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[ "(Wired) -- Joe Wilkins knew there was only one way to give his supercharged, alcohol-injected Hemi-engined hot rod more power: Put a jet engine in the trunk.", "\"It started as a hobby and turned into a monster,\" said Joe Wilkins, the motor madman behind what might be the wildest 1939 Ford ever built.", "He's an inventor and defense department contractor, and the idea of goosing the Ford's ability to turn heads and shred tires came when he bought a used gas turbine engine.", "\"I got hooked on the simplicity and power that this thing produced, and I decided one day I want to put it in a car.\"", "Luckily for us, he did.", "The Hemi Jet -- Wilkins has copyrighted the name -- fires up this weekend at the Houston AutoRama, and Wilkins plans to attempt a land speed record in the near future.", "In the meantime, he's tooling around Navasota, Texas, in what he says is the ultimate sleeper when the jet engine's tucked away in the trunk.", "Most people say \"Nice car\" and assume he's got the obligatory small-block Chevrolet engine under the hood.", "Little do they know.", "\"I can drive it up to the store and get a gallon of milk if I want to,\" he told Autopia.", "The car is an amalgamation of the Big Three, with a Chrysler engine, Chevrolet drivetrain and Ford body.", "Wilkins says the jet engine was probably used as an APU and weighs 110 pounds.", "He claims the car is street legal so long as the jet stays stowed.", "He fires it up from time to time to show off, and he plans to run it flat-out at the Bonneville Salt Flats.", "\"We want to be the fastest street legal car in the world,\" he said.", "He's got some intense competition.", "The Bugatti Veyron tops out at 253 mph and the Shelby Supercars Ultimate Aero TT does 255.", "And then there's Red Vector One, that crazy Vauxhall that does zero to 60 in under a second.", "Record, schmecord -- we just want to see the video.", "\"I'm more than certain the car will go over 300,\" Wilkins said.", "\"We've still got a ways to go [before Bonneville], but not a long way.", "We'll have to experiment in some wind tunnels and end up with a spoiler on the back to keep the front end on the ground.\"", "Sadly, Wilkins won't be behind the wheel during the car's test run.", "\"I turned 61 last Sunday.", "I just don't think I'm going to be able to handle it [without] the reflexes I had 20 or 30 years ago,\" he said.", "\"I know several people who would be more than interested.\"", "So do we, and we even suggested Wilkins give the job to fellow jet-junkie Bob Maddox.", "After jumping from a plane with a pulse jet strapped to his chest, we suspect Maddox would welcome the opportunity to stay on the ground.", "Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!", "Click here! Copyright 2009 Wired.com." ]	[ "A Texas man has outfitted a 1939 Ford with a jet engine he hopes will make it go more than 300 mph .", "Nicknamed the \"Hemi Jet,\" it fires up this weekend at the Houston AutoRama .", "The car has a Chrysler engine, a Chevrolet drivetrain and a Ford body .", "Owner Joe Wilkins plans to run it flat-out someday at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah ." ]	[ 5, 10, 13, 19 ]
[ "Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Investigators have found \"elements of an explosive device\" at the site of the derailment of an express train in Russia and believe an act of terror caused the deadly incident.", "The derailment killed at least 26 people and injured about 100, but there was no immediate word on who or what group might have been behind the action.", "\"One can say with certainty that that was indeed an act of terror,\" Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the investigative committee of the Russian prosecutor's office, told CNN.", "He would not elaborate on exactly what kind of \"elements of an explosive device\" the investigators discovered earlier, but said the crater found beneath the railroad bed was \"1.5 meter by 1 meter in size.\"", "Later Saturday morning, a second device went off on nearby tracks going the opposite direction, Vladimir Yakunin, head of Russian Railways, told Russian TV.", "He said no one was injured in the smaller explosion.", "Markin said investigators are \"studying the site of the accident, questioning the witnesses and conducting all kinds of forensic and technical examinations.\"", "Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov said, \"Criminology experts have come to a preliminary conclusion that there was an explosion of an improvised explosive device equivalent to seven kilos of TNT.", "\"Several leads are being pursued now.", "A criminal case has been opened under Article 205 (\"terrorism\") and Article 22 (\"illegal possession or storage of weapons or explosives\") of the Russian Criminal Code.\"", "Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on TV that there are possible suspects in this crime.", "\"There are several people who could be involved in this crime,\" he said.", "One of them, he said, is a \"stocky-built man of about 40 years old, with red hair.\"", "\"There are some traces left at the crime scene which could help in the investigation,\" he said.", "\"We are getting a lot of information now, and I am very thankful for people who have responded to our requests to render their assistance in investigating this crime.\"", "A total of 681 people -- 20 of them employees -- were on the Nevsky Express as it traveled from Moscow to St. Petersburg on Friday night.", "The Nevsky Express is Russia's fastest train, equivalent to a bullet train.", "The crash happened at 9:25 p.m. (1825 GMT) when the train was 280 kilometers (174 miles) from St. Petersburg, Russian state radio said.", "At least three carriages carrying more than 130 people derailed and turned on their sides, and emergency workers were working to free anyone who may still be trapped inside.", "Yakunin told Russian TV that the company will pay a compensation of 500,000 rubles ($17,240) to the victims' families and 200,000 rubles ($6,897) to those injured.", "The crash happened 44 minutes after another high-speed train, the Sapsan, had successfully traveled from Moscow to St. Petersburg on the same rails, a representative of the Russian Transport Police said during a video conference call Saturday.", "In August 2007, an explosion on the tracks derailed the Nevsky Express, injuring 60 people in what authorities called a terrorist act.", "About 27,000 passengers on 60 trains were facing delays Saturday as a result of the accident, Russian State TV reported.", "CNN's Maxim Tkachenko contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Investigators probing derailment of train in Russia say they have found \"elements of an explosive device\"\nAt least 26 people killed and 100 hurt in derailment between Moscow and St. Petersburg .", "No immediate word on who or what group might have been behind the action ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Beijing, China (CNN) -- President Obama intends to meet the Dalai Lama even though China has warned that such a meeting would harm bilateral ties, a White House spokesman said Tuesday.", "\"The president told China's leaders during his trip last year that he would meet with the Dalai Lama, and he intends to do so,\" Bill Burton told reporters covering Obama's planned town hall meeting in New Hampshire later Tuesday.", "No date for Obama's meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader has been announced.", "The Dalai Lama has speaking engagements scheduled in the United States in late February and in May.", "Earlier Tuesday, China warned that ties between two of the world's superpowers would be strained if Obama met with the Dalai Lama.", "\"It will seriously undermine the foundation of Sino-U.S. political relations,\" said Zhu Weiqun, a Communist Party official who is in charge of talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama.", "\"We will take corresponding action to make relevant countries see their mistakes.\"", "Zhu issued his warning during a news conference to discuss the lack of progress made during five days of talks between China and the Dalai Lama's representatives.", "Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama of advocating for Tibetan independence from China.", "\"The two sides had sharply divided views,\" Zhu said.", "\"We have been accustomed to such clash of viewpoints.", "It's been the norm rather than the exception.\"", "In explaining Obama's intention to hold the meeting, Burton said the Dalai Lama \"is an internationally respected religious and cultural leader, and the president will meet with him in that capacity.", "\"As the president has expressed, we expect that our relationship with China is mature enough where we can work out issues of mutual concerns -- such as climate, the global economy and nonproliferation -- and discuss frankly and candidly those issues where we disagree,\" Burton said.", "\"The president is committed to building a positive, comprehensive and cooperative relationship with China.\"", "Tibet is technically autonomous from the central Chinese government, but the Dalai Lama and others have said they favor genuine autonomy and resent the slow erosion of their culture amid an influx of Han Chinese, the most numerous ethnic group in China.", "Zhu said there would be no compromise on China's control of Tibet.", "Representatives from the two sides have met eight other times, but have reached no consensus on the issue of autonomy.", "The Dalai Lama fled China in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.", "He lives in exile in the north Indian hill town of Dharamsala.", "Burton said the United States \"considers Tibet to be a part of China, and we have human rights concerns about the treatment of Tibetans.\"", "\"We urge the government of China to protect the unique cultural and religious traditions of Tibet,\" he said.", "CNN's Jaime Florcruz and Helena Hong contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Obama to meet Dalai Lama in his capacity as a \"respected religious and cultural leader\"\nChina warns a meeting between the two would \"seriously undermine Sino-U.S. ties\"\nBeijing accuses the Dalai Lama of advocating for Tibetan independence .", "The Tibetan spiritual leader fled China in 1959, now lives in India ." ]	[ 8, 12, 18 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- For the past decade, Dubai has been home to the greatest concentration of cranes anywhere in the world as billions of tonnes of concrete, steel and glass have refashioned the city skyline.", "But the rapid growth of the past six years has slowed recently due to the global slump in property prices.", "Hopes of a recovery have now been further imperiled by the news that the state-owned Dubai World has requested to delay paying its massive debts by six months.", "Dubai has become a playground for architects as well as millionaires commissioning a string of audacious building projects aimed at helping reposition the city as the financial and cultural hub of the Middle East.", "Billions of dollars have been spent transforming the landscape, erecting buildings which continue to break records of all dimensions.", "The Burj Dubai -- at 818 meter the world's tallest skyscraper, the vast Palm Jumeirah -- built on land reclaimed from the sea, the Dubai Mall -- the largest shopping center in the world and the Mall of the Emirates; home to the world's biggest indoor ski slope form part of a very long list of completed construction projects.", "\"The whole place is kind of like a time-lapse film.", "You wake up in the morning and it's just a little bit different,\" Jim Krane, author of \"City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism\" told CNN.", "But, according to Krane, some of these projects, like the Burj Dubai, suffer from a severe lack of practicality.", "\"Dubai doesn't really need to have to build tall asides from prestige purposes.", "If you look at it, it's a really bad idea.", "It uses as much electricity as an entire city.", "And every time the toilet is flushed they've got to pump water half a mile into the sky,\" he said .", "The telescopic shape is also presents problems of a more practical nature Krane thinks.", "\"The upper 30 or 40 floors are so tiny that they're useless, so they can't use them for anything else apart from storage.", "They've built a small, not so useful storage warehouse half a mile in the sky,\" he said.", "This prestige over practicality issue something of a recurring theme in Dubai's banner building projects.", "Krane, who lived and worked in Dubai from 2005 to 2007, also called into questions the attraction of the Palm Islands.", "The $12 billion Palm Jumeirah -- populated with valuable villas and hotels -- could have been a lot better he says.", "\"It's not been very well done. You can't even see the sea and all the fronds which house the communities are gated.\"", "Its sister islands the Palm Deira -- which developers say will be the size of Manhattan Island housing 1.5 million residents -- has yet to be completed.", "Krane hopes it never is.", "\"It's on the Sharjah border [one of the six other emirates] and is the most densely populated part of the city.", "There's no infrastructure at all over there for and extra 1.5 million residents\" And despite the best efforts of the property companies the Palm Islands have still harmed the area's marine environment.", "The environmental damage isn't limited to the coastline according to Krane.", "The huge boulders helping lay the foundations for coastal reclamation projects like Waterfront project -- which developers boast will be twice the size of Hong Kong Island -- are, he says, slowly laying waste to some of the UAE's more picturesque mountain regions.", "But with the renewed financial uncertainty Dubai's ambitions are likely to be reigned in.", "In 2008, it was announced that the new Palazzo Versace hotel in Dubai would have a beach which featured refrigerated sand.", "At the moment the only people getting cold feet are the people looking to invest in Dubai.", "And while that situation continues, many of Dubai's construction projects will remain on ice." ]	[ "Dubai's construction boom has slowed in recent months due to economic slowdown .", "New financial concerns over Dubai World debt repayments add to uncertainty .", "Former Dubai resident Jim Krane questions the wisdom of some construction projects ." ]	[ 8, 26 ]
[ "Mecca, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- The Hajj, an obligatory pilgrimage for Muslims, began this year on Wednesday with two twists: thinner crowds and heavy rain.", "A rare rainstorm inundated pilgrims in the city of Mina, flooding tents and making conditions miserable for the 2.5 million pilgrims performing the ancient rituals, according to Isha Sesay, CNN's correspondent there.", "The tents, where pilgrims plan to spend the night in prayer and contemplation, were leaking and flooding, giving rise to fears of disease, Sesay reported.", "She said, however, that the several hours of rain was not likely to stop any of the pilgrims from performing the rituals.", "\"They've saved for years to get here,\" Sesay reported.", "\"This is a blessing. They're not going to let rain get in the way.\"", "iReporter witnesses heavy rain near his home .", "She said no incidents had been reported among the dimished number of pilgrims.", "Officials said the swine flu could be keeping pilgrims from the fifth pillar of Islam, which requires devotees to journey to the holy city of Mecca at least once in their lifetime.", "Saudi's Hajj Ministry said Wednesday that 40 percent fewer Saudi pilgrims are participating in the ancient rituals this year, largely due to fears of disease, though a greater number of international visitors had come.", "\"Concerns about the spread of H1N1 may have affected the turnout but we are confident of all measures in place to increase monitoring of cases and awareness about how one can protect himself or herself,\" said Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabbeeah, the Saudi health minister.", "A teenager and three elderly people have died of the H1N1 flu virus at the Hajj.", "The victims were a 17-year-old Nigerian female and a Sudanese man, an Indian man and a Moroccan woman who each were 75 years old.", "Many of the 2 million pilgrims have been arriving days and weeks ahead of the Hajj, which coincides with flu season.", "The rituals of the five-day event began Wednesday.", "But with fewer visitors, businesses are feeling the pinch this year.", "Shopkeeper Fahmi al-Rashidi said he has slashed prices of the gold he sells in Mecca's Al-Ghaza market.", "\"Business is lower than last year,\" he said.", "\"I think swine flu fears combined with high gold prices are turning people away from spending.\"", "Another merchant, Fahd al-Qraishi, said a normal 20 percent profit has dropped to 5 percent.", "Hajj observed in Second Life .", "The Hajj Ministry reported, however, a 17 percent increase in the number of international pilgrims, some of whom are enjoying discounted rates at hotels including the Hilton Makkah.", "Then there was the real damper.", "Mecca resident Khaled Nemary said he had not seen so much rain in a quarter-century.", "And the forecast? Showers through Friday.", "CNN's Amir Ahmed and Daniela Deane contributed to this report." ]	[ "Huge downpours flood tents in Mina .", "Ministry says there are 40 percent fewer Saudi pilgrims this year .", "With fewer visitors, merchants report less business .", "No incidents reported among pilgrims ." ]	[ 7, 9, 15 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- A three-vehicle crash north of New York killed eight people, including four children, state police said on Sunday.", "One of the vehicles in the three-vehicle wreck was heading the wrong direction, police said.", "A fifth child is being treated for injuries suffered in the crash near Pleasantville, about 30 miles north of New York.", "Police initially reported no survivors.", "The crash happened when a minivan carrying the five children and one adult was heading the wrong way on a northbound lane of the Taconic State Parkway, police said.", "It crashed head-on into an SUV carrying three adults.", "The minivan then careened into a third vehicle before rolling over and bursting into flames, state police said.", "Watch investigators examine wreckage » .", "The two adults in the third vehicle were being treated for minor injuries, police said." ]	[ "Police: Four children, four adults killed in crash 30 miles north of New York .", "Three other people, including one child, being treated for injuries .", "Police: Wreck involved three vehicles, including one going the wrong direction ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sharks attacked and killed a 38-year-old man near Stuart Beach in southern Florida on Wednesday.", "The man was kite-surfing before the attack, said Capt.", "Mike McKinley, a spokesman for Martin County Sheriff's Department.", "A lifeguard spotted him struggling in the water and large number of sharks in the area, a rescue official said.", "The man had been bitten several times and was bleeding profusely.", "CNN affiliate WPBF identified him as Stephen Howard Schafer of Stuart.", "Local coverage from CNN affiliate WPBF .", "The man was in cardiac arrest by the time the lifeguard helped him ashore.", "He was pronounced dead at an area hospital.", "Shark attacks have been on the decline, according to the International Shark Attack File, which is part of the Florida Museum of Natural History.", "In 2008, there were 59 attacks worldwide, fewer than the 71 attacks 2007.", "That continues an annual decline since the all-time high of 79 in 2000.", "Forty-one of the 59 attacks worldwide occurred in the United States, with Florida leading with 32.", "Surfers accounted for 57 percent of shark attack victims; swimmers and waders, 36 percent, and divers the rest, according to the Shark Attack File.", "CNN's Eve Bower contributed to this report." ]	[ "Sharks attack, kill a 38-year-old man near Stuart Beach in southern Florida .", "Lifeguard spotted him struggling in the water and large number of sharks .", "Man was in cardiac arrest by the time the lifeguard helped him ashore .", "Florida leads U.S. in number of shark attacks; worldwide, attacks on decline ." ]	[ 0, 3, 7 ]
[ "(CNN Student News) -- January 28, 2010 .", "Download PDF maps related to today's show: .", "• Wilmington, Ohio • Machu Picchu, Peru • Israel .", "Transcript . THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.", "THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.", "CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Carl Azuz, and you're tuned in to CNN Student News.", "Let's go! First Up: State of the Union .", "AZUZ: \"He shall from time to time give to Congress information on the state of the union.\"", "The words of the U.S. Constitution and the reason why President Obama delivered his State of the Union address to Congress last night.", "A little background for you here: This speech hasn't always been called the \"State of the Union.\"", "It used to be called the \"annual message.\"", "But the purpose has always been the same: for the president to talk about some of the biggest issues facing the country.", "That is why President Obama spent a good part of last night's speech talking about the economy and the challenges facing the country.", "U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: One year ago, I took office amid two wars, an economy rocked by a severe recession, a financial system on the verge of collapse, and a government deeply in debt.", "Experts from across the political spectrum warned that if we did not act, we might face a second depression.", "So we acted, immediately and aggressively.", "And one year later, the worst of the storm has passed.", "But the devastation remains.", "One in ten Americans still cannot find work.", "Republican Response .", "AZUZ: After the State of the Union, it's traditional for the other party to offer its response to the president.", "Last night, the Republican response was given by newly-elected Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.", "He won that election last year.", "McDonnell made his speech from the Virginia state House.", "He talked about some of the political issues that both parties agree on.", "But he also focused on some of the areas, especially when it comes to the economy, where Republicans and Democrats don't see eye to eye.", "GOV. BOB MCDONNELL, (R) VIRGINIA: In the past year, more three million people have lost their jobs, yet the Democratic Congress continues deficit spending, adding to the bureaucracy, and increasing the national debt on our children and grandchildren.", "The amount of this debt is on pace to double in five years and triple in ten.", "The federal debt is already over $100,000 per household.", "This is simply unsustainable.", "The President's partial freeze announced tonight on discretionary spending is a laudable step, but a small one.", "Web Promo . AZUZ: For more details on the State of the Union and the reaction to it, plus a quiz about the history of this annual address, head to the Spotlight section on our home page, CNNStudentNews.com .", "Running on Hope .", "AZUZ: All right, so the economy -- you know it -- a big theme of last night's speech.", "It's also a big concern for residents of Wilmington, Ohio.", "15,000 people live there.", "And when the largest employer left town, about 10,000 of those people lost their jobs.", "Wilmington is hoping that money from the government's stimulus bill will turn things around.", "Mary Snow examines how much it could help.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) MARY SNOW, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: DHL stopped operations here last year, bringing shipping to a halt.", "Nearby businesses started to topple and continue to fall.", "In all, 10,000 people in this area lost their jobs.", "The head of the county's homeless shelter tells us she's seen the effects, and she's having a hard time meeting the demand for shelter and food.", "Denise Stryker-Grant is getting stimulus money through a grant, but it's not much; $200,000 spread out over 3 years that will help keep people in their homes.", "But she says jobs, the only thing that would really help, remain elusive.", "DENISE STRYKER-GRANT, CLINTON COUNTY HOMELESS SHELTER: The frustration of continuing to refer them to places only to be told, you know, \"We've got 500 resumes before you've even walked in the door,\" and the frustration of them not having any opportunities.", "SNOW: To create opportunities, Wilmington's mayor David Raizk applied for more than $61 million worth of stimulus projects.", "Of that, roughly $5 million has been awarded so far to a project to create jobs.", "It's focused on Wilmington's downtown and is set to start this spring.", "So, how do you see this benefiting from stimulus money?", "DAVID RAIZK, WILMINGTON MAYOR: With the stimulus project, we'll be able to improve our curbs and gutters and sidewalks .", "SNOW: The hope, he says, is that improvements will attract businesses.", "In the immediate future, the project is estimated to create about 100 jobs.", "RAIZK: They're going to be construction jobs, but it's something, it's something.", "We want jobs here of any type right now.", "SNOW: To get thousands of others back to work, the mayor has set his sights on Wilmington's airpark and is hoping to redevelop it.", "Eight million dollars in stimulus money, he says, is being used to retrain workers, and he's optimistic Washington will come through with more aid if the airpark comes back to life.", "RAIZK: I have tried to maintain a close relationship with our state partners and with our federal partners to say, \"Look, we need help and what can you do?\"", "And they have responded, but that doesn't mean they've responded as much as I would like or anybody would like.", "SNOW: Mary Snow, CNN, Wilmington, Ohio.", "(END VIDEO) Blog Promo .", "AZUZ: That report, part of \"The Stimulus Project,\" CNN's week-long look at the government program.", "A link to full coverage is in the Spotlight section at CNNStudentNews.com.", "Our Web site is also where you'll find our blog, and one of our latest entries: How would you fix the economy?", "Logan says we should lower taxes.", "Nicollette thinks we should increase taxes on the wealthy.", "Tom suggested cutting government budgets.", "What do you say? Head to our page, share your thoughts.", "Toyota Recall .", "AZUZ: When you're driving and you take your foot off the gas, you expect your car to slow down.", "That isn't happening in some Toyotas, which is why the company is recalling over two million vehicles.", "This includes some of Toyota's best selling models.", "The problem is that, over time, the gas pedals can get stuck.", "The company hasn't figured out a solution yet.", "In the meantime, it says it will not make or sell any of the affected vehicles until the problem can be fixed.", "Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Kerns' U.S. history classes at Blach Intermediate School in Los Altos, California!", "Machu Picchu was part of what ancient civilization?", "If you think you know it, shout it out!", "Was it: A) Inca, B) Aztec, C) Maya or D) Olmec?", "You've got three seconds -- GO!", "Machu Picchu was part of the Inca Empire.", "It's located in what is now Peru.", "That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!", "Machu Picchu .", "AZUZ: The Incas built Machu Picchu in the 1400s.", "Tens of thousands of people visit the site every year.", "Right now, hundreds of them are trapped.", "The reason? This! Floods and mudslides triggered by days of heavy rain.", "You can see some of it in this video sent in by iReporters.", "For now, the only way out of the region is by air, but bad weather has slowed down those types of evacuations.", "Holocaust Blueprints .", "AZUZ: In Israel, there's an exhibit about the Holocaust; that name refers to the time during World War II when Nazis killed millions of people, including six million Jews.", "Many of them lost their lives in concentration camps like the one at Auschwitz.", "It was liberated 65 years ago this week, and now, the design plans for that infamous location are on display in Israel.", "As Paula Hancocks explains, they're being used as a reminder and a warning.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT, JERUSALEM: Blueprints of death that shocked and shamed the world.", "These architectural plans for the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau are now on display in Israel, chilling proof of the planning behind the Holocaust.", "AVNER SHALEV, CHAIRMAN, YAD VASHEM HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL: They had to think that they are serving evil, total evil.", "They are creating an industry of death.", "HANCOCKS: Moshe Haelion knows this better than most.", "He was the only one of his family to survive Auschwitz.", "He has since been back to visit the camp.", "He wants the world to learn from its mistakes.", "MOSHE HAELION, AUSCHWITZ SURVIVOR: We do believe if one says we will kill the Jews; we have to believe this.", "HANCOCKS: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed these plans in his address to the United Nations last year, calling on the world to stop Iran in its nuclear ambitions and President Ahmedinejad in his Holocaust denial.", "Visiting the prints now on display in Jerusalem, the Prime Minister is repeating the warning.", "BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: There is evil in the world.", "If it is unstopped, it expands.", "It is expanding, and it is threatening the same people, the Jewish people.", "HANCOCKS: These blueprints were found in an abandoned Berlin flat just two years ago.", "They were bought by the German newspaper Der Bild and then handed over to Israel so they could be put on display here, at Jerusalem's Holocaust museum.", "Israel's prime minister says it is vital to put \"pure unadulterated evil\" on show for all to see, so it can never be allowed to happen again.", "Paula Hancocks, CNN, at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.", "(END VIDEO) Before We Go .", "AZUZ: And finally, for one young man, keeping his cool really paid off.", "This is Jaden, and doctors say the three-year-old's quick thinking helped save his grandmother's life.", "While she was watching him recently, she had a stroke.", "And luckily, Jaden's mom taught him how to call 911 just four days earlier.", "When his grandmother passed out, Jaden knew what to do.", "He even put the dog in a bedroom before the paramedics showed up so the dog wouldn't get in the way.", "Goodbye . AZUZ: Jaden's grandmother is recovering, and the three-year-old says he's just happy she's going to be all right.", "CNN Student News returns tomorrow.", "I'm Carl Azuz. We'll see you then." ]	[ "Hear about the president's State of the Union speech and the GOP response .", "Find out how one Ohio town is hoping to turn around the local economy .", "Learn why an Israeli museum is displaying plans from a concentration camp .", "Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories ." ]	[ 12, 18, 20, 37, 38 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- While administrations come and go, and power in Congress teeters between political parties, one thing remains constant in the lives of Washington, D.C.'s, elite: the power lunch.", "Between noon and 2 p.m., brokers meet to clinch deals, with the emphasis more on power than on lunch.", "Just steps from Capitol Hill, Charlie Palmer is one of the places to see and be seen at lunchtime.", "Depending on the week, the modern American steakhouse serves between 70 and 80 congressmen and between 20 and 30 senators.", "\"I'd bet we've had every member of Congress and every senator in the restaurant at some point,\" says Matt Hill, executive chef for the famed eatery.", "It's not just the proximity to Capitol Hill that draws Washington's elite to Charlie Palmer.", "The restaurant has several private dining areas -- including a rooftop with scenic views of the city -- and an executive chef who prides himself on serving homemade, inventive fare.", "\"We do anything, we've got senators from Hawaii that come in, and they ask for Hawaiian hors d'oeurves, we've got, you know, people from Texas that ask for things from Texas,\" Hill says.", "\"So, we can really vary the menu, and it makes it interesting for me to try to come up with new ideas.\"", "Thirty-seven years ago, Tommy Jacomo moved to Washington with his brother and built The Palm with his bare hands.", "Now, as executive director of the famed power spot, Jacomo is known by Washington's elite as the keeper of the keys to The Palm.", "Everyone knows him.", "\"It's pretty frightening, yeah, you can't even walk down the street sometimes, Jacomo said.", "\"People say, 'Hey, Tommy!", "Put me down for two at 12:30,' and I don't even know who the hell they are.\"", "The Palm has hosted every president from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton.", "President Obama has yet to make a visit.", "But it's not just presidents who visit The Palm.", "White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has frequented the restaurant since the Clinton administration.", "Cabinet secretaries including Madeleine Albright, administration officials, senators and representatives, Supreme Court justices, the city's top lobbyists, lawyers, strategists and media elites are all regulars at the Dupont Circle steakhouse.", "And if you become a regular, you get your picture on the wall.", "\"People used to think when we first opened up that we had all the [portraits of] Republicans on one side and all the [portraits of] Democrats on the other side,\" Jacomo said.", "\"It's not really as much thought behind it.", "It just goes up, it's good customers, loyal customers, famous people, infamous people, and I decide where I want to put them when I get the chance,\" he joked, pointing out the minimal space left on the wall.", "Not everyone is willing to put their picture on the wall.", "James Carville and Mary Matalin, who are political strategists and CNN contributors, chose to have their dogs' portraits on the wall instead of their own.", "While steakhouses remain a favorite, not all power restaurants dish out filet mignon.", "Steps from the White House are three of Washington's oldest power spots: The Oval Room, which serves up American fare; Bombay Club, which is Indian; and Old Ebbitt Grille, which also specializes in American cuisine.", "Cafe Milano, in Georgetown, and The Monocle and Johnny's Half Shell, on Capitol Hill, also remain abuzz with some of the most prominent people in Washington.", "Italian restaurant Posto on 14th Street has become a favorite among younger administration staffers because of its laid-back atmosphere and expansive dining room.", "Posto's sister restaurant Tosca, owned by Paolo Sacco, has kept D.C.'s top lobbyists and politicians coming back since it opened in 2001.", "Not only known for the power scene and homemade Italian cuisine, Tosca has set itself apart from others by having some of the most attentive waitstaff in the city.", "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, known by friends as a big foodie, has dined at Tosca, as have Emanuel and Obama adviser David Axelrod.", "The Washington Post reported that former Sen. Tom Daschle convinced then-freshman Sen. Obama to run for president at the Italian eatery.", "The newest member of the Supreme Court, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, is known by friends as a \"very adventurous diner.\"", "She is a fan of Lebanese Taverna, in Woodley Park, which serves up Middle Eastern fare.", "Serving up inventive sushi dishes like a fish-and-chips roll, or wasabi guacamole with wonton chips, SEI in Penn Quarter has established itself as a newcomer to the power scene, along with its neighbors Rasika and Oyamel -- all reported to have recently hosted first lady Michelle Obama.", "\"One of the things that's been sort of fun to watch over the course of this year is the Obamas have eaten out in a wide variety of places,\" says Garrett Graff, editor of Washingtonian magazine.", "\"You've seen them come and get burgers up here on the Hill, you've seen them go out for burgers in Virginia, you've also seen them go out to some of the nicest restaurants in the city, like Citronelle and Blue Duck Tavern, where they went this fall for their anniversary dinner.", "But then you see Barack eating on his own -- he's going to a place like Ben's Chili Bowl or he's going to a place like Ray's Hell Burger.\"", "Graff points out one top restaurant at which the Obamas have yet to dine.", "\"They still haven't been to what is widely considered to be the city's best restaurant, which is a small Greek place near Dupont Circle called Komi,\" Graff said.", "\"But one of the challenges with a place like Komi is that it's very small and books up far in advance, so it might be hard for the Obamas to sort of drop in there like they've been dropping in at a lot of these other restaurants.\"" ]	[ "The power lunch is a constant of Washington's elite .", "Executive chef of Charlie Palmer says every member of Congress has been in .", "Most presidents since Nixon have dined at The Palm .", "The Oval Room, Bombay Club and Old Ebbitt Grille are steps from the White House ." ]	[ 10, 27 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Matthew Hoh, a young man previously unknown to the general public, has become the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war.", "He was the senior U.S. civilian adviser in Zabul province, Afghanistan.", "There certainly have been more famous resignations over a president's war policy.", "President Lyndon Johnson's first secretary of health, education and welfare and the architect of much of the civil rights and Great Society programs, John Gardner, resigned because he could not support the war in Vietnam and privately told the president he could not support him for re-election.", "LBJ's Deputy Secretary of Defense Cyrus Vance resigned after becoming convinced the war in Vietnam, which he had strongly supported initially, was unwinnable.", "After his resignation he unsuccessfully urged Johnson not to bomb North Vietnam.", "Vance later resigned as President Carter's secretary of state after arguing again unsuccessfully against \"Operation Eagle Claw,\" the disastrous desert rescue attempt of our 52 hostages in Iran that cost the lives of eight American soldiers.", "Our history is filled with brave men and women who have resigned because they could not support a policy or an administration, but it's never easy to quit and far more people carry on quietly and do what they perceive as their duty.", "Many thought former Secretary of State Colin Powell should have resigned rather than testify before the U.N. on Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction, information he may have thought was suspect.", "There might not have been an Iraq war if he had done that.", "But the resignation of Hoh, a former Marine captain and Iraq veteran from the Foreign Service, as reported Tuesday on the front page of the Washington Post may have more impact than the others.", "His comments reflect the feelings of many of his countrymen who have far less knowledge of the Afghan situation then he does.", "The White House and State Department made every effort to keep Hoh from leaving and valued his service.", "He was exactly the kind of person we needed there if our Afghan efforts are to be successful.", "Even though I support the continued efforts in Afghanistan and believe the president should give Gen. Stanley McChrystal what he needs, Hoh's words reflect thoughts that I, too, have pondered.", "Hoh said in his resignation letter: \"I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States' presence in Afghanistan.", "I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.\"", "But before the president acts (and he will make his decision quickly, I hope) he needs to answer Hoh's: \"Why and to what end?\"", "If he can't, he will have great difficulty convincing his party and the nation of the need for further action.", "The why part is easier to answer.", "The United States and our NATO allies went into Afghanistan after the ruling Taliban government refused to turn over Osama bin Laden and to stop al Qaeda from operating with its protection.", "The United States has been in full pursuit of bin Laden since the August 7, 1998, truck bombings of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and in Kenya in which hundreds were killed.", "These attacks were preceded by the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 U.S. servicemen.", "After that came the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, which preceded the September 11, 2001, attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.", "Thousands of our fellow citizens were murdered and our way of life was altered forever.", "In spite of being on the FBI's Most Wanted list, bin Laden has been an elusive target.", "In the late '90s on several occasions he was in our sights, but the inability or hesitancy to pull the trigger allowed him to escape.", "He is still out there with tens of thousands of supporters who want to destroy Americans and Westerners.", "The threat is still real.", "The bad guys are still out there and may be here.", "I feel this is the most important decision this president will make -- and other world leaders will judge him on his decision.", "Is he a viable partner?", "Can he make the tough decisions U.S. presidents need to make?", "Many Americans have doubts as they almost always do with any activity of our troops beyond our borders.", "We as a nation are still badly scarred from the divisions in the country caused four decades ago by the Vietnam War.", "Our president never served in the military, and it might be important to review the thinking of some who have and some who went before him.", "Caspar Weinberger was a young infantry captain in World War II who went on to be one of the most important secretaries of defense and who rebuilt our broken military after Vietnam.", "Facing a demoralized military officer corps and troops who weren't in much better shape, Weinberger asked all the major leaders in the Pentagon who had been young officers in Vietnam what lessons they learned.", "Included was a former young major in Vietnam who was now a brigadier general and served as Weinberger's military assistant, Colin Powell.", "Weinberger came up with the Weinberger doctrine: .", "1. The United States should not commit forces to combat unless the vital national interests of the United States or its allies are involved.", "2. U.S. troops should only be committed wholeheartedly and with the clear intention of winning.", "Otherwise, troops should not be committed.", "3. U.S. combat troops should be committed only with clearly defined political and military objectives and with the capacity to accomplish those objectives.", "4. The relationship between the objectives and the size and composition of the forces committed should be continually reassessed and adjusted if necessary.", "5. U.S. troops should not be committed to battle without a \"reasonable assurance\" of the support of U.S. public opinion and Congress.", "6. The commitment of U.S. troops should be considered only as a last resort.", "A version of this became the Powell doctrine.", "Every president should have a copy of Weinberger's doctrine on his desk.", "Number 2 and 5 are still the unanswered questions.", "They are the biggest obstacles to whatever decision President Obama makes.", "That, along with Hoh's question: \"To what end?\"", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ed Rollins." ]	[ "Ed Rollins: Matthew Hoh quit the Foreign Service due to doubt about war .", "He says Hoh is latest in tradition of Americans who resigned over wars .", "Presidents must ask tough questions before sending troops, Rollins says .", "Rollins: Troops should only be committed to serve vital U.S. interests ." ]	[ 0, 31, 32, 41 ]
[ "(CNN) -- \"Family Ties\" actress Meredith Baxter made the media rounds Wednesday confirming the rumors that she is a lesbian.", "\"It was a later in life recognition,\" the actress explained to Matt Lauer on the \"Today\" show Wednesday.", "The National Enquirer recently ran a story about Baxter being spotted on a lesbian cruise through the Caribbean with a \"female friend,\" which was then picked up by celebrity blogs.", "As a result, the 62-year-old decided to tell her fans herself.", "\"I didn't want some tabloid to take the story and make it up,\" Baxter said in the interview.", "\"I wanted it to be in my own words.\"", "Baxter was also interviewed on Sirius XM Radio's \"The Frank DeCaro Show.\"", "Coming out was a difficult thing for the quiet actress to do.", "She told Lauer on \"Today\" that she's always \"lived a very private life.", "To come out and disclose stuff is very antithetical\" to who she is.", "Baxter told DeCaro that she knew she could be outed when she went on the cruise with her partner, Nancy Locke, but she went anyway.", "\"We live a very open life at home,\" she said.", "\"Anyone who's a friend of mine, anyone who knows and cares about me knows.", "It's no secret that I'm gay, but it has been to the greater world.", "\"The reason I'm here [on the show] is because I'm saying, yes, I'm a lesbian.\"", "Baxter also told People magazine that she has been in a four-year relationship with Locke, who works as a building contractor.", "Baxter has been dating women for the past seven years, and \"the thought of being gay never crossed my mind,\" she said.", "The actress was married three times before, during which she \"was never comfortable with herself,\" she told People.", "Now, she feels like she's \"being honest for the first time.\"", "Baxter has also come clean to her five kids, according to People.", "Her 25-year-old son Peter was all smiles.", "He told the magazine that he \"just couldn't stop smiling, because she finally figured it out.\"" ]	[ "The National Enquirer first revealed that Meredith Baxter had been on a lesbian cruise .", "As a result of the story, Baxter has come out on radio, TV and to People magazine .", "She has been in a relationship with partner Nancy Locke for four years .", "She feels like she's being honest for the first time ." ]	[ 2, 9, 15, 18 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. Senate on Monday opened what is expected to be a lengthy and rancorous debate on a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health care system.", "In statements laced with heated and conflicting rhetoric, Senate Democrats and Republicans outlined opposing positions on the 2,074-page Democratic measure that would provide health insurance to an additional 31 million people at a cost of almost $850 billion.", "Democrats led by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada framed the debate as historic and said the bill would provide vital health insurance for almost all Americans, hold down spiraling costs that threaten the U.S. economy and instill needed reforms to ensure the long-term solvency of the government-run Medicare health program for senior citizens.", "\"In the greatest country on Earth, no American should die simply because they don't have health insurance,\" said Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, one of the bill's architects, while Reid said the bill \"saves money, saves lives and saves Medicare.\"", "Republicans countered that the bill was too big, too expensive and would cause more harm than good.", "Sen. John McCain of Arizona called it a \"sham\" and a \"2,074-page monstrosity full of measures that would impair the abilities, particularly of our senior citizens, to keep the benefits they've been promised.\"", "McCain immediately proposed sending the bill back to committee to remove all provisions intended to bring down the costs of Medicare.", "He cited proposed cuts to Medicare, including $118 billion in subsidies provided to private insurers for Medicare Advantage -- an enhanced benefits program for senior citizens.", "\"There is no math, old or new, that gets you to no change in the benefits they have under Medicare Advantage and yet cuts $120 billion,\" McCain said.", "A vote on McCain's proposal was likely on Tuesday.", "The House has passed its version of a health care bill, and if the Senate passes its bill, the two measures would be merged by a congressional conference committee.", "Both chambers then would have to approve the revised bill before it could go to President Obama's desk.", "On Monday, debate quickly bogged down in Republican procedural objections, causing Reid to lament: \"This is not a good way to start this debate.\"", "Republican Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming challenged a motion by Reid that he said would unfairly cut off the proposal of amendments, including McCain's planned Republican amendment to prevent cuts to Medicare.", "While Reid's motion failed, Enzi labeled it a stunt.", "So far, Republicans unanimously oppose the health care bill.", "The Senate voted 60-39 to launch debate on the measure, overcoming a Republican filibuster through support from every member of the Democratic caucus.", "Reid also will need 60 votes to eventually close the debate, and his ability to secure that support remains uncertain.", "The debate will feature amendments intended to delete or change controversial provisions, including creation of a government-run public health insurance option to compete against private insurers, tax increases and provisions intended to prevent federal tax dollars from paying for abortion except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother's life.", "For the most part, battle lines are clearly drawn.", "Liberal-minded senators such as Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who sits with the Democratic caucus, favor a public option as the best way to force competition on private insurers to bring down costs, while fiscally conservative Democrats such as Nebraska's Ben Nelson are concerned about the cost and scope of a government-run alternative.", "Nelson has said he would join a Republican filibuster against closing debate on the bill if it retains the current public option provision, which allows states to opt out of a national plan.", "Another Democratic caucus member, independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, says he also will prevent a final vote if the bill contains any form of public option.", "On the Republican side, none of the 40 senators supports a public option, but one -- moderate Olympia Snowe of Maine -- has discussed a trigger mechanism that would automatically bring a public option if thresholds for expanded coverage and lower costs go unmet.", "The trigger idea is considered the lone chance of a compromise that could gain the support of any Republicans.", "For Democrats, each vote is crucial.", "Overcoming a filibuster requires support every member of the Democratic caucus, so if Lieberman or others oppose a public option, Reid would need a GOP senator to switch sides on the bill.", "Senate Democrats concede that some changes are necessary to get the health care bill passed.", "They contend their comprehensive approach is necessary to reform a system in which higher costs are draining the national economy and harming businesses and individuals.", "Republicans call for an incremental approach that they say would reduce the costs of health care without needing to create bureaucracies and raise taxes in a huge overhaul.", "Other risky issues for Senate Democrats include abortion and tax increases to pay for health care reform.", "The bill includes tax increases aimed at those earning more than $200,000 a year and insurers providing so-called \"Cadillac\" health plans worth more than $8,500 a year for individuals or $23,000 for families.", "It also would set a 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic surgery.", "In contrast, a separate health care bill narrowly passed by the House of Representatives earlier this month includes an income tax surcharge on individuals earning more than $500,000 a year and couples making more than $1 million.", "Republicans say any tax increase is bad in a struggling economy because it hinders growth and gets passed on to consumers, while Democrats argue the bill's tax provisions wouldn't hit the lower or middle class and would create incentive for private insurers to lower the cost of policies.", "However, a key Democratic constituency -- organized labor -- opposes taxing the \"Cadillac\" health plans negotiated for workers in lieu of wage increases.", "On abortion, the House bill has more restrictive language regarding the use of federal funding, and some Senate Democrats say they oppose adding it to their chamber's proposal.", "According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the Senate health care bill would reduce the federal deficit by about $130 billion over the next 10 years, through 2019.", "Any effect on the deficit in the following decade would be \"subject to substantial uncertainty,\" but probably would result in \"small reductions in federal budget deficits,\" the budget office report said.", "It also reported that health insurance premiums would remain roughly the same for most people, with costs for lower-income Americans reduced due to subsidies under the plan.", "According to the budget office, more than 80 percent of Americans would remain in employer-based health plans.", "Both the Senate and House bills would require individuals to buy health insurance, with penalties for noncompliance.", "Unlike the House version, the Senate bill does not mandate that all employers offer health care.", "The two bills are virtually identical on a broad range of changes, including creating health insurance exchanges, expanding Medicaid, subsidizing insurance for low- and some middle-income families, and capping out-of-pocket medical expenses, while preventing insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.", "CNN's Ted Barrett, Alan Silverleib and Tom Cohen contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Process quickly gets caught up in procedural objections from GOP .", "Wyoming senator protests proposal over amendments to bill .", "Republicans, Democrats continue to square off over Medicare .", "House has already passed health care bill that differs with Senate bill ." ]	[ 10, 12, 13, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday it has approved a new vaccine to prevent seasonal influenza.", "Agriflu, made by Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, is not intended to protect against the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu.", "The vaccine was approved using an accelerated approval process, the FDA said.", "Novartis demonstrated that the vaccine induces levels of antibodies in the blood that are effective in preventing seasonal influenza, but it still needs to conduct further studies.", "Agriflu, for ages 18 and older, is administered as a single injection in the upper arm and is available in single-dose, prefilled syringes, according to the FDA.", "Novartis produces another licensed vaccine for seasonal influenza, Fluvirin, approved for ages 4 and older.", "Although no vaccine is 100 percent effective in preventing disease, vaccination is the key to flu prevention, according to the FDA.", "Novartis spokesman Eric Althoff said Agriflu is made in Siena, Italy, with eggs, and it has been available in Europe under the brand name Aggripal.", "This approval, he said, will add to future seasonal vaccine supplies." ]	[ "Agriflu, made by Novartis, is not intended to protect against the H1N1 virus .", "The vaccine was approved using an accelerated approval process, the FDA said .", "Vaccine induces antibodies in the blood that are effective in preventing seasonal influenza ." ]	[ 1, 2, 3 ]
[ "Editor's note: Madeleine K. Albright is former U.S. secretary of state.", "William S. Cohen is former U.S. secretary of defense.", "They are co-chairs of the Genocide Prevention Task Force.", "Madeleine K. Albright served as secretary of state under President Bill Clinton.", "(CNN) -- In this age of electronic media communications, Americans are increasingly confronted in their living rooms -- and even on their cell phones -- with information about and images of genocide and mass atrocities virtually anywhere they occur.", "This instantaneous media communication has sensitized many Americans to the suffering of people in all corners of the globe.", "The Internet has proved to be a powerful tool for organizing broad-based responses to genocide and mass atrocities, as we have seen in response to the crisis in Darfur.", "With all of this information written and broadcast about the horrors of genocide and mass atrocities around the world, why do they continue?", "And as public citizens, public officials and policymakers, how can we prevent this horrendous crime that assaults our humanitarian values and threatens our national security?", "Last year, we agreed to co-chair the Genocide Prevention Task Force, which was jointly convened by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The American Academy of Diplomacy and the United States Institute of Peace.", "(The final report is to be released next week.)", "The idea for the task force arose out of a desire by each of these institutions to reach beyond their individual capabilities and build a practical framework that could help the U.S. government better respond to threats of genocide and mass atrocities.", "Our challenge was to match words to deeds and stop allowing the unacceptable.", "That task is in fact one of the most persistent puzzles of our times.", "Many people ask: Why do genocides and mass atrocities happen?", "There is no consensus as to the causes of genocide and mass atrocities, nor is there one commonly agreed-upon theory that explains the key catalysts, motivations or mechanisms that lead to them.", "History has shown that genocide and mass atrocities manifest themselves in highly variable ways, and we should not assume that future perpetrators will follow old patterns.", "However, there are warning signs.", "Genocide is not the inevitable result of \"ancient hatreds\" or irrational leaders.", "It requires planning and is carried out systematically.", "But that fact also means that there are ways to recognize its signs and symptoms, and viable options to prevent it at every turn, if we are committed and prepared.", "Our report recommends a number of distinct but interrelated areas where the United States government can develop and deploy more effective strategies to identify and pursue opportunities for prevention of genocide and mass atrocities: .", "First, we believe that leadership is an indispensable ingredient.", "Nothing is more central to preventing genocide than leadership -- from the president, Congress and the American people.", "Making progress requires leaders to summon political will not only after a crisis strikes, but also before one emerges.", "Second is the importance of early warning.", "It is critical for policymakers to have good analysis of areas where there is a high risk of genocide or organized violence in order to design effective strategies and spur action.", "By improving the accuracy of warnings, we will find greater opportunities for preventive action.", "Early prevention can avert a crisis.", "Many countries are vulnerable to extreme violence.", "By engaging leaders, institutions and civil society at an early stage, the United States can help countries steer clear of these dangers.", "Preventive diplomacy is critical to halt and reverse escalation.", "Even when signs of preparation for genocide are apparent, there are opportunities to alter leaders' decisions and interrupt their plans.", "By improving our crisis response system, we will be better prepared to mount coherent, carefully calibrated and timely preventive diplomatic strategies.", "A willingness to utilize military options to stop ongoing atrocities when prevention efforts have failed is crucial.", "U.S. military assets can also play an important role in supporting and providing credibility to options short of the use of force, including by deterring violence through military presence or threat.", "Lastly, we cite the power of international action.", "The United States has an interest in promoting a system of international norms and institutions that averts potential genocide and mass atrocities before they occur, stops them quickly and effectively when they occur, helps societies rebuild in their wake and holds perpetrators accountable.", "By working in partnership with others in the global community, the United States will multiply its positive impact.", "We do not underestimate the challenge.", "We understand that the next president will face many pressing international priorities, as well as real limitations of time and resources.", "But we believe that preventing genocide is possible, and that striving to do so is imperative, both for our national interests and for our leadership position in the world.", "Our report seeks to honor the memory of past victims of genocide and mass atrocities by encouraging future action.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Madeleine K. Albright and William S. Cohen.", "Other members of the Genocide Prevention Task Force include John Danforth, Thomas Daschle, Stuart Eizenstat, Michael Gerson, Dan Glickman, Jack Kemp, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, Thomas R. Pickering, Vin Weber, Anthony Zinni and Julia Taft (1942-2008).", "For more information about the Genocide Prevention Task Force, visit the U.S.", "Holocaust Memorial Museum, The American Academy of Diplomacy or the United States Institute of Peace." ]	[ "Madeleine Albright, William Cohen co-chair Genocide Prevention Task Force .", "The panel's final report will be released next week after a year of work .", "Leadership indispensable in preventing genocide, Albright and Cohen say .", "Also key: early warning, preventive diplomacy, military, international action, they say ." ]	[ 2, 10, 25, 43 ]
[ "(OPRAH.com) -- What's it like to be a 30-something woman in America today?", "From religious choices to parental pressures, a successful single woman in Washington, D.C. and a devoted mother of four open up.", "American-born Muslim Mubaraka tries to be open with people so she can help them understand her religion.", "One issue that plagues an average of 6.3 million women in America is being single.", "Julie, a Chicago pediatrician, struggles with the stigma of being alone in her 30s.", "\"I've tried JDate, a Jewish Internet dating service, Match.com, setups by my friends,\" Julie says.", "\"I recently adopted a dog, hoping to meet someone out in the dog park.\"", "Like many single women in America, Julie is no stranger to the dating scene -- but finding dates isn't always the problem.", "\"It's not that there are no men to date. It's that I'm not meeting anyone that I'm attracted to.", "Nobody that I think is quality and worthy of me and what I have to offer and what I want to do.\"", "Now Julie thinks marriage may not even be what she wants.", "Instead of waiting around for a husband, she's considering having a child on her own.", "\"I'm probably going to investigate an anonymous donor and do it artificially ...", "I want it to be my own biological child,\" she says.", "DeChane, a successful attorney in Washington, D.C., also struggles with the 30-something singles scene.", "Her fear is that men are intimidated by her.", "\"None of my female friends have ever said I'm intimidating,\" she says.", "\"Having an education, a house, a job does not make me intimidating.", "It just makes me an adult living an adult life.\"", "She finds it ironic that her achievements may turn men off.", "\"I would think they would find it more unusual if I walked into the picture not having anything.", "But I think after 35 years of living, working and being driven, I should have something to show for it.\"", "DeChane also thinks men make assumptions about single women in their 30s.", "\"I think they assume that if you aren't married, you want to get married,\" she says.", "\"Instead of meeting you and approaching you in a manner that's very basic -- 'I want to get to know you, who you are, what your likes and dislikes are' -- I think they walk in the door expecting you to try to strong-arm them into getting married, and it scares them away.\"", "For Amy, a divorced mom, dating in her 30s has been stressful.", "\"I wish there was a manual for dating, because I have been out of the game for so long,\" she says.", "\"Growing up, I always wanted to be a wife and a mom and didn't expect that I would find myself single again.\"", "With four children at home, Amy faces a unique set of dating issues.", "\"I run a criminal background check on every guy I go out with,\" she says.", "\"I have to be very careful about who I invite into our lives.\"", "Amy also realizes that a woman with kids isn't what every guy is looking for.", "\"I don't consider children baggage.", "I think they're the bonus piece to the set, but there are a lot of men who don't see it that way,\" she says.", "For many women in their 30s, the pressure to get married can be intense.", "Julie says she isn't feeling that pressure as much anymore.", "\"My original goal was to meet a man, have a family just like I grew up in,\" she says.", "\"But it just doesn't seem to be going that way.\"", "As a single mom, Amy says the pressure comes from people who feel like something must be missing in her life.", "\"People see me as a single mom [as if] that's something wrong.", "'Oh, you poor thing.", "You'll find somebody.'", "People will do that kind of thing because they don't feel like it's acceptable, or that you can't do it on your own,\" she says.", "DeChane takes a more relaxed approach.", "\"I am prepared to go with the flow as far as children and marriage are concerned,\" she says.", "\"I was raised in a family where a number of people, even married relatives, have chosen not to have children.", "So it's never been the expectation that you have to get married, that you have to have children.", "It's really more being who you are and having a happy life.", "That's the focus for me.\" Oprah:com: Top places to meet men over 35!", "For devout Muslim Mubarakah, a 30-year-old mother of four, life in her 30s is about family and career.", "Married for 14 years, Mubarakah never had to worry about the dating scene.", "\"Dating in Islam is forbidden,\" she says.", "\"When you meet someone and you're talking to them, the purpose is for marriage.", "So you're getting to know someone to know whether or not that's somebody you want to be married to.\"", "In her career as a certified personal trainer, Mubarakah's biggest challenge is finding workout clothes in keeping with her faith.", "\"As Muslim women, we can only show our face and hands,\" she explains.", "\"Most workout outfits are either short sleeved or too tight.\"", "She modifies her clothes by adding length to sleeves and hems, taking care to look cute at the same time.", "\"I try to at least look like I'm matching and I have some kind of style,\" she says.", "\"So generally my headscarf will match my outfit.\"", "Mubarakah says she encounters many myths about her religion, including her heritage.", "\"People automatically think I'm from another country, but my mother's family is Cherokee, and my father's African-American, so I'm as American as it gets,\" she says.", "An open attitude helps Mubarakah deal with misconceptions.", "\"If people don't understand, I just try to be very personable with it,\" she says.", "\"I'm very open as far as questions.\"", "Commitment to her religion requires Mubarakah to pray five times daily, whether she's working with a client, at the movies or in her living room.", "Still, she says that American Muslims are just like any other Americans.", "\"We're no longer immigrants or converts to Islam, but rather American-born Muslims that lead regular American lives.", "[We] incorporate our Islam beliefs and practices into our every day,\" Mubarakah says.", "\"In the end, all our goals are the same. All of us want to raise our kids to be contributing members of society, to be healthy, to be happy.", "And no matter where you choose to worship, every woman wants to know, 'How do you get rid of cellulite?'\"", "Oprah.com: Meet moms around the world .", "From \"The Oprah Winfrey Show\" 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." ]	[ "Dating can be daunting for 30-something women in America .", "The dating pool is small and some successful women fear they intimidate men .", "One divorced mom does criminal background checks on her dates .", "Married Muslim woman was forbidden to date ." ]	[ 0, 7, 15, 25, 29, 34 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama on Tuesday proposed making \"pay-as-you-go\" rules for federal spending into law.", "President Obama proposed Tuesday that the government adopt \"pay-as-you-go\" rules for federal spending.", "The so-called PAYGO proposal requires Congress to balance any increased spending by equal savings elsewhere, Obama said in announcing the measure that now goes to Congress.", "A previous PAYGO mandate helped erase federal budget deficits in the 1990s, and subsequent ineffective rules contributed to the current budget deficits, Obama said.", "Now the PAYGO rules should be the law, he said.", "\"Paying for what you spend is basic common sense,\" Obama said.", "\"Perhaps that's why, here in Washington, it's been so elusive.\"", "Republican leaders said the proposal comes after record spending initiatives by the Obama administration, such as the $787 billion economic stimulus program.", "\"It seems a tad disingenuous for the president and Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi to talk about PAYGO rules after ramming trillions in spending through Congress proposing policies that create more debt in the first six months of this year than in the previous 220 years combined,\" said Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House Minority Whip.", "However, a group of fiscally conservative Democratic representatives known as the Blue Dogs called Obama's proposal responsible and necessary.", "\"President Obama inherited an economy in free-fall and a $10.6 trillion national debt,\" said Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee, vice-chairman of the Blue Dog Budget and Financial Services Task Force.", "\"While short-term spending was necessary to get the economy moving again, our long-term fiscal problems became that much more urgent.\"", "A White House statement said Obama's proposal calls for the Office of Management and Budget to maintain a ledger of the average 10-year budgetary effects of all legislation affecting mandatory spending or baseline tax levels.", "Any extra cost that lacks payment authorized by Congress would require the president to find money within the budget to pay it, while any tax cut would require a corresponding increase in tax revenue.", "Some costs would be exempt, including Medicare payments to doctors, the estate and gift tax, and tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2002, the White House statement said." ]	[ "PAYGO proposal calls for balancing increased spending with equal savings .", "\"Paying for what you spend is basic common sense,\" Obama says .", "Rep. Cantor says remarks seem \"a tad disingenuous,\" given recent spending .", "Some costs would be exempt, including Medicare payments to doctors ." ]	[ 5, 14 ]
[ "(WIRED) -- Hackers who commandeer your computer are bad enough.", "Now scientists worry that someday, they'll try to take over your brain.", "Scientists can use brain signals to control computers -- hands free.", "In the past year, researchers have developed technology that makes it possible to use thoughts to operate a computer, maneuver a wheelchair or even use Twitter -- all without lifting a finger.", "But as neural devices become more complicated, and go wireless, some scientists say the risks of \"brain hacking\" should be taken seriously.", "\"Neural devices are innovating at an extremely rapid rate and hold tremendous promise for the future,\" said computer security expert Tadayoshi Kohno of the University of Washington.", "\"But if we don't start paying attention to security, we're worried that we might find ourselves in five or 10 years saying we've made a big mistake.\"", "Hackers tap into personal computers all the time.", "But what would happen if they focused their nefarious energy on neural devices, such as the deep-brain stimulators used to treat Parkinson's and depression, or electrode systems for controlling prosthetic limbs?", "According to Kohno and his colleagues, who published their concerns July 1 in Neurosurgical Focus, most devices carry few security risks.", "But as neural engineering becomes more complex and more widespread, the potential for security breaches will mushroom.", "\"It's very hard to design complex systems that don't have bugs,\" Kohno said.", "\"As these medical devices start to become more and more complicated, it gets easier and easier for people to overlook a bug that could become a very serious risk.", "It might border on science fiction today, but so did going to the moon 50 years ago.\"", "Some might question why anyone would want to hack into someone else's brain, but the researchers say there's a precedent for using computers to cause neurological harm.", "In November 2007 and March 2008, malicious programmers vandalized epilepsy support Web sites by putting up flashing animations, which caused seizures in some photo-sensitive patients.", "\"It happened on two separate occasions,\" said computer science graduate student Tamara Denning, a co-author on the paper.", "\"It's evidence that people will be malicious and try to compromise peoples' health using computers, especially if neural devices become more widespread.\"", "In some cases, patients might even want to hack into their own neural device.", "Unlike devices to control prosthetic limbs, which still use wires, many deep brain stimulators already rely on wireless signals.", "Hacking into these devices could enable patients to \"self-prescribe\" elevated moods or pain relief by increasing the activity of the brain's reward centers.", "Despite the risks, Kohno said, most new devices aren't created with security in mind.", "Neural engineers carefully consider the safety and reliability of new equipment, and neuroethicists focus on whether a new device fits ethical guidelines.", "But until now, few groups have considered how neural devices might be hijacked to perform unintended actions.", "This is the first time an academic paper has addressed the topic of \"neurosecurity,\" a term the group coined to describe their field.", "\"The security and privacy issues somehow seem to slip by,\" Kohno said.", "\"I would not be surprised if most people working in this space have never thought about security.\"", "Kevin Otto, a bioengineer who studies brain-machine interfaces at Purdue Universty, said he was initially skeptical of the research.", "\"When I first picked up the paper, I don't know if I agreed that it was an issue.", "But the paper gives a very compelling argument that this is important, and that this is the time to have neural engineers collaborate with security developers.\"", "It's never too early to start thinking about security issues, said neural engineer Justin Williams of the University of Wisconsin, who was not involved in the research.", "But he stressed that the kinds of devices available today are not susceptible to attack, and that fear of future risks shouldn't impede progress in the field.", "\"These kinds of security issues have to proceed in lockstep with the technology,\" Williams said.", "History provides plenty of examples of why it's important to think about security before it becomes a problem, Kohno said.", "Perhaps the best example is the Internet, which was originally conceived as a research project and didn't take security into account.", "\"Because the Internet was not originally designed with security in mind,\" the researchers wrote, \"it is incredibly challenging -- if not impossible -- to retrofit the existing Internet infrastructure to meet all of today's security goals.\"", "Kohno and his colleagues hope to avoid such problems in the neural device world, by getting the community to discuss potential security problems before they become a reality.", "\"The first thing is to ask ourselves is, 'Could there be a security and privacy problem?'\"", "Kohno said.", "\"Asking 'Is there a problem?'", "gets you 90 percent there, and that's the most important thing.\"", "Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!", "Click here! Copyright 2009 Wired.com." ]	[ "Scientists can use thoughts to operate computers, wheelchairs and Twitter .", "As tech develops, risk of \"brain hacking\" become more real, scientists say .", "Neurosurgical Focus article says risks are slim now .", "But security \"should proceed in lockstep with the technology,\" expert says ." ]	[ 2, 4, 32 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- Dr. David Ores, or Dr. Dave as he's referred to by his patients, isn't your average neighborhood doctor.", "It's not because his arms are covered with tattoos of nearly naked women or because he drives a Harley to work, but because eight months ago he started New York City's first health care cooperative for restaurant workers.", "The Harley-riding Dr. David Ores has started New York's first health care cooperative for restaurant workers.", "The Restaurant Worker's Health Care Cooperative, currently servicing 15 restaurants in lower Manhattan, provides free health care to all restaurant employees, from bus boys to bartenders.", "Every month the owner or manager of each restaurant contributes money into a common fund based on its number of employees.", "In return, their workers can go see Dr. Dave with any kind of health issue they may have.", "Dr. Dave, a graduate of Columbia Medical School, has been treating uninsured people for more than a decade.", "He decided to start the co-op after noticing a trend among patients working in the restaurant industry.", "\"Over the past ten years, I've seen many patients that work in restaurants, and there were always two things in common: They had no real access to any kind of medical care, and they also waited a long time to come see a doctor,\" Ores says.", "\"I decided to form this co-op in order to get them early, basic health care.\"", "Watch the doctor at work » .", "The restaurant workers, many of whom have never been medically insured, can now make appointments, stop by the office, text medical questions and even send photos of their injuries to Dr. Dave, free of charge.", "\"This is my first checkup ever,\" Asaf, a waiter at Macao Trading Co., told CNN in the waiting room.", "\"It's an example of how someone finds an easy and fair solution to a serious problem or a need.\"", "And statistics show there is, in fact, a need.", "According to a 2005 study by the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, about 73 percent of all New York restaurant workers -- about 160,000 people -- have no health insurance.", "The co-op comes as a relief to restaurant owners who would ideally like to provide medical insurance to their employees but cannot afford to do so.", "\"Obviously we want to take care of our people, but financially we're only capable of doing so much,\" says restaurant owner Billy Gilroy.", "\"This was the perfect opportunity to be able to extend the ability to find medical services through the restaurant, but in a way that's affordable.\"", "The price for use of the co-op's services ranges from as little as $50 a month for an establishment with a couple of employees to $400 a month for a larger restaurant.", "Dr. Dave, who works as a general practitioner and sees other patients, is able to support himself because both his office and apartment are located in rent-stabilized buildings operated by the Lower East Side People's Mutual Housing Association, a not-for-profit housing group that charges him only $800 a month for rent.", "With health care currently a hot-button political issue, Dr. Dave sees this local, not-for-profit health system as a model for how national health care in America could work.", "\"I'm not against profit,\" he says.", "\"I just don't think you can have a for-profit health system that provides everyone with proper health care.", "It's just never going to work.\"", "In the meantime, Dr. Dave has plans to expand.", "\"In the next year I'd like for our little health co-op to offer more services.", "Maybe dental, more hours in the evening, maybe hire a second doctor.\"", "He also hopes to offer routine checkups for all workers, so he can catch illnesses early and hopefully prevent steeper medical costs down the road.", "Although Dr. Dave started the program only eight months ago, he's no stranger to helping others.", "\"I would call him a pioneer in health care, I would call him a pioneer as a human being, and also as a doctor,\" says restaurant owner and longtime friend Julio Peña, who has been benefiting from Dr. Dave's services for quite a while.", "\"We've been trading pasta and cappuccinos for stitching somebody up with him for years, and now that he's doing it with other people, it's great.\"" ]	[ "Health care cooperative helps New York restaurant workers .", "Not-for-profit system now enables workers to see a doctor when necessary .", "\"Dr. Dave\" now has plans to expand coverage, hours of service .", "\"I would call him a pioneer in health care,\" friend says of Dr. Dave ." ]	[ 2, 21, 25, 30 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An independent research group predicts that cyberwarfare will accompany future military conflicts and is recommending international action to blunt its impact.", "Computers can become victims in future military conflicts, a nonprofit group says.", "The nonprofit U.S. Cyber Consequences Unit studied the cybertactics used against the country of Georgia during its military conflict with Russia last year.", "Cyberattacks in August 2008 shut down the Web sites of crucial Georgian government agencies, the media and banks.", "\"The Russians have developed a model here that is very effective,\" said Scott Borg, director of US-CCU.", "\"We can expect to see the Russians use it in the future, and other countries as well.\"", "Because of the sensitive nature of much of the information, the full 100-page report is being released only to U.S. government officials and selected cybersecurity professionals.", "CNN was provided a nine-page summary.", "The study concludes that the cyberattacks against Georgian targets were carried out by civilians, many of them recruited via social networking forums devoted to dating, hobbies and politics.", "\"There was a large-scale collaboration on these forums,\" said US-CCU's chief technical officer, John Bumgarner.", "\"They were used to recruit potential actors to launch attacks, to collaborate on what types of attacks worked and what types of attacks didn't work.", "They were used to collaborate on how to bypass security controls and share attack codes.\"", "As a result, Borg said, Russian sympathizers who were not hackers, and who didn't even know much about computers, could participate.", "The report says the civilian cyberattackers were aided and supported by Russian organized crime.", "Although they found no evidence of direct involvement by the Russian government or military, the report concludes that the organizers were tipped off about the timing of Russian military operations.", "\"There was a lot of information being passed on, but at what level it was being passed on was hard to say,\" Borg said.", "The report says that \"the necessary reconnaissance and the writing of attack scripts had to have been done in advance ... and suggests that cyber attacks against Georgia had been on the Russian agenda for some time.\"", "The hackers did not carry out physically destructive cyberattacks, although they probably had the technical expertise to do so, suggesting that \"someone on the Russian side was exercising considerable restraint,\" the report says.", "It also notes that media and communications facilities, which might have been attacked by missiles and bombs in a conventional war, were spared that, \"presumably because they were being effectively shut down by cyberattacks.\"", "Because the cybercampaign against Georgia presents a pattern that can be expected in future conflicts, the report says, there is an \"urgent need\" for an international organization to provide risk advisories when preparations for a cybercampaign are detected.", "It also says there should be an international cyber-response force to provide quick assistance to member countries, advising them on how to thwart an attack and setting up operations to do so.", "The report also recommends that every country conduct cyber-response exercises, otherwise \"the relevant officials will waste precious time trying to figure out whom they should be contacting and what they should be doing.\"", "Bumgarner said that cyberwarfare \"is a global chess game in which citizens, governments and corporations are the pawns.\"", "Borg added, \"Right now, the international community has no idea how to deal with this.\"" ]	[ "Study looked at cybertactics used during Russia-Georgia conflict .", "Civilians recruited from social networks carried out most attacks, report says .", "International agency needed to advise about risks, group says .", "Another recommendation is creation of cyber-response force ." ]	[ 2, 8 ]
[ "ST. BERNARD PARISH, Louisiana (CNN) -- This year, the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina will hold new meaning for Tina Caserta and her family.", "Liz McCartney runs the St. Bernard Project, which helps families rebuild in a parish hit by Hurricane Katrina.", "Like countless other residents from St. Bernard Parish, a community just east of New Orleans, Caserta lost everything in the storm.", "She had lived there since she was 12, married and raised her three sons there and even lived on the same street as her husband's family.", "\"We had nothing to salvage ... nothing,\" said Caserta, 41.", "She returned to her community just two months after Katrina, but she and her family have been enduring the challenges of moving from one form of FEMA housing to another ever since.", "When the family home she had been fighting to return to was condemned and torn down earlier this year, it was the final straw for Caserta.", "\"I was spiraling down,\" she said, choking up.", "\"I was totally hopeless.\"", "That's when she found Liz McCartney and her nonprofit St. Bernard Project.", "In the past three years, McCartney and her team have helped more than 230 families rebuild and move back into their homes.", "At the fourth anniversary of Katrina, Caserta and her family finally see a light at the end of the tunnel.", "\"The day that St. Bernard Project called and told me they [would] be able to help my family rebuild, that was the first day I felt like I could breathe,\" recalled Caserta.", "\"They gave my family hope.\"", "McCartney, 37, was honored last November as the CNN Hero of the Year for her efforts in St. Bernard Parish.", "She said the CNN Heroes award has had an incredible impact on the effectiveness of her St. Bernard Project, which she co-founded with Zack Rosenberg.", "More than 5,000 new volunteers have joined their cause, bringing their total to date to 15,000; and the group has raised more than $300,000 from new funding sources.", "\"We're rebuilding homes more efficiently than ever before,\" McCartney said.", "But her ultimate goal remains the same: \"We want to work ourselves out of a job.\"", "Read more about CNN Hero Liz McCartney and her efforts in St. Bernard Parish .", "For McCartney, that means helping to address the housing needs of thousands of families still living in Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers or temporary housing.", "The St. Bernard Project recently expanded to rebuild homes in New Orleans and opened a center for wellness and mental health, offering residents one-on-one and group counseling, among other clinical services.", "A combination of the heartbreaking stories of continued suffering and the speed at which her group can get those families back to normal, said McCartney, \"re-energizes me and everyone on our staff about working harder and working smarter to get the job done.\"", "To that end, this anniversary will be \"business as usual\" for the group, she said.", "Beginning Friday, it will hold a 24-hour build.", "McCartney predicts at least 120 volunteers from all over the country will each work an eight-hour shift to help build four homes.", "\"We get out there and show how much work can get done in a 24-hour period, which is pretty significant,\" McCartney said.", "Watch how McCartney's organization helped one St. Bernard resident move home .", "Caserta and her 17-year-old son signed up to volunteer with the graveyard shift because \"it will give us a chance to help another family out and give them the hope that I feel.\"", "The organization also plans to launch a yearlong campaign called \"4 NOLA,\" which will include a number of fundraisers and events throughout the country.", "\"It focuses on the positive, promotes the progress we've made, but shows that we still have a ways to go,\" McCartney said.", "\"We've seen thousands of people who are ready, willing and able to respond to the needs of their fellow Americans.", "It's our job to continue reminding them that the need here is great.\"", "Watch McCartney describe her turning point while volunteering in New Orleans .", "Today, McCartney is optimistic.", "And thanks to her organization's efforts to bring the community back, Caserta and many other St. Bernard Parish families are optimistic, too.", "\"This is going to be the first time that I can actually go through the anniversary with tears of joy, not tears of sorrow,\" Caserta said.", "\"Every day I see the progress [of] these volunteers, it makes me able to accept that date and the reality of what it's done to my family.", "Without people like Liz, people like me wouldn't have that opportunity to come home.\"" ]	[ "Hurricane Katrina destroyed Tina Caserta's home four years ago .", "The St. Bernard Project is helping her rebuild .", "Liz McCartney has expanded organization's efforts since winning CNN Hero award .", "Thousands of families still live in trailers or temporary housing ." ]	[ 1, 19, 20, 27, 34 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Suzanne Richard was born to be an actress.", "Suzanne Richard says that navigating the maze of government aid regulations is a challenge.", "She was also, however, born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a bone-crippling disorder that can mean a lifetime of health problems and physical disability.", "But rather than letting her condition hinder her acting ambitions, Richard has embraced it, and now works to encourage other actors with disabilities to do the same.", "As the artistic director of Open Circle Theatre, a theater founded to \"showcase professional artists with disabilities in an integrated setting,\" Richard offers her actors respite from the challenges they face, and access to an industry that can often discriminate against people like her.", "\"I decided a long time ago that if people were going to stare at me, they were going to pay me for it,\" she quipped backstage at a rehearsal for her latest production, \"Is there ANYBODY OUT THERE?\"", "And at a height of just under 4 feet, with legs encased in metal braces, the 38-year-old Richard said she indeed often attracts curious stares from the public.", "Richard's condition, also known as Brittle Bones Disease, is a genetic disorder \"characterized by fragile bones that break easily,\" according to the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation.", "The condition is considered rare, thought to affect only about 40,000 Americans, said Tracy Hart, CEO of the OI Foundation.", "There is no cure, Hart said.", "While the severity of the disorder varies greatly, common health issues related to OI are a short stature, weak tissues, fragile skin, muscle weakness, loose joints, hearing loss, breathing problems and curvature of the spine, according to the OI Foundation.", "In Richard's case, OI has meant frequent bone fractures, painful surgeries, leg braces, wheelchairs, and a multitude of symptoms caused by the pressure her weak frame puts on her body.", "As a child, Richard had to have rods surgically placed in her legs \"as infrastructure\" -- a painful routine that she repeated as often as she grew.", "But for Richard, the physical constraints of her condition are only half the battle.", "When Richard was forced to retire from her job as an accessibility specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts because she was too sick to work, she lost her work-provided private health insurance coverage.", "She now gets Medicare through her Social Security Income retirement benefits.", "Social Security Income is a government program that \"makes monthly payments to people who have low income and few resources,\" and are either at least 65 years of age or disabled.", "Social Security recipients are subject to income restrictions depending on what state they live in, and are only allowed to have resources worth $2,000, with certain exceptions, according to the Social Security Web site (www.socialsecurity.gov).", "These strict financial eligibility limitations, Richard said, can be nerve-wracking, and can make navigating the system extremely difficult.", "\"If you lose your Social Security benefits because you make too much money, you lose everything.", "You lose your Medicare, too,\" Richard said.", "\"So if you're on disability you have to be really careful not to make too much money, which is self-defeating.\"", "It is \"self-defeating\" especially when one considers the massive medical bills Richard accumulates due to her OI.", "Though Medicare covers 80 percent of her medical costs, Richard said she often comes up short some months.", "\"You can't get blood from a stone. ...", "I'm on a fixed income.", "That's why I'm on Medicare,\" she said.", "So, Richard constantly finds herself in the precarious situation of having to rely on her loved ones and the government for her financial stability.", "\"I'm hanging on by my fingernails.", "...You can never get ahead,\" she said.", "It's a frustrating circumstance familiar to Richard's fellow actors at Open Circle, as well as to the millions of disabled Americans in need of expensive medical treatment.", "It's a system, said Richard, that must be reformed.", "\"It's a foreign concept to me.", "... this idea that 'No, I'm sorry you don't have enough money to get this treatment,' \" she said.", "\"I sincerely believe that people with disabilities, if you want them to be at all a useful part of the society, you need to have medical care that you don't have to worry about having.\"", "But until then, Richard said she survives by familiarizing herself with the system and learning to navigate through the obstacles, a skill that she was forced to learn early on.", "\"You just get used to adapting.", "I guess we always do that anyway,\" she said." ]	[ "Theater's artistic director was born with bone-crippling disorder .", "Suzanne Richard encourages other disabled actors to embrace their art .", "Navigating maze of government aid is extremely difficult .", "\"You can never get ahead\" when system punishes earning, Richard says ." ]	[ 1, 2, 29, 31 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Anthony and Lisa Leoni have little time to worry about whether California's budget crisis will affect their daughter's life-sustaining care.", "Anthony and Lisa Leoni are afraid of budget cuts that pose a threat to daughter Jessica's care.", "A steady stream of nurses, caregivers and therapists visit 12-year-old Jessica at home around the clock.", "Jessica suffers from a rare and fatal disease called Niemann Pick Type C. A cholesterol imbalance destroys healthy cells in the liver, spleen and brain.", "Although Jessica led a relatively normal life before the illness worsened, her mother always knew the disease would eventually take over.", "\"Jessica was playful, happy and loves people.", "My heart was always a flutter because you never knew how many moments you'd get,\" Lisa Leoni says.", "In Jessica's case, a grand mal seizure suffered Memorial Day weekend 2005 brought a world of hurt to the Leonis.", "At the height of her symptoms, Jessica suffered up to 60 seizures a day.", "The disease, also known as NPC, has stolen her ability to walk, talk, eat or even breathe on her own.", "An oxygen machine pumps air into her lungs around the clock.", "Anthony Leoni knew they needed help.", "\"If you told us 10 years ago this is how your life is going to be, I would have said we're not capable.", "We don't have the training, ability, we don't have the energy, we don't have the stamina.\"", "They found Bill Feeman of Westside Regional Center.", "\"When you walk into this home and you see Jessica, [you] just fall in love with her,\" Feeman says.", "\"She is a sweet soul -- you see her, she's physically helpless, yet there's a light that shines out of her eyes, it takes you in.", "\"When you meet this family and you see how hard-working and involved they are, you just wanna do everything you can to help.\"", "Watch the family's heartbreaking struggle » .", "Feeman worked to find in-home support in the form of nurse caregivers, therapists and medical supplies.", "\"This family also has all the normal responsibilities of raising a family.", "They have to pay their mortgage, they have to feed their family, they have to go to work.", "So when you have someone as medically involved as Jessica is, and you're talking about all that worriment and responsibility of your child being ill and on top of that you still have to ... bring home a paycheck every week in order to pay your bills, you need a lot of help.", "\"You have to be awake at night with Jessica.", "She cannot be left alone for even five minutes where someone is not awake and attentive to her needs.", "So you're looking at a family, who when I first met them a year ago had some help in the home but nowhere near enough and they were exhausted.", "They were trying to be caregivers, nurses, doctors, and then get up and go to work during the day and still support their family.\"", "\"We pieced all these programs together.", "We finally got everything in place where they can be parents again, which is a wonderful thing.", "And that's what scares me about these budget cuts ... it scares me a little bit that things might start moving backwards.\"", "One of those caregivers is Carmen Bailey, a certified nurse assistant and home health aide with Caring Connection.", "She has been working with Jessica for more than two years.", "\"It's been an experience. I call her my angel.", "I bathe her, groom her, position her, massage her to make her comfortable.\"", "Carmen may be affected by the budget cuts.", "\"I also have to live to keep on going.", "I know I will still be here and whatever I need to do extra I'm willing to do it for the family and Jessica.\"", "Westside Regional Center is one of 21 state regional centers providing services literally from birth to death.", "They work with people diagnosed as developmentally disabled, including those with cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism and mental retardation.", "Mike Danneker is executive director of Westside Regional Center.", "\"Our budget is in the 4 billion dollar range for about 240,000 clients in California,\" Danneker says.", "\"Westside gets about 140 million dollars a year and we have about 7200 clients.\"", "He believes the California budget fix will cut a half-billion dollars statewide from their budget.", "\"It's going to affect everybody.", "Camps, therapies like art, horseback riding, some of the things people have done for decades will be gone.", "We'll have to cut back the number of hours to about 300 hours a year.", "We estimate 40 percent of California clients have over 300 hours a year.\"", "Anthony Leoni has this to say about impending cuts to Jessica's life-sustaining care.", "\"It's absolutely frightening to think about what happens if the services go away.", "They're absolutely essential to keep Jessica going.\"", "Jessica's childhood friend Kristina Carmickle stands by her bedside.", "\"We did a lot of tap (dance) together, that was Jessie's favorite.", "Once you have a friendship that's big enough, you're always wishing for the best.\"", "Anthony Leoni sums it up this way: \"We know that there are other families that have challenges similar to us, sometimes even more dramatic than ours, and if we can serve a purpose or a role to help bring the awareness to public what it takes to take care of a family like ours, then we're willing to make that effort.\"" ]	[ "Twelve-year-old Jessica Leoni has rare and fatal disease .", "Illness requires around-the-clock care for Jessica .", "California budget crisis threatens cutbacks in Jessica's care .", "Potential budget cuts are \"going to affect everybody\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 31, 43 ]
[ "(CNN) -- From soup kitchen director Rita Baldwin's perspective, the notion that \"homeless people are the scum of the earth\" has returned to her Gulf Coast town, which still struggles four years after Hurricane Katrina.", "Loaves and Fishes executive director Rita Baldwin poses with her son, Scott Blain, who works at the kitchen.", "Baldwin -- formerly homeless herself -- found that \"the storm was a great neutralizer.", "It put us all on the same level.\"", "That social pendulum is swinging back to the pre-Katrina world, she said, but she added that the community has shown a renewed sense of compassion.", "Baldwin, executive director of the Loaves and Fishes community kitchen in Biloxi, Mississippi, lost her home in Katrina as the storm barreled into the coastal community in 2005.", "She said she watched with sadness as storm victims she dubbed \"amateurs\" -- \"people who didn't know how to be homeless\" -- attempted to survive after losing everything.", "Homeless people who were accustomed to living in the woods and on the streets used their wherewithal to make it through each day, said Baldwin, who relied on the kitchen's services herself before she was hired there.", "Biloxi was one of the cities that Katrina hit hardest.", "And though the city has made progress rebuilding, the 26-year-old kitchen has seen steady increases in clients each year since the storm.", "With few residents in the city shortly after Katrina, there was little activity.", "But the kitchen reports serving 55,281 meals in 2007, 64,825 meals in 2008 and 38,877 in the first seven months of 2009.", "Loaves and Fishes nearly closed this summer because of lack of funding, until the public was reminded of the need to feed the hungry.", "After the Biloxi Sun-Herald reported in late June that the kitchen could close its doors, more than $50,000 in donations poured in, and it is now funded until around March.", "\"I certainly had never gotten that kind of response before.", "So it just made me realize that they just didn't know\" about the hunger problem, Baldwin said.", "After spending time focusing on themselves and picking up the pieces, the more fortunate Biloxi residents are starting to return to a more philanthropic frame of mind, according to Biloxi Public Affairs Manager Vincent Creel.", "\"There's been a reawakening. People are getting in a closer position where they can help others,\" he said.", "'Hitting us with both fists' Loaves and Fishes hit a \"really bad financial crunch,\" Baldwin said, because its federal grants for disaster relief had run out.", "She used to provide other services for the homeless, but when the money disappeared, she had to eliminate the additional assistance.", "\"The economy really didn't get bad for those of us in Katrina areas because so much money was flushed into these areas to help us get back up on our feet.", "And now those funds are gone, so the ... poor economy and the unemployment is hitting us with both fists now,\" Baldwin said.", "Baldwin's clients include the expanding homeless population, day laborers, the elderly and other poor people in the area.", "Terry, 59, who asked that his last name not be used, was homeless for about three years after losing his Gulfport, Mississippi, home in Katrina.", "He now rents a bedroom and regularly eats at Loaves and Fishes.", "\"Most everyone just tries to keep to themselves right now,\" Terry said of the atmosphere there.", "\"[We] struggle, try and get everything back in order.", "However, the community is binding together and helping each other.", "So that's a good thing.\"", "Terry learned about six years ago that he had bone cancer, but only recently began receiving disability checks.", "Before that, it was hard to get work despite all the post-Katrina construction because outside contractors were not hiring locals, he said.", "Loaves and Fishes also serves down-on-their luck visitors to Biloxi's casinos.", "\"A lot of people that come in here ... have gambled up their money,\" Baldwin said.", "\"They max out their credit cards and they get stuck here.\"", "Biloxi's casinos, however, have been struggling over the past year.", "After showing signs of post-Katrina growth in 2007 with more than $1 billion in revenue, casinos pulled in $951 million last year.", "They are trending down again this year, according to city data.", "But A.J. Holloway, Biloxi's mayor, says the city celebrates new milestones of recovery daily.", "For example, the public school district has rebounded to about 4,600 students from a pre-Katrina population of about 6,100, and around 700 of 1,000 replacement homes have been built at Keesler Air Force Base.", "The preliminary unemployment rate in Gulfport and Biloxi for June was 7.9 percent, compared with a national rate of 9.4 percent in July.", "Gulfport-Biloxi's unemployment rate hit 23.2 percent the month after Katrina, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.", "This weekend, the city will break ground on $50 million worth of recovery, including a new library, civic center and visitor center.", "Holloway also expects a $400 million infrastructure project to begin construction in January, which he hopes will put people to work and stimulate the local economy.", "He says it will take awhile for Biloxi to return to normal.", "It probably wasn't until 1992, when the casinos were established, before the city was fully rebuilt after Hurricane Camille in 1969, he said.", "\"I think we'll feel the effects of Katrina for a long time,\" the mayor said.", "For now, the area still struggles with poverty, homelessness and hunger, and Loaves and Fishes' Baldwin wants to be there to answer the call.", "\"There's hunger in our communities,\" she said.", "\"There's not just hunger in Africa.\"", "Contact Loaves and Fishes at PO Box 233, Biloxi, MS 39522." ]	[ "As the city recovers from Katrina, Loaves and Fishes sees more visitors .", "Clientele include the homeless, day laborers, out-of-luck gamblers .", "\"I think we'll feel the effects of Katrina for a long time,\" mayor said .", "He expects to break ground on a $400 million infrastructure project in January ." ]	[ 31, 42, 45 ]
[ "NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- As floodwaters washed away homes in the Lower 9th Ward, Robert Green watched with horror as his mother got swept away in the storm.", "Robert Green stands on the porch of his family's FEMA trailer in front of his new home earlier this year.", "Four months later, Green and other family members found Joyce Green's remains in the splintered wreckage of the house where they left her.", "Robert Green's granddaughter Shanay also drowned the night Hurricane Katrina hit.", "Green spent almost the entire last four years living in a small FEMA trailer on his land, sharing his story with anyone who came through the Lower 9th.", "One of the people he met was Tom Darden, executive director of the Make It Right Foundation, Brad Pitt's nonprofit vision for building green, sustainable houses in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans.", "Only a handful of homes have returned to the Lower 9th, one of the areas hardest hit by the killer storm.", "\"We have 14 neighbors and feel crowded,\" Green said \"But we have 3,000 houses that are gone, and we would love to see those houses come back.\"", "Darden and Pitt felt compelled to help provide Green and his family a second chance, and on July 9 Green officially became a proud homeowner once again.", "Getting a fresh start has helped Green and his family deal with the tragedy that turned their lives upside down and took away their loved ones.", "\"That's what gave me the strength to endure all that we've been through,\" Green said.", "\"People constantly coming by, volunteers constantly coming by.", "People that really care about us and let us know that we weren't in this alone.", "It gave us the hope that one day we would come back and be a community again.\"", "Watch as Green talks about his family's tragedies and life in New Orleans after Katrina » .", "The Make It Right Foundation has built 15 homes in the Lower 9th so far; the group's goal is to have 150 built by the end of next year.", "Darden said the program is designed as a hand up, not a handout.", "\"We ask the families to contribute as much as they can afford,\" he said.", "\"On average that's been about $75,000, but we work with the families very closely to make sure that a family is not spending more than 30 percent of their income towards housing costs, and that's how we ensure they are affordable.\"", "Safety and energy efficiency are among the group's primary concerns.", "\"[The houses] are all elevated at least above Katrina-level flooding.", "A family has the option to build even higher than that if they want.", "We've got hurricane-resistant features like impact-resistant glass, or a certain type of fabric that protects the windows,\" Darden said.", "See photos detailing the features of the Make It Right homes » .", "Another of the driving forces instrumental in rebuilding the Lower 9th Ward in a sustainable fashion is Global Green, the American arm of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's Green Cross International.", "\"Immediately after the storm, we saw a failure in government in every level: local, state and federal,\" said Matt Petersen, president of Global Green.", "\"There's still so much work to be done that we can't wait, we can't rely on the federal government.", "\"This is an era where I think the citizens of this great country need to take responsibility for our nation, and it starts right here.", "How we respond affects the future of our country.\"", "Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, knows mistakes were made in the efforts to get people back into their homes, both in the Lower 9th Ward and other devastated parts of New Orleans.", "\"We have to be more flexible, we have to be more responsive, and make sure the programs don't just work in theory, but they will work for families,\" Donovan said.", "\"We've been very focused in the first seven months [of the Obama administration] on cutting red tape, making sure that recovery moves ahead.", "And that we can get as fast as possible to the completion of the recovery phase.\"", "Donovan said HUD's plans will help hundreds of millions of federal dollars be directed to areas across New Orleans, helping rebuild communities and get families into permanent houses.", "But Donovan also said this could still take another 18-24 months, and that if it weren't for nonprofits there would be little to no progress, even four years after the storm.", "\"We have to say, 'Look, there are groups on the ground that have solutions, they are able to make it work, we've put barriers in the way for them to be able to get their work done as quickly and effectively as possible.", "We've got to get those barriers out of the way.'", "\" For Robert Green, seeing any progress at all gives him hope that one day the place he calls home will no longer be dominated by concrete slabs, abandoned homes and overgrown weeds.", "\"We have children back in this community, we have families back,\" Green said.", "\"So basically when those families come back, it gives the other relatives and friends and other people a jump off point.\"" ]	[ "Robert Green lost his mother and a granddaughter in Hurricane Katrina .", "Since then he has lived in a FEMA trailer in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward .", "This year he moved into his new home thanks to Brad Pitt's Make It Right nonprofit .", "HUD secretary: If it weren't for nonprofits, there would have been little or no progress ." ]	[ 1, 5, 34 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The wooden sculptures lining the median of U.S. 90 are among the top tourist attractions on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.", "Marlin Miller's live oak sculpture in Biloxi's Town Green will be dedicated Saturday.", "They are also a creative tribute to the live oaks that lined the scenic highway before the saltwater surge of Hurricane Katrina killed them at their very roots.", "After the storm, the Mississippi Department of Transportation began bulldozing the dead trees, much to the chagrin of area residents.", "Biloxi Mayor A.J.", "Holloway, one of the coast's longtime civic leaders, intervened.", "He contracted to have some of the live oak trunks turned into sculptures.", "But it would have proved to be a costly venture.", "Enter Marlin Miller, a wood sculptor from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, who volunteered to create a few live oak sculptures for free -- in part to leave his artistic mark on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but also as a service to the community.", "A tree sculpture begins with the transportation department removing all the branches, leaving just the core of the tree.", "\"I get an idea of what that carving is going to look like, and I go after it with a wide variety of steel chain saws.\"", "Miller said.", "He works his way down to high speed grinders, sanders and chisels to add the final detail work.", "\"They're live oaks, so it's like carving stone.", "Sparks fly off my chain saw blades when I go after one of the trees,\" Miller said.", "Some of the trees, which are as much a part of south Mississippi's heritage as the antebellum homes scattered along the coastline, are estimated to be as much as 500 or 600 years old.", "Miller's sculptures along U.S. 90 range from eagles and herons to seahorses and dolphins.", "He said local governments have never dictated how his carvings should look.", "In Pass Christian, Miller created what he believes to be the world's largest eagle wood carving, at 25 feet tall.", "\"That sculpture is dedicated to Col. Lawrence Roberts, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen,\" he said.", "A recent survey of area tourist attractions by the Harrison County Tourism Commission listed the beaches as the third-most popular attraction and the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino second.", "Miller's tree sculptures are first.", "\"We've had a lot of traffic diverting off of Interstate 10, down to U.S. 90 just to see these carvings,\" Miller said.", "On Saturday, one of Miller's sculptures will be dedicated on the Biloxi Town Green: a 24-foot-tall marlin flying into the sky, three mahi fish jumping to the left, and a sea turtle and a blue crab at the base.", "It is the only painted tree sculpture of all those lining U.S. 90.", "Next on Marlin's to-do list: an oak tree in the center of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and one in Gulfport, Mississippi.", "He also plans to expand the project to downtown New Orleans and parts of North Carolina.", "\"Instead of just cutting these trees down,\" Marlin said, \"we're going to put new life into them by adding a sculpture.\"" ]	[ "Live oaks lined scenic U.S. 90 before Hurricane Katrina destroyed them .", "Florida wood sculptor Marlin Miller has been turning the tree trunks into carvings .", "Miller's sculptures range from eagles and herons to seahorses and dolphins .", "One of his sculptures will be dedicated on the Biloxi Town Green on Saturday ." ]	[ 16, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- High school athletic director Brian Bordainick felt like he'd been shot when he learned the crushing news about his \"9th Ward Field of Dreams\" project.", "Coach Shyrone Carey, left, and athletic director Brian Bordainick are rebuilding a once-dominant football team.", "Architects who had agreed to help the Katrina battered Carver High School in New Orleans, Louisiana, win an NFL grant to build a $2 million stadium were pulling out -- the weekend before a Monday deadline.", "The firm apologized, Bordainick said, but it would not be able to provide a design proposal for the facility, which was critical to winning the $200,000 grant.", "\"I've never been shot, but I imagine it felt something similar to that,\" said Bordainick, recalling that day in December 2008.", "To make matters worse, swarms of news media were gathering at the school to interview the 23-year-old boy wonder -- the self-described \"youngest high school athletic director in Louisiana\" -- who was leading an effort to bring Carver's athletic program back from near death.", "\"I sucked it up, did the story ... and when they left, I picked up the phone book and started calling architects in the city.\"", "Watch update on New Orleans' schools after Katrina » .", "In an amazing moment of serendipity and opportunity, an entrepreneur friend of Bordainick's happened to be at a party and cornered a partner in one of the city's top architectural firms.", "The friend called Bordainick and -- before handing the architect the phone -- told Bordainick: \"You've got 30 seconds to give your best elevator spiel you've ever given.\"", "The architect was Steve Dumez, design director for Eskew+Dumez+Ripple, who agreed to help, despite Bordainick's preposterous plea.", "Watch Bordainick tell his story .", "\"The one-day turnaround came as a bit of a shock,\" Dumez said.", "\"What was crazy about it was trying to pull together an entire design proposal -- and that's just something that doesn't happen in 24 hours.\"", "Usually such design proposals require as long as a month to complete.", "\"How could you not get sucked into such an amazing story?\"", "asked Dumez's partner, Mark Ripple, a 30-year veteran New Orleans architect.", "\"There really isn't a good outlet in the area where kids can develop skills and self-esteem and all the things that come with a healthy recreation program.\"", "The next day, the firm organized a small army of construction companies, civil engineers and architects who offered their support.", "\"We got the satellite images and the renderings done in 8 hours,\" Bordainick said.", "The proposal worked.", "In March the school learned it had won the NFL grant.", "Nike also has backed the project -- donating $100,000 and joining thousands of individuals who have offered $1.5 million in pledges, cash and services so far.", "All this during one of the nation's worst-ever economies.", "Bordainick credits much of the fundraising success to a network of e-mailers who started with a Web site created by a Web-developer-turned-Carver teacher.", "He crafted an e-mail touting his \"passion for building character through sports,\" and \"creating something from nothing\" while working with \"people crazy enough to believe that they have the power to create change.\"", "\"I made it a goal to just e-mail a couple hundred people a day,\" he said.", "\"I was teaching and calling people during my lunch break, and trying to get other people to make calls during their lunch break, and e-mailing people and doing all these things to get the word out about what we're doing and what we're trying to accomplish.\"", "The proposed stadium -- which would host football, track, soccer and lacrosse -- is just one facet of Carver's struggle to regain its former self four years after the ravages of Katrina.", "A perennial football powerhouse, the team re-formed after Bordainick arrived at Carter in 2007, his first year in the Teach for America program.", "He touts athletics as \"changing the dynamics of the school and having it not be someplace where the bus just drops you off in the morning.\"", "But four years after the storm, Carver students on the 65-acre campus are still struggling to learn without the benefit of permanent classrooms.", "All of Carver's 530 students -- down from more than 1,000 students before the storm -- still attend classes in FEMA trailers.", "The actual building which used to be the school is now boarded up.", "The cafeteria is a hollowed-out shell.", "The school district has plans to rebuild Carver's classrooms and other facilities, but it's not clear when.", "\"If you kick a field goal on one side of our football field -- the ball goes into the gym, which was condemned after the storm,\" said Bordainick.", "\"And, if you kick a field goal on the other side, it goes into a house which was knocked off its foundation from Katrina.\"", "The track team, he said, now practices on nearby city streets.", "Last season, the Carver Rams failed to win a single game.", "But many fans, school officials and alumni are hoping the proposed stadium will increase pride and confidence for the revitalized team and student fans.", "\"If we give kids some constructive things to be involved in -- guide them and give them discipline, we can help them achieve their dreams,\" said Charles Webb, a project board member and 1965 Carver quarterback.", "\"It'll bring back pride the way it used to be.\"", "\"With a sense of pride and teamwork, anything can happen,\" said Carver head football coach Shyrone Carey.", "Carey -- a standout running back for Louisiana State University from 2001 to 2005 -- arguably couldn't have chosen a more challenging post as his first head coaching job than rebuilding Carver from the ground up.", "\"The overall motivation that comes from athletics is an overall lifelong lesson,\" said Carey, who's pushing his players hard in advance of a big game Saturday.", "\"If you make the right decisions then positive things can come.\"", "Backers of the 9th Ward Field of Dreams hope to break ground sometime next year and complete construction in time for the 2010 football season.", "Supporters are trying to bolster support by offering the stadium for use as a free jogging track and a venue for middle school sporting events.", "\"If we're able to lock sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders in at a younger age, we'll be able to train and get them into mentors' hands so they're able lead a more successful life, ultimately,\" Bordainick said.", "\"This school -- and these children overcoming the odds stacked against them -- can be a real catalyst for rebirth in this city,\" Bordainick said.", "\"I think it can be something that people can look to, and something that people can rally behind.\"" ]	[ "High school hit hard by Katrina aims to build $2 million sports field with donations .", "Four years after storm, all 530 students attend classes in FEMA trailers .", "23-year-old athletic director leads fundraising campaign -- much of which is online .", "Supporters: Facility will help students develop pride, discipline for successful life ." ]	[ 2, 32 ]
[ "NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- As the storm raged outside her hospital room four years ago, an equally consuming force hijacked Alesia Crockett's mind: deep depression.", "Alesia Crockett, who suffers from bipolar disorder, ended up in a hospital hours outside New Orleans.", "For days, Crockett lay in darkness and a tangle of sweaty hospital bed sheets, one among hundreds of desperate patients trapped inside Charity Hospital in 2005, while outside, Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath battered the city.", "Crockett had been admitted to Charity's inpatient mental health unit after having a psychotic episode.", "She had struggled for years with bipolar disorder, an illness that causes her to volley between euphoria and profound depression.", "She said she barely remembers Katrina.", "\"Most of the time, I was in a fog, but I do remember some things,\" Crockett said.", "\"Where my room was, I could see thousands of people wandering, and I could see the waters rise.\"", "Crockett, and many other New Orleanians suffering from chronic mental illness -- and those with what is called \"soft depression,\" or nonchronic mental illness -- say Katrina may have relented days after it hit New Orleans proper, but their mental health issues have not.", "\"Four years later, everything is not all right in New Orleans,\" said Dr. Jan Johnson, a psychiatrist who treats Crockett.", "Watch more on New Orleans' mental health crisis » .", "While mental health problems grow, the resources to treat those problems continue to wane.", "A report about mental health issues in New Orleans after Katrina, published in early 2008 in the journal Psychiatric Annals, lists the number of inpatient psychiatric beds in greater New Orleans at 487 before the storm.", "Since Katrina, that number has declined to 190.", "Most of the remaining beds are dedicated to patients unable to live independently.", "That leaves what the report's authors describe as a \"paltry\" 17 beds for acute mental health care in New Orleans.", "\"The situation is unconscionable, atrocious.", "I can't use enough bad words to describe it,\" said Johnson, who is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the Tulane University School of Medicine.", "\"Patients are not getting care, they are sitting in emergency rooms for days, and that's just an inappropriate place for psychiatric patients.\"", "For two years following Katrina, after being rescued from Charity, Crockett's illness was controlled with medications.", "Then in 2007, she stopped taking them, and she had another episode.", "\"She came to my clinic and was psychotic and really a danger to herself not able to care for herself,\" Johnson said.", "\"And I had nowhere to hospitalize her.\"", "After leaving the clinic, Crockett bounced among three local hospitals before being transported to the closest medical center with an available psychiatric bed, several hours outside of New Orleans.", "\"I can remember being in the back of an ambulance, and I kept thinking, 'This is taking so long,' \" Crockett said.", "\"I didn't know where I was going.", "I just remember seeing the sky turn from daytime to nighttime, and we still hadn't gotten there.\"", "Crockett is far from alone, Johnson says.", "\"The system has been in horrible shape for a while,\" she said.", "\"We had our problems even before the storm, but comparatively, we had it much better then.", "It's very frustrating.\" And the consequences of not finding a bed for acutely ill patients can be deadly.", "In January 2008, a New Orleans police officer was killed by a man suffering from psychosis due to schizophrenia, New Orleans police said.", "The officer, Nicola Cotton, approached 44-year-old Bernel Johnson for questioning about a rape.", "A struggle ensued, and Johnson overpowered and killed Cotton with her own gun, police said.", "As it turns out, Johnson was no longer under psychiatric care and was not taking his prescribed medication.", "Cotton's death trained a spotlight on the deplorable condition of the New Orleans mental health system -- for a moment -- said Rep. Neil Abramson of the Louisiana House of Representatives.", "Months after Cotton's death, Louisiana allotted millions of dollars to bolster mental health services in New Orleans, he said.", "A year later, the funding was gone.", "\"People are outraged,\" Abramson said.", "\"Everyone is concerned about consequences you can't quantify.", "Safety of law enforcement personnel, more psychotic patients out on the street, and more killings instead of people getting the treatment they need.\"", "Abramson is fighting to get back critical inpatient beds.", "At the center of that fight is the New Orleans Adolescent Hospital (NOAH), which is scheduled to close Tuesday.", "After Cotton's death in 2008, legislators allotted $14.2 million to NOAH, Abramson says.", "This year, Gov. Bobby Jindal line-item vetoed that funding.", "\"That's why this is so critical,\" Abramson said.", "\"This is the only state-operated mental health facility left in New Orleans.", "And now there will be none.\" Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals spokesperson says that the veto was justified, and that funding appropriated to NOAH would have resulted in a loss of beds at another local hospital.", "\"This is much bigger than closing NOAH,\" said Alan Levine, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.", "\"We have to put mental health resources where we know they have the highest opportunity to succeed.\"", "Levine called the debate about NOAH and inpatient beds among New Orleans caregivers and legislators symbolic of overall frustration with mental health care in the area, adding that Louisiana is focusing funding on community-based services, rather than inpatient beds, a strategy that he says will eventually shore up New Orleans' mental health system.", "Jan Johnson, the New Orleans psychiatrist, agrees about the need for more community-based services.", "\"It's part of the answer, but it in no way can really take the place of hospital beds that we need,\" she said.", "\"Someone with diabetes may be managed outpatient, but if they have a heart attack as a result of it, they need an inpatient bed.", "Our patients are the same way.", "We can manage a lot of this outpatient and community-based, but when they have an acute psychiatric episode or they are suicidal, they need an inpatient bed.\"", "Today, Crockett, Johnson's patient, is well.", "But sometimes, fears about tomorrow creep up on her.", "\"I wonder sometimes, if I were to get sick, where would I go?\"", "Crockett said.", "\"We are people battling an illness, and we don't need to also have to be faced with not having the availability of beds and hospitals and doctors.", "If I want the help that I so desperately need, I can't get it because it's not there.\"" ]	[ "New Orleans continues to face crisis of mental health needs, resources .", "Study: Before storm, area had 487 inpatient psychiatric beds; now,190 .", "Police officer's slaying by mentally ill man renewed spotlight on city's needs ." ]	[ 10, 12, 31 ]
[ "(CNN) -- For Thomas Tugend, there was no doubt which side he was fighting for as a young infantryman in Europe in World War II.", "Actually, the choice was made for him in 1933, when he was just a child.", "Born in Germany, Tugend lived a comfortable, upper-middle class life in Berlin.", "His father, Gustav, was a loyal and patriotic German who had fought in World War I and was a decorated officer in the German army.", "He was also a successful doctor, leaving Thomas with few worries during his childhood in Berlin.", "Like many of his schoolmates, Thomas was an avid soccer player who gave little thought to the political storm brewing around him.", "Everything changed in 1933 when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came to power.", "That the Tugend family was successful, educated and loyal Germans no longer meant anything.", "To the new German government, the Tugends were Jews -- and that was all that mattered.", "Still, the family remained in a state on denial about the danger they faced because, as Thomas Tugend later said, \"for us, the oppression came gradually, not all at once.\"", "The Tugend's longtime nanny, a mother figure to young Thomas, was forced to leave because of a government edict prohibiting non-Jewish Germans from working in Jewish homes.", "Then, Thomas' father was told he could no longer treat non-Jewish patients.", "Shortly thereafter, the elder Tugend was summarily fired from his job in the pediatrics department of a prominent Berlin hospital.", "As a result, the Tugend family was forced to move from their comfortable home to a poorer part of the city.", "\"It was little things at first, and people would say, 'Well, we can live with that,' and then another more stringent law would pass and people would say, 'This isn't ideal, but things will get better,'\" Tugend said.", "By 1937, Tugend's father had no illusions about what was happening.", "He left Germany for the United States via England with the help of old friends from an American Quaker group.", "The elder Tugend had worked with them on health issues related to childhood poverty in Germany after World War I.", "As soon as he was able, Thomas' father sent for his family.", "\"He told my mother to forget the furniture and pack up what she could and get out,\" Tugend said.", "In May 1939, Tugend, his sister and their mother entered the United States as refugees.", "Four months later, the Germans invaded Poland.", "\"The reason so many German Jews didn't leave when they had the chance was because they couldn't believe what was happening,\" Tugend said.", "\"They thought Hitler would get what he wanted and there would be no war and things would get back to normal.", "The Holocaust was unimaginable at the time.\"", "Despite their escape, Tugend said his father was never the same.", "The whole experience \"broke him, spiritually and physically,\" he said.", "By 1944, the war was raging in Europe and 18-year-old Thomas was attending high school in the United States.", "He was raring to join the fight.", "And he admits his family's tragic experience was only part of the motivation.", "\"I couldn't wait to get away from home,\" he said.", "An adventurous spirit mixed with a touch of wanderlust led him to enlist in the U.S. Army.", "\"Even then I knew the historical significance of the war and I wanted to be a part of it,\" he said.", "\"I had a personal reason to fight the Nazis that most Americans didn't.\"", "Tugend was assigned to the Army's 63rd Infantry Division.", "He was worried he might be shipped off to the Pacific, but fate was on his side -- Pvt.", "Thomas Tugend was sent to France, where he faced his former countrymen in battle.", "Tugend said he tried not to dwell on the fact that he was fighting his former friends.", "\"As long as I was just an infantryman, they were shooting at us, we were shooting at them, that's all you think about,\" he said.", "Once the Army found out Tugend spoke fluent German, his commanders created a new job for him.", "At the end of the war, Tugend was tasked with finding members of the Nazi party who were thought to be cooking up a post-war insurgency.", "\"Every town and village I went to,\" Tugend said, \"I would be told, 'No, I'm not a Nazi.", "But my neighbor, he's a Nazi,' and then the neighbor would say, 'No, no, no.", "I'm not a Nazi.' There wasn't a Nazi left in Germany.\"", "After some villagers led Tugend to an elderly blind man who was proud to admit his affiliation with the Nazi Party, Tugend returned to his headquarters and proclaimed, \"I found the only Nazi in Germany!\"", "Tugend may have harbored resentment toward the people who betrayed his family and allowed the murder of 6 million Jews, but on a personal, face-to-face level, he found it difficult to hate them.", "\"You have to understand, the average German may have known what the Nazis were up to, but I think most of them were just trying to survive,\" he said.", "\"You would go to some of these bombed-out villages and they had suffered so much, I couldn't hate them.", "It wasn't like they were the Goebbels or the Goerings.", "... We had no pity for the SS. Those were the real bastards.\"", "Tugend left the Army soon after the war's end, but he wasn't finished fighting.", "He joined the Israeli Army and led an anti-tank crew during the 1948 War of Independence.", "He was later recalled by the U.S. Army to serve in the Korean War.", "Instead of going to the front lines, however, he was assigned to run an Army newspaper out of the Presidio in San Francisco.", "Upon leaving the Army, he became a career journalist working for the San Francisco Chronicle and The Los Angeles Times, and as a science writer and a communications director at UCLA.", "And age hasn't stopped Tugend from pounding away at the keyboard.", "He still writes for several different publications, including The Jerusalem Post and The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.", "After all these years, Tugend is philosophical about his family's escape from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, and his time as an infantryman at war.", "\"There were a number of instances in my life where by all the odds I should have been killed,\" he said.", "\"It just gives me a sense of the utter random chance of life.\"" ]	[ "Thomas Tugend fled Nazi Germany with his family for America .", "At 18, he enlisted in the U.S. Army to fight against his homeland .", "After the war, he joined the Israeli Army and led an anti-tank crew .", "He was later recalled by the U.S. Army to serve in the Korean War ." ]	[ 18, 31, 51, 52 ]
[ "Editor's note: John Rice is founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a New York-based national nonprofit organization seeking to develop \"the next generation of African American, Hispanic and Native American leaders in major corporations, nonprofit organizations and entrepreneurial ventures.\"", "John Rice says there's a tremendous need for new leaders in the nonprofit world.", "NEW YORK (CNN) -- President Obama has challenged all Americans to participate in the volunteer service movement and to support initiatives that help solve the problems that plague our communities.", "He recently introduced the Social Innovation Fund, intended to help increase the impact of the most effective and innovative nonprofits in our communities.", "This is a tremendous step in the right direction, but in order to expand these initiatives, we need a broader pool of leaders with a deep understanding of the communities they are serving and who have the skills, experience and relationships required to succeed in leadership roles.", "According to the Bridgespan Group, a leading nonprofit consulting firm, the number of vacant senior manager roles in the nonprofit arena is ever increasing, with 24,000 positions available in 2009 alone.", "Over the next 10 years, this sector will need to attract and develop more than two times the number of people currently employed in order to fill these roles.", "This next generation of leaders must come from within the communities that struggle most, as these leaders are the most passionate about making change and have the most to gain if successful.", "Watch John Rice on preparing for leadership roles » .", "The good news is that there is an incredible desire among young African-Americans to give back to their communities.", "Darren Smith is a young investment banker who grew up in one of New York's underserved neighborhoods and won a scholarship to Baruch College in New York, where he graduated with honors.", "If you were to ask him what he wants to accomplish in his life, he will say that he aspires to do two things: become a business leader and build a nonprofit that has a large impact in the community in which he grew up.", "He believes that developing strong business skills, broad relationships and a track record of success will prepare him to maximize his impact in the community.", "Smith is one of thousands of talented African-American students and young professionals eager to become corporate or entrepreneurial leaders in sectors such as finance, technology, consulting and entertainment, where they have a broad sphere of influence that extends into their communities.", "Yet minority leaders remain dramatically under-represented in leadership positions and in the pipeline to those roles.", "Despite representing 13.5 percent of the U.S. population, African-Americans hold less than 3 percent of senior executive positions and represent only 5 percent of MBA graduates.", "To address this issue, I founded Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a nonprofit that provides high-potential young people such as Smith with the \"key ingredients\" they need to realize their career potential -- the step by step career roadmap, coaching and mentoring, hard and soft skill development, door-opening relationships and a high-performing peer community.", "Every senior leader would say they would not be where they are today if they had not gotten some or all of these ingredients, but remarkably these key ingredients are not taught in even the best schools.", "Instead they are passed down through informal channels to which minorities still have more limited access.", "As a result, too many African-Americans who overcome a challenging home environment and troubled K-12 education system to attend college are not achieving their full career potential.", "Here at MLT, we have had exciting results to date: nearly 40 percent of the minority students at top business schools such as Harvard, Wharton and Kellogg completed MLT's MBA Prep program and 95 percent of the undergraduates who complete our Career Prep program land fast-track jobs at America's leading firms across all sectors.", "While participating in MLT's Career Prep program as a college student, Smith and several other MLT fellows founded a mentoring organization that prepares high school students from New York's most underserved communities for college.", "Like Smith, nearly 90 percent of our alumni desire to launch or lead a nonprofit organization at some point in their careers, and many are already well down the path.", "To harness this potential, MLT has built a robust curriculum that prepares our fellows to enter and succeed in the social entrepreneurship sector, and we partner with leading nonprofits and foundations such as Teach for America, Stand for Children, New Profit, The Knight Foundation and Blue Ridge Foundation to connect MLT alumni to other talent pipelines.", "Despite these advances, there is still much more to be done.", "It is not enough to get African-Americans into fast-track entry-level positions or MBA programs; we need a comprehensive, multistage approach to enable them to overcome hurdles they will encounter along the path to the senior leadership levels.", "Research shows that the largest challenge for minorities is the transition from middle management to senior management, so more investment is needed at that stage.", "By helping to grow organizations such as MLT and other successful talent development initiatives, I believe that we will succeed in filling the growing leadership gap in corporations, nonprofits, entrepreneurial ventures and the government.", "Once there, African-Americans and other under-represented minorities will have the passion, financial capital, experience and relationships they need to be change agents in the communities that are in desperate need of our support.", "The success of our nation depends on it.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of John Rice." ]	[ "John Rice: President Obama is stressing need for national service .", "He says there's a huge need for leaders in the nonprofit world .", "Rice: It's crucial to train leaders from minority communities .", "He says these leaders can help change communities in desperate need ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Long before people posted their thoughts and feelings on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, millions of people were doing just that on a different sort of wall.", "It might have been something as simple as a baseball, a playing card or a walking stick.", "Or perhaps a more personal item, like a poem, photograph or diploma.", "And then there's the occasional letter, like the one dated November 18, 1989, that began: .", "Dear Sir, . For twenty two years, I have carried your picture in my wallet.", "I was only eighteen years old that day that we faced each other on that trail in Chu Lai, Vietnam.", "Why you did not take my life, I will never know. ...", "These are among the more than 100,000 objects that have been left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall.", "Since its dedication in 1982, nearly 4 million people a year have visited the memorial's polished black granite wall, many to leave a personal item or note in memory of the more than 58,000 people whose names are engraved there.", "No one is sure who started the custom of leaving items at the wall, curator Duery Felton said.", "The first items began showing up even before construction on the memorial was complete.", "A park ranger started collecting the items, thinking people might come back for them someday.", "By 1986, as the objects continued to pile up, the National Park Service decided to establish an official collection.", "Thus was born the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection.", "The items are catalogued 12 miles away at the Museum and Archaeological Regional Storage facility in Maryland.", "Though it's not open to the public, traveling collections are often on display at museums both in the United States and abroad, Felton said.", "\"You had, for the first time that we've been able to ascertain, people coming to a public site for a protracted period and leaving unsolicited objects,\" Felton said.", "There is seemingly no limit to the types of artifacts that are part of the collection, from G.I.", "Joe action figures to crutches, dog tags, combat boots -- even a motorcycle.", "On any given day, the wall might be adorned with artwork, prayers, a diploma marking a missed milestone or a picture of a young child born too late for a loved one to meet.", "Occasionally, a note accompanies an item, but most times an object's meaning is left to interpretation.", "Felton, a Vietnam veteran himself, says he's wary of making assumptions about an item's meaning.", "Many may seem like ordinary objects, but often they hold deeper significance to either the donor or one being remembered.", "Felton likes to use a bag of M&Ms to make his point.", "The candy, which gained popularity among World War II soldiers looking for a chocolate treat that wouldn't melt, may have been left at the wall because it was a loved one's favorite, he says.", "More likely, though, it had something to do with the little-known fact that military doctors used M&Ms as placebos for injured soldiers when no aspirin was available.", "\"I look at us as being voyeurs in many ways, because we don't know the full story,\" he said.", "\"Outside of donor information, I can't tell you why [an] item was left.\"", "On a more comprehensive scale, the collection serves as a record of social history, he said.", "The egalitarian nature of the memorial and the unprecedented public outrage that resulted from the controversial war are not unrelated, Felton said.", "\"This is a study. This is tangible evidence of a major epoch on the psyche of the American public,\" Felton said.", "\"For all intents and purposes, this collection is being curated by the public. ...", "It's uncensored.\" And as Vietnam veterans age, it even more important to preserve these artifacts for future generations, he said.", "\"Almost 60 percent of today's population was not alive during Vietnam,\" he said.", "\"You can't tell where you are until you understand where you've been.", "... We're preserving the past for the future.\"" ]	[ "More than 100,000 objects have been left at Vietnam Veterans Memorial .", "As objects piled up, National Park Service established official collection .", "Traveling collections often on display at museums in U.S. and abroad ." ]	[ 7, 12, 15 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- In the Army you live by the Warrior Ethos, which states, \"I will always place the mission first.", "I will never quit.", "I will never accept defeat.", "I will never leave a fallen comrade behind.\"", "I am alive today because my helicopter crew lived by these words.", "When our aircraft was shot down in November 2004, the injuries I sustained were devastating.", "The amount of blood I had lost in a matter of minutes was so vast that my crew thought I was dead.", "They could have left me in that dusty field in Iraq, but they didn't.", "Instead, they stood their ground in the face of approaching enemy, risked their lives, and carried me to safety.", "They did this regardless of whether I was dead or alive, because the American warrior does not leave a fallen comrade behind.", "My crew and all the men and women in the U.S. armed forces know what it means to be a part of something greater than themselves.", "They are America's finest sons and daughters, and we made a promise to care for them after they serve.", "It is our job in the Department of Veterans Affairs to make sure that promise is kept.", "We at VA stand at a historic time with great opportunities to further our mission in caring for the nation's 23.4 million veterans and their families.", "With the largest one-year percentage increase in VA's budget in over three decades, President Obama has made it very clear that serving our nation's veterans is a top priority in his administration.", "He wants to increase funding for VA by $25 billion above our current baseline over the next five years.", "He launched a new initiative to expand eligibility for veterans' health care to as many as 500,000 Priority Group 8 Veterans who were previously denied care.", "And he wants us to invest in better technology to deliver services and benefits to veterans with the quality and efficiency they deserve.", "As commander in chief, President Obama has charged Secretary Eric Shinseki and all of VA's leadership with a new mission: to transform VA into a 21st-century organization.", "Secretary Shinseki has begun to do just that by making VA a more veteran-centered, results-oriented and forward-looking department.", "It will be a different organization from the one that exists today.", "It will be accessible, responsive and transparent.", "To achieve the president's vision, we must leverage new technologies to serve the various demographics and needs of today's veterans, while also renewing our commitment to the older generation of veterans.", "These technologies will carry us well into the 21st century as we maintain our mission to serve our nation's veterans for the rest of their lives.", "Tonight, 131,000 veterans will sleep on the streets of our cities.", "These are the same men and women who allowed us to have the opportunities to go to school, get a job and buy a home.", "We are all dishonored anytime a veteran is forced to sleep on the streets, and President Obama, Secretary Shinseki and the VA leadership team will not stand for this.", "Within the next five years, we aim to eliminate veteran homelessness by providing grants to community-based organizations assisting homeless veterans and by attacking all the areas that often lead to homelessness.", "Our veterans deserve better, and we are determined to provide them the best care and most timely benefits possible to end homelessness in their ranks.", "We will improve medical care to minority veterans, including female veterans, who are enrolling in VA at historic rates.", "We will also improve access to VA for veterans who live in rural areas.", "All our veterans deserve the best care possible regardless of race, gender or where they live.", "And we are working with the Department of Defense to build a fully interoperable electronic records system that will provide each member of our military with a Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record.", "For VA, this will revolutionize our claims process by making it faster with higher-quality decisions and with fewer errors.", "Five years from now, we intend to make VA the provider of choice for veterans -- in insurance, health care, education, home loans and counseling.", "We are going to be the advocate for veterans, their dependents and survivors to make sure we meet their needs, hear their concerns, and take proper action.", "We know that we have a big task ahead of us.", "But there is not a population more deserving of the absolute best than the men and women who have sacrificed so much for our freedoms.", "In the same way that my crew refused to leave me behind, each and every one of us at VA will fight everyday for our nation's military heroes to ensure that they are never left behind.", "It is our turn to serve America's warriors, and we at VA consider it a privilege." ]	[ "American warrior doesn't leave a fallen comrade behind, VA official says .", "L. Tammy Duckworth: VA funding increase will improve care and benefits .", "Goal is to have zero veterans homeless in five years, Duckworth says .", "Duckworth: Electronic records system will speed claims and reduce errors ." ]	[ 3, 30, 34 ]
[ "Editor's note: Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh are attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and co-authors of \"Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond\".", "Jaffer is counsel to the plaintiffs in ACLU v. Department of Defense, a lawsuit that has forced the release of more than 100,000 pages of government documents concerning the abuse of prisoners.", "Singh is lead counsel in the suit seeking disclosure of photographs of U.S. personnel abusing prisoners at overseas locations.", "Jameel Jaffer says the courts have ruled that refusal to disclose the abuse photos was unlawful.", "(CNN) -- Last week President Obama announced that he would suppress prisoner abuse photographs that he earlier said he would release.", "Given the president's stated commitment to government transparency, this reversal was both surprising and profoundly disappointing.", "The ACLU has sought release of these photos for almost six years.", "In October 2003, we filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act for records -- including photographs -- relating to the abuse of prisoners in U.S. detention facilities overseas.", "In 2005, a federal judge in New York ruled that the Bush administration's refusal to disclose the photographs was unlawful, and in 2008 a federal appeals court unanimously affirmed that decision.", "The Bush administration continued to suppress the photos, and now President Obama has vowed to do the same.", "The photos are a critical part of the historical record.", "The government has acknowledged that they depict prisoner abuse at locations other than Abu Ghraib, and it's clear that the photos would provide irrefutable evidence that abuse was widespread and systemic.", "The photos would also shed light on the connection between the abuse and the decisions of high-level Bush administration officials.", "As the district court recognized, the photos are \"the best evidence of what happened.\"", "In explaining his change of heart, President Obama said that the release of the photos \"would not add any additional benefit\" to the ongoing public debate about the abuse of prisoners.", "But the ongoing public debate is rife with false claims, and the photos would expose the truth.", "The Bush administration told the public that abuse was aberrational and isolated, and many media organizations adopted this fraudulent narrative as their own.", "But even President Obama, in explaining his reversal, perpetuated the myth that the abuse of prisoners \"was carried out in the past by a small number of individuals.\"", "President Obama's statement was meant to explain why the photos would not inform the public debate, but it only underscored why the release of the photographs is so important.", "Many Americans still believe that abuse took place in spite of policy rather than because of it.", "The truth is that senior officials authorized the use of barbaric interrogation methods that the U.S. once prosecuted as war crimes, and even abuse that was not expressly authorized was traceable to a climate in which abuse was tolerated and often encouraged.", "The photos would help tell this story.", "President Obama's other rationale for suppressing the photographs is that they would \"inflame anti-American opinion and put our troops in greater danger,\" an argument that was repeatedly rejected by the courts when made by the Bush administration.", "Nobody, of course, wants to see anyone get hurt by the release of this or any other information.", "But the fundamental problem with the government's argument is that it lacks a limiting principle.", "Any photograph of prisoner abuse, civilian casualties in Afghanistan, or U.S. military operations in Iraq could be used to \"inflame anti-American opinion\"; indeed, the same is true of any news article that discusses (for example) torture, Guantanamo, or the CIA's secret prisons.", "iReport.com: Did Obama make the right decision on photos?", "To give the government the power to suppress information because it might anger an unidentified set of people in an unspecified part of the world and ultimately endanger an ill-defined group of U.S. personnel would be to invest it with a virtually unlimited censorial power.", "And by investing it with such power, we would effectively be affording the greatest protection from disclosure to records that depict the worst kinds of government misconduct.", "President Obama has inherited a legacy of lawlessness and abuse, and it's not easy to untangle that.", "But the idea that suppressing the photographs will help the country turn the page on the last eight years is misguided.", "We cannot make a clean break with the past until the public knows what happened in the detention centers and why.", "Blinding ourselves to the ugly consequences of the Bush administration's policies only deprives us of the opportunity to learn from recent history.", "And if we fail to learn from this history, we are bound to repeat it.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh." ]	[ "ACLU lawyers: We filed Freedom of Information request for abuse records .", "They say courts have ruled that government can't withhold the photos .", "Lawyers: Release of photos would show extent of prisoner abuse .", "They say government shouldn't stop release because of possible negative reaction ." ]	[ 1, 3, 7, 21 ]
[ "Bountiful, Utah (CNN) -- It was two weeks after D-Day, a few miles from the bloody shores of Omaha Beach.", "An airstrip had been carved out of the Normandy countryside, costing the lives of 28 Army engineers at the hands of German snipers.", "A lone sniper still remained in the nighttime distance.", "Despite the risk, Capt.", "Jack Tueller felt compelled to play his trumpet.", "That afternoon, his P-47 fighter group had caught up with a retreating German Panzer division.", "As the U.S. Thunderbolts descended on their targets, they saw French women and children on top of the tanks.", "After an initial fly-by, the order was given to attack anyway.", "\"We were told those human shields were expendable,\" Tueller said.", "Back at the airstrip, Tueller took out his trumpet.", "He'd used it on many a starlit night to entertain the men of the 508th Squadron 404th Fighter Group.", "\"I was told, 'Captain, don't play tonight; your trumpet makes the most glorious sound,' but I was stressed,\" he said.", "He was so troubled that he was willing to take a chance the sniper wouldn't fire.", "\"I thought to myself, that German sniper is as lonely and scared as I am.", "How can I stop him from firing?", "So I played that German's love song, 'Lilly Marlene,' made famous in the late '30s by Marlene Dietrich, the famous German actress.", "And I wailed that trumpet over those apple orchards of Normandy, and he didn't fire.\"", "The next morning, the military police came up to Tueller and told him they had a German prisoner on the beach who kept asking, \"Who played that trumpet last night?\"", "\"I grabbed my trumpet and went down to the beach.", "There was a 19-year-old German, scared and lonesome.", "He was dressed like a French peasant to cloak his role as a sniper.", "And, crying, he said, 'I couldn't fire because I thought of my fiancé.", "I thought of my mother and father,' and he says, 'My role is finished.'", "\"He stuck out his hand, and I shook the hand of the enemy,\" Tueller said.", "\"[But] he was no enemy, because music had soothed the savage beast.\"", "\"Boy, you have strong lips\" Tueller had learned to play the trumpet as a child growing up in Wyoming.", "His mother, a nurse, died at 29, and his father, a bartender and alcoholic, left the next day -- leaving Jack and his brother, Bob, orphans.", "They left their home in Superior to live with an aunt in nearby Evanston.", "She gave Jack his first trumpet, and he quickly discovered he had a musical ear.", "\"In 1939, I was playing in Yellowstone Park in a dance band of 22 musicians at Lake Hotel.", "The famous trumpet player Louis Armstrong came up to the band during intermission and said, 'You sound pretty good for white cats,' \" Tueller recalled.", "He asked Armstrong what advice he would give a young trumpet player.", "\"He said, 'Always play the melody, man.", "Look at them, see their age group, play their love songs, and you'll carry all the money to the bank.'", "\" Tueller enrolled at Brigham Young University, where he met his future wife and fellow trumpeter, Marjorie.", "\"This beautiful brown-haired gal with luscious lips said, 'Did you play the trumpet solo at the freshman assembly?'", "And I said, 'Yes, ma'am, I did.' She said, 'Boy, you have strong lips.'", "Being a sophomore, I said, 'Would you like to try me?'", "She nodded, and I went over and kissed her.\"", "In 1941, as war clouds gathered, Jack enlisted in the Army and was sent to fighter school because he was an \"individualist,\" he said.", "\"I wanted to fly it, fire it, navigate it, shoot the guns.\"", "He once flew his plane through a dirigible hangar at Moffitt Field in Sunnyvale, California.", "The commandant was fuming mad.", "\"He stood me in a brace, then he kind of smiled and says, 'We don't want to quell spirit like that ... but don't do it again!'\"", "When D-Day arrived on June 6, 1944, Tueller was in the air, flying five missions.", "\"I witnessed the invasion from a ringside seat.", "We saw 2 million men, 10,000 ships.", "And we just shot at everything,\" he said.", "\"We tried to help those men trying to get off the landing craft at high tide, where a lot of them were drowned.", "\"I remember feeling pride and sadness as I saw the bodies of 4,000 killed in two hours.\"", "Tueller credits common sense and his first flight instructor, a crop duster, with his survival that day -- and the rest of the war.", "\"I learned to love low-level flying.", "I never came off enemy targets high.", "I'd lay it down a row of trees 400 knots, a foot off the ground, so all the flak would go over my head.", "They'd wonder where I'd gone.\"", "Trumpet in the cockpit .", "Tueller managed to fly 140 missions without taking a single bullet hole to his airplane -- the name of his infant daughter, Rosanne, painted on the side.", "\"Everyone wanted to fly it; they thought it let a charmed life.\"", "And on each mission, Tueller carried his trumpet in the cockpit.", "\"I took it in a little canvas bag attached to my parachute.", "I figured if I ever got shot down, it would go with me, and if I survived and got put into a prisoner of war camp, I could get an extra bar of soap from the guard.\"", "His tour of duty ended just before his fighter group left for Belgium and the Battle of the Bulge.", "Three months later, his plane was shot down and destroyed.", "The pilot was killed.", "Tueller went on to fight in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and served in the Pentagon during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War.", "He retired in 1966 as a colonel, having earned the Distinguished Flying Cross, almost two dozen air medals and two Legions of Merit, the nation's highest peacetime award.", "Now 89, Tueller takes care of Marjorie, his wife of 68 years, who has Alzheimer's disease.", "As Veterans Day approaches, he has a word of advice to veterans: \"When you become a veteran, it's my opinion that you should do everything to make people realize the wonderful life that you really have.\"", "He still has his trumpet of 70 years and still performs at schools, family get-togethers and church functions.", "He has a stereo system installed in the back of his family van, where he inserts a CD of big band music and begins playing the melodies of a bygone era.", "\"I was an unruly child,\" he said.", "\"Music tamed me.", "... My ambition as the last action on my part as a veteran is to hit high C and fall right into the grave. What a way to go!\"" ]	[ "Jack Tueller learned to play the trumpet as a child growing up in Wyoming .", "Louis Armstrong once told him, \"Always play the melody, man\"\nTueller became a World War II pilot and carried his trumpet in his cockpit .", "He says his playing once prevented a German sniper from killing him ." ]	[ 14, 17, 20, 25, 32, 58 ]
[ "Editor's note: Malaak Compton-Rock is founder and director of The Angelrock Project, \"an online e-village promoting volunteerism, social responsibility, and sustainable change.\"", "One of her initiatives, \"Journey for Change: Empowering Youth Through Global Service,\" will be seen as part of CNN's \"Black in America 2.\"", "Her first book is being published by Broadway Books in May, 2010, titled, \"If It Takes a Village, Build One: How I Found Meaning Through a Life of Service to Others and 100+ Ways You Can Too.\"", "Malaak Compton-Rock says focusing on problems facing African-Americans is difficult but necessary.", "(CNN) -- In the words of my mentor and America's foremost child advocate Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of The Children's Defense Fund, it's time to \"raise a ruckus people, it is time to raise a ruckus!\"", "CNN's \"Black in America\" raised many critical issues facing African-American people in this great country of ours.", "It was not pretty, it was not flattering, but it was very, very frank.", "The show delved into the negative issues that have plagued the African-American community for generations, i.e., crime, education, single parent families, drug abuse and the like.", "People got mad.", "People sent many e-mails and letters to Soledad O'Brien and CNN and cried foul.", "People said \"Black in America\" was not consistent with the lives of many African-American people and was one-sided.", "Blogs and Web sites popped up all over the place where people \"raised a ruckus\" about the content of the show.", "I read a lot of these comments.", "As a matter of fact, I was obsessed with people's views for many weeks after the documentary aired.", "And the more I read, the more I got angry.", "The more I read, the more I wanted to \"raise my own ruckus.\"", "But I was frustrated and upset for a very different reason than most.", "I was almost apoplectic with the amount of criticism for \"Black in America\" without critical, thought provoking commentary about how each person can do their part to make a difference to change the very startling and distressing issues facing most African-American children and adults in America.", "On a typical day in the lives of black American children: .", "And on a typical school day for black children in America: .", "And consider that in America, .", "[Statistics are from the Children's Defense Fund's Child Research Data.] ...", "This is serious stuff people.", "And it is the cold-hearted truth.", "So, it is okay to comment that the documentary did not represent your life.", "It is okay to comment that it was upsetting to see images of black men in jail, children dropping out of school, and unwed mothers.", "It is okay because the truth hurts, especially when it is seen by 16 million people.", "In fact, most of the images shown in \"Black in America\" do not represent my personal life or the lives of my children.", "But because these issues face my brothers and sisters in my collective African-American family, they concern me, they hurt me, they belong to me, and I will own them.", "We know that as African-Americans we have come a long way.", "We know that we are doctors, lawyers, CEOs, philanthropists, politicians, and even the president of the United States of America.", "And yes, it would do our children a lot of good if these images were portrayed more frequently in the media.", "But this does not change the very real issues facing African-American people portrayed in \"Black in America.\"", "And frankly, with so many of our people struggling, we can't just celebrate our achievements -- we must make it a priority to work on the most critical and urgent matters in our community.", "As I always say, \"The blessed and the best of us, must take care of the rest of us.\"", "So why did the criticism make me so mad?", "Because so much of it was unaccompanied by real ideas, thought-provoking suggestions, plans of action, or inspiring initiatives or solutions.", "How can you complain if you are unwilling to join the fight?", "How can you get mad, if you are disinclined to make a difference in someone else's life?", "And why would you take the time to write an accusatory e-mail to Soledad O'Brien instead of writing a letter to your representative in Congress demanding health care for all children and pregnant women, increased funding for schools, or new initiatives to increase black-owned businesses in black neighborhoods?", "\"Black in America 2\" will offer many solutions to the ills facing African-American people.", "I think it will make the naysayers happy.", "But it will only make me happy if the naysayers \"raise a ruckus\" by joining the fight to better the lives of all black folks.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Malaak Compton-Rock." ]	[ "Malaak Compton-Rock: Some critical of \"Black in America\" focus on problems .", "She says community has serious challenges to overcome, particularly for children .", "Compton-Rock: \"Black in America 2\" will show solutions .", "She says naysayers must join the fight to improve conditions ." ]	[ 3, 17, 22, 40, 43 ]
[ "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The one-star general almost yells when asked to talk about the infamous Abu Ghraib photos showing U.S. soldiers abusing Iraqi detainees.", "An Iraqi detainee grips a fence at Camp Cropper, one of the few U.S. detention centers remaining in Iraq.", "\"If we had had a company commander doing what he was supposed to be doing, a battalion commander doing what he was supposed to be doing ...,\" Brig.", "Gen. David Quantock said.", "He carried on -- growing more and more angry.", "So the next obvious question was, \"It makes you angry?\"", "\"It does make me angry,\" he said.", "\"Because I think we lost a lot of American lives because of those photos.\"", "And there it is -- the issue of detainee abuse and what the U.S. military struggles with, and has struggled with, since the release of those photos in 2004, some of which showed naked prisoners being humiliated, stacked in piles or subjected to mock torture.", "Quantock, the head of detainee operations in Iraq, is echoing a debate raging in Washington.", "Another round of photos allegedly showing further abuse of prisoners was to be released by the end of this month.", "But President Obama asked that the photos be held back.", "Obama said he believed the release of the pictures could put American lives in danger.", "That is Catch-22 situation No.", "1: on one hand transparency; on the other, the safety of U.S. troops.", "Quantock agreed with his commander in chief.", "\"The jihadists have used those pictures.", "And it has spurred some of the violence,\" he said.", "Walking through Camp Cropper -- one of the last remaining U.S. detention centers in Iraq -- it is clear the damaging photos have forced the United States to become more transparent in its dealings with prisoners.", "Detainees are now checked before and after interrogations to ensure the guards have not abused them.", "Officers who walk the catwalk, the long metal walkway that surrounds the sprawling yard housing the detainees, have more oversight.", "These institutional checks reduce the possibility that abuse could reach the same scale as it did in Abu Ghraib in 2003.", "The camp itself has a strange feeling to it.", "Visitors are told to put on sunglasses before entering some of the holding areas.", "Many of the detainees spit and even throw their own fecal matter at the guards, officials said.", "Inmates in American detention with arrest warrants against them will be turned over to Iraqi authorities under the terms of the U.S.-Iraqi security agreement.", "All others will be released.", "But the United States has signed the international treaty against torture, which compels a nation to keep suspects detained rather than send them to another country if that other country might ill-treat them.", "\"Iraqi detention facilities are not good; they are not like American facilities,\" said a woman who had just visited her detainee husband at Camp Cropper.", "\"There is a lot of witness testimony from detainees who suffered maltreatment in Iraqi detention facilities.\"", "A U.N. report examining the second half of 2008 agreed, saying that detention centers run by Iraqis are using torture and physical abuse to extract confessions.", "The lingering questions about Iraqi detention facilities create Catch-22 situation No.", "2. The United States very much wants not only to get out of Iraq, but to get out of the detainee operation business.", "But it has a legal bar to satisfy.", "For its part, the U.S. military said it is inspecting and monitoring nine of the Iraqi facilities where its detainees will go.", "Iraqi government authorities maintain that they are treating all prisoners in accordance with international law.", "But when the United States pulls its last troops form Iraq, the monitoring is likely to stop.", "Nongovernmental organizations have been denied access, and CNN recently has not been allowed into any Iraqi prison." ]	[ "U.S. head of detainee operations in Iraq is angered by Abu Ghraib photos .", "The pictures showing abuse of Iraqi prisoners continue to cause problems .", "U.S. military faces tough choices over future of detainees in Iraq ." ]	[ 0, 8 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- Investigators suspect arson in a fire that killed five Guatemalan immigrants in Brooklyn, they said Monday.", "\"People are all concerned and very sad,\" said Maria Luz de Zyriek, the Guatemalan consul in New York.", "\"This is a horrible tragedy.\"", "Authorities continue to investigate and have not formally determined a cause, the Fire Department of New York said.", "The blaze damaged a restaurant and apartments in a three-story building in the Bensonhurst neighborhood, Frank Dwyer, a fire department spokesman, has said.", "Luisa Chan, a mother of two, died in the blaze, said Mario Alvarado, a member of Jovenes Cristianos -- Christian Youth, a church with about 200 members, most of them Guatemalan immigrants, on 17th Avenue in Brooklyn.", "Chan usually attended services on Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, Alvarado said.", "The congregation mourned her on Sunday.", "\"The service was so quiet,\" he said.", "Are you there? Share your story .", "Investigators have not publicly identified the victims, but the Guatemalan consul said they were all from the western part of the country.", "Two were from the state of Totonicapan and three were from the state of Quetzaltenango, she said.", "After the fire broke out, Chan managed to get her 2-year-old son to safety, apparently by handing him to someone on the floor below, and threw her 2-month-old daughter toward a passerby, said Alvarado, who said he received that account from someone close to the family.", "\"Thank God they're safe,\" he said.", "A 2-month-old baby was in critical condition, fire officials said, but the child was not immediately identified; three other people sustained injuries ranging from serious to minor.", "Thirteen firefighters sustained minor injuries.", "The fire started about 2:30 a.m. Saturday behind a door in one of the apartment units, Dwyer said.", "\"If somebody starts a fire there intentionally, that would certainly be looking to kill somebody, because there's no way for them to get out,\" Fire Commissioner Salvatore Cassano said.", "At Chan's church, members in mourning were waiting Monday for more information from authorities, Alvarado said.", "They also were getting ready for a memorial service and trying to comfort Chan's husband, who survived the fire, the consul said.", "\"The husband and wife belonged to that church.", "Everybody there knew them,\" said Luz, who went to the church during the weekend.", "\"Everybody there was so sad.", "Everybody was crying and praying for the husband,\" she said.", "\"He's going to have to raise those two little kids now by himself.\"", "CNN's Miguel Susana contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Victims are Guatemalan immigrants, friends say .", "Arson suspected in early Saturday fire, authorities say .", "Thirteen firefighters, four residents injured .", "Roof of three-story building partially collapsed ." ]	[ 0, 9, 15 ]
[ "Malibu, California (CNN) -- Many people are struggling just to provide the basics these days.", "The big question is, how do you find joy and fulfillment during lean holiday times like these?", "For the answer, I look back upon the philosophy by which my mother, Mieke Frankenberg, led her life, through both its brightest and darkest hours.", "Her philosophy originated during World War II through her experiences as a prisoner of war in a Japanese concentration camp in Indonesia.", "She had lived in that country with an abusive husband, whom she left before the war broke out and the Japanese captured her.", "Through the bleakest times, she reached out to her fellow prisoners to provide them with comfort and care.", "The lack of medical supplies meant care wasn't much more than holding someone's hand or sharing some of her starvation rations.", "While not a nurse, she gave of herself and drew a sustaining love in return.", "Returning to England after the war, my mother remarried and started a family, which grew to include me and my two sisters.", "With the camp behind her, my mother's philosophy remained to always keep an open heart.", "She volunteered with the Red Cross and regularly provided emotional support for friends.", "She found that when love flows with no boundaries from an open heart, love also finds its way back in.", "She gave and gave, and received love in return.", "This \"open heart\" philosophy has sustained me, as well, through the most difficult of times, including a painful divorce about 20 years ago that left me near penniless.", "At that point in my life, I attended a fundraiser for ChildHelp USA.", "I donated some of the last money I had, and in return, I secured a session where an artist drew a picture of my two children at the time.", "At that sitting, the artist saw potential in some finger paintings I'd made for my children and offered to give me free painting lessons.", "As I started painting, I discovered my emotional outlet.", "I began creating images of hearts that were always open, never closed.", "These hearts may have appeared unfinished in a way.", "But they brought me back to the lessons of my mother, a reminder to live as she lived -- openhearted.", "Soon, I changed from a frantic, terrified and angry person into someone who was able to let go of the past.", "I began to let other people into my life and to give back emotionally.", "Around that same time, I landed the TV role of \"Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman\" and was back on my feet.", "I now embody my mother's belief that only when you can love yourself and keep your heart open can you best give and receive love.", "My family continues my mother's tradition at Christmas, when we open our home to relatives, neighbors, my six children and even their friends -- extending our family to include those unable to head home for the holidays.", "Some years, there are as many as 50 people at the dinner table.", "Living with an open heart can be a path to rewarding holidays for many people this year, even if budgets tighten and troubles mount.", "The holiday table may be less bountiful.", "There may be fewer presents under the tree.", "But an open heart can bring a wealth of love, hope and inspiration.", "You might think these are shaping up to be your gloomiest holidays ever.", "But remember, as my mother taught me, someone is always worse off than you.", "Find a way to give, even if you're in need yourself.", "Find the place where you can provide comfort, care or love.", "Volunteer at a food bank or a shelter.", "Reach out to elderly neighbors to find out how you might make their lives a little easier.", "By opening your heart to others, good things will come to you, too.", "With that approach, I hope you'll find that 2009 could become the most fulfilling of holiday seasons.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jane Seymour." ]	[ "Jane Seymour says her mother's spirit of openheartedness is instructive in lean holiday times .", "Her mother formed her philosophy while helping other POW's in WWII, she says .", "She says that open hearts allow love to flow freely between people .", "Seymour: People should find a way to give, even if they are in need themselves ." ]	[ 1, 3, 7, 9, 20, 33, 39 ]
[ "(CNN) -- In a little-known corner of southern England, more than 130 men are wrapping up in their winter warmers and drinking down their last whiskeys, as they prepare to do battle with their fiercest foes on the fairways.", "Their goal: a place in the fabled history of sporting rivalry between Oxford and Cambridge Universities.", "The \"President's Putter\" event takes place every January at Rye Golf Club between alumni of the two famous academic institutions.", "Competitors, whose ages can range from 18 to 85, travel from such far-off places as the U.S., South Africa and Asia in a quest to attach their winning ball to the fabled President's Putter -- a hickory-shafted instrument dating back to the inaugural event of 1920.", "David Normoyle flew in from Far Hills, New Jersey last week to see in the New Year with friends before heading down to Rye to take part in the event, which is scheduled to start on Friday.", "He is just hoping the heavy snowfall forecast for the rest of the week will not cause the competition to be called off for only the second time in its history.", "\"There's a great tradition of the event going forward in spite of the weather,\" says Normoyle, 31, who studied history at Cambridge.", "\"Last year, there was a hard frost and a very thick fog.", "There's something lovely about the warmth in the clubhouse at the end of the day when it's freezing cold outside.", "It really adds to the atmosphere of the whole thing.\"", "While the competition is always intense -- many players have scratch or single-figure handicaps -- the matches are played in a jovial spirit and the motto of the event is \"serious fun.\"", "The winner's medal carries the Latin inscription \"Primus inter pares,\" which is loosely translated by the Putter fraternity as \"he was lucky to win.\"", "The competition takes place over four days, with a dinner held on the eve of the Sunday final, followed by a night out amid the cobbled streets of the medieval town of Rye.", "\"People push the boat out at both ends of the day,\" says David Bonsall, Treasurer of the Oxford and Cambridge Golfing Society, which organizes the event.", "\"There are often a few whiskey macs and bloody marys on the first tee to bury the memories of the night before.\"", "Entry to the President's Putter is limited to golfing \"Blues,\" the term given to those who play for the Oxford or Cambridge teams at sport.", "January is the chosen month because if falls at a time when students and graduates are generally on vacation.", "In its early years, the Putter would be contested by some of the finest players of the day: four of Great Britain's 1926 Walker Cup side were Oxbridge graduates.", "The record for consecutive appearances is held by World War Two army parachutist Peter Gracey, who played in 57 Putters before finally hanging up his spikes in 2006 at the age 84.", "Other well-known competitors include the former England cricket captain Ted Dexter, who won the event twice in the 1980s.", "While the snow flakes continue to fall on the frosty fairways of the course, braver competitors have been out practicing their games.", "Others have been sharing stories in the warmth of the clubhouse bar as they wait to find out whether their annual pilgrimage has been worthwhile.", "\"It would be a huge disappointment if it didn't happen,\" says Normoyle.", "\"But we'll make do with whatever the decision is and we'll have fun whatever.\"" ]	[ "Oxford and Cambridge alumni brave January weather for annual President's Putter competition .", "Players aged 18 to 80 travel from U.S., Asia to take part .", "Past winners include former England cricket captain Ted Dexter .", "Heavy snow threatens to call off event for just second time since 1920 ." ]	[ 3, 5, 15, 19 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Authorities evacuated 310 people from their homes early Thursday because of a major fire at a building site and nearby apartments in south London, fire officials and police said.", "The London Fire Brigade said it was called to the scene at 4:26 a.m. (11:26 p.m.", "ET Wednesday), and police said they were called minutes later.", "Ten fire engines and around 75 firefighters were on the scene some eight hours later, a spokesman for the fire brigade said.", "The fire engulfed an entire building site in Peckham, an area of south London, and spread to several three- and four-story residential buildings in the area, police and fire officials said.", "Firefighters had the fire surrounded by noon and said there may still be deep-seated pockets of fire, a fire brigade spokesman said.", "Four people were taken to a hospital, mainly for smoke inhalation, a spokeswoman for the London Ambulance Service said.", "None of their conditions was serious, she said.", "\"I was in bed and my neighbor knocked and told me to wake up -- the building's on fire,\" said one woman wrapped in a coat on a nearby street.", "It was not clear what started the fire, the fire brigade spokesman said." ]	[ "Residents evacuated in area of south London after fire engulfed their apartment block .", "30 fire engines and more than 310 firefighters battled the blaze .", "No injuries have been reported, according to police and fire officials .", "It is not known what started the fire which took hold of the building in the early hours of Thursday ." ]	[ 0, 4, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- American tourists heading to Mexico's Baja California state in the future can expect more police protection from a new task force, according to Mexican authorities.", "Mexican officials want to make sure the tourist traffic continues to flow into Tijuana.", "Officials from the Baja California cities of Tijuana, Ensenada and Rosarito gathered earlier this week to announce the creation of the task force, which will be made up of bilingual officers and which will be designed primarily to serve Americans.", "The initial plan, according to Ensenada Secretary of Public Safety Cesar Santiesteban, is to create a force that patrols a 50-mile tourist corridor from Tijuana through Las Playas Rosarito to Ensenada in Baja California, which is Mexico's northernmost and westernmost state.", "There were no immediate details as to when the task force would go into operation or how many officers would be in the unit.", "City officials in San Diego, California, said the city's police force would extend help in ways that Mexican officials deemed necessary in getting the task force up and running, including training the officers.", "\"We've always prided ourselves in our working relationship with our friends to the south,\" San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, said.", "\"When you look at it, we're really one community.\"", "For a region whose reputation has been tarnished by ongoing drug-fueled violence, plans for task force couldn't come soon enough.", "Policing the drug war has proven complicated for Mexican authorities, including the military, and also hindered the tourism industry in Mexico.", "American travelers, who represented 80 percent of the country's booming $13 billion travel industry last year, are a critical part of Mexico's economy.", "In 2008, more than 18 million Americans visited the country, according to the Mexico Tourism Board.", "In some areas, hotels and local businesses are struggling to recover from low visitor numbers, according to the Mexico Tourism Board.", "Tijuana Mayor Jorge Ramos said tourism in Baja California in the past two years has remained steady, and the task force was set up to create a stronger police presence for tourists.", "\"We're here on this side of the border to invite you to our city and to [show you] we're making a lot of things ... better, and to make some progress in our city,\" Ramos said in a news conference in San Diego Monday." ]	[ "Task force will be made up of bilingual officers; primarily will serve Americans .", "Initial plan is to create a force that patrols a 50-mile tourist corridor of Baja .", "Region's reputation has been tarnished by ongoing, drug-fueled violence .", "$13 billion travel industry is critical part of Mexico's economy ." ]	[ 2, 3, 8, 10 ]
[ "(Editor's note: Marnie Gustavson is Executive Director of PARSA, a Seattle-based nonprofit working with widows, orphans and the disabled in Afghanistan.", "She spent her teenage years in Kabul, where she now lives with her family.", "For more information about PARSA, read here and here .", "Marnie Gustavson says the real Afghanistan is more textured than could be seen from secure bunkers.", "KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- In my Afghanistan, the days are compiled images of Afghans living their simple lives.", "My Afghanistan is a kaleidoscope of real people, from the stick-thin bearded Paghmani man, an imposing 6-foot-5, rhythmically lifting rocks, 12 hours a day, seven days a week for $4 a day, his shalwar kameez billowing in the hot summer breezes; to the grin of the boy in his blue shirt as he labors to cut the alfalfa after school to feed the flock of big-bottomed sheep.", "To the kiss of the old widow, her family gone, whose feet hurt incessantly; she's forgotten the English she once knew when she worked for the government.", "And of course, to the communities my organization works with to help them better their lives through direct education and training programs.", "A Pashtun orphan, about 11, enters my office with a plate of freshly picked summer apricots.", "He was rescued from a madrassa that trained him how to throw grenades and to be a suicide bomber.", "He spends time with me when he gets a chance, tidying my desk, pulling my papers out of the copier and stacking them.", "We can't speak much as I do not know Pashtun and he hasn't yet learned Dari or English, but he tucks his head into the crook of my neck for a couple of minutes watching me type.", "In these gentle moments, he begins to unwind and I experience the fragile connection that is being created between our worlds.", "Living and working in Afghanistan for nearly five years now, I do not recognize most of what the international news accounts of this area report as anything remotely close to my experience.", "A visiting journalist recently observed with some surprise that \"parts of Afghanistan are at war and parts are peaceful.\"", "Indeed, like Ireland and many other sites of civil unrest in the world, there are pockets of peace and pockets of war.", "The things that concern me most as I go about my day-to-day activities are not suicide bombers, kidnappings, and the \"insurgency.\"", "These are all just a backdrop to the much more textured story that is Afghanistan, though it rarely touches the lives of the 2,500 or so foreign aid workers who live and work in Kabul.", "Yet these stories of violence dominate the news outside and thus color the way the world imagines Afghanistan.", "Internationals living in the country are constantly bombarded with \"threat alerts\" and rarely visit the desperately poor Afghan communities their projects are ostensibly attempting to help.", "This is what concerns me: how my country is spending development dollars here without really being here.", "The results of the fear that dominates the management of most development projects are an incompletely informed group of international professionals working in Afghanistan who can literally spend years here without seeing the country but through the windows of their armored cars.", "Living as they do under cloistered, fearful conditions behind razor-wired walls, venturing out only to a select list of \"secure\" locations, they make often questionable decisions on spending, frequently without the input of Afghan nationals.", "From this entrenched, isolated position, they are managing hundreds of millions of dollars of international development funds.", "When news reports talk about Afghanistan's high levels of corruption, they do not lift the veils to see that the development projects themselves are actually enabling it with security conditions that resemble apartheid.", "While folks at home are hunkering down, Afghanistan projects are concerned with tripling their monthly \"burn rates\" and managing projects remotely -- projects that almost certainly are less than the books indicate, or worse, have been paid for several times over by different organizations.", "It is time for those controlling the funding investment in this country to listen to their citizens, especially Afghan-Americans and other Americans like me and my family who live and work here.", "We are the people on the front lines, and connected as we are to the community here, we have much to offer in the way of supporting the success of the donor efforts.", "The good news is that there are more than a few Americans in this country who have the privilege of experiencing the Afghan people the way I do.", "But so far, my attempts to connect them with the American mission here as the new administration \"rethinks\" the strategy for Afghanistan have been unsuccessful as calls and e-mails to the ambassador have gone unanswered.", "There is a story of a young American worker for a nongovernmental organization who stopped on the road recently to pull out a van that was stuck in the snow, having veered into the oncoming lane when the sun was going down.", "In the car were two women, three small children and an elderly man, plus the two men who were attempting to dig out the wheels with sticks.", "It took less than 10 minutes to pull them out, and they were grateful for the help... they'd been there for nearly four hours and many trucks and security vehicles had passed them without offering a helping hand.", "They thought they would either freeze or be pushed over the brink of the cliff once it darkened.", "I know that story is true because the young man is my son Reese and I was with him.", "I propose a simple and very Afghan solution to the Afghanistan dilemma: We need to be good neighbors.", "Offer help.", "Be visible. Take some risks to communicate with ordinary people.", "My young Pashtun orphan, trained to kill, is now growing up in an institution where he mixes with internationals, with the very \"infidels\" he was previously conditioned to hate.", "... Are these not the ways for us to build bridges into this community?", "With shared meals instead of divisive policies?", "These are not new thoughts, but they are often unspoken and certainly not practiced in America's Afghanistan, which is a world divided by sandbags, concrete T-beams and armed guards.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Marnie Gustavson." ]	[ "Marnie Gustavson: Afghanistan is a complex place with pockets of war and peace .", "She says the image of Afghanistan provided in the media isn't complete .", "She says some aid organizations hide behind fences and miss the real story .", "Gustavson: We must build bridges to the young people of Afghanistan ." ]	[ 3, 15, 17, 37 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A small town in Maryland is setting a precedent in eco-friendly road construction, breaking ground this week on one of the greenest streets in the nation.", "The tiny port town of Edmonston in Prince George's County is billing the thoroughfare as the greenest on the East Coast.", "The road will help clean and filter toxic storm water pollution that drains into rivers, and eventually into Chesapeake Bay.", "\"What we're hoping to do, from top to bottom, is build a street that is completely environmentally sustainable, \" said Edmonston Mayor Adam Ortiz.", "Ortiz says the blueprint incorporates native tree cover to cool off the streets, wind-powered street lights that use high-efficiency LED bulbs, and pedestrian and bicycle access .", "But most important, says Ortiz, is the plan for all that water that rolls down the streets when it rains.", "\"[It's] not going to be flushed into our local rivers.", "Instead it's going to be naturally filtered.", "And that's very important for us to save our rivers and to help save the Chesapeake Bay here in Maryland.\"", "Storm water runoff often carries toxins and pollution from parking lots and city streets, and from farms and agricultural lands in rural areas.", "Most cities and towns have underground concrete drain systems that collect the runoff and dump it into rivers and streams, pollutants and all.", "\"What we're going to do, instead, is divert that water into natural gardens.", "To the naked eye it just looks like a regular garden, but actually it's very specially engineered to absorb a lot of water and naturally filter it before it gets into the water table, and to keep it from washing all those pollutants into the river,\" according to Ortiz.", "The storm water runoff in Edmonston drains into the nearby Anacostia River, which feeds into the Washington Channel, then empties into the Potomac River and eventually Chesapeake Bay.", "The eco-street project includes using porous bricks in building the road and creating bioretention cells or rain gardens.", "The idea is to trap the polluted runoff water, sending it through natural filter systems so that when it makes it into the Anacostia, it's a lot cleaner.", "Maryland Department of the Environment Deputy Secretary Robert Summers hopes this new main street in Edmonston is just the first of many.", "\"This kind of green infrastructure project to reduce storm water and energy consumption is exactly the kind of thing we need to do around the bay watershed to reduce pollution.\"", "Summers says the benefits of this project are twofold: a reduction in storm water pollution and, through the energy efficiency in powering lighting, a reduction in air pollution and fallout.", "But how much can converting one street really help in cleaning up an area the size of the Chesapeake Bay?", "Summers acknowledges this is just the beginning.", "\"We need to grow it by leaps and bounds.\"", "The Edmonston green street project is funded by the Environmental Protection Agency through a $1.1 million Recovery Act grant.", "Summers says the state of Maryland has already allocated $20 million for other green projects and that this is the first of many projects.", "The District of Columbia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania are also reviewing this green technology to eventually help do their part to clean up Chesapeake Bay.", "And in the Northwest, Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, have already taken steps to clean and control polluted storm water runoff.", "\"Our goal is that other towns and cities and communities will steal our ideas,\" Edmonston Mayor Ortiz said.", "\"We'll know we're successful when we see these technologies used in other places.\"" ]	[ "New road will help clean storm water pollution that drains into rivers, Chesapeake Bay .", "Road will divert runoff into natural gardens designed to filter water .", "Plan also uses native tree cover to cool streets, wind-powered street lights .", "Project aims to reduce storm water pollution, air pollution, fallout to the bay, official says ." ]	[ 2, 4, 11, 17 ]
[ "Chatham Borough, New Jersey (CNN) -- The janitor charged in the slaying of a priest answered a call from a 911 operator and said, \"Everything's fine,\" according to police.", "Jose Feliciano stabbed the Rev.", "Ed Hinds 32 times with a knife after the two got into an argument on Thursday, Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said.", "The Roman Catholic priest's body was found in the rectory of at St. Patrick's Church on Friday morning.", "Feliciano, 64, has been employed with the church for 17 years, Bianchi said.", "Feliciano also faces two weapons charges, Bianchi said at a news conference.", "It was not immediately known whether the janitor had retained legal counsel.", "When the janitor was interviewed Saturday, after waiving his Miranda rights, he \"confessed to the murder of Father Hinds,\" an arrest affidavit said.", "The priest's body was discovered Friday morning in the rectory kitchen by Feliciano and others, according to the affidavit.", "An autopsy had concluded that Hinds died of \"multiple sharp force injuries.\"", "Hinds had stab wounds to his upper torso and the back of his head, Bianchi said.", "The priest also had defensive wounds on his hands and contusions and bruises to his face, he said.", "Hinds called 911 from his cell phone at 5:11 p.m. Thursday, saying he was being attacked and asking for help, Bianchi said.", "The call was cut off and the 911 operator called back, Bianchi said.", "He said Feliciano answered the phone.", "The operator couldn't send authorities because the calls were made from a cell phone and could not be traced, Bianchi said.", "Feliciano \"made a half-hearted attempt to do CPR in front of police.", "They said it was bizarre.", "He made about two or three compressions and said something like, 'he's dead,'\" Bianchi told CNN.", "The affidavit said authorities discovered that Hinds' cell phone had been used in Easton, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles west of Chatham.", "Further investigation led them to a garbage can in a park there, where a T-shirt and rags \"saturated with what appeared to be blood\" were found, the affidavit said.", "The garbage can was about 50 yards from Feliciano's home, it said.", "Feliciano told police that he entered the rectory around 5 p.m. Thursday, where he and the priest argued, the affidavit said.", "The two men got into an argument \"over Feliciano's continued employment,\" Bianchi told CNN.", "He said Feliciano \"beat him up first, there was also bruising on his face,\" said the prosecutor.", "Feliciano left Hinds on the kitchen floor and went into the church to get a kitchen \"steak or paring\" knife, and returned and stabbed the priest, the prosecutor said.", "After the slaying, Feliciano said he cleaned up the blood with rags and paper towels and put them in a black bag, which he put in the trash can, the affidavit said.", "Feliciano also said he threw away the knife after returning home and destroyed Hinds' cell phone.", "Bianchi said the suspected weapon was found in a field near Feliciano's home.", "Hinds also oversaw the church's Catholic grade school.", "\"When you're the sole pastor and you do most of the baptisms and weddings and funerals, people end up loving you.", "This will be a big loss for the parish and a big loss for the diocese,\" said the Rev.", "Paul Manning from the Archdiocese of Paterson, New Jersey.", "CNN's Susan Candiotti contributed to this report." ]	[ "Victim called 911, said he was being attacked before call cut off, prosecutor says .", "Janitor beat, stabbed Rev.", "Ed Hinds after dispute over employment, prosecutor says .", "Suspect Jose Feliciano has worked at the church for 17 years, police say .", "Pastor died of multiple stab wounds, blood spatters indicate fight, authorities say ." ]	[ 1, 4, 9, 12, 13 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- He says it's true.", "She says it's not. Former New Jersey Gov.", "Jim McGreevey and his wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, in 2004.", "Former New Jersey Gov.", "Jim McGreevey says he and his wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, used to engage in sexual relations with his ex-aide and driver, Teddy Pedersen.", "Dina Matos McGreevey has denied the allegation.", "The New York Post and New Jersey's Star Ledger reported online Sunday that Pedersen said he had sexual relations with the McGreeveys in the late 1990s during the couple's courtship, and after the McGreeveys' marriage in 2000.", "In the article, Pedersen describes trysts during which he and Jim McGreevey would both have sex with Dina Matos McGreevey, but says that, in his opinion, \"me being part of their sexual relationship enhanced it for both of them.\"", "Pedersen described regularly sharing a hotel room with the McGreeveys during out-of-town business trips.", "In a statement issued Monday, Dina Matos McGreevey acknowledged that Pedersen had long had a \"close relationship\" with her former husband, but called his sexual claims \"completely false.\"", "\"This all has to do with the publicity I have received since [New York] Gov.", "[Eliot] Spitzer resigned,\" her statement said, alluding to her recent New York Times op-ed piece on Silda Wall Spitzer and her recent discussion of betrayed political wives on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"", "\"Jim has enlisted one of his cronies in trying to distinguish that situation from his own, and to discredit me in the media,\" she said.", "In August 2004, she stood silently beside her husband while he publicly declared himself \"a gay American,\" admitted to having an office-compromising affair with another man -- later identified as a staff member -- and announced his intention to resign.", "They are in the process of divorcing.", "Jim McGreevey Monday confirmed Pedersen's claims.", "\"This happened, this happened in the past, and now, we need to move on with our lives,\" the former governor said in a written statement.", "\"For all our sakes, particularly our daughter, we need to close this chapter and look toward the future.\"", "The statement went on to say he had removed references to the incidents Pedersen describes from an early draft of his book.", "\"I still hope Dina and I can resolve our issues privately,\" it concluded.", "After Dina Matos McGreevey issued her refutation, Pedersen stood by his story, telling the New York Post, \"Dina is still in denial.", "It's time for her to face the truth.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Former aide to Jim McGreevey says he and the couple had sexual relations .", "Dina Matos McGreevey denies, says husband has \"cronies\" after her .", "Jim McGreevey confirms aide's accounts given to reporters .", "McGreeveys are in the process of divorcing; he announced resignation in '04 ." ]	[ 3, 4, 5, 6, 14 ]
[ "An Israel air force pilot, the son of an astronaut who died aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, was killed Sunday in an F-16 fighter jet crash, Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.", "A military helicopter hovers over the Hebron Hills, site of the jet crash Sunday of Israel air force pilot Assaf Ramon.", "Lt. Assaf Ramon died in the crash near the Israeli community of P'nei Chever in the southern Hebron Hills, the IDF said.", "The F-16 crashed \"during a routine flight as part of the advanced pilot training course,\" the statement said.", "The wreckage of the plane was found by search and rescue forces, the IDF said.", "Ramon was posthumously promoted to captain, officials said.", "He was the son of Col. Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut.", "The elder Ramon died February 1, 2003, with six others aboard the space shuttle Columbia when it broke apart over Texas, minutes before it would have landed in Florida.", "Maj. Gen. Ido Nehushtan, Israel air force commander, launched an investigation into the crash, the IDF said.", "All F-16 training flights were canceled until further notice.", "Nehushtan and Maj. Gen. Avi Zamir, head of the Personnel Branch, \"visited the home of Rona Ramon and informed her of the tragic event,\" the IDF said.", "Rona Ramon is Assaf Ramon's mother and the widow of Ilan Ramon.", "The younger Ramon excelled in an IAF pilot training course last month, received a presidential honor, and was given his pilot's wings by President Shimon Peres, Israeli military officials said.", "Funeral arrangements were pending." ]	[ "Lt. Assaf Ramon fatally crashes during routine flight, Israel Defense Forces say .", "IDF: Personnel Branch brass \"informed [mother Rona Ramon] of the tragic event\"\nAssaf Ramon's father died February 1, 2003, aboard the space shuttle Columbia ." ]	[ 7, 10, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Israel may have to retire its title as the only democracy in the Middle East.", "With Sunday's free and fair national election, Iraq joins the honor roll as one of the very few Islamic democracies.", "Other Middle Eastern countries hold elections too, of course.", "But those elections fall into two broad categories.", "The first category is the blatantly rigged: Iran, most spectacularly, but also Algeria, Egypt, and Yemen, among others.", "In the second category, elections are more or less honest -- but fail to exert much control over the actions of the government: Lebanon, Morocco, and Jordan.", "In Iraq, despite violence, votes are honestly counted.", "Once counted, votes decide who rules.", "For all the country's well-known problems, that record is a remarkable achievement.", "The brave Iraqi democrat Nibras Kazimi posted this firsthand account on his important blog, Talisman Gate: .", "\"I voted. It felt great, but the greatest thing about it was how normal it felt; elections have become a ho-hum, commonplace occurrence.", "That's quite a feat for a country with Iraq's past and current challenges.", "The voting procedure itself was very well organized and speedy.", "The election site had seven polling stations, with about 400 registered voters allowed to vote there.", "Everyone's name was posted outside, along with information about what polling station they were supposed to use.", "Once inside, IDs were checked against name lists, and one had to sign next [to] one's name to indicate that this name has voted.", "All in all, there are reasonable mechanisms in place to contain incidents of fraud.", "... \"The Western media is hyperventilating about mortars and katyushas. ...", "This was a logistical failure for the jihadists; hardly any successful suicide bombers or sniper attacks near the polling stations.", "Lobbing mortars indiscriminately around Baghdad is BS intimidation.", "It certainly didn't deter voters.", "\"The fact that the security authorities allowed vehicular traffic around 11 AM was both surprising and bold.", "It showed confidence in their security precautions, and the fact that there were no car bombs shows that they were right.\"", "Iraq's elected government has consolidated power over the whole country, including the formerly Iranian-run southern city of Basra.", "It has presided over a remarkable decline in violence.", "The Brookings Institute's Iraq index estimates that there were 34,500 Iraqi civilian casualties in 2006.", "In 2009, 2,800 Iraqi civilians died violently.", "Attacks on coalition forces have dwindled from almost 2,000 per week at the end of 2006 to a little over 100 per week.", "Iraq is not yet a stable place -- but a future of stability seems at last at hand.", "Maybe the surest sign of success is that those who once opposed the surge are now scrambling to grab credit for it.", "Iraq \"could be one of the great achievements of this administration,\" boasted Vice President Joe Biden to CNN's Larry King last month.", "Next we'll hear how we owe the Marshall Plan and the Panama Canal to the Obama administration.", "Well, that's not how those who were there remember it.", "A stable Western-oriented Iraq at peace with itself and its neighbors would be a great prize.", "If that future does take hold, we'll learn the answer to another great question.", "Speaking on the eve of war in 2003, President George W. Bush told the guests at the American Enterprise Institute's annual dinner that he discerned \"hopeful signs of a desire for freedom in the Middle East.", "Arab intellectuals have called on Arab governments to address the 'freedom gap' so their peoples can fully share in the progress of our times.", "\"Leaders in the region speak of a new Arab charter that champions internal reform, greater politics participation, economic openness, and free trade.", "And from Morocco to Bahrain and beyond, nations are taking genuine steps toward politics reform.", "A new regime in Iraq would serve as a dramatic and inspiring example of freedom for other nations in the region.\"", "Will he be vindicated? In the January issue of the Journal of Democracy, Larry Diamond offers grounds for hope that the answer may be yes.", "Diamond, an expert on democracy-building who served with the Coalition Provisional Authority, itemizes the indicators of growing yearning for self-rule in the Middle East.", "He notes surveys in which 80 percent of Arabs across the region agree that democracy is the best form of government and would be good for their own country.", "Of all the obstacles to Arab democracy -- religion, culture, geopolitics -- the most important is geological: oil.", "Oil states tend to be undemocratic states, because control of the state so directly translates into control of the nation's wealth.", "When the price of oil rises, the value of power rises with it.", "It's not a coincidence that oil states from Russia to Venezuela to Iran have turned to more repressive and hard-line policies since the price of oil began to rise in 2001.", "By contrast, the 1986 collapse in the price of oil is widely cited as a decisive factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union.", "Iraq's future will depend on its success overcoming \"the curse of oil.\"", "America's next contribution to Middle Eastern democracy may be an energy policy that finally lifts this curse.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum." ]	[ "Iraq held a free and fair election for parliament on Sunday, says David Frum .", "He says Iraq can be a model democracy for the Arab world .", "President George W. Bush spoke of \"hopeful signs of a desire for freedom\" in the region .", "Frum: Biggest obstacle to democracy in Middle East is the influence of oil wealth ." ]	[ 35, 39, 43 ]
[ "Napa Valley, California (CNN) -- It is the quintessential Napa Valley experience.", "Passengers aboard sleek antique rail cars pay more than $100 for a four-course meal, not including the wine.", "A recent lunch aboard the train included steak, lobster cakes and local greens.", "During their three-hour journey winding through Napa Valley, passengers can choose from more than 100 wines to complement their meal.", "The Napa Valley Wine Train has been shuttling passengers through one of the country's most famous valleys for more than two decades, but now it's under fire because of Republican Sens.", "Tom Coburn and John McCain.", "They ranked the wine train as No.", "11 on their list of the 100 most \"wasteful\" and \"silly\" stimulus projects, leading some to call it the Stimulus Waste Express.", "When Melodie Hilton, who handles public relations for the wine train, learned about that nickname, she was less than pleased.", "Hilton said the report temporarily affected business.", "She said through a smile, \"it's never fun to wake up and find that you're an object of national scorn.\"", "But CNN found that scorn undeserved.", "In fact, CNN confirmed that not a single stimulus dollar is being spent on the wine train itself.", "The stimulus money is really being used for a massive flood-control project for the valley.", "The train's tracks happen to be in the way, so they have to be moved.", "It is a simple fix, but it's not cheap.", "To make it happen, $54 million is being used to build a flood wall at the wine train depot, elevate the tracks and move them 33 feet, and raise four bridges.", "How did the wine train end up on the list of wasteful projects?", "\"The person who did the research for the senators didn't do a thorough job,\" Hilton said, \"and I think if they did a thorough job, we wouldn't have been on the list at all.\"", "Barry Martin is the spokesman for the Napa River Flood Control Project.", "He called the senators' report \"deliberate deception\" and a way to score \"political points.\"", "Martin says this is not a \"frivolous project\" or a waste of stimulus dollars.", "\"This is perfectly fitting into what stimulus is intended to do.", "People are on the job working today who might not be otherwise,\" Martin said.", "Coburn's spokesman said the whole project is a \"misplaced priority.\"", "He also criticized it for being a \"no-bid\" project, meaning only one contractor was considered.", "Just how many people are employed on the project is ambiguous.", "Martin says that at least 600 jobs have been created for the whole thing.", "And those people, he says, will stay on the job two to three years.", "The Army Corps of Engineers, which is overseeing the flood control initiative, said that every $1 million spent creates about 20 jobs but said it didn't have an exact figure of jobs for the project.", "And the contractor, Suulutaaq, had reported just 12 jobs created to the White House.", "A spokeswoman said the company expects that 200 people will be employed over the life of the project.", "Regardless, the goal is to prevent Napa from flooding every few years, as it does now.", "In 1986, a flood cost the city $100 million.", "In 2005, flood damage hit $115 million.", "Hilton, who has lived through the floods in Napa Valley and recalls neighborhoods under feet of water, wrote a letter to McCain: \"Since you have thrown down the gauntlet, and made accusations, I would like to demand satisfaction!", "... Talk to the officials behind this project; learn what is really going on.", "It is your right and your responsibility.\"", "\"We all have the same goal,\" she later said.", "\"Nobody appreciates waste.", "If he came out and explored this, I don't think this would have been on the list.\"", "CNN's Susan Chun contributed to this report." ]	[ "U.S. senators claimed Wine Train received stimulus money .", "CNN found stimulus funds are not used for the train; money is for flood-control project .", "Sen. Tom Coburn's spokesman calls project \"misplaced priority\"\nThe latest on the controversy over the wine train on tonight's \"AC 360°,\" 10 ET ." ]	[ 6, 12, 13, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- For Liz McCartney, selection as one of the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2008 could not have come at a better time.", "Anderson Cooper will host \"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute,\" to air on Thanksgiving at 9 p.m.", "ET. \"With the recent storms in Texas and southwest Louisiana, we have experienced a sudden drop in volunteers,\" said McCartney, whose St. Bernard Project helps Hurricane Katrina survivors rebuild their homes just outside New Orleans, Louisiana.", "\"While other areas need help, this recognition is letting the American people know that the New Orleans area still matters,\" McCartney said.", "The diverse group of honorees includes a Cambodian activist who offers free schooling to children who work in Phnom Penh's trash dump; a Georgia prosthetist-orthotist who provides limbs and braces to hundreds of people in Mexico; and a Virginia woman who tapes video messages from incarcerated parents for their children.", "CNN's Anderson Cooper announced the 10 honorees Thursday on \"American Morning.\"", "\"Our Top 10 CNN Heroes are proof that you don't need superpowers -- or millions of dollars -- to change the world and even save lives,\" Cooper said.", "Watch Anderson Cooper name the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2008 » .", "CNN launched its second annual global search for ordinary people accomplishing extraordinary deeds in February.", "The network has aired weekly CNN Hero profiles of those people, chosen from more than 3,700 nominations submitted by viewers in 75 countries.", "A panel made up of world leaders and luminaries recognized for their own dedication to public service selected the Top 10.", "The Blue Ribbon Panel includes humanitarians such as Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Jane Goodall, Kristi Yamaguchi and Deepak Chopra.", "\"What an incredible group of people and how difficult it was to select only 10,\" said Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, a panel member.", "Archbishop Tutu added, \"They all deserve to win.", "Thanks for saluting these remarkable human beings.\"", "Each of this year's Top 10 CNN Heroes will receive $25,000 and will be honored at \"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute,\" airing from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on November 27.", "Hosted by Cooper, the Thanksgiving night broadcast will culminate with the announcement of the CNN Hero of the Year, selected by the public in an online poll that began Thursday morning.", "iReport.com: Tell us about your hero .", "Continuing through November 19, viewers can log on to CNN.com/Heroes to participate in the poll.", "The person receiving the most votes will receive an additional $100,000.", "In alphabetical order, the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2008 are: .", "Tad Agoglia, Houston, Texas -- Agoglia's First Response Team provides immediate help to areas hit by natural disasters.", "In a little over a year, he and his crew have aided thousands of victims at more than 15 sites across the United States, free of charge.", "Yohannes Gebregeorgis, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Moved by the lack of children's books and low literacy rates in his native Ethiopia, Gebregeorgis established Ethiopia Reads, bringing free public libraries and literacy programs to thousands of Ethiopian children.", "Carolyn LeCroy, Norfolk, Virginia -- After serving time in prison, LeCroy started The Messages Project to help children stay connected with their incarcerated parents.", "She and volunteer camera crews have taped roughly 3,000 messages from inmates to their children.", "Anne Mahlum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- On her daily morning jogs, Mahlum used to run past homeless men.", "Today, she's helping to transform lives by running with them, and others as part of her \"Back On My Feet\" program.", "Liz McCartney, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana -- McCartney moved to New Orleans to dedicate herself to helping Hurricane Katrina survivors move back into their homes.", "Her nonprofit St. Bernard Project has rebuilt the homes of more than 120 families for free.", "Phymean Noun, Toronto, Ontario -- Growing up in Cambodia, Noun struggled to complete high school.", "Today, she offers hundreds of Cambodian children who work in Phnom Penh's trash dump a way out -- through free schooling and job training.", "David Puckett, Savannah, Georgia -- Puckett started Positive Image Prosthetics and Orthotics Missions -- PIPO -- to provide artificial limbs and braces and care to people in southeastern Mexico.", "Since November 2000 his mission has helped more than 420 people, free of charge.", "Maria Ruiz, El Paso, Texas -- Several times a week, Ruiz crosses the border into Juarez, Mexico, to bring food, clothing and toys to hundreds of impoverished children and their families.", "Marie Da Silva, Los Angeles, California -- Having lost 14 family members to AIDS, the Los Angeles nanny funds a school in her native Malawi -- where half a million children have been orphaned by the disease.", "Viola Vaughn, Kaolack, Senegal -- The Detroit, Michigan, native moved to Senegal to retire.", "Instead, a group of failing schoolchildren asked her to help them pass their classes.", "Today, her \"10,000 Girls\" program is helping hundreds of girls succeed in school and run their own businesses.", "\"It is very rewarding to be able to honor these amazing, often unheralded individuals who are making a tremendous difference in their communities and beyond,\" Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide, said.", "\"These stories of selfless achievement deserve to be told, and our multiple platforms around the world allow us to do that.\"" ]	[ "The public will select \"Hero of the Year\" in an online poll at CNN.com/Heroes .", "Distinguished panel of world leaders and luminaries chose Top 10 finalists .", "\"CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute\" to be hosted by Anderson Cooper .", "To air Thanksgiving, November 27, 9 p.m.", "ET ( November 28, 0200 GMT)" ]	[ 1, 10, 15 ]
[ "Santiago, Chile (CNN) -- Aid poured in for Chile from home and overseas, with a local television station hoping to raise $27 million by Saturday and the United Nations pledging funds toward recovery efforts after a massive earthquake.", "\"Chile Helps Chile,\" a telethon that started Friday, runs until Saturday night, according to TV Chile's Web site.", "The site includes phone numbers and and e-mails for making donations in nearly 20 countries outside the South American nation.", "Hundreds of people died when the 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile last Saturday.", "The world's fifth-strongest earthquake since 1900 resulted in a tsunami that toppled buildings, particularly in the Maule region along the coast.", "It's still unclear exactly how many people died.", "Army divers have been searching the waters near the city of Constitucion for the bodies of as many as 400 tourists who were camping on an island during a summer festival.", "\"There were horrible screams.", "People calling out for us to go and rescue them.", "They were crying for help.", "But there was nothing we could do,\" local fisherman Agustin Diaz said.", "Full coverage of Chile's earthquake .", "United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday pledged up to $10 million to support relief and recovery efforts during a two-day visit, where he met with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet.", "\"I am visiting this city with a deep sadness,\" Ban told reporters Saturday while in Concepcion.", "\"Standing before this destruction, I can feel for your loss, your struggle.", "\"At the same time I am very grateful, very moved by such a strong determination,\" he added.", "\"The leaders, the people on the ground, they are all united.\"", "Ban also announced Friday a team effort between U.N. agencies and the Chilean government to determine the priority areas for funds, with emphasis on health, shelters, education and water.", "The secretary-general plans to bring the matter in front of the United Nations on his return.", "Chileans proud to help out their own .", "The Chilean government has asked the United Nations for items such as field hospitals with surgical facilities, dialysis centers, generators, saltwater purifying systems, mobile bridges and field kitchens.", "Chile endured two more strong aftershocks Friday -- the first a 6.0-magnitude earthquake and the other 6.6.", "They were the latest in scores of aftershocks that have hit in the past week.", "Friday's aftershocks did not cause any known injuries or damage and no tsunami warnings were issued.", "A six-member U.S. Agency for International Development disaster response team has been sent to Chile to assist with relief effort, said State Department spokesman P.J.", "Crowley. Shocking scenes hours after quake .", "The United States has sent 71 satellite phones, plastic sheeting and two mobile water treatment units, the State Department said.", "Six more water treatment units are to arrive within a week.", "A field hospital and two C-130 aircraft to assist with moving supplies around the country have also been deployed.", "The United States has also sent $1 million to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to aid their efforts.", "Chile has announced three days of national mourning beginning Sunday.", "Every house has been authorized to hang the national flag in memory of those who perished.", "Share your story from the earthquake in Chile .", "The death toll was revised downward Thursday as authorities reviewed discrepancies in the reported number of dead in the Maule region.", "To limit confusion, Deputy Interior Minister Patricio Rosende read aloud the names of 279 Chileans whose bodies had been identified by Thursday evening.", "The new tally does not account for hundreds of unidentified victims.", "\"It takes months sometimes to compile the information, because one of the biggest problems in the affected areas is the lack of precision and uncertainty at the scene,\" Rosende said.", "Despite the disaster, the Chilean Davis Cup tennis team will open competition Saturday in Coquimbo, Chile, against Israel.", "Team officials and players said they would be playing in honor of quake victims.", "\"It will be difficult, but we will do our best for our country,\" said player Fernando Gonzalez." ]	[ "Aid efforts for Chile quake victims gain momentum .", "Region still dealing with aftershocks a week after 8.8-magnitude earthquake .", "Three days of national mourning set to begin Sunday ." ]	[ 3, 25, 27, 30 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A U.S.-flagged ship that played a central role in a bloody hijacking drama last spring was attacked again Wednesday, a busy day for piracy in the dangerous waters off the east coast of Africa.", "It was the first time a security team aboard a major merchant ship repelled a pirate attack, a top U.S. Navy officer said.", "But a defensive weapon that emits a loud noise did not work, Vice Adm. Bill Gortney said in a briefing.", "\"They tried to employ [a long-range acoustical device] and it did not have the effect,\" said Gortney, the commander of U.S.", "Naval Forces Central Command, which is responsible for the area favored by pirates.", "He said he did not know why the device did not work.", "The Maersk Alabama came under automatic weapons fire from pirates about 350 nautical miles east of the Somali coast, the European Union's anti-piracy force said, but fought the attackers off.", "The failed attack came on a day of dramatic piracy events: The captain of a ship hijacked Monday was confirmed to have died, even as his ship was used to attack another, and a Spanish prosecutor demanded an investigation into reports that a ransom had been paid for a ship released Tuesday.", "The failed attack Wednesday targeted the same ship that was hijacked in the Indian Ocean in April.", "Its captain, Richard Phillips, was held hostage on a lifeboat for five days before U.S. Navy snipers shot three pirates dead.", "A fourth pirate was arrested, and Phillips was rescued.", "This time, private security guards on the Danish-owned ship fended off the pirates, EU and U.S. naval sources said.", "Security had been beefed up on the vessel since the attack in April, Maersk spokesman Kevin Speers told CNN.", "The ship's owners did not immediately respond to a CNN question about whether Phillips is still captain of the ship.", "Somali pirates vowed revenge for the killing of their compatriots by the U.S. Navy in April, but it was not immediately clear if the Maersk Alabama was targeted intentionally or if the latest attack was a coincidence.", "No casualties were reported on the ship, but pirates on land in Somalia feared the pirates who attacked the Maersk Alabama may have been killed or wounded, or may have drowned, they told a local journalist.", "There has been no contact with them since they attacked the Maersk Alabama, a pirate in the central Somali town of Harardhere said.", "Their last communication came while they were battling the security guards on the cargo ship, the pirate said.", "Pirates on land also exchanged gunfire -- with one another.", "They fought among themselves Wednesday over a multimillion-dollar ransom they received for releasing a Spanish fishing boat, said a local journalist in contact with the pirates.", "\"There was a heavy exchange of gunfire between some of our friends\" one pirate told the journalist, speaking of the other pirates.", "\"They fought over the 3 million euro ($4.5 million) received as a ransom from the Spanish boat.\"", "At least two pirates were wounded in the gunfight in Harardhere, a pirate stronghold in central Somalia, the local journalist told CNN.", "Those two pirates are in critical condition and have been transferred to the town of Galka'yo.", "The Alakrana, the Spanish fishing vessel, was freed Tuesday along with its 36 crew members, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said.", "It had been held for 47 days.", "Zapatero did not say how the ship was freed.", "Spanish media -- including CNN sister station CNN+, which cited a source it said was close to the negotiations -- reported that a ransom had been paid.", "A top prosecutor in Madrid on Wednesday called for an investigation into the reported ransom.", "National Court prosecutor Jesus Alonso sent a written request for the ransom investigation to Judge Santiago Pedraz, asking that the financial web involved in the alleged payment be untangled, including commissions paid to intermediaries in the negotiations, CNN+ reported from the courthouse.", "The prosecutor also called on the judge to take testimony from all the ship's 36 crew members.", "Various government ministers have sidestepped questions about whether a ransom was paid, but Spanish media reported the payment to the pirates totaled $3.5 million to $4 million.", "A leading Spanish fishing industry executive, Juan Manuel Vieites, told CNN on Wednesday that he was certain a ransom was paid for the release of the Spanish tuna trawler.", "But Vieites, who heads Euroatun -- a pan-European tuna fishing industry group -- and a Spanish tuna canning association, said he wasn't sure about the amount of the ransom.", "He declined to provide details.", "A day after the hijacking, Spanish military monitoring the situation captured two pirate suspects as they left the fishing boat and later brought them to Madrid.", "The two were indicted Monday on 36 counts of kidnapping and armed robbery.", "They could face sentences of more than 200 years in prison each because of the multiple kidnapping counts.", "Separately, the captain of a chemical tanker seized earlier this week died of a wound inflicted during the hijacking, a pirate said.", "The ship, the MV Theresa VIII, was used to attack another ship off the Somali coast, the pirate said, but did not provide any other details.", "The Virgin Islands-flagged vessel, with a crew of 28 North Koreans and operated from Singapore, was seized in the Indian Ocean on Monday, according to the EU naval force.", "It was heading for Mombasa, Kenya, but was hijacked in the south Somali Basin, about 180 miles northwest of the Seychelles, the EU statement said.", "Pirates have captured more than 50 ships this year off Somalia.", "Mohamed Amiin Adow and CNN Madrid Bureau Chief Al Goodman in Spain contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Captain of Virgin Islands-flagged ship, hijacked Monday, confirmed to have died .", "Maersk Alabama, after April hijacking in which pirates died, thwarts attack Wednesday .", "Other pirates apparently fight over ransom money from Spanish vessel hijacking .", "Top prosecutor in Madrid calls for investigation into reported ransom ." ]	[ 7, 28, 40 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An arrest warrant has been issued for a Florida man suspected in the shooting deaths of four people, including his sisters, in the coastal town of Jupiter, authorities said Saturday.", "Paul Michael Merhige, 35, allegedly left the scene of the Thanksgiving Day shooting armed.", "He faces four counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder, the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office said in a statement.", "The U.S. Marshals have joined the search for Merhige, and a $10,000 reward was offered for information leading to his arrest.", "The shooting victims include Merhige's 6-year-old cousin, Makayla Sitton; his 33-year-old twin sisters, Carla Merhige and Lisa Knight; and 76-year-old Raymond Joseph, police said.", "One of the victims -- Knight -- was pregnant, a police spokeswoman said Friday.", "Two others -- Patrick Knight and Clifford Gebara -- were wounded, police said.", "Interviews with family members suggest that Merhige \"had ongoing resentment\" for some of his relatives, said Sally Collins-Ortiz, a spokeswoman for Jupiter police.", "The shooting occurred about 10 p.m. Thursday.", "Merhige is thought to have escaped in a blue 2007 Toyota Camry with Florida license plate number W42 7JT, police said." ]	[ "Paul Michael Merhige faces four counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder .", "Four shot dead, 2 hurt in Jupiter, Florida on Thanksgiving night .", "Police: Merhige may have had \"resentment\" for relatives ." ]	[ 1, 2, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- At least five homes were destroyed after a tornado touched down in western Oklahoma Monday evening, authorities said.", "There were no reports of injuries.", "Other homes were damaged, and power was out to about 900 residences in and around the city of Hammon in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, Michelann Ooten of the Department of Emergency Management said.", "Roger Mills officials continued to assess the damage, but all residents appear to be accounted for, Ooten said.", "The tornado hit about 5:30 p.m. (6:30 p.m.", "ET), said Ken Gallant, lead forecaster for the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma.", "The thunderstorms that produced the conditions for the tornado weakened shortly afterward and a tornado warning was canceled, Gallant said.", "Jerry Dean, county commissioner of Roger Mills, said the county barn was among the structures destroyed.", "Area residents had time to prepare before the tornado hit, Dean said.", "He could see the tornado coming before going into a cellar to wait it out, he said." ]	[ "At least five homes were destroyed after the tornado touched down .", "Other homes were damaged, and power was out in Hammon, Oklahoma .", "County barn in Roger Mills County was among the structures destroyed ." ]	[ 0, 2, 7 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- After more than a month in a Haitian jail, an American missionary was free Monday night, looking forward to a hot shower and a long night in bed on home soil.", "But Charisa Coulter's heart remains in Haiti, her father said, because her best friend, Laura Silsby is now alone behind bars.", "\"She came back with mixed emotions,\" Mel Coulter told CNN affiliate WSVN in Miami, Florida.", "Haitian Judge Bernard Saint-Vil released Coulter on Friday.", "She walked out of judicial police headquarters in Port-au-Prince and headed to the nearby airport for a flight to Miami.", "Coulter is staying in a hotel by herself, her father said.", "He did not know when she might return home to Boise, Idaho.", "He said his daughter had been through a \"trying experience\" and was welcoming the solitude.", "Coulter, Silsby and eight other Americans had been detained in Haiti on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the killer earthquake January 12.", "Last month, Saint-Vil released the eight others, but Silsby and Coulter remained in custody because the judge wanted to learn more about their motives.", "On Friday, Silsby was brought into Saint-Vil's office for further questioning.", "The missionaries were stopped by Haitian authorities on January 29 as they tried to cross the border with 33 children without proper legal documentation.", "The group said it was going to house the children in a converted hotel in the Dominican Republic and later move them to an orphanage.", "Saint-Vil recently traveled to the Dominican Republic to see where Silsby said she intended to open an orphanage.", "Silsby originally claimed the children were orphaned or abandoned, but CNN determined that more than 20 of them had at least one living parent.", "Some parents said they placed their children in Silsby's care because that was the only way they knew to ensure a better quality of life for them.", "The 10 Americans, many of whom belong to a Baptist church in Idaho, have said they were trying to help the children get to a safe place after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake flattened cities and towns in Haiti.", "Silsby said she was \"very happy that Charisa went home today.\"", "She expected her freedom would soon follow.", "\"I came here to help these children,\" she said.", "CNN's Lonzo Cook and Sara Sidner contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Last group member in custody says she expects to be released soon .", "Charisa Coulter is ninth member of American group to be released .", "Coulter was one of 10 Americans accused in Haiti kidnapping case .", "Group accused of trying to illegally remove children from Haiti after earthquake ." ]	[ 8, 9, 16, 17 ]
[ "Willow, Alaska (CNN) -- The 2010 Iditarod is officially under way, with 71 mushers and dog teams on the wide-open trail toward Nome.", "Teams will spend the next week and a half crossing 1,049 miles through some of the most demanding and formidable conditions on Earth, including North America's largest mountain chain, the Alaska range.", "\"Ten days and nothing else but eat, sleep and feed dogs,\" Canadian musher Sebastian Schnuelle said excitedly.", "The sport has been dominated in recent years by Lance Mackey, 39, of Fairbanks, Alaska, and this year he will be trying to accomplish what no musher in history has been able to do: win four consecutive Iditarods.", "Mackey is a throat cancer survivor and is known for his fierce determination and competitive spirit.", "He comes from family of Alaskan mushing champions.", "His father, Dick Mackey, and brother Rick have also won the Iditarod.", "Dick Mackey's one-second win over Rick Swenson in 1978 set a record for the closest finish in Iditarod history.", "The Iditarod, though, isn't a competitive sprint to the finish for every musher in the field.", "Jim Lanier, 69, of Chugiak, Alaska, mushes primarily for enjoyment.", "He's entered and completed 13 Iditarods, at least one in all four decades the race has been in existence.", "He has never won. Rookie Iditarod musher Kristy Berington admits that she's not racing to win; she just hopes to finish.", "Her longest race prior to entering this year's Iditarod was only 300 miles.", "\"I've got puppies on this team that I want to see get to Nome.", "It's like watching your kid graduate from college,\" said the 25-year-old Kasilof, Alaska, resident.", "\"They go and they're puppies, and they come back and they're dogs.\"", "She has been training with Iditarod veteran Paul Gebhardt and has borrowed one of his dog teams to lead her to Nome.", "Outside of personal accomplishments and goals, the race this year also presents an opportunity for some mushers to show their respect to fallen serviceman, thanks to a collaboration with the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors.", "Always a top competitor in the race, four-time Iditarod champion Martin Buser of Big Lake, Alaska, has six commemorative purple ribbons attached to his sled this year, placed there at the ceremonial start by the wives of the fallen soldiers and officers.", "Buser, who was born in Switzerland in 1958, became a U.S. citizen in 2002.", "\"After the 9/11 incident, I proved to my boys that this is the soil I wanted to defend ... so being asked to do such honors as these are very, very important to me because I'm truly one of the new immigrants and one of the staunches believers in our country,\" he said.", "Buser was naturalized under the famous burled arch in Nome at the finish line of the 2002 Iditarod.", "He carried an American flag in his sled for more than 1,000 miles to the finish line that year and set an Iditarod record for the shortest race time ever recorded: 8 days, 22 hours, 46 minutes and 2 seconds.", "His two sons are even named after Iditarod checkpoints: Nikolai and Rohn.", "The 2010 Iditarod musher's roster includes men and women ages 18 to 69 who hail from five countries: the United States, Canada, Scotland, Belgium and Jamaica.", "Some are professional mushers who raise and train sled dogs year-round; others are teachers, nurses, horse trainers, foresters or biologists.", "A doctor and a fishing guide also are included, among other professions.", "Asked to explain why mushers are drawn to this sport, four-time Iditarod champion Jeff King of Denali Park, Alaska, took time to reflect before answering.", "\"Until you've ridden a dog team you've trained from puppies on a full moon with a hard trail and feel their energy and hear the panting of their tongues, the jingle of their collars, feel the surge of power that comes through the handlebar, I don't think you can appreciate what it's really like,\" the 54-year-old said.", "\"But that's exactly the reason.\"" ]	[ "38th year of famed Alaskan sled dog race begins with 71 teams .", "Lance Mackey will be trying for fourth consecutive win .", "\"It's like watching your kid graduate from college,\" musher says of completing ." ]	[ 3, 5, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Nicklas Bendtner scored a hat-trick as a rampant Arsenal side thrashed Porto 5-0 at The Emirates to reach the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Tuesday.", "Danish international Bendtner had been widely criticized for missing a host of chances in Arsenal's 3-1 Premier League win over Burnley on Saturday -- however, he was in the right place at the right time twice in the first-half as the Londonders comfortably overturned their 2-1 first leg deficit.", "The opening goal came in the 10th minute when Bendtner was on hand to fire into an empty net after goalkeeper Helton had rushed out to block the on-coming Andrey Arshavin.", "And he doubled the lead 15 minutes later after more good work from Russian Arshavin, who evaded two challenges on the edge of the area before crossing for the striker to comfortably slot home.", "Porto came out with more determination after the break but were hit by two goals in the space of three minutes around the hour mark.", "First, Frenchman Samir Nasir produced a moment of breathtaking skill and fast foot-work to dance around three Porto challenges before firing past Helton from an acute angle.", "Then, with their Portuguese opponents chasing the game, Arshavin collected the ball on the break after a Porto corner was cleared.", "He had Emmanuel Eboue overlapping in support -- and the pass was perfect for the Ivorian to round the goalkeeper before stroking the ball home.", "And a superb night for Arsenal -- and Bendtner in particular -- was completed in the final minute when Eboue was fouled in the penalty area, and the Dane stepped up to fire his penalty wide of Helton's despairing dive.", "Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger told Sky Sports: \"It's never perfect but it was a very good performance, a strong performance.", "\"We had a very good first half, suffered a bit at the beginning of the second half, but Nasri's goal made a big difference and from then it was easy.\"", "Meanwhile, Bayern Munich are also through to the last eight, progressing on the away goals rule despite losing 3-2 at Fiorentina.", "Their qualification was sealed with a stunning strike from Dutchman Arjen Robben, who skipped past a couple of challenges before firing home a thunderbolt shot from a full 30 meters out.", "The Serie A side took a 28th-minute lead when Juan Vargas netted from a tight angle after a week clearance from goalkeeper Jorg Butt.", "And the hosts doubled their advantage nine minutes after the break when Stevan Jovetic scored from close range after a superb Alberto Gilardino backheel.", "Bayern made the scores level 3-3 on aggregate on the hour mark when Mark Van Bommel drilled home a low shot after good work from Frank Ribery.", "However, just four minutes later Montenerin striker Jovetic out-muscled Daniel Van Buyten to fire home a Gilardino header-on.", "That sparked wild celebrations from the home bench and supporters, but just 72 seconds later Robben unleashed his devastating strike to break Florence hearts and complete a crazy spell of four goals in 12 minutes." ]	[ "Arsenal thrash Porto 5-0 to cruise into the quarterfinals of the Champions League .", "Nicklas Bendtner scores hat-trick as the London side overturn first leg deficit .", "Bayern Munich are also through to the last eight despite losing 3-2 to Fiorentina ." ]	[ 0, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The driver of a Toyota Prius says he was taken on a wild ride Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck, reaching speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of a southern California interstate.", "It took the California Highway Patrol to bring the car safely to a stop.", "The driver, Jim Sikes, said he was traveling east on Interstate 8 outside of the San Diego area when he attempted to pass a slower vehicle.", "\"I pushed the gas pedal to pass a car, and it just did something kind of funny ... and it just stuck there,\" he said at a news conference outside a Highway Patrol office.", "\"As I was going, I was trying the brakes ... and it just kept speeding up.\"", "Sikes said he called 911 for help, and dispatchers talked him through instructions on how he might be able to stop the car.", "But nothing worked.", "At one point, Sikes said he reached down to try to pull the accelerator up, but it \"stayed right where it was.\"", "Alerted by emergency dispatchers, a California Highway Patrol officer was able to catch up to Sikes' Prius and used the patrol car's public address system to instruct Sikes to apply the brakes and the emergency brake at the same time.", "The tactic worked, and the car slowed to about 50 mph.", "Sikes said he was able to shut off the car, and it rolled to a stop.", "The responding officer, Todd Neibert, positioned his patrol car in front of the Prius as a precaution to prevent it from moving again.", "Toyota recently issued widespread recalls due to problems related to the accelerator pedal in several of its auto models.", "One theory behind the sticky accelerators is the vehicles' floor mats.", "But Sikes said \"my mat was perfect.", "There was nothing wrong with my mat.\"", "Sikes said he took his 2008 Prius into a local Toyota dealership about two weeks ago for service and gave workers there his recall notice.", "He said he was told his car wasn't on the recall list.", "\"I'll be back there tomorrow,\" he said Monday, visibly shaken up.", "CHP spokesman Brian Pennings said the ordeal lasted just over 20 minutes.", "\"We are extremely thankful that there was a safe end to this,\" Pennings said.", "A Toyota spokesman issued a statement Monday night saying the automaker had been notified of the incident.", "\"Toyota has dispatched a field technical specialist to San Diego to investigate the report and offer assistance,\" the statement said." ]	[ "\"I pushed the gas pedal ... and it just stuck there,\" said Jim Sikes .", "Sikes had to get help from the California Highway Patrol to stop his car .", "A Toyota spokesman said the automaker had been notified of the incident ." ]	[ 1, 3, 21 ]
[ "Editor's note: Since becoming State Department producer in 2000, Elise Labott has covered four secretaries of state and reported from more than 50 countries.", "Before joining CNN, she covered the United Nations.", "Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meet in Washington.", "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi made the rounds in Washington just as President Obama's national security team shifted its attention to Pakistan.", "This week Secretary of Defense Williams Gates called the Afghan border with Pakistan the \"epicenter of jihad.\"", "And the renewed focus on Pakistan suggests that Obama has a new role for Pakistan in the battle against al Qaeda and the Taliban.", "After all, in developing a strategy for \"Afpak,\" Obama acknowledged the United States cannot win in Afghanistan without cooperation from Pakistan, the suspected hideout of Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders.", "Which is why the buzzword of both Qureshi and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week was \"partnership,\" as in the United States and Pakistan are united in a \"strategic partnership\" against a common enemy.", "Right now, the relationship between the two countries is less a partnership and more an uneasy marriage with a history fraught with decades of mutual mistrust and disappointment.", "In the late 1980s, the United States partnered with Pakistan to supply mujahedeen fighters with weapons and training to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan.", "Then the United States abandoned the region, leaving the Pakistanis, in Clinton's words, \"awash in drugs...and jihadists who had been trained up in conjunction with us.\"", "Now the Americans are back.", "But, rightly, the Pakistanis are wondering if this time they will stay.", "This week Qureshi urged the United States not to repeat history, but rather to articulate a \"long-term commitment\" for the region.", "That's exactly what the United States is trying to do with an aid package worth $1.5 billion a year for five years for social and economic development and with discretionary military spending.", "By building roads, schools and democratic institutions, the United States hopes to combat both Islamic extremism and anti-Americanism.", "In part the aid has had the opposite effect.", "Tough conditions attached to the aid to ensure the Pakistanis are fighting terrorism on their own soil have prompted fears and resentment about renewed -- and unwanted -- American influence.", "The military spending in the Kerry-Lugar legislation threatens to cut off assistance if Pakistan fails to crack down on extremists or uses the funding to attack neighboring countries, namely India.", "It requires Pakistan's cooperation in efforts to dismantle nuclear weapons networks operating in the country and demands Pakistan provides the information about its military budget and chain of command, all of which has given birth to grave concern in the military that the aid package is compromising Pakistan's sovereignty.", "The bill also makes reference to the southwestern city of Quetta and eastern town of Muridke.", "Both are believed to be hubs for al Qaeda and Taliban leaders, which suggests that the United States could target those cities for the kind of drone attacks which have drawn Pakistani ire.", "As the Pakistani parliament debates the bill, street protests over the aid have spread through the country.", "The fears about sovereignty have only been aggravated over U.S. plans to send hundreds more diplomats to its embassy in Islamabad.", "Washington says the additional staff is needed to distribute and monitor the aid, but it has all left Pakistanis humiliated and feeling like a child who needs a babysitter.", "Pakistan also wants more credit from the United States for decisive action it has taken against terrorists, including its recent offensive in the Swat Valley.", "The United States has been impressed by the Pakistani army's recent offensive against the Taliban in Swat.", "And it is encouraged that Pakistan is gearing up to launch a major offensive in Waziristan, believed to be a stronghold of both the Taliban and al Qaeda.", "But the conditions attached to the aid are a symptom of the United States' longstanding doubts about the Pakistanis' capacity to be a reliable partner it needs in the struggle against al Qaeda and the Taliban.", "Not only are there concerns about Pakistani intelligence ties to extremist networks, but the United States continues to fear Pakistan's obsession with its nuclear neighbor India will divert its focus from fighting terrorist threats on its own soil.", "As the United States struggles over the future of the mission in Afghanistan, Pakistan wants to strengthen cooperation.", "This week Qureshi said the United States needed to share more critical information it has about al Qaeda and the Taliban on its border.", "What's more, he suggested the administration should consult with both the Pakistani military and civilian government before deciding to send more troops.", "The sad legacy of U.S. and Pakistani relations can be overcome only if both counties are able to rebuild trust.", "Pakistan needs to answer lingering questions about the country's commitment to fighting terrorism.", "And after 20 years of neglect, the United States needs to assure Pakistan it won't exploit it for its own interests, only to abandon the region once again.", "Only then will this uneasy marriage give way to a true partnership." ]	[ "U.S.-Pakistan relationship fraught with decades of mistrust and disappointment .", "Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi asks U.S. for \"long-term commitment\"\nU.S. aid package of $1.5 billion is for social and economic development ." ]	[ 2, 14 ]
[ "Beijing, China (CNN) -- China has threatened to slap sanctions on American companies that sell arms to its rival Taiwan as part of a range of punitive actions Beijing is taking to protest the deal.", "China also summoned U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman to express its anger over Washington's announcement, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua said, citing the Foreign Ministry.", "Beijing also suspended plans for visits between the Chinese and U.S. militaries and postponed a high-level arms control meeting, it announced Saturday, following Washington's $6.4-billion arms deal with Taiwan.", "China's Defense Ministry said the decision was made \"in consideration of the serious harm and impacts on Sino-U.S. military relations\" brought about by the arms deal, according to Xinhua.", "\"China will make further judgments as appropriate,\" Xinhua reported.", "China had already complained to the United States about the deal, announced Friday by the Obama administration.", "Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei called it a \"rude interference in China's internal affairs, severely endangering China's national security\" and said China expressed its \"strong indignation.\"", "The arms sale includes 60 Black Hawk helicopters, totaling $3.1 billion; 114 advanced Patriot air defense missiles; a pair of Osprey mine-hunting ships; and dozens of advanced communications systems.", "The deal with Taiwan -- which neither China nor the United States recognizes as an independent country -- does not include F-16 fighter jets, which China has vehemently opposed.", "The State Department described the latest round of arms sales to Taiwan as a way to guarantee security and stability, despite China's objections.", "\"This is a clear demonstration of the commitment this administration has to provide Taiwan with defensive weapons it needs and as provided for in the Taiwan Relations Act,\" State Department spokesman P.J.", "Crowley said Friday.", "He said the action is consistent with Washington's \"one-China\" policy and will help maintain security and stability across the Taiwan Strait.", "The arms sales come as the United States is hoping to persuade China to sign on to harsher sanctions against Iran and just after Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized China for its policies relating to the Internet.", "Crowley would not speak directly about the timing of the announcement of the sales, and about the fact that the arms package does not include F-16s.", "A senior U.S. official said later that the United States expected Chinese criticism of the arms deal, but does not expect permanent damage.", "The official said he believed Clinton had discussed the sale in London with her Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of Thursday's international conference on Afghanistan.", "\"This relationship between the United States and China is broad, it's deep.", "There are a large number of issues.", "We don't see eye to eye with them and we have to have and do have the ability to speak honestly,\" the official said.", "The arms deal is the latest chapter in a decades-long uneasy standoff.", "China claims Taiwan is its own territory and has threatened to invade if Taiwan ever declares independence.", "The United States has said it will defend Taiwan if China ever attacks.", "The government in Taiwan began as the remnant of the government that ruled over mainland China until a Communist insurrection proved victorious in 1949.", "With the Communist takeover of mainland China, the losing faction fled to the island of Taiwan.", "Taiwan is formally known as the Republic of China, while Communist China's official name is People's Republic of China.", "Many Western nations and the United Nations recognized Taiwan as the legitimate Chinese government until the 1970s.", "CNN's Eve Bower and Charley Keyes contributed to this report." ]	[ "China considers sanctions against U.S. companies over arms deal with Taiwan .", "China has suspended U.S. military visits, postponed arms control meeting .", "Sale includes Black Hawk helicopters, air defense missiles, mine-hunting ships ." ]	[ 2, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A deadly car bomb attack on a busy market in Peshawar Wednesday continued a bloody trend of atrocities in Pakistan during October.", "Ten attacks have been carried out so far this month, resulting in nearly 400 deaths, according to security expert Will Geddes, chief executive of International Corporate Protection.", "Geddes gives CNN his assessment on the latest attack and the challenges facing the Pakistan forces.", "Why Peshawar and why now? No one's actually releasing any statement, but I would say it's a retaliatory action to the seizing of Kotkai, a town in the South Waziristan district by Pakistani troops almost two weeks ago on October 17.", "The Taliban is setting off devices and suicide bombs in other parts of the country to draw attention away from Waziristan to make it harder for them.", "Because obviously troops will be deployed to the areas perceived to be the greatest threat.", "It's a pretty smart tactic on behalf of the Taliban.", "Why did the attackers target the marketplace Meena Bazaar?", "It's indiscriminate. It's the purest essence of terrorism.", "It is to absolutely instill fear and terror into the general populace.", "Whether that works effectively and advantageously for them in the longer run, I don't think so.", "Because ultimately it will be the local community who will be feeding intelligence back to Pakistani intelligence service, the Inter-Services Intelligence.", "If you alienate that community by targeting them then you're not winning the support of people who are potentially going to hide you out or not disclose your whereabouts, your location or your operations.", "It is a risky tactic.", "It is showing the arrogance of the Taliban.", "They don't care who they target -- they just want to terrorize the whole nation.", "How much can be read into the timing of the attacks?", "It coincides with Hillary Clinton being in the country.", "It's fundamentally saying: \"You've got a high-ranked world leader who's a guest in the country, and we're showing you we're still kicking your backside,\" for lack of better words.", "It's really to make President Zardari lose face, as well as to continue the turmoil across the country and to show to the international community that the Taliban is winning.", "It is the latest in a series of deadly attacks this October.", "Why is the Taliban so active now?", "The Taliban are always more active up in the mountains in the autumn months because it's far harder for the enemy to be successful.", "It is colder, the terrain's harder.", "The Taliban are experts at fighting in mountainous regions.", "The Taliban will generally come down on to the flats during the summer months and during the winter months they retreat back up into the mountains.", "What would conditions be like on the ground?", "It would be very cold, very brutal.", "It would be tough, tough terrain for any military forced to try to fight against the Taliban.", "They are kings of their castle in many respects in those regions.", "Can you see the fighting intensifying between now and the end of the year?", "The Pakistan military will find it incredibly hard going to battle against them as the winter months progress.", "There is very possibly going to be some kind of withdrawal, maybe the closer we get to the end of the year, because it starts becoming more and more brutal before the early months of the year.", "It's like Afghanistan; you don't want to be down there in January or February.", "However the government can't lose face and they can't seem to be losing.", "Is there anything the government can do to halt the spate of suicide attacks?", "If you have got sorties from the Taliban coming down into Islamabad and Karachi and undertaking attacks there, it's very difficult to intersect.", "Quite often what you may have is a group that is working in Karachi and Islamabad who will be the resource; they'll be the ones doing the reconnaissance, looking at the various targets and then the suicide bombers would likely come down to be briefed by the local team and pointed to the explosives, wherever they might be.", "It demonstrates their determined campaign to embarrass and humiliate Zardari's government.", "iReporter: \"Increasing chaos\" in Pakistan ." ]	[ "Car bomb in Peshawar market killed at least 100 people, injured many more .", "Of recent attacks by the Taliban, Geddes says: \"It's the purest essence of terrorism\"\nPakistani forces fighting Taliban militants in increasingly difficult conditions .", "Geddes: Taliban employing risky tactic of terrorizing nation with indiscriminate attacks ." ]	[ 0, 6, 8, 13, 22, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- About 1,000 National Guard soldiers will report for duty Saturday in Puerto Rico, activated by the governor this week to help fight a drug-fueled crime tsunami that has flooded the Caribbean island.", "The military personnel will repair police cruisers and join local authorities on patrols in the most crime-ridden areas of Puerto Rico, mainly in poor parts of the commonwealth's largest cities.", "One soldier will accompany a police officer on each patrol, said the National Guard chief, Maj. Gen. Antonio Vicens.", "\"The problem that exists now is that the police are short of personnel,\" Vicens said.", "\"What we are going to do solely is to help them.", "First, we are going to help them with mechanics, provide them with more than 100 mechanics so that their fleet of patrol cars can go out on the street.", "Once we have that, we are going to have joint preventive patrols.", "\"You won't see military vehicles on the street.", "What you'll see are police patrols on the street.\"", "The soldiers will be deployed in San Juan, the territory's capital, and the cities of Carolina, Bayamon and Ponce.", "Gov. Luis Fortuno announced the call-up in his annual state of Puerto Rico speech Monday night, saying the help is needed until more officers can be trained.", "He did not set a timetable.", "In a separate development, Fortuno announced Tuesday that U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez Velez had reached an agreement with the commonwealth's Justice Department and Puerto Rico Police Department for federal prosecutors to have jurisdiction over a series of major crimes.", "Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States and more stringent federal U.S. laws can apply.", "\"To those who commit carjackings,\" Fortuno said, \"to those who provoke shootouts on our roads ... to sexual offenders who rob our children of our innocence, our message is clear: We're going to impose on them the full weight of the federal law.", "We're going to look for them, and we're going to bring them to justice.\"", "Rodriguez said the agreement will streamline the prosecution of cases and allow federal agents immediate access to some crime scenes.", "\"We feel very strongly about fighting crime,\" she said Thursday.", "\"It's much better to fight crime together.", "This is an additional crime-fighting measure.\"", "By all measures, there's much crime to fight.", "A 2010 threat assessment by a 15-agency task force notes there were 68,738 violent crimes reported in 2008, a 9.3 percent increase over the previous year.", "Of the 13 major police areas in Puerto Rico, the municipality of Bayamon was the worst, with 16,590 violent crimes.", "Homicides also showed a significant increase, with 807 killings reported in 2008, the latest year for which statistics were available.", "That was a 10.5 percent increase over the previous year.", "Homicides had already increased by 9.2 percent in 2007.", "San Juan had the highest homicide rate in 2008, with 177 slayings.", "Bayamon was second-highest, with 154 killings.", "As in many other parts of the world, authorities tie the crime jump to drugs.", "\"It's strong. It's very strong,\" Rodriguez told CNN.", "A recent Puerto Rico Police Department report documented that more than 60 percent of the slayings on the island were directly related to drug trafficking.", "\"Drug-related violence is endemic in Puerto Rico,\" said a 2009 analysis by the Justice Department's National Drug Intelligence Center.", "\"Homicide rates typically rank among the highest in the United States, and law enforcement officials report that most of these homicides are related to drug trafficking.", "[Drug-trafficking organizations] and gangs frequently use intimidation, violence and murder to gain and retain control of retail drug markets in the region.\"", "The largest gangs predominantly operate in public housing projects scattered throughout San Juan, Aguadilla, Fajardo and Ponce, the 15-agency threat assessment said.", "Drug gangs also operate in lower-income neighborhoods where they feel less vulnerable to law enforcement.", "Cocaine, crack-cocaine, marijuana, heroin and Ecstasy are the drugs most widely trafficked, officials say.", "Puerto Rico is particularly vulnerable because of its location.", "\"The Caribbean region remains a major transshipment area for cocaine and heroin shipments originating from Colombia, transiting through Venezuela and destined to the United States, Europe and Canada,\" the multiagency report said.", "The criminals are well-financed and well-armed.", "\"Large-caliber assault type rifles such as AK-47s, M-16s and various types of military carbines are the weapons of choice,\" the report said.", "\"In some instances, rifles recovered in the streets have been converted to fire in the fully automatic mode.", "The handguns of choice are Glocks and Smith & Wesson pistols converted to fire in the fully automatic mode, thus providing added fire power.\"", "The National Drug Intelligence Center also notes that Puerto Rico \"is a major money-laundering center for drug traffickers operating in the region.\"", "Although Puerto Rican officials did not mention it this week, there's another reason for the National Guard deployment.", "\"Public confidence in the [Puerto Rico Police Department's] ability to protect the citizenry remains low because of continued corruption within the department,\" the National Drug Intelligence Center analysis said.", "\"This situation has resulted in decreased cooperation between the public and the police department and has made it more difficult for police officers to deter crime and enforce the law.", "\"Consequently, it is likely that the crime rate in Puerto Rico will remain high and the drug situation will worsen in the next year as traffickers take advantage of a perceived law enforcement weakness.\"", "Vicens, the National Guard general in charge, believes the military can help change that.", "\"We are the beneficiaries of a [good] reputation and confidence on the part of the public,\" he said in a published interview this week.", "\"When we act, we act professionally.", "That will help us accomplish our objectives.\"", "Some Puerto Ricans wonder whether the military can solve the problem.", "\"It might help,\" said Tony Santiago, owner of Rent the Bike in Old San Juan.", "He questioned whether some of the Guard members are up to the task.", "\"What do they do for a living,\" he asked.", "\"Maybe they don't have the knowledge to handle the situation like a policeman would.\"", "No one seems to question that there's a problem and that something needs to be done about it.", "Gwenn Bentz and her husband own Coqui's Hideaway, a vacation rental cottage 45 minutes east of San Juan.", "\"It doesn't affect us personally because we live up in the mountains,\" she said.", "\"It's mostly in the cities.\"", "Nonetheless, she and some neighbors are starting a crime-watch group.", "\"Is there crime? Yes, sure. That's gone up,\" Bentz said.", "And the governor feels he has to act, she said.", "\"I think Fortuno realizes that something has to get done about the violent crime, drug problems, and the police don't seem to be able to get the problem under control,\" said Bentz, a New Jersey native who has lived in Puerto Rico for six years.", "\"So if the National Guard can help, I am happy he is trying something.\"", "A few minutes later, she was not so sure.", "\"I don't think the National Guard troops activation is the answer to the problem, but I guess it can't hurt,\" she said .", "U.S. Attorney Rodriguez, a 32-year veteran of the justice system, believes her office's new powers will make a difference.", "\"I have much hope,\" she said.", "And if anything can make the situation better, she said, it's intervention by federal authorities.", "\"I am rich in satisfaction,\" the prosecutor said.", "\"The United States has always taken care of Puerto Rico.", "It's a good father.\"" ]	[ "Violent crimes, homicides on the rise in Puerto Rico .", "Military will repair police cruisers, join local authorities on patrols in crime-ridden areas .", "Soldiers will be deployed in San Juan, Carolina, Bayamon, Ponce .", "Confidence in local law enforcement is low because of corruption, report says ." ]	[ 1, 9 ]
[ "Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Marina Ochoa keeps a handful of photos of her little brother in a faded yellow envelope.", "She has a black-and-white snapshot of him as a baby and some color portraits of him as a successful banker in Miami, Florida.", "And then there's one of him as a 7-year-old, about to be airlifted out of Cuba.", "That was the last time she ever saw him.", "\"I went to the airport to see him off,\" the Cuban filmmaker said at her Havana home.", "Her brother Frank was one of 14,000 Cuban children quietly sent to the United States between 1960 and 1962, at the start of Fidel Castro's revolution.", "Their parents were terrified the new government would strip them of parental authority and ship their kids off to work camps in what was then the Soviet Union, or send them into the countryside on literacy campaigns.", "Those fears deepened when the state nationalized industries, confiscated private property and closed religious and private schools.", "\"Our parents thought they would soon join my brother or that this government wouldn't last,\" Ochoa said.", "\"My father thought, 'Americans won't put up with this radical revolution.'", "\" Her parents wanted to send Ochoa, then 11, but she refused to go.", "The clandestine program came to be known as Operation Peter Pan.", "It was backed by Washington and coordinated by the Catholic Church, which helped Cuban children get U.S. visas and once in America, find a family or go to foster homes or orphanages.", "But things didn't play out as expected.", "To begin with, a CIA-backed invasion failed to topple Castro.", "With the subsequent Cuban missile crisis, relations between Havana and Washington broke off completely, making travel and even communication almost impossible.", "Many parents couldn't get U.S. visas, and others couldn't get permission to leave Cuba.", "Latin pop star Willy Chirino and former U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez of Florida are perhaps the best-known of the \"Peter Pan\" kids.", "The operation inspires mixed feelings.", "Many Cuban exiles argue that the airlift saved children who might have died trying to escape on rafts or grown up under a repressive regime.", "Others say the clandestine program put many kids at unnecessary risk, with a few suffering abuse in foster homes and orphanages.", "Silvia Wilhelm was airlifted out when she was just 14.", "She didn't come back to Cuba for more than 30 years but now visits frequently and promotes cultural and religious exchanges.", "\"I will always respect my parents' decision, because they made it at a juncture in time that was when their whole world was falling apart,\" she said.", "Her parents managed to get coveted U.S. visas a year later and moved to Florida.", "\"I think at the end of the day we were pawns between political powers, two countries.\"", "But it took years for other families to be reunited, and 20 percent of the children never saw their parents again.", "Ochoa's brother Frank drifted from home to home, and his family eventually gave up trying to join him.", "\"He felt so alone that he wrote to my mother, filling pages with the same sentence: Come Mommy.", "Come Mommy,\" she said.", "In 1993, Frank died.", "He was only in his 30s. \"When the bureaucratic hurdles started to ease, it was too late.", "My brother was already sick.", "My mother had already died without ever seeing him again,\" she said.", "Ochoa started work on a documentary about the exodus a year later.", "Politics still divide the countries, but many families touched by Operation Peter Pan have started to reach out to people and places they thought they had lost.", "Last year, President Obama lifted restrictions on allowing Cuban-Americans to visit relatives in Cuba and made it easier for them to send money to relatives." ]	[ "14,000 Cuban children sent to U.S. at start of Castro's revolution .", "Mixed feelings remain about Operation Peter Pan .", "Some families were never reunited .", "Others have started to reach out again as restrictions are lifted ." ]	[ 5, 18, 35 ]
[ "LUKAVAC, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- The man's remains lie on a table.", "Next to him are the bones of his 22-year-old son and the remains of another son.", "But no one yet knows which of the man's two missing boys the third set of remains could be.", "Cheryl Katzmarzyk measures a leg bone as she puts together remains from Srebrenica.", "Cheryl Katzmarzyk wants to be able to put a name to the remains, and to those of hundreds of other bodies stacked around her in a building in Lukavac, near Tuzla in the northeast of Bosnia.", "The bones are from more than 8,000 men and boys slaughtered in 1995 during the Bosnian war at Srebrenica in the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.", "The killers -- Serbs seeking to drive out Bosnian Muslims in a policy of \"ethnic cleansing\" -- executed the region's fighting-age males, then used bulldozers to dump them into mass graves.", "What makes the work harder for the teams trying to put the bodies back together -- so they can be returned to their families for proper burial -- is that so many have been broken up over the years.", "Mass graves were dug up and the bodies moved sometimes again and again, to hide evidence as the Serbs retreated amid the NATO bombing that followed Srebrenica and led to the end of the war.", "Those killed in a warehouse execution at Srebrenica are spread throughout 20 secondary grave sites, for instance.", "Katzmarzyk said remains of one of the victims was found in eight different parts of one mass grave.", "Another man's shoulder was found where he and others were lined up and shot, one of his legs was found near a grave, a hip was found inside the grave, his upper jaw several miles away and his left arm in a secondary grave.", "\"What we do here is we sort them out,\" said Katzmarzyk, the head of anthropological examinations for the International Commission on Missing Persons.", "Katzmarzyk's team from the ICMP -- a nongovernmental organization set up at the end of the Bosnian war to locate and identify victims of war and human rights abuses -- has pioneered quicker, simpler DNA tests to work out which bones go together.", "Watch an audio slideshow about the ICMP's work » .", "Then, a more extensive DNA test is done to see if there is a match with any of thousands of relatives who have donated their own samples in the hope of finding missing relatives.", "But DNA can only go so far, and while it can show that the unidentified remains on Katzmarzyk's table are those of a man and his 22-year-old son, it cannot say whether the third set belongs to a missing 21-year-old or his 24-year-old brother -- because neither had children to act as an extra reference point.", "It's a particular problem with identifying the Srebrenica dead because so many of the victims were related.", "Across the room, brothers lie next to each other, but as yet the scientists do not know who is who.", "So Katzmarzyk and her colleagues are also experts in forensic anthropology, using other pointers to make an identification.", "They will look for clues to the age of the remains and any other factors that could identify them: Did the man break his leg as a child?", "What clothes was he wearing?", "How tall was he? \"We started to look at clothing, place of disappearance,\" said Katzmarzyk.", "\"We use all kinds of evidence to identify as many people as possible.\"", "Watch a Bosnia concentration camp survivor describe the torture and rape she witnessed » .", "About 5,200 people out of the 8,000 executed at Srebrenica have been identified with the help of ICMP, but new mass graves continue to be found and more remains are delivered to the facility in Lukavac to be matched.", "Years of work lie ahead -- if governments continue to contribute to the project.", "\"We still have many more IDs to make, but what we need are additional funds to ensure that the process is completed.", "It's essential. ... This is a unique contribution to the investigation of genocide,\" said Katzmarzyk, who was recently working on 842 sets of remains, all but one of them male.", "Evidence gathered by the ICMP about the Srebrenica genocide could also be used against former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who is set to face trial at The Hague, accused of ordering the massacre.", "ICMP helped identify victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami, but its main work continues in the former Yugoslavia, where the condition of the remains makes it vital to use DNA, forensic anthropology and anything else to piece skeletons together and give them a name.", "\"The ICMP is unique in that all these lines of inquiry are used together,\" Katzmarzyk said.", "\"DNA is essential, anthropology is essential.\"", "The work is challenging scientifically and sometimes emotionally, she said.", "It is rewarding and satisfying to identify remains and allow them to be released to the coroner and then to the family.", "But some cases are more haunting.", "\"The fact that I have three brothers lying side by side on a table -- how can that not affect you?\"", "Katzmarzyk asked.", "\"And there's a fourth brother missing.\"" ]	[ "Scientists piece together remains of massacre victims .", "Many of the 8,000 slaughtered at Srebrenica still not identified .", "Team uses mix of DNA and forensic anthropology ." ]	[ 25, 30 ]
[ "Central Falls, Rhode Island (CNN) -- Graduates of the nation's most vilified high school descended upon campus Tuesday evening to support the school's fired teachers.", "They also had a message for President Obama: Don't bash our school.", "\"He doesn't know us. He doesn't know the teachers.", "He doesn't know the students,\" said Nikko Calle, 21, a graduate of Central Falls High School in 2006.", "\"I think it's a real outrage what's happening here.\"", "Nearby, Ashley Delgado, 19, stood on the school's steps clutching a sign that read: \"Dear Obama, I supported you, your causes, goals and beliefs.", "Why aren't you supporting mine?\"", "A firestorm has erupted in this Democratic stronghold in recent weeks after 93 teachers, support staff and administrators at Central Falls High School were fired for the low performance of the school, which graduated just 48 percent of its seniors last year.", "The firings will go into effect at the end of the school year.", "Teachers can re-apply, but no more than 50 percent will get rehired.", "Obama weighed in last week, endorsing the actions of the local board.", "\"Our kids get only one chance at an education and we need to get it right,\" the president said.", "Obama's comments further inflamed an already tense environment in this poor Rhode Island enclave, just outside Providence.", "\"I couldn't believe it,\" said Delgado, who graduated in 2008.", "\"Ever since the beginning, I thought firing all the teachers was a ridiculous notion.\"", "About 70 young people, most of them graduates of the school and now in college or working, demonstrated peacefully outside the school in the largely Hispanic, working class neighborhood.", "They expressed outrage and disbelief that the school they attended has become a national pariah.", "\"We stand together for our teachers and for our school,\" said Katherine Lopera, 20, a graduate in 2007.", "Her classmate, Sindy Alvisures, said, \"The teachers are literally like our family.", "When I went through high school, I went through a lot of personal problems and my teachers were always there for me.\"", "Of the 800 students who currently attend Central Falls, 65 percent are Hispanic; English is a second language for most.", "Half the students are failing every subject, with 55 percent skilled in reading and 7 percent proficient in math, officials say.", "The defenders of the school say improvements have been made, but the stats are skewed against them because the school's population is so transient.", "Tuesday's demonstration was to coincide with a board of trustees meeting, where the firings were to be the main topic.", "However, the meeting was abruptly called off, because the Governor's Commission on Disabilities said the school's auditorium was unfit for people with disabilities.", "On the steps outside the school, George McLaughlin shrugged.", "He cast suspicion on the reason for the meeting's cancellation.", "\"Unless they mean, it's not fit for morally disabled people,\" he said.", "McLaughlin has been a guidance counselor at Central Falls for the last 15 years.", "His wife is a chemistry teacher.", "\"We will lose all of our income.\"", "He suggested Obama should summon the 93 teachers and administrators for a beer summit.", "The president \"hasn't heard our side of the story,\" said McLaughlin, a member of the teachers' union.", "\"He hasn't listened to us.", "He knows nothing about us.\"", "Marcia Reback, president of the Rhode Island Federation of Teachers, was less hospitable toward the president.", "\"We're all taking our bumper stickers for Obama off our cars,\" Reback said earlier in the day.", "She said the union supports school reform.", "She called for an independent mediator to intervene at Central Falls because tensions have gotten so high between the union and the school administrators who carried out the firings.", "\"This is unprecedented,\" Reback said.", "\"I don't think anyone was prepared for this kind of fallout.\"", "School superintendent Fran Gallo said she stands by her decision.", "She noted the school didn't graduate half its seniors last year.", "\"Somebody hasn't spoken up for them, the other 50 percent,\" she said.", "As darkness fell at the school, the graduates who had come back said the problems at the school have been oversimplified and that the rest of the nation can't understand the importance of the teachers in the tough environment they live.", "Nikko Calle said one of the most important men in his life was his creative writing teacher, Michael Occhi.", "A freshly planted tree stands on the school's lawn to honor the legacy of Occhi.", "He was killed in an accident by a drunk driver last summer.", "Encouraged by his high school teacher, Calle has taken up poetry.", "\"A lot of these teachers here helped me through hard times,\" he said.", "\"They were always here for me.\" Now, many here wonder what the legacy of the school will be next." ]	[ "About 70 young people, most of them graduates of the school, demonstrated Tuesday .", "Graduates upset by President Obama's comments about their school .", "Supporters say school is improving, despite the neighborhood's many obstacles ." ]	[ 0, 15 ]
[ "Chicago, Illinois (CNN) -- The four people found dead this week in a suburban Chicago home were the victims of a murder-suicide, a coroner said.", "A man, a woman and two boys were found dead Wednesday in a house in Addison, Illinois, west of Chicago, according to the DuPage County coroner's office.", "A statement from the coroner's office identified the four as Thomas Mangiantini, 48, his wife Elizabeth, 46, and the couple's two sons, Angelo, 12, and Thomas, 8.", "The deaths of Elizabeth Mangiantini and the two children were called homicides in the coroner's report.", "Thomas Mangiantini's manner of death was ruled a suicide, the report said.", "Police received a 911 call from a woman at 6:30 a.m. CT Wednesday, according to CNN affiliate WGN-TV in Chicago.", "When officers arrived at the scene, they found a female dead downstairs in the house and the bodies of three males upstairs, according to WGN.", "A spokesman for the Addison Police Department declined to give more information Friday." ]	[ "Coroner says four are victims of murder-suicide in Addison, Illinois, house .", "Bodies of married couple and two sons found after 911 call in suburban Chicago .", "Father's death a suicide, others homicides, coroner says ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama is saddled with a potentially toxic image problem: that he has an elitist attitude.", "Sen. Barack Obama mingles at the Penn State dairy farm.", "It has made him a target of attacks from Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican nominee.", "It's ironic that one presidential candidate could hang that label on another, said Dr. Drew Westen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and author of \"The Political Brain.\"", "\"If you think you should be president, by definition you are an elitist, only because you believe that of the 300 million people in America, you are the best person to run it,\" he said.", "\"There can't be a more elitist statement than that.\"", "Obama's opponents made the elitist charge after the senator from Illinois said some small-town Pennsylvanians are understandably \"bitter\" over the government's failure to reverse their economic decline and, in their frustration, \"cling to guns and religion.\"", "He made the statement at a recent fundraiser in San Francisco, California.", "Watch how Obama is fighting the elitist label » .", "Obama defended his remarks but said he could have worded them better.", "Clinton said his comments were \"elitist, out of touch and frankly, patronizing.\"", "McCain agreed that the remarks were \"elitist.\"", "Branding a rival elitist is not new in politics.", "Republicans for years have successfully labeled Democratic presidential candidates as the liberal elite.", "Portraying their rivals as latte-sipping, sushi-eating insiders, Republicans have connected with some voters by arguing that they understand the values important to the everyday person.", "\"It's a little like when politicians charge politicians with being politicians.", "It has the same feel to it: that if it sticks, it's because a candidate hasn't handled it well,\" Westen said.", "Republicans painted George W. Bush's Democratic opponents Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004 as elitists who were detached from average Americans, and the strategy worked.", "How damaging the blow is, Westen said, depends on the target's response.", "\"The mistake that Kerry and Gore both made was to let that brand stick to them,\" he said.", "\"The only question is whether Obama fights it back and offers a different brand for himself than the brand that is starting to be given to him.\"", "By definition, all the candidates exhibit the aura of elitism, because it's difficult to get a presidential campaign started without some degree of personal wealth.", "It's ironic, Westen said, that of the three standing, the only one who isn't demonstrably wealthy is Obama.", "Since leaving the White House, the Clintons have earned more than $109 million from book sales, speaking engagements, the presidential pension and her Senate salary, among other sources.", "McCain, whose father and grandfather were Navy admirals, married into wealth.", "His second wife, Cindy, has a stake in her father's multimillion-dollar beer distributor company.", "The Associated Press estimated her worth at more than $100 million.", "Whatever their current financial status, the candidates all like to convey the impression that they are not much different than the people they are trying to persuade to vote for them.", "Obama, 46, who graduated from Columbia University and received a law degree from Harvard, often mentions growing up in a single-parent home.", "He says he and his wife just paid off their school loans in the past five or six years.", "\"I wasn't born into a lot of money.", "I didn't have a trust fund.", "I wasn't born into fame and fortune.", "I was raised by a single mother with the help of my grandparents,\" he said.", "\"My mother had to use food stamps at one point.\"", "Clinton, who has been reaching out to blue-collar voters with stories of how she learned to shoot a gun in Pennsylvania and photo ops hoisting a shot and a beer, often talks about her middle-class upbringing.", "Clinton, 60, went to Wellesley College before attending law school at Yale.", "After graduation, she advocated for women and children's rights and became a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund.", "She later became a partner in a law firm and was twice listed as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the country.", "The senator from New York frequently touts her 35 years of public service, including eight as first lady.", "McCain spent a week traveling around on a \"get-to-know-me\" tour.", "He talked about how he was a rambunctious child with a chip on his shoulder.", "McCain, 71, went to the United States Naval Academy and frequently jokes about finishing at the bottom of his class.", "After graduation, he spent 22 years as a naval pilot.", "He was shot down on a bombing mission and spent five years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.", "He retired from the Navy in 1981 and, living in Arizona, became a member of the House the next year.", "He was elected to the Senate in 1986 and is serving his fourth term.", "Dr. James Twitchell, an author, University of Florida English professor and commentator on American culture, said the whole elitism back-and-forth is \"self-serving nonsense,\" pointing specifically to the similarities in the Democratic contenders' stories.", "\"Both senators are members of one of the more elite clubs [the Senate], attended the elite schools [Harvard, Yale] and are out for one of the most elite jobs,\" he said.", "As the candidates get closer to the White House, they get farther away from \"normal life.\"", "They fight to show they still share the average American's values, visiting bowling alleys, diners and schools along the way.", "\"I do think it speaks to one of the conflicts that Americans have about their leaders, which is we want them to be like us, and we want them to be above us at the same time,\" Westen said.", "\"The issue comes down to two things.", "One is, do you let your opponent brand you as elite, in which case you are in a lot of trouble in American politics?", "And the second is, do you convey clearly to people that you understand them and the world they live in and the problems they face?\"", "he said. \"In the case of Barack Obama, my guess is, this isn't going to stick terribly well because he does such a good job of connecting with people that the elitist charge is going to be a harder one to make people feel.\"", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Candy Crowley contributed to this report." ]	[ "Barack Obama's rivals have accused him of having an elitist attitude .", "Presidential candidates are elite by definition, says author Drew Westen .", "Charge of elitism is not new in politics .", "The toxicity of the charge depends on how it's handled, Westen says ." ]	[ 0, 3, 12, 18, 21 ]
[ "San Francisco, California (CNN) -- Before the protests of tuition hikes last week, a colleague posted the following: \"Need suggestions for protest songs.", "We have a DJ but need to give her a play list.\"", "The requests started coming in: Joan Baez, the Dixie Chicks, The Clash.", "I wondered about the overlap between songs on a professor's play list and those on a student's.", "So I went to class and asked students to tell me what they wanted to hear.", "The list included Dead Prez, Lyrics Born, B-Side Players and Erykah Badu, among many others.", "This is the protest play list of a new generation.", "My introduction to protest songs came through my mom.", "As the daughter of a Chicano movement activist, I attended protests against wars in Central America and rallies in response to police repression.", "Last week, I marched in solidarity with people across 17 states calling for well-funded, accessible public education.", "While at the March 4 rally, I realized that California's public education system has had a great impact on who my mother and I are today.", "As a 15-year-old immigrant newly arrived in Los Angeles, my mother was placed in remedial classes because she didn't speak English.", "She struggled with the language but excelled in math.", "Yet her high school counselor directed her to work at a local tortilla factory.", "This was the early 1960s, just a few years before students responded to educational inequities through organized acts of civil disobedience that would later be referred to as the East Los Angeles blowouts.", "It was only by chance, and without parental or institutional guidance, that my mom enrolled in East Los Angeles College.", "Like many other low-income and working students, community college was her entry into higher education.", "It was not until her mid-30s that she enrolled in the California State University of Los Angeles while working full time.", "I was in elementary school and remember going to campus with her on days that my dad was working, even during an in-class exam.", "This was my first exposure to a university classroom.", "Since then, I have taught at the California State University of Los Angeles and the University of California at San Diego.", "I am currently an assistant professor at San Francisco State University.", "Watching preschool teachers and children participating in the recent marches reminded me that my education began at Head Start.", "My mom enrolled me in this program, which provided early reading and math skills and set a foundation for my educational development.", "I stand in solidarity with early childhood educators.", "At the protest, I watched high school students confidently take the stage and list their demands and hopes for a better future.", "I wish that my mom, as a teenage immigrant, could have aired her own frustrations with the 1960s educational system.", "Today's high school students inspire me, and I am proud of today's teachers, who support their students.", "I ran into some of my own students at the rally.", "One asked where she could hear the DJ playing her song request.", "We searched through the sea of people and realized the turnout was much larger than we had imagined.", "The protest play lists of multiple generations filled the air with music.", "Young fans of Dead Prez marched and chanted alongside older fans of Joan Baez.", "They all recognized the need for well-funded, accessible public education.", "Rising student fees have placed barriers between thousands of eligible students and their dreams of higher education.", "In addition, budget cuts and the subsequent elimination of course offerings have extended the number of years necessary to graduate.", "Many of my students have taken on multiple jobs to finance their education.", "I hear their stories and imagine my mom trying to attend Cal State L.A. today.", "Younger generations in the U.S. have consistently achieved a higher level of education than the generation that came before.", "But for the first time since World War II, we are in danger of reversing that trend.", "Students and educators view education as a public good available to all and will continue mobilizing to restore funding for public education.", "Will they receive support or will education become a luxury available to fewer and fewer people?", "The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Katynka Z. Martínez." ]	[ "Katynka Z. Martínez : Protest songs at education rally ranged from old school to hip hop .", "Martínez: Whichever generation, all were fighting for accessible, affordable higher education .", "Writer's mom immigrated to L.A. at 15 and went to college; she couldn't afford it today .", "Rising fees keep thousands of eligible students from realizing their dreams, she says ." ]	[ 7, 34, 37, 40, 42 ]
[ "MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- Mexican authorities deployed more than 1,000 additional police officers to reinforce security at the capital's 175 subway stations on Saturday, a day after a shooting inside a station left two people dead and eight injured at the height of evening rush hour.", "Camera footage shows Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo brandishing a gun.", "The shooting at the Balderas station in central Mexico City happened after police stopped Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38, from writing graffiti on the wall of one of the subway platforms.", "Five of the injured suffered gunshot wounds, and three others were hurt by the stampeding crowds, officials said.", "Hernandez Castillo was writing \"Este gobierno de criminales,\" or \"this government of criminals,\" Mexico City district attorney Miguel Angel Mancera said.", "As police tried to stop him, Hernandez Castillo drew a .38 special handgun and began firing.", "Mancera said his first impression of Hernandez Castillo is that he may suffer from mental illness.", "\"One moment he is talking about global warming and then about the message of the Bible and suddenly he focuses on some government,\" Mancera said.", "Authorities identified Hernandez Castillo as an agriculturalist from the state of Jalisco.", "Hernandez Castillo also told investigators that he believed a great famine would come, and he traveled to Mexico City to relay a message, Mancera said.", "Earlier this month, a Bolivian pastor hijacked a passenger jet in Mexico City with a fake bomb, claiming that he acted on a divine revelation to warn people of a forthcoming earthquake.", "Mancera said Hernandez Castillo was aware of the hijacking, but that the two events were not connected.", "Hernandez Castillo said he opened fire because he saw the police as a threat to his task of writing on the wall, Mancera said.", "Preliminary tests show that Hernandez Castillo was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs during the incident, Mancera said.", "The Mexican government on Saturday posted security camera footage of the shooting.", "It shows a busy subway platform as the train pulls into the station just before 5:15 p.m. Friday.", "As the train comes to a stop, there is a disturbance in the crowd, and Hernandez Castillo is seen shooting at an officer.", "Watch the dramatic incident unfold » .", "The crowd disperses, and the officer runs out of view of the camera.", "The officer, who was a bank policeman, is later seen on the footage lying dead, face down on the platform.", "Authorities identified the officer as Victor Manuel Miranda Martinez.", "The footage shows a man in a white shirt running off the train and trying to wrestle Hernandez Castillo.", "The man chases Hernandez Castillo around the platform.", "He frequently falls either because he slips or is trying to avoid being shot.", "The man is on the floor facing Hernandez Castillo, about to get up and try to grab him, when he is shot in the head and falls to the ground.", "Mancera initially said the man was a federal security agent in plain clothes, but later clarified that the man was a civilian, a 58-year-old construction worker.", "A scattered handful of people remain on the subway platform during the shooting.", "Some stay on the train.", "Others walk on the platform very close to the shooter, seemingly undisturbed.", "Seven minutes later, the camera pans out to show the construction worker lying on his back and the bank police officer in the foreground.", "Hernandez Castillo remains on the train, occasionally firing his gun and peeking out of the train.", "At 5:23 p.m., the camera shows first one, then two, then three plain-clothes police getting into position on the platform.", "Within moments they rush Hernandez Castillo and pull him out of the train, with nearly a dozen police officers then wrestling him to the ground.", "Hernandez Castillo was treated at a hospital for a bullet wound to the right shoulder before being transferred to the local attorney general's office, a common place to hold prisoners during preliminary investigations, a spokesman for the attorney general said.", "He faces two counts of murder and one count each of attempted murder, aggression, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace, said the spokesman, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the press.", "CNN's Esprit Smith in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report." ]	[ "Shooting took place at the Balderas station in central Mexico City .", "Luis Felipe Hernandez Castillo, 38, had been writing graffiti .", "When police tried to stop him he drew a gun and began firing .", "Witnesses heard Hernandez Castillo yelling anti-government slogans ." ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "ROME, Italy (CNN) -- Nearly two dozen Americans -- most thought to work for the CIA -- were sentenced to five years in prison Wednesday by an Italian court for their role in the seizing of a suspected terrorist in Italy in 2003, the prosecutor in the case told CNN.", "The Americans did not appear for trial and are not in custody, but the ruling could effectively make them international fugitives.", "The trial was the first to deal with a practice that human rights groups call \"extraordinary rendition.\"", "They say the United States has often sent suspects to countries that practice torture.", "Washington acknowledges making secret \"rendition\" transfers of terrorism suspects between countries but denies using torture or handing suspects over to countries that do.", "The case centered on the extraordinary rendition of a Muslim cleric, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, or Abu Omar.", "He was seized on the streets of Milan, Italy, in 2003, transferred to Egypt and tortured, he said.", "He was suspected of recruiting men to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan and was under heavy surveillance by Italy's intelligence agency.", "Prosecutors said he was nabbed by a CIA team working with Italian intelligence officials.", "The verdict \"shows governments and institutions that the fight against terrorism has to be carried out in accordance with the law.", "There are no shortcuts,\" Spataro told CNN.", "Those who were found guilty were ordered to pay Abu Omar 1 million euros ($1.48 million) and his wife 500,000 euros.", "A total of 22 Americans were each sentenced to five years in prison for their role in his abduction.", "Another -- Robert Seldon Lady, whom prosecutors said was the CIA station chief in Milan -- was sentenced to eight years in jail, prosecutor Armando Spataro told CNN.", "Cases were dismissed against three other Americans, including Jeff Castelli, the man assumed to be the CIA station chief in Rome at the time, because they had diplomatic immunity from prosecution.", "Spataro said he may appeal that ruling.", "Cases were also dismissed against the former head of Italy's intelligence service and his deputy because of state secrecy provisions.", "Two other Italians were sentenced to three years in jail for aiding the plot.", "Sabrina De Sousa, one of the American defendants, was \"saddened, angered and dismayed\" by the ruling, her lawyer told CNN.", "She felt the U.S. government had \"stabbed her in the back,\" Mark Zaid said.", "\"We understand why the Italians did what they did.", "They were following their laws.", "But at the end of the day, representatives of our United States government abroad were let down and left alone by their own government.\"", "De Sousa, a career diplomat, is suing the State Department over the case, Zaid confirmed.", "She has never said she worked for the CIA.", "CIA spokesman George Little said Wednesday: \"The CIA has not commented on any of the allegations surrounding Abu Omar.\"", "But U.S. officials confirmed to CNN when the case first broke that the CIA was involved in the rendition of Abu Omar from Italy to Egypt.", "The officials never disclosed the number of Americans involved or their names.", "Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell responded to the verdict as it applied to an Air Force officer, Lt. Col. Joseph Romano III, who was among the Americans sentenced.", "The Pentagon had asserted jurisdiction over the incident under the NATO Status of Forces Agreement, a position that the Italian minister of justice supported, Morrell said.", "\"We are clearly disappointed by the court's ruling,\" Morrell said.", "\"Our view is that the Italian court has no jurisdiction over Lt. Col. Romano and should have immediately dismissed the charges.\"", "The American Civil Liberties Union, a persistent critic of Washington's extraordinary rendition program, demanded the United States match Italy's actions.", "\"The decision in Italy underscores the need for the United States to hold its own officials accountable for crimes committed under the 'extraordinary rendition' program.", "It is shameful that the first convictions of this kind came from a foreign justice system, where those convicted are not likely to serve their time,\" said Steven Watt, staff attorney for the ACLU Human Rights Program.", "Italian authorities originally indicted 26 Americans and five Italians in 2007 for kidnapping in the matter.", "The Italians included the former head of Italian intelligence, Nicolo Pollari, and one of his deputies.", "They testified in preliminary hearings that Italian intelligence played no role in the alleged abduction.", "None of the Americans is in custody in Italy and the Italian government did not ask for their extradition; they were tried in absentia.", "Former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer told CNN in the past that the Italian military secret service had approved the operation involving Hassan, and CIA sources who refused to be named told CNN in 2005 that the agency had briefed and sought approval from its Italian counterpart for such an abduction.", "The Italian government of the day -- which was led by Silvio Berlusconi -- vigorously denied having authorized Hassan's kidnapping, which it called illegal.", "Berlusconi has since returned to power.", "CNN's Hada Messia in Rome; Paula Newton in London, England; and Pam Benson and Jim Barnett in Washington contributed to this report." ]	[ "Suspected U.S. CIA agents ordered jailed for seizing of suspected terrorist in Milan .", "Americans are not in custody, but ruling could make them international fugitives .", "Case centered on \"extraordinary rendition\" of Muslim cleric, who says he was tortured in Egypt ." ]	[ 1, 5, 26 ]
[ "Montevideo, Uruguay (CNN) -- Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica, a former Marxist Tupamaro guerrilla fighter, won Uruguay's presidential runoff election Sunday, exit polls showed.", "Exit polls had Mujica defeating former president Luis Alberto Lacalle by a margin of 4 to 8 percentage points.", "Current Uruguayan President Tabare Vazquez confirmed the projection to reporters Sunday evening, and Lacalle conceded in a speech.", "The streets of the South American country's capital were filled with Mujica's supporters, who cheered and honked their horns.", "Mujica belongs to the same Broad Front Party as Vazquez, who is popular.", "Both men are considered leftists.", "Lacalle is considered more conservative.", "In a victory speech, Mujica said his administration will continue the policies of Vazquez.", "\"Tomorrow, the commitment continues,\" he said.", "Mujica, 74, was imprisoned for 14 years and released in 1985 when democracy was restored to Uruguay after a 17-year dictatorship.", "He was minister of livestock and agriculture from 2005 to 2008 and is now a senator.", "Mujica has played down his connection with the Tupamaros, who were defeated in 1973.", "In his victory speech Sunday, Mujica called for unity and asked his followers not to offend those who voted for other candidates during the first and second rounds of voting.", "His administration may make mistakes, but it will never turn its back to the problems facing the country, Mujica said.", "\"He is the man who talks and dresses austerely,\" analyst Gabriel Pereyra said of Mujica.", "\"He is the man who communicates and talks the language of the people.\"", "Analyst Rosario Queirolo describes Mujica as \"a person who somehow lives what he preaches and is an antipolitician in another way.\"", "\"He doesn't very well fit the image of a president we have in Uruguay,\" Queirolo said.", "Uruguay is one of the smallest countries in South America, about the size of Washington state.", "But it is also considered one of the most economically developed.", "Located on South America's southeastern coast, the country has a population of 3.5 million, 92 percent of whom live in urban areas.", "CNN en Español's Dario Klein and CNN's Arthur Brice contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Jose \"Pepe\" Mujica asks supporters not to offend people who voted for other candidates .", "Mujica said to win by margin of 4 to 8 percentage points .", "Former president Luis Alberto Lacalle concedes in a speech .", "Mujica belongs to the same Broad Front Party as the current president ." ]	[ 1, 4, 12 ]
[ "Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- The death toll from weekend violence in central Nigeria climbed to more than 200 Monday after members of a machete-wielding Muslim group attacked a mostly Christian town south of the city of Jos, officials said.", "More than 200 were dead and 32 injured, according to Choji Gyang, a religious affairs adviser to the head of Plateau state, who said bodies were still being recovered.", "Sani Shehu, president of the nongovernmental agency Civil Rights Congress, put the number of dead at about 485 people.", "Twenty-six arrests had been made in connection with the violence, Gyang said.", "Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan put security on high alert Sunday and began operations to capture the \"roving bands of killers\" who attacked Dogo Nahauwa, a town just south of Jos.", "Are you there? Send your video, images to iReport .", "The townsfolk are predominantly Berom, an ethnic group that mostly practices Christianity, said Manase Pampe, spokesman for the Red Cross Plateau state office.", "Reports of the attack described the assailants as members of the Muslim Hausa-Fulani ethnic group, Pampe and government spokesman Gregory Yenlong said.", "The attackers stormed the town at 3 a.m. Sunday (9 p.m. Saturday ET) and remained there for 2½ hours, Pampe said.", "Buildings were set afire, and people were attacked with machetes, Yenlong said.", "The violence resembled previous outbreaks of ethno-religious clashes in the West African nation.", "But John Onaiyekan, archbishop of Abuja, told Vatican Radio the most recent outbreak is the result of a dispute over access to natural resources, not religion.", "\"The point that needs to be made is that people are not killing one another because of religion,\" Onaiyekan said.", "Instead, he called it a \"classical\" economic conflict between farmers and less sedentary groups.", "The Plateau attack prompted Jonathan to place the area and neighboring states on \"red alert,\" the vice president's office said in a news release.", "He directed security forces to \"undertake strategic initiatives to confront and defeat these roving bands of killers,\" the office said.", "Jonathan, who became acting head of state in February while President Umaru Yar'Adua recovers from illness, called for calm.", "\"He calls on all Nigerians to remain peaceful and law abiding since violence only begets further violence,\" the release said.", "\"He also sympathizes with those who have lost relatives and friends in these attacks, asking the Almighty to grant them the fortitude to bear the loss.\"", "Onaiyekan said the government had imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew but noted it's difficult for authorities to impose curfews outside the cities.", "The recent casualties don't \"say much about the ability of government to defend its citizens,\" he said.", "Hundreds fled the town as the violence raged Sunday.", "The Red Cross was caring for about 600 people at its camp in Boto in Bauchi state, said Alhaji Abubakar, the group's spokesman in the state.", "Bauchi is just north of Plateau state.", "Forty-eight people were treated at hospitals, national Red Cross spokesman Umar Maigari said.", "Red Cross officials counted 30 bodies in one community but were unable to continue their investigation, he said.", "Residents wanted to direct the attention to burying the dead, he said.", "Nigeria -- with more than 150 million people -- is the most populous country in Africa and almost evenly divided between Muslims and Christians.", "It has the sixth-largest Islamic population in the world -- 78 million-plus Muslims, according to a study last year by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.", "While some outbursts of violence are between Christians and Muslims, some disputes are also ethnic-based.", "The country is home to 250 to 400 ethnic groups, making it one of the most diverse African nations, according to the International Displacement Monitoring Center.", "Thousands were displaced in January when violence flared up in Jos, said Shehu of the Civil Rights Congress.", "A local activist said 69 people were killed and about 600 injured.", "Also in January, at least 150 Muslims were killed during an attack in Kuru Karama south of Jos, Human Rights Watch reported.", "Community leaders from Jos and journalists told Human Rights Watch they saw dozens of bodies lodged in wells or sewage pits.", "Most of the town's homes were burned, the group said.", "In November 2008, at least 700 Nigerians died in Christian-Muslim riots that followed a disputed local election, Human Rights Watch reported.", "CNN's Christian Purefoy contributed to this report." ]	[ "Officials say death toll more than 200; others put figure as high as 485 .", "Predominantly Christian town attacked with machetes, buildings set on fire .", "Reports describe attackers as members of Islamic Hausa-Fulani ethnic group .", "Nigeria has seen other religious, ethnic violence, including deadly attack on Muslims ." ]	[ 0, 7, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Snow Leopard, the highly anticipated new operating system for the Mac, will be released ahead of schedule Friday, Apple announced Monday.", "\"Ordered already: I'm just one of those nut cases,\" one Twitter user wrote about the new release.", "The Mac OS X Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade to the current Leopard system for $29 and can be pre-ordered now, the company said.", "\"Snow Leopard builds on our most successful operating system ever, and we're happy to get it to users earlier than expected,\" said Bertrand Serlet, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering.", "\"For just $29, Leopard users get a smooth upgrade to the world's most advanced operating system and the only system with built-in [Microsoft] Exchange support.\"", "The company said in a news release that, for Snow Leopard, Apple engineers refined 90 percent of the 1,000 projects that currently make up its operating system.", "Among the anticipated features will be what Apple promises to be faster applications, including e-mail and Web browser Safari 4, while freeing up 7 GB of drive space, compared with the current system.", "An upgraded QuickTime system will let users more easily view, record, trim and share video, the company said, and it will include improvements to the system's iCal calendar, podcast producer and wiki server.", "The system had been scheduled for a September release date.", "But speculation in recent days had centered on an earlier release.", "Apple rival Microsoft is set to release Windows 7, a new version of its PC operating system, on October 22.", "Mac users were reporting that Apple's online stores were unavailable Monday morning, presumably to add the order page for Snow Leopard.", "The announcement Monday created the buzz typical of any Apple announcement among the world of devoted Mac users.", "Both \"Snow Leopard\" and \"Mac OS X Snow\" had become trending topics on Twitter on Monday morning -- with response mostly positive.", "\"Ordered already: I'm just one of those nut cases,\" one user wrote." ]	[ "Mac's Snow Leopard system to be out weeks ahead of schedule .", "Apple promises new and faster apps, while saving 7 GB of space .", "Upgrade available for pre-order: $29 for current Leopard users .", "90 percent of system's projects were changed, Apple says ." ]	[ 0, 2, 6 ]
[ "Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuba is wrapping up its biggest military exercises in five years, saying it wants to be prepared in the event of a U.S. invasion.", "Under the watchful eye of Cuban President Raul Castro, the armed forces is ending four days of extensive maneuvers, war-room strategy sessions and military parades across the island.", "\"This is a necessity of the first order,\" Gen. Leonardo Andollo Valdez said on state television.", "\"The political, military situation, which characterizes the confrontation between our country and the empire, can go from a relatively normal situation to a much more urgent, confrontational, aggressive one in a month, a week, or even in a night,\" he added.", "Cuban television broadcast images of camouflaged troops firing from trenches and fighter aircraft dropping bombs.", "Many of the images are from exercises in previous years.", "The exercises come amid a slight thaw in relations between the Cold War enemies.", "President Obama has lifted restrictions on Cuban-American travel and remittances, and the two countries have resumed immigration talks.", "Obama recently said the United States has no intention of invading the communist island just 90 miles off its coast.", "But the fear of an attack has been a constant concern here, and not without reason.", "In 1961, Washington backed an invasion by Cuban exiles bent on overthrowing Fidel Castro, the brother of Raul Castro and former president of Cuba.", "They were defeated at the Bay of Pigs, but the United States has maintained an economic embargo, and Fidel Castro has survived numerous attempts on his life.", "The massive military exercises began in 1980 and have been repeated every few years.", "The latest maneuvers, called \"Bastion 2009,\" are the first since Raul Castro succeeded his brother and Obama assumed the White House.", "Preparations for the exercises began in 2004, before either was in office.", "The exercises end Saturday, and on Sunday, Cuba will celebrate Day of Defense." ]	[ "Nation wrapping up its biggest military exercises in five years .", "Four days of maneuvers, war strategy sessions, military parades set across island .", "Cuban TV shows troops firing, aircraft dropping bombs; many images are from previous years .", "President Obama recently said the United States has no intention of invading Cuba ." ]	[ 1, 4, 5, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Troops in the southern Philippines early Sunday took advantage of martial law to hunt down those believed responsible for last week's killings there.", "President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared martial law in the southern province of Maguindanao after 57 people were killed in politically motivated violence.", "Maj. Randolph Cabangbang, deputy of operations for the Eastern Mindanao command, told CNN on Saturday that searchers have made arrests and recovered firearms and vehicles from a clan implicated in the killings.", "He said local residents welcome the deployment of the troops.", "\"We need this because we do not want those who perpetrated the crime to slip out of the province.", "And we may be having a hard time catching them,\" he said.", "Army spokesman Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr. said martial law -- under which police can make arrests without a warrant -- went into effect at 9 p.m. Congress would have to approve any extension beyond 60 days.", "Brawner said the measure was invoked to impose peace on the region after the unrest, which led to troops being mobilized.", "\"Life is to resume normally and martial law is established to prevent new violence, with troops on the ground monitoring any possible violence breakout,\" he said.", "\"But the civilian government will be running the affairs of the province, not a military governor.\"", "Military police have detained three brothers and their father on suspicion of involvement in the unrest: Akmad Ampatuan, the vice governor of Maguindanao; Anwar Ampatuan, the mayor of Sherif Auguak, Maguindanao's capital; and Zaldy Ampatuan, governor of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao.", "Andal Ampatuan Sr., the patriarch, became ill and was hospitalized after he, too, was taken in.", "\"Local government will function, it will prevent armed groups from wreaking havoc ... and it will allow the officials search and find the guilty parties,\" Brawner said.", "Security forces on Friday searched the home of Andal Ampatuan Jr., mayor of Datu Unsay and son of the provincial governor of Maguindanao, according to Brawner.", "Authorities say Andal Ampatuan Jr. directed the Nov. 23 politically motivated killings.", "Weapons were found in the house, Brawner said.", "On Tuesday, Philippine authorities charged Ampatuan and other suspects with 25 counts of murder in the killings.", "Still more suspects were taken into custody Friday.", "The Philippine military is investigating its own forces in connection with the case as well, Brawner said.", "The National Bureau of Investigation has moved a third witness to Manila for questioning, the Philippines News Agency reported Thursday.", "\"At the moment, we are interviewing the witness so that we would know what he knows about the incident in Maguindanao,\" NBI Director Nestor Mantaring said.", "The witness claimed to have been at the site during the massacre.", "\"He is very vital,\" Mantaring said.", "\"From what I know ... he knows a lot of information regarding the incident.\"", "Among the victims in the massacre were the wife and sister of political candidate Ismael \"Toto\" Mangudadatu, who had sent the women to file paperwork allowing him to run for governor of Maguindanao.", "He said he had received threats from allies of Gov.", "Andal Ampatuan, the father of the accused mayor, saying he would be kidnapped if he filed the papers himself.", "Witnesses and local officials have blamed the younger Ampatuan, a longtime ally of the Philippines president and a known warlord.", "They said the killings were an attempt to block Mangudadatu from challenging him in the May gubernatorial election.", "Also killed were a dozen journalists who had accompanied the women.", "Group: Philippines most dangerous country for journalists .", "Asked why martial law was imposed 12 days after the killings, Cabangbang said authorities \"were trying to build a case -- a tight case\" against suspects.", "\"But it is taking long to build a case, so I think the government gave us a free hand in arresting those who are suspects, and allowed us to search, even without warrant.", "So we really need this declaration of state of martial law.\"", "Violence in the run-up to elections is not uncommon in the Philippines.", "The Maguindanao massacre, however, is the worst politically motivated violence in recent Philippine history, according to state media.", "Maguindanao is part of an autonomous region in predominantly Muslim Mindanao, which was set up in the 1990s to quell armed uprisings by people seeking an independent Muslim homeland in the predominantly Christian Asian nation.", "Suspicion fell on Ampatuan after a government construction vehicle was found at the hastily dug mass grave that held the bodies of the massacre victims.", "CNN's Talia Kayali contributed to this report." ]	[ "Searchers make arrests, recover arms from a clan implicated in massacre .", "Martial law follows killings of 57 last week in Maguindanao province .", "Several members of powerful Ampatuan political family detained .", "Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. directed killings, authorities say ." ]	[ 1, 2, 13, 14 ]
[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's religious affairs minister escaped with a minor injury in an attack that killed his driver Wednesday.", "Hamid Saeed Kazmi (center) and his driver are helped into an ambulance at the site of the shooting.", "The attack took place at an Islamabad market, next to a police station, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan said.", "The minister, Hamid Saeed Kazmi, was shot in the leg but his injury was not serious, hospital officials said.", "The minister's driver, however, died in the attack, the APP said.", "Kazmi, 51, is the federal minister for religious affairs and member of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party.", "Security analyst Hasan Askari-Rizvi told CNN affiliate Time.com the attack shows that the serious security problems in the country remain.", "\"If this type of attack can take place in the center of Islamabad,\" he said, \"then nowhere in Pakistan is safe.\"", "Wednesday's attack comes a day after Pakistani officials claimed fighting in the northwest of the country left 43 militants dead and two commanders captured.", "The deaths came as a result of a military operation in Bara, in the Khyber Agency, according to the agency's Office of Political Administration.", "CNN's Samson Desta contributed to this report." ]	[ "Religious affairs minister, Hamid Saeed Kazmi, was shot in the leg .", "Attack took place at an Islamabad market, next to a police station .", "Minister's driver was killed in the attack ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sent a strong signal Thursday that he has full hands-on control of his country.", "As part of his annual town hall forum, Putin spoke for four hours and fielded 80 questions out of 2 million-plus submitted on a live call-in program, \"Conversation With Vladimir Putin -- Continued.\"", "Responding to a question on whether he had any plans to retire and enjoy the life of an ordinary citizen, Putin tersely replied, \"Don't count on that.\"", "And when asked whether he plans to run for the presidency again in 2012, he said, \"I will think about it.", "There is plenty of time for that.\"", "Speaking of his \"tandem\" with President Dmitry Medvedev, Putin said he had \"known him for many years, graduated from the same universities, having been taught by the same professors.\"", "\"Those common principles allow us to effectively work together,\" he said, responding to the never-ending speculation about which one of the duo is more important and whether a rift between them is possible.", "Putin juggled a myriad of facts and statistics, giving instructions to subordinates along the way to fix problems, as he responded to questions mostly on Russia's domestic issues.", "These covered pensions, medication prices, the overhauling of entire industries and Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization, Amur tigers and hip-hop music, and everything in between.", "The program was broadcast live on government television and radio.", "It marked Putin's eighth annual year-end \"town meeting,\" first launched in 2001 when he was president.", "This year's forum was his second as prime minister.", "Representatives from all Russian industries as well as university students packed the auditorium in Gostiny Dvor, a large conference hall next door to the Kremlin, where Putin appeared.", "Putin took questions from the hall's floor, with live cameras positioned in towns and cities across Russia, and he also responded to phone calls, e-mails and mobile SMS messages.", "He started off by addressing the issue of terrorism, coming nearly a week after the derailment of a luxury Moscow-St.Petersburg express train, which left 26 people dead and more than 100 injured.", "Russia's Federal Security Service said an improvised explosive device, which unknown bombers placed beneath the railroad bed, caused Friday's derailment.", "It was the biggest terror act outside Russia's troubled North Caucasus region since 2004.", "\"We did a lot [in recent years] to break the backbone of terrorism, but the threat has not been eliminated yet,\" Putin said.", "\"The entire society, each of us, should be conscious of this threat and be vigilant.\"", "Addressing the economy, Putin said the peak of the global economic crisis has passed, \"although turbulent trends in the global and, as a result, the Russian economy, are still in place.\"", "\"It will take time and effort to overcome the crisis,\" he said.", "The past year has been \"one of the most difficult\" for Russia in this decade, Putin added, saying the 2009 gross domestic product will shrink by 8.5 percent to 8.7 percent.", "The slump in the country's industry will be even bigger, he said, around 13 percent, but the projected inflation for 2009 will be lower than in the past year, about 9 percent.", "The prime minister also cited what he called \"positive developments\" in the Russian economy.", "He said some industries, such as military hardware production and agriculture, are even growing.", "In the arena of international politics, Putin told a questioner that he and former President George W. Bush had a good relationship but have not been in touch.", "The prime minister described Bush as a \"very honest and nice person,\" saying that if the ex-U.S. leader wanted to continue their relationship, he would be glad to do so.", "Putin's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said the wide range of issues on which Russians posed questions \"provides an excellent instrument for sociological study, and all questions that are being raised, are carefully studied.", "That [call-in show] gives a very reliable sociological survey.\"", "Putin's popularity ratings at home demonstrates his political dominance in Russia.", "Confidence in the prime minister stood at 70 percent, as opposed to 59 percent for Medvedev, according to a recently published opinion poll conducted by Russia's Public Opinion Foundation.", "While Putin had his town hall forum, Medvedev was holding meetings in Italy with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Pope Benedict XVI." ]	[ "Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin dismisses notion of retiring at town hall forum .", "Putin: \"Common principles\" let him, President Dmitry Medvedev work well together .", "Putin calls George W. Bush a \"very honest and nice person\"\nPutin says it will take time to overcome global financial crisis ." ]	[ 20, 26, 31 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A registered sex offender has been indicted on 85 counts -- including aggravated murder, rape and kidnapping -- in the deaths of 11 women whose bodies were found at his home, authorities said Tuesday.", "In addition, Anthony Sowell, 50, is charged with \"brutalizing\" three women and raping two of them, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said.", "Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Sowell, Mason said.", "Sowell is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.", "Sowell is now charged with 11 counts of aggravated murder with a \"mass murder specification,\" meaning multiple people were killed in a similar fashion, Mason said.", "He also is charged with abuse of a corpse, kidnapping and tampering with evidence.", "The indictment also alleges that Sowell assaulted women on December 8, 2008, and on September 22 and October 20 of this year.", "The September and October victims were raped, and the other woman was punched and choked before she escaped, Mason said.", "Sowell's charges in the incidents include attempted murder, rape or attempted rape, kidnapping, robbery and felonious assault.", "Sowell already faced charges in the September 22 rape and has pleaded not guilty.", "On October 20, neighbors reported seeing a naked woman fall from the second floor of his house.", "Firefighters responded and later notified police.", "But the woman told officers she fell off the roof while she was at the home \"partying,\" police said earlier.", "No charges were filed at the time.", "Mason said, however, that the 51-year-old woman had been invited to Sowell's home and left, but was lured back in.", "After being choked and raped, she attempted to escape out a second-floor window as Sowell tried to pull her back in.", "When he was unsuccessful, he pushed her out, and she lay unconscious in an alley for a while before he pulled her back in the house.", "Sowell threatened his victims and warned them not to contact police, Mason said.", "It's possible there are other victims, he said, and he urged anyone who has not come forward to do so.", "Sowell \"knew what he was doing was wrong at the time he was doing it,\" Mason said.", "As of last month, Sowell was on suicide watch at the request of his public defender, Kathleen DeMetz.", "She had said a psychiatric evaluation of Sowell had been ordered but was unlikely to happen until after an indictment was filed.", "Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid said Tuesday that Sowell has been a \"model prisoner,\" is kept in an isolated unit and has declined visitation requests.", "All of the 11 victims were African-American women, authorities have said.", "Most of them were strangled by ligature -- which could include a string, cord or wire -- and at least one was strangled by hand, officials said.", "Seven still had ligatures wrapped around their necks.", "All that has been found of one woman is a skull that was wrapped in a paper bag and stuffed into a bucket in the home's basement.", "Sowell served 15 years in prison for a 1989 attempted rape and was released in 2005.", "He was required to register as a sex offender.", "After the 11 victims were found, police in mid-November used thermal imaging in an attempt to see whether any additional human remains were on the property.", "They dug certain areas by hand.", "No more were found. Police and the FBI have said they are looking at the unsolved murders of three women in East Cleveland to determine whether there are similarities with the remains found at Sowell's home.", "The inquiry continues, Mason said Tuesday.", "Police in Coronado, California, have said they are attempting to determine whether Sowell is linked to a 1979 rape there.", "Though the statute of limitations has expired, authorities said they would like to provide closure to the victim.", "Neighbors and police have said that women were seen at Sowell's home from time to time and that he would offer them alcohol.", "Police said he also might have offered them drugs.", "In the September assault, the 36-year-old woman told police that she encountered Sowell while walking in his neighborhood and he took her back to his home, where he became violent and raped her, according to prosecutors.", "\"While raping her, he strangled her with a cord until she lost consciousness,\" authorities said in a statement.", "\"When she regained consciousness, he let her out of the house.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Indictment includes 11 aggravated murder charges with \"mass murder specification\"\nPolice say they found remains of 11 women after woman reported an assault .", "Authorities investigating whether Sowell has connections to crimes in Ohio, California .", "Sowell, registered sex offender, served 15 years in prison for 1989 attempted rape ." ]	[ 0, 4, 27, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- David Headley, the Chicago, Illinois, man appearing in court Wednesday in connection with terror attacks in India, was born Daood Gilani, the son of a prominent Pakistani broadcaster, according to his half-brother.", "He grew up in both the United States and Pakistan, with a parent from each country.", "Headley's father, Syed Saleem Gilani, was working for the U.S.-government-funded Voice of America when Headley was born in 1960 in Washington, his half-brother Danyal Gilani said in a statement.", "Headley's mother was American, and his parents divorced after they moved to Pakistan together, not long after Headley was born, his half-brother said.", "He did not name the mother.", "His mother returned to the United States, but Headley remained in Pakistan, his half-brother said, citing \"family elders.\"", "Headley went to high school at the Hassan Abdal Cadet College in Pakistan, Gilani and an FBI complaint against Headley indicate.", "At some point after high school, Headley moved back to the United States to be with his mother, and has had little contact with his Pakistani family since then, Gilani said.", "Gilani last saw Headley, whom he still refers to as Daood, \"when he visited Pakistan a few days after my father's death, nearly a year ago.\"", "He got a Social Security number in Pennsylvania sometime in the late 1970s, public records show.", "He changed his name from Daood Gilani to David Headley on or about February 15, 2006, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in order to present himself in India as an American who was neither Muslim nor Pakistani, according to the criminal complaint against him.", "\"His having another name or changing his name at some stage in life has come as a surprise to me.", "He has four kids and a Pakistani wife who also live in the United States,\" said Danyal Gilani, a public relations officer for the Pakistani prime minister's office.", "He issued a long statement last month distancing himself from his half-brother, in response to reports in the Indian press trying to link Headley to Pakistan's prime minister, whose last name also is Gilani.", "But Danyal Gilani said his family was not related to the prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani.", "Headley was arrested by federal agents on October 3 in Chicago, accused of helping plan terror attacks against a Danish newspaper that ran cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, sparking Muslim anger worldwide.", "He was later linked to the bloody four-day terrorist siege in Mumbai, India, in November 2008 in which 160 people were killed.", "The Justice Department accuses him of attending terrorism training camps in Pakistan in 2002 and 2003, and working with the group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba to carry out terror attacks.", "The United States lists Lashkar as a terrorist organization.", "India blamed the group for the Mumbai attacks.", "At the time of his arrest October 3, Headley was on his way back to India to plan a second attack, a source close to the investigation said.", "Headley is cooperating with the authorities investigating both terror plots, the Justice Department has said.", "His lawyer did not dispute that.", "Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed, a retired major in the Pakistani military, was also charged with conspiracy in planning to attack the Danish newspaper.", "So was Tahawwur Hussain Rana, whom U.S. authorities identify as a Pakistani native and Canadian citizen who lives mainly in Chicago.", "Headley said he worked for First World Immigration Services, a company owned by Rana, though authorities have said in court papers that surveillance showed that he \"performs few services\" for the company.", "CNN's Reza Sayah in Islamabad, Pakistan, Terry Frieden in Washington, and Kathleen Johnston, Drew Griffin and Amy Roberts in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report." ]	[ "David Headley appeared in court Wednesday in connection with terror attacks in India .", "He was born Daood Gilani, according to his half-brother .", "Gilani was the son of a prominent Pakistani broadcaster, his half-brother said .", "Headley is accused of attending terrorism training camps and plotting attacks ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "Katherine Dvorak is a writer for the Daily Collegian, the leading news source for Pennsylvania State University.", "This article was brought to CNN.com by UWIRE, the leading provider of student-generated content.", "UWIRE aims to identify and promote the brightest young content creators and deliver their work to a larger audience via professional media partners such as CNN.com.", "Visit UWIRE.com to learn more.", "(UWIRE) -- A Web site developed this year that allows students to share old exams online is causing debate among professors about its ethical implications.", "PostYourTest.com creator Demir Oral says the site is a tool for education, not for cheating.", "PostYourTest.com is an educational tool that lets students anonymously upload materials and tests from their previous and current classes, said Demir Oral, creator of the site.", "However, there are teachers who do not want their tests to be posted for every student to see.", "\"I would not be happy if a student who had taken a class of mine had taken an exam and posted it online,\" Sarah Hall, graduate professor of psychology at Penn State University, said.", "\"I know that some teachers reuse past exams and it would be hard to have to write a new test for every class.\"", "However, Mary Bojan, professor of chemistry at PSU, said she wouldn't mind if students posted her tests online.", "\"For my classes I always write new exams every time, and I wouldn't object because I have some old exams up online that I've posted myself,\" Bojan said.", "Currently, there are no tests online for Penn State University, because the site was developed on the West Coast, Oral said.", "\"Primarily the main audience is San Diego, but that's because I've only advertised around there,\" Oral said.", "He said he is looking into expanding the site more to include universities and colleges across the country.", "\"Also, although I am still focused on the United States, in the future I would like to go global,\" Oral said.", "\"I think it would be really effective worldwide.\"", "While studying for an exam in the HUB-Robeson Center, Christal Cozier (senior-nutrition) said she would consider using the site.", "\"I think looking at an old exam helps -- it at least gives the student an idea of how the teacher poses questions,\" Cozier said.", "While she said she wouldn't go through the trouble of posting a test herself, Cozier said she didn't think students posting old tests online would be a problem.", "\"Most teachers give out practice exams and old exams anyway,\" she said.", "\"The only time I would think it would be a problem is if the teacher uses exams more than once.\"", "In response to criticism of the site from professors, Oral said he wants people to know the site is a tool for education and not a tool for cheating.", "He added teachers can ban their exams from the site if they don't want students sharing them online.", "\"The first professor that banned his exams said he wanted to ban them because he was copyrighting them and publishing them in a book, and that made total sense to me,\" Oral said.", "Even with the option to ban tests, Tara Chismar said professors may not know the site exists and may not know to ban their exams from it.", "She said the site might be OK only if students get permission from their teachers to post exams online.", "Bojan said the biggest problem she saw with students posting material online would be putting up tests the teachers wanted handed back in.", "\"Common sense needs to come into play with something like this because there's a student responsibility side to it,\" she said.", "\"Having access to an exam you're not supposed to is cheating.\"", "Students shouldn't have to rely on old tests online to prepare for an exam from a new teacher, Hall said.", "\"There are likely a lot of professors who would be happy to give students more of a sense of what the exam is going to be like -- maybe giving them sample questions,\" she said.", "Bojan warned students should use materials posted online wisely because looking at an exam may not always be the best way to study.", "\"One problem is old tests may not be the most effective study tool,\" she said.", "\"By just going off of old exams students aren't learning how to actually do the problems.\"" ]	[ "PostYourTest.com was developed this year, has mostly California tests .", "Site is causing debate among professors about its ethical implications .", "Teachers can ban exams from the site if they don't want students sharing .", "Looking at an exam may not always be the best way to study, professor warns ." ]	[ 4, 23, 32 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The news was devastating, the aftermath surreal.", "Diena Thompson clutched a tissue in her right hand, frequently wiping her eyes as she told reporters that she couldn't believe it was her daughter whose body was found in a Georgia landfill.", "Her visage revealed the weight of grief and a yearning for justice.", "Standing outside her home in Orange Park, Florida, Thompson looked into the camera and, with her voice cracking, sent out a stern warning to her daughter's killer.", "\"I want you to know that I will not sleep until this person is found.", "I hope they get you, and I hope they make you pay for a long, long time.", "You don't take from somebody.", "You didn't just take her from me. You took her from my family; you took her from all these people.", "And you don't do this to a little baby and put my baby in the trash like she's nothing.", "That's not OK, this is not OK.\" The body of her daughter, 7-year-old Somer Thompson, was found in a South Georgia landfill, Clay County, Florida, Sheriff Rick Beseler said Thursday.", "On Monday, Somer became separated from her siblings and schoolmates on her way home from school in Orange Park.", "She was seen in a fight at school before disappearing, according to a police report Thursday.", "Her 10-year-old sister told police that Somer had gotten into a fight with another girl at school earlier in the day.", "The sister said she brought up the fight while she and her brother walked Somer home from school, and that Somer ran off from them, apparently upset.", "The sister said she lost sight of Somer in a group of other kids leaving the school, according to the police report.", "A medical examiner in Savannah, Georgia, used dental records to identify the body positively as Somer's, said Clay County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Mary Justino.", "The sheriff told the girl's mother Wednesday night that her daughter had been identified.", "Thompson was devastated, he said.", "\"It was the hardest phone call I've ever had to make in my life, and I hope I never have to make another one like that,\" Beseler said at a Thursday news conference.", "Authorities are turning their full attention to finding the child's killer.", "The landfill where her body was found is near Folkston, Georgia, 55 miles north of where the girl became separated from her schoolmates.", "Authorities will work to pinpoint where the garbage load that contained the girl's body came from, Beseler said.", "The garbage brought into that part of the landfill was collected in the Orange Park area, he has said, noting that authorities routinely search garbage when a missing person case has been initiated.", "The investigation has turned into a murder probe.", "\"There is a child killer on the loose,\" the sheriff said.", "\"I fear for our community until we bring this person in.\"", "Investigators in Georgia are combing through a \"tremendous mountain\" of garbage at the landfill, searching for clues, said Justino, the sheriff's office spokeswoman, on Friday.", "Some possible evidence has been removed from the landfill, but authorities won't describe what they found, Justino said.", "Police have no suspects, she said.", "She said other law enforcement teams are focusing on the locale where the child apparently was last seen.", "Justino said witnesses, including some children, saw her on the sidewalk in front of a vacant house under renovation after a fire.", "\"Since Monday, we have been trying to figure out who frequents that area,\" including anyone working on the home, she said.", "Rewards totaling $30,000 have been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever is responsible.", "Justino said of the 810 leads called in to a tip line, 231 were being actively pursued by a group of 50 detectives.", "Overnight, detectives finished interviewing 90 registered sex offenders or predators within a five-mile radius of the Thompson home, the spokeswoman said.", "Somer's family was making funeral arrangements Friday, Justino said, and many in the community had offered to help financially.", "\"There has been an outpouring of support from the community,\" she said.", "CNN's Maria P. White contributed to this report." ]	[ "Body found in landfill identified as Somer Thompson, using dental records .", "Somer, 7, was in school fight on day of disappearance, police report says .", "Grieving mother's message to killer: \"I hope they get you\"\nPolice have no suspects in killing of Florida girl, official says ." ]	[ 5, 9, 11, 14, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Former Arkansas Gov.", "Mike Huckabee on Tuesday said he accepts \"full responsibility\" for granting clemency in 2000 to a man authorities say gunned down four Lakewood, Washington, police officers Sunday.", "Maurice Clemmons, 37, was shot and killed early Tuesday by Seattle police.", "He was the subject of a two-day manhunt after the four officers were killed at a coffee shop as they met before their shifts began Sunday morning.", "Clemmons had a criminal history in Arkansas and Washington.", "In May 2000, Huckabee commuted his 108-year prison sentence to make him immediately eligible for parole, which was granted by the parole board two months later.", "Clemmons had been sentenced to 95 years, to run after time he was already serving on previous convictions.", "In a statement on the conservative news Web site Newsmax.com, Huckabee wrote that he commuted Clemmons' sentence from 108 years to 47 years.", "Reports that he had pardoned Clemmons or set him free were erroneous, he said.", "\"I take full responsibility for my actions of nine years ago,\" Huckabee said.", "\"I acted on the facts presented to me in 2000.", "If I could have possibly known what Clemmons would do nine years later, I obviously would have made a different decision.", "But if the same file was presented to me today, I would have likely made the same decision.\"", "But the Arkansas prosecutor who put Clemmons behind bars told CNN on Tuesday that Huckabee was issuing clemency at \"an astounding rate\" during his tenure as governor.", "\"He was exercising the clemency power at what I call a wholesale rate,\" Larry Jegley said.", "\"He was letting murderers out, he was letting rapists out, and he was letting the likes of Mr. Clemmons out.\"", "One survey, he said, showed Huckabee issued more clemencies from 1996 to 2004 than the governors of all six surrounding states, including Texas.", "He said he didn't know why so many clemencies were granted.", "\"That was part of the frustration that we felt with the entire process.", "... We never felt as though he gave victims, their families, jurors, law enforcement and the community in general an adequate explanation as to why he felt compelled to let people of proven danger go in our community.\"", "Huckabee was a Republican presidential candidate in the 2008 election and has not ruled out another White House bid in 2012.", "During his 2008 campaign, he was criticized for granting clemency to another inmate, convicted rapist Wayne DuMond, who was later convicted of raping and murdering a woman in Missouri.", "\"Between 1,000 and 2,000 requests for some form of clemency came to my desk each and every one of the 10½ years I was governor,\" Huckabee said Tuesday.", "\"Ninety-two percent of the time, I denied the requests.\"", "He noted that in Arkansas, a governor does not initiate a sentence change -- the Post Prison Transfer Board makes a recommendation to the governor after reviewing an inmate's file.", "The governor then can grant or deny it.", "Clemmons was 16 when he was charged with robbery and burglary.", "\"For the crimes he committed and the age at which he committed the crimes, [a 108-year sentence] was dramatically outside the norm for sentencing,\" Huckabee said.", "The board unanimously recommended that the sentence be commuted.", "Jegley said that while in prison in Arkansas, Clemmons had a disciplinary record for violent incidents, and that something should have tipped off the board or the governor that \"this man was not a good candidate to be put back in society, because he couldn't live in the cloistered environment of prison and stay out of trouble.\"", "Watch what Jegley has to say .", "In the case of any form of clemency -- a commutation or a full pardon -- notice is given to the prosecutor, the judge, law enforcement officials, the attorney general and the secretary of state, as well as the media, for a public response period, Huckabee said.", "\"The only record of public response to the notice to commute was from the trial judge, who recommended the commendation in concert with the board.\"", "Jegley told CNN he was not notified of the commutation, but he doesn't \"attribute that to something sinister. ...", "I just think that maybe the system fouled up and didn't get notification out to all the parties who were interested in it, my office included.\"", "Clemmons was returned to prison after violating his parole, Huckabee said.", "He \"should have stayed there. For reasons only the prosecutor can explain, charges were not brought forth in a timely way and the prosecutor ended up dropping the charges, allowing him to leave prison and return to supervised parole.\"", "He noted that Clemmons, who had been picked up again in Pierce County, Washington, was released on bail there only days before the officers were slain.", "\"I can't explain why he wasn't prosecuted properly for the parole violations or why he was allowed to make bail in Washington state and not incarcerated earlier for crimes committed there,\" the former governor wrote.", "On Sunday, Huckabee's office issued a statement saying that if Clemmons was \"found responsible for this horrible tragedy, it will be the result of a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington state.\"", "Police responded sharply to that statement.", "\"We're disappointed that Governor Huckabee came out in the middle of the night without calling anybody here and blamed this on the criminal justice system in the state of Washington,\" Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said.", "\"We're guessing that's probably a spin doctor, not him.\"", "Huckabee wrote of Clemmons, \"I wish his file had never crossed my desk, but it did.", "The decision I made is one that I now wish were different, but I could only look backwards at his case, not forward.", "None of this is of any comfort to the families of these police officers, nor should it be.", "Their loss is senseless.", "... Our system is not perfect, and neither are those responsible for administering it.", "\"The system, and those of us who are supposed to make sure it works, sometimes fail,\" Huckabee said.", "\"In this case, we clearly did.\"" ]	[ "Man accused of killing 4 Washington officers had criminal history in Arkansas, Washington .", "In 2000, Huckabee commuted his 108-year prison term, making him eligible for parole .", "Man who put suspect behind bars said Huckabee issued clemency at \"an astounding rate\"\nHuckabee: I \"acted on the facts presented to me in 2000,\" denied 92% of clemency requests ." ]	[ 4, 5, 10, 13, 23 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- A Fort Drum soldier has been arrested in the deaths of two fellow soldiers found stabbed in an apartment near the upstate New York military base, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said.", "The suspect, Joshua Hunter, 20, is being held at an undisclosed location in Ohio after being charged with two counts of second degree murder, Undersheriff Tim Dowe told CNN.", "The sheriff's office identified the victims as Spc.", "Waide T. James, 20, of Cocoa, Florida, and Spc.", "Diego A. Valbuena, 23, of Port St. Lucie, Florida.", "The two men were found dead with multiple stab wounds Tuesday in an apartment at Meadowbrook Apartments in LeRay, New York, Dowe said.", "The complex houses mostly military families near the main entrance of Fort Drum, he said.", "The motive is unknown at this time, Dowe said.", "Sheriff's deputies were called to the apartment complex after the soldiers were reported missing for duty, but the sheriff's office could not say when that report was filed.", "James and Valbuena, who joined the Army in 2007, worked as motor transport operators with the Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 10th Mountain Division, according to a Fort Drum press release.", "Both had served in Iraq, it said.", "Police and Fort Drum officials would not release information about the suspect, including his rank or relationship to the victims.", "CNN's Evan Buxbaum contributed to this report." ]	[ "Soldier Joshua Hunter, 20, charged with two counts of second degree murder .", "Two soldiers were found stabbed at apartment near Fort Drum base .", "Victims identified as Spc.", "Waide T. James,and Spc.", "Diego A. Valbuena ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Soupy Sales, a comedian from the golden era of television, died Thursday.", "He was 83. The funny man seen many times on popular game shows died at a New York hospice, said Paul Dver, Sales' longtime friend and manager.", "\"We have lost a comedy American icon,\" Dver said.", "\"I feel the personal loss, and I also feel the magic that he had around him being gone.", "That's a much more severe loss than a loss of a friend.\"", "Sales was known for his long-running children's show \"Lunch With Soupy Sales,\" which started in 1953 and began his trademark slapstick pie-throwing antics.", "The comedy show featured skits that culminated in Sales getting walloped with pies in the face.", "What are your memories of Sales?", "\"Soupy was the last of the great TV comics when you talk about Ernie Kovacs, Red Skelton, right down to Howdy Doody,\" Dver said.", "\"But it was bigger than that, because he used a children's format aimed at the kids and then he would forget he was doing a kids' show and do a wild, unrehearsed, wacky improv for a half-hour every day for 15 years.\"", "He could also inflame the authorities.", "One New Year's Day, upset at being asked to work, he asked his youthful audience to send him those \"green pieces of paper\" from their parents' wallets.", "Though he didn't receive much -- he told The New York Times he received only a few dollars -- he was suspended for a week for the prank.", "Later in his career, he was a regular on TV game shows, such as \"Hollywood Squares,\" \"To Tell the Truth\" and \"What's My Line?\"", "Sales recently fell backstage at a local Emmy awards show in New York and developed serious ailments after that, Dver said." ]	[ "\"We have lost a comedy American icon,\" says comedian's friend and manager .", "He was known for his long-running children's show \"Lunch With Soupy Sales\"\nFans of the show anticipated his trademark pie-in-face gag .", "Sales also seen on \"To Tell the Truth\" and \"What's My Line?\"" ]	[ 2, 5, 10, 13 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Justice Antonin Scalia is a conservative in thought, but not in personality.", "A new biography of the colorful Supreme Court jurist paints a complete picture of his enormous ongoing influence on the law and society.", "\"American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia\" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) offers the first comprehensive look at the first Italian-American on the high court, and the rhetorical battles he has waged on the court and off.", "CNN spoke with Joan Biskupic, the book's author, who also is a reporter for USA Today.", "Biskupic has covered the high court for two decades, holds a law degree from Georgetown University and has also written a biography of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.", "CNN: Justice Scalia has a certain public image in the minds of many Americans.", "You've known him for years and interviewed him several times for this book.", "Is he the same in private? Biskupic: He's a lot more of himself in private.", "He actually is very confrontational behind the scenes, just as he is in public.", "He's very defiant. But he also can be quite funny, quite casual, generous and decent.", "His best friend on the bench is Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg [a low-key, liberal justice but, like Scalia, a native New Yorker who loves opera].", "He's many things.", "He's very consistent on the law, but he's a lot of things in terms of his personality.", "CNN: He has told me that one of the happiest times in his career was in the executive branch, where he said that's where the action was, instead of serving on the bench.", "Biskupic: Remember what it was like working in the [Department of Justice's] Office of Legal Counsel in the post-Watergate era [in the Nixon and Ford administrations].", "It was an exciting job for him, there was a lot of tension, and conflicts with the legislative branch.", "He really thrived on that.", "At a time when many Republican lawyers were trying to get out of the Nixon administration, as Watergate was moving to a climax, he was trying to move up and be promoted.", "He sparred with Democratic lawmakers, and was trying to exert executive privilege claims, when that was a dirty word in the wake of Watergate.", "CNN: Growing up, you describe \"Nino\" -- as his friends and family call him -- as something of a golden child.", "Biskupic: I'd always known he was an only child, who, interestingly, later went on to have nine children, but I didn't know he was the only offspring of his generation from two immigrant Italian families.", "For his parents and his aunts and uncles, he was the center of their universe, but it put a burden on him to perform, to be this special child.", "I found the conflicts in terms of being a product of two different families continue to reveal himself.", "The father was quite cerebral, was a professor, always had his nose in a book, he didn't abide any kind of silliness.", "And his mother's side was much more flamboyant.", "You had these contrasting families, and, as I write in the book, he learned to deal with conflict and tension early on in his life, and went on to readily generate it as an adult.", "CNN: Many conservatives worship Scalia, and yet you suggest his influence has not had as far-reaching an effect inside the high court as many believe it to be.", "How do his colleagues view him?", "Biskupic: I talked to his colleagues about where he's at.", "Justice [John Paul] Stevens says he is committed -- some of his impact made a huge difference, some of it unfortunate.", "Stevens, the senior liberal, has dueled with Justice Scalia dozens of times, from Bush v. Gore [the 2000 presidential election dispute] to recent dilemmas testing the Guantanamo detainees.", "Justice Ginsburg, his closest friend on the court, sees his influence beyond the marble walls, and that's the way I've been mostly viewing him until the recent terms.", "He is influential with conservative acolytes.", "Within the court, he certainly alienated [now-retired Justice Sandra Day] O'Connor, Justice [Harry] Blackmun, and in some ways Justice [Anthony] Kennedy.", "It made his influence rather slight for years -- he really didn't want to deal, to negotiate with his colleagues in rulings.", "Despite a charming personality in many ways, he told me he had nothing to trade.", "He was just plain firm about where he wanted to go, and he wouldn't settle for half a loaf.", "The addition of Chief Justice [John] Roberts and Justice [Samuel] Alito on the bench allowed him to win more.", "And in recent terms, there has a been a culmination, a resurgence, on what he is able to do, now with the [conservative] bodies coming on the court to support him.", "But he told me he was still not satisfied.", "\"The wins,\" he told me, \"Damn few.\"", "CNN: In his bright, bold opinions, what is he trying to accomplish?", "Does he reach for broader audience?", "Biskupic: Look at 1996's Romer v. Evans -- the gay rights case.", "He lost on that one, and his dissent was written for consumption way beyond the court.", "It was a complete battle cry.", "He lashes out at the court for placing what he said was \"the prestige of this institution behind the proposition that opposition to homosexuality is as reprehensible as racial or religious bias.\"", "This dissent became more of a story than the opinion itself.", "People were reading it and giving it airspace, and that's what he wanted.", "That was his style of most of the '90s: Get as much attention as possible, because he was in dissent so much in big cases.", "Now, in the recent Heller case case [where Scalia wrote the main opinion striking down Washington, D.C.'s, strict handgun ban], he was not going able to write an opinion as boldly as he may have wanted, in terms of some of the zingers that he packs into his other opinions, because he has to keep his majority.", "But he still will not mince words if he is in dissent, because he knows journalists, law students, policy makers will all pay attention, and it will influence people down the road.", "CNN: And yet controversy seems to dog him, including the duck hunting trip he took with Vice President [Dick] Cheney at a time the high court was considering an appeal from Cheney's office; and a hand gesture Scalia made outside a Catholic church some interpreted as obscene.", "Biskupic: I don't think he cares.", "He's got these intense feelings he's not going to keep in check.", "CNN: What prompted this project, and what do you want readers to know about Justice Scalia?", "Biskupic: I found most of what was written about him was either one side or the other -- screeds easily from the left and embraces easily from the right.", "And I thought there was so much to his background that was worth revealing in an objective way, to see what he was all about: How Scalia became Scalia.", "He was really part of the conservative moment we saw in the 1980s.", "Young lawyers at the time like John Roberts and Samuel Alito embraced his theories, and look where they ended up.", "CNN: In your interviews with him and his family, did you expect that level of cooperation?", "Biskupic: No, I didn't. In the beginning, he said he would encourage colleagues to talk to me, but he didn't want to sit and talk on the record.", "But he soon became quite intrigued at my research into his family, immigration records and such.", "And I'd be at my desk, and he'd be calling me, asking me what I found out about his ancestors.", "So those later, extensive interviews made this book.", "CNN: There is a challenge about writing on the often cloistered world of the Supreme Court, these personalities that remain below the radar for most people.", "Biskupic: I wanted a book that would demystify him, and make people understand him.", "I wanted readers to know: This is your court, you should know about these people and what they're up to.", "But it is tough, it's so hard to get information about the institution that doesn't have to do with the precise words on the rulings.", "And it's fun to dig up this background, and get in with these justices and talk with them one-on-one.", "I was so grateful to speak with Justices Stevens, Ginsburg and even Justice [Clarence] Thomas, who all shared great stories and offered their insights into Justice Scalia." ]	[ "Biography looks at conservative, confrontational jurist's influence on law, society .", "Author describes Scalia as a product of contrasting families who has thrived on conflict .", "She says Scalia's best friend on court is Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a low-key, liberal justice .", "Author says she wanted a book that would demystify Scalia, make people understand him ." ]	[ 1, 10, 16, 66 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Thirty years ago Wednesday, Iranian student revolutionaries climbed over the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized dozens of Americans, whom they ultimately held hostage for 444 days.", "The hostage crisis, coming in the aftermath of Iran's Islamic revolution, ended diplomatic relations between Washington and Tehran -- a rift that persists to this day.", "Iran celebrates the embassy takeover as an official holiday, and tens of thousands showed up in Tehran on Wednesday to hear anti-American speeches.", "The anniversary was also an opportunity to reignite the anti-government protests that were sparked in June, following a disputed presidential election, and thousands of anti-government protesters ignored warnings from Iranian authorities to stay home.", "One of the leaders of the 1979 hostage-takers says the United States and Iran must not be hostages to history.", "\"I am not willing to be a hostage of that historical event,\" Ebrahim Asgharzadeh said on CNN's \"Amanpour,\" in an interview marking the anniversary.", "\"Neither Iran nor the United States should be hijacked by that historical event,\" he said from Tehran, where he went on to become a reformist lawmaker and was himself jailed by the Islamic regime.", "He said the two sides need to be aware of the past without being imprisoned by it.", "\"If they do not pay attention to ... history they will have an unstable future, an impermanent future,\" he said.", "Asgharzadeh said he and his fellow students had been offended that Jimmy Carter, then the U.S. president, had let the deposed Shah of Iran into the United States for medical treatment -- and said the actions of his compatriots had parallels in the United States.", "\"We felt insulted -- our revolution, our people -- and so there was a rebellion,\" he said through a translator.", "\"A measure was needed to be taken that was effective, that could impact the world public opinion.", "\"We were not radical students.", "We were revolutionary students, in the sense that we were defending our country, our people, our nation,\" he said.", "\"What the students did for the first two or three days, it was a student activity.", "It was meant to protest, something that American students did many times on the streets to protest the Vietnam War.\"", "But John Limbert, a former American hostage, is not convinced by the comparison.", "\"Whatever they thought they were doing, whether it was a 1970s-style student sit-in, the results of it were very ... different,\" he told Christiane Amanpour.", "And it was not the American hostages who suffered most, he added.", "\"They brought misery to the Iranian people.", "What happened to us was difficult.", "It was frightening. It was -- it was uncomfortable. But it lasted 14 months and was over,\" he said.", "\"We certainly didn't expect it to last that long.", "They have said they didn't expect [it] to last that long.", "But what they did, in effect, was to create a climate of lawlessness and mob rule [of which] they and their compatriots are today the greatest victims,\" said Limbert, the author of \"Negotiating with Iran, Wrestling the Ghost of History.\"", "The hostage crisis escalated beyond what any of the participants expected as Iran's new revolutionary government publicly backed the hostage-takers, Asgharzadeh and former Carter aide Gary Sick agree.", "\"That way it became actually an act of the Iranian government, rather than a group of students who were acting potentially outside the law,\" said Sick, who was Carter's point man on Iran.", "\"So basically, the situation got out of hand, in terms of being a student activity,\" Asgharzadeh said.", "\"It became a societal issue backed by the leadership.", "\"And every day that passed on, things got more complicated.", "The analysis got more complicated in the White House.", "They lost their cool. They didn't know what to do. And they faced a challenge by the Iranian revolution and this revolutionary thought.", "And it reached a point where nobody felt prepared to deal with it,\" the former student revolutionary said.", "\"And so after a while, both America and Iran were looking for a solution, because both their hands were tied at that stage, but the solution needed to be such that no country would be seen as the loser,\" he said.", "That impasse still dominates the wary relationship between Tehran and Washington, Amanpour's guests said.", "But it is time to call in the Ghostbusters, Limbert said, referring to the popular movie that came out not long after the Americans were finally released.", "\"You know, they put the ghosts in the can and put the can away.", "And somehow ... you've got to do that,\" he said.", "\"You don't forget them. You don't necessarily even ask for an apology.", "But you look them in the face, you know them for what they are, which is a very ugly and negative act, and then you put them in their proper compartment,\" he advised.", "But Sick, now a Columbia University professor, said the hostage crisis continues to have ramifications in Washington today.", "\"The hostage crisis was extended probably eight months beyond what it should have been.", "No matter how you look at it in terms of Iran's interests or what have you, they simply couldn't make up their mind,\" he said of the regime in Tehran.", "\"And it has left the impression that, one, Iran can't be trusted; two, that when they negotiate, they negotiate in bad faith; and, three, that they are paying only attention to their own internal circumstances and ignoring everybody else.", "\"That is a legacy that we live with and even people who don't remember the hostage crisis at all still have that image of Iran that was created in those days that has not gone away,\" he said." ]	[ "One hostage-taker says 1979 embassy takeover was protest by angry students .", "Former hostage says the event \"brought misery to the Iranian people\"\nAll sides tell CNN the legacy of the hostage crisis still affects U.S.-Iran relations .", "Amanpour airs at 3 p.m.", "ET daily on CNN International and 2 p.m.", "ET Sunday on CNN USA ." ]	[ 4, 5, 15, 19, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Luis Caplan served the poor of the South Bronx for decades out of a small medical office.", "His leg was amputated after a bout with cancer in 1990, yet he continued to work for another five years.", "Luis Caplan, 71, asks of the stimulus package: \"What happens to the real middle class?\"", "Now, his savings have nearly been wiped out because of the economic crisis.", "At the age of 71, he faces losing his apartment if things don't change soon.", "The government bailed out the big institutions, but \"what happens to the little people?\"", "he asks. \"What happens to the real middle class?", "What happens to me?\" he says, choking back tears.", "\"It's awful. It's really awful.\"", "With Congress working to pass the $800 billion stimulus bill, millions of Americans -- especially those with homes they're trying to sell or about to be foreclosed on -- are asking the same thing: What's in it for me?", "Caplan says most of his equity is tied up in his 800-square-foot apartment that he purchased in 1985.", "He wants to sell it to move to Seattle, Washington, to be near his daughter, who was recently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.", "But his place has sat on the market for three months without an offer.", "Located in a tony neighborhood in Manhattan's Upper East Side, apartments used to sell in a matter of weeks.", "Caplan has dropped $50,000 from the original asking price of $625,000 and may have to drop the price again.", "He says he can barely afford maintenance fees and other monthly costs associated with his place.", "He hopes to make enough money to pay off the reverse mortgage he took out to supplement his Social Security payments.", "\"I don't know how much more I can go through like this,\" he says, sobbing even more.", "\"I'm going crazy with this.\"", "His son, Danny Caplan, says, \"He's collateral damage.", "He has equity and could sell it and walk away and have enough to live comfortably.", "But [he can't] because of the economic situation.\"", "America's housing crisis has become a key issue for Washington policymakers.", "Millions of Americans are in foreclosure or facing foreclosure; others are out of work trying to sell their homes in a down economy.", "And there are elderly people, such as Caplan, who want to sell immediately to help stabilize their finances.", "Send us your thoughts on the stimulus plan .", "President Obama on Tuesday told people at a town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Florida, that he plans to announce in coming weeks \"what our overall housing strategy is going to be.\"", "Secretary of Treasury Tim Geithner made the rounds in Washington on Tuesday to push the stimulus bill, including the need to jump-start America's housing market.", "See stimulus bill provisions » .", "\"Homeowners around the country are seeing the value of their homes fall because of forces they did not create and cannot control,\" he said.", "\"This crisis in housing has had devastating consequences, and our government should have moved more forcefully to help contain the damage.\"", "At one Senate hearing, Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, said \"decisive action\" is needed to address the housing crisis.", "\"I think the message should come through clear from all of us, you have to move aggressively, clearly, and to start working,\" Reed said.", "\"I agree with you,\" Geithner responded.", "\"Our objective is, and our hope is, that our program meets that test.\"", "The stimulus bill does sweeten the pot for potential homebuyers, which supporters say could help spur the economy.", "Critics charge that letting housing prices stabilize on their own is healthy for the economy.", "The Senate's version of the bill offers a $15,000 tax credit to anyone who purchases a home in the next year, more than double the tax credit offered by the House.", "Dwight Jaffee, a professor of real estate and finance at the University of California-Berkeley, says the housing market is the \"perfect instrument in leading the economy out of recession because housing is such a big-ticket item.\"", "\"We will not turnaround this economy until we start to turn around housing.", "I hope people in Washington are hearing it,\" he says.", "In the case of Luis Caplan, Jaffee says, \"What it means to him, if they did carry out this program, then the government would be stimulating the demand -- the buyers -- for his apartment to sell it at a fuller price and much sooner.\"", "Caplan says that would be a good thing.", "He needs all the help he can get.", "Born in Argentina, Caplan came to the United States as a legal immigrant in 1964 to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor.", "He eventually became a naturalized U.S. citizen and opened his medical office to help treat the Spanish-speaking poor of the South Bronx.", "He believed his calling was to help \"the poorest of the poor\" get decent medical treatment, rather than pursue the more high-paying lifestyle of other doctors.", "Most of his patients were on Medicaid, so he got paid at a rate much less than other doctors.", "He beams with pride at the lives he saved.", "\"I caught cancers very early,\" he said.", "\"I'm not the savior of humanity. ...", "I just did what I could to help poor people.\"", "In June 1990 at the age of 53, Caplan started having pain in his left leg.", "It turned out to be a malignant tumor and his leg was amputated.", "Yet his passion and commitment to helping others kept him going.", "Even after losing his leg, he went back to work for another five years.", "When he retired, he got another shocker: Social Security initially rejected him -- a man without a leg -- for disability.", "He says he scraped and saved money along the way, \"a very small amount that has practically disappeared.\"", "He now scoots around his apartment in his wheelchair hoping for better days.", "As far as he's concerned, the big Wall Street institutions can \"burn in hell.\"", "\"I don't have a Rolls-Royce.", "I don't have a Cadillac,\" he says.", "\"The government ... isn't trying to help everybody: People like me that went through this, people who did something good for the community, people who didn't buy an expensive painting for their office.\"", "Caplan pauses.", "\"This is what I'm left with: an apartment that can hardly sell.\"", "His son is proud of his father's accomplishments, yet he's frustrated that his dad is in such a financial pinch during a time that's supposed to be the Golden Years of his life.", "\"He bought the American dream and paid for the American dream,\" says Danny Caplan.", "CNN's Jackie Adams contributed to this report." ]	[ "Luis Caplan, 71, committed his life to the poor; now, he faces losing his home .", "On the stimulus bill, he asks, \"What happens to the real middle class?\"", "Stimulus plan offers a $15,000 tax credit for homebuyers to try to spur the market ." ]	[ 2, 6, 25, 37, 58 ]
[ "ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Back-to-back suicide bombings killed at least five people at a university here Tuesday and wounded nearly two dozen, authorities said.", "Police investigators collect evidence at the suicide blast site at Islamic International University in Islamabad.", "The explosions occurred at the International Islamic University in the Pakistani capital, said police official Bin Yamin.", "Naeem Iqbal, Islamabad police spokesman, said three men and two female students were killed, and 22 people were injured.", "At least four of the injured were in critical condition, said Altaf Hussein, a doctor at a hospital.", "All the victims are between the ages of 18 and 25.", "Usman Virk, a student, said he heard one explosion in the men's section of the university, followed by a blast in the cafeteria in the women's section of the university.", "Watch more about the attacks » .", "Virk said he saw several injured students with blood-soaked clothes being taken away by rescue crews.", "More than 12,000 foreign and local students, including 5,500 women, are enrolled in the 29-year-old university.", "The university Web site describes the school as a \"unique center of learning in the Muslim world which strives to combine the essentials of the Islamic faith with the best of modern knowledge.\"", "In recent weeks, Pakistan has been relentlessly rocked by a wave of suicide attacks as Islamic militants retaliate against a military offensive to rout insurgents operating along the Pakistan-Afghan border.", "On Friday, a suicide car bomber detonated near a police station in Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province.", "The blast killed at least 13 people, most of them civilians.", "A day earlier, militants attacked two police training centers and the country's Federal Investigation Agency in Lahore in eastern Pakistan.", "At least 30 Pakistani police officers and civilians were killed in those attacks.", "At least 10 attackers also died.", "And on October 10, militants held dozens of hostages for 22 hours inside an army headquarters in Rawalpindi, which neighbors Islamabad.", "Eleven military personnel, three civilians, and nine militants were killed in the siege.", "CNN's Reza Sayah contributed to this report." ]	[ "All the victims of the attack are between the ages of 18 and 25 .", "Took place outside International Islamic University in Islamabad .", "More than 12,000 foreign and local students are enrolled at university .", "Pakistan rocked by series of suicide attacks in wake of its Taliban offensive ." ]	[ 1, 5, 9 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- President Obama got some political cover Sunday for his upcoming announcement on sending more troops to Afghanistan.", "A report released by the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee blamed the Bush administration for failing to capture or kill Osama bin Laden when the al Qaeda leader was cornered in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountain region in December 2001.", "The report, released Sunday, said the situation in Afghanistan presented greater problems today because of the failure to nab bin Laden eight years ago.", "Bin Laden had written his will, apparently sensing he was trapped, but the lack of sufficient forces to close in for the kill allowed him to escape to tribal areas in Pakistan, according to the report.", "It said former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and top U.S. commander Gen. Tommy Franks held back the necessary forces for a \"classic sweep-and-block maneuver\" that could have prevented bin Laden's escape.", "\"It would have been a dangerous fight across treacherous terrain, and the injection of more U.S. troops and the resulting casualties would have contradicted the risk-averse, 'light footprint' model formulated by Rumsfeld and Franks,\" the report said.", "When criticized later for not zeroing in on bin Laden, administration officials, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, responded that the al Qaeda leader's location was uncertain.", "\"But the review of existing literature, unclassified government records and interviews with central participants underlying this report removes any lingering doubts and makes it clear that Osama bin Laden was within our grasp at Tora Bora,\" the report said.", "On Tuesday, Obama will travel to West Point, New York, to announce his decision on a request by his commanding general in Afghanistan for up to 40,000 additional troops.", "Obama is expected to send more than 30,000 U.S. troops and seek further troop commitments from NATO allies as part of a counterinsurgency strategy to wipe out al Qaeda elements and stabilize the country while training Afghan forces.", "By releasing the report Sunday, Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, focused attention on the past failure of the Bush administration to take out bin Laden, saying that had created a greater problem today.", "\"Our inability to finish the job in late 2001 has contributed to a conflict today that endangers not just our troops and those of our allies, but the stability of a volatile and vital region,\" Kerry, D-Massachusetts, wrote in a letter of transmittal for the report.", "When Kerry was the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, he argued that the Bush administration botched the pursuit of bin Laden and that then-President George W. Bush \"took his eye off the ball\" in Afghanistan to invade Iraq.", "The accusations were hotly disputed by Bush supporters and Franks.", "However, Gary Berntsen, the CIA operative who led the pursuit of bin Laden at Tora Bora, said in 2005 that his request for up to 800 U.S. troops to cut off the al Qaeda leader's escape route was denied.", "Sen. Richard Lugar, the ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations committee, told CNN's \"State of the Union\" that the new report \"does serve as a convenient way for, perhaps, Democrats to say once again, there's another failing of the past administration\" and that \"all the problems have accumulated.\"", "\"I think we have to accept that there were many failings,\" said Lugar, of Indiana.", "\"But the problem right now is, what do we do presently?", "What will the president's plan be?", "How much confidence do we have in this president and this plan?\"", "Democratic Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island, responding to Lugar's comment, told CNN that Obama faced \"the culmination of decisions that were made eight years\" earlier, which he said \"made the situation much more difficult\" today.", "According to the report, \"removing the al Qaeda leader from the battlefield eight years ago would not have eliminated the worldwide extremist threat.\"", "\"But the decisions that opened the door for his escape to Pakistan allowed bin Laden to emerge as a potent symbolic figure who continues to attract a steady flow of money and inspire fanatics worldwide,\" it said.", "The report called bin Laden's escape \"a lost opportunity that forever altered the course of the conflict in Afghanistan and the future of international terrorism, leaving the American people more vulnerable to terrorism, laying the foundation for today's protracted Afghan insurgency and inflaming the internal strife now endangering Pakistan.\"", "The report also highlighted bin Laden's will, dated December 14, 2001, as an indication of the dire situation he faced.", "\"Bin Laden expected to die,\" it said, noting that a copy of the will that surfaced later is regarded as authentic.", "\"Allah commended to us that when death approaches any of us that we make a bequest to parents and next of kin and to Muslims as a whole,\" the report quoted bin Laden's will as saying, adding that he \"instructed his wives not to remarry and apologized to his children for devoting himself to\" holy war.", "However, the report said, \"fewer than 100 American commandos were on the scene with their Afghan allies and calls for reinforcements to launch an assault were rejected.\"", "\"Requests were also turned down for U.S. troops to block the mountain paths leading to sanctuary a few miles away in Pakistan,\" it continued.", "\"The vast array of American military power, from sniper teams to the most mobile divisions of the Marine Corps and the Army, was kept on the sidelines.", "Instead, the U.S. command chose to rely on airstrikes and untrained Afghan militias to attack bin Laden and on Pakistan's loosely organized Frontier Corps to seal his escape routes.", "\"On or around December 16, two days after writing his will, bin Laden and an entourage of bodyguards walked unmolested out of Tora Bora and disappeared into Pakistan's unregulated tribal area.", "Most analysts say he is still there today.\"" ]	[ "Report released by Senate panel blames Bush officials for bin Laden escape .", "\"Bin Laden expected to die,\" report says, noting that a copy of his will was found .", "\"Requests were also turned down for U.S. troops to block the mountain paths,\" report says ." ]	[ 25, 28 ]
[ "Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Sri Lanka's opposition presidential candidate accused the incumbent of intimidation, as early returns reported by state-run TV SLRC showed President Mahinda Rajapaksa leading the race.", "Candidate Gen. Sarath Fonseka accused Rajapaksa of intimidation during the country's first peacetime presidential election in more than two decades and said his staff had received threatening phone calls .", "Army soldiers and commandos tried to enter the Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel shortly after Fonseka and opposition party members arrived Tuesday, the former general told CNN.", "His security forces told the soldiers they could not enter the building, so they stayed outside, Fonseka said.", "Fonseka said he was not leaving the hotel, citing the armed soldiers outside.", "Several dozen armed soldiers lined the street of the Cinnamon Lakeside Hotel and surrounding area, checking cars driving up to the building in the nation's capital, Colombo.", "\"He's ignoring the constitution to remain in power,\" Fonseka said of ally-turned-rival Rajapaksa.", "There was no immediate reaction from Rajapaksa's government in response to Fonseka's claims.", "The presidential election is the first since government forces put down a 26-year insurgency by Tamil Tiger rebels.", "And controversy mounted as vote tallying began.", "Earlier Tuesday, top politicians vowed to block Fonseka from taking office if he won because he is not eligible to vote.", "The government will fight the commissioner of elections in the Supreme Court on the issue of Fonseka's eligibility, Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama vowed.", "Fonseka admits he is not registered to vote; 14 million Sri Lankans are eligible.", "What will Sri Lankan election mean?", "Rajapaksa and Fonseka have waged a bitter battle against each other.", "Both men say they are winning the election.", "But early returns showed Rajapaksa was leading in the race, state-run television SLRC reported.", "Fonseka broke ranks with the Rajapaksa administration after he was elevated to the largely ceremonial post of chief of defense staff in July, following his retirement as army commander.", "After Fonseka announced his presidential bid, the main opposition parties -- with widely diverse political ideologies -- closed ranks behind him to make him their common candidate.", "The general is riding a wave of popularity after he led a military campaign to crush Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.", "The Tamil Tigers, as they are known, fought a brutal war for decades against the government and controlled large swathes of territory at the height of their power.", "Rajapaksa also claims war-hero status with the win against the Tamil Tigers last May.", "He is seeking a fresh mandate for his government, advocating for more development programs and jobs.", "And in his revised booklet, \"Mahinda Chinthanaya\" (\"Thoughts of Mahinda\"), he campaigns to ensure a \"better tomorrow.\"", "But in the lead-up to the election, the island nation just south of India has become host to escalating violence.", "Three and a half hours before Sri Lankans headed to the polls, explosions that residents said sounded like mortar fire were heard.", "While it was unclear what Tuesday's explosions were, there have been more than 700 reports of violence ahead of the election, and at least our deaths reported, said Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu of the Center for Policy Alternatives, a branch of the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence.", "There have been allegations of interference with mail-in ballots, according to the group.", "Most of the complaints have been against members of Rajapaksa's government, the center said.", "The spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last week that the U.N. chief was \"concerned about the growing violence in the lead-up to the presidential election.\"", "\"The peaceful conduct of the first post-conflict national election is of the highest importance for long-term peace and reconciliation in Sri Lanka,\" he added.", "CNN's Sara Sidner and Iqbal Athas contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Early returns show Rajapaksa leading, state-run TV SLRC reports .", "Fonseka accuses Rajapaksa of intimidation .", "Politicians vow to block Fonseka, saying he is not registered to vote .", "Presidential election is first since government forces put down 26-year insurgency ." ]	[ 0, 8, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- After nearly going to war last year over a Colombian military raid inside Ecuador, the two nations seemed to be patching relations when their foreign ministers met a few weeks ago.", "Then an Ecuadorian judge issued an arrest warrant this week for the head of the Colombian armed forces, pushing relations back one giant step.", "Colombian Gen. Freddy Padilla, the armed forces chief whose arrest is sought, canceled a meeting scheduled for Friday with Ecuadorian Gen. Fabian Varela.", "Padilla thought he might be arrested if he traveled to Ecuador.", "It's not the first pothole on the path to normalization.", "Ecuador previously issued an arrest warrant for former Colombian Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos, who held the post during last year's raid.", "Colombia has dismissed both warrants, saying Ecuador has no jurisdiction to investigate and judge Colombian officials.", "Analyst Patrick Esteruelas of the Eurasia Group consulting firm calls Ecuador's actions \"schizophrenic.\"", "Two former U.S. ambassadors to the area agree this is par for Ecuadorian foreign policy.", "\"That's the history of Ecuador, unfortunately,\" said Peter Romero, ambassador to that nation from 1993 to 1996.", "\"One step forward, two steps back.\"", "Myles Frechette, U.S. ambassador to Colombia from 1994 to 1997, said Friday that \"Ecuador is a specialist in bonehead plays.", "It has been for years. Nothing's changed much.\"", "Former Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Heinz Moeller, who served from 2000 to 2003, called the arrest warrant \"lamentable.\"", "\"It's absurd that these things happen,\" he said Friday.", "Tension between the two nations has existed for years.", "The latest enmity started in March 2008, when Colombia bombed a guerrilla base inside Ecuador.", "The raid killed a top leader for the Revolutionary Armed Force of Colombia, commonly known as the FARC.", "The Marxist guerrilla group has been waging war on Colombia since the 1960s and often takes refuge on the Ecuadorian side of the border.", "At least 25 people were killed, most of them said to be FARC guerrillas.", "Colombian President Alvaro Uribe hailed the attack, saying \"terrorism ... does not respect borders.\"", "Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called the attack \"aggression\" and a \"massacre\" and severed diplomatic relations with Colombia.", "Both nations went on war footing but stopped short of military action.", "Over time, tensions seemed to dissipate and Colombian Foreign Minister Jaime Bermudez and his Ecuadorian counterpart, Fander Falconi, met last month.", "After the meeting, Colombia signed a statement saying it would never attack inside Ecuador again.", "Friday's meeting between the two nations' top generals was supposed to further repair the damage.", "Then came the arrest warrant.", "What happened? Perhaps politics.", "Definitely one branch of the government acting without the consent of the other.", "Falconi quickly pointed out that the nation's judicial branch, not Correa's administration, decided to issue the warrant.", "Analysts agree that it wasn't Correa's doing.", "\"That's not a very coordinated government,\" said Frechette, the former envoy to Colombia.", "\"The executive branch didn't issue that order.\"", "Moeller, the former Ecuadorian foreign minister, said the judge who issued the arrest warrant is \"motivated by political criteria.\"", "\"I don't have another explanation,\" said Moeller, who also served as president of the Ecuadorian Congress three times.", "Normalization of relations will be a slow process, Eurasia analyst Esteruelas said.", "\"We're going to see a lot of stops and starts,\" he said.", "Alejandro Santos, editorial director of La Semana weekly news magazine in Colombia, said relations will not improve until the two countries \"can close the chapter\" on last year's bombing raid.", "\"That chapter can be closed when the Colombian government promises not to do that.", "They have done that (promise),\" Santos said.", "\"Now Ecuador needs to start avoiding those types of judicial measures against Colombian officials.\"", "Esteruelas said Ecuador felt justifiably aggrieved over the attack and wants to make sure it never happens again.", "But he also sees another issue at play: Ecuadorian President Correa's plummeting poll numbers and domestic problems with indigenous movements and other political issues.", "\"It's usually convenient to remind everyone that Correa is fighting for Ecuadorian sovereignty,\" Esteruelas said, adding that such nationalism \"resonates very broadly\" across the political spectrum.", "But Frechette said, \"Correa really does want to reach some kind of agreement.\"", "The problems between the two nations are long-standing and have a lot to do with the 45-year-old war between Colombia and the FARC.", "From Ecuador's perspective, the war has displaced about 250,000 Colombians who have sought refuge in Ecuador.", "Those refugees need services and jobs, further straining a poor area that's already on the brink.", "Ecuador also resents that the FARC have set up camps inside the country, causing security problems for a nation that is not technically at war with the guerrillas.", "From Colombia's point of view, Ecuador is not doing enough to combat the FARC and is allowing the guerrillas to have a sanctuary that Colombian troops cannot reach.", "Further complicating the relationship, Ecuador's Correa is politically aligned with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who is no friend of Colombia and its leader, Uribe.", "Chavez threatened to attack neighboring Colombia after the military raid in Ecuador.", "\"This has been developing for many years,\" Moeller said.", "But there are great advantages to normalizing relations, most of them economic.", "Ecuador, for example, is Colombia's third-largest export market.", "Walter Spurrier, president of Grupo Spurrier and director of Weekly Analysis in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Maria Velez de Berliner, president of the Latin Intelligence Corp. in Alexandria, Virginia, talked with the Inter-American Dialog policy institute last month about Colombia-Ecuador economic activity.", "\"Re-establishing relations could lead Ecuador to lift sanctions against Colombian products, which forced many small- and medium-sized businesses to collapse on both sides of the border,\" Velez told the Washington-based think tank.", "Said Spurrier, \"For Colombia, Ecuador is an important market.", "Not so the other way around.", "But the goods Ecuador sells Colombia are difficult to relocate to other markets.", "Ecuador now attempts to sell Libya and Iran the rice it would have otherwise sold Colombia.", "Also, Ecuadorian importers have to look for other sources.\"", "Moeller, the former foreign minister, wants normalization to get back on track.", "\"We have to close the parenthesis,\" he said.", "\"I hope this passes ... and that they start talking again.\"" ]	[ "Ecuadorian judge issues an arrest warrant for head of Colombian armed forces .", "Colombian Gen. Freddy Padilla cancels trip to Ecuador for fear of arrest .", "Tensions between neighbors stem from FARC rebels taking refuge in Ecuador ." ]	[ 1, 2, 46 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration Tuesday said it is launching a \"full review\" of an incident in which the agency posted on the Internet a sensitive manual outlining screening procedures for law enforcement officers, diplomats, prisoners, federal air marshals and others.", "In a statement Tuesday night, the TSA sought to minimize the impact of the unintentional release -- calling the document \"outdated,\" \"unclassified\" and unimplemented -- while saying that it took the incident \"very seriously,\" and \"took swift action\" when it was discovered.", "Congressional critics, meanwhile, lambasted the agency and called for an independent investigation.", "\"Undoubtedly, this raises potential security concerns across our transportation system,\" House Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Mississippi, and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, wrote in a letter to TSA Acting Administrator Gale Rossides.", "Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, called the release of the information \"shocking\" and reckless.", "\"This manual provides a road map to those who would do us harm,\" she said.", "At issue is a 93-page manual giving instruction to airport screeners on how to screen individuals.", "It also gives details on how screening is conducted and the limitations of X-ray machines.", "The TSA posted the manual on a Federal Business Opportunities Web site that provides information for government contractors and redacted sensitive parts.", "But the redacted information was not properly protected, and the information was restored by people familiar with the computer program.", "The TSA said the posted manual -- dated May 28, 2008, with an implementation date of June 30, 2008 -- was never implemented and has been revised six times, although it did not elaborate on the extent of the revisions.", "\"While the document does demonstrate the complexities of checkpoint security, it does not contain information related to the specifics of everyday checkpoint screening procedures,\" the TSA said Tuesday.", "\"The traveling public should be assured that appropriate measures have been put in place to ensure the continued implementation of a strong security screening program,\" it said.", "The TSA said it removed the report as soon as it learned of the problem.", "But it was too late. The full, un-redacted version of the report appeared on at least one Web site on Sunday, and was even more widely distributed on Tuesday." ]	[ "TSA said posted document is \"outdated,\" \"unclassified\" and unimplemented .", "Congressional critics called for independent investigation .", "TSA posted the manual and redacted sensitive parts .", "Redacted information was not properly protected, information was restored ." ]	[ 2, 8, 9 ]
[ "Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- More than 37 million people visit Las Vegas each year for its glitz, glamour and lure of hitting a jackpot.", "Yet few tourists ever see the dingy world beneath the bright lights: tunnel dwellings that have become home to those down on their luck.", "Steve Dommer and his girlfriend, Kathryn, live in the depths below the Vegas Strip.", "They created an elaborate 400-square-foot space, complete with a living room, bedroom, kitchen and workshop to fix bicycles.", "Everything is elevated off the floor with wooden pallets or milk crates because of potential flooding.", "Their prized possession is a queen-sized bed, found in a Dumpster near the Palms Casino Resort.", "\"I like to be able to come back and sleep as comfortably as possible,\" Dommer said, patting his bed.", "By day, he scrounges for change above ground.", "He's been living down below for two years.", "He lost his construction job because of an addiction to speed and heroin.", "The couple is not alone in the city's tunnels.", "\"Hundreds of people live in these tunnels,\" says journalist Matthew O'Brien.", "O'Brien has become an expert on the more than 300 miles of underground flood channels and its tunnel dwellers.", "O'Brien brought the homeless to light, first in articles for the alternative weekly newspaper, Las Vegas CityLife, and then in a book titled \"Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas.\"", "O'Brien noted the irony of one tunnel entrance near the famous \"Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas\" neon sign.", "\"I just think the history of Vegas PR is to ignore the bad issues,\" he said.", "\"The instinct of the city -- and the county -- is to ignore stuff that can be construed as negative press and kind of highlight other things about the city.\"", "The number of those living in the storm drains varies by the season, O'Brien said.", "The tunnels become damp and cold in the winter, but hundreds flock into them during the summer to escape the 100-degree desert temperatures.", "\"It's much cooler than outside, about 20-25 degrees cooler, and that's one reason why someone would live or hang out in these tunnels,\" O'Brien said.", "Armed with a black metal flashlight, O'Brien took CNN on a tour of four tunnels.", "Each tunnel was different; their heights ranged from 4 to 12 feet.", "Some intersected underground; others had small openings to access parallel tunnels.", "It was pitch black much of the time.", "\"After you've done it a few hundred times like I have, you can walk down here without any light at all,\" said tunnel dweller Steve Dommer.", "O'Brien said he's always \"a little bit on edge\" when he climbs into the underground world.", "\"You never know what to expect or what you're going to find down here,\" he said.", "If legend is to be believed, a troll armed with a crowbar combs the tunnels.", "Even if it's not true, O'Brien said, it still haunts him.", "\"A lot of the people ... have their own ghost stories about a friend who was murdered in the tunnels or someone who drowned and they hear their voices late at night,\" O'Brien said.", "\"It is true that you do hear some weird noises down here because of the acoustics.\"", "Some of the channel floors are covered with dust, others mud, and, in one section, a foot of stagnant water.", "There are sleeping bags and mattresses, some with makeshift canopies, but they seemed outnumbered by the trash, scraps of food, cockroaches and graffiti.", "Upon hearing our footsteps, some vagrants scattered from their makeshift shelters, not knowing if we were marauders or the police who sometimes come through to chase the homeless out.", "O'Brien introduced us to a man known in these parts as \"Iron,\" who has lived in the flood channel system for six years.", "Iron had sun-baked skin and wore a cap reading \"Jackpot!\"", "The recovering alcoholic said he makes ends meet receiving tips for pumping gas or cleaning windshields at a nearby service station.", "He lives near the entrance of a tunnel across the highway from the Excalibur and Luxor hotel-casinos.", "\"You'd be surprised at night the view you have right here,\" Iron said.", "\"People pay a lot of money in the suites to have views of the Strip.", "I get it every night for free.\"", "He sleeps about 10 feet from the entrance of a four-foot high tunnel.", "It doesn't rain often.", "But when it does, the floodwaters carry away anything in its path.", "\"I live pretty simple now after replacing things for six years.\"", "Over in another Vegas flood channel, a homeless man named Michael sat with his bags packed ready to leave his tunnel dwelling, about 200 feet from the entrance.", "The 52-year-old said police came through two days earlier encouraging people to leave.", "He sat on a mattress wearing khaki pants and a short-sleeve collared shirt.", "He said crack cocaine abuse led him on a dark path into the storm drains.", "He's hoping to leave soon.", "\"After 30 years of wasting time and money, 30 years of drug use, I want my life back,\" he said.", "\"I want to get up and lead a productive life again.\"", "To that end, O'Brien is helping.", "That was one of his goals when he began his journey -- to find a way to help the tunnel dwellers.", "He became partners with the charitable outreach organization HELP of Southern Nevada to form the \"Shine A Light\" foundation.", "O'Brien escorts social workers into the storm drains twice a month to offer assistance to the homeless.", "They provide blankets, food, water and counseling.", "According to O'Brien, more than a dozen people who were living within the tunnels received housing in the past six months thanks to the partnership.", "But O'Brien said he thinks Sin City could do much more to help.", "\"I've always thought more should be done,\" he said.", "Iron, the homeless man with a city view, believes the city tolerates the tunnel dwellers because \"we're not hurting anybody.\"", "\"The only thing getting hurt down here is ourselves and nobody else.\"", "CNN's Sara Weisfeldt contributed to this report." ]	[ "Homeless population of Las Vegas turn to storm drains for shelter .", "\"I just think the history of Vegas PR is to ignore the bad issues,\" Matthew O'Brien says .", "One man nicknamed \"Iron\" says the best thing is his view of Vegas Strip at night ." ]	[ 11, 13, 15, 38 ]
[ "(CNN) -- As hosts of the largest carnival in world football, the pressure is on for South Africa's national football team to ignite the imagination of local fans by performing well at the 2010 World Cup.", "If Bafana Bafana is to succeed in their mission, conventional wisdom would be that coach Carlos Alberto Parreira will turn to his best players to deliver results.", "However, despite firing in 31 goals in 77 appearances to become South Africa's all-time record goal scorer, Benni McCarthy has had question marks hanging over his participation for his country come June.", "The prolific striker, who plays for English Premier League side Blackburn Rovers, has only recently returned from a period of international exile, just the latest incident in a stormy history with his country's football team.", "He first angered Bafana Bafana fans by going into international retirement in 2002 aged just 25.", "The reason? Traveling to international games was hampering his ability to play European football for Celta Vigo and, later, Porto.", "\"The whole pattern was killing my career, that's why I quit international football,\" he told British newspaper The Independent in 2004.", "\"African football needs the same calendar as Europe otherwise its best players are going to suffer.\"", "He was talked into returning, only to quit again after the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations when the president of the South African FA, Mubarak Mahomad, made an uncomplimentary comment about his performance.", "That period of self-imposed exile lasted 20 months, until new coach Carlos Alberto Parreira flew to Great Britain to talk to McCarthy, who was now at Blackburn Rovers.", "But after Parreira quit to care for his sick wife, McCarthy fell out with replacement boss Joel Santana after he refused to play in two warm up matches last March.", "Despite pleas from South African President Jacob Zuma, Santana refused to pick him.", "But a run of eight defeats in nine games, which saw the team slump to 86th on the FIFA rankings, Santana was sacked.", "With goals being South Africa's biggest problem, it was no surprise that returning coach Parreira made persuading McCarthy to return, for a second time, his top priority.", "Sure enough, McCarthy returned to the fray last month against Japan.", "The 32-year-old told local press: \"I want to start afresh and help Bafana do well in the World Cup finals.", "It is every player's dream to play for his country... and I have matured.\"", "\"In the past I was a loose cannon and I apologize if I was wrong [but] I am still the best at what I do - and that is scoring goals,\" he added.", "Few could argue with McCarthy's record.", "Born in Hanover Park, an impoverished township in Cape Town known for its high unemployment, poverty and gang-related violence, McCarthy escaped to become one of Africa's most successful football exports.", "McCarthy started his career in 1995 aged 18 with Seven Stars of Cape Town, where 27 goals in 29 games earned him a move to Cape Town Spurs who soon merged with Ajax Cape Town, a feeder side to their famous Dutch namesake.", "McCarthy's potential was enough for Ajax Amsterdam to sign him.", "Joining in 1997 he scored nine goals to help them win the Eredivisie in his first year, which eventually attracted the attentions of Spain's Celta Vigo.", "Although it didn't work out in Spain, his move to Portugal's FC Porto was a roaring success.", "In the 2003/04 season he helped Jose Mourinho's side win the UEFA Champions League with McCarthy memorably grabbing two goals in the second round defeat of Manchester United.", "McCarthy moved to Premier League outfit Blackburn Rovers in 2006 and scored plenty of goals - he was in the top three league scorers in his debut season - but first-team opportunities have been limited of late.", "Yet ever since McCarthy made his international debut in a 2-0 home defeat to Holland 1997, South Africa has been a different side with him in it.", "Gloom has followed South Africa's footballing exploits before this summer's World Cup.", "But after his most recent 'comeback', Bafana Bafana fans will hope that McCarthy can help put the dark days under Joel Santana firmly behind them.", "Hear what Benni has to say in CNN's coverage of the World Cup draw, live on Friday 4th December." ]	[ "South Africa legend Benni McCarthy is part of CNN's World Cup Draw coverage, Friday 4th December .", "McCarthy is Bafana Bafana's leading scorer with 32 goals, including two in their previous World Cup adventures .", "McCarthy currently plays for Blackburn Rovers and has had spells with Ajax, Celta Vigo and FC Porto ." ]	[ 2, 15, 18, 29 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The mid-Atlantic region continued digging out Monday from the weekend's record blizzard, but snow-weary residents learned of a new winter storm due in the area on Tuesday.", "The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning, with predictions of another 10 to 20 inches of snow, for northern Virginia and eastern Maryland, including the District of Columbia, beginning Tuesday afternoon and continuing through Wednesday.", "\"A winter storm warning means significant amounts of snow are expected or occurring,\" said the statement from the weather service facility in Sterling, Virginia.", "\"The combination of snow and strong winds will make travel very hazardous.\"", "If as severe as predicted, the new storm would be the third major snowfall to hit the nation's capital and surrounding region in just over seven weeks.", "In last weekend's blizzard, a record 32.4 inches of snow fell on Washington's Dulles International Airport over two days, breaking a January 7-8, 1996, record of 23.2 inches.", "Federal workers in Washington, with the exception of emergency employees, stayed home Monday and students in most schools in the nation's capital got a snow day.", "Many residents who spent the weekend playfully making snowmen and hurling snowballs also grumbled as they shoveled hip-high snow from driveways.", "\"The streets are pretty well covered,\" Kingsley Barreto said Sunday about his subdivision in Gaithersburg, Maryland.", "\"No cars coming in or out of here.", "Hopefully everyone in the community has enough supplies to last them for a little while, because it doesn't look like we're going anywhere anytime soon,\" Barreto said in a post he submitted to iReport, a CNN Web site that allows people to submit information, pictures and videos.", "Watch Barreto's iReport on his neighborhood .", "Crews worked around the clock to clear roads and repair power lines, warning that it might take days to restore electricity to some customers from Pennsylvania to Virginia.", "Two of Dulles' four runways were open Monday morning, and officials hoped to have a third open later in the day, said Courtney Mickalonis of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.", "The situation there is \"getting back to normal,\" Mickalonis said.", "But airport officials asked travelers not to go there without confirmed flights.", "Reagan National Airport was scheduled to reopen at 10 a.m. Monday, with flights resuming on a limited basis, the airport authority said.", "Travelers were urged to check with airlines on flight schedules before heading to the airport.", "Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport was open Monday, with limited service, spokesman Jonathan Dean said.", "One of the two runways opened Sunday night, and some flights landed, Dean said.", "However, airport authorities expect carrier delays and cancellations because of the backlog.", "Are you there? Share your winter weather photos, video .", "Airport crews were dealing with a refreeze from overnight, but officials intended to have both runways open by the end of Monday.", "Amtrak canceled several trains Sunday after trees and power lines fell on tracks, the train service said.", "Dozens of Greyhound bus trips in mid-Atlantic states also were canceled, the company said on its Web site.", "And officials across the region advised drivers to stay off slick roads.", "\"Everybody's just trying to clean up and get a little bit ahead of the game before the next round comes,\" said Michelle Timberlake, who lives on a farm in Boyce, Virginia, about two hours west of Washington.", "The interior designer found herself running through a mountain of snow when about 40 cows escaped from the pasture on her husband's farm in search of food and shelter.", "\"This was not what I imagined for myself,\" she said Sunday, laughing about the experience.", "CNN's Sarah Lee, Sarah Aarthun, Justin Lear and Rachel Rodriguez contributed to this report." ]	[ "Federal workers, some students get snow day in nation's capital .", "Washington's Reagan National Airport set to reopen .", "A record 32.4 inches of snow fell on Dulles International Airport over two days .", "Five more inches of snow expected in Washington-Baltimore area ." ]	[ 5, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The space shuttle Discovery landed in California on Friday evening after bad weather near Kennedy Space Center forced it to wave off a landing in Florida.", "Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base after a 13-day mission to the international space station.", "\"Welcome home Discovery,\" mission control said after the shuttle landed.", "\"Congratulations on an extremely successful mission, stepping up science to a new level on the international space station.\"", "The shuttle touched down at 8:53 p.m.", "ET at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, where NASA described the weather as \"pristine.\"", "This may be the last California shuttle landing, because there are only six missions remaining on the NASA schedule, unless Congress gives the space agency more money.", "Flight controllers prefer landings at Kennedy Space Center because of cost and schedule.", "A California landing adds a week to the turnaround time before the shuttle can be ready for another mission.", "NASA has estimated it costs about $1.7 million to bring a shuttle home to Kennedy Space Center from California.", "It rides cross-country piggy-back on a Boeing 747.", "Discovery was initially scheduled to return to Earth on Thursday, but poor weather in central Florida forced a delay.", "Watch the shuttle land in California » .", "Both Florida landing opportunities Friday were canceled by \"a very deep moisture system that descended over the Florida spaceport,\" a NASA spokesman said.", "The seven astronauts are wrapping up a 13-day mission to the international space station, where the crew made repairs and delivered supplies.", "The crew executed three spacewalks and dropped off the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, or COLBERT treadmill, named after comedian Stephen Colbert.", "Colbert won an online poll conducted by NASA to name the newest space station compartment.", "Instead, Colbert and the space agency worked together to give the moniker to the treadmill.", "The new compartment was given the name Tranquility.", "While in space, mission specialists Danny Olivas and Christer Fuglesang installed an ammonia tank on the international space station.", "The depleted tank assembly is being returned to Earth in the shuttle's cargo bay.", "The tank is part of a cooling system that cycles 600 pounds of ammonia through the space station to \"get rid of excess heat generated by the station's systems,\" NASA said.", "Astronaut Nicole Stott remained at the space station as a flight engineer, replacing astronaut Timothy Kopra, who returned home aboard Discovery as a mission specialist, according to NASA's Web site.", "Another space icon is also coming home aboard the shuttle -- Buzz Lightyear.", "The 12-inch Disney/Pixar action figure has been aboard the space station for more than a year, according to NASA.", "The action figure went into space aboard Discovery in May 2008 as part of a joint initiative between Disney and NASA to encourage students to study math, science and technology.", "Weather and technical problems delayed Discovery's launch three times before the mission began." ]	[ "NEW: Mission control says mission took \"science to a new level\" on space station .", "NEW: Shuttle lands in California, incurring additional cost to bring it home .", "Florida landing for space shuttle called off because of bad weather ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- About 11.6 million Africans have been forced from their homes by wars and other conflicts, according to the United Nations.", "Next week in Uganda, leaders from across the continent will converge to tackle the issue.", "Somali women at a camp for displaced persons.", "Nearly half of the displaced people in the world are found in Africa, according to the United Nations.", "\"Africa is the continent most affected by the scourge and tragedy of forced displacement,\" the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said in a statement.", "\"While refugee populations have declined in recent years, internal displacement continues to rise and the number of people uprooted from their homes is mounting.\"", "During the weeklong African Union summit that will start Monday in the capital, Kampala, the leaders are expected to sign a pledge to help the displaced across the continent, according to the U.N. agency for refugee issues.", "The agreement \"would be the first legally binding international instrument on internal displacement having such broad regional scope,\" the agency said.", "Aid agencies have blasted some African countries for failing refugees and internally displaced people.", "Last month, Oxfam International released an explosive report accusing Kenya and Ethiopia of housing Somali refugees in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions.", "It said the Somali government also is abandoning its internally displaced.", "\"Somalis flee one of the world's most brutal conflicts and a desperate drought, only to end up in unimaginable conditions in camps that are barely fit for humans,\" said Robbert Van den Berg, a spokesman for Oxfam International in the Horn of Africa.", "\"Hundreds of thousands of children are affected, and the world is abandoning the next generation of Somalis when they most need our help.\"", "On a visit to a refugee camp in northern Kenya that houses Somalis, actress and U.N. goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie called it \"one of the most dire\" she had ever seen.", "The camp -- which has facilities for about 90,000 -- houses 280,000 refugees.", "\"The toilets are already overflowing,\" Jolie said last month.", "\"There is not even enough space for trash dumps, so people are living amongst the garbage.\"", "Kenyan officials have said they are working on a solution.", "In neighboring Uganda, a government spokesman said it had taken steps to ensure displaced people and refugees have access to resources to become self-sufficient.", "\"The numbers of displaced have drastically gone down,\" Fred Opolot said.", "\"The government offers them relocation packages, including planting seeds, cooking items and building materials.\"", "The east African nation has followed international protocol, Opolot said, noting that it was chosen to host the African Union summit on refugees.", "\"Uganda does not just set up camps; it builds facilities for them,\" Opolot said.", "\"There may well be some African countries that have not followed protocols. ...", "The summit will reassess the challenges they have and set up steps to ensure they follow international protocol.\"" ]	[ "African leaders converge to tackle problem of conflict-displaced people .", "Nearly half of the displaced people in the world are found in Africa .", "Aid agencies have criticized some African countries for failing refugees ." ]	[ 3, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- For the first time in decades, the hunting of the gray wolf is legal again in the United States.", "And that's a good thing for ranchers like Cindy Siddoway of Terreton, Idaho, whose sheep are threatened every day by wolves.", "Gray wolves were taken off the endangered species list after their population rebounded.", "\"We have worked very hard to protect what we have, and it's not very successful,\" she said.", "\"It is devastating for us to put all of the money and the time and the genetics and work to produce a great product and then just have it half-eaten and left to die.\"", "But wolf hunting isn't popular with everybody.", "It has become a controversy in Idaho, where the hunt began Tuesday, and in Montana, where it is scheduled to start September 15.", "Environmental and animal rights groups are upset by a federal decision this year to remove gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains from the endangered species list, a move that opened the door to permitting the hunts.", "They are seeking an injunction in U.S. District Court in Montana to stop the hunts.", "Judge Donald Molloy is reviewing the case, and it's unclear when he will rule.", "After their population dwindled in the Rockies last century, in part because of practices like trapping, gray wolves were put on the endangered species list.", "But the population has rebounded, and the U.S.", "Fish and Wildlife Service delisted the animals and determined that the populations would be healthy enough for hunts to be permitted in Idaho and Montana, which manage the wolf populations.", "There are also gray wolves in Wyoming, but hunts are not permitted there because of the state's weak wildlife management, the U.S.", "Fish and Wildlife Service said.", "Opponents of the hunt say the population is not large and healthy enough to allow hunting.", "Melanie Stein, a Sierra Club spokeswoman, said that the wolf populations \"are just on the cusp of recovery and that we are almost there.\"", "But she says the hunts represent \"a step backward and away from recovery\" of the wolf populations.", "Defenders of Wildlife, one of several groups urging the court to stop the hunt, detailed the ecological role of the wolves on its Web site.", "\"In what is known as the cascade effect, wolves are exerting influence over a multitude of species within the park's ecosystem.", "Elk, wary of the reintroduced top predator, have altered their grazing behavior.", "\"With less grazing pressure from elk, streambed vegetation such as willow and aspen is regenerating after decades of overbrowsing.", "As the trees are restored, they create better habitat for native birds and fish, beaver and other species.\"", "Siddoway doesn't think the hunt will make much of a difference right now because it is hard to kill the animals.", "But the wolf attacks take their toll.", "For example, the wolves will kill Great Pyrenees guard dogs used to protect the herds.", "When that happens, \"then we're open to prey from bears and everything else,\" Siddoway said.", "\"We know that it's a problem, and we want to make sure ranchers can continue on with their livelihood,\" Stein said.", "\"But there has to be some co-existence between wolves and other species.\"", "Currently, ranchers and farmers can legally shoot a wolf they see attacking their livestock, said Ed Bangs, wolf recovery coordinator with the U.S.", "Fish and Wildlife Service.", "There are also tools used to counter wolf attacks without hunting, he said.", "They include scare tactics, like shooting firecrackers out of a shotgun, or proper fencing.", "\"All that stuff works for a little while in some instances for a short period of time and in some situations can be helpful.", "But it isn't the silver bullet for wolf depredation,\" he said.", "He said these techniques work \"in conjunction with killing wolves.\"", "There are state and private programs compensating ranchers who lose livestock because of attacks, but the money represents only part of what the livestock and the time dealing with the problem is worth.", "\"The ranchers got the short end of the stick,\" Bangs said.", "Officials say that up to 330 wolves in the states of Idaho and Montana may be killed during this public hunt.", "In Idaho, the limit is 220 wolves, and in Montana, it would be 75.", "Members of the Nez Perce tribe in Idaho can kill up to 35 wolves.", "Ed Mitchell, spokesman for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, said three wolves have been taken in Idaho since the hunting season began.", "There are more than 1,600 gray wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming.", "But Siddoway says \"there will never be enough\" for environmental groups to agree to the hunts.", "CNN's Joe Sterling contributed to this report." ]	[ "Environmentalists, animal rights groups protest decision .", "Ranchers say it might help save their flocks .", "Montana district court judge is considering injunction .", "There are 1,600 wolves in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming; 330 may be killed ." ]	[ 38, 42 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Professional basketball star Shaquille O'Neal paid for the funeral of a 5-year-old North Carolina girl whose body was found last week, O'Neal's team confirmed Thursday.", "Authorities believe the child, Shaniya Davis, was kidnapped, raped and murdered after being reported missing November 10.", "Her body was found six days later on a roadside about 30 miles from her hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina.", "Her funeral was Sunday.", "O'Neal said in a statement released by his team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, that he was touched after seeing Davis' story on CNN sister network HLN's \"Nancy Grace\" show.", "\"What happened to her was tragic.", "I wanted her to have a funeral that would be as beautiful as she was,\" O'Neal said in the statement.", "Corey Breece, of Rogers and Breece Funeral Home, told the Fayetteville Observer he wouldn't discuss the cost of the child's service, but he noted a child's funeral \"averages around $4,500.\"", "The girl's father, Bradley Lockhart, and his family had set up a trust fund to help raise money to pay for the service, according to the Fayetteville Observer.", "Family friend Vaughn Eason told the paper any remaining money would be used for groups and charities working to assist abused and neglected children.", "Police have charged Mario Andrette McNeill with kidnapping and said he also will face murder and child rape charges.", "Preliminary autopsy results indicated the child was asphyxiated, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine told reporters last week, as authorities awaited final autopsy reports.", "Davis' mother, Antionette Nicole Davis, has been charged with human trafficking and other offenses.", "Police have said they believe she was prostituting the girl.", "O'Neal, as a volunteer for law enforcement agencies in recent years, has been active in causes that deal with domestic violence issues, mainly child-abuse cases." ]	[ "Star paid for funeral of Shaniya Davis, who was kidnapped, raped and murdered .", "O'Neal: \"I wanted her to have a funeral that would be as beautiful as she was\"\nO'Neal said in statement he was touched after seeing story on HLN's \"Nancy Grace\"\nAndrette McNeill charged with murder; girl's mother accused of prostituting her ." ]	[ 3, 4, 6, 10 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- To the delight of fans back home in Tokyo, Hideki Matsui drove in six of the New York Yankees' seven runs in their World Series-winning victory Wednesday and became the first Japanese-born player to win a series Most Valuable Player award.", "For much of his career, Matsui was a star player for the Tokyo Giants.", "Matsui's key role in the series highlights the close ties between American and Japanese baseball.", "Playing in the Yankees' new stadium, the successor to the \"House that Ruth Built,\" Matsui's performance brought to mind the key role that Babe Ruth played in the development of professional baseball in Japan, according to Robert Fitts, author of several books on Japanese baseball.", "Fitts became a student of Japanese baseball in 1993, when his wife, an attorney, was transferred to Japan.", "Fitts, then working on his Ph.D. in archaeology from Brown University, was looking for something to get him immersed in Japanese culture.", "He wrote to 30 of the greatest Japanese ballplayers and was surprised to hear back from nearly all of them, with some sending gifts.", "He's the author of \"Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game\" and of \"Wally Yonamine,\" a biography of the first Japanese-American to play professional football and the first American to play professional baseball in Japan.", "\"He was called the Jackie Robinson of Japan,\" Fitts said.", "Yonamine led the Japanese league in batting twice and won the MVP award as a center fielder for the Tokyo Giants.", "CNN spoke with Fitts, who is based in New York, on Thursday.", "CNN: What are your thoughts on Matsui's key role in the Yankees' victory?", "Fitts: It's wonderful for Japanese baseball, of course.", "I would say that five years ago, maybe seven years ago, it would have been incredible, because people in America and in Japan weren't sure about the status of Japanese professional baseball.", "Many Americans and some in Japan thought that Japanese baseball wasn't as good as American baseball. ...", "Since then, Ichiro [Suzuki] came over, and he set numerous Major League Baseball records.", "... And then Japan won both of the World Baseball Classics.", "So Japan's baseball has already proven itself to be of high caliber.", "Most Americans, even if they don't know the history of Japanese baseball, recognize now that they play a very good game.", "CNN: In Japan, how significant is baseball?", "Fitts: It's the Japanese national sport.", "It's been so since the 1890s.", "Japan had no native team sports.", "In the 1870s. American and British teachers introduced team sports to Japan.", "Cricket was introduced, along with rugby and baseball.", "Baseball is the one that became the most popular.", "In the 1890s, a Japanese high school team beat a team of American adults from the Yokohama Country Club.", "They beat them in three straight games.", "It took on national importance.", "Japan, of course, was opened up to Westerners in the 1850s by Commodore Perry.", "The Western nations were far more advanced in technology, and Japan did a rapid modernization.", "By 1890, Japan felt it was ready to join modern nations as an equal, but the Western powers weren't ready to accept Japan.", "CNN: How did the game develop after that?", "Fitts: The biggest change came with two tours.", "The first was in 1931, an American all-star team whose big star was Lou Gehrig, and the bigger tour came in 1934.", "Both of these tours were sponsored by the Yomiuri newspaper.", "In 1934, they brought over what at the time was considered the greatest baseball team ever.", "It included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Charlie Gehringer, Earl Averill, Lefty Gomez, Connie Mack was the manager, and we can't forget Mo Berg, the future spy [for the United States in World War II].", "The '34 tour was significant for two reasons: The first is that relations between Japan and the U.S. were really rocky at that point.", "There was a very significant treaty, the naval treaty, which limited the size of the major powers' navies.", "For every five warships the U.S. and Britain could have, Japan was only allowed three.", "Japan found this quite insulting, even though they had agreed to it in the 1920s.", "When the all-star team went over there, the Japanese people went crazy.", "Half a million people turned out on November 2 for a welcoming parade in Tokyo for the American baseball team.", "The tour really did create a great deal of goodwill.", "However, that ended quickly.", "Within a month of the tour ending, Japan announced that it would not renew the naval treaty.", "Several months later, in February 1935, an ultranationalist group tried to assassinate the president of the Yomiuri newspaper because he brought over the American team.", "He was wounded very seriously but survived.", "CNN: What was the importance of the tour for Japanese baseball?", "Fitts: The Yomiuri newspaper used the enthusiasm generated by the tour to start their own professional league.", "The first team they created -- to play the American visitors -- was a Japanese all-star team called All-Nippon.", "After the tour, the All-Nippon team transformed into the Yomiuri [Tokyo] Giants.", "CNN: What was Babe Ruth's role?", "Fitts: Babe Ruth was credited as the man who helped start Japanese [professional] baseball.", "He was just Babe Ruth. He sold out every game.", "He had just been released by the Yankees prior to the tour.", "He hit over .300; he led the Americans and Japanese for most home runs.", "CNN: How did Hideki Matsui become a baseball star in Japan?", "Fitts: He was signed right after high school.", "He was the hero of the annual high school tournament.", "His rookie year was 1993 with the Yomiuri Giants.", "He spent much of '93 in the minors.", "By 1994, he became a true star, and he was the face of the team from '94 till he came over to the Yankees in 2003.", "CNN: How did people feel about Matsui coming to the Yankees?", "Fitts: The vast majority of people were very happy for him.", "There was no sense of betrayal except for the true Giants fans.", "This was very exciting news.", "I was there when it happened. This was a chance for Japan's most popular player to prove himself in the major leagues.", "The Yankees are a special team in Japan just like they are in the U.S.", "They're probably the most popular American team in Japan.", "When [Hideo] Nomo first came over in 1995, I found my Japanese friends only cared about how the Japanese players did.", "They were a fan of the Dodgers one day when Nomo pitched; they were a fan of the Angels when [Shigetoshi] Hasegawa pitched, but over time the Japanese fans became fans of different major league teams as they watched more major league baseball on TV.", "CNN: What have been the differences between the American and Japanese games?", "Fitts: There were real substantial differences from the 1940s even through the early 1990s. ...", "The Japanese would sacrifice bunt far more than the Americans (they still do but less than they used to).", "Players didn't go first to third on singles often.", "They would play line drives on hops rather than trying to make a shoestring catch and risk giving up more bases.", "It was a very conservative brand of baseball.", "Since the ties have become closer, Japan's baseball has become more aggressive, more exciting, in my opinion.", "There are still differences.", "The Japanese really focus on practice and perfection of the technique.", "That's something American players can learn from, and I think it helps explain the success of Hideki Matsui and Ichiro.", "They're both dedicated players who practice many, many hours.", "If you watch Matsui at the plate, he's a very disciplined hitter.", "His swing is very compact, very practiced, almost perfect.", "He rarely makes mental mistakes when he's playing the field or running the bases.", "CNN: How do you think people view the fact that he's going to be a free agent and might not stay with the Yankees?", "Fitts: I think the Japanese people would be very disappointed if he doesn't remain a Yankee ... and I think most New Yorkers would be very disappointed, too.", "He's an extremely classy player and a classy individual.", "CNN: Were you rooting for the Yankees?", "Fitts: I'm a Phillies fan.", "I grew up in Philadelphia.", "I'm in mourning this morning, but at least it was Matsui who did the damage." ]	[ "Japanese baseball book author says Babe Ruth sparked professional game in Japan .", "Robert Fitts says 1934 tour by American all-stars led to first pro teams .", "He says Yankees star Matsui is example for American ballplayers .", "Fitts: Matsui's emphasis on perfecting and practicing technique leads to success ." ]	[ 3, 7, 12, 34 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- State police in Florida planned Monday to further investigate a single-vehicle crash involving pro golfer Tiger Woods, they said.", "That followed a police announcement Sunday that Woods had canceled a third interview with investigators.", "Woods suffered minor injuries in the accident, which occurred early Friday in his luxury neighborhood near Orlando.", "In a statement issued Sunday afternoon on his Web site, Woods offered no details of his wreck, except to say he had cuts and bruises and was \"pretty sore.\"", "\"This situation is my fault, and it's obviously embarrassing to my family and me,\" he said.", "\"I'm human, and I'm not perfect.", "I will certainly make sure this doesn't happen again.\"", "CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin spoke about why Tiger Woods might be delaying talking to police.", "CNN: Why do you think Tiger Woods has canceled three interviews with police?", "Jeffrey Toobin: Tiger Woods is under no legal obligation to speak with police.", "The Fifth Amendment gives everyone an absolute right to refuse to talk to them.", "He may be counting on the fact that if no new news emerges, everybody will move on.", "CNN: Can the police do anything about it if Woods continues to refuse to talk to them?", "Toobin: The police don't have a lot of options.", "If someone doesn't want to talk to you, you as a police officer can't do anything about it.", "In theory, they could get a search warrant, but you need probable cause that a crime took place, and at this point, I don't see anything that would justify it.", "CNN: The Florida Highway Patrol says the delay is surprising because the accident is so minor.", "What does Tiger Woods gain by not talking to them?", "Toobin: Woods may not talk to them because there is possibly something unpleasant and embarrassing that he doesn't want to share with them, and he has that right.", "Based on what is publicly known, Woods has a public relations problem much more than a legal problem.", "He's arguably the most famous athlete in the world, and his team's overall strategy is a gamble that his general statement of responsibility won't be overtaken by events or other disclosures.", "CNN: Tiger Woods said today that he won't be attending his golf tournament in California this week because of injuries sustained in the car crash, and has cancelled his scheduled press conference as host of the event.", "Does this fit in with the strategy you think his team has adopted?", "Toobin: I think the decision not to attend the tournament shows how serious this event is, in Tiger's life as well as his work.", "Again, this is more a personal and business problem than a legal problem, but he needs to figure out a way to show the public what happened, or explain why he won't be talking about what happened.", "Obviously he doesn't have that answer yet.", "CNN: A story in last week's National Enquirer alleged that Woods has been seeing a New York night club hostess.", "The woman has denied any affair with Woods to The Associated Press.", "She's also apparently retained attorney Gloria Allred.", "Why do you think she's retained an attorney?", "Toobin: The woman may go public to repeat ... what she's said to the AP and publicly deny the affair, or perhaps to say that she was libeled by the Enquirer.", "Gloria Allred's clients tend not to disappear from the news media." ]	[ "Tiger Woods is under no legal obligation to speak with police, CNN senior legal analyst says .", "Police could get a search warrant, he says, but he doesn't see anything that would justify it .", "Toobin says Woods may not be talking because doing so may cause him embarrassment .", "Night club hostess who has hired attorney may publicly deny affair or allege libel, he says ." ]	[ 7, 9, 15, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Authorities in Alaska were working Friday to ensure public safety after a woman was mauled to death by animals -- most likely wolves.", "The victim, Candice Berner, 32, was found dead Monday in the village of Chignik Lake, authorities said.", "If the attack is confirmed, it would be the first fatal encounter with wolves on record in Alaska, said Megan Peters, spokeswoman for the Alaska State Troopers.", "If officials determine which animals were responsible, authorities will try to find them and destroy them, Peters said.", "An investigation determined the death was \"non-criminal in nature,\" the troopers said in a news release, adding that \"it has been concluded that the animals most likely responsible for the attack are wolves.\"", "Troopers were working with the Department of Fish and Game \"as it addresses public safety concerns regarding wolf activity close to the community of Chignik Lake,\" the troopers said.", "Berner, a Pennsylvania native, moved to Alaska last year.", "Chignik Lake is in the southwest part of the state, part of the Alaska Peninsula that shoots out from the mainland.", "The community of about 105 residents is about 475 miles southwest of Anchorage.", "Several Chignik Lake residents have reported recent encounters with wolves, some of them threatening, Peters said.", "Authorities saw a bloody trail where Berner had been dragged off a road and wolf tracks near the body, Peters said.", "\"It's hard. It's really hard.", "I feel horrible, you know, empty,\" her father, Robert Berner, told KTUU-TV in Anchorage, Alaska.", "\"They said Candice put up a good fight,\" he said, \"and there must have been two, maybe three of them.\"", "Berner described his daughter as \"small and mighty,\" a woman who liked to box, lift weights and run, according to a dispatch in the Slippery Rock Herald, the newspaper in her Pennsylvania hometown.", "She was training for a race and could get into a meditative state when running, her father said.", "Foul play has been ruled out, Peters said.", "Berner was an itinerant special education teacher, according to CNN affiliate WTAE-TV of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.", "Authorities listed her address as Perryville, Alaska, around 30 miles from where her body was found.", "She had arrived in Chignik this week to work at the school there, the Slippery Rock Herald said.", "Berner had been with the Lake and Peninsula Borough School District since August, schools official Rick Luthi said.", "Her co-workers last saw her alive at the end of the workday Monday, Luthi told the newspaper.", "\"She had made the comment that she wanted to get out and get some fresh air,\" Luthi said.", "\"We assumed that that meant a run for Candice, because she had a habit of doing that whenever she could.\"", "Her father was a professor and taught her first special education class, KTUU-TV said.", "\"I felt like it was work worth doing, and I've always felt that way,\" Robert Berner said.", "\"I thought Candice would be able to handle it well, because she has a tremendous tolerance for those who are different.\"", "Residents in Berner's hometown recalled an adventurous woman who loved the outdoors and longed to live in Alaska, WTAE said.", "Patrick Grant, of Slippery Rock University's Special Education Department, told the station that Berner returned home for grad school and that he last saw her about 18 months ago.", "\"She cared about other people,\" Grant told WTAE.", "\"She cared about kids.", "She cared about how she'd make a difference in the world.", "That's why she was there. She wanted to make a difference in the world.\"", "Berner was featured in Slippery Rock's winter 2010 journal, where she talked about life in Alaska without television and having her groceries flown in.", "She also wrote a blog called \"Adventures of an Alaskan Bush Teacher,\" posting photos on it and writing about the wildlife -- particularly the wolves that lurked in the wilderness.", "\"This tragedy affects all of us.", "We're all deeply crushed by it,\" Grant said.", "\"We're all deeply concerned about someone so young reaching such a tragic death, and we're all asking ourselves, 'What can we do?'", "And I don't know what the answer is.\"", "CNN's Greg Morrison and Dave Alsup contributed to this report." ]	[ "Authorities work in response to \"public safety concerns\" about wolves .", "If it is determined Candice Berner was killed by wolf, it would be first such death on state record .", "Berner's body was found Monday night in remote area near village of Chignik Lake .", "Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman says foul play has been ruled out ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 11, 16 ]

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