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[ "(CNN) -- Is she hurt? Is she getting help?", "Is she even alive?", "Those were the jumbled thoughts that raced through Sereth Hosty's mind in her Long Island, New York, home as she tirelessly scoured the news and Web for clues to the whereabouts of her elderly mother in Haiti.", "Since an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 struck Tuesday, Augusta Thervil, 83, was among the growing number of people who had gone missing in the Port-au-Prince area.", "And her daughter was among those living in limbo.", "\"I check. I check. I check,\" Hosty said earlier this week.", "She had spent two days trying to reach her mother, neighbors and family friends by phone.", "She even placed a posting on CNN.com's iReport with her mother's picture.", "With phone lines and electricity down, people with family and friends in Haiti are struggling to live with uncertainty.", "\"To not know and be waiting is one of the most difficult situations to be in,\" said Therese Rando, clinical director of the Institute for the Study and Treatment of Loss.", "The waiting finally came to an end for Hosty on Thursday evening when she heard through a cousin that her mother was alive.", "And though she hasn't been able to speak with Theravil directly, she's sleeping again.", "\"I know there are other problems that are coming with food and water, but I feel relief that she's not dead,\" Hosty said.", "\"My cousin said my mommy is OK.\" The toll of the quake is not yet known, but government officials said deaths may exceed 100,000.", "Emergency crews have already arrived in the Port-au-Prince area, but there are no indications when communication lines will be restored.", "Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, with a weak infrastructure even before the earthquake.", "The panic, anger and sadness since the quake are similar to the responses seen after the September 11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.", "Those unexpected disasters claimed many lives and left family members who suffered losses to grieve for years, psychology experts say.", "Many are still grieving today.", "After 9/11, families frantically drove into New York City, trying to display their loved ones' photographs to the public in hopes of recovering the person -- or their body.", "Unable yet to travel to Haiti, families are using Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to search and connect.", "Several hundred submitted photos to iReport, asking for help in identifying their missing loved ones.", "See the \"Looking for loved ones in Haiti\" page on iReport .", "\"In every moment, the level of emotional anguish ratchets up, and there's nothing anyone can say to make them feel better,\" said Russell Friedman, director of The Grief Recovery Institute, a counseling organization in California that helps people deal with deaths and natural disasters.", "The grieving process for someone waiting to learn if a loved one has survived can be incredibly traumatic, Friedman says.", "They may feel more frustrated than those on the ground because they cannot help, he said.", "Mayka Cadet, 22, experienced these emotions Tuesday night in her Glendale, Maryland, home.", "She hasn't heard from five of her family members who live in Port-au-Prince.", "Her phone calls don't go through.", "There isn't even a ring. She especially misses her Uncle Sergo Cadet, who has always been her mentor.", "Cadet, who owns a construction business, taught her to work hard in school.", "\"It's just really hard for me because I'm really close to them,\" said Cadent, who posted an iReport looking for her family members.", "\"They come visit us every summer.\"", "After their initial reaction to the news, people will find different ways to cope, psychologists say.", "Those who have missing relatives will feel sadness, anger, shock or confusion.", "Some may feel confused about their emotions, or struggle to even know what they are feeling.", "For those who learn their family members have died, the grieving process can progress, the experts said.", "People will often go through the stages of denial and bargaining before accepting the loved one's death.", "\"Everyone grieves differently,\" said Kristi Cooper, a family life field specialist at Iowa State University.", "\"There is no wrong way to grieve.\"", "But time can heal emotional wounds, says George Bonanno, a psychology professor at Columbia University and author of the book \"The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss.\"", "Although coping with a loss can be difficult, Bonanno said he found that most people are resilient and able to overcome their loss.", "CNN iReporter Marie Aline Sillice, 26, is trying to stay positive.", "She encouraged her family to keep busy even though she can't locate her father.", "Frangel Victor, 57, worked as a lawyer in Port-au-Prince.", "They spoke on the phone just a few hours before the earthquake struck.", "Help the Sillices find their father .", "Sillice, a psychology graduate student at the University of Rhode Island, admits she is nervous that he may not have access to his diabetes medication.", "She is also keeping close contact with her family members in the U.S. and has posted an iReport in hopes of finding her father.", "So far, she hasn't heard anything." ]	[ "NEW: Woman finds out through cousin that her 83-year-old mother is alive .", "Families are using social media and the Internet to find people affected by the earthquake .", "Psychologists say the panic and frustration experienced by families is similar to 9/11 .", "\"Everyone grieves differently,\" said Kristi Cooper, a family life field specialist ." ]	[ 1, 10, 16, 33, 38 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Rain pounded water-logged Los Angeles on Thursday, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said more than 300 city residents were ordered to evacuate because of the threat of mudslides.", "\"We continue to urge the public who live in these areas to evacuate, to heed the warnings of our police officers and firefighters, our first responders, who are there to protect your public safety,\" the mayor said.", "Just over 500 Los Angeles County residents who were advised to flee their homes earlier had done so by Thursday morning, said Capt.", "Sam Padilla of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.", "The latest storm is part of a series that began Monday, drenching communities up and down the coast.", "Some areas have received more than 12 inches of rain this week, the National Weather Service reported.", "Flash flood watches were in effect Thursday night for Southern California, as well as central Arizona and southern Utah.", "\"While the worst of the last few storms is behind us, there still is a significant threat from thundershowers that are forming off the coast,\" Villaraigosa said at a news conference Thursday night, warning of the potential for lightning, hail and water spouts.", "Los Angeles had four swift-water rescue and two urban search-and-rescue teams on standby to deal with potential flooding, according to the mayor, who said more were available if needed.", "There were three swift-water rescues Wednesday, according to Padilla.", "No relief from the wet weather is expected until the weekend, increasing the threat of mudslides in communities nestled below hills that were stripped of trees and vegetation during 2009 wildfires.", "Villaraigosa said the brunt of the storm was supposed to hit by 6 p.m. Rainfall totals of 1 to 4 inches are expected across coastal sections of California with isolated additional rainfall amounts of 7 inches possible, forecasters said.", "Are you affected by the storms?", "Send your images and video .", "The rains are the result of El Niño, a warm ocean current from the South Pacific, according to CNN meteorologist Chad Myers.", "In coastal Pacifica, south of San Francisco, a huge mudslide left an apartment building teetering on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, CNN's Dan Simon reported.", "He said the four apartments in the building were evacuated, and quoted an engineer saying the building could topple into the water at any time.", "TV crews could be near the structure only briefly.", "One man complained about being told to leave his Southern California home.", "\"You're talking about blocking us out of here for five days, evacuating until next week,\" he said to CNN affiliate KABC-TV in Los Angeles.", "\"You know what, that's too many days, that's a huge inconvenience.", "I understand they're looking out for our safety ... but I'm not out driving around.", "I'm staying put.\"", "See KABC's coverage of the storms .", "Villaraigosa said Thursday that U.S. geologists, sanitation workers and street maintenance workers will head into threatened regions Friday morning to determine whether it is safe for residents to return to their homes.", "In the mountains of Southern California, the storms brought heavy snow, closing Interstate 15 at Cajon Pass and the Grapevine section of Interstate 5 for a time, the California Highway Patrol reported Thursday.", "Heavy snowfall remains in the forecast for the higher elevations in the Sierra Nevada, southeastern Utah, southwestern Colorado and southeastern Arizona.", "More than 73 inches of snow has fallen in Chagoopa Plateau, California, since Sunday and more than 35 inches in parts of Arizona.", "CNN's Sean Morris contributed to this report." ]	[ "Just over 500 Los Angeles County residents also were evacuated .", "Mudslides a serious threat to areas near hills stripped of vegetation by wildfires .", "Snow closes roads in mountain areas of Southern California ." ]	[ 2, 10 ]
[ "(CNN) -- As floodwater raged around their pickup, the family of a 6-year-old Arizona boy escaped to higher ground.", "The boy, however, was swept away.", "Teams were looking for his body on Friday, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said.", "Meanwhile, an evacuation order for some Los Angeles, California, residents was lifted, and the mayor said those people can safely return home .", "Authorities were classifying the Arizona operation as a recovery, presuming that a child could not survive in the raging water, the office said in a news release.", "The boy's name was not released.", "Rain has hindered attempts to find the boy after the incident Thursday night, authorities said.", "\"This effort continued through the night without success.", "Because of low visibility, along with the wind and rain, DPS (Department of Public Safety) Ranger helicopter was unable to fly over the area,\" the sheriff's office said.", "Are you affected by the storms?", "Send your images and video .", "The family's pickup got stuck near the northern community of Mayer, between Flagstaff and Phoenix in central Arizona.", "On Friday, the vehicle sat alone in a vast sea of mud, which reached nearly to the bottom of the windows and partially filled the area under the crumpled hood.", "The vehicle was tilted forward, as if diving into the muddy soup.", "According to a preliminary report, the boy was in the pickup with his 8-year-old sister and parents, who were trying to take him to a hospital when floodwater swept the pickup off the road.", "The mother was able to reach higher ground, and the father took the children to the bed of the vehicle for safety.", "By the time firefighters reached the scene, rising water had pushed the three from the bed.", "The father was able to reach a safe area with his daughter but the son was missing.", "California iReporters deal with the rain but have fun too .", "The flooding was the result of heavy rainstorms that started pounding parts of neighboring California on Monday and continued through the week.", "Upper elevations got heavy snow.", "Conditions in the area were not likely to improve until Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service said.", "Forecasters predicted continued flooding of many rivers and streams and up to an additional foot of snow in the mountains.", "In Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Friday that the 2,000 city residents who were evacuated because of the storms could return.", "The permission came after teams of geologists and structural experts determined that areas threatened by mudslides were safe enough, he said at a news conference.", "See KABC's coverage of the storms .", "Last year's wildfires burned trees and vegetation that normally hold soil in place and prevent hillsides from collapsing.", "Hundreds of residents also had been evacuated in Los Angeles County, and many of these were cleared to return home, according to the Coordinated Agency Recovery Effort's Web site.", "The storms stem from El Nino, a warm ocean current from the South Pacific, meteorologists said.", "CNN's Sean Morris contributed to this report." ]	[ "Family in Arizona escapes to higher ground in flood, but 6-year-old boy didn't make it .", "Authorities classifying the Arizona operation as a recovery .", "In Los Angeles, 2,000 residents who were evacuated can return home ." ]	[ 0, 23 ]
[ "LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria has set its sights on making multibillion-dollar oil deals with China amid peace moves with militants.", "Hundreds of militants have laid down their weapons in exchange for a pardon and a job.", "Lawmakers in the west African country -- one of the world's top producers of oil -- are crafting new money-making changes for its state oil corporation, as officials negotiate multibillion-dollar oil deals with China.", "At the same time, the government is brokering peace with bandits whose attacks have cost the oil industry millions.", "Nigeria's minister for state of petroleum, Odein Ajumogobia, talked this month about the developments.", "The changes aimed at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation will address allegations of corruption and mismanagement, he said.", "\"Some of the excesses we've seen in the industry are as a result of the lack of regulation,\" Ajumogobia said.", "\"We are going to make sure that the petroleum directorate, for example, where the minister will reside, is going to be manned by professionals who understand the industry and have the experience.\"", "Nigeria welcomes China's recent interest in investing in Nigeria's oil industry, Ajumogobia added.", "The state-run China Daily reported in September that the China National Offshore Oil Corporation was negotiating with Nigeria over a $30 billion oil deal.", "The talks are part of China's oil-buying binge this year.", "Its government-controlled oil companies have closed or floated a slew of deals all over the world, including billion-dollar deals with Russian oil company Rosneft and Brazil's Petrobras.", "The Nigerian minister offered few details about negotiations with China.", "\"There is no deal yet,\" he said.", "\"We all know the appetite of the Chinese for energy -- a huge population and so on -- and they're looking for oil and Nigeria has a lot of it.\"", "Oil bandits have plagued Nigeria for years, attacking pipelines and cutting production by over 1 million barrels of oil a day.", "But many of those attacks might end, thanks to a cease-fire with the militant group MEND, or the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.", "The truce was negotiated in the summer and was extended in September.", "MEND has demanded a fairer distribution of oil wealth in the Niger Delta and wants oil revenue reinvested in the region, instead of enriching those whom the militants consider corrupt politicians.", "Last week, the group said it was calling off the truce, but there have not been renewed attacks.", "Nigeria hopes to leverage the fragile peace to reap big dollars from its oil industry, Ajumogobia said." ]	[ "Nigeria aims to make huge oil deals with China and peace with militants .", "Government brokers peace with bandits whose attacks cost oil industry millions .", "Chinese oil company negotiating with Nigeria over $30 billion oil deal, reports say ." ]	[ 0, 3, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Ferrari have unveiled their new car, the F10, which the Italian manufacturer hopes will see them return to the front of the Formula One grid.", "Last season saw Ferrari struggle to keep up with Brawn GP, McLaren and Red Bull and team boss Stefano Domenicali told the BBC that he believes the new car will be far more competitive than the 2009 version.", "\"We are coming off a season that was not competitive and this should mark a turning point.", "We want to win the world title once again,\" said Domeniciali.", "Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso's move to Ferrari was one of Formula One's worse-kept secrets but, now his move has been confirmed, the Spaniard admits he cannot wait to get started.", "\"This is my first presentation with a Ferrari and it's very exciting,\" he told the official Ferrari Web site.", "\"I want to thank the team for their great work, but also the sponsors and everybody else.\"", "Alonso will partner Brazilian Felipe Massa, who has now fully recovered from his life-threatening crash in Hungary last July, and chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo believes both drivers will compliment each other superbly.", "\"They know how to race for a team and not for themselves.", "I'm expecting a lot from them.", "Felipe is strong, stronger than he has ever been.", "In Budapest I told him: 'you'll be back even stronger'' and he has.\"", "Formula One rules changes have been taken into account when constructing the new F10 and Luca Marmorini, head of engine and electronics, commented: \"From a technical point of view reducing the consumption was one of the most interesting things this year.", "Consumption means performance.", "\"There won't be any refuelling anymore so consuming less means less petrol on board and therefore better lap times.", "Whoever consumes less will be faster on the track.\"" ]	[ "Ferrari unveil their new car, the F10, for the 2010 Formula One season .", "The Italian manufacturer hopes the car will see them return to the front of the grid .", "Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso partners Felipe Massa this season ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "(CNN) -- For everyone licking their wounds after Thursday's landmark 5-4 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission, worried that the evil corporations are now poised to ruin American democracy once and for all, in the bogus name of free speech, here's a word of potential hope: I used to be one of you, too, and today I'm happy as a clam.", "Maybe you can be too, eventually.", "Here's why: . Free speech really does mean free speech, and the laws that the \"Citizens\" ruling overturned directly and heinously restricted the stuff.", "Forget for the moment the broad characterization of the ruling -- such as The New York Times claim that it \"sweep[s] aside a century-old understanding\" -- and drill down to the individual case in question.", "Citizens United, a conservative 501(c)(4) nonprofit that has funded a dozen political documentaries over the years, produced a critical documentary about Hillary Clinton in 2008 entitled \"Hillary: The Movie.\"", "By a decision of the federal government, which was enforcing the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (known more broadly as McCain-Feingold), this piece of political speech was banned from television.", "iReporter: Supreme Court ends real democracy .", "Let's boil it down to the essential words: Political documentary, banned, government.", "You don't have to be a First Amendment purist to intuit that political speech was, if anything, the most urgent subcategory covered by the First Amendment's \"Congress shall pass no law\" restrictions.", "And you don't have to be a Hillary-hater to imagine the shoe on the other foot.", "What if MoveOn.org's 501(c)(4), Campaign to Defend America, had been blocked by George W. Bush's Federal Elections Commission from broadcasting \"McCain: The Movie\"?", "Wouldn't that stink, too? As Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion, \"The law before us is an outright ban, backed by criminal sanctions.", "Section 441b makes it a felony for all corporations -- including nonprofit advocacy corporations -- either to expressly advocate the election or defeat of candidates or to broadcast electioneering communications within 30 days of a primary election and 60 days of a general election. ...", "If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech.\"", "We are living in a fragmented media age in which many nontraditional sources are producing journalism, even and especially of the advocacy variety (my opinion magazine, Reason, is funded by a nonprofit 501(c)(3).", "Why should nonprofit journalism producers -- like the Sierra Club, say -- have to ask for the government's permission to send a political documentary across the airwaves?", "For many liberals I know, the free-speech objection to campaign-finance law is just a smokescreen for enabling corporate villainy.", "I mean, Mitch McConnell cares about the First Amendment?", "I used to think that way, too.", "But try this exercise: Check out the free-speech objections by people who don't want Goldman Sachs to take over the West Wing, or Wal-Mart to bulldoze private residences.", "I'm talking about anti-corporatist crusaders like Tim Carney, anti-eminent domain-abuse litigators like the Institute of Justice, or even former Federal Elections Commission chief Brad Smith.", "And for those many who claim to be First Amendment absolutists while also supporting McCain-Feingold -- I'm looking at you, some of my fellow journalists -- here's a question that the former begs of the latter: What if you're wrong?", "Even if you just can't bring yourself to believe that people who take civil liberties seriously have long-held serious civil libertarian criticisms of campaign-finance laws, or if you simply think they're all wrong, I'll offer this last salve: It has never been easier for groups of citizens to swarm together and flow money through the Internet toward campaigns and candidates who excite them.", "Ask Ron Paul -- or more relevantly, Barack Obama -- what's more powerful: $10 million from Dr.", "Evil Industries, or $10 each from 1 million people who can actually vote?", "The American people are not sheep, eager to be led by the highest bidder.", "As the Supreme Court rightly noted today, \"The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.\"", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Matt Welch." ]	[ "Supreme Court ruling doesn't represent a step backward, says Matt Welch .", "He says the ruling stops government from inhibiting free speech about politics .", "Welch says people aren't sheep; can make decisions about campaign advertising .", "He says ruling will allow wide variety of advocacy groups to air points of view ." ]	[ 1, 5, 16, 17, 25, 26, 27 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officers and contractors and a Jordanian intelligence official in Afghanistan was within seconds of being searched by two security contractors when he detonated his explosives, a former intelligence official with knowledge of the incident told CNN on Tuesday.", "On December 30, the two American guards, who worked for Xe Services -- formerly Blackwater USA -- approached the passenger side of the red 4-door sedan where bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi was sitting, the official said.", "Al-Balawi had been invited to the base to share information he claimed to have that would lead the United States directly to Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second in command.", "The sedan was waved through the normal security checkpoints to get onto the base, and pulled up just outside a one-story building -- a temporary space that was being used to interrogate people brought onto base.", "Several CIA officers and contractors were standing on the driver's side of the car, opposite al-Balawi, and others were standing as far as 50 feet away, a U.S. intelligence official said.", "Al-Balawi started to get out of the car, with one hand in his pocket, when he detonated the explosives, the source said.", "\"It was no accident that some of the CIA officers were standing on the opposite side,\" the former intelligence official said.", "The official observed it was the safest place to be, as \"they waited for the Xe guys to do what they're paid to do and frisk him.\"", "Also, there could have been some cultural sensitivity, with an Arab man about to be searched in front of female CIA officers who were there.", "The official says that \"there was no point going up to him until after the guards had patted him down.\"", "Some of these details were first reported in The Washington Post earlier this week.", "The official expressed surprise at how much shrapnel tore through the area, killing seven CIA officers and contractors -- including the two Xe Services guards -- as well as a Jordanian intelligence official.", "Former CIA Agent Jack Rice told CNN that frequently, suicide bombers' explosive vests are wrapped in \"things like nuts and bolts and ball bearings.", "\"So what you create is this massive amount of shrapnel that kills everybody in the entire area,\" he said.", "Rice, who just returned from Afghanistan, said it was unusual to have so many officers present for a debriefing, but if they believed al-Balawi's claims that he had direct links to al Qaeda's top leadership, the excitement on the base would have been high.", "\"Remember, this is a career opportunity for all of these people.", "If you could take down al-Zawahiri, if you could take down Osama bin Laden, you are a hero for the rest of your career.", "Everybody wants to be in the room,\" Rice said.", "Al-Balawi, a Jordanian doctor, was a promising potential source.", "U.S. and Jordanian intelligence agencies apparently believed he was a reformed extremist and were using him to hunt al-Zawahiri.", "Al-Balawi had provided photographic evidence that helped establish his credibility, a U.S. intelligence official said.", "There were other things that also helped determine his authenticity, the official added, but would provide no further details.", "The former intelligence official who spoke anonymously has been to Forward Operating Base Chapman, where the attack occurred, and said body armor was worn even within the base's inner perimeter, which is unusual, compared with military bases in Kabul or Kandahar.", "\"You have a real sense of the proximity to the Pakistan border.", "Perimeters don't have the same meaning,\" the official said.", "While saying that a mistake was made by not searching al-Balawi before he got into the red car, the official defended the officers' decision to bring him on base.", "\"There's nowhere to frisk someone outside, and you don't have a whole lot of options.", "Let's assume they did have a safe house -- the exact same thing would have happened there,\" the official said.", "In a rare public defense of the CIA officers' actions, CIA Director Leon Panetta said the officers did not ignore the potential dangers because of the potential for valuable information.", "\"This was not a question of trusting a potential intelligence asset, even one who had provided information that we could verify independently.", "It is never that simple, and no one ignored the hazards,\" Panetta wrote in an op-ed this weekend in The Washington Post.", "\"The individual was about to be searched by our security officers -- a distance away from other intelligence personnel -- when he set off his explosives.\"", "The official says the attack not only sheds light on the dangerous work CIA officials and contractors do in Afghanistan, but how their footprint is growing.", "FOB Chapman was used to conduct operations back and forth across the Pakistan border.", "But the official says it is just \"one of many bases in Afghanistan\" that operate outside U.S. military or NATO command.", "Afghan contractors guard the outer perimeter of many of the bases.", "\"Back in 2005, the CIA worked up an entire plan on how to increase its presence in Afghanistan,\" the official said.", "This effort was pursued \"very aggressively\" through the last several years of the Bush administration, and the official believed President Obama would have been briefed on that when he took office.", "The official says the feeling in the intelligence community is that Obama has increased the frequency and intensity of aggressive actions around the Afghanistan/Pakistan border region.", "Since he took office, the United States has ramped up the use of pilotless drones to strike at al Qaeda targets in Pakistan, including at least seven strikes since the December 30 attack at FOB Chapman, and approximately 51 others previously in 2009.", "In 2008, the last year of President George W. Bush's administration, there were approximately 34 drone strikes.", "\"I've seen no evidence that he's [Obama] diminished in any way the strategy of the previous administration.", "In fact, President Obama has not only continued what President Bush started, he's built on it,\" the official said.", "CNN Intelligence Producer Pam Benson and Pentagon Supervising Producer Adam Levine contributed to this report." ]	[ "Bomber was invited to base to share information on al Qaeda's second in command .", "He detonated explosives as he left car, former intelligence official says .", "Official: Bomber should've been searched before he got into car; bringing him on base was right .", "Attack shows CIA expansion in Afghanistan, risk to officials, contractors, official says ." ]	[ 0, 2, 25 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Thanks to a crop of how-to dating shows, such as Bravo's \"The Millionaire Matchmaker\" and VH1's \"Tough Love,\" more people are reaching out to matchmakers, making an age-old art fashionable again.", "Back in 19th-century Russia -- around the time of \"Fiddler on the Roof\" -- women dreaded visits from the village matchmaker and longed to choose their own men.", "Today, real-life dating experts are in high demand.", "\"Millionaire Matchmaker\" star Patti Stanger says her off-screen business, Millionaire's Club International, is growing just as fast as her TV series, which, in its third season premiere, increased viewership by 30 percent, according to Nielsen Media Research.", "It's great having more clients, Stanger said, though there's more dross to sort through.", "\"We're on the map, everyone knows the brand, but it takes 30 to 45 guys until we find a real guy,\" she said.", "\"Crazy people come in [out of] the woodwork.\"", "And while certain aspects of her club have been sensationalized for TV -- like having millionaires pick their dates out of a room full of men or women looking to date them -- Stanger tells it like it is, whether or not the cameras are rolling.", "\"I'll tell [clients] off.", "I'll say, 'You want to be 80 [and alone] in the nursing home?'", "\" \"Tough Love\" features Steve Ward, chief executive officer at Master Matchmakers, a matchmaking service his mother JoAnn Ward -- who also appears on the show -- founded more than 20 years ago.", "On the show, Ward works closely with single women who he says \"need an objective third party to give them constructive feedback that can help them find what they're looking for.\"", "There are many people looking for answers, especially young people with nowhere else to turn, Ward said.", "About half of the 20,000 people who applied to be on his new spin-off \"Tough Love Couples\" were younger than 21, he said.", "Hiring a matchmaker can be pricey.", "Some services charge thousands of dollars for one-on-one consultations.", "However, many matchmakers will list you in their database for a smaller fee.", "The success of the shows has rubbed off on the matchmaking industry.", "Despite her general dislike for \"The Millionaire Matchmaker,\" Janis Spindel said the Bravo hit, which debuted in 2008, is somewhat responsible for spiking interest and boosting her client base.", "Her company, Janis Spindel Serious Matchmaking, has seen a 41 percent increase since these programs found a place on cable TV.", "One client, a former bachelor from Austin, Texas, contacted Spindel after his daughter inadvertently introduced him to \"The Millionaire Matchmaker.\"", "\"His teenage daughter was watching it in the living room, and when he walked in, he heard what the show was about and took interest in the art of matchmaking,\" Spindel said.", "Samantha Daniels of Samantha's Table, a bicoastal matchmaking service, said she has also watched her business boom since matchmaking shows first appeared on TV.", "\"Miss Match,\" a romantic dramedy based on Daniels' life as a matrimonial attorney turned matchmaker, aired on NBC in 2003.", "Whether it aired about six years too soon, or just settled in to an unfortunate time slot, the series was canceled after one season because of disappointing ratings.", "Despite \"Miss Match's\" missed mark, Daniels plans to give TV another shot.", "She's is in the planning stages of her own reality show to teach women to be better daters.", "\"Putting that show on the air and going forward with more shows on the air, people are coming to understand what the business is more,\" Daniels said.", "\"A lot of people will say ... 'You do that in real life?", "I want someone to do that for me.'", "\" Jan Yager, author of \"125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life,\" said fear is the main reason people are reluctant to contact matchmakers, and she's glad that reality matchmaking shows are doing their part to ease that fear.", "Yager, who met her husband of 25 years through the personals, said it's important to get past the stigma that comes with hiring a matchmaker.", "Some people have an \"if it happens, it happens\" attitude when it comes to finding love, she said.", "\"But did you get to [be successful at work] because 'if it happens, it happens'?", "Didn't you have to plan and put time into it?", "Think about it.\" In addition to educating viewers about how to find love and sustain healthy relationships, matchmaking shows have helped to eliminate the stigma often associated with hiring a matchmaker, said Stanger, who met her fiancé through her own service.", "\"Now it's not taboo to hire a matchmaker.\" she said." ]	[ "Nielsen Media Research: \"Millionaire Matchmaker\" season 3 ratings show up season 2's .", "Matchmaker Janis Spindel's business up 41 percent since matchmaking shows hit TV .", "About half of the 20,000 who applied to be on \"Tough Love Couples\" were younger than 21 ." ]	[ 3, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Australian government apologized Wednesday for years of \"mistreatment\" that inflicted \"profound grief, suffering and loss\" on the country's Aboriginal people.", "Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes the apology on Wednesday from inside Parliament.", "New Prime Minister Kevin Rudd read the apology Wednesday to Aborigines and the \"Stolen Generations\" of children who were taken from their families.", "\"To the mothers and fathers, to the brothers and sisters we say sorry.", "And for the indignity and degradation on a proud people and a proud culture we say sorry.\"", "For 60 years, until 1970, the Australian government took mixed-race Aboriginal children from their families and put them in dormitories or industrial schools, claiming it was protecting them.", "As a result of the policy, \"stolen\" children lost contact with their families and heritage, received poor education, lived in harsh conditions, and often endured abuse.", "Watch one of these \"stolen\" children discuss this legacy » .", "\"There is nothing I can say today that will take away the pain...", "Words are not that powerful,\" Rudd said in the Australian Parliament.", "He said that the apology was the start of a new approach towards Aborigines which included helping them find their lost families, closing pay gaps and a 17-year difference in life expectancy between Aborigines and white Australians.", "Watch Rudd make the apology » .", "He said new policies would be introduced to provide better healthcare and education to Aborigines.", "\"The mood of the nation is for reconciliation now,\" Rudd said.", "Watch why this apology is considered significant » .", "The policy was largely a secret until a decade ago, when a government inquiry and high-profile movie exposed it.", "That sparked a mass movement, supported by many white Australians, demanding an apology.", "Former Prime Minister John Howard refused to offer an apology, saying the current generation should not be held accountable for past misdeeds.", "He instead issued a statement of regret.", "Rudd, who defeated Howard last November, made an apology part of his election campaign.", "Howard's successor as leader of the Liberal Party, Brendan Nelson, supported the apology Wednesday.", "\"The apology ... is ... very much just the first step,\" said a spokeswoman for Jenny Macklin, the minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.", "\"We have serious inequalities between indigenous and nonindigenous Australians.", "The apology is symbolic, but there's a lot of hard work to be done to reverse those inequalities.\"", "Mary Farrell-Hooker counts herself among the Stolen Generations and is now a spokeswoman for an Aboriginal activist group.", "She is of mixed race and was one of 12 children of alcoholic parents.", "Her father was in jail for raping her sister when her mother was hospitalized after a suicide attempt.", "\"The police came to the school and told me they were taking me to the hospital to see my mom,\" Farrell-Hooker told CNN.", "\"We never went to the hospital.\"", "Instead, Mary, then 12, was taken to a series of foster centers.", "At one of them, she said, she was repeatedly raped by a white \"house father.\"", "\"He would actually come into the room and force himself onto me, rape me, molest me,\" she said.", "\"If I didn't do what he wanted, he would threaten to do the same to my sister and (threaten to) split us up.\"", "Her parents came to find her, she said, but were repeatedly turned away.", "She tried to run away but said the police always returned her to her tormentor.", "Aboriginal people have been waiting decades for an apology, and the Australian public appear to welcome the government's move, according to CNN's Jacqueline Head in Sydney.", "Head said many Australians believe saying sorry is long overdue, but some doubts remain over what it will achieve in the long term -- whether it will help open doors for Aboriginal people seeking rights and compensation or whether it will fail to secure indigenous people a better future.", "Some white Australians don't believe the apology will bring about reconciliation.", "\"I think Australians will be sorry for many generations for offering this apology now,\" said Piers Akerman, a conservative commentator.", "He said Aboriginal compensation claims will now gain new vigor.", "To symbolize what the government hopes will be a fresh approach to the future, a group of indigenous Australians performed a traditional welcome ceremony Tuesday of dancing and singing to mark the start of parliament's new session.", "As the traditional owners of the land which parliament sits on, the performers \"welcomed\" the lawmakers onto it.", "\"For thousands of years, our peoples have observed this protocol,\" said Matilda House, an Aboriginal elder at the ceremony.", "\"It is a good and honest and decent and very human act to reach out to make sure everyone has a place and is welcome.\"", "E-mail to a friend .", "CNN's Jacqueline Head and Hugh Riminton contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: PM Kevin Rudd apologizes to thousands of Aborigines .", "NEW: Rudd: \"For the indignity and degradation ... on a proud people ... we say sorry\"\nNEW: Apology envisions future where gaps among \"all Australians\" are closed ." ]	[ 2, 4 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Like many people who have done their time in Haiti, Gary Garner needs a good cry.", "In the past five days, the Salt Lake City, Utah, physician has held a dying man in his arms and amputated more fingers and toes than he can remember.", "Now, he needs a rest.", "Friday found him on the tarmac at the Port-au-Prince airport, searching for a way back to a normal life.", "\"We're going to go home and cry,\" Garner said in a low voice.", "Then quietly, gently, with the suffering showing in his eyes as he looks away, he starts to cry.", "The pain can't wait for home.", "Full coverage \| Twitter updates .", "Elizabeth Bellino couldn't wait either.", "The New Orleans, Louisiana, pediatrician sat in her car Friday and wept because doctors at another nation's hospital would not accept a truckload of food and water from her.", "Nor would they let her pick up patients to take back to the University of Miami field hospital, where she's been volunteering this week.", "\"It's so frustrating,\" Bellino said afterward.", "\"Why would they do that?\" There's much crying in Haiti.", "There's certain to be more once caregivers and others get home.", "For now, though, the work continues.", "iReport: List of missing, found \| Are you there?", "Bellino had an increasing patient load at the hospital, located in a dusty field adjacent to the Aeroport International Toussaint L'Ouverture.", "A 5.9-magnitude aftershock Wednesday had given her new patients.", "Even though Garner was trying to figure out how to get home, he still kept tending to patients being brought to a landing zone in three private helicopters.", "Those helicopters belong to Utah businessman Jeremy Johnson, who offered to take a medical team to Haiti after last week's 7.0-magnitude earthquake killed tens of thousands and injured thousands more.", "Garner was a last-minute addition to a team put together by financial adviser Craig Nelson, a neighbor in Utah.", "Nelson had been to Haiti on a Mormon mission 20 years ago, along with Steve Hansen and Chuck Peterson, now both Utah physicians.", "When Nelson heard about the earthquake, he decided they needed to go.", "Hansen and Peterson readily agreed.", "They were dropped off Monday at the coastal city of Leogane, nearly 20 miles (30 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince.", "The city was at the epicenter of last week's earthquake, and some reports say up to 90 percent of Leogane's buildings were damaged or destroyed.", "Impact Your World .", "The U.S. doctors were among the first caregivers to arrive and were later joined by teams from Cuba, Germany, Canada and other nations.", "Unlike what happened to Bellino in Port-au-Prince, everyone got along fine in Leogane.", "\"It was like the United Nations of medical work,\" said Nelson.", "\"There were no nationalities,\" Garner said.", "They treated about 300 patients.", "The medicine was often rudimentary because of a lack of supplies.", "One doctor used a Leatherman tool to amputate a man's lower leg.", "Doctors also used a rack from the back of a bicycle as a makeshift orthopedic splint, screwing it into the patient's leg bones.", "The days were long, bleeding deep into the night.", "Sleep lasted three or four hours.", "\"We worked until our headlamps ran out of batteries and then people would bring us batteries,\" Garner said.", "\"You can sleep when you're dead,\" he said.", "\"And I'll have plenty of time to sleep this weekend.\"", "And, no doubt, have a good cry or two." ]	[ "Doctor from Utah looks for way home after 5 days of volunteering .", "Another volunteer frustrated by lack of cooperation from another country's doctors .", "Both have been too busy seeing patients to cry over what they've seen ." ]	[ 4, 6, 10, 27, 39 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Manny Pacquiao has not given up on fighting Floyd Mayweather later this year, despite talks breaking down on a big-money contest in March.", "World welterweight champion Pacquiao will now fight Ghana's Joshua Clottey in Dallas on March 13, following a breakdown in talks with Mayweather's camp ause of a row over blood and urine testing, but the Filipino is still hopeful that a deal can be agreed for the fight to take place this summer.", "Talking to reporters in the run-up to the Clottey contest, Pacquiao admitted: \"It will happen.", "I'm still hoping a fight with Mayweather will be pushed through, maybe by summer time.", "Pacquiao's promoter Bob Arum said on Sunday that he also believed a fight at some point against Mayweather had not been totally ruled out.", "\"There's always later in the year and next year, it's up to Mayweather.\"", "Meanwhile, in an exclusive interview with CNN, Pacquiao revealed: \"If Floyd wants that fight to happen then I think let the commission who implements the rules, not him, make the rules for the fight.", "\"Floyd is just a fighter.", "We're both fighters so he doesn't need to make the rules like that.", "\"But I am satisfied with my career now because of what I have done in boxing.", "I'm not the one who turned down the fight.", "Floyd Mayweather, he's the one that doesn't want the fight.", "Despite still wanting to fight Mayweather, Pacquiao has also revealed that the American's recent drug-testing demands have cast him in a bad light.", "He added: \"I want to clear my name because I'm a very honest person.", "I'm very disappointed for what he accused me of.", "I'm clean. I'm not cheating. I'm a very honest fighter.\"" ]	[ "World welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao has not given up on fighting Floyd Mayweather later this year .", "The Filipino is still keen to fight the American despite talks breaking down on a big-money contest in March .", "Pacquiao will first fight Ghana's Joshua Clottey in Dallas on March 13 ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Editor's note: Julian E. Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School.", "His new book, \"Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security -- From World War II to the War on Terrorism,\" will be published in December by Basic Books.", "Zelizer writes widely about current events.", "President Obama is taking a huge step in his presidency.", "After weeks of careful deliberation, the president has sided with military officials who have been pushing for an escalation of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.", "Explaining his objectives and exit strategy, Obama is expected to announce that he will be sending 30,000 troops, and possibly more, into the region.", "With this decision, Obama inches closer to becoming a wartime president.", "Even though the White House insists that they will continue to work hard on their domestic agenda, historically, presidents who become involved in protracted ground wars find that their presidencies are defined by their military conflicts.", "The politics that surround a military operation play an enormous role in the political success or failure of an administration.", "Speaker Nancy Pelosi and many congressional Democrats realize the human and political risks that come from this war.", "As news broke of President Obama's decision, Pelosi said: \"the American people believe that if something is in our national security interest, we have to be able to afford it.", "That doesn't mean that we hold everything else\" stagnant because of those operations.", "But war sucks the political oxygen out of almost any presidency.", "There have been several modern presidents who started their term with an ambitious domestic vision and who ended up with their presidencies totally consumed by war.", "President Harry Truman, who served from 1945 to 1953, pulled off a historic upset in his reelection bid against Thomas Dewey in 1948.", "In the campaign, Truman castigated a \"do-nothing\" Congress.", "When he returned to the White House after the election, Truman fought for an ambitious domestic agenda in 1949 and 1950, which he called the Fair Deal, which included national health care, civil rights, fair housing and more.", "While a conservative coalition of southern Democrats and Republicans in Congress defeated most of his proposals, it was the Korean War, which began in the summer of 1950, that brought down his presidency.", "When the military operations against North Korea bogged down into a stalemate by 1951, Republicans ripped into the administration for refusing to use enough air power against the communists.", "Truman, whose approval ratings plummeted to 23 percent by 1952, decided that he should not run for reelection.", "\"If we had been less trusting, if we had been less soft and weak, there would probably have been no war in Korea!\"", "Republican candidate and military hero Gen. Dwight Eisenhower said on the campaign trail.", "Republicans focused their campaign on Korea, Communism and corruption.", "The Democratic nominee, Adlai Stevenson, lost; Republicans gained control of Congress.", "President Lyndon Johnson was on the verge of becoming a transformative president in the winter of 1965.", "Since taking office, Johnson had presided over the passage of a sweeping body of domestic measures unequaled by almost any president in American history other than Franklin Roosevelt.", "His accomplishments included Medicare and Medicaid, federal education assistance, civil rights and voting rights, environmental regulations, immigration reform and much more.", "Yet all those accomplishments seemed to disappear in the political psyche after the \"Americanization\" of the war in the spring of 1965, when Johnson authorized a vast increase of ground troops to Vietnam.", "By 1968, public opinion had turned against the war, with anti-war protesters organizing against \"Johnson's War.\"", "In the history books, Vietnam has swamped our memory of Johnson's presidency and eclipsed much of what he accomplished in those early years.", "\"That bitch of a war,\" Johnson lamented toward the end of his life, \"killed the lady I really loved -- the Great Society.\"", "Most recently, there was the experience of President George W. Bush.", "During the 2000 campaign and in the early months of his presidency, Bush pushed for a type of \"compassionate conservatism\" that sought to extend certain kinds of government programs and establish the framework for a broad Republican coalition that captured the center and right.", "The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 extended the reach of the federal government into the nation's grade schools.", "After 9/11, Bush led a successful operation to knock the Taliban out of power in Afghanistan and dramatically reorganized homeland security.", "But once Bush sent troops to Iraq to bring down Saddam Hussein in 2003, the war came to dominate everything else.", "As the reconstruction of Iraq proved to be much more difficult than the White House anticipated, Bush's popularity plummeted.", "In 2006, Democrats took control of Congress and in 2008 Barack Obama, on a platform defined by his opposition to Iraq, was elected president.", "There are modern presidents who have balanced their agendas and preserved domestic policy as an integral part of their political identity even after having sent troops to war.", "This was the certainly the case with FDR who protected many of his domestic programs and even expanded government into new areas at home as the war unfolded.", "But FDR is an exception to the rule.", "Soon Obama will be significantly expanding an existing military operation, making this war his own.", "In doing so, he will be risking a huge amount of his potential impact as a president.", "To make matters even worse, unlike Johnson, Obama has had more trouble pushing much of his domestic agenda through Congress.", "While he will very likely walk away from this year with a victory on health care, most of his agenda remains bottled up.", "It is easy to see how Afghanistan can quickly grow in scale and scope.", "It would be a tragedy if a politician who headed a historic campaign based on the promise of extracting the United States from a very unpopular war would wind up bogged down in a quagmire of his own.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer." ]	[ "With his troop decision, Obama becomes a wartime president, says Julian Zelizer .", "He says other presidents have seen wars swallow up their domestic plans .", "Zelizer says Truman, LBJ, George W. Bush were weakened by war ." ]	[ 6, 13, 31 ]
[ "(CNN) -- With phone lines down and communication cut, Haitians living in America are \"sick with worry\" and scrambling for information about Tuesday's earthquake, while fretting about their troubled homeland and their loved ones.", "\"Well, we're watching the news unfold, and I just don't know what to think,\" said Gepsi Metellus, executive director of the Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center in Miami, Florida.", "She said her mother, who splits her time between Haiti -- she lives in Pétionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince -- and Miami, just flew back to the island on Friday.", "While Metellus and others are glued to TVs, she said, \"We're not learning a thing.", "It's just making me sick with worry.\"", "Are you looking for loved ones in Haiti?", "Haiti is the most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere.", "Plagued with \"political violence for most of its history,\" according to the CIA World Factbook, the Caribbean island nation has suffered from colonialism, coups and corruption since becoming the first black republic in 1804.", "Are you there? Submit an iReport .", "More than half of the country lives in \"abject poverty.\"", "The nation imports more than four times the goods it exports and about two-thirds of the labor force lacks formal jobs, the CIA reports.", "\"You worry about everything at this point,\" said Metellus.", "She said the Haitian community in South Florida numbers from 250,000 to 500,000 people.", "\"The basic infrastructure we're accustomed to here is nonexistent.", "To assess the damage is going to be a momentous undertaking.\"", "Complete coverage of the earthquake .", "Disease is rampant, and it's still common for children to die from drinking and washing in fecal contaminated water.", "UNICEF estimates that 70 percent of Haitians do not have access to \"safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.\"", "Nyvrose Fleurent of Brooklyn, New York, works for the community outreach group Haitian American United Progress and said most Haitian immigrants in the United States have family still on the island.", "They often financially support family members who aren't able to leave, she said.", "She said this while watching the news.", "Earlier in the morning she had hugged her brother good-bye before he flew to Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti.", "She had no idea the city would be hit by an earthquake.", "Fleurent, 38, remains hopeful her family will be unharmed.", "Her brother and cousins reside in Cap-Haïtien, in the north, on the opposite side of the country from Port-au-Prince, the city closest to the earthquake's epicenter.", "Even so, she worried about the impact Tuesday's 7.0 quake will have on her struggling home country.", "\"The people who live there can barely make it,\" Fleurent said.", "\"They can't even eat and get money for their basic needs, so this is going to be a big blow for them.", "I don't know where Haiti is going to be in the future.", "It's already so bad.\"", "The State Department Operations Center has set up the following number for Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti: 1-888-407-4747 .", "CNN's John Blake contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: State Department line for those seeking information about loved ones: 1-888-407-4747 .", "With phone lines down, Haitians in U.S. fret about loved ones on island .", "\"We're watching the news unfold, and I just don't know what to think,\" woman says .", "Haiti is most impoverished country in Western Hemisphere, plagued by violence ." ]	[ 0, 1, 6, 30 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Authorities have recovered 54 bodies after a ferry crammed with people capsized in southern Bangladesh, police said Sunday.", "Among the victims were 22 children and 15 women, said Nazrul Islam, the police chief of Bhola district where the accident occurred Friday.", "Thirty more passengers are believed missing and presumed dead, he said.", "\"Hopefully, in few hours, we should be able to confirm the exact number of missing (people),\" Islam said.", "The boat had a capacity of 1,500 but was overcrowded with about 2,000 people who were traveling from the capital, Dhaka, to their homes in Bhola for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.", "The boat toppled as passengers weighted down one side to disembark, Islam said.", "Police and firefighters rushed to aid passengers, many of whom were trapped in the lower deck.", "CNN's Harmeet Shah Singh contributed to this report ." ]	[ "Authorities recover 54 bodies after overcrowded ferry capsizes .", "Boat had capacity of 1,500, but 2,000 people onboard .", "They were traveling homes for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha ." ]	[ 0, 4 ]
[ "Berlin, Germany (CNN) -- A 90-year-old man from northern Germany has been charged with 58 counts of murder for the killings of Jewish forced laborers in the final days of World War Two.", "The man, who was not named, was a member of the feared SS serving in what is now Austria when he allegedly carried out the crimes, the state court in Duisburg, western Germany, said Tuesday.", "A state office responsible for the prosecution of Nazi war crimes filed the charges.", "On March 29, 1945, the man brought at least 57 Jewish forced laborers in several groups to a wooded area where they were forced to give up their valuables and kneel in a ditch, the court said.", "\"The accused and other SS members then shot the Jewish forced laborers cruelly from the back,\" the court said.", "That day or the next, the court said, the man made other Jewish forced laborers who were \"exhausted and no longer able to walk\" to march near the town of Jabing, which was then in Germany and is now part of modern-day Austria.", "He then \"insidiously\" shot them from the back, it added.", "\"The accusation is that the accused let himself be led by the National Socialist (Nazi) ideology, corresponding to an extremely hostile and inhumane attitude toward the victims, who he viewed as inferior,\" the court said.", "The court said it must now decide whether to open proceedings against the man, who has two weeks in which to raise any objections." ]	[ "Man from northern Germany charged with 58 counts of killing Jewish laborers .", "Killings took place just weeks from the end of World War II .", "Man is accused of being part of an SS group that carried out executions ." ]	[ 0 ]
[ "United Nations (CNN) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will address the U.N. General Assembly in July, the British Mission to the United Nations announced Friday.", "Queen Elizabeth last addressed the General Assembly in 1957, it said.", "The queen's July 6 speech will come at the conclusion of a nine-day trip to Canada with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.", "She will address the United Nations in her capacity as head of state of 16 U.N. member states, the mission said in a news release.", "Queen Elizabeth is head of state for the United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu." ]	[ "Queen Elizabeth II to address U.N. General Assembly in July .", "Queen last addressed U.N. in 1957 .", "Queen is head of state of 16 U.N. member states ." ]	[ 0, 1, 3 ]
[ "LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British businessman jailed in Dubai after being convicted with a female companion for having sex on a beach said he had acted naively as he spoke publicly Monday for the first time since returning to the UK.", "Vince Acors said he had been \"extremely naive\" about Muslim law.", "Vince Acors, 34, and Michelle Palmer, 36, were arrested on a Dubai beach in July and convicted to three-month jail terms in October on charges of public indecency and for having sex outside marriage.", "Their jail sentences were suspended on appeal and both returned to the UK last week.", "Acors, a telecommunications executive, admitted being drunk at the time of the incident after an afternoon of drinking but denied that sex between the couple had occurred and said that worldwide media interest in the case had given authorities no choice but to convict them.", "\"Sex in this country (the UK) is not the same as sex in Dubai,\" Acors told a news conference, adding that there was \"physical contact but intercourse did not take place.\"", "Watch as Acors gives his side of the story » .", "But Acors admitted he had been \"extremely naive\" about Muslim law in the Middle Eastern country.", "He described how drinking was commonplace in the Emirate's Western hotels, and how his \"champagne glass was never empty\" during a Friday afternoon \"all-you-can-drink\" reception where he met Palmer.", "Acors said the Dubai authorities had confiscated his passport during deportation proceedings that took three months.", "He returned to Britain on Christmas Eve and is now looking to sell his story.", "He said he and Palmer had since spoken only to discuss the case and don't have a relationship.", "She was not at the news conference." ]	[ "British man convicted of having sex on a beach in Dubai denies sex took place .", "34-year-old admits he was \"extremely naive\" about Muslim law .", "Couple were both convicted of public indecency, sex outside marriage .", "Three-month jail terms suspended on appeal; they returned to UK last week ." ]	[ 2, 3, 7 ]
[ "Beijing, China (CNN) -- China summoned the U.S. ambassador on Friday to express its \"strong dissatisfaction\" over the Dalai Lama's meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama a day earlier.", "China didn't disclose what was discussed during the session with Ambassador Jon Huntsman at the Foreign Ministry.", "But Beijing had warned that a meeting between the president and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader would damage its ties with Washington.", "\"The Chinese side expresses strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition to this meeting,\" a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement after Thursday's meeting at the White House.", "\"China demands the U.S. seriously consider China's stance, immediately adopt measures to wipe out the adverse impact, [and] stop conniving and supporting anti-China separatist forces.\"", "The U.S. Embassy didn't characterize Friday's meeting, but it provided the message Huntsman delivered to Deputy Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai.", "\"Now is the time to move forward and cooperate in ways that benefit our two counties, the region and the world,\" Huntsman said, according to the U.S. Embassy.", "The meeting has the potential to further complicate Sino-U.S. tensions, which have been rising in recent months.", "The Dalai Lama has said he favors genuine autonomy for Tibetans, not independence for Tibet.", "Beijing regards the Nobel Peace Prize laureate as a separatist who wishes to sever Tibet from China.", "Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama \"runs against the repeated commitments by the U.S. government that the U.S. recognizes Tibet as part of China and gives no support to 'Tibet independence',\" Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said.", "During the meeting, Obama stressed his \"strong support for the preservation of Tibet's unique religious, cultural and linguistic identity, and the protection of human rights for Tibetans,\" according to a White House statement.", "The president praised the Dalai Lama's \"commitment to nonviolence and his pursuit of dialogue with the Chinese government,\" the statement added.", "He also stressed the importance of having both sides \"engage in direct dialogue to resolve differences, and was pleased to hear about the recent resumption of talks,\" it noted.", "The Dalai Lama, while acknowledging that he raised concerns about Tibet during the meeting, did not provide further specifics about his home region's political situation while addressing reporters.", "He said he admired America as a \"champion of democracy and ... freedom,\" and cited the need to promote \"religious harmony\" and \"human value.\"", "He also met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.", "The meeting between the Dalai Lama and Obama could \"seriously undermine the Sino-U.S. political relations,\" Zhu Weiqun, a senior Communist Party leader in charge of ethnic and religious affairs, warned recently.", "\"We will take corresponding action to make relevant countries see their mistakes.\"", "On Thursday, China's Foreign Ministry spokesman said the meeting \"grossly violated the norms governing ... international relations.\"", "Obama did not meet with the Dalai Lama when the spiritual leader visited Washington last fall, making it the first time since 1991 that such a meeting did not occur.", "Ahead of a summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao, Obama persuaded Tibetan representatives back then to postpone the meeting with the Dalai Lama.", "Thursday's encounter took place against the backdrop of several contentious issues already threatening to sour the relationship between America and China, including trade disputes, a recent U.S. arm sales deal for Taiwan -- which China considers an illegitimate breakaway province -- and a censorship row over Internet search engine Google Inc.", "The meeting is \"another event in the recent, one has to say, downward spiral in U.S.-China relations,\" said China scholar David Shambaugh.", "It's also troublesome for the Chinese for one other important reason, Shambaugh said.", "\"He could have met him as a spiritual leader in a neutral place like a church,\" he said.", "But receiving him in the White House \"is a political act.", "And that is going to irritate China very much.\"", "The meeting did not take place in the formal, official setting of the Oval Office.", "It was instead held in the White House Map Room, which is considered part of the presidential residence.", "The choice of settings was considered by many observers to be a sign of Washington's acknowledgment of Beijing's political sensitivities.", "Some analysts said the Chinese government could retaliate by cutting off political exchanges as they did after the Dalai Lama met with the heads of state of France and Germany.", "And Hu could turn down an invitation to visit Washington in April.", "Neither China nor the United States can afford strained relations, said Douglas Paal, a diplomat and investment banker who has served as a presidential adviser on China.", "\"We both need each other,\" he said. \"We need each other for a number of international security issues -- to deal with the global climate crisis, to deal with the global financial crisis.\"", "China is the largest growing export market for U.S. companies, Paal said, expanding by 65 percent last year alone.", "Nearly three-quarters of all Americans think that Tibet should be an independent country, according to a new national CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll.", "But the survey, released Thursday, also indicates that most Americans think it is more important to maintain good relations with China than to take a stand on Tibet.", "CNN's Jo Kent, Emily Chang, Jill Dougherty, Jaime FlorCruz, Paul Steinhauser and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report." ]	[ "China expresses its \"strong dissatisfaction\" over Dalai Lama meeting to U.S. ambassador .", "Dalai Lama met with U.S. President Barack Obama a day earlier at the White House .", "China appealed for U.S. to \"stop conniving and supporting anti-China separatist forces\"\nBeijing regards the Dalai Lama as a separatist who wishes to sever Tibet from China ." ]	[ 0, 4, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- With phone lines down and communication cut, Haitians living in America are \"sick with worry\" and scrambling for information about loved ones who experienced Tuesday's 7.0 earthquake on the island nation.", "\"At this point it looks like it's worse than we all imagined and we still don't know specifics because of the down power lines,\" Gepsi Metellus said Wednesday.", "She is the executive director of the Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center in Miami, Florida, which provides services to Haitians in South Florida ranging from help with taxes to how to navigate the American school system.", "\"We are assuming there are a lot more casualties than we might have initially thought,\" she said.", "Metellus said she still hasn't heard from her mother, who splits her time between Haiti -- she lives in Pétionville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince -- and Miami.", "Her mother flew from Miami to Haiti on Friday.", "\"She's in her 70s. I'm very concerned.\" Metellus is also trying to find out how the center can best help people in Haiti, but without information, that's difficult to ascertain at the moment.", "\"There are people who want to drop off medicine and food and water at the center, but we don't even know if that's what's needed, much less if we will be able to get those supplies to the island.\"", "Are you looking for loved ones in Haiti?", "Haiti is the most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere.", "Plagued with \"political violence for most of its history,\" according to the CIA World Factbook, the Caribbean island nation has suffered from colonialism, coups and corruption since becoming the first black republic in 1804.", "Are you there? Submit an iReport .", "More than half of the country lives in \"abject poverty.\"", "The nation imports more than four times the goods it exports and about two-thirds of the labor force lacks formal jobs, the CIA reports.", "There are 45,000 Americans living in Haiti, and the U.S. Embassy, as of Wednesday, has been able to reach only 40 of them, according to a release from the U.S. State Department.", "Metellus said the Haitian community in South Florida numbers from 250,000 to 500,000 people.", "\"The basic infrastructure we're accustomed to here is nonexistent [in Haiti].", "To assess the damage is going to be a momentous undertaking.\"", "Complete coverage of the earthquake .", "Disease is rampant in Haiti, and it's still common for children to die from drinking and washing in fecal contaminated water.", "UNICEF estimates that 70 percent of Haitians do not have access to \"safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.\"", "Nyvrose Fleurent of Brooklyn, New York, works for the community outreach group Haitian American United Progress and said most Haitian immigrants in the United States have family still on the island.", "They often financially support family members who aren't able to leave, she said.", "Read about Haiti donations contributed through Twitter .", "Fleurent said this Tuesday while watching the news.", "Earlier in the morning she had hugged her brother goodbye before he flew to the Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti.", "Fleurent, 38, remains hopeful her family will be unharmed.", "Her brother and cousins reside in Cap-Haïtien, in the north, on the opposite side of the country from Port-au-Prince, the city closest to the earthquake's epicenter.", "Even so, she worried about the impact the quake will have on her struggling home country.", "\"The people who live there can barely make it,\" Fleurent said.", "\"They can't even eat and get money for their basic needs, so this is going to be a big blow for them.", "I don't know where Haiti is going to be in the future.", "It's already so bad.\"", "Harley Etienne, a Georgia Institute of Technology professor of public policy, fretted Wednesday about his uncle, cousins and his best friend's mother who live in a suburb of Port-au-Prince.", "\"It's all making my family here [in the U.S.] very nervous and scared,\" he said.", "\"My uncle lives on a hill so it's quite upsetting.", "He lives in the same house that my father and his six brothers and sisters grew up in.\"", "\"All we can do is wait and hope,\" he said.", "The State Department Operations Center has set up the following number for Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti: 1-888-407-4747 .", "CNN's Jessica Ravitz, Stephanie Chen, Ashley Fantz and John Blake contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: State Department line for those seeking information about loved ones: 1-888-407-4747 .", "With phone lines down, Haitians in U.S. fret about loved ones on island .", "\"It looks like it's worse than we all imagined,\" Haitian in Miami says .", "Haiti is most impoverished country in Western Hemisphere, plagued by violence ." ]	[ 0, 1, 9, 38 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A broad band of severe thunderstorms Sunday sparked heavy rain and hail and prompted tornado warnings from Florida to Virginia, with multiple twisters reported in North Carolina, according to the National Weather Service.", "At least eight unconfirmed tornadoes were spotted along North Carolina's I-85 corridor between Charlotte and Greensboro, with overturned mobile homes, toppled trees and downed power lines left by the storms, the weather service said.", "\"It's been a very active evening for most of central North Carolina,\" said Julia Jarema, spokeswoman for North Carolina Emergency Management.", "The storms caused scattered power outages throughout the state, but because of the multiple bands of storms \"things are changing so rapidly we haven't been able to confirm numbers,\" Jarema said.", "Video showed a portion of metal roofing was ripped off an industrial building in Belmont, North Carolina, west of Charlotte, littering nearby trees with clumps of yellow insulation.", "Multiple mobile homes were overturned in Linwood, North Carolina, outside of Lexington, and at least three people were reported injured, said CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.", "A video posted on YouTube purportedly showed flashes of snapping power lines as a huge funnel cloud loomed over High Point, North Carolina, near Greensboro.", "At least 20 homes were reported damaged in the area, the weather service said.", "High Point emergency management officials were going house to house checking for possible injuries, according to a fire department spokeswoman.", "News14: Tornado touches down in Charlotte .", "Local law enforcement reported another tornado north of Greensboro, North Carolina, the weather service said.", "The storm was also producing 70 mph winds and hail as large as baseball or tennis-ball size, Jeras reported.", "\"As daylight comes we'll know really more about what kind of damage we are facing,\" Jarema said." ]	[ "NEW: Eight unconfirmed tornadoes spotted along North Carolina's I-85 corridor .", "Metal roofing ripped off an industrial building west of Charlotte .", "Tornado damaged 20 homes near High Point, North Carolina .", "Tornado in Mecklenburg County damaged a mobile home, toppled trees ." ]	[ 1, 4 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- As huge numbers of desperate Haitians struggled Friday in what could be their last hours of life, the supplies many needed remained stuck in planes, ships, and cargo holds, unable to get to them.", "Adding to the desperation, medical personnel were seen leaving in droves Friday night from a makeshift hospital in Port-au-Prince after being told by U.N. officials to get out of the area.", "Medical staff had been treating 25 patients at the location.", "\"There is concern about riots not far from here -- and this is part of the problem,\" CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta said.", "\"They (doctors) want to take care of lots of patients that are actually in the tents and many more that are actually outside, but they are simply being told at this point to stop and try to get to some sort of secure location.\"", "Sandra Pierre, a Haitian who has been helping at the hospital, said the medical staff took most of the supplies with them.", "\"All the doctors, all the nurses are gone,\" she said.", "\"They are expected to be back tomorrow.", "They had no plan on leaving tonight.", "It was an order that came suddenly.\"", "She told Gupta, \"It's just you ... and an American soldier who retired who came here from Santo Domingo to help.\"", "\"With medicine, we are not talking about weeks and months down the line -- this is minutes and hours in terms of what is necessary,\" Gupta said.", "Get the latest developments on Haiti .", "There was one bright spot Friday: Many residents had ready access to water.", "Around the fallen presidential palace, water trucks were seen servicing the masses who have taken up camp in nearby open areas.", "Local hotels and businesses have been putting out hoses to supply the homeless with clean water.", "Residents were seen waiting patiently in long lines to fill up anything and everything that could hold water -- from plastic jugs to metal drums.", "A U.N. distribution center also was set up in Cite Soleil, guarded by U.N. peacekeeping troops, where some 10,000 plates of cooked chicken and rice were handed out to a patient line of survivors.", "See full coverage of Haiti .", "In Port-au-Prince, a chaotic scene erupted as people clamored to reach the trucks of a World Food Programme convoy carrying water purification tablets, plastic sheeting, collapsible jugs and nutritional biscuits.", "At one point, a rumor spread that the food had expired and people began throwing it away.", "Eventually, the convoy was forced to leave the scene, with some survivors chasing after the truck trying to hold on to the back.", "A bottleneck at the damaged airport -- which has one runway -- was one of the impediments facing aid workers.", "U.S. Southern Command has determined that the airport can handle 90 flights a day, but that many are not yet being allowed in, a U.S. State Department spokesman said.", "Neighboring Dominican Republic agreed to open up one of its airports and a seaport to help deal with the influx of aid, according to the Dominican ambassador to the United States, Roberto B. Saladin.", "Authorities were trying to develop a system to prioritize the few flights that make it in, based on which have the most urgently needed supplies.", "But the logistical problems also included an unreachable dock, too little equipment to unload the supplies, and impassable roads covered in rubble or dead bodies.", "Dave Toycen, head of the relief agency World Vision Canada, said that even when roads became passable, \"There was a mile-long line to get gasoline.", "We are short the basics.\"", "One Haitian man approached U.N. workers at the World Food Programme warehouse, which was already helping feed 1 million people before the quake.", "\"Where is the support?\" he cried as he threw down a blood-stained box carrying the human limbs that he said were from the bodies of his wife and child.", "Rajiv Shah, director for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said Friday the organization's Disaster Assistance Response Team team in Haiti was using satellite imagery to target rescue operations and aid delivery most effectively.", "Shah said \"there is an important open window of time today, tonight, and perhaps even parts of tomorrow, when we have the ability to save lives.\"", "The USS Carl Vinson arrived off the coast Friday, carrying 19 heavy-lift helicopters, 51 hospital beds, three operating rooms, and the ability to produce hundreds of thousands of gallons of drinkable water per day.", "There are four U.S. disaster medical assistance teams on the ground and 265 employees from the department of Health and Human Services assisting with medical care, the State Department said.", "Numerous countries around the world were offering aid, including Belize, Brazil, Britain, China, Chile, Spain, Canada, Israel, Iceland, Ireland and Morocco.", "A long list of agencies have sent help to the region as well, and have raised millions of dollars.", "The Obama administration fended off criticism Friday that it should have done more for Haiti more quickly.", "Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, the retired general who took charge of relief efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, said Thursday the U.S. military should have arrived in the country 24 hours sooner.", "Defense Secretary Robert Gates rejected that suggestion Friday.", "\"I don't know how this government could have responded faster or more comprehensively than it has,\" he told reporters at the Pentagon.", "\"There are just some certain facts of life that affect how quickly you can do some of these things.", "The collapse of the infrastructure in Haiti, the small size of the airport, the time it takes a ship to get from point A to point B, those are all just facts of life.\"", "CNN's Steve Kastenbaum, Larry Shaughnessy and Elise Labott contributed to this report ." ]	[ "NEW: Medical personnel exit makeshift hospital on U.N. officials' orders .", "Bottleneck at Port-au-Prince airport among problems relief agencies face in Haiti .", "USS Carl Vinson brings helicopters, hospital beds and operating rooms .", "Defense chief rejects criticism that U.S. responded too slowly to crisis ." ]	[ 1, 12, 33, 39 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Colombian Sgt.", "Pablo Emilio Moncayo, held by Colombian FARC rebels as a hostage for more than 12 years, was reunited with his family after being released by his captors.", "The young soldier arrived in the city of Florencia in a Brazilian military helicopter that transported him from the jungle, and he walked out wearing a military uniform and into his waiting father's arms.", "He had been held captive longer than any other hostage held by the rebels.", "Moncayo was accompanied by Colombian Sen. Piedad Cordoba, who helped negotiate his release.", "He had been captured as a 19-year-old corporal when Marxist guerrillas attacked his unit, killing 22 of his colleagues and capturing him and 18 others on December 21, 1997.", "\"How amazing it is to see civilization again,\" Moncayo told reporters shortly after his return.", "The advances in technology fascinated him the most, he said.", "\"I survived everything, all of these years of captivity because of my love for Colombia,\" Moncayo said.", "Moncayo thanked Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa for asking for his release, and presidents Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Luis Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, but he did not mention Colombian President Alvaro Uribe during his remarks.", "Another source of tension during the rescue came after the Venezuelan-based network Telesur broadcast images of Moncayo and those involved in the handover.", "The Colombian government issued a terse statement calling the broadcast a violation of the protocols of the rescue.", "The television station denied any wrongdoing, and Cordoba said that the humanitarian party had not noticed that the network had someone in the jungle filming.", "During the handover, the FARC also gave Senator Cordoba the coordinates of the remains of a third hostage who died in captivity in 2006.", "Colombian authorities could retrieve the remains of Maj. Julian Guevara as soon as Thursday.", "The FARC has said that Moncayo's was the last unilateral hostage release it would make.", "It is asking for a prisoner swap for the remaining hostages they hold.", "If his experience was like that of other freed hostages, Moncayo likely spent the years chained to trees and marching from one jungle hideout to another every few days.", "Other captives have talked about enduring rain, cold and a blistering sun, and eating mostly beans and rice and weak soup -- when fortunate enough to get a meal.", "It's a reality that changed Tuesday for Moncayo when the rebels released him.", "The rebels had said they would release Moncayo, who was promoted to the rank of sergeant while in captivity, nearly a year ago.", "The FARC already released a hostage Sunday.", "Josue Daniel Calvo, who had been held for 11 months, was reunited with his family Sunday on a tarmac in the city of Villavicencio, where the helicopter that retrieved him touched down.", "The humanitarian mission to release the captives has been led by Colombian Sen. Piedad Cordoba, who has obtained freedom for previous hostages.", "The Red Cross also has been involved.", "Brazil, which is trusted by both sides, has picked up and ferried the hostages aboard its helicopters.", "The FARC released six hostages last year but have said Moncayo would be the last set free unilaterally.", "From now on, the FARC said, the rebels will demand that guerrillas held by the Colombian government be swapped for the remaining police and soldiers under rebel captivity, many for more than a decade.", "Moncayo was among the best-known hostages still in FARC captivity, due mostly to the efforts of his father, who walked across Colombia to garner attention and press for his son's release.", "Gustavo Guillermo Moncayo Rincon set out on June 17, 2007, Father's Day in Colombia, on a 700-mile (1,100-kilometer) trek from his hometown of Sandona to the capital, Bogota.", "The teacher became known as \"el caminante por la paz\" (\"the walker for peace\").", "He was received by a governor and a mayor on his walk, which drew nationwide attention.", "Thousands of people cheered him when he arrived at the Plaza de Bolivar in Bogota in August 2007.", "The walk put pressure on Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to negotiate with the rebels, which he has steadfastly declined to do.", "The FARC announced on April 16, 2009, that it would release Moncayo in the hopes of starting peace talks with the government.", "Uribe responded that the rebels first had to stop \"bombing, kidnapping and drug smuggling.\"", "Any chance for an immediate release seemed to fall apart in December, when 10 armed men killed a state governor and Uribe blamed the FARC.", "The hostage release came alive again this month when Brazil announced it was moving helicopters to the border near Colombia to use in the operation.", "Calvo was released Sunday and Moncayo was set free Tuesday.", "Calvo became dizzy and sick on the helicopter ride, but he was in better health than family and others expected, intermediary Cordoba said at a news conference.", "The soldier walked from the helicopter with his family and the aid of a walking stick.", "One of the best-known incidents involving FARC hostages occurred in July 2008, when a rescue operation freed former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt along with three U.S. military contractors and 11 Colombian police and military members.", "Betancourt had been held hostage since 2002.", "Colombia has previously said the rebels are holding hundreds of captives, but the government group Freedom Foundation said this month that FARC was holding about 50 people.", "The group attributed the revision to \"cleaning up databases.\"", "Independent anti-kidnap organizations accused the government of minimizing the problem to try to demonstrate political gains.", "No independent estimate of FARC's guerrilla strength exists, though its military force has been severely compromised recently.", "Government estimates say the FARC fighting force could have dropped to below 7,000 from highs of around 18,000 in 2000.", "Security analysts have said FARC guerrillas, who are accused of trafficking in cocaine to finance their insurgency, have thousands of supporters, mostly in rural areas.", "The guerrilla group operates mostly in Colombia but has carried out extortion, kidnappings and other activities in Venezuela, Panama and Ecuador, analysts say." ]	[ "Brazilian helicopter returns Pablo Emilio Moncayo to freedom .", "Colombian soldier had been held by FARC guerrillas since December 1997 .", "Moncayo's father walked 700 miles in campaign to win his release .", "FARC say from now on, it will demand prisoner swap to release captives ." ]	[ 16, 23, 27, 28, 42 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The world's population is forecast to hit 7 billion in 2011, the vast majority of its growth coming in developing and, in many cases, the poorest nations, a report released Wednesday said.", "Riders cram into a train last month in New Delhi, India.", "India's population is expected to be 1.7 billion by 2050.", "A staggering 97 percent of global growth over the next 40 years will happen in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the Population Reference Bureau's 2009 World Population Data Sheet.", "\"The great bulk of today's 1.2 billion youth -- nearly 90 percent -- are in developing countries,\" said Carl Haub, a co-author of the report.", "Eight in 10 of those youth live in Africa and Asia.", "\"During the next few decades, these young people will most likely continue the current trend of moving from rural areas to cities in search of education and training opportunities, gainful employment, and adequate health care,\" Haub continued, calling it one of the major social questions of the next few decades.", "In the developed world, the United States and Canada will account for most of the growth -- half from immigration and half from a natural increase in the population -- births minus deaths, according to the report.", "High fertility rates and a young population base in the developing world will fuel most of the growth, especially in Africa, where women often give birth to six or seven children over a lifetime, the report says.", "The number is about two in the United States and 1.5 in Canada.", "A stark contrast can be drawn between Uganda and Canada, which currently have about 34 million and 31 million residents, respectively.", "By 2050, Canada's population is projected to be 42 million, while Uganda's is expected to soar to 96 million, more than tripling.", "\"Even with declining fertility rates in many countries, world population is still growing at a rapid rate,\" said Bill Butz, president of the bureau.", "\"The increase from 6 billion to 7 billion is likely to take 12 years, as did the increase from 5 billion to 6 billion.", "Both events are unprecedented in world history.\"", "By 2050, India is projected to be the world's most populous nation at 1.7 billion, overtaking current leader China, which is forecast to hit 1.4 billion.", "The United States is expected to reach 439 million for No. 3 on the list." ]	[ "Global population to reach 7 billion in two years, research institute projects .", "Most growth is occurring in developing and poor nations, study finds .", "Uganda's population expected to almost triple by 2050 .", "India projected to overtake China as most populous country ." ]	[ 0, 2, 15 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Oklahoma authorities are determining whether two bodies found Monday are those of a murder suspect and his wife's missing 7-year-old daughter, a spokeswoman for investigators said.", "The bodies and a car authorities said was used in the kidnapping of the girl were found in a heavily wooded area in Norman, outside Oklahoma City, said Jessica Brown, spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation.", "Lester Williams Hobbs, 46, was charged in the death of his estranged wife, Tonya, and the kidnapping of her daughter, Aja Daniell Johnson.", "Hobbs and the girl have been missing since January.", "Brown said the bodies are those of an adult and child, but positive identification has not been made due to decomposition.", "\"There's no reason to believe it's not\" Hobbs and the child, she said.", "The medical examiner will attempt to identify the bodies using Hobbs' fingerprints and Johnson's dental records, Brown said.", "The cause of death was unknown, though a note found near the car described what happened, she added.", "The details of the note were not released.", "The car had been left in the woods for several weeks, possible a month, Brown said.", "The search for Hobbs and Johnson took investigators through Oklahoma and Texas.", "Lester Hobbs is not Johnson's biological father and has an extensive criminal history, police say.", "Johnson's biological father was awarded emergency custody of her in November, according to Oklahoma County District Court documents obtained by CNN affiliate KWTV of Oklahoma City.", "At a hearing, Tonya Hobbs -- identified as Tonya Dunkin in the documents -- and the girl's father, John Johnson, agreed that she would have supervised visitation with the girl and that she would keep the child away from Lester Hobbs, the documents said." ]	[ "Lester Williams Hobbs suspected in death of wife and kidnapping of her daughter .", "Hobbs and 7-year-old Aja Daniell Johnson missing since January .", "Two bodies found in car in Norman, Oklahoma, on Monday .", "Car thought to be the one used in suspected kidnapping ." ]	[ 0, 2, 3 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The Mexican military has arrested a suspect in the killings this month of three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, police and federal spokesmen said Monday.", "The arrested man is Ricardo Valles de la Rosa, municipal police spokesman Jacinto Seguro said.", "According to Juarez newspaper El Diario, the suspect also was sought in connection with at least one other homicide: the killing of Zapata Reyes, a member of the rival Mexicles gang.", "Valles de la Rosa reportedly has U.S. ties, having been charged with 10 counts related to drug trafficking in the United States, local media said.", "The suspect is a resident of la colonia Partido Romero in Ciudad Juarez, the media said, adding that he may rent a place in El Paso.", "Federal spokesman Enrique Torres said the suspect was arrested sometime Friday.", "He did not release a name, but described him as being 42 years old and a member of the Aztecas, a local street gang affiliated with the Juarez drug cartel.", "\"The Chihuahua state attorney general is telling us that this guy is implicated in the killings of Arthur Redelfs and his pregnant wife, Lesley [Enriquez],\" Seguro said.", "El Diario reported that the suspect was captured with the help of the FBI.", "An FBI spokesman in El Paso, Texas, had no comment, other than to say that the investigation continues.", "The three victims had all been at a party in Juarez and left in two vehicles that looked similar.", "They were killed on the roads in drive-by shootings.", "Enriquez was an employee of the consulate in Juarez and was four months pregnant.", "Redelfs, her U.S. citizen husband, was a jailer in El Paso.", "The couple's 10-month-old child, who also was in the vehicle, was not injured.", "The third victim, found dead in the other vehicle, was identified as the husband of a Mexican employee of the consulate.", "His wife was not traveling with him, but two of their children in the car were wounded, officials said.", "CNN's Carol Cratty contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Suspect, Ricardo Valles de la Rosa, 42, also sought in connection with another slaying .", "Federal spokesman says Mexican military arrested suspect Friday .", "Suspect called member of Aztecas street gang, which is affiliated with Juarez drug cartel ." ]	[ 1, 5, 6 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Raymond Thomas is a jolly man who laughs easily and likes to say \"Forget it\" a lot.", "He'd like to forget the devastation wrought at the Port-au-Prince harbor where his fleet of trucks used to pick up cargo.", "Tuesday's 7.0-magnitude earthquake sent a quarter-mile pier crumbling into the sea along with two of his trucks.", "The few workers who went into the water swam to safety, Thomas said, but the port remains shut down, and desperately needed aid cannot be unloaded quickly.", "\"Now we're just starving to death,\" he said, worried that the airport and smaller harbors cannot handle the necessary volume of relief supplies.", "\"That was the whole country right there,\" he added, pointing at two toppled cranes on the remains of the pier that stand out against the clear-blue sky.", "Thomas owns Raymond and Sons Trucking, a fleet of 35 trucks that haul cargo from the port.", "The company employed about 50 employees, all of them now out of work.", "\"I'm out,\" Thomas said.", "The port won't be back for a while. Roads have been split apart and buckled, fences have fallen over.", "\"Oh, forget it,\" Thomas said.", "\"Forget it. It might take a year to rebuild it.", "Forget it.\" Yet he feels fortunate because although his home was destroyed and his business is shattered, no one in his family died in the quake.", "Asked what happened, he demurs with a hearty laugh.", "\"Forget it,\" he says.", "\"I don't want to talk about it.\" He then relents, calling his family's survival \"a miracle.\"", "His wife was outside their house and he was driving home in his red 1995 Honda CRV sport utility vehicle.", "\"I felt like the whole car was going to take off like an airplane,\" he said, laughing.", "He wasn't wearing a seat belt, he admits.", "\"This is Haiti. In Miami, I wear a seat belt.\"", "Another laugh.", "Thomas' 40-year-old daughter, Marjorie, and her 15-month-old son had just left earlier that afternoon to return to her home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.", "Asked if it was a miracle that she missed the quake by such a short time, he laughs again, saying, \"You bet your sweet heart.\"", "On Friday, he was wearing a bullet-proof vest after someone tried to rob him the day before.", "Someone wanted to take his cell phone he said, and the port is near the roughest part of town.", "For now, Thomas and his wife are sleeping in a tent.", "And for now, also, his mind is on the port.", "He's not alone. Tug boat owner Roger Rouzier also seem a dim future without the port.", "\"We cannot receive the help by plane,\" Rouzier said Friday.", "\"We need to receive help by boat.\"", "Rouzier estimates that before the earthquake, more than 70 ships each unloaded about 8,000 tons of material every month.", "\"I personally unload three or four a day,\" he said.", "\"The whole country depends on this port.", "If we're going to save people, we have to do it by boat.\"", "Without the port, Thomas sees serious consequences for Haiti, one of the poorest nations on Earth.", "\"We'll starve to death, that's all,\" he said.", "\"We'll just starve to death.\"", "And it won't take long for trouble to reach the streets, he said.", "Especially since many of the nation's criminals escaped when Port-au-Prince's prison collapsed in the quake.", "\"Very soon we're going to have a riot,\" Thomas said, this time not laughing.", "How soon? \"I don't give you a week,\" he said.", "No laugh there either." ]	[ "Tuesday's 7.0 earthquake severely damaged Port-au-Prince's harbor .", "Workers say sea shipments are vital for Haitians' survival .", "Without the port, \"We'll just starve to death,\" trucker warns ." ]	[ 2, 35, 36 ]
[ "(CNN) -- President Obama is expected to sign the final health care legislation into law this week, but while the action wraps up on Capitol Hill, the heated debate over reform shows no sign of cooling down.", "With lawmakers back in their districts for the spring work period, the conversation just moves to a different platform.", "For Democrats, the two-week recess is an opportunity to highlight the immediate benefits of a law the public is not yet sold on.", "Democrats say the health care law provides all Americans with the opportunity to receive health care and prevents insurance companies from denying coverage to those who need it most.", "For Republicans, it's a chance to rally support behind their efforts to repeal what they decry as a \"takeover\" of the health care system that will saddle future generations of Americans with debt.", "What's the one thing you want to ask your representatives?", "Republicans have made \"repeal and replace\" their battle cry, and Obama has said he welcomes the fight.", "At an event in Iowa City, Iowa, last week, the president scoffed at the Republicans' strategy, saying, \"My attitude is -- Go for it.\"", "Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann last week introduced a bill to repeal the health care legislation, as did other Republican lawmakers.", "\"We need to work together, whether we're Republicans, independents, Democrats, we all have to work together for whatever is in the best interest of the American people.", "And repeal most certainly is in the best interest of the people because this bill will lead to economic harm if it's left in place,\" Bachmann told CBS' \"Face the Nation.\"", "But Tim Kaine, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said he doesn't think efforts to knock down the legislation stand much chance.", "\"They may want to push forward on a repeal of health care, to tell small businesses you're not going to get tax credits to pay for insurance, to tell families you now can't keep children on your policy until [they]'re 26, to tell folks that you're now subject to these abuses of the insurance industry.", "I think they'd be unwise to do it.", "I think the American public will reject it,\" he told CBS.", "Despite the opposing messages, both sides say the public supports them.", "Republicans say the public opposes the president's plan, but Democrats insist that people will eventually accept the plan now that it is finalized.", "And so far, both sides have a point.", "Most Americans disapprove of the health care reform law, but that does not translate into majority support for the \"repeal and replace\" strategy, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Monday.", "CNN Poll: Americans divided over repealing health care law .", "Meanwhile, polls from both CBS and Quinnipiac University suggest that there has been a slight uptick in approval of the legislation following the vote.", "Another survey, a ABC/Washington Post poll released Sunday, indicated that the public's overall view of the health care plan has held steady, with 46 percent supporting it and 50 percent opposed.", "The percentage of people who said they strongly support the health care legislation, however, increased by 10 points since February, while the percentage who strongly opposed it stayed about the same.", "\"We'll find out in November who won or lost this battle,\" Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, told CBS.", "\"What I do next is, I'm trying to replace those who voted for this bill.", "I want to repeal it.", "And I want to replace it with some real reform that puts patients in charge of their health care again,\" he said.", "Echoing DeMint, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said he was looking forward to an election in November \"about whether this health care bill is a real fix or a phony political document trying to grow the government.\"", "Calling the legislation a \"giant Ponzi scheme,\" the Republican senator vowed that the fight \"won't wind up just being in Washington.\"", "Following a week of over-the-top rhetoric stemming from the health care vote, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, cautioned that if lawmakers don't watch their own words, they'll hurt their credibility.", "\"If we don't take ourselves seriously and act in a serious way, we're not going to be taken seriously by the American people,\" Mikulski said.", "\"I have a suggestion. Let's go back to the three R's: respect, rules of engagement that promote decorum, and, No.", "3 -- stop the rewards system that enables you to raise a lot of money after using outrageous and bizarre behavior,\" she added." ]	[ "Lawmakers back in their districts for two-week spring recess .", "Republicans, Democrats trying to sell their points of view to their constituents .", "Republicans want to \"repeal and replace\" health care legislation .", "Polls show support for legislation up slightly since before last week's vote ." ]	[ 1, 4, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Alone in the darkness beneath layers of rubble, Dan Woolley felt blood streaming from his head and leg.", "Then he remembered -- he had an app for that.", "Woolley, an aid worker, husband, and father of two boys, followed instructions on his cell phone to survive the January 12 earthquake in Haiti.", "\"I had an app that had pre-downloaded all this information about treating wounds.", "So I looked up excessive bleeding and I looked up compound fracture,\" Woolley told CNN.", "The application on his iPhone is filled with information about first aid and CPR from the American Heart Association.", "\"So I knew I wasn't making mistakes,\" Woolley said.", "\"That gave me confidence to treat my wounds properly.\"", "Trapped in the ruins of the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince, he used his shirt to bandage his leg, and tied his belt around the wound.", "To stop the bleeding on his head, he firmly pressed a sock to it.", "Concerned he might have been experiencing shock, Woolley used the app to look up what to do.", "It warned him not to sleep.", "So he set his phone alarm to go off every 20 minutes.", "Once the battery got down to less than 20 percent of its power, Woolley turned it off.", "By then, he says, he had trained his body not to sleep for long periods, drifting off only to wake up within minutes.", "Woolley's job keeps him tech savvy.", "He oversees interactive projects for the Christian child advocacy organization Compassion International in Colorado Springs, Colorado.", "CNN iReport: Looking for loved ones in Haiti .", "With his injuries tended to, he wrote a note to his family in his journal: \"I was in a big accident, an earthquake.", "Don't be upset at God. He always provides for his children even in hard times.", "I'm still praying that God will get me out, but he may not.", "But even so he will always take care of you.\"", "The journal is stained with his blood.", "After more than 60 hours, Woolley was pulled from the rubble.", "\"Those guys are rescue heroes,\" he said of the crew that pulled him out.", "Interactive map of where to find aid, hospitals in Haiti .", "His colleague David Hames has not been found.", "The two had been standing together when the earthquake struck and the Hotel Montana crumbled.", "They were making a film about poverty in Haiti and had just gotten back to the hotel, heading to the elevator in the lobby.", "\"Then all of a sudden just all craziness broke loose,\" Woolley said.", "\"Convulsions of the ground around us, the walls started rippling and then falling on us.", "[Hames] yelled out, 'I think it's an earthquake!'", "I looked for someplace safe to jump to and there was no safe place.\"", "When the shaking stopped, Woolley couldn't see.", "And his friend was not with him. He turned on the focus light of a camera he was wearing around his neck, but he didn't have his glasses.", "\"So I actually took some pictures and would look at the back of the lens of the camera and saw in one of those pictures the elevator that I ended up hobbling over to.", "And that became my safe place.\"", "Once in the elevator, he used the app -- called \"Pocket First Aid & CPR\" from Jive Media -- to tend to his injuries.", "Woolley said his phone \"was like a high-tech version of a Swiss Army knife that enabled me to treat my own injuries, track time, stay awake and stay alive.\"", "Woolley heard voices of some other people trapped nearby, and they spoke with each other.", "\"About a day, maybe day and a half in, we heard rescuers, and they had a list of our names at that point, because they were able to talk to one of the people we were talking with.", "And so then it seemed like, OK, this is going to happen, we're actually going to get rescued.", "\"But then it just took a long time and there were times where I didn't hear anything or I'd hear drilling in a far part of the building and just didn't get any reassurance they were still coming for me,\" Woolley said.", "\"The scene outside was a lot more chaotic and less simple than I imagined in my head. ...", "But eventually they came for me and did an amazing rescue.\"", "Back home now in Colorado Springs with his wife Christina and children Josh, 6, and Nathan, 3, Woolley said he's grateful to God for getting him through the ordeal.", "\"Happiness is a morning with ... family, filled with Legos, kissing boo-boos and normalcy.\"" ]	[ "Dan Woolley, a Colorado aid worker, was trapped in Haiti hotel after earthquake .", "Woolley used cell phone application to learn how to control bleeding, survive .", "iPhone application, called \"Pocket First Aid & CPR,\" is from Jive Media .", "\"That gave me confidence to treat my wounds properly,\" Woolley says ." ]	[ 2, 7, 37 ]
[ "Kolkata, India (CNN) -- At 65, Ian Zachariah is one of the youngest ones left.", "\"Can you believe it?\" he says, adjusting a borrowed yarmulke in a now-empty synagogue.", "His eyes scan the glittering stained glass, the blue-domed ceiling and the rows of dark wood and wicker benches, still arranged the way they were when, decades ago on the Sabbath, Maghen David was teeming.", "His mind races back to his childhood, when he occupied a seat in the back left-hand corner and much to his father's chagrin, gazed upward to the second floor gallery where the girls and women sat.", "But a hush has fallen within Maghen David's walls.", "There have not been prayers said here in a long time, for the lack of 10 able-bodied men needed to form the minyan, the quorum required for a Jewish service.", "Zachariah's heart feels empty like the synagogue's pews.", "He knows the end is near for the Jews of Kolkata.", "Once a thriving community of 6,000, their numbers can be counted on fingers now.", "Zachariah says fewer than 30 Jews are left in this bustling eastern Indian metropolis.", "Many Jews began leaving Kolkata, the city formerly known as Calcutta, after Indian independence in 1947; those who remained are slowly dying off.", "Zachariah, a stalwart of the dwindling community, serves on practically every Jewish administrative board.", "There are simply not enough people left to go around.", "\"Things have to be kept going,\" he says of the cultural burden weighing heavy on his shoulders.", "\"We're not lying down and waiting for the sunset.\"", "He runs his fingers over the cold outdoor oven at Maghen David that once turned out fresh unleavened bread.", "He peers through a window into the basement where vats of wine were stored.", "From a wooden box, he picks up a book of prayer, the pages eaten with precision by bookworms.", "\"I always thought someone should take these away.", "Too late now. They are all in terrible shape.\"", "Zachariah's ancestors arrived in India in the 18th century from the Syrian cities of Aleppo and Damascus.", "Others came from Iraq and Iran.", "All of them came to be known as Baghdadi Jews in India.", "They came to British India to trade -- in jewels, spices, textiles, tobacco, tea.", "They made a name as exporters and real-estate dealers and bakers.", "India, said Judaism scholar Nathan Katz, was one of the few places in the world that was inherently hospitable to its Jews.", "In Kolkata, Jewish families settled in what was known as \"gray town,\" the central city neighborhoods that separated the whites from the \"coloreds.\"", "They built graceful buildings that lined Brabourne Road in the heart of what is today Badabazaar, Kolkata's largest wholesale market.", "Jewish settlers to Kolkata eventually built five synagogues, at least two schools and a hospital.", "The schools are still operational, though not one student is Jewish.", "The Beth El and Maghen David synagogues exist today more as memorials to a former era than as functional Jewish temples.", "They established a landmark bakery, Nahoum and Sons, in New Market, a favorite among Jews and gentiles alike who craved its fruit cake, cream rolls and lemon tarts.", "It, too, like every other Jewish institution, faces a perilous future -- the last of the family in Kolkata, David Nahoum, is 84 and frail.", "\"They were so well integrated into the upper class of Bengali culture,\" said Katz, a professor of religious studies at Florida International University who has done extensive research on the Jewish communities of India.", "But then came Indian independence and the birth of Israel the following year.", "The Jews began their exodus.", "\"A new social and economic order came to into being and their prospects began to dry up,\" Katz said.", "By his estimate, the 12,000 Baghdadi Jews in all of India in 1947 have now dwindled down to less than 100.", "In a nation of 1.1 billion people, they don't even qualify as a minority group anymore -- barely a blip.", "\"It was a beautiful culture,\" Katz said.", "\"I find it terribly sad.\"", "Katz said Jewish communities have died violent and forced deaths in other places.", "Ironically, in India, where they did not face persecution, they left of their own accord.", "That's what makes the tale more poignant.", "It's not that someone forced the clock on the Maghen David tower to stop -- it just did one day.", "At 3:30. No one knows the date, though the typewritten notices posted for a board meeting give a clue.", "The paper is yellow and frayed.", "\"21st May, 1989.\"", "It was probably that way when Rahel Musleah journeyed back to Kolkata in 1997 to cement the shadowy images of a way of life she had heard about.", "Her father, Ezekiel Musleah, 82, was a rabbi at Maghen David who saw prospects for his family dry up.", "\"It was very difficult to leave.", "But what can a rabbi do in a community that was dying?\"", "he asked. He began a new life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1964, determined to carry on the music, the food, the spiritual norms that had taken root from a mix of Middle Eastern and Indian traditions.", "Rahel Musleah, a 52-year-old freelance writer who lives in Great Neck, New York, recalled her parents speaking Hindustani at home and celebrating birthdays with rasagollahs, a sugary Bengali confection.", "Women in the synagogue taught her mother -- who had relied on a cook in Kolkata -- to prepare Ashkenazic dishes including chopped liver, brisket and matzo balls.", "She also learned to replicate the Baghdadi-Indian specialties that her family craved.", "The stories Musleah heard about Kolkata finally drew her back to the house at 11 Bowbazar Street that bore her grandfather's name: I.S.", "Musleah. Her great-aunt Ramah was the only one left in the house.", "Musleah wandered around the dark rooms of the ancestral home, filled with heavy rosewood furniture and photographs of generations gone by.", "There, among the wedding pictures of her grandparents and aunts, she found her own.", "Rahel Musleah sipped tea from butter-yellow cups with her aging Aunty Ramah and feasted on deep-fried kachuris and heart-shaped \"queen cakes\" from Nahoum's.", "On the Sabbath, she sat in dim morning light at Maghen David, closed her eyes and tried to imagine her grandparents and all the people who had come before her.", "She tried to picture what was still vivid in her father's mind.", "\"What sadness for my father to sit and walk where in his bones, in his heart and soul, he felt the closeness of everyone he loved.", "... All dead now,\" she wrote in an article about her trip.", "Rahel Musleah returned to Kolkata one other time with her sister several years ago.", "Two months after that trip, her Aunty Ramah died, severing her last link to that culture.", "She retrieved the wooden sign from the house bearing her grandfather's name.", "It now hangs in her home, above her grandparents' portraits.", "The Jews who are left in Kolkata can do little but watch a way of life disappear.", "Zachariah thinks he might devote time to establishing a museum showcasing Jewish history; he wants to ensure that the Archaeological Society preserves standing synagogues.", "\"I don't think there will be a next generation,\" he says.", "Kolkata, he says, was the kind of place that absorbed everyone.", "Evidence of that tolerance can be found on the same corner as Maghen David, where land is shared by a Christian church, a Hindu shrine and a Muslim mosque.", "\"Time marches on.", "People come.", "People go. When it was over here, they left,\" Zachariah says.", "It is 1 p.m. And at that hour, Zachariah's voice gives way to the muezzin's call to prayer." ]	[ "Once a thriving community of 6,000, about 30 Jews are left in Kolkata, India .", "Jews began arriving in India in the 18th century from Syria, Iran and Iraq .", "Some 12,000 Jews began leaving when India gained independence in 1947 ." ]	[ 8, 10, 20, 21, 35, 37 ]
[ "(CNN) -- About 10 men armed with pistols and small machine guns raided a casino in Switzerland and made off into France with several hundred thousand Swiss francs in the early hours of Sunday morning, police said.", "The men, dressed in black clothes and black ski masks, split into two groups during the raid on the Grand Casino Basel, Chief Inspector Peter Gill told CNN.", "One group tried to break into the casino's vault on the lower level but could not get in, but they did rob the cashier of the money that was not secured, he said.", "The second group of armed robbers entered the upper level where the roulette and blackjack tables are located and robbed the cashier there, he said.", "As the thieves were leaving the casino, a woman driving by and unaware of what was occurring unknowingly blocked the armed robbers' vehicles.", "A gunman pulled the woman from her vehicle, beat her, and took off for the French border.", "The other gunmen followed into France, which is only about 100 meters (yards) from the casino, Gill said.", "There were about 600 people in the casino at the time of the robbery.", "There were no serious injuries, although one guest on the Casino floor was kicked in the head by one of the robbers when he moved, the police officer said.", "Swiss authorities are working closely with French authorities, Gill said.", "The robbers spoke French and drove vehicles with French license plates.", "CNN's Andreena Narayan contributed to this report." ]	[ "Dressed in black clothes and black ski masks, ten men raided Grand Casino Basel .", "Part of group failed to break into casino vault on the lower level .", "Gunmen made off into France which is only about 100 meters from the casino .", "One woman was beaten by robbers after unknowingly blocking their vehicles with car ." ]	[ 1, 2, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Walking into school Wednesday morning was not easy for Constance McMillen.", "The last time she'd been there was March 11, the day after her Fulton, Mississippi, high school canceled prom rather than allow her to wear a tuxedo and attend with her girlfriend.", "She didn't assume last week's spring break would cool things down.", "She expected stares, dirty looks and cold shoulders, and passing through the doors was daunting.", "Over these last two weeks, she said, she's had a hard time sleeping, can barely eat, feels anxious and -- until she saw a doctor for help -- often felt like she was \"going to throw up.\"", "\"I've been very nervous about all of this,\" the 18-year-old Itawamba Agricultural High School senior said.", "\"I don't like being somewhere where everyone hates me.\"", "McMillen's name made national headlines when she, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union, filed suit against her school and the Itawamba County School District, asking them to reinstate prom for everyone, without discrimination.", "A federal judge in Mississippi ruled Tuesday that while he wouldn't force the school to have a prom, which had originally been scheduled for April 2, he agreed that McMillen's First Amendment rights had been violated.", "That was good news, said her attorney, Christine Sun, senior counsel with the ACLU's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender project.", "It set a precedent and helped broadcast an important statement, which was made stronger by virtue of where it came from, she said.", "\"We're in a conservative area of the country, where people tend to think we can do what we like,\" said Sun, who lives in New York but has traveled multiple times to Mississippi for this legal push.", "\"This case sends a strong message that that's not going to fly anymore.\"", "The only pending issue, Sun said, is the question of damages and the ACLU's request for attorneys' fees.", "An amended complaint to seek a quick resolution on this should be filed in the next 30 days, she said.", "Meantime, McMillen is trying to find her new normal.", "In many ways, she stands in an awkward balance.", "Though there are some people who support her in Fulton (population about 4,000), the overarching tension and what she described as \"hostility\" that she feels at school and in her community is in deep contrast to the reception and groundswell of support that's overwhelmed her nationally.", "As a poster child for the rights of LGBT students, she's been asked to jump on airplanes to appear on news programs and talk shows.", "The Facebook fan page \"Let Constance Take Her Girlfriend to Prom!\"", "had attracted more than 414,000 fans as of Friday morning.", "Wealthy individuals, including Ellen DeGeneres, have offered to pay for a prom for her school.", "She's received a $30,000 college scholarship from an anonymous donor and Tonic.com, a digital media company in New York that's also offered her a summer internship.", "She's even been invited to high school proms in cities she's never visited.", "\"It means a lot to me,\" she said of the outreach from others.", "\"The amount of support helps me to continue with the fight.\"", "But all McMillen, who came out as a lesbian in eighth grade, ever wanted was to go to her school prom with her class, and with her girlfriend.", "Going to another school's prom, while a nice offer, doesn't make any sense to her.", "Parents at her school are reportedly planning a \"ball\" for the same night that prom was intended.", "McMillen said she's still trying to find out if she's free to attend with her girlfriend.", "She won't go otherwise.", "She never meant to be a spoiler for others when she sought approval to bring her girlfriend and wear a tuxedo, she said.", "She thought she was doing the right thing by asking in advance, since the school had stipulated in a February memo that dates must be of the opposite sex.", "Rather than give her permission, the school canceled the prom.", "McMillen said she's learning who her \"true friends\" are.", "They're the ones who respect her for taking a stance, defend her when others talk trash about her, don't turn their backs when she approaches and aren't afraid to be seen with her.", "Her girlfriend, too, has remained a constant support, even though she herself hasn't gone public.", "McMillen also said she's blessed to have family members who shore her up even if they don't all feel comfortable with her sexual orientation.", "\"My grandmother doesn't believe in it [same-sex relationships] but still stands behind me no matter what,\" McMillen said, her southern drawl thick.", "\"She's a conservative Christian but respects that it's my life.", "She doesn't think discrimination of any kind is right.\"", "Whether she intended to or not, McMillen has inspired others -- not just nationally but in her home state, said Izzy Pellegrine, 19, a student at Mississippi State University.", "\"I thought for a long time I was the only gay person in the state of Mississippi,\" said Pellegrine, who came out at 15 and went to high school about 1½ hours from where McMillen lives.", "McMillen's actions speak for others who feel unable to speak for themselves, said Pellegrine, who's a founding board member of the Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition, which helped connect McMillen with the ACLU.", "The grass-roots organization seeks to protect the interests of LGBT youth and will host a \"second chance prom\" on May 8, an event Pellegrine estimated may attract as many as 500 students, thanks in large part to the way McMillen's fight empowers others.", "Hear stories of others helped by the Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition .", "\"Usually Mississippi is 10 or 20 years behind,\" Pellegrine said.", "\"For Mississippi to be spearheading the LGBT student movement is unheard of.", "I, personally, and my co-workers are so proud to have it happen in our state,\" where \"queer flight,\" the compulsion to leave as soon as one is able, is rampant, she said.", "As for where life will take McMillen after graduation, she isn't yet sure.", "She's still thinking about that summer internship offer in New York and is pretty certain she'll attend Itawamba Community College for a couple years before going to one of her dream schools, the University of Southern Mississippi or UCLA.", "What she does know is she'd like to study and possibly pursue a career in psychology.", "\"I like helping people, and I like talking to people about their problems,\" she said.", "\"I find the human mind and human behavior very interesting.\"", "Soledad O'Brien of CNN's \"In America\" unit will file an extended report on gay teens in the \"Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition,\" the group that was key in connecting Constance McMillen to her ACLU legal team.", "The story is expected to air in late May or early June." ]	[ "Constance McMillen in news after school cancels prom; she wanted to bring girlfriend .", "Support nationally shows in TV visits, prom offers, Facebook fans and scholarship .", "At home, Mississippi high school senior deals with tensions, anxiety, \"hostility\"\nHer and ACLU's fight inspires others, making her poster child for LGBT student activism ." ]	[ 1, 17, 18, 19 ]
[ "Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- The Mexican government has apologized to the families of two students killed early Friday who officials initially said were drug gang members.", "Jorge Antonio Mercado Alonso, 23, and Javier Francisco Arredondo Verdugo, 24, were mechanical engineering graduate students at the Technological Institute of Higher Learning of Monterrey, the Mexican Interior Ministry said Sunday in its apology for the shootings.", "Mexican soldiers chasing criminals who had fired on an army patrol shot and killed the students, the Interior Ministry said.", "Some of the criminals had fled onto the college campus.", "\"The Mexican government expresses its most deeply felt condolences to the families,\" the Interior Ministry said in a release on its Web page.", "The federal government will intensify its investigation to find out what happened, the ministry said.", "On Friday, Mexican officials had said the two dead men were part of the criminal gang that shot at the soldiers.", "University officials also said Friday that all students were safe.", "That account changed Saturday, when Mercado's mother tried to call him after finding out about the campus shootout.", "When she couldn't reach him, she traveled to Monterrey, where she identified her son's body, said the campus rector, Rafael Rangel Sostman.", "\"I'm certain he is with God,\" said the mother, Rosa Elvia Mercado Alonso.", "The school's rector blamed himself for the mix-up in identities.", "\"I offer a public apology and take responsibility for having given information that ended up not being correct,\" Rangel said.", "\"I want to offer my most deeply felt condolences to the family of our two students and offer them our support in this difficult situation.\"", "Both men were scholarship students, the college said.", "Monterrey is in Nuevo Leon, one of two states in northeastern Mexico where drug cartel members blocked roads with hijacked vehicles Thursday and Friday to prevent military reinforcements from arriving.", "The criminals also set up roadblocks in neighboring Tamaulipas state.", "Three presumed gang members and one soldier were killed in various skirmishes over the two-day period, officials said.", "The area, which borders Texas, has seen bloody fighting between the Zetas and Gulf cartels after a recent gangland slaying.", "Hours-long gun battles are common, and U.S. officials were recently forced to temporarily close the consulate in the city of Reynosa.", "Mexico has been gripped in massive drug-related bloodshed since President Felipe Calderon declared war on the cartels shortly after coming into office in December 2006.", "Much of the violence has taken place around Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas.", "There are no official government tallies, but more than 16,000 people are estimated to have died in the drug wars.", "The vast majority of the deaths are among reputed criminals, with some police and military also being killed.", "Relatively few of the deaths have been civilians.", "Even so, the United States and Canada have issued travel warnings, particularly along the border area.", "The Texas Department of Public Safety took the unprecedented step this year of recommending that students on spring break not go to border areas inside Mexico.", "News of the violence and the travel warnings apparently have had an effect.", "Mexicans say tourism along the border has declined significantly this year." ]	[ "Officials say soldiers were chasing drug criminals who had fired on an army patrol .", "They said some criminals had fled to Technological Institute of Higher Learning of Monterrey .", "Initially, officials said mechanical engineering graduate students were drug gang members .", "Interior Ministry apologizes for deaths, pledges more intense investigation ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 3 ]
[ "GITARAMA, Rwanda (CNN) -- What does Macy's have to do with healing from genocide?", "Nothing and everything.", "Iphigenia Mukantabana sits with Jean-Bosco Bizimana, her family's killer, at her home after church.", "Fourteen years after Hutu extremists killed between 800,000 and 1 million people -- mostly Tutsis -- in a devastating slaughter, Rwandan women are weaving peace baskets for sale at Macy's in the United States.", "Not only does the work bring them a regular salary, the business is also fostering reconciliation between victim and perpetrator.", "Iphigenia Mukantabana, a master weaver, sits in front of her house in Gitarama -- an hour from the capital, Kigali -- making beautiful baskets with her friend Epiphania Mukanyndwi.", "In 1994, Mukantabana's husband and five of her children were hacked and clubbed to death by marauding Hutu militias.", "Among her family's killers was Jean-Bosco Bizimana, Mukanyndwi's husband.", "\"In my heart, the dead are dead, and they cannot come back again,\" Mukantabana said of those she lost.", "\"So I have to get on with the others and forget what has happened.\"", "Forgetting and forgiving everything she lost, everything she witnessed.", "\"Women and girls were raped, and I saw it all,\" she told CNN.", "\"The men and boys were beaten and then slaughtered.", "They told others to dig a hole, get in, then they piled earth on top of them, while they were still alive.\"", "Watch Mukantabana say how she survived » .", "Yet today, Mukantabana shares her future and her family meals with Bizimana, the killer she knew, and his wife, her friend Mukanyndwi.", "Bizimana did spend seven years in jail.", "He then went before a tribal gathering, part of a return to traditional ways by the new government in 2002 with Rwanda's justice system unable to cope and process hundreds of thousands of imprisoned perpetrators.", "The government decided that the master planners and worst perpetrators would face formal justice.", "But lower-level killers were allowed to publicly confess and apologize to the families of their victims at gacaca courts, where elders would hear grievances and decide on the punishments.", "\"In the gacaca court, I told them how we killed our fellow men, and I asked for forgiveness in front of the court, and the whole district was there,\" Bizimana said.", "\"The people who died in this very area -- I knew all of them because they were our neighbors.\"", "Watch Bizimana describe how he killed Tutsis » .", "He places blame squarely on the extremist Hutu government at the time and on vile radio broadcasts that urged on the killers during the 100-day slaughter.", "\"They were giving instructions all the time that was from the government, and so we thought it as the right thing because we were getting this instruction from the government,\" Bizimana said.", "He showed where he and a Hutu mob had killed 25 people, including members of Mukantabana's family, a few yards from where he had just shared lunch with her.", "\"We used machetes, hoes and wooden clubs,\" he told CNN.", "Mukantabana admits that it was difficult to forgive.", "She said she did not speak to Bizimana or his wife for four years after the killings.", "What put her on the road to healing, she said, was the gacaca process.", "\"It has not just helped me, it has helped all Rwandans because someone comes and accepts what he did and he asks for forgiveness from the whole community, from all Rwandans,\" she said.", "Bizimana said he did just that.", "\"You go in front of the people like we are standing here and ask for forgiveness,\" he said.", "But despite his confession and apology, Mukantabana said, reconciliation would not have happened unless she had decided to open her heart and accept his pleas.", "\"I am a Christian, and I pray a lot,\" she said, the pain etched in the lines on her face and around her sad eyes.", "But the basket business also played a key role in forging forgiveness and reconciliation after the horror.", "\"We knew how to weave baskets,\" Mukantabana explained.", "\"It helped unite Rwandans in this area because they accepted me as the master weaver, and I could not say, 'I am not taking your basket' or 'I am not helping you because you did something bad to me.'", "\" See photos of the women who have learned to forgive » .", "Macy's sold the first \"peace baskets\" in 2005, and officials say the deal generates between $300,000 and $400,000 a year.", "A Rwandan weaver can earn about $14 per week -- a king's ransom in a country where so many live on less than $1 per week.", "The international project is a far cry from 1994, when the United States, Europe, the United Nations and the rest of the world turned away while the genocide went unchecked in Rwanda.", "\"They didn't care; they were totally indifferent,\" Rwandan President Paul Kagame told CNN in his office in Kigali.", "He said the world thought Rwanda \"was just another bloody African situation where people just kill each other and that's it.\"", "Watch Kagame explain why he sought reconciliation » .", "Today, Rwanda is an African success story.", "It has one of the fastest economic growth rates in the region, one of the lowest crime rates and the lowest rate of HIV-AIDS.", "About one-third of Rwanda's cabinet are female ministers, and 48 percent of parliamentarians are women -- the highest anywhere in the world, according to the United Nations.", "The country looks squeaky clean thanks to many local and national programs, including a mandatory policy that sees even government ministers participate in clean-up once a month.", "Plastic bags are banned.", "The international business community praises Rwanda's good governance and the absence of official corruption or graft.", "Kagame is credited not just with turning Rwanda around, but with being the driving force behind rejecting revenge.", "\"We were in danger of having another genocide,\" he said.", "\"People were so badly aggrieved they could easily have turned on those they thought were responsible for this and actually killed them in another wave of killings.", "But that did not happen,\" he said.", "\"We said building a nation is the most important thing.\"", "Now no one talks about Hutus or Tutsis, he explained.", "\"There is Rwanda, there are Rwandans, and the common interest we have for a better future for this country is more important than any other interest.\"", "In Gitarama, Bizimana said, \"It hurts my heart to see that I did something wrong to friends of my family, to people who we even shared meals with,\" he said.", "\"I am still asking for forgiveness from the people I hurt.\"", "Amazingly, many seem to have forgiven." ]	[ "Basket weaver's husband, five children were hacked and clubbed to death .", "One of killers was neighbor, caught up in hatred of Rwanda's genocide .", "But now, victim and perpetrator share lunch, forgiveness and a future .", "President Paul Kagame says Rwanda is healing, moving beyond 1994 genocide ." ]	[ 0, 6, 35, 47 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The widow of an Internal Revenue Service employee killed when a disgruntled taxpayer flew his plane into a seven-story building in Austin, Texas, last week is suing the pilot's wife, according to court documents.", "Valerie Hunter, the wife of Vernon Hunter, is accusing Sheryl Stack, wife of Andrew Joseph \"Joe\" Stack III, of negligence, alleging she knew or should have known that her husband was a threat to others and, thus, could have prevented the attack, according to the lawsuit filed Monday in Travis County District Court.", "\"Stack was threatened enough by Joseph Stack that she took her daughter and stayed at a hotel the night before the plane crash.", "[She] owed a duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid a foreseeable risk of injury to others including [Vernon Hunter],\" the suit says.", "The lawsuit also seeks to bar the release of Vernon Hunter's autopsy report, saying that, if made public, it would cause Hunter's family to suffer \"severe and irreparable emotional distress.\"", "Hunter was killed February 18 when, authorities say, Stack flew his Piper Cherokee PA-28 into a northwest Austin building that housed nearly 200 IRS employees.", "Authorities say Stack set fire to his $230,000 home in Austin before embarking on his fatal flight.", "Police have said Sheryl Stack spent the previous night in an Austin-area hotel but did not say why.", "Police said they had received no calls of domestic violence from the house.", "The only calls to police were made a couple of years ago and concerned barking dogs, officials said said.", "A 3,000-word message on a Web site registered to Stack railed against the government, particularly the IRS.", "\"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,\" the online message said.", "\"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.\"", "Sheryl Stack issued a statement after the attack expressing \"sincere sympathy to the victims and their families.\"" ]	[ "Valerie Hunter is accusing Sheryl Stack of negligence .", "Hunter's husband died when Andrew Joseph \"Joe Stack III flew a plane into a building .", "Lawsuit: Sheryl Stack \"owed a duty to exercise reasonable care\" for others' safety .", "Sheryl Stack had issued statement offering sympathy to victim's family ." ]	[ 1, 3, 14 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Kevin Pearce One of the country's top snowboarders, who was considered a favorite to make the U.S. Olympic team, was in critical but stable condition Sunday after an accident while training last week at Park City, Utah.", "The Los Angeles Times reports that the 22-year-old from Norwich, Vermont, was wearing a helmet while attempting a twisting double back flip on an icy halfpipe.", "Pearce hit his head, was knocked unconscious and was then airlifted to the University of Utah hospital for surgery.", "He sustained severe traumatic brain injury, one of his doctors said in a statement.", "Pearce, a beloved athlete, was one of the few snowboarders who experts thought could challenge top contender Shaun White, who has won almost every top snowboarding medal.", "Los Angeles Times: Snowboarder in critical condition .", "Adrian Smith One of the world's most widely recognized architects is one of the principal designers of the world's tallest tower, the Burj Dubai, which opens today in the emirate of Dubai.", "The 160-plus-story structure has already been hailed as a monumental architectural achievement but is seen by some as a symbol of the city's unbridled excess.", "The majestic silvery construction houses a luxury hotel, apartments and offices.", "Six years in the making, the Burj Dubai reaches 818 meters, or half a mile, into the sky above Dubai, with dizzying views of the ambitious building program that has transformed the emirate and left it swamped by debt.", "Smith worked for four decades at the structure's architecture firm, Chicago, Illinois-based Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, which called the Burj \"a bold global icon that will serve as a model for future urban centers.\"", "Declaring that \"tall buildings are back,\" the company predicts that the groundbreaking techniques it used to push the Burj to new heights should enable the construction of even taller towers in the future.", "CNN: Debt-hit Dubai opens world's tallest tower .", "Kurt Westergaard The Danish political cartoonist was threatened by a Somali man wielding an ax and knife.", "According to Westergaard, the man tried to enter the house by breaking through a glass door Friday night.", "Westergaard took his 5-year-old granddaughter into a specially built \"panic room\" when he realized what was happening, Chief Superintendent Ole Madsen said.", "Police said a home alarm alerted them to the scene in the city of Aarhus, and they were attacked by the suspect when they responded.", "Police shot the suspect and he was taken into custody.", "Westergaard, who has been threatened for drawing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005, is ordinarily accompanied by bodyguards, but there were no guards at the house when the break-in occurred.", "The New York Times quoted a Danish newspaper report that Denmark's security and intelligence agency knew that the accused Somali man was held in Kenya in September for allegedly helping to plot an attack against Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who visited Kenya in August.", "The man was released earlier this fall by Kenyan authorities due to lack of evidence, the newspaper Politiken reported.", "Denmark's ambassador to Kenya told the news agency Ritzau, however, that the Somali man was arrested in Kenya for incomplete travel documents, adding that Kenyan authorities never told the embassy that he was a suspect in a terror plot.", "CNN: Cartoonist hid in 'panic room' during attack .", "Annise Parker Houston's first openly gay mayor will be sworn in today.", "Parker's election last month also makes her the second woman to become mayor of Houston.", "Other cities such as Providence, Rhode Island, and Portland, Oregon, have picked openly gay mayors.", "Houston is the fourth-largest U.S. city.", "Parker's victory is also remarkable because a few years ago, Houston rejected a referendum to offer benefits to same-sex partners of city workers.", "Also, the city sits in a state where gay marriage is against the law.", "Parker, 53, has never shied away from, nor made an issue of, her sexual orientation.", "She has been with her partner for 19 years and they have two adopted children.", "CNN: Houston elects first openly gay mayor .", "What makes a person intriguing?", "There are people who enter the news cycle every day because their actions or decisions are new, important or different.", "Others are in the news because they are the ones those decisions affect.", "And there are a number of people who are so famous or controversial that anything they say or do becomes news.", "Some of these people do what we expect of them: They run for office, pass legislation, start a business, get hired or fired, commit a crime, make an arrest, get in accidents, hit a home run, overthrow a government, fight wars, sue an opponent, put out fires, prepare for hurricanes and cavort with people other than their spouses.", "They do make news, but the action is usually more important than who is involved in the story.", "But every day, there are a number of people who become fascinating to us -- by virtue of their character, how they reached their decision, how they behaved under pressure or because of the remarkable circumstances surrounding the event they are involved in.", "They arouse our curiosity.", "We hear about them and want to know more.", "What they have done or said stimulates conversations across the country.", "At times, there is even a mystery about them.", "What they have done may be unique, heroic, cowardly or ghastly, but they capture our imaginations.", "We want to know what makes them tick, why they believe what they do, and why they did what they did.", "They intrigue us." ]	[ "Top U.S. snowboarder injured during training .", "World's tallest tower opens in Dubai .", "Fourth-largest U.S. city swears in its first openly gay mayor ." ]	[ 12, 23, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Mexico international striker Antonio de Nigris has died at the age of 31 from a suspected heart attack.", "The former Villarreal player, who was capped 16 times by his country, was rushed to hospital in the early hours of Monday morning but was pronounced dead on arrival, his Greek club Larissa confirmed in a statement.", "De Nigris joined Larissa in the summer from Turkish side Ankaragucu, making six appearances.", "The statement read: \"The Larissa family mourns the tragic loss of 31-year-old Mexican footballer Antonio de Nigris.", "\"It is with deep sorrow that the administration, coaching staff, players and executives of the club would like to express their condolences to his family, particularly to his wife Sonia and their five-year-old daughter Miranda.", "\"An autopsy will be held at the General Academic Hospital in Larissa to determine the precise reasons of his death.\"", "De Nigris represented his country at the 2001 Copa America and scored a superb goal against Brazil on his international debut." ]	[ "Mexican international striker Antonio de Nigris has died at the age of 31 .", "De Nigris suffered a suspected heart attack, his Greek club Larissa revealed .", "De Nigris was capped 16 times for Mexico and appeared in the 2001 Copa America tournament ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- David Carradine's wife and his manager disputed suggestions that the actor's death was a suicide, while rescue workers and police in Bangkok, Thailand, said the actor's neck and genitals were found bound with rope.", "David Carradine was the star of the 1970s TV series, \"Kung Fu,\" and appeared in more than 100 films.", "After Carradine's body arrives back to the United States this weekend, an autopsy ordered by Carradine's family will be conducted, according to the actor's co-manager.", "\"They're doing everything possible to get to the bottom of what really happened,\" said Carradine's co-manager Tiffany Smith.", "Carradine, 72, became famous in the 1970s when he portrayed the traveling Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine in the television series \"Kung Fu.\"", "Bangkok police said Carradine was found hanging by a nylon rope in a Bangkok hotel room closet Thursday morning.", "\"Our preliminary assumption is that the cause of death was suffocation, because there was a rope tied to his neck,\" said Bangkok police spokesman Somprasong Yenthuam.", "Autopsy results will not be available for three or four weeks, said a high-ranking Thai police source who asked not to be identified.", "The actor's body was released to the U.S. Embassy for a Saturday flight home after a judge signed the death certificate Friday, the police source said.", "A member of the emergency crew who was called to the hotel after a maid found Carradine told CNN that a yellow nylon rope was tied around the actor's neck and a black rope was around his genitals.", "Police later confirmed that information.", "The same emergency crew source said Carradine's hands were not tied, contrary to some media reports.", "Smith, the co-manager, also said media reports quoting the actor's management saying the hands were tied were untrue.", "\"I do not know if you want to call it accidental,\" Chuck Binder, Carradine's manager, told CNN's Larry King on Thursday.", "He said Carradine's career was on a roll.", "Binder said a producer of the movie, \"Stretch,\" which Carradine was to act in, called him from Thailand to tell him what was happening there.", "\"I do not want to get in the middle of this whole investigation, but this guy said to me for sure there was foul play,\" Binder said.", "Watch Carradine's friends discuss loss » .", "Actor Michael Madsen told King that the one thing Carradine's wife, Annie Bierman, wanted everyone to know is, \"David was not suicidal.\"", "Investigators found no sign of a forced entry into Carradine's room, Bangkok Police Lt.", "Colonel Pirom Chanpirom said.", "Smith would not confirm Friday that Carradine's family had hired private investigators to look into his death, but she did say a private autopsy would be done.", "Modern audiences may best know Carradine as \"Bill\" in Quentin Tarantino's \"Kill Bill\" films.", "He earned a 2005 Golden Globe nomination for his role in the second movie in the two-part saga.", "Tarantino, also appearing on \"Larry King Live,\" called Carradine one of \"Hollywood's great mad geniuses.\"", "\"He was a rock star at the time 'Kung Fu' came out,\" Tarantino said, holding up a vintage metal lunch box with an image from the popular show.", "Watch Carradine discuss \"Kung Fu\" role » .", "\"I'm in shock,\" he said.", "Carradine's career included more than 100 feature films, two dozen television movies and theater work, according to the Internet Movie Database.", "\"He was clearly an actor who followed his own path,\" said Leah Rozen, movie critic for People magazine.", "See photos of some of his notable roles » .", "\"He was never a guy who talked a whole lot.", "You knew, as an actor, the characters he played, you knew they had a past, you knew there was probably some unhappiness there, but he wasn't going to talk about it.\"", "Carradine was nominated for a Golden Globe for his role as folk music legend Woody Guthrie in the 1976 movie \"Bound for Glory,\" according to a biography on his official Web site.", "He also made appearances in television series such as \"Gunsmoke\" and \"Alfred Hitchcock Presents.\"", "His first starring role in a series was as the title character in \"Shane\" in 1966. iReport: Share memories of David Carradine .", "Carradine was married five times and divorced four, according to People magazine.", "He was the son of John Carradine, a character actor who appeared in hundreds of films, plays and television episodes.", "\"David's career as an artist did not begin on the stage, though some of his early career was on and off Broadway.", "His earliest work was as a sculptor and painter,\" Carradine's official Web site says.", "The site also includes an \"Art Bio,\" in which the actor opened up about his life.", "\"I've always had an especially hard time with everything I've tried to do,\" Carradine wrote.", "\"I've made it pretty big as an actor in spite of being terminally shy. ...", "Invariably, I had huge obstacles to overcome in anything I tried.", "Had to work against my genes to achieve my dreams.\"", "CNN's Jack Hannah, Kocha Olarn and A. Pawlowski contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: David Carradine's family orders autopsy when body returns to United States .", "Actor's family, manager dispute suicide theory .", "Carradine found hanging by rope in Bangkok hotel closet, police say .", "He was the star of \"Kung Fu\" TV series; also known as \"Bill\" in \"Kill Bill\" films ." ]	[ 1, 2, 5 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- Like many people, widow Penny Lally plans to be buried alongside her family.", "But in her case, that includes a menagerie of family pets.", "Her husband, John, who died of cancer three years ago at the age of 64, is already buried with their horse Super Sam, Blot the cat, Muppet the dog, and even Brian the bird.", "\"I often tell people that John has a canary singing in his ear, a cat purring at his feet, a dog at his side and a horse to ride on when he likes,\" Lally said.", "\"I know some people might find this strange, but I loved my pets and wanted them all to be close to me and my husband and to each other.\"", "Lally, 66, runs a pet crematorium and woodland burial place in Penwith, Cornwall, in southwestern England.", "She has buried more than 30 owners alongside their animals and has over 100 more plots reserved for pets and their owners, she said.", "The idea of joint burials was first suggested to her by an elderly neighbor who died at the age of 77, a year before John's death, she said.", "\"Mrs. Winchcombe had seven cats and wanted to be buried with all of them when she died.", "It was certainly an unusual request,\" Lally said.", "\"We had to apply for permission to extend our license to burying humans as well as animals, but it was wonderful that we could carry out her last wishes.\"", "Since then, Lally has seen an increasing number of pet owners in the UK seeking joint burials.", "There are currently only half a dozen cemeteries in the UK that allow pets to be buried in the same plot as their owners, but in January, Lincolnshire council became the latest authority to grant planning permission for a joint site.", "\"I think there has been more interest recently because people are starting to realize it is possible,\" Lally said.", "One of her customers is animal lover Carole Mundy, 54, who has reserved a plot for herself and her husband Robert next to their 17-year-old golden retriever, Dylan, who was buried at Penwith in 2008.", "\"I know it isn't conventional, but I'm so sick of people saying that 'it was just a dog or a cat,'\" Mundy said.", "\"Animals give us unconditional love and I absolutely adore my pets.", "If people want to call me kooky I don't care.\"", "The UK regards itself as a nation of animal lovers, so perhaps it is not surprising that there has been an increase in joint burials, but the practice is also on the rise in the United States.", "\"There has been a lot of interest from the public, who are asking funeral homes if they can have their pets buried with them,\" said Robert Fells of the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association in Virginia.", "\"It's still a relatively new concept, so whether it's a fad or an emerging trend, I'm not sure, but it's definitely on the rise,\" he said.", "\"We are seeing an increase in public interest,\" said Roberta Knauf, director of Hillcrest-Flynn Funeral Home in Pennsylvania.", "\"The joint burial concept started in 2006, when a few people were interested -- but last year we had close to 70 joint burials in our cemetery.\"", "In fact, the practice of people being buried with pets isn't new.", "It dates far back into British history when Anglo-Saxon nobles were buried with their possessions, which included their horses.", "Even further back, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt would be buried with their mummified cats, dogs and monkeys, which they believed shared an afterlife with humans.", "But after centuries of affiliation with the pagan gods of Egypt and Rome, pet rituals found little tolerance in the new Christian era.", "\"The more Christianity became institutionalized, the more animal practices were discouraged as it was accepted that humans were the only beings with souls,\" said Mary Thurston, a Texas-based anthropologist who specializes in the shared history of people and pets.", "The director of the UK's Association of Private Pet Cemeteries and Crematoria said people should be buried as they see fit.", "\"When you pass away, it's important to have your wishes granted and people deserve to be buried in the manner they choose if they are not hurting anyone,\" Kevin Spurgeon said.", "\"My horse was such a good friend and by my side through the ups and downs of life,\" pet cemetery owner Lally said.", "\"Like me, many others see their pets as part of the family and want to be together with them even in death.\"" ]	[ "People and their pets can be laid to rest together at cemetery in England .", "Owner: More than 30 people already buried with pets; 100 more plots reserved .", "Future customer: \"I'm so sick of people saying that 'it was just a dog or a cat'\"\nAnthropologist: Very old practice fell out when Christianity became institutionalized ." ]	[ 0, 6, 15, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A 6.9-magnitude earthquake shook the Pacific Ocean near the Solomon Islands Tuesday night, one day after a string of earthquakes rattled the same area and another quake hit the Philippines, the U.S. Geological Survey said.", "The quake, considered strong in terms of earthquake magnitude, hit near sparsely populated islands in the archipelago at 11:15 p.m. (7:15 a.m.", "ET) at a depth of 35 km (22 miles).", "By 12:56 a.m. local time Wednesday, there had been five aftershocks, according to the USGS Web site.", "\"Usually when we see earthquakes of this size, we see aftershocks,\" said USGS geophysicist Jessica Sigala.", "\"The aftershocks are usually smaller in size, but are earthquakes in their own right.\"", "No tsunamis were expected, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.", "The island located closest to the initial quake's epicenter was Tetepare, located eight miles to the north.", "Geophysicist Amy Vaughan said the USGS had received no reports of damage, and it was hard for the agency to predict what might have occurred until it hears from media or people living in the area.", "There was property damage from Monday's quakes, but she didn't know how extensive it was.", "On Monday, the Solomon Islands were hit by eight quakes in 14 hours, starting at 8:48 a.m. local time and causing damage to at least one village.", "Rattling the islands were a strong 6.5-magnitude quake at 8:48 a.m. and a more powerful 7.2-magnitude tremor less than an hour later.", "The Solomon Islands are situated in the so-called Ring of Fire, an arc of fault lines circling the Pacific Basin that is prone to frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions." ]	[ "The Solomon Islands are struck by a 6.9-magnitude earthquake .", "Earthquakes rattled the same area the day before .", "No tsunamis were expected, according to Pacific Tsunami Warning Center .", "There were no reports of damage from Tuesday's quake ." ]	[ 0, 6 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Four of the 10 American rescue teams mobilized in the hours following the earthquake in Haiti are returning home Tuesday -- having never traveled farther than their local airports.", "Federal government officials said the four -- including teams in Texas, Ohio and two in California -- were not flown there because Haiti could not \"absorb\" them and because they were being held as relief for crews that made it into the country.", "Disaster experts said a bottleneck at the main airport in Port-au-Prince could have prevented the crews from entering Haiti quickly, but they scoffed at the suggestion that the teams, skilled in locating and freeing people entombed in collapsed buildings, should be held in reserve.", "\"That 72-hour window [in which most rescues are attempted] is not some casual number,\" said Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University.", "\"It's actually a very serious [calculation of when most lives can be saved].\"", "iReport: Search the list of the missing and found .", "Redlener said it made no sense to withhold Urban Search and Rescue team resources until the latter days of a disaster.", "A second expert said the United States has an additional 18 US&R teams it could have drawn upon if reserves were needed.", "In the event of earthquakes, moving US&R teams should be the \"highest possible priority,\" and the only limitation should be insurmountable logistical ones, Redlener said.", "The Federal Emergency Management Agency trains and funds the nation's 28 US&R teams, but in Haiti they have been working under contract with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the State Department organization heading the relief effort.", "See how rescuers race against time .", "USAID spokesman Evan Casson Coutts said the agency made the decision to withhold the four U.S. teams \"in consultation with the Haitian government.\"", "The relief effort is at this point \"prioritizing the shipments of life-sustaining commodities, including food, water and medicine.\"", "The US&R teams specialize in rescuing people in collapsed structures.", "The teams typically have about 80 members and travel with food, bedding and generators so they will be self-sustaining and will not be a drain on the communities they are trying to help.", "Full coverage \| Twitter updates .", "Asked Monday on CNN \"American Morning\" why the four U.S. teams and some teams in Canada had not been brought to Haiti, Kenneth Merten, the U.S. ambassador to the country, said, \"I'll be honest with you.", "I haven't heard those stories about the search-and-rescue teams not being mobilized down here.\"", "Merten said he would look into the issue, adding the teams may have been held back because of capacity issues.", "He also said there are \"limitations on where these people can go, where they can set up, where they can bed down.\"", "A USAID spokesman suggested Monday that the 43 teams that traveled from around the world to help Haiti were sufficient.", "They include 1,739 first responders and 161 canines.", "Coutts said USAID directed FEMA to prepare four more teams for possible deployment to \"ensure that any additional search-and-rescue needs could be met immediately upon request.\"", "Based on postings on their Web sites, the teams thought they were going to Haiti, until being told to stand down Monday." ]	[ "Officials say Haiti could not \"absorb\" the additional four U.S. teams mobilized to help Haiti .", "Columbia University expert says teams should have been sent within first 72 hours .", "U.S. ambassador to Haiti says he's unaware that search teams mobilized but stayed in the U.S.", "There are more than 1,700 rescuers, 161 canines already in Haiti, USAID official says ." ]	[ 1, 16, 21 ]
[ "(CNN) -- A single mother who chose taking care of her infant over deploying to Afghanistan has been discharged, the Army said in a statement.", "When her unit deployed to Afghanistan in November, Alexis Hutchinson was missing from the plane.", "Her lawyer said she refused to go because there was no one to take care of her then 10-month-old son, Kamani, and she feared he would be placed in foster care.", "But the Army contended that the young mother and now former Army specialist had plenty of time to sort out family issues and said she could face court-martial.", "The issue was resolved this week, the Army said in a statement Thursday from Fort Stewart in Georgia, where Hutchinson was training.", "\"The soldier will not be tried by court-martial and therefore is not at risk of receiving a federal conviction,\" the statement said. \"", "She is, however, reduced to the lowest enlisted rank, private, and subject to losing other military benefits from the Army and the Department of Veterans Affairs to which soldiers who serve honorably are entitled.\"", "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'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 her son.", "She was granted a 30-day extension to deal with the issue but still was not ready to deploy after the extension had expired, the Army said.", "\"The investigation revealed evidence, from both other soldiers and from Private Hutchinson herself, that she didn't intend to deploy to Afghanistan with her unit and deliberately sought ways out of the deployment,\" the Army statement said.", "Hutchinson could not be immediately reached for comment." ]	[ "Alexis Hutchinson refused to deploy, saying there was no one to care for her infant .", "Army contended she had been given plenty of time to sort out family issues .", "Hutchinson could have faced court-martial ." ]	[ 3, 8, 11 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The government of earthquake-ravaged Haiti must become more visible now, even amid a global outpouring of aid as the impoverished island nation struggles to recover, Brazil's foreign minister said Monday.", "\"The government, in spite of all the difficulties, should appear more to the people,\" Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said in an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour.", "\"I think it's important because after all, they are the ones who transmit the needs of the Haitian people to us, to the international community.\"", "Amorim, speaking from an international conference on Haiti in Montreal, Canada, said it's important for the world to follow the priorities of the Haitian government.", "\"We cannot lose sight of the central role of the elected leaders of Haiti,\" he said.", "\"Haiti is a country that has an elected government.\"", "Amorim was among more than a dozen foreign ministers and leaders, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, attending the Montreal conference.", "Representatives of many international institutions such as the United Nations and the European Union were also there.", "Find loved ones in Haiti \| Full coverage .", "Speaking in Montreal, Clinton said, \"As part of our multilateral efforts to assist Haiti, we should look at how we decentralize economic opportunity and work with the Haitian government and people to support resettlement, which they are doing on their own, as people leave Port-au-Prince and return to the countryside.\"", "Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive was also in Montreal.", "He said the international aid effort has only just begun.", "\"I can simply tell you that the population is in need of more and more and more to confront the massive task of reconstruction,\" Bellerive said.", "The aim of the Montreal meeting is to develop a strategy for early recovery and longer-term reconstruction.", "Once the strategy is set, a donors' conference to secure funding for Haiti would take place.", "Amorim told Amanpour he expected the donors' conference is likely to take place at the end of March, possibly in New York, though that was not confirmed at the time of the interview.", "\"We cannot endure, we cannot see a disaster of the size of Haiti, with the poverty that exists in Haiti, and not do anything,\" he added.", "\"If you don't act for development, for emergency now and development immediately, you'll be having an enormous security problem.\"", "Interactive map: Where to find aid .", "Amorim told Amanpour that as part of his country's efforts to bolster security in Haiti, the Brazilian Congress Monday approved a plan to almost double the number of Brazilian troops in the U.N. force in Haiti, to as many as 2,600 soldiers.", "The U.N. force there, known as MINUSTAH, has been led by a Brazilian general since 2004.", "It lost dozens of its civilian headquarters staff during the earthquake.", "Amorim, who has just been to Haiti, said it was also vital to rebuild the country's national symbols.", "\"I think this is very important so that the Haitian people feel also not only that they are receiving food and water, but also they are recovering their self-esteem,\" he said." ]	[ "Government of quake-hit Haiti must become more visible, Brazil's foreign minister says .", "Celso Amorim: \"We cannot lose sight of the central role of the elected leaders of Haiti\"\nAmorim was among over a dozen foreign ministers, leaders attending conference on Haiti .", "Conference in Montreal aims to develop a strategy for recovery and reconstruction ." ]	[ 4, 6, 13 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The reality television show personality who accused football player Shawne Merriman of choking her over the weekend has denied that she was drunk during the incident, her Twitter page said Monday.", "Shawne Merriman is accused of restraining reality TV star Tila Tequlia as she tried to leave his home, police say.", "\"I am allergic to alcohol,\" said the posting for Tila Nguyen, 27, who goes by Tila Tequila.", "\"It has been publicly known for years.", "That is how I got the name Tila 'Tequila' cuz the irony.", "I can't drink.\" The incident began at 3:45 a.m. Sunday, when authorities responded to a disturbance call from Nguyen, the San Diego (California) County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.", "\"Nguyen told deputies she had been choked and physically restrained by Merriman when she attempted to leave his residence,\" it said.", "Merriman, 25, was taken into custody on suspicion of battery and false imprisonment, the statement said.", "Deputies saw no physical injuries on Nguyen, who is described on her Twitter page as 4 feet, 11 inches tall and 93 pounds, but she asked to be taken to a hospital, said sheriff's spokeswoman Jan Caldwell.", "Watch Caldwell talk about the incident » .", "The San Diego Chargers linebacker released a statement Sunday noting that no charges had been filed and saying he had done nothing wrong.", "\"I was concerned about her welfare given the intoxicated state she appeared to be in and I encouraged her to stay until safe transportation could be provided,\" Merriman said.", "\"I in no way caused any harm to Ms. Nguyen, however, paramedics were called and she was examined but no injuries were reported.\"", "Merriman said he was looking forward to clearing his name of the \"false accusations.\"", "Merriman's lawyer, Todd Macaluso, said Sunday that more than a dozen other people were at the house at the time, and \"witness after witness after witness will back up his story 100 percent.\"", "In a statement posted on the Chargers' Web site Sunday, team General Manager A.J.", "Smith said, \"It is disappointing to hear about the issue involving Shawne Merriman.", "\"We'll continue to monitor the situation and let the legal process run its course,\" Smith said.", "The 6-foot, 4-inch 265-pounder is entering his fifth year with the Chargers.", "The team begins its 2009 NFL regular-season campaign September 14 in Oakland, California, for a game against the Raiders.", "Merriman, a three-time Pro Bowl selection, recorded at least 10 sacks in each of his first three seasons, but he was limited to one game last season because of a knee injury that required surgery." ]	[ "Tila \"Tequila\" Nguyen says NFL's Shawne Merriman choked her .", "San Diego Chargers player says she was intoxicated .", "\"I'm allergic to alcohol.", "...", "I can't drink,\" Nguyen says on Twitter .", "Merriman says he looks forward to clearing his name ." ]	[ 2, 5, 13 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Survivors still emerged from collapsed buildings in Haiti's devastated capital Sunday, nearly five days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the impoverished island nation.", "U.S. and Turkish rescuers plucked three people, including an American woman, from the rubble of a supermarket Sunday, and were continuing to search for more people in the ruins.", "The survivors had been living on the store's supply of food and water, rescuers said.", "Elsewhere, a team from New York rescued a 55-year-old man from the remains of a four-story building after using a rescue camera to locate him.", "And an Israel Defense Forces team said Sunday it had rescued a Haitian government worker from the ruins of a customs office Saturday.", "The rescues lent a sense of urgency to those still working to find signs of life among the collapsed buildings, who know that time is running out for those still alive.", "Nearly 30 international rescue teams continue to comb the disaster areas for more survivors.", "While there has not been an official count, U.N. estimates of the number of casualties in the capital alone range from 100,000 to 150,000.", "Get the latest developments in Haiti .", "By Friday, 13,000 bodies had been recovered, said U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Edmond Mulet.", "Among the dead are 16 Americans, the State Department said Sunday.", "More than 300 U.N. staffers are unaccounted for.", "Thirty-seven are confirmed dead, including the top two civilian officials at the U.N. mission in Haiti, a peacekeeping and police force established after the 2004 ouster of then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.", "Why Haiti is different .", "U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was in Haiti Sunday and visited the site of the U.N.'s collapsed mission.", "He assured survivors of U.N. assistance despite the organization suffering the gravest loss in its history.", "The United Nations \"will continue to work with the major international donors who have been generous enough to provide humanitarian assistance, dispatching search-and-rescue teams.", "This is a moment of sadness but it is also a moment of Haiti's need,\" he said.", "Former President Bill Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, will travel to the country on Monday to meet with officials and deliver aid supplies, his foundation announced Sunday.", "He is set to meet with Haitian President Rene Preval and other members of the local government as well as aid workers, to discuss how to proceed with recovery operations.", "The visit comes two days after President Obama announced the formation of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, a major fundraising effort for victims of Tuesday's earthquake led by Clinton and former President George W. Bush.", "Presidents Bush, Clinton team up for Haiti On Saturday, a man said to be the head of the capital city's tax office was carried out of the rubble on a stretcher, to wild cheers from residents.", "And a 2-month-old baby with broken ribs was pulled out and airlifted to Florida in critical condition.", "But in many cases, rescue operations turned into recovery ones.", "A Los Angeles rescue team answered the desperate pleas of a mother who believed her young daughter was trapped alive beneath the rubble of a day care center in downtown Port-au-Prince.", "They searched for eight hours Saturday.", "At some point, the distinct sounds of tapping from within the crushed concrete stopped.", "As rescue personnel pulled away, the mother -- who stood praying silently during the rescue efforts -- stayed put, holding on to hope.", "How to help: Impact Your World .", "More California rescuers patiently chipped away at concrete and debris Sunday morning, trying to reach a woman who sent a text message saying she was buried beneath the ruins of a collapsed bank.", "The Los Angeles County Search and Rescue team had been looking for the woman since Saturday afternoon when a text arrived: \"I'm OK but help me, I can't take it anymore.\"", "But the hours ticked by, with no sign she was still alive.", "Despite the best attempts by aid groups, the country remains in dire need of food, water and medical aid.", "In open fields, abandoned stadiums and empty warehouses in the capital, relief workers set up makeshift hospitals.", "Residents flocked to them en masse.", "Dr. Jennifer Furin with Harvard Medical School was tending to about 300 patients at one such hospital on a U.N. compound near Port-au-Prince's airport.", "Without immediate surgery, a third of them will die, she predicted.", "The Port-au-Prince airport remained overwhelmed by the influx of air traffic bringing in supplies, although an overhead photo Sunday showed activity and numerous planes on the ground." ]	[ "NEW: Rescue teams from U.S., Israel, Turkey find people alive in quake rubble .", "NEW: Nearly 30 teams from around the world continue to comb debris for survivors .", "U.N. secretary-general visits Haiti, site of U.N.'s worst loss of life ever .", "Port-au-Prince airport remains overwhelmed by planes bringing supplies ." ]	[ 6, 14, 37 ]
[ "Tokyo, Japan (CNN) -- Touting himself as America's \"first Pacific president,\" Barack Obama called on his own connections with Asia Saturday as he pledged a renewed engagement with Asia Pacific nations based on \"an enduring and revitalized alliance between the United States and Japan.\"", "The U.S. president, in his first Asia trip since taking office in January, told a packed house at Tokyo's Suntory Hall that all Americans should know that what happens in Asia \"has a direct effect on our lives at home.\"", "\"This is where we engage in much of our commerce and buy many of our goods,\" he said.", "\"And this is where we can export more of our own products and create jobs back home in the process.", "\"This is a place where the risk of a nuclear arms race threatens the security of the wider world, and where extremists who defile a great religion plan attacks on both our continents.", "And there can be no solution to our energy security and our climate challenge without the rising powers and developing nations of the Asia Pacific.\"", "Obama met with new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama Friday after his arrival in Tokyo as well as with the Japanese emperor and empress.", "Obama touched on nearly every part of the Asia Pacific region during his speech, and talked about a boyhood visit to Japan with his mother, his birth in Hawaii, a childhood spent partly in Indonesia and the United States' position as a Pacific nation.", "\"There must be no doubt: as America's first Pacific president, I promise you that this Pacific nation will strengthen and sustain our leadership in this vitally important part of the world,\" he said.", "He stressed that the United States was not interested in containing the emerging economic growth in China.", "\"The rise of a strong, prosperous China can be a source of strength for the community of nations,\" he said.", "\"And so, in Beijing and beyond, we will work to deepen our strategic and economic dialogue.\"", "Obama also called on Myanmar to make more definitive moves toward democracy, including releasing all political prisoners; urged North Korea to return to the Six-Party Talks so that the reclusive nation could be reintegrated into the world stage and pledged America's support for eliminating nuclear weapons and efforts to reduce the global effects of climate change.", "His trip is to include stops in Singapore, China and South Korea, during which Obama will hold formal talks with Asian leaders as a group and individually.", "The president plans to meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Russia President Dmitry Medvedev and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and will take part in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.", "APEC's 21 member nations represent more than half of the world's economic output.", "The forum sees its goal as \"facilitating economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region.\"", "During a busy day in Singapore, Obama also will become the first U.S. president to take part in a summit of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) economic alliance.", "In China, Obama will continue efforts to define and strengthen the United States' relationship with the world's largest emerging economy, which has a growing influence in Asia, said Jeffrey Bader, the National Security Council's senior director for East Asian affairs.", "\"We see it as a relationship where we're obviously going to have differences, where we are going to be competitors in certain respects,\" he said.", "\"But we want to maximize areas where we can work together, because the global challenges will simply not be met if we don't.\"", "Bader cited North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the economy, climate change, human rights and Afghanistan as among the top issues for the China swing.", "On human rights, Bader said Obama is likely to address \"freedom of expression, access to information, freedom of religion, rule of law and, certainly, Tibet.\"", "Obama will make clear to Hu that he intends to meet with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, Bader said.", "China, which rejects Tibetan aspirations for autonomy, opposes such high-level contacts with the Dalai Lama.", "On North Korea, the State Department announced Tuesday that U.S. officials will travel to the country by year's end to seek a resumption of broader talks on ending the Pyongyang government's nuclear program.", "The Obama administration has claimed initial progress in its strategy of forging an international effort, including China and South Korea, to pressure North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons ambitions.", "Japan has been asking for a comprehensive solution to North Korea's missile tests and the abduction of Japanese citizens in the 1970s.", "Saturday morning, Obama made clear that both were necessary.", "\"The path for North Korea to realize this future is clear: a return to the Six-Party Talks; upholding previous commitments, including a return to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and the full and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean peninsula,\" he said.", "\"And full normalization with its neighbors can only come if Japanese families receive a full accounting of those who have been abducted.", "These are all steps that can be taken by the North Korean government, if they are interested in improving the lives of their people and joining the community of nations.\"", "It won't be all diplomatic meetings, though.", "Obama's first trip to China will include a town hall-style meeting in Shanghai and sightseeing in Beijing, including a stop at the Great Wall." ]	[ "In speech, Obama renews U.S. ties with Japan, reaches out to China .", "Obama: Rise \"of a strong, prosperous China can be a source of strength\"\nU.S. president urges North Korea to return to Six-Party denuclearization talks .", "Obama's Asia tour includes Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea ." ]	[ 10, 13, 29 ]
[ "(AOL AUTOS) -- I remember driving in eastern Pennsylvania one winter following my brother home on an hour-long trip.", "It had snowed earlier that morning, and by the time we got on the road the plows still hadn't reached the back roads we were on.", "I was driving a front-wheel drive Acura Integra with all-season tires while he had a 4WD Grand Cherokee with the proper tires for the road conditions.", "The idea was that he'd plow me a path to drive through as best as he could.", "We were just asking for something to go wrong.", "Not even a half hour into the drive home, I came around a corner too fast, briefly lost control and steered myself right into the front yard of a farmhouse.", "Luckily I didn't hurt myself or anyone else, but that day I learned what it meant not to have proper traction for the road conditions.", "Recently, I talked with Woody Rogers from The Tire Rack to learn about the differences between all-season tires and winter tires along with the basics to consider when purchasing a set of tires designed for the harsh winter conditions.", "All-Season vs. Winter Tires .", "Rogers explained that all-season tires are a jack-of-all-trades but master of none.", "\"All-season tires aren't really tuned for any one area, and suffer from not being optimum for any one area because it is compromised to be capable in all areas,\" he said.", "He explained that winter tires (they're just not for the snow) focus their attention on the exact conditions you'll most likely be facing during the winter season.", "\"They key of a true winter tire's capability is that you have a specialist, he said.", "\"A product that is designed to work the best in the cooler winter season temperatures, say below 45 degrees, a tread pattern and tread compound that are designed to take bites out of the snow and work well on packed snow and ice; something that an all-season tired just isn't optimized to do.\"", "He explained that today's winter tires have come a long way: \"They go beyond the deep aggressive lug 'snow' tire that many of our parents put on the back of family station wagon.\"", "Rogers said today's winter tires are available for certain conditions or are ideal for a particular region of the county.", "It's best to determine what conditions you'll be driving in and then determine the type of winter tire you will need.", "Rogers said it's a good idea to talk with a local retailer or do some personal investigating to choose which tire has the right characteristics for your location.", "\"The typical image [of a snow tire] is that very aggressive, knobby zig-zag tread pattern that isn't far removed from the farm implement tire or a piece of off road construction equipment tire,\" he said.", "\"No longer is that loud knobby, gnarly off-road style tread pattern required to provide good traction on snow, slush and ice.\"", "What to Look For When Buying .", "When looking for true winter tire, Rogers recommends using the Canadian and American Rubber Manufacturer's standard symbol of the snowflake-on-the-mountain.", "Only tires that are tested in packed snow and exceed other reference tires by 10% are given the industry standard symbol.", "The presence of that symbol is typically a good indication of a true winter tire.", "Some tires barely meet the requirement and still have the symbol.", "Rogers said it's best to look for dedicated winter tires in addition to looking for the snowflake symbol.", "\"The industry really intended that symbol to be a merit badge for true winter tires, not for a multi purpose or multi use tires like on-/off-road all terrain or highway all-season,\" he said.", "\"I don't think we're going to see many more or many new non-winter tires coming out with the snowflake-on-the- mountain symbol.\"", "He said presently there's no comparison between a winter tire with the snowflake symbol and an-all season tire without one.", "\"The symbol doesn't distinguish between the two, not yet,\" he said.", "\"The industry is talking about some type of grading scale.", "We're encouraging them to have multiple snowflakes or a 1-2-3 scale.", "Something that gives the consumer a real idea of how good a winter performer the tire really is.\"", "Traction Control, All-Wheel Drive and SUVs .", "It seems as if there are more all-wheel drive cars and SUVs than ever, and even if you don't have those features, an increasing number of cars have some sort of traction control.", "So why the need for winter tires when our cars can do so much work for us?", "\"The winter tire really helps you get the most out of those safety features that are built into your car,\" Rogers said.", "\"These electronic systems are only as capable as the traction that's provided to them by the tires, because the tires are the only thing connected to the ground.\"", "He said the all-wheel drive capability gives SUV owners driving on all-season tires a false sense of security.", "While they'll be able to accelerate better than 2WD vehicles in wintry conditions, they don't have an advantage when it comes to stopping or turning in those conditions.", "\"Ultimately, how quickly you can stop or how sharply you can turn on the snow or on the ice is determined by the grip that your tires provide,\" Rogers noted.", "Rogers uses snow tires on both his 2WD Toyota pickup and his Mini Cooper S and says that he can accelerate better with his two-wheel drive vehicles with snow tires than 4WD SUVs with all season tires.", "\"And I know I can stop better than they can, and turn better than they can,\" he added.", "Two Tires or Four?", "Rogers recommends putting four winter tires on your vehicle, even if your vehicle is two-wheel drive.", "\"Today's tires offer significant traction on snow and on ice, more than even good all season tires do,\" he said.", "\"And, because of that, our testing has shown and the industry testing has shown that the mix of two winter tires and two all season tires is a very dangerous combination.", "It may seem like you are spending an extra few hundred dollars to buy two more tires, but I can assure you it's less than the deductible on your insurance once you have a wreck.\"", "He has a separate set of tires for most of his family cars so that he can change them over easily in his own garage before a snowstorm comes.", "If you're considering purchasing a set of winter tires and rims, Rogers said that Tire Rack and other retailers generally will do the tire and wheel mount and balance for no additional cost when you purchase certain packages.", "\"Once you drive in the snow on a modern winter tire, you'll never want to do anything else.", "I find that's it's much more like driving in the rain than driving in the snow,\" Rogers said.", "\"I'm no longer clenching the wheel, holding on and hoping, I just drive around.", "The difference is stunning, when you're driving in 3-6 inches of snow and they haven't plowed the roads, you just go.", "And that's even in a two wheel drive vehicle,\" he said.", "\"When you drive an all wheel drive or SUV with winter tires, it's virtually unstoppable.\"", "E-mail to a friend ." ]	[ "Snow tires really are better than all-season tires in snowy areas .", "All-wheel drive can give SUV owners false sense of security .", "Get snow tires for all four wheels, even if car is two-wheel drive ." ]	[ 38, 41, 43 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- The future of English Premier League club Portsmouth was in doubt Friday after it was forced to go into administration with debts of around $90 million.", "The south coast side are the first Premier League side to call in administrators since the division was formed 18 years ago, fueling a financial boom in English football on the back of lucrative TV rights.", "\"At 10:20am today Portsmouth Football Club was placed into administration following the filing of a notice of appointment at the High Court by the chargeholder, Portpin Limited,\" the club said in a statement on its Web site.", "Explainer: What next for Portsmouth?", "Being placed in administration means an insolvent company is run by a court-appointed administrator with a view to saving it from liquidation.", "The administrator will assess the assets held by the company and attempt to reach agreement with creditors.", "Portsmouth, managed by former Chelsea boss Avram Grant, are already bottom of the table and facing relegation after raising around $100 million in player sales before the current season in a bid to reduce their debts.", "They will now be docked a further nine points, virtually sealing their relegation to English football's second tier at the end of the season.", "The club has passed through a succession of owners this season but efforts to find a fifth broke down Tuesday when present owner Balram Chainrai confirmed the club would opt for administration to avert a winding up order from the UK government.", "At a press conference on Friday the club's administrator, Andrew Andronikou, confirmed that Portsmouth's debts were around $100 million, but he said he was confident they would not go bust.", "He also said the Premier League had indicated that Portsmouth may be permitted to sell players outside the transfer window.", "\"There will be no firesale. We will have to sell one or two players and that is why we are talking to the Premier League,\" he said.", "\"The restructuring starts today and there will be significant cost cutting at all levels.", "I will be cutting to the bone.\"", "Andronikou also confirmed that Grant had vowed to stay at the club until the end of the season.", "Portsmouth's Chief Executive Peter Storrie said it was an \"extremely sad day\" but admitted going into administration had \"kept the club alive and given someone an exceptional opportunity to take this great club on with fresh investment.\"", "He also confirmed his intention to step down when a new buyer for the club had been found.", "Portsmouth's financial collapse completes a remarkable fall from grace for a side which won the FA Cup in 2008, the club's first major honor since winning back-to-back English league titles in 1949 and 1950.", "Portsmouth are not the first football club to run into financial problems as a consequence of debts wracked up in pursuit of success on the field.", "Leeds United went into administration in 2007, three years after their relegation from the Premier League and six years after the club had reached the semifinals of the Champions League.", "Leicester City and Portsmouth's south coast rivals Southampton also went into administration after losing their places in the top division." ]	[ "English Premier League club Portsmouth went into administration Friday .", "They are the first club to go into administration in Premier League history .", "Portsmouth's estimated debts estimated to total around $90 million .", "South coast club won the English FA Cup in 2008 ." ]	[ 0, 17 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Tiger Woods has been told to go on television to try to finally end the controversy that has forced the world's No.", "1 golfer to take an \"indefinite break\" from the sport.", "The American superstar announced on his Web site on Friday that he was taking time out to resolve the issues caused by his \"infidelity\" to wife Elin, having been mired in controversy since he crashed his car outside his Florida mansion late last month.", "Since then, several women have come forward to claim having had liaisons with Woods.", "Woods' compatriot and fellow golfer John Daly, who has battled gambling and alcohol addiction and also been married four times, believes the 33-year-old should tell all on a television program such as the Oprah Winfrey Show, the UK Press Association reported.", "\"It's tough and it's going to be tough on him, but if I was him and Elin, I would go to Oprah, get on a show, get this thing aired out, tell the truth,\" former major winner Daly said.", "Blog: Woods cannot erase this stain.", "\"And then it doesn't matter what the media says anymore because it's all out in the open and it would be a big sigh of relief for both of them.\"", "British publicist Max Clifford, whose clients have included the likes of magician David Copperfield and television mogul Simon Cowell, agreed that Oprah would provide the best platform.", "\"Hopefully he can go on something like Oprah, maybe even with his wife, to show that they're making a real go of it,\" Clifford said.", "\"The clever move would be for him to say, 'I'm coming back when Elin tells me the time is right.'", "That would be the masterstroke.", "\"The golf world will miss him more than he will miss them because you're taking the world's top player out, the biggest attraction, the one that everyone wants to see way, way above everybody else.", "\"That will encourage all of his fans to say, 'Come on Tiger, when are you coming back?'", "The demand for him to come back will get greater and greater.\"", "Former European No.", "1 Colin Montgomerie, who was second behind Woods at the 2005 British Open, believes that the 14-time major winner now seems a little less perfect.", "\"He is suddenly, I hate to say, more normal now,\" the Ryder Cup captain told the BBC Web site.", "\"There is a mystique which has been lost now and let's hope that golf isn't damaged by that, and it shouldn't be.", "\"There was an aura, and that wall has been split slightly, so there are cracks and I feel that it gives us more opportunity of winning these big events now.\"" ]	[ "John Daly advises Tiger Woods to go on television with his wife Elin to end controversy .", "Daly believes it is best for world's top golfer to \"get this thing aired out, tell the truth\"\nPublicist Max Clifford believes the sport needs Woods more than he needs it .", "Former European No.", "1 Colin Montgomerie says the American seems \"more normal\" now ." ]	[ 0, 5, 15, 16 ]
[ "Editor's note: Peggy Wallace Kennedy is the daughter of George C. Wallace and Lurleen Wallace, who both were governors of Alabama.", "She lives in Montgomery, Alabama, with her husband, Mark Kennedy, a retired state Supreme Court justice.", "They have two sons, Leigh, a decorated veteran of the Iraq war, and Burns, a college sophomore.", "Peggy Wallace Kennedy says her father sought absolution for his segregationist views.", "MONTGOMERY, Alabama (CNN) -- I heard a car door slam behind me and turned to see an elderly but spry woman heading my way.", "The night before, a gang of vandals had swept through the cemetery desecrating graves, crushing headstones and stealing funereal objects.", "My parents' graves, situated on a wind-swept hill overlooking the cemetery, had not been spared.", "A large marble urn that stood between two granite columns had been pried loose and spirited away, leaving faded silk flowers strewn on the ground.", "I was holding a bouquet of them in my arms when the woman walked up and gave me a crushing hug.", "\"Honey,\" she said, \"you don't know me, but when I saw you standing up here on this hill, I knew that you must be one of the girls and I couldn't help myself but to drive up here and let you know how much me and my whole family loved both of your parents.", "They were real special people.\"", "I thanked her for her kind words as we stood side by side gazing down at the graves of Govs.", "George Wallace and Lurleen Wallace.", "After a few moments, the woman leaned into me and spoke almost in a conspiratorial whisper.", "\"I never thought I would live to see the day when a black would be running for president.", "I know your daddy must be rolling over in his grave.\"", "Not having the heart or the energy to respond, I gave her bony arm a slight squeeze, turned and walked away.", "As I put the remnants of the graveyard spray in the trunk of my car, I assumed that she had not bothered to notice the Barack Obama sticker on my bumper.", "When I was a young voter and had little interest in politics, my father would mark my ballot for me.", "As I thought about the woman in the cemetery, I mused that if he were alive and I had made the same request for this election, there would be a substantial chance, though not a certainty, that he would put an \"X\" by Obama's name.", "Perhaps it would be the last chapter in his search for inner peace that became so important to him after becoming a victim of hatred and violence himself when he was shot and gravely injured in a Laurel, Maryland, shopping center parking lot.", "Perhaps it would be a way of reconciling in his own mind that what he once stood for did not prevent freedom of opportunity and self-advancement from coming full circle; his final absolution.", "George Wallace and other Southern governors of his ilk stood defiantly in the 1950s and '60s in support of racial segregation, a culture of repression, violence and denial of basic human rights.", "Their actions and the stark images of their consequences that spread across the world galvanized the nation and gave rise to a cry for an end to the American apartheid.", "The firestorms that were lit in Birmingham, Oxford, Memphis, Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, Little Rock and Selma were a call to arms to which the people responded.", "And now a new call to arms has sounded as Americans face another assault on freedom.", "For if the stand in the schoolhouse door was a defining moment for George Wallace, then surely the aftermath of Katrina and the invasion of Iraq will be the same for George W. Bush.", "The trampling of individual freedoms and his blatant contempt for the rights of the average American may not have been as obvious as an ax-handle-wielding governor, but Bush's insidiousness and piety have made him much more dangerous.", "Healing must come, hope will be our lodestar, humility will reshape the American conscience, and honesty in both word and deed will refresh and invigorate America, and having Barack Obama to lead will give us back our power to heal.", "My father lived long enough to come to an understanding of the injustices borne by his deeds and the legacy of suffering that they left behind.", "History will teach future generations that he was a man who used his political power to promote a philosophy of exclusion.", "As his daughter, who witnessed his suffering in the twilight of his years and who witnessed his deeds and heard his words, I am one who believes that the man who, on March 7, 1965, listened to the reports of brutality as they streamed into the Governor's Mansion from Selma, Alabama, was not the same man who, in March of 1995, was welcomed with open arms as he was rolled through a sea of African-American men, women and children who gathered with him to welcome another generation of marchers, retracing in honor and remembrance the historic steps from Selma to Montgomery.", "Four years ago, the young Illinois senator who spoke at the Democratic National Convention mesmerized me.", "I hoped even then that he would one day be my president.", "Today, Barack Obama is hope for a better tomorrow for all Americans.", "He stands on the shoulders of all those people who have incessantly prayed for a day when \"justice will run down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream\" (Amos 5:24).", "Perhaps one day, my two sons and I will have the opportunity to meet Barack Obama in person to express our gratitude to him for bringing our family full circle.", "And today, the day after the election, I am going to ride to the cemetery so that if asked, I can vouch for the fact that the world is still spinning but my father lies at peace.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Peggy Wallace Kennedy." ]	[ "Peggy Wallace Kennedy: My dad, George Wallace, might have backed Barack Obama .", "Ex-segregationist Wallace sought absolution for his earlier views, daughter says .", "She says Obama will help heal the nation after wounds of Katrina and Iraq war ." ]	[ 0, 3 ]
[ "KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida (CNN) -- The space shuttle Atlantis blasted off successfully Monday afternoon on NASA's fifth and final repair visit to the Hubble Space Telescope.", "Space shuttle Atlantis launched successfully from Florida Monday on its way to the Hubble telescope.", "The spacecraft rocketed into mostly sunny skies right on schedule at 2:01 p.m.", "ET. Atlantis will spend five days upgrading the Hubble, the orbiting observatory that's been scanning the universe for almost two decades.", "For the seven members of the shuttle crew, that means added pressure.", "\"I think [this] is motivating us because we know there's nobody coming after us to do anything we don't get done,\" said Atlantis Commander Scott Altman.", "\"This is it. We either get it done or it doesn't happen.\"", "Watch Atlantis lift off » .", "It's been seven years since NASA's last Hubble servicing mission in 2002, and the space telescope was designed to go only about three years between fixes.", "iReport.com: Share photos, video of the launch .", "NASA canceled an Atlantis mission to extend Hubble's operational life in January 2004 because the trip was considered too risky in the wake of the 2003 Columbia tragedy that killed seven astronauts.", "But public pressure and the development of safer shuttle technology led the U.S. space agency to reconsider.", "See shuttle astronauts discuss Hubble repair mission » .", "Still, some risks remain.", "NASA has estimated there's a 1-in-221 chance the shuttle could be struck by orbiting space debris from past missions.", "Thousands of objects hurtle through the heavens, some as large as several feet in diameter, and the Hubble's orbit is more crowded with space junk than that of the international space station, which orbits at a lower altitude, NASA said.", "While the Atlantis's shields would likely deflect a small piece of debris, a larger object could cripple the spacecraft, NASA said.", "Space shuttle Endeavour is on standby in the unlikely event that NASA will need to rescue the Atlantis crew members during their 11-day mission.", "During five grueling space walks some 350 miles up in space, a pair of two-man teams from the Atlantis will work on the Hubble inside Atlantis' cargo bay.", "\"This is going to be [like] running a marathon at a sprint pace,\" said Mission Specialist John Grunsfeld.", "Grunsfeld and fellow Mission Specialists Drew Feustel, Mike Good and Mike Massimino will change out gyroscopes, batteries and cameras on the Hubble.", "Grunsfeld and Feustel will handle the first 6 1/2-hour space walk, or extravehicular activity, performing what Grunsfeld calls \"surgery\" on the Hubble.", "iReport.com: Share photos, video and tell us what this event means to you .", "The two men will change out Hubble's wide-field camera and a module that allows the telescope's science instruments to be commanded from the ground.", "The module failed just before Atlantis was supposed to launch last October.", "NASA delayed the mission until now so that scientists could work out the fix.", "During another space walk, Grunsfeld and Feustel will repair another camera and install a new spectrograph.", "The work involves removing dozens of tiny bolts and replacing old circuit cards with new ones.", "\"It all has to line up just right so that I can go in the telescope and do all this work,\" Grunsfeld said.", "\"We only have that one day to finish it.\"", "The wonderful thing about the Hubble, said former astronaut Jeff Hoffman, is that when crews service the telescope it's not just a repair -- they leave it better.", "Learn more about the Hubble repairs » .", "\"Every time we come from a Hubble mission, Hubble is essentially a new telescope -- much more powerful,\" said Hoffman, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who flew on the first Hubble repair mission in 1993.", "\"And when this crew finishes with it, it's going to be. ...", ".like a thousand times more sensitive [for making new discoveries] than it was when it was first put in orbit, and that's incredible,\" he said.", "Astronomers and cosmologists credit the Hubble with changing humans' understanding of the universe.", "The telescope, orbiting beyond the obscuring layer of the Earth's atmosphere, has helped determine the age of the universe while sending back astounding images of galaxies in all shapes and sizes.", "\"The discovery that essentially as far as we can tell all galaxies have black holes -- large, super massive black holes at their centers -- is something people have speculated on,\" Hoffman said.", "\"But Hubble has given us data actually to confirm that.\"", "Perhaps Hubble's greatest discovery has been opening scientists' eyes to what they don't yet know.", "And there's a lot of it. \"We discovered in fact that all that stuff we thought we knew about accounts for only 4 percent of the known universe,\" Grunsfeld said.", "\"Most of the universe is made up of what's called 'dark energy.'", "Nobody could have anticipated it.", "It's the largest constituent of the universe.", "We still have no idea what it is.\"", "But back in 1990, shortly after the telescope's launch, no one could think about great discoveries.", "Hubble was considered a disaster.", "The telescope's primary mirror was flawed.", "Its shape was off by about 1/50th the thickness of a sheet of paper -- just enough to blur the images.", "\"There was a time when Hubble was a laughing stock,\" Hoffman said.", "\"You know, the 'techno turkey.'", "Pictures in editorial cartoons, denounced on the floors of Congress, ridiculed in late-night television programs.\"", "In December of 1993, astronauts on board the Shuttle Endeavour went on the first Hubble repair mission.", "They fixed the telescope's blurry vision.", "A month later, Hubble began sending back the first of hundreds of thousands of crisp, spectacular images.", "Hoffman calls Hubble, \"the people's telescope.\"", "Grunsfeld, who has made two repair trips to the Hubble, said that leaving it this time will be like saying a final goodbye to an old friend.", "\"Regardless of my intellectual knowledge that this is a satellite and it's a satellite that people created and has electronics in it and optics and it does its job,\" he said, \"it's impossible not give it some human characteristics and feel sadness when we see it floating away.\"" ]	[ "Space shuttle Atlantis blasts off Monday on final visit to the Hubble Space Telescope .", "It's been seven years since NASA's last Hubble servicing mission in 2002 .", "Astronauts will complete five grueling space walks some 350 miles up in space .", "In its 19 years in orbit, the Hubble has changed our understanding of the universe ." ]	[ 0, 8, 18 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Tiger Woods has canceled plans to attend his own golf tournament in southern California because of injuries he suffered near his Florida home early Friday, the pro golfer said in a statement Monday.", "\"I am extremely disappointed that I will not be at my tournament this week,\" Woods said of the Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, California.", "\"I am certain it will be an outstanding event and I'm very sorry that I can't be there.\"", "He also canceled a Tuesday news conference for the start of the tournament, which helps raise money for Tiger Woods Foundation programs.", "Woods suffered minor injuries in a vehicle accident early Friday in his luxury neighborhood near Orlando, Florida, according to a police accident report.", "State police in Florida said Monday an investigation of the single-vehicle crash \"is ongoing and charges are pending.\"", "The incident has ended Woods' golf appearances until next season, according to a statement posted on his Web site.", "\"Woods will not participate in any other tournaments in 2009 and will return to action next year,\" the statement said.", "The PGA Tour has ended for the year, but the first tournament of the 2010 season is just five weeks away.", "At least one other charity event is scheduled, but it is not clear if Woods had planned to attend.", "The Chevron World Challenge will go on despite the absence of its host, said Greg McLaughlin, president of Woods' foundation.", "\"We support Tiger's decision and are confident the strong field and excellent course will provide an exciting week of competition at the Chevron World Challenge,\" McLaughlin said.", "In a statement issued Sunday afternoon on his Web site, Woods offered no details of his wreck except to say he had cuts and bruises and was \"pretty sore.\"", "\"This situation is my fault, and it's obviously embarrassing to my family and me,\" he said.", "\"I'm human and I'm not perfect.", "I will certainly make sure this doesn't happen again.\"", "According to a police report, Woods pulled out of his driveway about 2:25 a.m. Friday in a 2009 Cadillac SUV and struck a fire hydrant, then a tree.", "Authorities have said they don't have details on why Woods was driving away from his home at such an early hour, but a police report said the wreck was not alcohol-related.", "State troopers have unsuccessfully asked three times to question him about the wreck, police said.", "Woods canceled the third scheduled interview on Sunday, Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Sgt.", "Kim Montes told CNN.", "\"We have been informed by the Florida Highway Patrol that further discussion with them is both voluntary and optional,\" said Woods' agent Mark Steinberg, in a written statement.", "\"Although Tiger realizes that there is a great deal of public curiosity, it has been conveyed to FHP that he simply has nothing more to add and wishes to protect the privacy of his family.\"", "Under Florida law, Woods must show his license, registration and proof of insurance to police, but is not obligated to give a statement on the crash.", "His attorney Mark NeJame handed over the required documents to the troopers Sunday at Woods' home, Montes said.", "Opinion: Tiger Woods is only human .", "NeJame told CNN he stood by Woods' statement and had no further comment.", "\"If we're unable to meet with him, we'll move on with our investigation,\" Montes said.", "But she called the delays \"very unusual, because it's such a minor accident.\"", "Profile: Tiger Woods .", "Last week, a story in the National Enquirer alleged that Woods has been seeing a New York nightclub hostess.", "The Associated Press contacted the woman and reported she denied having an affair with Woods.", "The 33-year-old golf phenomenon has won the Masters tournament and the PGA tournament each four times, as well as three U.S. Open Championships.", "Investigators had sought possible surveillance tapes of the wreck from neighbors, but none were found, she said.", "Toobin: Why Tiger Woods may not be talking .", "In his Sunday statement, Woods praised his wife Elin Nordegren, saying she \"acted courageously when she saw I was hurt and in trouble.\"", "Nordegren told police she used a golf club to break out the rear window of the vehicle, then pulled Woods from the SUV after she heard the accident from inside their home.", "\"This is a private matter, and I want to keep it that way.\"", "\"The only person responsible for the accident is me,\" he said.", "Woods and his wife have two children, a 2-year-old and a baby born in February.", "CNN's Susan Candiotti and Ross Levitt contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: Tournament will go on without Woods, president of golfer's foundation says .", "Woods had minor injuries in the one-car crash near his home early Friday .", "Police will continue investigating after Woods delays giving statement for third time .", "Woods on Web site: \"The only person responsible for the accident is me\"" ]	[ 0, 10, 29, 38 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When it comes to vice presidential picks, there have been some good ones and some not so good ones.", "Dick Cheney makes both lists; he's ranked as one of the best and worst VP picks in recent years.", "CNN asked conservative historian Lee Edwards to rank the VP choices since the 1950s.", "On his list of good VP picks, Edwards puts Dick Cheney at No.", "5. The current vice president makes the list because he brought lots of Washington experience with him, something President Bush lacked at the time.", "Coming in at No. 4 is Richard Nixon.", "He was Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate.", "Nixon brought with him youth -- and California.", "The former senator also had other assets that became huge liabilities when he later ended up in the White House.", "\"Richard Nixon was known as the man who would cut and slash the opposition, and so that kind of dirty politics work would be done by Nixon,\" Edwards said.", "Next on the list, Al Gore.", "Bill Clinton's right-hand man comes in at No.", "3 because, as the senator from Tennessee, he brought Washington experience to a ticket featuring a little-known governor from Arkansas.", "Watch how this year's VP contenders are performing » .", "Edwards puts George H.W.", "Bush in the No. 2 spot. After running against Ronald Reagan in the 1980 primaries, Bush joined him on the ticket and helped unite the Republican Party.", "Edwards' award for best vice presidential pick goes to Lyndon B. Johnson.", "He was selected by Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kennedy.", "Kennedy was a Northerner who needed someone to balance him out in the South in 1960.", "\"Lyndon Johnson was the man, and he delivered Texas, which helped John Kennedy in a very close race,\" Edwards said.", "Johnson rounds out the good list, but who will go down in history with a not-so-favorable reputation?", "Edwards has four picks.", "iReport.com: Who would you pick for VP?", "Cheney is No. 4 on the list of the bad VPs.", "(Yes, he makes both lists.)", "He might have been a great choice for running mate at the beginning, but he's now one of the most unpopular figures in an unpopular administration.", "Spiro Agnew lands in the No.", "3 slot. Edwards said Agnew helped get Nixon elected president, but after taking office, he pleaded no contest to tax evasion and money laundering back when he had been the governor of Maryland.", "Dan Quayle is runner-up for worst choice.", "He was the elder Bush's pick for VP.", "Quayle was supposed to become the Republican JFK, but he instead became a laughingstock to many.", "During the 1988 vice presidential debate, Democratic VP candidate Sen. Lloyd Bentsen delivered a famous verbal blow to Quayle.", "\"Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy.", "Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine.", "You're no Jack Kennedy,\" he said after Quayle said he had as much experience in Congress as Kennedy did when he embarked on his White House run.", "Quayle became the butt of frequent jokes, and many Americans never let him live down the \"potato incident.\"", "At an elementary school spelling bee in 1992, Quayle incorrectly told a student there should be an \"e\" at the end of the word.", "Finally, the Edwards' award for the worst VP pick in recent history goes to Sen. Thomas Eagleton.", "The Democrat from Missouri was Sen. George McGovern's pick for VP in 1972.", "Eagleton got dumped for Sargent Shriver after reports he'd been hospitalized for \"nervous exhaustion\" and had received electroshock treatments.", "Those reports raised questions about Eagleton's fitness to serve, and the concerns about his health were disastrous for McGovern's campaign against Nixon." ]	[ "Conservative historian Lee Edwards ranks best and worst VP picks since 1950s .", "Al Gore makes good list for bringing Washington experience to '92 Democratic ticket .", "Dan Quayle makes the bad list for his verbal slip-ups .", "\"Crucial Choice: The Next Vice President\" airs Friday at 10 pm ET on AC 360° ." ]	[ 2, 3, 4, 10, 28 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Honda has expanded an airbag recall worldwide, covering 2001 and 2002 Accord, Civic, Odyssey, CR-V, and selected 2002 Acura TL vehicles, the automaker said.", "The recall also includes the Honda Pilot and Acura CL in the United States, and the Honda Inspire, Saber and Lagreat in Japan for the same model years.", "On its Web site late Tuesday, Honda said the driver's airbag inflators might expand with too much pressure, which can cause the inflator casing to break and could lead to injury or death.", "There have been 12 incidents related to an airbag inflator problem, Honda said.", "The original recall was issued in July 2009, and included 2001 and 2002 Accords and Civics, as well as some 2002 model year Acura TL vehicles.", "The global recall now covers more than 950,000 vehicles.", "Honda said it will notify affected customers by mail and phone with instructions on how to have their vehicles inspected and updated at an authorized dealer.", "Last month, Honda announced a separate recall of 646,000 2007 and 2008 Fit, City and Jazz models worldwide, after a fire hazard involving a power window switch resulted in a death in South Africa." ]	[ "Honda has expanded an airbag recall worldwide to more than half a million vehicles .", "The global airbag-related recall now covers 514,000 vehicles .", "Last month, Honda announced a separate recall of 646,000 for power window problems ." ]	[ 3, 5, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When the series \"ER\" airs its finale on Thursday, the event will not only mark the completion of one of NBC's most successful shows, but it can also be viewed as the end of an era for the network.", "NBC's \"ER,\" which ends on April 2, helped launch the careers of several actors, including George Clooney.", "\"What's so symbolic about 'ER' leaving is that that 10 o'clock Thursday night slot started out what I always called the beginning of the second golden age of television with 'Hill Street Blues',\" said Robert Thompson, a professor and founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University.", "\"In almost a quarter of a century it went from 'Hill Street Blues' Thursday at 10 to 'L.A.", "Law' Thursday at 10 to 'ER' Thursday at 10.", "'ER' is kind of occupying sacred space.\"", "Beginning this fall, such prime time real estate, which also previously housed another acclaimed hospital drama, \"St.", "Elsewhere.\" will be occupied by a new talk show helmed by \"The Tonight Show\" host Jay Leno.", "It's a significant move for NBC in an age where sitcoms and dramas have increasingly given way to the less-expensive-to-produce reality TV shows.", "\"ER,\" which at one point was paying millions of dollars per episode just in actor salaries, definitely fit into the realm of costly productions.", "Despite the price tag, the show ran for 15 seasons and is the most Emmy-nominated series in television history with 122 nominations, 22 of which resulted in wins.", "Check out a timeline of the show's actors » .", "It almost never made it out of a pile of scripts.", "Created by the late author Michael Crichton and steered by the creative team at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, the concept didn't immediately tickle the fancy of television honchos.", "\"Every network had passed on it, twice,\" the show's longtime executive producer, John Wells, told The New York Times.", "\"It had all these characters and medical dialogue, and they found it utterly impossible to follow.\"", "Once it did get the green light, it caught on like a house afire.", "\"ER\" quickly attracted legions of fans and catapulted many members of the ever-changing ensemble cast to superstar status -- most notably George Clooney, who played hunky Dr. Doug Ross.", "Baltimore Sun television critic David Zurawik, who writes about the industry in the paper's \"Z on TV\" blog, said there may never be another collection of such talent in an ensemble drama on network television.", "\"There's just no way in the business model of network television for a producer out in Hollywood to say 'Here's the concept, and I've got this star, this star and this star,' \" Zurawik said.", "\"By the time they got two sentences out, the production studio head they are pitching would say 'Who's going to be paying for that.'", "The economics for that are just not there, and neither is the audience.\"", "Zurawik noted that audiences and actors alike now have gravitated to cable television, where dramatic hits such as \"Mad Men\" and \"Rescue Me\" are being produced by the likes of AMC and FX.", "\"Cable is growing whereas network TV isn't,\" Zurawik said.", "\"The better actors, the ones who work in film and theater, really like doing cable because cable has been flexible.", "It's not, if you sign on to this series you are going to do 22 episodes a year and you have to sign away five or six years of your life.", "Nobody wants to do that anymore.\"", "Former Dallas Morning News TV critic Ed Bark, who now runs the site Uncle Barky's Bytes, said he believes in the coming years most of the Emmy-caliber shows will be on cable.", "Cable television benefits, he said, from the double revenue stream of both money from advertisers and subscribers, so there is not the ratings pressure network television has.", "Moreover, high-quality dramas are valuable calling cards, he added.", "Cable stations have been successful at branding themselves based on some of the shows they are producing.", "\"A lot of times, it takes one show to get people to look at your network as a place where you can see quality drama,\" Bark said.", "\"For FX, it was 'The Shield.' For TNT it was 'The Closer.'", "For AMC, it was 'Mad Men.'", "I think once you get an audience over there, you build on that.\"", "However, at least some of cable's audience gains come at the expense of network TV's audience, which has shrunk substantially in the 15 years since \"ER\" went on the air.", "Indeed, the drama's demise is symbolic of long-term programming trends, said Thompson.", "The TV and pop culture professor, who has written several books on television, said NBC choosing to cede 10 o'clock to a talk show rather than another great drama speaks volumes, though he wouldn't count out the genre entirely.", "\"This is not a good time to buy television drama futures, but I don't think they are going to die,\" Thompson said.", "\"The TV drama is going to be like the American bison.", "There used to be herds and herds of them roaming the country. They're not dead, but there are just not as many.\"" ]	[ "\"ER\" ends its NBC run on Thursday, April 2, after 15 seasons .", "Drama to be replaced by new Jay Leno talk show .", "The popular show had continued long tradition of drama in 10 p.m. slot .", "Cable television now drawing audiences for popular dramas ." ]	[ 1, 3, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- President Obama introduced a health care plan that he says will bridge the gap between the House and Senate bills passed last year.", "His proposal is similar to the Senate bill, with a few nods to the House plan.", "Here are some of the highlights of his plan, according to the White House.", "Basics . The president says his health care proposal will help more than 31 million uninsured Americans get coverage.", "Obama says his plan includes the largest middle-class tax cut for health care in history.", "It establishes a health insurance market that would provide the same insurance choices that members of Congress have.", "Health insurance exchanges, as proposed in the Senate bill, would be created to make it easier for small businesses, the self-employed and the unemployed to purchase less expensive coverage.", "There is no public option, an idea strongly backed by liberal Democrats but fiercely opposed both by Republicans and key Democratic moderates.", "Like the House and Senate plans, Obama's proposal would bar insurers from charging higher premiums based on a person's gender or medical history or denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions.", "Key differences .", "Obama's plan eliminates the controversial proposal added to the Senate bill that exempts Nebraska from paying increased Medicaid expenses.", "It also provides additional federal financing to all of the states for the Medicaid expansion.", "The president's proposal closes the Medicare prescription drug \"doughnut hole.\"", "Under current Medicare limits, seniors must pick up the costs once their drug costs reach $2,830 and pay all costs out of pocket until they reach $4,550, at which point Medicare coverage kicks back in.", "Obama's proposal eases the \"doughnut hole\" in the short term by providing a $250 rebate to Medicare beneficiaries who reach the limit in 2010.", "The plan closes the doughnut hole completely by 2020.", "The plan also establishes a Health Insurance Rate Authority to provide an additional level of oversight of insurance premium increase at the federal level, giving the government new authority to block excessive rate hikes by health insurance companies.", "Tax credits .", "The president's proposal increases federal subsidies to help people buy insurance.", "New health insurance subsidies would be provided to families making up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level.", "Compared to the Senate bill, Obama's proposal lowers premiums for families making between $44,000 and $66,000, according to the White House.", "Compared to the House bill, it lowers premiums for families making between $55,000 and $88,000.", "Obama's plan also provides more cost-sharing assistance than the House and Senate bills for families with incomes below $55,000.", "For families making about $55,000, the president's proposal matches the assistance in the Senate bill.", "Penalties and fees .", "The House and Senate bills both require payments from individuals who choose not to get health care coverage.", "Obama's plan lowers the maximum penalty for individuals.", "Obama's plan also provides $40 billion in tax credits for small businesses to help them provide health care options for their employees.", "Like the Senate bill, the president's proposal does not mandate that employers provide insurance.", "Under Obama's plan, companies with more than 50 employees would be required to pay a fee of $2,000 per worker if the company does not provide coverage and any of that company's workers receives federal health care subsidies.", "The first 30 workers would be subtracted from the payment calculation.", "As with the individual requirement, this represents a compromise between the House and Senate plans.", "Obama's proposal delays the $67 billion assessment on health insurers, pushing it to 2014, when exchanges and the new health insurance market will be set up.", "The president's proposal also increases the revenue drawn from the pharmaceutical industry to $23 billion over the next three years -- $10 billion more than the Senate bill.", "It delays the implementation of these fees to 2011.", "Waste, fraud and abuse .", "The president's proposal includes a number of provisions to help eliminate waste and fight fraud.", "Some of those provisions include establishing Medicare and Medicaid sanctions databases, increasing access to the health care integrity and protection data bank, expanding efforts to recover overpayments made to providers and suppliers, and establishing a system to more quickly identify potentially fraudulent payments.", "Obama's proposal also calls for preventing delays in access to generic drugs.", "Questions . The president's proposal doesn't address many of the sticking points that hung up the House and Senate bills.", "Obama says his plan also reduces the deficit by $100 billion over the next decade and about $1 trillion over the following decade by \"cutting government overspending and reining in waste, fraud and abuse.\"", "The White House says the plan would cost about $950 billion over the next 10 years, but that's not an official estimate.", "There are also not a lot of specifics on how to pay for the plan.", "The Senate plan, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, would cost an estimated $871 billion; the more expansive House plan has been estimated to cost over $1 trillion.", "The Obama plan resembles the Senate version on how to block subsidies from funding abortions, choosing it over the more conservative House version.", "On health care and illegal immigrants, the president's proposal follows the Senate language, which imposes far more limits on undocumented workers than the House version.", "Outlook . Obama's proposal is a long way from becoming law.", "His proposal would need to be drafted into legislation, debated and passed by the House and Senate.", "As the past year has shown, health care is an emotional subject, and debate can drag on for months.", "Immediate reaction from Republicans suggests that this time around, it won't be any easier.", "\"Nearly one year ago, the president moderated a health care summit that kicked off a national debate that has led us to where we are today: a partisan bill devoid of support from the American people and a diminished faith in this government's capacity to listen.", "Let's not make the same mistake twice,\" Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said.", "House Minority Leader John Boehner revived the abortion debate, saying, \"Republicans are also standing with the American people by calling for health care reform to protect human life and not use taxpayer money to fund abortion.", "... Health care reform should be an opportunity to protect human life -- not end it -- and the American people agree.\"", "CNN's Lisa Desjardins, Kristi Keck and Alan Silverleib contributed to this report." ]	[ "White House releases \"The President's Proposal\" for health care .", "Plan similar to Senate version passed last year .", "No public option; plan offers same insurance choices members of Congress have .", "Questions remain over cost, funding, other sticking points ." ]	[ 0, 5, 26, 39 ]
[ "Austin, Texas (CNN) -- A man accused of flying a small plane into an Austin building housing an Internal Revenue Service office last week was one of two people killed in the incident, Texas authorities confirmed Monday.", "The man who authorities say was the pilot, Andrew Joseph \"Joe\" Stack III of Austin, and Vernon Hunter of Cedar Park have been identified as the two people killed Thursday, according to the Travis County medical examiner's office.", "Both men died from blunt force injuries, said Sarah Scott, chief administrative officer for the medical examiner.", "Authorities say that on Thursday, Stack flew a single-engine plane into a seven-story building that held offices for nearly 200 IRS workers.", "Two other people were hospitalized.", "Hunter and his wife, Valerie, worked at the IRS office in the building, his brother Harold L. Jackson told CNN affiliate WAAY.", "Hunter spent the past 15 years as a collections agent and previously served 22 years in the Army.", "Jackson said Hunter was the youngest of five brothers.", "Hunter was adopted as an infant and kept his birth name into adulthood.", "\"We called ourselves the Jackson Five, the other Jackson Five,\" Jackson said.", "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 that the Piper Cherokee PA-28 had several seats removed and that a fuel drum was missing from the airport where authorities say Stack took off.", "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.", "A 3,000-word message on a Web site registered to Stack railed against the government, particularly the IRS.", "Read the apparent suicide note (PDF) \"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,\" the online message says.", "\"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.\"", "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.", "Friends and former colleagues have 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.\"" ]	[ "Victim worked in IRS office in building where crash happened, WAAY reports .", "Both men died from blunt force injuries, medical examiner's office says .", "Authorities: Andrew Joseph Stack III flew single-engine plane into seven-story building .", "Stack set his home on fire before his flight, authorities say ." ]	[ 2, 3, 13 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- Washington Wizards point guard Gilbert Arenas pleaded guilty Friday to illegally possessing an unlicensed handgun in the District of Columbia in a locker-room incident last month.", "The 28-year-old NBA all-star told Superior Court Judge Robert E. Morin that he understood he could receive up to five years in prison when he is sentenced on March 26.", "But Arenas' attorney, Kenneth Wainstein, told the court that the government will ask for no more than six months, under the terms of a plea agreement.", "\"He accepted full responsibility for his actions, acknowledged that those actions were wrong and against the law, and has apologized to all who have been affected by his conduct,\" Wainstein said in a written statement.", "The government has agreed to limit its recommendation to the low end of the guidelines -- \"estimated to be between six and 24 months, with probation, a split sentence, or incarceration permissible,\" U.S. Attorney Channing Phillips said in a written statement.", "\"Playing with firearms is no joke,\" said Phillips.", "\"Such reckless action can always be expected to garner a swift and firm response from this office.", "We commend Mr. Arenas for accepting responsibility and hope he fully appreciates the gravity of his actions.\"", "The government statement said the incident was traced to a flight from Phoenix, Arizona, on December 19, when Arenas and a fellow teammate \"became involved in a verbal exchange after a card game.\"", "\"Although Arenas maintains that the statements he made during this exchange were made in jest, the exchange between Arenas and the teammate involved mutual threats to shoot one another,\" it said.", "\"Arenas also told the teammate that he would burn the teammate's Cadillac Escalade.\"", "Two days later, Arenas entered the team's locker room at the Verizon Center carrying at least one firearm in his backpack, the statement said.", "\"Once Arenas entered the locker room, he placed four firearms on the chair located directly in front of the locker of the teammate with whom he had the prior verbal exchange.", "Arenas then wrote the message 'PICK 1' on a piece of paper, and placed it on the teammate's chair near the firearms.", "Arenas remained in the locker room.", "\"Moments later, the teammate walked into the locker room and approached his locker.", "He saw the handguns and he and Arenas once again exchanged words.", "During this exchange, Arenas stated, 'You said you were going to shoot me, so I thought you would like some firepower.", "Pick one.' The teammate picked up one of Arenas's firearms from his chair, threw it across the locker room, then reportedly took out what appeared to Arenas to be a silver-colored semi-automatic handgun.", "\"After this exchange, Arenas admitted to team management that he brought the firearms from his home in Virginia into Washington, D.C.", "He also told team management that the teammate also had a firearm.", "The teammate has since denied that he ever had a handgun.", "Team management directed Washington Wizards security personnel to secure Arenas's firearms and to remove them from the premises.\"", "The incident came to light on December 24, when authorities were notified, the statement said.", "Metropolitan police went to Arenas' home in Virginia, where the athlete's four unloaded firearms -- a .50-caliber gold-plated, semi-automatic Desert Eagle with magazine; a .500 Magnum Smith & Wesson revolver; a .45-caliber black, semi-automatic Kimber Eclipse with magazine; and a 9-mm Browning with magazine -- were surrendered, it said.", "The three-time NBA All-Star said he told authorities that he had stored the guns in his locker in the Verizon Center to keep them away from his children.", "\"I brought them without any ammunition into the District of Columbia, mistakenly believing that the recent change in the D.C. gun laws allowed a person to store unloaded guns in the District,\" Arenas said in his statement.", "He offered a public apology at the time to the league, his teammates and his fans, saying, \"I promise to do better in the future.\"", "During Friday's court proceeding, the usually jocular Arenas appeared somber.", "Dressed in a dark pinstripe suit, he neither smiled nor spoke as he entered and left the courthouse.", "The judge ordered him to surrender his passport and said he could not possess any firearms while he awaits sentencing.", "Arenas' indefinite suspension remains in effect until a separate NBA investigation is complete and Commissioner David Stern reaches a decision on whether to reinstate him, a source said Thursday.", "The league investigation, which had been on hold at the request of federal prosecutors, will now resume, the source told CNN.", "In a statement this month, Arenas described the incident as \"a misguided effort to play a joke on a teammate,\" and said, \"Contrary to some press accounts, I never threatened or assaulted anyone with the guns and never pointed them at anyone.", "Joke or not, I now recognize that what I did was a mistake and was wrong.\"", "Citing NBA sources, the New York Post reported in December that the teammate who allegedly also brandished a firearm was Javaris Crittenton.", "Crittenton's agent, Mark Bartelstein, has told CNN that his client \"hasn't done anything wrong.", "I'm extremely confident he'll be exonerated.\"", "Phillips said the investigation into the second player was ongoing.", "CNN's Terry Frieden contributed to this report." ]	[ "NEW: \"He accepted full responsibility for his actions,\" Gilbert Arenas' attorney says .", "NEW: U.S. statement: Teammate had what appeared to be \"semi-automatic\" gun .", "NBA star pleads guilty to illegally possessing unlicensed handgun .", "Under plea deal, Arenas' lawyer says government will ask for no more than six months ." ]	[ 2, 7, 18 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- President Obama returned to the United States on Monday morning after an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, where he met with his Afghan counterpart and reiterated the need to wipe out terror networks.", "Obama slipped into Bagram Air Base near Kabul under the cover of darkness Sunday.", "He met with about 2,000 troops at the U.S. base and told them their work is significant to security at home.", "\"I know it's not easy,\" he said.", "\"If I thought for a minute that America's vital interests were not served, were not at stake here in Afghanistan, I would order all of you home right away.\"", "The United States has made progress in the fight against al Qaeda and its allies, Obama said.", "\"All of that makes America safer, and we are going to keep them on the run,\" he said.", "\"Because that is what is going to be required in order to ensure that our families back home have the security that they need.\"", "Earlier, Obama met with President Hamid Karzai to discuss progress by the Afghan government in strengthening its ability to run the country and provide security for its people.", "After the 30-minute meeting, Obama said he wanted to send a \"strong message\" that the partnership between the nations would continue.", "Related: Afghanistan Crossroads .", "Karzai thanked the United States, pointing out that American taxpayers have helped rebuild his country.", "During his trip, the president made clear that the visit was to encourage the roughly 80,000 U.S. troops in the country.", "\"The United States of America does not quit once it starts on something.", "... We keep at it,\" he told the troops.", "\"We persevere. And together, with our partners, we will prevail.", "I am absolutely confident of that.\"", "Before his departure, Obama also met with U.S.", "Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of allied troops in Afghanistan.", "The trip began in secrecy, with the president leaving his Camp David retreat.", "He flew to Afghanistan on Air Force One, landing at Bagram Air Base at 7:24 p.m. Sunday.", "Obama then flew on a helicopter to the Presidential Palace to meet with Karzai.", "The U.S. president landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland shortly before 9 a.m. ET." ]	[ "Obama met with Afghan counterpart, reiterating need to wipe out terror networks .", "President met with about 2,000 troops at Bagram Air Base near Kabul .", "Obama landed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland shortly before 9 a.m.", "ET ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2, 22 ]
[ "(CNN) -- You might not have wanted to bet on Billy Joel in the summer of 1977.", "If \"The Stranger\" hadn't been a success, Billy Joel suspects he would have been dropped from his label.", "For a guy whose career had started out promisingly, he'd undergone more setbacks than a wild-armed pitcher.", "In his teen years he was a session pianist on Shadow Morton-produced records (including, allegedly, the Shangri-Las' \"Leader of the Pack\"), but failed with his groups, including a heavy-metal duo.", "He followed his first Top 40 hit, \"Piano Man,\" with a bitter second one, \"The Entertainer\" (in which he sang, \"If I go cold/I won't get sold/I'll get put in the back/In the discount rack/Like another can of beans,\" over an incongruous synthesizer track).", "He was considered a singer-songwriter with great potential but bickered with his label and his producers.", "Making 1976's \"Turnstiles,\" he fired producer James William Guercio -- a consistent hitmaker with Chicago -- and took the helm himself, with uneven results.", "And yet he still had something, remembered Phil Ramone, who was to produce Joel's 1977 breakthrough, \"The Stranger.\"", "At a 1976 Columbia Records convention in Toronto, Joel opened a musical showcase and \"ripped the crowd up,\" Ramone recalls in a phone interview from Connecticut.", "\"My friends said, 'Watch this guy.'", "\" Watch Joel perform \"Piano Man\" » .", "And then there was a series of concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall in early June 1977, featured on the new anniversary edition of \"The Stranger\" (Columbia/Legacy), out Tuesday.", "(A special edition of the release also includes a DVD of other Joel performances.)", "Known then, as now, as an exciting live performer, Joel and his band gave a series of performances that impressed Ramone -- though, he noted, the recorded versions paled in comparison.", "\"I watched what he had done and tracked his past records,\" he says.", "\"Everything I'd seen hadn't been captured on record.\"", "\"The Stranger\" turned out differently.", "Joel came through with a top-notch set of songs, and four of them -- \"Just the Way You Are,\" \"Movin' Out,\" \"She's Always a Woman\" and \"Only the Good Die Young\" -- became hits.", "\"The Stranger\" established Joel as a best-selling artist -- reportedly, upon release, it was the biggest-selling Columbia album in history -- and propelled him to his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career.", "Watch Joel perform \"Only the Good Die Young\" in Russia » .", "At the time, he just wanted to make a consistent record.", "\"I don't recall feeling this was going to be the breakthrough.", "We were just happy with the album we were making at the time,\" Joel says in the press materials for the \"Stranger\" re-release.", "(Joel wasn't available for an interview with CNN.)", "He acknowledges, though, that \"The Stranger\" could have been his last stand.", "\"I didn't know this at the time, but had it not been a successful album, the label probably would have dropped me.", "'Cause you have to remember, this was my fifth album without having had a major hit,\" he says.", "Joel interviewed several producers, Ramone recalls, including the Beatles' George Martin.", "Ramone, known for his graceful touch in the studio, was coming off Paul Simon's \"Still Crazy After All These Years\" and the Barbra Streisand \"A Star Is Born\" soundtrack.", "He and Joel hit it off at \"an Italian lunch that took forever,\" Ramone says, and in July went into the studio to record.", "The album was recorded in three weeks -- very quickly, says Ramone.", "The producer remembers the sessions as full of humor, with his most difficult task reining in the members of Joel's band.", "It was an accident that Ramone ended up included in the group portrait on the album's back cover, dressed in New York Yankee regalia -- \"I only posed because I thought, 'They'll never use this,' \" he says.", "\"The role I played was kind of like the captain of the team,\" he says.", "\"I doled out punishments -- it was a crazy, lunatic group.", "There were times I'd throw out [ideas] and they'd say, 'No way.'", "They all had great opinions.\"", "Then there was Joel, a forceful singer who, Ramone observes, is also \"extremely vulnerable.\"", "The singer had a tendency to hide behind his song's characters; Ramone urged him to put more of himself into the vocals in \"The Stranger,\" and continued the advice for succeeding albums.", "\"I would say, 'When is Billy Joel going to show up?'", "\" Ramone says.", "\"You have to adapt [the character] to you.\"", "Running through the album's tracks more than 30 years later, Ramone says there's always something he'd like to change, but in general he's very satisfied with the record, particularly the songs \"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant,\" \"The Stranger\" and \"Just the Way You Are.\"", "The latter, he notes, was supposed to have been spiked -- Joel, who wrote it for his then wife, thought it was too syrupy.", "(\"A chick song,\" he's called it.)", "Moreover, Ramone's suggestions for the song met with resistance: Drummer Liberty DeVitto rebelled against the Brazilian baion beat, and the band was unhappy when Ramone tapped jazzman Phil Woods to play the alto sax solo.", "But the song proved to be the album's big hit.", "\"They put out 'Movin' Out' [as the first single], and it [failed].", "And then out of nowhere came 'Just the Way You Are,' \" Ramone says.", "The song got a big boost when Joel appeared as the musical guest on \"Saturday Night Live\" in February 1978 and eventually won Grammys for song and record of the year.", "\"The Stranger\" was the beginning of a fruitful run for Joel and Ramone.", "The pair made seven more albums together, including the No.", "1 records \"52nd Street\" and \"Glass Houses,\" and still maintain a warm relationship, says Ramone.", "Joel, who will play the final two concerts at New York's soon-to-be-closed Shea Stadium July 16 and 18, has long since put the questions of \"potential\" to rest.", "\"I didn't necessarily set out to be a big worldwide, international super rock star kind of guy.", "I set out to make a living as a musician, and this is the way it happened,\" he said." ]	[ "Billy Joel was at a career crossroads in 1977 .", "\"The Stranger,\" his breakthrough album, came together quickly, says producer .", "Album now out in 30th-anniversary edition; propelled Joel to success ." ]	[ 10, 11, 18, 30 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The second-to-last time EJ Levy was at Disney World, she used a scooter to navigate the enormous park.", "Her legs were weak and she suffered from foot drop caused by multiple sclerosis.", "That was 4½ years ago.", "On her most recent trip, a few months ago, Levy walked the entire time, thanks in part to a drug approved by the FDA on Friday.", "The FDA says the drug, Ampyra (generic name dalfampridine, formerly known as fampridine), is the first MS therapy that is taken orally and the first of its kind to receive FDA approval.", "It is designed help people with any type of MS improve their walking speed.", "The prime of her life .", "In 2002, Levy was in her 30s and an active hiker and skier with a job on Wall Street and later in San Francisco, California.", "But her life took a turn when she started stumbling, falling down and dragging her right leg.", "Her doctor's diagnosis?", "Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, a less common form of MS and, as the name implies, one that usually plagues people with the disease after its initial course.", "The National Multiple Sclerosis Society defines MS as a \"chronic, often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system, which is made up of the brain, spinal cord and optic nerves.\"", "Symptoms of MS include extreme fatigue, difficulty walking, problems with memory and heat sensitivity.", "The most common form of MS is relapsing-remitting, in which people have acute attacks followed by periods of remission.", "In secondary progressive, however, the disease worsens steadily and there are no acute flare-ups.", "People with relapsing-remitting may later develop secondary progressive MS. Levy says she lived in the same building as her parents at one point because she needed them to help take care of her.", "She says she mostly stayed at home, and when she did venture out she usually walked only a block or two with a cane.", "She relied on a wheelchair for longer distances.", "She says she realized she would eventually be unable to walk.", "\"I was scared of being in a wheelchair.", "I was scared of getting worse and worse.", "I had traveled around the world before I got sick, I was super independent,\" Levy says.", "Trying things out .", "After exhausting the usual MS treatments -- and developing intolerable side effects -- Levy also became frustrated that the treatments were primarily designed for people with the more common course of the disease, and not the secondary progressive course.", "Levy's neurologist then discussed the possibility of trying 4-aminopyradine -- a version of the same drug the FDA approved Friday that was available only through compounding pharmacies.", "Just three days after taking the drug, Levy was able to walk unassisted.", "\"I never thought I could put my cane away for good,\" she said.", "Now she hopes the same drug that helped her will be able to help other people.", "She addressed an FDA advisory panel late last year and recommended approval of it.", "\"It's about quality of life,\" Levy says.", "How it works . Two phase III clinical trials of Ampyra showed 35 and 43 percent of patients experienced, on average, a consistent improvement in their walking speed, increasing it by about 25 percent.", "According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, even a modest improvement in walking ability could mean that thousands of people could benefit from the drug.", "Dr. John Richert, executive vice president of Research & Clinical Programs at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, says the drug can be used by most people with MS.", "However, the drug is not for people with a history of seizures or people who have moderate to severe kidney disease.", "Richert says approval means patients can now skip the compounding pharmacy and get a consistent, exact dosage in a guaranteed time-released formula, which would lower the risk of getting a toxic dose instead of a therapeutic dose.", "\"It's likely that further study and clinical practice may help to determine the extent to which the drug may impact other functions, and may also provide hints as to which patients are most likely to respond positively to the therapy,\" Richert said.", "He added that the drug would not help nerves that have been destroyed and emphasized that people should try the drug to see if it works for them.", "Ampyra may not work for everyone.", "\"Like any medication, people will have different responses, so they should talk to their doctors about whether it's appropriate to start therapy on Ampyra,\" according to a spokesperson from Acorda, Ampyra's manufacturer.", "Moving with MS . Today, Levy is doing well.", "She established the not-for-profit organization MS Hope for a Cure, and in three years the organization has raised $1.8 million for research and programs to help people living with MS. She has also completed several five-mile hikes.", "But she says she is always conscious of where she steps.", "She says she occasionally has some weakness in her leg, but that she is thankful for every day: \"I don't ever take jumping out of bed for granted.\"" ]	[ "FDA approves Ampyra, the first MS drug of its kind to improve walking speed .", "Ampyra is appropriate for all types of MS, although it may not help everyone .", "Further studies are needed to see if Ampyra helps with other neurological functions ." ]	[ 4, 5, 37 ]
[ "Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Jaime Escalante, the math teacher portrayed in the 1988 film \"Stand and Deliver,\" died Tuesday after a battle with cancer, according to the actor who played him.", "Escalante, 79, was surrounded by his wife, children and grandchildren when he died at his home in Roseville, California, said Edward James Olmos.", "Olmos visited Escalante's bedside Monday night, he said.", "\"We lost one of the true giants of education and inspiration in this country,\" Olmos said.", "\"He really made us understand that it didn't matter what color, race, creed or ethnicity any of us are.\"", "Olmos disclosed earlier this month that Escalante was \"seriously ill\" with cancer and needed help paying for his medical care.", "He held a fundraiser in Los Angeles, California, for him last week.", "\"Stand and Deliver\" told the inspirational story of how Escalante turned the failing calculus program at Garfield High School in east Los Angeles into one of the top in the nation.", "The movie depicted events of 1982 when his inner-city student's test scores were questioned by officials.", "Those who were retested had their passing scores reinstated.", "Escalante became a hero for educators, earning him entrance to the National Teachers Hall of Fame and the Presidential Medal for Excellence in Education.", "\"During his tenure at Garfield High School, many of our students excelled in learning, aspired to a higher education and went on to become very successful in various careers,\" Los Angeles School Superintendent Ramon Cortines said.", "\"Today, they are living testaments to a teacher who demonstrated how high expectations coupled with constant support can overcome obstacles to a quality education.\"", "The Garfield High math program floundered after Escalante left in 1991 for a teaching job in Sacramento, California.", "He also hosted a PBS television series that promoted math and science careers.", "He retired from teaching and returned to Bolivia in 1999, where he was born in 1930.", "Escalante recently returned to California for medical treatment.", "CNN's Sonya Hamasaki contributed to this report." ]	[ "Escalante, 79, died at his home in Roseville, California .", "Teacher turned around failing calculus program at a Los Angeles high school .", "Escalante was portrayed by actor Edward James Olmos in the 1988 film \"Stand and Deliver\"" ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- American Bill Haas claimed a one-shot victory in the Bob Hope Classic on the final hole to join his father as a winner of the tournament.", "The 27-year-old went into the final day in California a stroke behind the lead but was able to break clear of the pack with a flawless 64 to finish on 30 under par.", "Tim Clark, Matt Kuchar and Bubba Watson all finished tied for second place on 29 under.", "Haas led by two strokes after an fine start but the chasing pack reduced his lead and a birdie on 17 put him level with leaders Clark and Kuchar.", "He completed victory with a birdie four at the last hole after he struck a brave tee shot.", "Haas fired his approach at the last to within 27 feet and two putts were enough to seal a victory that matches the win his father - Jay Haas - secured at the same event in 1988.", "Haas, who was watched by his father, admitted the victory was even sweeter with a large family contingent present.", "\"It's pretty special as I didn't know my dad was here.", "My dad and my brother and his uncle were there,\" Haas told the tournament's official Web site.", "\"They knew they flew back from Hawaii last night, I thought maybe if I was in contention they might show up, but didn't see them until the end there.", "\"It's not easy to win. I was so nervous coming down the stretch.", "I still don't know how I hit the shot on 18 - my hands were shaking.\"" ]	[ "American Bill Haas claimed a one-shot victory in the Bob Hope Classic on the final hole to join his father as a winner of the tournament.", "Tim Clark, Matt Kuchar and Bubba Watson all finished tied for second place on 29 under.", "Haas completed victory with a birdie four at the last hole after he struck a brave tee shot to match his father's win in 1988." ]	[ 0, 2, 4 ]
[ "New Zealand maxi Alfa Romeo eased to victory in the 65th annual Sydney to Hobart ocean yacht race on Monday.", "Skippered by Neville Crichton, Alfa Romeo crossed the finish of the 628-mile race ahead of favorite Australian maxi Wild Oats XI.", "Alfa Romeo had led since they left Sydney Harbor on Saturday and was not threatened during its two days, nine hours and two minutes at sea.", "Australian maxi Wild Oats XI finished 16 nautical miles behind in second place with British yacht ICAP Leopard a further 24 miles behind in third.", "Crichton admitted he was taken aback by the large crowd which had gathered at the dockside to welcome his team home before he paid tribute to his crew.", "\"We didn't expect to see anything like this crowd.", "We're certainly honored,\" he told the event's official Web site wwwrolexsydneyhobart.com.", "\"I'd like to thank the 21 guys in my crew.", "We didn't have any problems and I don't think there was any time in the race when we were passed.\"", "Crichton continued: \"There were occasions when we had to take a gamble and hope it paid off.", "We were very busy the whole race.", "There were occasions when there was a lot of breeze, and occasions when we drifted, so it made the race much more interesting.", "\"I don't think there was any part of the race that counted any more or less.", "We all had periods we were parked up.", "I think it was the advantage of making the least amount of mistakes of anybody that won us the race.\"", "Wild Oats, who set the race record in 2005, was bidding for a fifth win, but trailed Alfa Romeo out of Sydney Harbor in the traditional Boxing Day start and was never able to get on terms with the leader." ]	[ "New Zealand maxi Alfa Romeo eased to victory in the 65th annual Sydney to Hobart ocean yacht race.", "Skippered by Neville Crichton, Alfa Romeo crossed the finish of the 628-mile race ahead of Australian maxi Wild Oats XI.", "Crichton credited his team's victory to the fact they had made few mistakes having led from start to finish." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "Ithaca, New York (CNN) -- Two suspected cases of suicide on the Cornell University campus have officially been confirmed by the Tompkins County chief medical examiner, bringing the total number of suicides for the academic year to six.", "Cornell officials had previously said authorities confirmed four other deaths at the school as suicides.", "The medical examiner says his office has been in touch with the families of the latest suicide victims.", "\"They have all been made aware of the manner of death,\" Dr. Howard Socoff told CNN.", "The rash of cases has rocked the highly competitive Ivy League school in central New York State.", "The most recent suicides came on successive days and prompted the university's mental health initiatives director, Timothy Marchell, to declare a \"public health crisis.\"", "In February, a freshman jumped off a bridge over one of the area's well-known gorges.", "The body of a sophomore engineering major was found March 11 under similar circumstances.", "Police are also searching for a body in another suicide witnessed March 12.", "David Skorton, who became president of Cornell in 2005, has been praised by counselors for encouraging openness on an issue that many schools try to cover up.", "In an e-mail to students on Friday, he encouraged them to use available suicide-prevention resources.", "Skorton placed full-page ads in the university newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, every day this week, which read, \"If you learn anything at Cornell, please learn to ask for help.", "It is a sign of wisdom and strength.\"", "The message may be getting through.", "The first sentence of the quote has been written in chalk on one of the bridges where the suicides took place.", "The cause of the wave of suicides is unclear, Marchell said.", "The national average for school suicides is 7.29 per year for every 100,000 students, said Paula Clayton, medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.", "That means Cornell, with 19,639 students, should average fewer than two suicides a year.", "Cornell had no suicides from 2005 to 2008, according to Marchell.", "And the school has consistently fallen within or below the national average, said Karen Carr, assistant dean of students at Cornell.", "The school has been praised by psychologists such as Keith Anderson, chairman of the American College Health Association's Mental Health Best Practices Task Force, for counseling and prevention programs that confront the issue of student suicide with comprehensive training and understanding.", "Cornell responded to a cluster of suicides in the late 1990s with comprehensive training for members of the university community.", "Everyone on campus, including janitors, administrators, residential advisers and professors, is trained to look for symptoms of depression.", "Freshmen are screened for indicators of psychological disorders, and multiple counseling services are available for students in need.", "\"I know that they've been doing a lot of outreach efforts to educate the community.", "Cornell is kind of a model in some ways,\" said Anderson, a staff psychologist at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, New York.", "In response to the current wave of suicides, Cornell will \"strengthen the capacity of the community to know what to do,\" Marchell said.", "\"They will be showing nonmental health professionals what role they can play and help students and faculty get the kind of support that they need.\"", "The school also has posted guards to monitor the bridges over the gorges.", "On Wednesday, campus clubs such as Cornell Minds Matters took part in a schoolwide event to promote mental health awareness.", "CNN's Cassie Spodak contributed to this report." ]	[ "Rash of cases has rocked the Ivy League school in central New York State .", "Medical examiner: Office has been in touch with families of latest suicide victims .", "School has been praised by psychologists for its openness about the suicides .", "Cornell mental health chief says cause of the wave of suicides is unclear ." ]	[ 2, 4, 15 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two Supreme Court justices engaged in a late-night exchange of harsh words before the execution early Wednesday of a convicted Tennessee killer who had been sitting on death row for nearly three decades.", "Justices John Paul Stevens and Clarence Thomas disagreed over whether to grant a stay of execution for Cecil Johnson Jr.", "The stay eventually was denied, and about an hour later, at 2:34 a.m., Johnson was put to death by lethal injection at a Nashville, Tennessee, prison.", "The 53-year-old inmate had been convicted of murder in a 1980 shooting spree at a convenience store near the state capital.", "The victims included 12-year-old Bobby Bell Jr., son of the store owner, who was wounded.", "Two other men sitting in a nearby taxicab also were shot to death.", "Stevens, who was initially presented the last-minute appeal by Johnson's lawyers, would have granted the stay, along with Justice Stephen Breyer.", "Stevens was concerned that too much time had elapsed between sentencing and the planned execution, amounting perhaps to cruel and unusual punishment.", "\"Johnson bears little, if any, responsibility for this delay,\" said Stevens, who said procedural hurdles at the appellate stage for capital defendants created what he called \"underlying evils of intolerable delay.\"", "\"The delay itself subjects death row inmates to decades of especially severe, dehumanizing conditions of confinement.\"", "It is an issue that the 89-year-old justice has long urged his colleagues to address, with little success.", "In his early years on the high court in the mid-1970s he had supported the resumption of the death penalty after a four-year moratorium imposed by the Supreme Court.", "But in recent years, he has voiced his opposition to capital punishment, particularly in cases involving inmates asserting their right to challenge their sentences.", "Thomas reacted strongly to Stevens' statement.", "The conservative jurist said the inmate had challenged his conviction and sentence for nearly 29 years and \"now contends that the very proceedings he used to contest his sentence should prohibit the state from carrying it out.\"", "\"In Justice Stevens' view, it seems the state can never get the timing just right.", "The reason, he has said, is that the death penalty itself is wrong.\"", "Thomas said.", "\"As long as our system affords capital defendants the procedural safeguards this court has long endorsed, defendants who avail themselves of these procedures will face the delays Justice Stevens laments.\"", "Then Thomas goes on to say there are \"alternatives,\" citing the custom in England centuries ago to carry out an execution the day after a conviction.", "\"I have no doubt that such a system would avoid the diminishing justification problem Justice Stevens identifies, but I am equally confident it would find little support from this court.\"", "The high court had been presented with Johnson's emergency appeal early Tuesday afternoon, but apparently the time needed to produce the Stevens and Thomas statements delayed the high court from issuing its denial of a stay until 1:38 a.m. Wednesday.", "The execution was carried out as scheduled, with no problems reported by corrections officials." ]	[ "John Paul Stevens, Clarence Thomas disagreed over whether to grant a stay of execution .", "Stay was denied, Cecil Johnson Jr. was put to death by legal injection in Tennessee .", "Stevens was concerned too much time elapsed between sentencing, scheduled execution .", "Thomas: Inmate challenged conviction, sentence for nearly 29 years, which led to delay ." ]	[ 1, 2, 7, 17 ]
[ "Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Russian police released photographs Tuesday of two women suspected of being the suicide bombers who killed at least 39 people on the Moscow metro a day earlier.", "Special services are also seeking three suspected accomplices of the bombers, Russian state TV reported, citing Moscow police spokesman Viktor Biryukov.", "They are hunting for a 30-year-old man from the Northern Caucasus who was seen on security cameras wearing dark clothes and a black baseball cap, and two women, aged 22 and 45, both ethnic Slavs, who allegedly assisted the man, state TV reported.", "Investigators believe that the three suspects accompanied the suicide bombers when they entered the metro, the report said.", "They also believe Chechen rebels may have been behind the deadly strike, although nobody has claimed responsibility.", "Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow would \"restore order by the use of force\" in the region, as part of its \"quest to eliminate terrorists and bandits\" there.", "But it was harder to root out corruption and clan structures, and to build an education system, he said in remarks televised by Russian state TV from his country residence.", "\"Those are the things that are much more difficult to handle.", "But it is our task and we will be dealing with those issues no matter what,\" he said.", "Meanwhile, the Russian-backed leader of Chechnya wrote in a newspaper article Tuesday that terrorists who target innocent civilians must be \"poisoned like rats.\"", "\"We have always believed and we continue to believe that terrorists must be hunted down and found in their lairs, they must be poisoned like rats, they must be crushed and destroyed,\" Ramzan Kadyrov wrote in the Russian daily Izvestia, a day after the deadly rush-hour attacks in two Moscow subway stations.", "\"The struggle against terrorists must involve the toughest measures and defeating this evil with only persuasion and educational measures is impossible.\"", "Moscow paused to mourn its dead Tuesday, and flags across the city were lowered to half staff as hundreds of thousands of commuters returned to the transit system.", "Authorities said the attacks killed at least 39 people -- an increase of one since Monday -- and wounded more than 60 others.", "Television stations canceled entertainment programming for the day, while some also pulled commercials.", "After being closed most of the day, both stations that were bombed reopened around 5 p.m. (9 a.m.", "ET) Monday, said Veronica Smolskaya, a spokeswoman for the Russian Emergencies Ministry.", "A heavy security presence was apparent throughout the subway network as police officers were visible on train platforms.", "\"Our preliminary assessment is that this act of terror was committed by a terrorist group from the North Caucasus region,\" said Alexander Bortnikov of the Federal Security Service, in reference to the investigation at one of the blast sites.", "The current round of the Russia-Chechnya conflict dates back nearly 20 years, with Chechens having laid claim to land in the Caucasus Mountains region.", "Thousands have been killed and 500,000 Chechen people have been displaced by the fighting.", "Chechnya is located in the North Caucasus region of Russia between the Black and Caspian seas.", "Monday's blasts tore through the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations in central Moscow -- the female bombers detonating their explosives about 40 minutes apart, starting just before 8 a.m. (12 a.m. ...", "An estimated 500,000 people were riding trains throughout the capital at the time of the attacks.", "CNN's Matthew Chance, Claire Sebastian and Max Tkachenko contributed to this report." ]	[ "Russian police release images of two women suspected of being the bombers .", "Authorities are also seeking three suspected accomplices of the bombers .", "Hundreds of thousands of commuters return to Moscow subway after bombing .", "Flags across city lowered to half staff as Moscow pauses to mourn dead ." ]	[ 1, 12 ]
[ "Washington (CNN) -- The U.S. government announced Monday that it has eased the requirements for orphaned children from Haiti to enter the United States on a temporary basis.", "The move is being made to ensure they get needed care after last week's earthquake in Haiti, said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who made the announcement in coordination with the U.S. Department of State.", "\"We are committed to doing everything we can to help reunite families in Haiti during this very difficult time,\" said Napolitano in a news release.", "\"While we remain focused on family reunification in Haiti, authorizing the use of humanitarian parole for orphans who are eligible for adoption in the United States will allow them to receive the care they need here.\"", "Napolitano can grant humanitarian parole into the United States to bring otherwise inadmissible individuals into the country for urgent humanitarian reasons or other emergencies.", "The State Department said earlier Monday it is working with DHS and the Haitian government to process nearly 300 cases of Americans who are waiting to adopt Haitian children.", "Of those, 200 cases are being accelerated.", "Twenty-four of those children, whose cases \"were at the very end of the process\" before the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti nearly a week ago, have departed Haiti and joined their new families after the embassy expedited processing for immigrant visas, said Michele Bond, deputy assistant secretary for American citizen services.", "Department officials said Sunday that 150 children had already left Haiti, but corrected that number Monday.", "Officials are reviewing every case individually to see where they are in the process, what actions have been taken in the case and whether the case can be accelerated, Bond said.", "The department said it will be announcing an adoption plan with travel specifics shortly.", "If an American adoption case was early in the process, there is no guarantee of an accelerated adoption, Bond said.", "Examples of being early in the process would be if prospective parents have not been properly vetted; have not been matched with a specific child; or have been matched with a child but the Haitian government is still attempting to prove absolutely the child is an orphan.", "The State Department is working with DHS to examine the documents in each case and show some flexibility, but this also requires the agreement of the Haitian government, she said.", "\"It's important to remember that the best interests of the child are at the heart of all this,\" Bond said.", "\"We want them to be well cared-for.\"", "Families with active adoption cases will be contacted by the department, she said.", "If a family is in the process of adopting from Haiti and wants information, family members can send an e-mail to askci@state.gov.", "They will be contacted and told what documents are needed, she said.", "Prospective families need to know, however, that officials are getting thousands of inquiries.", "On Sunday, the department received 300 inquiries related to 16 cases, she said.", "So multiple calls may not be the most efficient way for prospective families to get news about their child.", "Are you in Haiti and safe?", "Share your story, photos with CNN iReport .", "Before last Tuesday's quake, Haiti was home to about 380,000 orphans, according to the United Nations Children's Fund.", "Many of them may be homeless now, since a number of orphanages are reported to have been among the buildings that were destroyed in the earthquake.", "The family status of many children may not yet be known, so adoption is not the first solution, Bond said.", "The focus is on getting the children aid and reuniting them with their families, she said.", "That total is expected to grow once the dead and missing from last Tuesday's disaster have been accounted for.", "Some children who lost parents in the quake or were separated from parents are being relocated to the Dominican Republic, a child advocacy group said.", "iReport: Haitians are looking for loved ones .", "About 50 orphaned and abandoned children will arrive in the border town of Jimani on Wednesday, Kids Alive International said.", "The efforts, coordinated with the governments of both countries, will eventually take the children back to Haiti.", "Some will be reunited with parents who lost communication with their children in the quake's aftermath, the group said.", "The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has chartered a plane to pick up about 100 children Monday, spokesman Aad Meijer said Sunday.", "Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin over the weekend granted the children entry into the country, although their paperwork, including travel and adoption documents, was incomplete, Justice Ministry spokesman Patrick Mikkelsen said.", "About 44 of the orphans' adoptions had yet to be approved by a Haitian judge, even though they were matched to Dutch parents, Mikkelsen said.", "Dutch officials may seek the remaining approvals from Haiti once the children have already settled in the Netherlands, he said.", "CNN's Melissa Gray, Richard Greene and Elise Labott contributed to this report." ]	[ "U.S. authorizing \"humanitarian parole\" for eligible orphans, says Department of Homeland chief .", "200 adoption cases are being accelerated in wake of last week's quake .", "Twenty-four kids have departed Haiti and joined new families, official says .", "Focus in Haiti remains on getting children aid, reuniting them with their families ." ]	[ 3, 6, 7, 27 ]
[ "Princeton, New Jersey (CNN) -- As he stood before the delegates of the 1964 Republican Convention in San Francisco, California, Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater, the party's presidential nominee, said, \"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.", "And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.\"", "The delegates, who had booed New York Gov.", "Nelson Rockefeller when he called for the party to respect moderation, were thrilled.", "Many of Goldwater's supporters were determined to push their party toward the right wing of the political spectrum.", "They felt that their party leaders, including President Eisenhower, had simply offered a watered-down version of the New Deal.", "Yet Goldwater soon learned that extremism could quickly become a political vice, particularly to a party seeking to regain control of the White House.", "The right wing of the Republican Party in the early 1960s inhabited a world that included extremist organizations, such as the John Birch Society, that railed against communism.", "The Birchers developed a huge network of local activists, reaching more than 100,000 members.", "They published pamphlets and books and threw their support behind local candidates.", "Some mainstream conservative outlets depended on supporters who were in these groups.", "Many right-wing organizations in the South were opponents of civil rights and advocates of racial segregation.", "During the fall campaign of 1964, President Johnson devastated Goldwater and his running mate, William Miller, by painting them as an extremist duo with close ties to military hawks and racist demagogues.", "Since Miller, a New York congressman, was known for his close ties to the right, Democrats could charge that Republicans had not balanced their ticket.", "The \"Daisy\" advertisement had Americans look into the eyeball of a young girl as it reflected the image of a nuclear explosion.", "Another advertisement showed images of the Ku Klux Klan decked out in their garb and carrying burning crosses.", "The ads played on statements by the candidates and extremist organizations.", "The narrator of the KKK ad reminded viewers that Robert Creel, grand dragon of the Alabama KKK, had said: \"I like Barry Goldwater.", "He needs our help.\"", "Democrats certainly had their extremists as well in the 1960s, as all the discussions about Bill Ayers and the Weathermen in the 2008 campaign reminded us.", "Yet in the 1960s, the Democratic leadership was removed from these elements of the liberal spectrum.", "Indeed, radical left-wing activists were primarily revolting against what they saw as the bankrupt leadership of the Democratic Party.", "They hated Lyndon Johnson even more than they hated Richard Nixon.", "Always nervous about being tagged by Republicans in a conservative era as too close to socialism, Democrats in Congress and in the White House since the 1960s have tended to distance themselves from fringe elements of the left.", "Now Republicans are facing the danger of being associated with extremism once again.", "Last week, following the vote on health care, members of Congress have were the targets of death threats and vandalism.", "In the final hours of the health care debate, there were reports about how health care opponents uttered racial slurs at Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis, a hero of the civil rights movement, and sexual epithets against Rep. Barney Frank, who is openly gay.", "Sarah Palin sent out a statement on Twitter that urged followers, \"Don't Retreat, Instead-Reload!\"", "Palin explained later that her use of those words was not about \"inciting violence,\" but rather about inspiring people to get involved in the political process.", "Some ugly elements of the Tea Party movement, which have been held in check since the original Washington protest in September, have returned to the political debate.", "In the short-term, the Tea Party movement has helped to revitalize the Republican Party.", "Without question, the kind of energy that has been fostered by the activists associated with these groups has helped Republicans mobilize their supporters and can clearly be helpful at bringing out the vote in the midterm elections.", "By generating interest in the libertarian and anti-government arguments of conservatism, the movement will help keep conservatives motivated after their loss on health care.", "It is fair to say that many Americans who support this cause are simply expressing legitimate and deeply held antipathies toward Washington.", "But extremism is there, and it has flared in the past few weeks.", "This kind of rhetoric will not produce long-term gains for the Republican Party.", "Realizing the threat, Republican leaders have begun to disassociate themselves from these elements of the movement.", "There have been a few voices of condemnation, such as House Minority Leader John Boehner who said \"violence and threats are unacceptable.\"", "Local Tea Party organizers have also stepped forward with words of condemnation.", "Leaders from the Florida Tea Party said in a letter to President Obama that they stood in \"stark opposition to any person using derogatory characterizations, threats of violence, or disparaging terms toward members of Congress or the president.\"", "These statements are encouraging and strike the right note.", "Yet Republicans need to follow through by continuing to exert pressure on local organizational leaders to stamp out this kind of activity.", "They must also avoid contradictory messages, such as the statement of House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, who accused Democrats of \"fanning the flames\" by using the incidents as a \"political weapon.\"", "Cantor had a bullet fired at his campaign office after receiving anti-Semitic threats, but local police described the bullet as random gunfire not directed at his office.", "The leadership statements must be unambiguous and firm, leaving no question in voters' minds that this is not what conservatism is about.", "When Ronald Reagan ran for the presidency in 1980, he worked hard to weaken the connections that existed between Republicans and the fringes.", "He learned the lessons of 1964 and sought to remake a Republican Party that could appeal to mainstream America.", "Reagan realized that if he did not, the perception of extremism would pose a long-term threat to the party's future.", "Now Republicans are facing the Goldwater threat once again.", "At the same time that conservatives have every right to oppose and challenge President Obama's agenda, they must make clear that there are limits and that the kinds of actions that we have seen in recent days are not something that either party will be willing to tolerate in the year ahead.", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Julian Zelizer." ]	[ "In 1964, Barry Goldwater said: \"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.\"", "Party's association with extremists hurt the GOP in that election, Julian Zelizer says .", "He says extreme reactions to passage of health care bill pose danger for Republicans .", "Zelizer says Democrats have extreme fringe but have taken pains to dissociate from far left ." ]	[ 0, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o will be seeking to win a record fourth African Player of the Year award after being named in the final shortlist of five for the 2009 title.", "The Inter Milan player will be up against 2006 winner Didier Drogba and the Chelsea forward's Ivory Coast teammate Yaya Toure, Ghana midfielder Michael Essien and Seydou Keita of Mali.", "Last season Eto'o helped Spanish and European champions Barcelona to an unprecedented treble of titles, along with his former clubmates Toure and Keita.", "The Inter Milan player also helped Cameroon to qualify for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa, having missed out on the 2006 tournament in Germany.", "The 28-year-old previously won the award in 2003, 2004 and 2005, joining George Weah and Abedi Pele as the only players to have triumphed three times.", "Drogba and his clubmate Essien both also helped their countries to qualify for the World Cup finals, and won the English FA Cup with Chelsea as well as finishing third in the Premier League.", "Essien has finished in the top three every year since 2005, being runner-up to Frederic Kanoute in 2007.", "Last year, when he was hampered by injuries, was the only time that Drogba has not figured in the top three since 2003.", "Keita is the nephew of former winner Salif Keita.", "The award ceremony will take place on February 25 in Dakar, Senegal, a month after the African Cup of Nations takes place in Angola." ]	[ "Cameroon striker Samuel Eto'o in contention to win record fourth African Player of Year award .", "Inter Milan player named in shortlist of five after his heroics with former club Barcelona .", "He is up against former teammates Yaya Toure and Seydou Keita .", "Ghana midfielder Michael Essien and 2006 winner Didier Drogba also in the running ." ]	[ 0, 1 ]
[ "(CNN) -- When the e-mail arrived the other day, I knew instantly who it was from.", "At least I thought I did.", "I recognized the e-mail address.", "It belonged to Kaye Kessler, an old and treasured friend.", "When I was a beginning sportswriter, Kessler was the veteran star of the central Ohio paper where we worked.", "He gave me my first byline, a kindness for which, as I have told him many times, I am forever grateful.", "He is long retired from daily newspaper work now, living in Colorado, but we write back and forth from time to time.", "So I was startled by the first words of his note: .", "\"I'm writing this with tears in my eyes.\"", "He apologized for \"this odd request.\"", "He said he was in the United Kingdom, on a vacation in London with his family.", "He said they had been robbed, at gunpoint.", "Everything had been taken: cash, credit cards, cell phone.", "He seemed embarrassed to have to be asking: .", "He wondered if I could lend him some money so he and his family could get back home.", "He promised to refund it as soon as he was back in the U.S.", "He wanted me to wire it to him: \"Please do get back to me as soon as possible.\"", "And he signed it: \"Kaye.\"", "I felt so bad for him. He's no longer a young man, and I was touched that, in a crisis, he would turn to me.", "I've never wired money to anyone before, but I started making calls to find out how to do it.", "Then something started to feel wrong to me.", "I looked at his e-mail again.", "The address was his, all right.", "But there were some sloppy phrases in the note: run-on sentences, lowercase words that should have been capitalized, some incorrect grammar.", "Kessler was always an extremely careful writer; he was a disciple of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers stylebook.", "He didn't make mistakes like that.", "There were other off-key things in the note.", "He said he was in London with his family; I knew that his wife had passed away 15 years ago.", "He said that they \"came down here on a short vacation\"; those of us from central Ohio would speak of going down to Chillicothe, or going down to Washington Court House, or going down to Cincinnati, but we would never say we had gone \"down\" to London.", "Still, I thought, he was out of the country, he was in trouble, he was undoubtedly scared, so why was I being such a stickler?", "He needed my help.", "Speaking of which, the subject line of the e-mail was: .", "\"Help!!!\" Kessler was not a guy who ever overused exclamation points.", "I drafted an e-mail back to him, apologizing for the two questions I was going to ask him.", "But I knew that there weren't many people in the world, other than the two of us, who would know the answers: .", "1. Who was the makeup editor on the sports desk, with the thick glasses?", "2. What was the name of the restaurant next to the paper where we would sometimes eat dinner?", "(In case you're interested: Clarence Young, and Paoletti's.)", "I was about to send him the e-mail when I decided to do something first.", "I took some of the phrases from his e-mail to me and ran them through a search engine.", "Yep. They were part of a scam. People around the country had been receiving them; always, the e-mails had been asking for money to be sent.", "But how could this be? This was not some e-mail from an address I'd never heard of, saying that a bank in Nigeria had $100 million waiting for me; this was from Kaye Kessler, from his regular e-mail address.", "Wasn't it? I called his house in Colorado.", "The phone was busy.", "For hours. After about four hours, it finally rang through, and he picked up.", "He was home in Colorado.", "He had never left.", "He was all right. Here is what had happened: . Someone had electronically broken into his computer and stolen his e-mail password.", "The person had then reset the password; Kessler could no longer access his own e-mail account.", "The person who had stolen the password had gone through Kessler's e-mail address book and started sending out the heartrending requests for money.", "The only way Kessler knew about it was that some of the recipients had thought to call him.", "That's why his phone had been busy all afternoon.", "His friends had read him the letter that had gone out using his name.", "\"To me, it didn't sound like me,\" Kessler said.", "\"That line about 'I'm writing this with tears in my eyes' -- I don't tear up very easily.\"", "He was doing his best to get in touch with his e-mail provider.", "Imagine how he was feeling: Someone was now, in effect, him.", "The person had access of all his saved e-mails, both ones he had received and ones he had sent.", "He was trying to remember if he had put credit card or banking information in any of the e-mails.", "It turns out (and some of you may already know this) that he is hardly the only victim of this scheme, both through e-mails and through social networking sites.", "Law enforcement officials are well aware of it; after speaking with Kessler, I checked with FBI headquarters in Washington.", "I wasn't one sentence into reading the Kessler e-mail to Special Agent Jason Pack before he knew exactly what it was.", "\"This is a new twist that gives these scams more credibility,\" Pack said.", "\"The way it works is that these guys remotely install malware in your computers; you're almost never aware they have done it.\"", "One way the malware is installed, he said, is when you click on a seemingly innocuous link.", "Pack said that the malware lets the criminals track your keystrokes from their own computers.", "That's how they learn your password.", "Then, he said, they reset it.", "You can't log on to your own e-mail account anymore.", "They control it. They go through your address book and write to everyone you know.", "The people who receive the e-mails think they're from you, that you're in trouble and that you're turning to them for money.", "Because it's from your e-mail address, their impulse is to help you out by sending it.", "That's part of the scam, Pack said; the thieves set up a way to have the money wired to them.", "\"The best advice is not to wire money to anyone until you're absolutely sure,\" Pack said.", "\"Even if a friend is stuck overseas, there are other ways to reach you than sending an e-mail saying you should wire money.", "Even if a friend's cell phone has been stolen, there are ways to call you.\"", "The problem, he said, is that friends want to help friends who are in need, and the thieves know it.", "If the friends write back asking \"Is this really you?\"", "the thieves, who control your account, send them a note assuring them that yes, the e-mail is legitimate, and say to please hurry up and send the money.", "Because it's from the familiar e-mail account, and the second note, like the first, is signed with the familiar signature, the friends believe it.", "The older e-mail scams -- the ones from odd addresses, saying that there are millions of dollars waiting for you, if you will just get in touch with this person you have never met who wants to make you wealthy -- were more analogous to unsophisticated con games.", "This newer one, though, is like breaking and entering, like home invasion; we increasingly live on our computers, and this scheme allows the criminals to come inside.", "\"I'm still trying to get back into my account,\" Kessler said the next day when I called him again.", "The most puzzling part of it, he said -- and the part that should be a concern to the rest of us -- is: .", "\"I have absolutely no idea how they did it.", "They were out there writing to everyone I know, saying they were me, and I don't know how they got into my computer in the first place.\"", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene." ]	[ "Bob Greene gets an urgent e-mail from an old friend writing, \"With tears in my eyes ... \"\nThe desperate plea for money turns out to be an e-mail scam .", "Greene says malware placed on computers when a user clicks on a link can capture keystrokes .", "Thieves take over e-mail accounts and seek money from contacts in the address book ." ]	[ 3, 8, 41, 49, 65, 72 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The list of relatives Widline Germain has not heard from since Haiti's earthquake seems like a town population in itself.", "\"When you count our extended family -- the dozens of cousins and aunts and uncles -- there's several hundred of us in Haiti, and we don't know where most of them are,\" she said from her home in Binghamton, New York.", "On January 11, the day before the magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit, the 25-year-old who recently graduated from SUNY Cortland returned to New York from an extended New Year's holiday in Haiti.", "Drawing attention to a photo of the Haitian presidential palace lit up with Christmas lights, a tree decorated on its grounds, she said, \"It's like I'm stuck in a horrible dream.", "The bed I was sleeping in the day before the earthquake is dust.\"", "On Thursday, Germain went through the names of relatives -- she says she has about 400 in Haiti -- whom she and her parents are searching for and whom they know are gone.", "Elise and Benson Germain and their son Junior Germain, missing.", "Marie Nerla Nicolas and Wilkense Nicolas, missing.", "\"I lost a cousin on my father's side.", "My mother lost her sister and all four kids,\" she said.", "\"There are 10 missing on my mother's side and eight missing on father's side.\"", "Learn more about some of Germain's missing relatives .", "She described a mentally disabled uncle who reported being attacked by thugs in Port-au-Prince.", "Many of her family members live in Jérémie, a river town of about 31,000 that is largely isolated from the rest of the country.", "\"The ones in Jérémie, I don't think most rescuers are getting to the smaller towns,\" she said, pausing.", "\"All my little cousins -- like ages 2 to 7 -- how are they ever going to be able to get over walking over dead bodies in the street?", "\"They were telling us on their cell phones that they don't have water.", "They have nothing,\" Germain said.", "\"We are here, and we can't do anything for them. My family is there starving and thirsty, sleeping on the street -- elderly people sleeping on the street -- and I'm here with water and food.", "I can't stand this. It's wrong.\" She and her father and their extended family in New York are prepared to take everyone in.", "\"It's going to be hard, but we have college degrees, jobs, a big house,\" she said.", "\"We're going to manage, because they're family, and that's what you do.\"" ]	[ "Haitian-American spent holidays in Haiti, returned day before quake hit .", "She said her extended family in Haiti numbers about 400 .", "\"My family is there starving and thirsty, sleeping on the street,\" she said ." ]	[ 2, 5, 17, 18 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The race for line honors in the annual Sydney-Hobart yacht race is developing into a thrilling battle between three giant maxi yachts.", "Neville Crichton's Alfa Romeo was leading after the fleet emerged from the first night, but less than five nautical miles separated the New Zealand 100-footer from British entry ICAP Leopard, skippered by Mike Slade, and four-time line honors winner Wild Oats X1, with Australian Mark Richards at the helm.", "Light winds have ruled out a realistic chance of any of the contenders breaking the race record set by Wild Oats in 2005 of one day, 18 hours and 40 minutes, but the three-way tactical battle is the closest for several years.", "The official race Web site www.rolexsydneyhobart.com reported that the three leaders were traveling at just over 11 knots with an east-south east wind as they headed to the finish in the Tasmanian capital.", "100 yachts started the 628-nautical mile \"Bluewater Classic\" from Sydney Harbor on Boxing Day and it made for the usual impressive spectacle.", "Four retirements had taken place by daylight, with Alan Brierty's Limit, representing the organizing club, the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, going out due to rigging problems.", "Limit was one of the favorites for overall victory on handicap.", "The annual race was first held in 1945 and has been hit by severe weather conditions in previous years.", "In 1998, six competitors died and several boats were lost during a fierce storm on the first night.", "Two years ago the fleet was also hit by similar conditions and eight yachtsman had to abandon a sinking craft.", "The forecasted light winds are expected to favor the bigger yachts who can use their giant spinnakers to good effect as they head for Constitution Harbor in Hobart." ]	[ "Three giant yachts are battling it out for line honors in Sydney-Hobart classic .", "New Zealand's Alfa Romeo leads from ICAP Leopard and Wild Oats X!", "Wild Oats bidding for fifth straight line honors success in 628 nautical mile test ." ]	[ 0, 1, 4 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The South Korean military suspended its search for missing sailors Wednesday because of high winds spawned by stormy weather, the Yonhap News Agency reported.", "Searchers have been looking for 46 missing sailors from the 1,200-ton ship Cheonan, a naval ship that sank Friday in the Yellow Sea near the maritime border of North and South Korea.", "Fifty-eight crew members were rescued, and the intense search led to the death of a military diver and the hospitalization of two others.", "Diver dies in rescue effort near sunken ship .", "Yonhap reported that divers have injected \"air through a crack in the stem of the 88-meter-long corvette, hopeful that the latter section of the ship, about 45 meters underwater, is holding crew members alive.\"", "But high winds and strong currents have been working against the rescue effort.", "\"We are temporarily suspending operations.", "We cannot expect to get near the ship in this condition,\" defense ministry spokesman Won Tae-jae told reporters.", "Military officials say an explosion tore a hole in the rear of the ship, but the cause of the blast is not known.", "South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has called for a thorough investigation into the cause of the explosion, and the country's defense minister, Kim Tae-young, has raised the possibility that one of the many North Korean sea mines placed during the 1950-53 Korean War could have triggered the blast.", "He said the military was \"trying its best\" to find survivors and that the cause of the incident will be made public \"at the soonest possible time.\"", "Rescuers find rear section of ship where sailors could be trapped .", "The navy plans to salvage the vessel, which was carrying missiles and torpedoes, to determine what caused the incident, Yonhap reported.", "Kim said work to hoist the ship above water could start next week and he said the government is mulling the formation of a fact-finding group to look into the incident.", "\"We will explain anything to answer questions and address rumors concerning the incident,\" Kim said.", "\"We have nothing to hide and no reason to hide.", "So many lives are involved in this case.\"", "Monday evening was the end of a 69-hour window during which rescuers believed the sailors could survive.", "Divers have knocked on the hulls of different parts of the ship with hammers, but raised no response.", "Baengyeong Island, the Seoul-administered island near the scene of the accident, is a flash point maritime border area between the Koreas.", "Given Baengyeong Island's proximity to North Korea, North Korean involvement had been feared, but South Korean officials have continued to play down that scenario.", "North Korea's official media has yet to mention the incident, according to Yonhap, but accused the United States and South Korea of conducting a maritime drill for the purpose of invading North Korea." ]	[ "High winds caused by stormy weather delay search for missing South Korean sailors .", "46 sailors missing after explosion sank a naval ship Friday in the Yellow Sea .", "58 seamen were rescued soon after blast; no bodies or survivors found since then .", "Military officials say an explosion tore a hole in the rear of the ship; cause of the blast not known ." ]	[ 0, 1, 8 ]
[ "(Sunset) -- Listen to the ocean from your room in one of these lesser-known coastal inns in the West.", "Two Harbors hides out on the quiet side of Catalina Island, California.", "TWO HARBORS, Catalina Island, California .", "On the far side of Catalina, away from the main town of Avalon, is Two Harbors, a tiny boaters' haven that feels like an island on the island.", "Check in: For all the isolation, you don't have to rough it here.", "In addition to boat-in and walk-in campgrounds, Two Harbors has the Banning House Lodge in the vacation home of Catalina's onetime owners.", "All 12 rooms have views of the harbor.", "From $128 . Explore: At Two Harbors, you can snorkel through swaying kelp beds and kayak to hidden coves.", "Steep trails lead into the Catalina backcountry.", "Or just stroll across the isthmus and look out over the Pacific: next stop, Hawaii, 2,500 miles away.", "-- Matthew Jaffe.", "Sunset.com: 13 great California fall trips .", "ROCKWATER SECRET COVE RESORT, Near Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia .", "This ragged stretch of the Sunshine Coast is so unspoiled and awe-inspiring, it's sometimes hard to imagine that anyone but a bald eagle or two has been here before you.", "Check in: Wooden walkways meander through the forest where the resort's 13 roomy, light-filled, adults-only canvas tent suites -- with fluffy king-size duvets and tubs for two -- perch above the blue water.", "Each suite has a deck -- and views to inspire castaway fantasies.", "From $315 U.S. through October 12 .", "Explore: At Rockwater's Spa Without Walls, treatments are on a platform at the water's edge with stunning views.", "Horseback riding, bocce ball, croquet, and beach volleyball, will tempt you to stay on the property, but make time to explore the ocean by kayak.", "Horseback rides $52 U.S. for 90 minutes; sea kayaking $57.20 U.S. for half-day.", "-- Deana Lancaster.", "Sunset.com: Modern beach style .", "CAMA BEACH STATE PARK RESORT, Camano Island, Washington .", "Washington State Parks resuscitated this beloved cluster of '30s-era cabins set between forest and sea last year, and ever since, it's been a go-to destination for anyone seeking a taste of the simple life.", "Walk the beach or tootle around Saratoga Passage in a vintage rowboat.", "After dark, toast marshmallows around a beach bonfire with other adventurers lucky enough to have scored one of the 33 cabins.", "Finally, hunker down under the covers while Puget Sound sings you to sleep.", "Check in: Splurge on a two-bedroom bungalow for $129 a night.", "Save by checking into a standard cabin for $45 a night.", "Save more after October 15, when cabins start at $23 a night.", "Two-night weekend minimum .", "Explore: Seattle's Center for Wooden Boats has a new location, at Cama Beach.", "Rent a cute boat to explore the Sound -- fisherman's sweater and pipe not included.", "Closed Mon-Tue; rowboats $20 per hour; 360/387-9361.", "-- Jenny Cunningham .", "COAST GUARD HOUSE HISTORIC INN, Point Arena, California .", "Atop a bluff and offering nose-bleed views of the major highway for gray whales -- aka the Pacific Ocean -- is this Cape Cod-style seaside estate from 1901, with slatted ceilings, vintage photographs, and piles of firewood near the basement.", "Check in: It's hard to shake the Agatha Christie vibe at the windswept inn, what with the grandfather clock ominously stopped at 4:20, a house dog named Winston, and a Friday-night wine and cheese party where you meet the other suspects, ahem, guests.", "Two cottages and four rooms are shipshape cozy.", "From $165, breakfast included; two-night weekend minimum .", "Explore: Tiny Point Arena isn't exactly booming, but nearby are sand dunes, pocket beaches, the Point Arena Light Station, and the great Pinots of Anderson Valley.", "-- Christine Richard.", "Sunset.com: Tour Pacific Grove by bike .", "COAST CABINS, Manzanita, Oregon .", "If Goldilocks were a beach girl, Manzanita would be the town on Oregon's northern coast she'd find \"just right.\"", "Not too swanky, not too tacky.", "A bakery, wine bar, organic clothing store, and spa are all worthy indulgences, but you've got to see the beach first: seven wide-open miles of sand, big boomy waves, and poetry-worthy sunsets.", "Check in: A group of \"cabins\" in name only, this Zen-like retreat is set in a bamboo grove a couple of blocks from the beach, with private outdoor spas, sculptural firepits, and heated floors.", "From $165 . Explore: Tear around the packed sand on a \"fun cycle,\" a recumbent tricycle that appeals to the kid in all of us.", "Manzanita Bikes & Boards; closed Mon; $8 per hour; 503/368-3337.", "-- J.C. BLACK ROCK OCEANFRONT RESORT, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, B.C.", "The luxurious new Black Rock Oceanfront Resort is a curving sweep of glass, steel, and wood beside the rain forest and above a surge channel that boasts the best storm-watching in the West.", "Check in: Each room comes decked out with a fireplace, balcony, and flat-screen TV -- not that you'll need it.", "What's really worth watching here is the view out the floor-to-ceiling windows.", "Feeling restless?", "Switch it up by taking in the view from one of the spa's outdoor hot pools.", "Storm-watching season starts mid-November.", "From $237 U.S. Explore: The Wild Pacific Trail skirts rocky cliffs and meanders through dense old-growth rain forest to reveal dramatic vistas of the moody, tossing surf.", "-- D.L. PAIA INN HOTEL, Paia, Hawaii .", "Paia, Maui's North Shore surfer outpost, is the refreshing antithesis of the sprawling resorts on the island's south side.", "Check in: At the center of \"downtown\" Paia, this newly renovated five-room inn manages to be both casual-beachy (hand-scrawled notes in your room from the staff; body boards you're welcome to borrow) and big-city chic (high-thread-count sheets; flat-screen TVs).", "You're 200 yards from the beach, two steps to town, and -- best of all -- miles from the masses.", "From $169 . Explore: Mama's Fish House for just-caught ono and four-star service surrounded by palm trees and the pristine Pacific.", "$$$$; 808/579-8488.", "--Rachel Levin .", "TIMBER COVE INN, Sonoma Coast, California .", "A narrow ribbon of road clings, against all odds, to a grassy slope that plummets into the Pacific along this overlooked coastline with views to infinity.", "Check in: It always had the million-dollar spot on a solitary rocky point above the waves, and its rugged lodge look and soaring lounge haven't changed.", "But with new ownership and a cash infusion, Timber Cove has shed its swinging '70s decor and gone for a more streamlined, romantic look.", "Private decks are perfect for whale-watching and sharing a Sonoma Coast Pinot.", "From $169 . Explore: Pull off at Salt Point State Park to ramble by wild-colored succulents and alien rock formations carved by the sea.", "$7 per vehicle -- Lisa Trottier .", "CASS HOUSE INN AND RESTAURANT, Cayucos, California .", "The small surf town of Cayucos has remained miraculously immune to over-development for decades, despite its great wines to the east and white sandy beaches to the west.", "The elaborate breakfast (included!)", "is nearly as good as chef Jensen Lorenzen's seasonally inspired dinner (if it's on the evening menu, the oxtail soup is a must).", "But the best part about the 1800s Cass House?", "That would be twin sisters Grace Lorenzen (the innkeeper) and Carla Wingett (groundskeeper), who manage the organic garden and the five impeccably turned-out guestrooms.", "From $165 . Explore: With sand dunes climbing hundreds of feet above miles-long beaches and eucalyptus-lined hiking trails, the Montaña de Oro park (a 25-minute drive away) is a must.", "-- Jaimal Yogis .", "AVILA LIGHTHOUSE SUITES, Avila Beach, California .", "Remember those beach vacations you took with your parents back in the day?", "Sandy motel floors, over-chlorinated pools, and too much junk food?", "Tiny Avila Beach, smack at the midway point of California's Central Coast, is that throwback beach town, upgraded for your new, adult standards.", "Check in: Yes, kids love the pool, the giant chess game, even the putt-putt golf green, but lush landscaping, a location to die for (the motel is maybe 10 steps from the beach), and 54 large guest suites with low-key nautical decor and mini kitchens make the grown-ups giddy too.", "From $229 . Explore: Avila Beach is tailor-made for strolling around in your flip-flops eating ice cream.", "But if you tire of that, take a docent-led 3.5-mile hike on Pecho Coast Trail (9 a.m.", "Sat; free, reservations required) to Point San Luis Lighthouse ($5).", "-- Samantha Schoech .", "Enter to win a monthly Room Makeover Giveaway from MyHomeIdeas.com .", "Copyright 2004-2009 Sunset magazine.", "All rights reserved." ]	[ "Two Harbors on Catalina Island has boat-in and walk-in campgrounds and a lodge .", "Coast Cabins in Oregon offers private outdoor spas and sculptural firepits .", "Paia Inn Hotel in Hawaii combines casual-beachy style with big-city chic ." ]	[ 5, 43, 47, 58 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Protests over media freedom continued in Venezuela Tuesday, a day after two student protesters were killed in separate clashes.", "Student leaders opposed to cable operators' decision to drop five television channels, including an opposition station, for failure to follow broadcast laws pleaded for an end to the violence at a demonstration in front of the state-run broadcaster.", "Also Tuesday, the Interior Ministry designated four investigators to look into the shooting deaths of the two students in the western state of Merida.", "The protests stem from the suspension of cable station Radio Caracas Television (RCTV) and five other stations over the weekend.", "The stations were pulled from the air because they did not broadcast a speech by President Hugo Chavez, as required by national broadcast laws.", "Protesters say that the suspension of RCTV, known for its anti-Chavez slant, was provoked by the Chavez government.", "The Chavez government had already pushed RCTV off of public airwaves in 2007 for similar violations.", "Then, as now, his opponents saw politics behind the move.", "The street protests this week produced confrontations with police and Chavez supporters, but have been more widespread.", "Photos from a weekend national baseball series showed many fans in the crowd wearing red bandanas over their mouths in protest.", "According to the preliminary investigation, a 16-year-old student was killed during an altercation in Merida Monday night, the state-run Bolivarian News Agency reported.", "The teen was identified as Yosinio Carrillo Torres.", "In a second incident in Merida, just before midnight, another youth, Marcos Rosales Suarez, was shot when a group of unidentified gunmen fired into a crowd of protesters.", "\"We applied the law,\" Chavez said in a speech over the weekend.", "\"If they don't follow it, they won't be allowed back on the air.\"", "Many press freedom organizations, including the Committee to Protect Journalists, have urged Chavez to allow the stations back on the air right away.", "\"Pulling a television station from cable and satellite distribution because it chooses not to carry every word uttered by a politician would be laughable if this weren't Venezuela,\" Carlos Lauria, CPJ's senior program coordinator for the Americas, said in a statement.", "\"The action against RCTV is a disturbing sign of the growing censorship imposed by President Hugo Chavez.", "The authorities must restore all stations to subscription TV immediately.\"", "The Venezuelan embassy in the United States released a statement challenging the way the RCTV incident was being portrayed, citing \"distortions in U.S. press coverage.\"", "\"Once again an administrative sanction against media outlets that have failed to comply with broadcast laws are painted as measures against the political views expressed in their programming with the goal of attacking the democratic legitimacy of the Venezuelan government,\" the statement said.", "The cable stations were aware of the laws and chose not to follow them, the Venezuelan government said.", "\"This is not a discriminatory nor arbitrary measure,\" the statement said.", "In other developments in Venezuela, the president of state-owned Banco de Venezuela, Eugenio Vazquez Orellana, announced his resignation Tuesday.", "The resignation follows two other high-level resignations from Chavez's upper ranks.", "Over the weekend, Venezuela's vice president and defense minister Ramon Carrizalez, and minister for the environment Yuviri Ortega, also resigned." ]	[ "Protests over media freedom continue in Venezuela a day after two protesters killed .", "Students oppose cable operator dropping 5 TV channels, including opposition station .", "Stations pulled from air for not broadcasting speech by President Hugo Chavez .", "Protesters: RCTV suspension (known for anti-Chavez slant) provoked by government ." ]	[ 0, 4, 5 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Rafael Nadal must get past big-serving home hope Andy Roddick to have a shot at his first title in 11 months at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.", "The Spanish fourth seed crushed No.", "8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France 6-3 6-2 on Wednesday night to move into the semifinals of the ATP Tour event, which has already seen top-ranked Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray fall by the wayside.", "Sixth seed Roddick is hoping to repeat his 2004 victory, with the American in similarly dominant form as he dispatched Nadal's 33rd-seeded compatriot Nicolas Almagro 6-3 6-3.", "Nadal, twice a losing finalist in the southern American city, also reached the last four at Indian Wells two weeks ago on his return from a knee injury.", "\"When you play against Andy, it always is a big challenge,\" he told the ATP Tour Web site.", "\"His serve, and he's a very good competitor.", "He's a winner. Gonna be a very tough match, no?", "I think I have to play my best tennis to try to win.\"", "Roddick, who has not dropped a set so far, will take on a player who will return to No.", "3 in the world rankings next week following defending champion Murray's second-round exit.", "He reached the final at Indian Wells before losing to Nadal's conqueror Ivan Ljubicic, and was also a semifinalist in Miami in 2008.", "\"Sometimes when you're not playing well, everything feels a little bit forced.", "When you play a lot of matches and play a high level, it feels like everything kind of slows down a little bit,\" he told the ATP site.", "\"Muscle memory takes over a little bit more, and things kind of just happen.", "So I think I'm at that stage right now.", "\"Unfortunately with tennis you have to start every day and it's a new one.", "You're playing well, but you still have to go out and do it every day.\"", "In Thursday's quarterfinals, fifth seed Robin Soderling of Sweden takes on No.", "13 Mikhail Youzhny of Russia.", "Czech 16th seed Tomas Berdych, who knocked out Federer on Wednesday, will play Spanish No.", "10 Fernando Verdasco.", "Meanwhile, Justine Henin will take on fellow Belgian Kim Clijsters in a battle of the former number ones in the semifinals of the women's event in Miami.", "Henin came from behind to oust second seed Caroline Wozniacki, beating the young Dane 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-4.", "\"I was in a lot of trouble in the first set.", "It wasn't easy for me to find a good balance of aggression and patience,\" Henin, who was given a wildcard entry, told the WTA Tour Web site.", "\"It was the kind of match I really needed.", "Even though I was a bit tired in the end, I was able to win.", "In terms of my fighting spirit, I proved I can still do it.", "That was important for me.\" Clijsters, the 14th seed, defeated No.", "9 Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-3 7-5 as she broke to love in the 11th game and then served out for victory.", "\"Kim and I grew up together, arrived on the tour at the same time, played well at the same time, retired at the same time, and now we came back at the same time.", "It's amazing,\" Clijsters said.", "\"We have never stopped respecting each other.", "Never, ever, ever.", "Even if people talk about it, we never had any problems, Kim and I.\"", "Henin has a 12-11 advantage in matches between the two, and the winner of Thursday night's match will take on either American third seed Venus Williams or France's No.", "13 Marion Bartoli." ]	[ "Rafael Nadal faces Andy Roddick in semifinals of Sony Ericsson Open in Miami .", "Spanish fourth seed continues comeback with 6-3 6-2 win over No.", "8 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga .", "American sixth seed Roddick crushes Nadal's compatriot Nicolas Almagro .", "Kim Clijsters to take on fellow Belgian Justine Henin in last four of women's event ." ]	[ 1, 3, 22 ]
[ "Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- Taking risks in life with her career, and less so at the buffet table, have served Mireille Guiliano and her readers well.", "The longtime Veuve Clicquot champagne house executive has a wisdom about women, French and otherwise, that's made her one others turn to for advice.", "The former CEO and best-selling author of \"French Women Don't Get Fat\" and \"French Women for All Seasons\" is now toasting her latest book, \"Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility.\"", "Inspired by the young women who've approached her for guidance, Guiliano, who splits her time between New York and Paris, set out to impart what she's learned through her career.", "\"We have to help each other and help especially the young generation progress and not make the same mistakes we did,\" she said.", "\"These very difficult times, with the recession and all of that, are actually a positive for women because it gives us a chance to make a difference and show that we are becoming the majority, and we should be treated as such.\"", "CNN sat down recently with Guiliano to discuss the word that hurts the careers of women most, the lessons her mother taught her and any last-minute tips she has to prevent holiday-food overindulgence.", "Here are excerpts from that interview: .", "CNN: What exactly is this art of savoir faire you speak of?", "Guiliano: Savoir faire is a complex set, a mix I should say, of competence, experience and knowing somehow instinctively how to make a decision in a given situation.", "[It's] creating your own luck and your own opportunities and then making the most of them.", "CNN: What are the pitfalls you've seen women fall into most often and how do you think they can be avoided?", "Guiliano: The word that I found comes back over and over again in women's lives when it pertains to their professions is the word fear.", "They're afraid to make a move.", "They're afraid to take a job in another state or another city or another country.", "They're afraid to go for an interview.", "They're afraid to take a promotion because they might not be up to the job.", "It comes from our culture, of course, the low self-esteem and low confidence we have, and we have to change that.", "CNN: How did you not fall into that trap?", "Guiliano: I used my mother's management principle, which was ironic because my mother didn't go to school and wasn't a businesswoman.", "But she told me to not be afraid to take risks and to ask myself , \"What is the worst thing that can happen?\" ...", "When you have that in mind, it gives you a special strength to go ahead, be bold and take the chances.", "CNN: When you talk about what \"our culture\" has taught women, do you see a difference between American women and French women?", "And as a Frenchwoman who's lived and worked in New York, what have those differences meant to you?", "Guiliano: Being and working in America, it's very important to work hard, work smart and work in a certain way.", "France and Europe has, with the tradition and culture, it's slow-moving and it's not always good.", "So you have to find a balance between the two.", "I know that I could have never accomplished what I have if I had stayed in France.", "CNN: Why do you say that? Guiliano: Because the opportunities were not there.", "Because it's much more of a man's world.", "In France, it's still very difficult for women to move ahead and to get into the boardroom or [serve as] CEO and all of that.", "That has to change. CNN: But what about the need for more balance in American women's lives?", "Guiliano: Balance -- that's what it's about.", "At the end of the day, each of us is responsible for our own balance.", "It starts with the physical because when you are healthy physically, of course, you have more energy, you are more bubbly, you are more productive, you're a happier person.", "And I believe it's contagious.", "Your spouse will notice it, your colleagues will notice it, and it will have a tremendous positive effect on the way you work, the way you think and the way you do everything.", "CNN: Do you have tips on how to achieve this?", "Guiliano: Find times to relax, to pursue your hobbies, your moments because this is very important.", "It's unfortunate that sometimes our companies, our bosses don't understand that we need that time.", "Actually it makes us better workers.", "We shouldn't feel guilty going for a walk at lunch, as opposed to eating at our desks.", "Each of us has different ways.", "For you, it might be five minutes, three times a day, of deep breathing.", "And for me it might be 20 minutes of yoga in the morning.", "Or for someone else it might be listening to music or going for a walk.", "Whatever it is, you need that.", "CNN: You've also, since your first book, emphasized the importance of eating well.", "We are in the midst of the most gluttonous season, and though it might be a little late to apply your advice this year around, do you have any last-minute tips for how we can approach holiday parties?", "Guiliano: You have to apply a few commonsense tricks.", "At most of those parties, the food is not that great to start with, so don't go hungry and starving.", "Have two tablespoons of a yogurt or a sliver of cheese or a few nuts or a hard-boiled egg or an apple before you go, so you're not starving, and then try not to be too close to the food.", "Or look at all the food and pick two or three things you like and just have small portions, small bites.", "... People in America, in the Anglo-Saxon world, tend to say \"no bread.\"", "You can have a little bit of everything.", "It's all about moderation and balance." ]	[ "Mireille Guiliano, best-selling author, promotes latest book about work life .", "Women mentoring other women is key to growth, as is finding balance, Guiliano says .", "Letting go of fear allows women to take risks and move ahead, author adds .", "Balance is tied to physical health and sensible eating, a doable holiday challenge ." ]	[ 2, 20, 30, 32, 49, 55 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- In the middle of the street lies a young man who appears to be dead, a pool of blood beneath his head.", "A large concrete block is next to his shoulder, with shattered pieces of it around him.", "Blood trickles down the road.", "Witnesses say he was a thief trying to steal people's money Friday amid the chaos from last week's earthquake.", "\"This is robbery. He went to rob the people.", "He went to steal money -- American dollars,\" said a man at the scene who identified himself as Frederic Mano, a Haitian sportswriter.", "\"The people kill him with the blocks, because the people are angry.", "They are not hungry, they are angry,\" Mano told CNN's Lisa Desjardins.", "Gruesome photos from the scene show the man facing up, with his arms out to the side.", "He is wearing socks but no shoes.", "A second concrete block is a few feet away from him.", "Mano said the young man was one of several thousand prisoners who escaped after the earthquake struck.", "He did not deserve to be killed, Mano says, \"but anyway, he's dead.", "That is destiny.\" Other witnesses gave a similar account.", "They said they believed the man was a thief and might have been a prisoner who escaped.", "In Haiti at this time, there is no immediate way to confirm the man's identity.", "CNN learned of the situation when a Haitian approached a CNN crew.", "\"Do you want to see an example of citizen justice?\"", "the man asked. He said a man had been stoned to death by an angry mob.", "By the time CNN arrived on the scene, the crowd had mostly dispersed.", "Some people stood on the side, looking at the young man in the middle of John Brown Avenue, which is usually one of the busiest streets in the capital city.", "There are no operating shops on the street.", "But there are many vendors selling items from tables or carts.", "The incident took place near the Champs de Mars, the capital's central plaza that has turned into something of a tent city.", "It was just a few minutes' walk from CNN's bureau.", "As the body lay still, some vehicles drove by on each side.", "CNN's Alec Miran contributed to this report." ]	[ "Apparently by a mob, man killed near Champs de Mars, the capital's central plaza .", "\"This is robbery.", "He went to rob the people,\" says a man at the scene .", "Gruesome photos from the scene show the man facing up, with his arms out to the side ." ]	[ 4, 8, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Some silver screen couples were just meant to end up together: Bogey and Bacall, Harry and Sally, Saturday matinees and ... a cup of low-fat yogurt?", "If Sony executives get their way, U.S. moviegoers will have the option of healthier snacks with their flicks -- and they won't even have to smuggle them in.", "In a recent speech at ShoWest -- the country's largest tradeshow for the movie theater industry -- Sony Pictures Entertainment Chief Executive Michael Lynton called upon concessionaires to supplement classic, high-calorie soda, candy and popcorn options with more healthy fare like fruit, granola, yogurt and vegetables with dip.", "It's \"the right thing to do for our industry, for audiences and for our country,\" said Lynton .", "Lynton's colleague, Sony's Executive Vice President for Global Communications Jim Kennedy, attempted to combat the causes of child obesity in his previous post with the Clinton Foundation.", "With this new intiative, he revisits that effort, telling CNN that Sony is asking theaters to accommodate the 60 percent of parents who feel that their overall moviegoing experience would be improved if there were healthier options available at the concession stand.", "The poll, conducted by Nielsen, also revealed that two-thirds of all moviegoers and three-quarters of parents would be more likely to buy sensible snacks from concession stands (Kennedy says that savvy moviegoers are already sneaking in raisins and granola bars) if they were available for purchase.", "So what does this means for lovers of king-sized Sno-Caps (400 calories and 11 grams of saturated fat in a 3.1-ounce bag) and fishbowl-sized sodas (400 calories and 26 teaspoons of sugar in a 44-ounce medium iced soda at Regal, or a large at AMC or Cinemark theaters) -- as well as the theaters thatsell popcorn for a 900 percent markup?", "Kennedy, himself a fan of a popcorn and M&Ms combo (\"I go back and forth between the sweet and the salt -- though I wish the M&Ms came in smaller bags.\")", "says neither set will suffer.", "\"We're not asking theaters to stop selling sodas, and we know most moviegoers are unlikely to change their habits.", "It just makes sense to offer more choices.\"", "\"It's a new source of income for theaters.", "They've already innovated by adding digital technology and more comfortable seats.", "This is consistent with that level of innovation,\" he said.", "Representatives for The National Association of Theatre Owners and several major chains were unavailable for comment, but according to a SmartMoney.com interview with Warren Miller, senior equity analyst for stock tracking service Morningstar, of every dollar spent at the concession stand, 85 cents is profit.", "A CNN Money feature from earlier this year finds that a medium bag of popcorn at most chains costs 60 cents, but retails for $6.", "Theater owners may be slow to invest in fare with a flatter return rate.", "And just how unhealthy is that much demonized \"buttery\" popcorn topping?", "According to a December 2009 dispatch from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, one tablespoon of the non-hydrogenated soybean oil used by many chains adds an extra 130 calories, while the same amount of real butter topping pours on 9 grams of saturated fat -- or half a day's limit.", "The corn itself packs a serious caloric pop.", "According to that same study, a medium (20 cup) bucket at a Regal theater weighs in at 1,200 calories, with 60 grams of saturated fat and 980 milligrams of sodium, and Cinemark's medium size (a mere 14 cups) serves up 760 calories, 3 grams of saturated fat and 1,240 milligrams of sodium.", "To put that in perspective, recommended daily intake for an average adult is 2000 calories, 20 grams of saturated fat and 1,500 milligrams of sodium.", "While, according to Jim Kennedy, the average American visits their local theater four times a year and this might not make a major nutritional dent, many families with children attend nearly once a week.", "But why are modern day moviegoers in the habit of sitting back and massively snacking in the dark, anyhow?", "Kennedy says it would probably take a sociologist to figure that out." ]	[ "Sony movie execs want theater concessionaires to offer fruit, granola, yogurt .", "Poll: Two-thirds of all moviegoers more likely to buy sensible snacks .", "Expert: Of every dollar spent at the concession stand, 85 cents is profit ." ]	[ 6, 15 ]
[ "KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday, met with American forces and, according to a U.S. official, is expected to meet Sunday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.", "Sen. Barack Obama attends a meeting in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Saturday.", "The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee was visiting the Central Asian nation before he embarks on a tour of the Middle East and Europe, a trip aimed at boosting his foreign policy credentials.", "The trip, which comes four months ahead of the presidential election, marks Obama's first visit to Afghanistan.", "The trip has been shrouded in secrecy for security reasons, a standard precaution for most U.S. officials in conflict zones.", "On Saturday, the senator from Illinois traveled to eastern Afghanistan to visit Americans forces under NATO's Regional Command East.", "Obama is accompanied by Sen. Charles Hagel, R-Nebraska, and Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island.", "The senators met service members at Jalalabad airfield in Nangarhar province.", "The governor of Nangarhar province, Gul Agha Shirzai -- formerly the governor of Kandahar province -- also met the senators at the air base.", "Shirzai and Obama embraced briefly at the end of the meeting.", "Watch Obama's visit to Jalalabad » .", "Upon arrival at Bagram Air Base, the senators were briefed by Maj. Gen. Jeffrey J. Schloesser, commanding general of the Regional Command East.", "Ahead of the trip to Afghanistan, the senators stopped in Kuwait to visit U.S. troops, Obama campaign spokesman Robert Gibbs said.", "They left Washington on Thursday.", "In Kuwait, the senators visited Camp Arifjan for about two hours to meet with U.S. Army Central leadership, take a brief tour of the base and talk with soldiers, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Bill Nutter said.", "They met in a gymnasium with about 1,000 military members, who cheered jubliantly at their arrival.", "\"America is unified in being so proud of the extraordinary, brilliant, dedicated professional service that is provided by all members of our armed services,\" he told the military personnel there.", "Later, Obama shot baskets with some soldiers, drawing cheers with each basket he made.", "Watch Obama meet troops and play some hoops » .", "Soldiers were able to meet the senator on the basketball court later.", "After, Obama said, \"I am just very proud of the extraordinary work that the troops are doing here in Kuwait; you're providing all the logistical support that's needed for folks in the battlefield and without you this effort would not be successful.\"", "Hagel agreed, saying, \"We're here first to thank the troops.\"", "After the events at the the gymnasium, they met with Lt. Gen. Jim Lovelace, the U.S. Army Central Commander, and senior leadership who gave them an overview of the command, Nutter said.", "Obama spoke briefly to a pool reporter about his trip just before leaving Washington.", "\"I'm looking forward to seeing what the situation on the ground is,\" Obama said.", "\"I want to, obviously, talk to the commanders and get a sense, both in Afghanistan and in Baghdad of, you know, what the most, their biggest concerns are.", "And I want to thank our troops for the heroic work that they've been doing.\"", "Asked whether he would have tough talk for the leaders of Afghanistan and Iraq, Obama said he was \"more interested in listening than doing a lot of talking.\"", "\"I think it is very important to recognize that I'm going over there as a U.S. senator.", "We have one president at a time, so it's the president's job to deliver those messages,\" Obama said.", "Watch Obama's foreign policy adviser discuss overseas trip » .", "The fight in Afghanistan has become a more pressing issue on the political radar.", "Three times as many coalition soldiers and other military personnel have died this month in Afghanistan, compared with Iraq.", "July's death toll for coalition troops in Afghanistan reached 22 Saturday, after the Friday death of a Canadian soldier was announced.", "Three times as many coalition soldiers and other military personnel have died in July in Afghanistan than in Iraq.", "On Sunday, nine U.S. soldiers were killed in a fight with about 200 Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan.", "It was the deadliest attack on U.S. troops in Afghanistan in three years.", "Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Wednesday that U.S. officials are looking for ways to send more troops to Afghanistan, amid the resurgence of violence nearly seven years after the ousting of the Taliban government.", "Gates said the hope is to send additional forces \"sooner rather than later.\"", "He said the Pentagon is \"working very hard to see if there are opportunities to send additional forces sooner rather than later.\"", "That probably means further reductions in troop levels in Iraq this year to free up forces for Afghanistan.", "Watch officials discuss need for more troops in Afghanistan » .", "Obama is to travel to Jordan on Tuesday and then visit Israel, Germany, France and England.", "CNN's Reza Sayah in Kabul and Barbara Starr in Washington contributed to this report." ]	[ "Sen. Barack Obama arrives in Afghanistan for first stop of global tour .", "Obama's visit comes as U.S. officials want to send more troops to region .", "Obama also expected to visit several countries in Middle East, Europe ." ]	[ 1, 3, 12, 37 ]
[ "Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- Scores of bodies were found in a mass grave outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince on Friday, a sign of Haitians' desperation three days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated the impoverished nation.", "At least 100 bodies were discovered by a CNN crew in one open pit outside Port-au-Prince, with several other pits half-filled or completely covered over with earth, presumably full.", "The bodies were brought to the site by dump trucks, still accompanied by the remnants of what loved ones used to move them -- pieces of plywood, makeshift shrouds and in one case, an old refrigerator.", "Elsewhere, bodies were being shoved into old crypts in the city's existing cemeteries.", "Haiti's Minister of Civil Protection said Friday that the government estimates more than 50,000 people were killed, with the number possibly closer to 100,000.", "There is not yet an official count of the dead from the quake.", "Despite the death and destruction, hundreds of people, mostly women, took to the streets in an area of the capital on Friday, singing and chanting as they marched down the street -- a sign of resilience amid huge mounds of rubble.", "It is not the first time such a display has been observed.", "Singing and clapping has been heard well into the night in a large square that thousands of people have made home after the earthquake, a CNN crew reported.", "Meanwhile, a crucial 72-hour window elapsed Friday afternoon -- the time to free those who still may be alive trapped under the remains of buildings.", "An 18-month-old baby was pulled from the rubble Friday, seemingly unharmed.", "Get the latest developments in Haiti .", "Still, those rescued weren't out of danger as hospitals lacked proper supplies to treat some of them.", "An 11-year-old girl rescued Thursday -- an effort CNN captured on camera throughout the day -- died later that night from her injuries after a first-aid station said it couldn't treat her severe leg wound, her family said.", "Aid workers continued to trickle into the country Friday, trying to provide water and food to survivors in the capital, which still was being rocked by aftershocks Friday.", "The quake toppled many of Port-au-Prince's buildings, and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon estimated Friday that it left as many as \"50 percent of buildings in the worst-hit areas damaged or destroyed.\"", "Many of the capital's 3 million people are without access to food, water, shelter and electricity, he said, and crews are working \"to save as many lives as possible.\"", "Haitian President Rene Preval identified three priorities in the recovery effort -- get the government back up and running, clear the roads and sanitize the city of the scores of corpses scattered about its streets, he told U.N. television Friday .", "There were small signs of progress in food and water distribution by Friday afternoon.", "A few fire trucks and tankers were seen distributing water.", "A U.N. distribution center also was set up -- guarded by Bolivian U.N. peacekeeping troops -- where some 10,000 plates of cooked chicken and rice were handed out to a patient line of survivors.", "Elsewhere, a U.N. food convoy was rushed by dozens of hungry people who clamored to reach the handouts of nutritional biscuits and water-purification tablets.", "Impact Your World .", "Ban announced Friday that he will travel to Haiti on Sunday.", "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also announced Friday that she will visit the quake-battered capital on Saturday, the first major U.S. official to do so.", "President Obama spoke for about a half-hour with Preval on Friday, pledging the \"full support of the American people,\" including long-term help.", "The relief effort has been challenged by the destruction and the need for more supplies, the U.N. secretary-general said, citing blocked roads and limited capacity at the capital's one-runway airport.", "The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a ground stop on all U.S. flights into Haiti Friday because of a lack of ramp space.", "Haiti aid efforts hampered in critical hours .", "But, Ban said, aid flights are arriving, and food and medical supplies are beginning to be distributed in Port-au-Prince.", "\"Although it is inevitably slower and more difficult than any of us would wish, we are mobilizing all resources as fast as we possibly can,\" Ban said Friday, announcing an appeal for $550 million.", "The United Nations announced Friday that at least 37 of its personnel had died -- 36 with the U.N. mission and one with the World Food Programme.", "More than 300 are still unaccounted for.", "U.N. entities in Haiti employ more than 12,000 people.", "Preval said that he has been touched by the friendship of the American people.", "He expressed his condolences for the loss of American citizens in Haiti.", "The State Department has identified at least six U.S. deaths so far and a spokesman said Friday that toll \"will go up.\"", "Despite relative calm, CNN reporters witnessed some sporadic looting and violence Thursday afternoon.", "Watch how texting is helping to raise money for Haiti .", "\"If help doesn't come quickly, it probably will (get worse),\" Agnes Pierre-Louis, manager of her family-owned hotel, the Le Plaza in downtown Port-au-Prince.", "\"We're not hearing anything from the government.", "We're not seeing any foreign aid yet.\"", "But Lt. Gen. Ken Keen, deputy commander of the U.S. Southern Command, said forces have not \"seen a great deal of insecurity.\"", "The priority now, he said, is cranking up rescue and relief efforts to stave off restiveness.", "CNN's Arthur Brice, Elise Labott, Richard Roth, Chris Lawrence and Steve Kastenbaum contributed to this report." ]	[ "At least one mass grave has been dug outside Port-au-Prince .", "Small signs of progress in food and water distribution .", "President Obama offers \"full support of the American people\" to Haitian leader .", "U.N. secretary-general, U.S. secretary of state to come to Haiti ." ]	[ 15, 18, 25, 36 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Rescuers in northern California on Thursday found the body of Thomas Bennett, a climber who became trapped on Mount Shasta after falling ill. A seven-member rescue team flew in by helicopter and found the hiker, who had taken shelter Sunday in a snow cave, the Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office said.", "According to local reports, Bennett and a climbing partner trekked to the summit of the mountain, and on their way down, Bennett became sick and unresponsive.", "His partner, Mark Thomas, dug a snow cave for Bennett and hiked down, looking for help.", "Poor visibility and weather dashed attempts to fly in the rescue team Wednesday, the sheriff's office said.", "On Thursday, the team went up in a Chinook helicopter and was off-loaded near Mount Shasta's summit.", "They found an avalanche marker that Thomas had left at the snow cave, and the rescuers dug and found that Bennett had died.", "Bennett's family was notified, and his body was flown off the mountain, the sheriff's office said.", "An autopsy to determine the exact cause of death was scheduled." ]	[ "Thomas Bennett had taken ill Sunday after trekking to the summit of the mountain .", "His partner, Mark Thomas, dug a snow cave for Bennett and hiked down .", "An autopsy is scheduled to determine the exact cause of death ." ]	[ 2, 7 ]
[ "(CNN) -- President Barack Obama made a previously unannounced visit Thursday to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency, which is dealing with widespread flooding in the region.", "Obama made the stop after a speech on health care reform in Portland, Maine, and before two fundraising appearances in Boston.", "At the emergency agency's facility, Obama met with Massachusetts Gov.", "Deval Patrick, a fellow Democrat and political ally, as well as local officials and workers combating flooding from recent storms.", "He spoke with workers coordinating the response to the flooding, saying at one point: \"Sounds like at least with some sunshine and sandbags, we can hope for the best.\"", "Family needs boat to get to front door .", "Later, he began his remarks at the fundraising events by thanking the government workers involved in the flood relief effort.", "\"It is worth reminding people at a time when folks who work in government don't get enough credit (that) when times are tough, when trouble arises, there are all kinds of civil servants out there who work 24/7,\" Obama said.", "Patrick has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard.", "The worst flooding has occurred in neighboring Rhode Island, where more than 10,000 people were without power and officials said long-term recovery could take months.", "See first-hand stories from the flood zone .", "A rainstorm soaked Northeastern states Tuesday, worsening the effects of a major storm that struck two weeks ago.", "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will visit Rhode Island on Friday to inspect flood damage and meet with state and local leaders to discuss response and recovery efforts.", "In Connecticut, Gov.", "Jodi Rell said a state of emergency put in place for the earlier storm remains in effect.", "The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency is the state agency responsible for coordinating federal, state, local, voluntary and private resources during emergencies and disasters in the state." ]	[ "Obama met with Massachusetts Gov.", "Deval Patrick, local officials and workers .", "At fundraisers, president thanked government workers involved in the flood relief effort .", "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will visit Rhode Island on Friday ." ]	[ 2, 6, 12 ]
[ "Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- An American jailer was the target in the shooting deaths of three people with ties to the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexican officials said.", "The jailer, Arthur Redelfs, and his wife, Lesley Ann Enriquez, were killed in a drive-by shooting in Juarez earlier this month.", "Enriquez was an employee of the U.S. Consulate in that city.", "Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, 37, the husband of a Mexican employee of the consulate, was also killed at around the same time as Redelfs and Enriquez.", "A suspect arrested in the case gave new details on the high-profile killings, Mexican federal authorities said in a statement late Tuesday.", "Ricardo Valles de la Rosa, a member of the Aztecas gang, was arrested Friday based on military intelligence, the statement said.", "According to federal officials, de la Rosa told interrogators that he was a lookout for the operation that killed the two Americans.", "He said he got to know many leaders of the Aztecas, a street gang affiliated with the Juarez cartel, while imprisoned in El Paso County, Texas.", "Although he was born in Juarez, de la Rosa lived in El Paso for 30 years.", "One of the Azteca leaders called and ordered him to find where consulate employees were having a children's party and to follow the white sport utility vehicle belonging to Redelfs, a jail guard in El Paso, authorities said.", "The call came days in advance of the killings, the statement said.", "De la Rosa followed Redelfs' vehicle down a Juarez avenue, until being told to fall back because the shooters had the vehicle in their sights, the statement said.", "A few moments later, de la Rosa heard shooting.", "According to federal authorities, de la Rosa drove by the scene and saw that in addition to Redelfs, his wife, who was four months pregnant, was also dead.", "An infant in the back seat was uninjured.", "De la Rosa also admitted to involvement in four other homicides involving members or rival gangs, authorities said.", "No additional arrests have been made in the case.", "De la Rosa remains imprisoned pending the outcome of the investigation.", "Ceniceros' wife was not traveling with him, but two of their children in the car were wounded.", "His white SUV looked very similar to the one Redelfs drove." ]	[ "Arthur Redelfs and wife, Lesley Ann Enriquez, killed in a drive-by shooting in Juarez .", "Suspect arrested in case gives new details on high-profile killings of three people total .", "Officials: Suspect said he was lookout for the operation that killed the two Americans ." ]	[ 1, 4, 6 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Deaths from pregnancy and childbirth in the United States have doubled in the past 20 years, a development that a human rights group called \"scandalous and disgraceful\" Friday.", "In addition, the rights group said, about 1.7 million women a year, one-third of pregnant women in the United States, suffer from pregnancy-related complications.", "Most of the deaths and complications occur among minorities and women living in poverty, it noted.", "Amnesty International issued a report Friday that calls on President Obama to take action.", "\"This country's extraordinary record of medical advancement makes its haphazard approach to maternal care all the more scandalous and disgraceful,\" said Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA.", "\"Good maternal care should not be considered a luxury available only to those who can access the best hospitals and the best doctors.", "Women should not die in the richest country on earth from preventable complications and emergencies,\" Cox said in a news release.", "The report, \"Deadly Delivery: The Maternal Health Care Crisis in the USA,\" notes that the lifetime risk of maternal deaths is greater in the United States than in 40 other countries, including virtually all industrialized nations.", "The report also noted that severe pregnancy-related complications that nearly cause death -- known as \"near misses\" -- have increased by 25 percent since 1998.", "Up to 40 percent of near misses are considered preventable with better quality of care, according to a 2007 study in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.", "Minorities, women living in poverty, Native Americans, immigrants and those who speak little or no English are particularly affected, Amnesty International said.", "\"The thing that really struck us was that these problems hit women of color, low-income, particularly hard,\" said Nan Strauss, researcher and co-author of the Amnesty report.", "\"But every woman who is going through pregnancy in this country is at risk.\"", "Figures compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, show that black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth than their white counterparts.", "White women have a mortality rate of 9.5 per 100,000 pregnancies, the CDC said.", "For African-American women, that rate is 32.7 deaths per 100,000 pregnancies.", "\"This has been known for a while and no one has a good handle on it,\" said Dr. Elliot Main, chairman and chief of obstetrics at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.", "\"This is a national disgrace and a call to action.", "Both numbers are a call to action -- maternal mortality and racial disparity.\"", "The CDC analysis shows that deaths during pregnancy and childbirth have doubled for all U.S. women in the past 20 years.", "In 1987, there were 6.6 deaths for every 100,000 pregnancies.", "The number of deaths had climbed to 13.3 per 100,000 in 2006, the last year for which figures were available.", "A report called \"Healthy People 2010\" by the Department of Health and Human Services says that number should be around four deaths for each 100,000 pregnancies.", "Statistics for other highly industrialized countries show that the U.S. goal of four deaths for every 100,000 pregnancies is attainable.", "Great Britain, for example, has fewer than four deaths for each 100,000 pregnancies, Main said.", "\"Women's health is at risk,\" said Strauss.", "\"We spend the most, and yet women are more likely to die than in 40 other countries.", "And that disconnect is what makes it such a problem.\"", "Amnesty International points out that nearly 13 million U.S. women of reproductive age (15 to 44 years old), or one in five, do not have health insurance.", "Minorities account for 32 percent of all women in the United States but 51 percent of uninsured women, the rights group said.", "Furthermore, Amnesty International said, one in four women do not receive adequate prenatal care, starting in the first trimester.", "The number rises to about one in three for African-American and Native American women, the human rights group said.", "Amnesty International also cited what it called \"burdensome bureaucratic procedures in Medicaid enrollment [that] substantially delay access to vital prenatal care for pregnant women seeking government-funded care.\"", "In addition, the group said, a shortage of health care professionals poses a serious obstacle to timely and adequate care, especially in rural areas and inner cities.", "In 2008, 64 million people were living in \"shortage areas\" for primary care, Amnesty International said.", "\"Obstacles to care are widespread, even though the USA spends more on health care than any other country and more on pregnancy and childbirth-related hospital costs, $86 billion, than any other type of hospital care,\" the rights group said.", "In its call for Obama to take action, Amnesty International said a health care reform proposal before Congress does not address the issue.", "\"Reform is primarily focused on health care coverage and reducing health care costs, and even optimistic estimates predict that any proposal on the table will still leave millions without access to affordable care,\" said Rachel Ward, one of the authors of the \"Deadly Delivery\" report.", "\"Mothers die not because the United States can't provide good care, but because it lacks the political will to make sure good care is available to all women,\" said Cox, Amnesty International USA's executive director.", "Medical professionals and researchers note that although the percentage of maternal deaths is increasing, the overall number still remains low.", "\"They are low in absolute number sense,\" said Main in San Francisco.", "\"These are rare events.", "They serve as a canary in the mine shaft -- tell us that we need to look more carefully at the system of maternity care.", "Overall, childbirth is very safe.\"", "More of an alarm is not sounded, analysts said, because most practitioners don't see many -- if any -- deaths each year.", "There is now approximately one death for every 6,000 to 10,000 births, Main said.", "A typical hospital has about 1,500 births a year, so any hospital can go years without a maternal death, he said.", "\"It's still, thank heavens, quite rare,\" said Debra Bingham, executive director of California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative.", "But that doesn't mean there's not a problem, she said.", "\"When you see trends worsen in such a short period of time, it requires thoughtful examination,\" said Bingham.", "\"And you can't just dismiss that.\" Rivka Gordon, director of strategic initiatives at the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, also believes something should be done.", "\"It's unacceptable in a resource-rich country like the U.S. that we are seeing maternal- and pregnancy-related deaths trending upward,\" she said.", "\"We have to look very, very carefully at this.\"", "CNN's Ashley Wennersherron contributed to this report." ]	[ "Amnesty International report calls for better maternal care in United States .", "\"Women are more likely to die than in 40 other countries,\" Amnesty says .", "CDC: Whites' mortality rate is 9.5 per 100,000 pregnancies, blacks' rate is 32.7 ." ]	[ 14, 15, 26 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Police say it now appears that a southern California family missing since early February voluntarily left for Mexico.", "But the apparent inactivity of bank cards, credit cards and cellphones since they vanished continues to baffle police and trouble family members.", "\"I've been in this business for over 35 years but never seen anything like this,\" Lt. Dennis Brugos of the San Diego Sheriff's Department told CNN.", "\"This whole thing doesn't add up,\" Michael McStay, the brother of Joseph McStay, said in a phone interview.", "\"If they left, I don't need to know why.", "The bottom line is, I need to make sure they are OK.\" Information gathered on the home computer of Joseph and Summer McStay indicates the couple was making travel inquires about Mexico on the Internet a week before they were reported missing, Brugos said.", "\"It had to do with travel in Mexico with children and whether you needed to have passports for children,\" Brugos said.", "\"It looks as if there were some planning.\"", "The McStays and their children, Gianni, 4, and Joseph, 3, have not been seen or heard from since February 4.", "The McStays' two dogs were found unattended, without food or water, in the San Diego-area home, investigators said.", "McStay's brother, who initially feared the family might have been kidnapped, still believes they are in danger.", "\"They can't fend for themselves,\" he said. \"If something did happen in Mexico, I would not be able to live with myself.\"", "A sport utility vehicle belonging to the McStays was found abandoned on February 8 two blocks from the San Ysidro border checkpoint into Mexico, authorities said.", "Surveillance video taken that evening appears to show the family \"casually\" walking into Mexico, sheriff's investigators said.", "Brugos believes the four individuals seen on the security footage bear a strong resemblance to the missing family, including the hats the children wore and the woman's boots and coat.", "The sheriff's office met Tuesday with the department's liaison detectives in Mexico, he added.", "\"There is nothing to suggest any criminal involvement in their disappearance, but we would like to find the family,\" Brugos said.", "Michael McStay, who said he will be handing out fliers at the San Ysirdo checkpoint and canvassing the stores, is desperate for any information.", "\"Who knows what happens once you leave U.S.", "soil?\" he said. \"We've all seen the news about what goes on down there.", "Even if they left voluntarily, were they going down for a weekend and never made it back?", "What would compel someone to go?", "I have no idea. If they left it would have had to be something heavy.", "\"It just doesn't make sense.\"", "Joseph McStay is 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs 175 pounds.", "He has brown hair and brown eyes.", "Summer McStay, also known as Lisa Aranda-Martelli, is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 115 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.", "Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the McStay family is urged to contact Sgt.", "Dave Martinez of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department at 858-565-5200.", "Anonymous calls can be made to 888-580-8477.", "A Web site, http://www.mcstayfamily.com/, has been set up in an effort to help locate the family." ]	[ "Joseph and Summer McStay and their children have been missing since February 4 .", "Apparent inactivity of cards and cellphones still troubles police, loved ones .", "Surveillance video shows a family of 4 \"casually\" crossing border into Mexico .", "Joseph McStay's brother says he will be handing out fliers at border crossing ." ]	[ 1, 3, 8, 13, 17 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- A Canadian graduate student has found the only known printed copy of Haiti's Declaration of Independence, tucked away in Britain's National Archives, researchers said.", "Duke University student Julia Gaffield found the eight-page pamphlet, dated January 1, 1804, while researching Haiti's early independence, Duke said in a statement Thursday.", "The discovery sheds light on the early history of Haiti and the relations it had with its Caribbean neighbors at the time, Gaffield and Duke Professor Deborah Jenson said.", "Gaffield is researching early 19th-century Haiti for her doctoral dissertation in history, Duke said.", "She did research in France, Haiti and Jamaica, where she saw a handwritten copy of the declaration in the papers of Jamaica's governor at the time, George Nugent.", "It indicated there was a printed version somewhere, but it wasn't enclosed.", "In late January, Gaffield went to London for research at the National Archives, where she found the printed declaration.", "\"I wasn't specifically looking for it, but I had an eye out for it because I knew it was missing,\" Gaffield said.", "\"We figured there was an original somewhere, but didn't know if it still existed.\"", "The declaration had not been misplaced and had been in the archives for a long time, Gaffield said.", "The period had simply not been studied in detail, and Gaffield said she figures people who saw the document before probably didn't realize what they had.", "Gaffield said she was thrilled by the discovery, but had to wait until the end of the day to notify her advisers at Duke, in North Carolina.", "\"The archives are not the place to make a big scene,\" she said.", "Haiti's declaration is only the second of its kind in the world, the first being the U.S.", "Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and others, Duke said.", "The pamphlet, written in French, has three distinct parts, the National Archives said.", "The first two pages are titled \"Liberte ou La Mort,\" which translates to \"Freedom or Death,\" in which the generals of the Haitian army sign their names to an oath swearing to renounce forever the French yoke or die rather than live under its domination.", "Next, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the general-in-chief, addresses the citizens of Haiti in an impassioned defense of independence and the destiny of the nation.", "On the final page, Haitian army generals proclaim Dessalines governor-general for life and swear to obey without question laws issued under his authority.", "\"To bring this document to light in Haiti's darkest hour may be seen as a symbol of renewal and rejuvenation, helping Haiti rebuild its national spirit following the recent earthquake,\" said Ian Wilson, president of the International Council on Archives.", "\"Julia's achievement in recognizing the significance of this printed document deserves high recognition.\"", "Oliver Morley, the acting chief executive of the National Archives, said they were pleased to play a role in the discovery.", "\"It's incredible that the long search for this important document should finally end at the National Archives,\" Morley said.", "\"This declaration sent to the British government by Haiti's first independent leader is of great historical importance to both Haiti and the British people, and provides unique insight into the first successful slave rebellion of modern times.\"", "Jenson, a professor of French studies at Duke who has researched the U.S. publication of Haiti's independence documents, said the discovery also shows Haiti had a fully functional printing apparatus at every moment of the new nation's independence.", "Researchers had looked for the printed declaration before, without success, said Laurent Dubois, a Duke professor of French studies and history and one of Gaffield's advisers.", "In 1952, Haiti asked intellectual Edmond Mangones to find an original or printed copy so it could be displayed for the nation's 150th anniversary, Dubois said.", "Mangones searched in many archives in Haiti and elsewhere before writing with exasperation that all his searching had been \"in vain,\" Dubois said.", "\"It is really beyond belief,\" Mangones said at the time, \"that not even a copy of the original printed version has been found in France, or in England, or in the United States.\"", "Gaffield's discovery, Dubois said, \"has finally changed that.\"", "Documents from Haiti's early history have not been well preserved and are scattered in various places, said Dubois, who is working with other historians to rehabilitate Haiti's archives after the January 12 earthquake.", "Dubois and Gaffield consulted Patrick Tardieu, a noted Haitian archivist at Brown University, to confirm the document's authenticity.", "\"I was so happy to find out it was true,\" Tardieu said.", "\"It is an important document, and its discovery is important news for Haiti's scholarly community and more broadly for the people of Haiti.\"", "Gaffield said she hopes the discovery will remind historians, Haitians and the world about the early history of the only country in the Western Hemisphere where slaves successfully revolted to gain national independence.", "\"The Haitian Revolution was of immense consequence to Jamaica and other colonies in the Caribbean, as well as to the United States,\" Gaffield said.", "\"This find is further evidence that there was contact and negotiations going on between them.", "Haiti was not isolated after independence and it played a complicated role in a world based on colonialism and slavery.\"" ]	[ "Student Julia Gaffield found document in Britain's National Archives .", "Pamphlet, dated January 1, 1804, is only known record of Haitian independence declaration .", "This declaration was sent to the British government by Haiti's first independent leader .", "The first two pages are titled \"Liberte ou La Mort,\" or \"Freedom or Death.\"" ]	[ 0, 1, 16, 23 ]
[ "(CNN) -- The father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by the Westboro Baptist Church says an order to pay the protesters' legal costs in a civil claim is nothing less than a \"slap in the face.\"", "\"By the court making this decision, they're not only telling me that they're taking their side, but I have to pay them money to do this to more soldiers and their families,\" said Albert Snyder, whose son, Lance Cpl.", "Matthew Snyder, was killed in action in Iraq in 2006.", "Members of the fundamentalist church based in Topeka, Kansas, appeared outside Snyder's funeral in 2006 in Westminster, Maryland, carrying signs reading \"You're going to hell,\" \"God hates you\" and \"Thank God for dead soldiers.\"", "Among the teachings of the church, which was founded in 1955 by pastor Fred Phelps, is the belief that God is punishing the United States for \"the sin of homosexuality\" through events such as soldiers' deaths.", "Margie Phelps, the daughter of Fred Phelps and the attorney representing the church in its appeals, also said the money that the church receives from Snyder will be used to finance demonstrations.", "But she also said that the order was a consequence of his decision to sue the church over the demonstration.", "\"Mr. Snyder and his attorneys have engaged the legal system; there are some rules to that legal engagement,\" said Phelps, a member of Westboro who says she has participated in more than 150 protests of military funerals.", "\"They wanted to shut down the picketing so now they're going to finance it,\" she said.", "The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ordered that Snyder pay more than $16,000 in costs requested by Westboro for copies of motions, briefs and appendices, according to court documents.", "In a motion filed in October, Snyder's lawyer, who is representing him for free, asked the court to dismiss the bill of costs, or, alternatively, reduce the 50-cent fee per page or charge Snyder only for copies that were necessary to make their arguments on appeal.", "\"We objected based upon ability to pay and the fairness of the situation,\" Sean Summers said.", "The mostly pro-forma ruling is the latest chapter in an ongoing legal saga that pits privacy rights of grieving families against the free speech rights of demonstrators, however disturbing and provocative their message.", "Snyder's family sued the church and went to trial in 2007 alleging privacy invasion, intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy.", "A jury awarded the family $2.9 million in compensatory damages plus $8 million in punitive damages, which were reduced to $5 million.", "Westboro in 2008 appealed the case to the 4th District, which reversed the judgments a year later, siding with the church's claims that its First Amendment rights had been violated.", "\"The protest was confined to a public area under supervision and regulation of local law enforcement and did not disrupt the church service,\" the circuit court opinion said.", "\"Although reasonable people may disagree about the appropriateness of the Phelps' protest, this conduct simply does not satisfy the heavy burden required for the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress under Maryland law.\"", "The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case to address issues of laws designed to protect the \"sanctity and dignity of memorial and funeral services\" as well as the privacy of family and friends of the deceased.", "The justices will be asked to address how far states and private entities such as cemeteries and churches can go to justify picket-free zones and the use of \"floating buffers\" to silence or restrict speech or movements of demonstrators exercising their constitutional rights in a funeral setting.", "Both Phelps and Snyder's attorney said they were surprised that the 4th District chose to weigh in on the issue of legal costs when they could have waited until after the Supreme Court hearing.", "Phelps believes the ruling bodes well for her side.", "\"It is a good harbinger of the fact that the Supreme Court will remind this nation that you don't have mob rule.", "The fact that so many people hate these words does not mean you can silence or penalize them.", "That's supposed to be the great liberty that we congratulate ourselves on protecting in this nation.", "We strut all around the world forcing people to give all the liberties we supposedly have,\" she said.", "Phelps anticipated that a Supreme Court ruling in the church's favor would be unpopular, but she said Westboro's members viewed the potential outcome in Biblical terms.", "\"When the Supreme Court unanimously upholds the 4th Circuit, it's going to put this country in a rage, and we will be expelled,\" she said.", "\"But whenever it was time for an epic event in the Bible, the thing that happened right before is the prophets were removed from the land, and that's what's going to happen to us.", "... We're going to sprint to the end of this race.\"", "Snyder claims he is unable to pay any legal costs in the case and is attempting to raise funds on his son's site, http://www.matthewsnyder.org/.", "He is equally optimistic that he will prevail before the Supreme Court.", "\"The American people keep my spirits lifted a lot and give me hope.", "I think most of the country is on my side on this issue,\" he said.", "\"Too many people have died to protect our rights and freedoms to have them degraded and spit upon like this church does.\"", "CNN's Bill Mears contributed to this report." ]	[ "Father of Lance Cpl.", "Matthew Snyder calls order to pay legal costs \"slap in the face\"\nWestboro lawyer says order consequence of lawsuit, says money will fund protests .", "Snyder's family sued Westboro Baptist Church for protesting Marine's funeral in 2006 .", "4th Circuit reversed judgments against Westboro in '09; high court will hear case ." ]	[ 0, 2, 9 ]
[ "(CNN) -- He's the new Billy Mays.", "But Anthony Sullivan doesn't shout, and he didn't exactly jump at the chance to take up the mantle of the famous TV pitchman.", "Nine months after the ubiquitous king of direct-response TV commercials was found dead in his Florida home at age 50, Mighty Brands has announced that Sullivan will take Mays' place as product spokesman.", "When Mighty Brands initially approached him with the idea, Sullivan, 41, was hesitant at first.", "\"They came to me and said, 'You guys were great friends' -- so it was tough.\"", "After Mays' family signed on to the idea, \"it came down to a question of, if I didn't do it, who else was going to do it?\"", "For those who haven't watched any TV in the past decade, the phrase \"Hi, Billy Mays here for Oxi Clean!\"", "made him a household name.", "Mays was the \"bearded, lovable rogue,\" said Sullivan.", "Mays built a trademark with his shouting style and blue shirt and khaki pants.", "Sullivan was the mastermind behind those ads, acting as director and producer after competing against Mays for years in the cutthroat world of TV pitchmen.", "To his credit, Sullivan -- like Mays -- has sold hundreds of millions of dollars worth of products -- many of them you've likely seen on TV.", "But before Sullivan moved countless Stick Up Bulbs, Smart Choppers, One Sweeps and Swivel Sweepers -- his first TV sales pitch almost happened by mistake.", "In 1993, Sullivan stopped by the cable shopping channel HSN to sell a product called the SmartMop.", "At first, while chatting informally with a show host about the mops, Sullivan was unaware that the robotic cameras were trained on him.", "\"Are we on?\" he asked, already realizing the answer to his question.", "\"I just sort of froze for half a second, and I thought sh--, I just gotta pitch.\"", "Nine minutes later, the phone lines exploded.", "After 22 minutes, Sullivan had sold 5,000 SmartMops.", "Not bad for his first time at bat.", "Eventually, Mays also joined HSN and the two men \"lit up that network\" for the next six years, said Sullivan.", "Different styles .", "The two pitchmen wield very different styles.", "As Sullivan describes it, Mays' secret weapon was himself and his bearded pitchman character to grab viewers' attention.", "Sullivan, on the other hand, mesmerizes viewers with his southwestern English accent.", "He describes his style as honing in on viewers and focusing on the benefits of the product.", "Before earning U.S. citizenship, a younger Sullivan cut his teeth in the English street markets of London, drawn to the fast-talking Artful Dodgers who were as much entertainers as they were hucksters and pitchers.", "\"I was always amazed.\"", "The London pitchmen -- following a centuries-old tradition in places like Petticoat Lane, Portobello Road and Blackbushe Market -- knew they'd won over a crowd when they'd see a husband nudge a wife acknowledging they'd been entertained.", "\"They'd say, 'You know, we watched this guy pitch his heart out and even though we really don't need what he's selling, he made us laugh.'", "They'd give you a 10-pound tip and take whatever it was we were selling.", "And I really enjoyed that part of the business.\"", "Sullivan says street pitching has become a virtual lost art now because of eBay and the Internet.", "\"It was just poetic, these pitches,\" recalled Sullivan, quoting some of the riffs that still echo across the years.", "'Ladies and gentlemen, here's where we sort the needy from the greedy, the spiers from the buyers, the ones that trust me from the ones that don't.'", "It was just this poetry -- if you will. That's where poetry meets sales.\"", "In the world of TV pitches, poetry meets sales with phrases like, \"For zest, it's the best!\"", "and \"That's cash in the trash!\"", "As Sullivan says, the best pitchers demonstrate their products -- and the bigger the demonstration, the better.", "He's been set on fire and shared a kitchen with a grizzly bear.", "\"Some pretty crazy stuff.\"", "This month Sullivan spent a day being dunked in the Florida intercoastal waterway.", "Sullivan went parasailing in a suit wrapped in a product called Mighty Thirsty, plunging into the water to demonstrate its absorbency.", "\"It was a strange moment, but only Billy could have got me there.\"", "Because of his street market background -- or perhaps in spite of it -- Sullivan admits that some think his sales approach is more sophisticated than Mays' boisterous, bellowing banter.", "\"I think we're both relentless.\"", "Mays died shortly after he and Sullivan wrapped the first season of Discovery Channel's reality based TV series PitchMen.", "According to a Hillsborough County, Florida, autopsy report issued in August, Mays died from a heart attack -- with cocaine listed as a contributing factor.", "Choosing to move forward after Mays' death, Sullivan and Discovery are producing a second season of PitchMen without casting a replacement for Mays.", "The refreshed program will focus more on inventors who pitch their products to be accepted for a Sullivan TV ad campaign.", "\"I think Billy would have slapped me on the side of the head if I didn't continue with it,\" said Sullivan.", "'Life's a pitch and then you buy it' Mays lives on in thousands of YouTube videos, where he's often heard saying, \"Life's a pitch and then you buy it.\"", "Everyone is always selling or buying something, whether they realize it or not, said Sullivan.", "\"When your child's applying for college -- it's no different from pitching.", "You're pitching yourself, your services, your family.", "You're selling your house, you're buying a house.", "Everyone is involved in the buying or selling process.", "Even if you're buying -- you're being sold.\"", "How does Sullivan make the sale?", "\"I think you have to be passionate.", "You have to be sincere. You have to really believe in what you sell.", "You have to do it with a smile. I often think that if you can make someone laugh while you're selling -- and disarm them with a little bit of humor -- it goes such a long way.\"", "But that's not all, as the pitchmen often say.", "There's more to this story. Lately, Mays' 23-year-old son, Billy Mays III, has been working at Sullivan's production company.", "Right now, the 23-year-old musician isn't interested in following his father's path as a pitchman.", "\"He has his father's soul, but he's his own man in his own way,\" said Sullivan.", "Even as Sullivan hawks Mays' former brands, the Mays family will continue to get a cut of the proceeds from sales.", "\"Every time I say, 'Hi, Anthony Sullivan here,' I always think it should be 'Hi, Billy Mays here,' the pitchman confides.", "\"But the bottom line is, he's not here.", "So I'm honored to be carrying on his legacy a little bit.\"" ]	[ "TV pitchman Anthony Sullivan replaces the late Billy Mays as product spokesman .", "Sullivan learned to pitch in London's English street markets where \"poetry meets sales\"\nNo matter who you are, everyone is always selling something, he says .", "His tips for pitching: be passionate, sincere, smile and use humor ." ]	[ 26, 36, 52, 59, 67 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Chechen rebel leader Dokku Umarov claimed that he personally gave orders to attack the Moscow subway this week, according to a Chechen rebel Web site.", "Kavkaz Center, a Web site that regularly carries messages from the rebels, released a video in which Umarov said he was behind the Monday attacks.", "The attacks were revenge for what Umarov called a \"massacre conducted by the Russian occupants against the poorest residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia,\" the Web site says.", "According to the site, the video was taped the same day as the attacks.", "The incident Umarov referred to is a February special operation by Russian forces, after which there were accusations of Russians killing innocent civilians.", "In the video, Umarov said the victims were simply gathering garlic to make a living.", "According to Russian officials, at least four civilians were killed during the special operation near the Ingushetian village of Arshty on February 11.", "After investigating the incident, the officials admitted that it was \"the season to collect wild garlic\" and civilians may have been doing just that despite requests for \"evacuation\" from the area.", "The president of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov expressed condolences to relatives of the deceased and provided material support in the amount of 50 thousand rubles (about $1,700) for each family.", "The president noted that during the raid 18 militants were also killed.", "The attacks in Moscow, in which two female suicide bombers killed at least 39 people and wounded more than 60 others, were legitimate retribution for what happened in Chechnya, Umarov said in the video.", "He also promised \"new acts of vengeance\" in Russia.", "Russians will no longer be able to simply observe the battles in the Caucasus, Umarov said.", "\"Therefore, the war will come to your streets, and you will feel it for yourselves and with your own lives,\" he said in the video.", "Monday's blasts tore through the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations in central Moscow -- the female bombers detonating their explosives about 40 minutes apart, starting just before 8 a.m. (12 a.m. ...", "On Tuesday, Russian police released photographs of the two women suspected of carrying out the attacks.", "Special services were also seeking three suspected accomplices of the bombers, Russian state TV reported, citing Moscow police spokesman Viktor Biryukov.", "They were hunting for a 30-year-old man from the Northern Caucasus who was seen on security cameras wearing dark clothes and a black baseball cap, and two women, aged 22 and 45, both ethnic Slavs, who allegedly assisted the man, state TV reported.", "\"Our preliminary assessment is that this act of terror was committed by a terrorist group from the North Caucasus region,\" said Alexander Bortnikov of the Federal Security Service, in reference to the investigation at one of the blast sites.", "The current round of the Russia-Chechnya conflict dates back nearly 20 years, with Chechens having laid claim to land in the Caucasus Mountains region.", "Thousands have been killed and 500,000 Chechen people have been displaced by the fighting.", "Chechnya is located in the North Caucasus region of Russia between the Black and Caspian seas." ]	[ "Chechen rebel leader claims he ordered attack on Moscow subway .", "39 people died in Monday's attack at Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations in city center .", "Two female bombers detonated their explosives about 40 minutes apart .", "The current round of the Russia-Chechnya conflict dates back nearly 20 years ." ]	[ 14, 19 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Actor-director Mel Gibson and his girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, are the new parents of a daughter named Lucia, his spokesman confirmed to CNN.", "No other details were released about the baby, who was born Friday at an undisclosed hospital in Los Angeles, California.", "Baby Lucia is the eighth child for Gibson, 53, and the second for Grigorieva, 39.", "Gibson has six sons and a daughter from his marriage to his wife of 30 years, Robyn.", "The couple filed for divorce in April.", "Grigorieva has a son with her former boyfriend, actor Timothy Dalton.", "In August, the singer said she and Gibson have no immediate plans for marriage.", "\"We don't know yet,\" Grigorieva said of any impending nuptials.", "\"We haven't really talked about it.\"" ]	[ "Grigorieva gave birth Friday in Los Angeles, California .", "The baby, named Lucia, is his eighth and her second .", "In August, Grigorieva said the pair had no immediate plans to wed ." ]	[ 2, 6 ]
[ "WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI did not participate in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists detained in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan or Iraq, said a Justice Department investigation released Tuesday.", "An April 2007 photo shows a room at Guantanamo Bay that had been used for interrogations.", "The investigation also concluded that the bureau generally reported potentially illegal actions by the CIA and Defense Department.", "In \"only a few instances\" did FBI agents use techniques that were not approved by FBI policies, according to the report by Inspector General Glenn Fine.", "Fine criticized the FBI for being slow in developing and distributing its interrogation policy to its interrogators.", "Though the the FBI decided to avoid harsh techniques in August 2002, the decision was not put in writing until 2004, when the bureau also put in writing that the harsh techniques used by other agencies should be reported to FBI superiors.", "The 2002 decision by FBI Director Robert Mueller was that the bureau would adhere to restrictions used in interrogations of detainees within the United States.", "Those techniques prohibit coercion, abuse or threats.", "The policy is based on the belief that building a rapport with prisoners is the best way to gain intelligence, according to Tuesday's report.", "The FBI issued a statement saying it is \"gratified\" by the report's findings, and Mueller promised that the bureau will continue to use \"rapport-building techniques in interviews\" of detainees.", "The inspector general's investigators interviewed almost all of the more than 1,000 FBI employees who were deployed to one or more military zones between 2001 and 2004, the report said.", "The vast majority of the agents adhered to FBI policies and separated themselves from other agencies' interrogators who were using techniques that the FBI didn't approve of, the report said.", "The report listed \"a few incidents\" that \"clearly would not be permissible for FBI agents to use in the United States,\" including isolating a prisoner from human contact and participating in an interrogation in which detainees were \"given a 'drink of water' in a forceful and inappropriate manner.\"", "It also listed incidents that were not \"clear violations of FBI policy\" but which should have raised questions.", "Some agents participated in a program of subjecting detainees to frequent cell relocations, the report said.", "In another case, two agents joined in an interview in which a detainee's hands and feet were \"short-chained\" close together for several hours, during which time the prisoner urinated on himself.", "FBI agents reported that non-FBI interrogators engaged in sleep deprivation or sleep disruption techniques, which include using bright lights, loud music and extreme temperatures \"to keep detainees awake or otherwise wear down their resistance.\"", "No FBI agents witnessed the abuses at Abu Ghraib, the U.S. Army-operated Baghdad correctional facility where some prisoners were physically and sexually abused, sparking outrage when photos of the abuse became public.", "However, the report said, an FBI agent said he witnessed a naked Abu Ghraib prisoner forced to roll between rows of cells.", "He did not report the incident because he didn't know whether it was an acceptable technique.", "The report also said FBI personnel did not witness the controversial waterboarding technique, which the CIA has confirmed was used on three prisoners.", "The FBI protested when it witnessed techniques used by the military and the CIA in questioning top terror suspects Abu Zubayda and Yousef al-Qarani, according to the report.", "In one instance, an agent objected to using a snarling dog to interrogate al-Qarani.", "Despite some criticism, the inspector general offered the FBI modest praise at the conclusion of his three-year investigation.", "\"We believe that while the FBI could have provided clearer guidance earlier, and while the FBI could have pressed harder for resolution of concerns about detainee treatment by other agencies, the FBI should be credited for its conduct and professionalism in detainee interrogations in the military zones in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, and in generally avoiding participation in detainee abuse,\" the report concluded.", "The inspector general's investigation did not quiet the FBI's chief critics.", "The American Civil Liberties Union said FBI leaders failed to uphold their obligation to \"bring an end to the abuse and application of illegal interrogation methods.\"", "Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, chairman of a subcommittee that oversees the FBI, criticized then-Attorney General John Ashcroft and his deputy, Larry Thompson.", "Nadler said FBI agents' objections to certain interrogation methods \"fell on deaf ears.\"", "\"The admirable actions taken by those brave FBI agents willing to speak out were undermined by those who led them,\" he said." ]	[ "Justice Department investigation finds FBI generally acted responsibly .", "Probe looked at interrogations at Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, Iraq .", "Investigators find \"only a few instances\" of unapproved techniques by FBI .", "FBI \"could have provided clearer guidance earlier,\" report acknowledges ." ]	[ 3, 24 ]
[ "NEW YORK (CNN) -- What started as a college a cappella pastime became a ticket to the big time for 10 Indiana University graduates.", "Straight No Chaser broke up years ago, but success on YouTube brought the band back together.", "Last year a member of the disbanded group -- called Straight No Chaser -- posted a video of a quirky 1998 performance of \"The 12 Days of Christmas\" on YouTube.", "It got more than 8 million hits.", "And one of the people watching was Craig Kallman, chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records.", "Kallman summoned a couple of the troupe members to Los Angeles, where he offered them a record deal.", "Straight up. The boys (now men, of course) got back together and within 10 months -- and almost 10 years after graduation -- had a debut album neatly tied with a bow.", "And you thought your college reunion was exciting.", "Watch Straight No Chaser blend their voices » .", "\"Holiday Spirits\" mostly features festive covers such as \"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town\" and \"Silent Night,\" all sung in the a cappella tradition but with creative and entertaining tweaks.", "(They do a stirring Christmas-infused rendition of Toto's \"Africa.\")", "Members of Straight No Chaser sang for CNN in New York recently, talked about their surprising career turn and where it leaves their day jobs.", "CNN: What is it like then to actually become a YouTube sensation?", "Randy Stine: Well, [Jerome] got recognized on the street in Hong Kong.", "Jerome Collins: A person walked up to me and said, \"Hey, I know this may be out of line, but you look like this guy on this video I just saw.\"", "I called [Randy] and I was like, \"We officially made it.", "We're being recognized in Hong Kong by some random person on the street.\"", "So it was kind of cool, and that's when I knew that [it] was on a bigger scale than we thought.", "CNN: What went through your mind when you got the call from Atlantic Records?", "Stine: I was half believing it was a prank.", "I got the call from Craig, and while I'm talking to him the first time, I'm on the computer Googling his name to read his bio.", "It was just kind of a dream phone call.", "And I kept thinking, \"Is this really happening?\"", "It was pretty amazing.", "CNN: You all have day jobs, don't you?", "Stine: Yeah.", "I was actually in Chicago doing IT sales, wishing I was still in music.", "We're all spread across the country.", "We've got guys in Chicago, Vegas, Atlanta, here in New York.", "Jerome was actually in Hong Kong when all this started, and he moved back from Hong Kong to be a part of this.", "CNN: What were you doing in Hong Kong?", "Collins: I was doing a festival of \"The Lion King,\" and I was Simba.", "We have one guy selling medical devices, another guy a reporter for ABC, one guy working at a bank, another guy a teacher.", "... You name it, we have it. CNN: And how do you arrange rehearsing or performances if you are scattered throughout the country?", "Stine: That's probably one of the big challenges.", "We all have to fly in from whatever city we're in to New York, to Chicago, L.A., wherever we have to meet up to rehearse or record.", "But when we get together it's like no time has passed.", "CNN: Are you going to keep your day jobs?", "Collins: There's no chance that I'm going to be keeping my day job.", "I obviously gave it up to try and do this so I know for a fact that I'm not going to be going back.", "I hope they didn't hear that. This is it. This is what I dreamed to do as a kid.", "This is what I want my day job to be.", "Stine: I quit my job in July.", "I had to get enough time off to record but couldn't do it.", "I have one shot at this. I know there are tons of other musicians out there who would cut off a limb to have this opportunity so I couldn't pass it up.", "Collins: We're going to force the other guys to make sure they quit their jobs.", "With the scheduling and the touring some of them may not have a job to go back to.", "So that's what we're hoping may happen.", "CNN: That's what you're hoping?", "You're hoping that they will get fired?", "That's nice! Stine: Yeah, we'll make the phone calls on their behalf.", "Like, \"he's not coming into work today\" [Stine and Collins laugh.] ...", "CNN: Now that you have your debut album in the can, are you thinking ahead to other projects?", "Collins: Well, that's the whole point.", "We hope that that momentum -- not only with YouTube, but with our album -- keeps going so we can get right back in the studio and come out with some fresh new music that's not holiday.", "We don't want to pigeonhole ourselves.", "We do all genres, all types of music.", "CNN: Part of your appeal seems to be that you don't really take yourselves too seriously, do you?", "You have a lot of fun with it. Collins: It's really fun singing with your best friends onstage.", "We have fun. Outside of this business, we are still friends; we all go do things together; we all still hang out.", "We still fight like brothers.", "So essentially ... I hope that never changes because that's what made us who we are today.", "CNN: What about your personalities ... have you all changed a little since you were at school together?", "Stine: I think all of us are pretty much the same, just maybe more opinionated.", "Collins: Some of us have wives.", "That's the only thing that's changed.", "CNN: Why are you called Straight No Chaser?", "Stine: We basically came up with the name from Thelonious Monk, his jazz album and song.", "And we just thought it really tied in well to our mentality of voices, no instruments.", "And of course it ties in to college and visiting the bars late at night." ]	[ "Straight No Chaser formed at Indiana University in 1990s .", "Band had broken up, but posting of '98 video on YouTube had huge success .", "A cappella group now has record contract, hopes for bigger things ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- A Spanish fishing boat repelled an attack by suspected pirates Sunday morning in the Indian Ocean off the African coast, Spain's ministry of defense said.", "The Spanish Ortube Berria fishing vessel was in waters southwest of the Seychelles when pirates aboard two skiffs opened fire on the ship with light arms and a grenade shot from a launcher, according to a defense ministry news release.", "The Seychelles are a group of islands located north of Madagascar and southeast of Somalia, whose coastal waters have become known for piracy.", "The attack happened at about 5:40 a.m., the ministry said.", "A private security company aboard the fishing vessel returned fire and thwarted the attack, the statement said.", "No one was injured, and the ship did not suffer any material damage.", "Following the attack, the Ortube Berria was sailing southward away from the area, the defense ministry said.", "Pirates have captured more than 50 ships this year off Somalia and are currently holding 11, according to information from Spanish Defense Minister Carme Chacon.", "Earlier this month, the crew of another Spanish fishing boat, the Alakrana, was released by Somali pirates after 47 days in captivity.", "The Alakrana was hijacked off the coast of Somalia.", "On Sunday, the commander of a European Union anti-piracy operation, deployed a Portuguese frigate based in the area toward the site of the attack, Spanish authorities said.", "CNN's Per Nyberg contributed to this report." ]	[ "Spanish fishing boat repels attack by suspected pirates in Indian Ocean off African coast .", "Private security company aboard fishing vessel returned fire and thwarted attack .", "Pirates have captured more than 50 ships this year off Somalia and are currently holding 11 ." ]	[ 0, 4, 7 ]
[ "(The Frisky) -- I'm sitting alone in my apartment on a rainy night.", "I'm restless, mildly bored, and, yes, I'll admit it, but please don't tell anyone ... lonely.", "It's days like this that I'm sure that there's no more love in store for me -- all of the epically momentous possibilities must have already passed me by.", "Somehow I blinked and missed them.", "It's in moments like this that I allow myself the small indulgence of thinking about Sebastian.", "Our story had all of the makings of a great love story.", "Once upon a time we met one evening in a dark, crowded party.", "He told me I was beautiful.", "I was young enough for him to appear larger than life.", "We kissed on the sidewalk in the rain.", "I fell hard for him -- hard like scrape-me-off-the-floor-with-a-spatula hard.", "But we were wrong for each other in every way.", "We were young, immature, and troubled.", "It ended tragically -- Sebastian stood me up on a cold, snowy New Year's Eve and the two of us never spoke again.", "I went on with my life. I wonder what Sebastian is doing right now.", "I wonder if I will ever love anyone that way again -- with an open heart.", "I decide to cruise the internet for inspiration -- narrowly avoiding the temptation to do a Google search of Sebastian's name.", "The intention of my search?", "To remind myself that love really exists.", "A tall, existential order for sure, yet a valid one.", "I practice it often.", "On the street, on the subway.", "Every time I encounter a seemingly happy couple I say to myself, \"See you bitter old hag, people fall in love all the time.\"", "I find the kind of cinematic headline I'm looking for: \"Gulf War Pen Pals Get Married After Facebook Encounter 19 Years Later.\"", "Touché. As a teenager, Jamie Benefit decided to reach out to the troops during the Gulf War.", "She addressed a letter of support and encouragement to \"Any Soldier.\"", "Jamie's anonymous letter found its way into the hands of 19-year-old soldier Jeremy Clayton.", "Jamie and Jeremy continued to write each other for the duration of the war, to exchange stories and keep their minds off of the scary worlds around them.", "After the war ended, the two lost touch.", "Jamie wrapped up her letters in a patriotic ribbon, put them away in a safe place, and moved on with her life.", "The Frisky: I was the other woman -- should I tell?", "Nineteen years later, Jamie got curious one day (maybe she was sitting alone in her apartment on a rainy evening?)", "and looked for Jeremy on Facebook and sent a simple message to a man with his name, asking, \"Were You In Desert Storm?\"", "That was all Jeremy needed in order to know that he had to see Jamie again.", "The two met up in person a few months later.", "When Jeremy finally saw Jamie he says of the moment, \"It took my breath, I was actually shaking and I'm a pretty strong man.", "I just said to myself, 'You have to do whatever you can to make sure you spend the rest of your life with this woman.'\"", "A few months later they were married.", "The Frisky: How to handle an overly dependent BFF .", "Wow. Just like that huh? War. Letters. Great distances.", "Great danger.", "Years apart.", "Reunion. Facebook. Marriage. I'm sure someone in Hollywood will be calling any minute to option the rights to the film.", "Maybe they'll call it \"Love in a Time of Bush.\"", "I should feel inspired that love happens -- exponentially and effortlessly -- yet I feel nothing but skepticism.", "Does this actually happen in real life?", "Like, real real life?", "The Frisky: Need to say goodbye to single life before I can find love?", "Like Jamie and Jeremy, Sebastian and I lost touch after that fateful New Year's Eve.", "When he sent me a message on Facebook 10 years later, I was unable to breathe.", "It said simply, \"I hope you're still silly.\"", "When we met in person for coffee, I was so dizzy that I had to sit with my head between my legs while he sat silently across from me.", "His hand shook slightly as he grabbed mine and said, \"I'm sorry, I've been waiting 10 years to say that to you.\"", "Momentarily I was so giddy that I almost let myself get carried away.", "I looked at Sebastian for the first time in the bright, clear morning light and saw him exactly as he was.", "It happened so quickly that if I had blinked I would have missed it.", "He was just an older, more mature, version of the awful of the guy who broke my heart 10 years ago.", "There was no proposal. Just an awkward meeting of two grownups realizing that they were no longer young and silly.", "TM & © 2010 TMV, Inc. \| All Rights Reserved ." ]	[ "Late on rainy, lonely nights, some people are tempted to Google an old love .", "One story about a soldier and teen had a happy Facebook ending .", "Inspired writer searches for and meets up with her old love .", "But finds he's older, more mature, version of the awful of the guy who broke her heart ." ]	[ 5, 32, 56 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Sam Hamilton, director of the U.S.", "Fish and Wildlife Service, died Saturday, authorities announced.", "Hamilton, 54, died after suffering chest pains, a symptom reflective of an underlying heart condition, the Summit County, Colorado, coroner said.", "Hamilton was on a mountain at the Keystone Ski Resort in Keystone, Colorado, when he complained of the pains.", "Hamilton had served the U.S.", "Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years.", "\"Sam was a friend, a visionary, and a professional whose years of service and passionate dedication to his work have left an indelible mark on the lands and wildlife we cherish,\" Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said in a written statement.", "\"His forward-thinking approach to conservation - including his view that we must think beyond boundaries at the landscape-scale- will continue to shape our nation's stewardship for years to come.\"", "Hamilton took over the leadership of the U.S.", "Fish and Wildlife Service in September.", "He was previously the regional director of the 10-state Southeast region for the agency.", "He was charged with a $484 million budget and oversight over more than 350 threatened and endangered species and 128 national wildlife refuges, according to the agency's Web site.", "While regional director, he also supported the creation of a carbon sequestration program that helped restore about 80,000 acres of wildlife habitat.", "His colleague, Thomas Strickland, assistant secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, praised Hamilton's more than 30 years of service to the agency.", "\"Sam brought more than just a wealth of experience to the job, he brought courage and outstanding leadership,\" Strickland said in a statement.", "\"The Department of the Interior will miss him greatly.\"", "Hamilton first became involved with the agency when he was 15 years old, as a member of the Youth Conservation Corps in Mississippi with the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, according to the agency's Web site.", "He is survived by his wife Becky; sons Sam Jr. and Clay, as well as his grandson, Davis." ]	[ "Hamilton had served the U.S.", "Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years .", "Interior secretary: Hamilton had \"forward-thinking approach to conservation\"\nHamilton was on a mountain at a Colorado ski resort when he complained of chest pains ." ]	[ 3, 4, 13 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- I didn't need to read the findings of a recent Australian research study to know that most women who live with their mates have more body fat than those who don't.", "For 10 years, researchers studied nearly 6,500 women, age 18 to 23, and found, according to one of the study's authors, Dr. Wendy J.", "Brown, that \"Women with no partner and no baby averaged 11 pounds over 10 years.", "With a partner and no baby they gained about 15 pounds, and if they had a partner and a baby they gained 20 pounds.\"", "(The findings appear in the February issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.)", "Researchers can speculate on the reasons for this, but it's not news to me.", "Of the thousands of women I've met who are desperately seeking to reshape their bodies, almost all are living with -- or just moved away from -- a partner.", "While I have heard many voices, their story is the same: They lust, then love.", "With lust comes starvation; with love, over-consumption and under-exercise.", "Their love transforms from the physical to the emotional, and this usually happens after they decide to live together.", "But once they lift their heads above the fog of love, they look down to find that their butts are sagging, bellies are bulging and thighs have taken on interesting new shapes!", "Come to think of it, many of the men who knock on my door looking for their abdominal muscles also deteriorated soon after moving in with their mates.", "Think about your man. Does he have the same waistline measurement as when you first signed the lease or mortgage papers?", "Probably not. In fact, it probably got even worse for both of you after your first child, didn't it?", "(The new Australian research references an earlier study that showed an increase in obesity in men once they'd had children.)", "Like the smokers I know, the overwhelming majority of whom hate to smoke, many women develop unhealthy patterns (like snacking on junk food at home) that lead to unhealthy bodies, which lead to a seriously unhealthy lack of self-esteem.", "We become \"less desirable,\" a phrase I hear far too often.", "Once we arrive at this place, the frantic search begins.", "Many of us will do anything to recover what was once our youthful body.", "Sadly, many waste time and money on fad diets, pills and potions.", "They end up doing the yo-yo thing, torturing their bodies through obsessive experimentation with an endless list of exercise programs, almost all of which fail them, because the will to really change behavior is not yet there.", "So, what can we do? First, we must think about the quality and standards of our everyday behavior more than the end result.", "If we can just focus on gradual improvement of our diet and our exercise programs, we will likely regain our healthier, slimmer form.", "But more important, we will also build our self-respect.", "So, taking intelligent steps (i.e., coming up with a rational workout plan or shopping for fresher and healthier foods and eating them, not impulse snacks), carrying the steps out consistently -- more frequently and for a longer duration -- will have a huge net benefit on our bottoms and our bottom line: love.", "Next, we should include our mates in our process.", "In my experience, for example, couples who work out together have greater success in achieving their health and weight loss goals.", "They also seem to get along much better and stay together longer.", "Transform your personal physical development time into \"date time,\" doing something as simple as taking regular after-dinner walks together.", "Finally, cut back, but don't cut out the fun stuff.", "When we are consistent with our diet and exercise programs, there is no need for maniacal starvation.", "We don't need to sit at the dinner table with a radish on our plate, while our children and mates enjoy full meals.", "A healthy diet should not be some kind of intruder in our relationships, it should be a natural part of our lives.", "Besides, fun foods are what make our love lives more interesting and memorable.", "So eat! But only if you do the work on the other side of those calories.", "Having a healthy, fit and feminine physique and a deeply loving emotional relationship are not mutually exclusive.", "You can have both; and it can be done in a fun and positive way.", "For those of you about to move in, heed this advice: Start your program now, before your belly and your mate's interest start to sag!", "I promise: if you don't quit, you'll have a body that won't quit!", "The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Tracy Anderson." ]	[ "Trainer Tracy Anderson not surprised study says women with partners gain weight .", "When people partner, she says, they get lax in eating, fitness habits .", "Sticking to rational diet, exercise plan and including mate key to staying slim, she says .", "Anderson: Moving in together?", "Start fitness program now ." ]	[ 27, 30, 37, 39 ]
[ "London, England (CNN) -- A British man who allegedly sold fake bomb detectors to Iraq and Afghanistan has been arrested on suspicion of fraud, police said.", "The British government has also imposed an export ban on the device, known as the ADE651, effective Monday.", "The handheld device is commonly used at checkpoints in Iraq and Afghanistan to detect explosives.", "The 53-year-old unidentified suspect, who was arrested Friday, is accused of knowingly selling a product that didn't work, police said.", "Tests show that the ADE651, and similar devices, were not suitable for bomb detection, a spokesman for Britain's Department of Business, Innovation and Skills said in a statement.", "\"As non-military technology, it does not need an export license, and we would not normally need to monitor its sale and use abroad.", "However, it is clearly of concern that it is being used as bomb detection equipment,\" the spokesman said.", "The spokesman said the export ban only applied to Iraq and Afghanistan because its legal powers to control the sale of the product were \"based on the risk that [the device] could cause harm to U.K. and other friendly forces.\"" ]	[ "British man arrested on suspicion of fraud concerning fake bomb detectors .", "British government has imposed export ban on ADE651 after tests showed it was \"not suitable\" for bomb detection .", "Handheld device is commonly used at checkpoints in Iraq and Afghanistan ." ]	[ 0, 1, 2 ]
[ "SANTA BARBARA, California (CNN) -- Barbara Harvey climbs into the back of her small Honda sport utility vehicle and snuggles with her two golden retrievers, her head nestled on a pillow propped against the driver's seat.", "Californian Barbara Harvey says she is forced to sleep in her car with her dogs after losing her job earlier this year.", "A former loan processor, the 67-year-old mother of three grown children said she never thought she'd spend her golden years sleeping in her car in a parking lot.", "\"This is my bed, my dogs,\" she said.", "\"This is my life in this car right now.\"", "Harvey was forced into homelessness this year after being laid off.", "She said that three-quarters of her income went to paying rent in Santa Barbara, where the median house in the scenic oceanfront city costs more than $1 million.", "She lost her condo two months ago and had little savings as backup.", "\"It went to hell in a handbasket,\" she said.", "\"I didn't think this would happen to me.", "It's just something that I don't think that people think is going to happen to them, is what it amounts to.", "It happens very quickly, too.\"", "Harvey now works part time for $8 an hour, and she draws Social Security to help make ends meet.", "But she still cannot afford an apartment, and so every night she pulls into a gated parking lot to sleep in her car, along with other women who find themselves in a similar predicament.", "Watch women who live in their cars » .", "There are 12 parking lots across Santa Barbara that have been set up to accommodate the growing middle-class homelessness.", "These lots are believed to be part of the first program of its kind in the United States, according to organizers.", "The lots open at 7 p.m. and close at 7 a.m. and are run by New Beginnings Counseling Center, a homeless outreach organization.", "It is illegal for people in California to sleep in their cars on streets.", "New Beginnings worked with the city to allow the parking lots as a safe place for the homeless to sleep in their vehicles without being harassed by people on the streets or ticketed by police.", "Harvey stays at the city's only parking lot for women.", "\"This is very safe, and that's why I feel very comfortable,\" she said.", "Nancy Kapp, the New Beginnings parking lot coordinator, said the group began seeing a need for the lots in recent months as California's foreclosure crisis hit the city hard.", "She said a growing number of senior citizens, women and lower- and middle-class families live on the streets.", "See how foreclosure filings are up 75 percent » .", "\"You look around today, and there are so many,\" said Kapp, who was homeless with her young daughter two decades ago.", "\"I see women sleeping on benches.", "It's heartbreaking.\" She added, \"The way the economy is going, it's just amazing the people that are becoming homeless.", "It's hit the middle class.\"", "She and others with New Beginnings walk the streets looking for people and families sleeping in their cars.", "The workers inform them about the parking lot program.", "New Beginnings screens people to make sure they won't cause trouble.", "No alcohol or drugs are allowed in the parking lots.", "\"What we are trying to do is we pull bad apples out, and we put good apples in the parking lots and really help people out,\" said Shaw Tolley, another coordinator with New Beginnings.", "Most of the time, the lots are transition points.", "New Beginnings works with each person to try to find a more permanent housing solution.", "\"It saddens me when they live in their vehicles,\" Tolley said.", "\"It is not the most ideal situation for senior citizens and families, but it is reality.\"", "He added, \"We need to engage this problem.", "This is reality.\" John Quigley, an economics professor at the University of California-Berkeley, said the California housing crisis has left many middle-class families temporarily homeless or forced them to go to food banks to feed their families.", "\"Part of the reason why it's so painful in Santa Barbara is, there's so little in the way of alternative housing,\" Quigley said.", "\"If there were alternative low and moderate housing and rental accommodations that were reasonably close by, you can imagine it wouldn't have this desperate look to it as people living in their cars.\"", "At the only lot for women in Santa Barbara, it's a tough existence.", "There are no showers or running water.", "On the night CNN visited, a half-dozen women were in the parking lot before nightfall.", "Linn Labou, 54, lives in her car with four cats.", "She used to be in the National Guard and is on a waiting list for government housing, but the wait is a year long.", "\"I went looking for family, but I couldn't get them to help me,\" she said.", "As for Harvey, she begins each day by walking her two dogs before going to her part-time job.", "She leaves the dogs in her car with its windows cracked while she works.", "It's another chapter in her life that she's certain she'll get through.", "Her 19-year-old daughter moved in with friends to avoid being homeless.", "Her other children live overseas, and she didn't want to tell them about her living status.", "Even if her children offered to help, she said, she wouldn't accept it.", "\"They know me well enough to know that I will get through this.\"", "\"My daughter especially is very unhappy.", "Sometimes she'll cry, and she'll call and say, 'Mom, I just can't stand it that you are living in a car,' \" Harvey said.", "\"I'll say, 'You know what? This is OK for right now, because I'm safe, I'm healthy, the dogs are doing OK, and I have a job, and things will get better.'", "\" CNN's Gregg Canes and Traci Tamura contributed to this report." ]	[ "Mother of three grown children says, \"This is my life in this car right now\"\nSanta Barbara, California, allows homeless to sleep in cars in 12 parking lots .", "Affluent city has seen a rise in homelessness during California's housing crisis .", "Advocate: \"It's just amazing the people that are becoming homeless\"" ]	[ 4, 15, 18, 27 ]
[ "(CNN) -- Segway scooter inventor Dean Kamen freely admits it: He often suffers sleepless nights wrestling over whether to quit a project that's not panning out.", "Knowing when to quit a fruitless project is difficult, says the father of the Segway, Dean Kamen, left.", "\"You end up lying there saying, 'I'm not stopping.", "It would be an act of shallow cowardice.", "Or you decide to quit and you say, 'This is one of those ideas that just isn't going to work,' \" said Kamen, speaking by phone from his home office in Manchester, New Hampshire.", "When to quit -- said Kamen, also the inventor of health care technologies and the Slingshot water purifier -- is \"the toughest question there is\" for any entrepreneur who survives on creativity and instinct.", "\"It's not nearly as glamorous as people think to keep working on something and to keep hitting roadblocks and to keep going,\" he said.", "Stubborn, delusionally optimistic, creative, fearless, flexible and focused are some of the ways psychologists and business people describe the personality of an entrepreneur.", "Surprisingly, another word is ignorant.", "Quiz: Do you have the right stuff for entrepreneurship? ...", "\"You need to be in denial or in ignorance about the huge challenges you face,\" laughs Guy Kawasaki, a former Apple executive and entrepreneur who's starting the self-described \"magazine rack\" alltop.com.", "\"You have to believe that it wouldn't be hard for you to succeed.\"", "Research by Harvard Business School psychology professor emeritus Abraham Zaleznik has unveiled a darker side to the entrepreneur's psyche.", "\"Entrepreneurs tend to have a singular weakness that allows them to do things without checking their conscience,\" Zaleznik said.", "\"Juvenile delinquents act and then try to sort things out afterward.", "I think entrepreneurs have this tendency.\"", "Another academic researcher on the topic, professor Kelly Shaver of the College of William & Mary, told Forbes magazine in 2002 that successful entrepreneurs \"really don't care as much\" about what other people think.", "\"They're just happy to go ahead and do what they're doing.\"", "In a recession that has forced employers to eliminate 2.6 million jobs in 2008, people who might otherwise start a business at a time of their own choosing find themselves being pushed into entrepreneurship.", "\"More people often become self-employed in tough times like this,\" said John Challenger, CEO of a top employment firm for executives and middle managers.", "Between 5 percent and 7 percent of clients at Challenger, Gray & Christmas are choosing to start their own businesses, he said.", "Workers are more open to starting a small business in the dot-com era, Challenger said.", "\"I think we're in a more entrepreneurial period than we were in the '80s and '90s,\" he said.", "Recessions can be \"crucibles\" for at-home start-ups.", "\"Some of the best new businesses start in recessions because what they have really makes a difference if the market is interested in it,\" Challenger said.", "\"There's not a lot of easy money to go around, and they have to fight their way forward.\"", "Great entrepreneurs, said Kawasaki, do more than just fight hard to win their market share.", "They have vision. They ask what he calls the \"fundamental question\": Wouldn't it be neat if ... ?", "Kawasaki said Apple would have failed without the unique contributions of its co-founder, Steve Jobs.", "\"He asked the question, 'Wouldn't it be neat if people could carry all their music with them wherever they went?'", "\" Result: the iPod.", "Psychologist Lynn Friedman, whose clients often include entrepreneurs, said many of them are \"tuned into consumer needs.\"", "They tend to grow up in nurturing families and learned to value the concept of trying new things.", "Jobs described fond memories of his California childhood during an 1995 interview with the Smithsonian Institution, saying his father \"spent a lot of time with me . ... ...", "teaching me how to build things, how to take things apart, put things back together.\"", "But obviously, Kawasaki said, everybody's not always right about the \"wouldn't it be neat\" question.", "He cited Webvan, the online grocery store that served as many as 10 U.S. cities before going bankrupt in 2001.", "\"Somebody asked the question, 'Wouldn't it be neat if I could buy lettuce online and they'll deliver lettuce to my house?'", "\" Webvan failed with sales of $178.5 million in 2000 partly because it was buried in $525.4 million in expenses, according to a 2001 CNNMoney.com article.", "\"They went about it in a grand way,\" Kawasaki said.", "\"Sometimes it helps to start small.\"", "Webvan entrepreneur Louis Borders, who stepped down as CEO in 1999, told the San Francisco Chronicle four years later, \"I get the strategy set, the operation running, the team in place.", "That's my role as an entrepreneur.\"", "According to Friedman, entrepreneurs \"live in the world of action,\" and they \"often need help with slowing down and thinking several steps ahead.\"", "Kamen, who works hard to inspire future innovators with his FIRST program to promote high school math and science, said every entrepreneurial innovator he's ever seen shares a few characteristics.", "\"It's not that they're brilliant or well-educated,\" Kamen said.", "\"They work all the time. They don't let failure demoralize or destroy them.", "They pick themselves up and keep going and eventually, every once in a while, one of your ideas actually breaks through and works, and it makes all that stuff seem worthwhile.\"" ]	[ "An entrepreneur's personality can influence a business .", "Harvard prof: Entrepreneurs have some tendencies similar to juvenile delinquents .", "Many people choose to start their own business in bad economy .", "Expert: Delusional optimism helps fend off scary challenges ." ]	[ 7, 12, 14, 15, 18, 25, 40 ]

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