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[ "Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Kurdish lawmakers announced Monday they would submit their resignations from Parliament, three days after Turkey's highest court banned their political party on charges that it was a \"focal point for terrorism.\"", "Ahmet Turk, the co-chairman of the now-defunct Democratic Society Party -- known by its initials in Turkish, DTP -- made the announcement in a statement to the media Monday evening in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir.", "Last Friday's closure by the Constitutional Court stripped Turk and fellow co-chair, Aysel Tugluk, of their parliamentary seats and banned them both from politics for the next five years.", "The announcement that the remaining 19 elected lawmakers from their party would now resign in protest may exacerbate simmering tensions between the state and Turkey's minority of some 12 million ethnic Kurds.", "\"The decision of the constitutional court might deprive a significant segment of Turkish voters from political representation,\" said a spokesman for the European Commission, in a dispatch from the French news agency AFP.", "Earlier Friday, Ahmet Turk denounced the court ban in a speech before a crowd of some 10,000 supporters in Diyarbakir, the unofficial political capital of Turkey's Kurds.", "\"I know the mentality of the state and the politicians of this country,\" he said.", "\"We did not expect anything different because they cannot tolerate the existence of the Kurds.", "They cannot tolerate our identity.", "They cannot tolerate our language.\"", "After the speech, several hundred Kurds took to the streets, throwing stones and clashing with Turkish riot police, who retaliated by firing tear gas and water cannons.", "The banning of the DTP came after more then a week of riots and clashes between police and Kurdish protesters in cities and towns across Turkey.", "Tensions have rapidly escalated, amid reports that the jailed leader of the Kurdish separatist movement -- the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK -- was moved to a smaller prison cell, and after the PKK claimed responsibility for a deadly ambush last week that killed seven Turkish soldiers.", "In Istanbul on Sunday, Kurdish protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails and clashed with police in a central commercial district.", "At one point, gun- and club-wielding Turkish ultranationalists joined the fray.", "Explosions of ethnic anger were not limited to Turkey's largest city.", "In the eastern Turkish town of Malatya, Turkish nationalists were filmed scuffling with Kurdish demonstrators Sunday.", "Police struggled to keep the two groups apart as they kicked and cursed at each other in the street.", "Clashes also erupted on Monday in the coastal city of Adana and in the border town of Dogubayazit, Turkey's official Anatolian news agency reported.", "Anatolian reported that nine demonstrators were detained and that one demonstrator and five police officers were injured in the Dogubayazit clash.", "Signs identifying the now-defunct DTP have been removed from the front of the 19th-century, four-story building where the party's Istanbul headquarters is located.", "Two prior incarnations of the DTP have been shut down by the Turkish state within the last decade.", "Mustafa Avci, the chairman of the party's Istanbul branch, said the Turkish state is forcing conflict on the country's Kurdish minority.", "\"They are forcing this on us,\" Avci said in an interview with CNN on Monday.", "\"Therefore, they are the ones who practice terrorism, not us.", "...Those who want war are terrorists.\"" ]	[ "NEW: Kurdish lawmakers say they'll resign seats, days after court banned their party .", "NEW: Struggle may leave many voters without representation, European Commission says .", "Turkey's highest court banned DTP last week, calling it \"focal point for terrorism\"\nPolice, Kurdish protesters, and Turkish nationalists have clashed in streets recently ." ]	[ 0, 11 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- The autopsy on Corey Haim revealed the actor's heart was enlarged and his lungs were filled with water when he died, Haim's manager said.", "The Los Angeles County coroner told Haim's mother that her son suffered from pulmonary congestion, manager Mark Heaslip said.", "Heaslip said this was evidence that Haim's death was not caused by a drug overdose, but Brian Elias with the coroner's office said they are waiting for toxicology tests before deciding what killed Haim.", "The 1980s teen movie actor, who struggled for decades with drug addiction, died early Wednesday after collapsing in the Los Angeles apartment he shared with his mother, authorities said.", "Longtime friend and frequent co-star Corey Feldman asked Wednesday that people not \"jump the gun\" to conclude a drug overdose killed Haim.", "Heaslip, manager to both Feldman and Haim, said he seemed to be winning his battle against drug abuse in the weeks before his death.", "Haim, 38, was taken to Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, early Wednesday, where he was pronounced dead at 2:15 a.m. PT (5:15 a.m.", "ET), said Ed Winter, Los Angeles County deputy coroner.", "Haim was in the apartment he shared with his mother, Judy Haim, when he \"became a little dizzy, he kind of went to his knees in the bedroom,\" Winter said.", "\"His mom assisted him in the bed.", "He became unresponsive.\"", "His mother called paramedics to the apartment, which is between Hollywood Hills and Burbank, he said.", "Haim had suffered from flulike symptoms for two days, the deputy coroner said.", "\"We found no illicit drugs.", "However, we did recover four of his prescription meds at the location,\" Winter said, adding he does not know what those drugs were.", "Haim was \"weaned down to literally zero medications\" in the past two weeks by an addiction specialist, Heaslip said on HLN's \"Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell\" on Wednesday.", "The doctor \"put him on a new line of medications,\" Feldman said on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" on Wednesday.", "Feldman pleaded with people not to draw conclusions that Haim died from a drug overdose.", "He said that until the autopsy report is issued, \"nobody knows and nobody's going to know.\"", "Watch Corey Feldman talk about his friend's death on \"Larry King Live\" \"I know that there were symptoms that he was showing that expressed it could be a number of things,\" Feldman said.", "\"This could have been a kidney failure.", "This could have been a heart failure.\"", "Heaslip that said Haim's mother, Judy, told him \"there were no signs of him overdosing.\"", "His death came as his career was picking up, with Haim booking \"movie after movie,\" Heaslip said.", "His latest film is set for release soon, he said.", "Haim \"really became a man\" in recent months as he helped his mother in her battle with cancer, Feldman said.", "\"He's been there for her, taking care of her, being responsible,\" he said.", "Feldman said he was angry about how Haim has been snubbed in recent years by the entertainment industry.", "He was broke, without a car and living in a month-to-month rental apartment with his mother, he said.", "\"We build people up as children, we put them on pedestals and then when we decide that they are not marketable anymore, we walk away from them,\" he said.", "Haim's most famous role was in the 1987 movie \"The Lost Boys,\" in which he appeared with Feldman.", "Haim played the role of a fresh-faced teenager whose brother becomes a vampire.", "In later years, the two friends -- who appeared in eight movies together -- struggled with drug abuse and went their separate ways.", "They reunited for a reality show, \"The Two Coreys,\" in 2007, but A&E Network canceled the program after slightly more than a year.", "In a 2007 interview on CNN's \"Larry King Live,\" Haim and Feldman discussed their battle with drugs.", "Feldman told King that he had gotten clean, but it took Haim longer.", "Haim called himself \"a chronic relapser for the rest of my life.\"", "\"I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything,\" he said.", "\"I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.\"", "In 2008, Feldman told People magazine that he would no longer speak to Haim until his former co-star got sober.", "In a clip from \"The Two Coreys,\" Feldman and his wife, along with two other former teen stars, called on Haim in an effort to get him to admit he needed help, the magazine said.", "The meeting followed an incident in which Haim, scheduled to film a cameo appearance in a direct-to-DVD sequel to \"The Lost Boys,\" appeared on the set \"clearly under the influence,\" People reported.", "Feldman told King on Wednesday that he renewed his contact with Haim in the past year because of the progress he made against his addiction.", "Haim was born December 23, 1971, in Toronto, Ontario, according to a biography on his Web site.", "He made his first television appearance in 1982 on the Canadian series \"The Edison Twins.\"", "His first film role was in the 1984 movie \"First Born.\"", "Haim also won rave reviews for his title role in the 1986 film \"Lucas.\"", "Film critic Roger Ebert said of him at the time, \"If he continues to act this well, he will never become a half-forgotten child star, but will continue to grow into an important actor.\"", "Following \"The Lost Boys,\" Haim and Feldman appeared in \"License to Drive\" and \"Dream a Little Dream.\"", "CNN's Brittany Kaplan contributed to this report." ]	[ "Corey Haim's manager: Autopsy showed actor's heart was enlarged when he died .", "Coroner told Haim's mother that he suffered from pulmonary congestion, Mark Heaslip said .", "Coroner's official said they are awaiting toxicology tests before ruling on cause of death .", "Haim, who struggled for decades with drug addiction, died early Wednesday ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 10 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- It feels like it went by in the blink of an eye.", "Tai Shan, the giant panda cub so many people have come to know and love, is about to board a flight to China.", "\"It's very bittersweet. We love him. We love having him here,\" said Erika Bauer, curator at the National Zoo in Washington.", "Tai Shan was born in the nation's capital, so you can confidently call him a Washingtonian.", "But he is to be sent to China, under an agreement between the two nations, to help replenish the endangered species' numbers in the wild.", "At 4½ years old, Tai Shan is more of a panda adolescent than a cub, but to Tai Shan fans, he will always be their baby.", "\"We watched him as he grew up and it's kind of sad to see him go,\" said Kathleen Ryland of Highland, Maryland.", "Ryland brought her two children to say their goodbyes to Tai Shan at a farewell party at the National Zoo Saturday.", "Despite the snow falling on the panda exhibit, there were plenty of warm and fuzzy feelings about Tai Shan.", "\"He's so cute. I'll miss him,\" said Claire Ryland, 7.", "It's often said that a visit to Washington is not complete without a stop at the zoo to see Tai Shan.", "Over the years, some have even gone as far to say that Tai Shan was Washington's No.", "1 resident -- even getting top billing over the president.", "Tai Shan will leave for China on Thursday via the \"FedEx Panda Express.\"", "He'll be joined by Mei Lan - a 3-year-old panda born at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia.", "Eventually, they will take part in a breeding program aimed at increasing the panda population.", "Giant pandas are currently on the endangered list.", "The National Zoo estimates that about 1,600 giant pandas are currently in the wild.", "Bauer says that's all the more reason to say goodbye to Tai Shan.", "\"It's very important to get Tai Shan into the breeding population to help conserve the species in general.", "This is a very good day for him,\" she said." ]	[ "Tai Shan, a 4-year-old giant panda, is to be delivered to China next week .", "A farewell party was held at the National Zoo in Washington on Saturday .", "He'll be joined in China by Mei Lan -- a 3-year-old panda born at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia .", "They will take part in a breeding program aimed at increasing China's panda population ." ]	[ 7, 14, 15 ]
[ "BARCELONA, Spain -- Barcelona's Brazilian forward Ronaldinho will miss most of the rest of the season after damaging a muscle in his right leg during training on Friday.", "Ronaldinho has had his least impressive season with Barcelona since joining them in 2003.", "The club announced that the injury would keep him on the sidelines for about six weeks.", "The 28-year-old Ronaldinho, twice world player of the year, has had his least impressive season with Barcelona since joining them from Paris St Germain in 2003 and has frequently been linked with a possible move away.", "His contract extends until 2010.", "Barcelona said that the Brazilian had been hurt in a \"training accident\", adding: \" A scan carried out confirms that he has a torn muscle which will keep him off the pitch for a period of six weeks.\"", "Barcelona are third in the Spanish league with 58 points, seven points behind champions and leaders Real Madrid.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Barcelona ace Ronaldinho is expected to be sidelined for around six weeks .", "The Brazilian international forward suffered a leg injury while training this week .", "The club announced that Ronaldinho had torn a muscle in a training 'accident'" ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Get out the coats, boots, and shovels; people in some parts of the country are in for it this winter, according to the Farmer's Almanac.", "Break out your winter gear -- the Farmers' Almanac is predicting a rough winter for large parts of the U.S.", "The longtime periodical, published since 1818 and famous for its long-range weather predictions, is out with its annual winter forecast, which says Old Man Winter is really going to hammer folks in the Midwest and upper Great Lakes region with very cold and very snowy conditions.", "The almanac puts it this way: .", "\"A large area of numbingly cold temperatures will predominate from roughly east of the Continental Divide to west of the Appalachians.", "The coldest temperatures will be over the northern Great Lakes and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.", "\"But acting almost like the bread of a sandwich, to this swath of unseasonable cold will be two regions with temperatures that will average closer to normal -- the West Coast and the East Coast.\"", "But don't let your guard down if you live along the East or West coasts.", "Farmer's Almanac managing editor Sandi Duncan says no one will be immune to the rough weather this winter.", "\"Even the areas that we say are going to be like the bread of the ice-cold sandwich are going to have bouts of stormy conditions.", "There's no way it's going to be that mild of a winter,\" she says.", "Nasty weather is also in the forecast for late in the season as winter moves toward spring.", "\"We're actually predicting a possible blizzard in the northeast to the mid-Atlantic states sometime in February,\" Duncan says.", "\"And it does look like the cool temperatures to the cold temperatures are going to hang on.", "And spring does look kind of rainy.\"", "The Farmers' Almanac gets pretty specific about that late-season blizzard forecast.", "According to Duncan, \"February 12th-15th looks very stormy with blizzard conditions possible especially in New England but also going down to the mid-Atlantic coast.\"", "The periodical says, \"While three-quarters of the country is predicted to see near- or below-average precipitation this winter, that doesn't mean there won't be any winter storms!", "On the contrary, significant snowfalls are forecast for parts of every zone.\"", "CNN's Ninette Sosa contributed to this story." ]	[ "The Farmer's Almanac is out with its annual predictions for winter weather .", "It says the Great Lakes region and Midwest should expect bitterly cold weather .", "East, West Coasts should be more seasonable, but winter storms still likely .", "Looking for relief in the spring?", "Too bad -- it's expected to be cool and rainy ." ]	[ 0, 2, 7, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Millions of Californians will duck for cover Thursday morning in one of the largest earthquake drills in the world.", "Elementary school students in Burbank, California, take part in last year's earthquake drill.", "\"The Great California Shakeout\" will kick off at 10:15 a.m. at schools, museums, fire stations and other sites across the state.", "More than 6 million people have registered to take part in the drill, sponsored by various state agencies.", "About 5.5 million Californians participated in last year's drill, organizers said.", "iReport.com: Are you taking part in California's earthquake drill?", "Senior citizens at the Vallecito Mobile Home Park in Ventura County were among last year's participants.", "They took cover for three minutes and some pretended to be injured so emergency workers could practice safety procedures.", "This year's participants also can watch an animated video that shows how much damage a magnitude 7.8 earthquake can cause.", "iReport.com: Museum undergoes \"fake quake\" drill .", "Thursday's event comes two days before the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake.", "The magnitude 6.9 quake rocked Northern California in 1989, killing dozens, collapsing a 50-foot section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, damaging thousands of homes, and interrupting baseball's World Series." ]	[ "6 million in California registered to participate in earthquake drill .", "Civilians will feign injuries so first responders can practice rescue techniques .", "Event comes near 20th anniversary of Loma Prieta quake ." ]	[ 3, 10 ]
[ "Orlando, Florida (CNN) -- Golfer Tiger Woods will be issued a careless driving citation for the crash outside his home last week, but he will not face criminal charges, the Florida Highway Patrol said Tuesday.", "Woods, 33, struck a fire hydrant and a tree with his 2009 Cadillac SUV in his luxury neighborhood near Windermere, Florida, early Friday, police said.", "Upon conviction of careless driving, a moving violation, Woods faces a $164 fine and four points on his license, Maj. Cindy Williams of the Florida Highway Patrol said.", "\"Mr. Woods' status in no way impacted our investigation or conclusion,\" Williams said.", "\"The investigation has determined that Mr. Woods is at fault in the crash.\"", "Woods satisfied the requirements of Florida law regarding motor vehicle accidents by providing his driver's license, registration and proof of insurance to authorities, Williams said.", "\"With the issuance of this citation, the Florida Highway Patrol has completed its investigation into this matter,\" she said.", "There was insufficient evidence to request a subpoena for medical information in the case, said Sgt.", "Kim Montes, an FHP spokeswoman.", "There were no claims of domestic abuse.", "Authorities have said they don't have details on why Woods was driving away from his home around 2:25 a.m. Friday.", "State troopers three times have asked to question him about the accident, but he has declined, the highway patrol has said.", "What do you think about the Tiger Woods saga?", "Police have said the accident was not alcohol-related.", "Woods canceled plans to attend the Chevron World Challenge in Southern California \"due to injuries sustained in a one-car accident last week,\" according to a statement Monday from the golfer.", "In a statement issued Sunday afternoon on his Web site, Woods offered no details of his accident 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.\"", "Woods is a four-time winner of the tournament.", "A knee injury kept him from competing last year.", "\"I am extremely disappointed that I will not be at my tournament this week,\" Woods said.", "\"I am certain it will be an outstanding event, and I'm very sorry that I can't be there.\"", "People holding tickets for the event -- which runs Wednesday through Sunday -- can apply for full refunds starting next Monday, tournament officials said.", "Ticketholders who do not ask for refunds can get a 20 percent discount when buying 2010 tickets, they said.", "The annual charity event, which Woods hosts in Thousand Oaks, California, is a major fundraiser for the Tiger Woods Foundation, but it was not immediately clear how much money it would lose because of Woods' cancellation.", "The incident has ended Woods' golf appearances until next season, according to a statement posted on his Web site.", "The PGA Tour has ended for the year, but the first tournament of the 2010 season is just five weeks away.", "At least one other charity event is scheduled, but it is not clear if Woods had planned to attend.", "Woods has won the Masters tournament and the PGA tournament four times each, as well as three U.S. Open Championships.", "Last week, a story in the National Enquirer alleged that Woods has been seeing a New York nightclub hostess.", "The woman denied having an affair with Woods when contacted by The Associated Press.", "The woman in question has retained Los Angeles lawyer Gloria Allred, who is know for handling high-profile cases, to represent her.", "Allred told CNN there were no immediate plans for a news conference, although she may soon release a written statement.", "Windermere's mayor called on the news media to back away from the story, saying, \"Our residents would like to put this behind us.\"", "\"It's time to move on,\" Mayor Gary Bruhn said.", "\"Let the man recover if he is injured, and let him get back to his life, and let our residents get back to normalcy.\"", "Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, said the Florida Highway Patrol informed them that further discussion with them is both voluntary and optional.", "\"Although Tiger realizes that there is a great deal of public curiosity, it has been conveyed to FHP that he simply has nothing more to add and wishes to protect the privacy of his family.\"", "Under Florida law, Woods is not obligated to give a statement about the crash.", "His attorney, Mark NeJame, handed over the required documents to the troopers Sunday at Woods' home, Montes said.", "Investigators had sought possible surveillance tapes of the accident from neighbors, but none were found, she said.", "In his statement, Woods praised his wife, Elin Nordegren, who he said \"acted courageously when she saw I was hurt and in trouble.\"", "Nordegren told police she used a golf club to break out the rear window of the vehicle, and then pulled Woods from the SUV after she heard the accident from inside their home.", "But Woods said, \"This is a private matter, and I want to keep it that way.\"", "And, he added, \"The only person responsible for the accident is me.\"", "Woods and his wife have two children, a 2-year-old and a baby born in February.", "CNN's Susan Candiotti, Alan Duke, Ross Levitt and Marc Balinsky contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Tiger Woods faces $164 fine, four points on his license, Florida Highway Patrol says .", "NEW: No criminal charges for pro golfer; no evidence of abuse, spokeswoman says .", "Woods skipping golf tournament this week, blames injuries from car crash .", "Woods hit a fire hydrant near his home in his SUV early Friday, police say ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 9 ]
[ "Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- Toyota has added the brake systems of the latest Lexus hybrid vehicles to a growing list of problems with various models, the company said Friday.", "The company said it was checking the brakes on the Lexus vehicle model HS250h -- as well as a Japanese model called the Sai -- because they use the same system as that used on the 2010 Toyota Prius.", "Toyota has announced no recall of these vehicles, however, and said it has not received any complaints about the brakes from consumers.", "But the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced Thursday it is opening a formal investigation into problems with the Prius, Toyota's fourth-best selling model in the United States and the best-selling model in Japan.", "The company has acknowledged a software glitch that is causing problems with its braking.", "It said it is looking further at the best way to repair the problem.", "On Thursday, Ford announced that it was changing the software in the braking system for its Fusion and Mercury Milan hybrids to correct an occasion glitch in the old software.", "Ford said no injuries had been reported involving the problem.", "The Fusion/Milan's issue seemed less serious than that of the Prius, said David Champion, the head of auto testing at Consumer Reports.", "The NHTSA investigation involves only 2010 model year Prius hybrids, which went on sale in the middle of last year.", "There are only 37,000 of those vehicles on the road, according to the agency.", "The Prius, which is built in Japan, is not one of the eight models affected by two recent recalls -- covering several million vehicles -- to fix problems with sticking gas pedals.", "All of those models were built at North American plants.", "NHTSA said its Office of Defects investigation has received 124 reports from consumers about problems with the Prius brakes, including four reports that involved crashes and two that resulted in injuries.", "No fatalities have been reported.", "Investigators have spoken with consumers and conducted preliminary field work.", "Late Wednesday, Toyota President Akio Toyoda spoke with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, reassuring him that Toyota takes U.S. safety concerns seriously and puts safety at the top of the company's priorities, according to NHTSA's statement.", "Toyota had only limited comment on the probe.", "\"We have heard about NHTSA's intention to begin an investigation.", "Toyota will cooperate fully with NHTSA's investigation,\" the company said in a statement.", "Even if the solution ends up being a relatively simple and inexpensive software adjustment, the Prius braking problems come at a bad time for Toyota, which has seen its prized reputation for quality and safety badly damaged by the recalls and the news attention given to them.", "The company has estimated that the problem with the gas pedals will cost it about 100,000 sales this year and $2 billion in repair costs and lost revenue.", "Other experts say the problem could be more long-lasting if consumers who once trusted the Toyota brand decide to shop elsewhere.", "The Prius problem is a \"disconnect\" in the vehicle's complex anti-lock brake system that causes less than a one-second lag before the brakes start to work, Toyota said Thursday.", "At 60 mph, though, a vehicle will have traveled nearly another 90 feet before the brakes begin to take hold.", "The company also said it changed the braking system software in January for vehicles built since then.", "But it has yet to determine how to fix the brakes of vehicles already on the road.", "CNN's Kyung Lah and CNNMoney.com's Peter Valdes-Dapena and Chris Isidore contributed to this report." ]	[ "Toyota has admitted to a software glitch that is causing problems with braking .", "Toyota: Prius \"disconnect\" in anti-lock brake system causes less than a second lag .", "Prius is not one of the eight models affected by two recent recalls .", "Toyota estimates the problem with gas pedals will cost it $2 billion, 100,000 sales ." ]	[ 11, 21, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Environmental saviors can turn up in the most unexpected places.", "For the answer to our global waste management crisis, we need only look as far as our back gardens, for example.", "Forty million manure worms are being put to use in Sydney to treat its sewage.", "That's what proponents of vermicomposting will tell us, anyway.", "Vermicomposting is the art of composting using worms -- and it is worms, apparently, who could save us yet.", "Worms are nature's waste disposal units.", "Or rather, it is more accurate to call them waste renewal units, as they don't simply consume the waste -- they turn it into something far more useful: nutrient-rich compost.", "Earthworms are by any definition incredible creatures -- particularly, in this context: The Eisenia foetida and Lumbricus rubellus, which are the two breeds of worm commonly used in vermicomposting, according to CityFarmer.org.", "Not only can they eat their own body weight in organic waste every day, but they actually remove -- or neutralize -- many of the toxins in that waste in the process, according to The Ecologist.", "There are a lot of them, too. You will find as many as 1 million earthworms in just 1 acre of land, according to NatureWatch, their population doubling in size every one-two months.", "And they work hard -- 1 million worms will get through 10 tons of leaves, stems and dead roots in one year, ploughing 40 tons of soil in the process.", "What they end up producing is ready-to-go plant soluble nutrients.", "According to NatureWatch, earthworm castings have five times as much nitrogen, seven times as much phosphorous, 11 times as much potassium and 1,000 times more \"beneficial bacteria\" than the stuff the worm consumes in the first place.", "Literally speaking, what goes in is far less valuable than what comes out.", "Utilizing 'black gold' It is no surprise why these worms' byproducts are often referred to as \"black gold,\" this knowledge being particularly pertinent at a time when nearly 40 percent of the world's agricultural soil has become \"seriously degraded,\" according to the UK Soil Association.", "Worm compost: .", "Just one pound of worms can turn 1.3 million pounds of raw manure into high quality fertilizer in around 60 days, according to ScienceDaily.", "And plants love it.", "Research has shown that plant yields experience a significant boost from vermicomposting, by as much as 40 percent for broccoli, 80 percent for tomatoes and as much as 259 percent for carrots, according to The Ecologist.", "According to the World Waste Survey, compiled by Veolia Environmental Services, we generated at least 1.2 billion metric tons of municipal waste in 2004.", "And a high proportion of that waste was organic matter which could have been composted.", "Around 32 percent of the European Union's annual municipal waste (around 120 million tons) is food and garden waste, according to Waste Management World.", "And 30 percent of U.S. waste could have been composted in 2000, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -- representing 92 million tons of organic waste that otherwise sat rotting on a landfill, emitting methane into the atmosphere.", "As local governments and companies grapple with the issue of how to safely dispose of waste, vermicomposting is finding new fans -- some in unusual places.", "In Hong Kong, none other than fast-food chain McDonald's has signed up to a vermicomposting program that will have 80 million worms feasting on between 50 and 200 tons of organic waste a day, according to the Reuters news service.", "McDonald's aims to decrease the amount of waste it sends to Hong Kong's rapidly filling landfills by 80 percent, Reuters reports.", "Other companies to have experimented with worm composting include Ikea in the U.S. state of Illinois, where, according to Treehugger.com, it is conducting vermicomposting trials.", "If all goes well, it aims to use worm composting to boost its 70 percent recycling rates to 90 percent, the site says.", "As it happens, we have had this knowledge for centuries.", "Aristotle himself was even said to have called worms the \"intestines of the soil,\" according to The New York Times, which also points out that Cleopatra was another devotee, bestowing sacred status on them and ordering them protected.", "Charles Darwin admired their land-tilling abilities so much that he wrote a book on them.", "\"It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures,\" he mused, according to The New York Times.", "Greenhouse gas emitters .", "What Darwin, Cleopatra or Aristotle could not have known however, is that worms could also have the potential to save us from toxic waste.", "Scientists in India have found that worms' digestive systems and regenerative abilities are so remarkable that they can actually absorb toxic materials yet expel toxic-free manure.", "According to the Indian newspaper, India Together, researchers in Gujarat have found that worms can \"detox\" the organic parts of the industrial sludge which results from the effluent treatment of industrial or hazardous waste.", "The method is ideal for industries -- such as paper, food processing, oil, textiles, dairy, distilleries and agro-chemicals -- where there is large enough organic components in the industrial sludge, Indian researchers say.", "But even with vermicomposting, something that looks like one of the most environmentally sound ideas around, there's a downside -- and it's a rather large one.", "It turns out that worms used in composting emit a greenhouse gas -- nitrous oxide -- which is hundreds of times more powerful than carbon dioxide.", "Unfortunately, in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, large-scale composting plants could be just as damaging to the environment as landfills of the same size, reports the UK's Telegraph newspaper.", "\"The emissions that come from these worms can actually be 290 times more potent than carbon dioxide and 20 times more potent than methane,\" the Telegraph quotes Jim Frederickson, an Open University research fellow.", "\"In all environmental systems you get good points and bad points.\"", "E-mail to a friend .", "(Sources: CityFarmer.org, The Ecologist, NatureWatch, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Veolia Environmental Services, Soil Association, Waste Management World, New York Times, Reuters, ScienceDaily, Treehugger.com , Telegraph, India Together)" ]	[ "Earthworms can eat their own body weight in organic matter every day .", "Worm castings extremely nutrient rich; good for soil and plants .", "30 percent of U.S. and EU total municipal waste could be composted .", "McDonald's and Ikea using vermicomposting to meet environmental targets ." ]	[ 8, 15, 17, 22 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The cost of the Pentagon's newest fighter jet will be more than double the original price, solidifying the F-35 joint strike fighter as the most expensive Pentagon weapons program ever.", "At a Capitol Hill hearing on Thursday, the Pentagon's chief weapons buyers said numerous problems over the almost 10-year program have forced the cost of the aircraft to go from $50 million a jet in 2001 to about $113 million.", "That cost overrun has also forced the Pentagon to justify the program to Congress.", "Outrage about the cost among the Senate panel was expected, including that from the chairman of the Armed Service Committee, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan.", "\"This committee has been a strong supporter of the JSF program from the beginning, however, people should not conclude that we're going to be willing to continue that strong support without regard to increased costs coming from poor program management,\" Levin said.", "Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, the ranking member, had been pushing for a hearing on the program.", "\"The taxpayers are a little tired of this, and I can't say that I can blame them,\" McCain said.", "\"It's a bit frustrating to hear the secretary of defense as short a time ago as last August to tell us that everything is OK,\" McCain said.", "McCain was referring to a visit to the joint strike fighter assembly plant last year where Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said most of the high risk elements associated with JSF's developmental program were largely in the past, according to McCain.", "The Pentagon wants to buy more than 2,400 of the technologically advanced aircraft.", "The F-35 program has had numerous technical problems, delays and slow productivity over the years, including an entire program restructuring in an attempt to reduce the skyrocketing cost.", "Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition Ashton Carter told the Senate panel that the program has fallen short on performance in the past few years.", "\"That is unacceptable,\" he said.", "Despite that, the fighter jet program still enjoys strong support from service chiefs and congressional members because it touches numerous states.", "The F-35 program cost overrun triggered the Nunn-McCurdy law, which requires the Pentagon to tell Congress of significant cost increases.", "The law forces the Pentagon to justify continuing with the program.", "The Pentagon's director of cost assessment and program evaluation, Christine Fox, told the senators she expects the Pentagon will officially notify Congress under the Nunn-McCurdy regulation by April 1.", "The plane was designed to be the next generation fighter for the military and would have three variants.", "The Navy would have one for its carrier fleet, the Marines would use it to replace their aging Harrier jump jet fleet and the Air Force would use it as the service phases out the F-16 and F-15 fighter jets.", "The planes are being built by Lockheed Martin, and the program also has international partners who have been building parts for the aircraft.", "More than 700 of them would be sold to those partner countries, including the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Australia.", "The fighter is the largest weapons program ever and Gates has been counting on it, as there are no immediate alternative programs to the F-35.", "Even with the delays and cost overruns, the first planes are expected to be put into service as early as 2012 for the Marine Corps.", "But the Air Force and Navy are expecting their first aircraft to be delivered by 2016, a two year delay for the Navy and a three year delay for the Air Force, according to Pentagon officials.", "Even as the program tries to field an aircraft in less than two years, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) official testified at the hearing that there are still no final costs associated with the program through its projected life ending in 2034.", "\"To date, the department does not have a full, comprehensive cost estimate for completing the program,\" said Michael Sullivan, director of the acquisition and sourcing management team for the GAO." ]	[ "The cost of the F-35 aircraft has gone from $50 million a jet in 2001 to about $113 million .", "F-35 joint strike fighter is most expensive Pentagon weapons program ever .", "Pentagon wants to buy more than 2,400 of the technologically advanced aircraft .", "Even with delays, cost overruns, first planes expected in service as early as 2012 ." ]	[ 0, 1, 9, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The wife of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid underwent neck surgery Friday after being injured with their daughter in a four-vehicle wreck in suburban Washington a day earlier, her surgeon said.", "Since the surgery, Landra Reid, 69, has been able \"to get out of bed, her pain is well-controlled and she's able to swallow some,\" said Dr. Elizabeth Franco of Inova Fairfax Hospital.", "She can move her arms and legs, but is expected to go through physical therapy before being released in a few days, Franco said.", "Reid's wife broke her neck, a vertebra in her lower back and her nose, the doctor said.", "The couple's adult daughter, Lana Reid Barringer of McLean, Virginia, suffered a neck injury and facial lacerations, the senator's spokesman, Jon Summers, said Thursday.", "Lana Reid was released from the hospital Thursday night.", "The wreck occurred in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Fairfax County at 1:10 p.m., when the 2005 Honda Odyssey driven by the daughter began braking in stop-and-go traffic and was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer, according to a Virginia State Police report.", "\"The impact forced the Honda Odyssey to rear-end the vehicle in front of it, a 1997 Jeep Grand Cherokee,\" it says.", "\"The Jeep Grand Cherokee was then forced into the next lane over where it struck a 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt.\"", "The drivers of the Jeep and the Chevrolet also were taken to Inova Fairfax Hospital.", "Their injuries were not considered life-threatening.", "The driver of the truck, Allan W. Snader, 59, of Ohio, was charged with reckless driving, the police report said.", "He was not injured in the crash.", "The tractor-trailer was carrying rolls of plastic.", "The 70-year-old senator visited his wife and daughter shortly after hearing of the accident at 2:15 p.m., then returned to his office in the Capitol to work on health care legislation, said Reid spokesman Jim Manley.", "He was back at the hospital later in the afternoon and stayed until midnight, then returned early Friday to be there for his wife's surgery, Summers said.", "Summers told reporters Landra Reid's recovery is the senator's top priority, but \"his plans have not changed at all\" in Congress.", "\"Landra and I have been married for 50 years -- she is the love of my life,\" Reid said in a statement read by Summers at a news conference.", "\"And I look forward to her making a quick recovery as soon as possible.\"", "Reid met his wife at Basic High School in Henderson, Nevada, during the mid-1950s.", "They married in 1959 and had their first child, Lana, two years later.", "Three boys followed.", "The couple has 16 grandchildren.", "CNN Congressional Producer Ted Barrett and Brianna Keilar contributed to this report." ]	[ "Landra Reid, 69, was involved in a car accident on Thursday .", "Since surgery, she is able \"to get out of bed ... and she's able to swallow some,\" doctor says .", "She can move arms and legs; expected to go through physical therapy before release .", "She broke her neck, a vertebra and her nose in the accident, the doctor said ." ]	[ 1, 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- James Cameron unveiled his much-hyped, wildly-anticipated 3D sci-fi epic \"Avatar\" to audiences in full in London Thursday.", "Here's what the critics are saying about the Oscar-winner's first outing since \"Titanic,\" the most successful film of modern times.", "Todd McCarthy, Variety: The King of the World sets his sights on creating another world entirely in \"Avatar,\" and it's very much a place worth visiting.", "...delivers unique spectacle, breathtaking sights, narrative excitement and an overarching anti-imperialist, back-to-nature theme that will play very well around the world...\" Mike Goodridge, Screen International: ...once again takes cinema to a new level of remarkable spectacle ... An epic film born entirely of Cameron's imagination, \"Avatar\" uses tailor-made technology to create the most astonishing visual effects yet seen on screen and blends them seamlessly into a mythical sci-fi story about an ancient alien civilization fighting the encroaching human menace.", "It's an unprecedented marriage of technology and storytelling which is on the whole remarkably successful.", "Chris Hewitt, Empire: It's been twelve years since \"Titanic,\" but the King of the World has returned with a flawed but fantastic tour de force that, taken on its merits as a film, especially in two dimensions, warrants four stars.", "However, if you can wrap a pair of 3D glasses round your peepers, this becomes a transcendent, full-on five-star experience that's the closest we'll ever come to setting foot on a strange new world.", "Wendy Ide, The Times: \"Avatar\" is an overwhelming, immersive spectacle.", "The state-of-the-art 3D technology draws us in, but it is the vivid weirdness of Cameron's luridly imagined tropical otherworld that keeps us fascinated.", "At times it verges on the tacky, like a futuristic air freshener advertisement with the color contrast turned up to the max.", "The ethically accented orchestral score certainly doesn't help matters.", "But mostly, it's a place of wonder full of exotically freakish animal composites -- iridescent lizard birds, hammer-headed rhinos -- and sentient vegetation.", "\"Avatar:\" We shouldn't really be telling you this -- but it's good.", "Mark Brown, The Guardian: Perhaps most surprising was the politics.", "At one stage the deranged general leading the attack, with echoes of George Bush, declares: \"Our survival relies on pre-emptive action.", "We will fight terror with terror.\"" ]	[ "James Cameron's \"Avatar\" had its world premiere in London yesterday .", "The 3D sci-fi epic goes on public release worldwide on December 18 .", "Read what the critics have said said so far ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Australian Open champion Serena Williams has pulled out of next week's Paris Indoor Open due to a leg injury.", "The world No. 1 picked up the problem on the way to winning the opening Grand Slam tournament for the fifth time last month, the French event's organizers said on Saturday.", "Seventh-ranked Elena Dementieva will take the American's place as top seed, with Italian No.", "12 Flavia Pennetta second and Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium third.", "Williams has won the Paris title twice, beating former world No.", "1 Amelie Mauresmo in the final both times.", "The Frenchwoman won it for a record third time last year but has now retired.", "Meanwhile, last year's losing finalists the United States made a strong start without Williams in their Fed Cup first-round clash with France in Lievin on Saturday.", "Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated Alize Cornet 7-6 (9-7) 7-5 for her first singles win in the women's teams tournament, while Melanie Oudin beat debutant Pauline Parmentier 6-4 6-4 in the second rubber.", "The winner of the tie will play either Serbia or Russia in the semifinals, with reverse singles on Sunday before the possibly decisive doubles.", "Svetlana Kuznetsova gave Russia, beaten by Italy in last year's semifinals, a 1-0 lead when she defeated former world No.", "1 Ana Ivanovic 6-1 6-4.", "But Jelena Jankovic, another ex top-ranked player, came from behind to level the tie by beating Alisa Kleybanova 4-6 6-4 6-0 as she won the last 11 games in a match lasting two hours and 18 minutes.", "Pennetta helped defending champions Italy to end the day level 1-1 with Ukraine, beating Kateryna Bondarenko 7-5 6-3 after Francesca Schiavone lost the opening match 6-1 6-4 to the elder Bondarenko sister Alona in Kharkiv.", "Alona's win was the Ukraine's first at World Group level.", "The winner of the tie will face either the Czech Republic or Germany in the last four, with that clash also tied at 1-1.", "Anna-Lena Groenefeld put Germany ahead in Brno with a 6-2 6-2 victory over Lucie Safarova, but Petra Kvitova leveled for the hosts with a 6-4 6-4 win against Andrea Petkovic." ]	[ "World No.", "1 Serena Williams pulls out of next week's Paris Indoor Open .", "American suffered leg injury on way to victory at last month's Australian Open .", "U.S. take 2-0 lead in Fed Cup first-round tie in France without services of Williams .", "The winner of that match will play either Russia or Serbia in the semifinals ." ]	[ 0, 7, 9 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A blast targeting a bus filled with Shiite religious observers in Karachi killed at least 12 people and another explosion in front of a hospital where attack victims were being treated killed six more Friday, a government official said.", "Motorcycles were used in both assaults, police said, and they came during the Shiite observance of Arbaeen, a commemoration that takes place 40 days after the anniversary of Iman Hussein's death, which is also known as Ashura.", "Sindh provincial health minister, Dr. Saghir Ahmed said that along with the 12 dead, 30 people were injured in the first blast.", "The second blast happened in front of the emergency room at Jinnah Hospital, where doctors treated people from the first attack and people on stretchers were waiting to be taken in to the crowded facility.", "Along with the six slain, five people were wounded.", "The last deadly blast in Karachi took place late December during Ashura, when more than 40 people were killed." ]	[ "Two bomb blasts kill at least 18 in Karachi; motorcycles used in both attacks .", "12 killed in the first explosion which targeted Shiite religious observers on a bus .", "6 killed in second attack which occurred outside a hospital treating victims of first blast .", "Attacks came during the Shiite observance of Arbaeen ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The prosecution cannot argue that sex was a motivation for doctors to give Anna Nicole Smith the drugs that may have led to her death, a judge ruled Thursday.", "Howard K. Stern, right, companion of Anna Nicole Smith, is one of three people charged in the case.", "\"I'm just not buying that,\" Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert Perry said.", "The ruling came on the third day of a preliminary hearing for Howard K. Stern -- Smith's lawyer and companion -- and co-defendants Dr. Khristine Eroshevich and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, on charges stemming from the Playboy model and reality TV star's death.", "Larry Birkhead, the father of Smith's now 3-year-old daughter, is set to testify Friday.", "Deputy District Attorney Renee Rose told Judge Perry she wanted to present evidence that Eroshevich, a woman, had a sexual relationship with Smith, which was the doctor's \"motivation to continue providing excess medications\" to her.", "The prosecution planned to present an expert witness who would say such a sexual relationship between a doctor and an addicted patient could compromise the care, Assistant District Attorney Sean Carney said.", "Court documents released last month said investigators found photos of Eroshevich and Smith \"naked in the bathtub in intimate embraces,\" according to one sworn statement.", "One affidavit referenced a video clip of Kapoor \"kissing and snuggling\" with Smith \"in a reclined position in a nightclub setting.\"", "The three defendants are charged with an illegal conspiracy to prescribe, administer and dispense controlled substances to an addict.", "Stern faces 11 felony counts, while the doctors were charged with six each.", "Smith's death in a Hollywood, Florida, hotel on February 8, 2007, was ruled to be from \"acute combined drug intoxication,\" the Broward County, Florida, medical examiner said.", "Her death came five months after the birth of her daughter, Dannielynn, on September 7, 2006, and the sudden death of her 20-year-old son, Daniel, three days later.", "Smith's part-time body guard, Maurice Brighthaupt, was testifying Thursday morning when Rose brought up the possibility of a sexual relationship.", "Brighthaupt, a full-time south Florida paramedic, said he was rarely paid for his bodyguard services \"because they told me they didn't have much money at the time.\"", "He helped Smith because she was like a sister, he said.", "Brighthaupt testified that he had seen Stern giving Smith illegal drugs, which contradicted public statements he made in the months after Smith's death.", "He said he changed his story after having time to think about the events, but defense lawyer Steve Sadow suggested it was for money and revenge on Stern for an accusation he made against Brighthaupt.", "Brighthaupt acknowledged that he was paid at least $150,000 for interviews by the \"Entertainment Tonight\" and \"Access Hollywood\" TV shows.", "Sadow pointed to an October 10, 2007, interview by CNN's Larry King in which Stern accused Brighthaupt of stealing photos of Smith and selling them to tabloids.", "Brighthaupt began cooperating with the lead investigator, who he said he had been \"ducking,\" only days after Stern's CNN appearance.", "But he denied revenge was his motivation.", "Before her son's death, Smith was a happy, normal person, Brighthaupt said.", "\"She knew she was the 'it',\" Brighthaupt said.", "But in the five months after her son's death and until her own death, Smith was \"very weak\" and \"zombie-like,\" he said.", "\"She just didn't want to deal with life after the death of her son,\" Brighthaupt said.", "Anytime she was able to sleep, she would dream of her son and wake up crying, he said.", "Nannies stayed with her infant around the clock at her home in the Bahamas, while Smith slept through most of the days.", "She would sometimes get up late at night and stumble around her house cursing, he said.", "\"Someone had to always keep an eye on her because she was very, very depressed,\" he said.", "Other than medications, the only relief she got from her pain was her daughter, he said.", "\"The times when she'd get really depressed, that's when we'd bring Dannielynn to her to let her see the baby,\" he said.", "Smith would constantly read what was written about her on the Internet, using a \"Google Alert\" to let her know when a story was published about her, he said.", "Brighthaupt described Smith as \"manipulative\" when she wanted something.", "\"She manipulated Dr. Eroshevich,\" he said.", "Eroshevich, a Los Angeles psychiatrist, traveled to the Bahamas five or six times in 2006 to attend to Smith, he said.", "They had a mother-daughter friendship, not a doctor-patient relationship, he said.", "The doctor sometimes substituted placebos for the tray full of pills Smith regularly took for her complaints of pain and depression, he said.", "\"She was very concerned that we needed to wean [Smith] off the medications,\" Brighthaupt said.", "In earlier testimony, California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement Special Agent Danny Santiago testified investigators found 12 different prescription drugs, including dangerous opiates, in Smith's hotel room after her death.", "Seven of them were prescribed using Stern's name, although spelled \"Stearn,\" Santiago said.", "A series of affidavits used by state investigators to obtain search warrants in their 2½-year inquiry was unsealed last month, revealing many details of the prosecution's case." ]	[ "Judge refuses to allow argument that sex motivated Anna Nicole Smith's doctor .", "Ruling comes amid hearing concerning death of the Playboy model/reality TV star .", "Prosecutor wanted to present evidence Smith had relationship with female doctor .", "Court documents: Investigators found photos of pair naked \"in intimate embraces\"" ]	[ 5, 7 ]
[ "(The Frisky) -- Valentine's Day can be one of the most depressing days of the year for singles, especially if you just went through a breakup.", "It can be torture to watch couples exchange stuffed bears, chocolates and kisses.", "So keep your heart on the mend by avoiding these seven spots couples flock to on Valentine's Day.", "1. Movie theaters: Please don't make yourself sit through the latest rom-com.", "If you must see a flick, go to something unsentimental, like an action film that involves fighting and guns.", "Though even those often have romantic secondary storylines.", "2. Fancy restaurants: A nice dinner is a very typical V-Day date, especially since restaurants capitalize on the day with specials involving free bubbly and a red rose on the table.", "3. Landmarks: For some reason, history seems to be tied to romance, and some duos make trips to sites like the Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon, as if to say, \"We'll be together for as long as this thing's been around.\"", "4. Beaches: If you want to soak up some sunshine during the day, go right ahead.", "But you better have somewhere else to be by sunset, when pairs will start showing up at the shore.", "5. Cafés, dessert bars, and chocolate shops: Valentine's Day is often associated with sweet things, so stock up on chocolate the week before -- you don't want to stop anywhere that specializes in chocolate fondue.", "The Frisky: He gives me a stuffed animal for every special occasion .", "6. Lingerie stores: Do you really want to buy new bras when the store is decked out in hearts and lace?", "Wait a week. The Frisky: My 6 break-up lessons are helping .", "7. Coupled friends' homes: Unless you're house-sitting while your pals are on a romantic getaway, you're not welcome.", "You will have no right to yell, \"Get a room!\"", "when they start necking because, well, you're in their room.", "TM & © 2009 TMV, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved ." ]	[ "Lonely singers should avoid spots where couples gather on Valentine's Day .", "Romantic pairs tend to hang out on beaches and at landmarks .", "Many couples can be found cuddling and kissing at restaurant and desert places .", "Singles shouldn't go see romantic movie, but choose action flick at theater ." ]	[ 1, 2, 4 ]
[ "(CNN Student News) -- November 30, 2009 .", "Download PDF maps related to today's show: .", "• Afghanistan • Honduras • Dubai, United Arab Emirates .", "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: You are in the homestretch -- just a few weeks left to go before the holiday break.", "And we'll help get you there. I'm Carl Azuz; this is CNN Student News.", "First Up: Troops in Afghanistan .", "AZUZ: Big announcement scheduled for tomorrow night: what President Obama plans to do about Afghanistan.", "There are 68,000 U.S. troops there right now.", "And you know the president's been meeting with advisors for weeks, trying to figure out how the U.S. should approach the war there.", "He says he wants to get the decision right, but he's been criticized for taking too much time to make it.", "There is one thing that some critics and supporters of the president seem to agree on, though: that he needs to talk about the U.S. mission in Afghanistan.", "SEN. RICHARD LUGAR, (R), INDIANA: The president needs to start by outlining the war we are in.", "Now by that, I mean, the war not against the Taliban, Al Qaida, but what is, at least, the objective of continuing in Afghanistan or in any place?", "That is basic. SEN. JACK REED, (D), RHODE ISLAND: The president has to speak to the American people, remind them why we're there, and also lay out a strategy, not just the reflexive response to a recommendation, but a strategy that involves protecting the homeland from Al Qaida.", "Cyber Monday .", "AZUZ: Good news and bad news about Black Friday, that super shop-off right after Thanksgiving.", "More Americans showed up in stores than last year -- good for business.", "But they were spending less money on average -- not good for business.", "Still, online sales were on the up and up this year, and that could be a good sign heading into Cyber Monday, explained now by Errol Barnett.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) ERROL BARNETT, CNN CORRESPONDENT, ATLANTA: Over the past decade Cyber Monday has become one of the biggest online shopping days of the year.", "We typically see this on the Monday following Thanksgiving or in the days leading up to Christmas.", "Huge spikes in online retail sales.", "People want to avoid those long lines in-store so they head online to snap up some of the bargains.", "So exactly how much are people spending?", "Well take a look at the numbers here.", "After last year's financial collapse, $536 million was spent online in the U.S. on the Friday after Thanksgiving.", "On the following Monday, you see it there, online sales swelled to $846 million and this year's numbers, they're still coming in, but you can expect them to go higher.", "You see, even though a 1% drop in overall retail sales are predicted this year, comScore expects a 3% rise in online retail revenue for the months of November and December.", "That's over last year, which should amount to almost $29 billion of retail sales.", "Now that's good news, but it's not great news.", "Typically we see at least a 20% jump for holiday retail sales.", "From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Errol Barnett.", "(END VIDEO) Shoutout .", "Time for the Shoutout!", "You're looking at a map of Central America.", "Which of these countries is Honduras?", "Is it A, B, C or D? You've got three seconds--GO!", "Honduras is between Guatemala and Nicaragua, and it touches both the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.", "That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!", "Honduras Voting .", "AZUZ: Sunday's vote was no ordinary election in Honduras.", "Things there, still at a political standstill, months after President Manuel Zelaya was forced out of office in June.", "He was accused of trying to illegally change Honduras' constitution.", "The country's Supreme Court says Zelaya can't get power back until he stands trial.", "But Honduras' current leader, Roberto Micheletti, is hoping Sunday's vote will settle everything.", "The U.S. also hopes it does; Argentina and Brazil say it won't.", "Defying Demands .", "AZUZ: Iran is doing exactly what other countries don't want it to.", "The Middle Eastern nation is moving forward on building ten, new, nuclear facilities.", "And the international community is afraid these things are gonna be used to make illegal, nuclear weapons.", "Iran argues they're only for nuclear power -- the Iranian Cabinet voting to approve construction just two days after the International Atomic Energy Agency demanded that Iran stop working on another nuclear facility that it had kept secret.", "Dubai Debt Crisis .", "AZUZ: Dubai: Part of the United Arab Emirates: known for some of the most extravagant communities on the planet, could be in trouble.", "A major developer there is in deep debt and wants more time to pay it off.", "And some are wondering if some lavish property could become a white elephant, something that's more trouble than it's worth for Dubai.", "Morgan Neill describes how all this could affect places far from the Middle East.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) MORGAN NEILL, CNN CORRESPONDENT, DUBAI: The party to open Dubai's Atlantis Hotel just over a year ago now seems like a mirage.", "At an estimated cost of $20 million it boasted a guest list of the world's rich and famous.", "Just two months after the Lehman shock, the dazzling extravagance seemed to say Dubai is immune, but it never was.", "Dubai World, which owns Nakheel, the developer of the man-made tree-shaped Palm Jumeirah Island, has now requested a suspension of debt payments.", "The move threatens to undermine confidence in a recent property recovery, and celebrities who bought homes there may find their property is suddenly worth a lot less.", "Author Jim Krane says that while established developments should be fine, Dubai's other artificial island projects, The World and Palm Deira, could be in trouble.", "JIM KRANE, AUTHOR, \"DUBAI CITY OF GOLD\": It will take a special kind of investor and probably, you know, more robust economy for anybody to really build on one of those places.", "I mean there is a lot more practical places to build than on one of these little islands in the world, so that could be a white elephant for a long time.", "NEILL: One of the firms, which has bought into the World, has confidence in Dubai's long-term story.", "GILES BESWICK, SELECT PROPERTY: I would disagree that it would be a white elephant.", "I think it will be part of the continuing development of Dubai as a city, and a tourism center, and an investment center for many years to come.", "NEILL: But in the short term, Dubai World's announcement has brought uncertainty and the prospect of a fire sale of assets to raise cash.", "Whatever the fate of investments abroad, hopes that Dubai's inflated portfolio of luxury property was beginning to recover have been dashed.", "Morgan Neill, CNN, London.", "(END VIDEO) Shoutout Extra Credit .", "Time for a Shoutout Extra Credit!", "What does the German word \"Tannenbaum\" mean?", "Is it: A) St. Nick, B) Wreath, C) Garland or D) Christmas tree Another three seconds -- GO!", "Tannenbaum means Christmas tree -- and the tradition of the modern Christmas tree comes from Germany too!", "That's your answer and that's your Shoutout Extra Credit!", "Holiday Tradition .", "AZUZ: A band was reportedly playing \"O Tannenbaum,\" or \"Oh, Christmas Tree\" when the first family had their own tree delivered over the weekend.", "It measures more than 18 feet tall and Dan Lothian shows us how it's not grown just like any ol' tree.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the baby here now.", "We have to figure out how we're going to get this loaded.", "DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: For Eric and Gloria Sundback, this is a holiday tradition.", "Growing a Christmas tree fit for a president.", "ERIC SUNDBACK, CHRISTMAS TREE GROWER: You're helping make a Christmas for the whole country.", "LOTHIAN: The West Virginia couple, both in their 80s, have grown four presidential Christmas trees - one for Jimmy Carter, two for Ronald Reagan and now this 18 1/2 foot Douglas fir destined for the Obama White House.", "E. SUNDBACK: What we really like this year is that it's going to a family.", "The children are there. The family is well knit.", "LOTHIAN: To provide the White House tree, a farmer has to be crowned by the National Christmas Tree Association.", "Then White House officials make a visit.", "GLORIA SUNDBACK: They're looking for trees that have good form and for trees that have stronger branches because they use a lot of decorations.", "LOTHIAN: And it takes a lot of hard work to grow that perfect presidential tree.", "Careful pruning, experimenting to get the right mix of characteristics, and a little tough love.", "E. SUNDBACK: She had a word when she would get up in the morning and say, well, fellas, you want to be a Christmas tree now or are you going to wait until later and be toilet paper?", "That gets the tree growing.", "LOTHIAN: These college sweethearts who have been growing trees for 50 years are hoping to shake the Obama's hands when they drop off this holiday gift but then it's back to work.", "E. SUNDBACK: You don't want to let it go to your head because you have to come back out and work again.", "G. SUNDBACK: That's right.", "LOTHIAN: But they say they're happy knowing their gift will bring joy to the first family.", "E. SUNDBACK: We hope they enjoy it as much as we've enjoyed Christmas as kids so if the tree is good and they enjoy it, that's what it's about.", "(END VIDEO) Before We Go .", "AZUZ: Well, for many of us, 'tis the season of feasting, and for students at Moline High School in Illinois, it didn't start with Thanksgiving dinner.", "It started with Thanksgiving breakfast.", "More than 120 students teamed up to devour over 600 donuts, roughly five donuts per student, all to help raise money for those less fortunate.", "The girl who ate the most said the cause made it worth it, even if she felt like barfing.", "Goodbye . AZUZ: Plus, they had Thanksgiving dinner later on, something we urge students with weak stomachs: do-nut try this at home.", "But do join us tomorrow, when we cook up a new edition of CNN Student News!", "And if you haven't seen our 'office crib' on Facebook, you oughta go here: Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews.", "I'm Carl Azuz-- looking forward to seeing y'all tomorrow." ]	[ "Record the ups and downs estimated from Black Friday to Cyber Monday .", "Observe how debt has wormed its way into an extravagant emirate .", "Measure the effort that goes into growing the White House Christmas tree .", "Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories ." ]	[ 15, 16, 17, 53, 59, 89, 95 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Corey Haim's death is linked to an \"illegal and massive prescription-drug ring,\" California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Friday.", "Brown's office is investigating \"an unauthorized prescription under the former child star's name that was found during an ongoing investigation of fraudulent prescription-drug pads ordered from a vendor in San Diego.\"", "\"These prescriptions are very recent, and it involves Oxycontin and we're not talking just 40 pills, more than that,\" Brown said in an interview Friday with CNN Radio.", "The announcement comes before the coroner has ruled on what killed Haim, the 1980s teen movie actor who struggled for decades with drug addiction.", "Haim, 38, died early Wednesday after collapsing in the Los Angeles apartment he shared with his mother, authorities said.", "\"Corey Haim's death is yet another tragedy linked to the growing problem of prescription-drug abuse,\" Brown said.", "\"This problem is increasingly linked to criminal organizations, like the illegal and massive prescription-drug ring under investigation.\"", "Brown said the ring uses stolen doctor's identities to order prescription-drug pads that are used to write counterfeit prescriptions.", "\"The doctor whose name is printed on the form is usually unaware that his or her identity has been stolen for this purpose,\" Brown said.", "Haim got two powerful drugs from a pharmacy 11 days before his death, according to a source with knowledge of the transaction.", "His primary-care doctor did not know about the prescriptions and called the pharmacy two days later to find out what Haim had been given, the source said.", "Brown's announcement did not specify whether any of the prescription drugs found in Haim's apartment after his death were illegally obtained.", "Several prescription-drug bottles were taken from Haim's apartment, Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ed Winter said Friday.", "Although the bottles indicated the drugs included Vicodin, Valium and Soma, no tests have been done to confirm what they are, he said.", "Haim had a prescription for the muscle relaxer Soma and the narcotic pain reliever Norco filled at a pharmacy on February 26, a source with knowledge of the transaction said.", "Two days after Haim personally picked up the drugs, his primary-care doctor called the San Fernando Valley pharmacy to ask about the prescriptions, the source said.", "The doctor said that \"Haim was not feeling well\" and he needed to know what drugs had been prescribed for the actor, the source said.", "The source, who worked at the pharmacy, asked not to be identified because his employer had not authorized him to talk.", "Haim's manager, Mark Heaslip, and close friend Corey Feldman both said Haim began seeing an addiction specialist two weeks before his death.", "Tiffany Shepis, who was engaged to be married to Haim last May, said on HLN's \"Issues With Jane Velez-Mitchell\" that he was taking large amounts of Valium and Vicodin during their yearlong relationship.", "\"You're talking about a person that, at the time when I knew him, you know, was ingesting 40 some-odd pills a day,\" Shepis said.", "Although the autopsy showed Haim's heart was enlarged and he had fluid in his lungs, the coroner's chief investigator said a drug overdose has not been ruled out as the cause of the actor's death.", "\"You can have somebody with an enlarged heart and some other medical conditions, but you don't know if the actual cause of death is from illegal substances, medication or heart failure,\" Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ed Winter said Friday.", "Heaslip said the enlarged heart was evidence that Haim's death was not caused by a drug overdose, but Winter disputed that.", "\"There were some preliminary findings and we agreed to let the mother know what those were,\" Winter said.", "\"It was explained to her that even though this is some preliminary findings that the doctor observed, there wouldn't be a final cause of death until the final toxicology tests are back.\"", "The cause of death may not be determined for another six weeks, Winter said.", "Feldman, a longtime friend and frequent co-star, asked Wednesday that people not \"jump the gun\" to conclude a drug overdose killed Haim.", "Heaslip, manager to both Feldman and Haim, said Haim had seemed to be winning his battle against drug abuse in the weeks before his death.", "Haim was \"weaned down to literally zero medications\" by an addiction specialist in the two weeks before his death, Heaslip said.", "The doctor \"put him on a new line of medications,\" Feldman said on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" Wednesday.", "Haim's death came as his career was picking up, with Haim booking \"movie after movie,\" Heaslip said.", "His latest film is set for release soon, he said.", "Haim's most famous role was in the 1987 movie \"The Lost Boys,\" in which he appeared with Feldman.", "Haim played the role of a fresh-faced teenager whose brother becomes a vampire.", "In later years, the two friends, who appeared in eight movies together, struggled with drug abuse and went their separate ways.", "They reunited for a reality show, \"The Two Coreys,\" in 2007, but A&E Network canceled the program after slightly more than a year.", "In a 2007 interview on CNN's \"Larry King Live,\" Haim and Feldman discussed their battles with drugs.", "Feldman told King that he had gotten clean, but it took Haim longer.", "Haim called himself \"a chronic relapser for the rest of my life.\"", "\"I think I have an addiction to pretty much everything,\" he said.", "\"I mean, I have to be very careful with myself as far as that goes, which is why I have a support group around me consistently.\"", "Haim was born December 23, 1971, in Toronto, Ontario, according to a biography on his Web site.", "He made his first television appearance in 1982 on the Canadian series \"The Edison Twins.\"", "His first film role was in the 1984 American movie \"First Born.\"", "Haim also won rave reviews for his title role in the 1986 film \"Lucas.\"", "Film critic Roger Ebert said of him at the time, \"If he continues to act this well, he will never become a half-forgotten child star, but will continue to grow into an important actor.\"", "After \"The Lost Boys,\" Haim and Feldman appeared in \"License to Drive\" and \"Dream a Little Dream.\"", "CNN's Brittany Kaplan and Jack Hannah contributed to this report." ]	[ "Unauthorized prescriptions found in Haim's name during investigation, official says .", "Name came up in ongoing probe of fraudulent prescription-drug pads .", "No ruling on cause of death but coroner's office says drug overdose not ruled out ." ]	[ 1, 21 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- President Obama paid tribute Friday to seven CIA officers killed in Afghanistan in December, calling them \"American patriots who loved their country and gave their lives to defend it.\"", "Obama delivered the remarks during a memorial service at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.", "The service was closed to the media to protect the identities of undercover officers in attendance.", "A transcript of Obama's speech was provided to members of the press.", "\"There are no words that can ease the ache in your hearts,\" Obama told families, friends and co-workers of the seven officers.", "\"But to their colleagues and all who served with them -- those here today, those still recovering, those watching around the world, I say: Let their sacrifice be a summons.", "To carry on their work.", "To complete this mission.", "To win this war and to keep our country safe.\"", "A suicide bomber killed the CIA officers and contractors, as well as a Jordanian intelligence official, on December 30 at a U.S. base in Khost, in southeastern Afghanistan.", "The bomber was within seconds of being searched by security contractors when he detonated his explosives, a former intelligence official with knowledge of the incident said in January.", "Two of those killed were contractors with private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater, a former intelligence official said.", "The CIA considers contractors to be officers.", "Former CIA official Robert Richer called the bombing the greatest loss of life for the agency since the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, which killed eight agents.", "\"These remarkable men and women are the story of America,\" CIA Director Leon Panetta said at Friday's service, according to the transcript.", "\"They are the heart and soul of this great country.", "Their devotion to duty is the foundation of our country.\"", "U.S. and Jordanian officials say the bomber, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, had been recruited as a counterterrorism intelligence agent, despite concerns over his extremist views, and was being used in the hunt for a senior al Qaeda figure.", "The suicide bombing was \"a huge blow, symbolically and tactically,\" because it eliminated so many CIA officers, who can take years to become ingrained in the region, said Reva Bhalla, director of analysis for Stratfor, an international intelligence company.", "In addition, she said, the attack showed the ability of the Taliban to penetrate perhaps the most difficult of targets: a CIA base.", "But Panetta issued a strong statement at the service Friday, assuring those in attendance that \"we will carry this fight to the enemy.\"", "\"Our resolve is unbroken, our energy undiminished and our dedication to each other and to our nation unshakable,\" Panetta said." ]	[ "\"Let their sacrifice be a summons,\" Obama says .", "Service held Friday morning at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia .", "7 CIA officers were killed December 30 in suicide bombing in Afghanistan .", "Intelligence analyst says suicide bombing was \"a huge blow, symbolically and tactically\"" ]	[ 1, 9 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- South Carolina's first lady, Jenny Sanford, said Monday that writing her much-anticipated memoir of her husband's affair was a \"cathartic\" and \"cleansing\" experience.", "In an interview on CNN's \"Larry King Live,\" Sanford called \"Staying True\" -- which hit bookstores Friday -- \"an honest account of the values I hold dear.\"", "It was her husband Gov.", "Mark Sanford's loss of values that she blames on his much-publicized affair with an Argentine woman that was exposed by reporters after he disappeared for several days last summer.", "Staffers said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, but he later admitted he was actually visiting his mistress in Argentina.", "\"It saddens me because I believed in him and a number of people believed in him,\" Jenny Sanford said Monday.", "\"I still believe he was a good person.", "... Somewhere along the lines, he got off track,\" she said.", "\"He can get back on track, but it's too late for the marriage.\"", "Jenny Sanford, who filed for divorce in December, said the divorce could be final as early as the end of this month.", "She said she found out about the affair in January 2009 when she discovered a letter her husband had written to his mistress.", "\"It was awful,\" she said.", "\"I literally was in shock.", "My stomach felt gut-punched.\"", "She said there had been warning signs, but she \"never expected anything like this.\"", "\"I felt in some respects that we had lost something that we would never get back,\" even as she initially considered staying with him, she said.", "\"Nobody takes a 20-year marriage and decides in [a] snap minute to throw it away,\" she said.", "\"I came to the decision very prayerfully and carefully over a number of months.\"", "Sanford, 47, moved out of the governor's mansion with their four boys in June.", "She has said through the entire ordeal that her priority is her children.", "\"The kids are resilient, and we're back at home settling into a new, normal routine,\" she said of her sons, ages 11-17.", "\"I feel like they're going to do great.\"", "Asked whether she knows whether her husband is still seeing the Argentine woman, Jenny Sanford says she doesn't know and doesn't want to ask.", "\"I'm just moving on,\" she said.", "\"I want to stay happy and positive and raise the kids to the best of my ability.\"" ]	[ "South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford appears Monday on CNN's \"Larry King Live\"\nOn Gov.", "Mark Sanford: \"He can get back on track, but it's too late for the marriage\"\nSanford admitted last year that he had an affair with an Argentine woman .", "On finding letter to his mistress: \"I literally was in shock.", "My stomach felt gut-punched\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 3, 8, 12, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The fallout from Adam Lambert's risqué American Music Awards performance keeps coming with \"Good Morning America\" canceling the singer's live performance scheduled for Wednesday morning.", "ABC was flooded with more than 1,500 complaints, and the network sent an e-mail to potential concert goers letting them know that Lambert would not be performing on Wednesday.", "\"Given Adam Lambert's controversial live performance on the AMAs, we were concerned about airing a similar concert so early in the morning,\" a spokesperson for the network said.", "\"The Early Show\" on rival network CBS was quick to announce that they have booked Lambert to perform and discuss the controversy on Wednesday morning.", "Lambert shocked viewers with his sexually suggestive dance sequence that included simulated oral sex as well as Lambert kissing his male keyboardist.", "The Parents Television Council, a Media watchdog group, also attacked the show as vulgar and urged its members on Monday to contact ABC, Dick Clark Productions and the show's advertisers with complaints about the content.", "\"Last night's 'American Music Awards' broadcast was nothing short of tasteless and vulgar.", "Adam Lambert, the second-place finisher in last season's 'American Idol' competition, chose to treat American families to simulated oral sex and other demeaning behavior,\" the PTC posted on its Web site.", "Melissa Henson, director of communications and public education for the PTC, said the council wasn't concerned about Lambert's gay kiss.", "Its issue and focus are on the simulated oral sex, she said.", "\"The gender has nothing to do with it,\" Henson said.", "\"It would be true if it had been a woman's face that was thrust into his crotch.\"", "Henson also noted that this is not an anti-Adam Lambert campaign and said the council would have had no problem with Lambert performing live on \"Good Morning America.\"", "\"As long as he keeps it clean,\" Henson said." ]	[ "\"Good Morning America\" cancels Adam Lambert's live performance .", "Lambert shocked viewers with his sexually suggestive dance sequence on the AMAs .", "ABC received more than 1,500 complaints after the AMAs ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Internet attacks shut down the social networking site Twitter for about two hours on Thursday morning and caused glitches in other sites like Facebook and LiveJournal, a blogging site.", "Some Twitter users expressed near-panic that the site was not working properly Thursday.", "It's unclear if the attacks were coordinated against the social media sites.", "Twitter says its site's blackout was caused by a \"denial of service attack,\" which likely means a hacker used a herd of infected computers to send bad information to the site to overwhelmed it.", "A post to Twitter's blog said its Web site was back online before noon ET, but the site's users still were reporting problems.", "\"We are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack,\" the message from the company says.", "Facebook and other social networking sites appeared to be affected by Twitter's shut-down, too.", "Twitter runs applications through those sites and there was speculation that the glitches were related.", "\"Earlier this morning, we encountered issues within our network that resulted in a short period of degraded site experience for some visitors,\" said Facebook spokeswoman Kathleen Loughlin.", "\"No user data was at risk, and the matter is now resolved for the majority of users.", "We're monitoring the situation to ensure that users continue to have the fast and reliable experience they've come to expect from Facebook,\" she said.", "Twitter's site went down around 9:30 a.m.", "ET on Thursday and was back online by about 11:30 a.m.", "It's unclear who plotted the attack against Twitter and what their motives may have been.", "Internet attacks sometimes hit Web sites as they become popular.", "Security experts say financial motives often are behind modern cyber-attacks.", "Watch Mashable's Adam Ostrow on the Twitter outage .", "Twitter -- a micro-blogging site where users post 140-character messages to their followers -- has soared in popularity in recent months.", "According to comScore, a Web tracking firm, the site had 44 million unique visitors in June.", "Thursday's incident highlights the degree to which people depend on online social networks to feel connected to the world.", "Some Twitter and Facebook users expressed near-panic that the sites were not working properly.", "Others reacted with ambivalence.", "This is not the first time Twitter has been hit with a cyber-attack.", "Last month, a hacker broke into the personal Google accounts of Twitter employees, stealing personal information and company financial reports and posting them online.", "In an e-mail to CNN.com, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said that incident is not related to Thursday's security breach.", "\"There's no indication that this attack is related to any previous activities.", "We are currently the target of a denial of service attack,\" Stone said in the e-mail.", "\"Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter for intended customers or users.", "We are defending against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as we defend and later investigate.\"", "Don DeBolt, director of threat research at CA, a computer security company, said it's too early to tell who or what may be behind the Twitter attack.", "But he said denial-of-service attacks target specific Web sites.", "\"To be effective, [these attacks] need to be focused on a Web site or a series of Web sites,\" he said.", "\"It's not going to be something where malware (harmful software) is going to be deployed and then randomly attacks Web sites.\"", "John Harrison, a researcher with Web security firm Symantec, said it is very difficult to learn the identity of the attacker, or attackers, as they could be anywhere on Earth and the infected network could span several countries.", "Logging on to sites such as Twitter while they are under attack only makes the situation worse because it adds to the overloading of the system, he said.", "The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team says it's impossible for Web developers to fully prevent such attacks.", "But everyday computer users can ensure that their machines aren't used in a coordinated attack like the one seen Thursday.", "To protect their computers, consumers should update anti-virus software, create passwords that are difficult to crack and maintain computer firewalls, the agency says." ]	[ "Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal hit Thursday morning with denial-of-service attacks .", "The attack shut Twitter down for at least two hours .", "It's unclear who caused the attacks .", "Twitter co-founder: attack is not related to a recent breach in Twitter security ." ]	[ 0, 13, 22, 24, 30 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Despite the bruising battle over their proposals to overhaul health care, congressional Democrats have maintained an advantage over their Republican counterparts on one key measure, according to a new national poll.", "A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday indicates that a bare majority of Americans, 51 percent, believe that the Democrats' policies are good for the country, with 46 percent saying that those policies would take the U.S. in the wrong direction.", "Fifty-three percent of people questioned in the poll said the GOP's polices would move the nation in the wrong direction, with 42 percent saying Republican policies are good for the country.", "\"The numbers for both parties are virtually unchanged since late August, just before President Barack Obama's health care speech to Congress opened the latest round of debate on this divisive issue,\" said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.", "Democrats will be defending their large majorities in Congress next year when all 435 House seats and more than a third of the Senate seats are up for grabs.", "\"This advantage on policy could be an important edge for the Democrats heading into the 2010 midterm elections,\" Holland added.", "\"But independents will be the key to the midterms, and the numbers among independents spell bad news for both parties among that important group.\"", "In an August survey, independent voters' views of GOP policies were evenly divided.", "But a majority of independents now say Republicans would move the country in the wrong direction.", "Nonetheless, the number of independents who dislike Democratic policies, now at 57 percent, is higher than the 52 percent who hold a negative view of Republican policies.", "The survey suggests that Sen. Joe Lieberman is taking a hit in popularity due to his opposition to a major element in the health care bill.", "The Connecticut independent, who caucuses with the Democrats to give the party a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, threatened to undermine the bill unless compromises were made.", "Lieberman opposed the creation of a government-run public insurance option and the expansion of Medicare to individuals as young as 55.", "Both of those proposals were dropped from the bill this month, enraging many liberals.", "According to the poll, Lieberman's favorable rating has dropped 9 percentage points, from 40 percent to 31 percent, from early December.", "His unfavorable rating has risen 6 percentage points, from 28 percent to 34 percent.", "\"Lieberman's biggest decline -- a 14-point drop -- came among independents,\" Holland said.", "\"Only Republicans continue to like Lieberman.\"", "The survey also indicates that just one in five Americans trust the federal government always or most of the time, down 4 percentage points from a year ago.", "The CNN/Opinion Research poll was conducted December 16 through Sunday, with 1,160 adult Americans questioned by telephone.", "The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.", "CNN deputy political director Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report." ]	[ "Poll: Fifty-one percent believe Democratic policies are good for the country .", "Forty-two percent say Republican policies are good for the country, poll shows .", "Views of independents spell bad news for both parties in 2010 elections, CNN polling chief says ." ]	[ 1, 2, 6 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- In the schoolyard of American politics, President Obama is the big, smart kid with all of the test answers who's being bullied by a bunch of Neanderthal ankle-biters from all sides.", "Meanwhile, all the teachers are wondering, \"Why does he take this crap?", "He's bigger and smarter than all the other kids.\"", "It's no surprise the Glenn Becks of the world have been attacking Obama since the moment he stepped into the Oval Office.", "Beck and his blathering buddies on the right -- you know, the stinky kids in the coatroom who eat their own boogers.", "Always pick on the kids least likely to fight back.", "That being said -- we did elect President Obama to change things, and so far the only thing he seems to be changing are his faux-patriotic lapel pins ... and his mind.", "With the public option in the public toilet, not asking or telling about \"don't ask, don't tell,\" the Gitmo Hilton still entertaining guests, and same-sex marriage so far off Obama's radar that it's now on his sonar, seeds of doubt have been planted in the left's collective mind.", "If this guy can't get his own party to step in line on health care reform, they wonder, then how the hell will he get other countries to do what he wants them to do?", "Although in some ways, that might be easier then dealing with these Blue Dogs who hump your leg ... and not in a good way.", "It's a valid concern.", "However, we can't expect him to accomplish all this sweeping change in less than a year.", "It's important that he lay the groundwork instead of just going all \"Decider\" on everyone and making gut choices.", "But he can't just be \"The Thinker,\" either.", "Last time I looked, \"The Thinker,\" by Rodin, had been sitting on his butt in the exact same place, for years.", "Unfortunately, laying groundwork doesn't win you any fans -- well, besides a few Nordic voters on the Nobel panel.", "Flexing muscles, now that wins you fans.", "Just ask the Governator.", "That's why the Financial Times said it's time for President Obama to pick a fight and win it in a knockout.", "But instead of working on that knockout, President Obama and his White House cronies are feuding with Fox News.", "While I'm loving this Fox hunt, the White House's strategy boggles my mind.", "This is not a war of necessity.", "Picking a fight with them is kinda like going to a biker bar after midnight -- as my mother used to say, \"Nothing good can happen.\"", "That is, unless this heavyweight bout keeps escalating and we actually get to see Glenn Beck prancing around in a pair of sequined boxing shorts.", "When you disregard the action against Fox News, Obama seems to be paralyzed, like a frog that's had it stomach rubbed -- which may the reason he's got problems on both sides of the lily pad.", "Admittedly, I might be overreacting just a bit.", "The majority of the country is behind Obama.", "The situation just seems worse than it is because we're not used to this new era, in which you can actually criticize the president without being shouted down as an unpatriotic, Socialist, traitorous, granny-killing, freedom hater.", "After eight years of a presidency shrouded in darkness, we're not used to seeing the president's supporters, of all people, shining a light on his shortcomings.", "Back to the schoolyard, where Barry Obama is being bullied.", "You know what? He's big, he can take it. You know why? Because not only is he right in his beliefs, but he knows that if push comes to shove, he can lay out the rest of these runts with a couple of good smacks of his presidential pen.", "It's not time to panic, but President Obama needs to size up one of these twerps, cock back his arm, and take a swing soon, because the Democratic majorities in Congress won't last forever.", "President Obama won 53 percent of the vote last November, so we know he has it in him to win the big battles.", "We know he has a lot on his plate.", "But we just want one decisive victory.", "That's all we're asking for. A show of strength.", "Something to grow on.", "Show these class clowns who they're messing with.", "You don't have to be \"The Decider.\" Just the president. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Joy Behar." ]	[ "Joy Behar: Obama the big, smart kid bullied by Neanderthal ankle-biters in the schoolyard .", "Behar: Teachers think: \"Why does he take this?", "He's bigger and smarter\" than them .", "Behar: Obama elected for change, but so far changing only lapel pins and his mind .", "Joy talks politics with \"Joe the Plumber\" Joe Wurzelbacher on tonight's \"Joy Behar\" HLN 9 p.m.", "ET ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 6 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Flights transporting critically injured Haitians to the United States are set to resume Monday morning, according to a spokeswoman for a University of Miami team of volunteers in Port-au-Prince.", "The flights are scheduled to resume at 11 a.m. Monday, said Nery Ynclan, a spokeswoman for the university's R. Barth Green, who is leading the team.", "The flights were temporarily suspended because of logistical issues including space to care for the injured, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said Saturday.", "\"Having received assurances that additional capacity exists both here and among our international partners, we determined that we can resume these critical flights,\" he said in a statement Sunday.", "The statement, released Sunday afternoon, said flights would resume \"in the next 12 hours.\"", "The evacuated patients are those whose medical needs could not be met by doctors working in Haiti.", "Nearly 23,000 people have been seen by U.S. personnel since the January 12 earthquake, Vietor said.", "The missing, the found, the victims .", "Airlifts stopped after there were \"concerns about the strain on domestic health capacity,\" Vietor said.", "But officials have increased the ability to care for patients through a network of nonprofits and U.S. hospitals, he said.", "Earlier reports also cited questions over who would pay for patients' care.", "The flights stopped Wednesday when some states refused to allow entry to Haitians needing care, according to Navy Capt.", "Kevin Aandahl, a spokesman for the U.S. Transportation Command.", "He would not say which states objected.", "In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius obtained by CNN, Florida Gov.", "Charlie Crist asked that the federal government activate the National Disaster Medical System to provide reimbursement to Florida and other states for taking in the patients, who have no insurance.", "Share your stories from Haiti .", "Florida's health facilities were already strained by winter tourism and seasonal residence migration, Crist said in the letter.", "But Florida officials said Saturday that the state was committed to assisting Haitian quake victims and had not asked the airlifts be halted.", "Full coverage .", "Florida will play a role in caregiving once flights resume.", "The state has identified medical facilities that could take in victims, Vietor said in Sunday's statement.", "CNN's Susan Candiotti and Rachel Streitfeld contributed to this report." ]	[ "Evacuation flights to U.S. to resume Monday morning, aid group says .", "Flights were temporarily halted Wednesday over logistical issues, White House says .", "Some hospitals lacked space to care for influx of Haitian patients .", "Questions have also been raised about who will pay for their care ." ]	[ 2, 10, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Archdiocese of Dublin and other Catholic Church authorities in Ireland covered up clerical child abuse until the mid-1990s, according to a government-commissioned report released Thursday.", "The Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation's 720-page report said that it has \"no doubt that clerical child sexual abuse was covered up\" from January 1975 to May 2004, the time covered by the report.", "\"The Dublin Archdiocese's pre-occupations in dealing with cases of child sexual abuse, at least until the mid 1990s, were the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the Church, and the preservation of its assets,\" the report said.", "\"The welfare of children, which should have been the first priority, was not even a factor to be considered in the early stages,\" it said.", "\"Instead the focus was on the avoidance of scandal and the preservation of the good name, status and assets of the institution and of what the institution regarded as its most important members -- the priests.\"", "Archbishop Diarmuid Martin apologized Thursday in a news conference.", "\"No words of apology can ever be sufficient,\" he said.", "And Dermot Ahern, Ireland's justice minister, said he felt a \"a growing sense of revulsion and anger\" as he read the report.", "\"Bottom line is this: A collar will protect no villain,\" he said.", "The commission was set up in March 2006 to look into allegations of child sexual abuse made against clergy in the Irish capital.", "Its report was completed in July.", "Although the commission said it was not its place to \"establish whether or not abuse occurred ... it is abundantly clear ... that child sexual abuse by clerics was widespread throughout the period.\"", "One victim, Marie Collins, said those who covered up the abuse were just as guilty as the perpetrators of the crimes.", "\"How many people accused of abuse are still sitting in parishes today?\"", "she asked in a Thursday news conference.", "The commission examined the histories of 46 priests, who were picked as a sample from 102 who had had complaints or suspicions of child abuse raised against them.", "Complaints from more than 320 children were leveled against the 46, the report said.", "But it said that the number of children abused likely exceeded that.", "\"One priest admitted to sexually abusing over 100 children, while another accepted that he had abused on a fortnightly basis during the currency of his ministry which lasted for over 25 years,\" the report said.", "\"The total number of documented complaints recorded against those two priests is only just over 70.\"", "In its analysis of the 46 priests, the commission said that all four archbishops -- Archbishops John Charles McQuaid, Dermot Ryan, Kevin McNamara, and Desmond Connell -- who served during the time period covered by the report handled the child sexual abuse complaints \"badly.\"", "\"Not one of them reported his knowledge of child sexual abuse to the Gardai (the Irish police force) throughout the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s,\" the report said.", "The commission did credit Connell, who took over the archdiocese in 1988, with giving Irish authorities in 1995 the names of 17 priests against whom complaints had been made -- although it called the number incomplete, saying that there was \"knowledge within the Archdiocese of at least 28 priests against whom there had been complaints.\"", "They said he was \"slow to recognize the seriousness of the situation.\"", "Connell also gave authorities permission to access the archdiocesan files in 2002.", "Connell, a cardinal, apologized in a written statement.", "\"I wish to express without reservation my bitter regret that failures on my part contributed to the suffering of victims in any form,\" he said.", "\"Although I am all too aware that such apologies and expressions of regret can never be adequate as a response to so much hurt and violation and, in any case, lose their value through repetition, I apologize again now from my heart and ask the forgiveness of those who have been so shamefully harmed.\"", "The report named 11 priests who had pleaded guilty to or were convicted of sexual assaults on children.", "Of the other 35, it gave pseudonyms to 33 of them and redacted the names of two.", "The report shot down the notion that church leadership was unaware of the problem.", "\"The Archdiocese of Dublin and other Church authorities have repeatedly claimed to have been, prior to the late 1990s, 'on a learning curve' in relation to the matter,\" it said.", "However, it said McNamara, Ryan and McQuaid had information on complaints against at least 17 priests when the Archdiocese took out insurance in 1987 to cover future compensation claims and lawsuits related to sexual abuse allegations.", "\"The taking out of insurance was an act proving knowledge of child sexual abuse as a potential major cost to the Archdiocese and is inconsistent with the view that Archdiocesan officials were still 'on a learning curve' at a much later date, or were lacking in an appreciation of the phenomenon of clerical child sex abuse,\" it said.", "The report also said church officials perpetuated the problem by ignoring allegations and in some cases simply moved an alleged abuser on to another parish -- leaving him free to abuse another group of children.", "Thursday's findings follow a report that came out in May, detailing allegations of child abuse in various institutions across Ireland from the 1940s to the present.", "Though both reports deal with child abuse, they are not related, having been written by two separate commissions investigating two different subjects.", "The May report looked at child abuse in lay institutions, including reformatories, hospitals, orphanages, children's homes and industrial schools across the country.", "Some of those institutions were linked to religious orders, but none were strictly religious schools.", "Speaking last month after the Irish High Court cleared the way for Thursday's report to be made public, Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said he was pleased the information would not be kept private.", "\"I have always made it clear that I have been anxious to put the report into the public domain as quickly as possible, while at the same time not wishing to do anything which would prejudice the chances of any of the people involved in these evil deeds being brought to justice,\" Ahern said in a statement.", "CNN's Atika Shubert contributed to this report." ]	[ "New report examines abuse abuse between January 1975 and May 2004 .", "Earlier report detailed allegations of child abuse in institutions across Ireland .", "Some of those institutions were linked to religious orders .", "Archbishop Diarmuid Martin: \"No words of apology can be sufficient\"" ]	[ 5, 6, 35, 38 ]
[ "Hong Kong, China (CNN) -- Hong Kong police said they had arrested two men in connection with an acid attack that injured six people last month.", "The pair -- ages 18 and 23 -- were taken into custody on Wednesday for questioning in the attack, which involved corrosive fluid being thrown from a building in the Causeway Bay shopping area.", "A man and five women were injured in the attack, according to police.", "By Thursday, the younger man was released on bail, while the other was still detained, said Michael Kwan, information officer for the Hong Kong police.", "Authorities did not say whether the two were being investigated in other similar attacks in Hong Kong, and it was not clear whether the attacks involved a group, individuals or copycats.", "Police are offering rewards totaling HKD $1.7 million ($219,000) for information leading to arrests in recent acid attacks in five areas of Hong Kong, including the shopping district of Mong Kok.", "Hong Kong Security Secretary Ambrose Lee on Wednesday said that if an object is dropped from a building and injures someone in public, the culprit could face six months in jail and a HK $10,000 ($1,300) fine.", "The throwing of corrosive fluid or manslaughter could result in life imprisonment, he added." ]	[ "Two men arrested in connection with Hong Kong acid attack last month .", "Man and five women were injured in the attack in bustling shopping area .", "Younger of the two arrested was released on bail ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A blast hit near a building housing Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI, in the eastern city of Multan on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 20 others, police said.", "The explosion took place at a security checkpoint, said Jamshed Akram of the city police.", "Four soldiers and four children were among the dead, said Dr. Kaleem Ullah of Multan's emergency services.", "Pakistan has blamed the violence on Islamic militants who have vowed to avenge a intense military offensive to rout them from their haven along the country's border with Afghanistan.", "The nation has come under increasingly frequent attacks.", "On Monday, a blast at a crowded market in Lahore killed 54 and wounded more than 150 people.", "The same day two other bombing attacks -- in Peshawar and Quetta -- killed at least 11 and wounded at least 41.", "The attacks came three days after militants armed with guns and grenades stormed a mosque in Rawalpindi frequented by military personnel.", "At least 36 were killed and 75 wounded.", "The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the mosque bombing, but there were no immediately claims for Monday's attacks.", "In an e-mail to CNN about the mosque attack, the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan said: \"We reconfirmed it, that the TTP has done it, and will do more which are already planned.", "We once again mention that we are not against the innocent people and the state of Pakistan but against those officers and ministers who are American by hearts and minds and Pakistani just by faces.\"", "The United States has pressed Pakistan to rout out Taliban militants.", "Fighting the war in Afghanistan is \"inextricably linked to our partnership with Pakistan,\" President Barack Obama said Tuesday of U.S. strategy.", "\"We are in Afghanistan to prevent a cancer from once again spreading through that country,\" he said in a speech at West Point.", "\"But this same cancer has also taken root in the border region of Pakistan.", "That is why we need a strategy that works on both sides of the border.\"", "The United States says Pakistan looms large because Taliban and al Qaeda militants operating in Afghanistan also have had a presence in Pakistan's northwestern region near the Afghan border and have threatened the governments and troops in both countries." ]	[ "NEW: Four soldiers, four children among the dead, a doctor says .", "Attack comes a day after three deadly attacks in Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta .", "Lahore attack targeted crowded market, killing 54 and wounding more than 150 ." ]	[ 2, 5 ]
[ "Colorado Springs, Colorado (CNN) -- If you come to a neighborhood park in Colorado Springs, plan on bringing your own trash bags.", "To save money, the city has removed the trash cans.", "Need to catch a bus?", "Don't try on evenings or weekends.", "The city has cut that service, too.", "And when the sun goes down, Colorado Springs is going to look a little bit dimmer.", "Crews are removing a third of the city's streetlight to save money on electricity and light bulbs.", "Watch city's PSA on streetlight deactivation .", "It's this conservative city's way of closing a $28.5 million budget gap.", "\"You can cry about the fiscal situation ... or you can take it as an opportunity to change, reinvent yourself and innovate and that's what were going to do in Colorado Springs,\" City Councilman Sean Paige said.", "Other governments are considering higher taxes to avoid such cutbacks, but in the state of Colorado, there is a taxpayers' bill of rights.", "It prevents state and city governments from raising taxes unless such a measure is approved by the voters.", "\"We put it on the ballot last fall, and they said 'no,' \" said Paige, a Republican.", "\"They declined to write the city a blank check, and they said, 'City, tighten your belts.", "We're tightening ours. You need to do the same.' \"We're going to respect that,\" he added.", "\"I'm not going to cry about that.\" It's not a new concept in Colorado Springs, touted on some Web sites as a \"libertarian paradise.\"", "The city's garbage collection, zoo and philharmonic are all privately funded.", "The city is even auctioning off its police helicopters on the Internet.", "Want to place a bid?", "The latest budget cuts could be felt at community centers like Meadows Park, which is bustling with after-school programs for kids, as well as exercise classes and hot meals for seniors.", "Unless the center can find private funding, Colorado Springs is slated to shut it down at the end of March.", "\"I'm hoping that some sort of a miracle will happen so we can keep the centers open,\" said Sheryle Nix, 56.", "Every day, Nix eats a $2 lunch at the center because she can't afford to eat in a restaurant and has trouble preparing her own food.", "\"I have a traumatic brain injury, so this really helps keep me on schedule to eat lunch,\" she explained.", "Jeanie Schweitzer, 55, returned to Colorado Springs to take care of her grandmother Elsie, who suffered a stroke.", "She brings Elsie to the center to get her out of the house.", "\"I don't think they should be shutting it down.", "There should be enough money,\" Schweizer said.", "\"It's not that much in the big picture to keep it open.\"", "The center is a lifeline for parents who work and cannot pick their kids up after school ends in the afternoon.", "Lindon Jackson, who is 13, has been coming to the Meadows Park after-school program since she was 3.", "When asked what she'll do if the center shuts down, she said, \"Nothing.\"", "\"I'd just be home doing nothing.\"", "Whether the government should continue funding Meadows Park and other community centers like it strikes at the heart of the political argument over the role of government, particularly during an economic downturn.", "\"The model of governments, from the federal government down to municipal governments, don't work anymore,\" according to Chuck Fowler, chairman of City Committee, an alliance of local businesspeople set up by Paige.", "\"They don't take in as much money.", "They can't possibly provide the same amount of services, pay their employees, pay their pensions.", "Something's got to give.\"", "Fowler believes that the solution may be in weaning people off of government services.", "\"The larger the government is, the more conditioning with certain people that they don't need to take personal responsibility of their life,\" he said.", "The budget cuts, according to Fowler, \"could really recondition people's ideas about what government should be doing.\"", "\"Should it be doing all of these things, or should it really be focused on the vital things that clearly have a public interest?\"", "But Brian Kates, who runs Meadows Park Community Center, says the people affected by the government cutbacks \"are pawns in the game.\"", "\"These aren't people trying to be lazy and live off the system,\" Kates said.", "\"These are hard-working, intelligent and bright [people], and they're not asking for much.", "We're giving them just the very basics.\"" ]	[ "Colorado Springs faces nearly $30 million budget hole .", "Programs for the elderly and kids might be cut .", "Supporters say it's better than raising taxes .", "Opponents say basic services shouldn't be sacrificed ." ]	[ 4, 5, 8, 11, 19, 43 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The push to overhaul health care received a major boost Thursday as the American Medical Association and AARP endorsed legislation drafted by top House Democrats.", "The AARP, the nation's largest organization of older Americans, is a nonpartisan group that advocates for people 50 and older.", "The AMA, historically an opponent of health care reform, is considered one the nation's most influential doctors' advocacy groups.", "\"I want to thank both organizations again for their support, and I urge Congress to listen to AARP, listen to the AMA and pass this reform for hundreds of millions of Americans who will benefit from it,\" President Obama said at the White House.", "The backing of those two groups comes as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, oversees final changes to the $1.1 trillion health care bill.", "The measure likely will come to a final vote Saturday.", "Read the House health care bill (PDF) A 42-page manager's amendment on the health care legislation posted Tuesday night made mostly technical changes in the nearly 2,000-page bill compiled from three Democratic proposals passed by three House committees.", "By making the changes public Tuesday, House Democratic leaders could open floor debate on the bill Friday, while fulfilling their pledge to allow 72 hours of review before bringing the measure to the full chamber.", "Pelosi insisted Thursday she will have the 218 votes necessary to pass the bill.", "Meanwhile, President Obama is set to huddle Saturday with congressional Democrats on Capitol Hill to review the legislation.", "Check out the key parts of the bill .", "In a statement, AARP CEO Barry Rand said, \"We started this debate more than two years ago with the twin goals of making coverage affordable to our younger members and protecting Medicare for seniors.", "\"We can say with confidence that [the House bill] meets those goals with improved benefits for people in Medicare and needed health insurance market reforms to help ensure every American can purchase affordable health coverage.\"", "The AMA's president, Dr. J. James Rohack, told reporters Thursday that the legislation is \"not a perfect representation of our views\" but is close enough to warrant his group's support and keep the reform process moving forward.", "Rohack said the bill needs to be accompanied by legislation reversing scheduled Medicare reimbursement payment reductions to physicians.", "Responding to the AMA endorsement, Obama said the doctors' group is \"supporting reform because [its members have] seen firsthand what's broken about our health care system,\" Obama said.", "\"They would not be supporting it if they really believed that it would lead to government bureaucrats making decisions that are best left to doctors.\"", "Watch Obama say health care reform is moving forward .", "Meanwhile, House Republicans on Thursday continued to signal their opposition to the measure.", "GOP leaders held a rally on Capitol Hill along with \"Tea Party\" movement protesters and other activists to warn that the House legislation would translate into a full-blown government takeover of the health care system.", "Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, told CNN's \"American Morning\" on Thursday that Democrats had forgotten the lessons of August's town hall meetings when angry conservatives criticized health care legislation.", "\"I think what we're going to see is the town hall coming to Washington, D.C., just to remind members of Congress [that] we're the ones we would like you to pay attention to, not lobbyists.", "And we don't want the government to own our health care,\" Bachmann said.", "Speaking at Thursday's opposition rally, actor John Ratzenberger, who played Cliff on the sitcom \"Cheers,\" slammed the Democratic bill as a form of socialism.", "\"These are Woodstock Democrats,\" Ratzenberger said.", "\"We have to remember where their philosophy comes.", "It doesn't come from America.", "It comes from overseas.", "It comes from socialism.", "And socialism is a philosophy of failure.\"", "House Democrats have rejected an alternative $60 billion Republican plan as inadequate for meeting the goals of expanding health coverage to most of the nation's 46 million uninsured while bringing down costs and ending controversial industry practices such as denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.", "Pelosi's bill would extend insurance coverage to 36 million uncovered Americans and guarantee that 96 percent of Americans have coverage, according to the Democratic leadership.", "The claim is based on an analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.", "Among other things, the bill would subsidize insurance for poorer Americans and create health insurance exchanges to make it easier for small groups and individuals to purchase coverage.", "It also would cap annual out-of-pocket expenses and prevent insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.", "Pelosi's office has said the bill would cut the federal deficit by roughly $30 billion over the next decade.", "The measure is financed through a combination of a tax surcharge on wealthy Americans and spending constraints in Medicare and Medicaid.", "Specifically, individuals with annual incomes more than $500,000 -- as well as families earning more than $1 million -- would face a 5.4 percent income tax surcharge.", "Growth in Medicare expenditures would be cut by 1.3 percent annually.", "The House bill also includes a government-run public option.", "Under the House plan, health care providers would be allowed to negotiate reimbursement rates with the federal government.", "Pelosi and other liberal Democrats had argued for a more \"robust\" public option that would tie reimbursement rates for providers and hospitals to Medicare rates plus a 5 percent increase.", "Several Democrats representing rural areas, however, killed the proposal after complaining that doctors and hospitals in their districts would be shortchanged under such a formula.", "One thorny issue yet to be resolved among House Democrats is the bill's final language on abortion.", "Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, has been pushing leaders to add stronger language prohibiting the use of federal money to pay for abortions under the health care overhaul.", "Stupak has vowed that if he isn't allowed a vote on the issue, a group of 40 anti-abortion Democrats will work to block the bill from getting to the House floor.", "The House bill differs from legislation the Senate is considering in a number of critical ways.", "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, also favors a public option but would allow individual states to opt out of the plan.", "An $829 billion bill recently passed by the Senate Finance Committee does not include a tax surcharge on the wealthy but would impose a new tax on high-end health care policies, which critics have dubbed \"Cadillac\" plans.", "A large number of House Democrats are opposed to taxing those policies, arguing that such a move would hurt union members who traded higher salaries for more generous benefits.", "Individuals under the $829 billion Finance Committee plan would be required to purchase health insurance coverage or face a fine of up to $750.", "The House bill imposes a more stringent fine of up to 2.5 percent of an individual's income.", "Both versions include a hardship exemption for poorer Americans.", "The Finance Committee bill would require large companies to contribute to the health care costs of lower income workers if those workers received a government subsidy for insurance.", "The House legislation would require larger companies to provide employee insurance for everyone or pay a penalty of up to 8 percent of total revenue.", "Democratic leaders in both chambers agree on establishing nonprofit health care cooperatives and stripping insurance companies of an anti-trust exemption that has been in place since the end of World War II.", "Reid refused earlier this week to predict when the chamber would pass a health care bill, possibly signaling difficulty in generating support from his entire Democratic caucus.", "CNN's Dana Bash, Lisa Desjardins and Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: President Obama praises American Medical Association, AARP for backing bill .", "GOP leaders join \"Tea Party\" protesters for an opposition rally on Capitol Hill .", "Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has 218 votes needed to pass House bill .", "Democrats: Bill would guarantee that 96 percent of Americans have coverage ." ]	[ 8, 19, 31 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Bernice King, the youngest child of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., has been elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a spokeswoman for the group said Friday.", "King, 46, was elected as the SCLC's first female president, said Renee Richardson.", "King's father was SCLC's first president.", "The organization was founded in 1957.", "The other finalist for the post was former Arkansas Court of Appeals Judge Wendell Griffen, 57, who lost his recent bid for re-election.", "Griffen, of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, is also pastor of New Millennium Church in Little Rock.", "King is a minister at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia.", "She also is a motivational speaker and author.", "\"It is a destiny call,\" she told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week.", "\"It is part of my father and mother's legacy and a continuation of the legacy he started in the '50s and '60s through this organization.", "I believe that the hand of God is leading me.\"", "Her brother, Martin Luther King III, was president of SCLC from 1997 to 2004.", "They and sibling Dexter King were locked in a bitter legal battle over their parents' estates until late September, when a judge ordered them to begin negotiations.", "The three were able to reach a settlement.", "King succeeds the Rev.", "Byron Clay, who has been interim president since the Rev.", "Charles Steele Jr. resigned earlier this year.", "The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery led the group from 1977 until 1997.", "The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy was president from 1968 to 1977.", "Ralph Luker, a retired history professor at Morehouse College and co-editor of the first two volumes of \"The Papers of Martin Luther King,\" says SCLC's challenge going forward is giving the organization a sense of mission.", "\"There's been ... no real vision, and that's a dramatic change from its early years,\" he said.", "\"For too long it's been a program here, had a cause there, but the group's rationale for being hasn't been clear.\"", "The group, which has chapters and affiliates throughout the country, has lobbied extensively on a variety of issues related to civil rights.", "CNN's Debra Krajnak and Maria White contributed to this report." ]	[ "Bernice King is the youngest daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.\nShe is the first female president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference .", "Her father was the organization's first president ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The two people who died Thursday night when their helicopter crashed into a mountain in the Dominican Republic were friends who had left their homes and family in Florida this week to help deliver aid to the people of Haiti, a son of one of the victims said Friday.", "The accident occurred about 7 p.m. in Dajabon, just east of the border with Haiti, said Rosani Zapata, a spokeswoman for the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute.", "The helicopter had filed a flight plan from Santiago to Jimani in the Dominican Republic, then on to Port-au-Prince in Haiti.", "It was en route back to Santiago when the crash occurred, she said.", "Aboard were pilot John Ward of Fort Myers, Florida, and James Jalovec, a 53-year-old Naples, Florida, businessman who owned Sweetwater Environmental Inc., a sewage company based in Sebring.", "Mark Jalovec, 21, told CNN in a telephone interview that his father began discussing the prospect of helping out a couple of days after the January 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti.", "\"It kind of caught everybody off guard,\" he said, noting that his father had never done anything similar.", "Still, he said, his father saw a fit.", "\"I got a helicopter; these people are in desperate need -- he kind of decided it with Mr. Ward that they were going to do it, and that's what they did.\"", "He said his father last called him Monday, after he and Ward had flown doctors from an orphanage outside Port-au-Prince to the Dominican Republic.", "Spencer Steadman, vice president and general manager of Sweetwater Environmental, described Ward as an experienced pilot who had long flown Jalovec to his business interests, which spanned the state.", "\"They had an engine failure on one here about three months ago,\" he told CNN in a telephone interview.", "\"He done a reverse autorotation and set that thing down.", "No injuries. Four people, they walked away.", "He was a very good pilot.\"", "The helicopter that crashed Thursday, a Robinson R44, was two weeks old, he said.", "Steadman said he was not surprised when Jalovec called him Saturday night and said he was planning to depart Sunday morning for a week in the region.", "\"He seen a need, and it was a challenge, and that's Jim,\" Steadman said.", "\"He was hard-core business.", "When he done business, he done business.", "That's what he liked doing. He was very aggressive. ... If it was worth doing, he'd do it.\" The cause of the crash is under investigation." ]	[ "Victims described as friends who had left their homes, family in Florida to help Haitians .", "Helicopter hit mountain about 7 p.m. Thursday east of Haiti border, aviation official says .", "Pilot, Florida businessman were aboard; cause of crash is under investigation ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Actor and filmmaker Dennis Hopper has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his manager Sam Maydew said Friday.", "Hopper is being treated in a special program at the University of Southern California, according to CNN news affiliate KTLA.", "He was expected to appear at an exhibition of his photography at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne but has cancelled in order to focus on treatment.", "\"We're hoping for the best,\" Maydew said.", "No other details were immediately available.", "On September 30, Hopper was hospitalized in New York for flu-like symptoms and stomach pains.", "He was released the next day feeling \"much better,\" according to KTLA.", "The 73-year-old Academy Award winner is known for his roles in \"Rebel Without a Cause,\" \"Hoosiers,\" \"Apocalypse Now\" and \"Easy Rider\" -- the latter of which he also directed -- among scores of other films.", "Hopper recently finished shooting the second season of the Starz drama \"Crash,\" based on the 2006 Oscar-winning film." ]	[ "Actor Dennis Hopper is being treated at the University of Southern California .", "The actor has cancelled upcoming travel to focus on his treatment .", "He was hospitalized in late September with flu-like symptoms and stomach pain .", "Hopper just finished shooting the second season of the Starz drama \"Crash\"" ]	[ 1, 2, 5, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Joann Killeen is president of the Killeen Furtney Group, the Los Angeles, California-based public relations firm that represented octuplet mom Nadya Suleman.", "Nadya Suleman had her octuplets through fertility treatments.", "Suleman, who underwent fertility treatment, gave birth to six boys and two girls January 26 in Bellflower, California.", "She already had six children at home.", "The Killeen Furtney Group recently stopped representing Suleman because of death threats that came in to the firm's office, Killeen said Monday on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"", "Following is an edited transcript of Killeen's conversation with King: .", "Larry King: When you did this show February 3, you were representing her.", "Now you're not. Why not? Joann Killeen: Well, Larry, the number of death threats that came into our office, both by e-mail and voice mail, we had to make a decision about what was in the best interests of our own personal safety and that of our firm.", "So we met with the police department on Friday.", "We filed a criminal report.", "We provided them with all the information with all the threats.", "And they told us that we should take this very seriously.", "Watch Killeen describe receiving threats » .", "King: Why you and not her? Killeen: Well, they've also threatened her.", "But the majority of the threats are coming to our office.", "I mean, Nadya doesn't have an e-mail account.", "She doesn't have a computer. So there's no way to reach her. So the closest thing they can do is come after me.", "And they have -- and just in painful, painful ways.", "King: How would do you characterize the nature of the threats?", "Killeen: Well, they've said to me that I should be put down like an old dog, I should be paralyzed, my client's uterus should be ripped out, she should be put on an island.", "I mean, Larry, I don't know what's happened with America, but they are really, really angry and letting me know what they think about this issue.", "King: Do you take special security precautions?", "Killeen: Yes, I do.", "Yes, I do. We have extra patrols on our street.", "... We're very conscious. The police department has been absolutely wonderful to work with.", "They've given me a special number to call if anybody stakes out my house, as they have before.", "I've been followed by paparazzi.", "I'm not a celebrity, so it's a different position for me to be in.", "King: How did you inform Nadya that you were no longer.", "... Killeen: Well, we talked on Friday.", "And she's had death threats, and I've had death threats.", "And she's very upset that someone would come after us and come after her.", "I mean she says: \"I'm just a mom.", "I don't know why everybody is so upset.", "I'm just a mom trying to do the best job that I possibly can.\"", "Watch Killeen explain that no money has been made off the publicity » .", "King: Why do you think people are so angry -- crazy enough, angry to threaten killing?", "Killeen: Well, I think they are frustrated by a lot of things.", "When the news came out that Nadya was receiving some state disability from an injury and that she was trying to rehab and find a new career and go to school and she also had children at the same time, I think the taxpayers just absolutely flipped out and said, you know, we're paying for this and we're not getting our own fair share of government services.", "We pay a lot of taxes, the economy is bad, there's no jobs.", "They're angry. King: If you're getting threats, what do you imagine she's getting?", "Killeen: Well, and I've seen them, because, again, there's no e- mail account.", "So they're sending them to me. ... People will call my office and just say profanity on the phone.", "And with caller ID, I know exactly who they are.", "Others have sent handwritten notes to me with horrible words that I never would repeat on the air, Larry.", "And they even put their return address on them so -- as if I'm going to return that call.", "King: What about the stories that she's obsessed with Angelina Jolie -- even had work done on her face to look like her more?", "Killeen: You know, I asked her about that.", "And she just laughed. She said remember, with the octuplets, I put on 100 pounds -- a hundred pounds of extra body weight for my babies.", "So of course things are going to look a little different than they did when I first started.", "King: She does look like her.", "Killeen: Well, I think hair and makeup, you could probably look like anybody you'd want to look like.", "She has said to me she has not had plastic surgery of any kind.", "And so I have to believe what my client tells me to be factually correct.", "King: So the only reason you're out of this is threats on you and the firm, not because of any qualms with her?", "Killeen: Oh, no.", "Not at all. Larry, I just can't run my business and continue to do the things that I need to do for my clients with constant death threats and phone calls and interruptions.", "You know, I took on this account because I'm a mom and a grandma, and I wanted to help someone who needs help with the media.", "I did this pro bono. I've made no money.", "I have no intention of getting any money.", "And I think people need to realize I just did this out of the goodness of my heart to help a woman who didn't know how to work with the media.", "King: Does she keep in touch with the father?", "Killeen: The sperm donor?", "King: Yes. Killeen: They have a very limited relationship.", "He's not active in their life at all.", "King: Why are we mad at her? Killeen: That's a good question to ask America.", "If you look at the e-mails that are coming into my office, they're saying they think that she's worked the system.", "They think that she's been able to stay home and live off of the taxpayers and have these multiple children.", "She's not organized. She doesn't have any kind of structure, you know; isn't six children enough?", "She intentionally went out to get eight children.", "And, you know, remember, Larry, she worked with the same doctor for every [in vitro fertilization] attempt.", "Based on her history of six embryos implanted, she got one child.", "The doctor told her the most this last attempt would be would be either one baby or twins, at the most.", "So she was shocked, he was shocked.", "Nobody expected eight children.", "That's the big -- big misnomer here.", "Everybody thinks she went and ordered eight and she got eight.", "She didn't. King: Where does she go from here? Killeen: Well, I'm confident, as we continue to talk, that there are resources that are available to her, and she will collaborate with, you know, church leaders in her area.", "And hopefully the American public can get beyond their anger about her choices and her decisions and think about those eight little kids, Larry.", "You know, it's all about those kids. That's the whole reason why I took on this account, was to help the mom with those eight little kids." ]	[ "President of PR agency says people have made death threats by phone, e-mail .", "Doctor told mom to expect either one baby or twins, not eight, Joann Killeen says .", "Angry people tell Killeen they think mom's able to stay home, live off taxpayers ." ]	[ 4, 32, 67, 72, 74 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Tiger Woods apologized on Wednesday for \"transgressions\" that \"let his family down.\"", "\"I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.", "I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves,\" he said in a statement on his official Web site.", "\"I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.", "I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family.", "Those feelings should be shared by us alone.\"", "Woods made the comments in a statement posted on his Web site the same day that a gossip magazine published a story alleging that Woods had an affair with a 24-year-old New York cocktail waitress.", "The nightclub hostess, identified by a supermarket tabloid as Tiger Woods' mistress had called allegations that she is romantically involved with the golf superstar false and \"ridiculous.\"", "In an interview published Tuesday, Rachel Uchitel told The New York Post that a disgruntled acquaintance sold the story to the National Enquirer and that \"not a word of it is true.\"", "\"I work in clubs, and I am a businesswoman,\" Uchitel said.", "\"I do not have sex with celebrities, and I have not had an affair with Tiger Woods.\"", "Speculation has swirled around Woods since a wreck outside his Florida home early Friday left him with minor injuries and a citation for careless driving.", "The Florida Highway Patrol said Tuesday that its citation closes its investigation of the crash.", "Woods was not required to talk to state police about the wreck and did not sit for an interview with investigators.", "He issued a statement Sunday saying he alone was responsible for the crash and denouncing \"the many false, unfounded and malicious rumors that are currently circulating about my family and me.\"", "Opinion: Woods is only human .", "The 33-year-old golf phenomenon has won the Masters tournament and the PGA tournament each four times, as well as three U.S. Open titles.", "Investigators have said they don't have details on why Woods was driving away from his home at such an early hour.", "A police report says the wreck was not alcohol-related.", "Uchitel said she has met Woods twice, once in her capacity as the VIP director at a club in Manhattan's trendy Meatpacking District and another time through a mutual friend.", "\"That's my job: to know these people, to have a relationship with them, to hang out with them,\" she told the Post.", "\"It doesn't mean I am having sex with them or an affair with them.\"", "She said the allegations \"must feel horrible\" to Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren.", "\"The worst part of it, it's not true,\" Uchitel said." ]	[ "NEW: Tiger Woods apologizes for \"transgressions\" that let his family down .", "Woods tells his personal Web site that he is \"far from perfect\"\nStatement follows allegations of an affair in tabloid publications in the U.S." ]	[ 0, 3, 6 ]
[ "Buenos Aires, Argentina (CNN) -- Latin America's first same-sex marriage, set to be held in Argentina on Tuesday, appeared derailed after a judge filed an injunction to stop the union until the issue can be reviewed further.", "Judge Marta Gomez Alsina's ruling blocks an earlier holding by another judge that found city laws banning same-sex marriage unconstitutional, the court said in a statement.", "Alex Freyre and Jose Maria di Bello had planned to make their marriage official at a civil ceremony and chose December 1 because it is World AIDS Day.", "The registrar responsible for the civil marriages in Buenos Aires has been notified of the ruling, the court said.", "The couple would attempt to get their wedding license anyway, the official Telam news agency reported.", "\"We're continuing with the preparations because we, as planners, nor the couple itself, have not been notified\" of the injunction, said Maria Rachid, president of the Argentine Federation for Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals, according to the news agency.", "Gomez Alsina's injunction could not overturn the earlier ruling because she is a trial-level judge and not an appellate judge, Rachid said.", "The original ruling was made on November 10 by another trial-level judge, Gabriela Seijas, who responded to a petition made by Freyre and di Bello.", "Seijas ruled that the ban on same-sex marriage was illegal and ordered the proper authorities to grant the couple a marriage license if they applied for one.", "The court's decision applied only to Buenos Aires.", "Same-sex unions in most of Argentina remain illegal.", "\"The law should treat each person with equal respect in relation to each person's singularities without the need to understand or regulate them,\" Seijas said in her ruling.", "Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri said after the ruling that his government would not appeal the decision.", "Monday's ruling was a temporary measure to postpone the marriage until Seijas' original ruling could be reviewed in depth, presumably by an appeals court or the supreme court, the court statement said .", "Countries in Latin America, a region strongly identified with the Catholic Church, have recently given more attention to gay rights.", "In September Uruguay became the first Latin American country to allow same-sex adoption.", "Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador are also addressing the issue of same-sex civil unions." ]	[ "Freyre and Di Bello's marriage was to coincide with World AIDS Day on Tuesday .", "They would attempt to get their wedding license anyway, Telam reported .", "Original ruling was that a ban on same-sex marriage was illegal .", "Court: Injunction is temporary measure to postpone marriage pending review of original ruling ." ]	[ 2, 4, 8, 13 ]
[ "Berlin, Germany (CNN) -- Thousands of people joined world leaders in the German capital Monday to remember the night 20 years ago when a euphoric wave of people power swept away the Berlin Wall and consigned the Cold War to history.", "In scenes calmly mirroring the events of November 9, 1989, crowds thronged through the center of the once-divided city, joining German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a symbolic re-enactment of the first crossing of the breached Wall.", "\"It was worth fighting for,\" Merkel said, after crossing the Bösebrücker bridge on Bornholmer Strasse, the checkpoint where people first poured across the frontier.", "Merkel, the first former East German to lead the reunified country, was accompanied by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and Polish ex-president Lech Walesa as she kicked off events to celebrate the demise of the iconic structure and remember the darker sides of the communist regimes behind it.", "\"It is not only a day of celebration for Germans.", "It is a day of celebration for the whole of Europe,\" Merkel said.", "Merkel was joined by Britain's Gordon Brown, France's Nicolas Sarkozy and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a series of events, including solemn tributes and boisterous music concerts.", "At the climax, a line of 1,000 giant dominoes was knocked over along a 2-kilometer strip where the Wall once stood --representing the domino effect the structure's collapse had in ending communism across Eastern Europe.", "Memorials were to be held for the 136 lives lost of those who tried to eascape through the barrier that cut Berlin in two -- many in the so-called \"death strip\" at the heart of the Wall's fortifications.", "Read more in our Autumn of Change special report .", "Thousands of people gathered at the Brandenburg Gate, the symbol of reunified Germany which once stood at the center of the no man's land between East and West Berlin.", "Rock acts including Bon Jovi joined the festivities, echoing the popular music of the late 80s which soundtracked the cold night when rigid communist control gave way to an exhilarating tide of people clamoring for freedom.", "Testament to the powerful legacy of the Wall's collapse have been the vivid memories recounted by many of the dramatic and emotional events before and after the fall.", "\"It was a circus-like atmosphere, people were enthused and exuberant and thrilled to see the Wall coming down,\" said David Paul Noel of Maryland, who was working for the U.S. State Department in Germany at the time.", "Former CNN correspondent Richard Blystone, who watched the Wall collapse was struck by the difference in appearance of each side of the Wall .", "\"On the west side, there was all this graffiti and dirty words, and names of rock groups and 'down with that' -- all the chaos of a pluralistic society,\" he said.", "\"On the eastern side, it was clean and white, just so sterile.\"", "Though dominated by nostalgia, Monday was also an opportunity to assess progress in a reunified Germany and democratized Eastern Europe, with many airing concerns that the world still has lessons to learn from the events of 1989.", "With many in Germany feeling the economic, social and psychological divisions once demarcated by the Wall, Merkel said Monday that the country had yet to fulfil promises made when East and West reunited in 1990.", "\"Germany unity is not yet complete,\" Merkel told public broadcaster ARD earlier.", "At an event in Berlin on Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for renewed global action to liberate those still living under repressive regimes.", "\"Our history did not end the night the Wall came down,\" Clinton said.", "\"It began anew.", "And this matters not only to tens of millions of Europeans, and to the United States, but to people everywhere.\"", "She added: \"To expand freedom to more people, we cannot accept that freedom does not belong to all people.", "We cannot allow oppression, defined and justified by religion or tribe to replace that of ideology.", "\"We have a responsibility to address conditions everywhere that undermine the potential of boys and girls and men and women that sap human dignity and threaten global progress.\"", "CNN's Barry Neild contributed to this story ." ]	[ "Angela Merkel leads ceremonies to mark 20 years since collapse of Berlin Wall .", "Thousands of people converged on symbolic Brandenburg Gate in center of Berlin .", "Merkel says Germany still has far to go in its unification process ." ]	[ 0, 9 ]
[ "JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Israel on Monday restated its long-standing policy regarding Iran after Russia's president indicated that Israel had taken the military option off the table.", "The Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, says, \"Israel has the right to defend itself.\"", "\"Contrary to reports, all options [are] on the table on the issue of preventing Iranian nuclear weapons capability,\" Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon posted on his Twitter account.", "The Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, also weighed in, telling Israel Army Radio that \"Israel has the right to defend itself, and all options are open.\"", "\"The IDF's working premise is that we have to be prepared for that possibility, and that is exactly what we are doing,\" he said.", "The issue stems from reports that Israel may have struck a deal with Russia regarding Iran and its controversial nuclear program.", "Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told CNN's Fareed Zakaria last week that Israeli President Shimon Peres told him in a recent visit to the Russian leader's vacation home that \"Israel doesn't intend to deliver any strike against Iran.\"", "\"[Peres] said we are a peaceful country, we will not deal such a blow,\" Medvedev said in the interview, broadcast Sunday on \"Fareed Zakaria GPS.\"", "\"Therefore any deliveries of systems -- defensive systems -- which are aimed at protecting cannot increase danger, they should reduce it.\"", "Medvedev was referring to Russia's agreement to sell Iran its S-300 anti-aircraft missile system, which he said is in keeping with international law.", "The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported Monday that Peres used his influence to persuade Washington to abandon its plans to base a missile defense shield system in Poland and the Czech Republic, a proposal that had rankled Moscow.", "In exchange, Moscow agreed to support \"imposing sanctions on Iran,\" Maariv reported.", "The United States and Russia have disagreed over Iran and over possible steps the U.N. Security Council may take -- including imposing sanctions -- to push Tehran to comply with U.N. demands concerning its nuclear program.", "President Obama told CBS' \"Face the Nation\" that his objective in revamping the U.S. defense shield plan \"was not to negotiate with the Russians.\"", "\"The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is,\" Obama said in the CBS interview shown Sunday.", "\"If the byproduct of it is that the Russians feel a little less paranoid and are now willing to work more effectively with us to deal with threats like ballistic missiles from Iran or the nuclear development in Iran, you know, then that's a bonus.\"", "CNN's Kevin Flower and Michal Zippori contributed to this report." ]	[ "Reports surface that Israel has taken military option off the table regarding Iran .", "Russian president says Israeli official tells him, \"We will not deal such a blow\"\nBut Israeli officials say \"all options are open\" on Iran to prevent nuclear capability .", "Israeli paper says Israel played role in U.S. changing missile defense plans on Iran ." ]	[ 0, 2, 7 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- After the Alzheimer's came, my mother could not know how shadows fell across our once ebullient family: our solidarity fractured, our tempers flaring in furious incomprehension, hearts breaking in mute despair.", "None of us knew how to watch this woman disappear, her features slowly masked with blankness, her supple body rigid and wooden, her absolute vividness obliterated by the heavy fog of her disease.", "As those of us touched in some way by Alzheimer's know too well, the emotional, social and economic burden of this disease is nearly unbearable -- for individuals, for families and for our country: .", "• 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease; a new case develops every 70 seconds.", "• One in eight people aged 65 and older has the disease, and the risk is even higher for those over 85.", "• Today, 9.9 million people are caring for a family member with Alzheimer's.", "• Alzheimer's and other dementias cost Medicare, Medicaid and businesses $148 billion annually, a number that will grow quickly and substantially as baby boomers reach age 65.", "Prevention. Cure. Hope. These are words seldom associated with Alzheimer's disease.", "But groundbreaking scientific research and an opportunity for powerful collaborations could lead to discovery of the ultimate cure for Alzheimer's disease: its prevention.", "I know this is so because my friend Dr. Karen Hsiao Ashe, an internationally renowned Alzheimer's disease researcher at the University of Minnesota, has developed a research road map that calls for bringing together a group of the world's foremost laboratory and clinical investigators in the field to make prevention a reality by 2020.", "This achievable goal adds \"hope\" to the vocabulary of Alzheimer's disease and holds the promise that my children and yours will never suffer its hardship.", "My son, Alec, is an artist like his late grandmother.", "His paintings are large and uncompromising, stunning in texture, original in design.", "He's got the real thing.", "He's got \"it,\" just as she had. But what if he also has something else, like the APOE-e4 gene, known to increase the risk of Alzheimer's?", "What if he is in line to inherit this devastating disease?", "What I could barely endure happening to my mother, I know I could not possibly endure happening to my son.", "So, like my friend Karen, I embrace prevention as the ultimate cure for Alzheimer's disease.", "Anything short of that is too risky.", "Karen is identifying the biological processes that occur in the earliest stages of the disease -- long before symptoms appear -- to develop cost-effective, widely available interventions.", "She compares Alzheimer's disease prevention to the polio vaccine: \"Had a vaccine not been developed for polio, hospital wards today would be filled with people needing artificial ventilators to breathe.", "Similarly, not only is treatment of Alzheimer's likely to be less effective than prevention, it's also likely to be 10 to 10,000 times more expensive,\" she recently told Twin Cities Business magazine.", "Karen and her colleagues are homing in on a promising possibility: a pill containing the molecular compound that could block the chemical chain reaction in the brain that leads to Alzheimer's.", "So what's the holdup? Well, money, of course, and attitude, perhaps.", "Finding a treatment within the next 10 years that will prevent Alzheimer's disease will require a major national investment to bring together the scientists to develop an effective, safe and affordable way to block the disease.", "According to Harry Johns, president and CEO of the Alzheimer's Association, \"No other disease causes so much suffering, is so certainly fatal, affects so many and drives so much cost with so little spent to overcome it.\"", "Why is that? Johns names ignorance, age discrimination, stigma and denial as likely explanations.", "My plea is deeply personal, but by 2050, Alzheimer's will affect as many as 16 million Americans, and none of us will be able to deny the reality.", "We must fight mightily now to prevent the shadow of this disease from darkening the lives of our children and grandchildren.", "We must invest today in research that will most swiftly lead to the ultimate cure: prevention.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Kate Mulgrew." ]	[ "Kate Mulgrew says millions of Americans are affected by Alzheimer's disease .", "New research aims to prevent the brain process that leads to the disease, she says .", "Mulgrew: Nation must commit money, attention to developing a promising treatment ." ]	[ 22, 24, 30 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Five people were killed and 10 critically injured Saturday when a minivan crashed on I-10 near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, state police said.", "Fifteen people were in the minivan, said Trooper Russell Graham, and only two were wearing seat belts.", "Among the dead were children as young as 3 years old, he said.", "\"The minivan blew out a tire and the driver lost control,\" Graham said.", "The vehicle \"sideswiped a box truck and then ran off the road into the left median, overturned multiple times and finally came to rest upright on the eastbound side of I-10,\" Graham said.", "The one person in the truck was not injured.", "The accident shut down I-10 in both directions shortly after 12:15 p.m. (1:15 p.m.", "ET); one lane in each direction was opened about two hours later.", "Alcohol and drugs were not suspected factors in the crash, but blood was drawn from the driver -- one of the fatalities -- to confirm, Graham said.", "The accident came soon after the Louisiana Legislature passed a law requiring riders in every seat to be buckled up.", "\"This is an example of why we implemented that law,\" Graham said.", "\"It's very frustrating for us to come out here and see children dead,\" he said." ]	[ "State police: 15 people were in the minivan, only two in seatbelts .", "Crash occurred after minivan blew a tire, trooper says .", "Crash near Baton Rouge shut down I-10 in both directions for about two hours ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sales of Michael Jackson's albums have gone through the roof since the news of his death.", "Michael Jackson's albums took the top 15 slots on Amazon.com's top 50 album downloads.", "On Friday, the late singer was enjoying the commercial revival that had been eluding him in recent years, due to a lack of new material and public interest.", "The story was the same on iTunes where the late singer's albums dominated seven out of the ten top slots on the site.", "The 25th anniversary reissue of Jackson's 1982 album, \"Thriller,\" which is the top selling album of all time, is at the top spot on Amazon.com.", "It was followed by a special reissue of 1979 album \"Off the Wall\" and 1987 album \"Bad.\"", "His last studio album \"Invincible,\" which he released in 2001 came in at number 10, perhaps reflecting the public's preference for Jackson's earlier work.", "On European online music retailer Play.com sales of Jackson's 10 most popular albums increased by a staggering 7,860 percent.", "Meanwhile, searches on Michael Jackson are up 8,900 percent and total downloads on the site have increased 5,167 percent.", "The public's unprecedented rush to buy Jackson's albums has been likened to the the reaction when other music icons like Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra died.", "\"There are an awful lot of people that think his contribution to music was huge, and as an artist he was so talented -- even though he was such a complicated artist, particularly towards the end of his life,\" Stuart Rowe Chief Operating Officer of Play.com told CNN.", "\"People want some kind of memento.", "They want to appreciate and listen to his music again, and mark his passing by listening to it all again.\"", "According to Rowe because of their quality, many of Jackson's albums are perennial bestsellers, and while there was also some increase in interest in his music because of his sold out 50-date London tour which was scheduled to kick off in mid-July.", "\"But nothing like the effect of the news,\" said.", "\"It's taken this for his music to be brought to a whole new generation of people.\"", "Five of Jackson's solo albums -- \"Off the Wall,\" \"Thriller,\" \"Bad,\" \"Dangerous\" and \"HIStory,\" are among the top-sellers of all time, according to Jackson's label Sony Music.", "During his career, Jackson sold an estimated 750 million records worldwide, released 13 No.1 singles.", "\"There's the whole sort of grieving of a superstar which the general public will go through worldwide,\" said Rowe.", "\"You will hear a lot more Michael Jackson being played over the next few weeks.\"" ]	[ "Michael Jackson albums dominate bestseller charts on Amazon.com, iTunes .", "Online retailer Play.com reported Jackson album sales increased by 7,860 percent .", "Five of Jackson's solo albums are among the top-sellers of all time .", "Play.com: Fans want to mark his passing by listening to all his music again ." ]	[ 7, 12, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A second runner missing since Monday was found alive near a ravine on a rugged mountain trail in Southern California hours after her running partner was found, an Orange County Sheriff's spokesman told CNN.", "Runner Maria \"Gina\" Natera-Armenta, 34, is severely dehydrated and in serious condition, officials said.", "Authorities and fellow runners had been looking for Maria \"Gina\" Natera-Armenta, 34, and her brother-in-law, Fidel Diaz, 50, since Monday.", "Diaz was found about 1 p.m.", "ET Wednesday, but the search for Natera-Armenta continued as police questioned him.", "Orange County Sheriff's officials, searching the area by helicopter, eventually spotted Natera-Armenta waving from the ravine, which was about five miles from the sheriff's command post, Orange County Sheriff spokesman Lt. Jim Amormino.", "\"She was lying in the shady area,\" Amormino said.", "\"She did see the helicopter before, but didn't have enough energy to get up.\"", "Natera-Armenta is in serious condition, and was severely dehydrated when she was found, Amormino said.", "She is currently in the intensive care unit at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, California.", "The pair had set out at 5:30 a.m. Sunday.", "According to their spouses, they planned to do an eight- to 10-hour run on a remote mountain trail in the Cleveland National Forest near San Diego.", "But it wasn't until Monday night that their spouses individually reported to police that the two were missing.", "Natera-Armenta and Diaz are ultrarunners, devotees of an endurance sport in which it's common to trek and run for many hours over rugged terrain.", "Natera-Armenta is an experienced ultrarunner and was a top finisher at a 100-mile race in San Diego." ]	[ "NEW: Official: Second ultrarunner found in serious condition with severe dehydration .", "NEW: Spokesman: Woman found when helicopter spotted her waving .", "Police: California runners leave at 5:30 a.m. Sunday, reported missing Monday .", "Maria \"Gina\" Natera-Armenta and Fidel Diaz said they planned long run in forest ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An eight-hour hostage standoff ended late Wednesday when an armed, disabled man wheeled himself out of a Virginia post office and was taken into custody, according to the mayor of Wytheville.", "Initially, authorities reported five people -- three postal workers and two customers -- were taken hostage after a man entered a Wytheville, Virginia, post office about 2:30 p.m. and fired a gun.", "But Mayor Trent Crewe said police later believed the gunman was holding fewer than five people and that they have accounted for people they thought could have been inside.", "\"Apparently they ran as it was unfolding and we didn't know that for a while,\" Crewe said.", "An unidentified witness told CNN affiliate WDBJ that he, a fellow window clerk and the postmaster were in the building when the gunman entered, but they quickly fled.", "He added that his supervisor was one of the hostages.", "WDBJ reports on standoff .", "Crewe said he did not know exactly how many hostages had been in the building.", "No one was reported hurt, Crewe said.", "The gunman is disabled, Crewe said, adding that police told him the gunman entered the post office pushing a wheelchair.", "It was unclear what the purpose of the wheelchair is, Crewe said.", "There were reports the man had a \"device,\" and it appeared that his car, parked outside the office, was equipped with some type of device as well, Crewe said.", "He did not elaborate on what the device could be.", "\"The police authorities have told me they are acting on the assumption there is an explosive device of some kind in some location,\" Crewe said.", "\"There is a bomb squad, in fact more than one bomb squad on site, but we cannot confirm any explosives.\"", "The surrounding area of downtown Wytheville has been evacuated within a three- to four-block radius, Crewe said.", "The suspect asked for pizza but made no other demands, U.S.", "Postal Inspection Service spokesman Peter Rendina said.", "The gunman's motive was unclear, Crewe said.", "He had not identified himself but he has told police he has a military background, Crewe said.", "Police have yet to confirm whether the gunman has military training, Crewe said.", "Agents with the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also on scene, Crewe said.", "Wytheville is a small town in southwestern Virginia in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.", "It has a population of just over 8,000.", "CNN's Shawn Nottingham contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Armed, disabled man wheeled himself out of a Virginia facility, taken into custody .", "Standoff began Wednesday afternoon; number of hostages was uncertain .", "Man entered Wytheville, Virginia, post office and fired a shot, mayor says ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- The United Kingdom will send an additional 500 troops to Afghanistan in early December, bringing the British contingent there to more than 9,500, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Monday.", "\"We must address the terrorist threat at its source,\" Brown told lawmakers, adding: \"Our task is to prevent the Taliban from giving al Qaeda ... safe haven.", "\"Instability in Afghanistan can only increase the risk of conflagration where the rest of the world can least afford it.\"", "Brown regularly links British security to events in Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying attacks on London and other British targets have been planned in South Asia.", "He announced in October the decision in principle to boost force levels, but said certain conditions -- including proper equipment for the British troops and more troop commitments from other countries -- had to be met first.", "The United Kingdom has the largest contingent in Afghanistan after the United States.", "The figure of 9,500 does not include special forces, said Brown, who declined to say exactly how many are there, but indicated it is more than 500.", "Brown's announcement coincided with the news that a British soldier was killed by an explosion in Afghanistan's Helmand province, where troops have been entrenched in heavy combat with Taliban insurgents since July 2006.", "The soldier, from the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, died as a result of injuries sustained in the Babaji area, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement.", "Britain has lost more than 200 service personnel in Afghanistan since the start of fighting in 2001.", "More than 100 were lost in the past year." ]	[ "British contingent in Afghanistan will be increased to 9,500, UK's Brown says .", "Brown says troops must prevent Afghanistan becoming Al Qaeda safe haven .", "UK has largest contingent of troops in Afghanistan after United States ." ]	[ 0, 1, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Virender Sehwag plundered the second-fastest Test double hundred as India piled on an incredible 443-1 off just 79 overs on the second day of the deciding third match against Sri Lanka in Mumbai.", "The opener reached 284 off only 239 balls at stumps on Thursday -- the third-highest individual score in one day's play -- for his sixth double ton, a record for India, and is poised to become the first player to complete three triple-centuries.", "India, seeking a victory which would take the No.", "1 Test ranking above South Africa and seal a 2-0 series victory over second-placed Sri Lanka, have already achieved a first-innings lead of 50 runs.", "The tourists had resumed on 366-8 with Angelo Mathews unbeaten on 86, but the all-rounder fell one run short of his maiden Test century when he was run out by the narrowest of margins following a throw by Sachin Tendulkar.", "When wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni lodged the bails, replays showed that Mathews' bat was over the line -- but not grounded -- thus he departed as ninth man out for 99 off 131 balls.", "Young left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha then claimed his third wicket to go with the four that his senior partner Harbhajan Singh claimed on Monday as Sri Lanka were all out for 393, 27 minutes into the day's play.", "That brought Sehwag and inexperienced opener Murali Vijay to the crease, and they launched a blistering attack on the Sri Lankan bowlers putting on 221 in just 39 overs.", "Vijay, playing only his second Test, was finally trapped leg before wicket by spinner Rangana Herath, having made 87 off 121 deliveries, with 10 fours and a six.", "The explosive Sehwag, who made 131 in India's innings victory in Kanpur, then found another solid partner in Rahul Dravid, who calmly fed him the strike in his patient 62 off 121 balls.", "Sehwag passed three figures from 101 deliveries and then raced to his second century off just 67 -- the only man to pass that milestone quicker is New Zealand's Nathan Astle, who took 153 balls against England in 2002.", "\"I missed out on a double-century in the last Test in Kanpur and I wanted to make amends,\" Sehwag told reporters.", "\"I batted the best way I thought was possible.", "\"I was cautious at the start because I did not want to give the opposition any chances as I had done in the two previous matches.", "I thought I would bide my time, see off the new ball and then take my chances.\"", "Sehwag hit 40 boundaries and seven sixes, and was particularly hard on Sri Lanka's veteran world record-holder Muttiah Muralitharan, who has struggled all series.", "The 37-year-old, who has taken 788 Test wickets, conceded 119 runs off his 20 overs.", "\"Muralitharan is a big challenge and when playing a quality bowler like him you have to attack early, otherwise he will dominate,\" Sehwag said.", "\"I thought rather than let him dominate, I would attack him from the start and keep him on the back foot.\"", "Meanwhile, Pakistan stumbled to 161-6 on a shortened first day of the second Test against New Zealand in Wellington.", "Daryl Tuffey celebrated his comeback after a five-year absence with two wickets as he replaced injured strike bowler Shane Bond, while captain Daniel Vettori took 3-42 with his left-arm spin as bad light ended play early.", "Imran Farhat and Salman Butt put on 60 for the first wicket but then fell in quick succession along with captain Mohammad Yousuf as Vettori snared two wickets in three balls.", "Australia fast bowler Brett Lee has had elbow surgery in a bid to save his career.", "The 33-year-old needed an operation to correct a damaged ligament after twice breaking down this year amid fears he would have to retire, and is not expected to be fit again before March.", "The player, who missed the Ashes defeat to England, has taken 310 Test wickets in 76 matches and 324 one-day scalps in 186 appearances." ]	[ "Virender Sehwag plunders 284 not out as India pile on 443-1 off just 79 overs .", "The opener is aiming to become the first player to complete three triple-hundreds .", "India, seeking to claim the No.", "1 Test ranking, bowled Sri Lanka out for 393 in Mumbai .", "Pakistan stumble to 161-6 on opening day of the second Test against New Zealand ." ]	[ 0, 1, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A mysterious X-shaped pattern of space debris seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was probably two asteroids that collided, scientists said Tuesday.", "The object, called P/2010 A2, was discovered in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research sky survey, or LINEAR, on January 6, NASA said.", "The shape, and the streamers of dust shooting off of it, were photographed by Hubble on January 25 and 29, according to NASA.", "Astronomers have long thought the asteroid belt is being ground down because of collisions, but such a head-on crash had never been seen before.", "\"If this interpretation is correct, two small and previously unknown asteroids recently collided, creating a shower of debris that is being swept back into a tail from the collision site by the pressure of sunlight,\" said principal investigator David Jewitt, from the University of California at Los Angeles.", "At first, astronomers thought what they saw might be a main belt comet, a rare case of a comet orbiting while in the asteroid belt.", "But the images taken by Hubble revealed the complex X-pattern of filamentary structures near the object's nucleus.", "Jewitt said the filaments are made of dust and gravel.", "Some of them are being swept back by radiation pressure from sunlight, creating the long, straight dust streaks, he said.", "The nucleus of the presumed boom is 460 feet in diameter, NASA said.", "Asteroid collisions happen fast, with an average impact speed of more than 11,000 mph, or five times faster than a rifle bullet." ]	[ "NASA says LINEAR survey saw apparent crash, Hubble telescope photographed it .", "The collision appeared as a giant \"X\" shape, with trails of dust and gravel .", "Astronomers think crashes are shrinking asteroid belt, but none had been viewed .", "Asteroid collisions happen fast -- 11,000 mph, NASA says ." ]	[ 2, 3, 10 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- The Dominican consul general Wednesday rejected the claim from an American church leader that she thought her paperwork was in order when she attempted to take 33 Haitian children out of the country, saying he had told her it was not.", "\"I warned her, I said as soon as you get there without the proper documents, you are going to get into trouble, because they are going to accuse you, because you have the intent to pass the border without the proper papers and they are going to accuse you with kids trafficking,\" Carlos Castillo said he told the group's leader, Laura Silsby, during a meeting Friday.", "Four hours later, Silsby and nine other Americans were turned back from the border.", "They were arrested and taken to a jail in Port-au-Prince.", "\"This woman knew what she was trying to do was not legal,\" Castillo said.", "A CNN reporter attempted to get reaction to Castillo's comment from the jailed Americans, but they would not discuss the matter, responding to questions by singing \"Amazing Grace\" and praying.", "Told earlier that many of the children had living parents, Silsby said, \"I did not know that.\"", "She added, \"In our hearts, our intention was to help children that had been orphaned or abandoned by their parents.\"", "But the interpreters the group had used said the conversations between Silsby and the parents in the Haitian town of Calebasse made clear to them that Silsby must have been aware of the children's status.", "Full coverage of Haiti earthquake aftermath .", "SOS Children's Villages, an Austrian charity, said that it has determined that at least two-thirds of the children are not orphans.", "Authorities on Wednesday questioned a Haitian police officer who works at the Dominican Embassy about whether he provided illegal paperwork to Silsby and the other Americans to facilitate their efforts as alleged by interpreters who had translated for the Americans.", "The interpreters told CNN the Americans met at least twice last week with the officer, at the embassy and consulate.", "\"He told them that he could help, and he was helping them with some paper,\" said interpreter Steve Adrien.", "\"We did not meet him in a police station, but in the street in a car.\"", "The Americans met again with the man in Port-au-Prince on Thursday, near the Dominican Embassy, the translator said.", "Isaac Adrien, Steve's brother and another of the interpreters, said the group came away from the meeting with a document from the embassy that the Americans took with them to the border Friday in their unsuccessful attempt to cross.", "iReport: How you can help .", "A Haitian lawyer representing the Americans told reporters that the arrests themselves were illegal and that their clients had only been trying to help.", "They are to appear Thursday before the attorney general.", "The group, New Life Children's Refuge, said it was rescuing abandoned children by moving them to the Dominican Republic, where it was building an orphanage.", "At least some of the group are members of the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho.", "Several residents of the village of Calebasse, more than an hour from Port-au-Prince, told CNN they voluntarily handed over their children after Silsby told them she would give them a better life.", "Pastor Jean Sainvil told CNN he rounded up 20 children from a camp in the Delmas neighborhood of the capital.", "\"I just got the word out that I am going to look for some children to be going with a group of missionaries,\" he said.", "Some of those who responded apparently included parents.", "\"One of them turned five children over,\" he said.", "He said no money changed hands.", "The group has no experience running an orphanage, has not registered as an international adoption agency and has not filed with the U.S. government as a nonprofit.", "Church pastor Clint Henry was unfazed.", "\"I believe that the kind of knowledge that it takes to begin an organization that works that way was in place,\" he told CNN.", "\"The kind of employees that it takes to successfully run an orphanage, those were going to be hired.\"", "The matter drew attention Wednesday from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.", "\"It was unfortunate that, whatever the motivation, that this group of Americans took matters into their own hands,\" she said.", "The number of Haitian orphans taken to the United States -- those whose approval and paperwork had been in the bureaucratic pipeline at the time of the disaster -- stands at 578, with 44 others processed and awaiting transportation, said U.S. State Department spokesman P.J.", "Crowley. CNN's Dan Simon in Meridian, Idaho; Karl Penhaul in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Jill Dougherty in Washington; and Fionnuala Sweeney in Atlanta, Georgia, contributed to this report." ]	[ "Dominican consul general: \"This woman knew what she was trying to do was not legal.\"", "Laura Silsby, 9 other Americans turned back from border with 33 Haitian children .", "The U.S. church group is being held by Haitian authorities .", "Haiti and Dominican Republic share the Caribbean island of Hispaniola ." ]	[ 0, 2, 4 ]
[ "Seattle, Washington (CNN) -- Nearly 10 years ago, Maurice Clemmons pledged to make a fresh start.", "\"I come from a very good Christian family and I was raised much better than my actions speak,\" Clemmons said in a clemency application brief to then-Arkansas Gov.", "Mike Huckabee in 2000.", "\"I'm still ashamed to this day for the shame my stupid involvement in these crimes brought upon my family's name.\"", "Clemmons was 27.", "He'd spent the past 11 years in an Arkansas prison, convicted of offenses including robbery, burglary, theft and taking a gun to school.", "He was facing a 95-year sentence.", "A decade later, Clemmons is the subject of an intense manhunt in Washington state, suspected in the deaths of four Lakewood, Washington, police officers who were shot to death Sunday as they met in a coffee shop before starting their shifts.", "Authorities have said Clemmons is believed to have entered the Forza Coffee Company and opened fire on the officers with no warning.", "Police tracked Clemmons to an east Seattle home Sunday night, but after a standoff that stretched to nearly 12 hours, they entered the home and found that he was not there.", "In 2000, Clemmons told Huckabee that the crimes occurred when he was 16, had just moved to Arkansas from Seattle and had fallen in with the wrong crowd.", "\"Where once stood a young 16-year-old misguided fool ... now stands a 27-year-old man, who has learned through the 'school of hard knocks' to appreciate and respect the rights of others,\" his petition to Huckabee said.", "Huckabee commuted Clemmons' sentence in 2000, citing his young age at the time of sentencing, making him eligible for parole.", "It was granted in July 2000, after he told Arkansas parole officials that he \"just wants the opportunity\" and \"is not the same person he was when he came in,\" the documents said.", "\"It was not something I was pleased with at the time,\" said Larry Jegley, who prosecuted Clemmons for aggravated robbery and other charges in Pulaski County, Arkansas, regarding the commutation.", "\"I would be most distressed if this is the same guy.\"", "In 1989, as he was being prosecuted, Clemmons demonstrated violent behavior; he hid a piece of metal in his sock at a pretrial hearing, and before the start of another hearing he grabbed a padlock off his holding cell and threw it at a court bailiff.", "He missed and instead struck his mother, who had come to bring him clothes.", "In his 2000 brief to Huckabee, Clemmons said his mother had died while he had been in prison, providing him with further motivation to turn his life around.", "\"I have never done anything good for God, but I've prayed for him to grant me in his compassion the grace to make a start,\" he said.", "\"Now, I'm humbly appealing to you for a brand new start.\"", "But after receiving a second chance, Clemmons was apparently unable to stay on the right side of the law, according to documents and authorities in Arkansas and Washington.", "Arkansas parole board documents show that he was back in prison by September 2001.", "The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported that he was arrested for aggravated robbery and theft and taken back to prison on a parole violation.", "The paper said he was not served with the new arrest warrants for the robbery and theft charges until he was paroled three years later in 2004.", "His attorney argued that the charges should be dismissed because too much time had passed, and prosecutors complied.", "Huckabee went on to become a 2008 Republican presidential candidate and has not ruled out a second try for the White House in 2012.", "In a statement Sunday night, his office said Clemmons' commutation was based on the recommendation of the parole board that determined that he met the conditions for early release.", "Read the clemency documents for Clemmons .", "\"He was arrested later for parole violation and taken back to prison to serve his full term, but prosecutors dropped the charges that would have held him,\" the statement said.", "\"Should he be 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.\"", "During his candidacy, Huckabee faced criticism in the case of convicted rapist Wayne DuMond, who was paroled in 1999.", "He had been sentenced to life for raping a 17-year-old girl.", "In his first term as governor, Huckabee expressed support for DuMond's release in a letter to him.", "Less than a year after his release, DuMond was accused of raping and murdering Carol Shields of Kansas City, Missouri.", "DuMond was convicted in 2003 and died in prison in 2005.", "Shields' mother, Lois Davidson, said in 2007 that she planned to campaign against Huckabee.", "Clemmons is believed to have moved to Washington in 2004.", "The Pierce County Sheriff's Department said in a statement that he was recently charged in the assault of a police officer and rape of a child.", "County court records posted online show that he spent several months in jail and was released on $150,000 bail Tuesday, days before the shootings.", "For a while after moving to Washington, Clemmons ran a pressure-washing and landscaping business.", "The license for the business expired last month, according to the secretary of state, with whom businesses have to register.", "In recent months, Clemmons has displayed increasingly erratic behavior, the Seattle Times reported.", "In May, he punched a sheriff's deputy in the face, the paper said.", "In another incident, he had relatives undress, telling them that families need to be \"naked for at least five minutes on Sunday,\" the newspaper said, citing a sheriff's department incident report.", "Clemmons also believed that he was Jesus and could fly, a deputy wrote, based on conversations with family members.", "The night before the shootings, Clemmons had threatened to kill police officers, but authorities did not learn of the threats until after the shooting, Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told \"Good Morning America.\"", "\"There's not going to be a big motive other than he was upset about being incarcerated and was going to go gunning after cops in general,\" Troyer said.", "CNN's Mary Snow contributed to this report." ]	[ "Maurice Clemmons told Arkansas governor crimes brought shame to family .", "Then 27, he had spent 11 years in prison for robbery, burglary, theft .", "He is suspected in Sunday's shooting deaths of four police officers .", "Incident may be \"result of a series of failures,\" says ex-Gov.", "Mike Huckabee's office ." ]	[ 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Georgia man accused of screaming racial slurs while beating an African-American female Army reservist outside a restaurant was released from jail on bail Wednesday, Clayton County, Georgia, authorities said.", "They said Troy Dale West Jr. was released on a $320,000 bond.", "Attorney Kip Jones, who represents alleged victim Tashawnea Hill, said a judge Tuesday ordered West placed under house arrest, and he was fitted with an ankle monitor.", "He also was told to surrender his passport, have no contact with Hill and stay out of Clayton County, where Hill lives, the lawyer said.", "West, of Poulan, Georgia, faces one count of aggravated assault, two counts of battery, two counts of disorderly conduct, false imprisonment and cruelty to children for allegedly beating Hill outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant September 9, according to a Clayton County Court online docket.", "Hill was with her 7-year-old daughter when the alleged incident occurred at the entrance to the restaurant, which is in Morrow, Georgia.", "West, 47, was arrested on misdemeanor charges after the incident, but Clayton County District Attorney Tracy Graham Lawson took the case to a grand jury asking for more serious charges.", "Hill, 35, said the attack occurred after she warned West to be careful, after almost hitting her daughter with the restaurant door as she was leaving.", "West, according to a police report, admitted striking Hill \"after she spit on me and accused me of trying to hit her daughter with a door.\"", "Hill denied the accusations, saying she did nothing to provoke the alleged attack.", "Hill told police that West, who is white, yelled racial epithets at her during the attack.", "Police said witnesses confirmed her account.", "Morrow is a racially diverse city in the southeast suburbs of Atlanta, with a population of about 4,900, according to the 2000 census.", "CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report." ]	[ "Troy Dale West Jr. released on $320,000 bond .", "Lawyer says judge ordered West to be under house arrest .", "Man told to surrender his passport, not contact victim .", "Man charged after alleged racist beating at a Cracker Barrel restaurant ." ]	[ 1, 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- President Obama on Thursday called on business leaders from the private sector to generate ideas that will \"accelerate job creation\" and stimulate investment in the United States.", "\"While I believe that government has a critical role in creating the conditions for economic growth, ultimately, true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector,\" Obama told attendees of the at the White House Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth.", "More than 100 CEOs, small-business owners, business leaders, mayors and academics attended.", "\"We don't have enough public dollars to fill the hole of private dollars that was created as a consequence of the crisis.", "It is only when the private sector starts to reinvest again; only when our businesses start hiring again and people start spending again and families start seeing improvement in their own lives again, that we're going to have the kind of economy that we want,\" Obama said.", "The summit took place amid allegations from members of Obama's own party that the White House and the Democratic congressional leadership are not doing enough to help the unemployed.", "Critics called the summit nothing more than a publicity stunt, and some are threatening to organize a march on Washington of jobless Americans if efforts to get more aid fail.", "\"Obviously, there's something that's not getting through to them,\" said Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Illinois.", "\"We'll get the American people involved.", "You know, I can see a day, unless we get some real cooperation and real help, I can really see a day where there will be a jobless march on Washington.\"", "Rush and Reps. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, and Candice Miller, R-Michigan, chair the new congressional Jobs Now Caucus, which is made up of 112 Democrats and 17 Republicans.", "Proposals being floated by members of the caucus include redirecting stimulus and TARP money to jobs programs and pressing for a new jobs bill, which they're careful not to call a \"stimulus.\"", "The summit also fell on the eve of the release of the government's November unemployment report.", "The nation is expected to have lost another 114,000 jobs, with unemployment remaining at 10.2 percent, the highest in 26 years, according to a survey by economists.", "Yet Obama projected a positive tone as he recounted some of the day's discussions, on topics from clean energy and tax incentives to the export market, and the overlap among them.", "\"When we were in the infrastructure session, there was a strong emphasis on needing to plan not just for existing road projects, but also, how do we think about the fact that, in the future, we need a cleaner transportation industry?\"", "he said. \"When we were in the clean energy session, there was an emphasis on how do we get small businesses and small contractors to get certified and get the financing needed to move forward and take advantage of these clean energy sector opportunities,\" he said.", "\"There's a lot of overlap between all these different breakout sessions that we engaged in,\" he said.", "\"We're going to have to figure out how to break out of these silos and integrate these strategies if we're going to be able to get the most bang for the buck.\"", "Coinciding with the jobs forum, organized labor and religious leaders in several cities sponsored events featuring unemployed and underemployed people to raise the public profile of the issue.", "Events were held in Dayton, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; and Sacramento, California, on Wednesday, and in Albuquerque, New Mexico; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Toledo, Ohio, on Thursday.", "CNN's Jessica Yellin and Kevin Bohn contributed to this report." ]	[ "\"True economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector,\" says Obama .", "Forum attendees include CEOs, small-business owners, mayors, academics .", "Summit occurs amid allegations that White House is not doing enough to help unemployed .", "Critics call summit a publicity stunt, some threaten to organize march on Washington ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The pilot and co-pilot of a small cargo jet were killed when their aircraft crashed short of the runway while landing at an airport in suburban Chicago, Illinois, local authorities said.", "The Learjet 35A was on its final approach into Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, Illinois, when it went down about 1:30 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration reported.", "The plane crashed into a forest preserve about a mile south of the runway and ended up in a river, said Jay Reardon, the head of a multi-agency firefighting task force that responded to the crash.", "The two-man crew was found dead at the scene, Reardon said.", "No emergency was declared before the crash.", "\"To our knowledge, everything appeared normal up until the aircraft was reported down by the tower at Chicago Executive Airport,\" Reardon said.", "The National Transportation Safety Board has begun its investigation of the crash.", "There was no immediate indication of the cause, NTSB senior investigator Pam Sullivan said.", "\"It's way too early to even start narrowing down what could or could not happen,\" she said.", "The flight was operated by Royal Air Cargo, a Waterford, Michigan-based carrier that operates a fleet of small jets to deliver \"time-sensitive\" freight, airport spokesman Michael Standard said.", "Reardon said the jet appeared to be empty when it went down.", "The downed plane was en route to Atlanta, Georgia, from Pontiac, Michigan, with a stop in Chicago, according to private Web sites that track air travel.", "There was no immediate comment from the company." ]	[ "Pilot, co-pilot killed as plane crashes short of runway .", "Learjet was on its final approach into Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, Illinois .", "The flight was operated by Royal Air Cargo; no other people onboard ." ]	[ 0, 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- From anti-apartheid activist to climate change champion, Kumi Naidoo is a man born to make a change.", "He's the new International Executive Director of environmental action group Greenpeace, and he takes on his role on the eve of the critical climate talks in Copenhagen.", "The 44 year-old grew up in Johannesburg and had an early introduction to the world of activism.", "\"I was defiantly the product of the society I was born in, which was apartheid South Africa...I do think that many of us who might have exceptional or out-of-the-ordinary backgrounds are not because we ourselves are exceptional people but because we were born in context of adversity and been able to somehow rise above that adversity,\" he told CNN.", "Naidoo was arrested numerous times for civil disobedience against the apartheid regime during the 1980s.", "He eventually left for the UK in 1987 and earned a doctorate in political sociology at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.", "After Nelson Mandela was released in 1990, Kumi returned to South Africa and worked with and founded a number of civil society NGOs.", "Until last year Naidoo was for 10 years the General Secretary of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation.", "One of the first high profile campaigns Naidoo worked on was Make Poverty History in 2005 that gained widespread coverage and a number of celebrity supporters.", "After several years in the anti-poverty movement, Naidoo has come to see that struggle against poverty and combating climate change are two-sides of same coin.", "Since becoming head of Greenpeace in November, Naidoo is focused on using his skills as an activist to move issues from the fringes into the mainstream.", "\"[Another] feature of activism is being able to choose the right tools and tactics for the right moment...", "If you can win through dialogue and engagement then that's great but sadly those with power in both government and business do not have the propensity to do the right thing unless they are pushed and that's why you have to have tools like non-violent direct action,\" he told CNN.", "Connecting individuals to ideas and in turn connecting those ideas to a greater audience is one of the things Naidoo is hoping to achieve in Copenhagen.", "\"I don't want history to judge us as sleepwalking into a crisis when all the scientific evidence is saying that we have to stop and take notice of the way that we are living on this planet.", "\"I feel that right now we are all at risk and being severely judged by future generation.\"", "Watch Kumi Naidoo on CNN's African Voices on Saturday, December 12, 11.30 and 18.30 GMT and Sunday, December 13, 17.00 GMT ." ]	[ "Kumi Naidoo is the International Executive Director of Greenpeace .", "Grew up in apartheid South Africa and says he was born in activism .", "Sees poverty reduction and combating climate change as part of same struggle .", "One of first tasks is in Copenhagen during the COP15 summit ." ]	[ 1, 2, 9 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- The relatives of five British sailors whose boat apparently drifted into Iranian territorial waters last week voiced relief Wednesday as their sons arrived at a yacht club in Dubai.", "David Young, father of sailor Oliver Young, said the families met briefly Wednesday morning with Britain's foreign secretary and his staff, who earlier told relatives that Iran was releasing the men.", "\"We did say to everybody in there, and to people in Bahrain, and to people in Tehran who have been working on this how much we appreciated their efforts, how well they've handled the situation and how glad we are to see our boys home,\" Young said.", "The parents appeared at a news conference held in front of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.", "Young had said he was able to speak to his son briefly Monday on a cell phone belonging to one of the other men.", "The father said he was reassured that the men were being treated well.", "The British government identified the other sailors as Olly Smith, Sam Usher, Luke Porter and Dave Bloomer.", "The Times of London said Young and Porter are 21 years old, Usher is 26, Smith is 31, and Bloomer is believed to be in his 60s.", "Bloomer is from Dublin, Ireland, the paper said, and apparently has dual citizenship.", "Iran's navy detained the men November 25 as their racing yacht traveled from Bahrain to Dubai for a competition.", "Iranian authorities said they released the men after determining that they had accidentally wandered into the country's waters, the semi-official Fars news agency said.", "The sailors had told relatives that their boat became disabled and was hard to steer.", "Young said his son told him the group was tense when the Iranians first picked them up, but then everything was \"cool.\"", "Another sailor said they were temporarily blindfolded.", "The men and their yacht were towed into international waters Wednesday, and representatives from the company that owns the boat, Sail Bahrain, met them to bring them ashore in Dubai.", "Early Wednesday, after receiving the call that his son, Luke, and his crewmates were going to be freed, Charles Porter spoke informally to reporters near his home.", "\"It was all fairly nerve-racking last night,\" the father said.", "He said the Foreign Office awakened the family at 5:30 a.m. to tell them the news.", "Watch the Porters describe getting the call .", "\"We've spoken to Luke,\" Porter said.", "\"He's very, very tired. He's been through a lot. He said that particularly the first couple of days were upsetting.\"", "\"He got the feeling after a couple of days that they realized they weren't dealing with anything sinister,\" the father added.", "Luke Porter's twin sister, Jess, said she was \"absolutely over the moon [and] relieved to hear his voice.", "We're such a close family.\"", "British authorities on Tuesday had asked for a speedy resolution in the case, after an Iranian official said the sailors could be dealt with severely if it was determined they had ill intentions.", "Young said it probably helped that the incident was kept low-key, without a lot of media fanfare.", "Andrew Pindar, Sail Bahrain chairman, said Tuesday evening that the men had had problems with the boat's propeller and that that might have caused them to drift into Iranian waters.", "The father of one sailor said the propeller had fallen off.", "Assuming that the five men might see Wednesday's news conference, one reporter asked the parents what they would say to their son.", "\"I would say don't get lost on your way to Dubai,\" Young said." ]	[ "Sailors' parents hold news conference to thank all involved in release .", "Iran detained the men last week after their yacht entered its waters .", "The vessel was traveling from Bahrain to Dubai .", "Authorities: Men freed after it was determined that incident accidental ." ]	[ 9, 14, 16, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A Texas inmate escaped from a prison van near Houston after pulling a gun on two guards who were transporting him between prisons, according to a Texas prison statement Monday.", "Arcade Joseph Comeaux Jr., 49, ran away with the guards' guns and wearing one of their gray correctional officer uniforms, the statement from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said.", "Comeaux was serving a life sentence for indecency with a child, aggravated sexual assault and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, it said.", "The escape happened near Baytown, Texas, about 25 miles east of Houston, it said.", "He was being taken from the Estelle prison in Huntsville to the Stiles prison in Beaumont, a 150-mile drive, when he \"brandished a firearm and directed the officers to stop the vehicle,\" the statement said.", "\"He took the officers' weapons and apparently handcuffed them together in the back of the transport vehicle,\" it said.", "Police found the handcuffed guards unharmed in the vehicle at 10 a.m. CT, the statement said." ]	[ "Man was serving life sentence for sexual assault, indecency with a child .", "He was being moved between prisons when he escaped near Houston .", "Authorities say he ran off with guards' guns, wearing one of their uniforms ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Four militants armed with guns and grenades stormed a mosque in Rawalpindi frequented by military personnel, killing dozens of people Friday -- most of them children, the military said.", "The attack is the latest to shake the garrison city since this year's launch of strong military offensives against Taliban insurgents in the Swat Valley and South Waziristan.", "Rawalpindi is the headquarters of the Pakistani army.", "Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said Friday's assault killed 36 people and wounded 75.", "Among the dead were 17 children, according to the military's Web site.", "Also killed were an army general and eight other military officials, six of them of senior rank.", "The remaining fatalities were adults.", "\"As soon as the mosque's security staff checked me, there was a blast and then a finger hit me, then there was another,\" Ishtiaq, a driver for a military officer, told GEO TV.", "Ishtiaq, who uses only one name, was attending midday prayers.", "Rawalpindi is near Islamabad, and the mosque is near national army headquarters.", "It is located inside a walled residential compound where many military families have homes.", "A witness told GEO TV there were up to 300 worshippers at the mosque at the time of the attack.", "The militants hurled grenades before opening fire, Rawalpindi Police Chief Aslam Tareen told CNN.", "He said all the militants died, but he doesn't know how.", "\"These are not militants,\" Abbas said.", "\"These are terrorists who killed innocent worshippers.\"", "Retired Gen. Muhammad Yousaf was killed in the attack, said Col. Baseer Haider, a military spokesman.", "He said Yousaf was a former vice chief of army staff who was second in command during the administration of President Pervez Musharraf.", "Abbas said two of the attackers were suicide bombers who blew themselves up inside the Parade Lane mosque; the other two were shot and killed by security forces outside the mosque.", "Several explosions were heard inside the mosque around 1:30 p.m. (3:30 a.m.", "ET), followed by gunfire, Abbas said.", "The militants entered the compound by climbing over a wall, Tareen said.", "This is the first attack in Rawalpindi since a suicide bomber targeted a bank on November 2.", "On October 10, militants stormed army headquarters in Rawalpindi, taking several people hostage before security forces killed them.", "CNN's Reza Sayah contributed to this report." ]	[ "Armed militants attack mosque during midday prayers in Rawalpindi, killing dozens .", "Mosque is frequented by retired and serving military officials .", "November 2 attack in Rawalpindi saw suicide bomber target a bank ." ]	[ 0, 22 ]
[ "Romulus, Michigan (CNN) -- A Nigerian man is \"talking a lot\" to the FBI, said a senior U.S. official, after what the United States believes was an attempted terrorist attack on an inbound international flight.", "The initial impression is that the suspect was acting alone and did not have any formal connections to organized terrorist groups, said the senior official who is familiar with the investigation.", "The suspect, identified by a U.S. government official as 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, ignited a small explosive device Friday, shortly before a Northwest flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, made its landing in Detroit, Michigan.", "With the aid of the cabin crew, another passenger quickly helped subdue and isolate Abdulmutallab, passenger Syed Jafry told CNN.", "Abdulmutallab, was placed in custody and is being treated for second- and third-degree burns on his thighs, according to federal law enforcement and airline security sources.", "The sources told CNN that the suspect flew into Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on a KLM flight from Lagos, Nigeria, and is not believed to be on any \"no fly\" list, although his name does appear in a U.S. database of people with suspect connections.", "He did not undergo secondary security screening in Amsterdam, an administration official said.", "The administration official said there was no evidence that Abdulmutallab was a hard-core, trained member of al Qaeda.", "Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian national, claimed to have extremist ties and said the explosive device \"was acquired in Yemen along with instructions as to when it should be used,\" a federal security bulletin obtained by CNN said.", "The remains of the device used are being sent to an FBI explosives lab in Quantico, Virginia, for analysis, security sources said.", "U.S. President Barack Obama, who is spending the holidays in his home state of Hawaii, was briefed on the incident during a secure phone call with aides, and instructed in a subsequent discussion with security advisers \"that all appropriate measures be taken to increase security for air travel,\" White House spokesman Bill Burton told CNN.", "The president made no changes to his schedule, Burton said.", "The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement Friday saying that air passengers \"may notice additional screening measures put into place to ensure the safety of the traveling public on domestic and international flights.\"", "Passengers described the brief moments of panic on board, as screams erupted and flight attendants ran for fire extinguishers.", "Jafry, who was sitting in seat 16G, said the plane was just beginning to descend when passengers heard a pop.", "\"Everybody got a little bit startled,\" he said.", "\"After a few seconds or so ... there was ... kind of a flamish light and there was fire\" and people around the immediate area began to panic.", "One woman told CNN affiliate WDIV that a man threw a blanket over Abdulmutallab's legs to help put out the small fire.", "\"It was terrifying,\" Richelle Keepman said.", "\"I think we all thought we weren't going to land, we weren't going to make it.\"", "Passenger Elias Fawaz told WDIV that the explosion sounded \"like a balloon being popped\" and said he could smell smoke.", "Jafry said the incident was under control within minutes, crediting the crew and nearby passengers for the rapid response.", "One person was taken to the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor, hospital spokeswoman Tracy Justice said.", "\"All passengers have deplaned and out of an abundance of caution, the plane was moved to a remote area,\" where the plane and baggage were rescreened, the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement.", "Passengers were interviewed by law enforcement authorities before being allowed to leave the airport.", "No other suspicious materials were found on the plane or in luggage, the law enforcement and airline security sources said.", "The suspect had only carry-on luggage.", "Another passenger on the Northwest flight transferred from the same KLM flight in Amsterdam but officials found no connection between the two, the sources said.", "The plane, an Airbus 330, landed shortly before noon ET.", "It was carrying 278 passengers.", "Delta is the parent company of Northwest.", "CNN's Mike Brooks, Jeanne Meserve, Kevin Bohn, Elise Labott, Ed Henry and Rachel Streitfeld contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Nigerian in custody, \"talking a lot,\" U.S. official says, after incident .", "White House is considering the incident an attempted terrorist attack .", "Passenger is immediately subdued; FBI investigating .", "Flight originated in Amsterdam, Netherlands, ended in Detroit, Michigan ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "Santiago, Chile (CNN) -- Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile on Thursday, causing significant damage in at least one city, the country's newly inaugurated president said Thursday.", "A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit at 11:39 a.m. local time (9:39 a.m.", "ET), followed by a 6.7-magnitude quake 16 minutes later, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.", "A third, measured at magnitude 6.0, came 27 minutes later.", "They were the strongest aftershocks to rattle Chile since a February 27 earthquake on the country's west coast that toppled buildings and spawned a tsunami, killing several hundred people.", "Thursday's quakes shook the ground near Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins near the coast just as Chile prepared to inaugurate a new president, Sebastian Pinera.", "The central Chilean city of Rancagua was affected, Pinera said.", "\"There is significant damage in Rancagua,\" the new president said.", "\"We're going to send the necessary armed forces to guarantee citizens' safety.\"", "Rancagua Mayor Eduardo Soto said that no fatalities were immediately reported and that the biggest worry was damage to homes, CNN Chile reported.", "After his inauguration Thursday, Pinera visited Rancagua, where he confirmed there were no initial reports of fatalities.", "He said that no curfew would be imposed for now and reiterated his call for calm.", "A priority is for the school year to start as scheduled next week, he said.", "He also said Thursday afternoon that he would declare the area a catastrophe zone.", "The country's national emergency authorities also put in place a tsunami alert for the coastal area near where the earthquakes hit, and authorities ordered evacuations of some coastal areas.", "\"I don't want to alarm anyone, [the alert] is solely precautionary, but we have to take precautions when there are human lives at risk,\" Pinera said.", "The epicenter of Thursday's first quake was about 95 miles (152 km) south-southwest of the capital, Santiago, and about 90 miles (145 km) away from Valparaiso, where Pinera was to be inaugurated.", "Television footage showed the inauguration proceeding without a hitch.", "A second earthquake -- with an initial magnitude of 6.9 -- struck moments later.", "It was about 89 miles (143 km) southwest of Santiago, the USGS said.", "The third was about 86 miles (138 km) southwest of Santiago.", "Rolando Santos, senior vice president and general manager of CNN Chile, said he and his colleagues felt one of the quakes.", "\"I can tell you within our newsroom in Santiago, which is state of the art in terms of seismic construction, it shook for more than 45 seconds,\" he said.", "He said that he told staffers to get under desks and that three people burst into tears.", "In the last two days, people had kind of gotten used to aftershocks, but \"there was no question this one got everyone's attention,\" he said.", "Are you there? Send pictures .", "Pinera, a conservative billionaire businessman, became the Chilean president about 12:15 p.m. local time, roughly 20 minutes after the second quake.", "The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a statement that \"a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected\" as a result of the quakes, and that there is no tsunami threat to Hawaii.", "However, the center also said that \"earthquakes of this size sometimes generate local tsunamis that can be destructive along coasts located within\" about 62 miles (100 km) of the epicenter.", "Hundreds of people were killed when the magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck Chile's west coast February 27.", "That quake also triggered a tsunami that toppled buildings, especially in the coastal Maule region.", "How to help: Impact Your World .", "Authorities this week released the names of 279 people whose bodies had been identified in the quake, but officials said the new tally does not include hundreds of unidentified victims.", "The February 27 earthquake was violent enough to move the Chilean city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and Santiago about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said." ]	[ "NEW: President Sebastian Pinera says there's no curfew for now and reiterates call for calm .", "Pinera to send \"necessary armed forces,\" declare area a catastrophe zone .", "First quake hit at 11:39 a.m. local time; second 16 minutes later; third 27 minutes later .", "First shook the ground near Chilean coast; epicenter about 90 miles from Valparaiso ." ]	[ 1, 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 16, 26 ]
[ "Santiago, Chile (CNN) -- Sebastian Pinera was sworn in Thursday as president of Chile, taking over a country battered by a recent earthquake but with a strong economy and stable social institutions.", "Pinera, 60, succeeded Michelle Bachelet, a popular president who steered the country through the global economic downturn and promoted progressive social reforms.", "Pinera, a billionaire, is the first conservative to lead Chile since the fall of Gen. Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship in 1990.", "Educated in Chile and at Harvard University in the United States, Pinera is an economist, investor, businessman and former senator.", "Bachelet, a liberal, defeated Pinera in the presidential elections in 2005.", "She endorsed Pinera's opponent in a runoff election in January.", "But Pinera said recently that responding to the earthquake requires the country to transcend partisan differences.", "\"These are times when we have to act with a sense of national unity,\" he said.", "\"It is not the time for conflict between government and opposition.\"", "The 8.8-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami February 27 killed more than 500 people and affected up to 2 million.", "A 7.2-magnitude temblor struck Thursday as dignitaries were filing into the congressional hall in Valparaiso for the transfer of presidential power.", "Under Chile's constitutional term limits, Bachelet could not run for a second consecutive four-year term.", "\"I leave sad because of the pain of our people but with my head held high,\" a teary-eyed Bachelet said in a brief farewell address from the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile's capital.", "\"I leave proud of what we have been able to build as a nation, of the role we have played.", "\"I leave, above everything else, very proud of the country we are.\"" ]	[ "Sebastian Pinera, 60, succeeds Michelle Bachelet .", "Term limits prevented Bachelet from seeking second consecutive term .", "Pinera is first conservative to lead Chile since fall military dictatorship in 1990 ." ]	[ 2, 11 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The White House said it had no comment Monday in response to the upcoming release of a new Michelle Obama action-figure doll.", "The Michelle Obama doll is available in three outfits, all of which show off her trademark bare arms.", "The 6-inch doll is made by New York toymaker Jailbreak Toys and is set for release on November 20, but the company began work on the new product six or seven months ago, according to Jason Feinberg, Jailbreak Toys' 32-year-old founder.", "\"The entire political scene was a little rosier at the time,\" Feinberg said in a phone interview, \"But what was really apparent was the country, and really the world at large, were very enamored of this lady.\"", "Feinberg, whose company began selling a Barack Obama action-figure doll in mid-2008, said that Michelle Obama's \"energy\" was \"muted, subdued, classy\" coming out of last year's campaign while her husband's image was much more like that of a superhero.", "The new Michelle Obama doll is available in three outfits: the purple dress worn when the Obamas shared their famous fist bump during the campaign, the red and black dress she wore on Election Night and the black-and-white floral dress she wore during an appearance on \"The View.\"", "All three dolls show Michelle Obama in a sheath dress and with bare arms, attributes that have become personal trademarks during her tenure as first lady.", "Feinberg said his target audience for the new doll is not children but adults \"who collected toys as a child, who haven't lost that kind of whimsical enthusiasm.\"", "Like Jailbreak's Barack Obama doll, the new Michelle Obama doll will retail for $12.99, according to Feinberg.", "Katie McCormick Lelyveld, a spokeswoman for the first lady, said in an e-mail to CNN that the White House had no comment on the new doll.", "When the company behind Beanie Babies began selling dolls named \"Marvelous Malia and Sweet Sasha\" soon after Inauguration Day, the White House had a swift and strong reaction.", "\"We feel it is inappropriate to use young private citizens for marketing purposes,\" the first lady's spokeswoman said at the time." ]	[ "The 6-inch doll is made by New York toymaker Jailbreak Toys .", "Jailbreak's Jason Feinberg: Target audience is adults \"who collected toys as a child\"\nNew doll, which will be available November 20, will retail for $12.99 ." ]	[ 2, 7 ]
[ "Barcelona's recent defensive problems have increased further with the news that French international Eric Abidal faces up to two months out of action because of an injury to his left leg.", "Abidal collected an abductor muscle problem in training, meaning he joins fellow-defenders Rafael Marquez, Dani Alves, Gerard Pique and midfielder Yaya Toure on the sidelines for the Primera Liga trip to Atletico Madrid this weekend.", "Barcelona confirmed the news on their official Web site, with a statement adding: \"After medical tests, which were carried out in Barcelona, the medical team confirmed that Abidal was suffering a disinsertion of the adductor in his left leg.\"", "As well as Saturday's match, Abidal will be absent from both legs of the Champions League last 16 showdown against Stuttgart, while he will also miss a host of key Spanish league fixtures.", "Marquez and Pique are banned this weekend after their recent dismissals against Getafe, while Alves is suffering from a calf injury.", "Toure is sometimes deployed by Barca coach Pep Guardiola as an emergency defender, but the Ivory Coast international has a leg injury which will rule him out of action for two weeks." ]	[ "French defender Eric Abidal faces two months out because of a left leg injury .", "The setback is a further blow to Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola .", "Rafael Marquez, Dani Alves, Gerard Pique and Yaya Toure are also on sidelines ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Archie Manning: Super Bowl XLIV is Sunday in Miami, Florida.", "The New Orleans Saints will face the Indianapolis Colts, and it's the first time the Saints have been in the Super Bowl in the team's four-decade history.", "Archie Manning is in an interesting situation.", "The quarterback was drafted by the Saints in 1971, and was hands-down the most famous and revered Saint, staying with them for ten years.", "He still has a home in New Orleans, Louisiana.", "Now his son, Peyton Manning, quarterback of the Colts, will face his father's old team, the team he grew up rooting for.", "Archie Manning and his wife, Olivia, raised three football-playing sons.", "Cooper, an all-state high school wide receiver and now a partner in an investment firm; Eli, who led the New York Giants to their Super Bowl win two years ago; and Peyton, who did the same for the Colts the year before that.", "Eli and Peyton both won MVP awards.", "A few weeks ago, Mike Chappell in the Indianapolis Star reported that Archie Manning said he plans to root for the Colts.", "\"I'm going to pull for my son,\" Archie said.", "\"(Saints coach) Sean Payton knows that.", "He's a great friend of mine.", "(Saints quarterback) Drew Brees knows that.", "That's just the way it is. Anybody who thinks it's different must not have children.\"", "Indy Star: Saints legend Archie Manning pulling for son, Colts .", "Robert Park: North Korea said Friday it was releasing the Korean-American missionary detained after reportedly illegally entering the country in December, state-run media reported.", "Tyong Park, Robert Park's father, said in San Diego, California, that he was \"so excited\" by the news but had no other information about his son's release.", "Robert Park told relatives before Christmas that he was trying to sneak into the isolated communist state to bring a message of \"Christ's love and forgiveness\" to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.", "After an investigation, North Korean authorities \"decided to leniently forgive and release him, taking his admission and sincere repentance of his wrong doings into consideration,\" the state-run Korea Central News Agency said.", "During an interview with North Korean authorities, Park reportedly told investigators that \"he was taken in by the false rumor spread by the West and committed a criminal act in the end.\"", "Park said he heard stories of concentration camps and of mass killings, prompting him to go to North Korea to help, the news agency said.", "A South Korean Web site in December posted a copy of the letter it said Park was trying to deliver to Kim, urging the North Korean leader to free political prisoners and \"open your borders so that we may bring food, provisions, medicine, necessities, and assistance to those who are struggling to survive.\"", "But according to the North Korean news agency, once Park was in North Korea he said he was treated well and allowed to attend church and pray freely.", "CNN: N. Korea says it is releasing U.S. citizen .", "Joe Lombardi: He's the grandson of legendary New York Giants and Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi.", "The Los Angeles Times reports that Joe Lombardi, 38, never met his famous grandfather; he was born a year after his death in 1970.", "Lombardi, the quarterbacks coach for the New Orleans Saints, told the newspaper that he had seen a quote from his grandfather saying he wished he had never said \"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing,\" and that he feels Vince was misinterpreted.", "\"I think his point was that certainly your goal is to win, but it's the process that you take in order to get there, the will to win, the will to prepare -- doing everything in your control in order to put yourself in position to win at anything.", "And I think that's what his point was, more so than win at all costs, even if you've got to cheat or cut corners,\" Joe Lombardi told the Los Angeles Times.", "L.A. Times: Saints have a Lombardi, and now they want a trophy .", "Jenny Sanford: \"Staying True\" by Sanford, who in December filed for divorce from South Carolina Gov.", "Mark Sanford, will be available in bookstores Friday.", "Reporters exposed the governor's affair with an Argentine woman after he disappeared for several days last summer.", "Staffers said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail.", "Sanford later admitted he was actually in Argentina with his mistress.", "Rather than standing by their men, wives of morally challenged politicians are now publicly opting to let their husbands clean up their own messes.", "That is one reason why former investment banker Jenny Sanford wrote her book, publisher Ballantine Books says on its Web site.", "\"She chose to let Mark Sanford deal with the embarrassment and political fallout from his own actions while focusing her own efforts privately on raising their children to be men of character, even in the face of the lies their father has told,\" says the synopsis of her book on the site.", "CNN: Silent no more, wives go public about husbands' affairs .", "D.A. Powell: Claremont Graduate University in Southern California announced this week that D.A.", "Powell has won the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his book \"Chronic.\"", "Powell teaches at the University of San Francisco and lives in the Bay Area of California.", "According to the Poetry Foundation, Powell was born in 1963 in Albany, Georgia.", "When he was teaching at Sonoma State, he noticed that many of his students wrote poems that somehow fit the size of the page they were working on, so he began experimenting with his students.", "What difference would it make if words were written on a candlestick or a roll of toilet paper?", "When he wrote the first poem for his book, \"Tea,\" he turned his legal pad sideways and began writing longer lines of poetry.", "Powell receives his prize this April.", "Here's an excerpt from his poem, \"Chronic:\" I carry the same baffled heart I have always carried / a bit more battered than before, a bit less joy / for I see the difficult charge of living in this declining sphere / by the open air, I swore out my list of pleasures: / sprig of lilac, scent of pine / the sparrows bathing in the drainage ditch...\" Claremont Graduate University: D.A.", "Powell wins Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award .", "Poetry Foundation: Poet biography .", "Poetry Daily: \"Chronic\" What makes a person intriguing?", "There are people who enter the news cycle every day because their actions or decisions are new, important or different.", "Others are in the news because they are the ones those decisions affect.", "And there are a number of people who are so famous or controversial that anything they say or do becomes news.", "Some of these people do what we expect of them: They run for office, pass legislation, start a business, get hired or fired, commit a crime, make an arrest, get in accidents, hit a home run, overthrow a government, fight wars, sue an opponent, put out fires, prepare for hurricanes and cavort with people other than their spouses.", "They do make news, but the action is usually more important than who is involved in the story.", "But every day, there are a number of people who become fascinating to us -- by virtue of their character, how they reached their decision, how they behaved under pressure or because of the remarkable circumstances surrounding the event they are involved in.", "They arouse our curiosity.", "We hear about them and want to know more.", "What they have done or said stimulates conversations across the country.", "At times, there is even a mystery about them.", "What they have done may be unique, heroic, cowardly or ghastly, but they capture our imaginations.", "We want to know what makes them tick, why they believe what they do, and why they did what they did.", "They intrigue us." ]	[ "Former Saints quarterback puts family before team .", "Korean-American missionary to be released from North Korea .", "Poet D.A.", "Powell wins $100,000 award for book, \"Chronic\"" ]	[ 13, 16, 41, 50 ]
[ "Rome, Italy (CNN) -- The Italian government plans to participate in the international troop buildup in Afghanistan by sending 1,000 more troops there next year.", "The Italian Defense Ministry confirmed the troops would be deployed in the second half of 2010, a complement to the nearly 2,800 Italians already in the western part of the country.", "Italy is one of 43 countries serving under the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force.", "Based in Herat, the Italian military is the lead nation in ISAF's Regional Command West.", "22 Italian service members have been killed in the Afghan conflict.", "The Italian escalation would be part of the troop buildup of 5,000 extra non-U.S. service members ISAF intends to commit to the country.", "NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said that new troop pledges could be announced at a conference of NATO foreign ministers Thursday and Friday in Brussels, Belgium, where the alliance is based.", "There are currently 42,000 non-U.S. NATO troops in Afghanistan at present.", "28 NATO allies and 15 non-NATO members are contributing to the U.S.-led coalition.", "The added NATO troop deployment would complement the nearly 100,000 Americans expected to be in the fight once the 30,000 troops U.S. President Barack Obama announced Tuesday night are in place." ]	[ "Italy is one of 43 countries serving under the NATO-led ISAF contingent .", "22 Italian service members have been killed in the Afghan conflict .", "There are currently 42,000 non-U.S. NATO troops in Afghanistan at present ." ]	[ 2, 4, 7 ]
[ "Perugia, Italy (CNN) -- A defense lawyer for Amanda Knox -- accused in Italy of killing her roommate -- on Tuesday said the prosecution's theory doesn't fit the facts of the case and there is not sufficient evidence to find her guilty.", "Calling Knox a victim herself, Carlo della Vedova portrayed the Seattle, Washington, native as someone who fell victim to a rush to judgment by police following the murder, and who had to fend off a myriad of false media reports regarding the crime.", "Police declared \"case closed\" after an investigator saw Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito sharing a \"flirtatious gesture\" at the crime scene.", "And in the months following the murder, della Vedova argued a slew of leaks to the media made things even worse.", "The lawyer showed photos of the crime scene that were published in the media that weren't authentic -- including a photo of the bathroom -- and said false allegations and rumors about Knox's character created a bias from the get-go.", "Della Vedova also questioned the change in what prosecutor Giuliano Mignini's said was the motive for the murder.", "In preliminary hearings he argued Knox, Sollecito and Rudy Guede slashed Kercher's throat during a sexual misadventure as the two men vied for Knox's attention.", "In recent days, della Vedova said Mignini focused more on what he says was a hatred between the two roommates.", "Defense lawyers have staunchly disagreed, claiming the two girls were friends.", "They argued that Guede, who was convicted in a separate fast-track trial and is currently appealing his conviction, was the sole killer and argued there is no evidence that ties the three people together or shows proof they planned her murder.", "Della Vedova also fixated during closings on the lack of evidence tying Knox to the crime scene.", "As defense lawyers have throughout the entire trial, he cast doubt on DNA evidence prosecutors claim shows Knox's DNA on the handle of the alleged murder weapon.", "The defense has claimed the knife doesn't match Kercher's wounds or an imprint of the knife left on a bed sheet.", "They also claimed the DNA sample is too small to attribute.", "Besides the knife, della Vedova claimed if there really was a struggle or argument in Kercher's room, then Knox's DNA would be all over the room.", "Citing forensic testimony from the trial, he argued that while traces of DNA from other people were found in the room, not a single sample that can be traced back to Knox was found.", "He stressed too, that Sollecito and Knox are not the kind of people they have been portrayed as, noting that the couple met at a classical music concert and aren't the typical \"sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll\" couple they have been labeled.", "During the first day of closings for Knox's lawyers, della Vedova stressed to the eight-member jury that they should also keep church law in mind as they decide whether to find Knox and Sollecito guilty or not guilty.", "He told the jury they needed to be \"morally certain of their decision.\"", "\"If you have the minimum of doubts, you must absolve this young girl,\" he said.", "\"A girl that is merely 22 years old.\"", "Knox and Sollecito, who both deny any role in the murder, have been jailed for more than two years since they were arrested on charges of murder and sexual violence.", "Prosecutors have asked they be sentenced to life in prison if they are found guilty.", "Knox's other lawyer, Luciano Ghirga, will continue closings on Wednesday and the jury is expected to begin deliberations on Friday.", "CNN's Mallory Simon contributed to this report." ]	[ "Carlo della Vedova questions evidence in case, says Amanda Knox should be found not guilty .", "Prosecutors maintain Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and Rudy Guede killed Meredith Kercher .", "Lawyer: \"If you have the minimum of doubts, you must absolve this young girl\"" ]	[ 17, 19 ]
[ "Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- A Kurdish member of Iraq's parliament said Monday that the United States is pressuring the \"highest levels of the Kurdish leadership\" to accept a compromise that would dictate how national elections would be held in January.", "Mahmoud Othman said the United States urged the Kurdish majority in the northern oil-rich province of Kirkuk to agree to a proposal that would settle issues about the law that spells out how the election will be carried out.", "Vice President Joe Biden broached the issue of elections in telephone calls Sunday with Iraqi Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani and Speaker of the Parliament Ayad al-Samarrai'e, said Biden spokesman Jay Carney.", "\"In both calls, the vice president echoed the president's position that timely elections are important and that we urge all parties to do their part to make them happen,\" he said.", "A secure environment and political stability during and after the polls will be key as the United States looks to withdraw combat troops by August, leaving 50,000 in advisory roles, and then withdraw all U.S. forces by the end of 2011.", "Some Kurds have complained that the U.S. proposals would favor the province's Arabs and Turkmen, though it was not clear on what they based that assertion.", "Kurds have long regarded Kirkuk as an integral part of Kurdistan, and many want to be part of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.", "Arabs and Turkmen have their claims to the city, and all the groups want their voices and votes to be fairly represented in the political system.", "Provincial elections that were to have been held in January were postponed indefinitely because officials there could not agree on how to apportion seats among the ethnic groups.", "Last week, the Kurds threatened to boycott voting on the election law, thereby threatening to delay the election itself, which is scheduled to take place January 16.", "The constitution would allow for a delay, but not past January 31.", "Iraq's election commission has said it needs at least 90 days after passage of any election law to prepare to carry out elections, which U.S. and Iraqi government officials call a vital step in Iraqi efforts to solidify a democratic system in the post-Saddam Hussein era.", "The head of Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission, Judge Qassim Aboodi, said Monday that if the law is not passed within a few days, the elections could be threatened altogether.", "Othman described the U.S. efforts at pushing forward a compromise to the Kurds as being \"counterproductive\" and \"making things worse.\"", "Though the proposal was submitted by the United Nations, Othman said, \"the U.S. is behind this.\"", "He said the U.S.-backed plan was not fair and urged that U.S. officials remain neutral.", "Under Saddam's regime, Kurds were kicked out of Kirkuk, and many Arabs moved in, a policy called Arabization.", "But Kurds returned to the city in droves after the regime was toppled.", "Sharp disagreements exist over which voter registries should be used in the elections, with the Kurds wanting a current one and the Arabs and Turkmen wanting registries from several years ago.", "As for the lists, politicians disagree over the use of open lists that name candidates and closed lists that name parties.", "The law used in the 2005 election calls for a closed list.", "U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill and Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. officials in Iraq, issued a statement Thursday urging lawmakers to decide that \"rules, procedures, and decisions\" for the election apply only to that vote.", "They argue that it should not set precedent \"for future political settlements related to Article 140, demographic change, disputed boundaries, or other contested issues,\" a specific reference to the Kirkuk question.", "Article 140 is the section of the country's constitution referencing the issue.", "CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom and Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this story from Baghdad, Iraq." ]	[ "Member of parliament says U.S. pushing for agreement on election law .", "Biden discussed January elections in calls with Kurdish political leaders .", "Kurds have said U.S. proposals favor Arabs, Turkmen .", "Iraqi election commission has called for swift passage of election law ." ]	[ 5, 11, 20 ]
[ "JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Another strong earthquake rocked Indonesia early Thursday as the Southeast Asian nation was reeling from an earlier jolt that killed more than 200 people.", "A resident stands next to building that collapsed onto a car in Padang, Indonesia, on Wednesday.", "The 6.8 magnitude quake Thursday hit southern Sumatra at 8:52 a.m. local time (0152 GMT), the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.", "Wednesday's earlier quake was 7.6 magnitude.", "At least 236 people are dead and more than 500 injured, the Indonesian Social Ministry's Crisis Center said Thursday.", "It said it had little information on the missing and feared the death toll would climb into the thousands.", "The second quake was on a smaller scale than the first, said meteorology official Fauzi, who uses only one name.", "There were no damage reports yet.", "Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari expected \"the casualties and the damage of this earthquake to be bigger than the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake, given the intensity and the spread of the damage.\"", "The magnitude-6.3 Yogyakarta quake in central Java in May 2006 killed more than 5,000 people, triggered fears of an eruption of a nearby volcano and caused significant damage to a 9th century Prambanan temple.", "Thousands may be trapped by collapsed buildings and houses, Rustam Pakaya, the head of the Health Ministry's crisis center, told CNN on Wednesday.", "State-run Antara news agency cited Pakaya as saying he had received reports that part of a hospital had collapsed and that people were buried under the debris.", "The temblor struck around 5 p.m., about 33 miles (53 kilometers) from Padang, the capital city of West Sumatra and home to more than 800,000 people.", "The quake caused widespread power and phone outages, making it difficult to assess damage.", "Aid agencies kicked into gear to help those in need.", "\"We had aid ready because this area of Indonesia is susceptible to this type of tragedy,\" said Jane Cocking, humanitarian director for Oxfam.", "\"Communications with the quake-zone are difficult and we are hoping for the best but having to plan for the worst.\"", "\"The situation is quite devastating,\" said Amelia Merrick, the operations director for World Vision Indonesia.", "\"Bridges have gone down, phone lines are in total disrepair.", "It's difficult for us to assess the situation,\" she said.", "The organization had said it would send assessment teams to the area Thursday morning.", "\"We know there's no electricity tonight... many of the families will be spending the night outdoors, in pitch black.", "I'm very afraid of what might happen next,\" she said, referring to the possibility of aftershocks.", "Hundreds of houses have been damaged, Wayne Ulrich, the Red Cross disaster management coordinator in Indonesia, told CNN.", "\"We do not know the [exact] numbers.\"", "\"We have concerns that a hospital has been partially damaged, a market has caught on fire, the airport was closed down for inspection because of the fear if they landed any planes,\" it might cause problems, Ulrich said.", "Watch Ulrich discuss the rescue efforts » .", "Access to the affected areas was obstructed in parts, he added.", "It's \"blocked by all kinds of problems: frightened people out in the streets, cars, and people trying to get out of the city.\"", "The earthquake was felt in nearby cities, such as Medan and Bengkulu, where people panicked and ran outside in search of higher ground, fearing a tsunami.", "But it was also felt as far away as Singapore and Malaysia.", "\"I did feel the tremor in office today somewhere between 5 - 6 p.m.,\" said Ratna Osman, who works in a single-story office building in Petaling Jaya, just outside Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur.", "\"I asked [a co-worker] if there's an earthquake somewhere -- either that or I was hallucinating.\"", "\"At first, I thought the chair I was sitting on had a screw loose or something,\" Osman said.", "The region is accustomed to earthquakes, and locals have been taught to identify safe places in case of a tsunami, according to Sean Granville-Ross, the Mercy Corps country director for Indonesia.", "\"We hope that preparation is now paying off,\" he said.", "But if many homes have been destroyed, people may be spending the night with no shelter, he said.", "Earlier this month, an earthquake in West Java killed 57 people.", "Several buildings were damaged, Metro TV reported, and people were seen running out of their homes and toward the hills.", "One employee of a private company in Jalan Ahmad Yani, told Antara news agency that \"everybody panicked with some shouting 'earthquake.'\"", "TVOne pictures from the scene showed people milling around outside in the city.", "Phone lines were apparently down in many parts of Padang.", "Indonesia's Tempo Interactive, a media outlet based in Jakarta, had trouble reaching its correspondent in the West Sumatra city, according to journalist Purwani Diyah Prabandari.", "\"I hope it's just the cell phone connection,\" Prabandari told CNN.", "Indonesians trying to find out more about the quake flooded the Internet, including Twitter.", "Some expressed concern for relatives and friends in Padang.", "\"Dear God, please send down your angels to hug and protect my grandpa in Padang,\" said one Twitter post.", "The Web site for one of Indonesia's main newspapers, The Jakarta Globe, crashed for a while, partly as a result of the heavy traffic from people trying to find out about the quake, the paper said in a Twitter post.", "The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a tsunami watch for Indonesia, India, Thailand and Malaysia, but canceled it soon after.", "The temblor did generate a tsunami just under one foot high, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said.", "On Tuesday, a magnitude 8.0 quake-triggered tsunami killed at least 111 people in the Samoan islands and Tonga.", "Read latest news on the Samoa quake and tsunami .", "The tsunami waves swept across a wide swath of the Pacific Ocean, killing dozens and flattening or submerging villages.", "The dead included 22 in American Samoa, 82 in Samoa and seven in Tonga.", "Officials warned that the death toll could rise as rescue workers start to reach outlying villages and discover new casualties.", "The U.S. Geological Survey declined to say whether the two quakes were linked.", "\"The simple answer is we can't speculate on a connection,\" Carrieann Bedwell of the USGS told CNN.", "\"Both are in highly seismic areas.\"", "The epicenters of the two temblors are about 4,700 miles (7,600 km) apart.", "CNN's Tricia Escobedo and Andy Saputra contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Aid agencies kick into gear to help those in need .", "Second quake hits; thousands feared trapped by collapsed buildings .", "Death toll could climb into thousands .", "Bridges down, phone lines in disrepair, says World Vision Indonesia ." ]	[ 5, 14, 18 ]
[ "MADRID, Spain -- Barcelona's Brazil forward Ronaldinho was granted dual nationality by Spain on Monday, the Primera Liga club said.", "Brazilian striker Ronaldinho leaves Gava magistrates court in Spain after being granted dual nationality.", "The move frees up a place for another non-European Union player in Frank Rijkaard's squad.", "Mexican forward Giovani dos Santos is set to take up the vacant slot alongside Cameroon international Samuel Eto'o and Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure in the non-EU berths permitted under Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) rules.", "However, Dos Santos is also expected to be granted dual nationality this week.", "Barcelona opened up their Primera Liga campaign with a goalless draw away to Racing Santander on Sunday.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Barcelona's Brazil forward Ronaldinho is granted dual nationality by Spain .", "Move allows another non-European Union player in Frank Rijkaard's squad ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An English-language immersion class failed Miriam Flores, her mother contended.", "A divided Supreme Court dismissed on Thursday a 17-year-old suit filed on behalf of English-deficient students.", "After two years of instruction in her native Spanish, Miriam entered the Nogales, Arizona schools' English Language Learner program as a third-grader.", "However, she continued to lag behind her classmates and was cited as a disruptive influence in the classroom because she often had to ask a fellow student for help.", "The girl's mother, also named Miram Flores, and other minority parents claimed school officials in Nogales, a border town about 70 miles south of Tucson, did not provide enough money to get English-deficient students up to speed in writing and reading comprehension.", "In 2000, a federal judge agreed, concluding Arizona violated the Equal Educational Opportunities Act, and ordering the state to rework its plan and increase funding.", "The English Language Learner (ELL) program was then placed under federal oversight.", "On Thursday, a divided Supreme Court dismissed the 17-year-old lawsuit, but ordered a federal judge to review whether Nogales officials are \"providing equal opportunities\" to mainly Spanish-speaking students in the community.", "Arizona maintained the federal court injunction delayed its plans to fix the system.", "It maintained it has provided enough resources to improve its ELL program, allowing it to end federal oversight.", "\"Injunctions of this sort bind state and local officials to the policy preferences of their predecessors,\" wrote Justice Samuel Alito for the majority.", "Some legislators claim a 2006 state law essentially eliminated long-standing funding inequities.", "But parents say officials continue to drag their feet when it comes to complying with an appropriate classroom model for non-English-speaking students.", "Arizona says it increased more than twofold the amount of money it spends per non-English-speaking pupil, and that it has complied with the No Child Left Behind Act, the sweeping public classroom accountability act passed in 2002 that ties federal education funding to improvements in measurable student achievement.", "The current dispute has pitted the GOP-led state legislature and the school superintendent against the Democratic governor and attorney general, along with civil rights and teacher groups.", "Alito said a federal law guaranteeing equal opportunity in public schools \"is a vitally important one, and our decision will not in any way undermine efforts to achieve that goal.\"", "He added that if state officials ultimately prevail in their reform efforts, \"it will be because they have shown that the Nogales School District is doing exactly what this statute requires -- taking appropriate action to teach English to students who grew up speaking another language.\"", "Alito was backed by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas.", "But in a lengthy dissent -- parts of which were read from the bench -- Justice Stephen Breyer said the ruling was \"misguided,\" calling it \"a mistaken effort to drive a wedge between review of funding plan changes and review of changes that would bring the state into compliance with federal law.\"", "He was backed by Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter.", "The divided court seemed poised to issue a narrow ruling, fact-specific to the ELL plan in Nogales.", "But groups on both sides of the issue asked the high court for broader guidance on settling state-federal conflicts involving institutional reform mandates, especially those involving disadvantaged groups.", "Such political turf battles often end up in the courts, and can lead to decades of federal oversight, such as the fight over school desegregation beginning in the 1950s.", "Against that backdrop is the continuing fight over immigration and the responsibility of states to fund the education of illegal immigrants and their children.", "Miriam Flores is now an adult and a student at the University of Arizona.", "The cases are Horne v. Flores (08-289) and Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives v. Flores (08-294)." ]	[ "Supreme Court dismisses case that claimed schools failed English-deficient kids .", "The 17-year-old case began in Nogales, Arizona, a border town .", "A federal judge agreed and ordered increased funding and federal oversight .", "Both sides seek help from high court in resolving political turf wars over reforms ." ]	[ 5, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A massive search and rescue mission continued late Friday for nine people who may have plunged into chilly Pacific water off the Southern California coast after a Coast Guard plane and a Marine helicopter collided.", "\"We're still in the search and rescue phase.", "We are not standing down from that at this point,\" Coast Guard Capt.", "Thomas Farris told reporters at a news conference.", "\"We have every hope that we'll be able to find survivors.\"", "The search will continue, he said, \"Until I stop.\"", "The Coast Guard plans to continue the search at least throughout Friday night and Saturday morning, Petty Officer Henry Dunphy of the San Diego Coast Guard told CNN.", "The Coast Guard C-130 plane and its seven crew members had been searching for a missing person when it collided Thursday with the Marine AH-1 Cobra helicopter, with a two-person crew, on a military training exercise, Farris said.", "None of the names of those on either aircraft has been released.", "A pilot reported seeing a fireball about 7:10 p.m. Thursday near the crash site.", "The crash occurred about 16 nautical miles (18 miles) off the coast, near San Clemente Island, said Cpl.", "Michael Stevens of U.S. Marine Air Station Miramar in San Diego.", "Helicopters, cutters and patrol boats, aided by the Navy, were scanning a 644-square-mile area for survivors, said Coast Guard Rear Adm. Joseph Castillo.", "Castillo earlier said an investigation \"to determine what exactly happened\" was beginning.", "The investigation will be done in \"lockstep\" with the Marine Corps, he said.", "A large debris field has been located, and debris has been collected, he said.", "\"The debris is what you'd expect, I think, from a midair collision,\" he said.", "The two Marines on the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton chopper were one of four helicopter crews involved in the training exercise, Stevens said.", "The Coast Guard plane had been on a search mission for a couple of days before Thursday's crash.", "\"They were searching for a possible person in the water who was reported to have gotten in a dinghy and attempted to row to Catalina [Island],\" Farris said.", "\"We were searching in that area because of the drift that would have naturally occurred after that event.\"", "With water temperatures in the 60s, Farris earlier Friday estimated survivability could be up to 20 hours.", "The missing person the Coast Guard members were searching for prior to the collision is still missing, Farris said.", "CNN's Sonya Hamasaki and Larry Shaughnessy contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Coast Guard Capt.", "Thomas Farris: \"We're still in the search and rescue phase\"\nA Coast Guard plane and a Marine helicopter collided off cost of Southern California .", "Seven people were aboard C-130 Thursday, which was searching for a missing person .", "The Marine helicopter contained two crew members ." ]	[ 0, 1, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was released on bail Thursday after being arrested on suspicion of domestic assault.", "The 62-year-old was arrested near his home in southern England on Wednesday and spent the night in police custody before being released.", "\"I can confirm that there was an incident last night and that Ronnie Wood was arrested,\" a spokesman for the musician said, adding that he did not have any further details.", "As the case is under investigation, police have said little.", "They have not stated who filed the assault complaint .", "Wood will face police questioning again in January.", "The assault charge follows Wood's highly publicized divorce last month from his wife of 24 years, Jo, on grounds of adultery.", "The divorce settlement set Wood back an estimated £6.5 million ($10.7 million).", "He and Jo have two children.", "Wood has reportedly been dating a 20-year-old Russian cocktail waitress, Ekaterina Ivanova, for a year." ]	[ "Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood arrested Wednesday, accused of assault .", "Wood has since been released on bail .", "Incident follows high-profile divorce from wife Jo last month on grounds of adultery .", "Wood has reportedly been dating 20-year-old woman for a year ." ]	[ 0, 6, 9 ]
[ "West Point, New York (CNN) -- President Obama said Tuesday that the deployment of 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan is part of a strategy to reverse the Taliban's momentum and stabilize the country's government.", "\"There is no imminent threat of the government being overthrown, but the Taliban has gained momentum,\" Obama said at the U.S. Military Academy.", "\"Al Qaeda has not re-emerged in Afghanistan in the same numbers as before 9/11, but they retain their safe-havens along the border.", "\"And our forces lack the full support they need to effectively train and partner with Afghan security forces and better secure the population. ...", "In short, the status quo is not sustainable.\"", "Obama said he'd begin sending the additional troops \"at the fastest pace possible\" starting in early 2010 \"with a goal of starting to withdraw forces from the country in July 2011.\"", "The president said additional U.S. forces bolstered by NATO troops \"will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces.\"", "Senior administration officials said Tuesday that Obama has a goal of withdrawing most U.S. forces by the end of his current term, which ends in January 2013.", "Watch what the new troops will do in Afghanistan .", "It will be the second increase of U.S. forces in the war-torn Islamic country ordered by Obama since he took office in January.", "In his speech Tuesday, Obama said his strategy had three objectives: .", "• Deny al Qaeda a safe haven .", "• Reverse the Taliban's momentum and deny it the ability to overthrow Afghanistan's government .", "• Strengthen Afghanistan's security forces and government .", "The additional troops was one way to achieve these, he said.", "Other strategies will include holding Afghan government leaders accountable for corruption, focus assistance on areas that could help the lives of Afghans, and securing the country's border with Pakistan.", "\"We are in Afghanistan to prevent a cancer from once again spreading through that country.", "But this same cancer has also taken root in the border region of Pakistan.", "That is why we need a strategy that works on both sides of the border,\" Obama said.", "The president said he rejected the option of committing more forces for an undefined mission of nation-building without any deadlines.", "\"I reject this course because it sets goals that are beyond what we can achieve at a reasonable cost, and what we need to achieve to secure our interests,\" Obama said.", "\"Furthermore, the absence of a timeframe for transition would deny us any sense of urgency in working with the Afghan government.", "It must be clear that Afghans will have to take responsibility for their security, and that America has no interest in fighting an endless war in Afghanistan.\"", "Obama rejected analogies with the war in Vietnam that divided America in the 1960s and 1970s.", "\"Unlike Vietnam, we are joined by a broad coalition of 43 nations that recognizes the legitimacy of our action,\" Obama said.", "\"Unlike Vietnam, we are not facing a broad-based popular insurgency.", "And most importantly, unlike Vietnam, the American people were viciously attacked from Afghanistan, and remain a target for those same extremists who are plotting along its border.\"", "Obama said the U.S. has no interest in occupying Afghanistan.", "\"We will support efforts by the Afghan government to open the door to those Taliban who abandon violence and respect the human rights of their fellow citizens,\" Obama said.", "\"And we will seek a partnership with Afghanistan grounded in mutual respect -- to isolate those who destroy; to strengthen those who build; to hasten the day when our troops will leave; and to forge a lasting friendship in which America is your partner, and never your patron.\"", "Obama spoke to an audience of West Point cadets, staff and guests in outlining his strategy that he has deliberated for months, meeting several times with his national security team.", "He recognized that some in the audience had fought in Afghanistan, and some would be deployed in the future.", "\"As your commander in chief, I owe you a mission that is clearly defined, and worthy of your service,\" he said.", "The additional U.S. forces \"will increase our ability to train competent Afghan security forces, and to partner with them so that more Afghans can get into the fight,\" Obama said.", "\"And they will help create the conditions for the United States to transfer responsibility to the Afghans.\"", "Obama also said he is asking NATO allies to provide more troops, and that he is \"confident that there will be further contributions in the days ahead.\"", "\"Our friends have fought and bled and died alongside us in Afghanistan,\" he said.", "\"Now, we must come together to end this war successfully.", "For what's at stake is not simply a test of NATO's credibility -- what's at stake is the security of our allies, and the common security of the world.\"", "The new troop deployment would increase the total U.S. commitment to roughly 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, bolstered by more than 40,000 NATO forces.", "Obama, whom Republicans had accused of \"dithering\" over the decision, concluded the deployment needs to be accelerated to knock back the Taliban, the senior officials said.", "The push for a speedy deployment is surprising because White House officials who defended Obama's slow pace of coming to a decision had said the Pentagon wouldn't be able to get new troops to Afghanistan that quickly.", "A Pentagon official noted that, under the new strategy, Obama is \"trying to do it faster\" than the 12-month timeline initially requested by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan.", "McChrystal wrote in a report in August that a \"failure to gain the initiative and reverse insurgent momentum in the near-term (next 12 months) -- while Afghan security capacity matures -- risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible.\"", "The Pentagon official said Obama's six-month timeline for sending the new troops is \"very aggressive\" and will be challenging for the military to fulfill.", "The official expressed confidence, however, that the military would successfully carry out the order.", "Opponents of an increased U.S. troop deployment complain that the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai is corrupt and an unreliable partner.", "Obama spoke to Karzai for an hour by videoconference Tuesday to discuss the deployment decision, according to a White House statement.", "\"The president also emphasized that U.S. and international efforts in Afghanistan are not open-ended and must be evaluated toward measurable and achievable goals within the next 18 to 24 months,\" the statement said.", "Share your views on Obama's Afghanistan decision .", "The decision to send the troops carries significant political risk for Obama, who will announce it nine days before he travels to Oslo, Norway, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize.", "His liberal base, which helped him win last year's presidential election, opposes another troop deployment to Afghanistan.", "In addition, the deployment, expected to cost an extra $30 billion a year, comes amid high unemployment as the economy emerges from a recession.", "That concerns Democrats and Republicans faced with competing domestic priorities such as health care reform and job creation.", "U.S.-led troops first invaded Afghanistan in response to the al Qaeda terrorist network's September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.", "The invasion overthrew the ruling Taliban, which had allowed al Qaeda to operate from its territory, but most of the top al Qaeda and Taliban leadership escaped the onslaught.", "Taliban fighters have since regrouped in the mountainous region along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, battling U.S. and Afghan government forces on one side and Pakistani troops on the other.", "Al Qaeda's top leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, remain at large and are suspected to be hiding in the same region.", "The conflict has so far claimed the lives of more than 900 Americans and nearly 600 allied troops." ]	[ "30,000 troops to be deployed within six months, President Obama says .", "Obama: More troops would quicken transfer of responsibility to Afghanistan .", "Obama wants most U.S. troops out of Afghanistan in 3 years, officials say .", "President: Goals are to deny al Qaeda a safe haven and reverse Taliban's momentum ." ]	[ 0, 11, 48 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- When the earth started to shake on January 12, Rocher Joseph-Michelet was in his tiny, one-room apartment, composing lyrics for the upcoming Carnivale in Port-au-Prince.", "He ran out the door to find an entire two-story building, crumbling and falling in his direction.", "\"They break down. I fell down, I was on my back,\" he said.", "In heavily-accented English, peppered with American slang, Joseph-Michelet described how he was all-but buried under the rubble... and then rescued by members of his hip-hop group.", "\"Thanks to God, thanks to my friends,\" he said.", "\"I'm so proud it's them come to save me.\"", "Joseph-Michelet is better known by his stage name \"MRJ.\"", "He is a member of a neighborhood hip-hop group called Sekte Atis Lib, or S.A.L.", "They are six childhood friends from the same poor neighborhood who rap in Creole.", "MRJ escaped the earthquake with minor injuries.", "Many other residents of his neighborhood weren't so fortunate.", "\"Two days after the disaster, we [carried] 39 dead bodies... from here to the central cemetery,\" said Gaby Guerrier, the manager of the band.", "He spoke while standing on a rooftop which offered a view of a devastated urban landscape of collapsed and dangerously sagging cinderblock apartment buildings.", "The members of S.A.L. have been forced to abandon their homes in this tightly-packed community of concrete houses and narrow alleyways.", "\"It's too dangerous, nobody wants to live in the houses again,\" said Guerrier's younger brother Panarothy, also known as the rapper named \"Next.\"", "He led CNN on a tour, past a large wall mural showing S.A.L.", "'s name in jagged graffiti, to the sprawling, fetid camp where the band, their families, and some 4,500 other displaced Haitians now live.", "The artists have helped each other build crude shacks out of plywood and rusting metal sheeting, along a winding dirt alleyway they have playfully nick-named \"Big Man Street.\"", "Twenty-one year old Geffrard Jonel, a.k.a.", "Fame, has already decorated the walls of his hut with posters of soccer teams and music groups.", "He said he and three others slept in the tiny room, along with some unwanted visitors.", "\"Rats!\" he yelled, to peals of laughter from the rest of the group.", "Despite the unbearable conditions, spirits among the band's members appeared remarkably high.", "\"If you get angry with it, you get angry at God,\" said the manager, Gaby Guerrier.", "\"We are not more important than those people who are dead.", "God just leave us alive.", "We thank him for that.\" Perhaps because of this infectious optimism, 25-year-old \"Next\" has been appointed the leader of a camp association, representing all 4,500 residents.", "\"If I have a problem, I'll come to him,\" said one resident named Levi Lazard.", "\"Because he is the one that can make the people listen to him.\"", "On the day CNN visited, Next and about ten other colleagues had just completed construction of a sandbag platform to house a large water bladder and distribution system donated by Irish aid organization Concern.", "Residents with buckets and jugs were already lining up for a taste of fresh water.", "\"We want to make the people, the survivors live better,\" Next explained.", "He then issued an appeal for other aid organizations to come and help the community.", "\"We need something else specially for the children,\" he said.", "\"We need to make a place for the children for education.", "There's no school. It's destroyed.\" Three weeks after the earthquake, residents of this camp were stripping away vegetation and small trees from the surrounding area, and the air was thick with the sound of hammers and saws as people worked to construct new ramshackle homes.", "Before the earthquake, only one member of S.A.L.", "had a full-time job, working at a juice factory.", "The others were unemployed artists, filming music videos on shoe-string budgets, all victims of Haiti's impoverished economy.", "Since the disaster, these young men have carried corpses, cared for wounded friends and relatives, and become leaders of their displaced and desperate community.", "They are also trying write new lyrics, to explain this life-changing ordeal.", "\"This is a revolution of nature,\" said MRJ, who survived the two-story building collapse.", "MRJ and his colleagues then delivered a memorable a cappella performance amid shelters made of bed sheets and sticks where hungry children wailed.", "\"All the parks have become home to most,\" he chanted in Creole, as the sun set over smoking campfires.", "\"We have to mobilize to overcome this crisis.", "Hopefully now the system will reboot.", "The time for the people has come.", "Solving the problems will take time.", "But we're not going anywhere.", "We need to deal with this crisis at the grass roots.\"" ]	[ "Members of rap group S.A.L.", "tell of life amid the rubble of Haiti .", "Rocher Joseph-Michelet's friends rescued him after the earthquake .", "Since the quake, they have been using music to lift survivors' spirits .", "Group raps amid shelters made of bed sheets and sticks ." ]	[ 3, 8, 13, 36, 42 ]
[ "(CNN) -- I asked a knowledgeable environmentalist earlier this week: \"How big a story is the CRU scandal in your community?\"", "\"The what?\" \"The e-mails hacked at the Climate Research Unit at [the British] East Anglia University?\"", "\"Ah.\" He smiled. \"It says something that I didn't immediately recognize what you were talking about.", "I suppose on my side we'd take the same view that the Pentagon took of Abu Ghraib: a few bad apples on the night shift.\"", "Meanwhile, on the right, the story is the biggest scandal since the leak of the Pentagon Papers.", "Seemingly unperturbed by the CRU embarrassment, President Obama will shortly jet to Copenhagen to pledge reductions in U.S. carbon emissions.", "The Democratic majority in Congress continues to work on a cap-and-trade bill.", "At the same time, Gallup has recorded an amazing 20 point drop since summer 2008 in the number of Republicans who believe that global warming is occurring.", "Among Republican conservatives, the drop is slightly smaller -- 13 points -- but that's because so few of them believed in the reality of global warming in the first place.", "It used to be said that we were all entitled to our own opinions, but not entitled to our own facts.", "No more. In modern America, we choose our facts to fit our opinions.", "Michael Barone drove this point home in a 2008 column for the magazine of the American Enterprise Institute: .", "Americans' views of the economy are increasingly a function of voting behavior or party loyalty, rather than the other way around.", "In early 2006, a time of vibrant economic growth, 56 percent of Republicans said the economy was excellent or good, while only 28 percent of independents and 23 percent of Democrats agreed.", "Maybe Republicans were just doing better than Democrats?", "No -- the partisan divergence held true among Republicans and Democrats even of the same income level.", "The same effect showed up in reverse in the 1990s.", "Under President Clinton, Democrats were more likely to assess the economy positively than were Republicans of the same income level.", "Media critics often blame cable, talk radio and blogs for isolating the public into self-satisfied information communities.", "And for sure, Fox News, MSNBC, Rush Limbaugh and the Daily Show have done good business serving niche markets.", "But it's a real question: What is cause and what is effect?", "Maybe customers always wanted to have their pre-existing opinions confirmed.", "Notice how often 19th century newspapers had names like the \"Clay County Whig\" or the \"Jacksonville Democrat.\"", "What were these old county papers if not the Fox News and MSNBC of their day?", "The whole global warming debate has been distorted from the start by intellectual self-ghettoization.", "Suffused by self-righteousness, the East Anglian scientists felt entitled to twist the evidence and delete the counter-evidence.", "iReport: Share your thoughts on climate change .", "But it also helped that they felt sure they would not be caught.", "They had defined their community in a way that excluded skepticism, that defined skeptics as the enemy, as liars, as Holocaust deniers.", "Private e-mails and documents allegedly from the servers at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, a world-renowned center on the study of climate change, are thought to have been leaked by hackers.", "Everything important about global warming remains disputed: .", "How fast is it happening?", "How much of it is attributable to human activity?", "How dangerous is it? How much should we pay to avert or mitigate it?", "Who should do the paying? How are to begin to reach conclusions if we cannot even agree on the rules of discussion?", "The most famous public document on global warming calls itself \"An Inconvenient Truth\" -- and yet that document itself is filled with untruths, on every subject from sea levels to polar bears.", "(The bears are doing fine, populations at record levels in the Canadian Arctic.)", "In his first book, \"Earth in the Balance,\" former Vice President Al Gore wrote that human consciousness itself may be the most important obstacle to environmental improvement.", "He spoke more accurately than he knew.", "The global warming controversy has been pervaded from the start by the human instinct to divide the world into \"us\" and \"them\" -- and then believe only the news we hear from \"us.\"", "Global warming advocates can see this weakness in their opponents.", "It was the same weakness in themselves that led the advocates themselves to cheat and twist and betray scientific standards and public trust.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum." ]	[ "David Frum says the global warming debate has been distorted by intellectual self-ghettoization .", "How can we reach conclusions if we can't agree on rules of discussion, Frum says .", "Frum says that in modern America, we choose our facts to fit our opinions ." ]	[ 10, 24, 34 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The \"pregnant man\" who gave birth to a daughter earlier this year says he is expecting a second child.", "Thomas Beatie, a married man who used to be a woman, has told America's ABC News that after giving birth to Susan on June 29 he did not go back on the male hormone testosterone so he could have another baby.", "\"I feel good,\" he told ABC News' Barbara Walters.", "\"I had my checkups ... And everything is right on track.\"", "Beatie, who lives with his wife Nancy in Bend, Oregon, said the baby is due on June 12.", "Beatie was born a woman but underwent hormone therapy before he was legally declared a man.", "He had a mastectomy but kept his female reproductive organs when he underwent a sex change in the late 1990s.", "He and Nancy decided they wanted to start a family and he underwent artificial insemination late last year.", "Walters said on her television talkshow, \"The View,\" that Beatie had revealed his second pregnancy to her during an interview for a documentary to air on U.S. television Friday night.", "Beatie spoke to Walters about Susan's birth, which was not via Caesarean section.", "Prior to her birth, he released a photo showing his bearded face and pregnant belly.", "It sparked a worldwide media frenzy." ]	[ "\"Pregnant man\" who gave birth to a daughter is expecting a second child .", "Thomas Beatie is a married man who used to be a woman .", "He had a mastectomy but kept his female reproductive organs ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- A body was found in the landing gear bay of an airplane that arrived at Tokyo's Narita Airport Sunday, the airport announced.", "The dead man was not carrying a passport or personal belongings, airport police said.", "The man was of dark complexion and dressed in blue jeans and a red and dark blue long-sleeved shirt, police told CNN.", "Police said he possibly froze to death and suffered a shortage of oxygen at high altitude, but did not provide a definite cause of death pending an autopsy.", "A mechanic found the body in the landing gear bay, which was impossible to enter from the cabin, the airport said.", "The Boeing 777, Delta Flight 59, which departed New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at 12:53 p.m.", "ET Saturday arrived at Narita at 4:46 p.m. local time Sunday, the airport said.", "\"Delta is fully co-operating with the Japanese authorities, and there is (an) on-going investigation which is being led by the Japanese authorities.", "The airline has not issued an official statement at this time,\" a Delta representative told CNN.", "CNN's Junko Ogura and Ayesha Durgahee contributed to this report." ]	[ "Flight left New York's John F. Kennedy airport Saturday afternoon .", "Police believe man froze to death, suffered shortage of oxygen .", "Dead man had no passport or personal belongings ." ]	[ 1, 3, 5 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- All Cedric wanted was lunch.", "A 14-year old student in a special education classroom in Texas, Cedric was living with a foster family because of a history of neglect, including malnutrition.", "But on this day in 2002, his teacher tried to punish him by withholding food, despite the abuse he had suffered as a young child.", "Cedric's teacher delayed his lunch for hours to discipline him for refusing to do his work.", "When he wouldn't comply, his teacher put him in a face down restraint and sat on him in front of his classmates.", "Cedric said repeatedly that he could not breathe.", "He died minutes later on the classroom floor.", "Cedric's tragic story isn't an isolated case in America's schools today.", "According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, over the last 20 years there have been hundreds of allegations of school personnel using restraint and seclusion in abusive ways on children.", "It's happening disproportionately to students with disabilities, often at the hands of untrained staff.", "Many of these students bear haunting physical and emotional scars.", "And in a number of cases, students have died.", "It's difficult to believe, but there are no federal laws to prevent this from happening.", "Local newspapers recount bone-chilling stories of schoolchildren tied to chairs, or with their mouths taped shut, sometimes locked in dark closets, or pinned to the floor for hours at a time.", "If parents treat their kids this way, it's considered a criminal offense.", "But unlike in hospitals and other institutions that receive federal taxpayer funding, there are no federal protections against these abusive practices when they happen in schools.", "The Children's Health Act of 2000 regulates how and when restraint and seclusion can be used in medical settings and community facilities.", "But classrooms, where students spend the majority of their day, are exempt.", "In the absence of a federal standard, state protections for kids are all over the map.", "Many states have no regulations whatsoever.", "Children are left vulnerable and staff untrained.", "Restraint and seclusion techniques should be used only as a last resort, when someone is in imminent danger of physical injury and there are no alternatives.", "Without proper training, staff can be hurt and students, especially small children, are at risk.", "Yet the GAO and news reports confirm that these practices are used frequently, often as discipline, when students aren't physically aggressive.", "While there is no centralized reporting, data from the few states that do track incidents paints a troubling picture.", "In the 2007-2008 school year in California alone, the GAO reports, there were more than 14,300 cases of restraint, seclusion and other \"emergency interventions.\"", "We don't know how many of these merited real emergencies.", "In one California case, Paige, a young girl with Asperger's syndrome, was restrained in class because she was wiggling her loose tooth.", "Her mother, who had never consented to physical interventions, had no idea restraint was regularly imposed until her daughter came home with bruises.", "As parents, when we send our children to school, we expect they will be safe from danger.", "And when the very people we entrust with our children's well-being inflict this type of abuse, it's not just the victims and their families who suffer.", "It hurts their classmates, who witness these terrifying events.", "It undermines the vast majority of teachers and staff who are trying to give students a quality education.", "It's a nightmare for everyone involved.", "The easy answer here would be to blame teachers.", "But it would be the wrong one.", "Ultimately, the root of this problem has been our system-wide failure to provide direction and enforcement.", "As long as school systems continue to lack the tools they need to create good policies and properly train staff, these incidents will continue.", "The solution is a balanced approach to make classrooms safe for students and teachers.", "With that goal in mind, on Wednesday we are introducing legislation to finally ensure that schools in every state have the resources they need to prevent inappropriate restraint and seclusion.", "Our bill would set minimum safety standards in schools, similar to the protections children already receive in other institutions, so that states can ensure appropriate school district policies.", "It would limit physical restraints or locked seclusion to situations involving imminent danger, and require staff to be trained in administering these practices.", "It would outlaw mechanical restraints, such as strapping kids to chairs, and prohibit restraints that restrict breathing.", "It will increase transparency and oversight, so we will finally know just how widespread these practices are, and provide the Secretary of Education with tools to enforce the law.", "And it would give schools the support they need to equip their staff to handle difficult situations in the most positive manner possible.", "In a time of deep partisan divide, some may wonder what prompted strange bedfellows -- a member of Democratic leadership and a member of Republican leadership -- to team up.", "It's as simple as this: Schools are places for our children to learn, grow, and thrive.", "As a nation we must do better.", "It's time to ensure that no child in this country suffers the same fate as Cedric.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of U.S. Reps. George Miller and Cathy McMorris Rodgers." ]	[ "Reps. Miller and McMorris Rodgers say kids sometimes restrained abusively in schools .", "No federal laws prevent this, they say, and it happens disproportionately to special ed kids .", "They say students, teachers, classmates are all harmed by abuse, with lasting effects .", "Miller, McMorris Rodgers: New law would train teachers, limit restraint, provide oversight ." ]	[ 12, 34, 43, 49 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The H1N1 virus has been confirmed in a sample taken from a pig that was displayed at the Minnesota State Fair, the first time the virus has been found in a U.S. pig, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday.", "The Department of Agriculture quickly issued a statement saying the food supply is safe.", "\"We have fully engaged our trading partners to remind them that several international organizations, including the World Organization for Animal Health, have advised that there is no scientific basis to restrict trade in pork and pork products,\" Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in the statement.", "\"People cannot get this flu from eating pork or pork products.", "Pork is safe to eat.\"", "The announcement came three days after health officials announced that three pigs that were displayed during the fair had tested positive in a preliminary test for the H1N1 flu virus.", "Final results on the other two pigs have not been announced.", "\"This, of course, may be the first indication that it is present in some swine here in the United States,\" Gene Hugoson, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, told reporters in a conference call on Friday.", "The U.S. Department of Agriculture National veterinary services laboratories conducted the confirmatory testing on the sample collected at the fair, held in Saint Paul, Minnesota, between August 26 and September 1.", "Further testing is ongoing.", "The pigs sampled showed no signs of sickness and were apparently healthy, the officials said.", "The samples collected were part of a joint University of Iowa and University of Minnesota research project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine whether animals at such events had the infection.", "\"Like people, swine routinely get sick or contract influenza viruses,\" Vilsack said.", "The misconception that the virus, sometimes called the swine flu, could be contracted through eating pork has hurt sales of the meat in the wake of the expanding pandemic.", "This year's crowd of 1.79 million attendees was a record.", "Though an outbreak of H1N1 was reported among a group of 4-H'ers who had attended the fair, officials said it was unlikely they contracted the virus from the animals, since few of them had contact with the pigs.", "The report came as no surprise to experts, since herds in other countries, including Argentina, Canada, Ireland and Norway, have been infected with H1N1.", "Pigs that do get sick with H1N1 typically recover from it, the officials said.", "The officials said the display animals likely were sent to slaughter.", "Even if they were slaughtered while still infected, that would not be an issue for anyone eating the meat, said Dr. Jeff Bender, co-director of the University of Minnesota Center for Animal Health and Food Safety.", "\"This virus is not in muscle tissue, so if these animals were slaughtered or processed there would be no risk to the public.\"", "A vaccine to protect swine from H1N1 is under development but is not yet commercially available, one official said." ]	[ "First time the virus has been found in a U.S. pig, Department of Agriculture says .", "Pork and pork products still safe to eat, Agriculture Secretary says .", "Three pigs on display at Minnesota fair tested positive in preliminary H1N1 test ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A 19-year-old prostitute working in an apartment that doubles as a brothel said she has up to eight clients a day.", "A woman awaits customers at a Beijing barber shop in 2008.", "Sex workers also ply their trade in barber shops.", "Working in the southern boom city of Shenzhen, a special economic zone just north of Hong Kong, she told CNN she worries about getting AIDS, but has her own prevention measures.", "\"I always use condoms or take an injection.", "The medicine can prevent sexually transmitted diseases,\" she said.", "\"Some girls do not use prevention measures, but we don't talk about that in public.\"", "This young woman, who would not give her name, is part of a group that Chinese and international health authorities are concerned could potentially spread HIV and AIDS in the world's most populated country, so officials have stepped up efforts to educate them about the virus and dispel misconceptions about so-called \"injections\" that can prevent infection.", "\"I think sex work is probably one of the most important factors for the potential of HIV spreading in Asia and also in China.", "There is no doubt about it,\" said Bernhard Schwartlander, UNAIDS China Country Coordinator.", "\"One of the things that we have seen in China is that knowledge about HIV/AIDS is very low in the general population and certainly also in the sex work industry.", "That is a big, big problem,\" Schwartlander said.", "It is estimated that some 700,000 people are living with HIV in China and there are about 50,000 new infections every year, according to the Chinese government and UNAIDS.", "The U.N. agency believes a significant number of those new infections include sex workers.", "Prostitution is officially illegal in China, but very loosely addressed by the government.", "It is estimated that there are between two and four million sex workers in China.", "As the country's economy has boomed, so has the sex industry, especially in prosperous cities like Shenzhen.", "Many clients flock there from Hong Kong which is just an hour away, some of them businessmen with money to spend.", "Condom use in China can range anywhere from about 20 percent to 80 percent, according to UNAIDS.", "\"There are misconceptions. People think that they can avoid HIV infections by taking a pill.", "People think that they are not at risk for HIV infections because they don't know anybody (who has it), because you can't see it, you can't touch it.", "And clearly, this is something that we have to change very rapidly,\" Schwartlander said.", "Historically, HIV and AIDS have been taboo topics in China, another reason awareness can be so low.", "Prevention in the gay community has also been difficult because of traditional stigmas against homosexuality.", "But the Chinese government is now conducting educational campaigns to inform higher risk groups, including sex workers, about how to prevent the transmission of HIV.", "\"After years of these campaigns, we found out through survey that condom use is constantly increasing, especially in urban areas, the condom use can reach 70 percent or even up to 80 percent,\" said Hao Yang, Deputy Bureau Chief of the Chinese Health Ministry's Disease Prevention and Control Bureau.", "But other areas are proving difficult.", "In rural parts of the country, the proportion of condom use among sex workers is less than 50 percent, Hao said.", "\"When we go to investigate in rural areas, the proportion of people with this knowledge (of AIDS prevention) is still very low,\" he said.", "\"In addition to that, the proportion of change in their activities is also very low, which means that the condom use rate is still low.\"", "About one in 200 sex workers nationwide currently has HIV, Schwartlander said.", "But in one part of Yunnan province in the country's far southwest, seven percent of the sex workers -- or as many as 14 in every 200 -- have HIV, according to UNAIDS.", "\"The sex workers living in remote areas and rural areas have played an important role in AIDS spreading.", "We do not have a precise figure for the proportion that sex workers make up in it (the spread of AIDS), but we can say that they are making up a significant proportion,\" Hao said.", "The government has a long-term plan to educate the general public and to strengthen intervention in the high-risk populations, particularly sex workers, Hao said.", "When HIV initially began to spread in China, infections were concentrated among people who injected drugs, Schwartlander said.", "Campaigns among this group have been effective, while infections among other groups have risen.", "One of those groups, Hao said, was men having sex with men, which accounts for 5.9 percent of infections, according to the Chinese Health Ministry.", "A majority of the infections are concentrated among drug users, men having sex with men, and sex workers and their clients, Schwartlander said.", "\"Society and communities have been able to curb the spread of HIV, also in sex work, and that is what we have to do,\" Schwartlander said.", "As China's economy grows, it is likely the sex industry will as well.", "Current estimates show that some 30 to 50 million people are at significant risk for HIV infection, Schwartlander said.", "\"China is a society which is in quite a significant transition.", "There is a huge increase in disparity of income between the rich and the poor, and all these are very well-known factors that drive the sex industry forward,\" Schwartlander said.", "\"Clearly, in China, I think that the sex industry is a rising industry.", "We will see an increase in the number of sex workers due to these factors in the future.\"", "A 22-year-old prostitute in Shenzhen, who did not want to give her name, said she knows the risk but needs the work.", "\"AIDS is the number one killer for my job.", "I cannot let this disease destroy my life.", "This is only a short-term business.", "I don't have any relatives in Shenzhen and can't borrow any money. I can only rely on myself.\"" ]	[ "Some people in China believe injections or a pill can prevent infection .", "Some 700,000 people have HIV in China; about 50,000 new infections yearly .", "About one in 200 sex workers nationwide currently has HIV .", "As China's economy has boomed, so has the sex industry ." ]	[ 12, 16, 30 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The father of a 6-year-old girl, one of four relatives who police say were killed by another family member on Thanksgiving Day, said it was \"unbelievable\" how a tip from a television viewer brought about the arrest of the suspect.", "\"Before the show even came on, Paul was being surrounded by the people behind me,\" Jim Sitton said Tuesday in Jupiter, Florida, standing in front of police officers.", "Paul M. Merhige is accused of fatally shooting his twin sisters, Sitton's 6-year-old daughter Makayla -- Merhige's cousin -- and a 79-year-old aunt at a family home in Jupiter, Florida, on November 26.", "One of his sisters was pregnant.", "Police said Merhige also wounded two other family members during the shooting rampage.", "A viewer of the television show \"America's Most Wanted\" recognized descriptions of Merhige and his car and called police.", "Officers responded to the tip late Saturday, surrounding a small motel in the Florida Keys and taking Merhige into custody.", "Sitton said the tip came in from a promotional announcement before the show aired, not the show itself.", "The couple at the hotel who called police went outside and lifted a tarp to look at Merhige's license plate and verify it was the vehicle sought, he said.", "\"So many people don't make the call, and they made the call,\" Sitton said.", "\"The monster's in a cage and now we can get out of protective mode and begin the process of healing.\"", "He said he's not \"jumping for joy\" at the arrest, \"because our daughter's room is still empty.", "There's dresses and shoes in there that will never be worn again.\"", "While the arrest won't bring his daughter back, he said, \"this is the first step toward justice. ...", "If there's anyone that deserves the death penalty, it would be someone who would go and execute my 6-year-old daughter while she is sleeping in her bed.\"", "Merhige made a first appearance in court on Sunday.", "He is charged with four counts of premeditated murder and attempted first-degree murder.", "His next court appearance is February 1.", "He is being held without bond at the Palm Beach County jail.", "\"America's Most Wanted\" host John Walsh told reporters he got involved in the case after his wife called him and told him she had been seeing news reports on it, and pushed him to air information on the suspect, who had been at large since Thanksgiving.", "\"I really believed that the public would make the difference,\" said Walsh, who met with the Sittons on Tuesday, according to the AMW Web site.", "He said Sitton's home had been under police protection and Sitton had patrolled his home nights with a shotgun since the incident.", "Walsh also said Merhige deserves the death penalty.", "\"He killed four people, including a pregnant woman.", "He needs to pay.\" He cautioned the media to be gentle with the Sittons, saying, \"these are decent, wonderful, good people that are getting ready to go through hell.\"", "Walsh has been involved in assisting crime victims since his 6-year-old son, Adam, was abducted and killed in 1981.", "According to its Web site, \"America's Most Wanted\" has helped find more than 1,050 fugitives and bring home more than 50 missing children in its 22 years on the air." ]	[ "Dad of slain girl, 6, says arrest of relative is first step towards justice .", "Viewer tip led to arrest of suspect in fatal Thanksgiving shooting .", "Paul Michael Merhige was arrested Saturday at motel in Florida Keys .", "Couple who called police lifted tarp to check license plate on Merhige's car ." ]	[ 0, 6, 8, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A memorial cruise is scheduled to set sail 100 years after the sinking of the Titanic, following the same trans-Atlantic route as the ill-fated ship, according to organizers.", "A list of first class passengers for the R.M.S.", "Titanic is one of the artifacts that remains after the sinking.", "The Titanic Memorial Cruise is to set sail in April 2012, departing from Southampton, England, on April 8, just as the Titanic did.", "On April 15, the ship -- the Balmoral -- will arrive at the spot in the North Atlantic where the Titanic sank after it collided with an iceberg.", "Passengers on the 2012 cruise will take part in a memorial service at the site, according to organizer Miles Morgan Travel.", "Artifacts from the Titanic and a piece of the ship's hull have been recovered, but most of the wreckage remains where the luxury cruise liner sank.", "The 12-night memorial cruise will then take passengers to Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada, so they can visit cemeteries where some of the Titanic victims are buried.", "The trip will end in New York, where the Titanic was headed.", "Prices for the trip start at $3,900.", "Millvina Dean, thought to be the last survivor of the Titanic, died in June 2009 at age 97, according to friends.", "Dean was an infant when the Titanic -- publicized as \"practically unsinkable\" and as the largest passenger steamship at the time -- struck an iceberg on the night of April 14, 1912, during its maiden voyage from Southampton in southern England to New York.", "The ship sank less than three hours later, killing more than 1,500 people.", "Dean's brother and mother also survived the sinking." ]	[ "The Titanic Memorial Cruise is to set sail in April 2012, 100 years after the sinking .", "It will depart from Southampton, England, on April 8, just as the Titanic did .", "The trip will end in New York, where the Titanic was headed ." ]	[ 3, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Half a million homes remained without power across the Northeast and mid-Atlantic region on Sunday, as rain continued to pound states from West Virginia to Connecticut for a second day.", "The rain caused flooding and airport delays across the region, even as Saturday's high winds -- reaching hurricane force in some areas -- waned dramatically on Sunday.", "\"High winds are over, but the rain and flood threat remain in Mid-Atlantic and Northeast,\" CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras said.", "\"There are major travel delays -- and more expected on Monday.\"", "Some coastal areas have received up to six inches of rain since Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.", "Flood warnings remained in effect in parts of the Eastern Seaboard into Sunday night, including much of New England.", "Flooding in West Virginia caused one death there, authorities said.", "Con Edison reported more than 100,000 customers without power in New York City and Westchester County on Sunday, while the Long Island Power Authority said that 150,000 of its customers were without electricity.", "\"The ground is so wet from all the snow we've had this winter, it's helping the trees to topple over, as well as our utility poles,\" said Long Island Power Authority president and CEO Kevin Law.", "\"The conditions are still too terrible to get crews out there.\"", "Law said that some customers will likely go without power until early in the week.", "Roughly 100,000 New Jersey customers saw their electricity restored Sunday, along with 30,000 PPL Electric Utilities customers in Pennsylvania.", "But tens of thousands of other homes in New Jersey and Connecticut were still without power on Sunday.", "iReport: Share photos, video of storm damage .", "The outages were mostly due to power lines downed by Saturday's winds, which toppled trees and utility polls.", "Wind speeds reached 75 miles per hour at New York's JFK International Airport -- as strong as a Category 1 hurricane -- and 72 miles per hour in Atlantic City, New Jersey.", "New York-area airports reported delays of at least two hours on Sunday, while Boston's Logan International Airport averaged 40 minute delays.", "In the Midwest, meanwhile, flooding continued on Sunday because of snow melt, rains and ice jams.", "Farther west, North Dakota's Red River is expected to reach major flood stage around Fargo and Moorhead on Tuesday." ]	[ "Half a million homes remained without power across Northeast, mid-Atlantic region .", "Winds reached hurricane-force levels in some places .", "Winds dying down, but flooding remains a threat .", "Midwest, North Dakota dealing with their own flooding problems ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Arjen Robben proved the difference for the second time in four days as Bayern Munich came from behind to beat Freiburg 2-1 to leapfrog Schalke at the top of the Bundesliga.", "The brilliant Dutchman put the Bavarian giants into the quarterfinals of the Champions League with his stunning strike against Fiorentina on Tuesday and worked his magic again at the Allianz Arena.", "Cedric Makiadi had put struggling Freiburg ahead in the 31st minute, but Robben equalized in the 76th and then converted a 83rd-minute penalty to give Bayern an invaluable three points.", "It leaves them two points clear of Schalke, who went temporarily top after a 2-1 lead against Stuttgart.", "Makiada's fine strike left Hans Joerg-Butt with no chance and a shock looked on the cards as Louis van Gaal's men appeared jaded after their midweek heroics.", "But Robben cropped up to drill home his ninth of the season and his 10th came after Thomas Mueller was fouled to win a penalty.", "Earlier on Saturday, Borussia Dortmund moved up to fourth spot with a 4-1 win at Bochum with Argentina star Lucas Barrios scoring twice in three minutes in the second half to seal victory.", "Defending champions VfL Wolfsburg picked up their fourth-straight Bundesliga win under caretaker coach Lorenz-Guenther Koestner as they beat Borussia Moenchengladbach 4-0 to move up to eighth.", "But basement side Hertha Berlin look certain for the drop after a 2-1 home defeat to fellow strugglers Nuremberg, who followed up their shock win 3-2 at Bayer Leverkusen with another fine victory.", "It lifts them to 15th.", "Third-placed Leverkusen play Hamburg on Sunday in a bid to get their title challenge back on track after Nuremberg ended their record unbeaten run.", "In other action around Europe on Saturday, on-loan Robbie Keane scored a hat-trick as Celtic won 3-0 at Kilmarnock to reach the semifinals of the Scottish Cup, their last realistic hope of silverware this season.", "In the French League, Lyon struggled after their midweek heroics against Real Madrid and were held to a 1-1 draw at home to local rivals St. Etienne.", "A first half goal from Emmanuel Riviere put struggling St. Etienne ahead with Lyon getting an 80th minute equalizer from Argentinian Lisandro Lopez.", "With leaders Bordeaux held to a goalless draw at Monaco and fellow challengers Montpellier and Auxerre playing out a 1-1 draw, Lyon's draw was a missed opportunity.", "Bordeaux are top with 53 points from 27 games, with a game in hand on Montpellier, who also have 53, with Auxerre just a point behind in third.", "Lyon are fourth with 50 points after 28 games." ]	[ "Arjen Robben hits a second half double to give Bayern Munich 2-1 win over Freiburg .", "Victory lifts them two points clear of Schalke at the top of the Bundesliga .", "Nuremberg boost their battle against relegation with 2-1 win at Hertha Berlin .", "Celtic reach semifinals of Scottish Cup as Robbie Keane scores hat-trick .", "Lyon follow midweek heroics with 1-1 home draw against St.Etienne in France ." ]	[ 0, 3, 11, 12 ]
[ "Austin, Texas (CNN) -- An Internet that gives people the information they want virtually as soon as it's created is getting closer, according to Internet professionals.", "But before real-time Web becomes a reality, developers say they need to figure out how to protect people's privacy while blasting out as much information as they can, as fast as they can.", "\"A lot of this data that people would like to make available, they wouldn't necessarily want to make available to everyone,\" said Jack Moffitt, chief technical officer for Collecta, a search engine that aims to give real-time results.", "\"I think we'll be wrestling with privacy issues around real-time data for a long time.\"", "The idea behind a real-time Web is to create technology that doesn't require an Internet user to actively seek out something they're interested in.", "That could mean anything from getting pinged when an article about your favorite sports team is posted to an alert when you're mentioned in someone's blog.", "Moffitt and others speaking at the South By Southwest Interactive Festival on Saturday said there's not yet fully developed technology that would both give people all the real-time info they want and let people who put their information on the Internet select who sees it -- or even take it back.", "\"It's kind of in our best interest, being selfish, if everyone was completely open with their data,\" said Scott Raymond, founder of Austin-based Gowalla, a location-based mobile app.", "\"From the user's perspective, it's kind of the opposite -- it's probably better to just stay selfish with your own data but consume everyone else's.", "\"There's a whole lot of work that needs to be done on this and it hasn't been solved yet.\"", "For example, if people on Twitter all set their feed to private, the popular trending-topics feature wouldn't work.", "Recently, Twitter, on which most users make their information open to everyone, hit a major milestone -- its 10 billionth tweet.", "Unfortunately, that tweet was by a user whose settings are private, so the curious will never know what the landmark message was.", "Brett Slatkin, a software developer with Google, said a real-time Web would create numerous new opportunities -- among them, giving small, local retailers a chance to catch up with major online stores that capitalize on convenience.", "\"If my corner store can say [to a customer online], 'Yes, I just got five rickshaw bags in stock and you wanted one -- you can just walk down here and get it,' it's a chance to change competition and commerce,\" he said.", "On sites like Twitter, Gowalla and Foursquare, Google Buzz and Facebook, status updates already exist as elements of a real-time Web.", "Developers note that the speed with which information travels on the Internet is already dramatically faster than it was just a couple of years ago -- before Twitter and location-based apps existed and before Facebook became a worldwide phenomenon.", "\"This creates lots of interesting social scenarios,\" said Dare Obasanjo, of Microsoft.", "\"In the 'old days,' you would have written a blog post about something you did and I'd be like, 'Crap, I was in the next room.'", "\" Multiple players, at both major Internet companies and new startups, are working on an Internet platform to \"real time\" the rest of the Web.", "That starts with faster searching.", "Current search engines \"crawl\" around the Internet -- adding the material they find to their databases.", "But that can sometimes take awhile, particularly on smaller Web sites.", "Then, there needs to be a universal system for pushing that information to the right people.", "Obasanjo suggested there may eventually be a way for every new page of data on the Internet to have hashtags (#) similar to the ones used on Twitter to denote that a post is about a particular topic.", "On the issue of privacy, Slatkin said developers could roll out a way for a person to set their online privacy settings in one place then have those settings apply on every Web site.", "\"We're going to see a definition, at the technical level, of what sharing means,\" Slatkin said.", "\"I think we're going to solve it on the technical level first.", "Once we solve it technically, it'll be about how to actually implement it for users.\"" ]	[ "Idea behind real-time Web is to create technology that doesn't require user to seek out info .", "Developers say they need to figure out how to protect privacy first .", "Real-time Web could help local retailers catch up with major online stores, developer says ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Bayer Leverkusen moved to within three points of German Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich after a comfortable 4-2 home victory over Hamburg on Sunday.", "A double from Stefan Kiessling helped Leverkusen on their way to another three points, leaving them clear in third, a point behind second-placed Schalke, with the top three now pulling away in the race for the title with just eight games left.", "Kiessling opened the scoring after running onto Tranquillo Barnetta's through-ball and out-pacing two defenders before firing past goalkeeper Frank Rost.", "But Ze Roberto volleyed home a 33rd-minute equalizer for Hamburg after a defensive mix-up involving Sami Hyppia and goalkeeper Rene Adler.", "Eren Derdiyok restored Leverkusen's lead in the 55th-minute when heading home Daniel Schwaab's ball into the box -- and Kiessling quickly added a third with a simple tap-in after some great work from Renato Augusto.", "Czech defender David Rozehnal gave Hamburg some brief hope when converting an 83rd minute Piotr Trochowski free-kick but the victory was confirmed just a minute later when Gonzalo Casto fired home from just inside the area.", "Meanwhile, in the day's other match, Claudio Pizarro scored his 11th league goal of the season to give Werder Bremen a 1-0 home win over Hoffenheim.", "The Peruvian striker lobbed goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand with just nine minutes remaining to leave Werder sixth in the table, one point away from a place in Europe." ]	[ "Bayer Leverkusen move to within three points of German leaders Bayern Munich .", "Stefan Keissling scores twice for Leverkusen in their 4-2 win over Hamburg .", "Claudio Pizarro nets the only goal as Werder Bremen defeat Hoffenheim ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- \"In Afghanistan, the sacrifice in the political game is women and children,\" female Afghan parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi said.", "Critics say they fear that Afghanistan's new Shiite law will set the nation backward.", "Koofi says that is exactly what happened when the Afghan parliament recently passed a bill intended to give the minority Shia community their own identity.", "But critics say the latest draft strips Shia women of rights as simple as leaving the house without permission from a male relative and as extreme as allowing a man to have sexual intercourse with his wife even when she says, \"No.\"", "These critics wonder how what amounts to rape in marriage could be passed by parliament and signed into law by President Hamid Karzai.", "Amid blistering criticism from the West, Karzai addressed the law over the weekend, saying that key elements of the bill were misinterpreted by Western news organizations.", "Watch Karzai react to controversial law » .", "\"We understand the concerns of our allies and the international community.", "Those concerns may be due to an inappropriate, not-so-good translation of the law, or misinterpretation,\" Karzai told reporters in Kabul.", "He added that the Minister of Justice will study the \"Shia state law,\" line by line, to make sure it follows the nation's constitution, which requires equal rights to both sexes.", "\"If there is anything that is of concern to us, then we will definitely take action in consultation with our [religious clerics] and send it back to the parliament.", "You be assured of that. This is something that we're also serious about and should not allow,\" he said.", "However, Karzai did not address the most controversial part of the bill, dealing with rape of a wife.", "Watch a report on the law » .", "The Shia state law was debated by 249 members of the lower house, including 68 women, some of whom voted for the bill.", "It was then sent to the upper house.", "Even some lawmakers are baffled at the manner in which it passed.", "\"Most members of the parliament did not know what they were going to vote for,\" Koofi said.", "\"Even some of my friends, MPs sitting with me, voted in favor without knowing what happened.\"", "U.S. President Obama called the law \"abhorrent\" and said his administration has made it clear to the Karzai government that it objects to the law.", "Human rights groups and the international community have condemned the law and say it could undermine efforts to support basic human rights in the war-torn nation.", "\"We very much hope that the draft piece of legislation is to be withdrawn,\" German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a NATO summit on Afghanistan over the weekend.", "\"It is unacceptable if such a law were to be passed in Afghanistan and become a part of Afghan legislation.\"", "According to lawmakers who opposed the bill, conservative legislators are pushing back any progress made for women's rights in Afghanistan after the brutal oppression under the Taliban regime.", "From 1996 to 2001, under the Sunni fundamentalist government of the Taliban, women were not allowed to leave their homes without being escorted by a male relative, and girls were not allowed to go to school.", "When women did leave their homes, they were required to wear a blue burqa, which covered their bodies from head to toe.", "The only opening was a small net that provided an eyehole for the women to see through.", "Women remember those days with despair.", "One female teacher, who asked not to be named, said that during the Taliban regime, she was stopped at the market by the Taliban and beaten with a whip.", "Her crime: She wore a shawl covering her body instead of a burqa.", "She says she was too poor to purchase a real burqa.", "After that beating, she was stuck in her home for months until someone was able to give her a used burqa.", "But even then, she didn't know how to function wearing the suffocating fabric.", "\"I remember stepping out of a taxi with my son, and my foot was caught inside the burqa, making me fall out of the taxi onto mud.", "And everyone started laughing.", "It was humiliating,\" she said.", "Women in Afghanistan can still be seen wearing burqas.", "But Koofi says advances have been made for women's rights in recent years.", "In some cases, it's as simple as putting on makeup and walking down city streets.", "But she fears that the rights of women and children could slowly be eroded, the \"victims of political games,\" as she puts it.", "\"I mean, they don't have a gun to fight [with], they cannot create a mess,\" Koofi said.", "That's a sentiment echoed by rights groups.", "\"The reported new law on women's rights could be about to seriously undermine women's rights for millions of Afghanistan women,\" Amnesty International said in a statement.", "The new law was intended to give the minority Shia community its own identity within the predominantly Sunni country.", "Shias have been practicing their form of Islam for centuries in Afghanistan, but they agree that there needs to be a governing Islamic law for Shias alone, one recognized by the central government.", "Koofi welcomes international support in fighting the new law, telling CNN that international investments in Afghanistan should go beyond financial donations.", "\"I don't ask that the international community come and make laws for us, but they have to make the government of Afghanistan accountable for their commitment to women and children ... and basically the human rights situation in this country,\" she said." ]	[ "Afghan law appears to let a man to have sex with his wife even when she says \"no\"\nPresident Hamid Karzai says the law will be reviewed line-by-line .", "Rights group: \"President Karzai needs to start standing up for human rights\"\nAfghan lawmaker says women and children are \"victims of political games\"" ]	[ 3, 6, 9, 39 ]
[ "(CNN) -- After scathing criticism from the son of slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, police in Los Angeles, California, have apologized for including the clothes the senator was wearing when killed in an exhibit of high-profile homicide cases.", "The clothing -- a shirt, tie and jacket, with what appears to be bloodstains on the shirt -- was removed from the exhibit, \"Behind-The-Scenes: The LAPD Homicide Experience,\" at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada.", "In addition, Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley and Police Chief Charlie Beck, in an open letter Thursday, apologized to any other victims' family members who might have been offended by the other items in the exhibit, running Tuesday through Thursday at the California Homicide Investigators Association's 2010 conference.", "\"Based on the feedback we have received, it is now clear that a few of the items on display have offended some crime victims' families,\" the letter said.", "\"We have both been to hundreds of murder scenes in our law enforcement career and we have consoled many family members.", "It was never our intent to cause grief to victims of crime or their families.\"", "In a statement issued last month, the LAPD had billed the exhibit as \"a glimpse into some of the most notable homicides and critical incidents that occurred in Los Angeles over the past 100 years.\"", "\"It's about the history of Los Angeles, as told through the eyes of homicide investigators of the Los Angeles Police Department,\" Beck said Tuesday on CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"", "\"This is an opportunity for homicide investigators from all over the country to get together, to share ideas, to share best practices and to talk about some of the most famous cases in Los Angeles history, as well as their current cases.\"", "But in an opinion piece in Wednesday's Los Angeles Times newspaper, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, son of the late senator, called the display of his father's clothing \"a cheap bid for attention.\"", "\"The chief of police and the district attorney took my father's blood-soaked clothing and displayed it, as part of a macabre publicity stunt,\" he wrote.", "\"It is almost incomprehensible to imagine what circumstances would have led to a decision to transport these items across state lines to be gawked at by gamblers and tourists.", "It is demeaning to my family, but just as important, it is demeaning to the trust that citizens place in their law enforcement officers.\"", "The exhibit also features evidence associated with the death of Marilyn Monroe, the 1963 \"onion field\" case in which LAPD Officer Ian Campbell was slain, the O.J.", "Simpson and Charles Manson cases, and the so-called \"Black Dahlia\" murder, according to the LAPD statement announcing it.", "Family members of some victims in those cases told \"Larry King Live\" the LAPD should have notified them about the exhibit.", "\"From my perspective, it's very disturbing,\" said Debra Tate, sister of actress Sharon Tate, slain along with six others in 1969 by the Manson family killers.", "\"Number 1, I didn't get any notice that this was going to occur.", "But these are very personal artifacts to me.", "These are things that bring back horrible memories, not only for myself, but other Manson family victims.\"", "The items include ropes used in the murders of Tate and others, and a fork used to stab one of the victims, said retired LAPD Sgt.", "Glynn Martin, the curator of the exhibit.", "\"We certainly try to concern ourselves with the thoughts and concerns of victims, and certainly our hearts go out to them,\" Martin told King. ...", "Likewise, we have an obligation, both as a museum and then the bigger one as the police department, to train, educate and inform officers and the public about people that do this particular job of investigating people that have lost their lives.\"", "Debra Tate said she can see the educational value, and might consider seeing the exhibit, but \"I think a little bit of notice for people to prepare themselves would have been very, very nice.\"", "Also featured are the bloody gloves from the Simpson trial and a watch cap collected as evidence, Martin said.", "Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman.", "\"Had we been given a little bit of notice, it would have been easier to avert your eyes,\" Goldman's sister, Kim, told \"Larry King Live.\" ...", "I think there is an educational value, and I understand that.\"", "But, she said, \"it just comes back to sensitivity.\"", "\"If we've offended anybody, certainly we extend our apologies to them,\" Martin said.", "\"But the intent here is to inform and educate, with the idea that we're going to serve a greater public good.\"", "The exhibit opened to the public Wednesday, and \"thousands of guests have stood in lines for up to two hours to glimpse Los Angeles' history,\" said the letter from Cooley and Beck.", "\"A number of the exhibits show evidence that was collected during various well-known incidents, and they were carefully designed so visitors would gain a better appreciation for the tragedy of murder and the difficult jobs law enforcement detectives have in solving often very complicated cases,\" the letter said.", "\"Murder is the absolute worst thing one human being can do to another and the displays were designed to provide a unique insight into the sacrifice of victims and their families as well as the emotional toll murder takes on homicide detectives and the district attorneys who prosecute the cases.\"", "\"Homicide is by nature horrific, but the entertainment media often portrays it as sterile and benign,\" the letter said.", "\"When people see the reality of murder, it becomes an unthinkable act.\"", "The exhibit \"was designed to be educational and show the public how murder cases are very carefully investigated,\" the letter said.", "Kennedy was a New York senator running for president when he was shot to death in June 1968 at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, shortly after declaring victory in California's Democratic presidential primary.", "His killer, Sirhan Sirhan, is serving a life sentence at a California prison.", "In his op-ed, Maxwell Kennedy said that he had contacted Beck and that he was pleased the chief had agreed to remove the items.", "\"When I called to express my surprise and disappointment, the chief maintained to me that hanging my dad's bloody shirt from a mannequin in a casino was part of an effort to train detectives,\" he wrote.", "\"Perhaps he believes that, but to me it seems like a cheap bid for attention.", "It is almost like a traffic cop inviting motorists to slow down and take a good look as they go past a tragedy.\"", "The California Constitution guarantees crime victims and their families will be treated with dignity and respect, he wrote.", "And as a former assistant district attorney, Maxwell Kennedy said, \"I understand that proper storage of property and legal evidence is a critical part of the judicial process.\"", "He said he requested the return of his father's clothing nearly 10 years ago, and the district attorney's office refused, but he was promised the items would be treated with care and kept out of the public view.", "Beck, he wrote, should remember that \"such items are personal property, entrusted to the state's care, not to be exploited.", "He relies on crime victims to prosecute virtually every criminal.", "He cannot long succeed if he continues to put victims' pain on display for publicity.\"" ]	[ "LAPD apologizes after son of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy objects to Las Vegas display .", "Tie, jacket, shirt senator wearing when slain removed from exhibit .", "Chief calls exhibit, which includes evidence from other high-profile crimes, educational .", "In editorial, Maxwell Taylor Kennedy calls clothing display \"a macabre publicity stunt\"" ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "MANCHESTER, Tennessee (CNN) -- When Bela Fleck told us he had been missing something in his life musically, he caught us off guard.", "Bela Fleck traveled to Africa to immerse himself in banjo-related culture.", "Keep in mind: Fleck is considered by many to be the premier banjo player in the world.", "He's won Grammy awards.", "He's collaborated with bluegrass musicians, jazz players, classical performers and any number of other talented artists.", "But Fleck said he wanted to make himself uncomfortable.", "Earlier this year, he released the documentary \"Throw Down Your Heart,\" for which he traveled to Uganda, Tanzania, Mali, and Gambia to explore the African roots of the banjo.", "CNN caught up with him backstage at the Bonnaroo music festival last month, where he played with African kora player Toumani Diabate, to discuss his film and experience in Africa and what prompted him to go.", "The following is an edited version of the interview.", "Watch Fleck at Bonnaroo » .", "CNN: What gave you the inspiration to go to Africa to trace the roots of the banjo and make \"Throw Down Your Heart?\"", "Bela Fleck: Well, I have loved the banjo since I first heard it when I was a little kid, and after I started to learn to play it I discovered that it came from Africa originally, and that doesn't seem to be common knowledge.", "There are a lot of people who have forgotten over the years where the banjo comes from.", "I've always wanted to go back to Africa and hear what's going on there and find the instruments that still exist that are the roots of the banjo and play music with them.", "So that's what this trip and the film and the record were all about --going to Uganda, Tanzania, Mali and Gambia and finding musicians and filming interactions with them and recording it all.", "CNN: What did you learn? Fleck: That's a common question.", "Everybody wants some kind of epiphany out of a trip like this, and I got it, but it's hard to put it into words.", "Except that just the experience of playing with these musicians made my life a lot richer, made my worldview a lot bigger, and in a lot of cases I learned music that was so new to me that it's affected the way I play music ever since.", "CNN: It's clear that learning this music and a new technique on the banjo was a challenge for you.", "Fleck: Sure.", "Another important part of the trip for me was putting myself into uncomfortable situations and seeing how I would do, because over the years, as I've gotten more and more successful, I get in control of things, and less and less I was finding myself in situations that were truly risky musically.", "I liked being unprepared and being forced to come up with it on the spot.", "It just wasn't happening in my life at the time.", "So that was another part of going to Africa, throwing myself into completely uncharted waters and trying to do something good and survive.", "[There was also] the brotherhood of acoustic musicians, 'cause we feel something when we play our instruments and the sounds mingle in the air.", "I think it's different than playing pop music or electric instruments.", "CNN: Tell us about your collaboration with Toumani Diabate.", "Watch the masters play » .", "Fleck: I am so lucky to be performing with Toumani.", "He's the greatest kora player.", "The kora is a 21-string harp, and he comes from 71 generations from it being taught from father to son, father to son.", "We improvise together with just the kora and the banjo.", "CNN: Did you learn how to play the kora?", "Fleck: No, I haven't sat and tried to play the kora, but he's taught me the notes that he plays, the scales and the patterns that he does, and I taught him some banjo stuff.", "He's a great collaborator.", "Playing with musicians who didn't speak English was not a problem, when we started to play together, we always found a way to make music.", "CNN: Is there a social message about Africa you came back with and want people to know about?", "Fleck: My reasons for going to Africa were kind of selfish, because I love the banjo, and I really want to play with the musicians.", "But I think that the film serves in a lot of positive ways.", "One of the ways is to show people that there are a lot of great things about Africa.", "Currently there are so many horrible things that are getting press about Africa, and they truly are horrible.", "But there's a reason we should care about Africa: It's a wonderful place.", "People are beautiful, and there is an incredible culture and history there, and I think this film sits on the other side.", "It's not a political statement, but it does point out what is beautiful about Africans." ]	[ "Bela Fleck, top-rank banjo player, went to Africa to seek instrument's roots .", "Fleck: I like throwing myself into \"uncharted waters\"\nMusician collaborated with African kora player Toumani Diabate ." ]	[ 1, 23, 28, 29 ]
[ "NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- The doctor at the center of an investigation into patients' deaths after Hurricane Katrina said everyone must remember the \"magnitude of human suffering\" after the storm to ensure that no health care worker is ever \"falsely accused in a rush to judgment.\"", "Dr. Anna Pou said Tuesday she hopes to return to work doing what she \"loves to do best.\"", "\"Today's events are not a triumph, but a moment of remembrance for those who lost their lives in the storm and a tribute to all of those who stayed at their posts and served people most in need,\" Dr. Anna Pou said after a grand jury decided Tuesday not to pursue criminal charges against her.", "Pou and two nurses -- Cheri Landry and Lori Budo -- were arrested in July 2006 after a 10-month investigation into the deaths at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center.", "Pou's lawyer, Rick Simmons, said she and her patients were \"abandoned\" by all levels of government.", "\"The certificates of death in these individual patients should read 'abandoned by their government.'", "That's what happened here,\" he said.", "Pou said she hopes to return to work doing what she \"loves to do best.\"", "She fought back tears as she thanked those who have stood by her during the past 23 \"challenging and painful\" months.", "Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti charged the doctor and two nurses with second-degree murder.", "Landry and Budo were recently given immunity in exchange for their grand jury testimony.", "Watch what led up to grand jury's decision » .", "Pou, Landry and Budo denied the charges, and their attorneys have said they acted heroically, staying to treat patients rather than evacuate.", "Foti accused the three of involvement in as many as nine deaths at the hospital.", "The investigation concluded that patients were given a \"lethal cocktail\" of morphine and midazolam hydrochloride, both central nervous system depressants, he said.", "None of the patients had been prescribed the drugs by their caregivers, and none of the accused treated them before the injections, Foti said.", "\"This was not euthanasia,\" Foti said at a news conference last summer.", "\"This was homicide.\" Foti said he turned his findings over to Orleans Parish District Attorney Eddie Jordan, who was required by law either to file charges or reject the case.", "Instead, Jordan impaneled a grand jury and vowed to let it decide what charges, if any, should be sought.", "Jordan also directed New Orleans Coroner Frank Minyard to hire outside forensic experts to review the case.", "On Tuesday, Foti acknowledged that \"in our system, justice has been served.", "The grand jury has made its decision. ...", "I'm not here to second-guess what the court says.\"", "But he noted that none of the alleged victims' relatives and none of five medical experts who independently concluded the deaths were homicides were called to testify before the grand jury.", "Asked her feelings about Foti, Pou said, \"I'm really putting Mr. Foti in God's hands,\" adding that she continues to pray for the ability to forgive him.", "CNN first reported the allegations of euthanasia months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and triggered flooding in New Orleans two years ago.", "Patients, staff and their families rode out Katrina.", "But four days after the hurricane hit, despair was setting in.", "The hospital was surrounded by floodwater.", "There was no power or water, and the heat was stifling.", "Food was running low, and nurses were forced to fan patients by hand.", "Simmons said Pou is still facing lawsuits filed by relatives of three of the patients who died.", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "NEW: Prosecutor: \"Justice has been served.", "...", "I'm not here to second-guess\"\nLawyer says Dr. Anna Pou, patients were \"abandoned by their government\"\nPou was accused of killing patients in the chaos after Hurricane Katrina .", "Two nurses arrested in same case had charges dropped earlier ." ]	[ 3, 4, 5, 20, 22 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The House of Representatives voted unanimously Thursday to impeach Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. of U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, making him the nation's 15th federal judge ever impeached.", "\"Our investigation found that Judge Porteous participated in a pattern of corrupt conduct for years,\" said U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Task Force on Judicial Impeachment.", "\"Litigants have the right to expect a judge hearing their case will be fair and impartial, and avoid even the appearance of impropriety.", "Regrettably, no one can have that expectation in Judge Porteous' courtroom.\"", "After the impeachment vote, Schiff and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia, were named the lead impeachment managers for the Senate trial, which will decide whether to remove Porteous from the bench.", "\"Today's vote marks only the second time in over 20 years that this has occurred,\" Goodlatte said in a House news release.", "\"However, when evidence emerges that an individual is abusing his judicial office for his own advantage, the integrity of the entire judicial system becomes compromised.\"", "In a statement, Porteous' lawyer Richard W. Westling said the Justice Department had decided not to prosecute because it did not have credible evidence.", "\"Unfortunately, the House has decided to disregard the Justice Department's decision and to move forward with impeachment.", "As a result, we will now turn to the Senate to seek a full and fair hearing of all of the evidence.\"", "In a telephone interview, Westling said he did not know when the Senate trial would be held.", "\"There are no clear rules that dictate timing,\" he said.", "Last year, the Task Force on Judicial Impeachment held evidentiary hearings that led to unanimous approval of the four articles of impeachment, citing evidence that Porteous \"intentionally made material false statements and representations under penalty of perjury, engaged in a corrupt kickback scheme, solicited and accepted unlawful gifts, and intentionally misled the Senate during his confirmation proceedings,\" the House release said.", "Porteous was appointed to the federal bench in 1994.", "In 2007, after an FBI and federal grand jury investigation, the Justice Department alleged \"pervasive misconduct\" by Porteous and evidence \"that Judge Porteous may have violated federal and state criminal laws, controlling canons of judicial conduct, rules of professional responsibility, and conducted himself in a manner antithetical to the constitutional standard of good behavior required of all federal judges.\"", "The complaint said the department opted not to seek criminal charges for reasons that included issues of statute of limitations and other factors.", "But Westling said the statute of limitations was not applicable.", "An Impeachment Task Force held four hearings late last year that focused on allegations of misconduct by Porteous, including: .", "-- Involvement in a corrupt kickback scheme .", "-- Failure to recuse himself from a case he was involved in .", "-- Allegations that Porteous made false and misleading statements, including concealing debts and gambling losses .", "-- Allegations that Porteous asked for and accepted \"numerous things of value, including meals, trips, home and car repairs, for his personal use and benefit\" while taking official actions on behalf of his benefactors .", "-- Allegations that Porteous lied about his past to the U.S. Senate and to the FBI about his nomination to the federal bench \"in order to conceal corrupt relationships,\" Schiff said in his floor statement as prepared for delivery .", "Porteous was invited to testify, but he declined to do so, Schiff said.", "\"His long-standing pattern of corrupt activity, so utterly lacking in honesty and integrity, demonstrates his unfitness to serve as a United States District Court judge,\" he said.", "Porteous, 63, has not worked as a judge since he was suspended with pay in the fall of 2008, Westling said.", "The last federal judge impeachment occurred last year, when Judge Samuel B. Kent of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas resigned after being impeached on charges of sexual assault, obstructing and impeding an official proceeding, and making false and misleading statements, according to the Web site of the Federal Judicial Center.", "The Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, dismissed the articles.", "Before then, Judge Walter L. Nixon of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi was impeached in 1989 on charges of perjury before a federal grand jury.", "The Senate convicted him and removed him from office that year." ]	[ "Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. was impeached by U.S. House of Representatives .", "Porteous is from U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana .", "Rep. Adam Schiff: Porteous \"participated in a pattern of corrupt conduct for years\"" ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Remember \"You're money, baby\"?", "Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau making the L.A. bar scene in \"Swingers\" back in 1996?", "In the film, couples go to the Eden Resort, which is offering a great package deal on relationship counseling.", "They were young and hungry then, and there was insolence in their hustle, but at least they pressed their case: They knew they were sharp enough to be players.", "Since then, Favreau has gone on to direct blockbusters like \"Elf\" and \"Iron Man,\" and his buddy Vaughn has stacked up a string of hits in the company of Frat Packers Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson.", "Well, they're not hungry anymore, and not so young either.", "Between them (and with an assist from Dana \"What Happens in Vegas\" Fox), they have cooked up \"Couples Retreat,\" a marriage comedy that coincidentally doubles as an enviable excuse for an extended shoot in Bora Bora.", "Watch the stars talk about the shoot » .", "That's the tropical location of the Eden Resort, which is offering a great package deal for married couples looking for relationship counseling.", "Jason and Cynthia (Jason Bateman and Kristen Bell) want to give it a shot, and persuade their supposedly happily married friends Dave and Ronnie (Vaughn and Malin Akerman), Joey and Lucy (Favreau and Kristin Davis), and Shane and his 20-year-old girlfriend Trudy (Faizon Love and Kali Hawk) to join in the fun.", "Apparently, nobody has trouble raising the fare, even in these recessionary times.", "Once there, however, they are dismayed to find Eden is run with iron discipline, and the mandatory therapy sessions soon expose serious cracks in each of the relationships.", "Directed by Peter \"A Christmas Story\" Billingsley -- another old friend of Vaughn's -- \"Couples Retreat\" can't decide if it's satirizing New Age-y therapies or exploring marital breakdown.", "So it gives us a little of both, with some sub-Apatow sex humor on the side.", "As a commercial recipe, that's fine.", "America's ticket buyers have shown time and again they're desperate for a laugh and willing to overlook widespread mediocrity to get it.", "But you might hope for something a bit less lazy from this team.", "And shouldn't a movie with \"Couples\" in the title be less lopsided in its approach to the sexes?", "I guess in contrast to such boys-will-be-boys romps as \"The Hangover\" and \"Wild Hogs,\" at least this time the wives get to come along, not that any of them has much to say for herself.", "Trudy wants to party.", "Lucy has eyes for the yoga instructor (Carlos Ponce).", "Ronnie wants some romance.", "And Cynthia ... I don't know what Cynthia wants, but getting away from her control freak husband certainly seems like the way to go.", "The guys are noticeably chubbier, but equally one-dimensional.", "It's just that that dimension enjoys rather more screen time as Billingsley indulges Vaughn and Favreau's less-than-inspired improvisational riffs on marital frustration, machismo and middle-age spread.", "We even have to endure a Guitar Hero duel.", "For a movie made by a bunch of friends, it's strange that we don't get any sense of how or why these couples hang out together.", "But so long as there's a pretentious Frenchman to scoff at, an officious Brit and a sexy Hispanic, at least they're united by what they're not.", "Whether by accident or design, \"Couples Retreat\" does such a good job exposing what selfish, insensitive jerks these guys are, the contrived and conventional ending actually has a feel-bad undertow.", "You've got to suspect that back home in suburbia, these couples are doomed to live unhappily ever after.", "\"Couples Retreat\" is rated PG-13 and runs 107 minutes." ]	[ "\"Couples Retreat\" stars, was co-written by Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau .", "Plot concerns couples who head for a vacation in Bora Bora, issues in tow .", "Movie offers some nice scenery, but it's lazy with the laughs and plot .", "Most of the movie focuses on male half of couples ." ]	[ 1, 17, 21, 26, 30 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Actress and animal rights activist Eva Mendes hopes you'll shun fur as you shop for the holidays.", "\"Even if you buy a fur glove with the little trim, and you think 'Oh, my God, it's just a little trim,' that animal got clubbed,\" Mendes said.", "Mendes took her clothes off two years ago for the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) \"Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur\" campaign, but now she wants you to see something less pleasant.", "She's narrated a video of PETA's latest undercover footage of animals being killed for their fur.", "\"These animals are beaten to death, they're skinned alive, their throats are slashed while they're still alive,\" she said.", "\"They're anally electrocuted, just so the fur won't become tainted.\"", "It's unlikely you'll see the 3-minute video on television because of its gruesome nature.", "But it shouldn't be hard to find it spreading virally online.", "\"It's not something you want to see,\" she said.", "\"But it's something you have to see.\"", "Mendes says she's confident that anyone who watches it will eventually ditch furs as fashion.", "\"Even if you don't do something today, it'll stay in your consciousness and you'll think about it,\" she said.", "\"That's why these strong images are so necessary for people to see, because they'll stay in your mind, and maybe in your subconscious.", "They'll stay there and that will really help you make a more evolved decision in the future.\"", "Mendes said her dog, Hugo, \"changed her world\" and convinced her to campaign against fur.", "\"I've become so much of a more just sensitive, empathetic person towards animals because of him,\" she said.", "\"Because he's just so precious and I can't imagine wearing him or eating him, and what's really the difference between him or some little raccoon or some bunny or seal?\"", "Mendes stopped eating beef, chicken and pork two years ago, but she still consumes animal products such as cheese and milk.", "But there is a great substitute for animal fur, she said.", "\"Go faux, go fake.\"" ]	[ "Eva Mendes narrates PETA video of undercover footage of animals being killed for fur .", "\"It's not something you want to see,\" Mendes says of gruesome 3-minute video .", "Two years ago, Mendes took off clothes for group's \"Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur\" campaign ." ]	[ 2, 3 ]
[ "London, England -- Petra Nemcova is a former Victoria's Secret supermodel-turned-philanthropist.", "Despite her riches, Nemcova, who grew up with few luxuries in communist Czechoslovakia, told CNN that her most important work is her charity, the Happy Hearts Fund.", "The model set up the foundation after her near-death experience in the 2004 Asian tsunami.", "While Nemcova survived by clinging to a palm tree for eight hours, her long-term partner did not.", "Here, Nemcova shows CNN around Prague and tells of her love for the \"Golden City,\" what she learnt from growing up in a communist country and how she keeps smiling -- despite life's setbacks.", "CNN: Tell us about the first time you came to Prague.", "Petra Nemcova: The first time was to visit my aunt and even if Prague is in the same country as my town, it felt like a real journey.", "For us it was like going somewhere very special, far away, because under the Communist regime you didn't travel that much and Prague was \"wow.\"", "I was overwhelmed and amazed by the beauty of Prague and every time I arrive in Prague, even now, I'm still amazed.", "The lighting at night; the incredible architecture; the details; the history; there was a lot to learn about and a lot to discover.", "It was a very special experience.", "The following time I went to Prague was during my early career in the fashion industry and I was traveling once, twice a week from my town to Prague.", "I would wake up at 5.45 in the morning, take the bus for one hour, then a tram to school.", "After school I would take a five-hour train to Prague.", "So it was quite intense at that time, but it was a great experience and it taught me a lot about being independent.", "CNN: How would you describe Prague, in five words?", "Petra Nemcova: Prague is a city of romance, of incredible architecture and history.", "Some people call it the \"golden city,\" some people say it's the heart of Europe -- although maybe the French don't like that very much!", "Paris is bigger obviously and a bit more hectic and Prague is smaller and has more of a village-y feeling compared to Paris.", "Prague has more of a calming vibe.", "It's not rush-rush-rush.", "I think when people come here they are surprised by the beauty of Prague and also the vivid colors.", "I think they may imagine Prague more in gray colors because of the communist association.", "But since then a lot of reconstruction has been done.", "Before Prague was shades of grey and black, which was quite mysterious, but now it's more happy and pretty.", "In five words it's historical, inspirational, creative, romantic and beautiful.", "CNN: What was your childhood like?", "Petra Nemcova: Growing up in the Czech Republic -- at the time Czechoslovakia -- was a beautiful childhood because I didn't understand the whole concept of communism.", "I was only 11 when communism fell down and when the Velvet Revolution happened.", "I had a really beautiful childhood ...", "I didn't have the great luxury things, we had very little and we counted every penny.", "But our parents gave us something more valuable than money -- they gave us so much love and that's priceless.", "We didn't get the opportunity to travel all over the world and were able to travel only within the communist countries.", "So we went around our country to see different castles, little towns and I loved it.", "So that made us richer.", "It also made us appreciate nature because we spent every weekend in nature.", "And the values you learn there are priceless too.", "You don't step on flowers, kick on mushrooms, you really respect nature.", "And the value of appreciation came from not having anything and then having a little bit.", "Having a clementine for Christmas -- it was an incredible joy and every time I smell a clementine, it brings me back to my childhood.", "But it was harder for my parents.", "Because if you weren't part of the system then you didn't get a job and an apartment and it would be really difficult for you.", "My parents had these passports where every time they would go to these communist meetings they would get a stamp and if you didn't get enough stamps throughout the year, you would get in trouble.", "CNN: What happened to you in the 2004 tsunami?", "Petra Nemcova: I lost my partner and physically, my pelvis was broken four times, I was drowning many times throughout the experience.", "There were hard moments throughout that experience and some sweet ones.", "Seeing the compassion of other people risking their lives for strangers, there was just a lot of love around in that moment.", "That's what happens actually if you live through disasters, it brings people together, it shows that we are capable of that compassion, but unfortunately it just goes away after some time.", "CNN: Tell us about your foundation, Happy Hearts?", "Petra Nemcova: Happy Hearts is a foundation that I established after the tsunami.", "It helps children improve their lives after natural disasters through educational and sustainable initiatives.", "We build or rebuild a school, add computer labs inside and then we build businesses to sustain the school.", "The education is really a key not just for the children to recover faster from the disaster but also to help them, their families and communities get out of poverty.", "We help over 23,000 children a year.", "We give them hope and not just for them but for their parents and communities.", "The schools elevate the whole community.", "After the tsunami we went to other countries where disasters happened and one of them was in Indonesia.", "We work with local partners on the ground and have been able to build 33 kindergartens after the 2005 earthquake and that's something incredible because it really changed so many lives.", "Our other project is in Peru, where there was an earthquake in 2007 and we have a commitment to build three schools a year.", "CNN: If you only had 24 hours in Prague, what would you do?", "Petra Nemcova: First of all I would take my friends and family and I would walk around and go to the Charles Bridge because that is my favorite place.", "Then I would stop by some exhibitions of some new artist.", "And then I would go and sit down for some tea perhaps at the Musical House.", "In the evening I may go to a typical Czech pub and afterwards for a concert because I really love them; they put my mind at ease and inspire me.", "CNN: How creative is the city?", "Petra Nemcova: Many people know about Kafka and some of the other famous writers.", "But there is a lot of interest in music here and in different types of art.", "That's perhaps because art was suppressed during communist times and you were only allowed to read certain authors.", "That's why there is such a hunger now for everything that was forbidden.", "Not just Czech authors but also a lot of American authors because especially anything from U.S. was big taboo and you could not see any movies and you could not listen to any music.", "I discovered Stevie Wonder seven years ago and I'm still working on learning and seeing more of the great movies.", "CNN: If Prague were a person, who would it be?", "Petra Nemcova: I think Prague would be our former president Vaclav Havel.", "He is a proud person and Prague is a proud city; he's an artist and Prague is artistic; he's an achiever and Prague has achieved so much.", "He is someone people admire, as they do Prague." ]	[ "Czech supermodel and philanthropist shows CNN around her \"Golden City,\" Prague .", "Nemcova: \"Prague is like former president Vaclav Havel: Admirable, artictic and proud\"\nNemcova also talks about growing up under communism and surviving the 2004 Asian tsunami ." ]	[ 0, 4, 72 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Yume-Hotaru's first novel was a best-seller in Japanese bookstores, and he wrote it entirely with his thumbs.", "Publishers in Japan were quick to see the potential of putting cellphone novels into print.", "The 22-year-old who would rather be identified by his pen name than his real one (Yume-Hotaru means \"Dreaming Firefly\" in Japanese) started composing the novel on his cell phone in 2007.", "Between classes, on the bus or before going to bed at night, he would type single sentences into his phone's tiny keypad, uploading each one straight to the mobile social networking site Mobage-town.", "The more Yume-Hotaru posted, the more popular his story became.", "It won a prize and soon publishers approached him, asking if he wanted to turn his digital book into a paper one.", "By early 2008, his novel \"First Experience,\" a story about love and sex in high school, was a top title in one of Tokyo's biggest bookstores.", "Since it emerged in Japan nearly a decade ago, the cell phone novel, or keitai shosetsu, has moved from a little-known subgenre to a mainstream literary phenomenon.", "Keitai shosetsu sites boast billions of monthly users while publishers sell millions of copies of cellular stories taken from phones and turned into paperback.", "It is even spreading to other countries as other cultures start to take part in a type of composition long considered purely Japanese.", "As the name suggests, cell phone novels are written entirely on handsets and posted on sites like Maho no i-rando (Magic Island), the first and largest mobile novel portal in Japan.", "The site has a million titles, 3.5 billion monthly visitors and six million registered users, according to the company.", "Mobile readers instantly see new chapters as they are added, often adding comments about the direction they think a novel should take.", "The diary-like stories are written and read mostly by young women in their teens and 20's.", "Many authors use pen names and claim their stories are at least partially autobiographical.", "The novels often center on themes that are rarely discussed aloud in Japanese society -- drugs, sex, pregnancy, abortion, rape and disease.", "\"When they write those novels, they share their secret, personal problems, and when they read by mobile phones, they can hide what they are reading,\" explained Toshie Takahashi, an associate professor of media studies at Rikkyo University in Tokyo.", "\"They are also involved and engaged with their mobile phones very strongly,\" added Takahashi, noting that 96 percent of high school students own a cell phone in Japan.", "\"The mobile phone itself is embedded in young people's everyday lives very deeply and also emotionally and physically.\"", "Despite its popularity among young women, a male writer known as Yoshi, widely considered the first cellular novelist, brought the burgeoning genre to light when he self-published \"Deep Love\" in 2002.", "The story about a prostitute in Tokyo sold nearly 3 million copies and was adapted for film, television and Manga, or Japanese comics.", "Publishing phenomenon .", "A struggling Japanese publishing industry was quick to take notice of the growing popularity of keitai shosetsu, especially early works like Yoshi's \"Deep Love.\"", "Many of the popular cell phone novels have since been turned into paperbacks, and bookstores across Japan now have entire sections devoted to the digital-age literary genre.", "By 2007, half of the country's 10 best-selling novels were written on cell phones, according to book distributor Tohan while last year mobile novels and comics were a $240 million market in Japan, which is over 5 percent of the country's $4.5 billion total mobile content market, according to Japan's Mobile Content Forum.", "In January 2009, three Japanese mobile phone novel publishers reported collective sales of 1.7 million copies.", "Publishers, like Goma Books, one of the first to print cell phone novels, have also launched their own keitai shosetsu sites, which they use to sift through for talent whose work will be marketable on bookshelves.", "Goma's mobile story site Orion carries 20,000 novels and has approximately two million monthly users, according to the company.", "Goma has also published several top-selling keitai shosetsu, including \"The Red Thread,\" by Mei (also a pen name).", "Since it was released in 2007, the story, which revolves around the romance of two middle school students, has sold nearly 2 million copies and was adapted for a TV series and movie last December.", "The publishing house now prints a new mobile novel every month.", "Some literary purist don't think the cell phone novels constitute real literature, but their popularity is undeniable.", "\"The sentences may be a bit immature.", "It doesn't have a major plot line sometimes.", "It is just love stories of ordinary high school girls, said Aya Tanaka, a spokesperson for Goma.", "\"But it is kind of like popular comics, it is what the teenagers want to read, and for the publishers, it is quite a big market and it does sell.\"", "Michael Keferl, a trend consultant with Cscout Japan in Tokyo, believes that \"[readers] are participating in the creation of the novel, which is one of the reasons why they buy it afterwards.", "They are helping to write it and are also witnessing it being written.\"", "Crossing cultures .", "However some believe the future of keitai shosetsu as one that is quickly following in the footsteps of most teenage fads: A sudden and rapid rise to mass popularity followed by a slow but steady decline to the fringes of the not-so-cool.", "Last year few mobile novels appeared on best-seller lists while new stories published online have lost their characteristic edginess, said Chiaki Ishihara, a Japanese literature expert at Waseda University in Tokyo who has studied cell phone novels.", "\"Keitai shosetsu is rapidly declining at this point,\" Ishihara told CNN.", "\"In a few years, it may not even be considered a subculture.\"", "Others see the cell phone novel moving from an initial boom that peaked around 2007 to a period of market stabilization.", "\"You are not going to have as many of the big hits as you had before because there are so many titles out,\" said Keferl.", "\"Things are leveling out now.\"", "While the cell phone novel market may be cooling in Japan, it is just starting to emerge in other countries, like the United States, where faster networks and cheaper data plans are leading more consumers to use handsets in ways similar to people in Japan.", "Many companies are starting to launch mobile web sites in the U.S., including DeNA, the Japanese firm that owns Mobage-town, the site where Yume-Hotaru writes his keitai shosetsu.", "\"What has surprised us is users in America are behaving in a similar way to the Japanese,\" said Dai Watanabe, president of DeNA Global, Inc. \"They are writing about things that are very close to their actual lives.", "I was surprised to see it is very similar with what is happening in Japan.\"", "Julian Knighten, a 22-year-old who works three jobs, writes his cell phone stories while lying in bed at night in his home outside of Dallas, Texas.", "He said he had never heard of keitai shosetsu before but likes writing cell phone novels because of the relationship he has with readers and the feedback they give him about his stories.", "\"It encourages me to write,\" said Knighten.", "\"And it gives me the chance to escape reality.\"" ]	[ "Hugely popular cell phone novels have created new market for publishers in Japan .", "Written on cell phone, often by 20-somethings with themes taboo in society .", "Publishing boom has led to sector maturing, but sales still in millions of copies .", "Cell phone novels finding popularity in U.S. with advancing mobile technology ." ]	[ 15, 21, 24, 25, 31, 40 ]
[ "Seattle, Washington (CNN) -- The suspect in Sunday's fatal shooting of four police officers was shot and killed early Tuesday by an officer after the suspect approached him and \"reached into his waist area,\" authorities said in a statement.", "Although the medical examiner has not formally identified the man shot and killed in south Seattle about 2:45 a.m., detectives recognized him as Maurice Clemmons, sought in the killings of four Lakewood, Washington, police officers shot Sunday at a coffee shop, Seattle police said in the written statement.", "Pierce County Sheriff's Department spokesman Ed Troyer said earlier Tuesday that Clemmons was carrying a weapon taken from one of the slain officers and had been shot in the abdomen in Sunday's shooting at the Forza Coffee Company in Parkland, Washington.", "He had had stuffed gauze and cotton into the wound and put duct tape over it, Troyer said Tuesday.", "Clemmons had been the subject of an intense manhunt for two days.", "Two people accused of helping Clemmons evade authorities, brothers Eddie and Douglas Davis, appeared in court Tuesday.", "Both are charged with rendering criminal assistance, a felony.", "A man who police believe is the getaway car driver was also in custody, along with a second man.", "Neither has been charged.", "The men accused of trying to help Clemmons provided medical aid, housing, a cell phone and money and were trying to get him out of the state, Troyer said earlier Tuesday.", "They also called in false leads to police to divert investigators.", "Early Tuesday, a patrol officer saw an unoccupied car in south Seattle that was running and had its hood up, police said.", "He determined the car was stolen and was doing paperwork in his vehicle when he saw a man approach his patrol car from behind on the driver's side, the statement said.", "The officer got out of the car and ordered the man to stop and show his hands, but the man refused, the statement said.", "Follow local coverage on CNN affiliate KIRO-TV .", "\"As the officer was drawing his gun, the suspect reached into his waist area and moved,\" the police statement said.", "\"The officer fired several times, striking the suspect at least twice.\"", "He was pronounced dead at the scene.", "The officer is a four-year member of the Seattle police force and is a military veteran, police said.", "He will be placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure after a shooting involving an officer.", "Authorities said they regretted the shooting death but are glad the two-day ordeal is over.", "\"Right now, it's just a feeling of relief,\" said Jim Pugil, the assistant Seattle police chief.", "\"Another tragic time has come upon us, and we're just happy that it's over.\"", "Additional arrests in the case are likely, Troyer said Tuesday.", "\"I am thankful the suspect in this horrible crime is no longer a threat to our community,\" Washington Gov.", "Christine Gregoire said in a statement.", "\"I hope this provides some closure for the families and colleagues of our fallen officers.", "... We should now focus our attention on providing comfort and support to those who have lost a loved one.\"", "Clemmons had made comments before Sunday's shootings that he was going to kill some officers -- comments that were not reported to authorities until after the shootings -- but officials believe he was the lone gunman.", "\"We don't think anyone helped him plan this murder,\" Troyer said.", "The manhunt for Clemmons began Sunday after the four Lakewood officers -- three men and a woman -- were gunned down while meeting at the coffee shop before their shifts began.", "Clemmons was an ex-convict with a long rap sheet in Washington and Arkansas, according to authorities and documents.", "Clemmons slipped away from a home in Seattle's Leschi neighborhood Sunday night before police surrounded the residence for about 12 hours.", "He was not found in the home when investigators moved in Monday morning, Seattle police spokesman Jeff Kappel said.", "Officials said Tuesday that they missed him by mere minutes.", "Clemmons was accused of child rape and assaulting a police officer in May.", "He had been released on $150,000 bail five days before the shootings, according to court records.", "After his arrest, Clemmons' sister told police that he \"had not been himself lately\" and that his behavior was \"unpredictable and erratic.\"", "\"He had said that the Secret Service was coming to get him because he had written a letter to the president,\" an affidavit quoted her as telling investigators.", "In addition, neighbors had complained that he had been throwing rocks through their windows.", "Clemmons' wife told deputies that she and her husband had argued over a \"newly discovered child,\" and she suggested that was why he went on his rock-throwing spree, according to an arrest affidavit.", "In 2000, then-Arkansas Gov.", "Mike Huckabee commuted a prison sentence for Clemmons, according to documents from the Arkansas Department of Community Correction.", "Clemmons was sentenced to 95 years, to be served consecutive to time he was already serving from previous convictions, according to the documents.", "In all, he faced a total of 108 years, Arkansas officials said.", "He returned to prison in 2001 and was paroled in 2004.", "Sunday's shooting was the first for the Lakewood Police Department, which was created five years ago for the town of nearly 60,000.", "The slain officers were identified as Sgt.", "Mark Renninger, 39; Officer Ronald Owens, 37; Officer Tina Griswold, 40; and Officer Greg Richards, 42.", "All of them were parents and had been with the department since its inception.", "\"My worst nightmare has come true,\" said Tiffany Ryan, Griswold's sister.", "\"I can't tell you how painful it is to lose my sister.\"", "Police said the gunman walked past the officers to the counter as if to order but then pulled a gun out of his coat and began shooting at 8:15 a.m. Two of the officers were \"executed\" as they sat at a table, Troyer said.", "Another was shot when he stood up, and the fourth was shot after struggling with the gunman all the way out the door, Troyer said.", "Officials said Tuesday they know which officer shot him but were withholding that information pending conclusive confirmation.", "CNN's Patrick Oppmann, Dan Simon, Dave Alsup, Dina Majoli and Matt Smith contributed to this report." ]	[ "Police: Officer fired gun after suspect approached and reached toward waist .", "Maurice Clemmons had been sought in killings of four police officers .", "Slain suspect had abdominal wound, victim's gun, police say .", "At least three accused of helping Clemmons elude police ." ]	[ 0, 4, 16, 35 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- An elections board certified Kasim Reed on Saturday as the winner of the Atlanta mayoral runoff election by a margin of 620 votes.", "Barry Garner, director of Fulton County's elections board, told CNN on Saturday that former state senator Reed was declared the winner of last Tuesday's runoff election against City Councilwoman Mary Norwood.", "Garner said Reed received 42,348 votes compared with Norwood's 41,728.", "Norwood has until 5 p.m. Tuesday to request a recount, Garner said.", "He said if a recount is requested, it will begin Wednesday morning.", "In the initial vote among eight contenders, Norwood received 45 percent of the votes to Kasim Reed's 37 percent.", "Lisa Borders came in a distant third with 14 percent of the vote, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.", "A candidate needs 50 percent plus one vote to avert a runoff.", "CNN's Greg Morrison contributed to this report." ]	[ "Elections board: Kasim Reed is the winner of Atlanta mayoral runoff .", "Reed defeated Mary Norwood by 620 votes, elections board director says .", "Norwood has until 5 p.m. Tuesday to ask for a recount, elections official says ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Teenagers exchange text messages while driving because, well, they're teenagers and teenagers sometimes do dumb things.", "But suit-wearing adults who should know better are texting behind the wheel too, driven by grown-up motivations.", "A sign in San Francisco warns drivers late last year of a new California law prohibiting texting while driving.", "\"My job has me out on the road for four to five days out of the week,\" Anthony Perry, a director of business development for a Washington-based health care research firm, told CNN in an e-mail sent from his BlackBerry.", "\"I don't particularly think I am that good at texting while driving but I do it anyway, recognizing the risks.\"", "Those risks are significant.", "A Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study released this week showed truck drivers are 23 times more likely to be in a crash if they're texting, and several fatal accidents have been blamed on drivers or train operators who were distracted by texting.", "Nevertheless, for many in business, it seems to be a matter of competitive survival.", "\"Now with e-mail and with the advent of the BlackBerries and hyper-accessibility, there's this sense that if you don't show that you're always prepared and ready to respond and address an issue, then somehow you're going to be perceived as not being conscientious or not keeping up on things,\" said Tom Britt, a professor of social psychology at Clemson University in South Carolina.", "Watch someone attempt to text and drive » .", "\"I could not imagine doing my job, or living my life, without the aid of a bberry,\" Perry wrote.", "\"I don't know many who could who are in my line of work.\"", "Entrepreneurs and people in service industries, such as lawyers, may feel the heat more than others, said Dr. Debra Condren, a business psychologist and executive coach with offices in New York and San Francisco, California.", "\"The constant pressure to be on the grid, especially in this economy -- 'Oh my gosh, has a client called?", "Has a potential client called?", "Am I going to lose the job?", "Am I going to miss an opportunity?", "-- makes us kind of revert to almost an adolescent mentality in terms of thinking that we're invulnerable [vis a vis] texting and driving,\" she said.", "But those fears are overblown for most people, she said.", "\"There's this sense that we're so important that every single moment has to be filled; we can't even pull over or we're going to miss five minutes' driving time or 10 minutes' driving time.", "The pace is at this breakneck speed,\" said Condren, author of \"Ambition Is Not a Dirty Word,\" a career guide for women.", "\"The truth is nobody is that important or that in demand that they can't practice safety and good common-sense behaviors.\"", "Condren recently scolded a cabdriver who was trying to program her hotel's address into his GPS device while driving 60 mph.", "He got a little \"snippy\" with her but put the device down, she said, and she gave him directions to the hotel.", "Watch how high the risk really is » .", "The subject is personal for Condren, whose son Edward was struck four years ago by an SUV whose driver was fishing around on the floor for a dropped cell phone.", "Edward suffered a broken pelvis and a concussion, but has fully recovered and now is a college student.", "It's going to take something that drastic to get Mei Lin Walker to quit texting while driving.", "\"I think the thing that would happen -- this sounds horrible -- that would make me stop texting is if I actually had a wreck or I did run off onto the curb or something crazy like that,\" the Delta Air Lines flight attendant said.", "\"I try not to do it while I'm driving, but if I'm sitting in traffic and there are a lot of lights I will,\" said Walker, of Decatur, Georgia.", "\"I do think it is dangerous, and I consciously try not to do it, but then sometimes there's just a text that can't wait.\"", "Walker has never had an accident or even a close call while texting, she said, even though she drives a stick-shift car.", "Texting is easier than talking on a cell phone, she said, because she can set the device down in mid-text without disrupting the conversation if she needs both hands free for driving.", "Nevertheless, Walker probably isn't driving as well as she believes she is, Britt said.", "\"In general, people are overconfident and have a sense that they're capable of doing much more than they really are,\" he said.", "\"People, especially adults, feel like driving is such an automated skill that basically they could do multiple things in addition to it without performance suffering.\"", "Many drivers do understand the danger and act accordingly.", "\"It's nearly impossible to text in California while driving,\" said Los Angeles County resident Karen North.", "\"I can see why they make it a law here for no texting while driving.\"", "See where laws limit texting while driving » .", "North said she sends her messages right before heading out.", "If messages need to be sent en route, she hands her iPhone over to one of her teenage children, who are almost always with her.", "Both Britt and Condren advocate awareness campaigns based on the Virginia Tech study's findings.", "It's up to corporate executives to lead the way, Condren said.", "\"Leaders at the top have to walk their talk and really make it a priority,\" with companywide meetings and periodic reminders, she said.", "\"It's difficult to change the culture of a particular corporation,\" Britt said.", "\"That has to start at the top. ... At least have the corporate leadership indicate that if you're actually at the wheel, that responding isn't as important as safety.\"" ]	[ "Business people exchange messages while driving despite risk of crashing .", "Competitive, economic pressures drive risky behavior, experts say .", "Georgia woman sends texts in traffic while driving stick-shift car .", "People aren't as good at multitasking as they think they are, psychologist says ." ]	[ 0, 4, 7, 9, 24, 29 ]
[ "(CNN) -- David Beckham has promised he will do everything in his power to help England win the bid to stage the 2018 World Cup.", "The England and LA Galaxy midfielder has been in South Africa with Football Association chief Lord Triesman to promote England's bid ahead of the draw for the 2010 tournament.", "Beckham was an ambassador for the successful London 2012 Olympic campaign, and now has a similar role in the World Cup bid.", "The 34-year-old, who was speaking at a Coaching for Hope project in Cape Town, believes \"hard work\" is the key England's bid.", "\"We can win the campaign with hard work - nothing in life is easy and you have to work for special things to be given to you and we are prepared for that,\" Beckham said.", "\"Football is in our culture, in our DNA.", "It's in us from the moment we are brought into this world, from when we are born and that's something we will always have.\"", "Find out all the latest news about the build up to the World Cup in South Africa here.", "FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, who had previously been critical of England's bid to stage the tournament, said that celebrity appeal can form just as important part of a bid as the quality of the stadiums.", "\"The stadiums and infrastructure is just one of the things that the bid will be judged on,\" Warner added.", "\"There is the social responsibility and the legacy that the World Cup leaves and other maters.\"", "\"Celebrities? Of course that will help - isn't that what football is all about?\"", "FA chief Lord Triesman also appreciates the role that Beckham, who has met with FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Warner while on the trip, can have on charming the relevant parties.", "\"When he talks to people, even privately, the passion and patriotism shines out of him,\" he said.", "\"England is one of the few countries with its stadia and its infrastructure that could host a World Cup almost immediately, next week.", "\"The diversity of cultures around our country is a big thing as well.", "There are not many countries where you can have Brazil and Portugal and so on coming to our country and for there to be lots of their fans already there.", "That's a special thing for us.\"" ]	[ "David Beckham has promised he will do everything in his power to help England win the bid to stage the 2018 World Cup .", "FIFA vice-president Jack Warner admitted that celebrity appeal is an important part of a country's bid .", "Beckham was speaking ahead of the draw for the 2010 event and believes \"hard work\" will be crucial to England's bid ." ]	[ 0, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Virgin has secured a partnership with the Brawn Grand Prix team in Formula One racing, Virgin chief Richard Branson announced Saturday.", "Virgin's sponsorship mark's Richard Branson's first foray into Formula One racing.", "The move, which had been the subject of speculation, marks Virgin's first foray into F1.", "Branson made the announcement from Melbourne, where he is attending Saturday's Australian Grand Prix.", "He announced the news just before the Brawn team secured the first two grid positions after qualifying, with Jenson Button in pole position.", "\"I have always said I would love to have a Virgin car on the circuit,\" Branson wrote on his blog.", "\"I am thrilled to be involved with people as skilled as Ross Brawn and his team.\"", "Branson added, \"We are very confident that the Virgin Car driven by Jenson Button and Reubens Barrichello will go from strength to strength this season and look forward to a great future for the Brawn GP team.\"", "Brawn Grand Prix is a newcomer to the F1 world.", "Run by former Ferrari technical guru Ross Brawn, the group was formed after Honda pulled out of Formula One because of the global economic downturn.", "Brawn kept the same driver line-up of Brazil's Barrichello, the most experienced driver on the grid, and Button, who has had to play second fiddle following the emergence of world champion and fellow-Briton Lewis Hamilton.", "Saturday's qualifying positions marked the first time a new team have started their first race from the front row since the 70s, according to Formula1.com.", "Billionaire Branson is famous for his Virgin brand, which began with music shops and record label now includes airlines and interests in publishing, nightclubs, hotels, and a makeup line.", "Flight testing is under way for a new Virgin venture, Virgin Galactic, which will launch space tourists into sub orbit.", "Branson says the service could be ready within two years.", "Branson, who received a knighthood in 1999, is famous for his daredevil feats, including round-the-world balloon attempts and transatlantic boat races." ]	[ "Virgin boss Richard Branson announces F1 sponsorship deal with Brawn GP .", "The sponsorship deal is Branson's first foray into the world of Formula One .", "Brawn driver Jenson Button has pole position for season-opener in Melbourne ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 4 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- As with many jokes, it started with a small jab at the expense of New Jersey.", "Talk show host Conan O'Brien is locked in a playful feud with the mayor of Newark, New Jersey.", "The gags continued Monday night when \"Tonight Show\" host Conan O'Brien ventured into \"the biggest scandal in the country that's now involving a late-night host.\"", "O'Brien was, of course, referring to his continuing comical conflict with the city of Newark, New Jersey, and its mayor, Cory Booker.", "It all began on September 23, when O'Brien, in his nightly comical spiel, joked that Booker's plan to improve citizens' health care in New Jersey's largest city \"would consist of a bus ticket out of Newark.\"", "The Internet-savvy mayor, who has more than 800,000 followers on Twitter, fired back on YouTube, stating that O'Brien is no longer welcome at Newark International Airport.", "\"I'm officially putting you on the Newark, NJ, no fly list -- try JFK, buddy,\" Booker quipped.", "That video has since amassed more than 119,000 hits on YouTube.", "The verbal melee didn't stop there.", "Watch the jousting escalate » .", "O'Brien retaliated by sarcastically stating that Newark is \"one of America's greatest cities,\" and proceeded to pair its \"thriving arts scene\" with an image of a graffiti-ridden wall and its \"exciting regional cuisine\" with a Dunkin Donuts sign.", "He then banned Booker from an airport in Burbank, California, near Los Angeles.", "On October 1, Booker, claiming solidarity with all New Jersey's mayors, retorted by posting another YouTube video outlawing O'Brien from the entire state.", "\"Now listen, you may like Boardwalk and Park Place, but the only way you're going to get to them is on a Monopoly board,\" the mayor said.", "O'Brien, forced to pull out the big guns, Friday banished the mayor from California entirely.", "In his latest barb on Monday, O'Brien revealed that the mayor of a neighboring New Jersey city, Elizabeth, had sent him a letter welcoming him \"with open arms to Elizabeth.\"", "Mayor Chris Bollwage claims that Newark airport's Terminal A actually lies within his municipality and he intends to rename it the Conan O'Brien Terminal if and when the talk show host ever decides to visit.", "O'Brien then launched a \"campaign to surround and crush\" Newark and the \"drunk on power\" Mayor Booker by making courteous tongue-in-cheek overtures to other adjacent towns, forming a \"geographic toilet seat around the city of Newark.\"", "The charismatic Booker, widely popular in a state often plagued by corrupt politicians, was elected in 2006.", "He has promoted a sense of urban renewal in Newark, New Jersey's largest city, which has suffered high crime and poverty rates over the past few decades.", "Booker's office had no statement available early this week regarding the newest swipe at his city.", "The humorous altercation illustrates a recent shift in the media landscape.", "\"The Tonight Show,\" catering to a traditional broadcast audience, now competes with the Web's constantly streaming flow of viral videos, which are popular amongst O'Brien's target audience.", "What will become of the sparring remains to be seen.", "While O'Brien did invite Booker to be a guest on \"The Tonight Show\" and the mayor extended O'Brien an invitation to Newark, such visits could pose a problem, seeing as how each is banned from the other's state.", "\"I think we have to meet in neutral territory\" O'Brien said on Friday's show.", "\"I think we're going to meet in Lebanon, Kansas.\"", "That community is often billed as the geographical center of the 48 contiguous states.", "On Friday, the dispute was widened by Joe Territo, content director for NJ.com, a Web site affiliated with 13 major New Jersey newspapers.", "Territo declared through an article on the site that O'Brien is barred from using NJ.com because of his anti-Jersey sentiments.", "\"Perhaps O'Brien has never been to NJ.com, and perhaps he has never been interested in visiting NJ.com,\" Territo wrote.", "\"Given the nature of forbidden fruit, no doubt he wants to use NJ.com now, and he cannot, for he is banned.\"", "\"We're hitting Conan hard, and where it hurts most: Right smack in the Internet,\" he said.", "On Monday's show O'Brien wrapped up his latest Newark segment, but not the feud, by declaring, \"It's your move, Mayor Booker.\"" ]	[ "Conan O'Brien has been trading barbs with the mayor of Newark, New Jersey .", "The \"feud\" began after the comic joked the mayor's health care plan .", "Mayor Cory Booker then \"banned\" the \"Tonight Show\" host from Newark airport .", "Conan: \"It's your move, Mayor Booker\"" ]	[ 1, 11, 14, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- World number two Novak Djokovic beat John Isner in a grueling four hour 16 minute encounter to secure Serbia's passage into the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup on Sunday.", "Serbia led the United States 2-1 overnight in Belgrade with Djokovic favored to beat the giant Isner to clinch the tie, but he was given an almighty scare before winning 7-5 3-6 6-3 6-7 6-4.", "They will now play Croatia at home on July 9-11 in the quarterfinals of the premier team event in tennis after their first-ever victory in the World Group.", "Djjokovic, urged on by a partisan home crowd, looked headed for a routine win as he took the opening set, but he was broken twice in the second as Isner leveled.", "Djokovic returned the compliment in the third set to lead two sets to one, but he could not force home the advantage and he lost a fourth set tiebreak 8-6 as Isner set up a decider.", "A single break in the first game gave Djokovic a crucial advantage, but his American opponent proceeded to save six match points before finally netting a forehand, the home hero sinking to his knees after an exhausting ordeal.", "The defeat means Patrick McEnroe's U.S. team face a relegation playoff later this year to maintain their record of playing in the World Group every year.", "In other ties, defending champions Spain shrugged off the absence of the injured Rafael Nadal to beat Switzerland 4-1 to set-up a quarterfinal clash with France.", "Russia edged out India 3-2 and will face Argentina who defeated Sweden 3-2 in Stockholm.", "Returning from injury David Nalbandian was Argentina's match winner in Stockholm as he beat Andreas Vinciguerra 7-5 6-3 4-6 6-4 in the deciding rubber after Swedish number one Robin Soderling had drawn them level with a straight sets win over Leonardo Mayer.", "2005 champions Croatia, last year's runners-up Czech Republic and France sealed their quarterfinal places on Saturday against Ecuador, Belgium and Germany respectively.", "France's home clash with Spain is already whetting the appetite of tennis fans.", "\"It'll be like a final, it's the kind of thing you dream about,\" France captain Guy Forget told the official Davis Cup Web site www.daviscup.com." ]	[ "Novak Djokovic beats John Isner in five-set marathon as Serbia beat USA in Davis Cup tie .", "Serbia reach quarterfinals of the World Group for the first time .", "Defending champions Spain will play France in pick of the last eight ties ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Former Argentina international defender Fernando Caceres is fighting for his life in a Buenos Aires hospital after being shot in the head during an armed robbery.", "The 40-year-old Caceres, who played for Argentina in the 1994 World Cup, was gunned down as a gang tried to steal his BMW car in the early hours of Sunday morning.", "A bullet has reportedly entered his head through his right eye, and he remains in a coma in a grave condition.", "Caceres was visited by his former Boca Juniors teammate and national coach Diego Maradona, who clearly distressed, told reporters outside the hospital that crime was rife in the Argentine capital.", "\"This is a time bomb, going out is a constant danger,\" Maradona told television station TyCSports.", "\"This happens every day, nobody does anything and something must be done.", "\"Caceres is in the hands of God and I hope it helps,\" Maradona added.", "The attack happened in the Fort Apache area of Buenos Aires, which is where Manchester City star Carlos Tevez grew up, and is notorious for high crime levels.", "Players from two of his former clubs, Argentinos Juniors and Independiente displayed a banner of support for him ahead of their later match in the Argentine league on Sunday.", "Caceres won the league title with River Plate in 1991 and the European Cup Winners Cup with Spanish side Real Zaragoza in 1995.", "He played 24 games for Argentina, helping them to the Copa America in 1993 before appearing at the World Cup finals in the United States a year later.", "Caceres ended his playing career at his original club of Argentinos Juniors in 2007 and has been coaching at Independiente." ]	[ "Former Argentina international Fernando Caceres in grave condition in hospital .", "Caceres shot in the head as gang try to steal his BMW car in Buenos Aires .", "Argentina football legend Diego Maradona visits Caceres in hospital .", "40-year-old Caceres enjoyed a distinquished club and international career ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6 ]

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