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[ "(CNN) -- Ronaldinho's participation in this summer's World Cup finals now appears in serious doubt after the AC Milan playmaker was not named in Brazil coach Carlos Dunga's 22-man squad for next month's friendly international against Ireland in London.", "The 29-year-old former Barcelona star has been in outstanding form for the Italian giants this season -- but he has still not done enough to force his way into Dunga's thinking for the match at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.", "Ronaldinho is not the only high-profile player not selected for the match, with Chelsea central defender Alex also left out of the squad.", "Manchester City forward Robinho, who is currently on loan for the rest of the season with Brazilian club Santos, is in the squad -- while there is also a place for full-back Dani Alves, although the Barcelona defender is currently sidelined with a calf injury that is expected to keep him out for around three weeks.", "Brazil squad to face Ireland: .", "Goalkeepers: Julio Cesar (Inter Milan), Doni (Roma).", "Defenders: Maicon (Inter Milan), Daniel Alves (Barcelona), Lucio (Inter Milan), Juan (Roma), Thiago Silva (AC Milan), Luisao (Benfica), Michel Bastos (Lyon).", "Midfielders: Gilberto (Cruzeiro), Gilberto Silva (Panathinaikos), Felipe Melo (Juventus), Josue (Wolfsburg), Kleberson (Flamengo), Ramires (Benfica), Elano (Galatasaray).", "Forwards: Kaka (Real Madrid), Robinho (Santos), Nilmar (Villarreal), Luis Fabiano (Sevilla), Adriano (Flamengo), Julio Baptista (Roma)." ]	[ "Ronaldinho left out of Brazil's squad for next month's friendly against Ireland .", "There is no place for the playmaker despite his outstanding form for AC Milan .", "On-loan Santos forward Robinho has been named in 22-man squad for Emirates Stadium match ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(PEOPLE.com) -- One thing Jennifer Lopez hasn't missed about not constantly being in the spotlight anymore: constantly watching her weight.", "\"Part of my business is being in shape and looking good.", "You can't lie to yourself about it,\" Lopez, 40, told the January issue of Allure.", "\"But I'm not the monster I used to be in the exercise department.\"", "Her reprieve likely is coming to an end.", "The mother of 17-month-old twins Max and Emme released a dance track, \"Fresh Out of the Oven,\" in October and performed at the American Music Awards in December.", "Her new album, \"Love,\" drops in January.", "As well as having to hit the gym again, J-Lo may also have to deal with that other flip side of fame -- the paparazzi.", "\"It's a business. Once they stop making money off of you they stop coming around,\" Lopez said.", "© 2010 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved." ]	[ "Jennifer Lopez told Allure magazine that she'd fallen off her workout routine .", "Now that she's gearing up with a new album, she's getting back to her old habits .", "Lopez: Part of my business is being in shape and looking good ." ]	[ 1, 2, 6, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A former \"enemy combatant\" who was held in a South Carolina Naval brig for six years with no charges was sentenced Thursday to eight years and four months in prison, a Justice Department spokesman said.", "Ali al-Marri pleaded guilty in federal court in Illinois in May to conspiring to provide material support to a terrorist organization.", "He could have received a maximum of 15 years in prison.", "\"This administration is committed to bringing terrorists to justice for their crimes,\" Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said.", "\"Al-Marri, who has been in U.S. custody since December 2001, was dispatched by the highest levels of al Qaeda to carry out its terrorist objectives in America.\"", "A defense attorney for the Qatari citizen, who had been a student at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, when he was arrested, said the judge ruled on a lesser sentence to reflect the nearly six years al-Marri already spent at the Naval brig in Charleston, South Carolina.", "\"We're pleased with the result,\" said the attorney, Larry Lustberg.", "\"Mr. al-Marri is also very pleased.\"", "Al-Marri was transferred to a federal prison in Illinois in March after President Obama ordered a review of his case.", "The case was ultimately referred to the Justice Department, which filed charges.", "The Pentagon said he trained at a terror camp in Afghanistan, met al Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and \"volunteered for a martyr mission,\" according to court documents filed earlier in the case.", "According to a copy of his plea agreement, al-Marri admitted that he \"knowingly conspired and agreed with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed\" to provide support to al Qaeda and to work under the organization's direction and control.", "\"Between 1998 and 2001, the defendant attended various training camps because he wished to engage in jihad,\" the document said.", "While in the training camps and in al Qaeda safe houses in Pakistan, he was known by the name Abdul-Rahman al-Qatari, according to the plea agreement.", "Mohammed approached al-Marri in 2001 about his offer to assist al Qaeda, the plea agreement said.", "\"The defendant was instructed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to enter the United States no later than September 10, 2001, with an understanding that he was to remain in the United States for an undetermined length of time,\" the documents said.", "Al-Marri applied to Bradley using the same e-mail address he used to communicate with Mohammed, the plea agreement said.", "At Bradley, he \"rarely attended classes and was in a failing status by the end of his first semester.\"", "On September 21, 2001, al-Marri traveled to another central Illinois university and created five e-mail accounts under different aliases, the documents said.", "\"By this time, the defendant knew that al Qaeda was responsible for the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and fully understood why Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had directed him to be in the United States before that date.\"", "He used the new e-mail accounts to inform Mohammed of his whereabouts and activities, and also gave him his cell phone number in encoded format, according to the plea agreement.", "In addition, he conducted online research \"related to various cyanide compounds.", "The defendant's focus was on various cyanide substances ... the defendant reviewed toxicity levels, the locations where these items could be purchased, and specific pricing of the compounds,\" the documents said.", "He also explored obtaining sulfuric acid.", "An almanac found at al-Marri's residence was bookmarked \"at pages showing dams, waterways and tunnels in the United States,\" the plea agreement said.", "Al-Marri initially was arrested on credit card fraud charges in December 2001.", "But his continued confinement without charges mushroomed into a major legal case before federal prosecutors filed charges in February.", "The Supreme Court ruled on March 6 that al-Marri's case was rendered moot by a decision to indict him on federal conspiracy charges, and granted the Obama administration's request to dismiss his challenge of the president's unilateral authority to detain him indefinitely without charges.", "He was transferred to civilian custody and taken to Illinois in March.", "The court's ruling, however, meant that the larger constitutional issue of the president's power to detain accused terrorists and other criminals in the United States remains unresolved.", "CNN's Carol Cratty contributed to this report." ]	[ "Ali al-Marri sentenced for charges of conspiring to provide support to terrorism .", "His lawyers wanted a lighter sentence because he was held without charges for six years .", "Al-Marri sentenced to eight years and four months; faced 15 years .", "Prosecutors say al-Marri volunteered for \"martyr mission,\" met bin Laden ." ]	[ 0, 10, 11 ]
[ "Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq has appointed its first ambassador to Kuwait in two decades, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.", "Mohammed Hussein Bahr Al-Ulum was appointed to the post, the ministry said.", "While Iraq has had an embassy and a chargé d'affaires in Kuwait since the regime of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein fell in 2003, it has not had an ambassador there since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990.", "That invasion resulted in the United States' launching Operation Desert Storm, its first Iraq war, in 1991.", "Kuwaiti's Kuna state news agency also reported the appointment, saying, \"Iraqi-Kuwaiti relations have been developing since the fall of the Baath regime, with both nations expressing desires to develop bilateral relations.\"", "In February 2009, a Kuwaiti envoy made his country's highest-level visit to Iraq since the invasion.", "Sheikh Mohammed Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah, Kuwait's deputy prime minister and foreign minister, said at the time that Kuwait wanted to strengthen and develop ties between the two nations, and congratulated Iraq on its recent provincial elections.", "\"This is Iraq which we have wagered on and we congratulate the Iraqis for this,\" al-Sabah said, according to Kuwait's official news agency.", "Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who met with the delegation during the trip last year, said in a statement he told the Kuwaitis that the Hussein regime \"harmed Arab relations.\"", "\"Some Arabs still view Iraq the same way they did under Saddam, but we tell them Iraq today is built on a constitution and on democracy,\" al-Maliki said at the time." ]	[ "Iraq has not had ambassador to Kuwait since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 .", "That incursion led U.S. to launch Operation Desert Storm, its first Iraq war .", "New ambassador is Mohammed Hussein Bahr Al-Ulum, Iraq says ." ]	[ 1, 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- An organization of Christian physicians argued Wednesday against an impending rollback of a federal rule allowing health care workers to refuse to provide certain reproductive services, saying it's discriminatory.", "The rule protects the rights of health care providers who refuse to participate in certain procedures.", "The Bush White House proposed the rule in August, and it was enacted January 20, the day President Obama took office.", "It expanded on a 30-year-old law establishing a \"conscience clause\" for health care professionals who don't want to perform abortions.", "Under the rule, workers in health care settings -- from doctors to janitors -- can refuse to provide services, information or advice to patients on subjects such as contraception, family planning, blood transfusions and even vaccine counseling if they are morally against it.", "The Obama administration is expected to reverse the rule shortly, touching off a new wave of heated debate over what remains one of the most sensitive and emotional hot-button issues in American politics. \"", "'Right of conscience' is under attack, and that is dangerous for our country, our health care system and our patients,\" said Dr. David Stevens, head of the 15,000-member Christian Medical Association.", "\"When the state demands that we surrender our conscience, it becomes totalitarian and dangerous.", "Do we want our professional schools to ethically neuter doctors of all moral convictions that are not approved by the government?\"", "Watch CNN's Sanjay Gupta discuss the 'conscience clause' » .", "Stevens was speaking on behalf of Freedom to Care, an umbrella organization of 36 groups working to prevent a rollback of the rule.", "Watch why one pharmacist says the \"conscience clause\" is needed » .", "Many health care organizations, including the American Medical Association, believe that health care providers have an obligation to their patients to advise them of the options despite their own beliefs.", "And critics of the current rule argue that there are laws on the books protecting health-care professionals when it comes to refusing care for personal reasons.", "\"We don't make God-like decisions.", "... That's not what it's about for us. It's about helping the patient make their own decision.", "... No one appointed us to be the ultimate person to pass judgment,\" said Mary Jean Schumann, a member of the American Nurses Association.", "Dr. Suzanne T. Poppema, board chairwoman of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, praised Obama \"for placing good health care above ideological demands.\"", "\"Physicians across the country were outraged when the Bush administration, in its final days, limited women's access to reproductive health care,\" she said.", "\"Hundreds of doctors protested these midnight regulations and urged President Obama to repeal them quickly.", "We are thrilled that President Obama [is taking steps] to ensure that our patients' health is once again protected.\"", "Stevens argued that there is \"a well-funded and increasingly successful effort to discriminate against health care professionals based upon their deeply held religious and moral beliefs.\"", "Rescinding the rule will send \"a clear message,\" he said: \"It's open season on health care professionals of conscience.", "Discriminate at will. If anyone should understand the ugliness of discrimination, it is our first African-American president.\"", "Stevens predicted that a large number of specialists in obstetrics and gynecology would leave the medical profession if the rule is repealed.", "A final announcement from the Obama administration is expected with the conclusion of a 30-day public comment period on the proposed rule change.", "\"We do not want to impose new limitations on services that would allow providers to refuse to provide to women and their families services like family planning and contraception that would actually help prevent the need for an abortion in the first place,\" a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services official said in February.", "CNN's Saundra Young contributed to this report." ]	[ "Christian doctors group says impending rollback of conscience rule is discriminatory .", "Rule lets health care providers refuse to provide services they're morally against .\n\"", "'Right of conscience' is under attack,\" one doctor says .", "Supporter says Obama is putting \"good health care above ideological demands\"" ]	[ 0, 6, 11, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Philippines President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo declared martial law beginning Friday night in the southern province of Maguindanao, where 57 people were killed last week, an army spokesman told CNN Saturday.", "Army spokesman Lt. Col. Romeo Brawner Jr. said martial law -- under which police can make arrests without a warrant -- went into effect at 9 p.m. Congress would have to approve any extension beyond 60 days.", "Brawner said the measure was invoked to impose peace on the region after the unrest, which led to troops being mobilized.", "\"Life is to resume normally and martial law is established to prevent new violence, with troops on the ground monitoring any possible violence breakout,\" he said.", "\"But the civilian government will be running the affairs of the province, not a military governor.\"", "Military police have detained three brothers and their father on suspicion of involvement in the unrest: Akmad Ampatuan, the vice governor of Maguindanao; Anwar Ampatuan, the mayor of Sherif Auguak, Maguindanao's capital; and Zaldy Ampatuan, governor of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao.", "Andal Ampatuan Sr., the patriarch, became ill and was hospitalized after he too was taken in.", "\"Local government will function, it will prevent armed groups from wreaking havoc ... and it will allow the officials to search and find the guilty parties,\" Brawner said.", "Security forces on Friday searched the home of Andal Ampatuan Jr., mayor of Datu Unsay and son of the provincial governor of Maguindanao, according to Brawner.", "Authorities say Andal Ampatuan Jr. directed the November 23 politically motivated killings.", "Weapons were found in the house, Brawner said.", "On Tuesday, Philippine authorities charged Ampatuan and other suspects with 25 counts of murder in the killings.", "Still more suspects were taken into custody Friday.", "The Philippine military is investigating its own forces in connection with the case as well, Brawner said.", "The National Bureau of Investigation has moved a third witness to Manila for questioning, the Philippines News Agency reported Thursday.", "\"At the moment, we are interviewing the witness, so that we would know what he knows about the incident in Maguindanao,\" NBI Director Nestor Mantaring said.", "The witness claimed to have been at the site during the massacre.", "\"He is very vital,\" Mantaring said.", "\"From what I know ... he knows a lot of information regarding the incident.\"", "Among the victims in the massacre were the wife and sister of political candidate Ismael \"Toto\" Mangudadatu, who had sent the women to file paperwork allowing him to run for governor of Maguindanao.", "He said he had received threats from allies of Gov.", "Andal Ampatuan, the father of the accused mayor, saying he would be kidnapped if he filed the papers himself.", "Witnesses and local officials have blamed the younger Ampatuan, a longtime ally of the Philippines president and a known warlord.", "They said the killings were an attempt to block Mangudadatu from challenging him in the May gubernatorial election.", "Also killed were a dozen journalists who had accompanied the women.", "Violence in the run-up to elections is not uncommon in the Philippines.", "The Maguindanao massacre, however, is the worst politically motivated violence in recent Philippine history, according to state media.", "Maguindanao is part of an autonomous region in predominantly Muslim Mindanao, which was set up in the 1990s to quell armed uprisings by people seeking an independent Muslim homeland in the predominantly Christian Asian nation.", "Suspicion fell on Ampatuan after a government construction vehicle was found at the hastily dug mass grave that held the bodies of the massacre victims.", "CNN's Talia Kayali contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Martial law invoked to impose peace on the region after unrest .", "Measure follows killings of 57 people last week in province of Maguindanao .", "Security forces search the home of Andal Ampatuan Jr., mayor of Datu Unsay .", "Authorities say Ampatuan Jr. directed the November 23 politically motivated killings ." ]	[ 8, 9 ]
[ "The Hague, Netherlands (CNN) -- Bosnian war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic launched a full-throated attack on the International War Crimes Tribunal Tuesday, as he appeared at a hearing to discuss his refusal to appear for trial.", "He said he \"cannot take part in something that has been bad from the start, and where my fundamental rights have been violated.\"", "Karadzic, who is accused of responsibility for the worst massacre in Europe since World War II, says he has had insufficient time to prepare his defense.", "He is representing himself. But Judge O-Gon Kwon told Karadzic it was the court, not the defendant, who decides when the case is ready for trial.", "He advised Karadzic to participate in order to get a fair trial.", "The judges will decide by the end of the week how to deal with the former Bosnian leader's boycott of the proceedings, Judge Kwon said before adjourning the trial for the day.", "Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader during the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, faces 11 counts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.", "Memories of the massacre remain raw.", "Watch the video .", "The charges stem partly from the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at the town of Srebrenica, in what is know Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1995.", "Karadzic has been insisting he has not had enough time to prepare for the trial, saying there are 1.3 million pages of documents to study.", "He denied stalling, and said imposing a lawyer on him would not help.", "\"It is with joy that I am preparing for these proceedings,\" he said through a translator.", "\"Nobody can get through this material better than I can, no lawyer.", "The best possible solution would be that the defense be given sufficient time\" to prepare.", "He rejected prosecutor Hildegard Uertz-Retzlaff's assertion that Tuesday's proceedings constituted part of the trial.", "\"I hope that this is not some kind of a trick,\" he said.", "\"I am attending a status conference hearing.\"", "The court cannot force a defendant to appear.", "Karadzic, as a \"self-representing accused,\" is the only one who can cross-examine witnesses and speak in court about the substance of the charges against him.", "However, judges can impose a lawyer on Karadzic if he continues to refuse to cooperate.", "The trial began without his presence on October 26, more than a year after Karadzic was captured in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.", "He had been on the run for more than 13 years and was living in disguise in Belgrade, practicing alternative medicine at a clinic.", "Karadzic faces life in prison if he is convicted.", "The court cannot impose the death penalty.", "The 1992-95 Bosnian conflict was the longest of the wars spawned by the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.", "Backed by the government of then-Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, Bosnian Serb forces seized control of more than half the country and launched a campaign against the Muslim and Croat populations.", "Karadzic was removed from power in 1995, when the Dayton Accords that ended the Bosnian war barred anyone accused of war crimes from holding office.", "Milosevic died in 2006 while on trial at The Hague." ]	[ "Radovan Karadzic appears at hearing at International Criminal Tribunal to discuss his refusal to appear for war crimes trial .", "Ex-Bosnian Serb leader is accused of responsibility for worst massacre in Europe since World War II .", "Karadzic, who is representing himself, says he has had insufficient time to prepare his defense .", "Karadzic was arrested last year in Belgrade after more than a decade on the run ." ]	[ 0, 2 ]
[ "Portland, Oregon (CNN) -- Two F-15 fighter jets escorted a passenger jet that had been headed for Hawaii back to Portland International Airport in Oregon after a passenger in coach became \"uncooperative,\" an airline official said Wednesday.", "Hawaiian Airlines Flight 39 took off from Portland at 10:10 a.m. with 231 passengers and a crew of 10 when -- 90 minutes into the flight -- its captain decided to turn around the Boeing 767, said Keoni Wagner, the airline's vice president of public affairs.", "The fighter jets intercepted the plane at 1 p.m., North American Aerospace Defense Command said in a written statement.", "It landed at 1:16 p.m. without further incident, the TSA said.", "The military decided that fighters should accompany the flight after receiving \"indicators\" of a problem, said Lt. Cmdr.", "Gary Ross, a NORAD spokesman.", "He declined to elaborate on those indicators but noted that NORAD often must make decisions with limited amounts of time and information about whether fighter jets should accompany commercial flights that may be experiencing problems.", "\"There was little time to react,\" he said.", "\"The prudent thing to do was to scramble\" the jets.", "Upon the plane's return, the passenger -- a 56-year-old Salem, Oregon, man -- was escorted from the plane with his female companion without incident, the FBI and the Port of Portland said in a joint statement.", "The FBI said it was not releasing his name because he had not been charged.", "FBI agents and Port officers interviewed the passenger and his companion, the flight crew and others, then released the two and referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney's Office for review.", "Local and federal officers searched the plane, then allowed it to depart again for Hawaii, absent the pair.", "Oregon Air National Guard spokesman Sgt.", "John Hughel said command post officials told him they did not know who had placed the call for the escort.", "In a statement, the Transportation Security Administration said the captain decided to return the plane to Portland \"due to a suspicious passenger who made threatening remarks and refused to store his carry-on bag.\"", "Port of Portland Public Information Officer Martha Richmond told CNN that the plane was turned around \"due to concerns the crew had.\"", "Hawaiian Airlines spokesman Wagner said pilots occasionally return a jet to the airport from which it took off.", "But, he said he had never known one of the flights to be escorted by fighter jets.", "\"That's new for us,\" he said.", "John Cornelio, also a NORAD spokesman, said the command routinely monitors events in the air via the Domestic Events Network, a sort of party line that includes representatives of the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies involved in national security.", "The FAA acknowledged last November that it notified military authorities 69 minutes after losing radio contact with Northwest Flight 188, which had overflown its destination of Minneapolis-St. Paul airport.", "Under standard procedures, the FAA managers should have reported the incident to the Domestic Events Network five to 10 minutes after losing contact with the flight.", "Radio contact was eventually restored and the plane was redirected to its destination, where it landed without incident.", "Afterward, the FAA promised to take steps to prevent a repeat of that failure.", "The incident was one of two that occurred Wednesday.", "A Northwest Airlines flight preparing to take off from Miami International Airport in Florida for Detroit's Wayne County International Airport instead taxied back to the gate after a passenger \"was heard making inappropriate remarks and acting disruptively,\" the airport said in an incident statement.", "At the gate, local law enforcement and TSA personnel met the aircraft and all passengers were taken off the plane.", "The passenger and three companions were questioned by Miami Dade County police.", "The aircraft was searched and cleared for its flight.", "CNN's Mike M. Ahlers contributed to this story." ]	[ "NEW: NORAD says decision made after receiving \"indicators\" of a problem .", "Hawaiian Airlines Flight 39 took off from Portland at 10:10 a.m. with 231 passengers .", "90 minutes into the flight, captain decided to turn around the Boeing 767, said airline official .", "FBI: Not releasing name of alleged unruly passenger because no charges yet ." ]	[ 1, 4, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Digital cameras are now as common and affordable to the average family as the Polaroid of the '60s.", "A self-admitted tech geek, Chris Pirillo is president of Lockergnome.com, a blogging network.", "Best thing about 'em?", "You don't even have to take your film in to the corner drugstore to get developed -- because digital cameras don't rely on film to make their pictures \"stick.\"", "Thanks to technology, the entire process, from clicking the shutter to printing the pictures, is now entirely within the power of the consumer.", "Maybe you've taken a picture that's just not as perfect as you'd like it to be.", "Instead of being at the mercy of a darkroom-shackled photo lackey to improve upon it, you've got more tools than ever to take it upon yourself to edit, store, organize, and share your images with the world.", "Here's a roundup of 10 free, and mostly free, online tools for the budding digital photographer: .", "1. Picnik -- Summed up from the site: \"Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools.", "Tweak to your heart's content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames.\"", "If you already use Flickr for your photos (here's what I do with mine), you're only a click away from taking a Picnik.", "That's how I discovered it, and it's worked fairly well for me to this point.", "2. Splashup-- Splashup \"is a powerful editing tool and photo manager.", "With all the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time, and allows you to edit many images at once.\"", "You'd wonder how something this extensive could be free - and it all runs within the browser.", "3. FotoFlexer -- FotoFlexer bills itself as \"the world's most advanced online image editor.\"", "With it, you can edit photos from Photobucket, MySpace, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, and \"more places.\"", "I'm not quite sure what \"more places\" means, but last I checked, this does not include a phone booth.", "4. Pixlr -- \"Pixlr is a free online photo editor; jump in and start: edit, adjust, filter.", "It's just what you imagine!\" Alexa says it's the \"fastest growing photo editor online.\"", "If these resources are starting to look similar to your eye, remember you don't have to use all of them - just pick the one that works best for your needs.", "5. flauntR-- flauntR is a suite that includes the ability to edit images, add effects, add text, and print the results on everything from mugs to posters.", "You might be overwhelmed with the options here, but... isn't that better than being underwhelmed?", "6. Photoshop Express-- Adobe's Photoshop was really the first image editor of its kind to herald in the age of digital photography, though it was designed for professionals and its endless options could be daunting (and bank- breakingly expensive) for the layman.", "Now, Photoshop.com is on the Web to help that very same layman -- for free or plus levels of membership -- edit, store, and share his photos.", "Lots of helpful tutorials promise to guide the casual user through editing pickles.", "7. PiZap-- PiZap's tagline is \"fun with photos made easy.\"", "It's another flavor of photo editor/storage center that, like flauntR, allows you to print the results to mugs, bags, and t-shirts.", "PiZap invites developers to check out its API for more personalization options (which is usually a good thing).", "8. Aviary-- Aviary lets you: \"edit images, create mind-blowing effects, design logos, find colors, collaborate, and more.", "All you need is a Web browser.\"", "This particular brand looks to be the one to beat, as they have several different tools in development.", "I'm guessing that within five years, this one is going to be at the top of every person's list of Web-based image editors.", "9. DrPic-- DrPic says it's \"the easiest free online picture editor\" and that it has \"processed over five million pictures.\"", "I say they're easy enough, but not necessarily THE easiest.", "Everything's relative, no?", "10. Cameroid -- Cameroid lets you \"take crazy (or not) snaps with your webcam straight from your browser.\"", "I featured this one in a CNN.com live video a while ago, and it certainly deserves to be mentioned again.", "If you're looking for something else to do with your webcam, give it a cameroid (which isn't as painful as it might sound).", "As you can see, there are plenty of options for photo editing, storing, and sharing out there.", "Some are going to fit your personal workflow more neatly than others, so it's worth it to try a few and see what works best for your needs.", "Or maybe you swear by something that I totally missed?", "Don't be a miser - share it with the rest of the class! We'd love to know about it." ]	[ "Tech enthusiast Chris Pirillo suggests 10 free online digital photographry tools .", "Photographers today have more tools than ever to edit, organize and share images .", "FotoFlexer bills itself as \"the world's most advanced online image editor\"\nCameroid lets you \"take crazy snaps with your webcam straight from your browser\"" ]	[ 15, 36 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- U.S. helicopters carrying food hovered above the ground in one area of the battered Haitian capital on Saturday, flinging out boxes to the anxious crowd.", "It was a chaotic scene as hundreds of Haitians without food and water for four days swarmed toward the boxes, ignoring the wind and dust kicked up from the helicopters' blades.", "A similar scene erupted Friday when a food convoy with the World Food Programme was forced to leave an area after men in the crowd starting pushing and shoving their way to the trucks.", "Elsewhere, people stood in long, orderly lines for food, according to a CNN crew, although anxiety about whether there was enough to go around permeated the wait.", "In Petionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, U.S. troops handed out about 2,500 meals Saturday, before they ran out.", "Seventy soldiers arrived with the Army's 82nd Airborne Division in Petionville to set up a distribution base and a landing zone for helicopters.", "They began handing out meals about 2 p.m. \"Our goal is to get supplies out to the people who need it the most,\" Col. Mike Foster said.", "\"We got a good start.\"", "Authorities set up more than a dozen aid distribution points across battered Port-au-Prince, as aid workers toted medical supplies into the battered island nation.", "Still, although some progress could be observed four days after Tuesday's devastating earthquake, problems persisted.", "Get the latest developments on Haiti .", "A CNN crew observed U.N. World Food Programme personnel who were trying to move food from a warehouse damaged from the earthquake.", "The building has large cracks up its side, weakening the walls.", "Its doors could not be forced fully open to allow a forklift through, so workers were painstakingly hand-carrying the supplies out.", "Despite the difficulties, the Haitian ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph, said he did not believe that violence will increase, as long as distribution of food continues.", "\"I think it won't get any more violent than it is now,\" he said.", "Also Saturday, former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush kicked off a fundraising drive -- a donation push called the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, similar to the appeal led by Clinton and Bush's father, former President George H.W.", "Bush, for the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami.", "The drive was announced at the White House, with President Obama flanked by Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.", "\"We're moving forward with one of the largest relief efforts in our history to save lives and to deliver relief that averts an even larger catastrophe,\" Obama said.", "Obama said his predecessors will tap into \"the incredible generosity, the ingenuity, the can-do spirit\" of Americans.", "See full coverage of Haiti .", "The leaders said the best way for Americans to help Haiti is to donate money.", "\"I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water,\" Bush said.", "\"Just send your cash.\" Aid delivery has been slowed by damaged roads, the destroyed port and bottlenecks at the airport.", "As TV images showed people jostling for aid, U.S. officials reiterated what they said has been a continuation of relief efforts: Ongoing search and rescue operations; the establishment of 14 aid distribution points; finding alternatives to the damaged port, distributing water containers, water purification units, medical supplies, and establishing medical clinics and field hospitals.", "Israel was establishing a field hospital to treat thousands of victims from the earthquake, expected to absorb 500 casualties a day.", "The U.N. World Food Programme said it plans to reach 2 million people \"with one-week rations of ready-to-eat food,\" and UNICEF said it is distributing water purification tablets, dehydration salts and other supplies, specifically to halt diarrhea infections and diseases.", "The U.S. Southern Command said the military is supplying many resources.", "About 4,200 U.S. military personnel are currently supporting task force operations, and 6,300 military personnel are scheduled to arrive by Monday, the command said.", "Aid efforts from the USS Carl Vinson, an aircraft carrier off the coast of Haiti, were in full gear Saturday, with flights transporting concrete-breaking equipment, medical supplies and water.", "Some of those flights are ferrying aid from the airport to the surrounding region and choppers have rescued two American citizens.", "The U.S. Agency for International Development said Saturday that the USS Carl Vinson has delivered more than 30 pallets of relief supplies for transport by helicopters.", "The U.S. Naval Ship Comfort pushed out of the Port of Baltimore for Haiti on Saturday and is expected to arrive late next week.", "A full-scale medical hospital, the craft is equipped with one of the largest trauma facilities in the United States.", "It was in Port-au -Prince in 2007, and again in 2009, on humanitarian missions, and its medical workers tended to many Haitians during those visits.", "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Haiti on Saturday, with top relief officials and aid.", "She returned to the States later Saturday with Americans who had been evacuated, State Department officials said.", "USAID chief, Rajiv Shah, who as traveling with Clinton, said some roads have been cleared in Haiti and that water purifications systems have been sent.", "A major shipment of medical aid was being trucked to Haiti through the Dominican Republic, which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with Haiti, a Red Cross spokesman said.", "Six truckloads of \"urgently needed medical equipment,\" including a field hospital, and 50 people specializing in health, water, and sanitation, were en route, he said.", "A Finnish Red Cross plane also landed in Port-au-Prince with a \"badly needed mobile medical clinic, he said.", "CNN's Karl Penhaul, Arthur Brice, Elise Labott, Laurie Ure and Dugald McConnell contributed to this report." ]	[ "U.S. troops handed out about 2,500 meals Saturday in Port-au-Prince suburb .", "Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush kick off fundraising drive .", "USS Carl Vinson brings helicopters, hospital beds and operating rooms .", "4,200 U.S. military personnel currently supporting operations, 6,300 scheduled by Monday ." ]	[ 4, 18, 29 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Deadly blasts targeting foreign nationals in the Afghan capital Friday killed at least 17 people and wounded many others.", "Authorities were trying to determine how many people died and the nationalities of those slain.", "Kabir Al-Amiri, an employee at Kabul hospital, said eight Indians and one Pakistani national were among the dead.", "Afghan Interior Ministry officials said an Italian was killed, and the Indian Embassy said four Indians were killed in the attack.", "The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks near the Safi Landmark Hotel in the neighborhood of Shahr-E-Naw, where there are a number of government buildings and U.N. offices as well as supermarkets, banks, diplomatic facilities and villas for well-to-do Afghans.", "The force of the first explosion -- at about 6:30 a.m. (9 p.m. Thursday ET) -- shook parts of the Afghan capital as windows shattered and smoke billowed.", "The sound of gunfire filled the air.", "The attack started with a suicide car bomb and four suicide bombers with explosive-laden vests, said Taliban spokesman Zaidullah Mujahid.", "Three of the bombers were killed, he said.", "About 20 minutes later, a second large explosion occurred.", "Afghan police blocked off roads leading to the area of the blasts.", "CNN's Ben Wedeman contributed to this report ." ]	[ "17 killed in attacks in Kabul, nationalities still to be confirmed .", "Taliban claim responsibility for attacks, which started with suicide car bomb .", "Three bombers were killed, Taliban spokesman says .", "Neighborhood has a number of government buildings and U.N. offices ." ]	[ 4, 7, 8 ]
[ "(CNN) -- \"The Blind Side\" could have been filmed anywhere, says Tim Bourne, an independent producer who worked on the film.", "But there's a reason producers brought the project to Georgia: money.", "\"There's nothing in [the movie] that couldn't have been shot in any midrange urban setting.", "The reason, and the sole reason, it was shot in Georgia was the tax incentives,\" he said.", "Georgia boasts one of the highest tax credits in the United States: a 20 percent base tax credit, with an additional 10 percent if a Georgia logo appears somewhere in the project.", "The Oscar-nominated \"Blind Side\" is one of many films that's taken advantage of the incentives to shoot in the Empire State of the South, incentives that also include a diverse set of locations, state-of-the-art facilities and large production crews.", "Recently, another production, \"Hall Pass,\" written by Peter and Bobby Farrelly (\"There's Something About Mary\"), started filming in the Atlanta area.", "The film, starring Owen Wilson and Jenna Fischer, is about a woman who gives her husband permission to have an affair.", "It called for a New England location -- standard for the brothers, who are from Rhode Island -- but tax incentives led the production crew south, producers said.", "Georgia is far from the only state offering filmmakers opportunities to leave Hollywood.", "Indeed, it's one of 44 states offering incentives in hopes of attracting projects that will help their economies, according to the Tax Foundation.", "\"No one is trying to compete with L.A. from a technical standpoint,\" Bourne said.", "\"They're certainly competing from a financial standpoint, though.", "The name of the game is all about tax incentives.", "It's the sad truth. \"Films are made in a particular place strictly because of financial rebates,\" he continued.", "\"If, tomorrow, Louisiana or ... any state with a crew base, rather, came up with a better incentive program, that's where the work would be -- overnight.\"", "Incentives differ from state to state.", "In most cases, filmmakers are able to apply for a tax credit or rebate as long as they meet the state's minimum standards for expenditures and utilize local crews, some of whom don't belong to unions.", "However, Bill Thompson, deputy commissioner at the Georgia Film, Music and Digital Entertainment Office, said bigger production companies usually prefer to work with union workers.", "Louisiana, one of the first states to develop an incentive program eight years ago, has found exposure in front of the camera with films such as \"Ray\" and \"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.\"", "\"Green Lantern,\" set for release in 2011, is one of many projects whose makers opted to film in Louisiana after the state increased its film production tax credit to 30 percent in 2009, said Chris Stelly, director of the Louisiana Office of Film and TV.", "But Louisiana doesn't just attract projects because of the state's high tax credit, he said.", "\"No matter how big your incentive is, if someone doesn't have a good experience, they're not going to be back,\" he said.", "Warner Bros. Entertainment is what Stelly calls a repeat customer.", "Michael Walbrecht, vice president of Studio & Production Affairs at Warner Bros., said the company brings a lot of projects to Louisiana.", "It's the third most popular place the company films, behind Los Angeles and New York.", "\"So far, we've had great experiences in the [Southeast],\" Walbrecht said.", "There's no denying the tremendous impact the film industry has had on each state.", "Hotels, rental cars, restaurants, equipment rentals, local crews, props, wardrobes and local extras are just some of the ways the industry gives back to the area it films in.", "According to the Web site for Georgia's Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office, TV networks, Hollywood studios, production companies and independent producers invested more than $521 million in Georgia in fiscal year 2008-09; the state estimates the economic impact of this investment at $929 million.", "Louisiana has experienced economic success, as well.", "Its Economic Development department's Web site says the incentives have generated thousands of jobs and more than $2 billion since the program began in 2002.", "\"With some of the bigger movies, [there are] hundreds of extras on set,\" Thompson said.", "\"Those people all get paid something per day.", "This is especially a big deal in small towns that have never had a film [shoot] there.", "To spend a few million dollars in a rural area [makes a big difference].\"", "Even California, the home of the business, has gotten into the act.", "The state recently introduced a 20 percent tax credit, though its incentives aren't as broad as in other states.", "For example, TV shows to air on basic cable qualify for the credit, whereas shows on broadcast networks do not.", "Walbrecht said the amount of larger movies and TV shows filming in smaller states will continue to rise, which is one reason California was prompted to create incentives.", "\"They realized their iconic industry was moving elsewhere,\" he said.", "Meanwhile, away from Hollywood, the competition is getting stiffer.", "North Carolina became a major player in the filmmaking business thanks to such productions as the TV show \"Dawson's Creek,\" which filmed in the coastal city of Wilmington and helped create a thriving film industry there.", "So when \"The Last Song\" -- set in Wilmington -- began filming in seaside Savannah, Georgia, hard feelings were inevitable.", "\"You can't dwell on what you lost; you have to keep going and move forward,\" said Aaron Syrett, director of the North Carolina Film Office.", "\"It happens all the time, to every state.\"", "Legislation to raise the 15 percent tax credit was proposed before \"The Last Song\" chose not to film in North Carolina.", "The state's new refund, 25 percent, went into effect January 1.", "\"We're not trying to [have] the highest refund.", "We're trying to be the smartest,\" Syrett said.", "In other words, offer a hefty tax rebate -- and roll camera." ]	[ "Forty-four states offer tax credits to filmmakers in hopes of attracting projects .", "Georgia boasts one of highest tax returns in United States, up to 30 percent .", "Louisiana was one of first states to develop incentive program eight years ago ." ]	[ 4, 19 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai made an unannounced visit to Marjah on Sunday to see the gains made after a massive military offensive by Afghan and international troops to wrest control of the southern city from the Taliban.", "Karzai toured the city in Helmand province with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan.", "Marjah residents remain skeptical of U.S. troops and the newly installed local government that has moved in and taken over, said U.S. Marine Corps Brig.", "Gen. Larry Nicholson, who was in charge of the Marjah offensive.", "They want to know what Karzai's government is going to be able to do for them, he said.", "\"We are in competition every day for the confidence and support of the population -- we're in competition with the Taliban,\" Nicholson told reporters last week.", "\"We have a very narrow window of opportunity here in Marjah to make that first impression and you get one shot at it,\" he said.", "Dubbed Operation Moshtarak, the offensive was launched last month by an international coalition of 15,000 troops including Afghans, Americans, Britons, Canadians, Danes, and Estonians.", "The Marjah region has long been a bastion of pro-Taliban sentiment and is where the Taliban had set up a shadow government.", "It is a key area in Afghanistan's heroin trade and full of the opium used to fund the insurgency.", "The hope now is for the United States to persuade the locals to change their crops from poppies -- grown to produce opium for the Taliban's drug trade -- and instead grow crops like wheat, which can help them survive and provide income as well.", "Nicholson said for years, the Taliban-run town had no police force.", "Now, the Afghan government is in the process of recruiting Marjah citizens to join a new police force that would be trained by the Marines.", "The general had no timetable on how long it would take to truly secure the town.", "Meanwhile, in Baghlan province, about 50 insurgents, including more than a dozen Taliban, were killed in fighting between two rebel groups, the province's governor said Sunday.", "Some 35 fighters of the Hezb-e-Eslami, or Islamic Party, and 13 Taliban died in the fighting, which began Saturday and continued into Sunday, Mohammed Akbar Barikzai told CNN.", "Apparently some bystanders also were killed or wounded, Barikzai said, adding he could not put an exact number on the civilian casualties.", "More Afghanistan coverage on Afghanistan Crossroads blog .", "Hezb-e-Eslami is an insurgent group loyal to warlord Gulbeddin Hekmatyar.", "They are enemies of the Taliban, but it is rare that the anti-government groups fight each other.", "A group of 25 Hezb-e-Eslami fighters including their commander surrendered to Afghan National Police on Sunday, the governor said.", "Separately, two children were killed and two were hurt in an explosion while they were playing in Kandahar province, provincial spokesman Zalmay Ayoubi said Sunday.", "The explosive device was in a bag that blew up while the children were playing, the Interior Ministry said in a press release.", "The injured children were transferred to a hospital for treatment.", "Two NATO service members were killed in southern Afghanistan in two separate incidents on Sunday, a NATO news release said.", "One was killed by small arms fire and the other by an improvised explosive device, NATO said.", "The identities and nationalities of the service members were not immediately released, pending notification of the relevant national authorities, the statement said.", "Journalist Matiullah Mati contributed to this report." ]	[ "Afghan president tours Marjah, site of massive operation to take control from Taliban .", "Next goal is to win support of population, U.S. general says .", "Elsewhere in Afghanistan, about 50 killed in battle between two rebel groups .", "Two NATO service members killed in separate incidents ." ]	[ 0, 14, 24 ]
[ "Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- Japanese authorities arrested an activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegal trespassing after he boarded a whaling ship last month in waters off the Antarctic.", "Peter James Bethune, 44, is accused of jumping from a Jet Ski onto the Shonan Maru 2, the security ship of a Japanese whaling fleet, after the Ady Gil boat, of which Bethune was captain, sank.", "Bethune belongs to the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.", "The group said the New Zealander was attempting to make a citizen's arrest of the Shonan Maru 2 skipper for the collision that sank the Ady Gil, a futuristic vessel used to intercept and block harpoon ships, in January.", "Hirotaka Akamatsu, Japan's minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, said Japan would take a firm stance against Bethune.", "He said Sea Shepherd's acts were not acceptable.", "\"Their violent acts are escalating,\" Akamatsu said.", "Bethune was taken into custody a month ago aboard the Shonan Maru 2, which arrived from Antarctic waters -- where Japan conducts its annual whale hunt -- back to Japan on Friday.", "He was formally arrested then.", "Bethune has legal representation in Japan, said Sea Shepherd spokeswoman Traci Walter.", "A spokesperson for the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said the government was providing consular assistance to Bethune on his arrival in Japan.", "The Bethune case highlights an ongoing feud between Japanese whaling fleets and conservation agencies, especially the hardline Sea Shepherd.", "Activists have used butyric acid -- found in rancid butter and vomit -- and fired paint guns at Japanese whaling ships, which in turn have repelled protesters with water cannons.", "Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research, a branch of the fisheries ministry that deals with whaling, accuses Sea Shepherd of jeopardizing the safety of fleets that are conducting research legally.", "Sea Shepherd uses its boats to interfere with whaling and fishing boats, and its efforts have included ramming a Portuguese whaler in 1979.", "Two years ago, Sea Shepherd activists boarded a Japanese ship and handcuffed themselves to the vessel with plastic ties.", "Japanese authorities had called the Shonan Maru 2 incident the latest \"publicity stunt\" by Sea Shepherd activists.", "Sea Shepherd has accused the Shonan Maru 2 of destroying the Ady Gil during the skirmish in the Southern Ocean -- a term used to describe parts of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans that surround Antarctica.", "However, Japanese authorities deny their ship intentionally hit the high-tech catamaran and have said the activists were harassing their whaling fleet.", "In the early 1980s, the International Whaling Commission determined that there should be a moratorium on commercial whale hunting.", "But whaling is allowed under international law when done for scientific reasons, which Japan cites as the legal basis for its hunts.", "The country's annual hunt kills up to 1,000 whales a year." ]	[ "Bethune belongs to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society .", "Group: Bethune was trying to make citizen's arrest of Shonan Maru 2 skipper .", "Skipper was involved in collision that sank Ady Gil, which targets harpoon ships .", "Sea Shepherd: Bethune has legal representation in Japan ." ]	[ 2, 3, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The world has a new alliance to save vanishing frogs, toads and salamanders.", "A frog swims in a pond in Munich, Germany, in June.", "A coalition of organizations established the Amphibian Survival Alliance this month to conserve species threatened by deadly fungus, habitat loss, pollution, pesticides and climate change.", "The scientists said amphibians are the world's most threatened group of animals.", "Though they thrived on Earth for more than 360 million years, one in three of the 6,000 recognized amphibian species are now at risk of extinction and as many as 122 species have gone extinct since 1980, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's amphibian specialist group.", "\"The world's amphibians are facing an uphill battle for survival,\" said James Collins of Arizona State University, co-chairman of the group.", "He said the new alliance, formed at the Amphibian Mini Summit at the Zoological Society of London, will focus efforts on the biggest threat to amphibians: infectious disease and habitat destruction.", "The group includes amphibian specialists working in the wild as well as those in zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens worldwide.", "\"Amphibians have so much to offer humans,\" said amphibian specialist Simon Stuart.", "\"Many have an arsenal of compounds stored in their skin that have the potential to address a multitude of human diseases.\"", "But as amphibians die out, so do opportunities to develop new medicines, he said.", "The southern gastric brooding frog, for instance, could have led to the development of a treatment for human peptic ulcers had it not gone extinct, Stuart said.", "\"We simply cannot afford to let this current amphibian extinction crisis go unchecked,\" he said.", "Andrew Blaustein, who began documenting amphibian declines two decades ago, said the loss of species was part of an overall biodiversity crisis.", "\"Amphibians seem to have been hit the hardest of all vertebrate species,\" said Blaustein, a professor of zoology at Oregon State University.", "\"The long-term ecological repercussions of their decline could be profound, and we have to do something about it.\"" ]	[ "Amphibian Survival Alliance aims to save threatened frogs, toads, salamanders .", "One in three of 6,000 recognized amphibian species at risk of extinction, group says .", "122 amphibian species have gone extinct since 1980, group says .", "Amphibian species could help in development of medicines, scientist says ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The top U.S. general in Afghanistan vowed that coalition forces \"are absolutely going to secure Kandahar,\" as security efforts expand in the country's south.", "\"We already are doing a lot of security operations in Kandahar, but it's our intent -- under President [Hamid] Karzai -- to make an even greater effort there,\" Gen. Stanley McChrystal told a joint news conference Monday with Mark Sedwill, the NATO senior civilian representative to the country.", "The news conference coincided with a visit by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who was also to meet with Karzai.", "McChrystal indicated a military operation could begin in the volatile Kandahar province as early as this summer, but both Sedwill and McChrystal cautioned that much political groundwork lay ahead for NATO-led coalition troops before an offensive can begin.", "Just as in the recent Marjah operation, the goal, they said, is to gain the support of the Afghan people.", "\"What I think we've learned about operations in Afghanistan ... is if you try to push against the culture, you have huge problems,\" McChrystal said.", "\"What we're trying to achieve in Kandahar is to do the political groundwork so when it's time to do the military operation, the significant part of the population is pulling us in and supportive so we're not only doing what they want but we're operating in a way that they're comfortable with.", "That's the key to success here.\"", "McChrystal said the goal \"is to demonstrate again that we can operate in a way where we've got strong resolve by the government of Afghanistan, effective performance by the Afghan military and coalition partners, and government partners, so that as we do an operation that shows the people of Kandahar, and the Taliban as well, that operations like this actually result in a better outcome for everyone.\"", "He declined to comment specifically on when the Kandahar offensive will begin, but said \"our forces will be significantly increased around there by early summer.\"", "\"There won't be a 'D-Day' that is climactic,\" McChrystal said.", "\"It will be a rising tide of security as it comes.\"", "The push to secure Kandahar from what McChrystal calls a \"menacing Taliban presence\" is part of a larger counterinsurgency effort in the country's south, started last month in Marjah in southern Helmand province.", "Long a bastion of pro-Taliban sentiment and awash with the opium used to fund the insurgency, the Marjah region has been known as the heroin breadbasket of Afghanistan and as a place where the Taliban had set up a shadow government.", "The hope now is for the United States to persuade the locals to change their crops from poppies -- grown to produce opium for the Taliban's drug trade -- and instead grow crops such as wheat, which can help them survive and provide income as well.", "Sedwill and McChrystal praised the early stages of the Marjah offensive, with Sedwill calling it a \"template for the way we want to take this campaign forward over the next year to 18 months.\"", "McChrystal said that in addition to the strategic importance of the Marjah offensive, the operation was a \"demonstration to the Afghan people, to the international community, to the Pakistanis, and very important to the Taliban as well, that things have changed.\"" ]	[ "McChrystal indicates a military operation could begin in Kandahar as early as summer .", "Sedwill praises Marjah offensive as \"template\" for next year to 18 months ." ]	[ 3, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Russia and South Ossetia have strongly denied news reports that a motorcade carrying the presidents of Georgia and Poland came under fire, calling the claims \"a provocation\" meant to destabilize the region.", "Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, said there were \"unpredictable people\" in the area.", "\"This is a real provocation,\" Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists on Monday.", "\"It is not the first time that such things have happened: First they mastermind everything themselves and then accuse the Russian or the Ossetian side.\"", "Eduard Kokoity, president of the breakaway region of South Ossetia, added: \"Today's event was a deliberate provocative act of the Georgian and Polish presidents targeted at regional destabilization.\"", "Kokoity made his comments to the Russian news agency, Interfax.", "The motorcade, carrying Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Polish President Lech Kaczynski, was passing a checkpoint near Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region -- site of intense conflict between Russian and Georgian troops in August -- when shots were fired Sunday, according to the Georgian Interior Ministry.", "The motorcade was not hit and there were no injuries, the Georgian Interior Ministry said.", "No other shooting was reported in the area.", "The shots were fired from Russian-controlled territory as the motorcade passed, the ministry said.", "Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin denied the gunfire came from its army positions.", "\"This is one more instance of wishful thinking on the part of Georgia,\" he told reporters.", "After the incident, Saakashvili told reporters he would not have taken his Polish counterpart into danger intentionally and that the incident showed \"you are dealing with unpredictable people\" in the disputed area.", "Kokoity, the South Ossetian president, countered that the Polish and Georgian presidents need to answer questions whether they informed European Union monitors of their trip.", "Tensions have remained high in the area since fighting between Russian and Georgian troops broke out in August.", "Georgia launched a campaign against South Ossetia, a Russian-backed separatist territory, on August 7.", "The following day, Russian tanks, troops and armored vehicles poured into South Ossetia and another breakaway Georgian territory, Abkhazia, advancing into Georgian cities outside the rebel regions.", "The two sides blamed each other for starting the conflict and have accused each other of a variety of offenses leading up to and during the fighting, including ethnic cleansing." ]	[ "Russian peacekeepers, South Ossetia deny involvement in shooting .", "Leaders' motorcade was not hit, and there were no injuries .", "Ministry: Motorcade was passing a checkpoint near South Ossetia .", "The shots were fired from Russian-controlled territory, ministry officials say ." ]	[ 6, 7, 9 ]
[ "(OPRAH.com) -- \"My beloved.", "The delight of my eyes.\"", "So says a poem inscribed in cuneiform on a lump of clay approximately 4,000 years ago.", "Why does love inspire such works of art?", "Recent science points to a possible answer -- and a difference between the way the brain reacts to love and lust.", "Last year psychologists in the Netherlands reported on a study where they asked a group of young men and women to imagine taking a long walk with their beloved (those without a partner imagined taking a walk with an \"ideal\" one).", "A different set of volunteers were asked to imagine having casual sex with someone they found attractive but were not in love with.", "Before and after, both groups were given a battery of tests to examine their creative and analytical abilities.", "The results: Thinking about a romantic partner stimulated \"global processing\" mechanisms in the brain, which increased long-term focus and improved creativity.", "Thinking about sex, on the other hand, stimulated \"local processing,\" which increased focus on the present and heightened analytical thinking.", "Oprah.com: Tap into your right-brain thinking .", "There may be a physiological explanation for these results.", "Feelings of romantic love can boost levels of dopamine, a neurochemical associated with creativity, while sexual desire can raise levels of testosterone, known to promote analytical skills.", "And these chemical links may have evolved for an important purpose: increasing the likelihood of sexual reproduction.", "In ancestral days, creative individuals may have used their inventiveness to attract future mates, while sex-focused individuals harnessed analytical clarity and short-term focus in order to bed a partner here and now.", "Thoughts of either love or sex could pay off in the form of children -- the ultimate measure of survival.", "While we no longer use cave drawings to attract our partners, you can still take advantage of this evolutionary link.", "Daydreaming about your sweetheart may boost inventiveness and help you come up with creative ideas, while sexual thoughts could help you solve an analytical puzzle.", "Oprah.com: How to fix whatever's broken .", "In addition, it may be that jilted lovers who want to get over an ex faster would be better off replacing thoughts of what might have been with sexual fantasies.", "This might just help refocus your attention on the present -- and on the steps you need to take to rebuild, so that one day you'll be ready to write love notes again.", "Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.", "That's like getting 18 issues FREE.", "Subscribe now! TM & © 2009 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved." ]	[ "New research from Netherlands says thinking about partner can increase focus .", "Thinking about sex heightens analytical thinking instead, study finds .", "In ancestral days, creative people may have used inventiveness to attract mates ." ]	[ 9, 14 ]
[ "BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani will likely not seek re-election once his term ends.", "Jalal Talabani says he will not run for Iraq's president again, but he plans to stay in the political arena.", "Talabani, 75, has been president since April 2005.", "The ethnic Kurd was re-elected in 2006 for a four-year term.", "Although he \"has expressed his willingness not to seek another presidential nomination ... it does not mean that he will withdraw from the political and partisan arena,\" a message on Talabani's Web site said.", "\"President Talabani, on various occasions, sought to emphasize the importance and the need to devolve the power, tasks and responsibilities of leadership in the country to local authorities, especially at this stage when the country is going through political efforts by the parties to expand their bases,\" the statement said.", "In Iraq, the prime minister wields most of the power.", "However, Talabani played an important role in maintaining the country's delicate ethnic balance.", "The Iraqi parliament picks the president and two vice presidents, a Sunni and a Shia.", "All will leave office when parliamentary polls are held in December.", "Talabani is the head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party.", "CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report." ]	[ "Iraq president Jalal Talabani says he will likely not seek re-election .", "Talabani, 75, has been president since April 2005 .", "Talabani, a Kurd, played role in maintaining the country's ethnic balance ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Former Democratic Rep. Charles Wilson of Texas, whose support for anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan inspired the 2007 movie \"Charlie Wilson's War,\" died Wednesday at age 76.", "The 12-term congressman, who served the state's second congressional district, had been in a meeting Wednesday morning with a friend when he complained of difficulty breathing, said Yana Ogletree, a spokeswoman for Memorial Medical Center in Lufkin.", "The two men were heading to the hospital when they passed an emergency medical services vehicle on the side of the road and stopped for help, she said.", "Paramedics took Wilson to the hospital emergency room, where he was pronounced dead, she said.", "Wilson, who had undergone a heart transplant at Methodist Hospital in Houston in September 2007, moved back to Lufkin when he retired from Congress in 1997 after having served since 1973, she said.", "\"I had the unforgettable experience of knowing Congressman Wilson when I was at CIA and he was working tirelessly on behalf of the Afghan resistance fighting the Soviets,\" said Defense Secretary Robert Gates in a written statement.", "\"As the world now knows, his efforts and exploits helped repel an invader, liberate a people and bring the Cold War to a close.", "After the Soviets left, Charlie kept fighting for the Afghan people and warned against abandoning that traumatized country to its fate -- a warning we should have heeded then, and should remember today.\"", "\"Charlie Wilson led a life that was oversized even by Hollywood's standards,\" said Texas Gov.", "Rick Perry in a statement.", "\"Congressman Wilson was fiercely devoted to serving his country and his fellow Texans.\"", "\"Charlie was a man of courage and conviction who worked hard, loved his country, and lived life to the fullest,\" said House Appropriations Committee Chairman David R. Obey, D-Wisconsin.", "\"We will miss him.\" Tom Hanks portrayed the flamboyant congressman in the 2007 movie \"Charlie Wilson's War,\" based on the book by George Crile.", "The book and the film told the story of Wilson's efforts to get weapons to Mujahedeen fighters after Soviets invaded Afghanistan.", "\"Hanks did a great job,\" Wilson said in 2008.", "Wilson also praised the other actors.", "\"They were too close to the truth,\" he said.", "The U.S. Naval Academy grad and Navy veteran was elected to Congress in 1972 -- a Democrat bucking the national Nixon landslide -- and quickly became known for his high-living escapades, which earned him the nickname \"Good Time Charlie,\" and shrewd accumulation of political chits.", "His savvy came in handy in the early 1980s, when Wilson, a staunch anti-Communist, decided to help Afghan rebels in their war against the invading Soviet Union.", "Over several years, working behind the scenes, his efforts to raise funds through his defense subcommittee, to establish a bond with a CIA agent named Gust Avrakotos (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman in the film) and to negotiate support from Middle Eastern countries helped the Afghans take the upper hand and eventually forced the Soviets out of the country.", "Asked what led to the Soviet departure, Pakistani leader Gen. Muhammad Zia ul-Haq was blunt: \"Charlie did it,\" he told CBS News' \"60 Minutes.\"", "Some people criticized the film because it didn't do much to highlight what happened in Afghanistan after the Soviets left: the Taliban's takeover of the country and al Qaeda's use of the nation as a base.", "Wilson was asked in 2008 about the consequences of helping the Mujahedeen fighters.", "\"I don't think there was a serious blowback,\" Wilson said.", "\"I think there was the point that [author] George Crile made in the [book's] epilogue, that the Muslims saw that they took down one superpower and then the radical ones thought they could take down another one.", "But they're wrong.\" Wilson is survived by his wife, Barbara Alberstadt Wilson, a sister, a niece and a nephew.", "Funeral arrangements are pending.", "CNN's Todd Leopold contributed to this report." ]	[ "Wilson complained of difficulty breathing while in meeting, hospital says .", "12-term congressman died at Lufkin, Texas, hospital .", "2007 movie depicted his efforts to arm Afghan Mujahedeen .", "He served Texas' 2nd Congressional District ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Authorities are asking residents in some some parts of south Australia to evacuate their homes as an impending heat wave prompted the nation to issue its first \"catastrophic\" brush fire warning.", "The warning system was put in place to better alert residents after a devastating brush fire ravaged the southeastern state of Victoria in February, killing more than 170 people and destroying 2,000 homes.", "During that fire, many residents stayed to defend their property.", "Though authorities still cannot mandate that people leave, the new warning system urges people to flee.", "The Code Red \"Catastrophic\" warning was issued for the Eastern Eyre Peninsula and West Coast districts in the state of South Australia.", "Are you there? Send your pictures, video .", "Such a rating means that even well-constructed and defended homes might not be safe from the blaze, the South Australian Fire Service said.", "In addition, three other districts -- Flinders, North West Pastoral and Lower Eyre Peninsula -- were placed under an \"Extreme\" watch.", "Such a rating means that only well-constructed homes can withstand the flames.", "An intense heat wave -- with temperatures climbing to 104 F (40 C) -- is expected to hit the areas until the weekend.", "The region is already in the midst of a severe drought.", "Coupled with low humidity and strong winds, the soaring temperatures will make it ripe for fires to ignite.", "Any fire that breaks out will be uncontrollable, the fire service said.", "People in their path will likely die, it added." ]	[ "Warning system put in place to better alert residents after a devastating fire ravaged Victoria in February .", "During that fire, many residents stayed to defend their property as the fire claimed 170 lives and 2,000 homes .", "An intense heat wave -- with temperatures climbing to 104 F (40 C) -- is expected to hit south Australia until weekend ." ]	[ 1, 2, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The ever-changing cast of \"Saturday Night Live\" is getting two new faces, but losing a couple of current members.", "Michaela Watkins was known for her impressions of Barbara Walters and \"Today\" show co-host Hoda Kotb.", "Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson have been dropped from the show, while Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad are joining the cast, Entertainment Weekly reports.", "Watkins -- who joined \"SNL\" mid-season last year and was known for her hilarious impersonations of Barbara Walters and Kathie Lee Gifford's suffering \"Today\" show co-host Hoda Kotb -- said she was shocked by the firing.", "In an interview with EW, she recalled getting the news from Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of \"Saturday Night Live.\"", "\"I don't think anyone knows what Lorne Michaels was thinking,\" Watkins told the magazine.", "\"The only explanation I got from him -- and he's not known to say things just to make people feel better -- was that he felt deep down that I should have my own show.", "And I agreed. 'SNL' was a dream come true for me.", "It was a fantastic year.", "I don't have any regrets.\" Watkins told EW she thinks the new hires will be \"exquisite\" on the show and said she would take Michaels' advice to pursue her own show.", "Meanwhile, \"SNL\" veteran Darrell Hammond is still negotiating for a return to the show, Variety reports.", "\"Saturday Night Live\" kicks off its 35th season on September 26." ]	[ "Michaela Watkins, Casey Wilson have reportedly been dropped from the show .", "\"'SNL' was a dream come true for me,\" Watkins tells Entertainment Weekly .", "\"Saturday Night Live\" kicks off its 35th season on September 26 ." ]	[ 2, 7, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Investigators searching for a missing 8-month-old boy began an intensive excavation and search effort Tuesday at a Texas landfill.", "\"Let me say this, that we do remain hopeful that baby Gabriel is alive,\" William McManus, chief of the San Antonio Police Department, said at a news conference at the landfill.", "\"We are, however, conducting both a missing persons investigation as well as a homicide investigation,\" he said, adding that aspects surrounding Gabriel Johnson's disappearance involve elements of a possible homicide.", "Gabriel has been missing since December 26 and was last seen in San Antonio, with his 23-year-old mother, Elizabeth Johnson, who has refused to disclose information on his whereabouts.", "She told Gabriel's father she killed the boy and has also said she gave him away to a couple in San Antonio, police say.", "Johnson drove Gabriel to San Antonio from Tempe, Arizona, and she went to Florida a week later, according to investigators.", "Johnson was arrested in Florida and extradited to Maricopa County, Arizona, where she remains behind bars, charged with kidnapping, custodial interference and child abuse.", "A lead prompted investigators to focus on the landfill, which is owned by Republic Services, a waste and environmental services company based in Phoenix, Arizona.", "The part of the landfill that will be searched has been pinpointed, according to McManus.", "First, it will take at least six days to remove 45 feet of garbage that has piled up since the time investigators believe evidence may have been dumped in the area.", "\"Once we have removed the debris and have searched our target area, we will begin the arduous task of sifting through layers in the search for possible evidence,\" McManus said.", "\"This phase will be a long and repetitive cycle.", "Search teams will be looking for anything of evidentiary value.\"", "Cadaver dogs will assist the search teams in the effort, which will be conducted weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., McManus said.", "He estimated more than 20 people will be involved.", "Rain would not compromise any evidence but could cause dangerous toxic runoff, which Fire Department and hazardous materials experts would work to contain.", "San Antonio police have been working with the FBI and Tempe police.", "They have been looking at every lead and \"chasing them down very, very vigorously,\" McManus said.", "\"We are doing everything that we can to try to track down baby Gabriel, and hopefully we will find that baby alive.\"" ]	[ "8-month-old has been missing since December 26 .", "His mother has said she killed him and also that she gave him away .", "San Antonio police are excavating landfill in search after getting a lead ." ]	[ 3, 4 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Former President Bill Clinton will travel to Haiti on Monday to meet with officials and deliver aid supplies to the quake-ravaged country, his foundation announced Sunday.", "Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, will meet with Haitian President Rene Preval and other members of the local government as well as aid workers, to discuss how to proceed with recovery operations.", "The visit comes two days after President Barack Obama announced the formation of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, a major fundraising effort for victims of Tuesday's earthquake led by Clinton and former President George W. Bush.", "In a pre-recorded interview broadcast Sunday on CNN's \"State of the Union,\" Bush and Clinton said the first goal of the fund is to get aid to Haiti right away to save lives.", "It also seeks to ensure that money keeps coming in after public attention begins to wan in the weeks and months ahead.", "\"For me, success is helping save lives in the short term, and then we can worry about the long-term after the situation has been stabilized,\" Bush said.", "Clinton, who also is the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, defined success as \"setting up a network quickly to get the food, water, medicine, security and information people need.\"", "The overall goal is to help Haiti resume \"as quickly as possible\" its efforts to build a \"strong, modern society\" after decades of political and social instability that made it the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere before the earthquake, Clinton said.", "Officials in Haiti fear more than 100,000 people killed in the disaster.", "Clinton noted that Haiti already was working to overcome its problems before the latest crisis.", "\"They have an economic plan,\" Clinton said.", "\"We're going to have to amend it now, and substantially, to take account of the damage done.\"", "Simply restoring Haiti to its impoverished state prior to the earthquake would amount to failure, Clinton said.", "The two predecessors to Obama as U.S. leader also said the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund (http://www.clintonbushhaitifund.org/) was intended to provide people with a safe place to continue donating money to help the Caribbean country.", "\"Our job it to set up a fund to make sure the compassion is still existent once the crisis gets off TV and make sure the money is wisely spent,\" Bush said.", "That means getting the donated money quickly to organizations with experience working in Haiti, including faith-based groups and international aid groups, Bush and Clinton said.", "\"During these crises, all kinds of fake charities spring up that take advantage of people's good will,\" Bush said.", "\"We're safe haven. We will make sure the money is accounted for and there's transparency and properly spent.\"", "Both Bush and Clinton noted politics should play no role in responding to the crisis, with Clinton saying: \"I hope that it will humanize us all in every aspect of our lives.\"", "However, Clinton couldn't resist a little politicking, praising the Obama administration's response so far and noting that the president had \"extraordinary taste\" in a secretary of state -- his wife, Hillary Clinton.", "Clinton also offered warm praise for CNN's coverage of the Haiti earthquake.", "\"You made this come alive to the American people,\" Clinton said.", "\"You put us in the skin of the Haitian people, and I'm personally very grateful.\"", "For Bush, his return to Washington is a welcome chance to aid a worthy cause, but nothing more.", "\"I frankly don't miss the limelight,\" Bush said. \"I'm glad to help out.\"" ]	[ "Clinton will meet with Haitian president on Monday .", "Clinton working with former President George W. Bush on Haitian relief .", "Clinton says relief fund will help Haiti recover after situation stabilizes .", "Bush says fund is a place for people to make sure their donations are well-spent ." ]	[ 0, 2, 17 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Actor Peter Graves, best known for his starring role on TV's \"Mission: Impossible,\" died Sunday.", "He was 83. While the cause of the actor's death was not immediately known, he apparently suffered a heart attack, his publicist said.", "Graves had gone to brunch with his family Sunday morning.", "After they returned home and entered the house, one of his daughters began to wonder why he hadn't come back inside with them, said publicist Sandy Brokaw.", "The family went outside and found Graves had collapsed.", "His daughter performed CPR but was unsuccessful in reviving the actor, Brokaw said.", "Graves had been in good health and was celebrating 60 years of marriage and 60 years in the entertainment business.", "He was still pursuing work when he died, the publicist said.", "Share your memories of Peter Graves .", "He is best known for playing the character Jim Phelps for all but one of the seven years \"Mission: Impossible\" ran on CBS, from 1967-1973.", "He won a Golden Globe in 1971 for his work on the show, and was also nominated for an Emmy.", "He reprised the role from 1988 to 1990 when the show resurfaced on ABC.", "In an interview with CNN in 1996, Graves expressed disappointment with Hollywood's movie version of \"Mission: Impossible\" -- starring Tom Cruise -- which included none of the stars from the original TV series.", "Actor Jon Voight played the Phelps character.", "\"I am sorry that they chose to call him Phelps,\" he said at the time.", "\"They could have solved that very easily by either having me in a scene in the very beginning, or reading a telegram from me saying, 'Hey boys, I'm retired, gone to Hawaii.", "Thank you, goodbye, you take over now.'", "\" Graves also appeared as Capt.", "Clarence Oveur in the 1980 movie spoof \"Airplane!\"", "-- a role he originally turned down, according to the Web's Internet Movie Database.", "He changed his mind after meeting with the film's writers, according to IMDb.", "In recent years, Graves was part of a larger group that won an Outstanding Informational Series Emmy for the 1997 TV documentary \"Judy Garland: Beyond the Rainbow.\"", "Graves hosted the documentary.", "He is survived by his wife, Joan Endress, and three daughters, Kelly, Claudia and Amanda Graves, according to IMDb.", "Graves was the younger brother of actor James Arness, who starred in the long-running TV series \"Gunsmoke,\" as Marshal Matt Dillon.", "CNN's Douglas Hyde contributed to this report." ]	[ "LAPD: The 83-year-old Peter Graves was found collapsed outside his home .", "Daughter performed CPR but was unsuccessful in reviving the actor .", "Graves played Jim Phelps on \"Mission: Impossible\" during original run and revival .", "Publicist says it appears Graves had a heart attack ." ]	[ 1, 4, 5, 8, 13 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A U.S. Army officer who was honored for valor after his combat outpost in Afghanistan was attacked has also received a letter of reprimand for failing to secure the base before the attack, according to Army officials.", "Such a letter normally would prevent career advancement.", "U.S. Army Capt.", "Matthew Myer received the Silver Star for his part in repelling a Taliban attack on his small combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan in July 2008.", "The attack, near the village of Wanat, is still the deadliest ground combat of the war involving U.S. troops.", "A coordinated Taliban attack from the steep hills surrounding the base almost resulted in the outpost being overrun.", "According to troops who survived, the Taliban came at the base with about 200 fighters, outnumbering the U.S. forces at the base.", "In the end nine soldiers were killed and 12 were wounded.", "About 100 Taliban were killed.", "Despite the heavy U.S. death toll, Myer was awarded the Silver Star for calling in aircraft to beat back the fighters, some of whom had breached the base walls, according to U.S. military officials in Afghanistan.", "After the attack, the U.S. military scrutinized how enemy forces were allowed to get as close to the base as they did.", "Officials familiar with the after-action review said Taliban fighters got within grenade-throwing distance of U.S. troops.", "Myer even called in close air support to hit enemy targets just 10 meters from his own position, according to officials familiar with the after-action report.", "Four-star Gen. Charles C. Campbell was chosen to review the final investigation and make disciplinary decisions.", "Campbell decided Myer would receive a career-ending letter of reprimand for failing to prepare the base's defenses sufficiently against an enemy attack.", "Myer was informed this week of his punishment, according to U.S. military officials.", "CBS News first reported his punishment.", "Two of Myer's senior commanders, who were not at the base during the attack, also received similar career-ending letters of reprimand.", "Officials would not elaborate on the reasons for the reprimands.", "Army officials acknowledge the base, built to protect the people in Wanat, was at the bottom of a valley surrounded by high hills, an almost impossible location to defend.", "According to one U.S. military official familiar with the general's decision to reprimand Myer, \"He saw the evidence and made a decision based on that.\"", "However, the same official said, \"Unless you've been there, you don't know how hard those places are to defend.\"", "Myer and his two senior officers are allowed to appeal the punishment.", "Another U.S. military official familiar with the review said he expects the three officers to meet with Campbell to plead their cases." ]	[ "Army Capt.", "Matthew Myer has Silver Star from actions during a Taliban attack .", "Letter of reprimand criticizes him for allowing attack to take place .", "Two of his superior officers also receive letters of reprimand .", "Site of attack was at bottom of a valley surrounded by high hills ." ]	[ 0, 2, 17, 19 ]
[ "Colombo, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- Sri Lanka's former army chief appeared before a military court Tuesday, on charges that he says are designed to remove him from politics.", "Retired Army Gen. Sarath Fonseka faced a panel of three military judges, who are to decide whether he is guilty of participating in politics while still in uniform.", "Fonseka's spokesman Anura Kumara Dissanayake said the former military commander's lawyers raised two objections: that the judges are biased and that a military court can no longer rule on Fonseka's case, because he left the army more than six months ago.", "The court will reconvene on April 6 to rule on the objections, according to government spokesman Maj. Gen. Prasad Samarasinghe.", "However, Fonseka must return to court Wednesday to face separate charges of violating military procurement procedures.", "Fonseka says the charges against him are false and politically motivated.", "The man credited with the military campaign that defeated a quarter-century-long insurgency by the Tamil Tiger rebel movement was arrested last month.", "He was dragged from his office by armed military police during a meeting with his supporters, they said.", "He has since been detained at naval headquarters in Colombo, where the military tribunal is convening.", "Fonseka and President Mahinda Rajapaksa were allies and heroes of last year's battle against the Tigers, but they drifted apart.", "Fonseka's supporters say the former general was seen as a threat to the government and his arrest was ordered to prevent his participation in parliamentary elections April 8.", "The former military commander challenged Rajapaksa in January's presidential elections, but lost by a wide margin and accused the government of election fraud.", "The Fonseka family has challenged his arrest in Sri Lanka's supreme court.", "Those arguments are to be heard April 26.", "His wife, Anoma Fonseka, called the legal proceedings against her husband a joke.", "Journalist Amal Jayasinghe contributed to this report." ]	[ "Retired Gen. Sarath Fonseka credited with campaign that defeated Tamil Tiger rebels .", "Military judges to decide whether he's guilty of participating in politics while in uniform .", "Fonseka says the charges against him are false and politically motivated .", "Supporters say the former general was seen as a threat to the government ." ]	[ 1, 5, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Jesper Parnevik admitted that he had \"lost all respect\" for fellow golfer Tiger Woods following revelations about the world number one's private life.", "Woods apologized on his official Web site for \"transgressions\" and \"personal sins and failings\" on 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.", "Former European Ryder Cup star Parnevik, 44, and his wife introduced fellow Swede Elin Nordegren to her future husband.", "\"It's always sad, and especially sad because me and my wife were at fault hooking her up with him and we probably thought he is a better guy than he is,\" Parnevik said.", "\"I would probably apologize to her and when you're a world-class athlete you probably should think a bit more before you do stuff.", "\"I haven't really talked to Tiger yet so I don't want to say too much but my heart goes out to her.", "\"There's nothing I regret saying and I stand by everything.", "He's lost all my respect, I mean, all the respect I had for the guy is gone, that's pretty much all I can say.\"", "The rumors emerged after Woods, 33, was found bleeding and semi-conscious after his car hit a tree and fire hydrant outside his Florida home.", "He was charged with careless driving, which carries a $164 fine and four points on his driving record." ]	[ "Jesper Parnevik said he had \"lost all respect\" for fellow golfer Tiger Woods following revelations about his private life .", "Former European Ryder Cup star Parnevik and his wife introduced fellow Swede Elin Nordegren to her future husband .", "Woods had previously apologized on his official Web site for \"transgressions\" and \"personal sins and failings\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "(CNN) -- World number three Rafael Nadal of Spain survived a three-set battle to reach the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 tournament at Indian Wells as second seed Novak Djokovic crashed out on Wednesday night.", "Nadal is starting to recover his best form after his injury problems of last year, but the giant Isner posed a continuous threat when he leveled at one set it looked ominous.", "But Spanish ace Nadal kept battling and got a lucky break in the fourth game of the decider as his U.S opponent's return hit the net cord and bounced back on his side of the net to fall down a break.", "It gave Nadal a decisive break and he held on for victory in the fourth round match.", "Nadal, who won the Indian Wells title last year and in 2007, is the lone survivor among former champions of the tournament: .", "Top seed Roger Federer of Switzerland went out to Marcos Baghdatis in the third round while Serbian ace Djokovic of Serbia joined him on the sidelines with a 7-5 6-3 defeat to Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia in their last 16 match.", "27th-seeded Baghdatis could not repeat his heroics against Federer as eh slipped to a 7-5 0-6 6-4 loss to Spanish 18th seed Tommy Robredo.", "Home hopes were kept alive by Andy Roddick who advanced to the last eight with as a 7-6 6-4 win over Austrian Jurgen Melzer, while fourth seed Andy Murray was detained on court for only 38 minutes as his fourth round opponent unseeded Spaniard Nicolas Almagro retired with a left ankle injury.", "\"He seemed like he was moving okay,\" Murray told the official ATP Tour Web site.", "\"At the start we had some pretty good points.", "But then it seemed like it came on pretty suddenly.", "He said he had done it yesterday, and if you have a bad ankle sprain, it's obviously very difficult to move,\" Murray next plays Roland Garros finalist Robin Soderling, who reached the quarterfinals in California for the first time after beating ninth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France 6-3 6-4." ]	[ "Rafael Nadal is the lone survivor among former champions at Indian Wells .", "Spanish star sees John Isner of the United States in three sets .", "Second seed Novak Djokovic beaten in straight sets by Ivan Ljubicic .", "Fourth-ranked Andy Murray eases through as Nicolas Almagro retires ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- In 2009, some units of the New York Police Department still function more like \"Dragnet\" than \"CSI.\"", "They rely on typewriters.", "Records show New York City signed a $432,900 contract for typewriter maintenance with in 2008.", "NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne confirmed the department's continued, if limited, use of the 20th-century writing devices, explaining that they're mainly used for filling out property vouchers -- forms that officers must file when they seize items during case investigations.", "The typewriters also are retained in case a technological meltdown disables the NYPD's computers, he said.", "The vintage typing machines do not come cheap.", "Public records show that the city signed a $432,900 contract for typewriter maintenance with Afax Business Machines in 2008, as well as a $99,570 contract with that company in 2009.", "Typewriter company Swintec received a $982,269 contract from the city in 2007.", "Eugene O'Donnell, a former New York police officer who now lectures at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the typewriters are an anachronism -- and a waste.", "\"The two places you'd find typewriters are the museum and the police department,\" O'Donnell said.", "Typewriters create significant efficiency and storage problems for the department, he added, causing extra labor and unwieldy paper trails.", "Deputy Commissioner Browne emphasized that \"we have a $4 billion budget\" and the financial resources devoted to typewriters are relatively miniscule.", "Officers interviewed by CNN on the street had no soft spots for the contraptions.", "\"It's so antiquated,\" said one officer who did not want to be identified.", "Her partner shared her frustration.", "\"It's very inconvenient -- you have to find ink, you have to find this, find that.\"" ]	[ "Typewriters mainly used for filling out property voucher, says NYPD official .", "Public records show city signed $432,900 contract for typewriter maintenance .", "\"It's so antiquated,\" said one officer ." ]	[ 1, 2, 6, 13 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Citing a \"deficit of trust\" in government by the American people, President Obama's first State of the Union address urged Congress to erode the influence of special interests and work together to confront the nation's most pressing problems.", "In the nationally televised speech Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress, Obama sought to reassure Americans angry and nervous about the pace of economic recovery that his government understands the challenges and would act boldly to meet them.", "Obama called for a new political climate of \"common sense\" approaches that invest in the American people without building \"a mountain of debt.\"", "Highlights of the speech .", "\"We have to recognize that we face more than a deficit of dollars right now.", "We face a deficit of trust -- deep and corrosive doubts about how Washington works that have been growing for years,\" Obama said.", "Key areas where Obama wants to build that trust include: the economy, education, energy, health care and national security.", "Democrats applauded the remarks of their party's leader.", "\"He outlined a road map that, if followed with bipartisan support in Congress, can reduce our deficit, rebuild our economy and create a new foundation of prosperity for American families and businesses,\" said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.", "\"It was a serious speech -- reached out to Republicans,\" said Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, the House majority leader.", "iReport: Share your views on the speech .", "Republicans, however, were skeptical of Obama's ability to change the partisan atmosphere in Washington.", "\"Real bipartisanship requires more than just lip service; it demands both sides coming together in a real and meaningful way.", "It's time for the administration to abandon this big-government agenda and start working in a meaningful way with Republicans to find common-sense solutions to move the country forward,\" said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.", "\"I would have liked to have seen him emphasize reaching out to the other side of the aisle and bringing us together,\" said Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio.", "Read more reaction to address .", "Analysts, too, were mixed in their reactions to what Obama had to say Wednesday night.", "CNN political contributor John Avlon said Obama was targeting independents with his remarks, but questioned his success.", "\"They still hear The Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again' in the back of their minds,\" Avlon said.", "Democratic strategist James Carville said Obama made progress.", "\"He picked up a first down tonight,\" Carville said.", "And a post-speech opinion poll shows a divided public.", "A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey indicated that 48 percent of speech watchers had a very positive reaction, with three in 10 saying they had a somewhat positive response and 21 percent with a negative response.", "See full results of poll .", "The 48 percent who indicated they had a very positive response is down 20 points from the 68 percent of speech watchers who felt the same way a year ago about the president's February 24 primetime address to a joint session of Congress.", "\"Wednesday night's State of the Union audience is more Democratic than the nation as a whole, but speech-watchers were less Democratic this year than they were last year,\" said Keating Holland, CNN polling director.", "\"That may be one reason why the number who gave his speech a 'very positive' rating is lower this year.", "But part of the reason also may be that speech-watchers didn't necessarily hear a new agenda and aren't confident that the president can improve health care or lower the deficit.\"" ]	[ "Obama says he wants to close \"deficit of trust\" with American people .", "Democrats say president hits right areas with speech .", "Republicans say Obama doesn't go far enough to reach across aisle ." ]	[ 0, 3, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Rock guitarist and singer Alex Chilton, known for his work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star, died Wednesday.", "He was 59. Chilton was having heart problems and died in an emergency room in New Orleans, Louisiana, said longtime friend and business associate John Fry.", "\"Obviously, we are all stunned and deeply saddened at this news,\" Fry said.", "Chilton started in music as a teen in the 1960s, as vocalist for the psychedelic soul group the Box Tops, Fry said.", "They were known for the No. 1 hit \"'The Letter\" and songs such as \"Neon Rainbow\" and \"Cry Like a Baby.\"", "After that group disbanded in 1970, Chilton formed the Memphis rock group Big Star.", "Though that band had a short life, breaking up in 1974, its music catapulted the group and Chilton to cult status.", "\"While Big Star struggled with success commercially, their early '70s, power-pop sound is often cited as directly influencing bands like Cheap Trick, R.E.M.", "and the Replacements,\" Billboard magazine said in its biography of Chilton's group.", "The evidence of that: a song the Replacements released in 1987, called \"Alex Chilton.\"", "Part of the chorus of that song is \"Children by the million sing for Alex Chilton when he comes 'round.", "They sing, I'm in love.\" In the 1990s, Big Star got back together.", "Chilton and the band were scheduled to perform at the South by Southwest music festival in Texas this weekend.", "CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report." ]	[ "Guitarist known for his work with bands the Box Tops and Big Star .", "Chilton was having heart problems and died in an emergency room in New Orleans .", "Chilton was to perform at the South by Southwest music festival in Texas this weekend ." ]	[ 0, 1, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Authorities have linked seven deaths to the nor'easter affecting the Eastern Seaboard, and more than 300,000 customers remained without power Monday in the Northeast after rain and fierce winds.", "Hurricane-force winds over the weekend toppled trees, taking power lines with them.", "Five of the weekend's deaths were caused by falling trees, authorities said.", "Two people died in New Jersey; authorities from Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, West Virginia and New York each said they had one storm-related death.", "Heavy rain also caused flooding across the region.", "Flood warnings were in effect from northern Virginia to southern New Hampshire, the National Weather Service said.", "The city of Alexandria, along the Potomac River across from Washington, distributed nearly 800 sandbags to those in low-lying areas that typically are first to see high water.", "A coffee shop there experienced minor flooding, said Alexandria official Rich Baier.", "Some coastal areas have received more than 6 inches of rain since Saturday, according to the National Weather Service.", "Are you there? Share pictures and video .", "Con Edison said that more than 86,000 customers were without power Monday in New York City and Westchester County, New York, while the Long Island Power Authority said that 64,437 customers were in the dark.", "In New Jersey, about 100,000 were without power.", "Flooding caused 2,000 customers in New Jersey to lose their gas service, PSEG said.", "Connecticut Light and Power said that about 56,000 customers also had no power Monday.", "And in Pennsylvania, utility companies had restored power to a majority of residents, but the outage still affected more than 5,000.", "\"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.\"", "Some customers probably will go without power for a few days, Law said.", "The outages were due mostly to power lines downed by Saturday's winds, which knocked over trees and utility polls.", "Wind speeds reached 75 mph at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport -- as strong as a Category 1 hurricane -- and 72 mph in Atlantic City, New Jersey.", "In Connecticut, the lingering effects of wind and rain from the weekend were apparent just by looking at the streets, according to J.P. McNamara, an iReporter in Fairfield, along the coast.", "\"The beach area of Fairfield experienced high tides that flooded streets with ... water and sand on Saturday night,\" McNamara said Monday.", "\"Many roads are still blocked off because of fallen trees and limbs, and it seems that this occurrence is widespread.\"", "James Durosier, an iReporter from Rahway, New Jersey, said the storm's aftermath reminded him of a scene from an action movie.", "\"The way the whole scene looked was just incredible,\" Durosier said Sunday of the damage in the area.", "\"Power lines were hanging, street signs knocked down, and it was very quiet.\"", "Brian DeNicola of Sayreville, New Jersey, said he has opened his home to three friends who don't have any power or hot water to shower.", "He said he lost electricity for about an hour Saturday evening and had to use a vacuum to relieve his basement of flooding.", "DeNicola said he's eager for spring's arrival Saturday.", "\"Oh, thank God, it's almost here,\" he said.", "\"We're ready. We've had it with this stuff.\" CNN's Paul Courson, Edmund DeMarche, Henry Hanks and Khadijah Rentas contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Five deaths blamed on falling trees .", "86,000 without power in New York City and Westchester County, Con Ed says .", "Some customers will be without power for days, Long Island utility says ." ]	[ 2, 10, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- As the April 15 income tax filing deadline approaches, the top tax expert at the National Association for the Self-Employed offers his best advice for business people who work for themselves.", "Keith Hall, a national tax adviser at the association, answers the tax question he is asked most often and talks about changes in tax rules for small-business owners.", "He also offers advice about how the self-employed can best avoid being audited by the Internal Revenue Service.", "CNN: What should self-employed taxpayers keep at the top of their minds this year?", "Keith Hall: I think the most important thing to remember is that you have resources.", "The IRS is always changing information -- from automobile deductions, to alternative minimum tax limits, to net operating loss carry-forwards.", "It's tough to keep up with, but you don't have to remember it, because it's all out there on the IRS Web site for you.", "Don't forget, you've got resources to go out and look for.", "CNN: What's different this year for self-employed taxpayers?", "Hall: Perhaps the most important thing unique to this year is there are so many businesses which were affected by the downturn in the economy, that the IRS has expanded opportunities for loss carrybacks.", "The definition of a loss carryback is if you had losses from your business in 2009, then you may have the opportunity to then take those losses and offset income from previous years.", "That's certainly something to look into if you had a tough year for 2009, because it may give you the ability to recover taxes in more years -- namely five -- than you used to be able to, which is just two.", "So if that's the situation that you find yourself in, certainly look into options for those loss carrybacks.", "It certainly can help you with the tax impact.", "More particularly, for those new to being self-employed or maybe even their first year filing a Schedule C, make sure you look for deductions that don't appear in your business checkbook.", "It's very easy to overlook deductions like the deduction for the home office that you use, deduction for the business use of your automobile -- those typically don't show up in your business checkbook, so if you don't know to look for them, they're very easily overlooked, and that's basically just leaving money on the table.", "CNN: What can self-employed workers do to avoid an IRS audit?", "Hall: The No. 1 reason a small business gets audited or asked for additional information by the IRS is simple math errors -- the numbers simply don't add up correctly on the form.", "Whether you use TurboTax or TaxCut or the IRS online filing, it's a great idea -- particularly for the new small business -- to make sure you use that software package -- if nothing else -- just to make sure those math errors are eliminated.", "Don't be too afraid of an IRS audit.", "Obviously, when people think in terms of the IRS, they get a little bit antsy.", "Nobody likes to get that letter in the mailbox on Saturday morning that's got an IRS return address in the upper left-hand corner.", "But if you do, the best thing to keep in mind is pay attention to your tax return.", "Do the due diligence that you need to to avoid the little shortcuts of filling in numbers that you don't have support for.", "If you just take the time to pay attention to the business and do the tax return the way you should, there's nothing to be afraid of with that audit.", "So at a very minimum -- just to ease the stress of that potential letter you're going to get form the IRS -- just make sure you take the extra time to use resources like nase.org, like the IRS Web site at irs.gov, and just make sure you dot your I's and cross your Ts.", "And then, if you do get a request from the IRS, it won't be stressful.", "CNN: What are some important tax law changes for tax year 2009?", "Hall: Always be aware that every year, the IRS changes something.", "For example, automobile mileage: The new rate for 2009 is 55 cents.", "Make sure you get that one correct.", "The IRS always changes the adjusted limits for alternative minimum tax.", "For the standard itemized deductions, all those levels are adjusted for inflation.", "Make sure that you get those right numbers.", "Using an automated software program -- having that system in place -- will help you keep up with any of those changes that occur as a matter of course with the IRS every year.", "CNN: What's the most frequent tax question you get asked?", "Hall: The first question we typically get, particularly at tax return time, is \"What can I do right now to save money on last year's tax return?\"", "Most tax planning ideas really end with the New Year's Eve party.", "But the one thing you can do today to save money on your taxes for last year is to consider making a retirement plan contribution -- whether it's a traditional IRA contribution, a self-employed pension plan contribution, lots of different ways to put money away for your own future.", "The IRS recognizes how important that is, and they'll even give you a tax deduction for it.", "So you can actually reduce the taxes you have to pay right now, just by putting money away for your own future.", "That's certainly something that should be considered.", "CNN: Should we expect future tax breaks for small businesses?", "Hall: The current administration and both sides of the House and Senate all promote the growth of jobs through small business.", "The influences of small business in generating jobs -- which are more and more important these days -- is only going to increase the influence of small business.", "Whether it's legislation for a standard home office deduction, which is pending, legislation for additional health credits and concentration on affordability for health care for the self-employed, which is also pending, there's lots of legislation out there to benefit small business.", "The more and more small businesses we have, I think more emphasis in Washington and at the state level will focus on benefits for the self-employed." ]	[ "Use IRS.gov to avoid mistakes, says top tax expert at advocacy group for self-employed .", "How to save tax money right now?", "Consider retirement contributions .", "Look for deductions that don't appear in your business checkbook .", "Automobile mileage: The new deduction rate is 55 cents/mile ." ]	[ 14, 29, 36 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The murderer of a 16-year-old girl who bragged about his crimes was electrocuted Thursday night, a spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections said.", "Paul Warner Powell was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m. at a correctional center in Jarratt, Virginia.", "He did not make a last statement at the execution attended by the victim's family.", "Powell was convicted in the 1999 murder of Stacie Reed and the rape of her 14-year-old sister in their Manassas, Virginia, family home.", "Powell's execution comes after Virginia Gov.", "Bob McDonnell denied him clemency and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to block the execution.", "The killer claimed double jeopardy after state prosecutors put him on trial for a second time in the killing.", "In July, the high court delayed Powell's execution while considering the broader constitutional claims, which were finally rejected.", "Powell rejected lethal injection, the state's usual method of execution.", "\"I'm hopeful this is the last legal chapter in the long history of this case,\" said Powell's prosecutor, Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert.", "\"The survivors -- Stacie's mother and [her sister] -- have really been traumatized by delay after delay.", "Hopefully they're going to get some peace and closure after all these years.\"", "CNN does not identify sexual assault victims without their permission, even though the surviving victim, now 25, has talked publicly about the case.", "The crime shocked the Washington area.", "Reed knew Powell, then 20 and an admitted racist.", "The state's highest court eventually threw out the 2000 verdict in the first trial, saying prosecutors had not proven other necessary death-eligible offenses were committed against the 16-year-old.", "Such \"aggravating\" factors could include rape, attempted rape or robbery in commission of the murder.", "The sexual assault and attempted murder of Reed's younger sister was upheld, and Powell was given a long prison sentence.", "Powell, believing he was free from execution, proceeded to write a taunting, profanity-filled letter from behind bars to Ebert, laying out explicit details of the crime unknown to investigators at the time.", "\"Since I have already been indicted on first degree murder and the Va. Supreme Court said that I can't be charged with capital murder again, I figured I would tell you the rest of what happened on Jan. 29, 1999, to show you how stupid all of y'all ... are,\" wrote Powell, who is white.", "He said he had gone to the family's home to confront Reed about dating a black man.", "He admitted pinning the victim, threatening to rape her, then stabbing her in the heart when the girl resisted.", "He then stomped on her throat.", "\"I guess I forgot to mention these events when I was being questioned.", "Ha Ha!\" he wrote in 2001.", "\"Do you just hate yourself for being so stupid ... and saving me?\"", "The killer also said that after that crime, he waited in the house until the younger girl returned from school, then attacked her, leaving her for dead.", "In the meantime, he drank iced tea from the family refrigerator and smoked a cigarette, part of the forensic evidence that investigators used to place Powell at the scene of the crime.", "With this first-hand account from Powell, he was indicted again and charged with murder and attempted rape of Stacie Reed -- a capital-eligible crime.", "He was convicted again, and federal and state courts subsequently upheld the conviction on appeal." ]	[ "Paul Warner Powell did not make a last statement at the electrocution .", "Powell rejected lethal injection, the state's usual method of execution .", "Killer wrote a taunting, profanity-filled letter laying out details of the crime .", "Based on letter, prosecutors put Powell on trial for second time in Stacie Reed's death ." ]	[ 2, 6, 8, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Barcelona and Manchester United are on course to meet again in the money-spinning European Champions League final after they avoided each other in the draw for the last eight.", "Josep Guardiola's reigning champions Barca will face English Premier League side Arsenal in the quarterfinals -- a repeat of the 2006 final which the Spanish club won 2-1.", "French striker Thierry Henry played for Arsenal in that game but has since joined Barca.", "Henry remains Arsenal's all-time leading goalscorer.", "The draw for the quarterfinals of the tournament took place at the headquarters of European football's governing body (UEFA) in Nyon, Switzerland where the match-ups for the semifinals were also decided.", "United will win the Champions League ...", "I feel it in my bones .", "Alex Ferguson's Manchester United were drawn against Bayern Munich, who they famously beat in the 1999 final.", "Bayern went in front after just six minutes of the final in Barcelona but United scored two injury time goals to stun the German side.", "Dutch coach Louis van Gaal is attempting to secure Bayern Munich's first European crown since 2001, after they knocked out Italian side Juventus in the group stages.", "Jose Mourinho's Inter Milan are playing first time quarterfinalists CSKA Moscow.", "The Italian champions dumped Mourinho's former club Chelsea out of the competition earlier this week.", "There is no country seeding at the last eight stage, which led to Lyon and Bordeaux being drawn together.", "Their tie means France is assured a representative in the last four.", "The Champions League is the most lucrative tournament in world football with the final worth an estimated $421 million, according to sponsors Mastercard, with the winners earning close to $150 million.", "The quarterfinal ties will take place the week beginning March 29.", "In the Europa League draw English Premier League team Liverpool were drawn against Portuguese club Benfica.", "There is an all-Spanish tie in the last eight after Atletico Madrid and Valencia were drawn against each other.", "If Liverpool get past Benfica they will face one of the Spanish teams in the semifinal, meaning either an emotional return for striker Fernando Torres to former club Atletico, or for manager Rafael Benitez to the team he used to coach, Valencia.", "Juventus' conquerors Fulham were drawn against German champions Wolfsburg while Hamburg pulled Belgian side Standard Liege." ]	[ "Draw for the UEFA Champions League to take place in Switzerland on Friday .", "Holders Barcelona are favorites to retain their crown .", "The final is worth an estimated $421 million in economic terms, according to sponsors .", "This year's final will be held in Madrid, Spain, on May 22 ." ]	[ 0, 14, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Security cameras were rolling when a killer whale at SeaWorld's Florida park grabbed a trainer by her hair and pulled her underwater, leading to her death.", "Now SeaWorld and the family of Dawn Brancheau are fighting to keep videos and photos related to her death out of the public eye.", "A Florida judge on Thursday granted a request from SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment to join in a lawsuit filed last week by Brancheau's family seeking to prevent the release of the footage, which was captured at SeaWorld's Orlando, Florida, park on February 24.", "Brancheau was interacting with an orca named Tilikum when the animal grabbed her ponytail and pulled her underwater in front of shocked onlookers at Shamu Stadium.", "She died from \"multiple traumatic injuries and drowning,\" the Orange County Sheriff's office said.", "Portions of the incident were captured on two cameras at the park -- one that shows a view from under water and another from that park's Sky Tower, according to the family's complaint, which was filed last week.", "\"The underwater view does not show Mrs. Brancheau until after she had entered the water.", "The overhead camera was not aimed at the scene until after the incident had begun,\" the complaint states.", "\"Significantly neither camera shows what occurred in the moments prior to and including Mrs. Brancheau being pulled into the water and offer no insight into the cause of this tragic event.\"", "Brancheau's family filed the complaint against the Orange County Sheriff and the District Nine Medical Examiner's Office, who have possession of the footage.", "Circuit Court Judge William Kirkwood granted a temporary injunction of the release of the footage, noting that the sheriff's office filed a notice with the court stating it had no position on the matter.", "The medical examiner's office also filed a notice of no objection to the Brancheau family's complaint.", "iReport: Bob Barker, Tippi Hedren speak out on Sea World incident .", "In a motion filed Monday, SeaWorld claimed it has an interest in the pending litigation because it is the exclusive owner of the footage.", "If possession of the videos is not controlled, the motion further claims, \"it is almost a certainty that they will be made publicly available on the Internet,\" causing SeaWorld to lose its exclusive right to the video.", "\"Further, SeaWorld's interests are generally aligned with the Plaintiffs' interests, and SeaWorld, as the former employer of Mrs. Brancheau, seeks to assist Plaintiffs in protecting their privacy interests,\" the motion states.", "SeaWorld also expressed concern that members of the media will be able to gain access to the videos if they become part of an investigative file with law enforcement.", "In fact, Florida's broad laws regarding access to public documents creates a great likelihood of such a possibility, said CNN legal analyst Lisa Bloom.", "\"As a general rule, matters of a police file are public record, and the media has access to contents of a police file.", "Most mainstream media are not going to broadcast someone being killed or someone's remains, but it's a matter of having that access to decide how to use it,\" Bloom said.", "\"Law enforcement files have to be released in Florida, so the media has a very strong argument not only under federal First Amendment laws but also under Florida access laws,\" Bloom said.", "The Brancheau family's lawsuit marks the second time this month that a family has asked the courts to intervene in the release of footage depicting dead loved ones.", "Earlier this month, another family made a similar appeal to the courts involving the release of photos depicting dead loved ones.", "The family of slain hiker Meredith Emerson last week asked a Georgia judge to issue an order preventing the release of crime scene photos depicting her nude and dismembered body.", "A reporter on assignment for Hustler requested the photos for a story he was doing, according to the adult magazine.", "A judge granted a temporary order in the case preventing the photos' release pending a hearing on the matter." ]	[ "Judge grants SeaWorld's request to join family's lawsuit restricting access to footage .", "Dawn Brancheau's family wants to prevent release of videos, photos related to her death .", "Brancheau died after killer whale pulled her underwater in front of onlookers at Shamu Stadium ." ]	[ 1, 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The path that brought U.S. citizen David Coleman Headley to the point of pleading guilty to involvement in two international terrorism plots is complicated and twisted.", "His life, in many ways, is far from the average American experience, but he's also very much a product of a typical American upbringing.", "He's an unusual fusion, a product of two worlds, a rare blending of East and West.", "And because of his unusual background, Headley, experts say, is one of the most unusual and important American-born terrorists.", "Even his eyes -- one blue and one brown -- reflect the double life he has lived almost since the day he was born.", "Headley pleaded guilty Thursday to all 12 charges against him in connection with the four-day siege on India's financial capital in 2008 that left more than 160 people dead and a planned attack in Denmark.", "Headley, the son of an American mother and Pakistani father, was accused of extensive involvement in planning the devastating attacks on hotels in Mumbai, which the Indian government says were carried out by the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.", "At least six Americans were among the dead.", "Headley, 49, was indicted last October and charged by the U.S. government for conspiracy to murder and maim people in India and provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.", "He initially pleaded not guilty to the charges, but he has changed his plea as part of a deal with the government to cooperate with investigators and possibly to avoid the death penalty he might have received if convicted on some of the charges.", "In the federal courtroom in Chicago, Illinois, on Thursday, Headley told the judge that he did not dispute any of the 12 charges.", "By pleading guilty, he also gave up his right to appeal in the case.", "He faced six counts of conspiracy to bomb locations in India and to murder and maim persons in India and Denmark, and six counts of aiding and abetting the murder of U.S. citizens in India.", "The indictment against him charged that Headley scouted targets in Mumbai for more than two years to set up the November 2008 attacks.", "He was also accused of planning a terrorist attack on a Danish newspaper, which was never carried out.", "The newspaper became the target of Muslim fury in 2005 after it published cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a manner offensive to Muslims.", "Even family asks: Who is David Coleman Headley?", "Now that he's admitted to conspiracy to murder and maim in the Mumbai attack, even members of his own family are wondering who David Headley really is.", "\"I was really shocked.", "And just didn't expect something like that.", "And I mean such a hands-on accusation,\" said William Headley, his uncle, reflecting on when he first learned of the government's accusations against his nephew.", "\"It was like you had poured cold water inside my chest.\"", "David Coleman Headley was born in 1960 in Washington, D.C., but with a different name: at birth, he was given the Urdu name Daood Gilani.", "He was the son of an eccentric, flamboyant and rebellious high society mother from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Serrill Headley; and a strict, formal Pakistani diplomat father, Sayed Salim Gilani.", "The couple met at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington but moved to Lahore, Pakistan, when their son was very young.", "\"He was the first baby I had anything to do with,\" his uncle William Headley said.", "\"He was the first baby I ever touched or held or anything like that.", "And somewhere I have a photograph of me in my pajamas holding little Daood. ...", "He was a nice-looking little baby.\"", "Fractious union of East and West .", "After only a few years, Daood's parents split up, an early sign of the fractious union of East and West.", "The separation left Daood straddled between his traditional Muslim father and his very Western, very American mother.", "For a time, his mother remained in Pakistan, but she eventually returned to Philadelphia, where she opened a popular bar called the Khyber Pass.", "The Khyber Pass is the name of the main passage between Pakistan and Afghanistan.", "Daood remained in Pakistan throughout much of his childhood, and as a teenager he was enrolled for several years at a prestigious and regimented Pakistani military academy, the Hasan Abdal Cadet College.", "But then his mother pulled him out of the school and brought him back to Philadelphia.", "There, the teen moved into his mother's apartment above the bar.", "In 2006, Daood Gilani changed his name to David Coleman Headley, borrowing the family's American name, and even the middle name of William Headley's father, Coleman.", "The change was made, U.S. officials believe, to help Headley escape detection and travel more easily between the United States, India and Pakistan.", "In an exclusive television interview with CNN in January, Headley's uncle described his disbelief in learning that his own nephew was connected in any way to the massacre in Mumbai -- disbelief that lingered until he began receiving letters from his nephew in his jail cell.", "\"To find an insider in my own family involved [in terrorism] -- you're not responsible for what your family does and yet you have such a close association with it, it's your blood.\"", "Headley wrote to his uncle from jail, saying that despite his heritage, he was now 100 percent Muslim.", "Headley's life has been full of twists and turns, from his dual heritage childhood -- being equally comfortable in Pakistan's Muslim circles and in Philadelphia's social scene -- to his marriage to a blond American beauty and subsequent divorce, after which he took a traditional Muslim wife.", "Drug trafficking snare .", "In the 1990s, Headley became a major drug dealer and turned informant for the Drug Enforcement Administration after being caught, according to his family.", "His involvement with the DEA may have been one of the factors that pushed him toward Islamic extremism.", "In 1997, he was running a video shop in New York.", "On February 7 of that year, he was in a midtown hotel negotiating to bring a large load of heroin from the Middle East to New York City.", "But he had walked into a trap.", "The hotel room, on the ninth floor, was wired by the Feds.", "As Gilani tried to escape, he found himself surrounded by gun-toting DEA agents.", "It was a moment that became the ultimate turning point in his life, said his uncle.", "\"Daood said 'If I get free of this I'm going to commit myself to God,' \" William Headley recounted.", "\"So that is when, I would say, he became a serious Muslim.\"", "What happened next is somewhat of a mystery.", "While his co-conspirator in the drug deal went to prison for 10 years, Headley was out within 15 months.", "His family believes the DEA was using him as their own informant, frequently sending him to Pakistan and Afghanistan to meet directly with heroin dealers.", "Those trips may also have put Headley in direct contact with Islamic terror groups who use the drug trade to finance their operations.", "It was during this time that he may have first encountered Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, the Pakistani group that some say is now second only to al Qaeda in its global terrorist reach.", "The indictment indicated that Headley had moved among senior figures in Lashkar -- including Ilyas Kashmiri, who's alleged to have had contacts with al Qaeda.", "Headley case called unique .", "The Headley case is unique for many reasons, experts say.", "\"It reads like a spy novel more than your typical terrorism cases,\" said Frank Cilluffo, who heads the George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute.", "He says Headley was a sophisticated and valuable asset for anyone in the terrorist world, because of his ability to move easily between the East and the West.", "\"This is someone who clearly lived in two different worlds and grew up in two different worlds and had an awareness of both the United States -- having spent much of his adult life and later childhood life here -- as well as in Pakistan,\" said Cilluffo.", "\"Clearly, you have someone who was conflicted, even though he lived in both worlds.", "You get the sense that he never felt at home in either world, searching for his identity ... and we know how, unfortunately, it plays out,\" he added.", "Headley's uncle still finds it hard to believe.", "He was shocked when CNN called to tell him that his nephew was pleading guilty.", "The nephew he knew was not someone who could have been involved in a terrorist plot, William Headley said.", "\"We absolutely cannot imagine it,\" he said.", "\"It's not at all consistent with anything we know at all.\"" ]	[ "David Coleman Headley is a product of two worlds, a rare blending of East and West .", "His mother was a fun-loving Philly socialite; his father was a strict, formal Pakistani .", "His arrest in a heroin sting was a turning point in his life, an uncle says .", "He's been tied to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba; India says group carried out Mumbai attacks ." ]	[ 2, 6, 16, 51 ]
[ "Jerusalem (CNN) -- In a bid to end what it calls illegal riots, the Israeli military will prohibit outsider access to areas in two occupied West Bank villages one day a week, according to a statement explaining the move.", "\"Every week, violent, illegal riots take place in the area of Nil'in and Bil'in, during the course of which members of the security forces are wounded and heavy damage is caused to the security fence and to public property,\" the Israeli military statement read.", "\"In an effort to prevent the inciters of these riots from reaching the area in which the riots take place, three weeks ago, OC Central Command Maj. Gen. Avi Mizrahi signed an order designating the area between the fence and the villages of Nil'in and Bil'in as a closed military zone.\"", "Word of the Israeli military order became public Monday.", "For the past five years the two Palestinian towns have been home to weekly Friday protests opposing Israel's separation barrier, the over-700-kilometer stretch of concrete wall and fence that separates Israel from the West Bank.", "The demonstrations have become a weekly ritual and the center of a nascent non-violent Palestinian resistance movement, which attract an assortment of Palestinians, Israelis and international activists.", "However, the demonstrations often degenerate into clashes between Israeli military personnel and stone-throwing youths.", "The protest sites will be closed between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. every Friday for the next six months, but the closure does not apply to residents of the villages.", "The Palestinian Authority Cabinet issued a statement saying it \"condemned the repressive actions by the occupation forces against peaceful demonstrations, as well as the declaration of Bil'in and Nil'in as closed military areas every Friday for six months.\"", "The cabinet \"stressed the right of the Palestinian people, according to international laws, to defy occupation measures, settlement activities, and the building of the wall.\"", "The move comes after months of increased Israeli military activity in the form of night raids and arrests in the villages.", "Residents and protest organizers also have decried the latest Israeli military action, saying in a news release that it is part of a \"persecution campaign against Palestinian activists in an attempt to suppress the rising tide of West Bank popular resistance to the occupation.\"", "Speaking to CNN last month, Peter Lerner, a spokesman for the Israeli military, acknowledged Israeli army activity in the towns and said Israel has the responsibility to deal those who were leading the protests.", "\"If those people who are organizing it from even behind the scenes, they cannot be above the law, and that's what we're dealing with.\"", "Gaby Lasky, a lawyer representing village residents, said the military order is illegal and argued that \"closed military zone orders are not meant to deal with demonstrations, which are clearly in the civic rather than the military realm.\"", "According to the Palestinian activist group Popular Struggle, six protesters have been killed in the demonstrations since 2008.", "The Israeli military says more than a hundred of its soldiers have been wounded." ]	[ "Two Palestinian towns have been home to weekly protests opposing separation barrier .", "700-kilometer stretch of concrete wall and fence separates Israel from West Bank .", "Protest sites will be closed between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. every Friday .", "Gaby Lasky, a lawyer representing village residents, said the military order is illegal ." ]	[ 4, 7 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Health care reform advocates inched closer to victory Wednesday as a high-profile liberal Democrat switched his position and announced his intention to vote for a sweeping $875 billion plan under consideration in the House of Representatives.", "Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said he believes \"health care is a civil right.\"", "He had previously characterized the bill, which cleared the Senate in December, as little more than a boondoggle for private insurers.", "Kucinich was publicly lobbied for his vote by President Barack Obama during the president's visit this week to Kucinich's congressional district in Ohio.", "He told reporters he's had four meetings with Obama to discuss the bill.", "\"The president's visit to my district ... underscored the urgency of this vote,\" Kucinich said.", "\"I have doubts about the bill ... [but] I've decided to cast a vote in favor of the legislation.\"", "He said he ultimately had \"to make a decision on the bill as it is, not on the bill as I'd like to see it.\"", "Kucinich is a backer of a single-payer health care system under which the government would fund all costs billed by doctors and hospitals.", "Kucinich's decision to change his vote is \"a good sign,\" Obama told reporters in the Oval Office.", "\"I told him thank you.\"", "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said she thought Kucinich's switch would make a difference with a large number of liberal activists.", "\"He's been a supporter of health care for all Americans for a long time,\" she said.", "\"He has a constituency, and many of those people still don't understand why there isn't a public [option].\"", "Pelosi has repeatedly expressed confidence that she will have enough support to pass the bill when it comes to the floor for a final vote.", "Read more about how votes are lining up .", "Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer, the No.", "2 House Democrat, indicated Wednesday the vote could come at some point this weekend.", "He said the leadership is still waiting for final cost estimates from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on a package of changes to the measure.", "Asked if the release of the CBO numbers was imminent, Pelosi said, \"I would have said ... half an hour ago, hopefully any minute.", "I think it's going to take a little more time.\"", "She said she had no explanation for the delay.", "\"I don't know the calculation,\" she said.", "\"I don't know how they do it. Whatever it is, they're the gospel and we have to live by it.\"", "Later, Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami said that the CBO estimates would not be released Wednesday night.", "Since the Democrats have said the bill will be available for reading for 72 hours before a vote, the vote can take place no sooner than Sunday, provided the CBO numbers are posted Thursday.", "Pelosi needs 216 votes from her 253-member caucus to pass the Senate bill.", "No Republicans are expected to back it.", "A number of House Democrats have refused to state their voting intentions publicly.", "Twenty-seven House Democrats, however, have indicated they will join Republicans in opposing the Senate plan.", "That puts opponents of reform 11 votes shy of the 216 needed to prevent Obama from scoring a major victory on his top domestic priority.", "Meanwhile, GOP leaders continued to pound away at the legislation on Wednesday, slamming House Democratic leaders for considering the use of a controversial legislative maneuver to pass the Senate bill.", "Pelosi may try to help House Democrats unhappy with the Senate bill by allowing them to avoid a direct vote on the measure.", "She is considering pushing for a vote on a rule that would simply \"deem\" the Senate bill to be passed.", "The House then would proceed to a separate vote on the more popular package of changes to the Senate plan.", "\"I've never seen anything like the plan that House Democrats hatched this week to jam their health care bill through Congress,\" Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said Wednesday.", "\"Historians will remember this as a new low in this debate, the week that America was introduced to the 'scheme and deem' approach to legislating.", "They'll remember this as the week that Congress tried to pull the wool over the eyes of the public in order to get around their will.\"", "House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that Republicans will try to block the procedure.", "They will try to force a vote on a resolution requiring the Senate health care bill to be brought to an up-or-down vote.", "Boehner has called the maneuver -- also known as a \"self-executing rule\" -- the \"ultimate in Washington power grabs.\"", "House Republicans sent a letter to the Democratic head of the House Rules Committee on Wednesday asking her to move an upcoming hearing on the health care bill to a larger room to account for overwhelming public interest in the issue.", "The committee is responsible for deciding whether the full House will have a chance to pass the Senate bill using the self-executing rule.", "\"While C-SPAN may decide to cover the hearing, that does not satisfy the need for the maximum amount of transparency and openness needed to give the American people faith in this process,\" the letter said.", "\"By moving the hearing to a larger room, we can ensure more Americans will have the opportunity to participate in our proceedings and not be turned away at the door.\"", "Where does health care reform stand?", "If enacted, the Democratic reform proposal would constitute the biggest expansion of federal health care guarantees since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid more than four decades ago.", "The plan is expected to extend insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans.", "The Senate bill also would reduce federal deficits by about $118 billion over 10 years, according to CBO estimates.", "Top Republicans contend the plan amounts to an ill-conceived government takeover of the country's health care system.", "They have said it would do little to slow spiraling medical costs.", "They also argue it would lead to higher premiums and taxes for middle-class families while resulting in deep Medicare cuts.", "Public opinion polls indicate a majority of Americans have turned against the administration's health care reform plan, though individual elements of the proposal remain widely popular.", "CNN's Dan Lothian, Charles Riley, Alan Silverleib, Jeff Simon, Deirdre Walsh and Robert Yoon contributed to this report." ]	[ "Democratic leaders say timing of vote will depend on CBO figures, which are delayed .", "Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, on Wednesday said he intends to vote for health care bill .", "Kucinich previously had characterized the bill as a boondoggle for private insurers .", "The apparent defection improves chances for the bill's passage ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A five-year-old British boy who was kidnapped in Pakistan earlier this month has been found safe and is back with his relatives, the British High Commission said Tuesday.", "Sahil Saeed was released at a school in the Punjab province of Pakistan, said Assistant Chief Constable David Thompson of the Greater Manchester Police in England, near his parents' residence in Oldham.", "From there, Sahil wandered into a field and was found by residents who looked after him until police arrived, Thompson said.", "Regional Pakistani police said Sahil was found near the town of Danga in Punjab province, close to where he was abducted March 3.", "Sahil was in good condition, said Aslam Tareen, the head of the regional police.", "\"He is with members of family in Pakistan and the Pakistani police, and there is also contact from the British High Commission,\" Thompson said.", "He added that Sahil had already spoken to his mother and father in England by telephone and that both parents were \"clearly relieved\" to speak to their son.", "The High Commission issued a statement thanking police in Jhelum, another town in the eastern province of Punjab, for the boy's return.", "\"This is fantastic news that brings to an end a traumatic ordeal faced by Sahil and his family,\" said Adam Thomson, the British high commissioner to Pakistan.", "Police arrested some of the kidnappers, said Rana Sanaullah, the provincial law minister.", "Sahil, a British citizen of Pakistani descent, was on the last day of a two-week vacation in Pakistan before he was to return home to Oldham, in northern England.", "Gunmen barged into Sahil's grandmother's home in Jhelum and took him.", "They reportedly demanded a ransom of 10 million rupees ($118,000).", "Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik had said the captors included someone close to the family.", "\"There is someone who is very close to the family because the way the situation happened, the way the entry was made,\" Malik told reporters.", "But Tareen said Tuesday there is no evidence that any family member was involved.", "There was also no indication a ransom was paid, Tareen said.", "Sanaullah, the law minister, said the kidnappers were part of a ring that operated in and out of Pakistan.", "He did not elaborate. Thompson, of the Greater Manchester Police, could not comment on the possibility of arrests in England.", "\"At this stage there are no inquiries that we're carrying out in the UK that would lead me to contemplate that we'd make an arrest in the near future,\" he said." ]	[ "NEW: Sahil Saeed was released at a school in the Punjab province of Pakistan .", "Sahil was in good condition, said Aslam Tareen, the head of the regional police .", "Gunmen took him at gunpoint from his grandmother's home in Punjabon on March 3 .", "They reportedly demanded a ransom of 10 million rupees ($118,000)" ]	[ 1, 4, 11, 12 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Saying it plans to lease aircraft and provide replacement workers, British Airways on Monday unveiled an ambitious contingency plan in preparation for the first of two strikes by the union members representing the airline's cabin crews.", "The Unite union's leadership aimed to ground the airline through its action, but \"the flag will continue to fly,\" said Willie Walsh, BA chief executive, in a written statement.", "\"Around 60 percent of our customers will be able to fly as planned and many thousands more can be rebooked onto alternative BA flights or onto rival airlines.\"", "Members of the Unite union voted to strike for three days beginning March 20, and for four more days beginning March 27.", "BA said Monday its contingency plans will allow about 45,000 customers to fly each day during the first strike period.", "\"At this stage, the vast majority of flights between March 23 and March 31 remain in the schedule, and we will update customers due to fly during the second strike period after the first strike period has ended,\" the statement said.", "\"The airline is still available to hold further talks but wants customers to have early warning of its flying schedule to allow sufficient time for alternative travel arrangements to be made.\"", "At London's Heathrow Airport, more than 60 percent of British Airways long-haul flights will be operated during the first strike period, the company said.", "In addition, it will operate all long-haul flights to London's Gatwick Airport and more than half of the short-haul flights at Gatwick.", "\"The airline will operate some of its own short-haul flights at Heathrow, and will supplement its schedule by leasing up to 22 aircraft with pilots and crews from eight different airlines based in the UK and Europe,\" the statement said.", "\"Due to the numbers of cabin crew who have called in to offer their services over the weekend, the schedule will be slightly larger than we had originally anticipated,\" Walsh said.", "The airline said it has also made agreements with 40 other carriers to rebook customers free of charge during the strike period if their British Airways flights are canceled.", "\"We will continue to try to prevent this strike taking place, but we have reached a point when we must now offer some clarity to our customers who have waited with great patience since Friday, when the strike dates were first announced,\" Walsh said in the British Airways statement. ...", "I recognize the frustration of customers booked for travel from March 27 onwards, when the second stoppage is due to begin, and we will do all we can to give them more clarity about their specific flight number once we start to understand just how many cabin crew are willing to work as normal.\"", "The industrial action is over planned changes to cabin crew conditions, which British Airways says will save the carrier more than £60 million (approximately $90 million) a year.", "Unite has said the plans call for working hours to be extended and crew levels to be cut, changes that it has said will damage customer service and the BA brand.", "The airline's management submitted a formal offer to the union Thursday, Unite said, but added that the offer failed to address union concerns about crew numbers and service delivery.", "That prompted Unite officials to announce the strike dates Friday.", "When that occurred, the airline took its offer off the table.", "The airline, for its part, also has rejected all union proposals so far, saying they would have saved the airline significantly less money than the airline's own planned changes.", "British Airways has opened an extra call center manned by volunteers to help customers, the Monday statement said.", "\"We remain absolutely determined to search for a sensible settlement and our door remains open to Unite, day or night.", "It is not too late for ... Unite to call off this action and we will do all we can to reinstate some of the canceled flights,\" Walsh said in the company's statement Monday." ]	[ "BA: Contingency plans will allow about 45,000 customers to fly each day .", "It plans to lease up to 22 aircraft with pilots and crews from eight different airlines .", "The industrial action is over planned changes to cabin crew conditions .", "Union says plans call for working hours to be extended and crew levels to be cut ." ]	[ 4, 14, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Three people connected to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were killed in two drive-by shootings, a senior White House official told CNN Sunday.", "Two of the victims were an American employee at the consulate and her U.S. citizen husband.", "Their 1-year-old child, who was in a vehicle with the couple at the time of the shooting, survived the incident, according to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.", "The American couple were found dead inside a white Toyota RAV4 with Texas license plates, according to the Chihuahua state attorney general's office.", "The woman was shot in the neck and left arm, while the man had a bullet wound near his right eye, officials said.", "\"We know that the U.S. citizens were targeted,\" Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz told CNN, saying a police officer witnessed a car shooting at the Americans' car.", "\"We know they were chasing them.", "We know they wanted to kill them.\"", "The Americans were identified as Arthur Redelfs, 34, and Lesley Enriquez by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, where Redelfs worked as a detention officer.", "Redelfs was a 10-year veteran of the department, according to Jesse Tovar, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.", "\"On behalf of the men and women of the Sheriff's Office, I would like to extend our deepest sympathy and condolences to the family during this difficult time,\" said Sheriff Richard Wiles.", "\"Our thoughts and prayers are with them.\"", "Authorities retrieved only one shell casing, from a 9 mm weapon.", "About 10 minutes before authorities received the call, they were alerted to a body inside a 2003 Honda Pilot.", "Inside was the husband of the Mexican employee, identified as Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, 37.", "Reyes said the victim was a state police officer who was married to a Mexican employee at the U.S. consulate.", "Two children, 4 and 7, were injured in that shooting and transported to the hospital, the attorney general's office said.", "Police recovered two shells at that scene from an assault rifle, authorities said.", "\"The president is deeply saddened and outraged by the news of the brutal murders of three people associated with the United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez,\" National Security Council Spokesman Mike Hammer said in the statement Sunday.", "\"He extends his condolences to the families and condemns these attacks on consular and diplomatic personnel serving at our foreign missions.", "In concert with Mexican authorities, we will work tirelessly to bring their killers to justice.\"", "In response, the U.S. State Department authorized the temporary relocation of employees' families working in border-area consulates.", "\"These appalling assaults on members of our own State Department family are, sadly, part of a growing tragedy besetting many communities in Mexico,\" Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement Sunday night.", "\"They underscore the imperative of our continued commitment to work closely with the Government of (Mexican) President (Felipe) Calderón to cripple the influence of trafficking organizations at work in Mexico.\"", "The families of employees at U.S. consulates in Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros, are allowed to leave for a period of 30 days \"in response to an increase in violence along the Mexican side of its border with the U.S.,\" State Department spokesman Fred Lash told CNN.", "After 30 days, the authorization can be renewed, depending on a review, Lash said, adding that this was not a mandatory evacuation.", "The announcement was part of a warning to American citizens regarding travel to Mexico.", "The warning urges U.S. citizens to delay nonessential travel to parts of the states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua, where Juarez is located, because of recent violent attacks.", "U.S. government employees are restricted from traveling to all or parts of these three states.", "The attacks include the kidnapping and killing of two resident U.S. citizens in Chihuahua, the warning states.", "\"Some recent confrontations between Mexican authorities and drug cartel members have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades,\" the warning says.", "\"During some of these incidents, U.S. citizens have been trapped and temporarily prevented from leaving the area.\"", "The mayor said the shootings highlight a problem shared by both countries along their border.", "\"It is not just a Mexican problem -- it's is a U.S.-Mexico problem,\" Reyes said.", "\"I'm very glad that the U.S. has taken that position.\"", "He said he supported the State Department's authorization to consular families and that \"it is important they feel safe.\"", "Mexico on Sunday said that its government was committed to protecting all people, citizens and visitors alike, diplomats or not.", "\"The Mexican government deeply laments the killings of three people linked to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez,\" Mexico's foreign ministry said in a statement.", "\"The Mexican authorities are working with determination to clear up the facts surrounding the crime scene and put those responsible before the law.\"", "Juarez is one of the front lines in Mexico's war against the drug cartels that operate in its territory.", "More than 2,600 people were killed in Juarez in 2009.", "Juarez, across from El Paso, Texas, has become a focal point of Mexican President Felipe Calderon's anti-drug efforts after the January 31 killings of 15 people, most of whom were students with no ties to organized crime.", "The incident sparked outrage across Mexico.", "In the western state of Guerrero, at least 25 people were killed in a series of violent acts on Saturday, state officials said.", "The bodies of 14 people, including nine civilians and five police officers, were found in various parts of the resort city of Acapulco, the official Notimex news agency reported, citing Guerrero Public Security Secretary Juan Heriberto Salinas.", "In the small city of Ajuchitlan del Progreso, 10 civilians and one soldier were killed in two shootouts that started when federal officials tried to carry out search warrants on two locations, Salinas said.", "Police in the state were on a heightened security alert, he said.", "The government has not released official figures, but national media say 7,600 Mexicans lost their lives in the war on drugs in 2009.", "Calderon said last year that 6,500 Mexicans died in drug violence in 2008.", "CNN's Mariano Castillo and Jamie Crawford contributed to this report." ]	[ "1-year-old child of two of the victims survives the attack .", "Juarez mayor: \"We know that the U.S. citizens were targeted\"\nDrive-by shootings kill U.S. employee at consulate and 2 others in Ciudad Juarez .", "State Department warns Americans of danger of traveling to three Mexican states ." ]	[ 0, 5, 24 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Democratic congressional leaders unveiled a long-awaited $940 billion compromise health care plan Thursday, setting the stage for a final legislative showdown on President Obama's domestic priority.", "White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced that Obama had decided to delay an upcoming trip to Australia and Indonesia to help push the bill over the finish line.", "The president had been set to depart Washington on Sunday, the same day that the House of Representatives is likely to vote on the measure.", "Watch Gibbs defend health plan maneuver .", "\"I'm sure he wants to be here for the history,\" said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California.", "If enacted, the measure would constitute the biggest expansion of federal health care guarantees since the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid more than four decades ago.", "It would extend insurance coverage to an additional 32 million Americans, according to a preliminary analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.", "Among other things, the plan would expand Medicare prescription drug coverage, increase federal subsidies to help people buy insurance, and ban denials of coverage for pre-existing conditions.", "It seeks to bridge the gap between previous House and Senate bills partly by watering down and delaying the implementation of a tax on high-end insurance plans.", "As with earlier House and Senate plans, it includes significant reductions in Medicare spending, in part through changes in payments made under the Medicare Advantage program.", "It also eliminates a deeply unpopular provision in the Senate bill that exempts Nebraska from paying increased Medicaid expenses.", "The compromise plan would cut the nation's deficit by $138 billion over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.", "It would further reduce the deficit by more than $1 trillion in the following decade.", "The full House is now tentatively set to consider two measures Sunday: the $875 billion plan passed by the Senate in December and the compromise, which would bring the total to $940 billion.", "The compromise plan cannot become law if the Senate bill is not also enacted.", "If the Senate bill passes, it would go to Obama to be signed into law.", "If the revisions unveiled Thursday are also approved, they would still have to clear the Senate.", "House members unhappy with the less expansive Senate bill have received assurances from top Senate Democrats that they will pass the $940 billion compromise.", "House Democrats pushed hard to ensure the compromise included an expansion of subsidies to low- and middle-income families, as well as a reduction in the tax on high-end \"Cadillac\" plans.", "Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, told reporters Thursday that the budget office's cost estimate \"will go a long way to get [fiscally conservative Democrats] to feel comfortable with the legislation.\"", "The Senate bill, if allowed to stand unchanged, would reduce federal deficits by $20 billion less than the compromise plan over the next 10 years.", "GOP leaders said the new budget office estimate of the revised plan had not changed their opinion of the overall measure, which they vehemently oppose.", "\"It's not too late for the American people to continue to speak up,\" House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Thursday.", "\"They need to yell a little louder, and we can stop this.\"", "Republicans insist the Democratic proposal will do little to slow spiraling medical costs.", "They also say it would lead to higher premiums and taxes for middle-class families while resulting in deep Medicare cuts.", "Pelosi has nevertheless expressed confidence in recent weeks that she will have enough support to pass both the Senate plan and the compromise bill when they come to the House floor.", "The speaker needs 216 votes from her 253-member caucus to pass the measures.", "No Republicans are expected to back either one.", "Watch Pelosi express her confidence in the plan .", "Twenty-seven House Democrats indicated to CNN on Wednesday they will join Republicans in opposing the Senate plan.", "That leaves opponents of reform 11 votes shy of defeating the measure.", "Pelosi has tried to sweeten the deal for House liberals by adding a large student loan reform measure to the compromise plan.", "The measure, which is a priority for Obama, would end the practice of having private banks offer student loans while expanding direct lending from the government.", "The speaker may also try to help House Democrats unhappy with the Senate bill by allowing them to avoid a direct vote on the measure.", "She is considering pushing for a vote on a rule that would simply \"deem\" the Senate bill to be passed.", "The House then would proceed to a separate vote on the changes incorporated in the $940 billion version of the plan.", "Read about the highlights of the compromise plan .", "Republicans failed Thursday to force a vote on a resolution requiring the Senate health care bill to be brought to an up-or-down vote.", "GOP leaders are also fuming over Democrats' decision to use a legislative maneuver called reconciliation, which will allow the $940 billion plan -- if passed by the House -- to clear the Senate with a simple majority of 51 votes.", "Senate Democrats lost their filibuster-proof 60-seat supermajority in January with the election of GOP Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts.", "Republicans say that reconciliation, which is limited to provisions pertaining to the budget, was never meant to facilitate passage of a sweeping reform measure such as the health care bill.", "Democrats say that reconciliation was used to pass several major bills in recent years, including President George W. Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts.", "Public opinion polls indicate that Americans remain sharply divided over the Democrats' health care reform agenda, though individual elements of it remain widely popular.", "CNN's Ted Barrett, Dana Bash, Lisa Desjardins, Brianna Keilar and Kristi Keck contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: GOP effort to require up-or-down vote on Senate health care bill fails .", "NEW: President delays trip to Australia, Indonesia to help push bill over finish line .", "NEW: Bill cuts Senate bill provision that exempts Nebraska from paying Medicaid expenses .", "Bill cuts deficit by $138 billion over 10 years; additional $1 trillion in cuts expected after that ." ]	[ 1, 10, 11, 38 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon made his third visit in a little more than a month Tuesday to the troubled border city of Juarez, where three people associated with the U.S. Consulate were killed over the weekend.", "Ciudad Juarez is the most violent city in Mexico, with more than 2,600 drug-related deaths in 2009.", "No official numbers are available, but more than 400 killings have been reported in local media this year.", "The city, long the focal point of Calderon's war on drug cartels, came to renewed prominence after the January 31 killings of 15 people, most of them students with no links to organized crime.", "The massacre sparked outrage throughout Mexico and drew worldwide attention.", "Saturday's deaths of a pregnant woman and two other people connected with the U.S. Consulate renewed attention to the blood-soaked city.", "Calderon visited Juarez twice in mid-February within a one-week period, meeting with local officials and residents.", "More such meetings were scheduled for Tuesday.", "Although Tuesday's visit had been scheduled before the latest slayings, analysts say it highlights the city's importance to the president.", "\"What it says is that he has really decided that success in Juarez is essential for stemming the tide of organized crime,\" said Andrew Selee, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Mexico Institute.", "\"He has staked his presidency on success in Juarez.\"", "Juarez, which accounted for about one-third of the drug-related killings in Mexico last year, was already significant because of the high death count, Selee said.", "But the killings in January and over the weekend have elevated the city to a symbolic level, the analyst said.", "\"It has gained an emotional value,\" Selee said.", "The latest killings were carried out by a local gang known as Los Aztecas, who are allied with the Juarez Cartel, Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz said.", "The three victims were followed and targeted, Reyes said.", "They were attacked as they left a birthday party at the U.S. Consulate in Juarez.", "U.S. and Mexican officials said a consulate employee who was four months pregnant and her husband, a U.S. citizen who was a jailer in El Paso, Texas, across the border from Juarez, were slain in their SUV.", "The couple's 10-month-old daughter, who was in the vehicle, was not injured, Reyes and other officials said.", "Authorities identified the couple as El Paso residents Arthur Redelfs, 34, and Lesley Ann Enriquez, 35.", "Redelfs was a 10-year veteran of the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, department spokesman Jesse Tovar said.", "The third victim was identified as Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, 37, a state police officer who was married to a Mexican employee at the U.S. Consulate.", "His wife was not traveling with him, but two of their children, ages 4 and 7, were in the car and were wounded, officials said.", "Authorities said they don't know of a motive, nor had they made any arrests Tuesday.", "Widespread violence throughout northern Mexico in the past few weeks has led U.S. officials to take precautions, including the temporary relocation of State Department employees' families in border-area consulates.", "The family members at U.S. consulates in Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros are allowed to leave for up to 30 days, the State Department said.", "The leave can be renewed after 30 days.", "The announcement was part of a continued warning to U.S. citizens regarding travel to Mexico.", "U.S. citizens are advised to delay nonessential travel to parts of the states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua, where Juarez is located.", "In addition, U.S. government employees are restricted from traveling to all or parts of the three states.", "Attacks have included the kidnapping and killing of two resident U.S. citizens in Chihuahua, the warning states.", "\"Some recent confrontations between Mexican authorities and drug cartel members have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades,\" the warning says.", "\"During some of these incidents, U.S. citizens have been trapped and temporarily prevented from leaving the area.\"", "About two weeks ago, the Texas Department of Public Safety took the unprecedented step of telling college students not to visit Mexican border cities during spring break because they are too dangerous.", "It was the first time Texas authorities had taken that step.", "Canada, likewise, issued an advisory Tuesday urging citizens not to take nonessential trips to Ciudad Juarez and to \"exercise a high degree of caution\" throughout Mexico.", "\"Travelers are advised to reconsider their need to travel to Ciudad Juarez and should only do so if it is absolutely necessary,\" the government warning says.", "Asked if Ciudad Juarez is safe for visitors, Mayor Reyes laughed softly.", "\"We have a problem in Ciudad Juarez,\" he said.", "\"We can't deny that or lessen it.", "\"Normally, the violence is directed at people involved in crime, but at times, civilians are affected who are not involved in crime.\"", "Violence last weekend is a prime example of the extent of the problem.", "In the western state of Guerrero, for instance, at least 25 people were killed Saturday, state officials said.", "The bodies of 14 people, including nine civilians and five police officers, were found in various parts of the resort city of Acapulco, the official Notimex news agency reported, citing Guerrero Public Security Secretary Juan Heriberto Salinas.", "In the small city of Ajuchitlan del Progreso, 10 civilians and one soldier were killed in two shootouts that started when federal officials tried to carry out search warrants in two locations, Salinas said.", "The Mexican government has not released official figures, but national media said 7,600 people were killed in drug-related violence in 2009.", "Calderon said last year that 6,500 Mexicans died in drug killings in 2008.", "No official figures are available, but unofficial tallies this year say more than 17,000 people have been killed since Calderon declared war on the cartels after assuming office in December 2006." ]	[ "Felipe Calderon goes to troubled city for third time in little more than a month .", "Analysts: Visit highlights city's importance as focal point of Calderon's war on drug cartels .", "Visit was scheduled before 3 people slain Saturday .", "Deaths of pregnant woman, two others renewed attention to the border city ." ]	[ 0, 5, 8 ]
[ "Tenino, Washington (CNN) -- Authorities in Alaska are examining two wolves to see if they are the animals that killed a jogger last week, said a wildlife biologist investigating the attack.", "The two gray wolves were tracked down Monday and shot to death from a helicopter near the town of Chignik Lake, Alaska, said wildlife biologist Lem Butler.", "The wolves are suspected of killing special-education teacher Candice Berner last week.", "Berner, 32, was attacked while jogging near the town, authorities said.", "\"We had a systematic search,\" he said.", "\"These were the only two wolves we could find tracks for.\"", "The wolves appeared to be the same ones that left tracks at the scene of the attack, and they matched witnesses' descriptions of the animals seen near Berner's body, Butler said.", "Officials will conduct tests on the wolves' carcasses to determine whether they killed Berner, Butler said.", "The carcasses will also be examined to see whether the animals were rabid or starving, or suffering from some condition that led them to attack a human, he said.", "The rare wolf attack shook Chignik Lake, population 105.", "\"We see wolves a lot,\" said Johnny Lind, president of the Village Council.", "\"But we've never had anything like this happen.\"", "The killing is thought to be only the second fatal wolf attack in North America in more than a century.", "In 2005, a wolf pack killed a geology student in Saskatchewan, Canada.", "Wolves typically avoid human contact and do not threaten people, said John Blankenship, executive director of Wolf Haven.", "\"They are not human predators.", "It's healthy to have awareness of them, for sure.", "But to be afraid of them is too strong an emotion,\" he said.", "Wolf Haven in Tenino educates the public about wolves and serves as a haven for about 50 rescued wolves, many of them once kept as pets." ]	[ "Teacher was killed by wolves last week while jogging near Alaska town .", "Wildlife officials tracked and shot 2 wolves they believe are the killers .", "Carcasses will be tested for rabies, other conditions that might have led to attack .", "Wolves normally avoid humans and do not attack them, experts say ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3, 7, 14, 16 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- The rash of stories about priestly sexual abuse in Europe, especially in Ireland and Germany, has put many Catholics on the defensive.", "They should not be. While sexual molestation of any kind is always indefensible, the politics surrounding this story is also indefensible.", "Employers from every walk of life, in both the U.S. and Europe, have long handled cases of alleged sex abuse by employees as an internal matter.", "Rarely have employers called the cops, and none was required to do so.", "Though this is starting to change, any discussion of employee sexual abuse that took place 30 and 40 years ago must acknowledge this reality.", "Thus it hardly comes as a surprise that Cardinal Sean Brady in Ireland did not summon the authorities about a case involving a priest in the 1970s.", "What is surprising is why some are now indicting him, acting as if his response was the exception to the rule.", "Selective indignation at the Catholic Church is not confined to Brady.", "Why, for example, are the psychologists and psychiatrists who pledged to \"fix\" abusers treated so lightly?", "After all, employers from the corporate world to the Catholic Church were told over and over again that therapy works and to give the offender a second chance.", "Indeed, the zeitgeist of the day was that rehabilitation not only works, it is virtuous.", "That such advice was wildly oversold can now be agreed upon by almost everyone, and that is precisely why it smacks of politics to deny how strongly held the rehabilitative ideal was.", "Had the Catholic Church simply tossed the offenders out, it would have been branded as heartless.", "There is also much noise about Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger -- now the pope -- approving the transfer of a priest out of his archdiocese in Germany for therapy.", "That happened 30 years ago.", "Again, he did exactly what virtually every other leader, clerical or secular, did.", "Anyone who maintains that in North America or Europe it was common practice for employers outside the Catholic Church to file a police report about suspected wrongdoing by their employees needs to put up or shut up: Where is the evidence?", "Beyond that issue, the focus on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church is far out of proportion to the attention given by the media to the sexual molestation of minors when committed by non-Catholic clergymen.", "According to a report by the New York Times in October, the Brooklyn district attorney's office had filed charges in 26 cases of sexual abuse involving members of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.", "Just this month, Rabbi Baruch Lebovits was found guilty on eight counts of sexually abusing a Brooklyn boy.", "Yet the Times, which has run several stories on the decades-old cases in Ireland and Germany, never reported it.", "And none of it merits the kind of attention given to priests.", "Catholics aren't fooled.", "Public school teachers accused of sex abuse are either transferred to another school district -- it's so common that it is called \"passing the trash\"-- or they are assigned to what, in New York, they call a \"rubber room\" (these are places where teachers draw full salary and benefits doing makeshift administrative work).", "Both the teachers unions and state law allow this outrage to continue.", "Maybe if the media concentrated on this problem, solutions would follow.", "But the politics of the day being what they are, don't bet on it.", "It's a lot sexier to nail the Catholic Church.", "The hyper-concentration on the Catholic Church is not by accident.", "The Church preaches an ethic of sexual restraint -- a profoundly countercultural idea -- so when a priest fails, it's tempting to highlight it.", "Human nature being what it is, that's understandable.", "But it's also immoral.", "Quite frankly, if sexual abuse is wrong, it should not matter what the identity of the abuser is.", "Selective justice is the highest form of injustice.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bill Donohue." ]	[ "Bill Donohue says church treated sex abuse as internal matter, as did other leaders .", "He says critics are unfairly implying Church acted differently in failing to disclose such cases .", "He says other faiths, professions have had similar problems but less publicity ." ]	[ 2, 12, 15, 27, 31, 34 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- On a Saturday at the Lamar Edward Salon, a small cluster of women watch a demonstration of a new product.", "Their giggles turn into growing interest.", "They learn the city is handing out free samples, but it's not shampoo or makeup products.", "Instead, the women can leave the salon with free female condoms tucked into their purses.", "Co-owner Gerald Armstrong said his salon is a perfect place for a frank discussion about safe sex.", "\"We talk about beauty and we talk about hair and makeup and things to make them feel better,\" Armstrong said.", "\"We should start talking about things that are helping them to live longer.\"", "Faced with an HIV infection rate six times higher than the national average, District of Columbia officials are launching an unorthodox campaign to halt the spread of the disease.", "They will hand out 500,000 female condoms at salons and community centers and offer informal training sessions to teach women how to use the little-known product.", "About 30 percent of people infected in Washington are women, and the numbers are growing, said Shannon Hader, senior deputy director of the district's Department of Health.", "HIV is particularly prevalent among African-Americans, and more black women between 25 and 34 will die from HIV/AIDS nationwide than from any other cause.", "\"Women haven't really gotten the message that they're at risk,\" Hader said.", "\"So we are very, very concerned with making sure that women in the district realize that HIV, in fact, is a woman's disease too.\"", "In the past, the higher price of female condoms kept them from reaching the ubiquity of the male condom.", "A newly released version, called FC2, is cheaper and designed to be more user-friendly, but the female condom is still relatively unknown.", "So when health officials in Washington decided to use a $500,000 grant from the M.A.C.", "AIDS Fund to distribute female condoms, they allocated a portion for marketing.", "\"One of the things about female condoms is that they're a new product to most people,\" Hader said.", "\"So like any new product, you can't expect it just to sell itself, just to take off on its own.\"", "The city trained outreach workers to demonstrate female condom use and then sent them into salons and onto college campuses to reach women where they already feel comfortable.", "Charlene Cotton became an outreach worker after she discovered she was HIV-positive six years ago.", "Now Cotton has begun giving demonstrations on the female condom.", "She says she's a convert.", "\"It will give a woman a choice, freedom to use protection when a man feels as though that he doesn't have to use a condom,\" Cotton said.", "\"And it gives her the opportunity to say, 'Well you don't have to use one, so I'll use one.'", "\" She said demonstrators ask women to take home three female condoms in the hopes it will increase their familiarity with the product.", "\"Try it three times,\" Cotton said.", "\"First time, experiment [with] it, you feel it, try to apply it.", "Second time, apply it again.", "And the third time, use it with your friend.", "And if they're not convinced by the third time,\" then they probably won't continue to use it, she said.", "Before Katrina Byrd saw a demonstration she was not enthusiastic about using an \"unattractive\" female condom.", "But after another woman offered tips on female condom use and explained the condoms could prevent sexually transmitted diseases, Byrd said she would give them a chance.", "\"I'll try it,\" Byrd said.", "\"I'll see if through my own experience I'll like it.\"", "That's the response that prevention advocates are hoping to hear.", "\"HIV and AIDS has declared war on our communities, particularly on African-American women.", "And I feel that we are justified as health care providers to look for every single avenue to fight back,\" said Dr. Celia Maxwell, director of the Women's Health Institute at Howard University.", "\"For me the important thing would be that even one women is spared from becoming infected.\"" ]	[ "D.C. officials will hand out 500,000 female condoms at salons and community centers .", "Informal training sessions to teach women how to use the little-known product will be given .", "HIV infection rate six times higher than national average in D.C.; 30% are women .", "Outreach worker: \"It will give a woman a choice, freedom to use protection\"" ]	[ 7, 8, 23 ]
[ "Editor's Note: The staff at CNN.com has recently been intrigued by the journalism of VICE, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York.", "VBS.TV is broadband television network of VICE.", "The reports, which are produced solely by VICE, reflect a transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process.", "We believe this unique reporting approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.", "Brooklyn, New York (VBS.TV) -- For the launch of VICE magazine in Mexico, we decided to make an entire issue about Mexico, written entirely by Mexicans.", "At the same time, we came up with the idea of producing a parallel version of that issue in video for VBS.TV and populate our site with documentaries about Mexico, local artists, local musicians and beautiful Mexican girls for the entire month.", "Since then, we repeated the same concept when we launched the magazine in Brazil, and we produced an entire month of content about China during the Olympics.", "Producer Santiago Stelley and I spent a few weeks in Mexico City producing an hour-long documentary about nighttime crime photographers, interviewing some of the best bands and artists in the city and shooting a project about B movies inspired by the lives of drug traffickers.", "A couple of days before Mother's Day, I got to spend a few days at an amazing place called Casa Xochiquetzal (The House of the Beautiful Flowers), a retirement home for older prostitutes in Tepito, one of the sketchiest neighborhoods in the city.", "I went there with Guillermo Rivero, who wrote the print version of the article, and I produced the documentary version of the same story.", "The house has a minimum age requirement of 60 and can accommodate up to 45 women.", "Right now, there are only 23 retired ladies of the night living there.", "The majority of them continue working, because there are still people who want to pay to have sex with them.", "See the rest of House of the Setting Sun at VBS.TV .", "We had the opportunity to meet some of the women that live there, such as 86-year-old Reyna, who sang for us and told us stories of her youth, and Lourdes, a childless widow in her 60s who is still turning tricks.", "We met Canela, a woman in her 80s who was soft spoken and looked incredibly tired.", "She had stopped working just a few years ago and now sells candies for a living.", "Finally, we spent some time with Paola, a 61-year-old who is still a sex worker and hopes to continue working for as many years as she can.", "We ended up spending Mother's Day with them at what was perhaps the most bittersweet party I've attended.", "The women were dancing and eating and drinking punch together, they joked around and seemed to be having a great time.", "But at some point, Paola started talking to me about her sons, whom she hasn't seen in years and never really visit her.", "She also talked about the kids of many of the other women in the house -- none of them present at this party -- to celebrate motherhood.", "Most of these women actually ended up becoming prostitutes to support their children as their only means of survival.", "I think the work that this house and its director Rosalba Rios do -- as weird and unusual as it may seem -- is incredibly valuable.", "Spending Mother's Day with these brave women forever changed they way l look at prostitution and without a doubt has been one of the most intense parties I've ever attended." ]	[ "VBS.TV visits home for elderly prostitutes in sketchy Mexico City neighborhood .", "Twenty-three women who are 60 or older live in the facility .", "Crew attended bittersweet Mother's Day party with residents ." ]	[ 8, 13, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Monday welcomed its newest inductees:Jimmy Cliff, ABBA, Genesis, The Hollies and the Stooges.", "Other inductees this year include individual recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award -- record executive David Geffen and songwriters Jeff Barry, Otis Blackwell, Ellie Greenwich, Barry Mann, Mort Shuman, Jesse Stone and Cynthia Weil.", "The induction ceremony was being held Monday night at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.", "The inductees \"represent a great cross-section of artists that define the broad spectrum and history of rock 'n' roll and people that have contributed immeasurably to our business,\" Joel Peresman, president and CEO of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said when they were named last year.", "The inductees were chosen by a voting committee of the foundation.", "Artists are eligible 25 years after their first recording is released.", "An exhibit featuring all the inductees opened Monday at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, in Cleveland, Ohio.", "Their stage outfits, instruments, handwritten lyrics, photographs and more will be on display through March 14, 2011.", "The museum -- which says it \"exists to collect, preserve and interpret the impact the Rock has made on our world\" -- features seven floors of exhibition space, spanning 150,000 square feet." ]	[ "Induction ceremony held Monday night at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York .", "Inductees chosen by a voting committee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation .", "Artists are eligible 25 years after their first recording is released ." ]	[ 2, 4, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Tennis ace Roger Federer has given his unfailing support to his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods as the embattled golfer attempts to restore his reputation.", "Federer believes the \"worst has passed\" for Tiger after his very public apology to a world wide television audience.", "Woods fought back the tears as he admitted he had cheated on his wife Elin, but surprised observers by not setting any date for his return to golf ahead of major tournaments later this year, although he subsequently announced he would return for the U.S. masters in April.", "It's time to give Tiger some peace .", "But Federer told The Gulf News that whatever the future held, Woods would remain his friend.", "\"What's happened to him has been hard to watch over the last three months right down to when he made his apology.", "I am sure he's headed in a better direction now,\" he added.", "Federer, who has appeared in a well-known advertisement for Gillette with Woods and football star Thierry Henry, went on: .", "\"The worst has passed.", "I hope that he can also work things out with his wife Elin because they are very nice people - obviously for the sake of their kids as well.\"", "But Federer admitted he had not spoken to Woods since the November car crash which set in chain a stream of revelations about the American's private life.", "\"I have supported him, but I haven't had any contact with him,\" added the Swiss maestro, who was forced to withdraw from the Dubai Open with a lung infection which is set to sideline him for several weeks.", "\"It's been hard to watch from far away but I would love to see him back on the golf course.", "It is what he does best,\" added the 16-time grand slam winner." ]	[ "Roger Federer goes public to back his \"good friend\" Tiger Woods .", "Tennis ace Federer has appeared in the same Gillette adverts with the golfer .", "Woods made a televised public apology after admitting he cheated on his wife ." ]	[ 0, 1, 7 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The pilots of Northwest Flight 188 did not fall asleep when they overflew their destination by more than 100 miles in October, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday in a detailed report on the wayward flight.", "The two pilots \"became distracted by a conversation\" about the airline's new work schedule system and by laptop computers they were using in violation of company policy and did not communicate with air traffic control for about 1 hour and 17 minutes while they cruised past their Minneapolis, Minnesota, destination at 37,000 feet, the NTSB said.", "The safety board also faulted the Federal Aviation Administration for air traffic control shortcomings.", "The NTSB report gives the most complete official account to date of the errant flight, which prompted the FAA to revoke both pilots' licenses, prompted the airline to suspend them from flying and prompted the FAA to adopt new procedures to notify the U.S. military in cases where the FAA loses contact with commercial aircraft.", "According to the account, the flight from San Diego, California, was routine until the plane was in the Denver, Colorado, region.", "There, air traffic controllers directed the crew of the Airbus A-320 to change their radio frequency.", "The co-pilot, or first officer, acknowledged the frequency change and read back the correct frequency.", "However, neither the captain nor the first officer contacted controllers on the new frequency until about 1 hour and 17 minutes later, when Winnipeg, Manitoba, controllers directed the crew to contact Minneapolis.", "The NTSB said that because of the proximity of the Winnipeg frequency to the last frequency acknowledged by the pilots (Winnipeg is 132.125 megahertz, while the last frequency used was 132.17) it is \"likely the first officer began to dial in the new frequency but never completed the frequency change by pushing an activation button.", "Nor did the first officer attempt to contact the next controller.\"", "The NTSB said the frequency change likely occurred while the captain was taking a restroom break and while a flight attendant was serving dinner.", "\"These events may have distracted the first officer from completing the frequency change or attempting to contact the next ATC controller,\" the NTSB said.", "Further, the captain's absence would have prevented him from checking the co-pilot's actions.", "When the captain returned, the pilots became involved in a conversation over new scheduling procedures, and the first officer tutored the captain using their computers, the NTSB said.", "\"The pilots allowed this conversation to monopolize their attention,\" the board said.", "\"Both pilots state that they heard radio chatter but did not hear a radio call for NWA188.\"", "The laptop computers they used likely blocked their view of numerous visual alerts, including text messages sent by airline dispatchers and at least nine messages regarding their position on the airplane's primary flight display, the NTSB said.", "Northwest Airlines policy prohibited the use of the laptops, the NTSB said.", "Both pilots told the NTSB the first indication of anything unusual was when a flight attendant called to ask about their arrival time.", "The captain \"looked at his navigation display and saw Duluth [Minnesota] to his left and Eau Claire [Wisconsin] to his right,\" the board said.", "The NTSB said it could not determine why the pilots did not respond to numerous radio calls, but said it could be because the volume was turned down, the pilots were distracted or the plane was outside the coverage for the 121.5 megahertz transmitters.", "The NTSB faulted the FAA for not catching the pilots' errors earlier, saying the plane entered two Denver sectors uneventfully, but radio contact was not established in the next two sectors, where controllers were preparing for a shift change.", "\"Neither sector controller's relief briefing included information that communication had not been established\" with the plane, the NTSB said.", "The NTSB said the FAA had no standard procedures to indicate that an aircraft had not made radio contact when electronic radar handoffs of planes occurred from one sector to the next.", "\"Because of this lack of standardization, NWA188 passed through two Denver ATC sectors without the controllers being aware that it had not made radio contact,\" the safety board said.", "Almost 30 minutes had elapsed before the next sector's controller attempted to regain contact with the plane and realized the plane was unresponsive to radio calls, the board said.", "Recognizing the problem, controllers first attempted to regain contact by calling Northwest dispatchers, then by calling an emergency frequency, but did not use words such as \"emergency\" or \"mayday\" that may have helped capture the pilots' attention, the NTSB said.", "The pilots did not respond.", "As a result of the investigation and of the crash of an executive jet in Montana in 2009, the safety board is recommending steps to prevent a repeat of the incidents.", "Six days after the event, the FAA revoked the licenses of Capt.", "Timothy Bryan Cheney and First Officer Richard Irwin Cole, saying their lack of awareness that they had overflown the Minneapolis airport was \"completely unacceptable\" and \"put your passengers and your crew in serious jeopardy.\"", "But in a settlement signed with the pilots on Monday, the pilots acknowledged no wrongdoing, and the FAA agreed to allow the pilots to reapply for their licenses in August, two months shorter than would ordinarily be allowed.", "A spokesman for Delta Airlines, which merged with Northwest, said this week the airlines' internal investigation is continuing." ]	[ "First officer didn't completely load radio frequency, NTSB says .", "He and pilot then were distracted by discussion, personal computers, NTSB says .", "NTSB also blames air traffic controllers for not realizing problem earlier ." ]	[ 1, 6, 26 ]
[ "BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (CNN) -- Detroit, Michigan, is often thought of as the automaker capital of the country, but increasingly, foreign auto plants are heading south, to a region known for more than its charm.", "Toyota's plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, is as big as 156 football fields.", "Almost every foreign auto factory that's opened since the '90s has sprouted below the Mason-Dixon Line.", "Two of the three auto plants under construction also are in the South.", "Plants typically establish their roots in what is known as the auto corridor -- a roughly 200-mile-wide stretch that runs from Michigan to Alabama.", "\"The northern end is more heavily dominated by the traditional Detroit-base assemblers and their supplier base, and then the foreign automakers and their supplier base tend to pull a little further south,\" said Thomas Klier, a senior economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago who specializes in the auto industry.", "Check out auto plants across the corridor » .", "So what's behind the South's charm?", "It has a lot to do with the people, experts say.", "\"If you don't have people, you don't have economic development,\" said Michael Randle, president and publisher of Southern Business & Development.", "\"People drive economic development and that's why the South has gone from being dirt poor 50 years ago to leading this country's economy.\"", "The South's population is growing much faster than the Midwest, which is home to the Big Three: Chrysler, Ford and GM.", "Between 2000 and 2030, the South's population is expected to increase by about 43 percent, while less than 10 percent growth is expected in the Midwest, according the U.S. Census Bureau.", "See how the United States is expected to grow » .", "But it's not just the quantity of the people that matters.", "The quality of the work force was a big factor in Toyota's recent decision to build a plant near Tupelo, Mississippi, according Dennis Cuneo, formerly Toyota's senior vice president and now an adviser to the company.", "Watch how Toyota hopefuls are already preparing for jobs » .", "Northern Mississippi has been hit hard by the closing of furniture factories, leaving highly skilled workers looking for jobs.", "Those workers have the mentality the automobile makers want, Randle said.", "If it's broken, they are going to fix it, he said.", "The automotive industry provides a much-needed bridge, connecting a labor pool that wants to work with an economy in need of a boost, Randle said.", "And the plants bring in far more than their initial investment.", "The Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, for example, announced it would double its production just three years after it opened.", "Honda had a $450 million expansion in Lincoln, Alabama, that added another 2,000 jobs.", "For each job created inside an auto plant, experts estimate as many as six to eight are created in businesses outside.", "Hear a worker describe how an auto plant changed his life » .", "Local leaders know how valuable the industry is -- worth enough to offer to foreign companies hundreds of millions of dollars in incentives -- including tax abatements, site preparation and employee training.", "While companies remain mum on the topic, those local leaders have a big edge on the North: They are fighting to bring jobs to workers who aren't unionized, unlike much of the Big Three's workforce.", "Unions increase overall costs at plants, Randle said, explaining that the foreign automakers are drawn to the South where unionization is not mandatory and where workers have resisted calls to join voluntarily.", "If a plant is unionized in the North, everyone must join.", "No foreign assembly plants are unionized except for a few joint-ventures: the ones that started as projects between domestic and foreign companies.", "\"That's not a coincidence,\" Klier said.", "\"That suggests pretty strongly that that does affect the location decision.\"", "With all of these benefits playing in its favor, the South -- with its low operating costs -- has become the go-to place for this international industry, Randle said.", "\"A lot of economists were saying manufacturing was dead in this country and it's not coming back,\" Randle said.", "\"It may be dead Massachusetts or New York or Detroit ... but it's not dead in the South.", "... You have to make cars in this country.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Almost every foreign auto plant that's opened since the '90s is in the South .", "South's population is growing much faster than the Midwest .", "South provides manufacturing workforce .", "No foreign auto assembly plants are unionized ." ]	[ 2, 3, 11 ]
[ "Jerusalem (CNN) -- Palestinians hurled rocks and burned tires in several neighborhoods in East Jerusalem Tuesday to protest the reopening of a landmark synagogue after more than 60 years.", "Officers dispersed the crowd by firing stun grenades in one area, and village elders helped end the riots in another, said police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld.", "At least seven people in the Mount of Olives neighborhood were wounded when police fired rubber bullets.", "In all, 91 people were wounded in the clashes, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said.", "About 3,000 officers were deployed in the city after the militant group Hamas declared Tuesday a \"Day of Rage.\"", "The group was protesting the reopening of the Hurva synagogue on Monday.", "However, rumors swirled that right-wing groups were planning to ascend the Temple Mount, where al-Aqsa Mosque is located.", "Senior Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, in a speech Monday in Syria, called on Palestinians to take to the street to protect Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian shrines.", "The Palestinian Authority suggested Israel was \"preventing citizens from reaching the Old City ... to pray in al-Aqsa Mosque, as part of increasing provocative policies violating international law and human rights.\"", "\"Pay no attention to malicious slander,\" said Rabbi Yona Metzger, chief rabbi of Israel, told the Jewish news agency JTA on Monday.", "\"All we are doing is resurrecting the Hurva that was destroyed 60 years ago.", "All the rumors that suggest we will later march on Temple Mount are just that -- rumors.\"", "However, the incident is only the latest to ratchet up tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.", "The synagogue is located in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City.", "The Old City also includes East Jerusalem, seen as Palestinians as the capital of their future state.", "Israel claims sovereignty over all of Jerusalem since it took over East Jerusalem and the West Bank in 1967 in the Six-Day war.", "The rededication has underlined Palestinian concerns that Israel is attempting to bring more Jews into East Jerusalem and drive Palestinians out, particularly as it comes on the heels of an Israeli announcement last week that 1,600 more housing units would be built in the Ramat Shlomo neighborhood of East Jerusalem.", "The synagogue rededication, however, had been planned for months in advance, according to organizers.", "In a statement Tuesday, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights said it \"strongly condemns recent measures taken by Israel in East Jerusalem, the latest of which has been the inauguration of a synagogue in the old city.", "PCHR holds Israel responsible for the escalation of the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory.\"", "Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, meeting in Madrid, Spain, with the Spanish minister of defense, said, \"Israel will not allow extremists to dictate and force political arrangements.", "\"I have said this times before and I repeat: Israel is strong ... and must reach political arrangements out of this position,\" Barak said.", "\"Lack of political negotiations will strengthen and encourage the extremists of both sides and the riots in Jerusalem today proves so.", "A political arrangement will only be achieved by direct negotiations.\"", "Construction on the synagogue began in 1700, but halted, according to the Web site of Sacred Destinations, which describes itself as an educational and travel resource.", "It was restarted in 1836 and the synagogue was completed in 1856.", "The synagogue was destroyed by the Jordanian Arab Legion in 1948.", "Conservation and investigation of the ruins began in 1977.", "Meshaal also warned the international community that Israel is \"playing with fire\" that could lead to a regional blowup.", "Speaking to reporters Monday, U.S. State Department spokesman P.J.", "Crowley said there were American concerns \"about the tensions regarding the rededication of a synagogue in the Jewish quarter of the Old City.", "And we are urging all parties to act responsibly and do whatever is necessary to remain calm.\"", "At a memorial service Tuesday for late Israeli prime ministers and presidents, President Shimon Peres said: \"We cannot afford to unravel the delicate fabric of friendship with the United States.", "\"Today, we are also at a decisive moment and we must decide without the determination of external parties.", "That is, decide that even in a time of threats we will not give up on peace.", "The heritage of our leaders guides us and our children as such.\"", "Last month, protests erupted after the Israeli government announced it would include two West Bank religious shrines as part of a larger list of 150 Zionist heritage sites.", "CNN's Kevin Flower and Michal Zippori contributed to this report." ]	[ "Palestinians protest reopening of landmark synagogue in Jerusalem after 60 years .", "Officers disperse crowd by firing stun grenades; village elders help end riots elsewhere .", "91 people wounded in clashes, Palestinian Red Crescent Society says .", "Palestinians angered by Israeli settlement plans in largely Arab East Jerusalem ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Alaskan musher Lance Mackey has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and set an Iditarod record for most consecutive wins, according to race officials.", "Mackey, 39, of Fairbanks has dominated the sport in recent years and is the 2007-2010 Iditarod champion.", "Mackey completed the 1,049-mile Iditarod race, which was broadcast live on IditarodInsider.com, in just under nine days.", "He was cheered across the finish line in Nome by family and friends, including his father, Dick Mackey, the 1978 Iditarod champion.", "The senior Mackey greeted his son at the finish line with a hug, saying, \"You've done something that will never be repeated, son.\"", "Dick Mackey told race commentators his son \"is highly competitive and he likes to get the best out of his dogs. ...", "I don't think anybody trains them any better than he does.\"", "Mackey could be heard on the broadcast microphones speaking to his dog team just before reaching the famous burled arch on Nome's Front Street, \"Nice, nice.", "This is so cool. We're almost there, guys.", "You did such a good job.\" Arriving in Nome at 2:59 p.m. local time, Mackey's official time was 8 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 9 seconds.", "Mackey, a throat cancer survivor who says he began racing \"at birth,\" was inducted into the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame in February \"for capturing multiple titles in two of the world's longest sled dog races.\"", "Mackey is also a four-time champion of the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest race from Fairbanks to Nome as well as the record holder for the most consecutive first place finishes in that race.", "Second place in the Iditarod went to Yukon musher Hans Gatt.", "Past champion musher Jeff King came in third.", "King, from Denali, Alaska, received praise and gratitude from the Iditarod Trail Committee earlier this season when he donated $50,000 toward the 2010 Iditarod prize purse after learning the race was experiencing financial trouble because a shortage of sponsors.", "More than 54 teams remained on the Iditarod trail headed toward Nome, including rookie Jamaican musher Newton Marshall, who was in 48th place.", "Marshall trained with Mackey this season in preparation for his first Iditarod run.", "Fourteen of the original 71 teams that entered this year's race have scratched en route.", "A \"Red Lantern\" will be presented to the last place finisher in the dog race, an Alaska tradition dating back to 1953, according to Alaska Magazine." ]	[ "Alaskan musher Lance Mackey sets Iditarod record for most wins in a row .", "Mackey, a throat cancer survivor, completes 1,049-mile race in just under nine days .", "Mackey's father, 1978 Iditarod winner, says son \"likes to get the best out of his dogs\"" ]	[ 0, 2, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A snow storm on the first day of spring could drop several inches this weekend from New Mexico to Missouri, while farther north, Minnesota and North Dakota brace for the rising waters of the Red River.", "The waters of the Red River are forecast to rise another foot this weekend, testing the more than a million sandbags stacked as a defensive barrier along Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota.", "Waters had reached 36.8 feet -- just two-tenths short of cresting level -- by Saturday night, the National Weather Service reported.", "The river had reached flood stage at 18 feet and major flood stage at 30 feet.", "The river is expected to crest Sunday, about 3 feet below last year's record flood level of 40.8 feet.", "Last year, there were 10 reports of property damage, Fargo Mayor Dennis Walaker said Saturday.", "There have been no reports of property damage associated with the recent river rising, he said.", "More than 700,000 sandbags were guarding Fargo, and the National Guard was deployed to help in the city and surrounding Cass County on Friday.", "The flooding began last week when warmer weather and rain melted snow south of Fargo and Moorhead, causing the Red River to swell.", "Upstream, snow and ice have yet to melt, pushing water back toward the two cities.", "Near one area of the river bank in Moorhead, a mound of packed snow several inches high sat across from a flooded and impassable underpass.", "iReport: Are you there? Share photos, video .", "The waters are expected to start receding Monday afternoon, but Walaker said he plans to keep Fargo's sandbags in their places through next week as a precautionary measure.", "\"Right now, I feel that all the dikes, sandbags and earthen dikes should stay in place until we at least get it down to 30 feet and if its continuing to go down we can start the process,\" he said.", "\"But I would hate to see us move because of the quick change in the weather.", "I mean it doesn't take much to bounce us back ... just a weather front moving in with significant precipitation.\"", "The Weather Service forecasted the waters to recede to 32 feet by next Saturday.", "Farther south, the Plains are dealing with another severe weather threat.", "Oklahoma Gov.", "Brad Henry called for a state of emergency on Friday in anticipation of the coming snow storm, according to the governor's office.", "Ten to 14 inches of snow could fall from northeast Oklahoma to northwest Arkansas, the Weather Service said.", "The Tulsa metro area could see 5 to 9 inches of snow.", "By Saturday night, snow accumulations had reached up to 7 inches in some areas and had slowed down operations at Will Rogers World Airport.", "Freezing fog and snow have caused delays of at least an hour and several flight cancellations, the airport announced in a news release.", "Continental Airlines canceled all departures and four arrivals, according to the statement.", "A ski resort in New Mexico's Santa Fe County received 21 inches, the largest snowfall total from the storm in the state, according to the weather service.", "Other parts of the county saw half an inch or less, while 15 inches dropped over Rociada, which lies on the east side of the Santa Fe National Forest.", "More than 6 inches of snow had already fallen in Lawrence, in northeast Kansas, the weather service reported.", "Seven inches of snow was tallied about 120 miles northeast in Conception Junction, Missouri.", "From southeast Kansas to western Missouri, 4 to 8 inches of snow are expected through Sunday, the Weather Service said.", "Meteorologists forecast 2 to 6 inches in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles through Saturday afternoon.", "Wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour could cause whiteout conditions on roads, the Weather Service said.", "Snow drifts higher than 2 feet could also occur." ]	[ "Red River waters forecast to rise another foot this weekend in Minnesota, North Dakota .", "State of emergency declared in Oklahoma in anticipation of snow storm, governor's office says .", "Meteorologists forecast 2 to 6 inches in the Texas, Oklahoma panhandles through Saturday ." ]	[ 1, 18, 19, 30 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- An American lawyer has been holding secret negotiations with Iran for the release of an Iranian-American being detained for two years.", "Reza Taghavi, a retired businessman from Orange County, California, has been held in Iran's notorious Evin prison since his arrest in May 2008 without ever being charged, his lawyer said.", "Los Angeles-based attorney Pierre Prosper told CNN he has been talking to the Iranian government since September 2009 and traveled to Tehran in December to seek the release of Taghavi, a retired businessman accused of supporting an anti-regime group.", "Taghavi, 71, traveled frequently to Iran to visit family and friends without incident, according to Prosper.", "In April 2008, he went to Tehran with his wife.", "Before he left, he was asked by an acquaintance in Los Angeles to take $200 for a friend in Tehran \"who was down on his luck.\"", "Los Angeles has a large Persian community.", "Taghavi did not know the individual to whom he was asked to deliver the money, Prosper said.", "He handed over the money and two weeks later was detained by Iranian authorities, after the recipient of the money was arrested on charges of association with an anti-regime group called Tondar.", "The group, which seeks to restore the monarchy in Iran, claimed responsibility for the April 12, 2008, bombing of the Hosseynieh Seyed al-Shohada mosque in the city of Shiraz.", "Prosper declined to name the man, who he said has since been tried and convicted.", "Taghavi has a rag-to-riches story, his 36-year old daughter, Leila Taghavi, told CNN.", "He brought his family to the United States in 1979, before the revolution, and stayed on in California to keep his family safe.", "Leila Taghavi said her father taught himself English, started a video game company in his garage and grew it into a successful corporation, which he handed over to his son when he retired 10 years ago.", "\"His life was the American dream,\" Leila said.", "\"He learned everything the hard way, sacrificed for his children and taught us to be grateful for the good things.", "He is wonderful, honest and generous, the kind of father every daughter would want.\"", "Taghavi's family was silent for more than a year about his arrest, fearful his arrest would be politicized in Tehran and Washington by getting the American government involved.", "\"It was blind faith, really,\" Leila said, explaining the silence.", "\"Not knowing it would take this long, and fear of the system.", "There was never a doubt of his innocence.\"", "In September 2009, with no movement on the case and losing hope he would be released, they hired Prosper to contact the State Department and initiate a dialogue with the Iranian government.", "Prosper said he contacted the State Department about seeking a consular visit by Swiss diplomats, which was denied because Iran does not recognize the dual citizenship of Iranian-Americans.", "The United States and Iran do not have formal relations, and Switzerland serves as the \"protecting power\" for the U.S. in Tehran.", "A U.S. State Department spokesman urged Iran to allow Swiss diplomats to be granted consular access to Taghavi.", "\"We are adamant that we believe he should be released on humanitarian grounds along with all the Americans who are unjustly held there,\" Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, told CNN Wednesday.", "A senior government official who met with Prosper said the lack of information makes it difficult to help Taghavi.", "\"As far as we are concerned, there are no facts in the case,\" the official said.", "\"Our concern is that he should get due process.\"", "Taghavi is one of several Americans in prison in Iran.", "American hikers Josh Fattal, Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd were detained on July 31, 2009.", "According to their families, they accidentally strayed across an unmarked border into Iran while on a hiking trip in Iraq's Kurdistan region.", "They are being held on espionage charges.", "Kian Tajbakhsh, an Iranian-American scholar who spent four months in jail in 2007, was arrested in July after the disputed presidential election and sentenced to 15 years in jail for spying.", "His sentence was later reduced by an appeals court to five years, and a State Department official tells CNN he has been released for two weeks from jail to celebrate the Persian New Year.", "The United States has no information about Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran almost three years ago.", "After being hired by Taghavi family last September, Prosper said he contacted the Iranian Permanent Mission to the United Nations and was granted a meeting with the ambassador, who eventually put him in touch with Iran's foreign ministry.", "After several months of weekly contact with Iranian officials in New York and Tehran, Prosper was invited to Iran in December for talks about Taghavi's case.", "Prosper said he was briefed on the Iranian view of the case but was told the authorities were still investigating the matter.", "\"It's still not clear what the accusations actually are,\" he said.", "Prosper left Tehran without being allowed to see Taghavi, but he was taken to visit victims of the 2008 mosque bombing by Tondar in an Iranian effort to show him the threat the regime says it's facing from \"terrorist groups\" being financed from sources abroad.", "\"I think they had me meet with victims and survivors of the bombing to let it be known that they, too, in their eyes had experienced terrorism,\" Prosper said.", "It is unclear why the Iranian government invited Prosper, who served as the ambassador-at-large for war crimes under the Bush administration and as a prosecutor for the Rwanda tribunal at the Hague, for talks in Iran.", "Beyond talking about the case and attacks at the hand of the Tondar group, Prosper said his Iranian hosts made no effort to broaden the discussions to include the nuclear standoff between Iran and the West or the Obama administration's offer of engagement.", "The facts of the case remain a mystery.", "Taghavi's family maintains he is innocent and has never been involved in political activism against the Iranian regime.", "Prosper acknowledged the case has been a challenge to investigate because of his inability to question people in Iran and the lack of information from the government or Taghavi's Iranian lawyers in Tehran, who don't speak English.", "But based on his discussions with the family and his own \"due diligence,\" Prosper said he believes Taghavi is an innocent man, whose only crime is guilt by association.", "As a former prosecutor, Prosper said he believes if the Iranians had a case against Taghavi, they would have already tried him.", "He's seeking a humanitarian release for Taghavi, who suffers from diabetes and whose health is deteriorating in prison, according to his family.", "The political upheaval in Iran after the disputed presidential election and subsequent violent crackdown on demonstrators has complicated his efforts, the lawyer said.", "\"It casts a shadow over our efforts,\" Prosper acknowledged.", "\"What I've been doing to my best ability is to cut through that, cut through the fog that has been created, focus on Mr. Taghavi and work with the Iranian authorities on the substance of what happened in 2008.\"", "Leila Taghavi traveled to Iran last year and was allowed a brief visit with her father in prison.", "\"I saw him behind a window,\" she said, choking back tears.", "\"It was painful to see your father, an innocent man, behind a window.\"", "\"We are chipping away at this,\" Prosper said.", "\"I want to give them credit for the dialogue, but the proof will be in the results.", "We are holding out hope because that is the only thing we can do. ...", "Effectively his life is at stake.\"", "Leila spoke with her father by phone Wednesday morning and said he sounded tired and anxious.", "\"My biggest hope is that this message reaches people and somebody can do something,\" Leila added.", "\"Not just for my father, but for the many people that are trying to get their loved ones out of Iran.\"" ]	[ "Businessman Reza Taghavi of California has been held in Iran since May 2008 arrest .", "Attorney Pierre Prosper says he's been talking to Iranian officials since September 2009 .", "Family initially kept the detention a secret, fearing publicity would inflame situation .", "Taghavi came to the United States in 1979 before the Islamic Revolution ." ]	[ 1, 2, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The city of Fargo, North Dakota, largely completed flood preparations early Thursday as a surging Red River rose nearly 3 feet in 24 hours.", "The waterway was well beyond its banks along the North Dakota-Minnesota line.", "\"Thanks to our volunteers, we've been able to fill a million sandbags and place 700,000 around our city,\" Fargo spokeswoman Karena Carlson said early Thursday.", "\"We're just buttoning up a lot of our clay levees and putting a few more sandbags in place, and we hope to be protected up to 40 feet.\"", "Several hundred volunteers worked with the National Guard in Fargo to fill those sandbags as the river rose.", "Flooding where you are? Share pictures, video .", "Fargo set a record in 2009 when the Red River hit 40.8 feet.", "As of 9:15 a.m. Saturday, the river stood at 36.56 feet, more than 18 feet above the flood stage of 18 feet and past major flood stage.", "\"Fortunately, we started filling sandbags March 1st.", "We thought our crest was going to be the first or second week in April.", "It turns out our crest is going to be this week,\" Carlson said.", "\"So we did it in just over two weeks.\" Floodwaters are forecast to peak at 38 feet Sunday afternoon.", "Last week, warm weather and rain melted snow south of Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota, causing the Red River to swell.", "Upstream, snow and ice have yet to melt, causing water to accumulate near the two cities.", "Across the river in Moorhead, Tom Holmgren spent Wednesday filling sandbags as Minnesota State University gave students time off to help with the effort.", "\"Most of my friends have put in at least a couple hours,\" said Holmgren, who said sandbagging has become a source of college pride.", "\"I know there's a big push in just the college community that's like, 'Yeah, we're doing it.", "We're saving this town.'\"", "One man refuses to leave his home .", "About 90 miles south of Fargo in Browns Valley, Minnesota, Kathryn Bartz said Thursday that she's grateful that a 40-year water diversion project is nearly complete.", "\"Otherwise I believe we would have washed out a considerable amount of our town,\" said Bartz, a former town council member.", "Browns Valley suffered severe flooding from the winding Little Minnesota River in 2007, 1993 and 1943, and lesser floods many other years.", "Funding and property acquisition problems kept the diversion project -- consisting mainly of a canal to carry overflow around the town -- from being completed, Bartz said.", "A section of a new road that is part of the project washed out this week, but boulders and rocks were put in place to prevent further erosion, said Bartz, 66, who owns a hobby ranch outside of town.", "\"That will be repaired when the water goes down,\" she said.", "\"It's an inconvenience, but we are grateful that it has worked as well as it has.\"", "Meanwhile, in the Northeast, utility crews made steady progress restoring electricity after a nor'easter -- a powerful low-pressure system -- blasted the region over the weekend.", "About 40,000 customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut remained without power early Thursday, down from a peak of more than 500,000.", "\"We recognize the hardship our customers face from being without power for days,\" said Jeff Butler, president of Connecticut Light & Power.", "\"We appreciate everyone's patience as we continue to safely restore power as quickly as possible.\"", "The outages were caused mostly by power lines downed by Saturday's hurricane-force winds, which knocked over trees and utility poles.", "At least seven deaths were attributed to the storm, authorities said.", "CNN's Ed Payne and Jim Kavanagh and CNN Radio's Shelby Erdman contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Diversion project saves Minnesota town, resident says .", "Volunteers, National Guard fill 1 million sandbags, mayor says .", "River expected to crest Sunday 20 feet above flood stage .", "Power restored to most of Northeast after weekend nor'easter ." ]	[ 2, 4, 7, 17, 26 ]
[ "Miami, Florida (CNN) -- The parents of an injured baby girl who was flown to Florida for treatment after Haiti's earthquake have been told what they already know: They are the biological parents of the little girl.", "The International Red Cross notified Nadine Devilme and Junior Alexis in Haiti that DNA testing proves that the infant is theirs, said Mark LaPoint, an attorney representing the baby.", "Rescuers dubbed her Patricia, but her parents call her Jenny.", "On Wednesday morning, Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman decided that Jenny's parents will get to take her back to Haiti after doctors and nurses in Florida finish treating her.", "\"This is a case where these were really good parents, and I can't wait for these parents to be reunited with their baby,\" the judge said.", "\"This is one happy day.\"", "Federal authorities have pledged to help Devilme and Alexis travel from Haiti to the United States to reunite with their daughter, though the timing of that trip has not yet been determined, said Bob Martinez, an attorney for the parents.", "The baby still has a hard time closing her left hand and needs some medical therapy, LaPoint said in court Wednesday.", "The judge scheduled a hearing for April 7 to get an update on the baby's condition.", "Jenny was 4 months old when the January 12 earthquake destroyed large swaths of Haiti.", "Her mother was knocked unconscious in the 7.0-magnitude temblor and taken to a hospital.", "When she awoke, she urged her husband to go home to search for their baby.", "Alexis searched through the broken rubble for four days, but found nothing.", "The couple says that on the fifth day, January 16, witnesses saw a cleanup crew rescue Jenny from the rubble.", "She reportedly was found in the arms of her baby sitter, who was dead.", "The witnesses got word to Devilme, who was in the hospital with her own injuries.", "Rescuers apparently assumed the baby was an orphan and whisked her away to a different hospital in Port-au-Prince, one run by the University of Miami and Project Medishare, where a team of pediatricians worked desperately to keep her alive.", "Read more about the couple awaiting the baby's return .", "With several broken ribs, the baby was having trouble breathing.", "The doctors stabilized her, and a few hours after the baby's rescue, a United Nations truck took her to a plane that was minutes away from leaving for Miami, Florida.", "\"I told the ambulance driver if she got there in time, we'd name the baby after her,\" says Dr. Arthur Fournier, a University of Miami physician working at the hospital.", "The driver, Patricia, did make it on time, and thereafter, doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami referred to the infant by that name.", "Devilme says the friend who told her of Jenny's rescue didn't know where the baby had been taken.", "By the time she found out , the baby had already been flown to Miami, Devilme says.", "Devilme and Alexis say it was \"God's will\" that Jenny went to Miami, as she might not have survived if she'd stayed in Haiti.", "Jenny was discharged from the hospital and is living in foster care in Florida.", "Her parents are living in a tent city in Port-au-Prince and recently had the DNA testing needed to prove the baby is theirs.", "The DNA tests have taken more than a month because of logistical difficulties getting the test to Haiti and because of a legal dispute over whether the baby should become a ward of the state of Florida or a ward of the U.S. government, says Mark Riordan, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Children and Families." ]	[ "NEW: Florida judge says parents can take Jenny back to Haiti after her medical treatment ends .", "NEW: Timing of parents' trip not set; April 7 hearing will provide update on baby's condition .", "Parents say it was \"God's will\" that the child went to Miami for treatment of quake injuries .", "The child, apparently mistaken for orphan amid quake chaos, is in foster care in Florida ." ]	[ 0, 3, 8, 24 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Arsenal climbed to the top of the English Premier League with a 2-0 victory over London rivals West Ham despite playing half of Saturday's clash with only 10 men.", "Arsene Wenger's team moved a point above champions Manchester United, who host Liverpool on Sunday, while Chelsea dropped to third ahead of their trip to Blackburn.", "Carlo Ancelotti's side can join Arsenal on 67 points with victory in that game.", "Gianfranco Zola's West Ham team were left to rue a missed penalty as the defeat left them just three points above the relegation zone.", "Arsenal, who on Friday were handed a chance to avenge 2006's Champions League final defeat by Barcelona in the upcoming quarterfinals, took the lead after just five minutes in the rain at the Emirates Stadium.", "Brazil midfielder Denilson fired in a low shot for his sixth goal this season, having dispossessed Valon Behrami and then played a neat one-two on the edge of the area with striker Nicklas Bendtner.", "But Arsenal could not turn their dominance into further goals, and West Ham should have leveled just before halftime when Belgium defender Thomas Vermaelen was sent off as his nudge in the back of Guillermo Franco saw the Mexico striker tumble in the box.", "But Alessandro Diamanti saw his penalty saved by Arsenal goalkeeper Manuel Almunia, and the hosts also escaped in the second half when substitute striker Carlton Cole saw his fierce low shot hit the outside of the post.", "Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas made the points safe on his return from injury five minutes after that with a penalty on 82, as England defender Matthew Upson paid the price for deliberately blocking the Spain midfielder's clever little flick with his arm.", "Tottenham consolidated fourth place with a hard-fought 2-1 victory at 10-man Stoke, as substitute Eidur Gudjohnsen came off the bench to put the London club ahead before Dean Whitehead was sent off and then helped set up Niko Kranjcar's 77th-minute winner.", "The on-loan Iceland forward netted just 18 seconds after halftime having come on for Roman Pavlyuchenko, who joined England striker Jermain Defoe on the injured list after suffering a hamstring problem in the first half.", "Whitehead went three minutes later for his second booking, but Stoke leveled on 64 as winger Matthew Etherington scored from the penalty spot against his former club after fullback Benoit Assou-Ekotto fouled striker Paul Kitson.", "Gudjohnsen's dummy allowed Croatia midfielder Kranjcar to put the Londoners four points clear of fifth-placed Liverpool, who will have played one more match after Sunday's trip to bitter North-West rivals United.", "The victory was doubly important for Tottenham after fellow Champions League hopefuls Aston Villa had to come from behind to snatch a 2-2 draw with lowly Wolverhampton in the Midlands derby earlier on Saturday.", "John Carew put Villa ahead in the 16th minute despite appearing to be offside, and the Norway striker salvaged a point for the hosts with eight minutes remaining as he steered Steve Sidwell's low shot into the visitors' net for his 13th league goal this season.", "Wolves moved four points clear of the bottom three, but were denied a first win at Villa Park in 30 years despite Jody Craddock's bundled 23rd-minute equalizer and an own-goal from England international James Milner seven minutes before halftime.", "The result left Villa in seventh, having played one less game than Tottenham, equal on 50 points with Manchester City, who travel to Fulham on Sunday.", "Everton moved above Birmingham into eighth place with a 2-0 win at home to Bolton, who had Gretar Steinsson sent off in the 71st minute for bringing down Nigeria striker Yakubu.", "Spanish midfielder Mikel Arteta fired in the resulting freekick and South Africa international Steven Pienaar wrapped up victory with a minute to go after Leon Osman hit the crossbar.", "Birmingham crashed 3-1 at Sunderland, who eased their relegation worries as England World Cup hopeful Darren Bent scored twice in the first 11 minutes to take his Premier League tally to 20 goals this season and 21 overall.", "Wigan moved seven points clear of the bottom three with a 1-0 win over Burnley, as Colombia striker Hugo Rodallega's 90th-minute header left the visitors deep in relegation trouble after a 15th defeat in 16 away matches.", "Hull remain second from bottom, behind Burnley on goal difference, as new manager Iain Dowie suffered a heartbreaking 3-2 defeat at basement club Portsmouth in his match in charge.", "The visitors led 2-1 with 17 minutes to play after two goals from striker Caleb Folan, but Portsmouth's on-loan midfielder Jamie O'Hara leveled in the 88th minute with a curled free-kick and the Nigerian veteran Kanu netted a late winner.", "Portsmouth are still set to be relegated after being docked nine points for going into administration, now 14 points from safety with eight games to play." ]	[ "Arsenal climb to top of English Premier League with 2-0 victory over London rivals West Ham .", "Relegation-threatened West Ham miss penalty after Thomas Vermaelen is sent off .", "Tottenham consolidate fourth place with a hard-fought 2-1 victory at 10-man Stoke .", "Fellow Champions League hopefuls Aston Villa held to a 2-2 draw by lowly Wolverhampton ." ]	[ 0, 13 ]
[ "Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (CNN) -- A man who provided legal advice to 10 American Baptists accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children after the earthquake there was arrested Thursday night in the Dominican Republic and accused of human trafficking, the country's anti-narcotics agency said Friday.", "The man, identified as Jorge Torres-Puello, is linked to a network that trafficked in Haitian and Central American children and is wanted in the United States, El Salvador and Costa Rica, the National Drug Control Agency said.", "Torres-Puello had been hiding in the Dominican Republic after he was accused of using the country to take Haitian children to North America, it said.", "Members of the drug agency took Torres-Puello, also known as Jorge Torres Orellana, into custody without incident at 8 p.m. in the parking lot of a McDonald's restaurant in the capital, the news release said.", "Torres-Puello is a Dominican who was born in New York, it said.", "\"According to documents of authorities in the United States, the Dominican Republic as well as El Salvador and Costa Rica, this person is an important part of a network of traffickers of undocumented people, especially women and children from Central America and the Caribbean,\" the news release said.", "Torres-Puello faces charges in the United States of conspiracy to take foreigners into the country illegally, it said.", "In El Salvador, he and his wife, Ana Josefa Ramirez Orellana, face charges of presumed sexual exploitation of minors and women, it said.", "Ramirez Orellana is jailed in El Salvador.", "The drug agency said Torres-Puello forced Nicaraguan and Dominican children to work as prostitutes in El Salvador.", "Torres-Puello is also wanted in Vermont on alien smuggling offenses and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for probation violations for fraud, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said.", "He is also wanted in Canada.", "Shortly after the American missionaries were arrested in Haiti on kidnapping and abduction charges, Torres-Puello contacted their church in Idaho, identified himself as a legal authority on Haitian and Dominican law, obtained a retainer and began representing himself as their attorney/spokesman, the U.S. agency said.", "But Torres-Puello is not registered in the country's College of Lawyers, implying that he was practicing without a license, the Dominican drug agency said.", "In February, law enforcement authorities in El Salvador suspected that the missionaries' legal adviser looked like a man they were seeking, and asked Interpol to help.", "The international police agency coordinated the efforts of various agencies that resulted in Thursday's arrest, the ICE statement said.", "In a phone interview last month with CNN, Torres-Puello acknowledged he is the same man wanted by Salvadoran authorities but denied the charges against him.", "\"I never did anything,\" Torres-Puello said.", "\"I started helping a Dominican pastor helping a lot of people who were stranded to get back to their home countries.", "We once gave some Nicaraguan and Costa Rican women some money to return home and instead they went to the authorities and put in a complaint against us.", "I never had anybody against their will.\"", "He also denied Salvadoran allegations that he and his wife ran a brothel out of their home.", "\"I know I am innocent and I want to clear my past,\" he said.", "Journalist Diulka Perez contributed to this story from Santo Domingo." ]	[ "Jorge Torres-Puello gave legal advice to missionaries in quake case .", "Torres-Puello arrested in Dominican Republic, accused of human trafficking .", "He is linked to network that trafficked in Haitian and Central American children, officials say ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "Harrison, New York (CNN) -- Investigators from Toyota and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Wednesday inspected a wrecked Prius and extracted data from the car's event data recorder they hope will help determine what caused the car to speed out of control.", "The driver of the car told police the 2005 Prius accelerated on its own as she was driving down her employer's driveway on March 9.", "She lost control of the car, crossed the road and crashed into a stone wall, police say.", "She was treated for minor injuries.", "No other cars were involved in the accident.", "A team of six inspectors from Toyota and two from NHTSA spent several hours taking photos and measurements of the damaged vehicle and downloading the black box data from the car, which has been at the Harrison Police Department since the accident.", "Two independent inspectors from a forensic technology company, hired by the Police Department, also were aiding the investigation.", "A Toyota spokesman, Wade Hoyt, said that in this model year Prius, the black box contains data only from the moment the airbags deploy, but not the three seconds before impact that newer models are programmed to record.", "Hoyt said investigators were pleased they were able to extract any data from the vehicle.", "\"We are getting information on engine speed, pedal position, that sort of thing,\" Hoyt said.", "\"I'm happy we have it. It's possible it might not have been in there.\"", "Police say the car's driver, whose name has not been released pending the investigation, has a clean driving record and there is no reason to believe she is to blame for the accident.", "But Acting Police Chief Anthony Marraccini said driver error is not being ruled out.", "\"I'm not sure we're going to have conclusive information as to what caused this accident.", "But we're not ruling out any possible causes.\"", "Marraccini said.", "The 2005 Prius was part of Toyota's November recall to address the risk of accelerator pedal entrapment in the floor mat.", "Police say floor mats were not a factor in this particular accident, because they were secured to the seat with nylon ties.", "A recall to address a sticky accelerator problem did not include the Prius.", "Hoyt said he would not speculate about the accident's cause.", "The Prius is equipped with a brake override feature.", "\"When everything in the car is working correctly, the brakes will override the engine,\" Hoyt said.", "\"You have to draw your own conclusions.\"", "Hoyt said Toyota will release the data from the black box recorder to the Harrison Police Department, but will not make it public because of privacy and legal concerns.", "Marraccini said police will make a determination after their investigation how much of the data to make public.", "\"If there's definitive information that shows the cause of this accident, absolutely we'll have to release it,\" Marraccini said." ]	[ "Toyota and federal safety officials extracted data from a wrecked 2005 Prius .", "Driver said the car accelerated on its own on March 9; she was treated for minor injuries .", "Toyota spokesman: Black box in 2005 Prius contains data only from moment airbags deploy .", "2005 Prius was part of recall to address the risk of accelerator entrapment in floor mat ." ]	[ 1, 3, 7, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- At a hearing Tuesday before the Senate Banking Committee, federal officials said a bailout is needed immediately for the health of the U.S. economy.", "Sen. Christopher Dodd is chairing Tuesday's hearing on President Bush's proposed $700 billion bailout plan.", "Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke are urging the passage of a $700 billion bailout proposed by President Bush following the failure of financial institutions and frozen credit markets.", "The proposal, if adopted, would amount to the most sweeping economic intervention by the government since the Great Depression.", "Before the hearing, Sen. Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat who is the Banking Committee chairman, spoke Tuesday with \"American Morning's\" Kiran Chetry about whether the bailout is the right option and what may have contributed to the tumultuous economic environment.", "Kiran Chetry: You know talk about waking a sleeping giant -- we have almost 2,000 blog posts on CNNMoney.com about this bailout alone.", "Many people are outraged about it.", "They feel the government is spending $700 billion or more to reward bad behavior.", "What can you do to assure people that this is the right thing?", "Sen. Christopher Dodd: Well, I'm not sure it is at this point.", "That's why we're having this hearing this morning.", "We'll have Secretary Paulson and Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, before the banking committee to explain this plan, why it's necessary and where we go from here.", "They basically have asked for a blank check of $700 billion for the next several years here to buy a lot of bad instruments out there in these institutions.", "See what power Paulson would have if the bailout is approved » .", "I have a lot of reservations.", "We're trying to put some safeguards in it.", "I'm angry as well.", "This didn't have to happen. It was not a natural disaster.", "It was a preventable, avoidable situation.", "We are where we are. Our economy is teetering.", "We've been warned we're very fragile.", "There could be a complete collapse.", "It needs to be straightened out or it could get worse.", "Pension funds, 401(k)s, jobs could be in worse shape.", "Chetry: You have a revised version yourself.", "We'll get into what you're talking about.", "Do you believe that in general a bailout needs to happen?", "Dodd: Something needs to be done here.", "I don't know if it's at this magnitude or if ... the specifics of this [bailout plan] make the most sense.", "But clearly something needs to be done.", "We can't lurch from one weekend to another with one failed institution after another watching our economy decline, stock market collapse and the price of oil rise.", "It's not just our own country; this has global implications.", "Chetry: Let's look at some of the things you want added or in some cases taken out.", "Under your [revised version of the bill], you feel there should be some foreclosure assistance -- if Wall Street is getting some help, Main Street should be getting help, too, especially for those struggling homeowners.", "You want limits on executive compensation.", "You don't want CEOs to get millions of dollars in packages for a failed company.", "You talk about an oversight board over the Treasury.", "Why are these so important to include, and what if they end up costing more?", "Dodd: Well, let me tell you why.", "First of all, we have almost 10,000 foreclosures occurring every day.", "For the last 18 months on a daily basis, I've had 65 hearings since July of 2007 begging the administration to do something about the foreclosure problem.", "They admitted today if you don't deal with 10,000 foreclosures a day -- that's the bulk of these bad debts that are out there -- so you need to do something about that to stop the hemorrhaging.", "That's No. 1. No. 2, I won't give a check for $700 billion, for 41 days, to this secretary or any secretary without safeguards built in -- accountability, transparency, oversight.", "That's just not going to happen.", "Watch CNN's Lou Dobbs discuss whether the bailout would work » .", "Thirdly, taxpayers deserve to be first in line in all of this.", "I'm not going to write this at the end of the day [and] watch a handful of chief executives walk away with multimillion-dollar contracts.", "You'll have people storming this building if we don't understand that people are fed up with that kind of behavior.", "Chetry: You yourself said this is not a natural disaster, and a lot of people have been asking, \"Why didn't Congress see this coming?\"", "In fact, this is a quote from Henry Paulson, the treasury secretary, back in July.", "This was during the time of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout.", "People thought that was the beginning and the end of this.", "He writes: \"Remember our economy has got very strong long-term fundamentals, solid fundamentals.", "Your policymakers are here; regulators were being very vigilant.\"", "How can the argument be made that they were vigilant when we see the bottom fall out of the market?", "Dodd: Back in 2005, [then-Rep.] Mike Oxley, along with [Rep.] Barney Frank and [Sen.] Paul Sarbanes, tried to do just that.", "The administration opposed the bill, and it was defeated on a party-line vote here in the Senate.", "I know the history very, very well.", "When you had cops on the beat not doing their job, basically an eight-year coffee break by and large.", "Where you had legislation on the books and legislation not being enforced.", "Where you had regulators sitting back as loans were being made with no documentation, luring people into subprime mortgages, predatory lenders taking advantage of the situation that's how this all unfolded.", "It's not a mystery. Chetry: ... I want to ask you is there anything in this bill ... to make sure this doesn't happen again.", "All the things you listed -- the predator loans, everything that was taking place -- is there any room for regulation or more oversight in this bill?", "Dodd: Probably not in this bill.", "We're trying to act quickly.", "I'm prepared to act quickly, but I'm not going to act irresponsibly.", "If it takes longer, so be it.", "We'll have a new election in 41 days, and a new secretary in a matter of five or six weeks, and we can't begin to guess who that might be.", "Turning over a check of this magnitude not only to this secretary, but his successor, I think would be the height of irresponsibility." ]	[ "Sen. Christopher Dodd: \"We're trying to put some safeguards\" in plan .", "Senator says he isn't sure bailout plan of this magnitude is right .", "Dodd: Situation is a result of lax enforcement of rules, documentation in past .", "Senator says lawmakers will act quickly but won't be irresponsible ." ]	[ 1, 9, 15, 64, 68 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The games begin Thursday, and March Madness buzz will soon take over the lunchroom.", "Everywhere you turn, co-workers will chat about their favorite teams, the upsets, the injuries.", "Maybe you will watch the games.", "Maybe you won't. But maybe, irrespective of whether you plan to follow the tournament, you've ponied up to be part of the office pool.", "And you don't have to worry about explaining how you made your picks while filling out out your bracket.", "Everyone is hoping to choose that one team that comes from behind to win.", "So what if you always pick Gonzaga just because you like saying the name?", "Should it matter if you take Louisville out of the running just because that jerk who once strung you along came from there?", "You are in the running like everyone else, and, heck, you might surprise yourself and actually win.", "In these coming weeks, though, you don't want to sound like an idiot.", "It would be nice, you think to yourself, if you actually appeared to know what you were talking about.", "CNN reached out to Stewart Mandel, a senior writer at SI.com who covers basketball, as well as sports fans in the CNN.com newsroom to get some tips for how you can bluff your way through the tournament.", "With their sage advice, we offer this wisdom: .", "• Be careful not to talk about a \"buzzer beater\" unless it's actually happened.", "When they do happen, when a player scores at the buzzer (in the last second) to change the game's outcome, throw the term around wildly.", "It'll be what everyone is reliving, and if you feel especially bold, you can try to give someone a high-five while saying, \"How about that buzzer beater?\"", "• Discussing injuries in vague terms is always safe, since most every team has suffered some.", "Ideas: \"They really can't afford any more injuries this season.\"", "Or, \"Didn't they have a big injury this year?\"", "You don't have to know the answer, but it's an easy way to engage with a sports nut who will gladly tell you more about some stranger's ankle than you ever wanted to know.", "• Tell people around the water cooler that you really admire a team's \"tenacity.\"", "Mandel says that's \"a good fastball no one can argue with,\" because by virtue of making it to the tournament, a team's got to have some serious tenacity.", "Other terms you can throw around to describe a team: \"smart,\" \"experienced\" and \"well-coached.\"", "• Something called \"guard play\" is apparently very big this time of year.", "You might shake your head and mutter, \"I don't know if their guard play is good enough.\"", "Or, conversely, you can say, \"Oh, yeah, I think they have a good chance because they've got good guard play.\"", "• There are some things you might say that could be risky, as they may prompt others to ask you a question in return.", "For example, if you were to say, \"Gosh, that was a big shot,\" someone might ask, \"Which one?\"", "This would be a good time to spill your coffee, diverting attention.", "• In basketball, the word \"press\" (short for pressure) is used when discussing defense.", "So you might want to express your heartfelt concern about a team \"having trouble with the press.\"", "• There are different conferences that make up the NCAA.", "The Big East dominated this year.", "You can talk about how the \"Big East ruled,\" but make sure you don't misspeak and talk about the Big North, because no such thing exists.", "There is a Big 10, but it's made up of 11 teams.", "• \"Ball movement\" refers to how a team passes a ball.", "Any team that's made it to the \"tourney,\" as some insiders like to say, must be strong in this realm.", "So you can assume you're covered if you say something like, \"Wow, they have great ball movement.\"", "• A strong three-point game can make the difference for an underdog team.", "So if some folks are saying how a team doesn't have a chance, you could nonchalantly stroll by and say in passing, \"They could pull an upset if they get hot shooting threes.\"", "Another fun phrase to toss out: \"They live or die by the three.\"", "• Casting blame on referees for making \"questionable calls\" is highly popular.", "\"Man, there were some questionable calls\" is a good gripe to share, but only if the game was close.", "If it was a \"blowout,\" a win by a large margin, your saying this would make you look foolish.", "It might be better to say, if people are chatting about an upcoming game, \"Man, I hope the refs just let them play.\"", "• Word is that everyone loves a \"Cinderella,\" the team that comes out of nowhere to make a good run in the tournament.", "If you want to sound especially savvy, use it in conjunction with the world \"dance,\" another fun slang term for March Madness, as in, \"It's always nice to see Cinderella go deep in the dance.\"", "• If you feel compelled to throw out a player's name, one you're pretending to be excited to watch, the one to know -- and one that's easy to remember -- is John Wall.", "Rhymes with ball, if that helps.", "He's a freshman guard at Kentucky and will likely go pro soon, so using his name next year during March Madness would blow your cover.", "Keep that in mind. • Last, and this is very important, do not -- repeat -- do not walk into work on April 1 and talk about how crestfallen you are that March Madness is over.", "The tournament goes by this name, but the actual championship is played in April.", "CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin, Steve Almasy, Todd Leopold and Manav Tanneeru contributed their wisdom to this very important report." ]	[ "NCAA basketball tournament begins Thursday, as does workplace obsession .", "Among tips for the clueless who want to take part in chatter, use terms shared by experts .", "\"Buzzer beater,\" \"Cinderella,\" \"ball movement,\" \"press\" are good gems to consider ." ]	[ 0, 11, 13, 31, 35, 46 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Comedian Betty White -- currently enjoying a career resurgence at age 88 -- said Wednesday that she credits her longevity in the entertainment industry to \"sheer blind luck.\"", "\"I'm the luckiest old broad that ever drew a breath,\" White told CNN's \"Larry King Live.\"", "After a cameo on a popular Super Bowl commercial in January and a series of comedic sketches on Craig Ferguson's \"Late, Late Show,\" White's fans campaigned successfully via Facebook for her to host NBC's \"Saturday Night Live.\"", "White admitted to King that she was nervous about the May 8 show and said she finds herself questioning, \"What are they doing with me?\"", "She said she had been approached to host \"SNL\" three times \"many, many years ago,\" but declined because she associated the show with New York, and as a California girl, \"I'm so not New York.\"", "White got her start in show business in 1949 on a local television show.", "She went on to star in two hit sitcoms, \"The Mary Tyler Moore Show\" and \"Golden Girls.\"", "\"I think the reason for the longevity is that ... several generations have gotten to know me over the years so I've become ... sort of part of the family,\" she said.", "Most recently, she appeared in the blockbuster \"The Proposal\" with Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds.", "And to add to her current hot streak, White recently signed on to be a series regular on a new TV Land cable channel sitcom titled \"Hot in Cleveland\" opposite Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Valerie Bertinelli.", "\"I'm not hot again, but I'm surprised to still be working,\" White said.", "\"I just am amazed and I'm thrilled and I'm going along with it and enjoying it.\"", "White has also continued her work for animal health and well-being, including a 46-year partnership with the Los Angeles Zoo, calling it one of her two loves in life -- alongside show business of course.", "\"It's such fun,\" she said. \"Why should you stop something you enjoy so much?\"" ]	[ "White will host NBC's \"Saturday Night Live\" on May 8 .", "Comedian had wo hit sitcoms, \"The Mary Tyler Moore Show\" and \"Golden Girls\"\nStar's popularity surged after a popular Super Bowl commercial in January ." ]	[ 2, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- For Capt. Kamaljit Singh Kalsi, a doctor, and 2nd Lt. Tejdeep Singh Rattan, a dentist, this is a hill worth fighting for.", "Tejdeep Singh Rattan, left, and Kamaljit Singh Kalsi are set to report for duty in the U.S. Army in July.", "These two U.S. military recruits of the Sikh faith are challenging an Army order that they remove their turbans and cut their unshorn hair and beards when they report for active duty in July.", "In Sikhism, which originated in northwestern India, the turban and unshorn hair are articles of faith and can't be removed.", "But the U.S. military says there are times when the military cannot accommodate certain religious practices, \"such as when those religious observations would interfere with the wear of proper military headgear or protective clothing or equipment.\"", "\"It doesn't make sense to me, especially in these hard times,\" Kalsi told CNN.", "\"The military is hurting for professionals.", "They need doctors, they need nurses.\"", "Aided by the Sikh Coalition, a national civil rights group, and a law firm, the men have filed requests that their religious needs be accommodated.", "They have filed appeals with their immediate superiors and complaints with the inspectors general of the Army and the Pentagon.", "The Sikh Coalition said Kalsi and Rattan had been assured that when they were recruited to join the Army's Health Professions Scholarship that their unshorn hair and turbans \"would not be a problem.\"", "\"Both men were both recruited and commissioned -- with their Sikh articles of faith -- during their respective first years of medical and dental school (2001 and 2006) through the Army's Health Professions Scholarship Program.", "\"Both are concluding their training and are slated to begin active duty in July 2009.", "However, the U.S. Army is now disputing their ability to serve with their Sikh identity intact,\" the Sikh Coalition said in an April 14 letter addressed to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.", "Amardeep Singh, the head of the Sikh Coalition, told CNN that the issue at hand involves observant Sikhs, not those Sikh-Americans who entered the military after removing their turbans and shaving their beards and hair.", "The issue is all-important for the roughly 500,000-strong American Sikh community, which faced hostility after the September 11, 2001, attacks, when people associated them with al Qaeda terrorists because their turbans and beards resembled the militants' appearance.", "\"The perception is still there,\" said Singh.", "\"We're sort of still feeling it.\"", "He said surveys -- including one done recently in Queens, New York, where children reported being on the receiving end of verbal and physical abuse -- chronicle the problems Sikhs face.", "\"These kids are being harassed in New York.", "It's Queens, the most diverse county in the United States.", "If this is happening in Queens, it's happening in other parts of the country.\"", "So, he said, the opportunity to serve in the U.S. Army sends the opposite message -- \"that we are part and parcel of the fabric of this country.\"", "Kalsi, Singh and the Sikh community stress the Sikhs' military heritage.", "Kalsi, for example, is the fourth generation in his family to serve in the military, and his ancestors served in India's military.", "The Sikh served in allied forces in the two world wars and they serve in the militaries of Great Britain, Canada, Sweden, Pakistan, as well as India.", "The coalition notes in its letter to Gates that a Sikh doctor and dentist were serving in the Army, \"grandfathered in under the old policy\" that ended in the 1980s when observant Sikhs were barred from admission to the armed forces.", "Lt. Col. Christopher C. Garver, an Army spokesman, told CNN in an e-mail that \"the Army places high value on the rights of Soldiers to freely observe the tenets of their respective religions.\"", "\"Accommodation of a Soldier's religious practices must be examined against military necessity and cannot be guaranteed at all times,\" he wrote.", "\"There are times when the Army cannot accommodate for religious reasons, such as when those religious observations would interfere with the wear of proper military headgear or protective clothing or equipment.", "\"The Army regulations which establish the standards of wear and appearance of the uniform and accommodating religious practices are in accordance with the Department of Defense Instruction on this subject,\" he said.", "But the Sikhs want the Army to rethink and reconsider their situation.", "\"If they can come up with another policy that would allow Sikhs to serve, I guarantee you, they will have many, many people join from the Sikh community,\" Kalsi said." ]	[ "Two recruits of Sikh faith set to report for duty in U.S. Army in July .", "The Army says they must remove their turbans, cut their hair and beards .", "Sikh group says the Army should accommodate the religious articles of faith .", "Army says problem arises when religious practices interfere with military gear ." ]	[ 1, 2 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- A killer who sent a prosecutor a taunting letter about killing a 16-year-old girl died in Virginia's electric chair Thursday night, the Richmond Times Dispatch reported.", "Paul Warner Powell was pronounced dead at 9:09 p.m.", "ET, the newspaper reported.", "Virginia Gov.", "Bob McDonnell had denied clemency and the U.S. Supreme Court in January refused to block the execution.", "Powell was convicted in the 1999 murder of Stacie Reed and the rape of her 14-year-old sister in their Manassas, Virginia, family home.", "Powell claimed double jeopardy after state prosecutors put him on trial for a second time in the killing.", "The high court in July delayed Powell's execution while considering the broader constitutional claims, which were finally rejected.", "The killer rejected lethal injection, the state's usual method of execution.", "\"I'm hopeful this is the last legal chapter in the long history of this case,\" said Powell's prosecutor, Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul Ebert.", "\"The survivors -- Stacie's mother and [her sister] -- have really been traumatized by delay after delay.", "Hopefully they're going to get some peace and closure after all these years.\"", "CNN does not identify sexual assault victims without their permission, even though the surviving victim, now 25, has talked publicly about the case.", "The crime shocked the Washington area.", "Stacie Reed knew Powell, then 20 and an admitted racist.", "The state's highest court eventually threw out the 2000 verdict in the first trial, saying prosecutors had not proven other necessary death-eligible offenses were committed against the 16-year-old.", "Such \"aggravating\" factors could include, rape, attempted rape or robbery in commission of the murder.", "The sexual assault and attempted murder of Stacie's younger sister was upheld, and Powell was given a long prison sentence.", "Powell, believing he was free from execution, proceeded to write a taunting, profanity-filled letter from behind bars to Ebert, laying out explicit details of the crime unknown to investigators at the time.", "\"Since I have already been indicted on first degree murder and the Va. Supreme Court said that I can't be charged with capital murder again, I figured I would tell you the rest of what happened on Jan. 29, 1999, to show you how stupid all of y'all ... are,\" wrote Powell, who is white.", "He said he had gone to the Reed house to confront Stacie for dating a black boyfriend.", "He admitted pinning the victim, threatening to rape her, then stabbing her in the heart when the girl resisted.", "He then stomped on her throat.", "\"I guess I forgot to mention these events when I was being questioned.", "Ha Ha!\" he wrote in 2001.", "\"Do you just hate yourself for being so stupid ... and saving me?\"", "The killer also said that after that crime, he waited in the house until the younger girl returned from school, then attacked her, leaving her for dead.", "In the meantime, he drank iced tea from the family refrigerator and smoked a cigarette, part of the forensic evidence that investigators used to place Powell at the scene of the crime.", "With this firsthand account from Powell, he was indicted again and charged with murder and attempted rape of Stacie -- a capital-eligible crime.", "He again was convicted, and federal and state courts subsequently upheld the conviction on appeal.", "The Supreme Court appeal is Powell v. Kelly (09-21)." ]	[ "Paul Warner Powell was convicted of murdering Stacie Reed and raping her sister .", "Afterward, he wrote a taunting letter to the prosecutor giving new details of the crime .", "In a second trial, his admission of attempted rape of Stacie got him the death penalty .", "The U.S. Supreme Court in January refused to block the execution ." ]	[ 4, 5, 18 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A trendy California sushi restaurant charged by federal authorities with serving whale meat offered an apology Monday, saying it \"ignored its responsibilities\" to endangered species.", "Prosecutors charged Typhoon Restaurant Inc., the parent company of Santa Monica's The Hump, and chef Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45, with the illegal sale of a marine mammal product for an unauthorized purpose.", "Although it is considered a delicacy in Japan and some other countries, meat from whales -- an endangered species -- cannot be sold legally in the United States.", "\"We write to address the misdemeanor charge recently filed by the U.S. attorney,\" the restaurant said in a statement posted on its Web site.", "\"The charge against the restaurant is true: The Hump served whale meat to customers looking to eat what in Japan is widely served as a delicacy,\" the statement continued.", "\"In serving this meat, The Hump ignored its responsibilities to help save endangered whales from extinction and failed to support the world community in its uphill fight to protect all endangered species.\"", "The restaurant pledged to set up procedures to ensure that it complies with laws and \"becomes a good corporate citizen.\"", "\"We sincerely apologize.", "We pledge to work hard to re-earn the trust of the public and respect of our customers.\"", "The misdemeanor charge carries a federal prison sentence of up to a year and a fine of up to $200,000 for the company, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office.", "The law firm for the restaurant and its parent company deferred questions to The Hump's Web site.", "However, Typhoon attorney Gary Lincenberg has said the restaurant accepts responsibility for serving whale and will agree to pay a fine, CNN affiliate KTLA reported.", "The investigation into the restaurant began in October, when two members of the team that made the documentary \"The Cove\" visited The Hump, officials said.", "\"The Cove,\" which exposes the annual killing of dolphins at a Japanese fishing village, won the Academy Award for best documentary this month.", "The restaurant, located at the Santa Monica Airport, is known for its exotic fare.", "Its Web site asks diners to surrender themselves to its chefs for \"a culinary adventure ... unlike any that you have previously experienced.\"", "Crowd marches outside restaurant .", "Armed with a hidden camera, the two women captured the waitress serving them whale and horse meat and identifying them as such, a federal criminal complaint said.", "A receipt from the restaurant at the end of the meal identified their selection as \"whale\" and \"horse\" with the cost -- $85 -- written next to them.", "The women snuck pieces of the meat into a napkin and later sent them for examination to a researcher at Oregon State University.", "He identified the whale sample to be that of sei whale, prosecutors said.", "The sei is found throughout the world's oceans.", "Whalers began to hunt them after the populations of right, humpback, blue and fin whales declined due to overfishing.", "It is now considered an endangered species.", "In February and March, the activists returned and again asked for -- and were served -- whale meat, the criminal complaint said.", "A DNA test of the meat smuggled out after the February visit confirmed it to be meat from the sei whale, Mrozek said.", "During a final visit in March, officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S.", "Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observed the activists asking for \"kujira,\" or whale meat.", "One of the officers then saw the sushi chef leave the restaurant and return with a wrapped package that he seemed to have retrieved from a parked Mercedes, the complaint said.", "The chef told a customer it was whale meat, the document said.", "Next, officials raided the restaurant, and chef Yamamoto admitted that he had served whale meat, the complaint said.", "\"Someone should not be able to walk into a restaurant and order a plate of an endangered species,\" U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said.", "Conservation agencies are engaged in an ongoing feud with Japan over whaling.", "In the early 1980s, the International Whaling Commission determined that there should be a moratorium on commercial whale hunting.", "However, whaling is allowed under international law when done for scientific reasons, which Japan cites as the legal basis for its hunts.", "The country's annual hunt kills up to 1,000 whales.", "Many in the international community believe that such hunts amount to needless slaughter." ]	[ "The Hump sushi restaurant apologizes in statement posted on Web site .", "Feds alleged restaurant, chef illegally sold meat of endangered whales .", "Whale meat is considered a delicacy in Japan, other countries ." ]	[ 2, 4, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A tour bus carrying about 40 people rolled over Tuesday near Campbellton, Texas, killing two people and injuring more than a dozen, an official said.", "Tommy Cavazos, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said that 18 people were injured in the Americanos tour bus crash on Interstate 37, about 50 miles south of San Antonio in southern Texas.", "Most of the injured are being transported to San Antonio's Brooke Army Medical Center and University Hospital, Cavazos said.", "The bus, which was headed to Matamoros, Mexico, flipped and landed on its right side, he said.", "A spokesman for Brooke Army Medical Center, Dewey Mitchell, said four patients were taken to the hospital's trauma unit.", "He did not provide further information.", "University Health System spokeswoman Julie Wiley said five adults -- four men and one woman -- were transported to the medical facility.", "She could not describe their conditions but characterized the people as all between the age of 40 and 60.", "Although it was not immediately clear whether others were taken elsewhere, Wiley said that University Health System and Brooke Army Medical Center are the two trauma centers in San Antonio and would receive patients in situations such as Tuesday's crash.", "The names of those killed were not released.", "Americanos is a subsidiary of Greyhound.", "Maureen Richmond, a spokeswoman for Greyhound, said that 40 people were on board the bus, which left San Antonio shortly before 9 a.m. for Matamoros, Mexico.", "It was a regularly scheduled trip, she said.", "She said the cause of the crash was not immediately known.", "KSAT: 2 dead, dozens injured in charter bus crash .", "Video from the scene showed the bus lying on its side in the highway's grassy median, with clothing and other items scattered on the ground nearby.", "Emergency personnel, including fire trucks and ambulances, were on the scene.", "Mark Baldon, who came upon the crash shortly after it happened Tuesday morning, said he saw the bus \"smoldering,\" CNN affiliate KSAT reported.", "CNN's Divina Mims and Jamie Morrison contributed to this report." ]	[ "Bus flipped and landed on its side on I-37 median, official says .", "Bus was headed to Matamoros, Mexico, carrying 40 people .", "Names of victims not released; injured taken to hospital in San Antonio ." ]	[ 2, 3, 9, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Local and federal authorities in Enfield, Connecticut, are investigating how a band of burglars broke into a large pharmaceutical warehouse and made off with approximately $75 million in prescription medications.", "Police say the well-orchestrated heist at the Eli Lilly and Co. distribution center occurred during a rainstorm shortly after midnight Sunday.", "\"Based on the sophistication of what was used, this had to be well-executed and planned,\" Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza said.", "According to Sferrazza, the thieves scaled the side of the building onto the roof, where they cut an opening.", "He said they then rappelled into the building, disabled the alarm and proceeded to steal several dozen pallets of prescription pills, loading them onto one or more getaway vehicles.", "Police say the robbery was not discovered until almost 2 p.m.", "ET Sunday. When asked whether the crime could have been an inside job, Sferrazza replied, \"Anything is possible; we are not ruling anything out at this point.\"", "A spokesman for Eli Lilly, Ed Sagebiel, said the company is working closely with both the Enfield Police and the FBI.", "Though Sagebiel would not confirm what types of medications were stolen, he said there were no narcotics at the site.", "Although the intended destination of the drugs is unknown, the spokesman speculated that the suspects will attempt to sell them on the domestic or international black markets.", "\"We certainly know that there is a market for these products,\" Sagebiel said.", "\"We have a closed system here in the U.S. that makes it more difficult to distribute them in the United States for legitimate means.\"", "Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, Eli Lilly is the ninth-largest pharmaceutical company in the world." ]	[ "Thieves broke into Connecticut facility early Sunday, police say .", "Chief says heist was well-organized .", "Authorities aren't ruling out an inside job ." ]	[ 1, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Little Rhode Island made big news in the education arena last month.", "Superintendent Frances Gallo fired all the teachers at Central Falls High School after negotiations with the teachers' union failed.", "The move was triggered by low test scores -- only 7 percent of 11th-graders passed the state math tests, and 50 percent of the students at Central Falls failed to graduate in four years.", "Appalling numbers.", "Gallo wanted teachers to increase the length of the school day and spend time tutoring kids.", "The teachers' union was not convinced.", "Even President Obama got involved and supported the firing, saying, \"If a school continues to fail its students year after year after year, if it doesn't show signs of improvement, then there's got to be a sense of accountability.\"", "Yes, accountability is right, but who is supposed to be accountable for this massive failure to learn?", "The general consensus is that the teachers are responsible.", "Is it really all the teachers' fault?", "Columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. thinks so.", "Having been a teacher himself for five years, he says teachers just like to complain.", "He doesn't say why he is no longer teaching, but he applauds the firing and blames the teachers.", "Superintendent Gallo agrees.", "She fired all of them. Everyone agrees that the K-12 schools are failing, but the reasons are not as simple as Navarrette and Gallo think.", "Firing all the teachers is not the answer.", "Closing schools is not the answer.", "Schools aren't failing because the teachers don't care or aren't trying.", "It's not because teachers fail to follow the curriculum.", "It isn't because they are poorly paid.", "Teachers go into teaching because they want to make a difference and help kids.", "They certainly don't go into teaching to get rich.", "They don't want to do a bad job, either; no one likes to fail.", "A recent survey of 40,000 teachers by the Gates Foundation shows that teachers are more interested in reform than money.", "If you examine Central Falls High School closely, a few things stand out: More than 96 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced lunch, according to the school's Web site, and only 6 percent of the people in the town have a college degree.", "Does that tell you something important about the parents?", "They are struggling financially and lack postsecondary education.", "Central Falls provides little or no parental support for students or for the teachers, yet everyone expects teachers to do it all with few resources.", "Clearly, it does not work.", "In his book entitled \"Does Money Matter?", "the Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement,\" Gary Burtless argues that the \"home environment has strong effects on student achievement, stronger in fact than social class effects.\"", "He argues that the most important home environment variables involve \"parents expending time participating in activities with children that enhance learning.\"", "Very little, if any, of this is happening in the communities of a failing school.", "Look at where the schools are failing -- in the most densely populated areas of the 50 largest American cities.", "Teachers are not magicians.", "Low test scores and the dropout rate cannot be blamed on the teachers alone.", "They need help from the parents, help from the community, help from the administrators, help from state and federal governments.", "Thousands of kids starting kindergarten each year don't know colors, counting, or even the names of fruits and vegetables.", "Their vocabularies are hundreds of words fewer than their more advantaged peers.", "Who is talking to these kids?", "The electronic nanny -- the television.", "No teacher can effectively educate a child without support from the parents.", "Support at the elementary level means spending time with their child, reading to their child, talking with their child, providing a stable home for their child.", "Support in high school means a quiet place to study, recognition and approval for kids' efforts, and helping when they are not doing well.", "Strong schools have supportive parents and an involved community.", "Schools like Central Falls High School have struggling communities.", "To fire all the teachers and blame them for the failure is to dismiss the important role that parents and communities play in the education of their children.", "Imagine firing all the parents -- does that solve the problem?", "What we have in communities with failing schools is parents who are for a variety of reasons -- mostly economic -- failing to parent effectively.", "They have no time. The job of mothering is passé.", "Let's look at how ineffective school closures have been in Washington, where Chancellor Michelle Rhee has closed many schools.", "Test scores are up, but scores dropped on the federal government's broader measure of how local schools are doing in meeting the standards of the No Child Left Behind law.", "Or take a look at the Chicago Public Schools, where former CEO Arne Duncan, now U.S. secretary of education, closed many schools.", "There's been little change in scores because students are being transferred to other low-performing schools.", "It hasn't worked because the community's attitude and level of support hasn't changed.", "A report released on March 1 by The Education Trust shows that schools often lumped together as \"low-performing\" are not all alike.", "\"Examining data from reading and mathematics assessments for elementary and middle schools in ten states, the study's authors found that some low-performing schools remain stuck year after year, and others that started low performing are among the fastest improvers in their states.\"", "Solving the problem requires individual solutions tailored to each school, not a blanket approach.", "The U.S. Department of Education needs to change its focus and stop its policy of supporting the closing of failing schools; it does not bring long-lasting change.", "No Child Left Behind has had unintended negative consequences.", "Instead, we as a nation need to support teachers in the classroom and stop using teachers as scapegoats in seeking to solve a major national problem.", "We need to work with teachers, not fire them.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Esther Wojcicki." ]	[ "Rhode Island school district fired teachers at a failing school .", "Teacher Esther Wojcicki says that's not the answer to poorly performing schools .", "She says parents, administrators need to share blame, help solve problem .", "\"No teacher can effectively educate a child without support from the parents,\" she says ." ]	[ 15, 41, 60 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced he would be pushing for a public option in the final health care bill, it looked as if he had given up on the possibility of a bipartisan agreement.", "Most Republicans have been steadfast in their opposition to the Democratic health care proposals.", "The only serious possibility for GOP backing has come from Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine.", "While expressing support for much of the Senate Finance Committee bill, she has said she would accept a public option only if private markets and new regulations fail to control costs and lower premiums.", "Reid's decision is not a sign of commitment to an ideal but rather an act of political realism.", "The notion that either party will be able to find substantive bipartisan support for legislation today is dubious.", "The political forces that generate partisan conflict in Washington are deeply rooted and hard to change.", "Partisanship is not always a bad thing for politics.", "Strong parties can give voters real choices at the ballot box, and party leaders are willing to push for bold objectives that centrists often avoid.", "But bipartisanship is also a valuable objective, and good to have as part of our political mix.", "When both parties are open to sometimes entering into negotiations and reaching agreements, this improves the chances for major policy breakthroughs that will last over time.", "When Americans see that their leaders are willing, under the right circumstances, to focus on doing what the country needs even if the other side might receive more credit, citizens are exposed to a side of government that is usually overshadowed by the political machinations that dominate the news.", "But the pressures against bipartisanship are enormous.", "Gerrymandered congressional districts favor representatives who play to the party base.", "The number of centrists in both parties has steadily diminished.", "The campaign finance system empowers party leaders and conservative activists who are able to raise and distribute substantial amounts of campaign funds to pay for television ads and get-out-the-vote operations.", "Within the GOP, their power was recently on display in New York's 23rd district.", "Conservatives pressured centrist Republican Dede Scozzafava to step down from the special election to clear the way for Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, who has received the strong support of national conservative groups.", "\"Doug's campaign,\" Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele announced, \"will receive the financial backing of the RNC and get-out-the-vote efforts to defeat Bill Owens on Tuesday.\"", "In the Senate, the constant threat of the filibuster offers the minority party an easy way to thwart the agenda.", "The media favors stories about conflict over consensus.", "People tend to be a nostalgic for moments when the two major parties worked together.", "In fact, this has rarely been the case.", "But when there were periods with some bipartisanship in the 20th century, what is striking is how much more substantial they were.", "They involved significant numbers of legislators from one party joining forces with the other.", "One of the most famous examples of bipartisan leadership involved Republican Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, who in 1947 and 1948 chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.", "Vandenberg worked with President Harry Truman to pass some of the key policies of the Cold War, including the National Security Act, the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.", "Many Republicans disagreed with Vandenberg, focusing much more on attacking Truman.", "But Vandenberg still delivered Republican votes for that short period.", "During the Senate vote on the Marshall Plan in 1948, which provided economic assistance to help rebuild Western Europe, 31 Republicans joined 38 Democrats to vote for the bill.", "The same held true with the Civil Rights Act of 1964.", "We often remember the important work of Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen, an Illinois conservative who joined forces with Johnson in the summer of 1964 to vote for cloture to end the filibuster by Southern Democrats.", "Dirksen was one of 27 Republicans who voted to end the filibuster and then to vote for civil rights.", "Today, discussions of bipartisanship focus on obtaining one or two votes from the opposition party.", "This is a phenomenon we have seen intensifying since the 1970s.", "Republicans also had trouble obtaining Democratic votes under President George W. Bush.", "Until politicians are able to deal with some of the underlying forces that make bipartisanship difficult to achieve, party leaders should not give so much weight to legislative strategies that hinge on appealing to the other side.", "Seriously searching for bipartisanship, for example, would require reforming the campaign finance system so that legislators are not in such desperate need of private campaign contributions, over which party leaders and activist organizations maintain tight control.", "Citizens should also support media outlets that place solid journalism above partisan analysis.", "Right now, bipartisan votes are not coming.", "In the past few weeks, Democrats seem to have come to this conclusion and are now focusing more on what will unite their own party than what will win Sen. Snowe's vote.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer." ]	[ "Julian Zelizer says Harry Reid appeared to be giving up on bipartisanship .", "He says Democrats are more focused on unity than on attracting GOP votes .", "Bipartisanship once involved many legislators crossing party lines .", "Today, Zelizer says, many forces make bipartisanship hard to achieve ." ]	[ 0, 12, 24, 33, 36, 40, 41 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The remains of an Air Force major missing since the Vietnam War have been identified after years of searches, the Department of Defense said.", "Air Force Maj. Curtis Daniel Miller of Palacios, Texas, was one of 14 men whose plane was shot down on March 29, 1972.", "Miller and his crew were flying over southern Laos when a missile struck their plane, the Defense Department said Tuesday.", "After the shoot-down, rescue teams had to call off the search after two days because of heavy fighting near the crash site in Savannakhet province.", "In 1986, U.S. and Laotian search teams found the remains of nine of the men who were on the plane.", "In 2005 and 2006, search teams found more remains.", "DNA tests have confirmed that they belong to Miller and the other missing crew members.", "Miller will be buried with full military honors at the Dallas-Ft. Worth National Cemetery on March 29." ]	[ "Maj. Curtis Daniel Miller of Palacios, Texas, was shot down on March 29, 1972 .", "Miller and his crew were flying over southern Laos when a missile struck their plane .", "Miller will be buried with full military honors at the Dallas-Ft. Worth National Cemetery ." ]	[ 1, 2, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing for a quick legal decision, hoping to save a high school prom that was allegedly canceled because two lesbians wanted to attend it together.", "The rights group filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against a Mississippi school district and high school in federal court Tuesday over the April 2 prom.", "The case will be argued before a federal judge in Mississippi on March 22, the ACLU said.", "The showdown stems from a complaint by 18-year-old Constance McMillen, who said she was told not to bring her girlfriend to the prom or wear a tuxedo.", "The prom was canceled after the ACLU demanded that McMillen's high school change its policy.", "\"I never thought the school would try to cancel the prom and hurt everyone just to keep me and my girlfriend from going together,\" McMillen said in an ACLU news release.", "\"A lot of people have made really generous offers to pay for a prom somewhere else, which I really appreciate.", "But all I've ever wanted was to be able to just go to my own school's prom with my girlfriend.\"", "The motion filed Tuesday is part of a lawsuit that the ACLU has filed against the Itawamba County School District and Itawamba Agricultural High School.", "At the center of the lawsuit is a memorandum from the school to students, dated February 5, which says that prom dates must be of the opposite sex.", "Also, when McMillen expressed a desire to wear a tuxedo to the prom, the district superintendent told her only male students were allowed to wear them, according to court documents.", "Superintendent Teresa McNeece also told McMillen that she and her girlfriend could be ejected from the prom if other students complained about their presence, according to the documents.", "School district officials could not be reached for comment.", "But the county's board of education said in a statement last week that \"Due to the distractions to the educational process caused by recent events, the Itawamba County School District has decided to not host a prom at Itawamba Agricultural High School this year.\"", "The ACLU aims to change that.", "\"We are determined to get the prom back on the calendar and open to all students,\" said ACLU lawyer Christine Sun.", "\"What this case comes down to is the school taking the extraordinary measure of canceling the prom, rather than live up to its legal obligation to fairly treat all students who want to come to it.\"" ]	[ "Group files motion for preliminary injunction against a Mississippi school district .", "Case will be argued before a federal judge in Mississippi on March 22 .", "School district officials could not be reached for comment ." ]	[ 1, 2, 12 ]
[ "(CNN) -- \"Chief curiosity officer\" and the architect of the Plastiki voyage, David de Rothschild is only worried about sea sickness but will be armed with a copy of \"The Complete Sailor\" on the journey.", "Read the rest of David's CNN quiz answers, below.", "CNN: What did you want to be when you were young?", "de Rothschild: A pirate .", "CNN: What's the one characteristic that has led you to where you are today?", "de Rothschild: Being curious and not taking no for an answer.", "CNN: Who inspires you?", "de Rothschild: Family, friends and Buckminster Fuller.", "CNN: What's the most important lesson you've learned about yourself from the Plastiki project?", "de Rothschild: Nobody is as smart as everybody.", "CNN: What's your biggest hope for the expedition?", "de Rothschild: To capture the imagination of as many people as possible in order to inspire, engage and activate them!", "CNN: At what point would you define the Plastiki a success?", "de Rothschild: When we no longer produce and carelessly throw away single-use plastics.", "CNN: What is your favorite sea creature?", "de Rothschild: Sharks and seahorses.", "CNN: When is the last time you personally used a plastic bottle?", "de Rothschild: A month ago.", "CNN: What do you most value about nature?", "de Rothschild: Everything , especially how humble, inspiring and raw she is!", "CNN: What's the one creature comfort you'll miss most when you're at sea?", "de Rothschild: A fresh water shower.", "CNN: Name 3 books you will bring with you on the expedition.", "de Rothschild: \"Blessed Unrest\" by Paul Hawken; \"The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One\" by Sylvia A. Earle and Bill McKibben; \"The Complete Sailor\" by David Seidman.", "CNN: If you had to choose a theme song for the expedition, what would it be?", "de Rothschild: \"Message in a Bottle\" by Sting.", "CNN: What's your favorite adventure film / book?", "de Rothschild: \"The Lorax\" by Dr Seuss; \"Swallows and Amazons\" by Arthur Ransom.", "CNN: What's your green motto?", "de Rothschild: Green is just a color that's really only salving the consciousness!", "It's now time to focus on acting on the solutions in front of us!", "CNN: What's the most important thing you've done to prepare for life at sea?", "de Rothschild: Spend time with Jo Royle and David Thomson.", "CNN: What's the main emotion you're feeling right now days?", "de Rothschild: Ready to leave!", "CNN: What's your biggest fear for the expedition?", "de Rothschild: Sea sickness.", "CNN: What's the first thing you'll do when you reach Sydney?", "de Rothschild: Have a long sleep!" ]	[ "David de Rothschild answers the CNN quiz .", "Favorite adventure book is \"The Lorax\"; expedition song would be \"Message in a Bottle\"\nMost worried about sea sickness ." ]	[ 0, 25, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- As the NCAA basketball tournament kicks into gear this week, March Madness once again spreads out of arenas and into the workplace.", "Diehard and fair-weather fans alike will take part in office pools, games will be streamed online, and smack will be talked around water coolers.", "\"People love Cinderellas,\" the come-from-behind stories, said Stewart Mandel, a senior writer for SI.com who covers basketball and football.", "\"People love bragging when they pick something right.\"", "Read Mandel's analysis of the brackets .", "And, amid all this game monitoring and chatter, some say productivity and earnings may take a hit, but others say the shared experience bolsters business.", "The first week of the tournament -- when the most games are played during daytime hours -- could cost U.S. employers as much as $1.8 billion, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc., a global outplacement company in Chicago, Illiniois, that annually predicts the tournament's impact.", "This blow to employers is based on surveys showing that 45 percent of Americans enter office pools and waste on average about 20 minutes a day focusing on basketball instead of work.", "Challenger, Gray & Christmas says that translates to more than 58 million employees.", "Print your bracket (PDF) \"Employers can no longer claim to be caught off guard by the annual event,\" firm CEO John Challenger said in a written statement.", "\"Some have tried to squash these pools, most simply ignore them and others have found ways to embrace the tournament as a team-building and morale-boosting opportunity.\"", "But this figure on time and money lost seems \"plucked out of thin air,\" said Don Forsyth, a psychologist who studies group dynamics in the workplace in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond in Virginia.", "Who is to say how much time and money people waste each day on personal distractions, he asked.", "And maybe, he added, the employee who generally dreads going to work comes in energized because of the games.", "Forsyth, who's been studying work dynamics for 30 years, said the shared experience of feeling the madness probably does the workplace good and leads to gains instead of losses.", "\"It's a powerful social process,\" he said.", "\"It builds relationships and rituals within the group.", "Everyone is included,\" from the corner offices to the mailroom.", "\"People on the fringe get drawn in.", "It builds cohesion,\" he continued.", "\"You'd pay an expert to come in to do that for your company.", "March Madness does it for free.\"" ]	[ "As March Madness begins, office pools and basketball become part of workday .", "One company says employers stand to lose $1.8 billion this week due to distractions .", "Psychologist says shared ritual boosts sense of belonging in workplace .", "Positive cohesion comes for free, and employer wins, psychologist adds ." ]	[ 0, 7, 19, 20, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The California Highway Patrol officer who responded last week to an emergency call about a runaway Toyota Prius described the driver as visibly shaking and said he \"appeared to be in shock\" once the car came to a stop, according to the police report released Wednesday.", "The Prius' driver, Jim Sikes, called 911 on March 8 after he said his accelerator became stuck as he tried to pass a slower vehicle.", "For about 20 minutes, Sikes said, he was unable to gain control of the car as it reached speeds in excess of 90 mph on a winding, hilly portion of Interstate 8 outside of San Diego.", "He said he repeatedly pressing down on the brakes and trying to lift the gas pedal to no avail.", "In the police report, responding Officer Todd Neibert said he \"could smell the heated brakes which indicated they had been used extensively\" and said he saw the brake lights periodically illuminate as he came upon the car.", "When he pulled alongside the car, \"I could see the driver sat up off his seat indicating that he was possibly applying the brake pedal using his body weight.\"", "He said the Prius slowed slightly -- down to about 85 mph -- before accelerating again to 95 mph, according to the report.", "\"The driver looked over at me briefly and appeared to be in a panicked state,\" Neibert's report said.", "Eventually, Neibert used the patrol car's public address system to instruct Sikes to apply the brakes and the emergency brake at the same time.", "That tactic worked, and he was able to stop the car.", "\"The driver ... was visibly shaking and breathing deeply,\" the report said.", "\"He appeared to be in shock.\"", "Upon searching the car, Neibert found \"a large amount of brake dust and brake pad material in and around the wheels,\" the report said.", "Toyota technicians investigating the incident were unable to recreate the same condition, according to a draft congressional memo obtained earlier this week by CNN.", "In addition, Sikes' claims that he slammed on the brake while his gas pedal was stuck to the floor do \"not appear to be feasibly possible,\" the memo said.", "David Justo of Toyota Motor Sales headquarters, described in the memo as Toyota's residential hybrid expert, said that if the gas pedal of the car was stuck to the floor, and the driver applied the brake, the engine would shut down.", "The memo said before Sikes' vehicle could be tested, technicians had to replace rotors, brakes and pads, as the pads and rotors were worn down.", "Contacted by CNN on Sunday, Sikes said he stands by his story.", "He declined to comment further." ]	[ "CHP officer responded last week to emergency call about runaway Toyota Prius .", "He said driver of car was visibly shaking and appeared to be in shock after car stopped .", "Toyota technicians investigating incident unable to recreate circumstances .", "Driver Jim Sikes stands by his recollection of runaway incident ." ]	[ 0, 13 ]
[ "Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) -- Anti-government protesters poured a small amount of blood at the headquarters of the government in Bangkok on Tuesday, but the demonstration did not live up to their threat to douse the ministers' offices in blood.", "The protesters had launched a blood drive earlier to collect enough samples for the demonstration.", "Thousands of \"red shirts\" -- so named for their clothing -- held out their forearms to allow their compatriots to draw blood.", "The protesters intended to collect 1,000 liters (1 million cubic centimeters) and then throw the blood on the grounds of the Government House, which houses ministerial offices, at 6 p.m. (7 a.m. ...", "\"Red shirts\" rally in Bangkok: Share your photos .", "If Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva still refuses to dissolve parliament, the demonstrators said they will collect another 1,000 liters of blood Wednesday and splash it on the headquarters of the ruling party.", "The next day, they will collect 1,000 more liters and target the prime minister's residence, the demonstrators said.", "What are the protests about? Abhisit has repeatedly said he will listen to the protesters but will not accede to their demands.", "The anti-government demonstrations began Friday.", "By Sunday, tens of thousands of protesters had poured into the center of Bangkok.", "The rallies have been largely peaceful.", "Abhisit has said his government will not use force to quell the demonstrations.", "The nation's tourism minister estimated the demonstrations might have resulted in a 20 percent drop in tourists.", "The impact on Chinese visitors appears to have been greater, with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce reporting a 50 percent cancellation rate.", "The protesters are supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a bloodless military coup in 2006.", "Thaksin was the only Thai prime minister to serve a full term and remains hugely popular.", "He fled the country in 2008 while facing trial on corruption charges that he says were politically motivated.", "The protesters say Abhisit was not democratically elected and have demanded that he call new elections.", "Since Thaksin's ouster, Thailand has endured widespread political unrest that has pitted Thaksin loyalists against Abhisit supporters.", "Two people were killed and at least 135 wounded in riots in April 2009 when protesters clashed with demonstrators supporting the government.", "CNN's Kocha Olarn and Dan Rivers contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Thousands of \"red shirts\" hold out forearms to give blood for message .", "Demonstrators threaten to to splash blood on ruling party headquarters, PM's residence .", "Protesters are supporters of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra ." ]	[ 2, 5, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Red River at Fargo, North Dakota, reached \"major flood stage\" early Wednesday as the National Guard and a small army of volunteers filled sandbags to keep the waters at bay.", "\"Everybody is just focused on battling it once again, and they're doing it with smiles on their faces,\" said Staff Sgt.", "Amy Wieser Willson of the North Dakota National Guard.", "The river rose to a record 40.8 feet at Fargo in 2009.", "As of about 7 a.m. Wednesday (8 a.m.", "ET), the river stood at 30.34 feet, 12 feet above the flood stage of 18 feet and past major flood stage.", "Floodwaters are forecast to peak at 38 feet this weekend.", "Are you there? Send photos, video to CNN iReport .", "\"Major flood stage\" is a term the National Weather Service uses to describe flooding causing \"extensive inundation of structures and roads\" and possibly the \"significant evacuations of people and the transfer of property to higher elevations.\"", "\"[It's] very stressful for a lot of people, especially after seeing how much damage and how long the flood fight went on last year,\" Willson said.", "About 300 people were helping on the sandbag lines as the community raced to fill 1 million of them.", "See local coverage of the flooding .", "Torrey Callies spent a couple of days helping shield his Fargo neighborhood from the rising waters.", "\"We're making some good headway here,\" he said at midday Wednesday, as volunteers finished a sandbag dike.", "The sandbag levee is meant to hold back what's known locally as Meadow Creek, which branches off from the rising Wild Rice River.", "\"Everybody that lives here went through it last year, so everybody is well-schooled in how to do this,\" Callies said.", "Still, \"there's not the sense of deathly emergency that there was last year,\" he said.", "At least 150 volunteers -- most of them high school and college students -- helped in the neighborhood Tuesday, Callies said.", "\"God bless 'em for showing up, because without volunteer help, we'd never get this done,\" said Callies, 44, who owns a collection agency with his brother.", "\"In my book, that's a pretty cool thing to do.\"", "The mess it makes of back muscles and backyards is worth it, he said.", "\"You want to keep your house dry, and that's the main thing,\" Callies said.", "\"The grass will grow back.\"", "\"It's tough because it's awful work and it's hard on the back and it's stressful, but what do you do?", "You just suck it up and start throwing sandbags.\"", "Last week, warm weather and rain melted snow south of Fargo and Moorhead, Minnesota, causing the Red River to swell.", "Upstream, snow and ice have yet to melt, pushing water back toward the two cities.", "Meanwhile, along the Eastern Seaboard, utility crews made steady progress restoring electricity after a powerful nor'easter whipped the region over the weekend.", "About 125,000 customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut remained without power early Wednesday.", "\"We know how difficult this is for our customers, and we appreciate their patience,\" said John Miksad of Con Edison.", "\"With each reconnection, we focus on restoring the greatest numbers of customers possible.\"", "The outages were due mostly to power lines downed by Saturday's hurricane-force winds, which knocked over trees and utility poles.", "At least seven deaths were attributed to the storm, five caused by falling trees, authorities said.", "CNN's Jim Kavanagh, Sean Morris and Ed Payne and CNN Radio's Michelle Wright and Richard Benson contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: River rises 12 feet above flood stage at Fargo, North Dakota .", "NEW: About 300 workers scurry to fill 1 million sandbags to hold off waters .", "Red River expected to peak at 38 feet this weekend .", "About 125,000 customers in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut still without power ." ]	[ 0, 6, 10, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- England soccer star John Terry has again been engulfed in controversy after his car hit a club steward on Tuesday night following Chelsea's Champions League defeat by Inter Milan.", "English Premier League side Chelsea confirmed that the club's captain had driven into one of its security staff as he sought to get past a horde of photographers and fans after the match, the UK Press Association reported on Wednesday.", "British media had widely reported that police said the man suffered a broken leg, but Chelsea told PA that he had only \"a badly bruised leg.\"", "\"We can confirm there was an unfortunate accident as John Terry left Stamford Bridge last night,\" a Chelsea spokesman told PA. \"When driving out of the stadium at approximately 1-2 mph in a queue of traffic exiting the ground, his car was surrounded by photographers and fans.", "In the melee that ensued a member of Chelsea's security staff was knocked to the ground, making contact with the car.", "He suffered a badly bruised leg.", "\"John was aware at the time that there was a lot of contact with his car during the incident, but not that anyone was injured as a result.", "Upon hearing of the injury, John spoke to the police.", "He has also been in contact with the staff member to check on his welfare.\"", "Terry's spokesman Phil Hall told Sky Sports News that the player had been breathalyzed by the police, with tests showing he had not been drinking alcohol.", "Hall said Terry planned to visit the steward on Thursday as he was upset about the accident.", "The incident was another blow for Terry, whose Chelsea team missed out on a place in the quarterfinals of Europe's premier club competition for the first time since 2006.", "Italian champions Inter, managed by Terry's former Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho, won 1-0 on the night thanks to a late goal by Samuel Eto'o which sealed a 3-1 aggregate victory.", "The 29-year-old Terry has recently been at the center of a media storm following revelations about his alleged affair with the ex-partner of his former Chelsea teammate Wayne Bridge.", "He was stripped of the national captaincy by coach Fabio Capello as a result.", "Bridge subsequently decided he would not be available for selection by England at the World Cup starting in June as he believed his presence in the dressing room with Terry would be \"divisive\" for the team.", "Bridge, who plays for Manchester City, is sidelined after having a hernia operation on Tuesday which will rule him out for a month.", "The defender, who had only just returned to action following a knee injury, aggravated a long-term problem during Sunday's 1-1 Premier League draw with Sunderland.", "Meanwhile, the Premier League confirmed on Wednesday that bottom club Portsmouth have been docked nine points after going into administration last month.", "League officials acted after Britain's tax department dropped its legal action challenging the club's change of financial status.", "The decision means debt-ridden Portsmouth are almost certain to be relegated, with Avram Grant's team now 17 points from safety with only nine matches left in the season.", "Fellow strugglers Hull City, second from bottom 14 points above Portsmouth, confirmed on Wednesday that Iain Dowie will be the Yorkshire club's new manager until the end of this season.", "Dowie, who replaces the sacked Phil Brown, has previously coached Charlton, Crystal Palace and Queen's Park Rangers." ]	[ "England soccer star John Terry drives into a club steward on Tuesday night .", "Incident happens after Chelsea's Champions League defeat by Inter Milan .", "Police initially reported that man broke his leg, but Chelsea say he had bad bruising .", "Premier League dock bottom club Portsmouth nine points for going into administration ." ]	[ 0, 5, 18 ]
[ "(CNN Student News) -- March 18, 2010 .", "Download PDF maps related to today's show: .", "• Detroit, Michigan • Israel • Oxford University .", "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: A prestigious scholarship or a professional football career?", "One student athlete is trying to prove that you can have both.", "I'm Carl Azuz. CNN Student News starts right now!", "First Up: Jobs Bill .", "AZUZ: First up, a bill aimed at creating new jobs is about to become a law.", "A vote in the Senate put the final seal of approval on the legislation yesterday, moved it on to President Obama for his signature.", "The bill has gone back and forth in the House and the Senate.", "At $17.6 billion, it's actually a scaled-down version of a jobs bill that was put together last month.", "Here's some of what it includes: Tax breaks for companies that hire people who are currently unemployed.", "Tax breaks for businesses that spend money on major investments or purchases.", "And funding for highway and transit programs this year.", "Some experts say the bill could create 300,000 new jobs.", "Others say it doesn't guarantee that companies will start hiring, and some lawmakers have argued that the bill doesn't do nearly enough.", "Rising Waters .", "AZUZ: In parts of the midwestern United States, National Guard members and local volunteers are fighting to keep the Red River at bay.", "A lot of these volunteers are high school and college students who are spending their spring breaks filling and stacking sandbags.", "The river's waters are on the rise thanks to melting snow, and there's a threat of serious flooding.", "This same thing happened last year when the Red River hit a record level in Fargo, North Dakota.", "Rob Marciano has more on the impact of the severe weather then and now.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: In Fargo, North Dakota, residents are trying to stack one million sandbags in hopes of pushing back the Red River, which could crest 20 feet above flood stage later this week.", "Last year, about 100 homes in the area were damaged and thousands of people were evacuated when the Red didn't go down for a record 61 days and crested twice.", "In the Northeast, a wild storm has left hundreds of thousands of residents either without power or with most of what they own underwater.", "Trees ripped down power lines, tore up sidewalks and crushed cars.", "The storm is being blamed for at least seven deaths.", "Many had to leave their front doors by boat or in the arms of heavy equipment.", "(END VIDEO) I.D. Me . RICK VINCENT, CNN STUDENT NEWS: See if you can I.D.", "Me! I'm a U.S. city that was founded in 1701.", "I'm known as the Motor City because of my connection to the auto industry.", "I'm not the capital of Michigan, but I am the largest city in the state.", "I'm Detroit, and I'm home to about 4 million people.", "Closing . AZUZ: In three months, more than 40 Detroit schools will be closed.", "It's part of a $1 billion plan that was announced yesterday.", "The Detroit School District is looking for ways to cut costs.", "Officials say this plan will save $31 million in 2010 and help save money in the future.", "At a meeting to announce the proposal, Robert Bobb, the Emergency Financial Manager for Detroit Public Schools, said it will create a \"leaner, smarter\" school system.", "Detroit is dealing with buildings and facilities that are getting older.", "Plus, student enrollment in the district has dropped significantly; there are 50,000 empty seats.", "Community members will get a chance to offer feedback at a series of town hall meetings.", "But yesterday, Mr. Bobb outlined the long-term goals for the district.", "ROBERT BOBB, EMERGENCY FINANCIAL MANAGER, DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: We believe that this plan provides certainty where, in the minds of some, there may be uncertainty.", "We want to build flexible, adaptable and sustainable learning environments.", "We want to support smaller learning environments.", "Want to develop multi-use facilities that support community use and community partnerships.", "U.S. Relations .", "AZUZ: Last weekend, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. reportedly said the relationship between the two countries was the worst it's been in 35 years.", "We told you about that. Now, though, he says he never said that.", "There has been some tension between the countries recently, but the Israeli ambassador says \"recent events do not represent the lowest point in the relations between Israel and the United States.\"", "He added that the nations disagree on some issues, but says he's confident the differences will soon be overcome.", "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had some harsh words for Israel recently.", "But on Tuesday, she called the bond between the countries \"unshakable,\" although she added that the U.S. is still waiting for Israel's response on proving that the Middle Eastern country is serious about a Middle East peace plan.", "Most Visited . AZUZ: If you run a Google search, you'll find out that Facebook just passed Google as the most popular site on the Internet last week.", "From March 7th to the 13th, Facebook accounted for seven percent of all U.S.", "Web traffic.", "In the past, Facebook has been the number one site on individual days; this is the first time it's won an entire week.", "This only covers Facebook.com and Google.com, so it doesn't include other Google sites like Gmail.", "Google had been on top every week since September 2007.", "It took over the number one spot from another social networking site, MySpace.", "Facebook Promo .", "AZUZ: We get a ton of traffic at our Facebook page: That's Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews.", "I had a few minutes last night at work to log on and answer some of your questions.", "A student named Zach had a great one; he asked how we select responses from our blog.", "The answer: It's on the wall at Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews.", "You never know when I might show up!", "Shoutout . TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout!", "Rhodes scholars are invited to study at what university?", "If you think you know it, shout it out!", "Is it: A) Cambridge, B) Harvard, C) Stanford or D) Oxford?", "You've got three seconds -- GO!", "An invitation to study at Oxford University in England accompanies a Rhodes Scholarship.", "That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!", "Scholar's Comeback .", "AZUZ: One of last year's Rhodes Scholars, Myron Rolle, is spending his time at Oxford studying medical anthropology.", "Eventually, he wants to go to medical school and become a neurosurgeon.", "It's not his only dream job. Right now, he's trying to tackle the football field.", "Soledad O'Brien has more on the Rolle reversal.", "(BEGIN VIDEO) SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT: Myron Rolle was on a fast track to having it all.", "MYRON ROLLE, NFL PROSPECT: How you doing?", "O'BRIEN: A gifted athlete, he was all but assured enormous fame and even bigger money.", "Then, something happened.", "You quit, basically.", "ROLLE: I did. I did. I don't like saying that word.", "O'BRIEN: From the moment he first touched a football, Myron Rolle was a star.", "ROLLE: I was pretty good at it.", "I was bigger than all the kids, so I had some success.", "O'BRIEN: In high school, ESPN ranked Myron the number one senior football player in the country.", "Eighty-three colleges made him an offer.", "Myron chose Florida State University, a prime launching pad for the pros.", "Myron played safety.", "His future: a shoo-in, first-round pick in the NFL draft last year, millions of dollars to follow.", "But that's when he basically quit, when he put it all at risk.", "Why did you leave? Why did you quit football?", "ROLLE: I left football because the Rhodes Scholarship was too great to pass up.", "It was either now or never.", "O'BRIEN: He won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, a chance to earn a Masters Degree in medical anthropology at Oxford University in England.", "Myron moved to England and watched the NFL draft from the sidelines.", "ROLLE: It hurt.", "It really did. It pained me. Like inside, deep.", "I said, I can be out there right now making millions of dollars.", "That could be my name being called.", "But when I went to Oxford, I said, this is the right choice.", "O'BRIEN: He's not done with his studies.", "He has more to do at Oxford. But now, nearly a year later, with that certainty of his, Myron Rolle came back.", "After a few years in the pros, he wants to go to med school to become a neurosurgeon.", "He's got to get back to England to finish his degree.", "ROLLE: This is the mud from England right here.", "O'BRIEN: Make no mistake, here, no one cares about Oxford.", "This is business, high stakes football.", "Is this guy as good as he was a year ago?", "And now, game on. Myron played well in the Senior Bowl.", "The NFL draft is weeks away.", "It's pressure. ROLLE: Sometimes it's overwhelming.", "Sometimes you have to take a step back.", "O'BRIEN: So many people counting on him.", "ROLLE: You know what RS stands for?", "UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's that?", "ROLLE: Rhodes Scholar.", "O'BRIEN: For In America, Soledad O'Brien, CNN, Orlando.", "(END VIDEO) Downloadable Maps .", "AZUZ: Oxford, Israel, Detroit.", "Today's show's all over the map.", "If you head to CNNStudentNews.com, scroll down and look on the left-hand side, you can use our downloadable maps to find out exactly where we went.", "They're totally free!", "You can find them every day at your favorite Web site.", "Before We Go . AZUZ: Before we go, maybe you've seen a horse fly.", "But you've never seen one this big.", "Colorado -- the horse, not the state -- was air-lifted to safety on Tuesday after being swept away by a river late last week and stranded on a sand bar.", "It took rescuers four days to reach Colorado and get him hooked up to this harness.", "The one-mile flight to dry land only lasted a few minutes.", "Goodbye . AZUZ: But during that time, that horse was the mane event.", "Time for us to giddy up and go, but not furlong.", "CNN Student News returns tomorrow." ]	[ "Find out why some U.S. students are spending spring break filling sandbags .", "Consider the reasons why Detroit is planning to close more than 40 schools .", "Hear how a Rhodes Scholar is tackling the move back to the football field .", "Use the Daily Discussion to help students understand today's featured news stories ." ]	[ 20, 21, 35, 49, 54, 78, 95, 120, 135 ]
[ "(CNN) -- From a small apartment in Toronto, Iranian exile Saeed Valadbaygi is trying to bring news from his country to the world.", "Using a network of Iranian journalists and eager volunteers back in Tehran, the 27-year-old former student collates reports, pictures and video for his Web site astreetjournalist.com.", "Having fled Iran following the June demonstrations, Valadbaygi set up the site in November -- his latest attempt to beat what he says are government hackers and offer news and views about the unrest in Iran.", "With international media operating under restrictions in Iran, independent journalists using blogs and social networking sites have become an important source of information.", "\"What's happening in Iran is not being reflected globally.", "We want to let the world know and let the state know that the world is watching,\" said Valadbaygi.", "During the deadly street demonstrations in Tehran on December 27, Valadbaygi said his web site had 17 million hits in two days.", "The site, which is maintained by about 12 volunteers, wobbled and slowed down, but stayed up and running.", "\"We've already experienced a large number of viewers on our blogs and web sites and therefore we have been hacked by the regime of Iran repeatedly and unfortunately have lost access to many of our web sites.", "But introducing this web site (to) professional colleagues and also lots of viewers who are currently collaborating with us has helped in achieving wonderful results in the past few days.\"", "Valadbaygi believes in the power of social media.", "He is active on Facebook and Twitter and maintains a blog called Revolutionary Road.", "\"Facebook and Twitter have turned into a strong tool for people in spreading news.", "Citizen journalists have the most effect on news and today we clearly see that each citizen in Iran is acting as a media.", "Therefore we have the responsibility in gathering the news in one place to achieve a better result against the regime's censorship,\" he said.", "Valadbaygi, who says he was expelled in 2008 from Amirkabir University in Tehran because of his political views, took part in the June protests and distributed underground newspapers as an independent demonstrator, rather than a supporter of opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi.", "Deciding that he needed to leave Iran to pursue his politics, he says he went first to Turkey before arriving in Canada as a \"political refugee\" and quickly connecting with an ex-pat Iranian community in Toronto.", "He now works long hours collating information for his web site.", "Meanwhile, Valadbaygi worries about his parents, brother and sister in Tehran.", "He says his brother was recently arrested.", "He communicates with his family using multiple email accounts while his parents use public phones to minimize the risk of the call being traced.", "And he acknowledges that his network of correspondents in Iran, which he says is spreading to cities beyond Tehran, contact him in the full knowledge that they could attract the attention of the authorities.", "\"They could track the IP addresses and this could cause problems in the workplace or university.\"", "Valadbaygi says eight of the people he has worked with in the past are currently in jail.", "Assessing the latest street demonstrations, Valadbaygi says the protest movement is fragmented with diverse demands but there is a groundswell of public opinion that wants a new secular government.", "\"It's important that a leadership emerges as quickly as possible otherwise it might all die down.\"" ]	[ "Exile's network is getting news out of Iran and onto the Internet .", "In two days after December 27 violence, he said he had 17 million hits .", "Saeed Valadbaygi left Iran after taking part in protests in June .", "He acknowledges journalists, bloggers take risks in contacting him ." ]	[ 6, 21 ]
[ "Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Four suspected drug cartel members have been arrested in connection with the slaying of a family in what authorities call an act of revenge for the death of a drug baron, a state attorney general said Wednesday.", "The shootings early Tuesday that led to the deaths of four family members of 3rd Petty Officer Melquisedet Angulo Cordova was an act of revenge carried out by Los Zetas, a drug cartel allied with the Beltran Leyva cartel, said Rafael Gonzalez Lastra, attorney general for the southern Mexican state of Tabasco.", "The suspects were arrested Tuesday night, he said.", "Cordova was killed in the December 16 shootout that resulted in the death of Arturo Beltran Leyva, nicknamed the \"boss of bosses,\" during a raid by a Mexican navy contingent at an upscale resort condo in Cuernavaca, Mexico.", "Angulo Cordova was hailed as a hero by President Felipe Calderon and laid to rest in his home state of Tabasco.", "Early Tuesday, gunmen entered the family's home and opened fire, killing Angulo Cordova's mother, sister and aunt.", "Angulo Cordova's brother was injured in the shooting and later died in a hospital.", "The Zetas, the protection arm of the Gulf cartel that also operates as its own trafficking organization, carried out revenge killings because of an alliance between them and the Beltran Leyva group, Gonzalez Lastra said.", "Two of the arrested cartel members were responsible for the payments for the killings, and two acted as lookouts during the incident, he said.", "The suspects were identified as Julio Acosta Saucedo, Yesenia Hernandez Valencia, Azael Jesus Garcia Reyes and Julio Acosta Vargas.", "Gonzalez Lastra said authorities know the identities of the shooters as well as the vehicles used in the attack.", "Some local police officers were also involved, he said." ]	[ "NEW: Two of the arrested were responsible for payout; two acted as lookouts, official says .", "Four family members of 3rd Petty Officer Melquisedet Angulo Cordova were killed .", "Tabasco attorney general says slayings were an act of revenge carried out by Los Zetas .", "Cordova was killed in the shootout that resulted in the death of Arturo Beltran Leyva ." ]	[ 1, 3, 8 ]
[ "Sanaa, Yemen (CNN) -- Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab disappeared in Yemen for more than two months before he allegedly tried to bring down a Northwest Airlines jet with explosives concealed in his underwear.", "Investigators want to know if, during that time, he heeded the call to prayer coming from the hills above Yemen's capital, where an Islamic university headed by a fiery cleric has helped the country earn its reputation as an incubator of extremism.", "The students who pray at Al-Iman University now, two weeks after that failed Christmas Day attack, say the school has been made a scapegoat, and that what AbdulMutallab is accused of having done is wrong.", "\"It's against Islam,\" one says.", "\"The thoughts in their heads go against Islam,\" says another.", "AbdulMutallab's alleged attempt to ignite explosives as the jet approached Detroit, Michigan, resulted in a fire on his lap -- and serious burns -- before passengers and flight crew subdued him and put out the flames.", "Al-Imam's leader is Sheikh Abdel Majid al-Zindani, a provocative cleric with a flaming red beard.", "The United States considers him a terrorist, accused in 2004 of supplying weapons to al Qaeda.", "But in Yemen, al-Zindani is a free and influential man.", "Al-Zindani denied CNN's request for an interview but allowed the network to tape at the school he's built from the ground up since the early 1990s.", "Every year, thousands of Islamic students from Yemen, Africa and around the world are cocooned in al-Zindani's compound, where they study their faith and are instilled with a strident defense of that faith.", "Last year, al-Zindani made a public plea to recruit millions of young men to fight jihad against Israel.", "But the students say they don't think AbdulMutallab was ever at the school, and investigators don't appear to have come to ask.", "Yemeni authorities, it seems, have taken a hands-off approach to the university.", "\"To my knowledge, no security, no investigation teams came here,\" political science professor Ismail al-Suhaili said.", "\"Nobody thought that AbdulMutallab was here.\"", "In Yemen, Al-Iman University is highly respected and its leader admired, making it difficult for investigators to find out for sure if the Christmas Day bombing suspect was ever there." ]	[ "Officials want to know if attack attempt suspect visited Al-Iman University .", "School is run by Sheikh Abdel Majid al-Zindani, who the U.S. considers a terrorist .", "Students at the university say terrorism goes against their Islamic faith ." ]	[ 2, 6 ]
[ "Rome, Italy (CNN) -- \"The devil tempts everyone -- people in politics, in economics, in sport.", "And naturally, he tempts, above all, the religious leaders, so you shouldn't be surprised if the devil tempts those in the Vatican.", "That's his job.\" Father Gabriele Amorth isn't speaking metaphorically when he says that.", "The 85-year-old priest means people can be tempted and literally possessed by Satan.", "\"It's not my opinion: I'm saying that if you believe in the Gospels, you believe in the existence of the devil, in the devil's power to possess people,\" he said in an interview with CNN.", "The faithful believe \"that there are people possessed by the devil, and ... in the power of exorcism to liberate from the devil,\" he said.", "And as the chief exorcist of the Roman Catholic Church, it's his job to expel the devil when someone is possessed.", "Amorth, the founder of the International Association of Exorcists, has performed more than 70,000 exorcisms in his career, he estimates.", "But there is a difference between possession -- where the devil takes hold of someone's body and actions -- and temptation, where Satan lures a person into doing evil, he said.", "As a child abuse scandal sweeps across Europe, with accusations being made against priests in Ireland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, Amorth said the pedophiles are tempted, not possessed.", "He has never done an exorcism on a child molester, he said.", "\"I have carried out exorcisms on some priests who had been molested by the devil,\" he said, without going into details.", "\"But cases of pedophilia exorcised, no.", "... Pedophiles are not possessed by the devil, they are tempted by the devil,\" he said.", "\"They don't need exorcism, they need to be converted, to be converted to God, that's what they need.", "They need to confess, they need true penitence, true repentance, that's what they need.", "They're not possessed.\" But no one is too strong a believer to be possessed, said Amorth, who is employed by the Roman diocese.", "\"Nothing occurs without the permission of God, and he allows even holy people, even saints, to be possessed by the devil,\" he said.", "But, he added, he sees no evil in the Vatican today: \"I just see good people in the Vatican.", "People of prayer, holy people, I don't see any evil.\"" ]	[ "Father Gabriele Amorth is chief exorcist at Vatican; he claims over 70,000 exorcisms .", "He says the faithful believe \"in the power of exorcism to liberate from the devil\"\nAmorth: \"Pedophiles are not possessed by the devil, they are tempted by the devil\"\nPriests from Ireland to Austria have been accused in growing child abuse scandal ." ]	[ 5, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- U.S. President Barack Obama is expected on Monday to meet with the Shanghai mayor and hold a town hall-style meeting with \"future Chinese leaders\" before heading to Beijing to meet his host, Chinese President Hu Jintao.", "Trade issues are likely to be a major discussion topic between the two leaders; the United States imports billions of dollars in Chinese products each year.", "At local markets, Chinese government officials banned a popular Obama shirt over fears that it would offend their guest.", "It depicts Obama wearing a Chinese Communist outfit made famous by Mao Zedong, the late Communist leader.", "The back has \"Oba-Mao\" printed on it.", "Obama's visit comes as China relishes its spot as a key global player.", "It is involved in major international disputes such as the showdowns with Iran and North Korea and has used its position on the U.N. Security Council and its economic leverage to influence events around the globe.", "China also is now the dominant regional player in northeast Asia, recently hosting a summit in Beijing with the Japanese and South Korean leaders.", "The nation's economic expansion has led to a demand for raw materials around the world and the rapid expansion of China's presence in countries such as Guinea, Myanmar, Sudan and Venezuela.", "Human rights groups say China is propping up repressive regimes to secure its access to critically important raw materials.", "China's rapid economic expansion outpaces growth in the United States, 8.9 percent in the past quarter versus 3.5 percent in the United States, giving Beijing huge economic leverage.", "Obama's half-brother Mark Obama Ndesandjo lives in Shenzhen in southern China.", "Ndesandjo, an engineer by trade, moved from the United States after losing his job seven years ago.", "Ndesandjo took the last name of the man his mother remarried and has dodged the media since Obama was elected president.", "He spoke to reporters about his semi-autobiographical book, \"Nairobi to Shenzhen,\" earlier this month.", "He said their father was abusive and beat him and his mother.", "Ndesandjo owns a small chain of restaurants in Shenzhen and teaches piano to orphans.", "The White House did not say whether the president would see him during his trip.", "The final stop of his Asia trek is Seoul, where Obama will meet with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and deliver a speech to American troops at Osan Air Base.", "Obama is on an eight-day journey that has also taken him to Japan and Singapore, where he attended the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations economic forum.", "He'll return to the United States on Friday." ]	[ "In Shanghai Obama will hold town hall-style meeting with \"future Chinese leaders\"\nObama's half-brother Mark Obama Ndesandjo lives in Shenzhen, China .", "Obama is on eight-day trip through Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea ." ]	[ 0, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Arsenal moved to within three points of leaders Chelsea at the top of the English Premier League after Cesc Fabregas inspired them to a 2-0 victory at Bolton to spoil new manager Owen Coyle's first match in charge.", "Captain Fabregas produced an impressive display on his return from a hamstring injury and scored his 10th league goal of the season in the 28th minute after a neat one-two with Eduardo.", "His surging run then led to substitute and fellow-Spaniard Fran Merida scoring the second 12 minutes from time as former Wanderers player Coyle's reign at the Reebok Stadium got off to a losing start.", "With these two teams due to meet in the return fixture at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday, Arsene Wenger's side could well take over at the top of the table in the next few days.", "Bolton remain second from bottom, with Coyle having swapped one relegation battle with Burnley for another.", "Earlier in the day, Blackburn captain Ryan Nelsen put the seal on his side's long-awaited return to winning ways as they overcame Fulham 2-0 at Ewood Park.", "Nelsen applied the finish to Benni McCarthy's 54th-minute free-kick to put Rovers within touching distance of their first three-point haul since November.", "Defender Chris Samba had earlier settled the home side's nerves with a fortuitous 24th-minute opener after he ricocheted home an attempted clearance by former Blackburn winger Damien Duff.", "In the day's other match, Aston Villa failed to cash in on slip-ups by their Champions League-chasing rivals after being held 0-0 at home by West Ham.", "Villa could have closed the gap on the top four after Manchester City, beaten at Everton, and Tottenham, held at home by Hull, both dropped points on Saturday.", "But a combination of a below-par performance and some fine saves by Robert Green meant they had to settle for their first goalless draw of the league campaign." ]	[ "Arsenal move to within three points of Chelsea at the top of the English Premier League .", "Returning captain Cesc Fabregas scores one goal and makes the other in a 2-0 win at Bolton .", "The result spoils the debut of new Bolton manager Owen Coyle following his switch from Burnley ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "L'AQUILA, Italy (CNN) -- Rescuers worked into the early morning hours Tuesday in hopes of finding survivors of a powerful earthquake that ripped through Italy's mountainous Abruzzo region, killing scores of people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.", "People cue in line to receive aid in L'Aqulia following Monday's earthquake.", "Tearful survivors, many of them clad in pajamas and blankets, watched as bodies were pulled from the rubble in the medieval city of L'Aquila, about 120 km (75 miles) northeast of Rome.", "The quake killed more than 150 people, L'Aquila's fire department said late Monday.", "Nearly 24 hours after the quake hit, authorities were still unsure how many people remained trapped in the wreckage.", "\"We think maybe 70 to 100,\" said Francesco Rocca, a spokesman for the Italian Red Cross.", "\"We still don't know the exact number.", "This is why we are still working very, very hard at the moment.\"", "Another body was found in the rubble of a student dormitory early Tuesday morning, and at least five other students were believed inside.", "But aftershocks hindered rescuers early Tuesday, and they have asked for additional equipment and expertise from Rome, authorities at the scene told CNN.", "Italy's Civil Protection agency reported at least 1,500 injured and 50,000 without shelter.", "\"I can say there's hardly a building which was left without some sign of what has happened in the historical center of L'Aquila,\" Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said during a visit to the stricken region.", "\"All the public buildings have been affected.\"", "Berlusconi said 4,000 people were working on the rescue effort.", "Civil defense officials said they are prepared to house up to 30,000 people, but many of those displaced have gone to hotels.", "Of the 150 dead, about 100 bodies have been identified, the officials said.", "Monday's earthquake was about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) deep, the USGS said.", "About 10:20 p.m. (8:20 p.m. GMT) Sunday, a 4.6-magnitude earthquake hit northern Italy, about 55 km (35 miles) southeast of Bologna, the agency said.", "That earthquake's depth was 6.4 km (4 miles).", "The quake is the deadliest to strike Italy in decades, and the first major temblor to strike the country in almost seven years.", "Joshua Brothers, an American missionary, told CNN that the quake \"sounded as if a 747 (jet) was actually coming in to land.\"", "\"That was the first thing that was on my mind,\" he said.", "The quake left stone buildings in heaps, with rubble spilling over parked cars and into alleyways.", "Frightened residents rushed into the streets, many of them bringing luggage with them, Brothers said.", "See images of the destruction » .", "\"If you look along the way, there are many palazzi that are cracked, walls have fallen in on some of them,\" he said.", "Watch Brothers describe devastation » .", "L'Aquila's hospital was damaged as well, forcing doctors to evacuate the most seriously hurt.", "Agostino Miozzo, the director-general of Italy's Civil Protection agency, called it \"a disaster on a huge scale.\"", "iReport.com: 'The house shook for such a long time' The magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck at 3:32 a.m. (1:32 p.m. GMT Sunday), Italy's .", "Berlusconi declared a state of emergency and canceled a trip to Russia to oversee the rescue efforts.", "Three significant aftershocks -- ranging from magnitude 4.3 to 4.8 -- shook the area within six hours of the quake, unnerving residents further.", "See a map showing the epicenter » .", "The earthquake followed less than six hours after another quake hit the northern part of the country, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.", "Seismic activity is not uncommon in Italy, which is sandwiched between the European and African tectonic plates, and USGS geophysicist Amy Vaughan called the region geographically \"complex.\"", "Learn more about how earthquakes are measured » .", "In 1997, an earthquake killed 10 people in the Umbria region, left tens of thousands homeless and seriously damaged monuments and artwork, including the town of Assisi's famed Basilica of St. Francis.", "About 17 years before the Umbria quake, a 6.5-magnitude temblor in southern Italy killed 3,000 people, according to the USGS.", "Pope Benedict XVI was praying for the \"victims, especially the children,\" killed in Monday's quake, the Vatican said, according to Italian news agency ANSA .", "CNN's Paula Newton, Hada Messia and Diana Magnay contributed to this report." ]	[ "About 50,000 people without shelter, Italy's Civil Protection agency says .", "Italian prime minister: Tents being provided for quake survivors .", "People rush into streets, many buildings in L'Aquila destroyed .", "6.3-magnitude quake strikes northeast of Rome ." ]	[ 2, 10, 37 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The H1N1 virus has now become the dominant influenza virus around the globe, with high levels and an increase of activity in many regions, the World Health Organization said Thursday.", "In a weekly update, the WHO's point person on the H1N1 virus, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, also warned the public not to treat the virus like just another flu.", "Like seasonal flu, H1N1 is more active in the winter than in the summer, and a majority of infected people get better on their own, Fukuda said.", "H1N1 also is as transmissible and infectious as seasonal flu, he said.", "But unusually for influenza, Fukuda said, H1N1 continues at high levels over the summer months, and many of the serious illnesses and deaths are concentrated in people younger than 65.", "Seven months into the pandemic, the virus commonly known as swine flu remains at high levels and continues to increase in North America, Fukuda said.", "Mexico, for example, has seen more cases from September to November than they saw in the preceding months from April, when the virus emerged, he said.", "The virus is also becoming more active in Europe and Central and Western Asia, Fukuda said.", "Health officials this week reported an outbreak of cases in Ukraine, which now has more than 250,000 cases of influenza-like illness, with 235 patients requiring intensive care, the WHO said.", "Activity is picking up in East Asia, Fukuda said.", "Mongolia reported \"a number\" of cases over the past week, he said.", "\"East Asia is one of the parts of the world where seasonal influenza viruses have remained in reasonably high circulation,\" Fukuda said.", "\"But even in that part of the world, the pandemic virus is becoming dominant.\"", "More cases are being reported from a number of Caribbean countries such as Cuba and Haiti, he said.", "In Central America and the Southern Hemisphere, however, activity levels have dropped as those regions enter the summer season, Fukuda said.", "\"There are several regions in the world -- North America, Europe, Northern and Central Asia -- where we are clearly seeing pandemic influenza activity increase,\" he said, but \"there is no one single place in the world where we are focused on.\"", "Disease activity has been difficult to predict, Fukuda said.", "\"We really are not going to know what the future is going to bring, and so the main focus of our effort here is ... what steps are needed to make sure countries are as prepared as possible to deal with disease levels,\" he said.", "H1N1 poses different challenges in different countries, but it does seem to be affecting indigenous groups more heavily than nonindigenous groups, he said.", "In Australia, for example, \"aboriginal groups are disproportionately represented in people who end up in hospitals from diseases related to the pandemic,\" Fukuda said.", "The WHO still doesn't know whether the effect on indigenous groups is because of the pandemic itself or because of underlying factors.", "Because most people infected with swine flu tend to recover on their own and don't suffer major problems afterwards, some people are tempted to dismiss the infection and think it's not serious.", "But Fukuda said that's a dangerous mind-set.", "\"At WHO, we remain quite concerned about the patterns we are seeing, particularly because a sizable number of people develop complications [that lead to death],\" he said.", "\"We do see that the serious complications are concentrated in the younger age groups rather than the older age groups.\"", "While the complications are most often seen in people who have chronic, underlying health conditions and in pregnant women, they also can develop in people \"who are currently healthy and young.\"", "But contrary to some reports, Fukuda said, the WHO has not seen big mutations in the virus since it first emerged.", "He said viruses being isolated now are \"generally similar\" to those isolated over the past several months, indicating they haven't changed much.", "The WHO also has no evidence of widespread resistance to antiviral medication, Fukuda said.", "There have been sporadic instances of resistance to oseltamivir -- the generic name for Tamiflu, one of the main drugs used against influenza -- but such cases are still \"isolated and infrequent,\" he said.", "\"Antivirals are quite useful against these infections,\" he said.", "Fukuda praised as \"innovative\" the decision by Norway to distribute antiviral medication over the counter for a limited period of time.", "The move can help take stress off the primary health system and allow patients to get the medicine more quickly, he said.", "Other useful protections against H1N1 are vaccines, which the WHO recommends against pandemic infections, Fukuda said.", "\"These vaccines now have been used in a significant number of countries ... and based on this experience, in which millions of people have now received vaccine, we in fact see that these vaccines are very safe,\" he said.", "The only side effects are swelling and pain at the injection site, but \"these are occurring at rates that are expected and usually seen with seasonal influenza vaccine,\" Fukuda said.", "\"WHO, along with other public health authorities, believes that these vaccines are very useful against pandemic infections and [we] do support their use,\" he said." ]	[ "H1N1 continues at high levels over the summer months, unlike seasonal flu .", "The flu seems to affect indigenous groups more heavily than nonindigenous groups .", "The only side effects of the vaccine are swelling and pain at the injection site .", "WHO has not seen big mutations in the virus since it first emerged ." ]	[ 4, 26, 35 ]
[ "New York (CNN) -- When the New York Jets face the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday for what may be the final football game played at Giants Stadium, fans in attendance won't be able to drown their sorrows or toast a victory.", "The Jets have banned the sale of alcohol on Sunday at the stadium they've called home for 26 years.", "\"With the late start of Sunday's game, coupled with this being the final regular season and final game at the stadium, we feel it is prudent not to serve alcohol,\" said Bruce Speight, a spokesman for the team.", "The Jets approach the decision of whether to serve alcohol on a game-by-game basis, Speight said.", "Fresh off a victory over the formerly undefeated Indianapolis Colts, the Jets are on the verge of their first play-off berth in three years -- and fans are riled up and ready to go.", "And Jets fans are known for rowdy behavior -- for example, a half-time \"tradition\" of women baring their breasts for men who loudly urge them to do so.", "In lieu of alcohol, the Jets said, they'll pass out green and white \"rowdy towels\" to the first 70,000 fans arriving at the stadium.", "But the ban has raised the ire of a New Jersey vodka distillery.", "Majorska Vodka, which calls itself \"one of the largest liquor companies in the Garden State,\" is calling for a 24-hour boycott of Johnson & Johnson products because, according to company spokesman Jeff Scott, Jets owner Woody Johnson is the \"heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune.\"", "Scott said Majorska plans to stop paying for three of their executive's seats at the Meadowlands and that the company is set to lose more than $100,000 in revenue from tailgate parties this weekend.", "The New York Jets officially declined to comment, but team spokesman Speight said that \"negative fan reaction has been minimal at best\" and pointed out that vodka is not sold anywhere in the stadium and the ban does not apply to tailgating.", "But Martin Silver, Majorska's president and CEO, said fans are shocked and outraged that the Jets are treating their supporters \"like children.\"", "Silver, a life-long Jets backer with a Joe Namath jersey hanging in his office, is directing his frustration at the team's ownership because he feels they are \"controlling the game completely.\"", "He said his company is distributing anti-Johnson & Johnson petitions Friday to 350 sports bars across New Jersey.", "\"We're taking this on, right to the top, to Johnson,\" said Silver.", "Woody Johnson is the grandson of Johnson & Johnson founder Robert Wood Johnson, but is not currently connected to the company.", "William C. Weldon is the company's chairman and CEO.", "None of the Johnson family serves on the company's management team or board of directors.", "Johnson & Johnson spokesman Bill Price said that \"officially we have no comment given that the Johnson family has had no managerial role with the company for decades.\"", "Giants Stadium, part of the Meadowlands Sports complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, has been home to both the Jets and the New York Giants, who played their first game there on October 10, 1976.", "Early on during their tenancy at Giants Stadium, the Jets refered to the 82,000-seat arena simply as \"the Meadowlands\" although in recent years Jets tickets have used the facility's official name.", "The stadium, which has hosted popes, concerts and major league soccer as well as football, is to be demolished after this season.", "Both New York teams will move into a new stadium just a short distance away next season.", "That stadium will get its name from a corporate sponsor, yet to be named.", "CNN's Kristen Hamill contributed to this report." ]	[ "Spokesman: Game's late start, fact that it's regular season's last game factored into decision .", "Decision does not affect tailgaters, negative fan reaction \"minimal,\" spokesman says .", "CEO of New Jersey vodka distillery says company will stop paying for executive seats .", "Martin Silver says company set to lose more than $100,000 from tailgate parties this weekend ." ]	[ 2, 7, 9, 16 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Hours after a security breach forced the closure of a terminal at the Newark, New Jersey, airport Sunday, authorities were still searching for a man who went the wrong way through a checkpoint exit.", "The incident happened at about 5:20 p.m. at Terminal C, when an individual walked from the public side to the secure \"sterile\" side for passengers who had cleared screening, according to the Transportation Security Administration.", "No flights were allowed to leave from Terminal C Sunday evening and thousands of other travelers who had reached the sterile area after going through checkpoints were moved back to the public area to be re-screened, the TSA said.", "Authorities are reviewing video from airport cameras.", "They are not sure whether the man was once on the sterile side and went back, or if he never went through screening, TSA spokeswoman Anne Davis said.", "Watch more about the situation in Newark .", "The incident caused arrival delays and mainly affected Continental Airlines, which is the airport's largest tenant.", "CNN's Alina Cho, who arrived at the airport Saturday night on a flight from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, described the hectic scene: \"For the people who are hoping to fly out of Newark this evening, there is not a lot of movement.\"", "She said many passengers who had already boarded outgoing flights had to get off planes to be re-screened.", "\"I just saw one woman pleading with a gate agent, saying that she had two small children and a heart condition -- that she simply could not take this,\" Cho said.", "\"But of course, there will be no exceptions.\"", "Flying Continental?", "Important company notice .", "Newark Liberty International Airport, which is about 15 miles from Manhattan, is the second-largest hub for Continental.", "The airport handles about 35 million passengers a year.", "CNN's Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt contributed to this report." ]	[ "TSA: Man walks through wrong side of checkpoint exit .", "Police seek the individual, who walked from the public side to the sterile side .", "No flights allowed to leave from Terminal C Sunday evening .", "Incident causes arrival delays and mainly affected Continental Airlines ." ]	[ 1, 2, 6 ]
[ "MERRICK, New York (CNN) -- \"This is a healthy 9-year-old boy.", "How in the world could his heart just stop?\"", "Robbie Levine died at age 9 after running the bases at a Little League game.", "Standing in the emergency room the night of September 27, 2005, that's the question Jill Levine kept asking herself.", "She'd just gotten news that she found impossible to comprehend: Her eldest son, Robbie, a fourth grader, had died.", "About an hour earlier, Robbie had been running the bases at Little League practice near their home in Merrick, a suburb of New York City.", "Levine's husband, Craig, who coached the team, was standing at first base when Robbie ran by him.", "\"I remember thinking I'd never seen him run so fast,\" he recalled.", "But seconds later, he turned to see that his son had collapsed right on home plate.", "Craig Levine ran to Robbie's side, realized that Robbie didn't have a pulse and began administering CPR.", "Several minutes passed before an ambulance arrived.", "Robbie was pronounced dead at the hospital.", "With two other young children, Jill Levine says she didn't give herself the option to become paralyzed with grief after her tragic loss.", "Instead, she took action.", "\"I knew that [Robbie] could have had a chance if there was a defibrillator,\" she says.", "So for the past 2½ years, Levine has dedicated herself to raising awareness about the need for these cardiac devices in youth sports, which she does through her Robbie Levine Foundation, co-founded with her husband.", "Automated external defibrillators -- also known as AEDs -- administer electrical shocks that can restore a heart to its normal rhythm.", "When used in conjunction with CPR, these machines can make the difference between life and death.", "The American Heart Association reports that after sudden cardiac arrest, every minute without CPR and defibrillation reduces survival by 7-10 percent.", "More than 165,000 adults die from sudden cardiac arrest each year, according to the heart association.", "While statistics aren't kept regarding the number of children who experience such incidents, some states have laws requiring defibrillators in schools.", "Yet Levine believes that if an incident occurs on a playing field, even having a defibrillator in a nearby school building might not be enough.", "\"Literally every minute counts,\" she stresses.", "\"When you're out using a field, it's too far away.\"", "Watch Levine recall the personal tragedy that motivated her to take action » .", "Through her foundation, Levine works to convince youth sports leagues to buy defibrillators and get people trained to operate them.", "She spends her days sending out an educational DVD produced by her foundation and talking to parents and coaches.", "Since defibrillators cost between $1,200 and $1,600, her foundation often donates one to a league that commits to starting a program.", "But even so, Levine often encounters resistance.", "\"The biggest obstacles that we face are people's fears,\" she says.", "\"But I just keep repeating over and over again: 'If it's not there, it can't help.'", "\" Watch Levine and her husband describe some misperceptions about defibrillators » .", "Levine's goal is to make defibrillators mandatory safety equipment for youth sports, like a batting helmet in baseball.", "To date, she has raised approximately $200,000 and has helped put more than 100 defibrillators on playing fields around the country.", "Watch Levine explain some ways to help keep young athletes safe » .", "For Levine, keeping other kids safe is the best way to honor Robbie.", "\"This horrific thing happened to us,\" she says.", "\"All I can do is make it so that no other family ever has to go through this.\"" ]	[ "Robbie Levine died at age 9 after running the bases at a Little League practice .", "His parents set up a foundation in his memory to raise defibrillator awareness .", "Automatic defibrillators can help make the difference between life and death .", "She has helped put 100-plus defibrillators on playing fields around the U.S." ]	[ 2, 17, 33 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Air travel security is being increased as authorities continue to question how a man got explosives on a U.S.-bound passenger jet, according to federal officials, including the president and his homeland security chief.", "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told CNN's \"American Morning\" on Monday that officials would review how anti-terrorist watch lists are maintained.", "Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, who is accused of trying to blow up a flight carrying 300 passengers, was on a general list that contained 550,000 other names, but he was still allowed to travel to the United States.", "A senior administration official said the suspect was not on a no-fly list because \"the info on him was not deemed specific enough to pull his visa or put him on a no-fly list.\"", "\"Under the existing protocols, it requires an interagency process and the identification of other negative information that's credible ... and that process whittles down from 500,000 [names] or so that are on the generic list to the fewer than 5,000 that are on the no-fly list,\" Napolitano said.", "\"We are going to be looking at that process and how those lists are created, maintained, updated, exchanged and the like, because clearly this individual should not have been able to board this plane carrying that material.\"", "AbdulMutallab is accused of trying to blow up a Northwest flight from Amsterdam, Netherlands, to Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day.", "Officials say he carried an explosive device that contained pentaerythritol tetranitrate, an explosive also known as PETN.", "Part of the device, which failed to detonate, was sewn into his underwear, a law enforcement official said Monday.", "President Obama, in his first public comment since the incident, said Monday that screening and security procedures for all flights were immediately enhanced, including an increase in the number of air marshals on international flights.", "The federal system for tracking potential terrorism suspects will be reviewed because the latest incident showed that it had possible failings, the president said.", "All screening policies, technologies and procedures for air travel will be reviewed \"to determine just how the suspect was able to bring dangerous explosives aboard an aircraft and what additional steps we can take to thwart future attacks,\" Obama said.", "A Department of Homeland Security official who asked not to be identified said Sunday that the ranks of the air marshals have been increased by cutting vacations and leave, and by pulling in marshals from instructional and administrative posts.", "On CNN's \"State of the Union\" Sunday, Napolitano said air marshals are assigned randomly to flights.", "Current and former marshals contacted by CNN took exception to Napolitano's claims, saying that although there is an element of randomness to increase unpredictability, the assignments of air marshals are largely based on intelligence and an analysis of which flights are most vulnerable or most attractive to terrorists.", "Despite a possible tragedy, Napolitano said the response system worked, as passengers and crew avoided panic and subdued the suspect while authorities notified other flights in the air of the situation and kept the air transport system operating.", "\"Once the incident happened, we were able to immediately notify the 128 flights in the air, as well as airports on the ground domestically, internationally, our law enforcement partners, other allies, institute immediate safe procedures to make sure that this could not happen on other flights and that people were watching out for it on other flights, even as we focused on what went wrong prior to this one,\" Napolitano added Monday.", "The Transportation Security Administration invoked a \"one hour rule\" after the thwarted attack, which prohibited passengers on international U.S.-bound flights from leaving their seats during the last hour of a flight, sources said.", "In addition, passengers had to stow pillows and blankets, and maps viewed on in-flight entertainment screens were disabled during the final hour of flight.", "The TSA has modified the rule, however, giving airlines and crews discretion over implementation, sources said.", "CNN's Erin McLaughlin and Brian Todd contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Screening procedures enhanced; more marshals put aboard .", "NEW: Homeland security chief says terrorist lists to be reviewed .", "Janet Napolitano says air marshals are assigned randomly .", "Current, former marshals take exception to Napolitano's claims ." ]	[ 1, 13, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Jupiter is sporting a new scar after an unseen object hit the gaseous planet this week, NASA scientists say.", "This NASA image shows a large impact near Jupiter's southern pole.", "An amateur astronomer in Australia noticed the new mark -- seen through telescopes as a dark spot -- on the planet early Monday and tipped off scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, who then confirmed it was the result of a new impact, NASA said.", "It's not clear what the object was that crashed into Jupiter's poisonous atmosphere.", "Glenn Orton, a JPL scientist, told the magazine New Scientist that it could have been a block of ice from somewhere in Jupiter's neighborhood, or a wandering comet that was too faint for astronomers to have detected before impact.", "The object created a mark on Jupiter that has the about same diameter as Earth, though the object itself was probably only 50 to 100 miles across, said Anthony Wesley, the amateur astronomer who first noticed the scar.", "The mystery object was likely moving at speeds of about 50 to 100 kilometers (31 to 62 miles) per second when it struck near Jupiter's south pole, Wesley told CNN.", "\"That generates an unbelievable amount of energy when it collides with pretty much anything, but especially with something the size of Jupiter,\" he said.", "It is only the second time scientists have been able to observe the results of such an impact on Jupiter.", "The first happened 15 years ago, when comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke into 21 pieces and hit the planet's atmosphere.", "\"Given the rarity of these events, it's extremely exciting to be involved in these observations,\" JPL astronomer Leigh Fletcher said in a NASA interview.", "Thermal images taken by NASA show the scar as a bright spot, which means the crash warmed the lower atmosphere in that area, New Scientist said.", "Researchers also found hints of higher-than-normal amounts of ammonia in the upper atmosphere.", "The Shoemaker-Levy comet also churned up extra ammonia, the magazine said.", "Jupiter's new spot isn't likely to last long -- probably just one to two weeks, Wesley said.", "He pointed out the impact scars from the Shoemaker-Levy debris lasted only two to three weeks before disappearing.", "Seeing an Earth-sized spot appear so tiny on Jupiter's surface led to some to wonder Tuesday whether our planet might be in danger of a similar collision.", "But Wesley said that shouldn't be a concern because Jupiter functions almost like a celestial vacuum cleaner, sucking up any objects that would be of danger to Earth and its neighbors.", "\"Jupiter is doing a very good job in scooping up a lot of this material that's still floating around in the solar system,\" he said.", "\"It's just got so much gravity as it swings around the outer part of the solar system, it can really pull in and swallow up many of the cometary objects and debris left over from the formation of the solar system.", "\"So it's doing a good job in keeping us safe by cleaning out a lot of these bits and pieces.\"", "Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun and the largest in our solar system.", "Its colorful atmosphere is 86 percent hydrogen and 14 percent helium, with tiny amounts of methane, ammonia, phosphine, water, acetylene, ethane, germanium, and carbon monoxide.", "The chemicals are responsible for producing the different colors of Jupiter's clouds.", "The temperature at the top of those clouds is about 230 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (145 degrees below zero Celsius), but it is far hotter near the planet's center.", "The core temperature may be about 43,000 degrees Fahrenheit (24,000 degrees Celsius), hotter than the surface of the sun.", "The most outstanding feature on Jupiter's surface is the Great Red Spot, a storm of gas that swirls at a speed of about 225 miles (360 kilometers) per hour at its edge.", "The spot -- which has been shrinking -- has a diameter equal to about three times that of Earth." ]	[ "Amateur astronomer spots new mark on solar system's largest planet .", "NASA confirms discovery is result of object crashing into Jupiter's atmosphere .", "Scientists say object could be a block of ice or a wandering comet .", "Object has left scar the size of Earth in Jupiter's southern polar region ." ]	[ 0, 3, 4, 5 ]
[ "Bartow, Florida (CNN) -- After more than three decades in prison, a man in Florida was set free Thursday after a DNA test showed he did not kidnap and rape a 9-year-old boy in 1974.", "James Bain, 54, was 19 when he was convicted on charges of kidnapping, burglary and strong-arm rape.", "Now he will be allowed to go home for the first time in 35 years.", "\"Mr. Bain, you are a free man,\" the judge said in a Bartow, Florida, courtroom.", "Bain was serving a life sentence.", "Bain's mother, who has been in and out of hospitals in recent years, said that her son's exoneration is \"hard to believe.\"", "\"He was just a child when he went in there,\" Sarah Reed told CNN.", "\"I've been trying to hold on.", "I've had things wrong with me, and I was afraid I wouldn't be here when he got out.\"", "Of the 245 people in the United States who have been exonerated by DNA testing, none has spent more time behind bars than Bain, according to the Innocence Project, a national organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing.", "\"I thanked the Lord.", "He must have did it for a reason,\" Reed said.", "\"The Lord has a reason for putting him in here, and he has a reason for keeping me around for me to see this.\"", "Melissa Montle, an attorney with the Innocence Project, called Bain last week at his prison in Okeechobee, Florida, to tell him the news.", "\"I told him and he got very quiet,\" she told CNN.", "Then he said, \"I'm really happy,\" and began to choke up, she said.", "\"He's been so worried about his mom.", "He wants to be home to take care of her,\" Montle said.", "Bain was convicted in 1974 of taking a 9-year-old Lake Wales, Florida, boy from his bed and raping him.", "According to police records, the victim told police that he fell asleep with his brothers and sisters, but when he woke up a man was dragging him by a baseball field.", "The boy said he was forced to the ground and raped.", "The Lake Wales police report says that the boy told police that his attacker had bushy sideburns and a mustache.", "After being shown five photographs of potential suspects, the report says, the victim picked out the photo of Bain.", "That 9-year-old boy, now 44, still lives in Florida and has been made aware of the situation, according to multiple sources.", "\"He is terrified for people to know who he is,\" said one source familiar with the story.", "\"Somebody hurt him and scarred him badly, and the right person should be punished for that.\"", "Florida in 2001 passed a statute allowing cases to be reopened for DNA testing.", "Four times Bain submitted handwritten motions seeking such testing, only to be denied.", "His fifth try was successful only after an appeals court ruled that he was entitled to a hearing.", "Bain's family has stood by him all of these years.", "His twin sister, Jannie Jones, told police that James was home with her, watching a popular television medical drama called \"Medical Center\" at the time of the attack.", "Another sister, Patsy Amos, said, \"I still don't understand why this happened, but we never doubted him.", "We knew what type of child he was.\"", "It was incredibly frustrating, she said.", "\"It's just like a death, 'cause there was nothing we can do.", "He was a family member and we couldn't bring him home.", "There was nothing we could do.", "It was like death.", "We had no control over it,\" she told CNN.", "The prosecutor in the case, Edward Threadgill, is now retired after a career that culminated with a seat on the 2nd District Florida Appeals Court.", "He will be 78 this month. \"I don't remember any of the details [of the case],\" he told CNN.", "\"I don't remember the defendant.\"", "But he added, \"It upsets me that an innocent man was in prison.", "It disturbs me greatly. ...", "I think we did the best with the technology we had.", "We did the best we could with what we had.\"", "Bain's mother said that while her son was in prison he \"turned away from God, because he thought God abandoned him.\"", "But, she said, she stayed on him -- on the phone, and during twice-a-month visits -- and eventually, over the years, he came back around to find God again, in prison.", "Watch report on the DNA exoneration of an Arizona man convicted of rape and murder .", "Now, she said, she is taking steps to ensure her son is taken care of in a world that has changed so much since he entered prison.", "She's putting her house and her car, a 1992 Toyota Camry, in his name.", "\"I want him to have something by himself.", "He's suffered enough.", "He will never worry about where to stay.", "No more suffering. He'll be taken care of, if anything happened to me,\" Sarah Reed said.", "\"He worries about me all the time.", "He thought he was doomed to stay there, and now he says, 'Don't let go.", "I'm coming home.'\"" ]	[ "NEW: James Bain released from prison after more than three decades behind bars .", "Bain was convicted in 1974 of abducting and raping a 9-year-old Florida boy .", "His case was reopened after his fifth request to use DNA evidence .", "The victim, now 44, said \"the right person should be punished\" for the crime ." ]	[ 0, 18, 20, 25, 26 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- The first double portrait of Britain's Princes William and Harry went on display Tuesday at the National Portrait Gallery.", "The painting shows the brothers dressed in their military uniforms, chatting to each other at their home at Clarence House, near Buckingham Palace.", "It is the first portrait to show William and Harry together, the National Portrait Gallery said.", "It will now hang in the museum alongside other portraits of the royal family.", "Artist Nicky Philipps said she was able to capture an informal moment, \"a behind-the-scenes glance at the human element of royal responsibility, and to emphasize their brotherly relationship.\"", "Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, the painting shows Prince Harry seated next to Prince William, who is standing to his left.", "They are wearing the dress uniform of the Blues and Royals regiment of the Household Cavalry, where they are both lieutenants.", "William also wears the the star and blue sash of the Order of the Garter, a British order of chivalry, which the queen awarded him in 2008.", "William, 27, is now training to be a search-and-rescue pilot with the Royal Air Force, where he holds the rank of flight lieutenant.", "Harry, 25, who served in Afghanistan, is training to become a pilot with the Army Air Corps.", "\"The first portrait of the princes captures them formally dressed, but informally posed,\" said Sandy Nairne, the museum's director.", "\"It is a delightful image which extends the tradition of royal portraiture.\"", "The National Portrait Gallery said it was appropriate that the princes were pictured at Clarence House, which used to be the home of the late Queen Mother.", "Part of a painting of the Queen Mother is visible above Harry's shoulder in the portrait, and paintings from her private collection are seen behind William.", "Philipps, 45, has had high-profile commissions before, but said it was a \"great privilege\" to paint the two princes.", "\"They were very good company and although I was commissioned to paint them in their official context, I hope I have also captured some of the brotherly banter that characterized the sittings,\" she said." ]	[ "This is the first double portrait of Princes William and Harry .", "Artist Nicky Philipps captured a behind-the-scenes glance of the princes .", "The portrait will hang in London's National Portrait Gallery ." ]	[ 0, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Nude photos and other potentially objectionable materials have been showing up in the iPhone application store in recent weeks, raising questions about Apple's ability to control iPhone content.", "An iPhone app called BeautyMeter was pulled from the app store after a nude photo surfaced.", "In the most recent example, a nude photo of a young woman, reported to be 15 years old, showed up on an iPhone application called \"BeautyMeter,\" according to Wired.com and Krapps.com, an app review site.", "CNN could not independently confirm the young woman's age.", "The photo, which apparently was submitted by one of the photo-sharing app's users, prompted Apple to remove the entire mobile application from its online store.", "Funnymals, maker of the BeautyMeter app, which lets users upload and posts photos of people and then rank them based on \"hotness,\" says in a statement on its Web site that it agrees with Apple's decision to yank the phone application from its online store.", "Funnymals also says its policies prohibit people from posting nude photos to the application.", "Neither Funnymals nor Apple responded to requests for comment.", "About a week earlier, another mobile phone application, \"Hottest Girl,\" showcased a photo of a topless woman and also was pulled from the iPhone app store.", "\"Apple will not distribute applications that contain inappropriate content, such as pornography,\" an Apple company spokesman said at the time.", "The explicit material is putting attention on Apple's attempts to filter out potentially objectionable apps before they're posted on its app store.", "The iPhone app store, with more than 50,000 applications, is the most popular entertainment and information venue of its kind for mobile phones.", "Observers say the successful app store buoys the iPhone's popularity and adds to Apple's sterling image as a hip and family-friendly company.", "The explicit content has the potential to tarnish that image.", "But Apple, like any company or Web site that hosts user-submitted content, may be engaged an impossible task by trying to keep all offensive material from the app store.", "Some iPhone apps are developed by Apple, but many are submitted for approval by third-party developers.", "Phil Malone, a clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School, said it's unlikely Apple or app developers could be held liable for potentially illegal content that might show up in phone apps, as long as they didn't know about the questionable content in advance.", "It would be impossible for Apple or developers to keep all potentially objectionable material out of the app store, since much of the content is submitted by users, he said.", "As the quantity of new apps and updates for apps increases, it becomes all the more difficult for the company to keep up, said Dan Moren, associate editor of Macworld, a blog about all things Apple.", "Joshua Topolsky, editor in chief of Engadget, a technology blog, said the impossibility of policing all app store content should free Apple from some blame.", "\"It's completely out of Apple's control that someone uploaded a nude photo, and to some extent, it's out of the [app] developer's hands as well,\" he said.", "More pressing, Topolsky said, are Apple's nebulous policies about which apps get the company's stamp of approval.", "Apple does not tell developers or the public exactly how the decision process works, he said.", "Apple did not respond to CNN's request for comment on this story.", "The mysterious approval process frustrates app developers and could lead some to turn away from Apple and move on to other phones, said Jared Brown, an app developer.", "In some cases, applications have been banned from the iPhone app store for showcasing material that also would be easily accessible through iTunes or by using Apple's mobile Web browser.", "A Nine Inch Nails application, for example, reportedly was pulled by Apple because it streamed a song with offensive lyrics.", "Band leader Trent Reznor lashed out against Apple on his Web site, calling the company hypocritical and pointing out that the song in question also was available on iTunes.", "In a similar incident, a Twitter app called \"Tweetie\" was pulled because it gave access to offensive words on Twitter.com.", "It was later put back on the app store.", "And an iPhone app that allowed users to shake a digital crying baby to death was yanked from the app store in April.", "Apple issued an apology, calling the app \"deeply offensive\" and a \"mistake.\"", "Unlike Apple, which acts as a gatekeeper, Google lets developers post games and other programs to its Android app store without going through a screening process.", "Brown said he favors this idea, which lets the Android store's community flag objectionable content.", "Apple has said it approves 96 percent of submitted iPhone apps.", "In a recent update to the iPhone software, Apple included controls that let users choose which types of content they would like to block from their phones.", "iPhone apps now come with age-appropriateness labels, submitted by developers.", "Moren said this new parental-control system offers \"fine-grained controls\" and helps iPhone owners decide what content they want to buy.", "The company is doing anything it can to try to keep pornography and offensive material off the site for public relations reasons, he said.", "\"They'd much rather hang onto their image as a family-friendly company\" than let offensive material in, he said.", "\"I think they've really cultivated that.\"" ]	[ "Reports say iPhone app posted nude photo of 15-year-old girl .", "Apple approves mobile phone applications before posting them .", "Some say it is impossible for Apple to filter out all objectionable material .", "Legal expert: Apple and developers unlikely to be held liable for user-posted content ." ]	[ 10, 11, 17 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rep. Patrick Murphy, an Iraq war veteran, kicked off a push Wednesday to persuade Americans that the president should repeal \"don't ask, don't tell,\" the policy that prevents openly gay troops from serving in the U.S. military.", "Rep. Patrick Murphy, a veteran of the Iraq war, says it is time to end \"don't ask, don't tell.\"", "Murphy, D-Pennsylvania, appeared along with several gay, lesbian and straight service members to launch the initiative.", "\"We can not afford to wait any longer\" for the policy's repeal, Murphy said at the National Press Club in Washington.", "\"Now is the time to change this, when our military is stretched so thin\" with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.", "A \"Voices of Honor\" tour, sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign, will travel across the country, sharing stories of gay, lesbian and straight servicemen and -women in hopes of garnering support for the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, which would repeal the law that established the policy.", "The act would allow gay and lesbian Americans to serve in the military without concealing their sexuality.", "Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese said in a statement, \"We must repeal this discriminatory policy and ensure that our military can recruit and retain the best and the brightest troops regardless of their sexual orientation.\"", "President Obama has said he wants Congress to repeal the law, but gay rights groups have been angered that the president has not done more to hasten the change.", "Since Obama took office, 287 service members have been discharged for being gay, according to the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, which supports the repeal.", "The bill, introduced by Colin Powell in 1993 and signed into law by President Clinton, ended the protocol requiring service members to state their sexual orientation.", "But Powell now says the time has come to review whether the policy is still necessary.", "\"Sixteen years have now gone by, and I think a lot has changed with respect to attitudes within our country, and therefore I think this is a policy and a law that should be reviewed,\" Powell said.", "\"I am withholding judgment, because the commanders of the armed forces of the United States and the joint chiefs of staff need to study it and make recommendations to the president and have hearings before the Congress before a decision is made,\" he added.", "The military's top uniformed officer, Adm. Mike Mullen, said Wednesday that it's clear the president wants the law changed and that he is beginning to work with his staff on how a repeal would be implemented.", "But, he advised, with two wars ongoing, that the decision not be hurried.", "\"When I talk about looking at this in the future, we have a force that's under extraordinary stress, and it's a force that, you know, should this occur, I think we need to implement in a way that is -- that recognizes the challenges and the stress that we're under right now,\" said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.", "\"But, if it does occur, when it does occur, you know, I'll certainly lead it and carry it out.\"", "Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently said he is looking for ways to make the policy \"more humane,\" including letting people serve who may have been outed because of vengeance or a jilted lover.", "But there is plenty of opposition to the repeal.", "In the spring, more than 1,000 retired officers signed a letter organized by Flag and General Officers for the Military urging Obama to uphold the law.", "\"We believe that imposing this burden on our men and women in uniform would undermine recruiting and retention, impact leadership at all levels, have adverse effects on the willingness of parents who lend their sons and daughters to military service, and eventually break the all-volunteer force,\" the letter said.", "The recent shooting death of a sailor has also raised questions about acceptance of gays among troops.", "The family of Seaman August Provost of Houston, Texas, said they believe that he was killed because of his sexual orientation and his race.", "But a spokesman for Camp Pendleton, where the shooting took place, said there was no indication early in the investigation that the killing was a hate crime.", "Still, Genevieve Chase, a straight veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and the founder of American Women's Veterans, said she believes that not much would change in the military if \"don't ask, don't tell\" were repealed.", "Chase appeared with Murphy at the event Wednesday in Washington.", "Calling them service members of a \"new era,\" Chase said, \"Gays have been and are already serving openly. ...", "Allowing discrimination and bigotry to continue is what disrupts cohesion.\"", "There is no clear timeline for when the bill will be debated in Congress.", "Obama has said he will sign the repeal if it comes to his desk." ]	[ "NEW: Amid wars, decision should not be hasty, Joint Chiefs chair says .", "\"We can not afford to wait any longer\" to change policy, congressman says .", "President Clinton signed law in 1993 after it was introduced by Colin Powell .", "Family of dead seaman says they believe he was killed because he was gay ." ]	[ 3, 10, 15, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Reality TV star Tila Tequila first came to fame via social networking, thanks to her popularity on MySpace.", "Tila Tequila went quiet on Twitter after an alleged violent incident with an NFL player.", "Later, she became known as one of the most voracious celebrity tweeters, boasting more than 243,000 followers on Twitter.", "But it was a more archaic form of technology -- a phone call to police -- that briefly quieted her social media activities and thrust the petite personality into the national spotlight after an allegedly violent encounter with an NFL player.", "Tequila, whose real name is Tila Nguyen, said she was assaulted by Shawne Merriman, a linebacker with the San Diego Chargers.", "He has denied the charges.", "Watch player's lawyer react to allegations » .", "According to a statement from the sheriff's department of San Diego County, California, authorities responded to a disturbance call early Sunday from a woman who said she had been choked and restrained by a male.", "When police arrived, \"the reporting party identified herself as Tila Nguyen, aka Tila Tequila, and her alleged assailant as Shawne Merriman,\" the statement said.", "Nguyen, who starred in MTV's \"A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila\" and its follow-up, \"A Shot at Love 2 With Tila Tequila,\" signed a citizen's arrest at the scene and was transported to a local hospital, authorities said.", "Merriman was taken into custody on suspicion of battery and false imprisonment, the sheriff's department statement said.", "Merriman's attorney, Todd Macaluso, told reporters that Nguyen was \"extremely intoxicated and inebriated\" at the time of the incident and that the player tried to make arrangements for her to leave the house.", "After hours of Twitter silence, Nguyen tweeted Sunday evening that she was safe at home in Los Angeles and thanked fans for their concern and support.", "She also appeared to deny Merriman and his attorney's claim by tweeting, \"I am allergic to alcohol.", "It has been publicly known for years.", "That is how I got the name Tila 'Tequila' cuz the irony.", "I can't drink.\" For a few hours on Monday the privacy setting on her Twitter page, @officialTila, was turned on to protect her tweets from being viewed by outsiders.", "Ian Corbin, founder of CelebrityTweet, said Nguyen is one of the top celebrity tweeters, often posting more than 100 tweets a day.", "Her abundance of followers has earned her a ranking of \"hot,\" said Corbin, whose site gathers the tweets of about 250 celebrities.", "Nguyen went quiet before, he said, when there were rumors that she was pregnant by a hip-hop artist.", "Corbin said he is not surprised that her tweeting has decreased in light of the incident.", "\"She probably has a legal team telling her not to say much,\" he said.", "Ardent Tequila fans on Twitter are known as members of the \"TilaArmy,\" and many rallied online after learning of the incident.", "\"@officialTila you know your #TilaArmy is here 4 your support no matter what!!!", "!,\" tweeted user BeToRC.", "Sasha Pasulka, head writer of the entertainment Web site Evil Beet, said Nguyen may have fallen into the trap that many face in their pursuit of celebrity: not being able to shield their personal lives.", "\"The fame doesn't stop just because something bad happens to you and you want some space,\" Pasulka said.", "\"It's the same thing you saw with Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.\"", "The high-profile nature of the domestic violence case involving singers Chris Brown and Rihanna has heightened public interest in such incidents, Pasulka added.", "In one of her postings, Nguyen offered a few hopeful words early Monday morning via Twitter: \"The truth will set you free. ... God is with me.\"" ]	[ "Normally active tweeter Tila Tequila was briefly silent after alleged battery .", "Tequila accused NFL star Shawne Merriman of choking her .", "She has more than 240,000 Twitter followers and sometimes tweets 100 times a day .", "Tequila tweeted she's \"allergic to alcohol\" after accusation of being drunk ." ]	[ 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 17, 24 ]
[ "Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- An Iranian national security official has called for demonstrators to be arrested following deadly weekend anti-government protests in Tehran.", "Soon afterward, an opposition Web site reported a wave of arrests.", "\"The undignified and disruptive behavior of the rioters is no longer tolerable for our people, since they have brought undignified behaviors to new heights by offending sanctities and values held dear in Islam and Iran,\" Naghavi Hosseini, a member of the Parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, told state-run IRNA.", "\"The Nation's Judiciary must swiftly arrest the rioters who committed those crimes.\"", "An opposition Web site, NoroozNews, said government officials took several activists into custody Monday, including some close advisors to opposition leader and former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.", "The government did not immediately respond to the report.", "Meanwhile, the death toll from Sunday's anti-government protests in Tehran stood at eight, the country's Supreme National Security Council said.", "Are you in Iran? Share your photos and video and tell us what's going on.", "With tight restrictions on international media, CNN could not independently verify the casualties that were reported Monday by state-run Press TV.", "The Press TV report did not say how many others were arrested.", "But earlier, Iran's Deputy Police Chief Ahmad Reza Radan said on state television station IRINN that more than 300 were taken into custody.", "Opposition Web site Rahesabz.net reported the arrests of at least three figures from the reformist movement and also noted that Tehran's text messaging system had slowed to a crawl with the outbreak in violence.", "The toll was the result of clashes that broke out between demonstrators and security forces as large crowds gathered for Ashura, a major religious observance that marks the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammed, as a martyr.", "Some demonstrators over the weekend compared Ayatollah Khamenei -- the supreme leader of the nation's hardline Islamic government -- to Yazid, the caliph who killed Imam Hussein.", "Radan said those killed included one person who fell off a bridge and two others who were killed in a car accident during the protests.", "One of the victims was killed by a bullet, Radan said.", "But \"considering the fact that the police did not use firearms, this incident is extremely suspicious, and is being investigated,\" he added.", "Mousavi's Web site reported that his nephew, Seyed Ali Mousavi, was killed in the demonstrations by a shot to the heart.", "Press TV late Sunday quoted unnamed police officials as identifying one of the dead as \"Seyyed Ali Mousavi\" but it did not mention the elder Mousavi or any relationship between the two men.", "Tehran Police Chief Azizollah Rajabzadeh denied that any protesters were killed by security forces.", "Police did not fire any shots in Tehran, \"and security forces were not in possession of firearms,\" Rajabzadeh told the semi-official news agency ISNA.", "The state has also said it believes some of the videos may have been staged in order to make the government look bad.", "The English Web site of state-run news agency IRNA led Monday with a story about Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, planning a visit to Tajikistan.", "Of about 20 headlines on the main screen of the Web site, none mentioned the protests.", "Since the disputed presidential elections in June, protesters have turned public gatherings into rallies against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was declared the overwhelming winner of the race.", "CNN's Reza Sayah, an Iran native who covers the region, has called recent events an unprecedented uprising, presenting \"the most significant challenge\" the Islamic republic has faced since its government came to power through a revolution 30 years ago.", "\"Its strength, its power over these past 30 years has been repression, has been intimidation of anyone who's dissented,\" but the government hasn't managed to quell this rebellion, Sayah said.", "\"And you look at this opposition movement, and you have to ask yourself how.", "They don't have a strong leader.", "They don't have a structure. They don't have an organization. But somehow they manage to mobilize and move out.\"", "The unrest Sunday followed day-long clashes between the two sides in the streets of Tehran on Saturday.", "On Saturday evening, a pro-government mob barged into a mosque where former president and reformist leader Mohammad Khatami was speaking.", "The dozens-strong group forced Khatami to end his remarks abruptly when it interrupted the gathering at Jamaran mosque.", "The protests also came as Iranians were mourning the Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, a key figure in the 1979 Iranian revolution.", "Montazeri went on to become one of the government's most vocal critics.", "Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council in Washington, D.C. -- a public critic of Iran's hardline government -- told CNN's \"American Morning: \"I think this may actually turn out to be a breaking point.", "What we've seen here is how the opposition, six months after the fraud in elections, still have a lot of fight in them.", "\"I think they've taken the Iranian authorities by surprise.", "They're still coming out in huge numbers, and morale seems to be stronger amongst the opposition than among the security forces at this point.\"", "\"This could very well end up being one of those indicators that this is not just going to end -- this is going to go for something that can be causing a dramatic change, not only in Iran but in the region as a whole.\"", "-- CNN's Josh Levs contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Clashes broke out as large crowds gathered for major religious observance Ashura .", "More than 300 arrested, Iran's deputy police chief says on state TV; death toll reported to be eight .", "NEW: CNN's Reza Sayah: Most significant challenge since Islamic republic came to power .", "Since June's disputed elections, protesters have turned public gatherings into rallies against President Ahmadinejad ." ]	[ 10, 12, 24, 25 ]

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