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"(CNN) -- The U.S. State Department said Sunday it was \"deeply disturbed\" at the deportation of 20 Uyghur asylum seekers from Cambodia back to China.",
"The deportation \"will affect Cambodia's relationship with the U.S. and its international standing,\" said acting State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid in a statement.",
"It occurred on Saturday at the request of China, the U.S. said.",
"\"The United States is deeply concerned about the welfare of these individuals, who had sought protection under international law,\" Duguid said.",
"\"We are also deeply disturbed that the Cambodian government decided to forcibly remove the group without the benefit of a credible process for determining refugee status and without appropriate participation by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.\"",
"Kitty McKinsey, a coordinator with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees agency in Asia, told CNN on Saturday that the refugees had been seeking asylum.",
"China's northwestern region was wracked by ethnic violence between Han Chinese and Uyghur Muslims earlier this year, and the Uyghurs fled to Cambodia to escape the unrest.",
"McKinsey said the UNHCR considers the deportation a breach of international law, and Uyghur human rights activists have expressed concern about the move.",
"The Uyghur American Association also expressed concern in a statement.",
"The 20 were held in handcuffs and leg shackles and were not given any food to eat on Friday, according to the association.",
"They were part of a group of 22 Uyghurs seeking refuge in Cambodia, all of whom were under UNHCR protection when taken into custody.",
"\"The United States strongly opposed Cambodia's involuntary return of these asylum seekers before their claims have been heard,\" the State Department said.",
"Duguid urged the Chinese government to \"uphold international norms and to ensure transparency, due process and proper treatment of persons in its territory\" now that the Uyghurs have been returned.",
"Cambodian and Chinese officials could not immediately be reached for a response.",
"But a Cambodian state media outlet, Agence Kampuchea Presse, reported that Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping is to arrive in Cambodia on Sunday for a three-day visit."
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"U.S. condemns deportation of 20 Uyghur asylum-seekers from Cambodia back to China .",
"Uyghurs fled to Cambodia to escape ethnic violence in China's northwestern region earlier this year .",
"The 20 refugees were held in handcuffs and leg shackles and not given food, said Uyghur American Association ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar is free to travel outside the country, Pakistan's government said Friday a day after blocking his departure and sparking a national incident.",
"There are 53 Pakistani individuals reinstated to an Exit Control List this week which prevents them from leaving the country -- but Mukhtar is not one of them, the National Accountability Bureau said.",
"The confusion stems from a list, dating back several years, that prevented some government officials facing corruption charges from leaving the country.",
"In October 2007, the country passed the National Reconciliation Ordinance, which provided amnesty to about 8,000 people facing various offenses, said Mohammed Afzl Sindhu, Pakistan's minister of state for law and justice.",
"Among them were about 30 politicians.",
"Those who had been on the Exit Control List were given amnesty and could travel.",
"On Wednesday, Pakistan's Supreme Court struck down the ordinance.",
"The 17-judge court said the amnesty \"seems to be against the national interest\" and \"violates various provisions of the Constitution.\"",
"Following that decision, the government restored the names of 53 people to the Exit Control List, said National Accountability Bureau spokesman Ghazni Khan.",
"Mukhtar was among the officials protected by the ordinance -- but Pakistani officials say he was not among the 53 people on the Exit Control List.",
"He was about to leave on an official trip to China on Thursday when immigration authorities told him he was on the Exit Control List.",
"He said he raised the issue with the offices of the president and prime minister.",
"\"It is clarified that the name of Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar was not included in that list of 53 persons,\" Khan said Friday.",
"The National Reconciliation Ordinance, passed under then-President Pervez Musharraf, covered alleged wrongdoing between 1986 and 1999.",
"Among those protected by the order -- which expired last month -- were Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.",
"Also on the list were bureaucrats, bankers, retired military officials, and low ranking government officials, Sindhu said Friday.",
"With the order lifted, corruption charges against some officials will now proceed, Pakistani authorities said.",
"An accountability court in Karachi summoned Interior Minister Rehman Malik to appear on January 8, 2010 regarding an outstanding corruption case against him, said Malik's attorney, Khawaja Naveed Ahmed.",
"Ahmed added that 51 others have been summoned to court in Karachi.",
"Atiq ur Rehman, spokesman for the National Accountability Bureau in Lahore, said the cases of 80 people accused of corruption and misuse of power have been reopened and sent to accountability court for further processing.",
"They include include Jahamgir Badar, who is the secretary general of the Pakistan People's Party, and Nusrat Bhutto, mother of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.",
"CNN's Samson Desta contributed to this report."
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"Mukhtar was wrongly put on an exit control list which prevented him from leaving the country .",
"Confusion stems from a list that prevented officials facing corruption charges from leaving."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- Poet and punk rocker Jim Carroll has died at age 60.",
"Funeral arrangements are pending.",
"Poet, punk rocker and author Jim Carroll performs at a 2002 benefit in New York.",
"A respected poet and musician, Carroll also was the author of \"The Basketball Diaries,\" which was adapted into a 1995 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio.",
"Carroll died Friday at his home in Manhattan after suffering a heart attack, said his former wife, Rosemary Carroll.",
"In 1980, he released the popular album \"Catholic Boy,\" which, according to his fan Web site, expressed the \"[b]omb-fear anticipation, the optimistic nihilism and glittering darkness of the 1980s.\"",
"The track \"People Who Died\" was one of the most-requested songs on FM radio at the time, and as Newsweek's Barbara Graustark noted then, \"it propelled [Carroll] from underground status to national attention as a contender for the title of rock's new poet laureate.\"",
"The release of the song coincided with the death of John Lennon.",
"The success of the album was attributed to the powerful combination of pure rock 'n' roll with Carroll's poetic sensibility and ability to write from his own experience.",
"The fan Web site Catholicboy.com sums up Carroll's approach to music by quoting him as saying, \"There ain't much time left, you're born out of this insane abyss and you're going to fall back into it, so while you're alive you might as well show your bare ass.\"",
"In addition to two follow-up albums, Carroll was a best-selling author of six books.",
"\"He was a sweet, sweet man, and I'm going to really miss him,\" said Cassie Carter, a close friend for more than 20 years who operates Catholicboy.com.",
"Carroll was born in New York in 1949 and spent his childhood living on the city's Lower East Side, attending Catholic schools, said Rosemary Carroll, whom he met in 1973.",
"At 12, he began keeping a journal that eventually was published as \"The Basketball Diaries\" in 1978.",
"In it, he recorded the highs and lows of his youth.",
"He first experimented with drugs at 12 and soon was addicted to heroin, but he was able to kick that habit in the 1970s, his former wife said.",
"He had just completed a novel, tentatively titled \"The Petting Zoo,\" which is about a young painter who experiences spiritual crises.",
"The date of its release has not been set.",
"Carroll is survived by a brother, according to his ex-wife."
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"Poet and punk rocker Jim Carroll dies after heart attack at 60, ex-wife says .",
"Drug addiction as teen chronicled in \"The Basketball Diaries\"\nBook made into 1995 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio .",
"Carroll's 1980 album \"Catholic Boy\" featured popular \"People Who Died\" track ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- An explosion outside the home of Afghanistan's former vice president killed at least eight people Tuesday, government officials have said.",
"The explosion was near the Kabul residence of former vice-president Ahmad Zia Massoud, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told reporters.",
"Massoud was not harmed in the attack.",
"Among those killed were one of Massoud's guards and an assistant, the former vice president's aide said.",
"Forty others were wounded in the blast.",
"The explosion broke windows in a hotel a few blocks away.",
"Tuesday morning's explosion occurred as the Afghan president was at a nearby anti-corruption convention.",
"Karzai issued a statement condemning the attack, calling it inhumane and cowardly.",
"The president called for a full scale investigation.",
"Massoud is a notable figure in Afghan politics.",
"Not only was he a vice president of the county under Karzai, but his brother the late Ahmed Shah Massoud was heralded as a leader in the fight against the Taliban.",
"Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leader of the Northern Alliance, the Taliban's main opposition, was killed September 9, 2001, by a bomb inside a video camera during an interview at his headquarters with Tunisian al Qaeda operatives posing as journalists.",
"Meanwhile the International Committee of the Red Cross visited three Afghan security forces being held captive by the Taliban for the first time, the agency said Tuesday.",
"The two visits occurred in late November in Badghis province in northwestern Afghanistan, the agency said.",
"\"This is the first time since the beginning of the current conflict that the ICRC has visited people detained by the armed opposition,\" said Reto Stocker, head of the ICRC's delegation in Kabul.",
"\"We plan to conduct and repeat visits in other regions, and hope to visit people held by other armed opposition groups, with the aim of ensuring that everyone detained in relation to the armed conflict is treated humanely.\"",
"The ICRC says it regularly visits detained people in conflict zones to assess their conditions and treatment.",
"The agency say it currently currently visits 136 places of detention in Afghanistan.",
"-- CNN's Tim Schwarz and Fred Pleitgen contributed to this report ."
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"Dead included one of former Afghan VP's guards and an assistant .",
"Blast hit as Afghan President Hamid Karzai at nearby anti-corruption convention .",
"Former Vice President Ahmad Zia Massoud not harmed in the attack .",
"Red Cross says it visited three captives of the Taliban in November ."
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"(CNN) -- Refugees at a settlement in southwestern Uganda have barricaded all roads into the camp to protest a food-aid disruption they say has caused the deaths of several children, refugee leaders said Tuesday.",
"\"We have spent three months without any food supplies from government nor from any food relief or humanitarian agency,\" Congolese refugee leader Serugendo Sekalinda said by telephone.",
"The protest began Tuesday after the deaths of three children Monday night, refugees said.",
"Those were the latest of dozens of children who have died in the past two weeks due to hunger, refugee leaders said.",
"But Needa Jehu Hoyah, a spokeswoman for the United Nations refugee agency, known as the UNHCR, told CNN by telephone from the Ugandan capital, Kampala, that no children have died in the Nakivale settlement, which has tens of thousands of refugees.",
"\"We have a malnutrition program [in Nakivale] for children, [but] no children have died of hunger there,\" she said.",
"The UNHCR, along with the U.N.'s World Food Program and the Ugandan government, will deliver a food shipment to the settlement Wednesday, Hoyah said.",
"Uganda's disaster preparedness and refugees minister, professor Tarsis Kabwejyere, told CNN that the refugees living in that camp -- most of whom fled fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo -- would have their full rations Wednesday.",
"For a time they've been getting half rations, he said.",
"\"By tomorrow there will be no food crisis at that settlement,\" Kabwejyere said.",
"\"We do our best to make sure humanity survives, even in the hardships in refugee settlements, so people have a reasonable existence.\"",
"The food shortage came about as a result of a disruption in the food supply chain and a shortage of money for food, the minister said.",
"Hoyah agreed that there \"were issues with the food pipeline.\"",
"Protesters at the Nakivale settlement, about 400 kilometers (248 miles) southwest of Kampala and 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) north of the Ugandan border with Tanzania, gathered at the homes where the most recent deaths of children have occurred, Sekalinda said.",
"\"We are demanding to be relocated to another country where we can be protected from death caused by hunger,\" he said.",
"While the settlement's population is composed mainly of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, it also houses refugees from conflicts in Rwanda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Eritrea and Kenya.",
"Nakivale is the largest and oldest of the five refugee settlements in Uganda, having opened more than two decades ago.",
"People living there are provided small plots of land on which to grow crops, and they often build huts made of mud, water and thatched grass.",
"As many as 155,000 refugees live in all the camps in Uganda, according to the UNHCR.",
"As of January of this year, there were also an estimated 853,000 internally displaced persons, or IDPs, the UNHCR says on its Web site.",
"The IDPs were forced from their villages in the past decade by attacks from the Lord's Resistance Army, which wants to create a democratic government in Uganda based on the Bible's Ten Commandments.",
"Last week, an African Union summit in Kampala endorsed a declaration to end the forceful displacement of people in all of Africa.",
"Delegates to the poorly attended summit also pledged to aid refugees and IDPs by training them in vocational skills so they could find work during and after their forced displacement.",
"Journalist Samson Ntale in Kampala, Uganda, contributed to this report ."
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"Lack of food causing deaths of children, refugees at Ugandan settlement say .",
"Protest began after three children died Monday, refugee leader says .",
"United Nations refugee agency denies any child has died of hunger at Nakivale .",
"But agency acknowledges supply problem, says food coming Wednesday ."
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"GAZA CITY, Gaza (CNN) -- A radical Muslim sheikh's call for the creation of an Islamic emirate in Gaza sparked clashes with Hamas forces that left 21 people dead and injured at least 121 others.",
"Members of Jund Ansar Allah surround Sheikh Abu al-Nour al-Maqdessi in Rafah on Friday.",
"Hamas forces blew up the home of Sheikh Abu al-Nour al-Maqdessi, leader of the radical group Jund Ansar Allah, or Soldiers of the Partisans of God, Hamas sources said.",
"Al-Maqdessi, also known as Abdel Latif Musa, was among the 21 dead, a hospital spokesman told CNN.",
"Friday's clashes were the latest between Gaza's Hamas rulers, who have said they are moderate Muslims pledged to the Palestinian cause, and more extremist Islamic groups.",
"Jund Ansar Allah is part of the radical Islamist movement that follows the doctrines of the \"Salaf,\" or the predecessors -- referring to the early generations of Muslims.",
"They reject all modern influences such as politics and government.",
"In a televised statement, Hamas ministry spokesman Taher Nunu called al-Maqdessi's group \"outlaws\" and said they have been \"terrorizing the country and attacking civilians.\"",
"\"We hold the group and its leader fully responsible for what is happening in Gaza and we offer our condolences to everyone who was killed during the clashes,\" Nunu said.",
"\"No one is above the law and we urge everyone who is a member of this group to surrender himself to the authorities or they will be accountable for all of their actions.\"",
"The gunfight erupted near a mosque in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where the cleric delivered his sermon, the sources said.",
"Hamas militants raided the mosque and seized control of it.",
"Later, the fighting spread to al-Maqdessi's home, the sources said.",
"Al-Maqdessi also called for a public meeting at the mosque, posting on the Jund Ansar Allah's Web site an invitation dubbed \"the golden advice to the government of (Hamas leader) Ismail Haniya.\"",
"The group posted a statement on the Web site announcing the establishment of the Islamic emirate in Gaza and proclaiming al-Maqdessi \"the commander of the faithful.\"",
"The statement declared that armed forces in Gaza should unite under him.",
"It urged Muslims everywhere to support the \"young emirate\" by providing money, weapons and men because \"this is the hope of the Muslim nation in raising the banner of monotheism in Palestine and to liberate all the lands and purify Al-Aqsa mosque from the filth of the damned Jews.\"",
"Al-Aqsa mosque is in Jerusalem.",
"The group accused Hamas of not being Islamic enough, saying they care more about pleasing \"tyrants\" than \"obeying God.\"",
"But Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zahri dismissed statements about the establishment of an Islamic emirate as \"theoretical.\"",
"\"It is not permitted to any party or individual to enforce their own laws because this is the responsibility of the security forces,\" he said.",
"CNN's Talal Abu-Rahman in Gaza City, Gaza, contributed to this report."
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"Al-Maqdessi was leader of Islamist movement that rejects politics, government .",
"Al-Maqdessi had sought creation of Islamic emirate in Gaza ."
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The death toll from an explosion in the central Pakistani city of Dera Ghazi Khan climbed to at least 25 on Wednesday, a senior government official said.",
"Another 56 people were wounded in Tuesday's attack, according to Hassan Iqbal Khan.",
"The blast ripped through a market located near the house of a senior adviser to the chief minister of Punjab province, said Mohammed Hasnain, a rescue official.",
"The adviser, Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa, is a former provincial governor and a senior opposition party politician.",
"He said he was the target of the attack, though police initially said he was not the intended target.",
"Khosa told CNN that none of his family members were in the house when the attack occurred.",
"He also said that he had never before received any threats against his life.",
"The attacker detonated his car in front of the main gate at Khosa's house, said Hassan Iqbal, a senior government official.",
"About 20 shops in the market were reduced to rubble.",
"CNN's Samson Desta and journalist Umar Aziz Khan contributed to this report."
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"Attacker detonated car in front of Sardar Zulfiqar Muhammad Khosa's home .",
"Former provincial governor claims he was intended target of attack ."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- Mindy Perlmutter was having a birthday party, but this was not just your garden variety, chocolate cake, two kinds of ice cream, balloons, and a piñata type soiree.",
"No, this would be an affair to remember.",
"Lisa Kogan has learned the hard way about when it's important to listen to loved ones.",
"This would be even more fabulous than Alicia Mittenthal's tie-dye-your-own-pillowcase gala or Daisy Feng's macramé-your-own-bracelet bash.",
"This was to be a build-your-own-terrarium shindig, complete with colored sand and plastic stones and an incredibly classy assortment of glass goldfish bowls.",
"At the time (the time being about 34 years ago), it seemed like a very big deal -- I mean, let's be honest here, it would still be a big deal to go to a party where you get to build your own terrarium...in, you know, a kind of retro, '70s, ironic, hipster way.",
"So there I sat, looking out the den window, which gave me a clear view to the driveway while I waited for my ride to come spirit me away.",
"Actually, it hadn't been our den since my grandparents returned from their life in Miami Beach and my folks rented a hospital bed to turn the den into my grandmother's bedroom.",
"I loved my grandmother, but I can't say I ever really got to know her.",
"She was the lady who played bingo and walked with a cane and kept a plump red tomato pincushion next to the creaky old foot-pedal-powered Singer sewing machine.",
"I remember that she put up her own pickles and draped strudel dough across the kitchen table, and I know that she learned to reupholster her own furniture and got her first driver's license when she was deep into her 50s, and I'm acutely aware that she spoke to my grandfather in a very stern Yiddish whenever he tried to convince me to watch \"The Lawrence Welk Show.\"",
"My grandmother endured an awful lot from the man, but no grandchild of hers was going to be forced to watch Lawrence Welk so long as she still had breath in her body.",
"Anyway, the sun was going down and my ride was running late and my grandmother started to talk.",
"I thought she was going to warn me to be careful of something or other, because she was from the generation who believed that pigeons carry polio and she worried a lot, but if she was anxious about anything that night, she didn't show it.",
"\"I used to love to go to parties,\" she told me.",
"She might as well have said that she used to enjoy scaling Mount Everest in flip-flops and a tutu.",
"I was pretty sure I'd heard all the stories from my grandmother's life -- and none of them involved a party.",
"Oprah.com: How to write your own memoir .",
"The talk I'd heard was always the same: She and her mother and her five brothers and sisters starving through the bitter Russian winters in a little village whose name sounded like a sneeze.",
"I knew about the malnutrition, the crippling rickets, the father who slaved away for years in Detroit trying to earn enough money to bring his wife and children to America and how when he finally did manage to save enough, the man he entrusted with the job of bringing the family over disappeared with the money (was he killed?",
"did he steal it? ), leaving my great-grandfather to start all over again.",
"I'd heard how my great-uncles Sam and Isadore would scrounge through fields looking for anything edible while my grandmother supported everyone with her job as a maid to the butcher's wife, and I knew by heart the story of how she lost that job because the woman caught her taking a sip of milk.",
"I also knew how she met Arthur Levy, the love of her life, who my great-aunt Molly swore looked \"exactly like a young Perry Como,\" and that he died a few weeks after she married him, though she never stopped wearing his ring.",
"I knew that the first son she had with my grandfather had died, and that on a Friday afternoon in 1939, her father, the man who worked so hard to bring the family here, died, too, after being pushed off the roof of a building in an anti-Semitic attack.",
"And, of course, I knew that she worked nonstop to build a better life for her children.",
"But I realize now that I only knew those stories because they were told to me by other people.",
"The night of Mindy Perlmutter's terrarium party, my grandmother was telling me the things she wanted me to know.",
"She talked about dances and boys and a silvery blue dress she'd sewn with her sisters.",
"She told me about a time when all her friends were doubled over with laughter because...well, I'm not really sure what it was they found so funny.",
"There was a honk and the glare of headlights, so I gave my grandmother a fast peck on the cheek and flew straight out the door.",
"She went into the hospital the next morning, and she never came out.",
"I sit playing Candy Land with the great-granddaughter Rose Kogan never got to meet.",
"Julia Claire closes her eyes, blows on the dice, and whispers, \"C'mon, c'mon, Mama needs a pair of deuces.\"",
"I have no idea why my 6-year-old sounds like Edward G. Robinson, but I make a mental note to quit letting her play blackjack with the doormen.",
"She rolls \"snake eyes\" and becomes my little girl again.",
"\"I want a do-over, Mommy.\"",
"I start to explain that we don't really get do-overs in this world, that you kind of have to play it as it lays.",
"I believe the parenting books call this a \"teachable moment,\" but my follow-through leaves much to be desired.",
"I hand Jules the dice and say, \"Go for it, kid.\"",
"The truth is, I want a do-over, too.",
"I have ignored my instincts, I have embraced my neuroses, and there have been more than a few serious lapses in judgment over the years -- hell, I once painted my bathroom aubergine.",
"But if I could get just one night back, it would be a chilly October evening when nothing mattered more to me than hanging with my friends in Mindy Perlmutter's basement.",
"Oprah.com: One thing Lisa Kogan would never change .",
"I would have taken off my coat and sat back down, only this time I'd have faced my grandmother instead of the driveway.",
"I would have asked her if the good times outweighed the bad, if there were nights she'd do differently, if she'd ever felt like giving up -- or if that was even an option.",
"I never told her how smart and talented and brave and lovely I thought she was.",
"I never heard what was so great about Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon in Mrs. Miniver.",
"I never found out what she did to make her skin so soft and her matzo balls so firm or if she'd have preferred it the other way around.",
"And I never thanked her for being my go-to grandma in the unconditional goodness department.",
"Julia and I finish the game and say our goodnights.",
"I am eager to return a couple of calls, get her lunch packed for school, and watch the episode of \"Mad Men\" I've got waiting on our DVR.",
"But my daughter is feeling chatty.",
"\"Mommy,\" she begins, \"do you know why the Princess Barbie Musketeers have swords that match their ball gowns?\"",
"Before I can answer, she announces, \"It's because they're royal squashbucklers.\"",
"I tell her I'm pretty sure the word is swashbucklers, and she tells me she's pretty sure I'm wrong and goes on talking.",
"She doesn't want to let go of the night, and so I nudge away two stuffed poodles and curl up beside her.",
"The calls and the lunch and even Don Draper can wait, because I have learned the hard way that my job is to sit quietly in the dark and listen to whatever my daughter has to say.",
"Oprah.com: What your children need the most .",
"By Lisa Kogan from O, The Oprah Magazine, November 2009 .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2009 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"But Lisa Kogan had a party to got to and ran out the door .",
"Now she wants that chilly October evening back to talk with her grandmother .",
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"Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar was blocked from leaving the country Thursday after Pakistan's Supreme Court struck down an amnesty that had protected politicians from corruption charges, state media reported.",
"Nearly 280 government officials and ministers have been placed on an exit control list by the high court, said Wajid Hasan, Pakistan's high commissioner in Britain.",
"The 17-judge court invalidated the National Reconciliation Order on Wednesday, saying in its ruling that the amnesty \"seems to be against the national interest\" and \"violates various provisions of the Constitution.\"",
"The order, passed in October 2007 under then-President Pervez Musharraf, only covered alleged wrongdoing that occurred between 1986 through 1999.",
"The order, which expired last month, protected thousands of bureaucrats and politicians, including President Asif Ali Zardari and his wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, from corruption and criminal charges.",
"Mukhtar, among the officials once protected by the order, was on an official trip to China when he was stopped at the Islamabad airport.",
"Pakistan's Supreme Court said its ruling revived all cases that had been suspended or withdrawn under the amnesty.",
"Zardari's government released a brief statement Thursday saying: \"The government respects the judgment of the Supreme Court and is awaiting the detailed judgment.",
"However, the government has already started consulting the legal experts for its implementation.\"",
"CNN's Nic Robertson and Arwa Damon contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- He was a cold, calculating, \"morally depraved\" man who spent the last years of his socialite and megaphilanthropist mother's life bilking her fortune to line his pockets.",
"That's one way to see Anthony Marshall -- and it's the only way, according to the prosecutors who secured a conviction against him for grand larceny and scheming to defraud his mother, Brooke Astor.",
"Now as the 85-year-old son prepares to be sentenced Monday for his crimes, another portrait of him has emerged -- thanks to close friends and celebrity acquaintances (including Al Roker and Whoopi Goldberg) who sent letters to the court in hopes of saving him from a lengthy prison sentence.",
"The man prosecutors described during the trial is apparently unrecognizable to many of Marshall's friends and acquaintances.",
"He was a loyal churchgoing man, a Purple Heart recipient wounded in Iwo Jima during World War II and a son who tried mightily but could never live up to the high ideals of his socialite mother, according to letters friends submitted to the court.",
"And now, they say he is a frail and sickly man who has faced extreme humiliation and would essentially be given a death sentence if a judge hands down the maximum sentence allowed.",
"It will be up to Judge A. Kirke Bartley Jr. to decide how to reconcile the two portraits of Tony Marshall.",
"He faces a minimum 1 to 3 years, or as much as 8 to 25 years in state prison.",
"The drastically differing views have only further heightened interest in the case, which during the trial stage was a tabloid feeding frenzy, fostering headlines such as \"Bad heir day,\" \"Mrs. Astor's disaster\" and \"DA's kick in the Astor.\"",
"The witness list was a virtual \"Who's Who\" of New York's social elite -- including Henry Kissinger, Graydon Carter, Barbara Walters, Vartan Gregorian and Annette de la Renta.",
"During the case, prosecutors and witnesses portrayed Marshall as an only son preying on his physically and mentally ill 101-year-old mother.",
"Assistant District Attorney Joel 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.\"",
"His only goal, they said, was to selfishly tap her fortune -- money that prosecutors said Astor intended to donate to ordinary New Yorkers who needed help after she died.",
"He was convicted of the most serious charges against him -- 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, Seidemann said.",
"During trial testimony, Marshall's lawyers called no character witnesses to come to his defense.",
"So the new letters from friends are the first attempts by those who know him to share what they believe is his true character.",
"Whoopi Goldberg told a judge in her letter that she met Tony Marshall and his wife Charlene 10 years ago when Goldberg moved into a building on the Upper East Side with Frank Langella.",
"Unlike other residents who turned their nose up at her, Goldberg said she became quick friends with the Marshalls.",
"Her interactions with Tony, she wrote, gave her an insight into his relationship with his mother, and in turn taught her about how fame can affect family dynamics.",
"\"I also understand what it must be like for my own daughter to be around my fame,\" she wrote.",
"\"I am not comparing myself to Mrs. Astor, but I've seen how you can be dismissed as not being good enough, or hip enough, and seeing it happen to Tony made me make sure that it didn't happen to my own daughter.\"",
"The humiliation and ugliness of the trial was punishment enough and a prison sentence would be unjust, friends argued in the letters.",
"Marshall's cardiologist, Kenneth W. Franklin, also wrote to urge the judge to consider his age and health in sentencing.",
"A prison sentence \"will accelerate his deterioration from cardiac and neurologic disease and would result in his premature death due to medical complications,\" he wrote.",
"NBC's Today show weatherman Al Roker came to Marshall's defense too, having met him at his church 10 years ago.",
"He argued Marshall had suffered enough, paying a price greater than any sentence a judge could hand down -- seeing his son turn on him during the trial and being portrayed in a negative light each day.",
"\"Given his advanced age and deteriorating health, justice may be better served by turning a compassionate eye towards this good son, father and patriot and finding it in your heart not to add 'prisoner' to Anthony Marshall's otherwise unblemished resume,\" Roker wrote in his letter to the court.",
"Goldberg too, believed \"breaking this man\" by putting him in prison, was not the right punishment.",
"\"Please don't put him in jail,\" she writes at the end of her letter.",
"\"It would only amount to an unnecessary cruelty that would serve no real purpose.",
"Hasn't Tony been through enough?\"",
"CNN's Jessica Ravitz contributed to this report."
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"Tony Marshall convicted of bilking mom Brooke Astor of money before her death .",
"He faces a minimum 1 to 3 years, or as much as 8 to 25 years in state prison .",
"Friends cite Marshall's age of 85, deteriorating health, among reasons for light sentence ."
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"Beijing, China (CNN) -- Five more defendants were sentenced to death for their roles in summer riots that killed around 200 people in western China, officials said Thursday.",
"The five sentenced to death were among 22 defendants that went on trial this week by the Intermediate People's Court of Urumqi, according to a local government statement.",
"Along with the five people to be executed, another five were sentenced to death but the execution will be postponed for two years, the statement said.",
"The others received sentences ranging from 10 years in prison to life in prison.",
"This group is part of dozens of people who have put on trial for the alleged role in the violent ethnic clashes in China's Xinjiang autonomous region that broke out this summer.",
"More than 20 people have received death sentences after being convicted of crimes related to the unrest.",
"The riots in July were prompted by long-simmering resentment between minority Uyghurs and majority Han Chinese.",
"The Uyghurs are mostly Muslims in Xinjiang.",
"Some Islamists refer to the region as East Turkistan.",
"Around 200 people were believed to have been killed in the riots.",
"The unrest continued in August when Uyghurs were accused of attacking Han Chinese with syringes filled with different substances.",
"In September, China sent 7,000 security personnel to Urumqi to ease tensions after Han Chinese protested the syringe attacks.",
"China's constitution guarantees ethnic minorities equal rights.",
"However, minority groups such as the Uyghurs say the Han discriminate and ethnic tensions run deep."
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"July riots prompted by long-simmering resentment between minority Uyghurs and majority Han .",
"Unrest continued in August when Uyghurs were accused of attacking Han with syringes ."
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"(The Frisky) -- There are certain families -- like, say, the Coppolas and the Gyllenhaals -- where coolness seems to be infused in the DNA.",
"I'd like to add another to the list: the Reitmans.",
"Papa Ivan is the producer behind flicks like \"Ghostbusters\" and \"Animal House,\" and son Jason grew up on his sets.",
"\"I was on the set of 'Animal House' when I was 11 days old.",
"It had a profound effect on me,\" Jason joked this week on \"Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.\"",
"When he was in his early teens, Jason started working as a production assistant and his dad even cast him in a few small roles.",
"\"I was 13 and my dad gave me a scene in 'Kindergarten Cop' kissing a girl -- and that was in fact my first kiss,\" said Jason.",
"\"My first kiss was directed by my father.",
"You don't know what it's like to have to do eight takes of your first kiss while Arnold Schwarzenegger's pointing a gun at you and your dad's like, 'Grab her a little more.'\"",
"While Jason probably could have busted into filmmaking by birthright, he decided against directing \"Dude, Where's My Car?\"",
"which he was offered, and instead worked on short films to gain clout.",
"\"It's interesting because I avoided working with my dad for a while because I was so sensitive of being accused of the idea of nepotism,\" he said.",
"\"I remember when I was 19 years old I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film just so I could say one day my daddy didn't pay for my first short film.",
"And I really established myself through the film festival world, starting at Sundance and lots of film festivals and really took on a different style of film from my father.\"",
"Soon, Jason directed \"Thank You For Smoking.\"",
"Then the amazingness that was \"Juno.\"",
"And now, of course, he is the Best Director/Best Picture forerunner with his movie \"Up In The Air,\" which is getting all sorts of critical acclaim.",
"\"Up in the Air\" is the first project the two worked on together.",
"\"I love my father and we have such a strong bond and I look up to him as a filmmaker and a storyteller,\" said Jason.",
"\"So it was great and when I see the credits and it says produced by Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, my heart swells.",
"It's really, really cool.\"",
"Ivan echoes that sentiment.",
"\"It's great to be the producer of this kind of movie and sort of share in its success and the goodwill that comes with it,\" he said.",
"\"But as a parent it's kind of this remarkable emotional moment that's kind of hard to describe.\"",
"And it's not like Ivan's career is over -- he has a script in the works for \"Ghostbusters 3\" and the word on the street is that Bill Murray will be making a cameo in it as a ghost himself.",
"Could this family be any cooler?",
"TM & © 2009 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved ."
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"Ivan and Jason Reitman are the father/son tandem behind award darling \"Up in the Air\"\nThe father, Ivan was the producer behind \"Ghostbusters\" and \"Animal House\"\nThe son, Jason grew up on sets and directed \"Thank You for Smoking\" and \"Juno\"\n\"Up in the Air\" is the first movie the pair has worked on together ."
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"TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (CNN) -- The U.S. State Department is calling on Honduras' de facto president to immediately rescind an emergency decree that limits constitutional rights such as freedoms of expression, travel and public congregation.",
"Robert Micheletti, de facto president of Honduras, says he'll repeal an emergency decree, but not immediately.",
"\"The freedoms inherent in the suspended rights are inalienable and cannot be limited or restricted without seriously damaging the democratic aspirations of the Honduran people,\" said State Department spokesman Ian Kelly in a statement late Monday night.",
"Earlier Monday, Roberto Micheletti announced he would repeal the law, but it would not be immediately.",
"The decree will undergo a legal review, he said.",
"Still, Micheletti's announcement was an about-face.",
"He had announced the policy less than 24 hours earlier in response to unrest that increased significantly after ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya secretly returned to Honduras on September 20 and took refuge in the Brazilian embassy.",
"The 45-day decree announced Sunday night forbids any unauthorized public gatherings, allows officials to make arrests without a judicial order and lets the government close down news media that threaten \"peace and order.\"",
"Micheletti said he would consult with the supreme court to repeal the decree, after a meeting with the leading presidential candidates.",
"\"This decision was made because (Zelaya) was calling for insurrection ... but I'm going to listen to the other powers of the state and we're going to make the most wise decision in the interests of Honduras,\" Micheletti said, according to the newspaper La Prensa.",
"Monday marked the three-month anniversary of Zelaya's ouster in a military-led coup on June 28.",
"In the wake of Micheletti's decree, Jose Miguel Insulza, secretary general of the OAS, said the Canal 36 TV station and Radio Globo were reported closed.",
"The owner of Canal 36, Esdras Amado Lopez, told CNN that 60 soldiers entered his station Monday morning to shut it down.",
"They removed all of the equipment, he said.",
"\"They say that we offended the dignity of the president of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti,\" Lopez said, adding that he sees his station not as pro-Zelaya, but \"pro-people.\"",
"Honduran soldiers were stationed in front of the shuttered TV and radio stations and would not allow anyone to enter.",
"The United Nations, the OAS and the European Union have condemned the coup and demanded that Zelaya be reinstated.",
"Micheletti has vowed that Zelaya will never return to power and has said the deposed president will be arrested if he comes out of the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the nation's capital.",
"Micheletti has accused Zelaya of using the embassy to instigate an insurrection and this weekend gave the Brazilian embassy 10 days to decide the ousted president's status.",
"Brazil rejected the Honduran ultimatum.",
"On Monday night, Zelaya addressed the United Nations General Assembly via a mobile phone that his foreign minister held up at the podium.",
"A \"serious crime is taking place when the voice of the people is silenced and when the people who are being repressed are likewise silenced,\" Zelaya said.",
"CNN's John Zarrella, Kim Segal and journalist Elvin Sandoval contributed to this report."
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"Roberto Micheletti said he would repeal decree but not be immediately .",
"Decree clamps down on public gatherings, lets government close news media .",
"Jose Manuel Zelaya was ousted as president of Honduras three months ago .",
"Zelaya has returned to Tegucigalpa and is holed up in Brazilian Embassy ."
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"SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (CNN) -- You've got your spot on a lounge chair angled into the hot Caribbean sun, with tall, slender palm trees jutting out over your head.",
"As you gaze at the calm turquoise waters and sip that refreshing rum drink, you may ask yourself, \"What more could I possibly want?\"",
"Visitors can climb the tower at Fortaleza Ozama for a view over the rooftops and out to sea.",
"For many travelers to the Dominican Republic, that chair -- usually secluded inside a mega all-inclusive resort complex -- is the sole destination.",
"And don't get me wrong, it's a great one.",
"The Dominican Republic's stretches of sand are some of the best on the planet.",
"But if you never leave the high walls of your tourist compound, you're missing out on a gem of a capital city.",
"Santo Domingo is the New World's first city, with 16th-century buildings, quaint colonial streets, romantic ruins and a lively atmosphere.",
"All you need is a full day to experience the city's architecture, culture and food.",
"Plus, it's only a $9 coach bus ride from Punta Cana.",
"So when you begin to tire of the antics of the \"animation team\" at the resort, and the color of your skin starts to resemble the papaya or watermelon you're eating, consider a short trip to Santo Domingo.",
"Founded soon after Christopher Columbus set foot in the New World, and run by his son Diego, the city became the colonial capital of the Americas and launch pad for further Spanish expeditions.",
"Despite several raids by pirates, the oldest section of town remains largely intact.",
"Known as the Zona Colonial, it contains many European \"firsts\" in the Western Hemisphere including the first street, cathedral, hospital and university.",
"How to see it all in a day . Start at the heart of the zone, Parque Colón, a square that borders the cathedral and is always full of life.",
"You can sit and watch children chase pigeons as you gaze up at the simple beauty of the oldest cathedral in the Americas.",
"Next, head over to the oldest fortress in the New World, Fortaleza Ozama, built in the early 1500s.",
"There you can climb the tower for a view over the rooftops and out to sea.",
"Back on street level, walk up a couple blocks to the expansive Plaza España, site of two museums and a hangout for locals, especially in the evening, when kids crisscross the square on scooters or fly kites, and couples sit quietly together.",
"The Museo de las Casas Reales and the Alcázar de Colón -- Diego Columbus' palace -- show you how the wealthy Spanish lived when they came to the early colonies and provide some history of the island's colonization -- all for a buck or two.",
"Next, head over to a pair of impressive ruins.",
"Gaze up at the towering walls and arches of the Americas' first hospital, Hospital de San Nicolás de Bari.",
"Then, just up a picturesque bend in the road lined with colorful houses, you'll find the large ruins of Monasterio de San Francisco.",
"Pirate attacks and earthquakes brought down the monastery.",
"The hospital was merely abandoned in the 18th century, and later dismantled for safety.",
"Now let yourself wander a bit through the streets, checking out the colorful surprises around every colonial corner.",
"You'll discover the varied architecture of people's homes, and get a view into Dominican city life.",
"In just a few blocks, I ran across a pickup game of baseball, the national sport and passion, in the middle of the street, with adults using just a broom handle and roll of tape; several \"kiddie\" pools in the streets, where both children and adults were cooling off in the afternoon heat; and a handful of corner parks alive with activity.",
"After exploring, your final destination is the zone's main drag, Calle El Conde.",
"This pedestrian-only street is the place to shop.",
"You'll find street sellers hawking colorful artwork; music stores to pick up that merengue and bachata music you've heard blaring out of everyone's stereos; and jewelry shops featuring native amber and the sky-blue stone larimar found only in the Dominican Republic.",
"By now, you've certainly worked up an appetite walking in the hot sun.",
"Parque Colón and Plaza España each have a row of chic sidewalk cafés, although they're a bit pricey and touristy.",
"Consider wandering a bit through some side streets to find a more local establishment, where you can feast on typical cuisine such as la bandera dominicana (a red beans and rice dish), several stews, fried plantains or yucca and delicious tropical fruits.",
"And if you still feel like dancing the night away, hop in a taxi to the Malecón, Santo Domingo's seafront boulevard, where the large hotels have popular dance clubs pumping merengue until the wee hours of the morning.",
"The bus ride . Getting to the capital city from the beach areas is cheap and relatively easy.",
"Expreso Bávaro runs from the Punta Cana area for $9 in an air-conditioned and comfy coach bus.",
"On your four-hour ride, you'll get a glimpse of some smaller Dominican towns, a towering modern cathedral, distant mountains and vast sugarcane fields.",
"Metro and Caribe Tours provide similar services from the beaches on the north coast around Puerto Plata.",
"The buses to/from Punta Cana don't run long into the evening (they leave each side at 7 a.m., 10 a.m., 2 p.m., and 4 p.m.), so you'll want to make this an overnight trip.",
"The Zona Colonial has several boutique hotels that are quaint, clean and reasonably priced.",
"You could even arrange to fly out of Santo Domingo's Las Americas airport, rather than Punta Cana."
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"Explore 16th-century buildings, colonial streets, romantic ruins and Dominican city life .",
"Cheap, comfortable buses connect to the city from beach areas ."
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"(CNN) -- On the last episode of reality ... \"Guiding Light,\" a mainstay of CBS' daytime schedule for decades, airs its final episode Friday.",
"Jon left Kate and his eight children and took up with the party girl Hailey.",
"Audrina got a restraining order against an alleged stalker.",
"NeNe got into an argument with Kim during a photo shoot.",
"And Rachel was attacked -- yet again -- by one of the city tabloids.",
"With plot points like this, who needs soap operas?",
"Certainly not most of America.",
"In the past decade, the audience for soap operas has dwindled, as has the number of what broadcasters call \"daytime dramas.\"",
"Younger viewers, in particular, have gravitated toward reality shows, which feature the melodrama and outsized characters of soaps; it's perhaps no coincidence that the co-creator of MTV's \"The Real World\" and several other reality shows, Mary-Ellis Bunim, started as a soap writer and producer.",
"The latest soap victim, CBS' \"Guiding Light\" -- a show that began on NBC Radio in 1937 -- went out Friday after 72 years on the air.",
"Watch how \"Guiding Light\" became an institution » .",
"On the final episode, long-entwined characters Reva Shayne and Josh Lewis decided to \"go on an adventure\" together, in Lewis' words.",
"Other characters also received their moments.",
"Fans have lamented the passing of the show, which has followed the Springfield clans of the Bauers, Spauldings, Coopers and Lewises for decades.",
"\"I've been watching 'Guiding Light' for the past 20 years,\" says Ashley Dos Santos, an account executive and pop culture expert with the Washington-based public relations firm Crosby-Volmer.",
"\"I think it's really, really sad.\"",
"Gallery: Stars who started on soaps » .",
"But, as a (well) realist, she adds, \"not surprising.\"",
"She knows the trends, and the trend for soap operas is going in the wrong direction.",
"Read a short history of soap operas .",
"\"It's very difficult to see how it could have survived,\" she says, noting that even she's ceased to follow \"GL\" in the past few years.",
"With the multichannel universe, particularly the alternatives of talk shows, judge shows and reality shows, \"I feel that a lot people, if they have to make a choice, they'd rather see 'Ellen.'",
"\" Michael Sands, a Southern California-based media consultant, is blunter.",
"\"Soaps are passe ... old-fashioned,\" he says.",
"\"They're boring and stale.",
"The public thrives on real-life drama.",
"I'm surprised soaps lasted this long.\"",
"Not so long ago, such a dismissal would have been unfathomable.",
"In the three-network arrangement that dominated for decades, soaps ruled daytime -- there were 19 in 1969-70 -- and even spawned prime-time variations, such as \"Peyton Place\" and \"Dallas.\"",
"\"The 1960s and '70s were an unmatched era for soaps, with women at home and just three or four [network] choices,\" says Sam Ford, an analyst with the communications firm Peppercom.",
"He has a book on the genre due out next year.",
"Soaps developed a formula: slow-moving, multiple plotlines; multigenerational casts, gathered in seaside towns or local hospitals.",
"Some even broke ground, airing taboo subjects -- abortions, homosexuality, marital rape -- before prime-time shows.",
"But events have conspired to kill off daytime dramas.",
"With more women in the workplace, there are fewer at home to watch the soaps.",
"The genre was slow to adjust to new technologies; even now, with the SoapNet cable channel and Internet streaming, effective promotion is lacking, says Dos Santos, who observes that soaps fly under the radar compared to reality shows.",
"\"The networks aren't trying hard enough to make [soaps] relevant,\" she says.",
"There's also the loss of family watching, a handoff from mother to daughter to granddaughter, that used to assure a continuity of viewers.",
"Dos Santos watched with her mother; Ford's mother and grandmother were fans.",
"But the fall-off in soaps tends to boil down to two limited resources: time and money.",
"\"We don't have the time to invest in soaps as they exist now,\" says Mimi Torchin, a TV columnist and the founding editor of Soap Opera Weekly.",
"\"Even with alternatives to TV viewing ... it's still five hours a week.",
"In the old days, you could miss two or three days and it was easy to catch up.",
"They don't do that anymore.\" Moreover, a soap opera is a big investment, like any scripted show.",
"Bob Boden, now the vice president of programming for the Fox Reality Channel, was at CBS' daytime division in the '80s and '90s.",
"\"The decline of the soap opera as is much a factor of the business model as it is of the creative,\" he says.",
"\"It was designed to be 52 weeks a year of original product, no repeats.",
"In today's business model for network television, that's not an efficient model anymore.\"",
"To begin a soap, a producer has to put together performers, a writing staff, a bible of characters and plots -- and has to plan things out for months or years, as opposed to a handful of weeks.",
"\"That's not really the mentality of network programming anymore,\" Boden says.",
"\"I think a lot of it is about quick fixes, and about maintaining an ever-shrinking audience, and giving them something unique, and attracting a younger demo[graphic].\"",
"Increasingly, the \"quick fix\" -- particularly for cable channels looking to hook viewers -- comes in the form of reality programming.",
"There are a number of similarities in the forms: melodrama, over-the-top characters, extreme situations.",
"But reality shows can have a limited run -- soaps are open-ended by design -- and offer a voyeuristic thrill soaps can't provide, creating new celebrities in the process, something the news media has seized upon eagerly.",
"\"People like to emulate people on TV,\" says Sands, who has advised some reality stars.",
"And, he adds, \"people get to feel superior\" to misbehaving reality show stars.",
"Torchin, however, can't stand reality shows.",
"\"They're voyeurism of the lowest order,\" she says.",
"Soaps, she believes, offer some of the art that writing and acting can provide: \"They have adventure and heart,\" she says, singling out \"GL's\" \"compelling characters.\"",
"\"They're more real than what reality shows can do.\"",
"She's aware that soaps have been criticized for far-out plot devices, such as evil twins, long-lost children and bizarre coincidences.",
"On \"Guiding Light,\" a character drove her car off a bridge; a few years later, she turned up alive, little worse for the wear.",
"\"Some of those outlandish things hurt the genre,\" she says, noting that bringing back characters was a way to placate upset audience members, who were known to fire off angry letters to networks and sponsors.",
"\"I always felt that convention [of restoring \"dead\" characters] always hurt soaps, because you were never invested in an event that should have been of great poignancy.\"",
"Soaps aren't dead, of course.",
"Even with \"GL's\" demise, there are still seven soaps on the air, each with passionate fans.",
"Also, the elements of the genre are plainly visible in prime-time dramas such as \"Grey's Anatomy\" and \"Desperate Housewives.\"",
"\"Everything is a soap now,\" says Torchin.",
"\"The secret of a show that works is that you're involved with the characters, you're in their lives.",
"Everything else is just diversion.\"",
"Dos Santos believes that shrewder marketing -- helped by new media -- can help the genre make a comeback.",
"And, indeed, Torchin observes that a \"GL\" star, Crystal Chappell, is launching a Web soap, \"Venice,\" in November.",
"The Internet program is an outgrowth of the popularity of a \"GL\" storyline featuring Chappell's character in a lesbian relationship -- a relationship that many fans felt was handled poorly by the broadcasters.",
"Watch Chappell go over her plans » .",
"\"I think the ratings will be better than cable,\" says Torchin.",
"Is she correct? Will soaps live to rise again?",
"Will reality shows conquer daytime and nighttime?",
"Tune in tomorrow."
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"Some observers hopeful soaps will cross to the Web and have success ."
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"(CNN) -- Back in his native South Korea, the Korean Foreign Ministry nicknamed him \"Ban-chusa,\" meaning \"the Bureaucrat\" or \"the administrative clerk.\"",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has focused on global warming policy by world governments.",
"While Ban Ki-moon was known for his attention to detail and administrative skill, he was also seen by some as lacking in charisma and subservient to his superiors, while the Korean press called him \"the slippery eel\" for his ability to dodge questions.",
"But on October 13, 2006, South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon was elected to be the eighth Secretary-General by the United Nations General Assembly.",
"Following up on a campaign aiming to bring out his charismatic side, Ban surprised the audience of a UN Correspondents' dinner that December by singing \"Ban Ki-moon is coming to town\" on the melody of \"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.\"",
"Ban was born on 13 June 1944.",
"He received a bachelor's degree in international relations from Seoul National University in 1970, and a master's degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1985.",
"He and his wife, Yoo (Ban) Soon-taek, whom he met in high school in 1962, have one son and two daughters.",
"In addition to Korean, Ban speaks fluent English and is studying French.",
"Ban was the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea from January 2004 to November 2006.",
"His tenure included postings in New Delhi, Washington D.C. and Vienna, while he was responsible for a variety of portfolios such as Foreign Policy Advisor to the President, Chief National Security Adviser to the President, Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and Director-General of American Affairs.",
"Throughout this service, his guiding vision was that of a peaceful Korean peninsula, playing an expanding role for peace and prosperity in the region and the wider world.",
"Ban had long been actively involved in issues relating to inter-Korean relations.",
"In 1992, as Special Advisor to the Foreign Minister, he served as Vice Chair of the South-North Joint Nuclear Control Commission following the adoption of the historic Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.",
"In September 2005, as Foreign Minister, he played a leading role in bringing about another landmark agreement aimed at promoting peace and stability on the Korean peninsula with the adoption at the Six Party Talks of the Joint Statement on resolving the North Korean nuclear issue.",
"In January 2007 Ban succeeded Kofi Annan and has since pushed the Sudanese government to allow peacekeeping troops in Darfur and focused on global warming policy by world governments."
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"Ban has pushed Sudan on peacekeepers in Darfur and focused on climate change .",
"Ban was Ban was South Korea's Foreign Minister from Jan. 2004 to Nov. 2006 .",
"He has long been actively involved in issues relating to inter-Korean relations ."
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"Melissa Harris-Lacewell is associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University.",
"She is the author of the award-winning book, \"Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought\" and writes a daily blog titled The Kitchen Table.",
"Melissa Harris-Lacewell says Eric Holder's speech fell short of calling for real action against racism.",
"PRINCETON, New Jersey (CNN) -- On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder marked Black History Month with an address at the Department of Justice.",
"Holder clearly and courageously acknowledged the history of American racism.",
"He forthrightly argued that, \"to get to the heart of this country, one must examine its racial soul.\"",
"Because public officials so rarely discuss race, Holder's was an unusually bold statement.",
"But ultimately, Eric Holder's discussion of race in America was a failure.",
"It failed because Holder spoke more like a grade school principal than like the attorney general of the United States.",
"He framed our nation's continuing racial work as a struggle to feel comfortable, be tolerant, and have \"frank conversations about racial matters.\"",
"I appreciate the sentiment, but I would prefer Holder use the Department of Justice to sue those who illegally discriminate against racial minorities rather than holding encounter sessions in the lunchroom.",
"February's celebration of black history is important because it reminds us that America's bitter racial legacy is not about name calling and hurt feelings; it is about structures of inequality codified in law and supported by government action.",
"Black men and women risked their lives to gain the right to vote, to live where they chose, to educate their children in the best public schools, and to end segregation in transportation and public places.",
"Black political history is the story of a battle against structures.",
"Unfortunately, too many of those structures still exist.",
"As attorney general, Eric Holder is charged, in part, with eliminating those violations of law that still create systematic racial inequality.",
"In Holder's optimistic portrayal of modern America, we are a nation fundamentally altered by Brown v. Board of Education; a country that has \"done a pretty good job melding the races in the workplace;\" and a nation whose biggest racial obstacle is making our weekend socializing as congenial as our workweek happy hours.",
"Maybe Holder doesn't realize that in many cities and towns the public schools are more segregated today than they were 40 years ago.",
"A recent report from the Chicago Urban League found that African-American children in the city are almost exclusively educated in schools that are more than 85 percent black.",
"These vastly predominantly black schools have fewer resources, fewer extracurricular activities and fewer experienced teachers than their white counterparts.",
"Children from these schools are more likely to drop out or end up incarcerated than to enroll in college.",
"Segregation is no longer the law of the land, but America's children continue to be educated in separate and unequal schools.",
"We can't talk our way out of unequal schools.",
"Holder's perspective that black and white workers get along easily in the workplace reflects a shocking disregard for contemporary employment realities.",
"African-Americans continue to suffer from extraordinary employment discrimination at every stage of hiring and promotion and in every sector of the job market.",
"For example, my Princeton University colleague, sociologist Devah Pager, has demonstrated that white men with criminal records are more likely to be considered for a job than black men with no criminal past.",
"I am deeply concerned that the leader of the Department of Justice seems to believe that our workplaces need dialogue, discourse, and understanding rather than fair hiring practices, equal pay, and transparent promotion procedures.",
"We can't talk our way out of employers who refuse to interview a job candidate if the name on the résumé \"sounds black.\"",
"Holder discussed weekend segregation as if it is just a matter of personal recreational choice: White folks go off to NASCAR and black people prefer to watch basketball.",
"But the reason Americans do not share racial vocabulary or opportunities for interracial dialogue is because of deeply entrenched racial residential segregation.",
"We don't spend our weekends together because we don't live in the same neighborhoods.",
"Housing segregation is not just a matter of personal choice.",
"Some real estate agents steer black families away from predominantly white neighborhoods.",
"Some property owners refuse to rent to black families.",
"Both of these acts are illegal.",
"In fact, the National Fair Housing Alliance documents hundred of thousands of acts of housing discrimination each year and has repeatedly criticized the Department of Justice for failing to adequately pursue and prosecute the vast majority of these cases.",
"We can't talk our way out of residential segregation.",
"As a teacher, I am deeply committed to interracial dialogue.",
"I try to use my classroom as a site of conversation, deliberation, and debate about race.",
"I do this because, as a teacher, dialogue is the most powerful weapon I have in the fight to build a better America.",
"Eric Holder has something more.",
"He has the law. I don't want my attorney general to scold me about having conversations; I want him to tell me the lawsuits he plans to file against those who continue to practice educational, employment, and housing discrimination.",
"I appreciate Attorney General Holder for taking up a conversation on race, but it is not enough.",
"The time for talking may come, but today is a day for action.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Melissa Harris-Lacewell."
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"(CNN) -- Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic intends to skip the start of his war crimes trial because he says he has had too little time to prepare, a spokeswoman for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said Thursday.",
"Radovan Karadzic wrote to the court to say he would not attend the trial.",
"The trial is still expected to begin on Monday despite Karadzic's intended absence, which he announced in a letter to the court, the spokeswoman said.",
"\"The tribunal judges control court proceedings.",
"They are the only relevant body that can make a decision about the readiness of the case for trial,\" she said.",
"Karadzic, who is defending himself, faces genocide charges and nine other counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Croats and other non-Serbian civilians during the brutal and bloody dissolution of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.",
"The conflict introduced the phrase \"ethnic cleansing\" into the lexicon describing war crimes, as different factions in multi-ethnic Yugoslavia sought to kill or drive out other groups.",
"Karadzic was arrested last year after more than a decade on the run and was found to have been living in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, and practicing alternative medicine in disguise.",
"In a letter dated Wednesday and made public Thursday, Karadzic complains that he has not been given the relevant case material on time -- and he says the volume of material would have been too much to go through even if he had received it promptly.",
"\"I ask Your Excellencies -- why and how is it possible that the prosecution is allowed to literally bury me under a million of pages, only to start disclosing relevant material many months after my arrest?\"",
"he writes. \"Why and how is it possible that the prosecution is allowed to file its final indictment against me on the eve of the planned trial date?\"",
"Karadzic says he should not be penalized for representing himself.",
"\"No lawyer in this world could prepare defense within this period of time,\" he writes.",
"\"I hereby inform you that my defense is not ready for my trial that is supposed to begin as scheduled, on the 26th of October, and that therefore I shall not appear before you on that date.\"",
"He promised to continue his preparations in \"the most intensive way\" and inform the court when he is ready.",
"The genocide charges against him stem partly from the most notorious massacre of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, once a part of Yugoslavia.",
"More than 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed at Srebrenica when ethnic Serb troops overran a U.N. \"safe area\" in July 1995.",
"It was the worst European massacre since World War II.",
"Prosecutors at the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague accuse Karadzic of responsibility.",
"\"On 8 March 1995, Karadzic instructed Bosnian Serb forces under his command to create an unbearable situation of total insecurity with no hope of further survival for the inhabitants of Srebrenica, amongst other places,\" the tribunal said in a statement this month.",
"The Hague indictment also says Karadzic committed genocide when forces under his command killed non-Serbs during and after attacks in more than a dozen Bosnian municipalities in the early stages of the war.",
"Karadzic, who faces life in prison if he is convicted, denies the charges.",
"The court cannot impose the death penalty.",
"When he was arrested in July 2008, Karadzic had grown a large white beard and let his famous steel-gray hair grow long and turn white.",
"He had spent more than 13 years in hiding, during which he practiced alternative medicine at a Belgrade clinic.",
"Karadzic's arrest leaves his former military commander, Ratko Mladic, as the highest-ranking fugitive still being sought by the war crimes tribunal.",
"Prosecutor Alan Tieger told the court in July that the case against Karadzic would take approximately 490 hours.",
"That means prosecutors are likely to need more than a year to lay out their evidence, a court spokeswoman said.",
"The 1992-95 Bosnian war was the longest of the wars spawned by the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.",
"Backed by the government of then-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, Bosnian Serb forces seized control of more than half the country and launched a campaign against the Muslim and Croat populations.",
"Karadzic was removed from power in 1995, when the Dayton Accords that ended the Bosnian war barred anyone accused of war crimes from holding office.",
"Milosevic died in 2006 while on trial at The Hague."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Mexican and Colombian officials working with U.S. agents have seized about $41 million in cash hidden in shipping containers, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency announced Monday.",
"Colombian authorities seized $11.2 million in U.S. currency in Buenaventura, Colombia, on September 9.",
"The U.S. agency, commonly called ICE, says the seizures were made September 9-18.",
"It called them the largest seizure of cash ever found in shipping containers destined for Colombia and the largest for the agency since its inception.",
"According to ICE: .",
"• On September 9, Colombian customs inspectors and Colombian national police, acting on intelligence reports, seized $11.2 million in U.S. currency hidden in two shipping containers.",
"The containers were aboard a vessel that sailed from the Port of Manzanillo, Mexico, and was headed to Buenaventura, Colombia.",
"Colombian customs inspectors said it was the most cash ever seized by police at a port in the nation.",
"• On September 10, a second seizure of U.S. currency estimated at $11.2 million also was made at the Buenaventura port.",
"• On September 11, a shipment of $11 million was discovered hidden inside two shipping containers at the Port of Manzanillo.",
"• On September 14, ICE special agents, along with Colombian authorities, discovered three additional shipping containers in Buenaventura containing about $5 million in $100 and $50 bills.",
"These shipping containers also originated in Manzanillo.",
"• On September 18, authorities seized $2.15 million in $100 bills concealed inside two containers aboard a vessel that arrived in Manzanillo.",
"\"This seizure represents a bad day for organized crime,\" ICE Director John Morton said at a Monday news conference in Washington.",
"\"Forty-one million dollars is not a rounding error.",
"The loss of that kind of money hurts.\"",
"All of the money was concealed in sacks of fertilizer chemicals in containers transported on commercial ships, Morton said.",
"Watch investigators uncover cash » .",
"\"When it's packed in very large containers, it's extremely difficult to probe; it's extremely difficult to X-ray.",
"And so it was a very good means of concealing currency,\" he said.",
"The ports of Buenaventura and Manzanillo are key points along a well-known route used for smuggling cocaine northward to Mexico and then on to the United States, and for sending cash back into Colombia, where most of the cocaine originates, ICE said in a news release.",
"Morton called the smugglers \"very, very sophisticated,\" saying they were using the lawful shipping trade to send drug profits from the U.S. through Mexico to Colombia.",
"Morton said the money will be forfeited in accordance with the laws of the nations where it was seized, with Colombia keeping $28 million and Mexico getting $13 million.",
"\"None of these monies will be forfeited to the United States,\" he said.",
"While large, this month's cash seizure is not a record.",
"In March of 2007, officials in Mexico officials confiscated $207 million in cash in what was then called the largest drug-related cash seizure in history.",
"ICE is the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, investigating financial crime, trade fraud, narcotics smuggling and cash smuggling, the agency said.",
"ICE was established in 2003 after the Homeland Security Act of 2002.",
"CNN's Mike M. Ahlers and Elaine Quijano contributed to this report."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- As the man in the Dodgers jersey walked quickly around the perimeter of the infield, fans poured down from the bleachers begging for autographs.",
"Pitbull says he learns from setbacks: \"Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me.\"",
"No, it wasn't home run king Manny Ramirez.",
"It was Armando Christian Perez, the Cuban-American rapper better known as Pitbull.",
"In five years, he's gone from a mouthy Miami street hustler to a chart-topping hip-hop star whose infectious Caribbean beats have enticed crossover audiences to swing their hips and sing along -- even taking on some of the words in Spanish.",
"His fourth studio album, \"Rebelution,\" debuted in the Top 10 on the mainstream Billboard chart.",
"But Pitbull's growing profile means nada as he takes the mound to throw out the ceremonial first pitch of the game.",
"\"I'm the only Cuban who never picked up a baseball in his life,\" he said, preparing.",
"He awkwardly winds up and releases the pitch.",
"It falls short, bouncing on the ground before reaching the plate.",
"\"One more try!\" he signals. The second attempt is closer to the mark.",
"It's symbolic of Pit's career.",
"\"It's not how you start. It's how you finish it,\" he likes to say.",
"Watch how Pitbull leads his \"Rebelution\" » .",
"Tommy Lasorda, the legendary Dodgers manager, is waiting to bust his chops as he leaves the infield.",
"Later, we get the scoop on the conversation.",
"(By the way, the Dodgers won that game.)",
"CNN: Tommy Lasorda was out there giving you a little bit of grief.",
"Pitbull: Tommy Lasorda told me, \"It was the worst throw I've ever seen in my life!\"",
"I said, \"Well, I'll throw you in the studio.",
"You rap, I'll play baseball.\"",
"He goes, \"I'll rap a whole lot better than that throw!\"",
"(Laughs) CNN: How much do you deflect things with humor?",
"Pitbull: [Humor is] everything.",
"Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me.",
"In the music industry, any other artist would have looked at the situation I was in and thought, \"Oh man, this is not for me.\"",
"I looked at it more like [Darwin exploring] the Galápagos Islands.",
"You know -- survival of the fittest.",
"CNN: Were you a troublemaker growing up?",
"Pitbull: Not a troublemaker.",
"I'm sharp. Slick, if you want to call it.",
"What the street taught me how to do is how to hustle.",
"How to make something out of nothing.",
"CNN: In the music industry, street cred may help an artist.",
"Pitbull: Anybody who's made it out of the street -- they want to do this (places index finger over his lips).",
"Shh. CNN: Even though some of the struggles are similar, there doesn't seem to be a lot of crossover between African-American hip-hop artists and Latin-American hip-hop artists.",
"Pitbull: You can't get a Diddy or Jay-Z to speak to the Latins.",
"It's not gonna happen.",
"There's a force field where they said, \"OK, we're going to let you here -- but that's it.\"",
"Diddy got the closest.",
"Why? Because he had J. Lo. The only reason my grandmother knows Puff Daddy is because of J.",
"Lo. But he couldn't cross that barrier.",
"So as far as myself -- I guess I'm their role model.",
"CNN: How much do you want to cross over?",
"Pitbull: I have respect for Jay-Z and Diddy for what they did in the hip-hop game.",
"But I want to be Celia Cruz.",
"I want to be Gloria Estefan [both were born in Cuba].",
"I want to enterprise -- open clubs and restaurants.",
"They've done it also -- but those are who I look up to.",
"CNN: Your parents were both born in Cuba.",
"Pitbull: They didn't want to leave Cuba!",
"They would have stayed in Cuba.",
"They didn't want to get out of there. There were forced out of that country.",
"CNN: How did they come to Miami?",
"Pitbull: My grandmother fought in the [Cuban] revolutionary war actually with Castro, because everybody thought that Batista was corrupt.",
"I'm not saying that he wasn't, but it's almost like the lesser of two evils.",
"[When she became disillusioned with the Castro government], my mother and my aunt got sent off in an operation called Peter Pan without their parents.",
"She didn't see her mother for seven years.",
"As far as my father -- he came over also.",
"He didn't come in the Peter Pan, but they fled the country.",
"CNN: Would you ever go to Cuba and play a concert there?",
"Pitbull: No way.",
"I'd never go to Cuba and play a concert.",
"[I'd consider playing there] as soon as I know that it's confirmed that Castro's out of there.",
"I mean, if you ask me, I think Castro's been dead for years.",
"He handed power to Raúl, and he slips pictures here and there.",
"He keeps giving these pictures to the media with the same shirt on -- same jacket, same everything.",
"CNN: How do you feel about other artists of your generation who feel compelled to go and perform in Cuba as kind of an olive branch?",
"Pitbull: Juanes just did it.",
"Papa, you can't change Cuba.",
"History will tell you that you can't change Cuba.",
"I respect him as an artist -- he's like U2, the Bono of Spanish.",
"I don't respect his decision.",
"Maybe he doesn't really understand it at the end of the day because he's not Cuban.",
"[Juanes is Colombian.] ...",
"But to each his own. There's too much suffering, too much pain from people who left that island, that have come over here and tried to change their life.",
"CNN: Even though you were born in America, how much are you influenced by your Cuban roots?",
"Pitbull: My mother, she's like, \"Look, you're American, son.",
"You were born here in the States.\"",
"My father? My father said, \"You're Cuban-American.\"",
"My mother would call me Chris, because my middle name's Christian.",
"My father would say, \"No, your name's Armando.\"",
"But in my blood, what it tells me is, \"You're Cuban-American.\"",
"The music is what makes you, the food is what makes you, the way you've been taught mentally."
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"Hip-hop artist has Cuban heritage, has balanced that with American upbringing .",
"He says he's not fazed by failure: negatives can lead to positives, he says ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The rules governing air traffic over New York's Hudson River need to be rewritten to prevent another mishap like this month's fatal collision of a small plane and a sightseeing helicopter, federal safety investigators said Thursday.",
"The wreckage of a plane that collided with a helicopter is lifted this month from the Hudson River.",
"The recommendation comes three weeks after nine people were killed when the two aircraft collided in the congested airspace bordering Manhattan.",
"The recommendation is noteworthy both because of its sweeping nature and its timing.",
"Ordinarily, the National Transportation Safety Board makes recommendations at the conclusion of its investigation, which typically take a year.",
"But in a letter to FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said that based on preliminary findings, the safety board is concerned about the \"safety of flight\" over the Hudson River.",
"She outlined a series of changes, among them requiring that helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft fly at different altitudes over the river.",
"She made specific reference to \"the performance of air traffic controllers\" at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, who were monitoring the plane's flight during the August 8 collision.",
"\"The NTSB is concerned with the complacency and inattention to duty evidenced by the actions of the [Teterboro] controller and the supervisor during the events surrounding this accident,\" Hersman wrote.",
"Hersman said the pilot of the aircraft requested permission to climb to 3,500 feet minutes before the crash.",
"But because there was no coordination between controllers at Teterboro and Newark airports, controllers did not grant the request, increasing the risk of a collision in Hudson River low-altitude airspace known as the \"exclusionary zone,\" she said.",
"Pilots in the exclusionary zone are not separated by air traffic controllers, and instead use visual \"see and avoid\" tactics.",
"The Teterboro controller was making a personal phone call and \"was not fully engaged in his duties\" in the minutes leading up to the accident, Hersman said.",
"His supervisor, meanwhile, had left the building on a personal errand without informing the controller.",
"The air traffic controller's inappropriate phone call \"likely would not have been permitted\" if the supervisor had been in the tower, Hersman said.",
"The FAA on Thursday did not comment on the NTSB recommendation, but said a task force studying flight operations above the Hudson River will soon submit its findings.",
"And the air traffic controllers union defended its member, saying he had handed off the plane's pilot to another radar tower before the helicopter appeared on his radar scope.",
"\"The NTSB again has rushed to wrongly blame the air traffic controller in this incident,\" said Patrick Forrey, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.",
"\"The bottom line here is that the controller is not responsible for contributing to this tragic accident.",
"... We cannot provide traffic advisories to aircraft we are not talking to, cannot see on radar or are not a factor at all.\"",
"Forrey said the NTSB \"inexplicably\" made its recommendations before the FAA task force had finished its job.",
"\"The task force is due to release its report next week.",
"So why the rush?\" Forrey said.",
"In its letter, the NTSB asks the FAA to establish a special flight rules area, or SFRA, for the class B exclusion areas near New York City; require vertical separation between helicopters and airplanes in these SFRAs; require pilots to complete specific training on the SFRA requirements before flight within the area; and conduct a review of other airspace configurations where specific pilot training and familiarization would improve safety."
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"Nine people were killed when helicopter, small plane collided .",
"One proposal: Make helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft fly at different altitudes over river .",
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"(CNN) -- Going to the beach has become a lot like looking for hotel accommodations: If it has a one-star ranking, you know you're in for nothing but trouble.",
"A new report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council ranked the water quality of 200 U.S. coastal beaches using a five-star guide, and the results are far from a day at the beach.",
"Laguna Beach in Orange County, California, is one of the NRDC's five-star beaches for water quality.",
"\"Nationwide, 7 percent of beach water samples are so contaminated with human or animal waste that they're not conducive for swimming,\" said Nancy Stoner, co-director of the NRDC's water program and lead author for the report.",
"\"For the fourth year in a row, NRDC found that there were more than 20,000 beach closings last year because of human or animal waste in the water.\"",
"Pollutants found in beach water are frequently the result of storm water or sewage overflow, and it's not something to take lightly, especially if small children, pregnant women or the elderly are spending time in the surf.",
"Swimming in polluted water can lead to ear infections and stomach viruses, as well as more serious diseases like meningitis and hepatitis, Stoner said.",
"The Environmental Protection Agency sets a standard for beach water quality, and when water quality tests reveal that pollution has exceeded that standard, the beach is closed.",
"\"The problem,\" Stoner said, \"is that it does take 24 hours or longer to produce test results,\" meaning if the beach was contaminated on Thursday, you won't know about it until Friday.",
"And once those results are produced, there's no guarantee that the cause is identifiable.",
"While storm water and sewage are often the culprit for closures, for 62 percent of the 20,000 beach closures that occurred last year, the cause of the pollution was unknown.",
"But with precious few weeks of beach season left, now is not the time to avoid sand and surf like the plague.",
"Thankfully, not all beaches are polluted equally -- the NRDC hands out five stars to beaches that meet health standards more than 95 per cent of the time and quickly notify beach goers with signs and Internet alerts when there's a potential problem.",
"Standout states include Delaware, New Hampshire and Virginia, which boast having pristine, nearly pollution-free shores.",
"Virginians however should take note: Fairview Beach in King George County is certainly not one of those.",
"According to Stoner, this beach is considered to be one of the worst offenders, particularly because it consistently fails more than 25 percent of its water quality tests.",
"Hands down, one of the best beaches is Ocean City, Maryland, which does well year after year because of its clean water and strict water quality monitoring, two factors that earned the popular East Coast beach five stars.",
"In nearby Delaware, Dewey and Bethany beaches also earned a stamp of approval from the NRDC.",
"Newport Beach and Laguna Beach are two of California's five-star beaches, but stay away from Doheny Beach and Avalon Beach, which both failed more than 25 percent of their water quality tests in 2008.",
"If you're in the Great Lakes region and looking for quality beach time, strongly consider booking a trip to one of the coasts.",
"\"From 2005 to 2008, the Great Lakes consistently tested the dirtiest.",
"In 2008, 13 percent of beach water samples violated public health standards,\" Stoner said.",
"But no matter which beach you frequent, five-star or not, you should always take precautions by avoiding beaches with obvious sources of pollution, like nearby open pipes and trash.",
"Wait at least 24 hours after a heavy rain before hitting the waves again, allowing potential pollutants to dissipate.",
"To see how your closest beach stacks up, visit http://www.nrdc.org/."
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"Delaware, New Hampshire and Virginia have the cleanest beach water .",
"Ocean City, Maryland, consistently ranks as one of the best for water quality .",
"Fairview Beach in Virginia consistently ranks as one of the worst ."
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"DUBLIN, Ireland (CNN) -- Irish voters are going to the polls again Friday -- to vote on a treaty they rejected just over a year ago.",
"Prime Minister Brian Cowen gets out the 'vote yes' message in Tullamore.",
"But this time round, opinion polls indicate the \"yes\" campaign to adopt the Lisbon Treaty and its rules for governing an expanded European Union will be successful.",
"The EU has made assurances to Ireland that the Lisbon Treaty will not affect the country's abortion laws or its neutrality and that Ireland will keep a European Commissioner.",
"In the weeks leading up to the vote, Dublin was awash with posters for both sides of the emotional argument.",
"\"Yes\" posters reminded voters how much Ireland has benefited financially from being inside the European Union.",
"\"No\" placards questioned whether Ireland will lose its military neutrality, its anti-abortion laws and its minimum wage despite the EU assurances.",
"Just more than half -- 53 percent -- of Irish voters said \"No\" to the Lisbon Treaty in June 2008, throwing the future structure of the European Union into doubt as all member states have to ratify the treaty before it can be adopted.",
"Lisbon is the plan to modernize the EU's structure after it expanded to 27 members, with most of the new member states coming from Eastern Europe.",
"Ireland has just one percent of the EU's population but its \"no\" vote effectively stopped adoption of the Lisbon Treaty across the continent.",
"So, the Dublin government is holding another referendum Friday in the hope of this time getting a \"yes\" vote.",
"No other EU citizens have been allowed to vote on the treaty as national parliaments have ratified the treaty.",
"And to date only Poland and the Czech Republic governments have held up the final passage of the treaty in their own countries.",
"But Ireland's constitution mandates citizens must be allowed to vote on any major changes to its own governmental structure.",
"A handful of Dublin taxi drivers told CNN they would vote no because they see no reason to give to Brussels the powers that Ireland fought hard to wrestle away from Britain.",
"\"No\" campaigner Brendan Young, from a group called People Before Profit, put it bluntly: \"People having had experience of benign British presence don't want to be going fighting Britain's wars, or anybody else's.\"",
"But the \"no\" campaign is a rag bag of groups that have little in common.",
"Young says he is pro-Europe but does not want Irish tax money to pay for Europe's military structure.",
"To illustrate the diverging political viewpoints in the \"no\" campaign, Young was not happy that the United Kingdom Independence Party was in Dublin and on his side.",
"UKIP is an anti-European Union, British party and it finds itself on the same side as Sinn Fein, the anti-British, nationalist party.",
"Conservative anti-abortion catholic groups also press the \"no\" case.",
"\"When I see the UK Independence Party join up with Sinn Fein and religious extremists, I must be on the right side,\" laughed Michael Wall, a \"yes\" campaigner.",
"He said he volunteered to hand out leaflets because he says last year the pro-Lisbon Treaty lobby took a \"yes\" for granted.",
"He says by talking about what is actually in the treaty -- a document most people last time round admitted they had not read -- he has changed minds.",
"\"I have met a lot of people on the campaign who voted no the last time.",
"Voted no out of anger, voted no because of the arrogance of politicians who put their faces on the posters when the issue wasn't about, say, local elections,\" Wall said.",
"\"A lot of people have changed their mind and I think they should be given that opportunity\" by getting to vote a second time.",
"But Ireland is going through one of the worst recessions of any developed nation since the 1930s.",
"There are no green shoots on the emerald island.",
"Property prices have collapsed, unemployment doubled in a year and for the first time in nearly 20 years, emigration is back.",
"The government is very unpopular and the business community worries this will influence voting.",
"\"The biggest concern is that it will be a \"no\" on the basis of people's anger about domestic policy issues rather than the treaty itself,\" says Patricia Callan, of the Small Firms Association.",
"Business is at the fore of the \"yes\" vote this time around.",
"At the U.S. tech giant Intel, Jim O'Hara, its General Manager of Ireland, said he had to persuade his boss this vote was critical.",
"\"I had to go and convince the Intel Corporation,\" he said.",
"\"And quite frankly Paul Otellini, when I spoke to him, the CEO, wasn't that particularly interested in the issues.",
"I convinced him that it was good for Ireland and good for our business in Ireland.\"",
"Results are not expected until Saturday."
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"Voters rejected treaty in 2008 but have new EU assurances this time .",
"A 'no' vote would delay, and possibly kill, implementation of the treaty EU-wide .",
"Opinion polls indicate the 'yes' campaign will succeed this time ."
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"(Entertainment Weekly) -- When Max Records auditioned for the \"Where the Wild Things Are\" (out Friday) role of Max, the precocious boy in a dirty white wolf suit who sails to an island full of fearsome horned monsters and becomes their even more fearsome king, he arrived with one advantage -- and it wasn't his first name.",
"Max Records plays Max in the film adaptation of the children's book \"Where the Wild Things Are.\"",
"\"I had memorized all the lines,\" the now-12-year-old acting novice from Portland, Oregon, told EW earlier this year.",
"\"I was totally obsessed with the book, like from the age of half a year old to, like, 4.",
"So I was really familiar with it.\"",
"(Ah, the perspective of youth.)",
"Of course, Maurice Sendak's 1963 kid-lit masterpiece is a picture book containing just 10 sentences.",
"But Records clearly has a deep feel for the material.",
"\"It's not moralistic or patronizing.",
"It's not 'Johnny did something bad and had to apologize.'",
"It's about being a kid. It's just real.\" Spike Jonze, the auteur behind \"Adaptation\" and \"Being John Malkovich,\" told EW he initially balked when offered the project more than a decade ago -- by no less than Sendak himself.",
"\"I felt it was just so perfect in the form in which it already existed,\" said Jonze.",
"\"I didn't know what more you'd add to flesh it into a movie, or even why you would want to add to it.\"",
"He's reluctant to share too many details, but says his live-action adaptation elaborates on the world of the wild things as well as Max's relationship with his mom (Catherine Keener) and her boyfriend (Mark Ruffalo).",
"Jonze began shooting in 2006, but by 2008 the movie was not yet finished and there were reports that Warner Bros. wanted the whole thing reshot.",
"Not true, says Jonze and producer Vincent Landay, though both admit the production was a long, challenging process -- from finding a naturalistic way to depict the fantasy world (\"I wanted everything to feel like it had really happened, not fabricated with CGI,\" says Jonze) to filming in the remote wilderness of Australia to getting emotionally resonant performances from Records, the puppet monsters, and the voice cast (including James Gandolfini and Forest Whitaker).",
"Laughs Jonze, \"We made it really, really hard on ourselves.\"",
"Here are more EW Picks for the week of October 11: .",
"Movies . \"The Stepfather\" (out Friday).",
"The original 1987 \"Stepfather\" -- about a seemingly kind man who marries a vulnerable widow and then reveals himself to be a murderous psychopath -- spawned two sequels, launched the career of future \"Lost\" star Terry O'Quinn, and then pretty much disappeared.",
"Now, like a horror-movie baddie you were sure was dead, \"The Stepfather\" is back for more.",
"This remake stars \"Gossip Girl's\" Penn Badgley as a teen who returns from military school to find that a suspicious new guy (Dylan Walsh) has moved in with his divorced mom (Sela Ward).",
"\"Dylan looks so accessible and sincere and warm,\" says Ward.",
"\"I guess Ted Bundy did too.\"",
"Okay, now we're creeped out.",
"\"Law Abiding Citizen\" (out Friday).",
"Gerard Butler goes from family man to the meanest vigilante since Charles Bronson matching with Jamie Foxx in this action-thriller from director F. Gary Gray (\"The Italian Job\").",
"TV . \"Hell's Kitchen\" season finale (8 p.m., Tuesday, Fox).",
"What \"Hell's Kitchen\" lacks in substance, it makes up for in style, and its slickly edited season finale is a sizzling nail-biter.",
"Kitchen newbies will have no trouble following along as the three remaining chefs -- egotistical Kevin, coolheaded Ariel, and \"one-armed bandit\" Dave -- battle for Gordon Ramsay's foulmouthed approval.",
"\"The Newlywed Game\" (6 p.m., Tuesday, GSN).",
"George Takei and Brad Altman compete tonight, marking the first time a gay couple has ever been on the game show.",
"\"30 Rock\" (9:30 p.m., Thursday, NBC).",
"\"30 Rock\" is back?",
"We want to go to there. NBC execs and Jay Leno, however, might not be so eager to visit, as Tina Fey kicks off season 4 with a barbed broadside against network programmers: When Jack (Alec Baldwin) forces Liz (Fey) to add a mainstream-friendly cast member to broaden her show's audience, Tracy Morgan's Tracy sweats his appeal to the common man, while Jenna (Jane Krakowski) gives herself a heartland-pandering country makeover.",
"The satire on play-it-safe execs is wickedly droll.",
"Also make sure to stay till the end to see Fey and Baldwin give a bitchy, meta \"welcome\" to their lead-out, Leno, whom Fey already jabbed at the Emmys by thanking NBC for keeping \"30 Rock\" on even though it's \"more expensive than a talk show.\"",
"Music . \"Christmas In the Heart,\" Bob Dylan (out Tuesday).",
"What's that blowin' in the winter wind?",
"Sounds like holiday cheer.",
"Profits go to the hunger-relief charity Feeding America.",
"\"Crazy Love,\" Michael Bublé (out Tuesday).",
"Due, no doubt, to the success of his adult-contemporary smash \"Home,\" the neo-Rat Pack crooner makes a few too many soft-rock concessions on his new studio disc.",
"Covering the Eagles, as Bublé does with a hokey version of \"Heartache Tonight,\" seems way beneath a singer with his level of style.",
"Still, there's no denying the sexy-jerk swagger Bublé brings to \"Cry Me a River,\" which here sounds like a Bond-movie theme, or to \"Baby (You've Got What It Takes),\" a funky duet with Brooklyn soul sister Sharon Jones.",
"\"Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall & John Oates,\" Hall & Oates box set (out Tuesday).",
"Collecting the best of the blue-eyed soul smoothies, and making fans' dreams come true.",
"EW recently asked Daryl Hall to fill us in on his personal favorites; for the record: \"She's Gone,\" \"Sara Smile,\" \"Every Time You Go Away,\" \"You Make My Dreams,\" and \"One on One.\"",
"DVD . \"The Proposal\" (out Tuesday).",
"Yes, it's a rip-off of 1990's \"Green Card.\"",
"And sure, you can see every plot twist driving down Fifth Avenue.",
"So the fact that \"The Proposal\" winds up as breezy and entertaining as it does qualifies as some sort of Hollywood miracle.",
"Sandra Bullock plays an icy book editor about to get deported back to Canada unless she can find an American husband, stat.",
"Ryan Reynolds is her long-suffering assistant, who conveniently happens to be single.",
"Sham nuptials ensue.",
"As the groom's dirty-bird grandma, Betty White is a hoot -- and frankly, the ho-hum extras (director's commentary, lame outtakes) could've used more of her.",
"\"Drag Me to Hell\" (out Tuesday).",
"Welcome back, Sam Raimi!",
"The Spider-Man director returns to his delirious \"Evil Dead\" roots for \"Drag Me to Hell,\" a kick-ass ghost story about a bank officer (Alison Lohman) who denies a loan to the wrong gypsy woman.",
"There are curses, maggots and -- thanks to this unrated version -- lots more gore and goo.",
"Extras include a fantastic production diary.",
"Books . \"Nine Dragons,\" Michael Connelly (out Tuesday).",
"Michael Connelly writes fast-paced best-sellers that critics praise for their sharp characterizations and fluid storytelling.",
"The appearance of a third Connelly title in a year would be excellent news if \"Nine Dragons,\" his latest offering, didn't read like it had been scribbled during a red-eye from Los Angeles to Hong Kong, the two cities where the slapdash action unfolds.",
"\"Chronic City,\" Jonathan Lethem (out Tuesday).",
"Lethem's latest novel follows the blank, descriptively named former teen actor Chase Insteadman as he floats, increasingly disoriented and adrift, between two New York worlds: one glamorous and social, the other bohemian and intellectual.",
"Thick with paranoia, pot smoke and pop culture references (both real and made-up), \"Chronic City\" is a feverish portrait of the anxiety and isolation of modern Manhattan, full of dark humor and dazzling writing.",
"The book's zonked philosophizing about the nature of reality wears a little thin, but Lethem's claustrophobic vision of a world where everything is connected and nothing is as it seems proves both funny and frightening.",
"For pop culture picks for today, click here, plus see what's new this week in movies, music, TV and more.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Unusual music release: Bob Dylan's Christmas album ."
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"(CNN) -- One of the Internet's great promises is that it's the ultimate democratizer.",
"It's open to everyone and allows all people to communicate.",
"Facebook and Google have added new translation tools, but they take different approaches.",
"But, so far, there have been several hitches in that plan.",
"Not everyone has access to a computer and a broadband connection.",
"Some governments still censor the Internet.",
"And of course, we don't all speak the same language.",
"For the World Wide Web to be truly global, shouldn't Chinese speakers be able to chat online with people who only speak Spanish?",
"And why should an English speaker be barred from reading blogs written in Malagasy or Zulu?",
"Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. are two Web companies trying particularly hard to make this happen, and they've released a number of updates to their translation services in recent weeks.",
"The two online giants are going about the process in different ways.",
"Facebook aims to translate the Web using an army of volunteers and some hired professional translators.",
"Meanwhile, Google plans to let computers do most of the work.",
"Which method will ultimately prevail remains to be seen.",
"But for now, here's a look at the latest language features from both companies, and some background on how their translation services work.",
"(Feel free to add your own Internet translation tips -- and fun translation bloopers -- in the comments section at the bottom of the story): .",
"Facebook's human translation .",
"Many tech bloggers think Facebook's method of human translation seems promising.",
"After all, the American-born social networking site introduced non-English languages for the first time only in January 2008.",
"Now about 70 percent of Facebook's 300 million users are outside of the United States.",
"How it works: Real people are at the heart of Facebook translation plan.",
"They suggest translated phrases and vote on translations that others have submitted.",
"These crowd-sourced edits -- which work kind of like Wikipedia -- make Facebook's translation service smarter over time.",
"Go to Facebook's translation page to check it out or to participate.",
"Size: More than 65 languages function on Facebook now, according to Facebook's statistics.",
"At least another 30 languages are in the works, meaning Facebook needs help working out the kinks on those languages before they're put to use.",
"What's new? Facebook announced in a blog post on September 30 that the social network has made its crowd-sourced translation technology available to other sites on the Web.",
"The update allows sites to install a translation gadget on their sites through Facebook Connect, a service that lets Facebook users sign in on other Web pages.",
"Facebook also added some new languages, including Latin and \"Pirate,\" which translates the Facebooky word \"share\" as \"blabber t'yer mates!\"",
"Pros and cons: People are good at knowing idioms and slang, so Facebook tends to get these right, but there are limited numbers of multi-lingual volunteers who want to spend time helping Facebook translate things.",
"Also, Facebook's site is available in many languages, but its human translators don't touch wall posts, photo comments and other user-submitted items, which is a big con if you want to have friends who don't share a common language with you.",
"People who use Facebook Connect to translate their sites can choose which text they want users to help translate, according to Facebook spokeswoman Malorie Lucich.",
"Craig Ulliott, founder of whereivebeen.com, said he's excited about Facebook's translation application, but it would be too much to ask his site's users to translate user-submitted material.",
"Google's 'mechanical' translation .",
"Google uses mathematical equations to try to translate the Web's content.",
"This fits in line with the company's mission, which is to organize the world's information and make it useful and accessible to all.",
"How it works: Google's computers learn how to be translators by examining text that's already on the Web, and from professional Web translations posted online, said Franz Och, a principal scientist at Google.",
"The more text is out there, the more Google learns and the better its translations become.",
"The search-engine company currently translates documents, search results and full Web pages.",
"Size: Google claims to be the largest free language translation service online.",
"It covers 51 languages and more than 2,500 language pairs.",
"The site's interface has been translated, with the help of Google users, into 130 languages.",
"What's new? : Google recently created a widget that any Web developer can put on his or her page to offer up Google translations.",
"So, say you're a blogger who writes about music.",
"You might get some Brazilian readers if you offered up a button to translate your site into Portuguese.",
"Google also recently unveiled a translation service for Google Docs, which lets anyone upload a document to the Web and have it translated into a number of languages for free.",
"And there's a new Firefox add-on from Google to help people translate the Web more quickly.",
"Och said real-time translation of Internet chats is on the horizon, as are more languages and increased quality as Google's computers get smarter.",
"Pros and cons: Google's computerized approach means it can translate tons of content -- and fast.",
"But computers aren't quite up to speed with ever-evolving modern speech, so reports of translation errors are fairly common.",
"On the plus side, the service has been vastly improved in the last five years, Och said.",
"Also, Google lets people spot translation errors, suggest new wordings and translate its interface into languages Google's computers don't speak just yet."
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"Google claims to be the largest translation service online, with 51 languages .",
"Facebook announces a new service to let Internet users help translate sites ."
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"(CNN) -- What appears to be the outline of a child in a fetal position can be seen in a photograph of the trunk liner from the car driven by Casey Anthony, a Florida woman charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter, according to documents released in the case.",
"Caylee Anthony's skeletal remains were found near her family's home in December.",
"\"A very interesting photo exists of the trunk liner ... which highlights the very large stain,\" FBI Intelligence Analyst Karen Cowan writes to a colleague in a September 2008 e-mail contained among nearly 1,000 pages of documents released Tuesday.",
"\"If you look closely at this photo, there appears to be the outline or silhouette of a child in the fetal position.",
"You can make out what may be the back, bottom and legs most clearly.\"",
"An FBI supervisory photographic technologist replied in a later e-mail, \"We do not report conclusions about what may or may not have left any marks or impressions in cases like this -- it is too speculative.",
"Others can draw their own conclusions about that.\"",
"Watch Nancy Grace report on the documents » .",
"Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the 2008 death of her daughter, Caylee Anthony.",
"Prosecutors have said they are seeking the death penalty against her.",
"The child's skeletal remains were found in December in a wooded area about a half-mile from the home where Caylee and her mother lived with Casey Anthony's parents.",
"The cause of Caylee's death is homicide by undetermined means, authorities have said.",
"Police released documents this year showing they believed that Caylee was slain within days of the time she was last seen and that her body was in the trunk of her mother's car for \"a period of time.\"",
"An attorney for Casey Anthony's parents, Brad Conway, released more documents Wednesday, according to CNN affiliate WESH.",
"Among them were results of an FBI test that show fibers taken from duct tape found across Caylee's mouth do not match similar fibers from tape that was found on a gas can in the Anthonys' garage, the station reported.",
"\"It was easy in the beginning to say, 'Well, you know, the duct tape on the gas can and the duct tape at the crime scene, they're similar,' and people draw conclusions from that,\" Conway said.",
"\"Now we have an FBI report that says they're dissimilar, that they're not matched.",
"Now I think the view of the land is a little bit more accurate than it was six months ago.\"",
"In a May interview on CNN's \"Larry King Live,\" George and Cindy Anthony said they believe that their daughter is innocent.",
"Other documents released Tuesday by authorities show that: .",
"• Unidentified female DNA found on the duct tape on Caylee's mouth was matched to a female FBI agent involved in processing the site where the remains were found.",
"• A hair found in the trunk of the car is consistent with that being from a dead body, although authorities cannot say that for sure.",
"The hair is also consistent with that taken from Caylee's hairbrush and is different from Casey Anthony's hair.",
"An FBI agent says in an e-mail that it would be good to have more than one hair showing decomposition, if others are found, because there could be some \"random possibility of why one hair would look like that.\"",
"CNN's Natisha Lance contributed to this report."
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"FBI intelligence analyst speculated on photo in September 2008 e-mail .",
"\"We do not report conclusions ... in cases like this,\" supervisor replied .",
"Casey Anthony is charged with murder in death of 3-year-old daughter .",
"Police believe that Caylee's body was in mother's car trunk ."
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"YORK, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- The city of York is steeped in history.",
"The central Pennsylvania town was a stop on the Underground Railroad, and it was even, briefly, the nation's capital.",
"A week of race riots in York, Pennsylvania, left two dead 39 years ago.",
"Sen. Hillary Clinton's rally here Saturday, on the corner of Market and Beaver Streets, was down the block from a local landmark that touches on a less-heralded chapter in the city's history: the site of the monument that wasn't.",
"A few months ago, Mayor John Brenner and others pushed for a memorial at the corner of George and Market Streets, in the center of town, that would remind York residents of a deadly week of race riots 39 years ago.",
"The violence claimed two victims: police officer Henry Schaad, and minister's daughter Lillie Belle Allen, in murders that went unsolved for decades.",
"Schaad was white, Allen black.",
"But disputes over nearly every aspect of the project brought emotional responses that seemed to split along racial lines, including disagreements over inspiration, location and design.",
"The process stalled entirely a few weeks ago, as organizers went back to the drawing board.",
"This dispute is emblematic of the divide facing both Democratic candidates in next Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary.",
"\"The issue of race has touched this community, much more deeply than it has in other places.",
"It's not in the forefront, it's not usually discussed, but that issue has been very important to people here,\" said local NAACP chapter president Eric Kirkland, in a row house just off George St., the main drag that bisects the city's downtown.",
"\"Historically, this has been a very racially hostile area.",
"Race relations have always been strained here.",
"There's an old guard, and they have those old ideas,\" he said.",
"But the face of York itself has changed.",
"A decade ago, the town was 70 percent white.",
"City officials say black and Latino residents now make up roughly 45 percent of the population of 41,000.",
"Sen. Barack Obama is expected to win the overwhelmingly Democratic town, locals say, and Clinton has the edge in York County, an area dominated by white, working-class, conservative voters -- a group that has largely backed the New York senator this year.",
"But presidential loyalties here this primary season don't fall neatly along racial lines -- York's residents are split between the two candidates in patterns that defy traditional assumptions.",
"Neatly manicured lawns in some of the city's mostly white suburbs are dotted with Obama signs.",
"In the city, a restaurant window near Newberry Street -- where Allen was killed nearly four decades ago -- has a Clinton sign taped to the inside glass.",
"Seven years ago, the town's mayor and several other white men were arrested for Allen's 1969 murder.",
"In the shadow of a pending indictment, Mayor Charlie Robertson -- up for re-election -- won the Democratic primary in 2001.",
"He later stepped down.",
"Eventually, he was acquitted by a local jury.",
"Two others were convicted of murder and others took plea deals.",
"In the wake of the trials, the city became a magnet for outside hate groups, who clashed with anti-racist demonstrators in the center of town.",
"In the years since, the most public division in York has been the measure of progress.",
"Some, including Kirkland, say race is still a central issue here.",
"Others -- including many resentful of the city's national notoriety after Robertson's arrest -- say it is not.",
"But most residents fall somewhere in between, caught in a decades-long conversation that moves in fits and starts, spurred along by activists and city officials.",
"The national dialogue may have turned to race this campaign season -- but in York, where the discussion has been on the agenda for years, many say they're all talked out.",
"\"Race is here. It's an undercurrent,\" said York Mayor John Brenner, an Obama supporter.",
"\"I do think in places like York that actually had civil unrest in the 1960s, I think we have more work to do.",
"And we've done a lot of work in recent years.",
"Most of our voters, I think, have moved on.\"",
"Many of those voters -- among them Harley-Davidson factory workers, waitresses and home health aides -- echoed Brenner, saying their top concern had nothing to do with race, but with how they were going to pay their rent or afford health care.",
"\"A few years ago, all those satellite trucks were parked out front for the trial, all those outsiders came to town for a week, and they had the story in their heads before they even got here,\" said mechanic Mike Davis, just outside the city's Central Market.",
"\"You didn't see anyone from around here at the courthouse, except the families.",
"But that case is all most people know about York.",
"I know that's what they care about. But I have bigger things to worry about.",
"Like my next mortgage payment.\"",
"York has been slightly better off than many of Pennsylvania's hard-hit industrial areas, thanks to a more diverse local economy and an influx of new residents from neighboring Maryland that have made it one of the commonwealth's fastest-growing counties.",
"But residents say that thousands of jobs have disappeared -- and with them, a way of life.",
"\"I know we had that working-class tradition.",
"I'm a product of it,\" said Brenner, whose father was a union electrician.",
"\"I think York County has changed.",
"That whole blue-collar model of the past just doesn't work anymore.",
"It's still here, but it's not as strong as it used to be.\"",
"Kirkland, who opposed Brenner's favored proposal for a race riot memorial, agrees with the assessment.",
"\"There should be a memorial [to the victims of the riots].",
"But those are symbols. The reality is, the fundamental standard of living for people in this city has gotten worse, it's gotten much worse, since the trials.",
"There are not enough jobs for people who need jobs.",
"A monument isn't going to change that,\" he said.",
"Kirkland is skeptical the city has truly moved beyond its headline-grabbing past.",
"But he says the campaign, no matter who wins, has revealed a level of local progress on that front that has surprised many York residents.",
"\"You travel the county, you travel the city, you travel the townships and most of the people want the same thing,\" he said.",
"\"They want good jobs, a good education.",
"They want to make sure they have decent health care.",
"There's not a whole lot of difference there in terms of what people's needs are and wants are and desires are.",
"\"I think things may be changing here, in the process of changing.",
"It's like a lightbulb going on.\"",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"York, Pennsylvania, was the site of deadly race riots in 1969 .",
"Issue of race has touched the community, says local NAACP president .",
"Presidential loyalties in York don't fall neatly along racial lines .",
"Some skeptical the city has truly moved beyond its headline-grabbing past ."
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"(Entertainment Weekly) -- For the past three weeks in a row, Michael Jackson's \"Number Ones\" has been the biggest-selling album in the country.",
"For the first time in a month, the No.",
"1 album on the Billboard 200 is actually the No.",
"1 selling album.",
"Each time, it's been disqualified from Billboard's flagship Billboard 200 chart, along with all Jackson's other releases, due to its age.",
"That unusual run of asterisked Billboard 200 chart-toppers is now over.",
"Which artist put an end to Jackson's posthumous flummoxing of the Billboard rules, you ask?",
"The answer is Chris Daughtry, whose \"Leave This Town\" bows atop the chart with a very nice 269,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan.",
"That's actually a bit of a drop-off from the 304,000 that the first album from American Idol alum Chris Daughtry's band sold when it hit shelves in 2006, but it's more than anyone else could muster in this sales frame -- yes, even Michael.",
"1 selling album in the U.S., no tricks, no fooling.",
"(\"Number Ones,\" meanwhile, sold another 192,000 this week, landing it handily atop the Top Comprehensive Albums chart, which counts catalog albums alongside new ones.",
"So don't think that MJ's sales have dried up just yet.)",
"Other Billboard 200 debuts this week came from the Dead Weather's \"Horehound\" at No.",
"6, demonstrating that at least 51,000 devotees can be counted on to buy any side project Jack White dreams up.",
"R&B singer Joe, shows up at No.",
"7 after signing over 49,000 units of his \"Signature\"; Twista fast-talked his way into 45,000 sales and a No.",
"8 bow; and Christian power-pop teens pureNRG squeak in at No.",
"20 with 22,000 copies sold.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"Daughtry's \"Leave This Town\" tops chart with 269,000 copies sold .",
"In past weeks, Michael Jackson's \"Number Ones\" has been biggest-selling album .",
"Daughtry's first album sold 304,000 when it was released in 2006 .",
"Other top albums this week are from Dead Weather, Joe and Twista ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- An employee of a luxurious New York hotel has been arrested in connection with the slaying of a woman in one of the hotel's residential condominiums, police say.",
"The Jumeirah Essex House is a landmark on Central Park South in New York.",
"Derrick Praileau, 29, faces second-degree murder charges in connection with the death of Andree Bejjani, 44.",
"Police said Bejjani, who was originally from Lebanon, had moved to New York from Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and had been staying in a residential condominium at the Jumeirah Essex House since August.",
"Bejjani's nude body was found Saturday afternoon on the 10th floor of the hotel on Central Park South.",
"Her throat was slashed, authorities said.",
"Police have not revealed a suspected motive for the slaying.",
"\"This incident occurred in one of the private condominiums at The Essex House complex,\" the hotel said in a statement provided to CNN.",
"\"Our sincere condolences go out to the victim's family and we have offered our full support during this difficult time.\"",
"The statement continued: \"We understand that a hotel employee has been arrested pending charges in conjunction with this incident.",
"We continue to fully cooperate with the police throughout their investigation.\"",
"A message left with Praileau's defense attorney was not returned.",
"The hotel referred to Praileau only as an employee, but the New York Daily News said he was its housekeeping manager, citing Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.",
"The 44-story Essex House opened in 1931, a landmark Art Deco building.",
"It recently underwent a $90 million renovation.",
"The hotel has more than 500 luxury rooms and suites, along with several privately-owned residences.",
"One six-room unit is currently on the market for $8.25 million."
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"Lebanese native Andree Bejjani, 44, found dead in condo Saturday .",
"Derrick Praileau, 29, faces second-degree murder charges .",
"Police commissioner tells newspaper that Praileau was housekeeping manager .",
"Authorities have not revealed suspected motive ."
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"CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- A 17-year-old said Tuesday he is \"blessed\" that prosecutors dropped a murder charge against him in the beating death last month of a Chicago honors student.",
"Derrion Albert, 16, was beaten to death September 24.",
"His death was captured on video.",
"\"I'm just happy to be out,\" Eugene Bailey said, a day after authorities announced they were dismissing the charge against him in the September 24 death of Derrion Albert.",
"Police said Albert, a 16-year-old honors student, was an innocent bystander who ended up in the middle of a street fight between two factions of students from Christian Fenger Academy High School.",
"His beating death was captured on video, which shows him being hit by a person wielding a piece of a railroad tie.",
"Bailey said he considered Albert a \"good friend\" and approached police offering to help in their investigation.",
"When police told him he appeared on the video, he said, he told them, \"No, that can't be me.\"",
"Authorities searched his mother's home and found he did not own clothing and shoes like that seen on the participant thought to be him, he said.",
"\"I'm just blessed to have my freedom,\" he said, adding that what happened to Albert \"shouldn't happen to anyone.\"",
"Cook County prosecutors issued a statement Monday saying, \"While the charge against Bailey was brought in good faith based on witness accounts and identifications, additional information has developed during the ongoing investigation that warranted dismissal of the murder charge against Bailey at this time.\"",
"\"I was kind of overwhelmed,\" said Bailey's mother, Ava Greyer.",
"\"They wouldn't listen to me.\" She said she received an eviction notice after her son's arrest, but has since received a letter of apology.",
"She said she didn't think that was right, however: \"You are innocent until proven guilty.\"",
"\"I didn't raise no murderer,\" she said.",
"\"He didn't murder nobody.\"",
"\"We all talk about what is what out here and point fingers at one another. ...",
"These kids need something to do,\" Greyer said.",
"\"It's not gang-related.",
"They get out of school -- once they're in school it's cool.",
"Once they get out of school, the school says 'Forget 'em.'",
"That's wrong. Get them some after-schooling programs, some recreation centers 20 hours a week.\"",
"She said, \"That was sad, that was wrong what happened to Derrion.",
"I wish that upon no one.",
"But at the same time, we need to sweep around our doorsteps and see what we can do as a community to keep this from happening to somebody else's child.\"",
"Prosecutors said that when school let out on September 24, Albert was on his way to a bus stop when two groups of students converged on the street and began fighting.",
"Albert was approached by two members of one faction and struck in the head with a long piece of a wooden railroad tie, and then punched in the face, Tandra Simonton, spokeswoman for the Cook County prosecutors, has said.",
"After being knocked out for a brief period, Albert regained consciousness and tried to move from the fight, but was then attacked by members of the opposing faction, Simonton said.",
"He was pronounced dead at a hospital.",
"Albert's death remains under investigation, prosecutors said Monday.",
"Three other individuals still face murder charges: Silvanus Shannon, 19, Eric Carson, 16, and Eugene Riley, 18.",
"All three appeared in court for a preliminary hearing Monday, but their cases were continued to Friday.",
"Albert's death prompted President Obama, a former Chicago resident and Illinois senator, to send Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder to Chicago earlier this month.",
"The two met with the city's mayor and community leaders to discuss possible remedies for violent youth crime.",
"Albert's death was not an isolated incident: More than 30 youths suffered violent deaths in Chicago last year.",
"\"We shouldn't have to worry about walking down the streets,\" Bailey said.",
"\"We all live amongst each other.\""
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"Eugene Bailey, 17, freed of charge in Derrion Albert's beating death .",
"Bailey says he was Albert's friend, approached police with offer of help .",
"Police say Albert was bystander who was caught in middle of gang fight .",
"Beating was videotaped and police thought Bailey was in video ."
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"(CNN) -- A woman put on trial for wearing clothing deemed indecent by Sudanese authorities was jailed Monday for refusing to pay a court-ordered fine, her lawyer said.",
"Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein was facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers.",
"Lubna al-Hussein had faced 40 lashes for wearing pants deemed too tight and a blouse considered too sheer.",
"The threat of lashes was dropped when a court found her guilty but ordered instead that she pay a fine.",
"\"She is now in jail,\" her attorney Nabil Adib told CNN.",
"\"She refused to pay the fine as a matter of principal.\"",
"Al-Hussein will appeal her verdict in an effort to have the conservative Muslim government's decency law declared unconstitutional, Adib said by phone from Khartoum.",
"Watch what outfit brought the charges » .",
"\"We intend to file an appeal within the next three days, but we do not know how long it will take the court of appeals to decide on the case,\" Adib said.",
"\"We expect it will happen in the next two to three weeks.\"",
"He said al-Hussein could be in jail for a month unless her verdict is overturned.",
"Al-Hussein, who was arrested in July, pleaded not guilty during her one-day trial Monday, he said.",
"She was not allowed to call defense witnesses or present a defense case, he added.",
"She was sentenced to pay 500 Sudanese pounds ($209) or face a month in prison, starting immediately, the lawyer said.",
"\"She thinks that she did not have fair trial and a conviction was wrong so she did not want to pay the fine nor let anyone else pay on her behalf,\" Nadib said.",
"Al-Hussein, a journalist who worked in the media department of the United Nations mission in Sudan, resigned from her U.N. position in order to waive her immunity as an international worker and face trial.",
"Police lobbed tear gas at people outside the courthouse Monday, and closed roads leading to the courthouse before the trial began, al-Hussein told CNN before the hearing.",
"Sudanese security forces roughly handled scores of al-Hussein supporters, injuring some and detaining 47 women, according to an eyewitness who spoke to CNN by phone.",
"A Sudanese official accused \"the West\" of interfering in the case.",
"Mohammed Khair, the information attaché at the Sudan Consulate in Dubai, said the international campaign surrounding the case \"proves the West contributes only toward deepening (the) crisis.\"",
"The human rights organization Amnesty International had previously called for the charges to be dropped.",
"\"The manner in which this law has been used against women is unacceptable, and the penalty called for by the law -- up to 40 lashes -- abhorrent,\" Tawanda Hondora, deputy director of Amnesty International's Africa program, said in a statement.",
"Al-Hussein was arrested along with 18 other women on July 3 at a Khartoum restaurant when police burst in and checked women for their clothing.",
"\"I don't think she was targeted specifically,\" Adib said.",
"\"They attack public and private parties and groups.",
"They are called 'morality police' and she was just a victim of a round-up.\"",
"Put your questions to Dutch activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali here .",
"At the time of her arrest, she said, she was wearing pants, a blouse and a hijab, or a headscarf worn by Muslim women.",
"Scores of protesters gathered outside the courtroom in Khartoum to support al-Hussein in early August, when she was last scheduled to be tried.",
"The demonstrators carried banners and wore headbands with the messages, \"No return to the dark ages\" and \"No to suppressing women.\"",
"Others demanded an amendment to the country's public order law that human rights activists say is vague on what constitutes indecent dress.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he is concerned about al-Hussein's case.",
"\"The United Nations will make every effort to ensure that the rights of its staff members are protected,\" Ban said in July.",
"\"The flogging is against the international human rights standards.",
"I call on all parties to live up to their obligations under all relevant international instruments.\"",
"In addition to the group of lawyers defending her, al-Hussein was also represented by two Egyptian defense attorneys, she said.",
"CNN's Raja Razek and Elham Nakhlawi contributed to this report."
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"Woman tried for wearing clothing deemed indecent jailed for refusing to pay fine .",
"Sudanese court spared female journalist lashing for wearing tight trousers .",
"She faced up to 40 lashes for wearing pants considered too tight .",
"Resigned U.N. position to avoid immunity afforded international workers ."
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. Postal Service has just entered \"The Twilight Zone.\"",
"\"The Honeymooners\" is one of 20 classic TV stamps that will soon find its way on the corner of envelopes.",
"The classic show appears on one of 20 stamps released this week, featuring 1950s hit television shows.",
"The first-class stamps include images of \"Dragnet,\" \"The Ed Sullivan Show,\" \"The Honeymooners,\" \"I Love Lucy,\" \"Lassie,\" \"The Lone Ranger,\" \"Ozzie and Harriet\" and \"Perry Mason.\"",
"\"All of the classic television shows represented on these stamps represent the collective memory of a generation well deserving of entertainment,\" said James C. Miller III, a Postal Service board member.",
"\"It was a generation that survived the Great Depression and fought World War II.",
"They were pioneers -- creative geniuses -- who brought television shows of the 1950s into our homes, breaking new ground to provide entertainment for everyone.\"",
"The retro-style stamps, featuring black-and-white images of the shows, were designed by Carl Herrman, an artist from Las Vegas, Nevada.",
"The Postal Service releases several commemorative stamps annually.",
"This year's releases have included civil rights pioneers, President Abraham Lincoln and author Edgar Allan Poe."
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"New postage stamps will commemorate \"Golden Age of TV\"\n\"The Honeymooners,\" \"I Love Lucy\" among 20 classic TV shows honored .",
"Retro-style stamps were designed by artist Carl Herrman ."
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"(CNN) -- A huge water main burst under a road in the suburban Baltimore community of Dundalk, Maryland, Friday, sending muddy water erupting over neighborhood streets and down highway ramps, officials said.",
"Muddy water envelops the community of Dundalk, Maryland, on Friday.",
"Many were left without power.",
"The 72-inch main was shut about two hours after it ruptured, Baltimore County Chief Executive Jim Smith told CNN.",
"No injuries were reported, Smith said, but he urged residents to \"shelter in place\" and not to go into the knee- to chest-high water under any circumstances.",
"\"This is not a game,\" Smith warned.",
"Authorities set up a command center near the site of the break and swift-water boat rescue teams were standing by, he added.",
"See water main break damage » .",
"Resident David Johnson said he felt helpless as he stood outside his house and watched the dirty brown water creep up his lawn and approach his front door.",
"It stopped inches away and his basement stayed dry.",
"The worst part now, Johnson said, is the smell.",
"\"Like sewage,\" he said.",
"Shannon Woerner was at home in nearby Essex, Maryland, when he heard the news about the water main break -- and the call for boats.",
"He loaded his kayak in his truck and headed to the scene.",
"\"I just wanted to see if I could help,\" he said.",
"Woerner said he assisted by ferrying car keys and other items across flooded streets to people who were cut off from their homes by the water.",
"Standing at the corner of Court and McShane streets, Mike Pell, 34, watched the water slowly recede after the main was shut.",
"Water covered the wheels of his pickup truck.",
"\"My basement's done,\" he said, pointing to his shoulder to show the height of the water inside, where he and his fiancée had their bedroom.",
"\"All of our clothes are ruined,\" he said.",
"He managed to get his two children, ages 2 and 3, to a dry area on the first floor of the house.",
"\"Now I wonder who's going to pay for this.",
"We don't have flood insurance -- this area doesn't flood,\" Pell said, shaking his head.",
"Samantha Hansley, 21, could only watch from a dry hill and wonder if her truck would survive the deluge.",
"It sat a block away in 2 feet of water.",
"Hansley and her boyfriend had been driving out of the floodwaters when they stopped to try to help some stranded drivers.",
"\"Our truck just died,\" she said.",
"A manager at the Box and Save grocery store not far from the break site said the entire parking lot was flooded.",
"Cathy Geisler said customers were still in the store Friday afternoon when police came to tell everyone to evacuate, except for essential personnel.",
"\"We had customers, we were still doing business, then the electricity went out and we escorted everyone out of the store,\" Geisler said.",
"She and another manager stayed behind in a building with no power.",
"As she spoke on the phone with CNN, Geisler said police had come back to tell them to leave immediately and she abruptly hung up the phone.",
"Aerial video from CNN affiliates WMAR and WBAL showed a collapsed roadway with massive amounts of water exploding over the area.",
"Entire neighborhoods had flooded streets, and many residents were evacuated, authorities said.",
"Eric Braughman, who lives on one of the flooded streets, told CNN he had \"thought something was up\" with the water Thursday when his faucets discharged brownish-orange water.",
"\"My wife didn't give the baby a bath because it didn't look safe,\" Braughman said.",
"Nearly 1,000 customers were without power, according to Baltimore Gas and Electric Company's Web site.",
"The main break is part of a larger issue with failing infrastructure in many U.S. cities, said Kurt Kocher, a spokesman for Baltimore's Department of Public Works.",
"Kocher cited two other huge main breaks in the Maryland and Washington D.C. area that were started from the same type of pipe that burst in Friday's incident.",
"\"This is a national infrastructure crisis,\" Kocher said.",
"CNN's Alec Miran in Dundalk, Maryland, contributed to this report."
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"72-inch main shut down after about two hours, county official says .",
"CNN affiliate video shows collapsed roadway, massive amounts of water .",
"Nearly 1,000 were without power, according to Baltimore Gas and Electric ."
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"(CNN) -- The 63-year-old bearded fireplug of a man erupted in tears, pulled a white handkerchief from his back pocket, carefully unfolded it and pressed it into his eyes, pulled it away, pressed it again to his eyes, this time with more force, pulled it away again just long enough to take a sip of water, then rubbed them again.",
"Lula da Silva gets a kiss from bid committee president Carlos Arthur Nuzman after the announcement Friday.",
"\"I've never won a gift before,\" Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told reporters.",
"\"The first gift I ever had in my life I had to buy.",
"It was an old bike with a broken belt and I had to fix it.",
"Today, people who don't even know me gave me the greatest gift that a president could have: to host the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.",
"Rio deserves this because Rio is a city that has suffered.\"",
"For Lula da Silva, Friday's announcement in Copenhagen, Denmark, that Rio de Janeiro will host the 31st Olympiad in 2016 signified a major achievement not only for his hemisphere (no city in South America has ever before hosted the games) but for him -- a former autoworker and union organizer who defied dizzying odds to become president.",
"Lula da Silva was born to a peasant family in one of northeastern Brazil's most impoverished areas and migrated as a young man to a city near São Paulo, where he worked as a metalworker, losing his left pinky finger in the process.",
"In the 1970s, he became a union leader, said Luiz Valente, chairman of the department of Portuguese and Brazilian studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.",
"During the years of military rule from 1964 until 1985, the government cracked down on unions.",
"But Lula da Silva acquired a reputation as a public figure by leading a successful strike in São Paulo, Valente told CNN in a telephone interview.",
"\"He was able to negotiate a favorable contract for his union but, from a political standpoint, he demonstrated that worker strikes were possible again in Brazil,\" Valente said.",
"During the early 1980s, as the military rulers' grip on control loosened, Lula da Silva helped found the leftist Workers' Party.",
"In the late 1980s, he ran for Congress and won, but he chose not to run for re-election.",
"Instead, he set his sights on the top job, waging a losing presidential campaign in 1989, the country's first presidential election since 1960.",
"Successive tries in 1993 and 1997 were unsuccessful, but in 2001, he won and quickly surprised many observers.",
"\"When he began, he was perceived as someone very much on the left,\" said Valente.",
"\"He was perceived as being a socialist.",
"However, he has not governed as a socialist.",
"Instead, his economic policies were a continuation of the previous administration's.\"",
"In fact, Brazil's economic policy has been \"pretty much middle of the road, some people would say pretty conservative,\" said Valente, who added that he has never voted for Lula da Silva.",
"But Lula da Silva has worked to help the country's poor, introducing populist measures intended to lower the incidence of poverty and making other moves, Valente said.",
"\"As a union leader during the military dictatorship, he learned how to negotiate with the so-called enemy,\" Valente said.",
"\"So Lula is going to try to reach some kind of consensus, and he did.",
"What he did was not a product of ideology but of a pragmatist attitude of the government of Brazil.\"",
"Lula da Silva's moderate modus operandi has gained him popularity at home, where he has made no moves toward abolishing the term limits that preclude his running for a third term next year, Valente said.",
"That pragmatism has served him well on the international front, where he is on good terms with the leftist governments of Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador as well as with the United States and the European Union.",
"\"Lula knows how to play the game,\" Valente said.",
"Like Brazil's president, Rio did not succeed on its first try, having been rejected in an earlier bid -- which inspired planners to be meticulous, Valente said.",
"\"They were very well-prepared,\" he said.",
"Indeed, the city two years ago hosted the Pan-American Games, which officials looked on as a trial run for the Olympics, he said.",
"\"Everything ran without a hitch,\" said Valente.",
"\"It was just a beautiful event.\"",
"Lula's waterworks were no surprise to his countrymen, the professor said.",
"\"He's a very emotional guy and Brazilians tend to be emotional.",
"They're certainly not ashamed of showing their emotions ...",
"It's not unusual for Brazilian men to cry in situations like that.",
"Brazilians actually like to see men cry.",
"They think it's good to show your emotions.\"",
"Watch the reaction as Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is named host city for the 2016 Olympics » .",
"\"He always cries when he talks of his mother, who never saw him become president,\" said Fabiana Frayssinet, CNN's correspondent in Rio de Janeiro.",
"\"He's a man who cries, who gets mad.",
"He's an emotional man who says what he thinks whenever he wants.\"",
"Emotions were on display Friday on Copacabana beach in Rio, where thousands of people flocked on the first sunny day after two weeks of rain and atypically cold weather.",
"\"It was a mix of the end of a football championship with a ... carnival and all the Brazilian festivals,\" Frayssinet said."
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"His election to the presidency in 2001 came after three unsuccessful tries .",
"Rio's hosting the Pan-American Games was seen as a trial run for the Olympics ."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistani authorities have launched a massive crackdown on terror groups that they say were planning numerous suicide attacks, including in the country's largest city of Karachi.",
"Pakistan security officials show seized weapons and ammunition in Karachi on Sunday after the arrest of seven alleged militants.",
"At least 13 suspects were arrested Sunday and Monday, including three people carrying suicide jackets and explosives inside a bus station, a police official said.",
"The three were seized early Monday after police raided a bus station in Sargodha, a city located about 120 miles (190 km) south of Islamabad in Pakistan's Punjab province.",
"The suspects were plotting to attack two Shiite mosques, police stations, and a Norwegian telecommunications company in Punjab, according to district police officer Usman Anwar.",
"Three other suspects linked to the plot were arrested hours later in Sargodha, he said.",
"Those arrested early Monday included the Pakistani Taliban's chief in Punjab, according to Anwar.",
"The Taliban in Punjab have direct ties to Baitullah Mehsud, the former head of the Pakistan Taliban, and have been accused of sectarian murders in Punjab.",
"Pakistan and U.S. officials contend Mehsud was killed in an August 5 drone attack in Waziristan at his father-in-law's house.",
"The Taliban claim Mehsud is alive but ill. Hakeemullah Mehsud has been selected as the new head of the Pakistani Taliban, a Taliban commander said Saturday.",
"Pakistani authorities also said they thwarted planned attacks in the southern port city of Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and the capital of Sindh province.",
"Seven members of a banned militant group with strong ties to al Qaeda and the Taliban were arrested Sunday along with suicide vests and a large quantity of ammunition, according to the city's police superintendent Mohammed Fayyaz Khan .",
"The group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was planning to conduct attacks in Karachi, according to Karachi Police Chief Waseem Ahmad.",
"Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is considered a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department, and was banned by then-Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in 2001.",
"It is described as Pakistan's \"most extreme and feared militant group\" by IHS Jane's, a provider of defense and security information.",
"The banned Sunni militant group, which began in the 1990s, is a \"key ally\" of the Taliban and al Qaeda, according to Jane's.",
"\"However, many of its leaders and members have been killed or jailed in recent years and there is little evidence that it remains a coherent organization with centralized structures,\" Jane's said in an assessment released earlier this month.",
"Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is blamed for the attempted assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 1999, and the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.",
"The group also has also been linked to the March attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in the Pakistani city of Lahore.",
"The recent arrests in Karachi and in Punjab are part of a broader crackdown on terror groups that have extended their reach outside Pakistan's volatile North West Frontier Province and adjacent tribal regions.",
"That is where Pakistani security forces continue to battle a strong Taliban presence.",
"Taliban militants maintained strongholds within 100 miles of the capital, Islamabad, before Pakistani security forces pushed them back this year.",
"A month ago, Pakistani authorities unraveled a militant plot to target government buildings in Islamabad with suicide attackers, according to Interior Minister Rehmen Malik.",
"Three bombers were detained, and along with them suicide vests packed with complex explosives surrounded by ball bearings that would kill anyone within 50 to 100 meters.",
"\"They had the live jackets ... they were staying in one house and they had hidden the suicide jackets not far from that (house) in the hills,\" Malik told CNN.",
"\"Obviously they had a plan in Islamabad because Islamabad is the icon of the country.\"",
"He said they first planned to target parliament, then move on to other prominent government buildings in the capital city.",
"Hitting back at the government would seem to be a high priority for the newly appointed leader of the Pakistani Taliban.",
"Said to be a brazen and young commander, Hakeemullah Mehsud has been linked to past attacks on NATO troops along the Afghan-Pakistan border who are battling a resurgent Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan.",
"Malik said the government is \"not interested\" in trying to establish a cease-fire with Taliban commanders during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began this weekend.",
"Past cease-fire agreements between the Pakistani government and tribal leaders negotiating on behalf of the Taliban have failed.",
"\"They are at the weakest moments and everybody knows -- even a child of Pakistan knows about it -- that their back is broken,\" Malik said.",
"\"They are no more powerful ... so we won't give them any time to get energized.\"",
"CNN's Samson Desta contributed to this report."
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"Lashkar-e-Jhangvi linked to Bhutto assassination, attack on Sri Lanka cricket team .",
"Police: Three suspected Pakistan Taliban members also arrested with suicide vests ."
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"(WASHINGTON) -- The Federal Aviation Administration ordered U.S. airlines Thursday to replace a part that has come under suspicion in the crash of Air France Flight 447.",
"U.S. air safety authorities have ordered the replacement of a part on A330 planes following the crash of Air France Flight 447.",
"The FAA gave airlines 120 days to replace devices that could be giving false airspeed indications.",
"All 228 people on Air France Flight 447 were killed when the Airbus A330 plane crashed June 1 en route to Paris, France, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.",
"The U.S. air safety watchdog agency bypassed the usual process which allows for public comment on its orders.",
"It said it could expedite the process because of the limited number of planes involved -- only 43 in the United States -- and because they say it is prudent to make the change as quickly as possible.",
"At the same time, it said it did not feel the risk warranted grounding the fleet of aircraft.",
"US Airways, one of only two American carriers who fly planes affected by the order, said Thursday they had already replaced the part.",
"\"The work was completed last week.",
"We are scheduled to take delivery of three new ... A330s by year's end and those three will not require any ... changes,\" a US Airways spokesman told CNN via e-mail.",
"Northwest is the other U.S. carrier that operates A330s, the FAA said.",
"A spokeswoman for Delta airlines, Northwest's parent company, said affected Northwest planes are getting new parts.",
"\"We are well under way working closely with Airbus and Goodrich to install the Goodrich pitot tubes within the required timelines,\" Ashley Black told CNN.",
"The devices under suspicion are the Thales Avionics pitot probes on some Airbus A330 and A340 aircraft.",
"They measure \"ram air pressure,\" the pressure exerted on the plane as it flies through the air, and are part of a system used to determine air speed.",
"The FAA order requires aircraft operators to replace certain Thales pitot probes with certain Goodrich or newer-design Thales pitot probes.",
"The FAA says the order is intended to \"prevent airspeed discrepancies, which could lead to disconnect of the autopilot and/or auto-thrust functions and consequent increased pilot workload.\"",
"French authorities are still investigating the cause of the Air France crash.",
"But tests conducted since the crash have brought into question the performance of the pitot tubes and authorities say there have been reports of other malfunctions on flights.",
"No U.S. operator flies A340s.",
"There are 302 of the aircraft worldwide.",
"The FAA action follows an announcement by European air safety authorities earlier this week to require pitot tube replacements by September 7."
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"FAA orders U.S. airlines to replace part under suspicion in Air France crash .",
"The devices could be giving false airspeed indications .",
"Northwest and US Airways are only U.S. carriers that fly affected planes ."
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"(CNN) -- A pilot who parachuted from his disabled Marine Corps jet last year said he was horrified to see it smash into a California home, newly released documents say.",
"A firefighter walks past as flames rise from the wreckage of a military jet crash in California.",
"Marine Corps Lt. Dan Neubauer's statements, describing the December crash that killed four family members in a San Diego home, were released Tuesday by military officials.",
"The four-page document details in technical terms several attempts Neubauer made to keep his crippled F/A-18D from crashing.",
"When it became apparent that the plane was going down, Neubauer parachuted out.",
"\"I looked down to see where my plane had crashed and saw that it had gone right into a house.",
"I screamed in horror when I realized what had just happened,\" Neubauer said in the document.",
"Neubauer landed in the backyard of another home and was not injured.",
"The pilot had been trying to reach the nearby Marine Corps Air Station Miramar when he started having problems with his fighter jet.",
"See satellite photo of crash site » .",
"The jet crashed into Dong Yun Yoon's house, killing his wife, his two young children and his mother-in-law.",
"An unoccupied house was also destroyed.",
"Days after the incident, Yoon said he did not blame the pilot.",
"\"Please pray for him not to suffer from this accident,\" Yoon said.",
"\"I don't blame him. I don't have any hard feelings.",
"I know he did everything he could.\""
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"Relative of four killed says he doesn't blame pilot for crash ."
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"ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Italian paramilitary police carried out massive arrests Tuesday against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, \"decapitating\" the organization's leadership structure, the head of the city's carabinieri said.",
"Members of the caribinieri outside their Palermo HQ Tuesday following raids against Sicilian mafia suspects.",
"More than 1,200 Italian carabinieri, backed by helicopters, took part in the operation and arrested 89 suspects, added Colonel Teo Luzzi, the head of the carabinieri in the regional capital Palermo.",
"The operation began at 3:30 a.m. (9:30 p.m.",
"ET Monday) and was still going on at midmorning.",
"Palermo officials said charges would include association with the mafia, extortion, and arms and drug trafficking.",
"\"Their aim was to reconstitute the Sicilian mafia's decision-making body, known as the \"commissione,\" which was disbanded in the early 1990s following the arrest of the top boss Toto Riina,\" Luzzi said.",
"The commissione was the executive body of the mafia, uniting the most powerful bosses of the mafia clans operating in Sicily.",
"It was the commissione that decided to carry out the killings of Italy's top anti-mafia magistrates in May and July 1992.",
"The high-profile killings prompted the Italian government to deploy the army in Sicily to fight the mafia, and Toto Riina was arrested in January 2003.",
"\"Since then the mafia didn't really have a decision making body,\" Luzzi said, \"and with these arrests we decapitated the top brass of the Palermo mafia.\"",
"Luzzi also said that Sicily's most wanted Mafioso, Matteo Messina Denaro -- who has been on the run for more than a decade and leads a clan in nearby Trapani in western Sicily -- is not among those arrested.",
"\"But those whom we did apprehend were associated with him and were trying to create a new decision-making body at his request,\" Luzzi said.",
"Arrest warrants were also issued against several suspects in Tuscany, Luzzi said."
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"Charges include association with the mafia, extortion, arms and drug trafficking .",
"Police: With these arrests we decapitated the top brass of the Palermo mafia .",
"Arrest warrants were also issued against several suspects in Tuscany ."
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"(CNN) -- It has been a piece of Berlin history for 80 years, a symbol of Nazi power but also of Germans' desire for freedom after World War II.",
"The giant Tempelhof Airport in Berlin will shut it doors for good on Friday.",
"Friday, Berlin's Tempelhof Airport will shut its doors for good.",
"Tempelhof was where American and British pilots touched down after the war when Soviet Forces blockaded West Berlin.",
"The allied pilots flew in millions of tons of food, fuel and medication for an ailing population, earning themselves the title \"candy bombers,\" for dropping candy as they flew over the city.",
"\"Through Tempelhof, we stayed alive,\" said Hedi Koenig, 83, who lived near the airport in West Berlin after the war.",
"Without the air drops, she said, the people would have starved to death.",
"The airport rapidly became Berlin's only hub for supplies, eventually carrying almost 2.5 million tons of goods into the city.",
"Tempelhof's massive main building -- originally designed to represent Nazi Germany to visitors -- remains one of the largest structures in the world.",
"The U.S. Army later built a basketball court and firing range at Tempelhof, and hid an entire command center in the vast network of tunnels under the buildings.",
"These days, however, its runways are too short for most modern civilian aircraft.",
"City officials said the airport was not profitable and needed to be shut down as Berlin builds a major new airport, Berlin-Brandenburg International.",
"Moves to close Tempelhof have sparked protests from residents and aviators who thought more should have been done to preserve such an important part of the city's history.",
"See archive photos of the airport .",
"\"The people want it, private enterprise wants it, all national arguments are in favor of it,\" Friedbert Pflueger, a local opposition leader, said last year.",
"More than 100 private pilots staged a \"fly-in\" in September 2007 to protest the plans.",
"Koenig said Berliners were still angry with city officials who allowed the closure.",
"She blamed business leaders for putting pressure on the city to close the airport by arguing it cost too much and didn't make enough money.",
"\"For business people, the airport doesn't mean anything,\" said Koenig.",
"She said they were too young to remember how important Tempelhof has been for the city.",
"Koenig is among many who believe the airport should be turned into a cultural memorial.",
"A memorial already exists outside the airport to remember the candy bombers, dozens of whom died flying in during bad weather or after being harassed by Soviet fighter planes.",
"\"The success of the airlift made sure that the communist ideology lost its impetus, lost its thrust, because people began to realize that democracies can defend their way of life,\" said Helmut Trotnow of the Berlin Allied Museum.",
"The allied pilots, Koenig said, were responsible for saving the city amid the Russian blockade.",
"\"The Russians tried with all their might to break us,\" she said.",
"Koenig snuck into West Berlin from the East after the war.",
"That meant she didn't have a visa and couldn't receive official food rations, so she literally scraped by during her night job at a bakery.",
"Koenig said she cleaned the pans and would try to scratch off whatever food remained stuck to the sides.",
"Her boss would check to make sure she wasn't eating any of the remnants, but Koenig said she did it anyway, whenever her boss wasn't looking.",
"Tempelhof's beginnings date to September 4, 1909, when American aviation pioneer Orville Wright flew an engine-powered plane for a few minutes on the airfield there.",
"It ushered in the era of aviation in Germany, and Tempelhof eventually became Berlin's central airport and the biggest hub in Europe.",
"The airport also became the home of Lufthansa, which was founded in Berlin in 1926.",
"Civilian traffic declined during the second world war and the Soviet Army occupied the airport.",
"The Americans took it over in July 1945.",
"The Soviet blockade of West Berlin began in May 1948 as an attempt to force the Western Allied powers out of that part of the city.",
"They cut off rail and road links to the West, and West Berlin -- isolated in the middle of the new East Germany -- found itself isolated even more.",
"In response, the Allies imposed counter-blockade measures which included cutting off East German communications and an embargo on Eastern bloc exports.",
"The moves forced the Soviet Union to eventually lift the blockade a year later, in May 1949.",
"The last flights from Tempelhof will fly just before midnight Thursday, the airport authority said.",
"One will be a special Lufthansa flight aboard a Junkers Ju-52, a post-World War II transport aircraft.",
"The other will be a DC-3 -- the same type of plane flown by the candy bombers from Tempelhof some 60 years ago.",
"With the closing of Tempelhof, the city has two remaining airports -- at Schoenefeld and Tegel.",
"All flights from Tempelhof will move to Tegel.",
"Eventually, Schoenefeld will become the new Berlin-Brandenburg International, or BBI.",
"It is scheduled to open in 2011, after which Tegel will close.",
"CNN Berlin Bureau Chief Fred Pleitgen and CNN's Carolin Fiehm in London contributed to this report."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Something is stirring within the Hamas body politic, a moderating trend that, if nourished and engaged, could transform Palestinian politics and the Arab-Israeli peace process.",
"There are unmistakable signs that the religiously based radical movement has subtly changed its uncompromising posture on Israel.",
"For example, in the last few months top Hamas officials have publicly stressed that they want to be part of the solution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, not part of the problem.",
"What is happening inside Hamas' mosques and social base shows a concerted effort on the part of its leadership to re-educate its rank and file about co-existence with the Jewish state and in so doing mentally prepare them for a permanent settlement in the future.",
"In Gazan mosques, pro-Hamas clerics have begun to cite the example of Salah al-Din al-Ayubi, a famed Muslim military commander and statesman, who, after liberating Jerusalem from the Western Crusaders, allowed them to retain a coastal state of their own.",
"The moral lesson of the story is that if the famed leader could tolerate the warring, bloodthirsty Crusaders, then today's Palestinians should be willing to live peacefully with a Jewish state in their midst.",
"This story is important because it provides Hamas with religious legitimacy and allows it to justify and explain its change of direction to followers.",
"As an Islamic-based movement, Hamas' very raison d'etre rests on religious legitimization, and its leaders understand that they neglect that at their peril.",
"Hamas' recent narrative marks a pronounced departure from the past in which Hamas moderates called for a minor or long-term truce.",
"Now Hamas leaders appear to be going further by laying the ground for a shift in their position by educating their social base about the requirements of permanent peace -- recognition of the Jewish state.",
"Although the evolution of Hamas' stance on the peace process has been slow, gradual and qualified, in the last three years many of its leaders repeatedly have said they wanted a two-state solution.",
"Pressed by an Australian journalist on policy changes that Hamas might make to any new order, Khaled Meshaal, the top Hamas leader and head of its political bureau based in Syria and considered a hard-liner, asserted that the organization has already shifted on several key points: \"Hamas already changed -- we accepted the national accords for a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders, and we took part in the 2006 Palestinian elections.\"",
"Over the years, I have interviewed more than a dozen Hamas leaders inside and outside the Palestinian territories.",
"Although, on the whole, Hamas' public rhetoric calls for the liberation of all historic Palestine, not only the territories occupied in 1967, a healthier debate occurs within.",
"My recent conversations with Hamas' rank and file suggest that the militant organization has evolved considerably since the group unexpectedly won power in Gaza in free elections in 2006.",
"Before then, Hamas was known for its suicide bombers, not its bureaucrats.",
"But that had to change. \"It is much more difficult to run a government than to oppose and resist Israeli occupation,\" a senior Hamas leader told me while on official business in Egypt in 2007.",
"\"If we do not provide the goods to our people, they'll disown us.\"",
"Ironically, in spite of the West's refusal to regard this government as legitimate, the democratic demands for governance from within Gaza are themselves driving change within Hamas.",
"What is striking about Hamas' recent shift of opinion toward the peace process is that it has come at a trying time for the Islamist organization which, in the last two years, has faced critical challenges from al Qaeda-like jihadist groups, a low-intensity civil war with rival Fatah, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority, and a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza.",
"Last summer a militant group called Jund Ansar Allah, or the Warriors of God, one of a handful of radical al Qaeda-inspired factions, declared the establishment of an Islamic caliphate in Gaza, a flagrant rejection of Hamas' authority.",
"Hamas security forces struck instantly and mercilessly at the Warriors, killing more than 20 members, including the group's leader, Abdel-Latif Moussa.",
"In one stroke, the Hamas leadership sent a message to its foes and friends that it will not tolerate the existence of global jihadist groups such as al Qaeda: Hamas will not allow al Qaeda-inspired factions to turn Gaza into a theater to wage transnational jihad.",
"However, the challenge to Hamas' authority persists.",
"Israel's punishing siege of Gaza, in place since 2007, along with the suffering and despair it has caused to its 1.4 million inhabitants, has driven hundreds of young Palestinians into the arms of small Salafist extremist factions that accuse Hamas of forfeiting the armed struggle and failing to implement Quranic or Shariah law.",
"Operationally and ideologically, there are huge differences between Hamas and al Qaeda and its various inspired factions, and a lot of bad blood.",
"Hamas is a broad-based religious/nationalist resistance whose focus and violence is limited to Palestine/Israel, while al Qaeda is a small, transnational terrorist group that has carried out attacks worldwide.",
"Thus Hamas, unlike al Qaeda and other fringe factions, is not merely an armed militia but a viable social movement with a large popular base that has been estimated at more than half a million supporters and sympathizers.",
"Hamas also has shown itself to be sensitive and responsive to Palestinian public opinion.",
"A further example of its political and social priorities is Hamas' decision to engage seriously with an Egyptian-brokered deal that sketches out a path to peace with rival Fatah.",
"Despite its reactionary rhetoric, Hamas is a rational actor, a conclusion reached by former Mossad chief Ephraim Halevy, who also was Ariel Sharon's national security adviser and who is certainly not an Israeli peacenik.",
"The Hamas leadership has undergone a transformation \"right under our very noses\" by recognizing that \"its ideological goal is not attainable and will not be in the foreseeable future,\" Halevy wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth a few months ago.",
"His verdict is that Hamas is now ready and willing to accept the establishment of a Palestinian state within the temporary borders of 1967.",
"Yet if Hamas is so eager to accept a two-state solution, why doesn't it simply announce that it recognizes Israel's existence and promise to negotiate a peace deal that allows the two countries to coexist?",
"In interviews with Hamas officials, they stress that their organization has made significant concessions to the so-called Quartet's three conditions, though the Quartet (the United Nations, Russia, United States and European Union) has not lifted the punishing sanctions against Hamas nor has it effectively pressed Israel.",
"Hamas' diplomatic starting point will be to demand that Israel recognizes the nationalist rights of the Palestinians and withdraws from the occupied territories, but it will not be its final position.",
"There could be no viable, lasting peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians if Hamas is not consulted about peacemaking and if the Palestinians remain divided with two warring authorities in the West Bank and in Gaza.",
"Hamas has the means and public support to undermine any agreement that does not address the legitimate rights and claims of the Palestinian people.",
"Its rival, Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, lacks a popular mandate and the legitimacy needed to implement a resolution of the conflict.",
"President Mahmoud Abbas has been politically weakened by a series of blunders of his own making and by pressure by the U.S., compromising his moral authority in the eyes of a sizable Palestinian constituency.",
"If, instead of ignoring Hamas or, worse yet, seeking its overthrow, the United States and Europe engaged the Islamically based organization, diplomatically and politically, and encouraged it to continue moderating its views, the West could test the extent of Hamas' evolution and find out if the organization is willing to accept a settlement based on the two-state solution.",
"So far, the strategy of isolating and militarily confronting Hamas pursued by Israel and the Bush administration has not appeared to weaken the organization dramatically.",
"If anything, what success this strategy has had in undermining Hamas has been counterproductive, since it has radicalized hundreds of young Palestinians who have joined extremist al Qaeda-inspired factions and reinforced the culture of martyrdom and nihilism.",
"To break this impasse, and prevent further gains by more extremist factions, the U.S. and Europe should support a unified Palestinian government that could negotiate peace with Israel.",
"The ongoing Egyptian-brokered truce deal between Hamas and Fatah is an opportunity that may be built on to repair and strengthen intra-Palestinian governing institutions that have been frayed as a result of intense rivalry in the last two years.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Fawaz A. Gerges."
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"He says pro-Hamas clerics are preparing people for coexistence .",
"Hamas is fighting groups inspired by al Qaeda, Gerges says .",
"He urges West to test Hamas' willingness to engage in Mideast peace process ."
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"(CNN) -- The U.S. military did major damage to the site of one of the wonders of the ancient world while converting it into a base, the United Nations said in a new report.",
"An U.S. soldier looks over the ancient city of Babylon in Iraq in 2004.",
"The site of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon was converted into Camp Alpha shortly after the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.",
"The troops and their contractors caused \"major damage\" by digging, cutting, scraping and leveling while they were revamping the site to meet military standards, the U.N. cultural agency, UNESCO, said in a report.",
"\"Key structures that were damaged include the Ishtar Gate and the Processional Way,\" the report added.",
"The Ishtar Gate, an entrance to the northern part of the city, is decorated with animals that portray the symbol of the god of the city of Babylon.",
"\"Damage to the gate includes smashed bricks on nine of the bodies of the animals adorning the gate,\" according to the report.",
"A military official said she had not seen the U.N. report, but added that one of the reasons troops set up a base at the site was to safeguard it.",
"\"Coalition forces first occupied the Babylon site in April 2003 during the ground campaign of Operation Iraqi Freedom with a purpose, among others, of protecting the ruins from looting after the provincial museums in Babylon and Kufa were robbed of their entire contents,\" said Lt. Col. Tamara Parker, a spokeswoman.",
"\"U.S. forces respect historical sites in Iraq,\" she added.",
"The United Nations lists additional damage to the site, including trenches used as firing positions and barbed wire secured to various spots.",
"The stakes used to set up the barbed wire damaged walls, according to the report.",
"Babylon, an hour's drive south of Baghdad, dates to ancient Mesopotamia.",
"The city on the banks of the Euphrates River was the home of Hammurabi and later Nebuchadnezzar, who built the famous gardens for his wife.",
"Alexander the Great wished to make Babylon his capital, but died before realizing his plan.",
"During colonial times, archaeologists hauled off Babylon's artifacts to Europe.",
"Some of those artifacts can be seen in a museum in Berlin, Germany.",
"The site was occupied by Camp Alpha from September 2003 till December 2004, the report said.",
"The United States has agreed to pay $800,000 to help rehabilitate the Babylon site, an Iraqi official said.",
"\"We were very disappointed when multinational forces took over these ancient sites as bases although they knew how important these sites are to Iraqis and to the entire world,\" said Abdulzahra al-Talaqani, spokesman for the ministry of tourism.",
"Plans are under way to clean up the area in August with the help of hundreds of volunteers, according to al-Talaqani.",
"The U.N. report noted that U.S. troops were not solely responsible for ruining the 4,000-year-old city.",
"Before their arrival, local residents had contributed to the damage, mostly through development, the report said.",
"\"The features of the western side of the city of Babylon disappeared many years ago due to encroachment by agriculture and development on the archaeological zone,\" the report said."
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"Report cites extensive damage to Ishtar's Gate, Processional Way .",
"United States to pay $800,000 to clean Babylon site ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- Asa Hill was 7 years old when he died.",
"Although the boy was pulled out of a burning car alive in a horrific accident on the Niagara Thruway on Thursday, his injuries proved critical, and he passed away the following night.",
"Amilcar Hill and Rahwa Ghirmatzion hug at their son's funeral, which ended with their wedding.",
"The Buffalo, New York, community, shaken, turned out in large numbers at his funeral Monday to support his parents, Amilcar Hill and Rahwa Ghirmatzion, and were pleasantly surprised when the couple ended the service with a wedding ceremony, a fulfillment of their son's wish.",
"The Rev. Joel Miller of The Unitarian Universalist Church of Elmwood, where the service was held, was unsure at first when the idea of a wedding was proposed by the couple and their family.",
"\"I asked twice, 'We're doing a wedding?'",
"This was new for me. I never did a funeral service and a wedding ceremony at the same time, and normally wouldn't, but they have known each other since they were teens,\" Miller said.",
"\"And they had been providing for Asa, and they made a home together for all of Asa's life. ...",
"It was clear they were following through on something they had been talking about for some time.\"",
"Watch the funeral and wedding ceremony » .",
"Hill and Ghirmatzion have been best friends since they were 15 and have been together for almost half of their lives.",
"After Asa was born, marriage had always been something that they considered but, according to Hill, both felt that a wedding was \"superficial and not necessary.\"",
"Asa, however, was insistent that they make their union official.",
"\"Asa really wanted us to do it, and every time he would ask us we would say, 'Yes, we'll get married,' \" said Hill.",
"But the couple never did get around to figuring out the logistics for a ceremony.",
"While holding his lifeless son in his arms at the hospital, Hill was moved to finally officially propose to his lifelong partner.",
"\"Rahwa was overwhelmed at that moment and just looked at me.",
"When the family sat down to plan the funeral service, she said 'Let's get married.'",
"And everyone broke down at the table,\" he said.",
"The marriage took place after a service filled with African drums, dancing, sermons and family and friends sharing memories of Asa, all in celebration of his life.",
"Miller said about 1,100 people attended the service, with hundreds overflowing onto the church lawn, where sound systems were set up so they could hear the service.",
"When the wedding was announced, there were shocked cheers and applause from those in the church pews.",
"\"We wanted it to be a surprise,\" Hill said.",
"\"We knew it would be a joyous moment.",
"You could see how it lifted them, and we figured, why not make it a surprise at the end.\"",
"The Unitarian Universalist Church was chosen because its non-denominational tradition would welcome all the diverse groups of the Elmwood community, Hill said.",
"The family has strong ties to the community and, according to Miller, who had known Asa since he was 5, Asa embodied this.",
"\"He was a powerful presence: direct, smart, and had a way of bringing people together,\" Miller said.",
"\"When you met him, you knew you met someone.",
"We all didn't know each other, but we knew Asa and his family.\""
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"The boy died last week after being injured in traffic accident .",
"As parents dealt with his death, they decided to marry at the end of his funeral .",
"Wedding came as a joyous surprise to mourners who filled the church ."
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"(CNN) -- CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour has broadcast from some of the world's most challenging locations.",
"Here, we bring together links to her documentaries and exclusive web-only footage.",
"Generation Islam (2009) Christiane gives viewers a look inside the battle for the hearts and minds of youth in the Muslim world and travels to two of the places where the fight is most intense -- Afghanistan and Gaza.",
"- Generation Islam .",
"- Video: The would-be suicide bomber .",
"Buddha's Warriors (2008) Christiane meets the Dalai Lama and spends time with his flock for CNN's 2008 special, \"Buddha's Warriors,\" where she explores how people whose religion commits them to love, kindness and non-violence confront severe political oppression.",
"- Behind the scenes: Buddha's Warriors .",
"- Interview with the Dalai Lama: On China | A moment of karma | On reincarnation .",
"Notes from North Korea (2008) Christiane travels to North Korea as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra makes a historic visit to one of the world's most closed societies.",
"She examines the tense standoff with the U.S. over nuclear weapons and provides a rare look inside a notorious, top-secret nuclear facility.",
"- Notes from North Korea: Part 1 | Part 2 .",
"- Yongbyon tour: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 .",
"- Behind the scenes: Amanpour's notes .",
"Scream Bloody Murder (2008) Christiane reports from the world's killing fields, where genocide has raged as the world watched -- and traces the personal accounts of those who tried to stop the slaughter.",
"- Scream Bloody Murder .",
"God's Warriors (2007) Christiane travelled to eight countries over eight months to examine the impact of the rise of religious fundamentalism as a powerful political force in three faiths: Judaism, Islam and Christianity.",
"- God's Warriors .",
"- Video: Rev. Jerry Falwell's final interview .",
"Revolutionary Journey (2000) Christiane, who left Iran at the start of the Islamic Revolution, returns to the country of her birth for an inside look at a country that after years of conservative Islamic rule, voted to keep President Khatami in office and his democratic reform efforts alive.",
"- Revolutionary Journey: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 ."
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"CNN Chief International Correspondent, Christiane Amanpour presents \"Amanpour.\"",
"See her award-winning documentaries and exclusive web footage here .",
"In \"Scream Bloody Murder\" Christiane reports from the world's killing fields .",
"\"Revolutionary Journey\" sees Christiane return to Iran to explore her birth country ."
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"(CNN) -- Manchester United are given more injury-time at the end of matches to equalize or score winning goals than their English Premier League rivals, a study has revealed.",
"Owen's 96th minute winner at Old Trafford left Manchester City livid.",
"As the row over the near seven minutes of added time accorded to United to win the Manchester derby with a last-gasp Michael Owen goal continues, the Guardian newspaper probed the official injury-time statistics.",
"They looked at league matches at United's Old Trafford ground since the start of the 2006-07 season and revealed that, on average, there has been over a minute of extra time added by referees when the English champions do not have the lead.",
"This is compared to when they are in front, but United have a reputation for scoring late goals on their ways to claiming three straight Premier League crowns.",
"In 48 games when Alex Ferguson's men were in front, the average amount of stoppage time was 191.35 seconds.",
"In 12 matches when United were drawing or losing there was an average of 257.17 seconds.",
"In mitigation, the study revealed that the average stoppage time added at Old Trafford is below that at the home grounds of top four rivals Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea.",
"United's is 205 seconds, compared to Liverpool's 210 seconds, 224 seconds for Arsenal and Chelsea's 229 seconds.",
"But it is the disparity between the time added on when United are winning or losing which appears to assert the popular assertion that referees allow the match to continue until the Red Devils either equalizer or score the winner.",
"Manchester City manager Mark Hughes raged over the extra time in the 4-3 thriller on Sunday, speaking of feeling \"robbed\" as Owen slotted home his winner.",
"The 2007-08 season shows the greatest difference, with an average of 178.29 second added when United were winning, with official stats from Opta showing 254.5 seconds added when they were not.",
"The trend has continued in the first three United home games of the season.",
"In the two matches United have led they have played an average 304 seconds of injury time.",
"On Sunday, referee Martin Atkinson allowed the game to go on for another 415 seconds, despite his fourth official initially indicating 240 seconds should be added."
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"Study conducted over the last three seasons shows disparity of over a minute .",
"Man City manager Mark Hughes furious over amount of added time in 4-3 loss ."
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"SLEEPY EYE, Minnesota (CNN) -- A 13-year-old Minnesota boy whose family has rejected chemotherapy to treat his cancer is with his mother near Los Angeles, California, and they may be planning to travel to Mexico, authorities said Wednesday.",
"Doctors say Daniel Hauser's lymphoma responded well to a first round of chemotherapy in February.",
"Brown County Sheriff Rich Offmann cited \"reliable information\" in making the announcement to reporters, adding that Colleen Hauser may be seeking treatment for her son's lymphoma just south of San Diego, California, in Mexico.",
"\"I'm confident we will find them,\" Offmann said.",
"\"I'm hoping for Daniel's sake we will find them.\"",
"Anthony Hauser, Colleen's husband and the boy's father, has been cooperating with law enforcement, Offmann said.",
"Earlier Wednesday the boy's father said he believed his son and his wife had already left the country.",
"\"I will say this: I have left a call to where I think they could possibly be,\" Anthony Hauser said from his home in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, about 85 miles southwest of Minneapolis.",
"Asked whether he believes that they have gone to Canada, he said, \"I'm not saying it's Canada.",
"You know, that isn't where I left my call.\"",
"He made his comments a day after a Minnesota judge issued an arrest warrant for Colleen Hauser, who failed to appear with the boy at a court hearing.",
"A judge scheduled the hearing to review an X-ray ordered by the court to assess whether Daniel Hauser's Hodgkin's lymphoma was worsening.",
"A doctor testified at the hearing that the X-ray showed \"significant worsening.\"",
"In a news release, the Brown County Sheriff's Office said the father had been \"cooperative\" in helping them find his son but added, \"the investigators cannot speculate on the sincerity of the information that Anthony Hauser has provided.\"",
"The sheriff's office has been in touch with the FBI, and the boy has been entered in the Missing and Exploited Children network, it said.",
"Anthony Hauser testified at the hearing that he last saw his wife at the family's farm on Monday night, when she told him she was going to leave \"for a time.\"",
"He later said he would like his wife and son to return.",
"\"I'd like to tell them, you know, 'Come back and be safe and be a family again,' \" he said.",
"\"That's what I'd like to tell them.\" Watch father urge the pair to come back » .",
"District Judge John R. Rodenberg of Brown County, Minnesota, said the boy's \"best interests\" require him to receive medical care.",
"His family opposes the proposed course of treatment, which includes chemotherapy.",
"\"It is imperative that Daniel receive the attention of an oncologist as soon as possible,\" the judge wrote.",
"During Tuesday's hearing, Dr. James Joyce testified that he had seen the boy and his mother on Monday at his office.",
"He said the boy had \"an enlarged lymph node\" near his right clavicle and that the X-ray showed \"significant worsening\" of a mass in his chest.",
"In addition, the boy complained of \"extreme pain\" at the site where a port had been inserted to deliver an initial round of chemotherapy.",
"The pain was \"most likely caused by the tumor or mass pressing on the port,\" testified Joyce, who called the X-ray \"fairly dramatic\" evidence that the cancer was worsening.",
"Watch CNN's Dr. Gupta discuss Daniel's chances » .",
"Rodenberg ordered custody of the boy transferred to Brown County Family Services and issued a contempt order for the mother.",
"Philip Elbert, Daniel's court-appointed attorney, said he considers his client to have a \"diminished capacity\" for reasons of his age and the illness and that he thinks Daniel should be treated by a cancer specialist.",
"Elbert added that he does not think Daniel -- who, according to court papers, cannot read -- has enough information to make an informed decision regarding his treatment.",
"Daniel's symptoms of persistent cough, fatigue and swollen lymph nodes were diagnosed in January as Hodgkin's lymphoma.",
"In February, the cancer responded well to an initial round of chemotherapy, but the treatment's side effects concerned the boy's parents, who then opted not to pursue further chemo and instead sought out other medical opinions.",
"Court documents show that doctors estimated the boy's chance of five-year remission with more chemotherapy and possibly radiation at 80 percent to 95 percent.",
"But the family opted for a holistic medical treatment based upon Native American healing practices called Nemenhah and rejected further treatment.",
"In a written statement issued last week, an attorney for the parents said they \"believe that the injection of chemotherapy into Danny Hauser amounts to an assault upon his body, and torture when it occurs over a long period of time.\"",
"Medical ethicists say parents generally have a legal right to make decisions for their children, but there is a limit.",
"\"You have a right, but not an open-ended right,\" Arthur Caplan, director of the center for bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, said last week.",
"\"You can't compromise the life of your child.\"",
"CNN's Chris Welch contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Police think mom, son may be headed toward Mexico .",
"Dad says he called where he thinks they could be, won't say if it's Canada .",
"\"Come back and be safe and be a family,\" Anthony Hauser urges wife and son .",
"13-year-old needs chemotherapy, doctors and court say ."
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"Editor's note: CNN contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose new book is \"Late Edition: A Love Story.\"",
"Bob Greene says discussion of ballplayer Ted Williams' corpse is a shameful way to remember the superstar.",
"(CNN) -- \"I was scared,\" Ted Williams said.",
"He was talking about his lifelong fear of not being good enough -- of coming up short.",
"\"I was always afraid I might fail,\" he said.",
"\"I was pictured as being so cocky -- I might have been cocky to some people, but not in my heart.",
"All the time, I was just hoping to make whatever league I was in.\"",
"I am thinking about a long conversation I had with Williams toward the end of his life.",
"I'm thinking about it because of the unconscionable thing that is being done to him now that he is gone, now that he is without any defenses.",
"You may have heard about a new book that makes some cruel and repugnant allegations about the mistreatment of his remains.",
"What has been done to Williams' good name since his death at age 83 in 2002 is heartbreaking.",
"First there was the very public battle within his family about what to do with his body; when it was entrusted to a facility that specializes in cryonics -- freezing -- there were tasteless gags all over television.",
"Now there is the nauseating voyeurism surrounding these new allegations.",
"They are unspeakable, and I will not repeat them here.",
"He has been made a joke. It is as if there has been a conscious effort to rob him of his humanity.",
"As if he is a punch line, as if he was never a person with thoughts and feelings.",
"No one deserves this, and certainly not Ted Williams.",
"A magnificent 19-year career with the Boston Red Sox; twice the winner of baseball's triple crown; the last ballplayer to hit .400 in a season; two tours of duty in the military in World War II and the Korean War ...",
"This is the man whose right to rest in respectful peace is being stripped from him.",
"It is a crime. And because he can no longer speak for himself, I will share with you his voice from a time when he could.",
"\"I can't believe how well people have treated me, how nicely,\" he told me.",
"He had suffered a series of strokes; he knew there wasn't much time left.",
"I was writing a monthly column for Life magazine, and he had agreed to talk with me.",
"I told him that there was something striking about his voice: He sounded just like John Wayne.",
"\"John Wayne sounded like me,\" he said, not kidding.",
"When he told me about his fear of failure, it was in the context of always being fixated on his own shortcomings.",
"\"The only time I could savor an evening is if I had done something well,\" he said.",
"\"My most disappointing things all my life were always related to baseball.",
"I didn't feel good because I did something successfully; I felt bad if I failed to do something that I was expected to do.\"",
"As a young ballplayer, he supposedly said, \"All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street, people will say, 'There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived.'",
"\" It happened. That was what people said about him.",
"Did it satisfy him? \"I would slide down in my seat a little bit when I heard someone say that,\" he told me.",
"\"Because I wanted people to believe it, but I didn't believe it myself.",
"I didn't believe it then, and I don't believe it now.",
"Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron -- they were so good.",
"When I would be at a dinner and someone would say I was the best, I would want to hide out of sight and sink into the floor.\"",
"At the height of his talent, he stepped away from baseball to fly Panther fighter jets in Korea.",
"He was a United States Marine pilot; often he would go out on two-plane missions flying side-by-side with a young Marine hotshot by the name of John Glenn.",
"Talk about two Americans you can count on in a pinch....",
"I asked Glenn about Williams once.",
"\"He was just great,\" Glenn said.",
"\"The same skills that made him the best baseball hitter ever -- the eye, the coordination, the discipline -- are what he used to make himself an excellent combat pilot.\"",
"This is the man who is being degraded today.",
"This is the man who is being treated, in death, as if he is in a carnival sideshow.",
"As I spoke with Williams, with his eyesight failing and his body inexorably shutting down, I asked him: If he could change one thing in his life, what would it be?",
"He said that this, more than anything else, is what he wished for: the ability to \"run like a deer.\"",
"I thought he was talking about wishing he could have his youth back -- wishing, in his old age, that he could stand up and run again.",
"But that wasn't it. He said he wished that, back when he was a player, he was just a little faster.",
"\"I would run to first,\" he recalled of his years with the Red Sox, \"and there would be that boom-boom.\"",
"The sound of being called out at first base, the ball hitting the fielder's glove just before Williams's foot hit the bag.",
"\"If I could have run a little faster ... how many at-bats did I have?\"",
"he asked me. \"Seven thousand?\"",
"I told him it was 7,706.",
"With 2,654 hits.",
"\"If I could have run just a little faster, I bet you I could have had 50 more hits,\" he said.",
"He paused. There was wistfulness in his voice.",
"\"Maybe a hundred,\" he said.",
"A man seeing death just up the road, still dreaming of excellence.",
"That is the man whose dignity we have treated with such awful indifference.",
"Shame on us. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene."
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"He recalls superstar player as a man who always strove to do his best .",
"Williams was baseball's last .400 hitter and a veteran of two wars ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States temporarily closed its government facilities in South Africa on Tuesday after a \"possible threat\" to its embassy, the U.S. State Department said.",
"The U.S. Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa, is among the American facilities closed Tuesday.",
"The U.S. Embassy in Pretoria and other government offices in South Africa will remain closed Wednesday as the security threat is being monitored, embassy spokeswoman Sharon Hudson-Dean said.",
"State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the action was a precaution.",
"\"We are ... notifying the American community in South Africa to remain vigilant,\" Kelly said.",
"\"We are also maintaining close contact with South African authorities on this issue.\"",
"He had no further details on the \"possible threat\" to the embassy in Pretoria.",
"A note on the embassy's Web site said all U.S. government facilities in South Africa were temporarily closed following \"information recently received\" by regional security officials.",
"Kelly said the embassy's Emergency Action Committee met and is formulating an appropriate course of action.",
"CNN's Nkepile Mabuse and Elise Labott contributed to this report."
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"U.S. State Department spokesman calls temporary closings a precaution .",
"Americans in South Africa told to remain \"vigilant\""
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"(CNN) -- The Renault Formula One team have commenced legal proceedings against former driver Nelson Piquet Junior over allegations made by the Brazilian that he was asked by the team to deliberately crash his car in last year's Singapore Grand Prix.",
"Renault boss Flavio Briatore has issued a statement confirming legal proceddings against Nelson Piquet Jr.",
"It has been claimed that Renault boss, Flavio Briatore, in order to maximize the chances of Fernando Alonso winning the 2008 race, planned the crash of teammate Piquet Jr. Renault have hit back against the allegations concerning the event made by Piquet Jr in an official statement on their Web site.",
"\"Managing Director Flavio Briatore personally wish[es] to state criminal proceedings against Nelson Piquet Junior and Nelson Piquet Senior [have commenced] in France concerning the making of false allegations,\" the statement read.",
"The statement added the three-times former world champion and his son had also attempted to \"blackmail the team\" into allowing Piquet Jr to continue to drive until the end of the 2009 season.",
"Renault, who dismissed Piquet Jr as their driver in August, confirmed they have referred the matter to the British police.",
"The French car constructor face being thrown out of Formula One if the allegations are proved by an investigation being conducted by the governing body of world motorsport, the FIA.",
"The team will go before the FIA's World Motor Sport Council in Paris on September 21 to hear the findings of the probe.",
"Double world champion Alonso won the race -- the first for Renault in two years -- despite starting from 15th on the grid.",
"Intriguingly, Renault ran a light fuel load on Alonso's car -- thereby increasing the driver's speed.",
"Just two laps after Alonso came in early to take on more fuel, Piquet's crash forced the deployment of the safety car and the subsequent pit stop of nearly all other drivers, an action that promoted Alonso to fifth from where he went onto to secure victory.",
"Piquet attributed the crash to a simple error at the time.",
"Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone recently warned \"there is going to be a lot of trouble\" if the allegations are found to be true.",
"The FIA proved with the spygate saga only circumstantial evidence is required for them to impose strict penalties.",
"On that occasion they fined McLaren $80 million for breaching the same article that is now now faced by Renault."
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"Renault commence legal action against Nelson Piquet Jr over race-fixing claim .",
"Team boss Flavio Briatore also accuses driver of \"blackmailing\" Renault .",
"Allegations refer to Fernando Alonso's 2008 Singapore Grand Prix victory .",
"Renault to face findings of FIA investigation into incident on September 21 ."
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"BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel defeated her foreign minister Sunday to win another four-year term, according to exit polls reported by German television network NTV.",
"German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband, Joachim Sauer, vote Sunday in Berlin.",
"NTV reported Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party received 33.7 percent of the vote, based on exit poll projections.",
"The polls show Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier's center-left Social Democrats received 23.4 percent, the network reported.",
"\"Not only are you happy, I am very happy as well,\" Merkel told cheering supporters at her headquarters.",
"\"We've accomplished something great.",
"We've done it. We've reached our election goal, to retain a stable majority in Germany and a new government with a new coalition.\"",
"The crowd chanted, \"Angie, Angie, Angie.\"",
"Steinmeier, meanwhile, conceded what he called \"a bitter defeat\" for the Social Democrats.",
"\"The voters have decided, and the result is a bad day,\" Steinmeier said in a speech to supporters.",
"He thanked those who helped lead his campaign and those who supported him.",
"The two parties currently are in a coalition, with Steinmeier as foreign minister.",
"Few doubted that Merkel's party would receive the most votes.",
"The question was what kind of coalition will be formed -- another broad centrist one, across the political divide, or a more right-leaning one.",
"Merkel favors cutting taxes to spur growth, while Steinmeier opposes tax breaks.",
"The country is deep in debt.",
"What's at stake in the German election » .",
"Voters chose members of the lower house of parliament, or Bundestag, who will pick the head of government.",
"Each German had two votes -- one for a member of parliament representing a district and another for a political party.",
"The election Sunday followed release of a threatening videos from al Qaeda and the Taliban warning Germans not to vote for leaders who want to keep the country's troops in Afghanistan.",
"Security was tightened at airports and train stations, and authorities on Saturday banned all flights over the Oktoberfest beer festival until it ends on October 4.",
"The annual event attracts about 6 million people.",
"About 62 million people were eligible to vote, out of Germany's population of 82 million.",
"CNN's Fred Pleitgen contributed to this report."
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"Chancellor Angela Merkel defeats her foreign minister, exit polls indicate .",
"\"This is a bitter defeat,\" says challenger Frank-Walter Steinmeier .",
"Merkel's center-right Christian Democratic Union got 33.7% of vote, TV reports .",
"Steinmeier's center-left Social Democrats received 23.4 percent, network says ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Anna Nicole Smith's bizarre introduction of rapper Kanye West at the 2004 American Music Awards took center stage on the first day of a preliminary hearing for three people facing charges stemming from her death.",
"Anna Nicole Smith's death on February 8, 2007, was ruled to be from \"acute combined drug intoxication.\"",
"Prosecutors said they wanted Judge Robert Perry to see how the former Playboy model and reality TV star was affected by what they alleged was an illegal conspiracy to prescribe, administer and dispense controlled substances to an addict.",
"Howard K. Stern, Smith's lawyer and companion, and co-defendants Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor each entered not guilty pleas in Los Angeles County Superior Court in September.",
"The preliminary hearing, which lawyers said could last three weeks, is an opportunity for the defense to \"lock in\" the testimony of prosecution witnesses, one defense lawyer said.",
"It is not expected to result in any charges being dropped, he said.",
"The lawyer for Stern, who faces 11 felony counts, said to prove a conspiracy, the prosecutor would have to show Stern knew it was illegal to use fake names to obtain narcotics for Smith, which he said was to protect her privacy.",
"\"He has no reason to believe that there was anything improper in what was going on,\" defense lawyer Steve Sadow said.",
"\"He honestly believed that if the doctor said he could do it this way and, in fact, did it, then it was legitimate and lawful.\"",
"Smith's death in a Hollywood, Florida, hotel on February 8, 2007, was ruled to be from \"acute combined drug intoxication,\" the Broward County, Florida, medical examiner said.",
"Smith's introduction of Kanye West -- projected on a courtroom screen -- was a brief respite from a mostly tedious hearing spent shuffling through prescription records.",
"\"Like my body?\" a slim and busty Smith asked as she showed off her tight-fitting gown.",
"Smith slurred much of her speech as she tried to read from a teleprompter.",
"\"Make some noise for my boy, Kanye West,\" Smith finally yelled.",
"Sadow said the video should be viewed in the context of the medical problems Smith was suffering at the time.",
"\"We all have bad days, and she suffered from seizures and she had medical problems,\" Sadow said.",
"\"So, if she's on medication for that, [it] would explain her activity.\"",
"Stern sat with his head in his hands at times while the government's lead investigator described what happened the day Smith died at the Hard Rock Hotel.",
"Danny Santiago, special agent for the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, said investigators found 12 types of prescription drugs, including dangerous opiates, in the hotel room.",
"Seven of them were prescribed using Stern's name, although spelled \"Stearn,\" he said.",
"Two of the drugs apparently were for treatment of \"flu-like symptoms\" Smith was suffering when she arrived at the hotel three days before her death, he said.",
"A hotel employee who saw Smith and Stern arrive told investigators she \"wasn't her normal vivacious self,\" Santiago said.",
"Another hotel worker who had closely assisted Smith during several earlier stays said she was not allowed contact with Smith, which she said was \"very unusual,\" Santiago testified.",
"The workers said they were told Smith was suffering from \"flu-like symptoms.\"",
"The autopsy revealed Smith had a bacterial infection, Santiago said.",
"When Stern left the hotel on the morning of February 8 to shop for a new boat, he asked Tasma Brighthaupt, a registered nurse who is married to Smith's bodyguard, to watch over Smith, who he said was sleeping, the investigator said.",
"Brighthaupt sat next to the bed, surfing the Internet with a laptop and talking on her cell phone, believing Smith was sleeping, he said.",
"Finally, Brigette Neben, described as a friend of Smith's, noticed her lips were turning blue and her skin was pale, he said.",
"When the nurse was unable to find a pulse, she called her husband, Maurice Brighthaupt.",
"He then called the hotel desk, where an employee called for paramedics.",
"CPR efforts by the bodyguard and paramedics failed to revive Smith, who was then taken to Hollywood Memorial Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the investigator said.",
"A series of affidavits used by state investigators to obtain search warrants in their 2½-year investigation was unsealed last month, revealing many details, including an account of one witness who told investigators she saw Stern inject Smith with drugs.",
"Other affidavits included a medical expert's conclusion that Smith, whose real name was Vickie Lynn Marshall, was given drugs in \"excessive amounts\" and a pharmacist who said he had refused to fill a prescription for a long list of strong narcotics."
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"Video played at preliminary hearing on reality star Smith's death .",
"3 charged with conspiracy to prescribe, administer and dispense drugs .",
"Howard Stern, Khristine Eroshevich, Sandeep Kapoor have pleaded not guilty ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Salvadoran immigrant suspected in the 2001 slaying of Washington intern Chandra Levy told at least two people he killed her, according to an affidavit filed in the case.",
"Ingmar Guandique is serving a 10-year sentence for two assaults in the park where Chandra Levy's body was found.",
"Ingmar Guandique, 27, also kept a magazine photo of Levy in his prison cell, stated the affidavit detailing evidence supporting a warrant for his arrest for first-degree murder.",
"Guandique is in prison in California for two assault convictions.",
"Guandique boasted of his ties to the violent Salvadoran gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, and told witnesses that he was known as \"Chuckie\" -- the name of a demonic doll in a series of horror movies -- because he had a reputation for \"killing and chopping up people,\" the affidavit states.",
"D.C. Metro police and federal prosecutors released the affidavit on Tuesday, announcing they would charge Guandique with first-degree murder in the Levy case.",
"He has not been charged with any other slayings.",
"Watch the police announce arrest » .",
"The affidavit revealed that Levy, 25, fought for her life, scratching her attacker on his face and giving him a \"fat lip.\"",
"Guandique said he received the injuries in a fight with his girlfriend.",
"But the girlfriend later told police that while Guandique struck and bit her at times, she never hit him, the document says.",
"Guandique is serving concurrent 10-year sentences in connection with attacks on two other joggers in the park during the summer of 2001.",
"He told probation officials the attacks were motivated by robbery, but no valuables were taken from either victim.",
"Guandique was arrested after the second attack -- exactly two months after Levy's slaying.",
"D.C. Metro police began to take a hard second look at him in 2008, the affidavit shows.",
"He has repeatedly denied to authorities that he killed Levy, and his public defenders have cautioned against a rush to judgment, citing what they called flaws in the investigation.",
"The affidavit details a case built largely on circumstantial evidence collected over the eight years since Levy disappeared, apparently while jogging along the Western Ridge trail in Washington's Rock Creek Park.",
"It portrays Guandique as an opportunistic attacker who came up behind female joggers, grabbing them as they were tiring and becoming winded.",
"The affidavit includes highlights from interviews with a dozen witnesses, who are not identified by name and are instead given numbers.",
"One witness, who frequently exchanged letters with the suspect, told police Guandique had told him as early as 2003 that he killed a young woman in the park.",
"During a taped 2008 phone conversation with the witness, \"Guandique acknowledged that he had told W9 about the 'girl who's dead,''' the affidavit says.",
"Another witness told police that Guandique said he and two male teenagers were sitting on a bench in a park smoking marijuana laced with cocaine when a woman with dark, thick hair jogged by.",
"The witness said Guandique thought she \"looked good\" and told the two teens that he was going to \"get her.\"",
"Guandique told the witness that the three followed her along a path, then grabbed her and forced her off the trail.",
"When she started screaming, he grabbed her by the neck and choked her to death, so that other people in the park would not hear her cries for help.",
"It is not clear from the affidavit whether the two teens Guandique said were with him actually exist.",
"Police have said no other arrests are imminent, but the investigation is continuing.",
"Timeline of Levy's disappearance » .",
"Levy's skull was found in the park on May 22, 2002 -- more than a year after she disappeared.",
"A search turned up other remains, as well as clothing later identified as hers strewn down the side of a ravine.",
"Her running shoes were unlaced.",
"He clothes were turned inside out, the pants knotted in tight restraints around her legs.",
"\"It appears that Guandique wanted Ms. Levy naked and incapacitated,\" states the affidavit, signed by D.C. Metro Det.",
"Todd Williams.",
"Also among the witnesses are two women who were attacked in Rock Creek Park during the summer of 2001, along with a woman who narrowly escaped her attacker at about 2 p.m. on May 1, 2001 -- about the same time Levy is believed to have been jogging in the park.",
"All three identified Guandique from photographs as the man who stalked them in Rock Creek Park.",
"\"I do not doubt that he purposely stalked me as a hunter tracks his prey,\" one of the victims told police, according to the affidavit.",
"The other victim described him as \"a bold and practiced attacker,\" the affidavit said.",
"\"He waited until he thought I was fatigued from jogging up a hill and purposefully selected a secluded spot right next to a deep ravine.",
"I fear for other women who may appear to be more vulnerable than I did.\"",
"Guandique also allegedly described his methods to one of the witnesses in whom he confided, according to the affidavit.",
"\"Guandique said he would hide on a dirt path and wait for the girl to walk by.",
"He would then lasso the girl around the neck and tie her hands and feet together behind her back to prevent her from scratching or kicking him,\" the affidavit quotes the witness as saying.",
"It continues: \"After the girl was tied up, he would rape her.",
"Guandique admitted that he did not always know whether his victims were still alive at the end of the attack, but that it did not matter, because they would be eaten by the animals, like coyotes and vultures.\"",
"Police visited Guandique at a federal prison in California in November, according to the affidavit.",
"They found him to be heavily tattooed, with multiple MS-13 gang tattoos, as well as \"Chuckie\" tattoos and a devil tattooed on his head.",
"One tattoo on his back depicts the \"Chuckie\" movie character holding a knife, according to the affidavit.",
"Guandique learned last week from media reports that he would be arrested in the Levy murder case and, according to a witness, responded with an expletive.",
"\"They got me now. What am I gonna do?\" the witness quoted Guandique as saying, according to the affidavit.",
"He vowed that he was not \"going to go out alone,\" telling the witness he planned to set a fire with a battery and tissues, then use a homemade handcuff key to escape.",
"He said he would kill the detectives with \"shanks,\" or weapons made in prison.",
"A search of his cell on February 26 turned up the items he described to the witness, the affidavit says.",
"They included an AA battery, several tissues, a toenail clipper fashioned into a sharp piece of metal, and a device made of a razor blade.",
"Authorities said Guandique will be brought to Washington in the next 45 to 60 days and formally charged, ending a chapter in one of Washington's most notorious cold cases.",
"Although the case's notoriety was fed by news reports linking Levy to a married congressman, U.S. Rep. Gary Condit's name does not appear at all in the affidavit supporting the case against the man police want to charge with her murder."
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"NEW: Affidavit says suspect kept a magazine photo of Chandra Levy in prison cell .",
"NEW: Witnesses say suspect known as \"Chuckie,\" like demonic movie doll .",
"An arrest warrant for Ingmar Guandique was signed Tuesday .",
"Levy disappeared in May 2001; her body was found a year later ."
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"SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- A man police believe shot and killed two people at a California toll plaza during the height of evening rush hour Tuesday was taken into custody early Wednesday, authorities told CNN affiliate KTVU.",
"Police say Nathaniel Burris, 46, was arrested just after 3 a.m. on Interstate 80 near Baxter, California.",
"Nathaniel Burris, 46, was arrested just after 3 a.m. on Interstate 80 near Baxter, California, by the California Highway Patrol, Richmond, California, police Sgt.",
"Bisa French told KTVU.",
"The shooting happened at 5:55 p.m. at the entrance to the 7.5-mile Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, which links Contra Costa and Marin counties, California Highway Patrol spokesman Sam Morgan told CNNRadio.",
"Deborah Ross, 51, was killed inside one of the toll booths, the California governor's office said.",
"The other person killed was a man shot while sitting in his vehicle, which was parked in a lot at the toll plaza, Morgan said.",
"KTVU identified the man as Ersie \"Chuck\" Everett, 58.",
"Both people were shot with a shotgun, authorities said.",
"The suspect drove off in a white 2005 Ford van with \"Western Eagle Shuttle\" printed on it in orange and blue letters, Morgan said.",
"Richmond police said the deaths appeared to stem from a domestic dispute, KTVU said.",
"French told the station Burris was in a \"dating relationship\" and lived with Ross.",
"Aerial footage showed traffic backed up after the shooting, with cars being ushered through the far-right toll lane.",
"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement expressing shock and sadness over Ross' death.",
"The statement said Capitol flags would be flown at half-staff in her memory."
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"Woman shot inside one of the toll booths; another victim shot inside his vehicle .",
"Nathaniel Burris of Richmond, California, accused of rush-hour slayings .",
"Police say deaths appeared to stem from a domestic dispute ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A man who was raised at Camp Lejeune told lawmakers Thursday that he blames contaminated water at the U.S. Marines training base for his breast cancer.",
"Government records show decades of contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.",
"Michael Partain, who was diagnosed two years ago at the age of 39, told the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs that his parents were stationed at the base in North Carolina when he was born.",
"At least 40 former U.S. Marines or sons of Marines who lived at Camp Lejeune have been diagnosed with the cancer that strikes fewer than 2,000 men a year, compared with about 200,000 women.",
"The committee hearing was focused on exposure by military personnel to hazardous materials in the United States, Japan and Iraq, including toxic smoke from burn pits in Iraq and contaminated water.",
"Partain said that during his mother's pregnancy, the family was exposed to high levels of tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene, dichloroethylene, benzene and vinyl chloride in the tap water at the military base.",
"\"I am one of about 40 men who share this unique commonality of male breast cancer and exposure to contaminated tap water [at] Camp Lejeune,\" he told the committee.",
"The Marines with breast cancer served or lived at Camp Lejeune between the 1960s and 1980s.",
"Government records show that the camp's water was contaminated for three decades.",
"Although the Marine Corps contends that two independent studies have found no link between water contamination and later illnesses, the men facing a debilitating and possibly lethal disease don't believe it.",
"Partain said his illness has been been a \"traumatic, emotional and physical\" ordeal for his family.",
"Two North Carolina senators -- Richard Burr, the ranking Republican on the committee, and Kay Hagan, a Democrat who is not a panel member -- are pushing legislation that would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to cover the medical costs of Marines and their families who were exposed to the contaminated water.",
"The provision, which has passed the Senate, would amend the Defense Appropriations Bill to prohibit the Navy from \"disposing of water-contamination claims before critical scientific studies can be completed.\"",
"According to Hagan, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is conducting human health and water modeling studies to determine whether the toxic water contributed to health problems at the base.",
"Some of the water was contaminated with toxins at concentrations up to 280 times what is currently considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency, Hagan said.",
"The bill covers the period between 1957 and 1987.",
"\"I think it should be our mission to give these families complete answers,\" she said.",
"\"They can't get closure until the remaining CDC studies, which are in progress, are complete.\"",
"Sen. Roland Burris, D-Illinois, added, \"I am deeply concerned about possible environmental hazards in places where we are fighting two wars.\"",
"He and other senators agreed that current military personnel and veterans should not have to battle red tape to get health care and benefits.",
"Russell Powell, a medic with the 1092nd West Virginia Army National Guard, said that from April 2003 to June 2004, the unit was assigned to the Qarmat Ali water treatment plant in Basra, Iraq, to provide security for contractors with KBR, an engineering and construction company hired by the Defense Department to provide services in Iraq.",
"When the platoon reached the plant, they found it in disarray and coated with orange-colored dust, he testified.",
"Large bags of the dust had been ripped open, and frequent dust storms blew through the facility, he said.",
"At no time were the security guards offered protective clothing, masks or respirators, Powell said.",
"After a few weeks, several soldiers began getting lesions on their hands, arms, faces and nostrils.",
"\"As a medic, I felt very concerned for the safety and health of persons exposed.",
"I questioned one of the KBR workers, and he told me that his supervisors told him not to worry about it, that we were allergic to sand and dust,\" according to Powell.",
"When he went to a military doctor with his symptoms, the physician prescribed Motrin and Tylenol.",
"Soon after, Powell began coughing up blood and was hospitalized.",
"His face and lips were burned, and he could barely swallow, he said.",
"Powell left Iraq in April 2004, still suffering symptoms, he said.",
"Doctors didn't know what it was.",
"This year, he said, he received a letter from the West Virginia National Guard that said he and others may have been exposed to sodium dichromate.",
"The medic said he's aware that research is being done.",
"Sodium dichromate is a poisonous red-orange crystalline compound.",
"Another witness, Stacy Pennington, cried in the hearing room as she described the agony her brother suffered before he died.",
"Army Staff Sgt.",
"Steven Ochs was 27 when he was deployed to Iraq in 2003, she said.",
"He was assigned at one point to Balad Air Base in northern Iraq, where there was a large burn pit: a junk pit where plastics, food, medical waste and, Pennington said, possibly even body parts were burned.",
"The toxic smoke wafted over the area.",
"Dr. Bill Halperin, who heads a subcommittee of the Defense Health Board, an advisory committee to the Secretary of Defense, said in a presentation last year that before three incinerators were installed, the burn pit received as much as 500,000 pounds of waste a day.",
"After Ochs returned from his third Iraq tour, he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, his sister said.",
"He spent 10 months at Duke University Hospital, where doctors, she said, told him that his aggressive form of the disease was \"definitely chemically induced\" by exposures to toxic materials in Iraq and Afghanistan, where Ochs also had served."
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"Man tells Senate panel that his family was stationed at base when he was born .",
"He was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago at age 39 .",
"Family was exposed to chemicals in tap water during mother's pregnancy, he says ."
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"(CNN) -- After a weekend of rumors, it's finally official: Heidi Klum and Seal are now the proud parents of a baby girl, Klum's representative confirmed.",
"Heidi Klum met Seal in 2004, and the couple married a year later.",
"The \"Project Runway\" host gave birth Friday night.",
"Klum and Seal named their new bundle Lou Sulola Samuel.",
"The couple, who married in 2005, have been busy babymaking ever since.",
"Lou Sulola is the youngest of four: Henri, 4, Johan, 2 and Leni, 5, whom Klum had from a previous relationship.",
"\"It's difficult to imagine loving another child as much as you love your existing children,\" Seal said of the birth in a statement Tuesday.",
"\"Anyone who has a family will tell you this.",
"Where will one find that extra love?",
"If you love your existing children with all of your heart, how then can one possibly find more heart with which to love another?\"",
"The answer to that question, the Grammy-winning singer said, \"came in the form of our fourth child and second daughter.",
"\"Lou Sulola Samuel was born, and from the moment she looked into both of our eyes, it was endless love at first sight.",
"She is beautiful beyond words, and we are happy that she chose us to watch her grow over the coming years,\" he said."
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"Heidi Klum and Seal have confirmed their daughter was born Friday .",
"The couple named her Lou Sulola Samuel .",
"She has three siblings: Henri, Johan and Leni .",
"Seal said when Lou Sulola was born, it was \"endless love at first sight.\""
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"During CNN's \"Going Green: Green Light for Business\" coverage, we've asked businesses to tell us how they balance the imperative for profit with environmental concerns.",
"First up is the co-founder of Hong Kong-based DIAZ Fine Jewelry, Salina Khan Fuchigami, whose business packages cubic zirconia diamonds in an environmental wrapping.",
"Growing up surrounded by generations of jewelry wearing tradition, I was drawn to the brilliance and transparency of diamonds from an early age.",
"Later, it was the fact that diamonds are a unique resource, evoking beauty and eternal love that lead me to found DIAZ Fine Jewelry.",
"Salina Khan Fuchigami co-founded DIAZ Fine Jewelry with her husband Takashi.",
"However, as I began to learn beyond the basics and beauty of diamonds, I began to discover the many environmental and ethical issues related to them.",
"And the once simple wish to create a line of exquisite diamond jewelry grew into a mission -- to create an ecologically and ethically correct jewelry brand.",
"I was one of many who were understandably concerned to learn that jewelry they had as a symbol of love may have come at a terrible human and environmental cost.",
"Although the social and ethical issues associated with conflict diamonds were the impetus at the core of the DIAZ philosophy, the serious environmental impacts of the diamond industry could not be ignored.",
"There's an undeniable link between the degradation of our global environment and consumer culture.",
"The trouble is that these days, things are so nicely packaged, presented and displayed that we hardly ever question how the raw materials used to produce the goods are extracted and processed.",
"We rarely think of how it all affects the environment and humankind.",
"It's impossible to assess exactly how much devastation one single diamond could have caused before it was cut, polished, set and sold at a high-end retailer.",
"It's hard to imagine what a diamond mine looks like by looking at the \"stunning sparklers\" that are neatly displayed in shop windows.",
"Somewhere along the way it became irrelevant to question the true cost of the stones.",
"Diamond mining practices are not without huge ecological impacts.",
"Whether extracted from a large-scale diamond mine using modern, clinical mining methods, or through small-scale artisanal alluvial diamond digging, the diamond industry faces environmental challenges just as with any mineral extraction.",
"Land disturbance, which involves the shifting of large quantities of soil from the earth, is interlinked with issues of waste and water pollution as well as huge impacts on biodiversity.",
"Through my company, I knew I could offer an alternative to mined-diamond jewelry of equal beauty and quality -- using lab-created jewels and meticulous craftsmanship -- jewelry that evoked beauty and eternal love, and that was truly transparent.",
"As with any environmental or ethical issue, education, knowledge and action are the keys to ending unnecessary harm.",
"So, as the business grew, we made sure each of our customers received an info-leaflet with every purchase.",
"We began donating proceeds from our sales to grassroots organizations that ran mine-reclamation projects promoting organic farming and biodiversity in mining towns in Sierra Leone, a country devastated by civil war that was fueled by diamonds and now has a landscape scarred by indiscriminate alluvial diamond mining.",
"We began monitoring the working conditions at our workshop, and looking for more sustainable methods of packaging and delivering our jewelry.",
"We found that our customers were happy to be a part of a solution and not the problem.",
"The economic downturn, combined with an increasing awareness of the ecological and ethical facts surrounding diamonds, has meant an increase in customers who appreciate affordable luxury without any attached guilt.",
"There's no doubt that the choices we make and the actions we take today affect the fate of our planet and in turn our well being.",
"With shifting consumer behavior and a changing economic and environmental climate, the time has come where being environmentally conscious is an imperative for all individuals and businesses alike."
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"CNN has asked businesses to explain their concept of \"Going Green\"\nJeweler Salina Khan Fuchigami uses cubic zirconia instead of diamonds .",
"Khan Fuchigami: \"Diamond mining practices have huge ecological impacts\"\nBlog series is part of CNN's \"Going Green\" coverage from June 15 to July 10 ."
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"(CNN) -- Phillip Garrido was registered as a sex offender, regularly visited by parole officers and fitted with an ankle bracelet to track his movements -- but nothing prevented him from being around children, according to a victims' advocacy group.",
"Phillip Garrido, a registered sex offender, was arraigned in California on Friday.",
"Garrido is charged with kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard in 1991, when she was 11, and raping her over the course of years.",
"Police say Dugard lived in a huddle of tents and outbuildings hidden behind Garrido's home, and gave birth to two daughters, now 11 and 15, fathered by Garrido.",
"Garrido and his wife Nancy were arrested last week.",
"Both have pleaded not guilty.",
"\"Here we have a guy who is essentially under every kind of supervision we allow.",
"Law enforcement had every tool available to them, and [the tools] failed,\" said Robert Coombs, spokesman for the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault.",
"Gordon Hinkle, spokesman for the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said a parole officer visited Garrido at his home, sometimes unannounced, twice a month.",
"Garrido was also required to go to the agent's office once or twice a month, Hinkle said.",
"Garrido wore a GPS anklet, and his movements were tracked passively, Hinkle said, meaning parole officers checked his location after the fact, as opposed to active monitoring, which involves watching parolees' comings and goings in real time.",
"Despite the tight supervision, Garrido \"was technically allowed to be around minors,\" Coombs said, because his parole stemmed from the November 1976 rape of Katie Callaway Hall, who was 25 at the time of the assault.",
"He was sentenced in 1977 to 50 years at the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas, for kidnapping, because he abducted Hall in California and transported her across the state line to Reno, Nevada, where he raped her in a warehouse, according to court documents.",
"A Nevada court separately sentenced him to five years to life for the rape conviction, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.",
"While in prison in 1978, Garrido sent a handwritten letter to Judge Bruce R. Thompson, saying he was recovering from seven years of LSD use and progressing well.",
"\"I am so ashamed of my past.",
"But my future is now in controle [sic],\" he wrote.",
"Court documents show Garrido requested that his 50-year sentence be reduced to 25, making him eligible for parole in eight years, \"where he could be released to the state of Nevada as an educated person and being a rehabilitated person.\"",
"According to a 1978 court transcript, attorney Willard Van Hazel Jr. told a judge, \"Without the influence of any of this drug involvement, I think Mr. Garrido would pause before carrying out sexual fantasies.\"",
"After more than a decade at Leavenworth, Garrido received a federal parole but was sent to Carson City, Nevada, in January 1988 to serve his rape sentence.",
"However, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal, he was automatically eligible for state parole because of the time served in federal prison.",
"The Nevada Offender Tracking Information System indicates he appeared four times before the parole board, which granted his request in August 1988, about 11 years after he was incarcerated.",
"He moved to Antioch, California.",
"Three years later, 11-year-old Dugard was abducted from her home in South Lake Tahoe, California, about 100 miles northeast.",
"\"He served about 20 percent of his sentence, and it doesn't take a mathematician to figure out if he served only one-third of his sentence, Jaycee Dugard doesn't end up in the predicament that she's in,\" said Andy Kahan, a crime victims' advocate in Houston, Texas.",
"Citing revised federal sentencing guidelines, Kahan and Illinois defense attorney Stephen Komie concur that this is not something that could happen today.",
"\"If he got 50 years, say, he would have 600 months.",
"He would only get 50 months off.",
"He would do 550 months,\" Komie said.",
"\"So this would not be repeated in the federal system again.\"",
"Added Kahan, \"You're going to have to do at least a minimum of half of your term without any good time credits before you can even see the light of day or say hello to a parole board member.\"",
"In 1993, five years after his release from a Nevada prison, Garrido was jailed on a parole violation, but it's unclear what that offense was.",
"Tom Hutchinson, spokesman for the U.S. Parole Commission, said documents have been requested and should be available later this week.",
"Garrido was released later that year.",
"California took over his parole supervision in 1999, Hinkle said, but regular visits did nothing to unearth Dugard's abduction or Garrido's backyard secrets.",
"Another visit by law enforcement was the direct result of a 2006 call a neighbor made to 911, reporting that women and children were living in tents behind Garrido's house.",
"Contra Costa County Sheriff Warren E. Rupf said he didn't think the deputy who responded knew at the time that Garrido was a sex offender and the deputy spoke to Garrido in the home's front yard.",
"\"We should have been more inquisitive, more curious and turned over a rock or two,\" the sheriff said.",
"\"We missed an opportunity to bring earlier closure to this situation.\"",
"Hinkle acknowledged that neighbors called police again with a similar complaint in 2008.",
"To his knowledge, Hinkle said, the deputy didn't contact Garrido's parole officer in either instance.",
"Even if the deputy had made contact, there is no guarantee the parole officer would have found the compound.",
"It was that well-hidden, Hinkle said.",
"\"If you were to walk in the backyard, you would see a fence that ran from one end to the other,\" Hinkle said, describing how the fence created the illusion of a \"false backyard.\"",
"\"It would not be immediately apparent that [the tents and outbuildings were] back there,\" he said.",
"Kahan partially blames the economics of the criminal justice system -- not just in California, but nationwide -- and said Garrido likely became less of a priority as the time since his crimes passed.",
"Despite the heinous nature of Garrido's 1976 crime, it paled in comparison to allegedly holding a young girl hostage and raping her for 18 years, Coombs said.",
"\"Nothing in this guy's case history indicated he was capable of such evil, if you will,\" he said.",
"\"It was so far out of the picture, they didn't even look for it.\"",
"Rather than there not being enough money to fund the proper supervision of parolees, it's more a matter of priorities, Coombs said, citing the GPS device Garrido wore on his ankle.",
"Although CALCASA has no official tally, it estimates California has spent roughly $500 million on GPS devices for 6,600 of the state's sex offenders.",
"Garrido was fitted with a device after 2006 when voters OK'd a law requiring felony sex offenders to wear tracking devices for life.",
"\"We know where this guy is, so we think we're safe,\" he said, \"but the place where we knew he was was the place where he was offending.",
"GPS just tells you where they are. It doesn't tell you what they're doing.\" Each dollar spent on GPS equipment \"is one dollar you're not spending on real, traditional parole techniques, like talking to collateral contacts and neighbors,\" he said.",
"Coombs also criticized the lack of communication across jurisdictions.",
"Had Garrido's parole officer received a call from police and spoken to the neighbor who made the 911 call in 2006, authorities might have found Dugard three years earlier, Coombs said.",
"Hinkle said the officer who flushed out Garrido's alleged crimes had only been supervising him since December.",
"When the officer learned from campus police that Garrido had 11- and 15-year-old girls in tow while proselytizing at the University of California-Berkeley, he called Garrido in for a meeting.",
"Garrido arrived with his wife, Dugard and the two girls.",
"Hinkle would not provide details of the conversation -- it could affect the investigation and prosecution, he said -- but he did say Garrido and his wife were not forthcoming about Dugard's and the girls' identities.",
"It was the parole officer's diligence that ultimately yielded the Garridos' arrest and Dugard and her daughters' freedom.",
"Said Hinkle, \"They were coming in being elusive and deceptive about their identities, and the agent would not let go.\"",
"CNN's Mallory Simon, Irving Last and Kiran Chetry contributed to this report."
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"Garrido likely became lower priority as time since his crimes passed, expert says ."
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"(Entertainment Weekly) -- Dan Brown's \"The Da Vinci Code\" has spawned a raft of imitators, most of which pale in comparison; the latest, \"The Lost Symbol,\" is by Brown himself.",
"Dan Brown's \"The Lost Symbol\" is his first novel since the blockbuster \"The Da Vinci Code\" in 2003.",
"Once again, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to the scene of a gruesome attack, joins forces with an attractive and erudite love interest, and speeds around a world capital chasing clues, solving puzzles, and risking his life while dropping cocktail parties' worth of scholarly minutiae.",
"Even the setting, though new, will be familiar to most readers: Washington, D.C.",
"This time, Langdon is lured to the Capitol to save his mentor, Peter Solomon, a prominent member of the Freemasons who's been kidnapped by a cryptic, heavily tattooed, Homer-reading psycho calling himself Mal'akh -- a vicious fellow even less plausible than the albino monk in \"The Da Vinci Code.\"",
"Our hero is also in possession of an ancient Masonic artifact whose clues lead him on a treasure hunt to various D.C. tourist spots as he searches for a secret long hidden by the brotherhood.",
"Watch the frenzy surrounding \"The Lost Symbol\" » .",
"That secret, of course, is one giant MacGuffin -- though Brown is the rare thriller writer who seems to lavish as much attention on the object that sets his plot in motion as he does on the action itself.",
"But for thriller fans, it's the chase that really matters.",
"Especially since the secrets of Freemasonry just aren't as compelling as, say, a controversial theory about Mary Magdalene and Jesus.",
"Luckily, Langdon remains a terrific hero, a bookish intellectual who's cool in a crisis and quick on his feet, like Ken Jennings with a shot of adrenaline.",
"The codes are intriguing, the settings present often-seen locales in a fresh light, and Brown mostly manages to keep the pages turning -- except when one of his know-it-all characters decides to brake the action for another superfluous, if occasionally interesting, historical digression.",
"(Did you know there's a carving of Darth Vader on the National Cathedral?)",
"Even after the book's climactic showdown, you must slog through another 50-plus pages of exposition that Brown couldn't cram into the main narrative.",
"Sometimes it seems that authors, like their villains, don't know when to leave well enough alone.",
"EW Grade: C+ .",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"EW: Dan Brown's new novel, \"The Lost Symbol,\" doesn't equal \"Da Vinci Code\"\nBook concerns the death of a Freemason that puts Robert Langdon back in action .",
"Brown offers plenty of minutiae, but not all of it's interesting ."
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"LITHIA SPRINGS, Georgia (CNN) -- As Zack Stephney stepped into the floodwaters last week, history washed over him.",
"Thirty years after his father drowned in a rescue attempt, Zack Stephney helped save a woman whose car sank.",
"The youngest of five children, he was only 8 when his father died.",
"For three decades, he'd carried with him mere snapshots of memories: Family time at Christmas.",
"Riding on the back of Dad's motorcycle.",
"Tommie Stephney's love for drag-racing.",
"But as the 37-year-old Douglasville, Georgia, man set out September 22 to try and save a woman whose car was swept away by rushing waters, he thought of his father's drowning.",
"He, too, had fought to rescue people struggling against currents.",
"That was in 1979. Tommie Stephney, a City of Atlanta employee, dove into the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta, Georgia, to save canoeists who'd flipped their boat, his son said.",
"He safely brought two to shore.",
"The third, he said, panicked -- forcing them both under.",
"It would be a week before his father's body was found.",
"Dying in the massive floodwaters couldn't be Zack's fate.",
"Certainly not this day.",
"It was his mother Eva's 72nd birthday.",
"Lord knows she didn't deserve news like that.",
"'All in a blink of an eye' Melissa Brooks was heading east en route to Dunwoody, Georgia, for an important morning meeting with her boss.",
"She doesn't know why, but it simply didn't register with the Douglasville woman that she was the only one traveling along that stretch of I-20.",
"No signs or barriers told her she shouldn't be there.",
"The water up ahead?",
"It simply looked like a puddle, albeit a big one, the kind that would send a huge spray flying.",
"\"I got halfway through it, and it took control of my car.",
"It started taking me backwards -- all in a blink of an eye,\" she said Tuesday.",
"\"I knew I was in serious trouble.\"",
"The Atlanta-area terminal for Werner Enterprises, a large trucking company off I-20 on Blairs Bridge Road, was abuzz that morning.",
"Floodwater from nearby Sweetwater Creek had taken over a large swathe of the property, worse than they had ever seen.",
"Nearly 30 mechanics had scrambled down to the lower lot to move about 100 semis, the water topping their tires.",
"Some guys, including Stephney, a shop foreman who's been with Werner for nearly 19 years, looked out in wonder at the green space next to the lot, which had turned into a wide moving river.",
"When they first saw the silver Mazda coming through the trees from the interstate, they laughed, thinking it had been carried out of someone's driveway.",
"But after it hit a submerged fence and spun around, they spotted Brooks, 40, frantically waving.",
"\"My eyes zoomed in to see her fear,\" said Stephney.",
"And as the car started to go under, he thought, \"This woman is going to drown in front of us.\"",
"Taking charge .",
"Brooks thought back to the movies she'd seen, kept the car running and hit the power button to lower the window before it was too late.",
"She was a good swimmer, she knew that much, and with this knowledge -- and purse in hand, of course, she would recall with a laugh -- Brooks pushed herself into the torrent.",
"The current, however, was stronger than she was.",
"It pulled her where it wanted.",
"She grabbed on to what appeared to be a small tree.",
"\"Hold on! Hold on!\" Brooks heard their voices and held herself together.",
"She wasn't crying, but she was scared for her life.",
"The tree branches began breaking.",
"Stephney had taken off running, back up to the parts room to grab a spool of 1,000-foot yellow nylon rope, the sort used to tie tarps over flatbeds.",
"He threw on a fluorescent safety vest, so the men on shore could easily spot him in the filthy water.",
"Bigger men, including 265-pound Chris Mayfield, were ready to jump into the water.",
"But Stephney, 100 pounds lighter, was laying out a plan in his head.",
"Pulling him out would be easier, he told the men.",
"Why make the job harder with a heavier man?",
"\"He took charge like he'd done this a hundred times,\" Mayfield, 24, said.",
"Maybe it was his training in the U.S. Army Reserves after high school or his father's experience, but keeping everyone calm, warding off panic, was top of Stephney's mind.",
"More than 25 men stationed themselves on two points around the water as he waded in, and fed out the rope tied around him.",
"He worked his way along the 6-foot-high, nearly submerged fence topped with barbed wire, struggling against the current to get close to Brooks, whose car had jumped the fence.",
"The depth of the water worried him.",
"Weeds tugged at his feet and legs.",
"\"'What's your name?'\" Brooks remembered him asking calmly, his eyes locked on hers.",
"Then, he said, \"'Melissa, everything's going to be OK.' And I believed him.\"",
"She called Stephney the \"leader of the pack,\" and remembered him shouting to the others, \"Guys, let's pull this together.",
"If we don't pull this together, we're going to lose her.\"",
"On the other side of the fence was a stranger, Doug Weghorn.",
"That morning, he'd been checking out the damage to his neighborhood when he came upon the mess abutting Werner Enterprises.",
"Weghorn, 45, was now in the water as well.",
"With a rope in his hand, unknowingly fed to him by Stephney's team, he snatched Brooks from the tree.",
"It wasn't until Stephney was out of the water that he knew, for certain, that he and Brooks had made it.",
"The 'what ifs' The first call was to his wife, Leaquarius, the mother of his three children.",
"She didn't believe him when he told her what had happened.",
"\"I kid you not,\" he told her. \"You want to smell me?\"",
"He took a shower at work, scrubbed every inch of himself with a whole bottle of Clorox and joked that he was surprised his hair didn't turn white.",
"He showered again, stepped into spare clothes and put in a full day on the job.",
"It would be at least a few hours before he could call his mother.",
"He knew she might get upset.",
"A week later, the death toll in Georgia from the floods was 10.",
"Standing along the fence still tangled with weeds and debris, Stephney peered down at Brooks' mucked-up car, knowing that number could have been higher.",
"\"It could've happened to me the same way it did my dad,\" he said.",
"The \"what ifs\" keep spinning through his head: .",
"What if her window hadn't been down? What if they 'd never spotted her?",
"What if she'd failed to stay calm?",
"Mixed in are thoughts about his father, a man he in many ways struggles to remember.",
"What Stephney did was not unlike the countless heroic efforts that played out in disaster areas during the flood.",
"First responders and regular citizens risked their own lives to save others.",
"But he had something else pushing him, the kind of inspiration rooted in family legacy.",
"And without a doubt, Tommie Stephney would have been proud of his boy."
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"Man enters flood to rescue woman, 30 years after father drowned saving others .",
"Woman's car washes off I-20 in Georgia, 'in a blink of an eye,' she says .",
"Co-workers hold rope while he goes in, trying to keep everyone calm .",
"Thoughts of his father and the 'what ifs' stay with him ."
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"The Hague, Netherlands (CNN) -- After Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic's failure to appear at the start of his trial on genocide and war crimes charges CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson explains what happens next.",
"Q: How does the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) differ from the International Criminal Court (ICC)?",
"A: The ICTY was set up by the United Nations in 1993 specifically to try people for crimes committed during the break up of the former Yugoslavia.",
"The ICC is the first permanent, treaty-based, international criminal court established to prosecute the most serious crimes of concern to the global community including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.",
"Q: Why did Karadzic fail to show up in court on Monday?",
"A: Karadzic failed to show up because he wrote to the court several weeks ago telling judges he had not had sufficient time to prepare his defense.",
"He is a \"self-representing accused,\" meaning he is defending himself.",
"But he is backed by a large number of lawyers supported by a bevy of interns from U.S. law schools.",
"Despite all this legal support, Karadzic says there has been too much evidence for him to go through.",
"Prosecutors say they have 490 hours of evidence to present.",
"The judge wrote back to Karadzic last week telling him he doesn't need to present his defense yet, he can do it after the prosecution.",
"But Karadzic still refused to show.",
"The court cannot compel him to come even though he is held in a detention facility about seven minutes drive from the court run exclusively for those awaiting or on trial at the tribunal.",
"The detention facility is a lot more comfortable than a conventional jail.",
"Karadzic will be able to watch TV when he wants, he has access to books and can mix with other defendants.",
"Indeed, detention facility staff report that members of all three ethnic groups -- Serbs, Croats and Bosnians -- mingle freely, even playing games together.",
"Q: Can the trial proceed without a defendant in the dock?",
"A: The trial can go ahead without Karadzic present because there is no legal reason that says he needs to be there, even though he is defending himself.",
"But the court is bound to give him a fair trial so if the prosecution begins without him the judges may give Karadzic a video feed so he can watch proceedings unfold.",
"Q: How long is the trial expected to last?",
"A: The trial could last at least two years and possibly three.",
"The court allows at least one year for the prosecution and one year for the defense as a minimum.",
"Q: What measures have been put in place to prevent a repeat of the delays and obfuscation seen during the trial of the former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic?",
"A: Milosovic's trial dragged on because he defended himself, refused to accept the legitimacy of court and because of the complexity of the case and lengthy charge list -- 66 counts -- against him.",
"Karadzic's case is less complex and this is one of the lessons prosecutors have learned from the Milosevic trial: make cases simpler and only go for those that can be readily proved.",
"But with Karadzic defending himself and refusing to accept the court's legitimacy, the judges are still struggling to figure out how to deal with tactics designed to delay the trial.",
"They are likely to be less lenient than they were with Milosevic."
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"Court cannot compel Karadzic to attend bur could put video link in cell .",
"Court has simplified case against Karadzic to avoid repeat of Milosevic trial .",
"Still, trial will last at least two -- and possibly three -- years ."
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Air India took two pilots and two cabin crew off-duty over allegations that they had a fist fight during an international flight with 106 passengers aboard, the state-run airline said Monday.",
"Faced with tough competition from private carriers, Air India has struggled with financial and image crises.",
"The scuffle allegedly took place on flight from the United Arab Emirates to New Delhi, while the plane flew over Pakistan.",
"An investigation had been launched into what Air India spokesman Jitender Bhargava called \"charges and counter-charges.\"",
"In a police complaint made on landing Saturday, a 24-year-old flight attendant alleged a molestation attempt.",
"But pilots Ranbeer Arora and Aditya Chopra alleged that the molestation claim was an attempt to deflect attention from misbehavior by a male purser.",
"Have you ever experienced poor crew behaviour on a flight?",
"\"All the four have been de-rostered and an inquiry committee is examining versions of each of them,\" Bhargava said.",
"Rats have been spotted on two Air India international flights in less than a month, according to news reports.",
"An investigation in May revealed that the carrier had loaded a flight three passengers beyond capacity.",
"Several employees were de-rostered as a result.",
"\"Privatize Air India before it's too late,\" warned a column in the Hindustan Times newspaper Sunday.",
"\"As long as the government runs Air India, it will continue to strangle it,\" columnist Vir Sanghvi wrote."
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"(CNN) -- The oldest-known hominid skeleton was a 4-foot-tall female who walked upright more than 4 million years ago and offers new clues to how humans may have evolved, scientists say.",
"This sketch shows what a 4 million-year-old hominid, nicknamed Ardi, may have looked like.",
"Scientists believe that the fossilized remains, which were discovered in 1994 in Ethiopia and studied for years by an international team of researchers, support beliefs that humans and chimpanzees evolved separately from a common ancestor.",
"\"This is not an ordinary fossil.",
"It's not a chimp. It's not a human. It shows us what we used to be,\" said project co-director Tim White, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley.",
"Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed \"Ardi,\" is a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Aramis, Ethiopia.",
"That makes Ardi more than a million years older than the celebrated Lucy, the partial ape-human skeleton found in Africa in 1974.",
"Ardi's 125-piece skeleton includes the skull, teeth, pelvis, hands and feet bones.",
"Scientists say the data collected from Ardi's bone fragments over the past 17 years push back the story of human evolution further than previously believed.",
"\"In fact, what Ardipithecus tells us is that we as humans have been evolving to what we are today for at least 6 million years,\" C. Owen Lovejoy, an evolutionary biologist at Kent State University and project anatomist, said Thursday.",
"Analysis of Ardi's skeleton reveals that she weighed about 110 pounds, had very long arms and fingers, and possessed an opposable big toe that would have helped her grasp branches while moving through trees.",
"Ardi's brain was believed to be the size of a chimp's, but she also had many human-like features, such as the ability to walk upright on two legs.",
"Her \"all-purpose type\" teeth indicate that she probably ate a combination of plants, fruits and small mammals, scientists say.",
"\"The anatomy behind this behavioral combination is very unexpected and is certain to cause considerable rethinking of not only our evolutionary past, but also that of our living relatives: the great apes,\" said Alan Walker, professor of biological anthropology at Pennsylvania State University.",
"Many scientists hypothesize that humans took a different evolutionary trajectory from those of chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas.",
"Ardi's findings help challenge earlier beliefs that humans evolved from chimpanzees, their closest genetic relatives, scientists say.",
"Researchers are still trying to pinpoint when the two lineages -- chimps and humans -- split from their common ancestor.",
"Digging up the past has not been easy.",
"Scientists stumbled upon the Ardipithecus fossil in 1994 when a graduate student found a single upper molar tooth.",
"The rest of Ardi's fossilized bones, sandwiched between layers of volcanic rock, took three years to be recovered and many more to be analyzed.",
"\"In many ways, the discovery of Ardipithecus has been like a marathon,\" White said.",
"\"Ardipithecus ramidus and its prevailing anatomy revolutionize the way most of us understood the earlier part of our evolutionary history,\" said team member Yohannes Haile-Selassie, paleontologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.",
"The Ardi findings are the work of 47 paleontologists and geologists representing 10 countries.",
"The results will be published Friday in 11 articles in a special edition of the journal Science.",
"Until now, Australopithecus, nicknamed \"Lucy,\" was the oldest fossil studied by scientists seeking to explain human evolution.",
"Lucy is believed to have lived about 3.2 million years ago in what is now Ethiopia.",
"Many scientists credit Ethiopia with taking the lead in helping the world better understand the origins of humans.",
"\"This finding points to a deeper sense of our [humans'] interconnectedness,\" Samuel Assefa, Ethiopian ambassador to the United States, said Thursday.",
"\"We are all Ethiopians at heart.\"",
"Ardi's skeleton resides in the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa."
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"The fossil, nicknamed Ardi, may be the oldest hominid skeleton ever found .",
"It replaces Lucy, a much-publicized skeleton that dates back about 3 million years .",
"Scientists: Ardi suggests humans and chimps evolved from a common ancestor ."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Security forces patrolled the streets of the eastern Pakistan city of Gojra on Sunday, one day after seven people were killed and 20 injured when Muslim demonstrators set fire to houses in a Christian enclave and fighting broke out, authorities said.",
"Pakistani human rights activists in Lahore protest on Saturday over the anti-Christian violence in Gojra village.",
"Police said Muslims were enraged over an alleged desecration of pages in the Quran at a Christian wedding last Saturday, and held a rally to protest such an act.",
"The Quran is the Muslim sacred text.",
"Shehbaz Bhatti, federal minister for minorities, told CNN that four women, two men and a child, all Christians, were either killed when their houses were burned or were shot to death.",
"Some 50 houses were burned down and more than 100 were looted by the protesters, Bhatti said.",
"The incident occurred in Gojra City, 160 kilometers or around 100 miles southwest of Lahore.",
"No violence was reported Sunday, Punjab Provisional Minister Rana Sana Ullah told CNN.",
"There was a demonstration by about a thousand Christians who refused to bury their dead until the government registered a criminal case against those they alleged to have carried out the attacks.",
"The government would register a criminal case, Sana Ullah said.",
"Registering a case means a criminal investigation will be opened.",
"Sana Ullah added that the government strongly condemned the incident.",
"He said the attack was not a sectarian issue, but rather terrorism.",
"He blamed the incident on attackers with ties to militants in Northwest Pakistan, where the government is carrying out an offensive against Taliban groups.",
"On Thursday, 15 Christian houses in the region were also torched.",
"Pakistan is predominantly Muslim but has a small Christian community.",
"Meanwhile, police in Islamabad reported the Friday arrest of an al Qaeda member thought to be involved in several attacks.",
"Bin Yamin, a senior police official in Islamabad, identified the militant as Rao Shakir Ali.",
"He is suspected of being involved in strikes on several targets, such as the Danish Embassy, police and a hotel, and is also suspected of targeting a rally for Chief Justice Iftikhar Chauhdary, authorities said.",
"The suspect is a resident of Sargodha, which is 165 kilometers (more than 100 miles) northwest of Lahore and has a house in Rawalpindi that has been used to facilitate insurgent acts, police said.",
"CNN's Tim Schwarz and Journalist Nasir Habib contributed to this report."
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"Muslims enraged over an alleged desecration of Quran at a Christian wedding .",
"Muslims burned 15 Christian homes on Thursday .",
"Pakistan predominantly Muslim, but has a small Christian community ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- TV dance judge Mary Murphy said singer Chris Brown's attack on his girlfriend, Rihanna, prompted her to talk publicly about spousal abuse that she says she suffered first as a teenage bride three decades ago.",
"Mary Murphy says she was abused by her ex-husband during their nine-year marriage.",
"Murphy -- the vivacious judge on Fox TV's \"So You Think You Can Dance\" -- told CNN's Larry King that she wants other victims to learn from how she endured, but escaped, domestic violence.",
"Discovering her talent with dance eventually changed her life and helped her flee the relationship after nine years, she said.",
"Her ex-husband strongly denied that he ever physically or mentally abused Murphy, whom he married in 1978 soon after they met as teenagers in college.",
"\"I did just tuck it away and just buried it and went on with my life and I thought that, you know, I could leave it there and I wanted to leave it there until my father died a couple years ago,\" Murphy said.",
"Watch Murphy discuss abuse in her marriage » .",
"Discussions with her dying father led to him apologizing for not being \"my knight in shining armor\" by intervening, she said.",
"But Murphy said seeing a photo of singer Rihanna's bruised face, taken soon after Brown's admitted attack last February, convinced her to go public with the story.",
"\"I still had no intention to talk to anybody until I saw Rihanna's face and seeing that just brought it all up.\"",
"\"Abuse, it just survives and thrives in silence,\" Murphy said.",
"US Weekly magazine's current issue offers a detailed version of Murphy's revelations in its cover story.",
"Murphy tells the magazine about a whirlwind romance that began in 1977 when she was a 19-year-old Ohio State University student -- swept off her feet by an 18-year-old who was \"extraordinarily handsome.\"",
"She told King that the marriage began \"getting out of control\" after just three months when her husband's jealously triggered fights.",
"\"It increased until we started to have just horrible fights,\" she said.",
"\"And then at the time, after a fight in which I didn't want to have sex, it just escalated to the point that he literally had to rape me in order for me to have sex.\"",
"When a neighbor called police to her home, Murphy said she was too frightened to press charges.",
"\"I looked at him and with the look on his face, I said 'absolutely not' and went back in my room and just laid there and cried,\" she said.",
"Murphy said she left her husband several times over the nine-year marriage, but \"there weren't the shelters that there are today.\"",
"\"I did try to leave, and I was having a hard time making it, and he would sweet talk me and I would go back\" she said.",
"\"It was back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.",
"And I don't feel really proud of that.\"",
"Murphy discovered her talent and love of dance several years into the marriage when she took a summer job at a dance studio while her husband was away for several months running the family's business in the Middle East, she said.",
"\"It made me feel beautiful instead of how I was probably really feeling inside, totally ashamed and dirty,\" she said.",
"Their marriage ended only after she and her husband renewed their vows in a wedding ceremony in front of his family and friends in Amman, Jordan, in 1985.",
"She learned he had a girlfriend -- to whom he was engaged -- in the Middle East.",
"It was his infidelity that convinced her to divorce him, she said.",
"Her former husband -- who spoke to Larry King off the air -- said he was \"totally shocked\" by Murphy's account of their marriage.",
"\"I never harmed her,\" he said.",
"\"If all of these allegations are true, she could have had me deported,\" he said.",
"He is not a U.S. citizen. He questioned if her motivation was \"more fame or sympathy.\"",
"Still, he said he is \"very, very proud\" of her.",
"Murphy told King his response is what she expected.",
"\"I think a lot of men out there, by the way, that when they do get married they feel like this is their right to do whatever they want to do, and it's not,\" she said.",
"\"And I was a scared, frightened person.\"",
"Murphy said she is still afraid of her former husband.",
"\"I'm not going to lie to you that he still scares me,\" she said.",
"\"I still live in fear that he will do something to me, that I will go missing.\"",
"Fear of not being able to make it on her own still drives her today, she said.",
"\"I put this behind me, went out and worked like I've never worked before,\" she said.",
"\"And I still work today like I could still be homeless.\""
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"Mary Murphy says 18-year-old husband's jealousy triggered fights .",
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"(CNN) -- \"By blood, I am Albanian.",
"By citizenship, an Indian.",
"By faith, I am a Catholic nun.",
"As to my calling, I belong to the world.\"",
"Mother Teresa, pictured in 1997, lived and worked in Kolkata from 1931 until her death.",
"That's how Mother Teresa chose to describe herself in life.",
"In death, however, her words will probably do little to settle a diplomatic squabble over her remains.",
"The Albanian government wants to receive her remains before her 100th birthday next year.",
"Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha said his nation plans to open a museum in Mother Teresa's honor and has planned commemorative events.",
"But more important, Berisha said, Mother Teresa should rest next to her mother and sister, who are buried in a cemetery in the Albanian capital, Tirana.",
"\"She missed them very much all her life,\" he said.",
"\"My request is a very human one.",
"\"She told me that she prayed every day for her family and her country.",
"That's why I think both governments should talk about [this] and find a solution,\" Berisha said.",
"Then there is Macedonia, the nation where Mother Teresa was born and raised.",
"It, too, may stake a claim on the woman who is well on a path to sainthood.",
"But India, the land where she made her life's work, has made it clear that Mother Teresa, buried in the heart of Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), will not be leaving her final resting place.",
"\"Mother Teresa was a citizen of India,\" said Vishnu Prakash, spokesman for the country's external affairs ministry.",
"Though she arrived as a foreigner, Mother Teresa came to be cherished in her adopted home.",
"In billboards and booklets, the city of Kolkata proudly claims her as one of its most famous citizens.",
"She was a devout Catholic who transcended religion, inspiring a nation of millions of poor people, mostly Hindus and Muslims.",
"She is buried in the courtyard at the nondescript Missionaries of Charity compound in central Kolkata, a site visited by residents and tourists alike.",
"People stream in from the bustling streets to the serenity of Mother House to pay their respects -- and find strength in her presence.",
"They wander among her order of nuns in their simple blue-bordered white cotton saris.",
"On the second floor is the small and sparse room that belonged to Mother Teresa.",
"\"She has become part and parcel of our national life,\" said Father Babu Joseph, spokesman for the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India.",
"\"She built a strong bond with India,\" he said.",
"\"People of all religious groups here rather consider her an inalienable part [of India] and therefore we would strongly want the remains to be in India.\"",
"Mother Teresa was born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu to ethnic Albanian parents in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910.",
"At 18, she left home and joined the Sisters of Loreto, arriving in India in 1931.",
"Moved by staggering poverty and human suffering, she started the Missionaries of Charity, dedicating her life to helping those in need.",
"She became a fixture on the streets of Kolkata, often picking up the sick and hungry, and giving them food, shelter and love.",
"When she accepted her Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, she asked that the gala dinner be canceled and the money be sent instead to help Kolkata's destitute.",
"Mother Teresa was 87 when she died in 1997, the news eclipsed by Princess Diana's death several days earlier.",
"Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa in 2003 and she could be canonized by her centennial birthday next year -- a saint in the heavens whose resting place on Earth remains a devilish debate."
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"Mother Teresa lived, worked mostly in Kolkata but was ethnically Albanian .",
"Albania wants her body repatriated in time for 100th anniversary of birth in 2010 .",
"Mother Teresa currently buried in Missionaries of Charity compound in Kolkata .",
"Mother Teresa, who died in 1997, beatified in 2003; could be canonized next year ."
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"(CNN) -- The recession means competition in pro football this year isn't restricted to the gridiron.",
"The National Football League and its 32 teams also are battling for the consumer's discretionary spending dollars.",
"Less-established NFL teams, such as the Jacksonville Jaguars, face special challenges in the recession.",
"And just like on the playing field, some teams are having an easier time scoring an economic touchdown than others.",
"\"Overall ticket sales are very positive but difficult in these challenging times,\" NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in a statement.",
"He did not provide overall ticket sales numbers for the current season.",
"The league is coming off a year that saw overall attendance drop slightly, 0.7 percent, from 2007 amid the start of the economic slowdown.",
"Bill Prescott, a Jacksonville Jaguars vice president and the team's chief financial officer, said the team started to see the impact of the recession last year, when single-game ticket sales and concession revenue dropped as the season progressed.",
"Heading into this season, he said, sales are off even more than the team expected -- new ticket sales are down 75 percent from last year and season ticket renewals are down 10 percent.",
"No Jaguar games are sold out, despite a recent survey by The Media Audit that found 76 percent of adults in Jacksonville, Florida, regularly follow the Jaguars -- the fifth-best percentage of any NFL market.",
"\"The economy is having that impact on us,\" Prescott said.",
"\"As a very small market, I think we're feeling it more than some of the other teams in the league.\"",
"The Minnesota Vikings also have yet to sell out any of their games, though the team expects that could change with the recent high-profile signing of quarterback Brett Favre.",
"Within a day of Favre's signing, the Vikings had sold an additional 3,000 season tickets and 10,000 single-game tickets.",
"\"The economy's affecting all professional sports teams,\" said Steve LaCroix, the Vikings' vice president of sales and marketing.",
"\"We're not only competing for people's time and money, but trying to keep the fans in the stadium on game day as opposed to watching on TV.\"",
"LaCroix said there weren't a large number of cancellations in season ticket holder accounts.",
"However, some fans did trim down the number of seats in their respective accounts.",
"LaCroix added some are coming back on board as the season approaches.",
"The Cincinnati Bengals are getting nationwide exposure through the HBO reality series \"Hard Knocks,\" which chronicles the team's training camp and preparation for the upcoming season.",
"However, the Bengals' streak of 44 straight sellouts, a franchise record, is at risk, according to spokesman Jim Brennan.",
"The Bengals' September 13 home opener against Denver is not sold out yet.",
"Some teams, however, are more than holding their own as far as ticket sales go despite the nation's fiscal woes.",
"The Denver Broncos are sold out for the 40th straight year -- dating back to the first game of the 1970 season, according to spokesman Jim Saccomano.",
"And Chicago Bears spokesman Scott Hagel says the team is sold out for the 25th straight season.",
"He adds the season ticket renewal rate is well over 90 percent, on par with the prior decade.",
"According to league spokesman McCarthy, 24 of the NFL's 32 teams did not raise ticket prices from last year.",
"One of the teams that did is the Indianapolis Colts, which bumped up the cost of 10 percent of its season ticket holder seats, according to team spokesman Craig Kelley.",
"All games are sold out.",
"Two factors working in the Colts' favor -- they have a new stadium that opened last season and the team has been a perennial contender for the past decade.",
"In order to try and offset the impact the economy has on the game, McCarthy said teams have created more options and flexibility for fans in order to help them afford tickets.",
"Among those options are half-season ticket plans, such as the ones offered by the Jaguars and the New York Jets.",
"\"We knew some season ticket holders because of the economy wouldn't be able to afford to come to all 10 games (including the preseason),\" said the Jaguars' Prescott.",
"The half-season plan has been very popular, he said.",
"\"We wanted to make as many products available to them whether they could come to one game, two games or with the half package we've bundled five games in each package so they can come for half a season.\"",
"Prescott said the team is also considering introducing a package where fans can purchase tickets for a few games of their choice.",
"David Carter, executive director of the USC Sports Business Institute, thinks the best way for teams to limit the recession's impact on ticket sales is to offer exemplary customer service.",
"\"These fans need to feel as though they're having a great time and they're getting value for their money,\" said Carter.",
"\"If they're able to do that, they will justify continuing to spend on the NFL, because every game matters.",
"They want to be part of the continuity of the NFL season.\"",
"Carter believes the league has to fight the recession on two fronts.",
"He says the first is the pricing of seats to everyday fans -- especially those in markets where the demand isn't as keen as the NFL would like.",
"The second challenge is corporate resistance.",
"\"You have those that have traditionally purchased seats or acquired sponsorships taking a long look at whether they want to be involved this year or not, and a lot of corporate budgets are already in bed for the rest of the year,\" explained Carter.",
"Still, Carter believes the NFL may be well-equipped to weather the economic storm, thanks in large part to timing.",
"\"There's a general feel that things are picking up in the economy, and I think that's going to bode well for them over time.",
"They may have survived this downturn a little better than the other leagues.\"",
"Matt Gonter has been a Washington Redskins season ticket holder for the past five years.",
"He said he briefly considered whether to cancel his subscription heading into this year but decided against it -- citing the team's long waiting list to get season tickets.",
"\"I swore to myself if I ever got Redskins season tickets, I'd do everything in my power to keep them,\" Gonter said.",
"However, he did turn down an option to upgrade to different seats and a parking pass, saying he would have considered it in years past but not under the current economic climate.",
"He also might sell his tickets for certain games online.",
"\"I'm thinking of going on StubHub and selling a couple of tickets.",
"I eat so much of the cost for the preseason tickets, because you have to pay full price for those,\" Gonter said.",
"One ticket for an NFL game this year on the secondary ticket seller goes for an average of $151, compared with $156 at this time a year ago.",
"Four-year Cleveland Browns season ticket holder Zeke Paster held on to his subscription and plans to make cutbacks instead when it comes to concessions and tailgating costs.",
"However, he may get rid of some of his tickets before the season is over.",
"\"If they're not doing well, I would maybe try to sell the tickets for some of the cold weather games,\" Paster said.",
"Paster and Gonter admit surrendering their season ticket packages for good would be a painful decision.",
"\"The atmosphere is unmatched,\" Paster said.",
"\"There's nothing like being in the stadium or in the parking lot when the Browns are doing well.\"",
"Gonter says the camaraderie is worth the cost.",
"\"I just like the experience of sitting in the parking lot under a tent, tailgating, drinking beer and then going to the game and having a good time watching the Redskins.\""
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"For Jacksonville Jaguars, ticket sales off more than expected .",
"Cincinnati Bengals and Minnesota Vikings also looking to score more sales .",
"Denver Broncos and Chicago Bears holding the line despite recession .",
"Sports expert says NFL's best weapon would be exemplary customer service ."
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"CNNU campus correspondent Brandon Gates is a junior at University of South Carolina.",
"CNNU is a feature that provides student perspectives on news and trends from colleges across the United States.",
"The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of CNN, its affiliates or the schools where the campus correspondents are based.",
"Some of the students killed were affiliated with the Delta Delta Delta sorority, whose house is pictured above.",
"COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) -- At the University of South Carolina, the campus is quiet, but students were still heading to their classes after six students were killed in a beach house fire during the weekend.",
"The school is planning a short ceremony Monday evening to honor the six students who were killed Sunday morning in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina.",
"A seventh person killed is believed to be a student at Clemson University.",
"Their identities had not yet been released Monday afternoon.",
"The USC students were affiliated with the Delta Delta Delta sorority and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.",
"\"The fraternities are praying for them and their families for the loss.",
"It's something we're all affected by,\" Jay Laura, student president of the USC chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.",
"In a later news conference, Laura said the outpouring of condolences was a testament to the character of the fraternity brothers who died.",
"He also said he was proud of the way the university was coming together to support each other.",
"Lauren Hodge, the chapter president of Delta Delta Delta, said the sorority would have ministers and counselors at the sorority house to help USC students.",
"\"We're trying to everything we can right now to help people cope,\" she said.",
"\"We've spent a lot of time (counseling) with the students from the sorority and fraternity,\" said Dennis A. Pruitt, the vice president for student affairs.",
"\"We encourage any student who is just learning of the situation and is a member of Tri-Delta or SAE to contact their parents and let them know they're OK.\" The school decided against canceling classed on Monday.",
"\"Going back to normal, everyday activities may be the best way for some to mourn and grieve,\" Pruitt said.",
"A weekly concert that is typically a well-attended event failed to bring out students on Monday.",
"Most students appeared to be spending time in their dorm rooms where counseling was offered.",
"\"I feel shocked that something like that could happen here.",
"You always see stuff like that happening at other schools, but you never it can happen to your school,\" said Artifa Ricks, a sophomore majoring in broadcasting.",
"Six other University of South Carolina students were treated for injuries at a local hospital and released, the school said.",
"The university is providing counseling and assistance to students who have requested it.",
"\"When any one member of our family is lost, every one of us is diminished.",
"I'm profoundly saddened, as are all members of Gamecock Nation, by these tragic deaths,\" said Dr. Andrew Sorensen, the university president.",
"The students were on a weekend getaway at Ocean Isle Beach, a popular resort destination along the southern coast of North Carolina.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Sorority to have ministers and other counselors available .",
"Group urges members to make sure families know they're OK ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Last week's \"balloon boy\" incident is being investigated by the Federal Aviation Administration, an agency representative said Tuesday.",
"The Heene family -- including Falcon, second from right -- on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" last week.",
"Richard and Mayumi Heene, whose son Falcon was thought for several hours to have flown away in a homemade balloon, are facing a number of local charges, a Colorado sheriff said this week.",
"The Fort Collins couple could be charged with conspiracy, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and attempting to influence a public servant, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said Sunday.",
"The family also probably will be charged with filing a false police report, which is a misdemeanor, Alderden said.",
"Their lawyer, David Lane, said the sheriff was overreaching and that the family deserves the presumption of innocence.",
"Watch the Heenes' friends talk about the incident » .",
"FAA spokeswoman Diane Spitaliere confirmed Tuesday that the agency was \"investigating the circumstances\" of the incident, in which police and military scrambled to rescue the 6-year-old boy, who later turned out to be hiding in his family's attic.",
"A source familiar with the investigation said no record has been found indicating that Richard Heene called the FAA.",
"The agency does not record all of its calls, and the search for a record of any call is continuing, the source said.",
"The Heenes may have violated FAA regulations barring people from flying balloons or kites within 5 miles of an airport, an FAA official said.",
"The official declined to be named because the case is under investigation.",
"The giant silver balloon was apparently not visible on radar, the official said, and the FAA is relying on pilot reports to determine its approximate flight path during the roughly three hours it was aloft Thursday.",
"CNN's Mike M. Ahlers in Washington contributed to this story."
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"Federal Aviation Administration looking into \"escaped balloon\" story .",
"Balloon's owners already facing several local charges .",
"Heene family deserves presumption of innocence, lawyer says .",
"No proof that Richard Heene called FAA when balloon set off, source says ."
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"CALAIS, France (CNN) -- French authorities on Tuesday dismantled a makeshift camp dubbed \"the Jungle,\" which housed illegal migrants fleeing dangerous homelands to seek a more prosperous life in Europe.",
"After being forced from their makeshift home, occupants of \"the Jungle\" were driven away in buses for processing.",
"French police broke up protests by refugee rights advocates and began clearing the squalid camp.",
"The French government said it was targeting human smuggling and did not say where the migrants would be relocated.",
"Police arrested 276 migrants, 125 of whom were minors, said Calais prefecture official Catherine Mande.",
"See photos of police clearing the camp » .",
"A statement from the French immigration minister's office said the \"illegal encampments\" would be destroyed and then three bulldozers, a dozen trucks and a logging company would return the land to its natural state.",
"Watch a report on the camp's closure » .",
"The statement said the goal was to destroy the Jungle and other migrant shanties, \"which have become the main launch pad for clandestine immigration into the United Kingdom.\"",
"Was the French government right to demolish the illegal migrant camp?",
"Aided by smugglers, many of the migrants in coastal northern France attempt to make it into Britain, hiding in trucks that cross the English Channel.",
"France and Britain signed an agreement in July to crack down on illegal immigration, including dispersing the migrants at the Jungle.",
"British Home Secretary Alan Johnson said he was \"delighted\" to hear that France was honoring the agreement.",
"\"The measures that we have put in place are not only there to prevent illegal immigration but also to stop people trafficking,\" he said.",
"\"We are working with the French not only to strengthen our shared border but that of Europe as a whole.\"",
"Johnson said both nations were committed \"to helping individuals who are genuine refugees.\"",
"Others who don't need protection were expected to return home, he said.",
"The Jungle -- shanties cobbled from cardboard, plastic tarpaulins and scraps of wood -- housed as many as 1,000 men from nations such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Somalia.",
"Camp resident Mohammed Bashir escaped the Taliban in Afghanistan and made a new home in a tent here, among the heaps of garbage, sand and bramble on the outskirts of the French port city of Calais.",
"Sometimes, eight men shared the tent.",
"\"I never lived in such a condition like this back home, but right now we don't have any other choice,\" said Bashir, 24, who left behind his family.",
"\"It's very difficult, very hard for a person who has children and parents.\"",
"Desperation filled the air in the Jungle.",
"Many residents survived arduous and illegal treks from their homelands.",
"Some held ambitions to keep going another 20 miles, across the water to Britain.",
"Others hoped to realize refugee status in France.",
"See a map of the region » .",
"But Tuesday, they were forced to put their plans on hold as they were evicted from the Jungle.",
"Refugee advocates circled the migrants and scuffled with police to keep them at bay.",
"But eventually, the protests were broken up, the migrants were taken away and the shanties started coming down.",
"The French government's decision drew criticism from humanitarian workers who don't think that demolishing the camp will help resolve illegal immigration issues.",
"They say moving the migrants is simply displacing the problem.",
"\"We don't know where they're going to go,\" said Matthieu Tardis, an advocate for asylum seekers.",
"\"We don't know what the government plans to do.",
"We are not respecting human rights here, for sure.\"",
"The office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees sent staff to Calais earlier in the summer to counsel people about asylum procedures in France and Britain.",
"According to the U.N. agency, most of the illegal migrants enter Europe through Greece and often fall victim to smugglers who turn a profit by helping migrants reach their destinations.",
"The camp residents who fled Afghanistan told CNN they had paid smugglers large sums.",
"They were promised much more than the filthy camp, they said.",
"Bashir said he had no choice but to flee his home after Taliban militants accused him of spying.",
"\"When they don't need you, they just slaughter you,\" he said.",
"\"They threatened me that [I would] be slaughtered.\"",
"Bashir's future remains uncertain as ever.",
"He is sure only of one thing: He cannot go home."
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"French police arrest 276 migrants at \"Jungle\" camp, 125 were minors .",
"Migrants had been living in makeshift tents made from cardboard, plastic sheeting .",
"Refugee advocates circled the migrants, trying to keep police at bay .",
"The French government has not said where the migrants would be relocated ."
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"(CNN) -- The announcement that Chicago, Illinois, will not host the 2016 Olympic Games took the hopeful wind out of many in the Windy City.",
"Dreams of hosting the 2016 Olympics were dashed for many Chicagoans.",
"But for others, the news was welcome.",
"But for almost half of the city's dwellers, the International Olympic Committee's decision was winning news.",
"A spokeswoman for No Games Chicago, a grass-roots organization opposed to hosting the Olympics, said she was \"relieved\" by the vote Friday in Copenhagen, Denmark.",
"Chicago's Olympic fever, spotty as it was, broke abruptly when the city was the first of four final contenders to be knocked out of the running.",
"The prospective host cities had been whittled down to four finalists -- Chicago; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Tokyo, Japan; and Madrid, Spain.",
"The bid went to Rio de Janeiro, making it the first South American city to host the Olympic Games.",
"Chicago had been seen as a front-runner in recent days, especially after it sent to Copenhagen America's biggest guns -- President Obama and his popular wife, Michelle -- for a last-minute sales pitch.",
"But a poll taken by the Chicago Tribune and CNN affiliate WGN revealed in early September that 45 percent of the city residents didn't want the Olympic Games.",
"And 84 percent of Chicagoans objected to the idea of public money being used to support the effort.",
"Earlier this week, about 250 Olympic-bid protesters gathered in front of City Hall, WGN reported.",
"A sign in the crowd read: \"Have the audacity of nope.\"",
"Many who gathered for the bid slapdown were affiliated with No Games Chicago, which sent three delegates to Copenhagen to state their case.",
"After the vote, however, spokeswoman Francesca Rodriguez said No Games Chicago is \"in no way taking any pleasure in this\" and feels \"sympathy\" for those who are disappointed.",
"\"In reality, Chicagoans who were for the Games and those who were against them were committed to the same goal: Working hard for what they thought would be best for the city of Chicago in the coming decades,\" she said.",
"\"We're glad that the city won't now be burdened by the distraction of the Olympics at the expense of improving Chicago's schools, transportation, parks and the numerous other public policy initiatives on which the city needs to be focused.\"",
"Those who believe the Olympics can bring lasting change to a city -- beyond the spike in economic activity during the event -- are often misguided, suggested economist Rob Baade of Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Illinois.",
"\"There is no reason to expect that the Olympics, or any mega-event, is going to induce a sustainable boost in the economy,\" he said.",
"\"The cost overruns are pretty legendary.",
"Costs are generally understated and the gains overstated.\"",
"One Web site set up to rally against bringing the Olympic Games to town relied as much on humor as it did reason.",
"Its name: Chicagoans for Rio 2016.",
"The site showcased unflattering head-to-head comparisons, such as \"Naked people dancing\" vs. \"Chubby people eating.\"",
"The increasing budget deficit in Chicago was contrasted with a $0 total for Rio.",
"\"If you're a Chicagoan, Rio's budget deficit does not matter,\" the site said.",
"\"It would be exciting to host the Olympics here in Chicago.",
"But you know what would be even better?",
"Rio de Janeiro,\" the site announced.",
"\"Just let Rio host the 2016 Olympics.",
"We don't mind. Honest.\" Wish granted."
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"Olympic opponents prefer the city's focus to be on schools and other needs .",
"About 250 anti-Olympic protesters rallied outside Chicago's City Hall this week .",
"Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, wins bid, making it the first South American host city ."
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"Editor's note: Nell Minow is editor and chairwoman of the Corporate Library, an independent research company, and was named one of the 20 most influential people in corporate governance by Directorship magazine and \"the queen of good corporate governance\" by BusinessWeek Online.",
"She has co-written three books.",
"Nell Minow says AIG's board must be held accountable for the $160 million in bonus payments.",
"(CNN) -- The stories about the outrageous $160 million bonus payments at AIG have all omitted the most important names.",
"They are the members of AIG's Board of Directors Compensation Committee.",
"These people should have been on the hot seat before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, alongside CEO Ed Liddy.",
"Although there is a lot of blame to go around, ultimately the buck stops -- or, I should say, the bucks should have stopped -- with them.",
"Why haven't we learned that it is the boards who are responsible for the massive failures of strategy and risk management at these companies?",
"Regulators, journalists, securities analysts and investors routinely ignore the most obvious indicators of investment risk that are presented by bad boards of directors.",
"This is particularly obvious in the case of AIG, which has been a serial offender in corporate governance, especially in executive compensation.",
"Those of us who remember former CEO Hank Greenberg's departure from AIG in 2005, after a corporate governance meltdown that included excessive compensation, appreciate the irony of his comment to ABC News that the retention bonuses were \"mind-boggling.\"",
"Mr. Kettle, Pot is on line 1.",
"Compensation committees are not responsible for individual pay packages below the CEO, but they are responsible for determining their overall structure -- and for making sure that the CEO's job includes effective management on compensation issues.",
"Retention of employees may be a legitimate goal of a compensation program, but it can be accomplished in a way that is both effective and credible by being tied to performance goals and by delaying vesting until after the bailout funds are returned to taxpayers.",
"The Corporate Library released a report in February about the boards of the bailout companies, many of which were outliers in their governance and compensation practices.",
"Some of these were clear indicators of investment and liability risk.",
"In several cases, we found individuals who not only sat on more than four corporate boards but also sat on more than one of these particularly troubled boards during this period.",
"Former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, for example, served on the boards of Morgan Stanley, General Motors and Wachovia -- and at various times was also a director at Merck, VF Corp., Krispy Kreme and Cousins Properties.",
"Several other directors from these troubled boards also sat on either five or six boards altogether.",
"We call the phenomenon of directors who serve on four or more corporate boards \"overboarding.\"",
"Overboarding can limit the time and attention a director has for each board.",
"It can also be an indicator of -- or a contributor to -- so many relationships and connections that it makes it more difficult to provide the respectful skepticism necessary for independent oversight.",
"In all, 11 of the 27 companies we identified as \"troubled\" had at least one overboarded director.",
"Six had more than one; at Merrill Lynch, there were five.",
"By comparison, fewer than 30 percent of S&P 500 companies have even a single overboarded director, and fewer than 5 percent have more than one.",
"Another key finding from our analysis: Shareholders at these companies were well aware of the relative weakness of these boards and had expressed their dissatisfaction by withholding votes from many of these individuals the year before these companies collapsed.",
"At least 13 individual directors, all of whom sat on at least three corporate boards during this period, had received a 13 percent or higher negative vote.",
"The highest of these was a 38.58 percent negative vote received by Sir Winfried F.W.",
"Bischoff at McGraw-Hill, where he sat on the compensation committee.",
"Bischoff also served on the boards at Citigroup (as chairman and interim CEO), Eli Lilly and Prudential.",
"Although the businesses of these companies do not overlap enough to impair Bischoff's designation as an \"independent\" director or to create legal conflict of interest concerns, it is relevant that McGraw-Hill owns ratings agency Standard & Poor's, which not only rates the other companies for which he was a director but also issues ratings on which the other companies rely in their assessment of risk.",
"Because of the extensive involvement that financial services companies have in many different aspects of the business of large public corporations, directors of those companies in particular should be especially cautious about overlaps and conflicts.",
"Badly designed compensation is an indicator of poor corporate governance, and poor corporate governance is an indicator of investment risk.",
"Instead of trying to tax the bonuses at AIG, the government and the shareholders should insist on new directors.",
"The company's Web site says the compensation committee has five members.",
"The two longest serving ones are James F. Orr III, who joined the committee on May 17, 2006 and Virginia M. Rometty, who joined it on January 17, 2007, according to the company's 2007 proxy statement.",
"The committee's charter says its responsibility include making recommendations to the full board regarding AIG's compensation programs and reviewing and approving any hiring, severance or termination payments.",
"People say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result.",
"In this case, insanity is allowing the same people to continue to serve on the board after massive failure and expecting them to produce a different result.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Nell Minow."
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"Nell Minow: People often overlook crucial role of company board of directors .",
"She says AIG's board is ultimately responsible for the firm's mistakes .",
"Minow: Compensation committee members should be held to account .",
"She says many finance firm board members are too busy on other boards ."
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"(CNN) -- Twenty-three suspects, including nine American Airlines employees, were arrested Tuesday for allegedly transporting nearly $20 million worth of cocaine on flights into and out of Puerto Rico, federal authorities said.",
"Manuel Santiago-Alvarado, an American Airlines control crew chief, is among the suspects arrested Tuesday.",
"Most of the commercial flights carrying suitcases stuffed with illicit drugs came into San Juan, which was a transshipment point for drugs bound for cities on the U.S. mainland, authorities said.",
"The drug trafficking organization headed by defendant Wilfredo Rodriguez Rosade had been operating since 1999, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, which participated in the long-running investigation.",
"In a September 9 indictment unsealed Tuesday, Justice Department officials also moved to seize $18 million worth of property owned by the suspects, including seven homes, three businesses and an apartment complex.",
"All but one of the arrests occurred in Puerto Rico.",
"The lone arrest on the U.S. mainland was in Miami, Florida.",
"Drug Enforcement Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena said the airline industry cooperated in the investigation.",
"\"By denying the drug traffickers alternate smuggling routes, we disrupt the flow of drugs into Puerto Rico and discourage the use of the island as a transshipment point in the Caribbean,\" he said in a news release.",
"The agency said that if they are convicted, the defendants taken into custody would face sentences ranging from 10 years to life in prison and personal fines of up to $4 million.",
"American Airlines issued a statement confirming some employees had been arrested, but could not confirm the number because of its privacy policy, spokesman Tim Wagner said in an e-mail.",
"The airline has been working with authorities, he said.",
"\"As a company, we hope that the actions of a few employees don't reflect negatively on the tens of thousands of ethical American Airlines employees who work hard to serve the public daily,\" Wagner wrote."
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"9 airline employees among those accused of smuggling $20 million in cocaine .",
"Most of flights were into or out of San Juan, Puerto Rico .",
"DEA and FBI say operation had been running since 1999 .",
"Justice Department moves to seize $18 million in property ."
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"(CNN) -- The girlfriend of former NFL quarterback Steve McNair had grown frustrated with their relationship and was struggling with financial difficulties in the days before she killed him and herself in July.",
"Steve McNair, former NFL quarterback, was a married father of four when he was killed last summer.",
"Details of their relationship were revealed in a case summary released by Nashville police Monday.",
"McNair, 36, and Sahel Kazemi, 20, were found fatally shot in a condominium in downtown Nashville on July 4.",
"Police have since ruled their deaths a murder-suicide.",
"\"My life is just s--- and I should end it,\" Kazemi said the night before the couple were found dead, according to Sonya New, her shift manager at a Dave & Busters restaurant.",
"New also said Kazemi was not her usual self and seemed down.",
"Though McNair was a married father of four, he was seeing Kazemi and at least one other woman, Leah Ignagni, according to Nashville police.",
"McNair had spent the night at Ignagni's apartment on July 2, two nights before he was killed, Ignagni told police.",
"On the morning of July 4, Kazemi texted McNair, saying she was stressed and needed money to pay bills.",
"\"Baby I might have a break down im so stressed,\" Kazemi said in one text message.",
"\"baby i might need to go to the hospital.",
"baby whats wrong w(ith) me i can hardly breath(e).\"",
"Chris Wall, who provided security for McNair and his family, told police he knew about McNair's relationship with Kazemi.",
"McNair was tired of her calling when he was with his family, Wall said.",
"Kazemi continued to text McNair throughout the day, asking for money and when she could see him next.",
"\"baby what are u doing,\" Kazemi asked.",
"\"At the pool with the kids. I got the guy transferring the money,\" McNair replied.",
"At 4:04 p.m. on July 3, Kazemi said, \"baby I have to be w(ith) u 2nite.",
"I dnt care where.\" The messages continued for more than eight hours before McNair said he was on his way to the condo.",
"He had told Kazemi earlier that he wouldn't leave the house \"til the kids fall asleep.\"",
"McNair and Kazemi exchanged a final series of messages early July 4, when he asked her to leave the front door to the condo open for him.",
"A final message, sent at 1:14 a.m., simply said, \"its open.\"",
"About 12 hours later, a friend of McNair's found their bodies."
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"Text messages show Kazemi's financial stress, desperation .",
"Last message said door was open; hours later, the pair's bodies were found ."
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"(CNN) -- Afraid that her husband will leave her for a younger woman, a 107-year-old Malaysian woman is looking to marry again -- for the 23rd time.",
"Wok Kundor: \"I am an aged woman.",
"I don't have the body nor am I a young woman who can attract anyone.\"",
"Wok Kundor has been happily married for four years to her husband, a man 70 years her junior.",
"But since he left their village in northern Terengganu state for a drug rehabilitation program in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, Wok has had a gnawing feeling.",
"\"She said that she has been feeling insecure lately and she needs to find out whether he still loves her or not,\" said R.S.N.",
"Murali, a reporter for The Star.",
"The English-language Malaysian daily was among several local media outlets reporting on the lifelong romantic.",
"\"She is worried he might not come back after his program and find himself a younger wife,\" Murali said.",
"If so, Wok has her eyes set on a 50-year-old man, but hopes it does not come to that.",
"\"I realize that I am an aged woman.",
"I don't have the body nor am I a young woman who can attract anyone,\" she told the newspaper.",
"\"My intention to remarry is to fill my forlornness,\" particularly during the Muslim month of fasting, Ramadan, she said.",
"Malaysian media, which has previously reported on the woman, said Wok has been married 22 times.",
"That would make her marriages last an average of four years.",
"Wok would not discuss past relationships, Murali said.",
"\"Some of her better halves have passed away or have divorced, but she doesn't want to talk about them or her children,\" he said.",
"Wok and her current husband, Mohammed Boor Che Musa, hail from the same village and met there.",
"Muhammad, 37, was quoted in an earlier report as saying the couple fell for each other because it was \"God's will.\"",
"On Monday, he told The Star that he is still very much in love with his wife and cannot dream of life with someone else.",
"But Wok wants to hear him say it, Murali said.",
"Soon, the centenarian plans to make the journey to Kuala Lumpur -- if she can find a neighbor to drive her there."
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"Malaysian media says Wok has been married 22 times ."
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"ACCRA, Ghana (CNN) -- Ghanaians clad in the national colors of red, gold and green celebrated long into the night on Friday as excitement over the national team's penalty shootout victory over Brazil in the final of the Under-20 World Cup in Egypt brought the West African nation to a standstill.",
"Ghana's players celebrate their victory over Brazil.",
"Ghana's victory, 4-3 on penalties after a goalless draw which they had survived since the 37th minute with 10 men, was the first ever by an African side in the tournament.",
"Earlier, many football fans had converged in churches hours before the game to pray for divine intervention.",
"But the triumph, coupled with Nigeria's disappointing performance in the tournament, may be the clearest signal yet that the balance of power in West Africa may have tilted from Nigeria to Ghana once again.",
"Last month Ghana's Black Stars, featuring players like Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien and Inter Milan's Sulley Muntari, became the first African side to qualify for South Africa 2010 World Cup.",
"Nigeria are in danger of missing the World Cup for the second time running.",
"The Super Eagles trail Tunisia by two points in Group B ahead of their last group qualifying matches on November 11 when both countries face tricky away fixtures.",
"Until 2006, Ghana was regarded as the continent's sleeping giants, having dominated African football in the years after it became the first independent sub-Saharan African country over five decades ago.",
"By contrast, it took Nigeria -- Africa's most populous country -- another three decades to establish itself among the continent's top national sides.",
"It was not until Ghana's first appearance at the FIFA World Cup in Germany in 2006 that the four-times winners of the African Cup of Nations regained some of their lost glory.",
"It signaled not only Ghana's long-awaited arrival at football biggest global gathering but also a fulfillment of a prediction in 1990 by Cameroon legend Roger Milla that the world had not seen the best of African football until the Black Stars made it to the World Cup.",
"As continental champions in 1963, 1965, 1978 and 1982 and with Ghanaian legends including three-times African footballer of the year Abedi Pele and former Eintracht Frankfurt and Leeds United star Anthony Yeboah both rated in their time among the world's best players, Milla knew Ghana had the qualities to match some of the world's best.",
"Youth success at the FIFA under-17 championship in 1991 and 1995, two appearances in the final of the under-20 championship in 1993 and 2001 and an Olympic bronze medal in Barcelona in 1992 emphasized Ghana's abundance of talent and unfulfilled promise at the highest level.",
"At Germany 2006, Ghana became the only African survivor after the preliminary round, surprising the bookmakers with victories over the Czech Republic and the U.S. before losing 3-0 to Brazil in a match that was closer than the scoreline suggested.",
"Ghana's squad for next year's World Cup in South Africa will likely include the cream of the team that impressed in Germany, including Essien and Muntari, as well as some of the brilliant youngsters who sparkled this month World Youth Championship in Egypt; notably Golden Ball and Golden Shoe winner Dominic Adiyiah, Ransford Osei and Andre Ayew, the son of Abedi Pele.",
"Following the side's masterful display in Egypt and relatively easy World Cup qualifying campaign, the Black Stars will carry both Ghanaian and African expectations on their shoulders as they bid to improve on the quarterfinal places achieved by Cameroon and Senegal in 1990 and 2002 respectively.",
"With a population of around 140 million and a reputation for producing stars such as Austin Okocha, Nwankwo Kanu and Chelsea's John Obi Mikel, the outstanding qualities of Nigerian football are beyond question.",
"But African football observers believe poor administration by the Nigerian Football Federation and the resultant instability in the technical direction of the team has undermined the development of Nigerian football and resulted in its dwindling fortunes at the world stage.",
"Nigeria emerged as West Africa's leading side in 1980 by wining the African Cup of Nations, a feat they repeated 14 years later in Tunisia.",
"The Super Eagles made their World Cup debut in the U.S. in 1994 and qualified for both France 1998 and Japan/South Korea 2002.",
"Like Ghana, Nigeria has shown promise at youth level, winning U-17 World Cup titles in 1985, 1993 and 2007, and winning Olympic gold at the 1996 Atlanta Games.",
"As host of this year's FIFA Under-17 championship, Nigeria will be hoping to draw inspiration from Ghana's performance in Egypt to retain the title on home soil next month.",
"At continental level, the once powerful Super Eagles are anything but super.",
"Since reaching the final of the 2000 African Nations Cup, Nigeria has failed make any meaningful impact despite parading highly-talented squads.",
"For three successive tournaments Nigeria finished in third place before crashing out at the quarterfinal stage of the 2008 edition in a 2-1 defeat by Ghana.",
"Kwesi Nyantakyi, the 39-year-old president of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), believes the country is reaping the dividends of a professional approach through the implementation of a five-year business plan, which has attracted massive injection of cash through corporate sponsorship from kit sponsor Puma and mining, banking, brewery and telecommunication firms.",
"\"When we took over in 2005 we realized that one of the biggest problems we faced was the availability of timelines of funds needed to prepare the teams adequately, provide the necessary incentives for the players and numeration for the technical staff,\" Nyantakyi says.",
"\"The availability of funding timely and an autonomy for the federation has helped us execute our plans effectively and this is showing in our recent impressive performances.\"",
"Beyond monetary considerations and administrative stability, Ghana is also reaping the rewards of years of investment in youth football which has produced players like Essien and Muntari -- and now new kid on the block Adiyiah and others.",
"For now, the country seem to have regained bragging rights as the superpower in West Africa."
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"Result part of shift in balance of power in West Africa from Nigeria to Ghana .",
"Ghana has stars including Michael Essien, Sulley Muntari, Dominic Adiyiah .",
"Nigeria has star players but national team struggles with poor infrastructure ."
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"(CNN) -- In trendy neighborhoods of Tokyo customers are lining up for vitamin injections that promise to improve health and beauty.",
"A Japanese woman receives an intravenous vitamin supplement at the Tenteki Cafe in Tokyo.",
"These intravenous vitamin \"drips\" are part of the latest quick-fix, health fad catching on in Japan: the IV cafe.",
"Each drip pack contains saline solution and specific vitamins and minerals to target a particular health ailment or beauty concern.",
"\"I used to take vitamin supplements, but changed to the IV drip because I feel the effects more quickly,\" a 20-something woman at the Tenteki 10 Café told CNN.",
"She said she receives specific injections to get better skin, burn fat and boost her energy.",
"There are 10 different varieties to choose from at Tenteki.",
"The \"orange\" variety touts anti-aging properties, loaded with antioxidants.",
"The \"placenta pack\" is said to help rejuvenate and ease muscle stiffness.",
"Prices range from $20-$30 per injection, and nurses see about 30-40 people each day.",
"Their most common patients are Japanese businessmen who work in the same office building.",
"\"I see a lot of businessmen who say they don't have time to sleep.",
"They can't take a break from working and get the vitamin drip for an extra kick of energy,\" a Tenteki nurse told CNN.",
"\"Blue\" is the most requested vitamin pack among these men: a concoction of B1 and vitamin E that claims to offer relief from exhaustion.",
"Registered nurses and doctors administer the drips at Tenteki, but there's no conclusive medical evidence to back up the health claims.",
"Many nutritionists actually caution against using injectable vitamin supplements because the quantities are not regulated.",
"\"More is not necessarily better...some vitamins and minerals can be toxic in high doses,\" particularly the fat-soluble ones which the body stores like Vitamins A, D, E and K, explained Claire Williamson, Nutrition Scientist at the British Nutrition Foundation.",
"In Europe and the United States vitamin shots are popular among celebrities with hectic lifestyles and little time to sleep, particularly vitamin B 12.",
"Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell and singer Robbie Williams have both confirmed they've used the shots as part of their diets to maintain stamina during tours.",
"Dermatological injections of Vitamin C are also popular among women hoping to keep their skin looking young.",
"Former supermodel Cindy Crawford has admitted using such injections to keep her skin firm and wrinkle-free.",
"According to Williamson, it does not matter if supplements are injected into the vein or into the skin.",
"\"At the end of the day it will go into the blood stream,\" she said.",
"Most of these nutrients we can get sufficient from foods, nutrients tend to be better absorbed by the body if they are consumed in foods.\""
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"Vitamin injections target specific health aliments and beauty concerns .",
"Nutritionists warn of vitamin overdose from high quantities of supplements .",
"Vitamin injections are popular among celebrities and businessmen for fatigue ."
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"(CNN) -- A coalition of top musicians, including R.E.M.",
"and Pearl Jam, want to know if their music was used by the U.S. military as part of controversial interrogation methods at the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.",
"Ruhal Ahmed, left, shown at a 2007 news conference, says he had to listen to hours of music at Guantanamo.",
"The artists have endorsed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests, which were filed Thursday morning, asking the U.S. government to declassify documents that would reveal which artists' work was used on detainees at U.S. prison facilities and military detention centers, including the one at Guantanamo Bay.",
"The National Security Archive, a Washington-based independent research institute that advocates \"for the right to know,\" filed the requests on behalf of the Close Gitmo Now campaign, which launched this week, the archive's senior analyst Kate Doyle said.",
"The multimillion-dollar national grassroots Close Gitmo Now campaign is aimed at pressuring members of Congress to support President Obama's endeavor to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.",
"It is supported by a coalition of retired generals and liberal activists.",
"The requests are based on the testimony of former Guantanamo prisoners and guards, as well as declassified documents, that identified music from 35 artists -- ranging from AC/DC tunes to the theme from Sesame Street -- used in the interrogations of detainees, Doyle said.",
"See a list of bands and songs involved (PDF) \"We do know that songs and bands' work has been used to abuse detainees, we know that,\" she said.",
"She added that any information that the National Security Archive obtains \"will add to the profile of this case.\"",
"The requests are being filed with \"a dozen different agencies and components of the Department of Defense,\" Doyle said.",
"They ask for any documents \"concerning the use of loud music during detention and/or as a technique to interrogate detainees at U.S.-operated prison facilities used in its War on Terror at Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan during 2002-the present,\" according to a copy of the FOIA request obtained by CNN.",
"It is unclear if any of the artists plan to pursue legal action, but Doyle said she'd be \"surprised if some of them weren't thinking about it.\"",
"Many of the artists supporting the campaign are no strangers to political activism, but this cause has hit close to home for some of them.",
"\"We have spent the past 30 years supporting causes related to peace and justice.",
"To now learn that some of our friends' music may have been used as part of the torture tactics without their consent or knowledge is horrific,\" the American rock band R.E.M.",
"said in a statement posted on CloseGitmoNow.org.",
"\"It's anti-American, period.\"",
"Several former Guantanamo detainees have filed lawsuits against the U.S. government, saying they were tortured with numerous techniques, including loud music.",
"\"It's very scary to think that you might go crazy because of the music, because of the loud noise,\" said Ruhal Ahmed, one of the former detainees who has filed a lawsuit.",
"He said he had to listen to hours of headbanging music while held prisoner at Guantanamo in 2003.",
"The Pentagon has not responded directly to the allegations of torture involving music, but it has said that its policy has always been to treat detainees humanely.",
"Loud music has not been used at Guantanamo since the fall of 2003, following a Department of Defense review of detention operations and interrogation techniques, according to Maj. Diana Haynie, a Joint Task Force Guantanamo spokeswoman.",
"U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has asked a federal prosecutor to examine whether the interrogations violated the law, and the White House said Obama will leave any decision on charges to the Justice Department.",
"And the Obama administration announced it would put the FBI in charge of a special unit set up to question suspected terrorists under White House oversight.",
"CNN's Tricia Escobedo contributed to this report ."
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"Former prisoners say heavy metal, rock, children's tunes were part of interrogations .",
"Numerous artists endorse \"Close Gitmo Now\" campaign, FOIA requests .",
"To learn friends' music was used in such a way is \"horrific,\" rock band R.E.M.",
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- People in big cities walk past them every day -- street performers, or buskers.",
"Some are talented, some are not, and most aren't performing for a cause greater than themselves.",
"But on Monday, 12-year-old Abby Miller was.",
"Abby Miller sings for her friend Taylor Love outside Washington's Union Station on Monday.",
"She was performing outside Washington's Union Station to help her 4-year-old friend, Taylor Love, who is suffering from cancer.",
"Abby sat in front of the station with a couple of her friends, singing songs and strumming a guitar.",
"Passers-by seemed to notice the girl's singing talent, stopping to listen in the chilly weather, with a few putting money in a bucket at Abby's feet.",
"Abby said the money will help support Taylor's family.",
"A few more stopped to write messages on \"Love Notes,\" little cards designed to encourage Taylor Love through the tough time.",
"\"Her mom reads them to her before she goes to bed at night,\" Abby said.",
"\"Taylor gets excited for them and she loves getting them read to her because she likes knowing that people are supporting her and people are actually thinking of her.\"",
"Taylor has neuroblastoma, a cancer that affects the nervous system.",
"According to her Web site, she is in remission, but this type of cancer has a high risk of recurrence.",
"There has been little research on the illness, of which there are about 650 new cases in the United States each year.",
"Mike Gillette, a family friend of both Taylor and Abby, brought the two girls together.",
"While raising money and support for Taylor is important, he said, he thinks Abby's outreach can help bring more critical awareness for the devastating disease.",
"\"She really wanted to reach people all over the country,\" he said.",
"Gillette said he has taken Abby to do similar performances in the District of Columbia, New Jersey and Virginia, and estimates they've raised thousands of dollars and have gotten people to write several hundred \"Love Notes.\"",
"Abby does more than just raise money and awareness for her friend.",
"Taylor's mother, Aimee, said that although Abby is eight years older than Taylor, the two see each other often and have a special connection that helps her get through her daughter's illness.",
"\"I think it's amazing for a 12-year-old Abby to be drawn to my daughter, who is 4 and wants to inspire other children,\" Aimee Love said.",
"\"The joy I see in Taylor when she sees Abby brings a light into my life.\"",
"Taylor's family said her treatments are terribly painful.",
"But Abby said Taylor has enormous character.",
"\"She's the most happy girl in the world, which I think is just incredible,\" Abby said.",
"\"She's so much fun to be around.",
"She's a little 4-year-old girl but she's got a heart of like a thousand grown adults.\"",
"Aimee Love said her daughter feels the same way about Abby.",
"\"It gives her someone to aspire to, someone to be inspired by,\" she said."
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"Abby collects donations, has people write notes of support for Taylor Love .",
"Taylor has neuroblastoma, a cancer that affects the nervous system ."
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"PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Leaders of the G-20 economic summit will announce Friday that the group will become the new permanent council for international economic cooperation, senior U.S. officials told CNN Thursday.",
"U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says signs of optimism for a global economic recovery can be seen.",
"The move comes in the wake of a major push by President Obama, the officials said.",
"The G-20 will now essentially eclipse the G-8, which will continue to meet on major security issues but carry much less influence.",
"\"It's a reflection of the world economy today and the players that make it up,\" said one senior official.",
"Nations like China, Brazil and India -- which were locked out of the more elite G-8 -- will be part of the larger group.",
"The Group of 20 -- leaders of 20 countries representing 90 percent of the world's economic output -- are meeting in Pittsburgh for a two-day summit, focusing on the financial crisis and how to avoid a future repeat.",
"The gathering is Obama's first time hosting a major international summit.",
"\"We're meeting at a time where, for the first time since London, certainly for the first time in a year, we're seeing the first signs of optimism about prospects for global recovery,\" U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told reporters Thursday.",
"\"I think the broad consensus of private economists and businesses are that we're beginning to see growth in the United States, and around the world we see exports rising and forecasts for growth are being revised upwards.\"",
"\"This is encouraging,\" he said, \"but we have a ways to go.\"",
"He said the leaders are \"going to keep working to sustain the progress we've seen.",
"And I can say with confidence, based on my discussions with finance ministers and central bank governors from around the world, there is a common, shared commitment to make sure we're working together to sustain these early signs of recovery and growth.\"",
"One of the key goals is preventing such a crisis from occurring in the future, he said.",
"\"In the run-up to this crisis, many of the world's largest economies depended on the American consumer to buy their exports to drive growth, and we made it easy; for too long, Americans were buying too much and saving too little,\" Geithner said.",
"\"And that's no longer an option for us or for the rest of the world.",
"And already in the United States you can see the first signs of an important transformation here as Americans save more and as we borrow substantially less from the rest of the world.\"",
"\"I think we all recognize that we need to act before the memory of the crisis fades and before the impetus for reform recedes,\" he said.",
"\"And we're trying to bring greater urgency and commitment to the need to act together.\"",
"The tightening of global financial regulations was expected to top the summit's agenda and comes as some major economies are beginning to recover.",
"Germany, France and Japan have announced that they have emerged from recession, prompting hopes that the worst of the financial crisis may have passed.",
"G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors agreed at a meeting this month not to start cutting back just yet on stimulus efforts.",
"They fear it would put economies at risk for plunging back into recession.",
"However, the economic outlook has improved enough that countries are being encouraged to start working on exit strategies, which will vary by nation.",
"The economic summit marks the third time in a year that the world's top industrial powers have gathered.",
"They met in November in Washington and followed up with an April session in London.",
"A number of protesters gathered in the area, tracked by police.",
"At one point, riot police used pepper spray or tear gas on the protesters.",
"CNN's Brian Todd was one of the people affected by the spray or gas.",
"See iReport photos of police and protesters » .",
"\"It really drove the protesters back,\" Todd said.",
"\"It drove us back.",
"It burned our eyes.",
"It really burned our throats for a while.",
"It got pretty dicey there.\"",
"Watch Todd's report » .",
"After that, Todd said, the protesters dispersed somewhat, but police were keeping an eye on the remaining protesters.",
"iReport.com: Pittsburgh braces for protests .",
"Among the protesters was a group of several hundred wearing T-shirts reading, \"G20: Free Tibet Before Free Trade.\"",
"The crowd marched about eight blocks before police blocked their path.",
"Officers allowed the protesters to chant in the street for more than an hour before they walked away.",
"There were no arrests. Others chanted pro-marijuana slogans behind the riot police, and another group took up the stadium chant of \"Let's go Steelers.\"",
"CNN's Steve Brusk and Ed Henry contributed to this report."
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"G-8 would continue to meet on major security issues but carry less influence .",
"Group of 20 meeting in Pittsburgh for economic summit .",
"U.S. Treasury secretary: Signs of optimism for recovery can be seen ."
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"UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Drawing on 2006 remarks in which he compared former U.S. President George Bush to the devil, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, speaking at the United Nations Thursday, said, \"It doesn't smell like sulfur anymore.\"",
"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez spoke highly of President Obama at the United Nations on Thursday.",
"In a rambling speech at the U.N. General Assembly, Chavez spoke highly of current President Obama, saying he is an \"intelligent man\" and comparing him to President John F. Kennedy.",
"\"I hope God will protect Obama from the bullets that killed Kennedy,\" he said.",
"\"I hope Obama will be able to look and see, genuinely see, what has to be seen and bring about a change.\"",
"Three years ago, Chavez spoke at the gathering the day after Bush spoke, and said the lectern \"still smells of sulfur.\"",
"But on Thursday he looked around the podium and said, \"It doesn't smell of sulfur.",
"It's gone. No, it smells of something else.",
"It smells of hope.\"",
"He did, however, criticize some U.S. policies, questioning whether there are \"two Obamas.\"",
"Watch Chavez speak at the U.N. General Assembly » .",
"Chavez accused the Pentagon of being behind the ousting of Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya in a military-backed coup in June.",
"\"American soldiers knew about the coup and supported it,\" he said.",
"\"Hence the contradiction that Obama has to face.",
"Are there two Obamas?",
"Obama spoke here yesterday.",
"Does he have a double? ... Let's hope the one we heard yesterday will prevail.",
"Let us hope.",
"That's what the world needs.\"",
"The United States and Brazil have said they support dialogue between Zelaya and de facto President Roberto Micheletti, centered on the San Jose Accord brought about through the mediation of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias and the Organization of American States mission.",
"That deal calls for Zelaya to be restored to office.",
"\"The U.S. government, and this is strange, has not recognized the fact that a military coup d'etat has occurred,\" Chavez said.",
"\"There is some friction between the State Department and the Pentagon.\"",
"He said the coup was engineered by the Honduran bourgeoisie, \"four or five wealthy, powerful families.\"",
"Chavez also called for the United States to lift what he called the \"savage, murderous blockade\" on Cuba, and was critical of plans to open U.S. military bases in Colombia, saying what the nation needs instead is aid to lift itself out of its civil war.",
"In addition, Chavez criticized capitalism and extolled the virtues of socialism, saying it is \"the road to salvation for this planet.\"",
"He spoke for almost exactly an hour, less than the hour and 36 minutes Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi used on Wednesday.",
"The Venezuelan president joked that he would not speak as long as Gadhafi, but said he planned to speak as long as Obama.",
"Asked to expand on his \"two Obamas\" comment at a news conference after his speech, Chavez said, \"I think that one of the serious failures of the United States has been that, for a long time, it has underestimated and undervalued Latin America and the Caribbean. ...",
"I hope that Obama turns around the vision of the White House and the Department of State of Latin America.",
"They cannot continue to mistreat us.\"",
"He said one Obama spoke about peace in addressing the General Assembly, yet has seven U.S. military bases in Colombia.",
"\"There's a double somewhere,\" he said.",
"Asked by a reporter about the closures of television stations in Venezuela, Chavez said it was \"a big lie\" and asked her to provide an example.",
"She asked about RCT, or Radio Caracas Television.",
"Chavez told her the station broadcasts every day, but that a contract, or concession, had expired for its \"open signal\" and was not renewed.",
"\"Never in Venezuela do we have as much freedom of expression as we do now,\" he said.",
"But, he asked, \"What would happen here in the United States if CNN and other stations supported a coup?",
"Not only would they be shut down, but their owners would have been taken to the electric chair.\""
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"(CNET) -- A post on the Facebook developer blog announces the big application program interface (API) update from the social network that was first reported on Sunday night, which it's calling the Open Stream API.",
"The \"Open Stream API\" was front-and-center with Facebook's controversial redesign earlier this year.",
"It's the first major implementation of an emerging (read: brand new) open standard called Activity Streams, on which Facebook has been collaborating with developers for the past few months.",
"Basically, what it means is that third-party developers will have access to a feed of all content posted to news feeds--notes, photos, videos, links, \"likes\" and comments, and activity from other applications built on the social network's platform.",
"\"We've officially moved away from the Web of just blog posts, which a lot of these formats were originally designed for,\" said open-source developer and advocate Chris Messina, who has been spearheading the development of Activity Streams for about a year now.",
"\"Over time, what I think will happen is (that) you'll see something toward the type of cleverness and ingenuity that has surfaced around the Twitter community, but in a way that is even more expressive and rich,\" Messina said.",
"\"In the case of Twitter, you're just talking about status updates; in the case of Facebook you're talking about a lot of different activities.\"",
"Previously, only status updates--the most Twitter-like part of Facebook--were accessible to developers.",
"That's why this announcement likely makes the biggest difference to the creators of social feed aggregation applications like TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop.",
"But because Activity Streams is an open standard, other social-networking and media-sharing applications will be able to use it too.",
"This means that there could be, say, an Adobe Air-based desktop application that brings in updates across photo-sharing applications like Facebook, Flickr, and Photobucket.",
"Facebook is also targeting different types of developers -- specifically mobile and desktop -- rather than strictly the Web app developers whose creations made Facebook's platform such a wild success when it debuted two years ago.",
"\"One of the most important stories to tell here is this is the first time that we've ever opened the core Facebook product experience, which was previously called the 'feed' and which we're now calling the 'stream,'\" Facebook senior platform manager Dave Morin explained to CNET News.",
"\"We're especially excited to see the types of desktop applications and the types of mobile applications which developer are going to build for the stream.",
"We've sort of never really allowed this before, so we're pretty excited to see what developers come up with.\"",
"Facebook will be holding an event on Monday afternoon in Palo Alto, California, to introduce developers to the new API.",
"Presenting at the event will be representatives from Adobe, which is building a Facebook application in its Air runtime environment, and Microsoft, which is doing the same in Silverlight; contact management system Plaxo and third-party app Seesmic Desktop (which already has unveiled its support for the Open Stream) are also presenting.",
"The \"stream\" took front-and-center with Facebook's controversial redesign earlier this year.",
"Inspired by the likes of Twitter, the revamped design marked a shift in strategy for Facebook from static profiles to a real-time flow of information.",
"At the same time, it proved unpopular among some users.",
"But Facebook isn't the only big social-networking player to be implementing Activity Streams.",
"The emerging standard was behind the upgrades to MySpace's MySpaceID product that the News Corp.-owned service launched in March at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival.",
"\"It was sort of one of the earlier opportunities we had to take a nascent spec and see it all the way through to launch,\" MySpaceID product lead Max Engel told CNET News, adding that his team first started working on Activity Streams last September.",
"It's what powers a new MySpace \"gadget\" for Google as well as its feeds' presence on the upcoming Yahoo homepage redesign.",
"\"It's getting where we need it to be, which is like e-mail: where you can write a POP client and know (that) it works,\" Engel said.",
"\"It's not even a full standard yet, so it's sort of exciting to see so many people get behind something so quickly, and it's definitely indicative of the general momentum of people who are saying we'd rather work open than work closed.\"",
"© 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.",
"CNET, CNET.com and the CNET logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc. Used by permission."
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"(CNN) -- The first nine months of this year has seen more pirate attacks than all of last year.",
"And more than half of those attacks were carried out by suspected Somali pirates, an international maritime watchdog group said Wednesday.",
"The increase in attacks has forced many countries to patrol pirate hotspots such as the Gulf of Aden.",
"\"The increased activity in Somalia is the major reason for the spike,\" said Cyrus Mody, manager of the International Maritime Bureau, which monitors shipping crimes.",
"From January 1 until September 30, pirates worldwide mounted 306 attacks, compared with 293 in all of 2008, the Bureau said.",
"Of the incidents this year, Somali pirates accounted for 54 percent: they launched 168 attacks.",
"Most of them took place off the east coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden, a major shipping route between Yemen and Somalia.",
"They successfully hijacked 32 vessels and took 533 hostages.",
"Eight others were wounded, four more killed and one is missing, the Bureau said.",
"Somali pirates are still holding four ships for ransom with 80 crew members as hostages.",
"Somalia's transitional government, which has a tenuous grip on power, has been unable to stop the pirates -- many of whom are based in the port cities.",
"This has prompted Europe and other Western countries to step up maritime patrols.",
"\"In the Gulf of Aden, the number of attacks have gone up.",
"But because of the presence of naval vessels, the success rate of the pirates have decreased,\" Mody said.",
"\"The navies are responding very very effectively.\"",
"Today's pirates are a far cry from the eye-patched, peg-legged swashbucklers of Hollywood.",
"They don night-vision goggles, carry rocket launchers and navigate with global positioning devices.",
"Many pirates are trained fighters; others are young thugs enlisted for the job.",
"Experts say they often sail out to sea in a mother ship and wait for a target.",
"When they find one, the pirates board smaller boats and move in, typically with five to seven armed hijackers per boat.",
"Two recent trends have led to a rise in piracy: access and opportunity.",
"As global commerce picks up, more and more of the world's fuels, minerals and other crucial commodities travel by ship.",
"Ninety-five percent of America's foreign trade, for instance, moves by water, according to the U.S. Maritime Administration.",
"That cargo is an easy target for robbers in countries that lack the resources to secure their shorelines, such as Somalia.",
"Those who have tracked pirate activity say it started in Somalia in the 1980s, when the pirates claimed they were aiming to stop the rampant illegal fishing and dumping that continues to this day off the Somali coast.",
"Piracy accelerated after the fall of the Somali government in the early 1990s and began to flourish after shipping companies started paying ransoms.",
"Those payments started out being in the tens of thousands of dollars and have since climbed into the millions.",
"With the ransoms they collect, pirates can earn up to $40,000 a year, analysts say.",
"That's a fortune for someone from an impoverished country.",
"Some analysts say companies are simply making the problem worse by paying the piracies.",
"\"Yes, the ransoms have probably caused the piracy to become a bit more rampant.",
"But at the same time, from the owner's point of view, there is no other way currently to secure the safe release of the vessel along with the crew and the cargo,\" Mody said.",
"\"It's basically a cycle.\"",
"Other trouble spots this year were waters off Nigeria, with 20 attacks; Malaysia with 14; and Bangladesh with 12."
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"(CNN) -- The guitarist stands in front of a mirror messing with his mohawk.",
"The drummer strikes a wild tempo.",
"The singer rips off his T-shirt and begins to scream the lyrics.",
"Basim Usmani is bassist for The Kominas, a group that blends traditional sounds with punk rock beats.",
"They're young. They're punk. And they're rocking both their Muslim and American worlds with their music, lyrics and style.",
"\"A lot of times people say, 'Oh wow, look, brown people playing music' [but] it's more than that,\" said 25-year-old Pakistani-American Shahjehan Khan, the lead singer for a Muslim punk band, The Kominas.",
"The Boston-based band is one of a handful of Muslim punk bands that emerged in the United States in the past few years.",
"The members of this four-person rock group with South Asian roots hold varying views on religion.",
"One says he's an atheist; three others identify as Muslims -- both practicing and non-practicing.",
"For them, punk music is a way to rebel against their conservative cultural upbringing and the frustrations of growing up a young Muslim in America.",
"\"We aren't [just] some alternative to a stereotypical Muslim.",
"We actually might be offering some sort of insights for people at large about religion, about the world,\" said 26-year-old bassist Basim Usmani.",
"Blending traditional South Asian rhythms with punk rock beats, they sing in both English and Punjabi.",
"(Kominas means \"scum-bag\" in Punjabi, according to the band.)",
"Their songs can be at once political, serious, satirical and insinuating.",
"Audio slide show: On tour with Muslim punk rockers » .",
"Their risqué lyrics and provocative song titles such as \"Sharia Law in the USA,\" \"Suicide Bomb the GAP\" and \"Rumi was a Homo\" -- a protest song against homophobia in the American Muslim community -- have drawn the attention of Muslims, non-Muslims, fans and critics alike.",
"\"You sort of have to throw it in peoples' faces and be shocking in order to give people a different way to think about stuff,\" said Usmani.",
"\"These punk, metal and rap scenes - so-called extreme music scenes -- are addressing issues that mainstream music doesn't,\" said Mark LeVine, a professor of Middle Eastern history at University of California, Irvine, who is also a musician and author of \"Heavy Metal Islam.\"",
"\"[Punk] allows them to rebel against society and their own culture at the same time,\" he said.",
"iReport: Is Islam at odds with American values?",
"Before the Islamic punk movement in North America had a voice, it had a story.",
"The Muslim punk scene began to gel in 2003 when novelist and convert to Islam, Michael Muhammad Knight self-published his book, \"The Taqwacores\" about a fictional Muslim punk scene in Buffalo, New York.",
"The book opens with a poem called \"Muhammed was a Punk Rocker\" and describes both conventional and unconventional characters including a Shi'ite skinhead, a conservative Sunni Muslim, a burka-wearing feminist punk and a Sufi who sports a Mohawk and drinks alcohol.",
"\"The punk rock kids I would hang out with weren't even Muslim,\" 31-year old Knight recalls.",
"\"They were so fiercely individualistic -- I wish that I could be a Muslim in that way: not be ashamed of my confusion, not be ashamed of my doubts.",
"Just be myself and be proud of who I am.\" The novel's title, \"Taqwacore,\" is a hybrid word stemming from the Arabic \"taqwa,\" meaning \"god consciousness,\" and \"core\" referring to \"hardcore\" -- a genre of punk music.",
"It's now a general term for Muslim punk rock.",
"The popularity of the book, which Knight said was born out of a search to find his identity as a Muslim-American, grew in underground youth circles and online.",
"It didn't take long before real-life \"taqwacore\" bands like The Kominas began blooming across the country.",
"\"It makes sense why punk has been the music of choice for young, politically active Muslims who are musical,\" said LeVine.",
"\"The straight edge movement in punk which was about no drugs, no alcohol, was clean yet very intense and political.",
"It's a way for them to rebel against their families in some extreme ways yet still be ritualistically, 'good Muslims.'",
"\" \"Taqwacore\" gave voice to many young Muslim-Americans who felt muted by circumstances and created an opening for bands like Al-Thawra, Vote Hezbollah, and Secret Trial Five -- an all-girl punk band out of Vancouver, Canada.",
"In the summer of 2007, five of the taqwacore bands organized a \"taqwa-tour\" of the northeastern United States.",
"They played in city after city, traveling in a green school bus with TAQWA painted on the front bought by Knight for $2,000 on eBay.",
"This summer, The Kominas continue to strike a chord with audiences around the country, hitting cities from San Francisco to New York on a multi-city tour.",
"The taqwacore movement has also inspired two upcoming films - a dramatic feature film based on the book and a documentary.",
"Many conservative Muslims may peg young taqwacores as heretic for their suggestive and irreverent lyrics.",
"But the musicians say they are just trying to show both cultures how broad the spectrum of belief can be.",
"Like many young adults balancing their religious beliefs with American culture, some young Muslims in the United States say it's a constant struggle to be accepted in both worlds.",
"\"I had a lot of conflicted feelings growing up a Muslim in America,\" said 25-year-old Kominas drummer Imran Malik.",
"\"It was hard not being able to do the same things that everyone else around you is doing without feeling guilty about them.\"",
"Knight, who grew up with a Catholic mother and white supremacist father, converted to Islam when he was 16.",
"He said his message is not one of blasphemy but rather an extension of his discontent with the rigid etiquette that dictates certain practices within Islam and the stereotypes of Muslims in American.",
"\"Muslims haven't been fully accepted as Americans but the American experience hasn't been accepted as something that can contribute to the Muslim world,\" said Knight.",
"Knight said writing the book helped him and others connect through shared experiences.",
"\"When I first wrote it, I felt like there would never be a place for me in the Muslim community and that has really turned around a lot,\" he said.",
"\"The book gave me the community I needed, it connected me to all these kids that were also confused and who also went through the things that I went through.\"",
"That connection is vital to taqwacore music, bassist Usmani said.",
"\"The music is great, but the conversation is the key to all of this.",
"The dialogue that we have inspired is really invaluable.\"",
"\"I don't think Islam is ever going to go away, I'm just trying to see how it best fits in my life.\""
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- The number of dead in devastating floods triggered by torrential rains in India has risen to at least 271, and about a million people have fled their homes, officials said Monday.",
"An aerial view of a flood-affected area in Bijapur district in North Karnataka, India.",
"At least 192 people have died in the southern state of Karnataka, its disaster-management secretary H.V.",
"Parshwanath told CNN.",
"More than 450,000 people there have been housed in 1,330 relief camps as authorities completed rescue operations in most of the flooded zones in the state, he said.",
"\"The focus is now mainly on relief,\" Parshwanath said, adding that rains have now eased in Karnataka.",
"In neighboring Andhra Pradesh, authorities put the death toll at 51.",
"Some 531,000 people have been evacuated to safety, with more half of them now sheltering in relief camps, said Dinesh Kumar, the commissioner of the state's disaster-monitoring department.",
"India has deployed the military to help with relief and rescue in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.",
"More than a dozen teams of naval divers have been sent to the two flood-hit states, the country's defense ministry said.",
"Air force planes and helicopters have also been dropping food packets in the submerged regions.",
"The military has been able to rescue 1,336 people so far, it added.",
"Flood waters were now receding in two of the five worst hit districts of Andhra Pradesh, disaster official Kumar said.",
"But floodwaters from a local river might submerge the remaining three, he warned.",
"Flooding also killed at least 25 people in Maharashtra state, officials said.",
"Three others died because of lightning strikes, said S.C. Mohanty, director of Maharashtra's disaster-management department.",
"About 3,000 people have been displaced because of flooding, he told CNN.",
"Thousands of people die each year in India during seasonal monsoon rains.",
"More than 1,100 had been killed in monsoon-triggered flooding in different parts of the country as of last month, according to the disaster-management division of the federal home ministry."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- A brain surgeon performed what he called a \"life-saving\" surgery on a teenager by removing a large brain tumor using a method he read about on CNN.com just three days earlier.",
"Dr. Thomas Ellis is a senior neurosurgeon at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.",
"Dr. Thomas Ellis, a senior neurosurgeon at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, the United States, said he had become \"very demoralized\" after an unsuccessful six-hour operation to remove a tumor from a 19-year-old named Brandon.",
"\"I had had to give the boy's mother the bad news and that is not something I am used to.",
"She was crying and it was very hard.",
"Your story truly came at the perfect time,\" Ellis said.",
"\"I am inclined to believe that it is the work of God that I came across your article that very night,\" the surgeon told CNN.",
"The article was about the \"Omni directional dielectric mirror,\" a pen-shaped fiber-optic tool that allows surgeons to carry out minimally invasive surgery on areas too difficult or delicate to access.",
"That night, Ellis contacted the neurosurgeon quoted in the story who put him in touch with Omni Guide, the Boston, Massachusetts-based company that manufactures the handheld device.",
"It was originally devised for the U.S. military, and rolled out for surgeries three months before Ellis read about it.",
"The tool allows surgeons to easily manipulate a CO2 laser and bend it to reach almost any tissue in the body, particularly in cases where scalpels may pose a danger.",
"\"Seventy-two hours later I held the device in my hands,\" Ellis explained.",
"\"Omni Guide sent someone to do a demo.",
"I was extremely impressed and excited and very quickly I pretty much got the hang of it.\"",
"Ellis added: \"I think it's an amazing story because it's yet another demonstration of how interconnected we've become in this world.",
"\"You have a CNN reporter in London, who writes a story about a neurosurgeon in Chicago, who's using a device that was invented in Massachusetts.",
"That story is read by a different neurosurgeon in North Carolina, and all within 72 hours, we have the device in North Carolina.",
"\"We have the patient lined up for a surgery, and in the span of just a few days we perform really a life-saving operation on this patient.\"",
"Ellis first met Brandon on December 17, 2008, when his mother took him to the emergency department at Wake Forest Hospital suffering from what Ellis calls, \"an extremely rapid decline in basic functions.\"",
"\"While he had been suffering from minor symptoms for about a year, he suddenly acquired terrible headaches and became very confused.\"",
"Ellis ordered an immediate MRI scan of Brandon's skull and found an extremely large tumor, known as a teratoma, in the middle of his brain.",
"Read an explainer about teratomas .",
"He operated two days later, but despite spending six hours in the operating room and going through half a dozen scalpels, he only managed to remove 20 percent of the tumor.",
"\"In 15 years of doing neurosurgery, it really was the most difficult tumor that I ever encountered.",
"It was very rubbery and hard to debulk,\" he said.",
"\"I wish I could demonstrate the firmness of the tumor that we were dealing with but it really was the case that after trying to dissect the tumor just five minutes with each scalpel, the scalpel would be dull and I would have to move on to use another scalpel.",
"\"I went through at least a half-dozen of them, and even after many, many hours of operating on this tumor with multiple scalpels with multiple microsurgical-dissecting tools, I couldn't remove very much of this tumor.\"",
"Ellis advised the boy's mother, Tania, who asked we only give her first name, that her son would have to go through radiation treatment.",
"Unlike chemotherapy, which involves the use of anticancer drugs, radiation treatment employs high-energy rays and particles to kill cancer cells.",
"\"Radiation therapy is a difficult process, especially for such a large tumor,\" Ellis said.",
"He explained that he was feeling despondent about the patient's condition when he got home after the operation that night.",
"\"Being the father of four children myself, just the thought of having to go through something like this with one of my own children is just beyond words,\" he said.",
"\"As I do every night, I read CNN online and immediately saw on the front page that there was an article in the health section entitled, From military device to life-saving surgical tool.",
"... Read the original CNN.com story .",
"\"I finished the rest of the story and my first thought was: I would have given anything to have this tool available six or seven hours ago based on the description in the story.",
"\"Lasers have long been abandoned in neurosurgery,\" he said, \"because they were too cumbersome to use.",
"But CNN spoke of a brain operation performed by a Dr. Bernard Bendok in Chicago with CO2 laser and this new easy-to-use, perfect mirror tool.\"",
"The following day, on Christmas Eve, Ellis along with Dr. Tamir Wolf, a physician OmniGuide sent to assist, brought Brandon back to the operating room.",
"\"After only 30 minutes, it was clear this laser device, as simple to use as a scalpel, was successfully debulking the tumor.\"",
"Ellis operated on Brandon for four hours and managed to remove the remaining 80 percent of the tumor by vaporizing it from the inside with the laser and then excising it.",
"\"The boy was then extubated [removing the tube to his airway] after about 30 minutes and that same evening he was eating normally,\" Wolf said.",
"Brandon has recovered his basic functions and is behaving normally.",
"\"I am very optimistic and so is his mother, although we still have to be careful and do regular check-ups to look for possible spreading of the tumor,\" Ellis said.",
"He believes that \"at the least, this device will become a valuable new tool for surgeons.",
"But it may actually usher in a new generation of neurosurgeons who do microsurgery very differently.\"",
"\"Either way, this type of success story is what we neurosurgeons live for.\""
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"(CNN) -- It certainly isn't your average help wanted ad.",
"A publication in Denver, Colorado, is looking for a journalist to review marijuana dispensaries.",
"\"Do you have a medical condition that necessitates marijuana?",
"Do you have a way with words? If so, Westword wants you to join the ranks as our freelance marijuana-dispensary reviewer.\"",
"The local \"burgeoning medical marijuana scene\" in Denver, Colorado, is growing and the weekly publication Westword wants to be on the forefront, said Joe Tone, the paper's Web editor.",
"\"We want someone who can get in and relay to our readers what it is like inside these dispensaries.\"",
"It's not exactly like a food critic job.",
"The online-only reviewer won't be showing up anonymously and sampling the wares.",
"\"They are to review the places, not the weed,\" Tone said.",
"\"We can't have our reviewer be stoned all the time,\" he quipped.",
"But, he said, the ideal applicant should have \"the ability to write and be in the position of holding a state medical marijuana card.\"",
"The reviewer, he said, should know his or her way around dispensaries and be \"passionate about the issue of medical marijuana.\"",
"Colorado is one of 14 states where medical marijuana is legal by state law -- federal law still bans its use.",
"But this week, the Obama administration announced a new policy loosening the rules regarding prosecuting criminal activity associated with medical marijuana.",
"The Justice Department now says that prosecutors can go after traffickers but not medical marijuana patients and their caregivers.",
"Though Westword is no longer accepting applicants for its dispensary reviewer position, they are actively working through the 120 they received and have culled the list down to under 20.",
"The applicants run the gamut of 20-something stoners to well-educated engineers in their 50s.",
"Some have even offered to work for free, Tone said, adding \"We won't accept that.\"",
"The pay is \"meager,\" he said, but it's legitimate."
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"(CNN) -- Energetic, infectious and combative, the music of Nigerian musician Femi Kuti has moved audiences around the world.",
"But the man is just as passionate about getting people to change their world as much as move their feet.",
"Son of Afrobeat pioneer and political activist Fela Kuti, Femi inherited his father's zeal for both music and activism.",
"Kuti was signed to Motown Records in 1994 and his music blends Afrobeat with more current soul, R&B and jazz.",
"He's worked with rappers Mos Def and Common and continues to explore his music and collaborations.",
"While the music matters, the man himself remains just as politically motivated as his father.",
"Kuti's nightclub in Lagos, the New Afrika Shrine, had become a Mecca for West African music and creative expression, until it was closed by the authorities earlier in the summer.",
"It was also homage to his father and continued his legacy of using music to inspire, change and motivate.",
"Kuti recently told a reporter for All Africa Global Media that the Shrine was a place of worship where people can honor \"great black people, who fought for the emancipation of Africa through music.\"",
"Freeing the \"Shrine\" from being under lock and key is just one of his crusading missions, as with his band, The Positive Force, Kuti remains outspoken about Nigeria, corruption and the positive changes that Africa can achieve.",
"Watch Femi Kuti on African Voices on Saturday, October 31, 12.30 and 18.30 GMT; Sunday, November 1, 18.00 GMT."
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"(CNN) -- A new smartphone application allows users to carry out a virtual dissection of a human body.",
"The iPhone app, \"Anatomy Lab,\" allows the user to move between 40 body layers to enable dissection.",
"The iPhone app, called \"Anatomy Lab,\" has been developed by researchers from the University of Utah and provides images of a real human cadaver.",
"Utah professor Mark Nielsen told CNN that the application is aimed at medical and anatomy students who might not have the opportunity to dissect a real human body, but it's also proving a hit with medical practitioners.",
"\"A lot of medical professionals, especially in physical therapy and rehabilitative medicine, are using it to educate patients and show them the body parts they're discussing,\" Nielsen told CNN.",
"\"Anatomy Lab\" lets the user move between 40 separate body layers, zoom in to view different structures and rotate them to get different view points.",
"It started out as a computer program showing the dissection of a cadaver, beginning with the skin and moving on to subcutaneous tissue, nerves, veins, and muscles.",
"See some of the best health monitoring apps » .",
"Nielsen said the iPhone's touch screen is perfect for the interactive nature of the application.",
"\"The program's so logically set up for the iPhone -- you can pinch the screen to rotate and enlarge, and tap on things to identify them,\" he said.",
"Nielsen's son, Scott Nielsen, a physics major at the University of Utah, wrote the code for the iPhone version, which has so far sold more than 3,000 copies.",
"The app also comes in a cheaper, scaled-down version called \"My Body,\" aimed at the curious amateur.",
"\"Anatomy Lab\" is the latest in a line of iPhone apps either aimed at medics, or with health benefits."
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"The app has so far sold more than 3,000 copies, and is a hit with doctors too ."
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"(CNN) -- A call for Smurfs brought together 1,253 dressed-up-in-blue people in County Monaghan, Ireland.",
"A 4,703-pound cheesecake rolled out in Mexico City.",
"A 7-year-old Michigan boy made a ball of plastic wrap that's 11 feet across.",
"Anthony Victor of India has hair measuring 7.12 inches sprouting from the center of his outer ears.",
"Meanwhile, in Ellensburg, Washington, 13-year-old Brenden Adams is having a hard time fitting into cars.",
"At 7 feet 4.6 inches, Adams -- who as a kindergartner was taller than his teacher -- has made it into the Guinness World Records 2010 book, released Thursday, as the tallest teenage boy.",
"It's a stature he said was earned simply because his 12th chromosome split in half.",
"And while the height has its perks -- \"You don't get picked on as much\" -- he wishes strangers wouldn't stare.",
"\"I'm another person, just like everybody else,\" said Adams, who doesn't play basketball -- two knee replacements insured that -- and prefers to hang out with friends, camp and ride dirt bikes.",
"The tallest teenage boy is one of about 4,000 records listed in this year's book -- a number that accounts for a mere 10 percent of all the mind-blowing stats that make up the Guinness World Records database, said Stuart Claxton, a spokesman for the organization that began publishing feats in 1955.",
"See more world record holders .",
"From the obscure (Most balloons inflated with a nose?",
"308) to the old standbys (Lucia Zarate, who died in 1890, still holds the record for lightest adult at 4.7 pounds), it's the reference-book gift that keeps on giving.",
"So why would someone set out to spend the most time in a bumper car (record: 24 hours), or solve the most Rubik's Cubes in one hour (record: 185)?",
"\"It's an innate part of our psyche as human beings to explore how far we can push the boundaries,\" said Claxton, who's been with Guinness World Records since 2000.",
"\"We're intrigued by extremes in our daily life\" and by \"the things we're not familiar with.\"",
"iReport.com: Follow updates on \"Le Grande Bebe\" Jake Lonsway of Bay City, Michigan, was only 6 when high school students in his area set out to assemble the largest group of people wearing Groucho Marx glasses.",
"A snowstorm killed the attempt, but the idea of setting a record became an obsession for the young boy, his mom Julie Grames said.",
"\"I told him, 'We'll get a bunch of books, and we'll see if there's anything we can do,' \" she said.",
"Building a ball of plastic wrap was where they landed.",
"And what started with a softball-sized ball grew and grew and grew into a 281-pound monstrosity, earning Lonsway, now 9, a spot in this year's record book.",
"\"It does take up a nice corner of the garage,\" Grames said with a laugh.",
"And when people comment on how \"cool\" it is, she said her husband's response is always the same: \"You want it?",
"Take it.\" iReport.com: Massive chess board with human pieces .",
"Claxton, of Guinness, has seen everything from the innocuous to the extreme and dangerous.",
"He's watched a motorcycle rider crash -- and survive -- trying to outdo the ramp-to-ramp distance jump, just one of the \"pushing the envelope\" moments that helped him \"realize just how out there the world of record breaking can be,\" he said.",
"Some images might be hard to take in at first.",
"\"Over 1,000 piercings in the human body is something you have to get used to looking at,\" Claxton said.",
"And while the most tattooed man -- 99 percent of his body is covered -- \"may not be my cup of tea,\" he said that when it comes to categories there's something for everyone.",
"Lee Redmond, 68, of Salt Lake City, Utah, earned the top berth for longest fingernails after not cutting them from 1979 onward.",
"As of the last record-setting measurement, her nails were 28-foot long in total, the longest being her left index fingernail that came in at 3-foot, Claxton said.",
"But a car accident in February of this year left her nails broken and her hands much freer, the Guinness spokesman said.",
"iReport.com: World's largest rocking chair?",
"\"They were such a part of her,\" he said, before describing Redmond's attitude as \"very stoic,\" and her take on the broken nails this way: \"If something like that had to happen, it had to happen.",
"Someone somewhere had decided enough is enough.\"",
"This year's book release includes a look at the top 100 records of this century's first decade, Claxton added, as well as beefed up offerings on the Guinness World Records Web site, which is also where wannabe record holders can find out how to compete and get recognized -- if not now, then in the next book's edition.",
"Since the current record-holding Smurfs gathered in Ireland and after the 2010 book went to press, for example, 2,510 ambitious blue ones amassed in a nightclub in Wales.",
"iReport.com: Large gathering of \"Waldos\" Does Claxton have his own eyes on a record prize?",
"\"I want to spin a quarter for the longest time possible,\" he said, adding that the current record is 19.34 seconds.",
"\"That's the one I want to get.\""
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"Woman who grew fingernails for about 30 years loses them in car accident ."
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"SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) -- A lot of people have been outraged by the gender verification testing that South African athlete Caster Semenya has been put through, and have been trying to be supportive of her; but in doing so, they often further prejudice against the very thing which she appears to be: intersex.",
"Hida Viloria says she looks forward to a day when intersex conditions like hers are widely accepted.",
"Intersex people (formerly known as hermaphrodites) are those born with bodies that are difficult to classify as either \"male\" or \"female.\"",
"Since results of Semenya's tests were apparently leaked, it seems that her body doesn't conform to the definition of \"female\" as one who has ovaries.",
"I'm intersex because, while I have ovaries, menstruate and can get pregnant, my genitalia is somewhat male-looking (simply put, I have a clitoris that's much larger than average.)",
"Throughout my childhood, I never thought I was anything other than \"female\" because that's what I was labeled and raised as.",
"While I felt more aggressive than other girls, I didn't think that anything other than male and female could exist.",
"So I just thought of myself as a \"different kind of woman.\"",
"Ultimately, my assessment was pretty accurate.",
"I was raised in a strict Catholic home, where nudity and sex talk was unheard of, so having no one to compare my genitals to, I was unaware that mine were different.",
"I'm very lucky to have escaped the \"corrective\" surgeries and/or hormone treatments that are the norm for intersex infants, because my father went to medical school before these practices began (in the mid-late '50's), and knew that you shouldn't operate on a baby unless it's absolutely necessary.",
"Later, when he wanted to give me estrogen pills at puberty to ensure that my body \"feminized\" (he told me that the pills were to make me grow taller), my mother objected, saying it was experimental and that I didn't need it.",
"Thankfully, she won out. Thus, no one ever told me there was anything wrong with my body (that didn't happen until a gynecological visit when I was twenty), and I grew up loving it just the way it is.",
"I still do. While many doctors would refer to my clitoris as \"grossly enlarged,\" I have to tell you, having an overabundance of the only organ in the human body whose sole purpose is pleasure is far from a negative thing!",
"I came of age sexually with my second boyfriend in high school.",
"I broke up with him because I knew that I preferred girls, but I couldn't act on it yet.",
"Once I did, in college, it confirmed that girls were what I'd always longed for, and it was then that I realized how much my body differed from theirs.'",
"Still, I had no name for my difference.",
"At the age of twenty-six, I finally discovered I was \"intersex\" from a newspaper article.",
"Fortunately, it was not about me specifically but about intersex in general, and I'm glad that I, unlike Semenya, had time to process the information and come out about it when I was ready to.",
"I still had other issues I was dealing with -- namely: racism and homophobia -- so it took a year for me to embrace this additional minority status.",
"Once I did, it was a positive turning point.",
"I'd always felt strongly masculine and feminine, and now it made sense why these two presumably \"opposite\" traits existed, in me, side by side.",
"I didn't think being intersex was a bad thing to be.",
"I'd already learned that people can be prejudiced against things they're unfamiliar with, or are taught to dislike, and that we shouldn't take on their bigotry.",
"On April 19, 2002, I appeared on the television news program \"20/20\" with a prominent urologist and \"expert\" on intersex conditions.",
"When asked why he supported \"corrective surgeries\" he answered, \"Society can't accept people of different colors, and now we're supposed to accept somebody with genitalia that don't match what their gender is?",
"I do not believe this society is ready for it.\"",
"Intersex folks are not some new invention that people need to be \"ready for:\" we exist and always have.",
"Resistance to accepting us has created the mess that Semenya now finds herself in.",
"If medicine had been more upfront about intersex conditions rather than pretending they're just male and female as usual, they could have avoided ruining the career of some athletes.",
"Whichever condition Caster Semenya has, she shouldn't be made to suffer for others' mistakes.",
"Since infancy, she's been legally labeled, raised, and accepted as female.",
"To be told that she can't compete as one now would be like being a U.S. citizen all your life, but being suddenly denied a passport because somebody decided that the city you were born in is actually, sorry, on the wrong side of the border.",
"For thirteen years I've been outing myself as intersex just to let folks know we exist, and I'm happy to say I've seen progress.",
"I look forward to one day telling my god-daughter about how it used to be for us, and to hearing her say, \"Wow, I can't believe some people had problems accepting intersex.",
"Humans can be so weird.\""
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"Viloria: I found out at age of 26 I was intersex, I think I'm a different kind of woman .",
"Viloria: Since then, I've been outing myself as intersex just to let folks know we exist ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A handful of people rallied outside the Japanese Embassy on Saturday to show support for an American man who is jailed in Japan, accused of trying to kidnap his own children.",
"Amy Savoie calls on Japan to release her husband during a rally outside the Japanese Embassy in Washington.",
"During the demonstration, Christopher Savoie's wife, Amy, along with others from the Children's Rights Council of Japan -- a group that advocates visitation for both parents in divorce cases, and which organized Saturday's event -- called for Savoie's release.",
"\"It makes me feel wonderful to know that these people are calling him a hero, saying he's brave, and I just hope he can come home and say thank you to all these people who've supported him,\" Amy Savoie told CNN.",
"Christopher Savoie, 38, a Tennessee native and naturalized Japanese citizen, allegedly abducted his two children -- 8-year-old Isaac and 6-year-old Rebecca -- as his ex-wife walked them to school Monday in a rural town in southern Japan, police in Japan said.",
"With the children, Savoie headed for the nearest U.S. consulate in the city of Fukuoka to try to obtain passports for them, screaming at guards to let him in the compound.",
"Savoie was steps away from the front gate but still standing on Japanese soil when Japanese police arrested him.",
"Amy Savoie said the separation is taking a toll on her.",
"\"I just wish I could talk to him, but I am forced to live with the fact that I can't talk to him.",
"So I have to soothe myself and comfort myself with what he would say right now, and I just hope he's doing well,\" she said.",
"Christopher Savoie and his first wife, Noriko Savoie, were married for 14 years before their divorce in January.",
"The couple, both citizens of the United States and Japan, had lived in Japan but moved to the United States before the divorce.",
"Noriko Savoie was given custody of the children and agreed to remain in the United States.",
"Christopher Savoie had visitation rights.",
"During the summer, she fled with the children to Japan, according to court documents.",
"A U.S. court than granted Christopher Savoie sole custody.",
"Japanese law, however, recognizes Noriko Savoie as the primary custodian.",
"The law there also follows a tradition of sole-custody divorces.",
"When the couple splits, one parent typically makes a complete and lifelong break from the children.",
"Complicating the matter further is the fact that the couple still are considered married in Japan because they never divorced there, police said Wednesday.",
"And, police said, the children are Japanese and have Japanese passports.",
"A 1980 Hague Convention standardized laws on international child abduction, but Japan is not a party to that agreement.",
"If a child in Japan is taken against the wishes of the recognized Japanese parent, Japanese law considers the person who took the child an abductor.",
"Christopher Savoie will be jailed for at least 10 days while Japanese prosecutors sort out details of the case."
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"Japanese custom, law on custody differ sharply from those in U.S."
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"(CNN) -- Tennis officials reacted with disappointment on Wednesday to Andre Agassi's revelation that he had used a banned drug and then lied about it to avoid a ban.",
"Agassi's admission that he took the stimulant crystal meth in 1997 will come in a soon to be published autobiography which is being serialized by The Times of London.",
"He avoided a three-month suspension by claiming in a letter to the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) that he failed a doping test because a drink had been 'spiked' with the crystal meth.",
"Under today's anti-doping rules, the American legend could have faced a two-year ban from the circuit.",
"The ATP issued a statement Wednesday in which it said that an independent panel would make the final decision on a doping violation.",
"\"The ATP has always followed this rule, and no executive at the ATP has therefore had the authority or ability to decide the outcome of an anti-doping matter,\" the statement read.",
"World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) president John Fahey said they could not take retrospective action against the eight-time grand slam winner because of its eight-year statute of limitations, but demanded the ATP investigate fully.",
"\"WADA would, however, expect the ATP, which administered its own anti-doping program at that time, to shed light on this allegation,\" Fahey said in a statement.",
"The International Tennis Federation (ITF) took over responsibility for the ATP's doping program in 2006 and its president Francesco Ricci Bitti said that Agassi's revelations showed that a tough anti-doping program was needed.",
"Agassi did find strong support from Nicolas Hayek, chairman of Swatch Group, for whom Agassi acts as an ambassador.",
"He told CNN that his company would stick with the 39-year-old Agassi in his current role.",
"\"He's admitted a mistake and it's fine with us,\" he said."
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"(CNN) -- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, police have arrested a man whose DNA linked him to the bodies of nine women killed over 21 years, officials said at a news conference Monday night.",
"Walter E. Ellis, 49, was arrested after police matched a DNA swab taken from him last week to the victims.",
"Walter E. Ellis, 49, was arrested after police matched a DNA swab taken from him last week to DNA left on the bodies of nine women killed since 1986.",
"Police said eight of the women were prostitutes and one was a runaway involved with drugs.",
"They were all killed within a 3-square-mile area of Milwaukee's north side.",
"\"This case was solved with shoe leather and science,\" Milwaukee Police Chief Edward A. Flynn said.",
"\"Continuing advances in DNA technology have enabled us to link these homicide cases, and it was good police work pursuing numerous leads that led to the arrest of a suspect.\"",
"The homicides occurred between 1986 and 2007, police said.",
"See where the bodies were found » .",
"Ellis was charged Monday with two counts of first degree murder relating to two of the deaths: 41-year-old Joyce Mims, who was killed in 1997, and 28-year-old Ouithreaun Stokes, who was killed in April 2007.",
"Police said more charges are likely.",
"It wasn't immediately clear whether Ellis had obtained an attorney.",
"Police said other victims linked to Ellis through DNA were: Tanya L. Miller, killed in 1986; Deborah L. Harris, killed in 1986; Sheila Farrior, strangled in 1995; Florence McCormick, strangled in 1995; Irene Smith, killed in 1992; Carron D. Kilpatrick, killed in 1992, and Jessica Payne, killed in 1995.",
"Flynn told CNN it was hard for investigators to discern a geographic pattern for the homicides.",
"In the 20-year period, more than 2,000 slayings occurred in Milwaukee, he said -- 200 of them in the same area where the bodies were found.",
"Another challenge investigators faced was the developing technology of DNA evidence.",
"The technology in 2009 far exceeds that available in 1986 or even 2002, he said.",
"It was only this year that police were able to link the nine homicides with the same DNA pattern.",
"Even then \"we did not have anyone to match our DNA profile against, until we were able to get [Ellis'] toothbrush,\" he told CNN.",
"A Wisconsin law passed in 2000 mandated the DNA collection from convicted felons.",
"Ellis was released from prison in 2001 without having his DNA sample collected, Flynn said.",
"Because his name had surfaced in the investigation and because he was also listed in two FBI databases, authorities decided to investigate him further and were able to obtain the search warrant that allowed them to collect his DNA from his toothbrush, the police chief said.",
"News of Ellis' arrest shocked those who knew him.",
"\"That was just my ex-boyfriend,\" his former girlfriend, Chanita, told CNN affiliate WISN-TV.",
"She asked that her last name not be used.",
"\"I didn't know nothing about nothing like this.",
"I'm getting shivery now cause you're talking about some strangling stuff.",
"Lord have mercy on me.",
"I'm just a wreck right now.",
"I can't believe this. I'm trembling in here. I'm shakin'.\" Chanita said she dated Ellis for four years.",
"\"I can't believe it. This is a shock,\" she told WISN.",
"\"I got like goose bumps on my arms instantly when you told me that.",
"I'm like no way -- not Walter -- I can't see him hurting nobody.\"",
"For relatives of the victims, the news brought mixed emotions.",
"\"I knew they was gonna get him, I knew it,\" Patricia Donald, best friend of victim Deborah Harris, told WISN.",
"\"Finally he can't hurt nobody anymore.\"",
"For her and others, like Sandy Farrior, whose daughter Sheila was linked to Ellis, it was news that helped bring closure.",
"\"Late justice is better than no justice,\" he told WISN.",
"In addition to advances in DNA technology, officials attributed the break in the case to the repeated investigation of cold cases by the Milwaukee Police Department's Homicide Task Force Cold Case Unit.",
"Although Mims and Stokes were strangled about a decade apart, similar DNA on their bodies helped lead police to a suspect.",
"Watch where cops got DNA sample » .",
"Mims was found strangled and lying on her back wearing only socks on June 20, 1997, in a small closet near a living room in Milwaukee, according to court documents.",
"Police found DNA on her body, but there were no matches in the system, the court documents show.",
"On April 27, 2007, Stokes was found strangled, partially clothed and lying face down in a living room in Milwaukee, according to court documents.",
"When lab technicians tested the DNA found on her body, they found it directly matched the DNA found on Mims.",
"On August 29 of this year, armed with a search warrant, police took a toothbrush and razor from Ellis' home.",
"Testing showed the DNA found on Mims and Stokes was a match to Ellis, according to court documents.",
"Ellis has been charged at least 10 times with varying offenses ranging from violent crimes to property crimes between 1981 and 1998, though some of the charges were dismissed, online court records in Wisconsin show.",
"He was sentenced to five years in state prison after he pleaded no contest to a reckless injury charge in 1998.",
"None of the victims linked to Ellis was killed during the time he was in jail.",
"However, two men were charged in slayings later linked to Ellis, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.",
"Curtis McCoy was charged in October 1994 with killing Kilpatrick, but he was later acquitted by a jury, the newspaper reported.",
"It also said Chaunte Ott, who was convicted of killing Payne, served 13 years in prison before being released in January, after DNA analysis showed semen found on the girl's body was not his.",
"CNN's Gabriel Falcon contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- A study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics indicates about 1 percent of children ages 3 to 17 have autism or a related disorder, an increase over previous estimates.",
"Children at the Marcus Autism Center in Atlanta, Georgia, receive instruction on March 5, 2009.",
"\"This is a significant issue that needs immediate attention,\" Dr. Ileana Arias, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.",
"\"A concerted effort and substantial national response is warranted.\"",
"The study used data from the federal government's 2007 national survey of children's health.",
"The survey of parents was conducted by the Health Resources and Services Administration, and by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"The results are based on a national telephone survey of more than 78,000 parents of children ages 3 to 17.iReport.com: How has autism affected your family?",
"In the study, parents were asked whether a health care provider had ever told them their child had an autism spectrum disorder.",
"ASD is a group of brain disorders comprising autism and two less severe disorders: Asperger's disorder and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified.",
"Children with the disorder show impairment in social interaction and in their ability to communicate.",
"They often display repetitive behavior.",
"Watch families discuss autism » .",
"The investigators also asked a follow-up question: Were the children considered to have ASD now?",
"Nearly 40 percent of the parents and guardians said no.",
"That finding led the authors to question whether some of the children originally diagnosed as having ASD may have been improperly diagnosed, since the disorders are not considered curable.",
"But Kogan said the two surveys cannot be compared because the earlier investigators did not ask the follow-up question about whether the children were still considered to have the disorder.",
"Still, based on the findings, lead author Dr. Michael D. Kogan of HRSA's maternal and child health bureau estimated the prevalence of ASD among U.S. children ages 3 to 17 at 110 per 10,000 -- slightly more than 1 percent.",
"Boys were four times as likely as girls to have ASD, and non-Hispanic black and multiracial children were less likely than non-Hispanic white children.",
"He estimated that 673,000 children have ASD in the United States.",
"Monday's findings of nearly 1 in 100 appear to indicate an increase from the average of 1 in 150 that was reported in 2003, the researchers said.",
"The researchers urged caution in interpreting the change, noting that an increase in diagnoses does not necessarily mean that more children have the disorder.",
"It could simply reflect a heightened awareness of the disorder.",
"\"We don't know whether the change in the number over time is a result of the change in the actual condition, in the actual number of conditions or in part due to the fact that the condition is being recognized differently,\" Arias said.",
"She said that preliminary results from a separate, CDC-funded study she is working on also indicate that about 1 percent of children in the United States are affected by ASD.",
"That study is to be published later this year, she said.",
"\"This is a behavioral diagnosis, and it's difficult to make, and it's difficult to make at young ages,\" said Dr. Peter van Dyck, HRSA's associate administrator for maternal and child health.",
"Half of the cases were considered mild by their parents, the study reported.",
"The results underscore the importance of creating policies that will result in early identification and intervention, the officials said.",
"The reports raise \"a lot of questions about how we are preparing in terms of housing, employment, social support -- all the issues that many of these people are going to need,\" said Dr. Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health.",
"\"It also raises questions about how well we're prepared in the educational system to provide for the special needs of many of these kids.\"",
"Insel said the federal government is beefing up the resources it is mobilizing to address autism and related disorders, with $85 million being appropriated by the National Institutes of Health and $48 million for next year by the HRSA."
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"Editor's note: A nationally syndicated columnist, Roland S. Martin is the author of the forthcoming book, \"The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House as originally reported by Roland S. Martin\" and of two other books, \"Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith\" and \"Speak, Brother!",
"A Black Man's View of America.\"",
"Visit his Web site for more information.",
"Roland Martin says conservative critics are wrong to chortle at the defeat of the Chicago Olympic bid.",
"(CNN) -- Whenever President Obama has traveled overseas and offered pointed and direct assessments of the United States, some of them critical, Republicans have ripped him for criticizing America, saying a president should always defend the United States.",
"So I want to hear the explanation by these so-called patriots of their giddy behavior over the United States losing the 2016 Olympic Games.",
"Yes, the United States.",
"The bid that was rejected Friday by the International Olympic Committee was not a Chicago, Illinois, bid.",
"It was the official bid submitted by the United States Olympic Committee and was representative of the nation.",
"Tokyo's bid was that of Japan; Madrid's was that of Spain; and Rio de Janeiro's was that of Brazil.",
"Republicans want to spin the decision as a massive loss by President Obama and the Democrats who have always controlled Chicago politics.",
"\"Hahahahaha,\" wrote Erick Erickson on the conservative \"RedState\" blog, \"I thought the world would love us more now that Bush was gone.\"",
"What the critics don't see is that Obama's loss on the Olympics is America's loss.",
"Any red-blooded American who loves to see the American flag raised and the national anthem played when one of our own wins a gold medal should blast the Republicans' giddiness over the loss.",
"I can recall crying along with millions of Americans when our hockey team beat the Russians and won the hockey gold in 1980.",
"Where were those games? Lake Placid, New York.",
"Euphoria spread all across the nation, not only because we beat the mighty Russians, but also because it took place on American soil.",
"When Carl Lewis and Mary Lou Retton dominated the 1984 Olympic Games, we all beamed with pride because they represented the United States on American soil in Los Angeles, California.",
"And when Michael Johnson stormed around the track to obliterate the world record in the 200-meter dash (since broken by Jamaica's Usain Bolt), we relished the win as he took a victory lap around the stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"Americans love home field advantage, and we always desire to show the rest of the world what we are made of.",
"I don't care if Republicans want to rip President Obama over going to Copenhagen, Denmark, to pitch for the games.",
"This isn't about politics. It's not about ideology. This is about America. OUR pride. Our chance to shine.",
"Our loss of the games.",
"So, to all the critics happy about us losing the 2016 games, turn in your flag lapel pins and stop boasting of being so patriotic.",
"When an American city loses, like New York did in the the last go-round, we all lose.",
"And all you critics are on the same level as the America haters all across the world.",
"You should be shouted down for not backing your own country.",
"The next time any of you bang out a press release about \"Buy American\" or \"Support our troops,\" remember this moment when your cynical, callous and small-minded brains happily rejoiced when America lost the 2016 Olympic Games.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin."
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"He says Americans love to cheer on their Olympic athletes on home soil ."
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"(CNN) -- At least nine people were killed in Somalia's war-torn capital Mogadishu when mortars slammed into a home for disabled veterans, according to journalists and witnesses.",
"Al Shabaab fighters display two bodies of Somali police officers during a battle August 12 in Mogadishu.",
"At least 27 people were wounded in the Friday night incident, when Muslim militants fired mortars toward Mogadishu's port and struck a residential area.",
"The mortars hit a home for former national army officers who were disabled in a late-1970s war with Ethiopia, the sources said.",
"Insurgents from the Al-Shabaab militant group have been fighting to topple Somalia's government.",
"Its fighters have frequently shelled the city's airport and seaport, which are controlled by the African Union and government forces.",
"The United States is supporting the Somali government's fight against the insurgents, including providing weapons to government forces.",
"Al Shabaab is on the U.S. list of terror organizations because of its ties to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.",
"The United States is concerned that Somalia's weak government could fall to the Islamist insurgency, as it did in 2006 before Ethiopian forces ousted the militants from power later that year."
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"Sources: Militants fired mortars toward Mogadishu's port, struck residential area .",
"Mortars hit home for disabled national army officers .",
"At least 9 dead, 27 wounded in attack in war-torn capital ."
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"(CNN) -- Heavy rain that began pounding California on Tuesday threatened to unleash dangerous floods and mudslides, especially in areas ravaged by wildfires.",
"Residents of La Canada Flintridge, California, fill sandbags to prepare heavy rains in the fire-affected area.",
"\"Very heavy rain is likely over the Sierra Nevada and foothills from later today through Wednesday morning as a strong and very moist Pacific storm moves into the region,\" the National Weather Service said.",
"Up to 8 inches of rain could fall in areas above 4,000 feet, it said.",
"Forecasters described it as the first major storm of the season.",
"The Santa Cruz County Office of Emergency Services issued a mandatory evacuation order for 60 homes in a section of Davenport, an unincorporated community north of Santa Cruz along the state's central coast.",
"The San Lorenzo Valley high school, middle school, and elementary schools are closed, the county said.",
"Many roads were flooding in Santa Cruz County, emergency management officials said.",
"The area burned in the summer's Lockheed fire, increasing the chances of mudslides in the current storm.",
"Wind gusts above 50 mph were reported from automated observation sites at high elevations, and rainfall was heavy over the Santa Cruz Mountains, the weather service said.",
"Gusty winds were reported in the San Francisco Bay Area, but heavy rain there was expected to end by early evening.",
"\"Although it has been very dry for a lengthy period of time, excessive amounts of rain of this magnitude may produce flooding in locations that normally do not flood during an early autumn rainfall,\" the weather service said.",
"California's Emergency Management Agency was conducting conference calls with the National Weather Service to stay abreast of the latest reports, spokesman Greg Renick said.",
"The agency had advised other agencies to make emergency preparations, he said.",
"Sandbags have been positioned at vulnerable locations.",
"\"We have activated the state Operations Center in Sacramento and also activated the centers in Los Alamitos and Oakland,\" Renick said.",
"One major area of concern is the land burned by the Station wildfire in August and September, forecasters said.",
"That 160,000-acre fire destroyed about 80 homes in Los Angeles County.",
"\"The heavy rain will create favorable conditions for mud and rock slides over burn scars,\" said the weather service, which issued numerous flood watches and warnings.",
"Forecasters said debris flows also were possible in or near areas burned by blazes such as the Big Meadows Fire in Yosemite National Park, the Power Fire in Tulare County and the fire in San Bernardino National Forest."
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"Storm is expected to dump as much as 8 inches of rain .",
"Storm could hit parts of Southern California that the Station wildfire burned .",
"Residents filled sandbags to prepare for flooding ."
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"OKAZAKI, Japan (CNN) -- At Spencer Morrey's home, there are two constant sounds: his dad, Craig, murmuring, \"You're okay, Spence.",
"You're okay, buddy,\" and the sound of a machine clearing the toddler's airway.",
"Spencer Morrey, pictured with his father Craig, has severe cerebral palsy and requires 24-hour medical care.",
"Both sounds come every few minutes, in between hugs, tears and kisses.",
"Spencer has severe cerebral palsy and requires constant, 24-hour medical care.",
"In Japan, a country that lacks sufficient medical services for disabled children, the only person to care for Spencer is his father.",
"Morrey says his wife left, overwhelmed by the strain of their son's medical condition.",
"That would be pain beyond what most parents could imagine.",
"But Spencer's mother fled while pregnant with Morrey's daughter, Amelia.",
"In more than a year, Morrey says he has only seen his daughter four times.",
"\"She wouldn't recognize me,\" Morrey said, with Spencer propped on his lap.",
"\"She wouldn't call me daddy.",
"She's just starting to talk now.",
"But she's not going to know who I am.",
"I think she deserves my love.",
"And I think she deserves to be with Spencer and Spencer deserves to be with her.\"",
"Morrey, a native of Chicago and a U.S. citizen, was married to a Brazilian woman of Japanese descent.",
"They divorced in a Japanese court.",
"Under Brazilian law, Morrey would likely have joint custody and guardianship of both children.",
"What do you think about Spencer's case?",
"Have your say . But in Japan, where only one parent gets custody of a child in a divorce, the family courts have left the case in legal limbo for a year because they have not decided which parent legally has custody of the children.",
"Typically, the parent with physical custody of a child retains custody.",
"Morrey has stayed in Japan the last year, trying to get the courts to recognize that he has joint custody of the children in Brazil (he has not yet applied for such custody under U.S. law).",
"Watch Kyung Lah's report on the case » .",
"He is afraid that if he heads home for the U.S. with Spencer without that, he could be subject to international child abduction laws, and he also fears such a move could hurt his chances of getting the Japanese family court to give him joint custody of his daughter.",
"Morrey has been forced to quit work to care for Spencer.",
"The financial strain of living off his credit cards is adding to the stress of caring for a disabled child alone in a foreign country.",
"Despite his pleading with court mediators and repeated court filings claiming that joint custody is the law in both the U.S. and Brazil, Japan's slow and antiquated family courts have let the case languish.",
"\"Kids need both parents,\" Morrey said.",
"\"Whether the parents are married or not is irrelevant in my mind.",
"The Japanese courts, and I realize you're going against years and years of cultural differences and everything else, but they don't care about the welfare of the child.",
"\"In Japan, it's considered too messy.",
"It's too complicated. It deals with personal feelings, so they don't want to deal with it.",
"So the best way is to not deal with it.\"",
"CNN contacted Morrey's ex-wife four times by telephone and once by fax.",
"She declined to discuss the case.",
"The International Association for Parent and Child Reunion believes there are an estimated 100 American families in situations like Morrey's in Japan and dozens involving those from Britain, France and Canada.",
"One of those cases is that of American Christopher Savoie.",
"Savoie, 38, a Tennessee native and naturalized Japanese citizen, was arrested on September 28 in Yanagawa, Japan, for attempting to abduct his two children, eight-year-old Isaac and six-year-old Rebecca.",
"Watch more about this case » .",
"Savoie drove his children to the nearest U.S. consulate in the city of Fukuoka to try and obtain passports for them.",
"Steps away from the front of the consulate, Japanese police arrested him.",
"Savoie is now in jail, awaiting a decision by prosecutors on a possible indictment.",
"Savoie and his first wife, Noriko Savoie, were married for 14 years before their bitter divorce in January.",
"According to court documents, she fled with the children to Japan in the summer.",
"A U.S. court then gave Christopher Savoie sole custody of the children.",
"But Japanese law recognizes Noriko Savoie as the sole custodian, despite the U.S. order.",
"\"It's like a black hole,\" Morrey said.",
"\"If you go through a divorce, there's this joke.",
"If you have an international marriage with a Japanese, don't piss them off because you'll never see your kids again.\"",
"Not seeing his daughter Amelia again is what is keeping Morrey in Japan.",
"He has been selling off everything he owns, trying to keep himself and Spencer afloat, hoping the Japanese court will bring him some legal connection to his child.",
"He is stuck choosing between caring for his son, who needs the better resources of the U.S., and hoping to be a father to his daughter.",
"\"How do you make that choice?",
"It's not -- once you're a dad, you're always a dad.\""
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"Craig Morrey's wife left him to care for their disabled son, Spencer, alone .",
"His wife has sole custody of the daughter she had shortly after .",
"Under Japanese law only one parent gets custody of a child in a divorce .",
"Under U.S. law Morrey would likely have joint custody of both children ."
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"YANAGAWA, Japan (CNN) -- Wearing a Nashville School of Law T-shirt, Christopher Savoie walked into a second-floor police interrogation room.",
"In one corner, a stopwatch was running to hold him to the 15 minutes allotted for the interview.",
"A Tennessee court awarded Christopher Savoie custody of his son, Isaac, and daughter, Rebecca.",
"\"I'm so scared,\" he said.",
"Savoie chose his words carefully, lest police Officer Toshihiro Tanaka cut short the rare interview Savoie was granted with CNN on Thursday.",
"There were so many rules: No recording devices.",
"No tough questions.",
"Speak only in Japanese.",
"\"I want Americans to know what's happening to me,\" Savoie continued in Japanese.",
"\"I didn't do anything wrong.",
"Children have the right to see both parents.",
"It's very important for my children to know both parents.\"",
"But Japanese authorities disagree.",
"They have charged Savoie, 38, a Tennessee native and naturalized Japanese citizen, with kidnapping his two children -- 8-year-old Isaac and 6-year-old Rebecca -- as his estranged wife, Noriko, was walking them to school Monday in Yanagawa, a rural town in southern Japan.",
"Watch what else Savoie had to say » .",
"He headed for the nearest U.S. consulate, in the city of Fukuoka, to try to obtain passports for the children, screaming at the guards to let him in the compound.",
"He was steps away from the front gate but still standing on Japanese soil.",
"Japanese police, alerted by his estranged wife, arrested him.",
"The Savoies were divorced in Tennessee in January after 14 years of marriage.",
"Christopher Savoie had visitation rights with his children, but after he returned from a short summer trip, his estranged wife fled to Japan with the children, according to court documents.",
"A United States court then granted sole custody to Savoie.",
"Watch why the case is complicated » .",
"Japanese law, however, recognizes Noriko Savoie as the primary custodian, regardless of the U.S. court order.",
"The law there also follows a tradition of sole custody divorces.",
"When the couple splits, one parent typically makes a complete and lifelong break from the children.",
"Complicating the matter further is the fact that the couple is still considered married in Japan, because they never divorced there, police said Wednesday.",
"And, police said, the children are Japanese and have Japanese passports.",
"A 1980 Hague Convention standardized laws on international child abduction.",
"But Japan is not a party to that agreement.",
"Savoie was out of luck.",
"If a child in Japan is taken against the wishes of the recognized Japanese parent, the person who took the child is considered an abductor.",
"\"Japanese people think she's the victim here,\" Savoie said.",
"\"In the States, my ex-wife is the one who's in the wrong.\"",
"U.S. State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley recognized this case as a difficult one.",
"Even though the United States has strong ties with Japan, on this particular issue, the two nations' points of view could not differ more, he said.",
"In Yanagawa, those who have heard about the abduction case tend to side with the woman.",
"\"They belong with their real mother,\" said one woman, herself a mother of two children.",
"But most have not heard of the case, because it has not been reported in local newspapers or on television.",
"Savoie's attorney, Tadashi Yoshino, knows the cultural divide will be hard to overcome.",
"\"He technically may have committed a crime according to Japanese law but he shouldn't be indicted,\" Yoshino said.",
"\"He did it for the love of his children.\"",
"Savoie, a law student who already has a Ph.D. and a M.D., will spend 10 days in jail while Japanese prosecutors sort out the details of the case.",
"In the interrogation room, Savoie appeared exhausted.",
"Tears welled in his eyes.",
"He glanced over at the police officer, then paused to regain composure.",
"\"I love you, Isaac, Rebecca,\" he said.",
"\"Your daddy loves you forever.",
"I'll be patient and strong until the day comes that I can see you both again.",
"I am very sorry that I can't be with you.\" He was grateful be able to get the words out.",
"Moments earlier, the interview had almost ended after Savoie blurted out in English: \"I love you,\" a message intended for his current wife, Amy, in Nashville.",
"Then, as is Japanese custom, he bowed.",
"And from the other side of the glass barrier, he gave a thumbs up, mouthing the words, \"Thank you.\""
] |
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"Man charged with abducting his own children denies committing breach .",
"Japanese custom, law on custody differ sharply from those in U.S.\nJapan is not party to 1980 convention that standardized abduction laws .",
"All parties in current case are Japanese citizens ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Obama administration is working on a substantial sanctions package against Iran in case current diplomatic efforts to curb its nuclear program fail, top officials told Congress on Tuesday.",
"Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levy also developed some of the existing financial sanctions against Iran.",
"Under Secretary of the Treasury Stuart Levy, who developed some of the existing financial sanctions against Iran under the Bush administration, said at a Senate Banking Committee hearing that the \"comprehensive\" plan would target \"key vulnerabilities and fissures\" in Iran to show Tehran that it would face \"serious costs\" for thwarting international demands.",
"\"It takes into account that no single sanction is a 'silver bullet'; we will need to impose measures simultaneously in many different forms in order to be effective,\" Levy said.",
"He stressed, however, that the United States would be mindful of actions that would harm the Iranian people or undercut the opposition battling the Iranian government.",
"The hearing comes as some members of Congress push for tougher U.S. sanctions on the Iranian regime in light of the recent revelation that Iran was building a second uranium enrichment facility near Qom, a dramatic development that jacked up tension between Iran and international powers.",
"During talks last week in Geneva, Switzerland, between Iranian officials and representatives of the so-called P5+1 -- the United States, Britain, France, German, Russia and China -- Iran agreed to admit inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to the Qom facility.",
"Tehran also agreed \"in principle\" to ship its low-enriched uranium produced in Iran to third countries for further enrichment for a nuclear reactor used for medical research.",
"Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg told the panel Tuesday that one reason for the Obama administration's engagement toward Iran was to secure international support for sanctions if Iran continued to defy international demands.",
"Last week's talks, he said, shined a \"spotlight\" on Iran that makes inaction more costly.",
"Levy also stressed that an international coalition was key to keeping pressure on Iran.",
"\"Because financial measures are most effective when imposed as part of a broad-based effort with support of the largest possible international coalition, we are working closely with our allies as we put together this strategy,\" he said.",
"\"The less united we are in applying pressure, the greater the risk our measures will not have the impact we seek.\"",
"Several lawmakers expressed doubt that Iran would negotiate in good faith and threatened legislation to impose tough new sanctions against Tehran.",
"Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, D-Connecticut, said he planned to move forward this month on a proposal to expand financial restrictions, impose new sanctions on Iran's oil and gas sectors and ban both the export of refined gasoline products to Iran and the import of Iranian goods.",
"Steinberg said the United States and its allies will judge Iran's seriousness about the talks by whether it makes good on its commitments to ship the uranium out of the country and admit the IAEA inspectors, who are expected to visit the Qom facility October 25.",
"\"By the end of the month, we will have some very clear indications of what their intentions are,\" he said."
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"\"Comprehensive\" plan would target \"key vulnerabilities,\" official says .",
"But U.S. would be mindful of actions that would harm Iranian people, he says .",
"International coalition is key to keeping pressure up, diplomat says ."
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"(The Frisky) -- Last weekend at a party, I noticed a toad-like man attaching himself to a beautiful, talented friend of mine.",
"Not only was she way out of his league, looks-wise, but as I eavesdropped I discovered he was one of those dudes who delivers endless monologues instead of engaging in actual conversations.",
"Too many women are afraid to say, \"No,\" says author.",
"Ladies, I think we've all been stuck with that guy.",
"Now it was my friend's turn.",
"I could tell by her stunned look of horror that she wanted nothing to do with him, but she seemed frozen.",
"My pal Ivan and I tried to intervene.",
"\"Let's go get some cake,\" we suggested, physically pulling her from his side.",
"Her relief was short-lived as he tracked her down and reattached himself to her hip.",
"Watching her go through this made me think back on how many times I've been afraid to say no.",
"Maybe \"afraid\" is the wrong word, but I've spent hours worrying about offending men who would've had no problem offending me if the situation were reversed.",
"So I was thrilled when a copy of the hilarious book, \"The Power of NO: How to Keep Blowhards and Bozos at Bay\" landed on my doorstep.",
"As the title suggests, TPON is about learning to not only say no, but to embrace no, something women seem to have an inexplicably harder time doing than men.",
"I shot off an email to author Beth Wareham asking her why we womenfolk find it so painful to blow-off a troll.",
"\"The psycho-sexual-societal bulls--t that makes women be such wimps in the face of an odious man is in our DNA.",
"And young women often make the dreadful mistake of thinking everyone has to like them,\" she fired back.",
"The Frisky: 13 Woman you're dating is a loser .",
"\"I believe that some dumb guy bugging you is a great moment to really march out a lie,\" she continues.",
"\"I mean, really, who goes around harassing strangers?",
"Say, 'I have herpes.'",
"Say, 'I am a hermaphrodite.'",
"Say any damn thing you want to say but get him out of your face.",
"You have ONE LIFE. Don't give chunks of it to this kind of dude!\"",
"The Frisky: I'm just not that into anyone anymore .",
"But for some guys -- and, let's face it, girls, too -- the word \"no\" can have an opposite effect, acting as an aphrodisiac.",
"Wareham says, \"Human beings want what they do not and cannot have.\"",
"But sometimes you mean it!",
"In that case, a persistent leghumper should be ignored, or reported to the cops if he gets stalky.",
"\"Don't answer. It's your door, your cell. And, if it gets too bad, try 911,\" she advises.",
"\"You wouldn't let anyone else harass you like that, would you?\"",
"The Frisky: Are these dating habits cute or crazy?",
"Okay, so how about the Ambiguous Dater -- the cute guy who wants to \"hang out,\" but never seems to make any plans.",
"\"No hanging out, ever,\" Wareham insists.",
"\"If the guy can't think up an interesting date and find $40.00 bucks for a burrito and movie, no go.",
"Dating should never be 'hanging out.'",
"Save that for marriage.\"",
"The Frisky: How to deal with ambiguous dater .",
"How about dumping someone, I asked.",
"How do you do that nicely? \"I am not the woman to ask if you want kindly, \" Wareham replied.",
"\"But, I do know this, keep the tone friendly.",
"The less you imbue language with strong emotion, the better.",
"I once said, 'Dude, it was way fun and I learned lots.",
"But you yelled Mommy!",
"during sex.' That happened to me, by the way.\"",
"Hey, wait a minute . ... ...",
"I once said yes to that guy too!",
"The Frisky: How to know when it's time to dump him .",
"TM & © 2009 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved ."
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"Women hesitate to say no out of fear they will offend men, columnist says .",
"\"The Power of NO: How to Keep Blowhards and Bozos at Bay\" has tips on saying no .",
"Author: The word \"no\" can act as an aphrodisiac for some men .",
"When saying, 'No\" keep the tone friendly, but emotion-free, writer says ."
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