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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Violent crime in the United States declined in 2008, due in part to a significant drop in the number of murders, according to the first available FBI figures covering the entire year.",
"The decline would be the third straight year-to-year drop in violent crime in the United States.",
"The preliminary figures for 2008, released Monday, show that overall reported crime dropped 2.5 percent nationally from the previous year, including a 4.4 percent decline in murders.",
"Although crime statistics varied sharply from city to city, the overall number of reported murders declined 9.1 percent in cities with populations of 100,000 to 250,000.",
"However, murders increased 5.5 percent in towns of fewer than 10,000 residents.",
"Overall, the number of aggravated assaults declined 3.2 percent, forcible rape decreased 2.2 percent, and robbery decreased 1.1 percent.",
"The Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report historically provides a strong indication of the final figures that will be compiled and released later in the year.",
"The statistics are based on a compilation of crime reports provided to the FBI by the more than 12,000 law enforcement agencies in the nation.",
"The report shows a small increase in violent crime in the second half of the year.",
"Figures for the first half of 2008, which were released in early January, showed that overall violent crime through the end of June had declined 3.5 percent, compared with the 2.5 percent decline for the entire year.",
"Other results in the year-end figures were a 1.6 percent drop in reported property crimes from 2007, including a 13.1 percent decline in motor vehicle thefts.",
"Violent crime in the United States has largely been on the decline over the past two decades.",
"In 2005, however, a surprising increase prompted headlines of an end to the drop in violence.",
"Monday's figures show that the downward trend has resumed.",
"After the 2005 violent crime increase of 2.3 percent, the figures increased only 1.9 percent in 2006 and then dropped 0.7 percent in 2007 before the decline of 2.5 percent in the preliminary 2008 figures."
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"Preliminary data: U.S. violent crime in 2008 dropped 2.5 percent from 2007 .",
"Murders declined 4.4 percent but rose in towns of fewer than 10,000 people .",
"Drop in violent crime would be third consecutive year-to-year decline .",
"Violent crime in the U.S. has largely been declining over the past two decades ."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- The American missionaries in Haiti facing kidnapping charges for trying to take 33 children out of the country last week made an earlier, unsuccessful attempt at taking dozens of other children, a Haitian police officer said.",
"The officer did not want to be identified for fear of reprisals.",
"He told CNN on Monday that he had stopped the 10 Baptist missionaries, including group leader Laura Silsby, on January 26 as they tried to transport 40 children from Haiti to the Dominican Republic.",
"The officer said he discovered Silsby and the nine other Americans on a bus in Port-au-Prince's Pétionville neighborhood after receiving a tip from a concerned citizen.",
"He stopped the group and ordered the children to get off the bus.",
"He then directed Silsby to the Dominican Embassy.",
"\"I said what happened, and she [Silsby] told me, 'I have the paperwork to cross the Haitian-Dominican border with 100 children,' \" the officer said.",
"A former attorney for the group, Edwin Coq, said the officer has testified of his account.",
"Prosecutors questioned the officer last week in the case against the missionaries.",
"Prosecutors no longer suspect him of any wrongdoing, and he is now a witness, according Coq, who is familiar with the prosecution's case file.",
"The police officer's superiors also confirmed his version of events.",
"Attorneys for the Americans did not immediately answer calls for comment.",
"Full coverage of the earthquake's aftermath .",
"The 10 missionaries were charged Thursday with kidnapping children and criminal association for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti.",
"Earlier Monday, Jorge Puello, a Dominican attorney who said he was hired to represent the group, said they had authorization from the Dominican Republic to bring the children across the border.",
"Puello showed reporters a manila folder he said contained documents that prove the Americans had authorization to bring the children into the Dominican Republic, but he did not show the documents to reporters.",
"Dominican authorities have said the Americans did not have permission, and Puello did not say whether the group had the authorization of Haitian officials.",
"The Americans have said they were trying to help the children get to a safe place after January 12's magnitude-7.0 earthquake, which has left more than 200,000 dead.",
"iReport: Looking for loved ones in Haiti .",
"Arriving outside the Haitian attorney general's office Monday, Puello said a church hired him that counts some of the jailed Americans among its members.",
"He did not identify the congregation.",
"Coq announced over the weekend that he had resigned.",
"Puello said Monday that Coq had been fired but gave no details.",
"Some of the Americans have said they thought they were helping orphans, but their interpreters said this week that they were present when group members spoke with some of the children's parents.",
"Some parents in a village outside Port-au-Prince said they had willingly given their children to the Americans, who promised them a better life.",
"The parents also said they had been told they could see their children whenever they wanted.",
"But the Dominican consul general has said he warned the group's leader, Silsby, about trying to cross the border without proper documents.",
"Silsby and four other Americans arrived for an appearance before an examining judge Monday.",
"One of them, Paul Thomson, referred reporters to a passage in the New Testament book of 1 Corinthians, in which the apostle Paul tells early Christians, \"It seems to me that God has put us apostles on display at the end of the procession, like men condemned to die in the arena.\"",
"The passage continues, \"To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are in rags, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.",
"We work hard with our own hands.",
"When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly.\""
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"Ten Americans in Haiti charged with kidnapping 33 Haitian children .",
"Officer says the group had tried to take another group of children out of country illegally .",
"He says he stopped bus with 40 kids on it, directed group leader to Dominican Embassy .",
"Police officer's superiors confirm his version of events ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States Mint launched a new coin Tuesday featuring jazz legend Duke Ellington, making him the first African-American to appear by himself on a circulating U.S. coin.",
"The District of Columbia coin honoring Duke Ellington was introduced Tuesday in Washington.",
"Ellington, the composer of classics including \"It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing\" appears on the \"tails\" side of the new D.C. quarter.",
"George Washington is on the \"heads\" side, as is usual with U.S. quarters.",
"The coin was issued to celebrate Ellington's birthplace, the District of Columbia.",
"U.S. Mint Director Ed Moy introduced the new coin at a news conference Tuesday at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.",
"Members of Ellington's family were present at the ceremony, and the jazz band of Duke Ellington High School performed.",
"Ellington won the honor by a vote of D.C. residents, beating out abolitionist Frederick Douglass and astronomer Benjamin Banneker.",
"Also on the coin is the phrase \"Justice for all.\"",
"The Mint rejected the first inscription choice of D.C. voters, which was \"taxation without representation,\" in protest of the district's lack of voting representation in Congress.",
"Edward Kennedy \"Duke\" Ellington received 13 Grammy Awards and a Pulitzer Prize, among numerous other honors.",
"His orchestra's theme song, \"Take the A Train,\" is one of the best-known compositions in jazz.",
"Ellington was born in the district in 1899 and composed more than 3,000 songs, including \"Satin Doll,\" \"Perdido\" and \"Don't Get Around Much Any More.\"",
"\"It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing\" helped usher in the swing era of jazz.",
"Ellington performed with other famous artists, including John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, and he traveled around the world with his orchestras.",
"He died in 1974 at the age of 75.",
"The first African-American to appear on a circulating coin was York, a slave who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their \"Corps of Discovery\" adventures across America at the dawn of the 19th century.",
"The 2003 Missouri quarter features the three men together in a canoe on the obverse.",
"The U.S. Mint distinguishes between circulating coins, which are intended for daily use, and commemorative ones, which mark special occasions.",
"African-Americans including Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball's color barrier, have appeared on commemorative coins.",
"Educator Booker T. Washington, botanist George Washington Carver and the first Revolutionary War casualty, Crispus Attucks, all of whom were black, have also appeared on commemorative coins, according to the U.S. Mint."
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"Duke Ellington featured on reverse of new quarter honoring District of Columbia .",
"Coin introduced at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History .",
"African-Americans have appeared on commemorative coins or as minor figures .",
"Ellington was born in D.C. and composed several jazz standards ."
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"(CNN) -- Mike and Missy Wilson sat in a meeting late Tuesday afternoon, planning a ministry trip to Haiti when they were interrupted by a text message.",
"A co-worker read the news: a powerful earthquake had just struck the Caribbean country.",
"In their Nashville, Tennessee, office, Mike Wilson said, \"My heart just dropped\" as he listened to the one-line bulletin.",
"The quake's epicenter was a few miles from an orphanage in Carrefour, Haiti, where the Wilsons' 21-year-old daughter Katie was working, and the 5-year-old girl they were about to adopt lived.",
"\"I felt like I couldn't take another breath,\" Missy Wilson said, \"I jumped up and yelled, 'This can't be happening.'\"",
"The first bits of news were discouraging, as sketchy reports came in of buildings collapsing and widespread destruction.",
"\"It was horrible,\" Missy Wilson said.",
"\"We spent hours trying to get any information.\"",
"The Brent Gambrell Ministries where she is director frequently works with churches and groups in Haiti.",
"Any phone number they had in the country was quickly written on a board in the office.",
"\"A group of 20 (people) sat and dialed the numbers over and over and over again.\"",
"\"There are no words to explain that two people I love dearly were in the middle, and I couldn't reach then,\" Mike Wilson said, his voice cracking.",
"But it was more than 24 hours before they finally got word.",
"A brief, scratchy call from their daughter Katie came through -- she and 5-year-old Tia had survived the quake that destroyed the orphanage.",
"Missy Wilson said Katie was able to say, \"I'm alive.",
"We're safe. Tia's safe. Please just know we're alive,\" before the 40-second call was cut off.",
"It would be Thursday before the Wilsons learned the whole story.",
"Mike Wilson, with two ministry officials, was able to travel into Haiti on a medivac plane, and the three made their way to the town.",
"\"There was destruction all around,\" he said from Haiti, \"When I saw what was left of that building, I knew they were protected.\"",
"Katie, Tia and 47 other children all made it out, but were living in the parking lot across from the shattered orphanage.",
"When Mike Wilson finally found his daughter, she ran up to him at full speed and hugged him.",
"\"I can totally see her knocking him to the ground,\" her mother said.",
"The first order of business: a call home to a nervous mom.",
"Wilson was able to get through on a rare working cell phone, and told his wife, \"need to you to hear something.\"",
"Missy Wilson said the next words were from Tia, barely able to speak English, saying, \"'Ma-ma, I love you.'",
"I started screaming at the top of my lungs.\"",
"Wilson and his colleagues brought food, water and supplies to the 200 quake victims in the parking lot.",
"He described the injured, including one with a broken leg, being treated for two days in the heat with nothing more than an aspirin.",
"The group arranged a bus to take the children to a guest house, a trip delayed when the bus broke down.",
"But that news was minor, knowing they would have shelter and supplies.",
"For the Wilsons, the next struggle is how to bring Tia home.",
"They had been in Haiti just last week finishing paperwork for the adoption, but the office handling the case was destroyed in the quake.",
"\"All that paperwork, God knows where it is,\" Mike Wilson said.",
"\"That building was five stories, now it's five feet tall.\"",
"For Missy, waiting for news at home, \"I feel like I'm floating on top of my body.\"",
"\"Like I'm living a dream and waiting to wake up,\" she said.",
"This week has gone \"from hopelessness to hope to tears to 'I can't take another phone call because I don't know what will happen,'\" she said.",
"Wilson said he is working with the U.S. Embassy seeking emergency help to bring Tia to Nashville.",
"\"We are going to do it,\" he said, his voice the strongest it had been all day."
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"Wilsons' 21-year-old daughter, and the 5-year-old girl they were about to adopt live in Haiti .",
"\"We spent hours trying to get any information,\" Missy Wilson says .",
"Daughters and 47 other children all made it out of orphanage alive .",
"Father traveled to Haiti on a medivac plane for joyous reunion ."
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"Chicago, Illinois (CNN) -- A body found Monday in the Chicago River is that of Michael Scott, president of the Chicago Board of Education, police said.",
"A medical examiner has ruled Scott's death a suicide, Police Superintendent Jody Weis said, but authorities have not completed their investigation.",
"There was a gunshot wound to the head, police said.",
"Scott's family had reported him missing about midnight, and his body was found about 3:20 a.m., Weis said.",
"He was last seen about 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Weis said, but he would not disclose where, saying that may be part of the investigation.",
"Scott's wife told police that it was \"very unusual\" for him not to be home by midnight, Weis said.",
"The gunshot entrance wound was on the left side of his head, police said.",
"A weapon was found either under or alongside his body, Weis said, and Scott's car was in the immediate area.",
"The police investigation will include ballistics evidence and analysis of surveillance cameras in the area, Weis said.",
"It is too early for police to draw conclusions, he added.",
"\"Mr. Scott was a strong advocate for education,\" Cook County Board President Todd Stroger said in a written statement.",
"\"His contributions to the minority communities of Cook County will be sorely missed, in particular, his love for the upward mobility of residents from Chicago's West Side, where he spent his life.\"",
"In Washington, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan also mourned Scott's death, saying he was \"shocked and saddened by the sudden death\" of his \"friend and colleague.",
"\"Michael cared passionately about public education and made many courageous decisions as president of the board.",
"He gave his time, energy and talents to improving the life chances of children.",
"\"Chicago has lost a great leader, and the city's school children have lost a devoted champion.\"",
"Duncan was the chief executive officer of the Chicago school system from 2001 to 2008.",
"The Rev. Jesse Jackson recalled first meeting Scott about 30 years ago.",
"\"We're just stunned and shocked,\" he said.",
"\"Michael was so effervescent, so full of life.\"",
"Scott had been appointed to the Chicago Board of Education three times, twice as president.",
"He most recently was appointed in February.",
"Previously, Scott was board president for five years, until July 2006.",
"Scott disclosed in early August that he had been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury investigating how students were chosen for admission to some of Chicago's most elite public schools.",
"He denied using his influence during two stints as board president to help any student into a selective-enrollment school.",
"Scott, who was a developer, also was criticized in August when it was revealed that he had quietly arranged to develop city-owned land near a park that would have been used in the 2016 Summer Games.",
"The move would have positioned Scott to cash in, had Chicago been awarded the Olympics.",
"The 2016 Games were awarded to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.",
"CNN's Mark Bixler contributed to this report."
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"Michael Scott was found in Chicago River early Monday .",
"His family reported him missing about midnight .",
"Body had gunshot entrance wound on left side of head; gun found nearby .",
"He had been subpoenaed to testify in school admission investigation ."
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"(CNN) -- Wrestler Edward Fatu, better known as the hulking, tattooed WWE superstar \"Umaga,\" died Friday of a heart attack in a Houston, Texas, hospital, a family friend said.",
"Born in American Samoa, Fatu, 36, was a member of the famous Anoa'i wrestling family, which includes cousin Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson, his two uncles, who wrestled as The Wild Samoans in the 1980s, and brothers, Sam \"Tonga Kid\" and Solofa Jr. \"Rikishi,\" according to Wrestlers Rescue, a support group for retired professional wrestlers.",
"The two-time WWE Intercontinental champion, also known as \"The Samoan Bulldozer,\" squared off with the likes of Triple H, John Cena and Ric Flair before the WWE terminated his contract in June for having violated the WWE's Wellness Program and refusing to enter rehab, the WWE said on its site.",
"The organization offered its condolences to his family in a brief statement on its site.",
"To friends and family, Fatu was a devoted father who was looking forward to spending more time with his children after leaving the WWE.",
"\"He had his demons, but he found a lot of strength in his family,\" said Dawn Marie Psaltis, family friend and founder of Wrestlers Rescue.",
"\"He was always a jokester, he was always playing a practical joke on someone.",
"He comes from a long line of professional wrestlers and did his family proud.\""
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"Relatives include cousin Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson and uncles The Wild Samoans .",
"WWE says it terminated his contract for violating Wellness Program, refusing to enter rehab .",
"Fatu was looking forward to spending time with children after leaving WWE, friend says ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- An Arkansas man has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill several African-Americans in 2008, including then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, the Justice Department announced Thursday.",
"Paul Schlesselman of West Helena, Arkansas, faces 10 years in prison under a plea agreement reached with federal prosecutors in Tennessee.",
"Federal officials in Washington said Schlesselman threatened to kill then-Sen. Obama on October 23, 2008, shortly before the presidential election.",
"He also planned to \"murder dozens of people with a focus on murdering African-Americans\" the Justice Department said.",
"\"Despite great civil rights progress, hate-fueled violence remains all too common in our country, as illustrated by this unthinkable conspiracy,\" said Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Thomas Perez in a statement issued by his Justice Department office."
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"Paul Schlesselman faces 10 years in prison in plea deal with Tennessee federal prosecutors .",
"Schlesselman threatened to kill then-Sen. Obama on October 23, 2008, officials say .",
"He also planned to kill dozens, focusing on African-Americans, Justice Department says ."
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"(WIRED) -- Apple has traditionally held its ground as a premium computer manufacturer, but it might just be getting sucked into a recession-prompted price war.",
"A worker helps a customer with a MacBook Pro laptop at an Apple store in San Francisco, California.",
"The company's recent MacBook price cuts signify its reluctant conformity to the economic downturn.",
"At its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple shaved hundreds of dollars off its MacBook models.",
"The high-end, 15-inch MacBook Pros dropped from $2,000 to $1,700.",
"And the price of the unibody MacBook (now renamed the 13-inch MacBook Pro) fell from $1,300 to $1,200.",
"Apple's most inexpensive MacBook, the lone white model, remains $1,000.",
"\"For a while they've been ignoring what's been happening in the economy,\" said Richard Shim, an IDC analyst.",
"\"This is an indication that they're realizing that the first quarter didn't go as well as it has for them historically.",
"I think this puts them closer in mind about what's going on in the PC world.\"",
"Still, Apple has avoided making even deeper price cuts, thanks to the juicy profit margins already baked into its products, the availability of cheap components, and the fact that the company also makes money by selling apps and music to iPhone and iPod owners.",
"All of these factors mean that Apple has room to comfortably trim prices even further, if it deems it necessary.",
"For instance, the company dropped the price of its now low-end smartphone, the iPhone 3G, to just $100 with a two-year contract.",
"But that cut doesn't cost Apple as much as it might appear, given that the company still gets a carrier subsidy of several hundred dollars for each iPhone.",
"Apple's computers have historically been priced well above the average PC.",
"However, Apple's first quarter of 2009 market-share numbers suggest the company is struggling to compete as a premium brand name in the face of the economic recession.",
"In the first quarter of 2009, Apple's U.S. notebook market share shrank 0.4 percent compared to the same quarter a year earlier, according to Shim.",
"And in worldwide notebook market share, the company saw 0.3 percent growth compared to the first quarter of 2008, Shim said.",
"Additionally, Apple is likely hurting from its competitors' aggressive pricing, cast into relief by Microsoft's recent Laptop Hunters ad campaign, a BrandIndex survey indicates.",
"The pseudo reality-TV commercials denounce Apple computers as too expensive and even implies Mac users are simple-minded snobs who buy gadgets as a fashion statement.",
"As a result, Microsoft is detracting from Apple's \"value\" score by convincing a substantial number of consumers that they get less for their money by buying a Mac, according to the survey.",
"By cutting its prices somewhat, Apple may also be seizing the opportunity to strike a blow against the netbook market.",
"In 2008, low-powered, budget netbook PCs saw rapid growth, driven by value-conscious consumers looking for a good deal.",
"Apple has no netbook in its lineup, and has said it has no plans to create a netbook.",
"Fortunately for Apple, netbook sales are seeing a significant slowdown in 2009.",
"In April, netbook manufacturers Acer, Asus and Micro Star International each reported fewer netbooks were sold than expected.",
"Their netbook shipments for the first quarter of 2009 fell considerably below shipments during the third quarter of 2008.",
"Asus, for example, hoped to ship 1 million Asus Eee PC systems during the first quarter, but only 900,000 units sold.",
"Thus, Apple's MacBook price cuts are a strategic move to reclaim growth while the netbook market is shrinking.",
"This move allows Apple to continue to avoid offering a netbook, which is wise, because an Apple netbook would have cannibalized MacBook sales, according to ThinkPanmure analyst Vijay Rakesh.",
"With the reduced MacBook price tags, Rakesh expects Apple to see double-digit growth in notebook marketshare -- up to 20 percent -- in the third quarter of 2009.",
"Regardless, Apple's MacBook price tags are still well above the cost of the average notebook -- $860 in the United States, according to Shim.",
"Apple's cheapest MacBook is anchored at $1,000, and Apple could afford to bring it down even lower if it so chose.",
"According to Tim Bajarin, principal analyst with Creative Strategies, Apple's new pricing for its MacBook line and the price drop on its lightweight MacBook Air will not compromise much on its profit margins.",
"\"They are not favoring market share over profitability in a big way,\" Bajarin explained.",
"\"They have already taken the pricing curve down on the unibody and chipsets, so they are building on those lower costs.\"",
"Will Apple deliver a mobile computer for the average Joe in terms of cost?",
"Perhaps so, in the form of a touchscreen tablet that many Apple enthusiasts are placing their bets on.",
"Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster predicts such a device -- a blown-up iPod Touch, of sorts -- will land as soon as 2010.",
"Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT!",
"Click here! Copyright 2009 Wired.com."
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"Woodbridge, Virginia (CNN) -- The police photograph is chilling.",
"In grainy black and white tones, it shows 13-year-old Martin Andrews sitting in a makeshift box, his leg chained.",
"The look in his eyes is one of fear, fatigue and disbelief.",
"He had just been rescued from a nightmare.",
"\"I was abducted by a sexually violent predator by the name of Richard Ausley, who had been twice convicted for sexually assaulting young boys, and he had taken me for eight days,\" Andrews recalled of his ordeal 37 years ago this month.",
"\"I was left to die.\" As a survivor of a sex crime, Andrews is one face of an issue the Supreme Court will revisit Tuesday: civil commitment, which allows the government to keep sex offenders in custody even after they have served their sentences.",
"Twenty states have such laws, including Virginia, where Andrews was held captive and repeatedly assaulted.",
"CNN normally doesn't name victims of sex crimes, but Andrews, now a victims' advocate, agreed to tell his story.",
"On the other side of the debate is the first sex offender released from Virginia's civil commitment program, and one of just a handful nationwide.",
"\"I served my time for what I did, and I didn't feel like I should be incarcerated again,\" said this man, who asked that his identity not be revealed for fear of retribution.",
"\"It was a scary thing to know that you could be committed to a mental institution for the rest of your life.\"",
"The man said mandatory therapy helped him, but he thinks that could have been initiated while he was in prison.",
"There is widespread disagreement on whether civil commitment is a Catch-22.",
"In discussions of the effects of sex crimes, nothing is simple or dispassionate.",
"The practice of confinement in mental hospitals or treatment centers for those with severe mental illness has been around the United States since its founding.",
"Around the turn of the 20th century, many laws dealing with sexual psychopaths were passed.",
"Over the decades, the laws were repealed or rarely applied.",
"Then, in 1990, Washington state became the first to pass an innovative civil commitment law specifically for violent sex offenders.",
"California, Wisconsin and New York, among others, later followed.",
"Such \"predator laws\" focused on risk assessment and prevention of re-offending.",
"It is a concept that the general public may not be aware exists.",
"The Supreme Court has upheld the use of such laws when the individual goal is rehabilitation, not further \"punishment.\"",
"But it has another, broader purpose.",
"\"The primary goal is incapacitation, that is, protecting society from people who are predicted to be dangerous in the future,\" said Eric Janus, author of \"Failure to Protect\" and dean at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota.",
"\"The second goal is to provide treatment to these individuals.\"",
"Critics of these programs say behavioral rehabilitation centers amount to prisons, are often overcrowded and understaffed, and rarely meet the stated goal of treating the \"worst of the worst\" offenders to the point they can rejoin society.",
"\"The evidence is showing that it's only becoming a detainment center for people they do not went on the streets,\" said Derek Logue, a sex offender who was released and now advocates for offender rights through his Web site, oncefallen.com.",
"\"They have no hope of getting out, and the odds are stacked against you.\"",
"According to Justice Department statistics, 20 states use civil confinement, involving about 4,000 rapists, pedophiles and other sex offenders nationwide.",
"Estimates are that these programs cost taxpayers more than $700 million a year, almost $150,000 per individual.",
"That is about four times more than confining them in prison.",
"Virginia passed its civil commitment law in 1999 but had never fully funded it.",
"Andrews found out from a reporter in 2002 that his attacker was just weeks away from being released after 29 years behind bars.",
"Once a victim, now an empowered advocate, Andrews realized he had to act.",
"\"I didn't know about other sex offenders.",
"I didn't know about the extent of the problem.",
"I only knew one, but I knew that one needed to be dealt with,\" Andrews, 50, said from his northern Virginia home, where he works as a program manger for a defense contractor.",
"State officials, he said, \"all told me there was nothing to be done; he was going to be set free; that was it.\"",
"But Andrews mobilized, lobbying lawmakers to quickly fund the program, despite a budget shortfall.",
"It worked, and the state has become a national model, using a tool called \"Static 99\" that assesses which offenders qualify for civil commitment.",
"Andrews' attacker remained behind bars but was killed by a fellow inmate before ever going into the treatment program.",
"The catalyst for the state's change were once-dormant memories for Andrews, who now knew that he had to tell his story.",
"As a teenager in Portsmouth in 1973, Andrews was walking to the store in snowy weather when a van pulled up and the man inside asked the boy whether he wanted to earn some extra money moving furniture.",
"Andrews agreed but instead was taken to a rural area and a metal box dug into the side of a hill.",
"\"He looked at me, and he said, 'I've got bad news for you.",
"You've just been kidnapped.' \" What followed was days of brutal rapes and beatings.",
"Ausley eventually left, and Andrews would certainly have died if some rabbit hunters had not stumbled upon him after hearing his screams.",
"Andrews believes that civil commitment is not the best tool, but for the most dangerous predators, \"it is the only tool we have that is 100 percent effective, because they are removed from society.",
"They are removed from their triggers.\"",
"The case before the Supreme Court on Tuesday deals with a federal law that has kept as many as 77 inmates held in federal prison in North Carolina under indefinite commitment.",
"The justices will decide whether the program enacted under the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 is constitutional by infringing on a traditional state function.",
"The law was named after the son of \"America's Most Wanted\" host John Walsh.",
"The justices said in 2007 that a Kansas law was neither double jeopardy (second criminal punishment for the same crime) nor \"ex post facto\" (new punishment for a previous crime).",
"\"We have never held that the Constitution prevents a state from civilly detaining those for whom no treatment is available but who nevertheless pose a danger to others,\" Justice Clarence Thomas said.",
"Courts have since been at odds with what kind of treatment must be provided and to what extent, to pass constitutional muster.",
"Janus worries about the slippery slope if such laws -- federal or state -- are allowed to continue without strong judicial checks.",
"\"The main danger of civil commitment of sex offenders is that it provides a precedent for doing an end run around those governmental protections, and we all may be comfortable right now because we say, 'Well, this is those people.",
"It's not us. It's not our rights that are at stake,' \" he said.",
"\"I think we all ought to be cognizant of the fact that these laws set a precedent that greatly expands the power of government to take away our liberty, not for something we've done in the past, not after we've been convicted and punished, but out of fear that we might commit a crime in the future, and this is a very very powerful and dangerous idea,\" Janus said.",
"The white-haired man sitting with his lawyer outside Richmond says he is no longer a danger to society.",
"He served nearly eight years in prison for molesting three girls and nearly five years in forced civil commitment.",
"Despite that state confinement, including being the first of only about four men to be released from it, he says post-prison treatment helped him.",
"\"I think that civil commitment is unfair,\" he said.",
"\"I'm not against treatment. I have done everything in my power to help myself\" understand the effects of sexual abuse.",
"He said that being told just days before his scheduled 2003 release that he was being civilly committed left him feeling \"hopeless.\"",
"Shortly afterward, the man castrated himself with a razor in his jail cell.",
"After the transfer and years in the rehabilitation unit, he was freed and lives a quiet life -- albeit under constant electronic surveillance -- with no further reported incidents, says his attorney.",
"Lawyer David Hargett convinced the Virginia Supreme Court that his client had a constitutional right to contest his civil commitment.",
"\"I have found talking with people they are shocked to hear somebody can be sentenced by a judge, serve out that entire sentence and then say, 'Wait a minute, we're not going to let you go,' \" Hargett said, calling it a legal \"black hole.\"",
"\"This treatment facility ... is a prison, let's be honest.",
"It has barbed wire and locked doors.\"",
"He said most in the Virginia facility realistically will never get out.",
"The high court case is U.S. v. Comstock (08-1224)."
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"Laws allows sex offenders to be held even after they finish criminal sentences .",
"Victim says civil commitment not best tool but effective for now .",
"Critics of such programs say treatment facilities amount to prison ."
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"(CNN) -- North Korea on Monday proposed replacing the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean War with a formal peace treaty, a step it said would pave the way for breaking the international impasse over its nuclear program.",
"But the communist state said international sanctions imposed after a series of nuclear weapons and missile tests should be lifted before it returns to the negotiating table, a suggestion the United States quickly dismissed.",
"The cease-fire that ended the three-year Korean War never led to a permanent peace treaty, leaving the North Korean-South Korean border the world's most heavily militarized frontier.",
"In a statement carried by the official news agency KCNA, North Korea said that a final settlement of the conflict is \"essential\" to talks aimed at persuading it to dismantle its nuclear program.",
"\"When the parties are in the state of war where they level guns at each other, distrust in the other party can never be wiped out, and the talks themselves can never make smooth progress, much less realizing the denuclearization,\" it said.",
"\"Without settling such [an] essential and fundamental issue as war and peace, no agreement can escape from frustration and failure as now.\"",
"Pyongyang has refused to return to the talks, which also involve the United States, Russia, China, South Korea and Japan, insisting that it wants to talk directly with the U.S. government.",
"But Washington says it will not lift sanctions or normalize relations with the North until it takes irreversible steps toward dismantling its nuclear program.",
"\"We're not going to pay North Korea for coming back to the six-party process,\" State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley said Monday."
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"It suggests that such a move would ease return to nuclear talks .",
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"Washington has refused to normalize relations until program dismantled ."
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"(CNN) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon will return to Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, for the second time in as many weeks on Wednesday morning, a spokesman for the municipal police department said.",
"\"For security reasons, details are nonexistent,\" police department spokesman Jacinto Seguro said.",
"Calderon will attend a meeting with local, state and federal officials, as well as civic and human rights groups, on Wednesday in Ciudad Juarez, which has been plagued by violence stemming from drug cartels.",
"The January 31 killings in southern Juarez of 15 people, most of whom were students with no ties to organized crime, has sparked outrage across the country.",
"The slayings, which occurred at a house party, are thought to be the result of bad intelligence by a cartel and the gang that carried out the killings.",
"President Calderon, who has faced mounting pressure this month from Juarez residents to resign, will be visiting the city for the third time since assuming power in December 2006.",
"Last week in Juarez, Calderon apologized to the families of the 15 people killed and promised residents that their input would form part of the strategy against drug-related violence.",
"Residents of Juarez attempting to highlight the growing frustration with Calderon's war against organized crime took to the streets by the hundreds on Saturday.",
"Many held signs targeted at Calderon reading, \"Assassin.\"",
"On Tuesday, police said a business owner and his 24-year-old secretary were found slain inside a business near southern Juarez at 11 a.m. \"It's not new that the cartels target business owners, but killing his secretary, that's something that you don't see too often,\" Seguro said.",
"Also Tuesday, 20 students found skipping class and drinking in the street were detained by police as part of an effort to curtail unlawful street activity, Seguro said.",
"Violence in Juarez comes amid a backdrop of vastly increased numbers of homicides nationwide, as drug cartels battle each other and the Mexican government steps up its efforts to combat them.",
"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.",
"Officials say more than 16,000 Mexicans have died since Calderon declared war on the drug cartels shortly after taking office in December 2006."
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"Latest visit will be his third since taking office in 2006 .",
"Calderon's resignation has been sought by residents .",
"He is leading a campaign to rid Mexico of drug trafficking ."
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"(CNN) -- Golfer Tiger Woods will \"apologize for his behavior\" Friday when he makes a statement at PGA headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, his agent said.",
"Agent Mark Steinberg said Woods would not answer questions.",
"It will be the golfer's first public appearance since his November 27 car crash outside his home near Orlando, Florida.",
"\"Tiger Woods will be speaking to a small group of friends, colleagues and close associates,\" Steinberg said. \"",
"... Tiger plans to discuss his past and his future and he intends to apologize for his behavior.\"",
"A statement on Woods' Web site elaborated: \"While Tiger feels that what happened is fundamentally a matter between him and his wife, he also recognizes that he has hurt and let down a lot of other people who were close to him.",
"He also let down his fans.",
"He wants to begin the process of making amends, and that's what he's going to discuss.\"",
"Blog: No apologies Tiger, just be real .",
"Steinberg said he didn't know if Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren, would appear with her husband.",
"Woods crashed his black Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and then a tree just a few days after the National Enquirer reported he was having an affair with a New York nightclub hostess who denied the affair.",
"A day after he paid his $164 traffic ticket, Woods' seemingly perfect world began to crumble under what would eventually become an avalanche of allegations of infidelity threatening his five-year marriage to Nordegren.",
"The couple have two children, Charlie, 1, and Sam, 2.",
"Woods issued an apology for \"transgressions\" that had let his family down, as several women reported they had affairs with the golfer -- including one woman who allegedly had Woods on a voicemail asking her to take his name off her cell phone because \"my wife went through my phone and may be calling you.\"",
"Several of Woods' major sponsors, including AT&T and Accenture, ended their business relationships with Woods following the crash and the exposure of his marriage troubles.",
"iReport: Share your thoughts on Woods' apology .",
"But other companies, including Nike and Pepsi's Gatorade, continue to sponsor Woods, who has taken a break from his professional golfing career.",
"Procter & Gamble's Gillette said it would stop airing commercials featuring the golfer for a while."
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"Agent: Woods will make statement at PGA headquarters in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida .",
"Woods will not answer questions, agent Mark Steinberg says .",
"Woods plans to discuss his future and to apologize for his behavior, Steinberg says ."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- \"I'm thinking of throwing a little party,\" I tell my pal Karen as I hold the phone with one hand and fold a mountain of laundry with the other.",
"Two friends make Lisa Kogan promise not to flambé anything this time.",
"\"No big thing, really, just a few old friends getting together for the holidays,\" I persist over the dead silence on the other end of the receiver.",
"\"Maybe you and Daniel, me and Johannes, and four or five other people who --\" \"Daniel and I can't make it,\" she answers before I can finish.",
"\"But I haven't given you the date.\"",
"\"Look, Lisa, you know I've had health issues,\" she counters nervously.",
"I explain to Karen that the American Medical Association has yet to classify \"exceedingly dry cuticles\" as the kind of condition that requires actual bed rest.",
"\"Still...\" she mutters as her voice trails off.",
"That night in bed, I turn to Johannes (love of my life, father of my child, official party co-host).",
"\"Darling, I was thinking it's time we throw a little party,\" I venture.",
"\"That sounds great, sweetheart.\"",
"\"Really, pumpkin?\"",
"\"Of course, angel.",
"I do have one small request, though.\"",
"\"Anything, honey.\"",
"He lifts his head and hands me his pillow.",
"\"Put this over my face and then hold it there until, oh, I don't know ... let's say, I stop moving.\"",
"There are lots of areas in which I excel.",
"As I've already mentioned, I can fold laundry with one hand.",
"I'm also quite capable of catching the cold of just about anybody living within my zip code.",
"Oprah.com: How to face your inner perfectionist .",
"I have the kind of magnetism that wordlessly beckons a guy wearing half a cantaloupe on his head to come sit next to me during long subway rides.",
"And, though I'm hard-pressed to explain exactly how I do it, I possess an almost mystical ability to purchase appliances, furniture, and clothing approximately six minutes before the extremely pricey item goes on sale.",
"The thing I can't do is host a genuinely wonderful party.",
"I attempt to invite several other friends, but one has elected to schedule elective surgery for that date (you know you're in trouble when a friend would rather have her hammertoes corrected than have dinner at your place); one claims our last brunch was like \"a hostage situation with lox\"; one -- and you know who you are -- pretends to be her own housekeeper, repeating, \"I sorry, no English\" over and over; and two different people choose not to attend but still make me swear that I won't flambé anything again ... like it's my fault they couldn't get their eyebrows to grow back after the crêpes Suzette incident of 2005.",
"I crawl into bed that night a broken woman.",
"\"Why do I suck at parties?\"",
"I ask Johannes.",
"He narrows his eyes.",
"\"Is this one of those trick questions like when you ask me if you need to lose weight and I say, 'Well, I suppose we could all stand to drop a pound or two,' and you spend the next 36 hours likening me to Satan?\"",
"I make a mental note to explore why I suck at relationships on some future night.",
"\"No,\" I insist, \"I really want to know what I'm doing wrong.",
"Give it to me straight, Doc, I can take it.\"",
"He smiles and puts his book aside.",
"\"That's just it; the only thing you're doing wrong is constantly striving to do everything exactly right.",
"You want the prettiest cocktail, the freshest flowers, candles lit, music playing, dinner timed, conversation sparkling, and you drive yourself and everybody else nuts trying to achieve it.\"",
"Oprah.com: A lesson for the reluctant hostess .",
"I would like to be the kind of person who receives this information with an open mind and a grateful heart.",
"But my first instinct is to take my boyfriend of 15 years up on his previous offer and smother him to death with his own orthopedically correct goose-down pillow.",
"The problem is, I know he's right.",
"I am part geisha girl, part drill sergeant, with just a soupçon of control freak thrown in for good measure.",
"I want everyone to relax and have a good time, but that has to start with me, and I'm about as laid-back as a caged hummingbird guzzling a can of Red Bull while awaiting biopsy results.",
"You can keep your meditation, your reflexology, your gin, your tonics -- I'm just not the mellow type.",
"I approach a petite Jewish woman from the Midwest to figure out when this started.",
"\"Mom, have I always been a perfectionist?\"",
"She attempts diplomacy.",
"\"Well, let me put it this way -- you used to like to dress up in my clothes when you were maybe 3 or 4 years old.\"",
"\"What does that prove? Lots of little girls play dress-up.\"",
"\"True,\" she says, \"but you tried to bulldoze Grandma into tailoring the clothes to actually fit you.\"",
"\"Well, excuse me for realizing that a skirt should hit just above my knee.\"",
"We are quiet for a minute.",
"\"So how do you throw a really fun party?\"",
"She reminds me that they used to hire Magical Marv for my birthdays.",
"I remind her that Magical Marv chain-smoked and seemed to hate children.",
"\"Yes, that's what your dad and I always liked best about him,\" she deadpans.",
"\"Anyway, the only thing I know about giving a party is that we can never get the extra leaf into the dining table and I usually forget to serve one of the side dishes.\"",
"This leads me to a new theory: \"Maybe bad parties are hereditary, like green eyes and diabetes,\" I say to Johannes.",
"\"Okay, that's it,\" he announces, grabbing the phone.",
"Before I can lunge at him, he has dialed our neighbors Paul and Cheryl and invited them to come for dinner \"in about 15 minutes.\"",
"\"Are you insane?\" I shriek as I stuff everything littering the floor and coffee table under the sofa.",
"\"This is grounds for divorce,\" I bellow, only to be reminded that we never got married.",
"\"That's because I don't know how to throw a wedding,\" I hiss as I pull off my stained Sunday night yoga pants and rummage through the laundry bag for my slightly less stained Saturday afternoon yoga pants, marveling all the while at the fact that I don't do yoga.",
"Needless to say, Cheryl and Paul are four minutes early.",
"\"Hey, guys, can I offer you...\" I do a quick scan of the refrigerator, \"a dollop of mayonnaise?\"",
"I have hit rock bottom.",
"Somewhere Martha Stewart hangs her head in shame.",
"Johannes gives me a hug.",
"There is no place to go but up. Our neighbors split a diet Snapple, we order in Thai food and proceed to talk and laugh and pass chicken satay for three straight hours.",
"What can I say? It is, to date, our most successful dinner party.",
"By Lisa Kogan from \"O, The Oprah Magazine,\" December 2008 .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2009 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"Friends, boyfriend tell Kogan she is a terrible hostess and refuse to come .",
"Kogan realizes she is too much of a perfectionist to relax and have fun .",
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"(CNN) -- Heidi Klum knows that modeling is a young woman's game.",
"In the latest issue of InStyle magazine, the supermodel claims that models, like food, spoil after a certain age.",
"\"Models have a sell-by date,\" the 36-year old Klum said in the interview.",
"The mother of four -- who recently changed her last name to Samuel for her husband, the singer known as \"Seal\" -- also said that there are certain jobs she just doesn't do anymore.",
"\"Like the young, sexy, cute things for teenagers, or even 25-year-old girls.",
"I go in a different bracket now,\" Klum said.",
"(InStyle: See highlights of the Klum issue) The German-born model entered a different bracket of current and former models in 2004 when she became an entrepreneur with the television series \"Project Runway.\"",
"Klum signed on as host, judge and executive producer of the reality show, in which up-and-coming fashion designers compete for the chance to receive money to launch their own fashion line.",
"In 2009 Forbes magazine estimated Klum's income at $16 million.",
"The new season of \"Project Runway\" kicks off Season 7 on Lifetime network on Thursday.",
"In March Klum and fellow judge designer Michael Kors will be starring in their own \"Project Runway\" video game, in which players can design fashion lines, choose their models, strut down the catwalk, and strike a pose in a photo shoot.",
"InStyle's February issue hits newsstands on Friday, January 15."
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"Klum has diversified her image -- notably by hosting \"Project Runway\"\nLatest season of the fashion design competition begins Thursday ."
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"LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- Some 700 people have been killed in clashes with Islamic militants in Nigeria, a military commander told CNN.",
"Bodies of hard-line Islamic rebels killed in battle lie in a Nigerian city.",
"Civilians and troops also have died.",
"The fighting in the northeast Nigerian town of Maiduguri began with attacks by the Muslim militants on police and government targets, starting a week ago.",
"Col. Ben Ahonotu, commander of the operation to combat Islamic militants, gave the new total.",
"Previous reports said at least 400 rebels, troops and civilians had died in the region, including Borno, Yobe, Kano and Katsina states.",
"Maiduguri is in Borno state.",
"Ahonotu did not elaborate or provide further information, and it was unclear whether the 700 was in addition to the previous death toll.",
"Attacks on police and government targets have been reported throughout the region.",
"Boko Haram, an Islamist sect, wants the government to impose Islamic law, known as sharia, in the entire Muslim-dominated northern half of Nigeria.",
"Sharia is already practiced in some northern states, but the sect wants even tougher religious laws and also opposes Western education.",
"The southern half of Nigeria is predominantly Christian.",
"A Boko Haram leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was reported captured Thursday by the military, but was found dead after he was turned over to police.",
"Human rights groups are seeking more information on his death, and have also expressed concern about civilian casualties."
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"Militants want strict Islamic law, or sharia, in entire north of country .",
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"North of Nigeria predominantly Muslim; south is Christian ."
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"Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Photos of the nude and decapitated body of a murdered hiker, sought by a writer on assignment for Hustler magazine, will not be released, a judge in Georgia ordered Wednesday.",
"The decision came as state lawmakers considered legislation that would ban public release of graphic photos of crime victims.",
"First Amendment lawyers say the legislation could have a chilling effect on open records requests.",
"DeKalb Superior Court Judge Daniel Coursey issued a temporary order restraining the Georgia Bureau of Investigation from releasing \"any and all photographs, visual images or depictions of Meredith Emerson which show Emerson in an unclothed or dismembered state.",
"Emerson's family sought the order after learning of the request for copies of crime scene photos of the 24-year-old, attorney Lindsay Haigh said.",
"Emerson's admitted killer, Gary Michael Hilton, received a life sentence in exchange for leading investigators to her body in the north Georgia mountains on January 7, 2008, six days after Emerson disappeared.",
"The judge's order came on the same day the Georgia House Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously passed \"The Meredith Emerson Memorial Privacy Act,\" which would prevent gruesome crime scene photos from being publicly released or disseminated, according to Rep. Jill Chambers, the bill's principal sponsor.",
"House Bill 1322 would prevent the release of photographs of the bodies of crime victims that are \"nude, bruised, bloodied or in a broken state with open wounds, a state of dismemberment or decapitation,\" said Chambers.",
"\"We have to walk the line between open record laws and the constitutional provisions that allow women to be able to be photographed nude or in pornography when they knowingly and willingly offer their bodies for dissemination,\" she said.",
"\"Meredith isn't in a position to give that kind of permission to have her exploited in that kind of venue,\" Chambers said.",
"\"We're not only protecting future victims of crime, we're protecting the integrity of what happened to Meredith.\"",
"The bill allows credentialed journalists, lawyers and law enforcement to view such photographs at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation's headquarters, Chambers said, but not make copies of them.",
"Hustler did not respond to a request for comment on the judge's ruling except to say that it is exploring its legal options.",
"\"Hustler is aware of the GBI's refusal to honor its reporter's request for copies of the Emerson crime scenes photos, which were to be used in a news story about this crime.",
"Hustler and Mr. Flynt disagree with the GBI's position, and are currently exploring all legal options available to them should the decision be made to go forward with the story,\" the company said in an e-mail.",
"Members of the state Legislature were quick to condemn the request.",
"\"I think that the request is sickening, disgusting, vile and I think it's very, very hurtful for this family,\" House Speaker David Ralston said in a Monday press conference.",
"Current statute prevents the release of autopsy photos without the permission of next of kin, but a \"gray area\" in the law left open the question of whether crime scene photos could be released, Ralston said.",
"\"I am a big proponent of open government.",
"This goes against the grain for me.",
"But in this case, when you have these kind of photographs that depict victims of crime where there may have been sexual assault or mutilation of the body, I just think it goes beyond the pale,\" he said.",
"\"We're going to narrow it to those situations so we don't have this kind of situation again where we pause and wonder is this something we have to release or not.\"",
"\"Meredith was a daughter, a friend and a mentor to many.",
"She lived life to its fullest and was taken from us deliberately and maliciously,\" her family said on www.righttohikeinc.com, the charity Web site established in Emerson's memory.",
"\"Her family and friends live everyday with this tragedy and to know that the possibility of any images, other than those that portray the beautiful, young woman we knew, could be disclosed to the public or may be published would bring further stress and unnecessarily added grief over what is already too much sadness to bear.\"",
"The Georgia Bureau of Investigation promptly denied Hustler's request, agency spokesman John Bankhead said.",
"\"There's no public interest served by these photographs being publicly displayed,\" he said.",
"\"The negative impact on surviving friends and family would be horrific.",
"They had to go through this with the death so to have to go through it again with the pictures ending up on Internet would be incredible.\"",
"First Amendment lawyers are watching the outcome of this lawsuit and the bill.",
"\"The photos are awful, but it's also awful to see pictures of people in wars, soldiers fighting or the victims of wars,\" said New York attorney Martin Garbus.",
"\"I don't think there should be any kind of censorship because of awfulness.\"",
"Garbus surmised that privacy laws could be applied in this instance but cautioned that even such laws could be considered limitation of free speech.",
"\"I don't think you can make it into a narrow context.",
"If you look at a picture of a Sudanese kid starving to death, or people dying in Haiti, those are invasions of privacy.",
"Pictures of people alive in tortuous situations in some other country are just as bad as pictures of disfigured corpses in the United States.\""
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"(CNN) -- Cliché trailers and unimpressed movie reviews aside, \"The Bounty Hunter\" was still expected to perform decently at the box office last weekend, some guessing a gross in the neighborhood of $25 million.",
"In reality, the predictions weren't far off -- the actual box office gross came in at nearly $21 million, which BoxOffice.com editor Phil Contrino described as a solid opening weekend, if a little on the low side.",
"The true surprise, Contrino said, was Twentieth Century Fox's \"Diary of a Wimpy Kid\" coming out of nowhere and edging past it with an opening weekend gross of $22 million.",
"\"It's a situation where there's a movie with no stars aimed at a very specific age group -- teenage boys -- and it beat a movie with two stars,\" he said.",
"Yet, Contrino added, Aniston has never been really reliable to open a movie on her own, and she was the bigger star in \"Bounty.\"",
"Gerard Butler, her co-star, is gaining prominence but doesn't have the years of recognition that Aniston has.",
"The actress was nearly inescapable in 2005 as the media tracked her divorce from actor Brad Pitt, but her thriller \"Derailed\" and romantic comedy \"Rumor Has It\" performed modestly at the box office.",
"Aniston then came back with a hit in 2006 with \"The Break-Up,\" co-starring Vince Vaughn, himself riding a wave of popularity from \"Wedding Crashers.\"",
"That success -- $39 million opening weekend and $118 million grossed domestically overall -- was immediately followed by \"Marley & Me,\" which grossed $36 million its first weekend, and \"He's Just Not That Into You,\" which Aniston starred in along with a number of other A-List actors.",
"Yet 2009 brought the flop \"Love Happens,\" which grossed $8 million when it opened in little more than 1,500 theaters in 2009.",
"By all accounts, \"Bounty Hunter,\" beaten by a movie about middle school kids or not, is a step in the right direction.",
"Judging from her ups and downs at the box office, she's been \"far too hit or miss\" to be a safe bet at the box office, Contrino said.",
"\"The moral of the story is that you can't bank on her.\"",
"Yet Aniston's public perception would lead one to believe otherwise, said film critic Nick Schager.",
"\"In general, there's a disconnect between Jennifer Aniston's cultural popularity and her movie star popularity,\" Schager said.",
"\"There are certain people -- and you could make the case for Angelina Jolie as well -- given how rampant tabloid culture has become who are much more famous for that stuff than they are for the actual movies or TV shows.\"",
"If anything, said US Weekly's Senior Movie Editor Bradley Jacobs, Aniston's cultural popularity is the reason \"Bounty Hunter\" got the dollars that it did, despite its current 8 percent fresh rating on RottenTomatoes.com.",
"\"Despite terrible reviews, people still wanted to go,\" Jacobs said.",
"\"Jennifer is still a movie star.\"",
"Aniston is one of the top celebrities that US Weekly covers, Jacobs said, and while her press attention may have something to do with her box office draw, Jacobs doesn't think it's the total sum.",
"\"Jessica Simpson is covered a lot but she doesn't have box office power.",
"Cameron Diaz, we cover her a fair amount and her movies have a spottier track,\" Jacobs said.",
"\"There's something about Jennifer -- they love the hair, the body, the clothes and they've shown that they're willing to pay money.\"",
"Aniston, Schager believes, is indeed capable of carrying a movie.",
"She just hasn't shown it yet. \"Aniston hasn't proven herself to be a reliable box office draw on her own, but she is a huge star.",
"I think people like Jennifer Aniston, and if there's a movie that looks appealing, it'll do well,\" Schager said.",
"\"But, she's been a bit overrated in the public conscious because of the extracurricular stuff, and that doesn't necessarily translate to her wanting to see her trade barbs with Gerard Butler.\"",
"Which, Schager adds, is really the more pressing point: \"Bounty Hunter\" wasn't great, and not even the brightest star can mask that.",
"\"I think she's chosen poorly for the past few years,\" said Movieline.com senior editor Kyle Buchanan.",
"\"If you look back before that she had 'Marley and Me' and 'The Break Up,' and her indie at that point was 'Friends With Money,' which was a critical success.\"",
"\"Bounty Hunter,\" on the other hand, \"seems like a retread of 'The Ugly Truth' from last year.",
"Audiences didn't really care,\" Buchanan said.",
"He added that while \"the amount of hype that we get for Jennifer Aniston is always going to exceed the amount of box office she's going to bring,\" she's still one of the Top 10 actresses.",
"\"She can command an audience, but she has to be in the right vehicle.\"",
"The other industry reality to consider, BoxOffice.com's Contrino said, is that none of the A-list actors, save for a few, are consistently opening with huge numbers anymore.",
"\"I think there's a misconception that for a movie to open, it has to have major stars -- nothing could be further from the truth,\" Contrino said.",
"\"If you look at 2009, some of the biggest hits of the year didn't have major names -- with 'The Hangover,' character actors opened the movie based on the concept.",
"It was the same with 'District 9' and 'Paranormal Activity,' which is the golden standard of this argument.\"",
"Buchanan agreed that these days, audiences care more about the content than which actor is headlining.",
"\"In the '80s and '90s, there were a dozen stars you could count on to open a movie,\" Buchanan said.",
"\"The days for any actor, male or female, opening a movie based on their name alone are numbered.\""
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"2 spot without any star power .",
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"Audiences seem more interested in a fresh concept with unknowns ."
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"(CNN) -- Tiger Woods said Sunday that he is focused on \"living a life of amends\" after \"living the life of a lie\" in one of his first interviews since a November car crash outside his home unleashed a media frenzy amid rumors of extramarital affairs.",
"The brief, five-minute interview on ESPN was one of two the professional golfer granted Sunday afternoon at the Isleworth golf club near his home outside Orlando, Florida.",
"The Golf Channel simultaneously aired its similarly brief interview with Woods on Sunday night.",
"Woods credited inpatient and outpatient therapy for helping him start the process toward making amends.",
"\"It was tough,\" he told ESPN's Tom Rinaldi of the therapy.",
"\"To look at yourself in a light that you never want to look at yourself, that's pretty brutal. ...",
"I saw a person that I never thought I would ever become.\"",
"Woods said two of his lowest points in the past four months came when he had to tell his wife, Elin Woods, and his mother about his affairs.",
"\"Those are the two people in my life who I'm closest to, and to say the things that I've done, truthfully to them, is ... honestly ... was ... very painful,\" he said.",
"Woods told The Golf Channel's Kelly Tilghman that his mentor and father, the late Earl Woods, \"would be very disappointed in me.\"",
"\"I wish I could have had his guidance through all of this,\" he told Tilghman.",
"\"Have him help straighten me up.",
"I know he would have done it.\"",
"Despite the open nature of the interviews -- both Rinaldi and Tilghman weren't restricted on the questions they could ask -- the notoriously private Woods declined to go into detail about the night of the November car crash, telling Rinaldi that \"it's all on the police report.\"",
"\"Beyond that, everything is between Elin and myself, and that's private,\" Woods said.",
"He also declined to specify what treatment he has been seeking, but did say it will continue despite his announcement last week that he will return to golf at the Masters next month.",
"\"I'm excited to get back and play,\" he told Rinaldi.",
"\"I'm excited to get to see the guys again. ...",
"I miss competing.",
"But still, I still have a lot more treatment to do, and just because I'm playing, doesn't mean I'm gonna stop going to treatment.\"",
"When asked about what reaction he expects from the fans, Woods said: \"I don't know.",
"I'm a little nervous about that to be honest with you. ...",
"It would be nice to hear a couple claps here and there.",
"But I also hope they clap for birdies, too.\"",
"In closing her interview, Tilghman asked Woods about a bracelet he was wearing.",
"\"It's Buddhist,\" he said.",
"\"It's for protection and strength.",
"And I certainly need that.\""
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"Telling wife, mother about his affairs were low points, Woods tells ESPN .",
"\"To say the things that I've done, truthfully to them, is ... very painful,\" Woods says .",
"Woods gives interviews to ESPN, The Gold Channel near his Florida home .",
"Woods says therapy will continue, but declines to say what type he's received ."
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"(CNN) -- A Massachusetts grand jury has indicted a 98-year-old woman, accused of strangling her 100-year-old nursing-home roommate, on a second-degree murder charge.",
"Prosecutors say Laura Lundquist killed centenarian Elizabeth Barrow, a resident of Brandon Woods Nursing Home in Dartmouth, after the two women had an argument over a table Lundquist had placed at the foot of Barrow's bed.",
"Barrow was found dead September 24 with a plastic shopping bag tied loosely around her head, according the Bristol County district attorney's office.",
"An autopsy indicated Barrow had been strangled.",
"Barrow complained that the table obstructed her path to the bathroom, authorities said.",
"When a nurse's aide moved it, Lundquist punched the aide and grumbled that her roommate \"might as well have the whole room,\" prosecutors said.",
"District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter said Barrow repeatedly complained that Lundquist was making her life \"a living hell\" in the weeks leading up to the woman's death, and that Lundquist remarked that she would outlive her roommate.",
"A nursing home spokesman said the facility twice presented Barrow with the chance to change either rooms or roommates, but she declined each time.",
"He compared the pair to \"sisters,\" saying they took \"daily walks together ... ate lunch together every day, and were heard at night saying, 'Good night, I love you,' to each other.\"",
"Lundquist's attorney, Carl Levin, contends his client was not involved in Barrow's death, saying, \"We maintain her innocence.\"",
"A superior court judge granted a motion to send Lundquist to a state hospital for a competency evaluation.",
"An arraignment will be held only if Lundquist is found competent to stand trial."
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"Prosecutors say Laura Lundquist, 98, strangled Elizabeth Barrow, 100 .",
"The two allegedly argued about a table Lundquist had placed at the foot of Barrow's bed .",
"Nursing home spokesman: Barrow declined offers to change rooms or roommates .",
"Spokesman: The two women were like \"sisters,\" took daily walks together ."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- It was as if the giant crowd were celebrating a joyous occasion -- not a coming-together one month after a deadly earthquake.",
"Thousands of Haitians, many of them smiling, gathered Friday at the center of Port-au-Prince to remember the 7.0-magnitude quake of January 12 that leveled most of their capital city.",
"A sea of people waved their arms in the air, prayed, cried, sang and -- where space permitted -- danced.",
"The earthquake is blamed for killing more than 212,000 people, injuring 300,000 and leaving more than 1 million homeless in the city of 3 million and surrounding communities.",
"The memorial took place near where the stately National Palace lies in ruins and the Champ de Mars square has been turned into a huge homeless camp.",
"Other memorials were taking place at shantytowns, and there were religious observations.",
"Haitians were urged to wear black or white.",
"There was an outpouring of aid from around the world after the quake -- more than 600 aid agencies rallied -- but, initially, much of their work was ineffective because of the chaos, including the disruption of the government after its buildings collapsed.",
"Relief operations are improving day by day, a spokeswoman for the International Rescue Committee told CNN on Friday.",
"\"Things [supplies] are moving now, and they are arriving to populations.",
"The bottleneck has really, really decreased,\" Aisha Bain said.",
"\"About a month ago, when this quake destroyed the infrastructure of Haiti, it was very complicated to get aid in,\" she said.",
"Now, \"the ports and airports aren't at full capacity, but things are arriving and getting to populations.",
"There is much more to be done, but food is coming in.\"",
"Food distribution areas are set up around the capital, she said.",
"According to the U.S. ambassador to Haiti, food is now being delivered routinely to 16 sites daily, and Haitians are receiving two weeks of rations.",
"The food is culturally appropriate, Kenneth Merten said.",
"\"One month on ... I think we are in a very good place in terms of food distribution, water distribution and getting medicines out to needy hospitals,\" he said.",
"The United States is working with many nations and organizations to do that.",
"\"The next issues we're most concerned about are sanitation issues and shelter issues,\" Merten said during a State Department news conference.",
"As the rainy season approaches, \"we want to make sure we have reached and touched as many people as possible.\"",
"The rainy season comes with the approach of spring.",
"The hurricane season begins June 1.",
"Relief workers are providing temporary camps with latrines and portable toilets, and that project isn't finished, Merten said.",
"Bain said her organization also is trying to provide sufficient sanitation.",
"\"We ... are working on a large-scale buildup of providing clean water, latrines, showers, hand-washing stations, which affect not only the livelihoods of basic survival but, really, health.",
"There's a massive concern of the possible outbreak of disease, and so we are working to combat that quickly.\"",
"Watch Bain talk about the situation in Haiti .",
"On Thursday, Nevada real estate developer Tom Schrade said he was donating three used Cirque du Soleil tents for use as a temporary headquarters for the government and a hospital in Port-au-Prince.",
"They will provide a total of 33,000 square feet of space, he said.",
"Medically, \"things have improved in a very good way,\" compared with the period right after the quake, when doctors were dealing with broken bones, crushed limbs and other acute conditions, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta said.",
"The medical establishment is much more organized.",
"However, recovery facilities are grossly inadequate, he said.",
"Of the people lined up recently at one of Port-au-Prince's largest public hospitals, most were suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes.",
"Many have never seen a doctor, he said.",
"After treatment, most patients -- even those who have had major surgery -- end up in a temporary tent city that is dirty and lacks medications, follow-up care and nutritious food, Gupta said.",
"Recent rain didn't help, he said, and there is fear that improvements won't be made before monsoons come.",
"\"People are trying to recover in a temporary tent city that is increasingly becoming more permanent,\" Gupta said."
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"Quake killed more than 212,000 people, left more than 1 million homeless in city, nearby .",
"Anderson Cooper, Dr. Sanjay Gupta discuss Haiti news on \"AC360,\" 10 ET tonight .",
"Watch Angelina Jolie talk about her visit to Haiti on \"Amanpour,\" Sunday at 2 p.m.",
"ET ."
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"(CNN) -- Simply put, Margaret Moth made an impression.",
"Given her jet-black hair, thick black eyeliner, black clothes and combat boots (which she often slept in while on assignment), people didn't always know what to think upon meeting her.",
"She was quirky, the sort who excused herself from a social gathering by saying she had to wash her socks.",
"And she was fearless, the kind of woman who not only kept the camera rolling while under fire, but zoomed in on a soldier who was shooting at her.",
"Colleagues learned quickly to appreciate all that this CNN camerawoman was.",
"Beyond her rich personality, which included deep optimism and kindness, she brought to her profession top-notch technical abilities, unmatched dedication and an approach to work that inspired others to push themselves.",
"CNN colleagues honor Moth .",
"Moth sought out, even demanded, assignments in conflict zones.",
"She barely survived being shot in the face in Sarajevo in 1992, only to go back as soon as she was physically able.",
"The multiple reconstructive surgeries that followed, as well as the hepatitis C she contracted from a consequent blood transfusion, were mere obstacles she moved around.",
"But more than three years after being diagnosed with colon cancer, her tremendous life journey has come to an end.",
"Moth, known for her gutsiness, striking appearance, distinctive humor and sense of fun, died early Sunday in Rochester, Minnesota.",
"She was 59. \"Dying of cancer, I would have liked to think I'd have gone out with a bit more flair,\" she said with a laugh last spring during an interview with a CNN documentary crew that had traveled to Texas, where she was visiting friends.",
"\"The important thing is to know that you've lived your life to the fullest,\" she said then, before tubing down a river in Austin, Texas; taking jaunts to Cape Cod and the Canadian Rockies; and piloting a houseboat up the Mississippi River -- replete with beer and Cuban cigars.",
"\"I don't know anyone who's enjoyed life more.\"",
"Born Margaret Wilson in Gisborne, New Zealand, to a homemaker and a man who made swimming pools, she got her first camera at age 8.",
"She later changed her name to Margaret Gipsy Moth, a nod to the airplane, which was appropriate for a woman who had a penchant for jumping out of planes, barefoot.",
"She said she never aspired to be a photojournalist.",
"Rather her path, she explained, was mostly driven by a love of history and her desire to see it unfold firsthand.",
"Whether she was amid rioters after Indira Gandhi's assassination or covering a long menu of wars spanning continents, Moth felt she and her colleagues were the lucky ones.",
"\"You could be a billionaire, and you couldn't pay to do the things we've done,\" said Moth, who had most recently called Istanbul, Turkey, home.",
"Reported to be New Zealand's first camerawoman, she came to the U.S. and worked for KHOU in Houston, Texas, for about seven years before moving to CNN in 1990.",
"When other photojournalists dived behind cars as militiamen opened fire on protesters in Tbilisi, Georgia, she stood her ground and kept her camera running.",
"As a band of medical professionals defied Israeli tanks and armored vehicles, marching into then-Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's compound in the West Bank, she got in the middle of the group, joined them and helped nab an exclusive interview.",
"When many around her slept in Sarajevo, she set to work in a destroyed hotel room, filming with a night scope through holes blown out by artillery fire, hiding herself and camera from the eyes of snipers.",
"The Serbian sniper bullet that did hit Moth while she was traveling along \"sniper alley\" in Sarajevo shattered her jaw, blew out her teeth and destroyed a portion of her tongue -- which left her forever sounding like she was drunk, she said.",
"Others got angry, as the van she traveled in was clearly marked as a press vehicle, but she refused to go there. \"",
"'We came into their war. Fair's fair,' \" former CNN correspondent Stefano Kotsonis, who was with her when she was shot, remembered her saying. \"",
"'I don't blame anyone for firing at me.",
"They're in a war, and I stepped into it.'",
"\" Her attitude made other colleagues, many of whom were interviewed for the documentary \"Fearless: The Margaret Moth Story,\" strive to be better at what they did.",
"Sound techs and correspondents would often follow her lead, whether they felt ready or not.",
"She was known to outrun her own security.",
"Photojournalists viewed her as a bar-setter.",
"Another of CNN's international camerawomen remembers Moth .",
"Christiane Amanpour, CNN's chief international correspondent, who'd been away from Sarajevo when her friend was shot, was sitting at Moth's hospital bedside when an assignment editor from the international desk called.",
"He wanted to know if Amanpour was ready to return to the conflict zone, she recalled for the documentary about Moth.",
"\"I said I'd go back, and I know to this day that if I hadn't said yes then, I probably never would have gone back, and I never would have done this career.",
"But I said yes because I couldn't say no,\" Amanpour remembered, fighting back tears.",
"\"We did the work for her. We did it because she was our champion, and we wanted to be her champion.\"",
"Sure enough, as soon as Moth could carry a camera again, six months later, she went straight back to Sarajevo to join her CNN colleagues.",
"She joked that she was there to find her teeth.",
"Moth maintained her humor amid madness and helped others smile and unwind when the surroundings could make levity seem impossible.",
"She enlisted a producer to go rollerblading with her on the marble floors of a Baghdad, Iraq, hotel lobby.",
"She forced colleagues to tell her who they'd rather sleep with, while giving them horrifying choices.",
"She liked to kick back with fine cigars and could drink others under the table.",
"Despite her tough exterior, there was insecurity, a vanity to her.",
"No matter where she was, Moth rose early to do her eye makeup and hair.",
"Forever worried about her weight, she picked at a block of cheese in Bosnia for about six weeks and got by on mango juice during a stretch in the West Bank.",
"She admitted that after being shot, she was more afraid of what she'd look like than she was of dying.",
"Enveloped in bandages, she slipped her dear friend Joe Duran a note asking him if she looked like a monster.",
"But she often worried about others more than herself.",
"Moth enjoyed working with seasoned correspondents but also looked out for those who were new.",
"In Pakistan, she taught Patty Sabga to sleep behind couches and talked her through everything she was shooting to help Sabga build her stories.",
"And in Afghanistan, she carefully led the former CNN correspondent through rubble that probably hid land mines.",
"\"She took such incredible care of me and taught me so much,\" Sabga said.",
"\"I can honestly say that the work I did with Margaret Moth is still the very best work of my career.\"",
"Moth repeatedly visited the doctor who saved her life.",
"And she boosted the spirits and changed the attitude of another CNN photojournalist, David Allbritton, when he was seriously injured by a bomb in Sarajevo in 1995.",
"\"She made me realize that I was going to get through this,\" he said.",
"\"She set an example by overcoming everything that's happened to her. ...",
"I took that example, and I'm shooting today.",
"I'm not sure that I would be doing what I'm doing today if it had not been for Margaret Moth.\"",
"Her chosen lifestyle didn't leave room for children of her own, but she bonded with them across the globe.",
"And her love of animals was so deep that she refused to ride in a horse-pulled wagon, preferring to run with heavy equipment in the desert heat while on assignment in Petra, Jordan.",
"In fact, when it became clear that the advanced cancer would end her life, the concern that drove her to tears was her cats -- the more than 25 strays she looked after in Istanbul.",
"\"She was more upset about them than she was about dying,\" said Duran, who rushed to her side after she'd been medevaced out of Sarajevo.",
"But when Duran, also a CNN cameraman, moved into her home in Turkey with the promise that he'd care for the cats, he said Moth told him, \" 'Now I can die happy.'",
"\" Duran was by Moth's side when she died.",
"He said he will be taking her ashes back to Istanbul, where he will place them in her garden, beside a photograph of her.",
"There, as she wanted, she'll be able to hang out with her cats.",
"There were a few things Moth wished she had done.",
"She would have liked to have seen the Krak des Chevaliers, a medieval fortress in Syria, and the Burundi drummers.",
"But regrets? She had none. She \"led the complete life,\" Amanpour said.",
"\"I don't think Margaret could ever look back and say, 'What if?'",
"She did it to the max, and she did it brilliantly.",
"And she did it on her terms.\" CNN colleagues and friends of Margaret Moth contributed to this report."
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"Her guts, skill and humor made Margaret Moth one to remember .",
"The longtime CNN photojournalist dies of cancer at 59, after surviving wars .",
"Shot in Sarajevo, she lived and went back to conflict zone as soon as she could .",
"Christiane Amanpour and others remember her for life she lived \"to the max\""
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"(CNN) -- India are poised to build a handy first-innings lead over South Africa after Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar scored centuries on the second day of the second cricket Test in Kolkata.",
"The home side, needing to win to level the series and retain their No.",
"1 ranking in the five-day game, reached 342-5 when bad light halted play early on Monday, having bowled the Proteas out for 296 in the morning session.",
"Opener Sehwag smashed a scintillating 165 off only 174 balls faced, hitting 23 boundaries and two sixes as he added 249 for the third wicket with Tendulkar.",
"The veteran Tendulkar extended his world record of Test tons to 47 as he took on the junior role, facing 206 deliveries for his 106.",
"Sehwag, who was dropped by J.P. Duminy on 47, had threatened South African Jacques Kallis's record for the fastest half-century but suffered a brief lull in run flow before passing the mark in just 41 deliveries.",
"He and Gautam Gambhir put on 73 for the first wicket in just 9.2 overs before the latter was run out for 25, then paceman Morne Morkel had Murali Vijay caught behind by stand-in wicketkeeper A.B.",
"De Villiers for seven.",
"India reached lunch at 97-2 and Sehwag raced to three figures in only 87 balls for his 19th Test century as the duo batted through the middle session, going to tea at 232-2.",
"They both fell late in the day as part-time bowler Duminy removed Tendulkar and fellow spinner Paul Harris dismissed Tendulkar, then paceman Dale Steyn bowled Subramaniam Badrinath for one.",
"V.V.S. Laxman (9) and nightwatchman Amit Mishra (1) survived until stumps as India extended their lead to 46.",
"South Africa had resumed on 266-9 after a late collapse on Sunday, and tailenders Morne Morkel and Wayne Parnell added another 30 runs for a final-wicket stand of 35.",
"Left-arm seamer Zaheer Khan finally ended their resistance, trapping Parnell leg before wicket for 12 in his first over of the day to finish with figures of 4-90.",
"Spinner Harbhajan Singh claimed three wickets on Sunday.",
"Meanwhile, New Zealand reached 258-5 on a rain-hit opening day of the one-off Test against tourists Bangladesh in Hamilton.",
"The Kiwis slumped to 66-3 after Monday's start was delayed by an hour due to wet conditions, but Martin Guptill then added 60 with Ross Taylor (40) and an unbroken 100 with Brendon McCullum to guide the home team safely to stumps.",
"No. 3 batsman Peter Ingram crashed 42 off 47 deliveries before becoming the second of Rubel Hossain's three victims, but it was Guptill's more measured Test best score of 80 that anchored the innings.",
"The big-hitting McCullum kept the score ticking over as he celebrated his 50th Test with his 16th half-century, ending the day on 58 from 71 deliveries."
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"India reach 342-5 on second day of second Test against South Africa in Kolkata .",
"Virender Sehwag hits 165 as he adds 249 for third wicket with Sachin Tendulkar (106)\nTourists South Africa had added 30 runs to their overnight total of 266-9 .",
"New Zealand reach 258-5 on rain-hit opening day of one-off Test against Bangladesh ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Spanish banking giant Santander on Monday began its campaign to rename hundreds of Abbey and Bradford and Bingley bank branches across Britain.",
"The banking group acquired Abbey in 2004, before it purchased Bradford & Bingley and the Alliance & Leicester in 2008.",
"The first of 300 official Santander branches in the south-east of England was launched in London Monday morning by Banco Santander Chairman Emilio Botín, with a further 700 branches across the UK expected to follow suit by the end of January.",
"In a statement Botin said: \"This is a historic day for Santander as its name is firmly established on the UK high street.",
"\"When Santander acquired Abbey in 2004, there were some who doubted we could make it a success.",
"Today, there can be no doubts.",
"\"Over the last five years we have transformed our UK business into one of the most successful banks in the country.",
"The decision to become Santander will put us in an even stronger position the UK.\"",
"António Horta-Osório, Chief Executive of Santander UK, added: \"The success of our UK business has given us the confidence to move to the Santander name now and with it deliver the next phase of our transformation program and make 1,300 branches available to our 25 million customers in the UK.",
"\"I am confident that this is a very positive move - both for our customers and our employees.\"",
"Over the next few years, Santander says it aims to increase the number of products each of its customers hold through increasingly competitive and market-leading products to its customer base.",
"At the end of 2008, Santander, which was founded in 1857, was the largest bank in the euro zone by market capitalization and third in the world by profit.",
"It has has 90 million customers, around 14,000 branches -- more than any other international bank -- and over 170,000 employees."
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"Santander bought Abbey in 2004, Bradford & Bingley, Alliance & Leicester in 2008 .",
"Spanish banking group expected to rename around 1,000 bank branches across UK by end of January .",
"Group CEO: \"Decision to become Santander will put us in an even stronger position the UK\""
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"Washington (CNN) -- Just months after the 9/11 attacks, the United States appeared to have its biggest catch in the newly launched war on terror.",
"Abu Zubaydah, considered one of al Qaeda's senior lieutenants, lay in a pool of blood on a street in Faisalabad, Pakistan, having been shot three times during a U.S.-coordinated raid on a house where a group of suspected terrorists was building a bomb.",
"CIA operative John Kiriakou, who helped plan the raid, rushed to the scene.",
"But when he gazed down at the critically wounded man, it didn't quite look like the person he had seen in a 4-year-old passport.",
"In his new book, \"The Reluctant Spy,\" Kiriakou gives an insider's view of his secret life as a spy and his role in fighting the war on terror.",
"Kiriakou said he was able to quickly verify Zubaydah's identity by sending a picture of his ear to CIA headquarters in Virginia.",
"\"I didn't realize until that night that no two people have the same ears.",
"It's like a fingerprint,\" he said.",
"The American spy was ordered by then-CIA Director George Tenet to do everything in his power to keep Zubaydah alive and to never let him out of his sight.",
"That's exactly what Kiriakou did.",
"Rushed to a rundown Pakistani hospital, Zubaydah barely made it through surgery.",
"Word had apparently gotten out to al Qaeda where he was being treated.",
"\"Al Qaeda people started driving by the hospital just opening fire on the hospital,\" Kiriakou said, and a Pakistani security officer quickly arranged for a helicopter to transfer Zubaydah to a military base.",
"Once on the base, Kiriakou used a sheet to tie the comatose Zubaydah to his bed and then stood watch.",
"When Zubaydah finally woke up, Kiriakou tried to speak with him in Arabic.",
"Zubaydah refused, telling him in perfect English that he would not talk in what he called \"God's language.\"",
"Strangely enough, Kiriakou said, Zubaydah then asked for a glass of red wine.",
"After a few hours of sleep, the prisoner pleaded for Kiriakou to kill him -- to smother him with a pillow.",
"After a couple of days, Zubaydah was transferred to an undisclosed location for further treatment.",
"That was the last time Kiriakou saw him.",
"Kiriakou said his conversations with Zubaydah were surprising.",
"\"I expected an irrational, radical, hate-filled, hard-core terrorist, and what I got was a frightened young guy who realized he was in way over his head, had made terrible mistakes and was going to pay for it.\"",
"Kiriakou also tells the story of Zubaydah's cell phone ringing shortly after his capture.",
"No one could answer it because FBI agents who took part in the raid had placed the phone in a sealed evidence bag and wouldn't open it.",
"Kiriakou said a valuable lead may have been lost.",
"\"I should have opened the bag and snatched the phone,\" the former CIA operative said.",
"Iraq played a prominent role in Kiriakou's CIA career, most notably his role in supporting the U.S. policy to go to war.",
"In summer 2002, Kiriakou was back working at headquarters in Virginia when he was summoned to a top-secret meeting.",
"He said he was told the Bush administration had decided the United States was going to invade Iraq in the spring -- it was a done deal.",
"His job was to support the mission.",
"Kiriakou said he was dumbfounded.",
"\"Here was someone at the CIA, obviously plugged into the plans of the executive branch, telling us that the public debate in Congress, reflected almost daily in the press, meant nothing.\"",
"Months later, Congress passed a war resolution.",
"The book is filled with many more stories about Kiriakou's experiences as a spy, including how he tried to avoid surveillance in Greece and discovered he was being tailed, what it was like being in charge of foreign agents, and the fear of a pending terrorist attack just before September 11, 2001.",
"Kiriakou also discussed the CIA's use of harsh interrogation techniques on detainees.",
"In 2007, several years after he left the agency, Kiriakou was the first official to publicly confirm Washington's worst-kept secret: that Zubaydah had been waterboarded.",
"He didn't have firsthand knowledge, but he said he had read cables that indicated the simulated drowning technique was used just once, because Zubaydah cracked and provided actionable intelligence.",
"However, a government report released in summer 2009 said the technique was actually used 83 times against Zubaydah.",
"Kiriakou said he now feels he was duped by the agency.",
"He questioned whether any useful information really came from the detainee and said he believes \"it caused more damage to our national prestige than was worth it.\"",
"Kiriakou left the CIA in 2004 after serving 14 years in the agency.",
"He's now a senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."
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"New book is John Kiriakou's view of life as a spy, role in fighting war on terror .",
"Kiriakou, who spent 14 years in CIA, tells of capture of an al Qaeda senior lieutenant .",
"He also talks about 9/11, says decision to invade Iraq made before public debate ended .",
"He says waterboarding \"caused more damage to our national prestige than was worth it\""
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"London, England (CNN) -- The downfall of Tiger Woods has left the golf world eager for an uplifting story, and arguably there are few better placed to provide this tale than 20-year-old Michelle Wie.",
"The women's game may struggle to compete with the men's in terms of profile, but if there is any player who could help to bridge this gap it is the Stanford University student from Hawaii.",
"The expectation on Wie has always been great after she amazed the sport by qualifying for the USGA amateur championship aged just 10.",
"She went onto become the youngest player ever to qualify for the LPGA Tour and became a millionaire 10 times over by signing sponsorship deals with both Sony and Nike after turning professional aged 16.",
"The similarities with Tiger Woods were clear for all to see.",
"Her fame grew as she persisted to compete in men's competitions while suffering inconsistent form at women's events, but she had to wait until 2009 to capture her first LPGA title.",
"With her victory at the Lorena Ochoa Invitational and starring role in the 2009 Solheim Cup, Michelle Wie has once again captivated fans and gone some way to reassure doubters that she still has the potential to become a major force in women's golf.",
"With the 2010 LPGA season due to tee off next month, Living Golf caught up with Wie to discuss her plans for the year ahead in work and play: .",
"\"I love what I do. Once my college work is done, I get to go out and focus on my golf.",
"Academically right now, I'm a sophomore, but I'm in my third year, so hopefully I'll finish in five years or so,\" she told CNN.",
"Like many students her age, friends play an important role: \"They bring me down to earth you know.",
"They always make fun of me and they don't know what I do, they don't know what a par is.",
"Basically I tell them, if my scores look red, you can call me, if my scores look black, then I might not be in such a good mood so don't talk to me!\"",
"The Solheim Cup marked a turning point for Wie, proving she could hit shots beyond her female counterparts.",
"Wie says it was an unforgettable experience: \"It was such a great experience, I've always heard that rumor that, the American team doesn't bond as well as the European team, but I felt that we just bonded so well and had so much fun -- I really enjoyed every second of it.\"",
"Despite this, there still remains a cloud of disapproval over the way in which Wie has conducted herself throughout her career.",
"Entering her first PGA Tour event at the tender age of 14, her attempts and failures to make it on the men's tour have drawn criticism from players and fans.",
"So does she regret these early decisions?",
"\"No, I don't think so. I think that every decision that I've made in my life, at the time seemed like a great decision ... the mistakes that I've made, I've definitely learned from them.",
"But you know, I enjoyed myself and I really had a lot of fun.\"",
"While the sun shone on Michelle Wie in 2009, the LPGA experienced a difficult year.",
"Like the men's Tour, financial crisis saw sponsors and media pull out -- and a seriously diminished schedule of events for 2010 led to the dismissal of LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens.",
"Despite the turmoil, Wie feels the tour will bounce back: .",
"\"I just think that we have such a strong product, you know the players are amazing, we have different personalities, its so global, so international -- there's so many ethnicities which gives us more opportunity to be in different countries that never really had golf before.\"",
"As she looks ahead to this year, Wie's resolve remains clear: to build on her new found confidence and success: \"I want to show my fans and my country what I have.\""
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"Wie says the LPGA will bounce back from a difficult year ."
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"(CNN) -- When Eldrick \"Tiger\" Woods joined the ranks of professional golf a dozen years ago, it was via the heralded \"Hello, World\" Nike commercial.",
"When he steps to the podium Friday to speak to an assembled group of friends, colleagues and journalists, the world will truly be watching to see and hear the greatest golfer of this generation talk about the sordid events over the last three months that have kept him off the golf course and shredded his well-cultivated image and reputation.",
"The broadcast networks will air live reports with their main anchors there to report and comment on every word; the cable nets will undoubtedly have multiple individuals ready for instant analysis; and millions will tune in to hear Tiger likely apologize and possibly say if and when he will return to competitive golf.",
"He isn't expected to take any questions, and that has made for an angry bunch of columnists and commentators, denouncing Woods for calling a news conference to make a statement, and not undergo the grilling many want to give him.",
"Woods hasn't even said a word, and already he's been called a spoiled, petulant child who has lived in a sheltered world of handlers since he was 2 years old.",
"Some have even gone as far as saying nothing has changed about him and he's showing that he is just as selfish and self-absorbed as ever.",
"Tiger, let me be as clear as I can as to whether you owe me or the American people an explanation of the events surrounding your car accident Thanksgiving weekend: Hell no.",
"I repeat: Tiger, you don't owe me or anyone else anything!",
"I'm sick of these sanctimonious folks who are blabbering about Woods needing to be grilled about his private behavior.",
"Look, Tiger Woods didn't cheat on me.",
"He's not my daddy, brother, cousin, church member, neighbor or friend.",
"He didn't let me down or crush my view of him.",
"He is not and never was my role model.",
"The only people he owes a grand apology are his wife, momma, family, maybe his friends, and his children, when they come of age.",
"He doesn't have to work hard for me to trust him again.",
"The most important audience he has to satisfy is a very small group of people.",
"That's it. Nothing more. Nothing less.",
"Ever since I was 14, my desire was to be journalist.",
"And in the last 27 years, I've covered it all.",
"In all of those years, I've never believed I was entitled to ask anyone a question.",
"If it was at a county government board meeting in Austin, Texas, or a city council meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, public officials made a choice to talk to me and other journalists.",
"It's our duty to ask; it's not their obligation to answer.",
"Yes, they were public figures, but no matter how many times I asked the same question, they didn't have to talk to the media.",
"Should they? Yeah. Must they? No. Every sports league has a rule requiring their locker rooms to be open to the media shortly after a game ends.",
"Athletes are required to make themselves available or face a fine, but there is nothing that says they must answer our questions.",
"If they choose to expound on what happened in a game, that's their decision.",
"But their personal life?",
"That choice is all up to them. We have had to bear witness to all kinds of allegations about Tiger, the married sports star and successful product pitchman, being involved in a variety of affairs with cocktail waitresses, party girls, and porn stars.",
"The details have gone from freaky to bizarre.",
"His reputation has taken a substantial hit; companies he endorsed have removed his face from billboards and canceled contracts; and by multiple (and unsubstantiated) accounts, his marriage is hanging by a thread.",
"Yet still, he doesn't owe the American public or me a damn thing.",
"Meryl Streep has always earned my respect.",
"When you see magazine cover stories on her, such as the recent one in Vanity Fair, she will talk about a host of subjects and pose for a ton of photos, but her family is off limits.",
"She makes it clear: I'll talk about the work, not my home life.",
"Jodie Foster is the same way.",
"If she is scheduled to discuss a movie, anything work-related is fine.",
"But when you start asking about the father of her children, her love life and anything personal, she shuts you down quickly.",
"In fact, her folks will let you know before the interview what the rules are.",
"She's consistent and clear.",
"Intensely private people choose to remain that way, whether loving and faithful couples or a married athlete who is accused of bedding anyone and everyone.",
"Someone's personal life is just that, personal.",
"None of us have the right to know what's going on in someone else's life when they are out of public view, especially if no laws were broken.",
"I've been clear that I'm a huge Tiger Woods fan.",
"I've walked inside the ropes of many golf tournaments he's played in; shot hundreds of photos of him that hang on my wall; and count an interview with his father, Earl Woods, as one of my all-time favorites.",
"But journalists need to cut the crap when it comes to demanding that he owes it to us to talk to as many of us as possible.",
"What's amazing is that many of us are hypocrites on this subject.",
"For example, if a journalist is fired, you will hear the suits at the company say they cannot discuss the actions behind the move \"because it's a personnel matter.\"",
"Wait. Isn't a TV anchor, columnist or reporter a public figure?",
"In some cities, they are considered celebrities.",
"So the rules are different for us?",
"In fact, what if a reporter covered a news conference and returned with a team owner or elected official saying the following about one of their employees: \"That's a personnel matter and I'm not at liberty to share with you the details of his termination.\"",
"Would that editor, news director, or network president say that is acceptable?",
"No! They would jump all over the reporter \"to do their job\" and keep digging to find out what happened.",
"And the columnists and bloggers would be ripping them to shreds.",
"So what's the difference between them and Tiger?",
"Personnel? Personal? Hello! Isn't it amazing how different the view looks from the other side of the river?",
"iReport: Share your reaction to Woods' statement .",
"We live in an age where public figures often share with the world who they slept with, want to sleep with, what they ate, what they wear, their travel and everything else.",
"Nothing is off limits.",
"The public craves it all on blogs, and in magazines, newspapers, TV and radio.",
"For me, I don't care about any of it. All I want is to see is a good movie, dance to a great song, watch an awesome sporting event, and witness one golfer take on his peers to become the greatest in the game.",
"When that public figure, whether Meryl, Jodie or Tiger, chooses to walk off the public stage, they don't owe me or anyone else an explanation.",
"Their body of work is all that matters and that is what we will discuss for generations to come.",
"Nothing more. Nothing less.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland S. Martin."
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"Roland S. Martin says Tiger Woods doesn't need to apologize to America .",
"He says golfer may have to make amends to family and very close friends .",
"All that matters to public about Tiger Woods is what he does on golf course, Martin says .",
"Tiger Woods breaks his silence Friday at 11 a.m.",
"ET.",
"Watch it live on CNN, CNN.com or your iPhone ."
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"SANA'A, Yemen (CNN) -- It is midday and girls are flooding out of school.",
"Nujood Ali is not among them.",
"Nujood Ali today is angry and skips school but is still relieved her defiance paid off.",
"We find her at the family's two-room house in an impoverished suburb of the Yemeni capital.",
"Nujood is angry, combative and yelling.",
"Tension surrounds the home like a noose.",
"After much arguing with family members, Nujood finally grabs her veil and agrees to sit down with CNN.",
"Her presence is grudging, although CNN got advance permission to see how the girl who rocked a nation by demanding a divorce was faring.",
"Nujood is a very different girl from the one we met nearly two years ago.",
"Then, there was no doubt the 10-year-old was very much a child, a portrait of innocence.",
"She had a shy smile, playful nature and a whimsical giggle.",
"Her retiring demeanor was very much at odds with the brutal abuse she endured as a child bride who fought for a divorce and is still currently fighting.",
"Watch Nujood tell her story to CNN on World's Untold Stories » .",
"The story was supposed to end with the divorce.",
"There was, though, a stunning transformation.",
"The young girl went from being a victim and child bride to a portrait of courage and triumph.",
"Her inspirational story was told and re-told around the world.",
"In the fall of 2008, Nujood was recognized as Glamour Magazine's Woman of the Year, alongside some of the world's most impressive women.",
"She even attended the ceremony in New York and was applauded by women from Hillary Clinton to Nicole Kidman.",
"There is a tell-all book, which is to be published in more than 20 languages, and the author says the girl will receive a good portion of the royalties.",
"Nujood's strength was celebrated by complete strangers.",
"But what did all the fame do for the one person it was meant to transform?",
"\"There is no change at all since going on television,\" Nujood says bitterly.",
"\"I hoped there was someone to help us, but we didn't find anyone.",
"It hasn't changed a thing.",
"They said they were going to help me and no one has helped me.",
"I wish I had never spoken to the media.\"",
"Nujood says she is still relieved and gratified that her act of defiance paid off.",
"There was never going to be a fortune.",
"Generous people have donated thousands so Nujood could go to a private school, but she refuses to attend, according to Shada Nasser, the human rights lawyer who took on the child's divorce case.",
"\"I know Nujood was absent from the school.",
"I spoke with her father and her family.",
"And I ask them to control her and ask her to go every day to school.",
"But they said, 'You know we don't have the money for the transportation.",
"Don't have the money for the food,' \" says Nasser.",
"She believes Nujood is being victimized by her own family because they believe her fame should bring them fortune.",
"Nujood's parents say they've received nothing, and in the meantime the girl wonders aloud how everything turned out this way.",
"\"I was happy I got divorced but I'm sad about the way it turned out after I went on television,\" she said, adding that she feels like an outcast even among family and friends.",
"Nujood was pulled out of school in early 2008 and married off by her own parents to a man she says was old and ugly.",
"And yet, as a wife, she was spared nothing.",
"\"I didn't want to sleep with him but he forced me to, he hit me, insulted me,\" she said.",
"She described being married and living as a wife at such a young age as sheer torture.",
"Nujood described how she was beaten and raped and how, after just a few weeks of marriage, she turned to her family to try to escape the arrangement.",
"But her parents told her they could not protect her, that she belonged to her husband now and had to accept her fate.",
"CNN tried to get comment from the girl's ex-husband and family, but they declined.",
"Nujood's parents, like many others in Yemen, struck a social bargain.",
"More than half of all young Yemeni girls are married off before the age of 18, many times to older men, some with more than one wife.",
"Marriage means the girls are no longer a financial or moral burden to their parents.",
"But Nujood's parents say they did not expect the girl's new husband to demand sex from his child bride.",
"To escape, Nujood hailed a taxi -- the first time in her life -- to get across town to the central courthouse where she sat on a bench and demanded to see a judge.",
"After several hours, a judge finally went to see her.",
"\"And he asked me, 'what do you want' and I said 'I want a divorce' and he said 'you're married?'",
"And I said 'yes.'\" says Nujood.",
"Nujood's father and husband were arrested until the divorce hearing, and the girl was put in the care of Nasser.",
"It seems the judge had heard enough of the abuse to agree with her that she should get her divorce.",
"But based on the principles of Shariah law, her husband was compensated, not prosecuted.",
"Nujood was ordered to pay him more than $200 -- a huge amount in a country where the United Nations Development Programme says 15.7 percent of the population lives on less than $1 a day.",
"Khadije Al Salame is working to help the girl get her life back.",
"Now a Yemeni diplomat, she too was a child bride 30 years ago.",
"But when she left her husband, she did not have to endure the publicity that now haunts Nujood.",
"She said: \"It's good to talk about Nujood and to have her story come out, but the problem is it's too much pressure on her.",
"\"She doesn't understand what's going on.",
"She's a little girl and we have to understand as media people that we should leave her alone now.",
"If we really love Nujood then we should just let her go to school and continue with her life, because education is the most important thing for her.\"",
"To get her divorce, Nujood showed character and strength not easily expressed by women in Yemen, let alone a 10-year-old child bride.",
"But she will need to muster all that strength and more if she's to finally reclaim her life.",
"Nujood told us she thought the divorce would be the end of her struggle.",
"But she's angry that it turned out to be just the beginning.",
"CNN producer Schams Elwazer contributed to this report ."
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"Editor's Note: Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican, represents the Third District of Utah in Congress and is writing a regular series of reports for CNN.com on his freshman year.",
"For his bio, read here. For a Democratic freshman's view, read here.",
"Jason Chaffetz says he's saving money by sleeping on a cot in his office, but there are downsides.",
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- I do something a bit different than most members of Congress.",
"I sleep in my office on a cot.",
"A few months ago, I was speaking with a current member of Congress and he said he slept in his office.",
"Awesome! We are paid well, but the cost of caring for two households and supporting a family of five is high.",
"I thought this would be a great way to save $1,500 per month.",
"Besides, I work late into the night and usually arise about 5:30 a.m. No need to waste time commuting and spending money on a place where I don't intend to be spending much time.",
"I came here to work, not sleep.",
"Watch video of Jason Chaffetz' life in Congress » .",
"So I bought a cot at Smiths grocery store and carried it on a plane to Washington.",
"I sleep in the closet by the door to the outside hall.",
"The cot itself is fairly comfy.",
"Best thing is there is no bar in the middle, so my back is doing quite well.",
"The only downside is what is happening outside.",
"The cleaning crew obviously works throughout the night.",
"They do a great job, but they have a Zamboni-like machine (the kind you see on ice rinks) that cleans the hallways.",
"It has a horn and they use it! It makes an obnoxious beeping sound that you hear on trucks that are backing up, and it definitely keeps me up at night.",
"At 12:52 a.m. during the first week, the \"Capitol Early Warning System\" was tested.",
"It works! Even though I sleep in my office, I do shower.",
"The House has a gym. I pay $240 to use the facilities.",
"Typically I head down first thing in the morning to wash up and work out in the evening.",
"I thought it would be like a nice golf club or certainly as \"lavish\" as a Gold's Gym.",
"Not so much. It's nice, but it's more like a high school gym with the small narrow lockers from the 1950s.",
"I locker next to Jose Serrano (D-New York).",
"On the political spectrum we are probably as far apart as possible.",
"Yet, just in our gym clothes we get along great.",
"He's a nice guy and he offered a wealth of perspective and suggestions to a freshman.",
"Aside from the routine details of settling in, the first weeks of my term have been filled with surreal moments.",
"Never did I think I would be seated just yards away from one of the most historic presidential inaugurations in the history of our country.",
"To watch firsthand as President Bush peacefully transitioned the presidency to Barack Obama was a surreal and inspiring moment.",
"My most vivid memory of the moment was watching the two men embrace after the oath of office (the first one).",
"It's part of what makes this country so strong and so marvelous.",
"In many ways, my own election reflected the miracle of this country.",
"With no paid staff, no polling, no campaign office, no free meals for potential voters and no debt, I took on a 12-year Republican incumbent and won by a 20 percent margin (I ate one of our own) despite being outspent by $600,000 through the primary election.",
"On January 6, 2009, I, too, raised my right hand and was administered the oath of office.",
"With my 15-year old son, Max, by my side, tears flowed down my face.",
"The emotion of the moment was overwhelming.",
"The history of the House of Representatives, my desire to be the very best representative I can possibly be, the massive amount of people counting on us to do what is right, and the opportunity to do good all hit me at once.",
"Over the past several weeks, the 22 Republican freshmen have been building our friendships.",
"Our bond is tight, we are all working hard and we are having fun, too.",
"This week, House Republicans met with President Obama and debated the stimulus bill.",
"I voted against it. Our national debt has increased an average of $2.8 billion per day since January 2007.",
"We must cut spending, not increase spending, for the long-term health of our economy.",
"One day I went up to see my colleague Chris Lee's (R-New York) office.",
"He's on the seventh floor of the Longworth Building and he had me crawl through the window in his office out to the balcony for a wonderful view of the Capitol.",
"We talked about putting a barbecue out there in the summer and having the Republican freshman class over for some burgers.",
"Being a member of Congress is nothing short of amazing, but the worst part is not being able to go home to my family at night.",
"I miss my wife, Julie, and our kids, Max, Ellis, and Kate.",
"They are in Utah and I am here in Washington four nights per week.",
"It is an honor to serve.",
"Now that we are settling in, the real work has begun.",
"The noise in the hallway is the least of my problems.",
"I've got my cot, now let's figure out how to get our economy back on track!",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jason Chaffetz."
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"He says his freshman year is starting off well as he bonds with colleagues .",
"Chaffetz: We need to reduce spending, so I voted against stimulus bill .",
"He says worst part of the job is being separated from his family in Utah ."
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"(CNN) -- South Korea's Lee Jung-Su confirmed his reputation as the top men's short-track speedskater at the 2010 Winter Olympics with his second gold medal on Saturday night, while American Apolo Anton Ohno snatched a place in the history books with a last-gasp bronze.",
"That thrilling 1,000-meter final capped an action-packed ninth day of the Vancouver Games, as Swiss ski-jumper Simon Ammann made history with his second gold medal and Americans Lindsey Vonn and Shani Davis missed out on double titles in skiing and speedskating.",
"The U.S. still ended the day with a table-topping six gold medals, having failed to add to their tally, with Norway on five and South Korea joining Germany, Canada and Switzerland on four.",
"Lee Jung-Su followed up his victory from the 1,500m event in an Olympic record time of one minute 23.747 seconds, with his compatriot Lee Ho-Suk winning silver in 1:23.801 to earn some consolation after being disqualified for causing a crash on the final lap of the longer race.",
"Ohno (1:24.128 ) denied hosts Canada a medal when he surged past world record-holder Charles Hamelin (1:24.329 ) on the final lap to become the most decorated American Winter Olympian with a record-breaking seventh medal.",
"The 27-year-old overhauled Bonnie Blair as his country's top medal winner, having won silver in the 1,500m.",
"Hamelin's brother Francois finished last in the five-man final.",
"Ski-jumping .",
"Ammann became the first ski-jumper to win four individual gold medals at Winter Olympics when he leaped to victory in the large hill event at Whistler to follow up his normal hill title and match his feat at Salt Lake City in 2002.",
"It was also the first time any ski-jumper has won both events twice, and made him Switzerland's most-decorated athlete in any Olympics, winter or summer.",
"The 28-year-old, dubbed the \"Harry Potter of ski-jumping\" after his 2002 heroics due to his likeness to J.K. Rowling's boy wizard, smashed the Olympic record of 141 meters when he set a distance of 144m in his first round in the afternoon for a points total of 144.7.",
"He then cleared 138m in the final round for a tally of 283.6 as he headed off normal hill silver medallist Adam Malyz of Poland by 15.3 points.",
"Austria's Gregor Schlierenzauer picked up his second bronze medal to ensure the podium remained unchanged from last Saturday's event, finishing on 262.2 points.",
"Alpine skiing .",
"Andrea Fischbacher denied downhill champion Lindsey Vonn a double in women's alpine skiing speed events when she claimed a surprise victory in the super-G.",
"The 24-year-old Fischbacher won Austria's second gold medal at the Vancouver Games after beating Vonn's time, with Slovenia's Tina Maze then pushing the American into the bronze position.",
"Vonn, who crashed out super-combined, had gone top in the event -- which features gates spaced further apart than the giant slalom and slalom disciplines -- with a time of one minute 20.88 seconds.",
"But Fischbacher trumped that in convincing style with a sizzling 1:20.14 and Maze then claimed her first Olympic medal with 1:20.63.",
"Fischbacher had previously won only one World Cup event, a super-G two years ago.",
"\"I was just thinking if I make a really good run and do my best I can beat her [Vonn],\" she told reporters.",
"\"Everything was perfect and I skied really fast.",
"It was a dream.\" Vonn, the super-G World Cup champion for the past two seasons, indicated that she had been guilty of not going full-tilt for the entire run.",
"\"I really attacked.",
"I skied all those difficult sections really well.",
"After I got passed those sections I kind of eased off the gas pedal,\" she said.",
"Speedskating . The 27-year-old Davis, who became the first man to defend the 1,000-meter title on Wednesday, had to again settle for silver in the 1,500m event on Saturday as the U.S. team failed to add to a leading tally of six gold medals in 2010.",
"Dutchman Mark Tuitert, who was fifth in the shorter event, claimed a shock gold as he set the fastest time of 1:45.57 to earn his first individual medal of any kind since winning silver in the 1,500m at the 2004 and 2005 world championships.",
"Davis, the Turin 2006 runner-up, was 0.53 seconds adrift while Norway's long-distance specialist Havard Bokko took the bronze.",
"China's Zhou Yang claimed the women's 1,500-meter short-track gold medal after setting an Olympic record time in the final.",
"Zhou clocked 2:16.993 to comfortably head off South Koreans Lee Eun-Byul and Park Seung-Hi in second and third respectively.",
"Cross-country skiing .",
"Marcus Hellner gave Sweden a second gold medal in the cross-country skiing program, and third overall, winning the men's 30-kilometer pursuit title to follow up compatriot Charlotte Kalla's triumph in the ladies' 10 km free event on Monday.",
"The 24-year-old's time of one hour 15 minutes 11.4 seconds put him just 2.1 seconds ahead of Germany's Tobias Angerer, who was also runner-up at the 2007 world championships.",
"Johan Olsson claimed a bronze for Sweden to add to his relay third-placing at the 2006 Turin Games, finishing 2.8 seconds behind Hellner.",
"Ice hockey .",
"Switzerland defeated Norway 5-4 in overtime to move into third place in Group A of the men's ice hockey competition.",
"Romano Lemm scored nearly two-and-half-minutes into extra time to leave Norway bottom with three defeats from three despite a hat-trick on Saturday from Tore Vikingstad.",
"First-placed United States will take on second-placed Canada on Sunday to decide the group, with the winner receiving a bye into the quarterfinal stage.",
"In the women's competition, Switzerland crushed China 6-0 as Stefanie Marty scored four goals."
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"Korean wins second gold in 1,000m event as Apolo Anton Ohno makes U.S. history .",
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"Andrea Fischbacher denies Lindsey Vonn a double Winter Olympic gold ."
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"(CNN) -- A male suicide bomber dressed in women's clothing killed three members of Somalia's U.N.-backed interim government and 16 others Thursday when he detonated at a medical school graduation ceremony in Mogadishu, government officials and witnesses said.",
"The Transitional Federal Government said Education Minister Abdullahi Wayel, Health Minister Qamar Aden and Higher Education Minister Ibrahim Hassan Adow were among the dead after the bomber attacked Banadir University's medical school commencement.",
"The African Union, which leads a peacekeeping mission in Somalia, put the death toll at 19.",
"The victims also included nine students and two doctors, according to a professor at Banadir University, while journalists said two of their colleagues died in the blast.",
"In addition, Sports Minister Suleman Olad Roble was hospitalized in critical condition, his relatives told local media.",
"Somali President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed blamed the Islamist rebel group Al-Shabaab for the attack and displayed what he said was the body of the bomber for reporters, a local journalist who attended the news conference told CNN.",
"The body the president displayed had a beard.",
"The president also showed the remains of the suicide belt and shreds of a hijab -- a garment worn by some Muslim women to reflect modesty -- at the news conference, according to the journalist, whom CNN is not naming for security reasons.",
"At the United Nations, the Security Council condemned the bombing as an act of terrorism against \"people dedicated to building a peaceful, stable and prosperous future for the people of Somalia.\"",
"It urged a \"thorough investigation\" and expressed hope that those responsible would \"be brought swiftly to justice.\"",
"\"The Security Council expresses its deepest sympathies and condolences to the families of those killed and to those injured in the attack, as well as to the Transitional Federal Government and the people of Somalia,\" the council's current president, Burkina Faso's U.N.",
"Ambassador Michel Kafando, said Thursday.",
"Video of the graduation ceremony showed Dr. Osman Dufle, the country's former health minister, speaking as the camera begins to shake -- apparently from the explosion.",
"Afterward, Dufle told journalists that he saw a person dressed in black moving through the audience just before the blast, according to the Radio Mogadishu journalist.",
"Al-Shabaab is made up of former allies of Ahmed, once a leader of the Islamist movement that briefly held power in Mogadishu in 2006.",
"Adow, a Somali-American, served as the foreign secretary of the Islamic Courts Union when it held Mogadishu.",
"But while Ahmed and other former members of the ICU accepted a U.N.-brokered peace agreement with the government they once fought, Al-Shabaab -- which the United States says has links to al Qaeda -- has rejected the peace agreement and has waged a bloody campaign against the transitional government.",
"The African Union's peacekeeping mission AMISOM condemned Thursday's attack.",
"It vowed to \"spare no efforts to ensure that the perpetrators of this act and such heinous crimes against humanity being carried out in Somalia\" will be brought to justice.",
"The journalists killed were Mohamed Amiin Abdullah of Shabelle Media Network and freelance cameraman Hassan Ahmed Hagi, who worked closely with the network.",
"CNN regularly works with Shabelle Media.",
"The African Union condemned the attack, saying it would \"spare no efforts to ensure that perpetrators of this act and such heinous crimes against humanity being carried out in Somalia\" will be brought to justice.",
"The National Union of Somali Journalists also condemned the attack and said it brought the number of journalists killed in the country this year to eight.",
"CNN's Ben Brumfield and journalist Mohamed Amiin Adow contributed to this report."
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"(Skiing Magazine) -- Picture this: You're charging down a course at 80 mph.",
"The world whips by you in a blur.",
"You catch an edge, smack into a gate and somersault into the safety nets, cracking your neck and shredding a knee.",
"Season? Done. Olympic dreams?",
"Over. Career? Definitely on hold, possibly kaput.",
"That's what happened in December to TJ Lanning, one of the U.S.",
"Ski Team's top racers, during a downhill race at Canada's Lake Louise.",
"He's one of many international Alpine competitors sidelined this winter because of season-ending injuries.",
"Other casualties include 2009 downhill champ Canadian John Kucera and French slalom star Jean-Baptiste Grange.",
"Addressing the rash of early-season injuries, Aksel Lund Svindval, the 2009 men's overall World Cup winner, posted the following on his blog in December: \"In two weeks of intense World Cup racing in North America, racers have sustained the following ... 7 torn ACLS, 4 knee ligaments, 1 broken arm, 1 broken leg, 1 broken neck, 1 concussion, 1 dislocated knee, 1 dislocated shoulder .. is this OK?\"",
"Sure, ski racing has always been a dangerous sport, but with ever-evolving gear and technologies creating faster and faster competitors, the incidence of injuries has spiked.",
"Skiing Magazine: Jamaica's Olympic skier, ready for glory .",
"The International Ski Federation (known as FIS), the World Cup governing body, launched the \"Injury Surveillance System\" in 2006 to track facts and figures on injury patterns across all disciplines: Nordic, freestyle and Alpine.",
"Among Alpine racers, knee injuries are the most common affliction.",
"As a part of this initiative, in December FIS convened a panel of six top Alpine competitors, including Didier Cuche, Scott Macartney, and Svindal, to drill down on how to make racing safer.",
"They cited course preparation, improved take-off points for jumps, flat landings and medical procedures as top concerns.",
"Skiing Magazine: French Olympic uniforms: Really pink .",
"The athletes also made a plea for redesigned gates, ones that would rip off more easily upon impact.",
"In Lanning's accident, they say this would have significantly reduced his injuries and their severity.",
"While competitors want to increase safety, they're also aware that it's the danger, blood and guts of their sport that turn fans on, and athletes are wary of ratcheting down the visceral appeal.",
"When it comes to modifying race procedures, FIS is adamant about using systematic data collection and scientific analysis to make informed decisions.",
"In January, FIS rolled out a new, three-year scientific study to analyze Alpine racing safety and to make recommendations on how to decrease the number of injuries.",
"The first phase will collect information through interviews with athletes, coaches and equipment providers, among other experts, to gather suggestions for short-term prevention solutions.",
"Subsequent stages will focus on prevention strategies and rule changes.",
"However, some modifications were deemed urgent enough to institute immediately: smaller jumps and new gates with flags that rip way upon contact.",
"FIS works closely with the Vancouver Organizing Committee to design the Alpine courses at the Olympics, but ultimately, it's VANOC that sets them -- save the downhill, which FIS still oversees; it's an old, complicated tradition.",
"With fog rising from Whistler Mountain during the downhill training runs, making visibility next to none, officials were scrambling to re-design the race gates in an effort to make them more visible, switching the flag color from green to red.",
"With this last-minute change, officials on the ground weren't sure if the new, FIS-sanctioned gates would be in place during the Winter Games.",
"Skiing Magazine: The Lindsey Vonn workout .",
"© 2010 Skiing Magazine.",
"All rights reserved.",
"Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited."
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"TJ Lanning among those sidelined by injuries after skiing accidents .",
"Number of injuries increases as technology improvements allow for higher speeds .",
"Panel has convened to make racing safer for the athletes .",
"It's looking at course preparation, take-off points, redesigned gates and medical procedures ."
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"(CNN) -- It's a trip that would make Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher blush.",
"On Friday, the Carnival cruise ship Elation, sponsored by the world's largest nonprofit singles travel group, will make history by hosting the world's first International Cougar Cruise, and we don't mean the animal.",
"Defined by the Urban Dictionary, a cougar is \"an older woman who frequents clubs in order to score with a much younger man.\"",
"It can be anyone from \"an overly surgically altered wind tunnel victim, to an absolute sad and bloated old horn-meister.\"",
"\"A cougar is generally known as a woman over 40 who likes to date younger men, but theoretically any woman who dates younger men is a cougar,\" said Rich Gosse, who came up with the cougar cruise idea.",
"The ship, which sets sail from San Diego, California, to Ensenada, Mexico, for three nights, is booked for 300 guests and even has a waiting list.",
"The ship has three swimming pools, a seven-deck-high atrium, bar and grill, a Moroccan-inspired Casablanca Casino and a lounge that features stage shows, according to Ann Thomas, owner of the Singles Travel Company and organizer of the Cougar Cruise.",
"After making port in Ensenada, the cruise offers extracurricular activities like horseback riding, ATVing and other outdoor excursions.",
"\"There's at least four or five options a day for people to get together on the cruise.",
"We're doing lots of activities; dancing, dining, Jacuzzi parties, karaoke for two hours.",
"And starting at $125 a ticket, it's a great price,\" Thomas said.",
"\"I've had to hire two more people part-time just to pick up the phones,\" she said.",
"\"I've never seen a response quite like this.\"",
"Thomas admits that she was hesitant to sign on to the idea but is glad she did.",
"\"We have people flying in from Italy and Denmark.",
"My associates have been booking from France, Canada.",
"It's fascinating,\" Thomas said.",
"Gosse, who has been hosting singles events for more than 30 years, said he got the idea after hosting a cougar convention in Palo Alto, California.",
"\"We had to turn away hundreds of people,\" Gosse said.",
"\"Then we did one in Beverly Hills and had a massive crowd down there, so I thought, maybe we should do a cougar cruise.",
"I didn't think anyone would want to go.",
"Needless to say, the phone is ringing off the hook.\"",
"These cougars may as well be an endangered species compared with those hunting them on this cruise.",
"\"The basic problem is, we have is too many cubs,\" Gosse said.",
"\"We usually have too many women and not enough guys, but there's been a paradigm shift in recent years, so now the cubs are more excited about it than the cougars.\"",
"A \"cub\" is someone in their 20s or early 30s who likes to date older women, according to Gosse.",
"For years, he says, it's been socially acceptable for older men to date younger women.",
"But in recent years, a phenomenon sparked by celebrities like Kutcher, baseball player Alex Rodriguez (who is said to have dated pop star Madonna) and others has led a new generation of younger men on the prowl for more experienced partners.",
"There is even an ABC sitcom called \"Cougar Town\" that glamorizes the sexual escapades of a 40-something divorcee on a search for self-discovery by dating younger men.",
"\"Tim Robbins [and] Susan Sarandon was the first high-profile cougar-cub relationship,\" Gosse said of the actors, who have been together since the late 1980s.",
"\"Now we're seeing a paradigm shift where these younger guys are actively looking for older women.\"",
"\"If you look at the demographics, the only logical way for people to get their needs met is for younger men to date older women,\" he said.",
"According to the U.S. Census Bureau, for every 100 single women in their 20s in America, there are 118 single men in their 20s.",
"The reason, Gosse said, is that young women are dating older guys.",
"\"When you're single, you always wish the person meets someone they want to be with.",
"If this is something they want, then I wish them well,\" Thomas said."
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"Cruise for women who date younger men sets sail on Carnival cruise ship Elation .",
"The event is fully booked at 300 travelers, organizers say .",
"Cruise is one of many symbols of burgeoning \"cougar\" movement ."
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"(CNN) -- Only moments after Tiger Woods began reading his apology Friday, writers, pundits and tweeters largely split into two camps: those who felt that his words were a heartfelt effort to acknowledge wrongs and set them right, and those who didn't believe a word of it.",
"David Hinckley, in the New York Daily News, was unconvinced: \"Prisoners of war reading prepared denunciations of Western imperialism look more comfortable than Tiger Woods did Friday, apologizing for his 'selfish and irresponsible' behavior.",
"Never relaxed and easygoing in front of a TV camera in the best of times, Woods was a man saying the right things out loud while everything about his demeanor was silently screaming, 'I don't want to be here.'",
"His eyes occasionally moving around the room as he worked to enunciate his scripted remarks clearly, Woods looked like a man who had caught his leg in a bear trap.\"",
"By contrast, SI.com's Michael Rosenberg took Tiger at his word: \"This was a real person with real flaws and real failures that he really acknowledged.",
"Tiger has always preferred to sell an image instead of being himself; this was obvious even before he crashed his car last Thanksgiving.",
"Ironically, at the moment when Tiger's image is most at risk, he finally showed us who he is.",
"... A lot of us have trouble apologizing to our spouse or our boss when we make a mistake.",
"Think about what it must be like to apologize to the world.",
"I don't know what else people can ask of the guy.\"",
"At beliefnet.com, Rabbi Schmuley Boteach was convinced that the apology was heartfelt: \"Tiger Woods' statement was a model of repentance and contrition.",
"He admitted he had a problem.",
"He said that words alone would not solve it, that he requires, and is receiving counseling.",
"He admitted that celebrity and money had given him a sense of entitlement and had corrupted him.",
"He said he had behaved selfishly and irresponsibly.",
"He accepted that being a public figure meant private responsibility and that he had to model good behavior for the youth.",
"And he looked the entire time like he meant it.",
"It was that rarest of things, a sincere and unconditional statement of contrition and responsibility from a public figure for cheating on his wife.\"",
"ESPN.com's Bill Simmons called the apology \"a borderline train wreck\" and said: \"It amazes me that Tiger learned little to nothing from the past two months.",
"The control freak whose life slipped out of control dipped right back into control-freak mode, reading a prepared speech in front of a hand-selected audience of people, taking no questions, talking in clichés and only occasionally seeming human.",
"Everything about it seemed staged.",
"Everything. When the main camera broke down at the nine-minute mark and Tiger had to be shown from the side, I half-expected to see that he was plugged in to the wall.\"",
"CNN legal analyst Lisa Bloom had a different take, saying that while Tiger Woods hit a \"home run\" in acknowledging that he had a mistaken view of what his fame entitled him to, the most significant thing about the apology was the absence of his wife, Elin: \"Elin Woods joins the more recent and growing list -- Elizabeth Edwards, Jenny Sanford -- who stand out for not standing by their husbands' public confessionals.",
"Famous wives are public figures themselves, however reluctantly, and serve as role models for girls and women who watch their moves carefully.",
"Elin's absence says this: I am not a doormat.",
"Nor should you be. She may forgive, or not; she may stay, or not.",
"That's her private business.",
"But she refused to be part of the public spectacle... And that is as it should be.\"",
"Mary McNamara, at the Los Angeles Times, wondered why Woods bothered to make the statement, saying it just \"reignited\" the news cycle: \"... it would have been nice if Woods had seemed more genuine -- the only real emotion he seemed to be experiencing was anger at the media, and a general air of irritated resignation at having to make this statement in the first place.",
"Which, of course, he did not. The world would have gone on turning without a prepared statement from Tiger Woods.",
"But unless Woods is planning to retire, to embrace a truly private life, then going out there with a 'I'm saying this and then I'm not saying anything more' is just ridiculous and disingenuous.\"",
"Taking more of the middle ground, Washington Post media columnist Howard Kurtz, who hosts \"Reliable Sources\" on CNN, said on the Post's site: \"It's not too much to say that this is a man in pain -- self-inflicted, to be sure, but pain nonetheless.",
"But putting the tawdriness of the multiple mistresses behind him will probably take more than one carefully controlled television appearance.\"",
"iReport: Share your views on Woods' apology .",
"Even before the apology, there was a bounty of opinion arguing that it wasn't a good idea.",
"The pseudonymous \"Stanley Bing\" at Fortune.com begged Tiger not to apologize in this blog post: .",
"\"This nation is an apology factory.",
"People are held up to impossible standards, or even possible ones, and fail to live up to them, as people will, and then the apology machine goes into action and will not shut down again until it runs its course, or is denied of fuel.",
"You are simply giving it more fuel. ...",
"I hope I'm not too late. You're scheduled to apologize again this morning.",
"Perhaps you won't get this advice until it's too late.",
"If so, you know what? It's still good.",
"You can't unapologize now. But let that be it, forever.",
"Answer no more questions.",
"Say you're sorry, if necessary, to the one person to whom you genuinely owe an apology.",
"No, it's not Barbara Walters.\"",
"And Selena Roberts, at SI.com, faulted Woods for stealing the spotlight from U.S. athletes at the Winter Olympics who were getting well-earned recognition: .",
"\"The Americans have earned their enthusiasm, and all the coverage and headlines that go with it.",
"Now Tiger wants to eclipse their sunshine by crashing their bash with his own pity party. ...",
"The days of seeing the Americans through the prism of Olympians Behaving Badly have seemed a scene of the past at these Games.",
"Then Tiger, the nation's gold-medal bad boy, surfaces, demanding equal time.",
"Once again, Tiger couldn't help himself.\"",
"CNN contributor Roland Martin said he wasn't looking for an apology: \"I'm sick of these sanctimonious folks who are blabbering about Woods needing to be grilled about his private behavior.",
"Look, Tiger Woods didn't cheat on me.",
"He's not my daddy, brother, cousin, church member, neighbor or friend.",
"He didn't let me down or crush my view of him.",
"He is not and never was my role model.\""
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"Tiger Woods apologized Friday and said he was working on repairing damage he caused .",
"Immediate opinion divided, with one group saying he showed vulnerability and sincerity .",
"Another group said apology was scripted and didn't seem heartfelt ."
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"Montevideo, Uruguay (CNN) -- A court sentenced former Uruguayan President Juan Maria Bordaberry to 30 years in prison on Wednesday for the coup that consolidated his power in 1973 and for human rights violations.",
"Judge Mariana Mota convicted Bordaberry of violating the constitution, nine counts of \"forced disappearance\" and two counts of political homicide.",
"Bordaberry, 81, had already been under house arrest since 2007 for the killings of two opposition legislators in 1976.",
"Bordaberry assumed office in 1972 following an election that has since been questioned.",
"In 1973, he backed a military coup that kept him in power, and dissolved congress and suspended the country's constitution.",
"The military pushed him out in favor of another leader in 1976.",
"Journalist Dario Klein contributed to this report for CNN ."
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"Juan Maria Bordaberry assumed presidency in 1972 .",
"He backed a military coup in 1973 that kept him in power .",
"Judge convicts him of political homicide, forced disappearance .",
"Military pushes Bordaberry out in 1976 ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama's accusations that Iran's nuclear program runs afoul of international agreements are \"baseless,\" the Islamic republic's president told CNN's Larry King on Friday.",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says President Obama's accusations are \"baseless.\"",
"\"We did not expect Mr. Obama within less than 48 hours, to basically violate the commitment that he spoke of at the United Nations,\" said President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.",
"The Iranian leader was referring to Obama's Wednesday speech to the U.N. General Assembly, where Obama called for international unity in attacking the world's challenges.",
"Asked if he was expressing disappointment in the U.S. president, Ahmadinejad responded, \"We simply didn't expect him to say something that was ... was baseless.\"",
"Earlier Friday evening Obama said \"Iran is on notice\" regarding its nuclear efforts, and that the international community is united in its opposition to Tehran's nuclear program.",
"\"They are going to have to make a choice: Are they willing to go down the path to greater prosperity and security for Iran, giving up the acquisition of nuclear weapons ... or will they continue down a path that is going to lead to confrontation,\" he said at a news conference at the G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.",
"Obama's comments came hours after Iran acknowledged the existence of a second uranium enrichment facility and ahead of next week's planned meeting between Iran and the five permanent United Nations Security Council members, plus Germany.",
"The October 1 meeting will take place in Geneva, Switzerland.",
"Obama said he would not speculate on any course of action absent a satisfactory response from Iran.",
"\"Even countries who a year ago or six months ago might have been reluctant to even discuss things like sanctions,\" are starting to become concerned, Obama said.",
"Obama said his \"preferred course of action is to resolve this in a diplomatic fashion.",
"It's up to the Iranians to respond.\"",
"The U.S. president said the conclusions about Iran's nuclear ambitions came as a result of the work of three intelligence agencies -- those of Britain, France and the United States.",
"The work, Obama said, was done \"to make sure that we were absolutely confident about the situation there.\"",
"The United States has known about the unfinished site since the Bush administration, according to senior U.S. officials who declined to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the negotiations.",
"French intelligence officials were also aware of the facility for several months at least, a U.S. diplomatic source said.",
"It wasn't until Monday that Iran wrote a letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency, revealing the existence of the underground facility on a military base near the Shia Muslim holy city of Qom.",
"The facility is thought to be capable of housing 3,000 centrifuges, which is not enough to produce nuclear fuel to power a reactor but is sufficient to manufacture bomb-making material, according to a U.S. diplomatic source who read the letter.",
"Iran told the IAEA there is no nuclear material at the site, an agency spokesman said.",
"Once Iran alerted the IAEA, Obama began sharing U.S. intelligence on the nuclear site with allies, particularly with Russia and China in an effort to get those countries on board with new sanctions against Iran, the officials said.",
"The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed Friday that Iran admitted the existence of the \"new pilot fuel enrichment plant,\" prompting Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to respond at the G-20 economic summit.",
"\"Iran's decision to build yet another nuclear facility without notifying the IAEA represents a direct challenge to the basic compact at the center of the nonproliferation regime,\" Obama said, with Brown and Sarkozy standing at his side.",
"Watch world leaders react to Iran » .",
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not mention the Qom plant during his visit to New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly sessions.",
"He reiterated earlier claims that Iran has fully cooperated with nuclear inspectors.",
"He emphasized this again Friday afternoon at a news conference, where he said Iran complied with IAEA regulations requiring it be informed at least six months before an enrichment facility becomes operational.",
"\"We still have a year left before that six months kicks in,\" Ahmadinejad said.",
"\"I thought we were supposed to be encouraged for taking this action,\" he said.",
"Watch Ahmadinejad hit back at Obama » .",
"Iran's revelation of a new nuclear site could actually \"strengthen their hand\" as Tehran heads into next week's talks, according to Paul Ingram, an analyst who studies Iran and nuclear nonproliferation.",
"\"It will be seen as an indication that they are willing to play by the rules,\" said Ingram, the executive director of the British American Security Information Council in London, England.",
"He said the timing of Iran's revelation, between the U.N. General Assembly sessions and the October 1 meeting, is deliberate on Iran's part.",
"\"This will make it more difficult to persuade them to abandon enrichment,\" Ingram said.",
"Iran claims its nuclear enrichment program is intended for peaceful purposes, but the international community accuses it of continuing to try to develop nuclear weapons capability.",
"iReport.com: Dissidents discuss Iran enrichment plants .",
"Iran had acknowledged only a uranium enrichment plant in Natanz, which nuclear inspectors visited recently.",
"Iran also has an unfinished nuclear research reactor in Arak, and U.N. nuclear inspectors were allowed access to that facility this month.",
"Other important nuclear sites in Iran include its Bushehr nuclear power plant and the Isfahan uranium conversion plant.",
"Map: Iran's nuclear sites » .",
"Washington became aware of the covert facility near Qom several years ago, but a clearer picture about the facility emerged later, a U.S. counter-proliferation official said.",
"The enrichment facility would probably not be operational for another year, the official said.",
"The official said the newly unveiled facility \"doesn't really change the baseline\" conclusion of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, which concluded that Iran could manufacture a nuclear weapons between 2010 and 2015.",
"The official added that there are suspicions about other possible hidden or undeclared nuclear-related facilities.",
"CNN's Ed Henry, Dan Lothian, Pam Benson, Matthew Chance and Moni Basu contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Ahmadinejad says he didn't expect Obama to make such \"baseless\" remarks .",
"Iranian president says nation has complied with IAEA regulations .",
"Iran tells IAEA it has a second nuclear enrichment plant .",
"Iran told IAEA there is no nuclear material at the site, IAEA spokesman said ."
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"(CNN) -- A pop star could have a quickie Vegas wedding tomorrow, to a man she meets tonight, if she so chooses.",
"Scott Peterson, convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife and on death row, has an inalienable right to a prison wedding with a female pen pal if the mood strikes him.",
"Indiana grandmother Linda Wolfe holds the Guinness World Records title for most marriages: 23.",
"One lasted just 36 hours.",
"She's on the lookout for No. 24, and when she finds him, no law can stop her from marrying him.",
"The U.S. Supreme Court has held unanimously that \"the freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.",
"Marriage is one of the basic civil rights of man.\"",
"So basic, so important, so fundamental, in constitutional parlance, that no state can interfere with even the most reckless heterosexual nuptials.",
"Yet in most states, my friends Wilbert and Carlos, \"free men\" together 16 years and lovingly raising a son, are shut out of the 1,100 federal and hundreds of state legal benefits that come with marriage.",
"These include the right to visit a spouse in a hospital and make medical decisions; employer sick and bereavement leave; inheritance rights; the right to give unlimited gifts to a spouse without gift tax; disability, pension, and Social Security benefits; the right to bring a wrongful death case; the right to refuse to testify against a spouse; or the right to prevent the deportation of a foreign-born partner by marriage, among others.",
"Perhaps most poignant, and often lost in this debate, are children in same-sex families: kids like my friends' son Dorian, growing up with the sting of knowing that his parents are second-class citizens in their own country.",
"Study after study finds that something about marriage makes us live longer, healthier lives.",
"Married folks have significantly better mental health, engage in fewer risky behaviors, eat healthier, have less illness and are just plain happier.",
"And don't tell me that civil unions are exactly the same as marriage.",
"If that's true, then let's let gays and lesbians pick first.",
"If they pick marriage, and heterosexuals are relegated to civil unions, no problem, right, since they are exactly the same?",
"The trial challenging Proposition 8, the law that bans same-sex marriage in California, started Monday in San Francisco.",
"This will be the first federal trial in U.S. history in which testimony will be heard and recorded about the harm to gay and lesbian citizens caused by laws like Prop 8. iReport: Is Prop 8 constitutional?",
"Share your view .",
"As a civil rights lawyer for 23 years, there is no question at all in my mind that as a matter of constitutional law, the federal court must strike down any law that creates a subclass of Americans, shutting them out of legal privileges and protections available to others, merely because they are gay.",
"Demeaning and disrespecting gay people is a constitutional affront.",
"Seven years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down Lawrence v. Texas, the gay community's Brown v. Board of Education, striking down state laws that criminalized private, consensual gay sex, saying: \"The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives.",
"The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime.\"",
"When all the testimony about legal rights, benefits and protections in the Prop 8 trial is said and done, Perry v. Schwarzenegger is ultimately about just that.",
"Our gay and lesbian friends and neighbors are entitled to respect for their private lives, and the state cannot demean their existence, even by majority vote.",
"Seven out of 10 Americans supported laws banning interracial marriage at the time our president's black father and white mother married.",
"But the Supreme Court knew that our federal Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the law was a bedrock American principle that sometimes requires the courts to lead, and so lead they did, striking down antimiscegenation laws in 1967.",
"Now, only lunatic-fringe bigots would support those laws.",
"My favorite anti-Prop 8 placard read: \"When do I get to vote on your marriage?\"",
"Same-sex marriage may be a politically volatile and complex issue, but as a matter of federal constitutional law, it's simple: Fundamental rights must be granted equally across the board to all American citizens.",
"Equal means equal.",
"The rest, constitutionally speaking, is just noise.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Lisa Bloom."
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"Lisa Bloom: Heterosexuals may marry in jail, after one-night stands, many times over .",
"Yet, Bloom says, longtime same-sex couples with children can't marry .",
"Bloom writes that the Constitution demands end to discriminatory Proposition 8 .",
"She says Prop 8 violates the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law ."
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"Vancouver, British Columbia (CNN) -- Calling it the most painful injury she has ever had to face, American skier Lindsey Vonn, a medal favorite in five events, has cast doubt on whether she will be able to compete in the upcoming Winter Olympics.",
"\"Yeah, that's a possibility,\" she said when asked at a news conference on Wednesday as to whether a shin injury might keep her out of action.",
"Vonn, a two-time World Cup champion, said she injured her right shin when she fell in practice while in Austria recently.",
"The top of the boot hit her shin at \"pretty much the worst place\" it could, she said.",
"\"It's just a matter of dealing with the pain,\" she added, indicating there was no structural damage.",
"\"We have to see how it is this week,\" confirmed Vonn -- who added she had not taken any pain medicines while in Vancouver."
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"Lindsey Vonn cast doubts on whether she will be able to compete in the Winter Olympics .",
"The American Alpine skier is struggling to recover from a shin injury .",
"Vonn said she injured her right shin when she fell in practice while in Austria ."
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"Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Heavy flooding in central Mexico in the past week has killed at least 33 people and left thousands homeless, the government said Monday.",
"Schools remained closed in five cities in Mexico's Michoacan state, where the flooding has killed at least 22 people and left more than 3,500 residents homeless, the state government said on its Web site.",
"Another 83 people still were missing Monday in Michoacan, a state in western coastal Mexico that has been beset by drug violence in the past few years.",
"A mudslide Saturday killed at least 11 people near the small town of Temascaltepec, in neighboring Mexico state.",
"Uncharacteristic heavy rain throughout Mexico also has led to flooding in the nation's capital, Mexico City.",
"Up to 35,000 people nationwide could have been affected, published reports said.",
"On Sunday, Mexican President Felipe Calderon toured Valle de Chalco, a city in Mexico state.",
"In Valle de Chalco, on the eastern outskirts of the Mexico City area, officials announced that contaminated water from a sewage network that overflowed Friday will continue to flood the town for at least another 48 hours.",
"The number of affected houses in the city grew from 2,000 on Friday to about 3,000 on Monday, the government said.",
"Mexico state is bordered on the west by Michoacan and adjoins Mexico City on three sides -- north, east and west.",
"In Mexico City, officials announced the reopening Monday of 165 of the 174 schools that were closed Friday because of the heavy rain and flooding.",
"Calderon and other Mexican officials have vowed to help displaced families, including offering them food, medicine, shelter and cash allowances to buy new furniture."
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"Flooding in the last week could have affected up to 35,000 people, reports say .",
"Government: At least 22 people dead and more than 3,500 homeless in Michoacan state .",
"165 of 174 Mexico City schools that were closed Friday reopened Monday .",
"Government vows to offer food, medicine, cash and shelter to displaced people ."
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"(CNN) -- Polish goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski made two sorry blunders as Arsenal crashed to a 2-1 defeat in their Champions League last 16 clash against Porto at Estadio do Dragao.",
"Fabianski, standing in for the injured Manuel Almunia saw a soft shot go past him for Porto's opener.",
"Comeback defender Sol Campbell quickly leveled for Arsenal but it was his back-pass which was picked up by Fabianski to concede a free kick which led to Porto's winner in the second half.",
"Porto were ahead after just 11 minutes as he was horribly caught out of position by a low right wing cross cum shot from Silvestre Varela which deflected off his diving body and over the line.",
"In an open game, Arsenal were quickly level as Thomas Vermaelen and then Tomas Rosicky worked a Samir Nasri corner to Campbell who headed home from close range on 16 minutes.",
"It was Campbell's first goal for Arsenal since the 2006 Champions League final.",
"Fabianski mixed brilliance with his mistakes as he did well to keep out a fine shot from Micael on 29 minutes.",
"Arsenal thought they should have had a penalty when Tomas Rosicky was pulled down, but soon afterwards they found themselves behind again.",
"Hesitancy between Campbell and Fabianski led to the keeper picking up the ball just inside the penalty area.",
"With Campbell still debating the decision, claiming it was not a deliberate back-pass, Porto took the free-kick immediately - which Micael quickly tapped to Falcao for the Colombian to roll the ball into an empty net.",
"Porto pressed hard for a third ahead of the second leg in London but Arsenal held out to limit their losses.",
"Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger accused referee Martin Hansson of a \"massive mistake\" after his side's defeat.",
"\"I believe it (the back-pass) was accidental, Sol touched it accidentally,\" Wenger told ITV1.",
"\"And the referee should give us time to build the wall.\"",
"In the other last 16 clash on Wednesday, Bayern Munich clinched a 2-1 win over 10-man Fiorentina in the Allianz Arena.",
"Arjen Robben put the Bundesliga side ahead with a penalty just before halftime, but Per Kroldrup gave the Italian visitors a deserved equalizer five minutes into the second half.",
"Referee Tom Henning Ovrebro, who took charge of the controversial semifinal between champions Barcelona and Chelsea last season, was in the spotlight again as he controversially sent off Fiorentina's Massimo Gobbi for an apparently innocuous tackle.",
"Miroslav Klose, who many deemed fortunate to stay on the field for a more robust challenge, then headed home a late Bayern winner with Fiorentina claiming he was offside."
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"Sol Campbell scores Arsenal's equalizer before Portuguese side score second after break .",
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"(CNN) -- Pennsylvania and the nation said goodbye Tuesday to John P. Murtha, politician, warrior, father, friend, gentleman.",
"Speakers at the funeral for the Democratic congressman recalled a man skilled in the ways of Washington but, more importantly, a public servant who never forgot why he was elected 17 times to represent Pennsylvania's 12th district.",
"\"Jack Murtha never lost sight of God's purpose in the law,\" said the Rev.",
"William George, president of the Georgetown Preparatory School in Washington.",
"\"Lawmaking should be sacred work, and Jack knew that.\"",
"Murtha, 77, died February 8 of complications from gall bladder surgery.",
"A former Marine colonel and twice-wounded Vietnam War veteran, Murtha earned a reputation as one of Congress's loudest anti-war voices.",
"He initially supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but he stunned much of Washington when he called for a swift U.S. pullout in November 2005.",
"\"U.S. and coalition troops have done all they can,\" Murtha said.",
"\"It's time for a change in direction.\"",
"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led a bipartisan delegation to the funeral, remembered her long-time ally.",
"\"Those who served with him were honored to call him a colleague,\" Pelosi said.",
"\"There were those of us who were privileged to call him friend.\"",
"President Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were among those who filled Westmont Presbyterian Church in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, for the funeral.",
"Murtha's daughter, Donna, recalled his love of nature and how he enjoyed feeding wild birds, but not squirrels that raided the birdseed.",
"\"He loved to outwit the squirrels,\" Donna Murtha said, her voice breaking at times.",
"\"He could not stand it if they were outwitting him.\"",
"Others recalled Murtha's dedication to public service.",
"\"Today there is great comfort in the memory of John P. Murtha's life,\" said the Rev.",
"Douglas Stevens, pastor of Westmont Presbyterian.",
"\"He made a difference.\"",
"Murtha underwent scheduled laparoscopic surgery to remove his gall bladder January 28 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.",
"He was released but rehospitalized a few days later after the complications developed.",
"The operation had been scheduled after Murtha was hospitalized for a few days in December.",
"Murtha represented Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District in the House since 1974, making him the chamber's eighth most senior member.",
"Two days before he died, Murtha became the state's longest-serving congressman.",
"He also was the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress, his biography on the House Web site says.",
"Murtha was considered one of \"the kings of pork\" on Capitol Hill by taxpayer watchdog groups for requesting tens of millions of dollars in earmarks.",
"The congressman strongly defended earmarks, saying on his Web site, \"I believe that elected representatives of the people understand their constituents and districts best.\"",
"Supporters said his efforts helped bring thousands of jobs to western Pennsylvania.",
"Born June 17, 1932, in West Virginia, Murtha moved with his family to Pennsylvania as a child.",
"Prior to joining the House of Representatives, he served in the Pennsylvania state legislature.",
"He also served 37 years in the Marines and Marine Corps Reserves.",
"He retired from the Reserves in 1990 and received the Navy Distinguished Service Medal.",
"Murtha attended Washington and Jefferson College but dropped out in 1952 to enlist in the Marines.",
"He later graduated from the University of Pittsburgh.",
"He is survived by his wife, Joyce, daughter, Donna, and two sons.",
"\"When they made dad, they broke the mold,\" Donna Murtha said during the funeral.",
"\"He lived by the motto, one man can make a difference.\"",
"Murtha was scheduled to be buried later Tuesday at a private ceremony."
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"Murtha, 77, died February 8 of complications from gall bladder surgery .",
"War veteran earned reputation as one of Congress's loudest anti-war voices .",
"\"Jack Murtha never lost sight of God's purpose in the law,\" reverend says ."
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"(CNN) -- An early-morning hazardous material spill has been contained, but officials in Morehead City, North Carolina have closed its port and recommended evacuation of its downtown area after nine containers of high-explosive materials were punctured.",
"The incident occurred when a forklift unloading a vessel punctured a large container and the drums inside it that contained the explosive compound PETN, said Morehead City Police spokeswoman Amy Thompson.",
"PETN was allegedly one of the components of the bomb concealed by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, accused of trying to set off an explosion aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 as it approached Detroit, Michigan, on December 25.",
"PETN is a highly explosive organic compound belonging to the same chemical family as nitroglycerin.",
"Thompson quoted Morehead City Fire Chief Wes Lail as saying the entire cleanup is a five-step process, and only the first step had been completed.",
"There have been no injuries or any environmental damage, according to Carteret County officials.",
"Some residents and business workers left the area, but Tompson said she didn't know how many.",
"\"Right now our advice to everybody is if they're uncomfortable staying in downtown Morehead, to evacuate further west.",
"And if they choose to stay home, stay away from windows and doors,\" Mayor Jerry Jones told CNN.",
"\"Don't get out and sightsee and meander around.",
"It is dangerous, and we need to ensure the safety of our public.",
"As the day goes on and we feel like we have more information, we will pass that information on.\"",
"He said that emergency management officials \"feel that everything is contained.\"",
"But at the early stages in the cleanup, they advised keeping people from getting closed to the port.",
"Carteret County officials said U.S. 70 will be closed from 4th Street in Morehead City to the Morehead-Beaufort high-rise bridge for most of the day.",
"The Coast Guard has barred traffic to and from the zone.",
"The Coast Guard captain of the port ordered the facility closed and a 300-yard safety zone has been established to exclude any vessels operating any closer.",
"Jones said the port called the city before 4:45 a.m.",
"ET to say that a product spilled out of drums on the port property.",
"\"We immediately identified it was a hazardous material, assessed that it was contained on the port and not (going) to go into our neighboring waters, into the waterway,\" he said.",
"Police, fire and explosive ordnance crews from nearby Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point arrived at the scene, and an incident command center was set up nearby.",
"Jones confirmed that the material in the containers is PETN, allegedly one of the components of the bomb concealed by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, accused of trying to bomb Northwest Airlines Flight 253 in Amsterdam on December 25.",
"PETN is a high explosive organic compound belonging to the same chemical family as nitroglycerin.",
"Jones said PETN is a crystal packaged in water for stability.",
"He said the people who transport \"any highly flammable explosive devices\" have to and did notify the port and local emergency and police officials.",
"Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr.",
"Chris O'Neil said the substance has industrial and medical uses.",
"\"Being an international port, we handle highly flammable explosive material all the time.",
"Jet fuel comes through here all the time, gasoline, propane.",
"So it's not unusual to have explosive material coming through Morehead City,\" he said.",
"Also responding were the U.S. Customs and the Salvation Army."
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"NEW: Cleanup is a five-step process, and only the first step is completed, authorities say .",
"Hazardous spill contained at N.C. port, but police recommend evacuations .",
"Nine containers of PETN were punctured at Morehead City port .",
"Mayor says residents who choose to stay should keep clear of doors, windows ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Scientists in the United States are developing a \"synthetic tree\" capable of collecting carbon around 1,000 times faster than the real thing.",
"A conceptual design of how the \"synthetic tree\" might look should they ever reach the stage of production.",
"As the wind blows though plastic \"leaves,\" the carbon is trapped in a chamber, compressed and stored as liquid carbon dioxide.",
"The technology is similar to that used to capture carbon from flue stacks at coal-fired power plants, but the difference is that the \"synthetic tree\" can catch carbon anytime, anywhere.",
"\"Half of your emissions come from small, distributed sources where collection at the site is either impossible or impractical,\" said Professor Klaus Lackner, Ewing-Worzel Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University.",
"\"We aim for applications like gasoline in cars or jet fuel in airplanes.",
"We are going after CO2 that otherwise is nearly impossible to collect,\" he told CNN.",
"While the idea of carbon-catchers may sound far-fetched, an early model has been built and Lackner is in the process of writing a proposal for consideration by the U.S. Department of Energy.",
"He personally explained the concept in a 45-minute meeting with U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu last month at a three-day symposium on climate change in London.",
"\"He was there and I was there and he showed interest,\" Lackner told CNN.",
"\"That's exciting, but I don't particularly want to discuss this in a public forum because I think this gives me a little bit of an opportunity to tailor my proposals to the Department of Energy in a way that makes them more palatable.\"",
"Lackner started working on the concept of an ambient carbon catcher in 1998.",
"\"I argued back then and I still argue that the reason this can be done, from a theoretical point of view, is that the CO2 in the air is actually surprisingly concentrated, therefore the device you need to collect CO2 is quite small.\"",
"The \"synthetic tree\" looks more like a public convenience block than a hi-tech method of reducing carbon emissions, but Lackner told CNN it is highly efficient for its size when compared, for example, to a modern power-generating wind turbine.",
"\"If you give me one of those big windmills which have those big areas through which the rotor moves -- how much CO2 can I avoid?",
"And if I had an equally sized CO2 collector -- how much CO2 can I collect?",
"It turns out the collector is several hundred times better than the windmill.\"",
"Is the \"synthetic tree\" an interesting alternative, or a scientific flight of fancy that's unlikely to happen?",
"Sound Off below. Lackner told CNN that initial concerns over the cost of the technology were focused on the \"front-end\" carbon collector, including the sorbent used to catch the carbon dioxide in the air.",
"But after years of research, Lackner told CNN he and his colleagues have developed a sorbent that is \"close to the ideal,\" in that it uses a relatively small amount of energy to release the CO2 and is not prohibitively expensive.",
"\"By the time we make liquid CO2 we have spent approximately 50 kilojoules [of electricity] per mole of CO2.\"",
"Compare that, Lackner said, to the average power plant in the U.S. which produces one mole of CO2 with every 230 kilojoules of electricity.",
"\"In other words, if we simply plugged our device in to the power grid to satisfy its energy needs, for every roughly 1000 kilograms [of carbon dioxide] we collected we would re-emit 200, so 800 we can chalk up as having been successful,\" he said.",
"Lackner told CNN the biggest cost was at the \"back-end\" of the collector, primarily the technology used to release the CO2 from the sorbent.",
"He said for that reason, on a cost-basis, the \"synthetic tree\" could not compete with modern coal-fired power plants that are designed to release fewer carbon emissions than their older predecessors.",
"But he said when compared to the cost of retro-fitting an existing coal plant, the \"synthetic tree\" becomes more viable.",
"\"The bottom line is we have in this way the ability to deal with the problem at a cost which is somewhat higher than on a coal-fired power plant retro-fit, but not much higher.\"",
"Besides, he said, the technology is not being developed as an alternative to the carbon capture and storage methods currently being tested for large-scale use on coal-fired power stations.",
"He's targeting carbon that's already in the air.",
"The concept of the \"synethic tree\" has caught the imagination of one of the first scientists to warn the world about global warming, Lackner's colleague at Columbia University, Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Professor Wally Broecker.",
"\"I'm extremely excited about this.",
"I think this is something that the world's going to have to have, unfortunately,\" Broecker told CNN from Madrid where he received a BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his work on the issue of climate change.",
"Broecker told CNN most people still don't recognize the magnitude of the task the world faces in reducing global carbon emissions, and it was likely that one day urgent action would need to be taken, above and beyond the current measures being discussed.",
"\"We're probably not going to stop CO2 rising until it's double what it was near-1800 and maybe even more than that,\" he said.",
"\"I think we will find that the planet is too warm, ice is melting too fast... and we'll want to bring the CO2 back down again.",
"The only way we can do that on a short timescale would be to pull it back out of the atmosphere.\"",
"Broecker told CNN the units could stand in the middle of Australia, for example, and their presence wouldn't significantly disrupt the atmospheric distribution.",
"\"Each unit would take out a ton of CO2 a day -- which would be the amount of CO2 produced by 20 average automobiles in the U.S.A. And the cost of each unit would be about the cost of a Toyota.",
"So that would mean if you added a five percent surcharge on automobile purchases that money could go to building units to remove the CO2 those vehicles are going to create.\""
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"Technology is being developed by scientists at Columbia University in the U.S.\nBroecker: \"I think this is something that the world's going to have to have\""
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"(The Frisky) -- \"How I Met Your Mother\" has me a little confused.",
"I've watched the show since the beginning and think it is one of the best sitcoms, evah.",
"It's laugh-out-loud funny and unpredictable (Who can forget Slapsgiving or Robin's Canadian pop single, \"Let's Go To The Mall\"?",
"), and gets the late 20-something experience like no other show.",
"Not to mention that Neil Patrick Harris as Barney is one of the funniest characters of all time.",
"But, I digress. The premise of the show has been that Ted is narrating to his children how he met their mother.",
"Only, fours years in, we still have no idea who she is.",
"Earlier this year, the show's executive producer PROMISED that in episode 100, airing this coming Monday, we would finally be introduced to this elusive mother.",
"At the same time, it was leaked that Rachel Bilson was cast for a recurring role on the show.",
"It made so much sense: Ted and Rachel, Rachel and Ted.",
"They're both brunette and would look adorable together.",
"But now new casting news is messing everything up.",
"I just read that two other ladies of note are getting roles on the show.",
"First up is former pro-wrestler Stacy Keibler, who will also be in the 100th episode.",
"And Carrie Underwood just confirmed that she will be on the show this spring.",
"So, uh, who is the mother? My instinct tells me that Bilson is too obvious a choice, considering this is a show that's kept us guessing for four years.",
"The Frisky: 13 super annoying ways people abuse Facebook and Twitter .",
"Remember how, after watching Ted and Robin's romance begin to blossom, we got to the last second of the season premiere and Ted said, \"And that's how I met your Aunt Robin.\"",
"I just know we're in for a twist here.",
"TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. | All Rights Reserved ."
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"Editor's note: Col. Ann Wright, who served for 29 years in the U.S. Army and Army Reserves, was one of the first State Department officers to open the U.S. Embassy in Kabul in 2001.",
"She resigned from the State Department in protest the day the Iraq War began.",
"She had served as a diplomat for 16 years and received the State Department's Award for Heroism.",
"Paul Kawika Martin is Peace Action's political director and the founder of the Afghanistan Policy Working Group.",
"President Obama just announced he plans to send 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan, where hatred of the U.S. grows every day.",
"Next door, nuclear-armed Pakistan tilts toward disaster.",
"It's time for Americans to insist on a nonmilitary way out of this mess.",
"We recently returned from a CodePink study trip to Afghanistan, and our expertise and experience points to a strategy of transitioning from military to political and economic solutions that will help Afghans while making Americans safer.",
"The first step in providing Afghans security and weakening the Taliban and violent extremists is to remove recruiting incentives.",
"It's time to stop air and Predator drone strikes that tend to kill, injure and terrorize civilians.",
"It's time to stop arbitrary detentions and harsh treatment of prisoners that would be unacceptable here.",
"While those in major cities live in relative security, rural Afghans fear violence from insurgents or U.S. and NATO forces.",
"Many fear civil war or the return of the Taliban.",
"Afghanistan requires more trusted Afghan police and security forces.",
"These forces are paid only $110 dollars a month -- not a living wage -- and payments are regularly late.",
"Little wonder these forces are corrupt, poorly motivated and have a high rate of desertion.",
"The Taliban pays its foot soldiers far better.",
"Investing in a living wage and pressuring Hamid Karzai's government to punish corruption swiftly will pay more security dividends than the $1 million a year it costs to send one U.S. soldier.",
"There is no reason to believe the U.S. military is in the best position to train Afghans, given huge cultural differences and past abuses by U.S. forces.",
"The United Nations is expert in training security forces in ways that are culturally sensitive.",
"The U.S. should ask (and help fund) the U.N. to take over the training of Afghan troops and police, with a focus on training Afghan trainers.",
"With Afghan unemployment above 40 percent, job creation is critical to security.",
"Vocational training, infrastructure construction and assistance to farmers will help.",
"We can pay for this economic development by spending current funds more wisely.",
"A criminally small amount of the international aid and development money spent over the last eight years has trickled down to Afghans.",
"Instead, foreign contractors, subcontractors and importers have profited from Afghan misery.",
"USAID's new mantra of \"Afghans first\" is a start, as long as actions match the rhetoric.",
"One successful program that deserves full funding is the National Solidarity Project, an Afghan-run community development program administered by the well-regarded Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development.",
"Obama, NATO commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon should all mandate that where possible, Afghans -- including their businesses, NGOs and products -- should implement and directly benefit from aid projects.",
"Obama didn't mention Afghan women in his speech.",
"Funding women-led NGOs, women's education and job training and hiring women can help raise their status.",
"Outside the capital, not much has changed for Afghan women.",
"Because of cultural traditions, many rural women stay home for lack of security or because of their husbands' demands.",
"The U.S. could transition resources to the Afghan justice system to properly enforce laws about rape and domestic violence, and ensure that girls younger than 16 are not forced to marry.",
"The president rightly mentioned the importance of the Pakistan border.",
"More resources must be transferred to securing the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.",
"This is easier said than done, as U.S. border guards know from their own difficulties of securing the Mexican border.",
"Nonetheless, the international community can increase political pressure on Pakistan to strengthen their border patrols and rid their country of violent extremists such as al Qaeda.",
"Despite assurances by the president, more troops will not provide more security to Afghans.",
"The mere presence of foreign forces and some of their actions have created more Taliban recruits and violent extremists.",
"Instead of starting to bring troops home in 18 months, U.S. and NATO forces must tell internal and regional stakeholders -- publicly or privately -- that there will be a range of time, say 12 to 24 months, when their military presence will cease.",
"Then, they must apply significant pressure and concrete support for a public, comprehensive peace process.",
"This process must include all interested parties, including the Karzai administration, tribal leaders, the Taliban, women leaders, as well as neighboring Iran, Pakistan and India.",
"The U.S. mission in Afghanistan can then focus on rebuilding the country the U.S. partly destroyed eight years ago (through air strikes and funding warlords in the Northern Alliance), lifting Afghans out of poverty and making the country less of a haven or recruiting center for extremists.",
"It's time for a transition from military investments to an economic and civic strategy that supports reconciling and reintegrating Taliban fighters, reducing poverty and rebuilding infrastructure.",
"Obama outlined escalation rather than the needed transition.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Ann Wright and Paul Kawika Martin."
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"Wright and Martin say economic aid and negotiations can succeed instead of troops .",
"Allies should plan to withdraw troops but put pressure on for negotiations, they say ."
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"(CNN) -- The alleged victim in a 1977 sexual assault case against director Roman Polanski has filed court papers seeking dismissal of the charges against him.",
"Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski has lived in exile in France since fleeing the United States in 1978.",
"The woman's declaration seeking dismissal was filed Monday in Los Angeles, California, in connection with Polanski's efforts to have the 31-year-old case dismissed.",
"Polanski, 75, has lived in exile in France since fleeing the United States in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse.",
"Polanski admitted to having sex with a 13-year-old girl, and an arrest warrant against him remains in effect.",
"In her declaration, Samantha Geimer said, \"I am no longer a 13-year-old child.",
"I have dealt with the difficulties of being a victim, have surmounted and surpassed them with one exception.",
"\"Every time this case is brought to the attention of the Court, great focus is made of me, my family, my mother and others.",
"That attention is not pleasant to experience and is not worth maintaining over some irrelevant legal nicety, the continuation of the case.\"",
"Geimer, who has spoken publicly about the case before, including a 2003 appearance on CNN's \"Larry King Live,\" added, \"I have survived, indeed prevailed, against whatever harm Mr. Polanski may have caused me as a child.\"",
"She chided the district attorney's office for not dismissing the case earlier and for \"yet once again (giving) great publicity to the lurid details of those events, for all to read again.",
"True as they may be, the continued publication of those details cause harm to me ...",
"I have become a victim of the actions of the District Attorney.\"",
"The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office had no immediate response to Geimer's declaration.",
"Lawyers for the Oscar-winning film director filed a motion for dismissal of the sex offense case against him in December, citing what the defense called \"extraordinary new evidence\" of \"repeated, unlawful and unethical misconduct\" by the Los Angeles district attorney's office and the judge in Polanski's case.",
"The December motion also argued that Polanski should not be required to return to the United States to appear in court for the dismissal motion to be considered.",
"In her declaration, Geimer said if Polanski cannot appear in court, she will do so to seek dismissal.",
"\"My position is absolutely clear,\" she said.",
"Polanski's motion for dismissal is scheduled for a hearing on January 21.",
"Polanski, a native of Poland, won the Academy Award in 2003 for his Holocaust drama, \"The Pianist.\"",
"Among his other films from earlier in his career are \"Rosemary's Baby\" and \"Chinatown.\"",
"His first wife, actress Sharon Tate, was murdered by the Charles Manson family in 1969."
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"Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl in 1978 .",
"Director lives in exile in France after fleeing the United States ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The chairman of the Republican Party and a leading GOP senator called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to give up his post Sunday, following the publication of remarks he made about President Obama's race in 2008.",
"A new book quotes Reid, D-Nevada, as saying privately in 2008 that Obama could be successful as a black candidate in part because of his \"light-skinned\" appearance and speaking patterns \"with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.\"",
"The remarks were \"embarrassing and racially insensitive,\" said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, head of the GOP's Senate campaign arm, in a statement to CNN.",
"GOP Chairman Michael Steele, on NBC's \"Meet the Press,\" said: \"Racism and racist conversations have no place today in America.\"",
"Steele also was on the defensive for a remark he made last week that members of both parties have called a racial slur.",
"In an interview with Fox News, Steele used the phrase \"honest injun.\"",
"The Congressional Black Caucus has accepted Reid's apology and is dismissing calls for him to step down as majority leader.",
"Rep. Barbara Lee, chairwoman of the caucus, issued the following statement: \"I have had an opportunity to speak with Senator Reid and he apologized for his unfortunate remarks concerning the president, and he understands the gravity of such remarks.",
"There are too many issues like the economy, job creation and energy for these regrettable comments to distract us from the work that must be done on behalf of the American people.\"",
"Democrats also rejected the calls for Reid's dismissal.",
"Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia, chairman of the Democratic Party, said \"the case is closed\" following Reid's round of apologies.",
"Douglas Wilder of Virginia, who 20 years ago became the nation's first elected African-American governor, also rejected calls for Reid's ouster.",
"\"I think that what Reid was giving was a personal opinion, which wasn't affecting the laws or the operation of the dispensation of justice in our country,\" Wilder told CNN's \"State of the Union.\"",
"But he said he believes the incident \"illustrates the need for more open discussion about race.\"",
"Reid's office made clear he has no plans to step down.",
"Democrats rejected the calls for Reid's dismissal, and Reid's office made clear he has no plans to step down.",
"\"Sen. Reid will stay in his position as majority leader and will run for re-election,\" his spokesman said.",
"\"As the leader in the fight to pass the Voting Rights Act and legislation banning hate crimes, Sen. Reid has a long record of addressing issues that are important to the African-American community.",
"His Republican critics who are looking to politicize the issue can't say the same.\"",
"Reid's controversial quote is in the book \"Game Change,\" due in stores Monday.",
"The authors write that \"Reid was convinced, in fact, that Obama's race would help him more than hurt him in a bid for the Democratic nomination.\"",
"In a statement to CNN, Reid said, \"I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.\"",
"\"I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African-Americans for my improper comments.",
"I was a proud and enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama during the campaign and have worked as hard as I can to advance President Obama's legislative agenda,\" Reid said.",
"In his defense, he pointed to his efforts to integrate the Las Vegas strip and the gaming industry, among other legislation favored by African-American voters.",
"\"I have worked hard to advance issues important to the African-American community,\" he said.",
"And the senate leader called Obama on Saturday afternoon to apologize for the remarks.",
"In a statement issued after the call, Obama said, \"As far as I am concerned, the book is closed.\"",
"\"Harry Reid called me today and apologized for an unfortunate comment reported today,\" the president said.",
"\"I accepted Harry's apology without question because I've known him for years, I've seen the passionate leadership he's shown on issues of social justice and I know what's in his heart.\"",
"An aide to the senator told CNN that Reid also offered apologies to several prominent African-American political figures, including House Democrats Jim Clyburn of South Carolina and Barbara Lee of California; the Rev.",
"Al Sharpton; CNN political contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile; NAACP chairman Julian Bond; and the head of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, Wade Henderson.",
"Steele, the GOP's first African-American chairman, was asked about the remarks on both \"Meet the Press\" and \"Fox News Sunday.\"",
"He told NBC on Sunday he believes Reid is out of touch with \"how African-Americans generally feel\" about sensitive issues.",
"Steele was asked by NBC whether he believes the situation is similar to one involving former Sen. Trent Lott, who lost his post as Senate majority leader in 2002 after saying that the nation would have been better off if one-time segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had been elected president.",
"\"Oh, yeah. There is a big double standard here,\" Steele said on NBC.",
"Steele added: \"When Democrats get caught saying racist things, you know, an apology is enough.\"",
"Steele said that if a Republican senator had made the same remark Reid did, Steele himself and the Democratic Party \"would be screaming for his head very much as they were with Trent Lott.\"",
"Cornyn, in his statement, also accused Democrats of following a \"double standard,\" and noted that they had pushed Lott to step down.",
"\"As we await his explanation, Sen. Reid should do the right thing, follow the example that he himself set in 2002, and step down as majority leader,\" Cornyn said.",
"Kaine shot back against those arguments.",
"\"Anybody looking at Trent Lott's statements praising somebody who had been a pro-segregation candidate for president will see that there is no comparison between those comments and those of Sen. Reid,\" Kaine told NBC.",
"The comments \"were in the context of praising the senator and acknowledging that the senator could be a great president, but they were still insensitive,\" Kaine said.",
"Asked whether Reid should resign, he said, \"Absolutely not.",
"... We're moving on.\" Nevada state Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, who is African-American, affirmed his support for Reid in a statement Saturday.",
"\"While I am disappointed in Sen. Reid's comment and choice of words, I accept his apology,\" said Horsford, a Democrat.",
"\"I have known Sen. Reid for many years and he has consistently been supportive of advancing the interests of the African-American community as he has for all Nevadans and all Americans.\"",
"Steele, meanwhile, was asked about his remark in a Fox News interview last week that the GOP platform \"is one of the best political documents that's been written in the last 25 years, 'honest injun' on that.\"",
"\"Fox News Sunday\" host Chris Wallace noted that lawmakers from both parties have called that a racial slur.",
"\"Well, if it is, I apologize for it.",
"It's not an intent to be a racial slur.",
"I wasn't intending to say a racial slur at all,\" Steele said.",
"CNN's Dana Bash, Mark Preston and Rebecca Sinderbrand contributed to this report."
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"Michael Steele calls for Reid to step down, accuses Dems of \"double standard\"\nGOP chair says Senate majority leader's language \"harkens back to the 1950s and '60s\"\nNew book quotes Reid discussing \"light-skinned\" Obama's lack of \"Negro dialect\""
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"(CNN) -- Singer Carrie Underwood has gotten engaged to hockey player beau Mike Fisher, her spokesperson confirmed to CNN.",
"\"I'm happy to confirm that Carrie Underwood is engaged to Mike Fisher, and the couple couldn't be happier,\" said Jessie Schmidt.",
"\"No wedding date has been set at this time.\"",
"Fisher plays for the Ottawa Senators hockey team in Canada.",
"During an appearance on Ellen Degeneres' talk show in November, Underwood joked with the host that the relationship -- then almost a year long -- was the longest she had ever had.",
"\"I joke and say my dogs are the longest relationship ever,\" Underwood said.",
"The couple have been enjoying a long distance relationship and Underwood demurred at the idea of living together.",
"\"No, call me old-fashioned,\" Underwood said during her interview with Ellen.",
"\"He's there. I'm here. We're both doing our thing and it's good.",
"The next guy I move in with will be my hubby.\"",
"Underwood, who has risen from being a former winner of \"American Idol\" to a country music superstar, has been linked in the past with Dallas Cowboys football player Tony Romo and \"Gossip Girl\" actor Chace Crawford."
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"The pair have been enjoying a long distance relationship as he lives in Canada .",
"In November, Underwood said the almost yearlong relationship was her longest to date ."
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"Fort Lauderdale, Florida (CNN) -- She walked to the cameras and could barely look up.",
"With her lip quivering, Sherry Jarvis apologized to the family of 15-year-old Michael Brewer, who is clinging to life in a hospital burn unit.",
"Jarvis is the mother of two boys who, along with three other youths, are accused in the burning of Brewer.",
"Detectives say witnesses saw Brewer, consumed in flames, run about a hundred yards, tear off his shirt and jump into a swimming pool.",
"Brewer's screams can be heard on a 911 call from the October 12 incident.",
"Doctors say he was burned on about 65 percent of his body.",
"\"I'd just like to express how horribly sorry we are,\" Jarvis said in a public statement she and her family made Wednesday.",
"Accompanied by her husband and two daughters, Jarvis spoke slowly as she addressed a gathering of reporters.",
"\"This is a horrible incident that should have never had occurred.\"",
"said Jarvis, her voice full of sorrow and shock.",
"Her sons, ages 13 and 15, face charges that could send them to prison for a long time.",
"Authorities in Broward County, Florida, believe that Brewer was attacked in a chain of events that began when he did not pay one of the five boys $40 for a video game.",
"That boy stole Brewer's father's bicycle, and when Brewer told police, the youth was arrested, then released, authorities said.",
"The next day, the group of five teens allegedly surrounded Brewer and, according to eyewitnesses, yelled, \"He's a snitch.",
"He's a snitch\" before one of them poured alcohol over him, another sparked a lighter, and Brewer was ablaze.",
"All of the boys had been friends since elementary school, authorities said.",
"They did sleepovers at one another's homes, and their families knew each other.",
"\"We pray for Michael's recovery every day, that he gets stronger, which we know in our hearts that he will,\" Sherry Jarvis said.",
"But doctors are unsure about his recovery.",
"Brewer remains on a ventilator.",
"A machine is breathing for him.",
"Each day, a team of doctors spends about four hours changing his bandages.",
"He remains heavily sedated and is going through a very difficult period right now, according to doctors.",
"\"The swelling has come way down, and you can recognize facial expressions now,\" said Dr. Nicholas Namias, medical director of the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital Burn Center in Miami.",
"\"We're still dealing with the respiratory failure.",
"We're dealing with infection now and the need to supply the massive amount of nutrition that this person needs to survive,\" Namias told CNN.",
"\"People are writing horror stories ... but people just can't imagine the kind of sickness we're talking about.",
"He is by no means well ... but the expectation is survival,\" he said.",
"Because he is sedated and on the ventilator, Brewer has been unable to communicate with detectives.",
"Earlier this week, prosecutors were granted extra time to build their cases against the five teens, four 15-year-olds and the 13-year-old.",
"Prosecutors have until November 12 to charge the five as adults, or they will be charged as juveniles and released pending trial later.",
"The 13-year-old cannot face adult charges under Florida law, but that would change if Brewer died.",
"Prosecutors want to interview Brewer about the incident, but doctors say that is unlikely to happen before next week.",
"Brewer's family was not represented at the Jarvis family's public apology.",
"The victim's parents could not be reached for comment.",
"After making her apology, Jarvis said the family would not take questions from the gathered reporters.",
"\"I don't have the words to express any more.",
"I can't answer any more questions because of the criminal case that's still pending,\" she said.",
"The Jarvis family has received death threats, according to family members and their attorney.",
"They haven't stayed at their home since the incident, they say, adding that people have been throwing garbage and even dead animals on their property.",
"On Wednesday, with their attorney at their side, they simply wanted to say to Michael Brewer and his family that they are sorry.",
"Detectives have returned to the Brewer house, after two dolls were found in the swimming pool.",
"The male and female dolls had been melted together, head to feet.",
"\"At this point, we're thinking it's a sick joke, said Jim Leljedal, a spokesman for the Broward County Sheriff's Office.",
"\"It's being classified as criminal mischief, but we'd like to know who's responsible,\" he said."
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"Mother of 2 suspects apologizes, says crime \"should have never had occurred\"\nDoctors say victim, burned on about 65 percent of his body, is on ventilator, expected to live .",
"Because he is sedated and on ventilator, victim hasn't communicated with detectives ."
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"(CNN) -- An oil tanker bound for the United States was hijacked off Somalia with a crew of 28 aboard, maritime authorities said.",
"The M/V Maran Centaurus was commandeered about 600 nautical miles northeast of the Seychelles, on its way to New Orleans, Louisiana, according to the Maritime Security Center.",
"The crew consists of 16 Filipinos, nine Greeks, two Ukrainians and a Romanian, said the security agency, which is run by the European naval force.",
"The 300,000-ton tanker, which started out from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was seized Sunday.",
"It had changed course westward, toward Harardhere or Hobyo, along Somali's central-western coast.",
"Somali pirates have turned high-seas kidnappings into a lucrative business.",
"Pirates have captured more than 50 ships this year off Somalia and are currently holding 12, including the fishing vessel Alakrana, Spanish Defense Minister Carme Chacon said recently.",
"Attacks in the region have significantly increased this year, according to the International Maritime Bureau, which monitors shipping crimes.",
"But successful attacks have gone down as a result of a strong presence of international monitors.",
"The first nine months of this year have seen more pirate attacks than all of last year, the bureau reported on October 21.",
"From January 1 through September 30, pirates worldwide mounted 306 attacks, compared with 293 in all of 2008, it said.",
"More than half of this year's attacks were carried out by suspected Somali pirates off the east coast of Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden, a major shipping route between Yemen and Somalia."
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"M/V Maran Centaurus commandeered about 600 nautical miles northeast of the Seychelles .",
"300,000-ton tanker, which started out from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, was seized Sunday .",
"The crew consists of 16 Filipinos, nine Greeks, two Ukrainians and a Romanian ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- A controversial Muslim group planning to stage an anti-war march through a town that receives British war dead will be banned in the UK from Thursday.",
"British Home Secretary Alan Johnson prepared an order Tuesday proscribing Al-Muhajiroun, also known as Islam4UK.",
"\"Proscription is a tough but necessary power to tackle terrorism and is not a course we take lightly,\" Johnson said in a statement.",
"Al-Muhajiroun is already banned under two other names in the Terrorism Act 2000 -- Al-Ghurabaa and The Saved Sect.",
"Johnson said the ban would now also apply to \"a number\" of the other names the group goes by.",
"The proscription does not need approval by Parliament, because it is considered an amendment to the act, said the Home Office spokeswoman, who did not give her name in line with policy.",
"\"We are clear that an organization should not be able to circumvent proscription by simply changing its name,\" Johnson said.",
"The ban would prevent Al-Muhajiroun from having meetings or raising money, and it would make attending a meeting or being a member of the group a crime.",
"The group's leader, controversial British Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary, had threatened to stage a march in the town of Wootton Bassett as a protest against the war in Afghanistan.",
"Choudary said Sunday, after news of Johnson's plans, that the Home Office could not shut him down.",
"\"We're not going to stop because the government bans an organization,\" he told CNN by phone.",
"\"If that means setting up another platform under another label, then so be it.\"",
"A ban \"will just make the use of those names ... illegal.",
"But Muslims everywhere are obliged to work collectively to establish the Islamic state and sharia law in the UK or wherever they are -- those things can't change,\" he added.",
"The bodies of British war dead are traditionally brought to Wootton Bassett, near a Royal Air Force base, when they are returned to the country.",
"Relatives and friends line the streets of the town along with local residents as hearses carry the flag-draped British remains, in scenes of public mourning widely reported by British media.",
"Choudary's proposal to march empty coffins through the streets drew fury and outrage.",
"The Home Office had said the march would be illegal if the group were banned, but the decision to proscribe the group was not caused only by its plans for the march, the Home Office said.",
"Choudary has never announced a date for his march and area police said he had not contacted them about it, as march organizers are required to do beforehand.",
"The Terrorism Act 2000 gives the home secretary the power to ban groups if the punishment is \"proportionate and based on evidence that a group is concerned in terrorism as defined in the Terrorism Act 2000,\" according to the Home Office.",
"According to the law, groups can be banned if they commit or participate in terrorism; prepare for terrorism; or promote or encourage terrorism.",
"The home secretary can also take into account factors such as specific threats posed to the United Kingdom or British nationals overseas, and the extent of the group's presence in the United Kingdom."
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"Ban on Al-Muhajiroun, also known as Islam4UK, will take effect Thursday .",
"Islamist group proposed to march through town where war dead brought home .",
"Group is already banned under two other names in the Terrorism Act 2000 -- Al-Ghurabaa and The Saved Sect .",
"The group's leader Anjem Choudary said the ban would not stop them ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- A British doctors group called Wednesday for a ban on all smoking in cars, saying the secondhand smoke inside a vehicle can cause severe health problems for children and adults.",
"The Royal College of Physicians made the recommendation in a new report on how secondhand smoke, also called passive smoking, affects children.",
"The report found that, for children, secondhand smoke annually causes more than 20,000 cases of lower respiratory tract infection, 120,000 cases of middle ear disease, at least 22,000 cases of wheezing and asthma, 200 cases of bacterial meningitis, and 40 sudden infant deaths.",
"These cases generate more than 300,000 doctor visits each year and about 9,500 hospital admissions, costing the National Health Service about £23.3 million ($34.9 million) each year, the report said.",
"The findings were based on studies funded by Cancer Research UK and carried out by the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies.",
"England's chief medical officer, Liam Donaldson, said the report will contribute to the the government's review of existing smoking legislation in England later this year.",
"Smoking was made illegal in all public spaces in the United Kingdom in 2007.",
"\"This is a serious public health concern,\" Donaldson said.",
"Health effects on children from secondhand smoke are \"entirely avoidable,\" the report says.",
"It laid out a series of policy recommendations to reduce those effects, including the ban on smoking in cars.",
"\"Smoke-free legislation should be extended much more widely to include public places frequented by children and young people, and to prohibit all smoking in cars and other vehicles,\" the report urged.",
"The report also urged a hike in tobacco prices, more effective health warnings, more generic packaging for tobacco products, and tailored stop-smoking services.",
"\"This report isn't just about protecting children from passive smoking, it's about taking smoking completely out of children's lives,\" said John Britton, chairman of the Royal College of Physicians' Tobacco Advisory Group.",
"Smokers' lobby group Forest said the proposals \"go way beyond what is acceptable in a free society\" and are a first step to banning smoking in homes.",
"\"We wouldn't encourage people to smoke around children, but adults should be allowed to use their common sense and act accordingly,\" said Simon Clark, director of Forest.",
"\"We don't need laws to regulate every aspect of our behavior.\"",
"Clark said the report's claims are a \"huge exaggeration.\"",
"\"Unfortunately the anti-smoking industry isn't interested in compromise.",
"It just wants to bully smokers until they quit,\" Clark said."
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"Smokers' lobby group attacks proposals: are first step to banning smoking in homes ."
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"(CNN) -- Shah Rukh Khan, the Bollywood superstar, has become more than a little accustomed to being adored by millions.",
"\"I don't want to be anonymous...",
"I'm very honest about that. I love being recognized, I love people liking me, I love the fact that people scream when I go out.",
"I think I'll miss all that when it's taken away,\" he told CNN.",
"But earlier this year comments by Khan, the owner of the Indian Premier League cricket team Kolkata Knight Riders, caused a storm of controversy and attention he didn't want.",
"Khan questioned the lack of Pakistani players in this year's competition, and Indian Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena interpreted the comments as inflammatory.",
"Threats were made to boycott his latest film and some activists made some threats against him and his family's safety.",
"\"It just went onto a political agenda platform, onto an activist platform.",
"I'm not on the same playing field.",
"I'm an actor, I'm not a politician,\" he said.",
"\"This was my point of view... it wasn't as if I was saying something new.",
"I didn't know it would cause so much trouble, and especially when a film was releasing, you don't want that kind of trouble.",
"It just went completely through the roof.\"",
"Khan is keen to keep his roles as an actor, cricket team boss and icon for millions as far from the political realm as possible.",
"His face is one of the most salable in India with his image used in a raft of adverts and supporting products.",
"Yet his recent film \"My Name is Khan\" did touch upon religious sensitivities, striking a chord among cinema goers in Muslim countries across the world.",
"In the film Khan, himself a Muslim, plays an autistic Muslim immigrant in American soon after the terrorists attack on September 11, 2001.",
"\"I really thought the film was about humanity.",
"It's not about Islam, it could have been about any religion to be honest,\" he said.",
"\"But I simply thought we made a film about humanity.",
"I knew it would do well but I didn't know it would this well because it is a very niche sort of a subject.\""
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"Comments over lack of Pakistani players in this year's competition causes controversy .",
"Latest film, \"My Name is Khan\" touches upon religious and social sensitivities ."
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"New York (CNN) -- Every year, beginning with the January birthday celebrations for the Rev.",
"Martin Luther King and moving through Black History Month in February, Americans and others revisit the history, role and significance of the black freedom movement in the United States.",
"But there is a frequent tendency to misrepresent the lessons of that movement and apply them to other social movements overseas in a way that misses the mark.",
"This has been happening increasingly with the historical lessons that are being misapplied to the Palestinian freedom movement.",
"It has become almost a cliché, yet people, including Irish rocker Bono, continue to wield King's name when they bemoan the alleged absence of his like among the Palestinians.",
"It seems no matter what Palestinian activists do, they are condemned as terrorists.",
"Whether they are engaged in armed struggle or nonviolent direct action, it does not matter: Palestinian activists are often portrayed as extremists who threaten life and property.",
"The obvious exceptions are those Palestinians who are prepared to accept whatever terms the United States insists upon for the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.",
"The recent arrests of Palestinian human rights activists Jamal Juma', Abdallah Abu Rahma, Ibrahim Amirah and Mohammed Othman are prime examples.",
"Juma' and Othman were imprisoned without charge, Amirah faces charges of incitement, organizing illegal demonstrations, and stone-throwing, and Abu Rahma is confronted with a charge of \"illegal weapons possession,\" apparently because a protest sign he created included a spent tear gas canister .",
"In fact, they were imprisoned (Juma' was released on January 12 and Othman on January 13 after he was held nearly four months) not for firing missiles or ambushing Israeli troops, but for protesting what the International Court of Justice has called the illegal Israeli separation wall that carves up the West Bank and places Palestinian communities in an existence that recalls South African apartheid.",
"The systematic detention of such leaders has been condemned by Amnesty International, but the U.S. public is unlikely to get even a hint that the Israeli government is furthering its efforts to smash dissent in the occupied territories.",
"These recent crackdowns make even more ironic the hope expressed by Bono last month in The New York Times \"that people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their Gandhi, their King, their Aung San Suu Kyi.\"",
"As a commenter on his column noted, these people exist today and have existed within the Palestinian movement.",
"They are just in jail ... or dead. Bassem Abu Rahme, for example, was killed by a teargas canister fired at close range by an Israeli soldier on April 17 while taking part in one of the weekly nonviolent protests that are regularly met with tear gas, billy clubs, rubber bullets and the threat of arrest.",
"I believe that Bassem, like many others, was following in Gandhi's path.",
"While it is certainly true that some of the protests by Palestinians are violent, the same could be said of the anti-colonial protests that took place on the Indian subcontinent against the British at the time of Gandhi.",
"Gandhi certainly preached nonviolent direct action, yet there were others within the independence movement that advocated forceful courses of action.",
"Nevertheless, smearing or repressing all protests in the name of moving against those who use violence is disingenuous, a point well understood when viewing other freedom struggles, whether the Indian independence movement or the black freedom struggle in the United States.",
"In fact, this repression becomes a means not of suppressing violence, but of suppressing all resistance to injustice.",
"This is experienced today by the Palestinian movement.",
"Its objectives are caricatured and maligned by Israel in order to make the repression easier.",
"In this period -- from King's birthday through the celebrations and discussions that take place during Black History Month -- it is useful to recall similar treatment King and other freedom fighters endured, and reflect on the true lessons from his life and struggles that are relevant to the Palestinian struggle and its hopes for a lasting peace.",
"Despite King's acceptance now in mainstream circles, he was first and foremost a troublemaker in the cause of justice.",
"While King believed in peace, he was more importantly a person of action, and one completely intolerant of injustice.",
"In that sense he was a thorn in the side of the powers that be and the status quo.",
"King did not achieve credibility by simply preaching peace and good will, and certainly not by being passive or submissive in the face of oppression.",
"He gained credibility because he was a person who was prepared to challenge the unjust laws and practices of his period, laws and practices that were summarized in the notion of Jim Crow segregation.",
"Even though Jim Crow was the law in much of the United States, King and countless others were prepared to break the law and, thereby, threaten the stability of this country.",
"He was branded a communist, a malcontent and a criminal, all with the aim of discrediting him.",
"And, when that was not enough, and his following did not disappear into the night, he was harassed and faced repeated death threats, ultimately leading to his murder.",
"The condemnation of Palestinian activists as terrorists, no matter their approach, shares a great deal in common with the manner in which King and African-American freedom fighters (and their allies) were demonized and repressed.",
"It was the basic cause that needed to be destroyed by the oppressor and not just the individuals.",
"The same is true today as Palestinian activists, including those who have consciously and openly repudiated armed struggle, are sidelined so that the Israeli government can claim, with a straight face, that it has no Palestinian partner with which it can discuss peace.",
"The \"partners\" are there in Palestine.",
"When we celebrate the courage and vision of freedom fighters such as King or Fannie Lou Hamer and the countless others who are remembered during Black History Month, we should think of those Palestinian Kings and Fannie Lou Hamers whose nonviolent struggle for freedom, justice and equality continues.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bill Fletcher Jr."
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"Bill Fletcher says it is common to mistakenly bemoan lack of peaceful Palestinians .",
"He says Israel portrays nonviolent protests in West Bank as extremist .",
"Amnesty International has denounced crackdowns on nonviolent protest, he says .",
"Fletcher: Israel denies nonviolent activists so it can claim it has no partner for peace ."
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"(CNN) -- A Mississippi lesbian Tuesday won a judge's backing for her contention that her First Amendment rights were violated when her high school refused to allow her to attend her prom with her girlfriend.",
"But U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson refused to order the Itawamba County School District in Fulton, Mississippi, to hold the dance it had canceled over the matter.",
"In his 12-page order, Davidson also ruled that Itawamba Agricultural High School's denial of 18-year-old Constance McMillen's request to wear a tuxedo to her prom was a violation of her rights.",
"\"The record shows Constance has been openly gay since eighth grade and she intended to communicate a message by wearing a tuxedo and to express her identity through attending prom with a same-sex date,\" Davidson wrote.",
"\"The court finds this expression and communication of her viewpoint is the type of speech that falls squarely within the purview of the First Amendment.\"",
"When school officials told McMillen she could neither take her girlfriend to the prom nor wear a tuxedo to the event, the senior went to the American Civil Liberties Union, which demanded the school change its policy.",
"In response, the school district canceled the prom altogether.",
"Davidson denied a motion for an injunction filed by McMillen against the school district's superintendent, the school's principal and its assistant principal asking the court to order that the April 2 prom be reinstated, saying that parents were planning a private event to be held on that date for all students, including McMillen.",
"Requiring school officials \"to step back into a sponsorship role at this late date would only confuse and confound the community on the issue,\" he said.",
"Read the judge's opinion (PDF) Both sides in the dispute were happy with the outcome.",
"\"It vindicates Constance's rights,\" said Christine Sun, senior counsel with the ACLU's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender project.",
"\"It sets a legal precedent for gay and lesbian students all over the country that they have the right to bring a same-sex date to the prom and also to wear gender-nonconforming clothes to the prom.",
"We were looking for a ruling that what the school did was violate her rights,\" Sun said.",
"School board attorney Michele Floyd said the school district was also pleased with the decision.",
"She said the parent-sponsored event, which may be called a ball instead of a prom, is to be held in Tupelo, 19 miles away.",
"But ACLU's Sun said McMillen had not received an invitation.",
"\"We haven't heard anything about this private prom other than what this school district has told us,\" she said.",
"\"It remains to be seen whether she will be able to attend the private prom.\"",
"McMillen's case is going forward on a damages claim and the ACLU's request for attorneys' fees, she said.",
"\"She got what she wanted, and now it's just a question of what the damages might be in her case.\"",
"\"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 last week 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.\"",
"At the center of the lawsuit is a February 5 memorandum from the school to students that said prom dates must be of the opposite sex.",
"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."
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"Judge won't order school district to hold a prom that it had canceled .",
"Cancellation came after openly lesbian student asked to attend with girlfriend .",
"School board attorney says parent-sponsored event will take place April 2 in Tupelo ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- A representative at the Virginia mosque of five Americans arrested in Pakistan said it plans to conduct an inquiry into the circumstances that led to the arrests.",
"The men were arrested by Pakistani police this week amid suspicion that they were plotting terrorist attacks and planned to go to Afghanistan, a development that shocked members of the ICNA Center, the mosque the five attended.",
"At a news conference Friday, friends of the five and members of the mosque expressed their surprise over the arrests, defending the activities at the mosque as positive and describing the five as \"wholesome, regular kids.\"",
"Attorney Ashraf Nubani said he believes the incident is isolated, but said the mosque is conducting an inquiry into the matter.",
"While members of the mosque didn't comment on the reports and charges emerging from Pakistan, they described a tight-knit, patriotic congregation that focused on community service.",
"They were grateful for the actions of law enforcement and expressed profound empathy for the families of the people held.",
"A Pakistani police interrogation report, dated Thursday, shined more light on the Wednesday arrests of the five Americans at a home in Sargodha, a town about 120 miles south of Islamabad.",
"The men will be transferred to Lahore, Pakistan, for security reasons, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Friday.",
"A sixth man -- the father of one of the five -- was arrested afterward, police said.",
"Read the interrogation report (PDF) The report carries profile detail about the men and shows pictures of Internet sites, laptops, mobile phones, an iPod, and an external hard drive seized by police.",
"\"They had deep interest in the religion and they were of the opinion that a jihad must be waged against the infidels for the atrocities committed by them against Muslims around the world,\" said the report, which refers to the five as college students.",
"The report focused on one of the suspects -- identified as Ahmed Abdullah Minni, a 20-year-old American born in Virginia.",
"It said he regularly goes online to watch attacks on the U.S. military in Afghanistan and that he left comments praising the actions.",
"That caught the attention of militants, and he was eventually contacted by a person named Saifullah, the report said.",
"After contact had been made, a Yahoo!",
"e-mail account was set up so the men and militants could communicate, the report said.",
"E-mails were never sent from the account, but people would leave messages in the draft sections of the e-mail account and delete them after reading them, the Pakistani police report said.",
"\"This mode of communication enabled them to pass on messages without fear of interception by the FBI,\" it said.",
"The report said the suspects made a plan with Saifullah to go from Pakistan to Afghanistan.",
"They gathered in Karachi and left for Hyderabad on December 1.",
"They tried to hook up with two militant groups -- Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Jamaat-ud-Dawa -- but neither group showed interest.",
"\"They went to the madrassa [a Muslim school] of Jaish-e-Mohammad where they informed them about their desire for jihad.",
"However, the management of the madrassa refused to keep them, and advised them to go to Jamat-ud-Dawa Lahore.",
"Interestingly, the Jamat also refused to keep them as they could not provide a surety.",
"Thus, they came along with their friend Umar Farooq to Sargodha,\" the report said.",
"The FBI said Pakistan authorities detained the men -- four of whom it said were found to have American passports -- on Wednesday, \"after they came to the attention of police.\"",
"An FBI statement did not give further details and did not identify the men.",
"Officials said the six men include three Pakistani-Americans, an Ethiopian-American, an Egyptian-American and an Eritrean-American.",
"Along with Minni, there were snapshots and brief profiles of only four others -- Umar Farooq, Aman Hassan Yemer, Waqar Hussain Khan, and Ramy Zamzam -- all from the Washington area.",
"The sixth man was Khalid Farouk, father of Umar, the report said.",
"Mustafa Abu Maryam, a volunteer youth coordinator, said he never saw \"extreme behavior\" from the suspects, noting that youth group discussions never broached on politics or conflict.",
"\"Our main focus is to be a positive force of good in our young men's lives.",
"To be a deterrent of wrong groups and gangs and all other negative influences out there, to be a positive model for these kids,\" Abu Maryam said.",
"Mahdi Bray, executive director of the Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, said the incident is a \"wake-up call\" to the many negative influences youth face and touched on what he said were harmful messages sweeping across cyberspace.",
"\"We are determined not to let religious extremists exploit the vulnerability of the emotions of our children through slick, seductive and destructive propaganda on the Internet.",
"We are sending a message loud and clear that those days are over where we will not respond in kind on the Internet to vile propaganda that misrepresents the Islamic faith,\" Bray said.",
"Subira Farouk, the wife of Khalid and mother of Umar, said on Thursday that she and her husband had traveled to Pakistan to arrange a marriage for Umar, and to her surprise, her son had arrived in the country shortly afterward."
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"Americans arrested in Pakistan planned to go to Afghanistan, interrogation report says .",
"Pakistani officials: 5 arrested Wednesday, sixth man -- father of one of the 5 -- arrested later .",
"Pakistani police say men were planning terrorist acts, official says ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- President Obama will sign sweeping health care reform legislation into law at the White House on Tuesday, according to two Democratic officials familiar with the planning.",
"Obama also will hit the road to sell the measure to a still-skeptical public, giving a speech Thursday in Iowa City, Iowa, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said.",
"Obama launched his grass-roots drive for health care reform in Iowa City in May 2007, according to Gibbs.",
"The bill, which constitutes the biggest expansion of federal health care guarantees in more than four decades, passed the House of Representatives late Sunday night with no Republican support.",
"It was approved by the Senate in December.",
"A separate compromise package of changes also passed the House on Sunday and still needs to be approved by the Senate.",
"The officials noted that the Senate cannot begin debate on the package before Obama signs the underlying bill into law.",
"Passage of the bill was a huge boost for Obama, who made health care reform a domestic priority.",
"Aides said Monday that Obama exchanged handshakes, hugs and \"high-fives\" with staffers when the outcome of the House vote became apparent.",
"\"I haven't seen the president so happy about anything other than his family since I've known him,\" said senior adviser David Axelrod, adding that Obama's jubilation Sunday night exceeded his election victory in November 2008.",
"\"He was excited that night, but not like last night.\"",
"Republicans promised to continue fighting the reforms, with 11 state attorneys general -- all Republican -- planning lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the bill's mandate for people to buy health insurance and requirements for states to comply with its provisions.",
"Senior Republicans in Congress warned that voters will judge Democrats harshly in November's midterm elections, with Sen. John McCain of Arizona saying the Democratic-passed bill killed any chance of bipartisan support on legislation for the rest of the year.",
"\"There will be no cooperation for the rest of this year,\" McCain said in an interview with KFYI radio in Arizona.",
"\"They have poisoned the well in what they have done and how they have done it.\"",
"Highlights of what's in the bill .",
"White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, however, said the administration expects to win any lawsuits filed against the bill, and he challenged McCain and other Republicans to campaign for the November election against benefits of the health care bill such as tax credits for small businesses and an end to insurance company practices such as denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.",
"The overall $940 billion plan is projected to extend insurance coverage to roughly 32 million additional Americans.",
"Most Americans will now be required to have health insurance or pay a fine.",
"Larger employers will be required to provide coverage or risk financial penalties.",
"Lifetime coverage limits will be banned, and insurers will be barred from denying coverage based on gender or pre-existing conditions.",
"The compromise package would add to the bill's total cost partly by expanding insurance subsidies for middle- and lower-income families.",
"The measure would scale back the bill's taxes on expensive insurance plans.",
"House Democrats are expected to celebrate passage of the bill at a news conference with reform advocates Tuesday afternoon.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who spearheaded her husband's failed health reform effort in the 1990s, said earlier in the day that Obama's success was an example of the president's tenacity.",
"\"If you ever doubt the resolve of President Obama to stay with a job, look at what we got done for the United States last night when it came to passing quality affordable health care for everyone,\" Clinton said during a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.",
"Was it all worth it for Obama?",
"Observers warn, however, that the road ahead for health care reform in the Senate may be rocky.",
"Democratic leaders are using a legislative maneuver called reconciliation, which will allow the compromise plan to clear the Senate with a simple majority of 51 votes.",
"But according to Senate rules, members are still allowed to offer unlimited amendments and challenges.",
"In one of the first of many attempts Republicans say they will make to try to amend or kill the package, GOP aides went to Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin on Monday to argue that the compromise bill violates rules of the reconciliation process because of the way it affects Social Security.",
"For that reason, GOP aides said they argued, the bill should not even be allowed to be debated.",
"However, Frumin, according to a senior Republican and a Democratic aide, informed both parties he disagreed with the GOP assessment, and would not block the bill from reaching the Senate floor.",
"\"There's hope that [the vote] would be done within a short period of time, like a week or so,\" said Tim McBride, a health economist and associate dean of public health at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.",
"\"But the Senate is complicated and doesn't have the discipline that the House does.\"",
"Once the package hits the Senate floor, the chamber's rules stipulate that there must be 20 hours of debate.",
"But that 20 hours may prove to be more of a suggestion than an indicator of what will happen, according to Cheryl Block, a law professor at Washington University's School of Law.",
"\"It could get all messy and could go on forever if [Republicans] threw up amendment after amendment,\" Block said.",
"\"Theoretically, it should only take 20 hours, but it will likely take longer because Republicans have things up their sleeve.\"",
"If any provision in the package of changes is rejected or changed, the entire package would then have to go back to the House for another vote.",
"iReport: Share your views on health care reform .",
"House Democrats unhappy with the Senate bill have been continually reassured that the compromise package will be approved by the more conservative Senate.",
"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, presented a letter to House Democrats on Saturday stating that their Senate counterparts \"believe that health insurance reform cannot wait and must not be obstructed.\"",
"So far, two of the 59 senators in the Democratic caucus, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, have said they will oppose the compromise package.",
"CNN's Ed Henry, Ed Hornick, Josh Levs, Alan Silverleib and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
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"President to sign bill on Tuesday; House Dems, reform advocates plan celebration .",
"Package of changes to bill still needs Senate approval; GOP could delay it there .",
"$940 billion health care reform bill heads to president's desk to be signed into law ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Protesters called on the worldwide community to take action against Uganda Thursday as the African nation considers stricter laws against homosexuality.",
"They compared Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to some of the world's most notorious dictators.",
"\"In the last five years we have seen Idi Amin return to Uganda and his name is Yoweri Museveni,\" Ugandan human rights campaigner Michael Senyonjo told CNN.",
"\"He... is bringing in a bill in an attempt to criminalize being gay,\" the activist said.",
"\"That is not right. We cannot allow fascism to return to Uganda.",
"He should leave power and go because he is not taking the country anywhere but to disaster,\" he added.",
"Under proposed new laws currently being considered by the Ugandan parliament, those who test positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, could face the death penalty.",
"In addition, those convicted of having gay sex would be sentenced to life in prison, while anyone found guilty of engaging in homosexual relations on more than one occasion would be executed.",
"The proposals could become law before the end of the year.",
"Museveni has not publicly stated his support for the bill.",
"Homosexuality is already illegal in Uganda under laws passed in the colonial era, but the new legislation is intended to provide prosecutors with more power.",
"It has the blessing of various religious leaders, with one leading Muslim cleric -- Sheikh Ramathan Shaban Mubajje -- calling for all known homosexuals in the country to be rounded up and left on an island until they die.",
"Thursday's protest at the Ugandan High Commission -- or embassy -- in London is one of several planned demonstrations around the world, and OutRage, another gay rights organization, is backing the calls for action to be taken.",
"\"President Museveni is fast becoming the Robert Mugabe of Uganda and that's a threat to the civil rights of every Ugandan person -- gay or straight,\" OutRage spokesman Peter Tatchell told CNN, referring to the authoritarian president of Zimbabwe.",
"\"There's a huge ground swell of public opinion that this bill goes way too far.",
"Even people who say they're against homosexuality say this bill is excessive and a threat to the human rights of all Ugandans.",
"\"Uganda should drop this law and abide by international human rights legislation,\" Tatchell said."
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"Proposals include life sentences, death penalty as punishments for gay sex .",
"Tatchell: Proposals \"threaten civil rights of every Ugandan person -- gay or straight\""
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"Washington (CNN) -- The retired general who took charge of relief efforts in New Orleans, Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina said Thursday that the U.S. military should have arrived in earthquake-devastated Haiti 24 hours earlier.",
"\"The good Samaritans who moved early on the first day are to be applauded.",
"They made a difference,\" said Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, a CNN contributor.",
"\"What we've got to do now is get the heavy equipment in.",
"I thought the U.S. military could have been there a day earlier.",
"They're on the ground now, and they have a brigade en route, and that's going to make a big difference,\" he said.",
"Honore, best known for his management of the recovery efforts after the hurricane that killed about 2,000 people on the Gulf Coast, said \"time is of the essence\" in helping quake survivors.",
"Repairing the seaport at Port-au-Prince and keeping the airport open are key to bringing in equipment, food, water and medicine, Honore said.",
"Regarding the airport, he said, \"You need to put the right commander there who's going to be a battle captain and keep those aircraft flowing.",
"You come in, you drop off what you have, you put the sick and wounded on and then move out.",
"No one is standing any time on the airfield.",
"You can be in and out in a half hour.\" Speaking at the House Democratic Caucus Retreat later Thursday, Obama acknowledged the scrutiny focused on U.S. response.",
"\"This is a time when the world looks to us and they say -- given our capacity, given our unique capacity to project power around the world -- that we have to project that not just for our own interests but for the interests of the world as a whole,\" he said.",
"\"And my national security team understands that I will not put up with any excuses for us not doing the very best in this time of tragedy.\"",
"State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley defended the pace of the rescue.",
"\"We are 40 hours into the crisis.",
"In that time, we have reopened the airport and brought it up to 24/7 operations.",
"We continue to look at the port facility, which will be critical to be able to bring in substantial amounts of aid, and we're trying to figure out a strategy for how to function,\" he said.",
"\"We now have multiple search and rescue units on the ground.",
"They're already at work,\" Crowley added.",
"\"Logistics matter.",
"You have an airport with a single runway.",
"So we have things that are queued up.",
"You're going to see a significant increase in the flow, but there is a capacity issue,\" he said.",
"Airlines such as American, Delta, Jet Blue and United were helping provide assistance to the country in the form of free miles for its program members and seats for aid organizations.",
"American was operating humanitarian flights, with three American Eagle aircraft flying 30,000 pounds of supplies into Haiti on Thursday.",
"Three more such flights were planned Friday.",
"American is also partnering with the American Red Cross by offering one-time awards of 250 or 500 bonus miles for donations.",
"In the afternoon, the Federal Aviation Administration announced that Haiti had suspended flights into the Port-au-Prince airport because ramp space -- where aircraft are parked, unloaded, loaded, refueled or boarded -- was overcrowded.",
"There also was no fuel, FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said.",
"Several U.S. military units planned to depart from the United States for Haiti during the day, but it was unclear whether all would be able to do so.",
"Among those apparently delayed was a battalion of more than 100 soldiers from the XVIII Airborne Corps based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.",
"They had planned to fly out Thursday afternoon.",
"Paratroopers from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division, also based at Fort Bragg, were on their way to Haiti, said Rajiv Shah, coordinator for U.S. assistance to the stricken area.",
"He also is administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.",
"The 82nd was deployed to New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina.",
"The first of about 3,500 paratroopers were to board C-17 aircraft from Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina and arrive in Haiti before nightfall.",
"On Friday, another 800 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne were to deploy.",
"In all, the U.S. military has 329 people in Haiti, including a group that arrived Tuesday night to help open the airfield in Port-au-Prince, the commander of U.S. Southern Command said Thursday.",
"The Southern Command, based in Miami, Florida, is leading the Department of Defense's quake response.",
"\"We're working feverishly and aggressively to support and provide life-sustaining capability to the citizens of Haiti,\" Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said.",
"\"They've suffered a great deal.\"",
"Offshore, four U.S. Coast Guard cutters and a destroyer were providing support, including helicopter support, he said.",
"A disaster relief assessment team was surveying the area, and a battalion of paratroopers along with a command-and-control element from the 82nd Airborne arrived Thursday, he said.",
"The aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is to arrive in Haiti on Friday morning, carrying 19 helicopters and 30 pallets of relief goods, he said.",
"The carrier will help relief workers get around Haiti's decimated infrastructure \"to get good where they need to be,\" Fraser said.",
"Within four days, 700 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne will be in Haiti, he said.",
"Those numbers will swell considerably.",
"On Tuesday, three more ships will arrive, carrying 2,200 Marines and heavy equipment, he said.",
"By Saturday, 5,000 to 6,000 men and women dedicated to supporting the relief effort will be in Haiti, he said.",
"And a week from Friday, the USNS Comfort, a hospital ship, is slated to arrive, he said.",
"\"We are aggressively pursuing every action we can to provide relief to Haiti.\"",
"The ship is staffed by a crew of 64 and 560 hospital personnel.",
"Rear Adm. Steve Branham, commander of the 7th Coast Guard District headquartered in Miami, said four Coast Guard cutters were in the area, each of them at least 210 feet in length and capable of carrying helicopters.",
"Two more cutters capable of providing heavy-lift capability were en route, he said.",
"Coast Guard aircraft were used Wednesday to move nine critically injured people from the U.S. Embassy in the capital to hospitals in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he said.",
"State Department Counselor Cheryl Mills said U.S.",
"Ambassador to Haiti Ken Merten met Thursday with Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive to coordinate aid efforts.",
"Responding to questions as to whether the United States was in charge in Haiti because of the lack of Haitian government capacity, Mills said, \"We have no intention of supplanting the leadership of Haiti.",
"We actually see our role as ensuring that the leadership of Haiti is able to provide the leadership that the Haitian people properly expect them to provide.\"",
"The United States is providing support to the approximately 45,000 Americans in Haiti, only 300 of whom have expressed an interest in leaving the country, Mills said.",
"Obama has promised $100 million in immediate American relief aid to Haiti, an amount the president said will grow.",
"\"This is one of those moments that calls out for American leadership,\" he said at the White House.",
"\"One of the largest relief efforts in our recent history\" is now en route to Haiti.",
"The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Tuesday afternoon was centered about 10 miles (15 km) southwest of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, which bore the brunt of the destruction.",
"The port was demolished by the earthquake, which left huge chunks of concrete that blocked the road to truck and other traffic, CNN's Chris Lawrence reported.",
"Those trying to transfer supplies from ships to people who need them will face major hurdles, he said.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States is providing security help to the the United Nations, which was \"equally devastated by the collapse of its headquarters\" for its peacekeeping force in Haiti.",
"As many as 150 of its personnel are missing.",
"She said a contingent of 2,000 Marines will assist international peacekeepers helping to police Haiti, which has no army.",
"Because the U.S. Embassy is one of the few structures that remains intact, it has become a point of support, providing medical assistance for Americans and Haitians who are able to reach it, Mills said.",
"The United States has been trying to contact U.S. citizens in Haiti to see what they need, Mills said.",
"Embassy families and nonessential personnel have been ordered to leave.",
"CNN State Department Producer Elise Labott contributed to this story."
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"NEW: Obama says he will not put up with U.S. not doing \"the very best in this time of tragedy\"\nHaiti suspends flights into Port-au-Prince airport because ramp space is overcrowded .",
"Several U.S. military units plan to go to Haiti, but it's unclear whether all will be able to ."
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"Video analytics company Visible Measures - the one we work with to put out our monthly top 10 webisodes chart - curates a list of video called the \"100 Million Club.\"",
"It includes all the web videos that have exceeded 100 million views.",
"Lady Gaga has long been a staple of the chart, but now she's essentially in a club all her own: She's the first franchise to reach one billion views.",
"Gaga's music videos hold three spots in the 65-video 100 Million Club - one for \"Poker Face\" (374,606,128), one for \"Just Dance\" (272,941,674) and one for \"Bad Romance\" (360,020,327).",
"Add them up and you get just over one billion views.",
"She won't occupy the club alone for long, though; the Twilight saga is close behind with 980 million and Soulja Boy is at 860 million.",
"Gaga is primarily a hit on Vevo and YouTube; 25% of Vevo's visitors only have eyes for her.",
"The pop star has attracted Internet attention elsewhere, too.",
"A Facebook group of more than 100,000 people initiated National Lady Gaga Day about a month ago, and her latest Internet hit is her \"Telephone\" music video with Beyoncé.",
"The point is, you can't escape Gaga on the Internet.",
"She's everywhere right now.",
"We welcome speculation as to exactly why the web loves her so, so let us know in the comments if you have any ideas.",
"© 2010 MASHABLE.com.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Charlotte, North Carolina (CNN) -- Laura Zych never liked birds.",
"Ben Bostic feared drowning.",
"They faced their fears when US Airways Flight 1549 hit a flock of geese and crash-landed in the Hudson River.",
"They were strangers on January 15, 2009, when they boarded the fateful flight that would become known as the \"Miracle on the Hudson.\"",
"A year later, they're in love.",
"\"The first time people meet you, they want to hear the sensational part\" of the crash, says Ben, 39.",
"He prefers to talk about something different: \"I met this wonderful girl because of what we went through that day.\"",
"Laura, 31, looks at him, batting her model-like lashes, and smiles.",
"\"We don't dwell on what happened to us in the crash,\" she says.",
"\"It's more so on the experiences and lessons that we've taken from it.\"",
"'Is this really happening?'",
"A buyer for Belk department stores, Laura was in New York for the fashion market.",
"With the nation in the thick of recession, she scooped up bargains for herself.",
"She carried her trendy purchases through the airport that day on her return home to Charlotte, North Carolina.",
"Wearing a sweater dress, tights and boots, the woman with stylish sandy brown curls was getting a bite to eat when a group of guys asked if she was a model.",
"\"No,\" she said. \"But I am in the fashion industry.\"",
"She was traveling with five Belk co-workers.",
"Waiting to board, she fired off e-mails and thought little of the flight home or those around her.",
"Ben -- who was in New York for a quick business trip for Lending Tree -- caught a glimpse of the 5-foot, 10-inch knockout near the gate.",
"Later, when they boarded, he noticed her again, coming down the aisle.",
"\"The first thought I had was it'll be cool if she sits beside me.\"",
"He was in 20A, a window seat on the left side of the plane.",
"She sat down three rows in front of him, in 17D, on the aisle.",
"It was one of those fleeting moments every single person knows: You see an intriguing stranger, hope for the best, then move on.",
"Ben picked up a book and began reading.",
"Laura, who didn't notice Ben, thumbed through a Glamour magazine.",
"At the helm of the Airbus A320 was Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger, a 57-year-old former Air Force fighter jet pilot.",
"He'd been flying for four decades, for US Airways since 1980.",
"His expertise was about to mean everything.",
"About 90 seconds into the flight, the plane -- traveling at 250 mph and carrying 150 passengers and five crew -- struck a flock of geese.",
"Some passengers described hearing a series of loud thumps.",
"\"One lady screamed,\" Ben recalls.",
"He looked out the window.",
"\"The whole back of the engine was pretty much engulfed in flames, just shooting out of the back,\" he says.",
"He thought: \"This isn't good.\"",
"The plane banked to the left.",
"The smell of burning geese, feathers and flames wafted through the cabin.",
"With neither engine working, a silence fell over the jet as it glided through the skies.",
"People began whispering.",
"Some thought they were going back to LaGuardia.",
"Sullenberger came over the speaker system.",
"\"Brace for impact,\" he said.",
"\"The most harrowing thing I'd ever heard in my life,\" Ben recalls.",
"\"I thought for a second: Is this really it?",
"Am I going to die?\" Three rows in front of him, Laura thought about calling her family.",
"She decided against it. If I die, what a depressing message that would be to leave on a message machine, she thought.",
"And what would she say if they did answer?",
"\"Guess what? In 60 seconds, you're not going to be talking to me any more.\"",
"She crouched down, prepared for impact.",
"Fear of birds and drowning .",
"Laura grew up on a farm in Minnesota and had lived in Fargo, North Dakota, for the past 12 years.",
"She'd jumped at the chance to take on a bigger role with Belk in Charlotte.",
"But her focus on career meant there wasn't much time for relationships while jet-setting around for work.",
"Ben was a Carolina native, and he also poured his energy into work.",
"The software developer at Lending Tree was divorced with no children.",
"Nearing 40, he found his career rewarding, yet felt something was missing.",
"Both had fears that stemmed from their youths.",
"Her bird phobia was rooted in days on the farm, where her grandmother kept chickens.",
"Once, a bird pooped on Laura's shoulder, sending her into tears.",
"As she got older, her disdain for birds grew.",
"When she traveled to New York on business, the abundance of pigeons sometimes terrified her.",
"Ben's fear -- of drowning -- went back to an experience he had when he was 8.",
"On a beach outing with his family, his raft drifted out from shore and then flipped over.",
"He scrambled to try to get back on, but kept falling back into the sea.",
"He never relished the water again.",
"'We connected' As the plane glided silently through the air, Ben peeked out the window every once in a while.",
"He could see they were headed straight toward water.",
"\"Just make it quick so I don't have to suffer,\" he thought.",
"The Airbus splashed into the frigid waters of the Hudson River.",
"The clank of seatbelts unbuckling rattled inside the plane.",
"Water lapped at Laura's leather boots.",
"She grabbed her wallet and her cell phone with a GPS tracking device.",
"It'll be easier for rescuers to find my body and identify me, she thought.",
"She exited to the left and onto a wing.",
"While bobbing up and down there, she called her father.",
"\"Dad, this is Laura. I've been in a plane crash.\"",
"When things calmed down and she knew she would be rescued, she found comic relief in what brought the plane down.",
"\"You do realize my fear of birds is justified,\" she told her parents.",
"\"OK, we'll give you that one,\" they responded.",
"Inside the plane, a bottleneck of passengers blocked some exits.",
"A flight attendant in first class waved passengers to the front.",
"Ben climbed over the seats.",
"At the door, he looked out and saw water all around.",
"Clutching tight to his seat cushion, he jumped into a raft.",
"With survivors packed in like sardines, he worried the raft might tip.",
"Later, safe on shore, Ben's colleagues who were also on the flight saluted life and told him: You know what we'd be doing tonight if we were single!",
"Ben thought about the woman with the long legs and curly hair.",
"He wondered what happened to her.",
"From Facebook friends to dating .",
"A bottle of Maker's Mark bourbon helped ease Ben's charter flight home to Charlotte that night.",
"In the media blitz that followed, Laura noticed Ben for the first time on television.",
"They became Facebook friends.",
"Flight 1549 survivors -- whose stories were compiled in the book \"Miracle on the Hudson,\" published late last year -- formed support groups.",
"They considered \"Sully\" their hero, each other family.",
"Six months after the crash, when about 20 survivors and their families gathered at a home near Charlotte, Ben and Laura met in person for the first time.",
"\"I was checking you out on the plane,\" he told her.",
"They went clubbing with a third survivor that night.",
"Then the two stayed up talking until 6 in the morning.",
"They shared secrets, their views on life's opportunities.",
"\"We connected,\" Laura says.",
"They took it slow at first.",
"Neither was looking for a relationship.",
"\"We were family,\" Ben says, \"and we didn't want to ruin that aspect of it.\"",
"Eventually, sparks lit.",
"Despite their bond, the last year has had its difficulties.",
"They wonder why they survived when, a month later, all 50 people aboard a Buffalo commuter jet died.",
"Both have sought counseling.",
"They take anti-anxiety medication to ease air travel.",
"Ben never sits at a window seat.",
"Weeks after the flight, the airline returned salvaged personal belongings to survivors.",
"Laura received a white envelope, labeled with a number.",
"Inside was her waterlogged Glamour magazine.",
"\"It put me back in that seat,\" she says, tears in her eyes.",
"Four other boxes of returned items sit unopened in a spare bedroom.",
"She doesn't know whether to throw them out or save them.",
"\"Things in there must not be that important,\" she says.",
"\"All the priorities were reset after January 15.\"",
"Her relationship with Ben, she says, is another \"positive outcome\" from that day.",
"\"We kind of pick each other up if we start to slip,\" Ben says.",
"\"What's better than smiling and laughing and love?\"",
"They're speaking about their relationship, Laura says, because too much news dwells on the negative.",
"Their message is the opposite.",
"\"Think about how you want to write today's page,\" Ben says.",
"\"Live, laugh, love and dance like tomorrow's not guaranteed.\""
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"They began dating after meeting in person six months after the plane crash .",
"Their motto: Live in the moment, laugh, love .",
"All 155 people aboard US Airways Flight 1549 survived the January 15, 2009, crash ."
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"(CNN) -- Africa's most active volcano, Mount Nyamuragira in the Democratic Republic of Congo, erupted early Saturday, spewing lava off its southern flank, the Congolese Wildlife Authority reported.",
"Rangers in Virunga National Park reported hearing a loud explosion at 3:45 a.m. and then seeing lava flowing from the crater of the 10,033-foot volcano.",
"\"I first thought (it) was the sound of war.",
"I thought there was fighting again near our park station,\" said Innocent Mburanumwe, warden for the southern sector of Virunga National Park.",
"\"Then I saw the mountain was on fire with sparks flying.",
"We could see that we were not in immediate danger here at Rumangabo, but there are many people who live to the south of the volcano, where the lava is heading as I speak.\"",
"Nyamuragira is 15 miles (25 kilometers) north of the city of Goma and its 600,000 residents, but Mburanumwe said in a blog posting that lava flows from the mountain were unlikely to threaten human populations.",
"Lava flows from another park volcano, Nyiragongo, destroyed parts of Goma in 2002.",
"The wildlife authority said the Nyamuragira eruption was likely to destroy habitat for 40 chimpanzees on the volcano's lower slopes.",
"Virunga National Park is also home to 200 endangered mountain gorillas, but they live on the slopes of the Mikena volcano to the east of Nyamuragira.",
"The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History calls Nyamuragira the continent's most active volcano, with 42 eruptions since 1885.",
"Its most recent eruption ended in December 2006."
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"(CNN) -- The images of Neda Agha Soltan's death on the streets of Tehran transformed her into an icon for Iran's opposition movement.",
"But very few know of Ramin Ramezani, who was killed five days before Neda during last year's post-election demonstrations in the Iranian capital.",
"\"I always say Neda is the miracle of the century,\" Ramin's mother Zahra Ramezani told CNN by phone.",
"\"Neda was destined to be known to everyone.",
"If Ramin isn't known to everyone, that's OK.\" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's landslide re-election on June 12, 2009, had sparked the biggest protests in Iran since the 1979 revolution.",
"The following Monday, hundreds of thousands marched to Tehran's Azadi square, calling the vote a sham.",
"Ramin was among the crowd.",
"Watch YouTube video of the chaos that day .",
"Ramin was on leave from military duty, back in Tehran to celebrate his 22nd birthday, just six days away.",
"His parents told CNN that he had voted for Mir Hossein Moussavi, the opposition candidate who had energized young Iranians with promises of a freer society, more rights for women, and better relations with the West.",
"Around 6 p.m. that day, Ramin called his parents and told them not to worry, they said.",
"He said he'd be home later that evening.",
"An hour later, just blocks away from Azadi square, violence erupted at a base for the Basij, Iran's pro-government militia.",
"Protesters surrounded the building, shattered its windows with rocks, and set fire to several rooms.",
"Amateur video from the scene showed several armed members of the Basij on the rooftop apparently firing shots.",
"It was here, Ramin's parents said, that their son was killed.",
"A single bullet entered the right side of his chest, tore through both his lungs and killed him within minutes, his parents said.",
"There was no way to know who fired the shot.",
"It is widely believed that Ramin and several others who were killed on June 15 were the first casualties of the opposition movement's protests.",
"When Ramin didn't show up at home, the Ramezanis stayed up all night trying to reach him.",
"Zahra Ramezani said she called Ramin's cell phone every hour but no one answered.",
"The following day they received a brief call from a man who did not identify himself.",
"\"He said, 'If you want your son's remains,' and as soon as he said 'remains' there was chaos in our home,\" said Zahra Ramezani.",
"\"We were all hitting ourselves, screaming and shouting.\"",
"For Ramin's parents the nightmare was just beginning.",
"Over the course of a week, they said they searched for Ramin's remains in five hospitals.",
"They pleaded with officials at two courthouses and the interior ministry to help them find their son's body.",
"Authorities said they would investigate.",
"Finally, at a prison morgue, a prison official showed Ramin's father the picture of his son's remains on a computer screen.",
"\"For about one hour I lost myself,\" Mehdi Ramezani said.",
"\"I was hitting myself in the face and the head, asking, 'Why is my son's naked remains on this monitor?'\"",
"Mehdi Ramezani said an official at the prison morgue warned him to keep quiet about his son's death.",
"\"They made me promise them not to cause a big commotion during his funeral,\" Mehdi Ramezani said.",
"\"They said it wouldn't be good for your future and the future of your children.\"",
"Calls to Iran's judiciary and security officials seeking comment were not returned.",
"Until now, Zahra and Mehdi Ramezani have never spoken to the international media.",
"But after keeping silent for more than nine months, they still don't know any more about how their son died.",
"\"They still haven't told us anything,\" Zahra Ramezani said.",
"\"They said, 'We didn't shoot him.'",
"Then who shot him?\" Human rights groups say around 80 people were killed during Iran's 2009 post-election protests, while Iran's government puts the number at about half of that.",
"While Iran has charged prison officials with torturing to death some of those detained after the demonstrations, no one has been charged in any of the deaths during the protests.",
"Authorities in Iran have told CNN they are investigating the deaths, but the Ramezanis say they are losing hope.",
"Every Friday morning the Ramezanis visit Tehran's main cemetery where their son's gravesite sits just steps away from Neda Agha Soltan's.",
"Ramin's parents say they don't want the attention Neda is getting.",
"All they want is someone to tell them who killed these two young Iranians and why.",
"\"A good and ideal government is for everyone, even those who oppose it,\" said Zahra Ramezani.",
"\"If they consider themselves servants of Iran, then they owe us something.\""
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"(PEOPLE.com) -- Saturday was the big day for \"Bachelor\" and \"Dancing with the Stars\" contestant Melissa Rycroft, who tied the knot with her fiancé, insurance agent Tye Strickland, in Mexico on Saturday, PEOPLE has learned.",
"The couple, who met three years ago in their hometown Dallas, got engaged in June, less than four months after Rycroft was jilted on national television by \"Bachelor\" star Jason Mesnick.",
"\"I'm really happy for her,\" Mesnick told PEOPLE.",
"\"This whole journey took her to a place where things looked like they were down for her.",
"But then she ended up with the person she was meant to be with.",
"That's what life's all about. I couldn't be happier for her.\" Indeed, after what looked like a downer season of \"The Bachelor\", it turns out that Mesnick and his top three choices on the dating show all found love in 2009.",
"After splitting with Rycroft, Mesnick began dating runner-up Molly Malaney.",
"The two became engaged last October in New Zealand.",
"Then second runner-up, Jillian Harris, starred on \"The Bachelorette.\"",
"She and Chicago, Illinois software consultant Ed Swiderski got engaged on the season finale last May and are now living together in Chicago.",
"Rycroft, 26, and Strickland, 28, were previously a couple but split shortly before she left to be a contestant on \"The Bachelor\" last year.",
"The couple rekindled in January, Rycroft told PEOPLE.",
"\"Tye and I picked right back up,\" Rycroft said shortly after getting engaged.",
"\"He's my best friend.\"",
"Rycroft wore an Alfred Angelo gown at the south-of-the-border nuptials, which was attended by family and close friends.",
"\"We want to have it be as fun and relaxing as possible for our families,\" Rycroft said last summer as she and Strickland planned for the big day.",
"\"I just want it to be fun and a day everyone will remember.",
"Tye is my true love.\"",
"© 2010 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"London, England (CNN) -- British Airways carried out its threat Wednesday and stripped striking cabin crew members of their travel perks.",
"Staff who joined the strike last weekend will now lose benefits including free and heavily discounted travel, BA said.",
"\"Letters are going out to staff who took industrial action concerning staff travel,\" a statement from the airline said.",
"\"Our cabin crew knew that if they took part in the strike they would lose their staff travel permanently.",
"\"Staff travel offers heavily discounted travel to airline employees.",
"This is a non-contractual perk that the company can withdraw at its discretion.\"",
"BA Chief Executive Willie Walsh had threatened last week to take away the travel perks, which may have been one reason why some union staff agreed to work despite the strike last weekend.",
"Are you worried about the strike?",
"The airline said Wednesday it is expanding its flight schedules this weekend ahead of a second round of strikes because more staff are willing to cross the picket lines.",
"The planned four-day walkout follows the one last weekend by crews dissatisfied with pay, benefits and staffing levels.",
"BA will be able to run a full operation from London's Gatwick Airport and London City Airport this weekend because so many cabin crew members will be working as normal, the airline said in a statement late Tuesday.",
"At London's Heathrow Airport, BA will be able to run up to 55 percent of its short-haul flights and up to 70 percent of its long-haul flights, the airline said.",
"\"As a result of the numbers of crew wanting to work, we are increasing significantly our flying schedule and will be operating a full schedule at Gatwick and London City airports,\" Walsh said in a statement.",
"\"I would like to thank all our customers for their patience and support.",
"I apologize to those whose flights will regrettably have to be canceled at Heathrow because of Unite's continuing action.\"",
"Unite is the union representing 95 percent of BA's 15,000 cabin crew members.",
"Passengers booked on flights that have been canceled by the strike will be offered seats on flights with BA or other airlines, or will be offered a full refund, the airline said.",
"British Airways advised passengers to regularly check its Web site, www.ba.com, to see whether their flight is still operating.",
"Passengers should contact British Airways or their travel agent instead of going to the airport if their flight has been canceled, BA advised.",
"Advice for passengers .",
"British Airways and Unite have been at odds for more than a year over changes the airline wants to make to cabin crew pay and work practices.",
"BA says the changes will save the company more than 60 million pounds ($90 million) a year.",
"Unite has said the plans, which call for longer work hours and less staffing, will damage customer service and the BA brand.",
"In addition, stock analysts said BA has made clear it sees the action not only as a matter of money but who will run the airline -- management or the union."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- The World Motor Sport Council (WMSC) of the FIA, motor sport's governing body, has fined McLaren -- the team at the center of the \"spygate\" scandal -- $100m and stripped it of its constructors' championship points for the season.",
"And McLaren faces further penalties when the WMSC reconvenes in December 2007.",
"McLaren must submit a full technical report on its 2008 car.",
"If the WMSC considers that its design was influenced by confidential Ferrari data, then sanctions may be imposed on the team for the 2008 season.",
"McLaren team chief Ron Dennis arrives for the hearing in Paris.",
"In an official press statement, the FIA stated: \"The WMSC has stripped Vodafone McLaren Mercedes of all constructor points in the 2007 FIA Formula One World Championship and the team can score no points for the remainder of the season.",
"\"Furthermore, the team will pay a fine equal to $100m, less the FOM [Formula One Management] income lost as a result of the points deduction.",
"\"However, due to the exceptional circumstances in which the FIA gave the team's drivers an immunity in return for providing evidence, there is no penalty in regard to drivers' points.\"",
"Should McLaren's drivers, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, win in any of the remaining races of the 2007 season no representatives of McLaren will be allowed on the podium.",
"The WMSC is expected to announce the reasons for its decisions on September 14.",
"In July the WMSC ruled that McLaren was in breach of Article 151c of the FIA International Sporting Code but recommended that no punitive measures were taken until a hearing of the FIA's International Court of Appeal on September 13.",
"However, in the light of new evidence -- the source and nature of which remain undisclosed -- the WMSC is to reconvene in place of the Court of Appeal hearing.",
"The murky story began in June of this year, when Ferrari sacked its performance director Nigel Stepney and initiated court proceedings against him in Modena, Italy.",
"It then emerged that a 780-page document containing confidential technical data about Ferrari's F1 car had been found in the possession of McLaren's chief designer Mike Coughlan.",
"Coughlan's wife, Trudy Coughlan, had taken the document for duplication at a copy shop near McLaren's Woking headquarters.",
"An employee of the copy shop, suspicious that confidential data was being copied, blew the whistle to Ferrari.",
"Ferrari suspected the source of the leak was Nigel Stepney, a friend and former colleague of Coughlan's (the pair had worked together at Lotus in the late 1980s).",
"Stepney had been the team's chief mechanic, but in February took his new role as the team's performance director -- which did not require him to attend grands prix -- when he expressed his disquiet at the Ferrari's reorganization following the departure of technical director Ross Brawn.",
"Ferrari filed a formal complaint against Stepney in Modena, Italy where the district attorney initiated a criminal investigation.",
"Ferrari issued the following press statement: .",
"\"Ferrari announces it has recently presented a case against Nigel Stepney and an engineer from the Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes team with the Modena Tribunal, concerning the theft of technical information.",
"Furthermore, legal action has been instigated in England and a search warrant has been issued concerning the engineer.",
"This produced a positive outcome.\"",
"McLaren promptly dismissed Mike Coughlan, its chief designer.",
"It then emerged that Coughlan and Stepney had met with Honda F1 boss, Nick Fry, in June this year to discuss employment possibilities.",
"However Honda were cleared of any wrongdoing by the FIA who were satisfied that no confidential material had been offered to or received by Honda.",
"Coughlan and his wife appeared in the High Court in London for a preliminary hearing on July 10.",
"Ferrari dropped the case in consideration of the Coughlan's full disclosure and promise of future cooperation.",
"The furore seemed to cool down after the WMSC's verdict.",
"Ferrari remained unhappy that McLaren had emerged from the scandal without penalty but the WMSC did not have sufficient evidence to enforce such a penalty.",
"But now the FIA is in possession of new evidence.",
"Rumors have centered on emails between McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa and reigning world champion Fernando Alonso.",
"On August 31 Max Mosley the FIA president wrote letters to all three McLaren drivers -- de la Rosa, Alonso and Lewis Hamilton -- in which he stated: \"The FIA has subsequently been made aware of an allegation that one or more McLaren drivers may be in possession, or that such drivers have recently been in possession, of written evidence relevant to this investigation.\"",
"The letter continued: \"I can confirm, given the importance of this issue, that any information you may make available in response to this letter will not result in any proceedings against you under the International Sporting Code or the Formula One regulations.",
"However, in the event that it later comes to light that you have withheld any potentially relevant information, serious consequences could follow.\"",
"Five days later the WMSC announced it was to reconvene \"following the emergence of new evidence\", in place of the Court of Appeal hearing.",
"Other rumors had emerged regarding a mysterious white powder said to have been found on the fuel caps of the Ferraris of Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa in practice leading up to the Monaco Grand Prix.",
"Stepney has denied involvement in these sabotage claims or in the espionage case in general.",
"Further drama overshadowed Alonso and Hamilton's one-two on the podium at the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday.",
"Modena's public prosecutor, Giuseppe Tibis, issued a legal notice -- known as an 'avviso di garanzia' -- that six McLaren employees were under criminal investigation .",
"The six included McLaren supremo Ron Dennis, managing directors Martin Whitmarsh and Jonathan Neale, technical director Jonathan Neale and designer Rob Taylor as well as Mike Coughlan.",
"This outcome has put a dark shadow McLaren's return to winning ways.",
"The team, dominant in the late 1990s, had struggled with reliability for some years.",
"But the team is not taking the decision lying down.",
"Martin Whitmarsh, COO of the McLaren Group said: \"We believe we have got the grounds for an appeal, but of course we are going to wait for the findings of the FIA.\"",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"McLaren drivers allowed to keep their championship points ."
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"(CNN) -- India racked up a massive first-innings lead of 347 runs over South Africa on the third day of the second cricket Test in Kolkata as V.V.S.",
"Laxman and captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni contributed centuries.",
"The pair put on an unbroken 259 for the seventh wicket, with Laxman unbeaten on 143 and Dhoni on 132 when the declaration came at 643-6 in the final hour of Tuesday's play.",
"Their efforts meant that four Indians had passed three figures, following Virender Sehwag's 165 on Monday and Sachin Tendulkar's 106, while four South African bowlers conceded more than 100 runs each.",
"South Africa, who will return to the No.",
"1 Test ranking above India with a draw, reached 6-0 at stumps as only five balls of a scheduled 10 overs were able to be bowled due to bad light.",
"India, who trail 1-0 in the two-match series, resumed the day on 342-5 with Laxman on nine and nightwatchman Amit Mishra on one.",
"They extended their partnership to 48 before paceman Morne Morkel picked up his second wicket as Mishra was caught at second slip by Jacques Kallis, who had earlier dropped the batsman as did captain Graeme Smith.",
"Laxman was dropped by J.P. Duminy on 48, and India reached lunch at 431-6 before piling on 117 runs in the two hours after the interval.",
"Laxman completed his 15th Test century and Dhoni his fourth in only the second time that four Indian batsmen had reached three figures in the same innings.",
"Meanwhile, New Zealand piled up 553-7 before declaring on the second day of the one-off Test against tourists Bangladesh in Hamilton.",
"Martin Guptill (189) and Brendon McCullum (185) extended their sixth-wicket partnership to a national record of 339.",
"Guptill scored his maiden Test ton while wicketkeeper McCullum celebrated his 50th appearance in the five-day game with his highest score.",
"Seamer Rubel Hossain took both of their scalps in the middle session and ended with his first five-wicket bag, conceding 166 runs.",
"Bangladesh reached 87-1 at stumps in their first innings, with opener Tamim Iqbal unbeaten on 56 after facing just 48 balls.",
"He put on 79 for the first wicket with Imrul Kayes, who made 28 before edging spinner Daniel Vettori to Ross Taylor at slip."
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"(CNN) -- The death of Marie Osmond's 18-year-old son has been classified as a suicide, police said Sunday.",
"A family spokesman on Saturday said that Michael Blosil had died.",
"Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Karen Rayner told CNN she could not release further information because the death is a Los Angeles County coroner's case.",
"The coroner's office said the case was on \"security hold\" and nothing further would be released Sunday.",
"In a statement issued Saturday through a spokesman, Osmond said: \"My family and I are devastated and in deep shock by the tragic loss of our dear Michael and ask that everyone respect our privacy during this difficult time.\"",
"Osmond's Web site describes her as \"the proud mother of eight beautiful children who are always her greatest treasures.\"",
"Marie Osmond and her brother Donny hosted the national television variety show \"The Donny & Marie Show\" from 1976 to 1981.",
"Afterward, she had acting and singing careers.",
"She recently competed in a season of \"Dancing With the Stars.\"",
"In 2001, she wrote \"Behind the Smile,\" about her experience with postpartum depression.",
"CNN's Lynn Lamanivong contributed to this report."
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"\"My family and I are devastated and in deep shock,\" entertainer says in statement .",
"Family spokesman announced Blosil's death Saturday ."
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"LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Since he opened his first restaurant in the heart of Beverly Hills in the early eighties, Wolfgang Puck has gone on to become a household name in the U.S. Puck says L.A. has perfect weather, \"fabulous light and very little rain\" His chain of airport restaurants stretch across the states while his brand adorns everything from pizzas to non-stick pans.",
"He lives in Los Angeles with his second wife and their two young children.",
"CNN: What first drew you to L.A.?",
"Wolfgang Puck: I came to the U.S. when I was 24.",
"I spent a month in New York and a year in Indianapolis but I always dreamt about the beaches in California.",
"I had a blue 1967 Cadillac.",
"In 1974 I packed my suitcases, put them in a trailer and drove straight to L.A.",
"It took me five days to drive from Indianapolis.",
"Watch Wolfgang Puck take CNN on a tour of L.A. » .",
"CNN: What has kept you here all these years?",
"Wolfgang Puck: In L.A. you live in a big city, but you feel like you're in the countryside.",
"For example, I can be at home in the swimming pool and be five minutes from everything.",
"It has the perfect weather -- the movie industry started here because of the fabulous light and very little rain.",
"See pictures of Wolfgang Puck's Los Angeles .",
"CNN: Does everyone in L.A. want to be an actor?",
"Wolfgang Puck: It's a city of dreams.",
"It's nice to dream but a lot of people forget it's very difficult.",
"They think you become Cate Blanchett or Jack Nicholson just like that, but these people paid their dues.",
"They forget how much time it took them to get there and how good they really are.",
"CNN: You are the official caterer to the Oscars.",
"It must an exciting event to be part of.",
"Wolfgang Puck: When we cater the Governor's Ball, we have 300 people in the kitchen and 600 in the dining room.",
"It goes very fast and it's done the right way.",
"I remember Michael Caine came to Spago (Puck's flagship Beverly Hills eaterie) the Monday after the awards with his family and said could he get the same dish that he ate at the awards, which means we really nailed it.",
"CNN: How has the city inspired your cooking?",
"Wolfgang Puck: For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place.",
"L.A. is a melting pot of many different cultures and we have fabulous ingredients here.",
"If you go to San Diego, San Francisco you can get the best vegetables, the best fruits, sea food -- all these wonderful ingredients.",
"CNN: How does L.A. compare with New York?",
"Wolfgang Puck: New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music.",
"But really L.A. is a better place.",
"Some of the most famous artists in the world work right here.",
"CNN: You're a big fan of modern art.",
"How did that start? Wolfgang Puck: I got interested in contemporary art because I worked in a restaurant right across the street from a gallery where they made prints for people like David Hockney.",
"The artists came for lunch at the restaurant so I used to talk to them.",
"Hockney made the first cover of my cook book; I had Andy Warhol do the label for our wine.",
"I feel that painting is in some way like cooking -- if you add a little more blue, a little less blue it doesn't matter.",
"The same thing with cooking: a little of this, a little bit more of that.",
"As long as the end result is beautiful, that's what counts.",
"CNN: If L.A. was personified, what would they be like?",
"Wolfgang Puck: A person who enjoys themselves.",
"They do a great job at work but also can have a good time. To me that's what life is all about."
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"The city's melting pot of cultures has helped inspire his cuisine .",
"Many of Hollywood's biggest names come to dine in his restaurants ."
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"(CNN) -- In a major upset, Evan Lysacek of the United States edged out defending gold medalist Russian Evgeni Plushenko to win the men's figure skating gold medal.",
"It was the first time since the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary -- where Brian Boitano won for the United States -- that any nation other than Russia has won the men's gold medal in the event.",
"In a first for Japan on the men's podium, Daisuke Takahashi of Japan took the bronze.",
"Lysacek, who placed fourth at the Turin Games in 2006, won after the free skate program with a total score of 257.67, which bettered Plushenko's score of 256.36.",
"Takahashi's score of 247.23 came just a little more than half a point better than fourth place finisher Stephane Lambiel of Switzerland.",
"Lysacek's triumph brought to six the number of golds and 18 the number of total medals the United States has, the most of any nation so far.",
"Earlier, Lindsey Vonn crashed out in the slalom section, opening the door for Maria Riesch of Germany to take the gold medal in the super-combined at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.",
"The poster girl of the Winter Games led after the downhill section of the two-discipline event, but chasing down Riesch's combined target time of two minutes 10.08 seconds came unstuck halfway down her slalom run at Whistler Creekside.",
"Vonn's teammate Julia Mancuso added to her silver in the downhill behind Vonn 24 hours previously with another second-placed finish, but over a second behind Riesch.",
"Sweden's Anja Paerson, who suffered a crashing fall in the downhill on Wednesday, was rewarded for her brave decision to compete with a bronze medal after a fine slalom run.",
"Vonn's downhill time of one minute 24.16 seconds left her 0.33 seconds clear of her great friend Riesch, with Mancuso of the United States in third place, and she seemingly had a second gold in two days firmly in her grasp.",
"But the 25-year-old from Minnesota admitted after the downhill section that the shin injury which troubled her in the build-up to the Games was a problem and may present difficulties as she bids for gold in three other disciplines.",
"\"It's not good. It's really hurting and I'm just struggling with it,\" Vonn said.",
"\"But there's nothing really I can do.",
"I just have to try to do therapy and try to tough it out today and then tomorrow will be a good day off.\"",
"Riesch, who was a disappointing eighth on her Olympic debut in the downhill, looked much more assured in her second event and was always set to be the major challenger to Vonn as she has been throughout the World Cup season.",
"Hosts Canada gained their third gold of the Games as Christine Nesbitt powered to victory in the women's 1,000 speed skating event at the Richmond Oval.",
"Nesbitt had just 0.02 seconds in hand over Annette Gerritsen of the Netherlands with another Dutch skater Laurine Van Riessen taking bronze.",
"In other early action on day seven, Norway's Tora Berger upset the favorites to claim her country's 100th gold in the Winter Olympics with victory in the women's 15k individual biathlon.",
"Berger missed just one shot to beat Kazakhstan's Elena Khrustaleva by 20.7 seconds.",
"And the 101st gold was not long coming in the later men's 20km individual event as Emile Hegle Svendsen claimed victory ahead of legendary compatriot Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, who was winning his 10th Olympic medal, including five golds.",
"Bjoerndalen tied for silver with Belarus competitor Sergey Novikov, 9.5 seconds behind Svendsen.",
"In women's snowboarding, the half-pipe crown went to Torah Bright of Australia ahead of American pair Hanna Teter and Kelly Clark after a thrilling competition which set new standards."
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"Lindsey Vonn fails in her bid to win second gold of Winter Games in super-combined event .",
"Vonn said after her downhill run that she was being troubled by a shin injury .",
"Christine Nesbitt wins Canada's third gold of Games by claiming 1,000m speed skating crown ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Katie Piper had everything going for her -- a blossoming career, a wonderful life and a beautiful face.",
"But that all changed after a horrific acid attack in March 2008 destroyed everything as she knew it.",
"The young model and television presenter, who was 24 years old at the time, was leaving her apartment in a London suburb when she was attacked by a stranger waiting for her with a cup of sulfuric acid.",
"Stefan Sylvestre threw the cup of corrosive liquid on Piper, burning the skin on her face, neck, chest and hands.",
"She was also left blinded in one eye.",
"Sylvestre was asked by Piper's former boyfriend, Danny Lynch, to throw the acid on her face because she ended their short relationship.",
"To make matters worse, two days before the attack, Piper was raped by Lynch in a London hotel room after ending the partnership.",
"\"It wasn't a random attack and there was a motive if you like,\" Piper told CNN's Becky Anderson on Connect the World.",
"Meanwhile Piper's parents were called by the police to tell them what had happened.",
"\"I can remember going 'not her face, please not her face',\" Piper's mother Diane wrote on The Katie Piper Foundation web site.",
"\"I knew if anything happened to her face as far as she was concerned it would be the end of everything.\"",
"Piper spent nearly two months in hospital and was placed in an induced coma for 10 days.",
"The attack also severely damaged Piper's throat and she was forced to be fed through a tube in her stomach.",
"Today, Piper now wears a special plastic pressure mask for 23 hours a day, in an effort to flatten her scars.",
"\"You can see looking at me that it physically changed my appearance, but it goes a lot deeper than that.\"",
"\"It changed my life as I know it -- it changed my career, it changed my relationships with people.",
"Lynch was found guilty of inciting the acid attack in October 2008 and subsequently convicted on the rape charge in April 2009.",
"He was given two life sentences, and will serve at least 16 years in jail.",
"Sylvestre received a 12-year sentence for throwing the acid.",
"With her attackers behind bars, Piper is determined to get her life back on track and rebuild what she can.",
"\"Time was a great healer and I've managed to not get my old life back, but I can rebuild.",
"And I think I've stayed focused and determined.\"",
"\"It was an attack with the intent to destroy me, and I decided that it wouldn't destroy me and that I would still have a life.",
"I try to stay positive.\"",
"Piper has told her story around the world and has started the Katie Piper Foundation to help raise money for burns victims across the UK.",
"Since the attack Piper has made remarkable progress.",
"Surgeons took the drastic measure to remove the skin from Piper's entire face and use a skin substitute called Matriderm to re-build the foundations before grafting skin from her back and buttock onto her face -- it's the first operation of its kind to be done in one operation, according to Piper's Web site.",
"Piper plans to continue her work raising money for burn victims and to help spread the message that there is life after difficult challenges.",
"\"I think it's important to try and set yourself many goals -- try to take each day as it comes,\" Piper said.",
"\"I think there's a lot of strength that can be gathered from support.\""
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"She received severe burns to her face, chest, neck and hands .",
"Highly corrosive sulfuric acid was used in the attack .",
"Piper is slowly getting her life back on track after nearly two years of recovery ."
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq has ordered former employees of the private military contractor once known as Blackwater to leave the country, its interior minister announced Wednesday.",
"Contractors who once worked for Blackwater, now known as Xe, have seven days to leave Iraq, Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani told the state television network al-Iraqiya.",
"The move follows a January declaration by Iraq's government that former Blackwater employees were no longer welcome in the country.",
"Blackwater became the target of widespread Iraqi outrage after its contractors were involved in the September 2007 shooting in Baghdad's Nisoor Square that left 17 civilians dead.",
"That outrage was renewed in December, when a U.S. judge dismissed manslaughter charges against five guards involved in the shootings on constitutional grounds.",
"The company's last contracts in Iraq have been transferred to other companies.",
"But Iraqi authorities say about 250 former Blackwater employees remain behind, some working for other security firms.",
"\"I don't think the Iraqi government is willing to have any Blackwater member, even if they are working in other companies,\" government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told CNN in January.",
"\"We don't like to see them here working in any company.\"",
"Blackwater had about 1,000 contractors working in Iraq at the height of its involvement, guarding diplomatic convoys and supply vehicles around the country after the U.S. invasion in 2003.",
"At least 10 of its employees were killed, including four whose burned and mutilated bodies were dragged through the streets of Fallujah after an ambush in 2004.",
"CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Suzanne Simons contributed to this report."
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"They have seven days to leave Iraq, says Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani .",
"Blackwater became target of Iraqi outrage after 2007 shooting left 17 civilians dead ."
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"(CNN) -- Prague has not been nicknamed \"Zlata Praha\" or \"Golden Prague\" for no good reason.",
"The well-deserved eponym is a tribute to this city that mixes architecture, history, art and beauty like no other.",
"While not forgetting its more somber communist past, Prague has been one of the first East European cities to get a luxurious makeover.",
"Designer shopping malls, exclusive restaurants and trendy nightclubs abound.",
"But it is the mystical atmosphere of a Prague of past eras that leaves many visitors craving to come back.",
"Largely untouched by the ravages of WWII, Prague is arguably the only European city with so many century-old buildings left intact for people to enjoy.",
"All more impressive than the others, these are the historical sites you should not miss in Prague.",
"Wenceslas Square: In 1348, King Charles IV of Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) founded the town of Prague.",
"The King built several open areas for markets, including Wenceslas Square, previously known as the Horse Market.",
"Named after Saint Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech state, the square is the largest in the city and was at the center of much of Prague's history, including the Nazi occupation, the Soviet invasion, and the Velvet Revolution.",
"In 1969, Prague student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.",
"And in 1989, during the Velvet Revolution that overthrew the Communist regime, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators gathered here to protest.",
"Today the square has become one of the trendiest and busiest in the country.",
"Lining Wenceslas Square are fashion stores, cafes, bars and kiosks.",
"Above the square is Prague's Museum of Natural History, which was shot at by Communist troops when they mistook it for the Parliament building.",
"Prague Castle: Kings, Roman Emperors and Presidents have lived in this legendary castle that overlooks the city.",
"The castle is the largest medieval castle complex in Europe and arguable Prague's prime tourist attraction.",
"First built in the 9th century, Prague Castle has survived wars, fires and opposing political powers.",
"The castle complex consists of the Saint Virtus Cathedral, viewing towers, a monastery, museums and art galleries.",
"The Czech crown jewels are also held here.",
"After Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993, the castle became the seat of the President of the new Czech Republic.",
"Charles Bridge: This magnificent 14th century gothic bridge over Prague's Vltava river is lined with a series of large stone statues that represent important religious figures and icons.",
"Its construction started in 1357 under King Charles IV and finished in the beginning of the 15th century.",
"Until the 19th century, the bridge was the only way to cross between the Old Town and adjacent areas, also known as the \"Lesser Town.\"",
"During the day, thousands of people traverse the bridge to watch the views of the city and enjoy the numerous street performers.",
"Dancing House: A masterpiece of modern architecture, Dancing House was named after dancing duo Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.",
"Dancing House is also sometimes nicknamed \"Drunk House\" for its wavy curves.",
"The building was constructed between 1992 and 1996 by Czech architect Vlado Milunc and world-renowned Canadian architect Frank Gehry.",
"The top floor houses one of the city's most exclusive restaurants, Celeste.",
"Old Town Square: Located in the heart of the Old Town, this square included Prague's gothic Church of Our Lady before Tyn, the main church of this part of the city since the 14th century.",
"The church's towers are 80 meters high and topped by small golden spires.",
"Another fixture of the Old Town Square is the baroque-style St. Nicholas Church.",
"In the center of the square is a large statue of Jan Hus, a Catholic priest who was burned at the stake by the Roman Catholic Church for heresy in 1415.",
"But the most popular attraction for visitors of the square is the famous Astronomical Clock.",
"Astronomical Clock: Built in 1410, the Astronomical Clock still functions and provides accurate data on a number of astrological events, such as the relative positions of the sun, moon and major planets.",
"Each hour, the clock bells and a series of moving wooden puppets come out.",
"Below the Astronomical Clock are 12 medallions with the signs of the zodiac, added by painter Josef Manes in 1865.",
"Prague Cathedral: Saint Vitus's Cathedral is another one of Prague's Gothic masterpieces.",
"The Cathedral, set in the walls of the Prague Castle, was commissioned by King Charles IV and work on it began in 1344.",
"It took nearly six centuries to complete.",
"Today it is the seat of the Archbishop of Prague and contains the tombs of many of the Bohemian Kings.",
"The interior features stained-glass windows from different eras.",
"One of the cathedral's chambers was used to crown several Kings and it is said the room can only be opened with seven golden keys given to different members of parliament.",
"Vyshehrad: The old fortress of Vyshehrad and its surrounding parks is the place where the city of Prague was originally founded and around which the city was built.",
"It is a great place to get a sense of the history of the city.",
"Its thick walls house the National Cemetery, where many of Prague's most illustrious citizens are buried, including Czech composer Antonín Leopold Dvorak and writer Karel Capek."
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"Largely untouched by WWII, Prague's many century-old buildings have been left intact .",
"CNN takes you through the top historical sights not to be missed in Prague ."
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"(CNN) -- Ivo Josipovic won the runoff election Sunday for Croatia's presidency, a spokesman for the election commission told CNN.",
"Social Democratic Party candidate Josipovic won 60.3 percent of the vote, or about 1.3 million of the nearly 2.3 million votes cast, said spokesman Hrvoje Sadaric of the Croatian State Election Commission.",
"Milan Bandic, an independent and eight-year mayor of the Croatian capital of Zagreb, garnered 39.71 percent of the vote, or just over 880,000 votes.",
"He was once a member of Josipovic's party, Sadaric said.",
"Slightly more than half of voting eligible Croatians voted in the runoff and more than 99 percent of votes had been counted, Sadaric said.",
"Josipovic, 52, a law professor and classical music composer, had earlier garnered the most votes in the first round of voting.",
"His campaign focused on cleaning up corruption in government."
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"Josipovic won 60.3 percent of the vote, says Croatian State Election Commission .",
"Milan Bandic, eight-year mayor of capital, Zagreb, garnered 39.71 percent, commission says ."
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"(CNN) -- Federal agents seized 2,880 rounds of ammunition found inside an SUV that was being driven from Brownsville, Texas, to Mexico, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said.",
"A 19-year-old Mexican was attempting to drive the 2003 Chevrolet Trailblazer across the bridge that links Brownsville with Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, when he was stopped for a secondary inspection, the release said.",
"The ammunition, which included 13 armor-piercing rounds and five assault-rifle magazines, was hidden inside 18 plastic bags found inside the SUV, the release said."
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"ONBOARD AN AIR FORCE C-17 OVER HAITI (CNN) -- Bypassing the gridlock of Haiti's main airport and congestion of roadways in the earthquake-ravaged country, the U.S. military delivered badly needed food and water on Monday by parachute.",
"A C-17 cargo plane left Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina shortly after noon, and three hours later dropped 40 pallets -- or \"bundles\" as the Air Force refers to them as -- holding bottled water and Meals, Ready-to-Eat, or MREs, on a field just north of the Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti.",
"It was the first airdrop of humanitarian supplies by the U.S. military into Haiti since the deadly earthquake there nearly a week ago.",
"\"There are so many relief agencies funneling through the airport that it has kind of created a bottleneck,\" U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Leon Strickland told CNN en route to the drop point.",
"\"We're going to put things directly out of the air onto the ground and open up another distribution point north of the [Port-au-Prince] airfield.\"",
"The mission came just three days after Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters at the Pentagon that he thought such airdrops would pose serious problems, especially with crowd control.",
"See complete coverage of quake in Haiti .",
"\"It seems to me that, without having any structure on the ground in terms of distribution, that an airdrop is simply going to lead to riots as people try and go after that stuff.",
"So without any structure for distribution or to provide security when things become available, then it seems to me that's a formula for contributing to chaos rather than -- rather than preventing it,\" Gates said.",
"Strickland, commander of the airdrop mission, said safety of the Haitians was still a consideration, but the military had taken steps to insure control over the distribution.",
"iReport: People continue looking for loved ones in Haiti .",
"\"We are obviously concerned about the welfare of the people on the ground,\" he said, adding, \"I'm confident that our members on the ground have created a secure environment for us to conduct airdrop operations.\"",
"This first flight carried a total of 9,600 bottles of water and 42,000 MRE packets.",
"One MRE is usually considered one meal for a U.S. soldier in combat, but there is enough food in an MRE packet to make a small meal for two people.",
"Most of the food in an MRE can be eaten straight from the plastic vacuum-packed pouch.",
"But if water is added to a chemical heater, a hot meal results.",
"Each pallet was rigged with a large parachute as well as special corrugated cardboard padding that would minimize damage to the water and food when the load hit the ground.",
"One of the supervisors on the rigging crew at the Army's Fort Bragg, which is adjacent to Pope Air Force Base, said they wanted to make sure as much of the aid, especially the water, survived the airdrop, but they predicted as many as 1-in-10 of the bottles would break on impact.",
"The MREs are much less susceptible to damage during airdrops.",
"Get latest developments on situation in Haiti .",
"As the C-17 approached Haiti, the pilot dropped to 600 feet above the ground and opened the huge rear ramp.",
"When a computer in the cockpit calculated that the plane was over the drop zone, a signal was given, the pilot pitched the plane upward and the huge straps and gate that held the cargo in place were released.",
"Within seconds, gravity pulled all 40 pallets out of the plane and the parachutes automatically deployed.",
"In less than a minute the food and water was on the ground, ready to be unpacked and distributed.",
"Maj. Jeff \"Ratdog\" Daniels, the pilot of the C-17, said the U.S. military teams waiting for the airdrop on the ground reported all 40 parachutes opened properly and all the bundles landed on target in the planned drop zone.",
"CNN's Impact Your World .",
"While this airdrop is a first for the military effort in Haiti, the Air Force is well-practiced in this type of mission.",
"Almost daily, Air Force cargo planes drop food and water into remote areas of Afghanistan for U.S. troops fighting there.",
"Several of the young military personnel CNN spoke to were pleased to be taking part this part of the huge humanitarian mission.",
"Complete coverage on Haiti .",
"Even though she joined the military while the United States was embroiled in two wars, Pvt.",
"Caitlyn Lopez of the 18th Airborne Corps said \"this is what I joined the Army for.\"",
"She was among dozens of soldiers at Fort Bragg who hand-packed and rigged the bundles of humanitarian aid that were dropped Monday.",
"The military planned to use Monday's flight as a test to see if airdrops would be a practical and effective way to continue to deliver aid.",
"The decision on whether to do more airdrops not immediately made, but just after returning to Pope AFB, Strickland said of the mission, \"It was a success.\""
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"First airdrop of humanitarian supplies by the U.S. military into Haiti since quake .",
"Mission was success says U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Leon Strickland ."
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"(CNN) -- William Ward Warren was 15 when his dad dropped him off at Dallas Love Field to see President John F. Kennedy arrive in the city, on the same day JFK was assassinated.",
"Students in Dallas, Texas, had November 22, 1963, off from school in recognition of the visit.",
"Warren decided to take along his 8mm camera.",
"The result was \"the best home movie known to exist of the Kennedy arrival,\" according to Gary Mack, curator of the The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza.",
"The color film offers new glimpses of the president and Mrs. Kennedy, wearing a pink Chanel suit, coming down the steps from Air Force One and greeting well-wishers.",
"The Kennedys can then be seen from the side as they walk past the camera smiling.",
"Vice President Lyndon Johnson is seen close up as he greets people standing on the tarmac.",
"\"I was very excited,\" says Warren, now 61.",
"\"It had rained the night before and cleared off that next day, which was an interesting event, and it was a very positive day.",
"It was cool and yet the sun was shining bright, and there was lots of excitement.\"",
"Warren donated the 8mm color home movie to the museum, Mack said in a news release.",
"According to the news release, the only color images of President Kennedy in Dallas were made by amateurs, except for a brief film by a White House photographer.",
"The museum is on the sixth and seventh floors of what was known in 1963 as the Texas School Book Depository.",
"The Warren Commission determined that Lee Harvey Oswald shot Kennedy from that location."
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"President and Mrs. Kennedy can be seen walking through crowd on November 22, 1963 .",
"Film was donated to Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas by filmmaker, now 61 ."
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"(CNN) -- All but one of the families who lost relatives in Baghdad's Nusoor Square killings have agreed to settle their claims against the security contractor formerly known as Blackwater, one of the survivors said Sunday.",
"Hassan Salman, who was wounded in the 2007 shootings, told CNN that 16 of the 17 families of the dead agreed to $100,000 lawsuit settlements from Xe, as Blackwater now calls itself.",
"Those wounded were offered between $20,000 and $50,000 apiece, Salman said.",
"Blackwater guards protecting a U.S. State Department convoy opened fire in Nusoor Square, in western Baghdad, in October 2007, killing 17 people and wounding more than two dozen.",
"Blackwater denied any wrongdoing, arguing its contractors used necessary force to protect a State Department convoy that had come under fire from insurgents.",
"Iraq called the killings unprovoked and an act of \"premeditated murder.\"",
"The incident led the Iraqi government to slap limits on security contractors hired by Xe and other firms operating in the country.",
"Xe announced it was settling the lawsuit last week to allow the company, which is also under new management, to move ahead \"free of the costs and distraction of ongoing litigation.\"",
"One of the guards who took part in the shooting pleaded guilty to a voluntary manslaughter charge in a U.S. court 2008.",
"Five others were charged with manslaughter, but those cases were dismissed in late December when a federal judge found prosecutors wrongly used the men's own statements against them.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"Families of slain offered $100,000 to settle lawsuit, survivor of shooting says .",
"Blackwater guards protecting a convoy opened fire in Baghdad in October 2007 .",
"Seventeen people were killed; security firm said guards came under fire .",
"Guard pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter; charges dismissed against five others ."
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"(CNN) -- We're just going to put it out there: Behind closed doors, whites talk differently about blacks.",
"At least that's what two sociologists found after conducting a study of college students across the country.",
"One of the researchers, Joe Feagin, said that's why it comes as no surprise to him that a powerful politician such as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would talk about Barack Obama's skin color and use the term \"Negro dialect\" in what he considered a private conversation.",
"Speaking not of Reid but of his conclusions drawn from his research, Feagin said, \"Most whites have sharply reduced the blatantly racist stuff they do in public, while they still do huge amounts in private.\"",
"\"It's just social correctness in the front stage.",
"The scale of this is gigantic on the backstage, which is why the notion of a post-racial America is laughable,\" said Feagin, a professor at Texas A&M University.",
"\"And I think most whites know it because they've been to Thanksgiving dinner with Uncle Jim and have heard the n-word jokes.\"",
"Feagin and Leslie Picca of the University of Dayton compiled their research in a book called \"Two-Faced Racism\" published in 2007.",
"They surveyed 626 white students at 28 colleges and universities across the country.",
"They asked the students to keep diaries and record any racial events they came across during the course of a day.",
"The students recorded 9,000 accounts, of which 7,500 were \"blatantly racist\" events ranging from private jokes and conversations to violent incidents, Feagin said.",
"About 100 accounts stood up against racism, he said.",
"The majority of racial events were directed at African-Americans, but Latinos and Asians also came under attack.",
"Feagin and Picca also surveyed African-American students, but that research is still being compiled.",
"\"In these 7,500 blatant accounts, most of them are accounts of what we call backstage racism -- that is they're doing these performances and skits with friends and relatives,\" Feagin said.",
"Does it surprise him that someone with such political clout as Reid would use a term such as \"Negro dialect\"?",
"\"No,\" Feagin said, \"not after looking at our student diaries.\"",
"He said Reid \"felt safe making\" the comment about Obama because he was in a private setting.",
"\"It's a great teaching moment,\" Feagin said.",
"\"It shows the difference between the front stage and the backstage.",
"He thought he was saying that in the backstage, and now it's been brought out in the public for all to see and discuss.\"",
"The controversy is centered on remarks published in the book \"Game Change\" by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.",
"The book cites Reid as saying privately in 2008 that Obama could succeed as a black candidate partly because of his \"light-skinned\" appearance and speaking patterns \"with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.\"",
"Reid, D-Nevada, apologized to the president after excerpts from the book were released, and Obama said he considered the issue closed.",
"Your take: iReporters sound off on the issue .",
"\"This is a good man who's always been on the right side of history,\" Obama said Monday in a sit-down interview with CNN political contributor Roland Martin.",
"\"For him to have used some inartful language in trying to praise me, and for people to try to make hay out of that, makes absolutely no sense.\"",
"Reid has received the support of the Congressional Black Caucus.",
"On Monday, he said numerous prominent African-American officials, including NAACP Chairman Julian Bond and Attorney General Eric Holder, called to offer their support.",
"Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, head of the GOP's Senate campaign arm, has called for Reid to give up his leadership post after the \"embarrassing and racially insensitive\" remarks.",
"Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele also called for Reid to step down.",
"Duke University political science professor Kerry Haynie said he doesn't dispute that attitudes toward race may be viewed differently in private than in public.",
"But he said he doesn't feel that came into play with Reid's remarks.",
"\"Many of us who work in areas of race and politics asked these same kinds of questions, about whether Obama is different for whites than other black politicians,\" Haynie said.",
"\"I don't think Sen. Reid was expressing sentiments he would not have expressed publicly.\"",
"Boyce Watkins, an associate professor at Syracuse University, said the country shouldn't let this moment pass.",
"\"The takeaway is that there is a teachable moment, but we can't allow politicians to do all the teaching,\" Watkins told CNN's \"American Morning.\"",
"\"If you watched President Obama's interview with Roland Martin, the conversation tends to be let's sweep this under the rug and throw the baby out with the bath water and move on.",
"\"But the truth is that they are trying to get health care passed, and that's good, I respect that, but I want to have the conversation on race.\"",
"Added Dawn Turner Trice, a columnist and blogger with the Chicago Tribune: \"For me, it's that we have to continue to talk about this.",
"We can't only talk about it when we have these national flare-ups.",
"This takes time and nuanced conversations.",
"... \"The country is changing.",
"In a couple decades, we will have a country with a very different racial makeup.",
"And we will have to have these conversations, and it's to our peril if we don't.\"",
"Feagin, the sociologist, said he agrees.",
"He said Democrats and Obama should come forward to talk openly about the national climate on race.",
"\"We can't keep ducking this racism stuff,\" he said.",
"CNN's Matt Cherry contributed to this report."
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"\"The scale of this is gigantic,\" says Joe Feagin of Texas A&M University .",
"Feagin: Senate Majority Harry Reid's comments not surprising, hopes nation will learn from it .",
"Syracuse University associate prof says politicians shouldn't \"sweep this under the rug\""
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"(CNN) -- Philippine authorities on Sunday raised the alert status of the country's most active volcano to level 4 and established an extended danger zone around it, saying an eruption is imminent.",
"The status change at the Mayon volcano \"means that a hazardous explosive eruption is possible within days,\" according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.",
"Earlier Sunday, the institute said the central Philippine volcano continues \"to exhibit a high level of activity,\" adding that 222 volcanic quakes and tremors have been recorded in recent days.",
"One was \"an explosion-type earthquake\" that launched a cloud of ash about 1,640 feet (500 meters) into the air, according to an institute statement.",
"The institute recommended extending already-established danger zones of nearly five miles (8 kilometers) south of the summit and 4.3 miles (7 kilometers) north of the summit.",
"In addition, \"areas just outside of this extended danger zone should prepare for evacuation in the event explosive eruptions intensify,\" the institute said.",
"More than 30,000 people fled their homes last week ahead of an expected eruption, and authorities were attempting to evacuate about 50,000 people living around the 8,077-foot volcano.",
"People in surrounding Albay province have flocked to town centers to catch a glimpse of glowing lava cascading down the slopes of Mayon since the mountain began oozing fiery lava and belching clouds of ash last week.",
"The volcano, about 310 (500 kilometers) south of the Philippine capital of Manila, has erupted 49 times since its first documented eruption in 1616.",
"The Philippines is situated in the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.",
"In 1814, Mayon had its most violent eruption, killing more than 1,200 people.",
"Its last major eruption was in 1993.",
"Since then, it has remained restless, emitting ash and spewing lava."
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"More than 220 volcanic quakes and tremors have been recorded in recent days .",
"More than 30,000 people fled their homes last week ahead of an expected eruption .",
"Last major eruption of Mayon volcano was in 1993 ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Marine Lance Cpl.",
"Joshua Bleill lost both his legs above the knees when a bomb exploded under his Humvee while on patrol in Iraq on October 15, 2006.",
"He has 32 pins in his hip and a 6-inch screw holding his pelvis together.",
"Joshua Bleill, pictured here with his girlfriend, is walking again with the aid of prosthetics outfitted with Bluetooth.",
"Now, he's starting to walk again with the help of prosthetic legs outfitted with Bluetooth technology more commonly associated with hands-free cell phones.",
"\"They're the latest and greatest,\" Bleill said, referring to his groundbreaking artificial legs.",
"Bleill, 30, is one of two Iraq war veterans, both double leg amputees, to use the Bluetooth prosthetics.",
"Computer chips in each leg send signals to motors in the artificial joints so the knees and ankles move in a coordinated fashion.",
"Bleill's set of prosthetics have Bluetooth receivers strapped to the ankle area.",
"The Bluetooth device on each leg tells the other leg what it's doing, how it's moving, whether walking, standing or climbing steps, for example.",
"\"They mimic each other, so for stride length, for amount of force coming up, going uphill, downhill and such, they can vary speed and then to stop them again,\" Bleill told CNN from Walter Reed Army Medical Center, where he's undergoing rehab.",
"\"I will put resistance with my own thigh muscles to slow them down, so I can stop walking, which is always nice.\"",
"Watch Bleill demonstrate his legs » .",
"Bluetooth is the name for short-range wireless technology that can connect computers to printers, MP3 players to speakers and -- perhaps the most well-known use -- cell phones to ear pieces.",
"Older models of computer-controlled legs have to be \"programmed\" via wire by laptop computers before the amputee can use them.",
"Those legs required more movement from the amputee's remaining thigh muscle to generate motion in the prosthetic leg.",
"Because of built-in motors, the Bluetooth legs allow Bleill to walk longer before he tires.",
"\"We've compared walking several laps in both sets of legs and one, your legs come out burning and tired and these, you know, you sometimes are not even breaking a sweat yet.\"",
"Bleill says the technology also means he spends less time in a wheelchair.",
"The Marine uses canes to walk with them.",
"He's hoping to get to the point where he can use one cane regularly, and eventually lose the cane altogether.",
"\"I can walk without canes, but it's not real pretty,\" he said.",
"This new generation of prosthetic technology was originally conceived to help amputees who had lost only one leg.",
"But it's working for Bleill and Army Lt.Col.",
"Gregory Gadson, who is also using the Bluetooth devices in his legs.",
"What they are experiencing will help future amputees.",
"\"We are the first ever to try this, so it's learning day-to-day.",
"The [prosthetics] company comes down on a regular basis and checks in with us,\" Bleill said.",
"Gadson, a former linebacker at West Point, said they are breaking new ground for amputees.",
"\"I think we are kind of pioneering and hopefully blazing a trail for others to try the technology also,\" he said.",
"But the technology is not without some problems.",
"\"It's only going to react to how I move,\" Bleill said.",
"\"Unfortunately, sometimes I don't know those reactions, I don't know what I'm doing to make it react.",
"So sometimes the leg kicks harder than I want it to, or farther, and then I start perpetuating, and I start moving faster than I really want to.\"",
"Aside from the Bluetooth technology, Bleill's legs have one other thing in common with a cell phone.",
"They need to be charged overnight.",
"Currently, there are no spare batteries available.",
"What are his long-range plans?",
"He just wants to make it back to his home state of Indiana and work for a charity or even help the NFL's Indianapolis Colts.",
"\"They do a lot for the community,\" he said.",
"He added he simply wants \"to give back.\"",
"\"To, you know, just carry on a normal life.",
"Go home, see my girlfriend, see my family.\"",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Their artificial legs communicate via Bluetooth to coordinate movements .",
"Both vets are testing the legs for what could become more widespread use ."
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"(CNN) -- With the people of Haiti hungry, desperate and frustrated nearly a week after a powerful earthquake, sporadic violence and looting are erupting in the badly damaged capital.",
"CNN's Anderson Cooper witnessed a group of young men breaking into a supply store in the city's commercial district and taking away boxes of candles Monday afternoon.",
"They were followed by several hundred others, including women who used sacks to carry away items.",
"Two Haitian police officers and the store owner tried to barricade the property.",
"Police fired shots into the air to try to disperse the crowd, according to Cooper.",
"Fights broke out among looters.",
"Cooper saw one man beaten until one of his arms bled.",
"A boy collapsed onto the street in a pool of blood, Cooper said, describing the situation as \"a frenzy of looting.\"",
"Anderson Cooper in the midst of looting chaos .",
"Reports of looting have escalated in the days since Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, leaving the capital in chaos as emergency aid workers and authorities scramble to help.",
"\"People are actually stealing this, then will sell it later, and then they'll use that money for their families,\" Cooper reported.",
"Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he wanted to increase the U.N. peacekeeping force in Haiti with 1,500 additional police and 2,000 peacekepping troops to better respond to the quake's aftermath.",
"Ban says he has submitted his request to the U.N. Security Council.",
"The U.S. military considers the security situation \"stable,\" Rear Adm. Mike Rogers, director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters Monday.",
"Rogers said that means meant the United States can carry out operations -- including search and rescue, distribution of aid, moving people in and out of the capital and flying aircraft.",
"Nothing suggests \"widespread disorder\" and panic, Rogers said, citing the well-publicized incidents of unrest as \"isolated events.\"",
"No official death toll has been declared, but estimates range from 100,000 to 150,000 in Port-au-Prince alone.",
"The buildings have crumbled to rubble, leaving hundreds of thousands of homeless survivors roaming the streets.",
"iReport: Looking for loved ones .",
"About 3 million people -- one-third of Haiti's population -- were affected by the quake, the Red Cross said.",
"About 10 million people most likely felt the shaking, the U.S. Geological Survey said.",
"All of this has occurred in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, where infrastructure is weak and many people were already living in poverty.",
"In several sections of Port-au-Prince, people could be seen scavenging in the streets, pushing each other away to pick up whatever they could find in the collapsed homes.",
"They rummaged through plastic bags lying amid mountains of debris.",
"Other survivors clutched tightly to their finds as they walked through the streets.",
"For business owners, the growing violence is troubling because there are fewer police officers on duty after the earthquake.",
"Many officers are injured or dead.",
"The police who are on duty are armed with automatic weapons, and they have fired shots in the air to scare off looters.",
"Even before the earthquake, robberies and home invasions organized by gangs were frequent in Haiti, according to the U.S. Department of State's Overseas Security Advisory Council.",
"Adding to Haiti's frustration is the difficulty in transporting critical aid and supplies to survivors.",
"Shortly after the earthquake, international aid groups responded quickly, trying to get food and medical supplies into Haiti to prevent the situation from going from \"dire to absolutely catastrophic.\"",
"\"I think people need to understand that out in Port-au-Prince, it looks ... like Tokyo probably did after World War II.",
"It's flat. It looks like atomic bomb went off.",
"The streets are completely blocked,\" said Kenneth Merten, the U.S. ambassador to Haiti.",
"He added, \"There are rescue efforts going on.",
"It's just difficult to physically get there.\""
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"Incidents of looting are becoming more widespread across Port-au-Prince .",
"U.N. officials hope to send more troops, officers to help respond .",
"Haiti's police force is limited after earthquake killed or injured many officers .",
"CNN's Anderson Cooper said looters plan on selling items later ."
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"(CNN) -- A top United Nations official acknowledged Friday that the earthquake relief operation in Haiti was not progressing fast enough.",
"\"You can't snap your fingers and make it happen just by magic,\" U.N.",
"Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes said.",
"But he promised, \"We will do it, slowly and surely.\"",
"In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Holmes said, \"We have blockages at different points or bottlenecks of different points.",
"The airport, coming in -- not as many planes as we'd like to get in there because of the landing blockages.",
"It's happening, but it's happening not as fast as we would like.\"",
"Referring to the slow pace of aid deliveries, Holmes added, \"We've got to unload it, get it into warehouses, then get it into trucks, then get it to distribution points, and then start to distribute it.\"",
"\"There's a huge effort going in from huge numbers of countries and aid organizations, but it's not so visible on the ground because you can't quite get it there.\"",
"Get the latest developments in Haiti .",
"Holmes said it was key to dig out survivors from ruined buildings as soon as possible.",
"\"There are something like 27 search-and-rescue teams now either on the ground or on their way, and that's beginning to make a difference,\" he said.",
"\"Of course, with every day that passes, we know that the chances of finding somebody alive diminish, but that effort must continue, and we must continue to try and look after the injured.\"",
"Impact Your World .",
"New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who was in Haiti just before the earthquake and served there in the mid-1990s, also emphasized the importance of saving the lives of people who are trapped and injured.",
"\"I think there's still an opportunity even though it's almost 72 hours.",
"I think that's got to be job number one,\" Kelly told Amanpour.",
"As far as aid distribution is concerned, Kelly said it was essential to move supplies from the airport into Port-au-Prince as fast as possible.",
"\"It's about five miles for the most part, but it's a tough five miles.",
"The roads are not good.",
"Perhaps the helicopters from the USS Carl Vinson are going to be used to do precisely that.\"",
"The USS Carl Vinson, an U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, has recently arrived off the coast of Haiti with a fleet of 19 helicopters and several tons of aid.",
"Holmes expressed concern about the losses faced by the Haitian National Police during the earthquake.",
"He said 300 officers died when the main police commissariat collapsed.",
"\"It's not surprising they haven't been able to recover from the blow.",
"But the prime minister, the president, are functioning now, and the ministry of interior.\"",
"He said so far it has been reasonably calm in Haiti.",
"But the U.N. has thousands of police and soldiers in the country, and they will be able to maintain law and order with the help of American troops if necessary, Holmes said.",
"\"It's really a peaceful country.",
"I think it's gotten a bad reputation for certain outbreaks that did happen,\" Kelly said.",
"\"The people are in desperate straits.",
"But I think everyone will be surprised at just how peaceful and orderly it will be.\""
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"Problems include: Roadblocks, bottlenecks .",
"Key: Dig out survivors quickly .",
"New York City Police Chief: 300 Haitian police die in quake ."
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"(CNN) -- Air accident investigators are to resume the search for the flight data recorders from an Air France airliner that mysteriously crashed off Brazil six months ago, according to media reports Sunday.",
"Flight 447 went down in stormy weather in the Atlantic Ocean while flying from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France in June.",
"Investigators have not yet established the cause of the crash which killed all 228 passengers, and large parts of the plane -- including both flight recorders -- have never been found, despite an extensive search operation that included a French navy submarine.",
"Jean-Paul Troadec, director of the Investigation and Analysis Bureau, told reporters that a new search, approximately 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) off Brazil's northeast coast, will begin in February, according to Agence France-Presse.",
"The new underwater sweeps will last a maximum three months and involve sonar and robot submarines, he said.",
"Troadec was in Rio de Janeiro to speak to the relatives of the 58 Brazilians who were on board, AFP said.",
"\"We tried to convince the families that we are conducting the investigation with the full intention of getting to the truth,\" he said.",
"Troadec added that an upcoming report about the fatal crash contained \"no surprises\" but did set out \"new details, notably in terms of safety recommendations.\"",
"Tests have already brought into question the performance of pitot tubes, which are used to measure the pressure exerted on the plane as it flies through the air, and are part of a system used to determine air speed.",
"Flight 447 sent out 24 automated error messages before it crashed that suggested the plane may have been flying too fast or too slow through the thunderstorms, officials have said.",
"The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued a directive in late August requiring airlines to replace pitot tubes manufactured by Thales Avionics on Airbus A330s and A340s.",
"It said airlines should replace them with other Thales tubes and those manufactured by Goodrich."
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"Investigators have not yet established the cause of the crash .",
"New underwater sweeps will last a maximum three months, investigators say ."
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"(CNN) -- One of America's top World War II fighter pilots, an African-American who took on Nazis abroad and racism at home, was laid to rest Friday at Arlington National Cemetery.",
"Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Lee A. Archer, one of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, died last month in New York at the age of 90.",
"Archer, who once shot down three German fighters in the span of only a few minutes, went on to become a corporate executive and venture capitalist.",
"His life came to be seen as an example of the potential of any individual, regardless of skin color or background, if given a fair opportunity.",
"Lee Andrew Archer Jr. was born in 1919 in Yonkers, New York.",
"An aviation enthusiast from childhood, he left New York University in 1941 to join the Army.",
"Despite passing a pilot's test, he was assigned as a communications specialist in Camp Wheeler, Georgia.",
"But several months later, after the United States declared war on the Axis powers, Archer was selected to join a training program for potential black pilots at Alabama's Tuskegee Army Air Field.",
"Archer graduated first in the program in July 1943 and, after receiving his commission as a second lieutenant, was deployed to Italy as part of the 332nd Fighter Group.",
"On October 12, 1944, while piloting a P-51 Mustang, Archer downed three Luftwaffe fighters in the sky over Nazi-occupied Hungary.",
"He also was credited with shooting down a fighter over Germany earlier in the year.",
"U.S. military officials could not confirm a fifth downing by Archer in summer 1944.",
"If they had been able to do so, he would have become the only Tuskegee Airman to be officially designated as an ace.",
"By the end of World War II, Archer had flown 169 combat missions, providing cover and escorting U.S. bombers in over 11 countries, according to the Air Force.",
"He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.",
"Archer remained in the military through 1970, witnessing its desegregation during the Truman administration and serving in several capacities.",
"Among other things, he became a diplomatic officer at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe and was chief of headquarters at the U.S. Air Force Southern Command in Panama.",
"He received special citations for his service from Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson.",
"After retiring from the military, Archer became an executive at General Foods and started Archer Asset Management, a venture capital firm.",
"Archer's wife, Ina, died in 1996.",
"He is survived by three sons."
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"Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Lee A. Archer died last month in New York .",
"Archer shot down three German fighters in span of only minutes .",
"He received Distinguished Flying Cross, witnessed military's desegregation .",
"After the military, Archer worked at General Foods and started venture capital company ."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- The head of a humanitarian aid group and a few of his colleagues survived 50 hours beneath the rubble of a hotel, with the help of a few things he keeps in his bag for his two young children.",
"\"We had one Tootsie Pop and we did share that,\" said Rick Santos, president and CEO of IMA World Health.",
"He also had a bit of gum.",
"While the supplies helped, Santos said, \"I think we made it because we talked to each other, we helped each other, and we had this hope that we would be rescued at some point.\"",
"Two of his colleagues did not survive.",
"Santos and five colleagues had been walking through the lobby of the Hotel Montana last Tuesday when he saw one of the chandeliers swing.",
"\"And before it even made its way down, just everything crashed and collapsed on top of us,\" he told CNN's \"American Morning\" on Monday.",
"\"Immediately we were looking around talking to each other, trying to see if everyone was OK.",
"Unfortunately two of my colleagues were pinned down by rubble and were injured.",
"So we did what we could to help ease their pain at that moment.\"",
"Santos had some over-the-counter pain medicine and gave it to them.",
"I'm alive! Messages from Haiti .",
"\"My biggest fear initially was that there wasn't going to be enough air for the six of us,\" he said.",
"Then, when it became clear there was enough air, \"We started talking about what we need to do.",
"And, you know, from the size of the earthquake, from what we heard and what we felt and how fast the building fell, we knew it was a big quake.\"",
"The next morning, they could hear sledgehammers pounding as rescuers were checking to see if there were survivors.",
"The trapped group screamed and banged on the walls, and rescuers heard them.",
"The rescuers asked how many there were; Santos answered eight -- six in his group, and two other men trapped in an elevator shaft.",
"\"They said, 'Are you well?' And we said, 'No, we're hurt.' And that was it. Then it really wasn't until we were rescued, till 7 p.m. the next night, that actually somebody came.",
"We heard nothing.",
"In fact, the second night was really dark for us.",
"I think we were just -- we were just shattered that nobody came back and said anything to us.\"",
"The group used their cell phones to illuminate the space.",
"Santos said only one of his colleagues could move, and she looked for air spaces and light.",
"\"Every time we might have heard a voice or something like a saw or something, we would scream and yell, but there was no response,\" Santos said.",
"Then, on Thursday, came a voice.",
"\"We all started to scream and shout at the top of our lungs.",
"And we heard a voice come back to us saying, you know, 'Hello, we're here.",
"We're going to rescue you.'",
"\" It took four hours to get the group out.",
"Rescuers had to cut through layers of concrete, pull the trapped people out by their feet and squeeze them through a hole in the concrete only about 2 feet wide.",
"\"I'm just amazed that we actually survived,\" said Santos.",
"He added that he is grieving for his two colleagues who died.",
"While Santos is relieved to be reunited with his family in the United States, his thoughts are with the people of Haiti.",
"The whole time he and the others were down there, Santos said, \"As much as we were praying for ourselves, we were also praying for the people of Haiti and of Port-au-Prince.",
"Because we knew how bad this was going to be, just from the way the building fell, and the aftershocks, which were just tremendous.\"",
"IMA World Health provides health care services and supplies in poor countries including Haiti.",
"\"It's going to take years, if not decades, to really, really help that country,\" he said."
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"Rick Santos and 5 colleagues were pinned under rubble by Tuesday quake .",
"Wednesday morning, they heard searchers and talked to them, but then nothing .",
"Rescuers finally came back and got them out on Thursday night .",
"Two of Santos' colleagues died in the debris of collapsed Hotel Montana ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Alexander Haig, who managed the Nixon administration during the Watergate crisis and served a controversial stint as secretary of state under President Reagan, died on Saturday.",
"He was 85. Haig died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, after he was admitted there on January 28, spokesman Gary Stephenson said.",
"\"He served his country well.",
"For that he should be remembered,\" said William Bennett, who was secretary of education during the Reagan administration.",
"\"He carried himself well.",
"He carried himself with dignity and honor.\"",
"The White House issued a statement mourning Haig, saying he \"exemplified our finest warrior-diplomat tradition of those who dedicate their lives to public service.\"",
"A top official in the administrations of three presidents -- Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan -- Haig served as Nixon's chief of staff during the Watergate political crisis, a scandal that dogged the administration in the 1970s.",
"\"There was a time during the Watergate crisis when President Nixon was nearly incapacitated,\" said political analyst and CNN contributor David Gergen, who worked with Haig during the Nixon and Reagan administrations.",
"\"He had a hard time focusing, so obviously obsessed with the scandal and the gathering storms around him.",
"I watched Al Haig keep the government moving.",
"I thought it was a great act of statesmanship and service to the country.\"",
"Haig became secretary of state during the Reagan administration and drew controversy for his much-criticized remark on television after the president was shot and wounded by John Hinckley in March 1981.",
"\"As of now, I am in control here in the White House,\" Haig said as Vice President George H.W.",
"Bush was headed to Washington from Texas.",
"Haig said he wasn't bypassing the rules; he was just trying to manage the crisis until the vice president arrived.",
"However, he was highly criticized for his behavior, and many observers believe it doomed his political ambitions.",
"Born December 2, 1924, in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia, Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. was raised by his mother after he lost his father at age 10.",
"He attended the University of Notre Dame for two years before transferring to the U.S. Military Academy in 1944.",
"After his graduation in 1947, he served in Japan and later served on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's staff in Japan during the Korean War.",
"He also served in Vietnam, where he earned the distinguished service cross for heroism in combat.",
"He also won the Purple Heart and Silver Star twice.",
"Haig served as supreme allied commander of NATO forces in Europe for five years.",
"There was an assassination attempt on him in Brussels in 1979 as he was being driven to NATO headquarters.",
"A public official known for his loyalty, Haig had hawkish foreign policy views, and Gergen said he could be tough and \"combustible.\"",
"\"He was first and foremost a soldier,\" Gergen said.",
"Haig was assistant to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger in the Nixon White House and was involved in the Paris peace agreements that brought an end to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.",
"He was long rumored to be Deep Throat, the Washington Post's inside source on the Watergate break-in and cover-up that eventually destroyed Nixon's presidency.",
"W. Mark Felt, then a high-ranking FBI official, declared in 2005 that he was the source.",
"\"Great tensions\" in the Reagan administration simmered over his stances, and Gergen said, \"There was a sense in the White House that he was grabbing too much power.",
"\"He wanted to be the, quote, vicar of foreign policy, and there was a lot of pushback from the White House on that.",
"He felt that he had been guaranteed by Ronald Reagan a role as a strong secretary of state and the reins of power would be in his hands.",
"He resented the White House staff trying to manage him,\" Gergen said.",
"\"My own sense is that he has been underappreciated,\" he said.",
"TIME: Read why Haig left the Reagan White House .",
"As secretary of state, Haig tried shuttle diplomacy to head off war between Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982, but he failed.",
"He opposed Reagan's handling of Iran and disagreed with the president's plan on aid to the contra rebels in Nicaragua.",
"He eventually left the Reagan administration after 18 months and made a run for president in 1988, pulling out before the New Hampshire primary.",
"He backed Bob Dole instead of George H.W.",
"Bush when he dropped out.",
"Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton announced Haig's death to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday and called him a patriot."
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"He was highly decorated soldier who served during Korean and Vietnam wars .",
"As secretary of state, Haig wrongly declared \"I am in control here\" after Reagan was shot .",
"He unsuccessfully sought the 1988 Republican presidential nomination ."
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"(CNN) -- Minutes after Bill Clinton's doctor divulged that the former president underwent a stenting procedure to restore blood flow through a coronary artery, CNN's Larry King made a similar announcement.",
"\"A month ago, maybe five weeks ago, I had the same procedure at Cedar-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles that Bill Clinton had today,\" the 76-year-old talk show host told viewers of his program, \"Larry King Live.\"",
"King noted that he suffered a heart attack in February 1987 and underwent a quintuple bypass five months later.",
"He described his experience with heart disease in his 1989 book, \"Mr. King, You're Having a Heart Attack.\"",
"Recently, he said Thursday, he began feeling symptoms that turned out to have been related to his heart.",
"\"I felt some strange feelings in my shoulder, where I had the original heart attack,\" said King.",
"He said he went to the hospital and underwent the procedure a few days later.",
"Stents are tiny balloons that are threaded into a patient's heart vessels where they are inflated, pushing plaque against the vessel wall and increasing blood flow.",
"\"I did it on a Monday morning, was out on Tuesday and back here on 'Larry King Live' on Tuesday night,\" King said.",
"\"So I can report to the waiting public that I never felt better.",
"They got it open, they put the stents in.",
"I share a bond with the former president and I feel very good.",
"I only didn't make it public because I just like to keep things private.",
"But I feel terrific,\" he said."
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"Recent symptoms sent him back to get stenting procedure about a month ago .",
"Since the procedure says King, \"I can report to the waiting public that I never felt better\""
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"Washington (CNN) -- Coalition forces can attain \"success\" in Afghanistan, but U.S. officials should wait until December 2010 before they can measure the progress of the troop surge, a top U.S. commander told a Senate committee Wednesday.",
"Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, predicted the surge will be met by an increase in violence in spring 2010 and a rise in \"security incidents\" in the summer.",
"Turmoil within the Afghan government over the 18 months of the troop increase is also expected as corruption is rooted out, Petraeus said.",
"That, combined with an expected backlash in the spring and summer, Petraeus cautioned, means officials and the public should wait until December 2010 to evaluate the progress of the U.S. military strategy.",
"\"While certainly different and in some ways tougher than Iraq, Afghanistan is no more hopeless than Iraq was when I took command there in February 2007,\" Petraeus told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.",
"\"Indeed the level of violence and number of violent civilian deaths in Iraq were vastly higher than we have seen in Afghanistan, but achieving progress in Afghanistan will be hard and the progress there likely will be slower in developing than progress was achieved in Iraq.\"",
"Petraeus' appearance before legislators was the latest by top U.S. officials on Capitol Hill this week.",
"Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, testified before the Senate and House counterparts of the Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, joined by Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, who also testified Wednesday.",
"Jacob Lew, deputy secretary of state for management and resources also testified Wednesday.",
"McChrystal told CNN on Wednesday that U.S., Afghan and NATO forces need to cut off the Taliban insurgency from the Afghan people by establishing \"security zones\" that will gradually expand to encompass more and more territory.",
"\"At the end of the day, the insurgency needs access to the population to be effective,\" McChrystal said in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.",
"\"They need to be able to coerce the population, to tax the population, to recruit from the population, and to prevent the government from extending its governance into those areas.\"",
"If Taliban fighters are forced to keep their distance from the Afghan population, then \"over time, they become irrelevant, and they, in fact, are defeated,\" McChrystal said.",
"The generals and diplomats were called to testify before the congressional committees about President Obama's new plan for the Afghan war, which involves the deployment of another 30,000 U.S. troops and a July 2011 date for the beginning of an American withdrawal.",
"Part of stabilizing Afghanistan and fighting the Taliban will include supporting legitimate economies among Afghans, thwarting the chance that some would join the insurgency as a means of making a living, Eikenberry testified.",
"About 80 percent of the Afghan people derive their income from agriculture and the United States plans to support agriculture among civilians while keeping farmers from growing heroin in the poppy fields, which can be lucrative for the Taliban, said Eikenberry.",
"Also critical is a partnership with Pakistan, Eikenberry, Petraeus and Lew agreed.",
"Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts, articulated that fighting the insurgency in Afghanistan includes addressing the problem of militants who have sought shelter across the border in Pakistan.",
"Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who has been at large since the September 11 attacks in 2001, is widely believed to be hiding along the rugged border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.",
"While the withdrawal is set to begin July 2011, Kerry said the United States will maintain \"engagement\" with the region and talks with Afghanistan's neighbor, Pakistan.",
"And Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday said that the country will need help financing their own military and police forces for the next 10 to 15 years.",
"Worried about billions of dollars in costs and the longevity of the commitment to Afghanistan, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Indiana, asked Petraeus to explain whether 15 years would be necessary and how much money it could cost.",
"If Afghanistan attained the \"aspirational\" goal of 400,000 army and police members, it could cost about $10 billion a year to support, Petraeus said.",
"\"There's no question as President Karzai was highlighting yesterday that Afghanistan will require substantial international funding for years to come in a whole host of different areas, not the least of which is their security forces,\" Petraeus said.",
"\"But I would submit that it is a lot cheaper to maintain a certain number of Afghan forces than it is to maintain the number of U.S. and coalition forces required to compensate for their absence.\""
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"Gen. David Petraeus: Full evaluations of progress should wait until December 2010 .",
"Petraeus: Progress \"likely will be slower\" to come in Afghanistan than it was in Iraq .",
"Karzai's \"aspirational\" goals would cost U.S. about $10 billion a year, Petraeus says ."
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"(CNN) -- On June 17, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson explained to The New York Times reporter James \"Scotty\" Reston why he had to stay the course in Vietnam by stabilizing the South Vietnamese government so that it could fight communism.",
"Johnson rejected calls for withdrawal that were being made by liberal Democrats as well as the proposal for neutralization promoted by France's Charles de Gaulle.",
"\"So the only thing you've got left,\" Johnson said, \"is try to make this thing more efficient and more effective and hold as strong as you can and keep this government as stable as you can and try to improve it as you can and that we're doing day and night.\"",
"During his recent speech at West Point, President Obama rejected the lessons that these kinds of stories tell us about Afghanistan.",
"The president, saying that the comparison with Vietnam relies on a \"false reading of history,\" pointed to three differences.",
"The first is that the U.S. is now part of a broad international coalition.",
"The second is that in Vietnam the U.S. faced a \"broad-based popular insurgency\" whereas today, according to most polls, a large number of Afghans support foreign assistance.",
"Last, Obama added, is that today Americans are responding to a very real threat that began with the vicious attack on 9/11.",
"Clearly, Obama feels defensive about this analogy and hopes to undercut liberal critics who are frustrated and disappointed with his decision.",
"In trying to separate himself from the experience of Johnson, however, Obama did not give an accurate account of what many commentators have been saying recently, and he downplayed crucial aspects of the 1960s that do in fact offer warnings for today.",
"Mark Twain once said that history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.",
"Most of those who have compared Afghanistan to Vietnam do not say that the situations were exactly the same politically or strategically.",
"Nor is it inevitable that the surge in Afghanistan will be unsuccessful.",
"The point of the comparison is that it is impossible to ignore the fact that Obama faces similar challenges, as did Johnson when the \"Americanization\" of Vietnam began in the spring of 1965.",
"Both presidents entered the war despite the fact that many top advisers in the White House and in Congress were strongly warning against escalation.",
"In 1964, Johnson heard from voices ranging from Idaho liberal Frank Church to Georgia hawk Richard Russell that Vietnam was not critical to fighting communism and that the war was unwinnable.",
"Their warnings proved to be accurate.",
"Going into this decision, Obama heard comparable criticism as well.",
"Both presidents also expanded the war just as they were trying to shape a broad domestic agenda.",
"Johnson was much further ahead of the game when he increased the number of ground troops in the war that he inherited.",
"The war devastated Johnson's domestic efforts.",
"Obama faces the same threat.",
"Both wars have been justified as wars of necessity.",
"With Vietnam, proponents warned that the fall of Southeast Asia to communism would vastly strengthen the Soviet Union and China.",
"In an era when American schoolchildren were being taught to duck and cover under their desks in case of nuclear war, this warning about Vietnam also made the war seem essential.",
"Today, the necessity stems from the claim that failure would resurrect the dangers we faced before 9/11.",
"And both presidents escalated wars where the path to victory and the potential costs -- in terms of human capital and budgetary obligations -- were unclear.",
"Despite the fact that Johnson confronted a very different kind of enemy, the risk today is enormously high.",
"In Afghanistan, the U.S. is dealing with a war front that is notoriously treacherous, as the Soviets learned in the 1980s and the U.S. has learned since 2001.",
"The U.S. is also depending on a highly corrupt and undependable government in Afghanistan.",
"While the promise of withdrawal in July 2011 might be accurate, presidential assurances of benchmarks and end games historically don't come true.",
"The one constant in warfare is that it is unpredictable and difficult to control.",
"One day after Obama's speech, Defense Secretary Robert Gates indicated that the deadline was not firm.",
"And the administration might very well be handcuffing itself to a strategy of more warfare as it keeps offering grave warnings about what a victory by the Taliban would mean.",
"These warnings will make it difficult in the long run for the administration to contain the operation or to withdraw forces unless it is absolutely clear that the Taliban has been defeated.",
"Democrats could find themselves feeling like their predecessors in the 1950s who were under political pressure to abide by the containment arguments outlined by President Harry Truman with the Truman Doctrine in 1947 -- first with Korea in 1950 and then with Vietnam.",
"Obama should not be so defensive about the comparisons with Vietnam.",
"Rather, he should use Johnson's experience to help guide him as he makes crucial decisions in the months ahead and attempts to navigate the challenges of the wartime presidency.",
"In a conversation with a few of his closest advisers, Johnson said in 1964 that \"It's damned easy to get in a war but it's gonna be awfully hard to ever extricate yourself if you get in.\"",
"In 1965, Johnson made the mistake of excluding those who were trying to warn him about the dangers of the war.",
"Let's hope that this time around Obama does not repeat this error.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer."
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"It is impossible to ignore the challenges Obama faces in Afghanistan, he says .",
"Zelizer: Obama should use lessons of Vietnam as a guide ."
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"(CNN) -- Heightening its warnings as anticipated anti-government protests approach, Iran's government says it will arrest protesters and hold them until April if they disrupt state-sanctioned marches to commemorate the overthrow of the Shah of Iran.",
"Iran is this week celebrating the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, culminating on February 11 -- a day that marked the end of the country's Western-backed monarchy and the start of an Islamic republic.",
"A coalition of Iranian reformist groups is urging opponents of the regime to stage non-violent protests on Thursday, on the official anniversary of the Shah's ouster.",
"The so-called Green Movement has been protesting for social justice, freedom and democracy in demonstrations throughout the country since the disputed June president election.",
"Those arrested for causing \"instability,\" disrupting public order and carrying \"extremist signs\" linked to the Green Movement will be jailed until at least April 9, the end of the Persian holiday, of Norooz, according to government-run Fars news agency.",
"The holiday marks the start of spring.",
"\"Given the security plans that the police have taken into consideration for tomorrow's glorious marches; these ceremonies will be held in complete security and calm,\" Fars quoted an unidentified, informed source as saying Wednesday.",
"\"But if some try to misuse the vast participation and presence of the people; the police will deal with them firmly and resolutely.\"",
"Anti-government demonstrations began after the disputed June 12 presidential vote, which re-elected hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over main opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi.",
"Police arrested 4,000 people in the post-election crackdown.",
"At least seven people were killed and hundreds were arrested, witnesses said, as they took to the streets of December 27 during the Shiite Muslim holy period of Ashura.",
"The Iranian government has denied that its security forces killed anyone and has blamed reformists for the violence.",
"On Tuesday, an Iranian court sentenced one person to death and eight others to prison for their parts in anti-government demonstrations in December, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.",
"The nine defendants were tried last week over their roles in protests during Ashura, Fars said, quoting the Tehran judiciary's public relations office.",
"There are now 10 people sentenced to death and awaiting appeal in connection with the protests.",
"Two men have been executed for participating in anti-government demonstrations, but a lawyer for one of them told CNN her client was already in jail when the protests broke out."
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"(CNN) -- As Haitians struggle to recover from the devastation of Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake, mental health experts caution that the most severe psychological effects won't take form until individuals' situations stabilize.",
"Feelings of confusion, fear, agitation, grief and anger that surround a large-scale traumatic event such as the Haiti earthquake give way to more pronounced psychological disorders once people's basic human needs are taken care of, experts say.",
"\"Once the initial resources are in, when actually most people are going to start feel out of danger, is when the psychological aftereffects are going to hit people,\" said Dr. Daniella David, professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.",
"\"People need to ask for help when that happens.\"",
"In the immediate short-term period after a large-scale traumatic event, people are concerned primarily with self-preservation and taking care of family and friends, said Dr. Sandro Galea, chair of the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.",
"These people experience acute stress and anxiety, which is taken up by trying to fulfill the immediate physical needs.",
"There is a normal and immediate stress response that comes with an event that causes damage to homes and infrastructure and loss of family members, David said.",
"Haiti has the potential for higher rates of mental illness and a slower recovery after this episode because the population is already strained from weak social and economic supports, Galea said.",
"In those conditions, they may already be predisposed to developing mental illness irrespective of the earthquake itself, he said.",
"View or add to CNN's database of missing persons in Haiti .",
"The stress of the disaster situation, combined with the potential predisposition toward stress disorders, could lead to an extreme emotional reaction, but that does not mean these factors predict any kind of violent or other extreme behavior, said Joan Cook, assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University, in an e-mail.",
"\"I'd say that if the rate of psychological problems turns out similar to previous severe natural disasters in other economically disadvantaged countries, as many as 50 percent or more could suffer in the short-term from clinically significant distress,\" she said.",
"When disaster victims have information about their situation, they tend to make rational decisions and tend to the immediate needs of themselves and those close to them, Galea said.",
"There is little evidence of widespread panic in those cases, he said, but there is a danger of misinformation.",
"\"People can accept uncertainty, as long as they are brought into the uncertainty and told what central authorities do know, and also what central authorities don't know,\" he said.",
"\"It's critically important that there is information that comes out centrally from a single source.\"",
"To assist at the early stage, the most important thing to do immediately after a disaster -- for example, at this moment in Haiti -- is to try to help with basic needs such as shelter and food, David said.",
"In terms of psychological support, studies of natural disasters show that people should be moved to safety and informed that the immediate danger is over, something that has unfortunately been difficult to do in Haiti, she said.",
"About a month after a disaster occurs, once the immediate physical needs are addressed, symptoms of mental illness begin to coalesce into specific conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, Galea said.",
"PTSD in particular can last years after the event in a substantial portion of people, he said.",
"The response varies.",
"Some people may become fearful and develop panic attacks, while others experience sadness that turns into depression, and still others have an acute stress reaction that leads to PTSD or another stress disorder, David said.",
"The high rates of mental illness in a population that has experienced a traumatic event go down over time, depending on how various problems in the area are resolved, Galea said.",
"\"The extent to which we are able to assist people in rebuilding their lives becomes a tremendously important driver of whether or not the psychopathology that is caused by the trauma will go on to become severe, and how long it lasts,\" Galea said.",
"In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, researchers found that stressors such as not having a job, not having access to insurance and not being able to get paid contributed to the symptoms of mental illness, Galea said.",
"\"Rebuilding lives, rebuilding social supports, rebuilding financial and practical supports will go a long way to minimizing the health consequences of the event that has passed,\" he said.",
"Health.com: How will Haitians cope with psychological aftershocks?",
"A population that has gone through something like an earthquake of this magnitude will typically have about 10 percent of people with PTSD and 10 percent with depression, based on studies of Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, and other events, he said.",
"But among those who lose their homes and loved ones in an event like this, the rates can be more like 40 to 50 percent.",
"The life expectancy in Haiti is just 61 years, according to the World Bank, well under the average life span of 78 years for an individual in the United States.",
"About 56 percent of Haitians live on less than $1 per day, according to the World Bank.",
"There is some research to suggest that fatalism -- feeling that you are powerless against life's external control -- is also related to long-term emotional consequences of disaster, Cook said.",
"Studies by psychologist Fran Norris at Dartmouth University have shown that adult disaster survivors who feel uncared for by others or who lack the capacity to manage stress are also at risk for PTSD, Cook said.",
"Recent events such as Hurricane Katrina have offered extraordinary insights into human response to natural disasters, experts said.",
"Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russell Honoré, who led relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina, said Thursday that a lack of information \"created a lot of anxiety for people because they didn't know what was going on.\"",
"\"We need to correct that, and as soon as we can, start pushing information to people, because rumors can cause the victims to make bad decisions,\" he said."
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"Expert: The Haitian population is already strained from weak social and economic supports .",
"There is a danger of rumors spreading, leading people to make bad decisions ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- A California doctor has been accused of negligence in the case of a woman who gave birth to octuplets in January 2009, according to a complaint filed by the state medical board.",
"Michael Kamrava, an obstetrician/gynecologist in Beverly Hills, is accused of gross negligence and repeated negligent acts in the treatment of a patient named in the complaint only by her initials, N.S.",
"Octuplet mom Nadya Suleman has identified Kamrava as her doctor in interviews.",
"Suleman has six children in addition to the octuplets -- all conceived through in-vitro fertilization.",
"In filing the complaint in December, the medical board's executive director, Barbara Johnston, says Kamrava, while his patient was undergoing in-vitro, transferred a number of embryos that was \"far in excess of [American Society for Reproductive Medicine] recommendations and beyond the reasonable judgment of any treating physician.\"",
"The society recommends no more than two embryos for women under 35 years old and no more than five for women over 40, for whom it is harder to get pregnant, according to guidelines published on its Web site.",
"Suleman was 33 when she gave birth to the octuplets.",
"The reproductive society expelled Kamrava from the group in September.",
"Additionally, the complaint says Kamrava should have referred his patient to a mental health physician after she repeatedly returned to him for additional in-vitro treatments shortly after each of her pregnancies.",
"\"[Kamrava] failed to exercise appropriate judgment and question whether there would be harm to her living children and any future offspring should she continue to conceive,\" the complaint says.",
"Efforts to reach Kamrava on Monday were unsuccessful.",
"No hearing date has been set in the case."
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"Kamrava is obstetrician/gynecologist who provided in-vitro fertilization to Nadya Suleman .",
"Suleman had octuplets in 2009; she had already had six children via in-vitro ."
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"(CNN) -- Despite the rise of the Web and its freewheeling second-by-second ferment, government efforts at control and censorship remain rife across the Middle East and North Africa, a new report said Thursday.",
"\"In the Middle East and North Africa, the Internet has offered many people access to information and the outside world that would have been unimaginable a few years ago,\" according to the International Press Institute's latest report: the IPI Press Review 2009 Focus on the Middle East and North Africa.",
"\"However, government control of the media remains tight in almost all [Middle East and North Africa] countries, and censorship and self-censorship are prevalent throughout the region.\"",
"The Internet has emerged as a challenge to officialdom and its pronouncements and reaction from activists.",
"Journalists say government efforts to stem the flow of information are futile.",
"Communication on the popular social media sites, where people are attempting to elude the strictures of their governments, is playing a cat-and-mouse game with widespread independent reporting in places like Iran and Egypt.",
"But, said Anthony Mills, managing editor of the World Press Freedom Review based in Vienna, Austria, \"Overall, things are getting worse.\"",
"In Iran, authorities cracked down on journalists after protests surfaced when President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner in the June 12 presidential election, a victory that many in Iran say was fixed.",
"\"Dozens of journalists have been detained without trial, and several sentenced to long prison sentences,\" the report said.",
"\"As demonstrators took to the streets, a news blackout was imposed on the foreign media.",
"And yet, through social media networks like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, news of a violent government crackdown seeped out.\"",
"With the rise of the Internet, censorship efforts have emerged in Iran and other places across the region.",
"Iran \"also cracked down on online media following the disputed June elections, and arrested online activists in an effort to stop the spread of dissenting information and opinions,\" according to the report.",
"Egypt, for example, uses a law designed to combat terror for arresting and detaining bloggers.",
"But Abdul Rahman al-Rashed, general manager of the TV network Al-Arabiya, said the resistance to the flood of Internet information from government and other sectors of society is like trying to stop the Nile River from flowing.",
"They can't halt it. \"A lot of information is getting through to the average person, in Cairo, in Jeddah and Dubai.",
"Censorship will not stop the free flow of information, in my opinion,\" he said.",
"Al-Rashed said the business needs of the telecommunications companies, the integral role the Internet plays in business, and the demand from citizens can't be thwarted.",
"He said there might be remote regions where censorship can work because there isn't access to the Internet in such places.",
"Octavia Nasr, CNN senior editor for the Middle East who monitors social media sites, said young people are boldly circumventing the official media censorship across the Middle East with Twitter, Facebook and alternatives.",
"\"People are taking matters into their own hands,\" Nasr said.",
"\"Traditional media is not necessarily a driving force.\"",
"Azza Matar, translator at the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information in Cairo, Egypt, said governments want the Arab world to use the Internet for fun and not interfere with government and serious issues, but people are circumventing the officials with new media.",
"\"We're trying to express ourselves and expose the lies,\" she said.",
"People from different countries prefer different kinds of new media, she said.",
"As for Iranians, who are gearing up for a day of protests Thursday against the regime on the Islamic Revolution's anniversary, she said Iranians prefer Twitter because it can't be blocked and \"is faster than blogs in conveying messages for masses.\"",
"Neziha Rejiba, vice president of the Tunis-based Observatory for the Freedom of Press, Publishing and Creation and editor at Kalima Radio, said that theoretically, the whole world is getting its information online, but in the Middle East, censorship remains a reality, with cyberpolice blocking sites or even, as in the case of Syria, the Internet itself.",
"There is a dynamic in the Middle East between censorship and self-censorship.",
"\"When journalists sit down to write a piece, they have to keep in mind the reaction to what they're writing.",
"They're either scared of sanctions or revenge.\"",
"Bahrain's Foreign Minister Khalid Al Khalifa said the Internet \"has revolutionized the world\" and \"has helped foster creativity, innovation and freedom.\"",
"There have been complaints there about the recent blocking of Web sites in Bahrain.",
"While Al Khalifa said regulating different kinds of censorship internationally is impractical, he said in the Middle East, censorship takes forms he has mixed feelings about.",
"\"Censorship can be taken too far to silence dissent and opposing views, but it can also be used as a tool to prevent potentially destructive and damaging ideas and behavior.",
"There is increasing concern about harmful content on the Internet from violence, inciting racial hatred and terrorist activity, to sexual content and pornography, which justifies censorship on moral grounds,\" Al Khalifa said.",
"As for other aspects of the Middle East and its media, the report reveals several relative silver linings when it comes to press freedom: the environment in Lebanon, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.",
"Lebanon has a \"far and more diverse and vibrant media than any other Arab country,\" but the institute found that \"most of Lebanon's media outlets are unduly influenced in their journalism content by powerful political figures to whom they are financially and politically beholden.\"",
"Mills said the media in Lebanon can be characterized as \"partly free\" because there's a lot they don't talk about, such as criticism of military intelligence and the head of state, for example.",
"According to the report, \"Israel has one of the most open media environments in the Middle East\" for Israeli journalists with a wide range of opinions and commentary.",
"At the same time, Israeli security policy prevents Israeli journalists from traveling into the Palestinian territories without special permission, and Palestinian journalists are prevented from entering Israel.",
"The report said both Israeli soldiers and Palestinian security forces interfere with the work of Palestinian journalists, and that journalists in Gaza have to resort to self-censorship.",
"Freedom of speech and press in the United Arab Emirates gets \"some of the highest marks in the Arab world,\" but it \"still has a long way to go.\"",
"The report cited a \"number of taboo topics that journalists in the United Arab Emirates are not supposed to touch and indeed, most of the media do not,\" such as criticism of the ruling family.",
"Across the Middle East, criticism of royal families and words perceived as insults to Islam have been criminalized.",
"In Iraq, violence there has dropped and so has the number of journalists' deaths, but \"the U.S. military continues to imprison journalists without charge\" and local security forces have been responsible for beating journalists.",
"There is concern about the rise of proposed legislation stifling media freedom.",
"In Syria, which has \"one of the world's worst records on media freedom,\" the media outlets are owned or controlled by the government.",
"Political unrest elsewhere, the report said, is accompanied by media crackdowns, such as in Yemen, where there has been an insurgency in the north and civil unrest in the south.",
"Elections in Algeria and Tunisia have also led to press freedom violations.",
"Governments have controlled \"moral content\" as well, the report said.",
"\"In Saudi Arabia, several people involved in the production of a television show about sexual attitudes were sentenced to flogging and jail terms.",
"In Sudan, journalist Lubna Hussein was sentenced to a flogging for wearing trousers.",
"Following international uproar, the punishment was reduced to a fine, which was then paid by a pro-government journalists' association.\""
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"(CNN) -- The case of a 13-year-old Arizona girl strip-searched by school officials looking for ibuprofen pain-reliever will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week.",
"The Supreme Court has a mixed record when it comes to students' rights.",
"The justices in January accepted the Safford school district case for review, and will decide whether a campus setting gives school administrators greater discretion to control students suspected of illegal activity than police are allowed in cases involving adults in general public spaces.",
"The case is centered around Savana Redding, now 19, who in 2003 was an eighth-grade honors student at Safford Middle School, about 127 miles from Tucson, Arizona.",
"Redding was strip-searched by school officials after a fellow student accused her of providing prescription-strength ibuprofen pills.",
"The school has a zero-tolerance policy for all prescription and over-the-counter medication, including the ibuprofen, without prior written permission.",
"\"In this case, the United States Supreme Court will decide how easy it is for school officials to strip search your child,\" Adam Wolf, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who is representing Redding, told CNN Radio on Sunday.",
"Wolf told CNN Radio his client was traumatized by the search.",
"\"School officials undoubtedly have difficult jobs, but sometimes they overreact -- and this was just a clear overreaction,\" he said.",
"Redding was pulled from class by a male vice principal, escorted to an office, where she denied the accusations.",
"A search of Redding's backpack found nothing.",
"Then, although she never had prior disciplinary problems, a strip search was conducted with the help of a school nurse and Wilson's assistant, both females.",
"According to court records, she was ordered to strip to her underwear and her bra was pulled out.",
"Again, no drugs were found.",
"In an affidavit, Redding said, \"The strip search was the most humiliating experience I have ever had.",
"I held my head down so that they could not see that I was about to cry.\"",
"At issue is whether school administrators are constitutionally barred from conducting searches of students investigated for possessing or dealing drugs that are banned on campus.",
"A federal appeals court found the search \"traumatizing\" and illegal.",
"Some parents say older children deserve the same constitutional rights as adults, but educators counter a school setting has always been treated differently by courts, and a ruling against them could jeopardize campus safety.",
"While a federal magistrate and a three-panel appeals court found the search was reasonable, the full 9th U.S.",
"Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Redding last year.",
"\"Common sense informs us,\" wrote the court, \"that directing a 13-year-old girl to remove her clothes, partially revealing her breasts and pelvic area, for allegedly possessing ibuprofen ... was excessively intrusive.\"",
"The court said the school went too far in its effort to create a drug- and crime-free classroom.",
"\"The overzealousness of school administrators in efforts to protect students has the tragic impact of traumatizing those they claim to serve.",
"And all this to find prescription-strength ibuprofen.\"",
"In its appeal to the Supreme Court, the school district said restrictions on conducting student searches would cast a \"roadblock to the kind of swift and effective response that is too often needed to protect the very safety of students, particularly from the threats posed by drugs and weapons.\"",
"School officials said the court was \"wholly uninformed about a disturbing new trend\" -- the abuse of over-the-counter medication by teenagers.",
"The high court has a mixed record over the years on students' rights.",
"In a famous 1969 ruling, the justices said students do not \"shed their constitutional rights ... at the schoolhouse gate.\"",
"But decisions in the 1980s gave administrators greater discretion, including one case that said officials need not be required to have a warrant to search a student's locker.",
"Such a search was permitted if there were \"reasonable\" grounds for believing it would turn up evidence and when the search was not \"excessively intrusive.\"",
"Opinions in 1995 and 2001 allowed schools to conduct random drug testing of high school athletes, and those participating in other extracurricular activities.",
"And in a well-publicized 2007 ruling from Alaska, the Supreme Court upheld the suspension of a student who displayed a large \"Bong Hits 4 Jesus\" banner at an off-campus, but school-sponsored, event.",
"The decision did not endorse a broader argument that students in general have limited free-speech rights when they interfere with a school's vaguely defined \"educational mission.\"",
"The court could now be asked to clarify the extent of student rights involving searches, and the discretion of officials regarding those they have responsibility over.",
"The case is Safford United School District No.",
"1 v. Redding (08-479)."
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"New York (CNN) -- A Somali suspect in the hijacking of the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean last April has been charged with involvement in two additional hijackings, authorities said Tuesday.",
"One of the hijacked vessels is still being held hostage, federal prosecutors said in announcing a 10-count indictment filed against Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse.",
"The vessels are identified in court documents as \"Ship-1\" and \"Ship-2.\"",
"Under the indictment, Muse faces charges including piracy; seizing a ship by force; kidnapping and hostage taking, along with charges of possessing a machine gun in the commission of other offenses.",
"If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life in prison.",
"He was to be arraigned on the additional charges Tuesday afternoon in federal court, authorities said.",
"Muse is accused of participating in the two hijackings before the Maersk Alabama was hijacked April 8, prosecutors said in a statement.",
"Ship-1 was seized by pirates in March in the Indian Ocean, according to the indictment and a criminal complaint.",
"Authorities say Muse and others \"known and unknown\" boarded the vessel while armed with guns, threatened its captain and took control, holding the ship's captain and crew hostage.",
"While on the ship, prosecutors said, Muse aimed a gun at one of the hostages and threatened to kill him.",
"He also showed a hostage what appeared to be an improvised explosive device, the statement said.",
"\"Muse placed the IED in the vicinity of the hostage, and indicated that if the authorities came the IED would explode and the hostage would be killed.\"",
"In April, Muse and the others left Ship-1 on a small boat, called \"the skiff,\" prosecutors said.",
"When the skiff returned, the ship and the skiff \"were made to rendezvous\" with another ship, Ship-2.",
"\"The captain of Ship-1 was ordered to pull Ship-1 up to Ship-2.",
"Ship-1 was then attached to Ship-2,\" according to the statement.",
"\"Muse and others held hostage, on board Ship-2, both the captain and the crew of Ship-1 and the captain and crew of Ship-2.\"",
"On April 8, Muse and three others left Ship-2 and boarded the Maersk Alabama, the indictment said.",
"Prosecutors allege the four fired shots at the Maersk Alabama before boarding it.",
"The captain and crew of Ship-2 are still being held hostage, according to the documents.",
"The indictment does not say what happened to Ship-1, its captain or crew.",
"The Maersk Alabama was attacked about 350 miles off the Somali coast, authorities have previously said.",
"Muse allegedly demanded that the ship be stopped, then he and others allegedly took a life boat and held the captain of the ship -- Capt.",
"Richard Phillips -- hostage on it.",
"The USS Bainbridge came to the assistance of the vessel, and in radio communications, Muse and the others threatened to kill Phillips if they were not guaranteed safe passage away from the scene, authorities have said.",
"On April 12, Muse boarded the Bainbridge and demanded safe passage for himself and the others in exchange for Phillips' release, according to a criminal complaint.",
"While he was away from the lifeboat, Navy SEALs shot and killed the three remaining pirates, authorities said.",
"Muse was taken into custody.",
"\"Piracy on the high seas is a threat against the community of nations,\" Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in the statement Tuesday.",
"\"Today's indictment alleges criminal conduct that extends beyond the attack against the captain and crew of the American-flagged Maersk Alabama.",
"Modern-day pirates who wreak havoc off faraway coasts will be met with modern-day justice in the United States.\"",
"The investigation is continuing, Bharara said.",
"A federal judge ruled in April that Muse could be tried as an adult.",
"His father in Somalia told defense attorneys he was born November 20, 1993, meaning he would have been 15 at the time of the hijackings.",
"However, the prosecution argued otherwise, saying Muse made statements suggesting he was older."
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"(CNN) -- 10:54 p.m. -- People looking for loved ones in Haiti are posting their pictures on CNN.com's iReport page dedicated to them.",
"Likewise, people in Haiti are sending messages out to say they're OK. Are you there?",
"Send us images, video .",
"10:45 p.m. -- CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta is the only doctor left at a makeshift hospital in Port-au-Prince after medical personnel were told by United Nations officials to leave the area.",
"\"There is concern about riots not far from here -- and this is part of the problem,\" Gupta said.",
"10:16 p.m. -- Officials caution that international aid teams arriving in Haiti need to be self-sufficient or they'll be putting pressure on services that are already strained: \"If aid personnel arrive needing support in terms of transportation, lodging, food, and water, this just puts additional stress on services that are already constrained and needed by the Haitian population,\" said Dr. Jon Andrus, deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization.",
"10:07 p.m. -- Hundreds of people filled the pews of a Catholic church in Silver Spring, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., Friday evening to offer prayers for members of the area's Haitian community in the wake of the earthquake in their homeland.",
"9:54 p.m. -- A general lack of resources in makeshift medical clinics means patients are undergoing amputations without anesthesia and staff are cleaning apparatus with soap and water, according to CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.",
"\"They're not even low-tech, they're no tech,\" she says.",
"Read more . 9:49 p.m. -- A top United Nations official acknowledges that the earthquake relief operation in Haiti is not progressing fast enough: \"You can't snap your fingers and make it happen just by magic,\" U.N.",
"Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes says.",
"\"We will do it, slowly and surely.\"",
"9:07 p.m. -- Yéle Haiti, the charity organization founded by musician Wyclef Jean, denies allegations that the organization is misusing donations: \"Wyclef Jean, the founder of Yéle Haiti, has never profited from his organization.",
"It's a shame that during this international emergency, we have had to divert resources away from our response efforts to address these allegations,\" says Hugh Locke, president of Yéle Haiti.",
"8:39 p.m. -- Aftershocks continue to rock Haiti's capital city of Port-au-Prince.",
"Some are barely perceptable, others shake the ground, eliciting screams.",
"One pair of overnight aftershocks were so strong they compelled a resting CNN crew to throw on their shoes and leave their rooms as a precaution.",
"8:09 p.m. -- Kids Alive International, an international orphan rescue group, is planning to bring 50 Haitian orphans to group homes in the Dominican Republic until new homes can be built for them in Haiti, the group said Friday.",
"7:51 p.m. -- Fire trucks and tanker trucks are sporadically driving around distributing drinkable water in a sign that food and water is slowly becoming available, according to CNN Radio's Steve Kastenbaum.",
"At a U.N. distribution center guarded by Bolivian peacekeeping troops, thousands of plates of cooked rice and chicken were handed out to Haitians waiting in an orderly line.",
"7:30 p.m. -- The World Food Program gearing up to distribute ready-to-eat food rations to 2 million people in quake-stricken Haiti.",
"WFP is part of the United Nations system and is voluntarily funded.",
"Read more . 7:25 p.m. -- The U.S. Postal Service is holding mail destined for Haiti, a spokeswoman said.",
"Mail addressed to Haiti will still be accepted at post offices, but will be held until alternative transportation arrangements become available.",
"6:57 p.m. -- The deaths of three American citizens have been announced by their families or others.",
"It is not known if they were among the five confirmed by The State Department.",
"They are Jean Arnwine of Dallas, Texas; Molly Hightower, 22, of Port Orchard, Washington; and Benjamin Larson, 25, a student at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa.",
"6:16 p.m. -- An 11-year-old girl who was rescued yesterday from a pile of rubble that was her home has died, CNN's Ivan Watson reports.",
"Rescue workers struggled to extract the girl as she wailed in pain under the weight of the rubble, which had crushed her leg.",
"Her family says she died an hour after she was rescued.",
"Watch her story .",
"6:06 p.m. -- Entertainer Lady Gaga will donate all the proceeds from her January 24 show in New York City to relief efforts, a representative for her label, Interscope, said.",
"She will also donate proceeds from all merchandise purchased that day at the venue and on her Web site.",
"5:46 p.m. -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Friday that she is designating a temporary protected status for Haitian nationals who were in the United States as of Tuesday.",
"Napolitano said the temporary status allows an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Haitian nationals in the nation illegally to stay in the United States for 18 months.",
"5:38 p.m. -- The State Department has launched a \"Person Finder\" tool on its site that helps people find and share information on missing loved ones in Haiti.",
"5:02 p.m. -- At least 100 bodies were discovered by a CNN crew in one open pit outside Port-au-Prince, along with several other pits half-filled or completely covered over with earth.",
"In the capital city, bodies litter the streets, and barely functioning clinics are overwhelmed.",
"There is still no confirmed death toll, but the Haitian consul general to the United Nations has estimated the toll could top 100,000.",
"Watch (graphic content) 4:43 p.m. -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announces she will travel to Haiti tomorrow with U.S. Agency for International Development Director Rajiv Shah.",
"Clinton, the first major U.S. official to travel to the quake-battered country, will meet with President Rene Preval and other members of the government.",
"Watch . 4:28 p.m. -- Philadelphia 76ers center and Haiti native Samuel Dalembert taped a public service announcement for UNICEF encouraging fans to contribute to relief efforts.",
"UNICEF volunteers will also be available to collect donations from fans at tonight's home game at the Wachovia Center.",
"3:47 p.m. -- As of Friday afternoon, corporate America had pledged more than $40 million in donations to support earthquake relief efforts in Haiti, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.",
"Read more . 3:20 p.m. -- A number of celebrities, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, are contributing to Haiti relief efforts, according to ABC News.",
"Clooney and MTV are working on a telethon for Haiti later this month, ABC said.",
"2:04 p.m. -- Images from Google Earth illustrate the devastation wrought by Haiti's earthquake.",
"Watch . 1:47 p.m. -- President Obama confirmed Friday that he will team up with former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush to discuss how best to encourage a broad-based national volunteer relief effort for Haiti.",
"The three leaders will meet Saturday at the White House.",
"1:30 p.m. -- The United Nations announced Friday that at least 37 of its personnel have died -- 36 with the U.N. mission and one with the World Food Programme.",
"The number of unaccounted for U.N. people stands at 330 out of the 12,000 people working for U.N. organizations in Haiti before the earthquake.",
"1:12 p.m. -- \"The entire world stands with the government and the people of Haiti,\" President Obama said at the White House.",
"He said the United States bears a special responsibility to help Haiti, given the countries' close proximity.",
"12:55 p.m. -- Pop star Madonna announced she has donated $250,000 to Partners in Health, a health care provider in Haiti.",
"\"My prayers are with the people of Haiti,\" statement from the singer said.",
"\"I can't imagine the terrible pain and suffering they are experiencing.",
"Sadly the depths of the tragedy are just becoming known and the need for our support grows more urgent with every passing moment.\"",
"12:10 p.m. -- Jimmy O, a well-known singer and songwriter in Haiti who also was active in hip-hop artist and philanthropist Wyclef Jean's charity, is dead.",
"Jimmy O, 35, was crushed in a vehicle in downtown Port-au-Prince during the earthquake.",
"11:30 a.m. -- President Obama spoke with Haitian President Rene Preval for about 30 minutes Friday morning, according to the White House.",
"Obama reiterated his pledge of help, and Preval asked him to pass a message to the American people: \"From the bottom of my heart and on behalf of the Haitian people, thank you, thank you, thank you.\"",
"Follow daily developments: .",
"Tuesday . Wednesday . Thursday . 11:25 a.m. -- A text-message and social network campaign has raised $8 million for the Red Cross' relief efforts in Haiti, according to a Twitter message from the White House that was reposted on the Red Cross account.",
"11:13 a.m. -- CNN's Anderson Cooper reports Port-au-Prince's prison is empty but for four decomposing bodies.",
"Watch (graphic content) 10:43 a.m. -- Within four days, 700 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne will be in the quake zone.",
"By Tuesday, three more U.S. Navy ships carrying 2,200 Marines and heavy equipment will join them.",
"By Saturday, about 5,000 to 6,000 men and women dedicated to supporting the relief effort will be in Haiti, military officials say.",
"Watch CNN affiliate WRAL's report on the Marines' mission .",
"10:39 a.m. -- Five more American deaths have been confirmed in Haiti, State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley said Friday, adding he expects the number to go up.",
"10:24 a.m. -- The USS Carl Vinson arrived off the coast of Haiti on Friday morning, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen said.",
"9:22 a.m. -- U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne unit's Iraq and Afghanistan veterans welcome an opportunity to take part in a humanitarian mission.",
"Watch CNN affiliate WTVD's report .",
"8:15 a.m. -- Diesel fuel is selling on the black market in Port-au-Prince for $25 a gallon.",
"It usually sells for $3 a gallon.",
"7:57 a.m. -- Cuba is allowing the United States to use its airspace to fly medical evacuation flights -- but no other relief flights -- from Haiti, White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said Friday.",
"This agreement will allow the United States to fly earthquake victims directly from Haiti to the United States and reduce the flight time.",
"7:15 a.m. -- At least 12 American corporations have pledged donations of $1 million or more to the Haiti relief effort.",
"7:09 a.m. -- Aid agencies continue to struggle to get relief items from the Port-au-Prince airport, said Dave Toycen, a relief worker with the aid agency World Vision.",
"\"The issue is obviously logistics.",
"It is problematic to get the streets clear,\" Toycen said.",
"\"There was a mile-long line to get gasoline.",
"We are short the basics.\"",
"5:55 a.m. Friday, January 15, 2010 -- The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson is to arrive in Haiti on Friday, carrying 19 helicopters and 30 pallets of relief goods, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said."
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"(CNN) -- A man sees a 75-year-old man stuck on railroad tracks and pulls him to safety.",
"An off-duty emergency worker pulls a woman from a van after it crashes into an icy pond.",
"An NBA star saves a woman from drowning.",
"A postal worker helps a mother whose baby is unconscious.",
"A father goes into a house engulfed in flames to save two of his children, then returns to save the family's pet.",
"These are examples of everyday people who, when confronted with a life-or-death situation, jumped in to do what they could -- and became rescuers and heroes.",
"CNN.com takes a look at some of the stories of heroic acts that happened throughout the country in the past 12 months.",
"Do you know someone who's an everyday hero?",
"Tell us about them on CNN iReport .",
"NBA player saves woman from drowning .",
"Donté Greene is used to being looked up to.",
"He is a 6-foot-11 player for the Sacramento Kings of the NBA.",
"But on Memorial Day he became a lifesaver.",
"Greene and some friends were on a boat in the American River near Discovery Park in Sacramento, California.",
"Greene told CNN affiliate KCRA that he heard some yelling and then a splash.",
"A woman had been pulling a ladder onto her boat, and she was thrown into the water when the driver pulled away.",
"Greene saw the woman flailing in the water and dived in.",
"\"I honestly don't even think I was thinking -- I was just reacting,\" he told KCRA.",
"\"I was pretty confident in my swimming abilities.\"",
"Read the story at the KCRA web site .",
"Off-duty EMT makes icy pond rescue .",
"Tony Gerdom, an emergency medical worker from Iowa, was driving off-duty on December 7 when the van in front of him suddenly swerved off the icy road and fell into a pond.",
"The cold weather had frozen the locks and windows on the van, trapping driver Kathy Van Steenvik.",
"Gerdom took a tire iron and smashed the van's passenger side window to free the driver.",
"A second man, Brian Ford, held onto him with a rope while Gerdom descended into the pond.",
"Each man shrugged off his hero label.",
"\"I'm just the lucky idiot that jumped in first,\" Gerdom told CNN affiliate WHO in Des Moines, Iowa.",
"\"No matter how cold the water was, it's this overwhelming feeling that I helped save a life.",
"It's tremendous,\" Ford said.",
"All three were treated at a hospital for minor hypothermia.",
"Read the story at the WHO web site .",
"Postman delivers CPR to save baby .",
"In Sacramento, California, Robert Sweeney had just about finished delivering the mail on December 11, 2008, when he heard a panicked mother's cry for help.",
"Her baby, 19-month-old Kelly Jimenez, appeared lifeless.",
"Sweeney took the child, placed her on the grass in front of the woman's home and performed CPR while neighbors called 911.",
"Sweeney revived the child before paramedics arrived, CNN affiliate KCRA reported.",
"Sweeney told KCRA that the emotion of the moment didn't hit him until he got back in his truck to go home.",
"That's when he started crying.",
"\"You don't ever think you would be in a situation like that,\" he said.",
"Father saves children, family dog from burning home .",
"A Michigan father jumped through flames to save his two youngest sons when an electrical fire set their house ablaze December 7.",
"Investigators told CNN affiliate WZZM in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that sparks from an electrical outlet set a living room curtain on fire.",
"After climbing up pitch-black stairs to rescue his 4-year-old and 2-year-old boys, Jonathan Brito went back in the house and pulled out Punchy, the family's dog, who was unconscious.",
"Brito performed CPR and revived the dog, Brito's wife, Charlene Hernandez, told the station.",
"\"He got the dog to breathe,\" she said.",
"\"[Punchy] coughed up some smoke and took off running.\"",
"Brito and Hernandez's other two children were at school when the fire started.",
"The couple, who both work night-shift jobs, lost their clothes, furniture and some Christmas presents.",
"\"Thank goodness everybody got out of the house safely,\" Brito said.",
"\"If I've got to jump through fire to save my kids' lives, that's what I'm going to do.\"",
"Read the story at the WZZM web site .",
"Men honored for saving driver from tanker fire .",
"Truck driver Ronald Tobias, 73, of Syracuse, Indiana, was trapped after his propane tanker truck flipped on its side and exploded.",
"But rather than running from the flames, two people headed toward them.",
"Lonnie Hood, 30, from Acton, Indiana, and Robert Skaggs, 49, from Fortville, Indiana, each decided they had to try to help save Tobias on October 22.",
"Hood was working on a nearby construction job and ran over.",
"Skaggs was in his car on Interstate 465 when he saw flames behind him, stopped, and put his car in reverse.",
"\"I just jumped off [a second-story roof] and ran to it.",
"I don't know, I was kind of feeling something telling me to get over there,\" Hood told CNN affiliate WRTV of Indianapolis.",
"\"I just kicked [the window] real hard and it went right in, and I just grabbed him up, me and another guy, and pulled him up to higher ground.\"",
"Added Skaggs, \"For some reason, I just jerked the car off to the side, threw it in reverse and took off backwards toward it.\"",
"For their actions, they were awarded the Governor's Heroism Award by Indiana Gov.",
"Mitch Daniels.",
"Read the story at the WRTV web site .",
"Bomb suspect hailed for railroad track rescue .",
"Michael Woodson had already made news in Brevard County, Florida, as a bombing suspect when he rushed to help a man about to be run over by a train in April.",
"Woodson, 21, had been accused of filling a liquor bottle with black powder and setting it off at Brevard Community College to get out of class.",
"But in April he saved Michael Chergosky, 75, who was trying to cross railroad tracks in a motorized scooter.",
"Chergosky's scooter had become stuck in gravel, and Woodson ran over to pull the man to safety as a train approached, reported CNN affiliate WFTV in Orlando, Florida.",
"\"As soon as I got to him I grabbed him out by the back of his collar, pulled him out of his wheelchair.",
"[The train] missed him by four or five inches,\" Woodson told the station.",
"Several witnesses saw the rescue, and police said there's no doubt Woodson saved Chergosky, the station reported.",
"Read more about the rescue at the WFTV web site .",
"The station reported later that Woodson was sentenced to probation, 15 weekends of work at a sheriff's work farm and banned from the school in a plea deal.",
"The heroic deed was not mentioned in court, the station said.",
"Woodson said he never intended for the device to blow up, that it was just supposed to let off some smoke.",
"The judge, who could have sentenced him to 15 years in prison, told Woodson he was lucky no one was injured.",
"\"I hope that each and every day when you are standing out there in the sun you contemplate where your life could have gone if something else had happened,\" the judge said.",
"Read more about the case at the WFTV web site ."
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"Among them: A postal worker helps a mother whose baby is unconscious .",
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"Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) -- Residents of the Venezuelan capital on Monday began to experience water rationing as part of a government preservation measure during a drought.",
"The rolling cuts to water service will affect the capital of Caracas and some nearby areas for periods of up to 48 hours, the state-owned water utility Hidrocapital announced.",
"The rationing will continue through the first quarter of 2010, the government said.",
"President Hugo Chavez has urged citizens to take extra steps to reduce water use, including a suggestion last week that taking a shower should take only three minutes.",
"The government says that weather phenomena are behind the drought, while critics of Chavez say that years of lack of infrastructure investment and planning left the country flat-footed when it came to offsetting the drought.",
"Drought conditions have reduced reservoir volume to critical levels, officials say.",
"The level of the Camatagua Reservoir, which supplies Caracas with about half of its water, has been on a downward trend since 2007, according to data from Hidrocapital.",
"However, it's not as low as during the early 2000s.",
"Some water-rationing measures were taken at the time, too, according to Hidrocapital.",
"In Miranda State, which sits adjacent the capital, the Lagartijo Reservoir is at the lowest level ever recorded.",
"\"There will be programmed interruptions in service, with the goal of recuperating the levels of the principal reservoirs that flow to the city and that were affected by the scarce rains this year,\" Hidrocapital President Alejandro Hitcher said at a news conference announcing the rationing.",
"Even schools will have to deal with the water shortages, the government said.",
"Only hospitals will be equipped with water around the clock.",
"Critics, including the municipal agency that distributes Hidrocapital's water to the city, say that poor infrastructure has made it difficult for water pressure to reach some of the poorest parts of the city, according to local reports.",
"The government says that the El Nino phenomenon -- unusually warm waters in the equatorial Pacific that affects weather around the globe -- is behind the dry conditions.",
"Venezuela's National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology also pointed a finger at something called quasi-biennial oscillation, which affects winds in the stratosphere.",
"\"This other phenomenon,\" the institute said in a statement, \"has a relationship with the rains, and is capable of modifying or changing the magnitude and impacts of the effects that El Nino has brought.\"",
"Journalist Maria Carolina Gonzalez contributed to this report for CNN."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- You can find hundreds of gifts for your friends and family -- and help save the world.",
"We've sought out eye-catching and adorable presents with proceeds that go to charity.",
"Here's where to shop for a change.",
"Help elephants, bear cubs and seals through the International Fund for Animal Welfare's Gifts for Animals.",
"One-stop shop WorldofGood.com .",
"More than 15,000 eco- and socially conscious goods are available (some from as low as $2.50) on WorldofGood.com.",
"Shop by gift category, or, if you'd like, \"purchase impact,\" be it eco- , animal-, or people-friendly.",
"Each product is vetted and comes with a short description so you can see exactly where your money is going.",
"Fair-trade lip balms, organic soaps and bath fizzers are all under $15 and make excellent stocking stuffers.",
"Not just a pretty package PangeaOrganics.com .",
"Pangea Organics' gift packages come stocked with bar soaps, shower gels, and lotions and arrive in a stylish (really, skip the wrapping paper!)",
"recycled box inlaid with spruce seeds -- soak them, plant -- and in two weeks a baby Spruce tree will appear, along with, we assume, softer skin.",
"Holiday gift sets start at $30 at PangeaOrganics.com.",
"Buy a gift, fund a business GlobalGoodsPartners.org, BuildaNest.com .",
"At online boutique Nest, BuildaNest.com, the $30 you spend on patchwork Guatemalan tote will go toward ... creating more Guatemalan totes!",
"The site sells original apparel, jewelry, home and paper goods made by more than 75 exclusive artists and designers and gives microcredit loans to women in developing countries, enabling them to start and maintain a business selling their own products -- which are then offered on the site itself.",
"Another likeminded organization, GlobalGoodsPartners.org, sells handwoven bracelets made by native tribes in Argentina and traditionally patterned silk scarves made by women in Cambodia.",
"Global Goods Partners is dedicated to alleviating poverty and promoting social justice and funds women-led market initiatives in local communities in 18 countries.",
"For pets HoorayfortheUnderdog.com .",
"Already have the perfect present for Fido?",
"Attach a card from Hooray for the Underdog, a line by photographers Janet Healey and Joe Grisham -- a husband-and-wife team who sell stylish greeting cards featuring pictures of dogs and cats up for adoption in shelters.",
"Ten percent of proceeds ($3 for cards) go to animal welfare groups and shelters.",
"For animal lovers AnimalGift.org .",
"The animal lovers in your life may have already overdosed on cute cards (and books and toys and screensavers), but they might not have saved their very own elephant.",
"The International Fund for Animal Welfare's Gifts for Animals program helps protect pachyderms, as well as bear cubs and seals, and also provides funds for urgent pet care and animal rescue.",
"Each gift comes with a full-color pamphlet telling your animal's story, and there's no leash required.",
"Donations start at $25.",
"Guilt-free indulgence Lush Cosmetics Charity Box, $20.45; Lush.com .",
"Lush's hand and body lotion is made with fair-trade cocoa-butter, and proceeds -- 100 percent after taxes -- go to the organization featured on the lid of each pot.",
"WaterCan, TreePeople, Amazon Conservation Team and International Fund for Animal Welfare are only a few.",
"Celebrate the season of light with Jimmy Belasco all-natural candles ($34).",
"They're made of soybeans, vegetable oil and fragrance -- nothing else -- but the best part of this fragrant treat are the wrapping options.",
"Choose from a wide selection of boxes decorated with cityscapes, calming landscapes, pop art patterns, and holiday themes.",
"Five dollars from the sale of each candle goes to a good cause: You select one from a list of Jimmy's staffers' 10 favorites (with more options on the way).",
"Buying in bulk?",
"CharityNavigator.com .",
"Good Cards (CharityNavigator.com) are the gift certificates of the philanthropy world.",
"You set the price; recipients pick the charity.",
"Perfect for those bosses, co-workers and clients you're stumped on.",
"Last minute OxfamAmericaUnwrapped.com, UniversalGiving.org .",
"Click, click, done.",
"Two organizations simplify making a difference around the world.",
"Oxfam's gift site, OxfamAmericaUnwrapped.com, offers to more than 57 charitable donations, including a pair of sheep ($90) that allow women to generate their own income by making textiles, a small business fund to help get entrepreneurs started ($100), and a veterinarian's field kit ($35).",
"Products are organized by price, with 28 options under $50, and recipients receive a card explaining what the donation will provide.",
"UniversalGiving.org coordinates donations to more than 200 aid organizations, including East Meets West, Helen Keller International, and more.",
"For those big-ticket items BiddingforGood.com, eBayGivingWorks.com .",
"You know those auctions your kids always have in elementary school or the ones your office frequently puts together, where you bid for signed memorabilia, electronic items and original prints?",
"Think of BiddingforGood as one giant elementary school auction: Type in the item you're looking for (we got seven hits for the Nintendo Wii) and bid to win.",
"Check the \"Cool Picks\" section for really original ideas: Tickets to two shows at New York City fashion week, a CSI set pass, and tickets to the 2009 U.S. Open golf championship.",
"Each purchase benefits the auctioneer's charity of choice.",
"Still haven't found what you're looking for?",
"Try eBayGivingWorks.com to find auctions from high-profile groups.",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE. Subscribe now!"
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"Beirut, Lebanon (CNN) -- Air traffic controllers in Lebanon were telling the pilot of an Ethiopian Airlines flight to change course shortly before it crashed into the sea, the country's transportation minister told CNN Tuesday.",
"An international search team was combing Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline for signs of life Tuesday amid fears that all 90 people aboard the Addis Ababa-bound airliner perished in the accident, authorities said.",
"Lebanese Transportation Minister Ghazi al-Aridi said Tuesday it was too early to determine whether pilot error had caused the crash.",
"He said the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders would need to be recovered to determine why Flight 409 disappeared from radar screens shortly after taking off from Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport at about 2:30 a.m. local time.",
"The control tower lost contact with the plane before it made a course correction Monday, al-Aridi said.",
"In a statement, Ethiopian Airlines said the pilot of the flight had more than 20 years of experience flying various aircraft with the airline's network.",
"The plane had been declared safe and fit to fly following a regular maintenance service on December 25, 2009, the airline said.",
"The Lebanese military reported Tuesday that 14 bodies had been found -- nine fewer than an earlier count.",
"Confusion early in the search led to double-counting, they said.",
"No survivors have been found.",
"The search included aircraft from the United States, Britain, France and Cyprus.",
"The U.S. military sent the USS Ramage -- a guided missile destroyer -- and Navy P-3 aircraft in response to Lebanese requests for assistance, according to U.S. defense officials.",
"\"We don't believe that there is any indication for sabotage or foul play,\" Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said Monday.",
"The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is also sending an investigator because the plane was made by a U.S. manufacturer.",
"The Boeing 737-800 had eight crew members and 82 passengers -- 51 Lebanese nationals, 23 Ethiopians, two Britons and citizens from Canada, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey and France -- when it went down, the airline said.",
"The plane crashed about 3.5 kilometers (2 miles) west of the town of Na'ameh which is 15 kilometers (9 miles) south of Beirut.",
"Government-owned Ethiopian Airlines is one of the largest carriers in Africa, serving Europe and three other continents.",
"The airline has experienced two fatal crashes since 1980.",
"In November 1996, a flight bound for Ivory Coast was hijacked by three men who demanded that the pilot fly to Australia.",
"The pilot crashed while attempting an emergency landing near the Comoros Islands off Africa.",
"About 130 of the 172 people aboard died, according to published reports.",
"And in September 1988, a flight struck a flock of birds during takeoff.",
"During the crash landing that followed, 31 of the 105 people aboard died.",
"CNN's Nada Husseini and Cal Perry contributed to this report."
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"Search teams comb Lebanese coast following Ethiopian Airlines plane crash .",
"Pilot was told to change course prior to crash, transport minister says .",
"Just 14 bodies found so far; plane was carrying 90 crew and passengers .",
"Plane disappeared from radar shortly after takeoff from Beirut on Monday ."
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