" ]	[ "Sweat lodges are used in prayer and purification rituals across globe .", "Deaths raise concerns over non-Natives trying to adapt traditional ceremonies .", "Typical Native American sweat lodge used in ritual of prayer and purification .", "Firekeeper heats stones, places them in hole in lodge, pours water over them ." ]	[ 8, 19 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After a losing presidential campaign, it became clear to Edward \"Ted\" Kennedy that his true calling was to help shape the country's political future from the U.S. Senate.", "The turning point came in 1980 when Kennedy unsuccessfully challenged President Carter in the Democratic primaries.", "But Kennedy's loss was not necessarily such a bad thing, a top political historian notes.", "\"I think partly it related to that time when he, after 1980, he realized that he was not going to be president of the United States ... and that being a United States senator was a pretty important and powerful job in which he could do good,\" said Stephen Hess, author of \"America's Political Dynasties.\"", "Kennedy, 77, had represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate since his 1962 election when he was chosen to finish the unexpired Senate term of his brother, John F. Kennedy, who was elected president in 1960.", "The Massachusetts governor appointed Democrat Benjamin A. Smith to the seat following John Kennedy's presidential win.", "Political observers have said that Smith was a mere seat warmer until Ted Kennedy turned 30 -- the required age to become a U.S. senator.", "Watch how the youngest Kennedy brother carried on the family torch » .", "\"It's quite remarkable for a person who got there in 1962 at age 30 with no greater qualification for the office than his brother was president of the United States and the voters of Massachusetts respected that name,\" Hess said.", "And after nearly 50 years, Hess said Kennedy -- the patriarch of the first family of U.S. Democratic politics -- has truly \"made a substantial mark.\"", "Learn more about Kennedy's funeral arrangements » .", "Deemed by many as the \"Lion of the Senate,\" Kennedy was considered one of the most effective legislators of the past few decades, especially in his ability to cross party lines to get legislation passed.", "In 2001, Kennedy helped President Bush craft and pass education legislation with the No Child Left Behind Act.", "While facing some criticism from his party, Kennedy pushed ahead on an issue close to his heart.", "\"Kennedy realized how much more you could do when you engaged the opposition party and wanted to make the compromises or the agreements that could keep the peace on legislation,\" Hess said.", "Kennedy, Hess added, was good at coalition building because he was an engaging person who \"owned the Senate.\"", "Ted Sorensen, a speechwriter for President Kennedy, said that Ted Kennedy's legacy in the Senate \"is comparable and consistent with the legacy of his entire family for generations.\"", "That legacy, in addition to popularity among fellow senators, might be the reason why he had major roles in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 1990 Americans With Disabilities Act, the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act and the Kennedy-Hatch law of 1997.", "In 1994, Kennedy was instrumental in helping the Clinton administration with its plan to overhaul health care.", "The legislation, maligned by Republicans and conservatives, later failed.", "Fifteen years later, he continued his fight for comprehensive health care alongside the nation's first black president, Barack Obama.", "Kennedy, an early supporter of Obama's presidential campaign, seemingly handed the torch down to Obama before the \"Super Tuesday\" Democratic primaries by likening the senator from Illinois to his brother, the late president.", "But the man who spent much of his career helping others to get better health care, civil rights and education, now faced his own personal medical struggle -- the Kennedy patriarch had brain cancer.", "As that news broke in 2008, his colleagues on both sides of the aisle not only prayed for his recovery but also honored Kennedy's legacy.", "Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, released a statement saying, \"Ted Kennedy has spent his life caring for those in need.", "Now it's time for those who love Ted and his family to care for them and join in prayer to give them strength.\"", "Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said that while he \"sparred a lot\" with Kennedy, he knew \"firsthand what a formidable fighter he is, and I know that he will do all he can to battle this disease.\"", "Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, called Kennedy \"a legendary lawmaker, and I have the highest respect for him. ...", "When we have worked together, he has been a skillful, fair and generous partner.\"", "iReport.com: Share tributes to Kennedy .", "McCain and Kennedy often worked together on legislation throughout the years -- most notably on overhauling the nation's immigration laws.", "Many observers said they believe legislation on the issue progressed as far as it did because Kennedy's name was on it.", "But it has not always been an easy political road for Kennedy.", "After a July 18, 1969, party for those who had worked on his late brother Robert's presidential campaign, Kennedy drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts.", "Although he managed to escape, his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned.", "Kennedy did not report the incident immediately and later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.", "The incident not only created a firestorm of controversy about the clout of the Kennedy family but also raised questions about the senator's honesty and judgment.", "The accident is something that opponents would use in future campaigns.", "But through it all, Kennedy survived politically and went on to become one of the longest-serving senators in U.S. history." ]	[ "Edward \"Ted\" Kennedy had been U.S. senator from Massachusetts since 1962 .", "Kennedy was considered one of the most effective legislators .", "A hallmark was the senator's ability to work across party lines, colleagues say ." ]	[ 4, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Kate Gosselin last appeared on Larry King Live on May 10.", "A little more than a month later, on June 22, she and her husband Jon filed for divorce and announced their split that same day in a special edition of their show.", "Kate Gosselin says she and her kids would like to continue their TV show, but admits it will be up to the network.", "Gosselin returned to Larry King Live on Tuesday to discuss her sextuplets, the future of her show and how she feels about Jon.", "The following is an edited version of the interview: .", "Larry King: How much do they know about what's going on?", "The 9-year-olds probably do, right?", "Kate Gosselin: They understand the process.", "They're working through it, the same that Jon and I are.", "They're doing remarkably well.", "This has opened up a lot of discussions between them and myself.", "A lot of questions come my way, and we're dealing with it.", "They're doing very well considering.", "Watch Gosselin discuss the split » .", "King: Why did you agree to do this reality show in the first place?", "Gosselin: In the very beginning, we started filming a one-hour special.", "It was a way to document what was happening in our lives.", "At that time, there was a lot of local news stories.", "There were a lot of people in the country and the world, believe it or not, pulling for us.", "As you know, sextuplets are not born every day, so there was a lot of interest.", "We did the one-hour special to show everyone.", "I always pictured like the little old lady that was sitting at home who was praying for us, rooting for us and needing to know what happened to those babies that were born.", "So we did it for that reason as well as to collect the memories for ourselves.", "King: Why did you agree to do a regular reality show?", "You could have said that's the special, here's my life, goodbye.", "Gosselin: I could have.", "At that point, the one-hour special was a very good experience.", "The network, TLC, we were on Discovery Health at that time.", "Now, TLC is wonderful, supportive, and it was a great experience for us.", "So we, you know, really moved forward because of that reason.", "It was healthy and safe and fun.", "King: Do the kids talk to you about divorce?", "Gosselin: They do. And as any child, you know, when their parents are divorcing, the goal is peace and we've achieved that numerous times.", "The Fourth of July we spent together as a family.", "My goal is, no matter what the circumstance, no matter what place, you know, one of us is in, my goal is really peace and the best that it can be for the kids.", "King: Do they get counseling?", "Gosselin: We have not started that process, but I feel like it is a very normal thing to do.", "And absolutely, when the time is right.", "King: Jon is quoted in the new \"Us Weekly\": \"I wish I had a 9 to 5 job instead of the nightmare I'm living.", "This is 24/7. I don't even want to do taping the show anymore.\"", "What's your reaction to that? Gosselin: Jon's opinions and his goals are his.", "I know that, personally, for myself and the kids, this has been a good experience.", "It continues to be a good experience.", "And, you know, really the network has been extremely supportive, above and beyond, I feel, what they need to be.", "And I only experience good things.", "Everyone works.", "Everyone has a job.", "Everyone has what they're dealing with.", "And, generally speaking, this is the most flexible, workable, wonderful job for myself.", "King: How long have you been doing it now? Gosselin: We are in season 5.", "We started filming in August of 2005.", "King: Why is it such a good thing to have a private life public?", "Gosselin: It's been a source of huge -- for whatever reason -- inspiration for a lot of people.", "Many, many people -- many parents feel that their decisions are, maybe not, great decisions.", "Every parent has that, you know, parent guilt of my goal is to produce wonderful, productive individuals and put them out into society.", "That is the goal of a parent -- for us to show the world that we are not perfect, life is unpredictable, but life always goes on and there's always, always, always something to look forward to.", "And for me, that is raising my children to the best of my ability.", "King: But as an intelligent person, you also know to all good things, there are downsides.", "Gosselin: Absolutely.", "With every positive, there is a negative across the board in life.", "It's about choosing to see the positive and working with the negative.", "King: So what happens now?", "Are you and the kids going to do the show and Jon is out?", "Gosselin: I'm not the person to make that decision.", "I know that myself and the kids will continue the show.", "King: But if Jon says I don't want to do it anymore, I don't want to be part of it, I'm divorced, I don't need this, will the network say it's you and the kids?", "Gosselin: That would be a question for the network.", "King: Will the name of the show change?", "King: And if they said forget it, that would be OK with you?", "If they said we'll continue, that's OK with you?", "Gosselin: That will be their decision.", "King: You've become famous worldwide over this.", "What's the downside of that? Gosselin: You know, I could really live without the following.", "King: Attention?", "Gosselin: Yes.", "I could live my whole life -- I would have to say that is absolutely the negative.", "I realize it comes with it.", "I know that it goes along with it.", "I'm smart enough to figure out that, you know, there's interest.", "It's going to be interest across the board.", "It's another learning lesson.", "King: You and Jon renewed your marriage vows a year ago this month in Hawaii.", "What happened? How do you go from renewing vows to filing for divorce in a year?", "Gosselin: It is a question I ask myself every day.", "I don't have the answer. King: But (Jon) made this decision?", "Gosselin: You know, it's just an issue that we discussed amongst ourselves.", "I don't feel like that is something that we need to discuss the details of.", "King: Yes, but when you get so famous, you and him and the kids, and then you leave out those details, don't you disappoint the audience that's come to expect more?", "Gosselin: My main concern is my kids.", "And I don't want them to see or hear anything on TV that I didn't discuss with them.", "And we discussed what they need to know at their developmental age groups.", "But I don't feel like I need to go any further than that at this time." ]	[ "Kate Gosselin says sextuplets are doing well despite parents' breakup .", "Gosselin says she doesn't know what led to split with husband Jon .", "Gosselin wants to continue TV show, but says it's network's decision ." ]	[ 2, 9, 13, 40, 77 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Author Frank McCourt, whose tragic childhood became creative grist for his first book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning \"Angela's Ashes,\" died Sunday, according to the Web site of his publisher, Simon & Shuster.", "He was 78. Frank McCourt won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for \"Angela's Ashes.\"", "McCourt taught creative writing to high school students in New York City for 30 years before achieving literary acclaim with the 1996 biography.", "\"Angela's Ashes,\" named after his mother, also won the National Book Critics Circle Award.", "It was translated and sold throughout the world.", "In the book, McCourt described a desperate childhood marked by severe poverty, malnutrition, neglect, infectious disease and loss.", "\"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all.", "It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while.", "Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood,\" he wrote.", "EW: A tribute to Frank McCourt .", "McCourt wrote the two other memoirs, \"Tis\" and \"Teacher Man,\" as sequels to \"Angela's Ashes,\" and penned the children's book \"Angela and the Baby Jesus.\"", "The author was born to Angela and Malachy McCourt on August 19, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrants.", "The family fled to Limerick, Ireland, four years later, during the Great Depression era, only to become mired in even more gut-wrenching poverty.", "Three of the couple's seven children died.", "Malachy McCourt, an alcoholic who managed to keep jobs only a few weeks at a time, left the family scrounging to survive.", "Yet, he also brought joy to his children, as the younger McCourt wrote in \"Angela's Ashes\": .", "\"Before bed we sit around the fire and if we say, 'Dad, tell us a story,' he makes up one about someone in the lane and the story will take us all over the world, up in the air, under the sea and back to the lane.", "Everyone in the story is a different colour and everything is upside down and backward.", "Motor cars and planes go underwater and submarines fly through the air.", "Sharks sit in trees and giant salmon sport with kangaroos on the moon.", "Polar bears wrestle with elephants in Australia and penguins teach Zulus how to play bagpipes.\"", "In October 2006, McCourt told the BBC that he saw his family's struggles as part of the human experience, without casting his father as a villain.", "He also expressed sorrow about his mother.", "\"First of all, I feel so sorry that I didn't understand more about her life and her misery and the deaths of three children,\" McCourt said.", "\"I had one daughter and if she had a cold, I was up all night.", "If she had the sniffles, I was running to her little crib or her bed. ...", "When I was growing up and as I grew to manhood, I really didn't understand my mother's pain.\"", "Asked about his Irish-American identity, McCourt told the BBC: \"I'm actually a New Yorker, because that's what I feel passionately about.", "... New York is the place that gets me all excited.\"", "He returned to the United States at 19 and spent decades coming to grips with his youth.", "\"I dealt with my past, and my future and my present by writing about it.", "And it's really, it's a gift.", "I wish everybody had it, because it eases all kinds of distress,\" he told the BBC.", "McCourt is survived by his wife, Ellen, and other family members, including brother Malachy McCourt, who is an actor and writer." ]	[ "Publisher Simon & Shuster says the Pulitzer Prize-winning author has dead .", "McCourt left the literary world riveted with his novel of growing up in poverty in Ireland .", "Before literary fame, he taught creative writing to high school students in New York .", "Despite upbringing in Ireland, he said he felt like a New Yorker ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Malaysian model, who was set to become the first woman to be caned in the southeast Asian country for drinking beer in public, had her sentence postponed Monday until the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.", "Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno's punishment is unique in that she has opted to go through with it.", "Authorities had picked up Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno, 32, from her father's house Monday morning and were taking her to a prison in the eastern state of Pahang when the van turned around and brought her back.", "\"They sent her back to the house.", "They said the top official asked them not to bring her to Kuala Lumpur,\" said Kartika's father, Shukarno Abdul Muttalib.", "Authorities in Pahang said the delay would run until the month of fasting ends.", "Monday was the third day of Ramadan.", "An Islamic, or sharia, court in Pahang had fined Kartika -- a Muslim -- $1,400 (5,000 Malaysian ringgit) and sentenced her to six strokes with a rattan cane for drinking at a hotel bar two years ago.", "Kartika, a 32-year-old part-time model and mother of two, was visiting Malaysia from Singapore at the time.", "She pleaded guilty, paid the fine, and wanted her caning to be carried out in public.", "Watch more on Kartika's release » .", "She said she lost her job as a nurse in Singapore and took up part-time modeling to support her husband in raising their two children.", "Her son has cerebral palsy; her daughter a heart condition.", "\"I want to move on. This case has been hanging over me for a long time,\" she told CNN last week.", "On Monday morning, Kartika hugged her children, bade a tearful goodbye to the throngs of people gathered at her father's house, and boarded the van.", "She was to be taken to a prison on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.", "The caning would have been carried out within seven days of that, making her the first woman to be caned in Malaysia under sharia law.", "Kartika's punishment is unique in that she has opted to go through with it.", "Two other Malaysians sentenced to the same fate have filed appeals, the Syariah (Sharia) Lawyers' Association of Malaysia said.", "The case drew widespread attention and condemnation, in and outside Malaysia.", "The moderate Muslim country has a dual-track justice system, in which Islamic courts operate alongside civil courts.", "Muslims -- who make up about 60 percent of the 28 million who populate the country -- are forbidden from consuming alcohol.", "Other religious groups are exempt.", "Though caning is used as a supplementary punishment in Malaysia for at least 40 crimes, such as rape or immigration violations, it is not meted out by Malaysia's civil court for alcohol consumption.", "But the country's civil system also cannot overrule a sharia court sentence.", "In this respect, Kartika would have been the first woman to be caned for violating the country's religious laws.", "\"Regardless of whether or not such penalties fall under Syariah law or civil law, we believe that these should be repealed, as they go against the fundamental human right to be free from torture and violence,\" said Haslinah Yaacob, vice president for the All Women's Action Society.", "CNN's Anna Coren in Sungi Siput, Malaysia, contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Kartika Shukarno, a model, has sentence delayed until end of Ramadan .", "Kartika was set to be first woman to be caned in Malaysia for drinking in public .", "She pleaded guilty, paid a fine, and wanted her caning to be carried out in public .", "Islamic law dictates caning Muslims seen drinking alcohol; case caused uproar ." ]	[ 0, 9 ]
[ "Editor's note: Jeffrey Wright is a stage and screen actor who has won a Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe.", "Wright has appeared in \"Angels in America,\" \"Basquiat,\" \"The Manchurian Candidate,\" \"Syriana,\" \"W.\" and \"Casino Royale.\"", "Actor Jeffrey Wright says a nation that put a man on the moon should be able to take race out of policing.", "NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Obama expressed what many Americans feel regarding the recent arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis \"Skip\" Gates -- that the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police responded \"stupidly.\"", "Obama is catching some flak for that, but I applaud him for having had the courage to speak his heart and mind.", "I wonder if the president himself has ever experienced the blunt end of racial profiling, or if he personally knows of anyone other than Professor Gates who has.", "Among African-American males in this country, the small minority is those who have not or do not.", "Did some prior experience or knowledge inform his response about the Gates incident?", "I have no facts to back this up, but, to me, it seemed personal.", "If it was, I understand. I was arrested last July in Shreveport, Louisiana, outside a bar where dozens of members of the cast and crew of the movie \"W.\" and I had gathered to celebrate the end of filming.", "There was no bar brawl as widely reported -- nor even a pre-election political argument.", "Nine police cars and a fire engine responded; seven people were arrested.", "Two of the seven suffered minor head wounds at the hands of the Shreveport police.", "Josh Brolin and I were pepper sprayed by cops, and while face down in the street, I was made to feel the business end of a Taser.", "The truth of what led to the whole morass has never been accurately reported.", "I was asked to leave the bar by a white female bartender who took exception to a comment I made.", "As with Professor Gates, the police in my case backed unquestioningly the suspicion of a white woman that the black man she accused must be guilty of something.", "Once that die of accusation was cast, a ghost of racial bias, misperception, and the potential abuse of police authority was set free to make mischief.", "The bar was one of two places in downtown Shreveport that serves food after 10 p.m. A few nights before my arrest, I had gone there very late after work to grab a bite to eat.", "It was before closing, and there were a few customers and employees inside, but the door was locked.", "I knocked and asked, over the music streaming from inside, if I might buy a small pizza.", "The bartender insisted that they were closed.", "\"Whatever,\" I said with a shrug of resignation and walked back to my hotel room.", "Four nights later and in a festive mood, we gathered at this same establishment.", "Upon seeing the bartender who had a few nights before told me that the place was closed, I asked her for a drink, which she poured.", "I quipped, \"Ah you're going to serve me tonight!\"", "At that, she pulled the drink away and told me that I had to leave.", "I asked if she was kidding.", "She went on to say that if I didn't leave, she would call the police.", "As I stepped away to tell friends what had happened, a call was made to Shreveport police.", "Two cops, the first of many, arrived in minutes, and I was physically escorted outside although neither of them had the curiosity to ask what had transpired before they arrived.", "A mess ensued.", "To their credit, Josh and the others arrested followed me outside with a few others from our group.", "The cops physically released me and were seeming to be ready to let me go altogether when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw another member of the film crew driven headlong into the sidewalk by two newly arrived cops.", "Josh verbally objected to their actions, at which point a cop said to him, \"You too!\"", "I moved Josh away from the fray and held him.", "We were then pepper sprayed to separate us, after which Josh knelt in submission and was handcuffed.", "Disoriented and blinded by the pepper spray, I remained standing until I was kicked in the knee and forced to the ground.", "I did not completely relax one of my arms as it was twisted behind me, so I was tasered in the back of my ribs repeatedly, eventually handcuffed, left to lie in the street for several minutes, then arrested and hauled off to jail, and charged with impeding police.", "The six others were similarly charged -- and it all began with a joke.", "Nearly six months later, after a good-size storm kicked up in Shreveport over the incident, prosecutors agreed to drop the charges against all of us arrested that night.", "New Year's Day 2009 and the same week in which charges were dropped against us, in Oakland, California, Oscar Grant, a young father, was killed in a BART station, surrounded by cops and in the same position as I found myself down in Shreveport.", "It seems the BART cop may have pulled the trigger of his firearm thinking that it was his Taser.", "Shreveport Mayor Cedric Glover is known as a law-and-order mayor.", "The day after the encounter, in the presence of his police chief, Glover apologized to me and privately acknowledged that while most Shreveport's cops were good, there were some \"devils\" among them.", "In public meetings regarding the \"W.\" incident, however, he held fast that the responding officers acted appropriately.", "Either Glover's public statement was dead wrong, or the joke was on us.", "Of course, public officials, particularly at the local level, are loathe to criticize law enforcement officers.", "On a certain level, it's understandable.", "Cops answer a noble and difficult calling.", "The pressure must be relentless, and I imagine a cop is largely underappreciated by most except those with whom he or she serves.", "A political pat on the back from the executive in charge must be a comforting thing in controversial times, and politicians prefer to duck behind the political safety of the blue wall of silence than upset the men and women who, like our nation's troops, are charged with placing themselves every day in harm's way to keep us safe.", "When he was mayor of New York, Rudy Giuliani encamped himself behind that blue wall.", "After Amadou Diallo, living out the All-American, hard-working immigrant story, was brutally shot down on the steps of his Bronx apartment building, Giuliani refused to question the actions of the cops who fired 41 bullets in killing the unarmed young man.", "Is a politician's unwavering fidelity to law enforcement officers the best approach, or does it promote a police culture of impunity and retard progress on law enforcement issues?", "What if after the Diallo tragedy, political leadership in New York inspired the passage of serious legislation to keep in check the presumption of criminality that cops so often direct toward young men of color.", "What if that had led to similar acts nationwide around these issues?", "Gates might not be headline news today; Grant might not have died; and New York police Officer Omar Edwards, an African-American undercover officer shot down two months ago by a white fellow officer while chasing a suspect through a Harlem street, might be alive today to toss a football again with his son.", "iReport.com: \"Shame\" on Gates .", "I'm not presuming to blame Giuliani alone for what has become a systemic problem in our country -- that would be absurd, these issues predate him -- but when political leaders in this country express compassion only for those for whom they perceive it to be politically expedient or fail to challenge law enforcement and incarceration issues that cut to the core of the history and culture of race in America, they fail us all.", "They exemplify what U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder meant when he spoke of the cowardice with which we as a society approach race dialogue in this country.", "These are messy, even bloody issues, but the cost of not addressing them is too draining of our societal health.", "Among other things it fosters a society in which too many young Americans internalize the aura of criminality that's projected onto them and handcuff themselves to self-imposed limitations that stifle us all.", "Going to prison rather than to college becomes a rite of passage.", "They wear their pants below their behinds in solidarity with their friends, brothers, uncles or fathers who aren't allowed belts while incarcerated, though perhaps the low-hanging pants are a defiant gesture to society at large for continually presuming them to be miscreant.", "This past week the Apollo 11 crew was at the White House welcomed by the president of a new generation of dreamers.", "Our great nation put a man on the moon, but it can't train its cops to distinguish between an ordinary brown-skinned brother and a criminal.", "At its least injurious, as with Gates and myself, this leads to bruised pride and reputation; at its worst, Grant or Edwards gets killed.", "President Kennedy famously said, \"We choose to go the moon ... and do the other things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.\"", "Maybe properly educating, screening and training our nation's police is one of \"the other things.\"", "My son is 7 years old.", "May our generation have accomplished this other thing before he's a young man, and before we've sent a man to Mars.", "The challenge is one that many Americans are willing to accept -- one, that for the sake of our children, all Americans should be unwilling to postpone.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jeffrey Wright." ]	[ "Jeffrey Wright: President Obama catches flak for remarks on professor's arrest .", "Wright applauds Obama for having courage to speak his mind .", "Actor says he too was victim of arrest in which race played a part .", "He says political leaders need to address race and policing ." ]	[ 2, 4 ]
[ "(AOL Autos) -- Small cars continue to be hot sellers among buyers looking for fuel economy, style and all-around fun.", "See which cars are the winners in this list of best-selling small cars.", "The Honda Civic is popular for its fuel efficiency and affordability.", "1. Honda Civic* .", "August 2008 Sales: 30,052 Change vs.", "Previous Year: 5.3% MSRP: $15,205 - $20,755 Invoice: $14,021 - $19,111 Fuel Economy: 34 mpg Hwy/26 mpg City .", "The Honda Civic is one of the most reliable and popular economy compact sedans/coupes in its class.", "For years it has set the quality and performance standard for the affordable, compact car market.", "Includes Hybrid Model AOL Autos: Honda Civic .", "2. Toyota Corolla .", "August 2008 Sales: 29,443 Change vs.", "Previous Year: -3.4% MSRP: $15,350 - $18,860 Invoice: $14,198 - $17,067 Fuel Economy: 35 mpg Hwy/26 mpg City .", "The new Toyota Corolla is among the best of the compact sedans: reliable and economical yet refined and comfortable.", "Includes Toyota Matrix AOL Autos: Toyota Corolla .", "3. Ford Focus .", "August 2008 Sales: 16,387 Change vs.", "Previous Year: 23.4% MSRP: $14,995 - $17,970 Invoice: $14,091 - $16,648 Fuel Economy: 35 mpg Hwy/24 mpg City .", "Small, economical, and fun, the 2009 Ford Focus is a smart choice for those looking for a compact car.", "AOL Autos: Ford Focus .", "4. Chevrolet Cobalt .", "August 2008 Sales: 15,281 Change vs.", "Previous Year: -26.6% MSRP: $15,010 - $22,775 Invoice: $14,184 - $21,522 Fuel Economy: 37 mpg Hwy/25 mpg City .", "The Chevy Cobalt is available as either a two-door coupe or a four-door sedan, each available in three trims: the LS, the LT and the SS Turbocharged.", "AOL Autos: Chevy Cobalt .", "5. Mazda3 . August 2008 Sales: 10,970 Change vs.", "Previous Year: 4.4% MSRP: $14,490 - $20,595 Invoice: $13,590 - $19,283 Fuel Economy: 32 mpg Hwy/24 mpg City .", "The Mazda3 is a premium compact car, exciting to drive and look at, and equipped with unexpected luxury features, all at a reasonable price.", "*Includes MazdaSpeed3 AOL Autos: Mazda3 .", "6. Hyundai Elantra .", "August 2008 Sales: 10,031 Change vs.", "Previous Year: 13.8% MSRP: $13,970 - $16,670 Invoice: $13,592 - $16,004 Fuel Economy: 33 mpg Hwy/24 mpg City .", "The Elantra is an economic compact car with handsome styling and nice lines.", "It's renowned in two areas, interior space and standard safety equipment.", "7. Toyota Yaris .", "August 2008 Sales: 9,474 Change vs.", "Previous Year: 20.5% MSRP: $12,205 - $15,125 Invoice: $11,473 - $14,217 Fuel Economy: 36 mpg Hwy/29 mpg City .", "The Yaris manages to combine a well-tailored, roomy interior with agile performance and a fuel efficient engine in an entry-level car.", "8. Nissan Sentra .", "August 2008 Sales: 9,207 Change vs.", "Previous Year: 1.4% MSRP: $16,140 - $20,570 Invoice: $15,275 - $19,181 Fuel Economy: 33 mpg Hwy/25 mpg City .", "The Sentra front-wheel drive 4-door sedan is a practical, roomy and economical car with several trims available to suit a person's needs.", "9. Nissan Versa .", "August 2008 Sales: 8,015 Change vs.", "Previous Year: -5.2% MSRP: $12,990 - $16,210 Invoice: $12,539 - $15,634 Fuel Economy: 31 mpg Hwy/26 mpg City .", "The Versa is Nissan's entry-level car with the intention of attracting economy-minded buyers with its mileage, price and larger size than most other vehicles in its class.", "10. Hyundai Accent .", "August 2008 Sales: 6,455 Change vs.", "Previous Year: 73% MSRP: $11,070 - $15,070 Invoice: $10,822 - $14,642 Fuel Economy: 33 mpg Hwy/27 mpg City .", "The Hyundai Accent sedan and hatchback are exceptional economy cars that offer attractive looks and outstanding value in a price-sensitive market segment.", "Best-selling small cars is based on August national sales data ." ]	[ "Small cars continue to be hot among buyers looking for fuel economy .", "Honda Civic is one of the most reliable and popular economy compact cars .", "Sentra front-wheel drive 4-door sedan is practical, roomy and economical .", "Yaris combines well-tailored, roomy interior with agile performance ." ]	[ 0, 6, 40 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- One revolutionized women's hair in the 1960s.", "Another brought fear to Middle Earth.", "Another is a champion golfer who now designs courses all over the world.", "Christopher Lee is famous for playing Count Dracula and his roles in \"Lord of the Rings\" and \"Star Wars\" films.", "Vidal Sassoon, Christopher Lee and Nick Faldo are among those recognized this year on Queen Elizabeth's birthday honors list.", "Lee and Faldo will both receive knighthoods, meaning they can now be known as \"Sir Christopher\" and \"Sir Nick.\"", "Lee, 87, is famous for his portrayal of dark villains, starting with Count Dracula in a series of movies from the late 1950s until the 1970s.", "He gained a new generation of fans in in the past decade through is role as the bad wizard Saruman the White in the the \"Lord of the Rings\" trilogy, and as the evil Count Dooku in two \"Star Wars\" prequels.", "World-famous golfer Nick Faldo holds six major championship titles -- three from the British Open and three from the Masters.", "He has the record for the longest streak of majors played -- 48 -- dating to the 1987 British Open, according to the PGA Tour.", "Faldo is now almost as famous for designing golf courses as he is for playing the sport.", "He also serves as a television commentator.", "A knighthood is the highest honor, and recipients may use the title \"Sir\" before their names.", "The equivalent for women is to be awarded the title of \"Dame.\"", "They recognize a \"pre-eminent contribution\" in any field.", "Next come CBEs, or Commanders of the Order of the British Empire, which recognize contribution to a slightly lesser degree.", "Recipients may not use the title of sir or dame but may use the initials after their names.", "Sassoon will be awarded a CBE for his services to the British hairdressing industry.", "It recognizes a lifetime of achievement for Sassoon, who as a young boy spent years in a London orphanage after his father left and his mother could not afford to care for him.", "Later, after his mother dreamed of her son being in a barber shop, she apprenticed him to a local barber.", "That began a career that saw him develop two classic hairstyles of the Sixties -- the Bob and the even shorter Five-Point Cut -- along with an eponymous hair care line, range of hair care tools, and chain of salons.", "Also receiving a CBE is Jonathan Pryce, a Golden Globe-nominated actor who has had roles in the \"Pirates of the Caribbean\" movies, \"Ronin,\" and the James Bond film \"Tomorrow Never Dies.\"", "He won a best actor award in 1995 at Cannes for his part in the movie \"Carrington.\"", "Actor Alan Cumming will receive an OBE, or Order of the British Empire, awarded for notable achievement in any field.", "He was recognized for \"services to film, theater and the arts and to activism for equal rights for the gay and lesbian community.\"", "A large number of artists and others in creative fields are featured on this year's list.", "Andrew Motion, who was Britain's poet laureate until he stepped down this year, will receive a knighthood, and several names in fashion will also receive awards.", "Fashion designer Jeff Banks will receive a CBE; Frances Marie Corner, the head of the London College of Fashion, will receive an OBE; and MBEs will go to Christopher Bailey, the creative director at Burberry, and Natalie Massenet, the founder of online designer shopping site Net-a-Porter.", "Honors lists are published twice a year -- once on New Year's Day and once in June, to mark the queen's \"official\" birthday.", "The queen's actual birthday is in April but she celebrates it in June because the weather is better." ]	[ "Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, golfer Nick Faldo honored by UK's queen .", "\"Dracula\" star Christopher Lee knighted in Queen Elizabeth's birthday honors list .", "Actors Jonathan Pryce and Alan Cumming also honored ." ]	[ 4, 28 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson's mother fired the lawyers helping her fight for control of her son's estate, but her new lawyer missed a key hearing where the judge gave more power to the men she is opposing.", "Katherine Jackson, with Michael in 2005, is challenging the appointment of Michael's estate trustees.", "Katherine Jackson replaced lawyers Burt Levitch and Londell McMillan with Adam Streisand, a lawyer known for his expertise in Los Angeles probate cases.", "\"The family came to a decision before they called me,\" Streisand said.", "\"They felt they needed a different perspective and fresh look at how this case was being approached.\"", "But Streisand arrived at court Thursday minutes after Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff ended a hearing in which he granted a request from estate special administrators John Branca and John McClain for more authority to make deals on behalf of Jackson's estate.", "\"I want this estate to move forward and I want these creditors to be dealt with,\" Beckloff said.", "\"And while we are proceeding in this posture, I want Mrs. Jackson to have information about what is going on and I don't want to be in court all the time.\"", "The process of probate of Jackson's will, which named Branca and McClain as executors, has been slowed since soon after the pop star's June 25 death by numerous legal challenges filed by Katherine Jackson's lawyers, led by Levitch.", "Howard Weitzman, lead lawyer for the estate's administrators, expressed optimism that the two sides would be able to work better toward a settlement with Streisand in charge.", "The estate's administrators were able to make a series of deals expected to bring in at least $100 million to the estate this year, mostly through a documentary movie that premieres next week.", "Katherine Jackson's legal team has asked that a member of the Jackson family \"have a seat at the table\" as a third executor.", "They've also raised questions in sealed court papers about possible conflicts of interest that might prevent Branca and McClain from controlling the estate.", "Streisand said the Jackson family was frustrated with the inability \"to get this case going.\"", "He indicated Katherine Jackson still planned to challenge Branca and McClain's control of her son's wealth.", "Under the 2002 will, Michael Jackson's three children and his mother are the chief beneficiaries of his estate, while unnamed charities will share in 20 percent of the wealth.", "Streisand said when he met with Katherine Jackson and the children to discuss the case, they were united.", "He said Jackson patriarch Joe Jackson was not present at the meeting and he's never talked with him.", "Joe Jackson appeared frustrated earlier this month when he attended his first hearing in the probate process, suggesting the lawyers should be more aggressive in court.", "Streisand said the three Jackson children are doing \"absolutely wonderful.\"" ]	[ "Katherine Jackson hires probate lawyer Adam Streisand .", "Jackson has been fighting for more control over her son's estate .", "Michael Jackson made John Branca and John McClain his executors .", "Streisand misses hearing in which executors are given more control ." ]	[ 2, 5, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Jack Borden would like you to consider working well past retirement age.", "As a 101-year-old attorney, he has the credibility to encourage it.", "Attorney Jack Borden, 101, says he's never thought about not working.", "\"What would I do?\" he said. Borden, who has been practicing law for the better part of 70 years, still spends about 40 hours a week at his office in Weatherford, Texas, handling estate planning, probate and real estate matters.", "Retire? Not while he's able to help folks.", "\"As long as you are capable, you ought to use what God gave you.", "He left me here for a reason, and with enough of a mind to do what it is I'm supposed to be doing,\" said Borden, who also has been a district attorney and Weatherford's mayor.", "He arrives at the practice he shares with his nephew at 6:30 a.m.", "He goes home for lunch at 10:45 a.m., rests in bed for 45 minutes -- doctor's orders after pneumonia a few years back -- returns to work by 12:45 p.m. and stays until at least 4.", "Not everyone who works past 65 does so because they want to.", "In a survey completed last month, 38 percent of respondents working past the age of 62 said they may have to delay retirement even further because of the recession, according to the Pew Research Center's Social and Demographic Trends project.", "But in answer to another question in the same survey, 54 percent of workers 65 or older said they're working now mainly because they want to.", "Seventeen percent said their main reason was money, and 27 percent said both factors motivated them.", "\"Some of them enjoy it, and some of them need the money.", "But even if they need the money, they also enjoy the work,\" said Cynthia Metzler, president of Experience Works, a nonprofit that helps low-income workers ages 55 and older acquire new job skills.", "The group, which operates in 30 states and also uses federal funds to pay participants a minimum wage to work community service jobs while they look for other work, last month named Borden as America's Outstanding Oldest Worker -- a title it bestows annually to a worker over 100.", "Last week, Borden was in Washington to participate in events the group was holding to mark National Employ Older Workers Week.", "When it comes to putting off retirement out of desire, Borden is hardly alone.", "Preston Brown, 70, is a police officer in Yakima, Washington.", "He's enjoying the challenges that come with patrolling streets full time, and the experiences are relatively fresh: The former marketing worker and real estate broker didn't join the force until he was 51.", "He was attracted to law enforcement as a teen but was told he was too short.", "The height requirements eventually changed, and after some friends persuaded him to go on a patrol ride-along, he began a process that landed him a job with Yakima police in 1990.", "Whatever is required, from report-taking to chases, he's up for it.", "\"From time to time there will be a physical confrontation ... and we can get involved in foot chases and vehicle chases.", "Usually the vast quantity is on night shift more than [my daytime shift], but still I'm involved in those,\" Brown said.", "Nineteen years later and still in good shape, he has no plans to stop.", "He likes the pay but he doesn't have to work: His wife of 53 years has a pension.", "He could be doing other things, such as playing racquetball and motorcycling with friends, but because he gets four days off after working five roughly 11-hour days, he already has time for that.", "\"When I wake up and prepare to leave for work, I'm looking forward to it,\" he said.", "\"It's challenging and exciting.\"", "In Anderson, South Carolina, customers at a Chick-fil-A restaurant might see 88-year-old Frank Childers fixing a door.", "His wife, Gertrude Childers, 88, might be carrying a tray to a table or refreshing someone's beverage.", "When Frank Childers retired from his insurance sales job in 1985, he looked forward to free time and fishing.", "\"I stayed retired for five years.", "I got tired of sitting around,\" he said.", "Frank Childers, who had some mechanical experience before working in insurance, took some jobs to stay busy.", "In 1998, Jon Holmes, the owner-operator of three Anderson Chick-fil-As, asked him to lead his maintenance staff, and Childers has been working there since.", "Gertrude Childers, a former mill worker, also was hired in 1998 to be a dining room hostess at one of the restaurants.", "She works 20 hours a week; her husband works about 30.", "They each said they enjoy the work and the people they've met.", "They don't have to work for the money, they said, but the pay doesn't hurt.", "\"It's nice to have your own money, because when I want to go shopping, I don't have to ask nobody,\" Gertrude Childers said, laughing.", "Experience Works says many low-income workers 55 and older need to find jobs but can't, in part because of the recession.", "It points to the age group's unemployment rate: It was 6.8 percent in August, up from 2.9 percent three years earlier, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.", "That's still better than the rate for all age groups, 9.7 percent in August.", "Lynn Dusenbery, 62, faces many more years of work out of necessity.", "The Ashland, Wisconsin, resident sold her floral business four years ago to cover medical bills.", "Once hoping to retire at 65, she now has no savings, is uninsured, and -- living in a rural area with perennially high unemployment -- still hasn't found full-time work.", "\"I was a florist for 40 years.", "I came out with no skills that would get me by in the outside world,\" Dusenbery said.", "Dusenbery enrolled with Experience Works three years ago and has picked up computer skills and other training and part-time jobs with the group.", "She's looking for full-time work.", "As for Borden, work is still energizing and rewarding.", "\"If I were to quit, I might last a year, but probably not over six months,\" said Borden.", "\"I have to use a walker because of old age, so there's not much else I could do except sit in my house.", "Why do that when I can not only enjoy life, but help some people?\"" ]	[ "Texas attorney Jack Borden, 101, still works 40 hours a week .", "Group named Borden \"America's Outstanding Oldest Worker\" for 2009 .", "\"If I were to quit, I might last ... not over six months,\" Borden says .", "Police officer, 70, didn't become cop until he was 51 ." ]	[ 2, 18, 48, 53 ]
[ "(CNN) -- While some criticism targeting President Obama is racially motivated, the fight over health care isn't, former President Clinton told CNN.", "Former President Clinton says Democrats need to win the health care debate \"on the merits.\"", "\"I believe that some of the right-wing extremists which oppose President Obama are also racially prejudiced and would prefer not to have an African-American president,\" Clinton told CNN's Larry King in a wide-ranging interview that aired Monday evening.", "\"But I don't believe that all the people who oppose him on health care -- and all the conservatives -- are racists.", "And I believe if he were white, every single person who opposes him now would be opposing him then.\"", "Clinton discussed a variety of issues facing the Obama administration -- from health care to the war in Afghanistan -- on the eve of the fifth annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative.", "Regarding race, the former president was referring to an outburst from Rep. Joe Wilson, R-South Carolina, who shouted, \"You lie!\"", "at Obama during the president's recent joint address to Congress and also former President Carter's assessment that racism is an obstacle for the current president.", "\"While I have devoted my life to getting rid of racism, I think this [health care] is a fight that my president and our party -- this is one we need to win on the merits,\" Clinton said.", "Watch Clinton say he thinks a health care bill will pass » .", "On the Arab-Israeli conflict -- which Clinton tried to address while in the White House -- the former president said it's an issue that first has to be addressed by the Palestinians and Israelis.", "Obama has set up meetings with leaders from both sides this week as the U.N. General Assembly meets in New York.", "\"First, it's more up to them than it is to President Obama,\" Clinton said.", "\"I think if we can just get them to start talking again around the two-state solutions, around restoring a sense of normalcy and creating a Palestinian state ...", "I think you would be surprised how quickly at least they would come down to all the same issues that they were down to in 2000 when I made my proposal.\"", "In August, Clinton made headlines when he traveled to North Korea to gain the release of two detained U.S. journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling.", "During his visit, Clinton met with reclusive leader Kim Jong Il, whose government is under U.N. sanctions for its efforts to develop a nuclear weapons program.", "Asked about how it felt to help the journalists, Clinton said, \"It was humbling, and it was a wonderful feeling.", "They're really fine young women.\"", "Clinton also discussed the conflict in Afghanistan, addressing top U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal's report warning Obama that more troops are needed within the coming year or the nearly 8-year-old war \"will likely result in failure,\" according to a copy of a 66-page document obtained by The Washington Post.", "Obama has promised to ask \"tough questions\" before deciding whether to send additional troops to Afghanistan, saying it was necessary to have a clear strategy in place before deploying resources.", "\"My guess is that he will say, 'You may be right, general, but we still have this ongoing election count, let's wait until that happens, let's see what the new government's going to be, let's see if both the top two finishers are going to be in the government, which is a possibility,'\" Clinton said.", "\"And if that means there's going to be more broad-based support because we got everybody together right after the election was over, then it's clear that more soldiers will be even more effective.\"", "Clinton, a New York resident, also touched on a New York Times report that Obama administration officials have urged New York Gov.", "David A. Paterson to withdraw from the 2010 race.", "White House officials acknowledged to CNN that aides have conveyed to Paterson's camp they are aware of the governor's unpopularity and the political troubles it could cause.", "\"Well, first of all, I have no direct knowledge of it,\" Clinton said, adding later, \"The truth is I can't criticize either one of them.\"", "\"I think Paterson is in a tough spot, but he's done a better job than he's gotten credit for,\" he said.", "\"So he's done some good things.", "I think that he will do what he thinks is right for the people of New York in the end and for himself.", "I think the president understandably wants to hold on to the governorship of the fourth biggest state of the country.\"" ]	[ "Ex-President Clinton says race not behind health care opposition .", "But some extremists opposing President Obama racially prejudiced, Clinton says .", "Clinton: \"It was a wonderful feeling\" to help U.S. journalists in North Korea ." ]	[ 1, 2, 17 ]
[ "ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The incessant banging on the door finally roused Ted Jackson from a deep sleep.", "Floodwaters roar across the highway in Paulding County, one of the hardest-hit in Georgia.", "He hustled out of bed and rushed to the door.", "There were his neighbors, surrounded by floodwaters the neighborhood is supposed to experience only once every 100 years.", "Jackson raced to his basement and the water level -- submerging nine of the 13 steps to the floor -- filled him with dread.", "His dog, a 2-year-old pomeranian, slept in a kennel down there.", "\"My first initial thought was my dog is dead ... he didn't have a chance,\" said Jackson of Powder Springs, Georgia, where he and the rest of the residents in the metro Atlantan subdivision spent Monday stranded by acres and acres of water.", "The dog, named J.J., died in the flooded basement.", "Jackson is just one of thousands of Georgia residents trying to salvage their homes after days of rain rushed deadly flood waters to their part of the world.", "Counties west of Atlanta, including Douglas, Paulding and Cobb, were among the worst hit.", "The National Guard was poised to enter the area if necessary.", "See photo gallery of flooding » .", "Aerial video of Powder Springs, near the Paulding-Douglas county line, showed scores of homes swallowed by muddy waters as the rain refused to subside.", "In one Powder Springs neighborhood, a fire truck floated near a cluster of two-story homes, with the charred remnants of one house smoldering a few yards from the failed response.", "Watch home burn, surrounded by water » .", "Cars, trucks, buses and campers were flung into the currents, sinking near bent signs, fallen trees and downed power lines.", "Rescuers started rowing through affected areas in inflatable boats.", "After flying over the disastrous scenes in Paulding and Douglas counties, Georgia Gov.", "Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency in those and 15 other counties hit by floods.", "At least five flood-related deaths were reported across Atlanta-area counties -- three fatalities in Douglas, one in Gwinnett and one, a child, in Carrollton.", "A Douglas County hospital reported no running water.", "Just across the line, in Cobb County, the entrance of Georgia's largest amusement park, Six Flags, was sitting in water.", "Watch the flooding in Georgia » .", "Powder Springs resident Kim Harp woke up at about 4 a.m. Monday as her brother bounded up the stairs from his basement room, reporting water spilling into the home.", "The family scrambled to save photo albums and other personal valuable, but the water reached a depth of 2 feet in the basement less than two hours later.", "\"It just came so fast,\" Harp said, adding that the water was at head-level by midday.", "\"It really terrified us.\"", "Harp, who lives next door to Jackson, said she and her husband, three children and brother went to bed Sunday after another day of Georgia rains with little worry.", "After all, she said, the family has a 7-foot retaining wall in the backyard, and it's never even come close to a breach.", "Watch flooding victims flee » .", "\"It really wasn't a concern,\" she said.", "Now, without flood insurance, Harp has only one thing on her mind: Clean up.", "Still, \"where do you start?\"", "she asked. \"Where does the family go from here?\"" ]	[ "Powder Springs resident Kim Harp: \"It just came so fast.", "It really terrified us\"\nScores of homes swallowed by muddy waters as the rain refused to subside .", "Entrance to Six Flags, Georgia's largest amusement park, sitting in water ." ]	[ 12, 21, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Watching the premiere of \"The Informant!\"", "-- the Matt Damon movie about a high-level FBI mole at a large multinational company -- was the mole himself, Mark Whitacre.", "Mark Whitacre, right, at the premiere of 'The Informant' with Matt Damon.", "The movie is a dark comic take on the three years Whitacre -- a former divisional president of Archer Daniels Midland, the US-based food additive giant -- spent working undercover to break a global price-fixing conspiracy.", "Whitacre recognized real episodes in his life on the big screen, such as trying to fix a hidden tape player during a meeting and his delusional belief he would be made CEO of the company as a reward for his undercover work.", "But what you won't see in the movie are the events of August 9, 1995, six weeks after an FBI raid blew the case into public attention.", "It was two days after ADM fired Whitacre and accused him of embezzling millions from the company.", "His FBI partners for the previous three years would no longer speak with him.", "On that day, Whitacre sat alone in his car with its engine running inside a closed garage and slowly lost consciousness.", "He was hoping to end his life as surely as he had ended his career.", "A gardener found him unconscious.", "Some scenes just can't be played for laughs.", "\"There was nothing comical in the reality of the story,\" said Whitacre, who eventually spent nearly nine years in prison for his role in the price-fixing scheme and revelations he siphoned off $9 million from the company while he was working for the FBI.", "For Whitacre, 'The Informant!'", "is a study in his own mental illness, as he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after hospitalization for his suicide attempt.", "His meeting with Damon at the premiere was the first time the pair met.", "Damon told him he hoped they portrayed his illness in a sensitive way, Whitacre said.", "\"He didn't want to talk to a 52-year-old Mark Whitacre while preparing for the role, the Mark Whitacre who went to prison, who has been treated for bipolar disorder, who is now COO of a company,\" said Whitacre, who is now an executive for a small food supplement maker.", "\"He wanted to portray the 35-year-old Mark Whitacre, otherwise it would make it difficult to portray the delusions I had at that time.\"", "The fix is in . For companies and regulators, the 1997 conviction of ADM was a landmark event, the first antitrust action in the United States since World War II and a case that has spurred price-fixing investigations around the world.", "\"As a result of this case, the Department of Justice and the FBI started looking around to see if they could find any other cases like this,\" said Dean Paisley, a retired FBI agent who supervised the undercover ADM work.", "\"This used to be relatively unusual until the (ADM) case came to light,\" said John Connor, a Purdue University researcher on cartel activity, who was an expert witness in the government's case against ADM. \"Back in 1993 you'd see maybe one or two global (price-fixing schemes) being discovered ... in the past three years or so, there are about 50 a year.\"", "Price-fixing schemes -- where a cartel of manufacturers inflate prices against market demand -- cost consumers untold millions each year.", "In the ADM case, it was found that in the three-year period of investigation the company's cartel activity with manufacturers in Japan and Korea inflated prices by at least $200 million.", "The ADM case resulted in a record $100 million fine in 1997 -- a figure long since dwarfed.", "Last month Japanese company Epson agreed to pay $26 million for its role in price-fixing LCD panels used in mobile phones in the U.S. Several other companies, including Sharp, LG and Hitachi, have already pleaded guilty in the case and paid fines of more than $600 million.", "Just last week, the Hungarian government fined Visa Europe, MasterCard and seven commercial banks a total of $10.4 million for price fixing bank fees (Visa and MasterCard are appealing that decision).", "Flawed heroes .", "A sign of cartel activity is usually a sharp and uniform increase in price with a contraction in demand.", "\"But, in fact, in the last 15 or 20 years (governments) have relied almost exclusively on whistle-blowers to make their cases,\" Connor said.", "And as Whitacre showed, whistle blowers often don't have noble motives.", "\"The movie should be taken very, very seriously,\" said Sam Antar, a CPA who turned government witness against his employer in the 1980's.", "\"In white-collar cases, the governments have to rely on informants ... in effect, relying on unsavory characters to make their case,\" said Antar, who now advises government agencies on white-collar crime.", "\"What happened in 'The Informant,' is he had an agenda to become head honcho of the company,\" Antar said.", "\"The mistake the FBI agents made in the movie is they fell in love with their witness.", "It turned out there was a dark side they didn't know about.\"", "Whitacre said he began stealing millions from the company while working for the FBI, in part, as a financial backstop in case things went wrong.", "\"I had this sense of false entitlement, like they owe me this ... after all, the company was stealing hundreds of millions.\"", "The stress of his double-life undoubtedly added to his mental woes, said Paisley, the original FBI supervisor in the case.", "He points out that undercover FBI agents receive surveillance training and are pulled for psychological evaluation once a year -- Whitacre received none of that.", "\"There were no provisions for similar checks and balances with Whitacre,\" Paisley said.", "\"He had no ideas what he was getting into when he agreed to cooperate ... we had no idea it would last three years.\"", "Although Whitacre has served his time, Paisley and other agents involved in his case are seeking a presidential pardon.", "\"He really screwed up by stealing,\" Paisley said.", "\"Be that as it may, how many hundreds of millions would have been stolen if (ADM) wasn't stopped by Mark Whitacre?", "He is a national hero, in my eyes.\"" ]	[ "The ADM price-fixing case was a landmark in global antitrust prosecution .", "Global price-fixing investigations have skyrocketed since the ADM scam .", "These investigations depend on whistle-blowers who often have dark motives ." ]	[ 19, 21, 30 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Determining the amount of troops necessary to win a war is never an easy decision for a commander in chief and his military commanders if history is any guide.", "The Obama administration is working on a strategic review of improving conditions in Afghanistan.", "And it's a dilemma President Obama faces as pressure mounts on him to decide what strategy will improve conditions in Afghanistan.", "The president and his top military, national security and foreign policy advisers are conducting an intensive strategic review of the U.S. military presence in the war-torn nation.", "Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, is calling for a counterinsurgency strategy that would add as many as 40,000 troops.", "But others in the administration want a different approach.", "Vice President Joe Biden has called for a counterterrorism strategy, which would focus on using special forces and technology to reduce the number of al Qaeda insurgents on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.", "If the president should listen to McChrystal and adopt a troop \"surge,\" the question remains: How many is enough?", "One expert said such a large number is needed to reduce violence throughout the country -- the 40,000 troops would allow the U.S. military to \"reverse the momentum of the insurgency, which has been on the rise,\" said Kimberly Kagan of the Institute for the Study of War, who has advised McChrystal on Afghanistan.", "That number, Kagan said, would help fill in gaps around Kandahar in the southern part of the country where Taliban forces have amassed.", "But she warned that eventually, troops would also be needed to tamp down the insurgency in other parts of the country.", "\"If we had 40,000 more troops, it is likely that the initiative would be wrested from the enemy, and the U.S. and coalition forces would be able to mount a counteroffensive that would proceed in stages over time,\" she said.", "Even with more troops, the fight will be a tough one if the last few weeks are any indication.", "Just last week, eight U.S. soldiers were killed in an intense firefight with hundreds of insurgents in Nuristan province, a remote area in northern Afghanistan.", "It was the second deadliest attack in a single day so far in the war, which recently entered its ninth year.", "Read soldiers' accounts from the battle .", "The White House is getting pressure from all sides of this issue.", "Many on the right have said the president should take the advice of the commanders on the ground.", "Sen. John McCain, a staunch supporter of the 2007 troop surge in Iraq, said Sunday that any added military deployment in Afghanistan smaller than 40,000 troops \"would be an error of historic proportions.\"", "Asked whether he thought the war in Afghanistan could be won with fewer troops, the Arizona Republican said, \"I do not.\"", "\"I think the great danger now is a half-measure, sort of a -- you know, try to please all ends of the political spectrum,\" McCain told John King on \"CNN's State of the Union.\"", "\"And, again, I have great sympathy for the president, making the toughest decisions that presidents have to make, but I think he needs to use deliberate speed.\"", "Democrats are split over increasing troops.", "Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said U.S. troops would be put in \"jeopardy\" if Obama does not listen to McChrystal.", "\"I don't know how you put somebody in who's as crackerjack as Gen. McChrystal, who gives the president very solid recommendations, and not take those recommendations if you're not going to pull out,\" she said on ABC's \"This Week.\"", "But Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Massachusetts, who also appeared on ABC, said that enlarging the U.S. footprint in Afghanistan would be a mistake.", "Watch more on the varying advice Obama is receiving from lawmakers » .", "\"We need to come up with a strategy that includes an exit strategy, because it'll also put pressure on the government of Afghanistan to step up to the plate, which it has not done so far.\"", "McGovern said adding more troops and resources will make the country go \"bankrupt.\"", "\"We have wars in Iraq, in Afghanistan, hundreds of billions of dollars that are all going onto our credit card.", "Our kids and our grandkids are paying for this.\"", "But the troop number argument is nothing new for presidents and their defense secretaries.", "Criticism surrounded then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as conditions in Iraq deteriorated and insurgents increased attacks on U.S. forces.", "He was largely criticized for not sending enough troops early in the Iraq war.", "Rumsfeld's plan, observers have said, was to win the war in Iraq with smaller troop numbers and a large emphasis on technology, which would in turn let democracy take root.", "At the beginning of the war in 2003, troops quickly filled the country, took out Saddam Hussein's government and gained control of Baghdad, the capital.", "The force was small, and success came quickly.", "But three years later, civil war broke out, and U.S. forces struggled to maintain control of cities they had once secured.", "Rumsfeld admitted in a 2006 CNN interview that no one was well-prepared for what would happen after major combat ended.", "\"Well, I think that anyone who looks at it with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight has to say that there was not an anticipation that the level of insurgency would be anything approximating what it is,\" Rumsfeld told CNN for the 2006 documentary, \"CNN Presents Rumsfeld -- Man of War.\"", "CNN's Tom Evans and Kate Bolduan contributed to this report." ]	[ "The war in Afghanistan passed the 8-year mark last week .", "Obama and his national security team are working on a new strategy .", "His top commander there has reportedly called for 40,000 more troops ." ]	[ 1, 3, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The World Health Organization cautioned that the swine flu outbreak could gain momentum in the months ahead, despite claims by the health secretary of Mexico -- the epicenter of the outbreak -- that the virus \"is in its declining phase.\"", "The number of confimed cases of the H1N1 virus continue to multiply.", "As of early Monday, Mexican health officials reported 568 cases and 22 fatalities linked to the flu.", "WHO says it has confirmed 506 cases and 19 deaths in Mexico.", "The world has 985 confirmed cases of the virus, known to scientists H1N1 virus, in a total of 20 countries, WHO said Monday.", "The United States has reported 226 confirmed cases in 30 states.", "The U.S. cases include one death -- a Mexican toddler visiting relatives in the United States.", "According to WHO, Canada has 85 confirmed cases; Spain has 40; the United Kingdom has 15; Germany has 8; New Zealand has 4; Israel has 3; El Salvador has 2; France has 2; and Austria, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, South Korea and Switzerland each have one.", "The outbreak is only about 10 days old, and even if the illness is declining, it could return, said Gregory Hartl, the WHO spokesman for epidemic and pandemic diseases, at a briefing Sunday.", "\"I ... would like to remind people that in 1918 the Spanish flu showed a surge in the spring, and then disappeared in the summer months, only to return in the autumn of 1918 with a vengeance,\" Hartl said.", "\"And we know that that eventually killed 40 million to 50 million people.\"", "Mexican authorities believe the most active period of the virus in Mexico was between April 23 and April 28, and Mexican Health Secretary Jose Cordova described the outbreak as being in decline in his country.", "In China, officials have quarantined 68 people, including 13 crew members, who were passengers of a Mexico City to Shanghai flight, which carried a passenger who tested positive for the virus, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported Sunday.", "None of the other passengers has exhibited any flu-like symptoms, one health official said.", "About another 110 people who were on the Aeromexico plane went on to other destinations, and may face quarantines elsewhere, the news agency said.", "Fifteen have been quarantined at a Beijing hotel.", "Shanghai's airport is now barring other Aeromexico planes from landing there, a representative of the airline told CNN.", "Aeromexico is suspending flights to Shanghai until May 15, the representative said.", "The airline does not fly to Hong Kong or Beijing.", "In the United States, New York has the most confirmed cases, with 63, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.", "Texas has 40; California has 26; Arizona 18; South Carolina 15; Delaware 10; Massachusetts and New Jersey each have seven; Colorado has four; Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin each have three; Connecticut, Kansas and Michigan each have two; Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Utah each have one.", "California officials suspended visitation and other \"nonessential activities\" at Centinela State Prison in Imperial County after an inmate was suspected of having swine flu.", "The case has yet to be confirmed with lab testing.", "On Sunday, health officials in North Carolina and Pennsylvania announced the first confirmed cases in those states, and Louisiana's governor said his state had seven confirmed cases.", "The cases from those three states were not immediately included in the CDC tally.", "In Washington, U.S. Secretary of Health Kathleen Sebelius, appearing on CNN's \"State of the Union,\" warned that even if the flu outbreak wanes, \"it could come back with greater force in the winter and fall, when we get into flu season.\"", "\"So, this is no time for complacency,\" she said.", "\"We want to stay out ahead of this.\"", "Dr. Anne Schuchat, the CDC's interim deputy director for public health, told reporters Sunday that she was \"heartened\" by Mexican authorities' reports but still is \"very cautious.\"", "\"I know that influenza can be surprising, and the time course here in the United States is later.", "We believe we're just on the upswing here, and in several parts of Mexico, cases began quite a while ago,\" Schuchat said.", "\"From what I know about influenza, I do expect more cases, more severe cases and I do expect more deaths,\" she added.", "\"And I'm particularly concerned about what will happen in the fall.\"", "Acting CDC Director Richard Besser, also speaking on \"State of the Union,\" said U.S. health officials are examining whether people who received flu shots for the swine flu in 1976 may have some level of protection from the current swine flu.", "\"That's going to play in very, very big as we move forward with our plans around vaccines, because that may help guide some of the issues around who is most at risk at getting this in the future,\" Besser said.", "Offering a general picture of the state of U.S. efforts to combat the virus, Besser said \"there are encouraging signs.\"", "\"We're not out of the woods yet,\" he said.", "\"But what we've learned about the virus itself -- it doesn't contain the factors that we know are seen in much more severe flu strains.\"", "While the new virus strain in the recent outbreak has affected humans, Canadian officials said it has shown up at a pig farm in Alberta, Canada.", "Officials said the pigs may have been infected by a Canadian farmer who recently returned from a trip to Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak.", "The pigs have since been quarantined.", "\"We have determined that the virus H1N1, found in these pigs, is the virus which is being tracked in the human population,\" said Dr. Brian Evans of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.", "iReport.com: How should H1N1 be handled?", "Evans and other officials said it is not uncommon for flu viruses to jump from humans to animals, and that it does not pose a risk for consuming pork.", "The number of pigs infected was not disclosed.", "The infected farmer had flu-like symptoms, but he is recovering, Evans said.", "Learn about the virus » ." ]	[ "WHO has confirmed 985 cases of H1N1 virus worldwide .", "Mexico says illness declining there; WHO warns it could return .", "Mexico has largest number of confirmed cases, followed by U.S., WHO says .", "Canadian officials claim pigs at farm have been affected by virus ." ]	[ 3, 4, 39 ]
[ "CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNN) -- The girl sleeping in the bunk above me either had Swine Flu, SARS, Tuberculosis or some sort of perfect storm of all three, because she managed to hack and snort throughout the entire night in an almost exact pattern of: Hack.", "Hack. Hack. Snort. Snort. The sharks arrived and disappeared quickly.", "I only mention this because I had to be up at four 4 a.m. to get picked up for my day of shark cage-diving, and, clearly, I wasn't getting too much sleep.", "Not a good start.", "Nevertheless, I managed to get out of bed on time, and actually felt pretty decent as we drove two hours from Cape Town to some quiet fishing village where about 30 cold, tired backpackers squeezed onto an old boat and into the sea in search of great white sharks.", "Somebody had to say it: \"We're gonna need a bigger boat.\"", "But tight as it was on board, we survived, and soon found ourselves bobbing over the waves as small fish began to circle the chum.", "Eventually, the sharks came -- and they were amazing!", "More importantly, it was probably the closest I'll ever get to a great white without A) dying or B) soiling myself.", "See Jarrett's shark-diving adventure » .", "But just as quickly as the sharks arrived, they were gone.", "Cold and tired, an uncomfortable boredom overtook the tourists, interrupted only by the occasional roar of projectile vomit.", "As a scientific study, this symphony of motion sickness was about as fascinating as the sharks.", "As it turns out, the English seemed to be the ones most affected by the sea.", "Now, maybe this has something to do with their biology, or maybe this has something to do with England beating Croatia 5-1 in a World Cup qualifier the night before.", "Either way, I found it interesting that our friends across the pond were collectively becoming violently ill. One would have thought this would have attracted more sharks -- that fine, rich mixture of lager and pies -- but the seas remained great white-free.", "In all, it was sort of a bittersweet experience.", "Being that close to such spectacular sharks was a rare, lifetime opportunity, but of all my South African experiences, this was the most expensive and, in many ways, the least rewarding.", "Of course, I chalk this up mostly to the early start and cold weather, but, even at its best, I've definitely had better times in my life.", "That said, I'm glad I did it -- you know, before I die from a rare new strain of Swine-Flu-SARS-tuberculosis.", "Hack. Hack. Hack. Snort. Snort." ]	[ "CNN.com's Jarrett Bellini is traveling in South Africa .", "Readers chose his destination and can share their travel suggestions .", "Bellini will provide updates from South Africa on CNN.com and CNN.com Live ." ]	[ 0, 7, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Scientists have discovered the first confirmed Earthlike planet outside our solar system, they announced Wednesday.", "An artist's impression shows what the planet may look like in close orbit with its sun.", "\"This is the first confirmed rocky planet in another system,\" astronomer Artie Hatzes told CNN, contrasting the solid planet with gaseous ones like Jupiter and Saturn.", "But \"Earthlike\" is a relative term.", "The planet's composition may be similar to that of Earth, but its environment is more like a vision of hell, the project's lead astronomer said.", "It is so close to the star it orbits \"that the place may well look like Dante's Inferno, with a probable temperature on its 'day face' above 3,600 degrees Fahrenheit (2,000 degrees Celsius) and minus-328 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 degrees Celsius) on its night face,\" said Didier Queloz of Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, the project leader.", "Hatzes, explaining that one side of the body is always facing the star and the other side always faces away, said the side \"facing the sun is probably molten.", "The other side could actually have ice\" if there is water on the planet.", "\"We think it has no atmosphere to redistribute the heat,\" Hatzes told CNN from Barcelona, Spain, where he is attending the \"Pathways Towards Habitable Planets\" conference.", "The astronomers were stunned to find a rocky planet so near a star, he said.", "\"We would have never dreamed you would find a rocky planet so close,\" he said.", "\"Its year is less than one of our days.\"", "The planet, known as CoRoT-7b, was detected early last year, but it took months of observation to determine that it had a composition roughly similar to Earth's, the European Southern Observatory said in a statement.", "Astronomers were able to measure the dimensions of the planet by watching as it passed in front of the star it orbits, then carried out 70 hours of study of the planet's effect on its star to infer its weight.", "With that information in hand, they were able to calculate its density -- and were thrilled with what they found, Hatzes said.", "\"What makes this exciting is you compare the density of this planet to the planets in our solar system, it's only Mercury, Venus and Earth that are similar,\" Hatzes, of the Thuringer observatory in Germany, told CNN.", "They were helped by the fact that CoRoT-7b is relatively close to Earth -- about 500 light years away, in the constellation of Monoceros, the Unicorn.", "\"It's in our solar neighborhood,\" Hatzes said.", "\"The thing that made it easier is it's relatively close, so it's relatively bright.", "If this star was much much farther away, we wouldn't have been able to do these measurements.\"", "At about five times Earth's mass (though not quite twice as large in circumference), it is the smallest planet ever spotted outside our solar system.", "It also has the fastest orbit.", "The planet whizzes around its star more than seven times faster than Earth moves, and is 23 times closer to the star than Mercury is to our sun.", "The planet was first detected early in 2008 by the CoRoT satellite, a 30-centimeter space telescope launched by the European Space Agency in December 2006, specifically with the mission of detecting rocky planets outside the solar system.", "At least 42 scientists at 17 institutions on three continents worked on the project.", "They are publishing their findings in a special issue of the Astronomy and Astrophysics journal on October 22 as \"The CoRoT-7 Planetary System: Two Orbiting Super-Earths.\"" ]	[ "The planet, known as CoRoT-7b, was detected early last year .", "It took months to determine that it had a composition roughly similar to Earth's .", "The planet is about five times more massive than Earth .", "Astronomer: It is so close to the star it orbits that it may \"look like Dante's Inferno\"" ]	[ 4, 12, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Facebook's user base is nearly as large as the U.S. population and, for the first time, the site has turned a profit.", "Facebook now has 300 million users -- almost as many as the population of the United States.", "That was the double-barreled announcement Tuesday from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who thanked the site's users for helping its online community cross the 300 million threshold.", "There are about 307 million people living in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.", "\"We're just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone,\" Zuckerberg wrote on the company's blog.", "\"Because we want to make it as easy and fast as possible for the world to connect, one of the things we think a lot about is how to make Facebook perform even faster and more efficiently as we grow,\" he wrote.", "\"We face a lot of fun and important challenges that require rethinking the current systems for enabling information flow across the Web.\"", "The social networking site, while popular with its exploding user base, has struggled to turn a profit.", "But Zuckerberg said the company became profitable last quarter, beating its goal of getting out of the red by the end of 2010.", "\"This is important to us because it sets Facebook up to be a strong independent service for the long term,\" he wrote.", "In July, the California startup company announced it had hit the 250 million-user mark, which indicates it has grown by 50 million users in two months.", "That's more than 800,000 new users per day.", "About 70 percent of Facebook's users are outside the U.S., according to statistics posted by the company.", "The site started out as a portal for college students but has attracted the attention of baby boomers and older generations in recent years.", "Facebook says its fastest-growing demographic is people older than 35.", "Watch Randi Zuckerberg of Facebook's marketing team talk about the milestone » .", "Over the past year, the social network has seen a challenge from Twitter, the popular micro-blogging site.", "Many bloggers see recent updates to Facebook's interface as copied from Twitter's stripped-down design.", "As Facebook has grown, it also has drawn criticism from privacy groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, which says people on Facebook unwillingly give up personal information to advertisers and Facebook application developers.", "In a video interview with Fortune, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said Facebook gives its users robust privacy controls.", "She also told Fortune that a new approach to online advertising has helped Facebook's revenue grow throughout the recession.", "\"Our advertisements are very much part of the user experience,\" she said.", "\"So the same way you can RSVP for an event on Facebook -- you know, a party your friend might throw -- you can RSVP for a movie premiere.", "And that's really a movie advertisement saying, 'Our movie is opening this weekend.", "Do you want to go?' \" After Zuckerberg's blog post went up Tuesday, more than 500 Facebook users commented, largely cheering him on.", "\"i [heart] facebook.", "mark, you are my hero!\" one user wrote.", "\"Today the Internet, tomorrow the world,\" said another.", "Technology blogs jumped on the news from Facebook, which was posted about 7 p.m.", "ET on Tuesday.", "MG Siegler at the blog TechCrunch wrote that it was inevitable that Facebook would pass the 300 million mark but that its finance news was more significant.", "New technologies probably are helping Facebook keep its computer server costs down, which is important because Facebook stores a lot of data, he wrote.", "The site is effectively the largest photo-sharing site online, he said.", "John Paczkowski, a writer for the Wall Street Journal's AllThingsD blog, said Facebook's financial announcement indicates the startup isn't thinking about selling out.", "\"It would seem then that Facebook has no interest whatsoever in selling itself off to Google or anyone else,\" he wrote.", "\"It would much rather go public.\"" ]	[ "Facebook announces it has 300 million users and has turned a profit .", "That makes the social network roughly the size of the U.S. in population .", "CEO writes Facebook will be a \"strong independent service for the long term\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Oscar-winning filmmaker Roman Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland on a decades-old arrest warrant stemming from a sex charge in California, Swiss police said Sunday.", "Roman Polanski attends a film premiere in Paris, France, in June 2009.", "Polanski, 76, was taken into custody trying to enter Switzerland on Saturday, Zurich police said.", "A spokesman for the Swiss Justice Ministry said Polanski was arrested upon arrival at the airport.", "He has lived in France for decades to avoid being arrested if he enters the United States and declined to appear in person to collect his Academy Award for Best Director for \"The Pianist\" in 2003.", "The director pleaded guilty in 1977 to a single count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, acknowledging he had sex with a 13-year-old girl.", "But he fled the United States before he could be sentenced, and U.S. authorities have had a warrant for his arrest since 1978.", "Watch what happens now for Polanski » .", "Polanski was nominated for best director Oscars for \"Tess\" and \"Chinatown,\" and for best writing for \"Rosemary's Baby,\" which he also directed.", "He was en route to the Zurich Film Festival, which is holding a Polanski tribute this year, when he was arrested by Swiss authorities, the festival said.", "A provisional arrest warrant was issued last week out of Los Angeles, California, after authorities learned Polanski was going to be in Switzerland, Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, told CNN on Sunday.", "There have been repeated attempts to settle the case over the years, but the sticking point has always been Polanski's refusal to return to attend hearings.", "Prosecutors have consistently argued that it would be a miscarriage of justice to allow a man to go free who \"drugged and raped a 13-year-old child.\"", "The Swiss Justice Ministry said Polanski was put \"in provisional detention.\"", "But whether he can be extradited to the United States \"can be established only after the extradition process judicially has been finalised,\" a ministry spokesman said in an e-mail.", "\"It is possible to appeal at the federal penal court of justice against an arrest warrant in view to extradition as well as against an extradition decision,\" the spokesman wrote.", "\"Their decisions can be taken further to the federal court of justice.\"", "Gibbons said the extradition process will be determined in Switzerland, but said authorities are ready to move forward with Polanski's sentencing process, depending on what happens in Zurich.", "Polanski was accused of plying a 13-year-old girl with champagne and a sliver of a quaalude tablet and performing various sex acts, including intercourse, with her during a photo shoot at actor Jack Nicholson's house.", "He was 43 at the time. Nicholson was not at home, but his girlfriend at the time, actress Anjelica Huston, was.", "According to a probation report contained in the filing, Huston described the victim as \"sullen.\"", "\"She appeared to be one of those kind of little chicks between -- could be any age up to 25.", "She did not look like a 13-year-old scared little thing,\" Huston said.", "She added that Polanski did not strike her as the type of man who would force himself on a young girl.", "\"I don't think he's a bad man,\" she said in the report.", "\"I think he's an unhappy man.\"", "Polanski pleaded guilty to a single count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor.", "Polanski's lawyers tried earlier this year to have the charges thrown out, but a Los Angeles judge rejected the request.", "In doing so, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Espinoza left the door open to reconsider his ruling if Polanski shows up in court.", "Espinoza also appeared to acknowledge problems with the way Polanski's case was handled years ago.", "According to court documents, Polanski, his lawyer and the prosecutor thought they'd worked out a deal that would spare Polanski from prison and let the young victim avoid a public trial.", "But the original judge in the case, who is now dead, first sent the director to maximum-security prison for 42 days while he underwent psychological testing.", "Then, on the eve of his sentencing, the judge told attorneys he was inclined to send Polanski back to prison for another 48 days.", "Polanski fled the United States for France, where he was born.", "In the February hearing, Espinoza mentioned a documentary film that depicts backroom deals between prosecutors and a media-obsessed judge who was worried his public image would suffer if he didn't send Polanski to prison.", "\"It's hard to contest some of the behavior in the documentary was misconduct,\" said Espinoza.", "But he declined to dismiss the case entirely.", "Legal experts said such a ruling would have been extremely rare.", "Polanski's victim is among those calling for the case to be tossed out.", "Samantha Geimer filed court papers in January saying, \"I am no longer a 13-year-old child.", "I have dealt with the difficulties of being a victim, have surmounted and surpassed them with one exception.", "\"Every time this case is brought to the attention of the Court, great focus is made of me, my family, my mother and others.", "That attention is not pleasant to experience and is not worth maintaining over some irrelevant legal nicety, the continuation of the case.\"", "Geimer, now 45, married and a mother of three, sued Polanski and received an undisclosed settlement.", "She long ago came forward and made her identity public -- mainly, she said, because she was disturbed by how the criminal case had been handled.", "Following Espinoza's ruling earlier this year, Geimer's lawyer, Larry Silver, said he was disappointed and that Espinoza \"did not get to the merits and consider the clear proof of both judicial and prosecutorial corruption.\"", "He argued in court that had \"Mr. Polanski been treated fairly\" his client would not still be suffering because of publicity almost 32 years after the crime.", "Polanski's arrest Saturday came two days after one of his wife's killers died.", "The director's pregnant wife, actress Sharon Tate, and four others were butchered by members of the Manson \"family\" in August 1969.", "Polanski was filming in Europe at the time.", "By her own admission, Susan Atkins held the eight-months-pregnant Tate down as she pleaded for mercy, stabbing the 26-year-old actress 16 times.", "CNN's Frederik Pleitgen, Brooke Bowman, Karan Olson and Ann O'Neill contributed to this report." ]	[ "In 1977 director Roman Polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl .", "He has lived in France for decades to avoid arrest if he enters the U.S.\nOscar winner was arrested en route to Zurich Film Festival, which was honoring him .", "Polanski won Oscar for best director for \"The Pianist;\" did not collect it in person ." ]	[ 4, 5, 9 ]
[ "JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- A baby made his way into the world this week in Indonesia at 19.2 pounds (8.7 kg) -- about three times the weight of an average newborn.", "The giant baby lies next to a more typically-sized newborn.", "Muhammad Akbar Risuddin, born Monday, is thought to be the heaviest baby born to date in Indonesia.", "\"I was very surprised. I thought it was twins,\" said Binsar Sitanggang, the lead doctor in the cesarean-section delivery at Abdul Manan Hospital in North Sumatra.", "\"It needed a longer time than normal to deliver this baby,\" Sitanggang said.", "\"He was hardly breathing when we took him out.", "But, thank God, he is healthy.\"", "His parents, Hananuddin and Ani, who like many Indonesians use only one name, have two other children.", "Both were big at birth but were not abnormally large.", "Their new addition is 24.4 inches (62 cm) long.", "\"We can compare this giant baby with a 9- to 10-month-old baby,\" Sitanggang said.", "\"Both his parents are tall and big, so there might be a genetic cause for this.\"", "Sitanggang said the baby has already developed a robust appetite, requiring instant milk as well as breast milk.", "The boy has become somewhat of a celebrity.", "Curious people streamed into the hospital Friday for a glimpse.", "Even the mayor came by and had the honor of naming the infant after himself.", "The world's heaviest baby was born in 1879 in Ohio and weighed 23.8 pounds (10.8 kg), but the baby died 11 hours later, according to Guinness World Records.", "The heaviest baby to survive was a boy born in 1955 in Aversa, Italy.", "He weighed 22.6 pounds (10.2 kg)." ]	[ "Baby weighing 19.2 pounds (8.7 kg) born in Indonesia .", "Baby is three times the typical size of a newborn infant .", "Doctor who delivered baby: \"I was very surprised.", "I thought it was twins\"" ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- She's petite, she's middle-aged, she's bookish, and if she gets a chance, she'll knock you on your keister.", "Beth Hollis, second from left, is a librarian who's become a MegaBeth, a roller derby dynamo.", "By day, she's Beth Hollis, a 53-year-old reference librarian in Akron, Ohio.", "By night, she's MegaBeth, an ageless dynamo on the roller derby rink.", "\"All my life, when I tell people I'm a librarian, they say, 'You don't look like a librarian,' \" Hollis said.", "\"And now that I'm a roller derby girl, they say, 'You don't look like a roller derby girl, either.'", "So I don't know where I fit in.\" Hollis has been fitting in at the Akron-Summit County Library for 27 years.", "\"She's my hero,\" said Diane Barton, 48, who has worked with Hollis at the library for 18 years.", "\"I just think it's so cool she's doing something so different and so active and so aggressive.", "You know how we are. We're librarians, so we tend to have that meek and mild stereotype.\"", "Watch her in action as Beth and MegaBeth » .", "Before discovering roller derby, Hollis had been casting about for a hobby.", "\"I tried knitting and literally got kicked out of the knitting class for just not being able to get the hang of it,\" she chortled.", "\"I guess it was just too soon for me to try knitting.", "I needed something that maybe was a little bit more physical for a hobby.\"", "Boy howdy. She visited a Rubber City Rollergirls practice last winter after telling her husband, Warren, a retired high school math teacher, that she was going to an audition.", "\"At that point, I just said, 'I don't care that I have an AARP card in my wallet; I'm going to go for this,' \" she said.", "Roller derby is a real sport, having ditched the campy, WWE-like spectacle seen on TV in the early 1970s.", "The Rubber City squad practices six hours a week and competes against teams in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Kentucky.", "A roller derby match, called a bout, consists of two 30-minute halves.", "Each team has four blockers and one player called a jammer, whose job is to get past the other team's blockers on a 235-foot oval flat track and lap them to score points.", "Both teams are on offense and defense simultaneously, and the action is fast and rough.", "\"I think she's awesome,\" coach Brian \"Coachise\" Phillips said.", "\"She is 53, so she is our oldest girl on the team, but she works every bit as hard as every other girl on the team, and she is in as good a shape if not better than every other girl on the team.\"", "And she's an inspiration to the other players.", "\"It makes me actually excited to think that I could play ... for another 30 years, and that's awesome for me, because this is like my favorite thing to do,\" said Barb \"Barbonic Plague\" Brown, who at 21 is the youngest player on the team.", "Hollis has earned the respect of her team captain, too.", "\"She's so tiny -- she's probably like 5 feet 4 and maybe 110 pounds or so -- but when she's out there, she's MegaBeth,\" said Tracy \"Eighty-SixHer\" Soulsby, 40.", "\"I wouldn't say she's a very hard hitter, but she's a good blocker.", "Her strength is getting in people's way and then keeping them behind her, not letting them get around her.\"", "The MegaBeth legend grew during a June bout with the Glass City Roller Girls, a team from Toledo, Ohio.", "Hollis found herself contending with a 6-foot-1, 220-pound foe who goes by the name Pamazon.", "\"Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her just take out this one girl, and I remember, the crowd just went wild.", "It was fantastic!\" Brown recalled.", "\"I think that might be the highlight of her season,\" Phillips said.", "For her part, Pamazon -- aka Pamela Keppler -- said she's never been knocked down in a bout.", "\"To be completely honest, I don't remember MegaBeth that well from the bout,\" she said.", "\"I do remember talking with her at the after-party.", "We were all pretty surprised by her age, and I remember her saying that I knocked the snot out of her.\"", "The team draws capacity crowds of 500 to 600 at its bouts, where admission costs $8.50 to $12.50 and concessions are sold.", "\"It really makes it exciting when you've got all those people cheering,\" Hollis said.", "\"And as we progress through the season, it's obvious that we've gotten better ... and the fan support has just gotten louder.\"", "But the glory comes at a cost.", "Two Rubber City Rollergirls have suffered broken legs -- in practice!", "-- and one is about to return after breaking her shoulder and nose in a bout.", "\"It's inevitable that you're going to get scrapes; you get rink rash and bruises,\" said Hollis, who wears number 796.21 -- the Dewey Decimal library index number for skating.", "\"I took a pretty tough fall to my hip that had me a little concerned.", "As I said to my teammates, at my age when you break a hip, it's the beginning of the end.\"", "Asked whether she has hurt anyone else, the mother of two college graduates replied furtively: \"I hope so.\"", "Librarian Hollis isn't the only player smashing stereotypes.", "Among her teammates are teachers, a Starbucks manager, an accountant, a nurse practitioner, a barmaid and a couple of waitresses, most of whom are on the small side, Soulsby said.", "\"It's not just rough-and-tough, big, burly gals out on parole,\" Hollis said.", "Perhaps just to keep it real, the team does include one former repo driver (Valcano) and a heavy-equipment operator (BulldozeHer Bo).", "Barton, her fellow librarian, says there's something different about Hollis since she laced up her skates.", "\"It may just be my imagination, but she seems more confident in a way,\" Barton said.", "\"It has to empower you somehow.\"", "Hollis says it's good for people to test themselves with change.", "\"I encourage people to pursue things -- something like this -- that they think might be fun, and not to let stereotypes get in the way of whether or not they think they're going to fit in,\" she said.", "\"Because you never know.\"" ]	[ "Librarian Beth Hollis breaks stereotypes and, occasionally, bones .", "After failing at knitting, she tries her hand (and elbows) at roller derby .", "\"MegaBeth,\" age 53, is among the fittest players on the team, coach says ." ]	[ 1, 3, 44, 49 ]
[ "RAJASTHAN, India (CNN) -- Some call him the River Maker, others the Rainman of Rajasthan.", "His real name is Rajendra Singh.", "His nicknames come from his self-imposed mission to solve his state's water problems, one raindrop at a time.", "Rajendra Singh is trying to solve water issues in Rajasthan -- one of India's driest states.", "\"Today with global warming and climate change so many things are going on.", "Yes, this is the global problem.", "This is the modern problem.", "The solution is indigenous water conservation,\" Singh says.", "Singh lives and works in Rajasthan, one of the driest states in India.", "It is the country's largest state in land mass but has only about one percent of the country's water resources.", "Singh has spent the last 25 years of his life practicing what he preaches there.", "His message is always the same.", "He says rainwater is a resource we cannot afford to waste, instead we should capture and utilize it.", "\"If the drops come from the cloud, we can catch it!\"", "He says with his hands stretched to the sky.", "\"And that drop go[es] into the under[ground] aquifer and fulfills the aquifer.", "If that drop comes back so [it will] make springs, make a river.\"", "We caught up with him in Rajasthan's Alwar district.", "One of India's so-called \"princely states\" once ruled by Indian royalty.", "Back in the 1980s the government declared the area a dark zone: An area villagers could no longer pump up clean water because the water table had gotten so low.", "\"When there was a famine there was a drought I had to leave.\"", "Farmer Narin Joshi told us who has lived in the area his whole life.", "\"I had to work as a laborer in Delhi to make ends meet.", "There was no way I could earn any money here.", "I had to go.\" That meant leaving his wife behind to raise their children and try to keep them fed.", "\"If there is a harvest we benefit from the farm.\"", "His wife Kalawati Devi his wife says.", "\"And if there is no harvest we get nothing.\"", "For 10 years Joshi worked as a snack seller in Delhi sending back money to help his family survive.", "He says that all changed after Singh and his organization Tarun Bharat Sangh showed up.", "The group came to teach the villagers something their forefathers once practiced: The building of traditional dams called Johads.", "The dams are made of earth and rock.", "They are fashioned to capture the rain so the water will trickle down and replenish the aquifer eventually giving rise to water in the wells and bringing dead rivers back to life.", "But the work takes a community effort.", "One family is not enough to get it done.", "Singh says his role is to teach and motivate the community.", "\"There are more than 10-thousand water harvesting structures we [have] made in last 25 years.", "And all these structures came through the community effort.", "I just motivate and realize to the community and [the] community joined hands with us and they made it!\"", "It is easy to see the result when water becomes available again.", "Everything from water buffalo to majestic peacocks.", "Water snakes gather at the watering holes.", "Over the years Singh says his organization and the villagers of Rajasthan have revived seven rivers across the state helping more than a thousand villages.", "Now instead of traveling long distances carrying heavy vats of water, or migrating to the cities to make a living, the villagers can stay put and begin to enjoy their surroundings more.", "The availability of water brought the Joshi family back together again because the husband could finally make a living here.", "\"I have planted many kinds of trees.", "For my livelihood I do farming.\"", "He says \"My family and I are leading very peaceful lives.\"" ]	[ "Rajendra Singh has devoted his life to solving Rajasthan's water problems .", "Rajasthan is India's largest state and also one of the driest .", "Singh says rainwater is a resource we cannot afford to waste .", "Ten thousand water harvesting structures have been made in the last 25 years ." ]	[ 3, 12, 36, 42 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A North Carolina man accused of plotting to wage holy war overseas also planned to attack the U.S. Marine base at Quantico, Virginia, according to new charges announced Thursday.", "Daniel Boyd previously was charged with conspiracy to support terrorists and conspiracy to murder.", "The charge is one of three counts in a new indictment against Daniel Patrick Boyd, who authorities allege is the ringleader of a group of men charged with training in North Carolina for a \"violent jihad.\"", "Boyd and another man, Hysen Sherifi, are charged with conspiring to murder U.S. military personnel.", "\"Boyd undertook reconnaissance of the Marine Corps Base located in Quantico, Virginia, and obtained maps of the base in order to plan an attack on Quantico,\" the charges state.", "FBI agents found weapons, thousands of rounds of ammunition and $13,000 cash in Boyd's Raleigh-area home, an FBI agent testified at an August bond hearing for the men, who were arrested in late July.", "The original indictment says the men practiced military tactics in a North Carolina county that borders Virginia.", "The latest indictment also charges Boyd, Sherifi, and Boyd's son Zakariya with possession of weapons in furtherance of a crime of violence, while Boyd faces an additional charge of providing a rifle and ammunition to a convicted felon.", "Boyd and seven others already have been charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and conspiracy to murder, kidnap, maim and injure people.", "One of the men is believed to have fled to Pakistan, and the remaining men are in custody.", "In August, a federal judge denied bail for the seven in custody, but expressed skepticism about the charges against them.", "Magistrate Judge William Webb said the defendants made a number statements espousing holy war, and said the statements could be interpreted in isolation as braggadocio.", "But he agreed to keep them in jail because some of them had amassed a large arsenal and engaged in firearms training." ]	[ "Daniel Boyd, another man charged with conspiring to murder U.S. military personnel .", "Boyd previously was charged with conspiring to provide support to terrorists .", "Authorities allege Boyd led group training for holy war overseas .", "Boyd was arrested in July ." ]	[ 1, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- He's gone from being a backup dancer to the biggest thing in Asian pop culture, an actor and singer who has sold millions of albums.", "The 27-year-old South Korean has even faced down U.S. comedian Steven Colbert in a spoof dance-off.", "The comedy skit came about after Rain placed higher than him in Time Magazine's 2008 online poll of the 100 Most Influential People.", "As well as a sense of humor and dance moves that shook Colbert out of his satirical posture to praise, Rain is also known as one of the hardest working men in the entertainment business.", "Rain, real name Jung Ji-hoon, broke into the notoriously tough world of South Korean show business with JYP Entertainment when he was just 18 years old.", "He made his first mark in Hollywood last year with a role in \"Speed Racer\" appearing alongside Christina Ricci and Matthew Fox.", "As a singer with five albums to his name, he's faced thousands of screaming fans at concerts across the world, and recently he faced your questions.", "Watch the show and find out what makes Rain tick." ]	[ "Korean pop culture sensation will be on Talk Asia later this month .", "27-year-old has gone from backup dancer to appearing in Hollywood films .", "Rain will be appearing with answers to your questions ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A 92-year-old woman with cocaine strapped to her body flew all the way from Brazil to Spain before police arrested her, in a wheelchair, at Madrid's airport.", "A Civil Guard spokeswoman says the 92-year old was apprehended at Madrid's Barajas Airport.", "They found 4.3 kilos, or nearly 9.5 pounds, of cocaine packets strapped to her legs and torso, and also arrested a 44-year-old female companion, who tried to escape on another plane, a Civil Guard spokeswoman told CNN Tuesday.", "The two women, both from Uruguay, were arrested Friday after arriving in Madrid on a flight from Sao Paolo, Brazil.", "But officials did not release details about the case until this week, after a judge had arraigned the two on drug trafficking charges.", "The judge ordered the younger woman to prison but sent the 92-year-old to a senior citizens' home in Madrid.", "Due to her advanced age, \"it's practically impossible\" that she would be tried or face jail time, said the Civil Guard spokeswoman, who by custom is not identified.", "Police did not identify the two women.", "Civil Guards became suspicious when the younger woman repeatedly told the older woman -- who had asked for an airport wheelchair in Madrid to traverse the terminal -- that if they rushed, they would make their connecting flight to Spain's Canary Islands.", "The Civil Guards, who run customs controls at the airport, stopped the woman in the wheelchair.", "The younger woman immediately fled, first trying to make the connecting flight, which by then had closed its doors, and then attempting to leave the airport terminal for the street.", "But she was stuck in the \"satellite,\" or second building, of Terminal 4, which is connected to the main building and the street by an underground train.", "Police caught up with her before she left the satellite terminal.", "The two would-be smugglers probably expected a cash payment and return flight tickets to Brazil from their drug trafficking contacts, the Civil Guard spokeswoman said." ]	[ "Two women, both from Uruguay, arrested after arriving in Madrid on flight from Brazil .", "Judge arraigns two women, one a 92-year old wheelchair user, on drug charges .", "Spokeswoman: \"It's practically impossible\" wheelchair user would be tried ." ]	[ 0, 3, 6, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Four police officers and a suspect were shot in a raid for firearms and narcotics early Thursday in central New Jersey, a local prosecutor's office said.", "The officers from the Lakewood Police Department's tactical unit were shot upon entering the property and returned fire, hitting suspect Jamie Gonzalez, said Ocean County Deputy Chief Prosecutor Michael Mohel.", "Gonzalez, 39, received multiple gunshot wounds and is in critical but stable condition, Mohel said.", "One officer was shot in the face and is being treated at an undisclosed hospital, the deputy chief prosecutor said.", "He's in serious but stable condition.", "Another officer was shot in the foot and is in stable condition.", "The other two officers sustained injuries after receiving gunshots to their bulletproof vests, Mohel said.", "Their names were not disclosed.", "The warrant for firearms and narcotics was served at 2:25 a.m.", "ET in conjunction with federal, state and local authorities.", "Lakewood is about 70 miles south of New York City.", "In July, another shootout in New Jersey left one police officer dead.", "Jersey City police officer Marc DiNardo died after being shot in the face in a raid.", "He was one of five officers injured in the shootout, and the two suspects involved were killed.", "CNN's Vanessa Juarez contributed to this report." ]	[ "Police officers shot in raid for firearms and narcotics in Lakewood, New Jersey .", "Suspect also wounded after officers return fire, official says .", "Lakewood is about 70 miles south of New York ." ]	[ 0, 10 ]
[ "ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) -- The governments of Armenia and Turkey will sign a peace agreement in Zurich on Saturday that would normalize relations after nearly a century of animosity between the neighboring nations, the Swiss government said Friday.", "The Swiss-mediated peace deal would also open the border between the countries, which has been shut since 1993.", "The signing ceremony comes more than a month after Armenia and Turkey announced they had agreed to start six weeks of \"internal political consultations\" on two protocols aimed at establishing diplomatic and bilateral relations.", "The border was closed after Turkey objected to Armenia's war with Turkish ally Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabagh.", "Neither country has an embassy in the other's capital.", "Turkish-Armenian relations have often been overshadowed by the dispute over the massacre of ethnic Armenians in the final days of the Ottoman Empire, more than 90 years ago.", "Armenians accuse Ottoman Turks of committing genocide, killing more then a million Armenians starting in 1915.", "Modern-day Turkey vehemently rejects the allegations.", "The proposed protocols for normalizing relations call for creating a committee of international experts to research archives and \"restore mutual confidence between the two nations.\"", "There is no mention of the disputed territory of Karabagh, which Armenian troops have controlled since the 1993 Armenian-Azerbaijan war.", "But the success of the protocols is still uncertain, as the parliaments of both countries still must ratify the agreement.", "A senior U.S. State Department official -- authorized to brief reporters without attribution because of diplomatic sensitivities -- said the situation remains \"difficult.\"", "\"There's opposition both in Turkey and in Armenia,\" the senior official said Thursday, \"but both governments realize ultimately it's in their interest to have normalized relations and an open border after years of tension and the economic isolation, particularly of Armenia.\"", "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend the signing, along with dignitaries from several other countries, including the European Union, according to the Swiss government." ]	[ "Swiss-mediated deal would normalize relations between rival nations .", "Accord also open the border, which has been closed since 1993 .", "Animosity dates back to Ottoman Empire and massacre of ethnic Armenians .", "Both countries still must ratify the protocols, and difficulties remain ." ]	[ 1, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Wendy Williams knows that her syndicated television show often provides fodder for jokes on E!", "'s \"The Soup.\" She's more than all right with that. Wendy Williams is hoping to attract a broad audience for her daytime talk show.", "\"I love it,\" she said, letting out a throaty laugh.", "Williams is not at all bothered if people poke fun, because at least they are talking about her new show.", "Long known to her radio fans for her outspoken nature and sometimes controversial interviews with celebrities, she is now navigating the switch from radio to television with \"The Wendy Williams Show.\"", "Williams' mix of celeb guests, \"Hot Topics\" and straight-forward advice to audience members led Entertainment Weekly's critic-at-large Ken Tucker to headline a recent blog item \"Are you watching 'The Wendy Williams Show'?", "You should be.\" The talk show host said she is settling comfortably into her new role.", "\"The radio was wonderful, and for 23 wonderful years, the radio served me, and I served it,\" said Williams, who is scheduled to be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame this fall.", "\"The transition for me seems very natural and very easy.\"", "Her career has not always been so.", "A self-described \"Jersey girl,\" Williams was reportedly dumped from New York's Hot 97 radio station in 1998 after a run-in with a fellow on-air personality.", "She eventually found success with a syndicated radio show, \"The Wendy Williams Experience,\" which aired on WBLS in New York.", "In 2008, she and her radio show made news after a talent booker accused Williams' husband/manager, Kevin Hunter, of sexual harassment, accusations Williams has dismissed as false in earlier interviews.", "Williams has also had several high-profile feuds with celebrities, notably Whitney Houston, who have been less than enthusiastic about her dishy gossip style and what they perceived as prying questions.", "In a 2003 interview with Houston, she tangled on-air with the singer about Houston's drug use in an exchange that resulted in Houston delivering an expletive-laced diatribe.", "But while Williams still asks the questions many fans want to know (and retains her catchphrase, \"How you doin'?", "\"), she said, her television show is different.", "\"It's more polished,\" she said.", "\"Four hours on the radio versus one hour on TV -- that means you that you have to have five words instead of 35 words to explain what you are talking about.\"", "That doesn't stop her from sharing everything from her love of wigs to information about her breast implants -- without which, she recently told viewers, she was \"naturally a long, floppy A [cup].\"", "Rob Dauber, executive producer of the show, said daytime television needs Williams' bluntness.", "\"Wendy Williams has a really unique, honest personality who audiences really relate to,\" he said.", "\"The daytime viewer, I think, is hungry for a personality who is not afraid to speak the truth, to tell her own truth and to kind of let it all hang out.", "\"Wendy's not hiding anything from anybody about herself, and she's not afraid to show all of her faults.\"", "During a recent phone interview, Williams, mother of a 9-year old boy, chatted easily while trying to get clothes in the washing machine and dinner on the table for her family.", "\"After the show, it's real life,\" she said.", "\"Last night was parent night at school, and I forgot to include the box of tissues, pens that erase and a few other things,\" Williams said.", "\"No one said anything about it, but I went back in his folder and looked and immediately started sweating and feeling inadequate.\"", "She thinks daytime television fans can relate to her, because ultimately she is a fan, too.", "She rattles off countless shows she enjoys including \"Ellen,\" \"Oprah,\" \"Judge Judy\" and \"Dr.", "Oz.\" Williams said she aspires to attract higher-profile guests on her talk show and hopes the audience will give her time to find her stride.", "\"I know that the show is messy, because I'm messy,\" she said.", "\"But I have a staff of very talented people working with me.\"", "She said she is grateful for her radio audience but hopes to branch out to more fans via television -- including men.", "She said she often observes them at her show, clearly annoyed that they have been dragged there by women.", "\"I see their faces dragging long when I first come out, and somewhere around the end of 'Hot Topics,' they are roaring with laughter,\" she said.", "\"At the end of the day, I just want people to laugh and have a good time.\"" ]	[ "Wendy Williams has made the transition from radio to daytime television .", "Former radio personality now hosts \"The Wendy Williams Show\"\nShe says she hopes the audience gives the show a chance .", "Williams: \"I just want people to laugh and have a good time\"" ]	[ 1, 4, 36 ]
[ "(WIRED) -- What did you do this summer?", "Flat World Knowledge stayed busy on campus and now has 40 times as many students and more than 10 times the colleges using their freemium, open-source digital textbooks as they did spring semester.", "And they did it the old-fashioned way -- one professor at a time.", "A company is offering digital alternatives to traditional college textbooks.", "After a sort of beta earlier this year, Flat World was set to announce Thursday that more than 40,000 college students at 400 colleges will use their digital, DRM-free textbooks fall semester, up from 1,000 in 30 colleges in the spring.", "Digital textbooks remain a nascent business and a tough market to enter.", "At an average cost of $100, textbooks command the highest cover prices in publishing, outside of only some art and coffee-table books.", "Demand is artificially inelastic as students are indentured to cost servitude at the whim of college professors who blithely assign titles a student must own if she hopes to do well in a given course.", "Now, multiply that by four, five or even six courses a semester and you are talking big bucks.", "By comparison, Flat World has a pricing scheme that starts at zero for online access using a browser, and $20 for a PDF, which they believe will be the most popular format.", "Printed versions of their textbooks cost up to $60.", "Perhaps best of all: Textbooks are available a la carte, chapter by chapter.", "But the key buy-in has been from teachers who make the assignments and who, in my college days, could not care less how much the textbooks cost.", "What's changed? \"There has been a mind shift,\" co-founder Eric Frank told Wired.com.", "A tipping point came a couple of years ago when faculty began to consider the financial burden on students because many of them (Frank estimates a third) didn't bother to get the textbook at all.", "Perhaps more to the point, open-source textbooks -- which are Creative Commons-licensed to allow unencumbered non-commercial use -- make it possible to graft supporting material to the curriculum, rather than the other way around.", "\"Faculty are notorious for wanting to do things their way,\" said Frank.", "\"But they always had to cut the foot to fit the shoe.", "Now, with open source, they can cut the shoe to fit the foot.\"", "There is virtually no friction involved.", "A professor can register on Flat World's site and let students know that the book is available there.", "No cooperation from a school district or college administration is required.", "\"Every single class is a fiefdom, and they are kings and queens of their domain,\" Frank jokes.", "Like any freemium retailer, Flat World depends on enough people buying something, because clearly the business cannot be sustained if everyone just opts for free web access.", "\"What we're counting on is that people will be willing to pay for different packaging.\"", "And it will come down to the price points, Frank acknowledges, even when the company develops formats for the Sony e-book reader and Amazon Kindle, as they hope to this year.", "It makes as much sense to equip students with a device that makes all their reference materials available on demand as to offer a casual reader a complete portable library -- perhaps more.", "This is a classic chicken-and-egg scenario in which a device-dependent culture needs to evolve alongside new content formats.", "For this and a variety of other reasons, including the cost of e-readers and for the media they serve up, Frank thinks the PDF will remain the format of choice for students for some time to come (and the ubiquitous and DRM-free Portable Document Format is readable on the Sony and Amazon devices, anyway).", "\"They'll move forward,\" Frank says of device-specific e-reader formats.", "\"But there is so much irrational pricing right now that they'll move forward much more slowly than they probably should.\"", "For now, expect a PDF revolution.", "And what better back-to-school present can you think of for 40,000 hard-up college students in the midst of a recession?", "Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!", "Click here! Copyright 2009 Wired.com." ]	[ "Flat World Knowledge offers free access to digital textbooks online .", "The company charges $20 for downloadable PDF-format books .", "Interest in the company is rising; the service will be at 400 colleges this year .", "Still, the digital textbook business remains in its infancy, author says ." ]	[ 3, 4, 9 ]
[ "(Entertainment Weekly) -- In yet another blow to the already ailing soap opera world, Eric Braeden, the venerable star of CBS' \"The Young and the Restless,\" has exited the top-rated daytime drama after a nasty negotiation with Sony.", "Eric Braeden's last episode as Victor Newman will air on November 2.", "The production company wanted the popular actor to take a pay cut for playing mega mogul Victor Newman, but Braeden -- who's been on the soap since 1980 -- opted to leave instead.", "Barring any last-minute change, Braeden's final episode will air on November 2.", "Reps for Sony and CBS had no comment, though one insider indicated that no further talks are planned.", "EW talked with Braeden, 68, about Sony's decision to exercise a draconian clause in his contract (his deal that was set to expire in November 2010 can still be renegotiated every 26 weeks) and what it means to the future of daytime dramas.", "EW: Where do things stand?", "Did your representative counter Sony's offer and you have yet to hear an answer?", "Eric Braeden: Precisely.", "EW: As of today, are you willing to take what Sony offered?", "Braeden: No. There is no appreciation of the fact that I've been an important part of the show for 27 years that has been No.", "1 in the ratings. That's extraordinary. So to be dealt with in a perfunctory matter as if you had just known these people for a few months is what is most offensive.", "This is a certain corporate culture now that is very deleterious.", "EW: Is it true you offered to take a pay cut before?", "Braeden: I was the first one [to offer] because I knew that if we all did it, we would insure the continuation of the show.", "I did it two years ago when I signed my last contract, which I thought would last until next November.", "EW: Did you say your on-set goodbyes?", "Braeden: I said this could be a long goodbye, and I may not see you for a long time.", "Who knows? I'm not saying I've been let go -- we're still negotiating.", "But it feels like that.", "EW: What does this say about the state of the industry when a production company is asking the star of the No.", "1 show in daytime to take a pay cut?", "Should everyone be worried?", "Braeden: Yes, though it depends on what the star does.", "All options are open right now.", "What can I tell you? I know there are certain economic realities that dictate the actions they are taking right now, but the manner in which its being done is most insulting.", "EW: You taped your last episode on September 23.", "Was that the way you wanted Victor to go?", "Braeden: No. It was rushed. It was obviously meant to intimidate.", "It was obviously done with enormous forethought to coincide with the end of the 26-week cycle.", "Essentially that is what the business is doing now and has been doing for a while.", "And quite frankly, it's outrageous.", "When I sign a three-year deal, I'm obligated to fulfill that deal.", "The producers, however, can come to me after a half-year and say, \"We've changed our minds.\"", "Where in the world of business does this kind of contract exist?", "Do I blame the people for wanting to squeeze as much out of us as they can?", "I do not. The question is, when do you squeeze too much?", "EW: Would you do another daytime drama?", "Braeden: I doubt that.", "Never say never in this business or in life, but I doubt that.", "EW: Can you see the genre still existing in 10 years?", "Braeden: Yes I can.", "How many reality shows can you watch?", "They're so obviously phony.", "Our show deals with adult problems in a long continuous manner, and very much like the way things are dealt with in real life.", "In that sense I think there will always be a need for (soaps).", "They're almost novelistic in their approach.", "CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .", "Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "Eric Braeden opted to leave the daytime soap instead of taking a pay cut .", "The actor said he'd taken a pay cut two years ago when renewing his contract .", "Braeden: \"There's no appreciation that I've been an important part of the show\"\nBraeden's last episode will air November 2 ." ]	[ 1, 2, 10, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Just over a year ago, a U.S. staff sergeant in Iraq decided to practice his shooting skills.", "His target: the Quran, Islam's holiest book.", "Pvt. Nicole Wright, 20, learns cultural awareness by watching an interactive DVD.", "The military issued a formal apology, promptly dismissed the soldier from his regiment and reassigned him to stateside duty.", "But news of the shooting had already made its way onto YouTube, and a firestorm of outrage was ignited across the Islamic world.", "Protests turned deadly in Afghanistan.", "Back at the Army's Intelligence and Cultural Awareness Center at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, commanders knew they had a problem.", "In the 21st century, the Army was sending younger soldiers into an arena they had little cultural experience in, and at the same time, new social networking sites were poised to broadcast their mistakes to the world.", "Maj. Gen. John Custer, the leading officer at Fort Huachuca, knew that the Army not only needed trained linguists, but it also needed a new language of its own.", "\"The advent of social networking has changed the world.", "The soldiers who I see coming from basic to the intel center, what is the first question they ask?", "'Are you Wi-Fi? ',\" he said. Today, a third of the men and women the Army has deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan are between the ages of 20 and 24, and Custer believes the military has now entered the age of the \"strategic private\" -- a young soldier reared on video games.", "And because of social networking, that private is now armed with the ability to severely cripple a mission and spark the kinds of reactions that the world saw after the Quran shooting.", "So Custer decided his young recruits needed some extra training in cultural awareness.", "For help, he turned to a group of former military men who also saw an opportunity to engage today's Iraq-bound soldiers.", "Russ Phelps spent a career in the Navy before starting a Denver, Colorado-based company called InVism, which combines live-action video and virtual-reality technology to create simulators that become learning tools for the military and other clients.", "\"I was watching the rise of the gaming world, and the impact and the power it was having over how people were interacting with information, and I thought there is something here,\" Phelps said.", "So Phelps, a trained Arabic linguist, worked with two other companies, Combat Film Productions and Quest Pictures, to help him create realistic, movie-like combat scenarios.", "Hollywood veterans shot the scenarios on an elaborate set in Southern California, adding real footage from Iraq whenever possible.", "The result: an immersive cultural simulation program that is part video game, part blockbuster Hollywood movie.", "Soldiers use computers to train on an interactive DVD that plunges them into a series of scenarios and presents them with choices, such as whether to accept a cooler full of drinks from an Iraqi youth.", "At the end of each scenario, the recruit clicks on his or her choice, then discovers whether it was the right one.", "(Hint: That cooler could contain a bomb.)", "In this way, the DVD becomes an immersive learning tool that trains soldiers in a way that lectures and textbooks cannot.", "Ken Robinson, an Army Ranger turned Hollywood guru, is the project's executive producer.", "He's convinced that by grabbing soldiers' attention with stunning graphics and compelling characters, and then engaging them in the decision-making process, the project will deliver the ultimate payoff.", "\"They're gonna live,\" he told CNN.", "\"They're gonna make choices on the battlefield that will prevent their first choice from being to use their weapon.", "They're gonna use their mind.\"", "Robinson believes the simulator program is more effective then a traditional video game because soldiers relate more to human characters than virtual avatars.", "\"Nobody cares about an avatar that gets killed.", "You just get another avatar,\" he said.", "\"It's a 'band of brothers' mentality,\" agreed Steve Wilson, Chief of Training at Fort Huachuca.", "\"You are building a camaraderie.\"", "Wilson hopes that the soldiers build enough of a bond with the characters onscreen that they will be able to sense the shock and stress that come with the life-or-death situations they'll soon be immersed in for real.", "But can a soldier really save a life, or multiple lives, just by using more cultural sensitivity?", "Does it really matter if a U.S. soldier knows the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni?", "Custer thinks so.", "\"If an untrained soldier walks through a market, he's gonna come back and tell you 'there are a lot of tomatoes here today,' \" Custer said.", "\"The guy who has cultural training is gonna come back and say, 'All the Sunnis in the market are talking about al-Dari, a meeting tonight.'", "\" Pvt. Nicole Wright, 20, who doesn't know yet when she'll be deployed, has found the training useful.", "\"I'm going to be a little more aware of what I'm looking for, the people and the environment,\" she said.", "Spc. Andrew Omernick, 23, who grew up playing video games, agrees.", "\"The format was a little bit different from most video games I've seen.", "It was intuitive,\" he said.", "\"I thought this training was a significant step forward.\"", "Every soldier who takes the DVD immersion course is given a pre- and post-training test to measure the change in their cultural acuity.", "But there is an even more immediate feedback about whether the Army has achieved its mission of connecting with its young soldiers.", "\"If it were a video game, I'd buy it,\" Omernick said." ]	[ "The U.S. Army is using interactive videos for soldiers' cultural sensitivity training .", "The videos help recruits understand and adapt to Iraq and Afghanistan .", "Soldiers watch DVDs that plunge them into a series of wartime scenarios .", "Recruits face choices, click on options, then find out how they scored ." ]	[ 5, 20, 25, 35 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Since the revolution in 1959 Cuba has been many things to many people, but the collapse of the Soviet Union meant few have seen the island state as a vision of the future.", "But that could be changing -- at least in one aspect.", "Cuba experienced a reordering of its food production in the early 1990's.", "A boom for organic foods, but problems persist.", "As worries grow in developed nations about a future without plentiful supplies of oil, the communist republic is proving to be an increasingly popular example of how to cope when the spigots run dry, for the simple reason: they've already been there.", "With the loss of supplies from oil-rich Russia in 1991, and a U.S. embargo preventing imports from elsewhere, Cuba was plunged into a severe recession in the early 1990's, referred to as \"the Special Period.\"", "Suddenly society was faced with dramatically reduced amounts of hydrocarbon energy, and the result was a fundamental reorganization of food production, leading to a boom in urban organic agriculture, which requires fewer inputs than conventional farming.", "Despite the increase in organic production, problems remain for Cuba's agricultural system and ability to feed itself with local produce.", "\"Some estimates of the amount of food imports in Cuba go as high as 80 percent of domestic consumption,\" says CNN's Havana Bureau Chief, Morgan Neill.", "\"This isn't to say that small scale organic farmers couldn't learn for isolated growers, but Cuba's overall agriculture is one of the government's biggest problems.\"", "Cuba's organic example, however, has been a source for inspiration for many outside of the country, such as the UK-based Cuban Organic Solidarity Group (COSG).", "\"With the collapse of the Soviet Union Cuba was in a position where no-one thought it would survive -- they lost 80 percent of their trade overnight,\" says Wendy Emmett of COSG.", "\"As a result the priority given to food changed, and it was immediately seen as much more important.\"", "All over Havana small-scale organic gardens were started on roof-tops, backyards and in empty parking lots, spreading rapidly to other cities and urban centers.", "Farmer's markets known as \"Kiosks\" sprang up providing city-dwellers with access to locally-grown fruit and vegetables, cutting the use of oil in transporting food in from the countryside.", "In the countryside, oxen and horses replaced tractors.", "Manual labor replaced machines.", "A huge program of land re-distribution was instigated.", "Many of the vast collective farms beloved by communist planners started to look inefficient, and so were broken up into units more manageable without fleets of tractors.", "The process is still ongoing.", "In February 2009 the Cuban authorities announced that 1,827 square miles of state land would be given to Cubans with agricultural experience or other citizens.", "But this change wasn't easy.", "Prior to the \"Special Period\" Cuba had been a heavy user of oil-based chemical fertilizers, and much of the land was heavily degraded, requiring years of careful manuring to restore fertility.", "However, despite the obstacles, they did it.", "\"I was there in 1992, which was one of the most difficult years, and certainly people were moaning a lot, but they worked together, they still kept the milk coming for the schoolchildren,\" says Emmett.", "\"Throughout it all they didn't close any hospitals, they didn't close any schools; they kept going against the odds.", "In many ways they show us what is possible, what a community can achieve when they work together; the power of co-operation.\"", "A blue-print to cope with problems post-peak oil?", "Of course a powerful authoritarian state and strong central planning made such huge changes easier to implement; a similar process of development might be very different, and possibly lees successful, in the West.", "But as an increasing number of people believe we will soon face a major social and economic crisis as oil supplies dwindle over coming decades, many believe we have a lot to learn from the Cuban experience.", "\"The industrialized world can learn that its dependency on oil will eventually push it through similar experiences to that which Cuba had to face in the 1990's, and with similar outcomes,\" says Julia Wright, author of \"Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba.\"", "\"We can also learn that if we do not have the necessary capacities in place, our food production system will be caught short, as was Cuba.\"", "All over the world from New Zealand to the United Kingdom members of the Transition Town Movement, which aims to help communities prepare for the twin challenges of peak oil and climate change, hold regular screenings of the film, \"The Power of Community\", an upbeat documentary that explores the Cuban experience, alongside films about our oil addiction such as \"The End of Suburbia\" and \"A Crude Awakening.\"", "\"Cuba inspires groups overseas wanting to develop alternative, more sustainable farming and food systems, partly based on the myth that has built up around Cuba being organic,\" says Wright.", "\"Organic farming in Cuba only operates in urban areas, not rural... [but] the Cuban organic movement and the people within it are highly dedicated to their work and will continue to influence and be influenced by the organic movement overseas.\"", "The future is less clear.", "New allies are once again opening Cuba up to the outside world -- and providing fresh oil supplies.", "\"Hugo Chavez is supplying Cuba with increasing quantities of oil and agrochemicals, so Cuban agriculture -- and here I'm talking about rural farms which supply 95 percent of the nation's domestic food needs -- is becoming more industrialized, though it will not revert back to the extreme practices of the Soviet era,\" says Wright.", "\"Organic urban agriculture will continue and likely continue to expand out to peri-urban areas.\"", "But whatever the years ahead bring, Wright believes the experience of the \"Special Period\" has left its mark on Cuban society.", "\"The crisis that Cuba suffered has made it a better place in certain aspects, as people had to become more resilient and self-sufficient and less wasteful,\" says Wright.", "\"Although Cubans would certainly say that their food shortages and lack of inputs has been a hardship.\"" ]	[ "Cuba's economic hardship in early 1990's led to reorganization of agriculture .", "Urban and organic farming implemented plus break up of inefficient large farms .", "Some see Cuba's experience as way to cope with problems of future oil crises ." ]	[ 5, 6, 27, 35 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A surveillance video of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, missing since March 27, shows the child in the mobile home park where she lives, skipping and happily swinging her arms on the day she disappeared in Tracy, California.", "A surveillance video shows Sandra Cantu skipping in the mobile home park where she lives.", "The grainy scene appears for about eight seconds before she disappears from view.", "Police Lt. Jeremy Watney showed the clip Saturday at a news conference, but offered no details.", "\"I can't get into specifics of where it came from.", "That's all part of the investigation,\" he said.", "\"The CD will show you exactly how she looked on that particular day when she went missing.\"", "In the video, the girl emerges from a pathway at the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park into what appears to be an alley.", "To her right is the corner of what looks like a wooden deck; there seem to be deep shadows on the left.", "Watney said authorities initially thought Sandra was carrying a purse or backpack, but the images turned out to be shadows.", "He said authorities have \"hundreds of hours of videotapes\" in the case.", "The day the child disappeared, she came home from school, kissed her mother and left to play with a friend who lives a couple of homes away.", "A short time later, she left that home to go to another friend's home, according to a spokeswoman for her family.", "She was reported missing about 8 p.m. Sandra was wearing a pink Hello Kitty T-shirt and black leggings.", "Watney said the reward for information leading to her whereabouts has increased to $26,000, and authorities are following more than 800 leads.", "More than 300 trained searchers from 17 agencies were out on Saturday.", "A door-to-door canvass moved outside of the park Saturday afternoon as police continued to collect details from residents in the area.", "Watney said police executed search warrants on a home, a vehicle and a person Friday, but nobody has been detained in the case.", "\"It's just looking for clues and evidence\" he said of the warrants.", "Watney said the reward for information leading to her whereabouts has increased to $26,000, and authorities are following more than 900 leads.", "On Monday night, Tracy police and FBI agents searched six locations, some in the Orchard Estates Mobile Home Park and some in Tracy.", "All of the places were connected to two men who live in the mobile home park, officials said.", "Authorities have not called the men suspects and have not named them publicly.", "They did not say how or if they might be related to the case.", "Police have said they do not believe Sandra ran away.", "The girl's aunt, Angie Chavez, told CNN Headline News' Nancy Grace that Sandra's father lives in Mexico and was not around the day she disappeared.", "Tracy is about 60 miles east of San Francisco." ]	[ "NEW: Video shows Sandra Cantu skipping near her home the day she went missing .", "NEW: Grainy, 8-second image of the 8-year-old was shown at a news conference .", "Girl had on a pink Hello Kitty T-shirt and black leggings the day she disappeared .", "Reward has increased to $26,000, and authorities are following more than 800 leads ." ]	[ 0, 13, 14 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The world's tropical forests are disappearing, and one reason is simple economics: People, companies and governments earn more by logging, mining or farming places such as the Amazon jungle than by conserving them.", "Global climate change treaty, scheduled for completion in December, is designed to protect tropical forests.", "Efforts to halt rain forest destruction date back decades, but they so far have failed to tackle the issue on a scale commensurate with the challenge.", "Now there may be a remedy, and the reason is climate change.", "Increased awareness of the threat from global warming has prompted unprecedented international focus on how to combat it, as well as new appreciation for the vital role of tropical forests in the climate change equation.", "On Tuesday, world leaders gather at the United Nations for a special climate change summit, intended to build momentum for a new global climate change treaty being negotiated by almost 200 countries.", "The new treaty is scheduled to be completed in December in Copenhagen, Denmark.", "If eventually enacted, the treaty will include a revolutionary but little-known provision intended to protect remaining tropical forests.", "Known as Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in developing countries, or REDD, the provision is based on the knowledge that destroying tropical forests contributes to global warming.", "Rain forests absorb and store huge amounts of carbon dioxide, the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change.", "Burning or clearing the forests returns that stored CO2 to the atmosphere, where it can trap heat and gradually increase temperatures.", "Every year, tropical forests equal to an area the size of England are destroyed, contributing about 20 percent of total annual greenhouse gas emissions -- more than all the world's cars, trucks and airplanes combined.", "The idea of the proposed provision is to make the stored carbon dioxide in the forests a commodity that can be bought and sold on the global market.", "Polluters in the developing world would be able to offset their emissions by buying credits for stored forest carbon dioxide.", "The money from those purchases would go to developing world governments, international organizations, local communities and others involved in forest protection programs.", "For the first time, tropical forests would be worth money for simply existing.", "That could create an economic incentive to protect tropical forests, which also have biological value as the planet's richest storehouses of land species and spiritual worth as pristine natural landscapes.", "To longtime defenders of tropical forests, the proposal represents the final stage of a long and halting journey from the fringes of the environmental movement toward the mainstream of international policy.", "\"Done properly, this is our No.", "1 hope,\" said Randall Hayes, who founded the Rainforest Action Network in 1985 with the goal of halting tropical deforestation.", "\"Other strategies have been heroic but insufficient.\"", "The system would let nations and industries that are the biggest greenhouse-gas emitters buy carbon credits in tropical forests in South and Central America, Africa, Southeast Asia and other equatorial regions.", "At the same time, investors could speculate on the price of carbon dioxide through credit trading.", "Private and public funds could invest in projects that protect forests to generate credits.", "Final details of the plan remain uncertain, such as how forest carbon credits would be verified and how the money paid for them would be handled and distributed.", "For developing countries, the idea represents a potential new revenue source.", "President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana, a leading proponent of the plan, has made trading carbon credits a central element of his Low-Carbon Development Strategy.", "The strategy \"is more about development than about the environment and it will help us to accelerate infrastructural development and fill the budget gap,\" Jagdeo said in an August 29 speech.", "The World Bank and partners have set up funds to help developing countries prepare for REDD and finance forest-protection initiatives.", "However, both funds are not fully capitalized, pending the successful conclusion of negotiations on the new global climate change treaty.", "\"Right now everybody is in a wait-and-see mode,\" said Benoit Bosquet, the World Bank's lead carbon finance specialist.", "\"Everybody seems interested, but the level of activity is still humble.\"", "Conservationists cite the environmental benefits of saving tropical forests, which provide essential resources and services -- such as fresh water, food, flood control and many others -- on which more than a billion people depend.", "Now, they say, conserving forests also can contribute to sustainable development, benefiting both nature and people.", "Yet several steps remain before the tropical-forest provision becomes reality on a large scale.", "First, the U.N.-led negotiations must agree on a treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol -- the world's first global climate change agreement, which expires in 2012.", "The Kyoto treaty created a global carbon market -- but only the carbon storage of newly planted or replanted forests is eligible for credits.", "REDD also would protect standing forests, to prevent the absorbed carbon dioxide stocks from being released back into the atmosphere.", "Whether a new treaty will be completed in December is unclear.", "Negotiators have yet to set consensus targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and major disputes remain between industrialized powers such as the United States and emerging and developing economies including China and Brazil.", "The draft under negotiation includes REDD, but negotiations continue on how broad the policy would be.", "Advocates of a limited scope for REDD say areas with no history of deforestation should be excluded because protecting them won't reduce carbon dioxide emissions.", "In response, conservationists and developing nations warn against leaving out nations and regions -- including Jagdeo's Guyana, parts of Indonesia and Brazil, Democratic Republic of Congo and others -- that still have much of their tropical forest intact.", "They argue that halting deforestation in only some countries would cause the loggers, palm oil developers and other drivers of forest destruction to move to previously untargeted areas.", "\"If REDD mechanisms exclude any significant group of countries, REDD will fail,\" Jagdeo told U.N. negotiators in December.", "Critics, including some environmental groups, question how such a vast and complex system can be successfully implemented.", "A Greenpeace report issued in March said including REDD credits in carbon markets would create a glut and drastically cut the price of carbon, resulting in industrial polluters buying cheap credits for offsets instead of reducing their emissions.", "The report also warned of reduced investments in renewable energy technologies due to the lack of an incentive from the cheaper carbon credits.", "Others question whether REDD will be another scheme generated by industrialized nations to exploit resources of the developing world, and in particular, the indigenous forest peoples.", "Jagdeo, the president of Guyana, has said such critics should recognize the opportunity that a new climate change treaty could present.", "If it includes sufficiently robust commitments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, he argues, that would create a strong demand for carbon credits.", "The deforestation provision of a climate change treaty could help stem deforestation while providing \"badly needed capital flows to some of the poorest countries in the world,\" he said.", "Yet even the idea's most ardent supporters recognize that it could take years for a global-scale program to become effective.", "While local projects exist in rain forest countries such as Madagascar, it would take time and money to expand them.", "\"If there is a deal in Copenhagen and if there is a signaling by industrialized nations that, yes, they will make money available, then you will see developing countries scaling up their readiness,\" said the World Bank's Bosquet.", "\"They will see that this is now real and it's the time to react.\"" ]	[ "World leaders gather at the United Nations for special climate change summit .", "Treaty based on finding that destroying tropical forests adds to global warming .", "With proposed provision, stored carbon dioxide in forests could be bought and sold .", "Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation provision has critics ." ]	[ 5, 8, 12 ]
[ "BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) -- They were crimes born of the Internet age -- romantic solicitations on popular Web site Craigslist that police say led to the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery of another in Boston hotels this past spring.", "Internet forensic expert Mark Rasch used high-tech sleuthing to help police in Boston's Craigslist crimes.", "And it was high-tech, 21st-century sleuthing, along with some old-fashioned gumshoe detective work, that put police on the trail toward a suspect and eventually an arrest.", "On CNN's \"AC 360\" Randi Kaye recently took a behind-the-scenes look at how technology was used to lead police to 23-year-old medical student Philip Markoff, who has been indicted on seven counts, including first-degree murder.", "Prosecutors said Julissa 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 on April 14.", "And a 29-year-old Las Vegas, Nevada, woman was robbed of $800 in cash and $250 in American Express gift cards at the Westin Copley Place hotel, police reports said.", "Read the AC360 blog post .", "Investigators knew they had crimes born of the Internet on their hands, but how were they able to use that same technology to help them find a suspect who went to great lengths to hide his tracks?", "\"The figures involved communicated with each other [via] text and e-mail, and they only met at the very last minute,\" said special correspondent Maureen Orth, who investigated the story for Vanity Fair magazine.", "\"And then the way the police were able to solve the crime was going back, using the clicks and the Internet addresses.\"", "In Brisman's case, police knew she had communicated on Craigslist with a person calling himself \"Andy.\"", "Mark Rasch once headed the computer crimes unit at the U.S. Department of Justice.", "Now an Internet forensic expert, he helped Boston police track the alleged killer.", "\"The first thing you start with was the e-mail address.", "In this case, it's an e-mail address from Live.com, which is Microsoft,\" Rasch explained to CNN's Kaye.", "Watch Randi Kaye's full report » .", "Rasch showed Kaye the tracer program he used to help follow the e-mails from \"Andy.\"", "\"Trace Back does what it says -- traces the route that the e-mail took on its way from its origin to the destination,\" Rasch said.", "Rasch says police got the Internet protocol address for the e-mailer's computer.", "From there, investigators tracked down the company providing Internet service to the suspect, which told them that the subscriber lived in a Quincy apartment building, outside Boston.", "Even though police had what they believed was the killer's real name and home address, that still was not enough, Kaye reports.", "\"They have to validate and actually get this guy's fingers on the keyboard,\" Rasch said.", "\"So in the end, they reverted to the old gumshoe thing of a stakeout.\"", "Police zeroed in on Markoff.", "They'd seen a tall, blond male they believed was the killer on the hotel surveillance cameras.", "And they did what many people do on a daily basis -- they Googled him.", "Police learned their prime suspect was a medical student at Boston University.", "He was engaged to be married.", "Again, the Internet helped.", "They got a better look at him through pictures with his fiancee online.", "It's a piece of a digital trail criminals rarely think about, Kaye reported.", "\"As one of the law enforcement people told me, if you can see it, they can see it,\" Orth said.", "Markoff's cyber footprint was growing more clear to authorities every day.", "On April 20, six days after Brisman's slaying, detectives arrested him.", "They said he was carrying on him a New York driver's license with a photo of someone named Andrew or Andy Miller.", "Police say Markoff used that driver's license to purchase the gun that killed Brisman and that his fingerprints were on the paperwork.", "In June, Markoff pleaded not guilty to Brisman's death and the other charges against him.", "He remains in jail.", "CNN's Randi Kaye contributed to this report." ]	[ "Internet expert: Craigslist slaying suspect left a trail of clues behind in cyberspace .", "Mark Rasch says he used a tracer program on e-mail sent to slaying victim .", "Boston investigators even used a Google search to help track down suspect .", "Philip Markoff, a medical student, pleaded not guilty in death of Julissa Brisman ." ]	[ 1, 16, 26, 30, 36 ]
[ "Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) -- Former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has died, his family told CNN.", "He was 69. Wahid, affectionately known as Gus Dur, died Wednesday evening as a result of heart problems, his family said.", "A news conference was planned later.", "Wahid, who was also a popular religious leader, had been ill for several weeks and had been hospitalized a few days ago.", "He had been in frail health for many years and was partially blind and unable to walk.", "Before becoming Indonesia's fourth president, Wahid was the revered leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, with more than 30 million members.", "No one took Wahid seriously when he contested the presidential race in October 1999, mainly because of his poor health.", "He was seen, however, as a candidate of compromise, and the Central Axis, a coalition of Muslim forces, lobbied in his favor.", "However, Indonesians -- including his onetime supporters -- were frustrated by his erratic and chaotic leadership.", "He was at odds with the nation's parliament, which eventually forced him to step down.", "Wahid was known for injecting humor into his religious sermons and political speeches.", "CNN's Atika Shubert contributed to this report." ]	[ "Wahid was a popular religious leader .", "He contested the 1999 presidential race .", "He was known for injecting humor into his religious sermons and political speeches ." ]	[ 2, 6, 10 ]
[ "(InStyle.com) -- She refuses to dwell on the past and accepts that she can't control the future.", "Reese Witherspoon juggles her career, family and love life, yet still is able find time for herself .", "For Reese Witherspoon, it's all about living in the moment.", "And with a thriving career, two children, and a handsome boyfriend -- Jake Gyllenhaal -- who can blame her?", "On her divorce from Ryan Phillippe ... You have to keep it together for your kids and for yourself too.", "I'm trying to learn from the things that have happened in my life, live more in the moment, and have more fun.", "Someone told me recently to live in the present but make plans and take pictures.", "And I am. I'm writing more, I'm reading more.", "Going to more concerts.", "Jake and I went to Coachella this year.", "On being confident ... As you get older, you know what you like and what you don't like, and you're not apologetic about it...", "I used to judge myself so harshly.", "I think women in their 20s do.", "You're hard on your body, you're hard on yourself.", "But you start to realize that none of it is really all that important.", "As long as you're comfortable, the best parts of yourself come through no matter what.", "Your mother can tell you that a million times, but you don't understand it until you live it!", "On if she likes to cook ...", "I do. And Jake is a great cook, he does a lot.", "We spend the weekends outside L.A, in Ojai, where I have a farmhouse.", "We have chickens and we grow cucumbers and tomatoes.", "I love it. It reminds me of where I grew up in Tennessee.", "On working out ... I try to exercise every day.", "I like to run for about an hour, and I'm big into working out with girlfriends.", "It's an acquired skill, being able to discuss your love life, children and friends, all while you're running!", "But we have mastered it. On her new perfume ...", "I have a lot of favorite smells from growing up in the South that I wanted to capture in this scent.", "As a kid, I was always outside.", "There was a magnolia tree in the front yard that I think I spent most of first, second and third grade in.", "And there was the smell of honeysuckle from the creek that ran down by our house.", "Gardenias were important too, because every Mother's Day or on my birthday my father would buy small bouquets or corsages for my mother and me.", "While we were working on the perfume, Avon asked me if I could explore other notes, but I kept going back to white flowers!", "The packaging reminds me of my grandma's bureau, where she'd have little perfume bottles out.", "I love it. On her girlfriends ... There are three of us who wear pretty much the same size, so we'll get together on a Friday night and I'll bring clothes I want to trade and they'll bring theirs.", "We swap shoes and purses a lot.", "I wore my girlfriend's dress to a wedding recently.", "It's fun. On raising her kids, Ava and Deacon, far from home ...", "Sometimes it's really difficult for me, being far away from home.", "L.A. is where my job is and I have to be close, but I never imagined that my children wouldn't grow up next door to my brother's children.", "Or my mom and dad wouldn't constantly be around.", "You know, I had dinner every night with my grandparents as a kid, so I think missing out on that is a hard compromise.", "At least I have a lot of Southern friends in L.A.", "I gravitate toward them.", "I think of those people as a part of my family: They take care of me and I take care of them.", "On being a mom and a career woman ...", "I love my life without work and I love my life with work.", "My mom, who's a nurse, called me the other day when I was really stressed out from working a 15-hour day.", "And she was like, \"Yeah, but think of it as a part-time job.\"", "And I thought, that's actually right, it puts it in perspective.", "I work incredibly hard for three months, but then I get a break.", "It's about really enjoying my time off.", "Where do I relax the most? Where are my children happiest?", "My ideal scenario is to do one movie a year.", "But as an actor, I don't think you can do an awful lot of planning.", "In fact, my new philosophy in life is I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.", "I used to spend a lot of time thinking about the future, as if I could magically predict it if I planned it enough.", "And then I realized, I can't. Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!", "Copyright © 2009 Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "Reese Witherspoon on divorce: \"You have to keep it together for your kids\"\nActress says she exercises for an hour a day .", "She and boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal cook and grow cucumbers and tomatoes ." ]	[ 4, 17, 20 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Tiger Woods has changed his cell phone number and is not talking to some of his famous friends, NBA legend Charles Barkley said, following Woods' sex scandal that erupted last month.", "Barkley and filmmaker Spike Lee talked about their concern for the golfer during the taping of a one-hour special -- \"With All Due Respect\" -- to air Sunday on HLN, a CNN sister network.", "\"I think when you have these fires in your life, as I call them, you need to talk to somebody else who is famous who [has] been through things in their life,\" Barkley said.", "\"I don't think you can talk about it to your family and friends, because your family and friends, they're not famous.\"", "Lee said he had hoped Barkley or retired NBA star Michael Jordan could counsel Woods on how to survive the crisis.", "\"He's insulated,\" Lee said.", "\"If Charles Barkley and Michael Jordan can't get to him, and those are his boys, then other people are making bad moves.\"", "Woods, in a written statement that acknowledged \"my infidelity,\" announced last week that he is taking \"an indefinite break\" from professional golf.", "The 33-year-old golfer, who tops the sport's world rankings, has been mired in controversy since he crashed his car outside his Florida mansion in late November.", "The crash prompted authorities to cite him for careless driving and fine him $164." ]	[ "Tiger Woods should lean on his famous friends, NBA legend and filmmaker say .", "But Woods has changed his number and isn't talking, Charles Barkley says .", "Barkley: \"You need to talk to somebody else ... famous who [has] been through things\"\nGolf star, who acknowledged \"infidelity,\" is taking a break from the sport ." ]	[ 0, 2, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Real Madrid defender Christoph Metzelder fully expects to be leaving the Spanish giants next summer.", "Metzelder, whose contract is up at the end of the season, has played just one Spanish Primera Liga match all campaign.", "And the 29-year-old admits the Bernabeu giants are unlikely to offer him a new deal.", "\"All us players have hope but you also have to be realistic and I don't think the club will renew my contract,\" the Germany international told reporters.", "\"These have been two-and-a-half complicated years for me, but I don't want to talk about that.", "It is the coach who makes these decisions and as a player I have to accept it.", "\"I am professional and for that reason I will work until the end of the season and we'll see if I return to playing or not.\"", "Metzelder insists, however, that whatever happens he will not be leaving Madrid in the winter transfer window.", "\"I don't think it's the right date to change clubs,\" he added.", "\"Moreover, in Germany the teams will not pay a transfer for a player who five months later will be free.", "In any case, I am a player who always completes his contracts.\"", "Meanwhile, Real Madrid have denied they have received a mega-offer from Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan to buy them out.", "Reports in Spain suggested the Sheikh was set to shell out one billion euros for Madrid and was due to meet club president Florentino Perez early in the new year for discussions.", "However, Madrid insist the story is completely unfounded.", "\"Real Madrid wishes to inform that Real Madrid president Mr. Florentino Perez has had a great friendship for many years with his Highness, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan,\" read a statement on the club's official Web site.", "\"And that the so-called interest and the existence of any offer to acquire Real Madrid are false.", "\"His Highness has always shown tremendous respect for the club and understands that Real Madrid belongs to its members.\"", "Sheikh Mansour, who is reportedly a Real Madrid supporter, is president of Abu Dhabi's Al Jazira Club, where he set up a twinning agreement with the Spanish giants in 2005." ]	[ "Real Madrid defender Christoph Metzelder fully expects to be leaving the Spanish giants next summer .", "Metzelder, whose contract is up at the end of the season, has played just one match all season .", "Real Madrid deny they have received an offer from Manchester City owner to buy them out ." ]	[ 0, 1, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The allegation is shocking: an 8-year-old girl lured to a storage shed with the promise of chewing gum, pinned down and sexually assaulted by four boys, none of them older than 14.", "President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has made cracking down on sex crimes a top priority in Liberia.", "The response from the girl's family sent a second and equally stunning shockwave through their Phoenix, Arizona, community: \"The parents felt that they had been shamed or embarrassed by their child,\" reported Phoenix police Sgt.", "Andy Hill. As a result, the girl was taken into custody by Arizona's child welfare agency.", "The prosecutor who charged the four boys called the crime \"heartrending\" and \"deeply disturbing.\"", "But to those familiar with Liberia, the west African nation where the families of all of the children are from, the crime and response are both part of a sadly familiar story.", "\"It's something that happens every day in every community in Liberia,\" said Tania Bernath, a researcher for the human rights group Amnesty International.", "The country was racked by a brutal civil war for most of 14 years.", "During that time, rape was used by fighters on all sides as a tool of war and a way to spread terror and demoralize enemies.", "A United Nations report in 2004, the year after much of the fighting stopped, estimated that 60 to 70 percent of all women in the nation had been the victims of sexual violence.", "A 2006 government report said that of 1,600 women surveyed, 92 percent reported some kind of sexual violence, including rape.", "\"They would have cases where they would rape the wife in front of the husband -- things like that, really breaking down communities,\" said Bernath, who spent several years in Liberia working for a relief organization.", "While no one yet knows whether the boys charged in the case were exposed directly to violence in their homeland, advocates say they fear that harmful attitudes toward rape in Liberia have followed some members of the tight-knit immigrant community to the United States.", "Watch a report on the allegations and cultural conflicts » .", "\"Things like gang rape were used so often during the war that I think, with kids, if they saw it and heard it or heard about it -- that's part of what you might wonder about [in the Phoenix case],\" Bernath said.", "\"It was sort of normalized.\"", "In the Phoenix case, a 14-year-old boy who police say was the ringleader is being charged as an adult.", "The other boys accused are 13, 10 and 9 and were charged as juveniles.", "Phone calls by CNN to the Maricopa County public defender's office, most recently on Wednesday, have not been returned.", "It's not known what, if any, exposure the boys or their parents had to the fighting in their homeland, where it was once commonplace for children as young as 7 or 8 to be forced into duty -- the boys handed rifles while the girls were made to perform chores or serve as sex slaves.", "A United Nations report estimates that about 70 percent of all fighters in the conflict were younger than 18, and former fighters have told U.N. and other researchers about the rapes they say they routinely committed.", "After the Phoenix attack, a 23-year-old sister of the victim told a reporter that her sister was \"bringing confusion\" after the assault was discovered by a neighbor.", "She said that she wanted the suspects to be released from jail because \"we are the same people\" and that her sister would be ostracized by others in the Liberian community for being a rape victim.", "It's a reaction that Beverly Goll-Yekeson knows all too well.", "A native of Liberia, Yekeson was a victim of sexual violence and now works as an advocate for other Liberian women.", "She says most families in Liberia condemn rape, but the crime is drastically underreported because of the stigma victims and relatives feel.", "\"There are a lot of social illnesses in the society; they are ashamed to come out,\" said Yekeson, president of the Liberia Crisis Center for Women and Children.", "\"Rape is not something that people just come out and say.\"", "Yekeson, who now lives and works in Maryland, said that refugees who have resettled in other countries, including the United States, often bring those attitudes with them.", "Her group, which runs a shelter for abuse victims in Monrovia, Liberia, also works with refugees.", "\"Reintegrating them into society, changing their mind-set -- that's where we have to go,\" she said.", "\"That's a bigger challenge.", "It's one thing to implement a rape law and another thing to change the mind-set of a people.\"", "In 2005, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf became Africa's first elected female head of state.", "Shortly afterward, the country enacted a law making rape a crime for the first time.", "Before that, only gang rape had been explicitly outlawed, and advocates say anarchy in the country meant any law added to the books during the civil war wouldn't have been enforced anyway.", "Johnson-Sirleaf has made cracking down on rape and changing attitudes about it a top priority.", "She condemned the alleged attack in Phoenix and said defending rape is not a part of the nation's culture.", "\"Those parents should know that things have changed in Liberia,\" she told CNN last week.", "\"No longer do we tolerate this.", "This is not a question of shame on the family.", "It's a question of the assault of a young child, and that cannot be tolerated.\"", "Watch Liberia's ambassador, president react to the alleged rape » .", "The girl was taken into custody by Arizona's child welfare agency after the police accounts saying her parents were ashamed of her.", "Her father has since said he wants his daughter back and denied telling police that she brought shame to the family.", "A pastor working with the family has said he wants to investigate to find out if there was miscommunication between the family and police in the hours following the alleged assault.", "Johnson-Sirleaf said she hopes the alleged attackers will receive counseling in addition to any criminal sentence they may face if they are found guilty.", "Liberian refugees, and those still living in her country, need to be clear that the days of sex crimes being excused or swept under the rug are over, she said.", "\"[Rape is] something that is no longer acceptable in our society,\" she said.", "\"It is a problem, but it is [also] a crime, and people bear the brunt of the penalty for such crime.\"", "Under Johnson-Sirleaf's leadership in Liberia, bail is not available to those charged with rape, and a special court system has been set up to deal specifically with sex crimes.", "But even that system has problems that need reform, advocates say.", "Yekeson said an 8-year-old girl from her crisis center in Liberia was persuaded to press charges.", "But in the courtroom, she was made to testify while her accused attacker sat only feet away.", "\"You had the rapist right there, staring in her face,\" she said.", "\"That child was so traumatized, she ran away from the shelter and we had to look for her for days.\"", "But Yekeson and others remain hopeful that as the years since the fighting stopped tick away, attitudes about sex crimes in Liberia will continue to change.", "\"Because of the war, the social structure in Liberia, like any other war country, was destroyed,\" she said.", "\"Once the proper institutions have been put back into place, you will have more parents coming out and saying they are not ashamed.\"" ]	[ "8-year-old girl sexually assaulted by fellow Liberia natives, police say .", "During Liberia's civil war, rape was used as a weapon by soldiers .", "U.N. report: 60 to 70 percent of Liberian women were assault victims .", "Johnson-Sirleaf, first elected female leader in Africa, makes stopping rape a priority ." ]	[ 8, 33, 52 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Veteran sports anchor George Michael died early Thursday after a two-year battle with cancer, according to his former TV station.", "Michael, 70, was known nationally for \"The George Michael Sports Machine,\" a syndicated TV show that ran nationwide for 27 years.", "He was a sports anchor on WRC-TV -- NBC's channel 4 in Washington, D.C. -- for more than 25 years.", "\"Michael was a prominent fixture, providing the most accurate and spirited sports news and highlights,\" Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty said.", "\"He truly captured the hearts and minds of sports fans in the District and around the country.\"", "A statement issued by the station said \"George was a pioneer in sports broadcasting.\"", "\"He was a gifted interviewer, a master storyteller, and one of the hardest working journalists out there,\" the station said.", "Michael retired from broadcasting in March 2007.", "He is survived by his wife, Pat, and his daughter, Michelle Allen, the station said." ]	[ "\"The George Michael Sports Machine,\" a syndicated TV show, ran for 27 years .", "He was a sports anchor for Washington's NBC affiliate for more than 25 years .", "Station: \"He was a gifted interviewer, a master storyteller\"\nSurvivors include his wife, Pat, and daughter Michelle ." ]	[ 1, 2, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Delaware pediatrician is facing numerous charges in the alleged sexual abuse of his patients, authorities said Wednesday, and there may be \"multiple victims.\"", "Dr. Earl Bradley, 56, who has had a practice in Lewes, Delaware, for more than 10 years, is charged with eight counts of first-degree rape; four counts of second-degree rape; 14 counts of sexual exploitation of a child; and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden told CNN.", "A prosecutor in Biden's office estimated that Bradley may have had as many as 100 victims.", "Biden stopped short of that, saying only authorities think there may have been multiple victims, and the investigation is ongoing.", "As of Wednesday, seven victims had been identified, said Jason Miller, spokesman for the Delaware Department of Justice.", "CNN affiliate WBOC-TV reported Bradley is being held in lieu of $2.9 million bond.", "Read local coverage from CNN affiliate WBOC-TV .", "He was scheduled for a preliminary hearing Wednesday in the Sussex County Court of Common Pleas, but his attorney requested that it be continued until January 14, Biden said.", "WBOC reported that concerns about Bradley's mental health prompted the postponement and said the doctor is under suicide watch at Sussex Correctional Institution.", "The charges against Bradley, and any additional charges that are filed, will be presented to a grand jury \"at some point,\" Biden told CNN.", "He would not give specifics of how Bradley came to authorities' attention \"over the course of recent months.\"", "Police believe the abuse goes back \"for several years,\" with victims as young as 2, he said.", "Additional charges were filed earlier this week after \"preliminary forensic investigation of a computer\" seized by Delaware State Police, authorities said in a release.", "Police said they have seized photographic and video evidence showing Bradley abusing victims, WBOC said.", "Court documents provide graphic details about the evidence, the station said.", "Bradley also has medical licenses in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida.", "Biden said authorities in those states have been contacted.", "Biden urged parents or others who have concerns regarding Bradley to contact his office, where a hot line is staffed with people who can provide information including counseling referrals.", "\"We're taking this incredibly seriously,\" he said.", "CNN's Devon Sayers contributed to this report." ]	[ "Dr. Earl Bradley is charged with eight counts of first-degree rape .", "One prosecutor estimates Bradley may have had as many as 100 victims .", "The charges against Bradley will be presented to a grand jury .", "Police believe abuse goes back \"for several years,\" with victims as young as 2 ." ]	[ 2, 9, 11 ]
[ "(CareerBuilder.com) -- 2009 has given employers and employees a run for their money -- literally.", "Budgets have been cut, layoffs made and furloughs instituted, and benefits and perks have evaporated.", "At the beginning of the year, 38 percent of employers said the economy would force them to make administrative cuts sometime during 2009, according to a survey by CareerBuilder.com.", "Sixty-five percent of those employers indicated that they would cut back company social events, 61 percent anticipated curtailing business travel, 25 percent expected to scale back on health-care benefits and 11 percent planned to reduce wellness benefits.", "Other areas where companies planned to cut spending included special office perks, such as coffee, ice machines or discounted vending (34 percent), incentive trips (28 percent) and philanthropic activities (21 percent).", "Such perks and benefits being taken away make for a tough situation for employees.", "Not only are they working harder to keep their jobs, but workers have to do more for less.", "While some argue that it's hard to keep employees motivated in this situation, others say that they shouldn't focus on incentives, but rather think about the bigger picture.", "\"When perks and benefits are taken away, management often does this to allocate resources where they're needed, elsewhere.", "The money being saved by not buying bagels every Friday or purchasing Christmas gifts for employees may be going towards your salary,\" said Tom Gimbel, founder and CEO of LaSalle Network, a staffing and recruiting firm.", "\"If you had to choose between taking a salary cut and not having free coffee versus being let go, most employees would likely take the former.\"", "Urmil \"Tracy\" Marshall, coordinator for the Office of Diversity and International Affairs at Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, Georgia., agrees that it's important not to focus on what is being taken away.", "She said that due to budgetary constraints, furloughs were implemented at the school; but rather than get discouraged, she focused on the positive.", "\"I reminded myself how blessed I was to even have a job,\" Marshall said.", "\"We need to remind ourselves of our priorities in life, placing a greater emphasis on what we have -- not what we don't.\"", "Communication is key .", "Although it's understandable for employees to be upset, frustrated and discouraged when benefits or perks are taken away, Kevin Sheridan, founder and CEO of HR Solutions, which specializes in helping organizations to keep employees engaged, said that employees are less likely to be upset if management communicates with employees.", "In fact, 82 percent of employees surveyed in HR Solutions' International Normative Database say that it's important that their organization allow them to choose from a variety of benefits to meet their individual needs.", "The survey consisted of more than 3.3 million responses from 2,400 organizations.", "\"If an organization's leadership team simply decided amongst themselves which benefits would be best to cut, employees will commonly become upset and their engagement will be negatively affected,\" Sheridan says.", "\"Open communication is a key driver of engagement, and employees will immediately recognize the fact that they had no voice in the situation.", "If leadership had simply asked employees which benefits were important to them, this situation may be avoided.\"", "Attitude is everything .", "Despite having to deal temporarily with a few displaced benefits or perks, there are benefits to sticking around with your employer until those things are reinstated.", "\"It's a good time to remember that the perks were never the reason that you liked the job.", "No one gets up in the morning saying, 'I'm really excited to go to the office because there's free coffee,'\" said Paul Glen, author and management columnist.", "\"If people feel that the [cuts] are being made in a good-faith effort to save jobs, they will be even more loyal than before, since they believe that the company is working on their behalf -- not just for executives.\"", "Additionally, according to the HR Solutions survey, 37 percent of employees have thought of resigning in the last six months.", "Twenty-three percent said they thought about leaving because of pay; 18 percent because of a supervisor or manager; 15 percent because of career advancement; and 5 percent because of benefits.", "Thirty-nine percent considered it for other reasons.", "\"This statistic is especially important because many organizations have cut benefits over the last six months, and it illustrates that the majority of employees have not thought of resigning as a result of adjusted benefits,\" Sheridan said.", "\"These employees recognize the advantages of sticking around with a company, benefits or not, for advantages such as career development and compensation.", "Also, as soon as the economy picks up, many benefits programs will be re-evaluated; employees sticking around with these organizations will not remain without benefits forever.\"", "Workers should also remember that there could be consequences to abandoning a job just because you lost free coffee or a transportation reimbursement.", "If you're thinking about leaving your job for such reasons, make sure that your missing perks outweigh any possible career advancement or opportunities you would receive if you stayed.", "\"In this economy, it may be very hard to find another job, and there's no guarantee that one will have free coffee, either,\" Glen said.", "\"Also, at the new job, even if it is good, the employee will have less tenure and is more likely to be cut in future layoffs.\"", "If you've had benefits or perks taken away in recent months and need help staying motivated, remember these five tips from our experts: .", "1. Get over it . \"The longer you talk about it to fellow employees, the longer you will have bad feelings, cause others to have bad feelings and be less productive yourself, which is not what will help the company be able to restore what has been taken away,\" said Aubrey Daniels, author of \"Oops!", "13 Management Practices That Waste Time and Money (and What to Do Instead).\"", "2. Find motivation .", "Sheridan encourages employees to find motivation through career planning with supervisors, interacting with co-workers or being proud of where they work.", "For example, an employee could volunteer to act as a sounding board for job candidates considering employment at the organization.", "3. Create your own perks .", "Nancy Irwin, a motivational speaker and author, said employees can take turns bringing in coffee, bagels or potluck lunches to help fill the void of things that have been cut.", "4. Understand what's still offered and take advantage .", "Darcy Eikenberg, president and chief creative officer of Coach Darcy LLC, recalls a client who didn't sign up for a course because she thought training costs had been eliminated.", "She realized that a co-worker was taking the course and getting it paid for from tuition reimbursement, an area that hadn't been cut.", "\"Do a deep dive into your company's programs, policies and even discounts because there's probably something you can use now,\" she said.", "5. Focus on the solution, not the problem .", "Concentrate on actions today that will affect your organization's success and growth tomorrow, said Jonathan Berger, director of human resources at Direct Agents, an interactive advertising company.", "\"Take this time as an opportunity to offer new ideas to your managers and take an active and entrepreneurial role in helping your company overcome straining times.", "If you do a good job, you may be rewarded for your efforts when things improve,\" he said.", "\"In addition, by taking on new challenges and opportunities, you can further develop your skills and make yourself a more valuable asset to any organization.\"", "&copy CareerBuilder.com 2009.", "All rights reserved.", "The information contained in this article may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority." ]	[ "In a survey, many businesses said they would have to make large cuts in employee benefits .", "Management should communicate these issues to help employees adjust said, Kevin Sheridan .", "Darcy Eikenberg recommends for employees to dig deep and and find benefits still available .", "Concentrate on actions today that will help your organization succeed, said Jonathan Berger ." ]	[ 2, 16, 40, 50 ]
[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The new leader of the Pakistani Taliban vowed revenge on Pakistan, the United States and NATO forces for drone attacks along the Afghan border, two local journalists who attended a meeting with him told CNN.", "File picture taken on November 26, 2008 of Pakistani Taliban commander Hakimullah Mehsud .", "Leader Hakimullah Mehsud met reporters Sunday in South Waziristan, according to the journalists, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the news media.", "Taliban commanders Wali-Ur Rehman and Qari Hussein, and spokesman Aazam Tariq, were at the meeting as well, the journalists said.", "Mehsud also vowed to avenge the recent death of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, they said.", "Officials think he was killed by a drone attack in August.", "The leader said the Taliban would not disarm as a condition for talks, and added that the militants' withdrawal from the Swat Valley was a strategic move and not a retreat or a defeat, the journalists said.", "South Waziristan is one of seven districts in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border.", "The Pakistani military is fighting Taliban militants in the country's north, and missile attacks from suspected U.S. drones have targeted militant leaders.", "The United States is the only country in the region known to have the ability to launch missiles from drones, which are controlled remotely.", "U.S. officials do not comment on suspected drone strikes, which have caused tension between Pakistan and the United States." ]	[ "Hakimullah Mehsud met reporters Sunday in South Waziristan .", "Mehsud also vowed to avenge recent death of Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud .", "U.S. the only country known to have ability to launch missiles from drones ." ]	[ 4, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Roger Federer exclusively told CNN that the stunning shot he executed in his U.S. Open semifinal against Novak Djokovic was the best of his career.", "Roger Federer hailed his stunning shot against Novak Djokovic as the best of his career.", "The world number one produced a near-faultless performance to defeat fourth seed Djokovic in straight sets to reach his sixth consecutive U.S. Open Final at Flushing Meadows, but it was an outrageous shot to set up match point that will be most remembered.", "It came with Djokovic serving at 6-5 down in the third set.", "At love 30-0 up Federer dashed back to the baseline and hit a winner through his legs that flew over the net and past Djokovic into the corner for match point.", "\"I think it was the greatest shot I have ever hit in my life,\" Federer told CNN.", "\"I have hit some good ones over all the matches I have played, but I think this one, especially under the circumstances at love 30-up and with having chance to maybe clinch the match, was amazing.", "\"I got a standing ovation and people went crazy -- here in New York the crowds are fantastic -- as it was the perfect shot to hit, at exactly the right time, and I can't believe I pulled it off.\"", "Federer also revealed he is producing his best tennis because he is under less pressure than perhaps he was at the same time last year.", "At this stage in 2008 Federer had not won a grand slam but after winning the French Open and a historic 15th major at Wimbledon this time round he admitted he is more relaxed.", "\"I have a little bit less pressure to prove myself after reaching the 15 Grand Slams everyone was talking about and I also I won in Paris,\" he added.", "\"Getting through the pregnancy with my wife Mirka and having two beautiful daughters is also something that relaxes you for sure.", "But at the same time when you walk out on center court there will always be a certain type of pressure which will be there for the rest of my career.", "\"I just have to make sure I handle it correctly.", "I always play my best tennis towards the end of a tournament and I am happy that it is continued in this match after everything that has already happened this year.\"", "Federer will play Argentina's Juan Del Potro who reached his first grand slam final after he crushed Rafael Nadal in the other semifinal.", "The sixth seed blew Nadal away at the Arthur Ashe Stadium, taking two hours and 20 minutes to take a comprehensive 6-2 6-2 6-2 victory." ]	[ "Roger Federer hailed a shot against Novak Djokovic as the best of his career .", "The Swiss world number one hit a stunning baseline winner through his legs .", "Federer is going in search of his sixth U.S. Open title at Flushing Meadows .", "Argentina's Juan Del Potro faces Federer in what will be a first grand slam final ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 15 ]
[ "(Tribune Media Services) -- Fantastique France continues to make its heritage and culture easier for travelers to appreciate.", "Being up-to-date on changes for 2009 will help your visit go smoothly.", "The Eiffel Tower is planning to offer online reservations, allowing visitors to book an entry time and avoid a long wait.", "Due to a smoking ban, you'll enjoy fresh air in bars, cafes and restaurants throughout France.", "The smokers have scurried outdoors to sidewalk tables; many of those seats now come with space heaters in winter.", "If you're traveling in France by railpass, it's increasingly important to book trips on the TGV bullet trains in advance, as there's a strict limit on the number of seats allowed for railpass holders.", "And with high gas prices -- and the recognition among Europeans that rail travel is about as green as you can go -- trains are more crowded than ever.", "In Paris, the transit system has introduced a chip-card called the Passe Navigo Decouverte, but for most tourists, the \"carnets\" (packs of 10 individual tickets) are still the better deal.", "The new Passe costs about $27, runs strictly from Monday through Sunday, and requires a photo, which means it's not shareable.", "In contrast, a 10-ticket pack costs about $14, is shareable, and has no expiration date.", "Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral has a new modest-dress rule.", "The \"no shorts\" code is not strictly enforced, but inside you're expected to be quiet and respectful.", "A new online reservation system for the Eiffel Tower may debut in 2009, allowing Tour-Eiffel-ists to book a half-hour time slot and avoid the notorious lines.", "At the Army Museum nearby, the section on 19th-century French military history (\"Revolution to Napoleon III\") should reopen in the spring.", "The museum also has a new Charles de Gaulle wing, offering a 25-minute film, plus a high-tech display of photos tracing the life of France's towering 20th-century figure.", "Paris' market streets delight many visitors.", "While rue Cler (near the Eiffel Tower) has become quite touristy, rue des Martyrs (at the foot of Montmartre) is edgier and a great way to connect with workaday Paris.", "If you'd like to \"do the Time Warp again\" while ducking airborne \"French\" toast, you can enjoy the cult movie \"Rocky Horror Picture Show\" with a Parisian crowd Friday and Saturday nights in the Latin Quarter (www.rocky.fr).", "Travel Snapshots: Paris .", "The Palace of Versailles is undergoing extensive renovation so expect some closures.", "Repair projects may close its Opera House through June; the Petit Trianon may be closed or only partially open.", "Busy sightseers can save both time and money by visiting Versailles with the Paris Museum Pass.", "The pass covers most major sights in and around Paris, pays for itself in about three entries, and allows you to walk right by the long ticket-buying lines at places like the Louvre, the Orsay Museum, the Sainte-Chapelle chapel, and Versailles (www.parismuseumpass.com).", "However, everyone needs to wait through any bag-check security line.", "The charming city of Reims, rebuilt after World War I when Art Deco was the prevailing style, is now served by a speedy TGV train, making it an easy day trip from Paris.", "Reims is known for its champagne tours (Mumm, Taittinger and Martel), giant cathedral (with Chagall stained glass), and fascinating Museum of the Surrender (General Eisenhower's final World War II headquarters with stirring artifacts and the document of surrender that was signed by German generals right there).", "This year is the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy; prepare for big crowds -- especially from June 1 to 10.", "Also in Normandy, a museum has opened at Dead Man's Corner, a critical crossroads between Omaha and Utah beaches that saw five torrid days of fighting in 1944.", "This museum, south of Ste.", "Mere-Eglise, is a hit with enthusiasts as every display case shows incredible attention to detail.", "It also has a remarkable selection of D-Day paraphernalia for sale -- both original items and replicas.", "In Chinon (in the Loire Valley) the massive renovation project has nearly been completed at the medieval castle where Joan of Arc implored French King Charles VII to \"act like a man and fight the English.\"", "The castle is now connected to the old town by a snazzy glass elevator.", "Farther west, at Mont St. Michel, the first stage is under way of an ambitious project to make it a true island once again.", "On the French Riviera, Nice has dropped the entry fee for all city museums.", "Basically every sight in town -- except the Chagall Museum and the Russian Cathedral -- is free to enter.", "That's nice. Antibes, just a short hop away by train, has finally reopened its prized Picasso Museum after extensive renovation.", "No matter what changes, visiting France is always a pleasure, which is why it remains the No.", "1 tourist destination in Europe.", "Rick Steves writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows on public television and public radio.", "E-mail him at rick@ricksteves.com, or write to him c/o P.O.", "Box 2009, Edmonds, Wash. 98020.", "Copyright 2009 RICK STEVES, DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC." ]	[ "Rick Steves writes European travel guidebooks and hosts travel shows .", "His TV series, \"Rick Steves' Europe,\" airs on PBS stations .", "Steves' company, Europe Through the Back Door, conducts European tours ." ]	[ 8, 38, 39, 42 ]
[ "(Tribune Media Services) -- When Eileen Mather lands in Mexico City on her way to Tapachula, Mexico, she learns her airline ticket isn't valid.", "Her airline forces her to buy a new one.", "Mather asks her online agency, Cheapoair.com, for a refund, but more than six months later, she's still out $879.", "Is she also out of options?", "Q: I need your help getting my money back for a plane ticket I had to pay for twice.", "Here's my story: I bought tickets online through Cheapoair.com from Philadelphia to Tapachula, Mexico.", "When we arrived in Mexico City, Aviacsa Airlines representatives told us that Cheapoair hadn't paid for the last leg of our trip.", "So I had to buy new tickets.", "Two members of our group also had to pay again.", "After I returned home, I faxed all of my documents to a supervisor at Cheapoair.", "That was six months ago.", "I've called her repeatedly and left messages, but no one has contacted me, and I'm out $879.", "Is there anything you can do? -- Eileen Mather, Glenside, Pennsylvania .", "A: You shouldn't have to pay twice for your airline tickets.", "But you also shouldn't be too quick to blame Cheapoair for the mix-up.", "A lot can go wrong when you're dealing with a flight schedule that involves multiple carriers.", "Reservations can be lost, paper tickets and boarding passes can be misread.", "And, of course, there's the language issue.", "When you're traveling internationally, something can easily get lost in the translation.", "Cheapoair may -- or may not -- have been responsible for your non-working tickets.", "But as your online travel agent, it was responsible for helping you fix it.", "That's why you buy from an intermediary and pay a booking fee: so there's someone to turn to when something goes wrong.", "The online agency shouldn't have kept you in a holding pattern for more than six months.", "Cheapoair's \"Golden Guarantee\" promises \"to provide all our customers with 24/7 toll-free number support because we understand the importance of critical last-minute client/traveler needs and requirements for changes to trips.\"", "I guess offering a toll-free number around the clock doesn't necessarily mean your questions will be answered quickly, but you can't blame me if I'm left with that impression.", "You could have avoided a lengthy dance with Cheapoair by taking this up with Aviacsa either when you were flying to Tapachula or returning home.", "If you had arrived at the airport a half-hour earlier, you might have been able to speak with a supervisor and straightened this out.", "Once you were home, and were running into a brick wall with Cheapoair's supervisor, I would have tried knocking on the front door again.", "Normally, starting a new query through an online form means your complaint will get reviewed again and may be assigned a new case number.", "A phone call doesn't work the same way.", "After you hang up, your case is basically closed.", "I contacted Cheapoair on your behalf.", "It apologized for the delay and said it contacted Aviasca, but couldn't determine why your ticket wasn't accepted.", "An airline representative told Cheapoair it would have to speak to the agent who was working at the ticket counter when you checked in, which was impossible.", "Cheapoair refunded the $879 you spent on your second ticket.", "Christopher Elliott is the ombudsman for National Geographic Traveler magazine.", "E-mail him at celliott@ngs.org.", "Copyright 2009 CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT, DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC." ]	[ "Customer booked an international flight through Cheapoair.com .", "Ticket for one leg of her flight was not accepted, and she had to buy a new one .", "The online agency did not know why her ticket was rejected .", "Troubleshooter contacted Cheapoair, and it refunded the customer's money ." ]	[ 1, 2, 17, 32, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Of all things, it was surfing that first led Sandow Birk to Islam.", "Illustration of Sura (chapter) 57 of the Quran is described by Sandow Birk as a triptych.", "The southern California artist rode the waves in Indonesia, India and Morocco, and on dry land, his curiosity piqued about the religion practiced there.", "He visited mosques and eventually, acquired a translated copy of the Quran, Islam's holy book.", "Then came the chilling attacks of September 11, 2001, and Birk realized that Americans knew very little about the teachings of the Quran.", "He embarked on a project to paint all 114 suras (chapters) -- but in a way that no one had done before.", "The 46-year-old painter re-imagined God's 7th-century revelation to the Prophet Mohammed in contemporary American context.", "Birk began transcribing the chapters, relating each to the things he knew best.", "So far, he has completed 60 chapters.", "\"American Quran\" is currently on display in two California galleries.", "\"The simple goal was to take text and make it more familiar,\" he said.", "So, the Quran's opening chapter, seven verses asking for God's guidance, often found displayed in Muslim homes, is bordered with arabesqing shapes that on closer inspection reveal objects essential to American home life -- spatulas, forks, toothbrushes, glasses, ladders, egg beaters, flip-flops.", "To illustrate a verse that speaks metaphorically about the thundering hooves of camels, Birk painted a stock-car race.", "How would Americans, after all, relate to camels?", "The red, white and blue hues of a political convention accompany verses on hypocrisy.", "Other scenes unfold in offices, suburban lawns and sushi bars.", "They show funerals, weddings and holidays.", "And then there is sura 44, called ad-dukhan (smoke).", "\"Therefore, watch for the day when the sky brings a profound smoke.", "It will envelope the people; this is a painful retribution,\" chapter 44 says.", "Birk pushes buttons with his interpretation: a diptych of a Manhattan street scene, smoke billowing from the World Trade Center.", "\"I knew I would have to bring up the Trade Center.", "Otherwise this project would have been disingenuous,\" Birk said.", "\"It was the crux of understanding of Islam for Americans.\"", "And the impetus for Birk's undertaking.", "San Francisco gallery owner Catharine Clark knew the Sura 44 panel had the greatest potential to offend.", "She said she worried about reaction to the piece, but said there was nothing malicious about Birk's intent.", "\"It was a tough piece,\" she said.", "\"But he's not intending to upset anyone.\"", "Birk says he is not a deeply religious person.", "He has, however, established a reputation for tackling projects of epic proportions, including work that explored the Iraq war and Dante's \"Divine Comedy.\"", "Clark said some Christian blogs have accused the artist of being an apologist for Islam.", "And Muslim reaction to his latest work has been mixed.", "Half of \"American Quran\" is at Clark's gallery.", "The other 30 chapters are on display at the Koplin del Rio gallery in Culver City.", "But four miles down Washington Boulevard, the reviews are not good.", "Usman Madha, a spokesman for the King Fahad Mosque, the largest in Los Angeles County, said he had no plans to see Birk's work.", "Madha could not even get past the title.", "\"American Quran is very misleading,\" Madha said.", "\"There is no such thing as an American Quran just as there is no European Quran or Asian Quran or Middle Eastern Quran.", "There is only one Quran. \"I am disheartened,\" he continued.", "\"It gives a wrong impression.\"", "Madha has heard about Birk's vivid imagery.", "He said he understood the artist had good intentions and he respected freedom of expression.", "But he could not accept the idea of an illustrated Quran.", "That, he said, goes against the grain of of his religion.", "\"In Islam, we don't have pictures.", "That becomes idolizing.", "And that is what we avoid,\" Madha said.", "Birk, however, does not plan to abandon his personal Quran project.", "He hopes to complete all 114 chapters by 2011, painstakingly transcribing by hand each chapter taken from a 1861 English translation of the Quran and painting with gouache on 16-by-24-inch paper.", "He said his panels are not literal illustrations but highly personal meditations on the messages in the Quran.", "It was important to him that Americans recognized that Islamic scripture was no more strange, poetic, violent or beautiful than any other religious text; that it was telling similar stories that are in the Bible.", "That's a message people expect from scholars, peacemakers, even theologians but not necessarily from a California surfer dude." ]	[ "Surfing waves in Indonesia, India, Morocco inspired Sandow Birk's interest in Islam .", "9/11 attacks led Birk to realize Americans knew very little about the Quran .", "He embarked on a project to paint all 114 suras (chapters)\nSo far, he has completed 60 chapters of \"American Quran\"" ]	[ 0, 4, 5, 8, 33 ]
[ "(Budget Travel) -- When you have beach on the brain, who wants to bother with a layover?", "Budget Travel has prepared the ultimate insider's guide to seven resort towns south of the border that are just one quick flight away.", "The Pacific-coast resort of Puerto Vallarta has attracted artists in recent years with its natural beauty and well-preserved colonial architecture.", "MAZATLÁN . As resort towns go, Mazatlán is one of Mexico's prettiest, with an assortment of 19th-century neoclassical, republican, and French baroque buildings in pastel colors.", "The best place for wandering is Old Mazatlán, particularly the tree-lined streets around Plazuela Machado, where guitarists and singers roam from one sidewalk café to the next.", "Eat Sample traditional Sinaloan dishes at Pedro & Lola, a restaurant with seating on the square that's known for its Mexican Molcajete, grilled beef served with cactus and onions (011-52/669-982-2589, restaurantpedroylola.com, beef $14).", "Drink On nearby Belisario Domínguez street, locals gather nightly for tequila and Pacifico beers at La Tertulia, a bullfighting-themed bar that's owned and staffed by actual bullfighters and has posters, costumes, and pictures of the sport's greats all over the walls (no phone, tequila from $2).", "BudgetTravel.com: Find a nonstop route to Mexico .", "Stay Among the hotel options in the area, the 72-room Best Western Posada Freeman Express has the most character -- it's in a renovated 1940s high-rise and has a rooftop pool with spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean (011-52/669-985-6060, book.bestwestern.com, from $80).", "Detour To lose the crowds, jump on one of Aqua Sport Center's boats to tiny, uninhabited Deer Island just off the coast.", "It has a white-sand beach, trails for hiking, and clear waters that are perfect for snorkeling (011-52/669-913-3333, $12).", "IXTAPA-ZIHUATANEJO .", "The twin cities of Ixtapa and Zihuatanejo are separated by just three miles, but despite that proximity, they don't have a lot in common.", "Zihuatanejo, which dates back to precolonial times, is a relaxed fishing town set on an enclosed bay with not a single high-rise hotel.", "Stay The 30 rooms at the Hotel Brisas del Mar are accented with Mexican tiles and have hammocks on the balconies (011-52/755-554-2142, hotelbrisasdelmar.com, from $102).", "Ixtapa, in contrast, was built 36 years ago as part of a government effort to spur tourism development on the coast.", "Today, it has a gleaming strip of beachfront hotels, manicured lawns, and a wide range of restaurants, from local spots to large Mexican chains.", "Eat El Arbolito serves fresh seafood dishes, such as camaronillas -- shrimp and cheese in a fried tortilla -- and creative cocktails like the Black Banana, a mixture of Kahlua, coconut liqueur, and orange juice (011-52/755-553-3700, entrées from $8).", "Drink At Barceló Ixtapa Beach Hotel's Sanca Bar, bands play salsa and Cuban music on weekend nights (011-52/755-555-2000, barcelo.com, beer from $3).", "Do Ixtapa has no shortage of beaches, but if you're in the mood for something more active, rent a bike at Xplora Adventours (011-52/755-553-3584, $3 per half hour) and take a ride through Parque Ecológico Aztlán, a forest teeming with native birds, turtles, and iguanas.", "BudgetTravel.com: Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo photos .", "ACAPULCO . Acapulco got its glamorous start in the 1950s and '60s, when celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, and Judy Garland turned the exclusive hotels on the rugged cliffs over the bay into their playground.", "Drink One of these spots, the 78-year-old Hotel el Mirador, is the place to go for a quintessential Acapulco experience: Watching cliff divers plunge 130 feet into the bay while having a watermelon daiquiri on the patio at the on-site La Perla bar (011-52/744-483-1155, hotelelmiradoracapulco.com.mx, $24 drink minimum).", "For another side of the city's nightlife, find a dance partner and head to Ninas, a salsa and merengue club where bands play nightly (011-52/744-484-2400, cover $24, with open bar).", "Stay Close to the city center, One Hotel Acapulco Costera has 126 rooms with simple, Scandinavian-style furniture (800/343-7821, onehotels.com, from $75).", "Eat The open-air restaurant El Zorrito offers a wide range of regional Guerrero dishes, such as posole, hominy stew with chicken (011-52/744-485-3735, posole $6).", "Detour Eight miles south of downtown Acapulco is one of the most secluded beaches around: Playa Majahua.", "Swim in the bay and then try the ceviche at one of the tiny shacks set up near the sand.", "BudgetTravel.com: Acapulco photos .", "PUERTO VALLARTA .", "Puerto Vallarta's art scene doesn't yet rival that of San Miguel de Allende, but it's well on its way: Painters, sculptors, and other artisans have moved to the Pacific-coast resort town in recent years, drawn by the natural beauty of the mountainous coast and the well-preserved colonial architecture in Old Vallarta.", "Shop The old town has a number of galleries and boutiques, such as Joyería Yoler, which sells handcrafted silver jewelry (011-52/322-222-8713), and Peyote People, a purveyor of Huichol Indian art (011-52/322-222-2302).", "See Large bronze sculptures by Mexican artists adorn the city's Malecón, the oceanfront boardwalk lined with dozens of restaurants and shops.", "Stay One of the best hotel options in the area is the Buenaventura Grand Hotel & Spa, which has more than 200 newly renovated rooms -- some with beamed ceilings -- and a pool overlooking Playa Camarones (011-52/322-226-7000, hotelbuenaventura.com.mx, from $120).", "Eat Dine on a patio overlooking the beach at nearby El Barracuda, which specializes in seafood dishes like the Dynamite: shrimp, octopus, and tilapia served over rice (011-52/322-222-4034, entrées from $13).", "LOS CABOS . Wedged between granite peaks and the water on the tip of Baja California, Los Cabos has one of Mexico's most dramatic settings.", "But a less-than-thrilling 20-mile-long tourist corridor connects the towns of San José del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas, making it all the more appealing to choose a town and stick with it.", "See In San José del Cabo's downtown arts district, galleries like Old Town show works by Mexican artists (011-52/624-142-3662, oldtowngallery.net).", "Stay El Encanto Inn & Suites is decorated in Spanish-colonial style, with chandeliers in the entryway and a fountain in the courtyard -- plus, the 28 rooms all have balconies (011-52/624-142-0388, elencantoinn.com, from $95).", "Eat Set in a hacienda in Cabo San Lucas, La Fonda serves dishes that chef Christopher Chong's grandmother used to cook, like empanadas with a red chili sauce (011-52/624-143-6926, empanadas $11).", "Do At Playa Médano in Cabo San Lucas, Andromeda Divers y Mas offers water sports such as sea kayaking and parasailing (011-52/624-143-2765, scubadivecabo.com).", "Detour An hour's drive north of Los Cabos, eclectic shops and galleries have opened in artist-friendly Todos Santos, including the bookstore El Tecolote Libros (011-52/612-145-0295) and Galería de Todos Santos (011-52/612-145-0500, galeriadetodossantos.com).", "BudgetTravel.com: Los Cabos photos .", "CANCÚN . Cancún may never shake its reputation as a rowdy college-party destination, but outside of spring-break season, the city is a surprisingly subdued place.", "The peninsula is where most of the major resorts are located, so if you're looking for character, it's best to head downtown on the mainland.", "Stay The boutique hotel Sol y Luna has 11 brightly painted rooms, mosaic-trimmed baths, and balconies overlooking Parque de las Palapas (011-52/998-887-5579, solylunahotel.com, from $48).", "Eat The park is a popular gathering spot for musicians in the evenings; it's also where you'll find one of the city's best restaurants, Labná, which serves Yucatecan dishes such as pibil, achiote-flavored pork wrapped in a banana leaf (011-52/998-892-3056, labna.com, pibil $9).", "Drink The aptly named Bling Resto Bar, on the resort peninsula, is just what it sounds like; lounge on the patio with a grape mojito and watch the sun go down over the lagoon (011-52/998-840-6014, blingcancun.com, drinks from $5).", "Detour Xcaret, a sprawling ecological and adventure theme park about 45 minutes south of Cancún, is an ideal spot for families.", "Activities here range from swimming through caves in an underground river to walking through a butterfly pavilion and watching monkeys, manatees, pumas, and jaguars in their natural environments (011-52/998-883-0470, www.xcaret.com, from $69).", "BudgetTravel.com: Cancun photos .", "COZUMEL . Surrounded by vibrantly colored coral reefs, the island of Cozumel, 11 miles off the Yucatán coast, has been attracting divers since Jacques Cousteau popularized it in the 1960s.", "The most central place to be situated for day trips around the island is the town of San Miguel, which has a number of reasonably priced guesthouses.", "Stay Las Anclas gets high marks not only for its seven bi-level suites and beautiful garden, but also for owners Pedro and Eyal, who are eager to offer up restaurant recommendations (011-52/987-872-5476, lasanclas.com, from $95).", "Eat A local favorite is La Candela, which serves hearty dishes like chicken stuffed with ham and cheese, and jamaica, a cold tea made from hibiscus flowers (011-52/987-878-4471, chicken $8).", "Do The tour operator Deep Blue arranges dive trips to some of the hardest-to-reach reefs around the island (011-52/987-872-5653, deepbluecozumel.com, from $68).", "Or, you can take a boat ride through the mangroves in the Faro Celarain Eco Park for an adventure of a different sort: crocodile spotting (011-52/987-872-1680, cozumelparks.com, $11).", "Get the best travel deals and tips emailed to you FREE - CLICK HERE!", "Copyright © 2008 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." ]	[ "The island of Cozumel, 11 miles off the Yucatán coast, is a diving hot spot .", "Puerto Vallarta has attracted painters, sculptors and other artisans in recent years .", "Los Cabos, on the tip of Baja California, has one of Mexico's most dramatic settings ." ]	[ 29, 35, 51 ]
[ "Editor's note: Steve Clemons directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and publishes The Washington Note, a popular political blog.", "Steve Clemons says the Nobel panel correctly decided Obama's approach to diplomacy holds great promise.", "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Cynics will say that Oslo was jealous that Copenhagen, Denmark, scored a visit from President Obama, and giving him a Nobel was the only way to get him to Norway.", "But the Nobel Committee's decision to make Obama the only sitting U.S. president since Woodrow Wilson to receive the Nobel Peace Prize shows the committee's clear-headed assessment that Obama's \"unclenched fist\" approach to dealing with the world's most thuggish leaders has had a constructive, systemic impact on the world's expectations of itself.", "Obama has helped citizens all around the world -- including in the United States -- to want a world beyond the mess we have today in the Middle East and South Asia.", "They want a world where America is benign and positive, and where other leaders help in supporting the struggles of their people for better lives rather than securing themselves through crude power.", "Obama has found a way in this interconnected world of cell phones, Twitter, Facebook and other social networking to reach a majority of the world's citizens with his message of hope for a better world.", "He speaks past the dictators to regular people and has, on the whole, raised global political expectations about everything from climate change to nuclear nonproliferation in ways that no one in history has done before.", "Americans tend to look at everything from a U.S.-centric lens, and many woke up this morning shocked that Obama, who just saw a lot of his political capital wasted on trying to secure the 2016 Olympics for his hometown of Chicago, has gotten a fresh injection of sizzle to fill the Obama bubble.", "The world has been mesmerized by Obama since he started to run for the presidency.", "The battle between Hillary Clinton and Obama for the Democratic nomination did more to educate the rest of the world about real political choice -- and about a system in which no candidates had an automatic lock on victory -- than any USAID program could have achieved.", "Obama's decision to make the ulcerous Israeli-Palestinian negotiations one of the first foreign policy challenges of his administration, rather than the last, defied most seasoned analysts' expectations.", "His message to Iran's citizens, marking the Persian new year holiday of Nowruz, and his powerful and captivating speech in Cairo, Egypt, communicated to Muslims all around the world that their lives and their faith and their expectations for a better world were vital and as valid as any others.", "From his perch in the White House, Barack Obama affirmed the humanity of Muslims and told them that America does value Muslim lives.", "Obama's posture and rhetoric have reversed the collapse of hope and trust that the world's citizens had in America and stopped the degradation of America's image during the tenure of George W. Bush and Richard Cheney.", "Should a U.S. president get the Nobel Peace Prize if he's about to send more U.S. troops, armed drones, bombs, tanks and other military hardware into the war-ripped zones in Afghanistan?", "Or should Obama get the prize if he hasn't even succeeded in getting Israeli-Palestinian negotiations going?", "Or if he hasn't gotten Iran to drop its nuclear ambitions and to re-enter the international system on constructive terms?", "The answer is yes.", "I think that given how the odds were already so stacked against Obama on the global economic and security fronts, one can only be amazed at what this unlikely and fascinating president has done with \"optics.\"", "The night before Obama's inauguration, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel accepted my congratulations and responded, \"It's going to be tough, and right now we can only change the optics,\" meaning that political perceptions and appearances could be changed more quickly than hard realities.", "What is brilliant about Obama and why he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize is that he is a global leader who clearly saw the gains that could be made in changing \"the optics\" of the global order, upgrading the level of respect between the United States and other nations, making a point of listening to other leaders.", "Obama saw that before the world could move to a more stable and better global equilibrium, it had to believe it could -- and this is what Obama has done in ways that no other leader has in memory.", "Obama will still make mistakes.", "Leaders will still wrestle with him.", "Hard choices and the gravity of war will still generate challenges for Obama's leadership.", "But the Nobel Prize Committee has shrewdly given a key down payment for a kind of leadership it wants to see from the U.S. for many more years and given Obama another tool to help craft a new global social contract between the United States and other responsible stakeholders in the international system.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Steve Clemons." ]	[ "Steve Clemons: Many Americans shocked that Obama won Peace Prize .", "He says the rest of the world sees how Obama has changed international tone .", "He says Obama's rhetoric has \"reversed the collapse of hope\" in the world ." ]	[ 1, 3, 14 ]
[ "Fort Hood, Texas (CNN) -- The call came over the radio.", "\"Shots fired.\"", "And then, even worse: \"Officer down.\"", "Billy Rhoads, chief of the Fort Hood Fire Department, grabbed a radio and donned his flak jacket.", "He jumped into his SUV and tore down the road.", "A dozen or so blocks away, at the Soldier Readiness Center, a gunman had opened fire on soldiers.", "Rhoads stepped from his truck.", "His department's motto is \"Protecting those who protect us.\"", "He hoped he was not too late for that.", "The scene was chaotic.", "Wounded and dead soldiers were everywhere.", "\"I was listening to people hollering for help, and I was trying to get in there to see what we had,\" Rhoads recalled three days after the November 5 attack.", "\"I assumed that we would have maybe several victims.", "I had no idea, I just could not fathom what we were going to encounter.\"", "Amid all the army uniforms, one dark blue uniform stuck out.", "It was Fort Hood police Sgt.", "Kimberly Munley, who, officials say, shot the alleged gunman, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, to end the rampage.", "She suffered three gunshot wounds.", "\"I broke and ran over to her,\" Rhoads said.", "\"I got over to her and began trying to talk to her.\"", "Rhoads and Munley had worked closely in the past.", "He considers her a friend.", "Army medics had fashioned a makeshift tourniquet on her leg.", "He bent down to comfort her.", "She was extremely weak and unable to speak loudly.", "\"I just kept reminding her of her daughter and that she needed to stay with us for the baby's sake,\" he said.", "\"She's a very tough cookie.\"", "Munley, 34, had served in the Army herself before becoming a police officer at Fort Hood.", "Her husband is a staff sergeant in the Army, and their daughter is 3 years old.", "Munley's neighbors have said she is so tough, she stopped burglars from entering her house last year.", "Said Rhoads of Munley: \"The old saying that dynamite comes in small packages is very true.\"", "Emergency personnel were flooding the scene, and helicopters were en route to evacuate the injured.", "Rhoads, who began as a volunteer firefighter 26 years ago when he was just a teen, took over the scene as incident commander.", "But first, he paused for a quick prayer.", "\"I just asked the Lord to be with me, to give me the strength and the courage I need to do my job wisely and keep my people safe.\"", "Even as the first responders worked on the dozens of wounded soldiers, they weren't certain whether there were other shooters on the post.", "\"The thought's always there on your mind that there could be another suspect in the area,\" Rhoads said.", "As for Hasan, the fire chief says that discussing the shooting suspect is too emotional.", "\"I saw the suspect from a distance, but I never got a look at him.\"", "Rhoads' prayers remain with the soldiers he tries to keep safe.", "\"It's very emotional for everybody when we lose our soldiers.", "But when we lose them here at home like this, it takes it to a different level.\"", "He says the department has arranged for counselors to be available for the firefighters as they process all they have endured.", "They've received phone and text messages from fire and police departments all across the country, offering support and prayer.", "But the main thing his firefighters have relied on, he says, is each other.", "\"Afterward, everyone started to console each other and talk to each other. It's a brotherhood.\"" ]	[ "Fire chief came across officer, told her she \"needed to stay\" for her daughter .", "Chief says people were hollering all over the scene: \"I had no idea\"\nBilly Rhoads began firefighting when he was a teen ." ]	[ 13, 25, 32 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A key congressional committee opened its investigation Thursday into the November 5 Fort Hood shootings with a pledge to find out if authorities failed to \"connect the dots\" and could have prevented the attack.", "The head of the committee promised the inquiry would not interfere with a separate investigation into the shootings being conducted by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Attorney General Eric Holder.", "\"Their investigation looks backward and is punitive.", "Ours looks forward and is preventive,\" said Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, .", "Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist, is accused of opening fire at a military processing center at Fort Hood Army Post, killing 13 people.", "Dozens of others were wounded.", "Hasan was shot and paralyzed during the attack and remains in a military hospital.", "Lieberman said the committee will carry out its investigation \"with respect for the thousands of Muslim-Americans who are serving in the American military with honor and the millions of other patriotic, law-abiding Muslims who live in our country.\"", "But, he added, \"we do no favor to all our fellow Americans who are Muslim by ignoring real evidence that a small number of their community have, in fact, become violent Islamists and extremists.\"", "Lieberman said the committee's investigation will focus on whether concerns raised by Hasan's colleagues about his \"mental stability and political extremism\" were dealt with appropriately by senior Army officials.", "Among other things, a memo reportedly written two years ago by Hasan's supervisor at Walter Reed Army Medical Center says Hasan demonstrated \"a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism\" during his residency at the hospital.", "CNN could not corroborate the authenticity of the memo, which was obtained by National Public Radio.", "Lieberman also said the committee will examine a lack of response by federal authorities after uncovering an exchange of e-mails between Hasan and a radical cleric accused of having ties to al Qaeda.", "The FBI has said it was aware of communication between Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric who has promoted jihad against the United States and other Western countries.", "But investigators determined that those contacts were \"consistent with research being conducted by Maj.", "Hasan.\" Also, Lieberman noted, the committee will look into whether information on Hasan gathered by a joint terrorism task force was shared with officials in the Army, the Defense Department or elsewhere.", "Maine Sen. Susan Collins, the ranking Republican on the committee, said Hasan's case \"raises questions about whether or not restrictive rules have a chilling effect on the legitimate dissemination of information, making it too difficult to connect the dots that would have allowed a clear picture of the threat to emerge.\"", "But a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told CNN that when Hasan first came to the attention of investigators because of his communications with al-Awlaki, officials looked at his military personnel file and nothing was found that raised suspicion.", "None of the items that have been reported since the shootings -- including the reported memo from his Walter Reed supervisor or a Power Point presentation arguing that Muslims in the Army should be given conscientious objector status -- were part of the file, the official said, but it was noted that Hasan had done research about Muslims in the military.", "Thursday's hearing included testimony from former Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. John Keane, Rand Corp. consultant Brian Jenkins and New York City Police Department intelligence analyst Mitchell Silber.", "\"At a glance, Maj. Hasan's rampage at Fort Hood looks a lot like what used to be called 'going postal,' \" Jenkins said.", "It was \"a deepening sense of personal grievance culminating in a homicidal rampage directed against co-workers -- in this case, fellow soldiers.", "\"For Hasan, 'going jihad' reflects the channeling of obvious personality problems into a deadly fanaticism,\" he said.", "The committee launched its investigation only hours before Gates announced a 45-day review of Pentagon policies to see if the Defense Department has fallen short in identifying service members \"who could potentially pose credible threats to others.\"", "The review will be led by former Army Secretary Togo West and retired Adm. Vern Clark, a former Navy chief.", "At the same time, the Army will conduct its own, more detailed review of its policies and whether they could have prevented the shootings at the post in Texas.", "And those will be followed by a four- to six-month study of \"systemic institutional shortcomings\" conducted by each of the armed services.", "The Fort Hood shooting has \"broader implications for society ... particularly in these lone wolf cases, which are the hardest,\" Lieberman said.", "\"When people hear people saying things that seem extreme ... respecting First Amendment rights, you've got to begin to reach out and see if you can stop somebody before they do something very harmful.\"" ]	[ "Incident has \"broader implications for society,\" Sen. Joe Lieberman says .", "Congressional committee opens inquiry into massacre at Fort Hood, Texas .", "Lieberman: Feds' lack of response after uncovering e-mails will be examined .", "Also to be investigated is whether task force information about suspect was shared ." ]	[ 12, 15, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When Barack Obama was elected U.S. president he probably did not realize it would give him a chance to pick up tips on his backswing from the world's elite golfers.", "U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden make use of the White House putting green.", "Obama is the honorary chairman for the 2009 Presidents Cup which will be contested at Harding Park Golf Course in San Francisco this week where the top U.S. golfers take on the best players from around the world outside of Europe.", "As a golf enthusiast, and keen amateur player, the president will get the chance to pick the brains of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els and Vijay Singh on how to improve his game.", "But he is not the first to take to the greens while occupying the Oval Office with 15 of the last 18 U.S. presidents said to have played the sport while in power.", "Living Golf's gallery of presidential putters. ...", "Dwight Eisenhower is recognized as probably the most dedicated to the sport, and was often criticized by Democrats for spending too much time on the golf course.", "Eisenhower's solution?", "In 1954 he had a putting green installed at the White House a short stroll from the Oval Office to enable him to practice while at work which was regularly used by subsequent presidents and still exists to this day.", "The former five-star general was also a member at the Augusta National Golf Club where a overhanging tree on the 17th hole proved such an obstacle to the leader that it was dubbed the \"Eisenhower Tree.\"", "There is little doubt though that John F. Kennedy was the most talented presidential golfer, although he was reluctant to associate with the game.", "During his run for president in 1960, Kennedy did everything possible to keep his fellow Americans from discovering that he not only loved the game but was nearly as good as a club professional and was said to have had a beautiful natural swing.", "Throughout Eisenhower's two terms Kennedy had portrayed him as someone who cared more about lowering his handicap than improving the lives of ordinary Americans, so information about his passion for the links only really came out later.", "Lyndon Johnson is at the opposite end of the spectrum on the talent stakes and is reported to have taken up to 400 swings to get round an 18-hole course while Gerald Ford, who served as honorary chairman for the inaugural Presidents Cup in 1994, had a reputation for accidentally hitting the ball at spectators.", "In terms of sheer number of matches though even Eisenhower could not match Woodrow Wilson who was said to have played almost every day, apart from on Sundays, and even had golf balls painted red so he could play in the snow.", "Ronald Reagan was only an occasional player but Bill Clinton was renowned for an entourage featuring Secret Service agents, a police sniper, a man carrying U.S. nuclear codes, various aides and someone with a secure telephone so he could speak to world leaders on a typical round.", "George W. Bush still plays regularly with his father, and fellow former president, but Bush junior's contribution to golf will forever be immortalized in a short press briefing he gave from the course after being questioned on violence in the Middle East.", "\"I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers.", "Thank you.\" Bush said before he paused and told reporters: \"Now watch this drive!\"", "Obama therefore follows a healthy tradition of golfing presidents and he can relax safe in the knowledge that even if he cannot solve the world's problems while in the White House at least he can improve his short game." ]	[ "President Barack Obama is honorary chairman for the 2009 Presidents Cup .", "Obama follows a tradition of recent U.S. presidents who are keen golfers .", "Dwight Eisenhower had a putting green installed at the White House in 1954 .", "George W. Bush and his father George H.W.", "are both enthusiastic golfers ." ]	[ 1, 2, 7 ]
[ "(Southern Living) -- For a heady dose of holiday spirit, dive into Opryland.", "Fifteen miles of green garland and 10 miles of hand-tied red ribbon festoon the property.", "I've heard that you can see the Great Wall of China from outer space.", "At Christmastime, I bet you can also see Gaylord Opryland.", "It sparkles with megawatts of lights, fun, and merriment.", "But you don't have to be shot into orbit to enjoy the view of this Nashville treasure.", "Make the easy drive to Middle Tennessee and delight in this perfectly luminous getaway.", "The one must-see .", "Many holiday activities raise your spirits; one really promises to chill you out.", "Most of you have read or seen \"How the Grinch Stole Christmas!\"", "But you haven't had the ultimate Dr. Seuss experience until you meet the green grump carved in ice.", "Put on a parka -- loaned to you upon admission -- and enter ICE!, a frozen world located in the Gaslight Theater.", "The attraction will be back next year, but this is the last time you'll see the Grinch and Who-ville, carved by Chinese craftsmen from huge, brilliantly hued blocks of ice.", "There are even frigid sliding boards to try.", "Afterward, leave the 18-degree area, and grab a cup of hot chocolate in the adjoining gift shop.", "Are you smiling yet?", "Special happenings .", "It's the 25th year the resort has provided a Santa's bagful of activities and entertainment.", "The decorations begin going up in July for A Country Christmas, and the festivities run from mid-November until the holidays end.", "During that time, enjoy delights such as carriage rides, photos with Santa, the Hall of Trees, and the Treasures for the Holidays Craft Show.", "Just admiring all the lights, poinsettias, and \"faux-piaries\" -- animal-shaped topiaries -- will get your inner Rudolph aglow.", "Southern Living: Tips from a repeat Oprylander .", "The Radio City Music Hall Rockettes high-kick from the Grand Ole Opry stage.", "Wear your Christmas sweater and jeans while you watch them -- everyone else does.", "For a memento of your visit, add glitter and sparkle to a fragrant miniature holiday house at Gingerbread Corner.", "Special events also include Louise Mandrell's \"Joy to the World Christmas Dinner & Show,\" as well as a Winter Wonderland that includes a train ride for little ones.", "Near the hotel, board the General Jackson showboat for a dinner cruise on the Cumberland River.", "SouthernLiving.com: Hot Spots for the New Year .", "Dining and shopping .", "You have many options for meals in the huge Gaylord Opryland complex.", "For a fine-dining experience, try Old Hickory Steakhouse.", "Indulge in a rich lobster bisque, perfectly cooked filet mignon, and crème brûlée.", "Water's Edge Marketplace Buffet, located in the Delta Atrium, is a more casual venue.", "Graze among 60 different stations, filled with everything from pasta and salads to meats and vegetables.", "You can also grab a quick meal at Stax Burgers or Paisano's Pizzaria & Vino, both on the Delta Island.", "For a nighttime dose of high-octane fun, go directly to the new Fuse nightclub, with rave reviews and visiting luminaries such as Kid Rock and Kim Kardashian.", "If you need festive duds, check out the shopping at Gaylord Opryland, such as Amelia's or Savannah's, both featuring dressy and casual women's clothing.", "Opry Mills, the outlet mall just down the road, offers some of the best shopping opportunities, with winning Tennessee stores such as The Gibson Showcase and The Apple Barn Cider Bar & General Store.", "The Disney Store Outlet and Build-A-Bear Workshop also mesmerize, while standbys such as Nike, Gap Outlet, and Tommy Hilfiger Company Store are perennial favorites.", "The on-premises Rainforest Cafe or Johnny Rockets are ever popular refueling spots.", "If you go ... Gaylord Opryland Resort: www.gaylordhotels.com/gaylord-opryland or 1-888-999-6779.", "Special holiday packages, including accommodations and tickets to several attractions, begin at $335 for a two-night stay.", "Try 2 FREE TRIAL issues of Southern Living - CLICK HERE !", "Submit your favorite places to visit, stay, and dine in the South and enter to win a Caribbean Getaway - click here!", "Copyright SOUTHERN LIVING Magazine.", "All rights reserved.", "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed." ]	[ "ICE!", "in the Gaslight Theater includes an ice sculpture of the Grinch .", "The decorations began going up in July for A Country Christmas .", "Opry Mills, the outlet mall just down the road, offers great shopping ." ]	[ 18, 37 ]

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