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"Rome, Italy (CNN) -- The Vatican did not know about an American priest believed to have molested up to 200 boys until 20 years after civil authorities investigated and then dropped the case, its top spokesman said Thursday.",
"Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi issued the statement in response to a New York Times story alleging that top Vatican officials, including the future Pope Benedict XVI, failed to discipline or defrock the now-deceased Rev.",
"Lawrence C. Murphy of Wisconsin, despite warnings from several American bishops.",
"But Jeff Anderson, a lawyer who obtained the internal church paperwork the newspaper based its story on, said it \"shows a direct line from the victims through the bishops and directly to the man who is now pope.\"",
"Lombardi rejected the accusation.",
"\"During the mid-1970s, some of Father Murphy's victims reported his abuse to civil authorities, who investigated him at that time,\" Lombardi said.",
"\"However, according to news reports, that investigation was dropped.\"",
"The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the office led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who would later become pope, \"was not informed of the matter until some 20 years later,\" Lombardi said.",
"The office is in charge of deciding whether accused priests should be given canonical trials and defrocked.",
"\"The case of Lawrence Murphy has been well-documented since the mid-1970s, when allegations were first reported to civil authorities, although criminal charges were not filed,\" the Archdiocese of Milwaukee said in a statement Thursday.",
"\"Murphy's actions were criminal, and we sincerely apologize to those who have been harmed.",
"The Archdiocese of Milwaukee continues to reach out to victims-survivors who were harmed by Lawrence Murphy and encourages them to report any abuse they suffered.\"",
"Anderson, a lawyer representing five men who are suing the archdiocese, obtained correspondence from Milwaukee to Ratzinger as part of the lawsuit, along with other internal church documents related to the case.",
"The documents, dating to 1974, include letters between bishops and the Vatican, victims' affidavits, the handwritten notes of an expert on sexual disorders who interviewed Murphy and minutes of a final Vatican meeting on the case.",
"Murphy began as a teacher for St. John's School for the Deaf in St. Francis, Wisconsin, in 1950, and was promoted to run the school in 1963 in spite of the fact that students had warned church officials of molestation, according to the documents, which CNN has seen.",
"Many of Murphy's victims were hearing-impaired.",
"Ratzinger failed to respond to two letters about the case in 1996 from Milwaukee's then-archbishop, Rembert G. Weakland.",
"After eight months, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who at the time was second in command of the doctrinal office and now is the Vatican's secretary of state, told Wisconsin bishops to begin a secret canonical trial, the documents show.",
"Lombardi said that church rules did not mean a priest would automatically be punished but that punishment, if warranted, could include being defrocked.",
"\"In such cases, the Code of Canon Law does not envision automatic penalties but recommends that a judgment be made not excluding even the greatest ecclesiastical penalty of dismissal from the clerical state,\" he said.",
"\"In light of the facts that Father Murphy was elderly and in very poor health, and that he was living in seclusion and no allegations of abuse had been reported in over 20 years, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith suggested that the Archbishop of Milwaukee give consideration to addressing the situation by, for example, restricting Father Murphy's public ministry and requiring that Father Murphy accept full responsibility for the gravity of his acts,\" the statement said, noting that Murphy died four months later.",
"Three successive archbishops in Wisconsin were told of the abuse, but none reported it to criminal or civil authorities, according to Anderson, the lawyer.",
"Lombardi, however, said that neither canon law nor Vatican norms prohibit the reporting of such cases to law enforcement.",
"But \"he did not address why that had never happened in this case,\" the Times said.",
"The Archdiocese of Milwaukee said abuse was reported in fall 1973 to Milwaukee police, who turned the report over to St. Francis police, but no charges were filed.",
"Murphy was removed in May 1974 as director of the St. John's School for the Deaf but remained as fundraiser and alumni director until summer 1974, when he was removed from any role at the school, according to a chronology posted on the archdiocese Web site.",
"In August 1974, a series of newspaper articles in the Milwaukee Sentinel reported on Murphy's removal and the allegations, the chronology said.",
"In September, he relocated to a family home in the Diocese of Superior.",
"A district attorney reviewed the allegations against Murphy in fall 1974, according to the archdiocese.",
"A civil lawsuit was filed in 1975 against the archdiocese relating to Murphy but was resolved the following year, the chronology said.",
"Murphy's request for retirement was accepted in January 1993, but restrictions against him were reinstated that year and reinforced twice.",
"The bishops warned the Vatican, according to the newspaper, that failure to act on the matter could result in embarrassment to the Church.",
"\"The tragic case of Father Lawrence Murphy, a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, involved particularly vulnerable victims who suffered terribly,\" Lombardi said in the statement.",
"\"By sexually abusing children who were hearing-impaired, Father Murphy violated the law and, more importantly, the sacred trust that his victims had placed in him.",
"\"In the late 1990s, after over two decades had passed since the abuse had been reported to diocesan officials and the police, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was presented for the first time with the question of how to treat the Murphy case canonically,\" the statement said.",
"At the time, there was no procedure in place for reporting church abuse to the doctrinal office, according to Vatican sources.",
"The office was informed of the matter, Lombardi said, because it involved abuse at confession, which is a violation of the Sacrament of Penance.",
"St. John's School for the Deaf closed in 1983, the archdiocese said in its statement.",
"\"Most importantly, today, no priest with any substantiated allegation of sexual abuse of a minor serves in public ministry in any way in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.\"",
"CNN's Diana Magnay contributed to this report."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Supreme Court declined to intervene Monday in a dispute over a public school's refusal to allow an instrument-only version of \"Ave Maria\" at a graduation ceremony.",
"Officials feared the piece would be an endorsement of religion in that limited public forum.",
"Without comment, the justices rejected the appeal of Kathryn Nurre, who was a high school senior in Everett, Washington, in 2006.",
"By tradition, graduating members of the school's wind ensemble could choose a piece from their repertoire to play at the June ceremony.",
"They chose an arrangement of Franz Biebl's well-known \"Ave Maria,\" which had been performed previously in choir recitals.",
"School district officials said they feared complaints similar to those that followed the previous year's choir performance of a vocal piece that included references to God, heaven and angels.",
"\"Ave Maria\" was banned even though the performance would have contained no lyrics.",
"The school district told principals to approve only musical selections that were \"purely secular in nature.\"",
"Nurre and others sued, saying their free speech rights were being violated, and said their choice of the piece was made on purely artistic, not religious, grounds.",
"They also cited previous examples where a limited use of religious imagery in a public setting was considered acceptable.",
"Such examples are Ten Commandments monuments in city parks and opening legislative sessions with a prayer.",
"Justice Samuel Alito publicly dissented with the high court's rejection of the appeal.",
"\"When a public school purports to allow students to express themselves, it must respect the students' free speech rights,\" he said.",
"\"School administrators may not behave like puppet masters who create the illusion that students are engaging in personal expression when in fact the school administration is pulling the strings.\"",
"The high court declined to explore whether those attending a graduation ceremony constituted a \"captive audience\" that might feel forced to hear a religious message with which they may disagree.",
"The case is Nurre v. Whitehead (09-671).",
"In other Supreme Court action: .",
"• The justices agreed to decide whether a district attorney's office can be held liable after a former death row inmate in Louisiana said prosecutors withheld key evidence leading to his conviction.",
"At issue is a federal law that can place the burden on the state with a \"failure to train\" standard when one of its prosecutors unconstitutionally withholds exculpatory evidence from a criminal defendant.",
"Then-New Orleans-area District Attorney Harry Connick Sr. claimed his office should not be held fully responsible after one of his staff attorneys violated long-standing, accepted procedures on handling evidence in criminal trials.",
"The defendant, John Thompson, was freed from state prison after 18 years behind bars for the murder of a hotel executive.",
"He came within weeks of execution before being granted a new trial.",
"He was then acquitted in 2003 and won a $14 million judgment against the state.",
"Oral arguments in the appeal will be heard in the fall.",
"The case is Connick v. Thompson (09-571).",
"• In another case, current and former Chinese Muslim detainees at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, lost another round at the high court.",
"The justices are staying out of the latest dispute about the prisoners' demand of a 30-day notice before any proposed transfer from the detention center.",
"The men, known as Uyghurs, wanted advance notice of which country they were being sent to, fearing they could be sent to a place where they would be tortured, imprisoned or harassed about their religious beliefs.",
"The U.S. government, which says the prisoners are no longer considered \"enemy combatants\" or a national security threat, reiterated they would not be sent to places where they might face torture or continued imprisonment.",
"Many of the Uyghurs released so far have been sent to the Pacific nation of Palau, with others going to Bermuda or Albania.",
"The justices had previously agreed to hear the Uyghurs' broader constitutional claims over their years-long detention, but the case was tossed out as moot, since most of the men have been freed or are in the process of being freed.",
"The case is Kiyemba v. Obama (09-581).",
"• The justices also rejected a separate appeal of a Massachusetts law that keeps demonstrators away from abortion clinics.",
"Anti-abortion activists said the restriction violates their rights of free speech and assembly.",
"The law sets a \"protest-free zone\" of 35 feet outside clinic entrances, including driveways.",
"Officials call it an acceptable balance between the right of access for patients and the right of expression for those opposed to the medical procedure.",
"Some protesters said they have been forced onto streets to make their beliefs known and have nearly been hit by cars.",
"That case is McMullen v. Coakley (09-592)."
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"In 2006, school district disallowed instrument-only version of well-known song .",
"District cited complaints about performance of other piece that included religious references .",
"High school senior and others sued, saying free speech rights were being violated .",
"Court rejects appeal without comment; Samuel Alito publicly dissents ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- A group of Heath Ledger fans have taken their reverence for the late \"The Dark Knight\" star to a whole new level.",
"Heath Ledger fans launched a petition calling for studios to remove the Joker from future Batman movies.",
"Followers of the actor, who electrified audiences with his chilling reinvention of the Joker in the second Batman blockbuster, are calling for the character to be retired from the movies permanently.",
"Ledger supporters at new Web site, The Ultimate Joker, launched a petition last week calling for studios to remove the Joker from any future Batman movies.",
"The petition currently has 2,431 supporters.",
"\"We think Heath deserves this honor,\" the site's team leader, Fer Barbella, told CNN from Buenos Aires, Argentina.",
"\"He is the ultimate Joker.",
"\"We are Batman fans from the comics and from the movies,\" he said, \"After we saw 'The Dark Knight,' we thought this Joker was really the best.",
"It deserves to be withdrawn from any Batman sequels.",
"\"When Michael Jordan retired, they withdrew the number 23 jersey as an honor.",
"It's the same thing with Heath.\"",
"Barbella said he thinks any new performance just won't be able to top Ledger's.",
"\"He upgraded the character in a thrilling way,\" he said.",
"\"Although a lot of actors would love the chance to play the Joker, as Batman fans and now Heath Ledger fans, we think no one could ever perform it as well as he did.\"",
"The Web site is the brainchild of Barbella, 34; Nico Pimentel, 33; and Natalia Rodoni, 33, all advertising creatives in Buenos Aires.",
"The trio say that if they collect enough names, they may go to the studio to present their petition.",
"\"As soon as we start seeing that we have more than 50,000 names on our Web site, perhaps we will go to the Warner Brothers gate and do a bit of activism,\" Pimentel said.",
"The huge buzz around Ledger's performance as the Joker last year stemmed from his update of the iconic character played by camp comedian Cesar Romero and as a hateful clown by Jack Nicholson.",
"Ledger's Joker was a very different proposition from those that had come before: In a ripped, stained suit, with clown makeup smeared across a scarred, twisted mouth, his Joker was a nihilistic, sociopathic prankster.",
"\"Why so serious?\" he sneered in a performance that received rave reviews from critics globally.",
"Do you agree that Heath Ledger's Joker should be the last one ever?",
"The actor was found dead after overdosing on prescription drugs at his apartment in New York on January 22, 2008, shortly after concluding work on \"The Dark Knight.\"",
"Ledger has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the Joker, having been awarded a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor.",
"Barbella says that the Web site and petition are their award: \"The Academy gives an Oscar,\" he said.",
"\"This is a new award from the people.",
"A user-generated award.\""
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"Heath Ledger fans are calling for The Joker to be removed from future Batman films .",
"They launched a petition at new Web site, The Ultimate Joker, last week .",
"Ledger's Joker in Christopher Nolan's \"The Dark Knight\" received rave reviews .",
"Ledger who died in 2008 has been nominated for an Oscar for the role ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- A 15-year-old schoolboy is planning to make history as the youngest person to ski to the North Pole.",
"Parker Liautaud, who attends the prestigious Eton College in southern England, will begin his two-week odyssey on March 31.",
"Led by experienced adventurer Doug Stoup, Parker hopes to raise awareness among young people about environment issues.",
"\"The idea is to inspire, inform and engage young people on the issue of climate change and bring to light what's been happening in the arctic region in particular,\" Liautaud, who was born in California, told CNN.",
"\"The best way to do this is to show what is happening right now through direct and live coverage.\"",
"\"The Arctic ocean is in a state of emergency,\" Stoup said on his Web site, www.iceaxe.tv.",
"\"Scientists are reporting this Arctic Season to be been one of the warmest in recorded history.",
"\"As a veteran polar adventurer, I have seen huge differences in the state of the Arctic Ocean over the last decade.",
"I have witnessed less multi-year ice.\"",
"Parker's expedition will include a large social media component, with Parker rallying young people around the world to become catalysts for change.",
"Twice a day, he will update his location on Facebook via Google Earth.",
"This will show the progress being made, as well as possible ice shifts that occur throughout the day.",
"Parker's Facebook followers can join the expedition by following his progress and approximating when he will arrive at the summit."
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"Parker Liautaud hopes to become the youngest person to ski to the North Pole .",
"Liautaud hopes to raise awareness about environment among young people .",
"The 15-year old will be led by experienced adventurer and environmentalist Doug Stoup ."
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"Concepcion, Chile (CNN) -- There are days working for CNN when you feel like you are in the final scene of the film \"Hotel Rwanda,\" hurtling toward an uncertain salvation from a disaster of epic proportions.",
"Fear and frustration are softened by exhaustion.",
"Your heart races, but every other sound is like white noise.",
"You plunge ahead, but also long to return to the comfort of your own life with its own particular frustrations and joys.",
"That's how it felt pulling out of Concepcion, Chile, where an earthquake sent people gliding across the floors of their own homes, tossed some buildings into pieces and set off frantic unrest among people living without food, water or safety.",
"We had been on an odyssey just to get to the epicenter of this disaster.",
"We had left behind a documentary project on the Haiti disaster to fly to Miami, Florida, where we turned around and went through Panama; Lima, Peru; Sao Paolo, Brazil; and Buenos Aires and Bariloche, Argentina, before driving through Patagonia into Chile.",
"But we couldn't stay long in Chile without jeopardizing that project.",
"Full coverage of the Chilean earthquake .",
"Even as this new disaster unfolds, there are still thousands living on Haiti's streets in a crisis of uncommon proportions.",
"A documentary on Haiti's children needs to air while the public is still focused.",
"Meanwhile, CNN was getting more teams on the ground to help those already here amid tough conditions.",
"Our team of nine journalists and four drivers had arrived in Concepcion to join a few others, but we'd all been stymied by the lack of generators or fuel to power them in a place with no electricity.",
"We had a mountain of snack food and water, but until we found ways to get electricity, each attempt at making television was a challenge.",
"Then some of our local drivers confused the cans of extra diesel fuel and gasoline and filled the wrong fuel in the tanks.",
"They spent half a day sucking it out of the vehicles, but then threw out the empty jugs we needed to get refills -- if fuel ever reappeared.",
"It was a comedy of errors that ended up with three of four cars temporarily inoperable.",
"It was cold with no place to stay, no way to power our cameras or equipment.",
"The CNN logistics folks hustled, getting new people in with fresh supplies and gas.",
"Our Haiti project was looming.",
"We'd have to leave soon.",
"But how? No fuel means no cars, and this whole region of Chile was at a standstill.",
"The only thing moving was the earth, in constant aftershocks.",
"And we were a 12-hour drive from Santiago, where the only big airport was closed.",
"We hopped aboard one of the cars that still had fuel and headed to a small airport outside town.",
"Concepcion, city of chaos .",
"It wasn't easy: Whenever you leave a story, a reporter feels enormous guilt.",
"After all, you'd come to tell people what's happening, to hold the authorities accountable, to record history in the making.",
"This town was in crisis, and we were leaving.",
"As we drove, dozens of people rode around on bicycles dangling fuel cans from one hand, aimlessly searching for ways to power cars and light homes.",
"We dodged barricades put up by residents to discourage looters and around piles of bricks from homes newly damaged from aftershocks.",
"The air smelt like smoke and concrete.",
"Military vehicles and sirens made the only noise.",
"We expected the tiny airport, which was officially closed, to be empty, but it was abuzz with the displaced.",
"We were not the only ones hoping to leave.",
"Hundreds of people carrying luggage had slept outside the darkened terminal hoping some aircraft would soon land and leave.",
"The Chilean Air Force was offering rides, so we made our way to Santiago where the Peruvian president had a few police planes offering trips out of the disaster zone to Lima.",
"We boarded the small airplane through the back ramp and saw that this aircraft was meant for cargo, not people.",
"The gray metal \"seats\" ran along the sides of a curved plane that forced you to curve your back to sit.",
"No big deal, we figured.",
"It's just three hours.",
"World's biggest quakes since 1900 .",
"But on these planes it's not. They have small gas tanks and have to stop to refuel twice.",
"It was cold -- bitter cold -- on the \"seats.\"",
"But everyone was so grateful no one whined, not even the eight or nine children wrapped in jackets much too big for them and tucked into their parents' arms.",
"We, too, threw on more and more layers --mostly dirty clothes, as we'd been on the road for two weeks.",
"We huddled together.",
"Two hours in, the children onboard needed to pee in a plane with no bathrooms.",
"Plastic bags appeared.",
"There was no way to sit comfortably, and it was soon the middle of the night.",
"The refueling happened in tiny mountain towns that looked like the surface of the moon.",
"Each time we landed, we'd check e-mail on our quickly dying Blackberries.",
"Another aftershock had hit, this time a strong 6.3.",
"An e-mail went out from the main coordinating team in Chile, asking each reporting team to check in ASAP.",
"Then, a tsunami warning.",
"Finally, confirmation they are all OK. That was a relief, but word followed of another producer stranded someplace trying to find fuel and a generator to bring to our colleagues in Concepcion.",
"How nerve-wracking.",
"Then, word that someone has found a way to go help them.",
"We pressed on. Everything on this trip evolved in 12-hour clips, and our trip was no different.",
"We arrived in Lima at 4 a.m., cold and exhausted.",
"Some women kissed the ground, crossed themselves or cried.",
"Rose's family is at least from Lima, so it's a familiar place to one of us, but it's many hours from home -- and many miles from the last big story."
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"Soledad O'Brien and her team go from one earthquake zone to another .",
"They give a behind-the-scenes look at what it's like to cover a major disaster .",
"They experience guilt as they have to leave Chile and the story of its troubles .",
"Exiting Chile proves to be as arduous as getting into the earthquake-ravaged nation ."
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"(CNN) -- Hundreds of people were evacuated Sunday amid flood concerns after a long-dormant volcano erupted beneath a glacier in south Iceland.",
"It was the first time since 1821 that the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier has erupted.",
"More than 600 people were evacuated as scientists monitored a fissure in the volcano from which lava was erupting.",
"The fissure measured about 1,640 to 3,281 feet (500 to 1,000 meters).",
"Despite the remote location of the eruption, if the fissure \"develops further towards the glacier, the melting floodwater ... will create dangerous floods in a populated area in south Iceland,\" said Gudrun Johannesdottir, a project manager for Iceland's Joint Rescue and Coordination Center.",
"The country's civil protection agency did not immediately record any injuries or damage.",
"Eyjafjallajokull is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of the capital, Reykjavik."
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"NEW: Scientists concerned eruption could melt part of glacier, flood populated areas .",
"First time since 1821 that the volcano under Eyjafjallajokull glacier has erupted .",
"Eyjafjallajokull is about 100 miles east of Reykjavik ."
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"(CNET) -- Would you like to let AT&T know when your iPhone has dropped a call?",
"Well, now there is an app for that. AT&T on Monday released a new application called \"Mark the Spot,\" which lets iPhone users submit complaints about dropped calls, poor service coverage, and less-than-perfect voice quality.",
"The application is free and available in the iTunes App Store.",
"It uses GPS technology in the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS to pin point where the user is when experiencing the problems.",
"For first generation iPhones, it uses cell tower-triangulation to get a fix on problem areas.",
"Once the application is launched, users have several complaint options.",
"They will see a screen that has buttons that let them report a dropped call, poor voice quality, or poor service coverage.",
"AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said AT&T plans to use the data collected to identify trends and prioritize the company's network investments.",
"\"We think this is a great way to get customer feedback to improve our network,\" Siegel said.",
"\"We are always looking for ways to make it easy for customers to share their experiences.",
"And this app lets customers report issues.",
"It logs the time and location and automatically forwards the information to our network planning team.\"",
"iPhone owners have been complaining about AT&T's network since the Apple iPhone went on sale in the summer of 2007.",
"Complaints mounted after the 3G version of the phone was released a year later in 2008.",
"And as more iPhone users come onto the network, more people, particularly in densely populated urban areas, such as New York City and San Francisco, have experienced problems with dropped calls and congested data networks.",
"AT&T executives have not said that AT&T has a problem with its network.",
"But executives, such as AT&T Chief Technology Officer John Donovan, have said that the company has seen a surge in data traffic attributed to iPhone users, who typically consume more wireless bandwidth than other AT&T wireless customers.",
"AT&T has been upgrading its network to keep up with demand.",
"But problems persist.",
"And AT&T's network recently got a poor ranking in terms of customer satisfaction in a Consumer Reports survey.",
"Verizon Wireless, AT&T's chief rival, has taken advantage of AT&T's struggles with a series of advertisements that point out AT&T's lack of 3G network coverage in certain parts of the country.",
"Verizon is running advertisements that mock the Apple \"There's an app for that,\" catch phrase with one that says, \"There's a map for that.\"",
"AT&T fired back with a lawsuit and an advertisements of its own featuring actor Luke Wilson, who points out AT&T's strengths while taking a few shots at Verizon Wireless.",
"AT&T recently dropped its lawsuit against Verizon.",
"And Verizon, which had been suing AT&T over claims that it has the fastest 3G wireless network, also dropped its lawsuit against AT&T.",
"Siegel said that the new \"Mark the Spot\" application was not prompted by the bad publicity around its network issues nor was it prompted by the current ad wars going on between AT&T and Verizon.",
"Instead, he said that the application was simply a part of AT&T's ongoing commitment to listening to customers.",
"\"We are always looking at ways to get customer feedback in as timely a manner as possible,\" he said.",
"\"That's why we pay attention to Twitter, Facebook and blog.",
"One of the great values of these social networking tools is that it's a great way to get instant feedback.",
"And it helps us identify problems.\"",
"The \"Mark the Spot\" application can be downloaded onto all iPhones running version 3.0 or later of Apple's operating system or it can be access using iTunes and synchronized to the iPhone via a PC or Mac.",
"Siegel said that AT&T is testing the \"Mark the Spot\" app for other devices.",
"And he said AT&T hopes to offer applications on other smartphones in the future.",
"No date has been announced yet.",
"And Siegel didn't specify which devices might get the new application, but considering that AT&T sells a lot of Research in Motion's BlackBerry devices, it's likely it will create an application for that device.",
"The app could be offered through AT&T's own application storefront or through RIM's BlackBerry App World.",
"© 2010 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved.",
"CNET, CNET.com and the CNET logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc. Used by permission."
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"(CNN) -- It has the curves of a Lamborghini, looks like something an astronaut might take into space and weighs only 10.3 ounces.",
"Amazon's Kindle e-reader is wireless and can hold about 200 books, plus newspapers and magazines.",
"Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader -- a device meant to remove the paper from the page and make reading both more convenient and eco-friendly -- is celebrating its first birthday.",
"Released in November 2007, the Kindle has sold more than a quarter million units.",
"Its texts account for 10 percent of Amazon's book sales despite the fact that 200,000 titles -- a tiny fraction of the books offered on the site -- are available in digital form.",
"While exact sales figures are hard to come by, recent estimates have put the Kindle's sales on par with other high-profile mobile devices in their first year.",
"Amazon.com says that the Kindle is currently sold out due to heavy demand.",
"So what has spurred its success?",
"After all, electronic books have been around, in small numbers, for about a decade.",
"Even Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder and CEO, has admitted that the book is \"elegantly suited to its purpose.",
"It's hard to improve on.\"",
"One thing that's helped the Kindle is marketing.",
"Where other readers failed to connect with consumers, the Kindle has excelled.",
"The media-savvy Bezos has hardly been publicity shy, gaining his electronic toy a level of exposure most CEOs couldn't begin to fathom.",
"\"You can't discount the prominence of having Amazon behind this,\" says Paul Reynolds, technology editor at Consumer Reports.",
"\"Jeff Bezos is respected for what he's done with Amazon, and if he feels this is a future product in media, people are willing to trust him.\"",
"Second, the gadget has been heralded by Oprah Winfrey, whose influence in the publishing world is immense.",
"It's also been embraced by some prominent writers, including Nobel laureate Toni Morrison and best-selling thriller author James Patterson.",
"Third, with more and more consumers accustomed to reading text on their cell phones and BlackBerrys, the world finally may be ready for an electronic version of a book.",
"\"I checked it out on Amazon and thought it was an intriguing idea, a great way to have a lot of books that don't take up a lot of space,\" says Emily Branch of Florida, who was moved to buy a Kindle after seeing the hosts of \"The View\" chatting about it.",
"\"I figured if I didn't like it I could return it within 30 days,\" Branch says.",
"\"There wasn't a chance of that happening once I got it in my hands though.\"",
"One clutter-killing Kindle can hold about 200 books.",
"And while other e-readers such as Sony's Reader must connect through a USB port to upload content, the Kindle is a wireless device, thanks to Whispernet, which is powered by Sprint's high-speed data network.",
"\"I think the Whispernet is what sets the Kindle apart from all the other e-readers on the market,\" says Leslie Nicoll of Portland, Maine, who co-authored \"The Amazon Kindle F.A.Q.\"",
"book after her tech-loving teenage daughter urged her to get a Kindle.",
"Like Branch, Nicoll says she likes the Kindle's low-impact effect on her bookshelves.",
"\"I don't have to worry about giving it to someone else, reselling it on Amazon or finding a place to store it in my house,\" she says.",
"\"For the enjoyment and convenience, it has given me in the past seven months, I consider that it has paid for itself already.\"",
"Readers can visit Amazon's online store and upload a new book right to their Kindle.",
"Subscribers also can have electronic versions of The New York Times and other newspapers and magazines delivered automatically to their Kindles in time for reading with their morning cup of coffee.",
"\"The large and tightly interacting collection of Kindle features, that go far beyond those of any other previous e-Book attempt, will cause the Kindle to be the first e-Book to succeed,\" wrote one reviewer on an Amazon discussion board.",
"But not everything in Kindle world is roses and gumdrops.",
"There's a difference between modest early success and making a centuries-old print format obsolete.",
"The Kindle sells for $359, a steep price for the average reader in the current economic climate.",
"\"I'm not going to pay $360 for that.",
"I can get books for free,\" says Nikki Johnson, a college student in Atlanta, Georgia, speaking for traditionalists who are wary of giving up their bound paper volumes.",
"\"There's nothing like reading a nice paperback,\" she says.",
"\"There's nothing like holding or carrying a book, having that tangible quality and it being more than just a piece of data.\"",
"So in an unforgiving economy and in a stubbornly old-fashioned medium, will the Kindle ever expand from a tech novelty to a mainstream accessory?",
"It might be too soon to tell.",
"Blockbuster writers such as J.K. Rowling, author of the \"Harry Potter\" series, have said they'll never allow their books to appear on the market in electronic form.",
"Yet future, better versions of e-readers may seduce younger consumers who grew up on PSPs and iPhones.",
"A next-generation model of the Kindle is due in 2009.",
"Early reports indicate the new device will be thinner and will have fixed some current design bugs, such as poorly placed buttons that cause readers to turn pages accidentally.",
"\"I think it's certainly a ways away from hitting the mainstream ... because of the price and the experience a reader gets from long-form reading,\" says Reynolds of Consumer Reports.",
"\"Whether these ... are successful, stand-alone devices remains to be seen.",
"From what I've seen and heard, I think the technology is here to stay.\""
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"Amazon.com's electronic Kindle reader celebrates its first birthday .",
"Device holds about 200 digital books and can reduce bookshelf clutter .",
"Sales have been steady, but the device so far remains mostly a tech novelty .",
"Oprah Winfrey has praised it, but J.K. Rowling vows no e-versions of \"Harry Potter\""
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"(CNN) -- Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré was highly praised for his leadership of recovery efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005, so he's well-versed in what works and what doesn't in disaster management.",
"The general told CNN last week that the U.S. military should have responded sooner to the earthquake in Haiti because \"time is of the essence\" in helping quake survivors.",
"CNN's Nicole Dow talked to Gen. Honoré Wednesday about his assessment of the situation in Haiti since he made those remarks.",
"CNN: There are reports of looting in Haiti.",
"Is it looting, or an attempt at survival?",
"Gen. Russel Honoré: In the first days after a disaster, people are generally scavenging for food.",
"They are trying to find food where they can.",
"People are going into survival mode.",
"Due to challenges and logistical issues, they use the food they have and what they can get their hands on.",
"I would use the word \"looting\" lightly -- these people are surviving.",
"It's reminiscent of what was seen during Katrina in the convention center.",
"They survived because they found food in the surrounding areas.",
"CNN: With the potential for violence running high, how can civilians protect themselves?",
"Honoré: People should stay in their family groups and be with people they trust.",
"During a disaster, in the case of not having enough communication, some of the information coming out is speculation and rumor.",
"The role of the military is to provide a sense of order and try to keep people from becoming too excited when food and water are distributed.",
"They also assure that help is on the way.",
"What people are missing is information.",
"You have someone sitting on a sidewalk with a baby, someone who is elderly, disabled, or pregnant, probably wondering what to do.",
"Their house is in rubble, they have members of their family who need to go to the hospital or special care.",
"Where can they go to be cared for? Or to help care for themselves in a humane manner?",
"This is a humanitarian matter of global proportions.",
"CNN: Previously, you've mentioned \"adapt and overcome.\"",
"How difficult is it to achieve this in Haiti?",
"Honoré: You need the U.S. military.",
"One airfield?",
"Let's build two more.",
"We adapt and overcome.",
"USAID said, we have one airfield, how are we going to use it?",
"They don't look at possibilities of building another one.",
"Building another airfield is something that should have been considered the first day.",
"You can take a road and create another airfield.",
"We have a capability to airdrop teams in with equipment to create airfields.",
"USAID said airdrops are unsafe, and it's disorderly to do airdrops.",
"They were concerned that some would get food and others wouldn't.",
"They started to drop five days after event -- the first drop of MREs (meals ready to eat).",
"CNN: So why did the U.S. wait before starting to drop supplies?",
"Honoré: If you don't have enough trucks, the optimal system is to use helicopters.",
"But we don't have enough on the ground to get the job done.",
"Ospreys, Marine planes, we have not seen them in use.",
"There are some in Afghanistan, but not many there.",
"They fly like a plane, land like a helicopter and can also carry a lot of cargo.",
"They can lift things and set them down.",
"We spent 20 years developing that aircraft.",
"We don't have enough helicopters -- between the Coast Guard and the military, there are 60 helicopters in use now.",
"Four days after Katrina, there were 200 helicopters flying in.",
"I don't know if the flow of supplies can keep up with demand, unless we evacuate the injured, elderly, pregnant women, babies, and the disabled.",
"Hospitals will be overflowing with people who have injuries, there will be infections that will need treatment.",
"It is wishful thinking to add more hospitals.",
"We need to think how these airplanes can leave with patients to the U.S. and other countries to be distributed to hospitals to stabilize them.",
"I am hoping that the State Department and the White House will start pushing for a U.N. resolution to start an evacuation plan for Haiti.",
"It will need billions of dollars to sustain its people and to start its recovery.",
"CNN: How did the Israelis immediately set up a working hospital?",
"Honoré: Our military is fully deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"The president didn't sign mobilization of reserves until Sunday.",
"We are making right decisions, but making them too slowly to have an immediate impact on the ground.",
"We decided [Tuesday] to open another airfield, they should have done that days ago.",
"CNN: You led the Joint Task Force for Hurricane Katrina.",
"Can you draw some parallels between Katrina and the earthquake in Haiti?",
"Honoré: In my book, \"Survival,\" there's a chapter that talks about dealing with the poor.",
"I think sometimes we talk security, because as a culture, we are afraid of poor people in large groups.",
"In Haiti, right after the earthquake, there were doctors who left.",
"One said, \"We don't have any security so we left.\"",
"That, in and of itself, is indicative of my Katrina experience.",
"People start talking security.",
"And the slower we go, the more there's the possibility of that happening.",
"We have to work on establishing the community government officials in Haiti so they can start communicating with their people.",
"We have to get food and water there to local government officials to distribute it.",
"The local government officials should be authorized to hire young men.",
"The local economy will crank up if we pay people in Haiti to do the cleanup and to run the distribution centers.",
"There's no need to send Americans there to distribute food and water when you have able-bodied people there who can do that.",
"CNN: What are the top five points to keep in mind in the aftermath of natural disaster?",
"Honoré: 1) Improve communications.",
"2) Get food and water in.",
"3) Take care of the health and needs of people.",
"4) Evacuate people, particularly those who are pregnant, disabled, injured, babies, those who cannot take care of themselves.",
"5) Establish who's in charge.",
"The president of Haiti [Rene Preval] is in charge.",
"It's different when the president and his government are victims.",
"They are going to need help.",
"Someone needs to be the face of the operation to help the president keep people alive.",
"You must have communication to establish a way of giving information to the people in their communities.",
"You have to be your own first responder in a disaster like Haiti, and the Haitian people did that.",
"These situations have a tendency to get worse before getting better unless you start evacuating vulnerable people.",
"Also, you have to take a risk [about security] during the search-and-rescue phase.",
"In that phase of the operation, search-and-rescue takes priority over security."
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"Says our culture is afraid of poor people in large groups so we focus on security .",
"Honoré says supplies can't meet demand; U.N. should start an evacuation plan for Haiti .",
"General: They should have started to build second airfield the first day ."
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"(CNN) -- Former first lady Barbara Bush will spend the night in a Houston, Texas, hospital Tuesday night after falling ill, according to a family spokeswoman.",
"Former first lady Barbara Bush has been admitted to a Houston, Texas, hospital.",
"Spokeswoman Jean Becker said Bush, 83, was admitted to Methodist Hospital for testing after complaining of stomach pain for several days.",
"She arrived at the emergency room at about 5:30 p.m. Central Time.",
"After feeling ill, Bush called her husband, former President George H.W.",
"Bush, at his office urging him to take her to the hospital.",
"The former president's Secret Service detail drove them both to the hospital, Becker said.",
"Jim McGrath, a spokesman for Bush's husband said all of the tests were negative.",
"\"She's fine,\" McGrath said.",
"Bush has been diagnosed with the thyroid condition Graves' Disease.",
"It was not known whether the condition had any relation to her hospitalization on Tuesday.",
"Bush, the mother of President George W. Bush, was first lady during her husband's term as president from January 1989 to January 1993.",
"Born in New York in 1925, Bush, born Barbara Pierce, married her husband in 1945.",
"She is the great-great-great niece of Franklin Pierce, who served as president from 1853 to 1857.",
"She and the former president split their time between Houston and Kennebunkport, Maine."
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"NEW: Former first lady will spend the night in a Houston, Texas, hospital .",
"NEW: \"She's fine,\" spokesman for Barbara Bush's husband says .",
"Family spokeswoman: She complained recently about stomach pains .",
"Tests Tuesday night came back negative, ex-president's spokesman says ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- There are \"compelling reasons\" to believe the Israeli government was responsible for forging British passports used in a plot to kill a Hamas leader in the United Arab Emirates earlier this year, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Tuesday.",
"\"Such misuse of British passports is intolerable,\" Miliband said, adding that the fact that Israel was an ally of the United Kingdom \"only adds insult to injury.\"",
"The passports were \"copied from genuine British passports\" in a \"highly sophisticated operation,\" indicating a government was behind it, Miliband told the House of Commons.",
"Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency concluded that the 12 British people whose passports were cloned where \"wholly innocent victims of identity theft,\" the foreign secretary said.",
"The UK expelled an Israeli diplomat and changed the advice it gives its citizens about traveling to Israel as a result of the scandal, Miliband said.",
"He did not name the diplomat or say what rank the envoy held.",
"\"The UK had absolutely no advance knowledge of what happened in Dubai nor any involvement whatsoever in the killing\" of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, he said.",
"Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman complained that the Israelis \"have not been given any evidence pointing to Israel's involvement in the affair.\"",
"\"We attribute great importance to our relations with Great Britain,\" he said.",
"\"We maintain several different and sensitive dialogues with the UK, and we regret the British decision.\"",
"French authorities also have opened an investigation into the alleged use of forged documents, the Paris prosecutor's office said Tuesday.",
"Suspects in the killing allegedly used four doctored French passports, the prosecutor said in a written statement.",
"\"Further investigation has revealed that these four passports were actually false as the photos did not correspond to the names appearing in each document,\" the statement said.",
"Al-Mabhouh, a founding member of Hamas' military wing, was found dead January 20 in his Dubai hotel room.",
"Police believe he was killed the night before, allegedly by the secretive Israeli foreign intelligence unit Mossad.",
"Two sources told CNN earlier this month that the number of identified suspects in al-Mabhouh's death was up to 27.",
"Of them, 26 were carrying European or Australian passports, authorities have said.",
"The sources -- an official familiar with the investigation and a police source -- did not say which nation issued the passport used by the 27th suspect.",
"The 27 suspects are believed to have acquired false passports to travel to Dubai for the killing, then scattered to several far-flung locations afterward.",
"But Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, Dubai police chief, has said not all the suspects had fraudulent passports -- \"We know some of the names are real.\"",
"Interpol, the international police agency, has issued \"red notices\" to help search for the suspects.",
"The notices are not international arrest warrants, but are a way of alerting police forces around the world that the suspects are wanted by United Arab Emirates authorities.",
"Interpol expands search for suspects .",
"Interpol Secretary-General Ronald K. Noble said investigators have established \"clear\" links through passport records, video surveillance, DNA analysis, witness interviews and hotel, credit card, phone and transport records, according to a statement.",
"Police have said toxicology results show al-Mabhouh was injected with succinylcholine, a drug used to relax muscles during surgery or as an anesthetic, before he was suffocated.",
"Signs indicated that al-Mabhouh resisted as he was being suffocated, police said.",
"Al-Mabhouh's family members were told earlier that police had found blood on a pillow.",
"Authorities have also said the killers left some of al-Mabhouh's medication next to him in an apparent effort to make the death appear natural.",
"But \"the medication left next to him in the room has nothing to do with the killing,\" Tamim has said.",
"Tamim told CNN last month that he is \"100 percent sure\" Mossad was responsible.",
"\"The Mossad needs to be ashamed of its actions,\" he said.",
"\"They sent 26, 27 persons to assassinate one man who was involved in the capturing and killing of two Israeli soldiers.\"",
"Dubai police: Mossad should be 'ashamed' Hamas has said al-Mabhouh was behind the 1989 deaths of the Israeli soldiers.",
"Israel has a stated policy on security matters of neither confirming nor denying involvement.",
"Lieberman, however, told Israel Army Radio earlier this month, \"There is certainly no reason to think that the Mossad and not some other intelligence agency of another country operated there.\"",
"The total of 27 suspects does not include two Palestinians arrested in Jordan and returned to Dubai.",
"Tamim said one is not believed to be directly involved in al-Mabhouh's death, but \"he is wanted by one of the Palestinian factions in the Palestinian territories and he is sentenced to death and that's why we will extradite him.\"",
"He declined to discuss anything about the other Palestinian.",
"CNN's Guy Azriel in Jerusalem and Niki Cook in Paris, France, contributed to this report."
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"Miliband: Passports copied in a \"highly sophisticated operation\"\nBritish government source said an Israeli official had been expelled from UK .",
"Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, founding member of Hamas' military wing, found dead Jan. 20 in Dubai .",
"Dubai Police believe he was killed by secretive Israeli foreign intelligence unit Mossad ."
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"Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Rescue workers pulled a woman out of rubble near Haiti's national cathedral Tuesday, a week after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck.",
"The rescue crews believe two other people may be alive under wreckage nearby, in part because of a text message the crews believe was sent from under the rubble, a CNN crew reported.",
"Men carried the woman, Ena Zizi, who is in her 70s, from the rubble on a wooden board as she grasped its edges.",
"They took her to a nearby clinic, although it doesn't have the operating facilities needed to treat her, the CNN crew reported.",
"Zizi's right femur was fractured and she was in shock, the crew reported.",
"iReport: Search list of the missing and the found .",
"Her son, Maxime Janvier, told CNN that he never gave up hope that she'd be found.",
"\"We were praying a lot for that to happen,\" he said.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that about 90 victims have been saved by 43 international rescue teams, made up of some 1,700 people, in the days after the quake.",
"Full coverage l Twitter updates .",
"The earthquake struck the afternoon of January 12.",
"Its epicenter was just south of Port-au-Prince."
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"Ena Zizi, in her 70s, lasted seven days in rubble near national cathedral .",
"Zizi taken to clinic, though it doesn't have the operating facilities needed to treat her .",
"Woman's son: We never gave up hope that she'd be found .",
"Rescue crews believe two other people may be alive under wreckage nearby ."
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"(CNN) -- Jeff Kohnstamm had a bit of an unusual childhood.",
"He grew up in a virtual museum.",
"Even now when he wanders around the lobby at Oregon's iconic Timberline Lodge, Kohnstamm, 47, sometimes flashes back to being a kid on a tricycle, winding his way around original furniture designed by Depression-era artisans.",
"For Kohnstamm, whose family has operated the federally owned property for a half century, the Mount Hood ski lodge has become a living scrapbook of his life.",
"From birth until college he divided his days between school in neighboring Portland and Timberline -- with its rustic stone masonry, massive wooden beams, paintings, wood marquetry, custom wrought iron accoutrements and linoleum murals.",
"\"There are museum aspects of this place, and I suppose the government could say, 'let's make it into a museum and have ropes and glass and charge admission,' but we'd rather it be a ski lodge than a museum.\"",
"Since its birth in the late 1930s as a New Deal project to create hundreds of jobs for Portland workers, craftsmen and artisans, Timberline has dug out its own place in American culture.",
"But it also bills itself as America's only year-round ski area.",
"'Heeeeere's Johnny!'",
"And, if the photos strike you as familiar, it may be because Timberline has built a respectable resume as a location for films such as \"Bend of the River,\" starring Jimmy Stewart, \"All the Young Men,\" starring Sydney Poitier and the horror classic \"The Shining\" with Jack Nicholson.",
"In a way, you could say the Timberline played the starring role in that 1980 film.",
"The lodge stood as the haunted Overlook Hotel, but only in exterior shots.",
"All interior scenes were shot elsewhere, said Kohnstamm, who helped the film crew during the shoot.",
"\"I did some work outside for the crew's helicopter shots,\" he said.",
"\"We'd have to make sure that the place looked desolate and that no one was around.",
"I remember hiding in the trees so they could get the shots.\"",
"Growing up at the lodge for Kohnstamm meant making fast friends with children of guests who vacationed there every year.",
"It was the place where he enjoyed his first legal beer on his 21st birthday -- in the lodge's Ram's Head Bar with its breathtaking view of the Cascade Mountains.",
"The site for hundreds of guests' weddings over the years, Timberline was where Kohnstamm's own younger brother chose to tie the knot.",
"It was where his late father announced the Christmas Eve arrival of Santa and a pair of authentic reindeer for guests' wide-eyed children.",
"\"I still kinda think it was really Santa Claus,\" he laughs.",
"\"Why not?\" Night skiing .",
"But as one might expect, so much about growing up at Timberline revolved around skiing.",
"Kohnstamm learned to ski at age 3.",
"Later, he says, to get them away from the TV, \"my mom would make us go out and ski for at least an hour before we could watch football.\"",
"\"At one point during adolescence we convinced Dad that it would be a good idea to ski all night long on New Year's,\" he said.",
"\"It got kind of crazy for a while there.",
"We had all these people skiing and sleeping and whatever all over the place.\"",
"Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Timberline came uncomfortably close to being destroyed before Kohnstamm's father began operating it in 1955.",
"Four previous operators hadn't had much success running the lodge, and in 1953, the U.S. Forest Service thought of Timberline as more of a headache than anything else, Kohnstamm said.",
"Options at the time included either burning it or dismantling it until Kohnstamm's father, R.L.",
"Kohnstamm, entered the picture.",
"The family's permit to operate Timberline expires in 2038.",
"'You've really got something big here' Local snowboarding entrepreneur John Ingersoll remembers R.L.",
"Kohnstamm, who passed away in 2006, as a visionary.",
"Ingersoll founded High Cascade Snowboard Camp in 1989, when most U.S. ski areas were shunning the relatively new sport.",
"\"It was one of those memories that you'll never forget,\" Ingersoll said, remembering a day on a snowfield in the early 90s.",
"\"R.L. stopped me and he looked me in the eye and made sure that I got it.",
"He said snowboarding was going to be really big.",
"'You've really got something here, John,' he told me.\"",
"Today, Ingersoll says Mount Hood's snowboarding camps gross millions of dollars each year.",
"Last summer High Cascade's 22-foot halfpipe hosted several U.S. Olympic team members, including 2010 gold medallist Shaun White.",
"Although White stayed at Timberline during his visit last summer, many guests come with no intention of boarding or skiing or hiking, said Sarah Munro, author of \"Timberline Lodge: The History, Art, and Craft of an American Icon.\"",
"\"The artwork has made Timberline its own destination apart from the mountain,\" she said.",
"\"It retains the feel of the 1930s -- that early period of auto-recreation and being in hotels with big lobbies when all the guests came together at dinner.",
"It's sort of a living museum.\"",
"Strolling around the lodge offers guests one surprise after another: wooden stair post newels carved in the shape of bears, owls and other animals; wrought iron fireplace andirons forged from train rails; lamps, iron-fashioned door handles and specially designed seat cushions.",
"The main lounge is dominated by an amazing three-story stone chimney with six fireplaces.",
"\"Much of the building's massive beams are held together with unique joints and big wooden pins that lock the things together,\" said Gary Larsen, the U.S. Forest Service administrator.",
"\"I've always enjoyed that and the interaction between the black wrought iron and the natural wood.\"",
"Old stimulus, new stimulus .",
"Ironically, the New Deal project which cost about $1 million in 1937 is benefiting from $4.25 million in 2009 federal stimulus.",
"Adjusted for inflation, $1 million in 1937 equals more than $15 million now, according to federal calculations.",
"$4.25 million now, equals about $282,000 in 1937.",
"The new stimulus funds are earmarked for painting, replacement of a water main and improvements for disabled guests, Kohnstamm said.",
"It's unclear how many jobs will be created by the stimulus funds, but Kohnstamm guesses about a hundred jobs and ten different projects.",
"\"The building is old and it faces huge environmental pressures being at that elevation in that kind of weather,\" said Jeff Jaqua, Timberline's newly retired archeologist with the U.S. Forest Service.",
"\"Things like electrical wiring, plumbing, water lines, sewer lines -- unseen components of the lodge -- really need a lot of attention,' Jaqua said.",
"\"The Forest Service is trying to address that.\"",
"Jaqua, Larsen, Munro, Ingersoll and Kohnstamm have written about their love for the hotel in an upcoming book \"Timberline Lodge: A Love Story -- Diamond Jubilee Edition,\" due out this fall.",
"It wasn't until Jaqua began caring for Timberline's treasures 20 years ago that he really began to understand the bond that many guests form during their visits.",
"\"Everybody owns it,\" he said.",
"\"That was the big surprise to me.",
"I didn't expect the general public to be so in love with it.\""
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"Oregon's Timberline ski lodge, setting for \"The Shining,\" showcases Depression-era art .",
"Jeff Kohnstamm describes growing up among paintings, carvings, amazing architecture .",
"Mount Hood embraced snowboarding early; Shaun White, Hannah Teter train there .",
"U.S. built it for $1 million in 1930s; it's getting $4.25 million in '09 stimulus funds ."
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"(CNN) -- Three people died Thursday when a medical helicopter crashed in western Tennessee, the Federal Aviation Administration said.",
"The helicopter had dropped off a patient in Jackson, Tennessee, and was returning to Brownsville, Tennessee, about 30 miles west of Jackson, when the crash was reported, said FAA spokesman Lynn Lunsford.",
"Tennessee Emergency Management Agency spokesman Jeremy Heidt said the crash occurred shortly after 6 a.m. Three people were initially reported to be on board the helicopter, Lunsford said.",
"All three were believed to be fatalities, as the aircraft -- a Eurocopter AS350 -- was burned, he said.",
"Investigators were en route to the scene of the crash, a field near Brownsville, Lunsford said.",
"CNN affiliate WMC-TV said the helicopter was operated by Hospital Wing.",
"The organization identifies itself on its Web site as the Memphis Medical Center's air ambulance service.",
"Hospital Wing said in a statement, reported by WMC-TV, that the crash occurred just east of Brownsville, and that three crew members and no patients were on board.",
"The National Transportation Safety Board and the FAA are investigating, the statement said.",
"\"Nothing like this has ever happened in our history,\" Allen Burnette, Hospital Wing's director and chief operating officer, said in the statement.",
"\"A weather report said there were thunderstorms in the area, but that they had passed, Lunsford said.",
"\"The big weather system moving through had stopped a few moments before.\"",
"Officials believe the helicopter was operating under a visual flight rules plan and not communicating with air traffic controllers, he said.",
"Visual Flight Rules, or VFR, mean a flight is conducted under visual conditions.",
"\"There are operating guidelines in any aviation operation, but ultimately the pilot is responsible for (the) safety of (the) aircraft and deciding whether to go forward or not,\" Lunsford said.",
"Hospital Wing was founded in 1985, the group's statement said, and is a nonprofit air medical transport service with direct alliances with the Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, Baptist Memorial Hospital, The MED, St. Francis Hospital in Memphis and Crittenden Memorial Hospital in West Memphis, Arkansas.",
"CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report."
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"Helicopter dropped off a patient in Jackson, Tennessee, and was returning to Brownsville .",
"Three crew members, no patients were on board .",
"Officials think copter was using visual flight rules, not communicating controllers ."
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"(CNN) -- Schalke moved to within a point of German Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen after winning 2-0 away to fellow title hopefuls Werder Bremen on Saturday night.",
"Kevin Kuranyi and Jan Moravek scored in the second half to put Schalke a point above third-placed Bayern Munich, who earlier crushed lowly Bochum 5-1 to cap a memorable week.",
"Former Germany striker Kuranyi put Schalke ahead two minutes after halftime and midfielder Moravek ensured Bremen's first league defeat since the opening day of the season with his 72nd-minute goal.",
"Bremen could also have closed to within a point of Leverkusen, who were held 2-2 at bottom club Hertha Berlin on Friday night, but ended the night two points adrift of Bayern.",
"Louis Van Gaal's Bayern, runners-up to Wolfsburg last season, briefly reached their highest league position since he took over as coach in the summer as Mario Gomez continued his recent scoring run with the opening goal at Bochum and strike partner Ivica Olic netted twice.",
"Bayern, who crushed Italian giants Juventus 4-1 in midweek to qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League, moved to within two points of leaders Bayer Leverkusen, .",
"Olic set up Gomez's 23rd-minute header for the opening goal, and Mergim Mavraj put through his own net 10 minutes later as the Germany international tried to repay the favor to the Croatian.",
"Olic got on the scoresheet two minutes before halftime from Bastian Schweinsteiger's cross and made it 4-0 four minutes after the break with a header from Holger Badstuber's delivery.",
"Danijel Pranjic extended the lead five minutes later after fullback Phillip Lahm surged into the box and squared the ball to him, while Christian Fuchs scored a consolation free-kick for Bochum in the 76th minute.",
"Fifth-placed Hamburg joined Bremen on 28 points, winning 4-0 at Nuremberg to end a run of seven games without a win.",
"All the goals came in the second half as Eljero Elia's 47th-minute strike opened the floodgates, and he helped set up Marcell Jansen for the second on the hour mark.",
"Tunay Torun made it 3-0 six minutes later with a fierce rising effort after cutting in from the left, and Elia wrapped it up on 74 from Jansen's pass.",
"Sixth-placed Hoffenheim failed to keep pace with the teams above them, drawing 1-1 at home to Eintracht Frankfurt, and have now won just once in five league outings.",
"Sejad Salihovic opened the scoring for the hosts in the ninth minute with a penalty after Selim Teber fouled Vedad Ibisevic, but Pirmin Schwegler equalized for Frankfurt on 61 when his long-range effort hit Luis Gustavo and ballooned over goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand and into the net.",
"Borussia Moenchengladbach triumphed 5-3 at home to Hannover, who conceded three own-goals and had a player sent off in an incredible mid-table clash.",
"Defender Karim Haggui twice put into his own net -- the first an lucky rebound from goalkeeper Florian Fromlowitz's attempted clearance in the 15th minute to open the scoring, and he also contributed the game's eighth goal with his second faux-pas.",
"Constant Djakpa also conceded at the wrong end to give the hosts a 3-1 lead in the 59th minute, while Hannover's Didier Ya Konen scored in each half before being dismissed for his second yellow card on 84.",
"Cologne edged away from the relegation zone with a 0-0 draw at Freiburg as Germany international striker Lukas Podolski -- who has not scored in the Bundesliga since September 13 -- hit the woodwork twice for the visitors."
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"Schalke move to within a point of German Bundesliga leaders Bayer Leverkusen .",
"Kevin Kuranyi and Jan Moravek score in second half of 2-0 win at Werder Bremen .",
"Fourth-placed Bremen suffer first league defeat since the opening day of the season .",
"Bayern Munich claim third place, two points behind Leverkusen, after crushing Bochum 5-1 ."
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"(CNN) -- Police are seeking a pair of suspects in a Sunday church service shooting in Richmond, California, that left two teenagers injured, though authorities are still looking for a motive in what they say was a targeted operation.",
"Police believe they have identified at least two of the three hooded men who entered New Gethsemane Church of God in Christ about 12:30 p.m. Sunday.",
"Amid a congregation of about 100, one of them opened fire.",
"\"We're hoping we can make an arrest sometime in the near future,\" Richmond police spokeswoman Sgt.",
"Bisa French told CNN.",
"Police are withholding the suspects' names.",
"French said they're in their late teens or early 20s and live in Richmond, about 12 miles north of Oakland.",
"Church officials say the two congregants injured on Sunday, age 14 and 19, are brothers.",
"\"We're not sure if those two victims were targeted, but someone definitely in that general area where the victims were was targeted,\" French said.",
"The victims are expected to make full recoveries, police said.",
"Officials at the church said they are determined to continue operating as normal.",
"Hours after the shooting, a Sunday Bible study was held as planned, with about 15 people attending.",
"\"I'm sure there's some fear and shock, but we're not running,\" said Ezekiel Wallace, the church deacon.",
"\"We are going to be doing what we always do: Pray and have church.\"",
"\"We're not scared, but we're sort of mystified because this is God's church,\" said Earl Young, a church member since 1967.",
"\"We refuse to let the devil make us run and hide because that's probably what they want us to do.\"",
"CNN's Dan Gilgoff and Nick Valencia contributed to this report."
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"Police think they identified two of three gunmen who opened fire at Richmond, California church .",
"Two teens shot at New Gethsemane Church of God in Christ .",
"They are expected to make full recoveries .",
"Police have no motive for the church attack ."
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"(CNN) -- Higher temperatures are bringing some relief to the Southeast and should remain in place despite stormy weather expected for the coming weekend, weather forecasters said Tuesday.",
"After the stretch of unusually cold weather that gripped the region, severe storms will affect the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and most of Florida on Friday evening and Saturday, the National Weather Service said.",
"Cold Arctic air will remain to the north.",
"In Atlanta, Georgia -- where ice from a snowfall last week remains on the ground in some places and weekend temperatures didn't climb out of the 20s -- forecasters predicted a daytime high of 37 degrees Tuesday after a high of 44 on Monday.",
"A gradual warming is predicted through Friday, when the high could reach 58.",
"But overnight lows aren't expected to edge above freezing until Friday night.",
"Several Florida cities have had early morning record lows in the past two days, the weather service said.",
"\"Temperatures over the weekend and early Monday morning plunged to levels not seen in 20 years over south Florida in the wake of the arctic cold front which blasted through the region early Saturday,\" it said.",
"\"Temperatures remained at or below 50 degrees for more than 48 consecutive hours, finally rising above 50 during the late morning to midday hours Monday.",
"Although no records are kept of consecutive number of hours at or below 50 degrees, it is likely that this streak is among the longest on record.\"",
"Key West, which has weather records dating to 1873, recorded its second-lowest temperature of 42 degrees Monday at 4:55 a.m. Its record low was 41 degrees, set January 13, 1981, and January 12, 1886.",
"In northern Florida, Tuesday's high was expected to reach 54 degrees in the state capital, Tallahassee, and temperatures were forecast to increase during the week.",
"Early morning readings Wednesday will be in the high 20s, the weather service said.",
"That is far better than the low of 16 degrees in the city early Monday.",
"The cold weather has damaged Florida's citrus crops, which can't tolerate prolonged temperatures of 28 degrees or below.",
"Florida produces three-quarters of the United States' orange crop.",
"Some groves in the northern part of the growing area suffered substantial frost damage Saturday night and Sunday morning, Andrew Meadows, spokesman for Florida Citrus Mutual, said Monday.",
"It will take about five weeks to quantify the losses, he said.",
"But the frigid air was welcome to peach growers in central Texas.",
"According to Jamey Vogel, who owns Vogel Orchard in Stonewall, Texas, just east of Fredericksburg, \"Peach trees need chilling hours, which are hours below 45 degrees, and we have been getting a lot of those this year.\"",
"\"We absolutely welcome it,\" he told CNN affiliate KXAN in Austin.",
"He said he has 9,500 peach trees in his 90-acre family orchard.",
"The trees, which are dormant this time of year, need cold, wet weather to produce a crop.",
"Share your cold weather stories, photos .",
"On the West Coast, a storm was rolling into the area between Seattle and San Francisco, with the brunt heading into Northern California, according to CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano.",
"Two to 3 inches of snow was possible in the Sierras, forecasters said."
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"Southeast should see higher temperatures this week, storms this weekend, forecasters say .",
"In Atlanta, Georgia, warming is predicted through Friday, when high could reach 58 .",
"In Florida, Tuesday's high was expected to reach 54 in Tallahassee, the state capital .",
"On West Coast, a storm was rolling into the area between Seattle and San Francisco ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- The fashion brand created by Alexander McQueen is to survive despite the designer's suicide last week, the label's majority stakeholder Gucci Group has confirmed.",
"\"I believe strongly in the Alexander McQueen brand and its future,\" Gucci Group CEO Robert Polet said in a statement carried on the Web site of Gucci parent PPR.",
"The future of McQueen's 11-store, 180 employee fashion house had been uncertain following the 40-year-old's death, with industry experts speculating it was not successful enough to endure without its figurehead.",
"PPR on Thursday revealed a company-wide net profit rise of 6.9 percent to €984.6 million ($1,328 million) but a 4 percent revenue fall to €16.52 billion.",
"It did not break down figures to reveal McQueen's turnover, but reports speculate the brand is running at a loss despite heavy celebrity endorsements.",
"The Times of London reported on Thursday that the label had struggled to make a profit and analysis of recent accounts showed it had liabilities of more than £32 million ($49 million).",
"PPR boss Francois-Henri Pinault said in a statement: \"Lee Alexander [McQueen] was a pure genius and a poet who was imaginative and original.",
"His art went beyond the fashion world.",
"The Alexander McQueen trademark will live on.",
"This is the best tribute that we could offer to Lee.\"",
"McQueen's death last week shocked the world of fashion, with many in the industry paying tribute to a man they described as a unique talent capable of becoming a major name.",
"A coroner on Wednesday said McQueen hanged himself in his wardrobe and left a suicide note .",
"McQueen, who had dressed stars from Sarah Jessica Parker and Nicole Kidman to Rihanna and Sandra Bullock, killed himself nine days after the death of his mother.",
"He expressed his devastation at her death on his Twitter account days before he died.",
"McQueen was born in 1970 in London's East End, the son of a taxi driver and trained in London's Savile Row, going on to study fashion at college before making his name with his own extravagant designs.",
"French luxury brand Gucci Group acquired a 51 percent stake in McQueen in 2001."
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"Alexander McQueen, 40, found dead at London home last week .",
"Reports say McQueen's label has struggled to make profits ."
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"(CNN) -- South Africa looks back, 20 years after Nelson Mandela's historic release.",
"Plus, Desmond Tutu reflects on the day his dream became a reality, and picturing Mandela - a South African cartoonist and his drawing tribute.",
"Remembering the Release .",
"South Africa celebrates the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release from apartheid prison.",
"Our Nkepile Mabuse has more on the defining moment and how it changed the course of a nation.",
"Prison Home .",
"On multiple occasions, Nelson Mandela turned down early release, unwilling to renounce the cause he held so dear.",
"It was an incredible sacrifice, but what was it like?",
"Nkepile Mabuse toured the prison house where Mandela spent the end of his sentence.",
"Desmond Tutu Interview .",
"It was the walk to freedom that ushered in democracy.",
"Nelson Mandela's release from prison made the fight worthwhile for many anti-apartheid activists.",
"Nkepile Mabuse sat down with one of the movement's leaders-- Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu.",
"He shared his thoughts on Mandela's release, including his own initial reaction to the news.",
"Mandela Cartoons .",
"A different look on Nelson Mandela.",
"This time, caricatures, as we go inside the commemorative art exhibit from South African cartoonist Zapiro."
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"In South Africa as the country looks back, 20 years after Nelson Mandela's historic release .",
"Nkepile Mabuse tours the prison house where Mandela spent the end of his sentence .",
"Desmond Tutu shares thoughts on Mandela's release, recalls own initial reaction to the news ."
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"(CNN) -- The annals of late-night television talk shows are full of failure.",
"George Lopez says he believes late-night talk is ready for more diversity.",
"Joey Bishop, Dick Cavett and Pat Sajak all tried to challenge the legendary Johnny Carson's supremacy; all fell short.",
"Joan Rivers lasted less than eight months as host of a Fox show; Chevy Chase lasted less than eight weeks on his Fox entry.",
"Even in recent years, when late-night shows are all over cable, few make a dent in the ratings or in the public consciousness.",
"So does comedian and former sitcom star George Lopez believe he can overcome those challenges and put on a talk show people will talk about?",
"To paraphrase a slogan Lopez heard plenty last year, when he traveled the campaign trail as one of Barack Obama's supporters: yes ... he ... does.",
"\"I believe that that audience is more diverse, less represented than it's ever been,\" he said in a phone interview, noting that -- though it's been 20 years since the African-American performer Arsenio Hall launched his late-night show -- late night remains the preserve of generally white male comedians.",
"\"It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together.\"",
"Lopez, whose show will air on TBS beginning in November, is no stranger to talk shows.",
"He was on Johnny Carson's \"Tonight\" show, and he admires David Letterman and Bill Maher, among others.",
"But he thinks a Lopez show will bring some fresh energy to late night.",
"(TBS, like CNN, is a unit of Time Warner.)",
"The comedian says he already has big plans to make his show distinctive, from its more open setting to Lopez's determination to make the audience a key part of the show.",
"He talked about some of his hopes with CNN last week.",
"The following is an edited version of that interview: .",
"CNN: So I see you're doing a late-night talk show.",
"George Lopez: Yes, brother.",
"Change has come to the White House, change has come to late night!",
"CNN: How did this come about? Lopez: Well ... when I was doing \"The George Lopez Show\" -- probably into like the 30th episode, [and] we ended up doing 120 shows, [a production company executive] said, \"Hey, would you consider a talk show?\"",
"And I'm like, \"Dude, I got a gig.\"",
"He said, \"It's not going to last forever.",
"When it's over ... [So] let me put this bug in your ear, five years early.\"",
"I kinda never considered it, although ...",
"I've been on every show.",
"And what's appealing to me now ... is that I believe that that audience is more diverse, less represented than it's ever been. ...",
"I can take a little more liberties than if this show were on network TV, where everybody's afraid to say something wrong because you might piss off an advertiser.",
"[And] I believe the fact that a Mexican-American guy hosting his own late-night talk show is appealing to advertisers.",
"I look at that as a positive.",
"Look, Anderson Cooper is at the Mexican border -- I wish my show were on tonight so I could talk about it.",
"CNN: Does it intimidate you getting a late-night talk show?",
"Lord knows there have been a zillion late-night talk shows, and many of them end up in TV graveyards.",
"Lopez: I think it goes case by case, Todd.",
"I mean, Chevy Chase probably wasn't the right person for that format ...",
"I think the visibility of my [sitcom] and the success and popularity of my standup, and being a little edgier and a little different and not milquetoast by any means and not Anglo white male, and being unafraid and seeing the change [will help]. ...",
"I think it helped me to campaign with Barack Obama for a year. ...",
"I know what's out there, and I know that that audience is not served, and cable TV is a great place to attract those people.",
"CNN: The press release mentions a \"street-party atmosphere.\"",
"Have you had a chance to work through that a little bit and decide what that means?",
"Lopez: Absolutely.",
"We shot a production pilot ... [and] what we did was we created an amphitheater outside at Warner Bros., right where they shoot \"ER\" where the ambulance entrance is.",
"We built a set there, and I used Shakira's band led by [her musical director] Tim Mitchell.",
"... We didn't use seats, we used kind of an amphitheater feel, and since we shot it out on the street, it did have a different feel.",
"... With a younger audience and the music, [it] made it more exciting and a little different with me as host than I think than what's on late night now.",
"CNN: You mentioned having Shakira's band.",
"Is that going to be a regular feature?",
"Is there going to be a sidekick?",
"Lopez: I'm not going to do a sidekick, but I'll use audience members, so I'll have potentially 360 sidekicks if I see somebody who's really interesting.",
"One of the aspects we used in the pilot was having audience members actually ask questions from their seat -- not from a preset microphone, but from their seat.",
"... That's a part of it that I think is different and fun, and I don't want there to feel like you're at a movie, where you're just watching a show.",
"I want you to feel like you can potentially be part of it.",
"Like I told somebody before, if you go to a flea market or a swap meet, you'll find anything you want, but if you go to a store that's a high-end department store, you're only going to find what they have.",
"So being a poor guy growing up, and getting stuff from thrift shops growing up, I'd like to think that this will be the flea market of late-night talk shows, that you can probably find anything there."
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"Comedian believes it's time for more diversity in late-night concept .",
"Lopez was star of \"George Lopez Show,\" active in Barack Obama's campaign .",
"He says he's not using a sidekick, but will look more toward audience interaction ."
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"OAKLAND, California (CNN) -- Fifth-grader Christopher Rodriguez sat down Thursday at his piano for his weekly lesson, arched his fingers over the keys and began to play.",
"10-year-old Christopher Rodriguez was hit by a stray bullet, paralyzing him for life, doctors say.",
"Across the street from Harmony Road Music School in north Oakland, California, Jared Adams, 24, allegedly raised his gun at a Chevron gas station attendant during a holdup and fired.",
"A bullet ripped through the walls of Christopher's classroom striking him in his side, piercing his kidney and spleen and lodging in his spine.",
"The bullet barely missed the 10-year-old's heart.",
"He will likely be paralyzed for life from the waist down, doctors say.",
"\"This is probably the worst thing that's ever happened to me in my life.",
"I love my son greatly,\" the boy's father, Richard Rodriguez, said Friday at a news conference.",
"Watch Christopher's dad describe the ordeal » .",
"Christopher loved music.",
"He had recently taken up African drumming, spent hours listening to classical music and played basketball.",
"\"I feel like half his life was taken from him; his inability, probably, to walk -- ever,\" Rodriguez said, his voice breaking.",
"Christopher's mother, Jennifer Rodriguez, had been waiting outside in her SUV for her son's lesson to end.",
"She not only heard the shots but came close to being hit herself.",
"At least two bullets from Adams' gun struck her vehicle, police said.",
"On the phone and distracted, she at first dismissed the noises as someone throwing rocks at her SUV.",
"But when she realized it was gunfire, she dashed into her son's class.",
"Christopher was on the floor, his classmates and instructor hovering over him.",
"\"I can't feel my legs! I can't feel my legs!\" Christopher cried.",
"As emergency workers rushed the boy to the hospital, police were chasing Adams, who was speeding away.",
"Adams rammed his vehicle into a car carrying a woman and her two children and then slammed into a parked car, police said.",
"The woman and children escaped without injury, according to authorities.",
"Adams was charged Monday with attempted murder, robbery, evading a police officer, driving recklessly and being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm, Oakland Police Department spokesman Roland Holmgren told CNN.",
"He's being held without bail, according to Holmgren.",
"CNN was not immediately able to determine whether he had a lawyer.",
"Authorities found a ski mask, loaded gun and cash at the scene.",
"Adams has prior convictions for driving under the influence and gun possession, records show.",
"He pleaded no contest to felony evading arrest in 2006 for fleeing an Emeryville police officer and had run from or physically resisted a California Highway Patrol officer and police in Albany and Berkeley, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.",
"Adams once complained in court that young people raised in the city like himself never got opportunities, the paper also reported.",
"Adams has been told about Christopher, said Holmgren.",
"\"It doesn't matter whether it's your first day on the street as an officer or a veteran, to see a child doing something as innocent as taking a piano lesson and have this happen to him, it affects your soul,\" said Holmgren.",
"Meanwhile, doctors delivered tragic news about Christopher's future.",
"\"He's going to face years of rehabilitation,\" said Dr. James Betts, chief of surgery at Children's Hospital Oakland.",
"\"We are all hoping there will be some degree of recovery.",
"We feel like the injury is permanent, and the paralysis is permanent.",
"\"[It will be] a challenging life for this young boy.\"",
"Christopher's friends and fellow music lovers plan to help him.",
"Harmony Road Music School will hold a benefit concert for the Rodriguez family February 10 at 2 p.m. at Chapel of the Chimes, a place of worship near the school.",
"\"The family is going to have to, essentially, make a home for a disabled child now,\" said school owner Jim Callahan.",
"\"They'll have to change the stairs in their home, make all sorts of expensive adjustments.\"",
"Callahan met with instructors at Harmony Road Monday.",
"They are talking about the incident with the students old enough to understand what happened.",
"Classes have not stopped.",
"\"Music has a healing quality all its own,\" said Callahan.",
"\"We will not be terrorized by this.\" E-mail to a friend .",
"CNN's Dan Simon and Ashley Fantz contributed to this report."
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"Christopher Rodriguez, 10, was hit by a bullet during his piano lesson last week .",
"Police: Suspect allegedly robbing a gas station near music school .",
"The boy, who loves classical music, will likely be paralyzed for life, his doctors say .",
"Rodriguez's father: \"I feel like half his life was taken from him\""
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"Washington (CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration is upgrading security clearances for 10,000 of its airport personnel, giving them access to \"secret\" intelligence to help them better detect threats and stop terrorists, the agency said Friday.",
"To date, the agency has granted access to secret-level classified information to 744 front-line supervisors, managers and behavior-detection officers.",
"It now hopes to be able to give that clearance to all 10,000 supervisory personnel in the next two years, it said.",
"The change does not involve airport screeners, the people responsible for inspecting people and luggage at airport checkpoints.",
"\"It's a natural progression,\" TSA spokeswoman Sterling Payne said.",
"\"It's the next step in professionalizing our work force.",
"What this will do is give them a leg up and a little more detail than what they're getting in the [current] briefing.\"",
"The change will empower the employees and make sure they have up-to-date and accurate information about intelligence threats, she said.",
"The majority of the agency's headquarters managers already have secret- or higher-level clearances for classified information.",
"James Carafano, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said it is a good idea to increase the number of aviation security officials with access to intelligence.",
"The move could decrease the chance that information will be leaked because employees who are given clearance are trained to treat the information appropriately, he said.",
"Officers also must undergo additional background checks before receiving the upgraded status, the agency said.",
"The Transportation Security Administration said personnel granted security clearances are educated about their responsibility to protect classified information, sign a non-disclosure agreement and take annual refresher training.",
"Under the federal government's system of classifying information, \"secret\" clearance is above \"restricted\" and \"confidential\" but below \"top secret.\"",
"Randall Larsen, director of the Institute for Homeland Security, was enthusiastic about the expanded base of people with access to \"secret\" intelligence, saying it is particularly needed by behavior detection officers, who look for travelers exhibiting unusual behavior.",
"\"Just think, if we had pulled that Christmas bomber aside and spoken to him for just a few minutes, he would have never gotten on that plane,\" Larsen said.",
"But support for the move isn't universal.",
"\"Our members are screaming because the problem is, as it always has been, that [airline pilots] are being left behind,\" said David Mackett, president of the Airline Pilots Security Alliance.",
"\"I'd much rather have the critical information get to the flight crews\" and flight attendants, he said.",
"Mackett said airport security personnel \"see passengers for several seconds, and yet they're not sharing [information] with air crews who see them for several hours.\"",
"He also said the TSA has \"a very high turnover rate\" compared with that of flight crews, so sensitive information will migrate away from the government.",
"Mike Karn, security chairman for the Coalition of Airline Pilots Association, agreed that flight crews should receive \"secret\" information, saying terrorists have proved that they can still get on aircraft.",
"\"You have to strengthen them all the way up to that last line of defense,\" Karn said."
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"Change does not apply to airport security screeners .",
"New clearances will be above \"confidential\" but below \"top secret\""
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"(CNN) -- Pakistan cricket legend Imran Khan has described how the unfolding crisis in Haiti revived harrowing memories of a similar earthquake in his own region.",
"The devastating 7.6 magnitude quake struck northern Pakistan and the divided Kashmir region in October 2005, claiming the lives of almost 80,000 people, according to official estimates, and leaving millions homeless.",
"Khan, who is now a prominent politician and campaigner for social issues in Pakistan, told CNN Thursday that he was left numbed by the scenes which greeted him as he traveled to some of the worst-affected areas in the aftermath.",
"\"It was one of the most traumatic experiences I've ever had.",
"Just watching human suffering, he said.",
"\"It was the children that really disturbed me ... their crushed limbs.",
"\"There were so many people needing attention.",
"I remember seeing makeshift hospitals where they were amputating.",
"That was difficult to take.",
"\"Families were torn apart as parents lost their children and children were orphaned.",
"Whole families were caught inside buildings, while few escaped.\"",
"Khan recalled being overwhelmed by the sight of an entire town being reduced to rubble.",
"\"We arrived in the town of Balakot and it was totally flattened.",
"You don't know what to do or say. So many people needing help at one time and you don't have the infrastructure, you don't have the hospitals to help.\"",
"Desperation grips Haitian capital .",
"Balakot was one of the worst-hit places, with one in 10 of about 20,000 residents killed, according to the local government of the Mansehra district, where the town of is located.",
"Thousands more were injured.",
"Pakistani authorities later planned to move the town in the country's North West Frontier Province to a completely new location, owing to its current position on a volatile fault line.",
"The destruction of Balakot brought home to Khan how much people had lost.",
"\"Their livelihoods disappeared overnight,\" he said.",
"\"They had nothing, no business, money, food.",
"\"From what I've seen on television it's similar to what is happening now in Haiti.",
"Clearly they (Haiti) won't have the resources to cope with it, so it will require a real outside effort.\"",
"While acknowledging the importance of the international aid effort, Khan pointed to role ordinary Pakistanis played in 2005.",
"\"It was incredible. The government was incapacitated but there were little charities and groups forming all over the area trying to help.",
"\"I was in an earthquake-hit area on the second day and I'll never forget seeing a three-mile queue of people trying to get to what was a largely remote area to help with whatever they could put in their cars.",
"\"The government was paralyzed but people came forward, from rich to poor, young to old.\"",
"He also pointed to the success volunteer networks had in adopting villages and towns, taking responsibility for providing basic shelter, food and medicine.",
"\"Everyone took responsibility,\" recalled Khan.",
"\"Each group would look after a specific issue until the local population was able to get back on its feet.",
"\"It's so important that the aid effort continues months after the disaster.\""
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"Imran Khan recalled being overwhelmed by the sight of an entire town being reduced to rubble .",
"Khan: \"Their livelihoods disappeared overnight.",
"They had nothing, no business, money, food\"\nThe politician and former cricketer said Haitians must be supported in the longer term ."
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"(CNN) -- The body of Luis Francisco Cuellar Carvajal, governor of the department of Caqueta, Colombia, was discovered Tuesday not far from where he was kidnapped the night before, government spokesperson Wilmer Rua said.",
"Cuellar Carvajal's throat was slit, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said in an address to the nation Tuesday night.",
"The governor's body was found by Colombian troops in an area close to his home, where he was kidnapped Monday night, he said.",
"One of his bodyguards was killed in the high-profile abduction, and two other officers were injured .",
"The kidnapping was carried out by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC by its Spanish initials, Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva said earlier Tuesday.",
"Uribe had ordered the military to find and rescue Cuellar Carvajal from the rebel group.",
"The Marxist insurgent group has been fighting the Colombian government for more than 45 years.",
"This is the fifth time the governor has been kidnapped, Rua said.",
"This time, he was taken late at night, about two hours before his 69th birthday.",
"Uribe said that members of the FARC kidnapped Cuellar Carvajal at about 10 p.m. Monday.",
"Authorities ordered the city on lockdown in an attempt to keep the kidnappers from carrying out their plan, Uribe said.",
"Instead, the the guerrillas burned the vehicle that authorities believe was used in the kidnapping, and then slit the governor's throat to avoid leaving evidence that may have been traced from a firearm to the killers, Uribe said.",
"The president offered a $1 billion peso reward (U.S. $485,000) for information leading to the arrests of those responsible."
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"Luis Francisco Cuellar Carvajal was governor of the department or state of Caqueta .",
"Authorities suspect FARC leftist Colombian rebels responsible for the kidnapping .",
"It was fifth time governor had been kidnapped; one of his bodyguards was killed ."
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"(CNN) -- Five-time gold medal speed skater Eric Heiden was hanging out in a Team USA locker room Saturday, watching TV as a much younger phenom named Apolo Ohno broke his 30-year Olympic record.",
"That record, for the most decorated American man in Winter Olympics history, stood since 1980, when Heiden shot to fame at the Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York.",
"To hear Heiden tell it, watching the 27-year-old Ohno eclipse his record didn't matter much.",
"\"Apolo and I couldn't have cared less,\" said Heiden, now 51.",
"\"All of us at this level don't really look at medal records as very important.",
"We're very proud of what we are doing and what we've done as athletes -- and if you happen to win a medal all of us consider that to be a great thing.\"",
"The difference between Ohno's medals and Heiden's is that Heiden won his all during the same Winter Olympics, an unprecedented feat that astonished Olympic fans around the world.",
"Fast forward 30 years and Heiden's passion for athletic competition and camaraderie hasn't faded.",
"Now an orthopedic surgeon, he treats and helps train the 2010 men's speed skating team, including Ohno.",
"\"Apolo is very dedicated and focused in his pursuit of the sport,\" said Heiden.",
"\"But he needs to understand that when an event is coming up he needs to really start backing off some of those outside interests so he can put in the time and effort to be a world-class skater.\"",
"With a smile in his voice, Heiden offers an example of Ohno's recent appearance on ABC's \"Dancing with the Stars.\"",
"\"He's more of a celebrity personality than most of the skaters,\" said Heiden.",
"Heiden's fairly familiar with celebrity.",
"Those five medals in Lake Placid got his boyish Wisconsin face plastered on newspapers and TVs worldwide.",
"Although Heiden said he isn't recognized much anymore, once in a while his name \"will fire a synapse in many people's minds.\"",
"Living a quiet life in Park City, Utah, with his wife, who is also an orthopedic surgeon, and two children, Heiden advises some of the world's fastest men on skates, including Ohno's friend and fellow Olympian Shani Davis.",
"Helping Davis, who won speed skating gold Wednesday night in the 1000m long track, requires \"making sure that all his needs are taken care of,\" said Heiden.",
"\"Sometimes that can be very demanding and very hard.\"",
"Davis accepts little training guidance from others.",
"One of the younger skaters on the U.S. team, 19-year-old J.R. Celski won his first Olympic medal Saturday with a bronze in the men's 1500m short track.",
"What's remarkable, according to Heiden, was that Celski had been badly injured in competition just five months earlier.",
"Celski, who crashed into the boards during trials in September slicing a deep gash into his left thigh, has made a near complete recovery, said Heiden.",
"He said Celski's race on Saturday answered important questions about his mental recovery.",
"\"Physically, we were sure he was good, but we weren't sure about his confidence level before the race.\"",
"Celski said he'd met Heiden before his injury, but it was while the doctor was treating Celski that they got to know each other well.",
"\"He's very humble and very down to earth, and I strive to be like that as well.",
"It was great to get to know him and talk to him for who he was -- and not for what he did,\" said Celski.",
"\"He was one of the hardest working guys in the sport, and that's why he did so well.\"",
"The cheese remedy: A second opinion .",
"Would Dr. Heiden offer a second opinion about U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn's much talked-about home remedy for a bruised shin?",
"She injured herself during practice just days before winning gold Wednesday in the alpine downhill.",
"Vonn's remedy: wrapping her shin with a soft Austrian cheese.",
"\"We like to practice evidence-based medicine,\" he said jokingly.",
"\"I don't think anybody is going to take that remedy home and practice it on their patients.\"",
"The closest thing to a home remedy for Heiden was the random newspaper, moleskin or felt he and fellow skaters would use to pad their skate boots to make them fit better.",
"\"You're always trying to work with what you've got,\" he said.",
"\"But I've never gone as crazy as telling somebody to do a cheese wrap.\"",
"Let's remember that before he became a doctor Heiden set four Olympic records and a world record at Lake Placid.",
"Shortly after his history-making feat, Heiden launched a second career racing bicycles, eventually competing in the Tour de France.",
"This year, Heiden enjoyed Vancouver's opening ceremonies with other Olympic veterans, some of whom also gained fame on ice: figure skaters Kristi Yamaguchi and Scott Hamilton.",
"Each Olympian, he said, knows what the other has gone through to reach their athletic dreams.",
"\"We enjoy the limelight,\" said Heiden.",
"\"We were recognized for what we did. And when you go back for each Olympics you sort of get your ego stroked again.\"",
"Much has changed about long track speed skating in the past 30 years, but Heiden said no single development has done more to push athletes faster around the icy oval than the clap skate.",
"Unlike traditional skates with blades well-fixed at the bottom of the boots, the blades on clap skates are hinged at the balls of the feet, shaving a precious 2 seconds off a skater's time with each lap.",
"\"I'm jealous, I wish I'd had a chance to try those things.\"",
"Has anything else changed in the sport over the years?",
"Yes, he said, most speed skaters now perform in warmer indoor venues.",
"Laughing he describes the effects of brutally cold temperatures on the male anatomy.",
"\"Oh boy, these guys have no clue how cold it can be out on an open rink.\""
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"Heiden: Apolo Ohno needs to focus more on skating when events near .",
"The way Shani Davis trains can be \"very demanding and very hard\"\n\"When you go back for each Olympics you sort of get your ego stroked again,\" said the skating icon ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities hunting the killer of a police officer in Northern Ireland last week say they have seized a gun and ammunition.",
"Two people in masks prepare to throw petrol bombs in Lurgan, Northern Ireland.",
"They were found Saturday in Craigavon, the town where Stephen Carroll, 48, was shot dead on Monday, a police statement said Sunday.",
"Authorities also arrested two more people in connection with the killing of Carroll -- a 37-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman.",
"That brings the total in custody to five, police told CNN.",
"And they arrested another person over the killing of two soldiers just days before Carroll was killed.",
"A total of four people are now in custody in the killing of soldiers Cengiz \"Pat\" Azimkar, 21, and Mark Quinsey, 23, at the Massereene barracks March 7.",
"The Massereene barracks killings were the first fatal attack on British troops in the province for more than 12 years.",
"Carroll was the first police officer killed in political violence since 1998.",
"The shootings have raised fears that the province could plunge back to the sectarian violence that claimed the lives of 3,600 people over three decades before the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.",
"The Continuity IRA, a republican splinter group that does not accept the Good Friday Agreement, said it had killed Carroll, while the Real IRA, another splinter group, said it had killed the soldiers, Britain's Press Association reported.",
"Northern Ireland's top police officer, Hugh Orde, insisted Sunday that the militant groups that want the province to leave the United Kingdom and become part of Ireland are \"small ... disrupted, infiltrated and disorganized.\"",
"\"The current wisdom is that they number around 300 in a population of 1.75 million,\" he wrote in Britain's News of the World newspaper.",
"But, he said: \"In the past 18 months or so there have been at least 25 attempts by dissident terrorists to kill officers on and off duty.\"",
"Rioting flared near Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, after an earlier round of arrests Saturday.",
"Police said petrol bombs were hurled at police in Lurgan, west of Belfast.",
"There were no arrests or injuries reported, despite gangs of youths on the streets, authorities said.",
"One of the men arrested in connection with the killing of the soldiers, Colin Duffy, 41, is from Lurgan.",
"He was among three whose arrests were announced Saturday.",
"A fourth man was arrested Saturday night, said the police spokeswoman, who declined to be named in line with policy.",
"She released no details about the man or the location of the arrest.",
"The two British soldiers were shot dead a week ago at a base in Massereene, in Antrim, as they were preparing to ship out for duty in Afghanistan.",
"The soldiers had packed their bags and changed into their uniforms, authorities said.",
"Two masked gunmen with automatic rifles shot them as the soldiers picked up a pizza delivery at the barracks, authorities said.",
"Two other soldiers and the two pizza delivery men were seriously wounded.",
"Politicians from across the political spectrum have condemned the killings, with Sinn Fein deputy leader Martin McGuinness calling the killers \"traitors to the island of Ireland.\"",
"Sinn Fein is a predominantly Catholic party that wants Northern Ireland to leave the United Kingdom and become part of the Republic of Ireland.",
"The party is widely thought to be linked to the Irish Republican Army.",
"Danny Kennedy, deputy leader of the loyalist Ulster Unionist Party, which wants Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom, also condemned the attack as \"wicked and murderous.\""
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"(CNN) -- A possible merger between the two of the largest companies in the concert business has raised protests from singer Bruce Springsteen and prompted a congressman to call for a federal anti-trust investigation.",
"A possible merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation has drawn interest.",
"Ticketmaster, which has long dominated ticket sales, is reportedly in merger talks with Live Nation, the world's largest concert promoter, which just recently began selling its own tickets.",
"Live Nation did not respond to a CNN inquiry, while Ticketmaster's spokesman said \"we cannot comment on rumor or speculation.\"",
"\"Being two public companies, they can't really comment on it right now, but it seems very real to me,\" said Ray Waddell, Billboard magazine's concert tour reporter.",
"iReport: What do you think of the possible merger?",
"\"You're talking about a hugely powerful entity if these two combine forces,\" Waddell said.",
"\"They're locking up a whole lot of the revenue streams for live music, and that is really the most consistent and profitable part of the music business right now.\"",
"Ticketmaster, long a target of fan and artist criticism, drew Springsteen's ire this week when it routed some of his fans trying to buy tickets to his show in New Jersey to a \"secondary site\" where they were charged far more than face value.",
"Tickets on that site -- which Ticketmaster owns -- cost between $200 and $5,000, while face value starts at $54.",
"Springsteen, in a message posted on his Web site, accused Ticketmaster of \"in effect 'scalping' \" the tickets.",
"Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff apologized to Springsteen in a letter Wednesday, saying it wouldn't happen again.",
"New Jersey Congressman Bill Pascrell, who said he was \"deluged this week by calls from angry music fans,\" sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission chairman asking that the FTC look into Ticketmaster's practices.",
"After reports that Ticketmaster and Live Nation might merge, Pascrell sent another letter to the House Judiciary Committee calling for a probe.",
"\"There is an incredible potential for abuse when one company controls the primary and secondary market for concert tickets,\" Pascrell wrote.",
"\"That potential will surely be magnified exponentially should one company be able to control every aspect of recording, record sales, licensing, venue ownership and ticket sales.\"",
"Springsteen's Web message asked his fans to \"make it known to your representatives\" if they opposed a merger.",
"\"The one thing that would make the current ticket situation even worse for the fan than it is now would be Ticketmaster and Live Nation coming up with a single system, thereby returning us to a near monopoly situation in music ticketing,\" said the message, signed by Springsteen and his agent.",
"Waddell, who has covered the friction between Ticketmaster, artists and fans, said combining the two companies could mean some fan-friendly changes, including rolling all fees into one ticket price to eliminate \"sticker shock\" when fans look at their credit card bill.",
"Ticketmaster's practice of stacking \"convenience fees\" onto purchases inflated ticket prices and drew fan resentment.",
"Ticketmaster pioneered online ticket sales, a modern convenience that did away with long lines at the box office.",
"\"What Ticketmaster has done to ticketing, they've really revolutionized it as far as the old days, when you had to camp out for a high-demand show,\" Waddell said.",
"Waddell said he doesn't expect ticket prices would \"just blow up\" after a merger.",
"\"Traditionally, when there's competition taken out of the marketplace it really doesn't do a lot for lowering prices, but both these companies are very sensitive to the market and what the fans can pay,\" he said.",
"A combined company, though, would control \"everything before, during and after a concert takes place over the course of an entire tour, and that's pretty sizable,\" he said."
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"(CNN) -- Peggy Bourland can't eat.",
"When she lies down to sleep, she fights the urge to go outside and curl up on the cold, hard ground.",
"\"Ken can't eat right now.",
"He can't sleep in our bed,\" she said, her husband's military dog tags around her neck.",
"\"I won't have what he cannot have.\" Last Tuesday, from his room at the Hotel Montana near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, U.S. Air Force Maj. Ken Bourland sent an e-mail to his wife telling her that he was fine and had just settled in for what was going to be an exciting time taking a disaster preparedness course.",
"It was 4:51 p.m. ET. Less than 10 minutes later, an earthquake leveled much of the Haitian capital, including the Hotel Montana.",
"\"I had just clicked off the e-mail and was trying to find some cartoons for the kids to watch,\" she said.",
"\"And then I saw this breaking news.",
"An earthquake. I thought, 'Did California get hit again?'",
"Then I saw Haiti.\" Bourland popped her laptop open and fired off an e-mail: \"Please tell me you're OK.\" No response.",
"View or add to CNN's database of missing persons in Haiti .",
"Crews have spent the past six days searching mounds of rubble, 30 feet high in places, that was the Hotel Montana, popular with tourists and visiting officials.",
"Some United Nations employees who lived there remain unaccounted for, the U.N. said Sunday, and Alain Joyandet, the French minister of cooperation, said approximately 200 French tourists staying there had not been heard from.",
"There is reason to hope.",
"On Friday, a woman trapped in the hotel's collapsed bar was rescued.",
"In the past few days, students from South Florida's Lynn University, who were in Haiti on a humanitarian mission to feed the poor, were freed from the Montana's rubble.",
"Six others with the university are reportedly still missing.",
"Peggy Bourland gets two calls a day at her suburban South Florida home -- one at night, one in the morning -- from the family's assigned military liaison.",
"There's nothing to say, really.",
"She's told to be optimistic.",
"She tries. After the second call, when she has tucked the couple's sons, 16-month-old Andrew and 3-year-old Charley into bed, she allows herself to cry.",
"\"I don't do it in front of them.\" She finds it overwhelming to return to thoughts about the Sunday before Ken Bourland left.",
"It was Charley's birthday, and another military family came over.",
"\"Ken sang to him and we all said, 'Daddy's going on another trip.'\"",
"The Bourlands' fifth wedding anniversary will be in March.",
"Their first date -- set up by her boss and his sister -- was one with hours of talk and lost time.",
"She liked the fact that he asked questions about every conceivable scenario that might arise from a decision.",
"He analyzed, where she just went with it.",
"He prepared for the small and big things.",
"He had been mulling for weeks, exhausting Google, over what kind of television to buy.",
"Ken's steady demeanor has rubbed off on Chance, his stepson.",
"Peggy's son was 9 when she introduced him to Ken.",
"The helicopter pilot endeared himself quickly with camping and a mutual zest for video games and remote control cars.",
"Now 13, Chance understands what's going on.",
"\"I let him talk when he wants to,\" she said.",
"\"But sometimes there's nothing to say.",
"You just wait and continue to wait, hoping for something good.\""
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"Wife hopes to get good news to share with their children ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Barack Obama's victory Tuesday over John McCain capped an unprecedented rise in American politics.",
"Barack Obama, addressing supporters after his victory, was an unlikely nominee not that long ago.",
"The obscure state legislator with, as he put it, \"a funny name\" propelled himself onto the national stage at the Democratic National Convention four years ago with a speech so electrifying that commentators declared he would become America's first black president.",
"Election Day showed that, in this case at least, you can believe the hype.",
"But Obama did not win the White House on hype, any more than he won it on hope.",
"He won it with an organization that even opponents called brilliant.",
"He won it with a clear strategy that was stuck to with remarkably little internal drama.",
"He won it with unparalleled fundraising and an overwhelming ground game.",
"And he won it after facing various challenges and turning them to his advantage.",
"Turning points .",
"Winning Iowa: Obama's victory in the Iowa caucuses knocked almost all of his Democratic competitors out in the first nominating contest, and it pushed the \"inevitable\" Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, back on her heels.",
"He'd built an organization strong enough to haul supporters out of their homes on a frigid January night to debate, harangue and cajole their neighbors into backing him.",
"Tens of thousands of new voters became the key to his Iowa win and revealed the outline of a general election plan: Create a wide coalition to bring new voters to the polls in record numbers.",
"Ted Kennedy: Within weeks of Iowa, all of Obama's Democratic competitors had dropped out of the race except for Clinton, who split the races with him in the run-up to Super Tuesday.",
"It was then that Ted Kennedy, head of the only Democratic family to outrank the Clintons, came out for Obama, comparing the Illinois senator to his assassinated brother, President John F. Kennedy.",
"The move was deeply symbolic, not just for the public but also the party.",
"The Obama-Clinton battle then hinged on who could sway more superdelegates -- the party leaders who could decide the winner if the primary voters could not -- and few superdelegates had the stature of Ted Kennedy.",
"Addressing race: Race was always going to be a factor in Obama's campaign, even if he hoped his candidacy would transcend it.",
"Clips of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his longtime pastor, making hateful remarks hit the Internet and television and put Obama on defense.",
"He responded with a speech in March hailed by commentators as among the most thoughtful ever delivered on race by an American politician.",
"When Wright went further, so did Obama -- condemning him outright and later quitting his church.",
"All this time, black voters were rallying behind Obama, switching their allegiance from Clinton in such large numbers that party elders, such as civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, had to do the same.",
"Fundraising: Flush with cash from a nationwide network of small and large contributors, Obama announced in June he would opt out of public financing -- the first presidential candidate to pay for his campaign with donations rather than government money since the system began in 1976.",
"McCain hammered Obama for reneging on a promise to stick with public financing, but the issue failed to resonate with voters.",
"Obama kept raising and spending record amounts of money, using it to send staff across the country -- even to dozens of states Democrats hadn't won in years -- and to swamp the airwaves with advertising.",
"Working with Clinton: The long and bitter primary battle turned many Clinton supporters off Obama.",
"A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll a month after Obama sealed the nomination found that nearly 50 percent of Clinton's supporters did not plan to vote for Obama in November.",
"McCain tried to exploit the Democrats' divisions and attract Clinton supporters to his side, but the former rivals came together to stop that.",
"Obama and Clinton worked behind the scenes to create a show of public unity, epitomized by Clinton dramatically marching onto the convention floor in Denver to call for the party to nominate Obama by acclamation.",
"The debates: Obama won all three debates in the eyes of the public, polling for CNN suggested, even if he came up with few, if any, memorable promises or knockout blows.",
"The debates showed the classic Obama -- thoughtful, deliberate and steady.",
"Critically, Obama made no gaffes, rounding out a campaign that was remarkably free of them.",
"Barack Obama may have looked an unlikely candidate and an even unlikelier victor only a year ago.",
"But his campaign had a different look.",
"It started small but with big ideas and worked, inexorably, to make them reality.",
"Like any candidate, Obama faced challenges, but he always seemed to take the path that would make him stronger.",
"And, by the end, the campaign and the support was so large, so well organized and so powerful that nothing could prevent Obama's march to victory.",
"CNN's Richard Allen Greene, Rebecca Sinderbrand and Laura Haring contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Torrential rainfall unleashed flooding and spawned a rare tornado warning in California on Tuesday as a series of storms moved through, with more expected Wednesday and Thursday.",
"Weather-related problems also affected Northern California, where Fresno's Yosemite International Airport lost the ability to send passengers through security because of a power outage.",
"Landings and takeoffs were not affected, because a backup system kicked in, said Vikkie Calderon, airport spokeswoman.",
"However, the backup system for the lobby did not kick in.",
"Airlines were remotely checking passengers in Tuesday afternoon, but the outage prevented security screenings until power was restored, Calderon said.",
"By midafternoon, security screenings had resumed.",
"In Southern California, a possible tornado was reported in Huntington Beach by the Orange County emergency manager, the National Weather Service reported.",
"Boats in the nearby harbor and some buildings in the area were damaged, and a vehicle was flipped.",
"As of Tuesday afternoon, about 50 people were in the process of being evacuated from homes in the San Pedro area of Los Angeles because of severe flooding, according to Los Angeles Police Department Officer Gregory Baek.",
"About 20 vehicle rescues took place in the same area, he said.",
"Video from CNN affiliate KCAL showed flooding in Long Beach, where a boater was using a raft to navigate flooded streets lined by cars with water up over their headlights.",
"Watch and read KCAL's reports .",
"A rare tornado warning was issued Tuesday afternoon for southeastern Orange County, including the cities of Mission Viejo and San Clemente, and northwestern San Diego County, including the cities of Oceanside and Carlsbad.",
"The National Weather Service said radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado.",
"A 93 mph wind gust was reported by lifeguards at the Newport Beach pier, the weather service said.",
"Gusts of 72 mph and 73 mph were also measured.",
"Are you there? Send us your stories and images.",
"Piers in Orange County were closed because of high surf, according to the Orange County Fire Authority.",
"There were some reports of damage and flooding, but no known injuries, officials said.",
"Forecasters warned the rainfall could trigger slides in recent burn areas and also warned about damaging winds.",
"Some areas received as much as 3 inches of rain on Monday and could see an additional 2 inches Tuesday, the weather service said.",
"Even stronger storms, with heavy rain and powerful winds, are forecast to hit the region Wednesday and Thursday.",
"Wind and rain prompted power outages Monday in Southern California, according to Southern California Edison.",
"CNN's Sara Pratley, Chad Myers, Rosalina Nieves and Lynn Lamanivong contributed to this report."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- The members of the band Naturally 7 are experts at blowing their own horns -- and they do it without a trumpet or trombone in sight.",
"Naturally 7 engages in \"vocal play\" in performance, emulating the sounds of musical instruments.",
"In fact, you won't see a single instrument when they hit the stage.",
"They are the instruments. \"People are always imitating instruments,\" said first baritone and arranger Roger Thomas.",
"\"People are driving; they hear their favorite song; it gets to the guitar solo part. ...",
"They don't stop singing.",
"They actually start imitating the instrument they hear.",
"We just decided to be crazy enough to bring [that idea] to the stage.\"",
"The septet even came up with a name for it: \"vocal play,\" a total reliance on the human voice to mimic a range of instruments and sounds, including the harmonica, bass guitar, trumpet and DJ scratches.",
"Watch the band do its thing » .",
"Warren Thomas takes beatboxing to a whole new level with his imitation of a drum kit, complete with snare.",
"(He also impersonates a mean guitar.)",
"Rod Eldridge has never played a real trumpet before, though you wouldn't think that if you saw him duplicate the sound of one, lips pursed, his hands in front of him, pressing on imaginary valves.",
"\"To produce the sound, I have to visualize that I'm holding that instrument or whatever in my hand,\" he said.",
"Only one Naturally 7 member has ever played the instrument he imitates, and that's Armand \"Hops\" Hutton, who uses his incredibly deep voice -- you have to step closer when he speaks -- to portray a thumping bass guitar.",
"The group initially formed a decade ago in New York as an a cappella group (oh, yeah, they sing, too).",
"But to make themselves stand out, Naturally 7 decided to be both a singing group and a band.",
"The concept caught on when video of them performing on a Paris subway -- to hilariously mixed reactions from Parisian commuters -- hit YouTube.",
"It has racked up almost 3 million views.",
"And standing ovations became a regular part of the group's experience touring as the opening act for crooner Michael Bublé in 2007 and 2008.",
"The musicians are about to embark on their own tour of Asia, Australia and Europe.",
"With a recent performance of their aptly named song \"Wall of Sound\" on \"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno\" and a new album in the works, they hope to boost Naturally 7's profile in the United States over the next year.",
"Naturally 7 -- which also includes Jamal Reed, Dwight Stewart and Garfield Buckley -- spoke to CNN about the challenges of becoming instruments.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview.",
"CNN: Traveling and sound checks must be very easy for you.",
"Roger Thomas: We don't have to lug around instruments with all the traveling we do, and that does make that part easier.",
"The sound check part of actually becoming the band, where we're actually the singers and the instruments, that probably takes a longer time.",
"CNN: How so? Thomas: I often call our sound man \"Octopus Hands\" because he's just got to do so many different things.",
"We switch from being the backgrounds to being the lead vocals and then going back to doing a trombone.",
"And these have different sounds and settings, so it's a lot of work on the performance side if we're using microphones.",
"CNN: Are your \"instruments\" ever out of tune?",
"Rod Eldridge: Every now and then.",
"It is the voice, and if you're suffering and you have a cold, its not like you can have a guy come in and [say], \"Oh, let me change my guitar string out.\"",
"It's a human thing.",
"Every now and then, you're not as perfect as you would like, but you are always working at it.",
"CNN: Are you continually adding new instruments?",
"Thomas: We definitely are.",
"When we hear something that's brand new, we'll just try to get really close to that sound.",
"There are a couple of things we can't do, like a piano.",
"Piano is like a percussive and a string instrument at the same time, so we leave pianos alone.",
"CNN: Who has the hardest job here, do you think?",
"Thomas: I think we all think we have the hardest job.",
"(laughs) Probably Warren.",
"He has to keep up that drum flow for songs that go for five or six minutes and shows that go for almost two hours.",
"That's a pretty difficult job.",
"CNN: You were the opening act for Michael Bublé for a while.",
"That must have been a great way to introduce you to a whole new audience.",
"Armand \"Hops\" Hutton: Yeah, it was great.",
"We started off with him in Rotterdam, and I don't think we were supposed to keep going after Europe, but the marriage between his set and our set was just so perfect that he kept saying, \"I want to introduce you to my fans here, my fans there.\"",
"We've been to Australia and Canada ... all over the world.",
"CNN: How do people respond when you perform?",
"Thomas: Shock, usually.",
"On the Bublé tour, it would take people usually by the third song to actually get it.",
"By then you can see them bouncing around, hitting each other, going, \"This really is all voice!\"",
"CNN: Are you working on a new album?",
"Thomas: We are working in the studio right now, getting ready for what will probably be our first world release.",
"We don't know what we are going to call it yet, but we do know one thing: It will be all vocal."
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"(CNN) -- Manny Pacquiao has put failed talks of a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jnr behind him as he turns his focus to a bout with Joshua Clottey at the Cowboys Stadium.",
"The Filipino will defend his World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title against Ghanaian Clottey on March 13 at the $1.2billion home of the Dallas Cowboys football team.",
"Pacquiao had been scheduled to face unbeaten American Mayweather on the date before the proposed super-fight collapsed when the Filipino rejected requests from his opponent to have unprecedented random blood testing.",
"But the 31-year-old confirmed that he is now fully focused on his new opponent, not any possible fight with Mayweather.",
"It's going to be a good fight,\" Pacquiao said at a press conference to promote the fight.",
"\"Clottey, he is a good fighter, a top fighter, and he is bigger than me.",
"I have to prepare hard for this fight and train hard and focus.\"",
"When asked about Mayweather, Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach said things had moved on but revealed his fighter would be ready to take on the American on the right terms.",
"\"Life goes on without Mayweather.",
"He wouldn't agree to a limit of 14 days before the fight.",
"We did our best to appease him but he wouldn't go along with it,\" Roach explained.",
"\"Mayweather's people agreed to it but Mayweather wouldn't go along with it.",
"I don't think he wants to fight Manny.",
"It was a smoke screen for him to say no.",
"\"I want to beat this guy's ass, believe me, but he won't give us the opportunity.",
"We will fight him any day of the week.",
"But he doesn't make the rules.\"",
"Any Pacquiao-Mayweather fight would have been staged in Las Vegas and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones added that the breakdown in talks benefited him.",
"\"It did. This gave us an opening.",
"We were very aggressive and we were pretty quick to make a deal,\" Jones said.",
"\"We're going to make this one of the most interesting fights to view that there's ever been. We're going to have some fun with it.\""
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"Manny Pacquiao has put failed talks of his fight with Floyd Mayweather Jnr behind him as he turns his focus to a bout with Joshua Clottey.",
"The World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight fight will be staged at $1.2billion home of the Dallas Cowboys on March 13.",
"Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach said his fighter has \"moved on\" but would be ready to take on Mayweather on the right terms."
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"(CNN) -- After the gloom of December's postal strikes, Britain's Royal Mail has started the new year in the right tune with the launch of 10 stamps which feature iconic album covers.",
"And who better than guitar shaman Jimmy Page to give it the official stamp of approval?",
"The Led Zeppelin guitarist launched the new set of stamps in London which went on sale Thursday.",
"The special New Year stamps feature classic album sleeves from the last four decades.",
"One of the 10 selected albums was Led Zeppelin's 32 million-selling album, \"IV,\" which Page helped design.",
"It shows a painting of an unknown faggot-bearing man which is said to have been found by Robert Plant in a Reading junk shop.",
"It is not known who the painter was.",
"\"Almost 40 years after the album came out, nobody knows the old man who featured on the cover, nor the artist who painted him,\" said Page in a media statement released by Royal Mail.",
"\"That sort of sums up what we wanted to achieve with the album cover, which has remained both anonymous and enigmatic at the same time,\" he added.",
"It was after extensive research into lists and polls and trawling through thousands of album covers that the final list of 10 was agreed upon, the Royal Mail said.",
"They added that key factors in choosing the covers were the art and album design and not necessarily the music.",
"\"For decades, the album sleeve has been the canvas for some of the most imaginative graphic artists in the world, and this issue celebrates this unique art form and some of its greatest examples,\" said Juliette Edgar, Head of Special Stamps at Royal Mail in the statement.",
"Other chosen album covers include The Rolling Stones' 1969 album \"Let It Bleed,\" which features a cake on the cover baked by a then unknown Delia Smith, Pennie Smith's photography for The Clash's \"London Calling\" and a bent chrome pipe on the cover of Mike Oldfield's \"Tubular Bells.\""
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"One of the 10 selected albums was Led Zeppelin's \"IV\" which Page helped design .",
"Final list of 10 emerged after trawling through thousands of album covers ."
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"(CNN) -- The pilots' union of Lufthansa began a strike Monday after a last-ditch effort at negotiations over pay and job security failed, a spokeswoman for the airline told CNN.",
"The four-day work stoppage by the pilots' union of one of the world's largest airlines threatened to disrupt travel on more than two dozen partner airlines later on Monday.",
"Lufthansa and the pilot's union, Vereinigung Cockpit, met over the weekend as a last-ditch effort to avoid the strike.",
"More than 4,000 pilots walked off the job at midnight Monday (6 p.m. Sunday ET) through Thursday over protracted contract negotiations centering around pay and job security.",
"The action by Lufthansa pilots signaled growing labor unrest across Europe.",
"The industrial action by the pilots started the same day that British Airways cabin staff were expected to announce the outcome of its strike vote.",
"On Wednesday in Greece, a mass public and private sector strike is being planned to protest the government's austerity plan.",
"Lufthansa had already canceled two-thirds of its scheduled flights Monday to Thursday ahead of the strike.",
"The bulk of the disruptions are expected to begin later Monday since most German airports prohibit flights overnight.",
"Still, passengers at Frankfurt Airport on Sunday were already feeling inconvenienced.",
"\"It makes me angry because for me, normally I would (leave) on Monday morning,\" said one passenger.",
"\"Now I have to go Sunday evening and my family's at home and I have to (return) tomorrow night with the train.",
"So it's uncomfortable.\" \"It's inconvenient and it's not justified at all,\" another passenger said.",
"Company officials admitted it would have a \"heavy influence\" on its international operations, which includes flights to 80 countries worldwide.",
"Send your views and experiences to CNN iReport .",
"In 2008, Lufthansa was the number two international carrier by passengers with 42.2 million, according to the International Air Transport Association.",
"The threatened walkout came as the airline industry is digging out of the worst one-year drop-off in flights, according to IATA.",
"In 2009, revenues dropped nearly 15 percent worldwide after generating a record $535 billion the previous year.",
"Passenger travel fell a record 3.5 percent and freight fell more than 10 percent, according to IATA figures.",
"Lufthansa officials said at a news conference last Thursday it would cost the airline about $33 million a day.",
"Many of Lufthansa's pilots have been working without a contract since March and more than 90 percent of the union's members voted to strike, said Jorg Handwerg, a pilot and representative for the union.",
"The union sought a 6.4 percent pay increase.",
"The union is also concerned with the airline's recent buying spree of small regional carriers, such as BMI and Austrian Airlines which, it says, is cannibalizing flights away from union-flown routes.",
"\"We fly less hours and have less potential for (performance-related bonuses),\" Handwerg said.",
"\"We want to have the opportunity to grow, but instead it shrinks.\"",
"In a statement, Lufthansa said: \"In addition to demands on job security, however, the union also insisted on a greater say on fundamental entrepreneurial issues, equating to intervention in business management at the airline.",
"That demand cannot be accepted.\"",
"The airline is allowing passengers to rebook flights for tickets purchased before February 18 and plans to give German domestic passengers rail vouchers.",
"But one Lufthansa passenger said she is having trouble reaching a compromise with the airline.",
"\"I spent several hours on the phone with Lufthansa to try and figure out what I can do, but now I've been told that I can't even get a refund,\" said Ruth Winblad, who is supposed to fly Monday from Gothenburg, Sweden, to Rome, Italy.",
"Lufthansa is one of the largest carriers on Star Alliance, a network of 26 airlines that share ticketing and routes for international travel.",
"Travelers on Star Alliance flights are advised to check their tickets for Lufthansa flights and contact their carrier about any potential changes, said Markus Ruediger, Star Alliance spokesman.",
"Star Alliance member airlines are: Adria, Air Canada, Air China, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Austrian, Blue 1, BMI, Brussels Airlines, Continental Airlines, Croatia Airlines, Egypt Air, Lot Polish Airlines, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Spanair, Swiss, Tap Portugal, Thai Airlines, Turkish Airlines, United Airlines and U.S. Airways.",
"Partner airlines were preparing for the strike.",
"\"Some of our codeshare flights with Lufthansa may be affected during the period of the strike.",
"We are in contact with Lufthansa and will be informed of the affected flights as soon as details are made available,\" said Nicholas Ionides, Singapore Airlines spokesman.",
"\"Should there be customers traveling on affected Lufthansa-operated codeshare flights, they will be contacted and re-accommodated on the best next available schedule.\"",
"A spokeswoman for Continental Airlines told CNN on Sunday that the airline will offer passengers refunds or rebook their travel if they are affected.",
"CNN's Kevin Voigt, Stefan Simons, Phil Han and Greg Morrison contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Estimated 4,000 pilots at German airline Lufthansa begin four-day strike .",
"The pilots union says strike focuses on pay and conditions issues .",
"The company says the union is trying to interfere in management decisions .",
"Lufthansa flies to 80 countries with its main hub being Frankfurt, Germany ."
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"African football federation president Issa Hayatou has exclusively told CNN that Togo were not disqualified from the Africa Cup of Nations but were granted permission to leave.",
"The Togo squad flew back home from Angola on January 9 after three of their travelling party were killed and two players seriously injured by a machine-gun attack which occurred as their bus crossed the border into the northern, oil-rich state of Cabinda two days earlier.",
"It had initially been first thought that Togo had been disqualified after they failed to show for their first group game against Ghana on Monday.",
"But Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Hayatou has since confirmed to CNN that they had not been expelled from the tournament but were granted special dispensation.",
"\"Togo wasn't disqualified - I want to tell you that Togo wasn't disqualified.",
"Togo left the competition following the tragic events that the delegation went through,\" Hayatou told CNN.",
"\"Because of what happened the Togolese delegation didn't have the morale or the conscience for them to participate in the tournament.",
"\"We tried to convince them to stay and that life continues after all and that we share their sorrow and suffering.",
"\"We completely understand what happened.",
"The players wanted to stay but the government for their reasons didn't want the Togolese to stay so they left.",
"\"CAF did everything possible to make sure that the Togo team stayed here for the Africa Cup of Nations.",
"We acted and they left.",
"\"Contrary to whatever you are saying they didn't get disqualified.",
"They are the ones who decided to leave which we consented to.",
"There is a difference. \"We would have wished them to stay.",
"We would have wished them stay.",
"We have done everything to possible so that Togo stays.",
"\"They couldn't stay. The players wanted to stay but the political authorities didn't want the delegation to stay.\"",
"Group B has now been reduced to three teams: Ghana, Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso.",
"Angolan authorities have arrested two people involved in the attack, state media reported, while goalkeeper Kodjovi Obilale remains in a stable condition in a South African hospital but needs a ventilator as he recovers from being shot.",
"Hayatou also defended CAF's handling of the incident and, in particular, criticism about the amount of time they took to respond.",
"He added: \"When we were told that Togo was attacked we immediately stopped our meeting that we were organizing.",
"We are in Luanda and they were attacked far away!",
"\"We organized ourselves to go see them and this was done quickly for us to help our Togolese brothers.",
"But people who say that we acted very late.",
"I think that it is not right for the press to say so.",
"\"On behalf of the federation, we managed that incident, not just the incident but the tragedy, with lots of tact and lots of honesty, and lots of courage.",
"\"The incident happened; everyone should have taken his own responsibility.\""
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"CAF president Issa Hayatou has exclusively told CNN that Togo were not disqualified from the Africa Cup of Nations.",
"Hayatou insisted Togo had not been expelled from the tournament in Angola but were granted dispensation.",
"Togo flew home on January 9 after three of their travelling party were killed and two players seriously injured by a machine-gun attack."
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"Boston, Massachusetts (CNN) -- In a stunning upset that reshaped the U.S. political landscape, Republican Scott Brown won Tuesday's special election in Massachusetts for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy.",
"Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley, the state attorney general.",
"Brown's victory made real the once unthinkable prospect of a Republican filling the seat held by Kennedy, known as the liberal lion, for almost 47 years until his death due to brain cancer last August.",
"Before Kennedy won the seat for the first time in 1962, his older brother John held it for nearly eight years until his election as U.S. president in 1960.",
"\"This really does change everything, you know that?\"",
"said Mitt Romney, the former GOP governor of Massachusetts who introduced Brown at his victory rally.",
"Share your thoughts on the election results .",
"Voters across Massachusetts braved winter cold and snow for an election with high stakes -- the domestic agenda of President Obama, including his top domestic priority, health care reform.",
"Brown's victory strips Democrats of their 60-seat Senate super-majority, needed to overcome GOP filibusters against future Senate action on a broad range of White House priorities.",
"Senate Democrats needed all 60 votes in their caucus to pass the health care bill, and the loss of one seat now imperils generating that support again for a compromise measure worked out with the House.",
"\"Forty one, forty one,\" chanted the crowd at Brown's rally, referring to his new status as the Senate's 41st Republican.",
"Brown, a state senator until now, heralded his victory as the start of more election surprises in 2010.",
"No Republican had won a U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts since 1972, and Democrats control the governorship, both houses of the state legislature, and the state's entire congressional delegation.",
"\"When there's trouble in Massachusetts, rest assured there's trouble everywhere, and they know it,\" Brown said of the Democratic Party.",
"Republican leaders sounded a similar theme, saying Americans were fed up with what they called Democratic arrogance in Washington.",
"\"Americans are investing their hopes in good Republican candidates to reverse a year-long Democrat trend of ignoring the American people on the issues of health care, spending and the growth of government,\" Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said in a statement.",
"The seat vacated by Kennedy's death is currently held by his former aide and longtime friend Paul Kirk, who was appointed on an interim basis.",
"Obama called Brown and Coakley on Tuesday night, and a White House statement said the president \"told Sen. Brown that he looks forward to working with him on the urgent economic challenges facing Massachusetts families and struggling families across our nation.\"",
"Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin said last week that certifying Tuesday's election results could take more than two weeks -- potentially enough time to allow congressional Democrats to pass a final health care bill before Brown is seated.",
"But multiple Democratic sources said that is unlikely.",
"Even if House and Senate Democrats could reach a deal to meld their bills and pass them in the next couple of weeks, there would be a huge outcry from not only Republicans, but also an increasingly distrustful public if they appeared to be rushing it through.",
"Galvin had predicted as many 2.2 million of the state's 4.5 million registered voters would vote -- at least double the turnout from December's primary.",
"In one sign of high interest, more than 100,000 absentee ballots were requested ahead of the election, according to Brian McNiff, Galvin's spokesman.",
"Coakley was initially expected to easily win the race to replace Kennedy, who made health care reform the centerpiece of his Senate career.",
"Until recently, Brown was underfunded and unknown statewide.",
"Waging a nationally backed campaign that included driving his pickup around the state, Brown surged in the weeks preceding Tuesday's vote and led in all the final polls.",
"In a sign of the high stakes involved, the Coakley campaign held an afternoon news conference Tuesday to complain that voters in three places received ballots already marked for Brown.",
"McNiff confirmed that the secretary of state's offices received two reports of voters saying they received pre-marked ballots.",
"The suspect ballots were invalidated and the voters received new ballots, McNiff said.",
"Kevin Conroy, the Coakley campaign manager, said the \"disturbing incidents\" raised questions about the integrity of the election.",
"In response, the Brown campaign issued a statement criticizing Coakley's team.",
"\"Reports that the Coakley campaign is making reckless accusations regarding the integrity of today's election is a reminder that they are a desperate campaign,\" Daniel B. Winslow, the counsel for the Brown campaign, said in the statement.",
"Obama had been \"surprised and frustrated\" by the race, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.",
"Obama and former President Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail in the final week in an attempt to save Coakley's campaign, which observers say was hampered by complacency and missteps.",
"Obama crushed Sen. John McCain in Massachusetts in 2008, beating the GOP presidential nominee by 26 points.",
"\"If you were fired up in the last election, I need you more fired up in this election,\" Obama urged a crowd at a Coakley campaign rally on Sunday.",
"Vicki Kennedy, the late senator's widow, called on state Democrats to turn out to save her husband's legacy.",
"\"We need your help. We need your support.",
"We need you to get out there and vote on Tuesday,\" Kennedy said.",
"\"We need you to bring your neighbors.",
"We need you to bring your friends.\"",
"Brown, who has trumpeted his 30 years of service in the National Guard, hewed to traditional GOP themes in his victory speech.",
"He promised to back tax cuts and be tough on terrorists, and to oppose Obama's health care overhaul effort.",
"\"People do not want a trillion dollar health-care plan that is being forced on the American people,\" Brown said.",
"Brown said his victory defied \"the odds and experts\" who predicted that the Senate seat held by Democrats for more than 50 years would not change hands.",
"Instead, independent voters who outnumber registered Democrats and Republicans combined in Massachusetts strongly supported Brown.",
"\"Tonight, the independent majority has delivered a great victory,\" Brown said, later adding: \"What happened here in Massachusetts can happen all over America.\"",
"Facing the possibility of Coakley's defeat, Democrats were trying to figure out whether they could pass a health care overhaul without that crucial 60th Senate vote.",
"But top White House aides publicly insisted they were not engaging in any talk of contingency plans because they thought Coakley would win.",
"Two Democratic sources in close contact with the White House told CNN on Monday that they'd urged the administration, in the event of a Brown victory, to push House Democrats to pass the Senate's health care bill as currently written.",
"Doing so would prevent the plan from having to be taken up by the Senate again.",
"\"I think the Senate bill clearly is better than nothing,\" House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, said Tuesday.",
"A third option would be for Democrats to revisit the idea of trying to push health care through the Senate with only 51 votes -- a simple majority.",
"But to do that Democrats would have to use a process known as reconciliation, which presents technical and procedural issues that would delay the process for a long time.",
"A number of Democrats are eager to put the health care debate behind them and move on to economic issues such as job creation as soon as possible this election year.",
"Senate Democrats could also try again to get moderate GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine to vote for a compromise health reform plan.",
"Multiple Democratic sources, however, have said they think that is unlikely now.",
"CNN's Jim Acosta, Dana Bash, Kevin Bohn, Ed Henry, John King, Suzanne Malveaux, Shawna Shepherd, Jessica Yellin, Kevin Bohn, Alan Silverleib and Tom Cohen contributed to this report."
] |
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"Win leaves Democrats without crucial 60th Senate vote needed for health care overhaul .",
"Brown's platform includes backing tax cuts, being tough on terrorists ."
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"(CNN) -- At least 42 people were killed and 120 injured by flash flooding and mudslides on the Portuguese island of Madeira, the local civil protection agency said Sunday.",
"An unknown number of people are still missing, the authorities told CNN.",
"About 250 people were evacuated to military bases and other safe locations, said Pedro Barbosa of the civil protection agency.",
"\"We have some parts where we can't go because the bridges are down,\" Barbosa told CNN earlier in the day, saying the numbers of victims may rise as more information comes in.",
"He said all the damage occurred in just a few hours Saturday morning due to \"very concentrated, very intense\" rains that sparked flooding and mudslides.",
"The mudslides and flooding damaged roads and homes in the capital, Funchal, and in Ribeira Brava, which are both on the southern portion of the Atlantic island.",
"Floodwaters overturned cars and knocked down trees.",
"Search-and-rescue teams have been reinforced, according to the Civil Protection Agency.",
"Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates said \"the situation is under control\" and the government is offering its support to regional authorities.",
"President Cavaco Silva expressed his condolences in a televised statement and promised to do everything to help.",
"Madeira, an autonomous region of Portugal, is a popular resort destination.",
"There have been no reports of any dead or missing tourists.",
"Barbosa said Saturday's heavy rains were the worst in Madeira since 1993, when a storm killed eight people.",
"Madeira is one of the Madeira Islands, an archipelago about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) southwest of the Portuguese mainland.",
"CNN's Al Goodman, Per Nyberg and Umaro Djau contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Death toll rises to 42 after mudslides, flooding strike Madeira; 120 injured .",
"Washed-out bridges keep rescuers from reaching some parts of island .",
"Hundreds of residents were evacuated to military bases and other safe locations ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- The head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, expressed regret Monday after more than two dozen civilians were killed in a NATO airstrike.",
"Twenty-seven civilians died and 14 others were wounded in the incident Sunday in the central Daikondi province, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry.",
"Ground forces at the scene found women and children among the casualties, the Afghan government and NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a joint statement.",
"The U.S military told CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr they \"accept\" the Afghan government's death toll.",
"ISAF said it had ordered an immediate investigation into the incident, while the Afghan cabinet called the attack \"unjustifiable.\"",
"\"We are extremely saddened by the tragic loss of innocent lives,\" said McChrystal, who spoke to President Hamid Karzai Sunday evening to express his sorrow and regret over the incident.",
"\"I have made it clear to our forces that we are here to protect the Afghan people, and inadvertently killing or injuring civilians undermines their trust and confidence in our mission.",
"We will re-double our efforts to regain that trust.\"",
"Commanders ordered the daylight NATO airstrike because they had specific intelligence that a group of Taliban in vehicles was heading towards coalition forces on the ground, according to a senior U.S. military official.",
"\"Air assets picked up the movement of the vehicles and after an extensive overhead monitoring, the ground force commander ordered the strike,\" said the official, who declined to be identified because of ongoing investigations.",
"The source would not discuss what activities the convoy took that led to suspicions it contained insurgents other than its location.",
"The convoy of three vehicles was traveling to Kandahar province when it was struck, said Zemeri Bashary, the spokesman for the interior ministry.",
"NATO confirmed its forces fired on the vehicles, believing that they were carrying insurgents.",
"In a statement published in Pashtun and Dari, the Afghan cabinet said it condemned \"the repeated killing of civilians by NATO.\"",
"An English version of the statement did not include that sentence.",
"Civilian casualties at the hands of U.S. and NATO troops have strained relations between Afghanistan and the United States.",
"In the last two weeks alone, more than 50 Afghan civilians are believed to have been killed in more than half a dozen U.S. and NATO military operations.",
"The coalition is also investigating reports that several Afghan policemen were accidentally killed in an airstrike in eastern Afghanistan on February 18.",
"McChrystal has made avoiding civilian casualties a top priority, and he has apologized to the Afghan government for recent incidents.",
"The numbers have dropped in recent months since McChrystal took over as U.S. commander.",
"The U.S. military official said McChrystal is updating a directive issued to troops last summer aimed at reducing civilian casualties.",
"The official said the intent now is to \"make it more precise and understandable by the most junior member of the force.\"",
"Some forces have complained the directive has led to overly restrictive rules on conducting operations.",
"Meanwhile, an influential Afghan tribal leader was among 14 people killed in a suicide attack on a meeting of tribal elders on Monday in Nangarhar province's Khogyani district, Afghan police said according to Agence France-Presse.",
"Haji Zaman Ghamsharik was credited with bringing relative stability to Nangarhar compared to other provinces in Afghanistan's volatile eastern border region.",
"Elsewhere, an insurgent rocket struck a car in Kapisa province Monday and killed one civilian, officials said.",
"Five others were wounded in the attack.",
"Earlier, Afghan officials had blamed the attack on a NATO ground-to-ground missile but later corrected the account.",
"CNN's Ben Wedeman contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- The man believed to be the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees and contractors last month appears in a newly released video, in which he vows revenge for the killing of a Taliban leader.",
"The video shows Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, whom a former U.S. intelligence official identified as the suicide bomber.",
"Al-Balawi's brother told CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson that the man in the video, who uses the alias Abu Dajana Al-Khorasani, was his sibling.",
"In the tape, which aired Saturday on the Arabic satellite news channel Al-Jazeera, al-Balawi says his message is for the CIA and Jordanian intelligence.",
"The December 30 bombing at a U.S. base in Khost, in southeastern Afghanistan, killed seven CIA operatives and a Jordanian army captain.",
"Al-Balawi was a Jordanian doctor whom Jordanian authorities had recruited as a counterterrorism intelligence source, a Jordanian official told CNN this week.",
"Jordanian and U.S. intelligence agencies apparently believed al-Balawi had been rehabilitated from his extremist views and were using him to hunt Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No.",
"2 figure, a former U.S. intelligence official said.",
"Al-Balawi says in the video that his faith cannot be sold to bidders, an apparent message to Jordanian and U.S. officials that they had failed to win his allegiance.",
"It puts into question how well the CIA and other intelligence agencies can penetrate al Qaeda.",
"Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, told CNN's Christiane Amanpour that local officials are better at \"human intelligence\" than foreign agents.",
"\"That's not to say that you can't have some real breakthroughs,\" Petraeus said during the interview, to be aired Sunday.",
"\"It's not to say you can't develop sources, you can't put people in there and so forth.\"",
"Al-Balawi mentions Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the Taliban in Pakistan who was killed in a missile strike last August.",
"\"We will never forget the blood of our leader Baitullah Mehsud, may God have mercy on his soul,\" he says in Arabic, according to a CNN translation.",
"\"It will remain that we take revenge (for his death) in America and outside America.",
"It is a trust on every person who left everything for the sake of God, whom Baitullah Mehsud supported.\"",
"Al Qaeda's commander of operations in Afghanistan, Mustafa Abu Yazid, said this week that the attack avenged Mehsud's death.",
"Mehsud was the leader of Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan (TTP).",
"It was TTP that released the video, according to IntelCenter, a think tank that specializes in tracking terrorist groups.",
"At one point, the video shows the date of December 20, 2009.",
"That is five days before Nigerian passenger Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab allegedly tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit, Michigan.",
"The Yemen-based group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day plot.",
"It is impossible to know whether the date on the video is accurate, or whether al-Balawi was aware of AbdulMutallab's alleged plans.",
"If al-Balawi did know about the plot, it could indicate a greater degree of communication between TTP and al Qaeda than previously thought.",
"In an analysis of the video, IntelCenter said there is a connection between the two groups.",
"But IntelCenter also pointed out al-Balawi appears in the video next to TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud, and that it was TTP that released the video.",
"\"The TTP and al Qaeda have a close relationship, and in all likelihood al Qaeda was involved at some level in the operation,\" IntelCenter said in an analysis of the video.",
"\"However, the release of the video with TTP Emir Hakimullah Mehsud firmly places the attack under the TTP banner.\"",
"Of the seven CIA operatives who were killed in the December 30 attack were two members of the private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater.",
"The Jordanian military officer who was killed was Army Capt.",
"Sharif Ali bin Zeid, a cousin of Jordan's King Abdullah II.",
"It was one of the worst attacks ever on America's intelligence community.",
"CNN's Nic Robertson and Amir Ahmed contributed to this report."
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"Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi thought to be bomber who killed 7 CIA operatives .",
"The Jordanian grew up a loner, wanted to go to medical school, mother says .",
"Al-Balawi mentions Baitullah Mehsud, Taliban leader in Pakistan, killed last year ."
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"(CNN) -- I'm not an auto mechanic, I'm an Army wife, a mother and -- when time permits -- a journalist.",
"So when my car needs work, I take it to someone with oil on his hands and years of experience looking under hoods.",
"The same is true for plumbing problems, legal issues and medical care.",
"I don't assume that I know better than the experts.",
"When necessary, I get a second opinion but, ultimately, I always yield to the advice of those who know more than me.",
"With that in mind, I am thrilled that President Obama has decided to listen to his experts -- the military commanders and strategists -- and is committing more troops to Afghanistan.",
"But as an Army wife at Fort Bragg whose husband has already done three tours of duty in Afghanistan, I can't help but close my eyes, grit my teeth and brace myself for the hard days ahead.",
"As happy as I am that the president has finally made a move after months of deliberating, I know that this announcement is likely bad news for me.",
"Deployments are awful -- just awful.",
"There is no bright side and no silver lining.",
"For most of us in the military community the luster of sacrificing for our country wore off a deployment or two ago and we are now coasting on the fumes of commitment and shared sacrifice.",
"Many of us who are married to the military aren't even sure why we are willing to endure yet another deployment.",
"We just are. Our spouses see the fight firsthand and are reminded daily of why this battle must be won.",
"They get pep talks at work and enjoy the camaraderie of their fellow soldiers.",
"We at home just hear the gripes of war-weary Americans and see the news reports of waning support.",
"We don't experience the victories, we only see our children developing emotional problems, our marriages falling apart, our careers sidelined, our dependence on antidepressants climbing, even our houses crumbling from years of neglected repairs.",
"That's why a troop surge in Afghanistan brings mixed feelings.",
"More troops there means more casualties -- a word I don't take lightly.",
"Casualties are people, people with names and faces that I know.",
"I see their wheelchairs at my kids' schools and I've dropped flowers on their freshly dug graves.",
"A troop surge may mean that even more of my friends will be widows and more of their children will be fatherless.",
"It certainly means more Little League teams in my community will be missing a coach, more families here will know each other only on Skype and more pets will be abandoned.",
"It may very well mean that I will spend more years being both mother and father, and that I'll have more conversations with my children about why their daddy is always gone when so many daddies never leave.",
"These are not things to celebrate.",
"But right now, after just hearing our president give an inspiring speech, I'm going to consider that this plan may mean that my friends who are in Afghanistan now will finally have what they need to stay safe.",
"Maybe it will mean that if and when my husband has to go back there, he will be in a better and safer situation.",
"And, more than anything else, maybe it will mean that our nation will succeed in Afghanistan and that all of these years that my husband and I have lost together, all of these friends we've buried, all of these injuries he and others have nursed -- will have been worth it.",
"I am not a strategist. I do not know what will take us to victory in Afghanistan.",
"I cannot say if sending 30,000 more troops is the right or the wrong decision.",
"All I know is that the president consulted the experts and then he sought second, third, fourth -- and who knows how many more -- opinions, and this is the solution he has reached.",
"I commend him for making a definitive plan.",
"I will pray for his wisdom and for the strength and safety of the troops who will be going into harm's way, just as I pray for those who are already there.",
"I will also pray for all the families back home who are about to send their soldier or Marine into the fight.",
"Theirs is a battle I know.",
"For many of them, their war is just starting.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rebekah Sanderlin."
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"Sanderlin: \"There is no bright side and no silver lining\" to deployments .",
"Army wife hopes deployments will mean troops will get what they need to stay safe ."
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"(CNN) -- A spectator died Sunday after she was struck by a tire from a crashing dragster during the NHRA Arizona Nationals near Phoenix, Arizona.",
"The car flipped in the first-round race and caught fire, said Alia Maisonet, spokeswoman for the Gila River Indian reservation in Chandler, Arizona, where the racetrack is located.",
"During the accident, a wheel flew off the car and struck the woman in the stands, she said.",
"Coverage from CNN affiliate KPHO .",
"She was airlifted to a local hospital, where she died.",
"The dragster was driven by Top Fuel driver Antron Brown.",
"He went to a hospital as a precaution, but was released, the National Hot Rod Association said.",
"\"The entire NHRA community is deeply saddened by today's incident and sends its thoughts and prayers to the woman's family and friends,\" the group said on its Web site.",
"The accident is under investigation."
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"Wheel flew off car and struck woman in the stands .",
"She was airlifted to a local hospital, where she died ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Jennifer Tonge is not a lunatic.",
"She is a member of the British House of Lords, appointed to that eminent body in 2005 after a career in politics and medicine.",
"On February 11, she was asked a question by www.thejc.com, the online version of Britain's Jewish Chronicle.",
"Tonge serves as patron of an online journal based in Gaza, the Palestine Telegraph.",
"The previous week, the Palestine Telegraph accused the Israeli medical teams doing humanitarian work in Haiti of harvesting organs from earthquake victims.",
"TheJC.com asked Tonge for comment.",
"Tonge first commended the Israeli teams for their work in Haiti.",
"She then added these words: .",
"\"To prevent allegations such as these -- which have already been posted on YouTube -- going any further, the IDF and the Israeli Medical Association should establish an independent inquiry immediately to clear the names of the team in Haiti.\"",
"The YouTube video to which Tonge refers can be seen here.",
"It's the work of a solo crank, and hardly seems to require an \"independent inquiry\" to refute.",
"The statement to TheJC.com was not Lady Tonge's first entry into Middle East analysis.",
"She has expressed herself often on the subject of Israel and Israel's supporters, and in vivid terms.",
"In a speech to a meeting during her Liberal Democratic Party's annual conference in 2006, Tonge declared: \"The pro-Israeli lobby has got its grips on the Western world, its financial grips.",
"I think they've probably got a grip on our party.\"",
"(That grip was not too tight to prevent Tonge's party from collectively denouncing Israel for attacking Hezbollah after Hezbollah kidnapped two Israeli soldiers.)",
"On February 14, Lady Tonge was removed from her position as health critic for the Liberal Democratic Party in the House of Lords.",
"But Tonge's comments did not originate in the ether.",
"They could be footnoted to a respectable newspaper in Sweden.",
"In the summer of 2009, the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet published a story about a recent mass indictment in New Jersey.",
"On July 23, the U.S. attorney for New Jersey announced the arrest of 44 people for a range of criminal enterprises involving bank fraud, rigging of bids on public projects, trafficking in counterfeit goods, etc.",
"The accused represented the gorgeous mosaic of New Jersey politics, with last names like \"Suarez,\" \"Catrillo,\" \"Cardwell,\" and \"Khalil.\"",
"Some of the names were Jewish.",
"One of the Jewish names, Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, was accused of the lurid crime of trafficking in the purchase and sale of human organs.",
"Rosenbaum was said to have offered sums of $10,000 to entice poor people in Israel and Eastern Europe to sell kidneys to him, which he would then remarket for $160,000 to transplant patients in the United States.",
"Aftonbladet transformed this story of illegal commerce into a story of Jewish predation.",
"The paper gave space to a freelance writer -- Donald Bostrom -- to charge that the Israeli army regularly harvested organs from the bodies of slain Palestinians.",
"After briefly acknowledging that the vast majority of the world's illegally harvested organs come from China, Pakistan, and the Philippines, Bostrom then hurled this astounding charge: .",
"\"Palestinians also harbor strong suspicions that young men have been seized, and made to serve as organ reserve, just as in China and Pakistan, before being killed.\"",
"Jewish vampirism is an ancient fantasy, dating back to the Middle Ages.",
"Yet it remains current in the contemporary Middle East.",
"A Syrian film company created a multipart TV drama out of the story in 2003.",
"The drama was broadcast worldwide on Hezbollah's al-Manar satellite network.",
"Iranian state TV broadcast a drama in 2004 in which the plot turns on an Israeli plan to steal Palestinian children's eyes.",
"It's a winding road from medieval folktales to Hezbollah TV to the New Jersey mob to a Swedish daily to the British House of Lords.",
"But it's a road traveled by more and more people.",
"On February 11, Tel Aviv's Reut Institute presented a paper to the Israeli cabinet warning of \"delegitimization\" aimed at the Jewish state.",
"As reported by Ha'aretz, the paper warns: .",
"\"The 'delegitimizers' cooperate with organizations engaging in legitimate criticism of Israel's policy in the territories such as Amnesty [International] and Human Rights Watch, blurring the line between legitimate censure and delegitimization. ...",
"The network's activists are not mostly Palestinian, Arab or Muslim.",
"Many of them are European and North American left-wing activists,\" who portray Israel as a pariah state and deny its right to exist.",
"In the United States, where pro-Israel feeling runs stronger and the activist left is weaker, the delegitimization project focuses less on Israel itself, and more on Israel's supporters.",
"The central text for this project is a book called \"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy\" co-authored by Profs.",
"Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, which argues that \"the Israel lobby\" maneuvered the United States into the Iraq war on Israel's behalf.",
"Walt and Mearsheimer present their argument in delicate language, but it's the same case argued by Prof. Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, again not a crank, but a past president of the Middle East Studies Association.",
"In a 2004 blog post, Cole wrote of a \"one-two punch secretly planned by the pro-Likud faction in the Department of Defense.",
"First, Iraq would be taken out by the United States, and then Iran.",
"David Wurmser, a key member of the group, also wanted Syria included.",
"These pro-Likud intellectuals concluded that 9/11 would give them carte blanche to use the Pentagon as Israel's Gurkha regiment, fighting elective wars on behalf of Tel Aviv (not wars that really needed to be fought, but wars that the Likud coalition thought it would be nice to see fought so as to increase Israel's ability to annex land and act aggressively, especially if someone else's boys did the dying).\"",
"Hard to miss here the echo of another ancient myth, memorably enunciated by a character in John Buchan's 1915 spy novel, \"The Thirty-Nine Steps.\"",
"\"[If] you're on the biggest kind of job and are bound to get to the real boss, 10 to one you are brought up against a little white-faced Jew in a bath-chair with an eye like a rattlesnake.",
"Yes, Sir, he is the man who is ruling the world just now.\"",
"Walt returned to his theme in a blog post this week in Foreign Policy: .",
"\"Israeli leaders from across the political spectrum became cheerleaders for the invasion, and they played a prominent role in helping to sell the war here in the United States.\"",
"This debate came home to the blogosphere last week, when New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier published a long article denouncing uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan as either an anti-Jewish bigot or else \"moronically insensitive.\"",
"Sullivan -- a former editor of the magazine for which his once-intimate friend Wieseltier writes -- has over the past few months abruptly switched from passionate champion of Israel to strident criticism of Israel and its supporters.",
"Many rallied to Sullivan's defense on the specific complaint at issue, myself included.",
"But one wishes that people who do not share the malignant feelings of a Tonge would take care not to use the same malignant language.",
"It's possible to hate Israel without hating Jews.",
"It's even possible to hate Jews without hating Israel, as is said of a famously nasty British media personality: \"He managed the impressive feat of being intensely anti-Semitic without becoming even slightly pro-Arab.\"",
"But these interesting theoretical potentialities exist mainly on the blackboard.",
"In real life, it becomes very difficult to separate hatred of the Jewish state from hatred of the Jews who live in that state.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of David Frum."
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"He says some critics engage in wild charges without any foundation .",
"Frum says he defended Andrew Sullivan against charges of anti-Semitism .",
"But he says in other cases, hatred of Israel and of Jews go hand-in-hand ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Americans are split over whether China represents a military threat to the United States -- but there is no doubt in the public's mind that the country poses an economic threat, according to a new national poll.",
"According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday, 51 percent of the public consider China a military threat, with 47 percent disagreeing.",
"That 4-point margin is within the poll's 4.5 percent sampling error.",
"The poll's release coincides with U.S. President Barack Obama's first visit to China to bolster relations.",
"At a town hall meeting on Monday he made the case to Chinese students that the two countries' philosophical differences should not get in the way of a robust relationship.",
"According to the survey, two-thirds see China as a source of unfair competition for U.S. companies, while only a quarter are more likely to view China as a huge potential market for U.S. goods.",
"\"That may be why 71 percent of Americans consider China an economic threat to the U.S.,\" says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.",
"\"Americans tend to view foreign countries as competition, and China is no exception.\"",
"Only a quarter of those questioned in the poll say that China has a good track record on human rights.",
"Sixty-eight percent suggested that China is doing a bad job respecting the human rights of its citizens.",
"The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted November 13-15, with 1,014 adult Americans questioned by telephone.",
"CNN's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report ."
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"(CNN) -- To hear Spc.",
"Alexis Hutchinson tell it, the Army forced her to make an agonizing choice between serving her country and taking care of her son.",
"The Army, however, takes issue with the soldier's story and Hutchinson could now be facing serious charges for desertion.",
"When her unit deployed to Afghanistan earlier in November, Hutchinson was missing from the plane.",
"Her lawyer said she refused to go because there was no one to take care of her 10-month-old son, Kamani, and she feared he would be placed in foster care.",
"The Army said the young mother had plenty of time to sort out family issues and has been confined to her post at Fort Stewart, Georgia, while an investigation unfolds.",
"Before shipping overseas, every soldier must sign military Form D-A 53-05, which states that failure to maintain a family care plan could result in disciplinary action.",
"Hutchinson had agreed to such a plan and her mother, Angelique Hughes, took in Kamani in a month before Hutchinson's deployment date.",
"But after a week with the infant, Hughes, who cares for ailing relatives and runs a day-care out of her home, said she felt so overwhelmed that she backed out.",
"\"It was that hard, because he's a very busy baby,\" Hughes told CNN affiliate WTOC in Savannah, Georgia.",
"\"You have to keep an eye on him 24 hours a day.\"",
"Hutchinson's attorney, Rai Sue Sussman, said the soldier informed the Army that her family care plan had fallen through and that there was no one to take care of Kamani.",
"Fort Stewart spokesman Kevin Larson said Hutchinson's unit had known for months about its pending deployment and that it wasn't until the last minute that Hutchinson notified the Army of her child-care woes.",
"Like all soldiers who face similar circumstances, Hutchinson received a 30-day extension back in August and September, Larson said.",
"That's \"plenty of time,\" he said, \"to work out another care plan.\"",
"On the eve of her unit's departure, Hutchinson was ordered to be on the plane.",
"\"That's when it put her in this horrible situation of having to choose between abandoning her child or disobeying her superiors,\" Sussman said.",
"\"The sense I got from her and the reason I think why she was scared enough to not go and get on her plane was because they would take her child from her.\"",
"Less than 24 hours after her fellow soldiers took off from Hunter Army Airfield, Hutchinson turned herself in and was arrested by military police.",
"No charges have been filed.",
"More than 30,000 single mothers have served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, according to a new report compiled by the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America.",
"Former Air Force JAG Officer Michelle McCleur said Hutchinson is not likely to win a legal battle with the Army.",
"\"When soldiers are ordered to deploy, and single soldiers included, they have to have a family care plan in place ... and they need to implement that,\" she said.",
"CNN's Brian Todd and Campbell Brown contributed to this report ."
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"Hutchinson claims plans for mother to take care of her child fell through .",
"Army says Hutchinson had plenty of time to come up with alternate plans ."
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"(CNN) -- The number of people worldwide without access to a toilet -- no public restroom, no outhouse, no latrine, no smallest room -- is a whopping 2.6 billion.",
"That's four out of ten people.",
"The bucket toilet is the only thing on offer for millions of black South Africans.",
"According to the World Toilet Organization, 2.2 million people, predominantly children, die every year from diarrhea -- more than from malaria, from AIDS, from TB.",
"That number dwarfs any casualties related to violent conflict.",
"These figures are intrinsically related.",
"The underestimation of fecal contamination is staggering, sobering -- and unfortunately, silencing.",
"Singaporean social-entrepreneur Jack Sim founded the non-profit World Toilet Organization (\"the other WTO\") in 2001, as a support network for all existing organizations.",
"It now includes 151 members from 53 countries, which meet once a year to network, discuss sanitation issues and work together toward \"eliminating the toilet taboo and delivering sustainable sanitation.\"",
"Goal number one: Making sanitation speakable.",
"\"What we don't discuss, we can't improve,\" insists Sim.",
"This year, the World Toilet Summit & Expo 2008 was held from November 4-6 in Macau under the theme \"Driving Sustainable Sanitation through Market-Based Initiatives.\"",
"Indeed, not only is sanitation a good idea, it's a good investment.",
"Biosolids can be composted into fertilizer, sewage can be processed into methane biogas, and even simple latrines in India are producing compost and fertilizer.",
"\"Globally, if universal sanitation were achieved by 2015, it would cost $95 billion, but it would save $660 billion,\" writes Rose George in her newly released book \"The Big Necessity.\"",
"Real-world examples follow: \"When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, it cost $1 billion to contain but could have been prevented with $100 million of better sanitation measures.\"",
"Or even more alarming: \"Pakistan, for example, spends 47 times more on its military budget than on water and sanitation, though it loses 120,000 people to diarrhea a year.\"",
"So while 2.6 billion people have no toilet, how many millions of us simply \"flush and forget\"?",
"Eco-sanitation, or the problem of dealing efficiently and ecologically with sewer systems, wastewater, treatment and purification, is no less a serious one.",
"In the UK alone, the sewage system emits some 28.8 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.",
"As sewers become overloaded with urban development, drought strikes various regions of the earth, and potable water becomes increasingly scarce, even the flush toilet is now put into question.",
"Today, those who care are looking at innovative toilet and waste-disposal solutions from India, China and other parts of the developing world, where attitudes and habits are still evolving and open to change.",
"Don't forget, World Toilet Day is November 19."
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"World Toilet Organization includes 151 members from 53 countries .",
"Rose George: Universal sanitation by 2015 would cost $95bn, save $660bn .",
"Flush toilet, sewer systems also pose problem to ecological sanitation ."
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"(CNN) -- British boxer Amir Khan has retained his WBA light-welterweight title after winning the much-hyped \"battle of the faiths\" by stopping challenger Dmitriy Salita in the first round on Saturday night.",
"Khan, a devout Muslim, knocked down his Jewish opponent three times before the referee stopped after just one minute and 16 seconds.",
"Salita, an American citizen who was born in Ukraine and is nicknamed \"Star of David\", was unable to follow up his bold claims made in the build-up to the fight, which took place in Newcastle in the north-east of England.",
"The 22-year-old Khan was successful in his first defense of the belt that he won in defeating Andreas Kotelnik in July.",
"He is trained by American Freddie Roach, who also guides Filipino star Manny Pacquiao, considered by many to be the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world.",
"\"It was very explosive. The fight was just what we asked for, what Freddie asked me to do.",
"We had too much power for this guy,\" a delighted Khan told reporters after the fight.",
"\"I'm a growing young man and developing as a man.",
"Freddie said to take it easy, pick the right shots and you'll take this guy out and we did.",
"\"Freddie is a great trainer, he's like a father figure to me and to have him in my corner means a lot.",
"Everyone knows I'm a hard-working fighter and if you put the hard work in you're going to get the benefits.",
"\"After the first shot I could see his legs buckling and I just had to take my time.",
"I knew he was going.\"",
"Roach has helped the Olympic silver medal winner to rebuild his career after a humiliating defeat by unknown Colombian Breidis Prescott last year.",
"\"It was a blessing in disguise what happened against Prescott, I got beat and came back stronger,\" Khan said.",
"Roach was equally impressed with his young charge.",
"\"I would give him an A+.",
"I said if you hurt him, finish him.",
"We've been working on that power and the fight was really over after that first punch,\" he said."
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"(CNN) -- The Beatles first appeared on \"The Ed Sullivan Show\" 44 years ago.",
"It's also been 44 years since the Beatles held the five top positions of the Billboard pop chart, a feat never achieved before -- or since.",
"Ringo Starr wishes peace and love to everyone following Larry King singing \"Happy Birthday\" to him.",
"But no time has passed since one of the Beatles, Ringo Starr, was playing up on stage.",
"The drummer's 68th birthday Monday coincided with his 10th \"Ringo Starr and his All Stars\" tour.",
"In honor of the day, he asked people to take a moment at noon for peace and love.",
"Thousands joined him in Chicago to do just that.",
"He also celebrated his birthday on \"Larry King Live,\" talking with King about Beatlemania, his new album and the tour.",
"The following is an edited version of the interview: .",
"KING: How did you come up with the idea [of peace and love]?",
"RINGO STARR: Oh it came in a dream -- flaming pie.",
"It's just -- I just thought it would be a nice thing when, you know, because it's my birthday and I'm on tour, everybody is saying what do you want for your birthday?",
"So I thought well, why not at noon doesn't everybody go \"peace and love\"?",
"Watch people celebrate Starr's birthday in London » .",
"KING: That was something the Beatles were always concerned with, weren't they, those kind of themes?",
"STARR: Well, yes.",
"It was part of our generation, of the '60s -- middle '60s, of course and, you know, with flower power and peace and love and that -- I'm just keeping it rolling.",
"That's what I'm doing. KING: Why do you perform?",
"STARR: I perform because that's what I do.",
"When I was 13, the dream was to be a drummer.",
"I didn't want to be a guitarist or anything else.",
"I wanted to be a drummer.",
"That happened. I started playing with local musicians and I always wanted to play with the best musicians around.",
"I ended up in the biggest band in the world with the best musicians.",
"I'm still doing it now. The dream unfolds all the time.",
"I love to play. I love to perform.",
"It's a lot of fun, and it just happens to be what I do.",
"KING: But it's never a grind?",
"STARR: No. Hotels are a grind.",
"The traveling's always a grind.",
"The good things that come out of that is that for ... two hours and 15 minutes a night, you get a chance to just have a great time.",
"KING: How is the all-star band picked?",
"STARR: I picked them because the first rule is that you have to have had a hit in the '60s, which I had, '70s, which I had, '80s or '90s.",
"We're the best 1-800-band that goes live.",
"You know, Colin Hay from Men at Work, Edgar Winter, Billy Squier, Gary Wright [with] \"Dream Weaver,\" Hamish [Stuart] from the Average White Band.",
"Everybody on stage has had hits.",
"The thing is, for the summer collectively, we all get together and support each other.",
"I play on all their songs.",
"They play on mine. Some of them I do from the front. I have this other drummer, Greg Bissonette, who is great.",
"He does those and then I get up and play the drums.",
"I win both ways. KING: Your latest CD is \"Liverpool 8,\" and it is probably -- not probably, it's definitely the most personal of your albums.",
"Why did you do it? STARR: You're a writer, I write with friends.",
"People are talking about the actual title track, \"Liverpool 8,\" which was about my life.",
"The first verse, I was a sailor first; I was in the Merchant Navy.",
"I worked in a factory and then I joined Rory Storm and that's when I went professional as a musician, and we played this holiday camp called Butlin's Holiday Camp, and then we went to Hamburg and we ended up in [New York's] Shea [Stadium].",
"It's like a mini autobiography.",
"I think that's what people are getting to.",
"KING: How did you get to be a Beatle?",
"STARR: I got it because I'm an incredible musician, and I knew the boys, and they gave me -- I was playing with Rory.",
"They gave me a call and said, do you want to join the band.",
"I said, sure. That's how it happened. KING: Did you like that band right off?",
"STARR: No. I liked that band before I was in it.",
"It was the only band I used to go and see in Liverpool.",
"We became friends before that, before I joined.",
"We were all playing in the same venues.",
"Actually, Rory Storm and the Beatles played in Germany together.",
"It wasn't like I was some stranger they called up.",
"KING: Did you like the other drummer?",
"STARR: The other drummer was the other drummer, you know.",
"A lot of water has gone under the bridge.",
"They, for their reasons, decided they wanted a change, and I am the result.",
"KING: How fortunate for everyone.",
"You and Paul McCartney are the two still alive.",
"You were with us last year in Vegas in an extraordinary show.",
"This may be difficult.",
"What was it like to be a Beatle?",
"STARR: Well, it's difficult, because what was it like?",
"I mean, it was incredible.",
"It was hard, because when we started we were a club band and then it got bigger and bigger.",
"Because we were four brothers together, we supported each other.",
"But you cannot not say that it wasn't crazy days and reckless nights.",
"That's what it was. You know, in the end, you know, the one big image that we had, the whole floor of the Plaza [Hotel] in New York and the four of us were hanging out in the bathroom trying to get away from the pressure.",
"KING: Do you still listen to the Beatles?",
"STARR: Yes, of course I do, some great tracks.",
"My iPod is on shuffle.",
"I have Beatle tracks in it.",
"So they come up and, you know, the music is still, you know -- I love the music.",
"KING: Why or how do you explain their long lasting?",
"STARR: Because they were great songs and, you know, we were incredible musicians who gave those songs incredible life.",
"KING: Do you think the Beatles would be a success today?",
"STARR: Sure.",
"KING: Great music is great music.",
"STARR: Hey, I mean, the kids of today don't know us really, but they know the music.",
"You know, they're still listening to it and saying wow!",
"You talk to any new band, most of them have actually had a listen to what we did.",
"KING: Anything you want to do, Ringo, you haven't done?",
"STARR: No, I'm sort of doing enough.",
"It's good. And I'm privileged and blessed that I can do what I want to do, when I want to do it.",
"KING: And it's still -- when you're on that stage, hitting those drums and the band is going -- .",
"STARR: Love it."
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"Starr was in Chicago on his 10th \"Ringo Starr and his All Stars\" tour .",
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"\"It was incredible,\" Starr says of his Beatles days ."
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"Durham, North Carolina (CNN) -- To define someone as a looter is not simply to describe him, or her, through an act, it is to make a moral judgment.",
"It is to characterize the person as lawless and criminal.",
"It connotes someone who is without self-restraint; an animal; wanton and depraved.",
"It is a description that is void of empathy for someone who is consciously or subconsciously viewed as \"the other.\"",
"Tragically, it fits into the stereotype that many have about people of African descent, be they African-Americans or Haitian-Americans.",
"The news media have to stop describing starving Haitians who are simply trying to survive the earthquake and aftershocks that took their homes, their loved ones, and all their possessions by this highly derogatory term.",
"It's a lesson they should have learned covering the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.",
"I remember the news accounts then that described black residents of New Orleans as \"looters,\" but used benign words to describe white residents engaged in the same action: taking things.",
"Academics have found repeated instances of this in media content analyses after disasters.",
"One example, widely disseminated on the web post-Katrina, juxtaposed an Associated Press photo that showed a young black man wading through chest-high water \"after looting a grocery store\" (said the caption), with an AFP/Getty photo of a white woman in the same position, although the caption this time described her \"finding\" food \"from a local grocery store.\"",
"It is time to put this practice to rest.",
"Put yourself in the position of the average Haitian in Port-au-Prince.",
"One minute you were going about your business, the next minute the earth shook and literally your world crumbled all around you.",
"But you were one of the lucky ones, you survived the earthquake.",
"Injured? Yes. But alive. Your first thought is to cry out for your family, especially your kids.",
"But most of your family is buried under a rubble pile somewhere.",
"You had four children but only one survived the earthquake.",
"You have spent the last few days, along with your fellow survivors, digging through the rubble trying to find them.",
"It is now a week after the earthquake, and you have eaten little or nothing.",
"You are hungry and thirsty, and while you hear rumors of aid coming, you have not seen any evidence of it.",
"You have not heard from the president and indeed you've heard rumors that his wife is dead.",
"Perhaps he left the country; you would too, if you could.",
"There is no police presence at all.",
"No governmental authority to provide support.",
"There are no markets. The only money you have are the few gourdes (Haitian dollars) that you have in your pockets.",
"The rest of your money is in the safe place you always kept it -- but it is now buried with your food.",
"The banks are not open.",
"There is no one to borrow from; they are all in the same boat as you.",
"There are no functioning institutions.",
"You have family in the United States and they are desperately trying to get you some help.",
"They have contacted all of the big aid agencies, but those agencies have issues of their own.",
"Some have lost staff members.",
"They are doing the best they can, but they have no idea that you exist and you have no way of finding them.",
"The roads are impassable, and they can't get clearance from whoever is in charge of the airport to land their planes, which bring much needed supplies.",
"They're afraid to go anywhere without security because they've heard that the people are becoming restless.",
"Indeed, though you do not know this, the U.S. military is also worried that citizens will get violent and start stealing.",
"The United Nations is waiting for more troops, and the doctors have stopped treating patients because of those same fears: violence, looting.",
"Under normal circumstances you would not think of taking food without paying for it.",
"You are what other Haitians would call \"bien eleve\" not \"mal eleve.\"",
"By that they mean you were well-raised, with manners and dignity.",
"Haitians put a strong premium on dignity.",
"To take something for which you have not paid does not only offend your sense of legality but also your sense of personhood.",
"It is undignified. But not only are you starving, so is your only surviving child.",
"You would prefer to pay, but whom?",
"What would you pay with? You'd prefer to wait, but for whom?",
"How long can you afford to wait?",
"You feel that your desperate state is evidence that you have been abandoned by your family, your country, the international community, and Bondié (God).",
"(The Creole word for God literally means \"good God.\")",
"So you take. You take just enough for a couple of days and a couple of family members.",
"You take and you run to feed those for whom the only measure of fortune is survival in Haiti, post-earthquake.",
"You take and you run. Are you a looter? Try as we might to prevent it, the answer to that question is inevitably racialized.",
"We cannot separate the word looting from its racial implications or the supposed crime of looting from its racial origins.",
"In the throes of the civil rights movement in the United States, many states made looting a crime.",
"Almost all of these states were southern states that had a history of criminalizing behavior that they associated more with African-Americans than with whites.",
"Even so, the criminal law, for all of its shortcomings, is often more sophisticated than we are.",
"It recognizes that context matters.",
"It has been developed with concepts -- such as necessity and justification -- to identify the circumstances under which a person who would normally be held culpable can be held either less culpable or not at all culpable.",
"Taking food is different than taking a television.",
"It is past time for our news media to develop similar sophistication.",
"It is time to stop characterizing black people trying to survive in dire circumstances as looters.",
"Are they takers? Yes. Are they looters? Let's wait for a criminal conviction first.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Guy-Uriel Charles."
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"He says even after Katrina criticism, media are quick to buy into this characterization .",
"He describes the desperate circumstances that might lead a victim to take food .",
"Charles: Reasons for taking matter, especially in a disaster ."
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"(CNN) -- Film director Roman Polanski has been released from custody in Switzerland and placed under house arrest, Swiss justice authorities said Friday.",
"Polanski was released \"pending extradition\" to the United States, the Swiss Department of Justice and Police said in a statement.",
"Polanski faces a sex-offense charge from the 1970s that involves a girl who was 13.",
"He is under house arrest at his chalet in Gstaad, Switzerland, the department said.",
"His house has been fitted with an electronic monitoring system that will trigger an alarm if Polanski leaves the premises or removes a bracelet that tracks his movements, the statement said.",
"A judge ruled last week that Polanski could be freed -- under house arrest -- if he posted bail of 4.5 million Swiss francs ($4.5 million).",
"He was moved to an undisclosed location Thursday because of security concerns, Swiss federal police spokesman Falco Galli said.",
"The Oscar-winning director was arrested in Switzerland in September on a U.S. arrest warrant stemming from a 1977 sex case.",
"Polanski, 76, pleaded guilty in August 1977 to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl five months earlier.",
"He was 43 at the time. Los Angeles, California, prosecutors dropped other charges in exchange for his guilty plea.",
"But Polanski fled the United States before he was sentenced, after he learned that the judge might not go along with the short jail term he expected to get in exchange for his agreement to plead guilty.",
"Polanski remained free, mostly living in France, before his arrest in Switzerland.",
"Los Angeles authorities said they sought his arrest when they learned that he would be traveling to Switzerland for a film festival in September.",
"The victim came forward long ago and made her identity public, saying she was disturbed by how the criminal case had been handled.",
"Samantha Geimer, now 45 and a married mother of three, called in January for the case to be tossed out.",
"Polanski agreed to pay Geimer $500,000 to settle a damage claim she filed against him nearly 12 years after the crime, according to court papers released October 2.",
"Polanski still owed the money -- plus $100,000 in interest -- three years after the 1993 settlement, according to the documents.",
"Geimer sought money for damages suffered when Polanski had sex with her.",
"She claimed that Polanski plied her with alcohol and Quaaludes during a photo shoot at the Hollywood Hills home of actor Jack Nicholson.",
"It's not clear whether Polanski completed paying the debt to Geimer, although the court papers document efforts by her lawyers to garnish residuals and other payments owed to Polanski by the Screen Actors Guild, movie studios and other Hollywood businesses.",
"Among Polanski's film credits are \"The Pianist,\" \"Chinatown,\" \"Repulsion,\" \"Rosemary's Baby,\" \"The Ninth Gate\" and \"Tess.\""
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"(CNN) -- There's a lot of head-scratching at the CIA over an article in Vanity Fair magazine that dubs Erik Prince, the founder of the notorious private military contractor Blackwater, a \"tycoon, contractor, soldier, spy.\"",
"In the piece, he comes across as so entrenched with the CIA that the agency needs him to perform the most sensitive secret missions, including those involving hunting down and taking out al Qaeda operatives.",
"It's true that Prince, as the sole owner of one of the most well-connected private military contractors in modern history, is in a position of enormous trust within the government.",
"So why is it that he's lashing out publicly at that same government?",
"Prince, a 40-year-old former Navy SEAL, inherited what he called a sizable amount of money when his father died in the late '90s.",
"He's used that money to help climb to the top of an industry that has mushroomed since the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.",
"He built Blackwater, now operating under the name Xe, from the ground up, into a sprawling complex with enough tanks, planes and ammunition to launch a small war of its own.",
"When President Obama addressed the nation and talked about his Afghanistan strategy, he didn't talk about the shadow army already employed there.",
"There are more private contractors in Afghanistan on the U.S. payroll than there are U.S. troops.",
"While Prince is a huge beneficiary of U.S. contract dollars, he has long been frustrated by two things.",
"First, he doesn't like the reputation his company has gained, with his men painted as ruthless cowboys -- which some are, but some aren't.",
"Second, he believes some people in the government just don't appreciate him the way they should.",
"Prince uses the Vanity Fair article to re-air a lot of his complaints, but the story contains a great deal of classified information, with details about covert programs that involved him.",
"So does that mean that when convenient, he uses that information to help express his frustration?",
"Prince unabashedly criticizes parts of the government he doesn't like.",
"And some current and former government sources question whether that's a smart move.",
"They ask whether, as a man who benefits financially from those contracts, he should really go public with his criticisms of the same government that signs his checks.",
"Although the CIA has never publicly confirmed Prince's involvement -- it has become common knowledge in the industry he disclosed details of that relationship to me, among many other things, in the book I wrote on him that was published earlier this year.",
"A lot of those details came up again in this latest article, but Prince went even further this time.",
"The Vanity Fair article reports that Prince is \"privately and secretly doing the CIA's bidding, helping to craft, fund and execute operations ranging from inserting personnel into \"denied areas,\" places U.S. intelligence has trouble penetrating, to assembling hit teams targeting al Qaeda members and their allies.\"",
"Some former CIA officials are, quite frankly, annoyed.",
"Not only do they believe that Prince is overplaying any role he may have had or still has with the agency, but they believe he is exploiting it for personal gain.",
"Few of the sources I talked with wanted their names associated with Prince or his company, but when asked about the Vanity Fair article, CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano told me the agency has never \"talked about what role contractors may or may not have played in ... initiatives over the years.",
"But what no one should forget or overlook is the fact that this agency has the talent, tools, and authorities to go after terrorists, and has done so successfully.\"",
"In other words: We can do our own jobs just fine, thank you very much, Mr.",
"Prince. Another source with former ties to the CIA was outraged by the article, saying that Prince was putting a target on the backs of his own men by alluding to a close relationship between Blackwater and the agency.",
"He fears that all around the world, Blackwater contractors would be perceived as agents of the CIA.",
"A government official who also thought that the article exaggerated Prince's role in the CIA put it this way: .",
"\"Blackwater has good people.",
"They do hard work, sharing the burdens of service overseas.",
"But they're not well-served by strange tales, the kind of stuff you saw in Vanity Fair about miraculous penetrations of hard intelligence targets or private assassination squads with their fingers on the trigger.",
"\"That should all be shelved under fiction, the kind of stories that end with the alarm clock going off and mom calling you down to breakfast,\" the official said.",
"What the article doesn't say is just how much of a PR headache Prince has become.",
"One of the lessons that has come with the marriage between private and military is that for a private business, PR can be crucial to your survival; for a covert operation, it can be deadly.",
"Striking a balance between the two has been the source of much hand-wringing in Washington.",
"But no matter how you feel about private military contracting, it is here to stay.",
"All of the major U.S. agencies -- the State Department, the Department of Defense, the CIA -- do business with Prince, and all are dependent on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.",
"I flew with Prince to Afghanistan shortly after the shootings in a Baghdad traffic circle in September of 2007 that killed 17 people.",
"Blackwater guards were accused.",
"Four pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial; a fifth struck a deal with prosecutors.",
"Prince's frustration was obvious.",
"He felt like he had given everything to his country and that his country had let him down in countless ways; namely by not defending him publicly when his company came under fire after the shootings.",
"Prince says he does what he does for love of country, but of course, he doesn't do it for free.",
"His companies have received well over a billion dollars in the process.",
"I asked his spokesperson to comment on concerns that Prince might be jeopardizing agency programs by going public with the details -- after all, he does have a security clearance.",
"The response was this: \"Truth is he is a quiet hero, a great patriot and American.",
"We need more men like him.\"",
"Quiet? Really? The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Suzanne Simons."
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"He paints himself in magazine article as entrenched in sensitive CIA secret missions .",
"Suzanne Simons says many are annoyed Prince complains about government that pays him well .",
"She says military contractors have more people in Afghanistan than U.S. troops there ."
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"(CNN) -- They share a deep sorrow: an idealistic American who tried to protect the Kurds of Iraq, a Canadian general who refused to follow orders in Rwanda, a French priest who fought for the soul of Cambodia.",
"CNN's Christiane Amanpour traveled to the killing fields of Europe, Africa and Asia for \"Scream Bloody Murder.\"",
"Each one tried to focus the world's attention on the world's most heinous crime: genocide.",
"Each time, they were shunned, ignored or told it was someone else's problem.",
"To understand why, CNN's Christiane Amanpour traveled to the killing fields of Europe, Africa and Asia for a two-hour documentary, \"Scream Bloody Murder.\"",
"Having reported on mass atrocities around the world, this time Amanpour traced the personal accounts of those who tried to stop the slaughter.",
"The yearlong CNN investigation found that instead of using a U.N. treaty outlawing genocide as a springboard to action, political leaders have invoked reason after reason to make intervention seem unnecessary, pointless and even counter-productive.",
"Map: See the locations featured in the documentary » .",
"December marks the 60th anniversary of the U.N.'s Genocide Convention, when -- in the aftermath of the Holocaust -- the nations of the world pledged to prevent and punish future attempts to eliminate ethnic, religious and national groups.",
"Read the 1948 Genocide Convention (pdf) \"The Genocide Convention should have stopped genocide, but it didn't,\" said Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.",
"Intervention is a daunting challenge, he believes, because of a tendency to minimize accounts from refugees and victims.",
"\"It's better not to believe, because if you believe, you don't sleep nights.",
"And how can you eat? How can you drink a glass of wine when you know?\"",
"See images from locations in the documentary » .",
"1970s: Cambodia .",
"Father François Ponchaud was a Catholic missionary in Cambodia when the Khmer Rouge guerillas -- communist revolutionaries -- seized power in 1975.",
"They expelled all foreigners from the country.",
"But working from France, Ponchaud gathered refugee accounts and monitored radio broadcasts to document the slave labor, torture and executions the Khmer Rouge were using to kill one-fourth of Cambodia's population.",
"He published his findings in a major French newspaper and wrote a book, \"Year Zero.\"",
"But even so, Ponchaud tells Amanpour, \"No one believed us.\"",
"Watch a behind-the-scenes look at the making of 'Scream Bloody Murder' » .",
"1980s: Iraq .",
"CNN found that intervention is often weighed against political and economic costs.",
"Declassified U.S. government documents show that while Saddam Hussein was gassing Iraqi Kurds, the U.S. opposed punishing Iraq with a trade embargo because it was cultivating Iraq as an ally against Iran and as a market for U.S. farm exports.",
"According to Peter Galbraith, then an idealistic Senate staffer determined to stop Hussein from committing genocide, the Reagan administration \"got carried away with their own propaganda.",
"They began to believe that Saddam Hussein could be a reliable partner.\"",
"Read once-secret U.S. documents .",
"1990s: Bosnia .",
"Even extensive news coverage may not lead to intervention.",
"During the violent breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the media reported on the Bosnian Serbs' ethnic cleansing of Muslims: the siege of Sarajevo, the concentration camps, the use of rape as a weapon of war.",
"It was like watching \"a color remake of the black-and-white scenes we'd seen in World War II,\" said U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, whose Jewish grandfather fled Germany when Adolf Hitler came to power.",
"Holbrooke was an early advocate for a U.S.-led military operation against the Bosnian Serbs.",
"\"I took a stand that I believed was correct,\" he told Amanpour.",
"\"I didn't think it was so controversial.\"",
"But it would take three years -- and the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica -- for Holbrooke to make his case within the Clinton administration.",
"1994: Rwanda .",
"In Rwanda, where Hutu soldiers and militias massacred their Tutsi countrymen, the Clinton administration tried to avoid characterizing the ethnic slaughter as genocide.",
"According to an internal memo, the State Department worried that under the 1948 Genocide Convention, using the term \"genocide\" could force the U.S. \"to actually 'do something.'\"",
"The head of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda, Canadian Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, begged for additional troops.",
"Instead of reinforcements, Dallaire got an order to withdraw completely.",
"He would not leave Rwanda.",
"\"I refused a legal order,\" he told Amanpour, \"but it was immoral.\"",
"His tiny U.N. force was not enough to stop the slaughter of more than 800,000 people.",
"2003: Darfur .",
"Some human rights advocates consider Darfur, the western region of Sudan, to be the scene of the first genocide of the 21st century.",
"The atrocities in Darfur grow out of a civil war between rebels from Sudan's African tribes and the country's Arab-led government.",
"In 2003, when the rebels attacked government outposts in Darfur, a U.N. human rights monitor warned that in the \"escalating conflict,\" Sudan's government may be \"engaged in ... ethnic cleansing aimed at eliminating African tribes from Darfur.\"",
"At the time, world attention was on Iraq, where the United States was fighting to overthrow Saddam Hussein.",
"The early warning on Darfur \"disappeared into a big hole,\" according to Mukesh Kapila, then the U.N.'s top official in Sudan.",
"Even when the U.N. Security Council put Darfur on its agenda, it took more than three years to authorize a robust peacekeeping force.",
"\"There was no lack of information,\" says activist Eric Reeves.",
"\"There was a lack of will to stop genocide.\"",
"In July, the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court accused Sudan's president of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, charges Sudan denies.",
"Read the ICC prosecutor's charges (pdf) How will history judge the world's response to Darfur?",
"\"It will applaud the young people ... who believe in solidarity,\" says Wiesel.",
"\"It will certainly criticize the leaders of the world.\"",
"And the next time somebody screams bloody murder to stop a genocide, will anyone listen?",
"CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Andy Segal, Jennifer Hyde and Ken Shiffman contributed to this report."
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"A few strong voices have since tried to focus the world's attention on genocide .",
"Each time they were shunned, ignored or told it was someone else's problem .",
"CNN's Christiane Amanpour traveled to the world's killing fields to understand why ."
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"Editor's note: Junot Díaz's novel \"The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\" won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008.",
"(OPRAH.com) -- It wasn't that I couldn't write.",
"I wrote every day.",
"I actually worked really hard at writing.",
"At my desk by 7 a.m., would work a full eight and more.",
"Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No.",
"6 train, at Shea Stadium.",
"I did everything I could.",
"But none of it worked.",
"My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark.",
"Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense.",
"Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.",
"But they were cool, showed a lot of promise.",
"Would also have been fine if I could have just jumped to something else.",
"But I couldn't. All the other novels I tried sucked worse than the stalled one, and even more disturbing, I seemed to have lost the ability to write short stories.",
"It was like I had somehow slipped into a No-Writing Twilight Zone and I couldn't find an exit.",
"Like I'd been chained to the sinking ship of those 75 pages and there was no key and no patching the hole in the hull.",
"I wrote and I wrote and I wrote, but nothing I produced was worth a damn.",
"Want to talk about stubborn?",
"I kept at it for five straight years.",
"Five damn years.",
"Every day failing for five years?",
"I'm a pretty stubborn, pretty hard-hearted character, but those five years of fail did a number on my psyche.",
"On me. Five years, 60 months?",
"It just about wiped me out. By the end of that fifth year, perhaps in an attempt to save myself, to escape my despair, I started becoming convinced that I had written all I had to write, that I was a minor league Ralph Ellison, a Pop Warner Edward Rivera, that maybe it was time, for the sake of my mental health, for me to move on to another profession, and if the inspiration struck again some time in the future...well, great.",
"But I knew I couldn't go on much more the way I was going.",
"I just couldn't. I was living with my fiancée at the time (over now, another terrible story) and was so depressed and self-loathing I could barely function.",
"I finally broached the topic with her of, maybe, you know, doing something else.",
"My fiancée was so desperate to see me happy (and perhaps more than a little convinced by my fear that maybe the thread had run out on my talent) that she told me to make a list of what else I could do besides writing.",
"I'm not a list person like she was, but I wrote one.",
"It took a month to pencil down three things.",
"(I really don't have many other skills.)",
"I stared at that list for about another month.",
"Waiting, hoping, praying for the book, for my writing, for my talent to catch fire.",
"A last-second reprieve.",
"But nada. So I put the manuscript away.",
"All the hundreds of failed pages, boxed and hidden in a closet.",
"I think I cried as I did it.",
"Five years of my life and the dream that I had of myself, all down the tubes because I couldn't pull off something other people seemed to pull off with relative ease: a novel.",
"By then I wasn't even interested in a Great American Novel.",
"I would have been elated with the eminently forgettable New Jersey novel.",
"Oprah.com: The real meaning of your \"true calling\" So I became a normal.",
"A square. I didn't go to bookstores or read the Sunday book section of the Times.",
"I stopped hanging out with my writer friends.",
"The bouts of rage and despair, the fights with my fiancée ended.",
"I slipped into my new morose half-life.",
"Started preparing for my next stage, back to school in September.",
"(I won't even tell you what I was thinking of doing, too embarrassing.)",
"While I waited for September to come around, I spent long hours in my writing room, sprawled on the floor, with the list on my chest, waiting for the promise of those words to leak through the paper into me.",
"Maybe I would have gone through with it.",
"Hard to know. But if the world is what it is so are our hearts.",
"One night in August, unable to sleep, sickened that I was giving up, but even more frightened by the thought of having to return to the writing, I dug out the manuscript.",
"I figured if I could find one good thing in the pages I would go back to it.",
"Just one good thing.",
"Like flipping a coin, I'd let the pages decide.",
"Spent the whole night reading everything I had written, and guess what?",
"It was still terrible.",
"In fact with the new distance the lameness was even worse than I'd thought.",
"That's when I should have put everything in the box.",
"When I should have turned my back and trudged into my new life.",
"I didn't have the heart to go on. But I guess I did. While my fiancée slept, I separated the 75 pages that were worthy from the mountain of loss, sat at my desk, and despite every part of me shrieking no no no no, I jumped back down the rabbit hole again.",
"There were no sudden miracles.",
"It took two more years of heartbreak, of being utterly, dismayingly lost before the novel I had dreamed about for all those years finally started revealing itself.",
"And another three years after that before I could look up from my desk and say the word I'd wanted to say for more than a decade: done.",
"Oprah.com: 4 writers answer \"What makes you you?\"",
"That's my tale in a nutshell.",
"Not the tale of how I came to write my novel but rather of how I became a writer.",
"Because, in truth, I didn't become a writer the first time I put pen to paper or when I finished my first book (easy) or my second one (hard).",
"You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden.",
"In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.",
"Wasn't until that night when I was faced with all those lousy pages that I realized, really realized, what it was exactly that I am.",
"Oprah.com: 11 ways to find your calling .",
"By Junot Diaz from O, The Oprah Magazine, November .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2010 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"He had 75 good pages but couldn't write anything else he liked .",
"After putting away hundreds of filled pages, he tried to think of other professions .",
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"Austin, Texas (CNN) -- The former accountant for Andrew Joseph \"Joe\" Stack III -- who officials say flew his plane into a Texas building housing an Internal Revenue Service office -- says Stack had never threatened him, a spokesman for the accountant said.",
"CPA Bill Ross was mentioned in a 3,000-word message on a Web site registered to Stack, which railed against the government, particularly the IRS.",
"The online message believed to have been written by Stack criticizes accountant Ross for \"representing himself and not me.\"",
"Ross had not heard from Stack since October, when his client \"disengaged\" services in a letter, spokesman Chad Wilbanks told CNN.",
"According to Ross, Stack had not expressed any threats toward the accountant or the IRS, Wilbanks said.",
"\"Mr. Stack contacted my firm to help with his personal taxes in 2008.",
"He failed to provide me with all his income and other information resulting in an IRS audit,\" Ross said in a written statement Saturday.",
"\"Unfortunately, Mr. Stack ignored the audit and my advice which only complicated his situation, at which time our firm disengaged our services with Mr. Stack whom we have not been in contact with since October 2009.\"",
"Ross did not provide any further details in the statement on his work with Stack.",
"Wilbanks said Ross, who has worked as a CPA for at least 30 years, thinks Stack located him in the phone book.",
"They only met four times and did not have a personal relationship, Wilbanks said.",
"The FBI has taken over the investigation into the crash, and Ross has spoken to investigators, Wilbanks said.",
"While Ross does not fear for his safety, he has \"taken precautions,\" though those steps were not detailed by Wilbanks.",
"The online message, in a hit to the IRS, states, \"I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different.",
"\"I am finally ready to stop this insanity.",
"Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.\"",
"Read the apparent suicide note (PDF) The seven-story building attacked in northwest Austin held offices for nearly 200 IRS workers.",
"Two people were killed and two others were hospitalized when Stacks crashed his plane into the building Thursday, federal officials said.",
"One of the injured, Shane Hill, announced his release from the hospital Saturday.",
"\"I am very grateful to the first responders who were there to assist me, and to those who have cared for me in San Antonio,\" Hill said in a written statement.",
"\"I am so blessed to be home today, and I ask for your courtesy and our privacy as my family and I focus on making a quick and full recovery.\"",
"Though the remains of two people found in the IRS building have been identified, their identities will not be revealed until after a forensic examination, said Ralph Diaz, special agent in charge of the FBI's San Antonio field office.",
"Watch one of crash victim's sons say he's \"still a little shocked\" Agents were looking into whether the seats of the plane were removed to accommodate a fuel drum in an effort to cause maximum damage, an official familiar with the investigation said Friday.",
"The official, who could not speak on the record because of the ongoing investigation, said the Piper Cherokee PA-28 had several seats removed and a fuel drum was missing from the airport Stack took off from.",
"The single-engine plane has a fuel tank capacity of 38 gallons and is equipped with four seats, according to the Web site risingup.com.",
"Authorities say Stack also torched his $230,000 home in Austin on Thursday morning before embarking on his fatal flight.",
"Stack's wife, Sheryl Stack, expressed her \"sincere sympathy to the victims and their families\" in a statement read by family friend Rayford Walker on Friday.",
"Like Ross, friends and former colleagues said they had no inkling of the rage apparently building inside Stack.",
"\"He hid that very well,\" said Billy Eli, in whose band Stack played bass until a few years ago.",
"\"Obviously he was in some serious distress and had some real despair.",
"I never saw that.\" CNN's Tracy Sabo contributed to this report."
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"The online message criticized Bill Ross for \"representing himself and not me\"\nRoss had not heard from Stack since October, when his client \"disengaged\" services in a letter .",
"One of the injured, Shane Hill, announced his hospital release Saturday: \"I am very grateful\""
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"Dallas, Texas (CNN) -- Two men were arrested and charged Sunday in connection with a string of deliberately set church fires in east Texas, authorities said.",
"Jason Robert Bourque, 19, and Daniel George McAllister, 21, were charged with one count of arson each in a February 8 fire set at the Dover Baptist Church in Tyler, Texas, according to the state Department of Public Safety.",
"Authorities say they believe the men are connected to nine other church fires that have been set in the area since January 1.",
"Bourque and McAllister also are suspects in the attempted break-ins at three separate churches earlier this month, said Steve McCraw, director of the public safety department.",
"A federal law enforcement source told CNN that multiple pieces of evidence have been linked to one of the suspects through DNA and that many of the fires were ignited the same way.",
"\"East Texans can rest easier tonight,\" McCraw said at a news conference announcing the arrests.",
"He called the arsons \"despicable and cowardly acts.\"",
"A call to a tip hot line led to the arrests, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which was offering a $25,000 reward for information about the fires.",
"Investigators were first made aware of the suspects about two weeks ago and had been trying to build a case against them since then, ATF Special Agent Thomas Crowley said.",
"Authorities have been interviewing them since their arrest but there's still no information on motive, Crowley said.",
"Authorities on February 12 released sketches of three people sought in connection with the fires.",
"On Sunday, officials said that those \"persons of interest\" are not related to this weekend's arrests.",
"An 11th church arson in Temple, Texas, is not related to the other 10, said Robert Champion of the ATF in Dallas, Texas.",
"Earlier this month, authorities said they were trying to determine whether the Temple fire was connected to the others.",
"CNN's Ed Lavandera contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Source: Evidence linked to one of the suspects through DNA .",
"Two men charged with arson in connection with one Texas church fire .",
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"Long Beach, California (CNN) -- Moments after marine explorer Sylvia Earle finished her passionate plea to preserve vast stretches of the world's oceans at last year's TED conference, a foundation executive walked up to her and pledged a million dollars for the cause.",
"It was one of nearly 400 offers of support Earle received after revealing the wish she wanted to be granted as a winner of the TED Prize, given by the nonprofit organization whose motto is \"Ideas worth spreading.\"",
"It grants the winners $100,000 and organizational support but the impact of the prize is typically magnified by the backing of the influential audience attending the conferences.",
"On Wednesday, British celebrity chef and nutrition advocate Jamie Oliver will reveal his wish as the winner of the 2010 prize.",
"\"Every year we're looking around for someone who can inspire the world to do something big and interesting,\" says Chris Anderson, who runs TED with the title of curator.",
"\"The issue of obesity, both in the US and worldwide, is a big deal, a shocking problem in a world where you've got a lot of people starving and a lot of people killing themselves by overeating... or eating the wrong things.",
"We were interested in finding an inspirational figure who could address that.\"",
"Past TED prizes have gone to former President Bill Clinton, rock star and philanthropist Bono and biologist E.O.",
"Wilson. Since 2005, TED has granted wishes to three people a year and continues to work with past winners on achieving their wishes.",
"But this year, the only winner will be Oliver, who has built an empire of cooking shows, cookbooks and restaurants.",
"Oliver, the 34-year-old son of the owners of a pub/restaurant in Essex, England, came to public attention when he starred in a BBC television series, \"The Naked Chef.\"",
"He has followed that up with many other series, including one on nutrition in America due to launch this spring on ABC.",
"The chef branched out into advocacy with a \"Feed Me Better\" campaign for improved school lunches in the U.K.",
"He presented a petition with more than 270,000 signatures to the prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street in 2005, and officials promised to spend an added 280 million pounds ($437 million) to improve school food quality.",
"TED Prize winners typically keep their wishes secret until the conference.",
"Anderson told CNN last week that he did not know what Oliver's wish is.",
"\"The whole idea is that the winner can actually wish for anything.",
"We're taking a bit of a gamble here, for all we know he could wish for a hot tub full of models.\"",
"The suspense is \"part of the magical nature of the prize ... that moment of unveiling is special and it excites people.\"",
"Oliver's not tipping his hand about his wish, saying -- through a spokesman -- \"I humbly but passionately hope that my wish and my speech will inspire everyone in the room -- and watching on the Internet -- to take action on an issue that affects the whole world.\"",
"TED began in the 1980s as a conference in California focusing on technology, entertainment and design but has since expanded to include virtually any subject and conferences in other locations.",
"Speakers, dressed informally, prowl a big stage -- there's no lectern -- and present their views as a clock ticks away the 18 minutes each is allotted.",
"This year's conference in Long Beach, California, with 1,500 people attending in person and 500 watching a simulcast at the TEDActive conference in Palm Springs, features Bill Gates, Sheryl Crow, Sarah Silverman, James Cameron, David Byrne and Eve Ensler, among a roster of speakers in fields such as technology, science, philosophy, art, music and design.",
"Anderson, who built and eventually sold a magazine publishing empire in the 1980s and 1990s, first attended a TED conference in 1998 and was intrigued that many people said it was the highlight of their year.",
"He acquired TED in 2001 and hosted his first conference in 2003.",
"Three years later, TED began posting videos of its talks on the Web.",
"They have been viewed more than 200 million times and many have now been given subtitles in 70 languages, through the work of volunteer translators.",
"With the TED Prize, the organization goes beyond simply spreading ideas.",
"\"Whenever I've been to TED, I've been struck by how towards the end of the conference, you had a room full of influential connected people absolutely burning with the possibility of inspiration, and it felt like something could be done with that,\" Anderson said.",
"After a brainstorming session with participants, the idea of a TED Prize emerged, \"a prize that instead of looking back, it looked forward.",
"You brought someone to the conference and instead of just honoring them, you granted them a wish, a chance to make a difference in the world, a wish without restrictions.\"",
"Amy Novogratz, director of the TED Prize, said the year after biologist E.O.",
"Wilson wished for a database to document every species on earth, the organization helped launch the \"Encyclopedia of Life.\"",
"\"Bono, the humanitarian rock star, won in 2005,\" Novogratz said, \"and wished for a million Americans to sign up to say that they care about poverty in Africa.",
"With Bono and his organization we launched one.org, and he delivered a petition to the G8 that summer with almost 2 million signatures.\"",
"Sylvia Earle, the marine biologist, has led dozens of expeditions, including an all-female team that lived for weeks underwater in 1970.",
"She also walked on the sea floor untethered at a lower depth than any other woman.",
"In her talk last year, she pointed out that in the past 50 years, 90 percent of the big fish in the oceans have been consumed and nearly half of the ocean's coral reefs have disappeared.",
"Less than one percent of the ocean is protected from destructive fishing, and Earle believes the seas will go into irreversible decline unless a much larger portion - some experts say as much as 30 percent - is protected.",
"Earle said the world needs to act swiftly to protect what she calls \"the blue heart of the planet that basically keeps us alive.\"",
"She told CNN in an interview that a major public awareness campaign will be launched this year and that plans are underway for a conference at sea to get \"influential people to use their talents and intellect to come up with new ways to address these problems.\"",
"Earle attributes these initiatives to the involvement of TED.",
"\"It allows us to tap into individuals and organizations all over the world that I wouldn't be able to do as an individual,\" she said.",
"\"They create this awareness and they frame the issues in such a way that people get it and they're inspired to help.",
"And that is a true gift. That's the real prize.\""
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"Wilson, among others .",
"Winner Jamie Oliver will announce his secret \"wish to change the world\" at TED2010 at approximately 8:50 pm ET Wednesday, Feb 10, live on CNN.com .",
"Oliver is a celebrity chef who has crusaded for improved school nutrition in the U.K."
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"(CNN) -- Several weeks ago, President Obama announced that $8 billion in government-loan guarantees would be made available to Southern Co. to begin construction of two nuclear reactors in Georgia.",
"If built, it would be the first nuclear power plant constructed in the United States in almost 30 years.",
"More importantly, this would be the first of what is expected to be many such projects initiated in coming years.",
"I am a big believer in the necessity for energy independence.",
"I accept that we will all have to make some compromises in achieving that goal.",
"I am willing to consider that nuclear power may have to be one piece of the plan we put together for how to break ourselves free from our dependence on foreign oil.",
"I would submit, however, that before we start building reactors we need to address another urgent matter.",
"We need to make current reactors secure.",
"Roughly 18 months ago I started work on a project that ultimately lead to the writing of my recently published book, \"Willful Neglect,\" on homeland security in the United States.",
"I examined security at a wide range of potential targets inside the United States, including chemical plants, liquefied natural gas facilities, biological research laboratories and nuclear power plants.",
"This was not a theoretical study.",
"I did my homework up front, but after that, I went out on the street and I did what my 20 years in the CIA had trained me to do.",
"I looked at all these targets in the same way as an adversary would.",
"What I found was deeply disturbing.",
"Eight years after 9/11, we had done little or nothing to enhance security in most areas.",
"Nuclear power plants were no exception.",
"Security at nuclear power plants is in the hands of private security companies hired to protect the facilities by the power companies that own them.",
"Before 9/11, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission mandated that there would be five to 10 private security guards on duty at each site per shift.",
"After 9/11 that number was increased.",
"On average, there are now a total of 20 such security personnel on duty at any one time to guard a nuclear power plant.",
"That is 20 individuals to secure the entire perimeter and interior of what may be a vast facility.",
"These guards are grossly underpaid.",
"In many cases, they make less than the janitors at the facilities in question.",
"They train with their weapons no more than two to three times a year.",
"Some of them are prior military and have combat experience.",
"Many others are hired off the street and given less than a week's worth of training before they begin to stand post.",
"Much of that week of training is consumed with administrative matters, which have nothing to do with learning how to repel a terrorist attack.",
"Morale among the guards at nuclear power plants is chronically low.",
"I was told by many individuals during my research that it was common to hear discussions among guards about where they would hide if there were an attack.",
"These guard forces are typically trained to respond to a limited number of scenarios.",
"These scenarios are always designed around attacks by very small numbers and are artificially constrained so as to not allow these attackers to use many weapons, such as rocket launchers and machine guns, commonly in use by terrorist groups today.",
"Even so, the guard forces are defeated at least half the time.",
"These deficiencies have been pointed out for years by any number of watchdog organizations.",
"Likewise, detailed recommendations have been put forth regarding how to improve the situation and increase the size and ability of power plant guard forces.",
"These include requiring them to demonstrate the capacity to repel attacks by teams of terrorists using the weapons and tactics commonly in use around the world today.",
"These have been largely ignored.",
"An interest in nuclear power plants by al Qaeda or another terrorist group is not theoretical.",
"Among the targets considered for the 9/11 attacks were nuclear power plants.",
"Yemeni security forces recently captured a suspected member of al Qaeda, a New Jersey native named Sharif Mobley.",
"Between 2002 and 2008, he worked at several U.S. nuclear power plants.",
"It does not take a counterterrorism expert to imagine what al Qaeda might be able to do with the knowledge supplied by an individual who had spent the better part of six years inside nuclear facilities.",
"The stakes here are enormous.",
"A team of terrorists, which was able to seize control of a nuclear power plant, could cause it to melt down with relatively basic knowledge of the plant's operation.",
"A full-scale meltdown of a major reactor would be catastrophic.",
"Such an incident at the Indian Point Plant in New York state, for instance, would likely render large parts of the metropolitan New York City area uninhabitable for decades and likely kill tens of thousands.",
"We have neglected this issue for too long.",
"It needs to be addressed, and the decision to push the building of reactors simply adds urgency.",
"Before we move ahead with any new nuclear power plants, let's attend to unfinished business and fix security at the ones we have.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Charles S. Faddis."
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"Charles Faddis says U.S. should first make existing plants secure .",
"He says security forces aren't well-trained or numerous enough to counter threats .",
"Faddis: A terrorist attack at a nuclear plant could have dire consequences ."
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"London, England (CNN) -- Sherlock Holmes the movie has already made more than $300 million at the box office worldwide and British tourism officials are hoping it means money for them too.",
"Britain's tourism board has been promoting films for the past 15 years, so they know just how lucrative a movie like \"Sherlock Homes\" can be.",
"\"To give you an example of a typical blockbuster film, it is normally seen by about 120 million people in the first three weeks of opening,\" Visit Britain official Laurence Bresh told CNN.",
"\"Even if a small percentage of those come to visit Britain as a result of this particular film, that's going to have a huge boost in some of those tourism attractions featured in our promotion.\"",
"As much of \"Sherlock Holmes\" is set in London this means big business for museum officials and gift shop operators.",
"The Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221b Baker Street is the address where the fictional detective lived, according to the stories by Conan Doyle.",
"Nearby, a nine-foot statue of Holmes greets visitors at the Baker Street Underground station.",
"Inside the museum, visitors can check out Holmes' study, sit in his armchair by the fireside, examine his calabash pipe and observe his chemistry equipment.",
"\"I think Hollywood has put its magic touch on the legend, and they've put, as it were, a magnifying glass over the character and of course things you could say are slightly exaggerated, but that's the wont of Hollywood and that's what makes these blockbusters successful,\" John Riley, Assistant Curator of the Sherlock Holmes Museum said.",
"\"So any new perspective, any new angle always just helps to perpetuate the legend of Sherlock Holmes.",
"And that indirectly will obviously benefit the museum.\"",
"About 70,000 visitors a year stop by the Victorian lodging house, though officials are expecting a spike of interest fueled by the new movie.",
"While thousands of tourists flock to visit the museum, many of its visitors are unaware that Sherlock Holmes was actually not real person.",
"\"A few people do think he is a real character, particularly with the tour of his house on 'Baker Street' adding fuel to the fire so to speak,\" Mark Di-Toro from Visit Britain said.",
"\"That is just testament to Doyle's brilliant writing with his true to nature locations in the books meaning tourist can really relate and visit all the fantastic locations.\"",
"A. Pawlowski and Phil Han contributed to this report."
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"Many are unaware that Holmes was a fictional character .",
"The movie has already made more than $300 million worldwide ."
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"(CNN) -- Portugal declared three days of national mourning Monday amid fears the death toll from devastating floods and mudslides on the island of Madeira could rise above 42.",
"Search teams have been working to find more victims after floodwaters caused by heavy rains swamped the capital Funchal, unleashing a torrent of mud that swept away homes, roads and trees.",
"At least 120 people were injured.",
"Rescuers were trying to drain a two-story undergound car park at a shopping center where many people are thought to have become trapped.",
"Rescuers feared were that when rains started on Saturday many people may have rushed to retrieve their cars, but ended up trapped in the car park, CNN's Portuguese affiliate, RTP state TV, reported.",
"Flags were flying at half staff on government buildings in Lisbon in respect of the victims.",
"European Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso was due there later Monday to give a news conference describing what assistance the European Union can offer to Portugal.",
"Madeira-born footballer Cristiano Ronaldo also paid tribute to the victims as his team Real Madrid played Villarreal on Sunday.",
"He lifted his jersey after scoring a goal to reveal a white T-shirt with \"Madeira\" written on it.",
"Ronaldo wrote on his blog later that he was \"incredulous, shocked and dismayed\" by the disaster, and offered his assistance.",
"The mayor of Funchal, Miguel Alburquerque, has warned it was \"very probable\" the toll will rise.",
"\"Our main concern is for the damaged and flooded homes, the cars buried and swept away by water, where we fear we will find new bodies,\" he told the Jornal de Madeira newspaper, according to Agence France-Presse.",
"Rescuers were still hunting for other people believed missing in the deluge as efforts to clear up got under way.",
"Authorities said about 250 people had been evacuated to military bases and other safe locations.",
"Pedro Barbosa of the Civil Protection Agency told CNN all the damage occurred in just a few hours Saturday morning due to \"very concentrated, very intense\" rains that sparked flooding and mudslides.",
"The mudslides and flooding damaged roads and homes in Funchal, and in Ribeira Brava, which are both on the southern portion of the Atlantic island.",
"Madeira, an autonomous region of Portugal, is a popular resort destination.",
"There have been no reports of any dead or missing tourists.",
"Barbosa said Saturday's heavy rains were the worst in Madeira since 1993, when a storm killed eight people.",
"Madeira is one of the Madeira Islands, an archipelago about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) southwest of the Portuguese mainland.",
"CNN's Al Goodman contributed to this report."
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"At least 42 people killed, 120 injured in disaster .",
"Hundreds of residents were evacuated to military bases and other safe locations ."
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"Miami, Florida (CNN) -- A 15-year-old boy who was burned over 65 percent of his body in October, allegedly by a group of teenagers he knew, has been readmitted to a Miami hospital after he had trouble breathing, a hospital spokeswoman said Monday.",
"Michael Brewer \"had complications with his breathing and is now back in the ICU,\" said Lorraine Nelson, spokeswoman for Jackson Memorial Hospital.",
"Brewer was admitted to Jackson Memorial's Holtz Children's Hospital on Sunday night and is in serious condition, she said.",
"It was not known whether Brewer's condition was related to his severe burns.",
"He was released from Jackson Memorial's burn unit December 22, more than two months after the October 12 incident.",
"\"He had been doing very well. He had been going to physical therapy and doing well, but things happen,\" Nelson told CNN.",
"At the time he was discharged from the burn unit, Dr. Louis Pizano, associate director of the burn center, told reporters, \"From what happened in the beginning, we would have predicted probably six months, at least, in the hospital.",
"And it is miraculous.\" Brewer had three skin graft surgeries during his stay in the burn unit and was on a ventilator for almost the entire first month.",
"Three teenagers have been charged as adults with attempted murder in connection with the incident.",
"Detectives said eyewitnesses told them that 16-year-old Jesus Mendez used a lighter to set fire to Brewer after Denver Jarvis, 15, allegedly poured alcohol over him, and that Matthew Bent, also 15, allegedly encouraged the attack.",
"Detectives said Mendez admitted that he set Brewer on fire and that he made a \"bad decision,\" according to an arrest transcript.",
"The three face a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison if convicted.",
"Two other boys who were allegedly involved, a 13-year-old and 15-year-old, have not been charged in the attack.",
"A court-appointed psychologist who examined two of the five boys allegedly involved in the attack told CNN they are competent to proceed and assist their attorney.",
"Detectives believe that Brewer owed Bent $40 for a video game.",
"When Brewer did not pay, police said, Bent stole Brewer's father's bicycle, then was arrested when Brewer reported him to the police.",
"The next day, police believe, the group sought out Brewer.",
"Witnesses reported the group called him \"a snitch\" as they set him on fire.",
"Witnesses have said Brewer jumped into a pool to put out the flames."
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"No word on whether his condition is related to burns on 65 percent of his body .",
"He was burned October 12, released from hospital burn unit December 22 after skin grafts .",
"Three teens charged as adults with attempted murder in connection with burning ."
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"New York (CNN) -- On the same day he was released from a hospital after undergoing a heart procedure, former President Clinton told reporters he has no plans to slow down.",
"\"I have to keep working -- that's what my life is for,\" he said outside his home in Chappaqua, New York, on Friday.",
"\"You know I was given a good mind, a strong body, a wonderful life and it would be wrong for me not to work.\"",
"\"I even did a couple of miles [walking] on the treadmill today,\" he said.",
"On Thursday, Clinton, 63, underwent a procedure at New York-Presbyterian Hospital's Columbia campus to implant two stents in a clogged coronary artery.",
"Clinton has \"no evidence of heart attack or damage to his heart,\" and his prognosis is excellent after undergoing the procedure, according to Dr. Allan Schwartz, the hospital's chief of cardiology.",
"Schwartz said the procedure was \"part of the natural history\" of Clinton's treatment after his 2004 quadruple bypass surgery and \"not a result of either his lifestyle or diet, both of which have been excellent.\"",
"Have you gone through heart surgery?",
"Share your story.",
"Clinton called the procedure \"kind of a repair job\" and said he's \"actually doing very well.\"",
"He said he began feeling tired around Christmas and traveled several times in recent weeks to Europe and Haiti.",
"\"I didn't really notice it until about four days ago when I felt a little bit of pain in my chest, and I thought I had to check it out,\" he said.",
"Earlier Friday, Clinton, the U.N. special envoy for Haiti, issued a statement marking the passing of one month since a massive earthquake devastated the impoverished nation.",
"He also has visited the island nation twice since the earthquake, a fact he noted on Friday.",
"\"I will continue to work with the Haitian government and people, international donors and multilateral organizations, the Haitian Diaspora, NGOs [nongovernmental organizations], and the international business community to fulfill unmet needs,\" Clinton said in the statement, released Friday.",
"\"Haiti still has a chance to escape the chains of the past and the ruins of the earthquake,\" he said.",
"\"But we all will have to do what we can today.\" Clinton said he had helped collect 200,000 donations for Haiti through his partnership with former President George W. Bush -- the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund -- and through the Clinton Foundation Haiti Relief Fund, calling those efforts \"especially impressive.\"",
"He said he has helped allocate $7 million in relief.",
"The 7.0-magnitude quake of January 12 leveled most of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, killing more than 212,000 people and injuring 300,000, according to Haitian government estimates.",
"It left more than a million homeless.",
"Clinton underwent a procedure called angioplasty, the hospital said, in which a balloon catheter is threaded through an artery to the blocked vessel in the heart.",
"When inflated, the balloon opens the vessel and restores blood flow.",
"Many times, a scaffolding-like structure called a stent is left in place to keep the artery open.",
"How stents open arteries .",
"President Obama called Clinton on Thursday evening and wished him a speedy recovery so he can continue his work on Haiti and other humanitarian efforts, a senior administration official said.",
"Schwartz said Clinton began experiencing \"pressure or constriction\" in his chest several days ago, episodes he described as \"brief in nature but repetitive.\"",
"An initial electrocardiogram and blood test showed no evidence of heart attack, Schwartz said.",
"Subsequent pictures of Clinton's arteries revealed that one of the bypass grafts from his 2004 surgery was \"completely blocked,\" prompting the stent procedure, which took about an hour, Schwartz said.",
"Schwartz said Clinton was up and walking about two hours after the surgery.",
"Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, were with him at the hospital Thursday night, Schwartz said.",
"Hillary Clinton was scheduled to leave Friday on a planned trip to the Middle East, but her departure has been delayed until Saturday, a senior U.S. official said.",
"Bill Clinton has maintained an active schedule since leaving the White House in 2001, devoting much of his time to global philanthropic interests and speeches.",
"Friends have expressed concerns that his \"frenetic pace\" was taking a toll on his health, sources told CNN.",
"Clinton maintained that frenetic schedule all the way up to the surgery, said Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Clinton friend and former chairman of the Democratic National Committee.",
"In fact, as doctors were wheeling Clinton into the operating room, Clinton's phone had to be taken out of his hand, said McAuliffe.",
"\"He was on a conference call dealing with Haiti,\" McAuliffe told CNN Friday morning.",
"\"And I guarantee as soon as he gets back today he's going to be back on the phone.",
"He's passionate about helping the folks down there.\"",
"In addition to his trips to Haiti, Clinton attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.",
"David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst, said Clinton was exhausted and had a cold after returning from his second trip to Haiti earlier this month.",
"But Schwartz stressed Thursday that Clinton's lifestyle has nothing to do with his hospitalization.",
"\"He has really toed the line in terms of both diet and exercise,\" Schwartz said, adding that he told Clinton he could be back in the office Monday.",
"Dr. Spencer King, who has not treated Clinton, rejected as outdated suggestions that the former president needs to slow down.",
"\"This is kind of a '50s concept,\" he said Thursday.",
"\"Now we've got a lot of fantastic ways to prevent progression of heart disease -- medications, things that can be done.",
"The outlook for people is totally different.\"",
"\"If he slows down, he slows down,\" said King, president of St. Joseph's Heart and Vascular Institute in Atlanta, Georgia.",
"But he added, \"It would be very hard to show any data that would tell you he'll have more trouble if he hangs it up.\"",
"Clinton's 2004 surgery was performed at the same hospital where he was admitted Thursday.",
"Doctors in 2005 operated again on Clinton to remove scar tissue and fluid that had built up after his bypass surgery.",
"Schwartz said Thursday that the type of bypass graft used in Clinton's 2004 surgery \"has a 10 [percent] to 20 percent failure rate after five or six years.\"",
"King said Thursday's stent procedure may not be the end of Clinton's heart woes.",
"\"The problem there is that that vein graft is developing disease, and sometimes it goes on and develops more,\" he said.",
"\"There's a substantial chance over the next three, four, five years that it could close up again.\"",
"CNN's John King, Ed Henry, Jessica Yellin, Elise Labott and Tom Watkins contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Sarah Palin's most ardent supporters in \"real America\" love to suggest that those of us who don't buy into her shtick fail to grasp why they love her, citing her realness, plain-spokenness and whatever else they can conjure up.",
"Folks, nice try, but as a native Texan, I've seen many politicians and wannabes over the years who had charm, wit, charisma and a twinkle in their eye.",
"Anyone who has listened to the best football coaches the Lone Star State has to offer will tell you that they can persuade a mother and father to send their boy to hell to fetch a glass of ice water and bring him home a better man.",
"They could teach a politician or two how to connect with average Americans.",
"You want a media darling politician with substance?",
"Try the late Gov.",
"Ann Richards, a woman who could cut you deep and beam ear-to-ear with her motherly smile.",
"But unlike Palin, she had a host of strong ideas in her head that actually made sense and appealed to a cross-section of folks.",
"Former Rep. Charlie Wilson, who died this week, was a smooth-talking Texan who loved to party hard.",
"But when it came to politics, he knew how to get things done.",
"The media loved him because he could sit with you and enjoy a beer over barbecue, give them a hilarious quote or two, and explain foreign policy better than Henry Kissinger.",
"Why haven't I cottoned to Palin?",
"Because she portrays herself as a straight-talking politician who wants to lead a movement in the \"Lower 48th\" -- but is nothing more than a political celebrity willing to cash every check she can grab.",
"What truly exposed her for me?",
"It was the ridiculous way she reacted in opposing ways last week to two political heavyweights who used the word \"retard.\"",
"When it was reported that President Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, told a group of liberals that they were \"f-----g retards\" for threatening to run ads against fellow Democrats who weren't jumping on the health care reform bandwagon, Palin demanded his resignation.",
"As the mother of a child with Down syndrome, Palin has often used her bully pulpit to demand respect for the mentally challenged.",
"Nothing wrong with that.",
"It is an issue that is close to her heart, and she should be a fierce advocate for them.",
"Yet when one of her biggest supporters, conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, also castigated liberals by calling them \"retards,\" Palin provided him cover, even trying to explain away his comments.",
"In an interview with Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace, she said Limbaugh was using satire, while Emanuel was blasting those who disagree with him.",
"But anyone who can read or listen could hear Limbaugh calling folks he disagrees with the same.",
"Palin even went further, agreeing with Limbaugh that liberals are \"kooks.\"",
"So Emanuel and Limbaugh used the word \"retard\" to describe folks they disagree with, but only Rahm was wrong?",
"Yep, that's how it is in Palin's world.",
"The advocate for the mentally challenged was quick to pounce on someone she disagrees with politically but defended her patron saint, Rush.",
"Sarah, when you hold yourself up as a fierce protector of the mentally challenged, politics shouldn't enter into the equation.",
"Either you criticize everyone who uses a word that you consider a slur, or you come across as a crass politician who is afraid to offend your chief booster.",
"Maybe you ought to listen to your spokeswoman, Meghan Stapleton, who thought you cared about the mentally challenged when she sent this e-mail to HotAir.com about Limbaugh's comment: \"Gov.",
"Palin believes crude and demeaning name-calling at the expense of others is disrespectful.\"",
"But knowing that wouldn't sit well with Rush, you backed off and gave him cover.",
"If you were true to your cause, you would have demanded an on-air apology from Limbaugh and scolded him for using the word.",
"Instead, you showed your true colors.",
"Sarah, I haven't bought into your fake \"I'm-a-real-American\" persona.",
"You slam the president for using teleprompters, but write crib notes on your hand to remember basic beliefs that should be easy to regurgitate.",
"You decry the \"lamestream\" media, but you bask in its glory and have joined its payroll as a Fox News contributor, even having the network build a studio in your home.",
"Talk about media elite.",
"You give a speech riddled with falsehoods about the president and national security, and then try to shrug them off as the \"lamestream\" media attacking you.",
"You don't fool me, even as your legion of fans considers you the second coming of President Reagan.",
"You quit on the people who elected you to become a political celebrity, which your presidential running mate blasted then-Sen. Barack Obama for doing.",
"You had the opportunity to show everyone that you're willing to take on anyone who crosses the line against those who are mentally challenged, and you failed.",
"Please, make as much money as you can.",
"Paraphrasing comedian Martin Lawrence, ride this train until the wheels fall off.",
"But please, cut the crap.",
"You're a crass politician with no true conviction.",
"Your actions have shown that.",
"The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Roland Martin."
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"Martin: She slams teleprompters but uses crib notes; she hates media but works for Fox ."
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"Seattle, Washington (CNN) -- The plastic Ziploc bag thrown in the trash in Seattle, Washington, spent a week traveling 300 miles to an Oregon landfill.",
"The old Apple iBook that was recycled is a month into its journey.",
"And a pair of worn Asics running shoes is still logging miles even after being dropped in a bin for used shoes.",
"Those are just some of the trails of trash exposed in a high-tech trash study.",
"\"Normally, you think about the trash for minutes while you take it out to the can,\" says Ethan O'Connor, \"and this trash we are going to be watching on our Web browsers for weeks.\"",
"O'Connor and Shannon Cheng are volunteers in a study tracking their trash -- and giving them the opportunity to reflect on what they use and discard.",
"The tracking devices are about the size of small cell phones and allow for near-real-time tracking of thousands of pieces of garbage.",
"The tracking is not part of some top-secret government program to spy on garbage, but rather the brainchild of MIT researchers who wanted to learn if society could more efficiently dispose of what it throws out.",
"\"The idea with this tagging exercise is to bring an invisible system to life,\" said Assaf Biderman, associate director of MIT's SENSEable City Lab.",
"\"By knowing how long it stays in the system, where it goes, we are hoping to create an increased awareness in the public.\"",
"Before that increased awareness could be created, however, the scientists needed to devise a way to track pieces of trash, some for hundreds of miles and for up to six months.",
"Researchers are doing most of the tracking via volunteers in Seattle.",
"They plan to expand the program to other cities and compare the attitudes that people in different regions have about garbage.",
"Working with the telecommunications company Qualcomm, the MIT researchers created a device -- or, as the researchers call them, \"traces\" -- that could track a piece of trash using both GPS and cell phone towers.",
"The researchers then asked volunteers to supply items they were already planning to get rid of and put the tracking \"traces\" on the items.",
"The volunteers then threw the material out as they usually would.",
"Just getting the trace on the piece of trash presented its own challenges.",
"Some needed to be taped or sewn into the garbage; others were stuck to the trash with a sticky aerosol spray.",
"The researchers stipulated that the trace not alter how the garbage traveled through the waste system or call attention to the item.",
"\"The thing about trash is that each object is very different,\" Biderman said.",
"\"Different sizes, different textures, different constraints.\"",
"O'Connor and Cheng live on a houseboat, where space is at a premium.",
"Participating in the study has allowed the couple to think of larger-picture issues about the trash they produce.",
"But it's not just the trash's owners who are tracking the tems.",
"Waste Management Inc., a waste removal and recycling company, is helping fund the study in the hope that it will show that the trash they dispose of goes where it should.",
"Officials say they are also looking for ways to better deal with garbage.",
"\"It could make a huge difference,\" Waste Management spokeswoman Rita Smith said.",
"\"We want to do everything we can to get our materials to their destinations as efficiently as possible; not only because of the economic cost, but also because of the environmental cost.",
"There's no point in hauling material around in circles.\"",
"Researchers are still compiling data as the trash makes its journey.",
"Even though the study has not been completed, the MIT group sees its efforts as a step toward better informing Americans about trash.",
"\"Can we create a situation of minimum waste?\"",
"Biderman said.",
"\"In a certain way, it's about telling people about what they throw away, making people more aware about waste, and perhaps changing their behavior.\"",
"Participating in the study has already altered O'Connor's outlook.",
"\"The disposal is one part of it, the using is another,\" he said.",
"\"No one's saying we are bad people for using stuff, but the reality is each one of us gets one-six-billionth of what the Earth can produce, and what we have is much more than that.\""
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"(CNN) -- Serving a 26-year prison sentence for the murder of her roommate, American Amanda Knox said Sunday she is scared, but determined to prove she is innocent, according to an Italian lawmaker who visited her cell.",
"Knox, 22, seemed very pleased by the visit, which included members of the Italy USA Foundation, said Catia Polidori, a member of the foundation and a member of the Italian Parliament.",
"Knox is also grateful for the foundation's interest in her case, Polidori said.",
"\"In my opinion, in spite of the imprisonment, she seemed to be serene,\" Polidori told CNN.",
"While Knox is aware of the seriousness of her situation, Polidori said, she is \"resolute\" about proving her innocence.",
"Knox was convicted earlier this month of murdering British exchange student Meredith Kercher while the two roomed together in Perugia, Italy, in November 2007.",
"During her trial, Knox read a statement to jurors, insisting she is not a killer.",
"She is appealing her conviction, although her case might not reach a court docket for at least a year.",
"Knox told the visitors she trusts in the Italian justice system to resolve her case, Polidori said.",
"However, she said she was scared, and that \"she is often afraid to open [the] newspaper or watch TV,\" because media reports tend to undermine her confidence, Polidori said.",
"The Italy USA Foundation \"was established to honor the friendship between Italians and Americans,\" according to its Web site.",
"\"The Foundation is an independent institution that intends to play a bipartisan role on both sides of the Atlantic and whose sole purpose is to promote friendship between Italy and the United States of America.\"",
"The foundation's president, Rocco Girlanda, said in a statement on the Web site the delegation visited Knox in her cell in Perugia to check on her condition because of the intense U.S. interest in her case.",
"The delegation brought Knox some English-language books as a Christmas gift, which made her \"really happy,\" Polidori told CNN.",
"Prosecutors said Kercher died during a sex game in which Knox taunted Kercher while Knox's then-boyfriend, Raffale Sollecito, and another man, Rudy Guede, sexually assaulted her.",
"Among the evidence against Knox was a knife found in Sollecito's house with Knox's DNA on the handle and Kercher's on the blade.",
"Knox's attorneys attempted to cast doubt on those findings, saying the knife did not match Kercher's wounds or a knife imprint left on a bedsheet.",
"They also claimed the DNA sample was too small to be conclusive.",
"Sollecito was also convicted in Kercher's death and sentenced to 25 years.",
"Guede was convicted earlier in a separate fast-track trial and is appealing his conviction.",
"The verdict against Knox drew criticism from some who questioned the process.",
"Kercher's family, however, has said they were satisfied with the jurors' decision.",
"Knox said she misses her family, Polidori said.",
"Her mother, Edda Mellas, told CNN's Larry King earlier this month that her daughter was \"completely crushed, devastated\" by the verdict against her, but she is ready to fight her conviction.",
"Kurt Knox, Amanda Knox's father, told CNN she had been a victim of \"character assassination.\"",
"But he said the Italian appeals process is more flexible than in the American courts, noting the appeals court could open the case for a further evaluation of evidence and new information.",
"\"There are many Italians who have told us that, you know, worst-case scenario, the first level rarely works correctly,\" Mellas told CNN, referring to the jury trial.",
"\"'They'll get it right in appeals, she will get out of there.'",
"They will not, you know, put away this innocent young girl for a crime she didn't commit.\""
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"(EW.com) -- There's no denying the power of the romantic comedy, even if \"Valentine's Day,\" the movie, is as manufactured as the holiday itself.",
"The all-star film grossed an estimated $52.4 million over three days and is likely to top $60 million by the time the Presidents Day holiday weekend is over.",
"Its high-grossing debut -- the best ever for Presidents Day -- coupled with solid numbers from the other two new wide releases put 2010's holiday frame into the record books with an estimated total gross of $193 million.",
"\"Percy Jackson & The Olympians,\" based on the popular kids' book series by author Rick Riordan, earned an estimated $31.1 million for the three days while the R-rated horror remake \"Wolfman,\" starring Benicio del Toro, grossed an estimated $30.6 million for a per-theater average of $9,497.",
"\"Avatar,\" in its ninth weekend of release, grossed another $22 million, falling only 4 percent from its previous weekend and putting its total cume close to $660 million.",
"Last weekend's winner, \"Dear John,\" dropped into fifth place for the frame.",
"Losing 50 percent of its value, primarily off of \"Valentine's Day\" competition, the film earned $15.3 million.",
"Its total stands at $53 million.",
"These strong numbers from female-driven films have Hollywood noticing that women are strong drivers of box office.",
"Expect a rash of female-starring films to be green lit in the near future as the industry realizes (yet again) that women love going to the movies.",
"What a revelation! See full article at EW.com.",
"CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly .",
"© 2010 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- The Miami area seems to be enjoyed most by people who live somewhere else.",
"Garcia's offers freshly caught fish and a great view from a deck overlooking the Miami River.",
"More often than not snowbirds, the yearly visitors who winter in South Florida, and other tourists appear to take over.",
"But there are plenty of places that are beloved by locals and won't cost you a fortune.",
"A good first stop is Lincoln Road, the pedestrian boulevard that runs almost the width of Miami Beach.",
"A farmers' market each Sunday is a weekly meeting point for many locals, and although the area has lost some of its identity to chains, there are plenty of unique restaurants and shops to sample.",
"Start your stroll on Lincoln with coffee at David's Café (1654 Meridian Ave.).",
"From a large open window facing the street, the cafe keeps the Cuban coffee flowing 24/7 to a wide mix of Miamians who line up for their caffeine fix.",
"Not too much English is spoken here though, so practice the following: cafecito (a shot of sugary Cuban coffee), cortadito (sugary Cuban coffee cut with milk) and café con leche (a Latin latte).",
"A block west of David's is The Frieze (1626 Michigan Ave.), which devoted regulars will swear serves the best ice cream in the world.",
"A taste of one of the many flavors of ice cream or sorbet -- made from fresh local fruits -- may make you a convert as well.",
"Flavors such as wasabi or tamarind have to be tried to be believed.",
"Whether it's the best in the world is open for debate, but for sure The Frieze serves the best scoops in Miami.",
"At Segafredo's, on the West end of Lincoln (1040 Lincoln Road), the real attraction is people watching.",
"It's the place to see and be seen in Miami Beach.",
"Customers spending hundreds of dollars on champagne and cocktails or a few bucks on coffee and simple snacks enjoy the same great view of local characters on parade and the beautiful people who act as if Lincoln Road were their own personal catwalk.",
"North of Lincoln Road, on the Biscayne Bay side of Miami Beach is Joe Allen restaurant (1787 Purdy Ave.), a bastion of good food and service that a crowd of mostly local clientele has kept going for nearly a decade.",
"The restaurant has locations in other cities, but walking into the low-key Miami Beach dining room you would swear you stumbled onto a well-kept secret.",
"Joe Allen's serves really fresh comfort food: steaming plates of mussels in an Asian broth, homemade pastas, great burgers and a killer meatloaf.",
"This is not the place for celebrity sightings and the latest trendy food, but you will eat well and not break the bank.",
"Many Miami restaurants boast they serve the freshest fish in town, but few have their own fishing fleet to back up the claim.",
"Garcia's Seafood Grille and Fish Market (398 N.W.",
"N. River Drive, Miami) offers its own freshly caught fish and a great view from a deck overlooking the Miami River.",
"It's a trick to get there, and the restaurant is one of the few bright spots in a still run-down area of downtown Miami, so go with good directions.",
"As you lunch on a mahi-mahi sandwich with a beer served in an ice-cold mug and watch the boats go by, the trip to Garcia's will seem well worth the effort.",
"It wouldn't be Miami, of course, without the beach, and every local has his or her own preferred strip of sand.",
"The beach at Collins Avenue and 87th Terrace is a favorite for people who want to relax with the Sunday paper and a fold-out chair.",
"The water and sand seem cleaner than most other beaches and the area is a favorite for kite surfers.",
"If you aren't already a local, you soon will feel like one after a few hours there with the sand between your toes."
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"Washington (CNN) -- The House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to repeal the antitrust exemption currently granted to health insurance companies.",
"The vote was 406-19 to repeal the exemption, which has been in place since the end of World War II.",
"The 19 who voted against the repeal are Republicans.",
"Liberal Democrats have said a repeal would help inject competition into the health care industry while reducing consumer costs.",
"White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Tuesday that President Obama strongly supports the repeal.",
"\"At its core, health reform is all about ensuring that American families and businesses have more choices, benefit from more competition and have greater control over their own health care,\" Gibbs said.",
"Read the bill . \"Repealing this exemption is an important part of that effort.",
"Gibbs said the president is not seeking repeal of the exemption in lieu of broader changes to the insurance market.",
"\"This is a complementary step along the way,\" he said.",
"The debate in the House on Wednesday included a colorful moment between Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-New York, and Republicans.",
"\"You guys have chutzpah,\" Weiner told Republicans during the debate.",
"\"The Republican Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry,\" he said, drawing the objections of Republicans, who asked that his words be stricken from the record.",
"Weiner then asked for unanimous consent to replace his words and said, \"Every single Republican I have ever met in my entire life is a wholly owned subsidiary of the insurance industry.\"",
"The Republicans objected again, prompting Weiner to rescind his words.",
"The House version of the health care bill passed last year would have removed the antitrust exemption, while the Senate's version would not.",
"Advocates of an exemption repeal say the exemption has allowed health insurance companies to essentially divide the country into geographic zones.",
"They argue the companies benefit from what amounts to local monopolies.",
"Industry defenders, in turn, point out that insurers are still subject to state regulations.",
"They say the impact of an exemption repeal is overblown.",
"CNN Fact Check: Would exemption repeal lower premiums?",
"Administration officials and their allies in Congress have taken an increasingly tough stance against the unpopular insurance industry.",
"Among other things, Obama's latest proposal for health care reform would give the federal government new authority to block excessive rate increases by health insurers.",
"Specifically, Obama's plan calls for the secretary of health and human services to work with a seven-member board made up of doctors, economists and consumer and insurance representatives to review premium increases.",
"The board, to be known as the Health Insurance Rate Authority, would provide an annual report to recommend to states whether certain rate increases should be approved, although the secretary could overrule state insurance regulators."
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"Proponents say repeal will help inject competition into health care industry .",
"They also say it will lower consumer costs .",
"Opponents of bill say it will have little effect ."
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"TOKYO, Japan -- Three-time grand prix winner Norifumi Abe of Japan has been killed in a street crash when his 500cc scooter collided with a truck making an illegal U-turn, police have revealed on Monday.",
"Abe won two grand prix in Japan and another in Brazil during the 1990s.",
"The 32-year-old ploughed into the truck while it was turning in the Tokyo suburb of Kawasaki.",
"In 1994, while racing in his home championship, Abe had a chance to race at the 1994 Japanese Grand Prix as a 'wild card'.",
"He was challenging strongly for a remarkable victory until three corners from the finish when he fell off.",
"His impressed Kenny Roberts' Yamaha team sufficiently to be offered two more rides in the 500cc championship that year.",
"Abe finished sixth in both and was given a full-time 500cc ride for the 1995 season.",
"He took his first podium finish in 1995, and his first win and fifth overall a year later.",
"He moved to the D'Antin team in 1999, won at Rio that year, and won again at Suzuka a year later, amidst two seasons on less competitive machinery, in which his solid finishing ensured that his 100 per cent record of top 10 championship finishes continued.",
"Abe was less happy under MotoGP regulations but when he was moved to Yamaha's returning World Superbike squad for 2005, despite having less support than Noriyuki Haga and Andrew Pitt, he finished in the championship top 10.",
"In 2006 he did not make a podium and this year he competed in the All-Japan Superbike Championship, again on a Yamaha.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Three-time 500cc winner Norifumi Abe has been killed in a road accident .",
"The 32-year-old's scooter was in collision with a truck in Kawasaki, Japan .",
"Abe won two grand prix races in his native Japan and another one in Brazil ."
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"Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- NATO troops in Afghanistan launched their biggest offensive of the war early Saturday, attacking what they call the last Taliban stronghold in a war-scarred southern province.",
"Military officials said the offensive -- dubbed Operation Moshtarak -- got under way at 2 a.m. (4:30 p.m.",
"ET Friday). Moshtarak, a Dari word for \"together,\" symbolizes the fact that combined forces are serving alongside one another.",
"\"Insurgents who do not accept the government's offer to reintegrate and join the political process will be met with overwhelming force,\" the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command said in a statement.",
"\"However, the strongest of measures will be taken to protect the civilian population.\"",
"Some of about 15,000 troops from the United States, United Kingdom, Afghanistan and Canada attacked Taliban targets in and around Marjah, a city of 80,000 to 100,000 residents, where the Taliban has set up a shadow government, coalition military authorities said.",
"By about 8 a.m. (10 p.m. ET Friday) two firefights had erupted between the Taliban and U.S. Marines in Marjah.",
"\"Marjah is the last enemy sanctuary in the Marine area of operations,\" said Brig.",
"Gen. Larry Nicholson, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan commanding general.",
"\"This operation is designed to reconnect the people of Marjah with the legitimate government of Afghanistan.",
"We are fully partnered with the Afghan government for this operation, and we have the resources we need to be successful.\"",
"The Afghan government described the offensive -- carried out in central Helmand with the Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police, ISAF Regional Command (South), and the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team -- as \"clearing\" operations.",
"The coalition said its troops expected to confront up to 1,000 entrenched Taliban fighters.",
"It said they also expected foreign Taliban fighters to battle to the death but were prepared for local Taliban members in Marjah to try to escape.",
"\"We will follow the enemies and bring them to justice,\" said Gen. Mohiyiden Ghori of the Afghan National Army.",
"In the past few days, forces from Afghanistan, Britain and other nations conducted air and ground operations to prepare for the assault and dropped leaflets in and around Marjah warning residents not to allow the Taliban to enter their homes.",
"The allies had been unusually vocal in describing their plans for the assault.",
"\"I think there's a certain strength in the Pashtunwali culture just from laying it out there in saying, 'Hey, we are coming.",
"Deal with it,'\" U.S. Marine Gen. Larry Nicholson said.",
"Some of the 30,000 additional U.S. troops that President Obama sent to Afghanistan were taking part in the fight.",
"More on Operation Moshtarak from Afghanistan Crossroads blog .",
"The goal is to force the Taliban from Marjah to free the opium-rich province of Taliban influence and drug traffickers.",
"It's an example of a U.S. strategy to focus on population centers and separate the Taliban from Afghan civilians.",
"\"It's about the security of the population, not fighting down insurgent numbers,\" British Gen. Gordon Messenger has said.",
"About 3,000 U.S. Marines were involved in the fight.",
"The advance notice given to residents was expected to help avert civilian casualties, a problem that has hurt the military's credibility among Afghans.",
"They were also trying to get those Taliban who aren't hard-core to turn in themselves and their weapons.",
"Reaching the battleground was expected to be a big challenge for NATO and Afghan troops.",
"The tough terrain is hard for tanks to traverse.",
"The town of Marjah is surrounded by roadside bombs, military officials said.",
"They said the Taliban has had months to plant the bombs, most of them homemade mixes of ammonium nitrate, shrapnel fuel, salt or flour.",
"Such bombs -- which are detonated remotely or by pressure plates -- have caused about 80 percent of the deaths in fighting in Helmand province, military officials said.",
"\"This is possibly the largest IED threat NATO has ever faced,\" Nicholson has said.",
"Massive armored vehicles, called assault breacher vehicles, were to lead the charge into Marjah, coalition authorities said before the offensive.",
"The tank-like vehicles can destroy roadside bombs.",
"Even with their help, though, military officials have increased staff at the hospital at Camp Bastion, in the capital of Helmand province, in anticipation that roadside bombs would cause casualties.",
"Troops were expecting to encounter booby-trapped houses and fierce urban combat."
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"Nations prepared for assault, dropping leaflets to warn residents .",
"Operation is part of U.S. strategy to focus on population centers .",
"\"This is possibly the largest IED threat NATO has ever faced,\" U.S. general says ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California -- Dr. Andre Berger sees himself as a pioneer.",
"Where others in the medical community believe injections of human growth hormone should be given to adults in only rare cases, Berger believes it is a crucial part of keeping people young and vital.",
"Dr. Andre Berger says the patients requesting HGH from him are getting younger and younger.",
"Berger, who has been practicing anti-aging and holistic medicine for 30 years, says he is now prescribing injections of HGH to about one out of every four people he treats at his Rejuvalife Vitality Institute in Beverly Hills.",
"\"People come here for generally two reasons; they want to look better, and they want to feel better,\" Berger says.",
"While Berger says most of his patients are middle-aged, he's now getting calls from Hollywood 30-somethings wanting HGH and rap artists inquiring about illegal steroids, something he does not offer.",
"\"They feel that part of being a rap star is looking buff and having big muscles, etc., so anything they can do to bring themselves to look like that is going to enhance the whole image,\" he says.",
"HGH has been used since the 1950s to help children with growth problems, but it stayed under the radar for other uses until 1990, when Dr. Daniel Rudman reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that men taking a six-month course of HGH reduced their body fat by 14.4 percent while increasing lean muscle mass by 8.8 percent.",
"The study included just a dozen men, but it inspired a flood of anti-aging literature touting the benefits of growth hormone, along with countless Web sites selling HGH creams and sprays.",
"Endocrinologists say those products, though, are worthless -- the body can use HGH only when it's injected to treat patients with HGH, Berger says they must be diagnosed with a deficiency of HGH, which happens naturally as the body ages.",
"\"It's a very important hormone, but it's not something to be taken in isolation,\" he says.",
"Berger says he prescribes HGH to restore normal levels of the hormone and makes it part of a broader long-term treatment program including diet, nutritional supplements, exercise and other hormone replacement.",
"Dennis Pelino, a 60-year-old Beverly Hills entrepreneur, says five years ago, he was having trouble keeping up with the younger people he was doing business with, so he started treatments, which included HGH injections.",
"\"My skin tone got a lot better.",
"I just felt better,\" he says.",
"\"My eyes got a lot brighter.",
"My hearing, I swear, got better.\"",
"Pelino says HGH injections, along with a healthy diet, exercise, and supplements has made him feel 10 years younger.",
"\"I can keep up with people who are a lot younger than me,\" he says.",
"\"I am not trying to set records, I am just trying to stay in the game, I am doing business here.\"",
"But critics argue that doctors are taking huge risks by administering HGH because it hasn't been studied extensively long-term and says many of the same benefits can be found in diet and exercise alone.",
"\"There are serious side effects associated with using growth hormone for these individuals including an elevated risk of cancer, diabetes,\" says Dr. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at Chicago.",
"Olshansky, who has studied anti-aging for over 20 years, contends that many of the claims are just false and says that only in the rarest of cases can HGH be prescribed legally.",
"\"It can be prescribed in adults for only two things; muscle-wasting associated with HIV/AIDS, which is extremely rare, and for adult growth hormone deficiency,\" he says.",
"Still, celebrities including Sylvester Stallone and Suzanne Somers who have openly supported the use of HGH, have attracted those just seeking a new lease on life.",
"Marketers for HGH therapies claim it's become a $2 billion-a-year business, thanks in large part to aging baby boomers willing to pay big bucks to emulate the stars whose looks never seem to fade.",
"The Albany-Times Union recently reported, citing unnamed sources, that rapper 50 Cent and singer Mary J. Blige were among celebrity customers allegedly identified in a New York probe of doctors and pharmacists who illegally prescribe steroids or HGH.",
"The Times-Union report did not suggest there was evidence Blige or 50 cent took the drugs.",
"Blige denies taking any performance enhancing drugs, and 50 Cent has not commented.",
"Neither star is accused of breaking the law.",
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"(CNN Student News) -- Discussion Questions .",
"1. When did the U.S. government establish a holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?",
"When in January does this holiday typically take place?",
"2. Who was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?",
"What are some of his accomplishments? What cause did he work for?",
"How did he approach this cause?",
"How did he think that people should bring about political and social change?",
"3. What is the title of Dr. King's most well-known speech?",
"When and where was this speech given?",
"What do you think Dr. King was trying to say in this speech?",
"Why do you think that it has become so famous?",
"4. How does community service play a role in the MLK holiday?",
"What does \"A day on, not a day off\" mean?",
"What are some of the activities that people participate in to observe the holiday in Dr. King's honor?",
"Activities . 1. Read or listen to Dr. King's famous \"I have a dream\" speech.",
"What were the points Dr. King was trying to make?",
"What views did he express on equality?",
"Why do you think that he chose to promote peaceful protest as a means to that end?",
"What are your reactions to this speech?",
"Share your thoughts with the class or write them in a journal.",
"2. In the \"I have a dream\" speech, Dr. King says that he hopes that one day, his children \"will be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.\"",
"What does this mean? Create artwork, song lyrics or an interactive presentation that captures what Dr. King meant when he spoke of the content of one's character.",
"Share your creation with the class.",
"3. Many people volunteer for community service projects on MLK Day.",
"If you have ever been part of a community service project, share your experience with the class and talk about how the community benefited from the project, and what you got out of helping others.",
"If you have never been involved in community service, consider what you could do to help someone else.",
"Do you have a talent or skill, however small, that might help someone else?",
"Elderly neighbors might appreciate your willingness to pick up their mail, for example.",
"Another student might need help in a subject that you excel in.",
"And if you are capable (and have your parents' permission), you might even consider being part of a bigger project, like landscaping around a school or painting a community center.",
"Think about what you can do, not just on MLK Day, but on a regular basis to help your community be a better place, and then make a commitment to make it happen.",
"Standards . Social Studies .",
"V. Individuals, Groups and Institutions .",
"Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of interactions among individuals, groups, and institutions.",
"VI. Power, Authority and Governance .",
"Social studies programs should include experiences that provide for the study of how people create and change structures of power, authority, and governance.",
"The Curriculum Standards for Social Studies (http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/strands/) are published by the National Council for Social Studies (http://www.socialstudies.org/).",
"Resources . The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute (http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/) Constitution.net: The I Have a Dream Speech (http://www.usconstitution.net/dream.html) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (http://www.mlkday.gov/) The King Center (http://www.thekingcenter.org/)"
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"Monday, January 18, 2010 is Martin Luther King Jr. Day .",
"Use these questions and activities to address the holiday and the man whom it honors .",
"Feel free to adapt these questions and activities to accommodate students of different grade levels and learning styles ."
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"LEONE, American Samoa (CNN) -- Taitasi Fitiao was holding her six-year-old daughter's hand when a tsunami wave crashed onto their coastal village in American Samoa.",
"A man stands on the remains of what was once a tourist resort in Samoa's capital of Apia.",
"\"I held her hand. The wave got us and that's when her hand just left mine and I could hear her say, 'Mom, please.'",
"And then I saw her, I saw her floating away.",
"And I knew right then that she was gone, she was taken from us.\"",
"Taitasi Fitiao ran to her daughter's school after an 8.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the small cluster of Samoan islands early Tuesday, triggering a tsunami.",
"The teacher had let the students go home after the temblor struck.",
"Fitiao had felt some relief when she briefly united with her daughter, but then the wave came.",
"\"I can't believe she's gone.",
"She's only six years old,\" she said of her youngest child, Valjorefa Uputaua Fitiao.",
"The villagers of Leone --one of the largest towns in American Samoa with a population of more than 2,000 -- searched for Valjorefa.",
"They found her about one day after the waves took her from her mother.",
"\"When they found her, she still had her backpack on and school uniform,\" Fitiao said.",
"The Fitiao family plan to bury her with her gray-and-black backpack because she loved school so much.",
"Watch a family mourns the loss of their daughter » .",
"At the family home on Thursday, Valjorefa's backpack was drying on a clothing line and some crayons and a notebook with her school work were on the ground.",
"They plan to bury her in the front yard, as is the custom here.",
"\"We really miss our daughter,\" said her father, Faataui Fitiao.",
"Ten people, including Valjorefa, died in Leone.",
"Villagers and the U.S. Army reserves are looking for one person still missing: a six-year-old boy, whose family wants to bury him in the front yard, too.",
"Samoa's prime minister talks about the devastation » .",
"At least 168 people are confirmed dead in the aftermath of Tuesday's quake and tsunami.",
"They include 22 people killed in American Samoa, 139 in Samoa and seven in Tonga, according to officials on the islands.",
"Watch the tsunami take over a street » | CNN visits a destroyed fishing village » .",
"A second quake, a 5.5-magnitude temblor struck near the Samoan islands at 6:13 p.m. Wednesday evening (1:13 a.m. Thursday ET), according to the U.S. Geological Survey, while a 6.3-magnitude quake rattled Tonga on Friday.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama addressed the disaster at an event Wednesday in Washington.",
"\"To aid in the response,\" he said, \"I've declared this a major disaster to speed the deployment of resources and FEMA ... is working closely with emergency responders on the ground, and the Coast Guard is working to provide immediate help to those in need.",
"\"We also stand ready to help our friends in neighboring Samoa and throughout the region, and we'll continue to monitor this situation closely as we keep the many people who have been touched by this tragedy in our thoughts and in our prayers,\" Obama said."
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"(Sunset) -- From a low-key ski destination to a Hawaiian yurt retreat, we've got the easy-going vacation for you.",
"Alta, Wyoming .",
"Skiing like you remember it: Mountains like Grand Targhee are a dying breed: No parking lot hassles, no mile-long schlep to the ticket window, no $20 hamburgers.",
"Instead, drive right up to the ski lift, put on your boots, and drop into 2,500 acres of steeps, cruisers, and glades.",
"The timbered Teewinot Lodge makes a homey slopeside basecamp.",
"Bonus: Targhee's 40th anniversary means $40 lift tickets and deep discounts on multi-night stays.",
"From $129; 800/827-4433.",
"--Katie Arnold .",
"Sunset.com: 15 great snowy getaways .",
"Near Mendocino, California .",
"Off the grid on the coast: At Glendeven Inn, just south of Mendocino in Little River, your cell signal obligingly vanishes when you pull in the drive, and there's not a remote control in sight.",
"Which means you'll have all the time in the world to hike along the headlands of surrounding Van Damme State Park, scatter some corn for the inn's chickens (it's only fair -- you'll be eating their eggs come morning), and introduce yourself to the resident llamas.",
"If you just want to hide out in your room -- for decor, think Down East meets Sea Ranch -- that's fine too.",
"Your breakfast basket will be delivered to your door, along with a newspaper ... which we encourage you to ignore.",
"From $139, including breakfast; 707/937-0083.",
"-- Christine Ryan .",
"Sunset.com: 7 warming winter trips .",
"Greer, Arizona .",
"A yesteryear lodge in the woods: Along the Little Colorado River in Arizona's White Mountains, tiny Greer is the kind of community where elk and deer outnumber human residents -- the perfect place to hide out.",
"Greer Lodge's 11 rooms, all knotty pine and log walls, have luxe touches and fluffy beds that make you want to curl up and get cozy, but they're blissfully free of TVs and phones.",
"Pry yourself out of your room to borrow the resort's complimentary cross-country skis or snowshoes for treks through the snowy meadows and forest.",
"From $89; two-night minimum on weekends; 928/735-7216.",
"--Nora Burba Trulsson .",
"Sunset.com: Top 10 winter weekends .",
"Big Island, Hawaii .",
"Hidden Hawaii: Way up at the northern point of the Big Island, past the fancy resorts everyone has heard of, there's a lush and little-known area of former sugar towns.",
"About a year ago, the Hawaii Island Retreat opened nine rooms in a green valley here.",
"Now, its just-finished, solar-powered \"yurt village\" has put the hidden retreat firmly within reach for any budget.",
"Seven sturdy tent bungalows stand next to a saltwater swimming pool, spa, shower house, and organic garden.",
"The famed beaches of the Kohala Coast are a half-hour away, but what almost no one seems to know (yet) is that there are enough waterfalls, breezy beaches, and seafood joints to keep a person content right here.",
"Yurts from $175; 808/889-6336.",
"--Jeanne Cooper .",
"Mammoth Lakes, California .",
"Warm up in a snowy mountain cabin: Reclaim winter's quiet at Tamarack Lodge, where charming cabins with fireplaces and patchwork quilts hide out among the trees just outside Mammoth's resorty core.",
"By day, share 19 miles of groomed cross-country trails with just a few solitude-loving skiers.",
"By night, return to the 1924 lodge for warm drinks and dessert in front of the massive river-rock fireplace.",
"Lodge rooms from $79, fireplace cabins from $169; 760/934-2442.",
"--Cameron Walker .",
"Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .",
"Copyright 2004-2010 Sunset magazine.",
"All rights reserved."
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"Or, retreat to a solar-powered village away from the resorts in Hawaii ."
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"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers broke out Monday, a day after Israel announced it would include two West Bank religious shrines as part of a larger list of 150 Zionist heritage sites.",
"About 100 protesters were throwing stones and burning tires in the West Bank city of Hebron, the Israeli military said.",
"Palestinian eyewitnesses reported that several protesters had been injured by tear gas and rubber bullets.",
"The clashes come in the wake of a special Sunday Cabinet meeting held at one of the \"national heritage\" sites where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined a plan to invest more than $100 million on national heritage infrastructure.",
"\"People must be familiar with their homeland and its cultural and historical vistas,\" he said.",
"\"This is what we will instill in this and coming generations, to the glory -- if I may say -- of the Jewish people.\"",
"Included in the list of sites are Rachel's Tomb in Palestinian city of Bethlehem and the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the city of Hebron.",
"A top United Nations official said the inclusion of sites in the West Bank raised concerns because they were \"in occupied Palestinian territory.\"",
"The Tomb of the Patriarchs -- known to Palestinians as Ibrahimi mosque -- is in Hebron, a West Bank city that houses about 500 Jews heavily guarded by Israeli soldiers, who live among about 170,000 Palestinians.",
"The tomb is revered by Jews and Muslims as holy and has been a point of frequent conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians for years.",
"In 1994, an Israeli settler entered the tomb and opened fire on the Muslim worshippers, killing 29 before he was beaten to death.",
"Rachel's Tomb is known to Palestinians as the mosque of Bilal.",
"The Palestinian reaction after the announcement was fast and furious.",
"A statement by the Revolutionary Council of Fatah, the political faction in charge of the Palestinian Authority, called the Israeli plan a move to \"consolidate the occupation\" and an effort at \"judaizing\" Palestinian land.",
"Dr. Hamdan Taha, an official at the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Tourism, said the the two sites were \"an integral part of Palestinian culture\" and that if the Israeli government persisted in its efforts, \"Palestinians will feel free to nominate sites inside the green line in their heritage list.\"",
"Green line refers to the border before Israel occupied the West Bank.",
"Nationalist and right wing parties in Israel praised the government move and called for the inclusion of more West Bank locations to the list of heritage sites.",
"Robert H. Serry, the United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, also expressed concern.",
"\"These sites are in occupied Palestinian territory and are of historical and religious significance not only to Judaism but also to Islam, and to Christianity as well,\" he said in a statement.",
"\"I urge Israel not to take any steps on the ground which undermine trust or could prejudice negotiations, the resumption of which should be the highest shared priority of all who seek peace.\"",
"Mark Regev, a spokesman for Netanyahu, said no one could deny that the two West Bank locations were of historical and religious significance to the Jews.",
"He said the danger of their inclusion on a list of sites to the peace process was overstated."
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"Tomb of the Patriarchs is known to Palestinians as Ibrahimi mosque .",
"Tomb revered by Jews and Muslims as holy and has been a point of frequent conflict .",
"Rachel's Tomb is known to Palestinians as the mosque of Bilal ."
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"Decatur, Georgia (CNN) -- Given all their country and people have been through, between political upheavals, human rights abuses, hurricanes, abject poverty and last week's earthquake, \"If Haitians were constantly questioning their faith, they would all be atheists.\"",
"These words came from the Rev.",
"Eric Hill as he prepared to lead Haitian Mass Sunday at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Decatur, Georgia.",
"Some of the 100 Haitian parishioners who gathered raised their hands to the heavens in praise, grateful their loved ones had been found.",
"Others bowed their heads and clenched their hands for those lost, still missing and all who suffered.",
"One woman wept out of guilt because she -- a U.S. citizen -- had been able to leave her devastated homeland a day after the quake, while so many were left behind.",
"Their unshaken faith and devotion to God is the same sort that's played out in other houses of worship, in living rooms and on the torn-up streets of Haiti.",
"Are you in Haiti and safe?",
"Share your story, photos with CNN iReport .",
"Carmella Delerme of Miami, Florida, said her mother clung to her Bible for days, reading psalms over and over again, as they waited for word on the whereabouts and condition of Delerme's sister and other relatives.",
"When her sister, who was in Haiti on a missionary trip with their Seventh-day Adventist Church, called late Thursday, Delerme said, \"I went straight to church and prayed and prayed and prayed.",
"We continue to pray for those who are lost and still in need.\"",
"On the streets of Port-au-Prince, with many of their churches crumbled, people have gathered to worship and sing Catholic and Protestant hymns.",
"\"That's the soundscape of the country right now,\" said Elizabeth McAlister, a professor of religion and anthropologist of Haiti who teaches at Wesleyan University in Connecticut.",
"\"It's the business of religion to create meaning out of chaos. ...",
"Tragically, the business of religion is getting a lot of trade today.\"",
"See complete coverage of Haiti earthquake .",
"It's often said that 80 percent of Haitians are Catholic, although other estimates range from 55 percent to 85 percent.",
"McAlister, who puts her best estimate at 70 percent, said getting a proper census in Haiti to nail down numbers is impossible.",
"But between Protestant denominations and Catholicism, it is without doubt a majority Christian country, she said.",
"Weaved in, however, are the nuances that come with the country's troubled history.",
"Colonized by the French, the land then known as Saint-Domingue emerged as one of the wealthiest colonies of the 18th century.",
"It's flourishing sugar production and aggressive deforestation was achieved on the backs of half a million African slaves.",
"They brought with them their own belief systems, rooted in West and Central African traditions.",
"Haitian Vodou, often misunderstood and branded with stereotypes, has its own ceremonies and rituals meant to honor spirits, or loas.",
"These spirits, seen as intermediaries with God and links to ancestors, can be called upon for help.",
"And for practicing Christians, especially Catholics who can view saints as they would spirits, the two systems do not have to be mutually exclusive.",
"Not everyone is necessarily practicing Vodou, commonly anglicized as Voodoo, but McAlister said the Afro-Creole Haitian traditions are usually kept alive and the ancestral spirits are inherited by at least one member of every family.",
"Haitian-born Leslie Desmangles remembered being hurt as a boy by the words of Christian missionaries who misunderstood and demonized his peoples' traditions.",
"Theirs were sentiments much like those uttered last week by televangelist Pat Robertson who said the Haitian people are \"cursed\" because they \"swore a pact with the devil\" to get out from under French rule.",
"Robertson's comments were \"insensitive, theologically unsound and loaded with racial connotations,\" said Desmangles, a professor of religion and international studies at Trinity College in Connecticut.",
"In the Decatur church Sunday, the priest reminded his congregants that theirs is an all-loving God, not a vindictive one.",
"Their God, he said, is in the international outpouring of support from people who, one week ago, didn't know where Haiti was.",
"Their God is a rock of stability when the earth trembles.",
"Their God is the one who lifts them up \"to mend our broken bones, to brush us off and to bury the dead,\" Hill said.",
"And during this first Sunday Mass after the earthquake, their God was in the music that moved them.",
"To the distinctly Caribbean sounds of their band and choir, they sang hymns of praise to the one they believe stands with them.",
"\"People continue to be God's instruments,\" the pastor said, with the help of a Creole translator.",
"\"God will work through all of us to bring new life to Haiti.\"",
"As he spoke, a little girl, too young to understand the pain around her, did what she could.",
"She planted kisses on the forehead of her anguished father, his face buried in his hands, before skipping off to make fish faces and giggle with other children."
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"Instead belief in God remains unshaken, as seen in churches, homes and on streets .",
"Haitian Vodou, often misunderstood, is part of people's rich history .",
"Their God is all-loving, not vindictive, priest says in answer to Pat Robertson ."
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"(CNN) -- This month on Inside the Middle East -- Zain Verjee hosts from Doha, Qatar.",
"Art Treasures Revealed .",
"Ancient art finds a modern home in Doha at the Museum of Islamic Art as it celebrates its first anniversary.",
"From jewelry to textiles to ceramics and metal work, the galleries host an unparalleled collection of artifacts spanning the 7th to the 19th centuries, from Spain to China.",
"The minimal Arabesque cubism design of the building was done by award-winning architect I.M.",
"Pei, famed for his Pyramid at Paris' Louvre Museum.",
"Schams Elwazer takes us inside Doha's cultural landmark.",
"Campus Forum -- University students share their thoughts .",
"In a region where 60 percent of the population is under 30-years-old, IME is going to universities to gauge the pulse on campuses and to speak to tomorrow's business and industry leaders.",
"On this edition we visit the Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar and ask design students about their passions, concerns, identity issues, and what it means to be young in the Middle East today.",
"On campus we also catch up with an industry leader -- architect and humanitarian entrepreneur Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity and hear his message of global action to young design students.",
"Your IME Diary . We report from on the ground in Mecca, Saudi Arabia where millions of Muslims gathered for the annual Hajj pilgrimage followed by the celebrations of Eid Al-Adha.",
"Qatar launched the first annual World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), hoping to become the educational equivalent of the World Economic Forum, aiming to \"create a new international multi-disciplinary platform to shape education models of the 21st century.\"",
"In the UAE, the Abu Dhabi Art exhibit brought famous names to its galleries while the Dubai World Championship brought golf stars to its greens.",
"You can watch Inside the Middle East at the following times in December: .",
"Wednesday 2 December: 0830, 1430, Saturday 5 December 0830, 1700, 2030, Sunday 6 December 0530, 1530, Monday 7 December 0300 (all times GMT)"
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"Find out what is on the minds of university students in the Middle East .",
"IME reports from Mecca as millions celebrate the Hajj and Eid Al-Adha ."
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"PARKLAND, Florida (CNN) -- Yorelle Haroush fled a million-dollar South Florida home this week, chased out, she said, by drywall made in China that's emitting vapors that smell like rotten eggs.",
"Amy Massachi hugs her pregnant niece, Yorelle Haroush, as she prepares to move this week.",
"\"It's making me sick.",
"Physically, mentally and emotionally, making me sick,\" said the 18-year-old, who is pregnant with her first child.",
"Haroush lives with her aunt Amy Massachi and her four siblings and cousins in the house.",
"They believe a year's worth of upper respiratory infections, antibiotics, bloody noses and sickness have been caused by the walls.",
"Their doctor said they need to get out of the $1.2 million estate in Parkland, Florida, northwest of Fort Lauderdale.",
"\"I said, 'you can't stay there anymore, because you're sick every minute,'\" the family's longtime physician, Dr. Ross Nochimson, told CNN.",
"\"They're sick on a weekly basis.",
"Earaches, sore throat.",
"I give them something, and they're sick again.\"",
"Massachi and her family are among homeowners in more than a dozen states who allege Chinese drywall has emitted corrosive gases they believe have given them health problems.",
"Homeowners also allege the gases corrode metal components including copper wiring, causing air conditioners and other household systems to fail.",
"Read about homeowners' allegations » .",
"The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says most of the complaints have come from Florida, where the concerns emerged last year.",
"But consumers also have filed complaints in Louisiana, Virginia, Wisconsin, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, California, Washington, Wyoming, Arizona, Tennessee and Washington, D.C.",
"The Florida Department of Health says complaints it received -- more than 330 as of Tuesday -- generally involve homes built between 2004 and 2007.",
"A study done for the Florida health department by private laboratory Unified Engineering Inc. found that samples of certain Chinese drywall gave off a sulfurous odor from \"volatile sulfur compounds\" when exposed to extreme heat and moisture.",
"It also found that vapors \"in the residential atmosphere created a corrosive environment in the presence of moisture.\"",
"The health effects of those vapors are still the subject of several scientific studies.",
"Odors and corrosion are clearly evident in the Massachi house.",
"The pungent, rotten-egg-like smell permeates the two-story home.",
"Throughout the house, electrical outlets are open to reveal black corrosion on the copper wiring.",
"The air conditioning unit's air handler, inside the house, is blackened.",
"\"This is disgusting. It's so corroded. I can't even believe it,\" Amy Massachi said in a raspy voice.",
"\"I can't breathe. Every morning, I wake up with sinus allergies, my voice is hoarse.",
"Watch Massachi explain what's happening in her house » .",
"\"My mother, when I call her up on the phone, she says, 'Amy, what's wrong with your voice?'",
"and I say, 'allergies.'",
"\"'What are you allergic to?' I don't know. Well, now I know. I'm allergic to my house.",
"My house is making us sick.\"",
"The doctor recommends they vacate their 18-month-old home.",
"\"Before they bought this house, they weren't calling every week with allergies and sore throats and ear aches and coughing,\" Nochimson said.",
"\"I don't know what more I can do for them.\" Haroush, who after giving birth faces heart surgery for an unrelated condition, is moving in with her grandmother.",
"\"I'm graduating this year, and I'm having a baby, and I don't need to be thinking about anything else going wrong, and any more stress that is on me,\" she told CNN.",
"Chinese drywall was imported into the U.S. during a different economic era, at the height of a housing boom.",
"Prices were sky high, and the country was hit by two active hurricane seasons in 2004 and 2005, increasing the demand for home repairs.",
"Suppliers were forced to look elsewhere for their drywall supply.",
"Drywall, made from gypsum, is regularly imported from Mexico and Canada, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce, but during this time frame, the U.S. looked to China to make up for the shortage.",
"The Gypsum Association told CNN that enough drywall was imported from China to build 30,000 complete homes.",
"Most of the Chinese drywall, they say, ended up in southwest Florida during the housing boom, where it was used in new housing developments.",
"Some was also used in remodeling projects all over the country, so the number of homes affected is difficult to calculate.",
"The Consumer Product Safety Commission hopes to have more answers in the coming months.",
"They continue to test the Chinese drywall, including controlled tests in chambers and real-world air sampling tests in homes, to determine how the drywall interacts with other elements in an average house.",
"\"We don't deny there's a problem,\" spokesman Joe Martyak said.",
"But there has been no positive link to adverse health effects.",
"\"We don't know what it is that's causing the sore throats or bleeding noses.",
"We have to find out what's causing the problem,\" he said.",
"The Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are doing studies on the health effects, but those examinations are some time away from completion.",
"The Consumer Product Safety Commission is having ongoing conversations with Chinese officials, who will be sending a representative to the United States to study the problem.",
"\"They appreciate the seriousness of the issue here and trying to be cooperative,\" Martyak said.",
"A handful of Chinese companies have been sued by homeowners and home builders.",
"In the meantime, homeowners like Massachi face financial hardship.",
"\"Now, because they have to move out for health reasons, they're taking on a whole second (rent) payment,\" said Massachi's attorney, Michael Ryan.",
"Ryan said he's had no luck trying to convince Massachi's home lenders to suspend mortgage payments until the house can be made livable again.",
"He told CNN his clients are \"having to make choices about their credit, and whether they are going to lose their home.",
"But they're always going to pick their health first.\"",
"Massachi agrees.",
"A good look at her blackened air conditioning coil was all she needed.",
"She's looking to rent a new place.",
"\"That's what I'm breathing in....I'm a little freaked out now, honestly,\" she said, her raspy voice cracking with tears.",
"\"It can't be good, if that's what that looks like and it's pumping throughout my entire house,\" she said.",
"Eighteen months ago, Massachi says, she moved into her dream house, surrounded by family and friends.",
"Now the dream is a nightmare.",
"\"It's worth nothing,\" she said of the home.",
"\"It's exclusive. It's pricey, and now it's worth nothing.\""
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"Million-dollar home smells like rotten eggs .",
"Chinese-made drywall has \"volatile sulfur compounds,\" study found .",
"Dream home now worth nothing, owner says ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The former judge who last year lost a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a dry cleaners over a missing pair of pants wants his job back.",
"Roy Pearson sued the owners of this dry cleaning business for $54 million over a missing pair of pants.",
"Roy Pearson was not reappointed after his term expired as an administrative law judge in the District of Columbia.",
"He filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court accusing city government and others of an \"unlawful demotion and subsequent termination.\"",
"Pearson was taken off the bench in May 2007, during his unsuccessful $54 million lawsuit against a dry cleaning business, which he accused of failing to meet its promise of \"satisfaction guaranteed.\"",
"As an administrative law judge, Pearson would hear cases involving zoning law and certain business disputes.",
"A city panel that decides reappointments had notified Pearson during the controversial lost trousers trial that his status was under review.",
"A source on that panel said at the time that any judge must meet certain standards of conduct \"on and off the bench.\"",
"The source, who was among the members of the panel at the time of Pearson's review, said \"a judge is a judge 24/7; whether or not they use good judgment in all aspects of their lives is what we can consider.\"",
"The civil case, in which Pearson represented himself, sought punitive and compensatory damages against a small family-owned dry cleaners that once posted signs promising \"satisfaction guaranteed.\"",
"A pair of trousers that hung by the witness stand was a featured part of the trial last summer.",
"The owners testified that the pants belonged to Pearson, who denied under oath that they were his.",
"The judge found in favor of the dry cleaners and disagreed with Pearson that the satisfaction promise was unconditional.",
"Pearson petitioned the trial judge for a reconsideration, which was denied.",
"He then filed an appeal with the D.C. Court of Appeals, which will hear his appeal later this year.",
"In court documents made available Friday at U.S. District Court in Washington, Pearson, again acting as his own attorney, relies on what he considers Washington's \"Whistleblower Protection\" law to try to establish illegal retaliation.",
"The trial over the lost trousers generated a storm of criticism among fairness advocates, who accused Pearson of abusing the system.",
"The latest litigation has begun to produce the same reaction.",
"\"He lost his job because he proved he did not have the legal requirements to fill the job, namely a judicial temperament,\" said Darren McKinney of the American Tort Reform Association.",
"Pearson did not return a message left at home.",
"In his suit seeking to regain his job, he also seeks \"compensatory damages in an amount to be determined at trial, in excess of $75,000 from all defendants jointly and severally,\" as well as an unspecified amount of punitive damages \"to be determined at trial.\"",
"Efforts to seek reaction from the individuals named in the lawsuit were unsuccessful.",
"No initial hearing date has been set in the civil case assigned to U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"He sought $54 million from a small family-owned dry cleaners over lost trousers .",
"A judge found in favor of the dry cleaners .",
"Pearson was taken off the bench in May 2007 ."
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"Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- On a visit to the border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, President Felipe Calderon apologized to the families of 15 people killed in a massacre last month and promised residents that their input would form part of the strategy against drug-related violence.",
"After meeting with the families, Calderon and local political and civic leaders presented a variety of ideas, critiques and proposals on how to stabilize a city that saw more than 2,500 killings last year and more than 230 so far this year.",
"Juarez is one of the front lines in Calderon's offensive against the country's major drug trafficking organizations.",
"The violence in Juarez is a result of a bloody turf war between the Juarez drug cartel and the Sinaloa cartel over lucrative smuggling routes into the United States.",
"Many of the killings are between rival gangs, something that Calderon's government hinted at in the aftermath of the January 31 massacre of a group of young partygoers that shocked the city.",
"In this case, it turned out that mistaken identity was behind the incident and that the youths killed were innocent.",
"On Thursday, Calderon apologized and gave his condolences to the victims' families for suggesting that their children were somehow involved.",
"The president also responded to criticism that the security strategy in Juarez was being imposed by politicians from afar with little understanding of their city.",
"\"I come mostly to listen,\" Calderon said, adding \"we're looking for solutions from Juarez because you are the ones living it.\"",
"Representatives of different sectors of the city's civil society -- security, human rights, religious -- took turns giving their proposals in front of Calderon and a tense crowd.",
"Many speakers were interrupted by heckling or criticisms from the crowd.",
"When Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz addressed the measures his government has taken to secure the city, some in the crowd booed and responded that he resides on the other side of the border, in El Paso, Texas.",
"Before the meeting, police forcibly removed some protesters that were lined up outside of the building where Calderon would speak.",
"Several of the audience members interrupted the meetings by yelling protests against the way the young demonstrators were treated.",
"Arturo Valenzuela, a doctor who represented the security sector, said that security operations in Juarez to date have failed.",
"Calderon has dispatched thousands of soldiers and federal police officers to supplement local police forces.",
"He recommended the appointment of one leader who would coordinate among local, state and federal agencies involved in securing the city.",
"\"The way the operation is currently structured, it will never work,\" Valenzuela said.",
"He also highlighted other security problems outside of the killings.",
"Kidnappings increased 3,000 percent in 2009, he said, and most business owners are extorted by organized crime.",
"A speaker representing the human rights sector, Lorenza Patricia Galarza, said the military was responsible for 1,000 human rights violations and should be removed from Juarez.",
"Calderon said he will not tolerate military abuses and challenged Galarza to present evidence of the abuses she cited.",
"The military, at least for now, is not going anywhere, Calderon made clear.",
"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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"Felipe Calderon meets with residents of Ciudad Juarez .",
"The president of Mexico presents plan to stabilize city in wake of killings .",
"Calderon apologizes, gives condolences to victims' families for implicating their kids .",
"Before meeting, police forcibly removed some protesters who were outside building ."
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"(CNN) -- A week into the Haitian disaster, the desperate and dusty faces of both survivors and rescuers tell a plaintive story: We need more, more, more.",
"And fast. The capital's airport, the country's roads and its ports were devastated by last week's 7.0-magnitude earthquake, leaving Haiti's crumpled infrastructure the chief obstacle to fresh supplies as well as food and water.",
"\"The significant limiting factor in terms of our ability to move forward is a reality of the infrastructure in Haiti,\" U.S. State Department spokesman P.J.",
"Crowley told reporters Tuesday.",
"\"But to the credit of the United States military, we started the operation (at Port-au-Prince's airport) with maybe 20 or so flights a day.",
"They're now up well over 100.\" The goal, he said, is to double that number.",
"Opening a second runway would help, he said.",
"So, too, would lighting at the airport.",
"Search list of missing and found .",
"\"Last night, we couldn't see to land the plane that was supposed to land,\" said Renzo Fricke, the chief of Haiti operations for the aid organization Doctors Without Borders.",
"\"The night before we were supposed to receive two planes that couldn't land.",
"The night before it was the same. That's our fourth plane that's not able to land.\"",
"Fricke told CNN's Christiane Amanpour Tuesday that although the organization was \"facing huge problems\" in receiving supplies, the work went on.",
"\"This morning we had to buy a saw in the market, in the city ... for our surgeons to do amputations,\" he said.",
"\"We had to buy a saw because our materials -- the medical equipment is not coming as it should arrive.\"",
"Fricke said that some equipment and other materials are coming into Haiti by road from the Dominican Republic, a route that Crowley cited as one of several that are slowly being opened to channel aid.",
"The airport, the ports, U.S. Navy ships with helicopters and a U.S. Marine unit are all important to getting vital supplies into the country, Crowley said.",
"High-resolution images of damage .",
"Maj. Gen. Dan Allyn, the U.S. commander of the Haiti task force, told reporters that Haiti should see some \"initial operating capacity\" at its ports by the end of the week -- including the capability of bringing in fuel needed to take trucks into more remote areas.",
"Additionally, he said that officials were looking into the possibility of opening an airstrip at the city of Jacmel \"to relieve some of the immediate pressure on Port-au-Prince airfield.\"",
"Cassandra Nelson, spokeswoman for Mercy Corps, which has a long-standing program in Haiti, said that aid is clearly increasing daily, but much more needs to be done.",
"\"Operations here have been an incredible challenge, and Mercy Corps has done emergency response for years and years and is very seasoned,\" she said.",
"\"[But] we have to say this is probably one of the hardest ones we've had.",
"\"We are working out of an office.",
"Right now our office is overflowing.",
"It's a place where we all sleep, we all eat granola bars, and we all do our work there.\"",
"Full coverage | Twitter updates .",
"A more-than-welcome sight arrives off Haiti Wednesday morning: the U.S.",
"Naval Ship Comfort, a state-of-the-art hospital ship that saw duty during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 in New Orleans and the 2001 terror attacks in New York, among others.",
"The ship, which can house up to 1,000 patients, brings with it more than 1,000 medical and support personnel.",
"But on the ground, caregivers struggle to provide the kind of care their patients need.",
"Dr. Robert Fuller of the International Medical Corps, a group of volunteer medical personnel, said that his group is hoping to have intensive-care units in \"a handful of days.\"",
"\"Things are coming together, but it is certainly not the way it is back home,\" he said.",
"\"Right now we have seven operating rooms up and running on the campus.",
"We could really use 20 probably.",
"At times we run so low on medications that it gets difficult to know whether we will continue to operate.\"",
"Dr. Mark Hyman from Partners in Health, which also has a long-standing program in Haiti, said the military effort to get Haiti running again is working, but the need is simply unimaginable.",
"\"Look, there's hundreds of thousands of patients that are injured,\" he said.",
"\"There's hundreds of thousands of others that have been killed probably, that we haven't even accounted for, and there's 150 nurses buried a few feet from here in the rubble of the nursing building.\"",
"And even those military personnel on the ground were spread widely.",
"Brig. Gen. Floriano Peixoto, force commander of the Brazilian troops who make up the U.N. command in Haiti, said his soldiers were there to do whatever is needed.",
"\"We understand that the country deserves more in terms of humanitarian aid and security, but our forces are dedicated to different fronts, including aid, security, search or bodies, recovery of missing people,\" he said.",
"\"It's a large amount of tasks to be done.\""
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"Capital's airport, country's roads and ports were devastated by last week's earthquake .",
"Haiti's crumpled infrastructure chief obstacle to fresh supplies as well as food and water .",
"Some equipment and other materials coming into Haiti by road from Dominican Republic .",
"Officials looking into the possibility of opening an airstrip at Haitian city of Jacmel ."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- As many of you already know -- because Tweets travel faster than airplanes -- Kevin Smith, the portly film director of the movie \"Clerks\" and the upcoming film \"Cop Out,\" was \"politely\" asked to disembark from his Southwest flight from Oakland to Burbank because he was too large to fit in the seat.",
"Okay, let's be frank: He was kicked off the flight.",
"The reason he was given was that his size infringed upon the space of the person sitting next to him and it could cause a safety risk in case of an emergency.",
"Does it surprise you that an airline that has charged a customer several hundred dollars for the service of transporting him from one place to another would subject said paying customer to the indignity of being told he's too fat to fly?",
"I don't think it does. Because this is what flying has become: barely one rung above bus travel.",
"Southwest may have apologized to Smith, but what about the rest of us?",
"Scratch the surface of any frequent flier and you will find a raging cauldron of resentment (or endless angry tweets, like Smiths), a bottomless pit of despair and rage with no hope of satisfaction because, after all, fliers have no choice but to accept every humiliation if they want to fly.",
"Most of us don't have our own planes -- or fly business class.",
"Myself, I'm old enough to remember when flying used to be fun -- but not quite old enough to remember when people used to \"dress\" to fly.",
"But they did. It was an event to go on an airplane.",
"Like going to a Broadway show.",
"Pretty ladies with hats and smiling men in uniforms would bring you snacks, blankets and pillows.",
"Beverages in real glasses.",
"But at some point, the airlines started to lose money, started charging more and giving you less in return.",
"The tragedy of 9/11 hastened the end of any kind of special treatment.",
"Boarding became a cattle call -- complete with prodding with a stick -- where you had to basically undress before you could get on the plane, take off shoes, coats, sweaters, get \"wanded,\" step out of the line for frisking, and other debasements too horrible to mention.",
"Soon they will be swabbing your hands for explosives.",
"Really! I know one woman whose underwire bra had security stumped.",
"(I have to check a bag just for the hair products for my frizzy hair; they don't come in less than three ounces.)",
"By the time you get on the plane, you are like a refugee -- the tired, the poor, the huddled masses in middle seats.",
"Flight attendants can't dote on you any more, they are too busy scanning the group for potential terrorists.",
"No more meals -- bad as they were -- no more cutlery.",
"If you're lucky, something called a \"snack mix\" in a bag is thrown at you, making you beg for more water.",
"And less and less room.",
"If you drop something on the floor, you can't reach it without putting your face in the lap of the person sitting next to you.",
"It makes you long for the fat days (you'll pardon the expression) of People Express, that 1980's no-frills airline that operated out of Newark.",
"It seemed pretty terrible back then, but really it was just a preview -- every man for himself.",
"Basically anything you got during the flight, you paid extra for.",
"When they did the safety announcement at the beginning, I would wait for the day they'd say, \"In case of an emergency, please pay two dollars and fifty cents to have an oxygen mask drop above your seat.\"",
"(Ha ha ha, right?",
"Don't give them any ideas.)",
"But you flew with them, because they were so cheap.",
"Now I'm wondering if that's a good enough reason anymore.",
"How much can a body take, even a skinny one like mine?",
"Kevin Smith, I feel your pain!",
"I cringe for the person who has to sheepishly ask for the seat belt extender because the one in the narrow little seat doesn't make it around his body.",
"The world is not built for fat people, and airplanes are not the place to look for gentle treatment.",
"I will not be surprised when airlines start to weigh people's luggage at the ticket counter, and then ask the traveler to get on the scale and be charged by the pound.",
"It's coming, you watch.",
"Or they will have bench seats on the airplanes, measure people as they board, and seat them accordingly.",
"If a fat person has to pay extra to fly -- Smith usually buys two seats on Southwest because they don't have first class -- then this could be a precedent for more suffering in the world away from the tarmac.",
"A fat person will have to pay extra for a larger size in clothing.",
"Or pay more for an all-you-can-eat buffet.",
"Or pay extra to use an elevator.",
"But what do I know? I was just turned down for health insurance because I have a history of anorexia.",
"Well, that's what they said. I know why they really turned me down: It's because I'm fat.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Cathy Ladman ."
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"Cathy Ladman laments Kevin Smith's getting bumped from a flight because of his size .",
"She says such treatment is routine for fliers now, unlike the days when flying was fun .",
"Indignities -- security measures, no food -- begin early and last till you've landed, she says .",
"Ladman: It's only a matter of time till Smith's treatment becomes routine even off the plane ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities in Vietnam have arrested the former chief executive officer of Jetstar Pacific Airlines and are preventing two airline executives from leaving the country, Vietnamese and Australian officials said.",
"The former chief executive, Luong Hoai Nam, faces prosecution for \"lack of responsibility causing serious consequences,\" said a spokeswoman for the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry, Nguyen Phuong Nga.",
"Vietnamese authorities are investigating the airline's chief operating officer, Daniela Marsilli, and its financial officer, Tristan Freeman, Jetstar Pacific said.",
"They are not allowing Marsilli and Freeman to leave Vietnam, the airline said.",
"Jetstar Pacific is partly owned by Qantas Airlines of Australia.",
"The Australian Embassy in Hanoi is seeking details about why the employees are being prevented from leaving Vietnam, according to Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.",
"The airline suffered heavy financial losses, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said, and investigators are trying to determine the responsibility of members of the airline's executive board and managing board.",
"Marsilli and Freeman are members of the airline's managing board and must \"make themselves present in Vietnam to respond to the requests from Vietnam's legal authorities in a timely manner,\" the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said .",
"-- CNN's Pamela Boykoff, Eugina Huang and Eunice Yoon contributed to this report ."
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"Airline: Vietnamese authorities not allowing airline's CEO, financial officer to leave .",
"Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says ex-CEO faces prosecution ."
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"(CNN) -- Peru's ancient Inca ruins of Machu Picchu should reopen April 1, more than two months after rain stranded hundreds of tourists at the popular spot, the government said.",
"Heavy rain in January unleashed mudslides that cut off roads and blocked a rail line between Machu Picchu and the nearby city of Cusco.",
"Water levels at the Vilcanota River have receded enough to allow repairs to the rail line, said Martin Perez, head of Peru's Ministry of Exterior Commerce and Tourism.",
"\"We expect that starting April 1, we will start to receive the millions of tourists who always have come,\" he said Tuesday.",
"Peruvian officials were forced to use helicopters to evacuate more than 1,000 stranded tourists last month.",
"Authorities estimated that 10,000 people were affected by the rain and 2,000 homes were ruined near Machu Picchu.",
"At least seven deaths were reported."
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"Peru's ancient Inca ruins of Machu Picchu should reopen April 1, tourism official says .",
"Heavy rain in January unleashed mudslides that cut off roads and blocked a rail line .",
"Peruvian officials evacuated more than 1,000 stranded tourists ."
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"Beijing, China (CNN) -- Prominent Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was arrested in 1989 for his role in the Tiananmen Square protest, faces trial Wednesday for allegedly \"inciting subversion\" in a more recent case.",
"Liu, a former university lecturer and literary critic, faces a possible 15-year jail sentence, amid growing international outrage over his yearlong detention, according to media reports.",
"The trial begins Wednesday at 9 a.m. local time (Tuesday 8 p.m. ...",
"On Monday, the Times of London quoted Liu's wife, Liu Xia, as saying, \"I have no hope whatsoever, I can't even attend the trial.\"",
"She said she planned to wait outside the courthouse.",
"\"I think he will be sentenced to more than ten years,\" she said.",
"Liu, 53, was detained on December 8, 2008, and held under \"residential surveillance\" as police investigated the case, according to the PEN American Center, a U.S. literary and human rights organization.",
"On June 23 of this year, he was arrested and charged with inciting subversion of state power, the organization said.",
"Liu is on the PEN board of directors.",
"The case was turned over to the prosecutor's office December 8 -- one year from the time Liu was detained.",
"Liu co-authored Charter 08, \"a declaration calling for political reform, greater human rights, and an end to one-party rule in China that has been signed by hundreds of individuals from all walks of life throughout the country,\" PEN says on its Web site.",
"The group said Liu was arrested before the formal release of Charter 08.",
"\"Liu has been engaged in agitation activities, such as spreading of rumors and defaming of the government, aimed at subversion of the state and overthrowing the socialism system in recent years,\" according to a police statement reported by China's state-run Xinhua news agency.",
"The statement claimed Liu confessed to the charge during a preliminary police investigation.",
"Liu served as an adviser to student leaders during the demonstrations at Tiananmen Square in 1989.",
"Along with three other intellectuals, he took part in hunger strikes there on June 2 of that year prior to the crackdown to show support for the flagging student protests.",
"He was arrested two days after the Tiananmen crackdown and was released in 1991.",
"In May 1995 he was detained again for collecting signatures for a petition calling for human rights guarantees.",
"The U.S. government has pressed for Liu's release.",
"\"The U.S. government is deeply disturbed by reports that Liu Xiaobo has been formally arrested and charged with serious crimes,\" said Richard Buangan, deputy spokesman at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, following Liu's latest arrest.",
"\"We call on the government of China to release Mr. Liu and respect the rights of all Chinese citizens who peacefully express their desire for internationally recognized freedoms.\""
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"Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo faces trial Wednesday .",
"Liu is being charged with \"inciting subversion\"\nLiu was also arrested in 1989 for his role in the Tiananmen Square protest .",
"The U.S. government has pressed for Liu's release."
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"London, England (CNN) -- British police said Wednesday they have arrested a BBC television presenter on suspicion of murder after he told viewers he carried out a so-called mercy killing on a former lover.",
"Ray Gosling, 70, a freelance broadcaster, admitted on a BBC show aired in central England that he had smothered the unnamed partner in hospital where he was being treated for AIDS.",
"Assisting in another person's death is illegal in England.",
"Police in Nottinghamshire, 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of London, confirmed they had made an arrest after the apparent confession on the BBC's \"Inside Out\" show.",
"Gosling made his admission in a taped segment of a 30-minute show about death, recounting how he smothered his partner to end his \"terrible, terrible pain.\"",
"He told viewers: \"Maybe this is the time to share a secret that I have kept for quite a long time.",
"I killed someone once.",
"\"He was a young chap, he'd been my lover and he got AIDS.",
"\"In a hospital one hot afternoon, the doctor said 'There's nothing we can do,' and he was in terrible, terrible pain.",
"\"I picked up the pillow and smothered him until he was dead.",
"The doctor came back and I said 'He's gone'.",
"Nothing more was ever said.\"",
"Gosling, who has not revealed details of his former lover's identity or the exact date of the incident, insisted he was not \"making a cause\" of assisted dying.",
"In a BBC Radio interview he said: \"Sometimes doctors do it on their own.",
"Sometimes people do it on their own.",
"\"And if it happens to a lover or friend of yours, a husband, a wife, and I hope it doesn't, but when it does sometimes you have to do brave things and you have to say - to use Nottingham language - bugger the law.\""
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"Ray Gosling admitted on a television show that he killed his former lover .",
"Gosling says he had wanted to end the pain of young man with AIDS .",
"Presenter says he is not trying to \"make a cause\" of assisted dying ."
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"Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Tariq Aziz, a top lieutenant of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, remained hospitalized at a U.S. military hospital Sunday after falling ill in prison, the U.S. command in Iraq reported.",
"He was taken to the hospital Thursday, though no details of his ailment were released.",
"But 1st Lt. Elizabeth Feste, a U.S. military spokeswoman, told CNN his condition was improving and he was being closely monitored.",
"Aziz was one of the best-known faces of Hussein's government, serving as deputy prime minister from 1981 to 2003 and as foreign minister for part of that time.",
"In March 2009, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison in connection with the 1992 executions of 42 merchants.",
"He was captured by U.S. forces in April 2003, shortly after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled the Hussein.",
"CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq contributed to this report."
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"Tariq Aziz remained hospitalized at a U.S. military hospital Sunday after falling ill in prison .",
"He was taken to the hospital Thursday, though no details of his ailment were released .",
"Aziz served as deputy PM from 1981 to 2003 and as foreign minister for part of that time .",
"He was sentenced to 15 years in connection with the 1992 executions of 42 merchants ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities are no longer able to watch a video of scenes at a Georgia nightclub in the case of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger because a digital video recorder system recorded over it, an attorney said Thursday.",
"Roethlisberger, who has been the starting quarterback for the Steelers for six seasons, has been accused of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old woman at a Georgia nightspot this month.",
"He has not been charged. Roethlisberger's attorney has said, \"The facts show that there was no criminal activity.\"",
"Police were hoping to use the recording to glean any details and insights about the sequence of events surrounding the alleged incident, which was said to have occurred in a restroom.",
"Carl Cansino, the attorney representing the Capital City nightclub, said police were able to see a small portion of the recording, and the club manager said he saw the entire video.",
"Cansino said the club manager said the club's dance floor and entrance were in the recording during the night of the alleged assault, but he couldn't discern anything out of the ordinary.",
"Police talked to Roethlisberger, 28, and the woman at the scene immediately after the incident was reported about 2:30 a.m. March 5 at the club in Milledgeville, Georgia, said Deputy Police Chief Richard Malone.",
"The woman \"alleged that he is the perpetrator,\" Malone told reporters.",
"Attorney Lee Parks said the woman said she is \"fully cooperating with law enforcement.\"",
"The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said the investigation is continuing and the file will be turned over to the local district attorney when it is over.",
"\"There is a future interview scheduled at present, and she intends to keep that appointment,\" Parks said.",
"CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report."
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"Lawyer says DVR recorded over nightclub video .",
"Ben Roethlisberger accused of sexually assaulting woman at Georgia nightclub .",
"Quarterback denies allegation; attorney: \"The facts show that there was no criminal activity\"\nEarlier request for his DNA has been dropped ."
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"Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- The passage of health care will certainly rank as one of the major political achievements of recent decades.",
"Legislation that will eventually extend health care coverage to more than 30 million more Americans, greatly expand the number of options that citizens have when purchasing health care, bring healthy citizens into the pool of the insured and thus lower costs and create important regulations on health care companies will be remembered as one of the biggest domestic policy changes since the Great Society of the 1960s.",
"While most attention will focus on President Obama for pulling off a Herculean task that eluded many of our great presidents, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi emerges from this battle as the real powerhouse in Washington.",
"She has pursued a clear ideological agenda but through pragmatic political tactics.",
"Like the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, she stands for something, yet knows how to round up votes.",
"Since the 2008 election, Pelosi has been the most reliable leader Democrats have had.",
"She has delivered on almost all of the legislation that the White House sent to Congress, even as her colleagues found themselves frustrated by a Senate that seemed incapable of governance.",
"At three critical points in the health care debate, Pelosi delivered.",
"First, she assembled a center-left coalition around the original House bill in November by pushing through a controversial amendment related to abortion that brought moderate Democrats on board with the legislation.",
"Second, when many Democrats, including top presidential advisers such as Rahm Emanuel, contemplated breaking up the bill after the Massachusetts election, Pelosi stood firm and defended holistic reform.",
"She \"kept the steel in the President's back,\" Democrat Rep. Anna Eshoo told Politico.",
"Finally, in the past week she displayed the kind of vote-gathering skills that have been displayed by legendary figures such as Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas.",
"From the start of Obama's presidency, Pelosi has argued that Democrats should focus on maintaining partisan unity rather than on achieving bipartisan coalitions.",
"She has implored her colleagues to act with confidence rather than out of fear.",
"Her goal has always been to find ways to keep Democrats together rather than bringing Republicans on board.",
"In an era where partisan polarization makes true bipartisanship impossible, this is the most effective and realistic approach for Democrats.",
"Her philosophy echoes the beliefs of another powerful leader who said: \"Show me a nation without partisanship, and I'll show you a tyranny.",
"For all its faults, it is partisanship, based on core principles, that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.\"",
"That was from a farewell statement by Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay.",
"Although Americans tend to focus on the presidency and give credit to the office for what does or does not happen, we often ignore the central role that Congress plays.",
"During the 1930s and 1960s, legislators were essential to the success of the New Deal and Great Society, often pushing Presidents Roosevelt and Johnson in directions they were too scared to take.",
"Rather than the cartoonish caricature that Republicans often use of Pelosi as a left coast, left-wing fanatic, she is something much more powerful -- and threatening to their party.",
"When Kennedy died, many Democrats wondered who would take his place as the party's deal-maker.",
"Now they have their answer. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer."
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"After Democrats lost 60-vote Senate majority, some wanted to scale back health bill .",
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi fought to keep the bill comprehensive, says Julian Zelizer .",
"He says she combines strong ideology with ability to amass needed votes .",
"Zelizer says Pelosi has emerged as powerful dealmaker for Democrats ."
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"(CNN) -- A sex tape allegedly showing former Sen. John Edwards survived a fire that torched a North Carolina courthouse on Thursday.",
"Actually, the tape that was the subject of a February court hearing at the historic Chatham County Courthouse was not at the courthouse during the blaze, city officials said.",
"The tape, said to show Edwards and his former mistress Rielle Hunter, had been moved to another facility, said Debora Henzey, community relations director for Chatham County.",
"Seven fire departments responded to the blaze at the courthouse in downtown Pittsboro about 4:45 p.m. Thursday.",
"It took firefighters hours to quell the blaze, which severely damaged the courthouse.",
"In February, the courthouse was the scene of the legal battle over the sex tape, with Hunter suing for its return.",
"At the hearing, Judge Abraham Penn Jones found former Edwards aide Andrew Young and his wife, Cheri, in civil contempt of court and ordered them to hand over the tape to the court.",
"In court documents, the Youngs had said that the video showed \"Senator Edwards engaged in sexual activities with a woman who, from all indications, is not his wife and who the Youngs believe to be Ms. Hunter, based upon her appearance.\"",
"In January, Edwards admitted that he had fathered a child with Hunter, a videographer who worked on his 2008 presidential campaign.",
"Edwards had publicly denied paternity for more than a year.",
"About a week after his admission, he confirmed reports that he had legally separated from his wife, Elizabeth.",
"Those announcements came just before Andrew Young released an embarrassing book about the Edwardses and his campaign.",
"CNN's Jessica Jordan contributed to this report."
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"Tape was the subject of a February hearing at the Chatham County Courthouse .",
"Chatham County Courthouse in North Carolina burned on Thursday .",
"The tape, which allegedly shows John Edwards and Rielle Hunter, had been moved ."
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"(CNN) -- Britain's Prince Charles left Afghanistan on Thursday after a previously unannounced two-day visit there, a spokesman said.",
"The heir to the British throne spent a night at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand province, before traveling to Lashkar Gah, the capital of the province.",
"He also visited Kabul, the spokesman said.",
"Prince Charles met Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, as well as Afghan senior government ministers and tribal and religious leaders to gain their perspective about reintroducing stability to the country, the spokesman said.",
"President Hamid Karzai was on an overseas trip, so the prince was not able to see him, the spokesman said, although he said the two spoke on the phone before Prince Charles traveled there.",
"No further details were immediately available.",
"Prince Charles' younger son, Prince Harry, 25, served on the front line in Afghanistan and saw combat.",
"He is training to become a pilot with the Army Air Corps.",
"-- CNN's Sarah Sultoon contributed to this report."
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"Prince Charles met U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Afghan officials .",
"Prince also visited Kabul, but did not meet President Karzai ."
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"(CNN) -- Dancers have put on a dazzling display atop extravagant floats at the legendary annual Rio Carnival.",
"Thousands of revelers cheered as dancers shimmied and shook their colorful costumes through the streets of the Brazilian city.",
"Seven-year-old Julia Lira took her place as the drum corps queen for the Viradouro School of Samba despite criticism that she was too young to fill a role normally reserved for voluptuous adult dancers."
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"Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Dennis Hopper took what may be his final bow Friday as his star was dedicated on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.",
"His lawyer and doctor told the judge overseeing his divorce this week that Hopper is dying of prostate cancer, but the 73-year-old actor was smiling broadly during the ceremony.",
"\"I just want to thank you,\" Hopper told the crowd surrounding him.",
"\"That's all I can do.\" \"Easy Rider\" co-star Jack Nicholson stood behind Hopper as Hollywood star number 2,403 was revealed with Hopper's name in front of the Egyptian Theater.",
"Other stars on hand included director David Lynch and singers Johnny Mathis and Dwight Yoakam.",
"With his 6-year-old daughter, Galen, by his side, Hopper waved and bowed to hundreds of fans lining a barricade along Hollywood Boulevard.",
"Hopper's doctor called him \"extremely weak\" and said he weighs barely 100 pounds in a court document filed this week, but he walked on his own during the 45 minutes he was at the ceremony.",
"His forehead and right hand were bandaged, but not because of his illness.",
"Hopper said he \"took a terrible fall\" and \"got pretty screwed up\" as photographers followed him outside his Venice, California, home Thursday.",
"\"I want to thank the paparazzi,\" he said.",
"\"I know you've got a tough job, but sometimes you ought to be a little more sensitive.\"",
"Hopper, who is undergoing radical chemotherapy for advanced, metastasized prostate cancer, is also divorcing his wife of 14 years, Victoria Hopper.",
"iReporter captures the star ceremony .",
"He is too weak and ill to be questioned by lawyers in the divorce, but attending Friday's ceremony \"is a positive experience in every way,\" his doctor's sworn statement said.",
"The couple separated in January when he filed for divorce, claiming the stress of their relationship was threatening his life as he battled cancer.",
"\"The presence of his estranged wife is hampering Mr. Hopper's present cancer care as she introduces significant additional stress into his life,\" Dr. David Argus said.",
"\"The less Mr. Hopper has to do with his estranged wife at this time, the more likely he is to have his life extended.\"",
"Victoria Hopper's lawyer did not immediately respond to calls for comment.",
"The divorce case is set for an April 5 hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court.",
"iReport: Hopper surrounded by friends, family at ceremony .",
"Hopper said the Starz cable network paid for his Hollywood star ceremony, which cost $25,000.",
"His last acting job was on \"Crash,\" the TV series based on the Oscar-winning movie of the same name.",
"Hopper's acting career has spanned almost six decades.",
"In the '50s he had roles in several TV shows and films, including \"Rebel Without a Cause\" (1955) and \"Giant\" (1956).",
"He became a Hollywood sensation for \"Easy Rider,\" the 1969 film he directed and co-wrote in which he played a dissolute, countercultural biker."
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"He is too ill to testify, but doctor recommended he appear at star ceremony .",
"Starz cable network pays for Hopper's star on Hollywood Boulevard ."
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"Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has prohibited a human rights group from using social networking Web sites to discuss amputations as punishment, court records show.",
"The court in Kaduna city ordered the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria not to have forums on Twitter, Facebook or other sites discussing the 2000 punishment of Mallam Bello Jangebe, whose right hand was amputated for stealing.",
"\"It's the 10th anniversary of the amputation -- and we wanted to mark the anniversary by opening the discussion,\" said Shehu Sani, president of the Civil Rights Congress.",
"\"We reject and condemn the ban, and plan to challenge it in a higher court.\"",
"The group opened the discussion on some sites last week.",
"Sani said the court was concerned that the forums would criticize Sharia law.",
"\"But we just wanted to use it to get views,\" he said.",
"Jangebe's hand was cut off after he was convicted of stealing a cow, according to a report by Amnesty International.",
"The decision by Kaduna court Monday came after the Association of Muslim Brotherhood group decried planned forums in a lawsuit last week.",
"In its motion, the pro-Sharia group said the debate on social sites would mock the strict Islamic law as \"negative issues will be discussed.\"",
"The page for a group on Facebook called \"The amputation of Malam Buba Bello Jangebe\" said it is \"dedicated to discussions and debate relating to court-ordered amputations in Nigeria.\"",
"\"Recently, a pro-Sharia group successfully argued that forums on Facebook and Twitter would mock the Sharia system .The intention of this group is to stimulate rational debate about the moral, social and legal implications of such a court ruling on our right to free speech and freedom of association,\" the statement on the site says.",
"The Facebook group, which has 16 members, called for a discussion on the matter to begin Wednesday.",
"Only one comment has been posted under \"discussions,\" and it says that \"Islam is trying to shut down free speech worldwide.\"",
"-- CNN's Jonathan Pride contributed to this report."
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"Decatur, Georgia (CNN) -- LaShonda Durden had just given birth to her second child.",
"She was two weeks back from maternity leave when her supervisor called her into her office.",
"\"You need to be trying to find other employment,\" her manager said.",
"A bereavement coordinator and chaplain at an Atlanta, Georgia-area hospice, Durden suddenly found herself coping with the grief of being unemployed.",
"Sixteen months later, she's still out of work.",
"\"It's a vicious cycle,\" she says.",
"Durden is not alone.",
"She is among the 16.5 percent unemployed African-Americans -- almost twice the rate of unemployment for whites.",
"The figure was included in a new report released Wednesday on the state of black America by the National Urban League.",
"The report presents other sobering statistics on the nation's racial divide on economics, education, health, civic engagement and social justice.",
"Among them: . The median household income for blacks stands at $34,218; for whites, it's $55,530.",
"Less than half of blacks own a home compared to three quarters of white families.",
"Blacks are more than three times as likely to live in poverty.",
"In addition, black-owned businesses represent a paltry 5 percent of privately owned companies, and the study says more are needed to help spur job growth in minority communities.",
"The Obama administration, the study suggests, has taken measures to improve the gap between whites and blacks, although it says more is needed.",
"The report says legislation needs to focus on minority job training, tax incentives and extensions for unemployment benefits.",
"Andrew Grant-Thomas, the deputy director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, says he believes the statistics for unemployed black Americans is far greater than what's being reported.",
"The figures don't include people not actively seeking employment or people with higher education degrees forced to take jobs for which they're overqualified.",
"\"The disparities are definitely huge and that number understates the size of the disparity,\" he says.",
"\"You want to take that number and double it.\"",
"\"This recession is even bigger than Katrina hitting New Orleans,\" he adds.",
"\"Yes, everyone got hit, but not everyone was hit equally as hard -- and shouldn't we invest in those hit the hardest?\"",
"The faces of the statistics .",
"On Tuesday, Durden went to Java DeLight Cafe, in a predominantly African-American suburb of Atlanta.",
"She goes there to network and search for jobs via the Internet over its WiFi connection.",
"The cafe is owned and operated by Patricia Setzer, an African-American who opened the establishment in 2008.",
"She says she can relate to many of her customers.",
"Days after she opened her business, her husband was laid off.",
"It took him eight months to find a new job.",
"\"We literally just went without for awhile,\" she says.",
"Setzer hopes her cafe can serve as a networking hub.",
"She calls it \"the cultural meeting place.\"",
"If her regular customers don't return for weeks, she wonders if they've succumbed to hard times: \"When they're not here, I'm thinking about them.\"",
"\"We want people to come here and meet and enjoy themselves,\" Setzer says.",
"To that end, she's organizing a job club at her cafe -- a place to host unemployed Americans (of any ethnicity) and give them hands on training, from resume help to how to dress for interviews.",
"Barbers and hair stylists will be on hand for those who need fresh cuts.",
"As a business owner, Setzer is a minority in a minority: Just 5.2 percent of small businesses in the U.S. are black-owned.",
"\"We're all struggling, whether you're white, black or green,\" says Setzer as she flips turkey patties.",
"\"You've just got to hold on.\" On this day, Diane Ridley Roberts, president of a management consulting firm, worked from her laptop inside the cafe.",
"Unlike other businesses that aren't hiring, she says she's having trouble finding qualified people.",
"Ridley Roberts, an African-American, says there is no homogenous state of black America.",
"\"To say we're all in one boat is a little naive, I think,\" says the owner of Global Evaluation & Applied Research Solutions.",
"But she adds that there are common experiences that only black Americans can fully relate.",
"Even in 2010, she says, she feels she has to doubly prove herself when she is awarded a contract.",
"\"There are certain judgments, ideas and perceptions about me when I walk into the door as someone's consultant,\" she says.",
"\"It is what it is.\" An unexpected job interview .",
"Sipping coffee at a table in the cafe, Durden talks about all manner of difficulty -- from her work as a hospice chaplain to her own layoff and struggle.",
"She's turned her joblessness into action: She volunteers monthly to help the homeless.",
"It's a reminder, she says, that her family \"could be worse off.\"",
"\"And that's the blessing for me -- just knowing that I am sustained,\" she says, \"that even if the bottom falls out, God still has us in His hands.\"",
"She sends out her resume at least three days a week.",
"She attends job fairs about every two weeks.",
"Those get discouraging, she says, with 400 people jockeying for one position.",
"She holds a sociology degree from Georgia State University and went on to seminary school.",
"At this point, she'll take anything to help her family.",
"And that's another part of the job hunt.",
"She's overqualified for many positions and often wonders: \"Do I dumb down my resume?\"",
"\"I have a passion to help people do better than they're doing now, regardless of where they are in life,\" she says.",
"\"I just love people.\"",
"As for her African-American roots, she says, \"It means I expect to excel in what I do because I know who my foremothers and forefathers are.",
"\"Being black in America right now, for me, it means hope.",
"It means keeping that hope when some others may not be able to.\"",
"Durden piqued the interest of one person in the cafe.",
"Overhearing Durden's story, Ridley Roberts asks if she has a resume.",
"Durden pulls out her flash drive and downloads a copy.",
"The two then leave the cafe.",
"The impromptu job interview is Durden's best lead in a while.",
"That's the life of the jobless: Networking and constantly searching, even on the fly.",
"CNN's Sarah Hoye contributed to this report."
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"Median household income for blacks stands at $34,218; for whites, it's $55,530 .",
"\"The disparities are definitely huge,\" expert says ."
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"Washington (CNN) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Thursday that a \"new information curtain is descending across much of the world.\"",
"In a speech on Internet freedom and security, Clinton also urged China to investigate a wave of cyber attacks against Google and other companies.",
"The Internet and other technologies are critical to foreign policy, and those who engage in cyber attacks should face international condemnation, she said.",
"\"In an interconnected world, an attack on one nation's networks can be an attack on all,\" she said at The Newseum in Washington.",
"Clinton made the comments as search-engine giant Google threatened to shut down its operations in China, five years after agreeing to allow some censorship in exchange for the right to work in that country's massive emerging technology market.",
"Google charges that Chinese hackers have targeted Google and up to 34 other companies.",
"The Chinese government argues that the Google case is a business dispute and should not affect overall relations between the two countries.",
"Clinton has said that Google's allegations of censorship and online attacks by China raise \"very serious concerns,\" and her agency has said it will file a formal protest over the company's complaints.",
"Also this month, foreign correspondents in at least two Chinese bureaus of news organizations had their Google e-mail accounts attacked, with e-mails forwarded to a mysterious address, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China.",
"Clinton warned that the latest information technology -- designed to open access to governments -- can also be used by some governments to \"crush dissent and deny human rights.\"",
"\"In the last year, we've seen a spike in threats to the free flow of information.",
"China, Tunisia and Uzbekistan have stepped up their censorship of the Internet,\" she said.",
"\"In Vietnam, access to popular social networking sites has suddenly disappeared.",
"And last Friday in Egypt, 30 bloggers and activists were detained.\"",
"A member of that group, having since been freed, was in the audience, Clinton said.",
"\"So while it is clear that the spread of these technologies is transforming our world, it is still unclear how that transformation will affect the human rights and welfare of much of the world's population,\" she said.",
"\"The same networks that help organize movements for freedom also enable al Qaeda to spew hatred and incite violence against the innocent,\" Clinton said.",
"Some governments also have \"co-opted\" the Internet to silence \"people of faith,\" Clinton said.",
"\"Last year in Saudi Arabia, a man spent months in prison for blogging about Christianity,\" she said.",
"Countries such as Vietnam and China have used similar tactics to \"restrict access to religious information.\"",
"The State Department will convene a high-level meeting next month of firms that provide network services for talks on Internet freedom, she said.",
"Citizens and businesses must be able to rely on the security of information networks, Clinton said.",
"\"Our ability to bank online, use electronic commerce and safeguard billions of dollars in intellectual property are all at stake if we cannot rely on the security of information networks,\" she said.",
"Referring to social and economic development, Clinton said the Internet can serve as a \"great equalizer.\"",
"By providing people with access to knowledge and potential markets, networks can create opportunity where none exist.",
"\"Over the last year, I've seen this first hand in Kenya, where farmers have seen their income grow by as much as 30 percent since they started using mobile banking technology,\" Clinton said.",
"Information technology has been a great help in addressing the staggering problems in Haiti, she said, pointing to a young girl and two women who were pulled from the rubble after they sent a text message for help.",
"The text message campaign to raise money for Haiti has raised more than $25 million for recovery efforts, Clinton said.",
"Each texter was asked to donate $10, and the State Department said Wednesday that it is believed to be the largest amount raised for the country through a mobile phone campaign.",
"CNN's Jill Dougherty and Doug Gross contributed to this report."
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"Freedoms should include access to Internet, freedom of speech and worship, she said ."
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"JAMAICA PLAIN, Massachusetts (CNN) -- Lucy Valena is hooked on coffee.",
"Lucy Valena went to Seattle to learn from the best baristas before opening her Boston espresso company.",
"\"I had my first shot of espresso when I was 14,\" she says.",
"\"And it was pretty amazing for me.\"",
"With the dream of opening a coffee house, Valena -- a 24-year-old artist -- went to Seattle, Washington, to learn at the aprons of the best.",
"\"The first time I went into a cafe, I saw someone pour the leaf, the rosetta, on top of a latte, and I'll never forget, I just saw that barista pour that rosetta and I said, 'I'm not leaving this town until I learn how to do that.'",
"\" Valena returned to Boston, Massachusetts, and launched Voltage Coffee, a mobile espresso catering company, last fall.",
"\"When I was in Seattle, I kind of was amazed by this kind of wired culture that they have going on there.",
"People are just obsessed,\" Valena says.",
"\"They just make this amazing coffee and are just really caffeinated and just getting stuff done.",
"It's a very exciting place to be.",
"\"So when I moved back to Boston, I really wanted to kind of bring that energy back with me in a way.",
"And Voltage Coffee is a way to bring that on the road and bring it into other peoples' environments instead of bringing them into a separate place.",
"It's bringing the caffeine to the people,\" she says.",
"Watch Valena talk about her enthusiasm for coffee » .",
"Her corporate headquarters is her bedroom, and she wrote her business plan \"with all these Business Plan Writing for Dummies books,\" she says.",
"Valena then took her plan to the Small Business Administration and was directed to Accion USA, a company specializing in microloans.",
"Accion had just begun a partnership with the Boston Beer Company -- brewer of Samuel Adams beers -- to help small food and beverage businesses get funding and free advice.",
"\"I love Lucy's dedication to the quality of her product,\" says Samuel Adams founder Jim Koch.",
"\"I'm a big believer that a great product, and the passion that an entrepreneur brings to that, can carry a long way if you have a helping hand.",
"\"Lucy stands out as an entrepreneur because she's got a lot of energy, she's got a huge amount of passion for coffee, for her product.",
"And she does wonderful things about quality.",
"\"She makes her own flavorings from scratch with fresh ingredients.",
"So, that reminded me a lot of brewing and how we make our beer, and of course you know I believe that anything brewed is good.\"",
"Valena started Voltage with $2,000 of her own cash and a $4,000 loan she got through the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream program.",
"That $6,000 \"covered the espresso machine, the grinders, my table, some membership costs, licensing ... and my costs for a few months with the commercial kitchen facility,\" she says.",
"Now she's focused on opening a storefront.",
"But she has to incorporate, find a space and get a loan.",
"\"I need to convince someone to give me 180 grand,\" she says.",
"\"That's a good chunk of change.\"",
"Despite the economy, Valena remains undaunted: \"I'm just going to keep working at it.",
"I'm not letting up. I'm not letting up, Boston! I don't care!\""
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"She returned to Boston and launched a mobile espresso catering company last fall .",
"Valena started with $2,000 of her own cash and a $4,000 loan from brewer .",
"Beer maker helps small food and beverage businesses get funding, advice ."
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"Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- For all the buzz about \"tablet computers\" in recent weeks, one fundamental question about this supposedly break-through computer category remains unanswered: .",
"What exactly is a tablet?",
"Computer industry representatives here at the massive and hype-heavy Consumer Electronics Show can't seem to agree.",
"Some say a computer just needs a touch-sensitive screen to be a tablet.",
"Others say a person should be able to write on it with a pen.",
"Still others say it's screen size that's important -- tablets must fit somewhere between phones and laptops.",
"For Philip McKinney, vice president and chief technology officer at Hewlett-Packard, it's partly the keyboard -- a tablet should have one of those.",
"Break off the keyboard, leaving only a touch-screen device, he said, and the gadget falls into another buzz-worthy category: the slate.",
"Others say the terms slate and tablet are synonymous.",
"So what's a confused consumer to do?",
"And how can anyone judge the many products here that claim to be from tabletland when there's no consensus on what one is?",
"Simple. Just get over the name, said Steve Baker, vice-president of industry analysis at the NDP Group, a market research firm.",
"Computer makers are introducing a shotgun spray of newish -- or at least newly named -- products in hopes that one will be a big recession-era hit with consumers, he said.",
"None of these new devices, which he said are characterized only by their medium size, fix any obvious problem consumers have with their current computers, he said.",
"Companies are releasing these new products without knowing exactly why consumers would want to use them, he said.",
"\"That's the problem, but the exciting part of it is that we really don't know what the right product is for people -- what they want to do with this.\"",
"Hot products .",
"The tablet buzz at CES is somewhat overshadowed by a tablet that Apple is rumored to announce later this month.",
"Still, the array of tablet-esque devices here is getting tons of attention from show attendees.",
"The two most talked-about tablets at CES are Lenovo's IdeaPad U1, which the company refers to not as a tablet but as a \"hybrid-notebook;\" and a yet-to-be named and largely unseen \"slate\" tablet from HP.",
"Lenovo's device looks like a smallish laptop on first glance.",
"But the screen on the gadget pops off of a plastic shell and can be carried around separately from its keyboard.",
"That's the tablet part of the hybrid.",
"When separated from its keyboard home, the slender touch-screen tablet -- which looks like a stretched-out iPhone -- is well suited for watching movies, browsing photos and reading books, said Michael Littler, who markets the device.",
"The touch-sensitive screen, made possible by Microsoft's Windows 7, lets users spin photos and scroll through text with their fingers, which might seem more intuitive than a pushing a computer mouse.",
"Watch CES attendees get acquainted with the dual laptop-tablet .",
"That product will debut in six months and will cost less than $1,000, Littler said.",
"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer briefly trotted out HP's unnamed \"slate\" device during his opening keynote address at the show, stirring up lots of interest.",
"The device was thin and flat, without a keyboard, and with a touch-sensitive screen.",
"HP decided not to show off the unnamed product at CES, however.",
"McKinney, the company's CTO, said the HP slate has been in development for five years and will be sold to consumers sometime in 2010.",
"He would not discuss the product's price or provide further specifics.",
"Tablet origins .",
"Part of the tablet confusion comes from the fact that the term is not new.",
"In the 90s, Microsoft and others introduced tablet PCs with swivel-around screens and keyboards.",
"Consumers couldn't touch the screens with their fingers to control the tablets, but many had stylus pens that let people write on the screen.",
"While popular in niche markets, those older-generation tablets never took off like expected, said Lance Ulanoff, editor in chief of PC Magazine.",
"\"I think major companies are still a little hesitant to go all-in,\" he said.",
"Why now? The current resurgence of the tablet term -- and the mid-sized, touch-screen gadgets that go with it -- appears to have several precipitating factors.",
"First, said Ulanoff, is the popularity of the iPhone.",
"Apple's smartphone showed people how helpful touch-screen technology can be.",
"\"I think people got the idea that -- 'Well, what if [the iPhone] was bigger?\"",
"he said. Next is the recession.",
"Consumer electronics sales were down considerably in 2009.",
"That gives computer companies an incentive to try some potentially wacky ideas in an effort to differentiate themselves from competitors, said Baker, the industry analyst.",
"Technological advances are also pushing the idea.",
"Windows 7, which Microsoft released last year, incorporates touch-screen technology, and many people consider to be a cornerstone of the tablet experience.",
"Also throw in a truckload of hype about Apple's rumored tablet.",
"Tech blogs have been drooling over the supposed announcement for months.",
"And, while tablet makers here say they've been working on the technology for years, several admitted the Apple tablet buzz doesn't hurt their efforts.",
"People expect everything Apple makes to be sexy and popular.",
"And that could rub off on an entire category of devices.",
"What's in a name? The flurry of newly named computer products, however, could have negative consequences for the tablet computer industry, said Ken Lee, vice-president of sales and marketing at viliv, another tablet maker exhibiting at CES.",
"The industry is on the verge of confusing consumers so much that they won't know what products they do or don't want, he said.",
"Still, he added, it's exciting to work in a time of experimentation.",
"Viliv is focusing on a number of mid-size computing devices -- from its $500 N5 \"clamshell\" device, which looks like a sunglasses case when it's closed and is small enough to fit in a coat pocket; to a $550 S10 tablet with a swivel touch-screen and a keyboard; and, finally, a soon-to-be-unveiled \"media slate,\" which has an 10-inch touch-screen and no keyboard.",
"The names are important from a marketing perspective, he said.",
"Viliv didn't call its \"media slate\" a tablet because that name sounds expensive, he said.",
"The company didn't want to call it a plain old slate either, he said, because that sounded heavy, like slate rock, when the media slate is actually rather light.",
"Slate also sounds industrial, he said, and he wants this media-consumption device to be fun.",
"\"We tried to give it a little bit more of a casual, lighter feeling,\" he said.",
"Other companies have introduced mid-sized, pseudo-tablet products under a host of names -- smartbooks, mini-notes, touch-screen netbooks, dual-book e-readers that also surf the Web.",
"At its CES product office this week, Littler, from Lenovo, was commenting on this development when a woman abruptly joined the conversation.",
"\"I just call it a computer,\" she said."
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"Most are characterized by their size: They are smaller than laptops and bigger than phones .",
"HP says tablets have keyboards and \"slate\" computers only have touch-screens .",
"Computer makers are trying out new categories to see what will stick with consumers ."
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"(CNN) -- A 5.8-magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday off the Cayman Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said.",
"The 6.2-mile deep quake hit at 9:23 a.m.",
"ET, 40 miles from George Town, Cayman Islands, the USGS reported.",
"George Town, the capital, is on the western shore of Grand Cayman Island.",
"There were no immediate reports of injuries in the three-island chain in the Caribbean.",
"The British territory of the Cayman Islands is about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which was devastated last week by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake.",
"Tuesday's quake struck about 32 miles (52 kilometers) east-southeast of Bodden Town in the center of the southern coast of Grand Cayman Island.",
"Are you in the Cayman Islands?",
"Share photos, video .",
"It caused shaking at the Pedro St. James National Historic Site, about a 10-minute drive from Bodden Town, said Sonya Hydes, the gift shop manager.",
"\"There was quite a bit of shaking,\" she said.",
"Hydes said she called her husband after the shaking stopped to see if their house was affected.",
"He told her that he felt the quake but that it did not damage their house.",
"There are reports that the quake toppled power lines in Bodden Town, said Kafara Augustine, a news producer for Cayman 27.",
"Augustine said she felt the shaking from within her office in central George Town.",
"She and her colleagues quickly evacuated the building, seeking safety in the streets, she said.",
"The two-story building did not suffer any damage and from what she could see, everything else seemed unharmed during the quake, she said.",
"The quake startled Davy Ebanks, general manager of the North Sound Club, a golf course on the Seven Mile Beach strip of western Grand Cayman Island.",
"He said he was reading about the earthquake in Haiti on the Internet when he suddenly felt shaking.",
"\"I just bolted,\" he said.",
"\"It was rocking and rolling pretty good.\"",
"The trembling knocked some picture frames off balance and sent some mannequins tumbling in the pro shop, but otherwise did little damage at the club, he said.",
"About 215 miles (346 kilometers) from the temblor in Cienfuegos, Cuba -- a city on the southern coast of the communist island -- residents said they felt nothing.",
"The Caymans are about 167 (268 kilometers) miles northwest of Jamaica and about 140 miles (240 kilometers) south of Cuba, according to the CIA World Fact Book.",
"CNN's Mark Bixler and Shasta Darlington contributed to this report."
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"No immediate reports of injuries after earthquake off Cayman Islands .",
"\"There was quite a bit of shaking,\" says shop manager in George Town, Cayman Islands .",
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"(CNN) -- The number of girls being raped has increased sharply since fighting intensified in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a humanitarian group said Tuesday.",
"A survey of children at refugee camps finds rapes of girls under age 17 are increasing.",
"Also, the recent fighting between rebels and the Congo government has heightened the threat of children being recruited as soldiers, said World Vision.",
"\"A silent war has been waged against women and children,\" said Sue Mbaya, the humanitarian group's Africa advocacy director.",
"\"Women and girls in the hundreds have been targets of opportunistic and brutal rape, while children are also being targeted for recruitment or re-recruitment as child soldiers.\"",
"World Vision said they surveyed children at six refugee camps in the country, finding that 120 girls under the age of 17 reported being raped in October.",
"That's compared to five reported cases in April and June.",
"Mbaya was scheduled to address the issue Tuesday during a report to the United Nations Security Council.",
"The fighting, which began in August, prompted the U.N. Security Council to approve sending more than 3,000 troops in coming weeks to bolster the 17,000-strong peacekeeping force already there.",
"A U.N. envoy has also been sent to Congo to conduct peace talks between the government and rebel leader Laurent Nkunda.",
"The spiraling violence in eastern Congo has displaced an estimated 250,000 people -- many of whom have fled to refugee camps.",
"The fighting is spurred by lingering tensions over the 1994 slaughter of ethnic Tutsis by majority Hutus in neighboring Rwanda.",
"Nkunda has said his forces are fighting to defend Congolese Tutsis from Hutu militants who escaped to Congo."
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"Fine wine, fashion, long lunches and secular laws -- the answer to what France is all about depends on who you ask.",
"As part of CNN's special iList coverage of France, anchor Hala Gorani is hosting a panel on national identity in Paris as part of iList, CNN's series looking at France.",
"Hala will speak to some of the country's leading minds about the future of France, the strength of French business, what makes the country competitive and which way its culture is headed.",
"The high-profile panelists include Pierre-Henri Gourgeon, CEO of Air France and KLM, Dominique Senequier, CEO of AXA Private Equity, Claudie Haignere, a former astronaut and former Minister for European Affairs, and Ahmed el Kheiy, a journalist and TV presenter.",
"Watch the panel discuss these issues on Saturday 20 February: 1930 GMT| 2030 CET|1430 ET .",
"The guests tackle the topics of diversity, tolerance and the role France should play in Europe.",
"Some believe that France weathered the financial crisis better than any of its Continental neighbors, while others said that inefficient tax laws and rigidity in labor markets were holding the world's fifth largest economy back.",
"Has President Sarkozy put the country on a better track?",
"Are France's socialist roots being dug up?",
"Are the French ready to elect their own Obama?",
"And what about cheese, bread and art?",
"Can France culturally maintain its pre-eminence?"
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"CNN asks experts about the meaning of French identity .",
"How will France stay competitive in the global market?",
"Watch the panel discuss these issues on Saturday 20: 1930 GMT, 2030 CET| 1430 ET ."
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"(CNN) -- World No. 2 Novak Djokovic suffered a shock defeat by sixth seed Mikhail Youzhny in the semifinals of the World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam on Saturday.",
"The Serbian, who had not played since Thursday after being handed a walkover in his quarterfinal, lost 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (8-6) to the Russian despite saving two match-points.",
"Youzhny, who won the Dutch indoor tournament in 2007, will play second seed Robin Soderling in Sunday's final after the world No.",
"8 edged out sixth-ranked Nikolay Davydenko 7-6 (7-3) 6-4.",
"Youzhny will have the chance to avenge his compatriot's defeat as he seeks to improve his 1-1 career record against Soderling.",
"The signs are good for the world No.",
"20, who also defeated Djokovic in the semifinals three years ago.",
"The Muscovite will bid to win his sixth ATP Tour title, having won one in each of the past three seasons.",
"Soderling has bounced back from a poor start to the season that saw the Swede lose in the first round of his first two tournaments in 2010, including the Australian Open.",
"\"This is a really tough tournament and it's not easy to reach the final here,\" last year's French Open finalist told the ATP Web site.",
"\"I'm playing better with every match, so I'm very happy.",
"I've had a lot of tough matches with Nikolay in the past few years.",
"He's one of the best players in the world, so it means I am playing great tennis to beat him.",
"My confidence is up and I'm looking forward to the final.\"",
"Meanwhile, second seed Fernando Verdasco reached the final of the SAP Open in San Jose in the United States after beating Uzbekistan's Denis Istomin on Saturday.",
"The Spaniard won 6-3 2-6 6-4 to set up a clash with the top seed Andy Roddick who overcame a first set loss and two tiebreakers to defeat fellow American Sam Querrey 2-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4).",
"Top seed Elena Dementieva will play Lucie Safarova in Sunday's Paris Indoor Open final on the women's WTA Tour circuit.",
"Russian world No.",
"7 Dementieva came from behind to beat young American Melanie Oudin 4-6 6-3 6-3 in the semifinals of the French hardcourt event, where she lost in the final last year to Amelie Mauresmo.",
"Unseeded Czech Safarova upset Italy's Flavia Pennetta, the second-ranked player in the field, as she also rallied from a set down to win 4-6 6-3 6-4.",
"World No. 46 Safarova lost to Nadia Petrova in the 2007 final.",
"In Thailand, top seed Vera Zvonareva will seek home hope Tamarine Tanasugarn from winning her first Pattaya Open title on Sunday.",
"The Russian is on course to defend her title following a 6-2 4-6 6-3 victory against fourth seed Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan, reaching her 21st career title.",
"The 32-year-old Tanasugarn will have her 10th tilt at a WTA title after crushing Shvedova's compatriot Sesil Karatantcheva, ranked 185th in the world, 6-2 6-0 in the other semifinal on Saturday."
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"World No.",
"2 Djokovic suffers shock defeat in semifinals of World Tennis Tournament .",
"Serbian beaten by Russian sixth seed Mikhail Youzhny in Rotterdam .",
"Youzhny, ranked 20th, will play world No.",
"8 Robin Soderling in Sunday's final ."
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